A/N: Hello again. I'd like to thank those who reviewed the last chapter. Nice to see people still like my writings. Anyway, I hope this makes up for the shortness of the last chapter. Oh, and that, I proofread this at 1AM, so mistakes are allowed.

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            As Phoebe exited the bathroom, she noticed Paige's door was open. Although, when she peered in and saw an empty bed, slight panic arose in her. She quickly scanned the hallway to find it empty. Once she looked downstairs, she saw Paige's red hair poking over the top of the couch. She breathed a sigh of relief as she went downstairs to Paige.

"Hey you." Phoebe greeted cheerfully as she plopped herself onto the couch. Paige barely acknowledged Phoebe with a mere glance upwards and then returned to drawing. Out of curiosity, Phoebe cocked her head to the side to see what Paige was drawing. Her sketch revealed a picture of a demon similar to Belthazor in shape, but a little less buff and without the tribal markings. The sick, sinister smile he wore on his face was actually beginning to creep Phoebe out.

"Paige, who is that a picture of?" Phoebe asked, getting a little worried. She placed her hand gently on top of Paige's hand in order to gain her attention and when Paige finally looked up at her, Phoebe then noticed what Piper was talking about earlier. Her eyes were no long portraying the happiness that they once had, but confusion; utter confusion to the world surrounding her. Paige was indeed different.

"Paige, were you attacked by a demon? This demon?" Phoebe pressed on, pointing to the drawing, and receiving no answer from Paige. Without a word, Paige got up from the sofa and headed back up the stairs. "Paige? Paige!" Phoebe yelled after her. Piper appeared at the balcony shortly after Paige had walked into her room.

"What's all the yelling for?" She asked.

"I think something, demonic, happened to Paige." Phoebe explained, heading up the stairs to Piper. "And I think it has to do with this demon." Phoebe showed Piper the drawing.

"Did Paige draw this?" Piper asked, taking a hold of the book. She shivered at the thought of someone or something like that being anywhere near to Paige.

"I'm going to go check the BOS for this demon, see if he could anything to do with this."

"Wait, we should probably talk to her about it first." Piper suggested.

"I tried to, but she just stared at me and didn't say anything. It's like she heard me but didn't."

"Come on anyway." Piper took Phoebe's hand, and they walked to Paige's room. When Piper knocked on the door, no response was given. Phoebe shrugged as Piper looked at her for any suggestion. With a quick breath, they both entered the room. Paige was on the bed lying on her side, clutching her stomach tightly and her eyes closed shut. Phoebe sat down beside her, as Piper squatted down in front of her.

"Paige, what's wrong? We know something isn't right." Piper asked, concern in her voice. Paige looked into Piper's eyes, and Piper could see a glimmer of hope that she was going to say something, but nothing came out.

"Are you hurt?" Phoebe questioned, noticing Paige holding her stomach. Piper took notice to this too, and touched Paige's stomach. Paige quickly flinched at Piper's touch and tried to back up.

"Paige, if you're hurt, you have to let us help you." Piper said, gently lifting up Paige's shirt to reveal a multicolored bruise mark by her abdomen and several scratch-like markings all over her stomach. Piper then gently lifted up Paige's shirt to see her stomach reveal a bruise mark there and several scratch-like markings. Paige began to involuntary tremble as Piper ran her fingers tenderly along the bruises.

"Did he do this?" Piper asked, but Paige gave that same lost stare at her. Piper hid her rising disappointment and concern for her baby sister. She couldn't panic at a time like this; Paige needed her. "I'm going to call Leo, ok?" Piper got up and left the room to shout for Leo.

"Paige, why won't you talk to us?" Phoebe asked. Paige just looked at her, her eyes screaming that she would, but she still said nothing. Phoebe sighed, desperately wanting Paige to talk to her. Soon, Leo and Piper returned to the room a few seconds later. Piper had already told him what they knew outside the room. He quietly healed in her stomach.

"Is there any where else it hurts, Paige?" He asked, concern obvious in his voice. Leo sighed when he received no response from her. "I'm just going to check to make sure, okay?" Leo warned before he began to cautiously poke about Paige's abdomen and rib cage. He reached about the second lowest rib when Paige had flinched again. Leo slowly rubbed his hand over the bone. He could tell it was at least slightly fractured. He wordlessly healed her rib, knowing that any question he asked would go unanswered. Paige looked down at her stomach; an expression of relief could almost be seen on her emotionless face.

