A big thank you to everyone who has reviewed this story, I really appreciate it. I hope you all continue to support me when I write my first novel. So without further ado here's chapter 7.

Chapter 7

Avoiding the gaze of both sisters Prue spoke up "Please don't say anything until I've told you the whole story." Piper and Phoebe both nodded in agreement. Prue continued "It all started when mom and Sam, her whitelighter where together. You both were too young to understand what was going on, so you never knew that the two of them were together. The only reason I knew was because I saw them kissing one day. Then as time went on I would hear them talking about the elders and how they would destroy them both if they ever found out about thee affair. Mom would usually cast some sort of spell to block them from the elders when they were spending time together. This went on for about a year before mom got pregnant with Paige." At this Piper let out a deep sigh as did Phoebe neither one could believe what she was hearing. "Anyway I noticed that mom was gaining a lot of weight and was sick a lot. I knew she was pregnant because I could remember that she was acting the same way before Phoebe was born. Even though I knew she never really came out and said it to me. I guess she didn't want to alert the elders to her condition. One night while Grams was trying to read me a story I heard mom screaming in pain. At first I thought that she was being attacked by demon, but if that were true then Grams wouldn't had been so calm. Then after a while she left the room and told me to stay put. Immediately I got up and followed her to the attic where mom was having Paige." She was so beautiful, thinking back to the emotion she felt on that day Prue began to cry. Trying and failing miserably to hold back the tears, she continued. "So I walked in and played with her for a while before Grams made me go to bed. When I was back in bed I gave Grams a teddy bear to give to her and I asked what my little sisters' name was going to be and she just told me to go to bed and that we would talk about it tomorrow. When I woke in the middle of the night I heard mom arguing with some men dressed in white robs. They were telling mom that she had to give Paige up and that she had to cast a spell on me to forget that she even existed." She could feel the hatred stirring up in her. "Those bastards made mom throw Paige away as if she were trash. They had no right to do it, none. So I decided to cast a spell on myself to make sure mom's memory spell had no effect. After that I went to where mom had Paige and I promised her that I would never forget her no matter what they did, and that one day I would bring her back home to us." Seeing Phoebe and Piper shaking while tears ran down their faces, she walked over and sat in between them putting an arm around both girls. "The next day mom and Sam where leaving to take her away. I knew I had to do something, so I begging and pleading with them to keep her here, with her family. But they said that they had to take her away for her own safety. Then Grams came and got me while Sam and mom took her away.

After a little while Grams tried to put a spell on me to make me forget. But the spell that I put on myself stopped the spell from working. So when she was done I acted as if I didn't remember a thing.When she left the room I called for Brian, my whitelighter and tricked him into sensing mom and Sam. Then he orbed me there and I watched as they handed our sister over to those people who kept her from us. I remember hearing their names Mark and Karen Matthews. So after Brian orbed us back home, I looked them up in the phone book. I wrote down their name and address. Then over the next several years I tried to make sure we were everywhere she was. When I would walk pass their house after school I could hear them discussing where they were taking Paige that day and I would get to see her up close until she started school. Seeing her wasn't so hard because she went to the same school as Phoebe until they put her in private school. One time she dropped a sheet of her school pictures when I had to pick Phoebe up from school one day and I kept them in a folder under my bed, along with any other information that I gathered on her." Laughing she said "You would not believe all the things I had to go through to get some of that information, but that's a story for when we're all together. I think the hardest thing was watching her go through the death of her care takers alone. I wanted to be there for her so badly but the only thing I could do was send her a basket as an anonymous friend. Watching her having to deal with that at such a young age was heart breaking. Anyway more recently she had started to catch me watching her." Now saying in what was almost a whisper. "She confronted me about it that day at the mall. She was totally freaked out but before I could explain she was hit by the car. And you guys know the rest of the story." Prue could see all the questions in here sister's eyes. The only thing she could do now was wait for their reactions.

Piper was the first to speak "No wonder we felt such a strong connection to her, this is unbelievable." Phoebe had a less calm reaction "I can't believe you!" she screamed at her oldest sister. "How could you keep something so huge from us?" "All this time we had a sister out there, who was alone and needed us and you, chose to keep this information to yourself. How could you Prue?" she finally finished as she buried her face in her hands. Wrapping her arms around Phoebe she answered with, "I wish I could have told you, it hurt so much not to be able to tell you guys about her. I'm so sorry you guys, you just don't know how sorry I am." It was at this time that Piper spoke up again "Has she used her powers yet?" "No, her powers were bound before she was taken away" Prue replied. "Listen" she said rising to her feet. "I'm going to give you guys some time to process this all, I'll be in my room if you need me. With that Prue made her out of the kitchen.

Holding each other close Phoebe and Piper tried to make sense of what they just learned. They couldn't believe that they had another sister that had been lost to them all this time. Both girls couldn't understand why the elders would keep her from them. I mean they knew that the union was forbidden and all, but to punish an innocent child and separate her from her family? It was just down right cruel. Not being able to stomach the silence any more, Phoebe began to talk. "I can't believe this is happening. Our sister had to live life without us and not knowing who she is or where she comes from. And the elders, how could they take her from us and why? Paige is still alive so what was the point of taking her away in the first place?" she said raising her voice on the last question. "I don't know sweetie. But what I do know is that she needs us right now and no elder or any other being in heaven or hell will keep us away from her now that we know who she is." Piper replied. This made Prue smile as she listened to her sisters talk from the door way. She knew that the girls would instantly feel the same way about Paige that she did. She took this moment to head back into the kitchen so the sisters could discuss what their next move was going to be.

"Hey there" she said as she entered the kitchen. "So do you two forgive me?" Looking at each other the girls nodded. "Of course we do honey, but you have to promise that you're never lie to us or keep secrets again, even if they are for the right reasons. Agreed?" Piper finished. With a big smile on her face Prue replied "Agreed. I love you both so much and I never want to cause you this much pain ever again." After a long hugging and saying I love you session Phoebe looked as if she had an epiphany. "Guys, she spoke. How are we going to tell Paige?" Looking in both girl directions Prue answered. "I don't know Phoebe, I don't know." With that the girls would spend the rest of the night trying to figure out a way to break the news to the youngest Halliwell sister.