Chapter 4

A/N: Thank you for reading this! Really am! Thanks for the reviews as well. So far, I've been having problems with all my fics, got writer's block. Ergh.

Emelie, Thanks for reading & reviewing. They would make a good couple wouldn't they? But I'm not sure if I want them to be married so I haven't mentioned it at all.

Mony19, Actually, the Elders don't know where Prue is. Along with the Halliwell's, everyone just considered her dead. Harsh, I know but oh well. When Prue gets her memory back? Well, there'll probably be tension since her past and new present and awaiting future will all clash. I dunno what Nick will think, I guess you'll have to wait and see.

Brittany, More Lu and Prue in the future, promise. I think they both have the same characteristics, Lu and Prue. Don't ask what they are they just do. Lol. Thanks for actually loving this story. Hehe. I hope you'll enjoy it till the end, if there will be an end. And btw, I still wish sometimes that Lu was my mom. Haha!

And to everyone else who reviewed, Afw, Dark-girl-faith-sidle, -0-charmed-freak-0-, love you guys! You make me happy! ahaha! Ok, so here it is! enjoy!

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Left… Left… Right… Left…Down the dark hallway, door straight ahead. Opens…Enter…A gust of swirling wind surrounds her…A man in grey tattered clothing with wild flowing hair appears…

"What are you!" Someone shouts from behind. She strains to see who it is but sees nothing.

"The end." The grey clothed man replies.

He raises a hand and a grayish ball is thrown at her. She tries to scream but it hits her straight on the chest.

She felt a prickling sensation and she braces herself for a collision with something, anything but it never comes. She's flying through nothing...

Prue suddenly awoke, trashing around and trying to throw off the covers. She quickly sat up and looked around, trying to familiarize the surroundings around her. She relaxed when she saw that she was in her room. She let out a breath and tried to recall her dream.

She had already had this dream before but she could only remember it vaguely. But she knew everything was always the same. Even though she couldn't remember the whole thing, she knew it was the same dream over and over.

"Prue?"

Prue was snapped from her thoughts as she looked up. A smile slowly crept onto her face, the way it always did when she saw him.

"Hey." She said. "You're up early."

"Ellis woke up a few minutes ago." Nick shrugged. "I put the kid back to sleep."

"You're getting better at it than mom over here." Prue commented.

"Are you actually complimenting me?" Nick asked, raising an eyebrow and crossing his arms.

Prue straightened. "Well, I might just be."

Nick grinned then frowned. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah," Prue pushed the covers away. "Why wouldn't I be?"

Nick pointed at her. "You just look pale and you're sweating a lot."

Prue ran a hand down her neck and felt beads of watery liquid stick to it. She was suddenly conscious of the fact that her hair and her whole body were drenched in sweat.

"Am I that wet?"

Nick nodded. "You look like you've been exercising in your sleep." He moved towards the bed and sat down.

"I-I just had a dream." Prue muttered.

"What about?"

"I dunno. I've been having this like…this recurring dream over and over again and every time, I get hit by some strong force which knocks me off my feet and I'm just flying through the air, never stopping." Prue summoned up. She shivered. "It's strange."

"You think it has something to do with your past?" It had been nearly five years since Prue got hit by the car. She had never fully regained all her memory and sadly enough, the memories she did gain had not helped her remember who she truly was. She had remained un Philadelphia and with the help of Lu, had started a new life.

"Maybe." Prue said slowly. "But if it did have something to do with my past…what is it?"

Wrapping his arms around her shoulders, Nick placed a light kiss on the top of her head. "It was just a dream. Sometimes dreams don't have meanings."

Prue laid her head on his shoulder. "Sometimes they do and sometimes they have deep complex meanings."

"Just sometimes." Nick said softly.

The sound of little footsteps diverted their attention from one another as they gazed at the doorway where a little three year old boy stood watching them.

