"Now, I'm not quite sure what's going on here, but I do know that you're back in a reality where I'm still alive" Prue said. "And I will not stand for the either of you fighting"
"That's why she needs to come back to our own time" Caleb said. "Where she'll soon be joining you in the afterlife"
"So the minute I die you two try to kill each other?" Prue asked.
"Why not?" Caleb asked. "You weren't around to please anymore"
"You're just jealous that I got to talk to her" Anna said. "You've always been jealous"
"Oh please" Caleb said. "Why would I want to follow all of the rules and listen to those stupid Elders?"
Anna shook her head. Caleb formed a small fireball. Anna formed a small ball of white light.
"Both of you!" Prue exclaimed. "Now I don't know what it's like in your future right now but I know that I would never want you to kill each other"
"But I would" the Source said appearing. "What's a family reunion without the father?"
Phoebe and Piper stepped next to Prue.
"I'm not here to fight you" the Source said. "I'm here to see my son"
Anna stepped back towards her mother and aunts.
"You killed her" Anna said harshly. "You're the reason she died and I'm glad I killed you"
"Shut up Anna!" Caleb shouted. "She never would have died if you hadn't interfered"
The Source and Caleb then shimmered out leaving Anna with her mother and aunts.
"Where did they go?" Phoebe asked.
"Who cares" Anna said, starting towards the attic.
"Anna?" Phoebe asked. "What are you doing?"
"Killing my brother and his father" Anna said.
She went over to the Book of Shadows and started flipping through it.
"Anna, you can't do that" Leo said. "You can't change the future"
"Why not?" Anna asked. "In my future there's nothing, okay, nothing!"
"But you've already changed it some" Prue said. "When you go back it might be different"
Anna turned her back to her mom. Prue went over to Anna and put her hand on her shoulder.
"I can't let you die" Anna said softly. "I can't let any of you die"
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"So you've figured out to kill Anna?" the Source asked.
"After killing mom's sisters and that stupid whitelighter, it wasn't too hard" Caleb said. "Their weaknesses are each other"
The Source laughed.
"You definitely take after me" the Source said. "Now tell me in detail how I can kill Anna?"
This time Caleb laughed.
"No, Anna is mine to kill" Caleb said.
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"I won't send her back" Prue said.
"And neither will we" Piper said.
Leo sighed.
"If you don't send her back then the Elders will" Leo said. "She can't stay here, it's messing with destiny"
"She was about to die" Prue said. "I can't and I won't let her go back to that"
"Prue, she's in just as much danger here as she is there" Leo said. "Here there's the Source and Caleb to destroy her"
"But we're here too" Piper said.
"He's right" Anna said coming into the room.
"But Anna" Phoebe said.
"Aunt Phoebe" Anna said firmly. "Besides, you of all people should know that just because a Halliwell is dead doesn't mean you can't see them. If you were paying attention before I said Caleb was jealous because I get to talk to Mom when the Elders call me up there. I get to talk to all of you. Sure it's still a little lonely when I have to come back but I know you guys will always be there for me"
Everyone was quiet.
"Now the most important thing we can do is get Anna out of here before Caleb and the Source come back" Leo said.
"Fine" Prue said. "But she's not going back unprepared"
"Mom, you and Aunt Piper and Aunt Phoebe have taught me everything you know" Anna said. "I'm as prepared as I'm going to get"
"But you were hurt so bad" Prue said.
"He caught me off guard" Anna said. "It'll be different when I go back"
"I don't want the two of you to fight" Prue said.
"We have to" Anna said. "He's too far gone, Mom. As much as you tried to stop him, it didn't work. Maybe it this reality you can change that, but in mine…"
Prue hugged Anna.
"Prue, I found a spell" Piper said. "To send her back"
"I guess this is goodbye" Prue said.
"For now" Anna said. "I love you Mom"
"I love you too" Prue said.
Anna turned to face Piper.
"Thank you for teaching me to cook" Anna said. "You haven't yet, but you will"
"You cook?" Piper asked.
"Almost as well as you" Anna said. "Almost as well"
"I'm glad to see you don't inherit your mother's cooking gene…actually I don't think your mom has a cooking gene" Piper said smiling.
"Hey" Prue said. "I resent that"
Anna and Piper laughed. Anna looked at Phoebe.
"Aunt Phoebe" Anna said. "There's a lot of things I can thank you for, not all good. You taught me how to convince Mom to buy me stuff"
"Phoebe" Prue warned. "Don't even think about doing that again"
"Also" Anna added. "Thank you for teaching me to have fun"
"Yeah, she knows how to do that" Prue said. "A little too well"
Phoebe playfully glared at Prue who returned the glare.
"And Uncle Leo" Anna said. "Thank you for keeping us safe, even if we yelled at you for it"
"Something tells me I'm going to have a rough future" Leo said.
Anna smiled. She turned back to her mom.
"I don't think I can put into words what I want to thank you for" Anna said. "Thank you…for…for everything"
"Aw, you've already said goodbye to everyone" Caleb said. "That's good, now I can just kill you"
He shot a stream of black light at her. She was thrown into the wall behind her and then fell to the ground. Prue ran over to her.
"Leo" Prue said.
Leo kneeled beside her but couldn't heal her.
"You can't heal her" Caleb said.
"I'm sorry" Leo said softly.
"It's okay" Anna said. "But Caleb…if I'm going down, you're going down with me"
She shot a beam of white light out of her hand, exactly like Caleb had done. He fell to the ground.
"Sorry it had to end like this Mom" Anna said breathing heavily. "But I had to"
Prue looked from Anna to Caleb.
"I know" Prue said softly.
She kissed Anna's forehead.
"I love you" Prue said.
