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I do not own and am not affiliated with the Charmed characters, cast, crew, sets, etc
This is an original piece of work that I have not been paid for
My permission has been given to distribute this work - in full only with no amendments
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The curtains billow slowly outwards in the gentle night breeze. Humming balls of white light enter the room and pause uncertainly at the foot of the bed. Paige's eyes flutter and her left hand twitches gently at the presence that entered her room. The cloud of white light hovers above her sleeping form before beginning to spin gradually faster - a tornado of white light that reflects on the walls of her dark room - until a single ball of light is suspended above the witch.
Slowly the storm of light lowers itself. Slowly. Slowly.
It passes into her body and burns with a bright intensity before dying away.
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"Hello," said Paige cheerfully, entering the kitchen. As she passed the table she grabbed a croissant from the hot plate. She leaned against the counter as she bit into the hot pastry and observed her sister, Phoebe, who was working furiously on her laptop at the table.
"Decided to play Sleeping Beauty?" Phoebe asked, looking up at her younger sister, whose usually pale complexion was showing a healthy glow, "You've got a terribly cheerful air about you today - it's unhealthy and unnatural .. Unless .. What's he like? Is he cute? Where did you meet? This big case is all a disguise for a man, a man-disguise!" Phoebe smiled cheerfully at the annoyance that flashed on her sister's face.
"Pheebs, you aint doing so bad in the cheery stakes yourself. Why shouldn't I be happy? A strong case to work on, a tasty tasty buttery treat to eat and you and Piper, my sisters, who I love .." Paige finally processed Phoebe's jib and looked at the clock " ... but am going kill for letting me sleep this late!!"
"Oh, Piper has been and gone - hence the steaming pastries but no cookery witch to have made them," Said Phoebe, her fingers stopping their relentless taping on the keyboard, "And I'm far too busy to be playing the make believe game where I pretend to be your alarm clock."
"Jacket. Purse." Paige felt the subtle change in her focus. Her movement into witch mode. She felt the power - her mind growing, seeking, feeling - and then the gentle tug that she had come to associate with orbing. Her clothes were in her hands and she quickly pulled them on as she walked out into the hallway and pulled her keys out for the car, "I dunno what time I'll be back - I got that case to work on - but I should be back for dinner."
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Phoebe smiled to herself as she heard the door close over with a slight bang. Her younger sister was the newest member to their slightly hectic but tight family and helped with the pain of ... Phoebe tried not to think of it. Tried not to remember how it happened, the tears, the pain, the loss.
The loss of Prue was sometimes too much to bare. She had been the strongest, the fastest. Her potential was limitless - and not just magically. She was a great friend whose light many will never see .. She was a beautiful sister who put her family first - always .. She would have been an amazing mother ...
As Phoebe thought this it started. The pulling in her mind, the sense of falling. She wasn't in total control and something was coming. Phoebe let herself slip backwards, into the darkness, into the vision. Her mind was filled with rapidly shifting clouds, lines of potential futures, and one expanded into infinite clarity.
Paige. Not far from this time. A few days maybe in the future. Her face is angelically serene but there is great activity around her. A doctor and a nurse .. No .. Not a nurse .. A - Phoebe came out of the vision with a start.
"Oh God .. It isn't possible - Is it?" Said Phoebe to herself, "Piper!"
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Piper quickly directed the men to take the crates of bottled water into the stock room. Her cool and competent manner, while being warm and polite with a cute smile, moved the job on quickly as the men worked effortlessly to please her. She thanked them and handed them a generous tip. A rush of cold air from the closing door blew her hair back as his arms slipped around her waist and his crotch pushed against her back.
"Leo, we've been waiting for these crates for days now," She turned herself round to look at her beautiful Whitelighter's eyes and kissed him, "The quicker we can restock the shelves then the quicker we can get back to ..." He stopped her with a deep kiss on the lips, telling her through his gentle hands on her back how much he adored he, "... that."
The phone on the wall of the stock room began to ring with a quiet insistence that intruded on their privacy. Leo let go of his wife and walked over to pick it up: "Hello, P3 - Can I help you? Oh hey Phoebe .. Yeah, she's here .. Oh .. Ok." Leo hung up with a troubled look on his face, "Phoebe had a vision. It could be trouble ... for Paige."
