Chapter 9
Piper found herself in the Manor's massive kitchen, cooking up a storm for breakfast, having always believed that breakfast was the most important meal of the day. Though her thoughts were more involved with this latest development into her life; being a witch.
The new cat in the family, Kit, jumped up onto the kitchen counter meowing as she moved swiftly to the other side of the kitchen while Piper picked up a bowel of pancake batter and began stirring the bowl. Whisking away as she found herself in a trance by the voice on the TV.
"Proving that they were the devils disciples was no easy task for the court of the Salem witch trials. But a remarkable event occurred. One of the accused; Mary Este, ran for the church to profess her innocence." The TV presenter spoke through the whitened pictured screen to its audience, picturing a woman from around the 1600s being accused of witchcraft.
Piper watched on with a sinking feeling in her gut as she watched on, the kind of things that went on back in the 1600s terrified her slightly; she didn't think anything of it until becoming a witch herself.
History had never been one of her favorite classes in high school that was more Sam's forte.
"Suddenly there was a cloud of thunder and she was struck by a bolt of lightning. In the court's mind, God himself had spoken forbidding the evil witch from even entering his house." The TV presenter continued showing the woman being hit by lightning upon touching the church doors, a scream being heard on the channel trying to emphasis what had taken place so many centuries ago.
Piper looked down from the TV being more than unable to look up at it with everything that it was revealing to her mind.
Fear found itself riveting through the brunette's mind as she looked to the television before her feeling pure apprehension. Just the very thoughts of those kind of things happening to people just like her and put to death for being seen as evil.
It made her wonder if witchcraft was a good thing or if it was bad.
Piper was so rooted towards the TV show that she was watching that she never even heard the sounds of Prue Halliwell's designer shoes, the woman walking in with her freshly done hair, black sleeveless top and a pair of her favorite short grey skirt.
"The witches were subsequently convicted of heresy…" The TV presenter continued to speak as Prue stepped further into the kitchen that she rarely frequented unless the need for coffee or Piper's cooking.
At hearing some of the wording of the obvious documentary, that she had seen enough of from both her work and from Sam, she frowned. It was about witches in what she could only assume was the 1600s, from what she remembered of Sam's school project from last year.
"Morning." Prue called out to her little sister in distraction as she inwardly tried to read her sister's behavior, and if it revealed the reason to why the twenty-five year old was currently into documentaries of witchcraft in the 1600s.
At hearing her big sister calling out to her, Piper turned around to look at the oldest witch with a small smile, her brain not having registered what she was watching and what she didn't want her brothers and sisters to know about.
Giving out a quick morning she put the bowl down while Prue made her way straight towards the fridge in search of some orange juice, feeling the need to be refreshed rather than caffeinated as usual.
"What are you watching?" Prue quickly asked the younger witch with a curious and yet concerned tone, knowing that out of the family it was Piper and Sam that she should be most worried about.
Piper froze at hearing her big sister ask that question before she quickly put the bowl down onto the island and then rushed to the remote control to turn off the television show as not to arouse suspicious for the oldest witch. Prue had always been the most protective of the five, with Dean coming in as a close second.
"Nothing, just a show." Piper called out as fast as she could hoping beyond hope that she hadn't done or said something to alert her sister into thinking something was wrong with her. She needed time to work this out on her own before going to the others with her problems, especially when they all had problems of their own to worry about.
Prue looked back to her sister after picking up the greenish glass jug that held the fresh orange juice with a frown on her face. The quick to speak thing was not something that Piper was normally known for that was more of a Dean and Phoebe thing.
It was then that Sam decided to come into the kitchen wearing a light blue t-shirt covered by a white and blue plaid shirt, put together by one of his only pair of jeans that didn't have a hole in them, reminding Prue that she would need to go shopping for some knew jeans for the kid.
Sam walked over to his sisters and quickly noticed some awkwardness from Piper and curiosity from Prue and wished he hadn't walked in. It was never a good thing to get in between Prue and whatever knowledge she could worm out of her siblings.
"Hey Sam." Piper called out, glad for the distraction that her kid brother had caused and hoped that it would stop the obvious questions that Prue was bound to ask as she reached over to fix some of Sam's messy brown locks that always seemed to get into his eyes.
Sam shook his sister off with annoyance as Prue looked between the two with a roll of her eyes. Piper had always been the maternal type and Sam ever the kid, hated to have his hair messed with in any way. The reason why the incident with the Nair shampoo had caused such a problem when they were kids.
"About witches? Are you worried that we're about to be burned at the stake?" Prue asked her little sister with a joking like manor as she walked over to the island to pour both Sam and herself a glass of the orange juice. Although she had used a joking manor, she also wanted to know if her words would help her learn something from her siblings.
Sam accepted the juice and was about to drink from it when he had heard the last sentence of Prue's words. Freezing in place he looked up with wide open eyes as Piper let go of a nervous giggle.
"Yeah right." Piper laughed out to the oldest Halliwell nervously, her very tone setting off a vibe of fear of what may become of her and her family if ever they were revealed as witches.
"We couldn't be burned at the stake could we? I mean does that even still happen." Sam asked with apprehension running through his very young mind, wondering what even happened to witches in the twentieth century. He still didn't know how he felt about witchcraft but if that was what it was like then count him out.
Prue glanced to the youngest Halliwell with a frown on her features, thinking over what her brother had just complained about. She shook herself of this and looked towards Piper.
"No, or at least I don't think so." Piper put in, only half sure that what she was saying was in fact truth. She hoped that burning at the stake was not something of today, as well as the other tortures for witches but she was also scared that they may be.
Sam's blue green puppy dog eyes seemed to get bigger as fear ran through them causing Piper the need to find something to change the subject with. It would do no good for the youngest Halliwell to get scared, if they needed him for the next spell.
"By the way, Andy called." Piper told her sister, as way of changing the subject, not wanting to scare either Sam or herself. She had done enough of that recently and wasn't interested in continuing with the scare that she already found herself in.
