Paige Matthews looked in the mirror for the last time to check that she had chosen the right outfit this time. She had tried on several before, and had taken nearly two hours to find an outfit that still looked good on her. Hmmm, Paige thought to herself, The pink strappy top works well with the black flared trousers and the new flip-flops that I bought yesterday, but what about my hair. She flicked her long dark hair around, deciding on what she should do. She began putting it in a high pony tail, so that her cheek bones stood out to everyone, making her look gorgeous. She then let her hair flow around her neck, bringing out the paleness in her face compared to the darkness of her hair. Paige sighed, she didn't know why she was worrying about what she looked like, she was just meeting up with Henry. It had been nearly a week since she had last saw him, and missed him terribly, this was because Piper and Leo had decided to go on a real, normal, holiday (as Piper put it clearly before they both left) since being reunited again with the love of her life. And, because Henry was at work full time, and was on call all during the day and sometimes all during the night, it would have been difficult for him to go to work when he was called, and so he couldn't stay at the manor with Paige.
Right, this will have to do, I am not changing again, she told herself. She didn't look to bad, she looked summery. Henry did not like it when she dressed up all the time, he felt that she was trying to hard and so she believed that this would do. She turned to the exit of the bathroom door, glad that Piper and Leo would be back soon and that she would be back with Henry. And it wasn't because she didn't love looking after Wyatt and Chris, it was because she had a family of her own now and all she wanted more now was to be with Henry and perhaps having some children of their own.
DING DONG
Paige closed the bathroom door behind her, confused, she thought Henry was coming over after Piper and Leo were back and they weren't arriving back to the manor till 12 o'clock and it was 10 o'clock now, and they weren't coming back for another two hours and maybe later depending on how long their flight was for, so who could be at the door?
"Aunty Paige! Someone's at the door" Wyatt came running out of his room, with his big, happy smile on his face, towards Paige. She looked at him and took interest about how much he had grown over the years. And, how powerful he was becoming everyday. Since the day that he had been born, his powers became stronger and even more stronger than the Charmed Ones put together. Sometimes it scared Paige, to think about what he might become one day and how his powers would develop throughout the years, though she had seen the future Wyatt and all that was good about him, but she was worry about if all that could change suddenly.
"I know sweetie" She patted him on his head. "You go back to your room and I'll go answer the door. Ok?"
"Yes Aunty Paige" Wyatt then turned around and ran off back into his room dragging his teddy behind him. Paige headed off, to see who was at the door. As she reached the room of Wyatt, she noticed that he had dropped something on the floor. She bent down to pick it up so she could examine the object more closely. She looked at it and released it was a photo of Piper and some guy. He was quite tall, had mid length hair, and was quite good looking. He was holding Piper and quite lovingly and she was kissing him on the cheek and quite obviously, he was not Leo.
DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG!
Alright, alright, I'm coming, she felt like shouting at the person who ever was at the front door. She put the picture inside her pocket so she could ask Piper about the mystery man later, obviously she would not do this in front of Leo, because he might of not known about him and she did not want to start any trouble among them. Hopefully she hadn't cheated, Paige thought, she loved Leo and would never do anything to hurt him.
Once Paige had reached downstairs, she was able to see the outline of the person waiting outside the front door. It didn't look like Henry, and it couldn't be Leo or Piper. Phoebe was at work and Coop was doing, well Coop things, so it could not be either one of them. She was hoping that it wasn't a demon or a warlock, though she would be able to handle it by herself, unless it was a power of three sort of demon and she didn't want to risk putting the boys in any danger, no matter how powerful the boys might be. But then again, what demon or warlock rings the doorbell anyway?
She reached the door, and grabbed hold of the handle and opened the door. There in front of her was just some, normal, average, guy (she hoped).
"Erm, hi, can I help you with something?" Paige asked the man in front of her.
"Oh, I think I might have the wrong house…this is the Halliwell Manor, right?" He asked Paige, placing his hand up against the door frame, looking calm and relax.
"Last time I checked it was" Paige laughed, she looked at the guy, him seem nice, he didn't seem like a demon or a warlock, but she could always be wrong. "Anyways, is their anything that I can do to help you-?"
"Oh, my apologies, my name is Dan, Dan Gordon" he put his hand out to shake Paige's, she looked at his hand not sure whether to accept since she didn't know who he was and what this 'Dan' wanted. But, she didn't want to seem rude and so she accepting his hand, wishing that she had Phoebe's power of premonition, just to see if she was a threat or not. "Well, I'm just here to visit a old-old friend of mine, Piper Halliwell. Do you know her?"
"Nice to meet you Dan, I'm Paige Matthews and yeah, I do know her, she's my sister, well, half sister."
"Really, I didn't know that Piper, Prue and Phoebe had a half sister" Dan asked curiously.
"Well, neither did they really, we only met a few years ago, after the, um, accident" Paige looked away from Dan. She was obviously talking about Prue, she had never met her, or have gotten to bond with her like sisters, like she had done with Piper and Phoebe, and she felt some what left out whenever they spoke about Prue, like she did not or never have a connection with her because she never knew her.
"Accident? Is everything alright now? Is Piper okay?" Wow, she thought, this guy does ask a lot about Piper.
"Yes, Piper is fine, she's just making her way back from France as we speak, she will probably be back in about 2 hours. You are more than welcome to come inside and wait if you like?" Paige offer and she took a step back inside, gesturing to let Dan inside the house.
"Thank you, that's very kind of you to offer" He said as he accepting and took a step inside the house. He walked past Paige so she was able to close the door behind him. He turned around and smiled at Paige, looking not remotely evil at all. "So, is Prue or Phoebe around? I'd love to see them again." Dan asked. Oh dear, she thought, he had not heard about the death of Prue. She really wasn't up to giving bad news, but she wasn't going to leave him hanging there.
"Oh, erm, well, Phoebe is at work, she works at the Bay Mirror, she's 'Ask Phoebe'. Very good at her job" She smiled as she walked into the living room to sit down. Dan followed her, confused, about why she didn't get straight to the point about Prue's whereabouts.
"And Prue…?" Dan asked as he sat down next to her.
"Well, I don't really know how it happened…" she lied, not wanting to tell Dan that Prue had been killed by the demon Shax, not the best way to put things and plus I don't think he knew about them being witches. "…but a few weeks before I met Piper and Phoebe, um, Prue died…" She looked down at the ground not wanting to look at the expression of his face.
"What?" Dan stared at Paige waiting for her to reply back to her, hoping that this was some sick joke that she making up. He waited, but he didn't hear a reply back from her. He placed his hand over his mouth, shocked and totally surprise. He couldn't believe that Prue was no longer alive. Piper and Phoebe must of-still be distraught, he told himself. He wondered why he had never been asked to attend the funeral, but then again he had moved, and didn't call or write to the Piper to tell him anything, not after… Paige looked back up at Dan, to see his shocked face, she didn't really know what to say to him. All she could have guessed was that he was, or use to be quite close to the family, before she came along.
"Erm, Dan, is there anything that I can get you? A glass of water, or something to eat?" she asked him, wondering if he wouldn't be shocked enough to answer her.
"No, I'm fine thank you…it's just…the shock of it all…I still cant believe that she's not-not here anymore…" he sadly replied.
"Yeah…were you two close?"
"Well, I close with all of them, but Piper mainly" he laughed.
"Really? How so?" she smiled at him
"Well…"