He had soft light brown hair that fell into his hazel eyes and a clear complexion. Tall for his age, little Ellis looked like his mother more than his father. The only thing he had inherited from his father was the smile that Prue had fallen in love with in the first place.

Waddling over in his oversized pajamas, Ellis reached out for his parents to pick him up.

Nick detangled himself from Prue. "Hey little man, I thought I put you to bed?" He asked as Prue picked Ellis up and sat him on her lap.

Ellis shook his head. "I'm scared."

"Of what sweetie?" Prue asked, hugging him tighter. She was rather protective of her son.

"Monsters." He mouthed then buried his face into Prue's chest.

Prue smiled and stroked her son's hair. "Monsters don't exist Ellis. The only monster around here is your father." She added teasingly.

Ellis peered at Nick and giggled. "Daddy monster?"

"Yeah, daddy monster." Nick got up. "And daddy monster has to get ready for work."

"Aww…Do you have to?" Prue complained like a little child to entertain Ellis.

"Yes, I have to." Nick made his way to the bathroom. "You could come visit me later if you want." He called out, shutting the door.

"Do you want to visit daddy later on honey?" Prue asked Ellis.

"Can we see Lu and Lana and Andy and-and Peter?" he asked.

"Of course but not Lu. Lu isn't here today."

Ellis yawned and nodded, rubbing his eyes.

"I think you need more sleep." Prue noted. "Why don't you sleep with mommy?"

Without hesitation, Ellis crawled out of Prue's lap and onto the bed, snuggling under the covers comfortably and closing his eyes.

Laughing quietly, Prue shook her head. She lay down next to her son and softly sang to him a lullaby.

Ellis smiled and let out a deep sigh as sleep overcame him. When Prue had finished, Ellis was fast asleep.

Even though it pained her not knowing who she really was, Prue did not want anything to have changed. She couldn't imagine her life without Ellis, Nick and the others. She was a part of them as they were a part of her.

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30000 kilometers away from Philadelphia, in San Francisco, a lady dressed in jeans, sunglasses and a black shirt stood outside a Victorian style manor carefully analyzing it.

As she stood there taking in every detail, she did not notice the young lady walking down the sidewalk heading for that house.

Paige stopped in her steps and frowned as she caught sight of the stranger staring at the manor.

New charge? She asked herself.

She cleared her throat and walked towards her. "Um…Excuse me," The woman gazed at her. "Uh, yeah, hi. Are you looking for someone?"

"I…I was just looking at the house, you know, wondering if I can buy it."

Paige stopped a meter away. "It's not for sale."

"Are you Piper Halliwell?" The lady asked curiously.

"No, that's my sister. I'm Paige Matthews, and you are?"

The lady hesitated. "I'm…I'm Lu Delgado. I was told to…to ask her about this house." Lu stammered.

"I'll go and get her for you." Paige said, eyeing Lu carefully. Before Lu could stop her, Paige had ran up the steps and pressed the bell. The door opened and small boy with blonde hair stuck his head out.

"Hey Wyatt." Paige greeted her nephew. "Have you seen mommy?"

Wyatt nodded and opened the door wider revealing Piper ambling towards them with Chris in her arms. Giving them one last smile, Wyatt ran off.

"Paige?"

"Hey sis, I've got someone looking for you." Paige said in a matter-of-fact voice. She gestured to Lu.

Sighing, all Lu could do now was follow and hope everything went right. She climbed the steps. "Hi, I'm Lu Delgado. Piper Halliwell?"

Piper nodded. "Uhuh. Paige…new innocent?"

Lu frowned.

Paige shook her head.

Piper put on a smile and shifted Chris to her other arm. "How may I help you?"

Lu gulped and quickly racked her mind for excuses. "I was…told, yeah told to look for you about this house."

"And why are you so interested with this house?" Paige asked. "Did someone send you here?"

"Uh, yeah…the guy who sells houses." Lu quietly cursed herself. "Thing is, I think this house is perfect for my son and I."

