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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Story Start
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After quickly going over the note Victor sent her, Patty trailed up to room 246. She softly knocked on the door and waited until a man's voice sounded from the other side of the door.
"Come in."
"Victor?" Patty questioned, opening the door and stepping into the dark room. She didn't quite make out the voice. After a pause and quickly touching up her hair she walked through when suddenly someone grabbed her from behind and slammed her up against the wall. "Get off me!" She screamed as he pulled her arms behind her back and handcuffed her.
"I won't let you freeze me, Patty. That would ruin everything." Nicholas responded, loosening his grip on her now that she was defenseless.
Patty pulled away from him and spun to see who her attacker was. "You!" She realized, recognizing the cop from earlier.
"Call me Nicholas." He introduced himself with a cruel grin.
"Where's Victor?" Patty demanded, her eyes scouring the area for any sign of him.
Nicholas slowly advanced toward her with a cocky grin. "Not here. Bait for the hook." he simply explained. As he got close enough, Patty elbowed him in the stomach and ran for the door. Nicholas stumbled but he was only momentarily stunned as he spun around and held his fist out to her. "Your blood is boiling." He began and Patty screamed in agony. "...and soon death will come."
Patty slipped down against the wall. "What do you want?" She asked in defeat.
"What does any warlock want?" Nicholas questioned rhetorically. "I want your power, Patty. At least that's what I wanted at first. Until I realized you were the mother of the Charmed Ones."
Patty shook her head quickly. "No, you're mistaken. I only have two children." Patty gasped.
"Oh, but there'll be a third child. Where did that premonition of yours come from, Patty if not from the unborn child inside you?" He inquired, his hand trailing down to Patty's stomach. He leaned forward. "I tapped your phone. I heard you and the old witch talking about it." Nicholas whispered to her.
"I saw three warlocks. women." Patty replied.
Nicholas nodded slightly. "I saw them too. At the diner. Rivals, perhaps. I got to you first." He let her slide to the ground before retrieving his ring from a nearby drawer.
"I beg you. Don't hurt them." Patty pleaded.
"There is another option, Patty." Nicholas pointed out, slipping the ring on his finger.
Patty fell helplessly back against the wall as he approached again.
At the park, the sisters found themselves having to explain the circumstances behind their arrival. They went into just enough where Naruto could grasp why they traveled back, but nothing more.
Moments later Naruto left to call Penny to let her know everything was okay before returning. ''You three are lucky. As you probably know your grandmother can be just as bad if not worse than your average hit wizard.''
''Hit wizard?'' Phoebe repeated as Naruto simply shook his head and murmured never mind.
''So explain to me a bit more about this warlock that attacked you three?'' he asked as the sisters filled him in. ''So let me get this straight. He introduced him, gave his name, explained his powers, and basically everything right?'' a disbelieving Naruto asked as they nodded.
''That's the just of it.'' Phoebe answered as Naruto groaned and clutched his head.
''Are you okay?'' Piper worriedly asked as Naruto nodded.
''For the most part just an Aneurysm from the sheer stupidity of what I just heard.'' he replied.
''We really don't have time to waste. We need to stop this Warlock before he becomes immune to our powers.'' Prue interjected.
''Then we need to make sure he doesn't get his hands on Patty. Be back in a second,'' he remarked.
The sisters began conversing among themselves as they played with a clone with little Prue and Piper.
''He hasn't aged a day,'' Piper murmured. ''I mean, we know because of his biology he ages slower than a normal person, but seeing and hearing about it is two different things.'' she folded her arms and placed her hands over her arms.
''Why do you think mom and Gramms didn't call him for back-up? You don't think mom enchanted the ring against his powers as well do you?'' Phoebe wondered.
''Speculating isn't going to do us any good. We need to plan on what we're going to do next.'' Prue interjected as the blond, true to his word arrived with a passenger in tow.
Patty looked at her daughters, breathlessly, she felt herself overcome with emotions. They were as exactly as Naruto described them. "Oh, you're all so beautiful. More than I ever would have imagined. Phoebe." She whispered, her handing slipping down to her stomach. "I must have named you after my favorite aunt, but if you don't like the name, I can always change it." Patty offered.
"No, no, I love it." Phoebe assured her.
Prue quickly wiped away a few stray tears before taking the hint and stepping into the conversation. "Um, Mom. We cast a spell to come back in time to help you. To stop you." She explained.
"To stop me from what?" Patty asked.
