In this story Prue has been given a second chance at life in order to re-
establish the Charmed Ones. Piper is married to Leo and has a daughter
named Melinda, Phoebe is married to Cole and has a son named Dylan and Prue
is engaged to Andy who still works for the police department.
~ The Manor ~
"Well that was a lot of fun. We should do this every Thursday night," Prue laughed as she watched the last demon explode in front of her.
"No! Thursday nights are reserved for Friends and Will and Grace, Prue." Phoebe grinned as she walked back into the living room where Piper was picking up pillows off the floor.
"How can you guys joke like that? My living room is covered in green goo, that damn clock once again has to be fixed, and my dinner burned because of these rude little interruptions that we can't seem to stop getting." Piper protested as she threw pillows on the couch.
Leo orbed in behind Prue and wondered what he just walked into. He looked around the room and noticed the mess. Without having to ask he could figure out exactly what had taken place.
"So I see you guys handled everything quite well," Leo sighed.
"Did you ever doubt that we wouldn't?" Prue questioned.
"No, but I have some exciting news for all of you guys. You will enjoy this gift I am about to bestow upon you all," he gloated.
"Why do I have the feeling gifts will come with strings attached? Could this really be a good thing?" Phoebe asked her sisters.
"I don't know but I will be all ears until I hear the other shoe drop," Prue said.
"Since it is Christmas time and all you are entitled to one power boost. The only catch is."
"See I knew there was a catch. Nothing can ever be easy now can it?" Phoebe hit Prue's arm as she whined. "I think they purposely do these things to torture us. It's that simple."
Leo waved his hands in the air trying to get their attention again. "Would you let me finish?"
"The floor is all yours," Phoebe sarcastically bowed.
"Thank you. As I was saying there is one catch. You are to enjoy them," Leo laughed. "Now was that so hard?"
Prue turned to Piper and asked her how she would feel to have one less member in her household because she was thinking of killing Leo for his little prank he was pulling on them. When Leo chimed in to remind Prue that he was already dead.
"Well you know we could always make you suffer. Remember you still can feel pain," Prue winked at Leo watching the uneasy look on his face.
Piper decided that she wanted a power boost when it came to her temporal stasis ability so now not only could she freeze things she could turn them to ice as well. Prue wanted to be able to conjure anything she thought of and use it as she pleased. The last person there was to decide couldn't make up her mind as to what exactly she did want. Prue and Piper convinced Phoebe that maybe she should go for that cool power that she had in the future, electro kinesis. When they all finally decided Leo informed them that he would have to go inform the elders right away.
It was now Christmas day, two days after Leo informed the girls that they would be receiving new powers, and everyone had gathered at the manor. Piper had went through a lot of trouble to make sure that this Christmas was better than the last since this was the first Christmas that they would be spending with Prue since the elders had decided to let her return after Paige was killed by a Shax. At dinner Piper became completely annoyed with her daughter and her nephew's behavior.
"Melinda, stop throwing peas at Dylan," Piper screamed totally frustrated with the children's actions.
"He started it when he stuck his tongue out at me," Melinda yelled at she began to throw more peas at her cousin.
"Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!" Piper screamed as she threw her hands up in annoyance.
As Piper looked around she noticed that the room was now frozen as was Leo, Dylan, Andy and Cole. Only instead of them being just frozen they were in blocks of ice as they sat at the dinning room table. Piper waved her hand in front of her husband only to find that he was not able to move within the block of ice.
"What the hell! What just happened here?" Prue questioned, as she looked at dinning room and the stiffs that sat around her.
"Mommy froze daddy." Melinda laughed as she touched the frozen figure of her father.
"Piper, you not only froze the room you froze my husband and child. What the hell did you do that for?" Phoebe questioned.
"I didn't. I mean I did, but I didn't. I mean." Prue broke in by reminding her that she asked for an advanced freezing power. "I never said I wanted a stiff for a husband, Prue. How exactly am I supposed to fix this?"
"Well if this is anything like your regular freezing power you should just be able to wave your hands and unfreeze it like before," Prue reminded her.
Piper began to wave her hand but Phoebe screamed in protest of her sister's actions. She reminded her of what happened before when she got her last power and how she was blowing things up instead of freezing them. Piper was now hearing her sister argue whether or not she should unfreeze or not. Phoebe suggested that Piper just wait until they unfreeze and then that way she wouldn't run the risk of blowing up family members.
