Part Nine

Piper stared at the frozen demons, then at her daughter and finally turned to look at the rest of her family. A look of scepticism was clear on her face as she scanned the room with her eyes. Piper kept her hands in the raised in the position to blow up the demons in the cave.

"Excuse me?"

"You can't vanquish the demon with the green trim to his hood." Melinda tried to explain, as she looked at Paris who shrugged. "He's well, er, aunt Paige's husband."

"He's my what?" Paige asked looking at the two girls and then at the frozen demons.

"Your husband." Paris said as she massaged her side.

"My husband, I married a demon." Paige stuttered backward, but soon regained her feet. "Did he hurt you?"

"Well." Melinda started. "No, we're okay." Paris interrupted her cousin.

Paris shook her head and looked at her two sisters and then her daughter. She was doing some quick thinking. She had only minutes before the demons unfroze, her two nieces had been in danger and injured, they had come from the past where their worlds had been destroyed and Neve had told her she was born as a result of a one night stand.

Paige bit her lip. "Vanquish him."

Piper raised her arms again.

"No," Neve yelled with a look of comprehension on her face.

"What's wrong now?" Piper asked lowering her arms again.

"If you vanquish him it will change everything we know." Melinda tried to explain without giving away too many details.

"You two got a plan?" Wyatt asked from the doorway of a cave.

"Yeah, we're going to bind his powers." Melinda replied as she got to her feet and helped her cousin up supporting Paris back as she got to her feet.

"So we take him back to the manor, bind his powers and send him packing." Paris finished. "But feel free to vanquish the rest of them except that one who's mine. Neve, can you orb me over here one of those dangers."

"Sure, danger." Neve said as she passed the danger that had just appeared in her hand through sparkling orbs to her older cousin.

Paris seized the danger in a rough grip in her hand, steadied herself on her feet and thrust it into the nearest frozen chest. Her voice was trembling with emotion as she pulled the danger out. "That's for destroying our lives concurring up this mess."

Once the golden danger had been pulled back out of the hooded figure evaporated into thin air, the other demons unfroze. Melinda quickly threw her hand up again and froze the hooded figures.

"Paris!" Melinda exclaimed.

"What? I didn't know that would happen."

Melinda sighed, "Okay, okay. But it wouldn't kill you think next time!"

"Hey, you two. They won't stay frozen forever! So lets orbed this one back and whip up the potion." Wyatt interrupted the two teenagers before they could get lost in yet another argument. He turned to his parents and his aunts. "We'll see you later."

"What are you talking about buddy?" Phoebe asked.

"Well, we're got to do this alone, so aunt Paige, well actually any of you can't see his face. We can't risk changing the future, our past." Wyatt explained as he walked over to Neve. "You ready?"

"Sure, can you two follow with him since your orbing is better than mine." She waited to see Melinda nod, before talking Wyatt hand and being surrounded in sparking dust as the two of them disappeared.

"See you at home." Melinda told her parents as she took Paris hand and placed her other hand on 'uncle Stuart's' shoulder. Seconds later sparkling orbs encircled the two teenagers and the hooded demon as they departed.

Piper turned to look at her two sisters and husbands, she ran her hand across her chin before letting out and exhausted sigh. "Can any of you believe what just happened here?"

"Looks like they take after their mothers." Phoebe replied with a slight laugh.

"No, no, no, they take after their father. And once I get a chance they're grounded!"

"Er honey, I think I'll orb back home and just keep an eye on them." Leo explained as he disappeared.

"See they take after their father!"

Phoebe had become distracted, ignoring the start of a rant by her older sister, by keeping her eyes solely on Paige. "You okay?"

"I'm going to ruin all our lives my marrying a demon."

"No your not, we've just fixed it all." Phoebe explained wrapping her arm around her visible shaken little sister. "Besides, you not the first Halliwell to marry a demon and at least this one was not the Source of all Evil!"

Paige let out a small smile followed by a slight laugh. "I guess," she started but stopped as she saw movement behind her oldest sister. "Piper! Demon! They've unfrozen!"

Piper spun around and blew up the demon within milliseconds of hearing her younger sister's cry. "Okay, lets get rid of these fools."

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The Halliwell manor's kitchen had been chaotically overtaken and was full of both smoke and mess. Paris and was standing over the stove with Wyatt calling out instruction of what to throw into the pink potion. Stuart had been tied up and Neve was sat starring at her stepfather, while Melinda was keeping an eye on her younger cousin.

Melinda looked up from glancing at Neve as the kitchen filled in a red mist. Paris was standing successfully over the potion.

"Done!"

"So we've just got to get him to drink it. And then get back home." Wyatt told them with a smile that was almost as big as his cousin.

"That might be easier said than done!" Neve explained with her eyes still fixed on Stuart who was showing no signs of cooperation.