*This chapter has been re-written*

Boyfriends and Warlocks

Prue sighed as she walked over to the hospital desk, could this day get any worse?

"Hi, um, I'm looking for my sister, Phoebe Halliwell." She said to a nurse who smiled kindly at her.

"One second please." She said before turning to the man standing next to Prue. "What's the name again?"
"Inspector Andrew Trudeau. Homocide. Dr Gordon's expecting me." The man said looking up and Prue's eyes widened as she recognised the name.

"Andy?" she asked. The man looked at her for a second before his eyes widened as well.

"Prue? I don't believe it, how are you?"

"I'm good. How are you?"

"Fine, I just can't believe I'm running into you." Andy admitted.

"Yeah, I'm picking up Phoebe. She had some kind of accident."

"Is she gonna be okay?"
"Yeah, she'll be fine. Um, what are you doing here?"
"Murder investigation." The moment Andy said those words, there was an awkward silence. Neither of them really knew what to say.

Luckily they didn't need to, the nurse had came back. "Your sisters still in x-ray's so it'll be another fifteen minutes." She said to Prue before turning to Andy. "Dr Gordon's office is to the left and down the hall. He's with a patient right now but you're free to wait outside his office."

"Thank you." They both said before turning to look at each other again.

"Well, it's good to see you, Prue." Andy said as he shook her hand.

"Yeah, you too, Andy. Take care." Prue said but neither of them moved and for a second they just stood staring at each other.

"You know, Phoebe's busy, Dr Gordon's busy. Can I buy you a black cup of coffee while we wait?" Andy offered and Prue smiled.

"Sure." She said as casually as she could as he lead her towards the coffee machine. "So, you're an inspector now?"

"What can I say? In any other city I'd be called detective." Andy said with a shrug as he handed her the cup.

"Inspector's classier."

"Liking it better already."

"Your dad must be so proud."

"Third generation. You bet he's happy! How about you? You taking the world by storm?"

"Well, I'm living back at Grams' house and as of an hour ago, looking for work." Prue said grimly, how had her life gotten this low?

"Oh." Andy said, not really having a proper answer to that.

"I heard you moved to Portland."
"I'm back. You...uh...still seeing Roger?" Andy asked hesitantly and Prue's eyes narrowed.

"How do you know about him?"
"I know people."
"You checked up on me?" Prue asked, trying to keep the happiness out of her voice and the smile of her face.

"I wouldn't call it that."
"What would you call it?"

"Inquiring minds want to know. What can I say? I'm a detective." Andy said with a smirk and Prue was truly happy for the first time in months.

...

"So where's Bella?"Phoebe asked when they sate down in the cafe.

"Still with Jeremy, I don't think she even knows about the accident"Piper said accepting her coffee of the waitress.

"Well, I have something to tell you guys." Phoebe said turning towards her sisters who looked at her patiently. "Before the accident I had a premonition."

Prue let out an annoyed hiss as she rubbed her temples, she really couldn't deal with this right now. "Not this again!"
"Deal with it Prue, it just proves we're the charmed ones!" Phoebe snapped while Piper stayed quiet.

"The Chosen ones? The Charmed ones? Phoebe, this is insane!"

"Are you telling me that nothing strange happened to you today? You didn't freeze time or move anything?" Phoebe asked and Piper looked down at the table silently.

"Roger took an exhibit away from me. All right, look, Phoebe, I know that you think you can see the future which is pretty ironic."

"Since you don't think I have one, that my vision of life is cloudy compared to your perfect hell? Even if you don't want to believe me, just once can't you trust me?" Phoebe asked and Prue sighed.

"Phoebe, I do not have special powers. Now, where is the cream?"

Her eyes widened as the jug of cream moved slowly across the table, heading straight towards her and stopping next to her cup of coffee.

She turned to look at her sisters, Phoebe looked smug while Piper looked ready to have a mental break down.

"That looked pretty special to me." Phoebe said, biting her lip.

"Oh my god...so, uh, I can move things with my mind?" Prue gasped out and Phoebe smiled.

"With how much you hold inside, you should be a lethal weapon by now."

"I don't believe it."

"This must mean you can freeze time, Piper." Phoebe said, frowning as she looked at her other sister. "You don't look surprised by that."

Sure, Piper looked pale and ready to pass out but didn't actually looked surprised to find out what power she had.

"Something...may have happened at my interview this morning." Piper admitted.

"Why the hell didn't you tell us?" Prue snapped.

