Wow it's been way too long since I've even looked at this story let alone written for it. I may have to change a few things about it since I don't exactly remember what was supposed to happen, but the basic storyline will remain the same because I do have that outlined still. Anyways I'm not sure if anyone is even interested in this story any more, but I am sorry for keeping you in the dark for so long. I'm going to try to at least finish off my stories so that my readers have closer. This chapter may be confusing, but trust me it will all be revealed in due time. I hope that you enjoy and please review :)
Slowly Phoebe was pulled from the darkness with a massive headache. Gently she rubbed her face as she tried to remember all that had happened to her. She realized that she was back in her condo and that her child had died. She looked around frantically for Coop, not remembering that he was still with his charge in Paris. When she didn't find him she grew angry and remembered what her sisters had done with both her and her husband. It was their fault that her baby was dead, that Coop was missing and it was time that she got her revenge. Luckily, she realized that she still had the book and she began to flip through it to find something to help her. There was nothing and Phoebe let out a small scream of frustration.
It seemed like her sisters were going to win once again. They always won it seemed. It had been their fault that her marriage to Cole had failed, and they had been the ones to kill her unborn child, and she was just angry and frustrated at them and wanted to never speak to them again. But still she decided to head back to the hospital and demand to learn where they were keeping Coop so that her and her husband could start trying for another baby. If she created her own family then she wouldn't have to keep clinging to the "family" she had. Not that she wanted to call them that. They didn't deserve that honor because they sure as hell didn't actually treat her like family. She had always just been their "responsibility," especially for Piper and Prue. When Prue had died, Paige had only seemed to take her place and still she treated Phoebe the same way. There had only been two people in her life that ever had seemed to see her for the person that she truly was and even though they had been polar opposites, she loved them both dearly, so much even that she had married them both. And even though a part of her would always love Cole, Coop was her soulmate and the man that she had loved the most – mostly because he was a cupid and it was hard not to beat that. And Coop had made her happy, so happy. If it wasn't for her damn sisters, then her happiness would have never been interrupted and she was not just going to let them get away with it.
Not finding anything helpful in the book, she quickly wrote her own spell and rushed over to the hospital. One way or the other, she was going to get her husband back.
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Piper had requested that she be taken to Paige's room the second that she had been released. Mel was still in the hospital under observation and she didn't really want to be too far in case something happened to her. She also figured that since she hadn't seen Paige since before the battle, she would go and spend some time with her sister. Prue had told Piper more about Paige and Henry's mini fight and Piper knew that the two had yet to still make up. Henry had tried to come back with flowers, but Paige felt guilty and wouldn't let him into the room. Henry would then turn to Piper and she did her best to console her brother-in-law, but knew that the only person to fix his heart would be Paige. Piper hoped she could talk some sense into her sister and get her to at least talk to her husband.
Not that this was the only reason that she had wanted to see Paige, but it was definitely the main reason that she was currently sitting in an uncomfortable hospital chair, her boys out with their Aunt Prue. It warmed her heart to see how quickly her boys were bonding with their once lost aunt and how much Prue seemed to already love them. She tried not to think how a lot of that love came from the fact that Prue had to be their mother in a different future, one that Piper couldn't be there for them and instead was just grateful that she had Prue to lean on during this incredibly awful time. Not that she didn't instead have Leo, but she missed him more and more each day and feared that she was never going to see him again. She also tried to not think about that, for it as well as everything else was simply just too painful.
She was chatting with her youngest sister about nothing in particular, when the door slammed opened behind her. Piper turned to look at the noise and gasped at what she saw. She turned and instinctively shielded Paige for some reason as if their new visitor was going to threaten the paralyzed woman. Piper crossed her arms over her chest and glared.
"Phoebe, what the hell?"
Phoebe glared back and Piper could swear she saw red in her sister's eyes. There was something off about her and that concerned Piper. She thought about calling for Wyatt so that Prue could help calm their sister down, but she would only do that in an emergency. Instead she just looked at her sister and wondered if Phoebe was going to explain herself. When she made no attempt to move or speak Piper shared a look with Paige and then they both looked at their sister.
