Chapter 5And You Are?

As the young girl walked closer the sisters gathered together.

"On three." Phoebe and Piper nodded at Prue.

The next few seconds went by in slow motion for Leo. He watched as the demon raised his hand and shot a fire ball that headed straight for the girl before Prue could act on their plan.

"Look out!" Phoebe shouted as she lunged forward knocking the girl to the ground.

Prue jumped behind the demon, sweeping her foot under his, pushing his legs out from under him. As his head hit the pavement Piper picked up a two by four cracking him in the face with it.

"Say the spell!" Leo shouted as he helped Phoebe up and took the now very confused girl by the hand.

There in the alley the sisters joined hands.

Demon of shadow, wake to light

Let this day fill your sight

We vanquish you to eternal night

In a bright firey splash the demon exploded.

"Cool.' Phoebe said with a smile.

Her smile quickly faded when she heard the girl behind her. "What the hell are you people?" The look on her face was pure horror.

"We…are…um…" Piper started but looked to Prue for help.

"Don't be afraid. I promise you we're the good guys." Prue leaned down and started picking up the scattered files. She had two files put back together when the name on the nest file caught her eye. "Halliwell?" Prue looked over to Piper.

Piper reached down and took the file from her sister. "This file has my name on it." She looked to the girl for some kind of answer.

"You're Piper Halliwell?" The girls looked over and extended out her hand. "I'm Paige Matthews, I'm a social worker."

"Where did you get this?" Piper flipped through the pages. There she saw the police report from her attack, as well as a letter from the hospital.

"I was given your file from officer Morris. It's standard for a social worker to follow up with attack victims."

"Standard, huh? Well your follow up is done. You see me here, I'm fine, and now I'm going home." Piper turned and stomped angrily off toward the opening in the alley.

"Wait!" Paige called out to Piper only to stand there and watch her continue to walk away. "I was only going to try and help her."

Prue looked at the girl, eyes full of disbelief. She shook her head and turned to chase after Piper.

"They're just in shock." Phoebe finished picking up the last few files handing them to her. "I'm Phoebe, Piper's sister. That was our older sister Prue."

"Take my card. Please just see if you can get her to talk to me."

"I will. Just give them some time." Phoebe turned and walked up the alley. She turned back to Leo who was still standing over to the side. "You coming?"

Leo snapped out his stare. "Yea." He followed behind her, still trying to shake the thought from his mind. Could she really be the one they talked about? The resemblance was there, there was no doubting that. But could she really be the one last piece in the puzzle. After catching up with girls they all clasped hands again as Leo orbed them home.

Half an hour later the manor was silent. Piper was cooking in the kitchen. She always cooked when she was worried. She had already fixed a meal big enough to feed half on San Francisco when Leo walked in.

"Smells good." He smiled as Piper looked over at him. He pulled out a chair and sat at the table.

"Thanks." She took a pan of rolls out of the oven and placed them on the counter. She turned to grab another pan when the pain from the heat shot up her arm. She hadn't realized she was that close to the very much still hot pan. "Damnit." She called out, blowing on her now burnt elbow.

"I can help you." Leo jumped up and came around the table. He took her arm in his hand. Piper watched as the golden glow appeared and the burn slowly disappeared. She looked up at him.

"Thanks." She caught herself staring at his eyes. They were so blue you could almost see yourself in them. She knew he wanted to kiss her. She turned her head and started back with the cooking.

"Can we talk?" He asked. Watching as she busied herself with putting yet another pan of rolls in the oven.

"About what?" She knew what he wanted to talk to her about. She had even come close to asking him to let her talk once before. She didn't think she could talk to Phoebe or Prue. She couldn't stand the thought of them knowing what happened.

"You know what. Piper, I can help you. All you have to do is trust me."

"I don't doubt that I can trust you, I just don't know if I can talk about. I don't want to remember it." She fought back the stinging tears she could feel welling up in her eyes.

"If you don't talk about it, you can't heal." Leo reached and put a hand on her shoulder. He started to ask her about the attack when he heard Prue call out from behind him.

