Thank you to everyone who reviewed so far! It kept reminding me to write this one. ( Sometimes I need nagging  Okay a lot of the time I do! This ones for you Blueley for bugging me about it.  :P)  Calen : Although if you thought Aura was just a kid before well lets just say she's not JUST a kid. Killing Gideon straight off would be too easy, and wouldn't get Leo to wake up and get off his Elder rear and be with Piper again dang it! Thanks Sindel for being my beta reader again! :D

Elders and Eyries chapter 5

(Charmed isn't mine but Aura, Marilyn, Noor and anyone else I think to drag in are)

Last time...   "Maybe I should go to Magic  school and try to
research what kind of creature could have a connection to the Angels of
Time.  That might help. I could orb to the manor when I find something
out.

            "Uh that's not such a good idea I mean Piper has been seeing
Greg REALLY seriously. He's talking marriage." Chris lied.

            Leo looked hurt. "Yeah? I- I could just drop off what I find.

         Chris orbed out before Leo could see him smile at his discomfiture.
Served him right for leaving his mom!

            He left Leo alone, looking around, eyes watering before he
covered them. Yet again his thoughts returned to Piper. He had thought that
she had still loved him. Had that night on the ghostly plane been pity for a
dying ex husband? He'd wanted her to find peace and be able to move on, so
why was he feeling the utter opposite of happy for her?

Behind a pillar Noor looked at the suffering man calculatingly.

Leo took a deep breath and orbed out.

Meanwhile Gideon was doing research of his own. How could one kill Eyries
forever?
Now...

    All he seemed to get were a bunch of theories. Their sources of
information, the Angels of Time, had never provided that kind of useful
information so his predecessors had had to make a lot of guesses. One guessed
that if you killed the original Eyrie in that particular line would stop
them. It didn't provide information on how you could time travel back to
that time or even know who they were. It was assumed that they were born
into the region of Earth that they 'watched'.  Potential Eyrie were kept
hush hush, so he'd had to resort to sending demons to try and track down
their energy signals as best they could and blindly hope that it would at
least distract the process. Not all Potentials became Eyries; some of them
became some lower level worker angel for the Angels of Time or nothing at
all. Well, that would explain the secrecy on their part.  Eyries translated
in one language badly as "Time's Dragons." Maybe he could capture one and
convince them that he really WAS doing this all for the greater good... That
was the founders' problem; they seemed to see things in such black and white
terms. Perhaps he could use that to his advantage and get the Eyrie to stop
coming after him... and kill Wyatt for him.
Leo chose that moment to orb in, causing Gideon to shut his book quickly.
"Hey-" Leo said looking at Gideon's books. "Seems like we're researching the
same stuff."
"Eyrie problem surfacing?" Gideon questioned.
"No. Angels of Time, and who they communicate with, besides us." Leo said
becoming distracted. "Well. Usually."
"They've become worse these last eight months or so. When I was "Up There" I
couldn't see anything that was going on  down on Earth, no one can.  It's all
fuzzy. Do you think they've joined the side of Evil? To blind us?" Gideon
said sounding upset, when in all truth, he was made slightly giddy by it.  It
meant that Leo wouldn't see him kill Wyatt if he was Up There until it was
too late.
Leo sighed. "I don't know." Although his look made Gideon think that he had
some suspicions.
"What." Gideon questioned/stated.
" It's just something I heard from one of my whitelighters. They said some
innocent with some weird connection to the Angels of Time said that they
said that We were being punished by them for something." Leo said in
confusion.
Gideon froze.
"Punished?"
"Yeah. They had this weird idea that we were trying to kill innocents or
something. Isn't that ridiculous?" Leo said but stopped at Gideon's
comprehending "Ah hah" gaze.
"We don't kill Innocents right?" Leo asked in confirmation.
"No.. no, no of course not." Gideon said a bit too quickly. He tried to stop
thinking about the greater good and Wyatt, for fear however ridiculous that
Leo would sense his intentions.
"Especially small children." Leo said in fear thinking of Wyatt.
Gideon froze. "No. no."
"Gideon is there something going on that I don't know about? I think If
we're(the Elders) doing something that is resulting in the death of innocent
children that that would be what we're being punished for." Leo said
becoming cynical of his job. He'd always thought that the Elders were
perfect and good but if...
Gideon got up and made sure he was looking just above Leo's head. "Some
things must be done for the greater good, but we certainly haven't... we
don't kill the threats." And the very scared Gideon strode off leaving a
very mixed up Leo.
His eyes fell to a book in front of him.
'Eyries are the servants/protectors of the Angels of Time, however it is
fairly well known that they cannot kill even to protect themselves. They
are known to deflect powers and trap their opponents but are incapable of
any power that could kill. They are most feared and hunted by those with
dangerous secrets as they can and will reveal them.'
Leo reread the page several times, and spotted Gideon's notes about how to
kill an Eyrie- and panicked.
He had to go to the manor- now.

"So, what did Leo have to say?" Paige said as soon as Chris orbed in.
" He said he was going to research what Aura could be, and confirmed that
the Angels of Time are not cooperating with the Elders." Chris said shrugging.

"So basically- nothing new." Paige said disappointed.
"Yeah." Chris admitted.
"No, it proved that our innocent isn't making this stuff up, she must be
getting her info from somewhere." Piper said helpfully.
"I'd really hate to vanquish our innocent." Paige said shaking her head.
"Hey! There will be no talk of vanquishing an innocent." Phoebe said in her childish voice.
"We don't vanquish little kids remember? Remember the Manticore baby?" Piper
reminded them.
"But what if-" Chris starts.
"-she's the one who turns Wyatt evil? I know I know." Paige said flippantly.
"I'd be kinda ironic don't you think? A toddler doing what thousands of
demonic organizations couldn't." Phoebe said to lighten the mood.
Aura in the other room seemed oblivious to the propositions of her demise
being made in the Dining room.

