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. **************************************************************************** ***************
Wyatt soon left the room leaving Laura alone again. Piper was next to come in. Laura was looking through her songs again.
"Miss them?" Piper asked, bringing Laura out of her trance.
"Forgot about them." Laura stood up. "Along with a lot of other things."
"Why Sam? What happened to you?"
"Not now okay Piper?"
"See? Listen to yourself! When was the last time you called me Piper was before you left for University and you were talking to Paige! But earlier you called me mother but you called for father Leo!"
Laura shrugged even though when she spoke, her voice suggested that she was trying to convince herself just as much as she was trying to convince Piper.
"People change."
"Wyatt told me what you told him, why won't you say the same thing to me?"
"BECAUSE WYATT HAS A LOT MORE QUESTIONS THEN ANY OF YOU DO! HE ALSO DESERVES A HELL OF A LOT MORE ANSWERS THEN ANY OF YOU DO!"
"Sam..." Piper attempted to calm her daughter down. Laura turned away.
"Sorry." She said softly.
"Why didn't you come to us when you thought DJ had died?"
"You don't know what happened that day... nobody does. I couldn't."
"DJ said that he can only remember what happened up to when he got hit with an energy ball. Is that when you thought he died?"
Laura shook her head. "A lot of things happened after that, inside the energy ball was something that would make everything blur for him so that he wouldn't remember what happened after that. He wasn't supposed to die. They said they wouldn't hurt him but when I realized what they were actually doing and I tried to stop them..." Laura trailed off as mind got hit with mental images.. memories. "Besides everybody is telling me "DJ this and DJ that. Then where the hell is he?"
"He'll come. You just have to wait." Piper walked out.
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Laura eventually calmed down and came out of her room. Paige approached her.
"Is it safe to call you sis? Or even niece?"
Laura nodded. "Good to see you Paige." The two hugged. "Are they calling you Great Aunt or Aunt?"
"Aunt. They don't want to make us seem old. They're good kids Sam."
"Thanks."
"Piper's making some dinner if you guys are staying and she told me to ask you if you were going to be staying here?"
"I'm going to have to talk with Pam and Tim so I don't know."
Paige nodded. "You should probably talk to them soon."
Laura nodded. "I know. Pam? Tim?"
The twins looked up. Pam was talking to Aunt Phoebe and Tim was talking to Wyatt.
"Do you guys want to stay here for a little bit? I think there's probably some family stuff we should stay for."
"YES!" The twins cried in unison.
"Okay." She turned to Paige. "Could we enroll them in a school here?"
"I teach at the magic school now. Want to take them there? There's no place safer that they could be and I'll be there."
"Magic school? Like Hogwarts or something?"
"Kinda but.. it's hard to explain. Wyatt goes there. You can come check it out sometime."
"Fine" Laura agreed. "Whatever. I'm back in San Francisco and I've already been attacked. We're not safe anywhere. Being a Charmed Ones daughter sucks."
Sam walked away.
(A/N: Yes I did mean to type Sam. She'll be referred as Laura form now on unless someone like Alex or someone from Boston is talking to her. Remember Alex called her Laura because she was pissed off!) **************************************************************************** ***************
Sam walked into the kitchen. "Can I use your phone?" She asked Piper who was cooking.
"Yea, sure."
"Thanks." With that Sam walked out but poked her head back in. "Anything I can help with?"
Piper smiled to herself. "No thanks."
Sam walked back into the living room and picked up the cordless extension. She ducked into the sunroom. She placed a long distance call on to her phone bill back in Boston and called her work.
"Hello?" A woman answered the phone.
"Hey Tracy, it's Laura. I won't be at work for a while. I got some family stuff to take care of. Could Lance cover me?"
The woman sighed. "Laura, you're the best we have! You can talk to these kids!"
"I know. I'm sorry."
"I'll call Lance. I hope everything is okay Laura."
"Me too" Sam replied as she hung up and took the phone back to the living room. Pam approached her.
"Mom, can I go look around? This place is so big!"
"Uh.." Sam looked to Paige and Phoebe.
Paige shrugged. "It's your house too."
Sam looked back down at Pam. "Uh, yea sure, take Tim."
Pam and Tim happily ran up the steps and Ray orbed into the living room.
"Where were you?" Sam asked curiously.
"'Up there'" He explained. "Why?"
Sam shrugged. "Just wondering."
Paige and Phoebe looked back and forth between the two. "Would you excuse us?" Phoebe spoke to them, standing up. Paige followed her into the kitchen where Piper was still cooking.
