A/N: I'm blushing at all these compliments, you know. Well, I thought I'd update a little quicker just to say thanks.

'Paige,' Chris came up intothe attic, Prue at his side. 'They need you down there.'

'How come?'

'Dad came round, healed Mom and Phoebe. You need to vanquish Micudha sooner rather than later.'

'Otherwise he'll come back,' Prue added. 'And vanquish you.'

'Right, I'm coming.'

Chris nodded, turning and disappearing back down the stairs as Prue looked to Maddy; 'You okay?'

'Yep,' she answered a little shortly.

Paige glanced at her sister. 'Could I have a word outside, Prue?'

'Sure.'

Maddy seemed a little nervous by the proposition, Paige noted as she walked down the stairs, Prue right behind.

'So, what's up?'

'Okay,' Paige started. 'I get the feeling you don't really like me and I get why but I still wanted to say thanks, Madeline probably wouldn't be alive right now if it hadn't been for you.'

Prue cleared her throat. 'It was good to help.'

'Do you think we could ever get on?' Paige asked gingerly.

'Don't suppose it matters, I'm dead.'

'Well, you look pretty good for a dead woman.'

Prue smiled ever so slightly. 'Um… you better go sort out Micudha.'

'You know, Piper would love it if we liked each other.'

'Let's just see how it goes, okay?'

Maddy stood at the top of the stairs listening to every word being said. Unfortunately, she didn't back off quick enough when Prue came back up.

'You were listening.'

'Of course I was,' Maddy took a seat.

'You didn't think I'd tell her?' Prue followed her to the sofa causing Maddy to flinch a little. 'Hey, what's the matter with you?'

'As if you don't know.'

'Bet you think I've turned into a manipulative cow.'

'You always seemed like that to me, Prue.'

'Ouch. You've changed too.'

'I had to, I was being walked all over. Why the hell did you kiss me?'

'To see if we still had the spark.'

'Well, we don't.'

Prue reached her hand out, joining with Maddy's tightly. 'You really think that?'

'Why do you have this effect on me?'

'Just lucky, I guess.'

'For you, maybe.'

'If there was a way we could be together,' Prue bit her lip. 'I suppose you'd take it?'

'You suppose wrong.'

'Then why are you still holding my hand?'

Maddy tried to pull away but found she couldn't. 'Let me go.'

'I don't want to.'

'Are you doing this because you care about me or because you hate Paige?'

'That's a complicated question, Mad.'

'No, it isn't.'

'Maybe seeing you with Paige made me realise something, that perhaps I wished I hadn't messed it all up.'

'But you did.'

'You can't love Paige if you just kissed me.'

Maddy struggled a little with the words. 'Do you remember that day, Prue, when you left me to die?'

'Of course.'

'Paige means so much to me, she wouldn't do that and I can't do this to her.'

'Fine, chose my sister over me,' Prue sounded like a spoilt child not getting her own way.

Maddy smiled. 'Isn't that what you did?'

'Does anyone ever get tired of picking up the pieces?' Piper questioned putting a lamp back in its rightful place.

'We vanquished Micudha,' Leo pointed out. 'It's worth it in a way.'

'Mmm,' she agreed. 'Not too often though.'

'Paige, honey, you okay?' Phoebe asked approaching her sitting position on the stairs. 'I mean, you look a bit…'

'Down,' Piper supplied joining her sisters.

'It's nothing.'

'Yeah, right,' Phoebe said. 'Come on, spill.'

'It's about Prue, isn't it?' Piper took a seat next to her. 'You're worried about losing Maddy.'

'Shouldn't I be?'

'No,' she said firmly. 'I don't believe that could happen and I don't really think you do either.'