Prue Halliwell´s mistaken destiny

-A Treaty of Peace-

"I don't know

If god is real or not…

Or whose side I should be by

I don't know what I would do

If heaven opened its doors,

Would I be accepted,

For all the good I´ve done?

Would I be rejected,

For all the harm I´ve done?

I have been down many times

I haven felt not worth two dimes

Today I cut myself

And I saw my blood,

I realize there might be a god,

But how long have I been mad at you?

Now my time is up

And my days are due,

I just wonder God,

Whose side are you by?

Why are you so far away?

Who is right?

Why don't you care?

I wish I had a better speech

Something more beautiful than this

The truth is, I can´t barely speak

My voice is too weak to be heard,

But I see my blood,

Running down my body,

And I think,

God, forgive me.

Please,

Because I need my own treaty of peace"

Prue jumped on Phoebe's back and tried to knock her out. Phoebe grabbed her arms and threw her against the ground. Prue, mad of love, got right back up and screamed. She went back against her sister and punched her.

"LET ME GO!" she yelled with al her heart. "Phoebe, I swear I kill you if don't let me go, now"

Phoebe started at her oldest sister with confusion in her eyes. Piper had told her that she had to watch after Prue. They had offered Prue her old room but she didn't want it, all she tried was to leave the house, so they had locked her up in the basement.

Phoebe looked into Prue's eyes and saw tears- Prue had never cried in front of her, mainly because she hadn't seen her in such a long time- but something made her stop and stare at her oldest sister, who seemed to be wretched by pain.

"Phoebs, listen" Prue begged "Something horrible will happen if…The Elders cant get to Ethan"

"We will all be better off without him" Phoebe sentenced.

Prue shook her head and rolled her eyes, and gave her sister the hardest look no one could ever give, "Last chance, Phoebs, please, get out of my way"

Phoebe shook her head and said, "Be like that, but you wont get out of here". Then, she turned around and walked out of the room, leaving Prue alone.

Prue gazed at the room, finding a way out. She tried to move something, but her powers wouldn't work; Piper's job.

Prue always thought that the day she would see her sisters again would be the best of her life.

She was wrong.

Dead wrong.

Prue closed her eyes and thought about Ethan, feeling useless, she stood up facing the window, looked out, breathed and closed her eyes again. She kept on shaking her head, for some reason, she didn't think her sisters were by her side, at least this time. A tear rolled down her check and all she felt was sadness. She heard the door, but didn't turn around. She knew it was Andy.

"Prue"

"Traitor"

"Shut up"

Prue turned around very offended. "Shut up?" It had felt like a slap to her. "SHUT UP?" Prue yelled. "Is that the only thing you can think of? Well, Andy, you are proving to be more dumb than I thought, and trust me…"

"Are you gonna listen or I should leave?"

"You could leave alone, traitor"

"Funny, charmed one, or ex-charmed one…"

Prue grimaced. "What are you playing at?"

"It was a trap, Prue. You have to believe me"

"I don't have to do anything"

"You have to save Ethan"

"Oh, so now I have to save him? Then, why the fuck did you turn him in, you asshole?"

Andy's eyes sparkled. He glanced at Prue, just enough time to know she had meant what she had said. He got closer to her, knowing that the love she felt for him, would never be as strong as the love she felt for Ethan, at least the little one. Prue saw Ethan as her child, and only god knows what a mother can get to do to protect her child. "Im here to help you" Andy finally said.

"Then get me out of here,"

All of the sudden, a memory popped in Andy's head. A memory of a time when he was about to ask Prue to marry him, a memory of a time when he, they had been happy. He doubted for a second, but then, he came even closer to her, and wrapped her arms around her. He felt how she tensed, but gradually relaxed in his arms. She looked into his eyes, and again, saw something different, though she couldn't make out what it was. She wondered if he would dare to kiss her, but he didn't. although something in his mind told her that he desired her more than ever.

"Im not gonna let you out like that,"

"Andy…"

"Really, Prue. I will find out where he is and…"

"I need to protect him"

"Just like I needed to protect you"

"Needed?" Prue asked. "Aren't you con…wait a minute…You know it?"

