*This chapter has been re-written*
Full Summary: Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Bella Halliwell find out they're witches, charmed witches. Read as they learn to control their powers and complete their destiny.
Chapter 1-Charmed
Piper Halliwell ran through the icy rain and upto the old victoria manor. As she walked through the door warmth ran over her as though she had just gotten into a hot bath. "Prue?" she called through the house. "Bella?"
"In here, working on the chandelier." Prue called back.
"Sorry I'm late." Piper said as she hung up her umbrella.
"What else is new?" Prue said dryly and Piper sighed as she came face to face with her unimpressed sister. "Piper, I would of been here to meet the electrician myself but you know I can't leave the museum until six. I didn't even have time to change."
"I just didn't know how long I was in China town."
"Well, we'll talk about it later. You've had a package delivered." Prue sighed as she pointed to the box on the table and Piper smiled widely. "What were you doing in china town? I thought you had an interview in North Beach."
"I did but I went to Young Lee market after my interview to get the ingredients for my audition recipe tomorrow." Piper told her as she placed down her many bags next to the box.
"So, that wolfgang-puck knock-off didn't hire you then?"
"No, but this just may get me the job." Piper said as she opened the box and held it up.
Prue frowned. "Jeremy sent you Port?"
"The ultimate ingredient to my recipe." Piper said happily while Prue remained suspicious.
"Why is Bella's boyfriend sending you stuff?"
"Maybe he's creeping to see if we'll like him better."
"Well he's definitely the best boyfriend Bella has had...shame about the age difference."
Piper rolled her eyes. "You know the more you say that, the more she will go out of her way to go out with him."
"Well can you blame me for being concerned. She's 15 tomorrow and he's 24!" Prue said for the hundreth time since her sister met the guy.
Piper looked around for a subject changer and when she found it she asked "Is that our old spirit board?"
"Yeah I found it in basement when I was looking for a circuit tester."
"To my four beautiful girls. May this give you the light to find the shadows. The power of four will set you free. Love, Mom." We never did figure out what this inscription meant.
"Well, maybe we should give it to Bella and Phoebe. Those girls are so in the dark, maybe a little light would do them some good." Prue said casually.
Piper sighed sadly as she put the spirit board down. "You're always so hard on them."
"Piper, Phoebe's got no vision, no sense of the future and as for Bella that girl sheilds herself away from the world so much she might aswell be in the dark!"
"I really think Phoebe's coming around" Piper said looking anywhere but Prue's eyes.
"Well as long as she doesn't come anywhere round here then i'll be fine." Prue said before turning back into the living room.
...
Piper stood by the door waiting for her little sister to come home from her friends. She waited for about ten minutes when she heard a car come up the driveway. She folded her arms and when Bella walked through the door she put on her best stern expression but new she probebly looked like a kitten pretending to be a lion.
"What have i done now?" Bella asked as she hung up her coat.
"You have to tell her!" Piper insisted as they both walked through to the livingroom.
"Can't you tell her? She won't yell as much!" Bella whined and Piper imagined her stamping her feet.
Piper gave her a look that their grandmother had given them so often and Bella crumbled. "Fine" she muttered.
"So when are you telling her?" Piper asked walking over to the window.
"Just before Phoebe gets here" Bella said looking through her bag to keep herself busy.
"There's a cab in the drive way."
"Which is right now" Bella said, reluctantly heading to the basement.
...
Prue was trying to fix the chandelier but nothing she did seemed to be working.
"I don't get it. I have checked everything, there's no reason why the chandelier should not be working." Prue said out loud in frustration before noticing Bella was watching her. "You're talking to me now? Wow, what do I owe the pleasure?"
Bella bit her tongue to hold back her own sarcastic comment. "You know how you and Piper have been talking about what to do with the spare room? I think you're right, we do need a roommate." She said as sweetly as she could.
"We can rent the room at a reduce rate in exchange for some help around the house." Prue muttered, glaring at the chandelier once more before getting down the ladder and walking into the hall way.
