piperfairy63 – When Piper used her powers in the basement, she freed the shadow of the Nexus by accident, aka the Woogyman. It possessed her and tricked Paige so that it could take over Magic School. And since Phoebe was about a month pregnant when we switched back to Piper and Paige, she's around four months now, so they will find out!

wyatt333 – This is the last P & P chapter for a while! I know, I don't like them being depressed either! It's sad to write! But it's necessary lol!

Princess Pinky – LOL! I hope this answers some of your questions! And yeah! I though it was a very Paige thing to say! Thanks for calling me awesome, despite what anyone says, flattery does get you somewhere lol!

charmed-greek – Biatch?! Who you calling a biatch? Biatch! LOL! I'm glad I got such a passionate response! Keep reviewing!

andy20 – lol! Yeah, feel free to be surprised! This chapter will answer your questions!

CuteLittleBritt – Aidan's going to be sticking around for a while lol! And Paige really did need help, didn't she? Well, she certainly gets it! Read this chapter to find out how!

Back To School

'Paige?!' Phoebe exclaimed, 'How did I…'

'I summoned you!' Paige beamed and ran across to her big sister, 'I've missed you so much!' she went over to hug her, put found it because of her sisters enlarged stomach, Paige's eyes widened.

'You're…,'

'Uh huh, about three and a half months now,' Phoebe patted her stomach, 'Didn't the fact that I'm wearing a poncho give it away?' she smirked. Paige looked at her sister, she was showing a little, but she had covered it well with her clothes.

'I can't believe this!' Paige stared at Phoebe's stomach.

'Uh… Paige? My face is up here,' Phoebe said.

'Sorry, I just…' her eyes widened, 'Does that mean you have a guy in your life?' Paige wiggled her eyebrows.

'Okay, if you just summoned me for gossip, then reverse your spell because you took me from a very important place,' Phoebe artfully dodged the question.

Paige shook her head, bringing herself back to reality, 'Right! But can you look after Chris? I need to go get someone,' Phoebe sighed and gave her a look, 'I'll explain everything when I get back, please?' Paige used her best pleading look, her sister was about to answer when she cut her off, 'Great! Be back in a few!' she orbed out.

Phoebe put her head through her hair, but was interrupted from her thoughts by Chris running at her.

'Aunt Pheeb! Aunt Pheeb!' Chris still couldn't say her name properly, she smiled and looked down at her nephew, she dropped down to his height, which was hard considering her stomach

'Hey! Little man!' she pulled him into a hug, then brought him back so she could face him, 'Listen sweetie, I want you to tell no one about the man that's going to be here in a minute, okay?' she lightly tapped his nose, Chris nodded as Phoebe stood up, 'Andy! Andy!' Phoebe shouted at the ceiling. There was a cluster of orbs forming in front of her as her whitelighter, Andy Trudeau.

'Thank God! Phoebe, everyone's worried sick about you! I had to practically throw Brennan off to stop him from coming with me,'

'It's okay, I'm alright,' Phoebe said with a smile, 'But I need to stay here for a while, Paige needs my help with something, and she wouldn't have called if it wasn't important,'

'Phoebe, she summoned you in the middle of a mission! We could have lost that mutant!'

'Oh please, until Adam fixes my psi blast power, I'm useless on the frontline, not to mention I'm not as fast as I used to be!'

'That's not true! You have you're new telempathy power!' Andy protested

'Key word there. New. I still can't control it!' she retorted

'You can learn,'

'Oh yeah? You weren't so supportive when I psychically strangled you by accident, were you?' Phoebe put her hands on her hips, then sighed, 'Why am I fighting about my powers with you? Just orb your butt back to Sanctuary and tell the guys that I'm alright and I'll be back soon!' she saw orbs appearing over Andy's shoulder, 'Hurry! Get out of here!' Andy quickly orbed away just as Paige appeared with a teenage girl.

'Hey! Pam, Phoebe. Phoebe, Pam,' Paige turned to her big sister, 'You've got a whole lot of catching up to do,'


Phoebe took a deep breath, after hearing about everything that had happened over the past nine months, she needed time to process the information. She thought about her sister's current situation, not to mention her long lost niece was sitting across from her!

'So, you're saying this shadow used Piper to get a lift to Magic School?' Phoebe confirmed.

'Yeah, then it began to spread and… consume Aidan…' Paige looked down, Phoebe took her hand, and she didn't need her empathic powers to know that Paige loved this guy.

