Chapter 6
Prue and Phoebe Halliwell sat in the small restaurant with their drinks as Phoebe spoke to her eldest sister about everything that she had found out. Glancing at the elder woman, Phoebe knew that Prue was unlikely to believe her despite the evidence that Phoebe was giving to her. Prue listened to her sister and was worried.
"The Chosen one? The Charmed Ones? Phoebe, this is insane." Prue told her baby sister with slight irritation towards the woman that had been talking non-stop about witches and such since she had come back to San Francisco. Phoebe sighed at her sister with her own brand of irritation towards the woman that was probably never going to believe her.
"Are you telling me that nothing strange happened to you today? You didn't freeze time, see the future or move anything?" Phoebe questioned her eldest sister with slight desperation, hoping the Prue would believe her on just this one thing but she knew that it was unlikely. Prue never really believed anything that the younger witch had to say. Prue gave her sister a glare.
"Roger took an exhibit away from me. All right, look, Phoebe, I know that you think you can see the future, which is pretty ironic….." Prue spoke to the twenty-three year old with her own very self-righteous tone that she knew irritated Phoebe more than anything in the world especially since this wasn't the first time she had said it. Phoebe cut her sister off with an angered filled tone over the words spoken despite having been said millions of times before.
"Since you don't think I have one? That my vision of life is cloudy compared to your perfect hell? Even if you don't want to believe me; just once, can't you trust me." Phoebe asked her elder sister with a slight begging tone mixed with desperation. She may have been used to the way in which her sister acted towards her but it didn't make it hurt any less. Prue yet again sighed with irritation towards the twenty-three year old.
"Phoebe, I do not have special powers. Now, were is the cream?" Prue asked with a more than usual agitated tone to Phoebe. She looked around until she noticed a cup filled with the wanted cream glide towards the two women all on its own. Prue just stared at it as Phoebe gave her elder sister a knowing look. She had known that she was right.
"Really? Cos that looks pretty special to me." Phoebe spoke to her big sister with a slight smirk on her face knowing that Prue ignored in favor of looking at the cup of cream. She sent images to her brain and watched as the cream filled her cup without even being touched. Phoebe watched this happen in fascination. The cup was soon bubbling up with the cream making Prue look away from the cup and the cream.
"Oh my god, so eh? I can move things with my mind?" Prue asked in hesitation as she looked at her sister closely. She couldn't believe that for once Phoebe was actually right. She then began to wonder what this would do to her and her family.
"With how much you hold inside you should be a lethal weapon by now." Phoebe told her big sister with her voice layered with humor on the fact as she tried to keep her big sister from throwing a fit. Peyton turned to look at the sugar in fear.
"I don't believe it." Prue spoke herself with so much disbelief over what was happening to her and what would happen to her as she tried to convince herself that Phoebe was wrong. That she was wrong. She didn't make the cream move by itself. That was impossible. No one could do that. Especially not her. Phoebe ignoring her big sister's words as she thought the whole thing over.
"God, I wonder what the others can do." Phoebe asked herself with a slight wonder as she thought about how this witch thing was going to affect Piper and the boys. Prue had had it now as she grabbed the cup in front of her and downed it in one go. Phoebe then gave her elder sister a very concerned look.
"Are you okay?" Phoebe asked her sister in concern, knowing that this was a hard thing for Prue. She was the one that was adamant that Phoebe was a liar. Phoebe thought about the many ways in which Prue could take this witch stuff. Prue turned to glare at her little sister with an angered and agitated look.
"No, I'm not okay. You turned me into a witch." Prue yelled quietly to her sister as not to let anyone hear what she was saying knowing that they would think that she was crazed. And right now she didn't know if she was crazed or not. Phoebe gave her sister a sympathy filled glance, knowing that the elder woman was currently in turmoil.
"You were born one. We all were. And I think that we better start learning to deal with that." Phoebe told her sister with honesty as she recalled everything that she had learned in the book of shadows through the night. Prue gave the younger woman a slight fearful look at the thought of what the witch thing would do to her. Prue then stood up and left as Phoebe followed.
"When I was looking through the Book of Shadows I saw these wood carvings. They looked like something out of a Bosch painting. All these terrifying images of five siblings battling different carnations of evil." Phoebe told her big sister with a knowing tone as she knew that Prue would need to know this kind of stuff just like Piper and the boys would. They needed to work together. It was their destiny. Prue nodded her head at the information she was receiving from her younger sister as they walked along the sidewalk.
