The next morning, Prue woke up and smiled. At first she thought that it might have been a dream, but when she realized that it was real, she went downstairs for breakfast.
"Woo-hoo! It's the one and only dating Prue!" Phoebe squealed as Prue entered the kitchen.
Piper smiled a little and said, "Speaking of, how was your date?"
"You guys just don't quit do you?" Prue asked and poured herself a cup of coffee.
"Um, nope. So, are you gonna tell us?" Phoebe asked.
Prue sighed and sat down at the table. "I might as well."
Piper and Phoebe moved closer to Prue so that they wouldn't miss any details.
"We went to that new restaurant, Little Nicky's, and we had a great dinner. We talked about a lot of things, you know, the regular date stuff." Prue said.
"Spill the details!" Phoebe demanded.
"Let me think about that...no. I'd rather keep it to myself." Prue said.
"Ooh, that must mean-" Piper started, but Prue interrupted her.
"No! I just don't want to tell you guys."
"Is he rich?" Phoebe asked.
"I don't know. I mean, he's certainly got money, but I'm not going to tell you anything other than those general facts." Prue said and finished her coffee.
"Oh, come on. Tell us something good." Phoebe insisted. Prue just got up from her seat. "All right, unusual?" Phoebe said.
"Now that you mention unusual," Prue said. Phoebe and Piper perked up. They would get details. "His friend, Will, had his car for some reason and then Drake talked to him about the car and they shook hands, then Will collapsed. Drake said Will had been sick and that he hadn't been feeling well and that Drake told him to stay in bed, but he kept going out, but it was Drake's car. I mean, if Drake drove there in it, Will would have been in the car, but Will was just getting out of the driver's seat. It was pretty weird. I didn't notice it until just now." Prue set her coffee cup down on the counter. "It must've been nothing. Well, I'm going to go shopping. Today seems right to shop. See you."
Prue left the kitchen and her sisters began to talk.
"Who do you think I should get at P3 next?" Piper asked, but Phoebe wasn't paying attention, she was just stirring a spoon in her coffee, thinking.
"Hello? Earth to Phoebe." Piper said and waved a hand in her face.
"Huh?" Phoebe snapped back into reality. "What did you say?"
"I said," Piper repeated, "who do you think I should get at P3 next?"
"Oh, well how about that guy, Craig David. I like his song. It's good." Phoebe answered a little distantly.
"What are you really thinking?" Piper asked.
"Nothing." Phoebe answered a little too quickly.
Piper looked like she really didn't believe her. Phoebe got the distant, glazed look in her eyes again. She was thinking.
Piper sighed and left the kitchen. She caught Prue just before she walked out the door.
"Hey, Prue." Piper called.
"Yeah?" Prue asked.
Piper walked over to Prue and said, "Phoebe seems a little weird."
"You stopped me for that?" Prue asked and laughed a little.
"No, I mean, she's got the glazed look again." Piper said.
"You mean thee glazed look? The it-seems-like-I'm-thinking-hard glazed look?" Prue asked.
"Yep. That's the one. The last time she had that look was when..." Piper's voice trailed off.
"I'm sure it's nothing Piper. Whatever it is, Phoebe can handle it." Prue said.
"You're probably right. Well, have fun." Piper said and Prue just smiled and left.
Piper had a nervous look on her face, but it quickly left her face and she went back into the kitchen.
"Phoebe have you-" Piper started, but Phoebe wasn't in the kitchen. Only her coffee cup was left on the table.
***
Prue was in her car driving toward the mall when her cellphone rang. Prue reached over and grabbed it. She fumbled with it for a minute, then managed to successfully answer it.
"Hello?... Oh hi Drake... No... Ha ha. Very funny... Really?... Well, I'm going to the mall right now, so... Oh, well, of course you can come. Where can I pick you up?... All right... Okay, then. See you."
Prue fumbled with the phone for a minute, then managed to turn it off without crashing.
"That's why they don't like people using cellphones in the car." Prue said to herself and made the turn to pick up Drake.
***
Phoebe was in the attic flipping through the Book.
"Touching...unconscious...fainting...agh! How is this supposed to be successful if I don't even know what I'm looking for?" Phoebe asked outloud and slammed the Book shut. She put her head in her hands and just stood there for a minute. When she heard Piper coming, she hurried out of the attic and tried to get to her room, but Piper saw her.
"What were you doing in there?" Piper asked.
"I was just, ya know, browsing the Book like I always do." Phoebe lied.
Piper didn't say anything else, so Phoebe just went into her room.
"For some reason I don't believe her." Piper said to herself.
***
Phoebe was in her room and heard what Piper said. She waited for Piper to go to her room, then she opened her door a crack and looked out. No one was there.
Phoebe took a deep breath and went back to the attic. She didn't know how going back would help, but she would do it anyway.
Phoebe moved over to the Book and noticed it was open.
"Okay, I closed you." Phoebe said to the Book.
Phoebe moved in front of it and read the page.
"Vampires? That doesn't make sense. I mean I was looking for Drake-" Phoebe looked up from the page. "Drake, Dracula, Drake, Dracula...oh my God! Prue is dating a vampire!" Phoebe exclaimed and ran out of the attic and pounded on Piper's door.
"What?" Piper asked a little irritated as she opened the door.
"Prue is dating a vampire!" Phoebe exclaimed.
"What? Phoebe are you crazy?" Piper asked.
"No. I mean, I only read the first paragraph in the Book, but-" Piper cut Phoebe off.
"Well, then you can't be sure can you. Go finish and tell me later." Piper said.
"No, come with me. We'll read it together." Phoebe said and grabbed Piper's arm and drug her to the attic.
