Piper's POV

"Piper, you can open your eyes now." Leo softly said in my ear. I slowly opened my eyes and found us standing behind Prue and Phoebe, whom were in each other's arms sharing a sisterly hug. I remained where I was, nice and safe in Leo's arms with my head against his chest. I could hear his heart beat.

How could I be so calm right now when my life had been turned upside down again? How could I be so calm when I just found out that my beloved mommy had slept with another man besides my daddy. How could I be calm when I just learned that my mommy had hurt my daddy in such a hurtful fashion? How could I be so calm ...

Leo's arms tighten around me and his head rested onto of mine. I knew that he was offering what comfort he could in my time of need. He didn't have to say anything, I knew that he knew that this was enough. It was enough that I had Leo's heartbeat in my ears and his arms loving around me. I closed my eyes once more as I wrapped my arms around him.

I suddenly opened my eyes and pulled away from him. I was with Dan now, how could I fall into Leo's arms so easily. I was just like my mother. The apple doesn't fall from the tree. Mom was a cheater and so was I.

"Piper ..." Leo said holding out his right hand to take mine, I backed away from him and shook my head.

"I'm not like her, I'm not her." I whispered as I felt tears in my eyes.

"You aren't like who, Pip?" Phoebe asked as she rushed over to me.

"I'm not mom." I said in a rough voice.

Phoebe blinked in surprise. "Where did that come from?"

Prue walked up and stopped beside Phoebe, "You are more like mom than either Phoebe, and I. You not only have her power, but you have her heart and her soul." She softly said.

I swallowed around the lump in my thoart. I looked over at Leo, and shook my head. "I can't be like her. I can't cheat like she has." With that I turned and I ran away.

"PIPER!" I heard my sisters scream after me.

Leo's POV

I held up my hands, "Let her go, she needs to be alone right now." I said stepping in front of Phoebe and Prue as they were about to follow Piper.

"What the hell happened at the manor, Leo?" Prue wrapped her arms across her chest as she glared at me.

I sighed deeply.

"What's going on?" Phoebe asked as she looked at me than at Prue, than back at me in confusion and in fear.

"What did Piper find out at the manor, Leo?" Prue growled once again.

"Patty's affair with Sam." I said with a deep sigh. I looked into Prue's eyes and didn't find the surprise or shock in them that I found in Phoebe's. Prue was eight at the time, so I knew that this news wouldn't have surprised her in the least.

Phoebe's POV

"Mom's what?" I gasped, gaping at Leo. What the hell is he talking about?

"Phoebe..." he started, reaching out to put a calming hand on my shoulder. I shrugged him off and backed away from him. "Phoebe I'm not trying to hurt you,"

I felt Prue put a hand on my shoulder, and I just glared at Leo. "I don't know what you found out but I am sure it is a freaking lie from those Elders,"

"Phoebe-,"

"You always side with them on issues," I shot at him.

"Phoebe...that's enough..." Prue murmured. "Leo just say what you have to say...we have a demon to vanquish...so lets make this quick,"she said waving her hand.

"Prue," I said aghast.

"Phoebe, honey..." Prue sighed, "I know this is something we don't want to hear..."

"What does this have to deal with the water demon?" I shot at her, then turning to Leo. "I don't want to hear anything about this...we should just vanquish the water demon already,"

"I don't think Mom's affair is really an issue here. In fact is was probably his fault that she died," Prue muttered. "He was always at the manor," Prue glared at Leo. "Anyways, that really-,"

"Sam was at the manor..." I murmured softly. Leo once again tried to reach out for me, but I just shook my head. "Excuse me," I sighed, walking towards the forest, wiping my eyes slightly as I went.

Sam's POV

My head was tilted up wards towards the trees. I could see the blue sky peeking in between the green leaves that were just beginning to turn brown, red, orange and yellow. The colors of Autumn. Patty's favorite season. My mind drifted back to the one Autumn day when Patty allowed me to join her at the park. Prue, Piper and Phoebe were there playing. Well Prue and Piper were playing, Phoebe was still too little to play away from her mother. No, Phoebe was sitting between Patty and I happily playing with the leaves that had fallen onto the blanket.

Sam. I felt the voice sign softly around me, I turned around fully expecting to find her. But of course I didn't see her. She was dead. Ever since I clipped my own wings, I couldn't see her spirit. I denied every access that I could have had with her, the moment I realized she was taken from me. From her girls. From our daughter.

