Okay, so you've all noticed (at least I hope you have...) the tension between Parker and Paige. Well this chapter will explain and hopefully clear that up, so let's see what happens.

The-Cheese-Fairy- Wow, I got an LMFAO. That's something right there. Lol! I thought of that plot at like 1:00 in the morning when I could sleep. That tells you something, huh? Well they do fight in the final battle, don't they? Yeah I can't wait until Percy. I'm kind of worried that I'm not going to do Preston justice though because I haven't really got his personality down yet. I actually got the idiot thing from 'Show Ghouls' where Piper asked how she knew it as Phoebe and she asked what her middle name was and Phoebe said it was surly. P.S. conversations are fun!

Feelings suck. They literally suck. Feelings, emotions, they all shape us. They make us who we are. It doesn't change the fact that they suck. Because if you let emotions get too strong, but let them stay bottled up inside you, they'll come back to bite you in the ass. This was a lesson I learned from a person that I had strong and not so very good feelings about in a situation that she had found herself in so many years ago. And this is how the tale goes...

I was sitting in my room studying very hard for the finals that we had that week. I always did well on tests, but I always got nervous about finals. I had been holed up there for quite some time. I didn't want to blow finals. In all actuality they really weren't that big a part of your average, especially if you always got the top grades in your classes like yours truly. I still always tried to do very well on them.

I had somehow managed to convince Percy to study hard as well. She said it was something to do with the notes that I had taken for her when we switched bodies. She said that after she looked over them and got a 100 on the test, she was inspired to take good notes like that all the time and study them. She wasn't doing badly in her classes, she was just usually too preoccupied to take good notes and study them.

As for Patience, she never studied but always seemed to come away with awesome grades. She had some kind of photographic memory that even I couldn't possess. She may seem like an airhead half the time, but she's really smart. Preston, on the other hand, was a lost cause. No matter how many times Aunt Phoebe tried to explain to him that she had been down that road and that he would regret it later when he couldn't apply for college, he blew it off. His reasoning: he wasn't going to get the chance to go to college if he was busy dying in a war and he got all A's and B's anyway (whether they came from copying my stuff or not). He always bombed the finals though. Always.

"Okay, so to prove the volume of a sphere: V equals (4/3) x Pi x r raised to the power of3. How ironic," I mumbled to myself. (A/N: That's right by the way, I checked it on AOL. I have no idea how to solve it, but whatever. I just figure that Parker's so smart he'll be able to do that stuff)

"Parker, honey, dinner!" Mom called from the bottom of the stairs. I sighed and got up to go eat dinner.

"So what were you doing up there?" Dad asked.

"Uh, just studying as usual. Working on how to prove the volume of a sphere," I said.

"Glad I don't have to do that because I would have failed," Mom said. I nodded. "Oh, so you're agreeing with me?" she asked.

"Is there anything I can say that won't get me into trouble?" I asked. Mom grinned and shook her head.

"By the way; Paige wanted me to ask you something," she said.

"Okay, shoot," I said.

"Well, she wanted to know if you had any problems with her," my mom said. I raised my eyebrow.

"Any..."

"Problems. She seems to think that there's something wrong. She wouldn't tell me why and I was hoping that you would," Mom said, giving me an expectant look.

"Uh, no I don't have any problems. I'm not saying she's my favorite person in the world, but I don't have anything against her," I lied. The truth was that I did have something against her, I just didn't know what. I had never fully liked Paige as much as the others did. Patience loved her, Preston thought she was awesome, and Percy couldn't have been happier to have her as a mom. As for me, I didn't know what the problem was.

"Okay, well if anything comes up I want you to tell me. She's my sister and I'm allowed to lay into her if something's wrong," Mom said. I nodded and quickly ate the rest of my dinner so that I could go back upstairs. When I got there, I didn't study though. I plopped down on my bed and stared up at the ceiling, wondering exactly what my problem with Aunt Paige was.

It was something that had bothered me for quite some time. I hated that I didn't like her because she had been nothing but nice to me. The others knew I wasn't that fond of her, but they never brought it up and apparently she knew too, which I felt really bad about. Had I been that bad or was I just invisible to everyone but myself?

And then it hit me. Somewhere in the back of my mind was a tiny, but very confident voice telling me that she didn't belong. It was telling me that Paige wasn't really a Halliwell. She was illegal, a half-breed and she shouldn't be here. She wasn't necessary to the group. The Charmed Ones were supposed to be the Power of Three, not the Power of Four, but Paige went and messed that all up. No, she just doesn't belong at all.

