I've Got You Under My Skin
A/N: I do hope everyone is liking the story so far. Please comment after reading and let me know what you think. Be honest, but not rude or hateful. I will try to have a new episode up each week on either Thursday or Friday. Also enormous internet cookie for the person who can correctly give me the answer to what is Alex's Power? (Please comment in the review section and Aar160n can't the question since you already know the answer lol)
Quake. Phoebe's walking through the crowd.
"Oops, sorry." Phoebe says after she accidentally bumps into someone and proceeds to walk over to Piper.
"I'm gonna kill him." Piper frustratedly says.
"Who?" Phoebe asks her.
"Chef Moore. He, of the phony accent, hires me and then quits to open his new place. Thank you very much." Piper replies back sarcastically.
"I don't see any customers complaining" Phoebe states.
"Hello, I am not a restaurant tour. I'm a chef. I have no idea what I am doing. Are you wearing my dress?" Piper asks Phoebe just as Brittany comes up to them.
"Hey, Brittany. Ooh, I love that tattoo." Phoebe comments.
"Thanks."
"I thought it was illegal to get them on your hand because of the veins" Phoebe asks curiously.
"In the States, yeah. I got it done in Tahiti." She replies back as she hands Piper some money. "Keep the change, Piper. I gotta jam."
"Okay, say hi to Max." Piper tells her as Brittany leaves.
"Bye." Brittany tells them.
"Table nine please" Piper tells one of the waitresses. As Phoebe has a premonition of a guy walking up to her. "Now, back to my dress." Piper says back at Phoebe as her premonition ends.
"Okay, see that poster boy to your left?" Phoebe asks her. Piper then turns towards him." Just glance, don't be obvious."
"I approve, who is he?" Piper asks her back.
"His name is Alec and he's about to come over and ask if he could buy me a martini."
"How do you know?"
"Let's just say I saw the age old problem of who approaches who. I had a little premonition."
"What? Phoebe, you are not supposed to use your powers, we agreed."
"No, you and Prue agreed. I abstained. Besides, it's not like I can control it, it just popped into my head."
"That's the whole point. None of us can control our powers. That's what scares me. I could panic and freeze the entire restaurant."
"Shh, here he comes." Phoebe says as Alec walks over to her.
"I was just sitting over there wondering if I could buy you a martini or something?" Alec asked her.
"Martini, hmm, imagine that. I would love one. It's Alec, right?" Phoebe replied back to him.
"Yeah, how'd you know my name?" He asked her with a puzzled look on his face.
"Wild guess. Do you wanna grab a table?" She asks as she proceeds to stand up.
"Yeah." He answered as he straightened up.
"Prue is gonna be pissed." Piper tells Phoebe.
"News flash. Stop worrying, you'll get wrinkles." Phoebe replies as she turns to leave with Alec.
Outside Quake Brittany walks to her car and gets in. As she adjusts her rear view mirror, she sees someone sitting in the back seat and she begins to scream
Prue is sneaking around Andy's bedroom putting on her clothes while he's sleeping. As she is getting dressed Andy rolls over and makes a noise causing Prue to stop and be very still hoping he'll just go back to sleep. After everything is quiet again Prue proceeds to head to the bedroom door when Andy's alarm clock begins to beep and begins to wake Andy. Quickly she squints her eyes and makes Andy's alarm clock to be thrown out of the window. She then walks out of the bedroom as Andy wakes up.
"Prue?" Andy asks, but realizes she's gone as he hears the door close and then hears her car leave.
Up in the Attic Alex is pacing back and forth. While the Book of Shadows lays on the stand and open to the page on Warlock.
"He couldn't have been right. I mean he was a warlock and warlocks are evil. He had to have been lying just to mess with me." Alex says as he continues to pace. " How the hell am I even suppose to ask Grams anyways. I mean she's dead its not like I can just call her." Alex continues as he walks in front of the Book of Shadows. Suddenly the Book of Shadows begins to flip through the pages and stops on a page called To Summon the Dead. "Woah..Um, ok I guess someone is listening"
Opening Credits
Commercial
Piper is in the kitchen watching a documentary on a woman named Mary Estes, a supposed witch back in the Salem Witch Trials who was struck by lightning when trying to enter a church to confess her innocence. While she is watching TV Piper whisks some eggs in a bowl.
"Good Morning" Prue says as she walks into the kitchen and heads to the refrigerator.
"Good Morning" Piper replies as she heads over to the island and places the bowl of eggs down.
"What are you watching?" Prue asks as she opens the refrigerator door.
"Nothing, Just a show" Piper replies a she quickly turns the small TV off.
"About Witches? Are you worried we're gonna be burnt at the stake?" Prue teases her as she closes the refrigerator door.
"Yeah, right. By the way, Andy called." Piper says trying to change the subject.
"When?" Prue asks her.
"While you were in the shower. Bad date?" Piper asks.
"No. No,no. Not at all. It was great. You know, dinner, movie, sex"
"Excuse me? On your first date? You sleaze."
"It wasn't exactly our first date, Piper:
"High school doesn't count. That was last decade. Spill it." Piper says as Prue walks into the living room. "Ooh the bad huh?" she asks as she follows her.
"No, actually that good. It was... well, we were amazing, but that's not the point. I told myself that things would be different. That we would take it slow. It just shouldn't have happened, that's all. Prue replies back to her as they walk through the living room and into the foyer.
"What shouldn't have happened?" Alex asks as he and Phoebe head down the stairs.
"Prue slept with Andy?" Piper teases.
"Hello?' Phoebe says surprisingly.
"Sorry I asked" Alex replies back to her.
"Thanks a lot, mouth" Prue tells Piper.
" Wait, you were gonna tell her, but not me? Family meeting" Phoebe tells them.
"I'll pass that's not something I want to hear" Alex tells them as he leaves the foyer and heads into the kitchen.
