A/N: There's something I need to explain. I think, I might be wrong, that my writing's evolved since the first installment in this series and that's why this might seem a little different to that one and a bit more slow-burning. Anyways, thanks for returning.

It was amazing, Paige reflected as she packed her bags the next day, how much she and Marie had spread out during the few months they'd been living in the mansion.

Part of her wished they didn't have to go but she knew how much the family needed each other, with Piper pregnant and Leo not being around a lot, well, it meant they had to be closer than ever. It had been good of Leo to sort out the new sleeping arrangements, from what Andy and Chris had said, the other Elders hadn't been too happy about his renewed interest in his family.

'Paige, ready yet?'

As she turned she smiled. 'Andy, what're you doing here?'

'Piper sent me to help you orb all this back to the manor,' he explained looking at all the boxes. 'Good thing too. I've never understood how women can accumulate so much so quickly.'

'Guys are as bad, you know,' she objected. 'I had a nephew who collected five hundred baseball cards in the space of a week.'

'That must have cost him.'

'I didn't say he paid for them.'

'Hey, it actually looks nice!'

Leo looked a little offended at this. 'I have been posing as a handyman for fifty years, Paige.'

'Oh, I meant with it being, you know, the basement,' she dismissed. 'But it's great.'

It was. He'd gutted the whole place, converted it into two bedrooms, Wyatt's on the left, Marie's on the right. Best of all, he'd hollowed out a metre of earth from all around the house, put windows in and created a lot of light in the small space.

'What do you think, Marie?' Leo asked the girl. 'Pink your colour?'

'Thanks, Leo, she replied hugging him.

'You're welcome,' he smiled. 'Why don't you go get Aunt Piper and Wyatt?'

As she ran off up the stairs Paige turned to Leo. 'You've made her so happy.'

'My pleasure.'

Suddenly she remembered the battle of the previous day. 'Leo, those tribal leaders yesterday, did we vanquish them?'

'The Mwoaki tribe?'

'You can pronounce it?' she asked going a little off subject.

'Yeah, it's a silent 'm'.'

'Um... okay! Did we get them?'

'I think so, no demonic activity's been reported in the area. Why?'

'Just something Andy said.'

'Andy?'

'Yeah, I think he felt like the threat wasn't over.'

'Maybe he was imagining it.'

'Leo, come one! You know as well as I do that when one of us gets a feeling, we're usually right.'

'But Andy isn't a witch, Paige.'

'So his opinion doesn't count?'

'In this case, I think he's wrong.'

It seemed even darker the second time around. Maybe it was because she was alone this time, all the shadows were double the length, Paige had to keep reminding herself she could be home in seconds if she needed to.

After standing in the clearing for a few moments she could see what Andy meant. Something wasn't right. Definite demonic power hung in the air, which struck her as strange seeing as Leo had said no activity had been detected.

Strange.

'You shouldn't have done that, Paige,' Andy said. 'If I'm right about the evil around there, you were putting yourself in danger.'

'Stop with the over protective whitelighter gig already! The point is that you are right. I think maybe we got the tribe after they'd summoned the demon.'

'Leo doesn't think so,' he said with a hint of bitterness.

'Leo's not your biggest fan, Andy.'

'He hasn't a reason to hate me.'

'Apart from you trying to vanquish me and my daughter?'

'You know why that happened.'

'And Leo does too,' she answered evenly. 'It's just his protective streak.'

He smiled at her a little. 'I've got one of those too. Comes out when my favourite charge puts herself in the firing line.'

'I'm your favourite charge?'

'Sure, you're the only one who's forgiven me for trying to kill them.'

Paige let out a giggle. 'We can't talk without that coming up can we?'

'I feel guilty, that's all,' he replied.

'Nothing really happened.'

'I guess not,' Andy smiled ruefully.

'Okay,' she cleared her throat. 'I think we need to talk to Phoebe and Piper.'

'Sure.'