Dealing … or not!

"You know what we should have just told her" Rick shouted as he paced back and forth the living room, he hadn't ever wanted to hurt Paige, he loved her – and he knew that this was anything but the way he had wanted it to turn out.

"Yeah well it's too late now" Phoebe shot back, just as frustrated. "she hates us"

"Fuck" He growled, he walked straight passed where she was sat, where the woman he loved was and towards the front of the door.

"Rick, where are you going…don't walk away" Phoebe said standing up, "Your not leaving me to deal with this"

"Phoebe, she knows…P knows! You think she's coming back here?" He bellowed, "She doesn't want to see either of us right now and even more than she wants to see either of us she sure as hell don't want to see us together" he was shouting at her as if she was stupid, as if she couldn't see this.

"You think I don't see that…I'm just as pissed she found out like this. I never wanted it to end up like it has" Phoebe shot back, "I've never seen her that hurt and it kills me to think I did it to her"

"WE" he screamed, "WE DID IT TOO HER" he pushed his hand threw his hair and took a deep breath turning around he ripped his jacket from the hook.

"Where are you going?" She asked

"I'm getting out of here" He shot back before throwing open the door and then slamming it shut. Leaving Phoebe stood in the foyer. She wrapped her arms around her waist – she couldn't believe this…she walked into the kitchen slowly not knowing what to do. She'd hurt Paige bad.

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Paige drove, the car driving faster picking up speed. She pushed the gears to the limit; pushed her foot to the floor…it was as if a release for all her anger. She hadn't known just what had hurt her most that they had done this behind her back or that they had done it right in front of her- In her home. It hurt watching them …

She just kept her foot to the floor…so many different kinds of emotions; she just wanted all this to be simple, to be easy – like when they were kids. She and Rick had been best friends she wasn't exactly sure where it was that had ended. They had all grown up and, sadly it seemed apart. How could she not have seen this…right there in front of her?

She just drove faster, with no destination just into the openness.

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"What the hell? How could you get involved with him – what was all this not complex enough?" Piper asked a little pissed as she walked in the kitchen and started to pace.

"Piper, look it's not like I meant for all this to happen it just did. I love him, and I'm sorry if that hurts you, or anyone else for that matter it's just how it is." Phoebe stood up from where she was sat…

"Yeah well it's hurt Paige" She shouted at her younger sister, "Jesus Phoebe you should have just walked away from this…I mean, it was already complicated enough"

"I can't help how I feel Piper…it's stronger than anything I've ever felt…you don't understand. If I could have, just walked away I would have but…I really do love him too much to just throw it away" Phoebe explained,

"Why didn't you talk to her…both of you should have before it got this far…FOR GOD SAKE PHOEBE. What happens if you two break up...is it not awkward enough for you?"

"What was I meant to say…err Paige do I have permission to sleep with your brother? … Come on Piper, it just happened. I didn't think oh how can I make the problems around here worse? Look, you don't think it killed me to keep this from her"

"Yeah well maybe you should have just come right out and said it" Piper explained, As Phoebe was there thinking, she came to the conclusion that maybe that would have been for the best.

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"Hey honey I was hoping you would stop by" Paige looked up from where she was stood at the door looking into his eyes, the eyes of the man she loved. "Is everything okay?" He noticed that something was off with her. Paige didn't speak, she just stepped forward and let him hold her, right now she was lost and confused she needed someone to just be strong for her, she rested her head on his chest as he wrapped his arms around her waist, "Has something happened?" HE asked, getting overly concerned.

Paige looked up at him, and her lips slowly moved forward until she was kissing him softly. She wanted to know someone was here for her, she needed him to be here for her. He kissed her back until she softly pulled back. "Sorry it's late" She said, he sensed the pain in her voice.

"No problem…want to talk?" He asked as he guided her further into the house

"Not really…" She said taking a seat on the sofa, as he sat next to her. She turned to him "You're been straight with me right?" She asked.

Richard was actually kind of shocked by this, "Err, Paige?"

"I'm just…I don't need anymore secrets, just tell me there's nothing that I'm going to find out and hate you for is there?" Paige asked, actually fearing the answer.

Richard lent over and took her hand, his other moving to her wait as he sat close holding her. "Paige you know me…everything…I promise" He explained. "There is nothing you don't know"

Paige looked from his loving eyes to the floor, "I'm sorry" She apologized, "I just, I think I'm going mad" She explained.

"Paige, talk to me" He encouraged, "What's happened?"

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Rick walked up threw the darkness, across the beach, he didn't know why he had turned up here but he had. It was seemingly empty there was nothing around him – he had been walking for a few minuets now having left his car on the road side. He couldn't believe this … how it had got to this. He knows full well that Paige was hurting, hurting bad and he was the cause if it. So many days when they were younger he had spent insuring Paige never got hurt like this, and now he was the one that had done it.

As he stood in the dark, he was alone until he felt a presence behind him. He turned just in time to see a guy stood behind him, the tall well built guy that seemed to tower him. Moments before he had been alone, no one around for as far as he could see, he really couldn't understand how this guy had gotten behind him so fast and without him knowing.

"Rick?" The man asked, "Rick Matthews"

"Who are you?" Rick asked

the reply was not one that he was expecting "its not who am I, it's what am I?"

tbc….

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