S1, EP9 - Election Day

[Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda]

TEASER 

SAN FRANCISCO - HALLIWELL MANOR - PIP'S BEDROOM - EARLY MORNING 

A closeup of a purple shirt being buttoned. A socked foot sliding into a white Chelsea boot. A comb brushing through chestnut locks. Amber eyes looking seriously into a mirror before the face scrunches up with a grin. It's Pip and he's dressed fabulously for school election day. He's wearing a purple button-up with white slacks, the slacks hugging every curve of his lower body, and his white Chelsea boots. 

Vic appears behind Pip, he's in nothing but a black tank-top and light blue checkered boxers. He wraps his arms around Pip's waist and rests his head against Pip's. "You look stunning and so sexy." He pulls Pip's rear flush against his hips. 

Pip closes his eyes, letting his left hand trail up Vic's left thigh. "There will be of time for that later after I win this election." He turns around in Vic's arms and looks up at his boyfriend with a grin, he leans into capture Vic's lips with his own. "And I'm definitely going to win." 

"I have no doubt." Vic smirks. "I've noticed things about you and your family, Pip." 

Pip gulps, suddenly rigid at his core. Did Vic figure out the secret? 

"I've realized that all of you Halliwells have a strong will and never give up without a fight." Vic finishes and Pip breathes a sigh of relief on the inside. "You're gonna knock this election out of the park." 

Pip smiles. "Oh baby, tell me something I don't know." If he were to utilize his Premonition power in such a way, there'd be absolutely nothing he wouldn't know. "Now, get your hot ass dressed before we're behind schedule and I have to kick it into gear." 

"Then my "hot ass" wouldn't be hot anymore." Vic fires back with a grin. 

"Well, can't have that can we?" Pip asks, grinning harder. "So don't make me kick it." 

"Wouldn't dream of it." Vic says, kissing Pip again before releasing his boyfriend to get dressed. 

Pip watches as Vic pulls a pair of blue jeans out of a duffel bag and begins putting them on. He frowns. "You know, eventually, we're going to have to deal with her." 

"We're not going to do anything, we can't force someone to change their opinion." Vic responds, shedding his tank-top and grabbing a white t-shirt from the duffel. 

"First, we will deal with her, she's our problem." Pip says, correcting his boyfriend. "Second, we'll show her, together, that love triumphs over judgement." 

Vic slides a blue button-up on over his t-shirt, but he leaves it unbuttoned. He looks down at the floor. "We're not gonna do anything. I'm doing just fine without her, I don't need her and I never will." 

"I really hope you don't mean that." Pip says, sadly. 

Before Vic can respond, there's a knock at the door. "Pip, hun, you're cutting the clock close." Phoebe says, opening the door. The doorknob turns and the door swings open. Phoebe is dressed for work in a yellow pant suit with black-strapped heels. Her hair is in a ponytail. 

"Mom, what have I told you about knocking?" Pip asks his mother. 

Phoebe frowns. "Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm just really excited for you today." 

"Well, your excitement is appreciated and because we were decent, you're forgiven." Pip says, smiling at his mother. "At least you let me keep the door shut when I've got company over, Dad certainly would never." He looks at his boyfriend. "Speaking of which, we'll have to deal with him too." 

"Is he gonna accept us? Accept you?" Vic asks. 

"I don't know." Pip says. "I guess I can understand why you don't wanna deal with her." He sighs and looks back at his mother, giving her a once-over. "Big day at work?" He asks, eyeing her suit. "And yellow?" 

"Big meeting on a bright, busy day." Phoebe says. "Fogged my bathroom with hairspray to get that extra hold and the yellow is so everyone's got their eye on me." 

Pip nods. "I can see that, your hair's got that shine too it." He laughs. 

"Well, you both have certain shine too." Phoebe says, giving a sly eyebrow at Pip, who glares at her. "Especially that outfit, you're like a life-size Ken doll. Those glutes are better than Leo's." 

"Mom...I'll plead the Fifth on that one." Pip says. After several seconds of silence. "You really think mine are better than Uncle Leo's?" He asks, using his mirror to look back at his rear. 

"Oh Ken, I know they are!" Vic teases, their earlier conversation swept away. He wraps his arms around Pip and hugs the witch close. 

"Ooh, you two are so cute together." Phoebe says. "Not to mention, a hot pair." She says with a wink and a smirk, not because she has seen anything, she's just trying to mess with him. 

"Mother!" Pip pleads, looking at her with bug eyes. "Okay, time to get this show on the road." 

Pip leaves Vic's arms to grab his backpack from a nearby beanbag chair. Vic, grabbing his from beside Pip's. 

"Oh you know you love me." Phoebe says, grinning. 

