"Noooooo!"

Prue quick regained her thoughts as the woman who had helped them hung lifelessly on the pole. Flicking her wrist she flung Draylord across the pit harder then she had thrown anyone. The impact of him hitting the wall was little relief to her or her sisters, even as she heard the cracking sound of his own neck snapping.

Piper reacting in much the same way as Prue, had frozen the entire pit area including Garlock on the upper walkway. Then taking careful aim she flew her hands out in his direction praying that what she had in mind worked. Within a few seconds later his body exploded into tiny little particles.

Turning to Phoebe, both Prue and Piper noticed that she was not there. At first they panicked and then they saw her. As the pits where also full of good witches, some of them had stepped up to the pole and released TJ from her binds laying her gently on the floor. It was there that Phoebe sat gently rocking back and forth with TJ's head in her arms.

They walked up to the platform and sat beside their sister and her fallen friend. At first no words were spoken. They just placed their own arms around Phoebe. Letting her know that they were there for her.

"She was my friend." She cried out quietly

"We know honey." Prue comforted her the best she could.

"Phoebs, sweetie, we have to finish this. I know this is hard right now, but we have to get these people home before my freeze wears off." Piper said, though kicking herself that she had to say it.

"I can't."

"Yes you can honey. She would want you too. She would not want you to give up like this. She helped us and now we need to help her. Help her get home." Prue said softly

Phoebe bent down and cried even more. How could they ask her to do magic right now? Now, as she sat there holding her dead friend in her arms.

Off in the distance a soft glow shone around the usually darkened pits, a glow that came closer to those on the platform. Prue and Piper looked up and saw what was happening. Prue reached over and tapped Phoebe on the shoulder to get her attention. At first Phoebe shrugged her off, until Piper did the same thing, turning her sister gently to see what was happening.

Phoebe looked up to the bright light that emanated throughout the pits. At first she was a bit scared but then saw something that made her almost smile.

Reaching out to Phoebe on the platform, "Phoebe. You have to leave me. You have to help your sisters help get the others home"

"I can't. It's my fault."

"No Phoebe it's not. He would have found another way to find you. I saw this Phoebe. It was the only way I could protect you and your sisters."

"You had a premonition" Prue stated more then asked

"Yes. I saw this happening. Only it was Phoebe that lay there dead. I had to save her. To preserve the Charmed Ones."

"TJ."

"Phoebe please. Don't cry over me here. I had to do this. It was my destiny. Please, help your sisters and get everyone home"

Phoebe looked up at her friend and gently placed her head on the platform before standing in front of her friend. Reaching out to touch her hand she paused realizing that they would never be able to touch again.

"I love you my friend."

"And I you Phoebe. One day we will see each other again, but until then remember me: but in our own happy times. Not the reason we really became friends." With that she slowly drifted the way she had come and disappeared, leaving the pits once again in the darkened gloom.

Phoebe stood in her spot not moving. She felt two arms on her shoulders as the tears threatened to spill again. Her body hurt, yet she didn't even feel it, she was just numb. Taking her sisters by the hand, Phoebe started to say the spell that she had been working on in her head. She had pieced it together from things that Prue and Piper had said while they were in the cell.

Return what was taken,

Twice in a lifetime.

No memory shall they have,

Of the darkness that surrounds them now.

She repeated the words with her sisters joining her. Similar to the children a golden glow surrounded each person in the pits. Only this time no matter what would happen, they would never remember what happened to them. For a spell by the power of three was not going to broken without their help.

Soon the only ones left in the pits were a few guards and the sisters. As the freeze wore off, the guards looked around surprised that everyone was gone.

"What the hell?" One called out seeing only the girls standing there.

As another approached them from behind. "Time to die witch." He said as he hit Phoebe on the knee. The same spot he had hit her when she first arrived at the pits.

Phoebe fell to her side as Prue turned on the attacker. Not wasting anytime she flung him across the pit landing in on of the boxcars.

"Oh three points Sis." Piper said as she watched the man fly through the air, though also bending down to Phoebe. "Phoebe..." Piper started as she place her hand on her sisters arm

"NO Piper I am not ok!" Phoebe yelled at her before Piper had a chance to finish her question. "I'm sorry." She said through her tears. All the pain that Draylord had inflicted on her crashed through her body.

Prue continued to throw off demons while Piper checked on Phoebe.

"Piper I could use a little hand here please." As one got a bit to close for her liking.

Piper stood up and froze the next guy that came near them.

