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A/N: Thanks so much to all who reviewed and the more reviews I get, the more I'm inclined to upload chapters quickly. Sounds like blackmail doesn't it? Well, that's how it goes. *evil laugh* Your reviews inspire me, the more I'm inspired, the more I write. Anyway, before we go on, I would just like to point out that Wyatt would be around 5 when all this happened. So uhm, if you go back to Chapter 8, I changed that. Sorry about that.

Also, there's a new story brewing that takes place after Billie and Prue have kids. It involves an adorable little boy, a young demon, and 3 very powerful teenagers. Before we get into that though, I have one question for you since I'm not from the States, what grade would you be in if you were 15/16 years of age? It would help me a lot! You can answer by posting a review after reading this.

Now on to our story...


Chapter 9

Cleansing


Prue was expecting to have all Charmed Ones in Magical School to complete the cleansing and restoration of the place but Coop decided to ask Phoebe to marry him and if your future nephew already called the man 'Uncle', there was really no other answer but a joyous yes.

The Charmed Ones and their counterparts were busy with the wedding details, Prue decided to take a step back. She remembered Piper's wedding and didn't want a repeat of that fiasco. She volunteered to take Wyatt and Chris up to Magic School and stay there until the wedding day. She was glad to spend time with her nephews and be a doting Aunt to them as she never really had the chance to.

Billie volunteered to help Prue since she still felt a little bit awkward being with the three of them. Even if she did want to help, it was just too soon and the occasion was just too intimate for her to be in the middle of it.

"Prue, are you sure about this? You know Phoebe doesn't think you would ruin the wedding like the last time." Piper asked as she prepared her sons' things.

"Of course I'm sure. Besides, these little men will help me rid the Magic School of evil aura. Won't you boys? We'll have fun using magic! Lots of magic, right Wyatt?"

"Yes, Aunt Prue!" Wyatt was excited. His Aunt Prue was teaching him lots of fun stuff with his magic. He loved to learn more.

"What about you Billie? You know, you can stay here and help." Piper reassured Billie as she knew Billie was still uncomfortable around them.

"For the nth time, yes. I'm sure. I promise not go evil and not be alone with Wyatt or Chris." Billie responded.

"Ha! Funny. Actually, I'm more worried about you since Prue will kick your butt to Kingdom come if you ever pull any of that stunt again." Piper smiled. Prue was busy whispering and giggling with Wyatt to notice.

"Consider me warned and scared out of my wits, thanks!" Billie replied empathetically as she pulled Chris from his crib.

"Prue, everything's ready. I'm sure you can orb anything I've forgotten and make sure to pick Chris up if Wyatt decides to orb Chris all across the Universe again, okay?" Piper lectured. This was one of the longest times that she would not be with her sons and though it would be helpful with all the planning and preparations for Phoebe's wedding, she would still miss them. She was at the same time and with the same degree quite ecstatic to share her kids with Prue.

"I think I can handle my nephews just fine, thanks. Go on, give mommy a kiss goodbye." Prue encouraged. Wyatt gave his mommy a kiss goodbye and promised that he would be good little boy. Chris received a kiss from Piper too except his promise of being a good little boy was implied since he couldn't talk yet.

Wyatt went back to holding Prue's hand and held Billie's with the other. After a second of bright orbs, they were gone and so were the baby paraphernalia around the Manor.


Magic School


A display of bright orbs in the Magic School's main hall indicated that Prue, Billie and two boys have arrived. As Prue instructed, Wyatt shield was up. This wasn't just practice for him but it was also a precaution. For some time, evil ran the place and you couldn't be too sure about demonic traps and curses.

"Wyatt, make the blue ball bigger until it covers the entire school. Do you think you can do that?" Prue coaxed him. Billie wasn't too sure about Wyatt understanding the instruction but Wyatt's face lit up and wanted so much to prove that he could do whatever it was that his Aunt Prue wanted him to do.

Wyatt was able to do what Prue asked and as the Orb Shield expanded, the first sign of its protection was an explosion to the right side and created a black smoke that was repelled as well by the shield. Chris was surprised by the sudden explosion and was about to cry when Wyatt's hand held Chris' small ones and uttered "It's okay Chris. I'm here. I'll protect you."

To Billie and Prue's astonishment and awe, Chris calmed down and even as he heard explosion in the distance, he didn't show any sign of fear or worry. He was happily drooling on Billie's shirt and pulling some of her hair with tiny saliva-covered hands.

After a minute or so, when Wyatt was sure that he was able to do what his Aunt Prue asked, he happily exclaimed, "Finished!"