At hearing that small piece of information both Sam and Prue looked up at the middle sister, Sam with curiosity and Prue with what looked like horror.
"When?" Prue asked her little sister with horror over her face, as she thought of everything that her sister could have said to the man. She didn't know what to think about the situation just asking out instead of thinking through her words.
Sam looked up at that with a small smile on his very young face, his blue green eyes sparkling. Having lived in a house with three women his entire life, as well as his brother had led him to be able to tell looks from looks and he could tell that the look Prue was suddenly giving was one of lust.
Piper also looked at the reaction Prue was giving with a small inward smile as she tried to keep her expression neutral which was more than Sam was doing.
"While you were in the shower." Piper answered her sister with a small smile lightening her face, not having the strength to keep her face neutral. She had always been bad at this kind of thing and was too used to showing her emotions.
Sam's smile grew as he looked to his sister, waiting for Prue's answer. Although he had only been five when Prue and Andy had split up, he had managed with Phoebe's help to give Andy information after their Grams had been diagnosed and Andy had contacted to see if he could help.
From the times that he had managed to talk to Andy, he knew that the man was a good man that to him, obviously loved his big sister, something that Prue needed in her life.
Prue just glared at the smirk her two siblings had been giving her, not wanting to know what their little minds were thinking at the moment.
"What did you tell him?" Prue asked her younger sister in a stand of-ish tone as she put everything down to glare at the younger witches, knowing that with her siblings, they could have told Andy anything.
Sam and Piper glanced to each other with familiar smirks, letting anyone that didn't know them, know that they were brother and sister.
Prue's glared darkened at the smile the two were given each other, as Piper tried to get control of herself knowing that she didn't need another reason for their oldest sister to kill both Sam and her.
"That you were in the shower." Piper responded to the oldest witch, trying to keep her smile from coming back out as she looked to Sam who was chewing on his lip as not to laugh out loud. Neither witch wanting to be killed by their sister.
Sam kept chewing on his lip as he went around the island to grab a bowl for his breakfast, knowing that his siblings would kill him if he didn't have his breakfast before leaving for school.
Prue looked away and down from her sister with embarrassment for having reacted in to her siblings in that manner. She knew that both of them would be watching her like a hawk, trying to divulge her reaction to this newest development.
"Wasn't that obvious? I mean you don't make a lie for something that's true." Sam responded with a gleeful tone of voice, being unable to stop himself from having the witty remark. He always did seem to bring out his inner Dean when he was trying not to get into trouble.
When Sam came back around the island to fill his bowl, Prue gave him a small hit to the head that he glared at his big sister for knowing that she only did that because she knew that he was right.
Prue Halliwell was in love with Andy Trudeau.
Piper smiled at the two while Sam began to rub the back of his head, a small smile still on his face as she looked back to her brother and sister.
"Bad date?" Piper asked the oldest sister with a suggestive wink of her eyes that seemed so unlike the middle Halliwell. The smirk got bigger as she noticed the oldest sister, gulping.
Sam looked to Piper and his smile brightened further with this newest development, knowing for a fact that their sister did have feelings for the man they were discussing, even if Prue did deny that to be true.
Piper spared a glance to her baby brother and saw him filling his bowl with the box of lucky charms, a cereal that he had been addicted to since childhood. Piper could remember one day when Grams had to send Prue out in order to get the cereal as Sam refused to eat anything else.
Prue had ended up nearly killing the screaming four year old, and ever since then the family had promised to always have at least a couple of cereals at hand for safety.
Prue looked between her brother and sister, trying to hide a big smirk that was on her face, she couldn't exactly deny her feelings for the police officer.
"No, no, no, not at all it was great. You know, dinner, movie, sex." Prue said while shaking her head, a stupid little grin on her face as she thought about last night's events, not even realizing that she was scaring her brother for life.
Sam looked to his big sister gaspingly while the middle witch just smiled, happy that her sister had met someone she could spend the rest of her life with; at least she hoped that was true. Prue needed someone in her life that would love her unconditionally.
Sam just growled towards his sisters with annoyance, the last thing he wanted to know was of his sister's sex life that was just too cruel for words to him.
"I'm out of here." Sam complained towards his siblings with annoyance in his blue green eyes, he knew that his brother and sisters could potentially be the death of him. With this talk about their sex lives he would most definitely need counselling.
Sam then grabbed his orange juice, and bowl as he left the kitchen not wanting to hear them have this type of conversation. It wasn't good for his sanity.
Prue rolled her eyes towards her baby brother while Piper just smirked at his childishness. At least that thing hadn't changed. Though right this moment, Piper had other fish to fry.
"Excuse me, on your first date? You sleaze." Piper put out quick to make judgments towards her sister as she glared happily at the brown haired witch before her.
She never expected that of her big sister, Prue was never the type to sleep with someone on a first date. That was more of a thing that Dean did, and maybe Phoebe but never Prue or Sam.
Prue glared at her little sister, feeling slightly shameless for having actually slept with Andy last night even though it wasn't exactly the first time that she had slept with the man.
She also knew that Piper would blow this out of proportion; it was something that the middle witch was annoyingly good at.
"It wasn't exactly our first date, Piper." Prue complained to the middle sister, hoping that would at least make the whole scene a hell of a lot better than what it would be. The whole thing she knew would cause some type of gossip in this house.
Piper glanced to her sister with a sort of gleeful look in her eyes, although slightly disappointed that the oldest Halliwell had done something like that, but at the same time happy that she had gotten involved with Andy again after so long.
Those two had always been so incredibly in love in her opinion.
"High school doesn't count that was last decade. Spill it." Piper pointed out with a brightening smile at the news that Prue and Andy could be getting back together. It was something that she always wanted to happen for the woman.
Prue glared at her sister, grabbing her glass and then leaving the room not wanting to have this kind of discussion with her sister, she knew Piper would make a bigger deal out of the situation than was actually necessary. It was the thing Piper was most good at doing.
