Charmed Season 1 episode 2
Chapter 8
The crowds were beginning to grow outside the infamous restaurant Quake as a queue stretching on for miles all laughing and waiting to be allowed in for dinner. A scene that brought a smile to Phoebe's face as she walked through the crowded room, knowing the more customers the better the money for Piper.
"Whoops, oh sorry." Phoebe apologized happily to the couple as she squeezed past them, and made her way through the crowds again. Trying to make her way further into the room, looking around it trying to find the one person that she knew better than anyone.
Across from her, over beside the kitchen doors, Phoebe found the one she was looking for. Across the walk was Piper, dressed in a short sleeveless black dress, her usually straight hair was ruffled from obvious stress, her bangs pulled to the side.
Phoebe smiled brightly as she walked over towards the older brunette, without missing a beat. She knew that with her usual reputation, that she would have Piper smiling in minutes.
"I'm gonna kill him." Piper growled out to the younger brunette with annoyance as she gripped tightly onto the receipts that she held in her hands. Phoebe felt whiplash from the change in Piper's usual passive manner. Piper Halliwell had never been one to be mean.
"Who?" Phoebe asked her sister with hesitant apprehension, having no idea who Piper was talking about and at the same time not sure if she wanted to know. Piper's brown eyes looked incredibly angry at whoever it was.
Inwardly Phoebe was wondering if the "him" that she was talking to was actually Sam or Dean, and in this case there was more of a chance of it being Dean than anyone else.
"Chef Moore!" Piper growled out with even more anger as she hissed out his name. "He of the phony accents hires me and then quits to open his own place thank you very much." Piper continued to tell the younger sister with frustration in her brown eyes. She was more than pissed that she had been left to fend for herself while the man that had hired her, ended up screwing her over.
Phoebe sighed as she waited at the side of the bar while her sister walked around it, into the serving area in order to do the job that she never wanted to do.
"I don't see any customers complaining." Phoebe responded to the older witch with appreciation in her eyes. Although this wasn't the job that Piper wanted to do, she knew that so far the older witch was doing such a fantastic job.
Piper glared at the other girl with annoyance knowing that despite Phoebe's ridiculous form of look on the bright side. She didn't want the bright side when she was forced to do a job that she did not even want. She wanted to be a chef, not everything in between.
"Hello! I am not a restaurateur, I am a chef. I have no idea what I am doing." Piper yelled out to her sister with a stress filled tone. Her chocolate brown eyes showing fear for a job that she didn't understand. She never in her life wanted to fail and when doing a job that she had no clue about, that was bound to happen.
Phoebe rolled her eyes to the older girl both their brown eyes glancing to one another with emotion.
Piper then glanced at her sister seeing the sleeveless dark brown, knee length dress with the small slit with her light brown hair tucked behind her ears. Piper then glared at her sister.
"Are you wearing my dress?" Piper found herself asking her little sister with annoyance in her voice at seeing the dress she had bought for herself on her sister's body.
Phoebe shrugged her shoulders a little, knowing that her big sister may just kill her for wearing her dress, even if it did look ten times prettier on Phoebe than it ever did on her.
None of the two sisters noticed that one of their two brothers had just walked into the restaurant, a cocky smile on the nineteen year old boy's face as he made his way over to the two women but stopped when he noticed an old friend of his sisters, a girl that he had had a crush on until she had gotten married.
Phoebe and Piper went unaware that Dean had walked into Quake, while a blonde haired girl made her way over to the bar. Her curly blonde hair was half up and half down, her red dress revealing yet showing nothing at the same time. Phoebe and Piper both found themselves smiling to the blonde.
"Hey Brittany." Phoebe called out to her blonde headed friend with joyful glee, having not seen Brittany in quite a while. Brittany smiled back to her friend, repeating the hi with just as much enthusiasm.
Piper smiled between the two women as Phoebe noticed the signs of ink on Brittany's hand.
