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Leo groaned and rolled out of bed. It was early. Very early. This was the first decent sleep he had had in ages and the Elders were ruining it. He rubbed sleep out of his eyes, cursing silently as Piper stirred. He wasn't supposed to wake her. But she just rolled over. Good. He looked down at himself. He was going to have to change.

About ten minutes later he was changed, muttering to himself all the way about how impatient the Elders were. The sky outside was only just starting to look pink. The horizon had a peachy glow about it. Dawn meeting, a great way to start the day. He gently kissed Piper and orbed out of the bedroom.

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Leo orbed back to the Manor just as the girls were starting breakfast. His eyes were closing already. They all looked at him expectantly, and Piper flipped pancakes in the pan. On the other hob there was bacon hissing and spitting. Leo accepted a mug of coffee from Paige. Piper used a spatula to spoon the pancakes onto a plate. She put them in the middle of the table.

Phoebe and Paige tucked into the pancakes and stopped looking at Leo. Leo leant against the counter sipping the coffee. Piper pressed a rasher of bacon between two slices of bread and handed the plate to Leo. He put it down next to him and sighed.

"I have something really bad to tell you."

"What now?" Piper asked, flicking off the gas.

"Ok, there's a major security alert going on Up There. For some reason there's a warlock on the loose. A very powerful one."

"And guess who's on the agenda?" Piper asked dryly.

"Would that be us?" Paige said in mock surprise. Leo nodded, draining his mug.

"Damn," Phoebe muttered. "Just during a little break."

Leo nodded as he put his mug down. "So, none of you need to be alone today."

Paige shrugged. "Well, that shouldn't be too hard since it is Sunday." She stood up and stretched. "I've just got to go to the store for some more makeup. I ran out last night."

Everyone looked at her.

"Well, who's going with me?" Paige asked, grinning.

Piper smirked. "I am not getting lost in the makeup store. You take way too long to shop for one little thing of foundation. Phoebe can go with you."

Phoebe jumped up. "No way. I've got to.." She paused. "Work on something for work!" And she ran out of the kitchen, chuckling as she ran.

Paige pouted. "You guys are so mean!" She then looked at Leo. "Leo," she started.

"Fine," he said. "I'll go with you. But please just get what you need and get out."

Paige nodded and motioned for him to follow. "Let's go and get back. I won't torture you."

"Are you sure about that?"

"Yes. And no wise cracks or I will leave you in the lipstick aisle." Leo pretended to look scared.

"Ok, right Paige. Whatever." They left the Manor, getting into Paige's car on the driveway. Leo sat back in the passenger seat, looking slightly sulky.

"Cheer up, it might never happen."

"It has, I'm being dragged to a make-up store."

"Well you don't want the big, scary warlock to get me, do you? Besides, I need a big strong man to carry all my stuff home."

"Paige! I thought you just needed one thing."

"Well why waste a shopping trip?" Paige flicked the blinker on and turned into a parking lot. Leo rolled his eyes and got out of the car, Paige tugging at his sleeve like a kid who wanted to get into a toy store.

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Two hours later Paige and Leo emerged from yet another shop. Leo was weighed down with most of Paige's purchases. Paige was carrying her purse and a small bag with a bracelet from Tiffany's. Paige stepped into a bank.

"Paige." Leo groaned, shifting his fingers slightly. The bags were cutting the circulation off to his hands.

"I need more money."

"Nobody move!"

Paige froze just like the guy said. But she moved her eyes over to look toward the voice. The owner was a big man with a gun and a ski mask on. 'Typical bank robber,' she thought.

The robber walked over to a teller and pointed the gun at her. "Put all the money in the bag. And it better be unmarked."

The teller nodded and got to work gathering the bills. Paige glanced at Leo and he nodded. She slowly held out her hand then whispered, "Gun." The gun materialized in her hand and she swiftly put it in her purse.

"What-" The robber looked at his hand then up at the costumers around him. Then he chuckled, looked right at Paige and Leo and disappeared.

"He just blinked!" Paige whispered violently to Leo.

"You are correct, sir!"

She whirled around and there was the robber, another gun in his hand and his mask off. "And I've found myself a witch."

