Real tears gathered in Patty's eyes as she kissed Piper and Phoebe, "don't cry for me, my darlings. No matter what they do, I will always be with you". The shock of being banned from calling upon their mother hit Piper the hardest, No Mom...please...please don't go!" Piper reached out for Patty's transparent hand, feeling her own slip right through it. Penny and Patty then disappeared right before their eyes.

"Love is so not worth this!" Piper screamed pointing an angry finger. Leo stepped towards trying to offer his comfort. "No don't they'll take you away again too!" she demanded, clinging to Phoebe. Leo looked over his shoulder at Prue. Prue just stood fists clenched, vowing vengeance.

1 month later....

"C'mon Piper, we have to find a way to pull ourselves out of this funk, " Phoebe said opening the door to the attic. "Just because we don't have our powers doesn't change who we are". Piper followed as they walked inside and looked at the book. It's pages were blank. "I still can't believe it's all gone. I still can't believe that Mom is gone..." she said softly watching Phoebe kneel at the base of an old trunk.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

Phoebe pushed the lid to the trunk upward and began digging through it. "Making sure we have all the essentials, in a case a demon decides to attack"

"Piper's eyes beaded back and forth, "it's been a month, you think someone told the Source we're no longer Charmed?" What a blessing it would be to think that the other side would just let them be in peace because they were no longer considered a threat.

"We're always going to be Charmed," Phoebe returned rising to her feet with an assortment of medieval weapons in her hands. Piper took a dagger from Phoebe's hands, "tell that to Prue"

"Phoebe!" A voice from below called out making Phoebe's face bright.

"I'm coming Cole! Piper and I will be right down!"

Golden Gate Park

Prue sat on the swing in Golden Gate park with her knees drawn up to her chest. Nearby a young teenage couple leaned against a tree making out passionately. The sight reminded her of she and Andy when they were younger. Sighing she looked down at the ring on her left hand. She didn't have the heart to take it off. It was still so hard to believe that Andy was gone, as were his memories of their love. At the least first time he'd been taken from her she had the comfort, that he was looking down on her, waiting for her time to pass.

Gone as well were her powers, her belief in love and her Mother's heavenly essence. At least before she could find comfort in herself in the fact that she was a Charmed one and that everything she and sisters had been through were for the greater good. "The Greater Good." She didn't believe in it anymore she thought stiffly. All the good she had done in the past three years obviously had counted for nothing...nothing except the loss of the man she loved and her soul as she knew it.

At least she still had her photography career. Reaching for her camera, Prue decided to snap a shot of the young couple. She would send the shot to the editors at 415 and give it some title reflected young and tormented lovers. Something to the effect of "Destiny Bites?" She didn't know, but the thought made her feel better.

Gingerly she pressed back lens to her eye and hit the zoom. She took one shot and then another. "If I could just get in a little bit closer" she thought. Her finger hit the zoom again and instantly frame magnified catching a glimpse of something. A blurred figure of man dressed in black holding a crossbow. "Andy?"

She pulled the camera away from her face and jumped from the swing, "Andy!" The young couple jumped a part at the sound of her voice. The boy looked around whipping his head in all directions. "There is no one there, lady" Prue stood for several moments just staring at the space where she thought Andy had been before snatching up her jacket and heading for her SUV.

Prue was exactly ten paces from the car, when Leo appeared, orbing in front of her. "Leo? What are you doing here?"

Leo's face looked grim, "it's your Sisters they're worried about you"

"Oh, well they have nothing to worry about, I'm fine" Prue answered distantly as a shiver ran down her spine. She suddenly felt a presence that she hadn't felt before. "Are you sure you're all right?" Prue looked around, her eyes searching, "yeah I just had the strangest feeling a little while ago"

"What kind of feeling?"

"I don't know first I thought I saw Andy through the camera, and then I had this strangest feeling... like he's here...somewhere.

Leo cocked his head slightly, and titled his chin upward trying sense something supernatural, "I can't sense anything"

A slight smile curved to Prue's lips, "it's probably nothing except my wishful thinking"

"Prue, there's nothing wrong with wishing for the people that we love. You and Andy had a love that most people don't find in a lifetime, it's natural that you still want him to be near you" Leo scolded dipping a finger under her chin.

"I know. I just wish there was a way that I could make things better...return everything back to the way it was"

Leo's smile broadened, a bit, "if there's one thing I come to believe in over the past three years, it's you and your sisters. Some how you'll all fine a way to survive this"

Prue reached up and touched his face, "thanks Leo . . . .oh...oh" Suddenly Prue latched onto Leo's arm, wobbling.

"Prue are you all right?"

"Yeah" Prue placed a hand to her stomach and swallowed, "I just feel a little dizzy and sick"

"You want me to orb you home?"

"No...I'll be fine to drive" Prue responded, after the wave had passed.

Back near the swing, Andy materialized, staring distantly as Prue drove off . He continued to stare at the street until a swirl of orbs appeared beside. "Oh there you are" Natalie breathed, "you know how hard it is for anyone to sense you when you go indivisible for long periods of time".

"Maybe that's why I do it," Andy quipped sarcastically.

"I'm not in the mood to go rounds, Andy" Natalie crossed her arms over her chest she was not impressed with his attitude. "You're suppose to tracing a future avatar"

"I thought he might here" Andy shrugged glancing at the young couple near the tree, "making out with his best girl," Andy then rubbed his chin, "Tell me, Nat why is this place so special to me?"

Natalie mimicked his shrug and shook her head, "I don't know".

"Is it because I used to come here with Prue Halliwell?"

"I honestly can't answer that for you," Natalie retorted coldly watching the storm clouds on Andy's brow begin to brew.

"Would you, if you could?" Andy smirked knowing that as white lighter, Natalie didn't have the initiative to out right lie.