The next morning Prue was the first one awake as usual, Penny came into the room and hopped on the bed.
"What are you doing Prue?" She asked in the sweetest way possible.
"Watching TV, why are you so cute?" Prue asked her.
Penny shrugged, "Phoebe said I'm not," she answered as Prue took her into her arms.
"Oh, but you are!" Prue smothered her in kisses, causing the child to giggle uncontrollably.
"Ok, Ok!" Piper said coming into the room and sitting on Prue's bed as well.
"What the agenda?" she asked.
"Whale watching this afternoon and going over to the islands for a tour and dinner, that's it for today, but Piper, guess who's here?" Prue said excitedly.
Piper sat back against the headboard and waited for Prue to tell her.
"Andy, Leo, Cole, and Glen," Prue replied. Piper's brown eyes got wide. "What?!" she asked.
"Yeah, I ran into Andy when I was bringing Buffy back here last night," Prue responded.
"I can't believe it, we haven't seen them in what, 3 years?" Piper asked.
Prue nodded, "They want to have dinner," she said.
"Who wants to have dinner?" Phoebe asked as she and Paige entered the room.
"The Trudeau's are here!" Prue said.
"Oh my gosh, Cole's here!" Phoebe screeched.
"Oh, that's right, you saw Cole at camp, that's funny, but yes, they are here because their dad is on a business trip," Prue replied covering her ears to drown out Phoebe's screech.
"Well are we gonna spend time with them" Phoebe asked.
Prue nodded, "I'm sure we will, but today were going whale watching," she said enthusiastically.
"But that's not til later, so we're just gonna lounge here until then," Piper added.
The girls sat silently, all lost in their own thoughts.
"I miss daddy," Penny spoke up.
"Me too!" Paige added in agreement.
"I wonder what he's doing right now," Phoebe added.
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Victor sat in his hotel room on business in San Diego California when his secretary called him.
"Victor, we have a girl on the phone saying she's your daughter?" she said over the phone intercom in his office.
Victor laughed, " which one of my girls is it? Prudence, Piper, Phoebe, Paige, or Penny?" He asked.
"No, she said her name is Candace," The secretary replied quite irritated.
Victor froze, "Candace?" he repeated.
"Yes," she answered. "
Send her through," Victor immediately answered picking up the phone to wait.
"Victor Bennett," he said.
"Hi, it's Candace," a quiet voice said.
"Candace, darling, how are you? I haven't heard from your mother in a while, is everything okay?" Victor asked.
"That's just it… everything's not okay, mom died a couple months ago," Candace paused to regain composure.
"Dad, we have no where to go, they tried placing us in foster care, but I'm too old, no one wants us, and they recovered mom's will and she said that you were the one she wanted to take care of us, I know you already have other kids, and don't want anymore but.." Candace drifted as Victor interrupted her.
"Candace, slow down, is there someone I can talk to? Of course I'll do whatever it takes, you're my children just as much as the others," Victors stomach dropped.
"All of my kids are without a mother," he thought.
He didn't even have time to take in the news before Candace gave him the number to their social worker and he had to make the call.
That night Victor sat in his hotel room looking up flights for early the next morning to arrive in Tennessee, with his work schedule there was no way he'd have any other time to get them.
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Victor woke up early the next morning to catch his flight to Tennessee.
"How am I going to tell my girls that I had an affair," he said to himself. "And not just that, how am I going to put witches and mortals together in one family?"
Victors stomach was full of butterflies the entire flight. He arrived in Nashville and rented a car to go.
When he arrived at their foster home, his stomach was hurting, he hadn't seen them in two years.
He walked up the walk way and paused before knocking on the door. When he finally knocked, Candace opened the door. She was beautiful, looked a lot like Piper and Phoebe.
"Hi," she said embracing him."Thank you so much for coming," she cried. She had missed Victor so much.
Victor held her until she finally let go. She looked up at him, " I'm sorry, Lauren and Garland are around her somewhere, they're both sick, but ready to leave," Candace headed for the stairs and a woman came out of the kitchen to talk with Victor.
"Hello Victor, I'm Anne, the girls foster mom, I'm happy you're here," she reached out to shake his hand.
"Nice to meet you too, I just have a few questions, how are the girls doing?" Victor asked.
"They're doing okay, the younger two are a bit under the weather right now. They went to a different foster home this past weekend and picked up something," Anne said.
"Garland is struggling with it the most, she's young, but she adjusts well with the help of her sisters," Anne finished.
Candace came downstairs with the younger two in tow. Lauren went strait for her dad and hugged him, while Garland stood holding Candace's hand.
"Let's sit," Anne said leading Victor and the girls to the couches.
"Girls, do you have all of your stuff ready?" Anne asked.
Candace nodded, "Only the stuff we're taking on the plane," She answered.
"Okay, now listen, Victor is going to be taking you, we want this to work so you can have a permanent family okay?" Anne had explained it once but wanted Victor to hear it.
"Victor, I put this binder together of things they like and dislike that I've learned so far this month, Candace helped me out," Anne said.
"But alright, let's get your things," Everyone got up and went to get everything. Candace just smiled, "Things may finally get better," she thought.