He watched them entering his small part of the hospital. It was times like this he hated his job. So young and so full of life. To be killed like this was just not right. "I'm very sorry for having to put you through this." He said with no emotions.
Prue held Piper as the realization of what was happening came to them. Darryl needed them to identify Phoebes body. She looked at the hard metal door that she knew her sister was behind. How had everything gone so wrong, so fast? They had finally become sisters. She heard Piper crying beside her frozen in place not wanting to see her baby sister.
He opened the door and pulled the cold slab out. The blanket covering what they knew was there. He looked at the sisters and then gently pulled back the blanket.
Prue looked on and she heard Pipers cries as she soon twisted her head into Prues shoulder, her emotions taking control. Prue felt the tears running down her cheeks as she looked on at the broken soul of her baby sister. She turned away not able to look any more; There was so much blood.
Piper took one look at Phoebe and quickly closed her eyes and buried her face in Prues shoulder. Her baby sister was dead. Killed by something unnatural that much she could tell. The blood was everywhere. It seemed to be coming from a never-ending stream. She felt her knees get weaker and her heart seem to be tightening inside her. She couldn't do this, she couldn't go on without 1/3 of her soul; her heart. She felt her airway constrict as she tried to breathe. But she found herself instead gasping for air.
She wanted to die herself. She felt Prues arms wrapped around, and her voice trying to sooth away her greatest fear. "Piper Ssshhh. It's ok."
Ok? The words stung her. How could everything be ok? Their sister was dead. She pulled away from Prue and looked at her. "Ok. Prue, Phoebe is dead how can you stand there and be so callous?" But then she looked past Prue at her surroundings, "What?" Piper looked at her confused.
"You had a bad dream sweetie." Prue brushed the hair off her sisters' forehead that was wet from perspiration.
"Nightmare more like." Piper sat up and leaned against the back of the couch closing her eyes trying to get her barrings back.
"Do you wanna talk about it?" Prue said gently not wanting to upset her sister.
"Um, not really sure." Piper looked around again. The need to find something was suddenly over whelming to her. "Phoebe. Where's Phoebe?" she felt her panic rising again.
"She went out with some friends remember?"
Piper got up from the couch and quickly made her way to the phone. Dialing Phoebes cell she paced wildly waiting at each ring. "Pick up. Come on, pick up the damn phone." Piper said to the sister that wasn't there.
"Piper what's wrong?" Prue was starting to get worried for Piper and now Phoebe. What ever Piper had a nightmare about had spooked her sister something fierce.
"Damn it why isn't she answering her damn phone?" Piper yelled at Prue.
"Ok Piper you're freaking me out here. What the hell is going on?" Prue took Pipers shoulders in her arms and demanded an answer
Piper slammed down the receiver and ran out to the front foyer, with Prue right behind her.
Prue grabbed her sisters' arm before she got out the door. Spinning her around she held Piper with both hands and looked her right in the eyes.
"Piper what's wrong?"
"I saw. Oh god Prue there was so much blood. It was as if she had been mauled by a lion or something. She was dead Prue. Phoebe was dead." Piper broke down as Prue wrapped her arms around her sister.
The words did not get past Prue, but she knew that what Piper had seen was just a nightmare. "Ok look why don't we try her again on her cell. Maybe she's just in a bar and she can't hear it ringing." Prue suggested as she guided Piper back to the couch.
"Prue, I've never been so scared in my life. I can't imagine what I would do if I ever lost one of you. If something like that ever happened to you or Phoebe. It was so. So violent." Piper felt her tears again, but then the loving touch of her sister wiping them away.
"Nothing is going to happen to us Piper. Now come on, let's track down Phoebs and then you can relax a little."
They tried again but still no answer from Phoebes phone.
"Piper tell me what happen."
"I'm not really sure. It's still I don't now. There was this guy and he was trying to kill this girl. But someone came and tried to save her. Then it went to us here in the Manor. We got a call from Darryl to go to the hospital. When we got there he took us to the morgue, only we didn't know it was the morgue. Not till we got inside and the doctor showed us. Oh Prue it was horrible."
"Ok, ok. It's not going happen. It was just a bad dream." Prue comforted her sister again
"Everything was so dark. I couldn't see who was who. I couldn't tell who the killer was."
He almost had her. But he knew what to do next time, as he smiled inward at himself.
Phoebe walked up the driveway to the house on Prescott St. when she heard her phone ringing.
"Phoebs here."
"Phoebe where are you?"
"Prue what's wrong?" Phoebe immediately picked up on her sisters' worry, but it wasn't directed at her.
"Look, can you just come home right away?"
"Um yeah, I'm actually walking up the steps now." Phoebe replied as she opened the door to the Manor and closed her phone. "What's going on?" Phoebe looked at her older sisters on the couch the trail of dried tears evident on Pipers cheeks.
Sitting on the couch Phoebe embraced he sister as she looked over at Prue with a questioning look. "Piper, hey its ok, I'm right here." Phoebe held Piper tight as she felt her sister hold her tighter, not wanting to let go.
Finally pulling back Phoebe tucked Pipers hair behind her ear. "What happen honey?"
Piper closed her eyes and looked over at Phoebe. "I saw. You were." She couldn't say it.
"She saw you dead in the hospital morgue."
Phoebe looked over at Prue as she finished what Piper couldn't say, and then back to Piper. Cupping her sister face in her hands, "Oh sweetie. I'm not dead. I'm right here. You can't get rid of me that easily."
"There was so much blood. It was like a lion had mauled you to death." Piper sniffed back the tears.
"Hey, I'd like to see a lion try. With you and Prue around he wouldn't stand a chance." Phoebe tried to make light of the situation. But as she pulled Piper in for another hug she noticed something that Prue had not. "Piper. Prue." She pulled out of the hug and took a small piece of Pipers hair in her hand. "Why is Pipers hair white?"
Prue looked at what Phoebe had in her hand as the realization struck her. "Piper in your dream what happen to you?"
"Me? I was crying my eyes out over the death of my baby sister."
"No, but how did you react?"
"Prue I was devastated."
"Did you feel your world collapse and you heart constrict like you couldn't move. You found it hard to even get air in your lungs." Prue said as she held Piers gaze
Piper watched as Prue described everything she had felt. "How did you?"
"Know. Because that was how I felt."
"What are you talking about Prue?" Phoebe wasn't sure if she wanted to yell at Prue or cry for what Piper had gone through.
"You said it yourself Piper. You've never been so scared in your life." Prue pointed out
"Point Prue." Phoebe questioned.
"Who do we know that can scare a person to death? To make you live your greatest fears." Prue looked at both her sisters getting her point across
"No it can't be. We vanquished him." Piper seeing where Prues train of thoughts were headed.
"Twice." Phoebe added also seeing what Prue was thinking.
"Look at the calendar again guys. We've just entered another Friday the 13th. Barbas is free again somehow, and he wants to finish what he started." Prue told them. "He wants us dead."
