Henry sighed. "How long do you think she'll be able to survive down there?"

Leo thought for a moment. "Well, not for long. There really isn't any food down there, and the water supply is scarce. She'll probably last for about two weeks tops."

Coop entered the room. "I sent the kids over to Victor's... just until this is all sorted out. I don't want them to be worrying about all of this."

Leo nodded in agreement. "Okay... Piper should be out for about another hour or so with the sleeping powder that I gave her earlier, so take your time."

Paige stopped flipping through the book and shut it, groaning. "There's no spell in here to find her and go down there."

Phoebe sighed. "Okay, well, I guess that we'll just have to make one up instead." Walking over to the trunk, she whipped it open. "Let's cast a spell."

Coop nodded. "Be careful, you two."

Paige and Phoebe both looked at each other before reading the spell. "Our eldest sister, wherever you be, through time and space, take our hearts to thee."

Both of the girls collapsed onto the floor.

A bright flash came in the wasteland, and Phoebe and Paige soon appeared.

Paige smiled happily. "It worked... we made it to the wasteland."

"Not quite." Phoebe told her. "The beast will be back... and it will try to kill us."

"That's nice to know." Paige said. "Now... where's Prue?"

Phoebe shrugged her shoulders, but could hear faint shouts. "What is that?"

"Maybe some demons got into a fight or something." Paige suggested. "Maybe we should go check it out."

Phoebe and Paige walked across the rocks and ridges, careful not to trip or fall onto the ground where the Beast could devour them in seconds. The shouts were getting closer and they knew that they were not far from the scene where the commotion was taking place. Loud shouts could be heard, and Phoebe could almost make out the sound of energy balls being thrown around.

Paige spotted a large group of demons down in a pit below them, so she and Phoebe quickly hid behind a ledge so they could watch without being seen.

Peeking out from where they were, Phoebe glanced down at the sight below them. Various demons were gathered together, but they weren't fighting each other. They were all up against a small group, and by the looks of it, the demons looked like an army compared to the small group. A neon green bubble-like shield was formed around the small group of people, protecting them from the various energy balls that were being thrown their way in every direction.

"What's happening?" Paige whispered, confused. She had never seen anything like this before.

"I don't know." Phoebe told her. She looked over and scanned the small group, examining them. "They look like mortals."

"Well, they obviously aren't mortals." Paige said. "They're using powers... that means that they're witches or something. But how would they get down into the wasteland?"

Phoebe sighed and looked over at the one person controlling the shield that was being held up. "I don't know... but they're doing a pretty good job protecting themselves so far. I mean, that witch down there has some damn good powers to be holding up that big of a shield against those demons."

"Who in the world would have that much power besides-" Paige wondered, but then something clicked in her head. "It's Prue."

Phoebe's eyes grew wide with fear for her sister. What if she gets killed down there? Who knows how much damage those demons could do if her shield broke. "We have to help her."

"How?" Paige continued to stare at the scene. "There must be like twenty demons down there, and there's only two of us."

"I'm not sure." Phoebe looked down at Prue, who was beginning to tire, but she kept going nonetheless. "We need to get down there and have enough time to recite the spell to get them all out of this wasteland." Phoebe sighed. This was going to be harder than she thought. "Do you think that you would be able to orb us down there and into the shield?"

Paige nodded. "I could try."

She grasped Phoebe's hand in hers, and blue orbs surrounded them as their forms disappeared and reappeared seconds later inside the shield right behind Prue.

"Paige, Phoebe, what the hell are you guys doing down here?" Prue yelled, but was distracted by the energy balls that were continuously thrown at the shield that she was still holding up.

"We came to take you home." Paige told her. "You don't deserve to be down here... the Elders weren't being fair."

Prue sighed and lowered her arms, causing the shield to disappear. All of the witches gasped and were horrified as energy balls were about to be thrown at them, but just as the energy balls were about to hit them, they paused in mid-air, and so did the demons. Time was frozen.

"What happened?" Phoebe wondered, glancing around, making sure that all of the demons were frozen.

Prue walked over to them. "I froze time."

Paige looked shocked. "How in the world did you do that?"

"I'm an avatar so I have the power to freeze time. But I can't use it very often... this is the first time that I've used it since I've acquired these powers." Prue explained.

Phoebe and Paige looked her over more thoroughly, and noticed how beaten up she looked now. Scratches and bruises covered her body, but only a couple of scratches were deep enough to require stitches. One in particular was a deep gash embedded in her arm, but it was not from battle. It was created on purpose. The gash looked to be like a triquetra symbol. Phoebe looked around and noticed that the other remaining witches also had them on their arms.

Prue noticed both of her sisters staring at the triquetra symbol on her arm. "It reminded me of you guys... so when I met all of our sister witches down here, I decided that by proving that we were all worthy enough to stand together and fight, I created these triquetra symbols on our arms."

Paige smiled, but frowned seconds later. "We have to get you guys out of here."

Prue immediately frowned when she heard Paige say that and shook her head in denial. "No... I'm not going back. You can take the others, but I'm not leaving."

