Author: Jade Unicorn

E-Mail: [email protected]

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters except for Kim and her family.

Notes: Just a little note, a warning, about this chapter, there are some "issues" that could bother people about this particular chapter. I didn't want to give it away but I have to warn those homophobic's, though I don't think that there are any around anymore. It is sort of slashy because Kim is dating a girl. Other than that, you'll have to find out on your own. Have fun reading! And let me know what you think.

Part Nine

Paige pulled up to Kim's old house. It seemed weird to her to think of this as her old house and the manor as her new house. Kim jumped out of the car never saying a word to Paige. Paige figured that it would only take her a minute to get whatever it was that she was going for. And she was right because it was that much longer that Kim came out of the house. She carried two bags that looked almost like book bags into the back seat of car. She got in the front seat and pulled some headphones on so she could lose herself in something other than reality.

The silence nearly killed Paige. She wanted to talk to this girl but she wasn't sure how. Things were a little strained between them. But Kim needed time to go over the fact that her father was now dead. They pulled up to the office. Kim shivered as she remembered her first encounter with this place. Never did she want to be here again. When you add to the fact that Tom was going to be terribly pissed when he saw Paige, she wasn't anticipating a safe return.

Paige brought her into the building. Tom was there waiting. He didn't look too pleased with the whole situation.

"I want to see you in my office." Tom said. Paige showed Kim where to sit and she followed Tom.

Kim sat down in the little cubical that Paige called an office. She saw the picture of the three sisters. Inside she felt a sting of pain because she knew that soon she would be the next smiling face under the frame. In a way she didn't want to be, she wanted to go back to the way things were. But then again, she was sort of happy that she was in a home where she could be herself.

Kim reached into one of her bags and pulled out a cell phone. Technically it was Susan's phone, but she wasn't using it. In her mind, Kim figured that it was best that someone use it until they cut off the service. Carefully she dialed the number that she knew by heart. She was nervous about this phone call.

"H-hello?" A groggy female voice answered.

"Rose, it's me." Kim nearly whispered into the phone.

"Oh my god, Kim?" The female awoke as soon as she knew who it was. "Where are you? Are you okay?" She hadn't heard from Kim in several days and she was worried about the girl.

"Don't worry about it. I'm with family now, I guess. My birth mother's sisters to be exact. I just wanted to let you know that I miss you." Kim looked over the cubical wall to see Paige and Tom still into their argument. Tom was throwing papers and yelling. "Look I've got to go. I'll call you in a couple of days when things are better. I love you." Kim said into the phone.

"I love you too. Please stay safe."

"I will baby girl, I will. Bye." Kim put the phone back into her bag. She looked around once more to see Paige coming out of the office. What Kim didn't know was what was said in that office.

"Damn it Paige!" Tom had shut the door with a slight slam. He sort of didn't mean to slam it but he was mad. "You can't just take a child because you want to. I trusted you with this case and this is how you repay me?" He was still standing at the door. Too mad to remember to move anywhere else, and too upset to throw her out.

"Tom you have to listen to me. She's family and she belongs to us now. Her birth mother was my oldest sister Prue. Now the paper's said that since Chester is dead she'll go to her next of kin, Piper who is also my older sister." Paige had this staying calm under pressure thing down.

Tom walked to his desk, stilling holding some papers for his next case. He breathed in a deep breath and then threw the papers on the desk causing Paige to jump. "You didn't know before hand did you?" He questioned.

Should she answer truthfully or not? She didn't have to dwell on it because he continued to speak. "I can't believe you Paige. You know what?" He was smiling strangely now. "I'm not going to do anything about it. Fill out the necessary papers and she's yours." He sighed heavily and sat down. Under his breath he mumbled something along the lines that Darryl had said the day before.

Paige came up behind Kim sitting at her desk. Kim was holding the picture of the three sisters. She looked up to see Paige and placed the picture back in its place. Paige pulled up another chair to sit next to Kim.

Meanwhile, back at the manor Piper and Leo were well into an argument.

