Title: That Past Doesn't Always Stay Hidden
Rating: PG-13
Category: Drama
Timeline: Season 4 Spoilers: Season 4
Content Warnings: Language Warning
Disclaimer: We don't own any of the Charmed Ones or any character from the show Charmed. Any characters you don't recognize belong to the authors.
Summary: What if Cole and Paige knew each other before Paige met her sisters but it wasn't a happy memory? - Season 4
A/N: Hey! This is Crash and Burn(X5-343) and Slim (SlimJim0321). This is our story! Co-writers! It might be a little confusing, but just humor us!
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"Get out." Phoebe ordered. Her arms crossed at her chest, which she felt help support what she felt was her heart slowly breaking. Tears streamed down her face, and her eyes immediately turned bloodshot. Piper held Paige, now desperately crying for some sort of comfort from her sisters. Casey's head was slightly to the side, trying to take in what just happened. Matt's eyes followed Cole almost in complete rage.
Cole stood in the center, turning to each of his witnesses for an explanation. He turned towards Casey, and his face grimaced along with his heart remembering the past. He met Casey's amber eyes, and she immediately looked down. Her heart seemed to clench at who she finally recognized. Not just as her father, but as her attacker.
His eyes had flickered the same way. The blue/green tent starring down at her. Her head turned further to the side and down, trying to hide the sour expression on her face. Cole knew he couldn't help himself any further, and looked a Phoebe a final time. He shimmered out regretfully.
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"Sorry." Casey apologized solemnly. She looked down at the guest room bed, and then at her aunt who showed her a place to sleep.
"For what?" Phoebe asked. Her eyes sparkled with sadness, and Casey looked down.
"We shouldn't have come. I just, I needed to know why I could do all this, weird-ass, err, freaky stuff." Casey said. Phoebe shook her head, and sat down on the bed. Casey followed her motion.
"Honey, you have the biggest reason in the world, to have come. Paige knows that, don't worry. She'll talk to you soon; she's just a little, pre- occupied." Phoebe answered. She observed Casey, and pleasantly settled with the conclusion that she looked a lot more like Paige than Cole. Although, the good presence Cole carried with him, she seamed to have.
Phoebe realized how Casey felt. She couldn't imagine being fifteen and finally reaching your mother, and then to find her to be too emotionally unstable that she couldn't even talk to her.
"If you need anything, I'm here." Phoebe offered.
Casey nodded, somewhat surprised at Phoebe's understanding, and willingness to help her. "Thanks." Casey managed to speak. She forced her friendliest smile at Phoebe, who smiled back.
"No problem. Matt's right next door." Phoebe answered. Casey nodded, and watched Phoebe walk out of the room, and shutting the door.
Phoebe walked into the kitchen, and studied her two sisters. Piper held Paige's hands as Paige slowly explained the unexposed part of her life. Phoebe walked over.
"Hey." Phoebe said with small happiness in her voice. Paige sighed and looked at Piper.
"They okay?" Piper asked. Phoebe nodded.
"Are you okay?" Piper asked again. Phoebe shrugged. "It's not about me." Phoebe said, avoiding to completely recognized what happened. She looked at Paige.
"You need to talk to them Paige. They came all the way from Florida." Phoebe suggested. Paige nodded.
"I know. I just, I don't want to go up there like this." Paige said, pointing to her swollen, bloodshot, sorrow filled eyes. Phoebe nodded. Piper smiled.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Piper asked.
"I, I didn't have a full chance. Phoebe and Cole always seemed so happy together, and he was probably evil when, when, well, we had a relationship. And I, I really was going to tell you." Paige replied, her voice begged for forgiveness.
Phoebe looked at Piper, both sisters didn't want Paige to go through anything more for the time being. They nodded.
"Come on. We'll get you fixed up." Phoebe offered. Paige followed her into the bathroom.
Matt stared into the bathroom mirror. It was definitely a girl's bathroom. The flower prints of the walls were pink roses, and fit right in with the Victorian theme. Apart from studying the room, he studied himself. He closed the door and locked it. He didn't want his boyish curiosity to be optionally viewed.
