Author's Note This takes place approximately one month after my previous story, What Lies Within.

He knew he shouldn't have been there. It was a bad place, a very bad place, an evil place. But if it was Virginia's destiny to be a witch in her own world, there were supplies in the marketplace on the far end edge of the troll kingdom that could not be obtained elsewhere. While he always hated having to use magic, in some situations there was simply no choice.

He inhaled deeply and was overwhelmed by the scent of dwarf moss, troll dust, dragon dung and other substances. These were substances that were difficult to obtain in the Nine Kingdoms and impossible to procure where he was living now. If he were going to go to this marketplace, now was the best time. There was a full moon tonight, and his wolfy senses were at their peak. Huff puff, he would be back in Virginia's world by sundown, when his cycles were due to fully kick in. He shuddered at the thought of what might happen if he didn't get back in time. What would that Charmed One's husband, or was it ex husband do to him?

For that matter, what would the Charmed Ones do to him? Ever since the incident last month, when he had accidentally hurt his precious wife, Virginia, the three sisters, Piper, Paige and Phoebe, had been doing all they could to keep her away from him. They often came up with excuses to keep her out late, where they lived in San Francisco. San Francisco was in a different time zone, so if it was late in San Francisco, it was later in New York.

Whenever Virginia had a bit of free time, there was a lesson Piper had to teach her right then and there. If that wasn't the case, then there was something that they had to vanquish and absolutely needed Virginia's help. Someone would always volunteer to baby sit for Randell. It made him happy that his child was wearing them thin, although he hated losing the quality time with his cub and his mate for life.

He had attempted to speak to them on several occasions, to try to explain what happened that night but they would hear nothing of it. To them he was a monster, a monster just as evil as the demons, they vanquished on a regular basis. He had done what he could to help them on a number of occasions, tricking a demon into drinking a dangerous poison before she could harm his precious Virginia and the Charmed Ones. Then there were the two warlocks who managed to find out about Virginia's mirror. Placing it in grandma's house in the room with the hot tub and providing two glasses of Merripip's famous hard cider imported from the nine kingdoms was the perfect trap. No one missed the warlocks, or guessed the secret ingredient that in the stew that was the next day's dinner special at Grill on the Park, the restaurant owned by him and his wife.

He quietly strolled passed the stands looking for any good deals and sniffing for anyone, or anything that might pose a threat. This was a dark and dingy place, located inside a cave, the floors were covered in dirt, and the creatures were even dirtier.

A rather striking gentleman was selling cauldrons filled with gypsy slime, and plain looking magic spell books, nothing of interest to him. His keen sense of smell then picked up the scent of magic pigs; the kind that didn't exist in Virginia's world. He turned to follow the scent, and saw them, standing upright, hands tied behind their backs, apples securely placed in their mouths preventing them from speaking. Looks of terror were reflected in their eyes. He knew he was here to buy supplies, but it had been so long since he had had fresh pork. The seller happily looked him in the eye, "One for forty gold wendells, two for sixty, three for seventy." Wolf glanced down at the sack of money he had with him. He had not brought much and knew he needed other things, but the allure of fresh meat was so tempting. Just as he was reaching for the sack, he heard a whisper in his ear, "thought you had given up sentient beings?"

Wolf jumped back and nervously glanced around, startled upon hearing something muttered into his ear. It was the demon, Cole. Where did he come from? How did he find him?