A/N: I promise faithfully that the plot is already going.

'I just don't think we need to go looking for trouble.'

'Phoebe,' Paige was trying to keep patient. 'Why don't we get it before it gets us?'

'There's nothing to say there is any trouble,' Piper said level-headedly. 'Feeling demonic activity there could just be the residue they left behind.'

'It wasn't residue,' Andy put in. 'I know what that feels like.'

'So do I,' Paige added.

'We're not doubting that, sweetie,' Phoebe said. 'But, personally, I've got enough on at the moment without going after demons that might not even exist.'

Paige glanced at Andy, feeling his eyes boring deep into hers, after a few seconds it became too intense and she looked away. 'I promised Marie I'd say goodnight.'

'Paige, wait,' Piper tried but she'd already walked into the kitchen, pressing angrily on, trying to breathe evenly before she kissed her daughter goodnight. It wasn't good for Marie to see her in such a state.

Inwardly she was seething though. Why did it always seem her opinion counted for nothing? All she wanted was a bit of support, just to know she was actually a good witch with a good sense of instinct.

She popped her head around the door of Wyatt's new room, finding him asleep peacefully, then crossed the hall and knocked on Marie's door.

'Come in.'

She sounded like such an adult, Paige grinned to herself as she opened the door. Marie was sat in bed, lamp on, sitting patiently. 'Sorry for keeping you waiting.'

'I like this room.'

'I'm glad, you'll be in it for a while.'

'I miss Richard though.'

'I do too, honey,' Paige sniffed thinking of how Richard would be standing by her right now, whether she was making sense or not.

'What's wrong?' Marie asked.

'Nothing, I'm fine.'

'I'm not stupid.'

Paige let herself smile. 'I never said you were.'

'Tell me what's wrong.'

'Whining will get you nowhere,' Paige kissed her forehead.

'I'm not whining.'

'Of course you're not. Now, go to sleep.'

'Okay.'

Switching out the lamp, Paige watched as her daughter snuggled up under her pink duvet and closed her eyes. 'Night, sweetie.'

'Night.'

It was with a heavier heart that she walked back up the stairs. If she was having trouble fooling a five year old then she wasn't going to do a good job in the room full of adults waiting for her upstairs.

So she was relieved to find the living room empty, at least empty until she'd sat down and Andy wandered in.

'Are you okay?'

She inwardly smiled at his protective tone. 'I feel... a little caged in by all this.'

'I can understand where they're coming from. I'm hardly an expert on demonic residue, it could've just been that.'

'Don't do that,' she said.

'Do what?'

'Put yourself down like that when you know you're right. You're just trying to hold the Power of Three together.'

'I'm your whitelighter, Paige. I can't knowingly put you in danger.'

'You're telling me to forget it then?' she questioned.

Sighing, he sat down. 'Look it up in the book, ask Chris what he knows, just don't do anything on your own.'

'Okay, okay,' she agreed, albeit grudgingly. 'I suppose if we show Piper some evidence she'll have to believe me.'

'They do believe you, Paige,' Andy objected. 'But they've got their own lives. Phoebe's trying to control her life with Jason, keeping the truth from him, that's gotta be difficult for her.'

'Yeah, I know.'

'And Piper,' he went on. 'She's pregnant, trying to deal with Wyatt and the Elders digging their heels in.'

'What do you mean?' Paige asked curiously.

'It's a bit of a rumour up there,' he explained.

'Whitelighters deal in rumours?'

'Doesn't everyone about their bosses?' Andy countered.

'I guess,' she smiled. 'So, what's the rumour?'

'The Elders are trying to force Leo to leave Piper... again.'

'Why this time?'

To do with divided loyalties. I think it's because they like to set you three challenges, obstacles, they can't do that if Leo's looking out for you all the time. That's my view anyway.'

'Sounds right,' she nodded. 'Can't see why Leo would wanna be an Elder when he knows what they're like.'

'No offence to Leo, but I think he's obsessed with being the good guy. He's trying to please everyone.'

'Aren't all whitelighters like that?'

'I think it depends on the whitelighter in question,' he said thoughtfully. 'Leo was a doctor, very anti-violence, maybe he brought that into his whitelighter self.'

'And you were a cop so maybe you're more open-minded and see more?' she finished.

'Yeah, exactly.'

'Leo's just trying to do the best by his family.'

'Being an Elder isn't doing that,' Andy warned.