Phoebe felt the warm glow of Leo's healing touch throughout her body as what happened quickly came back to her. She sat up straight gasping for air as she then saw her oldest sister stranding not that far from her. "Prue." Was all she said as she looked over her sisters' shoulder and saw Piper almost fuming as she paced back and forth. "Piper."
"Ok you know what. She's alive. Now Prue lets get out of here. And Phoebe, stay out of our way and we'll stay out of yours. That way neither one of us will have to vanquish the other." Piper shot back at her sister.
"Piper." Phoebe looked at her sister in shock and disbelief. Had she really gone that far?
"I mean it Phoebe. We may be sisters but that is as far as it goes now. You're a witch, Prue and I are warlocks now. Stay out of our way." Piper said once again before turning to leave the Manor.
Prue didn't know what to say as she stepped towards Phoebe and then started to Piper. Grabbing her sister by the shoulder she pulled her back into the living room.
"Damn it Prue." Piper yelled at her sister as they came face to face.
"No Piper I can't keep doing this. This act."
"Act? What act? You felt that power surge through you as I did."
"No Piper I didn't." Prue stated as a matter of fact.
Now it was Phoebe who was confused.
"I never killed in revenge Piper you did. And it was not you who brought me back using dark magic. I was sent here to help you and Phoebe."
"Prue. What are you talking about?" Phoebe asked as she looked up at her older sister right before a wave of pain crashed down on her.
"Phoebe. Oh god." Prue quickly sat next to her sister and held her hand as the pain increased. "I'm sorry I didn't do anything sooner."
"Prue what's going on?" Leo asked as he placed himself between Piper and the door.
Running her hand over Phoebe's head and brushing back the hair from her face, " I was sent back to help them."
"Sent back?" Cole asked in confusion.
"Yes. They knew that if Piper brought me back using dark magic then we would both be sentenced to lose our souls in hell. She almost did it too." Prue looked up at Piper who had calmed some, but Prue could still see the rage in her. "The anger she felt at our magic was what pushed her. So they sent me back to help her with the help of Phoebe. For once she started with the dark magic it came to the point that it would take two Charmed Ones to bring her back."
"And that is why they sent you?" Phoebe finished.
"At first yes. But then you were stabbed and the poison entered your system it made Piper stronger and you weaker. And it didn't look like she would be able to go through with it. In fact it was you that stopped her originally." Prue said as he looked down at Phoebe. "And the only way to fight off the poison is with the power of two. Which you didn't have. So in order for you and I to help Piper."
"You and Piper needed to save me."
"Exactly." Prue said as she looked up at Piper who she thought was softening some. "But the only way to start this Phoebe is you need to talk to her."
"Talk to her?"
"You need to get to her heart. You need to tell her what happened."
"Happened?" Phoebe asked in confusion before she then realized what Prue was saying. "Oh no. I can't."
"You have to Phoebe. You know it will work." Prue insisted as she brushed Phoebes hair again. "You have to help save her. We are all connected. Once you get her to see the true Piper. Then it will also help you."
Phoebe looked up to Piper who stood starring out the window as she listened to her sister. She stood up with Prue's help and slowly made her way to her sister. She didn't even know where to begin. "Piper." She started before looking back to Prue, and then back to Piper when her big sister gave her a nod of encouragement. "Honey. I'm sorry I shut you out. I didn't mean to. It was just." She stopped trying to get her words in order. "I came back and you told me about Prue. I didn't want to believe it. Everything just started happening so fast. I was still in denial as to what happened. I." She started before stopping and taking a deep breath. "I came back here to find I had lost my big sister. All this on top of what I had been through. Torture, taunting, whipping, and beating. It was so often I wouldn't even know where one ended and the next would start. Then he threatened to rape me. I didn't know what to do. We each needed each other in different ways. He hurt me Piper and I couldn't see past my pain to see yours."
Piper never moved. She just listened to her sister as she told her everything that had happened to her in the underworld. She had wanted to help Phoebe but her sister kept shutting her out. She needed Prue to help her to get to Phoebe. Was that was the reason she wanted Prue back? To help with their youngest. She knew that something terrible had happened and all she wanted was to fix it. She never talked about it. Maybe it was because everything happened so fast. Maybe in that Phoebe was right. But now she felt inside, her true feelings as a tear ran down her face. She had tried to kill her baby sister, and even threatened Prue. What had happened to her?
"Piper I need you. I'm sorry I shut you out. I love you and I can't go through losing another sister." Phoebe finished before she nearly keeled over clutching at her stomach as she cried out in pain. "Oh God. Make it stop." She said weakly as she lay on the floor.
"Phoebe!" Prue was instantly by her sisters' side holding her head on her lap. "Ok come on hang in there baby girl. We need to say this spell together. She's here Phoebe we just have to get her the rest of the way."
Phoebe closed her eyes willing the pain away as she took Prue's hand in her.
"Ok repeat after me." Prue encouraged,
"Sister of light, sister of love.
Darkness tested darkness fought.
Come back to your home and your sisters of love."
The repeated it again as Phoebe felt herself getting weaker by the moment.
Piper looked down confused at what was going on. It was as if she was coming out of a dream. But when she saw Prue holding on to Phoebe she realized that it was not a dream, but a nightmare. She had come very close to walking down a path of darkness, losing herself forever. "Prue? Phoebe?"
"Yes it us honey. Now get down her and help me with Phoebe." Prue ordered as she felt her youngest slowly slipping away.
"Oh god Phoebe." Piper quickly rushed to her sister's side and took in her hand Phoebes free one. "Prue I can't lose her too." Piper said as she almost panicked at the perspiration ran down her face.
"We won't Piper." Prue said with determination. Knowing what would happen once everything was back to normal.
"Poison inside, poison from evil
We banish thy from her body.
No more to dwell or curse through her.
As we sisters speak so it shall be done.
Free our youthful spirit from this pain and this evil."
They continued to chant though nothing seemed to happen. Piper felt herself holding back the tears after they repeated the spell for the third time.
"Why isn't it working Prue?"
"I don't know. They said it would. The two of us together with our love should be enough."
"Maybe its too late. Maybe the poison is to strong in her now."
"No Piper I will not give up. She will survive this." Prue said with determination that she could also see in Pipers eyes.
"It's my fault. I should never. I gave up on our love when I went to find you using black magic."
"Piper no its no ones fault you hear me. If anyone is to be blamed here it's the Source."
"I let her down Prue. I was more focused on you then her. I turned my back on her when she was hurt and out cold."
"Piper stop it. It is not your fault." Prue assured her again as she took her sisters hand in hers.
Piper ran the back of her hand over her sisters pale features. She could feel the heat coming from her face and it scared her. What if they were too late? Then she would lose another sister.
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Cold was all she felt. Everything around her was cold. Yet she also felt hot. Her mind reeled around her, thoughts of a beating and whipping that she had received. Then she felt the searing pain of a sharp object inside her. Voices in the distance. The seemed familiar as she tried to draw them closer. Her mind almost flooded with images, most she did not want to remember but she had no control over what was happening.
Phoebe convulsed as her sisters held her. But then everything stopped.
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"Prue?" Piper said with distraught
"Leo do something." Prue panicked fearing that what she was sent to do had not worked and that she was to late.
Leo held his hands over Phoebe yet nothing happened. He looked up at Piper knowing once again her heart was about to break in more pieces. He looked up at Prue with grief on his face. They both knew the sign. There was nothing he could do. She was gone.