Summary:What If Paige had not been adopted by the Matthews family. What if she had been adopted by the Summers family. And what if she had acquired her powers before season 4 of Charmed. This is the second story in my Charmed Summers series. This follows Paige as she finally finds her birth family.

Pairings: Paige/Xander Buffy/Faith Dawn/Willow Piper/Leo Phoebe/Canon Pairings

A/U: Set after the end of the the first story

Disclaimer:I will say this only once as I don't want to repeat myself every time I post a chapter. I do not own either Charmed or Buffy. Joss Whedon owns Buffy. Charmed owned by Constance M. Burge, Paramount/Viacom and AOL Time Warner.

Author's Note: I had a person review in the first story and complain that Gypsies are not magic users. If you are a fan of Charmed and/or BTVS you will know that is not true. On both shows Gypsies are indeed magic users. In BTVS Gypsies cursed Angel with his soul. That is a work of powerful magic. In Charmed it is stated that gypsies and witches are sister traditions and it is even shown that Gypsies are indeed magic users when one uses a power and another casts spells.

Chapter 1: Charmed Again

Over the three years since the destruction of the town of Sunnydale and the closure of the Sunnydale Hellmouth. Paige, Buffy and Dawn had gone and helped Giles setup the new Watcher's Council in England. They then returned to the U.S. not only to finish their college degrees but so Paige could find her birth family, which led them to settling down in San Francisco. While Paige loved her sisters and her mother. She had always wondered where her magic had come from and if her birth family had been magical also.

When Paige, Buffy and Dawn graduated college they got degrees in fields that complimented them. Paige got a degree in Social Work and got a job at South Bay Social Services. Buffy got a degree in Law Enforcement and had been hired by the San Francisco police department and partnered with Darryl Morris. Dawn had gotten a degree in journalism and got a job at the Bay Mirror as a crime reporter, while she still continued to take classes for her true passion Languages and Mythology. She had felt that working for a newspaper would help her, like Buffy, to detect demonic threats before they got out of hand.

Xander, Faith, and Willow came back with Paige, Buffy and Dawn. Even though Xander had almost married Anya, he had never stopped loving Paige. While he had yet to propose to her, they both knew they weren't ready to get married yet either. So instead they just lived together in an apartment down the hall from Buffy, Willow and Dawn. Since he lost his eye he had been trying to start his own construction business since most employers in the construction industry wouldn't hire him.

During the final year in Sunnydale Willow and Dawn had gotten close as Dawn helped Willow with the grief of losing Tara. And when they had went to England the two of them had gotten married in one of the only countries at the time that allowed same sex marriages. Then after their return Willow had finished her computer science degree and had been hired by a huge firm in San Francisco. And Faith, she did what she had always done best, slay vampires and love the love of her life.

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At South Bay Social Services; Paige was seated at her desk going over information on her computer screen.

"Social services," the receptionist said several feet away. "May I help you?"

"Printing!" Paige called out as she noticed a mysterious wind blew out a lit candle on her desk. She looked at the candle and frowned. There was no wind in here. She was far enough from the front door that no draft would have caught the candle. She was about to get up when a newspaper mysteriously appeared and landed in her lap.

Paige frowned; there was no one near her, which meant that newspaper had appeared magically. She made sure no one had noticed and then she glanced down at the paper, noticing the obituary section, informing about someone named Prue Halliwell's death and where and when the funeral would be held.

In the time Paige, Dawn, Buffy, Faith, Willow and Xander had been in San Francisco; Paige had traced down several possibilities on her birth family, including the Halliwells. Her first step in the search for her birth family had been to go to the church where she had been left. The nun had told her about her birth parents and had made it sound as if she had come from angels instead of humans. She had received a couple of tidbits from the nun though. The first was that her birth parents had one request that her name start with P. The second had been a baby blanket with the letter P on it. The third had been the confirmation that her birth parents had loved her, for they had told the nun they had given her up to protect her. From what the nun hadn't known.

"Paige, you find that study yet?" Paige's boss, Mr. Cowan, said as he emerged from his office and saw her reading the article. "Paige, did you hear me?"

