Mike looked at the two sisters before her. She wasn't sure if she should just leave now or stay, and be happy for Piper and Prue. Ever since that day she had regrets. It wasn't Phoebes fault everyone babied her, she was the youngest and the smallest.

They all sat in the large living room as Piper held her arm around Phoebe fearing it was all just a dream.

"Prue is going to freak out." Phoebe said as she leaned against her sister

"I know. Kinda like I still am." Piper smiled between tears

Phoebe looked up and saw Mike and the others watching them. "Mike."

"Look Phoebe I'm really sorry. I was young, stupid."

"Weren't we all. Aren't we all? I dont blame you Mike. I would be lying if I told you I didn't, because I did. There were days I hated you so much that it nearly killed me. I was filled with rage and anger. You took me from the only two people I had left in this world. But I can see now that you have changed. You stood up to me for Piper."

"Phoebe I'm really sorry. I don't know what I was thinking. I was jealous of you and that is all there is to it. As I grew up and really got to know your sisters and seeing them everyday filled with sorrow, I regretted what I did. Yet there was no going back. You were dead to them and I had no idea how to find you. Even now Prue is going to kill me."

"On that you are probably right Mike." Piper said though with a smile. She was angry with Mike, and the others that had gone with Phoebe that day, but if her sister could forgive her then so could she. Now Prue. That was another matter altogether.

He stood back from the door and listened to them. He knew he would have to let her go if she wanted to go back with them. He knew now what the Seer had seen; Their reunion. And once together they would receive their heritage.

She watched as the sun started to set behind the tree line. Still no word from Piper or any of the girls that had gone with her.

"Jane something is wrong."

"Prue..." Jane started

"No. I'm going to look for them. They should have been back hours ago." Prue insisted

"And where are you going to look? His office? His house?"

"I don't care. And yes I'll start there and work my way back here. I lost one sister, I will not lose the only family I have left." She said in anger as she ran up the stairs and grabbed her coat.

Jane watched as Prues rage ran through her. She didn't blame her one bit. She had lost Phoebe so long ago now that she almost over protected Piper. As she stepped toward the stairs to try and talk some reason into Prue she heard the car pull up the driveway.

"Finally." She sighed under her breath, though knowing the storm that was about to boil over in the house.

Prue ran down the stairs the minute she heard the car pull into the driveway. "That had better be them." she snarled to no one in particular a sshe burst through the front door.

Most of the girls were stirring clear of Prue for they knew she was angry. But mostly they knew she was worried

Piper walked in the house with Mike and the rest of the girls in front of her as she trailed to the back. She knew her sister would be mad for them being so late, but she couldn't help it. It wasn't as if she planned on finding their dead sister.

"Where they hell have you guys been?!" Prue yelled at them as soon as she reached the landing and saw them walking in laughing.

"Oh. Sorry Prue we gotta a little delayed." Mike tried to apologize.

"Delayed? DELAYED!! You guys are almost twelve hours late. You were suppose to be back this morning." Prue yelled

"Look I said I was sorry. Besides we got the loan we were after. The ranch is safe for another few years. Now you can go back to your Manor and not worry about the rest of us." Mike explained.

"That's not the point Mike. You could have called."

"Look if you want to blame someone about this, blame your sister. She was the one that delayed us." Mike shot back.

Prue stood back in shock as Mike's words stung her. How would Piper make them late? And yet more importantly. Why?

"Piper?" Prue scanned through the girls and met her sister's gaze, but she noticed something different in her little sister. A sense of happiness. A sense she had not had for some time now, ever since. She couldn't bring herself to say it.

Piper stepped from the crowd to her sister. She tried to hide her excitement but she knew she was not having much luck. Reaching Prue they embraced in a hug.

"It wasn't Piper's fault." Came the quiet voice in the back.

Prue looked through the girls to get a look at who it was that was talking to her. She had her one arm around Piper protectively.

A small figure emerged from the back and looked up to Prue. She shared a small smile with Piper as she took another hesitant step forward. "It was my fault. I had a little test I was doing and it made them all late. You should know that they past wonderfully and Mike was very protective of Piper."

Prue looked at the small girl and couldn't help but think of Phoebe. "Mike said my sister caused the delay. I only have one sister and you are not her."

Phoebe stepped even closer and took Prues hand. "I always thought you had two sisters Prue." Was all she said.

Prue looked into her eyes with confusion. How could this small girl know she had once had two sisters? Piper. She must have told her. Yet as she looked deeper into her eyes she saw something she had not seen in many years.

