Disclaimer: The Charmed Characters are the property of Aaron Spelling and Constance Burge. I just borrow them for your enjoyment and my writing addiction.

April 14, 2006


She pulled her sister's car against the curb and quickly got out. And the first thing Phoebe saw was the big smile on Rob's face.

"You're late."

Phoebe looked at her friends serious, "If I told you I had a good reason would that be ok?"
"Depends on the reason. What's his name?" Rob laughed as Phoebe started to smile

Phoebe had to laugh as she bent down and gave her friend a warm hug, "I'll never tell. Besides you already know you are the only man in my life right now." she placed a kiss on his cheek before sitting beside him, "I am sorry, but something did come up. Some sister stuff."
"It's ok Phoebe I understand. I'm just glad you're here now."
"Wouldn't miss it. You know that. So what's the game plan?" she cast her eyes around the somewhat crowded parking lot.

Rob looked at the crowd that was forming, Same as always. Wash as many as we can in four hours. He tossed Phoebe a sponge, "and we'll start with Prue's, its filthy."

Phoebe looked at her sisters' car. It was dirty and she could swear it still had some slim from the last demon vanquish on it.

"I'll send her the bill." Phoebe laughed as she followed after Rob. "I'll just explain to her later what and how her car got washed. Not to mention the why." She commented to herself as she joined the rest of the people that were helping with the car wash.

Her friend Marcie had hit her up as a volunteer almost as soon as she came back from NYC a few months ago. Now she was going too ever car wash and garage sale, and hitting up all her other friends for money. Though this wasn't her first year, she had done the fundraiser a few times before she left for NYC. Each time Prue had assumed she was out partying with her friends all night. Sure she had been out with her friends. And yes there was some partying going on. But nothing like her oldest sister assumed.

She was going to tell her sisters, but then she decided not to. Prue and her where still finding a common ground and she wanted to take this through and tell her sisters, 'Look what I did.' She didn't wanna hear Prue nagging her that sure she would start this but wouldn't see it through. Just like everything else she had ever done. No, this time was different and she knew it every time she looked at Rob.


She was completely drenched as she made her way slowly up the steps to the Victorian Manor she shared with her two older sisters. Opening the door she didn't announce her presence as she may have always done, this time she wanted to get up to her room and changed before either Prue or Piper saw her.

"Phoebe? Is that you?" The known voice from the kitchen and she knew she wasn't going to be so lucky today.

"Wouldn't be the first time I got caught sneaking in the house." She replied to the air around her, "Yeah. I'll be right back down."
"Hey where were you…Phoebe what happened you're soaked?" Pipers concerned voice always evident when the youngest got herself into something.
"I was helping a friend wash her car."
"And yourself, you better get up stairs before Prue sees you. She'll kill you if she thought you were driving her car like that."
"I didn't get her car wet. Rob gave me his towel to sit on so I wouldn't get her car all wet." She turned on her heals and ran up the stairs. Looking forward now to a hot shower to help warm back up.

Piper laughed as she watched Phoebe run up the stairs right when she heard Prue walk through the dining room talking to Andy on the cordless.

"Andy I promise. Tonight you, me, and no one else." Prue looked up at Piper and glared at her, letting her sister know not to bother her with demon stuff that night. "Ok, love you too." She ended the call and watched as Piper was watching her, "What?"
"You and Andy?"
"Yeah well it seems easier somehow now that he knows the big family secret. Did I hear Phoebe come back?"
"Yeah she is up taking a shower." Piper started back to the kitchen to continue making diner, "Hey do you know anything about this guy Rob she is seeing?"

Prue followed after Piper, "Who?"
"I thought so."

Prue sat down and waited for her to tell her what was going on with their sister, "So spill."
"That's all I know. She has mentioned him before but I have no clue as to who he is."
"Hmm typical Phoebe style. The big mystery."
"Prue, stop. You don't know that. It could be harmless."

Prue laughed as she got up and refilled her coffee mug, "Piper this is Phoebe, there is always a catch. Especially when it comes to guys. Besides, I wouldn't worry, none of her relationships last that long anyway." Prue turned and started out the kitchen door.

Piper watched knowing that Prue was probably right, but there was something nagging her "I'm not so sure Prue."

Piper followed her younger sister, Phoebe, up the steps to the Victorian Manor they shared with their oldest sisters Prue. She couldn't even think back on when or why they had become witches. All she knew was it seemed everyday some new form of evil was trying to kill one or all of them. Though today it wasn't a new evil it was one they had fought, and defeated, before.

Her and Phoebe had gone out for dinner and a movie to let Prue have some quality time with Andy. But once again a wonderful night of just sisters was interrupted by a demon.

She had being trying all night to think of a way to ask Phoebe about this Rob guy. But everytime she was going to something interrupted her. First it was the waiter at the restaurant, then the usher at the movie and lastly the demon that decided that tonight would be the best night for him to make a name for himself and take on two of the Charmed Ones. Though his luck ran out faster then his bravado did, as Phoebe and her vanquished him, with a quick spell from Phoebe.

