Disclaimer: The Charmed characters do not belong to me. They are the creation of Constance Burge and Aaron Spelling. I just borrow them for your enjoyment
The darkness swirled around them like a thick fog, though no one seemed to mind. It was their element, there home. They could hear the bats in the distance. As someone started a quiet chant, one that soon they all joined in.
They could feel the powers or darkness around them, as they seemed to suck it from the very forest they were standing in. They could each feel the surge end as they looked at one another. Each feeling stronger then before.
"Soon we will have harvested enough strength to complete our task."
"But who does it? Who gets the remaining power?"
No one wanted to say out loud that they wanted the final power and be able to complete their task. To be the one that killed the Charmed Ones.
"It has been decided we know that. It was already foreseen. Tomorrow when we perform the ritual the chosen one will feel the power surge through him and he will then have the strength to do what must be done. He will have the powers to defeat our greatest enemy."
They all knew he spoke the truth but it still did not help that they each felt it should be there destiny. For each had accomplished great acts of darkness against good. Killing innocents and witches. They were the elite of their clan. The ones that would one day see to the future of all evil, allowing it to one day rule the earth.
"Go now and continue your work. Tomorrow the moon will be at its thinnest and our day of revenge will finally be here."
They walked back into the Manor they had lived in ever since they were born. Sharing and fighting over everything.
Prue made her way to the stairs as Piper headed to the kitchen her safety place in the large Victorian. She knew there was about to be an explosion between Prue, her oldest sister, and Phoebe, the youngest. She just wasn't in the mood to play mediator to them this time.
Piper waited as she heard Prue make her way up the stairs. Was her big sister actually going to try and avoid a fight with Phoebe? She stopped before entering the kitchen, "Prue?"
"I'm going to get the BOS and first aid kit and then I will yell at her." she didn't even miss a step as she continued her journey up to the second floor.
Piper turned her head and watched as Phoebe walked into the Manor though slowly, "You ok sweetie?"
"I will be." Phoebe answered back as she started for the stair. "As soon as I take a nice hot bath."
"I would wait a second before you went up there if I was you."
Phoebe looked at Piper as she placed one hand on the banister of the staircase. "I don't want to fight with her right now Piper, I don't have the energy.
"You might as well get it over with." Piper said before retreating to the kitchen.
Phoebe cast her eyes up to the top of the stairs. Taking in a deep breath she started up the stairs to her room. She knew it would only be a matter of time before Prue came in and words were exchanged.
Piper stood downstairs waiting for the volcano to erupt upstairs. She didn't even want to pick sides. Both her sisters where right in what they did. Phoebe for trying to save an innocent and Prue for getting mad when she went alone. She closed her eyes when she hard the first voice being raised.
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"Prue I don't want to talk about it."
"We aren't, I am. What you did was stupid and selfish Phoebe you could have been killed."
"What was I suppose to do? Wait until you left your precious Buckland's and let her get killed?"
"No, there is this item called a cell phone you should have called us!" Prue was getting beyond mad. Her sister always did stuff just to piss her off. "I swear you do this on purpose to get on my last nerve." Prue shot back as she tossed the first aid kit on the floor followed by the BOS to the bed.
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Piper walked up the stairs and listened to the words being exchanged by her two sisters. She knew why Prue was mad. Phoebe had gotten a premonition of an innocent getting killed and gone after her on her own. And each time she did that, they both got mad because of her non-active power. But she also knew why Phoebe had done it and that sometimes getting either sister was not the easiest, especially Prue.
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"WHAT!" Phoebe yelled back at her. "I can not believe YOU! I called and you KNOW IT!"
"You did not!" Prue shot back
"I did, and your stupid secretary said you were in a meeting. Even AFTER I said it was an emergency."
Piper stepped inside as she listened to the words being shot across the room. She looked over at Phoebe as she stood up right in Prue's face and Prue starring her down, or trying to. But as Phoebe said that she had tried to get her, Piper saw Prue soften
"You tried to get me?"