"That was excellent! Now, here's your reward for a job well done!" Prue orbed a small blue bike with training wheels.

"What do you say?"

"Thank you Aunt Prue."

"You're very welcome! Now, you can play with your new toy right over there where we can see you. We'll put Chris near you and while you're playing, you know what to do when there's danger, right?

"Yes Aunt Prue. Orb to mommy."

"Excellent! You get an extra cookie later." Prue smiled at Wyatt oblivious to the blonde woman beside her staring and smiling as well thinking to herself, "God! This woman is amazing!"

As Wyatt tried his new bike, Prue moved the crib to one side of the room and levitated Chris out of Billie's arms and into his crib.

"Wow," Was all Billie could say. Prue blushed but looked away from Billie so she wouldn't notice.

"I've had practice. I was old enough take care of Phoebe when she was born." Prue looked at Billie but after just a second of looking directly into Billie's eyes, she turned away. She tried to do it casually but Billie noticed this and was always disappointed when Prue would turn her eyes away from her. She wanted so much to look at Prue's intense green eyes. It was strange because she never really had an urge to look at people's eyes before but Prue's eyes seemed to have endless wonder in them. Billie was sure she'd see hundreds of galaxies in Prue's eyes if she was only allowed to look long enough. With only a few weeks, perhaps maybe a month of interacting with Prue, Billie had developed a certain admiration for the eldest Halliwell. She couldn't deny it, the woman was kick-ass. To see Prue just move about, handle any situation thrown at her with such effortless grace and fearless demeanor was intimidating to say the least.


***Flashback***


"Seriously, can't that woman do anything wrong?" Billie complained as Paige practiced healing her bruises courtesy of Prue and her martial arts training with her. Paige was trying to concentrate on the healing and it wasn't working as she'd hope. The purple bruise was just a shade lighter but still looked very angry at her.

"You're asking me? One day I'm one of the strongest witches across the entire Universe, and then, all of a sudden, I'm practically a toddler trying to learn how to walk compared to her." Paige sympathized. Secretly however, she was enjoying the time she spent with Prue as she was learning a lot and was able to develop her powers in ways she never thought possible.

Piper was preparing some kind of concoction in the stove listening to both of them whine. A small smile appeared in her face. She was amused by how normal everything was again after Prue came back.

"She's bad at potions." Piper tried to cheer them up.

"Really?" Both Paige and Billie looked at Piper. She smirked.

"No, not really. I was just pointing out one thing I'm know I'm better at." Piper laughed a little seeing both women's reaction.

A crash was heard in the basement.

"Ooh!" Paige and Billie said in unison knowing that it was Phoebe getting her ass kicked by Prue. A few minutes later Phoebe came out looking like hell.

"Someone throw a horse tranquilizer at that woman! I haven't had this hard of a work out since Cole was training me. Any chance you can tell her off like you did Cole?" Phoebe asked Paige.

"Oh come on, I'm not that bad." Prue said joining the conversation.

"My bruises have bruises. Paige, you mind?" Phoebe gently pushed Billie out of Paige's care and made Billie sort of a shield between her and Prue.

Prue shifted her stance so that instead of facing Billie, she was facing Piper. Billie got this awkward feeling that Prue didn't really want to be near her or even face her other than when they're training.

"I'm going to go hit the showers." Prue declared and made her exit.

"Is it me or Prue doesn't really like me much?" Billie asked when Prue was out of earshot.

"Why do you think that?" Piper asked.

"I don't know, the little stuff. Like she barely looks at me and when I'm in the same room, she's sort of uncomfortable. Then again, that could just be me."

"I'm sure she'll get used to you soon enough." Paige hid her face behind Phoebe's head hiding the knowing look that she had. Piper did not look up from her potion and Phoebe was suddenly very interested in how Paige's healing was developing.

"Don't worry so much about it, woman's been dead for five years, I'm sure her social skills with the living has gone rusty." Piper said calmly with a straight face.

Luckily Billie didn't notice as she was also inspecting the varied bruises all over her body. "Alright, if you say so. I'll go hit the showers as well." As soon as Billie made her exit, the Charmed Ones got to talking.

"She's not the only one who's noticed, tell me you've noticed that as well?" Piper asked her sisters.

"In my case, mostly felt it. I'm not even sure if I'm feeling it right because one moment it's a mixed of emotions and then its gone. Like Prue is cutting either my empathy abilities or shoving it all too deep into her unconscious for me to zero in on exactly what it is." Phoebe explained.

"I noticed but my interpretation is different and highly unlikely bordering on impossibility." Paige said defensively.

