Chapter 6: A true love's kiss to save the day
"Gone! They're all gone!" Phoebe shouted, she was so shocked with what she and her sisters were just discovered. Her hands were carrying the Book of Shadows which was once full of words and image now was only an empty book with blank pages, the evidence for the news that the Charmed Ones were no longer having any powers at all.
"But why? And how?" Piper asked, kinda raised her voice a bit. She was terrified. The last time their powers were taken was by Rex Buckland who impersonated Prue's boss, and they were in so much trouble that they thought they could never get out. Thanks to Leo who helped them to get their powers back that time, but right now he's nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly, the three sisters heard a voice, a very familiar voice that they thought they could never heard of again, "My dear children, I see you're having troubles with your powers now, aren't you?" The stranger asked. Got out of her confusion, the oldest Charmed One asked her sisters, "Okay, it's just me, or I'm hearing Grams' voice?"
"Ur…I think it's all of us who do, right?" Piper replied, her head was looking heavenward, as she was waiting for some sort of answers for what was happening.
"Grams? Is it you?" Phoebe asked desperately, looking for her very dear long lost grandmother whom she thought she could never see again. The last time she saw her was in the past, which wasn't counted in.
"Yes, Phoebe, it is me." Grams' voice replied, as she began to appear in a swirl of light, of course she was transparent form. "Oh my God!" Piper murmured, didn't believe in her eyes.
"How…why…" Prue asked, didn't figure out the right word for her to say yet.
"Oh come on, don't tell me this is the first time you've ever seen a ghost!" Grams joked, though her granddaughters still staring at her.
"We…we did, but we never expect to see you!" Phoebe exclaimed, regret that Grams wasn't in solid form otherwise she would rush in and hugged her tightly.
"There has to be a meaning for your unexpected arrival, isn't it?" Prue asked, highly doubted. There was no way her dead Grams could visit them at that time, when they've just lost their powers and having a demon in the house, without a reason.
"My dear Prudence, you're so concern again. Can't an old grandma visit her granddaughters?" the old witch said, and immediately received back glances from the Charmed Ones. "Alright. I came here to help you with your powers' troubles." She finally gave up with her oldest grandchild's stubbornness. She never had won Prue in arguing, when she was alive. "Your powers haven't gone yet, they were only deactivated for awhile by a spell, which was casted by that demon over there." Grams said, after awhile waited for the sisters to understand everything, and pointed to the demon which was tight in the kitchen.
"Wait a minute, I thought only witches can cast spells?" Piper interrupted in surprised.
"With demonic spells, no." The ghost answered shortly, then continued. "The only thing can reverse this spell is a true love's kiss."
"WHAT?" All the sisters shouted in union, didn't believe in what they'd just heard.
"One of you must kiss your true love to reverse the spell, clear?" Grams repeated again, knowing this could be very funny for 'her' Charmed Ones.
"Where could we find a true love's kiss? I mean, what if our true loves are in another country in another side of the world?" Prue protest, afraid that this could imply her and Andy.
"You'll have to take your chances. Now…" Grams halted, in a joking voice, while looking at each of her granddaughters as looking for answers. "Prudence, why don't you volunteer?" she stopped at the oldest one, and smiled mischievously.
"Whaaaat? Me? No way! Why don't you choose…Piper instead of me?" Prue embarrassed. She must be cursed, she thought, as pointed to her younger sister as she was a substitute.
"It's the right to choose you, Prue. Let me see…I can't do it that's for sure, 'cause right now I have no boyfriend. Piper may have Leo, but as we all know, they're forbidden so that there's no way he could be with us at the time. And you…" Phoebe smirked, knowing this could be a very good chance for Prue and Andy to be together again.
"You have Andy!" Piper exclaimed, smiled mischievously, as thinking the same thing as Phoebe did.
"Okay, what are you guys up to?" Prue squinted, as looking from her sisters to her grandmother, suspiciously. Grams only shrugged her shoulders. "C'mon Prue you're our only hope!" Phoebe practically begged her oldest sister. "If you're talking about Andrew Trudeau who was once living next door, I think he's not too bad?" Grams asked, as she thought of Andy as a boy who was very keen and obedient.
