A/N: OKAY... READ and REVIEW...thanks for the reviews. I'm gonna probably do two or more chapters in the past and then kind of speed things up. My main concern is the Dean/Prue story and getting back on track.

Prue was putting glasses away when her father came in with another box. Because of regular hard work in advanced placement courses and waving lunch through out high school to take elective courses, Prue was not only graduating a year early but had managed to graduate in December and admitted early into Berkeley for the spring and Sam just thought it was Victor taking Prue out for a college tour, and while Patty had recently begun to agree with Grams that Prue should stay home -albeit for completely different motives- Patty wanted to give her daughter the opportunity to decide for herself. They didn't realize that Prue wouldn't be coming home with her father.

"Do you want something to drink; eat," Prue asked her dad. She was six weeks along and Victor had been adamant that she not do any heavy lifting.

"How about I take you out for a celebratory dinner? This way you don't have to do any cleaning tonight."

"Yeah, you're probably right. Besides, I probably don't want to expose the baby to my cooking until...well, I learn how to cook," Prue joked. "Maybe when Piper finds out I'm at college she'll send me care packages."

"Well, first you have to tell her," Victor said on a serious note. "And since you've already told me it's my job as grandfather to tell your mother and stepfather, I'm going to leave it to you to tell your sisters."

"Uh, somehow I always thought it would be Phoebe in this position," Prue groaned. "I can't wait to hear what she's got to say about it. Oh, god. What if I drop the baby on its' head like I did Phoebe?" Prue was starting to panic again at the thought of motherhood. As much as she had played the part growing up with three little sisters, Prue had always been able to find someway to separate herself from them through her academics and after school activities. She wouldn't be able to do that this time. This baby was hers and there was no way around that. It was her only reminder of her time with Dean, and she hoped that their child looked like him.

Prue had already decided that she wanted to name her child Parker Mary if it were a girl, and if it were a boy Parker Dean; Parker after their special place at Golden Gate Park and Mary or Dean after his family. At first she had thought to name her baby after her mother, and then she had realized that continuing naming the baby with a "P" was her legacy to her child, and she wanted the baby to have something of its' father, since he was no where to be found.

"We can wait for a while, right dad? We don't have to tell them right away, do we?"

"Sooner or later, we have to tell them," Victor told her. "Especially since your mother and Grams will realize that you're no longer in high school when Piper doesn't see you in school next week. But maybe we can hold off on telling them about the baby. Do you have everything you need," he said asking her about the plan they had discussed when they first realized she was pregnant.

"There's an alternative/herbal shop up on main street that sells everything I'm going to need. I'll go there tomorrow and stock up on supplies, and I already have my own Book of Shadows set up. Everything will be fine," she told him. "Besides, I've already set up enchantments on the apartment so I should be good," Prue said to her father.

"Alright, well let's get you some dinner," Victor said grabbing the car keys. "I know I'm starving!"

Months past and before she knew it Prue was more than eight months pregnant. So far her child refused to let the sonogram technician in on the secret of its' gender and Prue was annoyed at her inability to shop properly for baby clothes and bedding.

School was exciting and exhausting and she was glad that she had made a small group of friends with other single parent students who lived in her building. Prue had decided to go to school during every summer session in order to speed through school as quickly as possible. Because of her AP credits she started college halfway through what was technically her sophomore year. Since the last summer session had ended and Prue would be starting her fall semester in two weeks, Prue would be starting the new year halfway through her junior year. She would be eligible to graduate with a bachelors degree in only two years of time and would be nineteen by the time she finished college.

College, however, wasn't her problem. In the time since her family had discovered what she and her dad had pulled, Prue had successfully avoided spending time with them over breaks by telling them that she was busy with extracurricular opportunities for groups she had joined. She made an effort to call her sisters and talk to her mom and Sam but Grams was still ticked off at her. Prue had told her father that she thought it would be best if they waited for the baby to be born before letting the rest of the family know.

Victor and Prue had decided in the beginning of their plan that when the baby was born that Prue would bind her child's powers so that they could live as normal a life as possible until Prue was out of school and was better able to watch over the baby and teach it the responsibility of keeping magic a secret. Since her child would be in day care from the time it was a month old and Prue would also be relying on baby sitters she didn't want to take the chance that the baby would use its' powers in public.

Her baby would be born right in the beginning of the semester and Prue had managed to get syllabi from all of her courses so she could start early on her readings and assignments so she wouldn't miss anything while she was out having the baby, but today Prue was meeting Sally for lunch on main street. Sally was a twenty year old with a two and a half year old son named Max. She had become pregnant during her freshman year and the creep who got her pregnant was a creepy fraternity alum who had messed around with her at a party and then skipped out of town. Sally said he had no idea he even had a kid and Sally refused to go to the frat house and find out where he was to tell him. As far as she was concerned Max was hers and hers alone.

"Hey cutie, are you here with anyone," Prue asked Max and fell back into her chair as gracefully as any heavily pregnant woman could. Max had taken to Prue and even asked her to marry him once. He was such a cute little boy and Prue hoped that if she had a son that he would be just like Max.

"Nuh uh. Mommy went in to to order your lunch. She's watching me from the counter," he told Prue.

The small restaurant had a store front made with huge glass windows and the double doors were open out to let air in on that hot summer day. Sally walked out and sat down next to Max before saying, "It should be out any moment. So, how's the baby," she asked.

"Good," Prue said rubbing her belly protectively. "Not ready to come out yet, I guess."

"Well, to each their own. That little darling will be here before you know it and then you'll be wishing it had stayed in longer. Especially when you're up at two a.m and four a.m before an eight o'clock class."

"I know, but I'm so excited. I just want to know if I'm having a little girl or a boy. I can't- ahh!" Prue clutched her stomach and looked down at her legs to see water rushing down her skirt. "Oh, my God! I think I'm in labor," Prue told Sally.