She paced back and forth, her rage almost consuming her. "You IDIOT! You left him there?"

"What was I to do? Get caught myself? What would that achieve in your goal to rid us all of the Charmed Ones?"

She paced again in silence, not answering his question. She knew he was right and now she would have to rid them herself. It was something she didn't like doing, she always had a human do her bidding for her. It was easy really, find something that stirred their passion to kill inside of them and use that to her own advantage. It was all in the mind, and it had worked so easily on her latest victim. "Leave me. I need to prepare." She flicked her hand back at her servant as she continued her pacing.

Phoebe and Prue had both fallen asleep on the couch, and it was there that Piper had found them just before dinner. She wasn't sure if she should wake them or not, they both looked so cute lying there.

She watched, as Prue seemed to sleep restlessly, but as she tried to wake her nothing happened.

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The memories flooded her mind as one after another came crashing into her

Piper: Prue?

Prue: In here, working on the chandelier.

Piper: Sorry I'm late.

Prue: What else is new? Piper, I would of been here to meet the electrician myself but you know I can't leave the museum until six. I didn't even have time to change.

Piper: I just didn't realize how long I was in China town. Did Jeremy call?

Prue: No, but he had some roses and a package delivered. What were you doing in China town? I thought that you had an interview in North Beach.

Piper: I did but I went to Young Lee market after my interview to get the ingredients for my audition recipe tomorrow.

Prue: So, that wolfgang-puck knock-off didn't hire you then?

Piper: No, but this just may get me the job.

Prue: Jeremy sent you port?

Piper: The ultimate ingredient for my recipe. Oh my God, I don't believe it. Tell me that's not our old spirit board?

Prue: Yeah, I found it in the basement when I was looking for the circuit tester.

Piper: (Reading the inscription on the back) "To my three beautiful girls. May this give you the light to find the shadows. The power of three will set you free. Love, Mom." We never did figure out what this inscription meant.

Prue: Well, maybe we should send it to Phoebe. That girl is so in the dark, maybe a little light will help.

Piper: You're always so hard on her.

Prue: Piper, the girl has no vision, no sense of the future.

Piper: I really think Phoebe's coming around.

Prue: Well, as long as she doesn't come around here I guess that's good news.

She kept her eyes shut, as it seemed to her, her whole life was playing in front of her.

Phoebe: Surprise! I found the hide-a-key.

Piper: Phoebe, welcome home.

Phoebe: Hello, Piper. (Piper and Phoebe hug.)

Piper: It's so good to see you. Isn't Prue?

Prue: I'm speechless.

Phoebe: Oops. I forgot about the cab.

Piper: I'll get it. (She grabs Prue's purse.)

Prue: Piper, that's my purse.

Phoebe: Thanks. I'll pay you back.

Prue: Is that all that you brought?

Phoebe: That's all that I own and a bike. Look, I know that you don't want me here ...

Prue: We're not selling Grams' house.

Phoebe: Is that why you think I came back?

Prue: Look, the only reason Piper and I gave up our apartment and moved back here because this house has been in our family for generations.

Phoebe: No history lesson needed. I grew up here too. So can we talk about what's really bothering you?

Prue: No, I'm still furious with you.

Phoebe: So, you'd rather have a tense reunion filled with boring chitchat and unimportant small talk?

Prue: No, but otherwise we won't have anything to talk about.

Phoebe: I never touched Roger.

Prue: Whoa.

Phoebe: I know you think otherwise because that's what that Armani-wearing, Chardonnay-slugging, trust-funder told you ...

Piper comes back in the house.)

Piper: Hey, I have a great idea. Why don't I make a fabulous reunion dinner.

Prue: I'm not hungry.

Phoebe: I ate on the bus.

Piper: Okay, we'll try the group hug later.

The memories crashed around her. As she recalled the night her baby sister had come home from New York and opened up a whole new world to them.

Prue: What are you doing?

Phoebe: Uh ... reading an incantation. It was in this Book of Shadows, I found it in that trunk.

Piper: How did you get in here?

Phoebe: The door opened.

Piper: Wait a minute, an incantation? What kind of incantation?

Phoebe: It said something about there being three essentials of magic. Uh, timing, feeling and phases of the moon. If we were ever gonna do this, now - midnight on a full moon - is the most powerful time.

Piper: This? Do what?

Phoebe: Receive our powers.

Piper: What powers? Wait, our powers? You included me in this?

Prue: No, she included all of us. (Reading from the book.) "Bring your powers to we sisters three. It's a book of witchcraft.

