Title: Paige's Sister - Part 5
Author: X5-343
Rating: PG-13
Category: Drama
Timeline: 17 years after Part 4 Spoilers: N/A Season: N/A
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: 17 years later after the gang's High School graduation. Someone has isolated themselves from everyone else and dropped all contact to their past life. They've created a new identity and a new life. **************************************************************************** ***************
Laura laid in her hospital bed, twirling a ring around her finger. Soon a doctor and nurse came into her room. The nurse started to take her blood pressure and the doctor stood in front of her bed.
"Hello Miss Baxter, how are you today?"
"Where are my kids?"
"Waiting outside with three woman and a young man." The doctor told her.
"Can you please let them come in? I don't trust the people they're waiting with."
The doctor finally looked up from her chart. "Two of the women claim to be your best friends. The third you Aunt/Godmother and the young man says he is your younger brother."
"I can't explain it Dr. Brooks but I don't trust them. Can you please send my kids in?"
The doctor sighed and nodded. He motioned for the nurse to follow him out and bring in the kids. Soon Pamela and Timothy Baxter stood beside her bed.
Laura immediately noticed their uncomfortable looks.
"How much did they tell you?" She asked rolling her eyes. She sat up in her bed, much straighter.
"Enough" Tim replied not looking at her. "Sam."
Laura groaned. She threw her legs over the bed and got up. "I'll be right back. She grabbed her clothes and went into the bathroom. She quickly changed and came back.
"I'm still your mother." She told her kids, grabbing her jacket.
"But you lied about your whole life to us for thirteen years! Alex says that-" Pam started raising her voice
"I don't care what Alex told you! None of it is true!"
"What about what Phoebe told us? Or Caitie? Or how about your brother Wyatt?" Pam continued
(A/N: Obviously Wyatt isn't evil here!)
"Pamela that's enough!" Laura finally hushed her teenagers. "I'm sorry." Her voice softened.
"It's okay." Tim told her
"How about we go home and we figure this out? Okay?"
All three of them nodded and Laura walked them out of the room. Caitie, Wyatt, Phoebe and Alex all stood up. Laura ignored them told the twins to follow her. They walked to the front desk where Laura asked for her sign- out papers. She quickly signed them and told Pam to go start the car while they waited for her.
She finally acknowledged the people following her.
"Could you please stay out of my life? Please?"
"Come back to San Francisco." Wyatt told her
Laura's eyes wandered to Wyatt. The last time she had seen him, he was just starting Kindergarten and that was twelve years ago. He was now 18.
"How's Piper?" She asked.
"She said she couldn't deal with you shutting the door on her like she knew you were going to do but she's fine." Phoebe told her. "Same with Leo and Paige."
"Then why I do I have to come home? I mean that's what you told me yesterday Alex. Isn't it?"
"You are needed Sam." Caitie told her. "You can't just run away, change who you are and expect the people in your life to accept it. They want answers. We need answers."
"Look. I have a life here now. My kids have school; I have a job that I'm good at and I love getting up to go to in the morning. I love my friends, co-workers and I get a steady pay-check that keeps my kids in school, a roof over their heads and food on the table for three meals a day. I can't just go to the other side of the country! How would I even get there?"
The four just looked at her. "No!" She told them. "My kids have only seen one 'thing' in their whole lives. I'm not taking them to the Manor where they're there's a new one every two hours and I sure as hell aren't taking them there with magic tricks."
Everyone knew what she was saying, she wasn't taking Pam and Tim to the Manor where demons attack every couple of hours and even if she was going she wasn't taking them there by orbing. She couldn't even orb anymore, Wyatt or worse; Paige or Leo would have to take her. Unless she used her telepathy and even then with their powers being as strong as they are if she tried to tap into them she could hurt them because she would actually be taking some of their power. She didn't hurt Tim last night, only because his powers weren't advanced a lot, as Paige, Leo or Wyatt's would be.
"Please? Laura?" Alex spoke up.
Laura looked up. "You called me Laura."
Alex shrugged. "Isn't that your name?" She was obviously extremely angry.
Laura smiled. "You're pissed off." She said knowingly. With that she walked away smiling, she knew she had got to Alex. She didn't know why or how but she knew she did. **************************************************************************** ***************
That night -
Laura was having a dream.
*Dream*
Laura was sitting in the room where she had just sat with Robyn the day before, waiting for someone else to arrive, she opened up their case file and started reading it. Someone cleared his or her throat.
She looked up and took off her reading glasses.
"DJ." She stated, scared. "What are you doing here?" She stood up so fast that her chair tipped over, she quickly backed away from the table.
"Shh. Sam it's me." He moved closer to her.
Laura's eyes began to fill with tears, as he was finally close enough that she could touch him. She reached out and rubbed the back of her hand on his cheek. She let her tears freely flow as he embraced her.
"You're dead." She whispered
He pulled back and cupped her cheek in his hand. "No, no Sam. I'm alive." He brought forward her right arm and carefully pushed up the sleeve. Laura turned away.