"Well evil fighting evil, that's a twist." Prue spoke as she remembered that witches were seen as evil. She also remembered a lot more about witch lore. And none of it was actually good. Phoebe shook her head as she noted the fearful glance that her sister gave her.
"Actually, a witch can be either good or evil. A good witch follows a Wiccan Reade: "An it harm none do what ye will."" Phoebe recited to the elder woman from what she remembered about the words in the Book of Shadows. She smiled as she remembered the whole thing. Prue gave her sister a confused glance.
"A bad witch, or a warlock has but one goal, to kill good witches and obtain their powers. Unfortunately, they look like regular people. They could be anyone, anywhere." Phoebe told her sister as she remembered even more things that she had read from the book of shadows. Prue looked at her little sister with confusion. She couldn't believe that all of this was actually true.
"And this has what to do with us?" Prue asked her sister with both worry, confusion and fear. She was scared for her little brothers and sisters. Phoebe looked at her as she smiled innocently to her bug sister. Phoebe always was the innocent one.
"Well, in the first wood carving they were in slumber. But in the second one they looked like they were battling some kind of warlock. I think that as long as we were kept in the dark about our powers, we were safe. Not anymore." Phoebe told her as she memorized as much of what she had read as she could. It was all really useful information that Prue, Piper and the boys both needed to know. Prue nodded at her sister with a slight fearful tone to her younger sister. Both unaware of the cat that seemed to be following him.
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Piper had finally gotten out of a long day at work and she was going to go home when Jeremy had taken her away from the thoughts of powers and siblings. Jeremy always knew how to do that. And what they were doing was drinking wine and eating Chinese food while getting a cab ride back to Jeremy's place.
"Has anything weird or unexplainable ever happened to you?" Piper asked her boyfriend with a hesitant and worried tone to her boyfriend. Jeremy smiled at the woman before him as he thought of her words and how she felt about those words.
"Sure. It's called luck or fate. Some call it miracles. Why? What happened?" Jeremy told the woman with a light voice of happiness and enjoyment mixed with humor. Jeremy smiled at her in clear glee as Piper gave him a smirk as the driver drove on oblivious to the couple. Piper sighed as she decided to think about something else.
"Forget it. Even if I could tell you, you'd swear I was crazy. Open your fortune cookie." Piper spoke with laughter and humor filled tone as she passed him one of the cookies. Jeremy smiled at the brunette as he opened it and looked down at it before looking at Piper as she opened her own cookie. Jeremy gestured her to go first.
"Okay "Soon you will be on top."" Jeremy read from the piece of paper with a knowing smirk to the woman before him. Although he knew that Piper wouldn't believe what he was saying even if she didn't get anything else. Piper smirked at her boyfriend as she felt that he was lying or at least omitting a few details from what he had said.
"It doesn't say that." Piper questioned the man before her with a curious tone knowing that it couldn't have been the truth since she had never heard a fortune cookie like that before. And she had had her fair share of fortune cookies being that a Chinese was Sam and Phoebe's favorite take out.
"Yes, it does." Jeremy spoke adamantly to the young brunette with a smirk on his face as he glanced from Piper to the piece of paper in his hand. Piper gave him a pointed look of disbelief as she tried to get her inner Dean to come out. Or Phoebe. Jeremy just continued to smirk at the brunette as he stuck to his words.
"Let me see." Piper asked the man before her with a small smile on her face as she took the piece of paper away from the brunette with a small light smile on both of their faces. Jeremy looked at the woman with a charming smile towards the girl before him.
"Is that a bad thing?" Jeremy asked the brunette with confusion as he laid on his cocky smile for the twenty-five year old. Piper smirked to the man unconsciously as she read the piece of paper. Her smirk grew even further as she read the full thing. She knew that he wasn't telling the full fortune.
""Of the world. Soon you will be on top of the world."" Piper read out aloud with a big smile on her face at knowing that she was right while just continued to give her his cocky smirk. Piper's smirk widened as she threw the fortune at the reporter. He smirked again before looking at the road.
"Eh? Can you take a left on seventh please?" Jeremy asked the cab driver with a happy tone as Piper looked over at him in confusion, not understanding his request as she continued to look down on the Chinese food that they had bought before looking up at Jeremy questioningly.
