Hearing the screams, Prue and Piper each woke up of dead sleeps. Fearing the worst, they each fell out of their beds trying to get up, and find out what was happening. They reached the hallway almost at the same time, looked at each other confused, and then sprinted to Phoebe's door. Throwing the door open, at first they saw nothing. Phoebe wasn't in her bed, and all the blankets were thrown on the floor.
As they entered the room, with extreme caution, they heard soft whimpers and sobs coming from somewhere. Prue clicked on the light and looked around the room. To her surprise they found Phoebe sitting in the corner with her knees pulled up to her chest, crying softly.
"Phoebe honey. What's wrong? What happened?"
Prue asked as she and Piper approached her slowly so to not scare her anymore then she already was. Receiving no response, the two older sisters bent down in front of their baby sister to try to comfort her, and ease her pain.
Although Phoebe continued to say nothing, as soon as Prue sat down, Phoebe leaned forward placing her head in Prue's lap. Prue looked over to Piper, hoping she would know what was going on. She knew she would get no answers from her when she saw tears of fear rolling down Pipers cheek.
"Prue, I'm scared. What's wrong with her?"
"I don't know. I'm scared too, but we have to stay calm for Phoebe."
Turning her attention back to Phoebe, Prue placed her hand softly and slowly on Phoebe's back. At first Phoebe jumped and her body tensed up, but soon she began to relax as Prue started to rub her back in small circles as she had done so many times when they were younger. Prue decided not to push for information right away, but to first get Phoebe to calm down.
"Phoebe, I want you to listen to me ok. Your safe. Piper and I are here, and nothing is going to happen to you. I want you to close your eyes and listen to the sound of my voice. Feel my hand on your back, and hear the calm in my voice. Now take a deep breath, then let it out. Then take another, and let it out."
As Prue continued to talk she could feel Phoebe's body begin to relax. Phoebe's breathing was becoming nice and calm, and when Prue was sure it was safe she took it a step further.
"Good Phoebe, your doing great. Now I want you to take your time. Can you tell us what happened?"
Phoebe took another deep breath and let it out slowly. She once again closed her eyes, and not even bothering to lift her head from Prue's lap she began to explain.
"I saw Nancy. She was being beat up by someone."
"A demon?"
"No, but her certainly was a monster. I think it happened pretty recently. She looked a little older then the picture we saw."
"Can you elaborate a little for us?"
"At first it was like any other premonition. I could see everything around me and everyone, including Nancy. Then suddenly it changed. In the blink of an eye it was like I could see through Nancy's eyes. I could feel what she feels. I could feel every hit, every punch, and every kick. I still can."
"That's happened to you before. Remember?"
"Right, when I was connected to the Succubus demon. Guy's I think I'm somehow connected to Nancy. She needs our help, and she needs it now."
"Do you know where she is?"
"Yes and no. I can tell you she's in L.A. I just don't know where."
"How do you know?"
"I just do Piper. I can feel it. You have to trust me."
"Don't worry Phoebe, we trust you. Here Piper take her."
Prue handed her baby sister off to Piper, and Phoebe accepted Piper's open arms. As Phoebe allowed her body to relax once again Prue got up off the floor and went in the hallway to get the phone. Several minutes later she returned, helped Phoebe to stand, and walked her to her bed.
"There's a flight leaving at 10:00 in the morning. We leave first thing in the morning."
"Prue what about work? You can't just leave."
"This is more important. I'll call them from the airport. It's a little after two now. Let's try to get a few more hours of sleep before then."
"Prue I can't. I'm scared. I know it's really stupid, I mean with all the demons and warlocks we've faced I shouldn't be scared like this, but I can't help it. I am."
"It's not stupid Pheebs. I tell you what, you can come and sleep in my room, even though I won't get much sleep."
"Why not?"
Prue had to smile at the puzzled look on her sister's face.
"Well Phoebe, face it, people don't like sharing a bed with you because well, there's no nice way to say this, but you kick."
"I do not. Do I Piper?"
"Sorry Pheebs she's right, you do. Why do you think whenever we went on vacations, you always got your own bed?"
"I just thought you guys wanted to stay up all night and talk about boys."
"Well that too, but we didn't want to be kicked all night either."
After trying to give a look of hurt to Prue and Piper, Phoebe couldn't hold it any longer and the three ladies began to laugh for the first time all day. Piper decided to join them in Prue's room. Phoebe was very happy, she was going to be able to get a few hours of sleep in-between the safe and comfortable embrace of her two older sisters.