I felt my anger rise once more, and bile lodged into my throat threatening to come out. But because of the lump that had lodged itself firmly in place, I just tasted the evil bile. I didn't care. Not one bit. Why the hell should I? When the two most important people were taken from me? First my daughter, whom I haven't seen since the second day of her life, than Patty.

Sam. The voice ... her voice ... tried again. I just harden my heart and shut my ears to the pleading that I heard. I wasn't ready, I would never be ready. The only thing that I will do for her is to protect her three daughters, that was it. Once I managed to send the three home without facing the water demon, than I will move on.

It won't be that easy, Sam. The girls won't leave until they have vanquished the water demon. Just help them, that is all you have to do. Just allow them to know what had happened.

"No!" I said in a voice that, said I had made up my mind, and that was that. I shut my eyes once more, and didn't hear the voice again.

"YOU BASTARD! YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" My eyes opened up, and I turned around, just in time to see Piper's fist fly. I felt a hard jolt to my jaw and knew that Piper had made contact.

Piper's POV

I drew my hand back and quickly rained punches and jabs against Sam's chest as I screamed at him. I don't know what I screamed at him, but bits and pieces have made their way into my mind. I was too angry, I was too much in a rage to give a damn at what I was saying. I allowed my rage to fill me and allowed my tongue to have it's day. I felt my feet get in the action and make contact against Sam.

Victor's POV

Piper has learned the truth.

I knew she would. I sighed as I looked at the spot between the trees where I could see the lake. The lake where my beloved Patty had lost her life. All due to the water demon. All due to because I wasn't there to protect her. Sam was. Sam shouldn't have been the only one by Patty's side that day. I could have figured out that Patty's powers would have caused her death due to the water demon, I could have been the one to stand at the end of the dock and faced the demon. Than Patty would still be there for our daughters, still be there for Paige.

The girls need you, Victor, I had lived out my destiny that day at the lake. It was meant to be. I was meant to die young.

Why? My soul cried out. Why was it that you were meant to leave behind your beautiful daughters. All four of them needed their mother. More than their father. Hell I wasn't there for OUR daughters, I didn't even want to be there for your and Sam's child. No, Patty, you weren't meant to die young. I was. I was the one whom should have been at the lake with you and Sam, it was I who was apposed to have vanquished the water demon. Along with myself.

Victor! Stop this self bashing. What is done, you can't change the past.

Can't I now. I smiled as I nodded tightly.

Victor, what is going on in your head?

Nothing, Patty, nothing at all. But all I can say is that I can ... I couldn't go on with my thoughts because at that moment, Piper's screams filled the air.

"HOW FUCKING DARE YOU SEDUCE MY MOTHER! YOU FOUL STICKING DEAD MAN! HOW FUCKING DARE YOU USE AND ABUSE MY MOTHER!"

I rushed through the trees, and stopped dead, as I saw my baby girl beat the crap out of Sam. Sam just stood there and took it. I had to end it. Not for Sam, he was all ready dead, but for Piper. I rushed over and wrapped my arms around my daughter and pulled her into me. She struggled to get lose, "It's just me, Piper, daddy. Stop fighting sweetheart." I said into her right ear as I managed to just barely hold onto my struggling daughter.

Prue's POV

I sighed as I watched Phoebe walk away, and saw Leo attempting to go after her. "Leo leave her be," I advised "You have no idea what she went through in high school...I wasn't so kind about how she acted. Frankly, hearing that Mom did what she did..." I sighed, running a hand through my hair. "It probably brought memories of 'Freebie,"

"Freebie?" Leo questioned a little confused.

"Phoebe didn't talk about it much," I sighed. "Probably the main reason why she never wanted to be at school was to get away from the harassment...and when I finally caught wind of it, she pretty much wanted to quit school,"

"I don't remember ever seeing that," Leo murmured.

"Didn't watch as close as I did...apparently I have a habit about that, considering Mom and...Sam were always holding hands, or touching each other. I just thought that they were good friends...I never would have thought that Sam and Mom were ever together," I said with a light shake of my head.

"You remember Sam and your mother..." Leo started.

"Not very much Leo," I sighed aggravated. "It is all blurry. Plus I was like only...five or six at the time...I think..."