DJ ran his fingers along the scars; she had created shortly after she thought he had died. "Here." He said softly.
Laura slowly turned her head forward and watched as DJ healed the scars. Her breathes shortened and she looked at him.
"How?"
"Go back to San Francisco Laura, if you don't somebody will die."
DJ faded
*End Dream*
Laura snapped awake in her bedroom, turned her lamp on and looked at her right arm, all the scars were gone. "Ohmigod."
Laura quickly jumped out of bed and got dressed. She then stood in the middle of her room and called out to nobody.
"Hey! Guy who doesn't think I always know he's there when I'm at work and doesn't think I see him when I pick my kids up from school! Orb your ass down here now!"
A man that didn't look any older then Laura orbed into the bedroom. This man was always transparent but Laura could always see him and immediately knew it was Pam and Tim's whitelighter. Leo was her because she was Piper's child but she figured Leo told him to look over her too because she sometimes saw him in her office or when was walking down the street or something.
"My names Ray. We're not supposed to reveal ourselves until someone finds us out."
"Well newsflash Ray, as soon as I first saw you thirteen years ago when I was giving birth to my babies I knew who and what you were. You didn't know that?"
"You're not my charge, it doesn't matter if you know who I am or not." He grinned
Laura knew this kid was going to be a good whitelighter for Pam and Tim so she took his sense of humor kind-heartedly.
"Leo asked you to look over me as well?"
"Now why would you ask that?"
"Because I've seen you in my office and watching me, so unless you want me to think you're a peeping angel, use my telepathy to use some of that orbing power you got, go 'up there' and request a new a Angel friend for my kids; you better tell me that Leo asked you to watch over me." She smiled at him. He laughed and nodded.
"Yea. He asked me to look over you but is there a reason you called for me?"
Laura nodded. "I need you to take us back to San Francisco."
Ray started to sound like a whitelighter. "Are you sure that's a good idea? Demons and warlocks coming and going from your parents house?"
"I won't stay with them but something happened that made me think that it might be a good idea."
Ray nodded. "I think I know what that was and I'll take you guys. Your family and two friends have already gone back."
Laura nodded. "I'm going to go get Pam and Tim."
Ray cleared his throat and looked at her alarm clock. "They've had a long day and it's almost 4 in the morning. Why don't you let them sleep?"
Laura sighed and nodded. "Okay but I won't be able to sleep anymore; do you want a cup of coffee?"
Ray nodded. "I'd love one. Thanks." **************************************************************************** ***************
Category: Drama
Timeline: 17 years after Part 4 Spoilers: N/A Season: N/A
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: 17 years later after the gang's High School graduation. Someone has isolated themselves from everyone else and dropped all contact to their past life. They've created a new identity and a new life. **************************************************************************** ***************
Laura laid in her hospital bed, twirling a ring around her finger. Soon a doctor and nurse came into her room. The nurse started to take her blood pressure and the doctor stood in front of her bed.
"Hello Miss Baxter, how are you today?"
"Where are my kids?"
"Waiting outside with three woman and a young man." The doctor told her.
"Can you please let them come in? I don't trust the people they're waiting with."
The doctor finally looked up from her chart. "Two of the women claim to be your best friends. The third you Aunt/Godmother and the young man says he is your younger brother."
"I can't explain it Dr. Brooks but I don't trust them. Can you please send my kids in?"
The doctor sighed and nodded. He motioned for the nurse to follow him out and bring in the kids. Soon Pamela and Timothy Baxter stood beside her bed.
Laura immediately noticed their uncomfortable looks.
"How much did they tell you?" She asked rolling her eyes. She sat up in her bed, much straighter.
"Enough" Tim replied not looking at her. "Sam."
Laura groaned. She threw her legs over the bed and got up. "I'll be right back. She grabbed her clothes and went into the bathroom. She quickly changed and came back.
"I'm still your mother." She told her kids, grabbing her jacket.
"But you lied about your whole life to us for thirteen years! Alex says that-" Pam started raising her voice
"I don't care what Alex told you! None of it is true!"
"What about what Phoebe told us? Or Caitie? Or how about your brother Wyatt?" Pam continued
(A/N: Obviously Wyatt isn't evil here!)
"Pamela that's enough!" Laura finally hushed her teenagers. "I'm sorry." Her voice softened.
"It's okay." Tim told her
"How about we go home and we figure this out? Okay?"
All three of them nodded and Laura walked them out of the room. Caitie, Wyatt, Phoebe and Alex all stood up. Laura ignored them told the twins to follow her. They walked to the front desk where Laura asked for her sign- out papers. She quickly signed them and told Pam to go start the car while they waited for her.
She finally acknowledged the people following her.
"Could you please stay out of my life? Please?"
"Come back to San Francisco." Wyatt told her
Laura's eyes wandered to Wyatt. The last time she had seen him, he was just starting Kindergarten and that was twelve years ago. He was now 18.
