Although she had planned on waking Piper up around 4:00 to take over for her, when she went into Piper's room she could see sweat running down her face, and she was a bit pale. She couldn't bring herself to wake Piper up so she decided to just force herself to stay awake.
Prue was overall not a bad patient throughout the night, and Nancy was happy that Prue was to tired to notice what time it was each time she was woken up. She woke Prue up for the last time at 7:30 and after feeling confident that she was alright she allowed herself to fall asleep for a while.
She awoke again at around 9:00 and could hear Phoebe in the hallway. She jumped in her chair to make sure Phoebe didn't need any help.
"Morning Phoebe."
"Nancy, your up early. Where's Piper? Still in with Prue?"
"No she's asleep, I watched Mom last night."
"You?"
"Yes me. Piper was a little under the weather, so I told her I would take over watching everyone."
"Have you been awake all night?"
"I slept on and off. You hungry?"
"Starved. I'm no Piper, but I think I can handle cooking you up a little something."
"No, I'll do it. You're suppose to stay off your leg. Go to bed I'll get breakfast. It won't be anything fancy, just cereal, and toast, is that alright?"
"Perfect, but…"
"No…go to bed or I'll call Owen to strap you to the bed."
"You would wouldn't you?"
"In a heartbeat. I'll be back soon."
Nancy headed downstairs and made some coffee before starting the toast. Although she didn't usually have coffee, she made a small cup for herself. It was more cream then coffee, but she knew it would do the trick. She filled a travel mug for Phoebe, and one for Prue.
She made several trips up the stairs, getting breakfast to everyone, including Piper, who forced down the toast and orange juice that Nancy brought her.
"I promise to get up in a few minutes Nancy."
"Piper, I can take care of things. Everyone's been fed and I have no plans for today except to work on my paper. I can handle things, and Owen said he would be by later to check on everyone, especially Phoebe."
"Alright, but if you need something…"
"I'll tell you . The only thing I'll need is someone to reach my medicine later on. You guys need to put it in a cabinet lower, I can't reach it."
"We do that for a reason."
"I know, but I only messed up one time, and that was a while ago, you guys need to give me a little credit."
Nancy retuned to the hallway and entered her room. She was going to take a shower, then head downstairs to work on her school paper. Arriving back into the hall she heard the front door bust open, and would have screamed if she hadn't known better.
"WHERE ARE YOU WITCH? WE KNOW THERE IS NO ONE WHO CAN HELP YOU. IT'S TIME TO PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO MALRIS!"
Hearing the name she raced into Piper room forcing the door open and scaring Piper half to death.
"What's wrong?"
"HELP! DEMONS ON THEIR WAY UPSTAIRS!"
Piper jumped up out of bed and ran into the hallway. Nancy pointed to the stairs and Piper took the first two step before seeing the demons searching the living room before heading toward the stairs.
"Please work."
Piper whispered to herself as she raised her hands preparing to freeze the demons. Taking a deep breath she closed her eyes and used every once of energy she had left to make the demons freeze. Opening her eyes she saw them frozen in place, she knew the freeze wouldn't last long, and grabbed Nancy's chair as they ran into Phoebe's room.
"Alright, that won't last long, explain."
"Cliff notes version, those guys are decedents of a demon my parents and I vanquished about six years ago. It was a curse I wrote that has effected them, and the curse won't be lifted till I'm dead."
"What curse?"
"I cursed their demon family so that they couldn't harm another living being. I bound their powers."
"Why didn't you just vanquish them?"
"Only the power of three can do that. We didn't have enough power."
"Well you have the power of three now, I'll wake up Prue."
"It won't work. Phoebe is still pretty drugged up, and you're freezes don't last to long. Prue is to out of it to be any good."
"Then what do we do."
"Let me borrow your powers."
"What?"
Before Nancy could answer they heard Piper's freeze ware off, but soon realized they were not ready to search upstairs just yet. They were walking toward the kitchen and they could hear them trashing the house.
"We don't have much time. There's a spell in the book of shadows that will temporally give me your powers."
"I'll get the book."
"No need, I know the spell. Piper I need more time, can you try and freeze them again."
"I'll do my best."
Piper peaked her head out the door and could once again see the demons this time they were for sure heading up the stairs. She once again used every once of power she had and forced the demons to stop dead in their tracks. She felt a wave of dizziness overcome her, but pushed it aside as she re-entered Phoebe's room and began to barricade the door.
"Wait Piper, what about Prue? We have to get her."
"We don't need to worry, they can't hurt her right now. They can only…."
Nancy stopped speaking as the reality of what had happened the past two days came over her.
