Charmed Kitsune
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NarutoxPhoebex Prue x Piper x ?
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''Normal Speech''
Inner Thoughts, Dialogue, or reading passages from books and scrolls
(Quick Notes and Messages or Echoes.)
(Dark over lapping echoes)
''Boss Summons, Demons, Dark beings speaking, Demonic/Angry characters Speaking as well as extremely Dark spells and Magic.''
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Author's Note
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Plot hole: Throughout the series, it's established that good witches don't freeze. In this episode, however, Little Piper freezes Future Prue and Piper when they come back to the manor to "kidnap" their younger selves. Simply because the Charmed Ones reason that only one "set" of sisters (past/future) could have their powers doesn't mean that Future Prue, Piper and Phoebe aren't good witches. In other time-travel episodes, the sisters remain immune to freezing and are still able to say spells make potions, meaning they are still good witches.
For example, in Season 8 "Forever Charmed," Piper and Leo go back to 1975 (the same time-period as this episode) using Coop's ring, trying to find when Phoebe is alive again. However, when a startled Patty tries to freeze them, only Leo freezes. Piper does not, though she likely cannot use her freezing/exploding power in this time.
Continuity: In this episode, the sisters go back in time to late March 1975. On the family tree it says that Piper was born on August 7, 1973. So she would be 1 and 1/2 in March 1975. But she looks at least 2 years too old.
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Story Start
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With the sword stored and sealed away so until more information could be found the Sextet deciding to explore what went wrong with that spell.
''Well the spell must be defective. We've defeated Gabriel, so they should have disappeared.'' Prue was sure she cast the spell perfectly, so what was wrong?
''Yes, but you haven't really learned from them yet Prue. One aspect is overused while the other is underused,'' Naruto pointed out. ''You're still not balanced yet Prue. Remember what I once told you, overcoming major flaws isn't a quick fix. It's not something that can be done in the time-frame of an hour or so. The first step is acceptance from then on we can work on improving.''
''So what do you suggest then?''
''For the time being Pink-chan can take care of your job at Bucklands while you spend time with Blue-chan and learn to let loose once in a while.'' Normally Prue would have argued, but after the past few days she was just too tired. That and it was bad enough having to fend her clothes off from Phoebe and making sure all the hot water in the good shower wasn't used up. There was no way she was going to share her things with herself and...herself albeit a bit reluctantly Prue agreed to the suggestion.
''Now we also have to do something with all these deaths. Your fellow witches have been dropping like flies, even before your powers were unbound. Measures are going to have to be taken to counter-act that.''
''Like a Coven?'' Phoebe pointed out. It seemed like after all this time one of her old premonitions was coming to past.
''But we don't know anything about running a coven.'' Piper Interjected.
''There is an old witch I know. She's a priestess and has been running a coven for decades. I can go over to her home tomorrow morning and be back in the afternoon.'' he explained as Prue's cellphone went off and she groaned. It was probably her boss, wondering about the now post-modem client.
The following day Pink-chan was at Bucklands while Blue-chan was going out and spreading the word about the Charmed Ones considering forming a coven.
Up in the attic Prue and Phoebe were going through some old thing. Prue flipped through the photo albums with Phoebe sitting next to her at one of the tables spread along the Solarium.
"There aren't any pictures of me growing up." Phoebe whined, causing Prue to look up from her stack of photos.
The older Halliwell sister smiled faintly. "That seems impossible. I mean, you weren't exactly camera shy." Prue joked as she flipped another page of the photo album.
Phoebe rolled her eyes good-naturedly and pulled out a small stack of pictures. "Yes, well neither were you and Piper, or you and Grams, or you and Dad. Or look! Here's another one of you and Piper." Phoebe replied with a playful glare at Prue.
"Okay, here's a picture of you and Grams." Prue announced.
"Oh, wasn't I cute?" She stated as much as asked.
"Here's one of you and Mom." Prue added, watching Phoebe expectantly.
Phoebe's smile faded slightly but she looked eagerly down at the corresponding photo. It was of their mom reading a book to Phoebe. "Wow, I don't even remember that. What was I, about two?" Phoebe asked, receiving a nod from Prue. "She died on us a year later." She mumbled, quickly closing the album.
"Phoebe." Prue began, but trailed off unsure what to say to console her sister. A tense silence fell between them for several moments until Piper came running into the Solarium.
"Okay, alright, I need a pen and paper." Piper exclaimed, heading straight for one of the drawers. She rolled her eyes when none of her sisters moved. "Quick we don't have a lot of time." She pressed struggling to open the drawer that was resisting.
Phoebe sighed and stood up from her chair, joining Piper next to the drawer. She hit the top of it twice and kicked the side once and the drawer popped open.
Piper's eyes narrowed at the drawer and then transferred to her departing younger sister. "I always wondered how you got in my candy drawer."
''Yeah, too bad all the candy's gone.'' Phoebe noted.
