I watched in wonder as Mommy and Grams ran around, doing weird things with magazines, and looking at yummy white cakes. I pulled at Mommy's skirt, "What is it Prue?"
"Mommy, what are you doing?" I asked, as I tried to look at what her and Grams were doing. Before she could answer Victor came in. I don't know why I refer to him as Victor still…I mean he came back...but for how long?
"Hey Patty," he said wrapping his arms around her waist. Why is she being so forgiving? I glared at Victor.
"Mommy what are you doing?" I asked again, a little impatient. Mom came down to my level, with one of those big binders they'd been carrying.
"Well, me, Grams, and Daddy have been planning me and Daddy's wedding…" Wait what? They are getting married again, so soon? I stayed silent as Mom stayed at my level. "Prue sweetie what's wrong?" she asked me.
"Why are you being so forgiving? How do you know that he won't just up and leave again?" I shouted at Mom, and turned and ran up the stairs.
Victor's POVI stared in shock as Prue ran up the stairs. "Prue wait!" Patty called after her, but all she heard in response was Prue slamming her door. I sighed, and ran a hand through my hair. I guess I had this coming my way, I mean I have left this family in the past, and Prue is old enough to know and remember still. I felt terrible that one of my daughters was this angry with me. "Victor…" Patty said grabbing my hand and giving it a squeeze.
"It's ok Patty…I deserved that," I sighed. Penny looked at me, and gave me a sympathetic look. "I wish I could show her a way that I am going to be here to stay…" I wish that I could make it up to my little girl. "Maybe I should try and talk to her…"
They nodded their heads, and Patty gave my hand one more squeeze before letting it go, and I headed upstairs towards Prue's room. I knocked on her door, but I didn't get an answer. "Prue…"
"Go away," she snapped instantly, and I could tell that she was on the verge of tears again. "Its not like you haven't gone away before," I heard her mutter.
"Prue…can we please just talk?" I asked her.
"I really don't see the point," she hiccupped, but I heard the door unlock, and I opened it up and I walked inside. I can't believe I made my little girl hate me so much she doesn't even want to talk to me. I guess our little moment of peace was forced.
I tried to pull Prue in for a hug, but she backed off. I cannot stand seeing one of my daughters hurting like this. "If all you wanted to do was that, then leave," she said.
"I am not going to leave again Prue…" I told her, finally managing to grab a hold of one of her tiny little shoulders. "I know that you are still hurt about me leaving-,"
"You did not have that big of an impact on my life Victor," she snapped at me. "Now let go of my shoulder, I don't want to talk anymore," she said shrugging off my hand.
"Prue I am still your father, please do not talk to me like that," I said in a calm voice.
"Haven't been one for a year, why should I trust that now? You left us! Mom, Piper, Phoebe, and you just waltz back into our lives thinking that I am just going to accept you back!" tears coming out of her eyes. Instead of saying anything, I wrapped my little girl into a hug. She resisted for a little bit, but eventually broke down and gave into my hug.
"I'm so sorry Prue," I whispered, "I am so sorry, I never wanted to hurt you or your sisters," I held my sobbing daughter, close to me. "I promise, I am not going to leave you, not ever again," I whispered into her hair.
Prue's POV
I held onto him, putting my head into his shoulder. I really need to cut him some slack…I don't like being responsible one all the time…in my mind he deserves a second chance. "I'm sorry Daddy," I sobbed into his shoulder.
"Don't be sorry, it is going to be fine, Daddy's here," he whispered to me.
"I missed you Daddy," I whispered, finally telling him what I wanted to tell him since he came back.
"I missed you too Prue," he breathed into my hair. I pulled away after a minute to wipe the tears from my eyes. Daddy gave me a tissue and I blew my nose. "Feeling a little better?" he asked me. I nodded my head, and he gave me a kiss on the forehead. "How about we go get you and your sisters some ice cream?" I nodded enthusiastically, and smiling, he took my hand and led me downstairs.
"I wanna go apologize to Mommy," Dad nodded and I walked back to the kitchen. "Um…Mommy," I said, and she turned to me. "I'm sorry about yelling at you,"
"It's ok Prue," she said giving me a swift hug. "So…are you and Daddy ok now?" I nodded and she smiled. Dad came in and kissed Mommy on the cheek. I turned away to keep from gagging. I do not know how adults kiss each other like that.
"I am going to go treat the girls for some ice cream," Dad told Mom. "You want me to take Paige as well?" he asked, and I looked around still seeing them working on wedding stuff. Mommy nodded, and then he asked, "You guys want anything?"
"Go ahead and be with your daughters, we will be fine for twenty, thirty minutes," Grams said, and he smirked.
"Piper, Phoebe!" I called out.
Phoebe's POVI heard Prue calling my name, and I rolled my eyes. I was just playing with my dollies, and then my face broke out in a grin when I heard Daddy's voice trail up.
"Come on girls, we are going to go get some ice cream," Instantly I was bounding down the stairs.
"Yay!" I shouted as I ran down the stairs, nearly collided with Piper. "Sowwy Piper," I said after bumping into her.