Paige brought her leg up to kick him but he grabbed her leg and twisted it, causing her to fall to the floor with a thud.

"Paige!" Leo said, dropping the bags from the stores. He knelt beside her but stopped when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up into the face of the robber.

"Let's go on a little trip." And he blinked them out.

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Paige put her hand into the small of her back. She had landed hard on the floor, and the bank had granite for a floor. Just her luck. Couldn't the place be carpeted with feather pillows? Leo groaned next to her.

She sat up slowly. It was dark. She wasn't sure where she was. Her hand reached out, travelling through the black for Leo. Her hand connected with something. It grabbed her wrist, and she couldn't recoil. Ok, so that wasn't Leo.

Leo looked through the gloom. He thought he could make out the shape of Paige. He wasn't sure. He squinted. Nope. It was too dark. He could hear an engine rumbling underneath him. He tried speaking.

"P-Paige?"

"Leo?" Something wrenched on her arm again. There was a blinding light flashed from somewhere, so bright it appeared to be blue. Leo and Paige both shielded their faces and eyes. Leo screwed his face up against the glare.

"Who are you?" A foot jabbed his stomach. Leo wasn't sure what to say. What did he mean? The light was still shining in his eyes, as if every photon was made to burn his retina. "I said who are you?"

"Um." Someone sighed with exasperation, wrenching his arms backwards behind his back. Leo pulled them back. He felt a gold cylinder pressed against his rib cage. Reluctantly he held out his hands, and felt cool metal click onto both wrists. Handcuffs. Great.

"So, orbing objects, huh? Are you a white lighter? Or a witch?" Finally the light was directed away from Leo.

"None of your business."

"If you have orbing objects, surely you can orb, right?"

"I said."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I'm guessing that you do," The beam flicked to Leo and then back again. "This your White Lighter?" The gun went click.

"Yes, it is." Paige said sulkily.

"Well guess this won't work then. On him."

"Oh God-" But that was as far as Leo got before a loud "bang" rang through the air. He heard a grunt from Paige and then silence.

"That'll keep her quiet until we get there," the voice said and the beam was back on Leo. "Now, as for you. We can't kill you but we can knock you out so you don't heal her."

'Damn,' Leo thought before a blunt object hit his head and he fell back, thick darkness all around him.

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Leo came to in a damp bleak room. He struggled up, trying to swallow but finding it difficult. He had a terrible taste in his mouth and his head hurt like hell.

"Leo," a horse whisper said from the other side of the room.

He looked over and gasped in shock and anger. Paige was lying there with a crude type of bandage wrapped around her leg.

"Paige!" He crawled over to her, glad that he wasn't still in handcuffs. "Is that where they shot you?"

She nodded and grimaced as pain shot through her body. "Are you okay?"

He shrugged. "A headache but that's all." He held his hands over her leg, expecting to see the gold light that came from his hand when he healed. But nothing came. He tried again. Still nothing.

"Leo?" Paige asked. "What's wrong?"

"I don't know. I can't seem to heal."

She sighed in frustration. "Shit!" She sat back against the wall and looked at her brother-in-law. "They must have taken our powers."

"But how? And why? And who are they?"

"I don't know, Leo! God, I don't know! I've been knocked out as well. I'm scared, hungry, and my leg hurts." Paige suddenly broke down into tears, sobbing into her hands. "This is all my fault. I shouldn't have left the house this morning. I didn't really need that makeup. And I dragged you into this! I'm so selfish!!"

"Paige, no. I'm your whitelighter, I'm supposed to protect you. And I told you to call for that stupid gun."

"I have a choice in everything. So shut up with blaming yourself, ok?" Leo shifted places as a damp spot seeped through his pants. He shivered as a drip spattered down from the roof. He was cold and his head hurt. A lot. He didn't know how long Paige could go on before she lost too much blood.

He slipped his belt out of his jeans and buckled it around Paige's leg just above the bullet wound. She winced but the tourniquet stopped some of the blood pumping through the bandage. Paige played with the belt absently, her features contorted into a frown.

"Don't we have to be dead before they take our powers?" Leo frowned as well.

"Yeah, I think so."

"So does that mean we haven't lost our powers?"

"I don't know, Paige. I really don't know."

To be continued...

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