So I powered through this and got four final chapters out for you and probably not in the way I intended.

Firstly let me start my dedicating this chapter and this entire story to Shannon Doherty. As Prue she was smart, badass, career driven and should have been in that show from start to finish. Her death is a massive loss to me and to the world and I am sending all my best to her family and friends and I would be remiss if I did not tell you that when writing these final Chapters.

Also there was a Euro's final on tonight, I am English this is being posted after the match, I am fucking gutted. I am gutted full stop writing this so I hope it turned out well. I just turned all my inner ire onto the Elders to be honest.

I love Charmed, I love the fandom, I love the people here who love it as much as I do. But I am going to take a bit of a break after this story and access where I got from there, watching the TV series knowing that Shannon is no longer here is going to be hard enough. So I need to go back to the pad and figure out where we go from here.

Disclaimer-Nothing here is mine.

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Let There Be Light.

Chapter 20-Captive Audience

THE FINAL ONE OF SEASON 2-Prue is kidnapped, the sisters must make a choice, Piper and Leo cement their relationship, Prue is sick and Paige even more so as she goes to get answers out of the one person that she really needs them from.

She was late.

Her period was late.

Flipping back a couple of weeks Prue saw that she had been late for the last one as well. All in all that would make two that she had missed. Eight weeks.

She had tried not to panic. With all the demons that she had been fighting, the trauma and the stress and the panic that came with them not to mention the injuries that were often sustained she thought that she was surprised that there had not been more wear and tear on her body. That being said what she was surprised at was the fact that she was this late. Since she was fourteen her period had come naturally and always on time. She had been religious in her use of tampons and she always had it down to a complete t.

So how had she not noticed that she was eight weeks late?

She had thought about it as Andy had gone to sleep. She had curled up next to him thinking hard and she had thought about what had happened.

It was not hard to miss what eight weeks of no period could mean.

It was just that would mean that she was…

That she was…

And that wasn't a possibility. Prue had been religious in her use of contraception since she was seventeen. She'd never even so much as had a pregnancy scare before—unlike Phoebe who she knew had, had two. Even though she and Andy had stopped using other kinds of protection when he had moved in—after all it wasn't like they were going to sleep with anyone else was it?, she had still kept on the pill and as far as she knew she had taken it religiously except..

It was three in the morning when this thought had come to her.

The one time she had skipped a day (that she could remember) was that time Piper had been in the hospital. They had been under the influence of the Awakening spell and they had fucked like rabbits (now was not a time to be polite about it) and then they had been at the hospital for hours trying to fix the mess that they had made. She remembered it clearly now that she was thinking over every detail. She had not had the chance to grab the pill between the government people arriving and coming back. Indeed she had not taken it until two days afterwards due to the sheer exhaustion that was the spell's major side effects.

But surely…surely…

That morning she had gone into the bathroom before Andy had woken up and pulled up her shirt so that she could see her belly. It was pointless. Even if she was pregnant which she was sure that she was not she was certain that her body would not recognise it yet. Even if witches pregnancies were different from the average mortal and holy hell what if they were?

Before she could get panicked over that thought she had tried to look on the bright side. Her stomach was still flat and smooth and there was no hardness to it or at least that was what she could feel. Maybe a tightening of the muscles perhaps but surely that was due to the kickboxing that she and Phoebe did twice a week as well as the crunches that she had been doing. Her stomach had always been flat. Now she had abs forming. That was what it had to be surely? Nothing else.

That was how she had left it for a week as it seemed the world—or at the least the city was falling down around them and then she had decided to bite the bullet. She had gone to the drugs store and looked at the pregnancy tests and she had bought one but she had still booked a doctor's appointment. She had no idea what she was going to do and to be honest as she sat at the Paula Cole's show with Andy listening to the peaceful music she thought that it was a nice distraction if a demon was behind all this carnage in the city like Piper thought it was. It was almost worth running in without a second glance at the danger ahead even if it was against Leo's advice.

It was until she was sucked into what felt like a vice squeezing her downwards. She wasn't even aware that the arm of the bastard with his hands around his neck was loosening it until she fell and hit something solid and then it all (as cliché as it sounded) went black.

"So let me get this straight you two did exactly what Leo told you not to do and now Prue's missing!"

That was Paige.

She had not come on the whole demon thing but she had been busy.

She had not told them what she had been doing not told them that she had called their Mom that day and she would not tell them what she had talked about with the woman either. She did not think she could do that, Sam and her and her Mom…it was a mess, a mess of contradictions and painful decisions and mistakes and she didn't know if she had it in her heart to be anything other than angry and as her Mom had said she had to get rid of that thought before it consumed her.

