Author's Note: Sorry that the past chapters have been so short, I promise this one will be longer. This story is supposed to take place between the episodes Sense and Sense Ability and Oh My Godess Part 1 & 2, therefor they do not know Chris yet and Leo is still their whitelighter.

Bonding

"Well? What has been done since I was gone?" Prue asked.

"First of all, we vanquished the Source." Leo said.

"Yes, and we also vanquished Cole." Phoebe said. There was a slight remorsefulness in her voice when she said that.

"We vanquished him when I got sent into an alternate dimension where you had died and I had died too so there was no Power of Three." Paige explained.

"Then Piper had her baby, Wyatt." Phoebe told Prue.

"Is Leo his father?" Prue wondered.

"Bingo." Paige said.

"I thought so." Prue grinned.

"Anyway, then there was also this hag that tortured mermaids, and Phoebe got turned into a mermaid to save an innocent." Paige explained.

"Then there was also a monkey that took my eyesight, Paige's voice, and Phoebe's hearing to get Wyatt." Piper said.

Prue grinned. "Let me guess...see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil?"

"Bingo." Paige said again.

Prue turned to Paige. "Paige, being that I really don't know you, will you tell me about yourself?"

"Gee, Prue, what is there to tell?" Paige asked. "I mean, I'm just Paige, half-witch half-whitelighter, nothing very big and important."

"You're part of the Power of Three." Prue reminded her.

"Yeah, except the Power of Three doesn't exist anymore. Now it's the Power of Four." Paige added.

"'The Power of Four will set us free' doesn't really rhyme. We need a better one." Phoebe said.

"Okay...how about 'the Power of Four will strengthen us more?'" Prue suggested.

"Good one!" Paige and Phoebe said at the same time.

Suddenly there was a wailing sound from upstairs. "Wyatt!" Piper, Leo, Paige, and Phoebe said at the same time. All five of them rushed up the stairs to get to Piper and Leo's son. Wyatt was lying in his crib with something black hovering over him.

The something black was wearing a ratty old black robe that had holes all over it. Through the robe was a hand coming out that looked more like a bird's claw. Its face was that of a lady's, though. She had pitch-black hair, black eyes with no iris and no white part. Her skin was not dark. It was deathly pale, scabbed with white. And her teeth were long. Very, very long.

"Vampire!" Prue was the first to identify the creature.

"Piper, blow it up!" Paige commanded.

Piper threw her hands out in front of her but the vampire did not blow up. Instead she only cackled and bent towards Wyatt.

"Why isn't she blowing up?" Piper asked.

"Leo, what do you know about vampires?" Phoebe asked.

"Well, they are afraid of crosses, holy water burns them, and the only way to kill it is to put a metal stake through its heart." Leo explained.

"Metal stake...metal stake...where's the nearest metal stake?" Prue said, terrified.

"Does an athame count?" asked Paige.

"Yes!" Piper, Phoebe, Prue, and Leo exclaimed at the same time.

"Prue, you hold her off, I'll go orb up to the attic and get an athame." Paige said and orbed out.

"What? What do I do?" Prue asked.

"Use your power. Wyatt!" Paige said as she orbed back down. Wyatt orbed into her hands. "Here." She handed Prue the athame.

Prue swept her hand in a motion so that the athame hit the vampire it the heart. It screamed and vanished in a puff of dusty smoke.

"Piper, remember our little talk about securing the nursery?" Leo asked. "Because we don't want Wyatt growing up with lots of demons trying to hurt him?"

"Oh, right." Piper said. "Oh, couldn't this be one little exception?"

Phoebe, Paige, and Prue laughed.

Suddenly Leo heard the Elders calling him. "I have to orb up there." he said.

"But, Leo-" Piper started, but Leo was already in mid-orb.

"Come on." Prue said. "Let's go downstairs."

They waited for a while in the living room until there were little blue orbs in the air. Suddenly Leo appeared from the blue orbs.

"The Elders say-" Leo started.

"What do the Elders say?" Prue said, cutting him off.

"The Elders say that something happened that shouldn't. Prue, you're not supposed to be here. And there is destiny getting in the way. You were supposed to meet someone called Chris." Leo explained.

"Chris? Who is Chris?" Piper asked.

"Can't tell." Leo said with a grin.

"Who is Chris?" Paige repeated.

Leo sighed. "Okay, I'll tell you. He's a whitelighter."

"So are you." Piper said.

"Why would we need to meet another whitelighter? We've already got you!" Prue said.

"Leo, what are you not telling us?" Phoebe asked. "You're not telling us something."

"I...I...well, look, Prue, the Elders don't want you here. You're interfereing with destiny." Leo said.

Prue's eyes widened. She stepped backwards and looked for a minute as if she would fall over. Then she got an angry look in her eye and asked, "You're going to kill me?"

"No, Prue. I'm going to do my best to help you stay in this world. I can't stand to see Piper and her sisters upset." Leo said.

"So you're only going to help me because of that?" Prue asked coldly.

Nobody finished, because a Darklighter arrow whizzed past their heads at that moment.