A/N: This is the third story in my series. This story immediately follows Charmed in the Afterlife. If you have not read the other stories in my series, I suggest you start with Dream Wedding, as it is the story, which brings Prue and Andy back together and is my basis for the other two.
Disclaimer: I am in no way connected to the show. The sole purpose of this fictional story is for my own entertainment. No copywrite infringement is indented and no profit is being made on my behalf. Positive feedback is always welcome as is gentle criticism.
Dream Wedding Recap: Shortly after Piper and Leo's wedding, Patty casts a spell to reunite Prue with Andy. Prue discovers that Andy is now an angelic tracer working for the Greater Good. Despite the Elder's wishes, the two marry and have a magical child named Amanda. Features the three original sisters along with a few guest appearances from Paige. White lighter Natalie guest stars as the angel destined to keep Prue and Andy apart. Truly for lovers of Prue and Andy! (Peanut's personal favorite story to date)
Charmed in the Afterlife Recap: Wendigos, Furies, Darklighters and a Demonic teenager lead the Charmed Ones on yet another wild series of adventures. After Andy is slashed by a Wendigo, Paige comes into the picture as the fourth sister and is given guardianship over an orphan plan known as the dimension of the lost. Prue and Andy's second child, Ally, is born. Piper and Leo have daughter, Melinda. Phoebe and Cole struggle at becoming a married couple. Prue receives a new destiny as High Priestess to the Realm of Wicca which drastically changes the lives of the Charmed Ones. Prue and Andy centered, but features all four sisters in varying sub-plots.
Eternally Charmed: Takes place 3 years after Charmed in the Afterlife. Plot: Shortly after the birth of Prue and Andy's third and final child, the dark priestess, Dantalian, pulls Prue into an alternative universe where her children and sisters do not seem to exist. Paige helps Andy solve a murder case. Amanda's spiritual connection to Andy grows. Once again this story is Prue and Andy centered but features all four sisters with varying subplots.
List of Powers and Major Characters:
Prue Halliwell-Trudeau: Witch/High Priestess: Mortal Age 35. Powers include telekinesis, astral projection and partial immortality. The oldest and most powerful of the Charmed Ones, Prue leads a doubly charmed life as a Charmed Witch and a Mortal/Angelic High Priestess with the authority to advise and govern the Realm of Wicca. Prue can only be mortally wounded, by her equivalent on the other side, the Dark Priestess.
Piper Halliwell-Wyatt: Age 33 Temporal Stasis (Freezing), Molecular Acceleration (Exploding).
Phoebe Halliwell-Turner: Age 31 Premonition, Levitation and Empathy. Phoebe is an advice columnist for the Bay Mirror.
Paige Matthews (Halliwell): Age 29 Witch/Whitelighter/Gaurdian to the orphan plane. Powers include protecitve force field with deflection, orbing and the ability to sense her charges. Partial TKO. Paige is also the youngest of the Charmed Ones so her powers are more passive.
Leo Wyatt: Mortal Age 34 Whitelighter: Orbing, sensing, and healing
Cole Turner: Mortal Age 37. Half Demon/Human. Cole was never the Source. Instead in my world he uses his human talents as a lawyer to defend misguided demons, and off track angelic beings. Together with Phoebe, they run an underground railroad for demons who want to be good. Cole is still the one number target of the Source's bounty hunters and was possessed for a short time, as played out at the end of season three.
Andy Trudeau: Mortal Age 36 Tracer (Angelic Bounty Hunter) Powers include, fading (invisibility), orbing, and the ability to conjure defensive weapons (crossbow, explosive probes, athame, and magic proof security net) and infrared vision. The Elders gave Andy these powers after sacrificing his life to save Prue and her sisters.
Amanda Trudeau-Halliwell: Witch/Tracer Age 6: Powers: Fading and Orbing. Amanda shares a spiritual connection with her father in which she can sense and track his orbs. Amanda will eventually become telekinetic like Prue and possibly combine her powers to become TKO as she demonstrated when she was in Prue's womb. Shares a bond with Paige from where she was kidnapped by Natalie at birth.
