A/N: The-Cheese-Fairy: Thanks for being my 200th reviewer! Glenn will appear later on in the story. I'm doing a "witches tail" storyline with Paige so to speak.. Princess Pinky: hmm…good guesses about Phoebe. Andy will be finding out about Ayleia soon. See my note to the cheese fairy about Glenn. Susan: no worries! CC: I'm so glad you are back Dude! PrUe AnD AnDy: LOL I'm glad you liked my line about Ally!
Just a reminder to everyone: Back in Chapter 15 Zola and Prue's clone passed the witch sterility law. Witches who gallivant with demons will automatically be made sterile to preserve the greater good and the bloodline of good witches. Also I'm skipping three months into the future so that we are a little closer to Ayleia's birth. Paige is still in rock world.
Leo orbed into the attic behind Piper. The frustrated witch was standing with her forefingers pressed to the bridge of the nose.
Eternally Charmed: Wrath of
the Devil's Music
"Where's Prue?" she demanded
sharply.
"She isn't with me" Leo replied letting his hands fall to her shoulders. "Andy said that she's busy trying to convince the Elder's not to pass a bar code law.
Piper pulled her hand away from her face whirling at him. "What's a bar code law?" She then threw her hands up stopping any explaination that Leo may have wanted to give. "Never mind, how are the girls. Were the Elders' able to change them back to normal?"
"Yes," Leo replied both Amanda and Ally are fine. Though the Elders are still testing Ally to see if she has any demonic tendencies especially after her run in the crone".
It was spell, Leo. The child was under a spell". Piper began to sputter, "Prue's children are no more demonic than you and I!"
"I know that" Leo said calmly, trying to get Piper to settle down. "The Elder's are just doing their job"
"Their job?" Piper's eyes narrowed. She'd had just about enough. "They've kept Prue up there for three months, Leo. She's never been away from us this long before and we need her home!"
"Piper-"
"Don't Piper me!" Piper pointed a warning finger. "We need our sister! In case you haven't forgotten, Paige is still underground, flaunting her new title as the Queen of Rocks or whatever the hell she is calling herself and Phoebe can't seem to control her empathic powers! Ever since Prue left, she freaking faints everytime she gets a premonition or feels emotions"
"Did someone mention me?" Phoebe walked into the attic fanning herself.
"Yes," Piper said flatly, "I was talking about your power funk and how I'm sick to death of playing the role of the big sister!"
"Prue is coming back" Phoebe panted "and so will Paige we just have to give time to sort out things"
At that moment a warlock holding a ball of fire blinked in, and without batting an eye Piper flicked her wrists blowing him up. Her hands fell to her hips. "Sort out things while you and I fight off the source and every other freakin' demon who decides to attack.
Afterlife
Realm
Andy stood in the garden of Melinda Warren holding Austin in his arms. The happy little witchling coo and giggled kicking her feet at the sight of her two older sisters playing with a tribe of fairys.
"You'll be out there soon enough" Andy promised kissing the fine dark hairs on Austin's head. Austin cooed again and held up a hand to his lips. Replying to her gesture. Andy growled in a playful manner pretending that he was eating her hand. Austin laughed out loud.
It was hard for Andy to believe that Austin Prudence was almost 5 months old and growing like a weed. Though the family had only been in the afterlife for three days. Three human months had past back on earth and Austin's features definitely showed it. More and more she was beginning to look like a perfect combination of her magical parents. While her sister Amanda favored Andy, and Ally favored Prue, Austin was just uniquely herself.
"Daddy, Daddy! Thistle wants to Aussie to play with us!" Amanda exclaimed bounding up to her father. "Can she please?"
"Only if you are very careful, her powers aren't active like yours and Austin is too little to defend herself."
"I will protect her" Amanda promised as her father handed her the infant. Gingerly Amanda held her baby sister and walked away with effort.
"I got her Thistle!"
Andy watched as the fairy, Thistle buzzed about Austin placing a wreath of fresh flowers around her hair.
"It's a gift for the first angelic child!" Amanda called over her shoulder. "Thistle says she is blessed"
We're the ones who are blessed" Andy whispered not expecting a reply.
"We certainly are" Prue's arms slid seductively around his waist allowing her face to press a kiss into his back.
"Excuse me, Miss but I'm married"
"Hey!" Prue swatted at him as he turned in her arms. "I haven't been that busy!"
Andy raised an eyebrow at her before kissing the tip of her nose. "I haven't seen you in three days"
"Has it been three days?" Prue's face fell into a frown she had been so busy trying to contain the Nyphms from rioting she'd forgotten all about time. "Oh…Oh…no….Piper…and Paige. I told Piper I'd be back as soon as I could to help Paige. I need Leo. Leo!"
Andy kept a tight grip on her, trying to calm her panic. "Leo was here this morning. Your sisters are fine for the most part"
"What do you mean for the most part?" Prue raised an eyebrow of her own.
Andy released her and took a moment to scratch his cheek. "Well Paige has made a choice to stay in the rock world and Phoebe's been having dizzy spells. Leo thinks is has something to do with the emotional electricity from the uprising over this witch sterility law"
Just wait until she heard about new the bar code law the Elder's were proposing Prue thought curtly. If passed the bar code law would require all witches who were demonically involved to be tattooed with a special symbol identifying their level of personal status and possible threat to the realm.