"S'ok Phoebe," she said fixing her ponytail. "We are getting Ice Cream," she said giggling. I had a huge grin on my face, and saw Daddy come upstairs and he walked into his room, and grabbed Paige.
"Ok girls lets go," I looked at Daddy weirdly as he held Paige, but chose to ignore it and continue being happy about getting ice cream. We walked to the car, and Prue helped me get into my car seat, along with Piper. Daddy set up a car seat for Paige, and started up the car." The drive was silent until Paige started to get fussy. Prue looked over to her and grabbed a hold of one of her hands. I sighed as she continued to fuss, and saw her pacifier and grabbed it.
"You want your pacifier Paige?" I asked her, and she reached for it. "Ok…here you go," I said, giving it to her. She gurgled happily and I laughed. Daddy smiled at me, and I felt proud of myself. We got to the ice cream place and instantly started to unbuckle myself while the car was in motion, and Prue squinted her eyes at me, and instantly the seatbelt reattached to me. "No fwair!" I cannot wait until I have a power to use back against her.
"You have to stay buckled up till we stop," Prue sighed. I stuck my tongue out at her when she wasn't looking and Paige giggled. I smiled at my little sister, and finally came to a stop. I instantly unbuckled myself, and hopped down from my car seat. I opened up my door and hopped out. Daddy turned off the car and calmly got out of the car, and lifted Paige and her car seat.
"Daddy, huwwy up!" I cried out. I want ice cream.
"Ok Phoebe hold on," he said letting out a laugh. "What do you want Phoebs?" he asked me.
"Um…I wanna choco dipped cone," I said. Daddy looked at me in confusion and I saw Prue roll her eyes.
"She wants a chocolate dipped ice cream cone," That's what I said gosh! I stopped paying attention while Piper and Prue said what they wanted and I looked out the window and saw the boy that was older than me from across the street come over to me.
"Hi Phoebe!" he said brightly. I gave him a smile, and I started to think that he liked Prue. "Is Prue with you?" he asked. Yep he definitely likes my sister. I started to move his shoulder to the direction of Prue was, and I gasped, my eyes becoming closed as a vision hit me. A demon with black and blue skin, and shining red eyes shimmered in…FLASH…still in the ice cream place, and I saw Andy being grabbed and him screaming as the demon disappeared again. "Phoebe…are you ok?" he asked me, and found him holding me by the shoulders.
"Um yeah…I need to talk to my daddy," I said walking towards Daddy. Andy followed me…and I was about to snap at him to go away, but Prue saw Andy and walked over to him.
"Hi Andy," she said smiling.
"Hi Prue," he said in a happy voice. They started to walk away, but Prue stopped and turned back to me.
"Here you go, Dad already paid for it," Prue explained handing me my cone. I numbly took it, and she looked at me. "Are you ok Phoebe?" she asked me.
"No…" I whispered, and I yanked her away from Andy. "I had a premonition…" I whispered.
"Ok…what is it?" she asked folding her arms.
"I saw…Andy being taken away by a scary demon," I whispered. Prue grabbed Andy and we headed for Daddy and Paige. "Daddy!"
Victor's POV
As I watched my daughters eat their ice cream, I sighed happily. I had missed a whole year of this, just watching my daughters play and eat, missing all the little things in life that I had missed. Paige looked up at me, and reached out with one of her baby hands and I grinned, and let her grab a hold of my finger. "Daddy," I heard Piper say and I looked at her, holding Paige with one arm, and lifted Piper up my other arm. Piper giggled as I put her on lap. "Thank you for the ice cream Daddy," Piper said eating some ice cream.
"You girls deserve it," I said kissing little Piper on the head. Just as Piper was about to say something else, I heard Phoebe yell, "Daddy!" I put Piper down and while still holding Paige I bent down to Phoebe's eye level.
"What's the matter sweetie?" I asked her, and she looked scared.
"Daddy…I had a premonition," she whispered. This was one of the reasons why I fought Patty with this, Phoebe shouldn't have to be dealing with this at her young age. I honestly didn't know what to say to her.
"She saw Andy being attacked," Prue explained. "We need to take him home and tell Mommy and Grams…" Andy looked at Prue weirdly, and she smiled at him and instantly he looked better. I better keep an eye on him; he really seems to like my oldest daughter.
"Come on Andy, we need to go home," Mr. Tradeau said, and Andy sighed walking over to his Dad, and before I could stop them they were on their way out of the building.
"Daddy, we need to go save him," Phoebe whimpered, still a little afraid of the demon that was going to try and kidnap Andy. I put Paige back into her car seat, and pulled her sisters close to her.
"I'll go…Prue…you need to stay here with your sisters," I told my eldest daughter.
"No," Prue instantly said. "Whatever this warlock is, it will be too powerful for you…" Prue said in an overconfident voice. I am not letting my daughters fight a demon…not if I can help it.
"Prue…just please listen to me and watch Paige," I said in a soft voice, and just as I was about to walk off…
Piper's POVI threw my hands out and instantly the whole room froze. "Nice freeze Piper," Prue told me, lifting Paige and her carrier and headed towards the door.
