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"I have to know what's going on." She told them.

"And we'll tell you." Prue said with a smile.

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Chapter 22

Arch Angels

"We will tell you everything Paige." Her grandmother said. "Come, there's someone else who wants to meet you." She told her, and Paige followed the three into a large round room with a portal hole in the middle.

"Mom, what's going on?" Paige asked nervously.

"Don't worry hunny, you'll see." Her mother reassured her, putting her hand on her shoulder. "You have nothing to be afraid of here."

In the corner of her eye Paige could see Prue and Grams talking to figure in the doorway. It was tall woman, with strawberry blond hair, dressed in a white cloak. There was something almost angelic about her.

"Who are you?" Paige blurted out.

The three looked at her from the doorway, the unfamiliar woman came up to her. "I'm here to take you back."

"T-Taking me B-Back?" Paige asked.

"Paige, this is Gabriel." Her grandmother said politely.

"Gabriel? Like the angel?"

"I am the Angel." The woman replied. Paige looked at her confused. "Do you really think the Church would let a woman be an Arch Angel?" Gabriel asked her.

"I don't understand, how can you 'take me back'?"

Gabriel pointed at the portal. "That," She said, "is what you human call the Tunnel. That, is the portal between Earth and Here."

"And what exactly," Paige inquired, "is Here?"

"Have they not told you that already?" Gabriel asked as she stepped towards the opening of the portal hole. "This Paige, is Celestin or Limbo as you humans have called. Further explanations will take place later. Say your goodbye, we're leaving now." The Arch Angel said.

"Leaving? What do you mean?"

"She's taking you back to Piper and Phoebe." Her mom said. "Paige, you're just a soul here, we all are, our bodies are still on Earth…when you come back, your soul will join with your body and you will be alive again."

"Alive? But…but, I don't understand, why me? Why not Prue?!"

"Because," Prue started, "I didn't want to go back. I didn't want to live that life anymore. I'm…at peace…here. I love Phoebe and Piper, but I couldn't live as a Charmed One anymore. And you deserved to know your sisters, Paige, you deserved to be loved the way they love you." Tears were running down her face. "Promise you'll let them no how much I love them?"

"I promise." Paige whispered hugging her sister. "I'll miss you."

"We need to leave." Gabriel stated.

"I'm coming." She replied after hugging her grandmother and her mother. "Goodbye." She whispered and stepped inside the portal, closely followed by Gabriel.

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The portal was, in fact, shaped as a long tunnel, but the walls weren't made out of concrete. In stead they were more like mirrors, and from what Paige could see, they reflected her life. "What's going on?" Paige asked. "What is this?"

"You know how people say they saw their 'life pass before them'? This is what they're talking about. And that light over there," She pointed at the opening they had stepped through. "is the Light at the end of the Tunnel."

So basically what we're going to do is walk to the other side?" Paige asked the Arch Angel. "That's all there is too it?"

"It's that easy yes, but I can assure you, it's not that easy when you get back. You've been 'dead' for three days now. Leo has made all the necessary arrangements to preserve your body, we told him about what happened the second he orbed in, but your sister, they think you're dead. It's not going to be easy for them in the beginning when you come back. It never is for anyone."

"This happens often?" Paige asked.

"A few times. I remember with Elvis, we couldn't keep him there for more than a week, because he kept getting spotted by people. We had to bring him back."

"What do you mean, 'spotted'?"

"When you return, you can of course still live with your sisters, after all, you are the Charmed Ones, we need the Power of Three to keep order in the Universe, but, no one else can know that you're back."

"WHAT?! But what about my friends?! I can't go around acting like normal, knowing that they're mourning me!"

"But you will have too." Gabriel told her sternly. "Do you have any idea what chaos it will cause if people found out you were dead but came back? There would be absolute hysteria. When you come back, you will be given a new identity as a cousin of your sisters. You can not, under any circumstances, tell any one that your back."

Paige froze. Not tell anybody? What about Draco? What about Harry, Ron and Hermione? She couldn't do that to them, she refused too.

"I can't do that." She told the Angel. "I can't hide the truth from my friends."

Gabriel turned and looked down at her. "You'll have to. If you tell anyone, or if your friends see you, we'll have to come and bring you back to Celestin. And we won't do it unnoticed, we will fake your death if it is needed to hide the truth." Her eyes softened as she saw the look on Paige's face. "I can understand how your feeling, the helplessness, the agony, the pain…but believe me, it is for the greater Good. Come, the faster we get to the end of the Tunnel, the sooner you will see your sisters."

"I…" She didn't know what to say. She closed her eyes and bit her lip. She opened them and

saw Gabriel ahead of her in the Tunnel. She had no choice, she had to go back. Piper and Phoebe would help her figure things out…At least, she hoped they would.

"Gabriel?" She asked tentatively. The Angel looked down at her travel companion. "How did you…well, become who you are?"

She smiled at the young girl's question. "I will tell you the truth child, and that is, that I don't actually know. I was never told how I became who I was, but I have memories of a life before Heaven and Celestin, I just don't know if they belong to me."

"What do you mean?"

"I have travelled through this Tunnel so many times, watched so many memories that I am no longer sure which belong to me and which belong to companions such as you."

"That most be awful."

"It's not particularly pleasant, no," The strawberry blond said, "but then again, not all memories are pleasant either."

Paige nodded. She looked around at the walls of the Tunnel. Pictures of memorable moments in her life rushed by, some of them so quickly she hardly saw what they were, others passed by so slow it was heartbreaking, like the one were she and her sisters first acknowledged the fact that they were sisters. Or the one where she, Piper and Phoebe failed to save an innocent…Or the moments she had shared with her friends that she knew there was chance she might never see again. A tear fell from her cheek…It wasn't so long ago since she had seen them, she had never thought it might have been the last time.

"We're here." Gabriel said. Paige took a deep breath before stepping out of the portal hole. She gasped at the sight of her lifeless body lying on her bed in her room in San Fransisco. She gingerly walked to the side of the bed, starring down at herself. Gabriel came through the portal hole and walked to the foot-end of the bed. Paige, in strange fascination, carfully touched her bodies arm.Her conscious self felt a strong pull of her intere...soul...and then, all was black.

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