Summary: Buffy and Dawn returned to Earth at the end of Down the Rabbit Hole to find out that there were more descendents of Revan out there. Buffy goes to San Francisco to train Prue, Piper and Phoebe Halliwell (and later Paige Matthews) in the Jedi arts.

A/U: Set in my Star Wars: Down the Rabbit Hole Universe post Return of the Jedi. While not required it is recommended you read Down the Rabbit Hole, especially the final chapter as it sets up a couple things that were mentioned in the first chapter of this story.

Pairing: Buffy/Angel - Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Paige (Canon Pairings) - Aurora/Willow

Disclaimer: Joss Whedon owns Buffy, Disney owns Star Wars, WB owns Charmed (or it could be CBS since they were planning on doing a reboot of Charmed).

Chapter 1: The Witch is Back

Melinda Warren sat in the middle of the cell she had been locked in trying to remember the meditation techniques her mother had taught her as the cell door opened and the man who had accused her of witchcraft strolled in. "Matthew."

"Hello, Melinda." Matthew smirked.

"Why?" Melinda asked. "Why did you betray me?"

"You got what you deserve." Matthew replied as he looked at her.

"So you've never loved me?" Melinda said with a nod. "All the passion, all the heat?"

Matthew smirked. "I had to make you trust me. It was the only way to share your powers."

"And so now you have them," Melinda said with a sigh. "So why would you turn me in? You know I'll burn."

"I had to keep my secret," Matthew said.

"Well, you can keep your trinkets too," Melinda said as she pulled off a locket that was around her neck and threw it at him.

Matthew picked up the locket as he smirked at her. "I'll find another witch to give it to," he said as he opened it.

"Maybe not," Melinda smirked.

Matthew took a piece of paper from the locket as it caught fire. "What magic is this?" he said as he threw the paper to the ground.

Melinda smiled. "I'm taking back the powers you stole from me. Outside of time, outside of gain, know only sorrow, know only pain." She watched as Matthew was imprisoned in the locket.

Several hundred years later Rex Buckland owner of Buckland's auction house put some jewelry on Prue Halliwell's desk. He picked up a locket and tried to open it as Prue walked in.

"Rex?" Prue asked.

"Ah, good morning, Prue," Rex said as he set down the locket. "I've, uh, left a few things for you to catalogue. A marvelous shipment from an estate back east."

Prue nodded. "I'll get right on it."

"Thanks." Rex said as he turned and walked out the door closing it behind him.

Prue looked at the locket and picked it up as she opened it and Matthew appeared.

"At last, freedom. The world has changed. What time is this?" he asked as he looked around him.

"Excuse me?" Prue asked.

"Where am I?" Matthew asked.

"Who are you?" Prue asked as she looked at him.

"Matthew Tate, and if you freed me from that locket you are a descendant of Melinda Warren," he said as he moved toward Prue. She proceeded to use her power and threw him across the room. "Thank you."

"For what?" Prue asked as he stood up.

"I tricked you into using your power on me. Now, I have it." Matthew said as he used Prue's power against and trapped her between a chair and the wall. He then disappeared and she ran to the middle of the room. He reappeared behind her. "Behind you, witch."

"How did you do that?" Prue asked.

"I can share your power but you can't share mine." Matthew replied.

"What do you want?" Prue asked as she took a step away from him.

"I want what Melinda took from me. I want all three powers back." Matthew grabbed her by the arm. "Defend yourself. Stop time."

"I can't." Prue said.

Matthew nodded in understanding. "Ah, so you're not alone. There are others." He disappeared and reappeared in front of the desk. "And the family name is now Halliwell."

"Prue, are you okay in there?" came Rex's voice from the other side of the door.

Matthew used Prue's power to break the glass on the window and then jumped out of it.

At the Manor Leo Wyatt was under the sink as he tried to fix it.

"So I suggested we add crab satay to the, uh, lunch menu and it was great," Piper said. "Sold out. Do you like crab, Leo?"

"You know what I'd love, Piper?" Leo said.

"What's that?" Piper asked.

"Is the, uh, ratchet extension," Leo said. "Could you hand that to me?"

Piper nodded. "Sure," she said as she looked in his toolbox as Phoebe walked over and pulled out the ratchet extension. "I knew that." She took the ratchet extension and gave it to Leo. "Here you go."

Leo smiled. "Thanks."

"Stop it. Go away," Piper said as she whispered to Phoebe. "Be right back, Leo."

"No problem," Leo said as Piper and Phoebe walked into the dining room.

