Chapter 10

Stroking at her sister's hair to try and calm her down, Piper waited a second as Phoebe tried to compose herself and pluck the courage to tell her what she saw, all of it.

Now isn't the time to have any secrets.

"Phoebe, are you ready to tell me what you saw?" Piper soothed.

Still withdrawing back to herself Phoebe reply more to herself then to her sister as she put her legs to her chest, rocking back and forth. "...Blood too much blood, a lot of innocents lost. Prue not caring, all the love turned to hate..." She paused and for the first time looked at Piper and finished off. "...My decapitated head in her hand; as she stood there laughing her head off. Enjoying all the chaos and misery that she caused." Piper gasped putting her hand over her mouth and closed her eyes. Not wanting to believe her little sister but knowing when it came to Phoebe's visions she had no choice but to believe. "You don't believe me do you?" Phoebe asked her, needing some sort of reassurance from her. Piper didn't answer her, she believe her but couldn't bring herself to say anything.

"It was awful Pipe. What she did to your baby and Cole not to mention us. It was like that family in the photos that...Darryl...brought...us." She began trailing off. Finally figuring out the identity of the killer. For a long moment of time both Piper and Phoebe looked at each other. "No, no she couldn't have she was here all night. We would have notice if she would try to hide something like that. The amount of bl...." Piper stopped she couldn't bring herself to say it. "If she did it, she would have been drenched in the... Um, stuff.... Oh god this is bad." She ran her hand over her hair.

"No, this isn't bad. Having a boy band song stuck into your head. That's bad. Having blood spurt out of your veins and going everywhere. Knowing that it's your big sister, your protector that's behind it- is terrifying." Phoebe almost shouted out at Piper.

"You honestly think that she killed that family?"

Piper sat next to her, hugging her and began to rock back and forth, trying her best as she could to comfort her.

"Yes I honestly do. Why else would I get that vision of her, the moment she hit me?" Phoebe questioned. "I don't know Pheebs but we're going to find out. She was thrown into some sort of fit a couple of seconds after she hit you. I mean she never laid a finger on you. Including the times that you've might have deserved it." Piper said, approaching slowly towards Phoebe and gently wrapped her arms around her, rocking her softly back and forth. "Oh gee thanks...The Cole thing must have been the push she finally needed."

"That's not what I meant. No matter what you've done she would get mad, bail you out, then try to reason with you on to coming to her for help the next time you land in trouble. Not once had she even attempted to raise a hand at you. Something is just not right." Hearing what she wanted to hear; that what she saw was due to some sort of evil and not her sister brought a smile back onto her face. "I guess you're right."

Placing a kiss on top of her head and hugging her tight. "You should know by now, that I'm always right." She then got up, pulling with up with her and looked at her soon-to-be black eye and sighed. "I get some ice for that."

"You're not going back down there, are you?" Phoebe panicked

"Well, unless you got an ice sculpture thawing in your bedroom or a freezer then yes downstairs is where I'm going."

"Have you forgotten something, like oh I don't know. Prue the murderer"

"You can come down with me, I'm sure it's safe whatever got into her had gone. Besides you weren't the only one who got effected. Like I said she was having a fit herself, when she finally snapped out of it, she looked lost and confused. "

I waited patiently for the return of my sisters. My feelings of hurt when Piper withdrew her hand away from me as if touching me right now will burn her. I'm at a lost on what I should do. Right now not going to sleep is the only option that I've got. I only hope that if I become weaker in physical form I hope my 'astro' form will become weak also.

I broke away from my thoughts as I heard the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs. I made my way towards them. As soon as they saw me they stopped. My eyes of hope and understanding meeting their eyes of lost, confusion, mistrust, and anger and even hate. I can actually see the hate that my youngest sibling has for me right now. I can also see the black eye forming.

"I'm just going to get some ice for Phoebe." Piper said. I didn't miss the tone in her voice. It was like she was asking me for my permission to get the ice for Phoebe. Have I spooked them that much, that they have to tread carefully around me? I just gave a little nod and watched as both she and Pheobe continued their way down the stairs and heading towards the kitchen. But, not before Phoebe pulled away from Piper and faced me. Her eyes still held so much anger and hate in them. That I'd unconsciously took a step back. "You do anything and I mean anything to harm Piper and the baby. I will kill you. Whether evil is behind this or not. I will plunge a knife deep into that beating heart of yours and twist it." I never felt so hurt like I did just then, I looked over at Piper she just turned her head away from me and carried on her way into the kitchen. I looked back at Phoebe seeing a single tear appearing and making it's slow journey down her cheek, but saw no more.

It's that what it will come to? My own flesh and blood willing to kill me? For the first in my life I felt weak. I saw Phoebe's back as she headed into the kitchen, leaving me on my own and suddenly feeling very, very alone.