"Speaking of last night. What time did you end up rolling in?" Prue asks Phoebe.
"No, no, no. Do not change the subject" Phoebe argued.
"Don't dodge the question" Prue replied.
"It must have been at least after three." Piper answered as the girls walked from the foyer to the solarium.
"I must still be in New York time." Phoebe says as Prue sits down
"Actually, that would make it later" Prue quipped.
"Or maybe you and Alec" Piper started.
"Who's Alec?" Prue asked.
"Some hottie she hit on in the restaurant" Piper answered.
"Excuse me, where vision is history, he hit on me. Remember, the whole vision thing." Phoebe inserted.
"Vision thing? Please tell me you didn't use your powers?" Prue begged, but when Phoebe doesn't say anything Prue looks at Piper.
"Don't put me in the middle." Piper rejects.'
"I'm not. You were born in the middle. Look, I thought that we agreed" Prue scolded.
"No, we didn't. You agreed. You laid down the law. There's a difference." Phoebe replied.
"Phoebe, our powers aren't toys. We have to be careful or they can get us killed." Prue told her.
"She's right. We don't want any warlocks finding us." Piper agreed.
"Look, it was just a lousy premonition, that's all. Nobody died. Besides, you guys can't control your powers any better than I can and F.Y.I nothing happened last night. At least nothing I'm ashamed of." Phoebe argued.
"There's another reason we have to be careful. Andy thinks someone's abducting women in our area" Prue tells the girls.
"Abducting women? What do you mean?" Alex asks as he walks into the solarium with a bowl of cereal.
"I mean warlocks aren't the only evil we have to watch out for and F.Y. I. I'm not ashamed of anything." Prue directed towards Phoebe.
Commercial Break.
Andy is at work at the Police Station sitting at his desk looking at a picture of Brittany. He then hands the picture to Morris who is talking to Max.
"She didn't come home at all last night. That's not like Brittany, believe me" Max pleaded to Morris.
"Tell me, Max. What time did she leave to go to Quake?" Morris asked him.
"8:30. She called around ten, said she was coming home, but I'm really worried" Max replied.
"Chances are she'll show up. They usually do. The best thing to do right now is to go home and see if she calls, alright. Will you do that?" Andy tells Max as he stands up.
"Yeah, thanks" Max replies as he walks out of the Police Station.
"Fourth one this week." Andy tells Morris as he gets up to get a cup of coffee.
"Yeah, well, they can't just be disappearing into thin air. Do something to your hair?" Morris asks him as he walks over to him.
"At least we narrowed down his feeding pool to the area around the restaurant." Andy replied.
"Yeah, well, better tell your sweetie to lock the door at night" Morris tells him as he walks away.
Piper sits in her car looking over at the church clearly lost in thought. Suddenly someone knock on the window and scares Piper.
"Pastor Williams, you scared me." Piper gasped as she calms down and rolls her window down.
"I'm sorry. Aren't you a little early? Dropping off the unused food from the restaurant. I thought you weren't coming by until this afternoon." Pastor Williams asks her as he leans down to her.
"I am. I mean, I'm coming back with everything." Piper sputtered out nervously.
"Great. So what are you doing here now?" Pastor Williams asks her.
"Nothing really, Just, uh, just thinking."
"About?"
"Mary Estee."
"Who?"
"It's just a stupid documentary I saw. By the way, is it true that evil beings can't go into a church without being..." Piper then makes a booming noise and moves her hands to show there hit by lightning causing the two laugh.
"Evil beings? You mean, like what? Vampires?" Pastor Williams jokingly said.
"Vampires, no. I was thinking more on the lines of witches." Piper replies.
"Witches, huh? Let me put it this way. I sure wouldn't wanna risk it. I gotta go. I'll see you later?" Pastor Williams tells as he stands back up.
"Yeah, right, absolutely." Piper replies as Pastor Williams leaves. After he's gone Piper proceeds to get out of her car and walks up the steps of the church. Just as she's about to grab the handle of the door she hears a large crack of thunder causing her to run back to her car.
At Baker High School Alex sits in one of his classes.
"Alright class settle down. Now who can tell me what the two scales we use for temperature?" The teacher asks as he begins to write on the board.
"Celsius and Fahrenheit" one of the students replies back.
"Very good. Now which of the two does the US use?" The teacher asks as he turns around to face the class.
"Fahrenheit" Another student answers him back.
Meanwhile Alex is staring outside the window. Not really paying attention. "Alex can you tell me what the term is called when heat is emitted from the surface of an object or person?" The teacher asks him.
Quickly Alex snaps out of his day dream and realizes that the teacher has asked him a question "Oh, um, Thermal Radiation" Alex answers him back.
"Well its nice to know you can at least listen, but how about paying attention to class." The teacher responds as he turns back to write on the board. For most of the class Alex sits there listening to the teacher and taking notes, but about half way into class Alex begins to feel extremely hot and even begins to sweat.
"Hey Alex are you okay? You don't look so good" Jake, Alex's best friend asks him with concern.
"Yea I'm not feeling so good either. Is it hot in here or just me?" Alex asks as he begins to feel even hotter and light headed.
"Hey teach I don't think Alex is feeling well." Jake tells the teacher.
"Alex, do you need to..." The teacher starts to say as he turns around and sees Alex fall out of his desk and to the ground. The teach quickly runs over to him to check on him and as soon as he touches Alex he notices how hot he is. "He's burning up. Someone call 911 now."
"Hold the door" Prue hollers as she runs into the elevator and accidentally drops her briefcase causing everything to fall out of it. "Dammit, can you push twelve please?" Prue asks one of the men in the elevator with her.
"Here let me help" The man says as he bends down and begins to pick up some of the papers. "Eighteenth century French art. Do you work in the auction house upstairs?" He asks Prue as they stand up.
