Alyssa had been out walking to clear her head when she found herself at the hospital. She didn't know she had even been going in that direction or for how long she had walked for. Well I may as well go see Phoebe as long as I'm here. Maybe I can call Piper to come pick me up afterwards.
As she walked through the corridors of the hospital she kept thinking about the accident. She recalled waking up and how things were afterwards. But the accident itself was still a huge blur for her, even to this day. She had seen the younger Prue the last few days, riddled with guilt, but she couldn't comfort her. Shannen and Holly had gone to her and tried to get her to talk, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. She recalled the words that were spoken in the car that morning; words of anger. She also recalled the words the day before that she herself had heard, those words stung her like nothing before.
Shannen had been at the hospital visiting the younger Phoebe. She couldn't help it, she had never gone to see her sister in the hospital after the accident and as she looked back now regreted it, but it brought to many bad memories. She loved her baby sister, but the hospital seemed to just make thing worse for her. She recalled that at the very time the younger her was standing on a bridge taking a photo. Something to remind me of this point in my life.
Alyssa was going to go in to Phoebe's room but for some reason thought better of it. She couldn't bare to see herself hooked up to all those tubes and wires. So she turned around and headed out of the hospital. Once again the rains came, as was the normal thing that time of year in San Francisco, and once again she was getting drenched. She arrived home to find her two older sisters almost on panic mood.
"Where have you been?" Shannen practically yelled at her.
"Well let me see I went for a walk and found myself at the hospital. I thought I would pay Phoebe a visit. Then I walked home. Do you really care?" she snapped back.
"Actually believe it or not I do. We have something to do here and your off god knows where. What if something had happened? What then?" Shannen was trying to get her demon point across to her younger sister without saying anything about it, knowing full well that Prue and Piper were in the Manor.
"Well no more now then eight years ago I'm sure." Alyssa knew that she had hit a soft spot by the look on her sisters' face. She knew that she was talking about the accident. The older Prue had never gone to see her sister, she couldn't. She felt it was all her fault that her sister lay in a coma for three days. And then the physo therapy she had to go through afterwards. Alyssa also knew that she had just crossed a line that she had never crossed before.
Both her sisters were stunned at what she had just said.
"Face it big sis. You didn't care then and you don't care now."
"Phoebe, how could you even think that?" Her sister yelled at her.
"Holly." Shannen looked at her sister
"What? I don't care, she has no right to say that. If she could see us right now upstairs and see what both you and I are going through she would think twice about what she just said."
"You think so Pipe. Did she ever come to see me in the hospital? And what about after I was home. I don't seem to recall the concerned, helping, big sister. As usual she shut me out of her life."
There was silence in the Manor and after a few minutes Grams came in from the attic. She could see the look on her older granddaughter's face and was instantly worried. "What happened?"
"Nothing that hasn't happened before Grams." Alyssa told her and stormed up the stairs.
Grams turned to her other two granddaughters.
"Don't worry Grams we'll work it out. I think its just too many emotions for her to deal with lately. She was upset long before we had to make this trip. And now having to relive this whole thing. It's just taking its toll on her." Holly told their grandmother.
"I hope so, you three have a demon to vanquish. If this was your most vulnerable time I can see why. But if the problems you are going through have anything to do with home, I can't help you."
"We'll do what we came here to do Grams. In that, she has never let us down." Holly told her.
"Well I hope in this case its still true." Grams said as she walked away
"Ok, what the hell just happened there." Shannen asked
"I don't know, but maybe we should go and find out." Holly said as she headed for the stairs
"Holly, I'm going to go sit with Phoebe in case our friend comes by. See what you can get out of our sister." Shannen suggested as she left the Manor, leaving, once again, the middle sister to fix everything.
She walked out of the Manor not saying another word. She drove to the hospital and made her way to Phoebes room. Pulling up a chair she sat with her baby sister for the first time. Picking up her hand she gently rubbed the back of it.
"Oh Phoebs, please come back. I know we never really got along at this point in our lives, but just know that I have always loved you. You were my baby girl when you were born. God I was so happy, I couldn't wait to go to school the next day to tell everyone that I had a new baby sister. You were now, in this time, and are now, in ours, the most important thing in my life. I know what will happen here now, and that in the end you'll be ok, but I still hate to see you like this. It's also tearing up the older you, I can tell. I also know that this is my fault, it was then and is now, the way that you feel about me. Oh god Phoebe, please wake up soon. I love you baby girl."
She sat with Phoebe for about an hour when she thought she heard her stir. "Phoebs is that you?" she ran her hand over the top of her sisters forhead
"Prue?"
