Piper was downstairs making waffles when Prue entered the kitchen.
"Morning Piper." Prue said quietly
"Morning Prue. How'd you sleep?"
"Not very good. I kept thinking of the things that Phoebe said to me yesterday. You?"
"Same."
"So what happens now?"
"Guess we wait for her to come down and then we deal with this once and for all."
"Ok. I just wish there were some way to get her to have more happy memories. Like the ones we have." Prue thought out loud as she sat at the table.
"Well short of casting a spell I don't think there is. Besides that has personal gain written ALL over it." Piper said as she went back to cooking breakfast
"What has personal gain written over it?" Phoebe asked as she entered the kitchen.
"Hey you. We thought after last night you'd still be sleeping." Prue told her.
"No I'm ok."
"So, I don't want to push you Phoebe, do you wanna talk about yesterday?" Piper asked carefully. She didn't want a repeat of yesterday.
"No."
"Oh. Ok." Piper replied somewhat disappointed.
"Right now I just want some of your waffles." Phoebe told her with a slight smile. "Then we can talk about it."
"Well ok then." Piper said as she dished out the waffles that she had made.
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Prue and Piper had cleaned up the kitchen and were sitting waiting for their baby sister to join them in the living room. They sat on the couch drinking their coffee, they both knew not to push Phoebe so they waited until she was ready to come to them.
Phoebe walked down the stairs wrapped up in her favorite quilt. In the middle of it was her baby blanket, the one that she had been wrapped in when she was born. The one that her mother made her; the rest was done by Grams. She had made a quilt using all the girls' baby blankets. With the blanket in the middle she made the quilt around it.
She came into the living room and stood looking at her sisters.
"You still cold honey?" Prue asked with concern. She hated it when her sisters got sick, especially Phoebe.
"I'll live." Phoebe answered quietly.
"Come here." Prue motioned for Phoebe to join them on the couch. A gesture that Phoebe reluctantly took.
"Guys about yesterday."
"Phoebe can we say something first?" Piper suggested.
Looking to her middle sister Phoebe didn't say anything.
Prue and Piper shared a look.
"Phoebe we're sorry that we asked you to go through that. It was wrong of us. Especially me. I was there. I knew what you would see the minute that you touched Sam." Prue started
"Prue it's ok. Really."
"No Phoebe it's not." Piper added. "I stood by knowing what you would see as well. We had no right to ask you to do that. It should have been your choice."
"It was. I know what I was getting into, but I understand better. If you hadn't said something that day Prue I still would have done it. Someone else would have suggested it. Be it Piper, Leo and even Sam."
"Phoebe you don't know that." Piper told her.
"Yes. I do. I was destined to go down that road. No matter how painful it was."
"Phoebe you don't know that." Prue repeated what Piper was trying to tell thier sister
"Yes I do. I had a dream last night. I kept seeing these kids get sucked under the lake by the same demon. Then I sat and had a long talk with Mom."
"Mom?" Prue asked
"Yeah. It was great. She told me that I was destined to see what I saw. She told me that it wasn't fair that I should only see the bad memories of her. But apparently there was no other way. Or it would have just kept on killing."
"Wow Pheebs." Was the only thing that either sister could say.
"So Prue I'm sorry, it wasn't your fault." Phoebe told her as she cuddled into her big sisters.
Prue responded by pulling Phoebe close to her. "It's ok baby. I still should have never asked you to face that."
They sat there the three of them just cuddling into each other. And trying to get Phoebe warm. She was still shaking a bit from her ordeal the night before. Phoebe had almost drifted off to sleep in Prues arms when they heard a noise coming from the attic.
"Ok what was that?" Piper asked a little on edge.
"I'm not sure, but I intend to find out." Prue told her. "You coming Pheebs?"
"Right behind you."
"Can't we ever have a nice quiet morning like everyone else on the block?" Piper complained.
"That would be boring Piper." Phoebe told her.
"Yeah. Well sometimes boring would be good. We were having a sister moment down there."
"Yeah well I guess evil doesn't like it when we bond like that." Prue suggested as they approached the attic door.
They stood outside the door ready to freeze, kick and throw whomever maybe in there. Opening the door they found the attic empty.
"Ok I heard that noise from up here." Phoebe said as she looked at Piper.