"Is it just me or is there serious tension between Ray and Sam?" Phoebe asked
"I don't think it's exactly the bad kind though." Piper spoke up. "You should've seen them up in the attic."
"Sam knows that DJ is alive though. She wouldn't fall for somebody now would she?"
"With Sam who knows? Especially now..." Phoebe finished the conversation. **************************************************************************** ***************
Supper -
Everybody was sitting around the table eating quietly.
"So.." Paige started. "What are you guy's powers Pam? Tim?"
Pam grinned happily. "Can I show them mom?"
Sam didn't even look up before responding with a sharp no.
Pam sunk down a little so Tim spoke up. "I can stretch and Pam got mom's power of exploding."
Piper smiled. "That one runs in the family."
"Really?" Pam asked
Piper nodded. "I have it too. Can you freeze?"
Pam shook her head. "I might get it though. Mom has it."
"So do I." Piper told her. "And exploding. My mother had freezing too, that would be your great-grandmother."
Pam nodded. "I have a couple photo albums of you guys." She told the table. "Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Phoebe and Paige and Wyatt when he was a baby."
"You know what?" Sam started, standing up. "I'm full. Thanks for dinner Piper." She grabbed her dishes and walked into the kitchen. She sat them down on the counter and walked out the backdoor. She leaned against the Manor door and pulled something out of the back of her jean pocket. it was a lighter and a pack of cigarettes. As she was lighting, she heard a pop beside her.
"Can I bum one?" Someone asked
Without looking Sam handed the man next to her the pack and tossed him her lighter. "When did you start smoking?" She asked.
"When did you?" He replied.
"When I was nine." She told him, tapping the top of her cigarette to the ground.
"I mean again." He told her.
Sam turned and faced the person next to her. "I don't know David. It's been on and off since University. Third year. After the twins were born. You?"
"After Caitie and I got divorced. In University she started drinking a lot and eventually... I gave up. Apparently she's better now though."
"I saw her. She came looking for me in Boston so she must be around here somewhere..."
David nodded as he took a long drag on his cigarette.
"So what do you do know David?"
"I'm helping out.. I'm a junior high teacher in New York and I spend a lot of time in the Underworld. Getting information."
"You okay?" Sam asked him.
"I'll be fine Sam. Thanks." Sam nodded and took a swipe of her cigarette too. "How are YOU doing?" David asked "I mean you were the talk of the Underworld during what would be our senior year of University. Why'd you do it? I mean DJ almost died! He would've if it wasn't for the Elders!"
"Look, I was trying to protect my kids! They were turning one that year! I tried to help DJ once I realized what was happening. I couldn't get there in time."
Sam shook her head, trying not to remember and went to take another puff from her cigarette but right then, the backdoor creaked open. Sam stomped it to the ground, she didn't move her sneaker from over top of the cigarette.
It was Wyatt. "Sam, mom said to check on you. Are you okay? Who's this?" He indicated to David.
"Wyatt, this is David Travis. I went to high School with him, apparently he and Caitie were married."
Wyatt nodded and was about to say something else when he stopped. "Were you smoking out here?"
Sam didn't answer right away, David noticed this and held up his cigarette. "Sorry bud. That's just me. I'll put it out."
Wyatt nodded. "Good. My sister doesn't need to be around that kind of crap."
"Wyatt, I'm thirty-four-years-old." Sam reminded him.
"Whatever." He told her and went back inside the house.
"You coming in?" She asked David, not looking behind her.
"I should probably get going." He told her softly.
Now Sam turned around to face him. "Stay. Please? I can't be here David. It hurts too much."
"Shh" David told her. "It's just like high school okay?"
"Oh great. So I'm going to have sex with DJ, get hit by my old-foster brother, meet up with my best friend who has moved back from New York, find out that a witch is my mother and that someone I grew up thinking was my sister is actually my Aunt. Get a chance to have a record deal, think about killing myself and go to Brian and Joey's trial all over again! Just perfect David! Great analogy!"
David placed his hands on Sam's shoulder, leaving his cigarette between his middle and index left hand fingers.
"You can do this. This is your family."
Sam nodded and looked to her side. She blew out his cigarette or at least dulled it. She looked up and smiled at him.
"Those things aren't good for your health." He smiled back at her and threw it to the ground stomping on it. He then wrapped a comforting arm around Sam's shoulders.
