Title: Paige's Sister - Part 5
Author: X5-343
Rating: PG-13
Category: Drama
Timeline: 17 years after Part 4 Spoilers: N/A Season: N/A
Content Warnings: Language Warning
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Charmed Ones or any character from the show Charmed. Any characters you don't recognize belong to the author.
Summary: 17 years later after the gang's High School graduation. Someone has isolated themselves from everyone else and dropped all contact to their past life. They've created a new identity and a new life. **************************************************************************** ***************
34 year old Laura Baxter walked down the halls of the jailhouse. Her heels clicked as they tapped the ground as she walked. She wore a three-piece suit minus the tie and small-reading glasses that she felt fit her face. Her ears were pierced only at the bottom on each side but other places on her ears had scars, possibly signifying where previous hole might've been. Laura was a public defender for teenagers.
She was escorted into a private room where she was about to meet with a 15year girl caught shoplifting thirty dollars worth of make-up from a department store in the local mall. Laura had guessed the girl and herself lived in pretty much the same area after hearing the name of the store the girl had attempted robbery from. If it was true they both lived in a small town right outside of Boston.
"Hello Robyn." Laura greeted
The girl didn't reply as she was handcuffed to a bar on the table while one hand remained free.
Laura closed the file sitting in front of her. "Do you live nearby?"
Robyn nodded; she was looking down at the table.
"Me too." Laura told her. "I have a daughter and a son, They're twins though, and they're a little younger then you. Pamela - Pam - is my daughter, she's older then Timothy (my son) by 4hours. She's tried shoplifting before too but I made her take it back. She's a smart kid, she's never tried it again since but she told me she did it because there a bunch of girls at her school that came to school showing off the things they stole. Is that why you did what you did?"
Robyn shook her head.
"Then you have to tell me why sweetie. If I'm going to help you, which I really do want to do then you're going to have to tell me why."
Robyn nodded.
"Why'd you do it Robyn?" Laura asked gently
"Because I'm ugly." Robyn burst into tears as she admitted to her reason for her attempted crime.
Laura nodded to herself. She had seen too many cases like this before to not have expected that.
"Shh. It's okay Robyn. You're mom has been called and she's coming to pick you up. I'm going to talk to her for a few minutes and she will take you home. You will have to apologize to the store manger and pay a fine. You also might get kicked out of the store for a little while and possible house arrest for two weeks. You won't have a trial and no charges have been pressed. Are you okay with that Robyn?"
The young girl nodded.
"Okay" Laura agreed smiling. She placed her hand on Robyn's free one and squeezed it a little reassuringly. "It'll be okay sweetie." **************************************************************************** ****************
After talking to Robyn's mother, Laura realized she had to go to the Junior High School to pick up her kids. She drove quickly, picked them up and drove home where she started making dinner.
Pam immediately jumped on the computer and Tim took over the TV in The living room. Within two minutes Laura smiled as her kids followed their daily schedule. They always started doing something and then they remembered their manners. Their mom was a single mom and had given birth to them during her third and second last year of University. Their father had passed away a year later and their mom didn't talk about it often.
"Is there anything you need help with mom?" They asked as Pam came out of the computer room and Tim called from the living room.
"No thank-you guys but thanks for offering." Laura replied
The two twins smiled at their mom to let her know that they were there if they needed anything and went back to what they were doing. Laura turned on the small kitchen TV and had just disappeared into her bedroom to change into casual clothes when the doorbell rang.
"Tim! Can you get that please?" Laura called through her closed bedroom door.
"Sure mom!" Tim replied getting up from his chair, Pam also came out of the computer room to see who was at the door. **************************************************************************** ****************
"Can I help you?" Timothy asked as he opened the front door to the house he, his mom and his sister shared and found a woman there. She looked to be the same age as Laura.
"Yes. Thank-you, I'm looking for a Samantha Halliwell."
Tim looked back to Pamela with a look of confusion, she shrugged and they looked back up to the woman. "Sorry, we don't know anybody with that name."
The woman looked confused for a moment before rolling her eyes in anger and hurt. At the point Laura came back into the picture as she was smoothing out a comfy t-shirt that matched the Boston May weather.
"Tim, who is it?" She asked without looking up. Once she finally brought up her head to look at the doorframe, realization flashed through her face but it quickly passed as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"May I help you?" She asked
"She looking for some Sam girl mom" Tim told her.
Laura shrugged her shoulders. "I'm sorry Miss but I think you got the wrong address or something. We can't help you."
"Sam!" The woman used a warning tone.
"Her name is Laura!" Pam spoke up.
Laura looked down and smiled at her thirteen year-old daughter.
"Pam, why don't you and Tim go stir the spaghetti sauce and put the spices into it okay? I'm just going to be outside the door if you guys need me."
The two just-barely teenagers nodded and Tim joined his sisters in the kitchen before he left the living room he turned to his mom.
