The chapter takes place three months after the last chapter. It is based around the episode Give Me A Sign. As I said before the next few chapters may not be the best for major Prue and Andy fans. I divided the chapter into two different chapters, the first one is very much so like the episode and not as interesting because it is doing a lot of explaining, but they will only be posted a few minutes apart so you shouldn't have to wait as long for the more interesting part. Unless by being put up it makes the other one be put up like a day later… It shouldn't but you never know?
Manor
Piper and Phoebe walk in to the kitchen after jogging. Both sisters are wearing revealing jogging suits, and Phoebe's yellow and black suit, which resembled somewhat of a bumblebee, revealed the small scar that she and Prue both shared from their attack three months ago.
"Leo's mortal now and everything, but—for how long, I mean how, how do I know he won't want his wings back someday? And then there's Dan, who is still great and normal, which is good— considering I'm not." Piper said frowning, pouring two identical glasses of orange juice.
"28 minutes, 33 seconds." Phoebe said as she looked down at her watch.
"Really? We ran that long?" Piper asked with a surprised look now taking over her frown.
"No. I've been timing how long you've been comparing Leo and Dan." Phoebe said with a quirky smile on her face.
"I haven't been comparing, I've just been...talking," she said trying to explain her babbling behaviour.
"Non-stop," she said giggling. Their conversation was then broken by the sound of the phone ringing. Phoebe put down her glass of orange juice and walked over to answer the phone.
"Hello?" Phoebe asked as she answered the phone.
"Hey Phoebe, it's me Andy."
"Oh, hey Andy." She says making an odd face to Piper.
"I was wondering if I could talk to Prue, if she's in."
"Oh, well, she's still sleeping… but, I'll see if she can call you back when she's awake." Phoebe said, biting her lip, trying to sound as convincing as she can possibly be.
"Yeah, thanks. She probably won't end up calling back, because she never does. But thank you." He said, with an awkward laugh.
"No problem Andy. Seeya" she said, rolling her eye.
"Bye." They both said at the same time.
Phoebe then placed the phone back in its holder and walked into the parlour where Prue was looking at her new camera equipment. Piper followed close behind.
"Hey, when did my camera equipment get here?" Prue asked holding a new camera, examining every detail and button the camera had to offer.
"Oh, about an hour ago. I didn't want to wake you. Is everything there?" Piper said kissing her on the top of the head.
"Yeah, it looks like it." She said laughing, both at the situation and her sister.
"Jeez! Prue! Think you bought enough stuff?" Phoebe asked looking at all the new equipment, going through the boxes, all with some wrapping and the instruction manual that everyone always ends up leaving in the box.
"Yeah, I know it's a lot. But so much of photography has gone digital now, that if I want to seriously pursue it, I have to have the right equipment, " she said, still examining the same thing she was before.
"Wah...You're thinking of becoming a professional photographer?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeah. Why? You don't think that I should?" Prue asked with a hurt expression.
"No, no," Phoebe said trying to recover from her I mean, I think it's great if that's what you want to do, it's just... "
"It's just what?"
"Well, I, uh... isn't photography just a really dicey profession money wise?" Piper slowly moves her arm, and pinches her. "Ow, ow! You know, all I'm saying is that how many women professional photographers do you know?"
"I know, and that's a totally fair question, one that I've been wrestling with a lot lately, like ever since I quit my job." She sighed and looked to the ground.
"Prue, you dreamt of winning the Pulitzer in photography back in college! You never wanted to work in a museum, or at the auction house. That's something you did for us, so we could keep the house. So now, it is your turn to follow your dreams." Piper said trying to fix the mess Phoebe just created, and makes Prue smile.
"Hey! Maybe finding out you were a photographer in your last life is some kind of sign. Speaking of signs... I think I can make a spell to help your situation Piper."
"Huh, what are you talking about? What situation." Piper asked with an annoyed look.
"A spell to help you chose between Dan and Leo." She said as she ran out of the parlour.
"No... Wait!" Piper begins running after her. "Phoebe, personal gain?"
