Title: Paige's Sister - Part 4 - High School 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, DJ, Caitie and David all entering their senior year of High School. How does it affect everyone knowing that after the next ten months fly by they'll probably never see each other again? **************************************************************************** ***************

Once Sam got back to the Manor that day she immediately orbed upstairs the medication cabinet and grabbed bottles of both Tylenol and Advil. She popped the tops on both and grabbed two of each; swallowing them all at once without water. She leaned against the counter for a few minutes before orbing back downstairs.

"Mom?" She called

Piper walked out of the kitchen and saw Sam's tired face.

"Are you okay?"

"Tired." She admitted. "Long day."

"Alright, maybe you should go lay down?" Piper suggested

Sam nodded and walked into her room. She set her backpack down and was asleep before she hit her bed. **************************************************************************** ***************

Piper woke Sam up at 7:00 that night. She was sweating and panting. "Sam? Sam? Sam, just breathe, okay? Breathe, it's all right. you're okay!"

Sam opened her eyes and saw blood on her sheets, she felt her face and found her nose bleeding hard.

"Is she alright?" Phoebe's voice came

"Somebody, get some Kleenex or a warm cloth or something! the bleedings not stopping." Piper told whoever was standing in here room.

"Tilt your head down. Not up! Never up!" Leo's voice pointed out.

Sam became aware of her surroundings and found Piper sitting next to her on her bed, Phoebe must've gone to get the cloth because Leo and Paige were still standing in her room.

"What happened?" Sam asked

"You sounded like you were in pain." Paige spoke. "You were crying like you were in pain, we came in to check on you and your nose was bleeding. You finally woke up."

Piper looked like she had been crying and so did Phoebe when she came back with a box of Kleenex and a bucket with a warm cloth and warm water.

Sam grabbed a handful of tissues and held them to her nose. A few minutes later she took them away and everyone was shocked to find the blood had completely cleared.

"Leo, what happened?" Paige asked

"I don't know. the Elders might know if it's something magical or something human but serious. Try your powers."

Sam nodded and focused on a pencil on her desk. She threw out her hands and it exploded but she quickly froze the explosion.

"Powers are good." Phoebe commented.

"Trying orbing." Leo told her.

Sam quickly orbed out and in of her bed but had to use Piper's shoulder to steady herself after she orbed back, "Okays no orbing."

"I'll be right back." Leo told them, orbing out. **************************************************************************** ***************

Piper, Phoebe and Paige decided to let Sam rest some more shortly after Leo disappeared and were all waiting upstairs, in Piper and Leo's room, watching over Wyatt while talking quietly when he came back. He didn't look like he had good news.

"Her body is beginning to reject the whitelighter cells."

"What?" Phoebe and Paige exclaimed.

"Why would it do that nine years later?"

"Because they gave her three more powers because they knew one they gave her new powers then with all the news ones the body would stop producing the new whitelighter in her. So they gave her extra powers to make up for the ones she's losing."

"Oh God." Piper sighed. "So let me get this straight. Because the Elders decided to give her another power her body stops producing whitelighter cells to make more room for the new power and since she's going to lose her whitelighter powers the decided to just fill her up with another two powers on top of the first one because they feel bad that she's going to lose her orbing."

"Yea." Leo confirmed

"What do they think she is? A gumball machine?" Phoebe exclaimed.

"What powers are they?" Paige asked.

"They won't tell me but they did say that they made a mistake and that all the powers are releasing themselves at the same time, which is why Sam was in pain and her nose was bleeding. They said that it can't be healed and that she just has to wait it out until there's only one power left to manifest inside of Sam. Only one is supposed to come out at a time so basically right now is her body, there's a fight to be the first one out."

"Like I said! Gumball machine!" Phoebe swore underneath her breath. A scream erupted from downstairs.

"Watch Wyatt!" Piper told Paige, before running out of the room and downstairs, followed by Leo and Phoebe. **************************************************************************** ***************

Everyone burst into Sam's room and she had the face Phoebe usually made when she was having a vision.

She opened her eyes but quickly covered her ears. She grunted in pain.

"Everyone stop thinking!" She yelled. She suddenly realized what she had said and slowly removed her hands. She swung her legs out over her bed and stood up.

She looked at Piper. "Think of a color."

Sam laughed as Piper's voice thinking 'Purple' came into her mind.

"Incredible."

"Can you read minds?" Phoebe asked, her jaw dropping.

Sam nodded.

"The first one is out." Leo told Piper and Phoebe.

"Huh?" Sam asked

"The Elders gave you three new powers in exchange for your body not being able to produce new whitelighter cells after they gave you just one power. So they put three in you and what was happening before was that each of the three powers were pretty much fighting to get out." Leo explained

"I'm going to lose my orbing?" Sam asked, quickly losing interest in her new power.

"You'll still have it until the active cells now.. die. That might be weeks but it could be years." Piper finished concluded for Leo

Sam nodded. "Once the first one is out, you probably won't have any more problems or pain until you get control of this reading minds. You should get some rest. We'll keep you out of school tomorrow to work on it." With that Leo left the room. Piper and Phoebe gave her quick pecks on the head and told her to get some sleep. **************************************************************************** ***************

Alex called the next night after dinner.

"Are you okay? You weren't in school today?" Were the first words she spoke.

Sam smiled. "I'm fine." Alex didn't know about the magick's yet so Sam couldn't really give any details like she could earlier when Caitie called.

"Alex, I'm sorry about yesterday. I was rude and I'm really sorry for what I said."

"I actually called to apologize to you. I was mad at you yesterday."

Alex went on to explain how she was scared that she would always be second best in Sam's life now that she had Caitie but Sam assured her that her friends were all equal in her heart. **************************************************************************** ***************

Over the next week Sam had been able to finally contain her mind reading ability and sometimes used it selfishly to listen to compare what people were saying to what they were actually thinking.

'Electricity' had decided to perform their own music for the school contest but Sam had very quickly got pissed off at the guys attempts at making a song and had given them a CD of the background she had made for one of her songs and told them to learn it. She didn't really want for the song to go public especially not the one she had chose but the guys really sucked when it came to creativity.

The night of the contest Phoebe and Paige were going on dates while Piper and Leo were coming with her to see the show.

"PHOEBE!" Sam suddenly exclaimed when they were all leaving.

"I thought you got control of that thing!" Phoebe retorted, beginning to blush.

Sam shrugged as she walked by her. "I did."