Dying Moment

Disclaimer: Do not own Charmed, do own some charries in this story, plot is my own.

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"Oh God," Prue breathed, glancing at Paige. Paige shrugged, turning away, fiddling with her long, strawberry hair.

Phoebe glanced at Paige, and then to Prue. Piper placed a hand on Paige's arm. Paige glanced wearily at her older sister and wandered out of the room.

"Well…" Prue started nervously.

Phoebe noticed the Book of Shadows lying on the chair.

"Lets see…" Phoebe murmured, passing the book to Prue. This had always seemed Prue's place, being the most powerful sister. Prue looked questioningly at her first sister. Piper nodded slowly, and then turned her long, brunette haired head towards the kitchen.

"Paige, please come here," Piper called gently. After several minutes, Paige wandered out of the kitchen, sitting stubbornly across the room from the sisters. Then Piper nodded at Prue to continue.

"Okay…" Prue hesitated, casting a sad eye at her youngest sister, Paige. "Paige…" Prue started, as she began to step towards her. Phoebe placed a hand on Prue's arms, and nodded at Piper, who sat next to Paige, brushing her long hair. Prue bent her head back to the book and began to read.

"… Jade, Merlin's daughter… in the 17th Centaury, Jade fell in love with a mortal but her father would not allow her to marry until she had passed her magi test. This was something that Jade would never succeed in as she did not have a pure heart. Instead, she ran away with her lover, only for him to die mysteriously in a house fire. Jade figured that this killing was her father's doing and set out for revenge… She succeeds in this by using Excalibur to summon new group demons from the future, ones that can take on one form of their enemies' lovers and family. But they must stay in this form until their enemies love for that form dies or… they're vanquished. She also makes her enemies relieve, or live, their worst moment in life.

"A simple vanquishing spell will vanquish the demons. There is no known vanquish for Jade as she is neither human nor demon. The only way to protect you from her is to believe in the strongest power."

Prue trailed off, as she glanced up at her sisters. Phoebe had tears in her eyes, at hearing her sister take charge again. Piper seemed to be trying to distract herself by looking after Paige.

'How much has changed?' Prue thought, 'Piper has had two children, Cole has turned evil, they found Paige, and even Piper and Leo are on the verge of breaking up. I would have never known about this… Or was this because… because I died?' She shivered inwardly at the thought.

After several moments, Phoebe wiped her tears away and turned to Prue. "So… The strongest power…?" She tried a grin, "How about the Power of Three?" Both Paige and Piper glanced up sharply. Piper's eyes were blazing at her sister.

"The Power of Three? Paige, me and you, or Prue?" Piper said angrily. Prue sat silently into a chair as Phoebe turned angrily at Piper.

"You think I didn't realise that?" Phoebe spat back.

"Oh yer, you just go round, announcing that Prue is back… But now you want to use her in the Power of Three," Piper argued, standing up.

Phoebe stood up angrily, "So, you aren't happy that Prue's back? Memo to Piper: Prue's been dead for the last three years."

"Of course I remember, Phoebe as far as I remember, I was there too!"

"Well, Piper, as far as I'm concerned, you never cared!"

Piper gasped and stepped away from Phoebe, tears running down her cheeks. Phoebe fell back on the chair, her head in her hands.

"You… You think I never… You think I never cared?" Piper sobbed.

"No… Piper, I never…" Phoebe started.

"No, you said it so you must have meant it…" Piper fell into Paige's arms, and buried her head in her youngest sister's shoulder. Paige wrapped her arms around Piper, as her shoulders rose and fell in time to her sobs.

Prue looked at Phoebe anxiously, not knowing what to say. She brushed a hand through her short dark hair, thinking what it would have been like if she had never returned. Prue turned to Paige, looking at the sister she never knew. Even though on the outside, she looked nothing like Patty, she could tell that Paige held a lot of her mother's determination and caring. She sighed, catching Paige's attention.

