November 1st, 2012

The next morning Piper is in the kitchen doing what she loves…making delicious food. In one pan there is pancake mix being cooked while Piper flips it over to the other side. In the next pan are eggs and bacon. On the counter there's already waffles and bagels next to cups of milk. Piper takes a moment to inhale the delicious scents.

"Morning….woah!" Prue came waltzing in and stops when she smells Piper's cooking. "Wow, it's been years since I smelled food, let alone yours."

Piper smiled at her sister and gave a little chuckle, "Thanks I guess." She hands Prue a plate with some eggs, bacon, and a waffle on the side. "Eat up."

"Thanks." Prue took a bite out of the waffle with syrup and made a face of delight. "God, I missed food."

Both Piper and Prue laughed amongst themselves. As Prue ate her food Piper couldn't help but smile at the thought of finally having her sister back. Every night for the past 11 years she prayed that one day she would be reunited with the oldest Halliwell sister. But she always thought she was just kidding herself for thinking and hoping Prue would come back. The Elders told her that her sister's destiny as a Charmed one was over, as did Grams. But now Prue really was back, and maybe they can start life anew as a family. She smiled even wider at the thought of the family finally becoming whole, the four sisters united like they should have been long ago.

"What are you smilin at?" Prue teased.

Piper shook her head, "Nothin, just thinking."

"Piper, seriously, you need to open that restaurant."

Piper gave her a quizzical look, "How'd you know…."

"I've been watching over you guys, remember?" Prue replied. Piper gave a thoughtful look and then laughed at herself for forgetting so soon. She gives a mock smack to her head for being so forgetful.

Phoebe walks in at the same time Piper smacks herself giving the three something to laugh at. Phoebe is the first one to speak, "Uhh…I'm not going to ask."

"So when are you opening your restaurant, Piper?" Prue asks as she takes another mouthful of her food.

"I don't know." Piper sighed. "I kind of want to keep P3 too though. So I'm trying to find a new place and decide what to do about P3. I may have to give it up in order to focus on the restaurant."

"Maybe you can call the restaurant P4." Phoebe remarked. Piper and Prue smile at each other and back at Phoebe.

Piper turns to her younger sister, "Maybe I will Pheebs."

The three women continue talking amongst themselves when they hear a pair of tiny feet running into the kitchen. Piper gasps and smiles, "Is that my little Melinda?"

The little girl, who's wearing a short sleeve pink pajama top with flowers and matching pink pants, smiles and runs up to her mom with arms wide open. They hug each other and Piper swoops her up in her arms. "How's my big girl doing?"

"I'm good mommy." The little girl says a little shyly. "Mommy, who is this?" She asks pointing to Prue.

"Well Melinda, this is your Aunt Prue. She's your aunt just like Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Paige." Piper responded to her daughter.

"Aunt Pwue?" Melinda questioned. Prue smiled and got up out of her seat and walked up to Piper and Melinda. Piper let her daughter down and Prue got down on her knees and sat on the back of her legs.

She stretched out her hand and said, "Hi Melinda. I'm your Aunt Prue."

Melinda stared at her hand and instead of shaking it she spread out her arms indicating she wanted a hug instead. Prue smiled with some tears in her eyes and hugged her niece. As she held her the tears that were in her eyes spilled out and flowed down her cheeks. Piper too let out a tear or two over the sight of her daughter finally meeting her long lost aunt. Phoebe also looked on with a smile on her face and tears in her eyes.

Melinda let go of the hug first and saw her aunt crying. She smiled and wiped a tear away. "Don't cry Aunt Pwue." She said very sweetly.

Prue laughed a little and wiped away the rest of her tears. "I'm sorry, I'm just so happy to finally meet you Melinda."

"I'm happy to meet you too." The little girl replied. She remained silent for a few seconds trying to build the courage to ask a question that troubled her, "But why weren't you here before?"

Prue opened her mouth to respond but couldn't find any words to say. She looked to Piper who replied, "Well, Melinda a long time ago; before you were born, Aunt Prue…well, she died and went to Heaven with Grandma and Great-Grams."

Prue continued for her, "I couldn't be here but trust me; I would have been here for you if I could have." The little girl says 'Oh' while looking down at her hands not making eye contact with any of them. Prue held the little girl's hand, "But I'm here to stay. For good."

Melinda looked up with a twinkle in her eye, "Pwomise?"

Prue laughed, "I promise." Together they hugged again with smiles on each other's faces. They were interrupted by Paige walking into the kitchen.

"Oh good, Phoebe I wanted to talk to you…" Paige said as Prue got up. From the angle Paige came in she really only saw the back of Melinda, and didn't realize Prue was sitting in front of the youngest of Piper's children. "Oh, I'm sorry…I don't want to interrupt and sisterly bonding." She says and starts to turn around.

