Leo stood in the Hall and watched as Piper left Phoebes room and stormed around the corner in the hall that would lead her to the attic. He turned his head and could see Prue standing just inside the doorway. Even from there he could tell she was still feeling some residue effects of the battle she had fought in the under world.

He stepped towards open door, "Prue." His voice was soft but he watched as she fought against herself. "Prue don't. You did what you thought was best."

She looked at him and then turned her head to look at her dying sister. The one she swore to her mother she would always protect. "Did I?"

He reached his hand to place on her shoulder but she pulled away, leaving Phoebe with Leo as she left the room and started after Piper.

Piper made her way towards the book they held their heritage. Held everything they needed to survive in a world of darkness opened to them nearly three years before.

Turning the pages she felt the tears running down her cheek, but she made no move to wipe them away. She looked down at the page before her, his red and blackened face almost glaring back at her through the page. "You will help us Cole." She let the teat drip on the aged page, "You have to."

"Piper."

Piper stood at the book ignoring her sister. She only had enough for one more battle and that was not one she wanted with Prue she wanted it with Cole. To get him to help them.

"Piper please. Don't do this."

Piper looked up at Prue. "Prue."

"Piper, I….." she started to speak before Piper turned on her

"I can't believe you. I can NOT believe you will not do this to help her."

"Do you honestly think I WANT her to DIE!" Prue took a slow step forward.

"YES!"

Prue felt the air rush from her lungs as if Piper had just pounched her with everything she had in teh stomach. She was stunned that Piper thought that she wanted Phoebe to die.

"I do Prue! Otherwise you would have been up here reading this damn incantation the minute we found out he could help us. You would have been up here because we know it can save her."

Prue felt a pain to her heart as she felt the tears building behind her eyes. "Piper. That isn't why." Her voice seemed calmer. She had to explain.

"Then why Prue?" she felt her anger as her tears ran freely. "Why!? She is down there dying damn it."

"I know Piper you don't have to keep reminding me!" she felt her anger starting again. "I promised Mum all those years ago that I would take care of you two. And look what happened. I couldn't protect her!"

"Is that what this is all about? You couldn't protect her? You let your pride get in the way to what? Prove to us, to MUM that you could keep us safe?"

"Yes damn it! If I couldn't protect her from that damn poison the least I could do was fix it. ME not some demon that I will never trust no matter how much he claims to love her." She felt the lump forming in her throat as she got more upset. "It's my job to help you guys. Not one else's." Her tears ran down her face as her emotions over took her body.

Piper watched as her always strong sister seemed to be slowly caving into her feeling.

"I had to fix it Piper. I also had to keep protecting her, and you. I couldn't take the chance to let him here and lose both of you. She says he loves her. But how do we know? How long has he been gone? A chance to get back into his demonic ways." She wrapped her arms around her body trying to keep a tight hold on herself. "I had to be the one to save her."

Piper walked up to Prue and pulled her into her. "Prue you don't always have to be the one to fix things when we get hurt. Sometimes we have to ask for help even from those we don't want to. Or shouldn't." she pulled back a bit and looked at her sister, "Just like Phoebe and I did when you were sucked into that vortex. We made the choice to work with evil to save you. It went against everything we believed in but we had to. And it's just like you and Phoebe did with Leo, when I was sick with Arroyo fever. You went against my wishes to ask for help of someone we couldn't. And before you tell me that is different its not. You asked Leo to save me when it was personal gain. So is this. Saving Phoebe is personal gain. We have tried everything in our powers to help her. Just like any of us would. We've done everything we could" She looked at Prue and wiped away a tear, "Except one."

Prue swallowed the lump that had formed in her throat.

"Sometimes we have to make sacrifices for the greater good Prue. We've known that for sometime now. This is one of them. To save the power of three, to save us and to save our sister."

Prue looked at the page Piper had found. Looking down at the demon on the page she knew that Piper was right. "You know I came up here to apologize to you not argue with you." She sniffed back her tears

Piper placed her arms around Prue waist but didn't say anything. "Who says I would have accepted." she gave Prue a smile

"You're right Piper I did let my pride get in the way. But at the time…"

"Prue it's ok. I understand. But one of these days you are going to have to let go of that attitude that you always have to watch out for us. Like you told Dad a few years ago. We're big witches now."