"All of it" Andy confirmed. "Ethan told me, the night of the rape…"

Prue's eyes got darker, and suddenly, Andy backed off. "I want my powers back" Prue said. Andy shook his head. "I said I want my powers back, now" Prue said calmly. Andy shook his head again, "Not until I make sure you are safe"

"Alright" Prue said with a fake smile. "Piper…" she called. "Piper, Phoebe, Paige!"

They heard footsteps running to the room, and the door opened once again. "What?" Piper asked. "Are you gonna cooperate?"

Prue grabbed Andy's butt as an answer and, without her sisters noticing anything, grabbed a knife he hanging from his belt. Andy's eyes opened wide, but didn't say a word. Prue approached to Piper and smiled. Piper smiled too, and tried to hug her.

"Hold on there, turbo" Prue said, taking the knife out. "Are you, or are you not gonna help you dearest sister?"

"PRUE!" both Phoebe and Paige yelled.

"Don't Prue me, alright. Just do what I say and no one gets hurt, alright?"

"Who are you?" Phoebe asked, hurtfully.

Andy watched the scene, not knowing what to do. A part of him begged to help the love of his life, and wanted to go against her sisters. The other part, the rational one, wanted to protect Prue from any harm, including Ethan. Although, he had seen what losing him did to Prue, and he didn't want to go through that ever again. The had talked about children once, a long time ago…back then, he was sure he would be a great father, but now, he had his doubts. Suddenly, he realized the way he really saw Ethan, and the reason why he had those opposite feelings towards him, he hated him for taking Prue away from him, but he cared about him deeply…He saw Prue, then, more clearly than he had ever seen her. He stepped up to her side, and took out another knife.

"Andy?" Paige asked, surprised. "You too"

"Oh Yeah,"

Prue gave him an accomplice smile and nodded. "Give me my powers back"

Ethan looked at the Elder furiously and yelled something that no one could understand. He punched the wall and, instantly, blood came out of it.

"He is a demon" The elder said. A woman, next to him shook her head. "Half" She corrected him. "When is he coming?"

"Any minute" the Elders answered. "I have the feeling I have lived this before."

"So do I"

None of them spoke again. They were two Elders, one of them, was the leader of all of them, but it hadn't always been that way, his brother, Logan, had been the leader before him, but he died years ago. He died because of the little kid he had in front of him. As an elder, he wasn't supposed to hate, but what he felt towards the kid was all above hate, it was pure anger. For a second, the kid stared at him playfully. Of course, he didn't know what he had done, or what he would do. "You cant punish him for what he hasn't done yet" The other said. It was a woman, and she look like Ethan, oddly enough, she was the only elder willing to save him.

"He…is dangerous"

"He will be" The woman corrected him again.

"Don't you realize how serious this is? He brought back someone from the dead, and caused this mess, this war…"

"Did he?" The woman asked. "Or…did we started it? Maybe, if we hadn't kept him…"

"We haven't done anything"

"Neither has him. Don't you see? We´ve got a chance to fix our mistakes."

"He is the mistake. You mistake, to be exact"

"Damn right…" she thought.

"Is he not, my mistake as well?" A cold voice asked from behind. They both turned around and froze. It was the source. She looked down, and the Elder backed off. The woman couldn't help but stare at him, trying to figure out where the man she had fell for was. "It was a trick" she told to herself. "He is not a man…he tricked me"

"Am I not responsible for him, as well?" The Source asked with a silvery voice. "he is my son, therefore…"

The woman started laughing. "You fool, its Prue's son…Not mine, not yours"

"You know that is not true. I claim him"

Ethan looked at the man that was his father and shook his head. He was confused. His father…his father didn't look like him at all. His mother, the woman in front of him, it couldn't be her, a mother wouldn't abandon his son, just like that. Secretly, he didn't want her to be his mother…just because, when he thought about a mother, he thought about Prue. Thinking about her only made him feel better, peaceful, strong, calmed…he laid back, leaning on the wall and looked at the three people, who seemed to be discussing a future he would not accept. He realized, those guys were the reason why he would become what he would become, a psycho.

