Paige: Well, we're back!!!! *covers ears as angry readers yell* Hey, sorry!!! We've both been busy. I've had so much junk to do! No fun! No fun!!!

Thanks for sticking with it!! Read on!!!!

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Paige didn't know where she was running to, just that she was running. Her feet pounded on tiled floor and then eventually on pavement as she fled the hospital. She sunk onto a bench and cried, ignoring the looks that passers- by where giving her. She put her head in her hands and tried to sort everything out in her mind.

She was a witch. She had powers. She had sisters and a brother-in-law who also had powers. And the all seemed to use their powers for good. And then there was the bad man that kidnapped her and Leo. That had shot her. He definitely wasn't one of the good guys. She took a shaky breath in. Maybe she should go back inside the hospital and...

"Hello little witchy. Are we lost?" A voice mocked from behind her. She felt a harsh grip tighten on her shoulder blade. She knew even before she looked up at the face that it was the bank robber.

"What do you want?" She asked, trying not to let her nervousness show.

"Oh, come now... What does anyone want? Money... And power..." He walked around the bench and sat down next to her, digging his cruel fingers into her thigh. She whimpered slightly and tried to squirm away. He didn't let go. "The money first. And then when I'm bored of you? The power. Never had any whitelighter powers before. Never thought they were any use. But now I've realised the true power behind them. Immortality,"

Leo spotted red hair sitting on a bench just outside the hospital. He ran across a patch of grass as quickly and as silently as he could, realising that Paige was sitting with the warlock.

"I'm... I don't think I'm all w-whitelighter..." Paige stuttered. "I mean, you keep calling me a witch, and Leo says I am... But then there's that cool light thing that I can do... That's like whitelighter, I think... So I don't think I'm much good to you, really..." She got up to leave but the warlock grabbed her jacket and pulled her back down. When she shrugged out of the coat he grabbed her necklace and dragged her down with that, making her choke until she sat down again. He smiled and waved at a woman that was looking curiously at them and she walked on.

Leo stopped running and slowed down, trying not to attract the warlock's attention. He should go and get Phoebe, he knew it. But by the time he had been back inside and got her then the warlock could have taken Paige anywhere, probably somewhere that his sensing power couldn't penetrate.

"Well then a whitelighter and a half should do it..." The warlock sneered as Paige rubbed her throat.

"A whitelighter and a h-?" She was cut off as a gun appeared in the warlock's hand. "Leo," She whispered, turning just as the warlock levelled the gun at her brother-in-law. The warlock had known that her whitelighter had been there even before she had. He cocked the hammer and calmly pulled the trigger three times.

"Oh my God!" Paige screamed. She struggled again to get out of the warlock's grip but he just sneered at her. "Let go of me!" She yelled.

"Tsk, tsk," the warlock said softly. "You shouldn't scream at me. You don't know what will happen."

Paige's eyes widened as he pointed the gun at her head. "Wha-?"

"The bullets didn't do anything to your whitelighter but they will do something to you. So, just shut up and do what I say."

Paige glanced over at Leo, who was slowly starting to move again. He wasn't bleeding and he didn't seem hurt. "How?"

"Shut up," the warlock snapped. He bent down and pulled Leo to his feet. "You two won't get away again." He said before he grabbed them both by the arms and blinked out, taking them with him.

Piper fidgeted as Phoebe came back in the room. "Well, where are they?"

"I don't know," Phoebe answered.

"They've been gone for an hour!" Piper said frantically. "Where could they have gone?"

"Honey, calm down. It's going to be okay." Phoebe sat at the edge of the hospital bed and took her older sister's hand. "Paige was feeling a little...out of sorts."

"Out of sorts?" Piper asked. "Phoebe, she looked like hell. Her eyes were," Piper paused. "Weird."

"Yeah," Phoebe said.

Piper narrowed her eyes at the other witch. "You know something."

"What?"

"You know something and you aren't telling me."

Phoebe gave a small laugh. "That's silly. Why wouldn't I tell you something?"

"So I wouldn't worry."

Phoebe smiled then frowned. "Fine, there is something. But I didn't want to tell you because I knew you would just freak out and go all psycho on me."

Piper scowled. "What is it?"

"Paige has lost her memory of her ever being a witch."

"Excuse me?" Piper said loudly.

"Yeah, see that's why I didn't want to tell you."

"Hush," Piper whispered as she sat up in her bed. "What happened?"

"Well,"

But before Phoebe could explain anything Piper heard something. It sounded like Paige. And she sounded really upset.

'We're going to die. And it's all my fault. I should have just stayed in the room with them. Oh God, what do I do? This guy is gonna kill us!'

Piper gasped and looked over at Phoebe, who was sitting there, looking as shocked as Piper felt.

"You heard that!"

"Duh!!!!!!"

"You'd better tell me what the hell is going on, and do it FAST," Piper said, looking at her sister sharply. Phoebe took a deep breath.

"Well..."

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"Paige, just calm down, ok?"

"Calm down? We're gonna die and you're telling me to CALM DOWN!" The redhead was nearly hysterical now.

"We will get out of this. This isn't the worst situation that we've ever been in..."

"Well it's the worst situation that I can *remember* being in!" Paige screamed back at him.

"Paige, breathe. Ok, this will all be ok. Your sisters are gonna come for us, and..."

"I am so getting out of here," She screwed up her face in concentration and soon her body was consumed with glowing blue orbs.

"Paige, no!" Leo yelled. But she was gone. As the orbing lights reached the ceiling they ricochet off and bounced around the room. Eventually Paige comes to rest sprawled in a heap on the floor, her head bleeding. "Paige?" Leo went over to her. She looked at him but she wasn't looking *at* him. She was seeing something *through* him.

"They're coming," She whispered. "My sisters are coming,"

Piper motioned for Phoebe. "Help me up," she said. "I'm a little sore."

"But-"

"Don't but me, Phoebe," Piper said as she struggled to sit up in the bed. "We have to help Paige."

"I know but what about the doctors and stuff?"

"I don't know. We just have to get out of here."

"And how do you propose we do that?"

"Um..."

'Guys?'

"Paige?" Piper asked out loud.

'Good,' Paige's voice said in both of their heads. 'You can hear me.'

"Yeah, pretty well, too," Phoebe said.

'Well, listen. I may not remember you but this link of ours proves that we're close. So I think we should use it to our advantage.'

"Okay," Piper said slowly. "How?"

'We can communicate to each other.'

Phoebe could hear the small smile in her younger sister's voice. "Good thinking, Paige."

'Thanks, um...Phoebe, isn't it?'

"Yeah," Phoebe said softly.

"We're coming, Paige." Piper said. "We'll save you."

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Leo leant back against the wall. Paige was talking to someone, and that someone was apparently one – or both – of her sisters and all he felt like he was doing was getting in the way.

"Ok, I'll talk to you later,"

"Are they coming?"

"As soon as they can find us, yeah," Leo gave a small smile. "Leo, how did you survive?"

"Survive?"

"Yeah, three bullets. And not a mark on you,"

"I'm a whitelighter, Paige. I've already died once and once you're dead it's hard to die again..."

"Immortality..."

"What?"

"That's what the warlock said he wanted off of whitelighters. Immortality..."

"So that he can't be vanquished... Hate to bust his bubble but someone already tried that... Although not for the immortality, just to kill the Elders... Didn't work out..."

"Oh... So we have a hope?"

"We always have hope, Paige. Sometimes it's just hard to find it."