A/N: Hey all, this is a crossover of Charmed with Army Wives. Set in the second season of army wives and about 20 years after the end of Charmed. Piper and Leo's daughter, Prudence Melinda Halliwell, just married her college sweetheart, 2nd Lieutenant Jack Cameron, and he's just been assigned to Fort Marshall.
Chapter 1: Can I Fight Your War?
He had proposed the night before their graduation ceremony. She had studied nursing, and he was in the ROTC program, studying to become an Intelligence Officer. I knew that it wouldn't be too long until he was shipped off to Iraq. He spent 4 years studying Arabic, among other things and he would be sent to Iraq soon. It scared the hell out of me.
My name is Prue Halliwell, and I fight demons every day, and I'm afraid that my husband will be killed in a human, mortal war! But I love him and my fear could not bring me to turn down his proposal and we eloped. When our families showed up for the graduation ceremony in the morning we were there to show them our rings.
We had been dating for two years, had known each other a year before we started dating, but I had never told him about my powers; my birthright. I am the youngest of my siblings. My brother Wyatt can orb and heal. Chris can also orb, but he has straight telekinesis with no orbs mixed in. Me, I inherited my mother's gift for freezing and blowing things up. I also inherited my mother's temper and looks. I have no idea how I'm going to sit back while my husband is in enemy territory, when I could ask one of my brothers to orb me straight to him?
So, I did the other thing that I inherited from my mother, I cooked Jack dinner. We were sitting in my mother's kitchen, me stirring spaghetti sauce, him staring at me, "What's wrong?" He asked.
I turned, "I have something to tell you… It's a secret that is not just mine, but it's a secret that is my whole family going back 300 years.. We're witches."
I had quenched my face up closing my eyes just waiting for his response. I heard a giggle, "Witches? Come on, honey, seriously what's the matter?"
"That's the secret. My family all has magical powers where we fight demons and warlocks. My mother and aunts are all witches, my brothers are witches, my cousins are witches, and our children will have powers too, even before their born." I was so frustrated at my explanation being laughed at, I turned and aimed my offensive power at the stove. He stopped laughing when tomatoes sauce hit him in the face.
"What was that!"
"I told you, magic, I have the power to stop time and to blow things up. Didn't you ever notice sometimes we would be talking about one thing and all of a sudden I'd just run off? All those times my brothers showed up needing me for a vanquish, I had frozen you."
"So, I'm joining the Army, and my wife has been a soldier her whole life…"
"Well, my mom has only let me help in vanquishes since I was 16. Before then everytime something was going down I'd be sent to Magic School."
"Magic school?"
"Yeah, it's where people with magical powers learn how to use them properly, and we can compare spells and such. My dad runs it. He's not magical, but he used to be a Whitelighter until he clipped his wings for my mom."
"Whitelighter?"
"Think of it as a guardian angel for new witches and future whitelighter."
"Okay, this is getting kind of intense. You've been born into this completely different world, and I'm not totally convinced from that little show you pulled with the tomato sauce. Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
"I wasn't sure if we'd last beyond college. I didn't know if you'd want a wife to tie you down… but when you proposed, it all kind of clicked. But Jack, you can't tell anyone about my family. Our lives would be destroyed."
He stepped closer to me, "Prue I love you. You're my wife. I promised you forever, and these magical powers are a part of you, I would love you no matter what."
TBC…
A/N: Just the beginning. Next chapter we will see more of the Halliwells, and eventually arrive on Fort Marshall.
