A Nexus Connection

Chapter 7: Doubts

A/N: So with Prue, I'm sort of drawing on her throughout the entire series. In the show she admitted to admiring Phoebe's confidence and fearlessness but also being frustrated by her recklessness. In this case Phoebe doesn't really show that recklessness and she doesn't show any interest in guys her sisters like aside from wanting them to be good for them.

Here in 'A Nexus Connection' Prue didn't actually help raise Phoebe but rather watched as she did things herself as Phoebe already had Sophie inside her head guiding her. In Prue's mind though Phoebe was mimicking her and Grams. Prue saw as she found school and even friendships easy. This is because it was knowledge Sophie readily shared while learning to keep other things secret. This ease is something Prue will be jealous of.

Short chapter but another in the works to be posted next week so let's get on with it!

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 She hadn't been able to take control at all, almost as if she had been shut out. She didn't understand how it happened. Was Chronos wrong? Was canon Phoebe's half of their soul stronger then hers? Would she be forced to wait until she was consumed as a part of Phoebe only coming out in small bits and pieces of her personality? Was she just going to disappear? 

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Waking up in bed with her head pounding she thinks of everything that happened the day before. Hand lifting to come across her face as the sunlight streamed into the room from between the curtains, stinging her eyes. Blinking she sat straight up her mind flying with thought, memories she knew she didn't make. Memories of men she blocked from her by burying herself deep within their shared mind. Only it wasn't really their mind anymore was it? A quiet breathy laugh burst from her lips. She felt amazing. It felt like a weight had been lifted. Like something she'd been missing was finally there and it was just . . . right. She was right now. She couldn't believe that she never realized how wrong she felt before now.

It was like she was seeing colors she had never seen before. She felt lighter as though she had been carrying a duffle bag of stones on her back her entire life. Her sense of touch was heightened, Wow this comforter is soft. Somehow her senses were stronger as if she was only just hearing, seeing, feeling, and smelling for the first time. Is this how it is for everyone?

A shuffling sound was heard as it passed by the door, likely Piper heading to the kitchen. Suddenly, she remembered the shy meek Piper who was so nervous about being a witch. So hesitate and afraid. It was one of the episodes she never forgot and was also one of the reasons that Piper was her favorite back when this was just a show. Piper had been the only one that seemed to have the most realistic reaction to being a witch that had powers and having been attacked. Canon Phoebe's had been entirely unrealistic to her and Prue's reaction fell more in line with straight up denial and avoidance which could have seen all three of the sisters dead. 

Managing to beat Prue to the bathroom she got ready and headed downstairs after grabbing something she'd found years ago from her room. Prue mumbling under her breath as she goes into the bathroom to get ready herself. As she gets closer to the kitchen she hears the tv playing.

But a remarkable event occurred, one of the accused, Mary Esty, ran for the church to profess her innocence. Suddenly there was a clap of thunder and she was struck by a bolt of lightning. In the court's mind God himself had spoken, forbidding the evil witch from even entering his house. The witches were subsequently convicted of heresy.

"You know we're not evil right?" She asks Piper as she leans against the doorframe.

"How do we know that?"

"Piper, sweetie" She pushes off and moves toward her sister. "You are literally the most generous and sweetest person I have ever known." In either life. "Piper you literally drew up the entire plan and went to your boss with it for Quake to give the leftovers to the church to help keep the shelter they run open. Does that sound evil to you?"

"But we're witches. I mean we don't even really know where these powers came from. How do we know these powers don't come from evil?"

"But we do know where they come from." Piper looks at her with confusion in her eye but before she can get a word out she continues. "They come from Mom and Grams." She shows her the little worn out diary with a broken silver clasp. "It belonged to Mom back when she was a teenager, I found it the other night." More like a random night a decade ago, give or take a couple years. "She wrote about being a witch and Grams fighting demons off to protect the innocent. I think that says a whole lot more about where our magic is and what kind of witches we could be. Don't you think?"

Piper gives her a teary smile as she gently takes the little pink book from her hands as if it would vanish if she looked away. "Are you sure you don't want to-"

"I think you need it more besides I already read it." She cuts her off.

"How did I get so lucky to have you for a little sister?"

"What can I say when you got it, you got it. And in this case I'm way to curious not to want to know why the floorboard underneath where the bed has been since like ever, before I moved it, squeaks." Though she had actually found it because the floor board had squeaked while she was under the bed back when they were kids playing hide and seek.

"I love you."

"Love you too, sis. Look I have to run some errands but I'll grab the groceries while I'm out and after I drop them off here I'll meet you at Quake for the food delivery ok?"

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It was official she had won the lottery and after choosing the cash option $9,956,856 would be deposited into the LLC in about month once the NY taxes were paid as she was technically still a NY resident and planned to remain so until the money came which would give an extra level of security along with anonymity.

The day went by rather quickly even especially after she caught sight of an elderly version of a mutual friend of hers and Piper, Brittany. She hadn't remembered much of this episode aside from Piper's personal struggle with their witchy status. Javna, the demon who stole the youth of young women was taken care of that night after Prue had come home. With his vanquishment women that had gone missing the past couple weeks were reappearing all over the city without a hint of memory of what had happened since their disappearance leaving investigators to believe they had been kept knocked out with drugs since their kidnappings.

Seeing Brittany with her youth restored as she walked hand in hand with her husband a day later she asked Piper. "Still have any doubts?"

"Yes." Her head turns to her and she watches as Piper licks her lips before continuing. "But I also think, maybe you're right."

"We did good." She tells her older sister with a hip bump and teasing smile.

"Yea, we did, didn't we?" Piper smiles back after rolling her eyes. 

"Didn't we what?" Prue asking as she comes up from behind them and turning to look at her that look back towards each other then to her again before laughing. "Wha- You two were talking about me just now weren't you?" Her question only makes them laugh more as she releases a growl of frustration before they calm down.