"I thought I was imaginging things because of all the stress I have been under!"

Prue didn't say anything else, she just grabbed a shot of tequila and drank it quickly.

"Are you okay?" Phoebe asked concerned.

Prue looked at her as if she had grown another head and they were now both singing musicals. "No, I am not okay! You turned me into a witch!"

"You were born one. We all were and I think we better start to deal with it."

...

"When I was looking through the Book Of Shadows, I saw these wood carvings. They looked like something out of a bosch paintings. All these terrifying images of three women battling different incarnations of evil." Phoebe explained as the walked out of the restaurant.

"Evil fighting evil, that's a twist." Prue said sarcastically and Phoebe resisted the urge to snap back.

She took a deep breath before speaking calmly. "Actually, a witch can be either good or evil. A good witch follows the wiccan rede. 'An it harm none, do what ye will.' A bad witch or a warlock has but one goal: to kill good witches and retain their powers. Unfortunately, the look like regular people. They could be anyone, anywhere."

"And what does this have to do with us?" Piper asked.

"Well, in the first wood carving, they were in the slumber, but in the second one, they were battling some kind of warlock. I think as long as we were in the dark about our powers we were safe. Not anymore."

Piper grimaced, why did she have to ask?

...

"You okay?" Jeremy asked Bella as they sat in the back seat of a cab.

"Has anything weird or unexplainable ever happened to you?" Bella asked quietly.

"Sure. It's called luck or fate or some people call it miracles. Why? What happened?" he asked concerned as he brushed a stray piece of her hair back into place before kissing her head.

"Forget it. Even if I could tell you, you'd swear I was crazy. Now open your fortune cookie." Bella said as she passed him one and he smirked but did as she asked.

"Soon you will be on top." He read, smirking even more.

Bella blushed brightly before taking it off him. "It does not say that!"

"What's wrong with being on top?" Jeremy asked, trying to be innocent.

"Of the world." She corrected with a smile. "Soon you will be on top of the world."

Jeremy smiled at her once again before turning towards the cab driver. "Can you make a left on 7th please."

The driver nodded and Bella frowned.

"I thought we were going to your place."

" We are, but you reminded me of something. I wanna show you the old Bowing building. The view of the Bay bridge is amazing." Bella nodded. What harm could it do?

...

Prue and Phoebe stood at the desk in the pharmacy while Piper waited outside.

"I'll be right back with you pescription." The Pharmacist told Phoebe and she smiled kindly at him.

"Take your time."
"Excuse me, where do you keep the asprin?" Prue asked.

"Aisle three."

"Charomile tea works great for headaces." Phoebe said happily and Prue rolled her eyes at her.

"Not for this one." She said as they wandered up the aisle.

"You know I'm not afraid of our powers. I mean, everyone inherits something from their family, right?" Phoebe said casually as Prue searched the shelves.

"Yeah, money, antiques, a strong disposition. That's what normal people inherit."
"Who wants to be normal when we can be special?"
"I want to be normal, I want my life to be... you know, isn't this aisle three?"

"Well, we can't change what happened. We can't undo our destiny."

Prue ignored her. "Do you see any aspirin?"
"I see chamomile tea."
"Look, I have just found out that I'm a witch, that my sisters are witches, and that we have powers that will apparently unleash all forms of evil! Evil that is apparently going to come looking for us! So excuse me Phoebe, but I'm not exactly in a homeopathic mood right now!" Prue snapped slightly hysterically but Phoebe's smile didn't fade.

"Then move you headache out of your mind." She said simply and Prue stared angrily at her. Suddenly, a bottle of asprin flew of one of the shelves and straight into Prue's hand. Prue stared at it while Phoebe's smile grew even larger. "You move things when you're upset!"
"This is ridiculous! I thought that you landed on your arm, not your head!"

Phoebe stared at her in disbelief. "You don't believe me?"
"Of course I don't believe you!"

Phoebe smirked. "Roger." She said in a sing song voice and a few more bottles of asprin flew of the shelf and onto the floor. Prue avoided Phoebe's eyes as she bent down to pick them up. "How about Bella?"Phoebe tried but just got a glare in return "oh so your not mad at her, you just like upsetting her for fun?"

The whole shelf flew to the floor and Prue snarled "shut up Phoebe!"

"Let's talk about dad and see what happens."

"He's dead Phoebe!" Prue snapped as she stood up.

"No, he's moved from New York, but he's very much alive."

