Part 12
Dean got out of his car and headed towards the manor, it was half ten now, he had an un removable smile on his face, he pushed his car keys into his pocket of his dark blue jeans that fitted just perfect, he had a white vest shirt reviling his extremely masculine figure.
He walked up to the manor and knocked on the front door, a few seconds passed before Piper opened it, "Dean, hay come in." She seemed to be some where else and looked to have been crying, "Hay Piper, is everything okay?" He asked making his way into the house; he was stood in the foyer now awaiting his answer, "not really go through to the kitchen I'll talk there." With this Dean made his way into the kitchen at the gend of the foyer, in entering he saw Paige sat at the table, she did not say a word, didn't look at him, just stared at the empty space in front of her, she was acting nothing like the Paige that he had seen the previous day this isn't good.
He turned to Piper, "Well seen as you and Paige are here, where's Phoebe is she okay?"
Piper looked at Dean and spoke quietly pulling him towards the sink so that Paige couldn't hear, "I don't know dean."
"What do you mean where is she?" He was getting worried now,
"Last night her and Prue had a fight, Prue absolutely battered her, she wouldn't fight back and Prue lost it."
"What was it about?" Dean asked,
"She hasn't talked to me yet...she hasn't come down yet."
"Maybe I should go up to her, she what's going on" He offered,
"Lets just give her a few more minuets then we'll both go." Dean nodded, he was extremely concerned and his on removable smile had in fact been removed and replaced by amore mundane, concerned look.
Dean was sat at the island next to Piper, "So I take it that Paige saw?" He asked,
"Yeah, she got there before me, and well I saw enough so god knows what she saw."
"Poor kid, she really doesn't need this."
"I don't think any of us do, I don't know what got into Prue; I mean Phoebe really has been through enough."
"Where is Prue?" He asked,
"She took of last night in her car; I'm going to kill her when she gets back."
"I think maybe we should go and see Phoe..."
Before he could finish Phoebe appeared in the door way, she had a pair of tight blue jeans her famous army style boots and a white t-shirt with her biker jacket over it, Phoebe was wearing a pair of sunglasses, presumably to cover her black eyes, the cuts were still visible along her face and there was a large slit in her lip.
Phoebe looked over at Paige, who wouldn't look at Phoebe, then Phoebe looked over at Piper and Dean, "Guys I'm...I'm leaving"
"What for a walk?" Piper asked,
"No, I need some time; I'm going to move out for a while."
"Where?" Piper asked, Phoebe shrugged, "I don't know but I can't be here when she gets back..." Dean stepped forward, Paige stood up from the table, "No you can't leave" Phoebe looked over at the little girl, "it'll only be for a little while, Paige, I promise I won't be far"
"No!" Paige protested, Piper stepped forward, "Paige, sit down I'm going to talk to Phoebe in the other room." Paige did as she was told as tears began to form.
Dean and Phoebe walked into the room as Piper was about to follow Paige called her,
"Don't let her go" she begged, Piper walked over to where Paige was sat at the table and knelt in front of her, "Paige, I am going to go and talk to her, I'll do all I can."
"Please Piper" she begged, Piper nodded, "Okay, go up and get dressed and washed, just give me some time." Paige rose up from the place where she was sat and walked up the stairs.
Piper stood up and walked into the room where Phoebe and dean where, Phoebe was stood in the center and Dean next to her, Piper spoke as soon as she walked in, shutting the door in the process, "Before you even think about walking out of here I want to know exactly what the hell went on last night." Phoebe looked at her, "I don't want to..."
"Talk about it? Yeah I know but I really don't give a damn...tell me now." Phoebe looked at Piper and gave in, "Fine, after I spoke to you on the landing and Dean Left I went to get some coffee, then Roger walked into the kitchen and he, tried it on with me..."