"Leo please, I'm not going to change my mind on this."
"She could be a liability. I'm not saying that I don't want her here. It's just that I think she would be safer in a home that didn't deal with demonic activity every hour of the day." This shocked Piper that he would say this. Considering this was the same man who tried to convince her that they could have a baby and actually keep it alive.

"I know what you're saying and I understand. But she's family. She's Prue's daughter and I'm not about to lose what little I have left of my sister. She's all we're ever going to have left of Prue and I don't intend on throwing her into a home where she doesn't know anybody." Piper picked up a box and moved it from the basement and out into the living room. Leo followed behind her the whole time. "You can either help me or go away." Piper said.

Leo knew that he might as well give in because could be downright stubborn sometimes and this was one of those times.

The day at the office was boring as hell in Kim's eyes. She spent most of her time writing in this notebook that she had brought with her. Paige didn't bother her; she didn't see a reason too. Kim seemed perfectly content by sitting there by herself. It occurred to Paige that the reasons she would be so good at a time like this is because of how she was raised. Kim was use to being alone.

Their car ride home wasn't as bad. Kim tried to talk to Paige about Chester. All the things that went through her mind from the first time that she saw Paige and until that day, she spoke about. Paige was shocked to here about some of this girl's fears of the Charmed Ones and everything else.

As soon as Kim walked into the house she found Piper waiting on her. "Come here I have a surprise for you." Piper took Kim's hand and took her into the kitchen. Leo and Phoebe seemed to have been waiting there. Piper placed a blindfold over Kim's eyes. The teen felt Piper take her arm and walk to across the kitchen.

"Watch your step." Phoebe called from in front of Kim.

"Uh, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of a blindfold if I can where I'm going?" Kim answered.

Finally they came to a stop. Piper pulled off Kim's blindfold to revel the secret. Kim looked around in awe as she saw a bed, two dressers, and a bean bag chair. She assumed that this was her new room.

"I know that it's not perfect but it'll do for now. You can move things around and put them wherever you to." Piper was excited as she watched Kim's reactions.

"So I'm staying?" She had to be sure.

"Yes you're staying." Kim fiercely hugged Piper. She finally had a home, a place that wanted her.

Part Ten

Leo took Kim to get her things from her old house. It only took two trips due to the fact that Kim didn't have that much stuff. On her last trip she gave Leo the last box to take to the car. As he left she looked around the little space that she called a room. It was where she grew up and found herself. She learned about life and got her first taste of magic in this room. Worlds of words and history was opened to her while she stayed locked up in here.

She could feel tears welling up in her eyes, as she knew that this was the last time she would ever be in this house. Regardless of the fact that her father had destroyed her innocence, made her become an adult even before she was a teenager and did horrible things to her, this was the only place that she knew existed in this world.

But now wasn't the time to dwell on the past, she had a new family to tend to. A family that had promised to take care of her and protect her from harm. And now she had to walk away from the past. She had to leave her demons here and get on with life. Finally she would have a chance to live the life that she was meant to.

Kim placed everything they way she wanted it in her new room. Things where looking different than she had in her old room. And that was a good thing. She didn't want everything to be exactly the same because that would just be a reminder of the past and the bad things that came along with it.

Piper knocked on the door. She came down the stairs slowly. "Kim? You have a...visitor." Piper stepped out of the way to let a young girl about Kim's age through. Kim immediately sat up in her bed to see the guest.

"T-thanks." Kim said, hoping that Piper would leave very soon. Piper left the two girls alone and shut the door behind her. Kim nearly fell into tears as she heard the door shut.

"Rose, how did you find me?" Kim questioned as she hugged the girl tightly.

"I'll always find my way back to you." Rose pulled back to look into Kim's eyes.

"God Rose I love you. I've missed you so much and you know that I would do anything for you." Kim kissed Rose. It was a nice feeling to finally be able to touch her girlfriend after so long.

