Phoebe rested against Prue trying to think of anything in her vision that she had missed.
"Phoebe stop it." Prue told her gently. "It's not helping you to keep playing it over in your mind."
"There must be something that I missed Prue, something that can stop this from happening."
"Phoebe they are demons. You were right. We should have vanquished Brendan a long time ago. Once a demon always a demon."
"It's not that simple Prue, I can't just shut it off like you and Piper can. But I know there is something." She paused, "Like maybe you were right." She started to add quietly.
Prue looked down at her sister confused. Casting a glance up at Piper who had just sat down in the armchair across from them.
"She was right about what Phoebs?" Piper asked thinking she had come into the middle of a conversation.
"Prue was right. Maybe Brendan was meant to become a priest." Phoebe saw everything spinning in her mind. There was something she had missed. "Brendan wasn't in my premonition. In fact I saw him only briefly before Prue died. He was at the church. It was as if he could feel her die as he cried out."
"So this means what?" Piper asked confused.
"Mum's message, set it right." Prue said quietly, "We get Brendan to get back on the path he was on before his brothers got to him. There is still good in him and its up to us to get it out."
"Prue he killed an innocent. There is no turning that around."
"I know Piper, but he was under his brothers influence. No matter how hard you try, sooner or later the real you will surface. And Brendan never wanted anything to do with his brothers. He despised everything they were and everything the three of them were to become."
Phoebe listened to her sister's talk and tried to get to what was still bothering her. "How do we get Brendan back to the church?"
It was a question the older two were wondering themselves. But now that someone had actually posed the question they didn't know the answer.
He watched them sitting in the darkness and wondered what they were thinking. Every now and then he felt a pang at what was going on around him. Death, destruction. He wondering how this was even possible. How had they gotten him to lose everything he had fought so hard for. But his pang of guilt would quickly disappear when he felt his blood boil inside of him at the scream of another innocent. Another death at their hands.
He would watch with delight as his brother would rape a girl and then kill her. It was always the same routine with him.
"I have just the plan for those witches." His brothers' voice entered his thoughts
"Greg we have been over this already. We have to take them out where we have the upper hand."
"I know that Paul and we will. But that doesn't mean I can't a little fun first."
Both Paul and Brendan knew what Greg meant.
"I want the oldest to scream and to feel everything that I will do to her before I gut her open slowly." A glimmer entered his eyes as he thought of what he was about to do. "We get them to the warehouse and then I can have my fun. Right after we kill her sisters in front of her."
Paul and Brendan said nothing. They knew what it was to talk back to Greg. At first it was Brendan that they let guide them. But they soon realized it was all Greg. He was guiding Brendan to become who he really was. But they each still had their own personalities. That was something Greg couldn't not take from them.
They drove in silence. Each one knew what was about to happen. Two deaths and one brutal rape and murder. But they continued forward. It was their destiny and they were meant to do it. They knew that it wouldn't end in just their deaths but the Rowe covens as well.
The jeep came to a stop outside of the abandon warehouse.
"Ok, someone tell me again why we are at the building where Phoebe saw us die?" Piper asked as she looked up at the dark, almost haunted old building
"So we can set the world back on track. No more evil." Prue said with a sarcastic tone.
"Ok that's all great but if we die. Who is going to protect them all from the evil that is left behind?"
"She has a point Prue." Phoebe said as she got out from the back seat.
"Yeah, I hate it when she does that." Prue replied as she stepped towards her sisters. "Ready?"
"Like we have a choice." Piper answered as she took her first step towards the warehouse. Her fear of what she knew this day would bring keeping her on edge and alert.
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"They are coming. Their goodness reacts all around them." Greg closed his eyes waiting for the right time to strike. He felt his brothers near and felt their rush inside them as well.
The door eased open as the pigeons inside flew around frantically at the disturbance they had just received.
"Brendan we know you're in here. Just talk to me." Prue called out to the darkness.
"I have nothing to say to you Prue. This is who I am now."
Prue spun at the sound of his voice but saw no one there. "No Brendan this is who Greg made you. You are meant for another calling. It's not to late."
Piper kept scanning the darkness for any sign of movement. She could feel Phoebe standing next to her, her adrenaline radiating off of her as she posed for a fight.
Paul inched his way forward closer to the witch nearly within his grasp.