Alaine "Ally" Penelope Millicent Trudeau-Halliwell: Witch/Tracer Age 3: Astral projection through time. As a child, Ally will need the assistance of an adult who can orb or astral project in order to move through time. This is a protective safeguard established by the elders to prevent potential disaster that could be caused by changing history.
Melinda Chirstina Wyatt-Halliwell: Witch/ Whitelighter Age 2 1/2 Molecular Kinesis: the ability to change the molecular structure of objects and living beings: A variation of Piper's powers of temporal stasis, and molecular combustion, Melinda will be able to form ice, fire, and pure energy balls. She can also turn solid objects into ice or liquid with the touch of her hand to regenerate
Natalie Green: Master Whitelighter/Elder in Training/Protector of the Greater Good: Formally Andy's white lighter in Dream Wedding and Paige's current trainer. Natalie also serves as a lead political advisor to Prue.
Note: The introductory chapter is a little long but it is the basis for the overall plot, so if you stick with it, you'll see where I'm headed with this story. Positive feedback is always welcome as is gentle criticism
Eternally Charmed: The Name Game
Twenty-nine year old, Paige Mathews was in the parlor working on an animal conjuring spell when her oldest sister and husband, orbed into the room with heated voices. Prue and Andy arguing again? Must be about what the name the baby again, Paige thought.
"I don't care what we name the baby!" Andy shouted into his wife's face, "just pick a name!"
"I did!" Prue yelled back, "but you hate it!" Thirty-five year old Prudence Halliwell-Trudeau was eight months pregnant with their third child. A child in whom the Elder's had told them would be blessed as the first and only child to be born from two angelic parents. Killed in battle three years prior by a demon named Shax, Prue had returned to earth as the moral high priestess to the Wiccan Realm. Subject to her civic duties, Prue often abided her time between the manor and the afterlife.
"I don't hate it, I just want to name our daughter something else" Andy replied calmly.
"Why?" Prue laminated pressing to her tiptoes so that she was right up in his face, "the name of angel for the first angelic child sounds perfectly reasonable to me"
"Prue, don't go there right now!" Andy took a step back so that was Prue was outside of his personal space.
"You are so stubborn" Prue hissed walking over to Paige's cauldron as Andy's hands flew up into the air. "We choose a perfectly good name and suddenly you renege on it"
"I'm stubborn? What about you? Out all the names in the world, you can't choose another one? Why can't we just name the baby Agatha, or Astrid, something else that's starts with A"
"Agatha?" What could possibly be worse that Agatha Paige thought trying to stay out of the argument.
"Austin does start with an A," Prue retorted stirring Paige's potion "or don't you know the alphabet?"
Andy smiled tightly, holding back the urge to bite back, "that's it, I'm out here. Paige you can have Leo call me, when her highness isn't so hormonal"
"Uh...okay" Paige's mouth dropped open slightly as Andy started to orb in time with Prue's yell of frustration
"Argh! I hate it when he does that! " Prue reached then reached for the ladle that Paige had been using and flung into Andy's trail of orbs, missing the Tracer's head by millimeters.
Paige bit her lip stirring her cauldron, "My, my, Andy is right somebody is feeling a little hormonal today"
"Not another word!" Prue warned pointing a finger, "Andy and I will work this out on our own"
"Okay if you say so," Paige shrugged, "but you're driving us all nuts with this name thing. Can't the two of you just settle on something?"
"Paige!"
"What's going on? We thought we heard shouting" Thirty-three year old Piper, and Thirty year-old Phoebe marched into the room, each carrying, toddlers, three year old, Ally and Piper's daughter, Melinda.
"You did" Paige answered, "Prue and her beloved, just had a fight"
"Over what to name the baby again?" Phoebe questioned, letting Ally slide from her arms.
"Yeah" Paige said softly watching Piper place a hand on her hip.
"Let me guess, Prue is stuck on Austin. Prue can't you pick anything else?"
