Paige sat in her room thinking and wondering if there was anything she could do for Phoebe. She knew that it was her memories of Prue that were keeping her awake at night. But then her thoughts recalled the conversation she had with Piper when they got home from the park.
Paige had watched as Phoebe went up to her room and turned to see if Piper would follow her.
"I'll talk to her tomorrow Paige. She needs some time right now."
"Piper I think she has had four months of time. If you don't I will. I know I haven't known you two for very long but she is my sister too aand I care about both of you."
"I know Paige it's... It's just complicated that's all." Piper tried to explain to Paige something she herself didn't quite understand.
Paige made her way to the kitchen, she took the Tylenol and went back to the living room to find her sister not there.
Now Paige had stood outside Phoebes door and could hear her softly crying almost as if she was trying to hide it. She placed her hand on the doorknob yet could not bring herself to open it. She knew that this was something that Piper had to do. How could she comfort Phoebe on the loss of a sister she never even knew? She eventually turned and went back to her own room flopping back to her bed she soon felt herself falling to sleep.
"Hi Piper." Prue said quietly so as not to wake Phoebe.
"Wha? How?" Piper asked confused as she starred at her older sister.
"They sent me. Apparently our baby sister here is leading herself down a path of destruction. And that if it doesn't stop soon she just may find herself spending more time with me."
"Oh god." Piper said to Prue. As the tears that were welling up now escaped down her cheeks. "I miss you."
"Oh sweetie, I miss you two every day." Prue told her, as her own tears spilled out, as she reached for Piper across the bed.
Feeling the love that was always in Prues hugs, Piper cried for the love that was lost.
Finally breaking from the embrace Piper stood, and taking Prues hand on hers, she lead her older sister out of Phoebe's room to hers. Sitting on the bed she looked up at Prue, lost and scared. "Prue I don't know how to help her. She won't talk to me. She won't tell me what's wrong."
"Piper." Prue sat down beside her sister as they faced each other. Prue taking Pipers hands in hers. "She has always gone to you honey. You have to get her to talk to you. She is getting premonitions of demons and going after them alone. Look at what happened today. She almost died. But right now she doesn't seem to care. She feels that my death was some how here fault."
"I've tried Prue. She won't."
"Piper you have to get her to talk about it. She has to understand that what happened was not her fault. She has to move on like you have."
Piper looked into Prues eyes. "I haven't." She whispered as she broke the gaze that they shared as she looked down at her hands.
"Oh honey." Prue pulled Piper to her as she held her little sister. "Piper I know that you are hurting. I am too. I was so angry when I found myself up there. I tried to do everything to come back to you two. Grams and Mum helped me a lot. They also helped me to see that I am with you every day. You know me. I would never leave you two alone, I love you too much. But if this was our destiny then we have to help each other out. I will always be watching out for you two."
"It was you then wasn't it."
"What?" Prue looked at her sister inquisitively.
"That was you turning the pages after we found Paige."
"Yeah, that was me. And somehow you two knew it was me."
"Prue I don't know if I can do this. You were always there for us. You were our big sister."
"And I will still be here Piper. Just not in the living form. Just like Mum and Grams. Keep me in your heart and I will be here forever." Prue hugged Piper tighter. "Now the question is what about Phoebe?"
The two oldest Halliwell sisters sat like what seemed hours. The clocked ticked by, as they each seemed to be waiting. Waiting for something to happen. Each knowing what it was.
Phoebe tossed as a new nightmare invaded her sleep. She watched again and again, as the bolt of fire hit Piper. She was frozen and there was nothing she could do. She couldn't even comfort her sister in her last moments of life.
Then she watched as the two figures approached her. Slow and steady the apparitions came to her. She tried to pull back but the demons powers where holding her in place as she couldn't even scream out for them to stop.
"You killed us Phoebe. You may as well have thrown that fire ball yourself." Piper told her as she leaned forward to her sister
"And me through the wall. Its all your fault." Prue said once again shaking a finger in her face.
Phoebe could only watch as her sisters once again spoke to her of how it was her fault. They told her that she didn't really love them, that it was just an act. She tried to speak and tell them that she did love them and that she was sorry. She was sorry that she went to save Cole that day. She was sorry that she went to the park and that Piper had to come for her.
