Author Note – So I've been biding my time to work something into the story and I finally got the chance. I know - I'm rambling but you'll understand when you read.

Salem – 1692

Melinda paced up and down the small room she had been placed. She should have followed her instincts. At least she had not turned from her gifts. Now she understood why she had seen herself preparing the potion that was now hidden inside her locket.

Melinda turned toward the door when she heard footsteps approaching.

A few moments later the door was unlocked and Matthew walked in. Melinda accepted the path that lay before and played her part.

'Matthew?'

'Hello Melinda.'

'Why? Why did you betray me?'

Matthew laughed at her. 'You got what you deserve.'

'So you never loved me? All the passion? All the heat?' It made Melinda's stomach turn to think that she had lain with him, but she kept her voice sounding betrayed.

'I had to make you trust me. It was the only way to gain your powers.'

'And so now you have them. So why did you turn me in? You know I'll burn.' Melinda felt her voice rise on the last part and struggled to keep focused instead of thinking of her future.

'Had to keep my secret.' Matthew said with a condescending smile.

'Well you can keep your trinkets too.' Melinda took the chance to put her plan in motion and threw the locket at him. Keeping her face a mask of betrayal and anger.

'I'll find another witch to give it to.'

Melinda smiled as Matthew opened the locket. 'Maybe not.'

As Matthew removed the potion packet from the locket it burst into flame.

'What magic is this?' Matthew glares at her as he drops the potion and the locket to the ground.

'I'm taking back the powers you stole from me.' As a whirlwind formed around Matthew, Melinda began reciting the spell.

Outside of Time

Outside of Gain

Know only Sorrow

Know only Pain

Matthew screamed and yelled as he was pulled inside the locket. Bound there in torment.

Melinda sighed in relief and moved to the window. The window overlooked the forest and gave Melinda something peaceful to look at in her last moments. She only hoped that someone would care for Prudence when she could not.

Buckland's

Prue checked for messages from her assistant who told her Rex was in her office.

Walking round the corner Prue wondered what he had for her today.

'Rex,' said Prue as she walked into her office.

'Good morning Prue. I've left a few things for you to catalogue. A marvellous shipment from an estate back east.'

Prue shrugged off her jacket and nodded at Rex. 'I'll get right on it.'

'Thanks.'

After Rex had left Prue looked at the locket he had been straightening. It was a lovely piece.

Prue picked it up to look at it closer and opened it. As she did the door to her office closed and a whirlwind began to form.

A man took form as the whirlwind died away. 'Freedom.' The man looked around the office curiously. 'The world has changed.' The man turned to her. 'What time is this?'

Time? What was he talking about? 'Excuse me?'

'Where am I?'

'Who are you?' Prue knew some kind of magic was going, and she also knew she had to try to keep control of the situation.

'Matthew Tate. And if you freed me from that locket, you are a descendent of Melinda Warren.'

Prue felt her heart speed as he said that. When he reached for her Prue used her telekinesis to send him flying back against the door.

Matthew looked at her as he lay there. 'Thank you.'

'For what?' Prue did not like the way things were going. It was not good that he knew who Melinda Warren was.

Matthew got up and slowly started towards her again. 'I tricked you into using your power on me. Now I have it.

To Prue's horror Matthew used telekinesis to make her chair pin her to the wall. He then disappeared. Hoping he had just left Prue started to run for the door.

'Behind you witch.'

Prue spun around to find Matthew behind her. 'How did you do that?'

'I can share your powers, but you can't share mine.'

Prue backed up a couple of steps as he reached her. 'What do you want?'

'I want what Melinda took from me. I want all three powers back.'

Suddenly Matthew grabbed Prue and pulled her against him, twisting her arm painfully as he did so. 'Defend yourself. Stop time.'

Prue closed her eyes as she answered Matthew. 'I can't.'

'So…you're not alone. There are others.'

Prue closed her eyes again in shame as she thought or her sisters. And Paige who was fast becoming just another sister. Prue gasped slightly as she was suddenly released and feeling returned to her arm.

Matthew reappeared in front of her and picked up the name plate from her desk. 'And the family name is now Halliwell.'