"From making a pact with a warlock named Nicholas." Prue replied.
Patty closed her eyes for a moment and sighed deeply. "Then you're too late." She whispered apologetically.
"What?" Piper demanded in surprise.
"I thought I was going to see Victor, your father, but it turned out to be a trap." Patty elaborated.
"Nicholas." Prue sighed in realization.
Patty nodded in acknowledgment. "He tried to kill me. Phoebe too. " She began with a glance at both of her youngest daughters "I had to give him immunity to your powers in exchange for your lives. I'd rather love you as mortal daughters than have to mourn you as dead witches." Patty finished.
"But he's gonna kill us anyway to get our powers." Piper argued.
"No." Patty disagreed. "Not until Phoebe's born and then the Power of Three is complete."
''Why didn't you call me?'' Naruto spoke up, a look of remorse formed on his face. ''I could have helped you Pat.''
''I know, but you've already helped me so much,'' she stated, her hand reaching up and caressing Naruto's cheek. ''And I know the matter of those hunted spirits mean a lot to you.'' she finished before turning her attention back to her daughters.
Patty smiled proudly at the Halliwell sisters. "Oh, your gramms is going to be so thrilled when she sees you. The Charmed Ones."
Prue, Piper, and Phoebe smiled, tears slipping freely down their faces before they each stepped into their mother's embrace. With that said, Naruto called out to the little ones, gaining their attention.
They all arrived to the manor shortly after. With the little ones sent off to play so the adults could talk.
The sisters were seated on the couch in the conservatory with a suspicious Gram across from them, seated in her armchair. Patty and Naruto stood behind the sisters in silent support against Grams' scrutiny.
"Where was I born?" Grams asked with narrowed eyes.
Patty cast her mother a glare of disapproval. "Mom." She scolded.
"I'm still not convinced that they're not warlocks." Grams interrupted.
''Oh for heaven's sake Pen, we could have photographic evidence and a birth certificate and you would still be suspicious.'' Naruto commented with a snort.
Penny sent Naruto a pointed glance and began her own round of comments. ''Oh really? Coming from, she can't be a warlock, she's far too beautiful. Does that sound familiar to you.''
''You two can argue later,'' Patty interrupted. Right now the last thing they needed was an argument between her mother and the family guardian. ''We should be looking for a spell." Patty argued, walking around the couch toward Grams.
"Boston." Prue answered suddenly and both Grams and Patty glanced at her curiously. "In a hotel room, Breech." She finished with a cocky smile. Patty reluctantly dropped into her own chair to sit through the interrogation.
Grams narrowed her eyes at Prue for a moment. "What was my husband's name?" She questioned.
Prue smirked. "Which husband?" She countered, causing Piper, and Phoebe, to erupt in giggles and a smirk to form on Naruto's face which they hastily tried to stifle.
"Who's Melinda Warren?" Grams went on, ignoring the laughter.
Phoebe leaned forward this time. "The beginning of our family line. She gave us our powers, our destiny." She replied.
"What's the secret ingredient in my blueberry cobbler?" Grams inquired.
Piper smiled and answered this time. "Honey with a splash of rum."
Grams leaned forward eagerly. "What's IBM selling at in your time?" She demanded.
At that Naruto burst out laughing as Patty scolded her mother.
"What?" Grams asked feigning ignorance.
"This is no time for personal gain." Patty answered sharply.
Grams sighed. "You're right if they could just nod their heads." She trailed off when Patty narrowed her eyes in warning. "Okay, forget it." Grams allowed, turning back to the three sisters with a wide smile. "Well, look at you. Three of you. The Charmed Ones. Oh, Patty, I always knew I'd deliver the Charmed Ones." Grams continued earning a glare from Patty. "Once removed of course." She corrected. "Prue." She guessed, pointing at the eldest sister, who nodded slightly. "Piper." Grams recognized. Piper smiled and waved in greeting. "And, uh."
"Phoebe!" Phoebe replied to her questioning look.
"Oh, another P. What a surprise!" Grams exclaimed with a sarcastic look at Patty.
Patty rolled her eyes. "About the pact." She reminded pointedly.
"We must keep the girls safe until we can reverse it. I'll have to bind their powers." Grams decided with a glance back at Patty, who nodded in agreement.
"Uh, bind our powers?" Piper asked in confusion.