She closed her eyes and wished that her sisters would go away. Why couldn't they leave her alone? She knew it was her fault why did they have to keep telling her every night over and over?
She broke through the freeze that was holding her. She stood up and tried to run from them. But they were suddenly in front of her.
"Leave me alone. I loved you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." She called out to them.
"Not good enough Phoebe. You killed us. You were more interested in your own life then ours. You never thought of what the consequences would be when you went down there to save Cole."
"Prue I love you. If I ever thought." She couldn't finish her sentence. "I would never have gone."
"That's right Phoebe, you never thought. You just reacted as you always do." Piper accused.
"NO! I love you. Please. I love you both." Phoebe cried out as she fell to her knees holding her head in her hands. "I love you." She whispered out between her tears.
Piper and Prue had been lying back on Pipers bed. Talking about Phoebe and what she had been going through. Prue comforted Piper the best she could under the circumstances.
"I never got to say good bye Prue."
"I know honey. But neither did I. When I realized what had happened I demanded that after everything how could they take me away from you two. Then as I realized it was my destiny I just wanted to say good bye. To tell you two one more time that I loved you."
"But they wouldn't let you." Piper stated as a matter of fact.
"No. Not until now."
"And now its only because Phoebe is skating towards your same fate." Piper whispered. Cursing the elders silently that they could be so callous with a loved ones feelings.
Prue looked over at Piper, before reaching up and wiping away her tear that were once again threatening to cascade down her face, "Yeah. I'm sorry Piper."
"That's ok. It's not your fault. At least this time we can say good bye."
They continued to lie there when the scream, that echoed throughout the Manor, brought them to their feet and quickly out the door.
Bursting through the door as she had many times before. Prue rushed to her baby sister.
Phoebe was tucked up against her headboard clutching her knees to her chest. She rocked back and forth telling her sisters that she did love them and that she didn't mean for them to die. She apologized over and over.
Prue took her sister in her arms only to have her pull away.
"No leave me alone!" She cried out. "I let you die. I let you both die."
"No honey, you didn't. You did what you had to do." Prue spoke softly hoping to reach Phoebe as she pulled away from her.
"No I left you. I shouldn't have gone. You died because I left."
"No Phoebe. Listen to me. Listen to me." she repeated as she took her sisters face in her hands and made her look at her, "I died because it was my time. You and Piper were meant to go down this road with Paige without me. I love you Phoebe. And I would never blame what happened on you." Prue spoke with as much love as she could project to her baby sister. The one that was been torn apart by her own guilt.
Phoebe looked at the person sitting before her. To her it looked like her sister or was it just her mind playing tricks again. She was still sleeping and this was part of her nightmare. Prue trying to get her to let her guard down so she could once again tell her how much her dying was all Phoebes fault.
Phoebe turned away and saw Piper sitting beside her as well. She turned away from her sisters' gaze. Afraid of what she would say to her next.
"Phoebs. Honey. It's us. We are not a dream. We're both here for you." Piper said quietly as she carefully and slowly reached to her sister. She had seen the fear and confusion on her sisters' innocent face.
Phoebe looked from Piper and then to Prue. Then as she always did she turned her attention to her alarm clock. 3AM. Once again it was 3AM. Why did her nightmare always end at 3AM?
She looked again to her sisters. She starred at Prue with confusion. "Prue?" she finally whispered as she slowly reached forward and touched Prue's cheek. Pulling back instantly on contact, afriad of what she would to more so wouldn't feel.
"It's really me honey." Prue said softly back to her
Phoebe fell into her sisters arms crying for all the pain and sorrow she had felt for the past four months. Prue just held her as she had so many times when they were growing up.
"Let it out sweetie. I'm not going anywhere. Let it out." Prue said lovingly as she rocked her sister in her arms.
The two stayed like that forever. The oldest was once again calming the youngest. As it had so many times in the past. But would not remain in the future.
Piper felt the tears at the reunion before her. But she knew that the hardest part was still to come. Getting Phoebe to open up and then telling her that Prue was only there for a little while. That once again there big sister was going away.
