Chapter 4-On the Lookout

Phoebe and her family paced around the living room. It had been hours since they had heard from Prue and they were scared she had done something reckless. Phoebe was almost ready to summon her sister. She felt like she did when astral Prue ruined Piper's wedding and ran away with the guy on the motorcycle. Just as Leo and Cole were about to search for Prue, she burst through the front door. Phoebe rushed to her sister and gave her the biggest hug she possibly could.

"Don't ever do that to me again.", Phoebe screamed as she held her sister in an embrace.

"Where did you go?", Victor asked his daughter.

"That's not important. What is important is that I went back to the mausoleum and found something the girl earlier dropped. I thought maybe Phoebe could get a premonition from it or we could scry for her."

Everyone in the room was shocked. They couldn't believe that Prue was insinuating they should be looking for this innocent. Phoebe could understand because something inside of her wanted to go and find this girl, but she knew that Prue was not ready for this and that she needed to be there for Prue when she broke down.

"I don't think that we should be focusing on this. I mean, my wife isn't even warm in her grave yet.", Leo stated with a stern look.

"I know that Leo, but something about this girl is different. Phoebe, when you have a premonition, it's because there's something that we're supposed to change or see. I don't think that this is any different. We have to do this."

Phoebe was enraged. She could see that Leo was hurting, their father was hurting, and she was hurting, yet all Prue cared about was an innocent. Suddenly, she couldn't contain the rage that had been building inside of her for weeks.

"No!", Phoebe yelled much to the surprise of everyone in the room. "I won't do it! Prue, we buried our sister today and you run off and then come back to tell us that you want to chase the demon that took her from us in the first place?! I don't know if you've noticed or not, but there's pain in this room Prue, real pain. We can't turn it off or distract ourselves from it like you can. So no, I won't do it."

Prue, obviously shaken murmured, "But Phoebe, we're still the Charmed Ones."

"No we're not Prue! The Charmed Ones are a trio. I only see two of us. Piper isn't on vacation, she's not going to come back through that door to see if we could make it without her. She's gone, really gone and I don't know if you don't realize it or if you just want to do anything you possibly can to join her!"

Phoebe ran upstairs with Cole close behind her. No one could believe that she had blown up like that. They knew it was a trying time, but Phoebe loved being a witch and would do anything to help an innocent. It wasn't like her to want to leave something like this alone, especially when she had foreseen it happening in the first place.

Prue was going to go after her baby sister, but Leo stopped her.

"I know she needs time right now Leo, but I have to go after her."

"It's not that.", Leo stated. "She's right. You're not being considerate of how everyone else is feeling. You're so focused on yourself that you've become blind to the fact that you're not the only one that's grieving. Prue, I had to see my wife dead not once, but twice. Do you really think that I want to see this happen again?"

Prue had forgotten that time had apparently been reset. She didn't remember it, but it explained why Leo and Phoebe were gone when Shax attacked. It hadn't occurred to her that Leo was hurting this much.

Before she could apologize, Leo broke down and orbed out of the room. She didn't know where he was going, but she knew she wouldn't see him for a while.

As Prue stood in shock at the empty room, her father came to her and hugged her.

"I know I don't know much about this magic stuff, and I may not have powers, but I know that you have to do this and I want to support you."

The Halliwell sisters had never had a great relationship with their father. It was only recently that he even came back into their lives. When Prue thought of trustworthy and supportive, Victor didn't exactly pop into her mind. She knew that he was missing Piper more than anyone because he barely knew her as an adult or as his daughter. He didn't like anything that had to do with magic, so it meant a lot that he was willing to do this with her.

"Thank you daddy.", Prue stated as she gave her father a hug. "The problem is that I don't know where to begin in finding this girl. I mean, I don't actually the building in Phoebe's vision and I don't know if I can scry for her because she may not be a witch."

"What did Phoebe say the building and the surrounding buildings look like?", her father asked.

Prue described the building to the best of her ability and suddenly her father figured it out.

"That's the old building down on 6th street. I used to work in one of the offices there."

Victor had impressed Prue by helping her to figure out which building it might be and by just being there for her. This wouldn't be easy for either one of them, but it would be better for them to work together. Maybe Victor would be able to mend his relationship with daughters. Just maybe.