A/N: Okay, so I want to start off this chapter by saying that I'm sorry. No just because it's so short but because all of my Alias writing that I've been doing lately that seems to be taking away from my time writing this story. I can understand how frustrating it is for my Charmed readers that don't watch Alias and I'm sorry about all that. But I go with what my muse says and if you've been following this story, you know what a biotch she is.
"Prue?" Phoebe managed to say. "And Andy? How did you two get here?"
"The same way I'm assuming Leo did," Prue answered like it was the most natural thing in the world. She spotted the Book of Shadows and smiled widely, "Oh, good, you found that thing. I've been meaning to look at it. I need to update my section on warlocks."
"What are warlocks?" Paige asked.
"They're likes witches, only evil, really evil. A bitch to vanquish too." Prue turned to Leo and smiled, "Hey Leo, nice to see you again. I think the last time I saw you was when you told me that Andy was my new whitelighter."
"Somewhere around there," Leo agreed, returning the smile.
"What did the two of you do to your heads?" Prue asked, changing the subject abruptly and gesturing to Paige and Phoebe.
Paige took on a sudden interest in the carpet and her feet and basically anything below knee level leaving Phoebe to explain because hey, it was her idea. "We colored our hair." Phoebe answered with as much strength as she could muster which wasn't really a lot. No matter how long Prue was gone, Phoebe was still scared to death of her oldest sister's temper.
"You what?!" Prue yelled. Then lowering her voice, she continued, "Why?"
"We felt like a change," Phoebe answered, following Paige's lead and staring at the ground.
"You felt like a change," Prue repeated, then tapping her foot impatiently, she added, "Look at me, not the ground." Both Phoebe and Paige looked up as told, "First off, how'd you pay for it?" She didn't need them to answer; she could tell by their expressions that it had been with Victor's credit card. "So, you stole a credit card as well?" Two heads nodded. "Second, what was wrong with your normal hair?"
"Well, look at Paige, doesn't she look less...dead?" Phoebe said, pointing to Paige's face. The comment earned her a glare from Paige.
Prue studied Paige and nodded, reluctantly, "Okay, so the red hair thing works for Paige, I suppose but you. Why did you go blonde?"
"For Cole," Paige said for Phoebe in a teasing tone kinda like something you'd hear from a five year old.
"Who's Cole?"
"Phoebe's boyfriend," Paige answered, in the same voice.
"Would you quit with the voice and he is not my boyfriend," Phoebe said, hand poised to hit Paige in the arm or back of the head or any other body part that was most convenient.
"Really? I thought he was, my bad." Paige said, pretending to be shocked and then sorry.
"Shut up Paige," Phoebe snapped.
"Okay, before the two of you kill each other, I would just like to say, while I think there was absolutely nothing wrong with your hair before, you both look great now." Prue said, with a final tone that told them to cut out the petty fighting.
"Thanks Prue," Both Paige and Phoebe mumbled.
"And who's this? I don't believe I've met you before." Prue asked, noticing Sydney, and changing the subject again.
Sydney swallowed before answering, "I'm Sydney, Piper's friend."
"Well, it's nice to meet you Sydney." Prue said, uncharacteristically giving Sydney a quick hug. "Any friend of Piper's is a friend of mine."
Sydney smiled, "I like her." Prue chuckled. "Hey, you're eighteen, right?" Prue nodded, unsure of where Sydney was going with that. "Could you buy me a pack of cigarettes? My dad confiscated the last of mine last week."
Prue immediately knew that Sydney was kidding and repeated Sydney's earlier statement, "I like her." Then she and Sydney started laughing.
"Will someone please tell us what is going on?" Piper asked, bringing the focus of the conversation back to the whole witches thing.
"Well, I think I should start by saying that Mom...Patty and Grams were witches."
"What?!" Piper, Phoebe, and Paige yelled at the same time.
"Patty and Grams were witches, Warren witches. They had powers like you...we do." Prue explained as gently as she could. God knows, when she fist learned of her powers, she freaked. She didn't want the same reaction from her sisters. Calmer and less hitting would be nice.
"Why do you keep correcting yourself?" Piper asked, noticing Prue hesitate over words like "Mom" and "we".
"Well, that brings me to my second point. I am not Patty's daughter. I am Victor and another witch, Rhian's, daughter. Only I don't think that Victor knows my mother was, well, is a witch. She always kept that a secret."
"What? How? When?" Paige stumbled over the questions, still trying to wrap her mind around what Prue said.
Prue chose to answer the last question, "I was born about three months before Victor married Patty. Rhian decided that she didn't want a daughter, so she left me on Victor's doorstep."
The girls digested what she said for a moment. Could it be true? Could Prue really be their half-sister? Victor did keep enough secrets, Piper and Sydney, even though she wasn't a member of the family, had learned that the hard way and Paige and Phoebe had yet to learn it. And they had always kinda wondered why Prue was two years older than Piper while the rest of them were just a year apart respectively.
"I am a witch, like I said before, just not a sister witch and I do need the Book." Prue continued. "My mother was powerful in her own right, just like your mother, but the Charmed gene is passed down through the Halliwells and by blood, I am not a Halliwell. Grams took me under her wing when Victor married Patty." The three sisters noted that she still said Patty and not Mom and she still referred to Grams as "Grams". "She raised me and taught me the ways of being a witch in secret. She didn't want you three to know about being witches. Not yet anyway."
"So you're a witch?" Phoebe asked and Prue nodded, "What's your power?"
"Telekinesis, I move things with my mind, kinda like Paige, which brings me to my third and hopefully last, point. Paige is not Victor's daughter."
"What?" Paige asked, loudly, "What are you talking about?"