"Phoebe, just let her try alright. This could be interesting to see if she could actually do this. Besides it could take forever for them to unfreeze." Prue looked at the thick layer of ice surrounding, Andy. "We don't have that kind of time. At least I know I don't. I do want to get home sometime tonight."
Piper took a chance and unfroze the room and remarked on how this was going to be a piece of cake because nobody blew up. However it didn't stop her problem with the children as they went back to throwing peas back and forth across the dinner table. Cole then warned them that whoever threw another pea at the dinner table would be cleaning everything up and washing the dishes as well. After hearing that the children began to behave like good children who occasionally stuck their tongues out at one another.
After the events of the day Prue and Phoebe agreed to come back over in the morning to figure out what caused Piper to freeze everything and everyone except for the three of them and Melinda at dinner. Later that night Piper started asking Leo why exactly Phoebe and Prue had not informed her that they had received their powers yet.
"They probably haven't noticed it but I assure you they do have new powers," Leo yawned as he rolled over and tried to go back to sleep.
"Do you think I should call them and try and find out if they have noticed anything different since they left here tonight?"
"No, it's eleven at night and if I were one of your sisters and you called me this late at night I would hang up the phone on you myself. Let it wait until the morning because I know you are going to see them then anyway." Leo put a pillow over his head hoping Piper would go to sleep and stop asking so many questions.
~ A few days later ~
Phoebe came rushing into the manor and into the kitchen where Piper and Prue were sitting down drinking coffee. Leo was washing the dishes from this morning's breakfast when he heard an out of breath Phoebe say to her sisters, "Sorry it took me so long to get here. I swear Prue is the smart one. I should have learned never to have kids. Dylan just doesn't seem to ever want to listen."
Prue smiled and told her youngest sister she is glad that she is finally starting to notice how smart she is. Piper told her not to let it go to her head before telling Phoebe that children are a challenge but it takes a lot of TLC to make kids turn out the way you want them to. Just then Prue had wished she could have a donut to go along with her coffee and magically before her eyes one appeared within her hands. The shock on Prue's face was also the same that appeared on Phoebe and Piper's face when the noticed exactly had just happened.
"That is so cool, Prue. How did you do that?" Phoebe questioned taking the donut out of Prue's hand to examine it.
"It just like magically appeared in her hand." Piper said as she joined Phoebe in examining the donut.
Prue snatched her tasty treat out of her sisters' hands and told them that all she did was think it and it appeared. Kind of like the gift she had asked the Elders for. Phoebe then complained that she hadn't found any signs that she had received the power that she had wanted. Although she knew that if Piper and Prue had gotten their power then obviously she had to have hers as well. Just then they noticed a vampire appear in the kitchen next to Leo.
"Umm if you are looking for Buffy her house is the next one over," Piper informed the vampire.
"Piper, what is this? Since when do we make small talk with the mean vampire man?" Prue asked.
"Since I want to finish my coffee," she said sipping the black liquid.
The vampire knocked Leo out and was heading for Piper, Prue and Phoebe when Prue conjured a stake and was about to throw it at the vampire until he began to swing his arm and knocked it out of her hand. Phoebe went over to him and kicked him only to have him grab her leg and twist it. Piper ran to help Phoebe as Prue went to find the stake. Phoebe got up and went to push the vampire onto the floor only to electrocute him in the process. Prue picked up the stake and stabbed him in the heart.
"That should teach you not to mess with the Charmed Ones!" Prue spouted off.
"I am going to call Buffy and tell her she has got to stop sending her dead friends over to my house. I'd like to drink my cup of coffee in peace in the morning." Piper murmured as grabbed her cup of coffee and headed into the living room.
Prue and Phoebe looked at each other as if to say "What in the world just happened here?" Phoebe then told Prue how happy she was that she had an active power that was actually worth something unlike her levitation and premonitions. Prue was very happy for her and said that since she now had an active power their deal of her not using her active powers on Phoebe until Phoebe got an active power of her own was now void. While they were talking Piper walked back into the kitchen to inform Phoebe that her assistant had called to let her know that Dylan's principal had called and wanted her to come by the school and pick Dylan up as soon as possible.
"I will call you guys later then we can do a three way phone conference. I swear that kid always knows how to either get sick or get into trouble on my days off. It's not like he could possibly do it when Cole is off. Oh no, that would be too easy on me now wouldn't it," Phoebe said sarcastically while grabbing her purse and heading out of the door.
