Paige knew that there was a very real possibility that she was not being fair to Phoebe or Cole. But it was just so hard to even see him, and not think of all the horror he had put her through, and all the pain he'd put her family through. She knew that she was somewhat overprotective of her new family, but having lost one family she was not about to loose another. And anyone who hurt her family was going to pay, that was just the mindset that she was used to using, and the one that she naturally applied to Cole, I mean he'd hurt this family. And as such he should be disposed of.
But that was not what everyone wanted. And she couldn't see how they could forgive him so easily and act like everything had changed. How Phoebe could just pick up where she had left off. She wanted to be a good sister, but it was hard, so hard.
She also admitted to herself that another reason for her hostility was that she did not want to be lonely; to be left behind and forgotten. That probably was the other reason she was so against the idea of Cole coming back into the family. She remembered feeling like the fifth wheel. She just felt left out when Cole entered the picture. The four of them all went way back; Cole went all the way back to the time of Prue. He'd gotten Prue's approval, something she'd never get, although she sometimes wanted it desperately. Having him around made her feel like she was on the outside looking in. She did not know why it was his coming in that made this happen, maybe it was just because with him the four of them were a family unit, already connected, but with Phoebe single or with some new guy, there was still room in the family. Also she just remembered feeling left out with both her sisters involved with their men, and her alone and single.
Lately being single really was not so great. She kinda finally felt like she was ready for a real relationship, something she'd avoided ever since loosing her parents. But now, having a family, and a support system, and having opened up again, she felt ready to find a man of her own. But the problem was that no one was right, well that's not totally true. There was one person she'd be willing to try being serious with, but it's hard to have a relationship with someone who is all over the world at various times. And so since Glenn was out of the picture and since no one else seemed to be coming she just did not want Phoebe to be so involved and did not want Cole taking her family away from her.
Somewhere in her she knew that by not accepting Cole she would just be pushing Phoebe away and that in doing that she would push Piper away too, since if it came down to her or Phoebe she was under no illusions of who Piper would choose. That hurt, but she hoped that with time she could make that change. But with everyone onboard the Cole train she felt like there wasn't anywhere to turn. She desperately wanted to have someone to talk to about all this, but that was not likely to happen. Even Leo was all for giving Cole another chance. So it looked like she was just gonna have to deal with all her thoughts and issues alone.
Or not… Suddenly she was struck with a brilliant idea. Even if Glenn couldn't be the one she was with, at the very least he had always been her confidant, the person who she told everything to, who helped her work out her problems. Who better to tell this all too, and he even knew about the magic. She couldn't believe she hadn't thought of talking to him about this earlier. She hurried into the kitchen and grabbed her cell phone out of her purse and dialed his number.
She waited impatiently as the phone ran and silently cheered as she heard his voice as he picked up.
"Hello" Glenn said.
"Hey! It's me! Paige!" Paige said cheerfully. It was amazing how just talking to him improved her mood.
"Hey Paige! Great to hear from you. I was planning on calling you soon. How did you know I was in town? Some witchy thing?" he asked.
"No, actually I did not know you were in town. But that's great! I actually just called to talk, I have some stuff going on and I needed to kinda talk to someone and I thought of you." Paige said.
"Great, well why don't we get together and we can chat. You can tell me all your issues and problems and I can ask you something I've wanted to ask you." Glenn said.
"That would be great!" Paige said "Why don't you come over here to the manor."
"What, right now?" Glenn asked.
"Ya, sure why not. Everyone else is gone" Paige said.
"Ok, I'll be there in a few. See ya soon!" Glenn said.
"Ok, bye!" Paige said and hung up.
So he was in town, amazing. Maybe it was a sign. She had wanted to get serious with him, but had thought him out of reach, and now the universe brought him within reach. It had to be a sign that she should try and make her move. She stood still for a moment thinking it over and decided that when he got here the first thing she would talk to him about was the idea of them dating again, but seriously this time.
She went upstairs and grabbed the book of shadows to waste some time reading until Glenn got here. And she brought the book back downstairs to read. She did not know what she was hoping for by reading the book, there wouldn't be answers in here. But maybe it could take her mind off everything.
Paige jumped when the sound of the door knocking brought her out of the trace she had gotten into while reading about different protection spells in the book of shadows. She sighed pulling the huge book off her lap and shaking out her leg which had fallen asleep. She yawned and walked to the door. She opened it and started to grin.
