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Part Five
She whimpered. Not very loudly but it was a whimper that escaped from Kim's lips.
"C'mon Kim we got to get in a get out in a hurry." Paige's voice was a little more demanding.
Finally she emerged from the car with difficulty. Paige and Phoebe followed behind Kim only because they didn't know the way into the house.
The door creaked heavily as Kim pushed it open slowly. She acted as if this was a haunted house that she had never seen. After finding that no one was in the house, Kim went into the kitchen.
It was a small room that didn't look big enough for the use of three people. Wooden oak doors were the cabinets that held Kim's medicine. She opened them and pulled out four small bottles and took one pill from each. She filled up a cup of water and swallowed each pill individually.
Kim smiled briefly at the two sisters before heading into a room just off to the left of the kitchen. Paige came to the edge of the door into Kim's room.
The teenager pulled out her list and began to find the things on them. She took out a book bag and a medium sized suitcase and filled it up with the things on her list. After she was finished she walked back into the kitchen and stuck her medicine bottles into her bag.
"I'm done." She said. Her voice was stronger since she took her medicine. There was no stuttering.
"Are you sure?" Paige didn't want to have to come back to this house ever again.
Kim thought for a moment before gasping. "Boss, I've got to go get boss." She sat down her stuff and headed upstairs. Paige looked questioningly at Phoebe who just shrugged. Soon Kim came down with a large wooden, and from the look on Kim's face, a rather heavy box.
"If you could get my suitcase I'll carry the other stuff." Kim said to Paige.
They went back to the car. Kim took one last look at her house before entering the car. She ran her hands over the top of the wooden box that she had gotten from her parent's room. Carvings and markings covered the lid of the box. Phoebe watched the teenager with complete interest. When Kim moved her hands, a visible imprint of a child's hands was on the lid.
"What is that?" Paige asked as they pulled away from Kim's house.
"Boss." Kim was smiling. It took her a moment before she realized that the two sisters didn't know what she meant. "It's a family Book of Shadows; hence the name BOSS. I made it for my dad when I was little." She ran her fingers over the imprint. "This is my hand when I was six years old. I copied all the spells from my dad's book. The box was just suppose to be for my book but..." Kim opened the box. "He put in his book and my birth certificate and some information about my mother."
"Your mother? I'm not sure that I understand." Phoebe didn't really know much about this girl but she thought that Susan was her mother.
"Chester is my real father but Susan is my stepmother. My real mother left me with my father after I was born. She couldn't take care me because she was still in high school and taking care of her two sisters. Her mother died when she was young. So they were living with their grandmother and she didn't want to disappoint her family." Kim took out the birth certificate and handed it to Phoebe.
Phoebe felt her heart stop in her chest. She kept reading the same line hoping that the name would change and prove her to be wrong. A wave of sickness fell upon the middle sister as she stared at the piece of paper.
"Paige?" Phoebe asked as they pulled up in their own driveway. The car came to a stop. "Kim why don't you go ahead and take your stuff in the house, I have to talk to Paige about something. I'll give you back your certificate in a few moments."
Kim nodded and left the car, taking with her suitcase and box. Something strange was going on between the two sisters. Phoebe's voice sounded a little anxious.
"Paige look at this." Phoebe nearly threw the paper at her sister. She was sick of looking at it. Sick of thinking that the paper just might be the truth.
"Oh my god." Paige breathed out. "You don't think...that it could be true?"
Inside Kim had taken her things to Paige's room. She assumed that was where the Wiccan wanted her to put them. She came bouncing down the stairs to meet Piper.
"Hey." She said happily. Kim was finally becoming a normal teenager. Things were different now. Since she was out of her father's grasp she could be normal.
"Where are Paige and Phoebe?" Piper noticed this change in the girl too. She smiled knowing that things were finally looking for her.
"In the car, they said that they had to discuss something." Kim shrugged; she didn't know what was going on either.
"Piper!" Phoebe said suddenly as she entered the house. She needed to discuss what was going on with all of the family, including Kim. "Kim, Piper, could you two go wait for us in the living room?"
The two females looked at each other before shrugging and complying with Phoebe's order.
"What are you doing?" Paige's voice was sharp and through her teeth.
"Piper needs to know about this and so does Kim." Phoebe didn't wait for another response. She entered the living room and took a seat next to Piper who was on the couch. Kim chose a single chair across from them so that she wouldn't feel uncomfortable sitting next to one of the sisters.