~ Principal's Office ~
When Phoebe arrived at her son's school she noticed he and another boy were already in the principal's office being scolded by their principal. When she learned the nature of why she was being called to the school she couldn't help but lash out at Dylan herself.
"I am sorry but I have no other choice but to suspend your son as well as Nicholas for fighting." Dylan's principal informed Phoebe while staring back and forth between Nicholas and Dylan. "I will not tolerate fighting one the playground or within this school. Especially over a girl who doesn't seem to care about either boy in the first place. I hope you both with take this time off to think about what you have done."
"Eva does care about me. She just doesn't know it yet," Dylan grinned.
"Shut up, stupid! She will never like you she will be mine one day," Nicholas yelled while trying to hit Dylan.
"Suspension!" Phoebe began to say after grabbing hold of Nicholas' hand. "Is there anyway by chance you could just maybe give him detention and overlook this teeny tiny matter? I mean it's not like they did any serious damage and they are both good kids inside. I am sure they just got bored and."
"Mrs. Halliwell are you telling me that you are defending their actions as if it was a good thing?" Dylan's principal asked sternly.
"Of course not, I."
"I have already placed Dylan in detention more times than I could ever possibly begin to count. I have made him clean whiteboards off and yet he still doesn't seem to be getting the message that I am trying to get across to him. So maybe a few days at home will get the point across that this type of behavior is NOT allowed at this school."
After a few more minutes of arguing with Dylan's principal and realizing that it was a loosing battle Phoebe was told that Dylan was not allowed to return back to school for five school days. On the ride back to the penthouse Phoebe scolded Dylan on his behavior and informed him that he would not be allowed to go outside and play or stay up any later than seven- thirty for a week. The minute they got home Dylan ran straight to his room slamming the door behind him hoping to somehow show Phoebe how upset he was with his punishment.
"Do I need to take something else away from you, young man?" Phoebe screamed from the living room to Dylan. "Your father will hear about this!"
At hearing this Dylan ran out of his room and began begging his mother not to tell. "I'll be a good boy. I promise. Please don't tell him."
"It's too late, Dylan. The damage has been done. You have been kicked out of school for a week. It's not like I can exactly hide that from him in the first place."
Dylan was now squeezing on his mother's leg begging for her not to tell. He once again began saying how he would be a really good boy. Just then the door to the penthouse opened and there stood Cole looking at his son on his hands and knees with tears in his eyes.
"Well, well what do we have here?" Cole wondered.
~ The Manor ~
"Well that was a lot of fun. We should do this every Thursday night," Prue laughed as she watched the last demon explode in front of her.
"No! Thursday nights are reserved for Friends and Will and Grace, Prue." Phoebe grinned as she walked back into the living room where Piper was picking up pillows off the floor.
"How can you guys joke like that? My living room is covered in green goo, that damn clock once again has to be fixed, and my dinner burned because of these rude little interruptions that we can't seem to stop getting." Piper protested as she threw pillows on the couch.
Leo orbed in behind Prue and wondered what he just walked into. He looked around the room and noticed the mess. Without having to ask he could figure out exactly what had taken place.
"So I see you guys handled everything quite well," Leo sighed.
"Did you ever doubt that we wouldn't?" Prue questioned.
"No, but I have some exciting news for all of you guys. You will enjoy this gift I am about to bestow upon you all," he gloated.
"Why do I have the feeling gifts will come with strings attached? Could this really be a good thing?" Phoebe asked her sisters.
"I don't know but I will be all ears until I hear the other shoe drop," Prue said.
"Since it is Christmas time and all you are entitled to one power boost. The only catch is."
"See I knew there was a catch. Nothing can ever be easy now can it?" Phoebe hit Prue's arm as she whined. "I think they purposely do these things to torture us. It's that simple."
Leo waved his hands in the air trying to get their attention again. "Would you let me finish?"
"The floor is all yours," Phoebe sarcastically bowed.
"Thank you. As I was saying there is one catch. You are to enjoy them," Leo laughed. "Now was that so hard?"
Prue turned to Piper and asked her how she would feel to have one less member in her household because she was thinking of killing Leo for his little prank he was pulling on them. When Leo chimed in to remind Prue that he was already dead.
"Well you know we could always make you suffer. Remember you still can feel pain," Prue winked at Leo watching the uneasy look on his face.
Piper decided that she wanted a power boost when it came to her temporal stasis ability so now not only could she freeze things she could turn them to ice as well. Prue wanted to be able to conjure anything she thought of and use it as she pleased. The last person there was to decide couldn't make up her mind as to what exactly she did want. Prue and Piper convinced Phoebe that maybe she should go for that cool power that she had in the future, electro kinesis. When they all finally decided Leo informed them that he would have to go inform the elders right away.
