Dare To Dream By: Beth Diane

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A/N: alright, I got the reviews that I asked for, do it again, okay??

Chapter three:

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Piper drove Phoebe home in her car, because Phoebe's was smashed up against a tree. Piper blinked back tears, replaying what the paramedic said, over and over again in her head. 'she isn't dead yet. coma for a week.not allowed to see her.' Piper concentrated on the street, making sure that there wasn't another crash in the family. Her tears blurred her vision, but she kept blinking them away. She drove extra slow to assure her, as well as her sister that they weren't going to get into another crash.

Piper pulled the car into the driveway and stopped it. She leaned back in the front seat and Phoebe jumped out. Phoebe started walking up to the door and turned around and walked up to Piper's window.

"Aren't you coming in?" Phoebe asked quietly.

"No. I am going to stay here for a while." Piper replied.

"Are you sure?" Phoebe asked. Piper nodded and Phoebe walked away.

When Phoebe got out of hearing distance, Piper let out a cry of anguish. Prue couldn't die. Piper wasn't strong enough to be the oldest and she needed a shoulder to cry on. She still had Phoebe, but Phoebe was going through the same thing, and she was younger. "The older sister has to comfort the younger sister. That is how it goes." Piper thought to herself.

Piper walked inside and went into Phoebe's room. Phoebe was sitting on the floor, against the wall. Piper walked and sat next to her. She put an arm around her shoulder, and rested her head on Phoebe's. She whispered words of comfort to Phoebe, and told her that it was going to be okay.

"I just. I don't think I could go on if Prue died." Phoebe said, "And it would have been my fault because I took so long, and she had to speed so she wouldn't be late." Phoebe sobbed.

"No. Don't think that." Piper said. "It's not your-"

"YES IT IS!" Phoebe said, cutting off Piper's sentence.

"No. It's not, because Prue isn't going to die." Piper said. She willed herself not to cry. She needed to be strong if she was going to get through this. She sat with Phoebe for a while, and the phone rang. Piper got up and answered it. It was Prue's work asking if she was going to come in.

"Sorry. She can't come in." Piper said.

"Well then tell her that she's fired." The woman on the other end of the phone said.

"she cant come in, because she is unconscious in the hospital because she got into a car crash, because she was trying to get there on time, so no. I will not tell her that she is fired, because she isn't fired!" Piper screamed into the phone and hung up. Less than a minute later, they called back, but Piper let the machine pick up. She would have gone into Phoebe's room and sat with her sister for a while, but she needed to be alone.

Piper walked into her room and sat at the edge of her bed. She willed herself not to cry, and hugged herself. Next to her, a stream of whitish- blue lights appeared and formed into a man. He walked over to Piper and sat next to her. He put his arm around her, but she seems oblivious to the fact that he was even there. She wasn't crying, but she was hurting.

"Piper." Leo said, but Piper didn't respond. She just kept staring into space. Leo hugged Piper and kissed her forehead. Piper turned her head and saw her husband sitting next to her. She turned away, she was angry at him for not being there for her, even though she knew it wasn't his fault. The elders had assigned him to another charge, and he had to help them.

"Piper, I'm sorry I wasn't here for you." Leo said, as if he was reading her mind, "I didn't want to, you know that, but I had to. The elders only said that we could get married, but IF I keep with my other charges." Piper nodded, but couldn't talk, she was afraid that if she talked she would cry, and she knew that if she cried, she wouldn't be able to stop.

Piper stood up and walked downstairs. It was dark out already, and raining a little, but she needed to be alone, so she went outside. She walked down the street and back, and stood on the porch for a while. Phoebe walked outside and stood next to Piper. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying and still wet. Piper looked at Phoebe and put an arm around her. The phone rang, but they let the machine pick it up.

"The hospital called." Leo said, walking up behind them, "They have news about Prue."

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