Part 6


Phoebe paced the length of the living room with a deeply confused look on her face,
"how could you keep this from me? Oh god, why did you not call me back!? No
matter what happened here you know I would have come back!"

"You left in the first place!" Prue immediately regretted that when she saw the hurt
look in Phoebe's eyes. "I'm sorry, I drove you away. Pheebs, come sit down a
minute." Prue said opening her free arm out. The other was round a mortified Piper.

Phoebe sat next to Prue and leaned into her. She put her arm across and took
Piper's hand. "I'm sorry I left you, that I didn't even know this happened."

Piper took a deep breath, "we should have told you. You didn't deserve to find out
like that. But you know now."

Phoebe had accidentally opened a letter for Piper. It was from her psychiatrist telling
her, her annual check up was due. It was something she had to do once a year to let
them know she was doing ok. Phoebe had opened this and came to see Piper
utterly confused, so she and Prue sat Phoebe down and told her the whole story.

"Why didn't you tell me when I got back or when I called you so many times?"
Phoebe asked with more patience.

"I... I didn't know how. I was scared. How could i tell my baby sister that I tried to..to..
Kill myself? It's hard to talk about it now 3 years on i was still getting use to it myself
then. When you got back i just didn't know how to bring it up..so I never did. And I
made Prue promise not to tell you." Piper explained.

Phoebe had tears welling in her eyes, she couldn't believe this. "So you've gone to
the shrink twice behind my back?"

"No, we didn't.."

"We??" Phoebe asked surprised.

Prue now spoke up. "Yeah, ever since Piper first had to go, I've went with her. It was
the only way I could get her to go. So I wait outside or sometimes I go in. It's always
up to Piper."

Piper felt really bad for Phoebe finding this out. 'It must be so hard for her to
understand' she thought. She squeezed Phoebe's hand, "you ok?"

Phoebe shrugged, "this is all hard to take in."

Piper nodded. "Are you mad?" she asked quietly.

Phoebe looked Piper in the eye, "of course not honey, I just...I can't believe I wasn't
here for you when you needed me most." that was it for Phoebe, she started crying.

Prue pulled them both closer so you couldn't tell there were 3 people there. She
kissed Phoebe's head first then Piper's and held both her sisters while they all cried.

Phoebe spoke up after a while, "I want to come with you. I'll wait in the car if you
want but I need to be there this time."

Piper nodded, "ok."she said not trusting her voice as she cuddle in closer to her
sisters.

"I love you two." Prue told them. She got a duet of 'love you too' back.


THE END

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