"Oh God. Pruuuueeee! Maa..Maaake it st..stooop" Phoebe looked up at her sister as she cried out in pain.
"Ok sweetie I got you. But I have to get it out." Prue explained not wanting the bullet to go in any further.
"Prue it's moving!" Piper held Phoebes hand in hers as Prue looked into Phoebes eyes
Prue didn't even have to think of what she needed to do.
"Phoebs this is going to hurt." Prue reached down and dug her fingers into her sister trying to grabbed around the base of the bullet.
"AAAUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!" Phoebe tried to pull away.
"Phoebe stay still." Prue reached in again this time succeeding and pulling out the bullet as her sister screamed out.
Piper wanted nothing more then to be able to freeze her sister at that moment. But she knew her power didn't work on them. So she did what she could as she held on to Phoebes hand and brushed her other hand over the top of her head. Trying anything to calm her down as Prue pulled it out.
Prue tossed the bullet across the room as she quickly grabbed something that would stop the bleeding. Grabbing the jacket off the back of the chair, she held it over the wound hoping to stop the blood from coming out any more. "I'm sorry sweetie I had to. It was the only way to get it out." Prue said as she rested her head on top or Phoebes forehead.
She saw the glint in her sisters eyes, between the tears, letting her know she understood.
"Ok Phoebs. We got to get out of here." Prue ran her hand over Phoebes forehead, as she and Piper eased her up to her feet.
"Aauugh! No." Phoebe bent over in pain as she just wanted back down.
"Come on honey. We got you." Prue wrapped her arm around her sister, though as not to press to hard on the wound as she held the jacket on the bleeding hole now in her baby sister.
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She heard the cry through the house and knew where it was coming from. She watched now as the sisters approached her at the stairs.
"Take her in there" she motioned towards the open doorway, "I'll have someone come and see to her that won't ask any questions. And I will take care of my grandson. You do not need to worry about him."
Prue held the gaze of the woman before her. Somewhere she saw something that she recognized. But she also saw a trust in her.
She started towards the room, guiding Piper with Phoebe. She had seen the woman come in behind them and close the door.
Going into the bathroom she came back with a small basin of water and several cloths.
"Stay here. I'll be right back."
Prue watched her leave, "Wait. Why are you doing this?" she asked not really sure what was going on. But knowing somehow they were connected.
"I think you know Prue." She answered as she closed the door behind her.
Prue held her eyes on the closed door before the sound of Phoebes short breaths brought her attention back to her baby sister.
"Ok. Honey. She's gonna get some help." Prue held Phoebes hand in her, feeling the tight squeeze she gave as the pain intensified.
"I.It h.hhurts." Phoebe stuttered out
"I know baby. But someone will come soon. I promise." She ran her hand over Phoebes head holding her sister's eyes in hers. Taking one of the cloths she dipped it on the water and placed it on Phoebes forehead while with the other she press gently on her wound.
Piper looked at her sister's seeing the love for each other.
"Phoebe it's going to be ok." Piper looked at Prue and down at Phoebes wound. The bleeding not stopping.
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He went to swing at the man before him. But he easily ducked out of the way.
"Don't make this any harder Grandfather."
"You betrayed my family." He lunged for him tackling them both to the ground.
They both rolled back and forth trying to get the upper hand. When finally Tony Jr. sat on his grandfathers back pulling his one arm and then the next snapping on the cuffs.
"You are the one that betrayed the family grandpa. You made a deal with Carl, and then sent Mr. Romano to prison. And what do you want to bet me that the slug they pull out of him matches your gun."
"You don't understand." He glared as his namesake pulled him from the ground.
"No I don't. You threw away your career for what? To deal with the mob. To kill innocent people. To kill your own family. I don't understand any of that."
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"Let me past grandma."
"No. They have nothing to do with this. I wanted out of this life and you bring it back to me."
"It is yours rightfully!"
"Do not raise your voice to me Michael Andrew. We have been out of the family since your father was born. You decided to somehow get involved into a story that had nothing to do with you. It is over. It always was. What was wronged all those years is now right. What you need to do now is get Dr. Morrison over here and help that girl." She held her gaze to her grandson.
"They can send me to prison!"
"And so can I. They did not betray you Michael. I did. I took the package from their car and I gave it to a friend. He needed it to set things as they needed to be set."
He looked at his grandmother shocked at what she just said. "You?"
"She is right son."
He spun around and met his fathers gaze.
"I got tied back into the family. But this now has nothing to do with you, those three sisters, or me. They are as special as your own daughter. Let it go."
Michael looked at his father and could see the man behind him. He knew who it was and respected him for even coming into his home.
He looked over to his servant and just nodded his head.
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"Lots of bed rest for the next few days. Other then that she should be ok." He closed his bag and handed Prue the prescription. "She'll need that for the pain when she wakes up."
Piper sat beside the bed holding Phoebes hand as Prue dealt with the doctor. He had sedated her baby sister and stitched where the bullet had entered her. He asked no questions as she had said, and just did what he was called for and then left.