Leo's POV

"Five." I said. Prue looked at me with shock than slowly in anger. "I was assigned your family, Prue, from the first moment that I became a white lighter. I knew about Patty and Sam."

Prue squinted her eyes.

"You were five, just ready to turn six." I said tucking my hands in my jean pockets. "The final set of divorce papers came in the mail that morning."

"They got it on that day! What the moment that mom was free ... they decided to hit the sheets." Prue's voice rose in incredibly. "Sam slept in the same bed that was my mom and dad's!"

"No! Patty was broken that the divorce actually was final, Sam wanted to just comfort her. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into a comfortable hug. As friends. But one thing led to another and they shared their first kiss." I said in a soft voice. "It was a comfortable kiss that quickly grew into need."

"So they did it right there and than!" Prue said with a voice of steel.

"No," I said. "They both realized what they were doing, and they quickly pulled away. They promised each other that it would never happen again."

"But it did." Prue hissed.

I nodded. "But Patty never stopped loving Victor." I looked into her eyes. "Victor found out. He was hurt of course. But he forgave Patty. He understood." Prue shook her head and I knew that she was pushing all the emotions from her. I waited for her next words.

Prue had a look on her face as she looked over at the woods. "I may not have been able to be there for Phoebe, much in the past. Not the way Piper was, she knew all about 'Freebie'. How could she not know, she was just two years ahead of Phoebe, and those two have always been the closets."

"You can't beat yourself up, Prue," I said putting a hand on her arm. "When I was a child, I was in the middle. I had two older brothers and five younger brothers. Yeah, I managed to be in school with three of my younger brothers, but even than I couldn't keep a sharp eye on my two youngest brothers." I sighed. "When you are a child yourself, it's hard to deal with your own experiences let along your siblings."

Prue looked up at me with slight anger in her eyes, "That's just it, Leo, I gave up my childhood when mom died. Victor wasn't around, and I knew he wasn't going to come back any time soon. Grams was old and shouldn't have had to deal with three young girls. I willing gave up my own childhood to help with my little sisters." She backed away from me. "I took mom's place in Piper and Phoebe's lives. Mom would have figured out that Phoebe was going through angst way before it got to the point that it did, when I figured it all out. Mom would have sat Phoebe down and got Phoebe to love herself. Than Phoebe wouldn't have had to go wild and destroy herself trying to find love in any guys pants."

Prue looked down, "If I knew what mom did with Sam, I wouldn't have even brothered." She looked back at me and I saw such anger in her eyes. "If I knew what mom truly was, than I would have left home at eighteen and never looked back."

Piper's POV

"Let me go, daddy, let me go. I have to get rid of this interloper whom had taken mommy away from me." I cried as I continued to fight for daddy to release me.

"No, Piper." He said in my ear as he moved his hand to try to get at me better, I used that moment and I managed to break away. I rushed at Sam and rammed into his chest, I felt him fall backwards and fell on top of him as I lost my balance. I just continued to beat him with my fists and my legs. I heard him groan as my knee made contact with his package. I smiled grimly as I rained even more punches against his chest, but that wasn't enough for me. I reached up and used my nails to scratch down his face.

I felt arms around my body and I was yanked away from Sam. I breathed deeply as I stared down at the fallen white lighter, the white lighter whom my mother had loved. The white lighter that my mother had given herself too. Body and soul.

"That's enough, Piper." Daddy's whisper entered into my soul.

I struggled once more, but his arms tighten around me and I felt myself turning and my head crashed into daddy's chest. I wrapped my arms around my daddy and finally broke down.

Victor's POV

"It's all right now baby. It's all right." I whispered as I ran my right down the back of Piper's head. "Everything is all right now. Everything is going to be all right."

Piper just sobbed harder in my chest. I looked over at Sam whom had gotten to his feet and started to turn away. He stopped when he felt my glare on his back. He turned slowly back around and simply watched Piper and I.

Piper finally got herself under control, enough so I could pull her away. I kept my arms firmly around her back. "Are you calm?" I asked looking seriously into her eyes.

Piper nodded. I tilted my head and she sighed deeply. "I won't kill Sam." I shook my head and squeezed a little firmer. "I won't beat the shit out of Sam, even through he deserves it after what he did to mom."

I sighed deeply. "I all ready forgave both Sam and your mother for their affair. For their love for one another."

