"Hello, P3?" Piper answered the phone.
"Piper? Its Prue… has anything happened that I should know about? Did you call about some kind of emergency?" Prue sounded upset over the phone, and Piper hoped that Prue had heard from Phoebe.
"Prue, no, how did you find out? Is she okay? Do you know anything? Are you there with her, where have they taken her?"
"Piper… what are you talking about… where have they taken who?" A long silence follows and the angst in the air becomes heavy. "Piper?"
"Prue…" she looks over to the man standing in the shadows. "Prue... Leo is here with me right now... he um... he... Phoebe's been in an accident honey." Sobs are heard on the phone. Piper trying to keep a strong form loses her strength and melts into Leos arms.
"Prue? It's Leo… I think there is a way we can get her back, but we need the book of shadows. I will take Piper back to the manor with me. We will need you there."
Calming herself Prue shakily put the phone down and walking to the door waves off all questions being thrown at her. As soon as she got to the manor she ran up the stairs to find Piper and Leo hunched over the book. Prue rushes over to Piper and hugs her, tears still wet on Pipers face Prue again becomes the Mother and comforts her.
As the bus drives on its circuit Phoebe puts the pieces together. The premonition that she'd had earlier that day… what had it meant. Looking around the bus Phoebe rose and looked towards the back of the bus where the two hippie teenagers had been. She walked back quickly but didn't see them anywhere.
"Excuse me! Sir? Mr. Bus Driver? Where did those kids get off the bus?" Phoebe marched up to the front of the bus, intending to tell off the driver. He turned to her, and simply stated that they had found their stop and continued driving. Walking back to an empty seat, away from the girl and old man Phoebe tried to remember everything that had happened that day. "What is going on!?"
Leaning back in her seat Phoebe thought about the video game she had played with Piper. She remembered Piper leaving for P3 and turning on the television. There had been a phone call, and then she'd had the premonition. It was a Bus… and there were people on it… riding it… What had it meant… why was it so important she see the old man. Thinking harder she tried to remember what else she had seen. "The newspaper!"
Jumping up from her seat, Phoebe practically fell over with excitement and rushed forwards to the old man. She searched the area around him to find the paper he had been reading in her premonition.
"What is it you are looking for young lady?"
"Do you have a newspaper?"
"Why… I believe so…" Reaching down under his feet he picked up a fresh newspaper and handed it to Phoebe. Phoebe searched through the paper for something... anything that would give her a clue what was happening.
"Piper what are we looking for?" Prue was still stressed from work and hadn't yet gotten a handle on what they were trying to do. "If she's been in an accident shouldn't we be there with her? What good is this going to do us?"
Looking over at Prue, Piper cries again. She seems desperate to find out what she could do to help her little sister. Not fully understanding what is happening either, she turns her attention to Leo. "What is happening Leo?"
"She's… she's stuck… kind of. If someone has died before there time or has unfinished business they get stuck between worlds. Until that problem has been resolved there is nothing that they can do other than wait." Leo finds what he is looking for and shows it to Piper and Prue.
Prues eyes quickly scan the page and she looks to Piper to see if they agree on what they must do. Reading it more carefully Piper looks at Leo with great concern. "Leo… this spell needs the power of three! How can we possibly save her if we don't know where she is?"
Looking up to the ceiling Leo nods and returns Pipers heavy stare. "I'm sorry… that's up to you…" In a great flash of blue lights Leo orbs away leaving Piper and Prue alone to decide the best course of action.