Chap. 21
"Leo, wait!" Chris said as he orbed in with Andy.
Andy looked shocked. Feeling slightly sick to his stomach, he surveyed his surroundings. "Prue, I should've guessed," Andy sighed. There was just so much more to magic than he had realized, and whatever that magical transportation was, he didn't like it.
"Andy!" She ran up to hug him, but stopped short. "Who's this?" she pointed at Chris. He orbed so he couldn't've been evil. Maybe he was bringing Andy back to them. The Elders certainly owed them for all the good that her and her sisters have done, but why not send him with Leo?
Grabbing Andy's hand, Kat got a premonition. "It's him."
"I don't know how much I like you doing that," Cole said.
"Whatever, Dad," She shrugged.
"You still haven't answered my question who-"
Kat cut Prue off, "Well, funny that you ask who we are and not when you are. See, it's like spring of 2004 and a lot has changed. This is Aunt Paige. She is you half-sister by Grandma and Sam, Grandma's whitelighter. She helped reconstitute the Power of Three after… the Shax disaster. This is Wyatt," she pointed at the toddler holding Piper's hand, "He's Aunt Piper and Uncle Leo's first son. Enjoy the innocence while it lasts because he grows up to be a merciless tyrant. So, Chris, Aunt Piper and Uncle Leo's second son," she pointed at adult Chris and Piper's stomach, "came back in time to prevent him from being turned. My name is Kat. I'm Phoebe and Cole's first daughter, also from the future and I have yet to exist."
Andy nodded, agreeing with himself, "Yup, things have definitely gotten weirder in the past few seconds. Why isn't it 1999 anymore?"
"Simple answer? You've probably traveled through time. Of course, you didn't know when you did it. However, you've landed yourself in a time when both of you," she pointed to Andy and Prue, "are dead," Kat answered bluntly.
There was an uncomfortable silence. Piper's maternal instincts kicked in. "Is anybody hungry? I'm gonna go make food or tea or something."
"Mom, we just had dinner," Chris said.
"You didn't eat. Come with me," Piper beckoned him to follow. He reluctantly did as his mother told him.
"I'm going to go check with the Elders, now," Leo said orbing away before anybody could prevent him.
"How'd we die?" Prue asked.
Chap. 22
"Ok, so I'm dead, he's dead, you're from the future, and you call him uncle?" Prue clarified sitting on a couch in the conservatory next to Andy.
"Yup," Kat answered pacing in the middle of their family room.
"So we're really married? That's a big leap from being broken up again," Andy said.
"Yeah, but you got married in heaven. A little earlier than my parents were married the first time…" She started to do the math in her head," I'd say you've been married since early 2002.
Prue, looking at pictures of her three sisters, glanced up, "The first time?"
Cole and Phoebe exchanged uncomfortable looks. They were sitting together on the other couch. Since picking up the pieces of their shattered relationship, they hadn't mentioned that subject. She was about to explain, but much to her relief, Andy changed the subject. "How did we get married if were dead?" He asked.
Paige shrugged, "It's not like there aren't any clergymen in heaven."
Kat continued to try to figure things out, "So just to go through this again, you guys don't remember an evil demon IA agent or big ugly demon named Shax?"
"I know the IA is starting to investigate my involvement in my unsolved cases."
Prue nodded. "One of the IA agents, Rodriguez, really worked for The Source, who sent Tempus. Tempus kept resetting the day until Rodriguez knew exactly how to kill us. But the day kept changing a little each time he reset it. Each time I told you not to come, but the last time that time was reset you did come, and you saved us."
Andy pulled the teary-eyed Prue closer. For once, she didn't fight him. He didn't know how to respond. "Explains why Morris was acting strange," he offered.
"Wait. You've already seen Daryl?" Kat asked.
"Yeah, at…um…P3 that's where we ran into Chris."
"So, whoever is setting this up, knew that we'd tell you what really happened. Listen, there gotta to be a method to this madness. It might be someone trying to keep us busy. Go back to P3 and do what you were going to do before you saw us. That might lead somewhere the demon or whoever didn't want you to go. I want you to come back here, though. I think we're gonna need to talk strategy."
"Actually, that's what I planned to do," Andy said.
"Hmmm…interesting. Hang on. Chris!"
"Yeah?" Chris answered happy to be out of Piper's clutches.
"You have an active power. Go with Uncle Andy back to P3. Follow him and Daryl. K?"
"Whatever," He held out his hand to Andy.
"We have to do that again?"
"Orb? Yeah, come on." Chris and Andy orbed out.
"I'm going to the Attic to check the Book of Shadows." Kat ran up stairs.
Phoebe told them she'd go grab Piper from the kitchen.
Cole looked around. He felt out numbered by Prue's contempt and Paige's distrust. He decided to follow Kat's lead. "I'm going to go…" he tried to think of an excuse, but came up short, "I'm just going to go."
When Phoebe reentered with Piper, Paige asked, "He went downstairs?"
Phoebe nodded, "Gave us privacy. Is that so wrong?"
In disbelief, Prue asked, "You let him go into the basement where the power to out Wiccan Spiritual Nexus lies?"
"It's a long story," Piper said.
"We have a lot to fill you in on, sis."
