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Post by askfreebie on Oct 20, 2021 13:20:41 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this topic has been raised before but I always found it interesting how Paige actually had her powers for her entire life unlike the rest of the girls whose powers were bound at an early age because of the Nicholas situation.
What if, rather than having Paige start off completely inexperienced, she discovered her powers after her parent's death and had been using them to help people in a different city or something? It could've been a bit like what they did with Billie but done a little differently like leaving out the GPS scrying and you could have Paige not realise she's a witch so she wouldn't be casting spells or making potions.
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Post by goldeneye049 on Oct 20, 2021 23:55:37 GMT -5
I always wanted Paige to be part of a small group of witches and get to know her in a magic store. Due to the fact that she is the fourth born sister, I would like her to use divination and read the future through cards like she does in "Marry-go-round" or like Phoebe's previous life. . Of course, she gets telekinesis when Prue dies. But that's my ideas  |
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Post by Andrew on Oct 21, 2021 1:40:04 GMT -5
Hmm… Well, I do actually have ideas for a story that has Paige discover her magic after her parents’ deaths… but since I don’t wanna give away any spoilers, I’ll keep that to myself for now, and instead go with something else.
So, let’s say that instead of blacking out or whatever canonically happened, in this timeline Paige knows how she got out of the car… and realizes that she could have saved her parents, which, combined with what her last words to them were, sparks a serious depressive episode, driving her deeper into drugs and alcohol than ever before. Her aunt and uncle (because in this timeline, at least, she still has loving relatives in the Matthews family who would totally show up at her funeral a decade or so down the line, instead of it just being her ex-fling and some leprechauns) pick her up from the hospital after she overdoses and take her home with them, finally managing to convince her that this was not what her parents would want for her, and that she should try and do better, for their sakes. She still has no idea how she teleported out of the car, or even what she really is, but the uncertainty and stress of keeping that secret, combined with the still-present guilt, would make resisting her alcoholism far more of a real struggle than it was on the show.
She’s enrolled in an AA support group at a local church, run by Father Austin, where she strikes up a friendship with a young man named Brendan, who was training to be a priest. Things stabilize for a while, allowing Paige to enroll in classes at a nearby community college (her aunt and uncle not being able to afford to send her to a more expensive school like Berkeley). Gradually, she learns how to teleport from one place to another, though fear of being seen keeps her from relying on it as a mode of transportation. She has no luck figuring out how she can teleport, as any research she manages to do (between classes) just leads her to sci-fi answers. Even the visit she sneaks to an occult shop doesn’t help, as she doesn’t know the right questions to ask. She does eventually make a breakthrough of sorts… more odd things start happening: one day a book she wanted from the other side of her bedroom flies right into her hand, the next a cup of cold coffee she was holding seems to heat back up by itself, and one day she woke up to find herself hovering several feet in the air above her bed. Understandably freaked out by this, she races to the church to find someone to talk to before she gives in to the temptation to start drinking again. Upon finding Brendan, she blurts out everything that’s been happening to her… and is very surprised when he actually understands. After explaining his own past, and why he chose to become a priest (if only to stop her from running out the door), he admits that he’s never even heard of a witch with multiple active powers before. Paige had, by this point in their friendship, revealed that her parents had arranged to adopt her through their own church, though she’d never quite worked up the courage to go there and ask questions herself. Brendan, however, is able to stop by there to have a “clergy-to-clergy” talk with Sister Agnes (without giving away anything Paige told him in confidentiality), and ultimately returns to Paige with two things: a baby blanket, and Sister Agnes’ assertions that she came from angels. Paige, not feeling terribly angelic, asks him if he can pray her an instruction manual into existence, because the trial-and-error approach was only going to get her so far.