"He what?" Piper asked,
"Yeah and he's done it before, but I turned him down again and last night he told me that I was going to pay, I just ignored it as a mining less threat, and went up to bed." Phoebe stopped and thought, "Then I went up to bed and about a half hour later Prue burst in the door and started screaming at me, Roger told her that I kept making passes at him, Prue lost it and started hitting me, I wouldn't fight back and I let her keep hitting me."
"Why didn't you stop her?" Piper asked,
"Because I didn't want to risk losing it with her and...that knife was in my pocket and do you know what I considered using it, I considered stabbing my sister and that scares me...Prue hit me again Piper this time she beat me up." Phoebe took the glasses from her face reviling two big black eyes and various other bruising around her that had formed over night, "Do you know what it's like to have your sister do this? I tell you to me it's worse than having Dan do it, or Dad, of any of the others. I can take them but I can't take my sister beating me up, she chose to believe him over me and if you were not there she would have carried on until I was dead on the floor, I know because I saw the ruefulness in her eyes that was pure hate.
Piper walked closer to Phoebe, "I'm sorry Phoebe I really am but you can not up and walk out of her, that little girl needs you, she hasn't spoke at all since she saw you guys last night, she didn't sleep and she's up stairs now afraid that you are going to walk out on her, you can't go because I need you. And I'm here shouting now because I am afraid that I'm going to have to keep this family together, having to fight to keep my sister with me... " Piper's voice was raised and she was becoming increasingly upset, Phebe was also showing a range of emotions, "Well Piper, I can not fight anymore...do you really expect me to..."
"I expect you to fight for your family."
"Well maybe I have had enough, this is one fight that I'm not going to win, both you and I know that when Prue comes back I'll be out anyway and I'm not giving her the satisfaction of throwing me out..."
"This house is just as much yours as it is hers"
"I don't think that I can take another beating from her, another argument I am just so fed up of it, I'm scared of my own sister, not physically because you and I both know that I can take her but mentally, she is destroying me."
"Well your not the only one, that little girl up stairs is going to die if you leave."
"I don't have a choice"
"There is always a choice" Piper shouted, then took a deep breath she lowered her voice, "There's always a choice." She repeated
"You think that I wanted this, for the first time in three and a half years I was truly happy, I had, or thought I had it all, I had you, Dean, Paige but no matter what I thought I never had Prue's love...never had her respect she was never truly sorry she hit me because she didn't think twice before doing it again...this was what I was afraid of. How could I have been so stupid to let this happen to me again?" Phoebe now screamed as for the first time Piper had seen her in ages let a tear fall, Dean saw this and decided to say something as he noticed Piper was at a loss, "Not stupid Phoebe, not at all stupid all that you wanted was for your oldest sister to love you like anyone would, but don't punish them because of Prue...don't make them suffer."
"If I stay here I'm going to be suffering, afraid that I may just turn on Prue. I don't want to feel like I did that night, I don't want to feel as much hate as I did with dad, don't make me feel like that again." Phoebe sounded so helpless, "It's best thing for us all if I just disappear for a while, Paige doesn't need to see me nearly kill again, and I don't need to be put through that."
"The best thing is that you stay and deal, don't do this to us, to any of us, Phoebe I love you, Paige idolizes you..."
"you know if there was another way..."
"There is another way, I won't let you leave I can't allow this."
"Sadly you can't stop me." With this Phoebe lifted the sports bag from the floor and put it over her shoulder, from a pocket she took two envelopes, and handed them to her, "What you think a letter is going to make up for you going, Phoebe do you feel nothing for me, for Paige do you really hate me that much?"
"I love you more than anyone, both of you, you know it, but I can't stay."
"don't turn your back on me, on Paige on our family."
"What the hell do you mean, turn my back on you I can't stay..."
"Well you can go up and tell Paige then, because I'm damned if I will..."
"You can not make me do that" Phoebe spoke,
"What so you think that I should be left with it, I refuse to crush her heart."
"I don't want to hurt anyone Piper..."