Dean also seemed to have noticed the ink and gave a small smirk; he knew that Brittany had always been quite a religious person, which was surprising for someone that was best friends with Phoebe Halliwell.
"Oh, I love that tattoo." Phoebe gushed out to her friend with enthusiasm in her eyes as she looked down on the tattoo, an angel.
Brittany thanked her friend as she looked down on her tattoo admiringly while pushing it out to let the two sisters see the tattoo. Both of the sisters smiled at their friend while looking down on the tattoo. It was beautiful and showed off Brittany's personality quite well.
"I thought it was illegal to get one on your hands because of the veins." Phoebe found herself asking the blonde as she pointed to her own hand with confusion. She had wanted to get something similar when she was younger, wondering how Brittany herself had gotten it.
Brittany nodded her head while passing her the money for her meal over to Piper while the brown head witch began writing up Brittany's receipt for her while Brittany spoke with her sister.
"In the states yeah, I got it done in Tahiti." Brittany responded to the sisters with a smile on her face as she looked to her new tattoo with glee, loving it. Phoebe smiled back to her while Piper came back with the receipt and change going to give it to Brittany. "Okay, keep the change, Piper. I gotta jam." Brittany told the sisters with happiness in her voice as Phoebe waved her hand to the blonde.
"Okay say hi to Max." Piper responded to Brittany with a smile on her face as Brittany gave both sisters a wave before walking off.
Within a step she was met face to face with Dean, whom she had smiled too. She had once baby sat for him and his brother when they were kids and seeing Dean had always raised a smile in the blonde. She gave him a small wave to the man, looking him up and down.
She noted that Dean was wearing a pair of dress jeans, that made a ton of women look to him with lust filled eyes. He was wearing a black t-shirt, covered by a bright red shirt and on top of that was his age old leather jacket, smelling of whiskey, old spice and smoke.
The teenager looked like an incredibly fit young man with dirty blonde hair short and spiked, his green eyes looking to Brittany with glee.
"See ya later, Britt." Dean spoke to the blonde haired woman with affection as he gave her a small hug before watching her walk away from him.
"Table nine please." Piper called out to the waitress before her as she handed her a receipt for that table. Having raised her brown eyes, she raised them with a confused glance at seeing Dean walking over to them, taking a seat to Phoebe's left a cocky smile on his face.
Phoebe turned back to see her little brother with a small smile on her face as she looked around for Dean's usual shadow, frowning when she didn't see the fifteen year old. Though Phoebe was unsure if Sam could even come to Quake or if it was an all adult place, meaning for those about eighteen.
"Hey, Dean, where's Sammy?" Piper asked the green eyed teen in front of her with concern seeming to have the same idea as Phoebe. Piper then continued to look around for her baby brother, thinking he had just gone to the toilet or something but saw nothing.
Dean glanced between his two sisters, knowing that since becoming witches, everyone had been concerned for the kid, especially since the boy didn't seem to show any sign of having any powers. Something that worried Dean.
"He's at home. Wanted to study his little life away and I wanted to get a drink." Dean responded to his big sister with loving affection in his eyes while putting the money up from for some kind of alcoholic beverage. Piper smiled at him, returning with a cola.
Dean growled at his big sister's view of a joke as Piper went to hand back the rest of Dean's money, when Phoebe intercepted the cash before Dean could take it.
Piper rolled her eyes at her little brother and sister, her brown eyes glancing between the two when she felt a pinch of concern for her baby brother.
"Is it safe to leave Sam alone? What with the no powers thing." Piper asked the other two with concern in her eyes; she knew that Sam had taken classes in order to defend himself, after years of being bullied and also being forced into it by his big brother. Despite all of this, Sam being powerless still scared her.
Then again the boy didn't deserve half of the crap he had been through and at fifteen. Yet the boy was still an innocent. Just like all those women that had been killed.
