Disclaimer:

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I do not own Charmed nor will I ever.

Summary:

This Chapter should be more exciting hopefully, part of Phoebe's premonition is going to occur.

Piper is getting sick of demons and threatens to quit being a witch again, it takes the worst pep-talk ever off Paige to put her back on track.

"What do you mean you're quitting? You can't quit!" Paige moaned as Piper sweeps up shards of lamp from the rug.

"Well, I am. That's that!"

"Wait… Chris! Help me out here." Paige said in an exasperated tone.

"Hey, I'm not saying anything." Chris stepped back.

"Come on Piper, please do it for the side of good."

Piper snorted.

"If you're talking about the Elders, then fat chance, I not putting innocents before my family any more!"

"That is some twisted logic you have got there sister!" Paige said as she picked up the remains of a chair one of the demons smashed.

Chris sighed.

"Guys, I have work to do like finding out who turns Wyatt evil!" He orbed away waving at an annoyed Paige.

"We have to make him stop doing that to us." Paige grimaced walking past Piper.

"Well, if he is protecting my son, what does it matter?" Piper asked glancing up at Paige.

"But, still when he gets bored he just orbs away with the same excuse every time!"

"It's not an excuse Paige it's his duty to his brother."

"Oh yeah, the brother that tries to kill him a couple hundred times in the future."

"Paige…" Piper's eyes narrowed.

"I mean seriously, why doesn't he tell us exactly where he is going then I can go orb his ass back here!"

"PAIGE!"

"WHAT?"

"Give it a rest ok!"

"Fine! Anyway please don't quit! Piper you can't, what about the Power of 3?"

"Well, the Elder's need to find someone else to do it!" piper said defiantly throwing her broom down blowing it up before it made contact with the floor.

"Thank you for using visual aids!" Paige replied sarcastically. "There is no other Power of 3 no other protectors of the innocents, there is only us and you need to realise that Piper."

"Whoa, you gave me a speech that I gave to you when you became a Charmed One."

"Did it work?" Paige asked nervously.

"NO!" Piper stormed upstairs blowing up a plant pot on her way.

"Great more mess to tidy up!" Paige muttered as she walked away with the chair legs in her arms.

"Wake up, Phoebe! Wake up!" Chris stood over his aunt genuinely worried about her welfare.

Gideon had informed him he saw her on her way to the Shaman's cave when he last saw her, so Chris knowing the way decided to check on his aunt before hitting the books in the library for more research. He had been horrified to find the Shaman in a trance and Phoebe unconscious on the floor.

"Phoebe!" Chris tried again.

She began to stir slightly being allured by his voice.

"Come on," he said gently.

"Chris?" She spluttered coming around.

"What happened?" he asked concerned.

"I… nothing." Chris stood up and walked around the fire studying the Shaman curiously. What had Phoebe been doing with her? He wondered. I guess its not my place I have my secrets she should have her own.

Phoebe sat up and looked at her nephew who was now studying the flames of the fire.

Then through plain impulse not sure if she would see anything she shot her arm out through the fire and pulled his into the fire.

Chris was shocked what was she doing. The flames felt cold on his skin. Phoebe got a shock, she took a quick breath and her shoulders hunched up she drank in the images flashing in her mind.

Chris raised an eyebrow, Phoebe didn't get premonitions anymore, what was she doing?

He walked over to her and touched her shoulder lightly, he didn't want to disturb her. What if she was seeing his secrets? A tugging thought in the back of his head reminded him.

Phoebe opened her eyes slowly.

"What did you see?" he asked her.

"Your future…"

"I don't know Leo, I'm just fed up with putting killing demons first in my life."

"Piper, I hate to say it but you know that Paige is right," Leo said as he help his wife tuck Wyatt into his crib.

They were currently in magic school. Leo had orbed her there when she wanted to go and see Wyatt.

"Piper, please, you know her pep-talk worked you can't deny she was right. She just repeated what you had told her."

"I know. Go talk to her please Piper."

Leo wove his arm at his wife and before she had a chance to contradict him she was sent away in a flurry of white lights.

Paige glanced at the door as someone orbed in. She hoped it was Piper apologising or something but then again.

Piper can't orb!

"Paige! I'm sorry!" It was Piper.

"For what, you haven't done anything wrong!"

"I should have listened to you and,… and…"

"It doesn't matter sweetie I know you're pretty bad at saying you are wrong!" Paige grinned at her sister cheekily.

"Hey that's not fair!" Piper snapped.

Paige shrugged and busied herself with some potions she was concocting. Piper took a whiff of a pot nearby.

"What are you making?" She asked, wrinkling her nose.

"Oh you know the basics really, we don't have enough of them!"

"Right," Piper walked over to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water. "Would you mind telling me what the basics are?"

"Uh… blinding potion for those pesky warlocks, a one to blow stuff up…"

"I can do that without a potion!"

"Yeah but sometimes you can't, it's a precaution sweetie! Uh… and you know silencing draught so they can't cast a spell… you know stuff like that!"

"Have you ever learnt the magic of adrenaline because when you're fighting you don't potions because you have a lot of adrenaline!" Piper grinned her sister inanely.

"So what, preparation is how you beat demons with ease instead of nearly getting killed!" Paige smiled throwing a dragon root in her current potion, it popped obediently.

"Did you hear that?" Piper asked.

"No!" Paige replied brushing the comment away and returning to her potions.

Piper walked into the dining room.

Suddenly Paige heard a crash and Piper ducked as an energy ball came hurtling towards her. "Energy ball!" Paige summoned the ball to her own hand and ran into the living area where Piper was blowing demons up, they had wild purple hair and wore tattered black robes. Each of them wore golden amulets around their necks, they were snakes of gold contorted into a symbol that Paige couldn't recognise.

She threw the energy ball at the one nearest to her, it shimmered out of the way and the energy ball blew up the VCR.

Piper blew the demon up as it reappeared in front of her.

She raced over to Paige who orbed out of the way a demon swung it's scimitar at her. Piper skidded to a halt and turned around as the demon took a swing at her.

She held her hands up in fear in an attempt to blow up the demon or freeze it but it just grinned and pointed to it's amulet. It had worked before! The demon kicked her in the stomach and the demon thrust it's weapon into her chest. She fell to the floor.

Paige reappeared behind the demon and grabbed it's scimitar and stabbed it in the back, it burst into flames howling in agony.

The other demons backed away as she brandished the scimitar in front of them. One by one the remaining demons shimmered away. She turned around quickly and saw Piper on the floor. A puddle of blood oozing out of a large stab wound in her chest.

"LEO!" She screamed.

There was no answer.

"LEO!" She shrieked orbing away.