"I'm going to kill him," Piper told her angrily. Perry was in Quake to meet a potential client, but in the meantime met with her older sister. Although since Piper was so busy, it mostly meant she just followed her around and tried not get in the way.
"Who?" Phoebe, who just joined them, asked.
"Chef Moore," Perry filled her twin in, as they followed Piper to the restaurant's bar, "He hired Piper and then bailed to go open a new restaurant."
"Thank you very much, You of the Phony Accent," their older sister grumbled.
"I don't see any customers complaining," Phoebe said with a smile, and Perry looked at her in shock. "That's not the point, Phoebe. He took advantage of Piper's dreams to lure her into a job she never wanted."
"Exactly," Piper said, glad someone was getting it, "I'm not a restaurateur, I'm a chef. I have no idea what I'm doing."
"For what it's worth, though, it does look like you're doing a great job."
Piper gave her a tired smile, but then frowned at Phoebe, "Are you wearing my dress?"
Before Phoebe could answer, however, their friend Brittany came over.
"Hey, Brittany," Phoebe said, eager to change the subject, "Ooh, I love that tattoo." Looking at the angel tattoo on the back of the blonde woman's hand, Perry smiled and nodded in agreement.
"Hey, thanks," Brittany said, smiling.
"I thought it was illegal to get them on your hand because of the veins."
"In the States, yeah. I got it done in Tahiti. Oh, keep the change, Piper. I gotta jam."
"Okay, say hi to Max," Piper told her, and the twins waved as she left.
While Piper was talking to one of the waitresses, Perry noticed that Phoebe was looking at a man on the other side of the restaurant.
"Now back to my dress," Piper began to say, but Phoebe stopped her.
"Okay, see that poster boy to your left? Just glance, don't be obvious."
"I approve, who is he?"
"His name is Alec, and he's about to come over and ask if he could buy me a martini."
"How do you know?"
"Let's just say I solved the age-old problem of who approaches whom first. I had a little premonition."
"What? Phoebe, you're not supposed to use your powers. We agreed."
"No, you and Prue agreed. I abstained, and Perry has no powers. Besides, it's not like I can control it, it just popped into my head."
"That's the whole point. None of us can control our powers. That's what scares me. I could panic and freeze the entire restaurant."
"Ssh, here he comes," Phoebe whispered as Alec walked over.
Perry just sat there frowning when Phoebe showed off 'guessing' what she saw in her premonition, making Piper roll her eyes. "Why are you so quiet? What's wrong?" Piper asked her as Phoebe and Alec walked away.
"What if there's a reason Phoebe had a premonition about Alec?" Perry asked in concern, "Maybe it's a warning. He could be a warlock or something."
"Then she'd see him doing something evil, not buying martinis," Piper told her, "Look, just focus on your meeting. Phoebe will be fine."
"Morning," Prue said, walking into the kitchen. Piper was whisking eggs and watching a documentary about witch trials, and Perry was drinking a huge cup of coffee.
"Morning," they told their sister.
"What are you watching?"
"Nothing," Piper answered, sounding guilty, "Just a show."
"About witches?"
"Witch trials," Perry helped.
"Are you worried we're gonna be burnt at the stake?"
"Yeah, right..." Piper said, sounding unconvincing.
"By the way, Andy called when you were in the shower," Perry told Prue.
"What did you tell him?" she asked, not sounding very happy.
"That you're in the shower?" the younger sister said, shrugging.
"Bad date?" Piper asked.
"No," Prue answered, but she still looked very serious, "No, no. Not at all. It was great. You know – dinner, movie... sex."
"Excuse me?" Piper said, and Perry abandoned the idea of high-fiving Prue and dropped her hand, "On the first date? You sleaze."
"It wasn't really their first date, Piper," Perry said, and Prue gratefully nodded.
"High-school doesn't count," Piper said, "that was last decade. Spill it."
Prue left the kitchen, her sisters following her. "Ooh, that bad, huh?" Piper asked.
"No, actually that good," Prue said, "It was... well, we were amazing. But that's not the point. I told myself that things would be different. That we would take it slow. It just shouldn't have happened, that's all."
"What shouldn't have happened?" Phoebe asked, coming from upstairs.
"Prue slept with Andy," Piper told her.
"Hello?"
"Thanks a lot, mouth," Prue told Piper.
"Wait, you were gonna tell them but not me?" Phoebe protested, "Family meeting."
"Speaking of last night, what time did you end up rolling in?" Prue asked.
"No, no, no. Do not change the subject."
"Don't dodge the question."
"It must have been at least after three," Piper said.
More like four, Perry thought. She stayed up waiting for Phoebe to come home, worried despite of what Piper said. But she wasn't going to tell Prue and Piper about that. It was a matter of twin loyalty.
"I must still be on New York time," Phoebe said.
"Actually that would make it later," Prue corrected her.
"Or maybe you and Alec..." Piper started to say.
"Who's Alec?" Prue asked, worried.
"Some hottie she hit on in the restaurant."
"Excuse me, where vision is history, he hit on me," Phoebe said, "Remember the whole vision thing?"
"Vision thing?" Prue asked, "Please tell me you didn't use your powers." When Phoebe didn't say anything, Prue looked at Piper and Perry.
"Don't put us in the middle," Piper objected.
"You were born in the middle, Piper," Prue said, "Look, I thought that we agreed."
"No," Phoebe told her, "We didn't. You agreed. You laid down the law. There's a difference."
"Phoebe, our powers are not toys. We have to be careful or they can get us killed."
"Your powers are the only reason we all haven't already been killed," Perry reminded her older sister, "You can't just hide and hope no warlocks notice us. Jeremy knew about your powers months before you even received them."
"What does this have to do with what Phoebe did last night?" Prue asked, annoyed that as usual Perry took her twin's side.
"Perry thinks Alec's a warlock," Piper explained.
"Why else would Phoebe get a premonition about him?" Perry asked.
"Look, it was just a lousy premonition, that's all. Nobody died. Nobody's evil," Phoebe said, "And FYI, nothing happened last night. At least nothing I'm ashamed of."
"There's another reason we have to be careful," Prue told them before Phoebe could leave the room, "Andy thinks someone's abducting women in our area."
"Alec," Perry said, but the only response she got was a glare from Phoebe.
"Abducting women?" her twin asked Prue, "What do you mean?"
"It means that warlocks aren't the only evil we have to watch out for," Prue said, "And FYI, I'm not ashamed of anything."