"Paige!" Phoebe exclaimed. "What makes you think you would be interrupting us? And if we were doing any sisterly bonding we would want you join in on it!"

Piper turns to Melinda and whispers in her ear, "Go wake up everyone else and tell them to wait out in the dining area for breakfast." The little girl nods and scurries out of the kitchen.

"Sit down and eat some breakfast with us Paige." Phoebe said and patted the seat next to her at the small kitchen table. Paige sits down next to Phoebe and Piper brings over a big plate of the pancakes, waffles, eggs, and bacon. Paige and Phoebe both take a little bit of everything and start to eat their breakfast.

Prue walks over and sits next to them, "Paige…maybe we should talk." Paige says nothing to this so Prue takes this as a sign that she's not willing to talk to her. "Fine, I'll talk. You listen."

"No, you know what Prue…" Paige stands up and stares at her sister with tears in her eyes. She looks away as a tear falls down. "Never mind…I have to go."

"Paige, wait!" Piper calls but Paige already starts to orb out. They are bathed in the bright lights of her orbing and as her orbs disperse they are left to stand in silence. Leo walks in followed by Cole who shimmered in. Both men can sense that something just happened between the sisters.

"Soooo…." Cole tries to break the silence. He then smells the food in the room. "Can I have some of the breakfast?"

"Yeah, sure." Piper answers very bluntly. Cole sits down on the right side of Phoebe, who looks a little uncomfortable, and started eating very quickly.

"You might want to slow down there." Prue remarks.

"I can't help it. I missed your cooking so much." He said to Piper. Prue gives Piper a look that says 'See what I mean?'

"That's what sucked about being in Limbo. I could smell the food but I couldn't eat it. It was torture."

"Well thank you for the compliment Cole." Piper says. "You would be the second one to say you missed my cooking."

Cole stares at Prue and she nods her head answering that she was the first. Cole laughs and then remarks, "You should open your restaurant."

Piper throws her hands up in annoyance, "You know I wanted to keep this restaurant thing a secret. Who else knows about it?"

The five of them laugh amongst themselves. Leo then asks what he wanted to ask since he came into the room, "What happened before? When we came in you guys were quiet and kind of tense."

Prue spoke up, "Paige orbed in and saw me here. When I went to talk to her she just….something is really upsetting her."

"You want me to talk to her?" Leo asked. Silence filled the room and Piper grabbed some of the plates and brought them out for the children leaving Prue or Phoebe to answer his question. But before they could answer they heard noise coming from the dining room, a thud, and then crying.

And then came the yell of an angry mother, "WYATT MATHEW HALLIWELL!!!!"

The four look at each other and jump up to run into the dining room. When they got inside they saw little Melinda on the ground crying and Piper holding Wyatt by the arm.

"Mom! You don't understand…" Wyatt began.

Piper disrupts him before he could continue, "Wyatt, I don't even want to hear it."

Phoebe asks, "What happened?"

Melinda gets up and cries, "Wy pushed me…" She gasps for breath because of her crying, and then continues "We were racing…" She continues sobbing "and Wy pushed me!"

Piper gives a deadly glare at Wyatt, "You are grounded young man. Take your food and go into the kitchen and then march right upstairs for the rest of the day."

Wyatt shrugs away from her grabs his food and orbs upstairs instead of listening to his mother. Piper sighs and goes to go after him but Chris speaks up. "Mom, I saw the whole thing…Melinda tripped. Wyatt didn't push her."

"He did too!" She exclaimed.

"No, you fell on your own. Right, Prue?" He asked Prue-Marie.

The younger girl nodded, "I saw it too... Wyatt didn't push you."

Piper sighed and looked upstairs indicating she was contemplating going up and apologizing to Wyatt for yelling at him and grounding him without even listening to him. "Priscilla, did you see what happened?"

Priscilla nodded, "Yeah, Mel fell."

"Okay then. Come here baby." Piper picked her daughter up. "Let's go get you a band-aid for your boo-boo, and then I'm going to apologize to Wyatt. The rest of you can eat your breakfast now." She said to the rest of them.

Prue-Marie, Priscilla, and Chris sit down at the dining room table. Phoebe, Prue, and Cole head back into the kitchen to eat while Leo sits down next to Chris to keep an eye on the kids. Back in the kitchen the two sisters sit next to each other while Cole gets himself something to drink.

After several minutes of silence Phoebe finally speaks up. "You know, I was thinking about having my own television show. Years ago we dealt with a demon that created different realities based on our desires and I liked having a wider audience."

Prue listened on while eating the rest of her food, "You could definitely be the next Oprah."

Phoebe laughed. "Well with the success of my book, and the upcoming sequel I really want to do more. I want to help more people beyond San Francisco, you know?"

