Okay wrote this during school so I'm not quite sure how it turned out.

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Phoebe, hearing Piper's urgent cry, rushed next door to Paige's room to be stopped in the doorway by the sight of her baby sister unconscious in her oldest sister's arms. Running over and flinging herself on the ground next to her sisters, Phoebe began trying to wake Paige up, "C'mon Paige. Wake up! You gotta tell us what's going on. Get up!"

There was no response from Paige even when gently shaken by Piper or patted on the cheek by Phoebe.

After about five unsuccessful minutes of trying to awaken Paige, Piper and Phoebe decided that they would all be more comfortable in their room. So Phoebe lifted a limp Paige off of the floor and Piper grabbed some of Paige's stuff to make her more comfortable. They went back into their room and Phoebe gently placed Paige on one of the beds in the room and began trying to wake her up again. While carrying Paige, Phoebe had felt the vast amount of heat radiating off of her sister's body and was so far past worried that it wasn't even funny.

"Paigey girl, time to get up. C'mon your sisters are here to help you and make it all better. Wake up. C'mon, you don't want us to take you to a hospital. Right?"

While Phoebe continued on her mission of waking Paige up, Piper had been wetting a washcloth with cold water and getting the thermometer. She handed the washcloth to Phoebe, who gave her a grateful look before using it to wipe Paige's face and neck helping to cool her down. Piper put the thermometer into Paige's ear waiting until it beeped a second later before removing it and looking at the readout. "Well?" asked Phoebe impatiently.

"It's back up to where it was originally but a touch worse, one hundred and three degrees. I really think that we need to get her to a hospital stat."

Phoebe began to argue against taking Paige there citing various reasons, most of which Piper agreed with. However, there still remained the fact that Paige's fever was raging out of control and she needed help which she wasn't accepting from her sisters. The hospital was the next best thing for Paige.

Paige gradually awoke from complete darkness to varying shades of gray. It hurt too much to open her eyes so she tried to figure out what was going on from her other senses. Unfortunately they weren't making much sense. From what she could remember, she had fallen on the hard wood floor in her room, yet she seemed to be on something soft, a bed. There was also something cold and damp on her forehead relieving a bit of the pain from her raging headache and her burning face. She thought she was hallucinating though when she heard her sisters' voices arguing about something. She couldn't make out the words.

"Pi-Piper?" she asked, her voice harsh from her sore throat caused by her coughing fits. "Phoebe?" Paige almost immediately broke into a coughing fit that she was helpless to stop or control. Phoebe quickly moved to her side and helped her sit up so she could sip some water and try and gain control over her breathing. Piper also went over but she just sat on the bed talking in soothing tones to Paige trying to get her to calm down. Finally the fit ended and Paige relaxed enough to lie back down.

"Hey, kiddo," said Piper softly when she saw her baby sister relax into the pillows. "How ya feeling?"

Paige wondered how her sisters had found her in a secluded part of Sonoma County but she decided to save her questions for later when she could fully comprehend the answers. "Like shit," was her concise response.

Phoebe decided to make her presence known. "Okay Piper. I'm agreeing with you. Let's get her to a hospital before she gets any worse." Piper looked at Phoebe startled with her sudden change of opinion, but Phoebe gave her a look that said 'No I didn't change my mind, but go with me.'

"Right. I'll pack up all of our stuff and check us out. You stay here until we're checked out and then you can bring Paige down to the car. I'll sit with her in the backseat. You're driving."

"Wait just a minute. What the hell are you two …" Paige began saying but Phoebe interrupted.

"We are taking you to a hospital as is our right as your sisters and your elders. No arguing allowed."

"But …" started Paige. Piper now brought her two cents to the conversation.

"But nothing Paige. You have broken two deals with us. Not to mention that you left the house without telling us where you were going. Then you used a spell to hide your whereabouts from us. You no longer have any say whatsoever in what happens to you. You lost that right when you cast that spell. New rules are one of us watching over you the entire time you are ill and we will determine when you are well enough to be without our care. What we say goes. We will not let you leave us again."

Paige just gaped at Piper. She wasn't used expecting an outburst like that. It was one full of love, concern, and worry; something Paige hadn't experienced since her time with the Matthews.

