She felt her world spin and start to darken, as she felt each tear to the flesh, each bite down to her body. She tried to fight them off but she couldn't. There was too many and she was powerless with her hands behind her back.
She felt the grip one had quickly got on her throat as it bit down taking in her blood as she fought him and then nothing.
She screamed as she felt her knees weaken and she fell to the floor.
Prue turned quickly back to the door she had just exited and ran back to find her sister on the floor holding her throat and crying. She pushed back her anger she had for Phoebe then and was quickly at her side with her arm over her back. "Phoebe? Tell me what you saw."
Phoebe swallowed and tried to get the image from her mind. The blood that she saw as she watched her sister get killed. "Piper. They attacked her. She couldn't freeze them. Oh god Prue she."
"No she isn't. We've stopped your premonitions before, this will not be any different. Tell me exactly what you saw." Prue pushed, as she helped Phoebe back up to the bed.
Phoebe sat on the edge and ran through her mind everything, "She was in the desert. Her hands where tied behind her. A pack of coyotes attacked her. She couldn't even run as she was tied to the ground some how. Oh god Prue I felt everything she did. Every bite, every tear they made, as they ripped at her flesh." Phoebe held her head in her hands as her tears ran down her face.
Prue pulled her sister close as she had heard Phoebes words. "We'll get her back Phoebe. This is not going to happen. We have to believe in our magic." She held her sister feeling her body shake with each sob she made. "Come on. I got an idea" She suggested as she stood up and pulled Phoebe to her feet. Taking her hand she led them both to the living room.
"Prue I don't know." Phoebe look skeptical at the map they had on the table as Prue held one of Pipers necklaces over it.
"It's all we have Phoebe. Now come on it might take both of us to make this work." She said, as she took her sisters hand into her as they held the necklace over the map of the city and its outskirts and concentrated on the magic inside them.
They both felt the tug as the necklace circled over the city. Prue watched as it moved faster and was suddenly ripped from her hands and landed in the middle of the desert.
"Now what?"
"Now we go get our sister back. Vanquish who ever this is and then deal with any family issues." Prue quickly said as she grabbed Phoebes hand and started for the door.
Phoebe pulled at Prues arms before they left the room.
"Phoebe?"
"Leo." Was all she said as she saw Prues understanding. "We might need him too."
"LEO!" they both called out as their friend and whitelighter appeared in the room.
"I know. But we need to find out who this guy is."
"I don't care who he is right now Leo. I just want Piper back and then we will deal with the who." Prue shot back, though knowing Leo was hurting nearly as much as her and Phoebe were.
He looked at the sisters sympathetically. He knew they just wanted Piper back as much as he did. He stepped forward and took a hold of each one and they all disappeared into a bask of blue and white lights.
Prue quickly cast her eyes around the desert getting adjusted to the night sky and the light that the moon was casting down on them. She could feel Phoebe next to her and knew her youngest sister was doing the same as she was; looking for Piper.
"Prue." Phoebe started to run through the tumbleweeds and past the cacti as her eyes locked on one thing and one thing only.
Prue followed after her sister as she saw what Phoebe did. But what Phoebe didn't see, Prue did as she quickly waved her arm sending the animals away from her sisters. "Phoebe be careful." She cried out as she continued to look for more coyotes. She knew they would not frighten off easily.
"Piper. Oh God. Piper." Phoebe quickly fell to her knees and saw the blood on her sisters' stomach.
"Leo!" Phoebe yelled for him as she quickly applied pressure to Pipers stomach
"Phoebe? The coyotes." Piper looked up at her younger sister trying to push back the pain to her wounds.
"Don't worry about them. Prues got them under control."
Leo quickly held his hands over Pipers stomach as the soft glow ran over her body.
Prue was soon by her side when she felt the coyotes were done. "You ok sweetie?" she pulled Piper into a loving embrace.
"I'm fine. But it was pretty close there for a moment. I thought I was dog food." She answered as she leaned in against Prue. It was then she saw the bandage on Phoebe's head and arm.
"Phoebe. What the hell happened?"
"Long story. Lets just get you home so we can figure out who the hell this guy is." Phoebe answered as she turned to Leo for their ride back to the hotel.
