They had taken her to the hospital to have her wound looked at, but the officer's partner was in the room with her constantly.
"It wasn't me. I love my sisters. It was psycho Abbey!" Phoebe pleaded with the officer as she stood by the door. Her tears were running freely down her face, she just wanted to see her sisters. All she could see in her mind was the blood on them, both, Piper as she reached for Prue and passed out from her own wound.
"Not what we heard. A witness saw you running from the Manor carrying a gun."
"That is crap I was running after Abbey." She cringed as the doctor cleaned her wound before pulling the bullet out from her side. Setting the stitches he left the room.
"She can't go anywhere yet sergeant. Despite how it looks, she lost a lot of blood in her run. You can take her to the station probably tomorrow." He explained to the officer at the door before leaving.
She looked over at Phoebe who was trying to stand up from the bed.
"Where are you going?" she placed one hand on her gun for precaution, as she approached the bed. She knew what she had heard but there was something about the woman before her. Something that told her she might be telling her the truth.
Phoebe held her side as the pain nearly got too much for her. But she pushed it aside. "I have to find out what is happening with my sisters."
"I don't think so." She placed an arm on Phoebes shoulder to stop her. She placed the cuffs on one wrist and the other end to the bed frame.
"Look I know you think I did this because that was what that psycho told you. But I didn't. I went after her. She has been stalking my sister Prue for weeks now. Piper and I came home when we figured out who it was and who they were after." Her tears came more freely when she thought of her sisters. "Look check with Inspector Morris. I didn't do this. Abbey did." She yelled but she felt herself break down at the same time.
The Officer spun around when she heard the door open.
"Sergeant what is going on?"
"Inspector. We had an eyewitness that saw Miss Halliwell fleeing the scene of the crime with a gun."
"And did you get this eyewitnesses name?"
"Yes. Reed has it."
He stood at the door but made his way into the room. Pulling a picture from his inside coat pocket, "Witness look anything like this?" he held out the picture.
"A little but not quite."
"What do you mean not quite?"
"The features are similar but the witness had blonde hair."
"That is the suspect sergeant. Now get those cuffs off of Miss Halliwell and get out of here."
Phoebe looked at the woman with some satisfaction.
"I'm sorry I was just." She started to say.
"It's ok. I just want to see my sisters." Phoebe replied as she rubbed her wrist where the cuffs had been.
Darryl placed a supportive arm around Phoebes waist and led her down the hall.
"Pipers in here and Prue is in surgery."
"Surgery?" Phoebe looked at him with new worry. She knew her sister was hurt but she didn't know it was that bad.
"I'll let Piper explain. But she might be out of it for a bit. They had to remove the bullet from her upper chest. Though she was lucky it was mostly in her shoulder area. From what I heard any further to the right and it might have been fatal. Go to your sister Phoebe, and do not leave this hospital without tell me. I'll be right outside." He pushed open the door letting her in as she moved across from the doorway taking up a seat where he could see anyone coming or going from the room.
Phoebe pulled the chair up next to Piper's bed as she gently took her sisters hand in hers. She cast a glance around the room and spotted the tubes and machinery surrounding her sister. Reaching up she ran her hand gently over Pipers forehead brushing back the hair from her face.
"Piper sweetie. I need to know what is going on. I need to know you and Pure are ok." She felt the hot tear coming down her face as she reached her free hand to her face and wiped it away. "I didn't mean to leave you two like that, but I had to catch her. But she got away from me. I'm sorry Piper." Phoebe rested her head against Piper's side as she cried softly into the blanket.
Piper blinked back the fog from her mind as she focused on her sister beside her. She felt the hand holding hers and the soft voice speaking to her. But it had taken her a bit before she really took in what was going on. "Phoebe?"
Phoebe shot her head up as she looked at Piper, "Piper?"
"Were you expecting someone else?"
"No just you." Phoebe cried softly as she cupped her hand on Pipers face and then ran it over the top of her head brushing any loose hairs from around Pipers face.
Piper looked around and noticed the tears in her baby sisters' eyes. "Phoebe?"
"What?" Phoebe said back, as she thought of her sister's hurt and near the unknown.
"Honey what's wrong?" Piper tried to gather anything she could from Phoebe
Phoebe didn't know what to say as she felt her tears overwhelm her as she rested her head on Piper's stomach.
Piper placed her hand on Phoebe's head as she tried to sooth her too sleep and comfort her. "It'll all be ok honey." Piper assured her sister as she felt Phoebe relax under hand.
Phoebe wasn't sure what to even feel. Her big sisters where hurt and near death. At least she thought they were. No one would tell her what was going on with Prue. And she saw the blood her sister had lost and she knew things were not good.
"Piper. What is going on with Prue?" Phoebe asked innocently, though fearing the answers.
Piper looked down at her sister. She wasn't really sure what to say. She had heard bites and piece of what had happened before they took Prue away from her. But she knew it wasn't good for the eldest Halliwell.
"Phoebe I don't know what is going on. But you have to hang on to the fact that Prue is a fighter more then you and I are. And she will beat this."
Piper ran her hand over Phoebes head. "You have to believe she will never leave us." Piper said, as her own heart was beating faster in fear of her sisters' condition.
Phoebe had eventually crawled up carefully to Pipers bed, as the drugs from her own injury started to slowly take effect and she drifted off to sleep. Knowing that at least one of her sisters was ok. But her heart was still breaking from the one she had no idea what was going on.
Piper looked up as the door opened quietly. Seeing the person there she smiled lightly at him. "How you feeling?"
"Terrible. Any word?" she, like Phoebe, wanted to know anything at all that was going on with their big sister.
Leo pulled up a chair and sat down beside them. He had just been talking to the doctors and wanted to be the one to break the news to Piper and Phoebe. It wasn't an easy thing to but at least it would come from someone that cared for her as much as they did.
He took her hand in his and looked into her brown eyes. He knew the best way would just be straightforward.
"It doesn't look good Piper. The bullet hit her in the head. They managed to get it out but right now she is in a coma. If she does survive they are afraid she might have brain damage."
He could see the look of denial on her face as the tear started to run freely. He watched as she looked down at the sleeping form of her baby sister beside her. Knowing that now she would also have to repeat this new and break her sisters' heart. In such away to prepare her, that their big sister, their friend, their mother; might not survive the night.