"Paige, how did you get hurt?" Piper asked. To no surprise to everyone, Paige didn't respond once again. It was like she had gone back to her little, isolating world. She rolled off the other side of her bed and started to walk about her room, picking up various objects and then placing them back down. Her family watched her, wondering if she was trying to show them something. When she reached her bookshelf, she ran her fingers along the titles of the books, reading them silently to herself. Paige suddenly grabbed multiple books and violently threw them on the ground.

"Paige…" Phoebe calmly said, going over to her sister. Phoebe ducked another round of books being thrown to the floor. She let her eyes quickly scan the book titles: Demons: Are they real?; The Modern Witch; The stars, the moon, and you. Those were the only books she had time to read before a candle collided with her head.

"Paige, what are you doing?" Piper questioned, watching her sister wreak havoc on her own room. Phoebe went to stop Paige, but the moment she touched her, she was thrown into a premonition. Flashes of images appeared in Phoebe's mind, rapidly foreshadowing scenes and events of the future. It was mere seconds before Phoebe snapped back to reality.

"What did you see?" Piper asked Phoebe, noticing her sister tense up and then relax.

"Paige…" Phoebe said slowly, looking at her baby sister. "You were in the underworld… and you escaped, but then… a demon is going to come, and take you back." Phoebe finished. It was obvious in her voice she was still trying to piece together the premonition.

"Paige, what does that mean?" Piper asked. All eyes fell upon Paige for answers, and Paige looked back nervously between them. She began to shake her head no, and back away from them. Upon hitting the wall, Paige slid down in tears and quickly buried her head in her knees. Relying on her instincts, Piper got up and pulled Paige into a hug. Paige let her tears fall onto Piper's shirt while Piper rubbed her back soothingly.

"I don't want to go back." Paige muffled in Piper's shirt.

"Shh, it's ok, it's all right." Piper said, still holding her. "Hey, why don't you go down to the kitchen, and I'll be right there to fix you something to eat?" Paige nodded, stifling her sniffs and pulling away from Piper. Wiping her eyes, she left the room and headed downstairs.

"Phoebe, what happened in your premonition?" Piper asked.

"Well, I had two premonitions actually; one of the past and one of the future.

"That's new…" Piper mused.

"Yeah. In the past one, I could see that Paige was in the underworld, chained to a wall. I'm guessing she probably escaped through orbing out."

"Most likely where Darryl found her this morning." Leo commented.

"Now, in the future one, I saw Paige being taken again. It may be the same demon, but I can't be sure. Oh, and there was this other woman there but I don't know where she fit into the whole thing."

"Other woman?" Leo asked.

"That's who Paige must be talking about." Piper concluded. "When she first came home, she was saying how she couldn't save 'her'. I had no clue who she was talking about, but it could be that person."

"Guys, that premonition didn't exactly say much on the way of details, but I could see how scared Paige looked and she was terrified. Anything could've happened."

"I know…" Piper softly spoke, the random scenarios running through her head once again. "So, where does this leave us?"

"With a very troubled sister who'll have to come to terms with whatever happened before we can really help her." Leo said, sadly.

"Ok, I'm going downstairs to cook something for Paige. Phoebe, why don't you go check in the BOS, since you got a look at that demon?" Piper suggested.

"Alright, just tread lightly. We don't want to push her." Phoebe said, heading up to the attic. Piper went to leave, when Leo wrapped his arms around his wife from behind. Taking the moment to relax, she leaned back into the embrace, taking a deep breath.

"What are we going to do?" Piper asked, searching for answers she wasn't quite so sure of herself.

"We're going to help Paige through this, and vanquish the demon who did this to her." Leo answered, giving her a little squeezed before letting her go. Piper turned around and kissed Leo.

"Thanks…"

Paige was sitting at the small kitchen table; her eyes were fixated upon the saltshaker. The constant, nervous tap of her foot could be heard beating against the tile floor. When Piper entered the kitchen, she took a seat next to her. Paige's tapping slowly ceased as Piper took her hand in her own. Paige looked into Piper's eyes, receiving a warm smile.

"It'll be okay, you just have to believe it." Piper encouraged her. "Now, what do you want to eat?" Paige just continued to look at her, not really answering. Piper could tell Paige had reverted back to her ways of not talking.

"Well, I'm going to have some Campbell's soup, and you can split it with me." Even though Paige didn't response, Piper went on preparing the soup. Piper had sat by the stove to stir the chowder, never letting her eyes leave Paige. When she was done, she scooped it into two bowls, and placed them on the table for herself and Paige. As Piper ate, she watched Paige just twirl her spoon around in the bowl. Her heart started to break as she thought of what the demon could have possibly done to have taken her once spunky, energetic, smiling baby sister and turn her into the quiet, shelled-in person she was now. She just wanted to make it all go away but she knew a simple vanquish of the demon wouldn't make it all better. She looked at Paige who was looking at her. Paige's expression on her face was depressing. Though, anger soon took over in the fact that someone had done something to her sister, to her sister. Some demon had terrified her to this point, this point of seclusion.