"No, just interviewing, if I ever get there in time. Don't let me get my King Louies' mixed up" Prue replies as her phone begins to ring and answers. "Hello? Uh, Andy. how did you get this number?" Prue asks as she lowers her voice.
"Prue, I'm detective" He jokes. "I think we should talk."
"Yea, its just that I', really late for this interview" Prue tells him.
"I didn't mean for what happened last nite to happen, Prue. You have to know that." Andy says as he pleads his case.
"Of course I'm, you know, totally wrong for it anyway, stuffy old auction house. I don't even know why you called?" Prue quietly says on the phone.
"Come on, Prue. Listen to me. We've known each other for a long time. We just couldn't help ourselves. It's nothing to be ashamed of." Andy tells her.
"I know, Andy" Prue says as she starts to get irritated.
"All we did was make love"
"I know, Andy"
"Talk to me, help me out here, Prue. Why'd you sneak out like that?"
"I did not sneak out. Right, you were asleep. I didn't want to wake you and I did write, you know, I just didn't leave it. " Prue quietly says as the phone crackles. "Hello? Hello?" Prue asks, but when she doesn't get an answer she hangs up. The door on the elevator starts to open and Prue realizes that she still has several floors to go until she can get off. Squinting her eyes, Prue uses her powers to cause the elevator's doors to close.
"Hey, it missed my floor" a guy in the elevator says as Prue continues to use her power to cause the elevator to skip the floors until it gets to the twelfth floor.
"That was strange. Lucky you huh?" One of the guys tells her.
"Yeah, I'm charmed alright" Prue replies as she rushes off the elevator.
At Quake, Phoebe is seen handing a menu to a guy who is talking to a woman sitting next to him.
"Here you go" Phoebe says with a smile on her face.
"Thank you" The man replies back to her.
"Excuse me, but aren't you Stefan?" Phoebe asks the man.
"Yes, I'm sorry, do we know each other?" He replies back.
"Oh, highly doubtful. I'm just familiar with your work. Like everyone else in the world." Phoebe answers him.
"Well, I don't know about that, but I'll take a compliment from a gorgeous woman." Stefan says flirtingly.
"I'm sure your girlfriend must appreciate that." Phoebe hintingly says.
"She's not my girlfriend" Stefan whispers to Phoebe.
"Then why are you whispering?" Phoebe whispers back to him as the woman next to him stands up.
"Excuse me" The woman says as she leaves.
"Ooh, ooh, okay. Well it was really nice meeting you" Phoebe replies as she starts to walk away.
"You too. Listen, listen. I'm in town for a couple of days doing a Porsche shoot. If you're interested, stop by. I would love to photograph you. You do model don't you?" Stefan asks her with a slight smile and throwing in some charm too.
"In my dreams, yeah" Phoebe replies as she takes a step back towards him. Stefan then grabs a napkin and writes down the address and gives it to Phoebe, who smiles and walks away.
"A drive just called in sick. Can you do a quick delivery?" Piper asks Phoebe as she walks up to her.
"Sure. Is that guy at the bar staring at me?" Phoebe asks Piper.
"There are a lot of guys at the bar staring at you" Piper replies.
"The one at the far end. Tall, dark, brooding, very New York" Phoebe describes Stefan.
"Sorry, no" Piper answers. Phoebe then turns around to look and sees that Stefan is gone.
At Buckland's Prue and a woman is seen walking down a hallway and towards an office.
"He's seen your resume and is very impressed. I gotta tell you, it's already blown out six other applicants" The woman tells Prue as the walk down the hallway.
"I still don't know why he's interested. I never even applied." Prue responds.
"He likes what you did at the museum. Even though your ex-boss trashed you. What's Roger got against you anyway?" The woman asks Prue.
"Hard to say. Unless shattering his male ego counts for something and he's also my ex-fiancé." Prue replies.
"Got it. You ready?" She asks Prue as they stop at the door.
"Yeah" Prue replies as the walk into the office and sees the man from the elevator in there.
"Rex Buckland, this is Prue Halliwell. Interviewing for the new specialist." The woman informs Rex,
"Actually, we've already met. Welcome to my stuffy auction house." Rex sarcastically says.
Meanwhile at Stefan's photography place. You see a woman tied to a table.
"Please, don't hurt me. Let me go. Please, Stefan." The woman begs as she fights to get free from her bindings.
"Its Javna" he replies as he walks up to her and reveals him to be really old. His eyes begins to glow and really bright light comes out of his eyes and goes into the woman's eyes. She screams her lungs out as she is turned into an old woman. Stefan then picks up a mirror and shows him being young again.
Commercial Break
Prue sits in Rex's office doing the interview.
"How many exhibitions did you correct?" Rex asks as her as he sits at his desk.
"Seven, including the Carlton estate. It should be on my resume." Prue replies back to him.
"Frank Carlton. That's quite a coup"
"Well, I tend to be on the persistent side. I usually get what I want."
"I don't doubt that. It's a shame though that you think you're...how did you put it in the elevator? Totally wrong for the job."
"That was a private phone conversation."
"Hardly"
"You called me, remember. Not the other way around and while we're at it, I think it's incredibly unfair that you eavesdrop on a private call and then you judge me based entirely on what you thought you heard." Prue blatantly says.
"I apologize. It was unfair of me. I'm new of all this. I've only just taken over the house from my father, so I'm very protective of it, but I like what you did at the museum, attracting the younger market, it's totally consistent of what I want to do there. It's just with all these qualifications aside, it's very important to me whoever I hire, truly wants to be here." Rex tells her as he stands up and sits on the side of the desk beside Prue. As he finishes talking his intercom beeps. "Yea" Rex says as he answers it.
"Excuse me, Mr. Buckland. Your next interviewing is waiting. Should I reschedule him?" The secretary asks over the intercom.
"No, I think we're done here?" Rex replies.