Prue pull away crossing her arms over her chest. She too took a moment and sank her teeth into her bottom lip. "Piper must be going out of her mind"
"I believe Leo's words were that she is livid" Andy returned.
"My sisters need me Andy" Prue's eyes rolled upward revealing the worry in her face.
"The Wicca world needs you right now" Andy took her face into his hands and kissed her tenderly.
"It sounds like somebody else needs me too" Prue pursed her lips savoring the taste of his kiss.
"Well" Andy admitted sheepishly. "We haven't been together since before Aus, was born"
"No" Prue shook her head in disbelieve, "that isn't true is it?"
Andy nodded. When they had left earth Prue had just received clearance from Ava so resume her physical status as a couple.
"Hmm…I guess you're right" Playfully, Prue grabbed the belt loops to his white pants and drew him near. "Let's go see what we can do about that"
"Now?" Andy raised brow of his eyebrows with a grin of his own. "What about the girls?"
Prue peeked around him to see them still playing with the fairies. "Thistles a good babysitter, C'mon" Tugging on his hand, Prue took off in a run towards her private chamber. Once inside Prue telekinetically closed the door behind them and began to chant, taking a hold of Andy's hands. A huge naughty grin was spread across her face. "Let the moment of affection be like a dream as I cause the sight to be unheard or seen" Giggles spouted from her lips as the magic of her words covered the walls in an uninterruptible force field.
"They'll just think I'm just taking a self appointed time-out" she said breathlessly, clutching Andy's face into a deep and well needed kiss. Andy's hands fell into the curvature of her spine kneading it gently before letting his kiss die to a slow peck.
Prue again tried to pull him close, but he resisted making her push away in frustration. "Okay one of us is obviously into this moment more than the other…." A moment of silence fell between them and Prue ran a hand through her hair.
"I'm sorry Prue. I'm just a little preoccupied"
"The demonic tracer sounds?" Prue looked at him incredulous. How could she have forgotten?" "Can you still hear it"
"It's not as strong, but it's still there, eating away at me" Andy turned from her and rubbed the back of his neck. "It's calling to me Prue…it wants me to find it"
"Andy no. You can't no until we have the Elders clear you and the girls in the murder of the Motherly Prue" With the uprising of the Nymphs and other magical creatures. The issue of Andy's powers and his children being lured into evil had been put on the back burner.
"Fight it" Prue begged.
"Easier said than done." Andy kissed her cheek and started for the door, causing the spell to be broken.
Later that eveneing….
Consumed by her overwhelming amount of responsibility Prue sat in the window seat of her chamber watching her family sleep. Austin was asleep in the bassinet beside her bed while Ally and Amanda shared a fold out futon. Andy was laying on his back in their bed fast asleep. Angels all of them she thought as Austin began to whimper.
"Ssh…it's okay" Prue whispered pulling to her feet. She had no idea that Austin was trapped in the middle of a destined premonition. "C'mere sweet baby" Prue groaned lifting Austin in her arms. She had just laid the child on her shoulder when she herself was gripped by the premonition.
Dantalian was lying on a concrete slab. Demonic midwives were all around her. One more push one of them said smiling. Pain clouded Dantalian's face followed by an agonizing scream.
"Ayleia is finally here!" The demonic midwife smiled as she wrapped the baby in a swaddling cloth and then handed the child to her father.
"Andy?"
"NO!" The premonition ended when Andy woke up howling. His hands were on his ears. His blue eyes wild. Based on the look on his face, Prue could see that he was still half asleep awakened by a dream, that was connected to the demonic sound that was plaguing his ears.
"Andy Don't!" Prue said firmly when orbs started to appear around him. Too late, before Prue could utter another word he was gone.
Prue stood for a moment holding Austin tightly to her trying to calm her fearful whimpers from the frightening vision they had both just seen.
"I don't believe it" Andy has a child with Dantalian.
"What?" Prue turned quickly to see Natalie standing in a cloud of orbs behind along with Rachel, the Elder of public affairs and Zola. "So that's why we've been getting dark energy signals, It wasn't Ally or Amanda Natalie hinted. It was that Andy had conceived a demonic child with Dantalian.
"No" Prue shook her head defiantly, "It has to be something else".
Zola stood stone faced, "well according to the witch sterility law, it looks like we must make our first vanquish" The law stated that any witch found to have conceived a child with a demon would automatically be vanquished.
"No!" Prue spat, that doesn't apply to Andy…he isn't a witch"
"The way the law is read it is implied that all magical beings corhorting with demons shall be prosecuted."
"But it's some type of trap or spell of all people" Prue looked to Natalie for sympathy. "Natalie better than anyone you know the depth of love that I share with Andy and his devotion to serving the greater the good. You have to know that he would never…."
"She is right" Natalie agreed trying to sway Zola. "Far be it for me to tell an elder how to proceed but in this case I think an investigation is at least warranted"
Zola's eyes began narrow slits. He could not argue with Natalie and Prue's testimony, "You have 48 mortal hours to vanquish the demonic child and to prove your husbands innocence"
"Thank you" Prue forced herself to say as she watched the party disappear in a swirl of orbs.
