"It has started."

"Yes. But it is to late to stop it."

"They are not ready."

"We must. Or all will be lost."

"They are still grieving."

"It most be done."

"Is she ready?"

The all stopped and looked at the one who had asked. It was the wise one. He had poised the question they were all thinking. But none knew how to answer it, or they didn't want to. For most knew she was not.

"We have to take the chance she is."

"They won't like that we kept this from them."

"It is not for them to decide."

"They watched over them all."

"It does not matter. What was done was decided long before the Charmed line was started."

They all cast glances around not really sure if they were doing the right thing. But realized they had no other choice.

"Let it be done then." He finally said, before he got up and left the room. Not knowing himself what chain of events they had just set in motion.

He stood in the shadows. He knew what he had to do. But it had to look like an accident. He had friends to watch his back incase anything unexpected happened. He waited for just the right person. Then he saw her. She was perfect. Was there such a thing as the perfect innocent? The perfect human? All he cared about was to get to his true target. The death of the remaining Charmed Ones.
Leo orbed in the Manor not really sure what was going on. All he knew is that there was an innocent in trouble and the sisters needed to get to her before they did.

He saw them on the couch, one resting against the other. Even now after months of grieving he could still see the loss on their faces. A loss he knew would never be filled again. "We need your help." Was all he could say.

They both looked up and from the look on his face they knew it was serious.

"What is it?"

"All they told me was that there has been a string of murders downtown, near the docks."

"Yeah Darryl told us about that and to be careful."

"Yeah, but what Darryl doesn't know, is that it very well could be demonically related."

"I thought they were just vagrants. Not that that makes it any less meaning." Prue looked up at Leo hoping with everything she didn't have to fight a demon, not now, not without her sister

"Some are, most are actually. But there has also been witches and future Whitelighters in the mix. They think they are using the other murders as cover up. So that we wouldn't be alerted."

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She stood and grabbed her coat looking back at her sister. "Should we check the book first?"

"There isn't time." Leo explained, "They are killing an innocent every night. If we miss them now we can always look in the book tomorrow. Come on, we haven't much time." He reached for her hand and pulled her to her feet before taking them both in his grasp and orbed out.

They quickly took the defensive stance as they re-materialized in the alley.

"Ok why does this shit always happen in a dark alley. Don't people know bad thing happen to them in dark alleys?"

"Guess not all of the people do." Leo said as he made his way cautiously down the alleyway.

They each took careful steps before scanning their surroundings.

"Why don't we spread out. Leo you go down there and we'll go this way. If you see anything orb out and get us."

Leo watched as they moved down the alley with trained practice. They may have lost their sister but their will to survive and fight evil was still inside them. He just hoped that was enough.

He made his way towards the back of the alley when suddenly everything went black as he felt the hard hit to the back of his head.

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"I don't like this." She said quietly as she took hold of her sisters' arm

"Neither do I. But what choice do we have?" she answered as she took another step forward, but she did something wasn't right. Looking at her sister she could tell something was wrong.

"What?"

"I'm not sure. It just feels wrong somehow. Like."

She looked around her and felt the same thing. Like an icy chill. "Like a trap." She agreed as she cast her eyes around them.

He had watched them make their way down the alley. This was too easy.

They both spun around and saw him. His scaly brownish skin looked like it was flaking off his face. The claws on his hands flexed, feeling the energy that was inside him.

"Hello witches. You look to be one short. Or is that something we just don't discuss. The dead sister." he taunted them like a dog with a bone.

"Shut up. What do you want?" Piper felt an anger at his carefree attitude at Phoebes death

"What we have all wanted for the past three years, your deaths." He laughed. But as suddenly as he stopped laughing his hand seemed to reach to and grab one of them. Pulling her towards him in his deathly grip.

Before either of them could react he had ripped her from her grasp.

"Now I can kill the witches as well as the innocent." He laughed as he cast a glance out of the corner of his eye.

She turned her head the best she could and saw the frightened woman on the ground beside her. But it was the last thing she saw as she gripped her stomach in gut wrenching pain.

She grabbed for her sister but he was too strong. Before she could even react her sister was lying on the ground her blood seeping from the hole in her chest.

He went to reach for the last one but was alerted by something in his mind. "This isn't over witch." he sneered as he disappeared in a blink.

She ran to her sister, her heart beating ten miles a minute. This couldn't be happening. Not again. She couldn't lose another sisters.

She watched as the woman ran to the one on the ground. She could hear her cry out for her, but it made no sense. What she saw was not real. It couldn't be. She did what she could. She ran down the alley in the opposite direction, away from the women. She heard the one cry out in pain of loss but she kept going. Running as fast as she could. She had really had no where to go, but she couldn't stay there. Everything there was too unreal for her.

She lifted her sister to her and saw the pain in her eyes. Pain that she had witnessed to many times. "Hang on don't you leave me too."

"I. I can't. It hurts."

"I know honey. But you need to hang on. For me. For us.You can't let them win" she ran her hand over the top of jer head. "For her."

She locked eyes with her sister. She knew all was lost. She was going to see her sister and her mother.

"No. You hang on you hear me? Don't you dare give up on me. I can't do this alone. I need."

"I love you." She said as she held her eyes in hers, before she closed her eyes.

She looked down not really believing that this was even happening.

"No. No. NO! Piiiiiiiipeeeeerrr!. Noooooooooooo!" She cried out, as she sank her head, resting on her sisters' chest. Feeling the final beats through her heart