Piper fought the binds that held her hands behind her. Her arm hurt where he had ripped the IV drip out of her arm and she had absolutely no energy. 'Now I know how Phoebe felt when she got the flu really bad' recalling memories of her sister.
"Won't be long now Piper. You will all suffer for the ways of evil."
"You have no idea what we do."
"Sure I do. Work for the devil spreading his evil." He moved around the pile of wood. Circling her, like you would your prey.
"You have no idea. We fight that evil everyday. Hell my sisters and I vanquished the Source of all evil before he COULD spread his evil. Without us around, you have nothing to stop them."
Not answering her Jackman turned around at a sound coming towards him. Moving back to the bush he waited. Seeing Paige and Phoebe walking right along side Selena, both seemingly helping Phoebe. Moving quickly he pushed Paige and grabbed a hold of Phoebe. "Ah everyones here."
Paige was quickly to her feet grabbing hold of Selena in the process. "Let her go."
"Get moving, I think your sister misses you." He motioned with the gun he had in his one hand. Keeping a hand tight on Phoebe as he walked them back to the centre clearing.
"Paige I told you…" Piper started
"I overruled you." Phoebe replied back
"You shouldn't even be walking around as much as you have been, so how is it you overruled me?"
"Let her go." Paige kept her eyes on their new enemy.
"Now why would I let her go, when I went to all this trouble to get you all here?" he pulled the torch from the ground beside him and set its burning end into the wood setting it ablaze.
"PIPER!" Phoebe yelled as she tried to break away from Jackmans tight hold.
"Paige, get Selena out of here." Piper yelled between coughing as smoke started in her lungs
"Not without you two." Paige shot back trying to figure out how to save her sister, both of them.
"Not without any of them."
Paige turned around at the voice behind her.
"Where have you been?" JAckman glared over at his partner
"Looking for them, but I see you found them already." He walked with a stride of confidence towards Jackman and Phoebe, looking into her eyes and seeing her fear. Fear of him.
Phoebe watched as Cole walked towards them and she knew had to take a chance. A chance to believe that Cole would never hurt her, or her sisters. She felt the fist forming in her hand and she quickly slammed the back of her fist into Jackmans face at the same time ducking to her right to the ground.
She saw the flames consume him as Cole's fireball hit him in the chest and then nothing. "Piper."
Paige had moved, as soon as she saw Cole throw his fireball at Jackman. Tackeling Piper in much the same way Piper had tackled Selena.
Helping her oldest sister to her feet, the two of them made their way to Phoebe.
"You ok?" Piper asked as she sat beside her sister.
"No." Phoebe wrapped her one arm around her sister her fear of losing another sister coming to the surface. "I love you."
"I love you too sweetie. Now come on, lets get you back to bed. Preferably in the hospital."
"You too." Phoebe said as she placed her hand on the one Piper had wrapped around her waist, as Piper and Paige helped Phoebe up.
Phoebe looked past her sisters a minute and saw to the man she once loved with her soul. "Thank you."
"I couldn't let anything happen to you Phoebe. Or them."
"I know."
He gave her a weak smile before he disappeared.
Piper looked on to her little sister before taking Paige's hand, "Paige."
Paige reached out and placed her hand on Selena as she orbed out, back to the safe house they had called home for the last few days, settling Phoebe back to bed.
"I'll call Darryl, he can say he rescued me or something." Piper said as she went to the phone.
"What about Jackman? How they going to explain that?" Paige asked.
"Well he was burned. Tell them he fell in the fire in a fight to get to me." Piper reasoned.
Piper set the Jeep in park and got out around to the other side. "You ok?"
"Yeah I'm good." Phoebe replied but humoured her sister as she felt the arm snake around her waist. "You?"
"Nothing a few days didn't cure." She looked back to everything that had happened over the past few weeks and days as Phoebe was taken back to the hospital and herself giving a clean bill of health after the smoke insulation and food poisoning. "And now you need to rest."
"Piper I'm fine, really."
"And the doctor said not to over do it. Humour me."
"I already am." Phoebe smiled as she looked at her sister as they reached the front door to the Manor.
Paige walked in from the kitchen, "Hey you're early."
"Hey Paige." Phoebe gave her younger sister a smile, "What is that smell?"
"Dinner."
Piper and Phoebe shared a looked between them, "You're cooking?" Phoebe said surprised that her sister would think Piper would eat her cooking again
"Cause I ain't eating it." Piper added in with a laugh.
"Actually I am. As a thank you. Paige didn't think you would ever let her cook again."
Piper and Phoebe looked past Paige to see Selena walking towards them.
"Well in that case ok." Piper laughed as Paige playfully swatted her sister. "Besides, the next time I go to a hospital will be to deliver my baby girl."
Phoebe turned in her sisters' arms, "Excuse me?" she asked shocked.
"You heard me." Piper smiled at her sisters. "I'm pregnant."
"YAY!" Phoebe wrapped her arms around Piper as Paige soon joined them.
Laughter was all that was heard the evening as three sisters thought of the prospect of another generation of witches would soon fill their lives with joy.
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