A/N- Thank you to everyone who is reviewing. Padme the second- I'm sorry, but there is another bad Phoebe moment in here. after his one it's just going to be memories of helping each other and stuff like that... so you can get through this one! To everyone else... thanks again, and keep reviewing! Any memories you'd like to see added? Please tell me. Also in this chapter i used complete dialouges from the episodes for the memories... so i'm just letting yuo know that i'm not plagerizing, just borrowing. Blessed Be


Chapter Seven-

Phoebe walked into her room, lip pouting and head down, her feet shuffling on the ground beneath her. She couldn't help it that Piper was bullying her. She wasn't the one with all kinds of job fines, she tried to tell herself. Paige shouldn't have yelled at them like she had.

"It's not fair!" Phoebe's first clone said, crossing her arms and sitting down on the floor. She looked (and sounded) like a little girl, complaining and whining about everything. Then again, she had a point.

"Get over it. You're not the only one with problems. I mean, look at my nails! I have to go get these done. Do we have anything in our bathroom?" The second said, walking into the bathroom as Phoebe watched her.

They were acting a lot like Prue's clones had, so they must separate into the same different traits. The first clone must be really nice and happy, and the other not so nice, and kind of pushy if she remembered correctly.

"No we don't, so get back in here. I'm not allowed to let you out of my sight."

"Oh yeah? Says who, Paige? She's your little sister, you don't have to orders from her." Barked the second clones, walking very forcefully back into the room, swinging her hips.

"Well, we used to be the younger sister." She first clone said, perking up a bit, eyebrows lifting up to her hairline.

"Plus, she only has the best in mind, and she is trying to help, what with the demon and all." Phoebe said.

"Sure. What about criticizing us for fighting with Piper? Piper was fighting with us too."

"Yeah. That's true."

"But Piper's not always been as annoying as she has been lately. I mean, think of all of the good things that she's done for us." Said the first clone

"Like what?" the second clone asked, sitting down and not really expecting an answer. One came nonetheless.

"Like helping you when Prue died. Like always listening and trying hard not to criticizing us."

"Yeah, she has always been there for me."

"No, she hasn't. She hasn't always agreed with you."

"We're sisters, we're not always supposed to agree. Even sisters can fight sometimes."

"But remember when you married Cole?"

"Yeah, what about it? I don't really like to think about that. It was a mistake, and Piper was right in criticizing me. I should have known better."

"But what if it could have worked out? Remember when you saved Gregory, and also let go the demon, was his name Meric?"

"Malic." The first clone said.

"Yeah. We got into such an awful fight." Phoebe said, remembering.


Flashback

Phoebe, her sister, and Leo were waiting in an alley for an innocent to appear. Phoebe had had a premonition and even though she was married to Cole and potentially evil, she wouldn't ignore it. As Gregory came around the corner she looked up.

"There he is." She pointed out to Piper. As they watched, Malic shimmered in behind him, ready to attack. Piper immediately stood up and froze Gregory, confusing Malic. He looked around.

"Hey!" Piper yelled. The demon turned around as Piper threw up her hands to blow him up. Phoebe, however, knocking her hands and she blew up a bike instead.

"No Piper." She said, looking at the demon.

"What are you doing?" asked Piper, furious as Leo and Paige looked at her curiously.

The demon prepared an energy ball, but Phoebe walked calmly towards him.

"Stop." One simple word, and the demon fell onto his knees. Phoebe could feel the burn of her sisters eyes on her back as she did was she was doing.

"My Queen", he said. Looking up at her.

"Leave that innocent alone. Go." She said, kindly.

Malic looked at her, and then shimmered out. She turned around and sure enough saw her sisters and Leo shooting daggers out of their eyes.

"What? One of my subjects." She said, shrugging it off. She thought they would except that, they didn't.

"How-how-how-How could you do that? How could you let him go?" asked Piper, seemingly mortified.

"I don't know why you're so upset. We saved the innocent, didn't we?"

Piper turned around. "I can't talk to her."

"Phoebe..." Leo started.

