A/N: Hey guys, how you all hanging?

Next chap is below but I'm really not liking it, so I fully understand if you wanna crucify me in your reviews.

29. Just Like High School

Victor stood on the doorstep of the manor, pounding constantly for somebody to answer. Even after hearing somebody calling from inside the house, he still continued to hammer the door with his fist.

Finally the door swung open and Victor pushed past the young man, who stood before him, looking stunned by the erratic behaviour of the older man.

"Prue!" Victor bellowed, as Glen ultimately came out of his shocked state.

"Dude. What is your problem?…and who the hell are you?" he asked.

"Where's Prue?" Victor snapped in response.

"Look, she's not in, so would you leave?" Glen answered, while gesturing to the exit.

Instead of the defeated reaction Glen had expected to receive from the man, he found himself pinned to the wall with a balled up fist threatening to fly at his face.

"Where the hell is my daughter?" Victor roared, not having the right frame of mind to make pleasantries.

"Victor, let him go." Darryl had appeared behind the furious father, pulling him of the younger man.

"They left, all of them." Glen hoarsely answered, rubbing his neck where Victor's hand had been.

Little did he know, his words had made Victor's heart fall, as if jumping from twenty floors without the safety of a parachute to guide him. However, the feeling was not about to deter Victor's resolve to stay until he had spoken to his daughter.

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Prue was still stood at the front of the mass of people, who had gathered to help keep evil where it belonged, in hell. She scanned the various faces but none of them stuck out, which she couldn't work out to be her own mind too chaotic to register them or she didn't want to, purely for selfish reasons.

Although, there was one group she instantly noticed and one face she had grown to care for. Sighing, she began to move with steady steps over to Krolan.

The Elder also spotted Prue and in the same manner moved to greet her, unable to remove the sad smile which plagued his features.

"Hey." Prue began quietly, offering a small smile.

"Hi." he replied in the same tone. Silence was once again in the conversation, neither sure of how to keep words flowing. Finally Krolan cleared his throat, "How are you?"

"I'm fine," she smiled but when he raised his eyebrow, she continued. "..Okay, a little nervous but I will be fine. You?"

"I'm good.." Krolan went quiet not sure what to say. He was feeling guilty for their last meeting and needing to apologise. "..um…about."

"Don't apologise…" Prue cut him off, "..if circumstances were different…." she trailed off herself, knowing he would understand what she wasgetting at.

Krolan nodded a little, "Yeah." he sighed wistfully.

Another Elder began to walk up to the pair and obviously didn't appreciate the closeness between the two, as he shot Prue looks of discontent. She mirrored the glance, more out of annoyance that he was rude.

"Krolan." the Elder stated, causing Krolan to glance round. "Come, we must prepare."

"Sure, I'll be right there." Krolan replied, also noticing the looks he and Prue were receiving. However, he ignored them for the time being and turned back to the eldest Halliwell. "Be safe." he smiled.

"You too." Prue responded, giving his hand a squeeze.

"Krolan." the other Elder spoke again, angry at the exchange. "Come, you never know what is round the corner." he continued, shooting looks of contempt at Prue.

She, however, was wondering what he meant by that, as Krolan nodded and began to turn away along with the rude Elder, who continually kept a heated eye on the witch.

Paige came up beside her sister and glanced at the Elder walking away with Krolan. "What's his problem?" she asked.

"That's what I want to know." Prue replied, then turned to face Paige. "He said something about not knowing what is round the corner."

"You know what he meant?" the youngest asked, as she and Prue moved back to their family.

"No but I'm certain he didn't mean between me and Krolan."

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"I can't do this." Prue moaned to her entire family, who stood in a group at the head of the army.

"You've got to Prue, you're their leader. You've got to let them know their needed and wanted in this fight. You've got to rally them together." Leo spoke with a knowledge on the subject, while the others all nodded in agreement to his words.

"You do this for me then." she pleaded with the whitelighter, who just shook his head with a smirk on his face.

"Prue, I don't know why your worried. You've spoken to huge groups of people before. I mean you weren't exactly quiet in high school, being head cheerleader and class president." Piper stated, with a slight roll of her eyes, remembering Prue's high school experience and compared it to her own.

Their pep-talk, however, wasn't working at the moment, as they tried to get the eldest sister to speak to the army stood behind them. The only problem was Prue was having a little stage fright.

"That was different, Piper. They were sheep that would follow the heard. These…" Prue gestured to the crowd. "..these are powerful people, who won't because they won't get their heads jammed down a toilet if they don't."

"They won't, that is true, which is why you need to herd them in the right direction." Paige answered, then she stood and contemplated what she had just said. "Why on earth am I using farm analogies?" she asked out loud more to herself, although the comment caused everyone to smile.

"Come on, Prue. It'll be just like high school, only instead of sheep, you have a herd of slightly unpredictable goats." Phoebe grinned, wrapping an arm around her sister. "Would it make you feel better if I made sheep noises throughout?"

Prue laughed at the offer. "Fine, lets do it." she relented, while running a hand through her hair. "Pheebs, no noises."

"But…"

"No.." Prue interrupted. "That implies to everyone. I hear one farm animal or any for the matter…."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your public awaits you, Miss Halliwell." Piper cut her off, then pushing her in front.

Prue glanced around, surprised Piper hadn't given her a minute to breath. Quickly she scanned the crowd before looking over her shoulder to her grinning family.

"Grams, can you give me a hand?" she asked, knowing her grandmother would know the type of hand she meant.

Penny Halliwell smiled to her eldest grandchild. Slowly she began to raise her hand and with it, Prue. The remaining Halliwells smirked at the sight of their sister seemingly floating in midair, while the large group grew quiet watching the Charmed One hover above their heads.

"Thanks for coming…" Prue began loudly, "..um...your probably wondering how this is going to play out and, truthfully, I don't know. What I do know is, we can win this. Good can overcome evil.

Everyone of you is important and you can make a difference, if you believe you are capable of defending what you have come to know and love. We can do this if we remain together. If we don't, they will use our weaknesses as an advantage. They will not play fairly, they see us fall apart and they will exploit it.

Remember were not just doing this for us. It's for the generations to come, it's for the people you hold dear and for those who gave their lives for this cause. For good. Let's not let their efforts and bravery be in vein.

In the end, it's us versus them. The difference, their in out for greed of power. We're in it out of devotion of what we love. A smart person told me 'strength keeps us standing and love keeps us going.'…"

Piper smiled at the reference to her conversation with Prue, she never actually thought her sister would have listened.

"…it's true. I'm not giving up until what I love is safe and protected….and I need your help to do so. We need to prove that evil never prevails."

Cheers resounded at her words and Prue was surprised that they had actually listened to her. Okay…that wasn't so bad, she thought as she was gently being placed back on the ground by Grams, who was beaming, along with Patty, with pride.

Prue was immediately enveloped in a group hug by her sisters, while the rest stood back and smiled at the scene.

"Told ya you had nothing to worry about." Paige grinned.

"You did great." Phoebe added, giving Prue a kiss on the cheek, while grinning too.

"You sure?" Prue asked self-consciously.

"Positive." Piper answered, "So I'm smart, huh?" she smiled, using a mocking tone.

"At times." Prue replied, returning the mocking her sister had used.

"You always did know how to hold an audience." came a voice that made Prue lose all sense and awareness.

She froze; mind, body and soul.

A/N: Guess whoooo.

So that bit's over.

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