Piper: Let me see that.

Prue: Spirit boards, books of witchcraft. It figures all this freaky stuff started when you arrived.

Tears streamed as more memories came. She couldn't stop them.

Phoebe: Of course I am. Whatever you do, stay away from water, any water, don't even drink it.

Prue: Don't worry.

Phoebe: I love you.

Prue: You too.

Phoebe: Why do you do that?

Prue: What?

Phoebe: You never say 'I love you' to me.

Prue: I just did.

Phoebe: No, you just said 'me too' and you never say it to Piper either. Have you ever said 'I love you' to anybody?

Prue: Yeah, I said it to mum, and it was the last thing I said to her right before she died.

She watched as she pulled herself from the pool, and faced the one thing she thought she never could. The love she held for another. The love she lost when her mother died.

Phoebe: Oh my God, I was so scared.

Prue: I know. I'm just glad you're safe.

Phoebe: I don't know what would happen if I ever lost you. I love you.

Prue: I love you.

She remembered as she laid her head on the chest of the one man she truly loved. Killed by a demon. She remembered every demon and warlock that had ever tried to kill them. She remembered the man who only the other day had tried to kill her.

Opening her eyes she sat up with a start, startling Piper who was still sitting across from her.

"Ok Prue I got you." Piper wrapped her arms around Prue as she sat up with a single tear willing itself to escape down her cheek "You ok honey?"

"A little. Thanks to Phoebe, I think."

"Wow that's a change. Are you starting to remember or is this something else?"

"I'm not sure. But when I was sleeping I was getting fleeting glimpses of what I think was my past. And there were lots of pictures of the two of you. As kids, teens. Hmmm I don't think I want to remember those ones from the few I saw."

"You two survived." Piper laughed knowing what Prue meant. "So I wonder how this started."

"The Dr. said it could only take a little thing for some people. But even as I sit her now I remember more and more."

Piper sat and ran her hand over Prues hair brushing some from her face. "Phoebe will be happy. Now that you won't get scared around her anymore." She said as she took Prue hand in hers. "What about the witchy stuff? Do you remember any of that?" she asked hoping that was one thing that was coming back to her sister.

Prue sat in silence a moment as she nodded her head. "All of it." She said. "From Mum to Andy. Everything we've done. It made me wonder if its all been worth it."

"But we've done good with it too Prue. And the best thing about it is it brought you two closer." Piper explained, as she nodded towards Phoebe.

"True." Prue had to agree.

Prue thought for a bit as she closed her eyes taking in what Piper was saying.

"Whatever happened Pwue I'll protect you next time. I pwomise." Phoebe put in as she woke and heard Piper and Prue talking. Though not sure if her sister was back or not.

Prue had no choice but to laugh at the baby voice that Phoebe was putting on. But there was something else about the way she said that. It wasn't the voice or the tone. It was the choice of words. As she sat there she remembered.

She felt the dampness of the tears as they ran down her cheek. She looked up and met Pipers eyes and then she turned and looked into Phoebes, who reached her hand up and wiped away her big sisters tears.

"I'm sorry I threw you baby girl. I'm sorry I pushed you away again."

"Prue?" Phoebe felt her own tears building

"It's really me." She said as she pulled both Piper and Phoebe into an embrace.

Neither sister wanted it to end. They had finally been reunited

"So you remembered everything?" Phoebe finally pulled away from the hug they had been in.

"Everything. From when Phoebe came home to my first ,I love you to one of you. From Mum to Andy. Every demon Warlock and human that has ever tried to kill us."

"Do you remember what happened?" Phoebe asked as she held her arm around Prue, afraid to let her go.

"Yes. And tomorrow I'll go down to the station and tell Darryl what I saw. But what about this demon."

"I think I may have something for that." Phoebe said pulling out the spell Leo had giving her earlier that day. "Leo gave me this before I went back to the hospital. We can reword it a bit and bring the demon to us. And then we can vanquish her sorry ass with the power of three."

"Sounds simple enough." Piper thought out loud.

"Piper when has anything in our lives been simple." Phoebe joked as she took the spell and went to reword it to work for them.

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They stood in a triangle as they had for most of their power of three spells. Prue at the center, and each sister to her side just slightly behind her. Each one holding the other's hand forming the triangle.

Demon of the unknown

Hear our call

Block the power of good no more.

Here and now all revealed

With the Power of three you shall be no more (did I mention I suck at spells?)

