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Chapter 21:

The next couple of days Paige spent her time reading the book of shadows. She had never really studied the ancient book until now. The things between Piper and herself were tolerable. She spoke to her, she answered her questions but it was no brainer that things were not the same. Phoebe had tried patching things up but Paige couldn't deal with the emotional rush that came every time she really thought about it. She truly understood why Piper had done it and the woman had tried to apologize at different occasions but Paige needed time to heal.

She had tried explaining that to Phoebe but surprisingly enough the middle sister just didn't listened. She made a note in her notebook when she heard someone enter the attic. Phoebe's high heels clapped the wooden floor as she stepped over to check on her.

"If you're here to talk about Piper I don't want to hear it," Paige said before the woman could open her mouth, "I'm busy."

"I actually didn't come here for that," Phoebe said as she wobbled her head slightly when she was slightly irritated.

"You didn't?" Paige asked suspiciously looking up from her notes and the book.

"No I didn't." Phoebe repeated, "I came here to ask you, my younger sister, to come downstairs for just a second and peek outside for fresh air."

Paige rolled her eyes and started burying her nose back into the book.

"Seriously," Phoebe said more sternly, "you haven't been outside for a two weeks, it's not right. You can't just stop living your life Paige."

"I'm not resting until I save Wyatt." Paige scrounged her face as she flipped the page.

"I don't need another neurotic half-whitelighter" Phoebe closed the book making Paige glare up at her, "I need my sister back. You know Paige Mathews."

"I'm sorry that you don't understand how serious this is," Paige took the book back and opened the heavy thing searching for the page she left off. "But I'm not resting…"

"…Until you save Wyatt." Phoebe finished for her, "yeah I know, so you've said."

The sisters stared at each other until Phoebe gave in.

"Listen sweetie," Phoebe sighed and sat in front of Paige. "I know that you've been through a lot lately but you can't just drop everything and forget who you are."

"No you don't know just how much I've been through." Paige's mouth twitched in annoyance, "I want to put all of this behind me, believe I do, but I can't do that just yet. I need to find the one responsible for kidnapping Wyatt and vanquish his sorry ass. So if you don't understand that then please, please, please get out of my way, and I'll call you when I need you."

Phoebe rolled her eyes and threw her arms up in the air in defeat. "It's like talking to a wall." She said.

Paige grabbed the Book of Shadows closer to her and began reading ignoring the middle sister who was just staring at her. Their silence was broken by swirls of white orbs that filled the room.

Paige stood up at the sight of Leo as he looked around the room until he found them.

"I found why the Meromak demons are gathering." Leo said.

"Oh great!" Phoebe got up as well, "you're helping her?"

"Yeah" Leo said as though it was only natural.

"Paige hasn't gone out of the house for two weeks Leo," Phoebe accused, "and you're helping her to look for trouble."

"She's been out," Leo pointed, "We went to vanquish a couple of Meromak demons this morning."

"What?" Phoebe asked.

"Why are they gathering?" Paige asked eagerly ignoring her middle sister's outburst.

"They are migrating because they're getting ready to mate." Leo answered Paige as he looked sideways to a very irritated Phoebe.

"Is that bad?" Phoebe suddenly asked.

"Not really, the Meromak demons are quite passive if you compare them to their fellow demons." Leo answered, "they feed on human sadness."

"then that's good." Phoebe said.

"Not really," Paige said, "I mean if they congregate in a place for too long they start to suck all the sadness away. Once they fed all of your sadness away then they start feeding on other emotions one at a time until you have nothing left."

"Oh," Phoebe said, "so bad."

"Well not really either," Leo answered, "they're rather harmless if they're just one or two, but imagine a hundred of them then there is trouble. They're not evil due to their lack of consciousness, they're just dangerous. The good thing about it though is that they don't mate often, every 2,000 years or so."

"So not bad." Phoebe said and both Elder and witchlighter looked at the very confused witch. "So why were you vanquishing them?"

"One of Chris's informants came to us to give us the heads up that something was going on in Merced." Paige said as she moved closer to the book and began to flip through the pages.

"Informants?" Phoebe asked, "and who are those exactly?"

"Demons." Paige answered offhandedly.

"Demons?" Phoebe asked.

"Demons." Leo nodded.

"Demons." Phoebe said casually but her voice was beginning to go an octave higher, "I didn't know that we started to working with demons."

"Well technically Chris is." Paige pointed out.

"And we trust Chris." Phoebe said.

"Yes we trust Chris." Paige glared at her sister, "If you trust me then you trust Chris."

"That isn't playing fair." Phoebe frowned putting her hands on her hips.

"I'm using what I have." Paige said as she was done copying a spell on her notebook. "If Wyatt's dad trusts him then you should too Phoebe. Leo, lead the way."

The two swirled in white lights leaving the middle Charmed sister in the attic alone.

TBC.

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