"Paige, slow down." Piper gives a little forced laugh as I slam open the door and jet into the kitchen.
"We need to talk." Phoebe says looking right at me. The way she's so not afraid of confrontation scares me just a bit.
"Yeah," I say taking a seat. I know I could totaly end this with just the mention that I found our niece, but I kinda think it's time for this talk.
"So, something's been up with you lately, and I think we need to talk about it." Phoebe says
"Me? It's you two. You just keep bitching at me, and I know your holding a secret. I can sence it." Phoebe says quick to point the next finger.
"Don't look at me it's you two who have something to work out." Piper yells. I see a flash of doubt behind her eyes, and then I realize what Phoebe already did. Piper's hiding something big.
"Maybe we should all make some confessions." I suggest. Phoebe could just spit out that Cole's back, Piper can tell her secret, then we can move on.
"I'll go first, I guess." Piper says. She pauses for a moment then opens her moth to say something. Instead she brings her hand to her stomach.
"I'm pregnant." She says, and I know why she avoided telling us. This must kill Phoebe. I look over, and she's tearing up.
"I'm okay really, I'm just so happy fo you." Phoebe says.
"Congradulations." I smile. I feel a little out of place though as Phoebe feels Piper's stomachand I'm just sitting here.
"Looks like we'll finally have a kid running around in the house." Phoebe says.
"We could have two." I mention.
"Twins? I really don't think so." Piper says not catching on.
"Paige, I honestly don't think we'll be finding this Emily." Phoebe says.
"So your turn," Piper says looking at me. Phoebe also looks at me, and I feel really gange up on.
"Can you go first." I ask Phoebe.
"I have no secret." Phoebe says
"Yeah you do, and I know it." I says as calmly as I can.
"Well, then care to share?" Phoebe says.
"Cole's still here." I say
"He can't be. I watched him flame into a million little ashes." Piper says. How graphic.
"You may not have been there, but we got him even without the power of three." Phoebe says angrily.
I don't even know how to respond to this. It's like my worst nightmare come to life. Not only do they not need me, but Piper instinctively takes Phoebe's side. I'm in tears within the moment. My bady shakes so hard that know I won't even be able to make it upstairs. Instead I pull my knees into my chest and cry right infront of them. Like they care anyway.
Within seconds there both at my sides though, and all bad blood has disolved for the moment. One of them lifts my head up, and then Phoebe wipes the tears under my eyes with her hand.
"Paigey, something's wrong, and we really want to be there for you but you keep pulling away." Phoebe says kindly.
"I know I heard you talking to someone a few nights ago, and you wont admit to it, then you guys totaly go out without even inviting me, and I feel like I shouldn't be here. I don't belong. " I say, and I'm surprised they understood what I said because of the new fresh tears rising.
"Look, I don't know who you heard me talking too, but it certainly wasn't Cole." Phoebe says softly. Then it hits me. It was Prue, I turn to her but she hasn't caught on.
"You were probobly mumbling in your sleep and I misunderstood." I say apologetically. I have to help keep Prue's secret. After all, she's done so much for me.
"-and you certainly belong. I meen we used to potion you made to help vanquish Cole." Piper says.
"That's not all that I meant." I say. I'll never have the connection that they have.
"We love you, Paige, and we might not always show it but we do." Phoebe says.
"Even when you were avoiding us for the past few days we've been worying about you." Piper throws in.
"Well maybe you could let me in on that every once in a while." I say still hurt, and I want them to understand that.
"We will." Piper says apologetically.
Phoebe's about to say something, but there's a nock on the door that catches all of our attention.
"Let's get that." I say after a moment. We all get up arms linked and open the door. It's Lindsay with Emily close behind.
"I need to talk to you, Paige." Lindsay says and I can tell it's serious. I wipe my eyes completely dry and step outside with them.
"I came by to break the news to the Jones' and they flipped out." Lindsay whispers in my ear. But I'm assuming Emily was there by the hurt look on her face. She's holding her hand between her knees with a pained expression on her face.
"Are you alright?" I ask her breaking away from Lindsay.
