The Power of 5

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The Manor:

"Is he gone?" Phoebe said poking from behind Prue.

"He has to be." Said Prue staring at the space where Jeremy had been standing.

"He blew up. We vanquished a warlock. Our first one. The Power of three baby whooo." Phoebe said in a silly voice with silly little dance to match.

"I still can't believe it." Prue said still in shock of the situation.

"That were the most kickass sisters in the world?" Phoebe said.

"Phoebe!" Prue said in a warning tone.

"I'm just saying Prue I mean look what we did? We kicked his ass. Didn't we Piper?" Phoebe said as she turned to Piper.

Phoebe didn't get an answer. Piper was just standing there. Staring at the space where Jeremy stood. She was in shock. Although she had said the spell to make Jeremy go away and he didn't it did work. She felt no love for the man anymore but she could remember it. They had been engaged. He seemed so normal, fun and spontaneous. He had gone out of his way to care for her. Pretend to love her over a power. He said there would be more. Would that mean they would try and seduce her again or her sisters. The thought broke her heart. Would she be vanquishing more fiancé's? Although she didn't want to, she let a tear roll down her eye.

Prue and Phoebe looked at her and saw the tear and immediately came and hugged her.

"Piper I am so sorry. I didn't mean to rub that in your face. I forgot who I was talking about. I am sorry." Phoebe said remorsefully while she held onto Piper.

"It's ok." Piper said a bit more tearfully than she expected.

"It will be ok Piper." Prue said while rubbing her hand on her back.

"How?" Piper asked.

"Well your not alone. That's two failed engagements. Join the club sister." Prue said with small chuckle.

"No that's not what I meant." Piper said whilst breaking the hug.

"Well what did you mean?" Said Phoebe looking at her.

"How will any of this be ok?" Piper shouted.

"Piper.." Phoebe started but was cut off.

"No Phoebe. Tell me how its gonna be ok. A warlock who pretended to be my boyfriend for 6 months tried to kill me and my sisters. He said more was coming. How is any that ok?" Piper said looking at her two sisters.

"It's not Piper but it will get better because we're gonna stick together." Prue said firmly.

"It's not that simple Prue. When I lifted my hand he froze and couple seconds later he was moving again. We haven't been together all day and it took saying the power of three will set us free for Jeremy to go away. Were not gonna be together all the time Prue and if more warlocks come after us and they freeze for a second what do we do then. We know nothing about this. These powers. Warlocks. Magic. So tell me how it will it get better if more of them come." Piper said.

"Piper listen to me. We are called the charmed ones. We come from a long line of magical ancestors. This includes Melinda warren. She set a Prophecy that with each generation of warren witches would become stronger until the coming of three sister witches. They would be the most Powerful witches the world had ever seen and be force of good to reckon with. We are those sisters and our powers will grow. Maybe one of these days you will be freezing the world. Look as for the warlocks and magic we will figure out together. Prue is right it will get better honey." Phoebe said stepping forward and taking Piper's hands.

"I really hope your right about that Phoebe." Piper said. She took her hands away and was about to walk away.

"Wait Piper look I know what just happened is really hard to process we still need to talk." Phoebe said to Piper.

"Phoebe please I just wanna sleep and give myself time to adjust." Piper said she said in upset and tired voice

"But.."

"Go ahead Piper we will talk about all of this in depth tomorrow. By the way Piper did you get the job?" Prue asked.

"Yeah I start Monday. Night." Piper said.

"Ok, Congrats and um night Piper." Prue said and Piper walked out of the attic.

"Prue! What about the Chris guy? we need a plan." Phoebe said.

"Then we will come up with one but right now Piper needs to rest. Now pick up the book and lets go to the kitchen." Prue said and also walked out of the attic. Phoebe did as she was told and took up the book and brought it downstairs. Once in the kitchen Prue made two coffee's. She noticed that the cat was still here and she merely just looked at Prue. Something about this cat was very interesting. It was the way she looked at Prue and Phoebe as if she knew what they were doing. Prue decided to take three slices of ham from the fridge and give them to her.

"Ok now explain to me again what you saw in your vision. So we can work out what we are dealing with." Prue said after sitting back down on the table.

"Ok so Chris was standing in I assume his living room and was backing himself into the wall. These two warlocks I think were coming at him. The woman had a ball of purple light in her hand which I've found out is called an energy ball. The man had an Athame in his hand. The woman throws the energy ball and Chris ducks but the guy ends up stabbing him. The Athame glows and then they both leave." Phoebe said.

