Wow! So, I was really thrilled with the reviews I got for this! It's what kept me going when I was typing this at 12:30pm, just for you!

BTW someone asked me about a pairing between Phoebe/Reid – I think it's a bit too strange for them to have an outright relationship 9what with her being about 12 years older than him and in love with Coop etc) but I certainly didn't see any trouble with putting a little harmless flirtation in....

Hope I didn't disappoint – enjoy!

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Chapter two: Because Piper said so!

"Piper, please, just relax! It's only four teenage boys!" Paige said, soothingly. That morning, Piper had received a very rare visit from Leo (who practically lived at Magic School now days), who had told her that she was too look after some teenagers for a while. More had been said, but the only things Paige could gather from where she'd been listening behind a locked door, was that 1) they were extremely powerful and 2) Piper was quite pissed about it. Piper had been so annoyed that Paige had actually tailed her to P3 for fear Piper might blow something up.

"You're wrong, it's four extremely hormonal nearly adult teenage boys with, what it sounds like, too much power for them to handle!" Piper corrected her, scribbling a few viscious notes on a napkin and throwing the pen down so hard, it nearly broke.

"Well, maybe it will be good for you, you know - get into practise for Wyatt and Chris." Paige reasoned, ignoring the death-glare she was sent in response. "Look, Billie's a teenager, you get on fine with her!"

"That's different, Billie's practically like a fourth sister!" Piper snapped. "And that's another thing! Where will they sleep? You know, I don't think it's fair on Billie, worrying about whether she's going to get any 'surprise visits' in the night!"

"Psh, Piper, they're teenagers!" Paige countered.

"They're legal." was the short response. "Billie's struggling enough already!"

"Ooh. Still can't find another college, then?" Paige asked, distracted for a moment.

"No and she's having trouble getting job interviews." Piper said, roughly banging a crate of bottles on the table, like it was their fault. Paige opened her mouth to say something, but was interupted by a familiar jangling in her ears.

"Urgh! I gotta go, I'm being called." she hopped down off her stool, but paused. "You going to be okay?"

"Just dandy." Piper replied, dryly. Paige rolled her eyes, but knew she couldn't stay. Piper eyed the bright orbs as she left, resisting the urge to blow them into oblivion. She knew it wouldn't hurt Paige, but it would feel good to vent her frustration out on someone (someone preferable being her husband, if she had the choice.) "Argh!" was all she could say, before letting her head fall against the desk, now in an even worse mood than before.

"Excuse me, Ms Halliwell?" Piper groaned inwardly.

"Yes?" she asked aggresively, looking up - only to see a huge fist fly straight towards her. She flew backwards and hit the wall with a horrible crunching noise. "Ow!" was all she could say as she struggled to her feet. The ginormous Demon smirked and came ploughing towards her. Piper flicked her hands. The Demon paused, convulsed once or twice before coming at her again. Piper flicked her hands again, more frantically each time, but the Demon just kept on struggling through them.

"Oh shi -" Piper threw herself out of the way as the Demon threw an almighty punch at the wall, leaving a massive dent. Piper sheilded her head from the bits of flying plaster and crawled along on her belly under the tables, feeling the ground tremor as the tables were uprooted all around her as the Demon tossed them all aside to get to her, finally catching her foot and hauling her into the open. Piper braced herself for the final blow; 'If I end up Up There with the Elders, they will know how pissed they made me before my death.' she thought to herself. Suddenly, Piper felt her ankle go red hot as the Demon burst into flame. It dropped Piper abruptly, howling in pain before blowing up, dissolving into the air.

"Dude!" Piper heard. "That was awesome!"

"Not now Reid!" came another voice and Piper felt a hand on her shoulder. "Are you okay?" Piper groaned and rolled over.

"I assume that's a rhetorical question." she muttered, sitting up and opening her eyes. A guy was kneeling next to her, looking concerned and in the fuzzy distance, Piper could make out three more guys. They all looked quite young. Not schoolkids - but not adults....

"Oh hell!" Piper muttered. "What are you doing here?"

"Erm, a guy named Leo sent us...." one of them began.

"Yes, yes, I am very well aware of that!" Piper snapped, waving him off. "I meant what are you doing here?"

"We heard a noise." the guy shrugged. "Leo sent us here, told us to wait for you."

"He did, huh?" Piper asked, raising her eyebrow. "Well, that's his grave pretty much dug isn't it?" She hoisted herself to her feet, using the bar to steady herself. The guy nearest her made as if to help, but Piper shook her head.