"Okay, here's the deal. This is Kim's birth certificate." Phoebe handed it to her sister. Piper looked at it with half interest until she reached a certain point. Her hand flew to her mouth as tears welled up in her eyes. She looked back and forth between Kim and the paper.
"What is the deal with this? Why is everyone freaking out about my birth certificate?" Kim crossed her arms on her chest feeling slightly irritated that she was obviously the last to know.
"Kim, what is your birth mother's name?" Phoebe tested the girl.
Part Six
"Prudence Halliwell."
"Prue is..." Piper started out but realized that "was" would be past tense and Kim would find out sooner of later, "...was, our sister." Tears started lightly coming down her face.
Kim was stunned. So stunned, in fact that she simply stared at them like they had shed their skin and became a demon in front of her. Her limbs went numb on her. All her mind could comprehend was the words that Piper had said. And even then she didn't understand what was going on.
"So..." Kim closed her eyes feeling the beginnings of a headache forming in the center of her brain. "This means that I'm related..." She couldn't finished the sentence. She didn't know how to even start it much less finish it.
"If," Piper stressed. "if this paper is right, then we're your aunts."
"How do we find out if the paper is right or not?" Kim questioned.
The sound of a car screeching to a halt made them stop. Angry voices and slamming car doors were heard. Then the door came flying open, knocking it off of its hinges. There, in the doorway, stood Chester and Susan, Kim's parents.
"You bitch!" Chester spat at Paige. "How dare you steal my daughter away from me!" Chester pulled a gun from the inside of his coat.
"Duck!" Piper yelled out. But before they could fully move, a shot was fired, hitting Kim directly in the shoulder.
"Shit!" Kim screamed as she grabbed her shoulder. Blood ran through her fingers and onto the floor.
Paige's mind was rushing from one thought to another. She couldn't figure out what to do in time. As Paige laid there, cowering in the floor watching Chester, fear coursed through her. She watched as Chester raised his gun, using one hand as he pointed it at Paige's forehead.
"You know its not nice to steal my daughter away from me! She is mine, not yours, mine!" As he pulled the trigger, the world hit slow motion. Paige watched as the bullet came towards her. But suddenly it stopped and turned around. Setting its path towards Chester. The bullet hit dead center of Chester's arm, causing him to drop his gun.
Paige looked to see who or what had saved her life. There she found it, Kim holding up her hand as blood dripped off her arm and onto the floor.
"How dare you!" Chester came full force towards his daughter.
"Leo!" Piper yelled for her husband.
The white-lighter came as soon as he heard his wife's call. He saw the bleeding teenager first, bypassing Chester.
"Chester, I didn't steal your daughter away from you." Paige was scared on the inside but on the outside she looked calm. Her voice never faltered as she spoke. "You don't want to do this. You don't want to hurt me or your daughter. Chester, you can get your daughter back but you have to try harder."
Chester had one hand placed on top of his head. His face showed that he was in deep thought. Suddenly Paige could see where Kim got her reactions from. The way Chester looked like a 5 year old that couldn't decide if he wanted to cry or shout. He kept looking towards the door like he expected someone to burst in at any moment.
"You..." Tears were officially in Chester's eyes now. "...y-you don't want to take her from me?"
"Chester..." Paige let out a sigh as she spoke his name. Things were calming down now. Chester didn't seem half as violent as he was when he came in. "she's our family too. Prue, her mother, is our sister. She has a right to stay with us now."
"P-Pr-Prue?" He stuttered out. He was crying now. The images of his former lover and mother to his child was too hard for him to bare.
"Freeze!" Darryl came to the door with his gun raised and pointed at Chester. Once his backup had came in to arrest Chester, Darryl walked over to the sisters. "Are you alright?" Suddenly he saw Kim. He knew the girl because it was him who took her from her home. He also knew that she shouldn't be in this house. It only meant that Paige brought her home when she knew she wasn't suppose to.
"Yes, he shot Kim but Leo fixed her." Phoebe answered.
"Paige, can I speak to you for a moment?" Darryl motioned for the youngest sister to follow him. "What is she doing here?" He pointed to the young girl. Piper saw this and decided it was time for her to get in on the conversation.
