Wyatt walked quickly into the manor, followed closely by Maggie. Kevin and Prue looked up from the floor nearby, where they had been cleaning up shards of a broken window.

"What happened? Where's Phoebe?" Prue asked.

"She was kidnapped by her demonic ex-husband," Wyatt said, continuing further into the house. Kevin and Prue dropped what they had been doing and followed.

"Cole kidnapped her?" Prue asked.

"It was sudden," Wyatt said. "He flamed in, said something about talking to her, and flamed out with her. We tried to stop him, but there was nothing we could do."

Jill came running down the stairs. "Maggie, did you call me?"

"Phoebe's in danger," Maggie said.

"What?" Paige asked, coming in from the kitchen with Piper.

"Cole took Phoebe," Prue said.

"She didn't want to go with him, did she?" Piper asked.

"Of course not," Paige said. "Did she?"

"No," Wyatt said. "She threatened to vanquish him if he didn't leave."

"We have to find her," Prue said. "Paige, can you sense her?"

"No," Paige said.

"What about you, Maggie?" Kevin asked. "Any luck?"

"They could be anywhere." Maggie shook her head. "I've been trying, but I don't think I'll find her."

"That's not all," Wyatt said. "There's something wrong with the Book of Shadows. It's either a fake, or the demons in the house managed to do something to it. For now, I don't think we should try using it."

"Great, can anything else go wrong?" Paige said.

"So what's the plan?" Piper asked.

"Okay," Prue said, her mind racing. "Jill, can you scry for Phoebe?"

"Yeah, I'll try," Jill said.

"He probably won't make this easy," Prue said. "We should try some summoning spells, in case scrying doesn't work."

"Good idea," Wyatt said. "Paige, do you have any idea where this demon might've taken her?"

"Maybe," Paige said. "He might have gone to his old apartment… or the underworld."

"We'll try orbing around, while Prue and Piper work on summoning Phoebe." Wyatt said. "Kevin, you're with us. What about you, Maggie?"

"I'll keep looking telepathically," Maggie said.

"Thanks," Wyatt said. "Ready Paige?"

"Let's go," Paige said. Wyatt and Kevin took her hands, and the three of them orbed out.

Paige took them high over the city, heading to Cole's apartment. In the twenty years that she had been gone, the landscape had changed. The San Francisco that she knew was gone, and now the city was only lightly populated, and many of those who remained were demons and warlocks. Abandoned buildings were the norm, rather than the exception, and decay was everywhere.

The witches reached the apartment quickly. They had hoped to take Cole by surprise, and get Phoebe out before he knew what was happening, but any chance of that was lost when their orbs struck a force field protecting the building. They were deflected, and thrown downward. They reformed on the sidewalk just outside the building, and Kevin immediately used his power to conceal them.

"Damnit!" Paige said as she became solid again.

"Shhh!" Wyatt hissed, as a demon and a darklighter appeared on the street not far from them.

"What whitelighter would be stupid enough to come here, even for a charge?" The darklighter asked.

The demon brushed something off his suit as he looked around. "None of them. It must have been the half-breed that the Source warned us about."

"A witch? Here?"

"They're the Charmed Ones, you moron. They won't leave their sister to die."

"There!" The darklighter shouted, raising his crossbow. The demon looked to see a red-haired woman crouching behind a bush at the corner of the building. An arrow struck the wall as the woman orbed away. The darklighter vanished, hoping to track the orbs. The demon looked around for a moment longer before shimmering out.

"Well done," Wyatt said.

"Hey, it's what I do." Kevin grinned.

"Well, we know she's in there," Paige said.

Wyatt raised his shield, and the three witches walked to the front door of the building. Wyatt studied the door for a moment, and decided to test its strength. He braced himself, then struck the glass door with his shielded fist.

Wyatt's force field collapsed, and he was thrown to the ground by the protective magic covering the door.

"Wyatt? Are you okay?" Kevin asked.

Wyatt groaned. "Strong shield."

Paige bent down to heal him, but it was unnecessary. The force field hadn't caused any serious injuries. Wyatt got back up.

"We can't get through on our own," Wyatt said. "We'll need the power of three."

"Right," Paige said, taking their hands. "Back to the house."

They briefly became visible again as they began to leave. When they did, they heard a shout from within the building. They reformed, and saw Phoebe on the opposite side of the door, walking towards them.

Wyatt, Paige, and Kevin watched as Phoebe approached unimpeded. Wyatt shouted a warning about the shield, but Phoebe didn't seem to understand him. He motioned for her to stop, only to see her pass through the doorway a moment later, unharmed.

"Phoebe?" Paige said.

"What happened to the demon?" Kevin asked.

Phoebe paused, and the others noticed the sadness on her face. "Cole let me go."

"He let you go?" Paige asked, furrowing her brow.

"We can talk about this when we get back," Wyatt said. "We shouldn't stay here any longer than we have to."

Wyatt and Phoebe joined hands, and Paige orbed them back to the manor. The reformed in the living room, where Maggie was sitting. Jill could be seen working in the kitchen.

"Maggie?" Wyatt said.

"What?" Maggie asked, her eyes tightly closed.

"We found Phoebe," Kevin said.

Maggie's eyes flew open. "Phoebe!"

"Did you find-" Jill stopped in mid sentence as she came into the room and saw Phoebe. "You found her! Are you okay, Phoebe?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Phoebe said. "Cole didn't hurt me."

"Why is everyone shouting?" Prue asked as she started to come down the stairs with Piper. The two sisters saw Phoebe at nearly the same time.

"Phoebe!" Piper said.

"We were so worried about you," Prue said.

"What happened?" Piper asked. "How did you get away from Cole?"

"He let me go," Phoebe said. "He wouldn't hurt me."

"He wouldn't hurt you?" Paige asked. "What about all those times he tried to turn you evil, or the time he changed history to make you marry him, or-"

"I know," Phoebe said. "But there's something different about him now."

"Yeah, now he's openly trying to kill us. Phoebe, you do remember what happened when we tried to take the house back, right?"

Phoebe looked down for a moment. "He was holding back. He could have done a lot worse."

"Phoebe, what are you saying?" Prue asked.

"I'm not getting back together with Cole or anything," Phoebe said. "I just don't think he's completely evil now. He's fighting it."

"So what if he is?" Paige asked. "We still can't trust him."

"You're right," Phoebe said. "We can't."

"We have another problem to worry about," Wyatt reminded them.

"The Book of Shadows," Prue said. "We don't even know what they did to it."

"Something happened to the Book of Shadows?" Phoebe asked.

"It gave me some wrong information," Wyatt said. "I think it's been cursed, or it's a fake."

"Is that what you wanted to talk to me about?" Phoebe asked.

"Sort of," Wyatt said. "Don't worry though, Maggie and I took care of it."

"So what can we do about the book?" Piper asked.

"What about a ceremony to dispel evil?" Jill said. "If the book's cursed, that should reverse it. If it doesn't work, we can be pretty sure that it isn't the real Book of Shadows."

"Sounds good," Prue said. "What do we need for the ceremony?"

"It's like an exorcism," Kevin said. "We had one done to break a curse on our old meeting site, before we met you and Wyatt. All we need is someone who can perform it."

"Like who?" Prue asked.

"A witch doctor can do it," Jill said. "Or a priest. But I'm not sure where we'll find one now. Most of the magic-using community went underground after the whitelighters were destroyed."

"We could try asking Oberon," Wyatt said. "He still has some connections."

"…If he'll agree to see us," Kevin said.

"I know someone we could call," Piper said. Piper and Prue quickly exchanged glances, and smiled. They had both been thinking the same thing.