A/N: I got rid of my sore throat and feverish state! Yay! Now I'm all stuffed up in only one nostril. Whoopee. Well, I have no school to tomorrow, so expect two chapters up tomorrow. Also, one part of The Houseguest series has found its way off FFN. I think it's the third part. I will try to get it back up.

A/N: Thank you Frances and Jessica for the cards!








"Do you think they're here?"

"I don't know."

"I really think we should knock. I think Prue frowns upon breaking into her home."

"Knocking is overrated."

Jess opened the front door and she and Hallie stepped inside.

"I'm not even going to ask where you learned to pick locks." Hallie said and looked around the dark house.

"You don't ask, I don't tell." Jess said and turned on a light. "Anybody home?"

"Great, we break more rules and laws for nothing." Hallie said and went into the living room.

"I wouldn't say it's for nothing." Jess said and pointed to Jeremy, who was sleeping on the floor.

"What happened to him?" Hallie asked. She and Jess bent down to look at him, but he woke up and screamed.

"What's going on?" He yelled and got up, then tripped over the coffee table.

"It's us. Hallie and Jess. Relax." Jess said and turned on a light.

"Well, don't sneak up on me like that!" Jeremy said and sat up. "Cursed people should not be sneaken up on!"

"You're cursed?" Hallie asked.

"Yeah." Jeremy said, then reached his hand up and accidentally turned on the TV.

"Do you want some help?" Jess asked and started to walk toward Jeremy, but he put his hand up.

"I almost killed Phoebe when she tried to help me up." He said and pulled himself up.

"Speaking of, where are the sisters three?" Jess asked.

"Well, Cole and Phoebe's kid got kidnapped and they are all out searching for them." Jeremy said.

"What about Leo? Can't he do the radar thing?" Hallie asked.

"Leo's gone to. It's all a big mystery." Jeremy said, then he smiled. "This is the first time all day that I am able to stand without falling."

*****

"Tell me!" Cole yelled and slammed the demon against the wall.

"I don't know nothing." The demon said.

"Liar!" Cole yelled and punched the demon. The rest of the group stood back and watched, flinching with every punch.

"Look, I don't know where the Master is!" The demon said. "He dropped me like a sack of - hey, are those the Charmed Ones?"

"Well, now that you've gone and saw them, I'm gonna have to kill you." Cole said, then formed an energyball.

He was about to release it when two screams filled the air, then a vortex opened above them. Hallie and Jess dropped out and thudded on the ground.

"I would not recommend that as the way to travel." Jess said as she got up.

"Definitely not." Hallie agreed and stood up, rubbing her neck.

"Hi, um, what're you guys doing here?" Lynn asked.

"Well, it was amazing." Jess said. "Hallie here got all frustrated and said 'I just want to find them!' and this blue vortex thingy opened and sucked us through and here we are."

"Wait, I thought they took away all your powers." Phoebe said.

"They, um, did." Hallie said.

"So you got a new power?" Lynn exclaimed.

"I don't want it!" Hallie said.

The demon squirmed away from Cole in the moment of confusion.

"Stop!" Hallie yelled and pointed at the demon.

A vortex formed around the demon and he swirled around, then the vortex collapsed and the demon exploded.

"Woah."

*****

"Phoebe, sorry we didn't find him." Lynn said as the group walked into Prue's house.

"We'll find him real soon." Hallie said.

"I wish the Book could help us." Prue said.

"I'm going to see if I can find Leo." Cole said then shimmered out.

"Maybe Master has Leo too." Jeremy spoke up from the couch.

"Why would he take Leo too, though?" Piper asked.

"He does have a connection to Ben, he is his uncle." Jess said.

"But why? If he has Ben, does he really need Leo?" Piper asked.

"Maybe he needs him to heal Ben." Prue said.