Hi, thanks to everyone who reviewed.

Quickly, before I get on with this, me, emelie172, Random3 and de-anneisapurplemonkey are co-writing a charmed teen fic. It's all four sisters, and we each write from one sisters POV. Grams has just died, and ... well, I don't want to give it all away.

It's called The secrets of the Halliwell sisterhood , and the pen-name's the-power-of-4. Check it out, what have you got to lose?

Chapter 17 - Secrets

"Andy ..." Prue said slowly. "I - I can explain ..."

"You can?" I hissed. She shot me a look.

"What exactly did you see?" Paige asked brightly.

Great, guys. Don't bother denying it, no, just jump right in there. What if he hadn't seen anything?

"Enough, believe me." He replied. He looked at Prue, confusion and hurt in his eyes. "Explain."

"Andy ..." Prue look scared, upset even. I knew she didn't want to lose Andy.

"Can you just get him out of here?" I asked, nudging Dan with my foot.

Well, I say nudging. Kicking might be a better word.

"You can come back and we'll explain." Phoebe agreed.

"No need for that." He replied. He turned, walked out of the door and came back a few minutes later with another guy, and an officer.

"Take him to the station, Darrel. I'll be there in ..." He looked at us. "A couple of hours. I just have to wrap things up here."

Darrel nodded, smiled at us, and with the other officer pulled Dan to his feet.

Dan stirred, opened in eyes and glared at me. "Something weird happened to me." He rambled to Andy. "They did something to me -"

"Sure they did. Before or after you shot Piper?" Andy asked, looking at Dan in disgust.

I smiled at him gratefully, but he didn't return it.

Instead, he stalked into the living room. We shot a look at each other, then followed.

"So, what exactly happened out there?" He asked, looking round at us.

"What did you see?" Phoebe asked.

"I saw that scum fly into the wall ... and you -" He looked at Leo - "Just ... appear, out of thin air."

"Ah." I said. "Right, see ... Andy ..."

"Guys, can you ... give us a moment?" Prue cut across me. "I wont to explain this to him."

We nodded. They went upstairs, and after a little while we followed.

Sisters' privilege to listen in on their sister and her boyfriend, right?

"Prue, how do you expect me to deal with this!" Andy was saying loudly. "You just drop this on me -"

"You were the one that walked into the house -"

"To protect Piper! Would you rather I let him kill her?"

"Of course not! But -"

"I still don't get it." Andy said. "I've known you you're whole life, and you never told me this?"

"We only found out this year." Prue replied. "When Piper came back home, Phoebe found a book in the attic ..."

I could almost imagine Andy pacing the floor, Prue sitting on the bed, picking her cuticles.

"The point is, Andy, we protect innocents, get the bad guys. Just like you."

"Yeah, except you can send people flying, and ... what was it Leo did?"

"Orbed. And we can't do that. Leo's a whitelighter ... Guardian angel, kinda. Andy, you have to trust me. We do good, but we can't do good if out secret is out there. Can I trust you?"

"Of course, Prue." He sighed. "I just wish you'd told me before."

Silence.

Then, I was almost certain I heard a muffled sob.

"Let's go." I whispered. Reluctantly, we went back downstairs.

Two days later.

"Well?" I asked, as Prue hung up the phone.

"We're going out tomorrow night." She nodded. "To talk."

"At least he's stopped avoiding you." Paige said brightly. "If he's answering the phone -"

"He didn't. I left a message, telling him we needed to talk and I'll be at Quake tomorrow night."

"Ri-i-i-i-ght. And you think he'll turn up?"

"Yeah. Andy never lets me down." She shrugged.

As she went to sit down, she knocked the lamp over. Patty was in her playpen, almost directly below it. I froze it, of course ... but there was no need ...

"What is that!" Phoebe cried.

I think she might have meant the pink transparent bubble surrounding my daughter.

"Leo?" I asked, slapping at his chest.

"A force-field." He said. "She conjured it ... to protect herself."

"She's a conjuror?" Prue asked.

"No ... I don't think so. I think she can just create a force-field, to protect herself."

"Clever girl!" I cried, picking her up. (She made the bubble disappear as I walked towards her.) "Wow! Did you do that? Did you?"

Life is crazy, isn't it?

Short, I know. But it's just a little ... I don't know. Anyway, the next few chapters will be more magic based, although I'm planning on Dan being sentanced in the next one. And Cole is going to be introduced ...

Don't worry, this is still a Piper/Leo story, and the wedding will be SOON!

How long do you guys think Dan should get in prison? How long do you get for attemped murder. I guess I'll have to research ...