Author note: For those who also reads my story A month in the lives. Right now I am going to try and finish this story. The inspiration for this story is higher right now and I don't want to lose that inspiration. But I am going to get back to the other story, hopefully quickly, because there are some chapters forming in my head, I just haven't gotten time to write them down yet. Be patient and enjoy this chapter.

The Power They had lost track off.

"The Power of Love!" Paige exclaimed. Sara and Grissom could only look at Leo, perplexed, definitely out of their comfort zone and at a loss for words. Piper and Phoebe just looked at Leo, patiently awaiting the rest of his story, as he always shared with them.

"Yes, the Power of Love, Paige." Leo simply stated, he walked over to Piper and sat down, for the Halliwell sisters this was an indication that this explanation might take a long time. Piper could see that Leo was wondering were he should begin, so Piper asked him: "What do you mean with 'The Power They had lost track off'? Do the Elders keep taps on all Power that is here on earth?" Leo looked at Piper, appreciative of her question.

"Yes, they keep taps on all Power that roams the Earth."

"This is new to us, Leo." Paige stated.

"Well, I wasn't sure, but I thought that they might." Aelithe interjected.

"Anyway, they do keep taps on the Powers that are at work on Earth. They also keep taps on the Power of Three." Leo said, not so pleased with the interruption, what he had learned was going to be difficult to explain, and interruptions were almost certainly going to add confusion. So he decided to make that clear: "Listen, it is very difficult, so why don't you listen to me and we will tackle questions later?"

"Go ahead, Leo, we will listen." Piper encouraged him.

"So, the Elders have been keeping taps on all Powers, however the Power of Love was a Power that proved difficult to keep taps on. So about fifty years ago they lost track of the Power of Love. They tried everything to find out who was holding the Power of Love. You see most Powers move through families. Like the Power of Three, that was always a Power the Halliwell family would hold, it made it easier to keep track of the Powers. Other Powers get passed down on predetermined persons, it is their destiny. However some Powers don't pass down along predictable paths, some get passed down, because someone kills the former holder of that Power and some Powers settle on people that are suited for them. The Power of Love is passed down by chance, the Power settles on the magical couple most likely to handle it, the way it should be handled. The people who are most likely to carry out and uphold it's great legacy; the legacy of Love in all its purity. So about fifty years ago the guardians of the Power of Love died and the Power of Love disappeared from the radar of the Elders and it hasn't resurfaced, until ten years ago. However something was off, they couldn't get a good read as to who held the Power. It was located both in San Fransisco and Las Vegas. For a while it was believed that Piper and I would hold the Power, but that proved not to be true. The Elders told me that after two years the Power of Love seemed to have located itself in Las Vegas and at that time they tried to find it in Las Vegas, but it had all been in vain, until now. According to the Elders the Power of Love seemed to grow steadily at certain times peaking, but never enough to pinpoint an exact location. That is until last evening, when somehow the Power of Love was radiant in the forest, the forest were Aelithe and Paige went to and were Grissom and Sara were." At this he looked at Grissom and Sara, who were obviously having a difficult time to digest everything Leo had told them. Sara was the first to voice her question: "Why now?"

"I asked the Elders that also, but they don't know. They do have a theory on why it was so difficult to find you. They believe that is in part because you never knew that you have magical powers and secondly because Love isn't always clear cut. But if you ask me it is just because you didn't know you were magical and had never used those powers. But that is all just guessing. The Elders did however give me some warnings, heads ups. The Elders are not the only ones who keep taps on the Powers that are here on Earth. The higher demons also keep track of Powers. It is very likely that the demons also have figured out who are the new guardians of the Power of Love."

"So what does that mean?"

"That means that the demons are going to haunt you, try to get the Power away from you. Demons only value Power, to them it doesn't matter that it is the Power of Love or the Power of Sanity. The only thing they find important is that you hold power and they want that power. When we got the Power of Three, demons started to attack right away, leaving us no time to figure out what was happening to us." Piper explained. Leo picked up were Piper had stopped: "According to the Elders some demons might have already tried to kill you. The demon world have been trying to find the Power of Love just as much as the Elders. The Elders reckon that the peaks they had received might have been moments in which you were in danger. Possibly danger at the hands of demons."

"So we might have already had contact with demons?"

"Very likely so, yes." Leo admitted. "Have you ever been in danger?" Sara and Grissom looked at each other. Yes, they had been in danger, more times then they dared count. Could all those instances have been at the hands of demons? Grissom started to talk: "Yes, we have been in danger, but it has always been during cases. So I don't think those could have been demons in your sense of the word."

