disclaimer. You recognize the name it ain’t mineFire. Horrible thing, lick you gently then cover your mouth till you can't breath. Biting and clawing your skin till it dark red like a fierce dog. Eat you alive. Doesn't have a care in the world, not even if it was his friends. Not even for the family of the dead. Dead…dead. But it doesn't end there. It spread through the house, searching for other people to kill; if there was nothing then it will turn into sadness, guilt and fear into the heart of the victim's family.
That sadness, guilt and fear had just crept into the two sisters. They have lost a sister to the fire. The fire, how it spread so quickly, no one knew. But what they did know was that gas had been spread around the house. And the culprit? Completely hidden to everyone, everyone except the Charmed ones. They knew who it was....Cole
It all started on a rainy day, as if the god knew what was going to happen and was crying all the tears he had in him. Everything was normal on that morning, sisters yelling to each other, rushing to get to place where they supposed to be, well apart from Phoebe the younger Halliwell sister who has no work. Prue was mad at her for having no work; just lazing around the house but Piper being caring like she is always stood up for her little sister.
"Phoebe, I am sick and tired of you lazing around the house, why don't you go out and get a job for a change?" yelled Prue, anger built up inside her when she saw Phoebe flipping the TV channels while laying on the couch. Maybe Prue was jealous of Phoebe, for she the one who have to work all the time and hard, maybe she just wanted Phoebe to do something with her life, not wasting it for who know when they are against a demon that are too powerful for them.
"Prue, you know, I do have a life, in fact I am doing a small job for Piper which she is paying me for! I have friends unlike you!" shouted Phoebe, she knew that she was pushing Prue's buttons but Prue pushed her.
"Oh, a job for sister, someone who live with you? You know Phoebe you are the most saddest person I have ever seen!" with that Prue storms out of the house, little she know that she will always remember that moment and blames herself for something which she didn't even do.
Phoebe and Piper listen to the footsteps and the door slam, when Phoebe was sure that Prue was outside, away from her, she burst into tears. Piper knew what to do, it was just one of these days when Phoebe and Prue has a huge argument and it's all ended in tears, mostly Phoebe's.
"Hush, it all right. It was just the heat of moment." Said Piper as she rocked Phoebe carefully just as she had as a child back and forth.
"S…She hates me!"
"No, she doesn't." Piper paused and sniffed the air, "Is that gas I smell?"
"I don't smell anything. I am going to cook myself something, I have to do something to block out Prue." Phoebe sobbed as she stood up to leave the room.
"Phoebe I will cook for you, my club can wait." Piper knew that Phoebe wanted some ones shoulder to cry on and to tell all her problems to. She was surprised when she heard Phoebe say No, because she wanted to be alone. Piper just shook it off and yelled a goodbye to Phoebe as she left, leaving Phoebe by herself. Something that she would never forget in the future, something she will feel guilt of.
In the Kitchen, Phoebe was crying so hard, she couldn't help it; the whole world was against her. She didn’t even hear the footsteps or the clicking of the lighter just in the next room by Cole, her ex boyfriend, the man who stabbed her in the back. She only just dumped him and turns his heart into cold stone again.
"This is payback Miss Phoebe Halliwell" whispered Cole as he throws the lit lighter onto the gas and shimmered out.
Soon the small fire turns into a great big flame, a flame that is impossible to escape let alone a lady who don’t care about anything.
The flame crept around the house almost as if it was like a tiger looking for its prey. It soon found it. An easy target. A broken soul. It stayed deathly silent for a few more seconds then pounced out upon its victim. All Phoebe could do was screams for her sisters.
Prue could barely remember anything, all she could remember was the phone ringing telling her to go their house and fast and when she arrived, she was crying. The house was burnt; the fire-fighters said there was no way that anyone would survive that fire. Her Phoebe gone. Prue screams with pain, Piper tries to comfort her, but soon breaks down too. They hug each other, taking in the comfort and the warmth. It seems as if their world has stopped and all this is just a joke but only it wasn’t. It was real. Real…real.
Phoebe was gone, she will never come back. It like if she gone into nowhere and love it there so she will never come back, maybe that happen. Who know? All the two sisters know is this going to be a long and hard journey with all the funeral and finding out who did this but deep down inside they knew who.
It is now Phoebe's funeral. Piper and Prue have a speech each to prepared for, Piper was first.
