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The Return Of A Loved One

"I can't believe you're wearing your bikini on the plane." Phoebe said as she, Prue and Bella walked down the stairs.

Prue just shrugged. "Timesaver. We have all of forty-eight hours in Cabo. The minute we land, I'm on the beach getting all golden-brown."

"But you make me look frumpy, it's like the sign of the apocalypse."

"Well, they'll be no demons in sight so I'm ready to go crazy." Prue smiled and Phoebe turned to Bella.

"Are you sure you don't want to come? What if demons turn up while we're away?" She asked nervously but Bella just shook her head.

"I want to spend more time with Joey." Bella told them and they smiled at her.

"I haven't seen him in a while." Prue stated and Bella sighed.

"Yeah, that's why I'm staying. The whole demon thing doesn't work with relationships and I want us to work."

Phoebe and Prue shared a glance. They had never seen Bella so happy with a guy before.

"But none of us will be here and by the time you've contacted us it will be too late." Prue said, biting her bottom lip. "Maybe Piper should stay, I don't think she want to come anyway."

"She's not seriously-" Phoebe started and Prue finished for her.

"-taking a break from men? Yep. I think she's afraid of falling in love again."

"What's she going to be doing while we are partying and Bella's snogging the boy next door?" Phoebe wondered.

"The last time I checked she was in the attic searching for a suitcase to carry her books in." Bella replied.

"What kind of books?"
"Kind they made into Kevin Coster movies." Phoebe made a disgusted face when Bella said this.

"We have to stop this insanity!"

"Maybe we should just leave her be, she's been through a lot." Prue said but before anyone could reply there was a loud bang from the attic and Piper's scream.

"Piper?" Bella called up as they ran to the attic. Piper didn't reply, she was too busy staring at the man in front of her, who had an arrow through his shoulder.

"Leo?"

...

"Be carefull!" Piper said warningly as she and Bella helped Leo onto the couch.

"I am being carefull!" Bella huffed, rolling her eyes at her sister.

"I can't believe you! You disappear in front of me, then you are missing for months and then you appear here with an arrow through your shoulder!" Piper snapped at Leo and he looked slightly surprised.

"Is now really the time to talk about this?" He asked.

"Yes."

"No."

Both Piper and Bella answered together and Leo sighed.

"Okay, we gotta get his legs up." Phoebe ordered.

"Don't worry about me. There's someone-AHHH!" He cut himself off as he screamed in pain.

"We have to get the arrow out." Bella said, nodding towards the odd angle it was sticking in and the amount out blood.

"No, don't touch it. It's dripped in poison." Leo said through his teeth, his eyes squeezed shut.

"How are we supposed to get it out if we can't touch it?"

"You came to the right girl." Prue said before using her powers to remove the arrow.

Piper gets a bandage and pressed hard on Leo's wound making him gasp.

"Oh, did that hurt? Good!" Piper snapped and her sisters shot her an uneasy glance. Shocked by the way she was acting.

Leo however pretended as if it had never happened. "There's a women. Daisy. You have to protect her from the Darklighter."

"The Darklighter? Is he the one that shot you?" Prue asked, speaking for the first time.

"Yeah, they seduce innocent women. Their goal is to create evil by reproduction." Leo explained.

"Great. Generation 666." Phoebe muttered.

"He broke the rules. He fell in love with one of his victims, a human and she loved him back."

"Untill she found out what he was?" Bella questioned and Leo nodded.

"You have to find Daisy before he does otherwise she won't do the good she's destined to do. She won't be able to become a whitelighter."

"Okay, where is she." Prue asked and Leo frowned.

"I don't know. The last I saw of her she was at the mini-mart in the Castro, heading for her rental car. If he finds her first he'll never let her go, ever."

"Any tips on how to vanquish a darklighter, in case we run across him?" Phoebe asked.

"Just don't let him touch you. His power is in his hands and when he chooses to he has the touch of death."
"And we have the power of four. All right, call the airline, cancel our tickets, I'll call Darryl and Piper should-" Prue started but was cut off by Bella.

"Me and Phoebe will go and talk to her, someone has to stay with Leo."

"Perfect."

...

"You alright Darryl?" Prue asked when she met him outside the manor.

"Yeah, you?" Darryl asked and Prue nodded. "You sure. We haven't talked much since Andy died."

"I'm fine. Listen Darryl, can I have a favour?"

"Sure, what do you need?"

"I need to find someone, she's in danger and I have to get to her before he does."

"He? You know what, I don't need to know. Specifics always get me in trouble. Where was the last place you saw her?"

"Heading to her rental car outside a mini-mart."

"Well, we can get the security camera from the mini-mart and surrounding businesses. See if we can get the car's license plates and see if it leads us to where she's staying."

Prue smiled softly at him. "Thanks Darryl."

...

"Leo, I brought you some food in case you're hungry." Bella said, placing a plate down next to him.

"Thanks. How's Piper?" Leo asked.

"She's dealing, she was really hurt when you left." Bella told him as she sat down.

"I wish I didn't have to go but being with her broke the rules. I wish she had never found out what I was!"

"I don't really know what to say Leo. She was a mess, which is completely understandable." Leo sighed and Bella smiled at him sympathetically.

"Any word on Daisy?" Leo asked to change the subject.

"Yes and no. Prue called, Darryl thinks he knows where Daisy's staying. They're on their way now." Bella told him as she pulled off his bandage. There was blood. A LOT of blood and Bella felt herself sway slightly. She tried to ignore it and breathed mostly though her mouth.

"It's okay. I know it's bad."

"I guess I need to work on my poker face a bit more. You know Leo, don't whitelighters have healing powers? Can't you just-" Bella started to suggest but Leo cut her off.

