"Leo!" Piper called as soon as they got in the front door. "LEO!"

Her husband orbed in, stadning in front of them. "Honey, what's... Whoa, who's the baby? Is that an innocent?"

"No." Piper answered. "Not exactly. She's our neice. Prue's daughter." Paige handed him the note. Leo looked it over carefully, then looked up at Piper, giving her an is-this-for-real glance. "Yeah," Piper said, smiling down at the baby she was holding. "And while we're on the subject of Prue, why didn't you tell us that's she's a Whitelighter?"

"I didn't know." Leo told her. "Really, I didn't."

Phoebe sighed. "Okay, well for now I think we need to concentrate on Angelie."

"Angelie?" Leo asked.

"It's what Sister Agnes named her." Paige explained.

Angelie let out a cry, temporarily pulling the adults out of their numb, shocked state.

"One of us needs to stay with her." Piper said. "The other three have to go to buy a crib, diapers, baby formula, clothes, everything."

All four adults volunteered to stay home with their new neice. In the end, it was Paige who got to stay behind. Leo, Piper, and Phoebe went down to Babies R Us to buy the necessary suppilies.

Paige had no where to put the baby, and she could tell Angelie was getting sleepy, so she took her up to the attic, and, holding the infant with one hand, rooted around until she found a baby carrier that was miraculously clean. She brought it downstairs, wiped it down a few times just to make sure it was ok, and set the baby in it. Angelie promptly fell asleep.

Paige sat down to watch television, but there was nothing on. Restless, she began getting up every few minutes to check on the baby. The fifth time, she noticed the paper sitting on the table, where her brother-in-law had left it. Curiously, she picked it up. In all the excitement over the baby, Paige hadn't had the chance to really read it. Now, she wanted to take a closer look.

Paige read the note a few times, wondering what danger had possibly been great enough to make her sister give up her child, especially when the only threat was the Elders themselves, who were supposed to be a force for good.

Paige suddenly got an idea. What if there were something about the Elders in the Book of Shadows, something to help her understand what their deal was? She brought Angelie's carrier into her room, where she'd be able to hear if the baby woke up. Then, Paige ran into the attic excitedly. She started to flip through the BoS, when she saw the familiar swirl of bright, white lights that acoompanied orbing. In a second, Prue was standing in front of her.

"How is she?" Prue demanded. "Is she ok? Are you taking care of her?"

"She's fine." Paige breathed, shocked at finally seeing her sister. "She's perfect."

Prue breathed a sigh of relief, and seemed to relax. "And what about you?" she asked. "I mean, I know this whole thing is coming out of nowhere. I probably should have given you guys some kind of warning, but that would have meant acknowledging that I was going to give her up, I wasn't ready. Hell, I'm still not."

Paige moved forward awkwardly to hug the sister she'd known for all of five minutes. Prue returned the embrace warmly. When they pulled away, they were both smiling.

"I can't even imagine how hard this must be for you." Paige said.

"I feel a lot better knowing she'll be with you, Piper, and Phoebe. But are you three sure you want to do this?" Prue questioned.

"Absolutely." Paige said. "I'll admit, the shock hasn't worn off yet, but we already love Angelie."

"Angelie." Prue repeated, trying out the name.

"It's what Sister Agnes was calling her. We've named her Angelie Prudence, after you, but she's only two days old, it's not too late to change it if you don't like it." Paige explained.

"I love it." Prue assured her.

"Do you want to see her?" Paige offered.

Prue thought for a minute, torn. Then, she shook her head. "It's too dangerous. I shouldn't even be here."

Paige nodded. "Ok, well, Leo, Piper, and Phoebe went to get baby stuff. They should be home in a few hours. If you can't wait, will you at least come back?"

Prue shook her head again. "I can't. I'm not allowed to see them. I'm not even supposed to talk to you, but I had to meet you at least once. It isn't fair that we never got to know each other."

"It's not." Paige agreed, "But I'm really glad I at least get to see you now. Will you come back?"

"I don't know." Prue said. "I'll try, but it's going to be hard. Maybe if get Julius to persuade the other Elders to give me an assignment around here, but even then, I don't know." She moved closer to Paige, running her hands through her littlest sister's hair the way she'd done with Piper and Phoebe to comfort them. "You'll take care of her, won't you? You'll make sure she knows that I love her, even if I can't be here?"

Paige nodded. It hurt her to see the deep pain in Prue's startlingly blue eyes. "Of course. Of course I will."

Prue kissed her sister lightly on the cheek. Then, she was gone in a swirl of light.

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A/N: Urgh. I may have to rewrite some of this. I know the concept of the fic is good, but I just got out of a long stretch of writer's block, and now I'm turning it to crap. I'm not sure if Prue will make other appearances, so I left that kind of open-ended. Probably she won't, at least not for a long time, but I'm not sure. Review and let me know what you think.