"Stop it," Piper said.

"My sentiments exactly. Stop hinting around and ask him out already. Give him some of your crab," Phoebe said.

Piper frowned. "Don't be disgusting."

"Don't be so shy," Phoebe said.

"What if he says no?" Piper asked.

Phoebe smiled. "Yeah, like that'll happen."

Piper sighed. "No, I'm serious."

"So am I," Phoebe said.

"I'm very serious. I've never ... you know ..." Piper said.

"You are kidding, right?" Phoebe asked.

Piper shook her head. "No."

"You've never asked a guy out before?" Phoebe asked as she smiled at her sister.

"Not on a real date, no," Piper said.

Phoebe shook her head. "I don't understand. Am I the only person in this family who's inherited the take-a-chance gene?"

"Probably," Piper said. "'Cause if I remember my biology correctly, it's attached to the can't-mind-my-own-business gene."

"Ooh. Go," Phoebe said as she pushed Piper back into the kitchen.

"Well, part of the pipe is stuck. I'm almost finished here," Leo said as he came out from under the sink.

"Terrific," Piper said. "Can I get you some tea?"

Leo smiled. "Yeah, that'd be great," he said as Piper got the tea out of the fridge.

Piper put the tea on the bench as Phoebe accidentally knocked it off. Reacting on instinct Piper froze the tea before it could fall on the floor. "Leo?"

"Frozen," Phoebe said. "Quick, have your way with him."

"Do you never stop?" Piper asked as Phoebe laughed. She held a bucket under the tea.

"Looks like a Kodak moment to me," Phoebe said as she pretended to take a picture.

Piper shook her head. "Phoebe, you're such a help."

Phoebe smiled. "Smile."

Leo and the tea unfroze just as Prue walked into the kitchen. "You guys, we are in serious trouble," she said as Phoebe pointed to Leo. "Uh, hi, Leo."

"Hey, Prue," Leo said.

"Hey, uh, sisters. Upstairs now," Prue said as she led them upstairs to the attic and told them about Matthew.

"What did you say his name was?" Piper asked moments later.

"Matthew Tate," Prue said again. "And somehow he knows that we're related to Melinda Warren,"

Phoebe's eyes went wide. "The Book of Shadows Melinda? Our ancestor?"

"The one who burned at stake and started this whole mess," Piper said.

"Uh, he came out of the locket," Prue said. "And he has strong powers. Stronger than mine, I mean, he did the weirdest thing. One minute he was in front of me, the next he was behind me and then twelve stories down landed right on his feet.

"If it walks like warlock, and talks like a warlock," Phoebe said.

Prue nodded. "Yeah, well, he's powerful and he means business. And he wants all three of our powers."

"Can I see the locket?" Phoebe asked as Prue handed it to her.

"We have to figure out who he is before he finds the two of you," Prue said.

Phoebe gasped as she had a premonition of Melinda imprisoning Matthew in the locket. "You said Matthew came out of the locket? I think I just saw Melinda put him in."

"You saw the past?" Prue asked.

"But you only see the future," Piper said.

Phoebe shook her head. "Not anymore."

"We always knew that our powers would grow," Prue said.

"Yes, but somehow I thought I was gonna get to fly," Phoebe said as Prue and Piper smiled.

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At Buffy's apartment, Buffy, Willow and Angel were watching a news report.

"This morning witnesses claim they saw a man fall twelve stories from the offices of Prue Halliwell. He apparently got up and walked away unharmed."

"Sith?" Willow wondered.

"If it is, Glory trained someone before Revan imprisoned her," Buffy said.

"How would a Sith know to target your cousin? I assume that is one of your cousins," Angel said. "They haven't even been trained."

"I don't know," Buffy said.

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At the manor Prue, Piper and Phoebe sat around a table in the attic.

"Am I the only one having the second thoughts?" Piper asked.

Phoebe nodded. "Yes."

"We don't really have any others options," Prue said.

"But aren't we, like, raising the dead?" Piper asked. "What if she's all ..."

Phoebe shook her head. "I read The Book of Shadows very carefully. She will come back as a real live person, flesh and blood. She will have her powers too. Our powers," she said as she picked up a knife.

"What's that for?" Piper asked.

"Well, the spell works by blood calling blood, so it shouldn't hurt ... much," Phoebe said as she stabbed her finger with the knife. "I lied, I lied. Okay, come on guys. It'll be just like the summer by the lake. Remember when we made a blood oath to be friends forever, not just sisters?"