It was now Christmas day, two days after Leo informed the girls that they would be receiving new powers, and everyone had gathered at the manor. Piper had went through a lot of trouble to make sure that this Christmas was better than the last since this was the first Christmas that they would be spending with Prue since the elders had decided to let her return after Paige was killed by a Shax. At dinner Piper became completely annoyed with her daughter and her nephew's behavior.
"Melinda, stop throwing peas at Dylan," Piper screamed totally frustrated with the children's actions.
"He started it when he stuck his tongue out at me," Melinda yelled at she began to throw more peas at her cousin.
"Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!" Piper screamed as she threw her hands up in annoyance.
As Piper looked around she noticed that the room was now frozen as was Leo, Dylan, Andy and Cole. Only instead of them being just frozen they were in blocks of ice as they sat at the dinning room table. Piper waved her hand in front of her husband only to find that he was not able to move within the block of ice.
"What the hell! What just happened here?" Prue questioned, as she looked at dinning room and the stiffs that sat around her.
"Mommy froze daddy." Melinda laughed as she touched the frozen figure of her father.
"Piper, you not only froze the room you froze my husband and child. What the hell did you do that for?" Phoebe questioned.
"I didn't. I mean I did, but I didn't. I mean." Prue broke in by reminding her that she asked for an advanced freezing power. "I never said I wanted a stiff for a husband, Prue. How exactly am I supposed to fix this?"
"Well if this is anything like your regular freezing power you should just be able to wave your hands and unfreeze it like before," Prue reminded her.
Piper began to wave her hand but Phoebe screamed in protest of her sister's actions. She reminded her of what happened before when she got her last power and how she was blowing things up instead of freezing them. Piper was now hearing her sister argue whether or not she should unfreeze or not. Phoebe suggested that Piper just wait until they unfreeze and then that way she wouldn't run the risk of blowing up family members.
"Phoebe, just let her try alright. This could be interesting to see if she could actually do this. Besides it could take forever for them to unfreeze." Prue looked at the thick layer of ice surrounding, Andy. "We don't have that kind of time. At least I know I don't. I do want to get home sometime tonight."
Piper took a chance and unfroze the room and remarked on how this was going to be a piece of cake because nobody blew up. However it didn't stop her problem with the children as they went back to throwing peas back and forth across the dinner table. Cole then warned them that whoever threw another pea at the dinner table would be cleaning everything up and washing the dishes as well. After hearing that the children began to behave like good children who occasionally stuck their tongues out at one another.
After the events of the day Prue and Phoebe agreed to come back over in the morning to figure out what caused Piper to freeze everything and everyone except for the three of them and Melinda at dinner. Later that night Piper started asking Leo why exactly Phoebe and Prue had not informed her that they had received their powers yet.
"They probably haven't noticed it but I assure you they do have new powers," Leo yawned as he rolled over and tried to go back to sleep.
"Do you think I should call them and try and find out if they have noticed anything different since they left here tonight?"
"No, it's eleven at night and if I were one of your sisters and you called me this late at night I would hang up the phone on you myself. Let it wait until the morning because I know you are going to see them then anyway." Leo put a pillow over his head hoping Piper would go to sleep and stop asking so many questions.
~ A few days later ~
Phoebe came rushing into the manor and into the kitchen where Piper and Prue were sitting down drinking coffee. Leo was washing the dishes from this morning's breakfast when he heard an out of breath Phoebe say to her sisters, "Sorry it took me so long to get here. I swear Prue is the smart one. I should have learned never to have kids. Dylan just doesn't seem to ever want to listen."
Prue smiled and told her youngest sister she is glad that she is finally starting to notice how smart she is. Piper told her not to let it go to her head before telling Phoebe that children are a challenge but it takes a lot of TLC to make kids turn out the way you want them to. Just then Prue had wished she could have a donut to go along with her coffee and magically before her eyes one appeared within her hands. The shock on Prue's face was also the same that appeared on Phoebe and Piper's face when the noticed exactly had just happened.
"That is so cool, Prue. How did you do that?" Phoebe questioned taking the donut out of Prue's hand to examine it.
"It just like magically appeared in her hand." Piper said as she joined Phoebe in examining the donut.