"Ooh, that bad, ey." Piper called out to her big sister, as she found herself following the other witch out of the kitchen and both made their ways towards the dining areas of the house.
Piper couldn't help herself from smiling as she ran to catch up with the older witch, both walking into the dining room where the youngest Halliwell was currently sitting at with his drink and bowl.
At seeing his big sisters again Sam groaned, knowing that they were still going on about Prue's sex life much to his distaste. Although he wanted his sister to be with Andy, he did not want to hear about it.
"Oh, come on, I am so gonna need therapy, and you guys are paying for it." Sam growled out to his sisters with annoyance as he again grabbed his bowl and glass and moved away from the women and their discussion and made his way towards the conservatory. Hopefully there he would get some piece.
Prue and Piper just ignored the youngest Halliwell, as Prue noticed the paper sitting close to where Sam had been sitting and picked it up as the sisters continued to walk.
"No, actually that good. It was…well, we we're amazing but that's not the point. I told myself that things would be different. That we would take it slow, it shouldn't have happened that's all." Prue explained to her little sister as she made her way through the dining room, not completely sure how to actually explain what had happened last night.
It was hard to describe what had happened, first they were having dinner, then was the movie that they were watching and then finally they just ended up at his having sex. It wasn't something that she had expected to happen and yet it had.
It was then that Phoebe came barreling down the stairs wearing her black top and trousers as well as her blue sweater. At the same time Dean was walking in through the door, wearing practically the same clothes as he was last night as the sisters glanced to him.
"What shouldn't have happened?" Phoebe asked while walking up towards her sisters having ignored her brother's entrance, confusion written on her face. With her siblings, especially her sisters, she was always curios of what they may be talking about.
Dean came from the entrance of the Manor with a small smile on his face, knowing that whatever information his sisters could be discussing would be good. His sister always did have the most interesting things to say in his opinion.
Piper glanced between the two siblings, wondering were Dean had just came from knowing that he didn't work for another hour. Though her thoughts went back to what her sister had just asked as she turned to look to Phoebe with a smile.
"Prue slept with Andy." Piper yelled out to the rest of the family with a more than gleeful tone at this recent development in her sister's love life. She knew that this was going to change Prue forever.
Phoebe and Dean stepped closer to the older two sisters with smirks coming up onto their faces, while in the other room Sam felt like banging his head against the table.
He didn't want nor did he need to hear about his brother and sisters' love lives, not when he could be concentrating on something much more important like school or even their craft. If he had any type of craft, though he didn't think that he did have any magic.
"Hello!" Phoebe called out with fascination in her eyes at this latest revelation in her big sister's love life. She was more than happy to discover that her sister had gotten over Roger and was now thinking of seeing Andy. She always had loved Andy.
Prue rolled her eyes at her sister's reaction knowing that Phoebe always overreacted when it came to discussing people's love lives.
Piper just smiled at her sister while Dean turned to look at the oldest Halliwell a smile seeming to multiply on his face. This was so unlike his big brother and he needed to express that in some manner.
"Sleaze much?" Dean called out with a laughter filled tone towards his sisters as he thought of what Prue had done last night. It wasn't something that he would have thought his sister could have done and yet she had and then some.
Dean continued to smirk at his sister while Piper looked to him with a smile having said the exact same thing just a few minutes ago. Prue glared at the two of them as she hit Dean on the back of the head with annoyance in her face.
Dean glared at his big sister with annoyance in his jade green eyes, as he rubbed his head, though he knew that he more than likely deserved that kind of reaction.
Prue turned back from Dean and around to glare at the middle witch, she knew that if Piper had kept her mouth shut then she could have kept Dean and Phoebe from finding anything out. Yet now everyone was going to know that she had slept with Andy.
"Oh, thanks a lot mouth." Prue yelled out to her sister with annoyance in her face as she glared to the younger witch with annoyed anger. She couldn't believe that her sister had just dropped her right in it with the two biggest mouths in the Halliwell household.
Piper shrugged her shoulders at her sister's annoyance having already been used to that kind of thing when it came to Prue. That woman basically had two emotions; pissed and annoyed.
Sam peeked his head up at that from the other room hoping beyond hope that that meant that Prue was going to stop talking about his love life.
Phoebe turned to glare at her sister with annoyance at not having been included into this conversation while Dean raised a slight eyebrow of irritation. Finding out this stuff was always true gold, especially when it involved Prue's love life.
"Wait you were gonna tell her and not me. Family meeting." Phoebe called out to the oldest Halliwell with annoyance in her dark brown eyes, having not been included in this conversation, which so did not seem very fare to her.
Dean seconded that one, his jade green eyes glaring towards the eldest Halliwell, he knew that she wanted to drop it, but it was literally gold. No way in hell did he want this thing to be dropped?
Piper just smiled at her brother and sisters knowing that what Phoebe and Dean wanted to know would be revealed no matter what Prue or Sam did or said. Prue on the other hand rolled her eyes and her brother and sister, though she knew this would forever be detrimental to everyone involved.
In the conservatory, Sam's eyes went wide open at what his sister had just said and he became scared. No way did he ever want to talk about those love lives, least of all as a family meeting choice.
"I'd rather go to school." Sam yelled out with annoyance in his moss green eyes, he really, really did not want to talk about his sisters, brother and sex in the same bout of sentences. Not now and not ever. Though he knew that that would not be the case in this situation.
Piper found herself smirking at what her little brother had yelled out knowing that he hated this kind of conversation while Prue wanted to completely agree with what her brother had yelled out. She wished she had a job to get too or at least had to take Sam to school. Anything so that she wouldn't need to deal with her Phoebe and Dean and their comments.
Phoebe rolled her eyes at her brother's comments knowing that he wasn't one for hearing about this kind of thing. It tended to scare the youngest Halliwell to talk about their sex lives.
