"Paige duck!" Piper Halliwell shouted. The youngest Charmed One managed to get her body to the ground as a vial was shooting over her head. It hit the demon square in the chest instantly vanquishing him. Things had definitely gotten easier with Paige training with the Charmed Ones more often. Despite the fact that they weren't under one roof still, Prue and Piper were really trying to bond with Paige more on a sister level. Prue walked back over to her younger siblings.
"Not too bad," Prue observed. She was still trying to smother the need to train her powers and have her sisters do the same. She still wanted to go after the Source of all Evil. She and Piper both had the need to avenge the death of their fallen sister. "So…"
"Yeah…" Piper said, smoothing her hair out. "We were supposed to do lunch, I can still cook-," Paige was about to smile and nod enthusiastically her phone went off. She looked down at the caller ID and saw that was her boss.
"Sorry guys, as much as I would like this my boss is calling me back to work," she frowned lightly. "Maybe we can meet up at P3 later?" Paige asked, as she grabbed her purse off of the counter. She could see the disappointment on her sister's faces, but they seemed to understand.
"Yeah…bills got to get paid. That being said, I do have to be at a shoot in thirty minutes," And lucky for Piper she got stuck with the clean up since P3 didn't happen to open up for a while.
"Alright…I guess," Piper said as her sisters scurried out of the door. "I'll just clean up here," As she began to rearrange the furniture, her eyes fell on a picture of her, Prue, and Phoebe. She frowned at this note; she missed her sister. Suddenly a thought came to her; there were plenty of pictures of Phoebe, but none of Paige yet. She decided that tonight, she was going to get a picture of her family. Didn't have to be a professional one, just one maybe of them at P3. She smiled, and continued to clean up the manor.
Prue's photo shoot
Prue was just wrapping up the shoot, and found that she was proud of how it went. Models weren't too out there or too prima donna. She was able to get the shoot done before her time limit and was still paid for the full time. As she piled her things into her car, she heard screaming. Prue slammed her door shut, and ran towards the sound. She saw a teenaged girl being attacked by a couple of female demons. She looked around and didn't see anyone around to expose her powers. She flung her wrist out, and the female demons were thrown backwards.
"Get out of here," Prue said, helping the girl up. "Run…now!" the demoness hissed at her, and let out a wicked punch across her jaw.
"Tina, what's-," he saw Prue get knocked down and he pulled out his gun. "Stop!" Prue kicked out and hit the demon in the gut. She squinted at the further one, and she was slammed into the wall. She went to the closer one, and suddenly found smoke blowing in her face, and as she inhaled she felt sick. What the hell was going on? She coughed, and telekinetically shot out, and made the demon's own claw strike her in the chest, vanquishing it. The other demons disappeared and Henry went to Prue. "Are you alright?" he questioned.
San Francisco Police Department
Andy Trudeau let out a sigh as he looked through some of the old files he had been studying when he was curious about the Halliwells being witches. It turned out that he was right about them being magical. It was just in the wrong way; it was all different now that he was back on Earth, no longer an immortal being. "You doing alright there Andy?" Darryl questioned, snapping the other man out of his stupor.
"Yeah," he said, shaking his head, "Sorry, just a little spacey today," that was the understatement; when he wasn't trying to be a cop once more, his thoughts were on Prue. Suddenly his phone started going off, and he looked down and saw it was Henry Mitchell calling him. "Trudeau," he answered.
"I…uh…I am not sure how to say this but…"
Downtown San Francisco
"You know, it isn't like your charge wasn't safe, those sets off demonesses were dealt with-," Prue started off on the parole officer.
"But did you really have to-," he questioned, remembering the look on the young teenager's face when Prue vanquished one of the demons with their own power.
"Well if Piper was here, she could have been frozen. But that shouldn't matter because she wasn't smoked," she snapped at him.
"And you really shouldn't have been taking on all four of them at once…especially since when one of them-," he was interrupted by her coughing. "That's it, I am calling Andy,"
"Oh no-," but he had started dialing her boyfriend's number. After the short conversation with Andy, she knew she was in trouble. "Look, I am going to go head home. I really need to go develop some photos for a shoot,"
"Do you want-,"
"I am-," Prue coughed and then started once more, "I am fine. You go and make sure that my little memory spell didn't mess with your parolee's head too much," she headed for the car, and felt her own cell phone going off. She saw it was Andy, and she decided to ignore it for the moment and just go home. She had to check up on who the demons were and if need be hunt them down and go vanquish them.
P3
Piper Halliwell-Wyatt had finally done the inventory for the month and she heard someone coming down the stairs. Why is it that people seem to not know that her club was closed? "We are closed!" Piper called out as she headed towards the entrance. "Oh hey Paige," Piper said.
"Its ok that I came over right?" Paige questioned, still not sure on how she stood with her sisters at times.