"Seventh? I thought that we were going to my place." Piper asked the reporter before her with a questioning tone as she looked at him with nothing but confusion towards the man. Jeremy sat back in his seat as he looked to the brunette. He smiled at her, thinking about where he was going to take the young woman.
"We are, but you reminded me of something. I want to show you the old Bowling Building. The view of the Bay Bridge? It's amazing." Jeremy told the brunette with an even bigger and cockier smile that put her in mind of Dean. The taxi driver just continued to drive off while Piper glanced at Jeremy with confusion and wonder of what he had in mind. Jeremy just smirked at the woman as they drove to the destination.
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Prue walked into the pharmacy with Phoebe following her with a smirk on her face as she walked. She was overjoyed at being right for once in Prue's eyes. They walked over to the front desk as Phoebe passed the note over to the pharmacist with a smile.
"I'll be right back with your prescription." The man behind the counter told the young woman with a polite smile on his face. Phoebe just returned the smile to the pharmacist as he went to walk away from the women when Prue though things through and glanced to the man.
"Excuse me, where do you keep the aspirin?" Prue asked the man with a pleading like tone to him, wanting desperately to have something to get rid of her incensing headache without using liquor. Phoebe glanced at her sister with confusion while the pharmacist glanced towards the brunettes.
"Eh Aisle three." The man at the counter told her as Prue thanked him before walked away towards the aspirin. Phoebe followed after the elder woman with a surprising and yet annoyed look towards her. She was starting to feel concerned about the older woman on how she was dealing with the whole thing.
"Chamomile tea works great for headaches." Phoebe pointed out to her older sister with a small smile on her face as she tried to act both helpful and annoying towards the older woman before her as she brushed her fingers through the aisles. Prue just continued to look for something to help with her headache.
"Not for this one, it won't." Prue disagreed with her sister in a frustrated tone knowing that her headache was more to do with the witchcraft and the smaller woman beside her. She continued her search as Prue walked behind her looking for the thing she so desperately needed. Phoebe rolled her eyes at the older woman.
"You know, I'm not afraid of our powers. I mean, everyone inherits something from their family, right?" Phoebe asked her sister with happiness and excitement as she looked over everything that was on the shelves looking for whatever it was that Prue needed. She wanted Prue to see the better side of their powers. The better side of their witchcraft. Prue glanced at her sister as if she was crazy. That very thought was crazy.
"Yeah, money, antiques, a strong disposition. That's what normal people inherit." Prue replied to the younger brunette with desperation. She wanted. No needed to get away from what the twenty-three year old was saying. Phoebe frowned at her sister. The normal thing that people inherited did not appeal to the young woman. She needed something different. Something special. And that was what she was getting.
"Who wants to be normal when we can be special?" Phoebe told her big sister with a bright smile. Her chirpy nature clearly showing. She had always wanted to be special. Had since she was a little girl. Prue groaned at her sister's behavior. It pissed her off most of the time over her sister's behavior.
"I want to be normal. I want my life to be….You know, isn't this aisle three?" Prue yelled out as she looked around the aisle looking for the aspirin she needed with desperation as she spun around looking. Phoebe looked elsewhere before turning back to her elder sister with a desperate need for the older woman to get back with reality. And the reality was that they were witches.
"Well, we can't change what happened. We can't undo our destiny." Phoebe told her sister as she tried to get it through to the older woman that they were witches and that things were going to change for their family. Prue tried to get her thoughts off of anything to do with what her sister was saying as she continued to search for the aspirin.
"Do you see any aspirin?" Prue asked her sister with desperation as she tried to get her mind off of everything to do with witchcraft or their destiny because that was the one thing that she didn't want to think of right now. The whole thing was something that she didn't want to think about. Phoebe glanced at her sister with a pout as an idea came to her.
"I see chamomile tea." Phoebe spoke to her sister with annoyance as she tried to get under Prue's skin. She wanted Prue to get angry so the older brunette could hurry up and get over whatever was going on with her. Prue stopped in the middle of the aisle as she turned angrily towards her younger sister.
"Look, I have just found out that I am a witch, that my brothers and sisters are witches, and that we have powers that will apparently unleash all forms of evil." Prue yelled out to her sister with a more than quiet tone, not wanting anyone else to hear what she was saying to her little sister. The words all registered in her mind as she glanced towards the aisles. She was now registering that every bad thing in the world was coming after her and her family. Phoebe listened to her sister ranting.
