Piper wanted to stop what Phoebe was doing but she knew that there would be no stopping her baby sister once she had her mind made up. Another attribute she shared with Prue, their determination to finish something even if they knew they wouldn't be able to. But in this case Piper knew Phoebe would find the connection again, no matter the cost to herself.

Phoebe sat with her legs crossed and held tight onto the picture of the three of them, taken a few months ago. She reached out like she had before and was quickly pulled into a premonition.

She was quickly thrown from her vision as she fell forward to the floor. Piper quickly leaned down to catch her before she hit the ground. She held on to Phoebe as she gasped for any thread of air she could getm as her hands reached her own throat hoping that it might help in some way.

Easing Phoebe back up, Piper slowly rubbed her hand on her back. It was the same motion her and Prue used to use whenever Phoebe had woken up from a nightmare as a young child. "Short breaths honey. Take it easy. Here take this." Piper handed her the glass of water and felt Phoebes shaking hands wrap around it.

She waited till Phoebe had calmed slightly before poising the question she desperately needed to know.

"It was him."

Piper looked at Phoebe confused. "Who?"

"Him the man at the club. The Prince."

Piper felt her heart beat in her chest. Prince Jameer? How? Why? "Phoebe are you sure?"

"Yes. I only saw him briefly that night but I knew it was him. He was standing over her. But then I seemed to take on Prues emotions again and that was when I was thrown out of my vision."

Piper couldn't believe that a man of the Princes stature would go to such extremes as to kidnap their sister. But the question now was, how would they prove it and how would they get her back?

Piper sat beside Phoebe as she rested on the couch. Her premonition took more out of her then she had thought. But as she sat there she thought about what Phoebe had seen and what Leo had told them.

"LEO!" she called out to their whitelighter and their friend, a friend that had fast become more of a brother.

"What?"

"Leo. Look we know where Prue is and you have to take us there." Piper knew that her sister needed them both and fast.

"Piper."

"No! Do not stand there and tell us that you can not take us. Our sister was kidnapped by some weird power seeking human that could do god knows what to her and any one else if he actually gets her powers. And I think we have all learned over the past few months what our powers can do to a human. So do not stand there and give me some whitelighter ordnance rule bullshit about not being able to help us." Her finger pointing out each word as it drove into his chest.

Leo took her hand in his and pulled her towards him. But instead of an embrace she pushed back and away from him.

"Leo?"

"Piper I came to tell you that I can take you."

"Great. See I knew it." she started to pace the room impatiently as she fumed at the elders once again. "Those damn elders always meddling in our lives and then when one of us gets in trouble because of some power hungry human they set their foots down and say..yes?" she paused as his words sunk in. "Wait they said yes?"

"They said yes." He nodded and smiled at her.

Piper looked up at him and then lifted her head towards the ceiling, "Sorry." She apologized to the unseen forces behind her and her sister's destiny. "Guess I kinda put my foot in it hey?"

"I little. But it's ok. They understand." He reached his arms around her and embraced her, taking in her warmth in that moment. He knew that what they were all about to do would be very dangerous. And right then he just wanted to hold her in case something did happen.

Piper looked at Phoebe and her pale features. "Honey you ok?"

Phoebe looked over at Piper but was unsure of herself for that split moment. A moment the Piper picked up on as she went over and embraced her sister. "We'll get her back honey. But are you sure you are up to going?"

"I'm fine Piper. Let's just go get Prue." Phoebe snapped back but looked up at Piper right away. "Sorry."

"Its ok. Let's just go."

Leo stepped up to the two sisters and wrapped his arms around the both of them. The three of the disappearing into a bask of blue and white particles of light.

He paced back and forth as one minister after another left the room each one conveying the same news. No one had seen or heard from Karim. He had been his trusted right hand for more years then he cared to count. And now he had betrayed him worse then anyone before. "Find them both." was the order he sent out, but his mind kept going, "Where have they disappeared to?

"We have no idea you majesty. He disappeared shortly after you ordered for Sahmeer's head."

"I want them both found and executed for treason." He bellowed before his audience.

He cleared the room and wondered how he had let everything go the way it had. He knew his father would not be pleased with him. But he had done all he could. He turned suddenly at the sound or the chamber door opening, "You had better have their heads on a platter."

"Your majesty." The servant bowed before his Prince as he held out a tray before him. A single white envelope resting on the top.

Jameer looked suspiciously at the envelope before taking it from the tray and motioning for the servant to leave him. Reading the contents of the paper he felt his rage build inside him. His enemy had taken two more of his key marks in the fierce battle that had been occurring in his country for the past four days. "FIND THEM!" was all he roared as he tossed down the message and stormed out of the royal chamber.

He made his way through the palace only to be stopped by a spectacle of white and blue lights.

Piper took a hold of Phoebe, knowing the effect of orbing, as they reappeared in the palace hallways. Though as she did she instantly froze the person she saw heading towards them. "Phoebs?"

"I'm ok. Let's just get this guy." She answered as she stepped back from her sister.

They made their way quickly down the hall, though not really sure where they were heading. Until they came closer to the man Piper had frozen. Piper recognized him immediately as the Prince she had met in the club. His long flowing gowns and robes.

Leo orbed them all to a room to the side, before looking at the two sisters.

"Go Leo. This is our fight." Piper said as she placed a kiss on his cheek. "I love you." She added in the end, as he orbed out, knowing that what she and Phoebe had to do was personal.

Phoebe sat on the couch as she looked at the man before her. She wanted nothing better then to lash out at him, but some thing inside her stopped her.

Piper looked over to her sister and then turned to the man before them.

"Where is our sister?"
"Honestly I have no idea."

Phoebe stood up and glared at the man,. "What in the hell do you mean you have no idea?"

"She was taken from me a few days ago. By a family of traitors. Something you know about. They have taken us all to the point of civil war."

"All we want is our sister back. Nothing more." Piper locked eyes with the Prince as she conveyed her message to him

Jameer looked at Piper and then past her. How was he to tell her what he had learned just a few minutes before thier arrival.

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The room was dark and gloomy as the three of them made their way through it. Piper had taken a hold of Phoebe in case her injury flared up again, but so far the youngest Halliwell was enduring.

Jameer looked at his servant to his right and motioned for him to pull out the slab he had seen earlier in the days before.

Piper was the first to see as she held on to Phoebe. The charred body was not enough for them recogmize, but the unmarked diamond on the neck was.

Both sister gazed as realization slammed into them. … They were too late. Their big sister was dead.