The evening sun set among the pine and cedar trees, with the misty fog running between the tall branch's catching the glisten of the last few rays, as the sun set down behind the mountain and into the sea.
Piper pulled the Jeep into the parking lot with ease, not taking her eyes off the gravel road in front of her. Pulling in front of the small cabin she shut off the ignition and got out of the jeep quietly, so as not to disturb her sleeping sisters in the back. Stretching out the kink's in her back she looked around at the lot and then the three cabins that sat off just inside the forest wall. She thought at first of just going forward to the main cabin but decided that this was a sister weekend and that they were going to do everything together.
"Ok this we can do, but I'm going to the bathroom by myself." She said to no one as she knocked on the window to the back door to the Jeep waking Prue.
"Come on sleepy head. Get little miss camper up so we can get ready for this camping thing." Piper said with a smile as she opened the hatch to the back of the Jeep.
Prue smiled as she looked down at her sleeping sister in her arms. She was reminded of how innocent she looked when she was younger and she slept. She jostled her sister against her to wake her up gently, knowing thogh it took more the a gentle shake to wake the youngest of the family
"Leave me alone Pwue, I don't wanna go to school." Phoebe mumbled in her sleep as she moved away from Prue to the other side of the Jeep
"Phoebe. Come on we're here. You're the one that wanted to do this." Prue said as she shock her sister awake.
"Maybe we should let her sleep. And then take her to one of the cabins when we find where we are." Piper suggested
Prue looked over her shoulder at Piper, "Naha. This was her ideam she can get up and get herself out of the Jeep. Or her other option is me leaving her here." Prue said with a smile. Knowing that there would be no way she would leave Phoebe or Piper in the Jeep alone over night.
"Come on Prue, we've been driving all day. I know she has been tired lately, probably from all our demon hunting. I know that's why I am. That's why I agreed to this. Get away from everything and everyone."
"And you wanted time away from Leo. to figure things out." Prue added her sister
"And you didn't from Andy?" Piper said with a cheeky smile.
Prue looked again at Piper, "We just need some time to work things out, that's all."
"Prue what's the problem? You love him, he still loves you. Who cares about the 'other' stuff."
"Piper it's not that easy. Let's not discuss that now, we came up here to have fun: Just the three of us. No guys."
"Or guy talk. You two depress me." Came the tired voice in the back seat.
"Come on you little eavesdropper. Let's go check in and then unload the Jeep." Piper said as she started fot the main cabin.
They had settled into their cabin as Phoebe bounced from one bed to the next.
"Ok stop it." Piper scolded her baby sister but couldn't help but laugh.
"I can't help it. I'm too excited." Phoebe squealed as she jumped again on to Prues bed. Only to find herself on her back with the blanket flying over top of her.
"No fair using your powers." Phoebe cried out as she flung a pillow at Prue who was standing there with Piper with a big smile on her face.
She didn't see the pillow coming at her as it hit her in the head, but she quickly picked it up to hit her sister with it. The next thing they knew, an all out pillow war was taking place.
They had stayed at what was known as the base camp that first night. As the sun rose the next morning it glistened through the window of the sisters cabin casting a light on the face of the middle sister.
"Oh sun, go away." She said, as she pulled the cover over her face, only to have it pulled back.
Piper looked up into the deep brown eyes of her youngest sister Phoebe. She at first was shocked that Phoebe was already up, but then realized that when it came to camping that Phoebe was always the fist one up. What was it with her? She would never get up early at home but when ever she was out doors she would be up at the crack of dawn.
"Phoebe. Go away." Piper protested as she tried to pull the covers back again.
"No way sister. We have a long hike ahead of us. We need to get up and ready." Phoebe said as she bounced around the cabin in excitement.
Eventually they were all standing at the start of the trail waiting for their guide to lead them on their adventure.
"Well we just have to wait for one more person and then we are on our way." He said to the three sisters and one other gentleman that was waiting as well, "we had a last minute booking to head up to the ridge. They should be here..." He was stopped by the sound of an approaching vehicle.
"Sorry I'm late. I had a bit of a traffic problem."
"No problem it's still early enough. We should still make the first stop before nightfall, or even earlier." He said as he tossed his pack on and started up the trail. "Are we ready?" he asked everyone though he already knew the answer.