"Evil that is going to come looking for us. So, excuse me, Phoebe, but I am not exactly in a homeopathic mood right now." Prue continued to yell at her sister with anger and worry towards the younger woman. She knew that nothing would be the same. She knew that now her and her family were going to be in danger. And that terrified her more than anything as she looked for the aspirin. Phoebe glanced at her with cockiness.
"Then move your headache out of your mind." Phoebe told her sister with a cocky and annoying tone that drove Prue to insanity as she looked and felt frustrated. She glared at her sister as a bottle of aspirin shot into her hands from where she was standing. She looked at the bottle with surprise as Phoebe looked at her with surprise and excitement.
"You move things when you're upset." Phoebe told her big sister with excitement and slight curiosity for her big sister's powers that looked so magical. And it was because this was who they were supposed to be. Prue looked from the bottle to her sister and repeated the motion. She was annoyed because in her head she knew that her sister was right, and that made her angrier at the younger woman as she glared at her.
"This is ridiculous. I thought that you landed on your arm, not your head." Prue asked Phoebe with annoyance and frustration, not wanting to believe everything that her sister was saying in fear. And she was afraid. Phoebe looked at her sister with a darkening glare to the older woman. She smirked with annoyance.
"You don't believe me?" Phoebe asked her big sister with disbelief despite knowing that Prue was the type of person that would never believe her despite everything that was laid out in front of her. Prue just nodded her head in a duh motion. She hated the thought of believing Phoebe cause that meant that they were in danger.
"Of course I don't believe you!" Prue yelled out to her younger sister in anger and concern for her siblings. She didn't want to believe what Phoebe was saying because it scared her more than anything to think that her family could get hurt. Phoebe just glared at her sister and then smirked when a theory came to her.
"Roger." Phoebe said in a sing song voice knowing how much her big sister hated Roger being brought up. Mostly because of her. But that was besides the point. Phoebe flinched as a load of aspirin fell at her feet. Prue noticed this too as she began to pick the bottles up while glaring angrily to the young woman.
"Now, let's talk about dad and see what happens." Phoebe asked her sister with barely contained frustration to her sister as she tried everything in her power to get Prue to belief her and to get the older woman to believe her for once. Prue turned to glare at her younger sister with anger over her father being mentioned.
"He's dead, Phoebe." Prue told her sister with anger towards the younger brunette as she stood up from her place on the floor to glare at the younger woman. The one person that Prue hated more than anything was her father, something that every one of her siblings knew about her.
"No, he's moved from New York, but he's very much alive." Phoebe spoke to Prue with anger at the older woman's remark on their father. She hated the way Prue spoke about the man. Prue just gave the younger girl a darkened glare of anger. She despised talking about her father especially to Phoebe who prided the ground the man walked on.
"He isn't to me. He died the day he left mom." Prue spoke to her sister with anger towards Phoebe and hatred towards the man that caused her to feel the way that she felt. She hated everything about the man since he had left her mother despite it being a good thing that he did leave since she wouldn't have Sam and Dean as brothers if he didn't leave.
"What are you talking about? He's always been a button pusher for you! You're mad he's still alive, you're mad I went to find him, and you're mad I came back. Dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad." Phoebe spoke out to her big sister as she repeated that one words trying to push Prue. Trying desperately to anger the older brunette. Prue glared with anger to her sister. Both sisters flinched as everything threw off of the shelves. Phoebe turned to look at her sister with shock. Prue returned the shocked look.
"Feel better?" Phoebe asked the older woman with a humors look to the woman as she noted how Prue seemed to have changed. She looked and acted more relaxed. Prue looked from the floor to her sister and smirked with adrenaline.
"Lots." Prue spoke to Phoebe with a big smirk on her face as she looked to her sister with a more relaxed tone. Phoebe just smiled at the look that her elder sister was giving her. It had been a long time since she had seen such a look directed to her from Prue.
"The Book of Shadows said that our powers would grow." Phoebe pointed out to her big sister with shock and surprise as a smirk on her face as she glanced to the floor and then back to Prue with a pointed look. The older sister nodded her head in surprise and shock at the thought of her powers getting even stronger.
