Prologue

February 14, 1989

Prue Halliwell was a Sophomore at UCLA studying Art History with a minor in Photography when she met Alan Davis. He was handsome, with dark hair and hazel eyes. Alan was a History major with an emphasis on European history. They had a lot to talk about and would often spend hours at a time debating the significance of art in the history of the world.

Prue was the happiest she had ever been, and she could easily envision a future for herself with Alan. Two weeks after Valentine's day, however, Prue discovered she was pregnant. Alan was over the moon, and he proposed to Prue. Prue said yes, and they began planning their future.

Prue knew she was going to have to tell her grams and her sisters about Alan and the baby, but she's reluctant to face her Grandmother's disappointment about her unplanned pregnancy. However, she knew it was inevitable, and so she planned to make a weekend trip to San Francisco in three weeks to tell them.

Before Prue could make the trip to tell her family about Alan and the baby, her professors started to pile on the work and Prue finally resigned herself to telling them when she went home for the summer.

As the time flew by, however, telling her family became harder to do, so she decided not to. Prue stayed in Los Angeles for the summer, telling her Grams she had a summer internship with a local museum to keep the older woman from worrying.

In reality, Prue was too happy with Alan to risk her Grams souring it with her distrust of men. So, Prue went about her life with Alan, planning a wedding for just before the baby was due.

A month before the wedding, Alan was coming home from class when he was struck and killed by a drunk driver. The shock of the news caused Prue to go into labor a month early, and in late September, she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. The labor was intense and difficult, and Prue passed out just after her daughter entered the world.

When Prue regained consciousness, she had been moved to a private room, and a solemn-looking doctor informed her that her baby had been stillborn. The double devastation of losing both Alan and their baby within days of each other caused Prue to spiral into depression.

She even contemplated suicide before she came to her senses and decided to live. Prue locked her heart away after that day and vowed to never open it up to that kind of pain.

Prue finished her education and used her degree in Art History to land a job with a museum in San Francisco to be closer to her family. She never told anyone about Alan and the baby she never got to name. Prue moved on with her life as best she could, and after a few years of working at the museum, she met Roger.

Doctor Jeremy Cramer sat at his desk with a small smile on his face. He had just finished checking his bank account and the funds for his latest "delivery" had been deposited. Jeremy was an OB/GYN who had managed to tap into a lucrative side venture.

Jeremy had managed to build a nice little nest egg for himself by selling newborns to desperate couples. He didn't do it often, only when he had a patient who was young and malleable. He chose young mothers who could be convinced to either give their baby up for adoption or that the infant had died in childbirth.

Jeremy's conscience was eased somewhat by the money he was paid for procuring the infants. He kept meticulous records of each infant he sold but once they were 'adopted,' he lost track of them.

Suddenly, the door to his office was kicked in, and the room was flooded by federal agents. Doctor Jeremy Cramer was arrested for human trafficking and taken into custody.

When the Feds went through his records, they discovered over 200 babies that were sold into black market adoptions. A handful of those were adopted by foreign clients all over the world. The middle man lawyer who facilitated the adoptions was also arrested and had flipped on the doctor for a deal.

After three decades of selling babies to the highest bidder, the operation was shut down and the lawyer wound up in prison for over 25 years, the doctor getting a life sentence.