"Not for long." Pip says, adding a satisfied grin when absolute horror floods her face. "I win! Let's go Vic." 

Phoebe is left sputtering in the doorway as Pip and Vic flee the scene. "Boys..." She sighs with an amused smile. She shakes her head, closing the door and following them down the stairs. 

S.F. - BAKER HIGH SCHOOL - COURTYARD - MORNING 

Pip, Vic and Bev are walking in the courtyard, Pip and Vic are holding hands. Bev is wearing a peach-colored jumpsuit with tan flats and around her neck is the Protection Amulet, [used in the last episode and Charmed's "Pardon My Past"] which she had been keen on wearing often ever since she had been turned into a zombie. 

The trio enters the front doors of the school. Various posters and flyers are posted throughout the hallway encouraging students to either vote for Pip or Greta. 

Bev gets a ping from her smartphone. "Ben just sent me a picture of the ballet boxes. You should take a look at this, Pip." 

"I'm not sure I even want to." Pip replies, looking at Bev's phone. The picture shows both Pip's and Greta's ballot boxes stationed in the gym. The boxes can't be seen due to the partitions on the front sides and in between, but the boxes are there. The highlight of the image is the two, long, L-shaped lines leading up to both. "See, this why the candidates are not allowed in there until after the voting is done. To avoid all this stress." 

"It's gonna be a close race." Vic says, catching a glance of the image. 

As Pip, Bev and Vic are walking down the hall, a bird's eye view is shown of them from behind. Though this view is different than the average bird's eye, this view seems to be from something's line of vision. 

"I'm feeling so nervous all of a sudden." Pip says. 

"You've got this in the bag, babe!" Vic says, squeezing Pip's hand. "You've already got my vote." 

"And mine." Bev adds. "Everything's going to be fine." 

As the trio goes to round a corner, the something projects itself with speed at Bev as if it were going to run her over. From another angle, the something is shown as a blue smoke [similar to Terra from Charmed's "Coyote Piper"] and as it goes to collide with Bev, the red beryl gem of the Protection Amulet glows bright red. The Amulet protects Bev from the blue smoke which bounces off of the invisible barrier and ricochets into Pip. The glow of the Amulet's gem goes unnoticed by the trio. 

"You alright, babe?" Vic asks Pip, stopping the trio in the middle of the hall. 

As they've stopped, Bev says her goodbyes and departs to her first period class, Physics. A nearby student behind has her locker open as she talks away on her phone. 

From where the couple is standing, Pip looks into the mirror on the inside of the girl's locker door and he sees himself. Well, more like Pip can see his body staring back into the mirror at him. 

"What the-?" Pip asks, looking around. Everything about him is the same except that he's wearing an angelic white gown. "Oh no. No, no, no." 

'Pip' smirks into the mirror at the trapped witch. "Not what I was going for but it'll have to do." 

Vic taps 'Pip' on the shoulder. "Babe, you're squeezing my hand." He says, trying to shake their hands loose. 

'Pip' looks at Vic and then at their hands. 'He' quickly releases Vic's hands. "Sorry about that, I-was just admiring how good look together." 'He' points to the mirror for which Vic can only see their reflection. Vic can't see Pip is trapped inside. 

"Of course we do, babe." Vic says, kissing 'Pip' on the cheek. 

"Hey!" Pip shouts from inside the mirror. "Keep your paws off of my boyfriend!" He tries to get escape the mirror. "Ooh, when I get out of here, you're so getting vanquished." 

'Pip' smiles at the trapped witch. Vic and 'Pip' smile at each other before continuing down the hall. 

"Vic! No!" Pip shouts, trying to warn his boyfriend. "Come back!" But his pleas go unheard as the first bell rings and the girl finishes up and closes her locker door. "No!" Pip shouts again but his voice fades away as he is pulled away from the mirror.

END OF TEASER

Roll Opening Main Cast Credits

Cast

Starring

Cory Grüter-Andrew as Pip Muniz-Halliwell

Sophia Lillis as Beverly Carson

Jack Dylan Grazer as Eddie Kresington

Ted King as Andy Trudeau

Alyssa Milano as Phoebe Halliwell

Logan Thompson as Victor Cross

"There's a Ghost" by Fleurie plays over aerial shots of San Francisco. Supporting cast and guest stars to roll in these shots.

Supporting

Jaeden Martell as Bill Reynolds

Finn Wolfhard as Richie Thompson

Jeremy Ray Taylor as Ben Hartman

Wyatt Oleff as Stanley Upright

Chosen Jacobs as Mike Hunter

Megan Charpentier as Greta Brewer
Nicholas Hamilton as Henry Benson

Supporting Cast will be expanded as the episode is posted!

