Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed or any of the characters in the TV programme
A/N: I know I haven't updated in like a zillion years but hey I'm back updating now.
Love/Hate
Piper, Paige and Phoebe sat on the lawn for a minute before they broke from their hug. Prue was orbed away a moment later,
"What… where did she go," asked Phoebe looking round, she looked at Paige who was staring up at the sky then looked round at Piper,
"Piper hun… what's the matter?" she asked after seeing the tears streaming down Piper's face,
"Bitch!" yelled Piper and her hand lashed out at Phoebe and struck her across the face, and then Piper stood up and fled into the house and upstairs. Phoebe and Paige stood up and heard various doors slamming, then looked at each other.
"Okay," said Paige hesitantly, "Not exactly the reaction I was looking for… I was hoping for more of a thank you," she finished and looked at Phoebe who had started to walk over to the manor's front door.
"Well when you think about it… everything must have been a shock for Piper. Being pulled out of that other world and then Prue disappearing into thin air. We have to explain to her why we pulled her from that other dimension," said Phoebe as she and Paige entered the manor. They walked up stairs to Piper's bedroom door and knocked on it lightly,
"GO AWAY!!!" Yelled Piper from inside the room, Phoebe turned the handle and pushed the door open,
"Honey," hse began but Piper turned and threw a pillow from the bed at her,
"I told you to go away! Not get out of my bedroom! Get Out! Go!" she yelled,
"No, Piper we need to talk with you… you have to understand why we brought you back here to us," said Paige,
"Fine," said Piper as she sat down on the bed, "This should be a laugh," she signalled for them to start talking,
"Well the reason that we brought you back here, is because well we missed you… and we thought that Leo might be hurting you or might start to hurt you like he did in this dimension and also without you there was no power of three," said Phoebe very quickly then waited for Piper to answer,
"Well you present your case well but there is just one thing that you forgot to take into account when you brought me back to this hell hole! Did you ever think that Leo and I were happy with the kids, Wyatt and Phoenix… Wyatt had just gotten engaged and everything was going perfectly fine. I had no unhappy memories, and no sisters to interfere with my life!" she yelled getting up off the bed and stalked across the room.
"Piper, you must still be in shock from being back here," said Paige sympathetically,
"How would you know? Paige? My life was perfect…"
"We just want you to be happy!" yelled Phoebe, this caught Piper's attention, "That's all we've ever wanted… for you to be happy,"
"Then send me back to Leo," she said,
"I don't think we can do that," said Paige, "The elders… well they are pretty mad at us right now, and well they won't do anything for us because we have screwed up so badly,"
"I couldn't care less if you've screwed up! I want to be with Leo! I don't want to be here with you two… I just want my husband,"
"The one who beat you?" asked Paige sharply before Piper could continue,
"What?" asked Piper,
"You're were so blind there that you didn't even notice that he was still hurting you… you couldn't remember all the sleepless nights that you couldn't fall asleep because every time you even attempted to move you were in so much pain you wanted to cry out to the world but were to afraid that no one would here you that you suffered in silence for years!" yelled Paige,
"Paige that's enough," said Phoebe walked over to her and glaring at her,
"No Phoebe, this is the only way that we can show Piper what we did was the right thing for her," she turned back to facing Piper, "That is why we pulled you out of that fucked up dimension!!! That is why we brought you back here because we were scared that Leo would begin to beat you up again… but it occurred to me. He is still hurting you; he is beating you from the inside. All his lies are eating away at you, they are destroying you Piper and him taking you there and locking yourself in that house with him every day and night was killing you,"
"I wasn't locked there with him… I could leave whenever I wanted," said Piper who eyes were gathering tears,
"No Piper, you were locked in that world with him. If you were able to leave whenever you wanted why didn't you?" Asked Paige,
"I didn't want to," sobbed Piper quietly,
"Bullshit! Piper he was suffocating you! He was holding a pillow over your head! And now you're finally free from everything, you can lead a relatively normal life from now on," finished Paige and hoped that he rant had knocked some sense into Piper,
"No… I was happy and now I'm lost without Leo, I love him. I need him but…"
"You hate him," said Phoebe,
"No… that's not possible… how can you love someone and hate them at the same time,"
"It's not that hard really," said Phoebe, "I mean when I found out that Cole was a demon I hated him… more than that actually, I loathed him. I never wanted to see him again but I did and I went over to the side of evil because I loved him so much… I will always love him but I can't get rid of the hate for him,"
"But Leo wasn't a demon,"
"Maybe he wasn't the evil demonic type demon but he definitely had some demon in him…and I don't mean the way Cole did I mean the way that humans can still have their inner demons,"
"Inner demons?" asked Piper looking at her sisters for the first time in weeks and seeing love and compassion in their eyes and feeling it in her heart… "Well I guess in that case I have my own demons to fight,"