His dark, brown eyes seemed to be his own. He had Cole's main face shape, but a blend of Cole and Paige's nose. His dark brown hair he was certain he caught from each of his parents, although most of it was hidden from the blonde tips that Casey had added. His build was exactly like Cole, only a little less muscular, Cole was obviously trained. Unlike Casey, his skin was clear of sun spots and freckles and tanned evenly, he was just missing the pale complexion that Paige had. There was a knock on the door, and now his face was a fleshy red color. Good thing no one had ex-ray vision. He opened the door. It was Leo.
"Hi." Leo greeted friendly. Matt smiled.
"Hey." Matt replied as he stepped outside the bathroom.
"We'd like to talk to you guys. Casey's waiting downstairs." Leo instructed.
Matt nodded, and the two went downstairs to the living room. He immediately saw Paige, looking extremely happier than yesterday. Her dark brown hair was in a wavy ponytail, she was without make-up. He saw her sister's, they being more relaxed than yesterday. He walked over and sat by Casey on the parallel couch.
She was wearing Phoebe's sweatpants, but she sagged them, and scrunched the bottom up to her knees, and Piper's tank top.
"Morning." Phoebe greeted cutely. Casey smiled and ruffled up his hair, putting him into his comfort zone. He pushed her with one hand, but she simple scooted over again.
"I, uh, we, err.. were uh wondering, uh.." Paige trailed off. Piper and Phoebe exchanged confused glances, luckily, Casey and Matt knew exactly what they meant.
"We came because we can do stuff." Matt exclaimed. Piper's eyes widened, knowing exactly what they meant. Phoebe smiled halfway, giving them room to talk. Paige's eyebrows sagged. For a brief moment she hadn't understood what he said.
"Like what?" Leo asked, wanting to know one hundred percent sure they had been on the same level. Matt hesitated, wondering if he should tell them. Casey, although didn't have a problem with it. She found the whole situation amusing, as all situations since she was abut five.
"It's kinda cool, actually. When ever I think about, bad things that happen, I feel really, enraged, I guess you could say. And, uh, this thing appears in my hand. It's silver and white, and if it doesn't go away on its own, I push my hand in a certain direction and it leaves this metallic silver mark." Casey described.
Leo tilted his head, he never heard of such a power, but taking into thought that she was part demon, and white lighter the powers would be unusual.
"An orb?" Phoebe asked, looking at Leo. Leo shook his head.
"Orb's don't leave scorch marks." Leo added. "She said silver and white, all that's missing is blue." Phoebe replied. Leo shook his head.
"I can do the same thing, except mine is gold and black." Matt exclaimed. Piper looked to Leo.
"Energy balls maybe? They get them when they are mad." Piper suggested. Leo shrugged.
Paige however was having a moment to herself. They looked so, old. She had still thought of them as babies, the tiny hands, toes, faces. They were barley able to open their eyes, and now, she looked at both of them as easily as they could look at her. It went by fast. Fifteen years, just like that. Now they were both in front of her, she didn't feel like all of this was a reality. It saddened her to think how much she missed. First word, first steps...
"Can you show us?" Leo asked. Casey looked to Matt who looked back at the sisters and Leo.
Phoebe made immediate eye contact.
"Don't worry. You can trust us. We'll even show you." Paige noted. As good as she hid it, Casey doubted it. She couldn't trust her fifteen years ago, she couldn't even rely on the fact she was real. The twins nodded.
"Watch, but don't get scared." With a flick of the wrist, Leo was frozen, and Piper was smiling. Matt's face was guarded with precaution, while Casey's was lit up with an energetic smile.
"That's AWESOME!" Casey exclaimed. Matt stood up and walked towards Leo, staring into his still eyes. He jumped back a little when Piper unfroze him.
"And this." Leo orbed to the other side of the couch. Matt's face then chimed into Casey's smile, although it was just a small grin. Casey's grew into laughter.
"Can you guys do that?" Casey asked Phoebe and Paige, who were remaining motionless.
"You'll see. We all can't do the same thing though. Leo's a white lighter, in other words our guardian angel. He has a lot of other charges that he has to help. He can also heal our injuries." Phoebe explained.
"But you're part white lighter too." Leo pointed out. Paige nodded, and Casey looked back at him.
"But aren't they your sisters?" Matt asked.
"Half, sisters." Piper corrected.
"Paige's dad was a white lighter." Piper told them.
