Disclaimer: The Charmed characters belong to Aaron Spelling and Constance Burge. I just borrow them for your enjoyment and my addiction…enjoy

Phoebe sat on the deck chair starring up to the sky. She heard the front door open but made no move to see who it was. She already knew. She was also to lost in her own thoughts about a decision she was in the process of making. Picking up the paper book she tucked it under the blanket she had draped over her legs.

"Hey Phoebs. Getting a bit chilly out here to be star gazing isn't it?" Piper asked as she sat in the chair next to her sister.

"Maybe a bit. I was just thinking, and I can always do that better looking up at the stars." She answered her sister while giving her a half smile.

Piper looked across at her little sister. There was always something about her that made Piper think of their Mum. Maybe it was the magic in all of them. Maybe it was the way she smiled. But Piper had also learned at a very young age to know when her baby sister was hiding something. "Wanna talk about it?"

"What?" Phoebe looked over at Piper innocently.

"You. I know that look Phoebs. What's on your mind?"

"Nothing. You know that." she tried to brush it off. She had one thing on her mind but wasn't sure yet what she was gonna do. Or if she was gonna go through with the idea she had.

Piper held her gaze to her sister. She knew Phoebe was thinking of something, she just didn't wanna push her. "Ok, so what are we gonna do for a week with no big sister around?"

"She get off ok?"

"Yes, and she missed you at the airport. Tell me again why you didn't wanna go see her off?" Piper prodded. She knew Phoebe had her reason, she just hadn't shared them with her sisters.

"I don't know. Bad at goodbye?" Phoebe tried. She wasn't sure why she hadn't gone to see Prue and Jack off

"You are not my sister." Piper shot back with an amused smile on her face.

"I am. I don't know. I was just thinking about Clay. Maybe I should call him. Tell him to meet her at the airport or something."

"You could. Phoebe is the fact that Prue is going to NYC with Jack bothering you?"

She looked away from Piper. It did bother her a bit, but she knew it was a big city. There was no way her big sister would ever find out what had happened to her when she was there. "No, don't be silly. I did nothing for her to find out about me anyway."

Piper didn't say anything. She had kept in contact with Phoebe when she was in NYC and her sister had never told her anything that would be cause for concern. As far as she knew her little sister went and saw the big apple. Took a bigl bite and came back home.

"I still can't believe she actually went. I mean after everything we had with that ghost." Phoebe mentioned. Every time they fought a demon or any other form of evil it still marvelled her as to the world they had found themselves in.

"Yeah well, I think her and Jack needed to reconnect after the thing with baby Matthew." Piper argued on her sisters' behalf. "Besides I think it's her way of keeping her magic life away from her regular life."

"At least she can." Phoebe said quietly. "Ok so have we figured out what we are going to do if we get attacked by some demon?"

"Well Leo has a lock on us all the time. So if we do, he can go get her." Piper said assuring her sister that if anything magical came up they would be ok.

"But only if it calls for the power of three. I don't wanna be the one to ruin her week away." Phoebe gave back, "And on that, I am off to bed." Getting up she placed a kiss on Pipers forehead, "Love you. Night."

"Night Sis." Piper replied back as she watched Phoebe make her way inside, though still wondering what was really going on with her sister.

Jack looked over at the sleeping form of his partner. He still couldn't believe he was flying to NYC with Prue Halliwell. Ever since he had gotten into the auction business he had heard about her. But the first time he saw her picture he was taken by surprise. She was not what he had expected. She was beautiful and it was that beauty that intrigued him.

He had quite the chat with his twin Jeff about her. He had approved while heartedly. Not that he needed his brother's approval of women, but it something that they had done as kids. But when Jeff had draped his arm over Jacks shoulder and smiled as she walked down the hall that day Jack knew that it was possible that Prue was the one. But now he somehow could feel something different.

"Hey." She looked up at him and she knew he was thinking about something

"Hey yourself. I thought you were sleeping. I mean after your crazy week with your lil cousin Matthew."

"Yeah but I'm ok. Excited actually."

"Excited? Wow. Excited to be with me or excited about going to NYC?" Jack asked hoping for the right answer.

"A bit of both actually. I mean Phoebe spent six months out here and she talks about it very little. So I have always wondered what she saw in the city to hold her here as long as it had. But then again there is a part of me that has always wanted to see NYC. I mean the museums, Broadway, the statue.

"The clubs, the hot spots. The romantic dinners followed by a carriage ride through the park." Jack added as he held Prue into a hug with his one arm.

The pilot interuptted thier thoughts as he announced their descent into NYC and with each slight decent closer they both felt their adrenaline pumping. It was NYC, the Big Apple. Full of excitement and entertainment. But could they take in all of her entertainment. In a city where a hidden evil dwells within her very being.

The music blared over everything that was in its path. People, voices, horns outside, sirens. Nothing could stop the sounds that echoed from the small club in the basement of the streets. The lights flickered back and forth from strobbing too subtle. The mist rising from the dance floor as it licked its fingers into the darkness as it crawled from everywhere and around everyone. But in the back of the small club the light was just enough for them to carry out their business, like they had for years before.

"I have no news boss."

"That is not possible. I spent nearly two years in the clink and we find nothing. Someone double crossed me and I intend to find out who." His anger flashed through his eyes. It was something most of them knew all to well.

"I suspect that whoever it was left town soon after." One of them said as he lifted his bottle of beer for a drink.

He sat in silence as he recalled the day everything went wrong. He had a feeling who had betrayed him. But now he just needed to find them. And he knew he would. "There will be a promotion and a bonus for the person who leads me to Phoebe Halliwell." He said casting a glance to each of his underlings.