"Strip them from the young ones so Nicholas can't get a hold of them." Grams explained and hastily continued at the sight of her granddaughters falling faces. "It doesn't have to be done right away as soon as Phoebe's born. I'll cast a spell to suspend their, your powers." Grams elaborated.
''Are you serious? You could have just...'' Naruto began when Penny interrupted him.
''As you told us the other day you're leaving. We have done well without you as a safety net for quite a number of years. It is something we can do again.'' Penny pointed out as a disapproving look formed on Naruto's face.
''That can weaken them in the long run. What if something happens? What if someone finds a way to undo the bind? And with me around there's going to be...'' Naruto paused, his face suddenly stricken as he realized what had to be done. ''Unless you charm their memories.''
"Well, that explains why we don't remember having our powers when we were younger." Piper pointed out thoughtfully.
This time Grams and Patty were the ones that exchanged a glance. "What do you mean? How old were you when you got your powers back?" Grams inquired curiously.
"About Nine months ago.'' Phoebe guessed.
Grams frowned in confusion. "What? I unbound your powers without having broken the pact? Why would I do that?" She asked rhetorically. "I mean, unless I died which of course would automatically." Grams began but trailed off as she caught sight of her granddaughters look away. It was easy to guess why. "Unbind your powers." She smiled faintly in realization and stood up. She was silent a moment before speaking again. "I guess I'm not going to make it to the next millennium, huh?" Grams guessed.
Phoebe was the first to speak. "Uh, speaking of that, Mom." She started.
"No." Grams interrupted. "We mustn't know any more about the future. You came back for one reason. To break the pact you mustn't tamper with anything else. It's much too risky." Grams warned. "Heaven knows what damage you've already done by coming back here."
"We haven't done anything. We missed our chance to stop the pact." Prue argued softly.
"And there's a reason for that." Grams assured them. "Destiny always gets its own way. It's not as easy to change the past as you might think. If you do it incorrectly, everything will change. The evil that you vanquished, the good you've done, none of it may've ever happened." She explained.
''Unless you do things right there are methods, well there could have been. Cross dimensional time traveling is very dangerous, even for a traveler like me.'' Naruto interjected.
They all followed Grams into the next room, Patty stopped next to her with the sisters huddled together in front of them. "Well, we have to change this. We can't go back and let him kill us." Piper snapped.
"The only way to vanquish him in your time would be for me to un-bless the ring and take away it's immunity." Patty replied gently.
''Well, Naruto you're here can't you just go and...vanquish him?'' Phoebe suggested with a bit of hopefulness to her eyes.
''Unfortunately that won't work,'' he stated, ''...Killing him now will prevent you three from encountering him. Henceforth you never go back in time and you inform us to prevent this whole whacky scenario, henceforth not changing anything. What a lot of people don't realize that time travel isn't the only answer. I could have easily killed him in the future resulting in a different outcome. Essentially that could have already happened resulting in a split timeline with different outcomes. The best outcome would be to simply unbless the ring in the past and leaving him none the wiser to what happened.''
Phoebe appeared thoughtful for a moment. "Okay, well, let's go to Nicholas' hotel room and steal back the ring. Hopefully it'll be there." She offered.
Patty shook her head immediately. " No, it's too dangerous, you don't have powers. I'll go.'' She countered. "The ring is kept in a drawer in his hotel room."
''And if something happens to you they'll never be born. I'll go.'' Naruto argued.
Prue stepped forward and grabbed Naruto's wrist, to stop him from leaving. "No, we can't risk changing the future too much. You're the one that thought us that certain actions and consequences have unforeseen effects. If you weren't involved with what happened in the past then its best that you shouldn't do anything that could change thing. Prue argued.
"Yeah, we have to go." Phoebe agreed.
"You better hurry. In the meantime, I'll write a new spell that will get you back to your own time." She turned to head up the stairs.
"Wait, you can do that? You can send us home?" Piper questioned, stopping Grams in her tracks.
Grams laughed softly. "We're witches, dear. We can do anything."
Phoebe's gaze flickered to their mother and she sighed. "I wish that were true." She whispered.
"We'll be back soon." Prue assured Patty and Grams, heading out the door after Piper.
"Be careful." Patty pleaded. She watched as Prue waved one last time and shut the door behind them. Patty sighed before turning and heading up the stairs to help her mother with the spell.
''I don't like this,'' Naruto interjected, ''...but I know there isn't anything that can be done.''
''They'll be okay. After all, they'll have you looking after them.'' Patty remarked.
Naruto silently nodded, taking solace in that.
