A/N: Just a quick thank you to those reviewers out there you made me feel so special! So, here is another chapter.
The Manor, Phoebe's room
"Paige! Leo! I need a little help down here!"
Phoebe's head snapped up as she heard the voice echo up the halls from downstairs. She would recognize that voice anywhere. But it can't be her, can it? She's dead.
Phoebe ran out of her room only to bump into an equally confused and hopeful Piper.
"Was that…" Piper trailed off in a whisper as if saying her name out loud would make her disappear.
A small smile formed on Phoebe's face. "I think it was."
"Leo! Paige! Get your asses down here, now!"
Phoebe and Piper smiled at each other. They now had no doubt in their minds whose voice that was. Prue.
They both sprinted down the stairs as fast as they could go and straight to where the voice was coming from, the kitchen. The sight they were met with was not the happy reunion they had been dreaming of for five years. Their big sister was currently kneeling on the floor, covered in blood. Her hands were pressed firmly to Billie's chest to stop even more escaping. Her eyes were wide with panic as she looked at her two little sisters
"Where the hell are Leo and Paige?"
Phoebe was struck with a strong sense of déjà vu as she saw Billie and suddenly that mattered a lot more than her no longer deceased sister.
"Paige!" Phoebe screamed as she ran to kneel at Billie's side. "What happened to her?"
"Christy," Prue stated simply as if everything was explained with just that one word.
Blue and white lights illuminated the room, signaling Paige's arrival. "What? What happened?"
"Just heal her!" Prue commanded.
Paige didn't even take notice of who the voice came from before she knelt down and started to heal Billie. "It's working."
Everyone let out a sigh of relief as Billie's wounds started to close. A few minutes later, the only sign that anything had happened was that Prue was still soaked in blood.
Billie opened her eyes and looked around. "I am getting sick of waking up on your kitchen floor." She looked over to see that Piper had gone white and looked as if she were about to faint. "What's wrong with her?" Billie asked as she pointed in Piper's direction.
"Prue?" Piper whispered as she continued to stare at Prue.
"It's really me, Pipe." Prue smiled as Piper crossed the space between them and grabbed Prue in a bear hug.
"PRUE! I missed you so much!" Piper cried as she gripped Prue even tighter as she talked.
"I missed you too, Piper." Prue whispered into Piper's ear as she hugged her sister back.
"You know," Phoebe said in her baby voice as she crossed her arms across her chest. "I missed you as well!"
Prue and Piper just laughed at her while opening their arms and welcoming her into the group hug. By now, all three had tears in their eyes. They had waited so long for this moment that nothing could ruin it.
"Awwwwww!" They all turned their heads to glare at the two youngest witches in room. In response, Billie and Paige just burst out laughing.
Prue released Phoebe and Piper and walked over to Paige. Before she lost her nerve, she quickly wrapped her arms around Paige in a hug. After a couple of seconds and the shock had worn off, Paige hugged her back.
"It's nice to finally meet you," Paige whispered to Prue as they pulled away.
"I know what you mean," Prue smiled at Paige. "After almost 29 years, I finally get to meet my baby sister."
Paige's smile suddenly turned to a frown. "Not that I'm not happy that you're here but how and why are you here?"
"Why don't we all go into the conservatory and I'll explain it all there." Prue shuffled them all into the conservatory and sat next to Piper and Phoebe on the couch while Paige and Billie sat on chairs opposite them.
"Okay, well the Elders heard what the Noxon demon said about you guys not having enough power to defeat the Triad, and they kind of agreed with him…."
"Figures." Piper interrupted with a huff.
Prue just ignored Piper's comment and continued. "So they decided to send me down as a kind of personal whitelighter for the Charmed Ones. I have no other charges to take care of and I still have my witch powers!" Prue finished excitedly as she used her telekinesis to hit Phoebe in the face with a pillow.
"Hey!" Phoebe yelled as she rubbed her now sore nose. "At least it's good to see the Elders do something right after all these years."
