Chapter One

No matter how many apocalypses they had managed to dodge over the years, life was never a peaceful event in the Halliwell household. And today certainly was no different, may be that is the reason why even though Phoebe had woken up as though she had had a very bad nightmare but could not remember a thing of it did not make her feel very uncomfortable at all. She made herself cup of coffee and sat on the couch trying to catch some early morning news when Paige walked downstairs with a dismayed look in her face.

"You came home last night?" Phoebe asked.

"Apparently I did. But I could have sworn I wanted to stay at Greg's place. I must have changed my mind." Paige said as she sat next to her sister.

"Why sweetie what happened?"

"I don't know. I had a date with Greg, we had a great time. We ended up at his place. Then I woke up in my bed."

"Ooo! He was too shy." Phoebe interrupted before Paige could finish.

"No, I don't know. Things were getting very heavy and all but I wonder why I came back home. Not to mention I feel like I really had a terrible night but I can't remember a thing of it." Paige told her sister.

"Oh my God!" Phoebe exclaimed.

"I know right." Paige agreed.

"No, I mean I woke up with the same feeling but I just brushed it aside thinking that it was just a result of my new empathic powers."

"I thought you got a handle on that already. Do you still sense other people's feeling without wanting to?" The sisters were still trying to understand Phoebe's new power.

"Yes, I have. I don't sense everyone's feelings anymore. I have to focus to know what they are feeling so it is under control but I don't have control over my sleep so I thought I might have got the horrible feeling from someone else when I woke up." Phoebe tried to explain.

"May be mine?" Paige asked though she was skeptic about it.

"No, remember you and Piper are immune to my powers."

The sisters were still pondering about their feeling when they saw the eldest Halliwell walking downstairs.

"You look horrible." Phoebe said seeing that Piper looked as though she had just had hands on fight with someone.

"I feel horrible but it must have been a nightmare which I can't remember." Piper said walking down.

"You too?" Paige stated.

"What do you mean?" Piper asked.

"Even we both woke up feeling that something terrible happened but we just can't remember what." Phoebe told her sister.

Piper was just staring at her sister when she burst into tears.

"Oh! Sweetie, why are you crying?" Paige asked comforting her sister with a hug and guiding her to the couch.

"I don't know. I feel like a huge part of me is missing and I just want to cry." Piper said between sobs.

Both Paige and Phoebe were comforting their sister when the front door flew open and Faith walked in.

"Faith it's so good that you are here. Piper is not feeling…" Phoebe said as she watched the slayer storm inside. Before she could finish her sentence Faith hit her with her back hand and she flew right across the room hitting the wall. Shocked Paige couldn't even react when the slayer's hand pulled her up and threw her right next to her sister. Even though Piper didn't believe what she had just witnessed she raised her hand to freeze the furious slayer but Faith only closed her eyes and fought her power with her strength.

"I will kill you." Faith said with anger as she picked up the eldest Charmed One by her throat. "I loved her and you killed my baby." Faith said as Piper choked with lack of air. Meanwhile Phoebe gained her conscious and kicked Faith, freeing her sister. But Phoebe's strength was nothing compared to Faith's determination. It was just a fraction of second before Faith got up to attack again. Just then Tara appeared and grabbed Faith and orbed away.

The three sisters stared at each other in confusion.

In a blink of an eye Faith found herself in the middle of nowhere, instead of the Halliwell manor. She turned around with furry that could burn anyone who even looked at her eyes for more than a second.

"Killing them is not the solution." Tara tried to defend her action.

"It is for me." Faith said gripping Tara's throat this time. "Orb me back there or else I'll kill you."

"No." Tara managed to say before she orbed.

Faith found herself disoriented once again, but this time she was in a familiar house. She let go of the choking white-lighter as she walked into the Summer resident's living room. Willow ran to her as soon as she saw her. There were tears forming in Faith's eyes as she stared at the floor that had a body covered with white cloth. Faith didn't find a word to say to the mourning room but instead just stared at Willow.

"She is dead." Willow managed to say before she hugged the once dark slayer and cried for her best friend's death.

"Ok correct me if I am wrong but weren't you and Faith still lovers till like last night?" Phoebe asked as she brought some water for her still shocked elder sister.

"We were. I remember kissing her good night last night. Then she went off to slaying because of the whole raising of the queen of vampires deal. She promised she would be home in the morning." Piper confirmed her memory.

"Well at least she kept her promise." Phoebe tried to crack an untimely joke.

"I think what we should focus on is who did you kill?" Paige said as she unfolded a map in the coffee table.

"I was right here, how can I kill anyone." Piper asked herself aloud.

"Well, it doesn't sound possible but that 'feeling' that we all got up with, the 'feeling' that something terrible happened, couldn't just be a co incident." Phoebe tried to reason their thinking.

"Oh! This is not good." Paige said as she watched her scrying crystal land on the map.

"What?" The other two sisters asked almost at the same time.

"Faith is in Sunnydale, but there is only one slayer." Paige said looking at her sisters. "Where is Buffy?" Phoebe asked.

"When I scry for Buffy it comes blank, like she is dead." Paige looked up at her sisters.

Phoebe stared at Piper instead, "Did you kill Buffy?"