Thanks for the reviews guys! DUN DUN DUN! Lets see what happens in this chapter! Btw, I had to change Ava a bit b/c she was just too annoying.

Prue

"Falling asleep on the job are we?"

My whole body tells me to jump up and take the knife out that I keep hidden in my bureau.

"Prue, calm down, it's just me," The voice turns from slightly horrifying to calming, and I turn around, to get caught in Andy's green eyes.

"I'm so sorry, I just- just put Ava to sleep and I guess I drifted off." I raise my body and meet Andy's with a staggering step.

"No Prue, I should be the one apologizing. I got back a lot later than I thought."
My eyes open a bit wider to take in his face, "What time is it?"

"Two fifteen." He smirks, "I don't want to wake Ava up, so… I feel really bad asking this…" Andy drifts off.

"Then let me ask you. You wanna stay over?" My heart resumes beating again. I mean this is a step, of course, it isn't like we're going to sleep together, but it's a start.

"Yes. Thanks Prue." Andy says, and he gives me a friendly hug. I forgot how strong he was, and despite myself, my eyes close dreamily.

"Where do you want to sleep?" I look up and ask him. "The downstairs couch or the couch in my room?" He's going to say downstairs couch, and I know it.

"The couch in your room. I always was afraid of sleeping down there, and this is closer to Ava." He smiles, but I can see something else in his eye.

"You sure you want to sleep here? I snore." I mentally kick myself. If Andy wants to sleep in here, then he can sleep in here.

"Prue Halliwell, you trying to get rid of me?" He laughs, situating himself on the couch.

"No! No! Stay here," I toss him a blanket from my bed.

"I remember this blanket…" Andy says jokingly, "I seem to remember that it was off your bed more than on."

"Ha, ha." My eyes roll, and my face is threatening to break into a proud smile. Waiting until he is under the covers, I turn off the light.

"Prue?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you tired?"

"Considering it's two in the morning, yeah, a little bit."

"I missed you."

"Me too."

"I really did."

"Andy?" I'm smiling in the sheer darkness. "Andy?" I say again. The air hangs silently above us, and I turn to the couch. I can tell by the movement of his stomach that he's asleep.

Piper

"Get up San Francisco! Bright and sunny out today! Finally a day to take your kids out to the park! The weather's nice; so don't delay. It probably won't stay like this."

No. I. Will. Not. Get. Up. I lift my hand to the off button, but it seems heavier than usual, and the announcer is left to drone on. Forcing my eyes open, I try to sit up, but my stomach has other plans. And even after that night sleep, I'm still exhausted. "Ughh." I say aloud in a somewhat bumpy voice

I don't think I'm that sick, actually I probably have mono or something, but not a life threatening disease, just an annoying one.

There is a knock on the door, and I try to summon a clear, healthy voice. "Yeah."

"It's Andy, you decent?" I hear a kind voice say behind the door.

For a minute I contemplate saying no, but I know he will just come back, "Yep."

The door opens, and there is Andy. I haven't seen him in such a long time, but he still looks just like he did. His friendly face with light smile lines etched near his mouth, and drop dead gorgeous green eyes. Of course, I never had a thing for Andy, he's practically a brother, and I can't think of him like that.

"Piper! I haven't seen you for so long." He moves in to hug me, but I shake my head. "What, you're too old for hugs?"

"Ah shut up Andy, you're only a few years older than me. I'm just feeling a little under the weather." I say, managing a full smile at Andy.

He looks at me a bit oddly, "You okay?"

"Yeah, don't worry about it, it's just a small thing."

"Alright Piper." He says, but he's still looking at me weirdly.

"Whatja looking at me for?" I say, trying to roll my eyes.

"You look different." This is ironic, if not funny. Andy sees me once and he suspects something, but Prue and Phoebe don't suspect a thing. He's always been a good observer, but I pray he's not as good as I think. "Did you like grow the opposite way?"

"Gee thanks."

"No, I'm serious, you seem- smaller. Thinner maybe." He puts his hand up to his chin as if pondering. Shit. Shit. Shit. He sits on the side of my bed, and looks at my face. "You been dieting or anything?" Oh. My. God. He can't possibly know. What, did they give him evidence against me at the station or something? Andy has always looked out for me, because he knows what I go through. Somehow. Once he told me that I reminded him a lot of his sister, and where is she now?