"He might not have powers but he should still be a witch." Phoebe responded to the two with strength and the belief that even with everything stacked against him, that he could live through anything. It didn't matter if he had powers or not. He was still one of the five charmed ones and he was still a witch.
Not to mention the fact that he was also a Halliwell, and grandson of Penny Halliwell, a woman that often took no prisoners.
Sam may be a kid but he was a charmed Halliwell witch that could survive anything that he wanted to when given the chance.
"That and he's a really smart kid." Dean added to the conversation with loving affection in his young eyes. Though the revelation of this conversation made a shiver of fear run through Dean's entire body. He was doubly concerned with the kid having not thought twice about leaving him.
He couldn't believe that he hadn't thought about the poor kid when he had left. All he had thought about was going out and trying to grab a drink.
"Table seven please." Piper called out to another waitress passing over another receipt with a small smile on her face as she looked back to her brother and sister with apprehension over their revelation on the youngest Halliwell.
Phoebe smiled at her brother and sister before looking to the right of her and finding a smartly dressed blonde haired man giving her the occasional glance with lust filled eyes.
Phoebe then started to feel the familiar pull at the back of her mind.
The blonde haired man was looking at Phoebe before getting up off of his seat he then began walking over to Phoebe a smile on his face, as she herself looked available.
The man then brought Phoebe to his attention as Phoebe looked to him. The two of them began to speak to one another with him giving away a lot of details towards the happy brunette.
Phoebe gasped as the image left her mind leaving her slightly breathless. She looked over to her sister, a suggestive look on her face that caused Dean to frown. He knew that look from anywhere.
"Now back to my dress." Piper began to complain to the younger Halliwell, with an annoyed tone.
"Okay, see that poster boy to your left." Phoebe cut her off, without even thinking about what her sister had just asked her, not feeling that it was worth answering right at the moment. "Just glance don't be obvious." Phoebe growled out to the two when Piper and Dean physically turned to look at the blonde haired man.
Both siblings rolled their eyes at Phoebe's over-reaction to the situation. Then both discretely glanced to the man noting he was blonde and seemed to look well off if they we're to make a guess.
Dean knew exactly what that young man would be to his big sister and didn't really want to be involved in the poor man losing out on something while Piper nodded her head in appreciation.
"I approve. Who is he?" Piper voiced out to her little sister as she took another spare glance to him before looking between her brother and sister. Dean just shrugged his shoulders.
The man, he could tell would only be a feature in their lives for one night, that was a given when Phoebe Halliwell was involved in something. Something that was still clearly still obvious despite the several months apart.
"His name is Alec and he's about to come over and ask if he can buy me a martini." Phoebe nodded her head with happiness at the signals that were being sent her way. She didn't need to have the power of premonition to know that this man was interested, though it did help.
Dean quirked his eyebrows wondering how his sister could possibly know some of those details, their powers not even registering in his brain at the moment. Something that he would kick himself for later.
"How do you know?" Piper asked the youngest sister with a confused look in her eyes while Dean looked just as confused as his sister. He knew that unless she had met the man before then there was no chance that they would have met.
Phoebe looked between the two power freezing siblings with a small smile on her face; as if she knew something that they didn't know.
"Let's just say that I solved the age old problem of who approaches whom first. I had a little premonition." Phoebe whispered to her brother and sister with a suggestively gleeful tone of voice as she thought of the pure benefits of those powers of hers. They were much more beneficial than she originally thought they were.
Dean rolled his eyes with annoyance, knowing premonitions could be a very big benefit when involved in the dating world. Yet he had no premonitions, while Phoebe did. It was so unfair.
"What? Phoebe you're not supposed to use your powers, we agreed." Piper gasped out to her little sister as she looked to her little sister with disbelief that the brown haired witch had used her powers, knowing Prue would kick Phoebe's ass for doing something like that. Then she and Dean would both be in trouble for their involvement in the use of those powers.
This sucked.
