Quick update guys! I know it hasn't happened in a long time, but me and totem r pretty busy with all this stuff, and co-writing is harder in terms of schedule matching… We hope you like this… (aaaah the end is near… of this well maybe not THAT near)

That was all that she to hear, Paige turned away from looking at the young
boy, the boy who she'd promised to take care of. Her eyes beginning to water
and her heart pounding, if she hadn't been stuck with the cop then Paige
would have sorted Nate another way but…she had to do it by the book. Hah,
the book, and where the hell had the book gotten her? The boy was in a hospital bed. And for what? For the laws and rules she had to follow. She didn't speak, but Kyle did, "We'll leave you alone for now Mrs. Parks" She didn't even seem to acknowledge them. Kyle put his hand on Paige's arm but she pulled it away from him and walked from the room.

"Paige, Paige don't walk away from me" He called down the corridors.
She swung around, "I told you, all along – it's him," She growled, holding back all the sadness and anger that was trying to break through.
"We have no proof of that," He whispered.
"How much more proof do you need? You need him dead…is that it?" Paige
shouted, and Kyle looked around not wanting to be having this argument here with
them, in front of anyone.
"Can we do this back at the station?" He growled. Paige looked into
his eyes. Was he really this stupid, could he not see what was going on?
"I'm going,"
"Going where?" he asked,
"I don't know, I'm not doing this though."
"Paige!"
"What? WHAT KYLE? - I told that little boy in there I'd help him, I wouldn't
let anyone ever hurt him again. You and me, we don't think the same – you
have no god damn feelings how can you be so cold?"
"Maybe you need to have a break from this case" Kyle said, plain, cold –
professional.

"Maybe you should spend a day Kyle, one day in my job. Go to some of the
places I do, see some of the children I see and then…you act this detached.
You go back and you do this evidence shit…call me if you get anything" With
that she turned and began to walk away from him. He looked at her, in shock.
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The door slammed shut, a forceful slam and that lead to the oldest sister
walking threw the manor to investigate. "Sis…you okay?" She saw Paige
walking towards the stairs, "Paige?"
"I'm fine" Paige managed weakly, she began up the steps, "I just need time
alone"
Prue was worried, very worried. She watched her baby sister mope up the
stairs.

She walked into her room and shut the door, she walked slowly over to her
side cabinet, and this was something she hadn't yet had the courage to do
but something she now felt that needed to be done. She out stretched her
hand slowly, it was shaking… she pulled open the top draw and from it lifted
a letter. A small envelope, on it her name scrawled in black ink, neatly.
She sighed, her hands were shaking and it seemed all the pain she felt that
day she had been given this right after he left were re surfacing. Maybe she
had never dealt with it.

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Kyle burst into his office and slammed shut the door, he threw the file on
the desk and then paced. What the hell was he going to do? About the case?
About Paige? He was so lost in this mess, what could he really do now? Maybe
he couldn't do anything, or maybe he wasn't thinking straight. Maybe things had to change.
He didn't know all he knew was that things couldn't keep going on like they
were.

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"Paige?" She knocked on the door twice, "Paige can I come in?"

"Yeah" Paige replied weakly.

Prue pushed the door open and walked into the bed room, she saw her sister
leaned against the back of her bed – mascara ran down her face, mixed
with tears. She wasn't looking up, and she leaned her head motionlessly
against the back of the bed. She looked at the letter she held in her
hand. "Paige, you okay?"

Paige just shrugged her shoulders.

"Stupid question huh?" Prue walked further into the room and over to the
bed, she sat on the side next to Paige and rested her hand on Paige's. "Talk
to me" She pleaded.
Paige read the letter over and over again, leaving a silence between the two
– there was no doubt of the concern from Prue however. Maybe it was time
Paige talked; maybe it was the only way. She didn't look up, just began
speaking.

"…I got a call" She began, "this morning, and then I go to the hospital. I
can't do this anymore…I just can stand back and watch children being abused,
and hurt. It's breaking me…can't he see that?" Paige was rambling.

Prue really wasn't learning anything from this. "Who see what?" She asked.

"Kyle, I had a fight with him" Paige explained,

"Is that what's upset you?" Prue asked, trying her hardest to comfort a
sister she had no idea what was troubling.

"Remember Nate, when I came back…from his that morning. I was really upset?"
Paige asked. Prue nodded her head – "I told you this morning about me loving
him and him leaving me then. The night after we'd…"

Prue just nodded her head, confused, how was this now the problem?

"He gave me, a letter… I couldn't read it till now…" Paige held the letter
to Prue, and let her big sister read it. There was silence for a few moments
as she did in fact read it she then looked up to her young sister.

"Paige," Prue said, a little sadly.

"He wasn't even…" Paige said, feeling a choke in her throat. "He didn't even…"

"Shhh, I know," Prue wrapped her arms around her sister, with Paige feeling secure for a bit.

"I-I should show it to Kyle." Paige whispered, for once, looking into Prue's piercing eyes.

"I thought you were taking some time off on the case," She said brushing her fingers through Paige's hair.

"Yeah, I know, but Kyle needs to see this, and… I guess when I said I quit, I said it more to hurt Kyle, cause if I quit now, how can I help those kids?" Paige asked, sitting up.

"I don't know." Prue gave Paige a little smile, "You are really improving on being open."

Paige shrugged, "Yeah, I guess."

Tbc...