"Only what?"
"I'll explain later, trust me she'll be alright. I can get her power from her without her being here. I'm going to connect with her, I just hope it doesn't hurt her to much."
Nancy closed her eyes and forced herself to enter Prue's dream state. When she opened her eyes she was grateful that Prue was not having any type of personal dream, she was just sitting on a beach looking out at the ocean.
"Nancy?"
"Mom, there's no time. I need your power."
"What?"
"Trust me, this is not a part of your dream. I need to borrow your power, when the danger passes, it will return to you on it's own. When I tell you, recite this spell."
Magically a spell appeared in Nancy's hand, as she handed it to Prue and disappeared. Nancy re-opened her eyes to find Piper and Phoebe watching her.
"Prue has the spell, she's ready. Once we're all in her dream just read the spell and I'll take it from there. Most important you have to trust me."
"We do, just hurry, that freeze is going to wear off any second now."
One by one Nancy entered all the girls minds and once they were all standing in Prue's dream Nancy told them to begin their part of the spell.
WE INTRUST OUR POWERS TO THEE
GIVING YOU THE POWER OF THREE
ONCE YOU ARE SAFE AND TRULY FREE
OUR POWERS WILL RETURN FROM YOU TO ME
Once they were done Nancy added her part of the spell as bright lights left the girls bodies and hovered in mid air.
I ACCEPT YOUR POWERS
I WILL WATCH THEM WELL
TILL THE TIME COMES AND
THEY WILL RETURN THEMSELVES.
The lights flew into Nancy's body causing her to glow for a moment before Phoebe and Piper were out of Prue's dream and back into the bedroom. Opening their eyes they could see Nancy's body continue to glow a bright orange. She didn't return to a normal color until her eyes opened and she turned her chair around and exited the room.
Piper got up off the bed to follow her, but Nancy looked at the door and forced it shut with Prue's power, locking them inside.
"NANCY YOU NEED US, YOU CAN'T DO THIS ALONE."
"I'm not alone Piper, I have each one of you with me. It's for your own good Piper, trust me please. I'll be alright."
Nancy said in a calm voice as she heard the demons storm up the stairs and stop right in front of Nancy.
"At last. You will pay for killing Malris. We already got even with your parents…."
"What are you talking about?"
"You might as well know, since your going to die anyway. We told the Collectors where to find them. We showed them the way, and watched as they tortured them to death."
Nancy could feel anger rising inside her, it was a good thing too, it allowed her to find the courage to use Prue's power. She quickly realized that anger was Prue's trigger and she was ready to use it.
"You talk to much…."
Nancy said with a smile as she raised her hands to the demons causing them to rise high into the air.
"What do you think your doing? You don't have this power…how did you…"
They began to swing their arms in Nancy's direction, with one of their hands making contact with Nancy's cheek. Nancy's courage was beginning to leave her body and was replaced with fear. She could now feel Piper's power coming to the surface, she now knew Piper's trigger, fear.
"Thank you, now I can do this…"
Nancy then flicked her wrist and caused them to freeze in mid-air. Once she was satisfied that they were truly frozen she moved them lower so she could reach them and touched one of their legs, soon a premonition entered her mind giving her the knowledge of the spell that would be necessary for the vanquish. With the spell in her head she opened her eyes and slowly moved them to the top of the banister so when they did unfreeze they would fall to the ground on the first floor.
"Now to finish you off…"
Closing her eyes she focused on the voices of her cousins and the strength that their powers gave her. She could feel their powers fusing with her own giving her an energy boost that would put natural adrenaline to shame. She almost took the boost of energy to try to stand up out of her chair, but thought better of it. If she had fallen, she could have been knocked unconscious and then her family would be defenseless against these demons.
THESE DECENDENTS OF EVIL HAVE COME FOR ME
TO AVENGE THE EVIL I WAS ABLE TO FLEE.
CAUSING PAIN AND FEAR IS ALL THE KNOW
TO MAKE EVERYONE SAFEMAKE THEM BURN IN HELL
As she finished the spell the demons unfroze falling as Nancy expected down to the first floor and smashing a nearby table in the process. She went to the top of the stairs and watched as flames enveloped the demons and they screamed and yelled.
"NO! YOU CAN'T WIN! IT'S NOT POSSIBLE, YOU DON'T HAVE THE POWER!"
"Never under-estimate the Power Of Three!"
With that they exploded in a huge burst of flames and Nancy saw the same bright lights that had entered her body no more then ten minutes ago, lift up into the air and rush though Phoebe and Prue's closed doors.
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