AN: Glad those little one liners amuse u so much KT ;-)

Part 3

Well I started all alone
And I watched you grow
And now please don't take this away from me
You rise then you fall
Sometimes it seems like you're not there at all
But that's the way it should be

Well
Take me for example
And erase your opinions about me
Only time will tell

Where will you be
Where have you gone
Two years of my life
Now it's all gone


Prue looked up from the BOS to her sisters. Piper and Phoebe had fallen asleep, searching for
information on the brotherhood of the apocalypse.

She hadn't realised just how much she missed them, watching them at these quiet times. She
couldn't stop thinking about how much she had missed with them over the last year and a ½,
then there was the last 25 and a ½ years she had missed with Paige.

After she got over the initial shock of being dead, Penny and Patty had to tell her about Paige.
They mainly told her so she knew the power of three was still there but Prue, of all the sisters.
Was the one who'd take something like that hard. She had taken a long time to forgive her
mother for keeping it from them. But since then she'd done everything in her power to watch
over Paige and learn about her.

Paige closed yet another book and looked up to see Prue staring at her. Her unblinking eyes
let Paige know she was lost in thought. "Prue?" She said quietly.

Prue slowly realised Paige had said something, "yeah?" She said coming out of her daze.

"Penny for your thoughts?"

"Just thinking about things. Thinking about you and how much you've done, how unfair it is I
never met you before today."

Paige nodded as she looked at the floor. Prue's eyes were still too intense for her. "Are you
staying? Or is this just some reconnaissance work for the elders?"

"I really wish I knew. I don't want to go back but... what choice do I have?"

"I don't know if they can go through losing you again, I don't know how much they changed
but I do know how much they were hurting. I used to feel it, like waves of hurt."

Prue swallowed hard, "Piper, she was the sweet mediator. Pheebs and I used to be at each
others throat all the time but she always found some way to make it better. She acted different
with you at the beginning, didn't she? I hated seeing her act like that. I would expect that from
me but not Piper. She should have been the one to assure you how welcome you were and
that being our sister meant so much. Piper is the shoulder to cry on, she can make it all seem
ok but at that time, she was just so scared to love you incase you left." Prue's voice wavered.

"I watched it all and I just wanted to give you some hope that she'd be ok with you once she
got over my death but I couldn't. When Cole took you, i think it sunk in just how much you
meant to her. She was truly terrified from the second you were taken to the second you woke
up."

Paige held back her tears, "She had to much to deal with, I was just another burden but she
made it up. I know now and that's what matters."

Prue shuffled to Paige and hugged her, "You're strong, Paige. There's no doubt you're a
Halliwell."

Paige tightened her grip on Prue. She couldn't make any words come out. At that moment she
felt anything but strong.