"Grow to what?" Prue asked her older sister with a big smirk on her face as Phoebe laughed causing Prue to join her. Both girls now seeing the humor in the situation now. Phoebe looked at her sister with a bright smile, thinking that things had to get better for all five of them. Prue shook her head as she began clearing things away. All Phoebe could do was smile as she helped Prue to clear up.
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The cab stopped outside the old bowling alley as Piper bit her lip looking at it. It looked old and not the type of place that a guy would take his date. Jeremy paid for the cab as Piper stepped out the cab and turned to glance at her boyfriend with curiosity and confusion.
"Well, here we are." Jeremy spoke with excitement as he smirk to the young woman as he opened up the door of the bowling alley. Piper glared a little to the man when she saw the inside of the bowling alley. She was more than confused as to why they were at the run down bowling alley when there were much more better and loving views elsewhere.
"I don't care how amazing the view is, I'm not going in there." Piper told Jeremy with an unhappy tone as she looked around the dreary place. The place looked even worse inside than it did outside. Jeremy smirked at Piper as he pushed her into the room playfully. Piper glared playfully to him as she stepped inside.
"Come on, I have a surprise inside." Jeremy spoke to the young woman as he pulled her into the bowling alley and over to an old lift. Closing the protective shutters, Jeremy looked back to Piper as he pressed the lever. The lift started to move as Piper looked around. She felt a little angst at being in the lift with Jeremy.
"You are gonna love this. I bet you you'll tell Phoebe and Prue the moment you see them. Maybe even Dean and Sam." Jeremy told the brunette with a small smile of anticipation on his face at what he was going to do with Piper. Piper looked at her boyfriend in confusion at the mention of her little sister. She hadn't remembered ever mentioning Phoebe coming home to Jeremy.
"I never mentioned Phoebe came home." Piper asked the older man with confusion as she turned to look at Jeremy. Jeremy gave a look before startling Piper with a knife in his hands. Piper glanced at the knife with shock, surprise and fear. Her eyes were only looking at the strange looking knife as she stepped back.
"What is that?" Piper asked the man with confusion and fear as she took another step back from her boyfriend. She was terrified of him having never seen this side of the older man. Jeremy smirked at the fear he found in the young witch. It was one thing that he desired more than anything.
"It's your surprise." Jeremy spoke to the young witch with anticipation. He stepped closer to her with the athame. He couldn't wait until he got what he wanted from the witch. Piper looked to him wondering whether or not he was being serious. She was scared but this had to be a joke.
"Jeremy, stop it. You're scaring me. Damn it, I'm serious!" Piper yelled out with fear as she stepped back again hitting the wall. She was so scared now. Scared that she would never see Phoebe and Prue become sisters again. Scared of missing Dean's twenty-first birthday. She was scared that she would miss Sam's graduation. Piper moved away from the wall feeling trapped.
"So am I! See, I've waited six months for this. Ever since Grams went into the hospital." Jeremy told the young witch with a smirk on his face as he looked at Piper with a predatory look. The two began to circle around each other. Piper looked at him with fear as she thought back to when her Grams was sick. Jeremy knew about her sisters and her little brothers.
"See, I've known for quite some time that the moment the old witch crocked that all your powers, they'd be released. Powers that would reveal themselves as soon as the five of you got together again. All that was needed was for Phoebe to come home." Jeremy spoke to the young witch with a sadistic pleasure. Happy that he was going to get what he craved from the brown eyed witch. Piper let the tears shimmer in her eyes as she watched him wield his knife with fear. She listened to his words with even more fear.
"It's you, isn't it? You killed all those women." Piper cried out with fear as she questioned everything that had happened in their relationship. She was now questioning everything that Jeremy had did. She questioned herself over Sam's doubts of the man. She hadn't thought that the boy was right. Jeremy smirked at the witch.
"Not women, witches." Jeremy spoke out to the witch with a smile of anticipation on his face desperate to kill the witch. Piper looked to him with fear, shaking her head unable to think about what was awaiting her. She was scared even more for her siblings. Phoebe, Dean and Sam were only kids.
"Why?" Piper yelled out to the older man with tears in her eyes as she looked over to him with fear of everything that was going on. She was scared. Jeremy looked to her with even more pleasure as he began drinking in her fear.
"It was the only way to get their powers. And now I want yours." Jeremy growled out to the witch before him as he lit up a hand of fire. Piper screamed as Jeremy went to stab the knife into her body. Piper closed her eyes and waited for something that never came. Slowly she opened her eyes to find the warlock frozen in place like Chef Moore had been earlier.