Paige's eyes flashed as they caught Prue's. The sisters stared for several seconds, before Paige turned away. But they both had got the message.

Prue's body went limp, and fell against Phoebe, who looked up sharply. She looked down at Prue, and then looked at Paige questioningly. Her younger sister shrugged and then orbed out. Piper sniffed as she fell into the chair.

Piper wriggled into a sitting position, and looked into Phoebe's eyes.

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There was a red flash in the cemetery, and Prue's astral form formed beside a gravestone.

"Here lies Prudence Halliwell, who died March—"

Tears ran down Astral Prue's face, before she'd even finished. She brushed a finger of her name that was engraved into the stone. It only seemed that it had been yesterday that she had been fighting Shax. Well, to her it had been, but to her sisters it had been three years.

"Three years," Prue whispered, "I have been dead for three years and… is it my fault? Is all this…?"

"Hello, dear…" Prue spun around at the familiar voice. In front of her stood a man wearing a black leather jacket and jeans. "Andy…" she murmured as he reached out to her. Prue stood slowly, slipping her hand into his outreached hand. He pulled her into his embrace, wrapping his arms around her. Prue laid her head against the cool leather of his jacket.

"I'll take you home," He promised.

"Prue, that's not Andy!" A cry came from behind Prue's love. She lifted her head and caught her sister orbing into the cemetery. Andy's body tensed and Prue's body froze.

"Oh God…" She cried, as Andy turned and threw an energy ball at Paige. She drew away from him, and then threw her arm at Andy, as if to slap him, but missed. Instead, Andy went flying against a gravestone. He grunted, and struggled to stand.

"Atheme," Paige commanded, holding her hand out to receive the dagger from Prue's belt. As it disappeared from Prue's belt in millions of blue and white orbs, Paige threw her hand towards Andy. So, instead of catching the dagger, the Atheme was thrown into Andy's chest. The demon exploded, throwing green slime all over the eldest sister.

Paige looked at Prue.

"How did you…?" Prue started, Paige held a hand up.

"It was a demon, they take on the form of loved ones," Paige explained feverishly, "We've taken them on before…" She added, and then she disappeared in millions of blue and white lights. Prue smiled as her sister disappeared, and then she herself disappeared in a red flash.

Back at the manor, Piper and Phoebe greeted their two sisters as they reappeared. Prue's eyes flashed open and she managed to sit up as Paige formed out of millions of blue and white orbs. Piper looked questioningly at Prue, then Paige, and then shrugged at Phoebe as Prue smiled and bent forward to pick up the book of shadows, her hands met with Paige's, who quickly drew hers away.

"So… these demons…?" Prue started.

"Demons?" Piper and Phoebe said suddenly.

"Yes, you know… the monsters we have battled everyday of our lives since we discovered we were…" Paige started.

"Since we became the Charmed Ones," Prue finished.

"Yes, but where did you… did they recognise you?" Phoebe asked quickly. Prue shrugged and picked up the book

"Shape shifters… Jade… demons… nightmare worlds… do you think these are all connected?" Paige shrugged, and gestured for Prue to continue, "Oh… Oh! Leo… yes… right, it says here that when Jade 'takes' her victims, there is a 'prized' object behind… like a necklace, note, or…" Prue hesitated, "Or a bottle?"

Paige raised an eyebrow and then stood up. "I'll go and check," She stated, and wandered to where Leo had disappeared. Within minutes she returned, "Nope, nothing there… no necklace, no note, no bottle…"

Suddenly there was a crash behind her. The sisters all spun around. Piper gasped, and all the sisters then stood up suddenly. In front of them stood a group of demons all in the shapes of the sisters friends, Andy, Darryl, Leo, Chris, adult Wyatt, Danny, people Piper worked with, Phoebe's ex-boyfriends and loads were still coming. But they weren't shimmering in… Behind them was a huge black hole, they had knocked a whole wall in!

Instantly, they sisters all began to fight.

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