"Anyways, I thought it would be easier for us if we just write him a note." Piper went on. "You know, what his name is." She replied as if it was common knowledge. Piper waved her hand for her sisters to follow as she led the way to the Foyer when the doorbell rang. "Grandma's little friend, comes every year, same day, same time. Says, you know, the flowers are from a secret admirer, only it's obvious he's the admirer." Piper reminded them in short. She stopped in front of the door and Prue and Phoebe took up their normal positions around Piper ready to greet him. When they were ready, Piper opened the door to find the older man on the other side of the door. "Hi, come on in." Piper allowed, opening the door invitingly as the clock began to chime. "How are you?"
"Flowers for Miss Penny Halliwell." The man offered a vase of roses. As he started to hand them to Piper, they dropped from his hands.
Piper hastily threw her hands out to freeze everything before the vase crashed into the ground and shattered. She turned irritably back to her sisters. "Every year, what a klutz!" She muttered, turning back and taking the flowers in her hands. "At least this year I can freeze him and spare myself the clean-up." Piper exclaimed.
"Why did you want to write him a note?" Phoebe questioned curiously.
Piper bit her lip slightly. "To tell him Grams is dead." She mumbled.
"Oh, you're going to break his heart." Prue stated, glancing at him sympathetically.
At that moment the room unfroze and the man looked around him knowingly. "Five chimes." He stated suddenly.
The sisters exchanged confused glances. "Excuse me?" Piper prompted, tilting her head slightly to the side.
"The clock, I only heard five chimes. It's noon. That means you froze me which means you have your powers at last." He explained.
Piper's mouth dropped and she carefully sat the flowers down on the nearest side table and backed away to join her sisters. "Uh, I don't know what you're talking about, Mister, but thanks for the flowers. Bye." Piper replied. All three sisters backed several steps away.
"Call me Nicholas. Your mother did." He suggested sharply, taking a ring from his pocket and slipping it onto his finger. Nicholas de-aged in front of their eyes. "I had to appear to age over the years otherwise you would've been suspicious." He responded to their stunned looks.
"What?" Prue demanded.
Nicholas smiled and his gaze shifted over Prue. "You see, twenty-one years ago today, your mother and I made a pact. To spare her life, she gave up your future powers to me. She blessed this ring." He began, holding it up for them to see. "Which gave me immunity to your powers."
Piper quickly flicked her wrists, desperately trying to freeze him, but nothing happened.
"Immunity so that I could kill you and take the powers on for my own. To become invincible." he explained like some idiotic, cliché Saturday morning villain.
Prue squinted her eyes and sent a telekinetic blast in his direction, but nothing happened. "Our mother would never give away our powers." She stubbornly argued and tried again.
"She didn't have much of a choice." Nicholas replied, pointing his ring at Phoebe. "Your blood is boiling. Soon your lungs will sear." Phoebe shook momentarily before falling over in pain. He moved his hand so that it was now pointing at Prue and Piper. "Your organs will overheat and death will come." He finished. He grinned when Prue and Piper dropped to the ground in agony.
When he was focused on the elder two sisters, Phoebe snaked up and kicked him in the leg so that he fell to the ground and released them from his hold. Phoebe grabbed Prue's hand and Prue who held onto Piper as they zipped up into the attic using the replacement jutsu on one of the logs Naruto left in the attic for practice.
Prue broke from the group and stomped to the attic door, shutting it while the other two ran to the book and desperately flipped through the pages. "Why would Mom make a deal like that?" Prue questioned aloud. ''Why wouldn't someone stop her?''
"More importantly, what are we gonna do about it?" Piper corrected, her arms crossed and eyes narrowed at her frantically page-flipping sisters.
"Wait, I think I found a spell!" Phoebe announced, "To unbind a bond." she read.
"You can't run from me!" Nicholas's voice echoed from behind the attic door, followed by the creaking of the stairs as he undoubtedly ran up them.
Prue glanced nervously behind her. "Okay, we have no choice." Prue allowed.
"Hurry up." Piper agreed, waving her hand dramatically to speed things up.
"Okay." Phoebe hissed narrowing her eyes in annoyance.
"The Bond which was not to be done
Give us the power to see it undone
And turn back time to whence it was begun."
Phoebe chanted. The three sisters were surrounded by white orbs and they disappeared, reappearing in the same spot in front of the book.
Phoebe frowned as she looked around them. "It didn't work?''
"Nothing happened." Prue agreed, biting her lip slightly.
They all spun around as a phone began to ring downstairs. They hesitantly walked to the attic door and Phoebe pulled it open so they could better hear the ring. "Whose phone is that?" Phoebe asked.
"Not ours." Piper answered softly in confusion.
"Halliwell Residence." Someone's voice sounded from downstairs.
Piper glanced in Phoebe's direction. "You go." She ordered.
