Phoebe sat watching Penny sleep soundly on the motel bed. Her breathing was even and she looked surprisingly comfortable despite what was happening in their lives.
Phoebe continued to think, she wanted to summon Grams but to do that she had to be at the manor, which was being watched by demons.
She paused for a second. She could feel her chest getting tight, she looked up at the ceiling, "Grams, if you can hear me, please send me a sign, tell me where they are," she fell to her knees resting her head against the side of the bed. "Please Grams," she begged.
She could feel the tears welling up in her eyes.
She needed her sisters in times like these. She needed Prue to give some sort of motivational speech and for Piper to speak words of wisdom, and for Paige to gripe with her that they would rather be home doing something else.
She laughed as the tears spilled over; she missed them so much it hurt her entire body to think about it.
She felt a hand on her head; she looked up to see the sweetest but most exhausted looking green eyes staring straight into her soul. "I think we should go to the underworld," Penny said quietly.
"Leo already went to the underworld P, he didn't find anything. "I know but shouldn't we try ourselves, maybe you could get a premonition there," Penny looked suddenly sure of herself.
Phoebe paused and watched her sister for a second before answering.
She had tried everything to will herself to have a premonition, nothing worked. "Why do you suddenly think that?" Phoebe asked.
"I had a dream, I saw Prue in the underworld and she was tied up," Penny looked intensely at Phoebe but didn't say anything else. She turned her head and shut her eyes for a second. The youngest had several powers but premonitions was not one of them.
"I think it's too dangerous," Phoebe responded.
Penny suddenly looked angry; she lunged backwards away from Phoebe and off the other side of the bed. "Are we just going to give up?" she asked loudly.
Phoebe's eyes were wide with shock. Penny had every right to be angry, Phoebe was angry too, she wanted her sisters back, but she had never seen Penny react with such intensity.
Penny stopped for a moment. Phoebe couldn't see but her heart was racing and aching at the same time. The 13 year old ran towards the wall hitting it with all her might, she slid down into a sobbing heap on the floor, "please bring them back," Phoebe did not know who she was talking to. "Please!" she begged.
Phoebe's heart sank into her stomach watching Penny react this way. She did not know what to do.
The stress was making Penny physically ill. She went into a coughing fit and couldn't catch her breath and Phoebe knew she was having a panic attack and rushed to her side, "take deep breaths," Phoebe couldn't take it anymore, she couldn't take this emotional trauma. This was too much.
She wrapped her arms around Penny and tried to calm her down. "Come on baby, please breathe, it's ok, I promise, it will be ok," Phoebe was crying, her body hurt, everything hurt.
When the coughing subsided the youngest stopped and looked up at Phoebe, her bloodshot eyes were full of pain, with tears still streaming, "I'm sorry," she whispered.
Phoebe shook her head, "don't," Phoebe squeezed her, "don't," she replied pushing Penny's hair out of her face. Penny sat up and came face to face with Phoebe. She grabbed both her hands, "don't apologize," she finished.
Prue sat in the lair alone, she had a lot of time to think when demons weren't taunting her.
All she could see was a dim light in the distance and a drip of what sounded like water somewhere. She had written plenty of spells in her mind for when their magic started working again but she didn't know when that would be.
She felt so tired; this was one of her biggest fears, losing one of her sisters. So far she was separated from two and hadn't seen the other two in what felt like months.
She tried to think of Phoebe and Penny and where they could possibly be. How would they get down here to save them? What if they're… dead? Prue felt a sharp headache like pain shoot through her head, she couldn't even think about it. She shook her head to release the thoughts.
Prue tried to remember good things before all of this happened. Snuggling with Penny on weekend mornings or driving her to school and chatting about life, playing cards and baking with Piper, or doing beauty masks with Phoebe and Paige.
A tear glistened in her eye, I seemed like that was an eternity ago. She didn't how long they were gone for but she knew it had to be over a week. She was in so much pain, everything ached. She could feel herself growing weaker by the minute.
If Penny and Phoebe were at home without them she couldn't imagine how they must be feeling right now.
Phoebe sat on the park bench talking to Leo while Penny sat on the edge of the water throwing rocks. They needed the fresh air to get some of their energy back.
"Leo, I have to tell you this, Penny said something out of the blue today," She paused. "She thinks we should go to the underworld," Phoebe looked at Leo to see what is reaction was. He looked forward and raised a brow, "You and her?" He asked. Phoebe nodded, "to try to find them."
Leo didn't say no right away which shocked Phoebe.
He thought for a moment and then spoke up, "I think we should prepare for it," he responded slowly. Phoebe looked out at the water and at Penny whose back was to them. Her curly locks were pulled up into a tight bun on top of her head.
"I don't know Leo, it's extremely dangerous, she's only been once to defeat the source and I would be putting her in so much danger," Phoebe drifted. "I can't lose her too, she's all I have left of my family, she's a child, but I need her."
"They've fallen completely off the radar Phoebe, which means one of two things, either they are in the underworld cloaked so I can't sense them or they're…" He paused and shook his head, "I don't even want to go there right now," He stood up. "We have to keep going, we have to keep looking, I don't want you or her," he nodded towards Penny, "to give up...what else haven't we tried?" Phoebe sighed, she knew he was right. If they were alive it was going to come down to some sort of battle and she just wasn't mentally prepared for it.
She was exhausted and if they were going to underworld they would have to recharge somehow in order to survive.
Phoebe looked at Penny and then back at Leo, "ok," she said. Leo nodded and sat back down, "ok."