"No, of course not, Andy! You know, I'm such a good cook that I could never diet." Please, please let the sarcasm throw him off.

"Okay. So how are you feeling?"

"Got a headache and a stomachache, but I'm fine." I say, examining my fingers.

"Can I get you any Tylenol?"

"Maybe later." I say absentmindedly.

"I missed ya Pipe, especially your cooking." Andy laughs and encourages me to. I laugh. "No seriously, you think Prue was the only reason why I came over every day? You and Phoebe are like family to me."

"Same, Andy."

"So do you have your driver's license yet?" He asks, uncomfortable with the awkwardness.

"Yeah, I can drive by myself as of last week." I can't help but feel proud of myself on this one.

"Good girl!"

"Have you talked to Phoebe yet?" I ask, wondering where she is. I think I heard her come into my room last night, but that could've been a dream.

"No, she's sleeping in. She seemed exhausted. I think she bumped her head or something, because Prue says she's got this bruise on her face." Andy says, pausing, and then looking back at me.

"Yeah I saw. So, you stayed over last night?" I say, smiling despite myself.

"Yes, I did Piper. You got a problem with that?"

"Where did you sleep?" I laugh.

"On the couch near Prue. Okay! We aren't going to start things up right now…" Andy trails off as if he's not quite sure of himself.

I know what Prue wants so I decide to go for it, my gift to her. "Well you're going to start it up sometime right? I mean you both like each other, which is obviously clear. Why not start it back up now? I think it would be good for both of you."

"It's more complicated than that, Pipe." He says, blushing.

"No it's not."

"I have my plate full with Ava, and Prue is taking care of you guys, and besides, Prue doesn't want to go out with me." Andy started.

"Okay, are you kidding me? Prue thinks you're the best thing that ever happened to her. She wants to love you. Plus we can help take care of Ava, we really can. Think about it, you guys can go anywhere with this relationship, you're mature adults who can do anything they please."

"We're hardly mature. Prue can't even legally drink yet." He says, and I roll my eyes.

"You sure act mature. You have a kid to take care of, and you do a great job. If that's not mature, I don't know what is." I look him straight in the eye, "Will you please just think about it?"

"Alright, you got yourself a deal." Andy says, avoiding my stare.

Phoebe

Much to my dismay, when I get downstairs, it is neither Piper or Andy making breakfast, it's Prue. She hums happily, and whistles as she fries eggs in a pan, flipping them up and down. "Look who finally got out of bed."

"Yeah. Couldn't you have let Piper cook? Or Andy, Andy's a good cook. Better than you anyways." I say, coming up to her and lightly pinching her on the arm.

"Like you can talk, at least I'm better than you!" She gives me a trademark Prue smile. The one where her lips curl upward mischievously, and her eyes look triumphant, because she knows she's right. "How did you know Andy was here anyways?"

"I heard him come in, and I didn't hear him leave." I sit down at the table and pretend to scan the newspaper, trying to find my way to the comic section.

"Were you up that late?" Prue asks, sliding an egg onto a plate and placing it in front of me.

"No," I say, trying not to lie. The problem is, I'm a horrible liar, I always manage to burst into laughter when I lie, and even when I don't; Prue figures me out.

"Don't lie to me." She says, but not in a strict tone. She seems a lot less uptight this morning.

"Who said I was lying?" I ask innocently.

"You did. Or at least your face did. Anyways, do you expect me to believe that Andy woke you up? You're the heaviest sleeper I know!" Prue chuckles and begins on another egg. I take the first bite of mine.

"Wow, these are actually good, considering the only thing you usually 'cook' is cereal." I am probably the master of changing subjects by now.

"Well I have many hidden talents. You think I can feed these to Ava?"

I nod, "So Pruuue… Why are you so happy this morning?"

"Can't a girl just be happy without any questions?"

"Nope." I laugh, finishing my first egg.

"Would you rather me not be happy? Cause that can be arranged." She says, sitting down next to me.

Quickly shaking my head I laugh, "No way Jose!" I make it so my face is right next to her and put on a puppy dog face, "Pweeeeeaaaase Prue! I'll be your best friend!"

"Ha, like best friends is an option with you. If you must know, I had a nice talk with Andy last night."

"And a nice talk means you had sex, right?" I start getting excited, "And you're back together."

Prue puts on a face, "No, we're just friends, at least for now."