Phoebe immediately shook her head. "No, you go." She argued.
Their eyes turned toward Prue's direction. "She goes." Piper and Phoebe decided, pushing Prue out the attic door before she could respond.
Prue cast an irritated glance behind her as the attic door closed before she quietly treaded down the steps until she could see what was going on. Her eyes widened as she saw her grandmother on the phone.
"I beg your pardon? Well, Donna, I'm just hurt that you would suspect my little angels of such a thing." Grams spoke into the phone.
"Grams?" Prue whispered to herself, trying to get a better view of her grandmother from this angle on the stairs.
Her jaw dropped as two young girls ran through the foyer. They could only have been herself and Piper.
"Prue. Uh, just a moment, Donna." Grams replied to the woman and then turned to the two girls that had stopped and were hovering at the far door. "Prue, Piper. Girls, don't run in the house." She ordered. ''I swear, what is taking that man so long.'' she grumbled before turning her attention back to the phone and the little girls ran into the next room. "Yes. Yes."
Prue quickly turned around and raced back up the stairs. She knocked on the door and dashed in the moment it was open, a stunned expression on her face. Piper and Phoebe exchanged glances when Prue didn't immediately say anything.
"What did you see?" Piper demanded.
"The warlock?" Phoebe guessed nervously.
Prue slowly shook her head. "No. Us."
Back in the attic they were trying to figure out what went wrong.
"How do we know we're back in time? What if we just brought the past to us accidently? We've done it before." Piper rambled as she paced back and forth around the attic.
Prue was left to calm down Piper. "Piper, look around. What do you see?" Prue questioned with a faint smile.
Piper obediently allowed her eyes to flicker around the room. "A messy attic like always." She answered sharply.
"No, not like always." Prue disagreed. "We have a black light, a typewriter, eight track tapes, and a pet rock." She pointed out, waving her hand in the direction of each of the items. "I mean, we got rid of this stuff years ago, remember?"
"And you saw us? As kids?" Piper demanded in disbelief.
Prue gave the slightest of nods. "Yeah." She answered with a thoughtful expression.
"This can't be happening. I'm getting a migraine!" Piper exclaimed, cradling her head in her hands.
"Better not, I don't think Advil's been invented yet." Phoebe quipped with an innocent smile to Piper. "And apparently neither has this spell. It's not in here anywhere." Phoebe added after having flipped through the entire book twice.
Piper's eyes widened. "But we just cast it. That's how we got back here." She argued.
"Yeah, well, wherever here is, it's before the spell was written." Phoebe replied with a sigh.
Prue walked up to stand next to Piper. "So there's nothing in there about how to get back to our own time?" Prue pressed.
"Nothing." Phoebe answered, shutting the book a little harder than necessary. "Uh, let me be the first to say we're screwed."
Prue immediately shook her head. "No." She disagreed. "Okay, at least we're alive. If we had stayed in our own time, Nicholas would have killed us. We barely got away as it was. Is. Will be." Prue babbled, appearing confused. "You know, I've never been good at tenses." She admitted.
"What are we going to do?" Piper worriedly asked.
"Well, Grams is right downstairs. Maybe we should just go and tell her who we are." Prue suggested.
Phoebe laughed at the thought. "And say what? Hi, we're the ghosts of grandchildren future?" She joked. "Come on, even Grams is gonna have a little trouble with that." Phoebe reminded them.
"Plus, she has that heart condition." Piper added.
Prue sighed but nodded reluctantly in agreement. "Okay, fine, so we need another plan.''
Phoebe's eyes lit up. ''Maybe we can find Naruto? He knows about traveling, maybe he can help us.''
''There's no telling if he's around at the moment,'' Prue argued. ''And if he's not we don't have a way to track him down. First thing first, we need to get out of the house." Prue decided leading the way to the edge of the stairs with Phoebe, and Piper right behind her. They stopped once they were in sight of Grams, still on the phone.
"You're talking too fast. Patty sweetheart, slow down." Grams were saying into the phone.
"Patty?" Piper repeated.
Prue nodded. "Mom." She breathed, staring intently at the phone.
"What premonition? Patty, that's impossible, you don't have premonitions." Grams retorted.
Phoebe frowned and glanced in Prue's direction. "Wait, I thought you said Mom's power was to freeze time." She hissed, tilting her head in confusion.
"It is. I mean, was. Oh, you know what I mean." Prue returned softly.
"Maybe you should go see a doctor." Grams suggested.
"I don't need to go to the doctor, Mom." Patty argued. "I need you to listen to what I'm saying." She insisted.
Piper carefully placed her hand over the speaker so her voice wouldn't carry to the other lines. "She's talking to Mom." Piper breathed.
"I can't explain it either, Mom. It just happened. I felt a twinge in my stomach and then Bam! I saw it. Warlocks, three of them and one of them was taking Prue." Patty explained hastily.