"I remember my finger got infected," Piper said as Prue took the knife from Phoebe.

"Ow," Prue said as she stabbed her own finger. "Yeah, but the oath worked." She held out the knife to Piper.

"And I couldn't go in the water for three weeks," Piper said as she shied away from the knife. "Don't hand me that knife."

"How are you gonna cut yourself?" Prue asked.

"I'm not," Piper replied.

"Piper ..." Phoebe said with a sigh.

"I can't stand the sight of blood."

"Evil beings have blown up in our attic ..." Prue said.

"Disintegrated to dust right before our very eyes ..." Phoebe added.

"And you're afraid of a little drop of blood?" Prue concluded.

Piper sighed as she held out her hand. "Okay, just cut my finger."

"You do it," Prue said as she handed the knife back to Phoebe.

Piper covered her eyes as Phoebe stabbed her finger. "Ow!"

"Okay, here," Prue said as the three of them let a drop of blood fall into the locket.

Phoebe proceeded to close the locket and placed it in a bowl. "Melinda Warren, blood of our blood..."

"Our great, great, great, great, great, great, grandmother." The three of them said in unison.

"We summon thee," Phoebe concluded as stardust floated through the air and Melinda appeared.

Melinda smiled at the sisters. "Oh, blessed be."

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Buffy sat on her bed, her eyes closed in meditation as she tried to summon her ancestor, the Force Ghost—Revan.

"Hello, my child."

Buffy opened her eyes and looked at Revan. "Did Glory have an apprentice here on Earth. Someone she might have trained?"

"I do not know," Revan replied. "It is conceivable as there was a time when I had no indication of where she was. Yet did she not tell you she had no apprentice?"

"Since she had been in stasis for eight hundred years," Buffy said. "It could be construed that she meant she had no apprentice, now. Not that she had not taken one during your time here on Earth."

"It is possible," Revan said. "If there are Sith here, then they have no affiliation with the Sith of the galaxy. As they are likely Earth born. It is conceivable that Glorificus taught someone the ways of the Sith just as I taught the Knights of Bynatium the Jedi arts. But as you know now there are Force sensitives on this world. It is not a huge stretch of the imagination that someone could become Sith. And it would be easy to believe that the powers of both Jedi and Sith are magical in nature. Especially when the Force gifts those so inclined in the ability to use magic, just as it has done with your distant cousins and your friend, Willow, and your niece, Aurora."

Buffy got up of the bed and moved to a desk where she picked up the genealogy that Giles had drawn up for her. "Then I should meet with them now, instead of later. For if this man is a Sith, then my cousins are in great danger." She then turned and walked out of the room.

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At the Manor in Phoebe's room, Phoebe held a dress that she unzipped.

"No, don't-don't rip the dress to make it fit me," Melinda said as she thought Phoebe was doing just that, ripping the dress.

Phoebe smiled. "Oh, no, no, I'm not ripping it. It's called a zipper, see?" she said as she zipped the dress back up.

"Oh, a wise witch made this," Melinda said as she took the dress from Phoebe and began to play with the zipper.

Phoebe nodded. "Yeah, and wise witches in this century keep a low profile. You slip this dress on, you'll blend right in."

"It's so odd to be here again," Melinda said as she started to put the dress on. "To breathe and feel. What sheep has wool so soft?"

"A synthetic one," Phoebe replied.

"Oh!" Melinda said as Phoebe zipped up the dress. "So did it, did it take you long to make the dress?"

Phoebe shook her head. "Make it? No, no, I bought it."

"Oh, you must be rich," Melinda said,

"No, she's got credit cards."

They turned to see Piper and Prue standing in the door as they realized it had been Prue who spoke.

"Oh, wow, Melinda, you look great," Piper said.

Melinda smiled. "Thank you. Oh, but how do you keep your legs warm?"

"We drink coffee," Prue said as Leo approached the doorway.

"Oh, sorry, I let myself in and it didn't occur to me," Leo said.

"Leo, uh, it's okay," Piper said. "This is, uh ..."

"Our cousin, Melinda," Phoebe finished for Piper.

"Nice to meet you," Leo said.

"Leo's fixing our plumbing," Piper said.

"What's that?" Melinda asked.

"Uh, we've got to go now," Prue said.

Melinda smiled at Leo. "To work with one's hands is a great gift."

"Well, I am a true laborer," Leo said. "I earn that I eat, get that I wear."

"Owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness." Melinda nodded in understanding. "Shakespeare."

