Chapter One
The Homecoming
The girls live in the old Victorian house in which they grew up in. The house or manor as they call it; has four stories counting the attic and the basement. A large kitchen where Piper
spends much of the time. A den where they have vanquished countless demons and a Conservatory with a view of the backyard. The manor was in an uproar, because DJ was to be
arriving later that evening. They hadn't seen DJ since she was six, making her sixteen now. Prue hurried about looking for her briefcase. Prue was of good height for a twenty-eight-
year-old woman. She had shoulder length dark brown hair like her sister's Piper and Phoebe. Piper fixed the pillows on the couch. Piper is shorter than Prue and a few years
younger at twenty-five. She has medium length dark brown hair. Phoebe the youngest of the three, at twenty-two and the most carefree. She has dark brown hair that just covers the
back of her neck; sat calmly on the over stuffed chair. "What's the big deal Piper, it just our sister?" Phoebe asked. "I don't want her to see this place in a wreck." Piper answered.
"What about the demon blood on the pillow, what are we going to say that is?" Prue asked coming back down stairs. Before anyone could answer there was a sudden knock on the
door. Prue and Piper froze in their tracks. Phoebe, on the other hand, hurried to open the door. It was DJ, she stood there in a pair of cutoffs and a baggy red T-shirt with Tweety
dressed like a devil on the front and Sylvester dressed like an angel on the back. DJ had her shoulder length, strawberry blond hair pulled up into a ponytail. Her backpack hung over
one shoulder. Beside her sat a huge German Shepherd and a Beagle. Kit the family's Siamese sauntered up looked at the dogs and puffed up as big as the beagle and hissed. "Kit,
Stop it!" Phoebe shouted. Kit slunk off. DJ walked in dropped her backpack on the floor. Her dogs followed her. "Nice, see you haven't changed anything." Having lived in New
York for ten years she had quite an accent. Prue hissed "They're not coming in here." DJ said softly to herself "neither have you." Phoebe heard her remark and smiled. DJ said in the
sweetest voice she could muster "Please let them come in it's supposed to rain." She threw in a puppy dog face with whines and everything, evened her dogs got in the act. Phoebe
and Piper finally talked Prue into it. DJ plopped down on the couch. Phoebe and Piper did the same. "Your hair is um different from we remember." Prue said as she sat in the
armchair. "Thanks. My boy friend back in New York dyed it for me." DJ replied. "Your boy friend? Oh. Do tell" Phoebe said to put an arm along the back of the couch. "Well he's
tall, dark, and handsome"; DJ began, I describe him this way 'cause he's tall. Duh! Dark 'causes he's having a dark side like all the evil villains on Batman, and handsome 'cause
he's HOT! He's really sweet too." "Cool." Phoebe said smiling. Piper smiled at the pair then asked "What are your dog's name's?" DJ replied "This big lummox is Prince, while
rubbing the Shepherd's head, and this is Shiloh," while petting the Beagle in her lap. "Phoebe must have forgotten to mention you had dogs." Prue said as she cast a wayward glance
at Phoebe. All three of them listened as DJ talked about her life in New York. Then about nine, Prue got up saying she has to go to 415 early tomorrow. 415 is the magazine
company for which she worked. DJ called after her "Goodnight." However, Prue didn't even acknowledge her. "Prue doesn't want me here does she?" DJ questioned. Phoebe and
Piper tried to convince she that wasn't true, but DJ didn't believe it. Prue had always looked down on her. DJ remembered once when she was four and Prue was fourteen. She was
going to a sleep over. Prue put a cat in DJ's backpack. So when she got to the sleep over and opened her bag the cat practically flew out and went crazy. The girls all laughed, but
Liz's mother whose house the sleep over was at, she was as weirder out as the cat. She got a broom and shooed it out the back door. The next morning when DJ got home, she told
nine years old Phoebe what happened. Phoebe laughed so hard tears streamed down her face. Grams came, hearing the commotion, asked what was going on. DJ told her, but she
just stood there. Phoebe said still laughing and crying. "Come on, Grams, it's funny." Grams still just stood there, stone faced. She called Prue to come into DJ and Phoebe's room
right away. A few seconds later Prue walked in. Grams just crossed her hands across her chest and stood there. Prue knew she was in trouble, but she wasn't about to give up
without a fight. Grams asked Prue if she put the cat in DJ's backpack. Prue said she didn't, that Piper, who was eleven, had done it. Though she knew good and wells that Prue had
done it she called in Piper. Piper who already knew what they were talking about came in and told Grams that she had seen Prue put the cat there. Grams just glared at Prue, until
she went over and apologized to DJ. It was about nine fifteen when DJ spaced out. Piper brought her back to reality when she asked Phoebe if she wanted any coffee. DJ jumped,
Phoebe asked if she had been asleep. DJ answered "No, just spaced out." Piper came back with coffee for both her and Phoebe and a cup of hot cocoa for DJ. Phoebe asked what
DJ was thinking about, so she told them. They continued to talk until about eleven forty when Piper looked at the clock. "It's nearly Midnight, and I have to go to P3 early to get set
up for Brittany" "Spears." DJ joked. "Yhea." Piper exclaimed. DJ just looked at her wide eyed and open mouthed. "Close your mouth before a bug flies in." Phoebe giggled. Piper
looked to DJ and asked "What's the deal with you? You act like she's a goddess or something." "You're kidding right? "Brittany Spears is only the most famous person in New
