The Halliwell sisters, Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) are bound together by blood, but they could not have been further apart in personality. The oldest, Prue, determined and driven, had a huge problem understanding her free-spirited youngest sister, Phoebe. Piper, the down-to-earth middle sister, often found herself in the role of mediator between the other two. The siblings were willed their childhood home by their grandmother (Penny Halliwell, aka "Grams"), a lovely Victorian manor that has been in their family for generations; Charmed is set in the beautiful city of San Francisco. The three sisters discover they are powerful witches, the Charmed Ones, and that they are destined to work together to save innocents from the forces of evil ~ as a triumverate of magical sisters, they are almost invincible.
In the first season, there are introductions, to the sisters, their backgrounds, to their friends and family, and to their newly discovered powers. Prue has the ability to move things with a gesture, Piper can "freeze" people (or demons, as the case may be!), and Phoebe has premonitions when she touches an object. Prue works at an auction house, Piper is a chef, and Phoebe, well, she's currently unemployed. Prue has friends on the local police force ~ Andy, an ex-boyfriend, and his partner, Daryl. We also meet cute handyman, Leo Wyatt, and eventually learn he's a Whitelighter, a benevolent being, who is able to heal with a touch and can move from place to place in a twinkle of light, known as 'orbing'. Whitelighters were human, but were granted this special status because of the good things they did while mortal. They are protectors of witches. He starts out fixing things around the manor, and doesn't allow any of the sisters to see him use his powers, and while both Piper and Phoebe find him attractive, we quickly see that the real pair are Leo and Piper, who have had a long term, on-again, off-again relationship to this day.
At the end of season one, the sisters know all about Leo, but Piper also knows that he may never be allowed near her because of the Elders' rule against Whitelighters and witches fraternizing. Andy is tragically killed by a demon.
In season two, Phoebe and Prue take a second mortgage on the house in order to allow Piper her dream of opening her own club, P3. The Halliwells also discover they have new neighbors, Dan Gordon and his pre-teen niece, Jenny. Dan is very attractive, and is immediately smitten with Piper, who asks for his help renovating the new club. At the same time, Leo shows back up, in order to help the Charmed Ones with some of their duties, saving innocents. Piper, faced with a difficult decision between Dan, who is hot, down-to-earth, and non-magical, and Leo, who is hot, as down-to-earth as a Whitelighter can be, and quite magical... Piper chooses Dan. While she really has feelings for him, her choice is really based more on what she perceives will be an easier, less heart-breaking relationship, as her heart has had quite enough of a stomping in life.
The sisters face some truths about their mother, Patti, who died when they were all very young; Phoebe doesn't even remember her. She was drowned by a water demon, and the reason she was killed demonstrates why the Elders don't allow witches and Whitelighters to be together. It seems that Patti and her Whitelighter, Sam, had fallen in love, and Patti was killed while protecting him. The Charmed Ones come to terms with this, and work together to destroy the demon who killed their mother.
Prue learns that she has an additional power this season, of astral projection, so that she can be in two places at once.
Things start to swing around again for Piper and Leo, as he goes against the rules and saves her life. His 'wings are clipped' and made mortal as punishment. Piper also has some explaining to do when she finds out she called out for Leo instead of Dan while she was half-conscious. Leo tells Piper that now that he's mortal, he plans on fighting for her. He eventually wins, and the two acknowledge that they are in love with each other.
The season ends with Leo and Piper as together as they can be for now, and Dan and Jenny leaving; Dan has been rejected and learned Piper was a witch, but she did manage to find a way to make this pain disappear, with a wish and little assist from a genie. Prue has discovered she enjoys photography and embarked on a new career, and Phoebe has started to master the martial arts, in an effort to make up for not having an active power.
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