Taking Paige's silence as acquiescence, Piper began to pack up what few items had been unpacked. Phoebe stayed with Paige as Piper brought the bags down to the Jeep and checked them out of the inn. When Piper came back to the room, she found Paige changed into clean, dry clothes and resting against Phoebe with her head on Phoebe's shoulder. "Okay Paige. Time to go." When Paige made a move to get off the bed though, Phoebe restrained her. "Where are you going?"

Paige had a very puzzled look on her face that wasn't feigned. "Piper said it's time to go. I was going to the car." Gaining some of her attitude back she added without thinking, "Do you have a problem with that?"

"Lose the attitude, Paige." Piper growled. "You are not going anywhere on your own two feet. You have proven yourself to be more irresponsible with yourself than a baby. Therefore, from now until I decide otherwise, you will be treated as such." Piper suddenly smirked. "Be glad that we will refrain from baby talk. Now Phoebe will carry you to the car."

Paige decided that prudence was the better part of virtue so she kept her mouth shut and just nodded. Once in Phoebe's arms, she snuggled deeper into the embrace, grateful for her older sister's warmth since she was freezing all the way to the car. Phoebe noticed Paige shivering but decided to work on fixing it in the car. She did however hold her little sister tighter in an effort to keep her warmer.

Once they arrived at the car, Phoebe let Piper get into the backseat first before placing Paige in the seat. Piper then pulled Paige closer to her, draping her body across the seat, with Paige's head in her lap. Before allowing Paige to lie down though, she forced some of Grams' medicine down her throat in an effort to stop her fever from increasing. Paige's coughing was also in evidence from when she had awoken so hopefully the medicine would help with that as well. Phoebe got into the driver's seat and started up the car once Paige had drank all of the tonic and laid back down. She looked into the rearview mirror and saw Piper running her fingers though Paige's hair in an effort to get her to sleep though it wasn't until the car had gotten on the highway and was going at a steady speed for fifteen minutes that Paige actually fell asleep to the sounds of the road. As soon as Piper was sure Paige was asleep, she began quietly talking to Phoebe.

"So what was the deal with the good sister, bad sister thing back at the inn? You have multiple personality disorder and never tell me or something?"

"No. We needed to provide a unified front to Paige and it was easier for me to change my position without warning than for you to change yours. It's something I learned in psych class. The majority can always win over the minority. If it looked like I wasn't going to allow you to take Paige to the hospital then I don't think she would have been as willing to come with us."

"We practically ordered her to get into the car, Pheebs. How much more unwilling can she get?"

"She's a grown adult who has been living on her own without anyone to support her for how long Piper? Trust me, she could have really dug her heels in and we would have never gotten her to leave the hotel with us. Then as soon as she could have, she would have orbed God knows where and we would be back at square one. Now, we can look after her in the Manor, we'll just call it Halliwell Hospital when we pull up there and she gets all confused. By the way, excellent big sister tone when you were laying out the rules."

"Thanks, I think. I really don't want to be that strict with her but I didn't see any other way of getting through. So what do we do next? And please say the word doctor is involved."

"We go home and doctor her." Phoebe said teasingly. "Paige is also going to learn the meaning of tough love and sisterly devotion."

"You know, when I said doctor, I meant the noun not the verb. And could you be a tad more specific about what we need to do?"

Phoebe took on a lecturing tone. "Paige has some very serious abandonment and trust issues that we need to work through with her and this is a very good time to do it. She's vulnerable right now and she knows it which will make it a bit harder, but if we can show her that we won't hurt her when she is down nor will we leave her in her moment of need then all will be good by the time Paige feels better."

"Can we be strict with her and not hurt her? I mean, she's as free spirited as you are and even more independent. She is going to soon realize her lack of personal space if we are all over her like I'm planning to be. Can we be sure she isn't going to run again?"

"Piper, relax. We can do everything we need to. Just remember that tone you used when you were railing at her. That's what she needs and I'm pretty sure that she knows it subconsciously. Now why don't you get some sleep back there? We should get to the Manor in about an hour and a half maybe a bit less due to traffic."

"Okay, Pheebs." Said Piper leaning back in her seat and letting herself relax and drift off still unconsciously running her fingers through Paige's hair. The rest of the drive was made in silence as those in the backseat slept and the driver pondered what to do with the youngest.