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I have updated without leaving it six months. Yay for me!

Thank you to those who have reviewed. I will try update quicker as I am focusing on this story the most at the moment. So thank you to Wybenormal93, blueyblonde, lizardmomma, charmedmarie and especially ladyshard for the comments, especially as I was too embarrassed in the last update to dare ask for reviews! Hope you enjoy.

Prue sat at the table, drumming her fingers in a rhythm that was irritating to her own ears. Piper and Leo were upstairs helping the boys with what she assumed was a typical morning routine. She had almost laughed at the panicked look that Piper had thrown her way.

So today was the day. Paige. She'd heard so little of this sister other than what Leo had really said last night. What did Paige expect of her?

She stared at her own drumming fingers in annoyance and pushed the chair slightly away from the table.

Phoebe would be a mum she thought with some amazement. Somehow she had always imagined Piper being the first, then herself with Phoebe being the last...well in the grand order of things that had sort of worked, just...she was dead.

What did she say when they walked in through the door?

A creak on the stairs made her whip her head around in time to see Piper and Leo descending the stairs, Piper with Chris and Leo with Wyatt. The kids were placed among toys and seemed pretty happy with it.

"Is Wyatt not playschool age?" Prue asked

Leo sighed, "Wyatt tends to get a little to magical when something is going on at home. Besides it's probably best thatwe keep the boys close if there's some big plan underway. Made that mistake a few tim..."he trailed off at Piper's look. "They're both fine" he said a little defensively, "It's a learning curve"

Piper looked a little peeved and turned around to Prue, "Are they here yet?" she asked

Prue raised an eyebrow at her, "No piper, that's why you can't see them"

Piper pulled one of her faces at Prue who returned them with a sweet smile.

They were all startled a little when the key turned in the lock.

For a few moments there was an uncomfortable silence as for the first time all the daughters of Patty Halliwell stood in the same room together. Beside her Prue felt Piper stiffen a little, mostly out of nerves Prue thought. It didn't escape her notice that they were facing each other like opponents and she immediately turned to the side a little to make that seem less obvious, although she then felt silly for even thinking it.

Calming herself down Prue allowed herself to study the pair as they came forward. Phoebe looked better she thought, more relaxed. It was good that the day away with Paige had given her a rest she thought swallowing down a little jealousy that Paige was able to relax Phoebe. However much it made her feel uncomfortable she was starting to realise that she should take some comfort in the fact that her sisters remained well looked after when she was...not around?

Her eyes flickered to the woman whose face she had seen in many photographs around the house. Thankfully she had seen pictures of her scattered about too. She sighed inwardly at how self obsessed she sounded. But she blinked a little, surprised to see that, in this light, there was a little of herself in Paige's features. Paige, catching her looking actually gave her a nervous smile. Prue wasn't sure why she didn't fully smile back when it actually made her feel a little less uncomfortable.

"Hi" Paige said, clearly a little emboldened by Prue's half smile and gave a sharp move with her hand which was probably meant to be a wave. She nodded a little in the silence and then glanced at Phoebe.

Phoebe was looking at Leo who when they all looked at him was clearly trying to mouth something at her, he stopped when he saw that they were all looking.

"What are you doing?" Piper asked, clearly a little glad to focus on something else.

"I...thought that Phoebe and I could go and get the book of shadows to help..." he trailed off at seeing the horrified looks from all sisters at the idea of Paige being left alone with Prue and Piper "...and Paige could come as well..." he trailed off again clearly worried that Prue and Piper would feel excluded.

Piper and Prue exchanged a look and Piper closed her eyes with slightly amused exasperation, "Leo told us that you're pregnant" Prue said with a small, hesitant smile.

Leo shifted a little "Never mind" he mumbled looking at the floor.

Phoebe looked a little like a deer caught in the headlights "Oh well I uh....I meant to tell you but..."

"It's ok" Prue said "It's really good"

Piper nodded, "Yeah Pheeb's we're happy for you"

Phoebe nodded "Good, well great I guess"

There was an awkward pause.

"Shall we start?" Leo said after a few seconds.

"Yeah, uh we probably do need the book actually" Piper said looking at Leo again.

"Paige?" Phoebe said

Prue watched the two, they seemed to have picked up how to read each other. She wasn't quite too sure how she felt about that.

Paige looked a little unsure "Really?"

