For a second Prue felt anger flare inside of her. It wasn't fair that her mother was forced to give up her baby. Without being told she knew it was them, the elders, Leo's bosses--the people who felt they had right to tell the Charmed ones what to do. They had caused her mother to make such a terrible decision and it made Prue angry. Prue closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Her emotions were getting the best of her and she didn't want things to start flying around the room.
Prue notice Phoebe's voice catch when she mentioned Cole and instinctively Prue's hand went to Phoebe's hair which she stroked in an effort to comfort her youngest sister. Not her youngest sister, not anymore. This was too bizarre.
Prue didn't smile at the mention of Gram's. She wanted to, if no other reason than to make Phoebe and Piper feel better but she wasn't ready to smile yet. She was dead and had been replaced and she wasn't ready to rise above yet. She needed to process.
"What did the old bat have to say for herself?" Prue asked, an edge to her voice but she was still stroking Phoebe's hair. "How did she justify lying to us all those years?"