Chapter 35: The warning

"It's not only yours, Prue. Listen to me." A very familiar voice suddenly echoed, pulling Prue back from her tears. Quickly wiping them away, the oldest Charmed One looked around, searching for the owner of the voice, just to find her Grams – or exactly, her Grams' spirit – standing behind her in a solid form.

"Grams? What are you doing here?" Prue hurriedly got back her voice from the sobbing before, so that her Grams wouldn't know she was crying – for her didn't want her grandmother to think that she was weak, even for a split of second – but still her voice broke a little.

"I'm here to tell you, or we can say, to warn you about your next attack on the Source. It wouldn't succeed, well unless you change your plan." The older Halliwell warned in a calm tone.

"What do you mean by saying it wouldn't? It…it sounds really great, and everything is set!" Prue retorted in terror. That plan was the best one they could come up with. If it failed, what could they do?

"But everything wouldn't turn out as it seemed to be." Grams answered, looking around cautiously to check if someone was overhearing them. "Astral back into your body and we'll finish our conversation." She announced fast as fading into thin air, before her granddaughter could even think about stopping her.

Sighing heavily, Prue looked down to her ex-husband who seemed to be sleeping, her mind racing with decisions of staying and leaving. 'Stop it, Prue. He's a big boy now; he can take care of himself!' One side of her shouted mentally, wanting the worry to stop worrying for Andy. 'But what if something happens to him after I leave?' The other side retorted, not reducing the volume, made Prue feel like her head was going to blow. 'And you think you can stop it from happening because…?' She then swallowed hard, reassuring herself everything was going to be okay though she knew it wasn't. "I'll be the first one you see when you're awake, I promise." was the last sentence Prue said before she disappeared in a red light.

Attic

Prue opened her eyes, just to realize that she was back where she had started, and was surrounded by the whole family. "Prue, you're back!" Piper exclaimed, as she wrapped her arms around her neck, feeling completely relieved for having her big sister back.

"Hey, I'm alright. I was just visiting…" Prue then left the sentence unfinished, not wanting to let them know exactly where she had been. "A…friend…a friend of mine." She partly lied, thinking about what Brendan would think if he knew the truth, after all, he was still her fiancé.

Although everyone seemed satisfied with the answer and decided not to ask any more questions, there was someone who still doubted about the truthfulness of Prue's reason. Standing in a corner, Brendan could look into her eyes, and because of that, he could somehow know she was lying. But the problem was, no matter how much he was starving for the truth, there was no way for him to get the information. His fiancée hated him, that was obvious, and she wouldn't even want to talk to him, so why on Earth would she answer him a thing that she wanted to hide even from her family? 'Could it be about Andy?' Brendan thought nervously, making himself guesses.

"Where's Grams? She told me she'd be here." Prue asked, as her eyes were wandering around the room searching for her grandmother's appearance. But, to her surprise, she was nowhere to be found.

"She did? Well she's not here but I'm pretty sure she…" Suddenly a swirl of orbs flew in and interrupted Paige, as it formed into Leo whose face was telling them that there was bad news.

"Penny won't come. She broke some rules and has to be put under some slight punishments which possibly will keep her busy for awhile."The whitelighter announced in a calm voice, trying to make the information less terrible, but it was no use. The sentence surprised everybody but Prue and Piper, because it pulled them into a big shock instead.

"Okay, tell me I'm dreaming." After several minutes being speechless, Prue finally managed to get to her words. "I mean, Grams and breaking the rules…those words don't match! Not at all!" She almost yelled in disbelief, as her grandmother when the sisters were young had been pretty strict and her rules had been once the most important thing in the house.

"Prue has a reason, Leo. How on earth would Grams break a rule, even the tiniest?" Piper questioned with her husband in confusion.

"I don't know, that's the message they gave me." The whitelighter quickly defended. "Anyway, Prue, why would Grams want to meet us?" Paige asked for the first time, since she had been pretty silent throughout the conversation.

"She wanted to warn us about our plan of attacking the Source; it wouldn't succeed unless we have another one." Prue related shortly Penny and her short talk before. "Then Grams told me to astral back here to continue, but…well, you know what happened next."

"She's telling us to think of another plan when we have no idea and time's running out? You'd better be kidding me!" Piper suddenly became strangely moody, as she waved her hand upward and caused a vase to explode. "Wow Piper, calm down! What happened to you?" Leo asked in concern as he walked to his wife's side. The powers the girls inherited from their family line were working based on their emotions, and though they could control it, things like that happened at times.

"No, no, I'm fine, just leave me alone." Piper answered rudely and annoyingly, and immediately regretted about that. Quickly taking a deep breath without being noticed, she apologized for knowing that wasn't the time for the real reason of her moodiness to be exposed. "Sorry, I…that didn't come out, right?"

"Piper…" As a sister who always had to take care of her younger siblings, trying to play the mother role, Prue had become extremely responsible for even their slightest problem.

"Prue, I'm totally fine, don't worry about me. The only thing we should all worry about is how to vanquish the Source and finish all of this once and for all. Especially now when our current plan has been denied by Grams." The upper-middle Charmed One reassured, trying to change the subject.

"Okay…so…any ideas how we're gonna defeat Cole, not to mention our still demonic sister?" Paige asked. She had been thinking for an idea the whole time, but still she came up with nothing.

Just as Leo opened his mouth, planning to give an advice, the Book of Shadows, which was placed behind the group, started to flip pages itself and rustled, which caught everyone's attention. "The Book! Look!" Piper yelled, poiting her finger toward the witchcraft documentary in surprise, since it always had been their grandmother, who – according to Leo – was under punishments, to turn the pages.

"Grams must has found a way to help us!" The oldest Charmed One replied back, as the gang quickly moved to the Book's side, trying to read the newly turned page. As soon as Prue's eyes caught the title of the page, she immediately understood what was happening and that great danger was really near.

"Andy!"