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8. Discussions of the Heart

"Hey." Paige greeted Piper as she walked in through the back door. "Where you been?"

The youngest sister was currently rummaging the cupboards, looking for something she could eat. However, she gave up once Piper was there.

"I went to talk to Phoebe." her sister answered, with a slight sigh.

"How did that go?" Paige questioned, grimacing at the possibilities.

"Not too bad actually, you know we talked it out." Piper responded, then she looked at Paige thoughtfully. "Are you okay with me?"

Paige smiled a little. "Of course I am Pipe…I don't agree with your actions and I wish you would have told all of us. We could have kept you safe."

"I had my protection." the older sister smiled back.

"I believe you did." Paige laughed softly, knowing Piper meant Prue was her protection.

At that moment the door to the basement opened and in walked the subject of their conversation. Prue, however, was too busy flicking through some of the photos she had just developed to notice them.

"Hey Prue." Piper greeted, having not really spoken to her eldest sister much, since breakfast.

Prue glanced up at the sound of her sister's voice, noticing Paige with her. "Hey guys." she replied, beforegetting distracted with her photos again.

Piper watched as Prue walked towards the dinning room and was worried she may have upset her sister. "Prue, you…uh, want something to eat?" she asked, not really knowing what else to ask.

"No thanks Pipe, got to get these sorted first." Prue answered in a distracted manner. Realising how dismissive she was being, the oldest Halliwell turned to face the other two briefly. "I'll be in the living room if you need me though." she smiled.

When she had left Piper turned back to Paige and sighed heavily at the obvious tension. "I think she's mad at me."

"No she's not." Paige replied. "Far from it. I just think she's a little stressed from the whole Phoebe situation. She'll be okay."

"Your not pissed at Prue too, are you?" the older of the two asked worriedly.

"No." Paige responded. "Me and Prue; we're cool. I don't agree with both of your decisions but that's all."

"If only they were all like you, Paige." Piper joked, patting her sister's hand.

"That's when you need to worry." the youngest laughed.

"True." Piper agreed with a grin, which she received a glare for. "Anyway, where's Glen?" she changed the subject.

"At a friends. With all the tension, he thought it was best he disappeared for a little while."

The pregnant Halliwell smiled softly. "Sorry."

"Hey, I don't mind. I'm a big girl, I could make him stay if I wanted to." Paige grinned, causing Piper to laugh quietly.

"Still-"

The rest of Piper's reply was cut off, as Phoebe walked through the back door.

"Hey." Paige smiled.

"Hey." her sister greeted rather timidly compared to her usual attitude.

"I thought you were thinking." Piper stated.

Phoebe nodded slightly. "Yeah, turns out I don't think, I dwell." she looked around the room, obviously looking for someone. "..um…where's Prue?"

"Living room." Paige answered.

"Oh, cool, I'll, um…go get her opinion." Phoebe replied, giving a small smile to Piper, knowing her sister would know what she was talking about.

As Phoebe left the room, Paige turned to Piper. "Opinion on what?"

"Cole asked Phoebe to marry her." Piper smiled, aware of her youngest sister's feelings on the topic of Cole.

"What?"

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"Hey." Phoebe spoke up, while walking into the very quiet room, in which Prue occupied at the moment.

Her sister turned at the sudden voice and was unable to hide the surprise from her expression.

"Give me a minute and I'll be out of your way." Prue replied, while beginning back away her photos and equipment.

"Prue, I don't want you to go…I wanna talk, actually talk." Phoebe took what was in her sister's hands and placed them back on the coffee table, before pulling Prue to the couch with her.

"What is there left to say? It's not like I can turn back time and start all over again." the oldest sister sighed, looking at her hands intensely.

"No, you can't. It always ends badly when we do." Phoebe smiled softly, before going quiet for a short time. "I'm sorry for what I said earlier…I was just-"

Prue shrugged before cutting her sister off. "Why? I mean you were right."

"My reasons may have been…but the way I went about it, wasn't." the younger Halliwell admitted. "I was just so pissed at being kept in the dark and because I knew Piper wouldn't have told us anyway, I kinda focused on you."