"My powers are for others. I can't use them on myself." He explained before he started coughing.

"Well we just have to get you better. Then you and Piper can talk avout stuff when you're well."

"Bella, I'm not going to get better." Bella frowned at Leo when he said this and shook her head firmly.

"That's ridiculous, Leo, of course you will. We're just going to have to find something in the Book of Shadows."

"No, the Darklighters poison can't be reversed. It's meant to kill whitelighters and that's what its doing. Making its way through my system. It's only a matter of time."

"How much time?" Bella asked, dreading the answer.

"Not much. I'm going to die and theres nothing you can do about it. My powers is ebbing, with it my ability to cloak Daisy."

"We're going to save both of you Leo." Bella promised unaware of a doubtfull Phoebe listening from the doorway.

...

Piper was searching through the Book of Shadows when Phoebe arrived downstairs.

"I have looked everywhere in the damn book for something, anything to help Leo and I can't." She said, turning to face Phoebe. "What's that face? What's the matter?"

"Leo's in a pretty bad shape Piper and he's getting worse." Phoebe replied.

"I know, thats why I have to find a cure or something."

"You need to listen. This is really hard to say but I think you need to hear it. I think that you need to learn to accept the possibility that... maybe we're not supposed to save Leo. Maybe he's not our innocent. Maybe we're only meant to save Daisy." Piper frowned at Phoebe before shaking her head firmly.

"We have to save him whether we are meant to or not."

...

Prue and Darryl walked upto the hotel room they thought Daisy was in.

As they got closer they heard a women scream. "Please! Stop!" They ran for the room and once in the doorway they saw a man dressed in black and a blonde women climbing through the fire escape.

"You can't run from me!" The Darklighter said, not noticing the two other people in the room.

"Daisy?" Prue yelled but the women didn't turn back. The Darklighter turned but Prue threw him across the room using her power. He turned to dust and flew out of the open window.

"What the hell was that?" Darryl asked, his eyes wide.

"Welcome to our world."

...

"Hey, Prue's home. She just-" Phoebe said as she and Bella walked into the attic but stopped when they saw Piper reading a spell from the Book of Shadows.

"I hear rhyming, what are you doing?" Bella asked.

"Everything I can. Look, we know Leo can't heal himself but maybe with his powers, I can." Piper said and Phoebe frowned in confusion.

"What are you talking about?"

"It's a power switching spell. If Leo and I exchange powers then I'll have the healing touch and maybe I can fix him." Piper explained as Prue walked into the room.

"Hey, what's going on?" She asked when she saw Piper with the book.

"Ah, you know, the usual, made some coffee, read the newspaper, walked in on Piper switching powers with Leo. You know." Bella said casually and Piper rolled her eyes at her.

"I have to save him Prue." Piper said, almost begging her to understand.

"Okay, is it safe?" Prue asked.

"To tell you the truth I don't really care. He's slipping away and if either one of you has a better idea then I'm all ears, if not then I'm casting the spell. And I would like to do it with the support of my sisters."

Her sisters shared a glance before Phoebe said, "cast away," and the two others nodded in agreement.

"What's mine is yours, what's yours is mine, let our powers cross the line, I offer up my gift to share, switch the powers through the air." Piper chanted from the book and everything went silent.

"Did it work?" Phoebe asked after a few minutes.

"I don't know." Piper admitted before she spotted Kit running into the room and tried to freeze her but it didn't work. "I can't freeze."

"That's a good sign. The spell must've worked, that means that Phoebe, Prue and-" Bella said but cut off when she touched Phoebe and was pulled into a premonition. "Okay, I just had a premonition."

"What was it about?" Phoebe asked and Bella pointed to the lamp.

"That shattering." She told them as Kit jumped onto the table with it.

"Kit, no!" Phoebe said quickly holding out her arm and the lamp flew across the room and smashed against the wall. "Did I just do that?"

"Yes and Bella saw it so that means..." Prue trailed off, holding up her hands and her eyes widened when she made a small, blue, bubble shield appear out of thin air. "Wow."

"Hold on so that means..." Phoebe trailed off, her eyes were wide as well as she watched Prue spin the shield and Piper cringed.

"Am I going to get yelled at?" She asked as Prue made the shield disappear and they all turned to face her.

"It swapped all of our powers." Bella sighed.

"It's a supernatural, freeky friday." Phoebe said as the phone rang. "Oh, you know what? I'm going to get that and I'm sure you guys will have all this worked out by the time I get back."

"Okay, I can do this. Now, heal." Piper said, holding her hands over Leo's wound. "Come on, heal. Why aren't these working?"

"Okay, okay, okay. Piper, relax. Remember when we first got our own powers, it took us a while to figure out how to trigger them." Bella said trying to calm her down.

"You mastered your shield fast enough." Prue muttered but Bella and Piper chose to ignore her.

"Well, I'm doing what I always do." Piper said.

"Yes, but maybe you have to find his trigger not yours." Prue suggested as Phoebe walked back into the room.

"Hey, that was Darryl. A new charge came up on Daisy's credit card report. She bought a bus ticket twenty minutes ago. She's running again." She told them.

"If she leaves town we'll never be able to find her. Let's go." Prue said, heading for the door but Phoebe stopped her.

"Wait, we have to switch our powers back."

"Not untill I heal Leo!" Piper said firmly, not taking her eyes off Leo.

"Piper, we have to save Daisy." Phoebe said but Piper shook her head.

"And I have to heal Leo, I am not loosing him again!"

"Okay, you know what, you stay here. We have to find Daisy before the Darklighter does. We'll just have to do it using each other's powers. Come on." Bella said. The three of them left the room and Piper tried once again to heal the love of her life, only to come up with the same result.

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