Piper's eyes bugged out as she stared at me. "You knew, and you never said anything."

"What was I going to say, oh by the way girls, while mommy and I were divorced she slept with another man. Oh and not another man but Sam, her white lighter." I shook my head. "You three were still very little and it didn't concern you." I looked up and saw that Phoebe was behind a tree staring at me with wide eyes. I sighed, so she knew also. She backed away to be more hidden, and I could tell how truly troubled, and upset she was by her eyes. But I couldn't go to my baby girl, I had to protect Piper from herself.

Piper's POV

I lowered my eyes. "I can't believe mommy did that to you, daddy. You didn't deserve it."

Daddy sighed deeply. "Yes, I did. I left Patty." I opened my mouth to rush into a practical speech on how mom should have been true to him, no matter what. When he spoke once more. "I deserved to lose your mother, to another man."

"No, you didn't Victor." Sam spoke up behind me. I felt my body tighten up. I actually forgot that ... that freaking white lighter was still with us. I started to move so I could tell Sam to leave us the hell alone, when daddy's arms tighten around me. Preventing me from moving.

"Patty found a true soul mate in you, Sam. You understood about magic. You accepted Patty for whom she was, her entire self. You never abandoned her. Not like I have." Daddy's voice said with sadness tinting it.

Victor's POV

"I stole another man's wife, Victor. I never once did that while I was alive. I can't believe that I did it when I was dead. What because I'm not mortal any more, I can't live through God's commandments." Sam angrily shook his head.

I felt Piper tighten up in front of me, I the only thing I could do. I moved Piper behind me and I held her from behind, so she wouldn't break free and attack Sam again. "Sam, Patty and mine divorced was final by the time you two gave into your desires." I shrugged. "Patty was a free woman. She wasn't my wife. You didn't commit adultery."

Sam looked into my eyes, "Patty, loved you with her entire being, Victor. She never stopped loving you. You were always in the fore most part of her heart." I could see that he was speaking the truth, I couldn't tear my eyes away from him. Oh how I tried, how I wanted to stop the look of the truth that was staring in my face from the other man whom had known my beloved Patty in the most intimate way.

I love you Victor.

No! How can you when I hurt you so horribly.

That's why I loved you.

No! I hurt you every single day since I learned you were a bona fide witch.

But, darling, I knew that once you accepted the truth that there truly was magic in the world, that you would come back to me. You did, darling, you did.

You can't love me. Not after I abandoned you and our daughters. Not once but three times.

Why are you fighting the truth, Victor? Why are you so afraid to ...

I'm not afraid, Patty, I'm just pointing out the truth is all. You may have loved me on some level ... but I wasn't your soul mate, as you were mine. How can I be, when I didn't fully accept you for whom you truly were right away? Sam did. Sam was your soul mate, I understand it. I accept it.

Victor,

I closed my soul off from Patty's spirit.

"Daddy," I felt Piper's breath on the back of my neck. My eyes tore from Sam's open brown ones and I slowly turned to face my daughter. But I spied Phoebe once more. I looked into Phoebe's sad face before I turned to stare fully into Piper's confused and sad eyes. I sighed silently, Piper still truly needed me now, I couldn't comfort Phoebe.

I prayed that Phoebe would get the courage to come to me and her sister.

Phoebe's POV

I sighed as I saw Prue restrain Leo lightly from coming after me. As I continued to listen to Prue and Leo speak, I couldn't help but sigh. It looked like when Prue and Grams would bicker about her wanting to go to Seattle with Andy. Prue had been so deflated and angry. She didn't want to stay at home playing Mommy for me and Piper.

"I shouldn't have bothered," Prue grumbled angrily, "I should have left home when I was eighteen," I ran into the forest after that, and found myself slumping against a tree. I knew inside of me that Prue didn't mean it, but it hurt that she was talking about mom like that. I didn't bother wiping the tears anymore, I just let them flow down my face. Why Mommy? Why aren't you here right now? You talk with Daddy, but you never come for me...

I stood up seeing Prue and Leo in the distance. They were walking slowly, but I don't want to talk to them still. As I continued to venture deeper into the forest, I saw Piper attacking Sam. Just as I was about to shoot over to them, Dad pulled my sister off of the ex-white lighter. I continued to listen in on what they were saying. Dad knew about what Mom and Sam did...Mom loved dad...didn't she?

