Phoebe pulled way from Piper and stood on the other side of the bed. "What the hell are you doing in here?"
"Whoa. Phoebe. Relax."
"No I won't relax Piper. What are you doing here?"
"Well if you want to be that way about it. I came to get you for dinner, but seeing as you seem to be all pissy at Prue and I lately, then you know what? Get your own." Piper said as she turned out of her sisters' room. She didn't know Phoebe anymore, she had been like that for awhile now and Piper had had it.
"Piper?"
Turning back to her sister. "No Phoebe. You've been moping around her for weeks. You won't tell us what's bothering you. And don't stand there and tell me it's nothing. I know you Phoebe Halliwell, I know when something is bothering you. And what ever it is this is BIG. Both Prue and I hear you crying ever night, and in the morning you act as if nothing happened. We're your sisters and believe it or not we love you. When you hurt we hurt. So it's about time that you faced what ever demons you're fighting on your own and tell us what the hell is going on."
Phoebe just looked at Piper shocked. She hadn't realized that her sisters had heard her every night. Yet they never said anything. "Ok Piper, do you want to know what's going on? Do you really want to know what keeps your baby sisters awake at night? Do you?" Phoebe yelled
Piper just stood there. Then she just nodded. "Yes Phoebe. I do." She answered quietly.
Phoebe was somewhat not prepared for the answer that Piper had given her. But she couldn't stop now.
Prue had been waiting downstairs for Piper and Phoebe to return from upstairs. She too was worried about Phoebe and how she had been so distant lately, and she didn't know what to do to fix it. Every time she approached her sister she would push her away. Suddenly she could hear Piper yelling at Phoebe. Getting off her chair she started upstairs. Piper very rarely yelled at Phoebe, so Prue was going to make her business to find out what was going on. She came in behind Piper just as she had told Phoebe very quietly that she wanted to know what was bothering her.
Phoebe spotted Prue behind Piper. "Oh goody now I want have to repeat this." She said to Prue.
Piper turned and looked at Prue who had a puzzled look on her face.
"Do you want to know too big sis? Hey? Do you want to know why I've woken up crying every night for the past couple of weeks? Why when during the day I can hardly stay awake because I'm afraid to sleep at night. And then when I do sleep I have the same nightmare over and over again. Do you want to know that it's all your fault?"
The last words stung Prue like no other. She knew something was up but she was not expecting those last words from her sister.
"What no answer? Well let me tell you sisters. Do you remember a few weeks ago? When we vanquished the water demon? Yes the same one that killed Mom. You asked me to see what Sam saw. How could you? Every night I see it over and over again. I feel it over and over again." Phoebe explained to her sisters as she felt herself lose control. She shook with sobs as she told them. "Did you ever think for a second what I would go through after? I have NO MEMORIES of Mom. Now the only one I have is of her death!"
"Pheebs." Prue started but never finished
"No Prue. Not this time. You two knew what I would see and you let me go through with it. I just want to know why? How could you ask me to do that?" she asked.
Both her sisters just stared at her and then the floor. Neither one wanting to say anything. Now they knew.
"I'm sorry Phoebe. You're right I should have never asked you to go through that." Prue finally said "But in some ways we had no choice. That was the only way to see and find out what happened. You have no idea how I felt when I asked you to do that. You're right. I knew what you would see. It was the same as I saw all those years ago. I had no idea that it would have this effect on you. For that I'm sorry."
"You're sorry? Well that's good Prue, I'm glad you feel sorry for what happened. But it doesn't stop my nightmares now does it?" Phoebe said.
There was silence in the Manor. No one knew what to say to Phoebe.
"I need some air." Phoebe grabbed her coat from her chair and started past her sisters.
"Phoebe! Where are you going?" Prue asked.
"I don't know Prue." She answered her sister. She stopped and then turned around looking at them. Prue was looking back at her with hurt and confusion in her face. Piper was still in her room; she couldn't even look at Phoebe.
"Please, just let me be for awhile. I'll be back." Phoebe told her quietly. And with that she walked down the stairs and out the front door. Not knowing where the night would take her.