(A/N: Thanks for the reviews--A lot of the story has been pre-written already. I'll post a new chapter after I get 10 reviews for each--as you may've noticed. Anyway, the chapters are sort of short because I'm trying to seperate them into something you'd expect as a "scene" of the show. Eh? A little confusing. Well, the action is starting up here.. I'll try to make them a little longer for you all. Grams, Wyatt, Leo, Sam, and Chris in this 'chapter'..)

episode 1

chapter: the second

"Okay, we really didn't plan on dragging a demon into the house and then having it destroy half of it before we destroyed it--but, well, it was an emergency. Would you prefer us to let it run around on the streets for a few more days? I really didn't think you'd be coming to visit soon or anything, I.." Piper rushed about, trying to clean up as much as she could.

Piper sighed and patted Phoebe, who was sitting on a chair in the living room, on the back. "It's okay, it's okay.. But if we weren't the Charmed Ones and if you two had messed up something important such as our dead grandmother showing up I would have your--ugh--" making a squeezing motion with her hands and that squinchy face, "--your necks!"

"Grams.. so, how's the after-life been treating you lately?" Paige cocked her head, pretending to draw a doodle against a crack in the wall with her finger.

"Well, I can certainly say that I've been very--let's say--enthralled by some current events in this house." The elder woman gave a cock of her brow, looking to Paige as Piper and Phoebe joined her on either side. The view of her granddaughters, the Charmed Ones, almost begging her into a forgiveness of kinds. Phoebe was the first to jump, pointing a finger at Paige.

"She ordered that X-rated movie on TV! It wasn't me! Honest!"

Paige gave a disgusted groan and retaliated with something worse. Piper, trying to sort things out and prove to her grandmother that they had some sort of system of organization restored--even with two babies on their hands and the whole running from the police businesss--gave a smile as her eye quirked slightly. "But we all know that was when Paige was possessed by the crazy dead postman and Phoebe only robbed that bank when she was reliving the life of Jesse James. But back to the real issue at hand--what are you doing here?"

"Why, isn't a great-grandmother entitled to see the ones that gave her such an old title?"

Penny Halliwell wandered out of the room, heading to the staircase. She called for the children. Piper quickly followed her, huffing. "Well, yes she is--but not without a little notice she isn't, eh!" Piper picked up pieces of the ceiling, plaster falling from the walls as she went. She gave a nervous laugh and jumped onto the steps. "You wait here, just one seco--" Before she could respond, Wyatt orbed in.

"Elephant nose!" the little boy raised his petite armed and pointed a finger in the direction of his grandmother. The boy was just recently forming vowels, words and the like. Piper cursed herself for ever letting Leo get the boys a 'Learn Your Zoo Animals' book and grabbed up her eldest child. "Gamma is elephant nose!"

"Ohhh, sweetie. You don't say that to your dear old deceased grandma who came all the way from god-knows-where to visit you, now you do!" She gave her all-too-common smile of death as she attempted to cradle the struggling boy. Phoebe popped her head in and Paige walked in, hand on her hips.

With a sigh, "I told you not to get that book for him, Piper. But listen to dear old auntie Paige? Nooo."

"Paige, I don't have time for your witty quips. Now," she torrented down the steps and plucked her child into the redhead's arms. "How about you take Wyatt into the living room to see good ol' Grams while I go see if Chris is awake from his nap? There, that sounds like a good idea, doesn't it?" Piper cooed at Wyatt.

"Elephant nose!"

"Gr!" Piper stomped her foot, resulting in a snowfall of powder and crumbs from a rip in the ceiling to emit down upon her. The eldest Charmed One paused for a moment, looked between her two sisters, feeling the disapproval of her grandmother behind her. Puffing out a mouthful of the dust, she turned around. "I am just going to go upstairs--get myself cleaned up, and talk to Leo about this!" She quickly shot up the stairs.

Grams turned to her other granddaughters, cocking her head some. "Well, your sister certainly seems to be in a joyously good mood, shall we?" she waivered her hand back into the livingroom. Paige carried Wyatt in and Phoebe followed next to her grandmother. "So Phoebe, how are things going for you?"

"Oh--you know, baby issues."

"Yes, I know everything, dear. What do you think I do up there all the time, play cards with The Elders?" Grams took a seat next to Paige, taking Wyatt's hand and talking to him.

Phoebe stopped dead in her tracks at the comment, her jaw slightly ajar. "Oh.. um.. great!.. My grandmother knows every detail of my sex life," she said under her breathe, smiling as Paige looked up at her with a "huh?" look.

"Leo?" Piper came from the bathroom, pulling a comb through her hair frantically, managing to get out the rest of the plaster that had rained down upon her earlier. "Leo, honey?" she stepped into the children's nursery room to find him holding Chris, talking to someone. She blinked, pausing for a moment as she recognized him as Sam, Paige's father. "Why, what a pleasant surprise."

"Ah, Piper," Leo turned, handing Chris to her. She gave him a "I'm-going-to-beat-you-for-that" look. "I was just talking to Sam here, he's brought news from the Elders." Piper looked to Leo, then Sam. The man tipped his hat some, smiling. She gave a sarcastic smile at him. "It seems there's some problems with a demon,"

"Demon? Demon? We just vanquished a demon, honey," Piper laughed nervously, adjusting the child over her shoulder a bit. "If you're here to bring us bad news from our not-so-friendly friends the Elders, you can just scadaddle. Nothing personal, but I'm going to have to sell the air you're breathing to pay for the damage downstairs."

"Didn't mean anything by it, Piper. I just thought you might like to have a heads up on what this demon could do--" Piper blinked some, then paused.

"Did you hear something?" she looked to Leo.

"Uh--no, nothing. Why?" He cocked his head.

Suddenly a huge explosion of glass, wood, and brick ripping apart and the sudden screams of others downstairs filled the house. Leo, Piper and Sam shook as the entire Manor leaned on it's feet. "Piper! Leo!" Phoebe hollered from downstairs. "Come quick!"

".. Did you say something about a demon?" Piper glared at Sam, dropping Chris into Leo's arms and rushing downstairs.

(A/N: Ah. Cliff-hanger. n.n)