Phoebe rolled her eyes at her sister while Dean thought through Piper's words and shook his head, knowing that both Phoebe and he hadn't agreed while Piper was with Prue and Sam had no powers to deny Prue her wishes.
It sucked that Sam had it easy now that it came to Prue while the rest of them had to suffer if they even thought to use their powers.
"No you and Prue agreed, Dean and I obtained. Besides it's not like I can control it, it just popped into my head." Phoebe tried to tell her sister while moving her hands slightly as to emphasis her point, knowing that they couldn't disagree with her.
Dean nodded his head at that, despite the fact that they had come at the right time, he knew that his power usage had been out of his control. Though he decided to keep his opinion to himself at the moment, not having it in him to get between his sisters.
Piper glared at her sister.
"That's the whole point! None of us can control our powers that's what scares me I could just panic and freeze the entire restaurant." Piper spoke out in anger as she moves her hands, but tries to keep her voice low enough, so that the entire restaurant would not know about their powers.
Dean growled at his sister making slight hand gestures, trying to get Piper to be quiet, he didn't want to think of the consequences of Piper using her powers or the word coming out about their witchcraft.
Phoebe on the other hand rolled her eyes, knowing that Piper, as usual, was over-reacting about the whole thing and that Prue wasn't exactly helping to calm their sister.
"Piper, just calm down or you will freeze this entire restaurant." Dean whispered to his sister, with annoyance clear on his face as he tried to get it across to the oldest brunette. He knew that if word got out then all five of them would be locked up in cages.
He knew that a cage would not help him when it came to his love life, and with Phoebe's powers he would need the help.
Phoebe again rolled her eyes at her siblings with equal annoyance in his eyes. She found herself looking away from her brother and sister, catching the blonde man Alec, moving from his chair and making his way towards the three Halliwells.
"Shh, here he comes." Phoebe whispered out to the two of her siblings with slight irritation at the two of them when she was going to have company. Phoebe nudged her brother in the elbow, trying to get him to move so that no one would think that they were dating.
It would be really bad if anyone thought that they were dating.
Dean hit his sister in the arm before reluctantly moving slightly to the side to get away from the abuse his sister looked to be trying to inflict on him.
"Hi." Alec spoke to the youngest female with a sound of longing in his blue eyes. She could tell with absolute certainty that he wanted her.
Dean rolled his eyes again at his sister's new date, glaring at his sister at the same time.
"Oh hello." Phoebe responded with a suggestively longing tone in her voice as she slowly looked the man up and down his body, though trying to be discreet about it.
"I was just eh sitting over there and was just wondering if I could buy you a martini or something." Alec asked the brunette with a lusting tone as he also looked her up and down, feeling as if he was on top of the world with such a beautiful girl taking interest in him.
Phoebe smiled with delight in her eyes at having her premonition coming true. She then looked back to her brother and sister suggestively, having just had her premonition come true.
"A martini? Hm, I would love one. It's Alec right?" Phoebe responded to the man, making her voice loud enough for both Dean and Piper to hear her. She knew the whole thing would piss her brother off and that would be a bonus to tonight's events.
Dean rolled his eyes towards his big sister, hating when Phoebe got her own way. It was then that he realized what Phoebe had said and cringed.
"Yeah, how'd you know my name?" Alec asked the gorgeous brunette before him with confused curiosity, as he inwardly wondered two things; had he been with her before or was she with the man in the leather jacket.
Dean and Piper's eyes both widened at what Alec had said; both not having any idea how to get out of something like that after Phoebe revealing everything prematurely.
Phoebe on the other hand just kept a soft smile on her face, keeping her emotions relaxed and not giving a single thing away as Alec looked to her curious by her words.
"Wild guess. Do you wanna go grab a table?" Phoebe responded with a small shrug of her shoulders as she picked up Dean's money, shaking it at him and stood up.
Dean growled at his big sister, knowing that now she had got the money nice and fair. It was something that they had set up years previous, whoever said a pick-up line that ended with going home with someone else, then the other paid up.
