The soft beeping was the only sound heard in the sterile white room. A sister on either side of the small hospital bed, each one trying to decide what to do.

Piper looked up at Prue now and then but her older sister held her gaze to Phoebes face. She knew the decision they had to make had to come more from Prue then her. Phoebe had been carrying her child. Her baby.

"I can't make this decision Piper. I can't choose between them." She wiped away a stray tear that was working its way down her face.

"I know, and all I can do is support you Prue. She has your baby not mine. It isn't like it's just her. Then I know we would both say let her live. Leave her hooked up to all these machines and see if she makes it on her own;.but its isn't just her." Piper felt the lump in her throat as she reached over and took Prue's hand in hers. "What would she want Prue?" those few words. Piper was helping Prue decide. She knew what Phoebe would say if she could.

Prue took a deep breath and gave Pipers hand a gentle squeeze. "I know what she would want Piper, I always have. I can't do it. I can't let her die." She looked up at Piper for the first time since they had sat down beside Phoebe, "She is my baby too."

Darryl handed Bane and Leo a cup of coffee before casting a glance towards the door where he knew emotions were raw. "Anything yet?"

"No. They've been in there for over an hour." Leo looked at the door but then down at his coffee.

Bane never said anything. He wanted to be in there with Prue; for her and Piper. He knew this was a hard decision on the two of them but more so on his wife.

He looked up at Darryl. "Where is the bastard that did this?" his emotions where seeing a new target for his anger.

Darryl looked up at Bane; "He was pronounced DOA."

"Lucky for him." He paced away from the room but saw how Darryl and Leo were looking at him. "Lucky he is dead. For if he wasn't he would wish he was."

The other two knew exactly what Bane meant. He still had a lot of connection to his other life. And if the man had lived and Phoebe and or the baby died. The man would feel the pain that the girls where going through now. Or as close has he could see to it.

Prue ran her hand over the top of Phoebes head brushing back the hair from her face, "Remember when she dropped that water balloon on Mrs Sampson?"

Piper looked up briefly to Prue who seeming was now lost in a memory. One she recalled all to well. "And her five year old mouth getting her further into trouble."

Prue smiled as she remembered the look on the old ladies face, "I thought she was going to have a heart attack right then and there."

"Well Phoebe was right though .Se did always seem to need a shower."

"Yeah, but she didn't have to tell her to her face after soaking her with that balloon."

"Balloons Prue. There was more then one remember? Seems to me she had a little accomplice at the time too." Piper looked back, "And didn't he grabbed the hose and go running around the yard yelling here comes the fire engine?"

"Randy Morgan." Prue recalled her sisters' childhood friend. "And soaking us and anyone else in sight as Phoebe pulled off more hose and turned it up. Man those two went everywhere together"

"Till high school and he had to move away. She was so heart broken."

A blanket of silence once again fell over the room.

"I wonder what ever happened to him?" Prue asked out loud but wasn't really looking for an answer.

Piper looked back down at Phoebes sleeping figure, "Probably became a fireman. He learned at a young age."

"Yeah. Probably." Prue agreed, but was soon lost in more memories of her sister.

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Dr. Williams eased open the door and saw Prue and Piper both seemingly asleep with their heads beside Phoebe. Turning to leave he stopped at the faint voice.

"Prue. I didn't want to wake you."

"I wasn't sleeping." She looked up at him and then turned her focus back to Phoebe.

"I see." He made his way towards the heart broken woman before him. "We need to talk Prue."

She cast a glance at him and noticed Piper looking at her. They had talked a bit but were yet to decide what to do.

"Prue I know you love you sister. I know you both do. And I know how much this baby means to you. But whatever you do decide there is no guarantee of the outcome. If we keep Phoebe on support for the baby she may still come along too. But there is no guarantee. And there is no guarantee if we do this the baby will make it."

Prue looked back at Piper and then to Phoebe. She placed a hand gently on the top of her sisters' head. Finally leaning forward she spoke softly. "I love you. Don't you ever forget that." Sitting back down she reached over and took Pipers hand in her. She saw the tears once again welling in her sisters' eyes, "I'm sorry."

