Title: Paige's Sister - Part 3
Author: X5-343
Rating: PG-13
Category: Drama
Timeline: Season 5 Spoilers: Season 5 Season: 5
Content Warnings: Language Warning
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Charmed Ones or any character from the show Charmed. Any characters you don't recognize belong to the author.
Summary: Sam goes through the trial and tribulations of High School meanwhile trying to manage a social life, magical powers and demons and trying to help out with things around the Manor.
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After about twenty minutes the doctor and nurses came back in to talk to her again. By now she was able to collect her thoughts and process some things that were happening.
"Sam? Can you hear me?"
"Uh... yea" She responded a moment later.
"My name is Doctor Beale. I treated you tonight. How are you doing?"
"What's wrong with me?" Sam replied
"You went into a type of shock, it's common when you witness something like you did. Especially if you were close to the victims."
"Can I leave?"
"There are some officers outside who want to take a statement from you and while you're doing that, we can call your mom and dad."
"Can I check myself out? I have some money, I can call a taxi."
"I'm sorry, you're under 18. It's the law."
"Well does it have to be my mom and dad? Can I call someone else?"
"Of course, who would you like us to call?"
"Uh. I'm not sure yet. I'll think it over."
"Okay. Well are you ready to talk to the officers waiting outside?"
"Uh, yea. I think so. just give me a minute."
"No problem"
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Twenty minutes later -
Sam walked out of her hospital room. she had just given her statement to the police but they asked her so many questions, half of them being questions they just kept repeating, as if they were trying to trap her in a lie. But she was finally free to go and Doctor Beale came in and told her to go to the front desk to call someone.
Sam picked the phone receiver up and reached her fingers for the keys but kept pulling them back. She didn't know whom to call.
Finally she decided, she would call someone who she wasn't sure if it was safe idea but it was better then calling Piper, Leo, Paige or Phoebe.
"Hi." Sam said nervously into the phone receiver.
"I need you to walk out of the hospital with me and sign my dad's name on some forms. Yea, I know you're on house arrest Thomas but I can't call my parents. No. Just forget it."
Sam hung up the phone receiver and leaned against the wall. She was actually relieved Thomas couldn't come, she would be too freaked out to be with anyone she knew from her past after what happened that night. Doctor Beale stood in front of her. "Someone coming?"
Sam lied and nodded, "Yea. I just hung up.
"Great, I'm going to leave these forms with Elaine here." He explained handing Sam's forms to the receptionist. "Just explain when they come in their relation to you and Elaine will give them the forms and you can leave."
"Thanks. Doctor Beale" Sam smiled fakely
"No problem Miss. Halliwell" Dr. Beale smiled back oblivious to Sam's fakeness.
Once Dr. Beale started to walk away Sam's face went grave and she turned to Elaine.
She quickly looked around and saw the hallway pretty much empty around her. Everybody was down and waiting outside room quite a ways where she knew they wouldn't see anything.
Sam turned to Elaine. "Take a nap" she spoke pointing down Elaine looked at her confusingly for just a second before collapsing onto her computer keyboard, asleep. Sam quickly grabbed her forms and waved her hand over them all, magically filling them in. Once that was done, Sam put them back into Elaine's hand and ran as fast as she could out of the hospital.
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Once outside, Sam ran to the side of the hospital and behind some trees before orbing out to the jeep, where she had left it and going back to the Manor.
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Sam walked inside the Manor. Piper was waiting for her. "You okay?" She asked
"Yea. Fine. Thanks."
"Sam, what happened? You scared me when you left."
"Alyssa was hurt. Kyle got out of his house and stabbed her. Her and Luke are both dead. Kyle came back and shot them."
"Oh god. Sam, I'm so sorry."
"Yea. Me too. Thanks. I'm going to go to bed"
"Yea, okay sure."
"Thanks." Sam walked over to her bedroom but stopped before going in. "Happy Early Birthday mom"
Piper gave a forced smile "Thanks." Piper's birthday was tomorrow but she wasn't that excited for it.
Sam smiled and went to bed.
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The next day -
It was Wednesday morning but again there was no school for Sam but this time it was due to an inservice. Sam was happy; she got to spend her mother's birthday with the rest of the family.