"Well if you leave then you are hurting us, you are killing us." Phoebe dropped the bag to the floor, and looked at Piper "Give me another option" Phoebe shouted,
"Let me help you, let me sort it. Don't walk away, don't be a coward"
"Piper when you kill you dad, get beat up by every boyfriend that you have ever had and then get beat up by your sister and handle it different then you can call me a cowed but not until then..."
"Phoebe I have no idea what you must be feeling but I do know that walking away will make it worse and you will regret it later on"
"If I don't walk away now, you and Paige will eventually hate me and I may end up hurting my sister"
"I could never hate you" Piper spoke,
Phoebe looked at her, "Well I hate me. I hate the person I was, am and who I'm afraid that I will become." Phoebe was on the verge of tears and Piper's heart went out for her.
Dean walked over to Phoebe and put hand on her arm, Phoebe pulled away, "Don't dean, I can't..." She said looking at the floor, she took another letter out her bag, "I wrote one for you to" Dean's eyes widened, he was in shock, "You are going to walk away from your family, your home and a person that loves you more than his own life? You are giving up your whole life?" He asked, "And you were going to leave me a letter?"
"This is two hard...I was just going to go...I didn't want this."
Dean rose his voice, the first time he had ever rose his voice to Phoebe but today he did, "Well I'm sorry that this is too hard for you, because it's hard for me to watch as a person that I love walk away from a life, her sisters that care a hell of a lot for her and a boyfriend who would do anything to help her." Phoebe fell on to the sofa, "Help me then, help me. Tell me what to do when Prue walks through that door, tell me what to do next time I feel like I'm going to lose it and kill her, tell me what to do next time Paige looks at me like she's scared to death of what I might do...that's what happened before and I don't think that I could handle that again." Piper walked over and sat next to her on the sofa, "We'll deal with it then, when the time comes. You can't run, you have to deal."
"I don't know if I can do it" Phoebe admitted, tears brimming, "I can't face her"
"You won't be alone, you have me, and you have Dean."
Dean got out of his car and headed towards the manor, it was half ten now, he had an un removable smile on his face, he pushed his car keys into his pocket of his dark blue jeans that fitted just perfect, he had a white vest shirt reviling his extremely masculine figure.
He walked up to the manor and knocked on the front door, a few seconds passed before Piper opened it, "Dean, hay come in." She seemed to be some where else and looked to have been crying, "Hay Piper, is everything okay?" He asked making his way into the house; he was stood in the foyer now awaiting his answer, "not really go through to the kitchen I'll talk there." With this Dean made his way into the kitchen at the gend of the foyer, in entering he saw Paige sat at the table, she did not say a word, didn't look at him, just stared at the empty space in front of her, she was acting nothing like the Paige that he had seen the previous day this isn't good.
He turned to Piper, "Well seen as you and Paige are here, where's Phoebe is she okay?"
Piper looked at Dean and spoke quietly pulling him towards the sink so that Paige couldn't hear, "I don't know dean."
"What do you mean where is she?" He was getting worried now,
"Last night her and Prue had a fight, Prue absolutely battered her, she wouldn't fight back and Prue lost it."
"What was it about?" Dean asked,
"She hasn't talked to me yet...she hasn't come down yet."
"Maybe I should go up to her, she what's going on" He offered,
"Lets just give her a few more minuets then we'll both go." Dean nodded, he was extremely concerned and his on removable smile had in fact been removed and replaced by amore mundane, concerned look.
Dean was sat at the island next to Piper, "So I take it that Paige saw?" He asked,
"Yeah, she got there before me, and well I saw enough so god knows what she saw."
"Poor kid, she really doesn't need this."
"I don't think any of us do, I don't know what got into Prue; I mean Phoebe really has been through enough."
"Where is Prue?" He asked,
"She took of last night in her car; I'm going to kill her when she gets back."
"I think maybe we should go and see Phoe..."
