Mirror Mirror In The Wall

Paige had been trying to sort out just what steps she might be missing. Well for one she was actually missing Chris. Maybe fate finally caught up with him. She tried to sense him, using her less than developed skills as a Whitelighter, but no matter how she tried she couldn't track him down. In a way she was almost glad that she hadn't been there. She saw him die the first time and wasn't sure she could handle it a second time.

It was better this way perhaps. Just not really knowing bothered her a little bit. If the Elders had sent her back with some sort of plan, how could taking Chris away be part of it. Wasn't there some balance that they needed to keep? Some sort of right versus wrong concept that they needed to stay true to? How is removing people right? Pulling them out without letting anyone know? It, just didn't feel like something the Elders would do.

Then again? There were no Elders here. Chris and Paige had gone to see the emptiness that awaited them in the heavens. It was just hollow and cold. Paige was trying to figure it out. If there was no one up there, and all of these things were already so terribly messed up how could this even be a realm that existed? How could anything balance this out?

"Balance. That's it!"

Paige had been wandering the halls of Magick School for almost a week. There were parts of her that had stayed there to avoid any more fighting with Cole, and other parts just trying to sort out just where she had ended up. There was no preface for it. She had just shown up in a place that technically shouldn't allow her to exist. There was nothing to balance, and as she headed to Gideon's office she knew what she was looking for. Her other half. If this truly was something that a higher power wanted her to fix? She would be fixing both sides of the mirror. If the mirror was still there that is.

The door was shut, and when she pushed it open she called out hoping to hear an echo or anything. Instead it was silence. Which was disheartening. She found the mirror and hoped that maybe her double was just somewhere else. Stuck doing whatever it was that Paige hadn't figured out yet. There was only one way to find out, the spell. She knew the spell by heart, and even though there was no power of three to cast it, it was all she had. Paige figured that if there was no balance being maintained then maybe the Power of Three didn't really mean as much here. That somehow all the balance just shifted away and each of them were there for their own purpose.

Singled out. She was alone in this one. Grabbing a piece of chalk from Gideon's desk Paige drew out the Triquetra symbol on the wall. Taking a step back she closed her eyes and recited the spell she had memorized from that day.

In this place and in this hour,
I call upon the ancient power.
Open the door through time and space,
Create a path to another place.

Opening her eyes she saw the symbol change into a swirling portal. Paige had been right. There was no balance at all. Not here or there, but what was over there? Just what was waiting for her on the other side of that portal?

"Only one way to find out."

So Paige stepped in.