"Grissom, the demons we fight don't have horns growing out of their heads. At least not all of them. Most demons have normal appearances, like us, if we hadn't told you we were witches, would you have guessed? It is like the people you catch, you cannot determine by looks, whether someone is a murderer or kidnapper. Those people who were a thread to your safety during the cases, might very well have been demons, you just didn't know or recognised them." Aelithe explained

"Okay." Grissom replied. Sara in the meantime had thought about something else that Leo had said. "Leo, you said that the Power of Love settled on a magical couple. Does that mean that we have other magical powers then the Power of Love?"

"Yes. Maybe I should explain that. You see, the powers that you have are not the Power of Love. It is like the Power of Three with Piper, Phoebe and Paige. The Power of Three enhances their magical powers, but without it, they still have their own powers. The Power of Three enables them to eliminate higher demons, demons that cannot be eliminated by the mere power that Piper holds, for example. With the Power of Three they can use spells that have a greater impact. It is the same with you two, you have your own individual magical powers and the Power of Love can magnify them at certain times. The Power of Love can enable you to use spells that you cannot operate on your own powers. But with the Power of Love also other responsibilities come." Leo told Grissom and Sara

"What other responsibilities?"

"The Elders were reluctant to tell me. They said that someone will be in contact with you about that. Right now they asked us to focus on helping you understand and operate your powers and focus on trying to find out what demons might have had contact with you." Leo said. Grissom almost threw his arms up in frustration, he didn't, but the frustration was evident in his voice as he said: "Like we already told you before, we don't have magical powers."

"Oh yes, you have, it is just that up until now, or rather until yesterday, you didn't need them, so they didn't manifest themselves so clearly." Phoebe answered his frustration.

"What do you mean 'until yesterday'?" Grissom asked, genuinely interested.

"Well, think back to what happened yesterday, with that man. You, Grissom, said that there were bugs…" "Insects." "Insects present, that should not have been there. And the man was stopped, lifted and turned around in the air. I hardly think that he did that out of his own free will." Phoebe explained, with the patience of an angel, not bothered by Grissom's interruption to correct her on the use of the word 'bugs'.

"You think that we, what? Conjured up these insects and made the man stop?" Sara asked, unbelieving her own words. But that disbelief was not mirrored in the faces of Piper, Phoebe, Paige and Aelithe, who just nodded. "Right, sure." Sara sarcastically said, as she turned to face Grissom. Aelithe drew her attention back to the others as she began to speak: "Do you have another explanation?" Sara stared at her, thinking, but she had to admit that she didn't have another explanation. "But things like that have never happened before."

"Maybe, at other times you didn't need that extra, magical help. Grissom when you saw that Sara was in danger, what did you feel?" Aelithe switched her attention from Sara to Grissom.

"I felt helpless, I couldn't do anything to get her away. I remembered the insects and wished for insects that could cause immediate pain. And then those insects came out of the ground."

"Yes, I think you conjured up those insects. You said you could see them, but they must have been small and quite far away. How did you see them?"

"I don't know, I could just see them, it never occurred to me, that they were far away. Well, no, actually those insects came out of the ground near my feet and then scurried to the man." Grissom said as he was thinking back to the yesterday night.

"And what about you, Sara?"

"What about me?"

"Well, it's just a guess, but I think that you made that man stop, turn and lifted him in the air. What did you feel?"

"I was furious with the guy. He didn't stop when Grissom ordered him to do so. Then I called after him, and that is when he stopped and turned." Sara recounted

"You see, the first time the most witches find out about their powers is either, because they have forever lived in the magical world or, and this is your case, when they felt very emotional and felt like they were in a corner, with nowhere to go. So that would explain why your powers only now presented themselves to you." Aelithe explained. She could see that Grissom and Sara were trying to understand everything that had been said, but they were struggling with it. So Aelithe decided that this would be a good moment to give them some time to mule over what they had been told. "Why don't we leave you for a moment, we'll get something to eat and we can talk after that a little more." Aelithe said, as she stood from her chair and mentioned for the Halliwell family to follow her.

"Thank you." Grissom and Sara stood, while the others left the room.


"Well, this is crazy." Sara said as she resumed her seat on the couch. Grissom sat down next to her: "Yeah." Grissom looked at Sara and saw a smile grow on her face. "What are you smiling about?" Sara looked at Grissom and said: "Oh, I just remembered a case that Warrick and I had once. Remember the case with the old lady that we thought had self combusted?"

Grissom frowned, trying to remember the case, then suddenly his eyes lighted: "Yes, you and him tried to disprove self combustion. Another pig I believe."

