-Prue had always been the strong one out of her sisters, but now looking around her at the house she grew up in she felt anything but strong. Everything that once felt so familiar to her now felt foreign and she did not like the sensation so she tried to shake it up.
-"Like what you've done with the place", she panned.
-Her sisters were too busy trying to pretend that they were fine with having Prue back in the manor to notice.
-Prue walked around the living room looking at her surrendering. "I got to say I'm not that surprised to see the pictures gone, I mean they probably did not fit with the new décor". She could not prevent it, being there made her uncomfortable and the only way she could deal with that was to bitch about it.
-At that Piper looked around. "No! We just, we just. Sorry". She was at a loss for word, she had no idea what to say to Prue. Ironic considering that before she would tell Prue anything without even hesitating.
-Leo could see the distress in his wife so he decided to give her some time to recollect herself. "Piper, why don't you go get the book while we get settle here."
-Piper hesitated, looking at Phoebe's hand that was now clutched to hers tightly. Paige noticed Piper's hesitation and stepped closer taking Phoebe's other hand. "Go, I've got her. It's alright."
-Piper looked at Phoebe who still had not released her hand. "It's alright Phoebe" She said. "Paige's got you, you'll be fine. Beside, Prue would never hurt you, you know that. A lot has changed but that is one thing that I doubt changed".
-She had no idea if it was true so she looked at Prue for support.
-Prue looked at her sisters, at the way Phoebe was clinging onto Piper like she was terrified, she could not understand, Phoebe was never scared of anything, much less of her. She then saw Piper look up at her from across the room, she still had that sad look in her eyes but now they were pleading with her as well, she wanted her help.
-Without even thinking about it she nodded. "Right, I would never hurt you. It's alright Phoebs"
-Hearing her nickname, made Phoebe look at her older sister for the first time. They just looked at each other for the longest time. Everybody else staring at them, trying to figure out what was going to happen. Then slowly Phoebe let go of Piper's hand.
-Piper looked at Prue. It had worked, Phoebe had trusted her. Other people might have looked at the exchange otherwise, but Piper had grown up with them, she knew what she had just seen, and that was huge. So she mouthed a thank you to Prue then left in the direction of the attic to get the book.
-While Piper was gone, silence came back in the room. Finally, Billy could not take it anymore.
-"I just wanted to say that I thought you were pretty impressive against Darius, I had never seen somebody fight like that". Billy said.
-"What are you talking about?"
-"There was this video" Paige started. Last time she had tried talking to Prue hadn't gone very well but she wanted to try again.
-"What video?" Prue asked.
-"Oh!" Paige stammered. She had no idea how much she was allowed to say.
-"The Elders, they showed us what happened the day Darius took you. We saw pretty much everything."
-"How… how did they…". She couldn't say why, but knowing that her sisters had seen everything that had happened that day made her uncomfortable.
-"They were looking for you, and well they see everything that goes on from up there, so I guess one of them later remembered seeing you and the fight. So they showed us what he had seen". Paige was trying to be as concise as she could. The less she said, the lesser chance she would say something she was not suppose to say.
-"Oh!" Prue had no idea how to process that. This had been such a weird day that the less of her concerns was the fact that the Elders were a bunch of old perverts, that was so weird.
-"Well" Billy continued. "Maybe one day, you'll show me how you were able to fight like that while keeping Piper completely safe. I found it was awesome".
-Prue remained speechless, "so they had seen that too" she thought. She had no idea how she felt about that. Luckily for her, Piper made her presence known in the room by coughing lightly. She was holding the book, but judging from the fact that she would not look at her, Prue determined that she had heard what Billy had said. She looked guilty, which almost made Prue smile. At least that was a start.