"I think you'd be great Pheebs."

"Thanks Prue."

˚ † ˚

In the Underworld demons of varying colors from red to blue and even green are surrounding their new king. The doors of the throne open as a human looking demon walks into the room wearing long black and red ceremonial robes. He walks towards the new Source of all Evil as fire erupts behind the new Ruler. He bows before their new lord and grins evilly as he rises, "The demons summoned from last night are waiting for your command, sire."

Maliek grins and laughs sadistically. "Send the first warlock. The Halliwells will have to relive their hell all over again. One demon and warlock at a time."

He continues laughing as the other ugly demons contort their faces into smiles of pure evil.

˚ † ˚

"Wyatt, don't drag your feet. I said I was sorry for yelling at you." Piper said as she walks with her oldest son and youngest daughter down the stairs. "Now go eat your breakfast you two, and no fighting." She says and pats them both on the back.

The kids walk over to sit with the other children in the dining room. Piper looks over to Leo and smiles. She walks over and kisses him. The kids make noises of disgust and "Ewwwws" echo in throughout the room.

Piper laughs at them and walks back into the kitchen when a sudden realization hits her, "Oh my God…how are we going to explain Prue and Cole returning?"

Phoebe eyes widened, "I didn't even think of it! What are we going to do?"

Prue, mouth full of food, jumped up and made a sound of excitement. Piper and Phoebe's eyes went wide while Piper exclaimed, "Woah, calm down Prue."

Prue held up her finger telling them to give her a second to finish chewing the food in her mouth. They wait patiently while Prue does this. Finally Prue swallows her food and continues, "Okay, how about that guy who worked for the government who helped you guys when you were 'dead'".

"Wow, you really were paying attention to what happened with us." Piper joked.

"Well, should we call that guy up?" Prue asked. Piper and Phoebe looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders.

"I guess that would work." Phoebe replied.

Piper looked at the clock. "Well we can do that later or you could do it now if you like, but I need to get to the club and unpack some new supplies. I'll be back later."

Phoebe also looked at the clock and added, "Ooh, I need to go and get the laundry done…Prue, do you want to come over and hang out? We need to catch up."

"Sure."

The three women get up and walk out the door leaving Cole alone. He looks around, shrugs, and then takes all the leftover food and puts it on his plate. He rubs his hands together, licks his lips, and then chows down.

˚ † ˚

"Hey Derek…" Piper yells, "Derek!!"

One of the men who worked at P3 pops out from behind a corner, "Piper! I'm right here, you don't have to yell."

"Oh, sorry."

"No, it's okay. What do you want me to do?" He replies.

"Can you go to the back and get the new glasses please?" Piper asks. Derek nods and walks to the back as Piper starts unpacking all of the straws from the boxes. Behind her a swirl of grey mist appears as a warlock is summoned to P3. He is holding a knife in one hand and has what looks like thorns coming out of his face and body. He smirks and throws the knife at Piper. Within a split second Piper turns around and panics, causing her freezing power to activate making the flying object immobile within an inch or two away from her chest. She grunts in frustration and looks up at the demon.

Her eyes widen. Before her is the very first demon/warlock she ever had to vanquish. Her ex-fiancé……Jeremy.

˚ † ˚

Back in the underworld Maliek is standing in front of his throne. He turns around the stare at the flames of hell surrounding him and his minions. The flames dance in front of him, they reflect in his eyes, and they cause his face to be illuminated. "Have you sent the Warlock named Jeremy?"

The man in red and black replies, "Yes, your liege."

Maliek smirks and turns around. "Good, good. Now summon one of the darklighters to my chamber."

"You want to kill a whitelighter?"

"No. I want the other class of darklighter." Maliek responded.

The demon's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. Maliek walked up to him and placed both hands on each of the other demon's shoulders, chuckling while he did so. "Most upper-level demons know so little about their demon family. There are many classes of darklighters my friend."

He then placed his arm around the demon and walked towards the entrance of the room. Go into the chambers where the demons are being held and ask for the darklighter that dealt with Prue Halliwell years ago. But this time, send him to the sister who is most depressed and let him do his job."

He pats the demon apprentice on the back as he lets him go into the other room to find the demon. Maliek returns back to his throne but before he sits down he turns around and speaks up again, "Oh, and send our Grimlock friends too."

The apprentice demon nods and bows to his leader. He walks out of Source's chambers and closes the doors behind him. Walking over to the center of this room he looks around and sees 6 doors, 5 of them leading to a room housing demons from the past. The 6th door was the way out of this personal prison Maliek had built for his formally vanquished new minions. The apprentice sighed trying to figure out which door held the Grimlocks and which held the darklighter needed for the job.

"Well, better start with door number 1." He mused.