"Phoebe's good with a wrench." Bella blurted out without thinking.
"Phoebe's in New York."
"...Not anymore..."
"What?" Prue asked in a deadly quiet voice.
"She left New York, she's moving back in here with us."
Prue was quiet for a while studying her sister while Bella shifted uncomfortably under Prue's gaze.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Prue said in the same deadly voice and Bella's eyes narrowed, her anger rising.
"It's her house too! Grams left it to all four of us!" She snapped.
"Months ago! And we haven't seen or spoken to her since!"
"Well, you haven't spoken to her."
"Have you fogotten why I'm still mad at her? Why I'm still mad at you?" Prue snarled and Bella lost it.
"HOW CAN I FORGET? I CAN'T EVEN SPEAK TO YOU WITHOUT YOU REMINDING ME!" Bella screamed and Piper came into the hall way warily.
"Prue..." Piper said timidly, not wanting to get involved in an arguement between her two sisters who had the worst tempers. "We couldn't really say no, she had nowhere else to go."
"Oh, you knew too. What a surprise!" Prue snapped.
"Hey, don't have a go at her! She hasn't done anything wrong!" Bella snapped back at her.
"I'll have a go at anyone I like!" Prue snapped and Piper started to wish she had stayed in the other room.
"Will you get over youself? Phoebe's lost her job, her home-"
"And this is news? How long have you two known about this?"
"A couple of days...a week...or two..." Piper said when Bella just glared.
"Thanks for sharing." Prue said as she took a deep breath. "When does she arrive?"
As if by magic, Phoebe walked through the door behing Prue.
"Surprise! Found the hide-a-key." Phoebe said as she walked towards the other three.
"Phoebe!" Bella said as she ran to greet her, her bad mood completely erased as they hugged.
"Welcome home, Phoebe." Piper said as she too hugged Phoebe. "It's good to see you, isn't it Prue?"
"I'm speechless." Prue said through her teeth as a car beeped from outside.
"Ooops, I forgot to pay the cab." Phoebe said and Prue rolled her eyes.
"I'll get it." Bella said quickly as she grabbed a purse from the table and headed for the door.
"Bella, that's my purse!" Prue called after her but Bella had already gone.
It was silent after Bella left before Piper couldn't take the awkwardness any longer. "I'm going to get ready for my interview tomorrow." She said quickly walking to the kitchen, leaving Prue and Phoebe alone in the hall way.
"Thanks, I'll pay you back." Phoebe said, nodding towards the door.
"Is that all you brought?" Prue asked and Phoebe looked down at her small bag.
"That's all I own. That and a bike...look, I know you don't want me here..."
"We're not selling the house." Prue said firmly and Phoebe frowned.
"Is that why you think I came back?"
"Look, the only reason Piper and I gave up our apartment to raise Bella here is because this house has been in our family for generations."
"No history lesson needed, I grew up here too." Phoebe said and everything went quiet. "Stop being so hard on Bella."
"Woah!" Prue said warningly but Phoebe ignored her.
"She called me a couple of weeks ago crying her eyes out because of something you said to her-"
"-don't tell me how to raise Bella! I'm her gaurdian now, not you!"
"She didn't touch Rodger! And neither did I! I know that what that scum bag told you but-" Phoebe cut of as Bella walked into the house.
"Okay, so how about i make us some lunch and we can talk" Bella suggested.
"I'm not hungry" Prue grumbled as she walked out of the room.
Phoebe picked up her stuff and said "I ate on the bus" before walking up to her old bedroom.
"Okay we can try the group hug later."Bella said sadly.
...
Phoebe was looking at herself in the mirror while the news was on but was only half paying attention to it.
"Another young famale was found stabbed tonight, at the midnight estate. No suspect has been found but the police say they're still looking." The reporter said as it showed a set of flats.
Phoebe jumped slightly when there was a knock at the door.
"It's us." Piper and Bella said and Phoebe smiled.
"Come on in." She called back and her smile got even bigger when she saw Piper holding a tray carrying food and drinks. "Thank god, I'm starving."
