[Scene: Attic. Gemma is in tears as she flips through the Book Of Shadows. She chants the Power of Four spell, hoping that Prue would return.]
Gemma: "Hear now the words of the witches, the secret we hid in the night. The oldest of God's invoke here, the great work of magic is sought. (A candle flickers.) (She's surrounded by herb jars, chalices, and other ritualistic items.) In this night and in this battle, I call upon ancient power. (She looks up and closes her eyes.) Bring back my twin, Bring back the Power of Four. (She keeps her eyes closed for a prayerful beat, then she opens them, looks at the candle, but sees nothing. Blindly determined. She starts flipping through the pages until she finds another spell, To Call A Lost Witch. She expertly finds and mixes certain ingredients: rosemary, cypress, yarrow root into a silver bowl as she chants from the book.) Power of the witches' rise. Course unseen across the skies. Come to us, we call you near. Come to us and settle here. (Then, She finds an athame and slices the left finger of her left hand so that blood can symbolically spill directly from her heart and into the bowl.) Blood to blood, I summon thee. Blood to blood, return to me.
(A faint gust of wind flickers the candle, but not much else. She buries her face in her hands in defeat.)
Piper and Phoebe: Gemma? (Gemma looks up hopeful.)
Gemma: Prue? (She looks at the candle. Piper and Phoebe enter, wearing their night clothes and jackets. She has a tear-stained face.)
Piper: Sweetie, it's 4 o'clock in the morning. What are you doing? (Gemma doesn't answer, just stares blankly at the book. Phoebe notices Gemma's bleeding and gets a towel.)
Phoebe: You're bleeding.
(Gemma doesn't notice, doesn't care. Piper and Phoebe find a clean cloth, they take Gemma's hand and wrap the wound.)
Gemma: I don't understand why magic can't fix this. And why can't we bring Prue back. It's not like we haven't cheated death before. I don't understand why this time isn't any different.
Piper and Phoebe: Because Leo can't heal the dead, Gemma you know that.
Gemma: There's other magic, magic that we've used before. (She flips through the pages and fights the tears.) Scrying, calling a lost witch, reversing time. (She closes the Book of Shadows. She stands up.) It's like the book just deserted us and deserted Prue. And I don't understand why. (Piper and Phoebe take Gemma's other hand, hold them both, share her pain.)
Piper and Phoebe: We lost our big sister, your twin. How can we ever understand that? (Pause) We've tried every magical way to bring her back, but we can't, she's gone. (Their eyes well up as they face the harsh reality, then they all fall into each other's arms. It's a nightmare neither of them can ever wake up from.) I just- I thank God I didn't lose you and Piper too. (Piper and Phoebe give Gemma a little kiss and they hug her, they break the hug, they sigh.) We have to get some rest. Prue will never forgive us if we look bad at her funeral.
(Gemma can't help but smile through the tears at that. She stands, looks down at the Book of Shadows one last time before closing it. Arm-in-arm, they exit, shutting the door behind them. A beat, then a mysterious wind returns our attention to the Book of Shadows. The symbol, the triquetra, on the cover begins to glow. The mysterious wind 're-opens the Book and magically turns the pages to the last spell Gemma tried to cast. "To Call A Lost Witch...")
[Scene: South Bay Social Services. A young brunette woman, named Paige Matthews, is seated at her desk and pops in a CD into her computer. She turns her attention to the computer screen.]
Woman: Social services. May I help you?
Paige: Printing! (She notices that a mysterious wind blows out her lit candle. She gets up from her chair and takes a few steps to her right. Paige's back is turned when a newspaper mysteriously appears, landing on the floor next to Paige. She turns and bends over to pick up the newspaper. She looks around.)