"I love you too. I just had to make sure that you were safe. I know who killed Chester." Rose spoke softly incase the other house occupants were listening. "Charlie did. The full moon happened and he broke free. He's sorry for what he did. But there's something wrong with him now. He can't change back." She thought about her words carefully. "Its like he's stuck in his werewolf form. But he looks different Kim. It's scary because he's fiercer. We can't keep him long we need help."

"You're going to die bitch!" Chester was suddenly in the room. He looked just as the newspaper had explained his body to be. Only he seemed to have taken a demonic form. His eyes were red as if they had been bleeding. Cuts, ranging from all different depths, covered his body. Beside him was Charlie. Rose was right, he did look different from his usually change into the werewolf. He was like.... A large dog. An electric blue orb shot from Chester's hand and into Rose's back. She fell to the floor in pain. Charlie came running and snaring to attack Rose's body.

"NO!!!!" Kim screamed falling beside Rose. She was willing to fight both Chester and Charlie if it came down to it.

Her own screaming is what woke Kim up. She sat up in the bed, looking around at the unfamiliar room. Sweat rolled down her face as she recalled what had just happened. A dream was all it was. But the sense of reality around it is what scared her the most. She was panting heavily as all the memories of the dream came back to her. She knew what she had to do now.

"Kim are you all right?" Piper came running down the stairs to see a very disturbed teen on the bed. She came to the bedside of Kim, feeling of her forehead. "What happened?" Piper worried about the girl.

"There's trouble." Kim looked at Piper. "We have to go save an innocent."

Kim jumped out of her bed and grabbed her shoes. She put them on knowing that she had to hurry. Piper wasn't sure what was going on but she knew that Kim wasn't lying so she had to grab her sisters and hurry. Once Kim had her shoes on, she grabbed a small bag that she hooked on one side of her neck and let the bag hang at the opposite hip. Everything she was going to need for this little adventure was in here.

"Come on." Kim ran out to the car. Three very confused sisters followed.

"Kim what's going on?" Paige asked. Piper got into the driver's seat and Phoebe got in the passenger seat. Paige was in the back with Kim.

"Go to the cemetery." She didn't feel like giving the whole story but she knew that she had to. Putting three lives in danger gave a good enough reason to tell them. "I know who killed Chester and its going to kill again tonight if we don't get there soon."

It wasn't that long before they were at the cemetery. The sisters followed Kim's lead as she hurriedly ran across the grass to the opposite side of the cemetery. There was a mausoleum that the sisters had never seen before. It wasn't like the one that Cole used to hang out in.

Kim ran inside. There was the girl that she dreamed about, Rose. In the back of the room was a large steel cage.

"What the hell?" Paige asked as she saw the occupant of the cage. Piper recognized the animal in the cage as what she had turned into at one point. A wendigo.

"Kim what are you doing here?" Rose walked towards to Kim.

"Look, Charlie is the one who killed Chester." She was out of breath.

"I know. Charlie can't change back either. I'm not sure what to do and he's getting really restless. It took the whole Company to get him back."
"Why is he still here then?" Kim questioned.

Obviously there was more going on than the sisters knew about.

"It's the only place he'd stay at. But then he kept trying to leave this morning. He was calm about it at first but now he's getting weird." Rose picked up a slab of raw meat and threw it into the cage. Charlie immediately jumped on the food devouring it in almost one bite. "I can't hold him much longer."

Kim reached into her bag and pulled out a small vile. Charlie growled heavily inside his cage. He started throwing his body against the door.

"You all need to get out now!" Kim yelled to the others. "Now!" She had to do this alone. And the fact that she might not survive what was going to happen weighed in on her opinion. If she was going to die doing this spell to save her friend then she wasn't about to take everybody else down with her.

Rose was the first to leave. Paige wanted to stay and argue but she was pulled out by her sisters. They knew something was going to happen. Now it was just Kim and Charlie. He seemed to know what was going to happen.

"Damn it Charlie. Why did you do it? Protecting you, or me?" She asked him even though she knew that there would be no answer. Though he acted like he understood her by looking sympathetically at her, how she knew that she couldn't figure out. Just the way his eyes looked at her showed there was still a heart underneath all that fur.