"Well thanks for your time." Prue tells him as she stands up and walks to the door. She goes to open the door, but stops and turns around. "My area of expertise ranges from the Ming Dynasty to a Mark McGuire rookie baseball card. You name it, I can identify it. Now I may not of sought this job originally, but I do want it and I am definitely right for it." Prue says as she turns to leave the office.
Phoebe and Piper arrive at the Church and get out of the Quake van.
"You would think after last night, Prue would be a lot mellower. I mean, how long had it been? Six months? And she's worse." Phoebe asks her sister as they get out of the van and had to the back.
"Its just so un-Prue like to have sex on the first date. I mean, everything's changing since we've become... you know" Piper replies as Phoebe and her start getting the stuff out of the back of the van.
"Come on, you've never had sex on the first date?" Phoebe asks her.
"No, have you? Don't answer that." Piper replies.
"Well, it's not a regular thing. Of course now that I'm witch I can see if it's gonna be any good or not before it actually..." Phoebe says as she notices an elderly man standing there. "Hi" She says to him as she hands him a tray and he walks away.
"What's the matter with you? Are you outta your mind?" Piper asks her.
"Come on, it's not like he took me literally." Phoebe smiles.
"You don't know that, he could of. I just think we need to be extra careful. In bed and out.
"Okay, well there's careful and then there's paranoid. Do you wanna talk about it?" Phoebe asks her.
"Talk about what?" Piper replies as Pastor Williams comes up to them.
"Hey Phoebe, I didn't know you were back in town" Pastor Williams says as he hugs Phoebe.
"Hey" Phoebe replies as she hugs him back.
"Took a bit out of the Big Apple did you?" Pastor Williams asks her.
"Oh, I ate the worm. Hey, I'm gonna go get some gum. Do you guys want anything?" Phoebe asks them.
"No thanks" Pastor Williams replies as Piper shakes her head no.
"Okay good to see you" Phoebe says as she walks away.
" You too." Pastor Williams replies.
"Okay, here's the deal. I got this friends. Has a little problem. Could be bad. Not quite sure what to tell her" Piper tells him.
"You wanna go inside?" Pastor Williams ask her.
"No. I mean, I've gotta get going" Piper replies hesitantly.
"So what's the problem?" Pastor Williams asks her.
"Well, she kinda, sort of thinks she might be a witch" Piper nervously says.
"Witches again, huh?" Pastor Williams teases.
"Not a good thing is it?" Piper replies with a hint of concern in her eyes.
"Certainly not a question I get everyday. How well do you remember your Sunday school lessons? Exodus 22:18. Thou shall not suffer a witch to live." Pastor Williams tells her.
"Meaning..." Piper reluctantly says.
"If you go by the old school, it means put her to death. She's evil." Pastor Williams replies.
Phoebe's at a stand where she's grabs a magazine and some gum and walks up to the counter.
"Here you go" Phoebe says as she places her items on the counter.
"That'll be $3.52" The guy behind the counter replies.
"Should we use our grandchildren's birthdays." An Elderly Man says to his wife as he holds a lottery ticket. "It's a ten a million dollar jackpot. Who knows? I mean, today may be our lucky day. If not, we're gonna lose our house." The Elderly man tells Phoebe as she turns towards them.
Phoebe curiously grabs a lotto ticket and is pulled into a premonition. In the Premonition she begins to see the upcoming Lotto numbers as they appear on tv."4, 16, 19, 30, 32, and 40. Those are the winning numbers" Phoebe tells the elderly couple after the premonition ends.
"Yeah, yeah, right lady. You want this stuff or not?" The guy behind the counter asks her.
"4, 16, 19, 30, 32, and 40. Trust me, Mr. today is your lucky day." Phoebe insures the older man whose wife agrees to mark the numbers on the ticket. "I think I'll buy one of these lottery tickets too" Phoebe says as she turns back towards the clerk and pays for her stuff.
Back at the church Piper sits waiting in the car when Phoebe gets in with a smile on her face.
"Ready? Let's go" Phoebe says as she hops into the car.
"Yeah I just got a call from the school Alex was taken to the hospital. What are you smiling about?" Piper asks Phoebe as she cranks the car up.
"Nothing. Is he ok?" Phoebe replies as the two of them leave.
At the hospital, Alex is laying on a bed with a pile of cold packs covering the top of him. On one side of stands the Doctor and on the other side stand Piper and Phoebe.
"Alex's temperature is at 102.9. It's stabilized for now, but if it raises much higher he could be in some serious trouble." The doctor tells the girls.
"Do you know what could have caused his temp to raise that high?" Piper asks the doctor.
"Right now we don't know, but we are running several tests on him to find out." The doctor replies.
"How long do you think he will be admitted?" Phoebe asks him.
"Well if we can get his temp to lower down and stabilize, then he can go home tomorrow, but for now he's going to be staying overnight." The doctor replies as a nurse walks up to the door.
"Doctor one of your patients is needing to see you right now" The nurse tells him.
"Thank you" The doctor replies to the nurse who leaves. The doctor then turns back to Piper and Phoebe "I have to go, but I will be back later to check up on him." The doctor says as he leaves the room.
Just as the doctor leaves the room, Piper's phone begins to ring."It's Prue. I'll be right back" Piper tells Alex and Phoebe as she walks out of the room.
"It's going to be ok honey. You're going to get through this I promise." Phoebe tells Alex as she places her hand on Alex's forehead and is pulled into a premonition. In the premonition, Phoebe sees Alex dodging an energy ball, by jumping behind some crates. She then sees Alex tackle the demon and the two fall to the ground. As Alex pins the demon to the ground, he raises his hand and places it on top of the demon's head. Then the demon begins to burn to death. Just then Phoebe's premonition ends.
"Please don't tell them" Alex begs Phoebe as he falls unconscious.
"Come one Alex wake up. Doctor!" Phoebe shouts.