Phoebe nodded.

Paige cast a glance at Piper looking for something and then seemed to remember that Piper barely knew her at the moment.

"Book of Shadows" Paige called.

The book appeared in her hands in a burst of white lights.

Piper raised an eyebrow while Prue tilted her head in approval.

"Must save a lot of time" she heard herself say.

Paige threw her a very grateful look, "Can do" she replied

There was another silence.

"We should sit" Phoebe announced suddenly startling them all. "And then we can tell the witchy tales"

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"This is getting us nowhere" Prue said after a few hours. They had gone over most demons that they had faced, made lists of those with whom it had not been a simple vanquish and still nothing was adding up.

Plus she felt a little small at the moment compared to the two witches sitting opposite her.

She knew it was all to do with experience and growing into both powers and confidence that made one into a great witch. But her list of warlocks and demons and such had seemed tiny compared to Phoebe and Paige's. It had irritated her a little when Phoebe had shown she had forgotten some things.

There had been a decided awkwardness around the whole thing. They had all tried to take a year of their witch lives, Prue with the first, Piper with the second, Phoebe the third, Leo the fourth, Paige the fifth and then Paige, Phoebe and Leo had just brought up anything they felt relevant. There had been some big gaps in their stories, especially in the year of Prue's death.

They were all too busy dancing around each other to get any true answers.

No-one replied but it was pretty clear that they all felt the same. With a sigh Phoebe mad a movement with her hands indicating that she wanted the book. She placed it on her lap and whispered a few words under her breath. She remained perfectly still, the book open on her lap and her hands above it.

"Phoebe we already tried_" Leo said with a sigh. "We should attempt_" he broke off this time for a different reason.

The pages begun to turn. Not like in the attic where they flipped a few times when Grams did it, but like a wind had picked up and the pages were being flicked through back and forth at some speed. A slight glow was coming from Phoebe who still hadn't moved in response.

"Uh, Pheebs?" Prue said reaching out for her youngest....younger sister.

"Uh, don_" Paige begun

"she's_" Piper started in response.

Prue never heard the rest of what they were saying. The light around phoebe enveloped her as well and she saw nothing but light.

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"She's not going to do anything" Piper responded with annoyance.

Paige ignored her and watched closely. She remembered the wind from Phoebe once from years ago and twice recently.

Phoebe was about to go into a vision. But of course Piper had to get touchy and Prue ignore her.

She sighed, perhaps that was a little unfair, but after the last few hours did they really believe that she knew nothing about magic?

Piper stood up suddenly when the light from Phoebe flashed over her and Prue and they both slumped to the floor unconscious.

Paige frowned "That's not happened before" she whispered.

Piper lurched forward, "Prue?" she asked, her voice quivering. "Phoebe?"

Leo knelt down beside her as Paige came forward. "They both seem fine" Leo said after a few seconds.

"What happened?" Piper asked a little wild.

"Mama?" Wyatt popped his head round the corner obviously hearing the panic in his mother's voice.

"It's alright buddy" Leo said gently. "Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Prue are doing a spell. It's all ok"

The blond headed boy's gaze dragged over them all with a little suspicion and then the small head nodded and disappeared round the corner again.

"Are you looking after Chris?" Leo asked loudly as Piper went to question him.

"Yes" came the bored answer.

"Leo" Piper hissed, "We need to find out what's wrong"

Leo raised his head and Paige shot him a worried look. Leo frowned and sighed.

"You've both seen versions of this. You", he said pointing at Piper, "At our wedding and you" he indicated Paige, "with the long premonitions she sometimes has."

"So?" Paige asked, not really caring if she seemed dense and slightly relieved that her sister, who seemed to know it all, couldn't remember at the moment and make her feel particularly blond.

Leo huffed, "They once shared a bond, which for reasons i'm not too sure of has allowed them to link their powers.

The two looked a little stumped.

"I believe that they have astral projected into a vision of Phoebe's"

Piper and Paige shared a look. "But Phoebe was trying to find information on what...." Paige trailed off. "Oh god get them back what if they bump into this threat?"

Piper shared her look and glared and Leo who shook his head, "I can't do that, you two are the ones that could if anything but i sure as..." he glanced at the corner Wyatt had gone "heck can't"

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Hope that you enjoyed the chapter. Please review let me know what you think and if it's going fast/slow or just plain weird!