CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

GRAM'S TO THE RESCUE

Piper sighed deeply as she sank down in a chair at the kitchen table. The same table that she had shared countless meals with Prue and Phoebe when they were younger, and as young women. The table that she was never to share another meal with Prue. The table that she shared countless meals with Phoebe and Paige, the table she sat at after Prue's funeral when Phoebe went off on whole "save the innocent" whom turned out to be their half sister. She had many fond memories of this table and a lot bitter sweet. "I lost Prue, I'll be damned if I lose Paige also." Piper breathed softly but steely through her teeth. She lowered her head into her arms which had been resting in front of her. She moaned softly as she tried to ease the tension from her body, but with no luck.

How can tension – even the smallest of all tension leave her body? What with the lose of yet another member of her family because of magic. What with Leo leaving her and Wyatt to become a freaking Elder and having to leave up there full time. What with Paige going through a mental breakdown and wanting to leave the manor and the family. What with Cole coming back soon with Phoebe's son causing her having to vanquish her very her own son. Piper snorted into her arms and felt the spit hit the table and shoot back up into her closed eyes.

Soft but firm hands rested on her shoulders and began to massage causing her to moan in pain but gladness. She felt her body relax a tiny bit as she thanked God for the strong man behind her easing her of some of the pain that she was in. "Just relax, let the tension ease on out there." Chris's soft husky voice whispered in her ear. Piper did what only she could do, obey. She began to yoga breath fully realizing that was what her body craved most. She allowed Chris to help work the tension out of her shoulders, her back and her neck.

She finally sat up – still with Chris's hands on the back of her neck slowly massaging. "Where did you learn to give a massage like that?"

"From you." Chris said with a soft smile and soft eyes.

Phoebe walked into the kitchen at Piper's question and she just stood stand still and watched as mother and son bonded. Only thing was the mother didn't realize that it was her own son that she was bonding with. She sighed silently as she realized that if Piper and Leo didn't get the groove on and fast than Chris wouldn't be around to bond with his mother, in the past or in his own time. She had to find the solution to the problem and soon. If Paige was in her right mind; than she would have gone to her baby ½ sister and together they would have come up with something smashing and quiet romantic. Hell it could even bring Piper and Leo back together again.

Before Piper could say anything she saw Phoebe from the corner of her eyes. She turned her head causing Chris to drop his own. "Hey there you." She softly said mis reading Phoebe's look. She patted the chair next to her inviting Phoebe to sit down.

Phoebe sighed and walked over and took the offered seat. She opened her mouth, when all three of them heard a wild scream from the living room. They knew what it meant and Chris beat his mother and aunt out of the kitchen by a second. But Piper and Phoebe soon over took him and they rushed into the living room just as they saw Paige's orb in front of Sam who was trying to back off from the horrible looking demon that was storming towards him.

Phoebe screamed as Paige held up a paw and tried to call something to her – but nothing happened and the demon soon as upon Paige and he quickly swiped his hand across her check and she flew across the room slamming her head against the wall, her small chimpanzee body fell heavily onto the red love seat. Phoebe saw red and she rushed towards the demon and quickly let her legs fly and she was up in the air judo kicking the demon's face. The demon grabbed her legs and began to swing her around before she felt herself fly towards the grand father clock – which she felt herself crash into.

The demon went towards Sam once more – whom Chris had managed to orb to and orb away from his previous spot. Sam and Chris were standing behind Piper as she was lifting her hands up to blow or even freeze the demon. She flipped her wrist once, than twice, a third time it was until the fourth time and the demon just came upon her where she could breath his foul breath that the demon managed to blow up. Piper quickly closed her eyes as the blast began to form on the demon's chest, she saved her eye sight just in time. She opened her eyes and breathed in deep as she saw the ashes at her feet and on herself, she turned her head quickly and saw that Sam and Chris were quite safe.

Phoebe began to moan softly from where she had fallen. Piper rushed over and put her arms around her baby sister and gently helped her get up. They both turned to see how Paige was doing when they saw Paige still unconscious and a pool of blood steep from her head. They rushed over with cries and knelt down in front of the small chimpanzee that was their sister.

"LEO!" Piper screamed.

Lights lit up beside her and without looking up, "Heal Paige now." She said with tears running down her checks.

Leo quickly knelt down and held his hands out and soft lights lit up around Paige's head and slowly the wound healed. He put a gentle hand on her fury right shoulder as her eyes began to slowly open. "Easy Paige, easy. Take it slowly." He softly said in a soothing voice. He was relieved that she was obeying him and that she was feeling like herself whenever she was healed. That was a good sign. Perhaps he could get her to open up to her sisters and let them in to help her.

He sighed inwardly as he felt Paige tense up – he knew that she knew that he knew that he could have saved her right than and there. So she willing chose to shut herself off from him and her sisters once more. "Paige ...," He started to say when she jerked her shoulder back and glared at him before she orbed. He sighed and without a word or a look at his ex wife he orbed back up there.

"What the hell." Phoebe breathed. "I have to say I never thought I would see the day that Leo Wyatt wouldn't even look at you before he orbed out."