"Glenn! Finally! I should be so mad at you for having been gone so long and not having contacted me! I'd begin to think you'd dropped off the face of the earth!" Paige practically yelled.
"I know, I'm sorry about that, I should have called. I was busy. I told you I just got back here." Glenn replied looking slightly sheepish.
"Its ok, I know how involved you get in your adventures and how often they take you places where your phone won't go" Paige said with a grin. "But I'm just so glad that you could stop by, I kept trying to get ahold of you. I really wanted to talk to you about something."
"You really wanted to talk to me about something, that sounds mysterious, do I need to sit down or something" Glenn said jokingly.
"Oh no, not that kind of thing." Paige said reassuringly.
"Good to hear, I have something I wanted to ask you anyway" Glenn replied.
"Oh really what?" Paige asked.
"Oh so now I have to go first?" Glenn asked jokingly "That's not fair, you said you wanted to talk first."
"Glenn! Come on, just tell me" said Paige.
"Alright" Glenn replied "It's nothing too serious or important, I just found that on my last trip I was lonely for company, and since you're the best company I know, I was hoping that I could talk you into coming on my next trip with me."
"Oh wow" Paige said "I dunno, I mean you know I have a lot of important stuff here that I am really needed for. Where is it your going?"
"Well I've decided to climb the Matterhorn again" Glenn replied.
"But we've already done that" Paige said.
"True, but we had lots of fun, and it's been awhile, so I thought that we could refresh the memory" Glenn answered.
"Well huh, I'm glad that you thought of me, really, and that makes me happy that you want me along, but that's really not what I was wanting" Paige replied.
"What do you mean, what you were wanting?" Glenn asked.
"Well, um, here it is. What I wanted to talk to you about" Paige paused and then went on to say "Glenn I really missed you while you were gone, and I thought about you and us a lot in that time."
"I missed you too, that's why I wanted you to come with me" Glenn interrupted.
"Let me finish" Paige said "Glenn, lately I've been thinking a lot about trying to get ahold of you because I want to give us another try, together."
"What exactly do you mean by that?" Glenn asked.
"Well, I mean like get serious, maybe have you move in here with me, I want to give us a real try, to have a real relationship. We've been on and off for so long, we're so good together, but with one thing or another we've never gotten too serious and we kept splitting up. Now I kinda want us to try changing some of our priorities and trying hard to give this a chance. I don't want to take the chance that one of these days you'll come back from one of your trips with a girl in tow. I don't want to loose you."
"Wow, that's defiantly something to talk about" Glenn said "I don't know what to say, I mean I guess I always assumed we'd end up together, maybe, when I thought about the future, I just did not see me settling down and moving in. I mean, I thought we'd do like we used to go on lots of adventures together again. I mean I'm not so much the settling type, the type who wants a nine to five job, who wants to stay in one place."
"But you won't have to, you don't have to get some boring office job, and we can still take adventures all over, we'll just take day trips" Paige replied.
"Um Paige, you can't just take day trips to Switzerland" Glenn said.
"But I can, oh I guess I forgot that you haven't seen my new power. Do you remember Leo's power how he moved from place to place in seconds in shiny white lights? Well now I can do that too. I can be anywhere in seconds, so we can take day trips anywhere, anytime." Paige said in a hopeful voice.
"I don't know" Glenn said, and Paige's face dropped, so he quickly added "I mean I'd be fine with getting serious with you, it's just the settling down bit. I mean have you talked to your sisters about it; the last time I stayed they weren't too happy."
"They'll be fine with it, they did not want you here then just because they did not want you to find out about our magic, and now that you know it's no problem." Paige answered.
"Well, I just don't know, I mean its seems huge to do this, like on a whim" Glenn said.
"This is not just a whim" Paige said "I've been thinking about this for awhile and put a lot of thought into the idea. I really want this, and what can it hurt, if you don't like it here then you can leave, what can it hurt to give it a try?"
"Well..." Glenn paused "Ok, lets do it, it may be insane, but I've always been big on spur of the moment things, so lets give this a try."
Paige grinned and threw herself at him. He grabbed her and twirled her around, kissing her in the process.
"Alright then, let's put this idea into motion, before we loose the momentum, let's get you moved in and give us a try." Paige said and pulled Glenn out of the manor.