"He isn't to me! He died the day he left mum!"

"What are you talking about? He's always been a major button pusher for you. You're mad he walked out on us, you're mad he isn't Bella's real dad, you're mad he's alive, you're mad I tried to find him, and you're mad I came back. Dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad." Phoebe said and all the bottles and boxes on the shelves flew to the floor and the two girls looked around in shock. Phoebe turned back to Prue to see her looking...pleased? "Feel better?"

"Lots." Prue admitted with a smile.
"The Book of Shadows said our powers would grow."

"Grow to what?" Prue asked, making both of them laugh.

...

"Well, here we are."

Jeremy opened the door to the warehouse, Bella took one look at the dark room and shook her head.

"I don't care how amazing the view is. I'm not going in there." She told him but he somehow managed to lead her in there anyway.

"I have a surprise." He told her as they walked into an elevator and he pressed a button. "You are gonna love this. I bet you tell Prue, Piper and Phoebe the moment you see them."

"Wait I didn't tell you Phoebe was back, how did you know?"

"Woops"Jeremy said wipping out a dagger and the elevator suddenly stopped half way leaving a small gap at the top of the elevator door.

"What is that?"Bella gasped stepping away from Jeremy.

"Your surprise" Jeremy said smirking.

"Yea yea, very funny."Bella said rolling her eyes "Put it away."

Jeremy just smirked taking a step closer to her.

"Jeremy i'm serious!"Bella yelled getting nervious.

"So am I! See, I've waited six months for this. Ever since Grams went to the hospital. I've known for some quite time that the moment that old witch croaked that all your powers would be released. Powers that would reveal themselves as soon as the three of you got together again. All that was needed was for Phoebe to return." Jeremy explained excitedly.

"It was you wasn't it? You killed all those women!" Bella said in realization.

"Not women, witches!" As if that made any difference.

"Why?"

"I wanted their powers." He said holding up his other hand, each of his fingers burst with flames. "And now i want yours."

His face shifted making Bella scream and he launched for her. Bella held up her hands and a blue-ish sort of bubble appeared and as it his Jeremy he flew backwards into the elevator wall. He sat dazed for a second and Bella waisted no time in climbing through the gap. She had just got through when Jeremy caught her leg and started dragging her back into the elevator. She tried grabbing a plank of wood but everytime she got close to it she would be pulled back again. Suddenly the plank of wood flew into her hand, she swung her arm back and hit Jeremy on the head knocking him out cold.

...

"Prue, it's Roger. I've decided to let you come back to work. Seriously, let's talk. Bye." Phoebe rolled her eyes at the message on the answering machine as Piper and Prue walked in with a white cat.

"Bella's definitely not home unless she's turned into a cat." Piper said as she put the cat down.

"How did the cat get in?" Phoebe asked, stoking the purring cat.

"I don't know. Someone must of left the window open. Um, did Bella leave a message saying where she would be?" Prue asked and Phoebe rolled her eyes at her overprotective sister.

"She's out with Jeremy, not Jack the ripper! Roger called." Phoebe told her and Prue grimaced.

"Yeah, I heard." The two sisters shared a glance and it all became clear that the fued between the two of them the past year was other. And, most likely, as was the one between Prue and Bella.

Piper smiled at them happily, glad it was all over. Her smile faded however when Bella burst through the front doors, frantically locking them after her.

"Bella?" Phoebe questioned, looking as confused as the others felt.

"Oh my god, what is it? What's wrong?" Prue asked when she saw her little sisters expression.

"Lock the doors, check the windows. We don't have a lot of time. Phoebe, in the Book Of Shadows, did it say how to get rid of a..." Bella asked, trailing off as she had no idea what they were called.

"Warlock?" Phoebe guessed, her eyes widening.

"Oh god!"

...

The four girls sat around a round table in the middle of the attic surrounded by candles.

"Okay, the book says we need nine candles in a circle."Prue read from the book.

"I only see eight"Piper said confused.

Phoebe held up a birthday candle.

"A birthday candle?"Prue asked in disbelieve.

"Looks like Grams was running a little low on witch supplies"Phoebe said lighting the candle and putting it in the bowl that was in the middle of the table. They all turned to Bella who was holding a clay doll.

"Okay, first I'll make it stronger." She said as she places the rose on top of the clay doll before reciting the spell. "Your love will wither and depart, from my life and from my heart, let me be Jeremy, and go away forever." She pressed the thorns into the clay doll before placing it in the pot.