Paige continued to keep her eye on Prue's obituary as she grabbed her jacket. "Yeah. It's in the printer. I need to go. My sister, Buffy, just called. There's been an accident."

"Of course," Mr. Cowan said. "I hope she's alright."

Paige nodded and hurried out of the building as she pulled out her cell phone and dialed.

"Bay Mirror. How may I direct your call?"

"Dawn Summers, please," Paige said as she got into her car. "Tell her it's her sister, Paige, calling."

"One moment, please."

Paige sat in her car and waited for what seemed like minutes but was in reality only seconds.

"Paige?"

"Dawn, did you, Buffy or Willow cast a spell today?" Paige asked.

Buffy and Dawn were both descended from gypsies and they and Willow could cast gypsy magic even though Dawn had always favored her wand. And Buffy seldom messed with gypsy magic ever since what had happened to Willow.

"No, why?"

"An obit mysteriously appeared in my lap, for Prue Halliwell," Paige said.

"Halliwell … Wasn't that one of the likely families in your research for your birth family?"

"Yeah," Paige said. "Which was why I thought maybe one of you cast something. I'm going to go to the funeral."

"I'll call Buffy and we'll meet you there. Where is it?"

Thirty minutes later Paige, Buffy and Dawn walked into the mausoleum and sat toward the back. Before them sat a beautiful ivory-colored coffin sits on a pedestal amongst the flowers and a blue silk covered table, upon which sat a ceremonial chalice and three lit candles. Behind the table they spotted a woman.

"Must be the minister," Dawn whispered as her sisters nodded in agreement.

Beside them walk in two women and four men. One of which spotted Buffy and stopped, moving beside her.

"Buffy," Darryl Morris said. "I didn't know you knew the Halliwells."

Buffy smiled. "Hey, Darryl. Actually Dawn and I are here for Paige. I think I told you that Paige was looking for her birth family, right?"

Darryl nodded.

"The Halliwells," Paige said. "Were one of the likely candidates."

"Ah," Darryl said. "So you thought about paying your respects to the potential family?"

"That's right," Paige said.

"My condolences then," Darryl said. "I will see you tomorrow, Buffy."

"Tomorrow," Buffy said as Darryl went up to the front to join the others he had been with.

They sat there as the woman began the ceremony. "That which belongs to fellowship and love. That which belongs to the circle, remains with us. The wheel turns. As life is a day, so our sister has passed into night. Nothing is final, and we who remain behind know that one day, we will once again share the bread and wine with our sister. O' blessed spirit, we bid you farewell, for you await a new destiny."

The woman untied a silver cord and gently laid it into the chalice. She then blew out the candles. Around Buffy, Dawn and Paige the mourners stood and made their way past the bereaved to pay their respects. Slowly the sisters made their way up to the front as they too paid their respects. Finally it was Paige's turn as she stepped up in front of one of the women.

"I'm so sorry for your loss," Paige said.

"Thank you," The woman said as Paige started to follow Buffy and Dawn. "How did you know Prue? From work?"

Paige glanced at Buffy and Dawn who were talking to Darryl. She then looked back at the woman. "No. Just from around, you know."

"Have we met before?" the woman asked as she gave Paige a once-over as if she recognized Paige.

Paige shook her head. "No. I don't think so. Anyway, my condolences."

"Thank you," the woman said as she shook Paige's hand and suddenly let out a gasp.

"Phoebe," the other woman said as Paige rejoined her sisters and left.

"What happened?" Dawn asked once they were at their cars.

"I'm not sure," Paige said. "She shook my hand and then suddenly gasped out as if Buffy had been the one shaking her hand."

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That evening at a club called P3, Paige and Xander were dancing as a song ended. The drifted over to their table and sat down.

"You alright?" Xander asked.

"Me?" Paige said as she looked at Xander. "Yeah, why?"

"Well, you seem kinda of quiet," Xander said. "That's all. Is it the funeral?"

Paige nodded. "That and the mysterious obit. Something is just weird about the whole situation. Buffy and Dawn didn't cast a spell. And there was no one near my desk at work to even drop it in my lap. That means someone had to have cast a spell. Was the obit meant for me or did that person's spell go awry? If it was meant for me then who cast it and why?"