Commercial Break
Prue, Piper, and Phoebe sit in the hospital waiting room. Prue and Phoebe are sitting down while a nervous wrecked Piper paces back and forth.
"I just don't understand. What could have caused this? I mean he was just fine this morning before he left to go to school." Piper says as she continues to pace back forth.
"Piper, he'll be fine. Now can you please sit down. Your starting to make me anxious and I don't think the staff will be pleased if you wear a hole in their floor." Phoebe tells her. Just as Piper goes to sit down the doctor walks into the waiting room and all three girls stands up.
"How is he doctor? Please tell me he's going to be ok?" Prue asks him as he walks over to them.
"He's fine right now, we've managed to get him stabilized again." The doctor replies.
"Is there anything we can do?" Piper asks him.
"Right now he's sleeping. The best thing you can do right now is to go home and go about your night. I will be checking in on him personally throughout the night. So if anything happens I will call you.
Later that night Morris and Andy are sitting in a car outside Quake doing a stakeout.
"What do you want me to say? Something just doesn't feel right to me about this, I can't help it." Andy tells Morris.
"Here we go again" Morris sighs.
"I mean, where are they, alright? What's this guy doing to these poor women?" Andy asks.
"Thinking alien abduction are ya?" Morris sarcastically says.
I'm serious, Morris" Andy replies.
"I know, that's what scares me. Let me guess, favorite movie when growing up...Ghostbusters? Look, we got a crazy, Trudeau. Likes the pretty ladies. That's it, the end. If he comes back looking for more we're gonna bag and tag him and make the world a safer place. That too hard to follow?" Morris asks.
"Evil dead II. Favorite movie growing up. Just for the record." Andy states as he sees Prue gets out of her car.
"Bank across the street, I think we should grab the ATM tapes and see if..." Andy gets out of the car. "Whoa, whoa, where are you going? No, no, forget it Romeo. You're not blowing our cover" Morris says as he tries to grab Andy,
"Come on, Morris. Cut me some slack I have to talk to her. Please? Five minutes, that's all I need." Andy begs.
Inside Quake Prue walks through the restaurant and walks up to Piper.
"Cindy, come on, your salmon's up. Hector, way behind. We need clean plates" Piper instructs her staff.
"You didn't give Andy my cell number by any chance did you?" Prue asks Piper as she turns her towards herself.
"No, Why?" Piper replies as they start to walk around the bar.
"Never mind" Prue says.
"Remind me I wanted to do this for a living, right?" Piper asks her sister.
"Looks like you're the only one of us who's going to be doing anything for a living. I think I blew my interview." Prue says as she comes to an immediate stop.
"I can't imagine you were anything less than stellar" Piper replies as Prue stops when she notices Phoebe sitting at a table with Stefan.
"What is Phoebe doing here?" Prue asks Piper.
"Flirting" Piper replies.
"Yeah, and she's wearing Armani. Where did she get that?" Prue asks her.
"Not from my closet. I gotta go" Piper replies as she leaves to the kitchen and Prue walks over to Phoebe and Stefan.
"Prue, hi. This is my other sister. Prue, This is Stefan the photographer." Phoebe says as she introduces the two of them to each other.
"Pleasure" Stefan says as he extends his hand out to Prue.
"Likewise" Prue replies as they shake hands. "Nice dress" Prue compliments Phoebe.
"Don't worry It's not yours." Phoebe tells her.
"I know, I could never afford it" Prue says with a hint of sarcasm.
"Will excuse me for one minute? I'll be right back" Phoebe says as she gets up from the table and she and Prue walk away. After the two girls are gone Stefan looks down at his hand and sees that it's turning old.
"How are you gonna pay for that? You're broke" Prue asks as she and Phoebe walk into the kitchen.
"Not for long" Phoebe replies.
"What does that mean? You didn't use your powers again?" Prue argues with her.
"Maybe. Are you telling me you haven't?" Phoebe argues back.
"No, I'm not telling you that, but we're not talking about me are we?" Prue asks her as Piper walks up to them.
"What are you guys doing in here?" Piper frantically asks, but with a smile on her face.
"Same thing we do at home" Phoebe replies back to her.
"What, did you do go to the tracks, play the market, what?" Prue asks her.
"The lottery" Phoebe states.
"Phoebe!" Piper gasps.
"What did you want me to do? Ignore the premonition? Not help a needy family. That's what we're suppose to do right?" Phoebe argues.
"No, we are not suppose to use our powers for our own personal gain. That's what it says in the Book of Shadows." Prue hollers.
"Not so loud" Piper says trying to calm them down before someone over hears.
"You said we needed money, right? We'll I'm getting some." Phoebe tells them.
"Come on, you guys" Piper begs them.
"Well, get a job like everybody else" Prue hollers.
"I'm using my mind instead" Phoebe hollers back.
Just then Andy walks into the kitchen. "Prue?" He says as he bumps into a guy holding plates.
"Watch it!" Piper shouts and accidentally freezes everyone and the plates before they hit the ground. "Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, not again" Piper pantically says.
"Now look what you've done" Prue blames Phoebe.
"This is my fault?" Phoebe hollers back.
"You guys aren't freezing?" Piper asks them.
"I guess it doesn't work on witches. Piper, how long does it last?" Phoebe asks her as Prue looks outside the kitchen and sees that no one is frozen.
"I don't know, not long" Pipe replies,
"Uh, it doesn't work out there either." Prue nervously says.
"Oh tell me this isn't happening" Piper says pantically.
"Calm down, It's okay. It's all gonna be okay." Phoebe says as she tries to calm Piper down.
Prue goes back to the kitchen doors and sees that Morris is walking towards the kitchen.
"Oh, God. Andy's partner just came in and he's headed this way." Prue nervously says.
"What are we gonna do?" Piper asks.
"Stall him" Phoebe replies and Prue runs out of the kitchen.
