The first time is special

It was nearly night by the time that the hospital released Phoebe, who had been strange quieter after your 'shared' vision. You hadn't told her that you'd seen her vision this time, instead letting her figure it out on her own.

You supposed that seeing yourself sharing your boyfriend with your sister, as well as another girl you didn't even know, not to mention the mention of a few others, could be difficult for Phoebe to come to terms with, but you didn't really know what to say now.

Any attempts to comfort her and assure her of my love would only come across as hollow since Phoebe was aware that despite my feelings, you would still opt to share my bed with multiple women.

So until such a time as Phoebe told you about the vision, you were helpless in helping her, no pun intended.

"We're back, the hospital finally cleared me!" Phoebe announced to the entire house.

"Oh thank God." Prue said, running out of one of the adjacent rooms to embrace her sister.

"Okay, not that I don't enjoy the affection but it not like you to get so excited that I'm home Prue?" Phoebe queried as Prue ended the hug.

"Piper just called a few minutes ago, she sounded so upset, I thought something had happened to you." Prue said.

Before Phoebe could respond, the front door flew open, Piper charging into the hallway, her eyes watery and red.

No questions were even asked as both sisters descended upon the third, wrapping her in a hug as they led her to the sitting room.

"I think I'll go make some tea, while you have sister talk." You muttered just loud enough to be heard as you made for the kitchen, already suspecting what had happened to set Piper off like this.

Even so, you could barely hear them talking through the open doorway of the kitchen.

"Jeremy... kill me!"

"Okay... away...?"

"Froze... couldn't move!"

"Phoebe... right... witches."

"Okay, how about some tea?" You whispered as you entered the room, approaching slowly like you were approaching a trio of frightened animals.

"Yeah, that sounds great." Phoebe answered, taking a cup from you.

"Thanks Leo." Prue and Piper replied in turn as you sat down in the chair across from them.

"Now Piper, I don't want to upset you again, but what do you mean Jeremy tried to kill you?" You spoke slowly and calmly as you saw Piper's eyes leak out a few more tears.

"He tried to..." She paused, take a shuddering breath as well as a sip of her tea before continuing, "He tried to stab me. Why did you ask?" Piper replied.

"Was it like a normal kitchen knife, or was it kind of wavy?" You pressed forwards, trying to help Piper move past her grief by revealing that Jeremy was evil, and it wasn't her fault.

"It was wavy, how did you know?" Piper asked, all three sisters looking at me now.

"Well, after last night it occurred to me that if you three are witches, and most likely your Grams was a witch, then there must be others right? So I did some more reading and found this page on how to make this knife called an Athame. It was used in rituals for harvesting... from living creatures. If Jeremy tried to kill you with an Athame, then he's probably a warlock, a male witch. Thing is, the only reason he would try and kill you is if he was trying to take your powers, to make himself stronger." You revealed as Piper looked at you silently before breaking down in more tears.

"So Jeremy only wants to kill me because I'm witch now, but I don't even want these stupid powers!" Piper shouted, Phoebe starting to look guilty now as well.

"No no no, Pipes, well yes, he does want to kill you because you're a witch, but I heard you say that you froze him. You shouldn't have been able to do that if he was a good witch, good witch can't normally use their powers on other good witches." You tried to comfort Piper, only for a loud bang to interuppt you.

You all paused and looked at the front door as a second impact shuddered the door before finally on the third one, it gave in, lurching open as Jeremy stood in the doorway, the Athame clutched tightly in his hand.

"Where are you bitch, I know you'd come back here to his wretched house!" Jeremy shouted, spotting us almost immediately as he charged, brandishing his knife.

"Get upstairs, look in that book of yours and see if you can find something!" You all but ordered, turning to hurdle over the chair and barrel into Jeremy, who seemed almost surprised that you had opted to attack rather than flee in terror.

Of course, that didn't mean much since currently you didn't know at all how to summon up the fancy lightning the Elders had, so instead you had to simply punch him in the face, which seemed to do very little as he backhanded you, sending you flying into the wall before charging you before you could recovered, and hurling you with his parahuman strength... straight into the clock, you just can't break tradition.

Apparently deeming you a write off, Jeremy marched up the stairs, a sinister grin on his face as you tried to get some strength back into your legs to follow him.

It couldn't have taken you more than ten seconds to get your bearings, but that was all the time he needed to get to the attic, only to come face-to-face with one distraught sister and her two vengeful ones.

This feels kinda silly, but it's all we've got. So let's do this!" Prue said, Phoebe and Piper giving a short nod, although Piper's was accompanied by sniffles and rubbing her eyes.

"The power of three will set us free!"

"The Power of Three will set us free!"

"The Power of Three will set us free!"

"Hehe, you thinks this is enough to stop me, I am but one in an entire army, a vast legion that shall come for you, you will never be safe!" Jeremy yelled before throwing his back as he gave a loud howl of pain before exploding into a red dust that vanished immediately.

You chose that moment to come charging up the stairs, only to find the attic empty and the three sisters looking a combination of pensive and shocked.

"Well, they say your first time is supposed to be rough but I don't think this is what they meant." You muttered although, judging from the small smiles, the girls had heard you.