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At Quake the Next Day

Piper was sat at the bar trying to do paperwork but hadn't gotten beyond the first page. Every minute or so she would look up to see if Leo had arrived yet. Piper finally gives up on the paperwork and turns to just watch the entrance, and is immediately rewarded when she spots Leo coming in.

As her heart leaps in her chest Piper grabs a menu and goes over to him. As he turns and sees Piper she smiles at him. 'Table for one, sir?'

Leo gives a little laugh and gestures at the restaurant. 'You own this place?'

'No I just run it,' Piper motions for him to follow her and leads the way to a table as she talks. 'Actually I used to be the chef here.' Until Chef Moore left her in the lurch.' Reaching the table she had set up for him, along with a cooling bottle of popular beer, Piper stands nearby as Leo gets settled.

'I'm impressed.' Leo grins and takes a menu from her.

'Good.' Oh that didn't sound right. 'I mean good, that you came here, as opposed to the house and Phoebe.' Piper stops as Leo rakes in his pocket for something, and feels her face fall a little as he pulls out a sample book. 'How about those stain samples.'

'Now I only brought the ones authentic to the era in which the Manor was built.'

'Great.' Piper sits opposite him and looks at him. 'Hungry?'

'Em…'

'Oh it's on the house.' Piper waves her hand dismissively and feels another leap in her heart as he smiles at her.

'You're big on food aren't you?' That wasn't exactly the kind of compliment she'd being hoping for, but Leo must've been able to tell because he quickly explained himself. 'Oh no that's good. You know in the Mayan culture, the cook was second in the hierarchy only to the medicine man.'

'Mayans, you know about Mayans?' He must be way smarter than her. 'Well you certainly are a handy man aren't you?'

'Er…so does Phoebe work here too?'

Oh great they were on Phoebe. Piper was really tempted to say something bad about but figured Paige was right, in the end it would just make her look bad. Didn't she had to sing her praises though.

'Phoebe work? Oh no, no, no.' So tempting to say was at a gay and lesbian group. 'She isn't really the working type. So what will it be?'

'Em…' Leo looks down at the menu. 'You're the chef, what do you suggest?'

Oh crap! If she picked something he hated that would be as far as she ever got with him.

'Oh well, how about a small steak with a side of pasta?' Most guys liked steak and nearly everybody likes pasta.

'That sounds great.' Leo puts the menu down and smiles at her.

'Great! Uh I mean wonderful, how do you like your steak?' Please say well done, rare or medium just wasn't cooked in her book.

'I like it well done, you know no pink left.'

He's just perfect, Piper sighed mentally and then stood up. 'I know what well done is Leo. Okay well I'll go put this order in for you. Be right back.' Piper headed towards the kitchen. Ha! Take that Phoebe, he wasn't a veggie! Piper managed to refrain from skipping into the kitchen, but was definitely feeling better about her chances of getting Leo.

The Manor

'Thanks for picking me up Prue, I don't know why my car wouldn't start.' Paige smiled at Prue gratefully. Stupid car.

'I don't mind Paige, as long as – '

'Oh don't worry ten minutes tops and I'm gone.' Paige hastened to assure Prue of her soon-to-be absence from the house. 'I would already be gone, but when the car wouldn't start I told Bradley to hold off a half hour so I could get ready.'

'That's great so as long as Phoebe isn't here I won't have to cancel on Andy…again.'

Paige laughed as they headed upstairs. Her stuff was still in the smallest room until the varnish on the floor in the basement was dry. Just then Paige heard voices in Phoebe's room. Uh oh, Prue did not look happy.

The oldest Halliwell stormed into Phoebe's room. 'Phoebe what are – '

Paige looked around Prue when she came to a halt instead of arguing with Phoebe as expected. Paige felt her jaw drop when she saw Aviva with Phoebe. 'Aviva! What are you doing here?'

Outside

Andy turned the corner onto Prue's street and pulled up outside the Manor. Grabbing the bottle of wine from the seat beside him Andy got out and locked the car. As he did another car approached and pulled up behind him.

Andy watched as Paige's boyfriend…Bradley…got out and came up to him.

'Hey Andy right?' Bradley held his hand out to Andy.

'Yeah, that's right.' Andy shook the younger man's hand. 'You're Paige's boyfriend Bradley aren't you?' Prue had promised they'd have the house to themselves, he hoped Paige hadn't persuaded her to have a double date out or something. Not that there was anything wrong with the younger couple but…they really needed a to themselves. With no interruptions.