Piper on the other hand was not happy about the events, knowing that their sister would do something that would come and bite them both in the ass.
"Prue is gonna be pissed." Piper hissed out to the youngest sister as she grabbed a hold of Phoebe's arm, trying to stop her from going with the man, knowing nothing good could become of it.
Dean nodded his head in agreement with that idea but at the same time he knew that Phoebe also had a point. It wasn't her fault that she could not control her powers, it was no one's fault and Prue couldn't control her powers either.
He also knew that Prue being pissed was not news, it seemed that since Phoebe had returned, hell even before, that Prue seemed to always be pissed.
"News flash, stop worrying or you'll get wrinkles." Phoebe argued with the older sister with slight annoyance, having known that at heart Piper was always a worrier, something that was unlikely to change when it came to her.
Phoebe and Dean both laughed before Phoebe went off with Alec leaving Piper to glare at Phoebe and Alec while Dean just shook his head with slight annoyance.
"And with that, I'm gonna go home and annoy Sam." Dean responded to his sister with slight irritation towards Phoebe and Alec. He knew that her powers were going to mess with his flow.
Might as well spend his time annoying Sam if he wasn't going to get any tonight, that and the fact that he was starting to get a little worried about the boy. Prue was out on a date, Piper was at work and Phoebe more than likely wouldn't roll in until the morning, leaving Sam all alone.
"Try not to make a mess." Piper warned her little brother with annoyance in her voice knowing that Dean was unlikely to listen to her. The first thing he would do after getting home was to make a mess of the kitchen and then proceed to make even more mess.
Dean glanced back to his sister and smirked, now having a plan to annoy the brunette and Sam at the same time.
Giving his big sister a suggestive smirk, he grabbed his things and walked out of the restaurant with a plan in mind and a big smile on his face.
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Brittany walked with happiness towards her black car, clicking the car open as she walked over to it. She felt a shiver run through her and so began looking around herself. Her once happy mood had turned fearful as she looked around herself.
At seeing nothing Brittany moved back to her car, opening the driver's side door and then slowly slides herself into the car with a sigh of relief.
Closing the car door, she looked into her rear-view mirror, moving it towards herself as she looked to her make-up, wondering if she needed a touch up or not. She then ran a finger over her lips trying to fix her lip stick.
After finishing with her touch-up, Brittany turned the mirror back into place, gasping in fearful shock as someone else appeared in her car mirror. Someone that was sitting in the back of her car.
Quickly turning around, it was revealed to her that her eyes had not deceived her. At seeing the man in front of her, Brittany began to scream with striking fear; the only sound that could be heard from the car was the sounds of Brittany screaming.
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Sam was standing next to his best friend, Kat, with that weird pain again in his head, his sense of sound being cut off by a loud buzzing in his left ear. He shook his head in irritation as the sun beated down on him and the grounds of Hyde high school in San Francisco, California.
The brown haired teenager looked up at Kat; and smiled a little at seeing the black band shirt with the big red letters, titling the band's name, "ACDC". He had gotten her that shirt, thanks to the magical persuasion of Dean Halliwell.
The teen then noticed that she was wearing her mother's earrings, something that she only did when she was going on one of her many dates after school, he smirked again. Looking down at there was the short denim skirt, white tights and black shoes.
Her beautiful golden blonde hair lay against her shoulders in soft curly strands, another thing that she did whenever she had a date. As well as the soft touch of make-up that always made her stand out from her usually pale complexion.
Sam's smirk brightened even further as he looked to the blonde with quirked eyebrows.
Although his smirk soon turned into a grimace, as he began to grit his teeth at the intense pain that was filling his head. He groaned.
Kat kept on talking away, unaware of her friend's misery and pain, as Sam continued to wince over the weird pain that surrounded his head. She then screeched when one of Sam's least favored class mates bumped into her, making her fall into him as the two teens fell to the ground.