And yet, that wasn't right either. Though these feelings were there, they didn't seem to be mine. Why would I care if Paige was a half-breed? I was a half-breed. My cousins were half-breeds. I couldn't understand it. And as for the Power of Four thing, I hadn't even been close to born when all of that went down. It had never really affected me and yet here I was, thinking about how Paige didn't belong here because of these two things that made no sense. It was strange.

The next day at school was more reviewing for finals, although I couldn't concentrate all that well due to the thoughts I had been thinking last night. I still couldn't quite understand them. I tried to put it all in the back of my head to deal with when I didn't have impending finals looming over my head, but they kept resurfacing. Even after school I was still thinking about it. It just didn't add up.

I came home to an empty house. Mom was at P4 getting ready for the night and Dad was out with a charge. I went upstairs and grabbed The Army of Witches, flipping through it. For once, I wasn't dwelling on past memories or looking for information on how to prepare myself for the war that I would eventually have to fight. I was looking for things about Paige. I wanted to learn about her. I wanted to see what she was like, see if there was any reason in particular that I had these feelings about her.

Paige had been crying over Frisco the entire time. Not only was her boyfriend now dead, but her daughter was too. She looked over to her sister who was caring for a dying Leo while clutching her own stomach in pain. Paige stood up, ready to get revenge for her loss, no matter what. She hurled orb balls using both hands, one after another. All the time, she moved closer to Astaroth. This was all his fault. Her boyfriend was dead, her daughter was dead, her sister was dying, and her brother-in-law was dying. Finally, she was only a few feet away from the Source.

"Stupid witches," he said with a cackle, "you thought you could stop this, but you can't. What will you do now, Missy Paige?" he asked in a mock voice. Paige's eyes hardened.

"You bastard!" she spat.

"Yes, I suppose you could put it that way," he said with a smirk. Paige formed an orb ball in her hand. "That won't kill me," he said smugly.

"No, but it will damn well hurt," she said venomously, hurling it into his face. He screamed in pain. Astaroth grabbed Paige by the throat.

"You will pay for that, witch," he said angrily. Paige gagged as her airway was blocked off. She didn't know how the hell she was going to get out of this one. As she started to feel light headed, she realized that she didn't care. If she died, she could be with Frisco and Persephone and her mom and Grams full time.

'He wouldn't want that. None of them would. You have to fight,' a voice screamed in her head.

'I can't. They're all gone,' another said.

'No, you still have your sisters. You can do this. You have to. You've never let death stop you before,' the first voice argued.

"Any last requests?" Astaroth asked.

"Just one," Paige choked. "The pain you brought, you now shall feel, a hole in your heart that will never heal, take this evil from my sight, vanquish them all in this endless night," she said. Astaroth started to laugh, but suddenly his hand was burning. The pain coursed through his whole body, blowing him up from the inside. The explosion was so strong that it blew everyone off of their feet. All of the demons burst into flame, leaving only the witches and their army of good. Prue stood up, coughing and waving the smoke out of her way. She looked around as it started to clear to see the source of the explosion. In the very center of the battlegrounds, she saw Paige's limp lifeless body. Paige had done it. She had ended the war, but in doing so she took her own life. Prue ran to her baby sister's side.

Paige had died for us, for her sisters, for the world. She was good. It just confused me even more as to why I was having these strange feelings about her. It was all confusing. I read more, going into other chapters.

Paige orbed down after a minute. She knew what was happening when she saw Phoebe on the couch. Something strange kicked in and she when over to Phoebe.

"Okay Pheebs, you need to breathe and push," Paige said. The others looked at her like she was crazy, but Paige stayed calm. Phoebe did as she was told. This baby wasn't going to be as cooperative though. It seemed more painful then her sister's had been and it was taking ten times longer. After several hours of Phoebe's screams, Paige announced that it was out and held up the form of a baby. It wasn't crying like the others did though. It was still. Tears filled Phoebe's eyes as she looked at her baby, lifeless and limp. Paige handed it slowly to Phoebe, who took it and sobbed heavily. Cole was motionless. He stood there as if waiting for it to move. Suddenly, new cries joined Phoebe's. She jumped, a little startled and looked at her baby who was now balling just as his cousins had done. Tears of joy replaced the ones of sadness that had been flowing from everyone's eyes as Phoebe held her baby to her tightly.

"Hello Preston Coleridge Halliwell," she said happily.

Paige had also delivered Preston. She helped bring my cousin into the world.

"Okay guys, we need a plan," Prue said.

"I've already got one. Death's not stupid, so he'll know a trap when he sees one. But there is one thing he can't ignore," Paige said.

"Another death!" Phoebe exclaimed. Her sisters looked at her. "Sorry."

"That's a good idea, Paige, but that would mean that another human would have to die," Prue said.

"Exactly, but since the Angels of Life and Destiny will already be there to save Piper, then they can save whoever dies as well, which would have to be one of us," Paige said.

