A/N- I lied, i'm sorry. This isn't going to be the last chapter. It is close though. You'll see in a minute. Well, hope you enjoy. Please review all who read. Blessed Be...
"Demon hiding in plain sight, I use this spell with all my might. Vanquish this evil from time and space, all his wrongs may be erased. Fear eternal nevermore, fire burns within his core. He came before, but not again, let this demons nightmare end." Rose started chanting again and again. How had Barbas entered here? Why was he after her. She had never done anything to him, never even made her existence known to him.
"My my my, you are confusing. Your greatest fear, is also your greatest hope. You're going to be a hard one to kill."
"Don't kill her, just find out her weakness." A little voice whispered in his ear. He grimaced. Prue had cast a spell. She didn't want to enter the lair with him, she couldn't risk it. Instead she was able to see through his eyes, and speak in his mind.
"I know what your greatest fear is, but it won't be enough. If I make it real, hope may take over, and truth will become reality, and dreams will come true, and I can't have that now can I?" Wyatt was screaming loudly and his shield was up, but Barbas did not approach him. A charmed one was in his head, he couldn't risk an attack on her nephew.
Rose stopped chanting, it wasn't working.
"What do you want Barbas?"
"Oh you know me! I'm honored. And you would be?"
"Don't you know?"
"Rose" Prue told him.
"Rose." He repeated out loud. "Daughter of a charmed one, friend to no one, threat to all." He smirked, his slanted eyes looking almost through her. Prue was glad her sisters couldn't hear him. They still didn't know that Rose was her daughter.
"What do you want?" Rose repeated. As Barbas talked with her he couldn't notice many similarities between Prue and Rose. They were so much alike in the way that they talked, the way that they stayed calm in the face of danger, the quick reflexes, and the confident stance.
"Me? Why, I don't want anything. But I know other who would value the information that I hold."
"Even if Phoebe and Paige do find out my greatest fear, my greatest hope, as well as my greatest dream, it will not make a difference. They will not be able to enter here, not without the help of their sister, who is trapped in the room next to us as we speak. They need the power of three to do anything to me, and they're one down. Even you, mighty Barbas, do not have the power it takes to get rid of me for any period of time."
"How can you be so certain that the Power of three hasn't already been restored? That Piper isn't in fact in the room next to us. That her sister haven't already rescued her?"
"I would know if that had happened. Piper would not have left, she is waiting for her son. She hasn't."
"No, she hasn't." Barbas spun around at the voice. It was Prue. Damn her, why couldn't she stick to the plan? Now she was here there was no telling what Rose might do, what she might try.
Rose's eyes filled with tears. She couldn't move. She didn't want to believe it, and yet in her heart she knew that it had to be. Had Phoebe and Paige done it on their own. Rose was afraid to have faith that her mother was back, incase it was just an illusion.
"Mom?" She couldn't believe it. It must be an illusion. After all, Barbas did have that power. There was no way that she could be there. Not without the power of three.
Piper's heart was racing. Prue was here, she could feel it. There was no mistaking the love and emotion that she could feel. It was the sixth sense that Leo had told them about so long ago. She was here, in this very area, and Piper hoped to god that she would be able to get her out.
Piper was confused as well. She didn't want Rose to be hurt, she was just an innocent girl, who happened to be very confused. She wasn't evil, just lonely, and depressed. That wasn't a crime, but she knew that if Prue thought that Rose had hurt her then she might very well punish before getting the facts.
"Yes Rose, it's me." They looked into each others eyes, and there could be no error. Rose's mother was back.
"Mom!" Rose ran past Barbas and right into her mother. She hugged her so tight, tears rolling down her cheeks. She felt like she was going to drown in emotions.
"Mom?" Prue turned around, still holding her daughter. Paige had her hands on her hips and her left eyebrow raised, Phoebe standing next to her with her mouth all but dislocated. Prue might have laughed, but she didn't. She hadn't wanted her sister to find out this way. Why had they followed?
"Listen, I'm sorry you guys, but I couldn't tell you. Not until after we'd saved Piper."
"Which we still haven't."
"You're right, we're going to do that right now."
"So wait, I'm still confused. Rose is your daughter? How can that be? She supposed to be like twenty one or something."
"I adopted her from St. Mary's Orphanage in town. Andy and I raised her. She stayed in an apartment we had rented."
"So you were leading a double life?"
"Yes. I didn't want her subjected to a life of demons and death and loss. I tried to keep her away from those things."
"And then she became those things." Phoebe said cruelly.
"No!" Rose protested. Her tears were slowing, but still falling at a steady pace. "I didn't want to hurt anyone. I just wanted Mom back. You never summoned her. You blocked her out of your life, and then you forgot about her. I hoped that what I did would make you summon her, leave you with no choice. And it has."
"Rose, you know that I can't stay."
"Why not? You're dead, it's not like you have any obligations up there."
"Yes but..."
"Then why did you need me?" Barbas asked.
"Because I needed a distraction. I needed to get her worked up. I know what her greatest fear is, I didn't need you for that."
"How do you know?"
Prue looked down at her daughter. "Because I'm her mother."