"You know you've been really stressed lately." Grams began.
"Do you think that's really Mom's voice?" Phoebe whispered excitedly.
"Yes,'' Piper agreed.
"Are you still nauseous? Why don't you come home from Buddy's?" Grams continued.
"I can't and it was not a daydream." Patty insisted. They exchanged a few more words before they hung up.
Piper carefully followed and Prue waved her hand for her sisters to follow her as she heard Grams move away from the stairs. "Okay, let's get out of here." She decided. As they reached the bottom of the stairs they heard Grams' voice in another room.
The three sisters froze as little Prue walked after a running little Piper. Seeing that little Piper was getting away, little Prue narrowed her eyes at a kids-sized couch and it moved to block the doorway.
Little Piper turned to glare playfully back at little Prue. "No fair, using magic."
"Whoa!" Piper breathed as little Piper turned back to her sister.
"This is really freaky." Phoebe remarked.
Her curiosity getting the best of her, Prue led the way into the room where the little girls were in. Little Piper was standing next to little Prue in the Solarium when they came in. Two pairs of kids eyes flickered to the three sisters and little Prue stepped forward.
"Hey." Prue greeted, kneeling down so that she was level with her kid-self.
"Hi." Little Prue echoed, lightly touching Prue's freckle on her face.
Prue laughed softly. "You got one too." She whispered. "Come here." Prue invited eagerly, pulling her miniature self into a hug. Her smiled faded as she heard footsteps coming into the room.
"How many times have I told you girls?" Grams began scolding but froze as she saw the sisters with little Prue in the arms of one of them.
Prue immediately let little Prue down and backed away. "Uh, Grams. we can explain."
Grams didn't wait for any explanations. She raised her hands at the sisters. "Warlocks, be gone!" She ordered and Prue, Piper, and Phoebe were thrown out of the house, landing heavily on the concrete stairs.
"Oh, god, let's go." Prue hissed as soon as the door had shut.
The sisters wasted no time in running out of sight of the Manor. "Grams really had her power down." Prue remarked with Phoebe and Piper following behind.
"She is one scary witch." Phoebe agreed.
Piper nodded and slowed down as well. "What do you think was the reason our powers were bound?'' She asked, directing the question to Prue.
"I don't know, but whatever the reason it must have been for a good reason." Prue replied with the slightest of shrugs. "Well, whatever happened, how weird was that? Seeing us as kids?" Prue inquired with a hint of excitement. "Totally bizarre." She answered herself.
Phoebe had walked up to the end of a neighbor's driveway and picked up their newspaper. Her eyes quickly scanned for the date which she found at the top. "Mom is barely pregnant with me." Phoebe announced after a quick mental calculation. "Here, March 24, 1978."
"That's the day Mom made the pact with Nicholas." Piper realized.
"So maybe that's why the spell sent us back here. To stop the pact." Prue suggested.
"Which means it may be the only way for us to get back to our time." Piper added.
"Yeah, but we have to do a better job at convincing Mom than we did Grams. This time we have to use our powers." Prue decided, glancing at her sisters for approval.
Piper frowned as she remembered the conversation their mother had with Grams. "The only problem is she's on the lookout for three warlocks now." She reminded them.
Prue bit her lip nervously. "Uh, so then, maybe not all of us should approach her. Just in case." She suggested with an uncertain look at her sisters.
"Well, since I don't have any powers to show Mom, I think you two should go." Phoebe replied. "I'll just stand outside and watch for Nicholas." She concluded with a shrug.
Piper exchanged a glance with Prue before looking back at Phoebe. "That doesn't seem fair to you, Phoebe, not being able to see Mom."
"I know, it's not, but I got over that a long time ago. I don't need to see her now." Phoebe assured them. Prue narrowed her eyes in concern and Phoebe forced a smile for her eldest sister. "Really, it's okay." She continued. When no one said anything she hastily sought to change the subject. "We better get going, though, before we miss her." She pointed out.
Slowly, Prue and Piper agreed and followed Phoebe to the part of town that housed the popular restaurant, Buddy's.
While Phoebe waited outside Buddy's, entertaining herself by checking out the movie theatre across the street, Prue and Piper walked into the restaurant.
Prue froze in the doorway, forcing Piper to follow suit or they would have run into her. Prue's eyes quickly scanned over the restaurant. "Whoa, scary. Buddy's has not changed a bit." She realized in surprise. She blinked quickly, appearing confused as she thought about what she had said. "Err. wouldn't. didn't?"
''Give it up, I know what you mean,'' Piper replied, taking up a menu more for looks than for any other reason.
Piper was the first to look up and see Patty come from the back.
Piper's eyes widened. "Prue." She breathed, trying to get her eldest sister's attention.
Prue glanced up at them curiously and followed their subtle, yet frantic nodding in Patty's direction. "Mom." Prue whispered.
"She's so beautiful." Piper remarked.