Guest Starring

Landry Bender as Signe
Rachel McAdams as Mrs. Lawrence

Guest Stars will be expanded as the episode is posted!

Uncredited

TBD as Chemistry Girl #1 

TBD as Chemistry Girl #2

Uncredited Cast will be expanded as the episode is posted!

Created By

Constance M. Burge, Brad Kern, Stephen King and Matt

Written By

Matt

Edited By

Matt

[Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda]

ACT 1

S.F. - BAKER HIGH SCHOOL - CHEMISTRY 101 CLASSROOM - MORNING

(Time lapse of 15min has occurred)

After parting ways with Vic, 'Pip' had been on his way to the gym for reasons unknown but was intercepted by Mike. Both are in Chemistry 101 and Mike shepherded his friend off to class, Stan joining them on the way. 

Mrs. Lawrence, a blonde middle-aged woman with a charismatic charm that made all of her students love her, is at the front of the room. She leads the day's experiment of elephant toothpaste. 

Everyone in the room is wearing lab coats, goggles and gloves. Each table of has a pair of students except for Pip since he was a transfer. 

"So you're going to mix in a half cup of the 3% peroxide." Mrs. Lawrence explains as she pours her peroxide into a beaker, the class following her with their own. 

'Pip' smirks and adds almost the entire bottle of peroxide. 

An empty beaker sitting on the table has the real Pip in the reflection, he can see his body but can't see the experiment itself. So he has no clue that the imposter is planning something. "Look, if you give me back my body, I can help you move on or do whatever it is you need to do." 

Stan and Mike glance at their friend, who they notice is adding more dish soap than requried. 

Stan leans over in the aisle between their tables. "Pip, do you need help with the experiment?" 

The imposter doesn't recognize Stan's interaction, too focused with shutting the witch up and sabotaging the experiment. "If I needed your help, I would've asked. Now, please shut up so I can concentrate." 'Pip' says to the beaker. 

Stan shrinks back. "Okay then..." He looks at Mike, who's equally taken back from their friend's response. 

"It's most likely stress from the election." Mike suggests. 

Stan nods slowly. "Yeah, probably." Though Stan was still suspicious. 

Mrs. Lawrence prepares the yeast, the catalyst for the peroxide-soap mixture. "Now if you followed along correctly, then you're mixture should..." 

The imposter once again adds too much yeast and then backs away from the table. Suddenly, the beaker explodes, sending glass and foam everywhere. The beaker that reflected Pip is sent to the floor where it shatters. 

"...erupt with foam." Mrs. Lawrence says, flecks of foam on her goggles and lab coat. 

Stan wipes foam from his goggles, he's covered in foam. He caught the brute of the foam, while Mike also has flecks foam on his lab coat. 

They look at their friend who somehow managed to stay foam-free. 'Pip' laughs, tickled that the experiment went wrong. 

The two girls sitting at the table in front of the imposter, shriek in horror. They were covered in foam. "It's all in my hair!" The girl in the aisle seat says. 

"Pip, why??" The other one cries. 

"Aw, you'll be fine." The imposter Pip says. "At least I didn't kill you." He laughs. 

"I'm so glad I haven't voted yet." The one on the right says. "At least Greta wouldn't be this cruel." 

"Mr. Halliwell?" Mrs. Lawrence says, frowning. 

"Yeah, Teach?" Pip-poster asks. 

"I think it'd be best if you took a walk." Mrs. Lawrence, bringing a roll of paper towels to the two girls. 

Pip pouts. "Don't you want me to help clean up the mess?" 

"No, thank you. Please gather your belongings." Mrs. Lawrence says. "You're dismissed." 

Pip-poster shrugs and gathers his stuff. As he heads to the door, he realizes he has access to Pip's magic. Under his breath, he mutters. "The party's just started, their beakers overload. The finale yet to come, for now it's foam à la mode." 

As Pip-poster exits the room, he cackles as he beakers shattering from volcanoes of foam.

HALLWAY

"Why did you that?" Pip asks, his reflection on a metal trash can the imposter passes by. 

"Why?" Pip-poster stops. He backsteps to the reflection. "Why? Because I've always hated that bitch, she's always so chipper and it's irritating." 

Pip nods. "Well, that narrows it down." He says. "You're the ghost of a dead student." 

"Yeah, well, soon you will be too." Pip-poster says. 

"You better avoid my friends then." Pip warns. "They'll figure out something's up." 

"What makes you so sure?" Pip-poster asks. "Those two bozos didn't bat an eye." 

"We'll see." Pip says, shrugs. 

"Oh, we will." Pip-poster says. "Well, I will anyway. You, on the other hand, are on borrowed time." 

"I believe you've got that backwards." Pip says. 