"Okay, think, stay calm. Think, think, think. Gotta get out of here. Okay, okay." Piper told herself with desperation as she looked around the place seeing that her only option was the top part of the lift. She rushed over and began to climb over. Piper began screaming when she felt Jeremy grab her ankle. She struggled to get free of the man. She tried to climb out but he was pulling her. Grabbing a plank of wood she whacked him over the head with it. Knocking him unconscious. As quick as she could she got up and ran away. Hoping to get to her brothers and sisters before it's too late.
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Dean looked to the youngest Halliwell expectantly waiting for him to finish whatever he was going to say with desperation. Sam's hands were trembling a bit as he reread everything for a fifth and sixth time unsure whether or not what he had read was true. Dean glared at the teen with slight annoyance.
"Okay why are we in trouble? Sammy?" Dean asked his baby brother with an impatient tone as he pulled the book from Sam's hands. Sam looked up at his big brother with fear in his brown eyes. He was now trying to think of a way to word what he had read. Although he didn't know how he was going to do that. He looked down.
"Okay, you know how each of us have a power." Sam tried to word this without giving away the whole thing straightaway. Dean looked at the fifteen year old with confusion. Wondering what the boy meant as his thoughts went back to when he had saved his best friend from being killed. Sam just nodded his head in a duh way.
"Yeah, me saving my friend from being crushed to death proved that." Dean told the kid with a sarcastic tone to the younger boy who just rolled his eyes at the nineteen year old, used to his sarcastic tone after having heard it for nearly sixteen years. He then pulled the book back out of the older teen's arms before opening it up to the page he was on.
"Well, what you don't know is that you, Piper, Prue, Phoebe and me, are The Charmed Ones." Sam confirmed to his big brother of what he had found out with a more than fearful yet prideful tone to his older brother as he thought of everything that he had learned. Although he didn't understand why he was feeling pride after reading what he had read.
"Okay whatever that is." Dean questioned with confusion over what a Charmed One was as he glanced at the book in Sam's arms. He wanted to know what was happening now as he tried to get the answers. Sam yet again rolled his eyes at his big brother's impatience. He yet again read the words in the book to be sure.
"The Charmed Ones are the chosen ones. Chosen to fight evil like demons and warlocks that are going to come after us. To kill us." Sam admitted to his big brother with a more than hesitant tone to the older boy as he thought over everything he had learned. Dean gulped with fear, not for his self but for his big sisters and baby brother. Both boys looked at each other grimly before being startled.
"Piper! Sam! Dean! You guys home!" Prue's voice called up the stairs with a more weird tone that Dean and Sam were not used to hearing as they both turned to look at one another. Dean went to go down the stairs as Sam stood up with the book and placed it on the table with hesitance before following after his older brother. Meanwhile down the stairs Prue and Phoebe were walking in the house looking for someone.
"I'll go check the kitchen. You check the messages." Prue told the twenty-three year old with a more than confused tone as he would have thought that at least Sam would have been at the house since his school had ended hours ago. Prue walked towards the kitchen as Phoebe walked over to the answering machine.
"Prue, its Roger. I've decided to let you come back to work. Seriously, let's talk." Roger spoke through the answering machine with a more than unruly and irritating tone as Phoebe rolled her eyes at the message. Prue came back into the room with a small cat in hand as the younger woman gave her a pointed look.
"Well Piper is definitely not home, unless she has changed into a cat." Prue spoke to the younger woman with a confused tone to her. The youngest sister continued to give Prue a pointed look as she wondered where a cat could have come from especially since Sammy was a little old to be bringing stray animals home.
"What? How did the cat even get in the house?" Phoebe voiced her question with annoyance when it looked like Prue wasn't going to answer her. Prue looked to her sister confused over her tone of voice as Phoebe rolled her eyes and again looked back at the cat beside her. Neither girl noticed the creaking from the stairs.
"I don't know somebody must have left a window open or something. Did Piper or one of the boys leave a message?" Prue asked her little sister with a fearful protective tone towards the three that all of the Halliwells were used to. Phoebe looked over at phone before turning back to look at Prue as she tried to think of excuses she could use for the three being absent. The look told Prue everything that she needed to know.