…oh, wow, this got away from me. I was only planning on a short reply, so I think I’d better stop now, because I could seriously just keep going, and that’s not what this thread is about. ☺️
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Post by Prue's Feather on Oct 21, 2021 2:28:03 GMT -5
This is an interesting idea! I like Paige having experience with her whitelighter powers beforehand. I wonder, what whitelighter powers would she have by the time she met Piper and Phoebe? Her adoptive parents died when she was 17 (I think?) and I believe she was 24 when she first met her sisters, so if she had discovered her powers shortly after her parents’ death, that means she’d have experience with those abilities for about 7 years. So would she be able to essentially do many of the things Leo could by the time she was connected with Piper and Phoebe? I think healing would be one power I’d wonder if she’d be able to do completely on her own, as it wasn’t until Season 8 in the show that she could. But that would all depend when after her parents’ death you were thinking she’d realize she had powers at all (shortly after her death versus a couple years after, for example).
Also, I wonder, would she reject her powers at first? Like knowing that she had done this thing called "orbing" to make it out of the car before the crash happened made her feel so guilty that she wouldn’t want to have anything to do with her powers initially? Or that knowing there was a possibility she could have orbed her parents with her if she’d just known a little something more about her powers beforehand or had just a little experience with it would make her less inclined to learn about them and her background? I feel like she might, maybe until she’s in a situation where she’s able to save someone with her orbing/whitelighter powers and this would be the turning point where she decides that helping people is what she wants to do with her life.
I’d also wonder how she’d figure it out what her powers were about and what exactly she was or how’d she received such powers in the first place. Would she just learn the extent of her orbing (and other whitelighter powers she’d discover) through her own practice and go on helping people without really knowing she was a "whitelighter" (or technically, "half-whitelighter")? So more self-taught without knowing her whitelighter background and she just helps people she comes across as a kind of side thing as she goes through college and works to become a social worker. Or would an experienced whitelighter eventually be sent to her and help guide her, kind of like how Leo was a guide to Prue, Piper, and Phoebe?
Would Paige maybe somehow be reunited with her birth father at some point during this? Maybe he could help teach her? (That is, if he didn’t push her away because he felt guilty for giving her away.) Ooh, if this was the case, then what if Paige was there to help Prue, Piper, and Phoebe along with Sam to help rid Camp Skylark of the Water Demon that killed their mom?
Even if she didn’t reconnect with Sam with discovering her powers early, I wonder if knowing about her powers earlier would eventually lead her to her sisters sooner. Paige would wonder how she’d received magical powers at all, want to know more about her birth family, and rather than deciding against introducing herself to the Halliwells because she just felt it would be too awkward (like she had in the show), she seeks them out to see if they, too, were like her. That being said (assuming she’d found her sisters and developed a relationship with them well before Season 3), Paige could have saved Prue and Piper from Shax the second time around (if she wasn’t somehow stuck in the Underworld with Leo and Phoebe AND if she could heal—maybe she could partially heal both her sisters enough so that they could have hung on until Leo was able to get there and heal them fully?), and if Phoebe and Leo could have managed to get out of the Underworld, then none of the sisters would have died, which I’d be happy about 😊 I always love imagining what a "Power Of Four" style scenario could have been. Even if Paige only had whitelighter powers in this case, I’d love for her to be able to save the world by her sisters’ sides!
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I’m sorry. I asked more questions than answering things. Your question got me thinking a lot! But I definitely love this idea with Paige being experienced with her powers before meeting her sisters, askfreebie!
