Susan and Serena vanished a moment after Sophia did, arriving back at Nicholas mansion just as he was torturing Paige for more information.
"Sophia is gone now." Susan said to him, her anger barely contained.
He set down the crystal he'd been holding over Paige's head, the expression of pain on her face began to slowly subside.
"We need to step up the plan then. I'll go and bring Laura back here, and then we'll kill her. Hopefully before either of you vanish too." He said, and shimmered away.
The two remaining women paced the room, like caged tigers.
Meanwhile in a bedroom upstairs, a cheval mirror began to glow, and clouds appear in it. Then Prue, Piper, and Phoebe stepped through.
"Pretty nice digs, I never cease to be amazed at how well evil pays." Phoebe said, as the image within the mirror changed back to normal.
"Yeah, well it might pay well, but the taxes are a bitch." Prue said, cracking the bedroom door open and checking up and down the hallway.
"All clear." She said, holding the door for the other two.
Together they crept along the hallway, until they found the marble staircase.
"Do we have a game plan once we get there?" Piper asked, hiking up her skirt hoping not to trip over it.
"Well I'm at a bit of a disadvantage having never met them before. What did you do last time?" Prue asked, taking the lead down the stairs.
"Got our asses kicked, that's what we did." Phoebe said, wincing from the remembered pain of that atháme stabbing into her.
"Ok, well then I guess we don't do that." Prue continued, her mind reeling to come up with something.
They crept along the corridor, amazed not to have seen any servants, for surely a house this large had them. Having no direction to go by, they decided to be systematic in their search.
Just as they were about to round a corner, Prue peeked and saw Serena coming down the corridor.
"There's a woman coming, we have to hide." She said, pushing her sisters back against the wall.
"How are we supposed to do that, the nearest door is twenty feet away, and she'd see us before we got there." Phoebe said, taking her sisters hands and seriously wishing they could be invisible.
Just then a light flared at their feet, and the three women faded from view. Serena walked past them, turning in their direction for a few seconds, before continuing on up the hall and going into another door.
Phoebe let go of her sisters and they instantly reappeared.
"Wow, I have a power I didn't have before. Guess the power of four means we all have extra things we can do." Phoebe said, and led the way down the corridor Serena had just come up.
Prue listened at the double doors of the room she'd just come from, and heard Susan inside, tossing off fireballs at a target Nicholas had setup.
"There's only one at the moment, I think we can take her, ready?" Prue said, to the nod of her sisters.
They backed away from the doors, and Prue waved her hand, blowing them off their hinges and sending them clear across the room.
Susan took her next fireball and hurled it at the three invading women. Piper waved her hands and froze her and the fireball in place.
They then ran over to Paige, who was bleeding and in obvious pain.
"We need something to get these chains off her." Piper said, pulling on the nearest chain.
As she did, it began to feel cold. A further tug and it froze entirely. She banged it on the table and the metal shattered.
"Oooh, you have another cool power too I see." Phoebe said, handing Piper the other chain.
"Yeah, who knew being a frigid bitch would come in handy for something." Piper said, and shattered the other chain.
They no more than pulled Paige off the table when a fireball came whizzing in from the open doorway, missing Prue by a few inches.
Susan unfroze at that moment, and the two women started hurling fireballs at them from two angles.
"Why did you kill our sisters?" Serena asked, as she let loose another one.
"We had nothing to do with it, it's Tempus. He betrayed you, and killed them to close some time portal which will destroy everything." Prue said, pushing the fireballs out of the way as they flew past.
Just then both demon women collapsed on the floor in intense pain.
"That's our cue." Piper said, and froze them again. Then she and Phoebe carried Paige out the door and up the hallway.
"Where was Nicholas?" Prue asked, stopping at the doorway.
"What are you waiting for Prue, they won't stay frozen for long." Piper said, putting Paige down in a chair.
"I'm curious about something." Prue said, and held up her hands, concentrating very hard.
As she did, the doors she'd blown off their hinges came flying back across the room and reattached themselves to the frame. She then took Piper's hand in hers.
"Think about sealing the doors." She said, holding up one hand, which Piper emulated.
To Phoebe's astonishment, the doors seemed to melt at their edges, effectively sealing up the room.
"Very good job, I must say." She said, and turned when she heard Paige stir.
"I wish Leo was here." Paige said, opening her eyes.
"Yeah well, too bad he won't even be born for about ten years yet." Piper said, helping her to her feet.
They got back up to the bedroom they'd come into the house from when Paige started talking.
"Laura, he's going to bring Laura back here to kill her." She said, before they set her down on the bed.
The sisters stared at each other, as they then heard a tremendous explosion that could only mean the doors they'd sealed had been blown out of that room.