Prue took the rear behind her two sisters. It was her own way of protecting them. No matter what she did she was always the oldest sister. She had to protect her two sisters at any cost.
Piper stepped over the next fallen tree as she looked back to Phoebe who did the same. They had all laughed and joked about everything as the guide and the two other strangers joined in to the sisters' good time. It was a hot sunny weekend and no one knew what could become of the days ahead.
He felt the ringing in his ears as his world slowly came into focus. He remembered the man he had in custody as soon as he came too. Trying ever so slowly to regain his own self he sat up with a sick feeling in his stomach.
He stood up with care and the first thing he knew was missing was his gun and then his wallet. Patting himself in the chest and pockets he soon knew that his second assumption was right. He had taken his wallet with his entire id and pictures.
Pictures. He suddenly realized the pictures he had in his wallet; one of him and Prue and another of the four of them.
He stepped out of the bathroom only to find a vast open space before him. The murderer had taken his car and he was left there to find his own way back to the city. As he stepped out to of the bathroom building he noticed a photo stuck to his jacket as it flapped in the wind. It was a picture that he carried with him everywhere. A picture of the three sisters and himself at a BBQ at the Manor. But the note attached was the one that sent a chill through his body: which one? Was all it said.
Andy ripped the picture from his shirt and almost lost himself in the thought of what could or would happen.
"You want to play games you bastard? I'll play this game with you. But trust me now, if you hurt one hair on either one of them you will wish I killed you the minute I saw you. Quick and painless then. But now. Now it will be slow and painful." He yelled out to the late afternoon sky.
At some point later he found himself in the back seat of a car heading towards the city. His thought anchored on the one he had denied love to, only because she had confessed her true self. She was a witch. A very powerful witch at that; her and her sisters. Sisters that he had known all his life.
His thoughts whirled as the kind couple dropped him off at the station. His first thought was of Prue and her sisters. He ran up the steps to the station two by two as he then burst through the door to the office that he shared with countless other officers.
Making his way quickly to the Captain he told him what had happened, and that he had taken Andy's gun and pictures of the girls. Also letting him know that he had intentions of killing them.
Leaving the Captains office he then started towards his own. storming though th glass doors. catching the glimpse of his partner across from him Andy didn't even flinch.
"Andy I heard what happen." Darryl started to talk to him.
"Not now Darryl I need to find that son of a bitch."
"Andy. You can't do this on your own."
"I can and I will Darryl." He glared at his partner as he left the station.
"Andy."
"Darryl, that son of a bitch took my wallet. What do you think I keep in my wallet besides money and credit cards? Pictures Darryl. Like most people I carry pictures of those I care about in my wallet. And who do I care the most about Darryl? Prue. Prue and her sisters. He's going after them Darryl I know it. And I have to find him, and them before he finds them." Andy shouted back across the station room before exiting the station to find the only person he knew could help him.
Andy looked up to the Manor before him as all his childhood memories came flashing back to him. What was it that kept drawing him back there?
Knocking on the door he had half hoped that Pipers b/f would be around. If not he had seen them summon him enough times that he was certain that he could do just that.
Leo walked to the door to the Manor after hearing the furious banging from the other side. "Ok relax I'm coming." Leo shouted back as he shock his head. People are so impatient.
Opening the door he was surprised to See Andy standing there about to bang on the door again, "Andy?"
"Leo where did Prue and her sisters go?" Andy shot out immediately as he let himself past the threshold.
"Um I thought you knew."
"I did. But I had a little problem." Andy quickly explained to Leo what had happened to him with the killer.
"Andy you're lucky to be alive. This guy is dangerous."
"I know that Leo. So where did they go. I have a feeling that he is gonna go after Prue and the girls."
"What makes you think that?"
"Because that's his style. Go after the women. And there was a picture in my wallet of Prue and I and another of the four of us." Andy explained. "That is also where I had the brochure Prue gave me as to where they were going, how long they would be, and the number to the office there."
Leo starred at Andy for half a second as he felt his own world coming to a stop.
There was a mad man out there who knew what the Halliwell sisters looked like and exactly where they were.
