Disclaimer: I still own nothing of charmed.
Paige stood over the bassinette with her baby self in and smiled as baby her orbed a dummy into her mouth.
"You came into your powers really quickly." Sam said proudly as he stood beside her.
"So I'm half witch and half whitelighter?" Paige asked. She was finally getting answers about this whole twice blessed thing.
Sam nodded, "Yeah and white lighters are a witches guardian angel. Haven't you got one yet?"
"Don't think so." Paige looked back down at her baby self who was looking back up at he happily.
"Paige…" She turned to see Sam looking down at the floor shuffling his feet. "Am I a good dad?"
Paige was slightly surprised by this question. What was she gonna say. She hadn't seen Sam since she was four and even when she saw him then it was never for very long.
"Umm, to be honest, I haven't seen you since I was four." At Sam's slightly disappointed and hurt face she quickly added, "but you were great when I did see you then."
"ok," Grams came into the living room holding several crystals. "We can set up another cage and trap him when we summon him."
"I better take the girls up to the attic, if anything bad happens I can orb them up there." Sam signalled up to the ceiling and picked up Baby Paige.
"Up there?" Paige turned to Grams who shook her head. "I'll explain later dear."
In the kitchen Piper stood over a small cauldron making a potion that was in the book of shadows. "Does any one else feel like cackling?"
Prue didn't answer Piper she just frowned and said, "Why are we making a stun potion?"
"So that if Grams and Mom's powers don't keep him at bay then we can just stun him." Phoebe tucked her hair behind her ears then picked up a news paper.
As she looked at the date she was filled with horror. "Prue what was the date that mom died?"
Prue shrugged, "In July the year Paige was born. Why?"
"It's June 30th! What if the demon came back to kill mom!" Phoebe dropped the paper and turned to go warn Patty when Nicholas appeared in front of her.
Before she could do anything he grabbed her neck and threw her into Prue and the two of them toppled into the cauldron and Piper. The potion made a bang and the three of them were stunned.
Nicholas smiled to himself and quietly walked out of the kitchen.
Patty, Sam, Paige and the young charmed ones stood in the attic.
"Why do we have to stay up here mommy?" Little Prue asked.
"So that you don't get hurt." Patty pulled little Prue, Piper and Phoebe into a hug. "Don't worry Sam will look after you. He might even read you a story."
"Cinderella!" Little Phoebe called out.
Patty smiled and kissed baby Paige on the head. "You be good for daddy."
Baby Paige made a noise and then orbed a teddy to her.
"Come on then." Grams opened the attic door, "Lets go get the others."
As soon as she stepped out of the attic she was thrown back in again and Nicholas appeared in the doorway. He laughed, "Don't even try and fight me. You won't succeed."
Patty went to freeze him but he put his arm out and shot a lightening bolt at her.
She quickly dived put the way and yelled at Sam, "Get the girls out of here!"
Sam grabbed the girls and began to orb out but Nicholas shot a lightening bolt at him. Sam got hit and he hit the wall and stopped moving.
"DAD!" Paige stepped forwards but Nicholas ran forward and grabbed her arm.
With a simple twist Nicholas broke Paige's arm. Paige gave a small scream and Nicholas pushed her to the floor. He then advanced on the little Charmed ones. He created a large energy ball and aimed it at the girls.
What happened next happened very fast for Paige. Nicholas threw the energy ball and Patty screamed no and dived in front of the girls and got hit instead.
Penny quickly scrambled to her feet and using her telekinesis power threw Nicholas back.
"Piper freeze him!" Penny ordered the little girl.
Little Piper froze him then, with her sisters, ran to her mothers side.
Paige to hurried to Patty's side and gently shook her hand. "Mom?"
A few seconds later Sam woke up and appeared next to Paige. He held his hands above Patty. When nothing happened his face fell.
"Sam?" Penny, who was holding a screaming baby Paige looked down at the white lighter.
"I…I'm sorry but I…I can't heal the….the dead." Tears appeared in his eyes and his head fell onto Patty's arm.
Paige was stunned, dead? No she can't be. Paige had only just got her back. Before she knew it Paige too was crying.
A little while later Prue, Piper and Phoebe ran into the attic and they too shared their little sister grief.
Then after another short while, Grams put some crystals around Nicholas then began to make a spell. Sam healed Paige's arm then took the baby charmed ones downstairs and the big charmed ones sat shocked. Their mother's body not that far away from them.
"We could have changed it." Phoebe muttered after a little while, "If only we had thought or…" Her voice trailed off and she looked down to the floor.
"I'm going to bind your powers." Penny announced suddenly. She looked at the girls then said, "Nicholas isn't the first demon to try and kill you, they don't want you to live out your destiny's. If I bind your powers, evil won't be able to sense it and therefore won't try and kill you. When you become the ages you are now you'll be ready to defend yourselves so you'll get your powers back."
"But what do we do about Nicholas?" Prue asked looking over to the demon.
"Vanquish him." Penny stood up and handed them the piece of paper with the spell on.
The four sisters stood up and began to say the spell.
'Lavender, mimosa, holy thistle,
Cleanse this evil from out midst.
Scatter it's cells throughout time,
Let this Nick no more exist.'
Nicholas let out a scream of pain and was vanquished.
"Let's send you four home." Grams said quietly.
A little while later Sam, Penny and the little charmed ones were in the attic. Penny had just taught little Prue, piper and Phoebe the spell to send the big charmed ones back.
Sam hugged Paige then said to her quietly. "If you ever need me just shout my name and I'll hear you. Ok?"
Paige nodded and then stood beside her sisters.
"Goodbye my darlings." Grams said sadly.
The little charmed ones who were standing next to baby Paige said the spell.
'A time for everything,
And to everything a place.
Return what has been moved,
Through time and space.'
They were surrounded by white orbs again and then the four sisters found themselves in the attic of their time.
Prue sat in the sun room again looking at the picture of them with mom. She slipped it into a frame then walked into the living room and set it on a high mantelpiece.
Paige and Phoebe came in and smiled. "Nice place to put it Prue."
Prue sat on the sofa. "You two ok?"
Paige sighed and sat next to her putting her head on Prue's shoulder. "No. I never knew mom and then when I finally get to meet her she dies. It sucks."
"I know." Prue hugged Paige. "At least know you have some memories of her."
"I suppose."
Piper came into the attic wearing a short black dress. "What do ya think?"
"Very sexy Piper. You going out again with Leo?" Phoebe asked sounding impressed.
"Isn't that mine?" Prue recognised the dress then scowled. "Piper!"
"Gotta go!" Piper hurried out before Prue could say anything else but came back in. "Uh Paige, Sam's outside."
Paige jumped up and went outside while Prue, Piper and Phoebe watched from the window.
"Hey Paige." Sam greeted her uneasily.
"Hey." Paige walked up to him and gave him a hug.
"Did you four just get back from ya know the past?" He sat on the steps and Paige sat next to him.
"Yeah about an hour ago."
There was a weird silence then Sam said, "I know I haven't been the best dad. In fact I've been one of the worst but I wanna make it up to you while I can. I couldn't be around that much until you got your powers and now that you have them, I wanna get to know my little angel."
Paige smiled, "well, I would like to find out more about my white lighter half."
"Maybe we could talk about it over dinner? There's this restaurant in town that I used to take your mother to if you wanna go there." Sam asked hopefully.
"Sounds like fun. Let's go."