Prue smiled at the memory, "Let's do this. But first we make that vanquishing potion."

"Just in case." Piper finshed, "You didn't think I was that crazy did you?" Piper looked at Prue glad to see her sister smile again. "Let's save our sister."

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Leo ran the wet cloth over Phoebes forehead. He could hear the argument in the attic but stayed where he was. This was their fight. One they had to work out on their own. It was their free will to call Cole and work with evil. He may not like it or agree wit it but he also knew it was the only way to save Phoebe. Prue had tried it her way and nearly got herself killed. Now they would have to decide to take the only option they have left.

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"You ready for this?" Piper looked at Prue hesitant, fearing that her eldest sister would change her mind and decide to go after the antidote on her own again.

"Let's just get this over with Piper." Prue answered not wanting to start another argument with her sister. She wasn't ready for this. She didn't trust Cole no matter what the circumstances and this now was no different.

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Magic forces black and white,

reaching out through space and light,

be he far or be he near,

bring us the demon Belthazor here

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They waited for the swirl of dust to settle before they could see their enemy.

Prue held tight to the bottle behind her back. One wrong move and she would vanquish him.

Cole felt the pull and knew instantly who it was. They had said their good bye months ago why now was she pulling him back. And why this way. She knew that the Source could find out both their betrayals by calling him using magic so powerful. But when he reappeared and looked at his surroundings he was more surprised to see it wasn't Phoebe that had called him but her sisters."

"So. Its comes to this?" he looked at them knowing they had found out what Phoebe did and were now calling him to finish the job.

"This isn't what you think Cole." Piper said as she looked at the demon before her. For now that she knew who he was, that was what he was; a demon.

"Well it looks to me like Phoebe either told you the truth or you found out on your own. Either way you called me here to finish what she couldn't."

Piper turned to Prue as Prue glared at the man who broke her sisters' heart. Broke it because she knew they could never be together.

"You played us to get our powers. To get our book. All these months claiming to love Phoebe." she started.

"I do love her Prue."

She didn't say anything but glare at him. "This goes against everything I believe in, and working with you will by no means lets you back into our live or hers. She vanquished a Enveno Demon a few weeks ago." She watched his face as it was registering what was going on. "She was right under him when she threw the potion."

"Under him? Their whole body chemistry is poisonous!"

"We know. At first it looked like she was getting a cold or the flu. But then we found out from Leo and the book what had really happened." Piper said as her tears were starting to once again prick the back of her eyes.

Prue took in a deep breath, "We need your help Cole. You are the only one who can get the antidote for her."

"Me? After everything you want me to expose myself to get it. I'm hiding from the Source so he doesn't know I am alive. You pulling me here with magic is enough to alert him I'm still alive."

"You say you love her. Then help us save her!" Prue spat out.

He turned to look towards the attic door before completely turning and walking through them. Towards the one person that held his heart.

He walked into Phoebes room and saw her lying there on her bed. She looked so peaceful, yet he could see the perspiration on her forehead and the pale features.

He took the cloth from Leo's hand and ran it gently along her forehead

"We've said our good byes. If I come back the Source will not only be after me but you guys as well. There is more at stake here then any of our loves or our lives." He looked down at her. He had missed her but this.. He got up off the bed and turned towards the sisters. "I can't help you. As much as I want to. We both know you don't trust me and frankly I don't trust you two. If I hear anything I'll try and let you know. But I can't go back to the underworld to get the antidote." He held his gaze to Prue both being as stubborn as the next.

"You tried on your own didn't you?" he didn't even look at them. "I was your last resort."

"Cole.." Piper started but Prue cut her off.

"Yes I did."

Cole wanted to laugh, "Kicked your ass didn't he?"

Prue didn't say anything, that alone being her answer.

"That is why I can't help you either. I can't defeat him. Not anymore."

"What do you mean not anymore?" Piper asked wondering what now was going on.

"I let to much of my human half control me. Control my heart. I'm not as powerful as I was when I could have defeated him. If I went back there I could get killed myself or, if I did let the full potential of Belthazor out, there would be no way I would give that cure to a witch." He watched the sorrow cross their faces. "I'm sorry. I can't help you." He turned once more to Phoebe before shimmering out.