A/N: Don't worry...Prue will be reunited with Andy in this part, just not in the way you expect. Read on to find out how.
Prue felt her face grow crimson. "Grams", she said, disappointed. "I was expecting someone else".
"I know," Penny said politely. "But you got me instead."
"Why?"
"Come down stairs with me, Dear. I want to talk to your Mother."
Prue sat at the dining room table with her sisters and Leo listening to her Mother and Grandmother argue.
"Patty how could you?" Penny scolded speaking to her daughter as she were a little girl. "It's already bad enough that we have a witch, who married a whitelighter. We don't need to give them any reason to be angry with Prue too!"
"Why would they be angry with Prue? She hasn't done anything!" Patty blasted. "If they are going to be angry with anyone then it should be me!"
"Patty lower your voice!" Penny ordered, doing the same. "There are rules to be followed here. It isn't natural pair a Witch with a-"
Patty arched an eyebrow. "What Mother? What?"
"A-hem," Prue cleared her throat and waved. "Remember me? I think I have a solution."
"What is it dear?" Penny asked sweetly hoping to keep the peace.
"Well, since Mom cast a love spell on me, I guessing that in order for the spell to be broken, I have to find Andy."
"That was the desired result," Patty answered dully.
Turning away from her Mother, Prue twisted her hands together, keeping her eyes focused on the ground. "Um...Leo can you uh...take me-" she rolled her eyes heavenward, "up there. I want to see Andy."
Leo set his orange juice on the table and looked at Patty. "It's really time she knew the truth," Patty said squeezing Prue's shoulders.
Leo looked helplessly at his mother in-law, "Patty, I really can't...the Elders...they-" He started to argue only to have Patty cut him off. "Look Leo, when you married into this family you didn't just promise to project Piper, you promised to protect all of MY DAUGHTERS!"
"Leo is right," Penny sided. "We shouldn't be messing around with destiny."
Patty's eyes grew dark, challenging, "And whose destiny is that Mother?"
"Prue's," Penny said quietly. "What has been done has been done for a reason. Personal gain isn't what we are all about."
"And what about Prue's happiness mother? The elders took away the only man she ever loved when Andy died."
Penny remained silent looking at Leo to make the call.
Leo shook his head the last thing he wanted to do was to anger his new mother in-law. "They might clip my wings for this" he muttered before bending to kiss Piper, "I'll be back in a little bit."
"Thank you," Prue breathed hugging the whitelighter.
"Hurry back," Piper whispered watching as Leo wrapped an arm around Prue.
Phoebe suddenly jumped up from her chair, "Wait, Wait!"
"Why?" Prue asked giving her sister an eye. Phoebe just smiled letting her eyes run up and down Prue's form. "Jammies."
"Oh...Oh...No..." Prue stammered remembering she was still wearing the white tank and flannel pants from the night before. "I'll be right back," she told Leo. Twenty minutes later, Prue came down the stairs wearing black capri pants, and a matching cropped halter with strappy sandals.
"Much Better," Phoebe smiled with approval.
"Thank you, Pheebs" Prue grinned looking to Leo.
"Ready?"
"I'm ready," Leo said. "I just hope you are."
Prue wrapped her arms around his neck as they orbed away leaving her family to wait.
"I certainly hope you know what you are doing." Penny clicked her cheek looking skeptically at Patty, "you know that when Prue finds out the truth, she is never going to forgive us."
"At least she'll have a chance at becoming happy again."
Underworld
Loud music and the scent of smoke pummeled Prue's senses as she and Leo orbed into what appreared to be a bar. Barstools and festive looking bottle summed up the decor. "uh a bar Leo? I...I was expecting heaven". Gazing about Leo carefully pulled Prue towards the back so they wouldn't be seen.
"This isn't a bar. It's a demonic pub," Leo explained keeping Prue close to him and out of sight.
Prue went along with the whitelighter willingly. "Same difference, but uh what does this place has to do with Andy?"
It was then that she saw him. Across the room, Andy stood, dressed in black jeans, a black leather jacket and a three-day-old beard. From what she could see, he still looked the same; tall with brown hair and amazing blue eyes. Prue's eyes widened in disbelief when she saw the crossbow appear in Andy's hands. Was Andy demonic? "Andy's a dark lighter?"
"No, he's an angelic tracer," Leo corrected quietly. "It's kind of like a bounty hunter for our side"
"A bounty hunter?" Prue repeated questionably as Andy fired the crossbow at a demon. The demon disappeared and the arrow hit a side wall.
"Yeah," Leo shrugged. "That is his job, just like mine is to heal. In the real world, Andy was a detective, just like I was studying to be a doctor."
"So Andy tracks demons?"
"Strictly upper level, and a few other things" Leo returned. "His mission is capture them before they can be recruited by the Source or find their way down to you. The Elders call tracers their first line of defense."
"Oh...I see," Prue replied arching an eyebrow. "And what are we? Chopped meat?"
"Hardly," Leo rolled his eyes as the demon that Andy had fired at reappeared near them. "Get Down!" Leo yanked on Prue's arm, causing her to crouch to the floor. Prue kept herself huddled close to Leo as a fire fight began. The demon created a fireball and hurled at Andy who retaliated with another arrow.
"Hey!" Prue hissed as the arrow went sailing over her head, clipping the top of her hair.
"Ssh!" Leo ordered clamping a hand over Prue's mouth. "They'll hear you!"
Prue glared at him heatedly and he pulled his hand from her mouth. The two stayed low and continued to watch the fire fight until another demon hurling energy balls joined the in, causing Prue alarm.
"Andy, Behind You!"
"Prue No!" Leo tried to grab her as she pulled to her feet and reared back her arm, sending the demon crashing over the bar.
"Prue?" Distracted, Andy blinked in disbelief, just as the entire place broke out in anarchy over Prue's presence.
"WITCHES!"
The demon, Andy had been tracking took full advantage of the distraction and clipped the angelic bounty hunter in the side of the head with a low-grade energy ball. Andy fell to the floor unconscious. Blood trickled from his scalp.
"Pure we have to leave now!" Leo shouted when the majority of the pub began to advance on them.
"No Leo! I can't leave now. Andy's hurt!" Leo watched for another moment as Prue lowered her head and astral projected herself to the other side of the room. Astral Prue picked up the crossbow and fired it at the demon, hovering over Andy. The arrow hit the demon dead center in the chest and he exploded.
"Anybody else?" Prue hissed pointing the bow at the motley crue that had gathered around. The mob growled and lunged as the Astral Prue disappeared returning to Leo. Real Prue woke up.
"Hey Freaks! Over Here!" She grabbed Leo's hand. "Orb me back over to Andy".
Leo obediently complied and together they pulled Andy to his feet supporting his unconcious form between them.
"Orb us home, hurry!"
Additional A/N: I always thought it would be fun if Andy came back as something other than mortal, something that made him more equal to Prue...can't wait to hear your reviews!
