Chapter Four

OOPS!

Paige allowed the women's bathroom door to swish close behind her. She knew that her white skin; in which can never hold a tan was still beet red.

Great. Just wonderful. I have to draw even more attention to myself. Damn Piper and Phoebe and their meddling.

Paige took a deep and shaky breath to physically calm her down. She knew she was stuck at the office until the end of the day.

Mentally Paige knew she was a goner. But Paige felt her physical sense go back to normal. Not normal; but as close to normal that she could get in; in her anger.

Paige made her way to her desk and sat down. She put her purse on the usual spot on the desk. Her cell phone fell unnoticed onto the ground next to her chair.

Paige double clicked on the icon of the folder that Mr. Cowen told her that was her first case.

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Blue and white lights suddenly appeared in the manor. When they disappeared once again; Phoebe and Chris just stood in front of the couch where Leo was trying to comfort a weeping Piper.

Phoebe rushed over and tapped Leo on the shoulder. "This is a sister thing."

Leo didn't want to leave Piper's side. But he knew that Phoebe was right. He sighed deeply and removed his arms from around Piper and Wyatt and stood to his feet.

Phoebe sat down and wrapped her arms around Piper and Wyatt. "What did Paige tell you?"

"Paige is leaving." Piper sobbed.

"Paige will be back once she cools off." Phoebe echoed Leo's earlier statement.

"Paige isn't just leaving the manor; Phoebe. She's leaving the family. Paige is leaving us." Piper allowed Phoebe to pull her into a tight hug against herself. Piper smelt Phoebe's perfume and the soap, and shampoo her younger sister had used that very morning.

"Paige is not leaving the family or us." Phoebe said keeping the tears and sheer fear from her voice. Phoebe saw Wyatt looking questing and a little worried up at his sobbing mother.

Wyatt didn't understand why his Aunt Paige wasn't at the manor right this second. He had sent the image to shape change his aunt into a chipaminze not fifteen minutes ago.

What went wrong? Wyatt listened to his mother and Aunt Phoebe with half of his ears; while with the other half he tried to hear his Aunt Paige.

But being fourteen months old this power has not developed to be all that powerful yet.

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"So I was telling this man; that if he ever laid a hand on his daughter again than he would had to deal with me." A man's voice said in the next work station to Paige's.

"What did he say to that?" Another male asked.

"He said he would file charges against me. He's the one who used his sick hands to steal his daughter's inn once!" The man said in a hard voice.

"God; that sickens me. Too know that monsters like that are free among people." The other man hissed through his teeth.

Paige blocked out the rest of what the two males were saying. The story was an old and very familiar to her.

Paige was too wrapped up in her anger towards her sisters to even feel for the sad case of the little girl.

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Leo and Chris stood around very unsure how to help the two Halliwell sisters in this crisis.

It wasn't supernatural crises; but family crises.

As an Elder; Leo was no longer a full fledge member of the family any longer. Sides he and Piper had such an emotional distance with one another.

Phoebe was the only family member who knew the truth about Chris. So Piper didn't know that Chris was her son. Her little boy who wanted to comfort her.

Chris knew that this was apposed to happen. Not the fact that his mother and Aunt Phoebe interfered in Aunt Paige's life by calling Sam Cowen. But Paige DID have a mental break down; right around this time. Paige wrote about her break up with Richard in the Book of Shadows at this time.

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Wyatt realized what went wrong the first time. He closed his eyes and pictured his Aunt Paige and the chipaminze picture side by side. He mentally moved the chipaminze image to over shadow his Aunt Paige's image.

Wyatt just knew that this time the spell worked.

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Paige clicked the print button. "Printing." She called out. She pushed the well worn chair back and stood to her feet.

Paige walked into the copy room and saw that sheets of paper were flying out of the copy machine into the receiving tray.

Suddenly Paige felt herself get a slight tingle. She closed her eyes and tried to clear her mind to sense one of her sister's. But Paige couldn't clear her mind. With anger tears Paige jerked her eyes open.

What Paige saw shocked the dickens out of her.

Her eyes saw the copy machine. NOT the top of the copier like usual; but the actual whiteness of the copier.

Did I faint? The first confused thought entered Paige's head. She looked at the floor and almost screamed in fright.

Instead of her pale white legs there were two short hairy legs. Not just a little fuzz that needed to be shaved away; but fur. Light brown fur.

Paige brought her hands up to her face to wipe her eyes. But she gasped in surprise. Instead of her slender long fingers; what she saw was light brown fur and not even a hand; but a paw.

Paige quickly got to her feet and walked over to the mirror to assure herself that she wasn't going insane.

But what Paige saw in the mirror proved that she was insane.

Instead of her own self staring wide eyed back at her there was a medium size light brown chipaminze staring back at her.

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END CHAPTER FOUR

Author's Note: Fell free to post your comments and flames. Keep in mind that children of 8 do tend to pop in.

Wow; I was actually able to think of a chapter for this week. I kind of of messed myself up with this chapter's name.