'Prue? Are you okay in there?' Prue looked briefly at the door when Rex called through it. When she turned back towards Matthew he was looking at the window. Suddenly the window shattered and Prue guessed he had used telekinesis on it. What Matthew did next made Prue gape as she held her aching shoulder.

He jumped. Out the window. Prue ran to the window and looked down to see Matthew land safely twelve floors below, amid people easting snacks and drinking coffee. So much for magic being hidden.

Prue turned back towards her desk just as Rex and Hannah burst in with a few others right behind them.

Rex looked between the window and Prue in shock. 'Prue what happened? Prue?'

Prue ignored her boss and grabbed her bag and jacket. Pushing past the crowd Prue left her office at a run, and started dialling on her cell phone as she burst into the stairwell.

What had she done?

The Manor

Phoebe sat at the breakfast table reading a paper, or trying to. Piper was currently talking a mile a minute to Leo which Phoebe found hilarious.

'So I suggested we add crab satay to the lunch menu, and it was great. Sold out. Do you like crab Leo?'

Phoebe rolled her eyes at Piper's attempt to find out more about Leo.

'You know what I'd love Piper?'

'What's that?'

'The ratchet extension. Could you hand that to me?'

'Sure.'

Phoebe looked up and saw Piper trying to figure out what to hand Leo. Putting her paper down Phoebe went over and held up the right bit for Piper.

'I know that.' Piper whispered to her. 'Here you go.' She said normally to Leo before grabbing Phoebe's arm and pulling her up.

Phoebe made kissy gestures in Leo's direction while he couldn't see, just to see what Piper would do.

'Be right back Leo.' Piper pushed her towards the dining room and Phoebe willingly went.

When she turned back around Piper was frowning at her. 'Will you stop it.'

'My sentiments exactly.' Phoebe had decided after everything with the truth spell to just bow out of the 'Leo competition' gracefully. 'Stop hinting around and ask him out already. Give him your crab.'

Piper rolled her eyes at Phoebe's innuendo. 'Don't be disgusting.'

'Don't be so shy!' Phoebe couldn't believe how Piper hadn't just asked him out already.

'What if he says no?'

Phoebe scoffed mentally. 'Yeah, like that'll happen.'

Just then Paige came up to them making both of them jump a little since they hadn't heard her come in.

'What'll happen?'

Phoebe jumped at the chance to have someone to help give Piper a push. 'Piper seems to think that Leo will say no if she asks him out.

Unlike Phoebe, Paige didn't scoff mentally. 'Pfft! Piper why would he do that? You're hot.'

'I'm serious I've never…you know…' Piper shifted uneasily in front of them.

Phoebe realised what she meant and gave a little laugh. 'Wait, you're kidding right?'

'No.'

Paige giggled beside Phoebe. 'Never?'

'I'm just not, know confident like that.'

Phoebe put her hands on her hips. 'Am I the only one is this family who inherited the take-a-chance gene?'

'Probably, if I remember biology correctly, it's attached to the can't-mind-my-own-business gene'

'You are so deflecting right now.' Paige spun Piper around and all but shoved her into the kitchen. 'Now go.'

Phoebe hovered at the door for a few seconds with Paige, but when they heard Piper ask Leo if he wanted tea , they both sighed and went into the kitchen.

Paige sat at the table but Phoebe went to stand near Piper. 'Tea huh?'

'Ssh!'

Phoebe hopped up onto the counter not noticing how close Piper had put the jug of tea and knocked it down.

Piper gasped and froze the room before the jug could tip its contents all over Leo.

'Leo?' Piper said hesitantly.

'Frozen.' Phoebe said and then decided to have some fun. 'Quick, have your way with him.'

Piper sighed as she grabbed a bucket and stood with a leg on either side of Leo's legs. 'Don't you ever stop?'

'Looks like a Kodak moment to me.' Phoebe pretended to snaps pictures.

Paige giggled from the table. 'Call Hallmark, that's a Valentine card picture if ever I saw one.'

'You two are no help.'

Phoebe kept taking pretend pictures as the room unfroze. The clattered into the bucket but thankfully Leo started banging on the pipes at the same moment.