Prue walks up to the mirror holing the camera and takes a picture. "Portrait of a dreamer."
She then smiled wishing her dreams that her and Andy could have a happy life together. But she couldn't have that happy life without him getting hurt. And he deserved better then that.
"Hello Prue." The criminal Bane who they had met just a few weeks ago stood behind her.
"Huh." Prue says as she looks up in surprise and drops her camera to the floor, causing it to break. He then presses a cloth with chloroform to her face, and she passes out in his arms.
"Shh." He said as he propped her unconscious body in his arms and carried her out of the house.
Phoebe opens the bathroom door after saying the spell. And looks at Piper.
"You cast the spell didn't you?" Piper asked with her hands on her hips. But suddenly took her attention off her younger sister when the sound of glass breaking is heard.
"Prue!" The two sisters scream making their way back to the parlour.
When they reach the parlour their hearts stop.
"Look." Piper said pointing to Prue's now broken camera lying on the floor with a cloth only a few feet away.
"Prue!" Phoebe screamed at the top of her lungs, hoping maybe she had blown her nose with the cloth and accidentally dropped her camera. But all hope was lost when Prue didn't respond. "Okay, now I'm worried. Piper what do we do?"
"I don't know. Do we call Andy and Darryl?" Piper's voice was shaking because she was beginning to panic.
"No definitely not Andy. Prue has been going out of her way for the last month to make sure he doesn't get involved in anything. She thinks that it will keep him from getting hurt." Phoebe said rolling her eyes.
"Yes but who else will be able to help us the same way. And he doesn't even need to worry about what to say to Darryl because he knows now too." Piper said pushing her hand through her hair.
"Okay but we'll only use him as a last resort because Prue would be really upset." Phoebe said as she picked up the cloth and camera hoping for a premonition.
"Well?" Piper said after minutes of Phoebe holding Prue's bran new and broken camera with her eyes closed, concentrating hard to try and get a premonition.
"Nothing." Phoebe sighs and places her hand on her hip still holding the camera in her right hand.
"Okay. We have to keep trying until you do get a premonition. We have to figure out what happened to Prue." Piper said trying to comfort not just Phoebe but herself as well.
"Piper, that crack that I made about her becoming a photographer. I don't want that to be the last thing I ever say to her." Phoebe said as tears formed in her eyes.
"Phoebe, you're overreacting. That is my department. All you have to do is relax and concentrate." She stops at the sound of the doorbell ringing. "Here. Try the rag again." She said as she handed Phoebe the rag and made her way towards the door.
When Piper opens the door she is shocked to see Andy and Darryl standing behind it.
"I've got bad news, I've got worse news. Which do you want first?" Darryl asked as Andy carefully closed the door behind them.
"Phoebe... " Piper screams calling Phoebe to her. "Uh... does this have anything to do with Prue?"
"No, no it doesn't." Andy said as his eyes wandered all over the main floor looking for Prue. "Unless she helped Bane Jessup escape from county jail."
The four of them walk over to the living room and sit on the couches.
"Bane Jessup. Why does that name sound familiar?" Piper asked trying to trigger a memory.
"Because he is the guy our favourite demon hired to 86 us, remember?" Phoebe said trying to puzzle all the pieces together.
"The one we thought Prue liked and met when she was Hellfire?" Piper said in a low whisper so that Andy wouldn't hear the part about her liking him.
"Yes."
"When did he escape?" Piper asked Andy and Darryl with a worried look thinking he could be the one who kidnapped her sister.
"This morning. We've already launched a full-scale manhunt." Darryl said pulling a Ziploc bag from his jacket pocket.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Andy said when he noticed the worried faces that came to Phoebe and Piper's faces.
"Prue is missing. We think she may have been kidnapped." Piper said as the tears came back to her eyes.
"What?" Andy said as his heart dropped.
"And I found this by the back door." Phoebe said as she handed Darryl the cloth.
"Chloroform." He said with disgust after sniffing the rag.