"Shakespeare," Leo echoed as Melinda giggled.

"Wasn't that fun? Okay, let's go now," Prue said as they headed out the door and down the stairs.

"He is a treasure, Piper," Melinda said to Piper.

"Why you telling me?" Piper wondered.

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Buffy looked at the address she had written down: 1329 Prescott. She then looked up at the old Victorian style house. This was it. She got out of her car and headed up the stairs.

Inside in the dining room, Piper, Phoebe and Melinda sat around the table. Prue stood behind Melinda as she put the locket around Melinda's neck.

"Once Matthew had what he wanted, he told the town council I was a witch and they arrested me. Then they burned me at the stake," Melinda said.

"Why didn't you save yourself?" Piper wondered.

"Yeah, why didn't you use your powers to escape?" Phoebe asked.

"I had a daughter and a niece," Melinda said. "My daughter's name was Prudence and my niece's was Penelope. They meant everything to me. If I had used my powers, I would've proven Matthew's charge and both Prudence and Penelope would've burned too. So I thought, I'll accept this and pray some kind soul will take pity on them and raise them in a safe home. Only then could the Warren line continue. And it must've worked because here you are."

"Why do Warren witches lose their moms so early?" Phoebe wondered.

Melinda thought about her sister Emily, who like herself had left the world young. Leaving behind a daughter. Unlike Emily who had died two years before her. She had no one to look after her daughter or Emily's when she was burned at the stake. "Phoebe, I can't change the past but I think I can protect the future."

"How?" Prue asked. "Matthew is so strong and he has this wild power. He can be at one place and then another."

"In the blink of an eye?" Melinda asked.

Prue nodded. "Exactly."

"It's called blinking," Melinda said. "It's a standard warlock power. Though it was not the only one he had, he had copied others from other witches. I stripped him of all the powers he copied from me but who knows what other powers he still has?"

"What do you mean copied from you?" Phoebe asked.

"Matthew's gift is to copy the power of a good witch when it's used against him."

"Then he definitely has mine," Prue said.

"Once he's copied a power, it has no effect on him," Melinda said. "Should he gain all three powers, he will be impossible to vanquish."

"So what do we do?" Prue asked.

"We curse him back in the locket," Melinda said.

"And if we can't?" Piper wondered.

No one answered as a knock came at the door. Prue looked to her sisters as Piper got up and moved to the front door opening it. She saw on the front porch a blonde woman she was sure she recognized. But couldn't quite place. "Yes?"

The blonde looked at Piper and smiled. "Prue, Piper or Phoebe Halliwell?"

Piper nodded as Prue and Phoebe walked up beside her. "I'm Piper. Who are you?"

The blonde smiled. "Buffy Naberrie, Jedi Master."

Piper's eyes went wide as she remembered where she had seen the woman. She, Prue and Phoebe had been watching a news conference two months earlier about visitors from another world who had come in peace and were going to give Earth the technology to bring itself up with the rest of the galaxy. She looked to Prue who shook her head. They had more pressing matters to deal with than her.

It was just then they heard a gasp behind them. They had forgotten about Melinda for a moment. "Emily?" Melinda said.

"The name is Buffy," the blonde said with a shake of her head. "You look familiar though. Do I know you?"

Melinda smiled and nodded. "Let her in, please."

Prue sighed and nodded. "Please come in Ms. Naberrie."

Buffy stepped across the threshold as Piper closed the door behind her. "Buffy will be fine. I came because I wanted to ask you three if you wanted to be trained as Jedi."

Piper looked at her sisters and saw the mirrored reaction to Buffy's statement.

"Jedi?" Prue asked.

"How much do you know of your family tree?" Buffy asked.

"We have genealogy going back to the 1600's to Charlotte Warren. Why?" Piper asked.

"What if I told you I had genealogy for your family dating even farther back than that to the 1200's and Charissa Hanas and her husband the first Jedi to ever set foot on Earth." Buffy replied.

Melinda smiled and took Buffy's arm in hers. "Your Emily's descendant?"

Prue, Piper and Phoebe looked at Melinda as she led Buffy into the living room. Who was Emily? they wondered.

"If you mean Emily Warren, yes. Who are you?" Buffy asked.

"Melinda Warren." Melinda replied.

Buffy looked to the sisters. "You summoned your ancestor?"

Prue just looked at Buffy as Piper and Phoebe nodded. "I thought you were from outer space?"

Buffy shook her head. "I was born in Los Angeles and due to a portal I stepped through I was given the chance to become a Jedi. My ancestor was Charissa Hanas and the Jedi Revan. And they are yours as well."