Prue stormed in just then.

'You guys, we are in serious trouble!'

Phoebe quickly gestured down at Leo.

'Oh, er hi Leo.'

'Hi Prue.'

'Okay sisters upstairs, now.'

Prue stormed out of the kitchen and Phoebe made to follow her until she saw Paige's face.

'Paige she meant you too.'

Piper stopped as well. 'Yeah Paige, you're our sister too.' Piper grabbed Paige's arm and pulled her along with them.

'Really?' Paige seemed unsure about their assessment.

So Phoebe yelled ahead to Prue. 'Hey Prue! Paige is our sister too isn't she?'

'Of course she is.' They heard her yell back.

Phoebe turned and grinned at Paige. 'See? You're family now. Although that means I will now borrow your stuff without asking.'

Attic

Prue walked across the attic to the Book only to stop short when she saw the cover. 'Guys did you cast any spells?'

As the other three came into the attic they all shook their heads.

Prue frowned and looked down at the Book again. 'Well something has changed the Book.' Prue spun the stand around so the others could see the cover making them all gasp.

The cover was pretty much the same accept around the original triquetra there was an extra circle. The circle surrounded the triquetra touching the points of it.

Phoebe looked at Prue. 'What do you think did this?'

Prue shook her head. 'I don't know, but from what we've read I don't think evil could affect the Book like this, so…'

'Paige!' Piper said suddenly.

'Me! I didn't do anything!' Paige said in alarm.

Piper waved her hands slightly. 'No that's not what I meant. Look.' Piper began tapping parts of the cover design as she spoke. 'The triquetra is us right? The Power of Three, one point for each of us. The small circle through the points is our connection. The big circle is Paige.' Piper looked up at them and seemed to realise they weren't following her. 'We said it ourselves, Paige is family, our sister. The Book is part of us so it changed itself to match what we felt.'

Prue looked back at the Book and realised that Piper was right. They had seen the Book move and the pages definitely changed around a bit. 'You're right.' Prue heard sniffing and looked up to find Paige crying a little.

Piper hugged her friend – her sister. 'Oh quit crying, you knew how we felt.'

Paige wiped her eyes. 'I know, but – but this it's like…I don't know. Like people who win the lottery but don't believe it until they see the money in their account.'

Prue saw Phoebe roll her eyes. 'You saying that having us as your sisters is like winning the lottery? That's neat!' Paige gave a wavering laugh.

Prue cleared her throat to get their attention. 'Okay well, back to the emergency…'

'Is this the same emergency you got me to come home from work for?' Paige said wiping her eyes with a tissue that Piper had handed her.

'Yes. I was attacked at the office today.'

'Oh my god Prue why didn't you say so?' Piper yelled at her.

'Well I was until we got distracted. Anyway the guy was a warlock, he came out of this locket when I opened it. Somehow he knows that we're related to Melinda Warren.' Prue held the locket for them to see.

'Wait, Book of Shadows Melinda? Our ancestor? Phoebe looked back at the Book as she said this.

'The one who got burned at the stake, and started this whole mess.' Piper said folding her arms and sitting on an old sofa.

'Well however he knows, he has strong powers. Stronger than mine, I mean he did the weirdest thing…' Prue ran through the confrontation in her mind again. '…One minute he was behind me, the next he was in front of me…and then he jumped out the window, landing twelve stories down. Not a scratch.'

'If it walks like a warlock and talks like a warlock…' Phoebe said sarcastically sitting next to Piper.

'He wasn't bothered about exposure?' Paige perched on the arm of the sofa and frowned at Prue.

Prue shook her head. 'No. Which means – '

'Not only do we have to worry about him killing us, we have worry about him exposing us. Great.'

Prue smiled at how similarly Paige's mind was to hers. They both seemed to view things in a very tactical way.

'Can I see the locket?' Phoebe held her hand out and Prue hand it to her.

'We have to figure who he is before he finds you three.'

Phoebe suddenly gasped and got her 'vision face'. When she came out of it Prue looked at her expectantly.

'You said Matthew came out of the locket?' Prue nodded. 'I think I just saw Melinda put him in.'

