Prue looked in as Phoebe moved the rubber ducky through the water. She smiled as she watched her baby sister play in the water and hadn't heard the footsteps coming in behind her but she felt the arms snake around her waist and the chin resting on her shoulder,

"You ok?"

"Yeah. I was just thinking." She said as she placed her hands over the arms around her. Leaning back she sighed as her mind was flooded with a memory.

"You don't seem like it." His voice was soothing and comforting.

"It's just hard. I see her now as the grown adult I have known all her life. Even when she ran off to NYC, to me she was still a baby, but an adult as well. Now I see her as a child that will never grow up."

"She will Prue. You just have to hang on to that. James will figure it out. Or maybe Leo can."

"Leo. No he plays by the rules of the elders. And there is no way, after nearly a year they would heal her. No, this is something we all need to figure out on our own and hope she gets better."

Bane held his grip on his wife knowing she needed him at that moment, but also they she needed time alone. "I'll go see to Patti." He placed a kiss on the side of Prue's head as he made his way down the hall to his daughter, whose lungs were starting to wake up the house.

Prue closed her eyes briefly before making her way into the bathroom and to her sister.

"Pwue watch." Phoebe cried out as soon as she saw her sister. But it wasn't long after that both Prue and the rest of the bathroom where soaked.

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Having enough of Splash Mountain and any other splashing game Phoebe wanted to play Prue was able to get her sister out of the bath and into her pj's.

"You want me to read you a story sweetie?"

"No. Piper." Phoebe said quietly with her head on her pillow.

"Piper? Ok, I'll go get her." Prue gave her a quick kiss on the forehead before leaving Phoebes room in search of Piper.

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Piper was sitting on the couch when Prue came down. "What she do to you?" she asked trying to surpress the smile on her face

"Just the usual, soaked. She wants you to read her her story."

Piper looked up at Prue, "You're kidding right?"

"Nope. She asked for you." Prue sat in beside Piper, "She didn't mean to Piper. She is four in her mind and that is what they do. They throw and play in mud. And trust me, her more then others."

Piper leaned against Prue, "I know its just. This is my little sister. She is not four, she's 26."

"I know and one day we will get her back."

Piper sat up and looked at Prue, "You don't believe that any more then I do Prue. So why do you keep saying it?" Her words came out a little harsher then she wanted but now that they were said they both could take in teh reality of what was going on. Piper got off the couch and headed up the stairs leaving Prue to take in her words.

Prue sat up and watched as Piper left the living room and made her way up the stairs. She wanted to call after her but she couldn't, Piper was right. She just wasn't ready to admit it yet.

Bane grabbed the ball and dribbled it like a pro. "You can't beat me Phoebe so give it up." He smiled as she reached out and almost got the ball from him.

"Bane are you cheating?" Piper called out just enough to distract him and for Phoebe to get the ball.

"Piper"

"What? You were cheating on my little sister." She smiled back as Phoebe ran towards the basket. She smiled as the ball swooshed through the net and her sister cried out in joy.

Bane took the ball and looked over at Piper, "Now who is cheating?" he laughed as he faced off to Phoebe once again. "Ok you, no more distraction tactics from big sister over their kiddo. Just you and me."

"Bane please, she beat you before all this, what makes you think you can beat her now?"

"Because she has the aim of a child. And trust me if this is the only way I can beat her I'll take it." He quickly dodged around Phoebe but somehow he went to the hoop empty handed.

"What the?" he turned around in time to see Phoebe make her way around him and heard the ball once again swooshing through the net. "Why you little." He quickly grabbed her and with both hands around her waist he started to tickle her. Her laughter carrying down the driveway and the rest of the street.

"Bane no stop!" she cried out but he kept his fingers twisting in her ribs. causing her to drift to the ground in laughter.

Piper smiled as Bane tickled her sister to no end. She turned and saw Chris sitting on his trik watching his uncle and his aunt play. He would laugh now and then at their antics but mostly was concentrating on his little bike.

She looked back to Bane and Phoebe, the later able to finally get away from Bane with the ball and was ready to go in for another shot. She felt the arms wrap around her and she leaned back into them. "He is so good with her."

"I know. Makes me see what he will be like with Patti." Prue said as she watched her husband with her sister.

"I'm sorry about snapping at you the other night. After the mud." Piper confessed as she held onto Prue's love.

"Its ok Piper. We are both feeling the strain of this whole thing, I don't blame you. There have been times when I just wanted to explode at anyone around me. Including her. Sometime I forget what happened."

Piper didn't say anything as she stayed in Prue's arms watching Bane and her sister play basketball. After that Piper still wasn't sure what happened. It was so fast she didn't even have time to freeze everyone.

Phoebe ran after Bane who had taken the ball and was now running around the driveway with it. He wasn't given it up to Phoebe no matter what.

"Bane you cheat!!" she cried out to him but he still wouldn't give her the ball. She reached out and smacked at the ball successfully knocking it from his grip. But as she turned she saw Chris on his little bike going after it as it went down the driveway.

"Cwris NO!" she ran after him and grabbed hold of the back of his bike and pushed him across the rest of the street. Right before the car struck him.

Piper and Prue looked up at the sound of the cars breaks screeching along Prescott St. They both saw Phoebe take hold of Chris' bike and push him out of the way but they couldn't stop the car from still hitting their sister.

Piper rushed down the steps and the rest of the driveway right behind Bane. She reached her son and pulled him from his bike in a tight hug as she turned and saw Prue resting on the pavement beside Phoebe. Her arms holding her protectively.

"Bane get Leo!" Prue ordered as she held her sister in her arms.

Bane ran back to the Manor in search of Leo who was already out the front door.

Leo bent down and felt for a pulse. He looked up at Prue and then to Piper, who was holding on to Chris for everything, as she looked at her husband and then her sister. She saw the blood on Phoebe and that scared her as much as losing her son.

"Oh god I didn't see her, they came out of no where." The driver of the car was as scared as they were. He had hit another human being. "Oh god I am so sorry." He reached in and dialled 911 hoping that the girl he hit would be ok.

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He watched from his vantage point. A turn of events that none of them suspected. He smiled before shimmering to his leader.

"Sire I have news."

"Where is she?" he ordered.

"A twist of fate sire. She has being injured in an accident. I would say that the youngest Charmed One is no longer a problem. And that the children are free for ours to take. No risk to any demon."

He took in the news and smiled. "Soon the underworld will be mine and not even those pesky witches will be a match for me. Me and my new children."