Hey everyone! This is my new story and one that just wouldn't seem to get out of my head. I know the first chapter might seem a bit slow but please be patient with me i promise it will get better! XD

Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed though i can happily say i own Amy, Drake, Melina and Kate

Hope you enjoy the story!

Shadows In The Mist

Prologue

Phoebe was annoyed. Actually she was more than annoyed she was furious. "For the last time, I told you NO!"

She yelled at her twins. She was driving them home from school. She wouldn't have had to ordinarily but a demon had totalled the car Amy and Drake shared before they could vanquish it.

To say they had been pissed off had been an understatement. They'd been pissed off enough that they had actually had to share a car never mind the fact that they now just didn't have one. Phoebe had never seen a faster vanquish from the pair of them after the car had been totalled.

So now Phoebe, or one of the Halliwell horde were picking the twins, Melinda Piper and Leo's daughter and Pandora Paige's daughter up from school. Melinda and Pandora had not been in school today though as they had been ill. So Phoebe had simply picked up the twins.

Both Amy and Drake were eighteen now and in their senior year of school. Amy and Drake were not happy with this verdict. "She deserves to know mom." Amy said trying a different way of approaching the subject. "She doesn't need to know anything." Phoebe snapped.

Drake and Amy looked at each other in the mirror. "You don't like her mom?" Drake asked his mother defensively. "It's not that son I promise it's just that the least amount of people that know about us the better." "But I'm sick of having to make excuses why she can't stay over or why I have to leave or why there are unexplained things going on in my life!" Amy said heatedly.

"Yeah mom she's our best friend! I know she'd be all right with this!" Drake said. "No!" Phoebe said again. "We've been over this! Aunt Piper and Aunt Paige don't see it as a big deal." Drake said annoyed. "That's because it's not we all just don't think it's a good idea. She's human, I won't allow it. We don't want exposure."

Phoebe knew she'd said the wrong thing when she looked in the mirror their eyes had gone from ice blue to almost purple and deep white-hot anger filled her heart. She knew for a fact it wasn't hers. "Kate wouldn't do that mom." Drake said in a quiet voice. "You don't know that." Phoebe said desperately.

How could she get them to see? Every time someone who wasn't magical had found out about their powers the whole thing had gone to hell? It wasn't that she didn't like Kate, she did. Out of all the twins friends she liked Kate best. But that didn't change the fact that she still didn't want her knowing about their secret. The Charmed Ones had worked too hard to keep themselves safe to be jeopardized again.

Phoebe knew that she was probably being stupid about thinking it would be in the hands of an eighteen year old but she couldn't help think that there was definitely something that Kate wasn't telling them. Of course there was something that Amy and Drake weren't telling her either so maybe it was best.

However the twins were failing to see it that way. "Yes I do." Amy said with conviction that shocked Phoebe. Kate hadn't actually been in San Francisco that long. She'd moved there from New York two years before but was actually English born. Her accent was still noticeable but wasn't as thick as it probably would have been.

Amy had been drawn to her almost right away though Amy or any of her family had never figured out why. But Amy knew there had to be a reason for it even if it wasn't clear right away. They'd become fast friends almost immediately and now were almost inseparable.

So having a friend as close as that Phoebe could see why Amy would want to have no secrets between them, though she hadn't realised Drake was so close to her. That having occurred to her Phoebe looked at Drake in the Mirror.

"Ok I get why Amy wants to tell Kate, and I know you're friends with her but I don't get why do you suddenly want to tell her as much as your sister. You haven't been best friends with her for as long?"

At this Amy suddenly seemed to get a violent case of the giggles and Drake went bright red.

"Mom seriously for an Empath you're crap at sensing the emotions of your own children!" She was laughing so hard that she was doubled over.

Phoebe frowned. "That's because I try not too you know that." "Yeah well I thought you might have picked up on the answer to your question even just a little bit." Amy said smiling.

"Why?" Phoebe said confused although she was pretty sure she knew what Amy was talking about now. "Because Drake isn't exactly subtle when it comes to that are you?"

Drake glared at his sister. "Shut up." He said sullenly. "You like her Drake?" Phoebe asked keeping her voice light. Drake refused to look at either his mother or his sister but his silence was answer enough.

Amy laughed. "Like? Try obsessed!" At this Drake went an even brighter red. "Amy leave your brother alone!" Phoebe said taking pity on her son. "We'll talk about this when we get home."

They were about a block from the manor when something appeared in the middle of the road and Phoebe yelled, "Oh my god!" and slammed the brakes on. The car came to a stop and Phoebe stared out the windscreen. "What the hell!" She whispered and opened the car door.

"Mom?" Amy asked as she and Drake did the same. They got out the car and stared at what they saw before them.

A girl about 5"5 with red shoulder length hair and blue eyes was stood in the middle of the road in a stand off with a guy. "I told you never to come back here again." She said with a voice of authority. "And I told you, my dear little Blue Fire that you'll never be rid of me."

The girl frowned and then said, "I won't let you get to me now return to where you came from!" Her hand shot out and the man doubled over as if he had been punched and wheezed, "I'll be watching you Fire."

"GO!" She screamed.

The Charmed Ones watched amazed as the man doubled over as if struck and screamed before he disappeared in a blaze of blue fire.

Amy watched as the fire seemed to come like a monster towards her and she pushed with her mind to freeze it but instead of freezing it kept coming and she yelped in surprise.

Both Phoebe and Drake tried to repel it using their powers. Drake with his telekinesis and Phoebe with her empathy but the fire still didn't stop.

"Oh god!" Phoebe said.

The girl seemed to hear them as when they yelled she turned round. She turned and her eyes went round. "Get Down!" She yelled running towards Phoebe and the twins. They ducked and the girl dived in front of them and put her hands up. The Blue Fire stopped as if hit by a physical wall.

Amy watched as the girl battled with the Blue Fire her teeth clenched and her eyes closed sweat appearing on her forehead.

Amy looked at Drake and together they put the force of their power behind the force field and the Fire soon disappeared leaving the girl standing limply. Phoebe stood up and spun the girl round to face her and the three Haliwell's gasped.

The girl was Kate Carter. The girl they had been having an argument over only minutes before.

She smiled as if just seeing them, Amy noticed that she didn't seem shocked at their sudden appearance, and said, "Hey guys. Why are you so shocked? Never seen something supernatural before?"

She seemed to loose a battle then because she passed out and fell into Drake's arms.

Amy looked at her mom. "Human mom? I don't think so."

Phoebe looked at her kids and then at the girl in her son's arms and after that display she could only think that her daughter was probably right.