Paige rolled over to look at her clock. It was 7:30 a.m. and for a minute she was tempted to go back to sleep and try to pick-up the dream she was having, after all, it was just about to get interesting. But then she heard voices in the hall, and decided to see if her sisters were up. She was almost surprised that they would be up this early on a Saturday, especially after the day of shopping they had put in the day before.

Shopping on Black Friday was new to Paige, but she wasn't surprised that Piper and Phoebe made a habit of it. They didn't have guys around the house going nuts over football and left over turkey like she did when she was growing up. Paige's adopted family was a football family, so they rarely left the house over Thanksgiving weekend. However, they were always up early Saturday morning, Paige thought as she got dressed, they were up early to put up Christmas decorations.

Paige had spent the previous holiday season at her aunt's house. She went over there the day after Thanksgiving for the usual football celebration and stayed the night to help with decorating the next day. Paige and her sisters exchanged gifts last year, but things didn't really feel right. She figured that the sisters were missing Prue. She could still remember how she felt the Christmas after her parents died. It made sense that they weren't feeling all that festive, and things were kind of crazy as they were getting ready to battle the Source, so she didn't think about the fact that they didn't put up a tree or lights. She was hoping it was a one year thing though and that this year they would celebrate to the fullest.

*****

By the time Paige got dressed and left her room, she found everyone down in the kitchen drinking coffee. She sat down at the table with a huge grin on her face and thanked Piper when she handed her a cup of coffee prepared how she liked it.

Phoebe took a sip from her mug and smiled at Paige. "You're in a good mood this morning."

Paige put down her coffee. "Well, why shouldn't I be?"

Piper sat down at the table next to Leo. "I don't know. We kind of thought you might be tired after yesterday. You don't seem like a shop to you drop kind of girl."

Paige laughed at that. "No, you definitely ran me raged, but I always loved trimming a tree, so here I am, up with the sun."

Leo looked at his wife and asked, "You guys need some trees trimmed? Why didn't you tell me?"

Phoebe laughed. "Oh Leo. She means putting up the Christmas tree."

Piper smiled too. "Yeah, um, well, we don't usually do that right away, but we can go get the tree out of the attic...."

Paige interrupted her, "Out of the attic?" she asked. "You guys don't use a real tree?"

Piper looked at Paige and frowned a little. "Not since mom died, no."

Phoebe looked at Piper oddly. "We used a live tree with mom?"

Piper smiled sadly. "Yeah, I barely remember it, but one of my first Christmas memories is picking out a tree with mom and dad," she paused for a moment and then added, "and Prue."

Paige was silent. She wanted a real tree, but she didn't want to intrude too much into their sad memories.

Phoebe looked at Paige and then at Piper. "Well, I have no memories of ever picking out a real tree. So Piper, if it's alright with you, maybe we could do that this year?"

Piper looked at Leo and then at her sisters. "Oh why not. Paige is a part of our family now and a new baby is on the way. It seems like a good time to start some new family traditions."

Paige smiled gleefully. "Oh goody! So we'll pick out the tree this morning and put up lights on the house tomorrow?"

Piper almost spat out her coffee. "Woah now. It's bad enough I have to pay the electric bill for P3s lights....."

Phoebe got a childlike expression on her face. "Oh Piper please. I like pretty lights."

Piper grinned at her sister, "Yes, well simple things for simple..."

Phoebe pinched Piper's arm, "Hey!"

Piper pinched Phoebe back, "Stop that. I'm in a delicate condition remember?"

Phoebe glared at her big sister, "Delicate my ass."

Leo smiled at the sisterly exchange, "Lights might be nice sweetie," he said to break up the fake fight.

Piper gave in, "Oh fine, three against one, and I won't be the Scrooge."

*****

Later that day while Paige and Leo set up the Christmas tree down in the pallor, Phoebe and Piper looked through the trunks in the attic for Christmas decorations and lights.

"How much you want to bet Paige is going to make us go buy new ornaments?" Piper asked as unpacked a box of half-empty glass balls.

Phoebe smiled, "Well some of these old ornaments have some meaning. Like this one," she said as she held up a candy-cane ornament made out of red and white beads. "Didn't you make this in elementary school?"

Piper took the ornament from Phoebe, "In second grade. There should be one like it from Prue and you as well. Our second grade teacher had a thing for candy-canes."

Phoebe found a blue and red candy-cane ornament and a blue and white one in the box she was looking through. The blue and red one had been Prue's. "Maybe we should have Paige make one so there can be one from all of us on the tree?"

Piper smiled, "That isn't such a bad idea."

Phoebe brought out another ornament from the box, one that she didn't recognize. It was a paper angel with a little golden halo glued on top. "Do you recognize this one Piper?" she asked.

Piper put down the box of silver bells she had found for the tree to look at the angel. "No, I don't"

Phoebe turned the angel around to read a note. It said, "To Prue, my guardian angel. Love Amy."

"Now this is odd," Phoebe said as she was thrown into a premonition.

Phoebe found herself in a park with lights and decorations all around. She heard a little girl crying and saw Prue holding her. Prue was saying, "Shh, it's o.k. Amy, we'll find your mommy." The little girl kept crying and saying "Fire, man, fire, mommy gone." Prue looked up with her eyes full of tears. Suddenly Phoebe saw a demon materialize in front of Prue and Amy. He started to throw a fireball at the little girl, but Prue threw it back at him with her mind. The little girl hadn't even opened her eyes to see Prue vanquish the demon. Prue was still holding the little girl as Phoebe was thrown into a very different scene. She looked around at what appeared to be a school. Phoebe heard one child talk about it being Christmas break. She saw the last of the buses leave, and on the bench behind them, Phoebe saw Amy, a few years older, sitting by herself. Phoebe saw a man walk up to Amy and the little girl get up and run to him calling "Daddy!" But when Amy got close to the man she backed away. Then Phoebe saw why. The man formed a fireball in his hands and threw it at the little girl.

Phoebe screamed as she came out of her premonition. "What did you see?" Piper asked.

Phoebe just looked at the little ornament, "It looks like Amy still needs a guardian angel," she said as she looked up at Piper, "or three."