"Grams!" Prue complained, "We've just broke up! It'd be very awkward if I asked him for a kiss!"
"So you mean…he doesn't know that you're witches?" Grams again asked, sure she wasn't notice much about Prue's love life, so she couldn't know. It was the only reason why Prudence can't ask Andrew for a kiss, if he knew, he would have sympathized.
"He knows, but I've just asked him to stay away from me, don't you see it's very awkward if I want us to kiss again like nothing happened!" Prue raised her voice to answered, and it was almost like a yell. This day was truly a bad day for her, she thought.
"Look Prudence, I don't know what's the matter with you both, but you just can't think for yourself like that. If you don't get his kiss, you and your sisters will have troubles with demons without your powers and the world without you will be doomed!" Grams said, turned her voice seriously. She again, sounded like when Prue was just a little girl, when Patty died. Prue always had to be the responsible one, she could never think for herself. Luckily Andy was there for her in those rough times.
"Argh! Alright, alright, I give up. I'll kiss Andy, okay? Now where's the phone?" Prue said, finally gave in. Usually she would protest 'til she was the winner, but that time. Something inside her screamed for her to give up. Maybe deep inside her, she really wanted to kiss Andy, really wanted to be with him again. The oldest sister picked up the phone at the corner of the house, and dialed her beloved inspector's number, which she'd learnt by heart.
"Hi Andy, erm…I know I told you not to see me again, but I…I mean, we, included Piper and Phoebe, need your help. Promise this'll be the last time. Our spot? Okay. Um…see you there. Bye." The witch said, kinda fast, she really didn't want to be discovered that she was overjoyed hearing Andy's voice, though it hadn't reached 24 hours since she last saw him, but she missed him. Put down the phone back to its position, Prue said, "Um…I'm gonna go now, so…you stay home and watch the demon in case it breaks the rope, okay?" she asked, as grabbing her purse.
"We're gonna be alright, you just have to go and enjoy yourself, don't worry!" Phoebe teased, and immediately received back an angrily glance from her oldest sister. "Just joking." She whispered, and with that, Prue was out of sight.
Golden Gate Park
"You want me what?" Andy asked, didn't believe in his ears. The woman who was just breaking up with him was asking him to kiss her, it sounded so absurd.
"I want you to kiss me." That was the very first time, Prue was ever managed to say that sentence fluently. Realizing her missing in what she'd just said, she quickly added, "to reverse a spell that deactivated our powers." Seeing her ex-boyfriend stayed in silent, "Can…can you do it?" she asked, thinking if Andy hated her too much for leaving him that he couldn't give her even a kiss.
Andy chuckled, asking him if he could kiss her? He never could imagine any questions that was easier that that. "But, what I don't understand is, why not Piper or Phoebe's boyfriend, but me? I'm not even your boyfriend anymore." Andy said, didn't answer Prue's question, and pretended he didn't want to kiss Prue, but inside that was what he wanted desperately to do with her, though it hurt when saying like that.
"Piper's is gone. I mean he's far away from here and can't come back right now. And as we all know, Pheebs has no one, though it sounded impossible, but she is. And that's why we're here, to…um…you know what." Prue replied, feeling a chill ran through her spine when she heard about Andy not being her boyfriend. 'You don't know how much I want you to be.' She thought, as started to pick her cuticles, again.
"Alright, but I won't promise anything." Andy said, as smiled, implying that he won't know if the kiss would work. After all, who know if he was Prue's true love or not? "Close your eyes." He whispered, and Prue did so. Both of them braced themselves, not to let their emotions outside, so that they wouldn't be overwhelmed and continued kissing endlessly. After that, Andy took a deep breath, and leaned in and kissed her tenderly, his hand placed on her cheek. The kiss, luckily, ended right before they decided to pull off all the lines and kiss passionately like old times.
"Will it do?" Andy asked, as he pulled away after the kiss. Though it was only 'lips to lips', very slightly, but still his lips were like on fire, burning desperately. "Prue?" he asked again, realizing Prue hadn't regained her senses yet.
