Chapter 55

Two weeks passed slowly for the Paige and her friends at Magic School. Normally the halls would be loud with talking of the winter holidays coming up. Instead a dropped pin could be heard. Teachers would usually have trouble keeping their students attention due to the excitement now it was because of the guards that marched the halls and their fear of another demon attack.

"Halliwell," Simon said and Paige turned to look at him in the hall.

"What do you want Marks?" she asked looking at the clock. One hour till curfew.

"It's almost holiday," he said, "I got you these as a gift." A bouquet of red rose appeared in his hands. Paige took them and asked what he wanted in return.

"Why would I want something in return?" he asked pretending to be surprised.

"Because you're you. Now, what do you want?"

"A date," he said. Paige narrowed her eyes and then sighed.

"Only because it's almost Christmas," Paige said. Simon Marks smiled and then said he'd pick her up at the Manor in one week at seven. She returned to her dorm room to see that her roommates were in the dollhouse. She shrank down with the roses in hand. After placing them in a vase of water she went in search of her friends. They were in the attic flipping through the Book.

They told her they were researching a demon that they had heard attacked her sisters. Paige immediately left her school to go to the Manor. Piper and Phoebe were in the kitchen arguing about something. Leo greeted Paige when she arrived.

"What's going on?" she asked, "Who is the demon?"

"There is no demon Paige," Leo said.

"Then why are they arguing?" he shrugged unable to answer. When she entered the kitchen she heard them arguing about their whitelighter.

"Hey!" Paige said loudly. Both her sisters became quiet and turned to Paige shocked.

"Paige, curfew is in less than an hour. What are you doing here?" Piper asked.

"I heard a demon had attacked," Paige said crossly, "Why didn't you call me?"

"No demon has attacked Paige," Phoebe said and Paige narrowed her eyes trying to tell if she was lying.

"Where's Prue?" she asked after a moment.

"On a date, with Andy," Piper said, "Paige, you need to get back to school before curfew."

"I have time," Paige said looking at Phoebe, "You haven't had any premonitions recently?"

"Not recently, no," Phoebe said, "Paige if I have a premonition or a demon attacks, we'll call. We told you we would call." Piper handed her a batch of cookies, telling her they were for the dollhouse. Paige thanked her and returned to Magic School. When she entered the dollhouse again she was asked about the roses. Demons weren't a topic of discussion as Paige told her friends about her upcoming date with witch- whitelighter Simon Marks.

They talked well after midnight. Hadley and Melanie had helped Paige pick out an outfit for her date, which was a while a way. Melanie had talked about her brother and sister in-law. Paige said one weekend they would visit them and Melanie smiled. She hadn't seen her brother in years and wondered if he had other family besides Florence.

"That was close," Phoebe said sighing with relief as Paige went through the portal to Magic School.

"If she realizes we didn't tell her about the demon, she isn't going to be happy," Piper said.

"We can't let her near this demon Piper. I can't let that premonition come true. We know now that it wasn't a dream." They then went to talk to Leo to see if he found out anything from the Elders. He knew little info, just a bit more than the Book of Shadows did. The two sisters knew they couldn't go to Magic School to look because then Paige would find out they had lied to her.

Around midnight Andy dropped Prue off at the Manor and then returned to the station. He asked his partner what had happened and was unhappy to hear he was talking about Paige Halliwell.

"It's been weeks Darryl," Andy said, "There is nothing going on at that school except that accident."

"I want to talk to Paige," Darryl said, "Or Prue."

"I already talked with Prue," Andy said, "Nothing is going on at the school. It wan an unfortunate accident. That's all it was. She said the families don't want any media attention, that's why it wasn't in the news or anything."

"It has to be in some small newspaper somewhere. If Paige goes to this big school how come nothing was written about it? It doesn't make sense Andy. Something is going on at that school."

"Nothing is going on Darryl," Andy said, "I have to get home. Call me if there is a real emergency." He left the office as his partner continued to look for more research on Paige's school. After several hours of researching he turned away from the school and thought of something else. What if it wasn't the school but Paige? Or the Halliwells themselves? He began to research the youngest of the four sisters to find an article about the death of her father, Samuel Wilder.

He then found out it was the same lake that the girls' mother had drowned in nearly sixteen years ago. After more time he found that there were several other drownings at this camp as well.

The following morning Piper and Phoebe told Prue what had happened when she was on her date with Andy.

"That dream I had a while ago? The one where Paige died? I was right, it was a premonition," Phoebe said, "The demon attack not long ago. Then Paige showed up."

"Is Paige hurt?" she asked worried.

"She's fine, back at school," Piper said, "We told her there was no demon."

"We have to tell her the truth," Prue said.

"But my premonition," Phoebe said.

"We'll stop it. If we don't tell her she'll figure it out and then go after the demon alone. If she does, then she will die."

A/N: I hope you all enjoyed the chapter! Please review with your thoughts! Charmed Always- K