Chapter 5: Finding Whats Lost

Leo materialised in a beautiful haze of blue and white lights to be greeted with three very distressed faces.

He had heard the urgency in Pipers call and was already anxious about why his girlfriend was calling him.

"What's wrong?", he asked, almost dreading what the answer would be.

Piper walked over to her boyfriend and looked directly in to his blue eyes with her own watering brown eyes.

"We can't find Paige. Can you sense her?", Piper asked franticlly.

Leo nodded and shut his eyes, concentratng hard, Paige was like a little sister to him too.

A few seconds passed when Leo finally opened his eyes, "I...I can't sense her anywhere" Leo said with a look of confusion on his face.

"What! If you can't sense her then she could be hurt, or worse! What are we gonna do ?" Phoebe cried getting seriously worried about her little sister who was no-where to be found.

"Shh calm down Phoebe it's okay." Piper siad trying to calm her little sister down.

"Okay? How is it okay? How can you lie to me like that, again ? You can't just make everything better by saying everythings alright all the time Piper !" Phoebe yelled at her sister while tears streamed down her face.

Piper looked hurt by Phoebe's words. Phoebe immediatley regretted what she had said. Piper struggled to hold back her tears.

"No, no I can't.I just wish that someone would do the same to me, tell me everythings gonna be okay even when I know its not. I just wanna help you guys." Piper said sadly, turning her back and walking towards the attic.

Prue watched as her family slowly drifted further and further away from each other at the worst possible time. She wasnt gonna sit back and let it happen.

"This is rediculous! Phoebe I know you're worried about Paige sweety, but theres no need to take it out on Piper. Now I want you to go apologise so we can find Paige. I'll go get the scrying crystal and something of Paige's." Prue said taking charge of the situation best she could.

Phoebe did as she was told, she knew not to mess with Prue when she was pissed.

Phoebe entered the attic to find Piper searching through the book of shadows and trying to hide her pain. Phoebe waled up to her big sister. Piper looked down at Phoebe. Piper could tell that Phoebe hadnt fully meant what she said and that she regretted saying it. Silently by looking into Piper's eyes, Phoebe apologised. Piper smiled gratefully and the two sisters embraced.

Prue walked into the attic and smiled at the sight of her two younger sisters in a warm embrace, her thoughts drifted to her youngest sister, who was alone, scared and quite possibly in danger.

"Okay, hate to brake the moment but we gotta start looking for Paige." Said Prue in a serious voice.

Piper and Phoebe nodded in agreement and together they started to scry for their youngest sister.

Meanwhile, the youngest Halliwell sister sat perched ontop of a rock. Her nostrils stung with the strong smell of burning. She had orbed to a place where she knew leo could'nt sense her nor could she be scryed. She had orbed to the underworld. She had to end her sisters' pain. She was hurting them and making them upset. Paige may only be five years old, but she was a brave kid. Orbing to a place over-run by demons and the purest of evil wasnt where every five year old wanted to be.

Paige knew that he was sick but she didn't quite know how serious it was. She knew that she was getting worse, she could hardly even stand she was so weak. If she wanted to go back to her sisters she knew she probably couldnt even orb.

'Well I guess its a good thing', Paige thought. 'My sisters are better off without me. They dont have to be sad anymore. I'm gonna miss them though'. And with that thought she fell asleep perched ontop of the rock. She didnt even notice the large figure approach her from behind.

In the attic of the Halliwell household, three young girls were each huddled over a detailed map, Piper was dangling a scrying crystal over a map of San Fransisco. Prue was using a map of America, and Phoebe was using a map of the world. They all prayed that Piper would be the one to find Paige. After an hour the youngest sister's patience had run out.

"Why can't we find her? Where could she be? What if..." she couldn't finish the last question as she was overcome with tears.

Prue could hear the frustration in her little sister's voice ran to her kid sister's side as she heard her voice crack at the last question.

"Oh Pheebes don't worry I'm sure she's okay. Wherever she is we're gonna find her." Prue said looking into the teary eyes of her younger sister.

"But how?", Pheobe asked, hoping that Prue would know a way of finding Paige.

"I'm not sure sweetie, but I wont stop looking until she's safe in my arms again." Prue said with a look of determination in her eyes.

Just then, Leo orbed in.

"Well the elders can't sense her either and she hasnt, well you know." Leo said, knowing that dying and Paige was a touchy subject.

"That only leaves one option". Leo said grimly.

The three sisters looked at him to finish his sentence. Leo took a breath before saying,

"The Underworld."