A/N: OKAY...so the past was change successfully and the prophecy now includes all four sisters. Stay tuned to see if changing the prophecy changed the sisters' fates. And READ and REVIEW
Patty handed Paige to her mother and grabbed the car keys. This summer she had put Prue and Piper in day camp at Skylark and when the drownings had started happening she had become increasingly nervous. Sam had tried to advise her not to go after the water demon that was lying in wait in the lake, and she knew that if he was aware of what she was doing that he would stop everything to go with her, which was why Patty hadn't told anyone -including her mother- what she was doing.
Penny just thought that she was leaving early to go to the grocery store before she picked Prue and Piper up from camp, she didn't know that Patty was going to face the demon on her own. At least, she didn't realize what her daughter planned until her ex son-in law showed up with her two eldest granddaughters.
"What...what are you doing here, and with the girls? They're supposed to be at camp!"
"Patty asked me to watch the girls for her today," Victor told her. "I'm supposed to have them for another two hours but I have a work emergency and I have to go. Patty mentioned earlier that you were watching Phoebe so I was hoping you wouldn't mind watching Piper and Prue."
"Uh, no. It's fine," Penny said and waved a hand like it was no big deal. "It just gives me more time to teach them spells," she said and laughed at the face Victor made before walking him through the door.
When he was gone Penny called out, "Leo!" A shimmering wave of blue lights formed into a tall, handsome blond with eyes like the ocean.
"Penny, it's nice to see you again. What's going on?"
"I need you to do me a favor and watch my girls. Prudence! Piper!" Grams saw the girls run to her and hide behind her, realizing that there was a strange man in the house. "Girls, this is Leo. He's a friend of mine and he's going to watch you for a few minutes okay. Now don't worry or be scared, Grams just has to go and help mommy with something. Okay? I'll see you later, Leo," she said leaving him with his mouth wide open as he had failed to get out the words that were racing through his mind.
Penny parked her car and went running as she tried to make her way to the lake before her daughter did anything reckless. "Patty," she yelled as she saw her daughter at the end of the dock, "behind you!"
The demon swelled forth from the water and rose above Patty. She tried freezing it and realized that it was immune to her powers and suddenly she realized what a big mistake she had made. "Mom, the cables," she cried out.
Penny heard her and looked, realizing that Patty was holding power cables. She threw out her hand the switch flipped just in time to hit the water as it was about to enter her only daughter, and saw the water particles separating as the evaporated into steam. She started running down the dock again and raised her hand to shut off the power to the cables. "Patty, are you alright? What were you thinking coming here by yourself," she chastised her.
"How did you know what I was doing?"
"Victor dropped the girls off at the house," Penny said. "He was called into work and when he brought them over I realized what you must be doing. It's a good thing he did. Why didn't you freeze it?"
"I tried, mother. It was immune to my powers."
"Well, let's get you home."
"Mother, who is watching the girls?"
"Um, well...you see, dear, I had to call Leo to watch them. I couldn't wait for Sam to come home and you know Leo. He'll be fine."
Patty continued to bring the girls to day camp until the end of summer, and got to work planning her wedding to Samuel. They had decided on something small that would take place in the manor. Victor, the girls, and of course Penny, would attend but Patty wanted to keep it low key.
Now that all four of the Charmed ones had been delivered, Grams had decided to kick start the girls' training, although she could really only start teaching Prue and Piper since Phoebe was only two and a half and Paige was just an infant. Prue and Piper were mostly learning spell casting, though Grams realized that she was going to have to be more strict about teaching them not to use magic for personal gain. Surprisingly, Penny had to admit that Victor's idea of putting the girls into martial arts class was a good one. Right now it was just fun for the girls, but in the future it would be handy in keeping them safe. Plus, it was amusing to watch how seriously Prudence took her training and to see Piper becoming less shy. They also looked adorable in their outfits.
Penny was still living with Gail but made a point of hanging out in the manor to watch the girls so that Patty wasn't overwhelmed by the four of them. It had been six months since Paige had been born and things were finally starting to get back into a routine. Penny had put the girls down for a nap and was rearranging the last little pieces before the house could officially be ready for the ceremony that was going to be held that evening. Gail would be attending as well as one or two other witches that the family knew and now that the decorations were finalized Penny had to get started on the food for the dinner.
She was in the kitchen when she heard feet shuffling in and Penny turned to see Piper there. At five years old she had outgrown the phase where she only wanted to eat white food and was the best little helper that Penny could ask for. Piper loved cooking and baking and decorating.
"Piper, what are you doing up?"
"I'm not sleepy. Are you making dinner? I want to help!"
"Of course you can. And after you help me with this, we're going to get you and your sisters ready for tonight. Do you like your dress?"
"It's so pretty," Piper said. "Do Phoebe and Paige get to wear dresses too?"
"Oh, yes they do, and we're going to take lots of pictures with you and your Mother and there's going to be dancing and lots of cake."
"I'm so 'cited," Piper said and she passed her Grams whatever ingredients she needed. It was a happy day for the Halliwell family.
Prue danced with her Daddy before she ran through the manor to find her sisters. Piper was eating with Grams and Phoebe was trying to dance, though Prue thought she wasn't doing it very well because she was still a baby. Looking around, she spotted Paige with her Mom and walked over, tugging on her mother's wedding dress.
"Prue, are you having fun," the witch asked her eldest daughter.
"Um hm," Prue responded nodding her head vigorously. She held her arms out for the baby. "Give me, Paigee. I'll hold her. You and Sam haven't danced yet," she said. She had learned from talking to friends in school that the first dance was the most special part of a wedding, and Prue knew that if they were to have the best wedding that her Mom and Sam needed to get to it already. They would dance to something romantic while everyone watched and then they would cut the cake and then they would live happily ever after. Prue still wondered if that were true, because if so she wanted to ask if Mommy and Daddy had danced at their wedding.
Taking the baby, Prue sat down where she would have a good view of the dance and rocked her baby sister, pretending that she was playing with her doll and that Paige was her baby and this was her wedding. She wished Andy was here but because Grams had used magic he wasn't allowed to be here or else he would know about them being witches and Grams said that was bad. Prue smiled at Paige even when she grabbed Prue's hair and talked to her about what a good baby she was. Turning back to the dance, Prue imagined what she and her sisters would look like when they got married. She couldn't wait to be grown up.