Kat on top of Sam, his bag still hanging on his shoulder, while the blonde's things flew all over the black paved ground.
Kat yelled something out in angered hatred towards the boy as Sam groaned at the blonde's weight, despite being skinny; Kat was a lot taller than him, something that he envied while she rejoiced. The headache that he was currently trying to breathe through didn't make anything any better.
After getting that out of her system, Kat got up off of Sam and the ground, helping the shorter fifteen year old get back on his feet. He thanked her, as she blew him off. She was more than used to helping the smaller boy get back to his feet when those jerks were around.
Sam watched as Kat began picking up her things, unknowingly she was standing in the middle of the road, a red Cadillac making its way towards her.
The pain inside, Sam's head got increasingly worse as he felt like screaming in agony, it was then that he looked up to see the red Cadillac coming towards Kat, the blonde still unaware.
Panic seized the brunette's body as he began running without thinking, but he was too late.
The car rushed through Kat throwing the blonde over its bumper, before making Kat crash back to the ground. Sam screamed, tears running down his eyes as dead blue eyes stared back at him.
He could breathe or think of anything but Kat's red blood moving out of her body, a crowd beginning to circle the area with everyone else in shock.
Sam continued to scream and yell, trying to get to Kat when he felt a sudden pull. He felt that he was being pulled away from Kat as he tried to move towards her with desperation.
His body seized as he flew up into the air.
Sweat drenched his body, as he looked around himself finding the childishly young blue wall paper scraped over the walls alongside posters. The other bed at the side of the room, as well as the millions of clothes that cluttered the side of the room. He breathes a sigh of relief. It was his bedroom.
He sighed again, and then he felt something grab him. He screamed again.
"Sammy, calm down, it's me." A voice tried to sooth his panicked mind. But Sam's couldn't hear the voice as his panic froze his mind. "It's Dean, tiger." The man spoke again as he ran a hand began to rub his back in circular motions.
Dean was looking to his baby brother with fear having never seen the kid act this way since they were both kids. He also didn't really know how to handle the situation since his grams always seemed able to calm the hazel eyes boy in ways none of the Halliwell siblings could understand.
Though somehow despite the calm, the kid always ended up right beside him on his bed, so Dean felt more confident in his ability to comfort the teen. Taking a deep breath, Dean began to hum "Hey Jude" to the boy, something their mother had always done when they were upset before she had died. Something that Prue tried her hardest to imitate.
Sam seemed to stagger from the nightmare induced panic that was filling his body and then began to relax against his brother.
He clutched onto his older brother as his mind kept running over the nightmare. It had felt all too real and he could still hear the ringing in his ear. Still hear the sounds of Kat's body hitting against the car. Although he did suffer from nightmares, had all his life, but they had never been this bad before or at least he didn't think they had.
But something told the brown haired teenager that there was more to this night terror than met the eye. He just hoped that what he saw would not become a reality. If so, then he was going to have to watch his best friend die.
Dean spent the next half hour trying to calm his little brother, worry running through him as well as thankfulness of having left Quake. The very thought of Sam having woken up without anyone here to comfort him scared him. The kid was only fifteen and had been through a hell of a life.
"Hey, what was that about, Tiger?" Dean found himself asking his baby brother as soon as the kid had calmed down enough to be able to talk. Though he continued to run his fingers over Sammy's back through the sleep shirt he was wearing, it was a jade green band shirt that had once belonged to Dean.
Sam relaxed further into his big brother, believing that Dean could even protect him from his worst nightmares when given the chance.
Dean always did have that unique power.
"Nothing, just a bad dream, thanks Dean." Sam responded to the older teen, not really wanting to dread it all back up again. He didn't even want to think about his nightmare after what he had seen in his dream.
It was the worst nightmare that he ever remembered having.
