Chapter 6
It was about 6 p.m. when she awoke to find a still unconscious Paige, she sighed in disappointment. "Oh honey" she said out loud stroking the girl's hair. Please wake up. There's so much I have to tell you. She spoke as once again the tears began to fall again. "I know you've been a little lonely after your care takers died (she absolutely refused to call them her parents). But you don't have to be any more. You've got sisters now and we're going to take good care of you. She continued smiling, Piper and Phoebe are going to be so happy to meet you. Sure they're going to be shocked at first, but we'll all work through it together, I swear." After a few more minutes of reassuring her little sister Prue knew that the other girls would be upset that she had disappeared again, so she quietly made her way to her feet and made her way to the bathroom to look herself over. Once in the room, Prue studied herself in the mirror. I have got to find a way to break the news to Piper and Phoebe, she thought. All different kinds of scenarios flash through her head before she finally tossed them aside. I can't do this right now, she spoke out loud, this all has to wait until Paige is better, then I'll find a way to break it to them. She then rinsed her face and exited the bathroom. Walking over to the girl, she gave her a kiss on the head, and whispered I love you into her ear, before heading out the door. If she had stayed a second longer she would have been there when the girl opened her eyes. "Prue?" Paige said as she slowly began to awaken.
She didn't know how to explain it, but she could feel that the woman had been there. She couldn't quite remember what she was saying to her, but Paige was not certain that the woman was not looking to hurt her. It was almost as if she loved her. If it were any other person she would be feeling quite uncomfortable, then again it wasn't a sexual type of love, it sounded more like the love she had for her parents. Something was off here, but she would deal with the situation once she was out of the hospital. After a minute she realized what she just said, hospital. What the hell was she doing there? It seemed as if she had a lot of questions that needed to be answered. As she reached for the buzzer to call for the nurse, she screamed out in pain. Every muscle and bone in her body ached. At the sound of her scream, the nurse ran into the room. "Oh no, dear you need to relax. You've been hit by a car and you've been unconscious for 2 days. Stay still and I'll go find your doctor" she spoke as she left the room. No wonder she was in so much pain. In that instant the whole scene came back to her. She had been arguing with that woman and went to step off of the curb when the woman grabbed her, obviously trying to stop her from walking in front of the car, but she could remembering jerking back and she must have stepped directly into the moving vehicles path. Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of someone knocking on the door.
"Come in, she said as loud as she could, which at the moment wasn't very much at all. Looking at the two visitors brought a smile to her face. "Hey Paige" the man said. "We were so worried about you honey, how are you feeling?" the woman asked sounding quite concerned. "Ah she's fine; I bet this was just a ploy to get out of the meeting coming up tomorrow." She laughed right along with Mike and Nancy. "Well even though I would love a day off, I don't think this pain is worth it." The man suddenly looked sorry for what he just said. Taking notice, Paige continued "Oh sweetie, it's ok; I know you were just kidding." He exhaled in relief, and then he sent a smile in the girl's direction. "So he began, do you know when their going to let you out of this place?" "No not yet. In fact the nurse left just a few minutes ago in search of my doctor." Looking down at the girls hand she added, "Is that for me?" She was referring to the white teddy bear holding a heart with get well soon written on it. "Oh yeah that's from me and Katelyn she said while handing the bear over to Paige. Katelyn was her 3 year old daughter, who was absolutely adorable. Mike seem a little upset about not bringing anything for her so he spoke up "what I want to give you will have to wait until you're a little more, should I say, active" he finished with a devilish grin. Knowing exactly what he meant, she returned with an equally devilish grin. "Ewww guys, come on, I'm still in the room. The friends continued to laugh and talk for a while more.
I'm so gland I finished at the club so early, she thought to herself as she entered the hospital parking lot. Now she had time to visit Paige in the hospital. Even though she had no idea who the girl was, the connection was so intense that her mind and body wouldn't let her turn away. Piper hoped that the girl wouldn't think that she was stalking her or something. No, she would recognize her from the club two nights ago, this is if she was up or didn't lose her memory. No matter what, she thought, I have to be here, she needs me. Refusing to let her fear stop her, she grabbed her pocket book and headed into the hospital.
Ok, it's now or never she spoke out loud as she turned into parked her car. Sitting for a brief moment she reflected on what brought her there that evening. It all started back at the club two nights ago. It was there that she met the pretty girl. For a second she remembered how much the girl looked like her older sister Prue. Phoebe could remember the feeling that she had for the girl; she was rather confused by them. She had only seen the girl once and she hadn't even spoken to her. The one thing she could remember was the great pain she felt when she had read about the girl's accident. Her heart broken and she felt as if she could be losing one of her sisters?" No, that's impossible, wasn't it? Shaking all doubts and fears out of her head, she started walking towards the hospital entrance, flowers in hand; she saw something that stopped her dead in her tracks. That's Pipers' car. What was she doing here? Then answering her own question, she must be here to see Paige as well. Of course, Piper had felt a connection to her too. Wanting to catch up to her sister Phoebe hurried into the hospital.
