Phoebe sat in the big armchair thinking of the day's events and who could be after all three of them. Being witches it was a fairly long list, and they were all demons. Since getting their powers just over two years ago her sisters and her had been on the top of the demonic hit list. All of them trying to kill them and steal their powers.

But why a snake? Why not just kill us the usual way? She was trying to piece it all together, as she knew her sisters also were. She looked over at the couch where her oldest sister lay sleeping. She had come so close to dying it scared Phoebe. She didn't know what she would do if she ever lost one of her sisters. She lost Prue once and it tore her apart. She couldn't thank the Genie enough when he brought her back to life.

She stood and walked towards the front window looking out to the start of fall. Was it already September?

"Hey you. What are thinking about?" Prue wrapped her arms around Phoebe from behind her holding her close.
"Nothing."
"Oh. That doesn't look like a face of nothing." Prue said, "What's up?"
"I'm just trying to figure this out. I mean why would a demon try and kill us with a rattle snake?"
"Maybe it's just that kind of demon. I'm sure there are lots out there that we have no idea who or what they can do. Maybe his thing is snakes."
"Hmm maybe."

Prue held her sister a little longer, "Don't you have class today?"
"Aren't you suppose to be resting today?" Phoebe shot back with a smile.
"Touche. Phoebe go. I'll be fine." Phoebe turned and looked at her older sister.

"Yes. Now would you get out of here. Both you and Piper are just a cell phone away. Now stop worrying, that's my job."
"Ok. Love you." Phoebe turned from her sister and give her a peek on the cheek before grabbing her bag and heading to class.

Once Phoebe was gone Prue made her way up stairs to the attic. She was certain she would find something in the BOS that would tell them who and what they were dealing with.

Their BOS was the key to their survival in most of the demonic encounters. It had provided them the answer to what they were fighting. Passed down from generations of good witches, telling them what to look for and how to defeat it. And their one tie to their mother and Grams.

"Prue!"
"Attic." Prue answered back as she turned the next page.

Piper walked into the attic and towards her sister who was sitting on the lounge chair with the book.
"Aren't you suppose to be resting?"
"Did."
"Oh. Now you're here looking for?"
"I don't know. But I'm certain that who ever sent us the slithery friend has to be in here."

Piper sat down beside her and looked at the open page.
"Any luck?"
"Not yet. You know we really need to index this thing."
Piper laughed, "Yeah one day." It had been something they started joking about a few months after becoming witches, and of course it was something they had never got to.

"Prue I have to go. Are you sure you're going to be ok?"
"I'm fine. I'm just a little tired at times. Look I promise to rest later again ok."
"Promise?"
"You know I don't know which of you two is worse." Prue smiled, though loving the care her sisters were giving her.
"We learned from the best." Pier replied as she placed a kiss on Prues cheek
"Get." Prue kissed Piper on the cheek and pushed her up from the couch. "I'm fine."
"Love you."
"Love you too."

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She stacked the last glasses and then went back to the books and last night's numbers. She saw the familiar bluish glow that signalled the arrival of her boyfriend, who was also the sister's Whitelighter, a guide for witches.

"Hi beautiful." He leaned over and kissed her.
"Hey you."
"Is this business or pleasure?" she asked wondering if 'they' knew what was going on.
"I got the rest of the day off, so I'd have to go with pleasure." He answered leaning in for another kiss
"Great." Piper turned away from him and walked around the bar.
"Ok you never said that with the most enthusiasm. What's wrong?"
"They give you the day off and now I have to take it away."
"Ok now I'm confused." Leo followed her around the bar.
"Prue was bitten be a rattle snake yesterday." Piper explained
"What!? Is she ok?"
"Yeah. She's home now but we think it was supernatural. Phoebe and I were almost sharing a hospital room with her. Though we were distracted before we were bitten." Remeber when you popped by yesterday and I was out by the Jeep?" She asked him but didnt wait for his answer, "Yeah I'm thinking the purplish stuff left behind was our replite."
"So. How is that demonic?"
"The snakes all disappeared in a purplish glow and they left this purple sparkle substance behind."
"Anything in the book?"
"Prue's at home now looking. But" Piper started a sentence but Leo cut her off.
"I'll go check now. You be careful."
"I will and thank you." She kissed him over the bar as he disappeared once again.

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"Hey Piper."
"Phoebs I thought you had classes?" Pier gave her younger sister a glare she had many times when they were teens; Phoebe was skipping out.
"I did. But I'm done. It's almost five you know. I can't stay there all day."
"Wow is it that late already" Piper looked down at her watch
"Yeah where's your head?"
"I'm sorry I was just thinking about Prue."
"You and me both. I couldn't concentrate all day." Phoebe walked around the bar and grabbed a mineral water. "Have you talked to her today?"
"Not since I left. Leo came by. He's going to asked them if they know anything about all this."
"Any ideas?"
"No more then usual. Some demon or something. Hopefully Prue will have found something for us to go on."
"Well let's go see if she got lucky shall we?" Phoebe grabbed her bag and started up the stairs.

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They watched from a distance as they emerged from the club and climbed into separate vehicles.

"My turn. Lets see if I can do better then you did."
"It was luck."
"Maybe. But I have another way. It may take them both out or it may take just one. But either way one of them will die."

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Her thoughts were on her sister once again as she drove home. She could see her sister right behind her and knew that she too was thinking of Prue. As she looked back to the road she wasn't prepared for what happened next as it happened so fast she almost didn't have time to react. Swerving from the road the last thing she heard was the sound of the car hitting something and then nothing.

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She watched in horror as her sister suddenly swerved from the road and when she saw why, as she too quickly grabbed the steering wheel and swung the vehicle off the road, side swiping her sisters car and ending up in the ditch beside her. The sound of the car horns was the last thing she heard as her world too went black.