"Happy Birthday Piper!" Phoebe exclaimed, as soon as she waltzed into the kitchen, excitedly.
Leo, Paige and Sam all laughed as she behind Piper and gave her kisses on each side of her face.
"You're excited enough!" Paige commented
"Hey, any time a person gets older and it's not me then I'm happy!" Phoebe joked.
"So what are we going to do for your birthday?" Phoebe asked
"Nobody has to work?" Leo asked
"I took the day off" Paige and Phoebe said in unison.
"Guys, I appreciate you doing that, I really do" Piper spoke. "But I don't really have anything planned and I was thinking of just relaxing and being with Wyatt." "Oh come on Piper, It's your birthday-" Paige was cut off.
"I KNOW, what day it is guys. I'm serious though. It's not a day I like to celebrate." With that Piper left the kitchen.
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Everybody just sat around the Manor for the rest of the day. Paige did some crosswords, Phoebe read, Sam stayed in her room but left the door open and Leo did things here and there. Mediating, sitting and relaxing or he read.
Suddenly Piper came down the stairs. "Uh. Dave just called my cell from the club. I'm going in for a little bit. I'll be back soon. Wyatt's sleeping but a baby monitor is down here so you'll hear him when he wakes up."
Leo, Phoebe and Paige all nodded and said goodbye.
"BYE SAM" Piper called into her room.
"Bye Mom. Be careful."
With that Piper left and Sam orbed up to her and Leo's bedroom.
"What are you hiding?" She whispered to herself.
Sam walked over to sleeping Wyatt and smiled. "Hey, little brother." She spoke grinning. Sam started to walk back into the room when a floorboard creaked. Sam looked down and saw one of the boards she was standing on was bending in a little at the top of it.
Sam kneeled down and pushed on the top of the board. Both end moved almost like a teeter-totter and Sam pulled out the board completely. She looked inside and felt around. She pulled out a small vinyl book. She took off the elastics and opened it in the middle. The date was dated back to the day before Piper's sixteenth birthday.
'Dear Diary' Sam read aloud.
Dear Diary,
It's me. Piper, Geez. I really am a loser, I'm talking to my own diary like I would talk to somebody on the phone. Tomorrow is my birthday, the big 1- 6. 16 is a big deal, I mean you can get your license and you can get into PG 16+ movies. Oh well, no point in getting excited about it Phoebe has a soccer game tomorrow and Prue is head cheerleader so they'll both be at that so of course Grams will be there to show her support for the both of them. No one will remember. No one will even wish me happy birthday let alone get me anything. I hate being the middle sister. I hate being a sister in general. I just want to get out of this life. I promised myself when I was fourteen though. Live to get to my sixteenth birthday and if things don't pick up after that, I'll decide from there."
"Oh god. Mom" Sam said, tears rolling down her face. She flipped the page. It was written around 1:00 in the morning after her birthday.
"Diary. This will probably be my last entry. I got through my sixteenth birthday and it was the worst thing that has or will ever happen to me. I woke up and opened my door and just as I started to walkout to go downstairs. Prue pushes me back in because she's in some sort of big hurry. I fell pretty hard but Prue didn't notice. Phoebe and Grams were busy arguing in the kitchen and Grams yelled at me to wait in the living room or upstairs while she was talking to Phoebe. I came my room to get dressed and found Prue raiding the place looking for a top she wanted to borrow. I yelled at her for being in here without asking and going through my stuff and Grams came up in here and told me not to yell at Prue like that. They all left and I got dressed. I was forced to go to Phoebe's soccer game. It started storming and it got really dark, fast but they wouldn't cancel the game unless someone got hurt because of the field conditions, which didn't happen because all the girls wear cleats. Plus the game went in overtime so we were stuck there until almost 10:00 at night. Grams then told me that I looked like I was sulking too much and told me to go to the car. I did what I was told but couldn't find the car in the rain. I ran into Joshua. Prue's recently ex-boyfriend. He was nice tonight though. He offered to help me find the car but he led me to his car. He said we should just stay there until the game was over and then I could find Grams, Phoebe and Prue from there. I stupidly said okay and then...."
Sam slammed the diary shut. Tears were freely rolling down her cheeks.