'Yeah, don't worry though Paige and I are going out. Paige was really adamant that I be on time so that we could be gone when you got here.'

'So are you in for a telling off?'

Bradley chuckled as they started up the steps. 'Nah, Paige's car broke down so she had to wait for Prue to give her a lift, since they work near each other, and she rang me to push back my picking her up by half an hour.'

Andy inwardly sighed in relief as he rang the doorbell. 'So where are you going?'

'Just some club downtown. A couple of friends recommended it.'

Andy frowned as he remembered something he'd overheard at the station. 'Downtown? Be careful there's a guy going around mugging people in that area.'

Bradley nodded, taking in Andy's warning. 'Thanks, we'll keep an eye out.' Good at least he wasn't the kind of guy that bragged about being able to take guys down.

Andy heard footsteps approaching inside and turned to the door. He held up the wine when Prue opened the door. 'Chianti, body heat and us. What do you think? Also…' Andy let his sentence came to a halt as he saw Phoebe, Paige, and that other girl from last night stood in the hallway behind Prue.

'Prue I can explain…oh no.' Phoebe came to a stop and put her hands to her head as a look of realisation came over her face.

'Oh no.' Andy hadn't meant to say that but at the same time he figured he knew what was coming. 'Let me guess, rain check?'

Paige came over to the door and talked to Bradley. 'I'm so sorry Bradley, but I need to reschedule this too.'

Andy heard Bradley sigh beside, but he just kept looking at Prue. 'This is getting ridiculous Prue.'

'I know and I'm so sorry but – '

'You can't explain.'

'You have every right to be upset, and I can't talk about it right now but I will, I , Quake, one o'clock?'

Andy wrestled over giving her another chance but decided to risk it. 'Okay tomorrow, one o'clock.'

'I'm guessing you'll ring me babe?' Bradley looked at Paige.

'Yes, I'll ring you later okay?' Paige had a very hopeful look on her face.

'Sure.' Bradley gave Paige a quick kiss, and as the two men turned away the door was shut behind them.

At the bottom of the stairs Andy looked at Bradley. 'So, does Paige do that often?'

Bradley shrugged. 'Did it the first night we met at Quake, it's a bummer but I figure I can put up with it if it means I can keep seeing her. I'm guessing Prue does it a lot too?'

'Yeah,' Andy sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. 'Just last night in fact, this was the rain check.'

Bradley laughed a little. 'Chicks man! Can't live with them, can't live without them.' Bradley shook Andy's hand again and went back to his car.

Andy shook his head and got in his own car. Bradley seemed to be more accepting than he was.

Inside

Paige stood in front of Aviva with her arms folded. 'Aviva you have to listen to us! We know what's going on with you, we know about Kali!'

Paige watched as Aviva's face flashed to surprise and then immediately back to anger. 'Have you been spying on me! You have haven't you? You probably went creeping round my room while I was at school.'

'Aviva please! Kali is not your friend, she's a demon!' Paige tried grab Aviva's arms to make her point better.

Aviva glared at Paige's arms and suddenly they started to burn.

'Aagh!' Paige released Aviva and stumbled backwards. As she did Phoebe went to stop Aviva and the girl glared at her too. Through the haze of pain Paige saw Phoebe's skin start to go red.

Prue used her telekinesis to push Aviva backwards down the hall. This seemed to make Aviva snap out of her anger, and as she looked at Phoebe she realised what she had done.

'Phoebe oh no!'

'Get out!' Prue shouts at the girl.

Aviva turns and runs out, but it seems to Paige that she did it more because she was scared of what she'd done rather than scared of Prue.

As soon as the door slammed behind Aviva Prue turned to Phoebe. 'Pheebs let me – '

'I'm fine just a little hot, Paige…' The two of them came over to Paige and crouched next to her where she had slipped down the wall. 'Paige! Are you okay?'

'These burns look bad Phoebe maybe we should – '

'No.' Paige rallied herself and shook the fuzziness from her brain. 'I am not going back to the hospital.

'But Paige…' Prue looked down at her arms and Paige did as well and felt mildly surprised. It didn't actually look as bad as it felt. Although massive blisters were forming all along her forearms. 'It actually feels worse than it looks. Don't worry.'

'Don't worry!' Prue looked ready to explode. 'Don't worry! She almost cooked you!'

'Prue relax, I just need to run it under some cold water, help me up.' As Paige sat forward Phoebe and Prue each took hold of Paige under the shoulder and heaved her up.