"Piper I'm starving. It smells great." Prue came in not realizing the conversation Piper and Leo were having, or rather about to have.

"Good." Piper said as she wiped a tear from her eye. She turned to face Prue. "It's ready."

"Pheebs, dinner." Prue called through the doorway.

"Leo, would you like to stay for dinner?" Prue asked him as Phoebe came in.

"Yea. That'd be nice." He tried to hide the disappointment in his voice. Being a white lighter was hard for him right now. He could feel the pain that Piper felt. He wanted so bad to help her get through this.

They all gathered around the table and had started fixing plates when the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it. Phoebe jumped up and anxiously ran for the door. She opened it and smiled. "I'm glad you came."

"Thanks." Paige said as she walked in. "Are you sure your sisters won't mind?"

"In this family, you have to do things spur of the moment or else they'd never get done."

Phoebe entered the kitchen. "I invited someone for dinner." She stepped aside to reveal a very nervous Paige standing behind her.

"Phoebe." Prue started but was cut off.

"I figured we owed her an explanation, she deserves to know what happened earlier." Phoebe shot Prue a look that begged for her to trust her.

"I'm ok with it." Piper looked up and actually smiled at Paige. "Would you like something to eat?"

"Are you sure you have enough, I know you weren't expecting me."

"There's plenty." Piper knew she couldn't stay mad. It wasn't this girl's fault, she was just doing her job.

Leo had just finished his dessert when he heard the jingling. "I have to go." He turned to Piper. "The meal was delicious."

"Will you be back tonight?" Piper asked him, hoping he would say yes.

"I should be." With that Leo walked out of the room enough to where Paige wouldn't see him. He disappeared in orbs that rose up to the ceiling and off into the night.

"So, you were adopted?" Phoebe asked. She had been fascinated at Paige's story. This girl had been given up at birth, lost her adoptive parents in a car accident, and still managed to go to college, graduate early and become a social worker.

"Yea. My real mom took me to this church on Bell Street and asked the nun there to make sure I got a good home."

"That's kinda sad Paige. I mean, you never got to know your real mom?" Piper asked.

"No, she did leave me a letter though. Hard to believe I still have it. I keep it in my purse, it's a little silly, but in a way it makes me feel like I'm never alone. Now, um, I'm not trying to be rude, but can you explain to me what all that was earlier?"

Prue looked up at the girl. "We are actually….witches."

"Witches?" Paige asked. "Like pointed hats and brooms?"

All there girls couldn't help but laugh. "No, no brooms. We're good witches, we use our powers to do good things." Phoebe told her, she really did sound excited to be a witch.

"Powers?"

"Yea, show her Prue." Piper turned to her big sister.

Prue focused on the peppershaker on the table. She squinted her eyes and the shaker slowly moved across the table.

Paige's jaw dropped. "Wow."

"See you're the first person to ever see us use our powers. It's supposed to be kept secret. If it isn't, it puts us all in danger." Prue said.

"I see." Paige sat and thought about it for a minute. "You don't have to worry, I won't tell anyone. Besides, who would believe me?"

"True enough." Piper stood up and started cleaning the dishes off of the table. She looked over Paige's shoulder and saw Leo coming into focus. "Back already?" She asked as she turned to put the dishes in the sink.

"We need to talk." Leo said as he walked around the table.

"I told you…." Piper started but Leo cut her off.

"Not about that. About this." Leo picked up a cup from the table and hurled it Paige.

She threw her hands up and screamed. Instead of the cup smashing into her, her entire body disappeared in the same orbs as Leo's had earlier.

"What was that for?" She asked as she reappeared to everyone, still sitting in the chair.

"She did that orb thing." Phoebe shouted as she stood up from the table.

"I did what?" Paige asked a bit confused.

"That's what we need to talk about. I know why evil was after her." Leo could see the confusion in the room now. He himself didn't know how he was going to tell them that Paige was their sister. This was going to be a long night.