"Hey Inspector Morris, right?" Prue asks.
"That's right. Is Trudeau in there?" Morris asks as he pushes his way towards the kitchen.
"Uh Andy? I don't know is he?" Prue nervously asks.
Back inside the kitchen Phoebe is fanning Piper off with a food tray.
"Okay, breathe, Piper, breathe." Phoebe says as she quickly fans her off.
Just then Morris opens the door and everyone unfreezes and the plates fall to the floor and break.
"I really think we should..." Andy starts, but notices Morris there. "talk. What are you doing here? I thought I had five minutes" Andy asks him.
"Yeah, I gave you ten" Morris replies as he points at his watch causing Andy to check his own.
"Guys, you know, we're really busy in here." Piper tells them as she tries to get them out of the kitchen.
"Yeah, sure" Andy says.
"Uh, I'll call you later, I promise" Prue tells Andy as she grabs Morris' arm and pulls them to the door.
"Okay" Andy replies.
"Bye" Phoebe says as they leaves.
"I hate being a witch" Piper says infuriatingly to Phoebe.
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The next day Piper is in the attic looking in the Book of Shadows when Phoebe walks in.
"Hey what are you doing?" Phoebe asks as she walks in.
"Reading. Thinking" Piper replies.
"About what?" Phoebe asks as she sits down next to Piper.
"About how totally screwed we are not that we're witches" Piper replies.
"Oh, that" Phoebe sighs.
"You don't understand, you don't think we are. You're never afraid of anything. I envy that about you, I always have." Piper says.
"Yeah, well, don't because it gets me into trouble sometimes." Phoebe kids. " Piper, talk to me"
"I don't know, its like our whole lives have been like everybody else. Rushing off to work, going out on bad dates, buying shoes and suddenly we wake up one day and everything is different. We're witches now. I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing" Piper tells her.
"Are you kidding? It's a great thing" Phoebe tries to reassure her.
"You don't know that. We don't know anything about these powers. Why we have them, what they mean, where they even come from. I mean, how do we know it's not... how do we know it's not from evil?" Piper asks her.
"Piper, we've been through this. We're good witches." Phoebe tries to reassure her again.
"What about Jeremy? What about all the other warlocks he said would be coming after us. How do we know we're not just like them? That is what scares me. We don't know. I just wanna be normal again. As messed up as that was. Is that too much to ask for?" Piper pleads.
"Piper, listen to me. You are the most sweetest, most caring person I have ever met." Piper smirks. "No, I mean that, you are. You're always there to help anybody, even strangers. You've been doing it your whole life. So there's no way you've been given this...this gift if it wasn't to do good things with it. To protect the innocent like the Book of Shadows said. Besides, if anyone is concerned of being bad, it's me, right?" Phoebe jokes causing them to laugh. "You've got nothing to be afraid of." Phoebe tells her. "I've gotta run. I am going to get my picture taken" Phoebe then stands up and does a fashion pose causing Piper to laugh again.
Prue and Andy are inside of a restaurant, sitting at a table. A waitress then comes up to them and places two cups of coffee on the table.
"Thanks" Andy tells her.
"Uh Andy"
"Look Prue" Andy and Prue both say at the same.
"You go first." They both say.
"I'm not sorry it happened, Prue" Andy tells.
"Well, I have to be honest with you, Andy, I am. I mean, not because I didn't enjoy it, I did. Especially the, um..."
"Yeah that was great."
"And of course so was the, uh..."
"That was nice too." Andy smirks.
"Yeah, but, you know, that's not the point, it's...I haven't seen you in almost seven years. Just starting right back where we left off is..."
"I know, I know, believe me. I just wanna know why you left, that's all. Why can't you tell me? What's the big secret?" Andy asks her.
"Believe me, you don't wanna know." Prue tells him.
"Try me"
"Well, my life, it's gotten a little complicated and I just don't think I should get involved in anything right now"
"Prue, we had sex. It doesn't mean we have to elope. Okay, how about this, why don't we just pretend it never happened?" Andy asks her.
"Do you want me to toss you a life preserver now, or just let you sink on your own?" Prue teases him causing Andy to laugh.
"No, no. I'm serious. We'll just chalk that one up as part of our old relationship and we'll slow down, we'll start another. Prue we've been given a second chance here, I don't wanna blow it this time." Andy says as his beeper and Prue's phone begins to go off. "Dating in the nineties"
"Excuse me, Hello? Uh yeah, absolutely, I'm sure I can make that. Okay, thanks." Prue says as she hangs up her phone. " I can't believe it, that was the auction house, they want a second interview." Prue says as she stands up. " Uh, just give me a little time to think things over, okay?" Prue tells Andy as she leaves.
"I have nothing to be afraid of. I have nothing to be afraid of." Piper tells herself as she sits in her car outside of the church. She then gets out of her car and walks over to the church and up the stairs to the church door. She grabs the handle of the door and pulls it open. Very careful she pokes her foot inside to make sure nothing happens. After nothing happens she then steps fully into the church and smiles when nothing happens to her. "I'm good!" Piper shouts then walks back down the stairs and see an old lady standing there. Piper sees the back of her and notices the tattoo on it. "Brittany?" Piper asks her.
"You know me? Is that my name?" Brittany asks her.
"Prue thank you for coming back" Rex says as they stand outside of his office.
"Well. thanks for having me back, although I must admit I didn't expect it." Prue replies back.
"I told you I was interested and I am, but first of all I decided to test your expertise if you don't mind. See how good you really are." Rex says as they walk down the hallway. "This is Hannah Webster, one of our assistant specialists. This is Prue Halliwell." Rex introduces them and the two girls shakes hands.
"Nice to meet you" Prue tells her.
"Please, tell us about this piece" Rex asks as he shows Prue a painting.