"Yeah, she is." Prue agreed.
"I don't remember her working here." Piper admitted looking thoughtfully after their mother as she sat a couple of drinks down at the table in front of them.
"Yeah, with Dad gone she had to pay the bills somehow. I remember she used to come home late at night and she'd kiss me and she always smelled like hamburgers." Prue reminisced a little wistfully.
Piper's smile widened before she finally tore her eyes away from her mother and allowed them to flicker to her big sister. "You're lucky. You have a lot more memories than I do."
"Well, at least you have some. I mean Phoebe hardly has any." Prue pointed out with a sad sigh.
"Oh, here she comes." Prue announced, lightly tapping Piper's arm.
Piper looked a little nervously in Patty's direction. "What do we do if she recognizes us?" Piper demanded.
"Well, you freeze the place and when she sees that we don't freeze either, she'll believe us when we tell her who we are." Prue decided.
"Okay, how do I look?" She asked.
"Great." Prue assured.
Patty had just stopped at their booth. "Ready to order?" She questioned, pulling out the notepad to take their order on. Prue and Piper just stared, overwhelmed at the sight of their mother.
Patty hesitated, guessing that they weren't quite ready. "Take your time. I'll come back." Patty allowed, beginning to turn away.
"No, wait, aren't we, Prue?"
Prue's eyes widened and hastily tried to cover before Patty could think about hearing her name too much. "Ah, prunes." She covered, glancing at Piper who bit her lip nervously. "Uh, prunes. She wants to know if you have any prunes."
"Prunes, sure. Yeah, I think so. I just started here. I'll go check." She offered, beginning to turn away again.
"No!" Prue yelled, stunning Patty into stopping. "Uh, she can order something else." Prue explained.
Piper, picking up the hint, grabbed the menu and quickly flipped through the pages.
Patty waited patiently, eyeing Prue rather curiously. "Have we met before? I mean, you look familiar."
Prue smiled faintly. "Yeah, so do you." She answered.
"Now." Prue ordered under her breath to Piper.
Piper immediately dropped her menu and flicked her wrists to activate her freezing power. Nothing happened so she tried again, more noticeably.
"What's the matter?" Prue whispered, trying to appear casual.
"It's not working. You try." Piper hissed back.
Prue lowered her gaze to the glass of water on the table in front of her and squinted, willing it to move. Nothing happened despite several attempts.
"Okay, how is that possible?" Prue muttered.
Patty was watching them suspiciously now and only looked away when one of the waitresses called "Patty, phone."
"Oh, okay thanks." Patty called over her shoulder, though her eyes never left the three sisters. "Uh, I'll be right back." She said to them, starting to turn away, though somewhat reluctantly.
"Wait, we know you're pregnant!" Piper yelled after her in desperation. Prue cast a look of disbelief at Piper, who suddenly realized that may not have been the best approach.
Patty stopped short and quickly walked back to the table. "What?" She demanded.
Piper laughed nervously. "This is going to sound really weird, but we're actually your."
"Cousins." Prue interrupted. "Cousins from out of town." She elaborated, thinking that bashing her head into the table may not be too bad an idea right now.
Piper just nodded awkwardly before continuing where she had been interrupted. "And we need to tell you something very important about the baby that you're carrying sorta." She explained.
Patty hastily rolled her notebook up and dropped it in the pocket of her uniform. "Not that this is any of your business but I can't get pregnant anymore. Medically impossible." Patty replied sharply. "Excuse me." She added, turning away and actually making it away from the table this time.
Piper stared after her dumbfounded. "I panicked." She admitted. "I thought, you know, close family would know that she's pregnant."
"Yes, well, not only does she not know that she's pregnant, she doesn't even think that she can get pregnant." Prue responded.
Piper shook her head to try and clear her thoughts to something more important. "Yeah, well, we have bigger problems. We have no powers which means we have no way of stopping Nicholas." She reminded them.
"Yeah, how do we not have powers?" Prue exclaimed. "I mean, little Prue and little Piper, they have powers."
Piper shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe only one set of us can have powers at the same time, in the same time." She suggested.
Prue nodded with a sarcastic look of interest. "Thank you, Mr. Spock." She gratified.
Meanwhile with Patty. "I was working Mother, that's why I couldn't take your call." Patty explained into the phone that was in the kitchen.
On the other end, Grams rolled her eyes at the excuse, but didn't press it. "That premonition that you said you had. Did you see what the warlocks looked like?" Grams demanded, getting right to the subject.
Patty frowned in confusion and tried to remember the vision. "The warlocks? No, I didn't see their faces." She admitted after a moment. "Why?" She asked curiously.
"I'll tell you why. Because I saw them. All three of them. Here, and one of them had a hold of Prudence." Grams answered with a hint of anger.
"Are the girls okay?" Patty questioned demandingly.
"For now, thanks to me." Grams replied. ''Where is that blasted man when you need him?''
