The morning after the prom did indeed find Xander and Cordelia in a motel room. Xander had gone all out, hiring a limo to take them to the prom and renting as nice a room as he could afford. They had just finished breakfast and were filling each other in on a few things they hadn't talked about on their daily phone calls to each other.

"So in this past life of Phoebe's we knew each other and were together?" Cordelia asked.

"We apparently worked at Piper's speak easy. I was a singer and you were a waitress. Phoebe says we got caught making out in a closet and scolded for it, probably because it was at work, even if we were on our breaks."

"Oh gods, closets seem to be a favorite of ours, don't they? We certainly spent enough time in the Janitor's closet at the High School."

"Some of my fondest memories of that school." Xander wiggled his eyebrows at her.

"Mine too." Cordelia said, giggling. Xander suddenly stopped and a strange look crossed his face.

"Xander? Is something wrong?" Cordelia asked.

"I think I'm experiencing something I've never experienced before. Another whitelighter ability. I think someone's calling my name. Whitelighters can hear their charges and other whitelighters when they call them. I think that's Leo's voice. Let me call the Manor and check." Xander grabbed the room phone and quickly dialed the number for the Manor. "Leo? Were you calling me? We'll be right there, I'll orb us back."

"Xander? What's wrong?!" Cordelia demanded to know.

"The demon from yesterday came back and attacked again. Leo wants us back now. Something happened. I think it's something bad. He wouldn't tell me over the phone."

"Oh gods! My sisters!"

They quickly grabbed their things and Xander laced his fingers thru Cordelia's and prayed he'd be able to orb all the way to the Manor. It ended up taking two orbs to get there, as they materialized about half way there and had to orb again. It wouldn't have mattered though, if he had been able to get them there in one shot. Nothing could change what they found.

"Leo? What happened." Piper looked dazed and Phoebe devastated, both were crying.

"The demon attacked again. It hit Prue first and sent her flying thru a window in the conservatory, cut her up real bad. Then it hit me." Leo said. "Knocked me out. When I came too, Piper and Phoebe were all but dead. I managed to heal them both. Then I found Prue. It was too late. Whitelighters can't heal the dead."

"Dead?! Dead?!" Cordelia screamed and ran toward the conservatory Xander right behind her. Sure enough, there was Prue. She'd landed head first, because her neck was twisted at a bad angle. Cordelia dropped down beside the body of her oldest sister and reached a shaky hand out to touch her beloved face. She hadn't even known Prue existed for a full year, but they'd gotten along great, having similar personalities. Cordelia had loved having an older sister she could go to for advice.

"She probably died instantly." Leo said from behind them. "Her neck broke. Even if you had been here or I hadn't been knocked out, it would have been too late anyway. No whitelighter can heal the dead."

The next few days were little more then a blur for all of them. The sisters clung to each other and their significant others. Xander comforted Cordelia as best he could, as Leo did for Piper and Cole for Phoebe. Then at Prue's funeral yet another demon attacked, sensing their vulnerability, with the most powerful Charmed One dead. And Phoebe having a premonition about a strange young woman who attended the funeral.

As Phoebe and Cole investigated the young woman, Piper became obsessed with trying to contact Prue, using spell after spell.

Power of the witches rise

Course unseen across the skies

Come to us who call you near

Come to us and settle here

Blood to blood. I summon thee

Blood to blood, return to me

When that didn't seem to work, she tried another spell.

Hear these words, hear my cry

Spirit from the other side

Come to me, I summon thee

Cross now the great divide

Only for Grams to appear, instead of Prue.

"I want to talk to Prue." Piper told Grams.

"You can't. She's very confused right now. She needs to adjust to being dead right now and you need to accept that she's dead. Seeing her alive right now, would keep her alive for you, make it harder for you to accept that she's dead."

"She's really dead? Really gone?"

"Yes, she is. I'm sorry, if I could change that, I would. But it's not over yet. Your destiny still awaits." And Grams faded out, leaving a confused Piper behind. She could hear Phoebe downstairs calling her and headed down to see what was going on.

"What's going on?" She asked.

"The girl from my premonition, the one who was at Prue's funeral, the same demon attacked her. She orbed. And she looked like she had no idea what had happened to her."

"You're saying she's a whitelighter, but doesn't know she's a whitelighter. How?" Piper asked.

"A born whitelighter, like me." Xander suggested. "One who's power activated because she was scared. We need to find her. Obviously the Source knows who she is and wants to kill her before she fully manifests."

"I'll go check with the Elders." Leo said. "Maybe she was on their radar, like Xander was." He orbed out.

A/N Summon the dead spell from Charmed wiki, to call a lost witch spell, also from Charmed wiki.