Phoebe and Leo stayed with Kim. They had the teenager sitting on the couch. Looking at the girl, Phoebe could see every quality of Prue. How much this child looked like her older sister. Prue, why didn't you tell us? Phoebe thought in her mind.
"Darryl she needed to go home with someone she trusted. And besides," Paige gave a look over to Kim. "she's our niece. She has every right to stay here with us. We're her family now, the only family she has left."
Darryl rubbed the bridge of his nose. He knew a headache was coming on. A headache always came to him when he entered the Halliwell mansion. Just being around a Halliwell gave him indigestion.
"You all will be the death of me." He said before turning for the door. Darryl stopped and turned to face Piper. "I'm going to pretend that I didn't know she was here. Use your best judgment. And if you insist that Kim stay here, fill out the necessary paper work before you all get thrown in jail." He sighed deeply, knowing that one day he would lose his job over things like this, and left the Halliwell house to deal on their own.
Paige quickly ran to Kim's side to be sure that she was alright.
Piper, unseen by everyone else, went up the attic. She came to a stop in front of the Book of Shadows. In her mind she knew what she was about to do was wrong but she needed answers and there was only one way to find them. Piper found the spell she was looking for, the one to let her speak to Prue. She hadn't tried this spell since the night after the funeral. She laid out the necessary tools and began the spell. Within in a few moments a white light appeared in the circle that Piper had fixed.
Part Seven
The light took shape and formed that of her Grandmother.
"Damn it." She whispered to herself. Not that she was ungrateful that she was getting to see her grandmother, but she was hoping for the one person who knew the most about this situation. And that person was Prue.
"Is there something wrong?" Her grandmother asked.
"I need to speak to Prue." Piper wasn't up for a family reunion. She didn't have much time before somebody would come looking for her.
"Piper..." Her tone was loving and yet warning.
"Now!" She was harsh but that was the only way to get to the point.
It wasn't but a moment later that Prue was standing there in the spot that her grandmother was. The sight of Prue brought back some painful memories for Piper but she didn't have time to deal with it now.
"Tell me about Kim." She spoke with a tone that let her sister know this wasn't time for fun and games.
Prue looked confusingly at her sister as she questioned, "Kim who?"
"Your daughter."
The look of confusion turned into sadness. Prue knew now exactly who her sister was talking about. But she never thought that this day would come. Whether she was alive or not. Now it did and she had to find a way to rationalize what she did.
"Why?" Piper's voice was breaking down on her.
Prue could have prolonged this by asking, 'why what?' but that would only hurt Piper more. She had to get to the truth and not stop along the way.
"I was young Piper. I was still in high school taking care of you and Phoebe. I was loaded down with everything and I made a mistake. I never thought that you would have to know."
"How?" This time it wasn't Piper, it was Phoebe. This sister didn't hide the fact that she had tears in her eyes.
"I went to a party one night. I met Chester, got a little drunk and woke up with him next to me the next morning. Whenever I found out I was pregnant, he claimed it wasn't his. Grams was upset with me about going out and getting pregnant so she helped me hide the fact that I was pregnant until I had the baby."
"So you thought it best to just throw me to that manic!" Kim had pushed her way through the crowd. She stood there, violent tears running down her face. This was the first time she had ever really seen her mother. Now she could see the family resemblance.
"No! I loved you! I had no other choice. You have to understand that I didn't know what else to do." Prue's voice was shaking now. As well as the rest of her body. In the back of her mind she thought of how much Kim had grown since she had last held her daughter in her arms.
"Then why did you wait so long? There was plenty of time, plenty of years, to come and find me. You grew up with out your daughter, but it didn't hurt you much. I grew up without a mother. Without someone to hold me at night when I had such bad dreams that I didn't sleep for days at a time. Without someone to come for me when I screamed out at night when my father did some of the most horrible things that I father could ever do. Without someone, anyone, to tell me that I'm normal, that I'm not a biological reject just because I choose to love different than others." Kim turned and ran down the stairs. She wasn't going to stand there and deal with this family reunion any longer. Mainly she hated herself right now for feeling so much anger towards her mother. The woman was dead, Kim wasn't suppose to feel like hitting Prue for leaving her, for dying on her.
