A/N I'd just like to say thanks to Gitte, A.Windsor and Magical Princess for reviewing- you guys are the best and your reviews gave me the encouragement to write this chapter. I hope I don't disappoint!!

A/N 2- just a quicky, I got the brief concept/ inspiration for this fic from the song Black Balloon by the Goo Goo Dolls

Disclaimer: see previous chapter ( if you really want 2!)

On with the story..

*CHAPTER 2*

2003

It was &pm and Piper was putting Wyatt to bed. Phoebe was downstairs watching TV, and Paige was in her room. Leo, as what was becoming more and more usual recently, had been called by the elders during dinner and was still "up there".

Wyatt had gone to sleep so Piper put him down. She was at the door of her room when she heard noises from the attic. The noises were strange but also quite familiar, if light had a sound she imagined that would be it. As sudden as it had started the sound stopped. Voices abruptly followed.

"Do you think it worked?" a girls voice, of about 11 or 12.
"I dunno"a boy's voice this time, "maybe."
"I think it did" another girl, younger than the first.

By now Paige had heard the voices and had come from her room to where Piper stood. They silently ascended the attic stairs together. Half way up the stairs Paige faced Piper and mouthed "who?!?" . Piper's look mirrored Paige's exactly and the 2 were utterly confused as to who the voices belonged to.

They had reached the attic door by now and stood ready for anything, though they both new-by instinct- that who ever lay behind the door wasn't evil, or demonic for that matter. Just as Piper reached out her hand for the door handle, Leo orbed in between her and it.

"Whoa! Hi!" Piper greeted her husband, "what did They want?" Leo couldn't help but notice the slight cold edge to her voice. She was pissed that he had to leave and he knew it.

"I'm sorry They called, Piper, I really am. But They said that we are going to get some important visitors, that we should trust them and listen to their advice."

"Did The Elders saywho the visitors are?" asked Paige
"Nope. They were their usual cryptic selves," sighed Leo.

"Okay. Well I think our visitors have already arrived " Piper motioned to the attic door "Leo, honey, can you go downstairs, get Phoebe and then orb you 2 back here and we'll go in altogether"

"Sure, I'll be right back," and with that Leo orbed downstairs. A few seconds later he and Phoebe orbed back and she was promptly filled in on the "visitors".

MEANWHILE IN THE ATTIC....

The kids were having a discussion.

"Well we've definitely gone somewhere, the attic is different. There's less baby stuff for a start and The Book is smaller," said Melinda looking around the spacious room.

"Yeah , but where, I mean when, are we?" asked Charlie to no one in particular.

"Well, we could see who has powers. Mom said that when she and Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Prue went to the past they didn't have their powers because the little ones did" Lora suggested.

"So, whoever doesn't have powers is alive- we'll their younger self is alive - in this time" summed up Wyatt. " Okay so on 3 we orb over to the couch" he motioned to the piece of furniture on the other side of the attic "1, 2, 3 orb!"

In a flurry of blue and white lights; Melinda, Charlie, Grace and Lora all disappeared from where they stood and then reappeared a few moments later standing next top the couch. Wyatt however was still standing where they had all started, the middle of the attic.

"So I guess that means little Wyatt is alive but the rest of us aren't. We must have gone back about 13 or 14 years" stated Grace

"But why then? I mean It didn't happen until Lora and Grace were 5" Wyatt wondered aloud as he walked over to his sisters. There was no need to elaborate on what "It" was. They all knew to well.

"I dunno, maybe it's..uh-oh..."but no one knew what Melinda was going to suggest because just then the attic door swung open and in walked Paige, Phoebe, Piper and Leo.

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A/N thanks for reading and if you have any suggestions on how I can improve or you just want to say that you've read (which'd be great) then please review!!!