"I…I don't know, let me try." Prue replied, after out of her reveling of kissing Andy, as she waved her hand, tried to move a branch of tree, but it was no use. "What the…I thought the kiss would work!" Prue said, suddenly in her head appeared a possibility reason for it. Was that Andy wasn't her true love? Was that they are truly weren't meant to be? And that thought broke her heart into pieces. Unexpectedly she heard Grams voice floating in the air, interrupted her thought.
"A true love's kiss here means that kiss has to have love in it, my dear. You have to feel love to kiss!" Grams said, though there was only Prue who could here that. "Now what Grams? Stop torturing me!" the oldest Charmed One shouted, made Andy jumped.
"Who are you talking to Prue? Grams? I thought she died long ago? And why and who is torturing you?" The inspector asked, though he could somehow figure out the answer.
"This is only her soul Andy. Like the one in the prison of Alcatraz, Jackson Ward remember?" She stopped, as both of them smiled to each other. It was like Prue was a teacher teaching her students about the magical world, and Andy just couldn't resist looking into her eyes and tell her he knew. "And I was saying she's torturing me 'cause she said we have to feel love to kiss, so that it could work!" Prue continued, looking down, avoiding looking into Andy's sparking blue eyes again. After that she looked heavenward, to answer her grandmother. "Grams, listen up I won't do it, I just can't okay?" she shouted, and turned to her policeman again.
"Look, I'm sorry I bothered you, but I need to go now. I promise things like this won't happen again. Goodbye Andy." Prue said fast, again didn't leave a chance for Andy to react, she walked away, and she hoped that time would be the last, 'cause everytime she did that she felt like her heart was ripping out of her chest, hurting more than ever.
"Wait Prue!" Andy tried to follow her, but she was too fast. Sighed heavily, he sat down on their full of memories swing, and was sunk in his thoughts. 'Wait a second. She said that she has to face a demon, but right now she has no powers with her, how is she going to vanquish it? What if she's in danger? I can't just sit here and do nothing, I have to follow her, the more the safer for her and her sisters!' Andy thought, suddenly realized the only woman he'd ever loved could be in great danger. And although she told him to stay away, and his help could be unnecessary, but once again, his heroic made him stood up and started to make a plan while driving back to his apartment.
Manor
'There has to be a way to reverse this spell without that kiss! There's no way I can kiss Andy within love in it, otherwise I wouldn't be able to stop!' Prue thought, as she walked out of her car. She smiled at herself with the thought of kissing Andy, but immediately shook her head to sue it away from her mind. 'No, Prue, you can't love him, he'd be in danger as long as you're still with him, remember last time when he almost die under the hand of Tempus?' Suddenly, a loud crash from the house interrupted her thoughts. "Oh no!" the oldest Charmed One mumbled, as she ran into the manor as fast as she could, afraid her sisters could be in danger.
Opened the Victorian's house's door, Prue was horrid by the scene in the kitchen. Phoebe, her youngest sister was lying across the living room, and in a split of second, she thought she was dead. Piper, who was hiding by a table nearby, realized Prue's presence, and immediately she shouted, "PRUE! GET OUT FAST!" Questioningly, Prue turned around and found the demon who she thought was tight securely in the kitchen was behind her. The oldest Charmed One didn't have a time to react before it used its bared strong arm to hit her in the head, making her fell down the floor, leaving blood to run out from her head. "NO!" Piper shouted, thought she's lost Prue, the strongest, most powerful witch and the most caring, mom-likely sister.
"You're the next, Charmed witch!" The demon grumbled, as he walked toward the middle Halliwell sister. In that very end minute, Piper thought it was all over, all the being witches, all the fun having powers, and right at that moment, the person she thought about was Leo. But when she closed her eyes, and was preparing to receive her death, suddenly someone stormed in the manor. "GET DOWN!" was all she could hear, and because of her terror, she couldn't realize who was it, but knowing that person was there to help, she did what he said. Just when she bent down, something was thrown toward the demon, something like a phial that contained a kind of liquid that immediately burned the demon's skin, that made it collapsed, and made Piper thanked herself that she did get down like what the stranger said. Turned around, she realized he was no one other than the familiar handsome Inspector Andy Trudeau.
