Paige rapped nervously on the attic door. Now was the moment of truth. She had to apologise to her 'twin'. She had no idea what to expect in there. The only reason she had even figured out that Jordyn was in there was that voices were coming from it, and all the other kids were downstairs. But at least there didn't seem to be any crying. That was an improvement from earlier.
"Yeah, who is it?" a voice called from behind the closed door.
"Its Pai...um, Kyra" Paige called back, wincing at the slip up.
The door creaked open and a face Paige didn't know peered out. She guessed it would be Clayre, since someone by that name was supposed to be up here with Jordyn."It's about time you came up to apologise" the face said with a scowl. "You really upset her you know"
"Can I come in?" Paige asked. The girl reluctantly stepped aside and let her enter the room.
Jordyn was sitting in the corner of the room, intently studying the Book. "Um, hi" Paige greeted her. Jordyn didn't even look up.
"Go away Ky" she said. "I don't wanna talk to you at the moment.
"I came up here to apologise" Paige said.
"Whatever, I don't care" Jordyn replied, still turning the pages of the Book.
"What are you looking for?" Paige asked curiously.
"Spirit summoning spell" Jordyn told her. "I want to talk to mom"
Paige winced. Had no one told the girl that much of the time the loved one was not allowed to appear? It had been over two years since Prue died and her sisters still hadn't been able to see her. Would it be any different for Jordyn?
Then she remembered where she was and almost let out a gasp. What would happen if Jordyn called forth her mothers spirit while Paige was here? It could have disastrous results. God knows the last summoning spell must have, the one that she guessed had trapped her in Kyra's body in the first place.
"I don't think that's such a good idea Jordi" Clayre put in. "You know how the aunts are about us contacting the spirits."
A voice floated up the stairs "Girls, are you coming down or not?"
Paige suddenly remembered why she'd come up here in the first place. "Oh yeah, lunch is ready" she said, a little sheepishly.
"Coming Uncle Jesse" Clayre called down the stairs.
She glared at Paige one last time. "This is your fault you know," she pointed out. "Jordi wouldn't even be thinking about contacting aunt Paige if you hadn't mentioned her. That was dumb of you"
Jordyn looked over at Clayre. "Hey Clayre, I'm here, remember? If you're gonna say stuff like that you should do it when I'm not in the room"
Clayre threw Jordyn a sheepish look. "Yeah, sorry Jordi. Anyway, you guys coming or not?"
Clayre ran out of the door.
Paige waited for Jordyn to follow, then took the rear, pulling the attic door closed behind her.
Phew, that had been close, Paige thought. She didn't think she wanted to know what happened if Jordyn invoked the spirit of her mother while Paige was still in this time and body.
She suddenly thought of something. If she was here in Kyra's body, where was Kyra? Surely not in Paige's body? If she had been then Paige's sisters would have done something to get them back in their proper bodies, wouldn't they?
Paige ate lunch in silence, not paying much attention to what was going on around her. Now she had thought about it she was completely puzzled by where Kyra's spirit could be. If she was not back in Paige's time was she still somewhere in her body?
Paige didn't like that thought. If it were the truth, and Kyra was in there somewhere, aware of what was going on, it must feel to her like her body had been invaded by an unwelcome spirit. She must be terrified. Well, unless she realised what she had done.
She was brought back to the present by someone banging on her arm. It was the kid who had been out back with the littlies.
"Ky? You better follow Rinna and Dale before they get into trouble."
Paige blinked. What was he going on about?
She remembered that she had said she would watch the little kids. Rinna and Dale must be their names. "Okay Jamie" she said. "I'll go in a minute"
She wandered out into the backyard again and was immediately tackled by the two small tornadoes.
"Ky, make us look like monsters" the girl, Rinna demanded.
Paige stared at her. What? How could she do that? "Wha?" she asked weakly.
"Use glamour, make us look monsters" the boy, Dale, insisted.
What was glamour? One of Kyra's powers? Could she use Kyra's powers while she was in her body?
She decided to give it a try. She envisioned two scary looking demons in her minds eye, and tried to imagine the two sweet little kids before her looking like them.
it worked. She opened her eyes and almost yelped. This power was definitely potent. If the children hadn't been normal size she would have thought that two demons had really appeared in the yard.
"Is that good enough?" she asked the kid/monsters. They nodded, and started growling at each other and chasing each other around the yard.
Suddenly one of the kids disappeared. Rinna, she believed. She was there one moment, gone the next.
Paige whirled around in shock, looking for the child. Where had she gone?
"Dale, where'd Rinna go?" she asked.
Dale giggled. "Silly, she went invisible of course" He said, as if it should be obvious.
Ah. Joy. A small girl with the power of invisibility.
"Rinna, come back" she yelled around the garden. "You're not supposed to use your powers."
Well, she hoped they weren't anyway. If she knew her sisters they would've drilled the personal gain rule into them. God knows they had done it to her.
The small child/demon reappeared, a sulky look on her face, although it was a little hard to tell in the demon form.
"Well you did," she pointed out logically.
"Yeah, well I'm older than you" she said, noting that she sounded exactly like a teenager in that moment.
Rinna pouted. "Not fair" she said sulkily.
"Well that's the way it is" Paige told her smugly.
She was starting to enjoy this. She had forgotten how much fun it could be to be a teen.
She shook her head. No, she could not think like that. She wanted to be back in her own time, in her own body. Besides, she had to try and figure out a way to stop herself dying.
Suddenly Rinna's body stiffened, and she started shaking. Paige recognised the signs of a bad vision when she saw them. So presumably the invisible girl was Phoebe's daughter, and had also inherited the visions.
"What's the matter Rinna?" she asked urgently. "What do you see?"
The small child stopped shaking and sagged. She started to sob. "Mommy!" she cried. "Demon's got mommy, like the one that got Aunty Paige!"