Dean looked around himself wondering where his brother's voice had come from and inwardly glared at him. Sam may not have liked to talk about these types of situations but Dean sure did and he knew Phoebe did too. Something that the two siblings both shared.
"Whatever geek, I don't mind details." Dean pointed out with a suggestive tone of voice as he made his way towards the conservatory, guessing that that was where his brother had been hiding and found it to be true when he found the kid eating a bowl of cereal.
Phoebe smirked at her brother's words and nodded her head at everything he was saying, wanting to know all of the details and not minding a bit if her brother didn't like that.
Sam growled at his big brother, the man knew that he didn't want to know about this stuff and yet he continued to try and get Prue to divulge this information. It more than sucked to have a brother that lived to annoy the living hell out of you.
Prue rolled her eyes at her brother's antics while turning to walk in the direction that he had just took, with her siblings following her.
"Speaking of last night what time did you end up rolling in." Prue spoke with irritation towards Phoebe as she decided to fight fire with fire, and in Phoebe's case sex with more sex. She knew that if anything could change a subject more, then it would be Phoebe's love life.
Dean, knowing that what Prue had done was a ploy blinked with appreciation for the nice deflect his big sister had just preformed. He had never realized that his sister could use them so effectively to shut her siblings up in regards to herself.
Piper glanced to Phoebe while Phoebe seemed to also realize what Prue was up too, and although it was a good one, Phoebe was nothing but persistent.
"No, no, no, do not change the subject." Phoebe called out to her big sister as she followed her into the conservatory, not even realizing that she was headed that way until she had stepped into the room.
Sam gave a pitiful moan at hearing that the change of subject went from Prue's love life to Phoebe's love life, Phoebe's was even worse than Prue's love life.
Dean smirked as he looked between the two Halliwells while Piper stood next to Phoebe waiting for whatever would happen next with a gentle smile that seemed so much like the second charmed one.
Prue smirked inwardly noticing that both of them were now using deflective techniques in order to get the other to crack under the pressure that the knowledge would bring.
"Don't dodge the question." Prue told the brunette with an inward smirk knowing that she would never be able to get out of this type of thing, not even if her life depended on it as she went over and sat across from her little brother who groaned.
Phoebe glared at her sister with annoyance, knowing that her love life had only been brought up to distract from the real point; that being that Andy and Prue slept together last night.
Dean's smirk seemed to get steadily bigger with the passing words knowing that this would cause a ripple effect and all he would need to do was sit down and watch the chaos. Something that he often enjoyed doing actually.
Sam gave a more pitiful sound hoping that Phoebe would dodge the question and that Prue would ignore it. Was it too much to ask for a free and happy lifestyle, that was therapy free.
"Don't bring it up." Sam yelled out with annoyance towards his sisters, not wanting to know all the gory details of last night. He had come into the conservatory to get away from the things his sisters were talking about, not go to a better place for them to talk.
Sam began banging his head against the black garden table with annoyance, trying to knock himself out so he wouldn't need to hear what was being said.
Prue spared a glance to her little brother and put the newspaper she had brought with her under his head so that he wouldn't cause any damage to his head while Sam groaned.
"It must have been at least after three." Piper pointed out with a small smile on her face, she had been up at the time that Phoebe had come in, since she had been cleaning up after talking to the boys about Sam's nightmares. Her smile brightened as her sister glared at her.
Prue smiled at this latest development, hoping this would distract from Andy and her sleeping together, and by the look of Sam raising his head from the newspaper it obviously did help her.
Sam looked to Dean and Dean to Sam with a smirk on his light features knowing that he had caught the twenty-three year old witch out.
"Definitely way after three from what I remember." Dean pointed out to his siblings with a small smirk on his face having been up all night, worried about Sam. He remembered Phoebe coming in as well as when Prue had come in, and having lived with these women his whole life he had managed to guess each of their foot patterns easily.
Sam nodded his head on what his brother was saying; knowing that what his brother was saying was true. He had been up at three with his big brother trying to comfort him from that horrible nightmare. He noticed Phoebe glaring at him and hid a smile.
Phoebe glared to the two teenagers knowing that they had both dropped her right in it when it came to this discussion and that she would more than likely need to fight her way out of it in order to not be killed or antagonized by her sisters.
"I must still be in new York time." Phoebe complained to her siblings with annoyance, trying to get out of this obvious problem that she now found her in. She wanted to at least act like she hadn't been stopping out even if it was obvious to anyone with a brain.
Sam creased his forehead with confusion as he quirked his eyebrow trying to inwardly work out the time differences between the different states. He was sure that it would be later in New York.
Dean and Piper just looked to their sister with a slight smirk on each other's faces, both knowing Phoebe was trying to find some way to meagre out of this.
Prue smirked to her little sister, knowing the games that Phoebe was trying to play, having watched her brothers do the exact same thing when they were kids, after having been on a trip with their dad. It was funny that she had a similar idea as a seven and eleven year old.
"Actually that would make it later." Prue told the youngest woman with a smirk dancing on her tan features as she took the newspaper back from under Sam's head. The smirk still clearly on her face as she took a sip from her glass of orange juice.
Phoebe glared to the oldest sister with a glare covering her young features as she rolled her eyes at the woman. Prue always did want to make her look bad in front of the others, something Phoebe assumed she got some strange pleasure from.
Dean smirked to Phoebe knowing that she had been caught out in this one, and thinking that maybe losing that money hadn't been so bad anyway, especially if it meant she got Prue attacked.
Piper also smiled at this latest development knowing that Phoebe had been caught out whether she wanted to be or not.
"Or maybe you and Alec…" Piper pointed out to the rest of the group with an innocent tone of voice towards her siblings only to be cut off by her big sister Prue.
At hearing about this latest development Prue looked straight to her youngest sister with a look of annoyance in her eyes at just finding out about her sister and some guy that she had spent the night with last night, wondering what would happen if something happened to Phoebe
"Who's Alec?" Prue butted in on the talk with curiosity and concern written on her face, wondering what her siblings were getting themselves in for, especially when Piper's boyfriend had been out to kill them all. This was something they needed to think about.