"We figured." Bella said amused before noticing a man on the television. "Hey, that's my boyfriend, Jeremy. What happened?"
"Some woman got whacked." Phoebe told her as they all climbed on the bed.
"Whacked? Phoebe, you've been in New York way too long." Piper said, shaking her head.
"Yeah, I should've stayed. Bells, why didn't you tell her I was coming back?"
"And have her change the locks? You should have been the one to tell her, not me." Bella said as she took a sip of her drink and Phoebe smiled at her.
"Good point, Chicken Little. It's just so hard for me to talk to her, she's alway been more like a mother."
"That's not her fault." Piper interupted. "She practically had to sacrifice-"
"Her own childhood to help raise us." Bella and Phoebe completed, sharing a smile.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Bella muttered.
"And we're lucky she was so responsible. Us three had it easy, all we had to do was be there." Piper pointed out.
"Yeah, well, I don't need a mum anymore. I need a sister." Phoebe said as there was a knock on the door and Prue walked in with a blanket.
"This room was always the coldest in the house." She said as she put the blanket on the desk.
"Thanks." Phoebe said and Prue gave her a look before leaving.
...
Phoebe and Bella sat in front of the spirit board, their hands on the pointer, talking about Jeremy.
"So, how did you meet him?" Phoebe asked as the pointer moved around in circles.
"About six months ago - right before Grams died. We met in the hospital cafeteria the day Grams was admitted. He was covering a story and I was bawling over a bagel. So, he handed me a napkin." Bella said with a smile on her face.
"How romantic." Phoebe said sarcastically and Bella sent her a mock glare.
"As a matter of fact it was. The napkin had his phone number on it." She said and Phoebe rolled her eyes.
"So what's the problem?" she asked when she saw Bella's expression.
"The age difference. Prue always reminds me, as if I don't know the age of my own boyfriend!"
"Don't let her bother you. You can't put an age on love...do you love him?"
"I don't think it's love, well, atleast not deep love. I do like him though, he makes me happy when I'm around him..." Bella said and Phoebe smiled.
"As long as he makes you happy, it's none of Prue's business."
They smiled at each other before Bella burst out laughing. "Stop moving the pointer!"
"I'm not touching it!"
"You always used to move the pointer!" Bella said as she got up. "I'm going to get a drink. What was the question again?"
"I asked whether Prue was going to have sex with anyone other than herself this year."
"You're disgusting!" Bella yelled back.
"Please say yes." Phoebe whispered and much to her surprise, the pointer moved to the 'A' before moving to the 'T'.
"BELLA! GET IN HERE!" She yelled at the top of her lungs.
"Where's the fire?"she asked as she walked into the door.
"What's going on?" Prue asked as her and Piper walked in.
"The pointer, it just moved by itself!"Phoebe said and her sister's stared at her as if she grew another head.
"Were your finger's on it?" Prue asked smirking.
"I was barely touching it! Look"she said putting her fingers back on the pointer but this time it didn't move.
Prue, Piper and Bella all turned around and once their back was turned the pointer move to the middle then back to the 'T'.
"IT DID IT AGAIN!" Phoebe cried jumping away from it.
"It's still on the letter 'T'" Prue said looking at Phoebe asif she was stupid.
"I swear it moved!" Phoebe insisted.
Prue rolled her eyes and left the room, Piper watched after her and Bella was watching the spirit board curoiusly. Slowly the pointer moved again and Bella's eyes went wide as she pulled on Piper's sleave. Piper turned around just in time to see the pointer stop on 'I'. Phoebe looked up at Bella and Piper and asked "Did you see that?"
Bella nodded while Piper said "I think so yea." The pointer shot towards the letter 'C' and all three girls screamed.
"What's wrong now!" Prue asked annoyed as Phoebe wrote down the letter's the spirit board pointed out.
"I think it's trying to tell us something"Phoebe said holding up the paper "ATTIC." There is a loud clap of thunder as all the lights went out.