Note:

Piper + Leo Melinda (live in Dan's old house) Melinda is 4.

Phoebe is dating Cole (live in Manor)

Prue is with no one. (live in Manor)

Paying The Price Of Love

Prue Halliwell sat alone in her bed looking through old photo albums. She tried to block out the yelling that was going on between her youngest sister and boyfriend.

"Why can't you just spend a little more time with me?" Phoebe yelled at Cole.

"I spend as much time with you as I can Phoebe!" Cole yelled back, "I need to hide from bounty hunters."

"I can protect you from bounty hunters Cole." Phoebe shot back.

"That 's just it Phoebe! You could get yourself killed…I can't be around you when they go after me." Cole yelled. "I could get you…your sisters, or your niece hurt or even worse killed!"

Phoebe groaned. "Look Cole…I think we need to take a break…I just…I need some alone time."

"Fine with me." Cole said, thinking Phoebe would change her mind.

"I'm going out." Phoebe grabbed her coat and left the manor.

"Bye." Cole shimmered out.

Prue grabbed a box of old photos and headed down stairs. She was not too worried about her sister, they went through this many times before…They would break up and the next day make up. She poured herself a glass of wine and sat down on the couch with her photos. She took a handful out. Most pictures where of old boyfriends.

She looked at a picture of herself and Roger, "Let's burn this one…" She said to no one. She threw it down on the coffee table, deciding that would become the 'burn pile' "Burn…burn…Keep…burn…keep…keep…burn…" She stopped at a picture of her 18-year-old self and Andy. She was dressed in a red silk dress and he was in a white tux. It was from their Senior Prom. She sighed heavily she missed Andy so much.

She took another drink of her wine. She set the rest of the pictures on the coffee table. She had enough of this trip down memory lane crap. She flipped on the T.V. "Great…" She said out loud. "Now I can't stop thinking about Andy." She wished she had a boyfriend. Piper had a loving husband, and not to mention a beautiful daughter. And Phoebe would again have a boyfriend by the next day. And this left her alone.

Alone. Prue really hated that word. That word crossed her mind every day. Seeing Piper and Leo, Phoebe and Cole together only reminded her she was alone.

"Phoebe." A male's voice said from behind her.

"Phoebe is gone Cole." Prue said not even looking behind her.

"Oh…" Cole said sadly, "I'm guessing you heard us?"

"It was kind of hard not to." Prue admitted. "Don't worry Cole…You'll be back together by the end of the day tomorrow."

"Yeah…Mind if I watch T.V. with you?" Cole asked.

"Sure. Want some wine?" Prue sat up from her lying down position.

"Looking at old pictures?" Cole asked sitting next to her.

Prue nodded, "They are mostly of old boyfriends."

Cole picked up the picture Prue was looking at only minutes before. "You going to Prom in this picture?"

Prue nodded, "Yeah…But we never actually made it there."

"Really?" Cole asked, raising an eyebrow.

Prue could not help but smile. "We went to a hotel instead…We were the first Prom King and Queen that was not there to be crowned."

"You went to a hotel?" Cole asked, "You are the last person I would suspect to do something like that."

Prue rolled her eyes, "I'm not as sweet and innocent as you think."

"When I was assigned to kill you guys I never read anything un innocent about you." Cole smirked.

"Well there are tons of things not even my sisters know…Things that no one really knows…Except that guy in the picture." Prue suddenly felt sad again.

"Like what?" Cole asked challenging her.

"Sorry that is between Andy and me." Prue said.

Cole looked back to the box of photos. "So all of these are old boyfriends?"

Prue nodded, "Yep…To bad none of them stuck." She mumbled that last part.

"So why did you and these guys break up?" Cole asked.

Prue took a picture of Roger, "He hit on Phoebe…" She grabbed a different picture. "He broke up with me because I wouldn't sleep with him…This one cheated on me…This one would not listen to no…Asshole...Asshole...Yet another asshole" She took a picture of Andy, "And this one died."

"I'm sorry…" Cole said. He really did not know what to say.

Prue shrugged, "It probably would not have worked out anyways…He was to fund of the whole witch thing."

"He knew you where a witch?" Cole asked.

Prue nodded, "I'm pretty sure I'm doomed to walk the earth alone forever..."

"Prue..." Cole began to say.

"Hey...It's okay Cole...Some people...Some people aren't meant to find love...I'm just one of them..." She sighed. "Besides dating a mortal is dangerous...They are at risk getting hurt..."

Cole took the sides of her face softly, "Prue look at me…Guys would have to be crazy not to want you…You are a beautiful, smart, funny person. Personally I feel none of those guys in those pictures disserve you." He paused. "And you will find love."

Prue looked up at him while he still had her face. She closed her eyes lightly she knew what was coming next. Cole's lips met hers and they kissed. They pulled apart, both surprised they had just done what they had done.

But they again leaned into each other and kissed again, this time with more passion. Prue's hands where around his neck, while his hands slipped up her shirt…He shimmered to her bedroom…

He laid her on top of her bed as their kisses intensified. She put her hands to is waist and they stopped kissing briefly as she took off his shirt. His mouth moved to her neck as he unbuttoned her jeans. He slid them off her, along with her panties. She took off her pants and his boxers as he struggled to take off her shirt. He pulled it over her head. "Owe!" Prue yelped when her accidentally pulled her hair.

"Sorry." He apologized.

"That's okay." Their kisses became passionate once again, one becoming more intense then the other. Her hands caressed his back as he ran his fingers through her hair...

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