"Darryl how the hell could she disappear?"
"Piper calm down."
"Leo do not stand here and ask me to calm down. Both my sisters were shot yesterday and then Prue disappeared. Now you stand here and tell me that Phoebe has disappeared? How in the hell am I suppose to calm down, let alone explain this all to Pure when she wakes up?"
Leo stepped up to Piper and pulled her into his arms. "I know honey but we'll find her."
All Piper could do was cry into Leo's arms as she thought of her younger sister out there somewhere. "I should have never left her alone."
"Piper this was not your fault."
"Isn't it? I left her alone after what happened. Darryl was here, with Prue, she was safe. I left Phoebe alone with no way to protect herself. Some demon probably took her to prove a point."
Piper turned to the soft sound from the bed. Sitting next to Prue she held her hand in hers, "Prue? Come on sweetie."
"Pip..Piper?"
"I'm right her honey. You're ok." Piper ran her hand over Prues head taking in her blue eyes.
"Ph..Phoebe?"
Piper looked up at Leo and back to Prue. "Get some rest Prue. Phoebe is fine." She told her sister.
She hated to lie to Prue but at that moment she didn't really have a choice. It was something she would need to deal with later.
Prue closed her eyes and sleep soon over took her tired body and mind.
Piper held her gaze at Leo, "Find her Leo." Was all she said as she focused on Prue again.
She looked past the wire of the cage to her specimen. Young, healthy: everything that a good scientist required. "I will get you your answers Curtis. And they will start with this one."
She reached in her pocket for the key to the small lock. Opening it up she made her way to the bed. Seeing that her patient was securely fasten down she reached her hand down to her wrist quickly taking her pulse. "Steady and almost normal after what she has been through."
Phoebe stirred on the hospital bed, as her world slowly came into focus. She felt the hand on her but made no fast move to remove it. "Pi..Piper?"
"No. Your sisters can not help you know witch. Not even God can help you for your sins of witchcraft."
It was then that Phoebe pulled her wrist away from the hand held it.
"Oh come now dear. I can make this as painless as possible or painful as you did to my friend." She reached over and inserted the needle into Phoebes arm, who was trying everything to squirm away from her, "Just a little blood sample Phoebe. No need to get all fidgety on me." She drew the blood with practice ease and withdrew the needle.
"What do you want?" Phoebe looked up and met the woman's eyes. There was nothing there. Nothing but her confidence and dedication to what she was doing.
"You might recall a friend of mine, Dr. Curtis Williamson. Well he sent me an interesting package upon his death. Some very interesting reading I must say. About you and your sisters. You killed him."
"No, he killed himself. We tried to help him."
"Liar." She swung her hand back across Phoebs cheek
"He was injected with a blood that was not his to use. It made him crazy."
"No, you and your sisters used witchcraft to murder him. Evil that resides inside you is what killed him, and that is what was in him. Your blood, your evil. Now I intend to find out what it is that you can do. I know your sisters have powers. Curtis told me what he could do in his letter. But he never could figure out what your power was. So you can tell me and make this quick. Or I will find out by other means."
"I don't know what you are talking about." Phoebe held her ground. The pain in her side was throbbing slightly, but she had no intentions of giving up the family secret. "He was mad. He was killing people."
She looked down at her. She wanted to kill her right then, how dare she say that her friend was a murderer. "No it is you that killed him. And I intend to find out how." She placed her hand on Phoebes gunshot wound and squeezed only slightly. But enough to get the scream she wanted "I'm so sorry. Did that hurt? Maybe you need something for the pain." She reached into her smock and squeezed the needle enough to get the fluid to start to come out. Entering it quickly into Phoebes arm. "Now don't fight it Phoebe. This will help with the pain your are still in."
Phoebe cringed in horror as the woman squeezed her wound. She didn't want to cry out but she had no choice. The pain was too much for her. She felt the needle prick into her arm and the drug was quickly taken effect.
"Sleep now Phoebe. We have a lot of work to do." She ran her hand over the top of her head as the drug consumed Phoebe.
Piper sat with her hand holding Prues and her other one on the top of her head, as she ran her fingers absently through her sisters hair. She recalled that same position only the day before with her youngest sister; A sister that was now missing. "Oh Prue. What are we gonna do?" She rested her head on the bed beside her and quickly looked back up when she felt the hand on her shoulder.
"Pi..Piper?"
"Hi honey." Piper locked eyes with the blue ones of her big sister, "How you feeling?"
"Phoebe?"
Piper felt the lump in her throat as Prue asked about Phoebe. "She's gonna be ok Prue. She just got a slight graze on her side."
Prue closed her eyes and Piper took it as a sign that with that bit of information she was relieved. She just wasn't sure how she was going to explain the rest.
"It won't be long before their whitelighter finds her."
"I know. But we can not interfere."
"Why not? If the doctor eventually kills her or hurts her enough he can not heal her. It is against his rules. Why not re-direct his senses a little. To give her a bit more time to perform what is in her heart."
He turned his head slightly and really looked into his eyes. Cold, hatred was all that he could see.
"I think that might be a good idea." He waved his hand and said but a few words. "It is done."
She looked down at her patient. Everything was ready. She was out from the drug, the monitors where attached, now all she had to do was cut her open. She lifted up the scalpel and placed it on Phoebes skin. "This is for you Curtis." She said quietly as she started her first slice, the blood oozing from the fresh cut.
Leo looked up at Darryl as the two of them walked back through the halls of the hospital. "It still weak Darryl."
"Weak like she is nearly dead weak or something else?"
Leo stopped and made his way quickly into another room with Daryl right behind him, "Watch the door for me." Leo ordered as she closed his eyes
Darryl looked from Leo to the door and back to his friend. Turning his eyes back to the door, "Hurry up Leo."
Leo closed his eyes and concentrated on Phoebes essence. "Almost got her." he said quietly, "AUGH!" Leo flew his eyes open and reached for anything to support him as he nearly fell.
Darryl instinctively reached out for him before he fell. "Leo. What the hell happened?"
Leo closed his eyes briefly if only to get the searing hot pain from his had. "I don't know, but I think it has something to do with Phoebe."
Darryl looked down at his friend, there was something in his eyes that scared Darryl more then worried him. He was afraid of what Leo had felt and what they would have to tell Prue and Piper.