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He sat in the large chair across from the younger man.
"So. We are what? Cousin?" he asked
"From what I hear. My grandmother can't wait to meet you. Her brother was all I ever remember her talking about."
"And my grandfather her." Michael looked over at Tony, "So what about us?"
"Your Grandmother gave me the package to end this and its over. So what about us? I would say we had some catching up to do." Tony Jr. said with a smile as he held his cousin's eyes into his. Each one smiling at the other. Knowing that they would start a new life for their own family.
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Prue leaned against the doorframe and watched her sisters. When she saw Phoebe get hit from that bullet her whole world started to spin out of control.
She turned slightly when she felt the hand on her shoulder, "She's going to be ok Prue." Nancy said comforting the oldest Halliwell.
"I know."
"But you are still worried about her. You three can stay here as long as you wish. After all we are family."
Prue heard what she said but wasn't sure what she meant.
"Your great grandmother and my mother were sisters." She explained and then just smiled at her. "Each one passing down the magic of the Warren line. All waiting for the three of you."
Prue didn't know what to say as she looked over at Piper who had also heard what Nancy had said.
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The two of them sat with Phoebe till she woke up a few hours later.
"Hey you. How you feeling?"
Phoebe fought back the weariness in her eyes and looked at Piper, "Like I got shot. The bullet stopped and then it somehow kept moving slowly, pushing itself inside me. And it hurt like hell."
"See that's what I don't understand. It should have stopped. What happen?" Piper questioned her own magic.
"Well it could be because you can only freeze what is in the room. So technically it wasn't" Prue reasoned
"Well part of it was." Piper replied.
"Yeah but part of it was in Phoebe. So maybe that is why it kept going. Lucky for us it was moving slowly or I wouldn't have been able to dig it out."
Phoebe rested her head on Pipers lap as Prue explained to her what had happened.
"Ok this whole thing is starting to give me a headache." Phoebe closed her eyes as she felt Pipers fingers running up and down her back. And it wasn't long before her big sister had her fast to sleep.
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Phoebe pushed herself up against the headboard looking at her sisters who was reading a book. She pulled back the covers carefully and started her one leg over the side.
"Where do you think you are going?" Prue asked without even looking up from the pages.
"Out of bed for starters."
"No. In case you forgot you were shot a few days ago."
"Only kinda." She pouted.
"Enough to leave a hole in your side sister. So you are staying put." Prue said as she squished up her nose at her baby sister.
"I just want to go outside." Phoebe pouted but it was a battle she knew she would not win.
"No. The Dr. said bed rest and that is what you are getting."
Phoebe curled back down to the large bed and looked over at her big sister.
"Prue?"
Prue looked up from her book, "Yes sweetie?"
"So am I to understand that my cousin tried to kill me?"
Prue looked at her sister's big brown eyes.
"I didn't know Phoebe." Michael said from the doorway, "Forgive me?"
Phoebe looked up at him not really sure what she felt. But she saw his face and knew he didn't mean anything truly by it.
"Yeah. But only if I can have a hug by that little sweetie behind you." Phoebe spotted the small child hiding behind Michael's legs.
"Rose. Go give your cousin a hug." He whispered as he nudged her forward.
It wasn't to long before the child was resting against Phoebe with her arms around her neck. It was like that that Piper had found the two of them a few hours later.
She looked over at Prue who was engrossed in her novel.
"You know. The next time you start reading a book. Phoebe and I have to approve it."
Prue looked up and smiled at her sister. "I'll remember that."
Piper sat in the other chair in the room, "Well Tony has been charged with the murder of Mr. Romano to be added to several other crimes. Including murder, attempted murder, kidnapping. You name it he has probably done it."
"And in the end the once myth of the city is solved. I'm glad that Carl's grandson could at least get to know his grandmother." Prue said having found a special place in her heart for Sadie.
"And that we found some of our own family and Phoebe lived to tell about it." Piper added as she looked over at Phoebe sleeping with a four-yr. old Rose.
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He closed his eyes. Seeing what had happened.
"They are still alive aren't they?"
"Hannah be quiet." he concentrated again. "They are family?"
"What?"
Rex opened his eyes and looked at his demon lover. "It appears the Halliwells have some very powerful friends and family. But next time they wont be so lucky."
"Rex I thought you said they would be taken care of there?"
"I called in a debt and was told it would be taken care of. But I guess the debt is still owed."
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Later that night Nancy, Michael and Tony Jr. knocked softly on the door to the room the sisters shared.
Opening the door quietly after no answer, Nancy peaked in. Seeing the three of them cuddled together with Rose in the middle she could only smile.
"The Charmed Ones. Now and always protecting the innocent." She whispered quietly as she closed the door letting them just be together. Being sisters and cousins all in one.
The End
Well there you have it I hope thiose that read it enjoyed it. I actually had some fun writting hit as I mentioned at the begining. a little bit of Mystery/Gangsters. and of course the sisters. Thanx again to those that read and replied. Di