Prue looks at the back of the painting and smiles "Well, Madonna of Meadow, Giovanni Berlini, 16th Century, fabulous piece. Worth 3..4 million dollars easily if it wasn't a copy"
"What makes you think it's a copy?" Hannah snidely says.
"Too well preserved, no yellowing. Besides, the frame suppose is in pine and Italian painters used Poplar back then." Prue comments.
"Um, what about this one?" Rex asks as they move down to a small statue.
"Daygar. Actually, this was the only sculpture he exhibited himself." Prue answers him as very secretively hits a ladder and causing a tin of paint to fall over and pour paint over Prue.
"Watch out!" Rex warns as Prue throws her hands up to cover herself and accidentally uses her powers to move the paint and miss her, but a little of it splashes onto Hannah's shoes. "Are you okay?"
"Uh, uh, yeah, yeah, I'm okay" Prue nervously replies.
"You sure? I'm sorry, I can't believe that happened" Rex says with concern.
"It's okay?" Prue reassures him.
"Well, uh, I really don't know what to say, except you're hired, if you still want the job" Rex says.
"Are you serious?" Prue excitedly asks.
"Can you start Monday?" Rex asks.
"Yeah Absolutely" Prue answers.
"Terrific. Its done then, Yeah, we can sort out the details when you come in. In the meantime, welcome aboard" Rex congratulates her.
"Thanks. Bye" Prue says as she walks away.
"Well, what do you think?" Rex asks Hannah after Prue leaves.
"I think she's either the luckiest woman alive or she's a witch?" Hannah replies.
"Piper? Phoebe? Alex? Guess what?" Prue asks as she walks into the Manor and takes her jacket off and hangs it up.
"What?" Brittany asks as she walks into the foyer.
"Prue, thank God you're home" Piper says as she walking into the foyer with a bowl.
"Is Alex home?" Prue asks her.
"Yeah he's upstairs in his room" Piper replies.
"Um, who, uh..." Prue starts.
"Here you go, Brittany." Piper says as she hands her the bowl. "Why don't you go sit down at the table, okay? There you go"
'Uh, sorry, Brittany?" Prue asks confusedly.
"You're not gonna believe this. I'm not sure I do." Prue and Piper begin to walk closer to the table." I think... no, I know, this woman is Brittany Reynolds"
"Yeah, right, Piper and I'm Rosie O'Donnell" Prue sarcastically says.
"No, I mean it. Brittany has a tattoo, right? An angel on her right hand, remember?" Piper tells her.
Prue then looks over the older woman and sees the angel tattoo on her right hand. "That can't be"
"That's I thought at first, but then I started asking her some questions. Things only Brittany would know. She maybe senile, but it was enough to convince m." Piper tells her.
Phoebe arrives in the van at Stefan's photography place. She then gets out holding a dress and walks over to the door and knocks. "Stefan, it's me, Phoebe." Phoebe then touches the door handle and is pulled into a premonition. In the Premonition she has, Phoebe sees herself tied to a table and Javna standing there in front of her. Javna's eyes begin to glow and the premonition ends. As soon as the premonition ends Phoebe runs back to the van and gets in, just as she's about to start the van someone grabs her from the back of the van.
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"Piper, what are you talking about?" Prue asks Piper as the two of them walk over to the Book of Shadows in the attic.
"I'm telling you. I saw something about it in the Book of Shadows." Piper says as she starts flipping through the book and finds the page. "Okay, look, see? Javna feeds one week out of every year, stealing the life force from the young."
"By invoking the black magic power, the evil eye to sustain eternal youth." Prue reads from the page.
"Its gotta be what happened to Brittany" Piper states.
"Yeah, but there must be some kind of incantation to reverse it." Prue asks.
"There is. "The Hand of Fatima". It says that the Prophet Muhammad centuries ago to banish Javna back to wherever the hell he came from." Piper replies.
"Yeah, well, the problem is we don't know who Javna is, let alone where he is." Prue states.
Downstairs Brittany is in the kitchen walking around. She walks up to the refrigerator and sees the address of Stefan's photography place written on a napkin. After seeing it Brittany faints and falls to the floor.
Back upstairs Prue and Piper both hear a sudden thud coming from downstairs.
"Brittany?" Piper says as they run downstairs. " Oh my God, what happened?" Piper asks as they find Brittany on the floor.
"Brittany, are you alright?" Prue asks her.
"I'll call 911" Piper says.
"And tell them what? That she's dying of old age at 25?" Prue says as Piper picks up the napkin that the address is on. "What is it?"
"It's a cocktail napkin from the restaurant. With Stefan's address on the back." Piper replies.
"Javna" Brittany tells them.
"Prue, that's where Phoebe went" Piper tells here.
Alex lays in his bed upstairs trying to sleep. He then hears the girls leave and the car drive away.
"I can't take this anymore. I need to use that spell to talk to Grams." Alex says as he crawls out of bed and staggers out of his room and up the stairs to the Attic. He then goes to the book of Shadows and flips to the page with the spell. After laying down five candles in a circle and lighting them, Alex chants the spell and Grams appears in front him.
"My darling you look like hell" Grams says as she stands in front of Alex.
"You don't even know the half of it Grams, I have some questions and I want the truth please" Alex says as he does his best to use the stand to hold himself up.
"What do you want to know?" Grams asks him.
"I need to know what's going on with me?" Alex asks her as steam begins to rise off of him.
"I was afraid this was going to happen. There's something I need to tell you, but I can't go into full details though" Grams responds back to him.
"Ok I'm listening." Alex tells her as he moves to the couch.
"You see you're not just a Halliwell Witch...you're also a warlock" Grams begins to tell him.
"So he was right then. Do you know my father is?" Alex asks.
"That unfortunately is something I don't know... not for the lack of trying. Only your mother know the answer to the question." Grams replies as she holds her hands in front of herself.
"And that's something that not one will ever find out" a voice said as a swirl of orbs appeared next to Grams.