"This visit wasn't for me, it was for Paige." Piper said as she stood to her feet with the help of Chris's helping right hand. She looked up the stairs towards where's Paige's bedroom door was. "Leo couldn't help Paige where it mattered, so he had to leave. He didn't want us to see how upset he is."

Chris let his mother's hand go and walked back into the living room where Sam was sitting shaking on the couch. He sat down next to the man and put his right arm across Sam's shoulders and he squeezed gently letting the older man know that he was near in case he was needed.

Before Phoebe could say something else lights swirled around them and Penny showed up. "Girls." She said holding out her arms for her granddaughters to come and hug her together. She held onto them in a tight hug as she breathed in their scents. Scents that she had missed when she took her last breath on earth. She felt the lose when her granddaughters pulled away.

Penny nodded slightly and turned and walked into the living room. She stood in front of the couch where Sam was sitting. "You did well on your first face to face with a demon, Sam."

"Thank you." Sam said unsure of well anything. He was still in deep shock over what he had just lived through. "How's Paige?" He asked eyes growing wide as he jumped shaky unto his feet and he turned to look at the love seat where he had last seen Paige. The love seat was empty. "Where's Paige?"

"Leo came down to heal her and she orbed back to her bedroom." Phoebe said as she walked into the living room with Piper at her side. "Sam Crown please meet our grandmother Penelope Halliwell. Grams this is Sam as you very well know." Phoebe said with a smile and a wave of her hand.

Sam slowly turned and held out his hand for Penny to take. "Nice to meet you Mrs. Halliwell."

"It's nice to finally meet you also, Sam, I have seen some good things when I spy on Paige." Penny said taking Sam's hand in his. "I'm dead by the way. I watch my girls from up there, along side my daughter, Patty, and my oldest granddaughter Prue."

Sam nodded. "Now I remember, Paige telling me that her natural grams died a few years before she found her two older sisters. She also told me about her oldest sister's death."

Penny nodded. "You best sit down young man, before you lose your legs." She watched as Sam sat gratefully back down on the couch. "Chris after Sam is well rested and feeling better, than please orb him back home."

"Sure." Chris said with a nod.

Penny turned to face her granddaughters fully. "I'm here until Wyatt decides its high time to shape change Paige back to herself."

Relief lit up Piper and Phoebe's faces. With Grams here than everything was fine. Grams could get through to Paige and make sure Paige didn't leave the manor or the family.

"I'm not here to keep Paige from leaving the manor or you girls. I'm just here to protect you three until Paige gets back to herself so her powers can be active once more." Penny sighed deeply. "I'm not allowed to interfere in your girls lives."

"What the hell do the freaking Elders know!" Piper almost shouted as hot angry tears fell hard down her face.

"This isn't the Elder's decision, Piper, it's your mother's." Penny calmly said as she walked over and put a hand on Piper 's shoulders and her other hand on Phoebe's. "You know that Paige is going through a mental breakdown, but it is best for the power of three and you three being sisters that you three work it out and come to the other side together."

"But what if we can't?" Piper whispered fear striking her heart.

"Than I'll go to Richard and vanquish his sorry ass myself." Phoebe said in a heated voice. "You can't stop me, I should have done it when Paige arrived home in tears and told us that Richard dumped her because he didn't want anything magical around him." She laughed a hard laugh. "My God, Paige saved his life and he treats her like a piece of shit."

Phoebe jerked herself out of her grams arm and stormed towards the door intent on following through her heated words. She stopped suddenly when orb lights lit up in front of her and Paige appeared with hot and stormy eyes looking up into her own. "You can't stop me Paigey, I'm finally going to be the big sister that you needed." She put her hand on Paige's fury right shoulder. "I'm finally going to tend to this and make sure that Richard pays for what he did to you." She moved to Paige's side letting her hand go and moved towards the door, when she suddenly felt her legs go out underneath and the next thing she knew her back and head slammed on the hard wood floor of the front hall way of the manor.

"PAIGE!" Piper screamed.

"Paige!" Grams said in her no nonsense voice.

Phoebe felt two paws on her shoulders and she was sitting up looking straight into Paige's eyes. "Why won't you let me in?" She cried softly. "I just want in."

Paige's paw left her and suddenly Paige orbed away. Phoebe moved her knees up to her chin and she bowed her head onto her knees and covered her head with her hands and she just sobbed. Like when she was a small child wanting her mommy and knowing that her mommy could never come back to her.

Phoebe felt arms wrap themselves around her and she allowed her body to fall sideways into the comforting arms of her beloved grams. She quickly uncovered her head and wrapped her arms around her Grams waist and tried to pull herself as tightly into the hug that she could. She cried the tears and sobs that had been pent up since the previous day when Paige had called her and yelled at her for interfering in her life.

Piper felt her soul being torn into another million pieces at the sounds of Phoebe's heart breaking sobs. She wanted to crave into her own heart break and sob along side Phoebe, but she couldn't, because if she did than there would be no one left. She had to be strong – she had to be the one to protect her sisters. So she surpassed her emotions as she simply watched Grams comfort Phoebe.

END CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Author's Note: I'm so sorry for the long delay for this chapter up date. I had some major computer problems and to top it off I had some serious writers block on this chapter. But I'm happy to say that I'm back full time. Expect the next chapters update in a few days. Plus there will be ten more chapters after this one.