Prue snatched her tasty treat out of her sisters' hands and told them that all she did was think it and it appeared. Kind of like the gift she had asked the Elders for. Phoebe then complained that she hadn't found any signs that she had received the power that she had wanted. Although she knew that if Piper and Prue had gotten their power then obviously she had to have hers as well. Just then they noticed a vampire appear in the kitchen next to Leo.
"Umm if you are looking for Buffy her house is the next one over," Piper informed the vampire.
"Piper, what is this? Since when do we make small talk with the mean vampire man?" Prue asked.
"Since I want to finish my coffee," she said sipping the black liquid.
The vampire knocked Leo out and was heading for Piper, Prue and Phoebe when Prue conjured a stake and was about to throw it at the vampire until he began to swing his arm and knocked it out of her hand. Phoebe went over to him and kicked him only to have him grab her leg and twist it. Piper ran to help Phoebe as Prue went to find the stake. Phoebe got up and went to push the vampire onto the floor only to electrocute him in the process. Prue picked up the stake and stabbed him in the heart.
"That should teach you not to mess with the Charmed Ones!" Prue spouted off.
"I am going to call Buffy and tell her she has got to stop sending her dead friends over to my house. I'd like to drink my cup of coffee in peace in the morning." Piper murmured as grabbed her cup of coffee and headed into the living room.
Prue and Phoebe looked at each other as if to say "What in the world just happened here?" Phoebe then told Prue how happy she was that she had an active power that was actually worth something unlike her levitation and premonitions. Prue was very happy for her and said that since she now had an active power their deal of her not using her active powers on Phoebe until Phoebe got an active power of her own was now void. While they were talking Piper walked back into the kitchen to inform Phoebe that her assistant had called to let her know that Dylan's principal had called and wanted her to come by the school and pick Dylan up as soon as possible.
"I will call you guys later then we can do a three way phone conference. I swear that kid always knows how to either get sick or get into trouble on my days off. It's not like he could possibly do it when Cole is off. Oh no, that would be too easy on me now wouldn't it," Phoebe said sarcastically while grabbing her purse and heading out of the door.
~ Principal's Office ~
When Phoebe arrived at her son's school she noticed he and another boy were already in the principal's office being scolded by their principal. When she learned the nature of why she was being called to the school she couldn't help but lash out at Dylan herself.
"I am sorry but I have no other choice but to suspend your son as well as Nicholas for fighting." Dylan's principal informed Phoebe while staring back and forth between Nicholas and Dylan. "I will not tolerate fighting one the playground or within this school. Especially over a girl who doesn't seem to care about either boy in the first place. I hope you both with take this time off to think about what you have done."
"Eva does care about me. She just doesn't know it yet," Dylan grinned.
"Shut up, stupid! She will never like you she will be mine one day," Nicholas yelled while trying to hit Dylan.
"Suspension!" Phoebe began to say after grabbing hold of Nicholas' hand. "Is there anyway by chance you could just maybe give him detention and overlook this teeny tiny matter? I mean it's not like they did any serious damage and they are both good kids inside. I am sure they just got bored and."
"Mrs. Halliwell are you telling me that you are defending their actions as if it was a good thing?" Dylan's principal asked sternly.
"Of course not, I."
"I have already placed Dylan in detention more times than I could ever possibly begin to count. I have made him clean whiteboards off and yet he still doesn't seem to be getting the message that I am trying to get across to him. So maybe a few days at home will get the point across that this type of behavior is NOT allowed at this school."
After a few more minutes of arguing with Dylan's principal and realizing that it was a loosing battle Phoebe was told that Dylan was not allowed to return back to school for five school days. On the ride back to the penthouse Phoebe scolded Dylan on his behavior and informed him that he would not be allowed to go outside and play or stay up any later than seven- thirty for a week. The minute they got home Dylan ran straight to his room slamming the door behind him hoping to somehow show Phoebe how upset he was with his punishment.
"Do I need to take something else away from you, young man?" Phoebe screamed from the living room to Dylan. "Your father will hear about this!"
At hearing this Dylan ran out of his room and began begging his mother not to tell. "I'll be a good boy. I promise. Please don't tell him."
"It's too late, Dylan. The damage has been done. You have been kicked out of school for a week. It's not like I can exactly hide that from him in the first place."
Dylan was now squeezing on his mother's leg begging for her not to tell. He once again began saying how he would be a really good boy. Just then the door to the penthouse opened and there stood Cole looking at his son on his hands and knees with tears in his eyes.
"Well, well what do we have here?" Cole wondered.