Piper Halliwell sighed as she tucked a strand of haphazardness hair behind her ear. "Mel!" she called out, "Sweetie, are you ready for school?" her tiny little daughter flew down the stairs.

"Hi Mommy!" she said with a huge grin. Instantly Piper's stress levels went down, and was replaced by a slight twinge of nostalgia. She looked so much like Leo, but she knew that they could never be together. Not ever again; especially now. He was up doing is whitelighter thing, and not even seeing their daughter anymore. "Have you seen my purple pen?" she asked.

"No sweetie, I haven't," Piper sighed, knowing she was going to hear it from her daughter.

"You promised that you would find it," she said with a pout on her face. "Its my favorite pen!" she sighed.

"I will find it sweetie.." Suddenly her plastic bowl shot to the other side of the kitchen. "Melinda Penelope Halliwell!" Piper reprimanded, "you know what happens when you use magic," Piper sighed. The middle Halliwell sister walked back over towards the bowl. "Why did you have to have your aunt's power?" she muttered, cleaning up the mess. Speaking of the oldest Halliwell sister, she came into the room, flipping her long black hair behind her back. "Prue!" Piper exclaimed.

"Hey sweetie-," Prue breathed, grabbing a mug to get some coffee.

"Please help me with your niece," Piper murmured. Prue stopped her pace, and turned to her niece. Melinda looked at her aunt, and she hugged her.

"Melinda, are you behaving for Mommy?" she asked, and she nodded her head.

"Prue you know that never works," Piper sighed, pressing a couple fingers to her temples. The eldest Halliwell frowned when she felt her phone vibrate. "You know ever since you became the Head of Bucklands..." Prue nodded her head, and walked out of the room. At this point, Piper once again wished she could freeze her sisters.

The youngest Halliwell sister came into the kitchen with a yawn. "Morning," She smiled at her niece, and ruffled her hair lightly. "Hey kiddo," she said.

"Phoebe..." Piper sighed, "can you please take Mel to school today?"

"Of course sweetie," Phoebe said, grabbing her keys. "Come on Mel," she said, offering her hand out to her little niece. Melinda grabbed onto her aunt's hand and waved to Piper. Piper then started to clean up the kitchen, when she felt a hand restrain hers.

"Piper...go get ready for work, I can do the dishes," Prue said, finally off that phone of hers.

"Thank you," Piper sighed. "I'll be home later," she said with a heaving sigh. As Piper walked away, Prue felt a presence in the room.

She turned around and dropped the dish she had on the floor. It shattered, and she whipped her wrist out, and he was thrown into the air. "What the hell do you think you are doing here?" Prue growled.

"Prue-," Leo Wyatt started.

"You don't show your face for three years, leaving Piper alone with Melinda!" Prue growled. He tried orbing out but her face scrunched up, leaving him in a telekinetic bubble.

"I had no choice," Leo wheezed as she applied more pressure. "It was my destiny to be an Elder,"

"Screw that destiny!" Prue snapped. "We have cut ourselves off from the Elders. Especially after they wanted to take Melinda away,"

"Prue-,"

"Get out of here Leo, or I will banish you from this house," Prue growled.

"It is going to happen Prue-," Leo said with a frown.

"What's going to happen?" she snapped at him.

"What Phoebe saw...when you three went to the future..." She shook her head angrily, and let him out of the bubble.

"Get out of my house, or I will throw you out," she stated, more than willing to let out her fury. He orbed away, and Prue went to grab a broom and dustpan. She swept up the mess, and finished off the dishes. As soon as she made sure that Piper was out of the house, she dialed Phoebe's cell.

"Just dropped Mel off Prue," Phoebe said in a chipper voice. "Did you need something else before I head to the Bay Mirror?" she asked.

"Leo orbed in," Prue stated point blank.

"What!?" Phoebe asked. "Piper wasn't there was she?"

"No, she went to work," she said, tucking some hair behind her ear. "He warned that the future we went to four years ago...he said it was going to happen,"

"No..no..." Phoebe whispered.

"Phoebe...it isn't going to happen," Prue tried to assure her youngest sister. "We have followed all the damn rules,"

"Ok..." she whispered. "What do we tell Piper?"

"We don't tell Piper anything," Prue reprimanded. "She is finally moving on with her life, she doesn't need him back in it,"

"Ok..." Prue replied. "You are going to be fine Phoebs...don't worry," Phoebe hung up, and Prue let out a sigh before heading for her car.

P3

Piper let out a sigh, as she found herself restocking her club alone once again. She needed help desperately; ever since she had to let go her bartender, she had to practically do everything. She heard a knocking, and she groaned. Maybe someone had finally someone had seen her help wanted ad, and that finally managed to bring a small smile on her face. She went to the door, and let out a gasp when she had opened up the door.

"Um...hey," Dan Gordon was on the other side of the door. He looked at Piper; she still looked beautiful after all these years.

"Dan...hi..." she stammered, "I..."

"Yeah..well...i needed to come back. Jenny and her parents are coming back to live in San Francisco...permanently," Plus, in the back of his mind he wanted to see Piper; even if she was still with Leo.

"Thats great...how is Jenny doing?" Piper asked, opening the door wider to let him in. Dan smiled, even being uncomfortable, she was still more worried about his feelings and such.

"She is doing better..she still mentions you every once in a while," he admitted. Piper smiled sadly, and absently rubbed where her ring used to be at. He looked down at her hand and saw there was no ring. "How are you doing?" he asked as she let him into P3.

"I'm...I am not sure," she said. "So you thought you would just check up on me huh?" she asked with a small smirk on her face.

"Yeah...saw you needed some help..I don't know why people haven't been flooding in to help you out," he mentioned.

"I don't know either," Piper admitted.

"If you need the help..." Dan started to offer.

"You would want to work here?" she asked incredulously. He laughed, and nodded his head. P3 was still at the top of the list of the hottest clubs in the state.

"Well yeah..." he said with a grin.

"I definitely need the help," she said with a surprised laugh. "Are you sure you want to work for one of your ex-girlfriend?" that sombered him up a little.

"Yeah..." he said.

"Well you are hired," Piper said. Maybe her day would get a little better now...