"Why don't you go out with Andy, you guys were awesome together! And plus Andy is the coolest, I don't have to worry about him cheating on you or anything!"

"Me? Cheat?" Andy ascends into the doorway holding Ava, whose head is rested on his shoulder. Prue hits her head.

Phoebe runs to hug him, "Hey And! Long time no see." She pauses as if thinking about something, "Soooo. What did you hear?"

Prue

"Uh, you were talking about me cheating." Andy says, shifting Ava slightly.

I bet he heard more than that. I bet he heard and now, everything is ruined. Ava yawns and pats Andy's face, "Uncle Andy, what's chooting?"

He gives a little embarrassed chuckle and says, "When you don't follow the rules in a game."

"Oh." She says, looking bored.

Andy's green eyes look at me differently, almost longingly as he sits next to me to eat breakfast. Cutting a banana for Ava, I say, "So Andy, are you enjoying your breakfast."

"Yes. I had some doubts about it at first, but it turned out to be good."

Phoebe almost spits out the cereal that she's started on. I swear that girl has a hollow leg. "God Andy, it's so nice to have you back. I missed you."

"Me too, Pheebs." Andy smiles, watching Ava smash bananas.

"Where's Piper?" I ask, chewing slowly.

"She's not feeling too well, so she went back to sleep." Andy says. Wow, he went to check on her.

"Aw,"

"Hey Phoebe?" Andy suddenly says, looking strangely determined.

"Yeah?" Phoebe is loudly chomping on cereal, which, much to my dismay makes me very embarrassed.

"Do you think you could watch Ava for a bit? I have to talk to Prue about something."

"Sure, no prob." She says, winking at me.

Andy stands up and tells Ava that he needs to leave the room for a second, and that Phoebe's going to play a game with her. She slowly nods, going back to being shy.

He helps me up from my chair and once we're in the sunroom, he gives me a nervous smile.

"So," I say, sitting on one of the white wicker chairs and tracing an imaginary circle with my feet. "What do you want to talk about?"

Andy nervously coughs, and shuffles his feet. I decide to focus on his strong hands that have done so much. This is instead of looking at his face. "About us." He says, his voice sounding a bit different.

"Okay," I say, my heart hammering in my chest. I adjust my pink shirt nervously.

"Um, I've been thinking. Probably because of an anonymous tip I got… But I-I know that I said that we had too much on our plate and everything but," He pauses, looking at me for my reactions. I stay perfectly still. "It was always hard to read you."

"Yeah." My voice comes out quietly.

"God Prue. I saw you, and-and I all of a sudden I started thinking about you. And how it was in highschool. Those were the best days of my life."

I'm trying to think if he's leading up to being more than just friends, or basically dumping me and saying we should only be friends. He finally decides to sit down next to me on a wicker chair, and I can feel his warmness, I can smell him. I inwardly shake my head; this is getting out of control. "Mine too." Oh god. I can't even describe how I'm feeling right now.

"I thought it would be so much more complicated than this, but in the end, I-I think I still have feelings for you." There is only silence, but inside I am exploding. I want to yell that I love him, and hug him, and run my mouth against his soft skin. "I just need to know, do you feel the same way?"

My breath is short, and I stumble with my words, "I need you." And I slap myself, because that didn't come out at all what I wanted to say.

He smiles, his green eyes glittering, "Good." He pauses again, "I only have one request… That we try to take it a little slower." His hands are on mine, stroking them. They're soft but a little rough with hard working calluses and strong fingers, which somehow stay so soft.

We're so close that I can feel his breath on my face, and I lean closer. "Is kissing going too fast?"

"Absolutely not." He says, staring into my eyes, and he leans even closer until our lips brush. His lips are soft, moist and minty, even though we just ate breakfast. Andy's arms rub my back softly, and I close my eyes to the feeling of peacefulness. Everything seems to be perfect, at least for this one minute. Time seems to stop, hanging in midair. Even when we move away, our kiss lingers in the air, and I can't stop smiling. He kisses me again, this time with a little more intensity, and for someone who wants to go slowly, a lot of tongue. I feel my hands cup his face, and his chest leaning supportively on mine.

"You're amazing." I gasp.

yes yes, see i was contemplating not getting prue and andy together at all, but OMG it was wayyy too hard not to have some hard core romance so i gave in sobs andy is just wayy too hot. well i hope this makes u guys happy at least :-)
tbc..