A/N: I am so sorry for the wait! Here is another chapter of Collapsed! Enjoy!

Chapter 9

"Phoebe, I'm sorry," Piper said, "He killed her. I'm not going to deny that Cole's the Source when he killed our baby sister."

"Cole isn't the Source, he's mortal, he has no powers. Don't you think I would know if he was a demon?"

"That's not something someone just blurts out Phoebe, especially if they're the Source!"

"I am leaving. Paige I'm glad you're alright but I can't handle this anymore."

"Phoebe wait!" Paige cried out as she stood up. Piper held onto Paige even though she tried to shrug her off.

"I can't let you leave. Not when you hate me."

"Paige, I don't hate you. I could never hate you."

"Yet the only emotion I've seen beside anger from you is when I'm close to death. Phoebe if that woman didn't save me, I'd be dead."

"What woman?" Leo asked speaking up.

"I don't know- I just heard her voice. She said it wasn't my time, told Death it wasn't. The next thing I know I hear you two." Her older sisters looked at each other. A moment of anger dissolved with this new information.

"Paige, it was Prue who saved you," Piper said.

"Prue? But how? I don't understand?"

"She was able to stop you from crossing the border," Leo said, "I'll be right back." He orbed.

"My powers, I want my powers back. Here," Paige said handing Piper the final potion ingredient. Phoebe suddenly remembered that her powers weren't working.

"Paige, any demon could have… killed you, not Cole."

"It was Cole, it was the Source," Paige said, "I know what you think but if me being killed by him doesn't make you see the truth nothing will. I'm going to the kitchen, I want my powers back." She left the attic.

"I have to follow her," Piper said, "Just Phoebe, be careful. How you act around our baby sister and what you say to Cole."

After several minutes Phoebe was heading downstairs not sure what to think. She heard Paige get her powers back as she called for various things around the house.

"What now?" Paige asked. Phoebe nearly burst into tears as she heard Piper say a vanquishing potion and spell for the Source, whom they believed was Cole.

She saw the penthouse was empty when she returned and due to her sisters' suspicions decided to do some digging.

Over the next few hours Piper and Paige had made several potions and had written two spells when a wizard arrived in the Manor. After a talk with Leo, they decided to work with the wizard in taking the Grimoir and stopping Source's coronation.

"Do you think it'll end?" Paige asked?

"What?"

"Demon fighting? Well fighting the Source, anyway."

"I want it to end but I don't think it will," Piper admitted.

"So, what? We die fighting a demon?"

"I don't know Paige, I don't know," Piper said thinking of Prue.

"Why did she save me?" Paige said quietly have several moments of silence.

"What?"

"Prue, why'd she save me? She doesn't even know me?"

"You're her baby sister Paige. She never got to meet you and it wouldn't surprise me if she yelled at Grams and mom for giving you up. She kept us all safe, just because she doesn't know you she will do whatever she can to keep you safe."

"But how'd she know I wasn't supposed to die?"

"I don't really know, it may because of some destiny thing, destroying the Source," Piper said.

"How can we destroy Cole though? I mean Phoebe's married to him. Plus she isn't exactly pleased with us… with me."

"Once she sees the truth about Cole, she'll come back. She'll apologize to you. She'll be home soon, we'll have her back."

Several hours had passed as Phoebe continued going through Cole's belongings. She heard the elevator when she picked up an empty box of chocolates and was thrown into a premonition.

"Phoebe!" Cole called into the apartment. She had seen him talking to the Seer and a council of demons.

"Phoebe, what are you doing in here?" Cole asked.

"Are you the Source?" she asked her voice shaking.

"Well we have the Grimoir, now what?" Paige asked.

"We destroy it," the Wizard said.

"You said it was protected from us though," Piper pointed it.

"Just try," he said as Piper and Paige used several strong potions on the book. Piper and Paige sighed in defeat.

"Keep it," the wizard said.

A/N: I know it's not very long but I hope that won't stop you from reviewing!