"Darryl can you please see what you can do? I mean this is Prue,she wouldn't just take off." Piper paced back and forth with the cordless in her hand.

"Piper I know that. And if it were anyone else I wouldn't be as worried as I am. She wasn't exactly all smiles and laughs when she left her."

"Darryl its three o'clock in the morning. Where in the hell could she be?"

"Piper we'll find her. I'll see what I can do. She has a lot of friends here because of her connection to Andy. He was a well thought of officer. But as you said,this is Prue. She isn't likely to get herself into any kind of trouble. If anything,I would think she would steer herself clear."

Piper listened to Darryl and tried to reason what he was saying. He was right on some level. This was Prue. As much as she would hate to say it out loud. This was Prue,not Phoebe.

"Ok Darryl,but if you hear anything, at anytime, please call us."

"I will Piper I promise."

Piper sat at the end of the couch and looked over at her baby sister. "I thought you were sleeping?"

"I can't. Darryl know anything?" Phoebe looked up at Piper without even moving from her spot.

"No. But he said he would get some guys working on it. And he would let us know the minute he heard anything."

They sat there in near silence. Neither one wanting to be the one to say anything.

"Phoebs. Why is it that you think we need to get to the book before sunrise?"

"I don't know. Probably because it has everything to do with the equinox. These past few days are when we are the most powerful. And we will need that power to get the book back. Especially if the demon is strong enough to take it from the Manor." Phoebe pulled herself up and hugged the pillow that was sitting beside her, "And I think Grams meant for Prue to retrieve the Book. After all she said the power of one, that has to be her. She is the strongest of the three of us."

"Phoebe."

Almost knowing what her sister was about to say. Phoebe tossed the cushion back on the couch and stood up. Walking angrily towards the window, "She's coming back Piper. She wouldn't just leave us. This is Prue, not me."

Piper watched the back of her sister before turning away for a split second. She wanted to lash back out at her sister but she couldn't. They were both just worried she knew that and yelling at Phoebe would only make it worse.

"Phoebe I know. I'm sorry."

"Piper. What scares me the most? What if you're right? What if she doesn't come back? What if she doesn't come back and he reads the incantation that gave us our powers? Then what? Do we have demons and warlocks coming to kill us anyway just incase? How do we defend ourselves without our powers?" Phoebe felt the trickle start down her cheek. But she then soon felt the warm embrace of her sisters' arms around her body pulling her towards her. She turned and buried her face in her shoulder as she let out her worry. Worry for her sister and what could become of them.

"We'll figure this out Phoebs. We have to." Piper consoled her through her own worry and fears. But the part that scared Piper was that they weren't her own thoughts. Phoebe had voiced the same ones that she had. What if Prue didn't come back? Then what?

She lost track of time as she just drove. She finally decided to stop at a motel along the sea. She didn't even know where she was, she just needed some time. Time to think. She didn't want to go back. Phoebe said at daybreak today it would all be over. Today. It was already four in the morning. She had been driving all night.

The Vacancy sign flickered on and off, yet was half burnt out. She opened the front door to the lobby and approached the desk clerk. She immediately could smell the booze on him. "A room for one please."

He shuffled some papers. "Room 201. Last room at the end of the hall there. You can park you car right outside." He handed her a key and went back to his work. He didn't even seem to care that he hadn't even taken any payment or credit card from her. Not that she was the type to sleep and run. But she was certain that there were some people that did that.

She parked her car and walked up the one flight of stairs to the second floor. Opening the door she turned on the small lamp. She had left right from the station, and in turn right from the hospital and work. She didn't have anything to change into even.

Taking off her dress she placed it over the chair. Pulling back the covers she crawled in and found herself quickly drifting off to sleep.

Piper woke up and carefully slid herself from under Phoebe. They had fallen asleep on the couch waiting for any word or sign of Prue. She made her way softly through to the back of the Manor and did what she did best; she started to cook.

She sat at the table starring at the browness in her cup, the phone at her side ready to grab the second it rang.

"Hey."

Piper looked up from her cup and into the worried face of the youngest sister. Phoebe sat next to Piper and rested her head on her shoulder.

"Hey yourself." Was all Piper said. She stopped herself from asking how Phoebe was, knowing that she felt the same as she did. Lost and scared. Prue had always been there for them, now here they were trying to figure out what they would do without her.

The sun shone behind the city as it started to cast its rays on the bay on the other side. The colours danced throughout the sky as the ball of fire rose higher and higher above the tall buildings below.

He starred down at the page before him. He was so close. They had vanquished every demon or warlock he had returned to them. But the main thing was to get to the part of the book that they would hold most dear.

The picture to the right of the three witches seemed to scream out at him not to do what he was about to do to them. But he just laughed. He knew he had them defeated. All he had to do was read the spell backwards just once.

!rewop eht su gnirB !rewop eht tnaw eW

!eerht sretsis ew ot rewop eht su gnirB

Phoebe sat beside Piper when she felt a dizzy spell in her mind. She closed her eyes but it increased as did the sudden pain in her head.

.rewop tneicnA eht nopu llac I

,ruoh siht ni dna thgin siht nI

Piper saw Phoebe suddenly closing her eyes as if in pain. She was about to say something when she to heard a ringing in her mind as the pain was almost too much to bare.

thgous si cigam fo krow taerg ehT

ereh dekovni era sdoG fo tsedlo ehT

Prue was lying on her bed in the hotel room. Her thoughts on her sisters and how she had now let them down. But as she went to get up, she quickly sat back down as the ringing and dizziness nearly overcame her. She wanted to scream out in pain

.thgin eht ni dih ew sterces ehT

sehctiw eht fo sdrow eht won reaH

Just as suddenly as it had come it was gone. The ringing, the dizziness and the pain. It was all gone as if it had never happened.

He waited for something anything to happen. Some spark some bright light that the good witches and etc were keen on. But he realized that he didn't need to know what had happened when he was finished. The Charmed Ones were no longer a threat to him or anyone else in the underworld. They were mer mortals now, and they would be an easy kill for any warlock or demon that came around. For without their powers they were defenseless.