"I don't want anything else and neither does Andy," Prue said gazing out the stained glass window as Ally padded up to her, "He just won't admit it"
Ally smiled sweetly at her Mother, "Hi Mommy. Amandy is still at school". Prue's eyes grew big and excited at the sight of her youngest daughter, "I know, your sister is a big first grader now"
"I want to be a foost gator too"
"Oh you will be someday," Prue cooed gently gripping Ally's chin. Ally grinned leaning up against Prue pressing her ear next on her mother's stomach.
"Can I talk to the baby?"
"Go right ahead" Prue giggled, watching Ally press her nose in the middle of her bulging stomach.
"Hi, beebee…it's mez Awlee" Ally gazed up at her Mother, "what we call her?"
"Austin" Prue replied with a naughty grin.
"I wuv you, Awshin" Ally cooed kissing Prue's tummy before scampering from the room.
Piper walked over to the window, still holding her daughter, "Prue you know why Andy doesn't want that name. It still hurts him to think about Father Austin"
"Father Austin?" Paige crinkled her nose, jerking her head back. "Who is Father Austin?"
"He was Andy's priest" Phoebe explained. "They were pretty close"
"Funny" Paige smirked, "I never really pictured Andy as a choir boy".
"Actually, Andy had a very strong mortal faith, it's part of what led him to defend white magic" Prue moved over towards the sofa and sat down. "When Father Austin was killed it really tore him up". Shortly after being attacked by the Rowe brothers, the good-natured Priest was found dead. His throat had been slashed, and his rosary beads and wallet stolen to make it look like a robbery.
"I can imagine, it's probably the same way I felt when Sister Agnes was attacked by that darklighter in the church, right Amanda was born," Paige shook her head before looking down at her cauldron. "Sister Agnes was one of the only people who was there for me, after my parents died"
Phoebe nodded, "what makes it worse, is that Andy was working on finding Father Austin's killer, when he himself was killed by Rodriguez. After that the police closed the case for lack of solid leads.
"So then Father Austin's killer is still free?" Paige titled her head, forgetting about her spell, "why I mean Andy's a Tracer…surely he can find him. Can't he use his powers to find him? I mean the Elder's wouldn't think that there could be any kind of personal gain, would they?"
"hmm, you never know with them" Prue hummed tightly, "It's just a theory, but rumor has it that the evil is masking the killer, so prevent our side from receiving the father's soul."
Phoebe sat down next to Prue " Since when did you become the gossip, in family?"
Prue shrugged impishly, "well being the top witch in the hierarchy does has its privileges, not to mention Natalie hears everything".
"But not so many that you can do anything to help Andy's feelings about naming the baby?"
"No" Prue replied solemn placing a hand on her stomach, "I would if I could."
Piper shook her head, "so instead you decide to try to drive all slowly insane by your constant childish bickering over a name that Andy doesn't want? Prue that is so stubborn"
Prue glared at Piper sister, "watch it, Sister, I can take your powers away"
"Hmm, maybe there is something I can do" A thought came to Paige. Quickly she wiped her hands on a towel, and started to orb out.
"Where are you going?" Piper asked.
"Uh…I just remembered something I have to do. I'll be back in a little bit"
"It better be a little bit," Piper, snorted glancing at the clock, "isn't Glenn supposed to be picking you up in an hour?"
"Ewe…yeah" Paige's face again began to crinkle, "if he gets here before I get back can you entertain him?"
Piper shook her head, "Paige, I've got clothes to wash, children to feed, and a club to run. What do I look like to you an escort service?"
"Uh yeah" Paige nodded, orbing before Piper could retaliate.
Bay View Elementary School
Paige rematerialized on the playground, where Amanda attended school. It was lunchtime and several classes were outside, enjoying the sunny weather. "Are you an angel or something?"
Paige looked down to see a small boy sitting at her feet eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He was about six years old, and missing his two front teeth. "Uh no" she smiled at the child.
The boy looked at her curiously, "then how did you do that?"
"I'm magic but you can't tell anybody because then my magic would go away" Paige whispered, bending to meet the child's ear, knowing that small children couldn't be held accountable for exposing magic, because despite their best intentions they were all angelic innocents at heart. "Can you keep a big secret?"