"Yes, that is the case. You asked us whether or not we had considered that there might be a scientific explanation. The fact is that I didn't thought there might be one. It was because of these women." Sara indicated to the door through which the others had vanished. "I told you that I found evidence of small explosions."

"Yes."

"Well, in one of the cases the evidence pointed to an explosion the size of a human being, but no accelerants or other substances that could explain the explosion. So someone in my team said that it might be the first ever case of self combustion. I was about to do some experiments to prove or disprove the theory, when a call from Las Vegas came, I had to up and leave, so I couldn't experiments. That is why I was wondering about self combustion. And now we learn this." Sara laughed. Grissom grinned at her: "He, who won that chess game?"

"Do you honestly think that the move you made on Warrick's part, was going to save him from losing to me? I won."

"I didn't think so, I could see that you were going to win, no matter what. So what do you make of all this?" Grissom switched to the matter at hand.

"I don't know. I feel like we have not much choice in the matter. This is happening to us and we have got to deal with it. I don't know how I have to deal with this."

"Me neither. All I have ever known is how to my job as a investigator. This is way outside of my comfort zone." Grissom sighed, leaning back into the couch. Sara also heaved a sigh, but sat a bit more forward, her forearms resting on her knees. As she sat her eyes fell on the Book of Shadows that was still opened on their page. "Hey, look, the page has cleared a bit more. The title has cleared. It says 'The Power of Love', apparently they are right." Grissom also looked at the page and nodded.

"It's a really old book. What would the rest of the text say?" Sara wondered.

"I have no idea, maybe more clues or other quotes about love." Grissom said as he once again leaned back. Sara was still looking at the page, she looked at the picture that was there of her and Grissom. She really liked the picture, it showed their connection and yet managed to reveal the fact that they were still two individuals. With her fingers she traced the outline of the pictures and then traced the words that were clear, letting those words roll around in her head. At last she traced the smudges that were on the remainder of the page, wondering what messages those smudges would reveal. As if the Book read her minds some smudges were transforming in front of her eyes. "Grissom, look!" The edges of the smudges were reclining, as if the ink was called back to their former borders within the lines that were once written down. Sara read as one word after another revealed itself: "In the city of free Love, they will meet. In the city were Love is a rush and a drive through, they will fight for Love. Love will reveal itself with the personification of the Chaos Theory. For when one butterfly flaps its wings, the rest of the world will know. For where Love starts no one knows, but the entire world will feel its effects." At the calling of the last words one small blue butterfly appeared at the right corner of the page. "Well that would be us." Grissom said as he and Sara looked down at the page once more. Only one large smudge at the bottom of the page remained.

"I wonder what that says." Grissom said, looking down, hoping it would reveal its secrets, but nothing happened. "Well, it appears that you have the magic touch." Grissom smirked as he smiled to Sara, who retorted: "Oh, very funny. Do you think we could still do our jobs, now we know this?"

"I don't know, lets ask the others, when they return." Grissom sat a bit back, Sara however was completely enthralled by the book that lay before her and reached out to turn a page, just then Phoebe came back in. "Would you mind if I turned some pages, Phoebe?"

"No, not at all. I'll come and sit with you and explain when you come to something you don't understand."

"Thanks. So what is in this book?"

"It is our manual to the magical world. It says what demons there are and how we can vanquish them, it has spells, descriptions on different magical creatures, like leprechauns. A lot actually and we keep adding things, so that our children know what to do."

"You have children?"

"No, not yet, but Piper and Leo have two boys."

"Where are they now?"

"In the magic school."

"Do they have magical powers?"

"Yes, it would strange if they didn't. Their mother a witch, quite powerful, and their father is a White Lighter."

"What is a White Lighter?"

"A guide into the magical world and a connection to the Elders. He is an angel, to be completely honest."

"Oh. So only magical people get magical children?"

"I don't know actually."

"I don't think my parents were magical."

"Only my mother was magical."

"Oh, right." Sara turned her attention back to the Book of Shadows and started to turn the page that held the information on Grissom and her and was met with a shock. Tapping Grissom's knee, Sara got his attention: "Gil, isn't that doctor Lurie?" She pointed at the drawing on the next page, which looked just like the elderly doctor she once had seen through the glass of the interrogation room. Grissom leaned forward and focussed on the drawing, shock and anger filled his eyes.

"Yes, that is doctor Lurie."

Author Note: The next chapter: What is the deal with doctor Lurie. Please Review this chapter. Also if you got questions: don't hesitate to ask them!! So once more, review, pretty, pretty, please (i am batting my eyelids, if you are wondering)?