As he continued to comfort Piper, I saw his gaze coming on to me. His eyes were pleading me to move closer to him, but I shook my head. He made a hand gesture to have me come closer. I reluctantly started to head over towards him and Piper...

Victor's POV

I simply held out a hand for Phoebe to take, which she did. I managed to pull Phoebe into my other side, Piper had sensed her sister and had moved to make room for her. I pulled both of my girls closer to me as I comforted both of them.

I could sense Phoebe's confusion, "I loved your mother, with my entire heart girls. Yes, I was deeply hurt when I learned that she turned to Sam. But I understood. In time I forgave her. How could I not, she was my soul mate."

"As you were hers." Sam said in a gentle voice. I just looked up and glared at the man, I had felt both my girls stiffen up at the sound of his voice. Sam read correctly he just stood back and watched me comfort my daughters, he was being all white lighterly. Even through he had clipped his wings and vowed never to go back to that way of life. But Samuel Wilder had always been compassionate, even when he was still alive. That was why the Elders had given him the option when he had died.

Sam's POV

I knew that Victor still didn't believe that he was Patty's soul mate, I knew that he still doubted Patty's love for him. Not that she loved him, no Victor Bennett doubted how much Patty had loved him. Still loved him.

I sighed softly but deeply. I wanted to leave this father scene with his two daughters. But I was stuck here. Not because the freaking Elders wanted me here, no I wouldn't obey them again, not ever. I wasn't stuck here either because Patty wanted me here, no Victor asked me to remain. I owed Victor a lot, so against my own judgment and my own comfort, I remained. I remained with my eyes clued to the father scene in which I wish that I could have had myself.

But I had so given that up, when I willing given Paige up to that nun, when she was only two days old. What sort of father would do that. Victor would never do that. Yes, Vic left his children. Not once but three times. But he always willing went back to them. I gave my daughter up and I never went back to her. I never attempted to see her. She could be dead for all I know. But I would feel if she was dead, right? I am her natural father after all, and I would feel if my own child was dead. Wouldn't I?

Sam. I closed my soul from Patty's spirit. I couldn't handle Patty's voice. Not now. Not ever again. I had shut Patty out of my soul the moment that I found Prue staring out at the water yesterday. I knew that Prue would return with her sisters to vanquish the water demon. Patty had told me that it was her daughters destiny to face the water demon. Well, destiny or not, I was going to protect Patty's daughters. I won't allow them to face the water demon. Sam. No! Patty leave me the hell alone, I will do what I have to do.

Patty's POV

"Why is it that these two men aren't listening to me." I looked over at my mother, who was sitting beside me watching what was going on below. I sighed deeply in my thoart. "I wish I could tell Sam that Paige is safe. That she is with Victor."

"Why don't you? The Elders have not told you not too." Mom said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"It's complicated." I sighed as I shook my head.

"No it's not." Mom said in her motherly all knowing voice. "All you have to do is appear in front of Sam, and just tell him where Paige is. Where she had been the entire time."

"I can't." I repeated. I shook my head as the scene switched and I was looking down at my baby girl, Paige.

"I see." Mom said in a slight hard voice. "She's only twenty one, Patty, she's not old enough to run anyone's life, but her own. She doesn't have control or any real say in this matter."

"Looks who talking." I said as I looked briefly up at my mother than quickly back down at Paige. "She takes after you, mother, the most out of all four girls. She has your knack to think that she's right in all matters of the family. That only she knows what is best for the family."

Mom sighed beside me. I looked up once more, "It's the truth, mother," I said in a rough annoyed voice. "You always ran the house. Even when dad was still alive, it was you whom was the strongest in that marriage." I shook my head. "Even before my death, it was you whom had more control over my own daughters lives than I, their mother had."

"Patty," Mom began reaching out to touch me.

I just backed away and looked back down at my baby girl. "Paige does take after you the most, mother, but I pray that she won't go down the road that you have."

Penny's POV

I was hurt of course by what Patty had said to me. But I pushed back my own hurt as I looked back down at Paige. I felt pride stir in me, yes it was true that Paige was most like me. I had only been able to watch her for a little over a year after my death. But I had been able to receive her childhood memories from what Patty and the Elders have allowed me to see. I have watched Paige grow into a confidante and secure woman. I had felt that I was re-living my own childhood as I watched Paige grow more into me.