York!" DJ said, her accent showing. "Don't tell me you never heard of her?" she started again. "She's that young girl that wears really tight clothes, right?" Phoebe asked. "Yhea!" DJ
answered insulted that Phoebe didn't know about her obsession with Brittany. She was only DJ's biggest role-model. "She's so cool. " My fave song is "Not a girl not yet a woman,"
DJ said as if in a dream. Piper broke her form her trance when she said "I'd love to stare in to space with you Dej, but I've only got a month and a half left to set up and I have to
order stuff for the club and get all set up. So I really have to get to bed." DJ looked at Piper and thought to herself. She needs a month to set up for a concert? Piper went on,
"Anyway. I'm sure you're tired after your flight here." DJ said, "Yhea." She went over to the door where she had dropped her bag earlier and picked it up. Then the three headed up
stares. Phoebe said, mocking DJ lovingly "Come on we'll show ya yo room." Piper laughed. DJ just looked at Phoebe and tried her best not to. They came to DJ's room and
stopped. DJ went in tossed her bag on the bed and looked around the room. If she wasn't mistaken this was their mother's room that is before she died. She had drowned. "Isn't
this . . . " DJ started but Phoebe answered her before she could finish. "Yhea, I'm surprised you remember." "I may have left when I was six but I still remember the old house. 'Sides
I'm a Halliwell I know where me family sleeps, so I can scare them if I'm bored." DJ said her accent showing even more. Phoebe and Piper just looked at her and laughed. Prue
came in then. "Halliwells, don't talk like New York hicks. If I had my say, you wouldn't be here! "You maybe our sister but when you went to live with Victor . . . " She trailed off.
Prue hated their father for abandoning them when they were little. When he left permanently, he had taken DJ with him. Probably to keep her out of the way. Since she and her
sisters were witches. She started again "You're just as bad as he is!" "Prue's you don't mean that." Piper said almost to tears. "The hell I didn't, looking back at DJ "You, best not
think you're going to stay." About this time DJ's dogs came in. Prince barked and scared them half to death. Prue turned to leave and nearly tripped over Shiloh. Prue got her
balance and kicked Shiloh hard enough to send her sliding across the floor. Prince ran to Shiloh's side. He had always protected Shiloh since DJ had brought her home. Beside
Shiloh he growled at Prue. She kicked at Prince but missed. Thinking she was trying to hurt Shiloh he lunged forward and grabbed Prue's hand. Prince didn't bite her he just stood
there with her hand in his mouth staring directly into her eyes. When Prue was lacking two days turning twelve a pack of stray dogs attacked her and she had to get a series of rabies
shots. She had been afraid of dogs ever since. After a few seconds, he let go. Prue was trembling and nearly to tears. She took off to her room and slammed the door. Prince then
went back to Shiloh's side and nudged her. She instantly got up and followed him into DJ's room. Phoebe said, apologetically to DJ, "I'm sorry. I should have talked to Prue before I
invited you to come back home." Phoebe paused "I." "Its ok Phoebs, I'll stay here for the night, then in the morning I'll get a motel for me and . . . the dogs," DJ said trying her best
not to talk like a "New York hick" as Prue called it. Piper said in a mild tone "Your not going live in a motel. Your stays hear whether Prue's likes' it or not! Let's all just try to get
some sleep. It well is better in the morning." "Piper I hate to brake it to you but . . . It's morning." Phoebe giggled. Piper looked at the clock by the bed. "It's 12:15! "I have to get up
early." Piper said, while hopping from one foot to the other for the ser amusement of her sisters. Phoebe and DJ looked at her and burst out laughing. DJ said still laughing "Piper . . .
PIPER!" Piper stopped and Phoebe just stared at her. "Piper chill out! Go get some sleep. I'm not a baby. You don't have to tuck me in. "All right." Piper said while ruffling DJ's hair.
"Love ya kiddo." "Night." DJ yawned. "Tell Prue I love her and that I'm sorry for leaving with dad . . . I didn't want to go anyway, I mean I loved dad and all but I wanted to stay
with you guys and Grams." "Why don't you tell her when you get up?" Phoebe suggested. "Ok." DJ replied. "But, at least tell her I'm really sorry about Prince. I know how afraid
Prue is of dogs." "Sure thing kid." Phoebe yawned. With that Piper and Phoebe left and headed to their rooms only to see Prue coming down from the attic. "What were you doing
up there?" Piper asked yawning. "I just locked the attic." Prue answered. Meanwhile in her room DJ changed into her Pjs, tried to sleep but so many things were running through her
head sleep wasn't an option. "I put the book in the chest and locked it." Prue said as she and her sisters went in their rooms and shut the doors. About twenty minutes later DJ still
could get to sleep so she decided to go down and get a glass of milk; that always put her to sleep. After drinking her milk she went back up stairs to get some sleep. Yet fifteen
minutes later she was still couldn't fall asleep. So she decided to go check out the second floor. Quietly so not to wake her sisters. She walked around. . Soon she found herself
standing at the mini stair case that lead to the attic. When she was little, Grams always kept the attic locked. Even still she slowly started the steps. At the top she tried the knob . . . it
was locked just as expected. She turned to head to her room, from behind her there was a sudden creak. She looked over her shoulder and saw the attic door ajar. She thought to
herself, I tried to turn it and . . .