Patty nodded and quickly grabbed her purse from the small table next to her. "I'm coming right home." She announced before hanging up. She cast one last glance back at the table where Prue and Piper were chatting and went out the back door. Patty pulled her purse around and searched for the keys amidst everything else. She accidentally ran into Phoebe, who was staring back at the window of the restaurant. "Oh!" Patty exclaimed, dropping her stuff.
Phoebe jumped back in surprise. "Oh, sorry!" She apologized, bending down to help pick the stuff up.
"I'm so sorry." Patty apologized in return.
"Oh, no, it's totally my fault." Phoebe argued, freezing when she actually looked at Patty for the first time and recognized who she was.
Patty smiled and took something from Phoebe's hands. "I'm such a klutz sometimes." She admitted.
Phoebe returned the smile. "Really? So am I."
"Yeah?" Patty laughed.
Phoebe suddenly realized how very strange she was acting and dropped her gaze back to the contents of Patty's purse that still littered the ground. "Yeah." She mumbled distantly, reaching out for a pack of crackers.
"Crackers?" Phoebe asked.
Patty nodded slightly. "Upset stomach." She explained, taking them.
Phoebe's eyes flickered to land on a cigarette packet. "Uh, you know, you shouldn't be smoking these now." She began, pausing at the weird look Patty sent her. "It's bad for your upset stomach." Phoebe elaborated hastily.
"You're very sweet." Patty complimented, standing back up now that she had re-acquired all her stuff. "Thanks, I gotta go."
"So soon?" Phoebe questioned before she could stop herself.
Patty turned back to her curiously. "Excuse me?" She inquired.
Before Phoebe could cover, an officer stopped next to them. "Is everything all right?" The officer demanded professionally.
"Yeah, thanks officer." Patty answered.
Phoebe spun around to see who the voice belonged to and her eyes widened when she recognized him. "Oh my God, Nicholas." She breathed, unconsciously stepping away toward Patty.
"I'm late. Thanks again." Patty gratified to Phoebe before walking off to her car.
Nicholas turned to follow her, but Phoebe jumped in his way. "Excuse me, how do you get to Berkeley?" She questioned in an attempt to buy Patty more time.
Nicholas glared and pushed her away. "Get out of my way." He snapped, making his way to his car, presumably to follow Patty.
Before he could get his keys to unlock his car door, Phoebe stepped forward and kicked his hand so that he dropped his keys. She picked them up and threw them across the road before bolting into Buddy's for her sisters.
"Phoebe, what are you doing?" Prue asked as she caught sight of the younger Halliwell.
Phoebe's head snapped around and she ran toward them, motioning for them to hurry up. "Nicholas is here." She hissed.
"What? Where?" Piper demanded, her eyes scouring the area.
"No time to explain, run!'' Phoebe led the way through the many people and out the back door. They had just disappeared when an angry Nicholas pushed into Buddy's looking for them.
Prue, Piper, and Phoebe walked down the street nearby the Manor trying to figure out how to make their next move.
"Was Nicholas wearing his ring?" Piper wondered to Phoebe.
Phoebe tried to think back to their short encounter. "I don't know. I don't think so." She finally answered.
"It was a good thing you were there, Pheebs. That was probably when he was going to make his move on Mom." Piper went on thoughtfully.
"No, I don't think so, otherwise we would be back in our own time by now." Prue argued lightly. She glanced over at Phoebe, who was unusually silent. "Hey, are you alright?" She asked gently.
"Yeah." Phoebe assured before dropping her gaze as Prue and Piper also looked at her. "Uh, just seeing Mom and talking to her, I just didn't expect to feel so."
"Feel what? Good?" Prue suggested.
Phoebe shook her head slowly. "No, overwhelmed." She corrected.
"Well, Mom's car is here. At least we know where she is." Piper remarked casually.
"Yeah, but the question is how do we get to her? Grams must have told her about us by now. She probably thinks that we're the warlocks." Prue pointed out.
"The problem remains. Our only option is to wait until Nicholas shows, but what are we going to do without our powers?"
Phoebe looked thoughtfully at the Manor that was across the street from them. "Well, technically you still have your powers. If you count little Prue and little Piper." She realized, a small smile forming on her face. "We need powers and they have them. Come on." Phoebe ordered.
They snuck in through the back door that led into the kitchen. Phoebe looked carefully around the kitchen in search of anyone but found it empty. "Coast is clear." She called behind her, waving for them to follow.
"What if Grams catches us?" Piper asked worriedly.
"She'll kill us before Nicholas has the chance." Prue answered grimly as they slipped into the Foyer.
"She won't catch us. Observe." Phoebe announced, opening the heating duct up.
"You said the girls were safe with you. Besides, I want to go." Patty's voice drifted from upstairs.
"You are making a big mistake, Patty. Victor is not coming back." Grams argued as she watched her daughter try and pick out which clothes to wear.