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Post by Prue's Feather on Oct 21, 2021 2:50:12 GMT -5
I always wanted Paige to be part of a small group of witches and get to know her in a magic store. Due to the fact that she is the fourth born sister, I would like her to use divination and read the future through cards like she does in "Marry-go-round" or like Phoebe's previous life. . Of course, she gets telekinesis when Prue dies. But that's my ideas I like this, goldeneye049! This would answer one of the questions I’d thought of when thinking about askfreebie’s question: Who would be Paige’s teacher/guide? I’d either thought of herself as being somewhat self-taught and she just learns about the capabilities of her powers through her experiences with helping people or that an experienced whitelighter would eventually be sent to her as her guide. But this would be a way for her learn about her background, too! And she’d know more about witches (though she may not necessarily know she herself was part witch) and she may even be able to show Shax a thing or two in their first encounter. Imagine Phoebe and Cole intervening, and then her be like, “Hey, no, I got this!” lol. I wish they’d done more with her Tarot card reading throughout the show. She’d obviously dabbled into it before meeting her sisters—it also kind of seemed like she was into some other witchy stuff too before their meeting—so sometimes it surprises me that Paige was so surprised at the end of Charmed Again, Part 1 that Piper, Phoebe, and herself could be witches. Like sometimes I felt Paige already believed a bit in that. Then again, she’d just seen the Source’s Assassin be vanquished before her eyes so even if she was open to witches being real, that was a lot to take in and I’d be no different if I was in her shoes! Hmm… Well, I do actually have ideas for a story that has Paige discover her magic after her parents’ deaths… but since I don’t wanna give away any spoilers, I’ll keep that to myself for now, and instead go with something else. So, let’s say that instead of blacking out or whatever canonically happened, in this timeline Paige knows how she got out of the car… and realizes that she could have saved her parents, which, combined with what her last words to them were, sparks a serious depressive episode, driving her deeper into drugs and alcohol than ever before. Her aunt and uncle (because in this timeline, at least, she still has loving relatives in the Matthews family who would totally show up at her funeral a decade or so down the line, instead of it just being her ex-fling and some leprechauns) pick her up from the hospital after she overdoses and take her home with them, finally managing to convince her that this was not what her parents would want for her, and that she should try and do better, for their sakes. She still has no idea how she teleported out of the car, or even what she really is, but the uncertainty and stress of keeping that secret, combined with the still-present guilt, would make resisting her alcoholism far more of a real struggle than it was on the show. She’s enrolled in an AA support group at a local church, run by Father Austin, where she strikes up a friendship with a young man named Brendan, who was training to be a priest. Things stabilize for a while, allowing Paige to enroll in classes at a nearby community college (her aunt and uncle not being able to afford to send her to a more expensive school like Berkeley). Gradually, she learns how to teleport from one place to another, though fear of being seen keeps her from relying on it as a mode of transportation. She has no luck figuring out how she can teleport, as any research she manages to do (between classes) just leads her to sci-fi answers. Even the visit she sneaks to an occult shop doesn’t help, as she doesn’t know the right questions to ask. She does eventually make a breakthrough of sorts… more odd things start happening: one day a book she wanted from the other side of her bedroom flies right into her hand, the next a cup of cold coffee she was holding seems to heat back up by itself, and one day she woke up to find herself hovering several feet in the air above her bed. Understandably freaked out by this, she races to the church to find someone to talk to before she gives in to the temptation to start drinking again. Upon finding Brendan, she blurts out everything that’s been happening to her… and is very surprised when he actually understands. After explaining his own past, and why he chose to become a priest (if only to stop her from running out the door), he admits that he’s never even heard of a witch with multiple active powers before. Paige had, by this point in their friendship, revealed that her parents had arranged to adopt her through their own church, though she’d never quite worked up the courage to go there and ask questions herself. Brendan, however, is able to stop by there to have a “clergy-to-clergy” talk with Sister Agnes (without giving away anything Paige told him in confidentiality), and ultimately returns to Paige with two things: a baby blanket, and Sister Agnes’ assertions