'You saw the past?' Prue said looking at Phoebe's surprised face.

Phoebe just nodded mutely.

'But you only see the future.' Piper looked at Phoebe.

'Not anymore.' Phoebe looked down at the locket stunned.

'Well we always knew our powers would grow.' Prue said trying to reassure Phoebe.

'Yes, but somehow I thought I was gonna get to fly.' Phoebe's shoulders dropped in disappointment.

'Uh uh. I'm going to fly.' Paige leaned past Piper to bop Phoebe on the arm.

'Says who?' Phoebe stuck her tongue out at Paige.

'Says me!'

'Oh yeah? Wanna bet?' Phoebe turned towards Paige in challenge mode. Piper wisely chose to get out of the way and stood next to Prue who just kept smiling.

'You're on! First one who flies gets their housework done by the other for a month.' Paige held her hand out for Phoebe to shake.

Phoebe shook Paige's hand with a smile. 'You're so going to be my maid.'

Prue looked at Piper and rolled her eyes. Phoebe and Paige definitely had the sibling rivalry down.

Later

Paige flipped through one of the old albums that they had pulled out, looking for the woman that Phoebe described.

Paige had a more recent one but was looking through it anyway. From the names in the pictures Paige figured this was mostly from when the sisters' Mom was little. Paige stopped on a Paige that had a picture of their grandfather and a woman on. The woman looked a lot like her. Before Paige could mention it Phoebe found what they needed.

'I was right. It was Melinda in my vision.' Phoebe turned around the really old portrait holder that she had so they could all see. 'Isn't she beautiful?'

Prue smiled at the picture. 'She kinda looks like Mom.'

'Listen to this.' Piper started reading aloud from the Book. 'And because the warlock had stolen her love, she cursed him into the pewter heart where he could spend eternity knowing the sting of betrayal.'

'That must be what I saw.' Phoebe said as she closed the portrait book.

'And I let him out early, great.'

Paige rolled her eyes. 'Never mind that Prue. Your family is kick ass.' Paige shifted closer to Piper and continued reading the entry. 'The legend says 'he must never be freed or he will destroy the Warren line.' Huh, I guess that's you guys.' Paige grinned at the Halliwells.

Phoebe laughed 'Don't forget Paige, you're family now too.'

'Mleh, I think I'll get emancipated if you don't mind.' Paige tossed that out sarcastically but felt a sort of glow inside as Phoebe claimed her as family.

'Getting back on topic you two.' Prue nudged Phoebe's leg. 'We need a plan, we've never faced someone like Matthew before.'

Piper flipped the Book closed and hugged it to her chest. 'Well I vote for the plan that includes running, and hiding.'

'No, we have to find out exactly what we're up against.' Prue stood up. 'And we start with how the locket wound up on my desk.'

'I'll stay up here guys.' Paige said as she took the Book from Piper. 'I'll keep looking through this. See if there's any other entries on Melinda or Matthew, or maybe even curses.'

Prue nodded at her. 'Okay, yell if you find anything.'

Paige opened the Book again and began flipping through it as the others left. Stopping to read bits here and there Paige didn't find many useful entries. So far the only pages on curses where ones that told you how to break curses, and they'd already done that.

'Silly Book. We want to cast a curse not break it.' Suddenly the Book slammed shut on her fingers. 'Ow! Hey! I was kidding, you're not a silly Book.' Paige hesitantly opened the Book and when it didn't slam shut again she sighed in relief. 'I really do fit in with this family, I'm sat here talking to a Book. A magic book, but still.'

Paige got back to the original entry on Melinda and Matthew and skimmed over it but didn't see anything new.

'This is stupid, we have no idea what to do. We've only been at this a few months.' Paige shut the Book in defeat. 'Really makes me wish the girls' Grams was alive, she probably would've known what to do.'

Paige went to put the Book down but it suddenly opened making her jump. The pages fluttered before settling on a spell. 'Blood to blood?' Paige scanned the page. 'But I was kidding about Grams – oh!' The Book turned back a few pages and settled on the Melinda entry. 'Ooh…well that makes more sense.'

Paige grabbed the Book and left the attic, flipping back to the Blood to Blood spell. As she reached the bottom hall she heard the others talking.