She looked up at Piper and Phoebe.
"Stay with her for a second" Prue said.
"Mom" Anna said.
"Anna, I have to" Prue said.
She stood up and hesitated before making her way to where Caleb was.
"Caleb…no matter what…I will never stop loving you" Prue said.
Caleb kept from making eye contact with her.
"Demons, don't love" Caleb struggled to say.
"You're not just demon" Prue said.
Caleb started to fade away and Prue looked over to Anna, who had started to do the same thing. They both disappeared and everyone in the attic was silent for a minute. Prue stood up and started walking towards the door.
"Prue" Piper said.
"I just want to be alone" Prue said, her voice barely above a whisper.
She continued to her room. Cole shimmered into the attic. He looked around.
"What did I miss?" Cole asked.
Phoebe sighed and put her head in her hands. She looked back up at him.
"Come with me" Phoebe said holding out her hand. "It's going to be a long story"
Once they walked out of the attic, it was just Piper and Leo.
"Why do I get the feeling this is going to get worse before it gets better?" Piper asked. "If it even gets better"
Leo went over and held Piper.
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Prue sat on her bed upset and scared. She was going to die at the hands of the Source and her son. How could the future turn so bad? Her daughter was alone, all her family was dead. She couldn't let it happen; she couldn't let her sisters and her kids die.
"This isn't fair" Prue thought. "I shouldn't have to make this decision"
Prue got up off her bed and headed to the attic. While she was looking through the book Piper came in.
"Prue, what are you doing?" Piper asked.
"Stopping this before it gets worse" Prue said.
"Wait, what are you doing?" Piper asked, concerned.
"There's a spell in here to relinquish powers, well that's what I'm doing" Prue said. "I'm taking away their powers"
"Prue, I don't think you can do that" Piper said.
"Well I can try" Prue said.
Piper came over to Prue and took her hands.
"Why don't you come sit down" Piper said. "And we'll talk about this"
"I don't want to talk" Prue said, upset. "I want to fix the mess of a future my kids are going to have. Caleb won't even live with me and Anna spends all her life being told that the only reason she was born was to kill her brother. They won't even have a childhood. The minute they're born, the Source will take Caleb and the Elders will take control of Anna. I mean how is it fair that I have to choose between that future or killing my babies?"
"It isn't fair" Piper said. "But no one's asking you to kill them"
"They might as well" Prue said. "That's the only way to stop that future from happening"
"There's other ways" Piper said.
"Like?" Prue asked.
"Well, I was thinking" Piper said. "What if we kill the Source?"
Okay, I know I usually do huge author's notes, but I'm just clarifying a few things. One, the reason I don't use the reviewer reply things is I have a terrible memory and when you use that thing you can't look back at what you've told a reviewer so I end up repeating things. Secondly, I'm going to say how the babies were created. I know I've already answered a couple reviewers about it but to clear up anymore confusion I'll put it up here. When the Source implanted Prue with his heir, destiny in its own weird way also made a good child as well. Anna's dad is the Source (even if she won't admit it), even if he implanted Prue with just Caleb. Basically all the good that would have been in Caleb, is in Anna. It's kind of like a good twin, evil twin thing. Also, the reason the adult Anna and Caleb aren't quite showing a lot of humanness is because in their future, Caleb was raised by the Source and Anna had a lot of influence from the Elders, so they weren't really raised human.
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Mony19: Yeah, I'm actually still figuring out how I'm going to go with this. I have two different solutions to this problem I've created. Now I'll have to do is pick one, unfortunately that's been harder than it sounds. Thanks for your review and I'm glad that chapter answered your question. Thanks for reviewing!
shanfan: I've never really liked the idea of Prue and Cole together mainly because I never really liked Cole. I know a lot of people did but they made him change from human to demon one too many times. Cole will play a little part in this story since he's part demon and knows the Source, but mostly it's going to be between Prue and her sisters. Thanks for your review! Hope you keep reading!
P3Phoebe: Glad you love the names. I had two girl's names and two boy's names that I picked from. When I looked up their meanings I picked the ones that best fit the twins' personalities. Anna means gracious and merciful (which made sense cause she's the "good" twin) and Caleb means faithful and even if he is "evil" he's faithful to his parents. Thanks for your review!
PrueTrudeau: That would have been a really good idea if I had thought of it before I wrote the story. I told myself though that I would try to write a story that didn't involve Andy, just to see if I could do it. Who knows, maybe I'll end up bringing him in but I wouldn't begin to know how. I'm also really working on the acting for a reason thing. You've probably noticed that I have a problem with that in all my stories, so I'm working on it. Thanks for reviewing!
Brittany: You've become one of my looked forward to reviewers. You are so nice to me. I hope I can continue to feed that addiction I've caused you. And my name's Laura if you didn't read that in my profile. I thought I'd tell you that because it's the polite thing to do…I think…I don't know. I tend to babble a lot if you couldn't tell. Anyway, thanks for reviewing.
PaigeMatthews06: Thanks for your review! Yeah, the reason I wrote 2006 instead of 2001 was, I'm slightly lazy and didn't want to put any effort into figuring out what date it was, but pointing out my errors is fine with me as long as it's constructive criticism. It helps makes my stories better.
TVCrazed: I answered your question in my author's note because I know other people were probably wondering the same thing, although I might start using it if more people start to review because my replies are taking up a whole page. Thanks for your review!
peanut2lb: Ah, yes, poor Prue. As you can tell with this chapter things are about to get even more difficult for her. Glad you like the story so far and glad that I've been able to keep up the Charmedness. And glad you liked the pregnancy test thing; I try to keep a human part to the sisters as well as a magical part.
bajacks, charmed4eva1990, and Afw: Glad you all like the story.