"Okay, so who's going to die?" Prue asked.

"Me," Paige replied.

"Paige, are you sure you want to do that?" Phoebe asked.

"No way. I'm not letting you die again. What if something goes wrong?" Prue asked.

"That's the chance I'll have to take. I've been there once, Prue. I'm not afraid to do it again," Paige said firmly.

Paige had risked her life and even died again just to save my mom from Death. It was no secret that her and Mom had never been the closest of sisters, but she did it anyway. The more I read, the more frustrated I got with myself. Why did I not like Paige if she had done all of these good things? It didn't make sense at all.

I jumped about ten feet off of the bed when my cell phone rang out loudly into the silence. I hadn't even noticed the darkness that had closed in around me in my frantic search for some answers. I grabbed it out of my pocked and looked at it. It said 'P4 Club' on it.

"Yeah Mom?" I answered.

"Hey Parker, did you get my note?" Mom asked.

"No, I didn't see it. Where is it?" I asked.

"It's on the refrigerator. I just need you to buy some supplies. We're running low on herbs and stuff," Mom said.

"Okay. I'll grab them. See you when you get home," I said.

"Yeah, be careful okay. Love you," Mom said.

"Love you too, Mom," I said, hanging up. I sighed and went downstairs and found the list right where Mom had said it was. I grabbed it and orbed into an alley right beside the ingredient shop in Chinatown. I went inside, grabbed the things I needed, and quickly went back out into the alley. Just before I was about to orb home, a demon shimmered in.

"Perfect, a nice place to hold my powers," the demon said.

"What?" I asked, but before I could do anything he threw something at me. It soaked into my body and my mind instantly clouded. I looked around, very confused. I had no idea what I was doing. I looked down at the bag in my hands and quickly orbed home. I went straight to bed, still trying to shake the confusion out of my head. For some reason I couldn't get a single clear thought to come into my head except for the fact that I was a good witch and I had to get rid of the things that didn't belong. But what didn't belong? One thought surfaced to the top of my brain and it was very clear: Paige.

By the next morning I had made up my mind that I was going to get rid of her. I couldn't get my mind to clear enough to make up a good plan though, so I decided to just go about normal things until I got the chance to get Paige alone. Then I would get rid of her. She didn't belong. She had to go.

That day also happened to be the first day of finals. I couldn't think clearly at all. The only thing I could think about was killing Paige and doing good for the world. All of the things that I had spent hours studying were buried somewhere in my brain and it hurt too much to try to find them, so I just left the page blank.

"Are you feeling okay Parker?" my teacher asked, looking down at my blank paper.

"Uh, no, actually I'm, uh, I'm," I stuttered. I couldn't even get a full sentence in.

"I think you should go to the nurse. You look warm," the teacher said. It was true. I was starting to sweat and my brain just kept getting cloudier. It was starting to hurt.

"Uh, yeah," I said, stumbling out of the classroom and to the bathroom. I quickly orbed to Magic School. I had to finish this now so that my head could stop hurting. Paige looked up from her desk.

"Parker?" she asked. "Is something wrong?"

"You're wrong. You don't belong here," I said. I went to use my power, but instead of wind coming out of my hands, acid came out. Paige's eyes went wide with shock and she orbed out and back in quickly.

"What the hell are you doing?" she asked frantically.

"I'm doing good. I'm getting rid of what doesn't belong," I said, using the newfound power again. Paige ducked this time and the acid burned a hole in the wall behind her.

"Leo!" Paige called. Dad orbed in.

"Parker? What are you doing?" he asked.

"I've already been through this," I said, trying once more to hit Paige with the acid. Dad grabbed onto her and orbed her out. I quickly sensed her and orbed into P4, where I saw Paige, Mom, and Dad behind the counter. I shot acid at them once more, but they all orbed out this time. I was becoming annoyed and also... very lightheaded. I orbed to the manor where I sensed them, but I got very woozy upon landing and I soon blacked out.

I woke up countless hours later in my bed. I had no idea how I got there or why I wasn't in school. My whole family was sitting around me, trying to make sure I was okay.

"What happened?" I asked.

"You got hit by a Power Broker. They take their powers and store them in humans until they can sell them to another demon," Cole explained.

"A Power Broker? Why?" I asked. He shrugged.

"I guess you just happened to be there when he was looking for someone," he said.

"Did I do anything bad?" I asked.

"Yeah, you tried to kill me," Paige said coldly.

"I what?" I asked, horrified at the thought. I may not like Paige, but I would never try to kill her.

"You said that I didn't belong and you were going to get rid of me. I know how Power Brokers work, Parker. I got infected with one once before too. You target the people that you don't like," Paige said angrily.

