PART ELEVEN
COUNCIL OF ELDERS
"How long before we go to Paige and demand her to come out of hiding?" Fredrick rose from his seat with a red face. "She had been in hiding for a century now! How many more centuries does this one human get to wallow in her self pity?"
"Paige has all the time that she needs to get past her pain and sorrow." Sirsus said looking Fredrick straight in the eye. He closed his mouth but still stared at the newest of all Elders. Fredrick became an Elder right after Leo had.
Fredrick looked deep into Sirsus's disapprove and quickly sat back down as he finally got a hard of his anger. He knew that he was rash on speaking out; he very well knew that he had no right to say anything at all. Fredrick always allowed his anger to speak before his calmness. He was surprised when the power to be had made him an Elder. He was surprised when they made him a white lighter. He had always thought that when he took his last breath on earth he would just float around the heavens.
"Time on earth is thankfully slower than time up here. On earth it is still the night of Paige's funeral. So when it's time for Paige to return to her sisters it will still be in the same year as her death." Sirsus sighed. "If Piper has given into her grief."
"But how long does it take a human to give up their pain and sorrow of their lives?" Percy asked respectfully. "I mean most humans only spend a few decades there not centuries."
"Paige has a lot more than most humans to over come." Leo spoke up for the first time since the Elders council started that day. He very well knew most of Paige's life before Paige found her birth family. He knew way more than either Piper or Phoebe did. He had promised Paige that he would never tell them anything about her life ever again. Not after he had to tell them about her adopted parents deaths. He hated making the promise but he understood where Paige was coming from so he made it.
"Paige stays where is she is until she is ready to come back and join her mother, grams and eldest sister." Gideon said firmly as he stood to his feet and walked over to stand in the center of the council.
"But what about the grand plan? We still have to fill Paige in before she goes back to her sisters." Percy said standing to his feet and holding out a long scroll with his tight written words on them. "Paige isn't going along with her schedule."
"Which Halliewell has ever gone along with our schedule?" Harry couldn't help but wise crack.
The council of Elders all laughed as one on that note. They all knew the Warren / Halliwell family well. That family was the strongest family towards the fight against good against evil so the Elders always gave them whatever they wanted.
END PART ELEVEN