A/N: piperleo4eva: I will accept your words as the ultimate compliment. It's very difficult for me to read anything about a couple; I don't want to be together so for you to be rooting Prue and Andy on is awesome! Makes me feel like I've done my job as a writer! Thanks to everyone else who reviewed. Your comments keep this story alive!
We are jumping ahead again. Prue is now 8 and half months pregnant.
Shores of San Francisco Bay
Andy stood with his hands jammed into his pockets staring out at the water as he waited for Natalie to appear. He couldn't get the crushed look on Prue's face from his mind. The fact that she had so much love to give that he couldn't receive bothered him greatly. He needed answers.
Natalie orbed in beside him, "how can I help you Andy?" Andy turned slowly crossing his arms over his chest. "I want my memory back" he said flatly and to the point. "I want this so called consequence to be over and I want you to stop hurting Prue"
Natalie started at him blankly, "That's not my decision and even it was, I don't have that kind of power". Andy placed his hands at his side, forming fists of frustration. "Talk to the Elders, you have pull with them, I know you do"
"No" Natalie shook her head, "I can't do that. It would go against the greater good."
"Fine" Andy retorted, "then tell them, to take their damn powers back because, I'm finished working for the greater good"
"You don't mean that," Natalie challenged, "You love what you do"
"I want to remember that I love Prue"
Natalie shook her head again, this time her face was bristling with anger. She was about to say something when instead she orbed away.
"Damn it!" Andy swore kicking sand into the little blue and white lights. After the orbs had cleared a women dressed in a long white flowing gown appeared; a women Andy recognized as another apparition.
"Hello Andy"
Andy squinted trying to clear his mind of the fog that was refusing to let recall the women's name. "Do I know you?"
"Oh Andy" Penny laughed aloud, "Not even the Elders and all the memory dust in the world could make you forget me"
"Okay" Andy shrugged playing along" Why are you here?"
Penny extended her hand, "I'm here to help you remember, Prue"
Golden Gate Park
Prue sat in the swing rubbing her swollen belly. She was dressed in a fuchsia colored maternity top that Piper had made from the same material of her favorite fuchsia blouse and jean crop pants. "Daddy should be here any minute" she said. Beside her lay a stack of old high school photos in which she hoped would jar more of his memory.
"If the prom doesn't do it for him, nothing will". She grinned at the sight of orbs forming beside her. "Hi"
"Hi" Andy kissed her cheek and handed her a small velvet box. "Another gift?"
"It's from your Grams actually"
Prue looked puzzled, "wait a minute, you went to see Grams?"
"More like she came to see me" Andy replied, "she had a gift for me too"
Prue smiled, "a gift really what was it?"
Andy reached out and brushed a strand of long raven hair behind her left ear, "a memory of you"
"Grams gave you a memory of me?" Prue repeated feeling her heart filled with hope. "Well it was more like a memory of something she did to me. Me running out of the house, her chasing me with a broomstick... but yeah"
"That makes me so happy, you remembered her," Prue squealed hugging him. Andy stroked her hair as the two held each other for several seconds.
"Now open your box"
Andy's arm draped across the back of the swing, as Prue tore into the little box. Inside was a tiny infant pewter bracelet, which had the triquetra symbol set in the center. "It's a bracelet for the baby," Prue cooed showing it to Andy.
"Now she can be Charmed just like you" Andy smiled his trademark grin as the two shared a soft peck. "Wait a minute," Prue smiled back, "Hold that grin, I want to get a picture" she turned around to grab her camera.
"You can't take a picture of me Prue"
Prue looked at him confused, "why not?"
"Because it won't turn out"
"What do you mean it won't turn out, I'm an expect in developing film you know"
Andy pushed the camera away from his face, "I know that but it won't come out because I'm dead"
Prue's brow furrowed, "so Leo's dead and we have tons of pictures of him"
"That's because Leo's been dead for over 40 years, I've only been gone two. I haven't been dead long enough yet, people here still know me"
"And let me guess there is some sort of waiting period...a rule?"
"Unfortunately, but it's a good rule. If I were go out to mall or someplace in broad day light and someone that I used to know saw me, think of the havoc that would cause. The cleaners would have a hay day."
"Mmm...you have a good point," Prue bit her bottom lip and set the camera aside, "well you can certainly look at pictures of yourself can't you?" Prue handed him the old Prom Photos.
"What is this?" Andy looked at the photo of himself dressed in a black tux with the sleeves pushed up to his elbows.
"Prom 1987" Prue replied, "You had quite the Don Johnson, Miami Vice look going on"
"I guess so" he answered focusing on the picture of Prue. "You looked beautiful though". Prue had been dressed in a strapless royal blue dress that sported a hoop skirt. "Gorgeous dress"
"Yeah too bad nobody but you and Grams ever got to see it," Prue made a face.
"Why was that?"
Andy grinned as Prue's voice turned wickedly seductive, "Because instead of going to the Prom, you rented us a room at the Ritz and you and me minus the dress had the most incredible sex of our teenage lives".
"Whoa" Andy tugged at his collar, feeling his neck grow warm, "I must be cursed because that is the second time you have said something like that to me, and I can't remember a damn thing"
"Sucks to be you," Prue frowned thoughtfully, "I on the other hand, remember everything. The limousine ride, the bathtub, and the morning after"
"The bathtub?" Andy shuddered at the thought, watching Prue nod with a naughty grin,
"Damn"
"Tell me about life after you became a witch. I know I ran into you again after high school, what was life like for us then?"
Prue looked away, Andy did know that there were still times when she berated herself for having wasted so much valuable time, "I really don't want to go into that Andy. It's too painful"
Andy ran his hand through her hair, "Why? Did I do something?"
"No" Prue sighed, "you were always perfect. It was me. I sort of had thing about telling you that I was witch and-"
"You didn't tell me that you loved me until it was too late" Andy finished, watching Prue's eyes widen, "You and I were here in the park, you came to warn me about the demon. I wanted to meet you at the house and you threaten to use your power on me and then you told me that you still loved me"
"Yes!" Prue squealed flinging her arms around him, "Yes!" Andy hugged her back. " Wait a minute. How do you remember that?"
"I don't know," he shrugged, "I was listening to you, and the memory was just there"
"Grams, what did she do exactly?"
"I'm sworn to secrecy," he whispered brushing a kiss across Prue's plum colored lips.
"I think I like this secret, " Prue whispered back, just as her abdomen was whacked with a painful cramp.
"Oh...Oh...OW!"
"Prue?" Andy asked worried.
"It's nothing...just a con-contraction!" Prue replied, her voice getting louder with the onset of pain. "Ow..Ow..Ow"
"Contraction?" Andy's eyes grew wide. "LEO!"
"No...No there's no need to call Leo the Dr. said it's normal," Prue placed her hand over his and sighed, "and it's over"
Somewhere Out There....
"What's happening?" Natalie asked as she looked through the crystal of a neutral seer. The neutral seer was neither good nor evil, just a spiritual being with the power to see the future. The seer stroked her crystal and a vision of Prue and Andy kissing appeared, followed by a scene of Prue in labor, screaming. A third vision of death, the bodies of Prue, Andy and Piper were spread all about the manor, broken and bleeding.
"I see, love, a birth, and a death. If time proceeds in this direction, you will see the destruction of the Charmed Ones. This child will bring death to the Halliwell family.
"I can't let that happen." Natalie shook her head, "when is the child to be born?"
The seer looked again, "On all Witches Eve"
"Halloween" Natalie restated knowing it was the biggest demonic day of the year. "Perfect"