They recited over and over with nothing happening. Suddenly as they had almost giving up, a swirl of purple and orange smoke filled the attic, finally clearing to reveal the woman before them.

"What? What have you done? How did I get here?" she demanded as she looked at her surroundings. As she saw the three before her it came to her as to who had summoned her. "Well, well. It would seem the Power of Three is as strong even when all can not recall." She said smugly. But the next thing she felt was the hard impact of her body hitting the hard wall

"Oh, I remember." Prue shot back as she took a step forward. "I also remember how you blocked my family from finding me."

"Hey, you can't blame a demon for trying." She said as she stood back up. "But now that we are all here. It will make my kill easier." She quickly threw several energy balls towards them causing them to separate to various points in the attic.

Each sister thinking first of the other, as they took note of where the others were. They had a plan but they needed to be in the right positions. They knew the demon was powerful and that they needed to be at full strength to vanquish her. As they had all landed where they had wanted they stood up reaching their hands towards the two on either side.

The demon laughed as she watched them separate. She took note to herself where each one landed. The oldest was in front of her. The middle to her left, yet now slightly behind her and the youngest to her right and yet again slightly behind her.

"You are making this to easy girls. Separate you are easily defeated. Shall I start with the oldest or the youngest? Or maybe the middle one? The glue that holds you all together." She suggested as she flew out another energy ball. But to her surprise when it almost reached Piper it fizzled out.

"WHAT?!" she cried out as she did the same with Phoebe and then Prue. Each ball fizzling before reaching their target.

The power reached and connected with each sister as they stood around her. She was caught in the middle of the triangle of the Power of Three. Their powers reaching out to each other like a wall. And each other's powers protecting the other in the triangle.

"The Power of Three will set us free." They chanted as they watched her anger rise as she continued to throw energy balls at them. Soon finding herself trying to dodge her own power.

It was not long as the silence fell over the Manor, as the demon was no more then a few particles of dust on the attic floor. Like many before her finding the true power behind the power of three the hard way.

The rain pattered against the glass, blocking out the morning sun. Piper had made her way to her haven in the Manor and had made breakfast for the three of them. Waffles for Phoebe and eggs for Prue. As she went upstairs to wake her sisters she could hear soft whispering coming from Prue's room. Sticking her head in she watched as Phoebe had curled herself up in a little ball and was fast asleep in Prues bed.

"I'm guessing you never got much sleep?" Piper laughed at Prue as she lay on one side watching her sister sleep.

"Actually she wasn't that bad." Prue laughed back.

Piper walked over and joined her sisters on the bed. "So you ok now?"

"Never better. And I think its thanks to a certain baby sister."

"I didn't do it." Phoebe spoke in her own defense not opening her eyes, as she rested againgst Prue.

"This time you did Phoebs, and it was a good thing." Prue said as she brushed Phoebes hair from her face.

Phoebe looked up at Prue. Ever since she got her memory back and they vanquished the demon, Phoebe had been like Prues shadow. "What did I do now?"

"The Dr. said it could take one little thing to set my memories back in motion. When I fell asleep in your arms last night on the couch and you had said 'Come back Pwue.' It was then that everything came crashing around me. All my memories from back as far as I can remember. That one word. Pwue. Was all it took." Prue said as she tried to explain to her sister what she felt when Phoebe said that.

"See Phoebe you were there for her. You helped her more then I could have, or did." Piper said as she looked at her sisters. "But I must say, I don't think I like that Prue."

"Yeah she wasn't even a shell of the real you." Phoebe added her own.

"Yeah well, I didn't like her to much either. And Phoebe not to mention that ass kicking you did at the hospital. You saved me twice in one day. Thank you Phoebs."

Phoebe lay there not sure what to say. Had she really brought her sister back? "I did didn't I." Phoebe laughed as her sisters soon joined her. As a tickle war soon erupted and laughter could be heard from the Manor on Prescott Street. Everything back to what they would consider normal. Three sister caring and loving one another.

Everything from the past few days was becoming a faded memory. But in their hearts it would always be there. A time when they had all come close to losing each other and the world, the power of three. All because of one mans greed and lust for revenge and murder. But they had once again proved to themselves and anyone who would try them. That together or separate, they will always prevail for the love inside them will always win against any kind of evil

The end

Once again I want to thank everyone for repling..To Charmedchick34 and lilwelshchap... you both rock.. CharmedoneForever.. nice to see i FINALLY stumped you on which sister it was hehe.Thanx to everyone for reading, and as per always watch for the next fic..

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