Story is set in season six with some changes. Wyatt wasn't born (Piper an Leo want to wait until they are somewhat demon free). All of the girls and Leo all live in the isn't an empath, Paige and Pheobe are single and of course Piper is married to Leo. I do not own The characters except for the ones I made up in this story.
This is my first fan fic so try to be nice.
Chapter 8
It has been two weeks since the argument with the Elders and they haven't seen Prue since. Each of the sisters were handling this in a different way.
Paige was distant from her sisters, she mostly stayed in her room and only came out to eat or to vanquish the usual demon. Her older sisters could tell that she was feeling guilty about Prue and they were right. Paige had heard what Prue had gone threw and couldn't even imagine the pain she must have felt. She was now just hoping with everything she had that Prue was ok and would be coming home soon.
Phoebe, just like when Prue died, was holding in her feelings and trying to be strong for her sisters, she knows that she wouldn't be able to handle loosing Prue again with out loosing it. Prue always took care of her and no matter how many time Phoebe screwed up in the past, Prue was always there to pick up the pieces. She tried to stay positive, she needed to believe that Prue would be back soon it was the only way she could stay strong.
Piper was angry most of the time and tried her best not to take it out on her sisters, and the only way she was able to do that was by taking it out on demons. She would scry for evil activity all day and vanquish anything she could find, her power to blow things up made it easy to do most of the vanquishing alone, so except for the once in a while 'power of three' vanquish, she tried to keep her younger sisters out of it. She ask Leo to orb 'up there' everyday to find news but each time he came back with nothing. Piper just wanted her older sister back.
"Phoebe, is Paige coming down for dinner or not?" Piper asked anoyed.
Phoebe sighed and put down her fork, "I don't know Piper,"
"Well are you gonna go ask her?"
"Phoebe got up from her seat and fake smiled, "of course Piper," she then turned and left the room.
All Leo could do was watch as Phoebe left the table and headed upstairs, he knew that there was nothing he could do to get rid of the sisters pain. So he tried to stay out of it as much as possible.
(Paiges bedroom)
Paige sighed and wiped the tears from her eyes as she heard a knock on the door "Come in,"
Phoebe entered the room cautiously, "hey sweetie how are you doing?"
Paige sat up and looked at her older sister, "I'm fine, time for dinner already?" she put on a fake smile.
"Ya, but dinner can wait, I've been meaning to talk to you since well, you know, and I think this is a good time to do it," Phoebe sat on the bed next to her younger sister and grabbed her hand. "Paige, hunny, this isn't your fault, we went over this before we found Prue, you didn't force her to take that potion."
Paige sighed, she knew Phoebe was right, "Maybe, but I can't help but feel guilty, you heard what she went threw down there, she was tortured while I was being revived from the dead,"
"I know, and it broke my heart too but you can't just stay up here and feel guilty, Prue wouldn't want you to. We have to believe that she will come back and we have to comfort each other until she does." Phoebe felt the tears well up in her eyes and saw tears in her sisters as well.
"But what if she doesn't," Paige asked letting the tears fall.
"Then Piper will kick some elder ass," Phoebe joked and saw a real smile spread across her sisters face.
"How's she doing?" Paige asked.
Phoebe sighed, "not so good, you know how broken she was when Prue died and I think this is just bringing back the pain that she tried so hard to get rid of. She's been vanquishing demons all the time to let out her anger and I'm afraid she might get hurt. We just have to help her believe that Prue will be back."
Paige nodded and looked into her older sisters eyes and for the first time she noticed the pain, something told her that it was always there, but she was to caught up in her own feelings to notice, Phoebe was always there to help you let out your feelings but she never let her own feelings out. Well that was about to change.
"Phoebe, are you ok?"
Phoebe was surprised by the question and just put on a fake smile "I'm fine,"
"Phoebe I know how much Prue means to you, you can't hide the pain forever," Paige saw the tears welling up in Phoebes' eyes and suddenly Phoebe broke down into her sisters arms crying uncontrollably.