Dean nodded his head and then smirked at the thanks he had received. He didn't understand why Sam always felt the need to thank him and the girls for things like this when they were only too happy to do these things. Sam was the baby of the family; they would always treat him in such a way.
Shaking his head of all of this, Dean decided to do something that would get both of their minds off of Sam's nightmare, and maybe help the kid to sleep later on tonight.
"Don't need to thank me, kiddo. Come on; let's go get you some hot chocolate." Dean asked the kid, knowing it was one of the many things that his Grams had done after one of Sam's many nightmares. Now that his Grams had died and Prue nowhere in sight, he knew that he would have to learn how to deal with a terrified Sammy.
From what he could remember from how people dealt with Sam and his constant nightmares was that his Grams would hug Sam, singing some type of lullaby to him. After that she would say or do something to make him smile and then make him a hot chocolate and let him help her make his favorite chocolate cake.
Problem here was that Dean couldn't cook and he never did know the kinds of things that his Grams said to Sam when he was upset or scared.
Sam looked to his big brother with tearful blue green eyes, and felt incredibly thankful towards his brother for everything, knowing that Dean hated chick-click moments.
"Piper will kill us if we make a mess of the kitchen." Sam joked to his brother; he knew that Dean would not appreciate him thanking him again and again. That would only make Dean close in on himself.
Standing up with a look of thankfulness, Dean smiled as he held a hand out to his little brother, trying to bring as much comfort to the fifteen year old as possible. It would be ten times worse if Dean made a mistake and unsettled Sam even more than he already was.
"Piper's not here and I think you need a pick me up. No chick flicks, just you, me and some hot chocolate." Dean spoke to the kid with a relaxed tone of voice, his whole body relaxed with humor as he looked Sam in the eyes. A humor filled moment would make all the ill-feeling Sam forgotten.
Sam nodded his head with a huge smile on his face, nothing but joy in his eyes, knowing that whatever his brother had done had made himself completely forget his nightmare.
Dean pushed his little brother out of the room, trying his hardest to keep the relaxed smile on the teen's face as he pushed him towards the stairs.
"Okay but if Piper kills us then I am gonna come back and haunt you're ass." Sam warned the green eyed teen with mock annoyance in his eyes that were clouded with humor and affection. Loving that he could feel so relaxed at the moment, after such an ordeal.
Dean rolled his jade green eyes at his little brother as they both moved down the stairs with a big smile on his face. Both coming face to face with Piper when they finally got down the stairs, Piper smiled at the two teens before her.
Piper walked into the manor to find both her little brothers coming down the stairs and smiled towards them. She could see that Dean was still wearing the same clothes he was wearing to Quake minus his leather jacket, boots and red t-shirt.
She then noticed that her baby brother was dressed in Dean's old jade green band t-shirt that Sam had stolen more than five years ago. She smiled to the teenaged boy, having also noticed that the kid was also wearing a pair of plaid sleeping pants.
"Hey, shouldn't you be in bed by now. You have school in the morning." Piper told her baby brother with a concerned tone of voice as she walked over to the two boys and began to run a hand through Sam's chestnut brown hair.
It was sometimes laughable that Sam could be so small compared to the rest of the family, even at fifteen. Hell, Dean had been nearing five feet ten tall when he was Sam's age and Sam was barely five foot at the moment.
"Yeah, I had a nightmare, but I'm fine now." Sam responded to his big sister with a light smile on his face as he looked to her, noting the short black dress that she had worn for work. He moved away from his brother a little, trying to look more relaxed.
Piper looked to the teenager with empathy in her beautiful dark brown eyes, as she put her black purse on the table and then walked over to the youngest Halliwell, affection in her eyes.
Sam's nightmares had always concerned the whole family and they almost always seemed to be so realistic for the teenager.
Reaching Sam, Piper pulled the fifteen year old into a hug, rubbing his back, knowing how much those nightmares affected him and wishing that she could have stopped them from having such an effect on his life. Sam relaxed into his big sister's body, feeling Piper's usual comforting nature settle him.