"Let's hope it works." Prue said with a heavy sigh.

The sisters watched as the doll and rose burnt, before exploding and catching fire.

...

The girls started packing everything up but when Phoebe picked up the bowl she got a flash of Jeremy covered in thorns heading strait towards the house.

"Wait! It didn't work!"Phoebe said and her sisters turned to face her.

"How do you know?"Bella asked.

"I touched the bowl and got a flash."

"You touched the bowl?"Prue asked confused.

Phoebe just nodded and said "he's coming here!"

...

"Where can we go?"Prue asked as they ran down the stairs.

"How about Renee's?"Piper asked.

"Jeremy know where she lives,"Bella said.

"How about grandma Priscilla's house in Forks?"Phoebe suggested and they all looked at Bella.

"He doesn't know about it, sounds like a good place."Bella said.

They all ran for the door, Prue ahead from the others. She opened the door and turned around to say something to Bella, whatever she was going to say was left unsaid when the three other girls screamed. Prue spun around to see Jeremy standing there, his body covered in cuts. Prue stood in front of her sisters protectivly and said "go to the attic now!"

Piper, Phoebe and Bella ran back upstairs while Prue satyed walking backwards to the stairs. She squinted and Jeremy was thrown backwards.

"You always were the tough one weren't you Prue"he said walking towards her. Prue squinted sending him back into a wall leaving him dazed and then ran upsatirs to join her sisters.

...

They pilled things infront of the door and stepped back when they heard him coming up the stairs.

"Stupid witches!"they heard him say from the other side of the door "do you think a chair would stop me?"he asked, the chair flew across the room and the girl sceamed. " You think a dresser could stop me?"he asked tauntingly as the dresser moved away from the door."Don't you understand? Nothing can stop me!" The door burst to peices and he walked in.

He smiled at them holding up his knife in front of himself.

Jeremy laughed darkly and jabbed his knife forward and fire burst out off it onto the floor making a circle around the sisters.

Prue grabbed her sister's closer together and said "don't give up, remember what the spirit board said!"

"The power of four will set you free,"Piper said.

"The power of four will set us free. The power of four will set us free. The power of four will set us free."Prue chanted and the fire tuned to wind, making a mini tornado around them.

After a while Piper, Phoebe and Bella started chanting aswell. Jeremy stopped walking towards them and burst to pieces. The sister's stood there for a while and Prue said shocked "the power of four."

...

Prue walked outside the next day to collect the paper and smiled when she saw Andy standing by his car.

"Good morning." He said smiling.

"Hey, this is a surprise."

"I've been feeling really guilty about that bad cup of coffee. I just want to make it up to you."

"So, you brought me a good cup of coffee?" she asked, nodding towards the drink in his hand.

"Oh this? No, this is mine. I...uh...just wanted to ask you out to dinner. Unless of course you're afraid." Andy offered, trying to hide his nerves.

"Afraid of what?"
"Oh, you know, having too good of time, stirring up old memories, rekindling an old flame."

Prue smirked. "Hmm, good point, better not."
"Okay. Friday night, eight o'clock?" he asked but his smile faded when she didn't reply straight away. "You're hesitating."

"Yeah, but it's not what you think. It's just that ny life has gotten a bit complicated. Can I call you?" she asked and he nodded before giving her his phone number.

"Take care, Prue." He said as he walked towards his car.

"Bye Andy."

Piper, Phoebe and Bella walked out of the front door causiously. The white cat from the night before, newly named Kit, was in Phoebe's arms.

"It's Andy. I told you I heard a man's voice." Phoebe said as they walked to Prue.

"What did he want?" Bella asked.

Prue sighed. "He asked me out."

"And you said...?"

"I started to say yes and then I stopped. I wondered if I could date. I mean, do witches date?"

Her sisters smirked at her. "Not only do they date but they usually get the best guys." Piper told her and Prue rolled her eyes at them.

"You three will not be laughing when this happens to you. Believe me, everything will be different now."
"Well, at least our lives won't be boring." Phoebe added as they walked back upto the house.

"But they'll never be the same."

"And this is a bad thing?"
"No. But it could be a big problem."

"I can't believe I'm going to say this but Prue's right. What are we gonna do?" Bella asked.

"What can't we do?" Phoebe asked, not getting why her sisters were being so paranoid.

"We are gonna be careful, we're gonna be wise and we're gonna stick together." Prue told them.

Piper smiled. "This should be interesting."