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Later that night, Piper walked into the kitchen

"Well?" Phoebe asked.

"Well," Piper said, sitting at the table, "Paige is driving Kayla home."

Phoebe sat opposite of Piper. "Good. Is Kayla going to be okay?"

Piper sat down in a chair opposite from Phoebe. "She's taking it pretty well, actually. She's just confused. Paige said she'd try to explain more to her about us and magic and everything else."

Phoebe smiled. "Good old Paige. Things have been kind of hard on her lately. You know, with the whole Prue thing then-"

"-then being stuck in the middle of our fight today," Piper finished, quietly, looking down at the table.

"Yeah," Phoebe replied.

Phoebe and Piper were quiet for a moment, then Piper started, "Look, Phoebe. I just want to apologi-"

Phoebe held up her hand to stop her. "No, Piper. It's not your fault. Robert had you under a spell."

"But that spell shouldn't have affected my trust in you," Piper argued.

"I know. It didn't. Your trust in me was already broken."

Piper looked guiltily at Phoebe for a moment. "Pheebes..."

"Well, maybe not broken, but fragile."

Piper looked as if she was about to say something, but Phoebe interrupted her again. "It's okay, Piper," she reassured. "I don't blame you. I've done a lot of things to cause you not to trust me."

"No, you haven't, Phoebe."

"Well, not if you don't count me moving out, me choosing to turn evil, almost leaving my sisters for another guy… should I continue?"

Piper smiled. "No, you don't have to. I get the picture."

"I've done too many things I've regretted. I regret them because they've hurt you… and Paige."

Piper looked down at the table; she didn't say anything.

"I've been too concerned with my own problems lately, like what I'm going to do about Jason." Piper looked up at her, sympathetically. "But no more. Now I'm gonna help you with your own problems."

Piper's look of sympathy changed to one of confusion. "What problems?"

"Your complete failure to remember Leo."

"Who's-?"

"Yeah, yeah, I know. 'Who's Leo?'" Phoebe stood up and sighed. "You really need a new schtick, Piper. But I promise I am going to fix that." She kissed Piper on the forehead before leaving the kitchen.

Piper turned and faced Phoebe's retreating back. "Fix what?" she repeated, puzzled. She got up from the table and started to follow Phoebe. "What's wrong with me? And who's Leo?"

Chris orbed into what looked like a large, foggy clearing in the woods. Tall, forbidding trees and lush grass circled the area, although the clearing itself was just a dirt floor.

In the middle of the clearing was what seemed to be a large, stone prism. There were no decorations or adornments; the stone looked almost as forbidding as the trees. The covering was made out of a thick layer of ice.

Chris looked around the place. Everything was silent; no one else seemed to be there.

He walked over to the large stone and stared down into it. "You won't have to be here much longer," he said to it.

Inside the stone, beneath the layers of ice, lay an unconscious Leo.

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