"Go with what your heart tells your Prue." Piper said quietly. "Just like Grams used to tell us."

"I can't. It will hurt to much when I hear it's not true." She said just as quiet as she starred at the girl before her

"It's not lying Prue. What you see and what you feel are real. As real as I am." she took her sisters hand and placed it on her own heart. "What does my heart tell you?"

Prue reached out and placed her hand on the girl's check. "You can't be real. You died."

"I'm as real as you Prue. And as much alive as you are too."

Prue then reached out and pulled her to her, embracing her in her hug. As the two stood silently as the tears flowed down their checks.

"I love you." Was all either one of them could say as the reunion went on.

As they sat on the couch Phoebe was safely secured between her two sisters as she told them of her time away from them. Every now and then Prue would cast a glance at Mike but each time Mike would look away.

It was over. They were together again and Prue could protect her sisters as she had promised their mother many years before.

13 years later:

"I'm telling you guys this is the demon that is taking witches and killing them."

"Phoebe how do you know for sure?" Piper asked not sure what to believe anymore. They had been chasing this demon for months now it seemed and weren't any closer

"I don't know Piper maybe it's my power of premonitions."

"Ok you two stop it. Let' just go find this demon and vanquish his sorry ass." Prue piped in as she made her way to the car.

They made their way cautiously through the alley. Each looking for the demon that was hunting the witches.

"Guys I have a bad feeling about this." Phoebe said as she rounded the next corner in search of their prey.

"Phoebe this was your vision that started all this." Prue said without looking back at her sister.

"I know but something just seems wrong somehow." Phoebe tried to explain as she scanned the alley again.

More quickly then Piper could freeze him a shadow appeared behind them

"Looking for me ladies."

They spun around,Prue in the center ready to protect her sisters at any cost. "You are going down for this. You thought you could get away with killing witches and not hear from us?'

"I was hoping to make a deal with Phoebe."

Phoebe looked over at him wondering why he was willing to make a deal with her.

"Phoebe. I knew you as Marie. My only child. The daughter I was never meant to have. The Seer had warned me about you, so had Badar. I choose not to listen. You had saved me with your explanation of my dreams more then once. And I could not take that you were a witch. But now here we are as she had foreseen. The three of you ready to vanquish me."

Phoebe looked at him with a new understanding. Could she truly vanquish the one person she had known as her father? She recalled the dreams she would have just before her sister came back in her life. The shadowed figure now became clear as her sister stepped from the shadows and blew up the demon before her.

"Daikar I can't. You have to stop what you are doing." she begged him

"You live to stop demons, I live to stop witches."

"I don't want to vanquish you." she looked at him with tears starting in her eyes

"Then don't. Turn away. I'll stop."

"Promise?" she asked though nervous to his answer.

He hesitated long enough that Phoebe knew. He couldn't do it. "I'm sorry Phoebe. My girl. My daughter. I loved you as my own." He said as he stood waiting for the end to come. "This is what that dream was wasn't it? The one you could never figure out, that you had almost every night. You saw this moment when the three of you would have to vanquish me."

"I saw someone vanquishing you. It wasn't until I saw Piper that day in your office that I realized it was us. Until then I never believed I was a witch. The memories of my sisters were faint. I didn't think I would ever see them again."

"You must do this Phoebe. It's your destiny. It always was." he said keeping his eyes to her

Three days later:

As the two older sisters sat in the living room in the Manor. They wondered what impact this would have on their baby sister.

Pushing the door open slowly Prue stepped in. "Phoebs?"

Receiving no answer she stepped closer to the bed. Sitting down beside her she rubbed her hand along her sisters back. "Phoebs. You did the right thing." Prue explained as she ran her hand in a circular motion

"I know."

"And he asked you to." Piper said softly, joining Prue in her sisters room

"I know, but it still hurts."

"I know baby." Prue said as she pulled Phoebe into an embrace. "I know."

He would come to her at night and sometimes during the day. But as the days wound down his power over her decreased.

"Phoebs you all right?"

"I was just thinking of what he said when we vanquished him."

"He said thank you." Piper said not sure what her sister was thinking

"I know. But he didn't say it for vanquishing him. It was me letting him in as my father." she rested her head on Prue's chest

Prue and Piper understood Phoebes understanding. They too had thanked him for being her father, but now they were together and she had moved on.

They had all moved on. Each learning from the years past. Each growing in what they had gained.

But never leaving each other as they reclaimed a love they had lost years before. More bonded in each other's love then any demon could fathom to remove. The bond of sisterhood: the love of sisters. A bond of love that would never be broken.

The end