"Prue…why did you want me to freeze Daddy?" I asked, following Prue past our frozen Daddy. Phoebe whimpered and latched onto my arm.
"We need to go vanquish the demon that is going to try and kidnap Andy," Prue said in a duh voice. "Phoebe where was Andy attacked?" she asked Phoebe in an angry voice.
"I don't remember…" Phoebe said in a scared voice. "Why couldn't we just follow Daddy?"
"You don't want him to get hurt do you?" Prue asked her as we continued to walk. I felt bad for Phoebe as she continued to cling to my arm.
"Over there…" Phoebe pointed to an alleyway, and I saw Andy and his Dad walking towards their car. The demon shimmered in, and instantly we headed for the demon.
The demon knocked out Andy's dad, and as soon as we got there I threw out my hands and tried to freeze the demon, but it only slowed him. Prue squinted at the demon knocking him off his feet. Prue gave me Paige and ran towards Andy, "Are you ok?" she whispered to him. He nodded, but seemed glad Prue was there.
"Prue look out!" I yelled, throwing out my hands trying to freeze the knife.
Victor's POVI felt weird as I walked, and had the sudden urge to turn around again to check on the girls. I turned and saw they weren't there, and I began to panic. I ran out of the Ice cream shop and looked for my girls, and turned towards the alley were I thought I had saw Andy and his dad walk towards. I saw the demon being sent off his feet by Prue. She had walked over to Andy, and checked if he was ok. I ran faster as I tried to reach them in time, and instantly ran all out when I saw the demon toss the knife and heard Piper yell, "Prue look out!"
I barely heard Paige let out a scared wail, and I pushed Prue out of the way, and let out a groan of pain as I felt the knife hit my shoulder. "Daddy!" I heard Prue cry out, and I turned the wound away from all my daughters so they won't see my wound. I saw tears coming from her eyes, and Paige started to cry. My daughters were trying to crowd me, but I knew that I cannot let them get distracted by the demon.
I saw the demon summon an energy ball and instantly I forced myself higher preventing the energy ball from hitting my daughters. "Daddy!" Phoebe screamed, and I barely felt her hands on my face.
Prue's POVDaddy…he saved us. "Prue duck," Andy warned and instantly I ducked and the energy ball hit the wall.
"Aw poor little witches afraid their Daddy will die," he said snickering. I saw him eyeing my sisters, "Don't worry you will be joining him soon," he said creating another deadly energy ball, and he tossed it in my general direction. I shot my hand out almost like a stop sign, but before I could send it away it shot back towards him, causing him to disappear in smoky fire.
I turned back to my Daddy and saw blood…even though he was clearly trying to hide it. "Daddy," I said going to my knees and shaking him.
"Prue…" he whispered weakly, and saw his eyes trying to focus on me.
"You are breaking your promise," I whispered, feeling tears starting to sting at my eyes. "You promised you weren't going to leave again…" Dad lifted his hand and brushed my tears.
"I'm sorry sweetie," he whispered. I started to sob, and Piper walked over with Paige tears in her eyes still. Paige started to cry.
"Daddy you promised!" I cried out, starting to hit him where he wasn't bleeding.
"Prue…" I heard my name being called, and slowly turned my head and saw Andy, and he gently grabbed my hands from hitting Daddy, and I cried onto his shoulder.
Bright lights surrounded the alley and the formed into a woman. "Girls…" she said to us, and instantly I pulled away from Andy and shot my hand out trying to attack her telekinetically, but nothing happened. "I am here to help your Daddy ok?" she said bending down to Victor. She pulled out the knife and Daddy yelped. The lady put her hands over him and bright lights came out and his wounds started to heal.
Victor's POVThe world stopped spinning and I saw a Whitelighter healing me. "Thanks," I manage to mutter. She nodded. "Um who are you?" I asked sitting up. Before she could answer, Paige orbed into my arms again, and I was met with my other daughters enfolding me into a hug.
"Natalie," she said getting up. "The Elders sent me to heal you…and to dust the young boy,"
"Dusting him?" I asked, after giving each of my girls a kiss on the head, and calmed down Paige.
"He saw too much, magic could be exposed," she said stiffly. "So I'll have to wipe his memory of this event,"
"No," Prue said pulling away from me, "leave him alone," she said standing next to Andy.
"Prudence, move out of the way," Natalie commanded.
"No," she shot back. "He won't tell anyone," Prue said.
"I promise," Andy added. I gently stood up and faced Natalie.
"It won't hurt to have at least one friend who knows their secret," I pointed up to the Whitelighter. Natalie sighed, but nodded.
"Ok…he will be able to remember this then. I am just a call away if you need to be healed," she said, brusquely orbing away. I looked down at Paige and she had calmed down. I pulled in each of my daughters for a hug once again; glad that I will be able to hold all of them still.
"Thanks…" Andy told me, and I gave him a pat on the shoulder.
"Alright lets go get your daddy up, and he'll take you home ok?" Andy nodded, and we walked towards his dad to wake him up.