Charmed: A Fifth Sister/Adopted Daughter

1. Family Backgrounds

It was the year Patty Halliwell died. She had Prudence a.k.a. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Paige with her white lighter, and also a fifth daughter with her ex-husband who was only a month old. Her name was Dorinda. The day Patty died, her mother Penny took over raising the children. All except the baby.

Prue held her newest baby sister and kissed her forehead. "Don't worry, Dorinda. Mommy's here. I'm here."

"Prue?" Piper asked her older sister.

"Yes, Piper?"

"Are you really going to raise Doe on your own?"

"Yes. She is only a baby, Piper. Grams can't raise her and she will never know Mom. She needs a mother and so even though I'm only fifteen, I will raise her as my own. I've already talked to Grams and she agrees it's best. I asked Andy and he's going to help me adopt her and raise her. He wants to become her father for me. But for HER sake."

And so from that day forward, Piper and Phoebe both became aunts to their baby sister turned adopted niece.

It's five years later and Prue is about to quit her job for a better one. Piper is interviewing at a restaurant trying to become the new chef as the recent one quit. Phoebe has been living in New York due to her not being able to handle Grams' death. Grams died of a heart attack a few months ago and Phoebe couldn't handle it leaving the manor and the state to move across the country for some peace and space from the family. Andy became a cop and was transferred to Portland leaving Prue to raise Dorinda on her own.

Dorinda is home from school as Prue was able to pick her up after storming out of her boss's office pissed off. Prue was sitting in the living room and reading the paper for some open jobs. Dorinda was playing in her room and got bored. She went down to the living room and sat next to her mother. "Mommy?"

Prue put the paper down and looked at her. "What, Baby?"

"Why are you reading the paper? You never read the paper."

"I'm looking for available jobs."

"Why?"

"Because I'm going to get a new one."

"Why? I thought you liked your job."

"My boss, do you remember me dating him for a little bit?"

"Yeah."

"Well, I didn't love him and it made him angry. He wants to put me in a lower job position now because I broke up with him. He said the only way I could keep my current position is to marry him."

"I didn't like him. He was WEIRD."

"I know, but it was more than that. He threatened me and so I'm gonna find a new job I want and quit."

"Ok. What kind of job are you looking for?"

"I thought about looking for one where I could be a photographer."

"You mean take pictures?"

"Yeah."

"I like it when you take pictures, Mommy. It makes you happy when you take them."

"Thanks, Baby Girl. I love you." She said and kissed the top of her head.

"I love you too. Could I help?"

"Sure."

"Ok. I go look on the computer." Doe said and ran off to the room with the computer in it.