"He is half demon, half elder" she corrected them both. "He has the right to decide whose side…"

"He is my son" The Source claimed again. "He will do what I want" The Source stared at Ethan with his empty eyes, but Ethan didn't look down. "Though, he has…goodness in him, and…Prue." The Source started laughing. "So that's it"

"What?" The elder asked, still scared.

"We will make a deal" the source kept on laughing. "Or else, I´ll kill you all, and take the boy with me"

"I'm listening"

"I will send Shax, to take care of Prue Halliwell, then, you can have the boy for, lets say, how old is him?...It doesn't matter, you can have the boy until he is…eighteen, fine, nineteen, if he hasn't shown any sign that he is not evil, he will come with me. If he, decides to be good, I will forget all about him. Until then, we will make a deal, a treaty…of peace"

"Peace?" the elder asked with a smirk. "and Prue's death?"

"You are not losing anything, are you? After all, you still have the charmed ones"

The elder stared at Ethan and thought, that he would kill the boy before he went evil, only, because he didn't need another powerful enemy, but the source couldn't possibly know that.

"Deal" The elder said. "I´ll see you, in five years"

The Elder offered his hand to the Source, and he took it. The woman, looked to her son, asking for forgiveness, and then, walked out.

Ethan, who had watched how both sides, the good and the bad, played with is future, without stopping to think, that he wasn't a piece of meat, but a human being, with feelings, with fears, with hopes…that he knew would never come true. Now he knew why…suddenly, he felt an irrational hate towards everything, the elders, who would kill him before he turned eighteen if he didn't surrender. His father, who would kill him if he did surrender, he hated him too. He felt an increasing hate towards the world, and again, he thought about Prue, the one person that had offered him dreams and hopes instead of pain and fears, he shook his head. The love he felt for Prue was so overwhelming…it fought the hate off. He buried his head into his arms, and started to cry. His father was going to send someone after Prue to kill her, and there was nothing he could do about it, there was nothing he could do to protect her. Or was it? He looked around the room, until he found a sharp knife he had hidden from the elders. He let out a sigh, knowing that it would hurt. He took the knife, and pulled up his pants, pressed the knife against his soft skin and, started to cry, while a rive of blood came out. He screamed, knowing that no one would hear him, and wrote one word, "Shax" hoping that his older self, would understand the peculiar message.

A much older Ethan stared at his people, the rejects that had decided to follow him with one purpose…to do, what was needed to do. The way he saw it, there was no good or evil, there were points of view, and they were all losers. Who wins in the war? The guy that dies on the winner side, or the one who lives, even though, he has lost his war? None of them. Wars had no point. Judging, tagging, was an opinion. Life was about opinion. And there they were, two sides, good and evil, that would fight to death, but they would not die, only the innocents would…the people Ethan loved over all. As he looked at them, he saw the people he had "saved from morality", demons who had decided not to kill, sinners who were not ashamed of their sins, good people who were tired of watching people doing horrible things in the name of the "greatest good", the "big picture". Why should people sacrifice for something they weren't going to enjoy? What is the point of life, if you give it away to a purpose?

He felt something painful in his leg, and almost let out a scream. He pulled his pants up and saw his blood running down his body, his eyes grew big of surprise, and watched the one scar develop on his leg, "Shax" he whispered. He understood, pulled his pants down and faced the small crowd.

"I want you," he pointed one of the guys, and then, kept on. "All of you, I want you to go home"

The crowd whispered, denying, they said they wouldn't go anywhere.

"The war has started"

They all screamed, mad of happiness. Do the man kind need a purpose to live, to kill for? "I want you to go home" Ethan said calmly.

"WE ARE HOME!" one of the demons yelled. "This is OUR war"

"It's my war…"

"And we will fight!" another yelled.

"I never wanted to get to this!" Ethan yelled.

Cole walked up to him and smiled warmly. "Let them be" he said. "Come on, Ethan, lets save you" Ethan smiled, grateful and flattered, but shook his head. "At least, let us save Prue"

"But…"

"THERE WILL BE NO WAR!" Cole screamed, the crowd seemed even more excited. Then, Cole started pointing people and calling them, "You will go with me to the underworld, and we will destroy Shax." The crowd Cole had pointed screamed, "And you, will go up to the Elders, to find the kid, alright?"

