Phoebe sat on the floor leaning against the chair looking dazed across to the couch to her two, sleeping, older sisters. One was carrying her niece and the other lost in a sorrow of never having children. The words kept repeating over in her mind. 'The attack from Shax.' It was the same reason Piper nearly couldn't have carried either. And now for Prue, it was a reality.

As she thought of Shax she couldn't help but now blame herself for Prue's situation. If she had never gone after Cole. She would have been there to help them.

"I know what you are thinking Phoebe and it isn't your fault."

Phoebe met Pipers gaze. "Isn't it?"

"No." Piper eased herself from under Prue and moved and sat down with Phoebe. "It is evils fault. They would have come here after us anyway. Leo said they did once before and we still went through that wall. You were up getting the spell the first time. So if you had been here he would have done the same thing. This isn't your fault sweetie."

"I found the book." Phoebe tried another angle.

"Phoebe." Piper scolded. "It isn't your fault. Prue or I would have found it if you hadn't. Grams always said things happen for a reason."

"Prue not having kids. I can't see the reason to that. She'd make a great Mum. Any kid would love to have her as theirs." Phoebe looked over at her sleeping sister, "I did." She added quietly as she brushed back a tear.

Piper reached her arms around Phoebe giving her a hug. "So did I. But she said there are options that her and Bane just need to look at. I can see her bringing happiness to someone. She just won't get the chance to let the someone grow inside her."

"Maybe." Phoebe leaned against Piper still reeling at Prue's bomb she had dropped on their sister night.

Leo sat with his beer in his hand twisting it around, he wasn't even sure what to say. Bane had told him what the Dr. Williams had said and he wondered if there was something he missed when he healed her that day, after Shax attacked. "So now what?"

"Well, he said we have a few options. Adoption is one. But I'm not sure. Prue and I'll have to sit down and talk about it. It's going to take sometime before we decide. Prue was pretty upset. I think we should wait till it's really sunk in and she is ready to move past her hurt and anger."

"Bane this is Prue. You know she will deal with it today, maybe tomorrow and you and her will be trying to figure out your answers."

Bane looked at Leo. "I know. But I want her to take her time with this. This is not like a demon attack, where she flings it away and they vanquish it. Gone forever. This is our life. Our future."

Leo patted Bane on the back. "She'll take what she needs and then you will have that future."

Piper pushed back the pain that was tearing through her body, "Ahh. What happened?"

Leo guided her up gently to a sitting positions, "You guys almost died, that's what happened."

Piper took his hand and pulled herself up, before reaching for Prue, "Yeah, well, what else is new?"

Prue looked around the Manor seeing where her and Piper had gone through the wall, "Oh, where's Shax?"

"Gone. I got back in time to save you two. But…"Leos eyes cast towards the broken window at the front of the house.

"Dr. Griffin." Piper said quietly.

Prue looked at Leo, "Where's Phoebe Leo?"

"With Cole. I had to come back. The Source reset time. This has all happened before, but that time everything was wrong. You were exposed and Piper was killed."

"So this time what? You leave her down there and.." Prue started her fear for her sister making her turn her anger on her brother in law.

"You almost died, Prue! I could feel you slipping away, but something else seemed to happen and here you are."

The words repeated. "You almost died, you almost died, you almost died."

"No shut up no it isn't true I wouldn't leave them. Stop stop stop STOP."

"STOP" Prue sat up clutching her head as tears came freely. She buried herself into the chest of the man who now held her.

"Ssshhh Prue. We'll work it out. I got you now." Bane rocked her gently in his arms to calm her. He heard the door open partially and saw the figure standing at the door. "I got her Piper. Thanx"

"Ok. I'm down the hall if you need anything." Piper closed the door quietly and saw Phoebe leaning against her doorframe.

"She's been having nightmares since I came back you know." it wasnt a question, just a fact Phoebe was stating.

"I know." Piper moved next to Phoebe who leaned onto her sister.

"I think somewhere inside she knew this day would come. That what happened that day changed something forever."

"Maybe. Go back to bed." Piper gave her sister a kiss on the cheek and went to her own room.

Phoebe starred at the closed door across the hall. She understood Prue's pain on some level. She may have lost a part of her love, but she knew she would find it again, and still be able to create something wonderful from that. Prue would never get that chance.

