Part one – BIG bomb

The sun was falling into the sky; very gradually the blistering heat was beginning to turn to a still ness, the kind of still ness that was worse than the blistering heat, the kind that took your breath away, suffocating pollution added to the mugginess as the roaring cars that passed him by spat out a cloud of exhaust fumes.

The air conditioning in his car did not work, it had not worked since the day he had got the car almost five months ago, 'trust me to buy second hand' he thought. At the time it seemed like a good idea, save a few pounds to buy himself a decent sound system, but it was only now he wished that the sound system, that by the way was not so decent did not top the list of priorities the day he set out to buy the car.

His acoustic thrown in the back, his car holding everything that he owned, this is how he lived, he liked it, no strings to hold him down just him, and the open road. Where ever he would take himself FREEDOM.

As his car continued to chug down the interstate he came to a sign, 'San Francisco – 10 miles' a small smile crept across his rugged yet handsome face. Slightly unshaven, and his dark longish hair fell gently over his face. His eyes, deep brown showed such emotion, such depth, such pain.

He lent across onto the passenger seat of his car, picking up his small mobile, flipping it open he dialled a number and waited...

Paige was sat at the kitchen table flipping through papers and files, submerged in a mountain of text she was only recognizable by the fiery red hair. "Hay Paige, What are you doing?" Piper spoke as she walked into the room, startling Paige. Paige managed to throw a burning glaring at Piper and respond quickly before returning to work, "Doing? I'm working on what may be the biggest case in my career to date and I have failed to realize that case files on such a large case do not come as singular. But my boss also failed to tell me that in the so called 'business' as he called it. Never underestimate the power of words and always expect the worst." She slammed her hand on the largest of the files, "this is the WORST" Piper pulled a 'oh dear god, why did I ask' face before walking over to the coffee machine.

She returned placing a large mug of coffee in front of Paige and taking a seat at the table with a mug herself. "So bad day at work?" the older asked, "The worst" Paige spoke, "The worst thing is I have no life to actually miss so this is the only thing that I would be doing on a Thursday night" Piper had to smile, "Paige overdramatic much? You have a life, one fine piece of life if I recall. Where is Richard?" "Richard is working." Paige closed the file, "something I am not doing anymore..." "Well have you eaten?" Piper asked, "Nope, you?"

"Not yet, I was going to do dinner now! What do you want?" Piper asked. Paige smiled, "How about spaghetti?" Piper smiled although they had only known Paige a while she was just like a sister she grew up with, "That I can do"

Phoebe and Prue were walking down the stairs to the manor, laughing and talking. "Look all I'm saying is that all he has to do is...not orb out" Prue spoke, "I mean I wanted to talk to him" "Yeah well you just wanted to moan about something...how frustrating is it for Piper" Prue nodded, "Your right. I'm going to moan at out sis about her husband anyway" It was then that the door bell rang, "You do that..." Phoebe spoke as she walked towards the front door.

Phoebe pulled open the door to see a guy, "Hay" Phoebe spoke, The guy was dressed in a white shirt and a brown leather jacked, with worn jeans and a pair of boots, lent up against the door frame, "Hay, by any chance would you know a Paige Matthews?" Phoebe nodded, "Yeah, just a in..." The guy, who now smiled in relief steeped through the door and stood in the foyer. Prue was stood behind Phoebe, the guy looked at them and smiled uncertainly, they looked so familiar.

"Paige, guy at the door!" Phoebe shouted, it did not take long for both Piper and Paige to walk through, but Paige stopped in her tracks...a smile forming on her face...

"You know P...you're one hard girl to find" The guy mused, "I had to ring Glen to find out where you were" Paige ran towards him, throwing his arms around her he pulled her close, "Rick...Jesus, I missed you" "You too P. It's been way too long" after a few seconds Paige stepped back, "you back?" She asked, "For a while..." Paige then turned to face her sister, she chocked, 'shit' she thought, "Erm...Rick, this is...Piper, Prue and Phoebe guys this is my brother Rick" she introduced. "Hay, so your Rick" Phoebe smiled as she out stretched her hand Rick took it, "I am. So you guys live together? What happened to the loft?" "Rick, these...there...my...sisters" Paige explained, Rick looked from Paige to the three Halliwells, "What?" He asked, "These are my sisters" Paige repeated, Rick never spoke...just looked at the others, after a few very uncomfortable moments Rick spoke, "Oh...well...that was..." "I know, a BIG bomb shell..." Rick looked down at Paige...

His sister, that's what he saw, he saw the P he used to party with, protect, the P that used to need him...HIS sister. And he could not help it, his protective nature was kicking in...and it was not going to be pretty...

Well guys - there was part 1. I'll try and update as soon as possible...please RandR. Thank for reading TOTEM