"I would ask how you came up with this information." Prue said. She was skeptical that Buffy had this genealogy.

"While I didn't know the name of Charissa's husband. Our lineage had been passed down through the generations. It would have been lost with my death. Charissa was my ancestor." Melinda confirmed as she looked at Buffy. "It is good to see that my sister's family survived."

Buffy pulled out a roll of paper and put it on the dining room table and unrolled it. She motioned for the sisters and Melinda to have a look as she pointed to Charissa Hanas. "This is our ancestor Charissa and that is her husband Revan, the first Jedi to come to Earth. Now…" She pointed at where Charlotte Warren's name is. "Here is Charlotte Warren and if you look underneath you will see Melinda's name and her sister Emily's. As Melinda already surmised Emily is my ancestor."

The sisters looked at Buffy and then back at the detailed family tree in front of them. Emily, they noted, had been born three years after Melinda. They then looked back at Charissa Hanas. Melinda had supposedly been the beginnings of their magical line. But what if it wasn't true, what if their powers came from someone else. What if their family had been destined to be Jedi instead of just witches?

Buffy smiled. "I can see this is a lot to take in."

"That's an understatement." Phoebe said as she looked up at her cousin. "Do you have powers?"

"I assume you mean like you have." Buffy said as the sisters nodded. She remembered when Revan had told her of Melinda Warren's descendants, that they had been gifted with magical powers on top of their latent Jedi abilities. "A Jedi can do similar things, yes. The Force can give Jedi premonitions like you Phoebe. With the Force you can move things with your mind like you Prue. And there is an ability that can put someone into stasis like your power Piper."

"So were you a witch before you became a Jedi?" Phoebe asked.

Buffy smiled and shook her head. "No, the Slayer."

"The Slayer? What's that?" Piper asked.

It was Melinda who answered. "The Slayer is a girl that is gifted with enhanced abilities to fight the forces of darkness. Such as strength, agility and an increased healing rate."

Buffy nodded. "Melinda is correct. How I became a Jedi is a long complicated story that I will fill you in on later. So what's going on that you had to summon your ancestor?"

The sisters looked at Melinda who nodded indicating it was alright.

"We need to vanquish a warlock." Prue stated. "One that Melinda had imprisoned and was recently released from his imprisonment."

"How was he released," Buffy asked.

"I opened the locket that he was trapped in," Prue said. "I did not know he had been trapped in it at the time."

"What's the plan?" Buffy asked.

"To trap him in the locket again," Melinda said as the sisters led her and Buffy up to the attic.

They talked about the spell and ingredients needed to imprison Matthew again as they moved over to the Book of Shadows.

"I can't believe I don't remember all the ingredients." Melinda said.

Prue nodded. "It's been a while since you cursed Matthew."

"Yeah, like three hundred years." Phoebe added.

"Whatever you don't remember should be in the book." Piper said.

"The Book of Shadows. Oh, my, it's gotten so thick." Melinda said as she looked at the Book.

"It wasn't always?" Buffy asked as she touched the book, flipping a page. She noticed that the sisters let out a sigh of relief.

Melinda shook her head. "No, no. But obviously each generation of Warren witches has added to it over the years and has made it so." She looked to the sisters. "Have you added anything?"

"Us? Are you kidding? We're new at this. We can't just make up our own spell ... wait, can we?" Phoebe said.

Melinda smiled. "All things in time, Phoebe. The book will grow as you grow. Sometimes you add to it, sometimes it teaches you. And by the looks of Buffy here, you will have a lot to learn." She turned to a page in the book. "Oh, here's the curse."

Prue handed Melinda a pencil and paper. Melinda had a confused expression on her face. "Just start writing."

"No ink?" Melinda asked.

Buffy shook her head. "No. And with Earth joining the New Republic even writing will become a thing of the past."

Melinda started writing and smiled. "Ha!"

"Grams must've added this one." Piper said as she looked at the opposite page.

Melinda read the title for the spell on opposite page of her curse. "To Increase Patience."

Phoebe nodded. "I bet she used that spell a lot raising us, huh?"

Prue shook her head. "We weren't all troublemakers, Phoebe."

"I was not a troublemaker. I was just..." Phoebe said.

Piper smiled. "A pain."

Buffy smiled as she watched the sisters. It reminded her of herself and Dawn before their enslavement.

"A free spirit." Phoebe replied.

Prue shook her head. "A handful."

