OK, guys a little bit longer lol. Hope you like it. I'll try get the next chapter up sooner lol.
As Penny Halliwell walked into the living room she could feel the tension. The hgirls had been silent but when Paige saw Penny she jumped up, "Ms. Halliwell I am so so sorry...I thought that Phoebe would know and I know that we're not supposed to tell anyone our secret but she was another witch and we were alike and..." Paige babbled really fast loosing her breath and being cut off by Penny.
"I understand," she said softly, "It's OK."
Paige breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh, OK then uh.. that's good," she said sitting down. "So if your OK with that then what was it you wanted to talk to both of us about?"
Penny paused. "I'll do that after I've spoken to Phoebe," Grams said looking at Phoebe, who seemed to be in a state of shock, rocking slightly back and forth. Penny bent down in front of Phoebe, "Phoebe, are you OK?"
Phoebe looked up, "Uh yeah you know just a lot to take it."
Penny bit her lip... it was a lot especially for a youngster... Penny considered leaving the bit about who Paige really was out of it as Phoebe had had enough shock but best not drag it out any longer.
"I know sweetie," she said, "but being a witch it's part of all of us... You, Prue, Piper, your mother and me. Witchcraft has been in our line throughout many generations starting with Melinda Warren. I won't give you a history lesson right now... just explaining some things but any answers you have either me or the Book of Shadows will be able to answer."
"And I could help..." Paige said, looking nervously at Phoebes Grams, Penny nodded her head encouragingly and Paige smiled, "I foudn out when I was really young.. I coudl help you deal."
Phoebe smiled, "Thanks."
"So are you OK with it?" Penny asked curiously.
Phoebe half smiled and put on a brave face, she was sort of scared. She hadn't known anything about witchcraft before and now she was finding out she was actually involved in a way. "If it's a part of who I am then I'm going to have to be. Anyways it sounds sort of fun."
Penny smiled and looked at Phoebe who seemed much more grown up than she last remembered, "There's my little girl." she said.
Phoebe laughed in embarrassment, she hated it when her Grams went into baby talk mode.
Penny laughed with Phoebe, she remembered when she was younger and she'd been just the same with the baby talk rule and grown ups.
Then she turned serious.
"There's something I have to tell you.. both of you," she said, pausing.
Paige looked up curiously.
"When Patty - Phoebe's mum," Penny started wondering whether she should say Phoebe's and Paige's mum or whether that would just confuse everyone. She stuck with her first choice and continued, "When Phoebe's mum was younger, after having her first 3 daughters with a mortal named Victor, she got together with her Whitelighter. Which is like a guardian angel for witches."
Paige nodded wondering where this was going.
"Back then and supposed to be now it's illegal for a witch and a whitelighter to be together but Patty and her Whitelighter fell in love and they had a daughter."
Phoebe's jaw dropped open - she had another sister? Was this good or bad? And would they ever get to meet?
Paige froze... she had a really scary feeling that she knew where this was going and wasn't sure she was liking. She gulped and urged Penny to continue.
"Because it was illegal they had to give her up for adoption, she didn't want to of course, but what choice did she have? The only request was that - "
"Her name began with a P," Paige whispered, her throat dry.
"Your even brighter than I could have imagined," Penny said softly.
Phoebe clicked on a few minutes later - Wait! You mean she's my sister?"
"Fifteen years!" Phoebe yelled, standing up, "fifteen years and you didn't tell us we had a sister?"
Paige sat quiet. She wanted to help her apparent Grams out but she didn't want to get on the wrong side of her newly found sister so instead she stayed quiet, pursing her lips whilst thinking. When she had first met Phoebe she had felt something... when she had learned of the witch in Phoebe she thought it coudl be that.. btu mayeb fate had wanted them to meet? So they'd find out the truth?
"So we could change our fate," Paige said outloud, not meaning to.
"What was that?" Penny asked.
"Um.. nothing just thinking loud."
"Everything you
taught us about honesty," Phoebe said through gritted teeth,
"And you kept this from us for years?"
"It's not
because we wanted to!" Penny sighed. "You have to
understand." She lowered her voice, "If we had kept Paige
when she was a baby, god knows what the Elders would have done to
her. She may not have been here today it was our only hope."
"Who
the fricking hell is the Elders?" Phoebe said. "Is there
anything you have told me truthfully? Is my name Phoebe? How many
more siblings do I have? Are you really my Grams?" Phoebe said
freaking out, with perfect reason.
"Now you're being stupid," Pennt said, "I understand this is a lot but you are just being a complete idiot now."
"You have kept my whole life from me," Phoebe said, "What do you want me to do? Sit down say hey Paige long lost sister, nice to see you wanna go blow up some demons with my new witchy powers?" Phoebe raged. "It just doesn't work like that!"
Phoebe ran out of the house, unsure of where she was gonig. She just didn't want to be near her Grams, not right now.