Sam glanced to his big sister with confused curiosity, not knowing that his big sister not knowing that she had been looking to dating at the moment after having just gotten back and yet it was something completely like his big sister.
Dean looked to her as well thinking about who his sister could be talking about although he did have an idea, though he didn't really like the idea that he was having. That meant that he couldn't actually win his money back at the end of this.
Piper smiled at her sister and brothers having a very big idea that that was the guy that her sister had went home with the night before.
"Some hottie she hit on at the restaurant." Piper called out to the other members of the family with a big smile on her face as she thought about the guy that Phoebe had went home with last night, he was a cutie and no one could deny that about the man.
Prue nodded her head at this information while she turned to look at her sister, not sure what to really make of this newest batch of knowledge.
Sam looked to his big sister with curiosity in his eyes, not knowing what to think about his sister being back about a week and was already out looking for a date or at least he hoped his sister was looking for a date and not just another series of one night stand like Dean.
"Wait not that blonde?" Dean asked his big sister with annoyance, having hoped that he could have wormed his money back from his sister, and now that she had obviously slept with him he could not. It sucked.
Dean glared at his big sister while Piper smiled at her siblings knowing that the two had a small bet that they had set up since Dean was fifteen. That being if one of them went home with someone then they got ten bucks from the other. It was disgusting to her, but funny when you saw the reactions.
Phoebe gave the nineteen year old a smirk knowing that she had rightfully earned the money that he had passed her way. Phoebe knew that Dean hated losing those kinds of bets that they had set up and having done it after so long was such a good thing.
Though right now, she should get back to having been offended in her opinion by Piper.
"Excuse me, revisionist history he hit on me remember the whole vision thing." Phoebe pointed out to Piper and Dean with annoyance towards them for dropping her right in it with Prue. She needed to get it out that he came up to her off of his own bat and not with her help.
Dean and Piper both rolled their eyes at Phoebe's annoyance knowing it was only because they had dropped her in it with Prue. Though Dean still didn't find it fair that Phoebe could use her visions in order to get herself a date when he was just stuck with his freezing power.
Although he could at least mess with Phoebe and her dates with this power.
Prue looked up at Phoebe with confusion; she knew that Phoebe could not be mentioning her powers, especially if the younger witch knew what was good for her.
"Vision thing? Please tell me that you didn't use your powers." Prue demanded of her sister with anger coursing through her entire body at this information knowing that she had distinctly told all of her siblings not to use their powers, hell they had all agreed on it.
If anyone were to go against that idea she would have assumed it to have been Dean and no one else yet her brother as far as she was aware had only used his powers once and that was when they had first received them.
Sam and Dean then turned to look to the Piper, knowing that it would be up to her to fix things between the sisters. She wasn't the middle sister for nothing.
At seeing all of her siblings glancing to her with need for her to fix everything, Piper turned looking around herself knowing that they couldn't possibly be looking to her to fix this one.
"Don't put me in the middle." Piper yelled out to the group with annoyance in her eyes, knowing that they were only looking to her because they always did and it wasn't even fair. She was always forced to be in the middle when a fight occurred at it wasn't fair.
Sam put his head down on the table, hoping that his sisters wouldn't try to call him out as well as Piper since it was usually both siblings that got called out when the family were having troubles and he didn't want to get involved in this fight for anything.
As bad as it was he wanted for his sister to take the slack on this case and leave him the hell out of it.
Prue glanced over to her sister with a look that seemed to be pointing out the obvious to the siblings, knowing that Piper hated being put in the middle just like the boy that was currently lying his head on the table trying not to get noticed.
"I'm not; you were born in the middle. Look I thought that we agreed." Prue told the middle sister with a righteous tone of voice and her annoyance towards the youngest sister. She really didn't think it was fair that Phoebe felt that she could use her powers whenever she felt like.
This was about all of them together as a family, not just about Phoebe and her wants or needs.
Piper rolled her eyes at her sisters; she couldn't believe that they were all being selfish like this when
Dean gave a slight fit of laughter towards his sisters, thinking of whatever way he could to get the three women to calm down and relax with one another.
"Sucks to be you, Piper, though technically Phoebe is in the middle." Dean pointed out to his sisters with a big smirk on his face, glad that he would never be asked to play piggy in the middle in the Halliwell family. They should all know better than to ask him in the first place.
Sam glanced to his big brother with a frown on his face not knowing what to make of his brother and the boy's behavior. He truly did wonder how that man could possibly be an adult when he was the biggest idiot living on the planet.
At hearing those words, the three girls turned to glare at the oldest male witch with irritated annoyance in their eyes. Dean was good at a lot of things the biggest being that he was an idiot in the worst of times.
Phoebe then shook her head and then turned to look back to the oldest sister with annoyance in her dark brown eyes.
"No, we didn't, you agreed, you laid down the law. There's a difference." Phoebe yelled out to her big sister with annoyed anger in her voice as she kept pointing the finger at her big sister. It wasn't fair that just because she was the oldest, Prue felt it was her right to tell everyone when and where they could use their own powers and yet she didn't have that same regard.
"Look, Phoebe, our powers are not toys. We have to be careful they could get us killed." Prue tried to tell Phoebe with a begging like tone of voice, desperate for the twenty-three year old to listen to her, even if she didn't like it.
Prue could understand the fact that their powers were not just toys even if the others couldn't. She knew that there could be consequences to these powers, Jeremy was proof of that.
Phoebe and Dean both rolled their eyes, knowing that Prue just didn't want them to use their powers because what Prue said everyone had to follow. An annoying rule from an annoying big sister.
Sam looked up from where he was laying his head to glare at his siblings; they were the lucky ones if anyone wanted to ask him. At least they had powers, unlike him. Piper however was nodding her head in total agreement with her sister.