"I loved him, I loved him and I loved you and I fought for you because I loved you more. And I wouldn't have it any other way. And I wont pretend Paige that I like the idea of you with a demon but if you love him the way that I loved Sam then you need to hold onto him because life without him won't be worth living"

Carefully she had not told her mother about the pregnancy test.

She was not sure she wanted to think about that either.

She knew she was pregnant.

At the time she had not known about Prue.

That might have changed things a little if she'd known.

Anyway…

"Paige we already feel bad enough and if you'd have been with—"

"Piper don't start on Paige, had she been here with us we might have lost two sisters and not one, as it stands we have a better odds at finishing this, it's three against three."

"Are you sure she's alive?"

"We felt her" Phoebe said quietly. "It's like she's…she's on another plane, the astral one"

"Is that the same as the place she went when she was dead—to fight the ghost?"

"No" Phoebe said shaking her head. "No that's different, this is another place but…but we need to get her out of there and the only way we can do that is if we work together—besides, as far as demons go these three are easier to work with"

Paige swore and then sat down. Her stomach felt off.

And that was before Leo arrived with the news.

Andy had always said that he was sure that nothing would surprise him but the truth of the matter was he had a feeling that it would and that things would continue to do just that.

"Didn't dodging the whole Y2K thing give us some breathing room on that?"

Leo explained that the Mayans had gotten it wrong. Well that had seen a lot of panicked people by air raid shelters for nothing Andy thought glumly.

He was pulled out of his thoughts to see them both arguing with Leo about saving Prue.

"You're the Charmed One's, you have a responsibility"

"Yeah to our sister"

"We save her" Andy said finally. It cut through all arguments. "I get where you're coming from Leo but we save her. It doesn't matter what happens after that. We have to save her."

"Regardless of what comes next, of war and death and disease and famine and strife and the rest of it"

Andy didn't have to think about it. Not really. To him the answer was obvious.

"Yes"

To the sisters the answer was obvious.

Leo stared at them and then Andy asked the question when they were alone.

"If it was Piper would this be a discussion?"

"I…it would break me…it would utterly destroy me but I would have to choose the millions of people who have a normal life out there that will be ruined rather than the woman that I love because, because I would want her to do the same for me. I wouldn't want all of that, on my conscious. I wouldn't want to save her only to lose her afterwards. And yes it would kill me, it would break me into pieces and I would never be the same again but I would know that the greater good was—"

"That's all you people talk about, the greater good. You can't have it both ways Leo. The elders either want a greater good or they want the Charmed Ones. They either want them to be with the people who they love or they risk pushing them into open rebellion. What happens if Prue dies…then they still win? This way we've got a fighting chance"

"No this way you get Prue back and damn the consequences"

Andy thought about it. He thought about Daryl's kids and his friends and he thought about the last time that they had been selfish. It had nearly cost them everything. It had nearly cost them Piper. But they had been at risk then too, constantly at risk and hoping that each day was a blessing that they could be together. He didn't want that.

"You got any idea when this is going to stop?" he asked honestly. "Or do we just keep fighting evil until we are all dead"

Leo shrugged. Andy thought he looked exhausted too.

"It's got to end at some point" he said. "And I…at least you can grow old"

Andy had not thought about that.

"I suppose that's a point" he said finally.

"Andy—"

"I know it's selfish Leo. I know it's the most selfish thing that any of us will ever do but unless they throw us another miracle I don't see what else there is to do. You give me a way we get out of this with our lives without being selfish and I'll let you take me to the sister's right now and I'll get them to stop."

Leo sighed.

He said nothing.

But Andy thought that he understood.

They did get Prue back and that night she took a pregnancy test. Paige watched as her face lit up and wondered weather she would get to look like that either. For Prue it was easy, she was in a relationship with a man she had loved since she knew how to love, she had a normal mortal man on her arm, a chance of having a normal mortal baby. Paige did not have that.

But that night as she laid in her bed and held her hands over her belly she knew that it was not about stealing Prue's thunder. She knew that there would be a baby girl with blonde hair coming out of her. she trusted that part of her future and if she had to trust that part of her future then she had to trust the other part. That Zankou would stand with her.

After all they had Prue with her mortal man.

Piper doing what their mother had not been able to and standing by her whitelighter come heaven or hell.

Paige with the original demon…

And Phoebe with…

Well…whoever it was Phoebe ended up with she supposed.

She turned on her side and breathed in the smell from the empty side of the pillow.

Her last though was admittedly slightly childish.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if Phoebe ended up with a troll…

And there we go

Next Chapter-As we enter Season 3, Cole Turner explodes on the scene and Paige somehow has to find a way to tell everyone she's pregnant. And then there is Piper and Leo who just want to be together and yet can't.