"Do you have your prescription, Prue?" Piper asked.
"Yes Piper," Prue annoyingly responded as she exited the car and followed Piper up the stairs of the Manor. "How's your nose?" Prue asked in retaliation.
"Funny, Prue. Phoebe, we're home," Piper called out as she walked in through the front door of the Manor. The house was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop. "Phoebe?" Piper called out again, and again was met with silence.
"Phoebe?" Prue tried calling, but was met with the same result as Piper.
"I'll check upstairs, you check here, downstairs, and outback," Piper said as Prue nodded in response.
Piper dashed upstairs as Prue dashed off into the kitchen. Piper made her way to Phoebe's room. She could tell the lights in the room were off, but Piper decided to check Phoebe's room anyway. As she slowly opened the door, she could hear the soft music, smell the incense, see the lit candles and a figure on the bed. "Phoebe?" Piper asked.
Phoebe didn't acknowledge Piper's presence. Piper walked over to her sister and lay down next to her on the bed.
After a couple of moments of silence, Prue made her way upstairs and found her sisters' in Phoebe's room. She, like Piper, made her way to the bed and lay down next to Phoebe. All three sisters' were snuggled up together, sleeping soundlessly within seconds. Which was how Leo found them when he returned to the Manor. He decided to leave them be. They had a lot to work out together.
The Elders showed him what had happened to Phoebe, but they said that she had to be the one to tell her sisters, when she was ready. Leo knew that telling Prue and Piper about Cole was hard, but this, he didn't even know what to expect from Phoebe.
Prue and Piper were suddenly awoken by Phoebe's screaming and wailing.
The man, getting impatient walked around to the back of Phoebe as best he could, considering she was sitting against a wall, grabbed her hair and pulled out a knife, which was sheathed under his belt by his stomach, and put it to her throat. He pressed the point into the skin of her neck and whispered, "Either you go get on the bed or I end your life right hear right now and bury you in the back yard. No what's it gonna be?"
Phoebe had kept her eyes closed while he whispered his question. She opened her eyes, void of any fear, and nodded yes that she would comply. "Good," the man said, and dragged the knife across Phoebe's throat, not deep enough to kill her, but enough to probably leave a scar. He mostly just wanted her to realize there would be consequences; Phoebe could feel the blood flowing out over the cut and down her neck. The man threw her down on the floor. Phoebe began crawling over towards the mattress and rolled over so that she was on her back. The man sheathed the knife and began advancing towards Phoebe.
"Phoebe, Phoebe, Phoebe," he kept calling. "Phoebe, Phoebe!"
Phoebe gasped for air as she quickly sat up in her bed. "No, no!" Phoebe was yelling. "Get away from me!"
"Phoebe, it's us," Piper said loudly as she tried to get her younger sister to stop all of her flailing around.
"Phoebe, it's us, your sisters'," Prue, commented as she sat on the edge of the bed next to Piper.
Phoebe was pulled out of dream world the more she began to relax and was finally able to recognize her sisters' sitting on her bed. "Piper, Prue," Phoebe said as she realized that this incident was going to just go away.
Piper and Prue both crawled over Phoebe's bed.
"Hey, you," Piper said as she engulfed her sister in one of the biggest hugs the two had ever shared.
Prue just looked at Phoebe. No words were exchanged as they looked into each other's eyes. Prue just brushed some of the hair out of Phoebe's eyes before giving her a hug just as equally big as Piper's.
"Something's wrong with her."
"I agree."
"I just wish she'd tell us what's wrong." Leo walked into the kitchen and noticed Prue and Piper leaning on the island talking.
"You know how she is. She'll tell you when she's ready," Piper, answered back.
"We know how who is?" Leo asked, coming up behind Piper and putting his hands over her shoulders.
"We're just talking about Phoebe," Piper told him. Leo automatically stiffened, something that Piper picked up on immediately. "What?" Piper asked.
"What?" Leo asked in answer to Piper's question
"You know what happened don't you?" Prue asked.
"Leo," Piper asked for emphasis.
"I can't, Piper. Phoebe has to tell you herself," Leo explained.
"Well, go tell her to come…tell us," Piper demanded.
"Piper I…"
"Hey everyone, what's going on?" Phoebe asked as she walked into the kitchen and over to Leo, who was faced of against Prue and Piper.
"Phoebe, what's going on?" Prue asked her youngest sister.
"What are you talking about?" Phoebe asked in a completely normal voice. Not showing the fear that was really starting to build up at the thought of her sisters' find out what had happened.
"We know something is going on Phoebe," Piper, who was glaring at Leo, told her.
Phoebe followed Piper's gaze over to Leo, "I'm sorry," he said with the most apologetic look he could muster.
"They told you?" Phoebe asked in a cold, unemotional voice.
"I'm sorry," was all Leo could say.
"Phoebe," Piper said in a low and serious tone.
"You want to know, I get it. Just give me a minute," Phoebe said, agitated at how this was all turning out. This was going to be a long night.