Casey's smile somewhat faded, now they were getting into the family stuff, and as far as she knew, her and Matt weren't included.
"You seem to be doing better." Piper commented to Paige. Leo was talking to the twins about their powers, which meant Phoebe, Piper and Paige had some alone time.
"Yeah, well I kinda got over it a while ago, just when Cole came back it all came back. But it's getting better every second since I've already dealt with it." Paige replied. Piper nodded.
"But, you're not done dealing with it sweetie." Phoebe advised. Paige nodded.
"I know. But I don't know what to do. I don't, I don't know anything about them, or their families, or even if they've been adopted, or if they are in foster care. We didn't even ask, do you think they think we don't want them here since we didn't ask all that stuff?" Paige rambled.
Phoebe shook her head. "No, we'll ask them tonight." Phoebe concluded. "Like this?" Casey asked. On command, she got the white/silver ball to hover in her hand. Leo noticed it was smaller, and didn't seem to have a lot of energy.
"Yeah, now throw it." Leo replied, expecting the result to be pretty weak. Casey tilted her head, and pondered on how she would throw it. She was very athletic, but the fact that a baseball, softball, or football wouldn't damage anything drastically, changed things. She drew it back to a soft pitch, and hurled it at the wall.
It wasn't what Leo expected. The wall seemed to bend concavely, and was covered in a metallic dust. He walked over to observe it. He noticed steam coming from it. It wasn't a scorch mark exactly, it was cold. He looked back at Casey who had the biggest smile on her face he had seen from her yet.
"Nice." Matt complimented.
Leo looked to Matt and orbed next to him, getting the twins used to magic meant he'd have to make them natural to it. Matt looked at him temporarily and a ball a little bigger than Casey's appeared in his hand. It was Gold and black light.
He threw it using the same amount of force as Casey, and the wall looked a lot different. It was dissolved, and rough, and more wide than deep. Leo walked towards it and could feel the heat.
"That, was a scorch mark." Matt grinned with dominance as he looked at his sister.
"Two minutes makes a lot of difference Case." Matt boasted. Casey raised an eyebrow and replied simply.
"That's what you think." She exclaimed softly
Category: Drama
Timeline: Season 4 Spoilers: Season 4
Content Warnings: Language Warning
Disclaimer: We don't own any of the Charmed Ones or any character from the show Charmed. Any characters you don't recognize belong to the authors.
Summary: What if Cole and Paige knew each other before Paige met her sisters but it wasn't a happy memory? - Season 4
A/N: Hey! This is Crash and Burn(X5-343) and Slim (SlimJim0321). This is our story! Co-writers! It might be a little confusing, but just humor us!
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"Get out." Phoebe ordered. Her arms crossed at her chest, which she felt help support what she felt was her heart slowly breaking. Tears streamed down her face, and her eyes immediately turned bloodshot. Piper held Paige, now desperately crying for some sort of comfort from her sisters. Casey's head was slightly to the side, trying to take in what just happened. Matt's eyes followed Cole almost in complete rage.
Cole stood in the center, turning to each of his witnesses for an explanation. He turned towards Casey, and his face grimaced along with his heart remembering the past. He met Casey's amber eyes, and she immediately looked down. Her heart seemed to clench at who she finally recognized. Not just as her father, but as her attacker.
His eyes had flickered the same way. The blue/green tent starring down at her. Her head turned further to the side and down, trying to hide the sour expression on her face. Cole knew he couldn't help himself any further, and looked a Phoebe a final time. He shimmered out regretfully.
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"Sorry." Casey apologized solemnly. She looked down at the guest room bed, and then at her aunt who showed her a place to sleep.
"For what?" Phoebe asked. Her eyes sparkled with sadness, and Casey looked down.
"We shouldn't have come. I just, I needed to know why I could do all this, weird-ass, err, freaky stuff." Casey said. Phoebe shook her head, and sat down on the bed. Casey followed her motion.
"Honey, you have the biggest reason in the world, to have come. Paige knows that, don't worry. She'll talk to you soon; she's just a little, pre- occupied." Phoebe answered. She observed Casey, and pleasantly settled with the conclusion that she looked a lot more like Paige than Cole. Although, the good presence Cole carried with him, she seamed to have.