"Phoebe, is everything okay?"
That finally seemed to get Phoebe out of whatever weird trance she was in and she snapped her head to look back at her sisters.
"Where is he?" She asked angrily, though in a soft whisper.
"Where is who Phoebe?" Paige asked slowly shifting on the bed as much as she could.
"Where is my husband? I know you know where he is?"
"He's in Paris with his charge, remember?" Piper's stance softened and she wondered if Phoebe had hit her head or something.
"Don't you fucking lie to me Piper! I'm going to ask you again, where is he!?"
"Hey, there is no need for that kind of language, or anger Phoebe. I told you where Coop was." Piper defended still concerned for her sister.
"What did someone forget to take her chill pill or something?" Paige added in which really snapped something in Phoebe's head and in a blink of an eye, Phoebe levitated over to Paige and began to choke her. Piper quickly reacted and tried to pull Phoebe off of her. Paige somehow was able to orb to the other hospital bed without injuring herself. Phoebe turned and began to choke Piper. The only thing Piper could do was to fight her back. She desperately blew up the lamp next to them to distract her sister, when that didn't seem to work, she hit Phoebe's head with a remaining piece, knocking her out. Piper and Paige shared another look.
"What the hell just happened?" Paige questioned her sister and Piper shrugged.
"I have absolutely no idea. Maybe a demon?"
"I'm thinking a demon possession actually."
"Well there is only one way to find out for sure."
Paige bit her lip and nodded. "Should I summon the book here?"
Piper shut the door and closed the blinds. They were lucky that the camera in the room was busted, not magically, or they would most likely have to deal with exposure with the little fight that had just taken place between the three sisters. Especially since they needed to figure out how to fix their sister. Piper then looked back at Paige.
"Okay, summon the book."
Paige nodded and closed her eyes and held out her hands. She had already begun working on calling for objects with just her mind, since having to constantly say the objects name grew tedious. Before the battle she had mastered that and could summon things from miles away without having to call for it any longer. However after a few seconds, the book didn't appear as she expected it to and she and Piper shared a look. Paige tried calling for the book the old fashioned way a few times, and still nothing.
Paige bit her lip. "What the hell?"
Piper's brows furrowed and she wondered what was going on. She wondered if the fight between the sisters broke the bond as it had many years ago. She looked around for an object to throw up in the air, and Paige watched her curiously as Piper picked up a teddy bear left by Chris.
"Uh Piper? What's going on in that little head of yours?"
"I have this hunch and I need to test it out." She threw the bear up and tried to freeze it. Nothing happened and the bear fell to the floor. Paige's eyes widened and she let out a soft gasp.
"What the hell?"
Piper sighed. "We used our powers on each other during the fight…. This has happened to us before back with Prue shortly before she died. The fight broke our bond as sisters and since our powers are tied to our bond…"
"We don't have our powers anymore."
"Exactly."
"How… can we fix this?"
"Yeah we have to just rebuild our bond, but something tells me that this one over here," she gestured at Phoebe, "isn't going to be ready to cooperate with us unless we give her Coop."
"And once she checks her anger and attitude. Do you have any reason why she acted like that?"
"No and unfortunately the only person that could help is missing…."
"We'll get Leo back Piper."
Piper looked away from her sister as the tears began to fall. "I just hope we're not too late…"
Paige sighed and rubbed her head. "We should call Prue.."
Piper dried her eyes and nodded. "Yeah, we are vulnerable to demon attack without her around now… how did this all get so fucked up?"
"I have no idea, but we'll figure this all out, I promise you. We're Halliwells and Halliwells don't give up."
Piper smiled at her youngest sister but was starting to doubt why she should keep fighting the good fight if all it did was get those around her killed. She tried to keep it all together, but continued to only feel like a failure. Maybe this was a sign that they should just give up.
Besides without their powers, she would never be able to get back to Leo and she most certainly didn't think that she would live without him.
"Please Leo. Come back. I know you can't read my thoughts, but I…I need you. I can't do this without you and things are just getting worst and worst. Please hear me Leo. Come back to me."
