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Author's Notes: I am really sorry that I haven't written a new chapter in forever, but I have had terrible writer's block! Did I mention I was sorry? Anyways, please review! Your reviews help me a lot in deciding what I should do for the next chapter, and they also just make me happy – please review! Enjoy!
An Unexpected Future
Piper looked around the attic, and realized that she had orbed unknowingly to Paige. "What the hell?" She then noticed Paige on the floor, crying uncontrollably. Her head was in her hands, and she was holding her stomach. "Paige!" She rushed over to Paige, and pulled her up. "Paige! Look at me!" Piper moved Paige's hands away from her face, and gave her sister a hug. "I'm right here….I am right here…." She held Paige for a minute or two, and then took her by the hand. "C'mon….Let's get out of here." Piper and Paige went into Paige's room and sat on the bed. Paige cried a little bit more, and Piper soothed her. "Shhh….It's OK. You're safe. Shhh…." She rubbed Paige's back, "Hey. You know what?" She smiled. "Every time you feel alone or sad or hurt, I'm here. And you also don't have to tell me; Leo felt what you were feeling. So you can't hide from me!" Paige knew that Piper was teasing, but she still felt so scared, "I don't know what happened. I saw the….the….knife, and…….I felt the….pain….all over again…I didn't think it could hurt that much. It was horrible. I wanted to tell you, but….I …well, you have enough to deal with." Paige looked at Piper, and saw the tears in her eyes. "Paige, I'm always here for you…don't be afraid to tell me anything, and I mean it…" Paige smiled. "OK." "You promise to tell me everything?" "I promise." Piper smiled too, "Great. Let's go see how my empathic husband is doing…" They went downstairs to the kitchen and found Leo still on the floor. He pointed to Paige, and turned his head to Piper. "She…still…is hurting….and I….can't…turn it….off." Piper ran over to him, and put her hand on his shoulder. "You need to concentrate. OK? Take deep breaths and concentrate…" She looked over at Paige, not knowing what to do. Paige pointed her finger up, and Piper nodded at her. Paige orbed to the gates of heaven, itself. "Oh, shit." She really wanted to get in, but the gates were holding her outside. "Excuse me!" She called. "I really need to talk to somebody…Our whitelighter is in trouble! Will somebody please help me?" A whitelighter in a white cloak looked at her, but said nothing. "Hey! You! Go get somebody that can help Leo…Please hurry…." The white cloaked person didn't move. "AHHHH! PRUE! GRAMS! Please! Oh cut me a break once in a while. C'mon!" Seeing that nobody was going to help her, she orbed to the attic, and set a few candles in a circle and recited a spell:
Hear these words
Hear my cry,
Spirits from the other side,
Come to me,
I summon thee,
Cross now the great divide.
Orb lights appeared in the circle of candles, and the person stepped out of the candles, and was not a ghost, but flesh. The stranger smiled, and Paige recognized the face… "Prue!" Paige gasped. "Yes." Prue held out her arms, and Paige hesitated a little before she walked into Prue's arms. "I have been watching you. You have learned quite a few lessons, but you have also pulled this family back together, and I thank you for it." Paige nodded her head, and they pulled apart. "Phoebe…she's…I ….think she's dying. I'm not really sure." Prue nodded her head. "Yes, but I think we will be able to save her in enough time." And then she looked at Paige in the eyes, "But first, we need to take care of you. You're pain is literally too much for Leo to handle right now. We need to talk about it; let me help you." Paige nodded her head. "Alright then. C'mon. Let's go downstairs." They were going out the attic door, when Paige started shaking again. Prue almost slapped herself. 'Oh, no!' she thought. 'Not again.' She squeezed Paige's hand reassuringly. Prue grabbed the knife and put it in a nearby box, so that Paige couldn't see it. "You are OK. The demon is gone. It's OK. Your wound is healed. Even if Leo couldn't heal you, I would. It's OK. C'mon. You can do it. Let it all go. Let the pain go." Paige, who thought she was out of tears, slumped to the floor in a fit of despair. Prue rubbed her back. "Let it all go. I am right here, and I'm not leaving." Paige cried for another 15 minutes on the floor, and then she slowly stood up with Prue's help. Prue orbed Paige downstairs to the kitchen and saw Leo lying on the floor. He slowly sat up, and put his hand to his head. "Ow. Headache." Piper wrapped her arms around him, and kissed him passionately. Piper stood up awkwardly, and helped her husband up. He looked at Paige, and hugged her. "Feeling better?" She smiled, "Yeah." For the first time Piper finally noticed who accompanied Paige. "Pr - ?" She mouthed the rest of the word, and threw her arms around her big sister. Tears were streaming down her face. "How did you get here?" Prue pointed to Paige. "She has a bad temper when she's pissed." Prue laughed, and so did Piper and Paige. Leo just looked extremely confused. "Yeah. She didn't know what to do for Leo, so she orbed to get some help from the elders." She whispered under her breath, "But, of course, they didn't do jack shit." She raised her voice a little so that everyone could hear her. "So, they felt guilty, and let me come down here and help." Prue looked at her feet. "And…um….that's not the only thing that they sent me down here to help with. You have other problems, too." Piper started to cry. "I don't know where we are going to get that powder. While Leo was on the floor, I called all the stores I could think of that would have that powder…but…. it just wasn't there…" Paige smiled. "I have an idea….can I call it?" Piper looked like she was going to kick herself. "Of course! Why didn't I think of that?" Paige smiled, and concentrated on what she thought the white powder should look like. She closed her eyes and held out her hand. "Powder!" Nothing appeared. "Let me try again." Paige closed her eyes again, and imagined the powder. "POWDER!" There were orbing lights as a white powder piled into her hands. She opened her eyes and smiled, "Let's go save Phoebe!"
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