So y'all hear about those Charmed action figures coming out in spring 2004? That's so great! I can't wait! (haha hey wow that rhymed!) Oh and hey, if anyone lives in Houston Texas or near Mankato, Minnesota and knows a place to get either the old or new Charmed trading cards, if you could tell me, I would love that. Cuz I've talked to some of the comic book stores around here and no one seems to carry them so I'm gonna check when we visit my grandparents in Minnesota, but it'd be nice to know if anyone's got any clues. Well, enough blabbering! Here's chapter four!

Chapter Four: Finding
Piper paced up and down the walkway in front of P3 as she waited for her sister to come pick her up. She was so worried about Paige she was having trouble thinking logically. If anything happened to her baby sister it would be her fault. Why did I have to get so upset at her! She didn't even do anything! I'm such a horrible sister! Just please, please let Paige be okay! Let us get to her in time. Don't let anything happen to my sister! The oldest Halliwell looked up suddenly as she heard a vehicle coming towards her. The car stopped in front of her and Phoebe got out.

"C'mon, you're driving," Phoebe told her as she hopped into the passenger's seat. Piper didn't waste anytime doing as Phoebe instructed, and in less than a minute they were back on the road, headed towards the spot from the premonition.

"Piper?" Phoebe started. "What if we're too late? What if whatever that was already got to Paige? What if I misinterpreted what I saw and Paige is dead?" Piper sucked in a quick breath.

"Honey don't worry, Paige will be fine, Paige IS fine," Piper told her, trying to soothe her own fears as well as her sister's.

"But-"

"Nuh uh, no buts. Nothing is going to happen to Paige. Nothing."

"Nicely done, Corathon," Trisa approved as the demon, once more disguised as a man, reappeared in front of her after his "session" with Paige. "So far. When will the next step of your plan be put into action?"

"Soon, my liege," he bowed. "Not quite yet, but very soon. I want the witches to feel the pain when they see their sister before I…complete what has to be done."

"And then?" she prompted.

"And then the Charmed Ones will be weakened. Weakened eventually to the point of destruction." He smiled an evil, conniving smile. "Don't worry, it won't take long. No amount of time compared to how long the Underworld has been waiting for the witches to be disposed of."

"Good. Very, very good." She pulled him closer to her. "Or should I say…bad?"

"That's it right there!" Phoebe shouted. "That's the club!" Piper was already parking when Phoebe announced her discovery. The two Charmed Ones quickly got out of the car and went towards the door of the club.

"It's closed," Piper pronounced slowly. Fear that she had been suppressing for Phoebe's sake began to overwhelm her at this realization. "Oh God Phoebe, he's already gotten to her! What are we going to do? This is all my fault!" Piper was sobbing now and Phoebe didn't know what to do. She thought her big sister would be able to keep her cool and that she would be the one to lose it, but it looked like it would have to be the other way around. There couldn't be two useless Halliwells or Paige would never get found.

"Leo!" Phoebe demanded. She waited. "Leo!"

"Leo!" echoed Piper. "Dammit where are you?"

"Okay, uh, we're gonna have to do this ourselves Piper. Think. You said you've been here before, are there any alleys nearby?" Phoebe pressed. Piper was silent for a moment as she thought.

"Yeah, I had to park far away and I passed an alley when I was going back to my car. It's down that way." She pointed in the same direction Paige had headed off in earlier that night (A/N: well…morning, but that sounds weird since it's still dark). Both of them started that way at a hurried pace.

"Paige?" Phoebe called as they went. "Paige? Are you here? Piper, is that it?" Piper looked to where Phoebe was indicating.

"Yeah, that's the alley," she confirmed, more collected now.

"Maybe we're not too late. Let's go." Phoebe and Piper made it to the alley and looked around. "I don't see Paige anywhere. Maybe she's not here yet?"

"Or maybe the demon brought her with him," Piper suggested wryly, the position of negative sister having been switched to her after her outburst at the doors of the club.

"No," Phoebe negated as she walked on further into the alley. "No, my premonition specifically showed Paige lying here after the demon attacked. She was alone and it looked like the demon had left at least-" She stopped in the middle of her sentence as she saw what both she and Piper had feared so greatly they would find. "Paige," she whispered. "Oh no. Oh, God no. Piper!"

Piper knew by the fear in her little sister's voice that she had found Paige and it wasn't good, but she still wasn't prepared for what she saw when she came to the other side of that dumpster. Piper gasped as she took in the condition of her unconscious baby sister. Paige's breathing was ragged and strained; a dark crimson color stained her normally light red hair as if she had gotten thrown into a wall; a deep violet bruise was forming on the side of her face and there were more, ugly, brownish-green bruises circling her neck. But the first thing Piper had noticed about Paige was what tore her heart out and stomped it into a thousand pieces. Her sister's shirt had been viciously torn down the front and her pants had been carelessly tossed to the side. And Piper knew. Piper instinctively knew that this demon had taken the fight between good and evil farther than any creature they had ever battled had dared consider. And he had done it to Paige. Her poor innocent baby sister who didn't deserve any of it.

"Leo!" Piper was drawn out of her catatonic state of shock by Phoebe's again trying to yell for their whitelighter. "Leo! LEO! Dammit Piper where IS he?" The oldest looked at Phoebe, who had drawn Paige up to her body and was cradling her closely, as if that would somehow make everything go away.

"I- I don't know Phoebe." Piper was operating on automatic now, trying to stay in control like she'd been trying before. For Phoebe's sake. "Maybe we should just...we should just call the hospital." She robotically took out her cell phone and dialed 911, telling them what the emergency was and where they were, with Phoebe's endless crying and talking to Paige in the background of the unpleasant conversation.

"Is she gonna be okay Piper? Tell me she'll be okay." Piper sat down on the ground next to her two sisters. She put one hand to rubbing Phoebe's back and the other to stroking Paige's hair in the monotonous way Piper was dealing with this in.

"Everything will be fine, Phoebe. Everything will be fine."

In the near distance, sirens could be heard coming towards the unresponsive trio. Soon, an ambulance screeched to a halt at the opening of the alley. Four paramedics rushed out, two of them carrying a stretcher. Piper stood up to meet them

"Paige Halliwell?" one of the others asked. She nodded.

"That's her. That's our sister."

"Ma'am, we need to take your sister to the hospital so we can fix her up, okay?" another paramedic was trying to coax Phoebe to let go of Paige, but she was clinging to her like life support. Finally, she relented and let them lift Paige onto the stretcher. "One of you can ride along with her." Phoebe looked over at Piper.

"Go ahead and go," Piper told her. "I'll bring the car and meet you there." Phoebe nodded and followed them back to the ambulance.

Piper stared as the ambulance turned its siren back on and drove back to it's origin to try to save her sister's life. As the image of it faded into the beginning of the sunrise, Piper dropped back down to the ground where drops of Paige's blood still remained, and she cried. And cried. And cried. Till there were no tears left. After all, she couldn't let herself break down again in front of Phoebe. She had to be strong. Even if on the inside, her heart wept for Paige. Wept for herself, and for all her sister, and everything they had lost. Because they were witches. Because they were different.

Okay okay so I know I said there was a but, but I didn't get to it in this chapter, so probably the next. And I know I said it would be longer. I don't think it was, but maybe it was. But anyway, this chapter just seemed to tell me it needed to stop here, you know? So yes, please review: ) I love it when ya do that. Hehe