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Part 2 – Matthews or Halliwell

"Your angry" Paige spoke,

"No...P why would I be angry...I mean I come back to find that my baby sister has a new family! I'm not angry" He spoke sarcastically.

"Paige...we'll give you some time...and nice to meet you" Prue spoke as she indicated for everyone to leave Paige and Rick alone.

"Thanks Prue" Paige spoke, then looked back at Rick, "Can we talk about this?" she asked,

"No, I think I'm going to just go!"

Paige was horrified at this remark, "What do you mean go? Rick, please..." Rick was torn between wanting to rip the door open and leave...Make a scene or to talk to Paige, sort this out.

"P, how should I react? I mean, I can't help but feel...Replaced" He admitted.

"Rick, you know I love you with everything that I have..."

"So, why the hell did you go of looking for your...REAL FAMILY" He shouted.

"Come in and sit down. I'll get you a drink"

"A drink is not what I want, I want my old sister, her old life where everything was fucking simple" he shouted.

Paige backed up a bit... "I, I needed to know" she spoke quietly.

"Know what, that the family who abandoned you at birth had some great life... to know that they can offer you a hell of a lot more than I could." He was visibly becoming upset, and when he was upset he became angry.

"She never told him?" Phoebe asked as she walked into the kitchen and took a seat at the breakfast bar. Piper walked around back to her place at the side of the cooker facing her sisters as Prue took a seat next to Phoebe

"obviously not..." Piper added,

"Well guys, you have to understand...he loves her very much, you can see that. He must feel some sense of uncertainty towards us and his place with...us." Prue spoke.

Phoebe and Piper both nodded, "yeah, and what was she meant to say, 'hay Rick, how are you? I found my birth family'" Phoebe said.

"Well I hope she's okay" Piper spoke "...do you think he'll stay for dinner?"

"I highly doubt he'll stay till the end of the convocation" Phoebe said, as they hared Rick and Paige's raised voices, flow through the manor...every part of the conversation could be hared.

"Rick, just calm down" Paige ordered as they walked into the living room, "Have a seat" she offered.

"P...I do not want a seat...I mean what the hell is this...it's not you"

"What isn't me"

"This, the whole setup. They are not your real family, not like me..."

"Rick, to me, they are..."

"I have drove fifteen hours straight to get to San Francisco, I searched for you for a god damn hour...I expected an all night drinking binge, not a sister who has found a new family"

Paige now shouted, out of pure annoyance at her own screwed up life..."You knew Rick...after mom and Dad died, when I came out of that coma that I was criouse."

Rick nodded, "Yeah okay lets talk about that...Where were they? When you were in the coma. Where were they the nights you'd come home legless...high? What about when we lost everything and were living on the streets? They were here in this comfy little house, with a cat sat in front of the fire, mulling over the perfect fucking lives"

Paige looked into the eyes of her older brother, "Take it down Rick"

"P...this is as low as you are going to get it...I feel a lot worse, I feel like putting my fist through my own face." Paige looked at his trembling hand.

'I'm sorry' she wanted to scream it, shout it in his face. Just to get him to look at her how he used to. To get him to hug her and smile. But she realized how stupid it sounded, how could she be sorry? She was not...sure she knew that he was never going to take this well but there was no way that she could apologise.

"So Paige where's mommy and Daddy?" Rick asked breaking the silence.

Paige was hurt by this, "Rick, MY mom and Dad are dead. They died in a car crash with me next to the car as it exploded. The people who gave birth to me, they are not part of my life...Patty Halliwell and Sam, they are dead. And to me they were never alive."

Rick looked at his baby sister, he knew that with the last comment he had hurt her, but the truth was he had never in all his life thought that this would be something he would have to do, accept that a girl he loved, his sister would find her real family. "Why do I have to accept this?" He screamed.

Paige moved forward, "Because they are part of my life now. They are my family."

"What about me P, I have nothing left?" He sounded so defeated, angry and hurt all at the same time.

"You are not losing me Rick. How can I make you see that? I love you so much"

"we grew up together Paige, but I now, and only now understand that you were never happy"

Paige's eyes widened, "I was happy Rick, and if Mom and dad never died then there is no way that I would have come looking, but they did. I just needed to be sure that I was someone...I needed to understand why?"

Rick's anger rose once again, "What so I'm not someone? I was not enough for you to hold onto and be someone...you needed more. Well Paige, a family that gives you up must have one goddamn hell of a reason to change you, make you forgive. So what is it? Because I sure as hell remember those nights that you'd drink, drink so much that you couldn't stand and there was not a part of you that was able function. But one thing you would always ask me was why? Why they'd leave you? Why they gave you up? You would tell me how shit that made you feel. And here you are in the middle of those people who made you feel like this, you have forgiven them. You are living with them like nothing happened." Rick moved forward towards her, "P, you told me that there was nothing that anyone could ever do to make you forgive them, well what the hell was it that made you give up your past. Did it mean that little too you? So what are you now? Halliwell or Matthews?"

That was too far, that hit a nerve, Paige already felt this guilt and there was no way she needed her older brother, someone that she loved sot this out...

"I am a Matthews, always have been and always will be. MY past meant everything to me. Mom, Dad and you were my everything. Don't sit there and tell me how it felt to be given away...because you where never there Rick. You always knew you were loved... There were people out there somewhere who had given me away. I was not good enough for them. That hurt like hell. But you accepted me, you loved me...mom and dad loved me. You guys have all my love, you have all my life. Don't make it sound like I have traded you in." Paige walked backwards, then swung around to face her brother again. "Rick, I was traded in so that some ones life could be made easier. Like I was nothing...given away. I meant that little to these people who I never even had a picture of. If mom and dad had given you away...you'd feel all this emotion, but you know what eventually you'd go looking. You want questions answered, questions that you would have lived with for a life time...I wanted answers. And I found my answers, My sisters...sisters that I love, who love me. Just like you love me. To feel accepted by a family who gave you away...well that makes me feel better in my self. To finally know that I am now good enough for this."

"I was there Paige, all your life I have stood by your side. You shouldn't have needed anything more. I love you"

Paige nodded, "I KNOW YOU DO. So do they" Rick just looked at his sister, he saw the pain and realised this was just something that they'd have to work out...

He still had so much to deal with and it'd be hard. But did he have a choice? He stepped forward and grabbed his younger sister, Pulled her in against his chest as she let the suppressed sobs fall, fall freely.

"I don't want to lose you P. Please, promise me that I'll always be your big brother"

Paige eventually managed to speak to him, "Rick you'll always be my big bro...I... please understand, they are my sisters too" Rick rested his head on Paige's, "P understand this is going to be very hard for me...and I may very well be over protective...but I love you...just...give me time"

Phoebe, Prue and Piper were all in the kitchen, they had all hared everything...they had know idea that this is how Paige felt. There was silence...no words could be spoken as they were all taking in the words, the harsh words spoken.

Prue felt the need to walk into the room and take Paige in her own arms...but somehow she felt pushed away, like she had no right to. All in the manor felt to some degree a sense of insecurity. Felt weak.

Would they manage to make it through this? Is it possible or would Paige have to choose between Matthews or Halliwell...

And if so who?