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

With Christmas a few weeks away I thought I'd post a Few of my Christmas Tales. These are a couple little shorts all tide in through the years in the Halliwel Manor

Christmas at Our House

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Christmas Morning 1977

Seven year old Prue Halliwell quietly walked down the hall to her sisters room. She eased open the door and saw what she hoped. Her two-year-old little sister was sitting in her crib playing with her teddy bear jabbering to herself. But as Prue got closer her sister saw her and immediately got up on to her toes and tried to pull herself over the bar.

"Pwue!"

"Yeah baby. Hang on." Prue slide the side of the bed down, as her mother had taught her, and gathered her little sister in her arms. "Merry Christmas my sweet girl." Giving her a hug she was greeted with a wet kiss. "Now you have to be quiet Phoebe, we don't want to wake Mummy and Daddy."

"Tay." She replied as she rested her head on Prue's chest, her teddy bear hanging fro her hand, as the two of them left her room and they went back to Prue's room.

"Biper!"

"Ssshhh!" both her sisters tried to quieten her as she squirmed down from Prue's arms.

Phoebe ran across the room and pulled herself, with Prue's help, up onto Pipers bed. And was welcomed into Pipers waiting arms. "Merry Christmas baby girl."

Phoebe snuggled down beside Piper as Prue got into Pipers bed with them and the three just lay there with each other.

It was a few hours later it seemed that Patti quietly opened the door to find her three girls sitting on the floor playing quietly. She felt Victors arms wrap around her as she leaned back against him.

"I wish they could stay like that forever." He said knowing one day what they would become.

"Me too. But we can't stop destiny Victor." Patti said as she stepped from his arms and further into the room.

Prue looked up when she saw her mother entering the room. "Merry Christmas Mum."

"Muuuummy!!!" Phoebe got up and ran to her mother, her arms reaching up as her mother easily lifted her off the ground and high in the air.

"Hi baby. I was wondering where you ran off to when I saw your crib empty."

"Pwue"

"Yeah, Prue."

"Sorry Mum. We just wanted to help you a bit so Piper and I decided to go get her, and get her ready for Christmas." Prue explained hoping her mother wasn't to upset.

Patti moved in the room further and sat down beside Prue and Piper, "That's fine sweetie. I am glad you're looking out for your baby sister. But what say now we all go downstairs and see what Santa left us?"

"YAY!!" Prue and Piper got up and ran out of the room, leaving their mother and father laughing. "You too baby." Patti set Phoebe down, who quickly ran after her sisters.

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Grams heard the fast footsteps running upstairs and knew her grandchildren were up. "Prue watch for Phoebe on the stairs please." She called out from the dinning room. Knowing what the youngest Halliwell was like. If her sisters can do it she would do it as well. Even though she would get hurt.

"I got her Grams." Prue called back as she took Phoebes one hand in hers as her sister hung onto the railing of the stairway.

As soon as her last foot hit the step Phoebe took off away from her sister and towards the tree.

"Phoebe NO!!!" Prue ran after her, knowing once her sister got into the presents there was no stopping her. She grabbed the back of her bottoms and hung on.

Patti and Victor came down the stairs after their children. They both laughed as Prue was trying to keep Phoebe away from the tree.

"Pwesnts!!!"

"Mum help!!!"

Patti came up behind Prue and scoped her youngest from the floor. "OK you lil monkey settle down. We have to do this as a family. Not you running amok through everything." She tickled Phoebe as the youngster laughed in her arms.

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Grams stood behind the camera as her three granddaughters sat in front of the Christmas tree with Patty and Victor watching and playing with them. She smiled to herself knowing one day who they would become.

Phoebe held up her Barbie as Piper showed off a new sweater. Christmas through the eyes of children.

Prue turned the pages of a book Santa had brought her and looked down at her lap as she felt the small person curl up to her lap. She moved one arm around her sister as she felt Phoebe rest against her.

"You tired sweet girl?"

"No."

"You want me to read to you?"

"Otay." Phoebe shifted in her sisters' arms as Prue started to read her a story.

But as Prue looked down to show Phoebe a picture in the book her baby sister was fast asleep.

Patty walked into the living room and spotted Prue looking at her new book. "Hey sweetie."

"Ssshhh Mum." Prue looked up at her mother as she walked in the rest of the way.

Patty smiled down at her sleeping toddler. "I'll take her up to her bed."

"No she's ok Mum." Prue placed a hand on Phoebes back protecting her sister. "She had a busy day."

"Yes she did honey. And I am so proud of you taking care of her." Patty leaned over and placed a kiss on Prue's forehead. "Piper is making cookies she wanted to know if you wanted to help. I'll tell her you are taking care of Phoebe."

"Maybe later we both can help her."

"Yeah. She'd like that." Giving Phoebe a kiss as well Patty went back to the kitchen to watch Piper making cookies.

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Later that night Patty had put Phoebe to bed in her crib. She stayed and watched as her baby miracle slept sound. The rise and fall of her chest, giving Patty the comfort of a mother, that her child was sleeping peacefully. She felt the arms wrap around her waist. "Merry Christmas Patty."

She turned in his arms, "Merry Christmas Victor."

"She looks so innocent when she sleeps." He said quietly for fear of waking his daughter, as he loooked down in the crib on her.

"Yeah well, I am not sure that is the word Mother or Piper would use for her after her gingerbread cookie making." She laughed quietly as the memory of Phoebe covered from head to toe in floor and running around the kitchen trying to dump some on her sisters.

"I thought the molasses was a nice touch didn't you?" he smiled

"Yeah, tell that to Rasputin. Its gonna take us weeks to get that out of his fur." Reaching down she placed the blanket back over Phoebe, after she kicked it off. She placed a soft kiss on the top of her head before she guided Victor out of the room, closing the door quietly.

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Patty opened the bathroom door to see her two older daughters in the bath, Prue helping Piper get the molasses out of her hair.

"Oh sweetie." Patty kneeled down and helped Prue, trying to stifle a laugh.

"She ruined it." Piper cried as she looked at her Mother

"Oh Piper dear. She is too young to understand. She didn't mean to."

"Is she sleeping?" Prue looked at her mother. She had heard the cries of her baby sister earlier, cries she herself had tried to stop to no avail. Phoebe needed to cry out both Piper getting mad at her and her busy day.

"She's sleeping now sweetie. An you lil miss Piper."

"I didn't mean to yell at her." Piper sid quietly as she hung her head down, knowing she had hurt her little sister.

"Well maybe tomorrow you can show her properly how to make a gingerbread man. Maybe Daddy can help."

"Okay." Piper said quietly as her mother helped her from the bathtub and wrapped a towel around her.

"Okay. Now go see Daddy, I think he is in your room looking for something to read to you."

Piper ran out of the bathroom towards the room she shared with Prue.

Patty helped Prue wash her hair and then out of the tub. "You want to sit with me for a bit my big girl?"

"Can I sit with Piper as Daddy reads to her?"

"Sure you can honey." Patty followed after Prue as she got up on Pipers bed as Victor read to the two of them, Piper leaning in against Prue. It wasn't long before they were both fast to sleep.

Victor pulled the cover over his girls and turned out the light on his way out.

"Long day for all of them." Patty smiled as she leaned up and gave Victor a kiss.

"Yeah well 'Twas the Night before Christmas' puts them both out every year."

"And I hope it always will." She leaned back in his arms as they made their way to their room.

The moonlight shone down on the city as another Christmas day came to an end. And another year was about to be born.