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Fight The Good Fight.
1. Lost and Found.
I love my life. I'm very content and happy at the moment, but it's not like I don't have my problems though……….I mean it's quite complicated, my life anyway.
Okay, I think I'm rambling. It's a family trait….sorry.
Well let me start from the beginning and you might understand the inarticulate introduction better.
I was adopted, which I have accepted. What I have found harder to accept is death of my adoptive parents, who died in a car accident a few years back. I'm getting there, slowly. It's taking time though. Deaths hard to deal with, especially when it's people love.
It got easier about three years ago, when I found my biological family. Or rather they found me. Both my birth mother and father died many years back, but I do have three half-sisters, who are all older than me.
You see their…well our grandmother had some documents and letters concerning me, kept hidden. When she died, my oldest sister, Prue found them and began searching for me. It took her a few months but eventually she did.
I wasn't in the best shape at the time. I had a dingy, sorry excuse for an apartment; very little money, but I was independent. That's all that mattered to me at that point. That I could survive.
Prue never told my other two sisters about me, until I was ready to meet them. She didn't want to throw everything at me. So for a little while it was just me and Prue. She would visit, make sure I was doing alright. Talk about our mum. She never knew my dad, so the topic wasn't brought up often. Finally I decided I was ready to meet my other sisters; Piper and Phoebe.
After the shock has worn off, they welcomed me with open arms. Phoebe, the original youngest sister, was in New York when she found out but came back as soon as she could. It took about a month, once she had tied everything up there. Another reason she returned was that she had no money but we won't dwell on that. That's Prue's job.
In that time I bounded well with Piper and Prue. I would come over and visit them but I always went back 'home'. Prue kept trying to get me to move in but that wouldn't happen for almost a year. I was being independent. I would also regularly talk to Phoebe on the phone, she was really nice and caring. She even offered me her room as she wasn't there. It was strange but I didn't feel out of place or unwanted.
When Phoebe did come home, I was glad I hadn't moved in the Manor at that point. Another thing I should have let you know is she and Prue weren't on good terms, at all. I would feel uncomfortable when they would argue and yell. Piper told me one day that the arguments I had seen, were actually mellow for a Prue vs. Phoebe fight. She often had to mediate between the two and had perfected it, in my opinion. Must have been the years of practice.
Anyway, I'm going off topic slightly.
So Phoebe came home and found the Book of Shadows, in the attic. What was strange was that as far as they were concerned the room had been unusable, since they were kids. However to cut along story short, we're witches.
I know what your thinking, I should be in an asylum or on a psychiatrist's couch. We all did, except for Phoebe, ever the optimist. But it was crazy, us, the Charmed Ones, the most powerful witches the world has ever seen. I mean, please, I was barely legal to drink.
It was true though, the whole freaking lot.
I was a bit bewildered at first, but it's actually very cool. I can disappear and reappear in blue and white light. This I later found out to be orbing. If it was up to me, I would have came up with a better name. Yeah it states generally what it does but there's no……..abracadabra.
Well other than that, I can partially heal as well as call things to me, which appears in the orbing light or just move things. It's kind of similar to Prue's power but mine has a whitelighter twist.
That is what I am. Half whitelighter and half witch. See my mum had an affair with her whitelighter, consequently making him dad. But they had to give me up because of the Elders. Powerful people, not big on rule breakers. So I'm the first whitelighter-witch combo. I'm unique. One of a kind, as my sisters would put it.
Speaking of them, let me catch you up.
First there's Phoebe. Her powers are premonition and levitation, but she can also kick ass when she needs to. See without an active power, she felt she couldn't help when faced with evil beings, so she took up martial arts.
She returned from New York broke, as I've already said, and was hounded by Prue to get a job. Their relationship is much better now. They still bicker but only over stupid stuff like borrowing cars; clothes……actually anything that belongs to Prue, that Phoebe hasn't asked to borrow. Anyway Phoebe went back to college and has just graduated.
Currently she's dating Cole Turner. Half demon and a lawyer, which I think is a bad combination in it's self. I personally can't understand her attraction to him. He's a demon for crying out loud. He tried to kill us, now he's suddenly good, give me a break. Prue feels the same but she won't intervene and vanquish his ass because he makes Phoebe happy….which sadly he does.
It's uncanny actually how Phoebe is with a demon and Piper is with an angel, so to speak.
You see Piper is married to our whitelighter, Leo. They've had their ups and downs but they made it through, and maybe one day I won't be that unique after all.
Piper's powers are to freeze time and more recently speed it up, as in blow things up. It's a cool power, she lifts her hands and boom. It's raining demons. I'm exaggerating there but it did rain watermelon once.
Other than the wichty-ness in out lives, she opened up a club, P4. Named after the four of us. She didn't like the idea of working for somebody else, so she went for her dream…..or maybe an extended version of her dream.
Things seem to flow for Piper at the moment. Her career, love life and witch life. The latter she's not to keen on but it's under control. She's had her problems but it's slowly slotting into place for her.
And then there's Prue. Probably the most complicated person I have ever met.
Her powers are telekinesis and astral projection. She's the strongest of us, first born and all. She's also our protector, leader, confidant, friend, sister. The only word for me to describe Prue is…….Prue. When I met and got to know her, I was surprised at some of the things she's had to deal with. Yet she still remains strong and confident.
Even the death of Andy Trudeau, her high school sweetheart and all round love of her life, she managed to cope. She also had a few problems but she worked through it. I honestly don't believe she could move on from Andy. She's tried but nothings been permanent.
In the short time I got to know Andy, I really liked him. He was such the big brother, especially with Piper and Phoebe, having known them longer.
Prue is also following her dream of being a photographer. When I first met her she was working in a museum, which she soon left and began work at Buckland Auction House. Now, however she is working for 415 magazine and being super-witch all at the same time.
I personally thinks she's insane, how much work does she want? I do admire her though, I think it's the big sister, little sister thing.
I'm grateful to all of them. They've given me a purpose.
Then there is me. Paige Matthews-Halliwell. One quarter of the Charmed Ones, currently single and part-time social worker, part-time witch.
The Charmed Ones. Sisters completely different, yet the same.
Three years ago I found a part of me I never knew existed. As Phoebe told me, I may not have had the past but I have the future.
It's just…I don't know how long that would last or what type of future it will be. Especially when They showed up.