She began.
"For those who don't know me, my name is Piper Halliwell. I want to say a few words in memory of my little sister. Not only she is my little sister, she is my best friend. You know, she used to annoying me by singing her favorite song over and over and I miss it." Piper paused and starts to sing softly, people soon join in.
"Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one"
Piper sobbed and then started all over again, "That was her favorite, Imagine by John Lennon. You know she had a bad taste in music but…" Piper could not go on, she ran out of the room. It was too much for her.
Prue just glanced after her only sister, it was a beautiful speech. She had one too but if she said it then she have to let her baby go. She sighed and walked to the front, it would have been what Phoebe wanted.
With a silent sob, she talked out loud, "Did you know when my little Phoebe was about three years old; when our money was tight. I punished her for using a roll of gold wrapping paper; she was trying to make the box under the Christmas tree pretty. On Christmas morning, she gave me a gold wrapped box. I opened it, there was nothing. I yelled at her, I told her when you given someone a present there supposed to be something in it. Know what she said? With tears in her eyes she said But Prue, it not empty, I blew kisses into the box, all for you Prue. I begged her to forgive me and she did. For years, with my gold box on my bedside table, whenever I feel down. I opened the box to have an imaginary kiss by the child that loved me so much. I love her and I miss her so much. Phoebe is my friend, my companion though the good and bad time. She was always with me. She always there to listens to my moaning. She always talks with me with happiness, smiles, pains and tears. She was my greatest friend and I am very grateful to her. She might not be here but her spirit will always be with me, wherever I go."
Prue smiled gently, the wind blew around her as if Phoebe was thanking her for letting her go.
Prue was alone; Piper had not come back yet. She has to listen to people talking and crying. Shaking people hands and hugging them. She had to be strong in front of people. But inside she feels like crying. She finally burst out and ran out of the room when a best friend of Phoebe told her that she will miss Phoebe a lot and wish that she is back so they can get into trouble like always.
Prue didn't stop running till she accidentally bumped into a young lady with blue eyes like herself.
"I am sorry. Do you know where the church is? I got a funeral to go to." Mumbling the lady.
"Phoebe?"
"Yeah, that her name, you know her?"
"She my sister"
"Oh, I am so sorry. My name is Paige Matthews." She held out a hand to shake, Prue grab it and replied, "Halliwell, Prue Halliwell." Prue was so sure that she met this woman before.
"Have I met you before?" asked Prue. Paige just looks at her dumbfounded.
"What the matter? What did I do?"
"My mum name was Halliwell, she gave me up."
It was true but her mother said that the baby died during the birth. What next? This is so much. She glanced around quickly, she stopped. Piper. She was crying.
"Help me!" A voice rings out through Prue's ears. Demon. She spins around and Cole got Paige in his grasp.
"So Prue. How did you like my payback time? Did Phoebe have a good death?" Cole laughed. "No one will help you Prue."
Cole killed Phoebe? But why? So many questions swim around her head. She got to killed him. He kills her baby.
"Piper! Cole killed Phoebe!" yelled Prue, she knew this will pull Piper together. One problem, how are they going to kill Cole? She felt a hand landed on her shoulder; Piper.
"Let do this" she said, "For Phoebe." For the first in a long time Piper smiled.
"Pip. We got to get Paige over here and said the power of three spell."
"But how?"
"No time. Just get her here."
Piper put her hand up but paused when Cole pulled out a knife. It shines in the sun. Paige saw it as well, she was scared, so scared that she orbbed to the sisters without knowing it.
There was no time to waste, even Paige knew this but she has no idea what to do. She about to ask but Prue has beaten her by ordering her to say the phase of power of three over and over with them. How this works she don’t know but she agree.
"Power of three, power of three, power of three, power of three!"
Cole's face turns into a face of fear and sadness. Fear of dying and rotting in hell, sadness of killing his beloved.
Before he died, he said three simple words; I am sorry."
"What just happened?" asked the confusing Paige.
"Power of three has just been reborn." That was all Paige needed as they walked to somewhere. Who knew where, it was up to density. Paige have found her sisters, Prue learned that Phoebe still loved her and will always be with her no matter what and finally Piper learned that the fire wasn’t her fault and that she have an other baby sister to fussed and teased just like when she did with Phoebe. They will always missed Phoebe even Paige who never met her.
And the story of rebirth of power of three began.