Title: Unbelieving
Disclaimers: thank you so much WB for these wonderful and exciting characters!
Genre: snippet/revengefic. You know the amount of fics out there written against Elizabeth Swann for killing Jack Sparrow, the amount of fics against Buffy aso...this is one of those! Damn you Phoebe! Rating: nothing you should hide behind your palms for.
Summary: Since demons failed to destroy the Charmed Ones, they at least try to annoy them with different anomalies. Set: season 7ish, before we get the chance to find out anything about Cole's new status.

Pairing: based on what was once the Cole/Phoebe relationship, Piper/Leo.

Notes: I don't ask for betas, I'm too impatient to wait for them correcting my "work"...but if you offer I won't say no.

Phoebe arrived home late and hungry just to find a myriad of cooking pans and ingredients out on the worktops, but no actual food. She sighed, then made her way upstairs to the attic. If nobody was around and the house looked like people didn't have time to bother with it, somewhere near the Book Of Shadows was a good place to start searching for her sisters as the disruption was due to demons. Right enough, she could already hear voices from up there when she got to the stairs.

It was Paige's words she could make out first, "I orbed over to the bridge, there were hailstones, I orbed over to China Town, there were hailstones, I orbed over to Brisbane, there were no hailstones, but it started a few minutes later! Yet according to the weather forecast there were hailstones only locally at some places I've been to, and they were not even always reported. It was as if somebody was trying to sabotage my work!" As Phoebe arrived upstairs she could see that her younger sister was standing by the book, turning the pages.

"And I was gonna come home to complain that I couldn't get home earlier as my car won't start and no mechanic understands why," Phoebe sat down next to Piper on the sofa and took Wyatt into her arms.

"Same with the cooker, the washing machine, the toaster, should I continue?" Piper recounted, "not to mention all the food we'll have to throw out if the fridge defrosts completely."

"Sounds demonic. Only half hearted, or not a very powerful demon, but all the same, demonic," Phoebe agreed too and stepped beside Paige to look at the book.

"Half hearted?" Piper gestured angrily, holding back not to blow up something, "remember the time Cole tried to discredit us in the eyes of human society?" Nobody liked reminding Phoebe of Cole, but Piper thought it necessary this time, "that started out as a harmless failing of inspection, legal battle, loss of control of the wheel...and there you go, harmlessness gone! This is a systematical undermining and it's just the beginning."

"Piper's right," Leo orbed in, "in fact not any day am I in accordance with the Elders these days, but it seems like you're not the only witches affected, there were local singularities everywhere around the world involving witches, sometimes even whitelighters, including thunderstorms, lightnings and whirlwinds tossing them across the road," he paused and looked deep in thought, "wonder if we could do anything about it."

"Those anomalies you mention," Phoebe said from behind Paige, "an Elder could do all those things. You could do all that. I'm not saying you did, cause why would you, but..."

"You're spot on Phoebe," Paige closed the book, not finding the answer there,"an Elder could do this. An Elder who had crossed over to the demonic side several decades ago I heard about while up there, name's Unu! I say we make the potion and then go for a chat with her."

"There's no need," Leo suggested, "if I join you myself. Besides, I have an idea where I could find her!" Paige shrugged. Leo was certainly different these days, and as they all knew well capable of killing other Elders.

Piper pursed her lips, "hm. Do I sense a little bit of history there?"

"I was her charge as a junior whitelighter. I got to know the Underworld a little too well I'd say, but it was a false sense of security. She set me up to face the Source as his dessert. The Council conjured me back."

"Anything else dear?" Piper raised her eyebrows.

"Well, she comforted me for not being able to see my wife, my family, my first wife, but that was just at the beginning."

"Would like to know some more about that comforting, but we'd better go before there's a blackout in, like, the whole state? With the amount of witches in California, she'd probably be concentrating on that area. Paige, will you orb down into the kitchen and get some potions just in case? And the other thing I'd like to know Leo is just how do you know about this Unu's location!"

"Elderpower Piper! It's only an Elderpower being able to locate another Elder in certain circumstances!"

The sisters looked at him equally shocked. Was Leo even more off lately than usual? There were so many things he didn't tell them latterly and it wasn't just his usual whitelighter secretiveness.

tbc