Getting On With It
22 year old Phoebe Halliwell sat in her office at San Francisco's Bay Mirror. She was the leading advice columnest in the whole city and had even won three awards. People were envious of Phoebe's celebrity status, good-looks and seemingly happy life. People who knew Phoebe knew of her as a kind and warm hearted girl.
They however did not know of the empty feeling she had in her heart. A feeling of emptyness she had bourne since the death of her best friend, her baby sister Paige, 13 years ago.
The knews of the youngest charmed one's death had caused devastion in the Halliwell family. Prue had shut herself away from the rest of the family, refusing to speak of how she really felt. Phoebe and Piper knew that Prue blamed herself for Paiges death and tried on countless occasions to get Prue to open up but this only caused Prue to learn how to shut herself away more.
Piper had been on a demon hunt, vowing to venge Paige's death by finding the demon who had took her baby sister away from her and making them suffer a slow and painful vanquish. It has only been recently that Leo has been able to talk some sense into her, this only gave Phoebe and everyone else a picture of how defeated she was feeling.
Phoebe, who had been the closest to Paige, as they were both so young, had took the news hard, refusing to believe that Paige was gone. She would stay awake at nights until she couldnt keep her eyes open, just in hope to see if Paige would come home.
Three years after Paige's death, Phoebe realised how badly the death was affecting her family and decided she wouldnt end up like Prue or Piper. She had to get over Paige's departure, for her sister's and her own sake. Although deep down, and she never told her sisters this, something was telling Phoebe not to give up hope.
Phoebe's thoughts about her decaying family life were interrupted by her boss Elise, and editor of the Bay Mirror, entering her office.
"Well Phoebe I just checked over your column and sent it off to the printing, you can go home early if you like." Elise said with a small smile.
Phoebe's boss had always had a soft spot for Phoebe. She was reliable, hard-working and extremely talented.
"Thanks Elise, I'll call by in the morning to pick up my stuff, I think I'm gonna have to work at home the next few days." Phoebe said to her boss.
Elise nodded and smiled goodbye before walking out the office to bully some apprentice into getting her a coffee.
Phoebe smiled at her boss's antics. Elise was understanding of Phoebe's relationship with her sisters and also knew of her youngest sister's death 13 years ago this week. Phoebe had told Elise how her family felt the need to be close to one another at this time of the year.
Piper wondered around the manor kitchen aimlessly trying to prepare dinner for herself, Phoebe, Leo and Prue, 'if she decides to come out of the basement this time' Piper thought sadly.
Piper heard the door being closed and in walked Phoebe, her youngest sister. The sight of her sister's glowing face gave Piper that little bit of hope that helped her get out of bed in the morning and get on with her life, she couldn't dwell on the past. If only Prue felt the same way.
"Hey Pipe, what ya cooking?" Phoebe asked her sister as she plopped herself down on one of the kitchen chairs.
"Well I've not decided yet, so wot would you like?" Piper asked her little sister
"How about pasta, I'll help." Phoebe said cheerfully.
The two sisters got to work on making dinner, while downstairs in the basement, the oldest of the three sisters, Prue was working in darkness developing photos for her work. Prue had thrown herself into her work the past couple of years and become very successful. She loved to take photos, she used to do it all the time when she was young and it gave her a sense of being. Behind where the woman was concentrating on developing her photographs, was a wall fulll of photographs. The photographs were of Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Paige. Every photo had the image of the small redheaded girl's bright beaming smile on it.
Every night Prue would stare at the wall, wishing that somehow she could hold her baby sister once more in her arms and tell her how much she loved her and missed her greatly.
Once Prue had finished developing her photos she decided that she should make an appearance upstairs to prevent another lecture from Piper about how it was unhealthy to stay down in the basement all day.
As she reached the top of the stairs she opened the door and smiled at her two sisters who were happily making dinner together. As she was about to leave the kitchen a demon shimmered in behind her throwing a fireball at her back.
"Prue!" Screamed Phoebe just in time for Prue to dive out of the way.
"She is comming, be warned that she is no longer who you think but ..." The demon started to say before another demon much bigger than it shimmered in and destroyed it before he could finish.
The new demon smiled evily at the three sisters before shimmering back out.
The demon appeared back infront of a huge cave in the underworld where there were hundreds of demons chanting and yelling in sheer evil enjoyment. At the front of the cave stood a woman clad all in black with firey red hair. The demon made his way towards the worshiped woman before comming to a halt and bowing before her.
"Forgive me your darkness, but I'm afraid that the charmed witches seen him before I could kill him." The demon said in a deep menacing voice.
The woman turned around to face the bowing demon. "Dont worry Lucius, I have the perfect punishment for you" The woman said before the Demon spontaniously combusted and was engulfed by flames.
"I never did like his fashion sense anyway." The woman mumbled to the man standing next to her.
"Paige, you have to stop this now, look at this, it's getting out of control." the man said motioning to the rable of hundreds of demons littering the huge cave.
"Oh Kyle, you really don't know when to give it a rest do you?" Paige said impatiently.
"Come on Paige, I know you, I know you dont really wanna do this." Kyle said trying to urge Paige into calming things down.
"I would watch myself if I were you. You might just spontaniously combust." She threatened.
"I know that you wouldn't do that" he answered
"Oh really, and why is that?" She asked mockingly.
"Because you love me, and I love you." he said in a serious tone.
Paige stopped smirking and turned to look at Kyle straight in the eyes.
She pulled her gaze away from his peircing blue eyes.
"I told you, I can't let that interfear with my destiny." Paige growled, looking out at her followers.
"This is not your destiny, your destiny is with your sisters, fighting scum like this." Kyle said motioning once again to the crowd of rowdy demons.
Paige turned once again and looked straight into Kyle's loving,blue eyes.
"I dont have any sisters" she growled at him, before walking back into the back of the cave.
Kyle watched the retreating back of the woman he loved and sighed in exasparation.
He had to stop her.