Part Three
Cole and Phoebe reappeared in the mausoleum. Phoebe looked at Cole in disbelief.
"The mausoleum? Why are we here? My sisters are in danger-"
"So are we." Cole interrupted, "If we went to the Manor, we'd be attacked there. If your
sisters are weak still, you'll be sitting ducks. We'll have to walk to the Manor."
"Okay." Phoebe said, turning, "But we have to hurry." They ran out of the mausoleum
and ran up the stairs.
"Piper, calm down." Piper whirled to face Leo.
"Calm down? CALM DOWN? We lost an innocent, my sister is dead, and you
want me to calm down?!" Piper threw out her hands and blew up a nearby window. She
stared at it for a couple of seconds before falling to the ground next to Prue's lifeless
body, which was now moved into the sunroom. She held her sister in her arms and
sobbed into her hair.
"Piper? Prue? Leo?" Phoebe's voice shouted out. When Piper didn't lift her head, Leo
called out,
"We're in the sunroom." Phoebe and Cole ran into the sunroom. Cole turned to Leo,
"Is everything-" he was cut off when Phoebe saw her sisters,
"Prue!" She crouched down in front of Piper, with tears in her eyes. She looked up at
Leo, who answered her silent question with a grim face. Cole covered his mouth in
shock.
"No!" Phoebe cried, with tears streaming down her face like a harsh rain. Piper looked at
her, with Prue's dried blood clinging to her face. Her eyes were like fire,
"Where were you?" Anger built up inside of her when she saw Cole standing next to Leo,
"You risked our lives to go get your boyfriend? Are you insane? Prue is dead! And she
wouldn't have been if you had been here to say the damn spell!"
Phoebe fell back in shock. How could Piper say that? Cole had a mixture of pain and fury
on his face. Leo, noticing this, put his arm in front of Cole to stop him from advancing.
He looked at Piper,
"Piper!" he said in dismay and surprise, "You can't mean that?" Piper held Prue closer to
her chest and shut her eyes tightly,
"Why?!" She half shouted. When she opened her eyes and saw the look on her sister's
face, her tone softened, "I don't mean it, Phoebe. I'm sorry." She looked up at Cole again
and her sudden anger was remembered,
"How could you leave? At a time like that? We lost our innocent- we lost Prue!"
"It's not as simple as that Piper." Cole started, but Leo interrupted,
"Wait, you don't remember?"
"Remember what?" Piper demanded. Phoebe put her hand on Piper's arm, but not
trusting herself to touch Prue. She took a deep breath,
"Piper. This day has happened once before. Last time, I fended Shax off, and Leo healed
both of you. You and Prue went out into the street and Shax attacked you."
"You blew him up." Leo continued, "But what you guys didn't know is that you were
filmed by a new station. You were exposed... and things escalated to when you were shot
and killed." Leo's eyes started to cloud with tears with the memory, so Cole resumed,
"Leo was in the Underworld with me and Phoebe, and had asked me to ask the Source to
reverse time. He said that he would if Phoebe crossed over, became evil. That's when he
told me that you or Prue was going to die. By the time Leo orbed up, it was too late."
"So I decided to agree." Phoebe added, "When the Source agreed to my terms, he waited
until Cole was gone before ordering my death. Cole overheard and we got out of there
before we were killed." Leo knelt by his wife,
"I'm sorry I didn't get here in time. I only had enough power to save one of you. I didn't
realise that until it was too late. I'm so sorry."
Piper stared at Phoebe; both sisters had tears rolling down their cheeks. No matter how
unbelievable the story sounded, she knew that Leo and Phoebe would not have lied to her
like that. It suddenly occurred to her that there'd be Zotars after Cole. The idea seemed to
occur to Cole at the same time,
"I better go. We can't have any bounty hunters coming here." Before Phoebe could
object, Cole shimmered out. Phoebe and Piper burst into full flood at the same time, and
Leo began to cry himself. All of them held each other, and Prue, and sobbed.