A/N – In Episode 6.19 – "Crimes and Witch Demeanours", Phoebe lost her powers (premonition, levitation and empathy), and didn't get them back in the remaining four episodes. However, for the purpose of my story, Phoebe got back the power of premonition a few weeks after Chris was born.
The reference to Zeus is from the Charmed Book "Soul of the Bride."
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"Piper!"
At the sound of Phoebe's call, Piper looked up from P3's account books and saw her sister running in to the living room. "Oh, damn," muttered Piper. Piper knew that look on Phoebe's face – it meant that a demon was on the way.
"Which demon is it now?" Piper asked, more than slightly annoyed. Chris and Wyatt had been hard to handle in the morning and Piper had not had a moment's peace. Finally they had gone to sleep, and only now was Piper able to relax a bit more.
"It's a dragon warlock. I had a premonition that he would blink in here about..." Suddenly a tall, well-built warlock blinked in. "...now," finished Phoebe. Piper threw up her hands and quickly froze him. She was thankful that he hadn't blinked out when she was throwing out the freeze.
"Now, where the hell is Paige?" Phoebe wondered. "We need the power of three to vanquish him."
"Well, we'll have to make do with the power of two," Piper replied. "Paige and Leo orbed out somewhere on white lighter business."
"That's not good," Phoebe said.
"You think?" Piper pondered over the possible solutions. They had about half a minute before the warlock would unfreeze. Suddenly she got an idea. "Phoebe, you remember when I went up to meet Zeus and Prue needed the power of three to bring me back, but only she was at home?" Phoebe nodded. "Well, she used two things that we cherished as our essences. Maybe if we use something like that to give us the third power, it might work."
"Err, Piper?"
"What?"
"I think that the freeze is wearing off!"
Piper whipped around and saw the warlock starting to break through the freeze. Before she could freeze him again, he blinked out and re- materialised in between Piper and Phoebe. He shot flames at both women, and they both dived down.
"Piper, have you found anything?" Phoebe called desperately.
"No, you keep looking." Piper called back. "Hey, Dragon boy!" The warlock took his eyes off Phoebe and glared at Piper. "Yeah, you!" She threw up her hands and blew him up. His pieces were flying around the room. "Phoebe, I can't keep doing this! Just get any damn thing and bring it over now!"
Phoebe looked around wildly and grabbed a familiar photograph of all three women standing close together from the side table. She didn't have time to rethink her choice – the warlock had now fully come back together. Phoebe ran over to Piper, shouting, "Got it!" Piper held on to the photograph with Phoebe, and the two chanted repeatedly:
"The power of three will set us free."
The warlock shouted out as a swirling vortex encompassed him and twisted him around. He yelled out in pain as Piper and Phoebe kept repeating the chant. Finally, he blew up into several pieces and disappeared.
Phoebe shook out her dark, silky hair and retied it into a bun. "All in a day's work for us, eh Piper?" she said laughingly. However, Piper was anything but cheerful – her face had a very sombre look.
"Phoebe?"
"Yes, sweetie?" Phoebe was unsettled by the look on Piper's face.
"Pheebs, what made you pick up this photograph?"
Phoebe was surprised at this question. "Piper, does it really matter?"
"Yes, it does."
"Piper, I just picked up the one with the three of us. I know that it wasn't specifically Paige's, but I thought that it would have enough sisterly connections to provide the Power of Three. Why so many questions?"
Wordlessly, Piper held up the photo. It was one taken outside the manor one sunny afternoon sometime back – Phoebe with her short brown hair on the right, Piper on the left, and in the centre... Prue.
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Due to the evils of exams, I probably won't be updating this story for a month or so. I also have a case of writer's block. Any further suggestions/improvements would also be very helpful. Thanks :)