Paige gritted her teeth and held back a moan of pain as the movement made her lower arms start hurting more. 'Okay help me up to the bathroom I can use the shower head to bath my arms.'

Phoebe frowned at her as they went upstairs. 'Paige are you sure they aren't that bad, I mean…'

'My Dad was a fire fighter Phoebe, he made sure I knew how to treat burns.'

Paige noticed the two sisters exchange a look, she knew they were surprised at her sharing, she only really talked to Piper about her family.

'Uh okay then.' Phoebe opened the bathroom door for her and flicked the light on.

Prue had disappeared but returned holding a small chair that was usually in Paige's room. 'Here I brought this so you won't have to stand while we do this.'

'I can do it my-'

'Paige shut up, you can't even open the door yourself, how do you expect to hold the shower head?'

Paige stuck her tongue out at Prue. Prue just smiled and grabbed the shower head. 'Phoebe go ring Piper and tell her what's happened, get her to come home, we need a new game plan.'

Phoebe nodded and disappeared out the doorway.

'Okay, this'll probably sting, a lot.' Prue waited until Paige nodded before starting to run the water over her arms.

Paige hissed in pain as the water hit her burns but resolutely stayed still. So couldn't tell the others but she fully intended to call for Leo, to see if he would heal her burns a little. Of course she'd have to wait until they were asleep or otherwise occupied, but the burns were worse than she was letting on. If they hadn't blistered as quick she wouldn't be worried, of course that could be because they were caused by magic, rather than because they were bad. Paige realised she was mentally rambling and tried to bring her whirling thoughts under control.

'We need to do this for a while right?'

Paige nodded and gritted her teeth a little. 'Yeah…uh…try about five minutes and then we can have a look.' Paige was hoping they hadn't noticed how big the blisters were.

Phoebe popped her head in the door. 'Guys Piper's on her way back, I'm gonna go downstairs and rub some moisturiser on myself.'

'Don't use a perfumed one.' Paige said quickly before Phoebe disappeared. 'It'll just sting more.'

Phoebe nodded and disappeared again.

A few minutes later Paige's arms felt blissfully numb from the cold water. 'Why don't you go check on Phoebe? My arms are nice and cool now.'

'I think you need my help more than Phoebe, Paige.'

'One of my moisturisers is downstairs, it'd be perfect to put on my arms.' Paige smiled brightly at Prue.

'Okay then,' Prue reached over and turned the water off. 'Hold still I'll be right back.' Prue quickly vanished.

Paige waited until Prue's footsteps were gone and then quietly called for Leo. A couple of seconds later he appeared in those twinkling bluey white lights. 'Hiya Leo.'

'Paige why are you whispering? My god! What happened to your arms?'

'No time to explain now, can you just partly heal things or does it have to be the whole way healed?'

'Well I suppose I could but…'

'Do it quick then, I promise to explain later but right now I need you to heal it just enough so that the blisters are a lot smaller.'

Leo looked like he was going to argue with her, but then just sighed and did as she asked.

Paige watched in wonder as the warm light bathed her arms and the blisters slowly shrank and healed. When Leo stopped they were barely half the size and the surrounding skin wasn't as red.

'Thanks Leo.' Paige someone on the stairs. 'Quick go!' Leo orbed away and a few seconds later Prue returned holding a jar of cream.

'What was that light?' Prue looked around the bathroom curiously.

'Uh…I think it came from outside, maybe it was a car or something.' Paige shrugged to try and dismiss it.

'Sure if you say so.' Prue took one of Paige's arms. 'Hey what happened?'

'What do you mean?' Oh crap, she had noticed how bad they were.

'These blisters looked a lot bigger. And your skin was definitely more red than this.' Prue was carefully examining both of Paige's arms.

'I told you they weren't that bad. The red skin just made them look worse. Besides the water would have helped anyway.' Paige tried to keep her face relaxed so Prue would believe her.

'Hmm…I guess so.' Opening the jar Prue started carefully rub it onto Paige's burnt arms. It hurt a little, but a lot less than it would have had she not called for Leo to heal her. 'Is that okay?'

'Yeah it's fine just stings a little. Is Phoebe okay?'

'She's just red, more like a sunburn than anything. I don't know why she – '

'Prue, she didn't mean for us to get hurt, and I don't think Aviva did either. Did you see her face when she realised what she'd done?'

Prue nodded slightly but frowned as she did. 'I did, but that still doesn't excuse what she did.'

