Prue stood in the doorway and watched as Phoebe slept. Her baby sister had been through so much the last few days, she was surprised she was able to sleep at all. First the accident, then taken by a demon and now her memory lose. Piper and her had tried to give Phoebe some space, for it seemed that everytime one of them got close to her she got extremely agitated. It was only times when she was sleeping, like now, that either of them got close at all.
Piper came in behind Prue and looked across at her sleeping sister. "I still can't believe she finally let us take her to the doctors to get her arm recast."
"She was in pain." Prue said with no emotion.
"And scared. Prue what are we going to do?"
Prue held her eyes to the sleeping form on the bed. "I don't know yet. But we will figure it out."
Piper wasn't convinced as easily. She just wanted her sister back as she turned and started up the stairs to the attic: The one place that might hold the answers for them all.
Her anger showed raw to the surface as another demon felt the fires of hell surround him for his failure.
"I want that witch BACK!" her voice echoing off the cavern walls around her.
"Her sisters never let her alone for a minute." One demon said in their defence, but was waiting for the wrath from his master.
"Then find away. Get to the injured one."
He watched as her loyal servants and demons went in search of their prize.
"She will have no memory of them."
"I know. But I still want her here. She disgraced me in front of those loyal to me. For that she will pay."
He almost paced as he silently eased himself into the chair at one end. "Her sisters will not let her alone. You can not win this fight. Let it go for now. There will be other chanced to rid ourselves of the Charmed Ones."
She glared at him not even sure she had heard him correctly. "You want me to let it go?"
"A word to the wise would be that. Her sisters will never let you near her or the one injured, now that they know what we tried."
She felt her anger boiling over as she glared at him. She knew it was not her place to defy him, but this felt different. "I will have her. And nothing and no one will stop me." She held his gaze a moment, "Not even you."
He looked at her past his hooded cloak and saw all her rage and desire for some sort of revenge. As much as he wanted to be rid if her now for her insolence, he saw a fire in her that might just work in his favour.
"Any demon that will rid me of the Charmed Ones always deserves a second chance." He calmly stood, before exiting the chamber leaving her to her own plans for the witch they had lost.
Piper placed the heavy book on Phoebes desk as she flipped through the pages.
"Piper?"
"I am not leaving her alone Prue. That was one pissed off demon. And I know she will be back to finished what she started or just to come back to kill her."
"I wasn't going to argue with you."
"I won't let her take her….What?" Piper looked up from the pages to her older sister.
"I won't argue with you. You're right and I was going to suggest one of us stays here and the other go be with Paige. Just in case." Prue sat on the end of the bed but looked at Piper, "Sweetie we need to stay strong. We have one sister in the hospital still and the other with no memory. But we will get them both back. We have to believe in our magic."
Piper closed her eyes trying to push back any fears and doubt. "Go to Paige. I'll call if I find anything."
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Phoebe tossed in her sleep slightly and eased her eyes open as she woke. She felt the strangeness of everything around her. Looking across her bed she saw the one called Piper at the desk. She didn't want to scare her but she also was scared herself.
It was then Piper looked up at the bed and saw Phoebe watching her, "Hi sweetie."
"Hi." Was the short reply she got.
Piper sighed hoping that today wouldn't be like the others filled with her sister staying in her room scared. Or looking at everything around her paranoid. She vowed silently that when she saw the demon or demons that did this, she was going to make them pay; and pay hard.
Prue sat in beside Paige watching as the monitors beeped silently almost. Her older sister had woken a few times, but not long enough for any of them to tell her what happened to Phoebe.
Prue wasn't even sure how to tell Paige. She had been in their lives 6 months now and everything they had been thorough in that time seemed like nothing compared to now.
"Prue?"
Prue looked over and met Paige's gaze. "Hey. Your wake."
"How's Phoebe?" her question was first out and full of the same concern Prue knew would have been her own. In the short amount of time Paige had grown to love each of them as much as Prue had all her life. "
"She is scared right now." She started. "We managed to save her from the ritual but there was consequences."
"How so?" Paige looked up at Prue and knew she was trying to hide something. It was the same feeling she had had for the last few days.
"She has no memory or any of us. Nothing. No sisters, no magic, no Wicca." Prue told Paige. She knew she had to tell her everything. She had a right to know.
Paige took in everything and feeling her heart reach out to her baby sister. "How do we fix it?"
"Piper is looking now. But I have a feeling we need to vanquish a demon for it to happen."
With that said Prue's cell phone vibrated next to her. Taking hold of it she listened to Piper at the other end.
"Piper we can't its to dangerous."
"It's the only way Prue. One or the other." Piper said as she looked at Phoebe who was sitting on the couch trying to block any voices around her.
Piper sat and read the spell again to find Phoebe. It was their only way of getting everything back. At least she hoped it was. Deep down she knew that this demon would not go away quietly.
Piper called to quietly to Leo and waited for her boyfriend and Whitelighter to appear.
"Piper I can't…."
"Leo you have, to its the only way."
"OK slow down what is?" Leo looked at her confused. He had been helping another charge the past few days and wasn't even sure what was happening in the Manor. Other then Paige and Phoebes accident.
"I need you to orb Phoebe and me to the hospital now. I'll explain later."
"Piper I …."
Piper cut him off before he could even protest. "Leo you have to. I can not leave Phoebe alone and Prue can't leave Paige. We need to be together to vanquish this demon and get Phoebes memory back."
Leo looked over and saw the difference in the youngest Halliwell. She seemed almost lost.
He made his way to Phoebe and gently took her hand. He felt her flinch as she looked up at him. "Its ok Phoebe." He assured her as he took Pipers hand in his other one before they all orbed out.
Prue looked up at the sight of the blue and white orbs but made no sudden move. She knew Phoebe was still scared of everything around her and Prue didn't want to add to her stress.
"Piper, what have you got?"
"I am hoping a spell to fix everything." Piper replied as she made her way over to Paige's bed.
Piper looked down at her older sister not really wanting to or sure of the magic inside of her. But she felt the warmth of the arm around her as she leaned back into the one figure in her life that was always there.
"We will make this work Piper. I won't have my baby sister walking around scared all the time and not knowing what is going on around her."
Phoebe kept her eyes darting around the room. She had in some ways learn to trust the two woman she was with, but now she found herself in a strange place with another woman and she wasn't sure yet how to be. They seemed to know each other but inside something seemed off.
She felt herself making her way to the door but felt an arm around her waist gently, but not enough to scare her, just enough to guide her back to a chair.
"Phoebs sweetie just sit her till we figure this out." Prue guided her sister to the chair before going to Piper and Paige.
Piper stood to one side of Paige's bed as Prue stood on the other. Taking each others hands they formed a bound that was normally a bond that the power of three shared. But tonight it was different. Prue and Piper hoped inside, that with Paige it would still have as much power if it had been Phoebe in the middle.
