Disclaimer, damn I forgot to write this thing in the other chapters…I do not own charmed because if I did, lets just say it'll be different. However, I do own Ethan who I love very much.

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Random3;It is okay, I am not checking my email everyday or going to every day so I didn't notice that you weren't reviewing…lol. Don't worry about Ethan, he'll be just fine and, nooo, I am not breaking Prue and Andy up because of anyone, not even Ethan.

PrueTrudeau; I won't break them up. It is annoying when people do that. It always goes right to my nerves. Being honest, I don't really have plans for the old-new people they are kind of a consequence but I'll think of something…I have a few ideas but I don't know how to connect them together.

DrEaM-KaT; Of course it is me behind the screen! Was it that obvious?

Mony19; lol, you don't like Ethan very much do you? Don't worry I'll continue with him. He is just trying to help, although he is a little impulsive and, yes, he screwed up…you'll see why.

peanut2lb; don't worry Ethan stays, he is going to have his moments but, of course he stays. And yes, Andy is the perfect boyfriend, but again, I love Andy lol. About Patty, you'll see…In this ff everyone is hiding something.

N/A; I am not sure about this chapter so…I accept any kind of reviews…

Chapter 5

Swimming in between awful truths and painful lies

Prue and Ethan stared at each other. Neither Prue nor Ethan knew what to say and both were lost within their feelings. Ethan wanted to hold her, tell her than every thing would be fine, that he was sorry for everything he had done…for every thing he was going to do to her. That she was the only person that had ever shown him, well a million things. She had shown him that life had beauty, that it was worth living…That he had a purpose. He wish he could tell her who he really was, no, better, who she really was, who she was going to become but he couldn't. He knew something about Chris, that Halliwell kid that came from the future and lived with his parents for a while. However he wasn't Chris. He never knew Chris; it was just a mere legend he had heard. Besides, Ethan didn't want to change his parents' future, he hated them. He didn't want to change his brother's future because did not have one. He was there to change Prue Halliwell's future, even if it would leave him alone and heartbroken. Prue, in the other hand, was having somewhat Déjà vu, just like if she had lived that before. She just didn't remember nor she knew why she felt so…protective with Ethan. For a second she thought she had feelings for him but it was impossible because she loved Andy. She loved Andy so much… Besides, it wasn't that kind of feeling. It was something different, something she had never felt before.

Prue looked in her purse for something to clean Ethan up and finally, she found some Kleenex. "Here…" Prue said trying to clean his injuries. "Who did this?"

"Does it matter?" Ethan asked without looking at her. Yet, he let her get closer to him. "You don't have to help me"

"Yes I do" Prue replied. "You gave me my life back…and I want to help you Ethan. Why won't you trust me?"

"Because I don't trust anyone" Ethan answered. "I hate everyone"

"That is not true. You don't hate me do you?" Prue asked trying to get him to talk. Ethan looked at her and smiled. "I could never hate you Prue" Prue smiled to him and held his hand. Ethan didn't seem to care.

"Please" he thought "I don't want to tell her, please Prue, don't make me tell you…please. I don't want you to know"

"Where do you live? Where do you go when you are not around? How old are you?" Prue asked without even thinking. Ethan looked away again and pulled himself away from Prue.

"Please don't ask me that. You are better off without knowing who I am" Ethan answered. He was being honest. "You don't care about me"

"Why not? Who are you Ethan?"

"No one. Prue I gotta go…" Prue grabbed him by his arm and pulled him in to a hug, she had the feeling that they had done that before. Ethan at the moment, was fighting the tears, but it was the fight he could never win. "Prue I have to go…"

"Will you ever tell me?"

"Tell you what?"

"Everything, maybe when this is over…"

Ethan smiled and Prue could see that she had just hurt him but she didn't know how. "Dear Prue, when this is over you will never see me again...You will wish you don't ever see me again"

"Ethan…that is not true" Ethan kissed her forehead and whispered, "All I do is for the best. Everything…But I can't predict the consequences and, somehow, all I do has a horrible one in your life" Prue could feel that Ethan was about to cry. And again she didn't know why, she just felt like holding him, protecting him…He looked so miserable…

As soon as Prue got home she went straight to bed. She couldn't believe how tired she was and she could just thank god that it was Friday. She didn't remember how well Friday's feel when you are in high school. Nothing seemed to be different, nothing seemed to be wrong. Prue went up to her room and found her little sister, Paige, asleep in her bed. "She looks like me," Prue thought. "Well, she's got Piper's eyes" Paige was wearing a cute blue pajama and her hair was still wet from the shower. Prue shook her but she wouldn't get up.

