AUTHOR'S NOTE: SORRY GUYS, IT'S BEEN A WHILE BUT IT WAS THE HOLIDAYS... I'M ALSO WORKING ON A COUPLE NEW STORIES AS WELL, SO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR ANOTHER CROSSOVER WITH SUPERNATURAL AND ONE TREE HILL

"Could you call off your guard dogs, honey?" Dylan's mother asked ever so nicely as she stared down the two men aiming guns at their heads.

"Don't really feel like it mom." Dylan answered. With the mention of mom the boys did put down their guns unfortunately.

"How are you girls doing?" My mother asked. I narrowed my eyes at her. Was she serious?

"You know I don't like it when you ask me stupid questions. How do you think we are feeling?" I spat out.

"Don't catch a tone with your mother Sharnel." Kim's mother scolded me.

"Why not? You're next!" Kim jumped in. "How could you guys do this to us? We could have been killed. Would you even care?"

"Of course we care sweetie. That's why we bound your powers in the first place." Kim's mom tried to calm her.

"Okay cut the crap." I interrupted. "The charmed ones are supposed to be sisters. Are you even my mother or was I adopted?"

"Don't be overdramatic Sharnel." Dylan's mother spoke.

"Seriously?" I asked.

"We are being overdramatic? Are you freaking kidding me?" Dylan bit out.

"Okay, everyone calm down!" Dean shouted out. We all turned to look at him in surprise as he stared each one of us down. "It's time for a little family bonding. I know you are all pissed, but just relax for a little bit, have a drink and then try this conversation again. The faster this is over, the faster we can get to bed and they can get the hell out of our house!"

"I'm sorry. We don't take orders from the help." Kim's mother said shocking us all. She was usually so sweet until she was pissed off. "You're here to keep our kids safe so I wouldn't put a claim on anything in this house if I were you." You would think that he would cower down after that, but instead he walked up between the two gangs of angry women and took charge.

"Well lady, you don't live here. The five of us do, so it seems that you do take orders from the help or you can find the door and let it hit you on the way out." He squared his broad shoulders and stared her in the eyes. Seemed to me like this was going to make for a hostile Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Winchester, the kids and the in-laws. But then she shared a look with the others and then smiled at him.

"Well Dean, you have proven yourself strong enough to protect our girls. Forgive us; it's just that protecting the Charmed Ones without powers is almost impossible. We were quite skeptical of you and your brother, but you've changed our minds." She held her hand out. "I'm Kat." Dean was more than confused but shook her hand anyway.

"Dean." He said. The scene just became more and more irritating until I couldn't hold my tongue anymore.

"You guys have some nerve." I spat out. "You up and ruin our lives and then you show up at our place and want to act like you run things, setting tests and booby traps for everyone?"

"Shar." Sam warned me.

"No. Why are you here? You weren't when we needed you the most, so why are you guys here now?" Dylan and Kim didn't try to stop me because I was speaking for all of our opinions.

"Let's sit." Kim's mother said. They got into their longwinded explanation, saying that we are related by blood. We are distant cousins because apparently in a past life sisterhood didn't work out so well for us. They also said, with the power of three separated, they had no choice but to bound our powers because we couldn't fight and our magic would only attract more evil. After letting everything sit for a while, they also explained to us the importance of us being here at the manor. Even though we've heard it all before from Castiel, it meant something more to be heard from our parents. Maybe because we've known them all our lives. They birthed us. The sadness that over took us when they left was such a surprise since the entire time all we wanted to do was kill them. Cass had left, and Dean and Sam had gone to bed long before our parents decided to return to their homes. The three of us only sat in the living room taking it all in, trying to fully except and understand the responsibility being placed upon us. Without a word, we slowly made our way to our rooms and put our heads down to sleep.

Surprisingly enough when I woke up I finally felt what I should have felt the moment we received our powers. Besides feeling totally revitalized, I also feel confident in myself, my sisters and our powers. I feel like everything happens for a reason which I used to live my life believing. I felt like we can handle the responsibility and the pressure of saving the world because it was our destiny to do so. I also felt confident to finally step back into the real world. It was odd to see how everyone behaved so normally when I left my room. I went to the bathroom and watched myself in the vanity as I brushed my teeth. Dean waltzed in and grabbed his toothbrush, nodding at me to say good morning. After showering and getting dressed, I went downstairs to find Kim and Sam in the kitchen eating a bowl of cereal. Kim passed me the box of CTC (cinnamon toast crunch) as I grabbed a bowl and spoon to join them. Dylan and Dean then joined us, Dylan sitting on the counter taking a bite of her apple, and Dean pouring himself some coffee. We made normal family breakfast small talk and I smiled to myself about how easy it is for us to be a "family" even though there was still tension between the two groups of genders in the room. But then again, family is supposed to drive you crazy, and that thought made me laugh.