˚ † ˚

"Sorry about the mess Prue. The past few weeks have been very stressful and I haven't had time to clean up. Just to warn you: It looks like a bomb went off in there." Phoebe said as the made it to her house. "Are you prepared?"

Prue took in a deep breath and nodded. "As ready as I'll ever be. Let's do this."

Phoebe dug into her pocket for her keys, once she found them she unlocked her door and opened it to reveal a relatively clean house. "Wow Pheebs, you are overdramatic."

Phoebe shrugs her shoulders and says, "Coop must have cleaned up."

"Or you're just overdramatic." Prue mocks. As she says this Prue-Marie and Patricia run passed them and drop their jackets on the floor. Phoebe glares at her and then laughs lightly while putting her purse and jacket on the couch.

"Just make yourself at home; I need to do the laundry." Phoebe says as she walks into the next room.

"Will do Pheebs." Prue replies. She smiles to the girls as they start playing with their toys in the living room.

˚ † ˚

"What the hell!" Piper yelled in surprise at seeing her warlock ex-fiancé. "Jeremy…. what the hell?" She repeated.

"I'm back to kill you, witch." He said demonically.

Piper rolls her eyes and throws up her hands to freeze him. "I cannot freaking believe this! Can't you just stay dead?"

She walks over to the counter and picks up the phone to call Phoebe and Prue. "What is this, like the third time now? Give me a break!" Piper dialed the number to Phoebe's house as she talked to herself. "I'm getting tired of this."

Ring ring.

No answer.

Ring ring.

"Pick up the phone already!" She exclaimed.

Ring –

"Hello?" Prue answered.

"Hey, is Phoebe there?"

"Yeah, why?" Prue asked.

"I'm going to put the phone on speaker and we need to say the Power of 3 spell."

"What? Why?" Prue squeaked over the phone causing Piper to back her head away from the phone.

"Oww, you hurt me ears!" Piper complained, "We need it because Jeremy is back."

"You're kidding!"

"No, I'm not….now get Phoebe on the line too so we can say the spell like we did before."

"We did this before?" Prue questioned. She then thought back on the second time they had to vanquish Jeremy. "Oh yeah! I remember... he attacked you at P3."

"And apparently he didn't learn from his mistakes."

"Hold on, I'll get Phoebe……PHOEBE!!!" Prue yelled causing Piper yet again to pull the phone away from her ear. 'Dammit, Prue.' She thought.

"Okay, she's here. Put it on speaker." Piper did as she was told and did a countdown to signal when they would start the chant.

"The Power of three will set us free.

The Power of three will set us free.

The Power of three will set us free."

Jeremy unfreezes and starts to spin around as he was being vanquished. Piper, seeing this, yells for her sisters to continue the spell. "He's almost dead, keep going…"

"The Power of three will set us free.

The Power of three will set us free.

The Power of three will set us free!!!"

Jeremy finally erupts in flames. Piper drops down to the floor and sighs. "Thanks guys, he's gone."

"No problem." Phoebe and Prue say simultaneously. Piper hangs up the phone when Derek walks into the room. He starts sniffing the air suspiciously.

"Is there a fire or something?" He questioned.

"Uhhh, I don't smell anything." Piper said really quickly. Seeing that the lie wasn't really working, she immediately grabbed her purse, "But I just got a call from my sister…and I need to go. I'll be back later!" Derek didn't even get a chance to protest because Piper ran out the door as she finished her sentence.

˚ † ˚

"So Jeremy returned?" Phoebe mused. "So that probably means more demons are on their way."

"Unfortunately. First Shax, now Jeremy…so what's next?" At that moment two Grimlocks appeared. "You have got to be kidding me."

Prue flings out her hands and telekinetically forces them into the wall. "We need to get the kids out of here!" She exclaims.

"Paige!" Phoebe yells. "Paige!!! We need your help…"

˚ † ˚

At Paige and Henry's apartment Paige is sitting on the couch hugging a pillow to herself. Tears are streaming down her face. She suddenly hears the call of her sisters. But before she orbs to them the darklighter appears behind her.

"Don't go to them. They don't need you." He whispered into her ear. "You'll only make the situation worse."

Fresh tears roll down Paige's face as she choked back sobs. "They don't really need me." She told herself.

˚ † ˚

"Paige!" Phoebe yelled. She turned to her older sister and shrugged. "God, I hope she's okay."

"Alright, let's just go into the car and drive to Piper. Call her on your cell to tell her to get the Grimlock vanquishing potions ready." Prue instructed. They grabbed the girls and ran out the door right before the Grimlocks woke up from being knocked out by Prue's telekinetic powers.

˚ † ˚

"What good are you now with Prue around?" The darklighter paused and carefully chose his next words. Smiling sadistically he whispered, "You should just end this now."

Her eyes softened more and she whispered to herself, "I should just end this now."