Again I dont own these characters…
"Is she okay?" Piper asks, barely
able to keep her voice straight. "Piper,
she's hurt," Leo responds,
trying not to sound annoyed at Piper.
"Orb!! Common angel boy!! Orb!! "
Piper nearly shouts as she starts
hitting. Leo's arm continuously.
They orb out and arrive in a mystifyingly dark alley. Even though it
is still morning, the time when the sun
gleams happily and the smell of the morning
makes its graceful exit, it still doesn't
put Piper or Leo at ease about their surroundings. They feel
like all of the darkness in the whole world is
concentrating on that one moment of time,
on that single breath of air. After Piper
stops thinking about the atmosphere of the
new surroundings, she wondered how Paige
could possibly get hurt that badly in broad
daylight.
"Where is she?"
Piper says while looking around. She's
doubtful that Leo orbed them to the right place, but quite frankly
she isn't able to fully comprehend at
that time that Paige would be so irresponsible. In a heartbeat, she
hears someone crying in the corner; as she
leans in she notices that it's Paige. Paige was lying in the corner
of the shady alley almost camouflaged by her gothic rebellious look.
As she laid there motionless, Piper almost melted into the shadow she
couldn't believe that was actually Paige, she couldn't, she
wouldn't.
"Piper, are you
okay?" Leo looks sympathetically into
Piper's eyes that were just frozen in pain and fear. Then the foul
stench of the alley makes her come back to
her senses.
"Oh! Yes, I'm fine!
QUICKLY! GO AND HEAL PAIGE!" Piper tries
saying as strongly as possible. Piper realizes
that Leo is still staring at her
uncertainly, and she feels
an uncomfortable sense of worry from Leo.
"Leo, go heal her! Go! Go!"
She screams.
Leo goes over to
Paige and starts checking to see where she
got hit and then starts to
heal her. It takes
a while for Leo to completely heal Paige because of all her wounds.
As soon as he's done he gets
up and helps Paige up to her feet, but
Paige is still weak so Leo helps
her stand.
"What happened?"
Piper asks. She
moves closer,
touching the wounds Leo healed on her forehead as it if they
just might pop up again. Piper is still
shaking from seeing Paige like that. She then examines Paige's face,
trying to see what the watery-eyed sister of hers was thinking about.
Piper remembers Paige never cries, not
ever. "What was
so horrendous this time?" she wonders.
Paige feels
as if she has just died,
and being that close to death scared her. Although Leo healed her
physical wounds, the mental imagery, and
the pain, fear, and worry are
all still there. She can not possibly ask
Leo to wipe that memory from her brain forever.
It was too important. She tries to
turn her head so that she isn't looking
at Piper's eyes. Paige desperately tries
to smother her cries and block all of her tears, but she can't
help crying again.
"I think it
would be better if we got Paige home for now." Leo says
while holding Paige up. "Then
she can tell us what happened. Okay Paige?" Paige
continues to still look down,
unable to answer because it takes all of
her strength just to stifle her tears. They all looked distractedly
at Paige, until they decide that they'd ask once she stops
shedding the tears she is trying to make
inconspicuous.
As soon as Piper agrees
Leo orbs them all home. Paige runs
upstairs, and Piper was about to follow
when Leo grabs her arm. Piper looks
at him questionably.
"I think we
should leave her to think this all out." Leo says
and then started to head toward the kitchen. Piper follows
him and starts to make
tea. Now Piper appears calmer but in her
head unexplained question are, to put it
simply, going unexplained.
Leo
immediately senses this and wraps
his arms around her waist. The gentle touch of Leo's soft angel skin
and his warmth aided her to relax, but then she tenses
up again with the thought of Paige.
"What's wrong?" Leo asks,
noticing Piper tense up.
"What do
you think happened to Paige?" Piper wonderes
out loud.
"I don't know,
but she will tell us when she is ready,"
Leo answers feeling helpless but trying to
stay strong for Piper.
"Do you
really think?" Piper questions
hopefully. At that moment Pheobe comes
into the kitchen with a confused look on her face.
"Pheobe, what's wrong?" Piper asks
since she is the only one who noticed
Pheobe came in the room.
"Umm...
I passed Paige's room and saw her crying on her bed. So I went in to
ask her what was wrong and she just ignored me so I left."
Pheobe says as she recounted what happened.
Piper sighs, reluctant to stray from Leo's
affectionate and loving hold, and tells
Pheobe about how she found Paige and how hurt she was.
"Oh my god! Is she okay?" Pheobe asks,
with concern filling her voice. She realizes
how loud her question was and clasps her
hands around her mouth.
"I don't
know. We will have to wait 'till she tells us,"
Piper answers truthfully. "She will
probably talk to Prue first. Where is she anyway…?"
