Hi everyone, sorry about the delay.
Thanks for the reviews:
charmed1s-halliwells- Thank you, I am glad you liked it. My other story was when Prue came back as a whitelighter, but I don't think I will write anymore Paige/Prue fanfics after this one, I will not leave anything for anyone else! Thanks for the review.
mel11- Thank you, I hope you like this chapter two.
charmedtomeetyou- Lol, sorry about that. Hope you like :)
britt- Thank you, lol, I'm glad you think so.
The Swedish Mystery- Thank you, I'm glad I am staying true to the characters.
PrUe AnD AnDy!- Cool, thanks for the review.
Thanks to my beta, Lauren.
Enjoy…….
CHAPTER THREE
MOTHER DEAREST
Paige walked into the familiar room, noticing the curious looks she received from Cole and Leo, who had still yet to speak to her.
"Come on, the sooner we get this done, the sooner we know the truth." Piper said, throwing Paige a glance of distaste, obviously not believing her identity.
Paige was getting nervous under the constant stare from everyone in the room.
"Haven't you guys ever heard of innocent until proven guilty?" She asked in her own defence, causing Phoebe to smile a little.
"Found it." The raven-haired Prue stated, who had been flicking through the Book of Shadows.
Prue quickly lighted a circle of white candles on the floor, everyone watching her intently.
"Shouldn't we tie her up or something?" Piper asked, throwing her long ponytail over her shoulder, before receiving a glare from Prue and Phoebe.
"Oh it was only a suggestion." She said in a huff, before looking at a yellowed page in the ancient tome.
"Hear these words, hear my cry. Spirit from the other side, come to me, I summon thee, cross now the great divide."
Paige felt a flutter in her heart at the now familiar white orbs, but know matter how many times this occurred, she couldn't fight the nervousness at being with her mother again, the mother who had given her up. It helped now she understood why she was left to her foster parents and no longer felt a sense of betrayal at the parents, she thought, didn't want her. Never the less, there was always an awkwardness between them, one that probably would never go away.
"Girls? What is wrong?" A familiar voice asked.
Grams, not exactly the person they had wanted, but a help none the less, she thought to herself, carefully staring at the back of the figure, who was facing her three sisters standing by the lectern.
"Grams, why does this girl think she is our sister?" Piper asked angrily, waving a hand at Paige, causing her grandmother to turn around and stare at her.
Feeling uncomfortable under her gaze, and wishing she wasn't wearing a miniskirt, Paige cleared her throat and looked at the shadowy apparition.
"What's your name dear?" The older woman said kindly, giving her a calculating look similar to Prue's.
"Paige, Paige Matthews." She said slowly, hoping her own nervousness wasn't obvious to everyone in the room.
"And why, Paige, do you claim to be their sisters?" Grams added, a nasty undertone in her voice.
"Would it help if I said my father was also my Mother's Whitelighter and I was given to Sister Agnes to find a foster home at the Catholic Church?" Paige said, noticing the astonished expression on her grandmothers' kind face.
"Patty!" Grams yelled, looking up towards the heavens.
Almost immediately Patty appeared, wearing a simple dress, looking beautiful even though she was semi transparent.
Grams and Patty exchanged a few muttered words, ignoring Piper's protests and Leo's attempts to calm his wife down.
Patty, once finished talking, stepped out of the circle, becoming temporary flesh and blood to hug her youngest daughter, causing everyone in the room to look at them.
"Girls!" Patty exclaimed, receiving immediately silence from everyone in the room.
"This girl is telling the truth, she is your half sister. Sister witch." She added thoughtfully, ignoring the shocked expressions on everyone faces. Even Cole looked surprised.
"You remember my Whitelighter Sam?" She asked rhetorically. "You knew we had an affair, I got pregnant." She said.
"Before you and Leo, Piper, having a relationship with a Whitelighter was unthinkable, let alone be pregnant with their child. So, we did what we had to do, we gave her up."
Paige smiled sadly at the ashamed and forgiving looks from her sisters.
"But now, you are reunited, as sisters. But, this was not supposed to happen. Prue, you were meant to die from Shax's attacks." Grams added, allowing a moment for this information to sink in.
"Obviously, it was destiny that this was to be changed, through your sister travelling back in time and to change the events. She will not be sent back until whatever she has to do is done. Then maybe there will be a brighter future for us all." Patty added, giving a pointed look at Cole, who was pacing behind Paige.
Phoebe, Paige noted, was a little confused by her mother's look, but didn't ask questions.
"We have to go now, goodbye my darlings." Patty said, with Grams saying a similar farewell.
"Well, I guess I am sorry I didn't believe you." Phoebe said, walking over to Paige and encircling her in a sisterly hug, one that she returned.