"The Athame glows?" Prue questioned.

"When you were in the bath I looked in the book to see if Athame's were in the book. There was three sections. Demonic Athame's. Witch Athame's. Even Athame's that are famous. But the Athame that glows means it's sucked your powers , magic, soul, life , blood , organs and even senses if your specific with magic and what you want it to do." Phoebe said with a grimace.

"Are you being serious?" Prue said not liking the sound of that list.

"Yes but I think powers are the main use for them other than killing and rituals." Phoebe said.

"So this warlock is stealing powers from him? Does that mean he's witch? Do male witches even exist?" Prue questioned.

It had only just occurred to Phoebe that Chris might be magical. He seemed disturbed at the hospital. Was it a magical reason?

"I mean I guess. But either way we haft to save him." Phoebe said firmly.

"Ok and the other vision?" Prue asked.

"That was of the calendar. It basically told me that what I saw in my vision was going to happen tomorrow." Phoebe said sure of herself. Just then the grandfather clock struck. Phoebe looked at the clock in the kitchen it had just gone midnight.

"Correction today." Phoebe said.

"Do you know roughly what time this is taking place?" She questioned.

"It was dark in my vision but anywhere between 4 and 11:59." Phoebe said.

"Great! How did you find out his name?" Prue said frustrated

"I got a vision when I touched Paige in the hospital and asked her. She kinda just met him a little while before hand. I had to style it out. She got suspicious." Phoebe said taking sip of the coffee.

"Oh no Paige. We're gonna haft to cancel dinner." Prue said.

"Why?" Phoebe asked confused.

"Oh I don't know maybe because we are not normal now. We have powers and we are trying to chase after warlocks. What if I accidently moved something in front her?" Prue said as if it were obvious.

"Prue we can't just give up our lives because we have powers now. Besides we don't have Paige's number so we can't call to cancel. Look we find Chris, save him and have dinner with Paige. Ok? I refuse to give up my life. I will take on my wiccan duty but I will have a life. Besides there must be loads of other witches out there and they hide their magic well because we didn't know about it before and they are living everyday life." Phoebe said confident in her logic.

"If you say so Phoebe, Ok so we need a way to find this Chris. He has a surname right?" Prue said in a tired voice. She really couldn't be asked to argue with Phoebe.

"Payne." Phoebe said.

"Ok lets narrow down what we know. Chris is an innocent. Two warlocks are after him. He may be a witch. He gets attacked in a house. We were at the hospital with him. Ok so there's are starting point." Prue said thinking hard about the situation.

"What's our starting point?" Phoebe asked confused.

"Well there is one thing that can help save him. He was at the hospital. We go to hospital." Prue explained to Phoebe.

"He left the hospital." Phoebe said.

"If your a patient in a hospital Phoebe the doctor will have your details on file. We get his details and bingo we've found him." Prue said in rather obviously type voice. God Phoebe can be thick at times she thought.

"How we gonna do that? There's a reason for patient confidentiality. The hospital are never gonna give us Chris's information not without a police badge." Phoebe said shooting down Prue's logic.

"That's where Piper comes in. We ask for Chris. The woman types. Piper freezes. You look for the address. Done. Now that's step 1 onto step 2." Prue said. She may not of wanted to be a witch but she wasn't the type to not be head on in whatever field she entered. Seeming as magic had been brought her way she had better come to terms and get a grip.

Phoebe had to admit that was a good plan. Now came the harder part of it saving Chris. For one she didn't know if these warlocks were the same as Jeremy and then there was two of them. In the book of shadows there was a section on warlocks and it had an introduction page. There was a bit on vanquishing methods. Spells, Potions, Athame's or a Power depending on what it was. There was a listed weakness. A potion that would blind them with light. Phoebe would of made it but Potions would haft to wait. She knew nothing of potions yet and probably didn't have the ingredients.

So the question was how would they defeat the warlocks.

"Hey I gave you step 1, you show me step 2." Prue said grabbing Phoebes attention back.

"Ok we go in and that's all I got." Phoebe said with a frown.

"I guess we improvise on the most important part of the plan then and use the power of 3 to stop them." Prue said while she gritted her teeth.

"No we can't." Phoebe declared thinnking improvisarion wasnt the best bet for their second day of witch craft.

"Ok we go in, Me and Piper distract while you make sure Chris is out of harms way and then Power of 3 vanquish. Capisce?" Prue said looking at Phoebe.

"Ok." She said not really having any better ideas.