"She…She was always th,there for m,me," Phoebe let it all out as Paige rubbed her back in circles, something Piper had told her was the best way to comfort Phoebe. "She was the mom I never had, and she took care of me," Phoebe just rested in her younger sisters arms and cried.
After a few minutes, Phoebe calmed down and soon both sisters were sitting up wiping their dry tears.
"Piper is probably getting worried," Phoebe announced smiling.
Paige smiled back and linked arms with her sister, "Then let's go, I'm starving,"
Phoebe chuckled and walked out of the room with her sister, Paige was back.
As the two younger Halliwells walked into the dinning room arms still linked they saw Piper, sitting in her chair, staring at her plate that was still full of food.
Phoebe unlinked her arm with Paige's and slowly walked up to her frozen big sister, "Piper?"
Paige then joined Phoebe who was trying to get Piper to talk, "Piper what's going on," Paige asked.
"Piper turned to her sisters, her expression blank, "Leo got a call from the Elders," was all she said.
(Up there)
Prue watched as the Elders discussed her case, they had been at it for hours, chatting about in their little cliquety-clack language, They didn't want her to understand what they were saying, and Prue was suffering from a huge headache, she had to listen to their annoying little language and she couldn't say anything. She was hoping to fall asleep but failed. One of the Elders explained that you don't get tired up here because of how the time differences.
Prue was counting the little lines on her fingers when shelooked over at the Elders who were now getting up and heading towards her. She quickly got up as the one of the Elders began to speak.
"Prudence, first we must say, thank you for your patience," Ya now they get all polite.
"Well?" Prue asked them her heart beating like a bongo drum.
The Elder continued "We have discussed the matter and we have come to a conclusion… you will return home to your sisters," Prue felt relief and happiness wash over her. "Everyone, except those who know of your secret will think that you have been working at the 415 in New York for the past two years and that you have been transferred back here."
Prue was so happy, she felt like hugging the elder but shook the feeling away, realizing that that would be weird. "Thank you, Thank you, let me call Leo," she opened her mouth to call for her white lighter but was stopped by The Elder.
"We must discuss the rules first," he told her. Rules? What rules? No one said anything about rules.
"What rules," she asked as she felt her relief turn to worry.
"Well technically your destiny ended two years ago, and we can't risk changing the destiny for the power of three too much. The power of four will not be used unless except in extreme cases, you may help fight demons, but you must let your sisters say the power of three spells. You are still the strongest Charmed one, so demons will be after you so you must still be careful. Also you may not take the lead when facing a demon. Which means that the book of spells and potions you wrote will not be aloud to be used, we have already taken the book so that your sisters won't find it. We know that your sisters used to rely on you for the plans but you must let them figure things out on their own, it is their destiny not yours."
Prue didn't like any of these rules but she knew that she couldn't do anything about it. She looked to the elder. "Then what am I good for?" she sighed.
"You are their big sister you be there for them, you protect them without taking charge and you get on with your life as a photographer." He answered, paused remembering something else and quickly added, "One more thing, you cannot tell your sisters about these rules, it may interfere with their destiny,"
Prue sighed again and nodded at the elder, she knew this would be hard on her and her sisters but it was the only way. "Can you call Leo up here know?" She asked the Elder who nodded.
"Of course, but know that time works differently up here, it seems that you've only been here for a few hours but down were your sisters are, it has been two weeks," He explained.
TWO WEEKS! She had left her sisters for two weeks, she was angry but more at herself for not realizing the time difference, she should have remembered the time that Piper came up here with Leo and was gone for a month which to her seemed like a day. She nodded again telling the Elder that she understood and watch as Leo appeared in front of her. She smiled wide, and he smiled back knowing the Elders decision just by the look on her face.
Will Prue be able to handle these rules? How many times will she have to lis to her sisters?
Find out in the next chapter.