So it will be the youngest grandchild to run the family in my steed. I always figured it would be either Prue or even Piper to take my rein. But Paige is truly the best suited one to be the one to protect her sisters, and the future daughters of the family to come along.

"Mother," Patty's voice said in a slight high pitched. I looked into my only daughter's eyes with a 'what' look.

"I can't believe you." She sighed as she once again looked back down. "Patty, why can't you just inform Sam that his daughter is very much alive and happy. That she's safe." I reached over and put a hand on her shoulder. "You don't have to tell him that she's with Victor."

Patty sighed deeply. "I'm trying, Mother, but Sam has cut off all connections with me." She shook her head as she looked back down as the scene returned to the woods. I looked down myself and watched as Victor now had both Piper and Phoebe in his arms comforting them.

"What I don't understand is why Paige doesn't want anyone to know whom she truly is." I shook my head. "There isn't any danger any longer, concerning the Elders. They agreed to allow Victor to raise her."

Patty looked into my eyes. "That's your stubbornness speaking, mother. It's stubbornness plain and simple, that's keeping Paige from reviling the truth to her sisters and her father."

I looked down once more and I saw that the picture had returned back to Paige. I was beginning to understand why Patty was so upset over Paige being just like me in this one area.

Paige's POV

I know you guys are talking about me up there. I looked outside the window of my bedroom. So care to inform me of the conversion. Or will you come down here and talk to me.

I still need to be there for your sisters and your fathers.

Of course mother. I understand. But what I don't really understand why I feel such hard negative feelings coming from you. What have I done to mis please you?

Nothing, Paigey, nothing. I'm just concerned is all.

About what, mommy?

About this stubbornness that you have gotten from your grams. It's not healthy any longer.

How isn't it healthy?

Sam is worried sick about you. He doesn't even know if you are still alive or not. He's doubting his soul on being able to feel if you are still alive or not. Paige ...

I'm sorry mommy, I didn't mean for dad to be hurt so much with doubt. I wish that I could have orbed to him when I was small, after daddy rescued me. But I couldn't. I sensed him, but he was in such a ... My legs lifted up to my chest and I lowered my head onto my knees and I broke. I felt the sobs wrench from my body.

Paige, I felt loving arms wrap themselves around me. I allowed the essence of my mother's spirit to overwhelm my entire being. What's done is done. You can't change the past. Just go to Sam after the water demon is vanquished. And allow him to finally hold you like how he has been dreaming since we had to give you up.

I will. I promise. I felt my body relax and I fell into a peaceful sleep as I dream t about my reunion with my biological father.

Piper's POV

I felt Phoebe wrap her arms around my back as she reached to hug both daddy and me. I felt my soul calm even more. Not only with daddy's arms wrapped securely around me but with my baby sister's arms also. I could hear Phoebe's breathing along side daddy's heart beat.

I finally felt that I could pull out of this warm and loving father and daughters moments. I slowly lifted my head and kissed daddy's jaw. He smiled loving down at me. I smiled slightly back up. He read that I would be fine and that I wouldn't attack Sam any longer. He pulled away slightly so I could step out of his arms. I turned around to face Sam, with Phoebe at my side and daddy close behind me.

"I don't approve of what you and mom did, Sam. But I know that you didn't seduce my mother in her moment of weakness." I licked my dry lips. I looked into his eyes. "I know that my mother must have loved you enough to allow herself to give into her desires." I felt daddy's hand on my shoulder. I felt him squeeze it gently.

"You mother and I shared a pure love, Piper, Phoebe, but not the love that she and your father shared. Share." Sam said looking at me, than at Phoebe than up at daddy. Daddy's hand quickly dropped from my shoulders. Daddy, you do realize that you are mommy's soul mate right? That only you truly held her heart and soul.

"Sam, we need to know what happened that day at the lake. The day mommy faced the water demon and died." Phoebe spoke up.

Sam shook his head. "No!" He said in his hard and forceful voice.

Everything else can be dealt with later. Right now we had a demon to vanquish. We have innocents to protect. I moved away from daddy and Phoebe. I walked up and stood in front of Sam. "Samuel, you are going to tell us what happened that day, and you will help us vanquish the water demon." I said in my best firm no non sense voice.

