KID part 16
Okay guys this part may be a little strange to you, I
based this lil' bit on myself. When I ever want to be close to
someone I can't get too well I find that the special lil' spot
helps. This is mainly a little Paige emotion! Phoebe rambling! And
how I myself cope with the aspect of loss! May seem a strange thing
to do but…hell…she's just lost her b.f nothings going to be
normal at this point!
It may be a lil slow moving and sorry if it
is! Thank you so much for reading and WOW on the reviewing, i'm so
happy dat you like it so far! THANK YOU again!
Well enough talk from me! Here is part 16
Paige
walked into the kitchen and over to the counter side, she was
expecting a note to be pressed onto the coffee pot and a fresh jug
made but there was nothing. Although it had been two and a half weeks
now since he had been shot she couldn't get used to him not around
her. A stray tear fell and this caused more to well up, reaching over
she took the coffee pot and as she did there was a nock at the door.
She tried to wipe the tears away as she pulled it open, Phoebe was
stood on the other side, "Hey you" She smiled
"Hey
Phoebe…come in" She stepped back and started to walk back to the
kitchen, she walked over to the sink and ran the tap. Phoebe walked
over and wrapped her arms around her sister, "So guess I don't
have to ask how you are huh?"
"It's hard" Paige managed,
whipping away another tear, "I just miss him"
Phoebe
nodded, "That's why me and you are going to go out today"
"We
are?" Paige asked turning around
"Yeah we are…what do you
say to me and you driving, driving away from it all" Phoebe
asked
"Do I have to come back?" She asked, as she placed the
coffee pot on its holder and pushed her hand through here hair.
"Well
yeah... but for a few hours how about you pretend that you don't
have to." Paige looked at her hands, "I don't know…"
"Paige
you haven't been out of this place for weeks"
"I can't do
it…I just…" she stopped and looked at the coffee pot, hoping
Phoebe wouldn't see the pain.
"Honey I
know it'll be hard but you can not stop living" she said
sympathetically.
"Why?" She asked, "I feel dead inside
anyway. I'm not ready to live in a world he doesn't exists
in"
"How about I take you to a different world then"
"What?
Phoebe you're making no sense"
"Would you place your trust
in the hands of your big sister?" Phoebe asked. Paige looked at
Phoebe and reluctantly she shook her head yes.
They had been
driving for a good hour now and not much had been spoken between the
two as Paige was in her own world looking out of the window. She
turned and looked at Phoebe who was driving, "How…How's
Prue?"
Phoebe looked across at Paige as she drove along the
deserted road. "Well she's been better. She's over come with
guilt, she's hurting"
"Guilt?" Paige asked
"Yeah"
"Why
she never lifted the gun?" Paige asked as she looked back out of
the window
"No but she brought the guy into your life."
"I
don't blame her, never did even when he kicked the crap out of me
at 15"
"You're angry at her though?" Phoebe asked
"Angry
yes! Angry that…you know what it don't matter anymore, weather
I'm angry, sad, upset because it won't change what has become.
But I swear to god Jack, I'll kill him if he ever…"
"Jack
won't be back, Jack isn't going to be in your life anymore"
Phoebe said,
"No and…neither is Rich"
"Do you hate
her for that?"
"Who?" Paige asked looking back to
Phoebe
"Prue, do you hate or blame her one bit for that?" She
asked
"Truthfully I don't have any strength or room to hate
her... but that goes for the liking of her too. Love Phoebe, Love
would exist still if she lifted the gun herself because weather or
not she wants to believe it Prue was my mother. WAS though, now I
love her because she's my sister…nothing more than that"
Phoebe
pulled the car over to the road side, she turned and looked at Paige.
"She's hurt you?"
"Yeah…but she's still my
sister"
"But not your friend?" Phoebe asked
"Not
anything more or less than what she is – a sister"
Phoebe
nodded in understanding, "She never wanted it too come to this you
know"
"She never wanted to see that it had come to this…Phoebe
it was this the day he brought a knife to my throat and threatened to
kill me. I just…I can't think about Prue right now"
"I
understand that Paige" Phoebe said, "I got something to show
you"
Paige looked out around her, "Phoebe we're in the
middle of no where"
"Yeah, and that's the best part of it
all." Phoebe explained as she stood out of the car and walked
around, Paige stood up from the car and buried her hands in the
pockets of the leather jacket and followed Phoebe.
"a
mountain, Phoebe your making me climb a mountain?" Paige asked, as
Phoebe stood on the peak and looked as he sister pulled herself up,
she helped her up. "Yeah"
Paige was about protest as she
looked out over the land left below, she sat down and Phoebe smiled
seeing Paige instantly be sucked in, sitting next to Paige she
wrapped her arms around her. "Up here, you're not alone are you?"