Brendan listened to Prue but still moved with stealth around the warehouse.
Prue spun around in time to see the fire stream coming towards her. Deflecting it with her power she sent it flying in the opposite direction. It was then she heard Piper scream as Paul grabbed her.
Phoebe spun around and kicked Paul in the head with skilled practice but soon found herself on the ground with Brendan standing above her.
"This isn't you Brendan. This is Greg. All he wants is the power of the underworld to rule over all of the demons but he needs you and Paul to complete that cycle." Prue yelled out at him as she flung Brendan away from her sisters.
"Don't listen to her little brother. This is who you are. Who we all are." Greg grabbed Prue from behind holding her hands behind her so she couldn't use her powers on him. "Oh I'm gonna like the taste of you witch." he snarled in her ear. His one hand moving over her breast. "I could just kill you know but I think I'll let you watch your sisters die first."
Piper had helped Phoebe back up as she faced Paul.
"He will kill you two when he is done. All he has to do is kill us first. Once we are gone you two will be all that stands in his way." Piper said hoping to get Paul to see who his brother really was.
"Nice try witch." Paul said as he lashed out at them, only to have them move out of the way quickly. The stream of fire nearly clipping Piper.
"Piper?"
"I'm ok."
Prue couldn't move, all she could do was watch as her sisters tried to fight them off. "Brendan don't do this! Don't let them do this, it isn't too late. Help them!" Prue yelled as she tried to break Greg's grip on her.
"Kill them brother enter your true nature at last." Greg yelled out at his brother.
Brendan stopped, inside he felt the pull he had been feeling for months. Like his body was telling him two things at the same time. But something now didn't seem right to him.
"If you don't kill them now little brother I will." Greg yelled back as he watched Brendan hesitate.
Brendan looked from his brothers to Piper and Phoebe and then he looked at Prue.
"Don't do it Brendan." She said gently and with something he hadn't heard since his mother died: Love.
Greg could feel the change in his brother. He was losing him right then.
"I will finish this myself then." He held out his hand as he then watched Brendan step in front of the witches "Get out of my way lil brother or I will kill you too."
"I can't let you do this Greg. I won't let you."
"Fine then, you can die with them." his fire stream shot out of his hand but he was not expecting Paul to react.
Brendan watched as his brother was hit. And as he shot out an astheme back towards Greg.
Phoebe stood still almost frozen in place, as everything around her happened so fast. Brendan stepping in front of them, Paul throwing the knife at Greg. And Prue. She hadn't taken her eyes of her sisters since Greg had grabbed her. Everything was happening as she had seen it. Only somewhere something had changed. Brendan stayed. He wasn't there in the warehouse in her last vision. He was gone. He had gone back to the church.
Everything froze as suddenly as it had all started.
"Prue you might wanna move out of the way I don't know who long this will last for." Piper yelled out as she saw the astheme heading towards her, after Greg had pulled her back in front of him more using her as a human shield.
Time continued as the astheme struck Greg in the chest. He looked at both his brother shocked and betrayed knowing he had lost his quest for power.
Phoebe ran up to Prue and threw her arms around her tight not wanting to ever let go. Piper wasn't far behind her as the three of them embraced.
Prue held them tight thankful for Pipers power and that they had managed to win at least the most important battle. But she soon realized that Brendan was still there. Casting a glance up at him she caught his smile it was the same smile she had first seen and had fallen for.
"Thank you Prue. You made me see who I really am. It was the love I saw in your eyes that reminded me of my mother and what she wanted me to be. But also something Greg said. Made me realized that it wasn't too late for me to return to my chosen path.
"You needed to kill a witch, not just an innocent." Prue finished for him.
"Yes. That was why he kept pushing me to kill you or one of your sisters."
The sun shone bright once again over the city by the bay. Though it shone brightest on the cathedral in the center of the city. Three sisters, three friends and three witches sat and watched as Brendan kneeled down and excepted his true calling. His dark side beaten and God into his life there would be no turning back for him.
Neither one said a word as they watched the ceremony. They had fought another battle and won. They had learned to trust each other a little more. And to trust each other's instincts as well. Phoebe tipped her head over ad rested it on Prue's shoulder. Piper took Prue's hand in hers as they kept their own connection flowing through them. They would fight more demons but at that moment they wanted to support the one they had saved and enjoy each other's company.
