Prologue

For three years, Prue, Piper and Phoebe Halliwell had made up a coven of witches known as the Charmed ones, together they made up the Power of Three. Each of the sisters possessed a magic power given to them by their ancestor, Melinda Warren. With their gifts and each other these young women battled the forces of evil, together. Then something went horribly wrong. Phoebe, the youngest of the three sisters, was killed in an all out attack by the source of evil himself. The source had thought he had won by killing Phoebe, and sending his assassin, shax to kill Prue and Piper. However Cole Turner better known as Belthazer, Phoebe's demonic boyfriend who balanced on the edge of good and evil, and Leo Wyatt, Piper's husband and the sisters' whitelighter had managed to save Prue and Piper. Still loosing Phoebe had broken the power of three. Or so they all thought.As it turns out Patty, the girl's mother, had a love child with her own whitelighter, Sam after she divorced Victor, the girl's father. That love child held the key to reconstructing the Power of Three. Paige Matthews, the fourth sister, was lead to Prue and Piper by a spell cast by the sisters to bring back Phoebe. The girls met up at Phoebe's funeral. After another attack by Shax, Paige ended up under the protection of Prue and Piper. It was then that Patty reviled to the sisters the secret of Paige's existence. Paige then had a premonition, thereby activating her power, of her birth and learned at Patty and Sam had given her up to protect her. She then helped Prue and Piper defeat Shax and the power of three was reborn.All three sisters had a hard time adjusting over the next year. Paige was desperate to learn more about her craft and learn to balance her job and social life around her wiccan destiny. Piper found the best way to deal with Phoebe's death was too take it upon herself to teach Paige the ropes of being a witch. Along with exploring her relationship with Leo, that is. Prue took Phoebe's death the hardest though, burying herself in her work and wiccan duties. But destiny had a different plan for the eldest of the Charmed returned from the underworld in desperate need of the Charmed ones help, he had betrayed the source when he tried to rescue Phoebe, even though his attempt failed, the Source put a bounty of his head and he was now hunted as frequently as the sisters were. Piper and Paige agreed to help him but Prue refused, she had disliked Cole from the beginning, and even more now that her sister was gone.But something sparked between Prue and Cole. Something Prue had feared since she met the demon. Something she had feared her entire life...Love.

Chp. 1

Prue Halliwell sat in a state of shock, her light skin paler than normal. Sweat beaded her forehead and tears brimmed her eyes.

"It can't be true." she told herself.

"Prue?" Piper Wyatt, Prue's younger sister knocked on the door. "Is everything alright in there?"Prue didn't answer; tears slipped from her grey, blue eyes and rolled down her pale cheeks."Prue?!" Piper tried again. "Prue!" Piper inhaled deeply stepping back from the door. She put her hands out in front of her fists curled. At first she thought about opening the door lock manually but of course, knowing her older sister, Prue would use her power of telekinesis to hold the door shut. As much as Piper regretted what she was about to do, she couldn't stand Prue anymore. Her sister had been way too passive in the past few days and Piper needed to find out why. Taking another deep breath Piper open her hands in a quick smooth movement. The door blew up and Piper stepped into the bathroom.

"What the hell did you do that for?" Prue asked turning to her sister. There was a glint of anger in her eyes and Piper almost smiled glad to have a hint of her arrogant sister show threw.

"What is up with you lately?" Piper asked her. She saw Prue curl her fingers around something and shove it behind her back."Prue what is that?" she asked

"Nothing." Prue lied.

"Prudence." Piper said using her sister's full name.Prue looked over to the window then at her hand. She squinted at what she held, using her power of telekensis to move the object away from her, but for once Piper was faster. She threw her hands out and froze the object in mid air before it was hurled out the window.Prue raised her hand to throw the frozen object but it was too late, Piper saw what her sister had been hiding."So thats the reason for you being so quiet and locking yourself in the bathroom lately..."

"Piper..." Prue used her power to send the pregnancy test into the garbage. She looked at her sister.Piper's dark eyes caught sight of the tears that glittered on Prue's face.

'Hey what's going on?" Paige Matthews, Prue and Piper's baby half sister came into the room.

"Nothing Paige..." Piper said still looking at Prue. "Nothing at all.""Well then can i use the bathroom, i need to get ready to go to work."

Paige walked into the bathroom an turned and looked at the door. "Piper, why did you blow the door up?"

"Prue was taking too long, but she's done now..." Piper grabbed her older sister's arm but Prue brushed it away.

"Yeah, so don't you take too long. We can't afford to throw away money to fix the door every time Piper gets impatient. " Prue remarked almost smiling as she left with Piper.Paige laughed and started to put on her make-up. As she finished she threw the tissue in the trash and then looked down. She gasped seeing the pregnancy test and picked it up. Instantly she got a premonition...

"Just one more push sweetie." Cole voice echoed followed by Prue's hollowed cries.

"It's a boy." Piper could be heard saying as Paige took the baby in her arms. She looked down at him, dark haired like his mother and blue eyed like his father. His cries were strong and loud.Then Prue let out a scream as a demon shimmer into the room.

"No!" Cole shouted throwing himself in front of Paige to protect his son.

"Leo!" Piper called trying to blow up the demon just as he attacked Cole.

"Paige save my son..." Paige heard Prue's urgent voice just as she saw a fireball hurling toward her...

Paige gasped and dropped the test her eyes wide.Meanwhile Prue and Piper sat at the table drinking coffee. Piper was looking t the paper and Prue was checking her watch.

"I better get going, I have shoot to get too." She stood up and got her purse.

"When you going tell him?" Piper asked taking a sip of her coffee.

"Tell who what?" Leo orbed in and kissed Piper hello.

"Prue has a little secret." Piper told her husband.

"What secret?" Cole shimmered in just as Paige came downstairs.

"Prue I have to...Hi Cole." Paige said looking at the demon clearly confused.

"Okay we will talk about this, later when I get home from work." Prue grabbed her car keys and hurried out of the room.

"Well i better get to work too..." Paige added looking around." As soon as I find my...car keys" Paige looked up as her keys hovered in front of her and then dropped into her hand. "Thanks Prue!" She called following her. "I love that new power of hers" Cole and Leo both looked at Piper.

"See you guys later. Bye honey" Piper picked up her keys gave Leo a quick kiss and left the room.

"Well that was odd." Cole remarked sitting down in the chair Prue had just vacated...