Chap. 23
Kat yawned and stretched. Walking downstairs and holding the Book of Shadows like a child would hold a stuffed animal, she heard Prue and Phoebe arguing over something, and Prue was trying to sway Leo to her side. Some things just didn't change.
"Of course I'm who I say I am! Leo?" Prue yelled.
"What's going on?" Kat asked as she yawned again.
"Kat! I thought you said that they were really Prue and Andy!" Phoebe scolded in a panicked voice. They were imposters, and they were going to die for it. "Show yourself, demon!"
Kat busted out laughing as she explained herself, "I did. They are. What's going on? You guys know it's too late to be playing practical jokes?"
"This is no joke! She's a demon!"
"Phoebe we're sisters! I gave Piper the chicken pox. You taught me how to French kiss. I broke my ankle when I was seven. Come on, I went to Duran Duran with Piper and stretched out her leg warmers!" Prue tried to convince Phoebe.
Finally, Phoebe nodded and finished, "And then you gave them to me. That still doesn't explain what the Elders said!"
Bright blue orbs filled the air dropped Andy off and continued to the basement.
"Someone's in a bad mood," Kat observed. "What exactly did the Elders say?"
"They are and have been where they're supposed to be the whole time. They haven't left."
"I'm confused. Why am I here if I'm supposed to be there?" Andy asked trying to settle his stomach before he moved again. He really hated that orbing thing.
Kat rolled her eyes, "Well, duh they're still up there."
"Huh?"
"Ok. I don't know how much sense this'll make, but it's because it's 2004, and they're from 1999 and 2001 respectively. If they were them from now, then they'd know what's going on and when it is. We wouldn't have had to explain everything to them, but see they're '99 and '01. It's as if they we're literally plucked out of their timeline and put here, but then they'll be returned and they shouldn't remember anything of this time. Time will continue and they'll most likely go to heaven."
"So, then they are who they say they are?" Phoebe clarified.
"Yeah."
"Well, then I'm sorry for thinking you were demons, Prue and Andy."
"You thought we were demons?" Andy asked still confused.
"It's ok and not important. I do have a question, what do you me we won't remember?" Prue asked.
"From what I've read it's should be almost like a vague feeling that you've left the oven on or that you're supposed to call someone back, but you forgot who it was.1 Or you could experience something that's' sorta like memory of a dream mixed with déjà vu feeling. It's hard to explain," Kat tried to answer.
"So why do you have the Book?" Leo asked.
"Oh, I was looking for something to help us but um…no such luck."
"What were you looking for?" Prue asked as she glanced through it.
"I don't know. Leads, I guess. I didn't find anything, but I did update your time traveling section. I mean you can find more things by googling!"
"That bad?"
"Yes. There's always tomorrow to find the leads. Listen, I'm going to bed. Uncle Andy, I can show you to a free bedroom, but there isn't anymore after that."
"Prue, you can take my room. I'll share with Cole."
Chap. 24
Prue walked into the manor. "New key works!" She announced.
"What are you doing back so soon? I thought you were going to check up on 415 Magazine," Phoebe said closing her laptop as she took off her glasses and set them on top of it.
"No, apparently being dead also makes you jobless. I'm really tired of people looking at me like a ghost or an imposter. I ended up spending my time in the library. You were right. All records show that the doctor and I were killed here 3 years ago. The case is still unsolved, but the detective in charge believed it to be linked to the attack of Paige Matthews and her boyfriend," Prue recited what she had read from an old newspaper article. "It's so bizarre. I don't remember anything about Shax attacking."
"Kat said something about time," Phoebe offered, but Prue shrugged.
"Where is everybody?"
"Work. Piper insisted that she went to P3 because God forbid she doesn't set up next week's band, Paige and Leo expect to hear something at magic school, and Chris followed Andy to the station because it appears he has job."
"This is so weird. Things have changed a ton!" Prue observed. She sat down next to Phoebe trying to put on her usual take-charge persona.
"You know? I'm really surprised that it's not crazier around here."
"Me too. I can't believe that we're really going to follow our daily routines nor can I help but to feel like Piper and Paige are avoiding me. I mean, I understand Paige, but I would think that Piper would be happy to see me."
"1st your memories might hide something we need to know. Second Paige and Piper are not avoiding you. They just have things-"
"-to do. I understand, but I get here and Piper goes to the kitchen, then she goes to bed following Paige's lead after everybody else left us and leaving just you to explain the last three years to me, and now she's at P3 when she's due in a few days!"
"It was really hard for Piper to some to terms with your…well, you know. I'm not sure if you being has hit her yet or if she's trying to protect her self from being hurt when you have to leave again," Phoebe explained.
Prue sighed resignedly. "Ok, how about my niece or my other nephew? Where are they?"
"Doing the usual, I guess. Kat's probably pacing and talking to herself right now. She does that a lot, and then she'll grab Wyatt and bring him down to the basement with her. Most of the time she mumbles something about the future."
"How long ago did she start today?"
"Oh, I'd say about an hour or hour and a half ago."
"We need to get her out of the house. Do teenaged girls still like shopping?" Prue said with a smile.
Thanks again for reading! Please R&R. I hope my explanation made sense to everybody!
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