Piper woke up with a start to the sound of her clock radio; she quickly glanced over at it not really wanting to know the time, but rather if she could afford to sleep another 10 minutes. It was 7:20, the time she normally got up for work, but today it seemed like she had just fallen asleep. Sure she was up half the night talking to Prue and worrying if she would be alight, but she should have gotten at least 5 hours or so, and she had vanquished demons on less sleep than that. Piper quietly walked out to the end of the hallway just to see Prue sleeping there. She was half expecting not to see her, assuming it must have been a dream but there she was sleeping soundly on the Halliwell's couch. She walked back to her room and slowly walked into the bathroom to take her normal morning shower. It was then that she realized that her husband wasn't home. Normally he at least called or orbed in so she knew where he was. She wasn't that worried though, he could take care of himself. She jumped in the shower trying to make is as quick as possible. While she was in their Piper noticed something strange about her arm. The triquetra was scarred on top of her veins. "What the hell?" She muttered aloud. She looked around not really expecting to find anything but she felt she needed to look for some sort of clue as to what did this. When she turned back to her new scar, she found it had opened and it was now bleeding everywhere. Piper quickly looked around and grabbed a washcloth to cover it up, but when she looked back, it was gone. "What the..." However, before she could finish her sentence something came shooting out at her and pushed her. She slipped and fell, hitting her head on the side of the shower. She lied there unconscious, blood dripping from the back of her skull.