A/N: Sorry for the big gap in updates, this has been the hardest
chapter so far, especially as I had to write Prue and Paige's first
meeting. I'd really love some feedback on that part of the chapter,
please tell me whether you liked it or not.

I also just wanted to say thank you for all the reviews, I'm amazed
at the response to this story and it's really encouraging to know
people are reading an enjoying it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed. I should, though. I totally
should. In fact, if anyone wants to sell it to me, I've got about
forty quid in the bank and I'm willing to beg for it XD


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For the love of her sister

"Paige?" Piper asked, frowning.

"What about Paige?" Phoebe questioned.

"Is she okay?" Piper again.

Phoebe opened her mouth as if to fire another question, but Penny
Halliwell silenced her granddaughter by raising a hand, "girls,
please, I can only answer one question at a time,"

`An I'm afraid the answers I give you won't make you feel any
better.'

Taking a moment to survey the two woman, who both looked slightly
sheepish, she continued. "She's hurting very badly, but I'm sure you
don't need me to tell you that, she's relatively well-"

"What! What the hell do you mean by `relatively?"

"Piper!" Penny scolded, "if you listen and don't raise your voice to
me…" She pinned Piper with one of her famous glares, making the now
oldest Charmed One feel like a naughty child again, "she isn't
wounded, nothing demonic, but she has been better. Now don't you
start, Phoebe," Penny could have spotted Phoebe's `I'm about to
yell' face a mile away. "If I could tell you more, I would, you know
that."

Piper drew in a deep calming breath, having no urge to be chided
again, "well, what can you tell us?"

"She's safe and," Penny smiled for a moment, clearly thinking of
Prue, "well protected."

"Can you tell us where to find her?"

"No. You have to do that by yourself."

"Please, Grams! We need something, anything!" Phoebe turned to
Piper, urging her to say something to convince Grams to help them.

"We have to find her."

`We need to find her,' Piper finished off silently.

"And why do you have to find her?" Penny raised one eyebrow at the
young witches.

Phoebe couldn't help but notice that her expressed mirrored one
often shown by Paige and Piper.

`I guess that's where they get it from.' She almost smiled at the
thought.

"Because we love her," Piper stated simply.

"And we need to show her that," added in Phoebe.

Penny allowed a genuine smile to break her stern features, "that's
the right answer."


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Leo gently laid Paige down on the bed and couldn't hold back his
surprise at the state of the apartment. Leo had expected something
dusty, unkempt, rarely used and possibly dirty. Instead, the
apartment was clean, tidy and seemed well lived in.

"I don't understand," Leo whispered quietly, partly as he didn't
want to wake Paige, but mainly because he didn't want to face Prue
if he woke Paige. "How often is she here?"

Prue heard Leo's question, but did not look up from her youngest
sister's innocent face. `God, she's so beautiful.'

"Pretty much every day," was Prue's eventual reply.

"But how? When?" Prue didn't need to see Leo's shock, she could hear
it in his voice.

"Everyone needs a home, Leo, this was Paige's, problem is, she still
thinks it is. I'm here to help her realise where her real home is,
with our sisters, at the Manor."

`Home is where the heart is,' Leo couldn't help but think. However
corny the phrase was, the truth of it could not be denied.


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Penny started to flicker and fade, "I'm sorry, girls, I can't stay."

"No! Grams, please, don't leave, you have to help us," Phoebe tried
to blink back the tears in her eyes, seeing Grams again was
wonderful, but it still hurt when she had to leave. "Help us find
Paige, I'm begging you!"

Penny smiled sadly at her second youngest granddaughter, "she's
home, Phoebe, she shouldn't be, but she is."

"Home?" Cried out Piper, "what does that mean?"

"You have to work it out…" Lights suddenly encircled Penny, so white
that Piper and Phoebe had to block their eyes from the brightness.

"We don't understand!"

"You will, my darlings, I love you both," the lights travelled up to
the ceiling and disappeared towards the Heavens," leaving Piper and
Phoebe alone, with Grams' final words echoing in their
ears. "Blessed be."


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As consciousness slowly drifted back to Paige, she was immediately
aware of two things: one, her head still hurt and two, she felt
warm...an almost safe. Paige opened her eyes and found herself next
to a beautiful woman, with pale skin and dark hair, she couldn't
help but think that this woman and her shared a slight...resemblance.

It took a few moments for the penny to drop.

"...Prue?" Her voice was shaky and weak.

Prue spun round to face her youngest sister and couldn't suppress
the small gasp that escaped her throat. So many emotions ran through
Prue's mind, this was her sister. Her baby sister, conscious and
saying her name, scared and frightened, saying her name.

'Scared and frightened?' Prue reached out to stroke Paige's cheek,
but the Whitelighter-Witch flinched and moved away from Prue's
innocent touch.

"Don't." Was Paige's only reply.

"Paige, what-?"

"Please, don't. I get it, okay? I get..." Paige turned away from
Prue and clenched her jaw, "why you're here."

"You do?" Prue frowned in confusion, this was definitely not how she
thought her first conversation with her sister would go.

"Is Leo going to take me away? I...I don't know how to get up
there." Paige stood up and shrugged off the wave of dizziness that
hit her. She walked over to the window, her back facing Prue, "tell
Piper and Phoebe...I...just tell them goodbye, I'd appreciate that."
Paige gripped the window ledge tightly, trying to block the tears
that threatened to fall.

"What are you talking about? Where are you going?" Prue walked over
to Paige and placed a hand on her shoulder, Paige dropped her head
and sighed.

She turned around and looked Prue straight in the eye, "you don't
need to pretend you don't know what's going on. I understand. I'm
not meant to be here, you are."


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Phoebe slumped onto the attic sofa, she rested her head in her hands
and looked up at her sister, "was that everywhere?"

Piper nodded, "she's definitely not here, besides, if she was,
wouldn't the scrying have shown it?"

"The scrying should've shown us something, even if she wasn't
nearby. It just didn't work."

"I know, I know."

Both sisters sat in silence before Piper sat up abruptly.

"What?"

"I've...I've got an idea." Piper stood up and walked to the attic
doorway, she stopped and looked back at Phoebe. "You coming?"

Phoebe frowned, "where?"

Piper walked out the room and called over her shoulder in
reply, "Paige's old apartment."


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