Chapter 2 Motherhood and Witchhood

One rainy stormy night in San Francisco Prue and Piper Halliwell were walking around the manor trying to fix the chandelier. Then Piper said, "do you know who would be great to be here?" "No who?"

Prue answered. "Phoebe" Piper replied. "Yeah right" Prue replied sarcastically. "No really she should be here with us" Piper argued. "But she's in New York" Prue argued back defiantly. Piper looked guiltily at Prue then said "No she's not". "What?!" Prue exclaimed angrily. They were about Phoebe when she walked in carrying a baby carrier with a baby girl no older than 2 weeks old. She put the other things she was carrying down and walked into the living room still holding the car seat carrier. Both Prue and Piper turned and looked at her and stopped their bickering. " Hey I found a baby on the doorstep" Phoebe announced making her presence known. The baby was crying at the top of her lungs and the sisters figured out that she was probably freezing from being soaking wet from the storm. Phoebe bent down and picked her up and cradled her in her arms. She said to Piper "get something dry and warm to wrap her up in". Piper then ran upstairs to get something to wrap the baby up in. Phoebe had already undressed the baby and calmed her down by the time Piper came downstairs with a clean white towel. Then Prue said, "She needs a name". Both Piper and Phoebe agreed with her. "Well what should we name her?" Phoebe asked. "I think we should give her Melinda as her middle name after our ancestor" Piper said. "Ok then her middle name is Melinda but what's her first name then?" Prue asked. Phoebe looked at Piper and Piper nodded to her in agreement. "I think we should name her after you Prue cause you deserve that honor" Phoebe told her. " Wow I accept the honor." Prue said shocked as they handed her the baby. "So that's her name then Prudence Melinda Halliwell!" Piper said excitedly. They all were cooing over the baby when the storm knocked the power out. "I'm going to check the circuit breaker," Prue said. Then she went to do that while Phoebe holding the baby grabbed a flashlight and said, "I'm going up to the attic to check it out". "But Phoebe that door's been locked ever since we moved in here" Piper argued. "Well maybe I can open it then." Phoebe replied coolly. Then she walked up the stairs to the attic. She had the flashlight in one hand and was holding baby Prue with the other arm. She put the flashlight down for a moment then grasped the doorknob with her free hand and pushed on the door. And just as Piper had told her it wouldn't budge. So she picked the flashlight and turned around and started walking away when the door mysteriously opened. She turned and started at it for a moment before proceeding then shined the flashlight's powerful beam around the attic. She saw a lot of junk and then a stream of light from the window cast on an old trunk that Phoebe walked over to and opened up. She riffled through the contents till she found a big green leather bound book and pulled it out. She closed the trunk and sat on top of it. She put the flashlight down and balanced the book on one leg and the baby in one arm. Next, She opened the book to the first page that had the title "The Book Of Shadows". She flipped to the next page that had what looked like an incantation or poem. Baby Prue was slapped her very tiny hands down on the page and giggled. Phoebe looked over at her and smiled. She read the incantation and as she did you could hear thunder rumbling loudly outside and see bright flashes of lightning. When Phoebe was finished reading she looked around the attic to see if anything was different. Nothing was but unbeknownst to her the chandelier glowed with bluish white orbs and shook. The picture of the 3 sisters changed moving the 3 of them closer together. Phoebe closed the book and put it down on the floor. She adjusted the infant in her arms and got up and walked downstairs. Just as Phoebe came down the stairs the front door burst open and there stood Jeremy the warlock cuts all over his face holding an athame. He grinned evilly at the girls and then started toward them. The three of three started backing up as far as they could then Prue said to her sisters, "go run! I'll hold him off".

All of sudden Jeremy flew across the room and crashed into a wall. Prue looked surprised and thought someone else was there because she could not have done that because she didn't know about her powers. Then her senses kicked in and she turned and ran up the stairs as fast as she could. She stumbled into the attic and closed the door then her sisters helped her pile stuff against the door. When enough stuff was piled against the door they backed away from it and waited for Jeremy. Then the stuff started moving away from the door as Jeremy said in a demonic voice "You can't keep me out by blocking the door you imbeciles!"

Then the door broke down and then Jeremy walked in towards the girls. "What do we do?" asked a panicked Piper. "I don't know" Prue said as Jeremy shot out a ring of flames from his fingers that encircled the girls. Phoebe hugged Baby Prue closer to her and then remembered what her mother had written on the spirit board. "Hey remember what Mom wrote on the spirit board "The Power Of Three will set you free" Phoebe shouted to them over all the din Jeremy was causing. "Yeah" they both answered back. "Well maybe if we chant it then we can protect ourselves" Phoebe suggested. "Ok" they both answered again. Then they all chanted "The Power Of Three will set us free" over and over and over again. Jeremy called up a ferocious sandstorm around them so they wouldn't be able to finish the chant but they just kept chanting until finally he exploded. " What the hell was that?" Prue asked. "That was a warlock" Phoebe told them. "A what?" Piper asked. "A warlock" Phoebe explained. "A warlock is an evil being that kills good witches and steals their powers." Phoebe continued. "So why is he after us?" Prue asked taking Baby Prue from Phoebe and rocked her back and forth. Phoebe went on to explain to them about magic and good witches and the Halliwell magic history and that they were they most powerful good witches in history called the Charmed Ones. She then explained to them about what each of their powers were like for example Prue had the power of telekinesis and Piper had the power to stop time and that Phoebe had the power of clairvoyance. They didn't accept it at first but when Piper froze the chef at her job interview and Prue telekinetically tightened her boss's tie they had to believe it. Prue also ran into her old flame Andy Trudeau and they caught up with each other. The next morning Prue went out to get the paper and saw Andy coming up the steps. "Hey" he said. "Hey" Prue said still holding the paper. They talked for a couple of minutes and then Andy left and Phoebe and Piper who was holding Baby Prue came out of the house and stood in front of Prue and they talked about how their lives have changed dramatically. Then they went inside to eat breakfast.