At the Hotel Prue glanced nervously down the hallways as Phoebe picked the lock to Nicholas' apartment. "How come I'm not surprised you know how to do this?" Prue asked rhetorically.
Phoebe smiled faintly. "Let's just hope Nicholas isn't inside." Phoebe stated.
"The concierge says he's not and Piper is outside watching for him." Prue pointed out with a shrug.
Phoebe finally got the door open and she flipped the light on before leading the way inside. Prue closed it behind her while Phoebe began the search. "Mom says it's in a drawer." Phoebe reminded Prue. Phoebe pulled open all the drawers next to his bed and Prue searched drawers that would normally hold clothes, but turned out to be empty.
Prue was the one to eventually pull out the little box that held the ring. "I found it." She called and Phoebe ran up to her. She dropped the ring into her hand. "Okay, we gotta get it back to Mom."
The girls then arrived back to the manor. "We have the ring, here it is." Prue announced, pushing the door of the attic open and leading the way to where their mother and Grams were seated around the ritual area for the new spell. She handed the ring to Patty's outstretched hand while Piper, and Phoebe filed into the room.
"Okay, now what." Piper asked, stopping next to Prue. Phoebe passed by the small gathering and headed for the Book of Shadows.
Grams carefully stood up before answering. "Go back to where you belong."
"And then I will un-bless the ring and get it back to the hotel before Nicholas finds it missing." Patty followed, twirling the ring in her hand.
"Now, remember, there is no time to lose. You will return at the exact moment you left, which means Nicholas will be there too." Grams warned seriously.
"Hopefully without immunity to our powers." Piper remarked.
Through their conversation, Phoebe had acquired a small notebook and wrote "Mom, be careful on February 28, 1978 or a warlock will drown you."
"We'll be ready." Prue assured their worried mother and Grams. "Phoebe?" She called.
Phoebe quickly folded the letter. "Okay, I'm coming." Phoebe replied, opening the Book of Shadows and sticking the paper between the pages.
Prue smiled a little sadly and stepped into her mother's embrace. "I love you, Mom." She whispered before reluctantly pulling away.
Piper offered her grandmother a watery smile as they hugged. "I'm never gonna learn to like lima beans, Grams, but thanks for everything else." Piper stepped back and Phoebe came up.
"You're going to be a handful, aren't you?" Grams guessed.
Phoebe grinned. "You'll learn to love me." She laughed. Grams turned around to hug Prue while Phoebe followed Piper to Patty. "I'm gonna miss you." Phoebe whispered to her mother.
''Hey, don't I get a hug?'' Naruto asked as Phoebe snorted and waved her hand.
''We'll see you later.'' she commented as everyone else chuckled at the Gaffed look on Naruto's face. ''Oh I'm kidding, come here.'' she said as each sister hugged Naruto, doing their best not to give away their affiliation with him.
The three sisters finally stepped away from their past loved ones. They watched silently as Grams lit a match and dropped it into the Wiccan bowl and began to chant.
"A time for everything and to everything it's place
Return what has been moved through time and space."
The sisters glanced at each other when nothing happened.
Patty frowned and ran forward to help Grams. "Here let me help." She offered, taking Grams' hand.
"A time for everything and to everything it's place
Return what has been moved through time and space."
They chanted. This time, Prue, Piper, and Phoebe disappeared in a swirl of white orbs.
"You did well, Patty. Oh, they're fabulous." Grams complimented after a moment of silence.
Patty smiled and wiped a few tears from her eyes. "I just hope they're safe." Patty whispered. Grams and Patty froze when there was another swirl of white orbs and the three sisters reappeared in front of them.
Prue was the first to recognize something went wrong. "Oops." She mumbled.
Patty and Grams were staring at them in confusion. "What happened?" Grams demanded.
"Where did you go?" Patty asked.
Piper glanced around the attic curiously for a moment. "We didn't go anywhere." She answered. "We were just standing here and the next thing we knew."
"We were just standing here." Phoebe finished with a shrug.
"I told you to use poplar buds." Patty rounded on Grams.
Grams appeared taken aback for a moment. "It's a perfectly good spell. It moved them through time." Grams argued in offense.
"Yeah, ten seconds." Patty returned sarcastically.
"I'm telling you, it's not the spell. It must be the power behind the spell. There's not enough power." Grams continued.
Prue and Piper exchanged worried glances. "Maybe we need the Power of Three." Piper suggested nervously. Obviously that wasn't going to happen for another couple of years. Grams and Patty also frowned as the thought sunk in.
