A/N: Okay, Pinky here you go! Oh and about Paige. Yes, she'll be united with her sisters. It's just not going to be a "Paige" centered story. son gomay vidal goku: the dark lighter is going to be around a while. Zythe: LOL, what is it, they say on TNT here in the states? Drama is Charmed. Goddess, if you are reading this story too. Thanks so much for the review on Dream Wedding!
Charmed in the Afterlife: A Wrinkle in Time
"Piper don't!" Prue gasped, feeling the athame tear through the flesh of her abdomen. Piper watched cold and emotionless retracting the blade while her sister slumped to the floor.
"There no more Prue," Piper quipped sadistically dropping the athame at Prue's feet. She then turned on one heel and padded back down to her room as if nothing had happened, leaving Prue to bleed, injured, and dying.
"L-Le-L-" Prue tried to to call for help but blood was already clogging throat finding her attempt mews useless. Tears welled in her eyes as she realized she was going to die without ever having to face Shax.
This couldn't be happening. "We can't die" she swallowed holding her stomach. Slowly her eyes closed leaving way for defeat. A strange sensation covered her and Prue felt her physical body give way to her astral side as the room began to spin. "What's happening?" she said feeling light headed. Her two halves split, leaving the wounded physical half behind while the other projected back into the bedroom. Prue saw herself sleeping next to Andy and Amanda.
The Prue in the bed woke up just as she had before, noticing Amanda and then her astral self. "What's going on?"
Astral Prue hesitated for a moment feeling strange about speaking to her past self. "Don't go into the bathroom if you do, Piper will stab you with an athame"
"What?" The Prue in the bed look skeptical at her astral self.
"Just trust me," Astral Prue pleaded as the Prue in the bed started to feel sick.
"But I'm going to be-"
Astral Prue motioned to a antique pitcher sitting on the dresser as the other Prue flew from the bed heaving violently. The Astral Prue then felt the tug of her body calling her back, and projected into the Prue vomiting into the pitcher.
Awakened by the sound of his wife's wrenching, Andy rubbed his eyes "Prue what's wrong?" he asked still sleepy.
Prue swiped the back of her hand across her mouth, taking a moment to think. Carefully she listened to the sound of Piper entering the bathroom from the hall and came to conclusion.
"I think I just discovered the baby's active power," she told Andy watching him as he sat up alert.
"What is it?"
"Our new baby can astral project through time"
Andy rubbed his chin, pondering the idea, "well it makes sense I guess. You can astral project through your power of telekinesis and I can move through time when the Elders want me too, but how did you figure it out?"
"Piper just tried to-" Prue's voice trailed as large red welts rose up on Andy's chest and neck. "What the hell is that? That wasn't there last night". Concerned, she crossed back over to the bed for a closer look.
Andy looked down to see that the slash marks from the wendigo's talons had returned in large welted over scars. "Yeah, I've been meaning to talk to you about that," he said slowly. "Last night at the park, I saved a young women from a wendigo".
Prue's green eyes went wide with anxious fear. "Oh-Oh...a wendigo, please tell me that you killed it"
"No it had some kind of supernatural defensive power. . ." Andy admitted sheepishly, as she pressed a hand to his cheek, checking for signs of illness
"Why didn't you tell me last night?" Prue's eyebrows knitted sharply. Wendigos often appeared only under the light of a full moon. Now, early morning, with bright pouring sun, the creature would be impossible to trace in it's human form. Baffled, Andy began to stammer, prompting Prue to throw up a hand. "Okay, never mind answering that. I can handle this". Prue rose to her feet raking a hand through her hair. "I'll find it, and vanquish it but not before I kick Piper's ass or the demon that's pocessing her ass"
Thirty minutes later, Prue, Piper and Phoebe sat around the dining room table, while Andy and Cole remained in the kitchen. Amanda was seated in her highchair while Andy prepared a breakfast of dry waffles and chopped apples, while Cole sipped at his cup of coffee.
"Prue you're out of your freaking mind!" Piper's angry voice rang through the walls, making even the demon shudder.
So when's Leo getting here?" Cole asked cringing at Prue's heated retort.
"Look Piper, I know it's hard to believe but I know what happened, something is after you"
"Hopefully before you and I have to go out there and tear them apart". Andy answered scraping bits of waffle and apple onto Amanda's plate.
"You must have been dreaming!" Piper spat, "I would never try to kill you!" Piper's voice echoed.
"Sister against, sister that would be ugly," Cole envisioned pulling the cup back up to his lips.
"You are telling me" Andy quipped remembering what it had been like when Prue, Piper and Phoebe had all been teenagers. "Prue fights to win"
Back in the dining room, Phoebe reached across the table taking a hold of Piper's hand "You would try to hurt Prue if you were under a spell" Phoebe added quietly, "It's happened before". Phoebe's voice turned to a whisper, as premonition entered her mind. A vision of Prue and Piper standing at the top of stairs arguing appreared bright as day; Prue's back was towards the stairs and Piper was shouting, lashing out with hands. Taking a forceful shove, Prue fell backwards, toppling down the stairs.
"What did you see?"
"Piper shoving you down the stairs so that you'll lose the baby," Phoebe returned, her voice wavering.
"Oh whose side are you on?" Piper whirled snapping viciously at her younger sister.
"Yours sweetie, Prue and I only want to help you"
Piper's dark eyes narrowed, "I don't need your help because nothing happened!" she hissed, "We all know that Prue has issues with her astral side in the past!" Unbeknowest to anyone, the darklighter, hovered in astral form, grinning in delight as Piper stalked from the room.
Phoebe started after her sister, only to have Prue call her back, "no let her go". Together they walked into the kitchen wearing dejected faces.
"That didn't go well" Phoebe squeaked, stealing a piece of waffle from Amanda's plate. Cole rose to his feet so that he was now standing beside her. His hands fell to her shoulders kneading them gently.
"We heard"
"Any word from Leo on the Wendigo?" Prue asked padding over to the frig. No sooner than she had finished her sentence, then Leo appeared in flurry of blue and white orbs.
"Sorry it took me so long, the Elders wanted to so some extensive research on the Wendigo that attacked you."
Cole and Phoebe both looked shocked, speaking in unison, "Wendigo?"
"Andy was attacked last night in the park, trying to save an innocent girl." Prue answered awaiting Leo's explanation.
"The girl couldn't have been all that innocent, at least not a mortal innocent" Leo began "according to the Elders' this type of wendigo, only goes after supernatural beings. It like's to feed on their powers. That's why you couldn't kill it. It's become so strong that it's immune to Andy's level of magic."
"Then we'll need the power of three to destroy it," Prue inferred crossing her arms over her chest. Part of her wondered if Piper would be willing to participate in the vanquish.
"Plus, the tracking spell you used on the Banshee" Leo put in watching Prue smile tightly.
"Great looks like I get to be a dog again, a pregnant dog with morning sickness"
"Well you do make the perfect bitch" Cole muttered under his breath earning a heated glance from Phoebe.
"Wait a minute, before we turn Prue back into an expectant Cujo, shouldn't we find this innocent? I mean if the Wendigo only goes after people connected with the supernatural then that would make her a witch right?"
Leo shrugged, "she could also be a demon or a warlock, so you need to be careful".
Phoebe bit her lip, and then glanced at Andy, "Did you get her name?"
Andy thought for moment, "Paige. Paige Matthews"