Prue narrowed her eyes but appeared impressed. "How did you ?"
"Heating duct to upstairs. I used to listen to you guys for hours. Especially when you used to sneak Andy up to your bedroom in high school." Phoebe explained teasingly.
Prue's eyes narrowed, this time in annoyance, but before she could smack her sister, Piper grabbed Prue's arm and pointed to her wrist indicating that they didn't have a lot of time. Prue sighed and nodded. "Fine, keep tabs on them. We're going to try and find the little girls." She ordered, following Piper into the next room.
"That's my doll!" Little Prue yelled, trying to pull the toy from her younger sister's hands.
Little Piper stubbornly held on and tugged back. "You gave it to me!" She argued.
"No, I didn't. You stole it." Little Prue accused.
Prue smiled and nodded to herself as she and Piper came around the corner of the room. "That's true, you did steal it." Prue agreed with her miniature version.
"I did not." Piper snapped.
"Yes, you did." Prue returned before shushing at her sister. As they came into the room they saw little Prue narrow her eyes at the doll and telekinetically pulled the toy from her younger sister's hands.
Piper couldn't resist but to speak up for her little self. "Hey, that's not fair!" She scolded too little Prue.
The two kids turned to meet Prue and Piper. Little Prue smiled as she hugged the doll to her. "You came back." Little Prue exclaimed.
Prue nodded and kneeled down in front of little Prue while Piper approached her miniature self. "Yes, we did, and we're gonna keep it a secret, okay?" She prompted gently.
Little Prue nodded eagerly. "Okay." She agreed.
"Okay." Prue laughed.
"You're pretty." Little Prue complimented a little shyly.
Prue smiled wider and pushed little Prue's hair away from her face. "Oh, so are you."
Piper rolled her eyes at the Prues. "Oh, give me a break." She muttered.
"Grams said you're bad people." Little Piper spoke up, crossing her arms in an act of suspicion.
"Oh, no, no, no. We're good people. We're, uh, just like you." Piper assured with a glance at Prue for help.
"Yeah, we're family." Prue elaborated and little Piper smiled faintly.
Back in the other part of the house. "Victor sent me a note. He asked me to stop by his hotel after my shift." Patty explained to Grams.
Phoebe listened closer at the mention of her father.
"Dad?" She mumbled, a little surprised.
"You know it was doomed from the start. You never even took his last name." Grams argued.
Patty glanced away from her closet and to her mother. "You wouldn't let me." She countered with a half-smile.
Grams shrugged helplessly. "That's beside the point." She replied stubbornly in her typical Grams fashion. "Why can't you just wear your uniform to see him?" She suggested.
"Because I don't want him to know that I'm a waitress." Patty answered as if that made perfect sense. She thrust her chosen outfit in Grams' hands and returned to put her other clothes back up. "Look, it can't hurt to talk, right?"
"Well, let him go I say. If husbands were meant to stay married, God would have made them live longer." Grams remarked offhandedly.
Patty gave her mother a hard, yet amused stare. "Mother." She scolded lightly.
Little Prue had now stepped slightly in front of little Piper with her arms crossed, almost protectively in front of her little sister. "We're not supposed to go places with strangers." Little Prue stated.
Prue nodded in understanding. "Yeah, but we're not strangers, Prue. You're safe with us and I know that you know in your heart that you can trust us." Prue replied gently. Little Prue seemed to think it over for a moment before nodding in agreement.
"If you're really family then prove it." Little Piper challenged.
"Prove it? How the hell are we supposed to do that?" Piper snapped, turning on Prue.
"Piper!" Prue scolded as the curse word left the other Halliwell's mouth.
Little Piper turned eagerly to her older self. "Piper. Your name's Piper too?" She asked with wide-eyed wonder.
Piper glanced away from Prue and back to little Piper. "Yeah and, uh, not only do we have the same name, but we have the same secrets." Piper walked over to the candy drawer and knocked the top twice before kicking the side and the drawer popped open. Little Piper's mouth dropped.
Prue smiled, recognizing that they had won them over. "Okay, follow me." She called.
Phoebe hastily entered the room. ''They're on their way. Time to go.''
"Fine, if you must go, go, I can't stop you, but I also can't promise that I won't teach the girls a new spell while you're gone." Grams consented reluctantly.
Patty stopped her descent down the stairs for a split moment. "Can't you just bake cookies with them like all the other grandmothers?" She suggested lightly.
Grams turned around to head back up the stairs. "The recipes they learn from me don't come from Betty Crocker, dear."
Patty laughed softly as she headed for the door. "Bye, girls. Love you." She called behind her.
"Prudence, Piper." Gramms called for her granddaughters.
Prue's eyes widened and she picked up little Piper and ushered her miniature self toward the kitchen. "Go, go, go, go, go." Prue ordered.
