Phoebe woke up with the feeling of the soft cloth on top of her. She didn't want to leave the warmth it was providing but her stomach protested otherwise. Tossing back the quilt she made her way from her room downstairs. She could hear the muffled voices of her sisters and walked into the living room snuggling up beside them.

"Well hi there sleepy head." Prue pulled the blanket she had around her and wrapped it around Phoebe and herself. "Sleep well?"

"I'm hungwie." She replied in her baby voice, though not moving from her place beside Prue.

"Yeah and still tired." Piper laughed as she stood up, "I'll fix you something honey."

Phoebe looked up at Piper, "Thanx Pipe."

Prue felt Phoebe snuggle up close to her, her head resting on her lap. "You are still tired aren't you?" her sisters knew all the signs of her sister being over tired from lack of sleep.

"Yeah. But my stomach had another idea."

"Well, not that I don't love your company sweetie. I think you should eat whatever Piper brings out and then go back to bed. How much sleep did you get this week anyway?" Prue already knew the answer. She had seen her sisters light on at all hours of the night. Her instincts worked differently when it came to her sisters pushing themselves to much. And the last four nights she had hardly slept herself for worrying after Phoebe. Checking on her to make sure she was ok, she would only find her studying, well into the night before getting up to take in classes.

Phoebe didn't say a word. She wasn't sure if Prue would be mad at her or support her, but as she thought she knew that Prue probably already knew the truth. "Let's see about two to three hours a day maybe. So four days." She thought a minute, "Probably 9 maybe 10hrs total." She waited for the lecture, but all she got was concern from the ice blue eyes that told her so much every day of her life.

"Well its Friday night and you are sleeping the rest of the weekend. No argument either." Prue told her in a tone Phoebe knew all to well. The one that Prue used when she wanted her point made but still had the love in it.

"No argument from me." Phoebe answered before she got a look on her face and in her eyes that Prue knew.

"What are you thinking lil sister?" Prue asked with caution. The look her sister had was one of mischief.

"Nothing. Just getting waded on hand and foot as I sleep all weekend. Hmm how can I make that work for me."

Prue leaned over and hit the spot she was looking for as she started to tickle her baby sister. "Sooooo not going to happen." She laughed as Phoebe tried to squirm away from her. But the blanket around the two of them only caused her more trouble as she got tangled in it and ended up on the floor with Prue on top of her, still tickling.

Piper came rushing out of the kitchen when she heard the first squeal and then as she made her way through the dining room she heard the thump. "What? What is going on?" she looked at Prue who was sitting on Phoebe, who was so tangled up in the blanket it was amazing to Piper how she could move at all.

"Oh nothing just explaining to her little sister how she will not be waded on hand and foot as she gets her well needed rest this weekend." Prue replied as she looked at Piper with a grin.

Piper sat on the arm of the chair, "Oh is that all. Well ok then."

"PIPER!" Phoebe called out trying to again get away from Prue.

Piper laughed as her sister struggled. Even without the blanket Prue would still have Phoebe in the same position.

"Oh you two are dead." Phoebe tried to sound serious but all she got out was laughter.

Larry sat at his usual place out of the way of his brother in law and Dr. Jefferies. He wasn't sure what it was, but there was something about him that just wasn't right.

"So Larry you said you had something for us?" Curtis sat beside him as he kept his eyes on the three monkeys in the cages.

"I had one of my informants following your sisters. Turns out that you might be on to something. He saw what looked like one of them freezing time."

"What?" Dr. Jefferies looked up from his microscope.

"You heard me. And you were right. They are all very protective of each other."

"So what we saw in the lab at the hospital wasn't a coincidence. These sisters have what...magical powers?" Dr. Jefferies looked to each of them not really sure now what to believe.

Larry wasn't sure yet if he should reveal what else he had learned. He trusted Curtis it was the other guy he didn't trust. He remembered Curtis asking for his help in moving the monkeys and everything in the hospital lab to a private clinic outside of town. It still catered to the odd patient, but it wasn't going to draw the crowds that Bay General did. Larry looked over at Curtis and knew he had to tell them what he heard. "I heard a rumour from another source. I just don't know how much credit to give it."

Dr. Jefferies made his way over to the two men sitting near each other in the lab. "And that is what?"

Larry looked from one doctor to the next. "There is a world in this city that no one knows even exists. To us it is something you find in books and fairytales." He took a breath as she bit down on his lower lip, "Rumours of the supernatural." He let it sink in as to what he was saying.

Curtis looked over and met his brother in laws gaze, "Are you saying. That they are witches?"

Larry didn't deny or confirm Curtis' answer as a new tension filled the room.

"So now what? I mean if they are magical?" Dr. Jefferies took in what they were all getting into.

"We find a weakness and then we separate them." Curtis followed.

"Their weakness is each other. And yes we separate them. If they don't know where each other is, then we can use that against them." Larry confirmed. It was a tactic he had learned his first year as a cop.

The three looked around all realizing what they were saying.

"We need the answers that the blood in the monkeys isn't providing." Curtis spoke

"Ok only one thing. So far all we or anyone knows, is that two have powers." Larry stated.

"What do you mean?" Curtis looked over at him.

"We have only witnessed the Prue monkey. And from what we have heard from you one of them has the power to freeze time, though none of the monkeys has yet to display it." Larry continued

As they sat and talked about what they needed to do next Larry stopped mid sentence as he watched the Prue monkey move a banana towards her. Though just as it was about to reach her paw it froze in mid air.

"Well I guess that confirms on who has the power to freeze." He said still looking on in awe as the Prue monkey jumped up and down as if mad and the Phoebe monkey sat quietly in the bottom of her cage, almost sleeping.

"So what about the youngest?" Curtis questioned

"Maybe it is just in the oldest two. Though I wouldn't want to meet her in an alley and piss her off. Her martial arts skills are formidable." Larry explained.

"So maybe the powers are just in the older two. She does what she can." Dr. Jefferies said

"Well so far the Phoebe monkey has shown no signs of any magic. But let's watch them both for a few days and see from there." Curtis suggested.

Phoebe was laying on the couch the next day half listening to Piper about what she needed to do that day and if Phoebe needed anything to call her, the other half was sleeping.

"I can't believe Prue went to work today. It was supposed to be just the two of us." Phoebe whined as Piper continued.

"Honey, she said she was sorry. You were dead to the word when she went in to tell you."

"I know. Ok, go do your errands I will be sleeping here on our nice comfy couch or upstairs in my warm bed." Phoebe said rolling over to her side, not opening her eyes for the whole conversation.

Piper leaned over and kissed her baby sister on the top of her heard. "Ok. Sleep well I'll see you later. Love you." Piper pulled the blanket over her sleeping sister

"Mmmm." Was all she got in reply. Letting Piper know her sister was already asleep.

Sleep she needed after her week and would need with demons always looking for them. But not all demons are from the underworld.