Disclaimer: Nope, these characters aren't mine. 'Cept Pamela. And I think she leaves a lot to be desired, as far as a character goes, so far.
A/N: I had so much fun writing this chapter, I hope ya'll enjoy it as much as I did! For some reason, I enjoy torturing Syd and Vaughn on Charmed territory…
"Of course we mean to go back," Sydney said, appalled that her father felt it necessary to ask.
"I'm going with you."
"What?"
"You both are hiding something," Jack said to Sydney and Vaughn. "It may or may not be related to the mission, but I want to form my own impressions of the Haliwail sisters."
Vaughn refrained--but just barely--from exchanging a look with Sydney.
"Fine," he said in a tone that told Sydney that he would get a kick out of Jack's reaction to that Leo dude.
"Right," Sydney agreed defiantly. "We have nothing to hide."
Vaughn caught the emphasis on we. The Haliwails, good or bad, definitely had something to hide.
Showing up at 11:00 on a Friday morning, Jack didn't expect to find all three sisters at home. His game plan was to corner on of them alone, and get something out of her they wouldn't get if she had the support of her sisters.
Paige answered the door. After a moment, she stepped back to let them in.
"You came back," she addressed Sydney and Vaughn.
"How could we not?" Sydney said.
Paige just nodded. Before Jack could launch his interrogation, she called up the stairs to Piper.
"The agents are back." She turned back to Sydney, who seemed a tiny bit more receptive than the rest. "Who's he?"
"Agent Jack Bristow," Sydney said shortly.
Piper stopped on the landing of the stairs when she saw Jack. After a moment, she froze him but left Sydney and Vaughn.
"Who is he?!?" Piper snapped, continuing down the stairs. "We don't have time for this, Paige! Why did you let them in now?"
"He's another agent," Paige said impatiently. "And these agents aren't going to just go away."
"He insisted on coming," Vaughn supplied.
"Hey!" Sydney yelled suddenly. "What did you…" She paused, then spun around after snapping her fingers in front of Jack's face. "Unfreeze him!"
"I can't," Paige shrugged and pointed at Piper. "That's her thing."
"Don't worry," Piper said. "He's fine. Meanwhile, you two can explain why the CIA is interested in us…"
In a burst of flames, a huge red demon appeared behind the agents. Sydney screamed; she'd never seen anything so horrible looking. Vaughn dove to the side dragging Sydney with him and narrowly missing a fireball the demon hurled. The demon then proceeded to--without moving--fling Piper across the room and into Jack, breaking the freeze just long enough for him to register he was flying across the entryway before his head struck the banister.
"Phoebe!" Paige yelled. "We need that potion NOW!"
Phoebe appeared from the kitchen with a vial of some greenish liquid and hurled it at the demon.
Sydney screamed again when the demon erupted in flames and writhed in agony a few moments before it disappeared.
"Leo!" Phoebe yelled. "Are you okay?" she asked Paige.
Paige touched her arm gingerly where the fireball had grazed her.
"I'm fine," she waved Phoebe off. "Check on Piper and…him."
Sydney and Vaughn sprang up from where they crouched.
"Dad!" Sydney cried, kneeling next to Jack.
"He's your father?" Phoebe asked, and then yelled, "Leo!" without waiting for a response.
"We have to get him to a hospital!" Sydney said to Vaughn.
Phoebe put a hand on Vaughn's arm.
"Calm her down," she said softly. "Leo will heal her father."
Vaughn stared at her for a few moments, then nodded.
"Sydney." He took hold of Sydney's arm with one hand and put the other arm around her waist to pull her to her feet. "It'll be okay, Syd. Phoebe says Leo can heal him."
"Leo!"
Vaughn turned in time to see Leo…well, materialize, he supposed.
"Paige," Leo said, looking at her arm. "What happened?"
"Not me," Paige said, waving toward Piper and Jack. "Them."
"Piper!"
"Heal the guy first," phoebe said softly, gesturing at Sydney. "He's her father."
Sydney gasped as a golden light appeared between Leo's hands and the gasp on Jack's head.
"Dad!" she gasped when he started and sat up.
"Piper," Paige said after Leo had healed her and she'd regained her feet. "Could you do something with our newest agent? We need to discuss how to tell him how he came to be flying across the room."
"We may have more pressing matters," Leo said cryptically, glancing pointedly at Sydney and Vaughn, since Piper had already frozen Jack.
Piper sighed.
"Forget it. They're in too deep to worry about them now," she said.
"It's about Pru…" Leo warned. Piper nodded. "Pru was pregnant when she was seventeen," he began hesitantly. "Being the future Charmed Ones, the Elders always kept an eye on you three, even before you got your powers. The Elders said the baby simply disappeared. They don't know what happened."
Out of the corner of her eye, Piper saw Michael Vaughn's eyes go wide. She waved her hand, freezing Leo and Sydney, then grabbed Vaughn's wrist and began dragging him up the stairs.
"Keep them busy when the freeze wears off," Piper called over her shoulder to Paige and Phoebe.
"Wait…what…where…" Vaughn managed to stutter.
"Chill," Piper said. "We're going to get to the bottom of this…Grams knows what happened."
When Piper began to set up white candles in a circle, Vaughn tried again to get answers. This time, at least, he formed coherent questions.
"What are you doing? Why did you bring me up here? What was that guy talking about? Pru was pregnant?" Vaughn spit out a string of questions.
"We're going to find out," Piper said, opening a think, ancient-looking book with a strange emblem on the front. She then muttered something about a spirit, and the Great Divide.
Vaughn jumped three feet in the air and spun around to face the circle of candles when, from within the circle, a voice cried affectionately, "Piper!"
Piper smirked.
"Grams."
I hate to cut this off here, but to keep the chapter the right length I had to split up this scene. I mean, this is already the longest chapter yet…