Summary: Piper Halliwell has been the guardian and aunt of nine-year-old Andrea Trudeu for the past seven years. Until a couple of months ago, when she started school again, Andrea Trudeu had been a good student, as well as making it easy for her aunt to raise her. The question is what is the cause of this distress in Andrea's behavior? When elementary school principal Leo Wyatt, and Piper meet will sparks fly?

Piper Halliwell marched down the hallway of South Bay elementary, and halted right outside the principal's office. Minutes before, she had gotten a call from said principal to come to his office. She had never been there before, because her niece Andrea had never given any reason for her to need to…. that is until she started third grade in the fall. Before then there was never a problem. Now it was November, and the misbehavior was constant. This time however, it was severe enough apparently for her to have to be ripped out of work to come down to the school.

She knocked effortlessly on the door, and waited for the ok to come in.

" Come in." said a masculine voice, that must have been the principal's.

Piper opened the door, and walked in. The office looked like any other principal's office she'd ever seen, not that she'd seen one a lot. She was one of those students who never got into trouble. Up until now, she thought Andrea was going down that path, too.

The room had a desk, a lamp, and trophies that looked like they were from all kinds of sports.

" Hello, Miss Halliwell." The principal said.

Piper looked down at his nameplate on his desk to read ' Mr. Wyatt.'

Of course she'd known that, from Andrea telling her about Mr. Wyatt's warnings to her, and added her own warnings to it in the process.

" Hello, Mr. Wyatt." Piper responded.

" Sit down." Mr. Wyatt requested.

Piper took a seat next to her niece that she now noticed was sitting in front of Mr. Wyatt's desk.

" We are here today to speak about Andrea's behavior." Mr. Wyatt begun. "She got into a fight."

" What's new?" Andrea snapped.

" Andrea!" Piper scolded.

" She got into a fight with said girl, because the girl was asking her about her parents. Andrea pulled the girl's hair, and punched her."

" I didn't hit her hard." Andrea snarled.

" Hard enough." Mr. Wyatt said. " Andrea, I don't understand this. You used to be so good."

" Used to." Andrea said.

" That's enough." Piper said, standing up. " Go back to class, get your act back together, and I'll see you at home."

Andrea crossed her arms, got up, and left the room.

" What didhappen to her parents?" Mr. Wyatt asked.

" They were killed." Piper told him. " She hasn't really dealt with it yet. They only died when she was two. I've raised her since."

" How did they die?"

" Cancer." Piper said. " Both died of it."

Okay so it wasn't actually the truth. They had died in a car accident from a drunk driver, but it was easier for Piper to tell people that they had died from a common cause. Not that drunk driving wasn't a common cause, but she didn't want to think of that kind of evil anymore.

Piper still remembered that day. The call at two a.m saying that she'd never see her sister again. Andrea was only two at the time, there was no way she'd understand what happened, or why, just that mommy and daddy were gone, gone off to a better place. That was all that Andrea knew, because she never asked any other questions that Piper would have been glad to answer.

" She was your sister?"

Piper nodded. " My sister, but I've gotten past it. I have two other sisters to help me."

" Well, please talk to Andrea." Mr. Wyatt said, slightly taken aback. " I don't want violence from her. I know that girl that she used to be is still there waiting to come out."

Piper nodded, and left the room.

A/N: should I continue? Please tell me, and if so, I'll update soon.

-Whitelighterleo21-