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Paige's eyes were trained in concentration on the computer screen at her desk. The report on her big case was almost done with a few days to spare for revision and error checking for anything majorly obvious that had been missed out. She wasn't going to be caught out again and she was going to show management how well she could work. This was going to be the best damn report they'd ever read and it was going to be handed in a day or two early.
Paige smiled to herself. This was it. This was going to push any future promotions in her favour. She'd done good work and she would be rewarded. She just knew it. The smile began to fade. Something wasn't right. Her stomach felt .. wrong. Paige looked at her reflection on the computer screen in the well lit room. She looked fine. So why did she feel .. so ..
Paige ran to the bathroom.
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Leo stood at the end of the table behind Piper's chair, his hands resting on her shoulders, gently massaging her neck. Phoebe sat to Piper's left, touching her sister's arm every few minutes to emphasis a certain point or a detail in her vision.
"So, let me get this right, you just had this vision?" Piper put her hand up to her shoulder and clasped Leo's hand, "It wasn't set off by touching anything of hers? She wasn't even in the house? You just had it?"
"I don't know how to describe it. I was thinking something and that set the vision off." Piper looked at Leo for support, "Isn't it possible that this is an extension of my powers? That I can now get visions when I need them, without touching something?"
"It ... is ... possible," He said slowly, his eyebrows knotting together in concentration, "But it's also possible that this was sent by some kind of warlock or demon. Induced to make you believe that .. well .. Paige is -"
"- Pregnant?" Paige walked into the room, her eyes swollen from crying and cradling her hands around her stomach. "What worries me is .. " Paige turned to side and lifted her shirt over her stomach so that everyone could see, " .. this wasn't here this morning when I left the house."
All eyes in the room were on Paige rubbing her hand along the noticeable pregnancy bulge.
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If I get ten reviews to this work I will post the next chapter
Hehe - I know that's kinda mean but I don't wanna post something people aren't reading
Hope you enjoyed it!
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I do not own and am not affiliated with the Charmed characters, cast, crew, sets, etc
This is an original piece of work that I have not been paid for
My permission has been given to distribute this work - in full only with no amendments
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The curtains billow slowly outwards in the gentle night breeze. Humming balls of white light enter the room and pause uncertainly at the foot of the bed. Paige's eyes flutter and her left hand twitches gently at the presence that entered her room. The cloud of white light hovers above her sleeping form before beginning to spin gradually faster - a tornado of white light that reflects on the walls of her dark room - until a single ball of light is suspended above the witch.
Slowly the storm of light lowers itself. Slowly. Slowly.
It passes into her body and burns with a bright intensity before dying away.
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"Hello," said Paige cheerfully, entering the kitchen. As she passed the table she grabbed a croissant from the hot plate. She leaned against the counter as she bit into the hot pastry and observed her sister, Phoebe, who was working furiously on her laptop at the table.
"Decided to play Sleeping Beauty?" Phoebe asked, looking up at her younger sister, whose usually pale complexion was showing a healthy glow, "You've got a terribly cheerful air about you today - it's unhealthy and unnatural .. Unless .. What's he like? Is he cute? Where did you meet? This big case is all a disguise for a man, a man-disguise!" Phoebe smiled cheerfully at the annoyance that flashed on her sister's face.
"Pheebs, you aint doing so bad in the cheery stakes yourself. Why shouldn't I be happy? A strong case to work on, a tasty tasty buttery treat to eat and you and Piper, my sisters, who I love .." Paige finally processed Phoebe's jib and looked at the clock " ... but am going kill for letting me sleep this late!!"
"Oh, Piper has been and gone - hence the steaming pastries but no cookery witch to have made them," Said Phoebe, her fingers stopping their relentless taping on the keyboard, "And I'm far too busy to be playing the make believe game where I pretend to be your alarm clock."
"Jacket. Purse." Paige felt the subtle change in her focus. Her movement into witch mode. She felt the power - her mind growing, seeking, feeling - and then the gentle tug that she had come to associate with orbing. Her clothes were in her hands and she quickly pulled them on as she walked out into the hallway and pulled her keys out for the car, "I dunno what time I'll be back - I got that case to work on - but I should be back for dinner."
