A/N: Sorry for the wait, exams just finished. I hope you all liked the cliffhanger last chapter. This story will be coming to a close soon. As mentioned earlier and on my profile page, this is a filler story I'm uploading while I work on Estelle: The Last of the Fire Fae. Anyway, please enjoy the chapter and don't forget to review! Thanks!

Chapter 7

"She thinks I'm the Source?" Cole asked.

"Yeah, she does." He chuckled and Phoebe relaxed.

"Why would she think that?" But before Phoebe could answer him someone orbed into the apartment. Phoebe sighed expecting Paige. It was Leo and Piper.

"Get back to Paige," Piper said to Leo quietly and he orbed out.

Paige was flipping through the BOS when Leo orbed into the attic.

"I just don't get it. My powers were fine earlier," she said.

"You're powers are connected to your emotions, with everything that's happened, you just have to breathe and refocus."

"It's not that easy. Could you get some hemlock root in the kitchen?" she asked writing down a potion. He nodded leaving the attic. Paige looked up a few moments later thinking that Leo had returned.

"Cole," she said.

"Phoebe doesn't believe you. Piper does though. But you've already ruined your life. All you're going to do from now on is suffer because your older sister turned her back on you. The only option left is death. Let me help you." She crashed into some crates. Paige stood up and let out a scream as fireballs scorched her skin.

"Piper what are you doing here?" Phoebe asked. Piper looked at Cole and then to Phoebe.

"Paige's powers are acting up, she could barley protect herself against a darklighter."

"I'll leave you two alone," Cole said.

"No, stay Cole. Why would you leave? That is, unless you're hiding something," Piper said.

"He has nothing to hide," Phoebe said, "Why don't you go to work?" he smiled and kissed Phoebe. Smirking at Piper, he left the apartment. As soon as the elevator doors closed he flamed out.

"I cannot believe you! How can you take Paige's side? You know that Cole isn't evil anymore!"

"Do you think I want him to be evil? Do you think I want to see Paige falling to pieces? Phoebe, why would I want to hurt you? I didn't want to see it either but you have to face the facts!"

"What facts?!" Phoebe screamed at her sister, "Where is your proof that Cole is evil, let alone the Source?!"

"All you have to do is talk to Paige. Leo!" he arrived and Piper said one more thing, "She expected you to believe her; just like you expected Prue to believe you about Roger." Phoebe stood there speechless as they orbed out.

The first thing Piper heard was Paige's scream. When she got to the attic Paige was working on standing up, her clothes were torn, her hair a mess, burns covered her arms.

"Piper," Leo said his voice hollow. She turned her head away from Paige and saw her brother-in- law.

"Cole," she said, he was holding a fireball and his eyes lit with the flames of the Source. Before anything could be said or done, Cole flamed out. Piper rushed over to Paige and helped her up.

"Leo," Piper said.

"I'll be okay, I just need to sit," Paige said stumbling. After Leo had healed her Piper had asked what happened. Paige told her that after Leo had gone to the kitchen Cole had flamed in. She repeated the words Cole had said. She said that she had frozen, that she couldn't orb.

"If our powers are connected to our emotions, I still should have been able to orb. I don't get it. I don't understand what's wrong with me."

"First off, nothing's wrong with you. I think it's got something to do with Cole. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but we're going to figure it out, I promise." Piper said something about going to the kitchen and Leo orbed off to tell the Elders. Paige mentioned Phoebe and Piper dismally told her what happened at the apartment.

"He's not going to hurt her, not physically anyway." He needed to be vanquished Paige knew and that was just one more thing they had to worry about. The question was though, what was Phoebe going to do when she found out?

She wanted to call out to Piper or Leo to come back. Yet at the same time she didn't. She didn't want to hurt Paige but she had accused her husband of being the Source. Her inward battle went on for hours and then the telephone rang. She picked it up actually glad to see it was Elise. She apologized as soon as she picked up. Elise asked about Paige and Phoebe said she was fine, getting better.

"It was just a scare, I'll be in soon." She hanged the phone up before Elise could reply. Glad to be distracted for the rest of the day she didn't think of demons or her sisters for the rest of the day.

Prue looked down from above at her sisters. She admired her youngest sister, how she was falling apart inside yet she kept most of it inside. It was both a strength and a weakness Prue knew very well. She was surprised at Piper, the used to be middle sister whom rarely took sides, was taking Paige's. She was proud of Piper that even though accepting Paige was difficult, she had made the right choice even though it was hard and all the facts weren't there.

Then there was Phoebe. Phoebe had accepted Paige into the family but now it had changed. She worried Phoebe would chose Cole over her family, the same mistake she had made several years ago when it came to Roger. Phoebe had forgiven her but she didn't know if Paige would do the same for Phoebe.

Prue still found it difficult to talk to her mother after she found out about Paige. She remembered her arguing with her. That it didn't matter that Paige was different, biologically and magically. Grams had stepped in saying it was her idea to give Paige up for adoption. Prue said it hadn't mattered whose idea it was. Paige had grown up without them and then she saw the parents she loved die in a car crash. She said if they had bound Paige's whitelighter powers, she'd be dead. They said that Sam had convinced them not to.

Prue stopped thinking about the conversation and focused on her sisters. Phoebe had just left work; Paige was searching through the Book of Shadows searching more for what Cole had done to her powers. She closed the book having no luck but Prue flipped it back open and started flipping the pages. Paige looked up, said a quiet thank you to whomever she thought flipped the pages and looked down. On the top of the page it read in bold letters Binding Potion.

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