"Don't look at me. I heard it too." Piper said
"Ok then where or what was it?" Prue asked
Suddenly the book started to flip its pages.
"You know, I really hate it when it does that." Piper said as they walked over to the BOS.
"Yeah well join the club." Prue added.
They stood in front of the BOS and waited for it to stop. Reading down on the page that was in front of them Prue and Piper looked at each other.
"Don't look at me I didn't write it." Piper said defensively.
"Well I didn't. I just suggested it." Prue said as she read the page again
They both turned to Phoebe who was staring at the page in front of her.
"What? I didn't do it." She said holding hands up in defense.
In front of them was a 'Lost Time' Spell. It was to be used to help a person regain memories that they could not remember. It was just the kind of spell that Prue and Piper had been discussing earlier that morning.
"So are we suppose to try this?" Piper asked
"And why did we never notice it before?" Prue asked
"I think we should try it." Phoebe suggested. "I have a feeling it's from Mom."
Prue and Piper looked at her with suspicion.
"Don't look at me like that. Look." Phoebe said pointing to the very end of the spell.
'To my darling baby girl. May this give you the memories that you crave so much. Always remember that I'm watching out for you, and that I love you with all my heart.'
Love Mom.
Agreeing to try the spell they went through the house getting the desired ingredients for the potion. Meeting back in the attic they mixed the potion together.
Handing the potion to Phoebe, Prue and Piper each place a hand on Phoebe head as they said the spell.
Memories that are lost;
Now please return.
Let our sister see
It is now her turn.
To see a loved one,
As when they were here
Let her see through the eyes of a tear.
Phoebe suddenly started to fall as her sisters caught her before she hit the floor. Gently they placed her on the old bed in the attic as they watched her in a sleep state.
Phoebe relived all the moments as if they happened right then and there. She saw her Mother through the eyes of the toddler that she was, yet this time she would keep them. The days in the park when it was just the two of them, Mother and Daughter sitting on the blanket. Her baths and her bed time bottles. Everything was crystal clear. Her sisters playing with her, with thier Mother looking down so proud of all three of her daughters. Then she saw her big sister with a sad look telling her that she was Phoebes Mother now. That Mommy wasn't coming back. She whipped away the tear from her big sisters face as she reached out with her little arms and wrapped them around her neck. She didn't understand then what Prue was telling her, but she did now. As a tear rolled down the sleeping Phoebes cheek. Then she saw the angel that had come to visit her that night. Only it wasn't an angel. It was her Mother tucking her in one last time.
"I love you baby girl. And I will always watch out for you from heaven. Always know that I am here in your heart." She told her baby as she lightly touched her heart. And then in a soft glow she was gone.
Phoebe slowly opened her eyes to find her sisters sitting beside her. Slowly sitting up she pulled Prue into a hug. "I love you Mum."
Prue looked over at Piper a bit confused. What had happened to Phoebe in her dream state? Piper just shrugged her shoulders.
"Pheebs, sweetie. What did you see?" Prue asked her sister
"Everything." She told them. then she told them everything that she did see. Right up to when Prue had told her that she would be her mother now. Then she told them about her angel tucking her in.
"I remember that." Piper said quietly.
"So do I." Prue added. "I guess she paid all of us a visit that night."
"So Phoebe know you have more memories than you could possibly wish for." Piper told her.
"Yeah, and they are all wonderful." She said with a smile.
"So what do we say. I declare today, May the 14th, a sister day. Now and forever." Prue echoed out throughout the attic.
"I second that motion," Piper declared
Achoo. " I third it." Phoebe added.
Both Prue and Piper turned to Phoebe. Pointing towards the attic door.
"Bed!" they both said
"Uh guys. I'm fi..fi..Achoo. fine."
"NOW!" they echoed.
"OK. I'm going" Phoebe replied as she headed out the door.
She would be ok. As she crawled into bed her sisters tucked her in to get warm. She had learned that her power were used for good and not just to show her terrible and sad things. This whole witch thing would take awhile for all of them to get used to. There had been words of anger and confusion the night before, but in the end they had realized their true purpose in the world. To protect the innocent; no matter what the cost. But that as sisters they would grow together. Caring for each other. In the end she had the best memories that anyone could ask for; the memories of a toddler. Relishing in the times with her Mother and the two best sisters in the world.