"I'm fine, thanks. It's not the worse I've ever had." the guy nodded and back off to where the others were. "So. Who are you?" Piper asked.

"Oh, I'm Caleb. And this is Reid, Pogue and Tyler. We're -"

"The Sons of Ipswitch - yeah, I know." Piper cut across him.

"If you knew, why did you ask?" Reid demanded, curtly.

"I knew your title, I didn't know your names." Piper answered.

"Well, we don't know your... title or your name." Caleb replied, trying to be polite as possible. Piper looked at them all under a scrutinising gaze, before saying;

"My name is Piper Halliwell. I'm a Charmed One."

* * * * *

Caleb stared.

"A Charmed One? Serious?" the initial rudeness in Reid's tone had now been replaced with curiosity and excitement.

"It's not a very jokey job." Piper pointed out.

"Sorry, but... a Charmed One? We all thought the Charmed Ones were a myth." Caleb explained, trying really hard not to imagine Piper in a nymph's outfit.

"Well, how did you find out about me if I'm a myth?" Piper asked.

"Our book told us." Tyler said, speaking for the first time.

"You have a book?" For the first time since they'd met, Caleb saw something light up in Piper's eyes.

"Sure." Tyler shrugged off his backpack and reached into it.

"Wait!" Piper yelled, making everyone jump. Tyler paused, looking at her, alarmed. "Don't bring it out here - there still might be Demons around!" she hissed.

"Where? I can't see anything!" Reid commented, scanning the room, breifly. Piper rolled her eyes, like he'd said something stupid.

"Doesn't mean they're not here." she told him, impatiently. Tyler hugged the backpack to his chest, his eyes darting around, warily. "Okay, look, we need to get you home and - ARGH!" Piper yelled again as her mobile went off. "This is not my day!"

"We couldn't tell." Reid muttered to Caleb as Piper pulled out the phone.

"Hey Dad, look I'm kinda in the middle of something -" Piper paused. The four boys waited. "Ok, sure, put him on." Reid raised eyebrows at Caleb, who elbowed him in the stomach. "Hey, Chris, having fun at Grandpa's?..... You did?...... Aw sweetie..... Well, you're my brave little soldier...... tell you what.... when I pick you up we'll go get Wyatt and then Mommy'll buy you guys an icecream....... yes, you can have chocolate.....love you too.....okay, bye." Piper hung up the phone and stared at it for a few seconds, before sliding it into her back pocket and turning back to the four guys.

"Is that you're son?" Pogue asked.

"Yea, he's my youngest son, Chris. The older one, Wyatt, is in nursery." Piper shook her head. "Anyway, we'd better get you guys home before another demon attacks, or I can't fufil my promise I just made to my chocoholic son - in which case, we'll all suffer." She swiped the keys off the side. "I hope you guys like meatloaf."

"Yes ma'am." Caleb grinned. The corners of Piper's mouth lifted slightly also but they soon smoothed out as Piper left the way out of the club, dialling numbers rapidly on her mobile.

"Phoebe, Paige. Get over to the Manor - now."

* * * * *

"Well, here we are. Home sweet home." Piper said, tonelessly as she held the door open.

"Wow." Caleb commented as he stepped into the hallway.

"Shit." Pogue murmured.

"Beg pardon?" Piper asked, frowning.

"Nothing." Pogue said, quickly. Piper raised her eyebrows but didn't say anything.

"A real nice place you got here." Tyler put in, hurriedly.

"Yeah, it's not bad for a weekly Demon attack." Piper admitted, shutting the door, carefully. The secret is in the Handyman. she thought, a little sadly.

"Hey, are these your kids?" Reid asked, going over to some pictures on the wall.

"Mmmhmm. That was taken about a year ago." Reid nodded and his eye continued to travel up the wall. He nudged Caleb and nodded to one of Piper, Chris, Wyatt and another man. "Sly bastard." Reid noted, grinning a little at the sight of Leo's face.

"Hey, guys! Book and - erm,"

"Caleb." Caleb supplied, trying not to snort at Reid's new nickname.

"Sure. You two down here. We need to lay down some ground rules." Piper told them, indicating the the space infront of her. Caleb and Reid obeyed, Reid with a face like thunder. "Right, first of all -" Piper broke off as the door swung open.

"Well, howdy-doo!" Phoebe declared, bursting through, followed by Paige. "Ooh." she stopped at the sight of the four teenagers, slouching in a line infront of Piper.

"I told you." Paige muttered in her ear.