"Come on. Let's go inside." **************************************************************************** ***************
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. **************************************************************************** ***************
Wyatt soon left the room leaving Laura alone again. Piper was next to come in. Laura was looking through her songs again.
"Miss them?" Piper asked, bringing Laura out of her trance.
"Forgot about them." Laura stood up. "Along with a lot of other things."
"Why Sam? What happened to you?"
"Not now okay Piper?"
"See? Listen to yourself! When was the last time you called me Piper was before you left for University and you were talking to Paige! But earlier you called me mother but you called for father Leo!"
Laura shrugged even though when she spoke, her voice suggested that she was trying to convince herself just as much as she was trying to convince Piper.
"People change."
"Wyatt told me what you told him, why won't you say the same thing to me?"
"BECAUSE WYATT HAS A LOT MORE QUESTIONS THEN ANY OF YOU DO! HE ALSO DESERVES A HELL OF A LOT MORE ANSWERS THEN ANY OF YOU DO!"
"Sam..." Piper attempted to calm her daughter down. Laura turned away.
"Sorry." She said softly.
"Why didn't you come to us when you thought DJ had died?"
"You don't know what happened that day... nobody does. I couldn't."
"DJ said that he can only remember what happened up to when he got hit with an energy ball. Is that when you thought he died?"
Laura shook her head. "A lot of things happened after that, inside the energy ball was something that would make everything blur for him so that he wouldn't remember what happened after that. He wasn't supposed to die. They said they wouldn't hurt him but when I realized what they were actually doing and I tried to stop them..." Laura trailed off as mind got hit with mental images.. memories. "Besides everybody is telling me "DJ this and DJ that. Then where the hell is he?"
"He'll come. You just have to wait." Piper walked out.
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Laura eventually calmed down and came out of her room. Paige approached her.
"Is it safe to call you sis? Or even niece?"
Laura nodded. "Good to see you Paige." The two hugged. "Are they calling you Great Aunt or Aunt?"
"Aunt. They don't want to make us seem old. They're good kids Sam."
"Thanks."
"Piper's making some dinner if you guys are staying and she told me to ask you if you were going to be staying here?"
"I'm going to have to talk with Pam and Tim so I don't know."
Paige nodded. "You should probably talk to them soon."
Laura nodded. "I know. Pam? Tim?"
The twins looked up. Pam was talking to Aunt Phoebe and Tim was talking to Wyatt.
"Do you guys want to stay here for a little bit? I think there's probably some family stuff we should stay for."
"YES!" The twins cried in unison.
"Okay." She turned to Paige. "Could we enroll them in a school here?"
"I teach at the magic school now. Want to take them there? There's no place safer that they could be and I'll be there."
"Magic school? Like Hogwarts or something?"
"Kinda but.. it's hard to explain. Wyatt goes there. You can come check it out sometime."
"Fine" Laura agreed. "Whatever. I'm back in San Francisco and I've already been attacked. We're not safe anywhere. Being a Charmed Ones daughter sucks."
Sam walked away.
(A/N: Yes I did mean to type Sam. She'll be referred as Laura form now on unless someone like Alex or someone from Boston is talking to her. Remember Alex called her Laura because she was pissed off!) **************************************************************************** ***************
Sam walked into the kitchen. "Can I use your phone?" She asked Piper who was cooking.
"Yea, sure."
"Thanks." With that Sam walked out but poked her head back in. "Anything I can help with?"
Piper smiled to herself. "No thanks."
Sam walked back into the living room and picked up the cordless extension. She ducked into the sunroom. She placed a long distance call on to her phone bill back in Boston and called her work.
"Hello?" A woman answered the phone.
"Hey Tracy, it's Laura. I won't be at work for a while. I got some family stuff to take care of. Could Lance cover me?"
The woman sighed. "Laura, you're the best we have! You can talk to these kids!"
"I know. I'm sorry."
"I'll call Lance. I hope everything is okay Laura."
"Me too" Sam replied as she hung up and took the phone back to the living room. Pam approached her.
"Mom, can I go look around? This place is so big!"
"Uh.." Sam looked to Paige and Phoebe.
Paige shrugged. "It's your house too."
Sam looked back down at Pam. "Uh, yea sure, take Tim."
Pam and Tim happily ran up the steps and Ray orbed into the living room.
"Where were you?" Sam asked curiously.
"'Up there'" He explained. "Why?"
Sam shrugged. "Just wondering."
Paige and Phoebe looked back and forth between the two. "Would you excuse us?" Phoebe spoke to them, standing up. Paige followed her into the kitchen where Piper was still cooking.