"Paige sweetie" she whispered. "Paige you have to go to your room"

"But Piper is in my room" Paige whined half asleep. Paige wrapped her arms around Prue's neck. Prue tried to pick her up but Paige was too heavy for her "C'mon Paige…please get up"

"Prue, Piper is in my room" Paige explained again hugging her big sister "Can I sleep with you?"

Prue didn't know what to say, she would say yes to Phoebe or Piper but Paige, she felt Paige as her sister but it was still weird. Although she didn't want her baby sister to feel left out. "Why is Piper in your room?" She asked instead.

"Because Phoebe is with a guy" Paige said yawning. "Can I go back to sleep please?"

Prue felt like her anger rose really fast, just like if someone had whipped her stomach. She couldn't believe what she heard. No way. She could only run to Phoebe's room and open the door without knocking, secretly hoping she would find Phoebe doing something…well, doing something the old Phoebe would do and, at the same time, begging herself to be wrong.

"Phoebe!" Prue yelled breaking in to the room. She froze. What she saw it wasn't what she was expecting to see, and at the same time it was exactly what she had expected. Something she knew deep inside her soul but she would never admit it. It was Cole. However it wasn't the Cole turner she was expecting to see, the evil lawyer or the evil demon. Evil anyways. It was Cole Turner, the teenager. There they were, Cole was trying to clean Phoebe's arm, which was bleeding. Cole's face was extremely pale and contracted by tension. So much tension that it could have been scratched with a knife. Phoebe was looking away from Cole and her eyes were red. Prue had only seen her eyes like that once but she didn't even remember. All of the sudden she had a flash, somewhat a premonition or maybe a drowned memory, she didn't know. Nevertheless, she saw Phoebe crying at someone's funeral. At her funeral.

"Oh my God! Leo!" She called by instinct. Cole looked at her surprised and Phoebe broke into tears again. "What did you do Cole? No wait, I don't care. Get the hell out of my house. NOW!" Prue yelled freaking out. "Phoebe come on we are going to the hospital"

"I'm fine Prue," Phoebe sobbed. "I am not going… Cole didn't do anything… he is helping me…"

"Calm down Prue. I got it," Cole explained. He was tense and looked exhausted but he wasn't lying. "It doesn't bleed anymore" Prue looked at him, obviously not buying it. She didn't trust Cole, or anyone else. "Why did you call Leo? Leo the skater jackass?"

"Mind your own business Cole"

"Like this is not my business"

"How did this happen?" Prue asked ignoring Cole. "Please Phoebe; tell me you didn't do this to yourself"

"What if I did?" Phoebe asked in an arrogant voice. Now it was Prue's turn to cry but she didn't. She stayed calmed and, smiled.

"I think we need to talk Phoebs" She held her sister while Phoebe nodded. Cole looked at Prue in the eyes, trying to figure whether he should stay or not. "Cole, you better go home. It's late" Cole grinned which Prue didn't like very much. "No one is waiting for me…no one cares whether I come back or not…just because I am not like…them". Cole thought. He nodded and left the room. Prue wondered who came she didn't see his car in the front porch. One of the two; either Cole was a great runner with a great timing, or he was a demon. She thought about her powers, wondered if she had them…She wondered if Leo was their whitelighter…or if they had one at all. She stared at Phoebe's face, which was almost inscrutable and held the bandage that wrapped Phoebe's arm until the elbow.

"I am sorry Phoebs" Prue apologized. "I…I should have been here…I am so sorry" Prue held her sister, trying to fight her own tears.