I can't believe things have turned out like this Phoebe thought to herself, then she remembered, she had to take a serum that Adam had given her. It turned out that her improved psi blast had been caused by the pregnancy, but not the baby, and the leader of Mutant X, Adam Kane, had returned after hearing the phenomenon of a pregnant witch. He had told her that her body would change a lot during her pregnancy and her powers may experience temporary bursts of strength until the baby was born, he had given her a serum to control the process but it meant she couldn't use the power in question for a while, which meant that she couldn't fire any mental blasts until tomorrow.

But that didn't mean that her powers hadn't advanced along with the others, Phoebe had received the rare gift of telempathy, which gave her the ability to alter people's emotions.

'Okay, here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna make a ton of vanquishing potions, now that Magic School is evil, demons are probably crawling about the place. Next, we have to figure out who we need to find and get back on our side, I think Piper is the most obvious choice seeing as she's the most powerful,' Phoebe looked at her sister and niece, who both looked glad that someone was taking charge.


Phoebe and Pamela sat the table in Aidan's apartment, writing various spells for various uses, while Paige worked with potions in the kitchen, causing the odd explosion now and again.

Pamela had been silent for most of this activity, until Phoebe opened the lines of communication.

'You're unsure about having a family, aren't you?' Phoebe asked her, Pamela widened her eyes, Phoebe laughed, 'I know how you feel, trust me,'

Pamela came closer so that Paige wouldn't hear them, 'Look, I've been alone all my life, it's hard to just accept the fact that I'm not alone in the world,'

'I know sweetie, I really, really do, but trust me, they just want to get to know you, they're not asking that you forget everything in your life just so you can battle demons!' Phoebe began writing on the pad again, 'And I'm willing to bet that you want to get to know them as much as they want to get to know you,' she smiled.

Pamela gave her a friendly glare, 'You ever get tired of going through peoples hearts and minds?' she smirked.

'Yeah, but only a little!' Phoebe laughed, along with her niece.

There was a bang from the kitchen and Paige emerged with a face full of soot, and her hair looked as if she had been in the wind too long!

'Potions done!' she beamed; her white teeth glowed against the black of her soot-covered face.

'Paige, honey?' Phoebe said kindly

'Yeah?'

'You… might want to take a brush to your hair before we go!' Pamela giggled while Phoebe suppressed a laugh.

'Or a pair of hedge trimmers!' Pamela said, bursting out laughing with her pregnant aunt, who was in stitches.


'Paige! Hurry up!' Phoebe shouted, Paige had been in the bathroom for ten minutes.

'No! I'm not coming out!' a muffled voice came from the other side of the door.

'C'mon Aunt Paige! It can't be that bad!' Pamela said through the door, the use of the word 'aunt' had surprised Phoebe, but made her smile.

'The potion had a side effect on my hair!' Paige shouted again.

'Just come out!' Phoebe lost it with her baby sister, Paige opened the door slowly that the explosion from the potion had turned her hair blonde!

'Oh God, I hope your IQ hasn't dropped,' Pamela put her hand to her mouth,

'Well, if this is like the time a potion turned your hair red, then you're gonna be like this for a while,' Phoebe smiled nervously.

'Ugh, we'll sort it later! And you, missy,' Paige waggled her finger at Pamela, 'The first blonde joke to come out of you will be your last!' she said threateningly, but Pam knew it was a joke.

'Well, we got the potions and the spells,' Pamela said, then looked at Paige, 'Although, you should probably stick to throwing potions, can blondes even read?' she joked.

Paige glared at her, 'You know, maybe I'll just throw a potion at you! What do you think about that?' Paige smirked and put her hands on her hips.

'Okay, you two, enough,' Phoebe came between the two, 'I believe how corny this is going to sound, but… let's go save the school!' Phoebe took hold of her sister's hand and Paige put out her other one for Pamela.

'C'mon, don't tell me you won't touch a blonde!' Paige smirked, Pamela laughed and cautiously took Paige's hand, allowing them to orb out for Magic School.


Paige and Phoebe looked around the new darkness of theGreat Hall in disgust; the sight however, mesmerized Pamela!

'Oh my God! Are all of these books on magic?!' Pamela went to run forward to the bookcase, but Paige and Phoebe quickly grabbed her arms, pulling her back.

'Stop! Look!' Paige went over to a small table and picked up a book, she threw it into the blank space of floor and there was an explosion, which caused the girls to step back a bit.

'A trap?' Pamela looked at her aunts.