"Good in that case lets get some shuteye. We talk to Piper. We go to the hospital. We save Chris. Have dinner with Paige, even though it's a bad idea. We talk more. We reflect and rest and then we bitch and ultimately carry on with the rest our lives even though this whole witch kick will become a pain in the ass. Sort of like you." Prue said nonchalant and yet sarcastic.

"Sounds like a plan." Phoebe said way to chipper for Prue's liking.

The two sisters finished their coffees in silence. Although they had made some sort of peace in the previous hours of the night it would still take time for their relationship to get on track. Prue washed up her cup and stated she was going to bed.

Prue still couldn't believe the events of tonight. One minute she was arguing with Phoebe next she was flinging warlocks with her mind and now she was trying to go after them. She had just spent half an hour in the kitchen making up a battle strategy. She wasn't a soldier she was curator. Now she was trying to fight magical beings with intent on killing innocent people. She couldn't even have time to grasp the fact that she was a witch no she had to get a grip. She didn't want to let a boy die just because she couldn't pull it together. She would help save this kid and then mourn her normal life.

Prue climbed into bed thinking and thinking and just plane thinking. About the last couple of hours about what would happen next. She didn't know but she would be ready somehow. She and her sisters would handle it, even if it took time.

Piper was already in bed but she hadn't gone to sleep. She had heard her sisters come from the attic and go downstairs but they hadn't bothered her. She was glad they hadn't. She didn't hate her sisters. She loved Prue and Phoebe but how could they stand there and say all of this was gonna be ok. Phoebe was so excited about this but it was Prue that was surprising her. Jeremy had just tried to kill them, Phoebe gave them weird powers, they just killed him and Prue was so calm. Why was she calm? Was she ok with this? Was she excited like Phoebe? Somehow she didn't think that was the case. Tomorrow she would talk to her sisters and she would look into a way of getting rid of these powers. They didn't have them before so there must be way to not have them now.

Phoebe had sat in the kitchen staring into her empty coffee mug. Prue had left and Phoebe relayed the half made, anything could go wrong with this and we could die plan. It was a good plan but there were so many flaws and they were new to these powers something could go wrong and this time there were two adversaries. Jeremy was scary enough and the two she had seen in her Premonition looked bad. Phoebe had to admit that the power and spell part of this package was awesome but the warlock part was definitely not however she knew that saving Chris and any other innocents would be worth it.

She couldn't help but feel bad though.

She could remember Prue's words that had hurt her very much and she kept on seeing Piper's distress after vanquishing Jeremy. She had every right to be after all she just vanquished her fiancé. She felt like she had hurt her sisters by releasing their heritage. She probably had but it was their destiny and they would embrace it even if it was hard thing to do.

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The Manor: The Morning

Prue had woken up. Her alarm would go off at 06:45 everyday except the weekends. She Laid there in bed thinking about the events of yesterday. It was only now just really sinking in that she was a witch. That her sisters were witches. That she had a power and magic. That she vanquished Jeremy last night. Her head started to hurt again. She felt like she had been asleep for years and pushed herself up. She noted the slight change she felt. She felt more comfortable and relaxed as if her whole body had been tense before although she had never noticed this until now. The air was slightly different. It was perfectly normal but it was like she could taste the magic in the air. She felt strong but not like lifting up a truck but like as if she had just recovered from an illness. Her senses seemed clearer and she felt great. 'Wow! Is this what it felt like or was it a side effect' She thought to herself. Either way she felt good.

She had only just noted the time. It said 13:58. Wow she couldn't recall a time where she had slept this late. Phoebe had said that it would be dark when this Chris guy would be attacked. She needed to move.

She picked out an outfit and walked out her room and into the bathroom. None her sisters seemed to be up. She got in the shower and really wanted the hot water do it's job and relieve her of her stress but she thought she better rush.

After 10 minutes or so she got out and put her clothes on ,brushed her teeth, did her hair and make up. Which she some how rushed in an extra 5 minutes. When she opened the door Piper was there.

"Morning." Piper said a tad awkward.

"Afternoon. How are you feeling?" Prue asked carefully.

"I've had better days but I'll manage. Afternoon?" Piper said with weak smile before creasing her brow.

"Yeah we slept the whole morning." Prue said.

"Right." Piper said not really caring about this piece of information.

"Listen Piper we need to talk so you need to rush no more then 10 minutes." Prue said serious.

"Why?" Piper said confused.

"Just trust me and hurry, I'm gonna wake up Phoebe." Prue said with a plea in her voice.