"Yes. And your dumb secretary said you were in a meeting and could not be disturbed." Phoebe was now also softening as she stepped back from Prue.
Prue looked over her shoulder at Piper who was standing just inside the doorway, before turning back to Phoebe, "Phoebe she never told me I swear." Prue looked down at her sister who was now sitting on the edge of the bed.
Suddenly she looked so small to her. Sitting there with her legs just hanging over the side. It reminded Prue of when she was little and she got hurt. She would lift her sister up to her bed and her feet would hang over the side. "Let me see that." Prue bent down in front of Phoebe and gently wiped at her sisters' injury with the warm wet cloth.
"Owweeeey!" Phoebe pulled back. "That hurts Prue."
"I know it does Phoebe but we have to clean it up before we can apply anything to it." Preu explained as she looked at her sister, "Would be helpful if you changed though."
Phoebe looked at both ehr sisters before she let PRue help her.
"It's just a road rash Phoebe come on you've had worse." Piper added in as she took Phoebes hand as Prue wrung out the cloth and went to clean again.
"I knew I should have ducked the other way when the demon cried out." Phoebe grimaced as Prue continued to clean the cut to Phoebes hip.
"Yeah well, you saved the innocent and that is what really matters." Piper said trying to get Phoebes mind off of what Prue was doing.
"My question is why all of a sudden are the uping their campaign? What's going on?" Piper asked out to anyone that was there.
"I don't care all I know is that we saved her and we will save the next one." Phoebe said as she watched Prue placed the bandage on her hip.
"Ok good as new." Prue looked up at Phoebe and gave her a smile, "Look Phoebe I'm sorry I blew up at you. Maybe we need to come up with some code system so we know when it is a family emergency or demon one. And I will talk to my secretary about not letting me know."
"That's ok Prue." Phoeb agreed as she pulled on a pair of sweats, "But I agree with the system." Suddenly Phoebe reached up and grabbed her heart. "Augh!"
"Phoebe!" Piper and Prue both took her by the shoulder to steady her as she suddenly went limp in their arms.
"Phoebe! Prue, do something." Piper panicked as she held Phoebe close to her. But what she felt next and saw scared her even more.
The white and blue orbs appeared in the hall as they had many times before. But this time was different, and it was these times that he didn't enjoy being a Whitelighter. He walked down the hall and heard Piper scream for her baby sister. He knew what was happening and he knew the message he had to deliver. Though he didn't know how they would react.
"Leo! Phoebe she fainted or something." Piper grabbed his hand and pulled him towards her little sister. But she was shocked when he stood and did nothing.
"LEO. Heal her!" Prue yelled at him as he stood by and watched Phoebe possibly die.
"I can't heal her Piper I'm sorry."
"Sorry? Get over here and heal her."
"I can't heal what is not here." He said as he cast his eyes to the empty bed.
"Phoebe! What the hell just happened?" Piper yelled at anyone that was near her and she starred at the spot her sister had just been sitting. Phoebe was no longer there.
"Leo?" They both glared at him he had that look that he knew something.
He didn't know what to say but his mouth just started to spit out words as if he had no control. "Everything is now as it should be."
"What?" Prue's anger evident as she stepped towards him.
"You there were never meant to be the Charmed Ones. It was suppose to be the next line of witches."
"What are you talking about Leo? The Book of Shadows says three sisters. Last time I checked there were three of us." Prue shot out.
"But there wasn't suppose to be. When your mother was seven months pregnant with Phoebe she was killed by a demon. But somehow someone managed to go back and change history and she was saved. But now everything is how it was meant to be."
Prue and Piper looked at him dumbfounded. "What the hell do you mean everything is back the way it was supposed to be?" Piper yelled out.
"Just what I said. It is set right now. Now the future will and can go on as it was meant to." He had told them everything.
Now he waited for the results of the world that would have to wait for another generation for the Charmed Ones to be. He only hoped it would last that long. Or that Prue and Piper would. For everyone would forget Phoebe ever existed in this time and of this world, everyone but her sisters.