"Wait a second," Paige interrupted confused. "If you're a whitelighter, why didn't you just heal Billie?"
"Well," Prue began as all eyes landed on her. "They said that as a consequence for having my witch powers, I can only heal people in the family. And by family I mean they have to be family by blood or marriage, so I can also heal Leo or Henry if they need it. I tried to convince the Elders that Billie should be in the group of people I could heal because she is just like family but they just wouldn't budge."
"Leave it to the Elders to do something that stupid," Piper tried to joke but everyone could tell she was incredibly angry.
"Well, I guess Leo and I will just have to keep an eye on little old Billie here." Paige smirked as her charge glared at her.
"Okay, well did the Elders have an actual plan on how to kill the Triad and…." Piper trailed off and looked at Billie who had suddenly found the floor very interesting. Everyone followed suit and also turned to look at Billie.
Billie finally looked up to see that everyone was staring at her. "What?" she asked nervously with a laugh as she shifted on her seat, uncomfortable with the sudden attention.
"Are you okay with all this?" Phoebe asked, finally voicing everyone's unspoken question.
"All of what?" Billie was confused at their sudden change in behavior.
"You know….With Christy." Phoebe stuttered out.
Billie stared blankly at Phoebe before turning to look towards the others. "Well, that didn't answer my question at all. Can any of you tell me what that was supposed to mean?"
"She meant are you okay with all this? I mean we are talking about killing your sister." Prue said as she wasn't one to beat around the bush.
"Oh, I'm fine with it. I mean, it's hard but she's evil now. There's nothing I can do." Billie finished sadly but her face stayed neutral the entire time. The sisters were worried about her suppressing her emotions. They knew that as witches, nothing good could come out of it. Add that to the power of projection and it had disaster written all over it. "So don't try to tip-toe around me, okay?" She finished with pleading eyes and all the girls nodded in response.
"Anyway, the Elders didn't have any advice on how to kill Christy…"
"Shocker," Paige interrupted sarcastically.
Prue glared at her but it quickly turned into smile. The Elders had been quite a pain over the last few years. "But they said that the Triad could be vanquished with the power of four."
"The power of four?" Paige asked curiously.
"Yea! We're supposed to use that along with the strongest potion we got and they should be gone."
Piper looked down at her feet, refusing to make eye contact. "And then what? Are you gonna leave again?"
"I don't know, Pipe." Prue said as she put her arms around Piper. "But I promise you, ALL of you, that I will do everything in my power to stay."
"Wait, what about Christy?" Billie asked nervously.
"To be honest, I'm not sure." Prue sighed in defeat.
"What about just a strong vanquishing potion? I mean technically she is just a witch gone rogue, right?" Phoebe wondered aloud.
"She can't be just an evil witch any more. I know I was a bit out of it but at the graveyard, I saw her shimmer away." Billie looked over at Prue who nodded back. "So that means she somehow got demonic powers or she had them all along and just didn't use them around us."
"Still, I think a strong vanquishing potion would still kill her even if she is a demon. We would just have to put some of her blood in it and it should work."
"That's a good idea, Piper." Paige said as she realized that it should work. "But how are we going to get some of her blood?"
"We could use Billie's blood instead," Everyone looked at Prue like she had just swallowed a spoon. "Think about it! They're sisters so they share the same blood so it should work."
"No, no way." Phoebe said as she stood up as if preparing for battle. "We can't put Billie's blood in the potion."
"And why not?" Prue shot back as she stood up so Phoebe didn't have an intimidating height advantage.
"Because if we put her blood in the potion and Christy or the Triad gets their hands on it then they have a Billie vanquishing potion!"
"We won't let them get it Phoebe!"
"Not on purpose! But I'm not willing to put Billie's life on the line with this, so many things could go wrong!"
"I'm with Prue on this one," Piper spoke up from the couch. "Pheebs, nothing will happen to Billie because we won't let it happen."
"But thinking about it, Piper." Paige said as she also joined the argument. "The Triad and Christy are bound to be protected by a lot of demons, we will have a lot on our plates as it is! We don't have time to be worrying about how our vanquishing potion could kill Billie!"
