Chapter 11

What Now?

Piper looked down and realized Paige had finally cried herself to sleep. "What are we going to do about her?" asked Piper in a whisper pointing to their sleeping and distraught little sister.

"We just have to get her to tell us what is going on," stated Prue firmly.

"Well I know she feels like she doesn't belong here with us and I'm pretty sure she feels lost. I also think that she's also hiding something else, something that she obviously doesn't think she can tell us," Piper said.

Phoebe looked at Piper in shock and whispered, "How in the hell did you realize that?"

"People instincts, she's always had it," responded Prue.

"Huh?" asked Phoebe with a very confused look on her face.

"It means she can tell: who to trust, who not to, knows when someone's lying, and if there is something wrong with someone," said Prue with pride in her voice.

"Oh," said Phoebe a look of dawning on her face. "No wonder she could always catch me lying, Prue must have it also she always could spot that I never picked the best boyfriends," she thought to herself.

"Thank you Prue but you have it to and if Phoebe payed more attention to the world around her she might be able to have it to," said Piper teasingly.

"Very true Pipe," said Prue. "Also yes I do have it but not as good as you and your right Phoebe is now a big sister she'll have to learn the hard way," she retorted teasingly.

"Hey I pay attention," said Phoebe but she saw the looks on her sisters' faces and added, "Most of the time." "Okay now we know that she is definitely hiding something from us but that doesn't really help us if we cannot get her to trust us," she said more seriously to her sisters.

"We could plan a sisters' day for tomorrow like watching movies and just hang out and talk and see if we could get her to relax a little more around us and get her to open up," suggested Piper.

"Sounds like a good idea to me," said Prue with Phoebe nodding her head in agreement.

Phoebe then scooted closer to her baby sister and started to gently rub her back but she was immediately pulled into a premonition:

Screams came from a 13-year old Paige as who Phoebe figured was Paige's step father whipped her over and over again and yelled about her trying to get him into trouble by telling her teacher that he beat her. The whips got harder and harder each time he whipped her baby sister.

Phoebe was pulled out of her premonition but was already sobbing and Prue was right there to comfort her younger sister. Prue immediately grabbed her younger sister and Phoebe gratefully clung to Prue.

"Shh Shh calm down then you can tell us what you saw," said Prue

"Paige she was was was," Phoebe choked out while still sobbing and clinging to Prue.

"Calm down first then you can tell us what you saw little one," said Prue as she continued to sooth her younger sibling.

It took a few minutes for Phoebe too fully calm down. "You okay to tell us what you saw little one?" asked Prue, she always used that nickname for Phoebe when she was upset or distraught.

Phoebe nodded her head to show she was okay to tell them what she saw. "I saw Paige and she looked to be about thirteen and her father was was was," Phoebe barely choked out because she began to sob again. She just couldn't understand why anyone would want to do that to someone, hurt someone that much.

"Shh it is okay just calm down and then just pick up where you left off," said Prue worried what her little one had seen that made her so upset.

Phoebe calmed down once again and continued, "What I saw was Paige being whipped repeatedly, harder each time he did it to her."

"Oh god," said Piper covering her mouth with her hands.

"Wait there is more," said Phoebe. "The gashes in her back were huge and bleeding and it looked like that from the scars on her back that he had done it more then once," Phoebe said trying not to break down again.

Prue hugged Phoebe tighter and said, "Well if that is the case then there is probably going to be tissue damage in her back and deep scars. Phoebe how many times did you see him whip her?" asked Prue looking down at Phoebe.

"About 20 or so times but he didn't look like he was going to stop anytime soon and he was yelling something about her trying to tell someone," said Phoebe as she started to cry again and cuddled closer to Prue. She soon cried herself to sleep while still in her eldest sister's embrace with her head on her shoulder and sitting in her lap.

"Piper are you okay you haven't really said a lot," said Prue quietly as to not wake her younger sisters.

"Yea well I am just trying to process all of this," said Piper with tears in her eyes but she quickly wiped them away.

"Oh huney I know this must be hard on you, it is hard on me to," said Prue comfortingly to Piper. Then she added sadly, "Especially since she should have grown up with us."

"Prue this is not your fault, I should have been more welcoming when we found out she was our sister," said Piper sternly.

"Piper this is not your fault either you did not know what happened to Paige since before she met you and Phoebe," retorted Prue. She shifted herself so she was sitting next to Piper leaning against the headboard also with Phoebe still clinging in her arms. Then she replied, "Come on huney we should go to sleep now and then we can see if Paige will open up to us tomorrow."

"Okay good-night Prue I love you," said Piper shifting herself so she was laying down but Paige still could be remotely comfortable and of course still in Piper's arms clinging to her like Piper was an over-sized teddy bear. Then she pointed to Paige and said lightly, "It should be interesting trying to sleep with her clinging to me."

"Yea well I got Phoebe clinging to me so don't complain," said Prue adjusting herself on the queen sized bed so she and Phoebe could be comfortable for the night.

That is the end of this lovely chapter people!

Author's Note: Hey people! I hope you liked my lastest of my masterpieces. Lol. Anyways I am sorry it has taken me so long to get this uploaded. My computer was disconnected because we are re-doing our basement so I am using my Grandma's computer. I don't know when the next chapter will be posted but I promise it will not take as long as it has taken me lately. About the whole instinct thing is that I to have what I am having the sisters have; call it personal experience. Though my friends hate me for it especially my ex best-friend Becky that was what made me and her not be friends anymore because I don't like her little lover boy cause I don't trust him. He is a controlling little butthead and now she is just realizing it. Anyways enough of one of my many personal problems. I am truly sorry it has taken so long for this to be posted I don't know even why I told you guys about the whole Becky thing but I am just trying to go on with my life and not think about losing my friends. Not that I have much of a choice. Sorry to dump this on you maybe I should just delete it. No you guys need to know why I have been taking so long with these chapters to tell ya all the truth I have been soul searching etc etc.

Ang