It took a while for everything to get sorted out. Prue had to be taken care of, food needed to be made, and finally explanations were told.
"So you made a deal with them that we would go after some demons, you only met me once, why risk your life for me?" Paige asked.
This was the tricky part, Phoebe and Piper looked to Prue.
"Paige, you're not just some person we happened to meet once, you're much more than that. We may not have known you for very long but that doesn't matter. All that matters to us is that you're our sister, you're family and we would risk anything for you, we love you." Prue thought this would be hard, but once she started talking the words just seemed to come.
"I don't know what to say." Paige stuttered, her eyes filling with tears.
"Don't say anything." Prue said and then embraced her in a hug. Piper and Phoebe joined and the four of them stayed that way for awhile.
When Piper and Phoebe pulled away they saw Prue holding Paige. Paige had fallen asleep in her arms. Carrying her over to the sofa was easier than it should have been she hardly weighed anything at all.
"We can start on the demons tomorrow." Prue said. Piper and Phoebe nodded.
"Let's all go to bed, we need our rest." Piper said.
"I'm going to stay down here tonight, just in case she needs anything." Prue said stroking Paige's head, "I just want to make sure she's ok."
Piper and Phoebe nodded and left to go to bed, they would have offered to stay downstairs, but they knew it was best to let them be.
Prue watched them head upstairs, then she turned and looked at Paige. She was sleeping softly, her chest rising and falling, simple, peaceful sleep. She looked so young, so frail. 'Why her?' Prue asked herself, 'Why did it have to happen to her?'
Prue finally fell asleep that night. She lay on the floor next to the sofa. At some point in the night, Paige rolled over and her hand fell across Prue waking her. Prue got up and tucked Paige back in. Paige was smiling in her sleep, her smile filled Prue with gladness, "Nothing will happen to you, I promise." She whispered before lying back down and drifting off into her own dream.
Pure's dream was a memory, not her memory, but one of Paige's when she was about seven. She should have forgotten it, but for some reason it clung in her mind.
Paige was hiding in the corner of the school yard. She was crying to herself 'why does everybody hate me?' she was thinking, just then another girl came up to her, the girl looked like she was in middle school, "Are you ok?" she asked. Paige continued to cry. The girl stayed with Paige, helping her. After a little time had pasted, Paige had stopped crying turning to the girl she said, "Thank you, I think you're the nicest person in the whole wide world." Then she ran off.
The memory ended and Prue woke up, 'That girl was me.' She realized, 'I was there for her even if it was only once, but I was there for her.' When Prue fell back asleep, she too had a smile on her lips.