''Crap, Piper's right. After all they used the Power of Three to send themselves back. It only makes sense it takes Three to send them back.'' Naruto concluded.
"The only problem is it doesn't exist yet." Phoebe was the only one to actually voice what everyone else was thinking.
Grams irritably shut the book and turned to face her four granddaughters and her own daughter. "Nothing." She stated, throwing her hands up in the air.
"Maybe this is our destiny." Phoebe offered with a shrug.
"Not for the Charmed Ones." Grams argued lightly.
''Well they don't exist, at least not without their powers.'' Naruto pointed out.
Patty's eyes widened in realization. "In a way they do. Little Prue and Piper have their powers and Phoebe gave me a premonition so she must have hers. If we can teach the girls the chant, maybe the three of us can get you back to your time.
"The Power of Three. it's worth a try." Prue noted.
Everyone spun around as they heard the front door slam closed. "Where are you, witches? Where's my ring?" Nicholas' very angry voice drifted up from the main floor.
"Nicholas." Patty realized.
"You, Naruto and Piper go get the girls." Grams ordered to Patty. "We'll fend him off. And don't argue Naruto, if this is to work then he musn't know you exist or be cautious against any form of power that isn't know, lest we want to damage the timeline." She decided, her eyes flickering over Prue and Phoebe.
Reluctant, Naruto agreed and decided to go look after the girls. The rest of them dashed out of the attic to follow their assigned duties except Phoebe who was still standing back with the Book of Shadows. Phoebe quickly took the warning note that she had written to Patty out and nervously fingered it as she tried to decide which to do. "Come on, Phoebe." Grams called from the top of the stairs, breaking Phoebe out of her trance.
Phoebe slipped it in her back pocket and silently followed everyone down the stairs.
Nicholas began to climb the stairs, but Grams pushed through her granddaughters so that she was in front. She threw her hand out and Nicholas flew through the air and crashed into the dining room table.
"Oh, Grandma, don't get too close. His power." Prue reminded her.
"I know, I know." Grams sighed, letting her hand fall to her side.
"We can't risk you getting hurt. Go upstairs and help Mom start the spell." Phoebe suggested. Grams nodded and reluctantly went back up to the attic.
Nicholas was just regaining his feet among the debris when Phoebe ran forward and kicked him in the face, making him fall back to the ground.
Piper led her miniature self, still dressed in pajamas, into the attic and in front of Grams who was preparing the instruction. Patty followed with little Prue and stopped next to the two Pipers.
Patty turned her little daughters to face her. "Okay, we're gonna play a little game, okay. Now give me your hands." She ordered gently.
"Okay, hurry." Piper fretted.
"Now, repeat after me." Patty told little Piper and Prue. "A time for everything and to everything it's place."
"A time for everything and to everything it's place." Little Prue and little Piper repeated.
"Return what has been moved through time and space." Patty continued.
"Return what has been moved through time and space." They chanted in return. Piper nodded vigorously as little Prue looked up at her. Little Piper wrapped her arms around Patty's neck.
Downstairs, Prue lifted one of the dining room chairs over her head and smashed it down on Nicholas as he began to get to his feet again. Nicholas dropped, but reached out to grab Prue, who ran into the next room out of reach.
She met Phoebe at the bottom of the stairs and raced up to the attic.
"Alright, we don't have much time." Prue announced as they ran into the attic.
"What about his ring?" Piper asked.
Grams ushered everyone to their places. "Don't worry about the ring now. Let's just get you back."
"It is unblessed thought, right?" Prue questioned.
"Yes, but there wasn't time to test it." Grams replied.
Phoebe quickly reached for a camera that was lying on a nearby table. She moved around her sisters and pointed it at Patty with little Prue and little Piper on either side of her. With a small smile she pressed the button and the light flashed. Patty, realizing what had happened, smiled at Phoebe before nodding for her to get back with her sisters.
"How will we know it works?" Prue demanded nervously.
"You won't. Not until you get back and since time will pick up right where it left off, he won't know either." Grams explained hastily. Footsteps heading up the stairs announced that Nicholas was once again back on his feet. "Goodbye, girls. Be good darlings." Grams wished, hugging all three of them at the same time.
She pulled away and Patty ran up with little Piper and little Prue and gave a quick hug to all her daughters before pulling little Piper and Prue back to where they were going to say the spell. She placed her little daughters' hands on her stomach while Prue, Piper, and Phoebe huddled together across from them.