"A Warren. It's a family trait," Melinda said. "So are the short tempers, the great cheekbones, the strong wills, and of course the powers."

"All except the powers seem to have been handed down from Emily also," Buffy said. "My sister and I share those same traits." Though she had to wonder if even the powers had been handed down. Aurora did in fact have the power of teleportation. But that was because of the Key, right?

Melinda nodded as she looked at Buffy. "Emily passed something else down. Emily was called as a Slayer."

"That's how you knew?" Buffy asked.

Melinda nodded. "Her daughter, Elizabeth, was born on Emily's eighteenth birthday, three days before Emily died fighting a vampire."

"During her Cruciamentum?" Buffy asked.

"Yes," Melinda said. "I take it that particular test is still given?"

Buffy sighed and nodded. "Yes. I took it when I was eighteen. Not only did I lose my Slayer abilities but the vampire they had for the test got free and kidnapped my mom."

Melinda looked at Buffy with sympathy. She then turned back to the sisters. "Everything our family has handed down are all blessings, all signs of where you came from. This book is your connection to me. The rest began with Revan and Charissa," she said.

Buffy nodded. "That is your legacy also. You were destined to be both witches and Jedi."

"Well, let's make sure either legacy doesn't end with us. We need to get going." Prue said as they walked downstairs into the kitchen and start making the potion.

"The curse is really simple as long as you have the ingredients I need." Melinda said.

"Phoebe can do the spices and I'll chop the scallions." Piper said.

Phoebe smiled. "This is so cool. We've never done a curse before."

"Oh, I'm glad. They're not to be taken lightly." Melinda said.

"Dark magic is never to be taken lightly. You can ask my old Padawan about that." Buffy said.

"Your old Padawan?" Prue asked.

"I just feel like there's so much we could be learning or doing if we had the right teacher." Phoebe said.

Buffy smiled. "Willow Rosenberg, Jedi Knight. She was born in Sunnydale. She is a witch, not natural born like you all. She delved into dark magic for a bit when her lover was killed."

"I'd savor my first gift before I move on to the next one." Melinda said. "But it does seem you will have a good teacher."

Prue sighed. "Assuming we accept her offer. So do we have everything?"

Piper shook her head. "Actually there are a few herbs we don't have but I can get them at the restaurant."

"The only problem is the feather from the spotted owl." Phoebe said.

Melinda frowned. "Is that a problem?"

"They're an endangered species. Certain animals from your time aren't really around anymore. It is now actually illegal to hunt them." Buffy said.

"Why?"

"Deforestation, pollution... it's a long story." Phoebe said.

Piper nodded. "Do you think they have one at the zoo?"

"What's a zoo?" Melinda asked.

Buffy rolled her eyes. Melinda's curiosity was beginning to give her a headache. "It's a place where people can see animals in their natural habitat. Without having to worry about becoming food for those same animals. It is also a place where some animals, like the spotted owl, can be protected from going extinct."

"You know what? I'll work on the feather. Piper, can you handle the herbs?" Prue said.

Piper nodded. "Uh, yeah, after I get to Quake, though I might have a problem getting out because I'm supposed to work the night shift."

"Well, I'll come with you and bring back the stuff if you get hung up." Phoebe replied.

"No, you can't leave the house. You are the two Matthew needs." Melinda said. "The same goes for you Buffy. Who knows for sure if he can copy your Jedi powers."

"We'll be fine. How could Matthew even know about Quake?" Piper replied.

"And I'll go with Prue. If that's alright with you. Without powers you are still vulnerable." Buffy said.

Prue sighed and nodded. "Alright."

Later after Phoebe and Piper had left; Prue, Buffy and Melinda walked down the stairs.

"All right, I found a spotted owl at the museum where I used to work. Stuffed," Prue said.

Melinda nodded. "But we only need one feather."

"Good. Maybe that'll keep it down to a misdemeanor. Look, we'll be back as soon as we can." Prue said.

"Okay." Melinda said as Prue and Buffy left.

Thirty minutes later Buffy and Prue snuck through the museum. Every time they were confronted by a guard Buffy would use the Force and make them forget that they were even there. When they finally left the building after retrieving the feather, they ran into one of San Francisco's finest—Inspector Andy Trudeau, who also happened to be an old boyfriend of Prue.

"Andy, what are you doing here?" Prue asked.

Buffy was about to use the Force on Andy and make him forget they were there when Prue put a hand on her arm to stop her.