"Things are not as black and white as they used to be. Okay, I can't just go around killing demons anymore." Phoebe said, interrupting.

"Why not?" Paige asked. "We heard that you just killed two last night."

Phoebe shook her head. "Yeah well that was different, they were getting on my nerves. I promised Cole I wouldn't kill anymore, and killing Malic would have been a huge betrayal." She said, hanging her head.

Piper turned around. "Malic? You're on first name terms with Demons?"

"If you were just going to order him to stop you could have done that on your own." Leo said, "Why did you even come to us?"

Phoebe finally blew it. Tears started to roll down her cheeks as she tried to hold them back. Her voice quavered.

"Because I missed you guys." She practically yelled at them. Okay? Is that so wrong? I missed you."

"Phoebe, you can't be the Queen of the Underworld and a Charmed One. You can't have it both ways."

"Why not?" Phoebe tried hard not to scream. "Just because it's different doesn't mean it can't work. And you all miss me too, although I'm sure Piper doesn't want to admit it to herself."

"Of course we miss you honey", Paige tried to say sweetly to calm everybody down. Sure she was youngest, but all of a sudden she was in the middle.

"Well you can have me back You can have the power of three back, you just have to be willing to meet me halfway."

Piper was really losing it, they all could see that. The cords on her neck were straining, and her eyes were large and red. "You can't protect innocents and save demons, it just doesn't work that way."

"Apparently it does, he's alive isn't he?" she said indicating to the frozen Gregory.

"Yeah, but your friend Malic is going to come back." Paige said softly, as if trying to break it to her nicely.

"You don't know that."

"That's what they do Phoebe, they come back. They snarl and come back."

"Yeah." Paige agreed. "And now we have to worry about protecting him, instead of saving you."

Phoebe tried to hold herself back once again. There was a short pause.

"You think I need saving?" she asked softly. Piper barked back at her.

"Are you kidding me? That baby inside of you has corrupted you more than you think."

"Piper" Paige attempted to calm her down once more.

"Don't Piper me! This is insane. What you are saying is insane. You can not come back. You can not work with us as long as you are married to the source."

"So what do you want me to do? Leave my husband!" Phoebe yelled back.

"Yes!"

"That's not fair!" Phoebe said, almost backing away.

"It's not fair Phoebe, but you have to pick a side, good or evil. That's how it works. Even though it means giving up someone you love, you have to choose."

There was another moment of silence.

"I'm really sorry you feel that way." Phoebe flamed out.

End Of Flashback


"Yeah, it could have worked. Think of all the work we could have saved ourselves, and I could still have Cole." Phoebe thought.


"Yes, that was the worst time." Piper agreed. "I could never go through that again. I love her so much, but man she can be a royal pain in the ass."

"And then you blamed yourself." The first clone said, just as Phoebe was saying it in the room across.


Piper: We're closed.

Leo: Honey...

Piper: I don't want to talk.

Leo: I know how you're feeling.

Piper: Even more that I don't want to talk. I do not want a pep talk.

Leo: Piper, what are you doing?

Piper: What does it look like I am doing. I'm trying to stop myself from feeling like the failure that I am.

(She fills her glass.)

Leo: You are not a failure, it's not your fault Phoebe...

Piper: I am the oldest sister, okay, it is my job to keep the family together, and see it, this my friend, I am a failure.

Leo: That's enough. (He takes the bottle off her.)

Piper: Paige could see that Cole clearly had turned evil and she tried to tell me over and over and over and over and over. That doesn't even sound like a word anymore.

Leo: You know, I didn't see that he was evil, Piper. Phoebe didn't see it at first, we didn't want to see it. We wanted a normal, happy family, that's just human nature.

Piper: She is my baby sister and I let him destroy her. That is not human nature, that is the nature of failure.

Leo: Alright, I'm not gonna listen to this anymore, you are a good witch and...

(Piper freezes him.)

Piper: I said no pep talks. (She takes the bottle back off him.) Nobody listens around here anymore. (She takes a sip of her drink and falls off her chair.) Ouch.