The boy nodded, still clinging to his peanut butter and jelly and sandwich.
"Good" Paige replied, "Now uh can you tell where Amanda Halliwell might be?"
"Over there" the boy pointed to a group of girls playing hopscotch on the blacktop, Amanda being one of them.
"Thank you"
Amanda had just finished her turn when she spotted Paige. "Aunt Paige? What are you doing here?"
Looking about, Paige took Amanda's hand and led her away from the rest of the girls to secluded area around the corner of the building, "I need to help your daddy with something and to that, I need for you to find him. Do you think you can sense the trail orbs for me?"
Born with the special power to trace, Amanda had the ability to sense her father's orbing patterns. The two shared a special spiritual connection in which they could always find each other in a time of need.
"But I'm not suppose to use magic at school. Mommy said it could get us eposed.
"Exposed" Paige corrected sweetly, "and Mommy is right, but I really need you find your Dad for me"
"Is he hurt?"
"No not, physically, but his heart is hurting, kind of like your does when Mommy and Daddy have to go away a for while and you can't go with them."
"When d'ey go to heaven to be with the angels, so Mommy can help good witches?" Amanda knew that feeling well, being the daughter of the High Priestess to Realm often left her separated from Prue and Andy for several days, sometimes weeks at a time.
"Right"
Amanda nodded and lowered her head squeezing her eyes tight.
Paige knelt at her nieces side so that they were eye level, "don't concentrate so hard that you make yourself invisible. We don't want to accidentally get ourselves into trouble"
Amanda shook her head and then opened her eyes, "He went to see Uncle Darryl and then he went to place where they have dead people sleeping in the ground"
"A cemetery?"
Amanda nodded again, as Paige kissed her forehead, "Aunt Paige will you be able to make his heart feel better so's he and Mommy won't fight anymore?"
"I'm going to try, honey". Rising to her full height, Paige looked about careful that she wasn't seen by anyone before orbing away.Golden Gate Cemetery
Andy stood several feet from a grave marker next to his own, staring at it longingly. "Beloved Priest, Michael Paul Austin"
"He must have been a really person"
Andy whirled to find Paige standing right behind him, "Paige…I'm not really in the mood."
"I can see that, but I think I can help" Paige stepped forward so that she and Andy were standing side by side.
Andy's eyes narrowed slightly, "did Prue send you here?"
"No, I came on my own"
"Leo tell you where to find me?"
"Nope, a little witch tracer did"
"Amanda" Andy grinned, making Paige smile.
"She's getting pretty good at this orb sensing thing"
Andy crossed his arms over his chest, "well she should be, next her mother she has some pretty high expectations to live up too"
"Kind of like somebody else I know. You know just because you're married to Super Witch doesn't mean you can't be human too"
Andy bit down hard on his lip, "Okay Paige what are you getting at?"
"This whole name the baby thing," Paige replied using quotations, "you and Prue have been arguing about it for months…."
"I'm not naming my daughter after Father Austin, Paige" Andy snapped with his voice trailing, "I can't"
Paige, frowned sympathetically, placing her hand on his shoulder, "I know what you are going through. I felt the same thing for years after my parents died. I blamed myself for their death and it wasn't until Leo helped me see the past that I was able to move on"
"I remember" Andy grinned. That was right after Paige had come to them to take her place in the Halliwell line. Paige had been so distraught over Cole and Piper saving a women a from a burning car, that a her sisters had vowed to find a way to help her work through her guilt.
"Andy I can help you find Father Austin's killer".
"Paige it's been nearly 10 years. The only thing that is going to help me, is find the killer, if I could just…." Andy turned from Paige raking a hand through his hair.
"What? Go back to the past and do some super sleuthing?" Paige hinted, "You know, I heard that you were pretty good at that once upon time"
"Paige I can't" Andy said insistently.
Paige felt her fists clenching, "why not, it's not like you're doing for personal gain. You'd be doing it to save an innocent soul…a good soul"
The two stood in silence for several seconds before Paige formed an idea, "you know the only way to deal with your past is to go back to it.