"We would have called you, but we didn't know who, or what had taken her." Small tears were streaming down the two sisters faces and it was clear that Andy was holding some back. "Also Prue has been avoiding you ever since the last accident hoping that it will keep you safe.
" Well I'm involved now, and it'd be a pretty big coincidence if it wasn't Bane. Especially since you guys are responsible for putting him in jail." Andy got up from the couch and placed his hands on their shoulders, in hopes to comfort them.
"Yeah, but why just take Prue? Why not all of us?" Piper asked.
"Well maybe he's trying to lure us. Maybe another demon hired him to trap us." Phoebe said with a determined look.
"Which might explain this." Darryl said as he handed the Ziploc bag to Piper.
"We found it when we swept the prison lock this morning. It's actually the reason why we came over. We wanted to see if it looked familiar to you?" Andy added to Darryl's short explanation.
Piper is holding the small silver object, with carvings designed throughout, while she and Phoebe study every inch and detail of it.
"Well, it's definitely demonic." Phoebe said once she finally took her eyes off of it.
"Do you mind if we keep this so we can figure out what demon we're dealing with?" Piper asked, there was no way she was giving it back. It was one of the only items they had to help find their sister.
" Well we can't exactly turn that in to evidence inventory." Andy said as Phoebe and Piper both shook their heads.
"Look, we gotta go. Just let us know if you find out anything. I think that your chances of finding out Bane are bigger than ours now." Darryl said as he and Andy made their way to the door.
"Uh, yeah, and could you maybe keep this quiet, because the bigger this thing gets, the more danger she's..." Piper said but was cut off by Andy.
"I know. Look, I'll keep it as quiet as I can for as long as I can." Andy said as he hugged each sister trying to hold back tears.
"Thanks." Phoebe and Piper say at the same time.
As the two men open the door to leave, a deliveryman walks up the steps to the front door.
"Hi there. Gotta sign. It's for Piper, Piper Halliwell." He said with a friendly smile.
"Hmm... Can I see that? She asks as she takes the parcel and begins to examine it while Piper signs. "Leonardo's Boutique, Bodega Bay, California." Phoebe said trying to hide her huge grin.
"Yeah, uh Dan and I were there, ordered some earrings. Thank you." She says to the deliveryman, then turns around and grabs the parcel from Phoebe and gives her an evil look. "The deliveryman said he got a sign." Piper slowly advanced to her sister still with the playful evil eye.
"Mmm." Phoebe said hiding her face, knowing that she had been caught red-handed.
"Leonardo's Boutique and Bodega Bay. Leo, short for Leonardo, Bodega Bay, where Dan is from." Piper said as she slowly began to tower over her little sister. Who scratches her head and look to the floor, again trying to hide her face. "Don't act blond. You cast that spell, didn't you?" Piper said pulling Phoebes face up so she could look her in the eye.
"Yes I did!" Phoebe said finally admitting to her crime.
"When I specifically asked you not to." Piper said as she then lightly tapped her on the head with the parcel. "And at a time like this."
"I was just trying to help Piper, and it was before Prue disappeared." Phoebe said in her childish voice hoping it would help a bit.
"You. This. Book of Shadows. Go!" Piper said as she handed Phoebe the odd object. Once Phoebe touched the object, she was immediately pulled into a premonition.
The premonition was one of Prue sitting in a chair, tied up around her legs, arms, and she was gagged.
"What did you see?" Piper asked as soon as she noticed her sister coming out of the premonition.
"Prue, bound and gagged, and with Bane." Phoebe said as a wave of relief that she was alive, but also a wave of worry that she was indeed kidnapped.
Mariner's Bluff. Lot-827
Bane is standing behind Prue un-tying the cloth around her mouth ever so slowly.
"Don't scream." He said once the cloth was completely off.
"Why not?" Prue sighed in relief once the cloth was off but was still worried for her life.
"Cuz if you do, we won't be able to talk. Besides, it won't help. The nearest neighbour is about six miles away." Bane said with a grin.
"Then why not take off the blind fold. What are you afraid of?" Prue asked hoping he would take it off so she could use her powers to escape, and to see who this man was.