You'd be dead right now if you had taken another step,' Paige replied

Phoebe shook her head worryingly, 'This is scary, they knew that Pamela's curiosity would lead her to the bookcase, they knew exactly where to lay a trap,'

Paige rested her hand on Pamela's shoulder comfortingly, 'Just stay with us, and walk slowly,' Pamela merely nodded, still reeling from her near death experience.

They walked carefully from then on, Pamela would look all around her frantically to make sure that nothing was coming from the ceiling, walls, or floor. They were about to turn a corner when Phoebe stopped them.

'Students are patrolling here!' she hissed, Paige and Pamela looked around to see students walking as if they were in the army.

'What are we gonna do? We can't harm them!' Paige whispered.

Phoebe mulled the situation over, and then smiled, 'I got it!' she stepped out into the middle of the corridor and began to use her telempathy, she could hear the whisperings of the students thoughts, it was just a simple task of changing their thoughts so that they could pass by unnoticed.

'Alright! Go!' Phoebe kept a steely eye contact with the students.

'What?' Paige protested

'Go!' Phoebe replied more forcefully, the other two complied by running down the corridor, and were surprised when they passed all the students without noticing. Phoebe followed then into a potions lab, which was where the corridor led. She took a deep breath and lent on the wall, 'Wow, remind not to do that for a while,' she breathed.

'You okay? How'd you do that?' Paige asked.

'New power… explain later…' she whispered.

They walked into the lab, looking around, but they stopped when Pamela stopped walking and narrowed her eyes.

'What is it?' Paige asked, knowing that her niece could be picking up on something with her premonition power.

'Nothing, it's just that… didn't that seem a little too easy to you?'

'Hmm… Now that you mention it, it was quite easy to get here,' Phoebe added, before a blue shield arose from her stomach, humming with electricity and covering the girls.

'Uh… Phoebe? Does your baby just do this to scare us?' Paige asked hopefully.

'No, only when I'm in…' Phoebe's eyes widened as she noticed something, 'Danger!' she pointed shakily at something behind Paige and Pam. They turned round and Paige gasped, a red headed woman, no older than thirty, emerged from the shadows, her eyes had gone completely black… it was Emma!

'Miss me?' she said with a smirk, before throwing a potion at the blue dome protecting the girls. It smashed off the side and Phoebe winced, her empathy letting her feel the strain her baby was under to keep the shield up.

'That potion was strong…' Phoebe groaned

Paige glowered at her possessed friend, 'Of course it was, she wouldn't be head of potions if she didn't know how to make them,'

Emma chuckled darkly, 'Let's see how much the little one can take,' she threw another vial at the shield, it wavered slightly.

'Paige,' Phoebe breathed, she was sweating, 'Do something…'

'Uh… Potion!' Paige called for the next vial that Emma was preparing to throw it appeared in her hand in a swirl of orbs.

Emma just smirked again, and fired a psi blast at the shield, and it was even more powerful than her potion and made the shield collapse, along with Phoebe.

'Pamela! Knock her out or something!' Paige shouted as she healed Phoebe

Pamela turned to the psycho psionic, who had a globe of dark energy floating in front of forehead; Pamela thought quickly and blew a frost cloud at her, encasing Emma in ice.

Paige walked over with a healed Phoebe, 'Can you reverse that?'

'Of course! But I think we should call the exorcist or something because she's went crazy!'

'I think I can help,' Phoebe walked forward

'I am light,

I am one too strong to fight

Return to dark where shadows dwell,

You can't have this Halliwell

So go away and leave my sight,

And take with you, this endless night,'

A strong light burst from the ice, eliminating the darkness and freeing Emma from the ice, she put her hands just above her knees and stumbled slightly.

'You okay?' Paige put her hand on Emma's back

'Yeah,' she straightened up, 'Just got a bit of a headache,'

'Well, sorry to cut this reunion short, but we should probably keep going,' Emma merely nodded and began to walk.


After walking through some of the school, Emma had found one of the potions classrooms that were protected by evil. The four of them decided to rest, as the demons had began to show up after Emma had been freed.

'You've been in deep thought,' Phoebe noticed her little sister staring at the floor in the classroom, 'What's on your mind?'

Paige looked up, 'I was thinking about the spell you used to free Emma, have you guys ever said it together?'

'What do you mean?'

'Like, have you ever did it with the Power of Three?'

'Uh… no, why?'

Paige jumped off the desk she was sitting on, 'I think if we can find Piper, we can use the Power of Three to finally vanquish this thing! You know, turn the I's into We's, stuff like that,'

'But we need to find Piper first, if we're going to go after this thing, we need to do it in the basement of the Manor,' Phoebe replied.