"Andy? What the…" Piper asked, as she stood up from where she'd been hiding and going to Phoebe to check on her. 'She's alive thank God' she thought. Still she was so shocked and horror about what'd just happened. She thought she was almost dead then. Piper slowly got up, and started to tie the demon by another rope that was in the kitchen, tried her best not to touch that liquid, knowing she would receive the same result as the demon if she did.
"Explanations later, you take care for that demon over there, I'll come and check on Prue." Andy replied, implying the demon, as he kneeled down beside Prue's lifeless body, which made his heart bled. He took all of his courage to check her pulse, since he was so afraid if he felt nothing from the place which was supposed to beat strongly. And the moment he touched her neck, he felt like there was someone was using a knife to tear his chest and slowly used it to slash his heart 'til it was no more. There was nothing. Her pulse was dead. She was dead. The love of his life was dead. Prue was dead. And it was all because of him. If only he'd come a little bit earlier.
Realizing Andy's dumbness, Piper stopped tying the demon, which was almost done, and turned to him. "Don't tell me she is…" she said in great fear. She'd always thought her worst fear was flying, but through that moment, she knew she was wrong. Like Phoebe, it was losing a sister. Anyone, and that was included Prue. Andy didn't know how to answer other than a nod, and it made Piper broke down in tears. A few were rolling down Andy's face as well. Caressing Prue's cheek, he admired the beauty that always made him crazy everytime he looked at it. The only reason for him not to burst into tears right at that time was he didn't want to admit that Prue was gone. Gone forever. Suddenly he realized how much she meant to him. If only he hadn't been so selfish, if only he hadn't said that he cared about his stupid dream with a white house, white picket fence and screaming kids everywhere, maybe they would have been together right now. Maybe she would have still alive. "I love you" he murmured. And he didn't know why, but he leaned in and placed on Prue's lips a slight kiss. Although people would have thought he was crazy kissing a dead body, but he didn't care. All he cared was he loved her. In his mind appeared a question that he didn't know the answer, how would he supposed to live without her? "Please don't leave me" Andy begged, as he placed his head on her chest, letting tears streamed down his face. He had to admit it. There was nothing he could do anymore. Maybe that was what he had to pay for all the things he'd done with Prue. He deserved it, but not Prue and her sisters. "Why is destiny so cruel?" he sobbed silently. Sinking in all of his thoughts, Andy jumped when suddenly there was a hand placed on his shoulder. Thinking it could be Phoebe since Piper was crying over the stairs, he used his hand to sue it away. But in a split of second, he realized where the hand came from. It was from underneath him. It was Prue's.
"Andy…" Prue murmured, still was so weak after the attack, but still, she was alive. Andy couldn't believe in his eyes anymore. Was it just an illusion or was it real? Was that the woman he'd ever loved still alive or was it his imagination? Heard Prue's voice, immediately Piper rose up. "Prue?" she ran to her side, and also didn't believe in her eyes. "Why are you both looking as me like I'm a ghost?" the oldest sister asked, a bit joking, as she tried to lift herself up as well. Andy was too speechless and shocked to help her with it, but she managed to do it anyway.
"But you are! I saw you lying over there, and Andy said you were…dead!" Piper replied, still others could realize the fear in her voice, part because of her crying just before.
Suddenly the group heard a soft moan from the living room. Phoebe had woken up because of the noise. Piper quickly ran to her side for support, thinking Prue already had had Andy there. "Oww…my head!" the youngest Charmed One complained, as rubbing her head. Feeling secure about her baby sister, Prue turned to the handsome policeman, the only person who hadn't said a word since she woke up, and kept staring at her non-stop. "Andy…" she said, but he interrupted her.