"What?" Dean asked curiously. I shook my head at him.

"Nothing. Just thinking about something."

"So, what are you girls up to today?" Sam asked.

"I'm going to go look into the colleges around here. That is unless Dylan wants to orb me to Kingsborough every day." Kim said with a smile to her sister. Dylan laughed at her.

"Yeah, no thank you. I'm going to look for a job." Dylan responded.

"Cool. Want to carpool?" Kim suggested. Dylan nodded.

"Sure. What about you Shar? Want to come?"

"I'm going to have to do both those things but not today. I'm going to the city."

"The city? For what?" Sam asked me.

"I'm going to see Sean." I said looking at everything but him.

"Is that the boyfriend?" Dean asked with a look of obvious disapproval. I sneered at him playfully.

"Yes dad, it is."

"Well, good luck with that." Kim said.

When I got to Sean's I grew nervous. I already knew what was going to happen, but I was concerned about how he'd take all this. He was an extreme person. I knocked on the door and tried to calm myself for the inevitable. When he opened the door he looked shocked to see me and it didn't seem to be a good surprise.

"Hi." I spoke timidly. He moved out of the way so that I could enter.

"Nice of you to show up." I recognized the sarcastic tone.

"I know, I haven't returned your calls. I'm really sorry. There's been a lot going on. I-" I stopped speaking, taking the chance to sniff the air. "Sean? Were you… smoking?" he smiled sheepishly at me and shrugged. "What happened to your program?"

"I kind of flunked out. It doesn't really matter. I want to be a firefighter, not an EMT." I refused to touch that subject. This was one of our major issues. His lack of commitment to do anything constructive with his life. He'd much rather sit around high, playing video games all day every day. Look what he's done in just the week I was gone as if he doesn't have the potential to do great things. I nodded my head with mock understanding. "Yeah. So I have some news of my own."

"What's up?"

"I'm moving." His smile faded. "Well, I moved actually. It's all been crazy. My mom just up and moves me upstate, but at least I'm not alone. Kim and Dylan moved with me into the manor. I'm still trying to adjust to living upstate New York." I gave him time to process the information I just casually threw at him.

"So, what's going to happen? I mean with us."

"Sean, I can't honestly expect you to still hang on to the relationship. It's unfair. And I've got a lot going on besides the move that would be cruel to subject you to."

"So is that it? You came over here to breakup with me?" he asked sounding cold. I held his hand. "Why not just call?"

"Because you deserve more than that. I still want to be your friend. It's just that we both have hectic lives and with this distance between us… we've been fighting a lot. Things aren't working and I think we will only get hurt if we keep hanging on. Besides, we are at different places in life, and we obviously have different views on what we should be doing at this stage of our lives. Look, I'm sorry for everything and I wish you the best." He didn't speak for about five minutes. "I think I should probably go." I finally decided. He didn't even look my way as I grabbed my bag. I simply kissed him on the cheek and walked out. Despite the cool and collected demeanor I portrayed, it did hurt to say goodbye to him. I knew he wouldn't want to be my friend and I considered him one of my best. He was a better friend than a boyfriend to me and I didn't want to lose that. I'm just really good at hiding my feelings. I drove back home in silence, without music and let the tears flow because no one would see them.

When I got home, Dylan told me all about the mall and how many hot guys were there. She got an interview with the Macy's in there and Kim got an interview with Fredrick's lingerie store. She also gave me a list of other stores that were hiring. After taking one look I already knew where I wanted to work. Forever 21. They also took the liberty of enrolling themselves and apparently me, in the local university. Again, Dylan's main concern besides the environment was the abundance of hot guys. The guys apparently stayed home and worked out all day which was quite I sight for the eyes.

"My God Kimberly, why let that go to waste?" Dylan mumbled as Dean walked by.

"I'm sorry. You know instead of pimping me out, you could always get on that."

"But it seems like you two have so much chemistry." She smiled. I shook my head at Dylan, persistently trying to push Kim on Dean. I mean it's going to happen. Might as well let her have some fun first.

"Well I just broke up with Sean."

"And how did that go?" Kim asked.

"Don't' really want to talk about it. I just think that since we are all single, instead of slutting each other to our roommates, we should go out. I could really use a drink."

"Sounds good to me." Dylan agreed

"We had our first demon free day at the manor. That's something to celebrate." Kim added.

"Yeah, and you finally ended it with Sean. Another thing to celebrate." Dylan said.

"Dylan!" Kim elbowed her.

"What? He's been making her miserable and causing her more pain and aggravation than her pride would let her admit. I say good riddings." I smiled at my outspoken sister and shook my head.

"Let's go already. Let's take comet, so Dylan and I can sit on the top and scream out the words to my road trip playlist on my IPod." Kim rolled her eyes and we went our separate ways to get dressed. We might as well party now, school is going to start soon.