"Mom?" Alex asks.
"Yes honey it's me. It's so good to see you" Patty tells him.
"Honey he's going to find out one day. At least then he'll know and it will be coming from you" Grams scolds her.
"I'm sorry, but I cant not now at least, but I promise I will tell you one day." Patty reassures them.
"Well can someone at least explain why I feel like my insides are boiling?" Alex asks them.
"Honey it's your powers that are doing this. It's affecting you differently, then your sister's powers are affecting them." Patty replies back to him.
At the police station Andy and Morris are looking at security tapes.
"Look at this. ATM tape caught the first victim." Morris says as he hands over a photo.
"And she's leaving with that photographer, Stefan" Andy says as he looks at the photo.
"Jibes was the last place she was seen before she disappeared. Is he on the suspect list? Morris asks.
"Just moved to the top" Andy replies as he grabs his jacket and starts to leave.
"God bless ATM's" Morris replies as he leaves right behind him.
"Wait, Stefan or whoever you are, let me go:" Phoebe pleads as she fights against her ropes that are tying her to the table.
"It's Javna" he replies as his eyes begin to glow and Phoebe screams.
Outside Prue and Piper pull up in the car and run to the van.
"Do you see anything?" Prue asks.
"No, Prue..."
"Look, we'll find her" Prue interrupts her.
"Maybe, we should call the police." Piper states.
"No, if Javna has her then we're the only ones who can stop him" Prue tells her.
"But we need Phoebe to do it. The incantation only works with the three of us." Piper informs her when they hear Phoebe scream.
Back inside. A bright light comes out of Javna's eyes into Phoebe's. Piper and Prue then comes. Prue uses her power and throws Javna across the room. Piper runs over to Phoebe to untie her as Javna stands back up. He then shoots the light from his eyes and into Prue's. Prue then starts to glide across the room.
"Phoebe we don't have a lot time okay.?" Piper says as she unties Phoebe.
"Prue grab the mirror" Phoebe shouts.
As Prue gets closer to Javna she grabs the mirror off of a table and puts it in front of her face and reflects the light back into Javna's eyes knocking him back.
"Evil eyes look unto thee, may they soon extinguished be, been thy will to the Power of Three, Eye of Earth, evil and accursed" The girls begins to chant over and over until Javna turns into a skeleton and then into dust and disappears.
Back at the Manor Brittany is lying asleep on the couch and begins to turn back into her younger self.
"Very Cool" Phoebe says after banishing Javna and three girls proceed to walk outside.
"Prue? What are you doing here?" Andy asks as the girls walk outside.
"Well, Phoebe called. She was having car troubles." Prue lies.
"Stefan was gonna take some pictures of me" Phoebe adds in.
"Do you have any idea how lucky you are? This guy's a stalker?" Andy tells them.
"No sign of him inside. His car is here so might still be around" Morris says as he walks up.
"Excuse me" Andy replies as he reaches into the van and it starts up.
"He, how about that. You fixed it." Piper tells him.
"How about that" Andy jokes.
"Maybe we should go?" Phoebe asks.
"Good idea" Andy says as Piper and Phoebe walk away.
"Uh, thanks. Call me?" Prue asks.
"Sure" Andy replies.
Back in the Attic, Alex is sitting on the couch looking extremely pale.
"I bitched enough about not having powers, guess I should have been more careful about what I bitched for" Alex says as he lays back on the couch.
"Language" Grams reprimands him.
"Sorry. I need to do something to cool down" Alex says as he stands up.
"Just be careful and blessed it be" Grams says as she is surrounded in bright white orbs and disappears leaving Patty there.
"I'm so sorry you have to go through this and I wish I could do something to help you" Patty tells him.
"I know Mom. I love you" Alex says as he proceeds to walk out of the attic.
"Love you too" Patty says as orbs begins to swirl around her and she disappears.
Alex then walks down the stairs and into the bathroom where he proceeds to fill the tub up with ice cold water. Alex undresses and steps into the tube and submerges himself. After a few minutes of being under the water, the water begins to bubble and steam rises from the water. Alex then raises his head out of the water.
"Whoops, excuse me" Phoebe says as she walks into a woman. "Hey, how are you?" She asks the woman,but she gives her a strange look. Phoebe then proceeds to walk over to Piper and Prue.
"Do you know that girl?" Piper asks Phoebe.
"I almost was that girl. She was one of Stefan's victims. Obviously doesn't remember" Phoebe says as she sits down with the girls at a table.
"Lucky her" Prue says.
"No, lucky me. I learned my lesson. I have got to be more careful." Phoebe tells them.
"Excuse me, did I just hear it? Did she actually admit to doing something wrong?" Prue teases her.
"That's what I heard" Piper teases also.
"Frame it. It won't happen again." Phoebe tells them.
"At least we helped those girls. I mean, it's nice to know our powers really are good" Piper comments.
"Yeah, good for everything, but our love lives unfortunately. Although I must admit they do come in handy once in a while" Prue jokes.
"Uh, huh. Hypocrite." Phoebe teases. She then turns around and see the lottery numbers come up on the TV screen. " The winning numbers. I've won" Prue then gives her a look " Well I did" Phoebe quickly pulls the ticket out of her purse and the numbers begin to disappear.
"See, I told you. You can't intentionally use your powers for your own personal gain, remember?" Prue informs her.
"It's a good things I didn't take the tags off that dress. Oh, well. At least that old couple didn't lose their house." Phoebe says as she puts her ticket up.
"A toast to the Power of Three. Whether we like it or not" Piper says as she raises her glass.
The end.
Next week on charmed:
Piper, Phoebe, and Alex are ecstatic when their long lost father comes to town, but Prue has suspicions that he may have an ulterior motive. Meanwhile Alex tries to dive more into his past, but it just may destroy his future. Sostay tuned in for Thank You for Not Morphing.