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Part Six

"The room's not spinning, Paige." Piper said in a calm voice even though she was extremely concerned.

"Well, you can tell it that Piper, " retorted Paige.

"Relax, both of you." Phoebe decided to intervene. The last thing Paige needed was to get worked up. "Okay. Paige, are you feeling a bit more steady now?"

"Yeah. I can get out of the tub now. Not quite sure about making it out of the bathroom though."

"Don't worry about. Let's get you sitting on the toilet."

With some help from Phoebe and Piper, Paige managed to perch herself on the toilet. As soon as she was sitting, Phoebe helped her pull on a plain white t-shirt. Then both Piper and Phoebe helped her put on some underwear, a pair of light gray sweatpants and some white cotton socks. "Now let's get your taxi. Leo!" Piper called. He walked into the room about a minute later.

"You called?" He asked with a smile.

"Yeah. Can you carry Paige back to our room? I don't want to risk her falling down."

"No problem." Replied Leo as he swung Paige in to his arms and cradled her as if she didn't weigh a thing. He then walked over to the room he and Piper shared and gently placed Paige on the bed once Piper had pulled back the covers. Once Paige was comfortable, Piper tucked the covers in all around her.

"Sorry for kicking you out of your bed, Leo" said Paige weakly.

"It's okay. I'm going to be gone the rest of the week anyway. So you get better for when I next see you."

"Will do." With Paige's promise, Leo left the room with Piper right behind him to say goodbye. This left Phoebe alone in the room with Paige.

"You feeling tired, Paige?"

"Sort of. But right now I'm too sore to even think about going to sleep."

"Well let's see if I can help you with that. Let me take your shirt off and then roll over on to your stomach."

"Why?" asked Paige hesitantly. "What do you want with my back?"

"I'm going to help you feel less sore and hopefully get you to sleep quicker with a back rub." Seeing Paige look uncomfortable with the idea, she continued, "It's for your own good, I promise and it will feel really good."

Paige's thoughts were running rampant. 'I can't let her touch my back. At least not without having a good reason for it looking the way it does and why I react the way I do when she touches it. What can I say to explain it away? Or maybe I should just refuse whatever she has planned. I mean she can't force me although Piper might. Might they get suspicious though if I refuse? I can't let them find out about my past. They don't need to know. It will only cause more pain if they know. That's final.' All this took only a few seconds to run through Paige's head before she came to a decision.

"Pheebs, that's okay. I'm feeling really tired right now so I'm sure I'll be asleep in no time. Can we save it for later?" Paige said with an exaggerated yawn to try and convince Phoebe. Phoebe looked at Paige a bit suspiciously but soon relented. "Well then, do you want me to stay in here with you while you sleep?"

"Naw," said Paige not wanting her sister to witness another of her nightmares. Having them see one was bad enough. Phoebe looked like she was going to protest Paige's response but seemed to think better of pushing her. 'I can check up on her once she is sleeping,' Phoebe thought.

"Okay Paige. Me and Piper will be downstairs. Get some sleep. We'll be up later with some stuff for you to eat and drink. Night, sweetie."

"Night." Replied Paige as Phoebe left the room turning out the lights and closing the door behind her. Paige was not really kidding about how exhausted she felt. The bath and her other exertions had really taken all of her energy. She soon fell asleep. Unfortunately it was troubled by bad dreams and even worse memories.

Downstairs, Phoebe met up with Piper who was in the kitchen, sitting at the table with an intense look on her face.

"Penny for your thoughts?"

"You wouldn't think they were worth the price once you had them." Smiled Piper, happy to see her sister.

"You sorry about Leo having to leave?"

"Yeah, but it should give us some good sister bonding time. Besides, we need to get Paige better."

Phoebe looked at her sister curiously. She seemed to be pushing away the pain of Leo leaving to only worry about Paige. Deciding to leave it alone for the moment, she asked, "Hey, speaking of Paige, have you noticed anything unusual about the things she has been doing lately?"

"Define unusual for me, sweetie."

"Well, when I woke her up earlier, it seemed like she was having a bad dream but when I asked her about it she sidestepped the question. And right now when I offered to rub her back because she said she was sore, she refused. And then when I offered to stay in the room with her while she slept, she declined that too."

"And this is unusual because?"

"It just all seems too weird. Bad dream, yet doesn't want a sister to be near to stop another one from happening and she didn't answer my question about it. And why would she refuse physical comfort? She was hurting, I could tell from her eyes."

"Phoebe, Paige just needs to get used to having sisters. She probably isn't used to sharing every little thing about her life. Besides, we're like complete strangers to her. Why would she tell us something personal, like a bad dream? And she probably didn't know that you are a great masseuse so she refused the back rub. You are blowing things way out of proportion. But," Piper continued seeing the look in Phoebe's eyes, "if you really want to make sure, let's go up there right now and just watch her sleep. It will prove to you that she is fine and allow you to also get some rest before dinner."

"Wait a minute. Why do I have to rest again?" protested Phoebe on her way up the stairs with Piper. "Isn't that what I did earlier?"

"Yeah, but you two look so cute together." Teased Piper. "Besides one of us should be with her if she has another bad dream, and seeing as I have to cook so there is something edible in the house, you get resting with Paige duty."

"Okay, but can you come up and tuck me in?" asked Phoebe in her baby voice with puppy dog eyes. Piper couldn't help but laugh at the sight. "Sure sweetie and I can make sure Paige is okay too before I start dinner."

When they went into Piper's room, they found Paige curled into a ball on the bed. She was breathing deeply and evenly and to all eyes looked like she was sleeping comfortably.

"Okay, Pheebs. Get into bed." Ordered Piper happy to see the youngest sleeping peacefully. Piper tucked Phoebe into bed and gave her a kiss on the forehead. "Sleep well, baby girl."

Phoebe's eyes were already half closed as she snuggled closer to Paige. "See ya for dinner, Pipe." Piper stayed in the room for a few minutes just watching her sisters sleep. Moving to Paige's side, she laid a hand on her forehead to make sure it hadn't risen. To her satisfaction, Paige seemed just as cool as earlier, maybe even a little less hot.

Piper gave a kiss to Paige's forehead before leaving the room to go to the kitchen.