Sorry about the little stuff up. All fixed now, thanx to Charmed fan 11.

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Chapter 4

The girl's whitelighter orbed into the room. She had shoulder length black hair and blue eyes. The whitelighter tried to heal her, but heard someone walking up the stairs and orbed out just before the door opened.

Paige brought the cup of tea in to the girl. Paige had taken the Book of Shadows into the kitchen. Although she hadn't found a spell that might heal the poison, she found a recipe for a herbal tea that was meant to restore strength. It wouldn't cure the poison, but it was better than nothing.

The girl stirred.

"Hey," Paige said softly. "Are you awake?" She put the tea on the bedside table.

She opened her eyes. "Only half awake."

"How are you feeling?"

"Pretty crappy." She saw the tea and half sat up.

"Thanks." She picked the tea up in both hands and took a sip. Her hands shook.

"No sugar?" she joked weakly.

"Nope," answered Paige. "That should help you get better. I think it might taste pretty awful, but if it helps it'll be worth it."

"It does taste pretty awful," Leona said, taking another sip. "But I've had worse. Mum used to make a lot of tea like that, and sometimes potions with herbs and things in them. Whenever I was sick, she'd give me a potion-" she took another sip,- "or a tea like this. I think she wasn't very good, though. They didn't always work."

"Was your mother a witch?" Paige asked.

"No. Don't be stupid. I haven't believed in witches since I was seven."

Okay, so she doesn't know about us, Paige thought. So she can't be a witch.

"Do you know who the woman who asked me to get you was?" Paige asked.

"No," Leona said. "She did that shimmery thing, though. Like you do. She shimmered to me and tried to heal me, but she couldn't, so she shimmered me to that nightclub."

"Like what I do?" Paige asked. "That's called orbing. Demons shimmer. Well, some of them do."

"That's pretty cool," Leona said. "I wish I could do that."

"It doesn't freak you out? I thought you said you didn't believe in witches."

"Just because I don't believe in witches doesn't mean I don't believe in magic."

Ooookaay. "How can you believe in magic and not in witches? Witches are the only good people who can use magic."

"Anyone can use magic if they want to. That's what my mum always said."

I haven't heard that one before. That's just. weird.

Seeing Paige's confusion, the girl continued. "We are all part of the web of life that connects all things. Every action that affects one person will ripple in the web and affect more, everything from finding two dollars on the footpath, to killing someone. If we are all connected, and it is possible for some people to have magic, wouldn't it be possible for all people to have magic?"

"Isn't that sort of like saying if anyone is really good at drawing, you could become good at drawing too?" Paige asked.

"Well, can't you?" Leona reasoned. "If you worked hard enough at it and wanted it enough, couldn't you?"

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Phoebe parked her car out the front of the Halliwell manor and went inside.

"Paige," she called, her voice echoing in the seemingly empty house. "Where are you?"

Paige orbed downstairs. "Sssshhh! She's asleep."

"Have you healed her yet?" Phoebe asked.

"Not yet. I'm not sure if I can."

"I didn't know where else to put her, so she's in my bed," Paige said.

In the moment of silence, the two girls could hear the little dog bark furiously.

"Uh, oh," Paige said. "That doesn't sound good."

"Why is there a dog in our house?" Phoebe asked.

Leona screamed.

"It's the girl's," Paige said as she orbed up to her bedroom.

"Great," Phoebe said as she started running up the stairs.

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Leona woke up when her dog started barking. She groaned and rolled over. A demon shimmered into the room. The tone of Brighty's bark changed to become more frantic.

"Brighty, shut up," Leona said, rolling over.

She screamed. The demon threw an energy ball at her.

Paige orbed in just in time to see the energy ball hit Leona.

The demon shimmered out.

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