Fourever Charmed, Part One

Fourever Charmed, Part One

A/N: Keep in mind, I wrote this a couple weeks BEFORE the finale aired, but I did use the spoilers on TheCharmedOnes.com as my guide for "main" plot. (The first chapter was VERY similar to show, but the next three parts begin to veer off a lot, and it ends VERY differently, I swear!) This is also cross posted on FFN (FanFiction.Net). This story begins where "Kill Billie: VOL. 2" leaves off.

Fourever Charmed, Part One

"Get away from me!"

"Piper-"

"No! I have to find Paige, damnit!" Piper Halliwell lurched forward. Her brown hair spun wildly around her face as she jerked herself from her husband's arms.

"Piper!"

Piper could heard her husband's feet pounding across the debris as he ran after her. She flipped around, almost falling over the broken leg of a chair, and flicked her wrists. In an instant, Leo became completely stationary. Turning around, she saw no sign of Billie Jenkins. Her mouth fell open as she elicited an ear piercing scream.

Then her eyes fell to the wreckage around her. "Paige? Paige! Paige! I need you damnit!" She raised her hands again, blasting a pile of debris into nothing but shards. She saw no sign of her baby sister. She turned again, this time quicker and blasted another pile of debris. "Paige!" The witch started to run, blasting everything in her line of vision. Still no Paige.

Piper's legs felt like a weak jello mold. She could barely keep herself from falling face first as she ran across the decimated lot where the Halliwell Manor had stood just minutes before. Then she froze. Her blood ran cold as her brown eyes spied a clump of dark brown hair.

It was sticking out from under the chandelier. The same chandelier that Prue had been fixing the night she walked in and Prue was mad at her for being late, on the night Phoebe read the spell to give them their powers. The same chandelier that she, Phoebe, and Paige had held hands under and reconstituted the Power of Three. Her body trembled as she raised her hands, activating her power to explode. In a wickedly bright shower of white sparks, the chandelier was nothing more.

At the sight of Paige's bruised and battered, pale skinned body, Piper's legs finally gave out. She crashed to the ground with a bone crunching smack, landing on her knees next to Paige. Tears were gushing from her brown eyes. "No! Paige, baby, no!" Piper's hands trembled out to grab Paige. "Oh god, no! No!"

Paige Matthews lay as still as a statue. Her eyes were shut, and except for the small trail of blood from her mouth, and cut lip, she looked like she was sleeping peacefully. Her dark hair was splayed around her head in a halo, and her hands laid neatly at her sides.

Piper snaked her arms around Paige's tender body, pulling her baby sister into her lap and cradling her limp, lifeless form. "Oh god, Paige." She curled her fists and wiped gently at Paige's cheek. "Why?" She screamed, looking towards the sky. "You bastards! How dare you take her too!"

"Piper."

Piper screamed. She pulled Paige tighter to her body, holding her for everything she was worth. "Leo," she sobbed, "they took Paige too."

"I know." Leo dropped to his knees. He stroked his wife's cheek, brushing her hair over her shoulder. "I'm so sorry." He looked at his sister-in-law. Taking Paige's lifeless hand in his, he left chills run up his spine. In that moment, she seemed to look so much like the sister he couldn't save before. The dark hair, the blood, the way her hands hung loosely at her sides.

"I-I-I never t-t-t-old her," Piper stuttered through tears.

"Told her what?"

"T-told her t-that I loved her."

Leo squeezed Paige's hand a little tighter. "She knew, Piper. I know she knew."

"Wh-what if she didn't? I never told her, Leo! I had been so cruel to her for taking Prue's place, and I never told her! What if she didn't know?"

"She knew."

Piper buried her face into her baby sister's hair, sobbing as she clung to her sister. "You held this family together, baby girl. You were the glue that we all needed after Prue left. I know I never said it, but I love you so much." She was shaking like a leaf as she brushed Paige's dirty white cheeks. "And I swear to you that I'm gonna fix this, Paige! You're gonna be just fine. Do you hear me? Just fine, damnit! I swear it!"

----Several Hours Later----

Pitch black. Suddenly a rectangular shaft of light filtered into the room, as a door swung open. The silhouettes of two figures stood in the doorway; one female, one male. The shorter figure, the female, reached into the darkness and began to rub her hand across the wall, feeling for a light switch. There was a click, and the room was flooded with bright light. Leo Wyatt and Piper Halliwell stepped cautiously into the room. Leo slid his arm around his wife's waist, as Piper looked at the room in dismay.