"Remember mom don't talk to strangers!" He joked and grinned before turning into the kitchen doorframe to help his sister.
Laura smiled after her son and turned back to the woman in front of her. She pointed outside and once they were on the front porch, she shut the door behind them.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Laura demanded
"He has DJ's smile." The woman commented.
"I asked you a question." Laura replied.
"Well you're definitely a lawyer with that comment."
"Tell me you didn't know that before coming here." Laura challenged.
The woman shrugged. "What are you doing way out of here? You hated everybody so much that after Law School you went to the other end of the country?"
"It was too cold in Canada" Laura retorted angrily.
(A/N: No offence to my fellow Canadians, because I live here too and We're having a blizzard here right now. 60cms of snow due to hit! That's where the comment is coming from. I'm not trying to offend you or myself!)
"You're needed back home."
"This IS my home!"
"What the hell happened to you? What would DJ say if he saw you now? You dropped all contact with everyone you knew, you moved to Boston and you changed your identity!"
"You'd think that'd a hint that I never wanted to see any of you again but here you stand!"
"You never answered my question." The woman told her.
"DJ'S DEAD! YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT! WHY DO YOU WANT ME TO TELL YOU WHAT I THINK HE WOULD SAY WHEN OBVIOUSLY HE CAN'T SAY ANYTHING!"
"DJ's not dead Sam!"
"I watched him die! It was my fault and I paid for it by watching the father of my children and my fiancé die!"
"Then why is he the one that found you for us?"
Laura arms were still crossed but a shred of hope passed through her eyes as that question was exposed.
"What?" She asked, tears starting to form.
"He tracked down your address for us."
"I watched him die. That's impossible!"
"Not if the Elders thought they owed you something."
"Whatever. If DJ was alive, then why the hell haven't I seen him in thirteen years? Huh? Why hasn't he tried to see his kids? This is bullshit and I don't need my children growing up with it."
Laura was about to go inside when the woman asked another question.
"Your kids are half-witch. Like your mom and Phoebe, what kind of powers do they have?"
"Why?" Laura asked, not turning around. She tried to hide her surprise that the woman would ask that.
"Piper wants to know."
"Go away Alex. Obviously you know about magick and stuff but I don't want my kids hearing it, they're going to think it's okay to tell people and I don't need another incident like what happened at Northwestern that year happening again."
With that Laura went inside, leaving Alex on the porch alone. **************************************************************************** ****************
Category: Drama
Timeline: 17 years after Part 4 Spoilers: N/A Season: N/A
Content Warnings: Language Warning
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Charmed Ones or any character from the show Charmed. Any characters you don't recognize belong to the author.
Summary: 17 years later after the gang's High School graduation. Someone has isolated themselves from everyone else and dropped all contact to their past life. They've created a new identity and a new life. **************************************************************************** ***************
34 year old Laura Baxter walked down the halls of the jailhouse. Her heels clicked as they tapped the ground as she walked. She wore a three-piece suit minus the tie and small-reading glasses that she felt fit her face. Her ears were pierced only at the bottom on each side but other places on her ears had scars, possibly signifying where previous hole might've been. Laura was a public defender for teenagers.
She was escorted into a private room where she was about to meet with a 15year girl caught shoplifting thirty dollars worth of make-up from a department store in the local mall. Laura had guessed the girl and herself lived in pretty much the same area after hearing the name of the store the girl had attempted robbery from. If it was true they both lived in a small town right outside of Boston.
"Hello Robyn." Laura greeted
The girl didn't reply as she was handcuffed to a bar on the table while one hand remained free.
Laura closed the file sitting in front of her. "Do you live nearby?"
Robyn nodded; she was looking down at the table.
"Me too." Laura told her. "I have a daughter and a son, They're twins though, and they're a little younger then you. Pamela - Pam - is my daughter, she's older then Timothy (my son) by 4hours. She's tried shoplifting before too but I made her take it back. She's a smart kid, she's never tried it again since but she told me she did it because there a bunch of girls at her school that came to school showing off the things they stole. Is that why you did what you did?"
Robyn shook her head.
"Then you have to tell me why sweetie. If I'm going to help you, which I really do want to do then you're going to have to tell me why."
Robyn nodded.
"Why'd you do it Robyn?" Laura asked gently
"Because I'm ugly." Robyn burst into tears as she admitted to her reason for her attempted crime.
Laura nodded to herself. She had seen too many cases like this before to not have expected that.
"Shh. It's okay Robyn. You're mom has been called and she's coming to pick you up. I'm going to talk to her for a few minutes and she will take you home. You will have to apologize to the store manger and pay a fine. You also might get kicked out of the store for a little while and possible house arrest for two weeks. You won't have a trial and no charges have been pressed. Are you okay with that Robyn?"
The young girl nodded.