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Phoebe smiled to herself as she heard the door close over with a slight bang. Her younger sister was the newest member to their slightly hectic but tight family and helped with the pain of ... Phoebe tried not to think of it. Tried not to remember how it happened, the tears, the pain, the loss.
The loss of Prue was sometimes too much to bare. She had been the strongest, the fastest. Her potential was limitless - and not just magically. She was a great friend whose light many will never see .. She was a beautiful sister who put her family first - always .. She would have been an amazing mother ...
As Phoebe thought this it started. The pulling in her mind, the sense of falling. She wasn't in total control and something was coming. Phoebe let herself slip backwards, into the darkness, into the vision. Her mind was filled with rapidly shifting clouds, lines of potential futures, and one expanded into infinite clarity.
Paige. Not far from this time. A few days maybe in the future. Her face is angelically serene but there is great activity around her. A doctor and a nurse .. No .. Not a nurse .. A - Phoebe came out of the vision with a start.
"Oh God .. It isn't possible - Is it?" Said Phoebe to herself, "Piper!"
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Piper quickly directed the men to take the crates of bottled water into the stock room. Her cool and competent manner, while being warm and polite with a cute smile, moved the job on quickly as the men worked effortlessly to please her. She thanked them and handed them a generous tip. A rush of cold air from the closing door blew her hair back as his arms slipped around her waist and his crotch pushed against her back.
"Leo, we've been waiting for these crates for days now," She turned herself round to look at her beautiful Whitelighter's eyes and kissed him, "The quicker we can restock the shelves then the quicker we can get back to ..." He stopped her with a deep kiss on the lips, telling her through his gentle hands on her back how much he adored he, "... that."
The phone on the wall of the stock room began to ring with a quiet insistence that intruded on their privacy. Leo let go of his wife and walked over to pick it up: "Hello, P3 - Can I help you? Oh hey Phoebe .. Yeah, she's here .. Oh .. Ok." Leo hung up with a troubled look on his face, "Phoebe had a vision. It could be trouble ... for Paige."
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Paige's eyes were trained in concentration on the computer screen at her desk. The report on her big case was almost done with a few days to spare for revision and error checking for anything majorly obvious that had been missed out. She wasn't going to be caught out again and she was going to show management how well she could work. This was going to be the best damn report they'd ever read and it was going to be handed in a day or two early.
Paige smiled to herself. This was it. This was going to push any future promotions in her favour. She'd done good work and she would be rewarded. She just knew it. The smile began to fade. Something wasn't right. Her stomach felt .. wrong. Paige looked at her reflection on the computer screen in the well lit room. She looked fine. So why did she feel .. so ..
Paige ran to the bathroom.
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Leo stood at the end of the table behind Piper's chair, his hands resting on her shoulders, gently massaging her neck. Phoebe sat to Piper's left, touching her sister's arm every few minutes to emphasis a certain point or a detail in her vision.
"So, let me get this right, you just had this vision?" Piper put her hand up to her shoulder and clasped Leo's hand, "It wasn't set off by touching anything of hers? She wasn't even in the house? You just had it?"
"I don't know how to describe it. I was thinking something and that set the vision off." Piper looked at Leo for support, "Isn't it possible that this is an extension of my powers? That I can now get visions when I need them, without touching something?"
"It ... is ... possible," He said slowly, his eyebrows knotting together in concentration, "But it's also possible that this was sent by some kind of warlock or demon. Induced to make you believe that .. well .. Paige is -"
"- Pregnant?" Paige walked into the room, her eyes swollen from crying and cradling her hands around her stomach. "What worries me is .. " Paige turned to side and lifted her shirt over her stomach so that everyone could see, " .. this wasn't here this morning when I left the house."
All eyes in the room were on Paige rubbing her hand along the noticeable pregnancy bulge.
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If I get ten reviews to this work I will post the next chapter
Hehe - I know that's kinda mean but I don't wanna post something people aren't reading
Hope you enjoyed it!
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