that she came from angels. Paige, not feeling terribly angelic, asks him if he can pray her an instruction manual into existence, because the trial-and-error approach was only going to get her so far. …oh, wow, this got away from me. I was only planning on a short reply, so I think I’d better stop now, because I could seriously just keep going, and that’s not what this thread is about. ☺️ "Her aunt and uncle (because in this timeline, at least, she still has loving relatives in the Matthews family who would totally show up at her funeral a decade or so down the line, instead of it just being her ex-fling and some leprechauns)..." I know we talked about this in the Season 4 Christmas Episode That Went Unaired thread, but I LOL’d at this. You know my feelings about her funeral... --- In regards to what you wrote... Andrew, this is amazing. Please tell me you’ll write this at some point? I’m patient, I promise. 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Post by Andrew on Oct 21, 2021 3:13:04 GMT -5
Ehh… Eventually, maybe? I mean, that’ll bring the total to THREE Paige-centric stories, and I haven’t even posted a single chapter of one of them anywhere, yet. But… eh, what’s one more for the list, right? 🤷🏻♂️
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Post by Prue's Feather on Oct 21, 2021 3:38:35 GMT -5
Ehh… Eventually, maybe? I mean, that’ll bring the total to THREE Paige-centric stories, and I haven’t even posted a single chapter of one of them anywhere, yet. But… eh, what’s one more for the list, right? 🤷🏻♂️ Don't feel bad. I've got four stories going at the moment (all involving Paige meeting her sisters before Prue dies), so I'm right there with ya! And they're all going to be long, I know it. Especially one I have in mind for shaking things up a bit and making Paige the eldest sister and basically starting from Season 1 (so we'd have the Power Of Four going) and having different ideas for that through Season 4 so I might be writing that one for... YEARS?  I'm really trying to force myself to get enough content written before I even consider posting anything because the amount of workings in progresses I've had for other fandoms I've written for... The "hey, you going to update this?" reviews go on lol. I do have things written for each of my stories, but I kind of just drabble ideas here and there when I get them (so I'm not exactly writing in order with everything lol). Let's just say I have a lot of Google Docs going with outlines and written passages and such! But I know if I don't write the ideas down, I'll forget them later and whether I use them in the final product or not, it helps with my writing process, as unorganized as it probably sounds xD |
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Post by Andrew on Oct 21, 2021 3:52:04 GMT -5
Ehh… Eventually, maybe? I mean, that’ll bring the total to THREE Paige-centric stories, and I haven’t even posted a single chapter of one of them anywhere, yet. But… eh, what’s one more for the list, right? 🤷🏻♂️ Don't feel bad. I've got four stories going at the moment (all involving Paige meeting her sisters before Prue dies), so I'm right there with ya! And they're all going to be long, I know it. Especially one I have in mind for shaking things up a bit and making Paige the eldest sister and basically starting from Season 1 (so we'd have the Power Of Four going) and having different ideas for that through Season 4 so I might be writing that one for... YEARS? I'm really trying to force myself to get enough content written before I even consider posting anything because the amount of workings in progresses I've had for other fandoms I've written for... The "hey, you going to update this?" reviews go on lol. I do have things written for each of my stories, but I kind of just drabble ideas here and there when I get them (so I'm not exactly writing in order with everything lol). Let's just say I have a lot of Google Docs going with outlines and written passages and such! But I know if I don't write the ideas down, I'll forget them later and whether I use them in the final product or not, it helps with my writing process, as unorganized as it probably sounds xD Oof, I know how that goes. Worse are the ideas for crossovers, because there, I won’t even have any intention of writing anything. I’ll just randomly wonder, “Hey, do you think I could cross X fandom over with Y?” And then I’ll be thinking about it. And thinking more. Timelines, lore, series mythology… could they even match up? What would I need to rework or tweak slightly to get them to match up? And before I even realize it… there’s a story idea there. |
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Post by goldeneye049 on Oct 21, 2021 4:18:58 GMT -5
Ahah so many ideas. For my story I would also like her powers of divination to tell her that her parents are dead. (Patty and Sam are killed by the same demon !!) or at least that her father was a whitelighter. That way, she wouldn't have any more clues to trace her origins. In addition, her sisters are half-sisters. She assumes that she is an only child with parents killed by a demon.