"Okay" Laura agreed smiling. She placed her hand on Robyn's free one and squeezed it a little reassuringly. "It'll be okay sweetie." **************************************************************************** ****************
After talking to Robyn's mother, Laura realized she had to go to the Junior High School to pick up her kids. She drove quickly, picked them up and drove home where she started making dinner.
Pam immediately jumped on the computer and Tim took over the TV in The living room. Within two minutes Laura smiled as her kids followed their daily schedule. They always started doing something and then they remembered their manners. Their mom was a single mom and had given birth to them during her third and second last year of University. Their father had passed away a year later and their mom didn't talk about it often.
"Is there anything you need help with mom?" They asked as Pam came out of the computer room and Tim called from the living room.
"No thank-you guys but thanks for offering." Laura replied
The two twins smiled at their mom to let her know that they were there if they needed anything and went back to what they were doing. Laura turned on the small kitchen TV and had just disappeared into her bedroom to change into casual clothes when the doorbell rang.
"Tim! Can you get that please?" Laura called through her closed bedroom door.
"Sure mom!" Tim replied getting up from his chair, Pam also came out of the computer room to see who was at the door. **************************************************************************** ****************
"Can I help you?" Timothy asked as he opened the front door to the house he, his mom and his sister shared and found a woman there. She looked to be the same age as Laura.
"Yes. Thank-you, I'm looking for a Samantha Halliwell."
Tim looked back to Pamela with a look of confusion, she shrugged and they looked back up to the woman. "Sorry, we don't know anybody with that name."
The woman looked confused for a moment before rolling her eyes in anger and hurt. At the point Laura came back into the picture as she was smoothing out a comfy t-shirt that matched the Boston May weather.
"Tim, who is it?" She asked without looking up. Once she finally brought up her head to look at the doorframe, realization flashed through her face but it quickly passed as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"May I help you?" She asked
"She looking for some Sam girl mom" Tim told her.
Laura shrugged her shoulders. "I'm sorry Miss but I think you got the wrong address or something. We can't help you."
"Sam!" The woman used a warning tone.
"Her name is Laura!" Pam spoke up.
Laura looked down and smiled at her thirteen year-old daughter.
"Pam, why don't you and Tim go stir the spaghetti sauce and put the spices into it okay? I'm just going to be outside the door if you guys need me."
The two just-barely teenagers nodded and Tim joined his sisters in the kitchen before he left the living room he turned to his mom.
"Remember mom don't talk to strangers!" He joked and grinned before turning into the kitchen doorframe to help his sister.
Laura smiled after her son and turned back to the woman in front of her. She pointed outside and once they were on the front porch, she shut the door behind them.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Laura demanded
"He has DJ's smile." The woman commented.
"I asked you a question." Laura replied.
"Well you're definitely a lawyer with that comment."
"Tell me you didn't know that before coming here." Laura challenged.
The woman shrugged. "What are you doing way out of here? You hated everybody so much that after Law School you went to the other end of the country?"
"It was too cold in Canada" Laura retorted angrily.
(A/N: No offence to my fellow Canadians, because I live here too and We're having a blizzard here right now. 60cms of snow due to hit! That's where the comment is coming from. I'm not trying to offend you or myself!)
"You're needed back home."
"This IS my home!"
"What the hell happened to you? What would DJ say if he saw you now? You dropped all contact with everyone you knew, you moved to Boston and you changed your identity!"
"You'd think that'd a hint that I never wanted to see any of you again but here you stand!"
"You never answered my question." The woman told her.
"DJ'S DEAD! YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT! WHY DO YOU WANT ME TO TELL YOU WHAT I THINK HE WOULD SAY WHEN OBVIOUSLY HE CAN'T SAY ANYTHING!"
"DJ's not dead Sam!"
"I watched him die! It was my fault and I paid for it by watching the father of my children and my fiancé die!"
"Then why is he the one that found you for us?"
Laura arms were still crossed but a shred of hope passed through her eyes as that question was exposed.
"What?" She asked, tears starting to form.
"He tracked down your address for us."
"I watched him die. That's impossible!"
"Not if the Elders thought they owed you something."
"Whatever. If DJ was alive, then why the hell haven't I seen him in thirteen years? Huh? Why hasn't he tried to see his kids? This is bullshit and I don't need my children growing up with it."
Laura was about to go inside when the woman asked another question.
"Your kids are half-witch. Like your mom and Phoebe, what kind of powers do they have?"
"Why?" Laura asked, not turning around. She tried to hide her surprise that the woman would ask that.
"Piper wants to know."
"Go away Alex. Obviously you know about magick and stuff but I don't want my kids hearing it, they're going to think it's okay to tell people and I don't need another incident like what happened at Northwestern that year happening again."
With that Laura went inside, leaving Alex on the porch alone. **************************************************************************** ****************