"What about me, boss?" Ethan laughed.

"You go with Andy, just, keep Prue alive"

In the manor, a fight had broken loose, the fight between the three charmed ones, Prue and Andy.

Prue threw Phoebe to the wall, not hard enough to make her a serious injury. Phoebe got right back up and gazed at her big sister. Their eyes locked and, both saw the tears on each others´ eyes. Whose fault was it? Prue's, because she was trying to protect a future murderer? Or Phoebe´s, because she was trying to protect the "Great Good"? Who was right? Who wasn't?

Prue remembered, how one night, a long time ago, Phoebe had asked her why things were they way they were, and if she would always be by her side. Prue had answered that she didn't know, but she would always be by her side. What had changed? Phoebe had been the troublemaker, then, the good one, but Phoebe, after all. Piper, had been a geek, and then a rebel, but she was still Piper. Same with Paige, she wouldn't have had met Paige, but Ethan gave her that chance. Tears of confusion rolled down both sister's cheek. Phoebe saw how Prue was bleeding, she was not only physically wounded, but also psychologically, Prue had always protected her, Prue had always been there for her, just like she was protecting Ethan…

Piper tried to blow up Andy, but she couldn't. "What are you playing at?" Piper yelled.

"I'm trying to keep Prue safe!" Andy yelled. "Your sister, remember?"

"So am I" Piper shot back and hooking her up with a mini psycho is not the way"

"So which is, then?" Andy yelled. "keeping her home against her will?"

Piper didn't answer.

"How many times has she stood up for you? How many times have you stood up for her? NONE" Andy yelled.

Piper put her hands down. Andy was right. Prue was always standing up for her, taking the blame for her mistakes, taking care of her, and all she had done was to throw stuff on Prue´s face. Prue wasn't responsible. She realized Prue was only doing the best for a little kid that has gotten caught up in a fight that no one could win. Piper, was hurt because she wished that Prue had protected her more, but after all, she didn't need protection that much. She watched Andy, who had given everything up for Prue, who had gotten powers from every side, so he could protect Prue. Now Andy, was not a demon, not an angel, not a reject, and everything at the same time. Andy was in love. Love. Love. Love. Love.

Paige walked in, and felt some kind of pain, when she saw the people she loved the most fighting for nothing, going on with a hundred wounds in their skin, wondering who did it? Who had the blame? What for? "STOP IT!" Paige yelled out of her mind.

All four sisters shared a meaningful look and, it was Prue, the one who stepped up. She watched her sisters, they had gotten so big, so strong…all together, the three charmed ones, like in the old times. The problem was, in the old times, she had been a charmed one. Paige walked down the stairs, avoiding the trash all over the house and went by Prue's side.

"She is our sister," she almost cried. "We are the charmed ones, but she is out sister. She loves us, and we love her. Why do we fight?"

"For the right thing to do" Prue said.

"And what is right?" Paige insisted. "How can you choose?"

"The elders…." Piper started.

"Fuck the elders" Paige said.

"You didn't see Ethan…how scared she was when they took him…"

"We used to like him" Phoebe added.

"He saved me" Paige said.

"He saved all of us" Prue corrected.

Suddenly, she felt an strange feeling, something like a Déjà vu, her knees weakened and she had to hold on to Paige's arm.

"Prue!" Piper almost yelled, running to get her. "Phoebe, come on."

"Something is not right" Andy said.

The room started to freeze up, from the floor to the ceiling and so on, Prue thought she was going to faint, she had felt that before… "What day is today?" Prue asked, faintly.

"Monday" Paige said, confused. "Why does it matter…?"

"It´s not Sunday?" Prue asked, feeling her heart break. That meant she had one day less, that meant, her time was up…

"You fainted after they took Ethan," Piper explained. "but why…?"

A sudden wind broke into the house, the doors opened and Prue saw the face of the demon she had feared every night. She felt her heart getting heavier, and pushed her sister's and Andy aside.

Okay, this is not as long as my last update, but I'm pretty proud of it lol, as you can guess, this is getting to an end…only a couple of chappies more. I hope you enjoyed it.

Thanks for reading, and for all the wonderful reviews.

Anna Coulter.