Prue was going through her own dilemma at the moment. It was her time to leave, she wasn't allowed to stay any longer. So she took her last few moments to say to her sisters, "I'm sorry that you never knew. I wanted to tell you, believe me I really did. But make sure that she doesn't go back to him, he'll kill her. Let her know, assure her, that I will always love her. I love you all as well." Prue's apparition slowly faded away into the night. Leaving the sister in the state of shock.
All this while not one of them had made a move to go after Kim. Too stunned, too shocked, too angry, too something that prevented their thoughts to remember the fact that a teenage girl had just ran out of their house and into the middle of the night.
Kim ran as fast as her legs would carry her. She had no destination, its not like she knew the town at all. The only thing she knew at the moment was that she was running. Her mind and body was numb to everything else. But somewhere inside of her she knew where to go, where to hide. Kim came to a bride, not a big one but big enough to let two cars pass on. It overlooked the road and she saw car headlights come and go as she slowed down. She walked now, feeling that she found what she was looking for.
Kim leaned on the railing of the bridge, looking over the distance. She tried to catch her breath. Cold air was hitting her lungs so hard that it stung. Winter was still lingering around in the air. Darkness was all around as Kim became hyper aware of her surroundings. Would anybody find her out here in time? If not, what would happen?
Back at the manor, Piper had snapped out of her daze too realize she needed to find Kim. At this moment the sisters didn't know yet that Kim had left the house completely. But the thought wasn't far from Piper's mind.
Paige walked down the stairs expecting to find Kim in the kitchen or on the couch. But as she looked around and didn't see Kim she worried. The creaking of sound of the front door opening wider caught her attention.
"Kim!" Paige turned hoping that it was just a coincidence that the front door was open. She knew that she had to check the rest of the house before darting out looking for the girl. She walked to her own room, seeing as how that's where Kim had been sleeping. But she didn't find her there. Now it was time to let the others know what was going.
"Guys, Kim is gone." Paige grabbed her car keys.
"Where are you going?" Leo questioned.
"I have to find Kim. There's no telling where she went and if her parents find her then we're all in trouble." Paige was heading out the door when her two sisters came right behind her.
"We're going with you!" Phoebe said as she jumped into the car.
"Were do you think she went?" Paige asked, knowing that none of them really knew the answer. They didn't know much about this girl and she had never really been out into the city before so anywhere she went she wouldn't be going on purpose.
"The bridge." Piper said as if she knew the whole time where she was. Piper drove as fast as she could. She remembered what Prue had said once about that bridge.
'I use to there to get away from it all. I almost committed suicide one night on that bridge. It was just my hide away for the nights when you and Phoebe and Grams would drive me crazy.'
Prue's words were ringing louder and louder in ears right now. But it only drove her to drive faster. And when they finally reached the bridge Piper was near afraid to get out of the car. How was she suppose to react to her niece now? She had never had a niece before and didn't expect to have one this soon.
Paige was the first one to rush out of the car and run onto the bridge. There she found Kim laying down on the road of the bridge looking at the stars. She seemed at peace and was no longer crying. It was like she was at home laying in the floor watching TV.
"Kim, there you are." Paige slowed down.
"I have nothing to say to you. Please go away. I'll be there when I'm ready." She almost wanted to say 'I'll be home when I'm ready' but she realized that she didn't have a home anymore. Thanks to Paige she lost her mother and father. But then again, thanks to Paige, she had found her real family. Should she be grateful that she finally knew where she belonged, or pissed off because everything is so wrong now?
"You can't keep running away." Piper said. Although in her mind she was thinking of Prue. Of what she would say to Prue if she were here.
"I can do whatever the hell I want to. I have no one to tell me what to do anymore." Her mother was dead, her father might as well have been dead because she'd never see him again.
"No you can't." Piper spoke. Kim leaned up on her elbows to look at her. How dare she try to command Kim. This wasn't family, this was some woman who was trying to make up for somebody else's mistake. Maybe that's what she should tell Piper.
"I don't want family right now. I don't want anybody right now. At this moment I want to jump off this bridge and watch my life flash before my eyes. But, once again in my life, I haven't the courage to do it. So I'll settle with just staying right where I am until I'm ready to go back to your home."
"We're still your family, whether you want us to be or not." Phoebe said in a soothing tone.
She had hoped that it would calm Kim down but it only pissed her off even more. "I don't give a damn about family!" She stood up and got into Phoebe's face. It occurred to the witch at that moment that Kim was almost the same size as her. She only maybe half an inch taller than this teenager.
