Munday: Diagramming the Plot
What parts of your story are exposition? What constitutes the rising action (conflict)? Where is your story's climax? What events are part of the falling action? What is your conclusion? If you are missing some of these classic plot elements, it's a good time to plan them out.
Exposition: "Dealing with Demons" through "The Witchlighter's Origins, Parts 1 & 2" Everyone adjusts to this new reality, the Charmed Ones re-form and Paige discovers her wiccan destiny. Cole lays out the plot, he and Prue marry, and their son is conceived. The Underworld rivalry subplot begins.
Rising Action: "Killing Her Softly" through a chapter TBW I've tentatively called "Paper Faces on Parade" wherein the Charmed Ones have almost completely figured out the conspiracy to co-opt the twice-blessed child for evil...except the part about Prue and her role.
Climax: Again, TBW, but "In Her Wake", in which Prue, flat out battling Phoebe to the death as part of a larger battle in which Paige is killed (shh!!), has an intense memory surface from the soul that she and Cole had thought they'd successfully repressed. It's a memory in which we see Prue and Phoebe's relationship established, literally at the wake for their mother in 1978. And it is this intense, sudden memory which will shock Prue into setting down the knife and stepping back from the brink of murdering an innocent, her own sister.
Falling Action: In so many ways, and I have to be careful with how I play this, the falling action is going to be the exposition in reverse with emotional content. I've got a draft of the scenes in which the sisters begin to deal with the fallout and re-establish their bond. There's going to be a scene modeled on canon where Piper and Prue put their toddler sons together in a playpen as a test of the morality of Prue's son, and Piper will strip (most of) his demonic powers once he passes said test. Cole is going to be vanquished, and I've settled on Piper throwing the potion and Phoebe and Prue releasing his soul. The Source is going to be vanquished, and that'll be an awesome group effort. Grams, summoned following that to wiccan the boy, has a very difficult conversation with Prue, and reveals her own (canonical) past involvement with a demon to Prue and her sisters. Some similarly difficult conversation occurs between Prue and each of her parents. She visits the grave of the mortal man she loved, and loves still in some ways.
Conclusion/Denouement: I know that I want to include some elements of the trope "Tell Me About My Father", and the most age-appropriate (figuring Binding Ties concludes when Prue's son is 4 years old) way also works very well as a metaphor for a certain level of what Prue experienced: Where The Wild Things Are. I also want to show that these two cousins are very close friends, as a way of showing that Prue and her son have healed and come full circle back into the family. On the other hand, I really don't want to just show that Prue easily decides to re-pursue the search for love, much less finds soon finds it with a mortal. I think what's truer to the heart of the character is wanting to focus on her son, wanting to be around family, and maybe some actual contentment that she was deeply and truly loved twice in a lifetime.
Exposition: "Dealing with Demons" through "The Witchlighter's Origins, Parts 1 & 2" Everyone adjusts to this new reality, the Charmed Ones re-form and Paige discovers her wiccan destiny. Cole lays out the plot, he and Prue marry, and their son is conceived. The Underworld rivalry subplot begins.
Rising Action: "Killing Her Softly" through a chapter TBW I've tentatively called "Paper Faces on Parade" wherein the Charmed Ones have almost completely figured out the conspiracy to co-opt the twice-blessed child for evil...except the part about Prue and her role.
Climax: Again, TBW, but "In Her Wake", in which Prue, flat out battling Phoebe to the death as part of a larger battle in which Paige is killed (shh!!), has an intense memory surface from the soul that she and Cole had thought they'd successfully repressed. It's a memory in which we see Prue and Phoebe's relationship established, literally at the wake for their mother in 1978. And it is this intense, sudden memory which will shock Prue into setting down the knife and stepping back from the brink of murdering an innocent, her own sister.
Falling Action: In so many ways, and I have to be careful with how I play this, the falling action is going to be the exposition in reverse with emotional content. I've got a draft of the scenes in which the sisters begin to deal with the fallout and re-establish their bond. There's going to be a scene modeled on canon where Piper and Prue put their toddler sons together in a playpen as a test of the morality of Prue's son, and Piper will strip (most of) his demonic powers once he passes said test. Cole is going to be vanquished, and I've settled on Piper throwing the potion and Phoebe and Prue releasing his soul. The Source is going to be vanquished, and that'll be an awesome group effort. Grams, summoned following that to wiccan the boy, has a very difficult conversation with Prue, and reveals her own (canonical) past involvement with a demon to Prue and her sisters. Some similarly difficult conversation occurs between Prue and each of her parents. She visits the grave of the mortal man she loved, and loves still in some ways.
Conclusion/Denouement: I know that I want to include some elements of the trope "Tell Me About My Father", and the most age-appropriate (figuring Binding Ties concludes when Prue's son is 4 years old) way also works very well as a metaphor for a certain level of what Prue experienced: Where The Wild Things Are. I also want to show that these two cousins are very close friends, as a way of showing that Prue and her son have healed and come full circle back into the family. On the other hand, I really don't want to just show that Prue easily decides to re-pursue the search for love, much less finds soon finds it with a mortal. I think what's truer to the heart of the character is wanting to focus on her son, wanting to be around family, and maybe some actual contentment that she was deeply and truly loved twice in a lifetime.