'No, but at least we know now that she's not been completely corrupted by Kali yet. If she had I don't think she would've cared.'

'You're right, but chances are she'll tell Kali we know about her, so we need to have a battle plan ready in case Kali steps up her game.'

An Hour Later

When Piper saw no one downstairs she quickly headed for the attic. Even with Phoebe's reassurances Piper had had only one thought in her head while driving home.

Please, please let Paige be okay.

Phoebe said she only had what looked like a bit of sunburn, but apparently Aviva had focused her power only on Paige's arms.

Bursting into the attic Piper saw the other jump but ignored it and went straight over to Paige who was sat on Aunt Pearl's couch. 'Paige! Oh are you okay? Let me see your arms.' Piper grabbed her younger friends hands and looked down but her forearms were covered with bandages. 'How bad is it? Shouldn't you be at the hospital? Are you in pain? Do you need anything?'

'Piper!'

Piper stopped when Paige all but yelled at her. 'What?'

'If you'd let me get a word in edgeways, I'd answer you.' Paige pauses but Piper stays quiet. 'Yes I'm fine, it's not that bad, no I'm not going to the hospital, and I've took a couple of painkillers so no, I don't need anything.'

Behind her Piper heard Phoebe and Prue smothering their laughter. 'Are you sure?'

'Piper I'm fine, it just looked bad because it was all red, that's all, it's really not that bad.'

'But Phoebe said on the phone that you collapsed because of the pain.

Paige shot Phoebe an evil look. 'I didn't lose consciousness or anything, it was just the shock of it more than anything else.'

Piper looked down at Paige's arms again. 'This is my fault if I hadn't been friends with you I wouldn't have dragged you into this stupid witchy stuff.'

'Cut that out!' Paige got a furious look on her face. 'Being friends with you is the best thing that ever happened to me! I was the one that antagonised Aviva, so quit it!'

Piper nods and tries to let go of her guilt. Looking round at Prue and Phoebe who were stood next the she changes the subject. 'So what's the plan?'

Prue looked up from the Book. 'It says the only way to destroy Kali is to shatter her reflexion, nothing else.'

Suddenly the door to the attic slams open and Aviva walks in.

'Aviva.' Phoebe looks relieved to see her, but Prue holds her back.

'That's not Aviva, look at her eyes.'

Aviva's eyes are yellow with red centres shaped like a cats.

Piper and Paige quickly stand up and so they can move if they need to.

Aviva…or Kali rather smirks at Prue. 'I knew you would be the problem one Prue, you are the strongest after all.' Kali's possession had made Aviva's voice sound completely different. The sound of it sent a shudder through Piper.

'Glad to be a problem.' Prue glares at Kali.

Kali turns towards Piper and Paige who are at the opposite side of the attic from Prue and Phoebe.

'As for you, you silly mortal. Did you really think you could stop me?' Kali started towards them and Paige threw up her hand, stopping her approach.

'How's that for a silly mortal?' Paige glared at Kali.

'Well, well another witch. All the better, another power for me. All I need is a little more time and you'll all be mine.'

'Time…'

Piper heard Phoebe muttering and looked at her.

'That's it! Piper freeze her!'

'But she's a witch!' Phoebe knew her power didn't work on Aviva.

'Yes but Kali's a demon!'

Just as Kali goes to throw a fireball at Phoebe, Piper realises what she means and freezes the room.

Kali freezes in mid-air but Aviva falls forward and rolls a couple of times before stopping, the girl is unconscious. 'Now what?' Kali was frozen but how did they get rid of her?

Beside her Paige drop her shield and goes to a covered mirror in the corner. Pulling the dust cover off it, she gestures at the mirror. 'We need to get her in here.'

'Well I can take care of that.' Prue squints at Kali and sends her flying towards the mirror.

Kali unfreezes as she enters the mirror, screaming in rage.

Phoebe grabs an old coal shovel from behind a trunk and swings at the mirror smashing it.

Looking down at the pieces Paige smiles as Kali fades from existence. 'Well I hope that doesn't count as our bad luck.'

Piper snorts. 'I think getting rid of a demon will cancel that out Paige.'

'You're laughing now, but just wait 'til Friday the thirteenth, we're witches, who knows what will happen?'

Piper and her sisters laugh as Paige shudders.

'I don't think I'll ever look at a mirror the same way again.'

Paige goes into Phoebe's room in time to here Aviva's comment, and Phoebe's reply.

'The demon's gone Aviva, forever.'

'Well unfortunately the others remain.' Aviva spots Paige at the door. 'Paige, hey.'

