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A Line Allows Progress, A Circle Does Not

Piper Halliwell padded down the stairs of the Victorian home she shared with her family. Like every other night for the past couple of months, she couldn't sleep. At night her mind raced with worry and fear that the youngest sister, Paige, was hurt or... dead.

She'd been missing since the day she'd woke up after being poisoned by a demon. It made her think she had done something terrible and made it real in her mind, that was all they knew. They had searched everywhere for her using both magical and natural methods and every time they'd failed to find.

Darryl had used his connections to be alerted whenever someone matching Paige's description was sighted or admitted to hospital. That meant they'd went to ID a lot of Jane Doe's to the point they were on first name terms with the morgue attendants.

As she walked through the foyer, she spotted a silhouette in the dark living room: Prue.

It was a regular occurrence that Prue was up all night. She'd been beating herself up over not being able to find Paige and just letting her leave in the first place. She sat opposite her big sister.

Prue blinked herself back to reality. "Can't sleep?" She asked.

Piper shook her head.

"What's wrong?" She prodded further.

Piper looked at Prue as if to say, 'you know what's wrong.'

Prue sighed, "I know."

"Today was..." Piper couldn't even find a word to describe how she felt about their day. "I thought it was her. The hair and... it wasn't a split second no like the other's. I thought she was really dead on that steel tray."

Prue had to fight back her own tears and realised if she said anything, all that would come out were her sobs. Instead she got up and sat next to Piper, pulling her into a hug.

The morgue had called them around 2 and asked them to ID a body, a woman matching Paige's description completely. Prue and Piper had been the only 2 home and they had decided to go alone. Alerting Phoebe, Glenn and Leo would only cause them more pain.

When the doctor pulled back the sheet. Piper had saw her. She had seen the blue and dead face of her sister.

Then she saw the real body in front of her, that's all it was, a nameless shell. She thought about how the woman who looked so much like her little sister might have had no one to care that she was dead. Or worse, there were people out there searching for her, scared something so terrible had actually happened to her.

"Do you think she's ok?" Piper asked.

Prue nodded, "I think she's confused and when we find her, she'll be ok."

Piper wiped her face and sat up. They couldn't just sit and cry, that wouldn't help. "You want some tea?"

Prue nodded, "Sure."