She lay on the small hospital bed and could always feel her sisters in the room as one was always holding her hand. She heard the doctor speaking to Piper one day. Malnourished, broken ribs, the beating to her back, weeks to recover. She tightened her hand one-day on Paige's and knew her sisters would help her through it all, they both would. Her mind drifted to Jason and the love she shared with him.

"Hey honey,"

Phoebe opened her eyes to see Piper sitting beside her, "Paige went to get some coffee."

"I missed you." She whispered.

"I missed you to sweetie. Don't ever leave me like that again deal?"

Phoebe smiled up at her sister. "I won't."

They sat a bit longer before Piper asked the question she had wanted to when she first saw Phoebe in her hotel room after Jason was killed, "Phoebe tell me something honestly. You weren't coming back were you? When you left for Japan."

Phoebe held her sisters' eyes. Even in not saying a word Phoebe knew Piper already knew the answer. "I just couldn't deal with it. Losing Pure ripped me apart and then everything that had happened with Cole. Going to be with Jason was my way out." She felt the tear escaping down he cheek and closed her eyes as Piper wiped it away.

"You didn't have to go through it alone honey. Paige and I were always there for you." Pier explained.

"I'm sorry."

Piper leaned down and embraced her still frail sister as they both let their tear run free once again for a loss they were still going through and always would.

Phoebe lay on the couch resting her head on Pipers lap. She had lost track of how long she was gone but she knew every second she was home with her sisters. She felt the gentle hand brush over her hair and closed her eyes as she felt the warmth and love there.

The nightmares still haunted her nights and her days. The thought of losing her sisters and never seeing them again. The memory of the beatings she received and the torture of others around her, but she remembered the love of a sister who was no longer there, holding her hand every step of the way never letting her go and never letting her down. Just as she always had.

"She was always with me Piper." She finally said though not taking her eyes off the one spot on the ceiling she was looking at.

"She said she wouldn't." Piper answer, "She came to me in a dream. She told me she would be there to help you through it all, but I needed to find you fast."

"And she was. And you did." Phoebe replied a she rolled over to her side. The pain in her side pulsed through her now and then but it was a pain she was willing to accept to hang on to the love of her sisters

Paige looked in on her sisters who were both now asleep on the couch. But what startled her more was the figure sitting on the coffee table watching them.

"It's ok Paige, I won't bite."

"I know but..."

"How and why? I had to check on my baby girl. Don't take offence, she was just the one I always knew as my baby. I didn't know about you."

"None taken." Paige replied as she sat on the end of the couch at her older sisters' feet.

Piper stirred awake as she looked up into the ice blue eyes of her sister.

"Hey you."

"Hi." Piper said as she shifted gently not to disturb Phoebe, "You kept your promise."

"Always when it comes to you three. I will always be there and protecting you Piper you need to believe that."

"I do. It was just that it was two years after you died, I didn't want to believe anything for the longest time. I couldn't go through that again. I couldn't lose her too. Not again"

"But you believed in the end Piper. And you have Paige and Phoebe with you." Prue said as she ran her hand over Phoebes cheek.

She felt the familiar touch. One she had not felt in such a long time. One she had felt she had lost forever. But when she opened her eyes and focused she was there. There in life. "Prue?" she asked softly not willing to believe her eyes.

"Hi baby." Prue said as she leaned forward and placed kiss on Phoebes forehead just as she had many times when they were younger and growing up.

How many times had she wished for that one moment? One moment to say goodbye to her sister. To have her hold her in her arms to let her know that even though she wasn't there anymore she would always be there in spirit.

The warm embrace surrounded her as she felt the tears escape her eyes. No more waiting or wanting. Her sister was here, now, at this moment in her time.

Prue sat on the couch, her sisters curled up beside her as they had when they were younger, Piper to the left and Phoebe to her right. She held them both in her arms protecting them as she always had. But she knew it couldn't last, "Guys I have to go."

"Prue." Phoebe held on to her sisters tighter

"I know honey, but I did what I was mean to do. To protect you and to help Piper find you in time." She pulled Phoebe to her lap. Even after been home for over a month her little sister was still light after all the weight she had lost. "Just remember, I am always here for you sweetie. Just like before. And I am always with you. Just because I'm not here physically I am always with you in your heart."

Phoebe snuggled into Prue not wanting her to leave, but she knew she couldn't stay as much as her and Piper wanted her to, not to mention Paige who will never get to know her oldest sister.

Piper took Prue's hand in her. "You can't stay a little longer?"

"I wish I could Pipe you know I would but I can't. If I don't go willingly now they will take me by force and I remember the look on Leo's face when it happened to him. Not something I want to experience."

Prue shifted Phoebe towards Piper and felt he sister tighten her grip.

"I never got to say goodbye." She said quietly.

"It isn't a goodbye Phoebs, because I'm not going anywhere. I will always be right her for you and Piper and Paige. I love you." She kissed her on the cheek before doing the same to Piper and then went to Paige. Embracing her other baby sister, "I wish I could stay to get to know you but I can't. Just know that I love you as much as them, and I will always be here for you as well."

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Phoebe woke up feeling someone starring down at her. She rolled over on her bed and looked up at Piper. "Was I dreaming?"

"No sweetie she was here." Piper said as she ran her hand over her sisters' head. "What you say you and I go somewhere today. Get you out and around."

Phoebe snuggled in against her sister. "Paige too?" she asked knowing what Piper had in mind,

"Of course. She was her sister too." Piper wrapped her arms around her sister. "You know we are here when ever you want to talk about it right sweetie? Whether its Prue, Jason or whatever you went through."

She didn't say a word as her heart thought of those missing in her life. "I know. Maybe later today. After we go see her."

We all take for granted that the ones we love will always be there, for us to say I love you too. But sometimes there are twists of fates that we have no control of. Be it mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles or just a close friend. When we are there we need to tell them. Because we don't know what our destiny holds, or theirs. So we need to live each moment with our loved ones, giving and taking each moment. So that when fate turns for the worst, we can say. I told them I loved them. They knew what they mean meant to me.

She was healing inside and out. Piper and Paige knew the inside would take longer, but they were there for her. And Phoebe also knew that Prue and Jason were also there for her in her heart, until they met again. She got one last chance to tell her sister she loved her. And she would to Jason the next time she saw him. She got the one chance none of us do but wish we had. To say that one good bye.