"It's okay, I expected you to be suspicious." Paige said, fiddling with the hem of her miniskirt idly.
"Wow, another little sister." Prue said, walking over to her smiling. "Welcome home." She said simply, giving Paige another hug, one that lasted a lot longer than Phoebe's hug.
"I don't know what's up with you!" Piper yelled, storming over to the small group. "It's obvious she has cast as under a spell or something!" She added, before storming out of the attic.
Leo sighed, scratching the back of his head. "Nice to meet you Paige." He said with a small smile, before leaving to find his wife.
"Don't worry, she will come around, she is just upset that Mum didn't tell us." Phoebe said, giving Paige a small smile, before dragging Cole over.
"This is my boyfriend Cole." She said, with a dopey smile plastered on her face.
Cole gave her a small smile, extending his hand for her to shake.
Paige tried to convince herself that Cole wasn't the Source, that he was not evil, but memories of the past, well, future were not boding well for her comfort.
Recoiling slightly, she drew back from his hand, nodding a little, and doing her best to ignore the confused glances Prue and Phoebe sent to each other.
Cole himself just shrugged and left the room.
"That was rude." Phoebe said bluntly once her boyfriend had disappeared down the stairs.
"I am sorry, but what he has done, or will do, might do, whatever, was awful and I don't trust him at all. Is he still a demon?" Paige said, noting the surprised look on Phoebe's face and the thoughtful look on Prue's.
Phoebe nodded, before leaving the room, shaking her head to herself.
"What does he do?" Prue said, wiping her hands on her jeans for no apparent reason. Maybe it's a nervous habit? She thought to herself, smiling slightly.
"Oh, he becomes the Source Of all Evil, marries Phoebe, gets her pregnant with the devil's spawn before we vanquish him. Oh and then he comes back form the dead as invincible and I have to go into an alternate universe to kill him. Oh, wait, add suicide attempts and him breaking up with Phoebe somewhere in their and that's pretty much it." Paige said in a light tone, not wanting to cause mistrust to start within the family.
"I see." Prue said quietly, absorbing the information she had received.
"And how do we stop this from happening?" Prue said, motioning for her to sit on the couch she had just sat on.
"Well, I suppose we would need to kill the Seer. Then the Source, but definitely the Seer first, she was the one who manipulated Cole." Paige said thoughtfully.
"How do we do that?" Prue said to her, looking at her with her cobalt eyes.
"She's an upper level demon, so a potion of her own flesh, much like the one to kill Belthazor." Paige said, causing Prue to smile a little.
"That we can do!" She exclaimed with determination.
"But first, we need food and if I know Piper, she is probably making enough to feed an army, she cooks for comfort." Prue said, dragging Paige out of the attic.
"I already knew that, I just hope she makes a coffee cake." Paige said, bouncing down the stairs behind Prue.
"Hey that's my favourite too!" Prue said, causing them both to laugh at their newfound connection.
Maybe I am more like her than I originally thought, Paige mused, grinning to herself.
They passed Phoebe on the stairs down to the parlour and she gave Paige an unreadable look, before looking over at Cole who was watching the television in the comfy living room.
"Come to my bedroom later, we need to talk." Her older sister said in an undertone so Prue couldn't' hear, ignoring the look Prue was giving her.
"I would not go near Piper, she is ranting about hidden relatives and ignorant mothers." Phoebe said in a slightly louder voice, before giving Paige another look and bounding up the stairs.
"Don't worry." Paige said, ignoring Prue's stare.
"Did Piper act like this the last she found out she had a sister?" She asked, as the two settled in the solarium, settling onto two white, wicker chairs.
"Worse, as you were dead and well, she couldn't' cope well and turned into some demon I forget the name of to escape the pain." Paige said, softening slightly under Prue's look.
"I always thought that demon's would never be able to hurt me, that good always wins, I guess that's not so true."
Paige stood up and walked over to her older sister, giving her a hug.
"No, good will win, always. But you can not think you are indestructible Prue, you have to take care of yourself because no one is all powerful." Paige said, hoping that her older sister would be more careful from now on.
"Come on, let's go make sure Piper is not blowing anything up, she hasn't got control of that new power yet." Prue said, laughing slightly.
"Let's just hope she doesn't get angry at me!" Paige said, half joking, half contemplating whether Piper's new power would work on fellow witches.
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I hope you enjoyed that, a lot of Prue/Paige interaction. I think most of you can guess the plot by now, but I may add some plot twists to throw you off track, lol.
This is quite a long chapter, let me know if you want them any longer or shorter, I usually aim for 5 pages in word, most of the time now its closer to 10, but anyway, let me know.
Please review!
Dan.