"I still can't believe you remembered that spell tonight."
"Well thank god I did or we would have been pudding soup."

Piper stopped and cracked a smile when she saw Phoebe turn around.

"What?"
"Pudding Soup?"

Phoebe looked at her sister at first upset then smiled. "Well yeah, that kind of mush yet liquidy stuff Grams use to make."
"That was her rice pudding and I seem to recall you inhaling it everytime she made it." Piper swatted at Phoebe as she took her sisters arm and the two of them walked in the Manor laughing.
"I want to know how it is he came back after we vanquished him months ago." Phoebe asked an unexplained question. "I mean what? We 86 these guys and they find some demonic loop hole and come back? How is that fair."
"What fair? And I thought you two were supposed to be gone all night." Prue asked her sisters as the two of them entered into the kitchen to find Prue sitting at the kitchen table.

Piper cast a look at Prue and then to Phoebe. "Ok correct me if I am wrong here sis. But weren't you and I banished from the Manor so our big sister could spend some 'quality' time with Andy?"
"You would be right. So why is she sitting down here alone?" Phoebe glared at Prue wanting an answer.

Prue looked from her two sisters and didn't want to get into what was bothering her so she did what she always did. Turned everything back to them and away from her, "Stop changing the subject, what happened?"

Piper started for the kettle and Phoebe flopped down in on of the kitchen chairs. "Demon happened." They both said together.

"What? Are you guys ok?" Prue felt her heart start to race. Her sisters had fought a demon and she was there to protect them.
"Yeah, just some bumps and bruises." Piper cast a quick glance at Phoebe, but not quick enough that Prue didn't see it.

She knew they were trying to hide something from her, "Spill what the hell happened? And don't even try lying to me, you both always sucked at it."

Phoebe closed her eyes as she heard Piper start to tell Prue what happened. Her mind drifted off to that night. How had this demon come back? Or was it him? Were there more than one demon to each kind? And if so, how many more that they had already vanquished would come back in revenge for those that they had vanquished? Jeremy? The Woogeyman? Shapeshifters? Nicolas? What if they were just the start of something and each one that came first was like a scout. The Grimlocks? What of them? Were they all going to come back and try to kill them and innocents?

"Phoebe? Did you hear me?" Prue held her gaze to her sister who seemed lost in her own world as her and Piper spoke.

Phoebe blinked her eyes and looked at Prue. "Sorry?"
"Yeah I figured. Look just be careful for a little while will you. We don't know how many demons or warlocks we have already vanquished will come back."
"Yeah sure." Her mind took in what Prue was saying but her thoughts were else were. Innocents she needed to help. How far would this all go?

Andy popped his head around the corner into the kitchen, "Hey. Am I interrupting some secret coven meeting?" he smiled at his three sisters. Maybe not in reality or blood, but he had known all three of them since before he could remember, and to him they were all family.
"Yeah you are and now we will have to drop you in our cauldron and boil you alive." Phoebe looked at her friend without even cracking a smile.

Andy held her gaze a moment before he realized she was actually joking.

"Phoebe!" Piper reached out and swatted at her youngest sister. "Hey Andy, no just sister stuff. Come in."

Andy walked in the kitchen and sat down next to Prue after he had placed a kiss on her cheek, "What's going on?" he asked a question that he knew deep down he didn't want to know the answer to.
"Just some stuff. You don't really want to know." Prue said knowing how he felt about the craft and her and her sisters' destiny.

He cast a gaze to her wondering if one of her powers was to read minds. "You are probably right." He got up and pulled Prue to her feet. "I should get going anyway. I have to be in court early." He snaked his arm around her waist as the two of them started towards the front door. He leaned down and placed his lips on hers feeling the familiar electricity between them. "I had a great time Prue."
"Me too. Sorry about this."
"Its ok. You do what you need to do. Just be safe." He kissed her again before resting his forehead to hers. He looked past her shoulder and saw her sisters standing in the entrance to the kitchen looking towards him. "Be safe: all of you." He looked down into her blue eyes, "I love you."
"I love you too."

Prue turned back to her sisters after she had closed the door behind Andy.

"Prue we're sorry." Piper followed after her sister knowing what the night meant to her.
"Its ok, I'm just glad you two are alright." She made her way into the living room and sat on the couch.

Piper sat across from Prue as Phoebe sat on the fire hearth.

"So what are you two going to do anyway?" Piper quizzed her sister, knowing how much she wanted the relationship with her on again off again boyfriend.
"I don't know. He wants a normal life. And I don't blame him. But tonight just felt right some how." She leaned her head back and rested it on the back of the couch.
"We all want a normal life Prue, but we also know now what comes with ours." Piper put her own feelings into thoughts.
"I know. I'm just glad he knows now. I don't have to keep lying to him whenever something happens or we are at the scene of one of his crimes."
"You mean our crimes." Phoebe corrected her.

Prue turned her head slightly at Phoebe knowing her youngest sister was right. They were their crimes, the forever battle of good and evil. "Yeah."