Prue quickly scanned the room trying to assure herself that what Piper was thinking was wrong. "Phoebe!" she moved around the corner to check the last place she had seen her sister.

Piper made her way across the bar and stood next to Prue, "You don't think."

"I hope not." Prue felt Pipers tension as they both wondered if a demon had something to do with the disappearance of their little sister.

Piper turned quickly at the sound of something crash against the back door.

"It's just the wind Piper. Probably blew something over." Prue assured her sister but watched as Piper started towards the back of the club.

Prue wasn't sure what Piper was thinking but she followed after her anyway. Though as she got closer to the back door, she realized what Piper was thinking; Phoebe.

Piper pushed open the door and looked out into the back alley. The rain was falling harder then it was earlier that night, if that was even possible.

"Phoebe!" Piper yelled out over the storm as she rushed to the side of her sister who was lying face first on some boxes.

Prue crouched down next to her sisters and helped Piper roll Phoebe over. Placing her arms under Phoebes back and legs, and with a little help from her power, she lifted her sister off the ground, "Lets get her inside." Prue said as she started back towards the club.

Prue placed Phoebe on the couch in Pipers office, as Piper grabbed the blanket from the cupboard. Turning back to her sister she placed it over and around her sister.

Prue brushed back Phoebe hair from her face as she heard the first signs of her sister coming around.

"Phoebs."

"Oh god." Phoebe reached her hand up to her forehead.

"What happen?" Piper asked as she sat in front of her sister on the floor.

"I don't know. I was taking the garbage out when the lightening hit the transformer. I practically jumped out of my skin. As I twisted around to see what happened I tripped over something and fell. As I was getting up something hit the back of my head. The next thing I know I'm looking up at Prue."

"Ok let's just get you home." Prue helped Phoebe sit up and then stand. "We'll come back tomorrow and clean up Piper."

Piper picked up the blanket from the couch and wrapped it around Phoebe, "No argument from me." She said as she looked towards the back of Phoebes head. She could almost see the bump on her head and the slight stain of blood.

Prue sat in the back of the jeep with Phoebe leaning against her. Even with the blanket around her Prue could feel her sister shaking. Wraping her arms around her she moved her hand up and down Phoebes arm to help get her warm. "Cold honey?"

"Yeah and wet and my head hurts and I feel like an idiot." Phoebe whined as she snuggled closer to Prue.

"Well I don't know about the idiot part." Prue smiled as she moved her free arm around her sister as well and pulled her tight. Moving both her hands on Phoebes arms and back creating the circulation for her. "Well get you home to a nice hot bath and Pipers hot chocolate."

"And the fire place?"

Piper looked back through the mirror at Phoebe and Prue, "She doesn't want much does she?" Piper laughed as she saw Phoebe sticking her tongue at her.

"I hate storms." Phoebe whined as she stayed in against Prue.

"Yeah we know, but we're almost home so everything will be ok honey." Prue looked at Piper through the mirror and saw the matching smile on Pipers face that she had. At times Phoebe was as much a baby as she was when she was a baby.

The bright flash in the sky soon followed the loud clap of thunder. Prue felt Phoebe jerk as she buried her face in Prue's shoulder. She didn't say anything with words, just her arms tightening around her little sister.

Piper flicked the wippers on faster as the rains came harder again. Keeping a keen eye on the road as she rolled to the stoplight. Though she was soon glad it was red as the lightening struck the pole, sending it crashing in front of the Jeep.

"Ah!" Piper screamed as she saw the pole fall in front of them, "Ok I guess we go home the other way." She spoke out loud not to anyone in particular.

"That was to close sis." Prue commented from the back, thankful Phoebe hadn't been looking. But as the storm continued, it seemed to Prue that it was getting much worse. Worse then any storm she had witnessed in San Francisco.

"Yeah." Piper set the jeep in reverse and turned back around towards town and the alternate route home.


"We couldn't have planned this better if we tried."

"Yeah well it's still dangerous. So hurry up will you."

"Look relax. And stop hovering over me like a child."

"Would you two just shut up and open that door. The guards are gonna be around for their rounds any minute now." He looked back around the corner and watched. He was still not really sure how the two bumbling idiots had found him and gotten him to agree to letting them in on the job. Though he also knew once it was done he would have no further use for them.

He turned quickly as the lightening struck the wires above him and followed the stream of electricity along the wires and into a main transformer. As soon as it met the home of the electricity the whole container blew and every light at their end of the city went out.

"Well this could be interesting."


As Piper drove down the road she saw the flash in the distance and then everything around them went dark.

"Oh great. Can this night get any worse?" Piper asked anyone sarcastically. She looked in the mirror to her sisters, "How you doing Phoebs?"

Prue looked down at Phoebe and was glad that her baby sister had given to her tiredness and gone to sleep.

"She's sleeping."

"Well that's a good thing. At least that way she doesn't have to be worried about this crazy storm. How is she?"

"I can't tell if she is shaking from the storm and her fear of them, or from getting wet and she is cold."

"Well lucky for us I know the way home. So we can get her into something drier. This is like driving on a hwy in the middle of no where."

"Worse. At least you would have some street lights."

Piper raised one eyebrow, "True."

The radio crackled as the voice interrupted the music that Piper had softly put on.

"This just in. Power failures are happening all over the city, as San Francisco goes through one of its worst storms in twenty years. The San Francisco police dept has issued a warning to travellers to drive safely and to stay indoors. They are doing everything they can to get the power back up as they too have lost power at several stations around the city."

"Ok what idiot would announce that the power is out at the police stations." Prue asked from the back seat.

"Someone with a pea brain. This city is going to get crazier before the power comes back on. Every low life criminal is going to take advantage of that announcement."

Prue looked out the window trying to see anything in the darkness.

"I just hope we don't have any other low life's deciding to take advantage of the total darkness." Her words were quiet but Piper knew what she meant.

The darkness always brought out the evils of the world. But she also knew this might also bring out the evils of the underworld as well.