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Post by Andrew on Oct 21, 2021 13:35:49 GMT -5
Okay, you know what? Someone write me an AU where Paige discovered her magic when she was a little kid, like her sisters did before Penny wiped their memories of it. (Seriously, Grams, quit it with the memory erasure spells, already.) She and her parents would be a little freaked out, at first, but a little chat with Sister Agnes would help calm them down. She’d grow up with her magic, gradually figure out what she could and couldn’t do. (Whitelighter assistance optional.) Let the poor girl actually SAVE her parents for once!
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Post by Prue's Feather on Oct 21, 2021 14:39:29 GMT -5
Don't feel bad. I've got four stories going at the moment (all involving Paige meeting her sisters before Prue dies), so I'm right there with ya! And they're all going to be long, I know it. Especially one I have in mind for shaking things up a bit and making Paige the eldest sister and basically starting from Season 1 (so we'd have the Power Of Four going) and having different ideas for that through Season 4 so I might be writing that one for... YEARS? I'm really trying to force myself to get enough content written before I even consider posting anything because the amount of workings in progresses I've had for other fandoms I've written for... The "hey, you going to update this?" reviews go on lol. I do have things written for each of my stories, but I kind of just drabble ideas here and there when I get them (so I'm not exactly writing in order with everything lol). Let's just say I have a lot of Google Docs going with outlines and written passages and such! But I know if I don't write the ideas down, I'll forget them later and whether I use them in the final product or not, it helps with my writing process, as unorganized as it probably sounds xD Oof, I know how that goes. Worse are the ideas for crossovers, because there, I won’t even have any intention of writing anything. I’ll just randomly wonder, “Hey, do you think I could cross X fandom over with Y?” And then I’ll be thinking about it. And thinking more. Timelines, lore, series mythology… could they even match up? What would I need to rework or tweak slightly to get them to match up? And before I even realize it… there’s a story idea there. I've been there. My first Charmed story idea WAS a crossover... But it was so bad I didn’t go anywhere with it. (Ever watch the show House, M.D.? Well, I’d been watching reruns of that show when I stumbled across Charmed on the same channel, and let’s just say because I love both shows, my brain wanted to somehow bring the two together xD I thought Prue going up against House would be interesting—not like fighting him, just their banter would be interesting... That being said, someone actually did write a good Charmed/House, M.D. fanfic! I think there were only 3 crossover stories for the two, but I commend the people who tried and actually came up with something good!) I've only ever completed one crossover story, but that was ages ago when I was much younger, so it’s kind of comical what I came up with. I’m still proud of it, as it was the first thing I ever wrote before I even knew fanfiction was a thing. I was so committed to it, and it ended up being hundreds of pages long on Microsoft Word... So I blame that story as to where my detail oriented nature comes from lol. I’ve thought about a Once Upon A Time/House, M.D. crossover (easy to start thinking about when one of actors was on both shows) and a Once Upon A Time/Stranger Things crossover, which I actually love both my ideas, but I put those to the side a while ago. I KNOW I could try to bring the Halliwells into the Once universe but I’m not even going to let myself think about that now... Ahah so many ideas. For my story I would also like her powers of divination to tell her that her parents are dead. (Patty and Sam are killed by the same demon !!) or at least that her father was a whitelighter. That way, she wouldn't have any more clues to trace her origins. In addition, her sisters are half-sisters. She assumes that she is an only child with parents killed by a demon. Ooh, good idea! She’d learn a little about her birth parents and whitelighter background, but still be kept in the dark about being a witch. This would’ve worked well with the show! Random thought, but Patty’s death? In That ‘70s Episode, it was said Patty was drowned by a warlock. Then in P3 H2O, we find a water demon was responsible for her death. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE P3 H2O’s story, but it just always gets me they switched this (or forgot what they’d gone with the previous season). Got to love the inconsistences in this show! Okay, you know what? Someone write me an AU where Paige discovered her magic when she was a little kid, like her sisters did before Penny wiped their memories of it. (Seriously, Grams, quit it with the memory erasure spells, already.) She and her parents would be a little freaked out, at first, but a little chat with Sister Agnes would help calm them down. She’d grow up with her magic, gradually figure out what she could and couldn’t do. (Whitelighter assistance optional.) Let the poor girl actually SAVE her parents for once! YES!!! Why do we keep torturing Paige with losing her parents? Let’s do something where she actually CAN save her parents from the crash! Well... Time to go back to the writing board. Can I just cancel real life responsibilities for the rest of the year? (And yes, Grams, let the poor girls remember their pasts, please lol.) |