"Would you like to go someplace quiet where you can think things through?" Xander asked.

"Sure that might be a good idea," Paige said. "Someplace quiet I can try and cast a tracking spell, maybe."

Twenty minutes later Paige and Xander were on the rooftop of their apartment building. Paige had just started casting her tracking spell when a tornado materialized out of thin air and raced toward her as a demon appeared and fired a concussive blast at Xander.

"Xander!" Paige yelled as she waved her hand. "Home!"

Xander orbed out as Paige turned toward the demon.

Just then Phoebe and one of the men from the funeral shimmered in front of Paige.

"Get outta here! Hurry! Go! Go!" Phoebe said as the man fired an energy ball at the demon, but it barely fazed him as Paige orbed out.

Paige orbed into Faith, Buffy, Willow and Dawn's apartment. "Buffy! Willow! Dawn! Faith!"

Faith, Willow, Buffy and Dawn ran into the living room. "What?" Buffy asked.

"Demon, on the roof," Paige said as she grabbed her sisters hands and orbed them, Faith and Willow up to the rooftop to find not only the demon gone but Phoebe and the man as well.

"Where's the demon?" asked Willow.

"It was here, Will. I swear. Along with one of the women, the one named Phoebe, and one of the men from the funeral," Paige said.

"Then maybe we should think about seeing them tomorrow?" Dawn suggested. "Find out what is going on, here."

"I'm in agreement with Dawn," Faith added.

"Okay," Paige said.

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The next day Buffy, Dawn and Paige arrived at the Halliwell's house. Buffy had called Darryl and told him she was going to be late for family reasons. He understood. The front door was standing wide open when they approached it. Buffy, Dawn and Paige frowned as they looked at each other. This was not good.

"Hello?" Buffy called out. When no one answered they made their way inside the house looking for signs of possible demonic activity based on what Paige had seen the night before.

Just then Phoebe, one of the men and the other woman came down the stairs.

"Okay, let's get one thing straight. I am only doing this to save her. I'm not remotely interested in reconstituting ... The Charmed Ones," the woman said. She then spotted Buffy, Dawn and Paige.

"The door was open," Paige said. "We're sorry. My sisters and I will go."

"No, no, no. No, no," Phoebe said. "We were just coming to look for you."

"You were?" Dawn asked.

Phoebe nodded. "Yep. Come on in. Welcome. I'm Phoebe. And this is ..." she said as she hooked her arm into Paige's and walked her over to the other woman and the man. "Piper."

"It's nice to meet you," Paige said.

"Thank you," Piper said. "And you are?"

"Paige," Paige said. "And these are my sisters Buffy and …"

"Hmm. Another P. Imagine that," Phoebe interrupted.

"It's nice to meet you," Piper said as she shook Paige's hand and a bright blue light shone down on Paige, Piper and Phoebe.

"Okay," Buffy said. "What was that?"

"I think that means Paige is supposed to be here," the man said as a strong wind knocked Piper, Phoebe, Paige, Dawn and Buffy backwards. He too was knocked down on the stairs as the demon from the night before materialized and walked towards them.

"Buffy," Paige shouted, "Dawn, that's the demon from last night."

Buffy was up in a heartbeat and ran full tilt at the demon.

"Run!" the man shouted as he shoved Dawn at Piper, Phoebe and Paige. "Get upstairs! "

Piper, Phoebe, Dawn and Paige ran upstairs as the man ran over to the demon and proceeded to help Buffy. They were both thrown backwards and the man was knocked out. Before Buffy could proceed with her attack the demon had turned into wind and proceeded up the stairs. Buffy turned and gave chase.

Up in the attic Dawn, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige gathered around a Book.

"Do you guys know what that demon was?" Paige asked.

Phoebe and Piper looked at each other as they realized Paige knew about demons.

"It's Shax the Source's bounty hunter," Phoebe said.

"The Source?" Dawn asked. "Is that related somehow to the First Evil?"

Phoebe and Piper looked at Dawn and shrugged, they didn't know anything about the First Evil.

