A/N: This is a crossover story containing the characters from the television show CHARMED and characters created by David Eddings in his BELGARIAD and MALLOREAN series of books. The CHARMED aspect is about Piper and Leo and is picking up right after the season finale. I've accelerated the time frame of the Eddings stories ahead a few years. Garion and Ce'Nedra have welcomed a new daughter, Ce'Leigha (or X'Leigha to incorporate the Dryad "X"), and Ce'Nedra is pregnant with the next of their daughters. I have left Polgara and Durnik's twins unnamed as I could not come up with fitting "Bel" or "Pol" names for them. I hope that everyone enjoys this story and that I did a good job joining my favorite TV show with my favorite books.

Ireth Anwarunya

Chapter 1: Morindim

The whimpering noises shook Piper out of her sleep. She groggily forced herself to her feet and shuffled to the foot of her bed.

"It's okay Chris. Mom's here," she whispered to her youngest son as she lifted him out of his pram and held him close to her. Holding him tightly to her chest, she padded silently on bare feet down the stairs and into the kitchen. Piper placed him in Wyatt's old car seat that sat on the kitchen table and set about fixing her infant his two a.m. meal. As she slowly warmed his bottle, Piper heard a quiet shushing sound from behind her. Startled by the noise, she quickly whirled around and found Leo gently rocking their child.

"What are you doing?" Piper demanded in loud whisper so not to disturb the dozing baby Christopher.

"Piper, I told you a long time ago that I used to orb into the nursery to have private time with Wyatt. What makes you think that it would be different with Chris?" Leo questioned her in the same whisper.

"I didn't. You just scared me is all," she told him and pulled her lavender robe tightly around her body.

"I'm sorry," he apologized with a tender smile. Silent seconds passed with nothing but the sound of the old grandfather clock to mark the time as it ticked and tocked in the next room. As Leo held his sleeping son, Piper quietly put away the bottle and the formula. Suddenly, Piper heard a scratching sound coming from the dining room. "What was that?" Leo asked as his head jerked up at the scuffing noise. Without answering him, Piper made her way through the moonlight-illuminated darkness, her hands poised to freeze whatever or whoever was in her dining room. A feeling of utter confusion came over Piper Halliwell as she saw nothing that would arise suspicion or worry. In her life, Piper was used to seeing slimy, beady-eyed, angry demons appear before her; hardly anything demonic or supernatural surprised her anymore.

"What's wrong Piper?" Leo questioned in his normal worried, but protective tone. He gently and deftly placed his son back in the car seat. Baby Christopher stirred and quietly fussed but settled down after a moment and Leo joined his ex-wife in the unlit dining room.

"I'm not sure," she replied as the noise continued. Suddenly, the sounds ceased and as her eyes scanned the dimness they fell on the Spirit Board that was laid out on the polished tabletop. As she stepped closer to the table, Piper saw the pointer on the board move, making the shuffling sound she heard moments before. Leo quickly grabbed a nearby pen and pad of paper and began writing down the letters spelled out by the Spirit Board.

"Morindim," Leo read by the silvery light from the brilliant moon once all movement had stopped on the Board.

"Morindim? What the hell is Morindim?" Piper said.

"I have no idea," Leo admitted as he read and reread the strange word he had written down. "I think I better go check with the other Elders, see what's going on, what this is all about."

"Why don't you wait and do it in the morning?"

"You don't think this is important?" he retorted as they moved back into the kitchen, nearer to their son.

"It's not that. Why don't you let me check the Book of Shadows and you can spend some time with Chris and Wyatt?"

"Oh Piper, you know I can't refuse that offer. You're playing on my weakness to my boys," he said and chuckled at her sly smile. He felt his heart swell when Chris grabbed onto his finger with his tiny little hand and locked onto his gaze with his deep, beautiful eyes. Leo couldn't deny his love for his family and it broke his heart whenever he had to leave them, so naturally, he cherished every second he had with them. He gently lifted Chris out of the car seat and held him close to his body as he followed Piper up the staircase.

As the morning sun filtered through the stained glass windows of the attic, Piper closed the Book of Shadows and made her way downstairs. As she quietly tiptoed into her bedroom, she found Leo in the rocking chair with Wyatt fast asleep in his arms and Chris in the crib next to him.

Piper removed the sleeping child from his father's protective arms and Leo came awake, rubbing the dream dust from his eyes and stifling a yawn as he stretched his tightly coiled muscles. "Did you find anything in the Book?" he asked once he had shaken the grogginess from his mind.

"No," she answered and she placed the flaxen-haired Wyatt next to his baby brother, "I thought you might want to go see what the Elders know."

Leo nodded in the affirmative and after kissing both of his sons, he orbed out of the nursery, leaving Piper alone with the two slumbering children. Grateful for the rare moment of peace and quiet, Piper walked back to her bed as silently as possible and threw the blanket over her head to escape the quickly rising sun that so garishly announced the new day. After being deprived from it for so long, Piper had no trouble finding her way into the reprieve and serenity her sleep offered her. She found peace in her dreams and she did not awake until some hours later when she heard voices and clattering downstairs. With a roll of her eyes and an inward groan, Piper climbed out of the warm comfort of her bed and threw on a pair of jeans and a favorite light blue T-shirt. Then, she grabbed the nearby baby monitor and marched to the kitchen to see what Phoebe and Paige were up to.

"Good morning. Where are you two off to?" Piper asked her younger sisters.

"Researching a story Elise wants me to write," Phoebe replied as she poured her mug full of coffee and reached for one of the doughnuts that were carefully arranged on a plate atop the counter. "I'm going to be gone all day but I have my cell if you need me. Bye sweetie," and after kissing Piper on the cheek she breezed out of the kitchen.

"What about you?" Piper questioned her remaining sister as she retrieved a mug from the cabinet and poured her own cup of coffee.

"I'm headed to the temp agency. They've got another job assignment for me and I'm supposed to go there to pick it up," Paige answered, "Will you be okay alone with the boys?"

"I'll be fine. If anything happens you or Leo are just an orb away and Wyatt's force field will protect me," Piper assuaged Paige's worries, "Now I think I'm going to take a nice hot bath while the boys are still asleep; get in a few minutes to myself before they wake up and I have to get to P3."

"Sounds like a good idea. I've got to get going now, but call if you need anything. Give my two favorite nephews a kiss for me," Paige said, grabbed her things, and hurried out the door.

Piper stood in the peaceful silence for a moment, sipping on her steaming coffee, enjoying the quiet. Just then, a loud wailing screeched through the baby monitor. Piper sighed. "So much for time to myself," she thought and hurried upstairs to pacify her screaming infant. Piper had just settled into the rocking chair to feed Chris when Leo orbed in.

"What did you find out?" she asked as she handed Christopher to him and proceeded to dress Wyatt.

"Nothing," he sighed, "We all started arguing about my behavior the night that Chris was born, the night that I killed Gideon, and I never got to ask. I finally got fed up and left."

"Are you sure that was wise? I mean, we have no idea if this Morindim is a person, a demon, or what. We don't know if this is something that we should really be worried about," Piper stated.

"I don't know Piper. We'll figure it out," he assured her and continued to feed the baby.