Piper let out a small 'ha'. "My husband and I aren't selling this house."

"Oh, ok. Pretty house. Really." She glanced at Paige who was still eyeing her carefully. Lu rolled her eyes and lucky for her, they couldn't see it because of her sunglasses.

"Is that all?" Piper asked.

"Oh god this is stupid." Lu muttered. "Ok, I'm not here to ask about your house or anything concerning it, but I came here to ask something else."

Carefully, she took off her sunglasses to reveal clear light brown eyes. "Something that might concern your family."

Oh no, we've been caught. Paige thought frantically.

"Maybe…we should go inside." Piper said slowly. She moved away from the door and beckoned them in, going over to the sunroom to put Chris in his pen. Paige quickly ushered Lu into the living room.

"Sit." Paige instructed. Lu obliged.

"How long?" Paige questioned, pacing back and forth while Piper came in sat down on the sofa next to Lu.

"Five years." Lu answered back uneasily. There was something wrong.

"And you didn't have the urge to rat us to the feds or whoever?" Paige asked accusingly. "How do we even know you're not a fed?"

"Wait." Lu raised a hand, clearly confused. "Are you sure we're talking about the same thing here?"

"What are you talking about?" Piper jumped in before Paige revealed themselves to the wrong person.

Lu paused. "Prue."

With that one word, Piper and Paige were sent back to the memories five years ago. Loosing Prue, never finding her, declaring she was dead. The pain, sadness, hurt, anger. It all came back.

"What-what about Prue?" Piper asked as her voice faltered. It was always hard to talk about Prue.

"I..." Lu wondered if she should tell them about Prue but decided against it. "What happened to her five years ago?"

"Prue…disappeared."

"How?"

Piper cleared her throat and readied herself to say what they had told everyone else. "The person who killed the doctor took her. We…we never knew what happened to her."

"How does she look like?" Lu asked as her heart thumped.

Piper smiled as she recalled Prue's appearance. She gestured to one of the picture frames on the wall.

Lu glanced at it and nearly fell of her set. There in the picture, the exact same Prue she had known over the last five years stared back at her.

Lu swallowed. "And you considered her dead?" Piper quickly lost her smile.

"We had to." Piper said, embarrassed. "If she were still alive, she would have come back to us."

"You didn't even go looking for her?" Lu asked indignantly.

"What do you care?" Paige suddenly said. "She wasn't your sister, you never lost her."

She might as well be my sister. Lu said to herself.

"Look, this is a very hard topic for us to talk about. " Piper said quietly. "To what does this concern you?"

Everything.

"I'm just…a curious person." Lu replied. "I'm sorry. I don't mean to make you upset, I just really had to know."

"Why?" Paige posed. "Why do you, a total stranger, need to know?"

"Because I believe."

Piper and Paige glanced at each other as Lu got up.

"I'm sorry I wasted your time." Lu apologized.

"It's ok." Piper said now looking at Lu unusually as she herself got up.

Lu looked at her watch. "I have to go." She quickly donned her sunglasses. She made her way to the front door but something pulled her back. Wyatt was pulling at her jeans.

Smiling, Lu got down to Wyatt's eye level. "Hey, what's your name?"

"Wyatt." Wyatt said shyly. "Who are you?"

"I'm Luisa Delgado, but you can call me Lu."

Wyatt carefully leaned in and whispered so that Lu was the only one who could hear. "Wyatt loves Aunt Prue." He grinned and hurried over to his mother.

Taken by complete surprise, Lu straightened. She looked at Wyatt strangely who hid behind his mother.

"Something wrong?" Piper asked.

"No…" Lu shook her head. "Nothing wrong." And without another word, she left.

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A/N: So? You liked or not? Tell me what you think! review if you must! I'll post the next part next next week. As for my other fic, I've got writer's block on it and I'm really trying to get past it so no updates, sadly, yet.

Ok, so I have to go and watch! Lol. Cya!