Phoebe realized how Casey felt. She couldn't imagine being fifteen and finally reaching your mother, and then to find her to be too emotionally unstable that she couldn't even talk to her.
"If you need anything, I'm here." Phoebe offered.
Casey nodded, somewhat surprised at Phoebe's understanding, and willingness to help her. "Thanks." Casey managed to speak. She forced her friendliest smile at Phoebe, who smiled back.
"No problem. Matt's right next door." Phoebe answered. Casey nodded, and watched Phoebe walk out of the room, and shutting the door.
Phoebe walked into the kitchen, and studied her two sisters. Piper held Paige's hands as Paige slowly explained the unexposed part of her life. Phoebe walked over.
"Hey." Phoebe said with small happiness in her voice. Paige sighed and looked at Piper.
"They okay?" Piper asked. Phoebe nodded.
"Are you okay?" Piper asked again. Phoebe shrugged. "It's not about me." Phoebe said, avoiding to completely recognized what happened. She looked at Paige.
"You need to talk to them Paige. They came all the way from Florida." Phoebe suggested. Paige nodded.
"I know. I just, I don't want to go up there like this." Paige said, pointing to her swollen, bloodshot, sorrow filled eyes. Phoebe nodded. Piper smiled.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Piper asked.
"I, I didn't have a full chance. Phoebe and Cole always seemed so happy together, and he was probably evil when, when, well, we had a relationship. And I, I really was going to tell you." Paige replied, her voice begged for forgiveness.
Phoebe looked at Piper, both sisters didn't want Paige to go through anything more for the time being. They nodded.
"Come on. We'll get you fixed up." Phoebe offered. Paige followed her into the bathroom.
Matt stared into the bathroom mirror. It was definitely a girl's bathroom. The flower prints of the walls were pink roses, and fit right in with the Victorian theme. Apart from studying the room, he studied himself. He closed the door and locked it. He didn't want his boyish curiosity to be optionally viewed.
His dark, brown eyes seemed to be his own. He had Cole's main face shape, but a blend of Cole and Paige's nose. His dark brown hair he was certain he caught from each of his parents, although most of it was hidden from the blonde tips that Casey had added. His build was exactly like Cole, only a little less muscular, Cole was obviously trained. Unlike Casey, his skin was clear of sun spots and freckles and tanned evenly, he was just missing the pale complexion that Paige had. There was a knock on the door, and now his face was a fleshy red color. Good thing no one had ex-ray vision. He opened the door. It was Leo.
"Hi." Leo greeted friendly. Matt smiled.
"Hey." Matt replied as he stepped outside the bathroom.
"We'd like to talk to you guys. Casey's waiting downstairs." Leo instructed.
Matt nodded, and the two went downstairs to the living room. He immediately saw Paige, looking extremely happier than yesterday. Her dark brown hair was in a wavy ponytail, she was without make-up. He saw her sister's, they being more relaxed than yesterday. He walked over and sat by Casey on the parallel couch.
She was wearing Phoebe's sweatpants, but she sagged them, and scrunched the bottom up to her knees, and Piper's tank top.
"Morning." Phoebe greeted cutely. Casey smiled and ruffled up his hair, putting him into his comfort zone. He pushed her with one hand, but she simple scooted over again.
"I, uh, we, err.. were uh wondering, uh.." Paige trailed off. Piper and Phoebe exchanged confused glances, luckily, Casey and Matt knew exactly what they meant.
"We came because we can do stuff." Matt exclaimed. Piper's eyes widened, knowing exactly what they meant. Phoebe smiled halfway, giving them room to talk. Paige's eyebrows sagged. For a brief moment she hadn't understood what he said.
"Like what?" Leo asked, wanting to know one hundred percent sure they had been on the same level. Matt hesitated, wondering if he should tell them. Casey, although didn't have a problem with it. She found the whole situation amusing, as all situations since she was abut five.
"It's kinda cool, actually. When ever I think about, bad things that happen, I feel really, enraged, I guess you could say. And, uh, this thing appears in my hand. It's silver and white, and if it doesn't go away on its own, I push my hand in a certain direction and it leaves this metallic silver mark." Casey described.
Leo tilted his head, he never heard of such a power, but taking into thought that she was part demon, and white lighter the powers would be unusual.
