Chapter 3

A/N. Thanks for the reviews, please keep them coming. Incase of any confusion Prue, Paris and Patience don't have their witch powers because Piper gave hers up before they were born. They do have their whitelighter powers, they just don't know it.

"Leo!" Piper yelled at the top of her voice. It was two o'clock in the afternoon, so her daughters where still at school. "Leo!" she yelled again when no cluster of blue and white lights signalled her husband's arrival. The third time she tried Leo appeared.

"Piper, I was in the middle of a meeting with the Elders!" Leo said.

"I know sweetie. But do you notice anything different about the kitchen?" Piper gestured around the room, her dark eyebrows raised in question.

Leo glanced around the kitchen. "No," he said finally.

"The stove!" Piper cried, jabbing her finger in the direction of the oven.

"Oh my." Leo made his way over to the oven, staring at the thing that was making Piper so hysterical.

"That's right. I froze the boiling water! How did I freeze the boiling water?" Piper raised her hand and an innocent ornament exploded.

"It looks like your powers are back," Leo said thoughtfully.

"I can see that!" Piper snapped. "How can this happen?"

"I don't know. I'll have to check with the Elders." Before Piper could protest, Leo orbed off.

"I can't just sit around here and wait," Piper muttered. She ascended the wide staircase to the second floor, and then the more modest one to the attic.

She regarded the door. It had been locked from the inside by Leo, and the key was safely stored in the attic to make sure the girls never stumbled across the Book Of Shadows.

But now Piper's powers were back and she wanted to know why. She raised her arms and unclasped her hands, releasing her explosive power. The lock on the door blew into a thousand pieces. 'Who knew after seventeen years I've still got it in me?' She thought. She opened the door and stepped into the room that had not been entered in nearly two decades.

Immediately she got to work, collecting candles, setting them in a circle and lighting them. Lastly she moved to the podium where the Book Of Shadows lay, still open on the relinquishment spell. Piper blew the dust from the ancient book and started slowly turning the brittle pages. She was filled with mixed emotions at seeing the old book again. It brought back so many memories of the past.

Eventually she came to the spell she was searching for and began to chant.

Hear my words, hear my cry,

Spirit from the other side,

Come to me, I summon thee,

Cross now the great divide

Two swarms of golden orbs appeared in the circle of candles and formed into two women Piper most anted to see. Both women wore long, white dresses and their dark hair lung long and in loose curls.

"Prue, Phoebe," Piper breathed, overwhelmed and seeing her sisters again.

"Piper!" They both cried, running out of the circle, becoming solid flesh and blood. The sisters enveloped in a three-way hug, all too emotional to speak.

"I've missed you so much," Piper sobbed.

"Me too," Phoebe choked.

"I'm so happy to see you!" Prue cried.

"Your daughters are all so beautiful," Phoebe said, breaking away from the hug.

"How do you know?" Piper questioned.

"Oh, we peek in sometimes," Prue admitted. "They'll make brilliant Charmed Ones."

"On the subject of magic, why did you summon us?" Phoebe asked, "I thought you gave up your powers."

"You heard about that, huh?"

"Honey, the whole magical world knows about that," Prue said gently.

"Right. Well I summoned you because I got my powers back."

A look passed between Prue and Phoebe.

"What?" Piper demanded, seeing the look.

"We knew this day would come," Prue said, more top herself than her sisters.

"Just not so soon," Phoebe added.

"What do you mean? Neither of you are making any sense!" Piper exclaimed.

"Well, you see, you can't give magic up if you were born with it," Phoebe said.

"But I relinquished my powers. There's no more magic in my blood."

"That's where you're wrong. You only gave up your ability to tap into your powers," Prue explained.

"And now it's time for you to get that ability back," Phoebe said.

"What d'you mean?" Piper asked hopefully. She had missed her powers and was surprised that she was excited at the prospect of getting them back.

"It's time for Prue, Paris and Patience to learn about their destiny," Phoebe said.

"I'm sorry sweetie, you don't get a choice. I love you." With that Prue stepped back into the circle.

"I love you." Phoebe also stepped back into the circle.

"I love you both."

"Blessed be," Prue and Phoebe said together as they disappeared in golden orbs.

Piper sighed and turned to leave the attic. It was time to tell her daughters who they really were.

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