After helping her get down the stairs, Phoebe and Paige were sat at the dining table and Patty was in the kitchen talking to Piper.

Piper came out of the kitchen with Patty with a big smile on her face. Patty was telling her a story about when she was younger. Piper placed a large dish of Pasta Bake into the centre of the table.

"Paige, could you come and get some glasses please?" Piper asked with a friendly smile.

Paige looked awkwardly at Phoebe. She couldn't walk without excruciating pain and she didn't want to have to tell Piper just yet.

"I'll do it." Phoebe stood up, biting her lip again.

Once they came back in carrying glasses and a bottle of wine, Piper spoke again.

"Okay then, Paige could you give me a hand bringing in the salad?" Paige shifted uneasily in her seat.

Patty stood up. "Let me, Piper." She walked into the kitchen.

Piper started to walk and then turned back, walking towards Paige. "Sweetie are you okay? You don't look so well." She placed her hand on Paige's forehead. Paige looked at Phoebe uncomfortably. "Oh honey, you're burning up, let me get you an aspirin."

"No." Paige replied a little too loudly. Paige knew she'd already had the maximum dose she could have of pair relief for the next four hours. Any more would probably make her collapse and overdose.

"Why not?"

"I-I just don't want any." She said uncomfortably.

"You're acting weird. All of you are." She said to them all as Patty came through the doorway. "What's going on?"

Phoebe bit her lip again.

Piper turned to them all in turn. "You look you like you've just killed someone." She said to Phoebe. "You haven't been here in over a year and you only come down here when something's wrong." She said to her mother who guiltily looked down at the table. "And you-" She pointed at Paige. "You've slept for what seems like the majority of the day and you look like you're at death's door. Will somebody please tell me what's going on here?" She said frustratedly.

With no response from anyone and an awkward silence, Piper began to serve up four plates of pasta. They then sat in silence for over five minutes mainly just scraping at their dishes.

Phoebe stared at Paige sadly and Paige silently ate her pasta, occasionally glancing back at her.

"Stop staring at me." Paige muttered quietly to Phoebe.

Phoebe looked down at her food. Suddenly she wasn't so hungry anymore. She looked back up at Paige and remembered where all of her bruises and cuts were. She remembered the purple rim just below Paige's eye where she'd obviously been punched, she remembered the bust lip she had, the bruised scratch on her neck, her knuckles that were cut and bruised from when she'd obviously tried to fight back. She remembered the large bruise on her sister's ribs and her sister's thighs that were also cut and bruised. The men who did this obviously had no mercy.

Rather understandably, Paige had not let Phoebe or her mother go anywhere near her private area. But Phoebe worried that she was a hurting a lot there too but was too much of a proud person to say so.

She knew her sister was in a lot more pain than she was letting on. You could see it just by looking into her eyes.

Paige looked up at Phoebe's sad eyes which were now full of tears.

Paige looked down at her own lap. Not wanting to look at Phoebe. A single tear dropped down her cheek. Patty reached her arm across from next to her and put Paige's hand into her own hands. She stroked her hand gently; avoiding the knuckle as she also remembered where Paige's bruises were.

Paige looked at her mother gratefully.

Piper put her knife and fork down and looked up at the people around the table. She saw Phoebe first who had tears rolling down her cheeks. She looked across the table at Paige who Phoebe was looking at. Paige was staring at the floor. She had tears in her eyes which she was obviously trying to ignore. She looked across the table at her mother whose eyes were also welling up too.

"Is someone going to tell me what the hell happened!" Piper shouted. "Did you two have a fight or something? Because honestly, I'm imagining horrible scenarios which are probably so much worse than what actually happened." She said to all three of them frustratedly.

"They won't be." Phoebe said grumpily.

Piper looked at Phoebe worriedly. "What?"

"You were wrong with what you said. It's really bad." She said, looking at Paige.

"Well then somebody tell me!" Piper shouted, banging her fist on the table.

"Fine." Paige said, still looking down.

Paige stared at her with a confused expression.

"Do you want some time with her alone?" Phoebe asked Paige.

"Yes." Paige said quietly.

"Okay honey." Phoebe said sadly. She stood up, walked over to Paige and hugged her tightly. She put some of Paige's hair behind her ear, wiped away her tears on her cheeks with her thumbs and kissed her on the forehead before leaving.

"I'll go with Phoebe, sweetheart. Give you two some time alone. I love you, baby girl." She said, kissing Paige on the other cheek before leaving.

Piper watched all of this with a confused and worried expression.

Paige looked up at Piper who was the only one left at the table.

"Come and sit next to me." Piper said to her little sister.

Paige nodded. She stood up, swearing at the pain and walked around the table to Piper, gripping the side of the table the whole time.

"What is wrong with you? Are you hurt?" Piper asked worriedly.

"I'm just going to tell you okay. And I don't want you to freak out before I'm done because this is so hard to talk about and I don't want to repeat any of it." Paige said, wiping a tear from her own cheek. "But first I need to do something."

Paige lifted out a strip of paper from her pyjama bottom's pocket and read its contents. "Let the Object of Objection return, So that its existence may be reaffirmed." She whispered. And instantly her bruises and cuts reappeared.

"Oh my god." Piper gasped. "What happened to you?" She said worriedly.

