Yay! I think I've finally found a muse, writing two chapters so soon after each other, it must be a muse. To clear up any confusions that might happen, I'm interspersing this story with some events from Season 5, with the exception of 'Oh My Goddess', so here and there I'll be throwing in references to the different episodes. Anyway enjoy chapter 11.

Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed or any of the characters associated with it, just Piper's baby and the 4.

Charmed, The Legend of the 4

Chapter 11:Baby Shower

By P3Lover

After the wonderful, and agonising, experience of giving birth to a healthy baby girl Piper was on top of the world. She'd spent three days in the hospital to make sure the baby was in full health before she was allowed to go home. She was happy to say that the baby showed no signs of magic while in the hospital or even when she got home. It didn't take too long to decide on a name, although they decided against Melinda because of what happened to their ancestor, they chose Riley Prudence Halliwell in honour of Prue's presence at the birth. Grams was proud to perform the Wiccaning, after they had destroyed the Necromancer. Now things were getting back to normal, aside from the threat of the 4 attacking at any given moment.

"Paige have you seen the diapers?" Piper yelled from the baby's room.

"They're in the cupboard." Paige yelled back.

"Could you orb them up to me, I've kinda got my hands full at the moment." Piper asked.

Paige orbed some diapers to her from the cupboard before orbing herself up to Piper and Riley. When she got there she found the floor covered in talcum powder.

"What happened here?" Paige said observing the mess.

"Oh not much, Riley just thought it might be fun to throw up her shield as I sprinkled talcum powder on her." Piper said.

"Aww that is so cute. Who's a naughty little baby, huh? Who is, who is? That's right it's you baby." Paige said in baby talk as Riley giggled.

"You wouldn't have thought it was cute if it happened to you. Naughty baby, only use your shield against bad people." Piper said.

"Talking about her shield has she showed any other signs of magic?" Paige asked.

"She hasn't." Phoebe said walking into the room giving Paige a fright.

"How do you know? You've spent less time around her than I have." Paige said.

"I know, but I've been totally swamped with 'Ask Phoebe' letters lately. Anyway back to the point, I know because I created a magic detector which will tell us if anyone uses magic from the house to the sidewalk, and it will tell us what magic they used and who used the magic. " Phoebe explained.

"That sounds like a useful little spell. How come I've never seen it before, it's almost like a protection spell and I'd know if I saw one of those in the Book of Shadows." Piper said.

"That would be because it isn't in the book. I made it myself, I've been meaning to write it into the book but I've got so many other things to do." Phoebe told them.

"Why don't you write it in now while you've got the chance?" Paige asked.

"I can't I have to go back in to work. I just came here to say goodbye to my little niece." Phoebe said before giving Riley a little kiss and running out the door.

"Speaking of work…" Piper began.

"Oh no, you don't have to go back to the club again?" Paige said.

"I'm sorry, but now that I'm not pregnant anymore I feel I need to make up for all the work I didn't do for the last nine months." Piper said. "I'm sorry but I'll make it up to you I promise. Take good care of Riley. Bye bye sweety, mommy loves you."

"What about Leo?" Paige shouted after Piper.

"The Elders have him on some important whitelighter mission. Apparently it will help translate the-" Paige didn't catch the last part because Piper shut the door before she finished.

"Damn it Piper! I've got a date with Glen." Paige said to herself, and maybe to the baby. "Isn't your mommy mean leaving us here when Aunty Paige has a date with her fiancé."

"I'll mind her if you'd like." Prue said entering the room.

"Sheesh, this family has a real obsession with sneaking up on people!" Paige said jumping again.

"Well when you're chasing demons and warlocks you need to be silent and stealthy." Prue said in reply.

"I guess you're right there. Could you really watch Riley for a little while, it's just that me and Glen have a date." Paige said.

"I know and you don't want to let him down, been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. You're really serious about him, huh. I mean if you're calling him your fiancé you must be." Prue said.

"Yeah, I just really love him. And I've known him for like forever, we've been dating on and off for so long that when he proposed I just thought, this must be right, y'know?" Paige said.

"Yeah, so have you decided when you're going to have the wedding? Or even what ring you're going to get?" Prue asked.

"How do you know he didn't propose with a ring?" Paige asked.

"It's probably due to the fact that you aren't wearing any ring and you haven't been since the night he proposed." Prue said pointing at Paige's ringless finger.

"Good point. That's actually what we were going to do today. Glen isn't one of those real romantics that proposes with the ring, he's more practical. Like why buy a ring when he doesn't know if it will fit me, or whether I'll like it or not. We haven't set an official date, but I told him about the 4 and we decided we'll do it after they're defeated." Paige explained, then she looked up and saw the horror on Prue's face.

"Oh, do you not know? I thought someone would have told you. After I first found out that I was a witch Glen was staying with us when he found the Book. I had to tell him what I was, then he wouldn't believe me so I tried to 'stretch' his imagination but it kinda backfired and made him all stretchy. Then a rat demon kidnapped him and held him hostage, anyway long story short he knows and I know he won't tell anyone else."

"Long story short? That seemed pretty long to me. He seems like the ideal boyfriend then, he knows about your powers and he's okay with them, you're one of the lucky few." Prue said.

"I know, anyway I gotta fly, thanks for saying you'll look after Riley." Paige said, kissed Riley and left Prue with her.

"So how's my little niece, still not showing us your powers?" Prue said tickling Riley.

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"Ugh!"

Prue was thrown up against a wall and she let out a groan of pain. A big, hairy, brown demon hit Prue and threw her across the room. She got to her feet again and threw her arm at the demon trying to get him away from the baby. The demon went at Prue and threw her back up against the wall.

Guys, quickly get back here as soon as you can. There's a demon trying to get Riley, I can't hold him of, my powers barely work. Prue said telepathically sending the message to her sisters.

As she did the demon got ever closer to Riley. Prue astral projected in front of him but he merely knocked her out of the way with a swipe of his hand. She tried to pull him away from the baby but it only slowed him down a little. Just as he was about to take Riley out of the bassinet she giggled and all of a sudden a shower of ice crystals appeared and attacked the demon. This sudden frost made him falter and he fell to the ground. Prue took this chance to throw him against the wall, as she did Paige orbed in with Piper and Phoebe.

"How did you get him against the wall like that? I thought he was resistant to your powers." Piper said.

"I had a little help from my niece. Just as he was about to take her he was showered with ice crystals, I assume it was Riley who did it. Then I was able to catch him off guard and get him against the wall." Prue explained.

"She did? Oh I'm so proud of her." Piper said and smiled at her daughter.

"Okay, less adoration and a little more combustion, as in blow him up now!" Phoebe yelled.

Piper waved her hands at the demon and it disappeared in a flurry of fur and guts.

"Great, so now we don't just have to worry about the 4 attacking, but also any demon who wants to lay their hands on my super-powerful baby." Piper said hugging Riley protevtively.

"Yeah, but at least we know she can protect herself in other ways than her shield. A shower of ice crystals, that's one type of baby shower you don't hear about too often." Paige said.

Paige orbed Phoebe and Piper back to where she brought them from and Prue continued to watch her magical niece.

To be continued…