It had been 4 hours and the sister were now sitting in the waiting area of the emergency room. Phoebe was asleep in a chair. Piper couldn't sleep. She just sat there and stared into space, she was in deep thoughts. She replayed the events from that day over and over in her head. Paige orbing into the kitchen,full of blood, Piper realizing she could lose her and then dragging her to the car, the drive to the emergency room, Paige talking to her and then spitting out blood and going unconscious and the nurses rushing her away. It was like an endless time loop that just kept on replaying in front of her eyes. She also couldn't stop thinking about the things Paige said to her before she was rushed off. Piper didn't hate Paige, she never had and she never would. She would have to make it up to her, if it was the last thing she did and even if it would take forever to do.
„Are you with Paige Matthews?", the doctor that came into the room asked.
„Yes! Yes we are! She's our sister. How is she? Is she going to be OK?" Phoebe was awake in a split second as she heard Paiges Name being called out.
Piper was still looking into space, barley noticing the doctor that came in.
„Well your sister lost a lot of blood", the doctor paused, Piper was now looking at him, registering that this concerned her sister, „she was barley hanging on when we got her to surgery, her heart stopped before we could start, but somehow she made it back an through the surgery."
Piper released a breath that she was holding for the last couple hours and tears of happiness formed in Phoebes eyes.
„I´m not saying she is completely fine, we can't say how much impact the wound on her head has on her until she awakes. We don't know if she suffered any other damages during the time her heart stopped. We will have to wait and find out. She has a long road to recovery, but it seemed like she was really fighting for something or someone in there and she will need all the support from her family. I do have to say your sister is a little miracle", the doctor finished wit a smile.
„Yes..yes She truly is", Piper said with a smile on her face.
„So can we see her?", Phoebe was getting impatient. All she wanted to do is hold her baby sisters hand.
„Yes she is in her own room right now, ill show you the way. She is still asleep and there are some machines but they are just there to help, so don´t be afraid of theme.", the doctor said as he showed theme to Paiges room.
They walked in the room, prepared for what they mind find in there. Paige looked so small, she was lying in the bed between white sheets, witch made her look even paler. There was a huge bandaged around Her head and Piper remembered the doctor saying that he didn't know if this wound had any affect on her, so she was still concerned. Phoebe was the first to make a move. She sat next to Paige in a chair and held her hand, telling Paige that she was safe and that she had to wake up. Piper stood at the foot of the bed just looking her sister over. She couldn't help but fell responsible for all that ha happened and was afraid that if she came closer to Paige that she would somehow hurt or physically.
That's how they stayed for a while, until visiting hours were over. It was hard for Piper to leave the room. Even though she hadn't touched Paige or talked to her she just wanted to be there, see with her own eyes that her sister was still breathing. Phoebe had to talk her into leaving and had to promise, that they would be back first thing in the morning. Before they left, Piper gathered her courage to touch Paige and leaned in over her head and gave her a kiss and promised her everything would turn out alright.
During the night
The Hospital was quiet, the patients were asleep, only the night staff was awake checking in on theme here and there. Paiges room was quiet, only the beeping from the machines could be began to stir and started to wake up. Everything was out of focus and her mouth was really dry.
„Piper..? Phoebe?", she weakly asked into the darkness.
Nothing in her head was making sense. Where was she ? How did she get here? What happened?
Slowly the events from the previous day came back to her and she slowly started to remember. Everything was still a blur and her whole body hurt. She didn't notice that she wasn't alone in the room anymore. While she was waking up, a demon shimmered into her room. The word n the underworld spread fast, that one of the Charmed ones wasn't doing so good and this demon saw his chance in that situation. He leaned over a half awake Paige from behind and held his hand over her head. A purple glow came out of his hand and into Paiges head. Paige was now fully awake and tried to scream, but now word came out. All she could do was look into those nasty eyes and wait for it to be over. It was like she was turned into stone. Her head felt like it was going to explode and she tried to fight that weird feeling that as coming over her, but she was to weak. She finally passed out and the demon left with an evil smile on his face.
The next day
After a night with very little sleep for Piper and Phoebe, they were both quietly sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast. Leo had come back that night. He explained to a very pissed of Piper, that he couldn't come because one of his charges was stuck in the underworld and he couldn't hear her calls. Piper wasn't happy with that explanation, but she knew she couldn't let her anger out on Leo. She had to focus on Paige. After they were done, they headed for the hospital, hoping that Paige would wake up today.
At the Hospital
They where about to go into Paiges room, when the doctor, who already spoke to theme the previous day, stopped theme.
„Excuse me, could I have a word with you please? I´m afraid I don't have good news for you."
„What? What do you mean? What's wrong ? Did she get worse?" Phoebe sounded stressed out. Piper felt like the ground underneath her was being ripped away, she feared the worst and closed her eyes to brace herself at what the doctor had to say.
„Well its kind of hard to explain, but we think that the blast that your sister suffered to the head was worse then we thought. Her heart stopping worsened the whole situation."He got skeptic look from the sisters standing in front of him so he quickly continued.
„What I´m saying is, that I´m afraid that the injury to her head caused her to lose her memory." Piper and Phoebe gasped. They didn't expected that.
„She can't remember anything. Not where she is from, her Name or any other aspects of her life." the doctor paused for a moment. „Also not that she has sisters. I´m very sorry."
„But wait nothing ? She remembers nothing? That can't be! She has to remember us! You can fix this right? You can make her remember." Piper couldn't understand the world anymore and there were silent tears rolling down Phoebes face.
„I´m afraid there is nothing we can do, I´m sorry. She will have to regain her memory by herself if it is still possible. She is awake right now and you can go into her room and talk to her quietly, but don't overwhelm her. Try to stay calm. Ill stay in touch.", with that the doctor left. The two sisters where left behind, stunned. Phoebe looked at Piper.
„Piper what are we going to do? She can't remember us? How can we explain everything to her? What if she doesn't wants to come with us? What if we never get the old Paige back." Phoebes voice broke and she began to cry. Piper wrapped her arms around her and let her sister cry into her shoulder.
„Shhh..shh its alright. Well figure it out, like we always do, well make it, don´t worry." Piper was not believing her own words, but she couldn't let Phoebe know that. After a while her younger sister calmed down.
„Oh God Piper I´m sorry. I know its hard for you to I shouldn't break down like this while all this stuff is going on. I´m sorry."
„Don´t be silly, I´m always there to hold you when you cry, no matter what time or what the circumstances, you know that."
Phoebe nodded and gave Piper a small smile.
„Thanks"
„Don't worry about it. No lets go see our little sister."
Phoebe nodded again. She took Pipers hand and they both took a deep breath and walked into Paiges Room, not sure of what to expect.