Before he could finish Phoebe appeared in the door way, she had a pair of tight blue jeans her famous army style boots and a white t-shirt with her biker jacket over it, Phoebe was wearing a pair of sunglasses, presumably to cover her black eyes, the cuts were still visible along her face and there was a large slit in her lip.
Phoebe looked over at Paige, who wouldn't look at Phoebe, then Phoebe looked over at Piper and Dean, "Guys I'm...I'm leaving"
"What for a walk?" Piper asked,
"No, I need some time; I'm going to move out for a while."
"Where?" Piper asked, Phoebe shrugged, "I don't know but I can't be here when she gets back..." Dean stepped forward, Paige stood up from the table, "No you can't leave" Phoebe looked over at the little girl, "it'll only be for a little while, Paige, I promise I won't be far"
"No!" Paige protested, Piper stepped forward, "Paige, sit down I'm going to talk to Phoebe in the other room." Paige did as she was told as tears began to form.
Dean and Phoebe walked into the room as Piper was about to follow Paige called her,
"Don't let her go" she begged, Piper walked over to where Paige was sat at the table and knelt in front of her, "Paige, I am going to go and talk to her, I'll do all I can."
"Please Piper" she begged, Piper nodded, "Okay, go up and get dressed and washed, just give me some time." Paige rose up from the place where she was sat and walked up the stairs.
Piper stood up and walked into the room where Phoebe and dean where, Phoebe was stood in the center and Dean next to her, Piper spoke as soon as she walked in, shutting the door in the process, "Before you even think about walking out of here I want to know exactly what the hell went on last night." Phoebe looked at her, "I don't want to..."
"Talk about it? Yeah I know but I really don't give a damn...tell me now." Phoebe looked at Piper and gave in, "Fine, after I spoke to you on the landing and Dean Left I went to get some coffee, then Roger walked into the kitchen and he, tried it on with me..."
"He what?" Piper asked,
"Yeah and he's done it before, but I turned him down again and last night he told me that I was going to pay, I just ignored it as a mining less threat, and went up to bed." Phoebe stopped and thought, "Then I went up to bed and about a half hour later Prue burst in the door and started screaming at me, Roger told her that I kept making passes at him, Prue lost it and started hitting me, I wouldn't fight back and I let her keep hitting me."
"Why didn't you stop her?" Piper asked,
"Because I didn't want to risk losing it with her and...that knife was in my pocket and do you know what I considered using it, I considered stabbing my sister and that scares me...Prue hit me again Piper this time she beat me up." Phoebe took the glasses from her face reviling two big black eyes and various other bruising around her that had formed over night, "Do you know what it's like to have your sister do this? I tell you to me it's worse than having Dan do it, or Dad, of any of the others. I can take them but I can't take my sister beating me up, she chose to believe him over me and if you were not there she would have carried on until I was dead on the floor, I know because I saw the ruefulness in her eyes that was pure hate.
Piper walked closer to Phoebe, "I'm sorry Phoebe I really am but you can not up and walk out of her, that little girl needs you, she hasn't spoke at all since she saw you guys last night, she didn't sleep and she's up stairs now afraid that you are going to walk out on her, you can't go because I need you. And I'm here shouting now because I am afraid that I'm going to have to keep this family together, having to fight to keep my sister with me... " Piper's voice was raised and she was becoming increasingly upset, Phebe was also showing a range of emotions, "Well Piper, I can not fight anymore...do you really expect me to..."
"I expect you to fight for your family."
"Well maybe I have had enough, this is one fight that I'm not going to win, both you and I know that when Prue comes back I'll be out anyway and I'm not giving her the satisfaction of throwing me out..."
"This house is just as much yours as it is hers"
"I don't think that I can take another beating from her, another argument I am just so fed up of it, I'm scared of my own sister, not physically because you and I both know that I can take her but mentally, she is destroying me."
"Well your not the only one, that little girl up stairs is going to die if you leave."