Sam's POV

I blinked. Piper just looked like Patty just now. She still did. That was Patty's look on the day that she had her life taken from her. I was pleading with her not to face the water demon. That it truly wasn't her whom was to vanquish the water demon. I was just about to tell her what I had learned when ... nothing. She had frozen me. I became unfrozen just in time to see the water demon rise from the water and overcome my beloved Patty. I was too late, I couldn't reach her in time. She was dead by the time she hit the dock.

"I can't, Patty, I can't." I whispered. "Please don't force me."

Piper's POV

Patty. He's seeing mom right now. "Samuel, the water demon must be vanquished now, today. My daughters won't leave until this happens." I said in my best mom's voice. I could see him weakening. "You know what you have to do, so do it." I didn't even know that I was feeling this, but I wasn't. It was mommy speaking through my voice. Thank you mommy, thank you. I cried softly.

Sam let out a strangled cry and he nodded. I held out my hand for him to take, Sam looked at me and I knew that he saw me once more. He slowly took my hand and I led him out of the woods, I felt daddy and Phoebe behind me.

Prue's POV

"Prue, you don't mean that and you know it," Leo said in a soft voice.

"I know I don't mean it," I snapped irritably at him. I wasn't going to lie to myself; being more motherly than sisterly had been programmed into my brain since I was little. "Despite how much I would rather be sisterly to Piper and Phoebe, I would never have left at eighteen. Grams wouldn't have let me..I'm sure she would have used some sort of magic to keep me there..." I added crabbily.

Leo stayed silent after that comment. "Why are you being so calm about the Elders doing what they are doing? It would be easier if we could just do what we did before you came along," I snapped at him. He tried to hide his wounded expression, but it didn't pass me. "I'm sorry Leo...I'm just a little aggravated with this issue,"

"Its ok Prue," he murmured gently.

"I don't like the fact that a demon is here...at all. Especially the one that killed Mom," I sighed wrapping my arms around my shoulders. I suppressed the shudder that wanted to go throughout my body as I saw a flash of the coroner zipping up the bag that held Mom. Leo reached out and wrapped his arms around me. I accepted the hug for a moment, before pulling away. "Thanks," I murmured, and then sighed. "We should probably look for Phoebe...I don't know what she'll do being by herself like that..." Leo reluctantly nodded his head, and we followed after where Phoebe had retreated.

Leo's POV

I felt Patty slowly pushing me to allow Prue towards the woods. I knew than that Piper and Phoebe both learned what they had seek ed out by rushing off to the woods. I was still confused on why Prue wasn't allowed to have access to the information also, but it was Patty whom has been guiding me. So I knew she had her reasons.

We stopped as one as Piper with Sam's hand in hers led the group out of the woods. I could tell that a lot of things have been taking place in those woods. I had felt Piper's breakdown while I was talking with Prue, I had managed to keep the fact from my face and body. I didn't want Prue to worry and rush into the woods. Prue had things to deal with herself before she saw Sam again. I could tell that she tensed up beside me. "It's not the time, Prue. After the water demon is vanquished than you can get in to it with Sam."

"You are right, Leo." Prue said with a deep sigh as she was calming herself down.

We waited for them to stop in front of us.

Sam sighed, "I'm ready to tell you what I know of that day."

"Well." Prue said in a hard voice as she wrapped her arms across her chest.

"I'm not going to tell you." Sam said looking straight at Prue.

"What the hell!" Prue snared as she squinted her eyes and Sam flew backwards forcing Piper to fall backwards herself as Sam's hand was jerked from her own.

"PRUE!" Phoebe cried out in shock and anger. She quickly knelt down and checked on Piper. She looked up in anger. "You could have seriously hurt Piper for Christ shake."

"Sam went back on his word." Prue snared as she glared over at Sam whom had fallen on his back and suddenly Sam began to roll towards the water.

I quickly orbed between Sam and the water. I just managed to stop him from rolling into the water.

I knelt down and touched Sam, we just managed to orb, just as I felt Prue's power hit me full on.

END CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Author's Note: I had to leave this chapter off with this cliff note; because next chapter will be when Phoebe gets to see what truly happened the day her mother died. If I kept writing than that scene would have been cut out of this story and I didn't want to destroy the actual episode for everyone. -- PaigetheSuperWhitelighter.