Piper gave her a weak smile through her tears. She knew what Prue was doing. It didn't hurt any less knowing before her sister said it. But it was a pain that would never go way. She leaned up and placed a kiss on the top of Phoebes head. "I love you." She gave Prue's hand a squeeze before walking out of the room and into her husbands' arms.

Bane looked on as Piper came out of the room holding Phoebe. "You better go in there Bane." Leo looked up at his friend knowing what was going on.

Bane looked at Leo a moment before stepping towards the door. He saw Prue with her head in her hands crying. Making his way towards her he pulled her towards him.

"I couldn't do it Bane. I couldn't choose."

"Ssshhh. It's ok. Everything will be ok."

"No. It won't I gambled both their lives. I couldn't pick."

"You did. You gave them both a chance Prue." He held her in his arms, as her tears became steadier with the loss she was enduring.

Prue sat in her sisters bedroom at the Manor, twiddling with the small bow around the neck of her favourite Bear. It had been two weeks since she had told the doctors to save her baby. But she also told them to do what they could to see that Phoebe lived as well. She wanted her child to know the wonderful person that carried her, her Auntie Phoebe. She had gambled with both their lives. She could have just saved Phoebe and tried again with her own child. But memories came to her when she sat there looking at her sister.

Piper leaned against the doorframe to Phoebes room looking at Prue. She had been so distance the last few weeks. And everytime her son cried Piper noticed how Prue would disappeared from a room. Now she stood there watching her strong confident sister beat herself up on a decision she had made. Walking in the room she sat on the bed with her son in her arms, "Hey."

"Hi." Prue didn't even look up. She titled her head against the headboard and looked up at the ceiling.

"Your nephew misses you."

"Piper."

"Prue. He is still here he isn't going anywhere. We both are losing her. Not just you."

"It was my choice."

"Our Choice Prue. I know seeing him reminds you every day of that choice WE made. But you can not go on ignoring him forever."

Prue looked at Piper and down at her nephew. "She came to me. In a dream."

Piper starred at Prue. "Excuse me?"

"Phoebe. That night when the doctors told us. I was drifting in and out of sleep and she came to me. She told me to save my baby. She couldn't go on if she had to go through the pain of loss again. And she didn't want me to feel it like she had with her son." Prue wiped away a tear that was starting down her face.

Piper looked down at her son. Prue had never mentioned this before now. "Prue why didn't you say anything?"

"I didn't know what to say Piper. I wanted to honour her wish but I also knew I couldn't live without her in my life. And now."

"Now. Now they will both make it sweetie."

"We don't know that Piper."

"We have to believe it Prue. We could have had them go in there and take that child out of Phoebe killing her. Or we could have waited till the baby was a bit older and taken it then placing it in an incubator, but losing Phoebe at that time. Giving her enough life to sustain through the pregnancy. WE choose to give them both a chance Prue. Letting the baby grow to term inside our sister. Risking them both."

Prue looked into Pipers eyes and could see Phoebe inside them. They both had those deep chocolate eyes that would almost swallow her up. "When she wakes up she is going to kill us both isn't she?"

Piper took Prue's hand in hers, "Probably. But she is a fighter Prue. You'll see. It will all work out."

Dr. Williams ran into the room to a constant garble of medical terms. Alarms were ringing in every corner. "What are you doing?"

"I have to save one of them."

"It isn't your decision. Her sisters already decided weeks ago. You can not go against the families wishes."

"I can if it means saving one. Right now they are both dying! Listen to it doctor. She's crashing. And if we lose her we lose the child." He turned back to his medical team. "Get her prepped. We are taking out the baby."

"NO! I will not allow it. She is my patient as much as yours, maybe more." Dr. William's stepped between the other doctor and Phoebe. "Nurse. Call her family. Let them know what is going on. Its there decision Doctor. Save one or lose them both."

The other doctor stepped back. "Your call Williams. But the board will hear of this." He turned and left the room.

Dr. William's looked down at Phoebe as alarms still rang, "Get her stable. I want to know the minute we have one of her sisters on the phone. I'll be the one to tell them their sister is dying."