"What?!" Phoebe shouted, apalled. "What do you mean that you're not leaving! Prue, you have to come back." Phoebe looked hurt and shocked. "We all need you."

Prue shook her head. "No, you don't. Especially Piper... she made it perfectly clear to me that she didn't need me there."

"But, Prue-" Before Phoebe could finish, Prue snapped her fingers and orbs surrounded Paige, Phoebe and the other witches, sending them out of the wasteland.

When she was sure that they were gone, tears began to form in Prue's eyes. "I'm sorry."

Back up in the attic, blue orbs filled the room and Paige, Phoebe and the other witches appeared, surprising Leo and Henry, who were still sitting and waiting for them.
"Thank god you guys are okay." Henry said, walking over and hugging Paige.

Leo looked at the group and noticed that Prue wasn't there. "Where's Prue?"

Phoebe sighed and shook her head. "She doesn't want to come back... because of Piper." Just the thought of thinking that this little bump in the road could hurt the sisters' relationships with each other.

"So she's just going to stay there? Forever?" Henry wondered, and Paige shrugged in return.

Phoebe turned and directed her attention to the fellow witches. "Paige and Leo will be able to heal you, and then they'll orb you wherever you need to go."

As Leo and Paige went to work with healing, Phoebe walked out of the attic and quietly walked through the halls, ending up at one door. Piper's. Placing her ear up to the door, she tried to listen for any sound of movement, but heard nothing. Opening the door slowly, she peered in and saw that Piper was still sound asleep from being knocked out.

"I can't believe that I'm about to do this." Phoebe mumbled, and grabbed a bunch of candles out of Piper's dresser and placed them in a circle around her. "Life to life and mind to mind, our spirits now will intertwine. We meld our souls and journeys to, the one whos thoughts we wish we knew."

Phoebe collapsed to the floor, and seconds later, the candles blew out.

Phoebe soon appeared in the conservatory, but it was not how they left it before. Well, at least that it worked. I got into Piper's mind.

"Piper, Phoebe, stop running around the house this instant!" A voice yelled out.

Phoebe immediately recognized the voice. "Grams?"

Two girls ran into the conservatory, and Phoebe immediately recognized the littlest one as herself, and she looked to be about three. "Why would Piper be thinking about all of this?"

As the children began running towards Phoebe, she began to panick, thinking that they may spot her and begin questioning her. But she didn't have enough time to hide. "Excuse me?" She called out to them, but they didn't stop running. It seemed like they didn't even hear her.

Phoebe's eyes widened as they just passed right through her body and ran out of the conservatory, acting like nothing happened. "What in the world?"

Why was she non-corporeal now? She was fine last time when she and Paige went into Piper's mind last time. Confused, Phoebe continued to walk through the manor, now and again seeing trinkets or items that brought back memories of her childhood.

"Prue?" Phoebe heard Grams call out, and she saw a nine-year-old Prue run downstairs and into the kitchen where Grams was.

Phoebe walked into the kitchen, not caring if she made any noise or not. She couldn't be seen nor heard. So what was the point of worrying?

"Yeah, Grams?" Prue asked.

Grams turned around from doing the dished and looked at Prue. "Could you keep an eye on your sisters for me? I have to go to the store to pick some things up for dinner tonight."

"But Grams, I-" Prue didn't even finish when she saw the look that Grams gave her. "Okay, okay."

"Thank you darling." Grams kneeled down to Prue's height and placed her frail hands on Prue's shoulders. "Sweetie, I am so proud of you. You have been so strong and supportive through everything, especially with your mother being... well... in a better place now."

Prue nodded and forced a smile on her face. "I'm glad to help, Grams."

As nine-year-old Prue ran out of the kitchen, Phoebe immediately followed her, not knowing where else to go. Walking upstairs, Phoebe and Prue ended up at a bedroom door.

"Why would she go into Paige's room?" Phoebe wondered, staring at the door. But then it hit her. This was no longer Paige's room, it was once again Prue's. "Paige... we never even met her yet."

Prue opened up the door and saw Piper and Phoebe sitting on her bed, playing with some dolls. "What are you guys doing with my dolls?!"

"We just wanted to play with them." Prue could tell that Piper was hurt by how harshly she said that to them.

Prue ran over to the bed and hopped up on it, joining the other two and gathered them up in her tiny arms, giving them each hugs. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell at you... but you need to ask first before you take my stuff."

Piper nodded, her head still buried in Prue's shoulder. "I love you Prue."

"I love you too, Pwue." Phoebe said, still not able to say Prue's name right yet. She always had trouble with that.

Prue smiled. "I love you guys too!"

Phoebe stood in the corner of the room, watching the scene. "Why would Piper be dreaming about something like this? This makes no sense."

She suddenly sensed a presence, and turned to see the fully grown Piper.

"Phoebe?" Piper called out, surprised to see her. "What are you doing in my mind?"

"I-I... I went in to make... to make sure that you were okay." Phoebe stuttered, still shocked to see Piper.

Piper shook her head. "You need to leave... now."

Please R&R!!