"You have to come with me, Prue." Andy said before he looked to Buffy. He recognized her from both the news conference two months before and the briefing that very morning. He couldn't touch her legally. She had the equivalent of diplomatic immunity. "You are free to go Miss Naberrie."

"I will accompany my Padawan." Buffy stated.

Andy looked at Prue. "Padawan?"

Prue let out a sigh. "She approached Piper, Phoebe and I about becoming Jedi. Officially we haven't given her an answer. But technically I think we are all in agreement that we will accept her offer."

"Well you can accompany us if you like, Miss Naberrie…" Andy said.

Buffy smiled. "It is Master Naberrie. Like yourself, Inspector, we are addressed by our rank in the Jedi Order."

"Of course Master Naberrie. You can accompany us but I still have questions for Prue. Till she has officially accepted your offer she still can be held accountable to our laws."

Buffy nodded as she followed Prue and Andy to his car. She listened to Andy question Prue, mainly about what happened at office and about the feather.

"Now for the last time, Prue. Why the feather?" Andy said a few minutes later.

Prue sighed. "I told you. I already had it from before."

"Before what? No, go ahead, you can say it. Before breaking and entering a museum which of course you did after you obstructed justice."

"How did I obstruct justice?" Prue asked.

"Oh, come on, Prue, don't play dumb with me, I know you too well. You're in a lot of trouble here. Trouble in which I can't help you out unless you help me." Andy said. "Trouble that could even make it where you can't accept Master Naberrie's offer."

"Maybe I should talk to a lawyer." Prue replied.

"Prue, you have to accept the offer." Buffy said. "Before he can arrest you. Afterwards he's right there will be nothing I can do for you."

Prue looked at the back seat at Buffy and then nodded. "I hereby officially accept your offer, Master Naberrie."

"Inspector you no longer have a case." Buffy said. "Padawan Halliwell now has diplomatic immunity as agreed when Earth agreed to join the New Republic."

Andy let out a sigh. "Off the record can I ask why you all need the feather?"

Buffy smiled as Prue took the feather from Andy. "Jedi business." She and Prue got out of the car and walked back over to Prue's.

"What have I gotten myself into?" Prue asked as she drove herself and Buffy back towards the Manor.

"With training, the ability to do far more good than you do now and in the open. You will not need to hide anymore." Buffy said.

Prue glanced briefly at Buffy as she thought about it. Being a Jedi would make it easier to be a witch.

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At the Manor Phoebe and Piper stood in the kitchen watching Melinda scoop the potion into a small pouch.

"We're ready now," Melinda said. "All we need is the feather."

"And Prue. What's keeping her? You don't think..." Piper said.

Phoebe shook her head. "No, Prue should be fine. Matthew already copied her power. Plus she has Buffy with her, a Jedi Master remember?"

"Besides, I sent him to the zoo." Melinda said.

Phoebe nodded. "They're probably stuck in traffic."

"When they return, we'll add the feather and seek out Matthew." Melinda said.

"Do you think he's gonna be hard to find?" Piper asked.

"Not at all. I have waited too long for this moment, to hide."

They turned to see Matthew walking through the dining room door.

Melinda frowned. "This is our battle, Matthew. Leave them alone."

"I will have what I came for." Matthew said. Using Prue's telekinesis he made Piper fly into his grasp. "Your powers and your death."

"Piper!" Phoebe called out.

"Freeze me, witch," Matthew said.

Piper shook her head. "In your dreams."

Matthew pulled out a gun and pointed it at Piper's head. "I said freeze me. Save yourself. No?" he said as he then pointed the gun at Phoebe. "Then save your sister."

"Phoebe!" Piper said as Prue and Buffy walked into the room.

"Save yourself," Prue said as he let go of Piper, who ran back over to Phoebe and Melinda.

"Give me that feather." Matthew said.

Buffy smiled. "Prue give the feather to Melinda." She pulled out her lightsaber.

"Ah a Jedi," Matthew said.

Buffy could sense the Force flowing through Matthew. He was not only a warlock but a Force sensitive as well. One she was sure had been trained in the ways of the Sith.

"My father told me about you, and I told my son."

And that was when Buffy received a Force vision showing her Glory bearing a child, teaching that child the ways of the Sith. The child watching his mother dying at Revan's hands and the child picking up Glory's lightsaber.

"You are Glory's descendent," Buffy said. "Just as I am Revan's."

"Yes," Matthew said. "And right now I wish I had not passed on the lightsaber to my son. I would take it up now and fight you."

