Disclaimer: I own neither the Charmed Ones or their home or their powers or Cole. Phoenix is entirely my own creation as is her heritage and this story. Please read and review, but only positive feedback as I'm trying to juggle writing in between school and a job, and negative comments make me stressed.

Chapter 1: Welcome to America

Phoenix blinked as she opened her eyes. Rain lashed down on the cars windscreen. It was like back home except she wasn't home. She wasn't in the English countryside with its sparse houses and small schools. She was in San Francisco, America. Everywhere she looked there were lights and houses. But still this is where she had been born. Her mother had given birth at the age of 16 and when Phoenix was a year old she had moved them to England to 'stay away from bad memories'. Phoenix assumed this meant her father, a man she had never met, and didn't intend to. Her mother had said he had been a grown man at the time, a lawyer, and this made Phoenix feel sick. A few weeks ago a strange man had followed her home. In a small village like the one Phoenix had grown up in, a strange person is cause for concern. That following someone is the sort of thing that would cause a mother to raise the alarm to other parents but Phillipa had just gone quiet when her daughter told her. A fear had shown in her eyes. She was straight onto the phone, not to tell other parents but to arrange two plane tickets back to America. She and Phoenix had packed their bags and come here. Phoenix had received no explanation for her mother's actions. "Mum? Are you sure we're not lost?" asked Phoenix. "I'm sure honey," replied Phillipa, "Keep an eye out for a manor o.k.?" Phoenix sat up straight and looked out the window. She knew they had no hope of finding this manor in this weather. Phoenix let out a huge yawn and closed her eyes for a second. When she opened them, she saw a man standing in the road, the same man that had followed her. "Mum?" she said. She looked at her mother, she had frozen, her mouth open in terror. "Mum!" Phoenix screamed. Her mother turned the steering wheel sharply to the right. The tires skidded on the wet road and the car went hurtling straight into the side of a building. Phoenix screamed and Phoebe Halliwell awoke with a jump, crying out her sisters' names. "Piper!! Paige!!"