"Look where family got me! I'm out of a house because Lois Lane over there...!" Kim pointed to Paige. She did blame Paige for getting her out of her home. "decided that it was better for me to lose all I've ever known! I'm sorry if I don't fit your picture perfect image of what a family should be. But think about it, would you have willing taken me if you had known that I was a result of your sister being drunk one night and thinking she had fallen in love? If you had the chance you all would have left me just like Prue did!" Kim hated herself in that moment. She felt that it wasn't right for her to hate Prue.
Piper could see the distress in her eyes. Now she had to say those words to Kim that to have been said to her. "It's okay to hate her. She left you with a father that shouldn't be allowed to have kids. You can hate her, nobody's going to wrong you for it. In your heart you know you love her." Piper could feel the tears welling up in her eyes.
Kim's breathing was erratic as she started to walk a distance away from the sisters. None of them went for her. They knew that she needed a moment. And that's all it took, a moment and Kim stared up at the sky. "Damn you!!" She screamed. Tears violently rolled down her face. "Why did you leave me?!?" Kim threw herself to the ground still crying as hard as she possibly could.
Piper made the first move towards to Kim. She sat beside the girl and held her as she cried. Phoebe had Paige came over to do the same. Kim needed to know that she was loved and this was the only way at the moment to show it.
"I'm sorry." Kim apologized into Piper's shoulder. She realized all the distress she must have caused them since she came into their lives.
"Ssh. Don't worry about it right now. Let's go home." Piper rubbed her back. It made her feel like I mother to be able to do this. Since she wasn't sure if she'd ever have children she would take this chance right now to be a mother. And with her real mother being dead, Kim would need someone to act as her mother. So Piper was trying to justify the reason why she felt this incredible urge to protect and love Kim.
They went to the car walking slowly as Kim leaned on Piper. This was the one sister she seemed to have taken to the most. Even though Paige was there first, Piper seemed more...loving than the others. Their car ride had been in silence. Piper drove even though she didn't want to. Phoebe had taken the role of holding onto Kim. And Kim was going to make sure that she didn't let go. She had her arms around Phoebe's waist with her head on Phoebe's chest.
When the car came to a stop, Phoebe wasn't sure how she was going to get out. Kim had fallen asleep in her arms. It was a cute sight to Paige and Piper as they quietly got out of the car. Piper was tempted to run in and get a camera but felt that this wasn't the exact time to do something like that.
Leo, who had been virtually clueless as to what had happened, came out of the house the minute he had heard the car. Piper motioned for him to come to the car.
"Leo," She whispered so she wouldn't wake Kim. "can you take her up to Paige's room?"
Confused, Leo agreed to it. Who was he to argue with his wife? He gently grabbed Kim, hooking one arm under her knees and the other behind her head. She never woke as he carried her up the steps and into the house. She's lighter than I thought. She must not weigh that much. Leo thought to himself as he put Kim down in Paige's bed.
That night went on with nothing more said about Kim or Prue. Nothing more could be said. Each girl went to her respectable bed, but all checked on Kim before heading to sleep. How where they going to deal with this? Was Kim going to stay with them for the rest of their lives?
Part Eight
Morning came bright and early as usual. Kim awoke with that still strange feeling that she didn't know where she was. She kept thinking that she would wake up and find out that this was all a dream. Some sick and twisted cruel joke played on her by god just because he didn't like her. But Paige's hand quickly found her shoulder and calmed her down.
She shook herself physically to ride herself of the fears that had arisen in that moment. Breakfast was something that she needed. Slowly she detached herself from Paige's room without saying a word. Paige watched her with interest as she descended the stairs. Piper and Phoebe stood in the kitchen waiting for the other two girls to wake up.
"Morning Kim. How did you sleep?" Phoebe asked as she watched Kim grabbed her medicine and take it with a glass of water.
"Good I guess." The feeling of eyes watching her made her look up from her breakfast plate. "What?" She asked.
"I wanted to ask you a question about last night." Piper said. She grabbed her cup of coffee and sat down opposite of Kim. "When we were at the bridge you said you didn't have the courage to kill yourself again. Have you tried to before?" Kim stopped eating, she looked up at Piper.