Andy shook his head, "Paige no I can't. I need to be here for Prue" Even though she herself couldn't be killed, Prue was especially vulnerable to evil right now given that she was pregnant with the near immortal angelic child. The vanquish of the angelic child was said to be a highly coveted prize within the demonic community.
The corner of Paige's lip pulled to one side as she raised an eyebrow, "you really think Super Witch, head of the Wiccan Realm can't handle just one day without you at her side? She's pregnant Andy, not incapacitated. Besides it might do you good to get away from each other for awhile."
"Maybe" Andy scratched his chin; "she'd probably enjoy some alone time with the girls"
"That's the spirit, I'll call Clyde" Clyde was the malevolent spirit who'd helped Paige deal with her parents death by sending her back to the past. Not the most friendly nor helpful spirit, to summon, but nevertheless Clyde was the only spirit able to send humans back in time to relive their past.
"Clyde get your lazy ass down here!" Paige shouted, looking heavenward while Andy rolled.
"Paige, we don't need him. I can orb back to the past with Ally."
Paige flicked her gaze, quieting for the moment, "you really want to take your daughter into a situation where you have to face a killer…I don't think Prue would like that"
"Right" Andy agreed looking sheepish
"Clyde!" Paige yelled again, "I know a Tracer who's been doing your Mother!"
"PAIGE!" Andy smacked Paige on the arm, his eyes growing wide, "what are you doing?"
"I'm trying to get his attention, he doesn't like it when people talk bad about his mother"
"I know but did you have to connect it to me?"
A large gust of wind began to blow around them, transforming itself into the apparitional spirit known as Clyde.
"What do you want?" he shouted, breathing his halitosis breath right onto Paige. As a general rule Clyde was a filthy ghost dressed in dirty rags with a cul-de-sac balding head. "You again" he peered at Paige closely, making her step back into Andy.
"Yes, hi, it's me….I mean we need your help"
"Help?" Clyde's brow furrowed and his hands fell to his hips, "Didn't you understand the first time? I don't do charity work!"
"This isn't charity" Paige swallowed, backing behind Andy. She gave him a little push forward. "Andy here is a Tracer and he's willing to lend you his services with your unwilling clients"
"I am?" Andy glared at Paige incredulously.
"Yes!" Paige growled, "He'll be more than willing to help you recapture those two love bird spirits that keep escaping every time you open your door to the past"
"Frankie and LuLu?" Clyde's eyes grew wide with glee at the thought, "I could use some help containing those two"
"Paige" Andy growled through clenched teeth.
"Shut up" Paige growled back sensing that they were close to getting what they wanted.
Clyde eyed Andy carefully, "how far back in time do you want to go?"
"To the day a priest named Father Austin died" Paige answered, "but don't worry we're not going to change anything, we're just going to retrace a killer's steps".
"Very well" Clyde snapped his fingers causing a huge mahogany door to drop from the sky. "Once you go back I cannot guarantee a return back"
"We understand" Paige replied just as two burley and baldhead warlocks blinked in surrounding them.
"What is this?" Clyde's eyes narrowed, "I don't deal with warlocks anymore!" Snapping his fingers, Clyde made himself and the door disappear, leaving Andy and Paige to fend for themselves.
"Andy watch out!" Paige yelled watching one of the warlocks form an energy ball. Holding out her hand, Paige did the only thing she could. "Energy ball!" The energy fall orbed into her hands, allowing her fling it back. "Take that!"
"Why don't you?" One of the warlocks waved his hands, deflecting the energy ball back into Paige.
"Paige!" Andy watched in horror, as the energy ball struck Paige with such a force that it hurled her into a tree, knocking the witch semi conscious. Paige's body slumped to the ground lifelessly.
Dazed, Paige could only blink as Andy suffered the same fate, only with the arrow of his crossbow coursing through his chest. "Leo" she muttered, watching through blurry vision as the warlocks, supported an unconscious Andy between them and blinked out.