Piper ran forward and pulled little Prue, who she thought was moving too slow.
Little Andy quickly followed with narrowed eyes. As they were on their way out they had bumped into the younger form of Andy as well. "I wanna go too."
Phoebe spun back around. "No, Andy, you have to stay here." Phoebe replied.
"No!" Andy shouted, trudging forward stubbornly.
"Go, Phoebe, go. I got it." Prue muttered, carrying little Piper forward to block the door.
Phoebe grinned and took off after Piper, and Little Prue.
"Alright, freeze him." Prue instructed little Piper. "No wonder he's so suspicious of us." She added to herself. Little Piper obediently flicked her wrists as Andy Froze.
Grams walked into the room to find little Andy frozen.
"Oh, Andy, did Piper freeze you again? You poor dear." She laughed, stepping forward as the magic wore out.
Thankfully Piper's power was still wholly undeveloped and immediately dispelled almost as quickly as it was used. "Do you know where the girls went?" She asked pleasantly.
"They were with the strange ladies. They were here a second ago." Little Andy answered, pointing in the general direction of where he last saw them.
Grams' eyes widened in horror as she heard the startup of a car in their driveway much too late to be Patty's. She bolted out to the driveway to try and intercept them. Grams was just able to see her car disappear down the street.
In her haste Grams had knocked over a vase. She then shouted to the skies. ''Naruto Uzumaki, if you don't get your ass out here this instant I'll tell Patty who it really was that ruined her Prom Dress.''
''For heaven's sake!" Naruto barked out as he appeared in a flash of chakra and leaves. ''Penny, don't you know I was try...''
''Warlocks! Warlocks took the girls!" she cut him off, bringing an end to whatever he was about to say.
''I'm on it. Those warlocks are as good as dead.'' he promised as he went into the house to begin tracking the girls by their scent.
The Sisters and the sisters arrived to the outskirts of a forest. The park had people in it and it would wholly be idiotic to bring the girls there. They needed some place quiet and secluded so magic wouldn't be exposed.
They had taken the two children to the park where Prue was put in charge of instructing them on how to take on Nicholas. She had acquired a ball that they could practice their powers on. "Okay, girls. If we see a bad guy, what do we do?" Prue tested.
"She's gonna cry." Little Prue teased, pointing at little Piper.
Little Piper glared at little Prue in offense. "Am not, I'm gonna freeze him." Little Piper snapped.
"And then, I'm gonna move him." Little Prue followed, flicking her hand like she was using her power to throw something.
"Okay, then we will take care of him and then we will all." Prue prompted.
"Run like the wind!" Little Prue and Piper enthused.
Prue laughed softly and held the ball up. "Exactly. Alright, so let's give it a try. Ready?" She asked. The little girls nodded and Prue threw the ball up in the air. Little Piper threw her hands up and froze the ball. As soon as it was frozen, little Prue pointed at the ball and it went flying through the air. "Wow." Prue mouthed as she saw how far her miniature self could send the ball. She couldn't help but feel a bit jealous. It took two weeks' worth of training before she could send objects that far.
Little Prue spun back to face Prue. "Can we do it again?" She wondered enthusiastically.
"Yes, yes. Practice makes perfect." Prue allowed. Little Prue squinted at the ball and it came flying back, landing in Prue's arms. Prue handed the ball to little Prue and Piper. "Okay, go try it." She watched them run off with the ball before sitting down on the nearby bench by Phoebe.
"Those girls have major juice. They have control, they can aim." Phoebe commented, sounding impressed.
Prue nodded in agreement. "Yeah, well, they've had their powers a lot longer than we have. I mean did. I think." Prue replied.
Piper walked up to them, returning from her investigation on Nicholas and Patty. "I finally found a pay phone. Mom is at work until five and Nicholas is on duty until six." She explained.
"Good, at least we know where he is. The girls are ready." Prue replied for Piper's benefit.
"Well, I'm not." Phoebe announced softly.
Prue and Piper toward Phoebe. "Why not?" Prue wondered.
Phoebe hesitated a moment before confessing. "Mom died before I could grab onto enough to keep her alive in my head. And now she's here, alive, pregnant with me. If we stop Nicholas, we have to go back to our own time and there's no Mom there."
"We don't have much of a choice, Phoebe." Piper pointed out gently.
''A new choice just opened up.''
The Charmed Ones reacted, getting into defensive stances as Naruto popped up.
''Uncle Naro/Uncle Narry.'' the two little girls cheered as they ran over and hugged Naruto's legs.
''You two alright?'' the blond asked them.
''Yeah, the nice ladies were looking after us.'' Little piper said, smiling and showing off the little gap between her teeth.
''I see,'' he stated, looking up at the mystified women. ''I have three questions. Who's Prue? Who's Piper? And why on earth did you time travel?'' it was definitely Naruto alright. Because Uzumaki Naruto hated time travel as much as he loved Ramen.