While Buffy had Matthew distracted Prue had given Melinda the feather, and Melinda had put it into the pouch.

"Piper, now!" Melinda said as Piper froze Matthew. "Outside of time, outside of gain, know only sorrow, know only pain." Matthew unfroze seconds before he found himself once again imprisoned in the locket. "It's what you deserve."

The next day Piper walked into the attic after having gone downstairs to answer the door.

"Who was it?" Phoebe asked.

Piper smiled. "It was Leo."

Prue nodded. "Is he gone?"

"We're perfectly safe." Piper replied.

"Then let's begin." Melinda said as Piper joined her, Prue, Phoebe and Buffy around the table.

"Oh, we can't take those back." Phoebe said as Melinda handed her dress back to her.

"Why not?" Melinda asked.

Phoebe smiled. "Because that means you're leaving."

"Well, I have to go." Melinda said.

"Why? Why can't you stay here and have the life that you should've had?" Phoebe asked as she reluctantly took the dress.

"Because this isn't her time." Buffy said.

Melinda nodded. "Buffy is right. It's your time, and Prue's and Piper's and even Buffy's."

"And Dawn's," Buffy said as Melinda looked at her. "My sister. The prophecy."

Melinda's eyes went wide. "Two shall come …" she said as Buffy nodded.

"What prophecy is this?" Prue asked.

"Two shall come and be trained by the Jedi," Melinda recited. "They will come and be oldest of the Padawans of the age in which they live. They shall be descendants of a Jedi. One shall be born, and the other created through magic to be her sister. They shall rebuild the Order during the dark times when the Sith rule the galaxy. One shall have a daughter born from love's loss. The other shall have a daughter born of angel's wings. Together mother and daughter shall reshape the Jedi Order." She looked to Buffy. "The prophecy was handed down from mother to daughter. Till Emily was five, and I was eight. On that night I had a vision, that Emily's descendants would fulfill the prophecy. I never got the chance to tell the prophecy to Emily's daughter, Penelope. And Emily died before she could pass it along herself."

"Which is why I showed you the prophecy," Revan said as he appeared before them. "Greetings my children."

"This is Revan," Buffy said. "Our ancestor."

"What is he?" Prue asked.

"I become one with the Force when I died," Revan said.

"Think of him as a ghost. Only those sensitive to the Force can see a Force ghost," Buffy said.

"I have come because I have an offer for you, Melinda," Revan said. "A way to return as I do. To become one with the Force. I can teach you if you want."

Melinda bowed her head, it was movement of an apprentice before her master.

"They will release the spell and I will be waiting on the other side," Revan said as he faded from view.

"It is time," Melinda said with a smile. She looked to the sisters. "You three give me great joy. I've seen the Charmed Ones. Good witches. Women of strength and grace." She looked to Buffy. "You, as well as Dawn, give me great joy also. If Emily were here she would be proud of the both of you."

Buffy smiled. "Thank you."

Phoebe took Melinda's hand and held it up to her heart. "Tell me what you see."

Melinda closed her eyes as she received a vision. "I see the future. Many more generations of my beautiful daughters. I see my dreams fulfilled. Oh, thank you for that." She took Buffy's hand and smiled. "I see the prophecy fulfilled. I see mother and daughter together side by side. And many more generations of their daughters as well." She put on the locket and they all joined hands.

"Melinda Warren, blood of our blood, we release you." Prue said.

Melinda smiled. "Blessed be, my daughters and my niece. I love you all," she said as she disappeared.

Phoebe smiled. "I'm gonna miss her."

Piper nodded. "Me too."

Prue looked to Buffy who nodded. "If I understand what Revan said, she can come back. Right, Master?"

Buffy nodded. "You are correct, my Padawan. In time she will learn to manifest as he has, all Force ghosts do."

"Padawan?" Piper and Phoebe asked.

Prue nodded. "I accepted Master Naberrie's offer to become a Jedi."

Piper and Phoebe look at each other and then nodded in unspoken agreement.

"Will we all be trained by you or have different teachers?" Piper asked.

"Once upon a time it would have been one Padawan to one Master or Knight. But recent events have changed that. All three of you would become my Padawans." Buffy said. "I am not going to force you into it though. And Prue if you want to back out you can."

Prue shook her head. "No, Master Naberrie, this is something I want to do."

"What do we have to do?" Phoebe asked.

Buffy smiled. "You just did it. Welcome to the Jedi Order; Padawan Phoebe Halliwell, Padawan Piper Halliwell and Padawan Prue Halliwell."