"After Phoebe was born, Patty and Victor were having some issues and Patty ended up having an affair with her whitelighter at the time, a man named Sam. That's why Paige's power is different than normal telekinesis, her half whitelighter genes altered her power. Though, technically, it is the same power. I mean you are still moving things with your mind, just a little differently."
Paige wanted to run. She wanted to flee the room and the manor and pass everything Prue had just told her as a lie or a really bad dream. But she didn't move. She didn't trust herself to take to her anywhere, safely. "Does that mean that you and I, we're not sisters?" Paige asked, instead of running.
Prue walked over to her and gave her a quick hug, "Of course we are, just not by blood. But you don't have to share blood to be sisters."
Paige smiled and returned Prue's embrace. "Good. You're like the coolest big sister ever. I mean the coolest oldest big sister." Prue laughed.
"So, that means that I have one actual sister and two half sisters?" Phoebe asked.
"I guess so," Prue answered, never really thinking of things that way before.
"Very cool," Phoebe said, with a little nod of her head. She walked over to Prue and Paige and joined in the hug, "You are like so going to have to teach me all the witchy stuff."
"I will," Prue promised. Then looking up at Piper, who still stood off, she asked, "Piper?"
"No," Piper shook her head, furiously, "No, I don't believe it. This is just too much information to analyze in less than a half hour."
"Piper..." Leo started, moving to offer her a hug.
She stopped him, "Don't. You stay away from me." She looked around the room, "All of you." Then she ran out of the room.
"Piper!" Phoebe yelled after her, making the move to go after her.
Prue stopped her, "I think she needs to think."
"So what's this about Andy being a whitelighter?" Paige asked, suddenly, remembering Prue's conversation with Leo earlier.
"Well, there's not much to say, Andy's a whitelighter like Leo. Only Leo is you three's whitelighter, he watches over you and Andy is my whitelighter and he watches over me." Prue explained. Both Phoebe and Paige looked to Andy, who just shrugged.
"And you're dating?" Phoebe asked.
Prue laughed, "Yeah, we were and I guess we still are."
"Yeah, if we could ever go out to that dinner," Andy said, his first words of the night.
"Hey, I told you that I was busy and I still am." Prue said, in her defense, losing the caring, warm, older sister thing and slowly becoming the normal Prue.
"And you said you'd call me back," Andy answered.
"I tried your phone, it didn't work and I didn't have the time to call you the 'other' way, nor was it convenient, I mean I was in public for goodness' sake." Prue defended, back to her old self. Paige and Phoebe moved away from her, not wanting to be caught in the middle of an argument.
"So, how's next Thursday?" Andy asked, suddenly.
Prue did a mental check, "Sounds good. You can pick the restaurant."
"I feel so special."
"You should," Prue answered with a smile, "And remember to keep up the pretense that we haven't seen each other in months and went to high school together, though we did do that but you know what I mean." Andy nodded, meaning that he understood.
"Are you sure that Piper will be fine?" Sydney asked, finally saying something after a very long time.
Prue glanced up the stairs and shook her head after a little bit, "No, I don't think she will be. Why don't you go talk to her cause I have the feeling that she doesn't want someone magical and that rules out the rest of us."
"But Sydney's in the Book of Shadows." Paige said.
Prue's eyes widened, "Really?" The three girls nodded, "You should feel special, not everyone gets in the Book of Shadows. What is it that you do?"
"She's going to end the world," Paige and Phoebe answered at the same time.
"Okay, that's probably not what it means." Prue said, giving Paige and Phoebe a strange look for seeming so happy about it.
"I'm gonna go check on Piper," Sydney said, not wanting to be involved with the Book or the witchy stuff or the "prophecy" anymore.
After she disappeared up the stairs, Prue sat down in front of the Book and began to flip through the pages, "Okay, so why don't you guys help me with my warlock knowledge. You have to learn this stuff anyway." Paige and Phoebe nodded, happily, and sat down on either side of her, both leaning eagerly to get a good look at the Book.
Lost Darkness- I live in Colorado too. The tornado I was in was back when I lived in Nebraska. If you don't mind me asking, what part of Colorado do you live in?
Klutz101- It's fabulous when you can't remember stuff. Now, what were we talking about again? lol.
syad ynair- I did say that Chris was going to be in this and he is. It's just taking me a lot longer than I originally intended to put him into the story. But he will be here and basically that means, this story is going to be going for a very long time. You can rejoice now. lol.
pyschokitty3- I know, it totally sucks that Alias doesn't start until JANUARY!! Nobody starts in JANUARY unless they're a mid season replacement and Alias obviously isn't. JJ must be a very suicidal little man. I'm not sure if I am going to add future powers, at least not for the time being. Maybe later. And, no it's didn't really take me a long time to read your review. I read too freaking fast. hehe
x3Tinkerbell07- huh? what have you been called that's worse? Stupid crappy memory. Can't remember a thing sometimes.
neoripley- I'm not sure if Syd is going to have powers. If she does, like where would she get them from? Cause I thought that powers were inherited and I'm not sure if either of Syd's parents are witches or magical for that matter. And yeah, I did mean to have it so Syd didn't freeze. Could be a hint, I'm not really sure yet.
Charmed-angel4- You're one of two people that actually gussed that it would be Prue. I got a lot of Grams and Patty but barely any Prue. Hmmm. Shocker I guess.
Princess Pinky- You're the other person that guessed that it would be Prue and even then you thought it was Grams more. I'll see you(and your reviews ;) ) when you get you get back. Have a good trip, unlike mine.
charmedeva- Melinda Warran? That would be cool and maybe for different time, she doesn't really fit in right now, ya know? And yeah, I could've put Chris but they don't know him, so how could be have been a "very familar voice"? He is coming, it's just taking a long time.