Paige shuffled down into the kitchen. It was empty, so she sat down and poured herself some cereal. She quietly chewed her Fruit Loops, starring absentmindedly out the window. It was sunny considering it was noon and everyone was about the manor somewhere. Her eyes wondered across the newspaper's front page. Nothing great had happened and she turned to the inside covers.
"Paige..." Paige looked up to find the owner of the voice. No one was there; just her alone in the kitchen. She went back to the paper. "Paige... why don't you come back?" Paige was now sure she heard someone or something and slowly rose up from her seat. "Don't be scared." Paige recognized the voice to be Prince Links'. As she was backing out of the kitchen, she bumped into someone, and jumped as she turned around.
"Paige, are you okay?" Phoebe asked, holding a box of junk.
"Umm, yeah. You just scared me…" Paige explained, and walked to her room shaking her head.
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Natalie approached Link, who sat on a throne facing away from her. He was discussing something with Doctrine when, Doctrine made her appearance known to him. He pivoted the chair around to face her.
"Yes?"
"I came to inform you that it's becoming late for that woman. She'll soon go into labor and then it'll be too late for us to get to her. I believe something needs to be done to insure that she's back here before long."
"I know, and I'm in the process of doing so. Prepare for her to be back tomorrow." Link ordered. Natalie did not desire to know the details, so she bowed out and left the room.
"Sire, perhaps the sooner the better that we get her. Tomorrow will be behind schedule."
"I'm aware of that, but it'll have to do."
****
Phoebe knocked lightly on Paige's door, and peered into it when there was no response. Paige was still asleep on her side, covers tightly wrapped around. She had spent previous day helping Phoebe clean out her room and watching a movie marathon till three the next morning. Phoebe quietly walked in, signaling for Cole to follow with the tray of food he was carrying. She opened up the blinds and let the light pour in. The sun's bright rays hit Paige's eyes and Paige raised her hand to block them off with no luck.
"Hey sleepyhead." Phoebe greeted Paige. She sat down on her bed and felt Paige's forehead.
"Hey…"
"You're burning up; how can you be wrapped up in so many blankets?"
"I don't feel hot, I'm freezing actually." Paige responded. She looked over her shoulder when she heard Cole placing the food on her nightstand. "Oh, hey Cole. Haven't seen you lately."
"Yeah, shimmering around a little." Cole said.
"Here…" Phoebe gave Paige a thermometer, "put it in your mouth."
"That's a concept… putting it my mouth… hmm…" Paige smirked. Phoebe playfully hit Paige as she inserted it into her mouth. Phoebe watched as it rose past the normal range of temperatures and into the hundreds. It finally stopped at 104.3 and she removed it from her mouth.
"Whoa… this is not healthy." Phoebe said, with a hint of worry in her voice.
"I feel fine, heat wise. And it's only umm… six degrees over."
"Yeah, and that just shows you how bad you're getting. If you can't even tell you're terribly overheated, that's bad."
"Phoebe!" Piper yelled from her room.
"Yeah?"
"Could you come here a minute?"
"Ok…" Phoebe left the room, leaving Paige and Cole.
"So…" Cole started, breaking the silence.
"Why is it that we never talk? I mean, I don't really even know that much about you."
"Umm…" Cole paused, not really expecting that question. He searched his brain for a liable reason. "I don't know. There's just never been much time, I guess."
"So…" Paige try to think of a suitable topic, "How's the law system working out?"
"Ok, I guess, plenty of paperwork."
"Uh huh…"
Paige rolled her head to the other side of her pillow. She gasped when she saw Prince Link, sitting in her rocking chair, smiling at her. She froze with fear as he rose from the chair and stepped towards her.
"Paige, come with me. It'll be easier than staying here."
Paige glanced at Cole to see him still talking about his past life, totally unaware of the presence of Link in the room. She began to push the covers off herself slowly.
"W-what do you want? How did you get here?" Paige asked Link; Cole stopped talking and looked at Paige. He had no clue why she would ask that.
"I've been here." Cole answered, hoping he misunderstood her question. Paige looked at Cole but her attention snapped back to Link who was approaching her.
"What's wrong?"
He sat down at the edge of the bed, which scared Paige. She backed up from him so suddenly that she had fallen out of the bed. Cole quickly helped the fallen Paige off the floor. She looked to the closest thing to her, which was a half a glass of water, and threw it at Link. It passed through him, and slammed against the wall, shattering to pieces.
"Paige, are you ok?" Cole asked, slowly moving towards Paige. He followed her cold stare to the edge of her bed, seeing nothing but ruffled bed sheets.
"I'm not going with you!" Paige yelled at Link.
"Phoebe, Piper!" Cole yelled out the room, keeping an eye on Paige. She was sounding a little too crazy for his taste. Phoebe and Piper came running into the room with Leo behind them. The tone in Cole's voice told them had something was wrong.
"Cole, what's wrong?" Phoebe asked, not seeing the emergency.
"No! Go away!" Paige yelled back to the thin air. Their attention was then diverted to Paige; Piper was just surprised she was out of bed.
"Paige, who are you talking to?" Piper asked, worried that her sister was losing it.
"He's here. He wants me to go back with him. I don't want to go."
"Who's here?" Piper asked.
"Link…"
"There's no one here." Piper stated, glancing around the room.
"He's right there." Paige pointed to the bed again.
"Her temperature was way over a hundred. She could be hallucinating." Leo whispered to Piper.
Link stepped over the bed and towards Paige, his hand outstretched to her. "Come on Paige, this isn't where you belong. You can be my princess. They don't understand you."
"No!" Paige yelled, quickly receding to the corner. She let her body slide down to the floor into a crouched position, and covered her ears. "Go away!" Phoebe slowly approached Paige, afraid of what might happen. She bent down at her level and touched her hand.
"Paige…" She said calmly, "Link isn't in here." Paige remained trembling, her head buried in her knees. "Paige, look at me." Paige shook her head no. "Paige… I want you to look at me." She slowly lifted her face to meet Phoebe's eyes full of concern. She looked over to the bed and Link had disappeared.
"I-I-I don't understand. He was just there and I saw him and…"
"It's ok, just take my hand." Paige gradually looked down at Phoebe's hand, tempted to take it. Suddenly, in the corner of her eye, Link had reappeared only a foot from her, his hand outstretched to her.
"Come on Paige, this isn't where you belong. Take my hand instead. You'll be safe"
Paige screamed; and confused on what was going on, orbed out of the room. Phoebe looked back to the others, unsure of what had just happened. When they heard a crash downstairs and they rushed out of her room. A small coffee table was broken; Paige rolled off of it. She got on her hands and knees gradually. Her breathing became heavy and erratic, and her eyes were squeezed shut. Piper was going to help but Leo gave her a sign not to. Paige was changing, and he couldn't be sure if it was for the better or worse. Her shirt started to bulge in the back. She released a piercing scream as a pair of angel style wings transpired out of her back into plain view. Paige's vision started to blur as she tried to swagger up, but immediately dropped to floor. Link suddenly appeared in front of her, and checked her pulse. The others looked Link, shocked to see him there. He had appeared out of thin air from nowhere.
"It's a shame we couldn't do this peacefully." Piper tried to freeze him but it didn't work. He quickly scooped Paige into his arms. "I'm sorry we couldn't work something out." She dangled helplessly in his arms as he winded off before anyone could stop him.