"Yeah the Source would be like" We sent every demon we had, and all it took was a toddler to turn Wyatt evil, boy do I feel stupid." Paige said grinning.

"Not funny, I don't think that's funny." Chris said seriously.
Leo orbed down to the foyer, and started to look around for the Halliwells.
He heard some nervous laughter.
Piper sitting with the table completely covering her 'womb' at the head of
the table saw him first. She looked surprised, but turned serious, drawing
the others gaze to him. Paige and Phoebe smiled and greeted him, but looked
too nervous around him. Phoebe looked from him to Piper to Chris biting her
lip. Chris looked moodier than usual. A 'what are you doing here.' look.
Paige looked like she was trying to stop Phoebe from doing something by
shaking her head. On the whole, not the friendliest greeting he'd ever had.
"I did some research.." Leo began but trailed off uncertain how he should
approach this. He didn't want to worry them with his creeping suspicions
that all was not well in Elderland.
"And." Chris said expectantly.
"I learned some things I can't tell you about, but some things I can about
Eyries."
"What do you mean you can't tell us?" Paige said, annoyed.
"The Elders are in trouble aren't they?" Phoebe said, reading Leo.
"I don't know. But whatever it is, it's getting worse." Leo said worried.
"Ok. Eyries Spill." Paige said impatient.
"Well, as hard as this may be to believe. The oldest books claim that Eyries
can't kill, and that they keep the secrets of the Angels of Time. The next
'link' in the chain of Eyries becomes one when they die, much like
whitelighters, before that we're just potential whitelighers. And like
potential whitelighters, you'd be hard pressed to figure out who those
people are. Darklighters can find them of course and we can-"
"So you think that there must be some type of magic, opposite of Eyries that
can find them?" Chris said
Piper put 2 and 2 together. "Wait a second. You Elders told us that Eyries
were trying to kill Wyatt, and how can they do that if they can't kill?"
"That's the question isn't it?" Phoebe said frowning.
"Well if the Elders are starting to fly blind up there, then maybe they got their
information wrong." Paige ventured.
"Yeah, but I saw with my own eyes one of them chasing..." Leo began. The
Eyrie had been chasing Gideon. No one could die at Magic school, not even
an Eyrie... Had Gideon lured the Eyrie up to Elderland to die? The book had
said anyone that would try to kill an Eyrie was probably keeping a dangerous
secret. But that was impossible! Gideon was an Elder! Gideon had been his
teacher! He trusted Gideon; he couldn't possibly be up to anything bad. He
couldn't!
"Did it kill anyone? Mame, decapitate?" Paige asked.
"Well no." Leo admitted.
"So maybe Eyries aren't demons." Paige said as if winning an argument.
Never mind that she had been arguing against it.
"Chris told me that you had an innocent that had a connection to the Angels
of Time." Leo said. " Where is she?"
Phoebe got up to go get Aura, telling Piper  "You shouldn't get up in your
condition let me."
"Condition? Are you sick?" Leo asked getting closer to Piper who waved him
off before he got too close. "I'm fine."
Meanwhile Chris seemed lost in thought jaw set. " The Elders becoming blind.
That makes sense."
"Huh? Why?" Leo asked not used to Chris's references.
"Well in the future, the elders if they exist anymore are never seen. But
then that could be cause they're scared cause" Chris got nervous and
looked at Piper uneasily wincing. "He (Wyatt) sorta killed most of them
after 'The Event' "
"Oohh...well...yeah. I could see how that would happen." Piper said uneasily,
thinking back to when Prue had died and she had gone on a demon killing
rampage.
"He blamed them for it." Chris explained to Piper but not looking at her. He
kept his face down and his tone as neutral as possible. In truth he'd blamed
the Elders for his mothers death a bit too. He'd blamed Leo for not saving
her.
"What event?" Leo asks confused, surprised that Chris seems to have been
telling them more about the future.
Paige and newly returned Phoebe seemed just as confused as Leo.
"The event that he doesn't want to talk about." Piper said as steadily as
she could.
Aura gazed at Chris and Piper, watching their emotions mess with their
auras.
Chris took the opportunity to change the subject. "There's the innocent." He
motioned wildly at her with his hands, accidentally TKing Phoebe and Aura
back a few feet. Aura gasped, instinctively drawing her hands in. Phoebe tripped
and fell backward. ( Heels aren't good for keeping your balance :P)
Leo, Piper and Paige looked at him, surprised and none too pleased.
"Oops." Chris said apologetically.
"What was that for?" Phoebe asked from the ground, lifting Aura off of her.

Gideon closed the door to his office. However, his relief at escaping more
questions was quickly replaced as he saw someone sitting at his desk, cold
grey eyes calculating.
"You!"
"I don't know exactly what you're up to here, the rest of the Elders won't
be fooled."

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A/N:
Next chapter will have Leo find out about Piper being Pregnant and the long
awaited reading of Leo and Chris's aura by Aura and Marilyn's operation.
Sorry  but this was getting so long.. so I had to stop.. but next chapter
will be exciting too! Everyone will find out about "the event" maybe even a
future flashback. It will prob. have a summoning spell for an Eyrie.. hmmm
maybe only like 4 more chapters to go.. woo!