Paige wasn't really sure what to do. Piper and her had arrived back home after talking to the air traffic control people. Something had gone wrong. The plane was last spotted just as it neared Hawaii, but then it suddenly disappeared from their radar. It was like it just vanished.

Piper didn't say anything on the way home as she felt her world crumble around her. Her baby sister was lost. How could this even happen? How could they let this happen? And today of all days.

They had pulled into the driveway of the Manor where Piper moved slowly up the steps towards the front door, with Paige was right beside her. She had tried to give her any support she could by placing her arms around her waist but Piper pushed her away.

Paige had watched almost helplessly as Piper made her way to the stairs. She stood at the bottom and just watched her oldest sister give up.

Piper opened the door to the attic, as her whole body just felt numb. Of all days for them to take another sister she felt sick. She could not go through this again. Not again. She grabbed the BOS and flipped through it. Her memory whirled at the same thing two years before. She was sitting in the attic turning from spell to spell trying everything that the Warren history had brought to her, to try and bring back Prue. She also remembered that she had no luck that time, as Phoebe had finally come into the attic at three in the morning and brought her back to bed.

She closed the book before her and held her hand on the cover. A cover that she had seen grow stronger, split apart and then grow strong still.

"What happened? What ever happen to the power of three protecting innocents? The last time I checked you need three witches to make a power of three. And now we are only two.. You are so high and mighty up there you don't even realize the lives you destroy! You drag us into this blind five years ago and now you tear us apart like we were rag dolls." Piper fumed as she held her gaze to the ceiling high above her. "Well no more. What I have left of my family will not fight for you any more. We are through. You are done ripping this family apart. If you want demons vanquished. Do it yourself!." She screamed the last bit as she slammed the BOS on the floor before she headed out of the attic to her own room.

Paige had heard the loud bang coming from the attic, but held her own ground with herself. She knew that Piper needed some time at the moment and restrained herself from rushing up the stairs to her oldest sister. Oldest. The ring now had a different meaning. Piper was now her only sister. Unless the search and rescue team could pull off a miracle. A miracle she held in her heart that they would.

After what seemed like eternity Paige made her way up stairs. She had heard the bedroom door slam shut and knew by that, that Piper was no longer in the attic but her own room. Paige did what she knew had to be done; She went to her sister.

Paige looked in on Piper as she had slowly opened the door. Her sister was on her bed facing the window, and even from there she could hear the quiet sobs coming from the bed. Paige did what came to her naturally but also what she knew her sisters had done on many occasions; she came in behind Piper and wraped her arms around her, giving her the love and support she needed.

Paige felt Piper relax at one point in her arms and several hours later felt a stir as tehy had both succumbed to the events of the day. She had finally found her real family, only to have part of it ripped from her.

"I can't do this, not today."

Paige listened to her sister but said nothing, she only held her tighter and she felt Piper give into that love she was issuing.

"I can not lose another sister on the same day, two years apart let alone lose a sister. I can't lose her Paige." Tears ran down her face again freely as her mind whirled to two yrs ago and to the present. Everything she was thinking blamed her tragedies on the magic they had inherited. A magic, that had they known about, might have been more prepared and none of her losses would have ever happened.

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Leo orbed into the Manor and could feel the state of loss and despair. He wanted to hold Piper as she went through the pain again. He also knew that this now would feel twice as bad as when they lost Prue. It wasn't as if Piper loved Phoebe more, it was just too much for anyone to handle on the anniversary of the death of another loved one.

He walked into the room he shared with his wife and could see her and Paige together, Paige holding her sister to protect her from what ever she thought necessary.

Leo reached down and picked up Wyatt and made his way downstairs, not wanting to disturb the sisters.

She slept in the love and protection of her baby sister. No, her new sister. To her Phoebe would always be her baby sister. Phoebe. Images filled her mind of days gone by. Days when they were younger growing up; days when Prue was still around. Prue. Her oldest sister was always there for them, protecting them when they were hurt. But now it was different. She was the oldest and yet she needed help and love from Paige. Paige. She was her baby sister, but why couldn't she get past Phoebe?

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Leo looked at Wyatt has he held him in his arms. He didn't even hear the footsteps coming down the stairs towards him

"You know you could get killed not paying attention to sounds in this house Leo."

"I'm already dead Paige. A few steps won't bother me." He said as Wyatt let out a giggle.

It was a few minutes to them both as Wyatt laughed and neither of them said anything.

"So you get anything from your trip up top?" Paige finally asked.

Leo felt himself uncomfortable under his sister-in-laws scrutiny. But eventually he gave in, "No one can get a read on her. And I also felt nothing." There he had said it. Nothing; he felt nothing when it came to Phoebe. As far as he knew she was gone.

Paige didn't even look at him. She knew what he said was true at some level. She had tried her own skill as whitelighter and had not been able to locate her sister. She knew at the time she was new to the tracking a witch thing, but she also knew that in tracking her own sister she should have more luck. But she hadn't and she just didn't have the nerve to tell Piper herself.

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She tossed and turned in a restless sleep. Images after images of her sister played through her every mind. Images of when they were little. And images of when they were older. Fights and sister moments all seemed to wrap themselves into one body, one memory.

She tried to block it all out, she couldn't deal with this. It was too much for any one person on a day when you had had your heart torn out. How could they be so cruel as to take another sister on the same day?

She watched as the light came towards her. She didn't move for fear, yet she wasn't afraid. She felt warmth and love in the same second she felt scared. The fear of the unknown had always scared her, but now even more. She didn't want to see the ghost of her missing sister. Yet even though she held in her heart the hope that she would be found.

Suddenly she felt herself being pulled towards the light and glow. She didn't want it. She couldn't say goodbye again. Not again to another sister. Not today. But she finally lost the struggle as she felt the warmth encircle her. So she waited for her sister to come to her and say good bye.

"Piper. Piper look at me." The voice spoke to her, but she didn't look, she couldn't. If she didn't then she knew that her sister was still alive somewhere,

"Piper. Look at me honey. I can't stay here forever."

Again Piper held her eyes shut. But there was something in the voice that she recognized, something that she wanted to go to.

"Piper you can't hide forever and she needs you, she needs us."

Piper opened her eyes now realizing whom she was shutting out.

"Sweetie I got her. You don't have to worry for her. You just need to find her and let her be at peace, but for now I have her. Just like we promised when she scraped her knee. We would always be there for her. Right now it is for me to carry that burden, and soon enough it will be you." She stepped up and reached for her sister in her dream, "I love you." She stated as she tightened her hug on her sister before disappearing from Pipers sight.

Sitting up Piper knew that what she had seen and heard was real. Prue was now taking care of Phoebe. Which meant only one thing…. Her baby sister was gone