"Paige, I want to ask you a question. Phoebe said in her premonition, there was another girl there." Piper began to speak, but stopped when she looked at Paige again. Paige had started to rock herself in the chair; tears were forming in her eyes.

"She couldn't leave, she couldn't escape… it was… too late. I was too late." Paige was beginning to put breaks in between each word. Piper tried to take up Paige's hand to comfort her but Paige shrunk back. "No! I failed her!" Piper could see various pots and pans and glasses disappear in orbs from her cabinets. Slamming into the wall, the kitchenware fell to pieces on the floor. Paige jumped at the sudden noise around her.

"Paige, it wasn't your fault." Piper said, but Paige ran into the basement before Piper could stop her. Quickly locking the door, Paige ran down the stairs. She orbed the five crystals down to the basement and placed them in a reserved pentagon. It had been a little trick she had picked up during her witch studies. Reversing the poles in which the crystals were normally placed then reversed the charge. Neither her sisters nor anyone else could now make her remove the force field. Paige didn't want to talk about it, she just wanted to be safe.

Piper continued to bang on the door, yelling for Paige to let her in. She thought about using the key to open the door when she remembered it had been lost ages ago. Contemplating on whether or not she should blow down the door, she took in a deep breath to relax herself. She wasn't too keen in getting the door fixed later on, but she stepped back anyway to blow it up. Just before she flicked her wrist, Leo and Phoebe came jogging down the stairs to her.

"Piper, what happened down here?" Phoebe asked, making the connection between the close door and the sudden disappearance of Paige. The noise had alerted them that something was wrong.

"I was trying to ask her about the girl you saw in your premonition, but when I did she lost it. She was saying how it was her fault, and how she failed. She got so worked up, I don't think she even realized that she was orbing things around the kitchen." Piper explained, running her hands through her hair. She began to regret even bringing up the subject with Paige. "I'm beginning to think that woman died before Paige could save her."

"And Paige is probably blaming herself for it, feeling completely guilty for the lose. That's why she's probably trying to shut herself off from us." Leo suggested.

"But Paige knows we weren't meant to save everyone." Phoebe pointed out.

"Yeah, but pile on whatever else happened down there…"

"Ok, less talking, more orbing. She locked herself in the basement and I don't think she should be alone right now." Piper said. Nodding in agreement, Leo took the girls' hands and orbed them down. By the time they entered, Paige had already erected the force field, having an electric dome surrounding her. Piper walked up to remove the crystal, but as soon as she go near to it, she was sent flying back into Leo.

"Okay Paige, I'm not sure what you did, but undo it. We need to talk." Piper said, Leo helping her up off the ground. Paige remained sitting Indian style on the floor, not even acknowledging that they were there.

"It's not good for you to keep everything to yourself, you know. We just want to talk to you." Phoebe said, choosing a more friendly tone of voice. She stepped up to a few feet from the cage.

"Paige, why don't you come out and you can do whatever you want? You don't have to talk if you don't want to." Leo offered, sensing Paige wasn't in the "talking" mood.

"Yeah, I'm sorry Paige. If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine." Piper joined in. Paige swiveled around so her back was facing them. Sighing in frustration, Piper took a seat on an old crate. She glanced at Phoebe and Leo for suggestions, but they were fresh out. Piper allowed a couple of minutes to pass by before she broke the silence.

"You can't stay in that bubble forever, Paige. I know you know that." Piper said, receiving a shrug from Paige. "Why don't you tell us what you want? Or do you really want us to leave you alone?" The room fell silent, only the buzzing of electricity from the shield could be heard. After a long moment of silence, Piper finally gave in.

"Fine… we'll go."

But as Piper began to usher Phoebe and Leo out, Paige mumbled something, and one of the crystals orbed into her hand, allowing the field to drop. Piper cautiously walked around the pentagon to Paige, and bent down to her eye level. A few tears were rolling down Paige's face.

"I don't want to be alone…" Paige whispered. "I just want these feelings to go away." Piper wiped away the tears from Paige's face, relieved Paige hadn't completely shut them out.

"Don't worry, we're all here" Piper said, taking a hold of Paige.

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A/N: Yes, this didn't exactly clear up the mystery of what has happened. That's why you have to come back to read the second chapter. Hope you enjoyed. You know, if I were in your shoes, I'd review just about…. now. Just a suggestion. Thanks!