"Is it just me or is there serious tension between Ray and Sam?" Phoebe asked
"I don't think it's exactly the bad kind though." Piper spoke up. "You should've seen them up in the attic."
"Sam knows that DJ is alive though. She wouldn't fall for somebody now would she?"
"With Sam who knows? Especially now..." Phoebe finished the conversation. **************************************************************************** ***************
Supper -
Everybody was sitting around the table eating quietly.
"So.." Paige started. "What are you guy's powers Pam? Tim?"
Pam grinned happily. "Can I show them mom?"
Sam didn't even look up before responding with a sharp no.
Pam sunk down a little so Tim spoke up. "I can stretch and Pam got mom's power of exploding."
Piper smiled. "That one runs in the family."
"Really?" Pam asked
Piper nodded. "I have it too. Can you freeze?"
Pam shook her head. "I might get it though. Mom has it."
"So do I." Piper told her. "And exploding. My mother had freezing too, that would be your great-grandmother."
Pam nodded. "I have a couple photo albums of you guys." She told the table. "Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Phoebe and Paige and Wyatt when he was a baby."
"You know what?" Sam started, standing up. "I'm full. Thanks for dinner Piper." She grabbed her dishes and walked into the kitchen. She sat them down on the counter and walked out the backdoor. She leaned against the Manor door and pulled something out of the back of her jean pocket. it was a lighter and a pack of cigarettes. As she was lighting, she heard a pop beside her.
"Can I bum one?" Someone asked
Without looking Sam handed the man next to her the pack and tossed him her lighter. "When did you start smoking?" She asked.
"When did you?" He replied.
"When I was nine." She told him, tapping the top of her cigarette to the ground.
"I mean again." He told her.
Sam turned and faced the person next to her. "I don't know David. It's been on and off since University. Third year. After the twins were born. You?"
"After Caitie and I got divorced. In University she started drinking a lot and eventually... I gave up. Apparently she's better now though."
"I saw her. She came looking for me in Boston so she must be around here somewhere..."
David nodded as he took a long drag on his cigarette.
"So what do you do know David?"
"I'm helping out.. I'm a junior high teacher in New York and I spend a lot of time in the Underworld. Getting information."
"You okay?" Sam asked him.
"I'll be fine Sam. Thanks." Sam nodded and took a swipe of her cigarette too. "How are YOU doing?" David asked "I mean you were the talk of the Underworld during what would be our senior year of University. Why'd you do it? I mean DJ almost died! He would've if it wasn't for the Elders!"
"Look, I was trying to protect my kids! They were turning one that year! I tried to help DJ once I realized what was happening. I couldn't get there in time."
Sam shook her head, trying not to remember and went to take another puff from her cigarette but right then, the backdoor creaked open. Sam stomped it to the ground, she didn't move her sneaker from over top of the cigarette.
It was Wyatt. "Sam, mom said to check on you. Are you okay? Who's this?" He indicated to David.
"Wyatt, this is David Travis. I went to high School with him, apparently he and Caitie were married."
Wyatt nodded and was about to say something else when he stopped. "Were you smoking out here?"
Sam didn't answer right away, David noticed this and held up his cigarette. "Sorry bud. That's just me. I'll put it out."
Wyatt nodded. "Good. My sister doesn't need to be around that kind of crap."
"Wyatt, I'm thirty-four-years-old." Sam reminded him.
"Whatever." He told her and went back inside the house.
"You coming in?" She asked David, not looking behind her.
"I should probably get going." He told her softly.
Now Sam turned around to face him. "Stay. Please? I can't be here David. It hurts too much."
"Shh" David told her. "It's just like high school okay?"
"Oh great. So I'm going to have sex with DJ, get hit by my old-foster brother, meet up with my best friend who has moved back from New York, find out that a witch is my mother and that someone I grew up thinking was my sister is actually my Aunt. Get a chance to have a record deal, think about killing myself and go to Brian and Joey's trial all over again! Just perfect David! Great analogy!"
David placed his hands on Sam's shoulder, leaving his cigarette between his middle and index left hand fingers.
"You can do this. This is your family."
Sam nodded and looked to her side. She blew out his cigarette or at least dulled it. She looked up and smiled at him.
"Those things aren't good for your health." He smiled back at her and threw it to the ground stomping on it. He then wrapped a comforting arm around Sam's shoulders.
"Come on. Let's go inside." **************************************************************************** ***************