"How's Piper?" She asked.
"She said she couldn't deal with you shutting the door on her like she knew you were going to do but she's fine." Phoebe told her. "Same with Leo and Paige."
"Then why I do I have to come home? I mean that's what you told me yesterday Alex. Isn't it?"
"You are needed Sam." Caitie told her. "You can't just run away, change who you are and expect the people in your life to accept it. They want answers. We need answers."
"Look. I have a life here now. My kids have school; I have a job that I'm good at and I love getting up to go to in the morning. I love my friends, co-workers and I get a steady pay-check that keeps my kids in school, a roof over their heads and food on the table for three meals a day. I can't just go to the other side of the country! How would I even get there?"
The four just looked at her. "No!" She told them. "My kids have only seen one 'thing' in their whole lives. I'm not taking them to the Manor where they're there's a new one every two hours and I sure as hell aren't taking them there with magic tricks."
Everyone knew what she was saying, she wasn't taking Pam and Tim to the Manor where demons attack every couple of hours and even if she was going she wasn't taking them there by orbing. She couldn't even orb anymore, Wyatt or worse; Paige or Leo would have to take her. Unless she used her telepathy and even then with their powers being as strong as they are if she tried to tap into them she could hurt them because she would actually be taking some of their power. She didn't hurt Tim last night, only because his powers weren't advanced a lot, as Paige, Leo or Wyatt's would be.
"Please? Laura?" Alex spoke up.
Laura looked up. "You called me Laura."
Alex shrugged. "Isn't that your name?" She was obviously extremely angry.
Laura smiled. "You're pissed off." She said knowingly. With that she walked away smiling, she knew she had got to Alex. She didn't know why or how but she knew she did. **************************************************************************** ***************
That night -
Laura was having a dream.
*Dream*
Laura was sitting in the room where she had just sat with Robyn the day before, waiting for someone else to arrive, she opened up their case file and started reading it. Someone cleared his or her throat.
She looked up and took off her reading glasses.
"DJ." She stated, scared. "What are you doing here?" She stood up so fast that her chair tipped over, she quickly backed away from the table.
"Shh. Sam it's me." He moved closer to her.
Laura's eyes began to fill with tears, as he was finally close enough that she could touch him. She reached out and rubbed the back of her hand on his cheek. She let her tears freely flow as he embraced her.
"You're dead." She whispered
He pulled back and cupped her cheek in his hand. "No, no Sam. I'm alive." He brought forward her right arm and carefully pushed up the sleeve. Laura turned away.
DJ ran his fingers along the scars; she had created shortly after she thought he had died. "Here." He said softly.
Laura slowly turned her head forward and watched as DJ healed the scars. Her breathes shortened and she looked at him.
"How?"
"Go back to San Francisco Laura, if you don't somebody will die."
DJ faded
*End Dream*
Laura snapped awake in her bedroom, turned her lamp on and looked at her right arm, all the scars were gone. "Ohmigod."
Laura quickly jumped out of bed and got dressed. She then stood in the middle of her room and called out to nobody.
"Hey! Guy who doesn't think I always know he's there when I'm at work and doesn't think I see him when I pick my kids up from school! Orb your ass down here now!"
A man that didn't look any older then Laura orbed into the bedroom. This man was always transparent but Laura could always see him and immediately knew it was Pam and Tim's whitelighter. Leo was her because she was Piper's child but she figured Leo told him to look over her too because she sometimes saw him in her office or when was walking down the street or something.
"My names Ray. We're not supposed to reveal ourselves until someone finds us out."
"Well newsflash Ray, as soon as I first saw you thirteen years ago when I was giving birth to my babies I knew who and what you were. You didn't know that?"
"You're not my charge, it doesn't matter if you know who I am or not." He grinned
Laura knew this kid was going to be a good whitelighter for Pam and Tim so she took his sense of humor kind-heartedly.
"Leo asked you to look over me as well?"
"Now why would you ask that?"
"Because I've seen you in my office and watching me, so unless you want me to think you're a peeping angel, use my telepathy to use some of that orbing power you got, go 'up there' and request a new a Angel friend for my kids; you better tell me that Leo asked you to watch over me." She smiled at him. He laughed and nodded.
"Yea. He asked me to look over you but is there a reason you called for me?"
Laura nodded. "I need you to take us back to San Francisco."
Ray started to sound like a whitelighter. "Are you sure that's a good idea? Demons and warlocks coming and going from your parents house?"
"I won't stay with them but something happened that made me think that it might be a good idea."
Ray nodded. "I think I know what that was and I'll take you guys. Your family and two friends have already gone back."
Laura nodded. "I'm going to go get Pam and Tim."
Ray cleared his throat and looked at her alarm clock. "They've had a long day and it's almost 4 in the morning. Why don't you let them sleep?"
Laura sighed and nodded. "Okay but I won't be able to sleep anymore; do you want a cup of coffee?"
Ray nodded. "I'd love one. Thanks." **************************************************************************** ***************