"Why is everything so screwed up Prue? Why us?" Phoebe cried. "You have Andy and Paige has her best friend Glen but Piper and I…we have nothing…I wish I had more power Prue. I wish I could change this but I can't…I can't because I am no one" the charmed one said. "I wish I was…a little bit more like you. Because you are always strong aren't you….you would never leave us like dad, or Paige's dad or…or mom"

"Never" Prue said, knowing that she was wrong. It broke her heart but the more she lived in that reality the more she knew that something was horribly wrong…And then, she thought about something. In that reality, all the charmed ones had some shadow over their heads. Piper's anger, Phoebe's insecurity…Paige's future rape, she hadn't forgotten that…and, she, herself, was beaten up by her own mother. If things continued that way, there wouldn't be any charmed ones at all. If they weren't any charmed ones, there wouldn't be elders either

"Dear Prue, when this is over you will never see me again...You will wish you don't ever see me again" Damn Ethan.

"Phoebe you can't keep doing this…I know that nothing is going to make you realize how awfully wrong you are but you've got to believe me…Life does change. This is not going to be like this for much longer"

"I can't take it anymore," Phoebe cried. "I need someone Prue…I need a rock to hold on to"

Prue never thought she would be about to say what she was about to say but she would never lose her little sister, never. She couldn't take it. Just to see her like that broke her heart in a million pieces.

"Tomorrow is Saturday. How about if we all spend the day together? You would like that wouldn't you?" Phoebe nodded and curled in to Prue's arms. "Why didn't you let Piper in?"

"What? Piper hadn't been here all day," Phoebe said confused.

"But Paige said Piper was in her room because you wouldn't let her in!"

"I don't know where Piper is but she is not here…" Phoebe started to say. "Stay here" Prue ordered. She got up and went to Paige's room. It was a mess. All her toys were everywhere, the walls were covered of pictures of teen idols and there were books all over the floor. The bed was empty. Prue looked everywhere and finally found a note on the table.

"I can't take it anymore. I am out of here. Don't worry, I'll just be gone for the weekend. I'll be back on Monday. Love you all, even Prue"

"Fuck!" Prue yelled. All of the sudden she felt all of Piper's anger. Because, that wouldn't have happened if Patty was a good mother. She was most likely drinking somewhere with some random dude while Prue had to take care of a situation she couldn't take care of. It was so unfair in every world but at least, in the old one she thought that her mother had been perfect while she was alive. What would have changed her so much? What had happened? She wished she could ask someone…someone that had been there from the beginning…someone like Andy. She ran back to her room where Paige was asleep again and grabbed the phone. She dialed Andy's number.

"he….eeello?" Andy's voice said. He was probably asleep.

"Andy I need you" Prue cried. Prue could hear how Andy jumped of his bed.

"What's wrong Prue?" he asked with a much more concerned voice.

"I just need you here…Phoebe…Paige…Piper is gone. And.." Prue broke into tears again.

"I'm coming baby" Andy said and hanged up.

Far away from there Piper was walking around San Francisco. Bored and tired, she didn't know where to go or what to do…Running away hadn't been such a great idea but what did the world expect huh? She was Piper Halliwell. Piper Geek Halliwell. A sucker. She always had to suck up her sisters junk. Phoebe was as perfect as Prue and Prue was overprotective with Paige and Phoebe as well but she had never cared about Piper…or even herself. Her mother was such a bitch who did not know how to take responsibility for her actions and her father had ran away from the same life she was trying to run away. Her entire life was a big bummer. All of the sudden, someone ran in to her. It was a black woman. She looked pretty fine, like if she was from the upper class or some aristocratic family. She was wearing a huge long coat and a scarf almost covering her face.

"What are you doing here so late?" she asked in a mysterious tone. Piper didn't like the woman at all. It was something oddly familiar around her. Something that made her nervous and scared.

"I don't talk to strangers"

"Good. Neither do I"

Piper turned around and walked away. Yet she was anxious to know more about the woman…The woman grabbed Piper's arm. Her skin was cold, perfect and soft…as if it was made out of some kind of stone.

"Lady…" Piper said trying to intimidate her but she didn't sound any convincing. The woman smirked.

