Chapter 8

It was now four hours later and the girls were hard at work. Prue was writing spells, Piper was busy making the strongest potions she could while Phoebe sat with a now sleeping Paige. They tried hard to focus on the task at hand, but it was difficult because each time they did, their thoughts would drift to their sister. But they realized that focusing was the only way to help their sister, so each one continued to work on their assigned tasks. It was during this time that the youngest Halliwell sister began to awaken.

The women noticed this and immediately made their way over to the girl. Paige looked around with blurry vision while feeling the effects of the day both emotionally and physically. Through her impaired vision she could barely make out the three people standing around her.

It was then that she heard a voice "Hey honey, how are you feeling?" Prue questioned.

After giving her sister a week smile she responded "As well as can be expected, you know for a person who's whole life has been on big lie after another, yep, I'm just peachy"

This earned her glances from all three woman who didn't know if they should laugh, or cry for the girl. "Listen Mike played us all Paige this was not your fault" Piper said as she wiped the sweat from the girl's face.

"I know" the girl responded. Continuing she asked "So is there any new information?"

"No, but don't worry the potion that Piper made was strong enough to kill Mike then the rest of the family shouldn't be a problem." Prue finished.

Sitting down next to Paige Prue added "listen honey I know this is hard for you but we have to get a move on before the rest of the family notices that Mike hasn't returned yet"

Looking back at her sister Paige spoke "I'm not going to lie to you guys it's going to hurt like hell, but you have to do what you have to do, right"

"Right. Don't worry sweetie everything is going to work out just fine" said Phoebe as she gave the girl a reassuring smile.

"If not, then I'll die" Paige said in a whisper. "Don't talk like that, you're going to be fine." Piper said and with that the girls finished preparing for battle.

Outside the door Justin stood listening in on the girl's conversation. He's been standing there since Leo left to check up on another charge and the girls had begun working on fixing the mess that their sister's boyfriend left in their lap. All this was very hard for him. Justin was still trying to get used to the whole witch thing but everyday it became more difficult. If it weren't for his blinding love for Phoebe he would have left a long time ago. It wasn't that he thought of the girls as being freaky or evil, it was just the fact that waking up to a demons in your home and seeing your wife lying in a pool of her own blood almost every month isn't what a guy dreams about when the word marriage is spoken. But this situation was different. Paige didn't deserve what was happening to her. First she has some type of poison pulsing through her vein and a demon is the only one with the antidote. Then the man that was her lover as well as her best friend turns out to be a demon that's been out to kill her and probably his wife since day one. It was indeed a lot to handle.

Well he thought to himself, the girls could probably use a pick me up. He turned to get some food for the girls when he turned to come face to face with a man that he had never seen before.

Thinking that maybe he was a friend of the family he asked "Hi I'm Phoebe's husband Justin, the girls are really busy right now so just leave your name with me and I'll tell them that you stopped by" he finished smiling at the man.

But the man didn't respond. He just stood there with a wicked smile on his face. That's when Justin felt a presents behind him. There stood were two men who resembled Mike. It was then that Justin knew that he was in serious trouble. The demons grabbed him by the arms; he then asked "what the hell do you want?"

The man in front of him finally spoke "YOU" with that the demon shimmered out with a helpless Justin in hand.