Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed. I own this story and all characters not in the Charmed series.
Prologue
It was the dead of night. A young girl had just gotten home from school. For most this would be a time to relax, but not for her. To this girl it was coming back to a battlefield. Her mother had given her up for adoption ten years ago. The women who had gotten her had been abusing her for years. The women had told the girl repeatedly that she wasn't worth the check she got every month. After so long being abused the poor girl had long since become used to the daily beatings. As the girl mentally braced herself for the coming onslaught, it never came. She went in the door, and the women asked her how her day was. To say the girl was very confused about the women's behavior would be a huge understatement, but the girl was so starved for any form of kindness that she just decided to go with it. She was eating her first real supper when it happened. The women had gone to the kitchen. She came out with a butcher knife in her hand.
"How is the food?" she asked as she moved closer to the girl.
"It's good" she said as she was thinking it might have been poisoned but was more concerned about the knife in her hand. "What are you doing with that knife?" she said as she started to stare at it.
"Kill you" the woman said with an evil smirk on her face. The girl jumped up for the table running as the woman started to chase her.
"You can run but you can't hide" she was yelling as she was chasing the girl around the house. She finally cornered the girl.
"Why are you doing this? If all you wanted to do was kill me why were you suddenly nice to me?" the girl asked in tears, shaking with her back pressed tightly against the wall.
"I'm just so sick of you. The only reason I adopted you was for the money but it's just not worth it to have to put up with you any longer. This is the only way I can be free again. And as for today, well everyone deserves a last meal." The women said with an evil grin on her face.
The women raised the knife and lunged for her. The girl held up her hands, and suddenly fire flew out of her palms engulfing the evil women. The woman started to scream as she fell to the ground. As the girl watched in terror the house quickly caught fire. She ran out as fast as she could.
All of the sudden she was surrounded by demons. The demons tried to grab her from all sides as she tried to get away. "Your one of us now!" "You killed her!" "You killed her!" "Your one of us now!" "You're an evil child!" "You killed your mother!" The demons said over and over again until the girl just fell to the ground crying in the fetal position with her hands over her ears.
Then the yelling just stopped as a man came walking out of the shadows, smoke still coming off his hand from the fireball that had just disintegrated the demons. He scooped the girl up saying, "It's going to be okay. You're okay. I'm not going to hurt you. You're safe with me. I'm going to take care of you from now on. You don't have to be scared anymore, I'll always protect you." With that he carried his new daughter back to his house.