Chapter 12

Prue looked down and for a brief instant, she saw her own body lying motionless. Then she was sucked into Paige and everything went black.

Memories started to flood her mind, but she pushed them back for now. Concentrating she heard one thought repeated over and over in Paige's/her mind. 'I deserve to be locked up. I deserve it.'

Prue found that she wasn't hearing it, she was thinking it, and if she was thinking it she could change it. Just then her spirit settled fully into Paige. This time she was unable to hold back the memories as they became a part of her. In a brief second, she relived Paige's life up to this point.

She lost herself in them, forgetting who she was, she became Paige, thinking the same thing, 'I deserve to be locked up. I deserve it.' It wasn't until she saw Prue, Piper, and Phoebe standing over her that she remembered, I'm Prue, not Paige. She concentrated on the thought, until it was repeated over in the mind.

Prue began to look through the memories, stopping every now and then when she found one of Paige helping someone.

A memory of Paige when she was 10: Paige was walking to school, she walked past an ally and looked inside. Two men were standing over another man. "Hand it over, Punk" they were saying as they repeatedly kicked the man, one of them took out a knife about to stab the wounded man in the arm. Paige called on her power and two trashcans became engulfed in blue orbs. Paige hurled them at the first two men. Berated by trash they ran off screaming.

A memory of Paige when she was 13: Paige was walking down an ally with a potion clutched in her hand. Hearing screaming, she ran toward it and stopped when a demon came into view, he was busy trying to choke someone but Paige ran forward and threw her potion. The demon disappeared in a pit of fire. The man he had been trying to kill got awkwardly to his feet, "Thanks." He mumbled before running off.

Prue found other memories, and after playing each memory in her/Paige's mind she thought 'I helped people, I never did anything to be locked up. The Elders were wrong.'

After each memory finished, Paige began to come back to reality a little more. Soon the thought 'I deserve to be locked up. I deserve it.' Began to weaken till it stopped altogether. Prue continued to show her good memories until she reached the part where the Elders had taken her away.

Leo's sleep spell had begun to where off a few minutes ago, and Prue had found her foothold in Paige's mind starting to slip. When Paige came fully awake, Prue found herself hurled into the back of the mind, she could see what Paige was seeing and thinking, but she had no influence over what Paige did.

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Paige found herself lying on the floor, she remembered everything, but the thing that stuck out most clearly was that the Elders were wrong, she was a good person she helped people, and she was Pure not Paige. 'Wait, that's not right I'm Prue, no I'm not, I'm not Paige. AHGGGG!' Giving up, she looked up to see Piper and Phoebe looking at her.

"Hi." She said.

"Are you better now?" Piper asked her.

Nodding Paige said "Yeah, sorry about before, and thanks for saving me."