"A time for everything and to everything it's place
Return what has been moved through time and space."
Patty, little Prue, and little Piper chanted. Grams dropped the lit match into the Wiccan bowl and the four sisters were surrounded by white orbs. When they reappeared there was no Grams, Patty, or the little Prue and Piper.
"It worked, we're back." Prue exclaimed, looking around the attic curiously.
"Hurry." Phoebe hissed as they cluttered around the book searching for a spell to get rid of him.
Nicholas barreled through the door, slamming it back into the wall. "Time is up." He announced ominously. He held his ring up and fisted his hand, ready to use his power on them and gain their powers.
Prue squinted at him and he was thrown back into the wall. "Okay, the ring's unblessed."
Piper hastily threw her hands out, freezing him. "Phoebe, find anything?" Piper demanded.
Phoebe stopped flipping through the pages and smirked to herself. "How about the 'Nicholas must die' spell." She suggested.
"That wasn't there before." Piper pointed out, hastily scanning over the spell.
"Well, maybe it's just Grams' way of saying 'welcome back'. Or, or front." Prue suggested under her breath as she ran to grab the necessary items for the ritual a mortar and pestle and spice bag.
"Spell pouch included at no extra charge." Phoebe quipped. "Uh, lavender, mimosa, holy thistle." Phoebe began.
Piper poured the spices out of the bag into the mortar and pestle that instantly smoked over in Prue's hands.
"Cleanse this evil from our midst,
Scatter its cells throughout time,
Let this Nick no more exist." They finished together.
He yelled defiantly as the magic spun him until he eventually exploded. His ring dropped to the ground where had been standing moments before.
The sisters stared for several moments in silence. "Wow, I'm really glad I never got on Grams' bad side." Prue mumbled, breaking the resulting silence.
Prue and Phoebe had moved down to the solarium continue going through old photos as Piper came in with a vase of flowers.
Phoebe suddenly threw down her stack of photos. "I can't stop thinking about Mom. How I lost her and then I found her again." Phoebe sighed, dropping her head into her hand.
"I'm just glad you finally have memories of her." Prue allowed while also dropping the photos that had been in her hands. She stopped when Phoebe pointed behind her and turned to find Piper arranging the flowers from Nicholas on the nearby table.
"What? I'm supposed to throw out perfectly good flowers just because they came from a creep? If that was the rule we would never have flowers in this house." Piper argued when she noticed their staring.
Prue laughed and rolled her eyes. "Yes, well, they didn't just come from a creep, but they came from a warlock who tried to kill us."
"Still, if it weren't for him, I probably would've never gotten to know Mom." Phoebe pointed out thoughtfully.
"We all wanted to save Mom, Pheebs, but both Mom and Grams said we can't change destiny." Piper reminded her gently.
Phoebe sighed but nodded in reluctant agreement. "I know, but, um, I still wrote her a note anyway." She admitted.
"You did?" Prue asked curiously.
"Yes, I wrote her a note telling her to stay away from water on the day that she died and I put it in the Book of Shadows." Phoebe elaborated.
"I can't believe you did that." Piper exclaimed in surprise.
Phoebe frowned slightly at the accusation. "You don't understand. Every time I've made a wish, I've wished for time with Mom. And I believed in my heart that someday, somehow, that wish would come true and when it finally did, I didn't want to let her go." Phoebe explained softly. "You know, and then I realized that I had to let her go, so I took the note out and put it in my pocket."
Prue smiled in approval and pulled Phoebe into a quick hug. "Maturity sucks, doesn't it?" She laughed.
"Mmhmm." Phoebe agreed.
Piper fingered a picture in her hand for several moments. "Still, faith has its rewards." She commented, passing it to Prue so that Phoebe could see it. "It's a pretty good one of us, but once again, not a great one of you, Pheebs." Piper shrugged.
Phoebe quickly snapped the picture from Prue's hands. Her eyes flickered eagerly over the picture she had taken in the past of Patty with little Prue and little Piper. "Are you kidding? That is the best picture of me I've ever taken."
''Honeys I'm home!'' Naruto's voice echoed out as the sound of the front door closing followed. ''I brought the Priestess. I hope you girls aren't too tired out! Time for the lesson to begin.''
All three sisters promptly groaned, having completely forgotten that Naruto had left early that morning to find them a magical teacher of sorts.