"I said no questions until I'm done." Paige said, wiping a couple of tears away. She inhaled and exhaled once slowly before speaking. "Last night I was walking through the park quite late and a guy grabbed me. He gagged my mouth and took me somewhere in a van. Afterwards um, he dragged me out and took me to this disgusting house. It had no furniture in it and it was damp and nasty. He threw me down and locked the door. This other sicko came from another room and ...-" tears were streaming down her face now and she was shaking again. Piper was holding her hands but not taking her eyes away from Paige's distraught face. "- they." Paige swallowed loudly. "The beat and raped me." Paige said difficultly. After a minute of no response. Paige looked up at Piper who was staring at her in a state of shock.

Suddenly Piper blinked and seemed to be back. "Did...did you do a rape kit?"

"No."

"Why not?" Piper said, tears running down her cheeks now.

"Because I didn't want anyone I didn't know to touch me."

Piper nodded. "Why- why didn't you tell me when I first got in?" She stuttered.

"I didn't know what to say. I didn't want you to think about me differently or be upset about it. I didn't want to cause you any distress. It's not your problem, it's mine." Paige said, blinking tears away.

"Of course it's my problem." Piper outburst. "You're my little sister and a revolting thing happened to you. Therefore it's my business. It's all of ours. You're not going through this alone."

Paige nodded and leaning forward, hugging Piper. Piper held her tight as if she never wanted to let go.

"I'm never going to let anything happen to you ever again." Piper said strongly. "I'm so sorry I wasn't there to stop it." She added, her voice going high with emotion.

Paige pulled away and sat back down. "It wasn't your fault. I've been through this with Phoebe. Neither of you could have known." She said honestly.

"So- how did you get back...?" Piper asked curiously.

"It was the middle of the night and I was really, really weak but I managed to orb here. I'd lost all my strength by the time I'd gotten to the staircase though and I collapsed and fell on the stairs. Phoebe saw this happen and she came and helped me. She helped me up the stairs and then the pain was too much and she sat us both down in the hallway. I cuddled up to her and we fell asleep for the rest of the night there."

"You both slept in the hall?"

"Yes. Then in the morning, mom came for a while and helped Phoebe look after me. Phoebe's not really left my side since. We were both exhausted today and we were talking on my bed and that's how we fell asleep together. That's why we were so close when you came in." Paige explained.

"That makes a lot more sense. Wait why didn't either of you call me?"

"I just didn't want to bother you and Phoebe was doing an amazing job at looking after me and you have the boys to worry about..."

"I know. You still should have called. Or let Phoebe call me." Piper scolded.

"Sorry."

"It's okay. I'm just glad you're alive."

Paige nodded.

"Paige, how bad are your injuries?"

Paige shrugged. "I don't know. I haven't really looked."

"Can I take a look? You can decide what I can see and what I can't."

"Okay. That seems fair." Paige sniffed and she stood up, her face scrunching up from the pain.

At that moment Phoebe walked into the dining room. "I'm sorry I know you wanted time alone but I wanted to see how you both were and mom's really busy making those potions for you and..."

"Phoebe it's okay." Paige nodded. "Piper wanted to see where I was hurt."

"Is that okay?" Phoebe asked cautiously.

"Yeah. I think I'll change into a sports bra and shorts. Then I won't have to keep messing about with my clothes."

"That's a good idea." Piper responded.

"Honey do you think you're strong enough to orb yet?" Phoebe asked.

"I don't know I haven't tried."

"Maybe you could try and orb upstairs?" Phoebe suggested curiously.

"Okay, I'll try."

With a flash of blue lights, she was gone. They waited a second before hearing a large thump above them.

"Oh god." Phoebe said, running up the stairs. Piper followed behind her. They opened Paige's bedroom door and found Paige sitting on the floor next to their mother.

"What happened?" Phoebe asked.

"I managed to orb okay. I just couldn't really land. My legs kind of gave way."

Patty looked at her sympathetically and rested her hand on Paige's shoulder.

"Maybe we should wait until you're a little more healed before we try and do that again." Piper replied.

Paige nodded. "I'm going to get changed now so please could I have some privacy."

"Yes of course." Piper answered. Patricia Halliwell patted Paige on the shoulder before standing up and following Piper out of the room.

Phoebe hesitated. "Are you going to be okay? Do you need help getting up?" Phoebe asked worriedly.

"Actually, I do. Could you give me a hand?" Paige replied. Phoebe nodded, walked over to Paige and put her arms under Paige's armpits, helping her up. Paige wobbled slightly but Phoebe held her up tightly and she soon regained her balance.

"You're pretty unstable. Do you want to sit down?" Phoebe asked, still holding Paige stable.

"Yeah. My legs have gone like jelly." Phoebe moved her hands down so that they were on Paige's waist and set her down on the bed.

"Thanks." Paige added.

"It's fine." Phoebe stood up from next to her. "What clothes did you say you needed?"

"A sports bra and a pair of shorts." Phoebe nodded and walked over to Paige's dresser. She rooted around for a few minutes before pulling out a sports bra and a pair of pyjama shorts.

"Will these do?" Phoebe asked, holding them up.

"Yes, they're fine, thank you." Paige replied.

Phoebe passed her the clothes. "I'm gonna give you a bit of space. I'll be downstairs. I'll be back in five minutes. I'll knock first, okay?" Phoebe asked.

"Yeah." Paige gave her a grateful smile. Phoebe gave her a nod before walking out of her bedroom and closing the door.