She gripped the under side of the small hospital bed and tipped it over. The blood stained sheets landing quietly on the floor. She was so close and now someone had just come and taken her from her. She grabbed the side of the cabinet in the small caged area and thrust it to the ground. All her pent up emotion seeped through her as she nearly destroyed everything she had worked so hard to put together.

She looked around the broken room and knew what she had to do. She picked up a few small personal items and slowly walked out of the abandoned warehouse. Leaving it once again for the vagrants that lived on the city streets of the Golden Gate City.

Prue looked at Leo and wanted to scream and cry all at once. "Excuse me?"

"She wasn't there. I don't understand. I was right there the minute that you vanquished him." Leo paced as he tried to figure out what was going on/

"Ok, did she make a run for it?" Prue thought whoever this woman was took off with Phoebe when she realized they knew where they were

"No, I think I heard her still there. Somewhere, hidden." Leo looked at Prue, but was still trying to figure out what happened.

"Wait, so what you think someone got to her before you did?" Piper looked at Leo with new concern. At least before they knew they were fighting a human. What if another demon had got there first? Maybe the demon they vanquished had friend or two?

"I don't know Piper, but I do know I can't sense her." it came out. It was something he had not wanted to say for he knew how they would take it. He knew how he had taken it when he lost her sense. He could feel Prue and Pipers eyes boaring through him

"What do you mean you can't sense her anymore Leo?" Prues voice was hard and devoid of any emotion that she was truly feeling.

Piper gripped Prues hand tight as she held Leo's gaze. In his eyes she could always see everything. And what she saw now scared her.

"I'm not reading her. I don't know if she is..." he hesitated not really wanting to say what he felt was the truth

"Spill it Leo. You don't know if she is dead or a live do you!" Prue yelled at him.

Leo looked from Prue to Piper. He didn't want to agree with her but he didn't know what he felt. He didn't know how to give her the answer she wanted to hear. He looked skyward and listened to the voice in his head. He then looked back to the sisters. I have to go. But I think you two need some time alone right now anyway."

Piper looked into his eye. She could see the same pain in his, as she and Prue felt. But she said nothing as he disappeared in his blue and white orbs.

He had been at his desk looking over files ever since Prue had left the hospital. But nothing yet had got him any closer to finding Phoebe. After going two days with almost no sleep, most of his fellow officers steered clear of his desk. And as his phone rang, he just wanted to throw it across the room. He had better things to do then work on some miniscule crime. His friend was missing, and possibly hurt, and they were calling him for some stupid case that needed to be solved.

"Inspector Morris." He held the phone to his ear, "What? When? Do it, I'll be right there." he dropped the receiver and ran from the station with one call to make on his way to his destination.

He couldn't even remember his call to the Manor, except that Piper had said that she and Prue would be waiting for him at the end of the driveway, and as he rounded the corner they were true to their word. Getting in the car quickly, the three of them speed off.

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Piper was the first to the counter as her heart was pounding in her throat. "Halliwell?"

The nurse looked down her chart. "The doctor is still in surgery. He will be out as soon as they know." Her meaning was dry, and unemotional, but right now, all that Piper needed to know, as she placed her arm around Prues, waist was that Phoebe was found.

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How long had it been since they had seen her? Her body lay motionless on the small bed beside them. Piper held her hand tight, in hopes of keeping her from leaving them. She took a glance at Prue who had managed to curl herself beside their sleeping sister without disturbing her. She looked back on the events a few days ago and to her it all seemed too surreal. She looked over her shoulder as she saw the light enter the room.

"She will be asleep for a few more hours at least." He said as he picked up her chart and looked down at it.

"Is she going to be ok Doctor?" Piper wasn't ready for any answer as the question just came out of her. It was what was in her heart.

"I think we were able to stop the bleeding in time, and any chance of infection from that and the other fresh operation. She was lucky in that whoever did this knew what they were doing. To remove the appendix is risky but to try at the spleen is more so. And the cut into it and the attempt at repair was the most anyone could do."

"Well if they hadn't been trying to remove it in the first place we wouldn't be here." Prue scolded from her postition on the bed, but quiet enough to not disturb Phoebe.

He placed the clip chart back at the foot of the bed. "Just call if you need anything." He said quietly as she exited the room

Piper sat with her eyes wide open as she heard each beep of the monitor and watched each drip of blood drip down, into the IV that led to her sisters arm. Each flow as it entered her body. Blood that her baby sister needed, because of some psycho person.

Leo stood at the doorway watching Piper, as she watched Phoebe. His heart went out to the middle sister now, as she had to look after her two sisters. But what had happened to Phoebe, he wasn't even really sure he understood. But he was thankful for the back up in retrieving her. He walked in quietly resting his hand on Piper and drawing his hug around her from behind,. She didn't even flinch, as she knew who it was. "I have some news." He said quietly so as not to wake the other two sisters. "It was one of us that was able to get her back in time."

"In time?"

"Yeah. By the time I got there she was gone. But there was someone else that had a lock on her before I did and was able to get there faster."

Piper leaned back into his warm embrace, yet still hung on to Phoebes hand. "So another whitelighter got to her before you did. Leo I don't care who got there first. All I care about is that she is here now, and will hopeful live to tell us what the hell happened."

Leo held her, "It was Sam." It just came out, though not seeing her reaction, he could feel it as she tightened her body at the mention of her mother's whitelighter.

"Sam?"

"Yeah. It seems that your mother had a fix on Phoebe the whole time, but couldn't get to her. And in her own way, was with her. But until you two vanquished the demon, Sam had no way of getting to her. But as soon as you started the spell he was able to get the reading off your mother."

Prue twisted on the small bed, though not move enough to disturb her sister that was lying beside her. She just lay there looking at her, she seemed so peaceful at that moment. It was a moment that Prue wanted to freeze in her mind forever.

Prue looked at Piper and Leo as they both talked in hushed tones. Tones that she knew they were using to not wake her or Phoebe.

She cast her eyes back on her sister, as she brushed her hair from her face. She seemed so innocent at that one moment. She placed her arm gently over her, as she snuggled close to her and felt herself drift back to sleep, knowing she and Phoebe were safe with Piper and Leo there.

She stood outside the door to the room looking in to the four that were there. Three slept and one stayed awake. She had to finish what she set out to do and now everything was falling apart.

She had heard through the hospital about the condition of the one she had captured. She would recover; in time. But she still needed another specimen. Maybe there was away to get another piece to study. Even as she lay there safe from the clutches of the world she was still evil and it was up to her to solve the puzzle as to why.

She stepped into the room as they all slept, and looked at the chart. She moved to the bedside and checked her pulse and vitals. She felt his gaze from the corner of her eyes. But she had a plan. To him she was another doctor. But she soon made like a panic, as she reached around and grabbed the call button sending everyone in the hospital at the wee hours, in a state of panic.

Piper reached up before Prue could fall from the bed as medical units ran around Phoebe. Before either sister or Leo could react, Phoebe was being rushed out of the room and down the hall towards the OR.

As she heard the bed roll through the hall, she felt her adrenaline pump. This time she would get a specimen and it would be at no risk to the patient's life. Leaving her the chance to many more