"Are you Rose?" Piper questioned. The girl nodded her head yes. "Then do you want to tell me what is going on?"

"I know just about as much as you do. Charlie, the werewolf in there, is my brother. He got bit by a werewolf a couple of years ago. Until now he seemed to have it under control. But now..." She was wondering, fearing, what was going on inside that mausoleum. "He's the one that killed Chester. Would have gotten Susan too if the Company hadn't have shown up."

"Company?" Phoebe looked at the girl.

"I don't want to do this Charlie." Kim said to the beast. "But you know that it's the only way."

"Yeah, the Company is this underground group that take in demons and vampires and other things like that to do experiments on them. That's how I met Kim. Charlie broke into her house, while he was in werewolf form, and I was one of the people who came in to get him. We sort of became friends after that. I've been keeping up with how she was doing, both Charlie and I were. Charlie loves Kim like he does his family." Somehow even though Rose was terrified for both her brother and Kim, she managed to smile as she expressed her love for the girl.

Shaking with fear, Kim began the spell. She threw the whole bottle at Charlie so that it would break on his skin. Once the bottle broke Kim recited the words necessary to get the job done.

Depart this form so that life can be reborn.

It was a simple sentence that had to be said several times to work.

Outside the girls heard a rumbling sound. Before anyone could comment on it the mausoleum blew up in flames.

Part Eleven

They jumped to the ground for cover. Piper's first thoughts went to everyone's safety. And with everyone she meant Kim too. Kim was in that building.

The last thing that Kim saw was a blue flame erupting before her eyes. Then an explosion of heat set in as she heard, and felt, the building ascend into flames.

"Oh god." Piper had tears in her eyes. She slowly walked towards the mausoleum.

"What happened?" Rose came and stood beside Piper. Was this the end of Kim? Did she die in that blast? She had to; nobody could survive something like that.

Phoebe pulled Piper into her arms to shield her from seeing the building fall to the ground. She had just as much pain in her heart that Kim was dead but Piper held more. Piper was attached to this girl already. And Piper was so fragile that losing another family member could be the thing to break her completely.

"Damn that felt good!" It was a male's voice. Piper turned and looked to see that out of the flames came walking Kim and a male that she guessed was Charlie. It was like the fire didn't effect them at all. They were walking through it with ease.

Rose ran to Kim and gathered her up in a hug. Her clothes felt a little warm were she had been in the flames but Rose didn't care. She checked Kim over to see if she was hurt at all. Then she turned her attention to her brother and did the same.

Piper came to Kim's side and hugged her. "Don't ever do something like that again!" Piper scolded the girl.

Kim was smiling even though what had just happened was pretty serious. But she had just saved Charlie's life.

"What happened in there?" Rose questioned.

"I had to do something to save Charlie. So I found a spell that stripped him of his demonic side." Kim smiled over to Charlie. It had been a long time since she had seen him. He seemed taller now. Almost like Leo only bigger.

Kim walked off to the car with Rose. She wanted to forget what had just happened here but she knew that Paige wasn't going to let her off that easily. Once the two girls were out of hearing rang, Kim spoke.

"I had a dream that Chester and Charlie killed you. It could have been a premonition or something but I had to make sure that you were safe." Kim smiled the girl. She knew in her heart that she would have to explain her relationship with Rose but she didn't want to.

"Kim, let's get you home." Piper came up behind the girls, placing a hand on Kim's back. It was the first time that Kim took into notice how Piper looked at her. The same way that Susan used to look at her when Chester was gone. The same motherly looks that used to make her feel bad because her real mother was dead. But when Piper did it, it didn't bother her.

Rose had her own car so she could drive Charlie home. Kim wanted to kiss Rose but now was not the time. She simply held Rose's hand for a moment and then slowly walked back to the car. It was a now or never moment in her mind as she sat down. She seemed to still be pumped from the explosion; her adrenaline was rushing, so she had to say it now.

"Rose is my girlfriend." She said in a proud manner. The car was silent. None of them knew what to say. Kim could feel her hand involuntarily reach for the door handle in case she was told to get out of the car. Piper turned around to look at Kim and saw the fear in her eyes.