Aviva had been a little subdued around her, Paige knew that part of Aviva still blamed herself for Paige's burns, despite Paige's and the sisters assurances to the contrary. 'Hey Aviva. I talked to your Aunt, she was really worried about where you'd been all night, I told her you'd turned up at the centre, and that you'd come back with me.'

'She bought that?' Aviva smiled at that.

Paige took a moment to appreciate the improvement that a smile did to Aviva. Without the dark make-up and clothing Aviva really came to life, and the smile just made it even better.

'Well I think she was suspicious but, yeah, she bought it. I think if you really try you can still make some kind of relationship with her.' Paige was hoping that without Kali's influence it would make it easier for the two of them to get to know each other.

'I know, I'm just glad I didn't hurt her as well.' Aviva looked away and Paige briefly considered telling her again it wasn't her fault, but figured it would just bring everything to the front again.

'Well you look good in Prue's dress.'

Aviva laughed and Paige hoped it wouldn't be the last time she did.

Phoebe sat on her bed and looked at Aviva. 'As for the other demons, the one thing I learned is you just gotta be yourself.

'Easy for you to say. What if yourself sucks?'

Paige smiled at Aviva. 'You don't have to worry about that Aviva, if I were in school with you…damn the school would've probably have burned down.'

From the bed Phoebe laughed. 'Imagine if I had been there as well. The whole district would have burned. A right trio troublemakers.'

The three of them burst out laughing.

'I'm going to miss being a witch. Having powers...and having sisters.'

Paige looked at Phoebe who nodded. Smiling Paige turned to Aviva. 'Well, about that, Phoebe did a little test.'

'Test, what kind of test?' Aviva looked between them.

Paige nodded at Phoebe to continue. 'Well last night Paige couldn't sleep and she was flicking through the Book, like she does, and she came across a potion that can detect witchy magic…'

'So?' Aviva looked really confused.

Paige took over. 'So Phoebe snatched a strand of your from the brush you used this morning and made the potion and tested your DNA.' Paige stopped, unsure how Aviva would react to that.

'And?' Amazingly Aviva just seemed curious about the results.

'Well, it seems ours weren't the only powers Kali wanted. The test said that you're a witch.'

Aviva's eyebrows shot up in surprise. 'But I don't have any powers…'

Phoebe shook her head. 'The powers you had were Kali's, your own haven't emerged yet, but it's probably what made Kali respond to your request, it's why the spell to conjure her worked.'

'Did this test tell you what powers I'll have?'

'Nope, just that you're a witch, speaking of which, remember you can't tell anyone about us, about our powers.' Phoebe stood and waggled her finger at Aviva.

'Don't worry, it'll be our little secret.' Aviva smiled at the two of them.

Quake

Prue handed her keys to the valet and looked at her watch.

'Oh damn!' It was quarter past one, great. Paige had been going to drop off Aviva, but the garage had called her saying that it would take another due to not having the part required. So since Piper had already left for work, Prue had taken the teenager home, with the result that she'd gotten caught in the lunch time traffic.

Rushing inside Prue bumped into Andy as he came towards the exit. 'Andy!'

'Prue, this is…' Andy shook his head.

'Andy I'm sorry it's just I…'

'Had an emergency.'

'Look I wish I could explain but – '

'You can't. Or won't.' Andy moved around her and out of the door.

Prue desperately followed him. 'Andy wait please!'

'Why? Obviously one of us is more interested in this relationship than the other.' Andy through a look at her but kept walking.

'That's not true.'

'Isn't it?' Andy spun to face her. 'Then why am I always the one left standing there like a jerk?'

Prue didn't have an answer, how could she deny it when it was true?

Andy sighed and ran his hands through his hair. 'I still love you Prue, but it hurts that you don't trust me enough to explain it.'

'It's not that I don't trust you, it's just…I don't know if I'll ever be able to share this…thing…with anyone.'

'Well I hope for your sake that's not true. I just don't know what else I can do to assure you that I'm here for you.' Andy turned and headed towards the car park.

'Andy…' Prue waits until he turns half way towards her. 'Are you saying you don't want to be with me anymore?' Please don't say yes.

'I'm saying…I don't know what I want anymore.'

Andy turns and leaves and this time Prue lets, feeling as though an earthquake had just rocked the ground beneath her.

Author Note – So I know I skipped a couple of scenes, but we all know what happens in my 'off screen' bits. I hope you like the chapter. Thanks to all of you following the story and me.