"Seer… I wouldn't do that you know" someone in the dark said. Someone familiar to us but unknown to Piper Halliwell. It was Ethan. "Unless, of course, you want to get fried, which I figure you don't"

Piper looked at the guy. He was around Prue's age and he didn't look familiar at all. Maybe he was one of Prue's good looking friends, if he was, he was the best. She couldn't really see him but he looked really cute. His clothes were ripped and his skin look as bright and soft that it could have been new…although, in his eyes, she could see that he had been through a lot more than most people of his age.

"Ethan" The Seer whispered feeling like her knees were stumbling. She felt panic going through her veins and glazing them. "You are dead! You are supposed to be dead…!" Piper froze. She wanted to run but she couldn't move a muscle.

"You know what people say. If you want a good job, do it yourself" Ethan joked around. However he wasn't joking. He was playing around her, making her feel fear and angst through her evil fibers, laughing in the face of evil. "The Source is not going to be pleased is he? All this years, you all thought I was dead…too bad you were wrong"

The Seer stepped back and left Piper alone. She was looking at Ethan. "Are you going to kill me?"

"Yeah" Ethan admitted. "Eventually" Piper tried to scream but Ethan looked at her and she knew she shouldn't say a word. "Not now though…It wouldn't be as fun. Second thought, Killing is never fun is it? I don't know…I have never done it."

Piper felt a slight of relief. He could be crazy but at least he hadn't killed anyone yet.

"So…Seer…I can call you Seer right? Or shall I call you Serene…?" Ethan smiled, glazing at the effect of his words. He never thought he could feel so powerful…

"How do you know?" The Seer asked.

"You shall not care about that but the fact, that if you touch or attempt to touch one of the Halliwells, I'll hunt you down and kill you…bring you back to life, which I can do…and kill you over and over again. After all I have the entire eternity so I could do it very slowly…" The Seer stepped back once again and Ethan stepped toward her. The Seer couldn't believe he was alive. He shouldn't be alive. He was somewhat like a left over of the underworld. He shouldn't be alive. He was too dangerous…Ethan rose his hand toward her.

"No! Please! No! I beg you..!" The Seer yelled. Fear was getting control.

"Tornturcruo" Ethan sighed. All of the sudden The Seer started shaking and screaming. Piper started backing off, horrified. "Some has to hear it. Please, someone has to hear it…" She thought while Ethan couldn't help to laugh at The Seer's pain. It was the laugh from evil.

That night Piper Halliwell went straight to the Manor, hoping she would never see that guy, hoping she would never see that woman or anyone like that. She tried but she couldn't get the image out of her mind. She felt that the woman was evil…but the Ethan guy was beyond that...Familiar names were coming back to her mind and she couldn't help to feel some kind of Déjà vu, like if she had known that before, but it wasn't possible. It didn't make much sense. In the end she decided to get in the safety of the Manor. She went straight to Prue's bed. It didn't matter how mad she was at Prue. Prue was her protector. However Prue wasn't alone. Inside Prue's bed, Paige, Phoebe and Prue were asleep and Andy was asleep on the floor. Prue had tears in her eyes. Piper could bet Prue had been sickly worried about her.

"Prue?" she tried to wake her up. Prue woke up instantly and stared at Piper confused. Then she pulled her younger sister in to a hug. "Don't you EVER scare me like this again alright missy?"

Piper nodded. "I'm sorry Prue…I love so much…I have…"

"I know sweetie"

"We need to talk…I need to talk" Prue smiled. She wished it could wait until tomorrow but she didn't want to turn her back to Piper so she got up. "Thank you" Piper said and then she looked at Andy. "Why is he sleeping on the floor?"

"Well, he stayed here with Paige and Phoebe and I went out looking for you but I couldn't find you anywhere so I came back and I found them like this…" Prue explained looking at them. It had been a crazy night for everyone but they all seemed so peaceful now.

"We are going to make changes Pipe, I promise." Prue said holding her sister. "Starting from mom" and everyone else…I am going to change this damn present to make a better future.

Drama, Drama, Drama again. Well I am the Drama Queen LOL. I know this chapter doesn't have much Andy/Prue. Instead you have Ethan for quite a bit…I didn't want to leave out the other sisters even though this is a Prue centered ff but…I don't know. Tell me what you think.