"She's right; we don't want any warlocks finding us." Piper said with complete agreement with Prue and what she was saying, she knew that their powers were no joke, especially with the likes of Jeremy. He had said that more would come.
Dean rolled his eyes at Piper; Piper always found the worst case scenario in all of the situations that they had ever been in. It was the worst part of Piper's personality, in Dean's opinion.
Prue looked to her little sister with empathy in her eyes knowing that at least Piper was on her side with the fact that their witchcraft could also be the end of them. They needed to be careful even if Phoebe and Dean didn't think so.
Phoebe shook her head in annoyance with her sisters, obviously Piper would agree with Prue and she could guess that Sam also agreed with the oldest witch, though he didn't have any powers to fight over anyway so he didn't really count.
"Look it was just a lousy premonition that's all nobody died. Besides you guys can't control your powers any better than I can." Phoebe yelled out to the rest of her siblings finding it completely unfair that they were all blaming her for a power that she couldn't even control. Not that they could control their powers any better than she could.
Prue rolled her eyes at Phoebe. It was just like the twenty-three year old to be so selfish about this when they would all be forced to deal with those consequences. Though worst of all was that she was bringing Dean down to her level, as usual.
Dean nodded his head at that, he had only been able to use his powers once since becoming a witch and that was to save his friend. Then there was Sam who didn't seem to be able to use any of his powers, though they didn't even know if Sam had any powers in the first place.
Sam growled at this wanting to stand up and yell at his brother and sisters for being such idiots over this, they were all very lucky that they had powers when he didn't have a single one. It wasn't fair that they even had the right to be pissed about powers.
"And some of us don't have any." Sam whispered out begrudgingly towards the others as he looked down on his half eaten bowl of cereal. Although he had been terrified of becoming a witch, now he was jealous that his brother and sisters were witches with magical powers and he was not.
It wasn't fair that they had all this power and yet he was left at the side-lines worrying about what possible dangers they could be in. It just wasn't fair.
Dean looked to his baby brother with a huge frown on his face, not sure what to make of what his brother had whispered out, he then noticed Sam looking up confused at the looks he was receiving. Sam obviously thought he hadn't said that.
Sam looked away from his siblings as Phoebe stood beside him running her hand over his back, hoping to comfort him in some way. She didn't think that Sam could feel so begrudging about the whole witch thing.
Prue glanced to her little brother feeling pure empathy for the youngest Halliwell, although she was happy that he didn't have such a burden on his life but she knew that it wasn't fair on him to be left out.
Phoebe also glanced to her baby brother but didn't know what to say to him so instead she decided to start on Prue.
"And FYI nothing happened last night, at least nothing I'm ashamed of." Phoebe called out to her big sister with annoyance in her voice trying to ignore her brother's sadness. It was something she found hard to do when Sam was filled with such childlike innocence.
She gave that last comment to the oldest witch before moving to go out of the room and away from her sister for at least a couple of minutes.
Dean and Sam looked to each other with shock on that comment, neither of them having expected Phoebe to have come out with something like that. No way in hell. Neither of the boys knew what to say to either of their sisters.
Prue just rolled her eyes at her little sister's behavior knowing that it was just like Phoebe to act so Phoebe in these types of situations.
"There's another reason why we need to be careful, other than Sam." Prue pointed out to her younger siblings with a need to try to get them to understand that they most definitely had to be careful. Not only did they have demons to worry about, or their lives but the social as well.
Prue knew that they needed to be careful with the social workers especially otherwise Sam could be taken away from them and placed into a foster home or a kids' home.
Piper and Dean nodded their heads in agreement with Prue, knowing that they didn't just have to worry about the things that went bump in the night but they had to worry about Sam as well.
Sam looked up at that with annoyance in his head, not knowing what to make of his sister's words. He didn't understand why they needed to worry about him. There was nothing distinctly wrong with him.
"What about me?" Sam yelled out to his big sister with annoyance in his dark features, betting that it was because of the whole witch thing and the fact that he had no powers when they did. It was so unfair of them to think they had to be extra worried about him just because he was lacking in the power department.
Sam just wanted to escape this house because they were all such idiots in his opinion.
The girls all turned to the youngest Halliwell with confusion in their eyes, all of the siblings wanting to know why the teen seemed so annoyed with them.
Dean also glanced to his little brother with a frown on his face, thinking that it was obvious to anyone with half a brain that they were talking about the social workers and Sam's teenage angst.
"Minor, social care, you." Dean explained to the teenager with an obvious tone of voice towards his brother, wondering what else the kid could think that they had meant. He knew that his brother wasn't stupid, though maybe a little confused.
Sam gasped at that a little and inwardly apologized to his siblings for everything he had said about his brother and sisters, having believed that they were going on about the powers thing and not his being fifteen.
Prue waited until Phoebe had come back to the table, and that Sam was seemingly alright before she wanted to continue talking.
"Andy thinks someone is abducting women in our area." Prue told her siblings with worry in her voice inwardly hoping that none of this would happen to her sisters or her brothers. She didn't know what she would do if she lost any of her family.
Piper turned to look at her oldest sister with apprehension on the whole idea of someone trying to kidnap her or one of her sisters. She also didn't want to think of the outcome of any other mortal danger coming to any of them.
The boys glanced to one another and then back to each of their sisters with concern at the very idea of anyone trying to kidnap one of their sisters. They hadn't even thought of those kinds of things since becoming witches and yet there were mortal dangers.
Phoebe looked to the oldest witch with confusion in her eyes and then some concern over the whole idea that there were mortal dangers as well as the magical ones. That was a real eye opener.
"Abducting women? What do you mean?" Phoebe asked her sister as she turned towards the green eyes woman, desperate to know what she meant and hope to god that she was joking, even if that was a really bad thing to joke about. The mortal dangers hadn't even occurred to the witch.