"I thought you were dead." He said, but more like a whisper, as tears gathered in his eyes, making them turned bright red. Prue raised her hand and caress his cheek, "I'm okay now, don't worry." She smiled, just as the two of them started eye-contact, looking deep into each other's eyes, a loud bang appeared from the kitchen, interrupted them. "Oh no please don't tell me it's the demon again!" Piper cried, but instead of an answer, the ugly figure of the demon slowly walked out to the sisters, but it staggered and moved in pain, maybe because of the effect of the unknown liquid Andy had poured to it earlier. In a wise move, Piper and Phoebe ran to Prue, since the living room was nearer to the kitchen than the hall.
"Think of something quick Pheebs!" Piper yelled, the demon was close. If they didn't do anything quick, they'd all be end up dead.
"How come I'm always the one to think?" Phoebe complained, but her head was running for answer anyway. "C'mon, a spell, just a spell, ah, The Power of Three will set us free, The Power of Three will set us free…" The youngest one chanted, making her older sister surprised. "We're not witches, remember? How could the spell work?" she asked.
"Our powers were only deactivated, doesn't mean we're not witches anymore, that's why we could see Grams. C'mon!" Prue explained as fast as she could, as the trio stood up, hand in hand.
"The Power of Three will set us free, the Power of Three will set us free, the Power of Three will set us free,…" The Charmed Ones chanted for several times until a strong swirl of wind surrounded them, and the demon exploded into nothingness.
"Wow." Prue murmured in amazed. All three of them could feel powers ran through their veins, just like the time they used that spell to vanquish Jeremy. "Is there anyone think that we're abusing the Power of Three spell?" Phoebe joked, since the atmosphere was too much hard on them. Thinking for a while, Prue waved her hand, and the broken table in the living room lifted itself up.
"You got your powers! Let me try mine!" Piper exclaimed, as she threw an also broken vase lying on the floor, as she waved her hand, and immediately it stopped in the air.
"So I take it I got mine too. But…wait a minute, I don't understand, I thought the only way to get our powers back is having a true love's kiss?" Phoebe asked, at least her Grams didn't mention about others way to reverse the spell.
"You guys didn't kiss, are you?" Piper questioned, since she was too busy crying at the stairs when Andy was with Prue, so she couldn't have known. Prue turned to Andy, who was standing in stun, as she was looking for help, "Erm…I'm not sure…I only felt very warm after the hit not so long…so I…um…Andy?"
"I did kiss her." The inspector answered shortly, cause his ex-girlfriend to blush. 'He kissed me!', it screamed inside Prue, as if it was the first time they'd ever kissed, back in high school. Looking up, she again found Andy's eyes staring to hers. Quickly Prue looked away, avoiding another eye-contact.
"Well that explains a lot. And the thing that you threw at the demon, what was it?" Piper added, didn't forget the burning liquid earlier.
"Acid." Andy answered shortly, he was too busy admiring Prue, watch her as if he just blinked, she'd have gone again.
"I remember you'd been always good at Chemistry." Prue said, as smiled to herself. She was remembering the old great times at High school, when there was no magic to protect, no demons and warlocks to fight, and of course no secrets to hide.
"Yeah." Andy replied, and then there was an awkward silence between them. Realized it, the younger two sisters whispered with each other something, then Phoebe announced, "Okay, we're gonna start clean up this mess, anyone that doesn't have their business, please stand still." as her older sisters and her started head toward the kitchen, when Piper stopped Prue and pushed her back. "Oh no, you're not going, remember you have your issues to deal with!" she smirked, as leaving Andy and her oldest sister stood with each other, like they were paralyzed. Prue shook her head. She couldn't talk to Andy right now. There was just too much harm around her, and she didn't want him to be involved to any of it. Just as Prue pretended to ignore him and started to pick the phone which was lying on the floor up, Andy touched her shoulder, trying to get attention.
"Prue…" he began, but almost immediately was interrupted by the witch.
"Didn't you hear Pheebs? She said if you don't have any business here, please stand still." Prue snapped, since if Andy wanted to reach for her he'd have to leave his place. "Oh, c'mon Prue you know I deserve more than that!" he complained, he just couldn't stand there and do nothing. How much he just wanted to run over and hugged Prue tightly, never wanted to let her go. Seeing Prue had no reactions, he let out a sigh. "All right." Andy said, as he put up a chair and comforted himself. He would've loved to help, but quite sure Prue would never allow him to.
