Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed or any characters associated with it, except those I have created.

Shannen Doherty

Prue

Holly Marie Combs

Alyssa Milano

Phoebe

Julian McMahon

Cole

Brian Krause

Leo

Phoebe opened her eyes to see the faces of her sisters.

"What're you guys doing in here?"

"Nothing. Just checking on you. Making sure you weren't in a coma again."

"Thanks for your concern, Prue, but I'm fine. It was only a few weeks."

"Yeah. A few scary weeks," said Piper. "You should have seen Prue. She was vanquishing demon after demon, casting spells, making potions."

"What about you, Piper," said Prue, "You were the one who was ready to just give up on her and let her die."

"I didn't want her to die. But I also didn't want to waste time on it when I could have been with Leo."

"About the whole coma thing, who was the girl, that witch, that you guys were talking about?"

"Uh-I don't remember her name," said Prue, "not that it's important. The only think that's important is that you're back, and you're well."

Phoebe stood up and hugged her sisters. "I'm doing fine. Now go downstairs and make me breakfast."

"We're not your slaves," said Prue, walking from the room.

"I know, but I've been sick so go."

"What do you mean," Piper asked, when Prue had left the room.

"Well, Prue just said that you're not my slaves."

"No she didn't. Unless I didn't hear it."

"Well go."

"God, so bossy," said Piper.

"Whatever!"

-

Phoebe sat down at the table with her sisters.

"I wonder what Leo's doing right now," said Piper.

"He's probably just taking care of a charge. You know, standard stuff."

"What?" asked Prue. Phoebe looked at her sister.

"Piper just said that she wonders what Leo's doing."

"No, I didn't," said Piper, "I thought that."

"Can she read minds?" Piper thought.

"Oh my God! I think I can, Piper. I think I have the power of telepathy."

"Why would being in a coma for 3 weeks give her the power of telepathy?" Prue thought.

"I don't know, Prue, but I can hear thoughts now. And it's pretty amazing."

"I wonder if she's reading my mind right now," Prue thought, "I just hope she doesn't know that Bane's back."

"Bane's back?!?"

"I didn't want you to know because I knew you'd freak out if you knew I was seeing him."
"You're seeing him too?" asked Phoebe.

"Wait, you didn't hear that?"
"No." Prue closed her eyes.

"I really have to go." she astralled from the room.

"Are you as upset about this as I am," Phoebe confronted Piper.

"No, I'm not," Piper said, "I already knew."

"Wait, you knew and didn't tell me?"

"Prue made me swear not to. She didn't want you to hold this over her head for the Cole thing. Speaking of which, where is he?"

"I talked to him this morning he's trying to get his old job at some law firm."

"Is he doing OK?"

"He's doing better. I think that knowing I'm OK is good for him. But he said that now that we've vanquished Paige, our own sister, the Source knows that we'll go to all lengths to destroy him, so he's more worried about us than ever."
"But that's a good thing, isn't it? I mean, now he's scared of us, and we have a chance to vanquish him."

"Maybe but we still have to find out how. I mean, we'll need a spell of enormous strength. And even then, we'll have to keep him still long enough to freeze him. Which might be even more difficult than ever since you've lost what little control over your powers that you've had."

"Yeah, but I've been practicing and I've gotten better. A little. But Leo doesn't like me practicing because he says 'it hurts too much'."

"Piper, what are you practicing on?"

"Leo, when we have sex, I try to freeze him, like I used to. But I just keep blowing him up, and he just keeps orbing right back in."

"Ew. You're pregnant, Piper, how can you have sex while you're pregnant?"

"Actually—,"

"Don't answer that question." Phoebe turned around and left the kitchen. Piper smiled to herself as she grabbed her purse and keys and went out the back door.

-

Prue astralled into her office at 415 and picked up her camera. She opened her door to come face to face with her boss, Gil.

"Hi. What's my assignment."

"You don't have one. You're fired."

"What?"

"You're fired Ms. Halliwell. Leave now."

"You can't fire me without just cause."

"All of your pictures are unfocused, it looks like you've been shaking the camera, all of them are either burnt to dark or dodged to light, and because of this, I've missed 3 deadlines, and worse, the magazine is being sued because of the way you shot someone. So go, Ms. Halliwell. And don't return." Prue somberly walked away from her office, and out the doors of 415.

-

Piper opened the door to P3 and closed it behind her. A man was standing in front of the stage, and the entire crew was standing around.

"What's going on," Piper asked, "Why isn't anyone setting up for the band." The man walked up to Piper.

"Mrs. Halliwell, I'm from the Health Department. You've got rats, big rats. And cockroaches. I'm shutting you down for a few weeks." Piper froze the room.

"Rats? What rats?" Piper turned toward a squeaking noise. Five or six rats scurried across the floor and went into a hole in the wall. The room unfroze.

"I"m sorry. Mrs. Halliwell. Everyone, leave, now!" The crew started up the stairs, followed by the business man who left a piece of paper on the counter. Piper walked over and picked it up. She scanned over it.

"Just great!" Piper said, picking up the phone and dialing her house number. The phone rang at the house.

"Hello?" Phoebe said.

"Yeah, Phoebe, I need you down at the club. Hurry."

"Ok. And I'll call Prue."

"No," Piper interjected, "she's at work. Just us it's not a Power of Three thing. It's a power of premonition thing." Piper hung up.

"OK," Phoebe said, hanging up the phone. Prue sat at the counter.

"What did she want?"

"She wants me to go to the club. Something must be wrong because she needs my power."

"Well, let me go with you," Prue said, I can astral us there. We can be there in the blink of an eye....if it's blinking slow enough to not see my astral energy, that is."

"Okay." Prue grabbed her sister's hand. They astralled from the house, into P3.

"What's wrong, Honey," Prue asked Piper.

"It's the club. There's rat. I've never had rats before. There must be some kinda demon behind this. And I need you, Phoebe, to have a premonition to see what demon it is. Prue, why aren't you at work?"

"I got fired from my job because I have had fuzzy pictures." Phoebe walked over to the counter and placed her hands on the counter.

"Nothing," she said.

"Try one of the rats," Piper suggested. Phoebe made a face as she picked up a rat and gasped as a premonition took over her.

-

The Seer picked up a box and opened it. A shadow flew into Cole, who held his hands out at the Source. The Source's magic flew from The Source and went into Cole. Cole threw a fireball like The Source's, killing The Source. The Seer walked over to Cole.

"You're The Source now, Cole. And you'll help me destroy the Charmed Ones, so I can take their Book of Shadows. Now, help me destroy them, Cole." Cole flamed from the cave.

-

Prue handed her pictures to Gil in a folder. They parted, Prue heading to her office, Gil to his. Time froze. Cole flamed into the office and took the folder from Gil's hands, opened it, and pulled out the picture. Each picture was a crisp image, perfect. Cole waved his hands, making them blurry and over exposed.

-

Cole flamed into P3 later that night. He waved his hand. Several rats, and hundreds of cockroaches appeared in the club. Cole smiled and flamed out.

-

Reappearing in the cave, Cole sat down on a thrown. The Seer walked up to him.

"It's done," he said, "But I don't understand one thing."

"What's that my liege?"

"How am I not Cole anymore?"

"Because of me, The Source is overpowering Cole."

"Well done, Seer, well done."

-

Phoebe gasped and collapsed as she came from her premonition. Her sisters ran up to each other.

"What did you see?" Prue asked.

"I saw it all."

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Longest chapter ever. 3 pages.