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Post by zachary on Oct 23, 2021 10:01:36 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this topic has been raised before but I always found it interesting how Paige actually had her powers for her entire life unlike the rest of the girls whose powers were bound at an early age because of the Nicholas situation. What if, rather than having Paige start off completely inexperienced, she discovered her powers after her parent's death and had been using them to help people in a different city or something? It could've been a bit like what they did with Billie but done a little differently like leaving out the GPS scrying and you could have Paige not realise she's a witch so she wouldn't be casting spells or making potions. This just blew my mind! It never occurred to me that Paige should've/could've been helping innocents this whole time! It was a little weird to think she had her powers her whole life and only accidentally orbed once out of a car. I'd think she'd orb anytime she gets startled lmao |
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Post by Prue's Feather on Oct 26, 2021 0:03:06 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this topic has been raised before but I always found it interesting how Paige actually had her powers for her entire life unlike the rest of the girls whose powers were bound at an early age because of the Nicholas situation. What if, rather than having Paige start off completely inexperienced, she discovered her powers after her parent's death and had been using them to help people in a different city or something? It could've been a bit like what they did with Billie but done a little differently like leaving out the GPS scrying and you could have Paige not realise she's a witch so she wouldn't be casting spells or making potions. This just blew my mind! It never occurred to me that Paige should've/could've been helping innocents this whole time! It was a little weird to think she had her powers her whole life and only accidentally orbed once out of a car. I'd think she'd orb anytime she gets startled lmao Yes, this is weird to think about, especially knowing that she had the ability to access her whitelighter powers her whole life. Considering the amount of times she panic orbed later on, you’d think she would have accidentally orbed well before the car crash. Several times at that. Whether she was consciously aware of what was happening or not, it depends how much it happened. Now, as an idea based on zachary’s response, maybe this would be a possible scenario for your original question, askfreebie (unlike my million questions I just asked in my initial post lol)... Maybe around the time Paige is in high school, this starts to happen to her a lot (the panic orbing). Luckily, any time it’s happened, no one has seen her orbing out/orbing back in. At first, she doesn’t even realize it’s happening. But because it starts to happen more, she begins to notice something isn’t right. She just feels like she is losing moments of time, even though it’s only seconds, and while she can’t explain it, it worries her. Maybe at one point, she’s behind the wheel and this happens, and when she orbs back in, she’s almost about to hit a car and swerves out of the way, narrowly avoiding it and luckily does not involve herself in a car crash. This near accident scares her so much that she tells her parents about it, says she’s not sure what’s happening to her but can only figure she’s been blacking out randomly, and then goes to the doctor to figure out what’s wrong. But of course, after running several tests, they find nothing out of the ordinary, so she still has no answers. So she tries not to think about it, as she doesn’t want to stress about it, thinking that may bring it on, and after what happened when she was driving, she doesn’t want it to happen again. (Maybe she even drives less for a bit of time and takes the bus to school for a while.) She’s okay for a while, and thinks maybe it was just stress, but then it happens again, and Paige has had enough. She’s going to figure out what is causing this, what’s really going on, so instead of being freaked out by it, she tries to hone in on what’s happening when she experiences these weird moments of "blacking out". She