Piper began flipping through the pages of the Book. "Okay, just say this spell out loud with us, okay!" she said just as a strong wind broke through the attic door and the demon materialized.

Dawn pulled out her wand. "Hurry," she shouted as she pointed the wand at the demon. "Stupefy!"

The demon shrugged off the wand spell as if it were nothing.

"Evil wind that blows, that which forms below. No longer may you dwell. Death takes you with this spell," Piper, Phoebe and Paige chanted as the demon moaned in pain and exploded.

Phoebe sighed. "It's not enough. Shax was just the messenger. We gotta get the Source."

"The Source of what?" Dawn asked.

"Of all evil," Piper said as Buffy walked into the attic.

"You're kidding right?" Buffy asked. "We kicked the First Evil's ass already."

"I think we have our demons mixed up," Phoebe said. "We've never heard of this First Evil."

"And we've never heard of this Source of All Evil," Dawn said as she pulled out her cell phone and dialed.

"Who's she calling?" Piper asked.

"Giles," Buffy said, "my watcher, more than likely.

"Giles," Dawn said confirming Buffy's conclusion as she spoke into her phone. "It's Dawn. What do you know of the Source of all Evil? Is it related in some way to the First Evil?"

"Not in the way you might be thinking, no," Giles said as Dawn held out her phone so Buffy, Paige, Piper and Phoebe could listen in. "The Source is an Old One. One of the last of them to be precise. The last I heard of the Source was that he had taken human form and that is why most demons that walk the earth have a human form as well or at least walk on two legs."

Once Giles was done they all sat down in the living room and explained who they were.

Paige found out that Piper and Phoebe were indeed her biological sisters. And then Paige introduced Buffy and Dawn. They all related their lives fighting the forces of darkness. It had come to a shock to Phoebe and Piper to find out that that their baby sister had been fighting demons longer than they themselves had.

"Can I ask you three a question?" Phoebe asked.

"Sure," said Buffy.

"Why did you three come to Prue's funeral?" Phoebe asked. "I mean, none of you ever even met her, right?"

"No. We never did," Paige said. "The thing is I had been doing research on my birth family, you guys were one of several likely possibilities. Then Prue's obit mysteriously appeared in my lap. I then proceeded to call Dawn and find out if she, Buffy or Willow had cast any spells. Dawn said no. I'm not one hundred percent sure why I told Dawn I was going. I guess it was just a part of me trying to find out who my birth family were. "

Piper and Phoebe look at each other.

"Come on," Piper said. "There's something we need to show you. Or all of you if you want."

"Show us what?" Paige asked.

Phoebe smiled. "What good magic can do."

They made their way back upstairs into the attic where Paige, Buffy and Dawn watched as Phoebe placed and lit candles in a circle and then moved to join Piper by the Book of Shadows.

"Here these words. Hear my cry spirit from the other side. Come to me, I summon thee. Cross now the Great Divide." Piper and Phoebe chanted as a woman appeared in a bright light.

"There's someone here we thought you should meet," Phoebe said.

The woman, Patty Halliwell, in the circle of candles turned and looked at Buffy, Paige and Dawn. Or more in particular, Paige. "Paige."

"Mom?" Paige asked.

Patty stepped out of the circle of candles and became corporeal as she hugged Paige. "Welcome home." She then turned and hugged Buffy and Dawn. "Thank you. Thank you for taking good care of your sister."

Buffy and Dawn smiled. "You're welcome," they said.

Dawn walked over to Piper and Phoebe and whispered in their ears as they nodded. She then turned toward the Book of Shadows as she read from it. "Here these words. Hear my cry spirit from the other side. Come to me, I summon thee. Cross now the Great Divide." She chanted as Joyce appeared in the circle.

"Mom!" Buffy and Paige shouted as Joyce stepped out of the circle and became corporeal.

Joyce smiled as she hugged each of her daughters in turn and then she faced Patty.

"Thank you," Patty said. "For taking care of our daughter."

"You're welcome," Joyce said. "Now I think you all might like to hear some embarrassing stories about Paige."

"Mom!" Paige said as everyone laughed.

Then then turned and headed down the stairs as Joyce began telling them all kinds of stories about Paige.