She could be in a mugging, hostage situations, murder by a flesh and blood mortal, kidnapped and much more things that had nothing to do with witchcraft. What about if she got a job, had a husband or even had kids? What would happen then? The whole thing was really starting to scare her.
The others all looked to the oldest witch with the same looks that Phoebe had on her face as they all inwardly wondered what could become of them.
Prue looked to her sister with patience and worry for the two of her sisters knowing that they were this monster's primary targets. She didn't want her sisters to be hurt by this person and would do everything to stop them being hurt, her brothers included.
"It means that warlocks aren't the only evil we need to look out for. And FYI, I'm not ashamed of anything." Prue pointed out to her siblings with brutal honesty in her voice as she spoke to the four younger witches. Inwardly she didn't know what to make of what she had just said and hoped that she truly did mean everything that she had said.
Sam and Piper both looked to one another, happy for their sister and her statement. They both loved Andy and they loved the idea of their sister getting back with him. Prue needed some happiness in her life and no one knew that better than her family, especially after everything she had done.
Phoebe smiled at her big sister's words happy that Prue wasn't ashamed of what had happened last night and she was also happy that the twenty-eight year old was also having fun with Andy again. The two really did need to get back together.
Dean glanced between his siblings trying to find a way of getting their minds off of that and onto the dealings of their little brother and his near constant nightmares.
"Well FYI, Sammy had a major freak out last night." Dean put out to the family with a gleeful manner of voice as he glanced to his little brother, it would be hard for anyone to see the worried concern that was written in his eyes.
And he was concerned. More than concerned, though Dean had always been concerned for his little brother. Sam had always been sensitive and that had caused a lot of nightmares, their grams always did say that Sam was especially sensitive.
The sisters all found themselves glancing to the teen, concern written on all of their faces. Though only Piper had been aware of the nightmares, that hadn't lessened her concern. Sam's nightmare had always been beyond terrifying for both him and those who had seen him during.
Sam glared at his big brother with annoyed anger at the man for having mentioned this whole ordeal from last night. It was just like Dean to drop him in it when the going gets tough. Sparing a glance to his watch, Sam smirked.
"FYI, Sam needs to go to school and doesn't want to talk about his nightmares." Sam yelled out to his family with a small smile as he pointed to the watch that had once upon a time belonged to his father. It was one of the few things he had gotten from his dad while Dean had gotten Dad's leather jacket and car.
Dean rolled his eyes at Sam's attempts to get off topic before moving to go and sit down beside the boy and ruffling his chestnut brown locks with happiness in his eyes. Though a bit pissed that the kid had changed the subject he was also proud of the way he did it.
Phoebe and Prue both found themselves smiling towards the youngest Halliwell, happy that he was still the normal teenager that he had grown up with.
Piper also looked to the teen and smiled knowing that this could be her way of checking out on a few things without raising the suspicion of her sometimes annoying siblings.
"Well, I'm going out so I can take you." Piper told the youngest Halliwell with a smile, trying to be helpful. She wanted to go out and check out a few things before having to go to work later on. She was in need of some guidance.
Sam glanced to his big sister with a nod of annoyance, although he was grateful to his sister, it also pissed him off that he needed someone to take him to school. It wasn't fair when other kids either got busses or cabs to school. He couldn't wait until he could drive.
Dean seemed to completely relax in his chair at hearing his big sister was able to take the kid to school knowing that he was already skating on thin ice when it came to being late for work. One more late morning and he would be fired.
"Good, because if I keep being late then I'm gonna be out of a job." Dean explained to his sisters with a look of relief, although he was given another chance for having saved Johnny's life he also knew that he was skating on very thin ice.
Piper nodded her head at the gratitude her brother had sent her way, knowing that it was usually him that took Sam to school and that he really needed a break from having to do all that in the family when someone else could do it just as easily.
Prue glanced to her brother and sister and nodded her head at this idea as she tried to think of a way to make this easier for both Dean's job and the rest of the family. Though she knew that Sam would not be happy about this new idea of hers.
"We'll try to work out a schedule." Prue told the group with an apprehensive tone, knowing full well that Sam Halliwell would not be happy with this idea at all. The fifteen year old had always prided himself in his independence, and yet they were dictating to him.
The rest of the siblings nodded their heads at this idea, agreeing completely with what Prue was saying knowing that this way they could get to work and still deal with Sam.
Sam glared at his big sister with annoyance at her newest idea; he didn't know why they didn't trust him enough to let him do this on his own. Like he kept telling his brother and sisters, he was fifteen now, and he could look after himself.
"Or I can learn to take a bus or a cab and none of you have to take me." Sam pointed out to his siblings with a light smile as he took a small swig of his orange juice, hoping that his brother and sisters would allow him to have his independence even if it was only some independence.
Dean glanced to his little brother with annoyance over this subject, he knew that the kid wanted a bit more independence but after nearly being killed that was the last thing that he was going to get from the family. They needed to stick together and that meant taking Sam to school themselves.
Prue shook her head not happy with that idea at all and wanted to stick with the plans that Grams had left out for the family. Grams always knew best and if she hadn't wanted Sam going to school himself then she would respect that wish.
The other girls just shook their heads surprised that Sam continued to ask with the amount of times that they and Grams had shut him down in the past, you would have thought that he would have learned by now.
"Like that's ever gonna happen." All four of the oldest siblings yelled out to the youngest Halliwell with gleeful tones in their voices. They all knew that Sam was desperate for his independence but with their Grams and her rules and then with this newest development, they knew that he could potentially be the most difficult of them all.
Sam glared to his four older siblings with annoyance, inwardly wondering if he was ever going to get his independence in his family. It really sucked to be the youngest in this family, cause you never seemed to get anywhere.
* *P *D * P*S * P* *
San Francisco police department was a very busy place to work, which all of the police force were more than grateful for. One of which was completely grateful of this was Andy, who was sitting at his desk with a hot coffee in one hand and a picture of a very pretty girl in the other.