Prue really didn't want to do those things. Usually it'd be Piper who did that, since she was too busy for work and Phoebe was too busy hanging out. But it was the only way to 'get rid of' Andy, who she knew if they talked, she wouldn't be able to control herself anymore and they'd be together again, which was very risky for his life, or at least what the oldest Charmed One thought so. Though she tried to concentrate on her work, but still she found herself thinking about Andy, and somehow she could feel his eyes staring at her non-stop. The silence continued for a few moments, until Prue couldn't stand it anymore and decided to start a small and harmless conversation.
"Thanks for saving me." She said, but didn't look up at Andy. He was surprised. He didn't even think she'd ever talk to him again.
"I'd love to." He replied, made Prue's heart beat faster. 'What did he mean he would love doing it? Was that he wanted to kiss me?' Prue thought, but immediately shook it away. What was she thinking? That thought was dumb! "But I thought I told you to stay away?" she retort, finally found something to defend herself.
"Guess I just couldn't resist come to your house." Andy joked, as both of them laughed themselves. He was thinking, that was the second time he had been against Prue's warning not to come to manor for his own safety. Though the last time, she didn't say it out loud, but somehow they could figure it out.
"Look Prue, I think you owe me something here." He turned serious again, as he stood up to face Prue. She didn't answer, knowing what he was talking about. "You have to admit I did save you guys."
"I never tell you that I don't admit it, didn't I?" Prue snapped, as she stopped picking stuffs and rose up to meet Andy's eyes. She tried to act as he was wrong, but inside her she still found herself saying that it was just a kind of coincidence that Andy had helped them with the demon.
"There there, they're going to argue again." Piper whispered to Phoebe, they were hiding behind the kitchen's wall, sneaking the conversation. Though they tried their best not to be caught, but their oldest sister still managed to found out, as she glanced heavily on them. Immediately they looked away, pretended as they were talking and didn't even notice the 'couple' in the hall. Staring at the 'annoying' sisters for a minute to make sure they're gone, Prue turned to Andy again.
"But I don't understand, why do you keep running away from me if I'm able to help you with magic?" Andy asked, started to raise his voice a little. Prue squinted at him, as saying, "I just wanna protect you, but I'm not running away from you!" she began to protest, just like everytime she argued with somebody else, especially with Andy. He began to look at her, searching for the truth, "Or are you Prue?" he asked. Prue squinting for few seconds, and looked down again. He was always able to read her like a book. "Okay I am, but it's only for your safety, you know that right?" she retort, still didn't give up.
"Yeah, you told me that. But if I can help, why won't you let me?" Andy said, he couldn't believe they were actually arguing because of his protection and safety.
"It's just too dangerous for you, Andy. I know you're helpful sometimes, but it's too risky for you to be involved with magic, you know, you don't have powers like us!" Prue kept going, tried to be strong as usual, but she was on the verge of tears right now. It was just too hard fighting her emotions while it went stronger and stronger every second passed.
"Okay, let's just make this clear. If I had followed your suggestion to stay at home and ignore you while you fight your demons, then maybe you would be all dead right now!" He raised his voice almost as a yell. He just couldn't keep it anymore. The sight of Prue lying in his arms, pale and lifeless, was more terror than anything in the world, and if he'd had to pay his life for that event to be never happened, he'd have happily accepted.
"So? What's your business anyway? It's our world, and you have nothing to do with it!" Prue said, looked for another direction to swallowed the tears that were about to leave her eyes.
"NOTHING? How could you say nothing when you're talking about your lives! And do you seriously think that I could sit there and rest when there are people were about to die?" Andy retort, surprised by how she reacted this way.
"Yes I mean it, Andy. If saying as you, then right outside there are millions of people who are about to die! Why are you wasting your time in this little manor and standing there like nothing happens?" Prue yelled, turned the argue into a fight, a serious one that she never wanted to have.