'Okay!' Pamela hit hands off a desk, 'We have a plan! But how will we find Piper?'

'Uh… I dunno,' Phoebe turned to Paige, 'Could you sense and orb to her?'

Paige closed her eyes and concentrated, and then sighed, 'No, the dark magic must be blocking my sense,'

Phoebe sighed, 'Okay, let's just hope we run into her,' they left the classroom and began walking again.

Paige took the lead, as Phoebe and Emma were still reeling from their fight, and Pamela wouldn't be able to identify traps. They came into another big room; all of them had learned to be cautious in these situations, as this was a great opportunity for enemies to jump them.

Phoebe suddenly stopped walking, 'Pam! Why did you freeze my feet?'

Pamela looked down the gasped at the ice around Phoebe's feet; 'I didn't do that!' she came to a halt as her feet became frozen too! Emma and Paige were affected by this and were stuck on the spot; they didn't know what had happened until dark murky water arose from the ground and revealing the culprit. Aidan.

'Aidan what the hell are you doing?!' Paige exclaimed, she got no response as Aidan made a gesture and made the ice creep up their shins.

Paige orbed out of her frozen mould and appeared next to Aidan, 'I won't let you do this,' she said simply, but he backhanded her across the face, sending her flying into the wall. She got up just in time for Aidan to wrap his strong arm around her neck and bring her close, strangling her.

'Paige orb out!' Phoebe screamed, but all she got in response was a squeal, 'She can't escape.

Emma took charge, 'Aidan! I've seen your relationship with Paige from the beginning and I know you love her more than anything in the world! You are choking the person that would do anything for you! The person who, above all else, had supported you through hard times and most of all, I know for a fact that Paige loves you more than anything she has known of ever will know! I know you're in there, and I know you can hear me!'

Aidan seemed to hesitate for a minute, Paige was beginning to black out, there a blinding flash and Aidan had been cured. He looked around at his situation and immediately recoiled. He stared at Paige for a minute, then pulled her into a hug, 'Oh my God! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry!' he pulled her away and put his hand on her neck, letting the blue light heal it. He looked at her again, 'I. Am. So. Sorry.' He kissed her in between each word.

Paige smiled, 'It's okay, I'm glad to know that our love can break through anything,' she smiled wistfully.

'Um… s'cuse me? A little help here?' Pamela waved her arms; they were still trapped in ice. Aidan made a gesture and unfroze their feet before returning to hugging Paige tightly.


'Are you sure this the right way?'

'Yeah, Emma and I had to report to Piper every hour when we were possessed,'

'Why?'

'Because she's the main person that he's possessed, she's his real vessel,'

Paige and Aidan had been talking about this situation as he led towards Piper, Phoebe, Emma and Pamela walked in front, letting them have some alone time.

They arrived at big wooden doors that were covered in vines, it was very ominous.

'Now are you glad we dropped Chris off at Shelia's?' Phoebe asked her little sister, who just made a face.

'Okay, remember everyone, only attack if Phoebe and I are getting our butts kicked,'

Everyone nodded as Paige threw out her arm and the doors flew open, to reveal a waiting Piper on the other side.

'Piper, we're taking you home,' Phoebe stated.

'The middle sister?' Piper's voice had turned demonic, 'It's a shame you weren't here earlier, I could have possessed you,'

'We're getting our big sister back,' Paige growled as they walked forward.

'Oh really?' Piper advanced on them, but when she got too close, Phoebe's baby raised his shield and blocked her.

'Very nice!' Piper growled, 'I'll take your baby's powers along with your after I kill you both!' she stomped her foot and sent a shockwave into the ground, blasting Phoebe back into a bookcase.

'I knew I forgot to warn Pheebs about something!' Paige hissed to herself, then gasped, 'Phoebe look out!' the bookcase that she had been hit into began to waver and topple! Paige threw out her arms just in time, stalling its fall and preventing it from crushing Phoebe.

She gritted her teeth, 'Here! Catch!' she swung her arms towards Piper, making the massive bookcase move with her gesture. Piper phased out, allowing the bookcase to fly straight through her and shatter on the wall.

'Aidan! Heal her!' Paige pointed to unconscious Phoebe; she then turned to her sister.

'You're coming with us Piper, whether you want to or not!' Paige ran forward and threw out her arm forcefully, sending Piper crashing through the wall. Paige's eyes widened, she hadn't meant to use such a forceful attack! If Piper didn't have the shadow strengthening her, she would have died instantly, but all this did was occupy her slightly.