"She knew. She remembered." She whispered to herself. **************************************************************************** ***************
Category: Drama
Timeline: Season 5 Spoilers: Season 5 Season: 5
Content Warnings: Language Warning
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Charmed Ones or any character from the show Charmed. Any characters you don't recognize belong to the author.
Summary: Sam goes through the trial and tribulations of High School meanwhile trying to manage a social life, magical powers and demons and trying to help out with things around the Manor.
**************************************************************************** ***************
After about twenty minutes the doctor and nurses came back in to talk to her again. By now she was able to collect her thoughts and process some things that were happening.
"Sam? Can you hear me?"
"Uh... yea" She responded a moment later.
"My name is Doctor Beale. I treated you tonight. How are you doing?"
"What's wrong with me?" Sam replied
"You went into a type of shock, it's common when you witness something like you did. Especially if you were close to the victims."
"Can I leave?"
"There are some officers outside who want to take a statement from you and while you're doing that, we can call your mom and dad."
"Can I check myself out? I have some money, I can call a taxi."
"I'm sorry, you're under 18. It's the law."
"Well does it have to be my mom and dad? Can I call someone else?"
"Of course, who would you like us to call?"
"Uh. I'm not sure yet. I'll think it over."
"Okay. Well are you ready to talk to the officers waiting outside?"
"Uh, yea. I think so. just give me a minute."
"No problem"
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Twenty minutes later -
Sam walked out of her hospital room. she had just given her statement to the police but they asked her so many questions, half of them being questions they just kept repeating, as if they were trying to trap her in a lie. But she was finally free to go and Doctor Beale came in and told her to go to the front desk to call someone.
Sam picked the phone receiver up and reached her fingers for the keys but kept pulling them back. She didn't know whom to call.
Finally she decided, she would call someone who she wasn't sure if it was safe idea but it was better then calling Piper, Leo, Paige or Phoebe.
"Hi." Sam said nervously into the phone receiver.
"I need you to walk out of the hospital with me and sign my dad's name on some forms. Yea, I know you're on house arrest Thomas but I can't call my parents. No. Just forget it."
Sam hung up the phone receiver and leaned against the wall. She was actually relieved Thomas couldn't come, she would be too freaked out to be with anyone she knew from her past after what happened that night. Doctor Beale stood in front of her. "Someone coming?"
Sam lied and nodded, "Yea. I just hung up.
"Great, I'm going to leave these forms with Elaine here." He explained handing Sam's forms to the receptionist. "Just explain when they come in their relation to you and Elaine will give them the forms and you can leave."
"Thanks. Doctor Beale" Sam smiled fakely
"No problem Miss. Halliwell" Dr. Beale smiled back oblivious to Sam's fakeness.
Once Dr. Beale started to walk away Sam's face went grave and she turned to Elaine.
She quickly looked around and saw the hallway pretty much empty around her. Everybody was down and waiting outside room quite a ways where she knew they wouldn't see anything.
Sam turned to Elaine. "Take a nap" she spoke pointing down Elaine looked at her confusingly for just a second before collapsing onto her computer keyboard, asleep. Sam quickly grabbed her forms and waved her hand over them all, magically filling them in. Once that was done, Sam put them back into Elaine's hand and ran as fast as she could out of the hospital.
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Once outside, Sam ran to the side of the hospital and behind some trees before orbing out to the jeep, where she had left it and going back to the Manor.
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Sam walked inside the Manor. Piper was waiting for her. "You okay?" She asked
"Yea. Fine. Thanks."
"Sam, what happened? You scared me when you left."
"Alyssa was hurt. Kyle got out of his house and stabbed her. Her and Luke are both dead. Kyle came back and shot them."
"Oh god. Sam, I'm so sorry."
"Yea. Me too. Thanks. I'm going to go to bed"
"Yea, okay sure."
"Thanks." Sam walked over to her bedroom but stopped before going in. "Happy Early Birthday mom"
Piper gave a forced smile "Thanks." Piper's birthday was tomorrow but she wasn't that excited for it.
Sam smiled and went to bed.
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The next day -
It was Wednesday morning but again there was no school for Sam but this time it was due to an inservice. Sam was happy; she got to spend her mother's birthday with the rest of the family.
