A/N: Really glad people are liking this, I'm loving experimenting with Paige, it's stopping me revising for my last exam! Please keep reading!

A demonic attack the next day took her mind off Madeline if only for a moment or two.

Paige got a call at her latest temp job saying an upper-level demon had attacked but it was alright, they had a potion but they needed her to bless it.

'Okay, I'm here.' Paige said after she orbed into the attic to find Phoebe and Piper waiting for her with a potion bottle which Phoebe handed to her.

'We need a drop of your blood then you say the spell.' she explained briefly.

Paige inwardly sighed at this new-found gap between her and her sisters, it had been the same in the three weeks since Maddy had first appeared. 'Yes, Captain.'

This was ridiculous. If she was gonna to be alienated from her family she may as well do something to deserve it. So she would meet Maddy again and play it as dangerous as she could. What was the fun otherwise?

'When you said you wanted to play it dangerous, I didn't think I'd be sitting in your kitchen making cookies!' Maddy said passing Paige an oven glove.

'It is pretty dangerous, letting me make food.' Paige replied.

'That's not what I meant, Paige!' Maddy said. 'What if your sisters come back?'

'Then we can orb.' Paige answered as she pulled the choc-chip cookies out of the oven. They were slightly- okay, very- black. 'This is why Piper's the chef and not me.'

'I think they look... tasty. They're nice and crispy.' Maddy said trying to suppress a smile.

'How about I let them cool then I get the chisel out?' Paige offered.

'Sounds good to me.' Maddy pulled herself up as Paige linked arms with her and led her to the sunroom.

'Have you got yourself a job yet?' Paige asked when they were seated.

'There's no rush,' Maddy said. 'I'm living on my inheritance anyway.'

'Yeah.' Paige said as she remembered the chat earlier in the day when Maddy had explained all about her grandmother dying and her being the sole beneficiary.

'Er... Paige?'

'Yeah?'

'Do you think we could go upstairs?' Maddy asked. 'I'm scared of Piper coming back.'

'Sure.' Paige smiled and the women made their way up to her bedroom.

Once there the tension between them seemed to rocket as Paige let her mind and eyes wander over the possibilities that Madeline offered. The par were sat cross-legged on Paige's bed, facing each other, knees touching. Paige was close enough to smell the sweet fragrance of Maddy's hair, a mixture between lavender and rose, it took all of her self-restraint not to reach out and touch it.

'Paige?' Maddy said quietly. 'Are we... thinking the same thing?'

'Probably.' Paige smiled weakly.

'And...?' she prompted.

'I don't know. This isn't what I wanted a few weeks ago.'

Maddy reached her hand out to stroke Paige's face. 'You can't deny it's happening though.'

'But why?'

Maddy gently leaned towards her bringing their lips together. 'Who knows?'

What was it about the forbidden fruit that made it so appealing? Yet it was appealing, very appealing and she didn't want to spend her life feeling sorry for not kissing Maddy again.

So she brought her face close to Maddy's stopping when their lips were less than an inch apart. Slowly she let them meet, feeling a unique jubilation at the softness of the kiss.

When they pulled back Maddy joked lightly; 'If Piper hated me before, she's gonna detest me now.'

'It's lucky Piper doesn't have to know.' Paige said, very thankful of that fact herself.

'No,' Maddy smiled. 'She doesn't, does she?'