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She saw only darkness as the room came into focus. At first she stumbled slightly but soon gained her balance. She got her barrings before she moved forward, but one sound drew her behind her.

She could see what looked like a woman performing surgery on somebody. But as she got closer she could see who it was. "Phoebe?"

The woman stopped what she was doing, as she turned and locked eyes with the person who had come up behind her. "How did you?" But then she stopped, knowing she had the upper hand. "Get the hell out of here or I will let her bleed to death."

"You wouldn't dare."

"I won't have much choice. Her spleen is ruptured and her blood is coming out fast."

Prue looked down at the pale features of her baby sister. And knew that the woman before her was telling the truth. She did the only thing she knew was right, as she astraled out of the room back to her own body.

She shot up from the couch as Piper quickly grabbed hold of her, fearing she would re-injure her wounds. "Prue. What happen? Did you see her?"

"Oh my god, some sicko is operating on her. She ruptured her spleen." Prue held her side where she had been shot, only a few days before

"WHAT!?" Piper tried to take in what Prue had just said.

"That could kill her if they don't seal it fast enough." Leo added in.

Prue looked over at Piper realizing then what she just might have done. "And I may have distracted her long enough to kill our sister."

"Prue no. You can't play this game. It wasn't your fault, you didn't know what you would find. It's this persons fault for doing that in the first place." Piper tried to comfort Prue the best she could, but inside her heart was racing to get to Phoebe fast.

"Piper you didn't see her. She looked so pale. She had all these machines hooked up to her. Her heart rate was all over the place."

"Ok Prue you need to concentrate. Where was she?" Leo tried to be the voice of reason. "Anything at all that might help me get to her faster."

Prue thought back as she tried to pinpoint in the city where she was. "It looked like an old warehouse of some sort." She looked at Piper and Leo. "I'm sorry that's all I can remember."

Prue winced as she tried to get up from the couch.

"Stay put Prue."

"Piper I need..."

"You need to stay right there missy." She ordered "Leo can you please get me the first aid kit." She asked without even taking her eyes off of Prue. She reached over and gently eased the blood soaked bandage from her sisters wound. "See what happens when you don't listen to me? You are bleeding again."

"Here Piper I got it. I know how much you hate the site of blood." Leo bent down and changed Prues dressing, as he had many before when he was alive fighting in the war.

Piper sat beside Prue, as Leo left them alone to see again if he could locate Phoebe. "You ok now Prue?"

"I.. she was so pale. And there was blood everywhere."

Piper ran her hand over Prues head.

"Piper what if..." she couldnt think to even finish the sentence

"No, she is not. She is too stubborn to let some sicko kill her."

"I think I got her. But it's really weak. I think something is interfering in my radar." Leo came out of the kitchen.

"What?" Piper looked up at him as he started to flip the pages of the BOS.

"There are only a few demons that can block a whitelighter from locating a charge. And in order for me to locate Phoebe, is for you two to summon him and vanquish him."

Piper looked down at Prue and could tell that she was weak from using her powers in the state she was in, but she also knew they didn't have a choice. "Prue."

"Just help me up Piper." Prue was more determined now to get her baby sister back.

Piper placed her arm around Prue and helped her to look down at the spell in the BOS.

"Ok here it goes. And as soon as he is toast, you had better be out of here." Piper glared up at Leo as she started the spell with Prue.

"They are finished now. The youngest will die and there is nothing that the good doctor can do. She has lost to much blood."

"Then the Charmed Ones are finished."

"It would seem that way." He started, but he felt something inside him pull at him. "NO! It can't be."

"What? What is going on?" he watched by helplessly as his friend and mentor was sucked through the void.

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They stood, with Piper supporting Prue, as the vortex opened and the wind swirled around them, but as it disappeared they were facing him.

He looked around and knew what and who had brought him through the vortex. "She is as good as dead. So go ahead, kill me. Have your whitelighter go to her and bring back her dead corpse. My work is complete." He smiled at them smugly, as he held out his arms waiting for the vanquish, he knew would soon come.

"You son of a bitch." Prue hissed at him as she flung her arm towards him, sending him flying across the room.

"Prue. We haven't got time for that. Let's just get this over with." Piper held out her arm and brought Prues arm back down. She could see the rage in her sisters face, but she just wanted to say the spell and get Phoebe back.

The words fell smoothly off their tongues as they stood hand in hand reading the spell that had been written in the yellowed pages years before they were even born.

They watched in anticipation as the flames started at his feet and consumed him slowly. His screams echoed through the old wooden walls of the Manor. Walls that had seen more then their share of vanquishes.

Prue nearly collapsed, as the last puff of smoke dissipated from the Manor.

Piper quickly eased her sister down, as she yelled at Leo, though not even looking at him, "Leo get going!" but her words fell on empty air, as he was gone the second he felt Phoebes presence.

She moved with practiced, steady hands, but she could not stop the bleeding. It had slowed, but not enough to completely stop it.

"Damn it! I can't lose you now, I need answers." She wanted to scream out, at the motionless body before her, as she held the clamp in place to stop the bleeding

"Answers you are not meant to discover."

She spun around at the voice behind her. "Who?"

"Not your concern. Just back away from her and I'll let you go. All I want is her."

She looked up into his eyes. There was something there. But in seeing it, she slowly stepped back "She'll die if I don't fix the rupture." She explained as she watched him pick her up.

"Not your concern." He stepped back from the bed and left her standing there.

She couldn't believe what was happening. Someone had taken her, but she knew that she would not make it to any hospital, she had lost too much blood.

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The blue orbs appeared back inside the Manor. He could see Piper holding her hand on the cloth to Prue's forehead. Even from there he knew that the eldest had over done it, and was weak from her injury.

Prue looked past Piper and saw Leo standing there.

Piper followed her sisters' eyes to their Whitelighter. "Leo?"

"She wasn't there." he answered quietly, as he saw every emotion run through both of their eyes. But the one that stood out the most was fear. And he knew it was fear they had lost their baby sister