Prue sat at her desk going over the final paper work on the auction for the next day. Everything seemed in order but she had to make sure it was perfect. She heard her phone ringing but was lost in what she was doing to realize it immediately. "Prue Halliwell." she answered as she picked up the phone though still looking over the list for he auction.

"Is going to be dead if she doesn't get her butt home for dinner."

"Piper?" Prue looked at the clock on her desk, "Oh God I'm so sorry. I.."

"Completely lost track of time. Yeah it appears to be an epidemic." Piper shot back finishing Prues sentence.

"Yeah. Look I'll be home."

"In a matter of minutes would be the right answer." Piper once again finshed her sisters sentence

"Yeah. Hey what did you mean by its an epidemic?" Prue turned her focus on what Piper had said earlier.

"Phoebe. It appears our youngest sister also forgot."

"What? She isn't home?" the worry evident in Prues tone

"That would be the right guess to that statement." Piper replied though almost hearing Prues thoughts. "You don't think?"

"I don't want to Piper but it is possible. I mean we've been pretty quiet lately. The last demon was your wedding crasher."

"Ok I'll look around, maybe she left one of us a note or something in our room."

"Ok I'll be home as fast as the roads will let me at this hour."

"Hurry Prue."

"I will. And you be careful.

"You too. Love you.

"Ditto."

Piper ran up the stairs right into her own room, looking for anything that Phoebe might have left saying where she was. Finding nothing, she crossed the hall to Prues room, again nothing. She soon found her legs rushing up one more flight of stairs into the attic. Resting her hand on the BOS, "Phoebe where are you?"

Prue ran up the steps to the Manor the second she pulled in the driveway. "Piper!?" she called out the minute she opened the door to the Victorian Manor they all shared.

"Nothing Prue. Nothing. No note anywhere. She would have left a note. She would have called." Piper felt her fear esculating inside her.
"Ok we'll find her. But you need to calm down."

"Calm down? Prue our sister is missing. We have no idea even where to START looking. How the hell am I suppose to calm down? Knowing that some demon or something has her."

"Ok Piper we don't know that."

"Yes we do. We just don't want to admit it."

Prue pulled Piper close to her as her sister lost control. She was right. She didn't want to admit what Piper was saying. "Ok. We know they probably want all three of us, they always do."

"So what we wait for them?"

"No. We try and figure it out before they do. BOS? Maybe there is a way to find her with a spell or something." Preu suggested as she tried to calm PIper

"If there is, Phoebe would know it." Piper said quietly as she followed Prue up the stairs.

Prue heard Piper and she knew that she was right. Phoebe may not work, but she was starting to learn the book and everything they needed to know about being witches, and that was something that could one day save their lives.


Phoebe stood up and looked around the forest trying to pick up on any danger. "Ok so one minute I'm looking at old pictures and the next I'm in what, Africa? And now I'm talking to myself. Ok Phoebe just relax it can't be that bad can it?"

"Over there. Hurry."

She spun around at the sound of the voices. "Or could." She said as she crouched back down trying to stay hidden.

"Come out witch I know you here. I can smell you."

Peering out from behind her tree, though careful not to be seen, she watched as three people moved towards her.

"There she is" one pointed towards her.

Quickly turning, Phoebe ran as fast as she could in the other direction.

"Oh why do they always run?"

"Get her!" he ordered as he sent his men after her.

Phoebe ran as fast as her legs would carry her as she dodged through the brush. Pushing back the branches before they smacked into her. She knew they were gaining on her as she pushed herself harder. She didn't know though how much more she could keep going at that pace. Sure Piper and her would go for a run every morning, but it was at their pace and they would usually stop along the water somewhere and just talk about nothing. But she knew she didn't have that option now, now she had to run for her life.


"Ok can I be the first one to say we are screwed here." Piper threw up her hands in defeat.

"No you can not, because we aren't." Prue shot back as she turned another page in the book.

Piper paced as Prue turned yet another page.

"There has to be something in here that lets us find a lost witch or something like that." Prue slammed her hands down on the book out of frustration.

Piper watched as Prue checked her anger back in. Walking over to Prue she placed her arm around her sisters waist. As soon as Prue turned into Pipers hug the books pages started flipping on their own.

"Ok what?" Piper watched in astonishment as each page flipped by. As they slowed down on one page they both stepped forward to read it. Though only getting one step in before they felt a strong pull from behind them.

"Prue?"

"I don't know, just hang on to me." She yelled back as the wind swirled around them and they felt the vortex closing in.


Phoebe kept running, though she knew she was about to just collapse. She had to find a place to hide and fast.

The leader stopped, "Wait."

"What wait? We have to get her."

"I know that, but we are also getting to far from the pick up point. You two go back and get the other two. They should be landing shortly." He laughed, "I'll take care of this one. Besides, she is the one with the passive power. I don't think I'll need much help taking her down and bringing her back to the base camp. Now go."

The two quickly made their way back to where they knew the rest of their package would be arriving soon.

"So how was it that we never got all three in the first place again?"

"Because you got to anxious and set the vortex to soon."

"Hey that wasn't my fault."

"Right then you go back and explain to the boss what you did and why we're two witches short. He wants the Charmed Ones and we were supposed to get them all together."

"But we have them all now."

"Ok are you on a completely different page then the rest of us. We don't have any of them yet. And one is out there now running free."

"Oh she isn't that fast. Where can she go? She is in the middle of a jungle and she has no active power. She can't run forever."

"You better hope he catches her or there will be hell to pay."

"We already live in hell. How worse can it get?"

"An eternity in the pit. How's that sound?"

They waited in their usual spot as they watched in delight as the vortex opened once again and shot out the two women they were waiting for.

"Ah our guests have arrived." He walked up to them quickly picking Piper up from the ground holding both her hands behind her back. "Wouldn't want you freezing me now would I?" he laughed as his friend grabbed Prue.

"Piper."

"And don't you try anything either. Or she will pay the price. Now move it." He ordered pointing in the direction that Phoebe had run.


Air. Pain. That was all Phoebe could think of. Air to her lungs and the pain in her legs and her side. She had managed to find a small hiding place but she didn't know how long it would be until he found her.

With every intact of air she took, she could feel the cramp to her side. She could feel her heart pounding inside her as her legs throbbed with each beat. Ok I have to figure out where I am and how to get the hell out of here.

She suddenly heard a branch cracking behind her and held her breath hoping he wouldn't hear her. He waited and stood in the one spot. She recalled what he had said earlier. He could smell her. Could he really or was he just talking?

But she let out her breath as he started to walk past her. Back the way he had come. She waited a bit longer before slowly peaking out and looking down the forest in the direction he had gone.

Gone. She sighed in relief as she sat back down leaning against the stump she had hidden in.

"Looking for me?" he suddenly had her by the throat as he pulled her to her feet. "You know I really hate it when you witches run." He snarled at her as the saliva dripped freely from his mouth. "But I can fix that." He said as she reached up with his other hand and jabbed something hard into Phoebes arm causing her to scream out in pain.

"Soon that will be cursing through your vein's. It's a little something that paralyzes a person. Or at least I think it does. Actually I've never really seen the final outcome on a witch. I usually kill the person before I get the chance, but I do know you will be going night night very quickly."

Phoebe struggled in his grasp. But the more she moved around the more she realized he was right; She was starting to lose feeling in her legs. She felt her world crashing around her and the strong feeling to vomit right then and there all over him. She fought to keep her eyes open as the ringing in her ears got louder and her head spun, as she soon lost consciousness.

"Oh now this will be fun." He laughed having it echo throughout the forest as he tossed her over his shoulder and made his way through the thick brush.