"I don't have a choice"
"There is always a choice" Piper shouted, then took a deep breath she lowered her voice, "There's always a choice." She repeated
"You think that I wanted this, for the first time in three and a half years I was truly happy, I had, or thought I had it all, I had you, Dean, Paige but no matter what I thought I never had Prue's love...never had her respect she was never truly sorry she hit me because she didn't think twice before doing it again...this was what I was afraid of. How could I have been so stupid to let this happen to me again?" Phoebe now screamed as for the first time Piper had seen her in ages let a tear fall, Dean saw this and decided to say something as he noticed Piper was at a loss, "Not stupid Phoebe, not at all stupid all that you wanted was for your oldest sister to love you like anyone would, but don't punish them because of Prue...don't make them suffer."
"If I stay here I'm going to be suffering, afraid that I may just turn on Prue. I don't want to feel like I did that night, I don't want to feel as much hate as I did with dad, don't make me feel like that again." Phoebe sounded so helpless, "It's best thing for us all if I just disappear for a while, Paige doesn't need to see me nearly kill again, and I don't need to be put through that."
"The best thing is that you stay and deal, don't do this to us, to any of us, Phoebe I love you, Paige idolizes you..."
"you know if there was another way..."
"There is another way, I won't let you leave I can't allow this."
"Sadly you can't stop me." With this Phoebe lifted the sports bag from the floor and put it over her shoulder, from a pocket she took two envelopes, and handed them to her, "What you think a letter is going to make up for you going, Phoebe do you feel nothing for me, for Paige do you really hate me that much?"
"I love you more than anyone, both of you, you know it, but I can't stay."
"don't turn your back on me, on Paige on our family."
"What the hell do you mean, turn my back on you I can't stay..."
"Well you can go up and tell Paige then, because I'm damned if I will..."
"You can not make me do that" Phoebe spoke,
"What so you think that I should be left with it, I refuse to crush her heart."
"I don't want to hurt anyone Piper..."
"Well if you leave then you are hurting us, you are killing us." Phoebe dropped the bag to the floor, and looked at Piper "Give me another option" Phoebe shouted,
"Let me help you, let me sort it. Don't walk away, don't be a coward"
"Piper when you kill you dad, get beat up by every boyfriend that you have ever had and then get beat up by your sister and handle it different then you can call me a cowed but not until then..."
"Phoebe I have no idea what you must be feeling but I do know that walking away will make it worse and you will regret it later on"
"If I don't walk away now, you and Paige will eventually hate me and I may end up hurting my sister"
"I could never hate you" Piper spoke,
Phoebe looked at her, "Well I hate me. I hate the person I was, am and who I'm afraid that I will become." Phoebe was on the verge of tears and Piper's heart went out for her.
Dean walked over to Phoebe and put hand on her arm, Phoebe pulled away, "Don't dean, I can't..." She said looking at the floor, she took another letter out her bag, "I wrote one for you to" Dean's eyes widened, he was in shock, "You are going to walk away from your family, your home and a person that loves you more than his own life? You are giving up your whole life?" He asked, "And you were going to leave me a letter?"
"This is two hard...I was just going to go...I didn't want this."
Dean rose his voice, the first time he had ever rose his voice to Phoebe but today he did, "Well I'm sorry that this is too hard for you, because it's hard for me to watch as a person that I love walk away from a life, her sisters that care a hell of a lot for her and a boyfriend who would do anything to help her." Phoebe fell on to the sofa, "Help me then, help me. Tell me what to do when Prue walks through that door, tell me what to do next time I feel like I'm going to lose it and kill her, tell me what to do next time Paige looks at me like she's scared to death of what I might do...that's what happened before and I don't think that I could handle that again." Piper walked over and sat next to her on the sofa, "We'll deal with it then, when the time comes. You can't run, you have to deal."
"I don't know if I can do it" Phoebe admitted, tears brimming, "I can't face her"
"You won't be alone, you have me, and you have Dean."