"Either way, finders keepers." Pip-poster smirks. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go change into something more...me." 

"Fair warning, if you go to my home then my family will definitely know something's up." Pip says. "My mom will flush you out as soon as you walk through the doors." He smiles. 

"Who said anything about going home?" Pip-poster asks with a sly smile. 

"Oh crap." Pip says, sighing. 

Pip-poster grins and walks away, Pip being dragged behind. 

COMMERCIAL BREAK 

BOYS' RESTROOM 

Pip-poster enters the boys' restroom and walks to one of the sinks. Pip’s reflection is in the mirror. 

"Gonna cast another spell?" Pip asks. "I can't wait to hear this one, that last one was terrible." He taunts. 

"Quiet, witch." Pip-poster says, glaring at the mirror. 

"I have a name." Pip says. "The least you could do is use it and you could also tell me yours." He says. "I'm Pip." He raises his right (left; third-person perspective) hand in the mirror as if the imposter could reach through and shake it. 

"I know that already." Pip-poster replies. 

"Okay, so what's your name then?" Pip asks. 

Pip-poster stares back at the trapped witch, contemplating. "Signe." 

"Nice to meet you, Signe." Pip says. "Now, can you please leave my body?" He asks. 

"I can't." Signe says. "Not until I make them pay." 

"Make who pay?" Pip asks. 

"Benson and his little squad of jerks." Signe says. 

Pip breathes. "Look, my friends and I can help you..." 

"Save it." Signe says, cutting Pip off. "They're gonna get what they deserve." 

Suddenly, one of the stalls open and Henry comes out. "Gonna get what, Pied Pyper?" Angered from hearing the threat. 

Signe grins. "What's your power and how do I activate it?" 

"Sorry, my power is passive." Pip says, smiling. "It won't help you here." 

Signe turns around and catches Henry's oncoming fist. "We're literally in front of a mirror, doofus." 

Signe twists Henry's arm and pulls it behind the older boy. She then pushes Henry forward with a kick to his lower back. 

"You shouldn't have done that." Henry sneers, retreating to the exit. 

"Watch your back, Benson, you wouldn't want to get ran over." Signe threatens. 

Henry freezes. For a split-second, he sees a flash of a girl with long black hair and dark attire. "Y-you think you're un-untouchable because of this election...just you w-wait and see." He stutters but tries to hide that he's been spooked, either from the flash itself or because he knew the girl's identity. He swallows with trepidation and slowly backsteps out of the bathroom. 

"Damn it!" Signe fumes. "I could've killed him right then." 

"Well, you didn't." Pip says. 

"I'll have my revenge soon." Signe says. "But in the meantime..." She trails off, looking into the mirror. "Hair, face and clothes, of the body I took. Spirits, make me over, give me a brand new look." 

Pip crosses his arms as he watches a swirl of bright white lights funnel around his body as the magic does its job. When the lights disappear, Pip’s jaw drops at the new appearance of his body. "Oh. My. GOD!" 

Signe grins, delighted with her new look. The chestnut locks that used to be Pip's are now jet black with several streaks of pink, Pip’s bangs have also been brushed to the side. Eyes that were once amber, are now a brownish-green and there's black eyeliner around them. Pip’s pink lips are now dressed in a dark shade of red. Pip’s skin has maintained his pale complexion. 

As for the outfit, the purple button-up has been replaced with a solid black button-up that has lace sleeves. Over the shirt is a sleeveless, black denim vest with rivets. The white slacks are gone, in their place are pink tartan bondage pants and they hug Pip's curves tighter than the slacks. The white Chelsea boots are now solid black and studded. On the left (right) ear is drop earring, a black rose pierced in the lobe and a thorned heart is the drop pendant. Around Pip's neck is a black leather choker with a pair of wings, an angel's wing on the left and a bat's wing on the right. The metal feathers are adorned with diamond rhinestones and a red heart-shaped garnet rests in the center of the wings. A diamond pendant hangs below the garnet. 

Pip's backpack is now a black crossbody bag, hanging across the left (right) side of his body. 

"Well?" Signe asks the trapped witch. "How do I look?" 

"I'll admit, it's not an ensemble that I'd ever wear..." Pip trails off. 

"I detect a 'but' coming." Signe says. 

Pip nods. "But...it is hot." He smiles. "I'll give you that." 

Their conversation is interrupted by the bell ringing. First period has ended and it is time for students to proceed to their second period class. 

"Time for class!" Signe says with a mischevious smirk. "If you're dead before I see you again, Pippy, rest in peace." She says before heading for the exit. "However, it'd be a shame if you missed the finale." She calls over her shoulder. 

Pip gets a worried look on his face as he is dragged away from the glass of the mirror. 

END OF ACT 1