A/N: So unfortunately I didn't get to update before the end of 2012 but I'm updating now! End of the year was busy for me visiting family and the next couple of weeks will be too. I have semester exams coming up, yay… Anyway I hope you enjoyed the last chapter. Happy Reading!

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Chapter 43

It had been nearly a week since Paige had started Magic School and as she sat in her History of Magic class she wondered how her sisters were doing. She'd be most likely going home tomorrow for the weekend, that was the plan anyway. Paige had paid attention in all her classes having to catch up but today she wasn't focused. She felt that something was wrong and that her sisters needed her. She wasn't expecting a demon attack everyday but it'd been almost a week and she was beginning to worry that something had happened to her sisters. Soon the bell rang signaling the end of the period and she gathered her textbooks about to leave. Her professor told her to stay behind a moment though.

"I just wanted to ask about how you were doing. How are you adjusting to this school?"

"Great!" Paige said and the warning bell rang, "I really need to get to Orbing 101. I'll see you Monday Professor." She swiftly left the classroom and made her way to her next class. She slipped in right before the final bell and sat in an empty seat.

"Hey Halliwell," Simon said, "Join me for lunch?" His mouth said one thing but Paige knew he was thinking that he didn't need to ask.

"Actually Marks, I'm busy at lunch, but thanks for the invite," Paige said turning her attention to the front of the class. She spent the class focusing on a target and aiming her jet of orbs at it. Being scatterbrained today, her focus was off and the jet broke a vase.

"Focus Halliwell!" the professor said. She aimed again and the target, a bulls-eye with a picture of a grim lock on it, was hit. Paige knew that the likely hood of any demon standing still long enough for her to hit it was slim. She could sense her sisters talking about her in the back of her mind.

"Prue I really think we should call Paige," Phoebe said, "I don't want her hurt but this demon can't be vanquished by just the three of us."

"Phoebe we'll be fine! It's not necessary yet."

"She's right Prue. When it is necessary it'll be too late. Prue we need to call Paige and get this demon vanquished. Then she can go back to school and we'll call her again when we need her," Piper said.

"Fine! Paige! We need you!" Prue called closing the Book of Shadows.

Paige heard Prue's call and was glad to leave Simon's hitting on her." She left the class and stepped through the portal into the Manor. It closed behind her and she headed to the attic.

"Finally, I was beginning to wonder that you didn't need me," Paige said, "So who is the demon we're up against?"

"I remember them," Paige said.

"You mean you've been up against them!" Prue exclaimed.

"I meant reading about them. I just really wanted to see your reaction." Prue fumed and Phoebe and Piper shared looks as Paige walked over to the book. She flipped to the page.

"They're shapeshifters," Paige said, "Once we locate the spell will do the job. When did they attack you?" The room became tense.

"What aren't you telling me?"

"Victor's here," Piper said.

"He's invited us to dinner," Phoebe said, "For tonight."

"But we told him that it was your first weekend home from boarding school," Prue said, "We're rescheduling."

"No! I was planning on staying at school anyway. My roommates wanted to have a girls' night. Let's just vanquish these demons and get it over with." Paige wrote down the spell on a piece of paper.

"So where are the demons?" she asked going downstairs. She opened the front door.

"Hi, may I help you?" There was a woman and two men. Prue turned to see who was at the front door.

"Paige, get out of the way!" but it was too late. The demon stepped forward and grabbed Paige. Paige dropped the piece of paper and tried to focus as the demon slammed her into a wall. Two other demons entered and Prue and Phoebe were battling them. Paige forced her orb of jets onto the demon and he flew into the grandfather clock. She picked the potion and hurried to Piper. The two demons that Prue and Phoebe were fighting were on the ground. They joined and held hands.

"When in the circle that is home. Safety's gone and evil roams. Rid all beings from these walls. Save us sisters four. Now heed our call," the sisters chanted and the demons were vanquished.

"Hello?" a man now stood in the doorway.

"What happened in here?" he asked. He looked at Paige, whom looked to Piper.

"You must be Paige, I barely recognized you." Paige gave him an uneasy smile.

"I really have to get back to school."

"Did you just get here?"

"Yes, but I have to go," Paige said.

"How do you expect to get back?" Prue gave her a nod.

"Through a portal," said Paige and she went to the first floor landing.

"Paige, come back when classes are over?" Phoebe asked.

"I really have a lot to catch up on. History, and math, and orbing, I was going to relax tonight with some friends and then start working. Thanks for the offer though. I'll be back when I can." She pulled out a small iron key. Paige held it against the wall and looked back, giving her sisters a smile and she stepped through. The lunch bell rang as the portal closed and Paige headed to her empty table.

"Dad, we'll see you this evening at dinner," Piper said after a moment of silence. He nodded and left.

"We shouldn't have told her he was here," Prue said, "We don't even want him here."

"You don't want him here Prue," Phoebe said "Piper and I do."

"Fine you can go to dinner with him than!"

"Prue you have to come. We haven't seen him in a long time. He was nearly killed by demons because of us. We owe him this much."

"No Piper he owes us! He left us! He didn't want us to be witches, so what? Do I really want to be one? Do you think I'm glad our baby sister is fighting demons? No! But I'd never think of leaving her. Never."

"Prue, you need to tell dad this. Not us. Just come to dinner, then you won't have to see him again," Phoebe said, "Please Prue. I know you aren't happy with him, but if we don't give him a chance then he will never come back in our lives."

"One hour, that's it!"

A/N: So that's it for this chapter! Please tell me your thoughts and if you want more! The spell used in the chapter is not mine.