"What, that the teenagers had arrived or that Piper was in a grump?" Phoebe hissed back.

"Oi! I can still hear you know!" Piper told them, shortly.

"Definately grumpy." Phoebe assesed before strolling over to Piper and planting a kiss on her cheek. "Having fun, Piper?" Piper muttered a few incomprehensable words and flexed her fingers.

"Sorry, we're late Piper. There was a little bit of trouble with a charge." Paige said, apologetically, squeezing Piper's shoulders and standing the other side of her.

"That's okay, we were just going through some ground rules -"

"Shouldn't we be introduced first though?" Phoebe interupted, yet again. Piper took a deep breath before gesturing for Phoebe to proceed, who practically bounced up to each one.

"Hi, I'm Phoebe, Piper's younger sister and who are you?"

"Er, I'm Caleb." Caleb said, nearly having his hand yanked off.

"Pogue."

"Tyler."

"Reid." Reid, whose dark expression had suddenly turned to one of charm, caught Phoebe's hand and kissed it lightly. "Pleasure is all mine." The rest of the Covenant merely sighed, used to Reid's antics, while Paige giggled and Piper looked like she was about to throw up.

"Oh, aren't you the Charmer?" Phoebe asked, winking at him, before pulling her hand free and going to stand back next to Piper.

"Are you on drugs?" her oldest sister asked, through gritted teeth.

"Nope, unless happiness is a drug."

"Hmmm, Cupid?"

"Tell you later." Phoebe patted Piper's arm before turning back to face the Covenant. "Anyway, Paige! Introduce yourself!"

"Hi, I'm Paige, the youngest sister. Yell if you need me." Paige said, waving.

"Ah! This sounds like an alcoholics anonymous meeting doesn't it?" Phoebe declared, clapping her hands in delight. "Hi, I'm Phoebe, I'm a witch!" she said, before collapsing into giggles.

"Yeah, well, hi I'm Piper and I'm the sister of a very dead witch if she doesn't stop behaving like a teenager - now!" Piper said, pointedly. Phoebe stuck her tounge out at her but was quite.

"Moving on!" Paige said, loudly. "Now, we've had introductions made!"

"Right. Okay, ground rules." Piper gave Phoebe a very hard stare before continuing but Phoebe merely mimed zipping her mouth shut and didn't say a word. "Okay, rule number one. Everyday there's a possibility that a Demon might attack, if that happens do not go out of your way to help. We can handle it a lot better knowing that we don't have to save a lot of big-headed idiots, got it?" Reid, Caleb, Pogue and Tyler nodded. "Okay, next, magic is not a toy. You're here to learn - so do not touch anything wierd-looking without either me, Phoebe, Paige or Billie there."

"Billie? Who's Bill-" Caleb started.

"Got it?" Piper demanded, glaring at him. Caleb gulped.

"Yes ma'am." he said.

"Good."

"Jeez Piper, scare them before they begin why don't you?" Phoebe asked, sarcastically. Piper went to reply but Paige quickly stepped in.

"Rule three, rule three!" she prompted, before Piper and Phoebe got into one of their infamous three-hour-long-rows-pantomine-style.

"Rule three." Piper nodded. "Other people live in this house as well as you. My sons are asleep just along the hall, not to mention Billie, so therefore, no 'entertaining' after six okay?" The agreements were a little less ready this time. "Also, there will be curfews. School nights, in by 11, otherwise, in by 1. Any questions?"

"Yeah," Reid spoke up. "Who the hell is Billie?"

"Ah, well, Billie is -" Phoebe started.

"Home in about 5 minutes." Paige cut across her, looking at her watch. "5 minutes isn't that long to wait."

"Okay, well, you'd best get settled into your room - sorry we only have one double bed, but I'll make up a couple more beds on the floor after I've brought the boys back and began with dinner," Piper said, beginning to walk towards the door.

"One last thing!" Phoebe stopped her, quickly.

"What now?" Piper demanded.

"Magic." Phoebe turned back to the four boys. "What magic do you do?"

"Erm, any kind of magic." Caleb shrugged, a little confused.

"Could you show us?" Phoebe asked. The Sons of Ipswitch all exchanged looks.

"Sure." Caleb nodded, slightly. "Reid." Reid, grinned, only too happy to use his powers (and show off infront of Phoebe). His eyes went black and a power ball began to form in his hands. The next thing they knew, a blonde was flying through the air towards them and Phoebe and Paige were yelling;

"Billie! NO!"