"An orb?" Phoebe asked, looking at Leo. Leo shook his head.
"Orb's don't leave scorch marks." Leo added. "She said silver and white, all that's missing is blue." Phoebe replied. Leo shook his head.
"I can do the same thing, except mine is gold and black." Matt exclaimed. Piper looked to Leo.
"Energy balls maybe? They get them when they are mad." Piper suggested. Leo shrugged.
Paige however was having a moment to herself. They looked so, old. She had still thought of them as babies, the tiny hands, toes, faces. They were barley able to open their eyes, and now, she looked at both of them as easily as they could look at her. It went by fast. Fifteen years, just like that. Now they were both in front of her, she didn't feel like all of this was a reality. It saddened her to think how much she missed. First word, first steps...
"Can you show us?" Leo asked. Casey looked to Matt who looked back at the sisters and Leo.
Phoebe made immediate eye contact.
"Don't worry. You can trust us. We'll even show you." Paige noted. As good as she hid it, Casey doubted it. She couldn't trust her fifteen years ago, she couldn't even rely on the fact she was real. The twins nodded.
"Watch, but don't get scared." With a flick of the wrist, Leo was frozen, and Piper was smiling. Matt's face was guarded with precaution, while Casey's was lit up with an energetic smile.
"That's AWESOME!" Casey exclaimed. Matt stood up and walked towards Leo, staring into his still eyes. He jumped back a little when Piper unfroze him.
"And this." Leo orbed to the other side of the couch. Matt's face then chimed into Casey's smile, although it was just a small grin. Casey's grew into laughter.
"Can you guys do that?" Casey asked Phoebe and Paige, who were remaining motionless.
"You'll see. We all can't do the same thing though. Leo's a white lighter, in other words our guardian angel. He has a lot of other charges that he has to help. He can also heal our injuries." Phoebe explained.
"But you're part white lighter too." Leo pointed out. Paige nodded, and Casey looked back at him.
"But aren't they your sisters?" Matt asked.
"Half, sisters." Piper corrected.
"Paige's dad was a white lighter." Piper told them.
Casey's smile somewhat faded, now they were getting into the family stuff, and as far as she knew, her and Matt weren't included.
"You seem to be doing better." Piper commented to Paige. Leo was talking to the twins about their powers, which meant Phoebe, Piper and Paige had some alone time.
"Yeah, well I kinda got over it a while ago, just when Cole came back it all came back. But it's getting better every second since I've already dealt with it." Paige replied. Piper nodded.
"But, you're not done dealing with it sweetie." Phoebe advised. Paige nodded.
"I know. But I don't know what to do. I don't, I don't know anything about them, or their families, or even if they've been adopted, or if they are in foster care. We didn't even ask, do you think they think we don't want them here since we didn't ask all that stuff?" Paige rambled.
Phoebe shook her head. "No, we'll ask them tonight." Phoebe concluded. "Like this?" Casey asked. On command, she got the white/silver ball to hover in her hand. Leo noticed it was smaller, and didn't seem to have a lot of energy.
"Yeah, now throw it." Leo replied, expecting the result to be pretty weak. Casey tilted her head, and pondered on how she would throw it. She was very athletic, but the fact that a baseball, softball, or football wouldn't damage anything drastically, changed things. She drew it back to a soft pitch, and hurled it at the wall.
It wasn't what Leo expected. The wall seemed to bend concavely, and was covered in a metallic dust. He walked over to observe it. He noticed steam coming from it. It wasn't a scorch mark exactly, it was cold. He looked back at Casey who had the biggest smile on her face he had seen from her yet.
"Nice." Matt complimented.
Leo looked to Matt and orbed next to him, getting the twins used to magic meant he'd have to make them natural to it. Matt looked at him temporarily and a ball a little bigger than Casey's appeared in his hand. It was Gold and black light.
He threw it using the same amount of force as Casey, and the wall looked a lot different. It was dissolved, and rough, and more wide than deep. Leo walked towards it and could feel the heat.
"That, was a scorch mark." Matt grinned with dominance as he looked at his sister.
"Two minutes makes a lot of difference Case." Matt boasted. Casey raised an eyebrow and replied simply.
"That's what you think." She exclaimed softly