"And what is this highly unlikely bordering on impossibility interpretation that you have?" Piper asked very curious.

"Nah, it's silly and again, impossible."

"Out with it woman or I'm blowing you up like I do with Whitelighters when I get pissed." Piper threatened. Phoebe smiled a little knowing she didn't really mean it. Paige rolled her eyes at Piper, confident now that even if she gets blown up, she could easily reconstruct herself. She gave in though.

"Well, it seems to me that maybe Prue has got a little crush on Billie. I already know that Billie has a major crush on Prue. It doesn't take an empath to know that. Billie gets all giddy and never stops talking about how great Prue is." Paige explained.

Piper and Phoebe looked at each other.

"Well, I told you it was silly. Except for the part of Billie having a total crush in her. That I am confident to say is spot on." Paige added as she saw the look in both her sisters' eyes.

"Maybe you could have Coop work on that theory." Piper directed at Phoebe.

"Well, at least its something different. Any new guy Coop tries to introduce to Prue gets either too intimidated to talk or she dumps them before there's even a date." Phoebe complained.

"Huh." Paige made a sound as if she just realized something.

"What is it now?" Piper asked her youngest sister again.

"So I take it you two have no problems if it turns out that my theory is right and Prue does turn out to like Billie that way and vice-versa."

"Paige, I married a dead guy slash guardian angel, Phoebe married the Source for heaven's sake. This family has had a few dates with demons, witches and what-have-yous, I'm pretty sure Prue being a lesbian won't be the end of the Universe as we all know it." Piper explained.

"I just hope that whatever it is, it would help us find Prue's love before its all too late." Phoebe added.


***End of Flashback***


Prue would always divert her eyes from Billie's because she was afraid that if she looked on any second longer, she would never stop looking at Billie and just get lost in the sea of blue that was Billie's eyes. Like any other moment, she concentrated on the task at hand.

She closed her eyes and after a second and a blur of orbs, a nanny-elf appeared in front of them. Seeing Prue, she gave a quick nod and an all business-like demeanor.

"You summoned me?"

"Yes. I want you to keep an eye on those two while we get some work done." Prue pointed out to her nephews. The nanny-elf gave a quick nod again and went towards where they were.

"Are you sure they'll be safe with just her?" Billie asked not trusting the nanny-elf to be ale to protect Wyatt and Chris.

"Yeah, don't worry about it. I've instructed Wyatt on what to do if they ever were in real danger. I've also thrown in a few spells so that they can see through any magical glamor to allow them to tell who to trust and who not to." Prue said proudly.

"So shall we?" Prue asked throwing a very quick glance at Billie.

"Sure, just tell me what to do." Billie asked still noticing the uneasiness that Prue felt about her. She would normally complain or even confront Prue about it but she too felt a bit awkward about what she felt. The only thing that was keeping her calm was not just Prue's presence but the idea that she will be with Prue for a few weeks without anyone else.


Meanwhile back at the Manor


As the brightness of the millions of tiny orbs disappeared along with Prue, Billie and the two kids, Coop and Phoebe teleported in and Paige Orbed in with Leo.

"Are you sure this is going to work?" Piper asked.

"Hopefully. I mean, spending time together alone like that would allow to them to feel whatever it is they are feeling without making them feel too hindered by the people around them. It would give them a time to relax and just be together." Coop explained.

"I hope you're right." Piper responded.

"Well I hope that they get it together soon. I'm excited for them." Paige exclaimed giddy with anticipation.

"We just have to allow them to sort out their feelings and hopefully come to terms with it." Leo explained to the group.

"Hopefully? Why don't you think Prue can't handle it?" Paige defended Prue.

"All I'm saying is that, to know that you're in love is great but there's also that gnawing fear of possible rejection, add that to the fact that Billie is another woman and Prue may be a lot of things but she still needs to go through it all. Coming out is not something easy. It's not easy to the world, it's certainly not easy to yourself."

"Leo's right. And on that note, I need to help those two out just in case. However, if you need any help for the wedding, I am just a heartbeat away. Get it? A heartbeat away?"

"Oh no, I'm marrying the corniest man in the known Universe!" Phoebe joked and kissed Coop goodbye. Coop disappeared with a light pink glow.

"Okay, now that's settled, I am off to the florist to check on your flowers." Paige said and orbed herself out.

"Yes, you, bride, come to the kitchen as we need to plan your menu. Leo, check to see if you can find Prue's camera equipment as she is our official photographer." Piper instructed. Leo went to the attic with a smile on his face knowing that the future is looking very bright indeed.

Unknown to them, a new evil is about to surface.