The picture was of a very pretty girl with a tattoo of an angel on her hand, long curly golden blonde hair and what looked like a white dress. The girl was a twenty-five year old Brittany Reynolds.
Andy continued to look at the picture when he noticed his partner and passed the first picture to his partner with a grave look on his face as he put his coffee back on the table.
Morris looked to the picture with an emotionless look on his face, though he could see that the woman was very beautiful though she had nothing on his wife. Then again to Morris nobody looked more beautiful than his blushing bride.
"She didn't come home at all last night. That's not like Brittany, believe me." The woman's boyfriend cried out with worry, not knowing what else he could do other than beg anyone for help. To beg the police for their help. Anyone that could help him would do any good in this case.
Andy nodded his head a little at this information while he kept looking through all the documents and statements on the case.
Morris also nodded his head while he looked down on the picture, continuing to stare at this picture of the beautiful blonde haired woman before him. He really did want to find this girl and any of the others that had went missing.
"Tell me, Max, what time did she leave to go to Quake." Morris asked the boyfriend with no emotion to his tone of voice as he tried to act unemotional towards the man. He knew it was heartless but he couldn't say anything as the man was a suspect until they found otherwise.
Andy took another sip of his coffee while he continued to look over all of the information proceeding on the case. Like Morris, he kept his features emotionless as not to raise any type of suspicion although he didn't believe for a second that the man was guilty.
Max glanced between each of the two officers wondering what they were thinking, wondering if they thought Brittany's disappearances had something to do with him. He just hoped that they wouldn't not look for her because they think it was him that was responsible for her disappearance.
"Eight, eight-thirty. She called around ten, said she was headed home but…I'm really worried." Max admitted to the two men that were responsible for looking for his girlfriend for him. He didn't know what he would do if they couldn't find Brittany. She was his life.
Morris again nodded at this information as he put the photo of the young woman down on his desk. Turning to look back at the man in front of him, Morris indulged the information that he was given. He couldn't help but see Deja vu from previous stories.
Andy also took in the information with a nod of his head, still sitting in his chair and thinking of the things that the young man was telling him while inwardly he tried to keep his thoughts away from that of the delightful Prudence Halliwell. He couldn't really think about Prue when he needed to be think about his work anyway.
"Chances are she'll show up, they usually do. In the meantime the best thing you could do right now is go home in case she calls okay." Andy explained to the man before him, trying to get him to relax, despite the bad situation he was under. It had to be hard being in this type of situation and not knowing what to do about it. He just hoped that they would find this man's girlfriend as well as all of the other missing women.
Max nodded his head at what he was told although he didn't know what he would do if they didn't find Brittany. She was all that he could think about right now. Not that anyone could blame him; Brittany was a beautiful young woman but she was also the love of his life.
Morris also nodded his head at this information knowing that this is what they told everyone in this type of situation. It was always the best thing to do. Nine out ten cases led in them either phoning or coming home within the first few hours.
"Can you do that?" Andy asked of the young man before him as he stood up to shake the man's hand feeling that that was more than necessary in these types of cases. It was the best way to try and let the person know that they would do everything to help look for the missing person.
Max nodded his head at that as he too put his hand out to shake the officer's hand, feeling slightly better than the men before him were going to try and help find his girlfriend. He wouldn't be able to stand it if they were complete idiots that didn't give a damn about Brittany to look for her.
"Yeah, okay, thanks." Max thanked the man before him grateful for everything that both he and his partner were doing to help him find his girlfriend. With one last nod to the men, Max left them in peace to go and find his girlfriend.
Morris nodded his head to the man shaking his hand as well and watching him walk off with slight sadness for the man. He didn't know what he would do if something where to happen to his wife. He didn't think that the man had anything to do with what may have happened to his girlfriend and he hoped that he and his partner could find her before another girl went missing or one came back dead.
Andy watched the man go as he picked up his coffee from his desk, moving all of his documents out of the way before making his way around the desk. All the while he was thinking about the poor missing woman and her boyfriend, wondering what he would do if that was Prue.
"Fourth one this week." Andy said to his partner when he stepped beside the other man in the middle of the table with his coffee in hand as he took a big gulp, wishing that he had something quite a bit stronger. Though that was probably not the best idea when he had a couple of missing women to find, no of which included Prue.
Morris looked away from his partner clutching his head hoping to keep this killer headache from surfacing and possibly killing him like this case with Andy might do. He hated cases involving young women since they made him think what if in regards to his wife.
"Yeah, well, they can't just be disappearing into thin air. Did you do something to your hair?" Morris asked frowning having just noticed the best distraction to get his thought off of this business and his wife and onto his partner and that man's business such as his new haircut.
Andy glared at his partner wanting desperately to run a hand through his hair but having the restraint not to do it. He knew that Morris was just having a small dig and was trying to get to him a little all part of whatever he was trying to get his wind off of at the moment.
"Well at least we've narrowed down his feeding pool to the areas around the restaurant." Andy told the man as he took another sip of coffee, choosing to ignore Morris in favor of trying to work on the case. He knew that while Morris was trying to get off of the case, he was trying to get back onto the case.
Morris smirked at his partner, knowing exactly what the man was trying to do and knew that it wasn't going to work too well for him, because now he knew what Andy was running from and so the fun could soon begin and it would be such fun.
"Yeah, well, better tell your sweetheart to lock the door tonight." Morris told the man with a jokey tone of voice as he moved closer to Andy and patted him on the stomach with a big smirk before walking away from the man with a big delightful smile on his face for maybe getting one up on the white man.
Andy groaned with annoyance towards his partner knowing that it was all just because the man was bored. Although Morris did bring up some good points; was Prue going to be safe. He remembered her saying last night that Piper had just gotten a job at Quake and was worried for her and her sisters, even with the boys.
He just hoped that he could find the man that was taking all of these women and even better hoped that he could fix things with Prue and find out what the hell had happened this morning. Then after all of that maybe he could go out and get a new alarm clock since his old one seemed to have just disappeared on him.