Prue hugged her sister and told her she would be fine before walking to Phoebe's room. When she opened the door she saw Phoebe spread out across her bed and snoring. Phoebe only snored when she slept on her stomach. Prue walked over and shook her awake. Phoebe did some karate chop in before realising it was Prue who was waking her up.

"Prue what's going on?" Phoebe groggily while rubbing her eyes.

"We overslept Phoebe. Its almost half past 2." Prue said.

"What?" Phoebe said removing any grogginess she had just had.

"Its 20 past now and will be coming up for half 2. You need to get dressed. Pipers in the bathroom so you use the downstairs one." Prue said.

With that Prue walked out of the room and Phoebe found some clothes to wear and rushed down stairs.

30 minutes later Piper and Phoebe came downstairs clothed and dressed. Piper walked into the kitchen. Prue was sitting there drinking coffee and had just finished a bowl of cereal. She put it in the sink and sat back at the table. Phoebe went to the bread bin and put some toast in the toaster.

"Hey shouldn't you be rushing to work?" Piper asked to Prue while looking at the clock.

"Oh right you don't know. I quit my job." Prue said casually.

"What?" Piper semi yelled.

"Roger was pissing me off and it was a lousy job so I quit but don't worry I will be looking for another job." She said.

Piper just looked at her. Before Prue would be losing her mind but now she was just chilled out about the fact that she had no job. Being a witch was already taking its toll on Prue.

"Why are you staring at me?" Prue asked looking at her.

"Because you've been a witch for 38 hours and 50 minutes and already your changing." Piper said frustrated.

"I haven't changed Piper." Prue declared whilst looking up at her.

"The Prue I know would be raging from France to Australia because she didn't have a job: quitted or not." Piper said while placing a hand on her hip.

"We have bigger problems now but like I said I will work on finding a job and I haven't changed." Prue stated.

"If you say so Prue." Piper said in tone that said clearly I don't believe that.

Prue was about to argue with Piper but chose not to. Now was not the time to be fighting with her sisters. They needed to be on the same page to deal with things. This was a huge change in their lives and they needed to stick together to deal with it. Piper was completely wrong. Prue hadn't changed was she different yeah that was because she now had magic otherwise she was still the same her. Phoebe chose to say nothing. Piper clearly wasn't going to like what was gonna happen next. Phoebe came and sat down at the table. She gave Prue a look and pointed the clock. It was 5 to 3. Time seemed to be moving really quick.

After her little tiff Piper didn't say anything. She put on the tv and made herself coffee and also made some toast. She only spoke when she noticed a cat in the kitchen. After Prue gave an explanation Piper went back to watching the tv. The news channel was still talking about the woman no witch who was killed on Wednesday night. The news anchor named her as Serena Fredrick, she was 26 and lived in a 1 bedroom apartment who worked as a receptionist for some corporate company. Piper found it so sad to know that this woman had died because of Jeremy. She wondered if he had deceived Serena and the others the way he had with her.

Prue wanted to make sure her and sisters ate something before going to try and fight more warlocks. Piper was clearly having a bad reaction to this witch business. Prue was too but she apparently could handle it better. Phoebe had finished her toast and it had just gone 3. They needed to make a move. 'Here goes nothing' she thought to herself.

"Ok Piper now that we've eaten, I'm sorry to say this but we need to use our powers. Phoebe got a vision yesterday in hospital..."

"Wait hospital?" Piper said in a worried voice and looked to Phoebe.

"She fell her off her bike, any who she got a vision and saw these two warlocks attacking this guy. We wanted to talk about this last night but you needed to rest besides I wasn't expecting us all to wake up so late. Look we need to go to the hospital now so we can find out where this guy lives and then go to his house and save him. We need to fight these warlocks and then..." She looked to Phoebe.

"Vanquish them with the Power of 3." Phoebe finished for her.

"Yeah we came up with the plan last night and we sort of need to go now." Prue said a bit urgently.

Piper looked between the both of them and could tell they were being serious. She couldn't believe it. They almost died last night and they wanted to go fight another warlock no two warlocks. They were insane. It wasn't everyday Prue and Phoebe sided together or worked together. Not because they hated each other but more little petty things. Prue always thought she was right and Phoebe always challenged that and growing up. That usually ended up in an argument that Piper would haft to mediate between. Now they were both agreeing with each other and making plans together. At least this witch thing was bringing them together if it meant saving a life.

"Your both insane." Piper stated while crossing her arms.

"Piper if we don't help this boy he is going to die." Phoebe said. You could hear the unspoken plea I her voice. 'Piper please help us or its your fault he dies'

Piper sighed before saying "Well I guess I don't have a choice do I?" She couldnt handle guilt like that.