'Someone like Melinda Warren.'

'Okay so what are we supposed to do?' Prue said giving Paige the perfect opening.

Paige stepped into the front room and declared her plan dramatically. 'Raise the dead!'

The look that the sis – her sisters gave her made Paige giggle. 'Just kidding, well sorta.'

Wait what spell did you find?' Phoebe got up and came over to her. 'Hey! I was just about to suggest that.' Phoebe jabbed her side.

'Ow. I guess great minds think alike.' Paige smirked at Phoebe but then fessed up. 'Actually the Book showed me the spell.'

Piper smiled at her. 'Did it do that creepy flipping-by-itself thing?'

'Yep.' Paige bopped her head up and down. 'After it was done punishing me though.'

'After it what?' Prue gave her a confused look.

'Well I kinda called it a silly book, and it slammed shut on my fingers.' There was a slight pause and the others burst out laughing. 'It's not funny!' Paige stomped her foot at them which only seemed to make them laugh harder. 'Quit it! You wouldn't be laughing if it had zapped me or something. It scared the hell out of me.'

The older girls just kept laughing. 'Fine, when you three decide to actually be the big sisters I will be upstairs.' Paige spun around and left the way she came.

Attic

Piper shifted anxiously, looking over the various items that Paige and Phoebe had set up on a low table. The same table they had used when they tried to get rid of Jeremy. 'Am I the only one having second thoughts?'

Phoebe and Paige both say yes, but Prue had a more tactical response though.

'We don't really have a lot of options?'

'But aren't we like…raising the dead?' Piper shuddered as she thought of the horror films Phoebe had made her watch over the years. 'What if she's all…' Piper let the sentence go unable to finish it.

Phoebe shook her head. 'We read the Book of Shadows very carefully.'

'Three times. She'll be a living, breathing person, and she'll have her powers.'

'Yes, our powers.' To Piper's horror Phoebe lifted a small dagger from the table.

'Wait. What's that for?'

'Well the spell works by blood calling blood. Anyway it shouldn't hurt much…' Phoebe pricked the tip of her finger. 'I lied! I lied! It does hurt.' Phoebe handed the dagger to Prue.

'Ow, hmm.' Prue looked at her own pricked finger. 'It's not even as bad as getting blood drawn.'

Prue held the knife out to Paige. 'But I'm not blood…'

Piper saw Prue roll her eyes. 'Paige look at the Book. We made you family, family isn't just blood. Now take the knife.'

'Ew no. You do it for me.' Paige screwed her face up and looked away as she held out her finer to Prue.

Prue quickly jabbed Paige making yelp before handed it over to Phoebe. Phoebe in turn held it out to Piper.

'No way. Remember summer camp? We did that stupid blood oath? My finger got infected.' There was no way in hell she was going to jab that knife into her finger.

'But how will you cut yourself if you don't take the knife?' Prue gave her an astonished look.

'I'm not, I can't stand the sight of blood.' Piper remember the time one of the chefs had sliced his palm open. She'd almost thrown up.

'Evil beings have blown up in our attic,' said Prue in a mock whisper.

'Disintegrated to dust before our very eyes,' continued Phoebe.

'And you're scared of a little drop of blood?' Paige finished on a giggle.

Ugh they obviously weren't going to let her off. 'Okay just cut my finger.' Piper covered her eyes and held her finger out to Phoebe. Why was she taking – 'Ow!' Piper yanked her finger back and looked at it, but there was only a tiny little dot.

Prue held out the locket and the four of them squeezed a few drops of blood inside it. Prue then closed it and dropped it into the spell pot. Then together the four of them started to recite the spell.

Melinda Warren

Blood of our Blood

Our great-great-great-great-

Great-great-Grandmother

We summon thee

Smoke gathered and spilled from the pot as the said the spell, and a gentle breeze whispered around them. As they finished white, swirling lights appeared a few feet away.

Piper watched with the others as a woman with blond hair, wearing period clothing appeared.

The woman smiled warmly at them. 'Blessed be.'

Author Note – Hope you don't think I over did the Paige/Book scene. Remember to review as well guys!