Phoebe sat on the couch with her head in her hands. The pounding from the hit she had taken earlier that day, and the pacing and yelling her sister was doing now, was all leading to a killer headache. She just wanted to curl up and go to sleep and forget any of this even happened.
"I can't believe you! How could you not tell us? And don't give me some corny story on how you wanted to protect us. Didn't you learn from the first time with Cole?" Her anger almost boiled over as her sister sat on the couch with her head in her hands. Her other sister sitting behind her not saying anything. As much as she knew she probably wanted to.
"We are going to sit down and find out who the hell this guy is and vanquish his ass. And then we are going home and the three of us need a little discussion on your loyalties and not hiding anymore secrets." Piper stormed out of the room slamming the door behind her.
Phoebe didn't even lift her head for she knew Prue was still there and she did not want to see the disappointment in her eyes either.
"Phoebe. You do realize that you can't keep stuff like this from us. We are in this together and we need to trust each other. But you keep making it hard."
"I. I didn't want to. I wanted to tell you. But then I saw innocents getting slaughtered because of us. I thought if we hadn't confronted him."
"Wait. Confronted him? When did we confront him?"
Phoebe looked up at Prue, "I told you."
"No you didn't tell me. You told me that he killed innocents because he knew we were coming after him, you never said anything about us confronting him."
"That's how he knew we were there. We told him we would stop him at all costs."
Prue stood up and started to pace, "And in doing so we alerted him. His only reaction was a defensive one and he started to kill the audience to get to us."
Phoebe followed her sisters pacing as she put everything together.
"So the reason you never told us was so that we wouldn't confront him and he wouldn't know we were there and in turn saving the innocents." She looked over at her sister still seeing the guilt on her face. "Oh Phoebe. I'm not condoning what you did. But I understand now why. You were saving the innocents." She sat beside her sister and hugged her.
Pulling back, "I'll go get Piper. You see if you can figure out who this guy is."
"Ok. And Prue." She called out to her sister before she could leave, "I am sorry."
"I know sweetie. We'll talk about it later."
Prue spotted Piper outside across the street leaning against the cement wall watching as the water danced to a different song. She walked up and leaned against the wall beside her and just listened to the music and watched as the water shot up to the sky.
"How could she?"
"I think she thought she was helping."
"I could have been killed. She could have been killed. You said yourself he almost took off her head. She got off lucky with 14 stitches and mild concussion."
"And you pissed at her, hurts her more then anything." Prue said neither sister taking their eyes off the show, "Piper I'm not by any means condoning what she did. But there was more that she thought she told me. Apparently we confronted him before the show. And that was why she didn't tell us. If we hadn't confronted him then he wouldn't have killed the innocents. So the reason she did it was to save them. Which worked."
Piper listened to Prue and knew that what Phoebe did now made more sense. "So she thought once again with her heart and not her head."
Prue just smiled, "Yeah. I guess she did. Come on why don't we go back up there and see if the three of us can't figure it out together. Then we can figure out how to get her to start thinking with her heart less."
Piper smiled over at Prue and looped her arm in her sisters, "Well that will never happen so we will just have to try something else."
Prue opened up the hotel room door and froze in one place. After she got passed the mess she saw the figure on the floor buried under a pile of furniture and the splatters of blood on the walls and carpet. "Phoebe?"
Piper followed behind Prue as her own shock started to wear off. "What the hell happened?" Piper questioned, as she looked past all the furniture that was thrown everywhere.
As Prue moved the furniture off the body on the floor she soon realized it was not her sister
"Leo?" Piper quickly knelt beside him.
He felt his world return as he felt the gentle hand on his face,
"Leo. Come on."
"Piper? Oh god. Phoebe." he quickly sat up and saw the room around him.
"Leo what the hell happened?" Prue questioned their whitelighter as she looked in the other rooms for her sister.
"Phoebe and I were brain storming trying to figure out who this guy is. When suddenly we were attacked. They came from everywhere."
"Ok so where's our sister?" Piper asked as she looked at him.
He cast a glance from Piper then up to Prue. "I don't know." Was all he said, feeling their anger and fear.