"See look." Phoebe said and pointed to the open Book. "When I left, I closed it. When I came back in, it was open. And the collapsing thing Prue told us about, well-" Phoebe ran her finger along the writing of the page, but didn't find anything. "Well, uh..."
"See? You can't explain it. It's wrong this time. And look, the window is open. The pages probably just blew." Piper said and shut the window. "Relax Phoebe. You're just overreacting." Piper left.
"This is no overreaction. I'll just have to test him." Phoebe said and took the Book to her room.
***
Prue stopped the car.
"Drake should be right here." Prue mumbled to herself and looked out the passenger window. She thought he might be on the other side of the street, so she looked out her own window. When she saw he wasn't there, she turned back to look out the passenger window again and Drake was standing in front of the window smiling.
Prue jumped a little. He hadn't been there a second ago. She just smiled and opened the door.
"Hi." Drake said as he sat down.
"Hey." Prue said. The smile disappeared from her face and she thought about what Piper had said before, but it left her mind when Drake started to talk.
***
Phoebe read the page about vampires over and over again. She had assembled the items that she would need to test him.
"Test one, the mirror." Phoebe picked up the small hand mirror. "Test two, garlic." Phoebe put the mirror down and picked up the bag of garlic. "All Piper had was chopped. I hope it works." Phoebe mumbled and put the garlic down. "Test three, the potion." Phoebe picked up a small bottle of red liquid. Phoebe put the bottle down and looked at the Book again.
"But it still doesn't say how he could've done the whole collapsing thing." Phoebe sighed.
She touched the page of the vampire and had a premonition.
It was their talk the morning after Prue had her date. They were all talking, then the premonition.
"Okay, what does that day have to do with-" It dawned on Phoebe. "She must have said something." She put her hand on her forehead. "Think. Think. Thi-" Phoebe remembered. She remembered exactly what Prue said.
'Well, we talked for like ever and he told me that his job is what brought him to the city. He said that he does jobs for some rich guy, like an assistant.'
"It's not him! It's his boss man! His boss guy sent him and...I've got to tell Piper!" Phoebe rushed out of her room to find Piper.
***
Prue picked a dress off the rack and showed it to Drake.
"What do you think?" She asked.
Drake looked at it for a minute, then said, "I think it's perfect."
Prue smiled and picked up the price tag. "Yeah and there's a reason for it. It's made for the rich." Prue put it back on the rack, but Drake picked it back up.
"What are you-" Prue started, but Drake put his hand up.
"I've got connections." He said simply.
***
Phoebe made Piper sit on the couch.
"Listen. I figured it all out." Phoebe said. She began to pace.
"Phoebe you're being ridiculous. It's-" Piper started, but Phoebe cut her off.
"Shush. I'm going to tell you." Phoebe stopped pacing and took a deep breath. "Okay, here it is. Drake is a vampire. He's here on some sort of mission for that boss guy of his. Apparently, the boss guy sent him here to either kill us or turn us evil. See, if he bites Prue the whole we're-bonded-together thing works against us and we become evil too, but if he's sent to kill us, then he's just got to kill Prue and come for us. Now, I'm going to test him, but only because you've got doubts. I will prove it to you, then...we vanquish his sorry butt."
Phoebe waited for Piper's reaction. Piper just rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Fine. I'll go along with it, but only because I hear it's bad to make insane people angry." Piper said.
***
Prue was looking in the back while Drake paid for the dress.
"Sorry about that." Drake said to the woman at the register. Her eyes were glazed over and she had a stupid grin plastered on her face.
"Sorry about what?" Prue asked coming over.
"Huh?" Drake looked at her a little nervously. "Oh, nothing. I just...dropped something."
"Okay." Prue said simply then looked at Drake oddly.
They left the store and made their way back to the car. They were tired off shopping.
***
Phoebe was dialing furiously on the phone.
"Relax. You don't have to push the buttons so hard." Piper told her.
"I'm sorry that I'm concerned." Phoebe snapped.
"Okay, jeez." Piper mumbled.
A monotone voice was all Phoebe heard on the other end. "We're sorry. We cannot reach the person you are dialing. Their phone may be turned off or-" Phoebe said a word that made Piper gasp and put the phone down.
"I don't like this. I can't get her." Phoebe said.
"Relax. You know Prue. She probably just turned her phone off accidentally or something." Piper said.
***
Prue dropped Drake off in front of the apartment building where they left Will last time.
"Well, see you at the club." Drake said.
"Yeah. Bye." Prue replied and started the car. As she drove off, Drake smiled.
He waited until her car was completely out of sight, then just disappeared into thin air.
***
"I'm home!" Prue yelled as she came through the door.
"Thank God you're all right!" Phoebe exclaimed and hugged Prue tightly.
"Whoa, yeah Pheebs. Look, I need air, so..." Prue said and Phoebe let go. "Thanks. Um, why wouldn't I be okay?"
Phoebe took a deep breath then cracked her neck.
"You're not running a marathon here Pheebs. Just tell me." Prue said.
"Prue, I think that, well...Drake is trying to kill us...or you. I'm not sure which first." Phoebe said.
"Have you been mixing medications?" Prue asked with a small smile. Prue made her way to the stairs, but Phoebe turned and yelled to her.
"Prue!" Prue turned around. "Prue, I'm serious. I think he's a vampire."
Prue's smile completely disappeared. "I don't know what's wrong with you, but I don't like it." Prue walked upstairs.
"Hey! You should listen to me about boyfriends trying to kill you! I'm an expert...remember?!" Phoebe yelled to her, but Prue's reply was simply her door shutting.