"Billie doesn't even have to be there!" Piper defended herself
"Oh, so all the demons are gonna just stand still while we say a spell to kill their leaders? We need Billie's to help to keep the demons away so we can actually say the spell without getting attacked." Paige retorted back.
"We are NOT using Billie as a distraction!" Phoebe yelled at Paige while sending her younger sister a death glare.
"Paige is right, Phoebe." Prue quickly stepped in to defend Paige. "We need Billie's help with this."
"Billie isn't going anywhere near…"
"I'm right here guys!" Billie yelled, making all the witches in the room immediately shut their mouths. Billie was getting frustrated, they were all talking about her like she wasn't even in the room. "Prue and Piper are right. We will use my blood in the potion because it's easier and less risky to get it from me than Christy. Plus, if my blood can vanquish her then I'm pretty sure hers can vanquish me, so it doesn't really matter whose blood we use. And I am definitely coming to the underworld to help you kill the Triad and Christy, no exceptions."
"But…"
"NO. EXCEPTIONS." Billie cut Phoebe's protest off with a smug and determined smile on her face.
"Fine," Phoebe finally agreed while throwing her hands up in defeat. "But if you die, I will never talk to you again."
"Cross my heart," Billie retorted as she held her hand over her heart.
"Good," Prue said with a satisfied smile. "Now, I think there are some new nephews and a new brother-in-law I still haven't met."
"Yay! I call a sister day!" Phoebe yelled like a gleeful 5 year old, making them all laugh.
"That's the first good idea you have had all day, Phoebe!" Prue retorted playfully, receiving a light smack on the arm in reply.
"Well I guess that's my cue, so I'm gonna head off now." Billie announced as she stood to leave.
The smiles immediately dropped off all the sisters faces.
"Wait!" Phoebe yelled as she ran to stop Billie. Billie turned around to face the four of them. Phoebe gently laid a hand on Billie's shoulder as she spoke. "You don't have to leave, Billie. We think of you as a sister now and we would love it if you would stay."
Billie saw that Piper, Prue and Paige were all nodding in agreement with Phoebe's words and she smiled warmly at the four of them. "I'm sorry, I would love to stay but I have a meeting across town in half an hour so I have to get going."
"What's the meeting for?" Phoebe asked as she looked curiously at Billie. She had seen sadness flicker in Billie's eyes as she mentioned the meeting and Phoebe was automatically concerned for her.
"Well, when my parents died they left everything they had to me in their will. Thank God they hadn't changed it to include Christy yet. Anyway, in the will they left the house to me but since my life is here now I decided to sell it. A couple of days ago some couple agreed to buy it so I'm going to go sign the deed and things over to them now. After that I have to talk to some mucky muck lawyers and then I'm done"
"Do you want me to come with you?" Phoebe asked carefully. She knew Billie was very independent but she could tell that right now, Billie needed someone to be there for her.
"No, it's okay. It won't be too long I hope." Billie said as she forced a smile. She could tell Phoebe could see straight through it but she was hoping she wouldn't say anything.
"Okay, do you know what time you're gonna be back?" Phoebe asked, once again slipping into protective mode.
Billie sighed in relief as Phoebe let it go. She could tell Phoebe was worried about her so she smiled sweetly at Phoebe. "I don't know, Pheebs. I'll call you when I'm leaving the office, okay?"
Phoebe thought about it for a couple seconds before nodding as if Billie actually needed her permission to go. "Okay but don't forget to call when your done there, got it?" Phoebe said sternly as she pointed her finger at Billie.
"Yes sir!" Billie said with a straight face while giving Phoebe a mock salute.
Phoebe heard her sisters giggle behind her and her cheeks went red as she realized just how weird this would look. "Just go."
Billie just laughed as she grabbed her jacket and walked out the door.
Phoebe turned around to see her sisters staring at her with amused smiles on their face's. "Oh, shut up."
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