"Happy Birthday Piper!" Phoebe exclaimed, as soon as she waltzed into the kitchen, excitedly.
Leo, Paige and Sam all laughed as she behind Piper and gave her kisses on each side of her face.
"You're excited enough!" Paige commented
"Hey, any time a person gets older and it's not me then I'm happy!" Phoebe joked.
"So what are we going to do for your birthday?" Phoebe asked
"Nobody has to work?" Leo asked
"I took the day off" Paige and Phoebe said in unison.
"Guys, I appreciate you doing that, I really do" Piper spoke. "But I don't really have anything planned and I was thinking of just relaxing and being with Wyatt." "Oh come on Piper, It's your birthday-" Paige was cut off.
"I KNOW, what day it is guys. I'm serious though. It's not a day I like to celebrate." With that Piper left the kitchen.
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Everybody just sat around the Manor for the rest of the day. Paige did some crosswords, Phoebe read, Sam stayed in her room but left the door open and Leo did things here and there. Mediating, sitting and relaxing or he read.
Suddenly Piper came down the stairs. "Uh. Dave just called my cell from the club. I'm going in for a little bit. I'll be back soon. Wyatt's sleeping but a baby monitor is down here so you'll hear him when he wakes up."
Leo, Phoebe and Paige all nodded and said goodbye.
"BYE SAM" Piper called into her room.
"Bye Mom. Be careful."
With that Piper left and Sam orbed up to her and Leo's bedroom.
"What are you hiding?" She whispered to herself.
Sam walked over to sleeping Wyatt and smiled. "Hey, little brother." She spoke grinning. Sam started to walk back into the room when a floorboard creaked. Sam looked down and saw one of the boards she was standing on was bending in a little at the top of it.
Sam kneeled down and pushed on the top of the board. Both end moved almost like a teeter-totter and Sam pulled out the board completely. She looked inside and felt around. She pulled out a small vinyl book. She took off the elastics and opened it in the middle. The date was dated back to the day before Piper's sixteenth birthday.
'Dear Diary' Sam read aloud.
Dear Diary,
It's me. Piper, Geez. I really am a loser, I'm talking to my own diary like I would talk to somebody on the phone. Tomorrow is my birthday, the big 1- 6. 16 is a big deal, I mean you can get your license and you can get into PG 16+ movies. Oh well, no point in getting excited about it Phoebe has a soccer game tomorrow and Prue is head cheerleader so they'll both be at that so of course Grams will be there to show her support for the both of them. No one will remember. No one will even wish me happy birthday let alone get me anything. I hate being the middle sister. I hate being a sister in general. I just want to get out of this life. I promised myself when I was fourteen though. Live to get to my sixteenth birthday and if things don't pick up after that, I'll decide from there."
"Oh god. Mom" Sam said, tears rolling down her face. She flipped the page. It was written around 1:00 in the morning after her birthday.
"Diary. This will probably be my last entry. I got through my sixteenth birthday and it was the worst thing that has or will ever happen to me. I woke up and opened my door and just as I started to walkout to go downstairs. Prue pushes me back in because she's in some sort of big hurry. I fell pretty hard but Prue didn't notice. Phoebe and Grams were busy arguing in the kitchen and Grams yelled at me to wait in the living room or upstairs while she was talking to Phoebe. I came my room to get dressed and found Prue raiding the place looking for a top she wanted to borrow. I yelled at her for being in here without asking and going through my stuff and Grams came up in here and told me not to yell at Prue like that. They all left and I got dressed. I was forced to go to Phoebe's soccer game. It started storming and it got really dark, fast but they wouldn't cancel the game unless someone got hurt because of the field conditions, which didn't happen because all the girls wear cleats. Plus the game went in overtime so we were stuck there until almost 10:00 at night. Grams then told me that I looked like I was sulking too much and told me to go to the car. I did what I was told but couldn't find the car in the rain. I ran into Joshua. Prue's recently ex-boyfriend. He was nice tonight though. He offered to help me find the car but he led me to his car. He said we should just stay there until the game was over and then I could find Grams, Phoebe and Prue from there. I stupidly said okay and then...."
Sam slammed the diary shut. Tears were freely rolling down her cheeks.
"She knew. She remembered." She whispered to herself. **************************************************************************** ***************