"Uh...." Piper started but she didn't really know what to say. With every second that went by Kim felt more terror rising in her.

"I kind of thought something was up that day in the attic with Prue. When you said that you loved different." Paige tried to remember all that was said. "I'm okay with it." Paige brushed it off like it was nothing.

"So am I." Phoebe put her hand over Kim's to show her love for her niece.

Now all that was left was Piper. And that was the one opinion that Kim wanted to know the most.

"Me too." Piper finally said with a smile on her face.

Kim had a million things going through her mind as they drove home. Silence was getting to her now. She wanted to hear somebody say something, anything, about what had happened there in the mausoleum. When they pulled up at the manor Kim felt different. She couldn't place it but she knew that something was different about the airwaves around her. It felt like nothing bad so she didn't bother with it.

"I'm going to sleep." Kim headed to her room. "Her room," it would be a while before she could say that or even think it and make it sound good.

"Kim, listen to me." The voice was familiar but yet not. Kim looked around the room; it was bathed in white. And Prue was in the middle calling for Kim. "I have to show something."

Part Twelve

"What could you possibly show me?" Kim was still feeling a little anger at her mother. The woman left her with Chester and never came to see her. Was she suppose to be all sunshine and daisies when Prue finally decided to talk to her?

"I want to prove to you that I wanted you from the day I found out that I was pregnant." Prue reached out her hand to Kim hoping that her daughter would take it. Kim looked at the outstretched hand wondering if she should take it or not. After a moment of thinking, Kim thought that it couldn't hurt.

Suddenly the room was different. There was a party going on. Prue was out on the dance floor dancing with Chester. They both looked so young and....drunk. Very, very drunk in Kim's opinion. But she wasn't here to judge. Actually she wasn't all that sure what she was doing here anyways.

"I didn't want to go home with him. But after a few more drinks I did." Prue said. She watched her younger self.

The scene changed again. Now they were outside of the manor during what could be called early morning. Kim heard fast footsteps behind her and turned to see the young Prue running towards the manor saying something under her breath.

"Damn it, Grams is going to kill me. I hope she's not up. God, I hope I don't get caught."

"Come on." The older Prue said. They walked in behind the young Prue and into the manor. Things looked so different than the manor that Kim had been living in the past few days. It didn't half as empty as it did in the present. Grams must have had a major impact on the manor after she died.

"Prue, is that you?" Grams' voice called from the living room. Prue froze in the kitchen, she knew she was caught. There was no point in hiding it now. "You have disappointed me Prue." Grams came in the kitchen to face her oldest granddaughter. "I can't believe that you deliberately stayed out all night long. Go to your room."

Kim almost felt sorry for her mother. But she knew that there was more to come.

"This is when I found out I was pregnant." Older Prue said.

They were still in the manor not much had changed. Except there was a young Piper standing at the stove making lunch for everybody. Prue came walking in slowly she looked depressed.

"What's wrong?" Piper questioned. She looked almost like she did in the present. She was just shorter. And her hair was barely below her chin.

"Nothing." She didn't really want to explain what happened. She went up the stairs to find her grandmother.

"Prue, did the doctor's visit go well?" Grams asked as she shut the door behind her. They were in Prue's room. Kim recognized this room as the same one that she slept in the first few nights of staying at the manor.

Young Prue burst into tears. "He said I was pregnant."

Grams sighed heavily. She couldn't believe that this would happen to her granddaughter at such a young age.

"What are you going to do? Are you keeping it?"

"No, the baby's father said he'd take the child after it's born." Prue was crying.

"Little did I know then..." Older Prue began. "That he would do the things to you that he did. I'm sorry."

It was now a couple of months later. Prue was starting to show and now was Grams' time to intervene.

"Here drink this." Grams handed Prue a glass that held yellow liquid. Prue drank it all and soon the growing belly was hid from everybody. "You drink one of these every morning and nobody will know that you are pregnant."

And Prue did. Every morning up until the day that she went into labor. It was just her and Grams in the house. She was rushed to the hospital.