Prue nodded her head in understanding, then smiled a little. "I wasn't expecting a different reaction, Pheebs. I knew everyone would be mad at me."

"Then why go through with it?"

"Piper asked me too." Prue answered with a smile, realising the simplicity of the one statement, although it now had a complex consequences.

"She seems to be doing a lot of that lately." Phoebe mused, while watching as Prue's brow creased to show that she had lost her.

"What do you mean?"

"She asked me to talk to you."

"Oh." Prue barely said.

Phoebe smiled a little, while giving a small laugh. "Brought back some old memories."

"I never liked arguing with you Pheebs. Now, I hate it even more." the older sister replied seriously.

"..and people say we have nothing in common." Phoebe grinned, while Prue offered a small laugh and a playful roll of her eyes.

"I'm sorry, Pheebs. I didn't intentionally set out to keep you personally in the dark." she finally stated.

"I see that now, just don't do it again."

"Okay." Prue grinned.

Phoebe mirrored the expression and then clambered closer to her sister, resting her head on her shoulder. "Good."

"Do you still blame me about Paige?" the oldest Halliwell questioned.

"No…" Phoebe answered. "..not really. I just don't like change and I kinda took it out on you."

"The changes are good, Pheebs…most of them anyway."

"I know but it's scary." Phoebe responded in her typical baby voice, causing Prue to laugh.

"It is…but we'll get through it, sweetie."

They both sat comfortably for a short time, while Prue fingered through Phoebe's hair.

"I…um…have something to tell you." the younger sister announced in a hushed tone.

Prue looked up sharply. "Your not pregnant too, are you?"

"Nooo. No, no, no, no….." Phoebe quickly responded, almost choking at the question.

"Well that's good news." Prue laughed, more so at her sister's answer.

"...Cole proposed."

Prue almost choked herself. "What?"

"Yeah." Phoebe smiled shyly. "He asked me to marry him."

"Um…uh, what did you say?" the raven haired Halliwell was stunned. Great, Cole as potential brother-in-law. This should be interesting, she thought.

"I said yes."

"..but your unsure." Prue read into her sister's few words.

"I'm just not sure if I'm cut out to be a wife." Phoebe finally confessed.

Prue snorted slightly. "Like Cole knows how to be a husband." she laughed softly. "Phoebe, if your heart told you to say yes in the first place, a part of you knows you will be great."

"I guess, but how do I know…"

"It physically pains me to say this…" Prue joked. "…but you will never know unless you try. Do you love Cole?"

"Of course I do." Phoebe answered.

"Would you want to live the rest of your life never having married Cole?"

"No." Phoebe responded without really thinking it through, surprised at the certainty in her voice. She looked to Prue, who smiled despite the part of her that was concerned.

"I think you made the choice your heart truly desires, honey." Prue kissed the top of Phoebe's forehead and pulled her closer. "See, change can be good. Scary but good….Just be careful with that heart of yours."

Phoebe laughed faintly. "I will."

"Good."

A sudden light appeared in the room and both sister's watched as Leo materialised in the typical blue and white orbs. Prue felt her stomach twist as her eyes fell on her brother-in-law.

"We need to talk." he instructed.

"Leo, about earlier, I'm sorry I never-" Prue began, sitting up from her comfortably position on the sofa.

"I'm not here to talk about that, Prue." Leo responded.

"What's it about then?" Paige asked, walking into the room with Piper following.

Phoebe shot them both a glare, knowing they had been eavesdropping on her conversation with Prue.

"Leo?" Piper asked carefully.

The whitelighter swallowed hard and a glanced down at his feet quickly, before looking back at Prue.

"It's about Andy, Prue..." he eventually began to explain.

The eldest Halliwell's heart sunk and panic over took, as she glanced around the room. She would have jumped up at that moment but she found herself held in place by Phoebe and Piper, while Paige placed a hand on her oldest sister's shoulder, trying to offer some sort of comfort.

"…Their not letting him return." Leo finished, watching as Prue;s world crumbled.

A/N: Okay, I'm kinda going to run now, as I'm predicting a few unhappy readers.

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