"Piper's probably out with Jeremy. The boys…." Phoebe tried to excuse the three with a slight hesitance to her tone knowing that Prue would probably belief Piper and Dean but not Sam. She was about to excuse the boys when she was cut off by Dean's voice making her sigh with relief.
"Are right here. Piper hasn't called by the way." Dean confirmed to his elder siblings as he came down the last few steps with Sam following behind him with a sheepish look. Prue gave the young Halliwell a small glance as Phoebe nodded her head a little thankful that at least she knew that the boys were alright. Phoebe then turned to look at Prue.
"Oh Roger called." Phoebe told her sister with a happy tone as the whole room turned to glance at her with pointed glares, all knowing full well that Phoebe despised Roger. Sam let a small smirk fall from his lips and his elder sister's tone while Dean bit his lip to keep from laughing.
"Yeah, I heard." Prue confirmed to her siblings with a sheepish tone as she gave the woman and eldest teenager a pointed glare. Sam smirked as he went to stand closer to his oldest sister. Dean lightly glared at the teenager and then let what he had learned sink into him.
"Yeah well do you wanna know what Sammy found in the book? He found…." Dean began to tell his elder sisters with a more than scared tone for the youngest as the younger boys nodded at the elder brother before he was cut off by his big sister coming in through the door as he and the others all looked over at the door to see a frightened Piper.
"Prue!" Piper's frightened voice called out to the group as the door creaked open. The siblings glanced at Piper with confusion and fear. Before they could say anything to the frightened woman, Piper slammed the door shut. The siblings glanced at her.
"In here." Phoebe called out before she frowned at her big sister. Prue took a step forward in concern for her sister. She noticed with a frown that Piper was locking the door. The sight caused Sam to look hesitant towards the brunette while Dean stepped closer to the younger boy.
"Piper?" Phoebe questioned with barely contained relief at knowing that her big sister was alright. Then relief soon fled when she noticed Piper's fear. Prue stepped closer to the young woman as Dean stepped closer to Sam not knowing what else to do as Phoebe looked at her sister.
"My god. What is it? What's wrong?" Prue questioned her sister with concern towards the young woman as Phoebe stepped closer to her family as Piper ran over to her brothers and sisters as she rushed over to her Phoebe, grabbing her arms tightly. Sam and Dean glanced from Piper to Prue with fear in their eyes.
"Quick, lock the doors! Check the windows! We don't have a lot of time! Phoebe, in the Book of Shadows, did it say how to get rid of a….." Piper asked her little sister as she grabbed onto the young woman with fear towards the twenty-three year old. The others stayed close listening to their elder sister as she spoke. Sam looked at Dean with fear after reading what he had read. Phoebe cut her big sister off trying to confirm what her sister was thinking.
"Warlock?" Phoebe questioned her elder sister with an apprehensive tone towards her sister as Piper nodded her head to confirm her sister's words with fear. Phoebe then glanced at her older sister as Sam glanced to Dean and then Prue. Dean gulped a bit but tried to keep his fear at bay.
"Oh my god." Prue and Dean both voiced out to the family with fearful yet apprehensive tones as everyone else glanced at them, recognizing their tones, something they weren't used to hearing from both Prue and Dean. Sam glanced at his siblings with fear from both the situation and from what he had read in the book.
"God, I told you this would happen. We have to get out of here." Sam voiced his opinion with fear over what might happen to him and his family. Prue glanced at him, putting a comforting hand on top of his shoulder. He glanced to the oldest Halliwell as she tried a reassuring smile towards him, taking charge of the situation.
"No. We stay here and we stay together." Prue spoke to her younger siblings with a confident tone towards them. They nodded their heads, most of them knowing that Prue's confident was fake but her protectiveness was a different thing altogether. Dean rushed to the back door while Phoebe grabbed Sam pulling them both up the stairs as Piper glanced at the oldest Halliwell. Prue nodded and they both set to work.
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Waking up Jeremy looked around with dizziness noticing that Piper was gone. He growled with anger and outrage at the very thought of the young witch that seemed to have outsmarted him and he growled with anger. Shaking his head he got up and climbed out of the lift.
"I'll get you, you bitch!" Jeremy growled out in anger gunning for the bitch that had knocked him out. He couldn't wait to kill her now. Her and her pathetic family that had caused him so much trouble. He was going to enjoy killing those witches and that thought spurred him on further as he ran to his new destination.