Kim found herself beside young Prue on the gurney giving birth.

"You think that you could give a person some kind of warning before you go and travel them through time?" Kim said to older Prue.

"Congratulations Miss Halliwell, you have a beautiful baby girl." The doctor started to hand the baby to Prue but she refused.

"Don't, I can't. Give her to her father." Prue had strong will power to not see this child.

"How is this suppose to prove that you loved me when you couldn't even hold me?" Kim was getting angry.

Prue said nothing but watched Chester.

"I know this is hard on you to just give her up. I want you to be there for her in her life as much as possible Prue." Chester smiled down at his daughter then handed her to the nurse who was waiting to do the check ups on her. They took the baby out of the room. "I want you to give her a name. If you're not going to be there then the least you can do is name her."

Prue thought about it for a moment. "Kimberly, I want her first name to be Kimberly."

"Then her middle name is going to be Prudence." Chester said in a matter of fact voice.

The same white light that was there in the beginning was there now. Kim found herself just standing there with Prue. The look of sadness that was in Prue's eyes as she looked at her daughter.

"If I had held you then I wouldn't have ever let go. I could handle raising you the way I thought that you should have been raised. Chester used to be a loving man, but now..." Prue looked off into the distance. She didn't want to start crying here.

"I love you...mom." Kim felt weird saying "mom." She never called Susan that, and she would never have anyone to call that to ever again. This was her chance.

"I love you too."

Now Kim was alone in this light. But the light started to shimmer away. She rolled over to find herself in her bed. The clock read 4:57 AM. She must have dreamt all of that. Then again it could have really been Prue contacting with her from the other side to do what she said, prove her love. And she did.

Two Years Later...

Kim walked up the stairs to greet her family for breakfast. Actually she wasn't much a more person still but food was food. There were hushed whispers as she entered the room.

"Surprise!" They yelled. Not one who liked surprises Kim stared at them.

"You're purposely trying to kill me aren't you?" She asked as she saw they had a cake and presents.

"Aren't you excited? Its your 16 birthday." Piper hugged the girl. It seemed like forever ago that this girl came into their lives. When in reality it had been almost two years. They couldn't see living their lives without each other.

Life was definitely better now that Kim had found this family. Susan had tried to make contact with Kim the first several months that she was living there. But once she realized that Kim wasn't having any part of it, she stopped.

Kim came in useful with the Charmed Ones at times. It was like having Prue back in the family. Though sometimes Piper wanted Kim to stay at the manor to stay out of trouble. But Kim had a way of getting to wherever the sisters where. It proved difficult for her to spend a lot of time with them all at once when they were at P3. Seeing as how Kim couldn't go there because she was underage. They did spend time together as a family a lot though.

Things were looking up for Kim. She wasn't half as depressed as she use to be. She was even enrolled into school that same year she moved in. Technically she had been home schooled most of her life. Well, that's what Piper told the principal of the high school. Kim started her ninth grade year and passed with flying colors. She was now a junior working on being a senior. At times it proved to be difficult to be in high school and be a witch. But she learned how to get away with things and leave early during school for "family emergencies." She wondering sometimes how many times she could actually get away with using that excuse. It seemed to work up until now so she wasn't going to question it.

Rose was still around too. The sisters and Leo learned to accept Rose and Kim's relationship. Kim and Rose had been through some rough times while she had been living with Chester and they had to hide. But they managed to keep it together. Now they had a chance to be together without having to hide. They became closer together because of it. Kim had even considered asking Rose to marry her. She was working in a jewelry store now. Staying at home was just not something she wanted to do. And she needed money for a car. Often Kim looked at the engagement rings trying to find she wanted. Officially she never made up her mind on whether she would ask Rose to marry her or not.

But you never know what could happen when you bring your work home with you. Paige learned that firsthand, and now she wouldn't take it back for the world.

THE END.

E-mail me with your opinions or thoughts. I know that this last chapter wasn't up to par with the others. But I tried. Thanks for reading my story. More stories by this author will come later.