A/N: Great to have you back, Timeless Deception and I've just discovered your own sequel so thanks for reminding me a little there. Now, sorry and all but I'm bringing this to an end next chap… question is, will Maddy still be around by then?

Maddy padded down the stairs seeing Paige in the living room, knees drawn up to her chin, a forlorn look on her face. Tentatively, she approached. 'Heard you got the demon.'

She barely looked up. 'Yeah.'

'What's wrong?'

'I don't know,' Paige confessed. 'I just… get the feeling there's something wrong here.'

'You do?' asked Maddy nervously.

'Well, is there?'

'I…' she started then shrugged. Honesty was the best policy, right? 'Something might be wrong, Paige.'

The face looked resigned. 'Prue.'

'I kissed her.'

God, she didn't even look surprised. 'Let me guess, you realised you'd rather love a dead woman than me.'

'No,' Maddy insisted crouching down to look into Paige's eyes. 'It was a mistake.'

'You're only saying that because I'm alive. She's not.'

'No, she's not and I'm glad about that. Prue's a manipulative cow, even as a ghost.'

'So she turned you down?' Paige questioned.

'It was the other way round.'

'Yeah, right.'

Hesitantly, Maddy placed her hand on her cheek, feeling distraught as a tear dropped. 'Oh, what have I done?'

Paige seemed to be trying to pull herself together as she stood, wrenching them apart. 'I always thought you'd choose her.'

Maddy lifted herself up. 'I haven't.'

'Because you can't! Not because you don't want to!'

'Oh, Paige! You're talking rubbish.'

'Well, you kissed her, didn't you?'

'I had to get her out of my system, don't you get it? As long as you were wondering if I still loved her we didn't have a chance.'

'I thought we were doing okay, you know?'

'It was always at the back of your mind, Paige. You know it was.'

She threw up her arms. 'So she came back and proved me right.'

'Yeah, and when she's gone I'll still be here with you. That's where I want to be.'

'Huh, you've said that before.'

'You've been pushing me away for weeks,' Maddy briefly looked to her feet. 'You think that didn't hurt.'

'So this was revenge?'

'No, this was me getting over her! Paige, you're the one I love.'

She turned so they were face-to-face again. 'Then why do it?'

Maddy threw her lips against Paige's, triumphant as she felt her respond then, as the kiss ended, fall into her arms. 'Paige, shush.'

'Why her?' came the muffled reply, muffled with fabric and tears.

'I'm sorry,' Maddy whispered stroking her hair. 'It's like she has this hold on me, I couldn't stop it. But then I did, because of you.'

'It took so much for me to believe you were over her,' Paige said, anger building in her voice, trying to move but was held tight. 'But you weren't.'

'I was. I am. Prue Halliwell is nothing to me, this past I want to forget.'

'But we can't.'

Finally, Maddy released her, staring into her eyes. 'Don't you believe me?'

'There's no way I can,' Paige replied heavily then seemed to rethink. 'Actually…'

As she took off up the stairs Maddy followed. Right up into the attic where everyone was congregated- Prue, Piper, Leo, Chris- and they all looked equally disturbed when Paige made straight for the book.

'Er… Paige?' Phoebe said tentatively. 'What's going on?'

'Just trying to figure something out.'

'Like what?' Leo asked.

'Why my girlfriend kissed my dead sister,' she answered flicking the pages. 'Here it is.'

'Here what is?' Piper queried glancing over at Prue.

'For those who want the truth revealed,

Opened hearts and secrets unsealed,

From now until it's not again,

After which the memory ends,

Those who now are in this house,

Will hear the truth from others' mouths.'