"Great ok Phoebe grab a pad and pen and in the attic I saw a baseball bat in the corner. Get that and then your coat." Prue said standing up.

Phoebe wanted to ask why but they were wasting time. So she did as she was told and rushed up stairs. Prue then grabbed her car keys and purse and jacket and Piper did the same. Both went out the door and went into Prue's car. Two minutes later Phoebe came outside with the note pad and pen , baseball bat and her jacket and purse. She then jumped into the back seat.

"Why did you want me to get these?" Phoebe asked as Prue turned on the engine.

"So you can write down the address and if the warlocks attacks you." Prue said as if it were obvious.

"Right." Phoebe said while she grimaced. Her only protection was baseball bat? That sucks. She thought to herself.

"And what's a baseball bat gonna do to a warlock?" Piper asked with a note of sarcasm in her voice.

"Well hopefully nothing, as you and me will deal with the warlocks." Prue said and smiled sweetly at sister before adding "But just in case." And with that she drove out of the driveway.

Piper glared at Prue but said nothing. The 20 minute Journey was silent between the 3 sisters. All thinking about the situation. When they got to the hospital it was coming up for Half past 3. Phoebe wasn't sure what time this was gonna happen but the sooner they got to him the better chance they had of saving him.

The sisters got out of the car and walked into the hospital. Phoebe suggested they go to the floor they were on yesterday. They went to the elevator and went to the floor.

"Piper you need to freeze the woman when she types in the guys details. Ok?" Prue said.

"Wait I've only used it twice how do you expect to just do it?" Piper asked.

"Piper you haft to try." Phoebe said.

"Fine I'll try and if it doesn't work?" She said looking at the both of them.

"We'll work on that." Prue said unsure herself.

When the doors opened Prue went to the desk. With Piper and Phoebe behind her. She was happy it was a different woman.

"Hi, our little cousin was admitted in here and we want to see if he's ok." Prue said as genuine as she could."

"Name please." The woman asked.

"Chris Payne." Prue said. Her heart beat seemed to be pumping. It was what happened when you were deceiving someone. You always got nervous about it. Wondering if they were gonna catch you out. No matter what the intention.

"Ah here we go." The woman said.

"Piper Now." Phoebe whispered.

Piper did the clenching gesture and then spread out her hands and nothing happened.

"It didn't work." Piper whispered.

"looks like your cousin was discharged yesterday." The woman said.

"Are you sure?" Phoebe step forward and asked.

"Appears so." The woman said smiling.

Prue heard Phoebe and Piper. Piper didn't do it. How could she make the power work on command or response? She was angry when her power worked. What would Piper had been? She said she did it twice and one of those times was with Jeremy. He attacked her so she must of been scared. Make her scared now or get a jump response. A woman was walking by with a coffee near Piper and Phoebe. Prue squinted her eyes at a pen on the desk and made zoom at the women's feet. She came tumbling at Piper and Phoebe. Piper responded by lifting up her hands and suddenly everything froze.

"Whoa." Phoebe said in amazement.

"Piper you did it." Prue said as if that had nothing to do with her.

"How come we are not frozen?" Phoebe said looking around.

"Maybe it doesn't work on witches or family." Piper said weakly and astounded.

"How long does this last Piper?" Prue said looking around.

"Not long." Piper said.

"Phoebe now." Prue ordered.

Phoebe went round the desk and looked at the screen. She saw the address and wrote it down. She then came back round and went back to her spot however they noticed the women about to trip and her coffee liquid frozen in mid-air. Phoebe took a step back while Piper went behind the women. Just then everything unfroze and Piper grabbed the woman from falling flat on her face. The coffee hit the ground. The woman thanked Piper and turned back around.

"Well thank you. I guess we will be leaving." She said And with that Prue, Piper and Phoebe turned and went back to the elevators. Once they got in they were alone.

"Oh my god you guys. I can't believe we just did that. We're like Charlie's witches or something." Phoebe said in excitement.

Prue and Piper both shook their heads at Phoebe but both amazingly cracked a smile.

They came out of the elevator and out of the hospital. 8 minutes had passed. They got back into the car.

"Where to Phoebe?" Prue asked starting the engine.

"45 Persil lane, 94115, San Francisco." She said reading the piece of paper.

"God help us." Piper cried as Prue drove out of the hospital car park.

They were on their way to save Chris.

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AN: Ok I just wanted to try get genuine reactions. Really see how the sisters feel. Hope you enjoyed.