"Hey"she shouted to her sister making the woman turn around. "You're here to see her to, aren't you?" the older of the two asked. "Yeah, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't stay away." "I know, it's really weird, Piper spoke as the two continued to walk. We've never met her a day in our lives but now all of a sudden, she's like family." The younger girl nodded her head in agreement. "Yeah, this really is strange." They stopped in front of the nurse's station. "Hello we're here to see Paige Matthews" Piper said smiling at the woman who returned the gesture. "Um yes, Ms. Matthews seems to be very popular, she's in room 209. Both girls said thank you before heading to the girl's room. As they continued to the room, they noticed two people coming out and heading in the opposite direction. The figured that they were friends of the girls, since family would never want to leave someone in a time like this. Holding hands, and taking deep breaths, the two entered the room.
There she was sitting up in her bed with her doctor taking her blood pressure. "Well you seem to be doing very well and with any luck we'll be able to release you to your, but before the doctor could say sister, Piper and Phoebe made their presents known. "Hi there, I know you probably don't remember us but" "Hey I know who you are; you guys are from the club the other night, right?" Smiling at the fact that the girl had remembered her fondly, Piper spoke up first. "Yeah that's right, so how are you?" "I've been better, trust me getting hit by a car is no fun" she said with a slight smile. "I'm sure, Phoebe started. Here I brought you some flowers." The Paige looked at her with amazement, while taking the flowers out of her hand. "Wow tulips, how did you know that they were my favorites?" Piper looked at her in pure shock. "Lucky guess." In all honesty she didn't have to guess, something in her just knew. But there was no way she was going to tell the girl that. Looking back at the girl she added, "How did this happen anyway?" she spoke as she and Piper took seats on both sides of the bed. Not feeling uncomfortable in the least, on either part. "Well it all started with this crazy woman."
"Hello, is anybody home?" Prue shouted as she enters the manor. "Hello?" she yelled as she searched the house. That's strange, she was sure that Piper and Phoebe would have been home by now. Well at least she didn't have to face them right away with more lies, she thought as she headed up the stairs. When she entered the room she immediately took off her clothes and ran a bath, but before she jumped in, she grabbed a black binder that she kept under her bed. It was all the information that she had on her little sister. Once she settled into the tub, she opened the book to the very first page. There was a kindergarten picture of the girl. She smiled to herself as she remembered how she came upon it. It just so happens that Phoebe and Paige went to the same grade school until those people enrolled her into a private school. Shaking away the thought the kidnappers she remembered having to walk Phoebe home from school one day when Grams had to take Piper to the doctor. It just happened that the girl ran past her dropping a sheet of her school pictures from a very full envelope. She knew that they brought more then enough and that they wouldn't miss the one Paige dropped. So she ran over picking the sheet up and slipping them into her own bag before collecting Phoebe and heading home. Not having the strength to cry again, Prue just closed the book and held it to her chest tightly.
"Oh my God, Piper gasped as Paige told the story. Have you had the chance to call the police on this nut case yet?" Paige just shook her head. "No, not yet. But I'm not so sure that I want to, after all she did try to save my life." Getting angry Phoebe leaped to her feet. "Are you kidding me? This person is not only crazy but she's the reason that you're lying her now. If it weren't for the fact that she was stalking you, you would have seen the car coming and you wouldn't be laying their in so much pain." This outburst startled the other two sisters. Noticing their stares Phoebe said in a calmer voice "listen, I know that you want to believe that she won't hurt you, but you have to protect yourself just to be sure." "I know, the younger one spoke, but if she wanted to hurt me, she would have already." "What do you mean?" Piper asked with a worried look on her face. "Well, Paige began, she was here earlier. "WHAT?" Piper said. "And you let her stay alone in here with you?" Phoebe added. "I didn't really have a choice seeing as how I was unconscious." "Oh, I see," Piper replied. "Anyways I'm glad she did, before Phoebe could show her frustration, she continued, I know her name now. They looked on intrigued. "Well?" Piper spoke. What is it, what's her name?" Paige answered "Prue, the woman's name is Prue." Paige and Phoebe looked at each other completely stunned.
After making a graceful exit, wishing Paige well and exchanging numbers Piper and Phoebe headed straight to the manor. Pulling up in their respected cars, they headed into the house calling for their older sister, who had a shit load of explaining to do. "Prue, Piper called out, where the hell are you?" Walking into the kitchen with Phoebe close behind, she saw Prue making a cup of tea and looking at her as if she were crazy. Slamming her purse down on the table she continued, would you like to tell us why the hell you're stalking Paige Matthews." Prue's face turned ghost white. How did they know about Paige? She thought. "Well we're waiting" Phoebe chimed in. "Come on Prue, tell us how you know her. And maybe you can explain the weird connection that we have with her." "Yeah, Piper added, we deserve to know." She waited for the day that something like this was going to happen. Part of her was happy to finally be telling her sisters the truth the other part of her was worried about what the elders would do. Even though their hasn't been a demon attack in well over a year since the sisters took out the source and most of his followers, she knew that they were still checking in on them from time to time. Well she would have to deal with that situation later. Sitting down at the table with her sisters she spoke up "Ok guys it's time you learned the truth." Taking a deep breathe, "I'll tell you everything you need to know about Paige and the day our little sister was taken from us." At hearing this Piper dropped down into the kitchen chair, mouth wide open, as a tear started to fall from both Prue and Phoebe's eyes.