"I'm pretty sure that they have someone to help them, otherwise they would've called me, right? Look, this is not going to anywhere, I just wanted to ask why did you keep running away from me and acting with me like a stranger, that's all." Andy said, just as a few tears started to roll down Prue's cheek.
"So what do you want me to do? Let you in and watch you die, all over again? Don't you get it Andy, I don't want you to be harm! Don't you know how much it hurts seeing you lying over the floor with a blanket over your body? Don't you know how much I have to suffer when I leave you? God, don't you understand?" Prue suddenly let out a yell, made everybody jumped, as she burst into tears. She just couldn't keep it inside anymore, it was just too hard to bear. Andy was so surprised, he didn't know Prue had been through a lot to make that decision, he just thought she didn't want to be with him. Quickly he came to her side, wrapped his arms around her, tried his best to make her feel better. Prue just kept that way for a few minutes, to remember how it felt like to be in his arms, and to calm herself as well, then she pulled out to look straight into his sparking blue eyes.
"Andy, if you want to be even alive then we can't be together, we just can't. Not as a couple." Prue said through her tears, half of them were wiped away by the handsome inspector, the rest were handled by their owner.
"How about as friends?" Andy asked, as he grinned his trademark grin with her, since he'd found another way to be with her. Couple or not, he just wanted to be there for Prue whenever she wanted. The oldest sister had no way to smiled herself, as she pulled out from his embrace. "You're not gonna give up, aren't you?" She replied by another question, while dried her face from the leftovers of the tears.
"Never." Andy answered shortly, as looked directly to Prue's eyes, started another eye-contact. She looked back a moment, then said, "Alright, if you want. But I have to warn you, you'll have to obey me everytime I told you to stay away, or I'll use my magic on you." She warned, but not as what she expected, Andy's grin grew bigger. "Why I have a feeling you're abusing that threat?" he said, made Prue squinted at him, "I'm not!" she protest, but with Andy looking at her again, she gave up, as lower her eyes, "I just want you to be safe, you know that right?" she whispered, seemed like she was about to cry again.
"You told me that twice tonight." Andy joked, and received a warning but cute glance. "Okay, I'll try my best to stay away, but I won't promise anything."
"What do you mean you won't?" She asked, in a very worried tone. But then she met his eyes, again. They looked deep into each other's eyes, seeing through the other person's feelings. Suddenly something inside each of them screamed at their heads, told them to go on, don't be afraid. Just as they were about to give up and lean in to make a lip-contact instead for eye-one, a camera sound and also a flash appeared, tore them apart. Turned around, they realized it was Piper and Phoebe who were trying to take a picture of them kissing.
"I thought you said you turned off the flash light? And you said it won't be no sound?" Phoebe snapped, her hand carrying a camera that she 'borrowed' from Prue.
"How the hell could I know? This is Prue's, not mine!" Piper retort, both of them didn't notice it was their sister who was walking to them and snatched the camera away. "I thought we had an agreement that no taking others' stuffs without asking for borrowing first?" She asked, though it sounded angrily but somehow she could still found it easily to smile.
"We…erm…we did ask for your permission, just that we didn't say it out loud." Phoebe protest, and received a heavy glance from her oldest sister. "Oops" she whispered with Piper. Prue handing her camera, walked to Andy again.
"Um…I guess I should leave." He said, as smiled with her. She smiled back, part embarrassing since it was just a few minutes ago they were trying to kiss.
"Yeah." The oldest Charmed One said, as she walked him to the door. He at first had his back at her, but when she expected he was about to leave, he turned around and gave her a quick peck on the cheek. "Friends do peck, right?" Andy smirked, made Prue even more blushed.
"Don't try to take advantage on me!" She joked, made her face seriously. They smiled at each other for awhile, just until Andy started, "Bye." He said, and with that, he was fast down the stairs.
"Bye." Prue replied, though she knew he wouldn't hear, but she just couldn't resist. Using her telekinesis, she closed the door of the manor and went inside to 'deal' with her 'naughty' sisters.