Can't Fight the Moonlight By: Beth Diane

A/N: I hope you guys like it.

Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed, and the title is also the title of a song by Leanne Rimes.

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Chapter Five:

"Scott?" Leo asked, "Are you okay?" Scott came out of his dream state and looked at Leo. He nodded. He was just remembering how he had carried Phoebe slowly, not wanting to waste a minute of holding this woman who was beautiful even though her eyes were red from crying. He knew that the fact that she was asleep showed that it didn't mean anything to her, but he still felt dreamy just thinking about her. 'I wonder why she was crying.' Scott thought, 'I wish I could help her with it.'

"Good to hear it." Leo said. "It's late. Maybe you should be heading home now. Paige, would you orb him home?" Leo wanted time alone with his wife and baby girl, and sending Paige to take Scott home was the perfect distraction. Paige nodded and walked Scott out into the hallway.

"Ready to go?" She asked.

"I guess." Scott said, not confidently at all.

"Don't worry. I'll tell Phoebe about you." Paige said, but Scott didn't sound convinced and looked at her questioningly. "All good stuff, don't worry!"

"Alright." Scott said finally. "But what exactly is 'orb'?"

"Oh," Paige said, trying not to laugh. "It's something that only whitelighters can do, and it's where they are in one place one minute and then if they concentrate on another place hard enough, they appear there."

"Like what you did to get me here earlier?" Scott inquired.

"Yes. Exactly." Paige nodded her head. "Now, let's go!" Paige grabbed Scott's hands and started to orb. But then she stopped.

"What?" Scott asked when they were still in the manor.

"Uh. Where do you live?" Paige said with a laugh, "It might be helpful to know where I am bringing you before I try to get there." Scott told Paige where he lived and she took him there.

"Promise to tell Phoebe about me?" Scott asked.

"Yes, I promise." Paige agreed. "What's your phone number? I'll tell her to call you."

"Oh, here." Scott said, writing his phone number down on a piece of paper. He handed the paper to Paige with a childish grin.

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Paige handed Melinda to Piper before she walked out of the room with Scott.

"Just seeing her like this." Piper said, blinking back her tears. "Cant you heal her, Leo?"

"No. They won't let me."

"Why? I thought you said it was supernatural."

"It is."

"Then why can't you heal her?"

"I don't know, Piper! I'll go check with the Elders. Leo orbed out of the room and left Piper alone.

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Phoebe awoke in her bed neatly tucked into her bed as the door shut behind someone walking out. 'It must have been Scott.' Phoebe thought, 'Paige couldn't have carried me back here, and Piper and Leo have so much on their minds.'

Phoebe rolled over and went back to sleep. Sleep was the only thing that could get her calmed down enough to tell anyone what was wrong, IF she could ever tell anyone what was wrong. After a couple minutes, Phoebe was calmly asleep, but her dreams were anything but calm.

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Paige and Leo orbed into Melinda's bedroom at the same time, both walking over to sit next to Piper.

"Is she any better?" Paige asked.

"No, but she isn't any worse." Piper said.

"Well, at least that's a good sign." Paige said.

"What did the elders say, Leo?" Piper asked her husband.

"They wouldn't tell me anything." Leo said. "They said that it was going just as it is supposed to."

"SUPPOSED TO!?" Piper yelled. "YOU MEAN MELINDA WAS. SUPPOSED TO GET SICK!!!???" Piper was never good at keeping her temper, and it was always times like these where Paige and Leo wished she was.

"I don't know. That's all they would tell me." Leo said. Piper started crying and sobbing. She handed Melinda to Leo and walked out of the room.

"Should I. follow her?" Paige asked, hoping that Leo would say 'no' because she had been comforting people all day long.

"Nah. Let her calm down and she'll come back when she has." Leo said, but Piper didn't come back that night. When she left the room, she went straight to bed and cried herself to sleep. She was so angry at the Elders for not letting Leo heal her baby daughter, for not telling them what was happening, and most of all for saying that this wall all according to their sick plan.

It was about an hour before Leo came into their bedroom. He and Paige had decided to take shifts watching Melinda, so they could get sleep and so someone would be with Melinda at all times.

When Leo left to go to bed for an hour or so, Paige decided that she was going to try to do something.

'If I am half whitelighter, maybe I can heal her.' Paige thought out loud. She laid Melinda down on the bed and held her hands over Melinda's chest. She was trying to remember what Piper had told her when she was learning how to heal.

"Love is the trigger." Is what Piper had said years ago when Paige had first tried to heal someone. Paige filled her head with every thought that she had about Melinda and focused on loving her niece with all of her heart, and a whitish/gold glow appeared around Melinda and she woke up.

"Yes!" Paige squealed quietly as she gave Melinda a hug.

"How are you feeling, sweetie?" Paige asked Melinda, who was looking rather confused.

"I don't know." Melinda said, shaking her head.

'That cant be good, can it?' Paige asked herself.

"Maybe you should get some sleep." Paige suggested. "Maybe you'll remember in the morning." Melinda nodded and crawled under her blankets.

"Goodnight, Auntie Paige." Melinda said, as she turned on her side and fell sound asleep right away. Paige smiled to herself thinking, 'that was way too easy, but I guess. it worked!'

An hour and a half later, Leo walked into Melinda's bedroom to take his shift and let Paige sleep for a while. Leo hadn't slept for more than 10 minutes, but he didn't he would have anyway.

"How is she?" Leo asked Paige. When she turned around, he saw delight in her eyes. "That good, huh?"

"Actually, better than good!" Paige said happily. "I healed her!"

"Really? Paige, that's great!" Leo exclaimed.

"Yeah, but the problem is that when I asked her how she was, she said that she didn't remember." Paige told Leo.

"Oh." Leo said softly. "Well, maybe she'll remember in the morning what happened so we can fix it."

"I'm going to go and try to sleep." Paige said, standing up. "Maybe knowing that she's going to be okay will help me get to sleep easier."

"Hopefully." Leo said. "Good night." Paige nodded and walked out of Melinda's room into her own bedroom. She got into her bed, not even bothering to change into her pajamas, and breathed a sigh of relief.

A/N: and no. It's not almost over. there are surprises around every corner!!

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