"But-" I started.

"I don't want to hear it. I knew you had a problem with me, but if you could have just told me then we could have worked it out," Paige said, standing up.

"But that's the thing! The other night I was trying to figure out why I don't like you and I came to the conclusion that it was because you were only a half-sister and a half-breed, but it didn't make sense to me. I'm a half-breed too and I couldn't understand why I was feeling these things. They didn't seem to be my feelings either. They seemed foreign and distant. I read through The Army of Witches to learn more about you, but all I could find was good and it just confused me more. I just don't understand why I'm feeling these things about you, Paige. I'm sorry. If I knew, I would tell you and try to fix it, but I don't," I said. Paige's eyes had welled up with tears. I knew that she had always had trouble feeling like she fit in with her sisters and it must have been really hard to hear these things after so long.

"Wait, you said that you don't think they're your feelings?" Dad asked. I nodded.

"Yeah, why?" I asked.

"Because White Lighters can sense other people's emotions to a certain extent. Not so much that they actually feel like the feeling are their own like an empath would, but your power of that may be amplified," Dad explained.

"So you think he's picking up on someone else's feelings?" Phoebe asked. Dad nodded.

"But who's?" Frisco asked. I looked over at my mom. She had a very guilty and sad look on her face.

"Mom?" I asked. She looked up with tears in her eyes.

"I'm sorry Paige. I'm so, so sorry," she whispered. Paige looked horrified, like she had just been slapped in the face. She slowly backed out of the room. Frisco and Percy went after her.

"Piper! What the hell are you talking about?" Prue asked. Mom sniffed.

"I don't know! I don't why I feel this way, but I always have. I've always felt like Paige isn't really our sister for some reason. I thought that after all of this time I would have gotten over it, but I haven't," she said.

"Piper, I can't believe you. Paige is our sister. We love her. How can you think that?" Phoebe asked. Mom didn't say anything; she just sat there and let the tears run down her face. One by one everyone left the room until it was only the two of us.

"Mom?" I asked softly. She still didn't reply. "Mom, it's okay. I understand what it's like to feel a certain way about someone and not know why. I've been doing it my whole life. But Paige is your sister. She shares a mom with you. She's a Halliwell as much as you are. She cares about you deeply. She was even willing to die for you. I read about it in the book. When you got taken by Death, she stepped up and offered to sacrifice herself to bring you back, even though there was a chance that something could go wrong. She loves you and I know you love her. You just have to overcome your fear of letting someone else it. It's long overdue. Let the bad feelings leave your mind once and for all," I said. Mom looked up.

"You're right. She doesn't deserve the way I've been treating her. I need to talk to her. I need to apologize," Mom said. I took her hand.

"I think I know where she might be," I said. I orbed us to a graveyard. We saw Paige not too far ahead, kneeling by a gravestone. I gave my mom a reassuring look and she went over to Paige. They sat there for a long while in silence before they both finally broke down in each other's arms. I smiled. There was hope for them yet.

The next day I managed to salvage my finals that I missed. I told the teacher that I had been very sick and she let me retake them all. I passed with flying colors, needless to say. When I got home, I found my mom and Paige at the kitchen table talking. They both looked up.

"Hey," I said. For the first time in my life, I finally felt like I actually liked Paige. I saw her in a whole new light. She was as cool as they all said she was. I was glad too, because that meant that Mom had finally let Paige into her heart.

"Hi honey, how was school?" Mom asked.

"It was good. I managed to salvage the finals that I missed yesterday when I was in my craze," I said. Paige grinned.

"Yeah, those Power Brokers really suck," she said. I nodded. "Well, I need to go. I have very boring work to do at school."

"I'll see you later sweetie," Mom said. Paige nodded and they hugged before she orbed out.

"So are you guys better?" I asked.

"Yeah, we are. We had a much needed and very overdue talk and I finally realized that she was okay and that it was safe to let her in," Mom said. I smiled.

"That's good. I think you guys both needed that. She finally feels part of the family and you finally feel like she is," I said. Mom nodded.

"How do you feel about her?" she asked.

"Like she's the absolute coolest aunt in the world and I can't wait until my next lesson," I said. Mom laughed.

Even though I had been completely out of my mind, I managed to do good. Maybe Power Brokers weren't so worthless after all. That didn't mean that I wouldn't kill the next one I saw though... I had even decided that I would no longer leave my feeling bottled up like that for so long, whether they were mine or not. Because emotions still sucked and they could make or break me in a minute.

Wow, it's done. That chapter felt like it took forever to write. It was good though. It cleared the air. So now I can gladly get rid of the tension between Parker and Paige. Who'd of thunk? Anyways, till next time...

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