Instead of answering she stuck out her left arm to show a scar on her wrist. "Once when I was seven." Then she stuck out her right arm to show another scar on that wrist. "When I was nine. And I took a bunch of pills a couple of months ago. All three times I was taken to the hospital."
Piper and Phoebe was shocked. This girl really wanted to die. But why? Didn't she know that she could have gotten out and away from her father before now? She had plenty of opportunities according to Paige. Her father and step-mother worked a lot of the time. She knew how to use a phone. Hell, she could have run out the door if it got down to it. But she continued to stay. Why?
"Why did you stay all these years? You could have left before now." Piper asked suddenly.
Kim looked up from her plate and scooted her chair back a little. "I could have. But where would I go? Here? Was I suppose to show up on your doorstep and say 'hi I'm your sister's bastard child, care to keep me for the rest of you life?' That wouldn't have worked. Could have called the police except for the chief of police at the time was my uncle. He allowed it to happen. The only reason why I'm out now is because there is a new police chief who can't be bought off."
"You could have left, just walked out and found somebody to help you." Phoebe offered.
"True except for the fact that my uncle is a demon who can sniff out fear in a heart beat. Every time I tried to run away, he would find me. And do you know how badly I was beaten once I was found?" It was rhetorical question.
"Also, last night, you said that you wanted somebody to tell you that you were normal just because you loved differently. What does that mean?"
Damn, Kim thought, she has got an excellent memory. Shit, how am I suppose to get out of this one? Luckily for Kim she didn't have to find a way, Paige found it for her by walking in and disrupting their conversation.
"I have to go in to work today. Kim I think that its best if you come with me for the next couple of weeks until its safe enough for you to stay home by yourself."
"School starts in a couple of weeks." Kim said under her breath as she put up her plate.
"What?" Paige questioned.
"I said, 'I'm not too found of Ricky.' You know, the cop that's always there jumping down everyone's throat." Kim lied. She wanted to go to a public school for once. But she couldn't let them be burden with that at the moment.
"Oh, mean neither." Kim left them to go change clothes.
Phoebe stood at the counter reading the newspaper. "Hey." She said as she read over a certain article. "Look at this. 'Local man's body has been identified. Thirty-eight year old Chester Rogers' body was found in the sewer by construction workers last night. He was due in court today over alleged reports of physical abuse, molestation and child endangerment of his daughter Kimberly Prudence Rogers, age 14. 'The body looked mangled,' explains Jeremy Winston who found the body, 'like it had been attacked by a large dog. It hardly looked like a human at all when I first looked at it.' Both of Kimberly Rogers parents are now deceased. Police say that she'll go to her next of kin, Piper Halliwell.'"
Phoebe looked up from the paper with eyes wide. "So she really is going to stay with us."
"What do you think would have killed him?" Piper looked at the paper, she acted like she didn't hear the part of her being the now legal guardian of Kim. She didn't want to think about it for now.
"Anybody who heard about this case." Paige commented. "Don't get me wrong, I respect life, just not life like his. The man was scum. Look at what he did to his daughter, our niece. Now Kim doesn't have to worry about him coming after her anymore."
"Paige," Piper sighed, now wasn't the time to argue with her sister. "How are we going to tell Kim about her father's death?"
"He's dead?" The voice was barely audible but it was still Kim.
"Oh honey." Phoebe went to go hug the girl but she just backed away. She wasn't crying like expected. She didn't even look the least bit upset.
"He deserved to die. Who ever done it needs a plaque. Are we ready to go Paige?" Kim didn't wait for an answer, she turned on her heal and left for the car. Once inside she felt like crying. But she couldn't allow herself to fall like that. She had to keep telling herself that it was a good thing that he died. Still, this was the man who was responsible for her existence. Should she be grateful that she was out of his clutches or upset that he was now forever gone?
"Kim." Paige sat down in the driver's seat of the car. She had this big old speech planned out to say to Kim but she wasn't given the time.
"Don't waste your breath. I don't care, really I don't." But she was dying inside. "Do you think we could stop by my house and pick up something?" She kept her eyes looking out the car window at the ground.
"What are we going to do?" Phoebe asked as she looked at her niece in the car. She felt for sorry for her. The girl had lost her parents and gained a family that she didn't even know all in one day. That would be tiring on even the strongest person.
"Find a place to put her because I guess she staying with us." Piper sighed and took a drink of her coffee.
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