Charmed Season - Auish after Andy's death

Character(s) - Prue (mentioned others)

Smallville season - ?

Character(s) - Will be here soon...

CharmedxSmallville: Unexpected Allies Part 1

She tried to avoid called them 'gigs'. 'Hunts' made her sound like a ruthless predator, which made her uncomfortable. And well, she couldn't exactly throw the word 'vanquish' around Willy-nilly, because, come on...who did that? Besides magical folk, of course.

But for a very tense, stressful, guilt-complexed filled week, Prue Halliwell was not content to stay in her city, and she and her 'outings' went pretty far out there.

After Andy...after he was gone, she looked at the paper and the news and the tv and she saw nothing but death.

And it was her fault. It was always her fault. She had been given powers and she was just going to sit at home and eat ice cream, knowing she could be out there saving people? Demons were not contained to San Fransisco, she knew that, but did she try and help others outside it?

No. Not nearly often enough.

Piper said that this was her massive pride getting in the way again, and Phoebe tried to tell her it wasn't Prue's fault, it was her own, but...

The two were closer than they had ever been; and there were still fighting as much as ever.

It had taken time, a lot of pleading, and some general threats, but Prue finally got Leo to orb her where she was needed. A car or a plane just wasn't going to cut it when she needed to be in Europe in the next hour, you know?

Leo...was not happy with their arrangement.

"Prue this...this isn't healthy." He'd told her. "You're in morning – I understand – but you're going to get yourself killed."

Perhaps she'd told him where he could shove his understanding and whitelighter cliché crap, and maybe that's why Piper wasn't speaking to her at the moment – it was all for the greater good though, right?

Funnily enough, after scrying for trouble and deciding that San Fransisco would have to do tonight, she found herself orbed (alone, because Leo was still kinda mad and didn't want to come with her) in an alley.

A very familiar alley, as she knew those particular stains on the brick wall. It was the one she'd walked through a while back and found herself transported to a weird town. Smallville, was it?

It felt like an entire lifetime ago. With a distant look in her eyes, Prue recalled the secretive boy, the strange demon, and the girl and even the banshee she'd summoned. Accidentally summoned.

Surprised, she felt a tiny smile steal over her features. It was harder to remember the funny things magic had brought her – knowing that it had also stolen Andy.

Andy. Oh, Andy.

Magic had taken away somebody she loved – but maybe it was her fault, too, because she was the one with magic – and perhaps it was just punishment for not saving enough people – but how was she supposed to save everyone? And yet she was Prue and she could save everyone!

Pressing a hand to her head, Prue wished for silence from the conflicting voices within her like nothing else. It felt like her grief was tearing her in two.

Then she made a mistake; she placed a hand on the wall to balance herself, and soon enough, the world shifted around her.

It wasn't night any longer. It wasn't San Fransisco any longer either, she was sure. So...This was the source of the trouble she'd scried for – some kind of portal between towns.

Different universes, maybe. She thought, feeling dizzy. Then she blew out a sigh as the reality settled upon her.

Oh, great – she was in wonderful Smallville again.

She strode out of the alley with a hand held up to block out the sun, and a scowl stole over her face. As she gazed around, she came to two irritating conclusions – one, it was horribly cheerful looking (as always, like most small towns did but more), and two, no one seemed overly concerned by the glowing green guy.

Okay, maybe he was only tinted green, and it helped that was pressed against a shop's outside wall instead of being on the road, but people shopping and walking along the street barely glanced at him.

"Hey!" She made to call out to him, to catch his gaze with her steely glare. But at the loud voice, the man jumped and scurried behind the shop.

Convinced there was something magical going on with him, and determined to find out what, Prue stalked across the street. Some cars honked at her sudden crossing. Most manged to silently go around the angry woman.

When she got to the shop, she realized he'd slipped away from her easily – and with as many people on the street as ever, it was impossible to see the faint glow anymore.

Damn it.

The Charmed One hissed out something between a sigh and a groan. Okay, so now what?

She could either go home using the spell she'd created last visit, or she could stay and investigate – she was curious both about the nature of the portal and the strange man she'd just seen.

Prue stood there in the middle of the sidewalk, glaring at anyone who dared stare at her, and tapped her foot impatiently.

Stay or go?

If she left now, she could probably see the end of Kill It Before It Dies with Phoebe. It might help heal the newly fractured bond between them.

But this portal was just stuck on the way of a public alleyway and it could be dangerous! And despite the town being somewhere she couldn't pinpoint on any map, the natives were people too. What if that glowing man hurt them, and she hadn't been there to stop it?

It would be her fault.

Everything was always Prue's fault.

Andy was...

Okay. Alright, her mind was made up – she would stay. Glancing again at the, er, 'quaintness' of the town, the woman lifted an eyebrow.

Hopefully, the town itself wouldn't kill her before she could figure it out.

A/N: Sorry about the lame ending - it's late and my brain is dead. This is gonna be the first of three(?) parts, I hope, about Prue and Clark fighting supernatural crime together. Somehow it turned into Prue having serious issues about Andy Trudeau's death - and who knows? Maybe Clark will have issues too (When does he not?).

Next time - Prue's gonna need help, but finding one secretive, super-enhanced man in Smallville is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Will she figure out the thing with the portal? Or is it all just a huge plot-hole that the author completely ignored?

Any grammar or spelling mistakes should be blamed on my lack of sleep.

Thanks for reading!