Paige made sure that she was the first one up the next morning. She didn't want to risk getting caught casting a spell. Her sister's didn't want her in the attic under any circumstances let alone casting spells or participating in anything that had to do with magic so she had to be extremely cautious. Creeping over to the book of shadows ever so slowly the girl picked the book up off of the stand and brought it over to the attic sofa.
She was in awe over all of the different spells and potions that the book held. The more she flipped through the book the more she became filled with anger and jealousy. How dare her sisters keep her from her inheritance, from her legacy? They had no right and the more she thought about it the more irritated she became.
The young witch couldn't help but wonder how much excitement and experience she was missing out on just because he sisters felt the ridiculous need to protect her. Sure she was grateful that they cared for her and loved her the way that they did but that was no excuse. She was a grown woman now and was more then capable of defending herself and certainly didn't need their constant coddling of her.
"It doesn't matter any more because I'm about to find the perfect spell to change all of that" the woman spoke out loud with a smirk.
"Why use a spell and have to share in the power with your sisters when you can go out on your own and become more powerful, more feared yet loved and have complete dominion over the earth all without having to answer to any of them" a man dressed in all black spoke as he stood in front of her.
Paige looked up to come face to face with someone she had never seen before. The man was about 6'2" with dark hair, cold blue eyes, a strong build and wore an evil smirk. In fact if she hadn't found him to be amazingly creepy she would have thought he was pretty hot.
As she continued to look him over she saw a Celtic tattoo on both his wrist and had some type of knife in his belt loop. He also had an earring in his nose, lower lip and several in both ears.
"Like what you see?" the man smiled.
Although she wanted to scream hell yes, she decided against it. Suddenly she became overwhelmed with a sense of apprehension. Ignoring it and going against her better judgment she felt the need to hear the man out and she would start with the obvious question first.
"Who are you?"
"I'm the answer to all of your prayers" he answered rather smugly.
"Really? And you would know of these prayers how exactly?"
"That doesn't matter. The important thing is that I'm here now offering you the chance of a lifetime"
"The hell it doesn't. You're sitting here telling me how great it would be to strike out on my own and follow my destiny away from my sister but I can't help but wonder just what you'll be getting out of all this" replied Paige who know stood face to face with her very intriguing house guest.
"Nothing, just helping you to break free of your overbearing sisters, that's all. Noting more, nothing less" he said.
"Then you don't mind if I sleep on your deal, now do you?"
"Of course not, take as much time as you need. After all important decision such as this should not be made hastily"
"I see. So how would I get in touch with you?"
"Just say Keeper of Dreams come to me, your face I wish now to see and I'll come running" he said running his fingers through the young witch's hair before being pushed away.
"Oh don't be like that honey" he laughed evilly.
"Don't call me honey and if I take you up on your offer and that's a big IF, I'll call you but until then you need to get out of here before I sick those overbearing sisters of mine on you" warned Paige.
"If that's the way you want it. Oh one more thing. I don't think that you should mention our little chat to your sisters after all you don't want them to get into one of their "we know what's best" modes and vanquish me before you have a chance to make up your mind"
"Now why would they want to vanquish you? What are you evil or something?" she said studying the man's face as he replied.
"It depends on what you would define as "evil"
"Oh cryptic, nice" Paige said sarcastically.
"No, just being honest"
Suddenly the voice of her second oldest sister interrupted her conversation.
"Paige are you alright? Who are you talking to?" the woman questioned as she made her way up the attic stairs.
"You need to go before she sees you"
"Alright but remember when you've made your decision just call" the being smiled wickedly before shimmering away.
"Paige" Piper called as she entered the attic followed by a very annoyed Prue. "Hey I thought I heard voices up here" the woman continued as she looked around the attic.
"Nope, it's just me up here. I was looking for that old decorating book I brought a few years ago. I was thinking about redecorating my room and I was singing so that's what you probably heard" she lied.
"Oh, well the next time you need something from the attic just ask me Piper or Phoebe to get it for you" replied Prue. "And don't give me that I'm old enough to handle myself crap Paige"
"Why not? It's obvious that I have to remind you since you keep treating me like a child"
"We're not doing it on purpose Paige it's just that we want you to be safe" added Piper.
"Or have you forgotten last night's incident?"
"No Prue I haven't forgotten" the girl replied in a somber tone. She loved her sisters to death but they could really be a pain in the ass sometimes. Hmm, maybe that guy was on to something, she thought. If she joined him then she could prove to her sisters that she was capable of more then just protecting herself but she would be able to keep them safe along with other innocents as well.
"PAIGE" Piper screamed jolting the girl from her thoughts.
"Yeah?"
"We have to go. Remember the meeting at P4" the woman continued pointing to her watch.
"Right"
"Are you sure you're ok" questioned a concerned Prue.
"Yeah I'm fine" she responded as she headed for the attic stairs. "I'm just going to go take a shower and change then I'll be downstairs in a flash"
"Ok" Piper responded giving her older sister a "something's wrong" kind of look without voicing her concerns and letting the girl onto her suspicions.
Once Paige was out of sight Piper made her thoughts known.
"Something is really…" she began. "Off" her older sister finished for her.
"Yeah, to say the least"
"Ok umm I have to get to work and you have to get to P4 so we'll talk about this later just keep an eye out for her and if you notice any more weird (then remembering who she was thinking about) well any weirder behavior call me"
"Ok" Piper giggled as she watched her sister leave the attic.
A thousand things went through her mind as she thought about her younger sister's rather odd behavior. Had she stumbled across something in the book that scared her? Was she still suffering the effects of the night before? Had she been confronted by a demon? No, if that were so then Paige would have screamed her head off for them. Or would she?
The last thought didn't sit well with the woman but she had a meeting to go to and didn't have the time to ponder any further but when it was over she would get to the bottom of things. She just hoped that by the time she was able to address it that it wouldn't already be too late.
Fire Gazer-Oh I don't think the word trouble covers it. LOL Paige is about to get herself into a load of trouble. What will that trouble be? You'll just have to keep reading to find out.
Paige Halliwell-Oh you poor girl! How do you survive? Well at least you were able to take a break from the annoyance to read my story. Thanks for the review and I hope that you liked this chapter as well.
Who-will-change-the-world-So am I. (Ha I can say that because I'm an only child but I do have younger cousins who I'm sure would say the same thing about me that Paige is saying about her sisters so I can't say much on the subject. LOL) Hope you enjoyed the newest chapter and please don't forget to review.
Nathy1000000-Aww. Thanks so much for the super sweet reviews and I'm happy that you like most of my stories. P.S Please hurry up and update a Brother's Bond. The suspense is killing me!