Piper sat beside the bed looking across at her sister. She never seemed so helpless then she did right then. She had taken her hand in hers and was drawing small circles on the back of it with her thumb. Her other hand was almost patting her head as she ran it back and forth over her hair. Everything was going to fine with her. She was in no danger. But how was she suppose to explain to her what had happened.

Darryl had located the doctor again ands cornered him into the doctor's lounge. "There were two ambulances at the scene. I was there. Both sisters were brought in here. So tell me now where the hell the other one is?"

"I told you both already. If she was not brought into the ER she probably died enroute. They would have taken her direct to the morgue."

Darryl let him go and started to pace.

"I'm sorry. I can tell she was close to you."

"It's not me you will have to apologize to. It's the two in there." he glared at the man before him and left the room. Making his way quickly down the stairs to the morgue.

He walked into the stark room. Nothing there but the small doors holding the person of someone close. A loved one. Behind each door was a story that would only be known to those that knew them.

"Can I help you?"

"I'm looking for someone. Female. Brought in about a half hour ago."

"Sorry man. Been pretty dead all day."

Darryl looked at the man surprised at his remark. "No the doctor upstairs said if someone was to die enroute to the hospital that the paramedics would bring them here."

"That's the true. But I haven't seen anyone dead or alive walk through that door all day. Until you. And I've been here since seven this Morning."

Darryl was getting more confuse. How the hell could they lose a patient or a body for that matter? But then his mind went to something he hadn't thought of before. He turned and ran up the stairs to Piper.

He stood at the doorway just looking in at them. Piper was talking softly, but he couldn't tell from there if she was just talking to her or if she had woken up.

"Hi Darryl."

Piper turned around and watched as Darryl took the few steps into the bedside.

"How you feeling?" he askeed as he sat down beside her.

"Like I got shot." She said weakly.

He had to laugh at the way she said it matter of factly. Like it happened to her all the time. "Well you aren't suppose to get shot. Only bad guys and police are."

"Well I'm not either one so what happened?"

Darryl looked at Piper before turning back to her. "I was kind of hoping you could tell me."

Piper looked back at her sister. "Are you ok with this now sweetie?"

"Yeah. But I don't know what happened Darryl it happened so fast."

"I saw it from the top of the steps Darryl they came in behind Prue and Phoebe. There is no way they would have seen it till it was over." Piper explained.

"Any one of you have a hate? Besides demons?" he asked carefully. He was new to the demon-witch game they played in. And he wasn't really comfortable with it yet. But once he did find out he helped them whenever he could. It was a part of his promise to Andy.

Piper looked down at her sister, who seemed to Piper was fighting to keep her eyes open. "Get some rest sweetie. I'll be right back."

"You aren't leaving?"

"No I just need to talk to Darryl about something and I'll be right back."

Piper leaned over and placed a kiss on the top of her sisters head before placing her own forehead on hers. "Get some sleep." She said to her before she walked out with Darryl right behind her. "Anything?"

"Nothing. I checked with the doctor again, and I went down to the morgue. No one has seen her.

"Ok Darryl people and bodies just don't disappear from ambulances. Where the hell is my sister?"

"Look Piper have you considered any other possibilities?" He looked at her questionably. Getting his unasked question across to her.

Piper saw in his eyes what he meant; demons. "I hadn't even considered that Darryl. But a human shot her, with bullets. Not a demon, with fireballs." She explained quietly as she looked down the hallway to make sure it was clear.

"All I'm saying is if she didn't come through the ER and she isn't in the Morgue. Then where else could she be?" Darryl stated as he saw Piper starting to think of what was going on. "Piper what are you going to tell her?"

Piper turned her eyes through the door to the the sleeping figure on the bed. She hadn't said anything yet, for she didn't want her to worry. "I don't know Darryl. she looked back at thier friend, "I do know that the next time she wakes up, I'm going to have to tell her something."

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Piper had her head resting on the bed as she felt herself fighting off the urge to go to sleep. She had lost track of time and had no idea how long she had been there. From the first sound of gunfire and seeing her sisters cry out in pain and fall to the ground her mind and life was turned upside down. Now she sat here beside one and the other one she had no idea.

Her mind drifted back to happier times as she lost her fight with slumber. Their first party with the three of them. Prue reading a story to Phoebe. Helping her with her algebra in high school. Battling demons and facing mum together. Everything flashed by like a movie on her mind.

It was a few hours that she felt the movement in her hand, the hand that held on to her sisters. Just to let her know she was there when she awoke.

"Pi..Piper?"
"Hey sweetie. I'm right here." Piper looked up at her sister and ran her free hand over the side of her head, pulling her hair from her face.

"It hu..hurts"

"Ok I'll get someone."

"Stay." She held tighter to Pipers hand.

Piper looked down at the pleading look in her sisters' eyes and then reached for the nurses call button.

Piper looked on as the nurse administrator a pin medication to her sisters IV and then quietly left the room.

"That better honey?"

"A little." She felt Pipers hand in hers and the loving touch she had again the side of her head. But she knew Piper was hiding something from her and she didn't really want to ask what. But she needed to know.

"Good. Just rest ok. Everything will be ok." Piper tried to tell her but even she was not convinced at her words.

She waited a bit as she felt the drugs in her system, as she wanted to ask. "Piper."

Piper looked into her warm eyes. She saw in them the question she had been waiting for. But how would she answer it? She had no idea where she was. She isn't in the morgue, which means she isn't dead. But she didnt have a clue. Or her favorite answer, she isn't here and I have no idea where she is I think maybe a demon took her.

Piper didn't know what to do. "Yeah honey."

She looked up at Piper even from her weakness and tiredness she could see the battle inside. She now didn't want to ask, for she was truly afraid of the answer.

"Where's Prue?" Phoebe asked as she lay on the hospital bed with pain in her side, but she still held the lock on Pipers eyes. She had asked the question, but now seeing Pipers face, she dreaded the answer.