"Are you kidding? I've seen you use your powers before. On me!" He then considers the thought and decides to take off the blindfold. "All right, if you try anything, the blindfold goes back on."
"What do you want?" Prue said once the blindfold was off.
"Your help, to save my life." He says as he walks in front of her to look her in the eyes.
"Yeah, well most people ask for it, they don't kidnap for it." Prue said trying to brush the hair out of her eyes.
"I'm not most people. Neither are you." He said as he slowly advanced closer to her.
"What makes you think that I'll help you?" Prue said with a huge smile.
"I don't. But without you and your sisters, I don't stand a chance against this particular demon. He tried to have me killed today Prue. I got lucky and barely escaped. And he's gonna keep trying."
"Why would he bother? You're a mortal."
"I'm a mortal that knows about demons. He doesn't like that. Litvack, that's what they call him.
" So where are we? Is this yours?" Prue asks looking around
" It was going to be before you came along, and cut me off from my dreams." He says giving her an accusing smile.
" Yes. Because you tried to kill me." Prue said laughing.
"Now, that was before I got to know you." He said smiling thinking about them on the dance floor.
"You don't strike me as a dreamer."
"There's a lot about me you don't know." Bane said giving her yet another playful smile.
" There's a few things that you need to learn about me too." She says right before she uses her eyes to send him flying into a wall. "Like how I will never put my sisters in danger. So you can forget about any of us helping you."
Bane then gets up from the ground and walk over to her. "Sooner or later, you're gonna have to trust me Prue. He said before he but the blind-fold on again. " And believe me your sisters came looking for you before, and they will come again."
"Oh yeah, well not if I can help it." Prue said as she dipped her head to astral project.
Attic
Piper and Phoebe are looking in the Book of Shadows at the page about the object. The page informs them that the object is a demonic weapon issued by upper level demons when Prue astral projects in front of them.
"Prue! You're okay! Thank God." Phoebe squealed as she and Piper ran over to their sister and engulfed her in a hug.
"Yeah, but uh Bane Jessup, he kidnapped me." Prue said as she pulled away from their tight grips.
"We know! Where are you?" Piper asked full of worry.
"You can't find me." Prue said with a very serious face.
"What do you mean!" Piper and Phoebe screamed.
"It's a trap, so just stay away. Don't look for me." Prue said, determined to keep her sisters safe.
"What?" Piper asked, not believing the words that were coming out of her older sister's mouth.
"Prue?" Phoebe said thinking the same as Piper. But their complaints don't help and Prue begins to leave.
"Wait, wait!" They scream hoping she will stop. "
"Hello!" Phoebe asked with a hurt and confused look, but Prue is already gone.
Mariner's Bluff. Lot-827
"You all right? I thought you passed out or something." Bane said once Prue returned and let out a huge gasp, and quickly moves to her side and removes the blindfold.
"Feeling guilty? That's a good sign. It means you have a conscience." Prue said as he began to untie her hands and feet as well. "What are you doing?"
"I'm letting you go." He said suddenly looking depressed and hurt.
"Just like that?" Prue asked, unable to believe that he was all of a sudden letting her go.
"I never wanted to hurt you Prue, I only wanted your help. But you can't help me if you don't trust me. And you're in danger as long as you're here. " He said as he helped her to her feet.
Then suddenly, Litvack's servant appears in the room and aims the weapon at Bane and Prue. Bane ducks, and grabs Prue, pulling her down with him Which cause them to land in a pile of hardware tools. Litvack's servant then aims the weapon again, but Prue sees it coming, and holds out her hand to send the beam back his way. She then sends him flying out the window and he scrambles away, not sure of what had just happened.
"Wow." Prue said, then she noticed Bane breathing heavily. When she looks over she sees that while protecting her, he fell onto a knife, which gave him a nasty gash, but only skin tissue. On her lower abdomen.
"Told you I never wanted to hurt you." Bane said looking down towards his wound.
"You just saved my life." Prue said as she looked up at him in sympathy.
"You think you can trust me now?" Bane asked.