"Oh baby, I thought you would never come back. Hang on I'll get a nurse."
Shannen called the nurse as she exited the room and then made her way to the phone at the nurses' station. She called Grams to let her know that Phoebe was awake, she could hear Piper in the background screaming with excitement as she got the news. She however did miss the tone of her own younger voice.
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By the time the doctors and nurses had finished with Phoebe, the rest of the family had arrived at the hospital, with Piper in the lead. As they all entered Phoebes room Shannen noticed that Prue held back a little. Oh man what was I thinking? She thought to herself, as she recalled her own actions that day..
"Phoebs sweetie how are you?" Piper asked her little sister
"I can't feel my legs Piper. Oh god." As she started to cry Piper instantly was up on her sisters' bed just holding her the best that she could.
"It'll be ok baby. We'll help you through this, Prue and I will never let you go."
"Prue. She was here."
"No baby she came with Grams and me."
Holly and Shannen shared a look but nothing was said.
They had stayed with Phoebe that night. Shannen and Holly in one chair as Piper slept on the bed with her sister. Prue was in the hospital but nobody was sure where. Alyssa had gone to look for her at one point and she had even found her, in the chapel crying. Again she could not go to her older sisters' younger self. She didn't now why, but she was sure that it had everything to do with the fact the Prue never came to her.
Alyssa was walking back to the room when she saw him, well at least she thought it was him. She was definitely sure when he placed a hand on the door that occupied Phoebe. When she saw this she ran towards the door and hoped that she would get there in time.
As she came to the door she pushed it open hard startling her sisters.
"Piper freeze." She yelled out
The demon was standing right over Phoebe and Piper. He had a syringe of some sort resting on the tube that ran to Phoebes arm.
"Prue now!" She called out
Shannen pulled the potion from her pocket and threw it at the demonas the demon was just then starting to fight through Holly's freeze and moved at the time that the powder would have hit him.
"Stupid witches you can't stop me. What is written shall be done." He once again headed towards Phoebes bed. Only this time Alyssa stopped him with a roundhouse to the jaw.
"Stupid Witch."
He flung his hand at Alyssa throwing a bolt of energy. She saw it just in time to duck out of the way, unfortunately she was not fast enough as the bolt hit her shoulder.
"AAUUGGH!" she fell to the floor as Holly froze the room again.
"Oh god Phoebs are you ok?"
"Augh. NO it hurts like HELL Prue. Oh god make it stop." She said between tears all guises again abandon as the true sisters came out
"Ok come on lets vanquish his ass." Piper said
The two older P's held the hand of the youngest
Plimsoul you are not of this time,
The Power of three send you back in time
Now and forever.
Never to return here again.
No more to travel are thy
As we commit you to hell .
Now and forever
Never to return here again.
They repeated it three times. On the final time they each threw a satchel of the potion that Grams had made. As he burst into a wall of flame and was gone, each sister let out a small sigh of relief.
"Are you ok Phoebs?" Her older sister asked
"I will be." They both said.
Startled at the sound of the younger Phoebe. They once again had to put on their act.
"Come on Alyssa, lets get you home."
"Shouldn't we tell Grams that were leaving?" Holly asked
"Ok look, you stay with her and I'll tell Grams that he's gone." Shannen gently handed Alyssa over to Holly.
After finding Grams and telling her that they had vanquished the demon they bid their good byes.
"Oh my dears. Take care of each other, as I know that you will. And Phoebe know that your sisters will help you through this." She told her youngest granddaughter. "And Prudence. Don't be so hard on yourself. They have to try and stretch their wings every now and again."
"I know Grams. It's just tough sometimes."
"I know dear. Oh I know." She reached over and held her girls close. "Be safe my darlings."
Prue and Piper supported Phoebe in between them as they said the spell to get them home.
'A time for everything and to
Everything its place.
Return what has been moved
Through time and space.
They found themselves in the attic again holding Phoebe.
"Oh god it still hurts." She cried out.
"Ok honey here, lay down on the bed." Prue guided her to the old bed that was in the attic
"Leo! If you're here, get you ass up to the attic. If not get your Whitelighter ass down here." Piper called out for her husband.
Leo came running through the attic door. "What? What happened?"
"Demon happened. Can you heal her?"
"I should be able to." He placed his hand above Phoebes shoulder where the bolt had hit her. His hand started to glow immediately, and with that it started to heal Phoebes shoulder.
Looking up to her new brother in law. "Thanx Leo." She said weakly.
"An time sister." He answered back with a smile