starts to consider that maybe she’s not really blacking out at all, but maybe something else is at play here. Rather, maybe she really is going somewhere for a very brief moment of time, or her body is attempting to but can’t fully do it yet, and that she’s just not really been consciously aware that this was what was going on as it happens so fast. So when she comes home one day after school, she tries to put this into practice, willing herself to want to be somewhere else in the house, to see if she really can go from one place back to where she’s at in a quick amount of time. She tries this several times, takes several different approaches to do this, but she has no success. When she’s about to give up, she’s suddenly startled by the sound of one of her parents coming home from work, and it happens. But this time she sees it happen. She’s standing in front of her bedroom mirror, and she sees the blue/white glow of herself as she disappears, then reappears seconds later. It freaks her out, as she wasn’t expecting it to happen quite like this, and as her mom or dad call her name, she panics again and sees it happen for a second time. She realizes this must be what’s happened to her in the past, and though it does freak her out still, she’s relieved to have some answers. Knowing how this weird thing works (because Paige has no idea what the hell to call this), she starts to practice more with it whenever she’s home alone. She’s put together that it happens out of reflex when she’s scared, but she wants to see if she can control it more in the way that she’d imagined it to work with her going somewhere, then coming back to where she started, much like teleporting. After some time, she’s able to get more control of what she’s doing, and she’s more fascinated by it than scared. I imagine one time her sitting in her bedroom after school (when she’s alone, because she’s only done this stuff at home when her parents are still at work) being like, "Hm. I’m hungry. Let’s go the fridge." So she thinks this, then finds herself suddenly standing in the kitchen, right in front of the fridge, and she just finds this so neat, very much in the same way that Season 1 Phoebe was so fascinated by everything when she first discovered she was a witch. So she keeps up the practice, not really thinking why or how she got this very cool but mysterious power, and just stays quiet about it. Because she’s in better control of it, it doesn’t really happen to her when she’s out and about like it had before, so she feels much better about it overall. THEN (as an idea for allowing Paige to save her parents because, really, can’t we let them live? A little different than your premise, Andrew, with Paige learning about her magic as a child, but this is what I thought of as I was writing this)... On the day the tragic car crash happens, Paige, having some sense of how this power works and hoping she’ll be able to bring them with her, grabs her parents’ shoulders as the incoming car is about to hit them and orbs all of them out of the car before the crash occurs and their car ultimately goes up in flames. And now, with Mr. and Mrs. Matthews alive, they can watch their daughter go on to do the amazing and incredible things she does in the future 😊 Now, maybe after the crash, Paige opens up about her inexplicable power to her parents, and she even shows them how it works and explains that this is how she saved them from the crash. While they find it hard to understand, they believe her, and because Paige knows she’s adopted, she asks her parents if they know anything about her birth family (because now Paige needs more answers, she needs to know why she has this power, if she can save others like she had with her adoptive parents, and see if she’s meant to do good with it all). They can only direct her to Sister Agnes, but other than that, they really don’t know anything. Paige talks with her, Sister Agnes tells her the story about the day her birth parents gave her to her, and she returns home with her baby blanket and a very baffling response that her parents are angels. Paige doesn’t share this bit with her adoptive parents and makes up something else instead because she isn’t sure this makes sense in her head so she can’t imagine what they would think. The only thing she can think is that her birth parents died somehow soon after she was born, they’d become angels, and then taken her to Sister Agnes, but even this thought is hard for her to wrap her head around (but she thinks to herself, "Then again, I do have this weird power, though it doesn’t feel very angel-like to me."). But because of her confusion around this thought and because Sister Agnes doesn’t mention any other siblings, she just figures she was an only child and doesn’t press further into her birth family’s background (she assumes her birth parents are dead), but rather does her own research into the supernatural/magic. Maybe this causes a rift between her and her adoptive