Several days later Prue leaned up against Bane sitting in the conservatory.

"So when are you going to tell them?" he asked as his arms tightened his hold around her. They had made a decision that she was hoping, no they were hoping, that Piper and Phoebe would agree and support their decision.

"Tonight. Piper has the night off and Phoebe is still fighting that cold, so she isn't going anywhere tonight either."

"Do you want me there?"

Prue turned around in his arms and sat up on his lap, "This is as much you as me."

"I just want you to be happy Prue."

"I am. And with this I know I will be even happier. The first time we hold that small child in our arms." She leaned down and kissed him, tasting the love they shared.

In a fluid smooth motion, Bane stood up as Prue's legs instinctively wrapped around his torso. He held her tight as he walked up the stairs to their room. Laying her back on the bed. That one kiss of love became something much more deep and intimate.

She lay there with her back against him. Spooned to a perfect fit. "You never cease to amaze me."

"I could say the same about you." He placed a kiss on the inside of her neck as he held her to him.

She didn't say anything more she just lay there in the arms of the man she loved, though also thinking of the conversation she would have with her sisters that night.

Phoebe had moved to the couch after dinner and pulled the quilt around her. She felt the gentle touch on her forehead and looked up to meet the brilliant blue eyes of her oldest sister.

"This thing still got you kicked hey sis."

"I just wish it would either just give me a flu or something or go away. I swear I am going to have to buy shares in a Kleenex factor."

Prue slid in behind her baby sister. She always felt bad when any of them got sick, but she also knew it was worse with Phoebe. She had always been one to get any kind of bug bad. And Prue hated it when she got sick for in her eyes Phoebe would always be her baby girl.

Piper and Leo walked out of the kitchen and sat across from them in the big chair, as Bane had followed close behind, taking up a seat on the other chair. He knew this was something Prue would have to do in her own time so he just looked over at her but said nothing.

Prue got up and placed a kiss on the top of Phoebes forehead, before moving over and sitting on Banes lap.

"Guys Bane and I have made a decision on our options and we wanted to share them with you. But keep in mind this is something that will effect all of us."

Piper and Phoebe looked at each other both knowing they would support their sister no matter what.

"This is also something that was not easy for me, and it is a huge request for me to even ask." She looked over at Piper and smiled as Leo subtly placed an arm around her. "Bane and I want our child to be a part of us; who we are. We considered adoption, but that child wouldn't be us. And if it were a girl she would not have our family's heritage. Dr. Williams other option was to use a surrogate mother. He also suggested someone close." She held her hands in a prayer and placed them at her mouth. "We both talked about this into more then one very long night, but in the end the decision wasn't that hard as one factor isn't even an option." Prue continued as she shared looks with both her sisters, "I can not put an innocent woman in danger because she is carrying the child of a Charmed One. And we both feel that the person to carry the child should be family. Therefore, if anything did happen, we would all be there to protect the child and the person carrying the child. Piper is already carrying a child into her third month." Prue cast her gaze towards Piper, giving her a smile, before turning to Phoebe. She held her baby sisters eyes to her, gauging for a reaction before she finished.

Phoebe sat listening to her sister. Her heart breaking still, with the thoughts of Prue not able to have her own child. But then as Prue now looked at her and her words took effect she realized what Prue was really saying or telling them.

Piper had sat with Leo listening to everything Prue was saying and took in what Prue was looking for in her last sentence. She cast a glance over towards Phoebe waiting for a reaction when Prue finally spoke the question on her mind.

Prue kept her gaze to Phoebe but wasn't sure what to say. "Phoebe. I know this is a lot for me to ask of you right now, bit all I am asking is for you to think about it. This is the only way we can have this child: our child and keep it safe."

Phoebe felt stunned and shocked at first. But then something inside her turned to a level of anger she wasn't sure where it came from.

"Prue I…..." She felt tears welling behind her eyes and escaping down her face. She couldn't say it, in her mind she was screaming at her sister, yet in her heart it was crying for her. She quickly got off the couch and looked around the room meeting everyone's gaze. "I..I can't." her tears streaming like a waterfall as she ran out of the living room. Grabbing her jacket she rushed out the front doors leaving everyone in shock and one sister heart broken.