"Fine" She says backing away. Does she have to go to the bathroom or something? She keeps her hand clasped tight between her legs.
"Look, they threw a fit. The wife went as far as to throw a dish so I took her out immediatly." Lindsay whispers.
"I can take her. No problem at all." I say hands up.
"Than you so much because I'm going to have to get her worker to fly back, and this is going to be hours of paper work." Lindsay says already sounding tired.
"She's safe here for as long as you need." I say. In all my years of working at SBSS I've only seen two kids immediatly pulled, and I remember even getting some of the paper work to do, and all of the officials coming in. This won't be fun for her worker or Lindsay.
"Your a life saver. Here's the only bag we had time to grab." She says tossing me a small bag, but I notice that Emily's also wearing a back pack.
"Come on in." I say pushing the door open. My sisters look between me and Emily with a confused face.
"I'll be right down." I say leading Emily up the stairs into my room.
"Okay, you can put your stuff here, and I'll be right up in like two minutes. You can turn on the TV or something if you want, and the bathroom's down the hall on the left." I say. she nodds, and I rush back downstairs.
"That's Emily," I say to my sisters confused faces.
"We figured that much," Piper says.
"There was a big problem at her old house. So look, she's betwen homes so she'll be here for a few days, and I told her about us this morning. I just didn't have a chance to tell you." I say as fast as I can.
"She's tiny," Phoebe says.
"Was the big problem that they didn't feed her." Piper says
"Is she okay?" Phoebe asks.
"Yeah. She didn't look so hot." Piper says.
"Come on," I say pulling them upstairs.
"Em, can we come in?" I ask knocking on my door
"It's your room." She says, "Of coarse you can,"
"Well, this is Phoebe and this is your other Aunt, Piper." I say. She puts on a smile, but the pained look is still on her face.
"What's wrong? You can tell me now. It's all going to be alright." I say rushing over to her immediatly when I see her quiver. Piper and Phoebe are behind me in a second as well.
She pulls her hand from between her legs, and her hand and her pants are both covered in a layer of blood.
"Where'd that-" Phoebe starts wondering what kind of injury she's sustained.
"There's a piece of ceramic in it from a plate." Emily says with her voice shaking as her palm fills with dark blood. She presses it against her chest now to stop the bleading.
"I didn't want to bring atention to it at the house." She says quietly.
"Come on," I say pushing her towards the bathroom. I lift her onto the counter and take her hand. Phoebe hands me pair of plyers a moment later, and soon I've gotten a rather large piece of a plate out of her hand. Piper wipes her hand with a disenfectant, and Emily flinches at the sting.
"It will only hurt for a second." I say pulling her hand back and wrapping it in a cotton tape.
"Thanks," she says looking own at her hand.
"Do you want to go change?" I ask seeing as her clothes are covered in blood.
"Sure," She says jumping down.
"Just bring your clothes back out and I'll wash them. I say as I lead her back to my room. She shuts the door behind her and both my sisters turn towards me.
"I think that might need stitches." Piper says concerned. Honestly, it probobly does, but as soon as she's asleep tonight Leo's healing it.
"Powers yet?" Phoebe asks
"Doesn't look like it." I say.
"Well, Leo said puberty, that means within the next few years sometime." Piper says making a face. She's going to think we're crazy just like I did.
"We should call him." I say.
"Le-" Phoebe starts.
"Downstairs," I say pointing to my room just as the door creaks open. Emily's in a white sweatshirt and jeans. She's holding the clothes she was just wearing as she exits my room.
"I'll bring these downstairs." Piper says grabbing them, and heading off. Emily looks between Phoebe and me. The silence is deafening.
"Are you hungry?" Phoebe asks breaking the silence.
"A little." She shrugs.
"Well, we have stuff for sandwiches and we have pasta," Phoebe starts
"-or we have like oreos and ice cream." I cut in
"Ice cream," Emily says. We'll put some weight on her in no time.
"I see you have Paige's eating habbits," Phoebe laughs. Emily smiles, but even behind her smile and giggles right now I can see something, and I know Phoebe can too.
I guess we'll have some time to work it out, and maybe Prue can help her kid out a bit.