Paige went over the rubble of the wall and was shocked to see Piper wasn't there

'Paige! He's using Piper's invisibility power! Watch out!' a recently revived Phoebe warned.

Piper reappeared behind Paige, ready to plunge a newly conjured athame into her back but was stopped when she was entombed in think ice; Pamela had been there to save her aunt.

A darkness arose from the 'Piper-sicle' and rose to the ceiling, a maniacal laugh came from it.

'You foolish witches! This is my domain now!' he bellowed, causing the room to shake. Phoebe ran over to her sisters and niece.

'Time to vanquish this guy once and for all,' Phoebe growled

'What? But I thought we had to be in the basement of the Manor,' Paige questioned.

Her big sister shook her head, 'No, he concentrated all his power into her, we're looking at the true Woogy,'

'Well, in that case,' Paige and Phoebe laid their hands on their frozen sister and began to chant,

'We are light,

We are three too strong to fight,

Return to dark, where shadows dwell,

You can't have these Halliwells,

So go away and leave our sight,

And take with you this endless night!'

The girls chanted the spell many times, before the shadow began to writhe in the air. Slowly, light began to break it apart as it screamed in pain, Phoebe Paige shouted the last line of the spell with all their power and the shadow screamed again and exploded in a blinding flash of white.


P3 was filled to the maximum that night, Piper had hired the band 'Three Doors Down' and they had just finished their song 'Kryptonite' the crowd cheered and applauded and the band finished and let the DJ work the music for the rest of the night.

Piper, Paige and Emma sat in the comfortable sofas of the alcove, clapping at the performance of the band. They were laughing about something when Pamela entered.

'How did you get in here?' Piper asked worryingly, knowing she could be in big trouble for letting a minor in.

'Aunt Piper, I live in the toughest part of the city! You don't get by without a couple of fake ID's!' she flashed her fake drivers license, 'You bouncer may have the brawn, but he sure don't have the brain!' she smirked.

'Ugh! Fine! I'm too tired to argue with you,' Piper surrendered

'Yeah,' Paige put down her bottle of water, 'How does it feel to be 'Dewoogyfied'?' she asked with a laugh.

Piper smiled back cheekily, 'It feels great! I think toasts are in order!' she raised her bottle.

'To Paige!' she started

'For having the sense to contact Phoebe,' Paige said, taking a bow for a laugh, she sat back and made the next toast

'To Emma!'

'For getting Aidan to stop choking you!' Emma said, clanging their drinks together, she raised for bottle again, 'To Piper!'

'Uh… For being able to help in a vanquish even when a ice sculpture!' she struggled to think of anything good she had done all day, she raised her bottle again, 'And to Pamela!'

'For saving Blondie's ass when she had her back turned!' Pamela laughed, so did everyone else, except from Paige who ignored the comment.

'I still can't believe Phoebe's pregnant,' she said, trying to change the subject

'I know! To be honest, I thought she would come home empty handed,' Piper added, 'I wish I got to talk to her though, you sent her back before I unfroze,'

'Well, I think she'll come home soon,'

'Did she say anything about the father?'

'A little, just that he's a witch and a great guy, by Phoebe's standards,' Paige added darkly.

'Uh… speaking of guys,' Pamela nodded her head towards the entrance stair of the club as Aidan walked down them.

'Excuse me,' Paige smirked and walked away, hearing woops coming from behind her.

'Hey,' she greeted her boyfriend with a peck on the lips

'Hey, look I-,'

Paige put her hand up, 'Stop. You don't need to apologise, and I have something to tell you,'

'Oh yeah?' he put his arms around her waist, 'What would that be?'

She took a deep breath, 'You know that apartment you were talking about? You should take it, or rather, we'll take it,'

His eyes widened at her answer, 'Are you sure?'

'Yes,' she rubbed his strong arms with her hands, 'You managed to fight off the Woogy without a spell, which tells me that you love me a lot!' she smirked, 'And believe me,' she moved closer so that she could feel his minty breath on her face, 'The feeling's mutual,'

Aidan Grinned and pulled her in for a passionate kiss, which got many stares form the other clubbers, but they didn't care, they were in love, and now, they were roommates.


Phoebe paced her room in Sanctuary, she had to tell him, she couldn't keep it a secret any longer.

'Andy!' she yelled at the ceiling

Andy was there in a flash of orbs, 'You rang?'

Phoebe took a deep breath, 'I need to tell you something,'


(gasps) What is she going to tell him? I think you all know!

Chapter 25 'Mommy Fearest' is an MX chapter! And will be up soon!