"Of course it is," Piper said, wiping her hands. "I always have time for my sisters," she said. "What's up?" she questioned.
"I just got a call from Henry…" she sighed.
"Boy trouble?" she questioned, motioning for her to sit.
"Uh…" Paige bit her lip, not sure how to break what her boyfriend had just told her. "Not exactly…Henry called and said that Prue protected one of his parolees…"
"Well we protect innocents Paige…it's a part of being Charmed," Piper input.
"I know…well, he was worried because it was a lot of demons…and one of them 'smoked' Prue," she said. Piper sighed; it was bad enough when Prue was training and jumping on the bandwagon when demons were around, but it was beginning to look like Prue was on the hunt.
"Well…maybe we should go home and check up on our sister," she said, leaning over the bar and grabbing her keys.
"It seems like ever since we came back from Limbo, Prue has been acting different," Paige said as they headed towards Piper's van. Before she could say anymore, Leo orbed into the parking lot.
"Leo!" Piper whispered sharply, "what if-," before she could get out her rant, orbs swirled around them. The next thing they knew, they were in Halliwell manor. Prue was coughing furiously as she was making a potion. "Prue, what's going on?" Piper questioned.
"Well…we are going after," she coughed once more, and grabbed the bottle of water to take a swig of water. "We are going to go after to the Furies,"
"Prue…maybe Leo should heal you-,"
"I don't need any healing I am fine," she promised, coughing once more.
"Prue.."
"And I said I am fine. You guys need to stop worrying I am fine," she grabbed her vanquishing potions, and started for the car. Prue felt a vengeance within herself. She shrugged her sisters off. She felt the need to hunt down anyone evil.
"Uh…Leo?" Piper murmured, "go get Andy…now," While her other sister was conversing with her husband, Paige looked down quickly at the Furies. She was about to read what would happen if this particular demon smoked a witch but her arm was grabbed and was dragging them towards their sister. Prue looked irritated, and leaned on the horn.
"I scried for evil, and now we are going to it," she explained, and Piper frowned. It wasn't like Prue to start doing this again, especially with this look in her eyes.
"Prue…we usually wait for them to come to us. Why are we going after it?" Piper questioned not sure if she was going to like the answer.
"The Source needs to know that we aren't going to take any more from him," Prue said simply, and gunned it for the destination of the spreading of evil.
"Uh…Prue…maybe you should slow down a little bit?" Paige questioned, as Prue sped over a speed bump.
"We are almost there…" Prue growled, slamming on the breaks. They stopped in front of an alley, and Prue got out of the car. There standing in front of them were the same type of demons the eldest Charmed One fought earlier. They were after what looked like a mugger. Piper threw out her hands and froze the scene in front of them.
"Ok what are we going to do about them?" she questioned, but found that Prue was running towards their 'innocent,' and began to choke him. "Oh god, what the hell are you-,"
"He is evil Piper," Prue grunted, tightening her grip on his throat. Piper couldn't freeze the scene once more, but found that she didn't have to. Paige grabbed Prue's wrist, and wrenched her grip off of him.
"Run, now!" Paige shouted, and then turned to her sister. What replaced Prue's hands were now claws much like the Furies. Her blue eyes narrowed at the youngest Charmed One. She struck and Paige ducked. "Prue…come on…"
"You stopped me from fighting evil," she glowered at her, but then stopped. She waved her hands at the two frozen Furies and they were instantly unfrozen. The Furies seemed to know the spell they had wove working.
"Uh…Piper…" Paige and the Furies tried to attack her. Orbs swirled around her, and she appeared next to the Middle Halliwell. Piper readied herself, and threw her hands out making an explosion appear behind the all the Furies.
"We got to regroup and come up with a plan," Piper yelled as she dragged Paige out of the alleyway.
"Plan?" Paige grunted as she stumbled mid stride. "Our sister is a Fury!"
"I think one of us going to have to shadow Prue and make sure to doesn't kill an innocent and solidify the magic. She is still a witch until she makes her first kill as a Fury,"
"That sounds hard,"
"Well…locking Prue up with handcuffs isn't going to help. When I was turned into a Wendigo, I was able to break out with brute strength. Prue could just smoke out,"
"Well…maybe you should trail Prue," Paige murmured.
"I can only do so much Paige," she said, "and I can't just say a little spell fast to transport me to her fast enough. What about you orbing? You got the whole kung fu thing down…"
"I don't know if I can do this…" Paige whispered.
"Look, I can't blow up our sister," Piper sighed. "Ok….I am going to go home. If worse comes to worse call Leo and he can orb you around. Paige I have faith in you," Paige sighed, and turned around to face her sister. Piper did turn around and throw another freeze whammy on the Furies. She was shocked to see that Prue was among the frozen. "Leo!" Piper shouted. As soon as her husband appeared, how were they going to save Prue?
I am so sorry that I haven't updated in forever, but I really hope you enjoyed this chapter