The battle ensued with Prue throwing them across the pits as Piper frozen them or exploded them. As their numbers slowly dwindled down they realized that they could not fight the women before them and slowly they retreated into the works of the pit and disappeared.

Watching them retreat Prue and Piper finally bent down to Phoebe who lay still on the platform clutching her knee. They both could see the tears of pain running down her cheeks as she lay there with her eyes closed tightly, trying to block out the pain. Though they both knew that not all her pain was coming from her knee.

"Ok Phoebs lets get you home." Prue said as she carefully picked up her baby sister in her arms.

Prue and Piper said the spell returning them to the Manor. Prue gently laid Phoebe on the couch before heading to the kitchen to get an ice pack.

Piper sat down beside Phoebe when Leo appeared in his traditional soft blue glow.

"Leo?"

"Hi." He said, as he bent down near the couch, holding his hands over Phoebe, getting a soft golden glow he ran his hands over her body.

Prue rushed back into the living room to find Leo healing her sister. "I thought you couldn't heal her?"

"Normally I wouldn't be able to, but they felt that Draylord may have been human at one point, but in the end he was as much a demon as Garlock."

"So you can heal her." Piper asked with caution

"Yes, but there will be some things that will take the two of you to heal." Leo said leaving his sentence unfinished. He knew that they would understand his hidden words.

After thanking Leo, Phoebe drifted to sleep on the couch, with her head lying on Prues lap.

"Look I gotta go. You guys take it easy. And watch out for my little sisters there." Leo said as he orbed out of the room

"We will Leo." Prue told him as she looked down at the sleeping form of her baby sister.

A scream echoed once again through the walls of the Manor as Prue and Piper ran out of their rooms to the source of the sound. Entering Phoebes room they once again saw her sitting up with her knees tight against her chest.

Once again approaching the bed with caution, as they had for so many nights now. Only this time was different, this time she went to them and did not pull back as she had before.

After three days since returning home, their little sister was slowly over coming her nightmares. Piper held her as Prue sat down beside them and soon all three where back to sleep. The older two holding and protecting the youngest, as they had in the past and will in the future.

The next morning Prue sat there watching Phoebe sleeping. As her baby sister opened her eyes Prue ran her hand over the top of Phoebes head. "Morning sunshine."

"It was all just a nightmare right Prue?" Phoebe asked quietly to her sister.

"Oh honey, I wish I could say yes and make it all go away but I can't."

Phoebe moved closer to her sister and snuggled close to her as new tears ran down her face.

Prue, Piper and Phoebe were walking through the park a week later. Setting up the picnic that they brought along they sat on the grass enjoying the mid day sun. Sitting there Phoebe, sat watching over at a group of children who had been playing.

"You ok over there Phoebs?" Prue asked as she leaned forward on her elbows looking up at her sister.

"I, um. I'll be right back." She said as she stood up and made her way towards the children.

"Prue where's she going?" Piper asked as she watched her sister

"I don't know." She answered as she too watched her sister move across the park.

Phoebe made her way to the where the children were playing with a soccer ball. She stood and watched as the ball rolled at her feet. Stopping it she started to kick it around her feet. She continued to kick it around when a small girl approached her.

"You want to play?" she asked

"Sure." Phoebe said, "My names Phoebe. What's yours?"

"Alex." The girl replied. "Come on Phoebe you can be on my team."

Phoebe watched after the girl before running after her. There was something in her eyes.

Phoebe joined the kids and the game continued. After an hours play, Phoebe turned to go back to her sisters.

"Phoebe?"

"Yeah Alex."

"Thanks for playing."

"You're welcome. Maybe we can do it again some day."

"Yeah I would like that." She said as she turned and walked back to her family.

Phoebe sat back on the blanket not saying a word to her sisters. She just sat there and watched as the girls and her family left.

"Phoebs?"

"I know her."

"Oh." Piper said looking towards the child

"She was there." Phoebe said quietly

Prue and Piper both looked over at the little girl again when they realized who it was.

Alex turned and saw Phoebe still watching her. She turned to her mother and said something and then ran back towards Phoebe. Wrapping her arms around Phoebes neck. "Thank you."

"No Alex. Thank you. You helped save me."

Alex ran off to rejoin her family.

Phoebe turned back to her sisters as they sat on the blanket. Before either sister could react Phoebe reached forward and pulled them both into a hug.

"Thank you you two. I love you."

"Oh Phoebs we love you too." They both said.

Once again the nightmares of a child were part of the harsh reality of the world. With the help of her sister Phoebe dealt with her reality, and once again good triumphed over evil.