Chapter 2

"What?" Paige asked.

"He's not who you're supposed to be with," Coop said.

"And how long have you known?" Paige asked standing up from the table.

"Since I met Henry, I told your sister when you came back a few weeks ago."

"You knew for weeks Piper and said nothing?" Paige asked her voice starting to tremble.

"I was waiting, I didn't know, Paige, I didn't know how to tell you. I'm sorry."

"You should have told me the moment he left. Or how about when the divorce papers came? Or were you just going to wait until the guilt ate at you?" Paige said spitefully. She left the table going up to her room.

"You stop right there Missy Paige. I kept that information from you for good reason. I knew it would just hurt more. I wanted to protect you from some pain since you seem to be trying to do it on your own, as you always have. You've kept plenty of secrets from us. So keeping one from you didn't seem like such a huge deal. It's wrong to keep secrets and I shouldn't have, but I didn't want to see you in any more pain. It's my job as your older sister to protect you. Henry was horrible for leaving you. But you have another chance at happiness and I know you'll find it."

Paige had no words to say as she just went upstairs. She felt conflicted. Yes, she had kept many secrets from her sisters but this was a huge secret. Her husband, soon to be ex-husband, was not her true love. That was a huge secret to keep. But then so was being attacked by two demons in your past before becoming a witch. Paige struggled with this as her other sister, Phoebe came to her room. Phoebe assured her that she'd find the right guy but that Piper was right in a sense.

"You've kept a lot of secrets from us, dangerous ones. This Professor, he needs to be killed. The fact that he was able to capture and torture you, means he's powerful." She wanted Paige to talk about what happened down in the cave.

"I really don't want to talk about how he tortured me Pheebs. It's not something I really want to open up about right now."

"You don't have to now, but you should before we kill him."

"Pheebs we're going to vanquish him whether or not I open up. We're going to need the power of three."

"Yeah, and you have three sisters who won't help until you open up. The sooner you open up the sooner we vanquish this demon." She then left her sister. Prue had heard the ordeal and suggested the truth spell.

"Yeah, because that worked so well the first time," Piper said sarcastically.

"Prue, we can't really force her to open up, not like that, not with magic. We're going to do what we did last time but with something new: ultimatums and sisterly love," Phoebe said, "We're going to show Paige that you shouldn't keep secrets when in a family. We all know we've kept secrets from each other. Like Cole."

"And Leo," Piper said.

"And when you went to go see Dad before we did eight years ago."

"Okay, so they're all my secrets but you've kept secrets too, like how you felt toward that bridge," Phoebe said to Prue, "And you kept the thing about Henry from us."

"You and Paige also knew about Chris," Piper said.

"Let's stop this and just try getting Paige to open up. We have to do it soon, before the Elders do me in." She orbed back away as quickly as she had orbed in. Throughout the next week Paige stayed silent refusing to talk to the sisters about anything.

"You may be stubborn but Prue is more stubborn than you and when she comes back you won't be quiet anymore," Piper said, "Here taste this." Paige tasted the marinara sauce and spat it out.

"Agh! What is that?"

"Just a little potion. Not a truth potion, don't worry but now you have to talk to us."

"Prove it," Paige countered sitting back.

"What is your bird's name? Up in your room, does it have a name?" Paige tried her hardest to keep her mouth shut.

"It has a name, but I'm not telling you what it is," Paige said sighing, "I can't believe you did that!"

"Sisterly love, I knew I could make you talk, oh wait till Prue gets back!"

"This doesn't seem like sisterly love to me."

"Tough love then," Piper said as her baby sister stalked out of the kitchen.

"Blair, I know you're angry but it's important you do what's right."

"Do your sisters know you're alive?" Blair asked avoiding the topic.

"Yes, they do. They are practicing magic again just like you should. Drink the unbinding potion."

"No, I don't want to have premonitions anymore. I've lost too many I love because of them. Somehow your sister was able to ignore them while they decided not to be witches. Well I couldn't. When they went off the radar a lot of visions came to me. In a several month period they pretended to be dead I lost over a dozen innocents because I couldn't keep track of them. I was having more than one premonition a day. I refuse to go back to that."

"I still don't really know why you drank the potion in the first place. You claim it's because you were tired but that's not the real reason."

"You wouldn't understand as a whitelighter."

"Do you really want to take that chance? Tell me."

"I had a vision of my brother dying. I warned him, I did everything I could to stop him but he died anyway. He was overseas fighting. Now go orb home, nothing you can say or do will convince me to drink this potion." She handed the potion back to Prue.

"I understand exactly how you feel. No, I can't see the future but my sister can. I died and my sisters moved on. They found Paige and moved on. They continued to fight after I died. Even after they faked their deaths they went back to fighting. Their destiny is complete and they are still fighting. So just think about drinking the damn potion." Prue left the potion on the table in her charge's kitchen. She orbed out seeing Blair pick up the vial.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed the second chapter of Tying Up Loose Ends! Please leave a review with your thoughts! Charmed Always-K