Not so Charmed a Life

By Demoness Paige

Paige knew in her head that something was wrong with the whole Mitchell thing as she followed him through the park with neither one really saying much. He was making her feel all weird inside and it wasn't because she was attracted to him, it was something else. His presence alone had made her feel so much better and she felt like she shouldn't worry about that but her mind kept screaming he could be a warlock or demon that had the powers to manipulate her feelings.

"Why don't you sit and rest for a bit?" Mitchell asked indicating the swings which Paige thought would be a little childish. Looking around though she noticed how it was so eerily quiet, nobody else was around and there was no animals making noises or hanging around either.

"Maybe…" Paige said uncertainly as she let Mitchell lead her to one then let him help her sit in one. She watched him as he walked behind her and gasped when he gently pushed her, "What are you doing?"

"I'm pushing you silly." Mitchell said with a playful smile, "Aren't you enjoying it?"

Paige thought about it for a minute, when she was little she hardly ever had a chance to swing because many of the foster parents she stayed with demanded she get perfect grades saying they didn't want some stupid whore staying with them. After her one mother started beating her after failing two tests in a row Paige started spending a lot of her free time studying which helped for awhile.

Shaking those bad memories from her head she relaxed a little and realized how good it felt sitting in the swing as Mitchell gently pushed her. Allowing a small smile and a soft giggle she replied, "Actually…I am enjoying it."

"Good, a beautiful woman such as yourself should be happy…Not saddened like the state I found you in." Mitchell said, worry and honesty clearly filling his voice.

"I…I thought I finally had a family, people who loved me." Paige said after taking a deep breath, "Now I'm not so sure."

"Why would you say that?" Mitchell asked with concern.

"Because they hate me, they don't want me." Paige whispered, "I'm not even their real sister, just some half-breed."

"So you are their half-sister, that doesn't mean that they don't love you Paige." Mitchell said sounding confused, "How could anyone hate you?"

"People have hated me all my life, its nothing new." Paige sniffed. She felt Mitchell stop pushing her as he grabbed the chains and stopped the swing startling Paige a little. She jumped a little when his arm encircled her from behind as he buried his face in her hair.

"They were fools and it was their loss Paige, you are a remarkable young woman." Mitchell whispered in her hair, "I've only known you for a few minutes and already I think I'm falling for you."

Yeah right, translation was he wanted to use her and through her to the curb like everyone else in her life. She was so stupid for actually opening up to him a little, to start feeling something toward him. A part of her was actually starting to think that just maybe he would fill the hole in her heart that she had hoped her sisters would. Maybe if she was even lucky he would kill her after.

"Let's just get this over with." Paige sighed, her voice sounding dead even to herself.

"Get what over with?" Mitchell asked as she pulled out of his arms looking up into her eyes as the tears refused to stop falling from them.

"I know what you want with me…It's what all guys want. Just do it and leave me the hell alone." Paige cried.

"What are you…Ohhh…Paige, I'm not like most guys, far from it actually." Mitchell chuckled, "I'm as far from other guys as you are from other girls."

"What are you talking about?" Paige asked in shock, could he know that she was a witch? Could her first suspicions really be true? She felt so trapped as she fought to breathe as she started backing away but he was too fast and grabbed her hands.

"Paige, honey, calm down…Breath with me, okay?" Mitchell asked as Paige stared at him in shock, "In, out…In, out…"

"What are you?" Paige finally managed to ask shaking her head.

"Someone who cares about you, who doesn't want to see you hurt." Mitchell said as he pulled her into his arms and rubbed her back. She closed her eyes and felt a disorienting feeling making her to look up shakily noticing that they weren't at the park anymore but standing on her porch. "Please don't go back out tonight, it could be dangerous. I have to go for now but I hope to see you again."

"How?" Paige asked turning to look at the house as she backed away a little and gasped when she turned back to him to find him gone.

"Paige, where have you been?" Phoebe asked pulling the door open.

"What do you care?" Paige asked pushing her way past her sister.

"Happy birthday sweetie." Piper said coming out of the kitchen with flour on her face and clothes, her eyes red and puffy as if she had been crying. Looking closer at Phoebe she noticed it looked like she had been crying also. Great, Leo must have told them everything.

"Shove it." Paige snarled as she stomped upstairs to her room and slammed the door, she wanted her sisters' love and not their pity. That was something that she realized she would never have.

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Mitchell flamed into his throne room in the underworld intent on getting some rest but as soon as he appeared The Seer was right in front of him seething in anger.

"What the hell was that?" The Seer demanded glaring hatefully at Mitchell.

"What was what?" Mitchell asked as he watched the Seer grow angrier. "And are we forgetting who serves who here?"

"You have only been the Source for a short time, since those witches banished your predecessor." The Seer growled, "I have been around for centuries."

"Really now?" Mitchell sneered grabbing the Seer's throat and lifted her off the ground, "My plans for Paige have changed."

"We should have chosen Belthazar, at least he would have made a good Source." The Seer choked out as she clawed at Mitchell's hand trying to break free.

"I think that your services are no longer needed." Mitchell smirked sending power into the woman's body as she screamed in pain as fire consumed her vanquishing her.