"Yeah, I'm treating the kid to a hot chocolate, though you make the best ones." Dean responded to his big sister, with a joking like manner, his whole body wired for anything to happen.
The two siblings looked to their brother, knowing what was truly going through his young mind.
It was a known fact that Dean Halliwell never did emotions well. He hated people thinking that he was weak and to him, emotions were more than just week. They were a death warrant that he never wanted to ever suffer through.
It was like Sam's nightmares or Prue's over-protectiveness, Phoebe's flighty response or her own passive nature. It was a fact of their personalities.
Piper nodded her head trying to forget what she had been thinking, she didn't want to open that can of worms. Not tonight when it was already late.
"Hot chocolate and then its bed time for you, Sam." Piper told the fifteen year old with a warning tone of voice that could hardly even be considered as a warning when it came from Piper Halliwell.
Dean shrugged his shoulders as he made his way to the kitchen while Piper pulled Sam's head closer to herself and the both followed the middle sibling to the kitchen.
All the while Sam was thinking about his dream, a look of pure fear running in his blue green eyes as he thought about the whole ordeal. Although annoyed that he didn't have any powers, he was also happy about that fact at the same time.
These powers that his brother and sisters seemed to have inherited, could potentially bring a lot of trouble towards the Halliwell family, and he just hoped more than anything that the powers didn't take their friends with them.
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Prue woke up with a small sigh as she turned around and gasped silently when she came face to face with her high school sweetheart; Andy. She didn't know how had happened; one minute they were on a date and the next thing she knew she was in bed with him.
Sparing a second glance to Andy, Prue turned around trying to see if she could find any of her closes, right next to her was her white long-sleeved woolen jumper, reaching over she grabbed it. Putting the jumper on, as she kept her body hidden by the white sheets.
Now that she had her jumper on she stepped out of the door and brushed it down with a silent sigh. Looking back she saw Andy and bit her lip, while pulling her sleeves up, wondering how this could have happened. Andy then moved onto his back his arm was she had slept.
Prue bit harder on her lip as she tiptoed back towards his dresser, grabbing a hold of her black trousers and black boots before moving towards the door as quietly as she could.
She froze after hearing Andy sigh with apprehension, fearful that he may wake-up and want to talk. She wasn't ready to talk. No way in hell was she ready for that. She needed to get home.
She knew that Dean and Phoebe had more than likely went out last night, and more than likely left Sam in on his own and she would need to see if he was alright and get him to school.
Prue knew it was an excuse. She knew that she just didn't want to have to confront Andy and then have to confront her siblings and her behavior. She needed to think.
She let go of a sigh of relief when Andy relaxed himself and slept on unaware of what his bed partner for the night was up too.
Turning back towards the door, she nearly screamed when all of a sudden Andy's white alarm clock started going off; signaling that it was 5:45 and time for Andy to get up for work. After hearing Andy groan, Prue used her powers of telekinesis to throw the noisy alarm clock out of the open window.
At seeing Andy going to move, Prue rushed out of the bedroom hoping beyond hope that she could leave before Andy could catch her.
Andy woke with annoyance in his dark brown eyes, irritation running through him as he moved to turn off the alarm clock, his thought process not realizing that the annoying sounds were gone. His hand moved over the table with annoyance and didn't feel anything.
He groaned when he realized nothing was there and moved up to find his alarm clock but when he looked he found nothing. It was then that it registered in his mind that Prue had been staying over.
"Prue!" Andy yelled out when he heard the sounds of a door closing and jumped up from his waking slumber. He moved around realizing that Prue was gone with annoyance circling in his brown eyes. He had thought that Prue would have stayed. Not left as soon as he had woken up.
At hearing the sounds of a car, Andy groaned, grabbing his pillow by the corner and flipping it behind him. Andy relaxed himself against the pillow, wondering what he had done and what last night could mean for both Prue and him.