parents, because they’re afraid of how deep she’ll go into it, but maybe they come around when Paige is able to use her power to save someone in danger for the first time after the car crash incident, and she tells them what happened and says, "This is why I have to learn about who I am. Why I have to look into all this. There’s a reason why I can do this, and even though I don’t know a lot, I just know I’m meant to help people with it. I want to help people." Her parents, worried about the kind of danger she could be putting herself into, not just the real world but whatever kind of magical world she might be throwing herself into, express their concern to her. ("We’re afraid something bad will happen to you, honey. We don’t want to lose you.") Paige reassures them she’ll be okay ("You won’t lose me. I won’t let that happen."), and she later goes on to explain to them that while it is scary with the uncertainty of what she might be getting herself into, she can’t let fear stop her from what her heart is telling her to do ("I know you’re scared for me, it scares me, too, but I have to do this. I know in my heart this is what I’m meant to do.") Aaaannnddd the fanfic is already writing itself, lol ;P From there on out, Paige becomes more skilled in what she does and as I imagine, would discover more of her capabilities/powers as she goes on. I still like her going on to college to work towards becoming a social worker, but the whitelighter thing being something she does on the side whenever she sees someone in danger or whenever help calls to her (the beginning of her "sensing" charges, though not knowing exactly this is what is happening; she would probably develop this a little later on, after she’s had some experience with helping "innocents" she sees in danger). She keeps in touch with her parents when she’s away at college and makes sure to visit them (whether she drives back home to spend a weekend/holiday with them or orbs there with shorter visits) so they know she’s okay. All along the way, maybe she gets connected with witches (though she is still in the dark about her witch half)—as part of one of your ideas, goldeneye049 —maybe she meets a fellow whitelighter who can finally explain to her exactly what it is her powers are and what it means to be a "whitelighter", maybe she gets in touch with the magical community. And then at some point, she meets her sisters (whether it be through Prue’s death or before that in some other way), and then this is when she finally finds out she is also half witch. OR, if Paige never meets a fellow whitelighter or anyone who might be able to tell her she’s a whitelighter in her journey and she still doesn’t necessarily know what she is... Maybe Paige intervenes with Prue, Piper, and Phoebe saving an innocent that the four of them are all connected to one day, and Paige comes to their rescue, her not knowing she’s helping the Charmed Ones, the most powerful witches of all time, and the Halliwells are surprised by what happens. Maybe one of the sisters get injured (let’s say it’s Phoebe) and she’s able to heal her. Maybe she doesn’t mean to do it intentionally (as I feel like this might be one of the last powers she’d come into) but it just happens when she goes to help Phoebe, like she puts her hand out close enough to the wound and the magic begins to work, and she’s just as surprised as her when she sees the healing occur. Maybe THIS is the moment she finds out she’s a whitelighter because Phoebe and her sisters know that whitelighters can heal (from Leo). When Phoebe goes to thank her and takes her hand or gives her a hug to express her gratitude, she has a vision of the past, of Patty and Sam (whether she recognizes him depends on whether or not the events of P3 H2O have happened yet), giving a baby Paige—who she wouldn’t exactly know then was Paige but figures out later on—up to a nun (Sister Agnes). The vision ends with focusing on the blanket baby Paige is wrapped up in, the similar "P" baby blanket that she and her sisters have. And then begins the Halliwells trying to figure out who Paige really is, if she’s actually their sister, Paige discovering who her birth family really are, her origin, her whitelighter AND witch background, and so on... (Now I know this whole precise kind of forgoes Paige’s past struggles with alcohol and drugs in high school, and she’s much closer with her adoptive parents in high school in this compared to how she was in the show, but all that could be configured in as well. It’d change some things from above, but I’ll let someone else come up with how they’d do that 😊) --- Well, I’ve done it again. Detail overload xD Enjoy?? |
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I'm really trying to force myself to get enough content written before I even consider posting anything because the amount of workings in progresses I've had for other fandoms I've written for... The "hey, you going to update this?" reviews go on lol.
