Disclaimer: I do not own anything you recognize. I do not own the songs I mentioned or the lyrics to those songs. I just really, really like them.

"Easy for you to say," Paige grumbled as she tried to make her way out of Piper's encircling arms. Piper just held tighter and started rocking Paige to try and get her back to sleep. "Piper, let me go." Paige said harshly. She was very tired and being treated like a baby wasn't helping her mood improve any.

Piper raised her eyebrow at Paige's tone. "You do not use that tone with me, young lady." She said sternly. "And no, you are overtired now and you need to go back to sleep."

"I will. Just let me out of your arms."

"Why? You are fine in my arms, Paige. C'mon just go back to sleep for me sweetie."

"I have to go."

Upon hearing this, Piper grew even more stern. "Paige, what did I tell you about you leaving us? It's not going to happen so quit trying."

Phoebe began to giggle. "I don't think she is planning to leave the house, Piper. Think of the other form of go."

Piper had the good grace to look somewhat embarrassed before standing up, still with Paige in her arms, and walking over to the bathroom. "Okay Paigey girl. Do you need any help?"

"No," growled Paige, extremely upset with her current situation. She'd had been treated like a baby before going to sleep, she'd had another nightmare that her sisters had seen, and then she'd been forced to drink out of a sippie cup. Now she couldn't even go to the bathroom on her own.

"Well then get to it." Piper just stood in the front of Paige but she did have the decency to turn around.

"Um, Piper," asked Paige. "Aren't you going to leave?"

"No. The last time I let you go anywhere by yourself, you ended up at a beach and made yourself sicker. I'm not going anywhere."

Paige decided to finish her business before yelling at Piper. When Piper heard the toilet flush, she turned around to help Paige finish the rest of her routine. Paige let Piper wash her hands for her and carry her back to bed. Then she let loose with a full fledged rant. "Okay, what the fuck is going on? First, you guys bring me here against my will, then you started treating me like a kid. I could handle that but now Piper is going way over the top. She, you, are treating me like a baby."

"Isn't that what I said I was going to do, sweetie? I did say that you are now a baby in our book until we feel you are better." Piper spoke in a cloying sweet tone that scared Paige out more than any of the angry voices of her childhood. She knew how to deal with anger and not let it affect her, but this over the top love was completely new to her. She was afraid both of the reason for the tone and how she wanted to react to it.

"I didn't think that you were going to be all over me. This is cruel and inhumane treatment. Why don't I just orb out of here? I can get some time to myself and you and Phoebe can fix whatever is bothering you, ya know, like go and find a real baby to baby."

Piper decided to ignore the last statement and started to rock Paige in her lap. "Okay, baby girl. Let's go back to sleep. You are really tired. Shh. Just relax and go to sleep."

Paige tensed as soon as the rocking started, she was confused and just wanting everything to go back the way it was, she at her apartment and her sisters at the Manor living semi separate lives. "See. This is what I am talking about. You are all over me and now you are ignoring what I'm saying."

Piper shared a look with Phoebe. They knew that Paige was about to break a little, they just had to find one more button to push. "Okay honey. You are sooo tired aren't you? Yeah I bet you are sweetie. C'mon just relax for me and go to sleep. Piper's got you and you are fine. Just relax and go to sleep. We are right here, nothing bad is going to happen to you." Piper cooed in her ear while still rocking Paige. Being talked to like a toddler, even though Paige had never experienced it, finally broke her the little bit her sisters were waiting for. She began struggling, trying to escape Piper's arms which felt like they were stifling her.

"Let me go. This is ridiculous and insane. Damn it, Piper! I promise I won't leave the house, but I need some space right now. You got to let me go and give me some time to cool off before I..." Paige trailed off, realizing that she was telling her sisters too much.

"Before what Paige?" asked Phoebe while Piper held strong against Paige's movements.

"Just please let me go." Pleaded Paige in a whisper. She didn't want to tell her sisters anything. She wanted out, but out of what she wasn't sure so she settled for Piper's embrace at the moment. Piper and Phoebe glanced at each other, concerned about the desperation they heard in Paige's voice before Piper said, "Okay Paige. I will let you go. But you are not to leave this room."

When Piper saw Paige nod in agreement, she loosened her grip. Paige immediately broke free, stood up, and started pacing around the room like a caged lion. She was wondering about the mind games Piper and Phoebe seemed to be playing with her. They were a little like some her foster father used to play with her but she was uncertain how these would end. 'They are acting majorly weird like I am a kid again. What are they trying to do, send me to the loony bin? And why are they acting this way?' The room started to close in around Paige as too many thoughts circled in her head until one finally broke through to the surface, 'I need to get out of here.' After that last thought, Paige put thought into action, orbing to her apartment. Phoebe and Piper, who had been watching the pacing uneasily, worried about what was bothering their sister, saw what Paige was doing at the last second and tried to stop her, but Paige's orbs dissipated before they even got to the spot from which she left.

"Damn it," yelled Piper. "Where in the world did she go? And why the fuck did she leave?"

Phoebe just stared at the spot where Paige had stood. "We got too close," she whispered almost to herself but Piper heard her.

"So we got close. Is she that afraid of us that she doesn't want us to know about her?"

"I don't know Piper," said Phoebe frustrated by the whole situation. "Maybe we freaked her out too much or maybe we reminded her of her foster father but either way she is gone."

"If she still has that spell, we won't be able to find her again. I doubt she'll use her car and she didn't have her purse with her when she orbed so I can't see her in a rustic inn some place." Piper said thinking out loud.

"So do we wait then?"

"Yeah either for her to come back or for the hospital or Darryl to call."

And so the sisters went downstairs and got comfortable in the living room, waiting for their missing third or news of her to arrive.

Meanwhile at her apartment Paige put some music on in preparation for her going to bed. Now that she was alone all the tension from being with her sisters left her and she was feeling really drained. She slipped one of her mix CDs into her stereo and hit the shuffle button. The first song that came on was 'Cold' by Crossfade. The lyrics seemed to strike a chord within her. She didn't want to leave her sisters but that was the way it worked out.

I never really wanted you to see

The screwed up side of me that I keep

Locked up inside of me so deep

It always seems to get to me

I never really wanted to you to go

So many things should have known

I guess for me there's no hope

I never meant to be so cold

Worried about the way her thoughts were heading, mainly her conscience was trying to convince her to go back to her sisters, she hit the skip button hoping for a better song to come on. The next song was 'Only Love' from the musical The Scarlet Pimpernel.

I see you try to turn away

I hear the words you want to say

I feel how much you need to hide

What's happening inside you tonight

Come meet my eyes one moment more

Our eyes are different than before

This night so beautiful and strange

This night begins to change who we are

Don't turn away it's only love

Quietly coming to you

Whispering through you

Take my hand it's only love

Let it come through you slowly

Don't be afraid it's only love

Paige, listening to the song realized that she was like the person the singer was talking about. She was running away from her sisters and their love. Shaking her head, she did not want to think about this before sleeping so she hit the skip button again hoping to find something that wouldn't remind her of anything. She skipped over the next few songs, 'Can You Feel The Love Tonight?' from the Lion King, 'SOS' from the musical Mamma Mia, 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow?' by Carole King, 'You'll Be in My Heart' from Tarzan, and 'All I Know' by Art Garfunkel before finally stopping on 'This is The Place' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "Thank God. A song that doesn't remind me of my sisters or anything else." She put the song on repeat before climbing into bed and turning out the light. She really was tired.