Phoebe asked
As a tear
tumbled down Paige's face she shook her head, "No!" She
chocked, as she fell back into Phoebe's chest Phoebe hugged Paige
from behind tighter. "He's here with me" She explained,
"Yeah
I know the feeling." Phoebe said as she looked out onto the world
they had left. "When, when Andy died, like us all, I felt like we
lost a brother – I jumped in the car and put my foot down I wanted
to get away. This is where I came, I came to the top, I sat here and
I cried…"
"When you came back to the manor that night
soaking wet and late…you came and lay in my bed…that's where
you where?" Paige asked her big sister.
"Yeah, I was here.
I've come here a lot since then. I feel like I'm away from life
for just a minuet and I'm not having to deal!" Paige sat again in
the silence as the memories and time spent with Rich came back.
She
spoke to Phoebe after ten minuets of sitting there, "You ever
wanted to stay upon here, not go back"
"All the time" Phoebe
explained, "But it doesn't work like that, you can't give up on
life Paige, I want you to understand that. Come up here, have a time
out of it, a break but never turn your back and walk away"
"Why
not, life's turned its back on me, Mom, Dad, and Prue; Rich…they
have all gone"
"Prue's not gone"
"Prue's not gone,
but the Prue I used to know has…"
"She didn't ever want to
hurt you" Phoebe said. Paige just nodded and closed her eyes,
"Yeah
she never wanted to but she always manages too. Stupidly I'd always
go back…maybe if I hadn't and I had let her go on with it let her
sort it out, Rich would…" Paige closed her eyes and once again
fought back the tears, "I've never felt this alone Phoebe"
Paige confessed.
"I wish
I could take the pain away"
"Nothing can" Paige explained.
Phoebe was
trying to find the right time and as she looked down on Paige who was
lay now with her head rested on phoebe's legs on top of the
mountain the older of the two ran her hand gently across Paige's
face, "What are you going to do?"
"About?" Paige asked
"I
know Paige, Piper told me about…about you having Rich's baby"
Paige's
eyes instantly opened, "DOES PRUE KNOW?"
"No…"
"How
about we keep it that way?" Paige asked
"She'll find out
sooner or later Paige"
"Yeah she will and guess what I'm
hoping it'll be later and I'll be the one to tell her okay"
Paige snapped as she sat up and pushed her hands trough her hair.
Phoebe followed her, "I'm sorry" She said after a
moment
"Nothing to be sorry for" Paige said, "I'm
sorry"
"Your hurting"
"I'm
scared"
"Understandable…Piper didn't want to tell me. I
went over and she seemed really distant I drove it out of her, She
really didn't want to"
"Who else knows?" Paige asked
looking back to Phoebe
"No one"
"Can it stay that way
till I'm ready?" Paige asked a little softer this time
"Sure
it can honey" Paige nodded and then looked back out across the
land, "Would he have been happy?"
Phoebe looked at Paige,
"Rich?" The older asked
Paige nodded her head and looked back
at Phoebe, "Yeah, do you think that he'd be happy?"
"I
know he would. He loved you Paige, he wanted nothing more than to
spend the rest of his life with you"
"I loved him Phoebe,
really loved him. There was no explaining to you what I felt when
he'd hold my hand. I mean Jesus there were so many times I was
Fucked up like, in the head. Times I'd drunk myself near death.
He'd hold my hand, and I'd have no fear, I wouldn't be alone
anymore." Tears again fell down Paige's face; she was so used to
them now that she let them fall, without stopping them they fell from
her face bouncing of the rocks the two sat on. All Phoebe was there
for was to listen; it's all she could do. "When I was growing up,
I was determined 'my kid, it'd have its dad. Wouldn't be alone
like us but Phoebe it's just like us. It's going to feel the same
pain we felt"
"Not going to happen"
"Isn't it?"
"No
honey" Phoebe wrapped her arms around Paige, "Nothing will ever
happen to you or this baby."
"I don't think I can do
it"
"You can Paige and you know why because your strong, you
and this baby are going to be strong and the baby will know what a
great guy his father was!"
Paige looked back out across the world, Phoebe was right, she felt like she was apart from it all yet joined with Rich! Looking up at the sky she spoke, "It'll always be your baby Rich! ALWAYS!" She said. Phoebe took Paige's hand and the two lay back on the mountain top looking into the sky. Paige, tear stained eyes closed as she pushed yet more tears away. Phoebe's heart been pulled apart with every suppressed sob from Paige. This was going to be very hard for Paige.
tbc...
