DEATH literally takes a Halliwell.
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Piper
The Manor:
Prue and Piper had just walked in with Doctor Griffiths trailing behind them while they talked. He became agitated that they were ignoring him and began to panic at some of the phrases he was catching in their conversation.
"What the hell are you talking about? First you tell me my life's in danger, then you abduct me from my work, now you're talking about demons and witches. Who the hell are you people?" He shouted pissed and afraid.
"Look, I know that this all sounds incredible, but it doesn't make it any less true. Alright, you're a healer, you do good, now either you have saved too many lives or you're about to save a life that they don't want you to save." Prue said trying to be patient with the man's outburst.
"They?" He semi yelled confused.
"Yeah, demons. Uh, more specifically, Shax. He was The Source's assassin." She said rather calmly. Piper gave Prue a look.
"Hold it, I get it. This is a practical joke, right? Do you have a hidden camera here? My second wife put you up to this? Ah, it's just like her." He said looking around while laughing.
"O-o-okay, DrGriffiths, listen to me, this is anything but..."
She stopped.
Piper looked at her "What?" Wondering the cause of her sister's sudden silence.
"I don't know, I just felt a chill. Phoebe? Phoebe, are you there?" Prue called out to her sister but there was no reply.
A tornado of wind twists through the front door.
"Phoebe, where are you?" Prue shouted as tornado came flying towards them.
The tornado knocked Prue and Piper to the floor. A clap of thunder struck somehow, before the tornado stopped and grey figure stood there.
This was no doubt a demon. This was Shax. The Source's assassin. One of the most feared demons in the underworld.
"Dear god." Dr Griffiths said in pure terror whilst backing up.
"No!" Prue screamed.
Prue got up off the floor and pushed Dr Griffiths out of the way. Meanwhile Shax had thrown an aerokinetic blast at Prue and she literally crashed straight through the wall.
"Prue!" Piper yelled.
Piper got up too but Shax was too quick and threw an aerokinetic blast at her, sending her crashing through the remainder of the wall.
Shax then turned to Dr Griffiths.
"What are you?" The Doctor asked shocked and terrified.
"The end." Shax replied in a deep malevolent voice.
He threw an aerokinetic blast at Dr Griffiths and he crashed through a window. Shax looks around. He looks at Prue and Piper unconscious on the floor. Pleased with what he's done, Shax turns back into the wind and flies out the front door. The glass on the door smashes as it slams shut.
"Huhhhhhhh"
Piper woke up panting and sweating. She was alone in her bed. It wasn't always the case but occasionally Piper would wake up to find Leo gone.
It wasn't a shock. Leo had other charges around the world and if they needed him she wouldn't stop him from going to them.
However this was one of those moments where she needed her husband. She had dreamt about Prue once again and it would only get worse every time.
It had been two weeks since Prue's death and a week since they met their half sister Paige and Reconstituted the Power of three.
"Le..." She started but stopped.
She couldn't do it. She loved her husband but there was that little voice inside her head that told her why she couldn't call for him.
'He's part of the reason she's dead. You love a man who helped kill your sister. He condemned her to her death. Great husband.' The voice said sniggering inside her head.
"SHUT UP!" Piper screamed.
Her hands flew up and the mirror on her dresser exploded.
Piper sat there in the dark for a few second breathing heavily. A moment later Phoebe ran in.
"Piper what happened?" Phoebe said going into attack mode and looking around the room for imminent danger.
Piper just stared at Phoebe. The action reminded her all the more of Prue. It was the sort of thing she did as the older sister. Now Piper was the eldest. Now she had gained another one.
"Piper?" Phoebe said coming forward. She was about to sit on the bed.
"I'm fine Phoebe I had bad dream and blew up my mirror there are no demons in my room." She slightly irritated though Phoebe couldn't work out.
"Piper!" Phoebe said again.
"Phoebe I would like to go back to sleep. Please respect that and get out." Piper said rather harsh.
Phoebe was shocked that her sister would talk to her like this.
"Ok Piper we will talk in the morning. Goodnight" She said and left the room while closing the door.
Piper felt bad. She didn't want to take her frustration out on Phoebe. She didn't deserve that but part of her couldn't help it. Part of her blamed Phoebe for her older sister's death.
Piper tried to deny it but ultimately it crept right back in. She hated herself for it. What kind of a sister blamed her little sister for their other sister's death?
What kind of sister was she?
She honestly hated these feeling that had been there since she woke up to see Leo, over her and Phoebe crying over her dead body with Cole standing behind her two weeks ago but she couldn't help it.
Prue would have never died if Phoebe didn't go to the underworld with Leo. Prue would never had died if Phoebe hadn't just vanquished Cole when she found out he was Belthazor. Prue would have never died if phoebe hadn't read the spell to receive their powers.
There it was, she had thought it. She couldn't take back the thought. It was a thought that would stay hers for eternity. She would never tell her sister or husband this devastating thought. It would stay with her and only her forever.
It would be a scratch she could never itch.
A poison that would take it's toll on her body slowly devouring and withering up her organs and eating away at her brain as she would feign smiles to the replacement of the their older sister.
Could she do it?.
No it wouldn't be the same. She was not her. Piper didn't even want to believe she was her sister. She wasn't not really. She was a perfect stranger if even that.
Paige didn't grow with them. She didn't know what they were like. She had no clue of the things they had achieved in their life especially with Prue.
Now she was supposed to learn and bond with her sisters to take out the source?
That was something that would need Prue not Paige, Prue.
No one else would have her strength and even though Prue would not be powerful enough to take on the source by herself she would be the one to lead the power of three into glory as they kicked the source's ass.
That wouldn't happen now because Prue was dead and buried in the ground and she wasn't coming back. Her place had already been taking by a newbie who had no idea what was out there and had to learn the three years worth of magic they knew. Learn how to control her powers. Take on the source and balance a normal life.
They would be dead within a week.
'Dammit Leo why would you pick the wrong sister. Why pick me? Prue was the strongest.'
The strongest was now gone and she would haft to be that now. Strong like Prue.
smart like Prue. Capable like Prue. Amazing like Prue.
How?
There was still the fact that the source and other demons would come after them.
Demons the sons of bitches. Shax was dead but it still didn't ease her pain. Prue was still dead because evil killed her.
A demon killed her.
A demon that didn't care. None of them ever did. The evil bastards got away with murder as perusal.
She would show them. She would make it clear that they chose the wrong witches to mess with. She would vanquish the lot of them. Or at least every stinking demon that touch the surface of San Francisco.
She would give the source and the demons a clear message.
Halliwell's fight back.
Piper slowly laid back down. Tomorrow some pent up anger would be released and San Francisco would be a little safer.
For now she would sleep. She had a big day a head of her tomorrow.
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AN: I know Piper wasn't that hard on Phoebe but I really wanted to show Piper's struggle the most with Prue's death and her feelings her Hope you enjoyed.