Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed, if i did Lana from Smallville would be a llama... hang on that makes no sense. ah well.

A/N: sorry for the delay i've been busy... also sorry about the lack of personal responces to reviews: i emptied my inbox... ah well. I still love reviews.

Piper

"He's more than that, He's…" she heard Paige begin. Waiting impatiently as her sister failed to finish her sentence she decided to prompt her, "He's what?" she asked

"A Demon!" replied Paige

"Chris' a demon?" asked Piper shocked; she was just beginning to trust him as well. It was only when a fireball came flying past her, grazing Paige's arm and exploding the clock on the wall that Piper realised that Paige's cry of 'A demon!' had probably been more of a warning than a completion of her sentence.

"Ow" complained Paige as her elder sister spun round to freeze the demon, which she did, only more literally than usual. In front of them stood a demon shaped block of ice.

"Wow," commented Paige, "Am I the only ones whose powers aren't developing?"

Piper looked down at her hands, "no," she said unsurely, "I think that was the baby."

"So is it vanquished, or what?" asked the younger of the two.

"I don't think so, I think it's just frozen… only in a slightly different way than usual."

"But is it permanent?"

"I wouldn't count on it."

"Then we ought to find out what we're dealing with before it unfreezes," concluded Paige.

"Ok," agreed Piper, "you go get the book, I'll watch frosty here."

Watching her sister orb out, and then back in a second later carrying the book of shadows, Piper took the moment to consider the possible endings to Paige's sentence, the only one of which seemed vaguely plausible was 'he's a good liar.'

Phoebe

"What do you mean your not sure?" asked Phoebe caught somewhere between the residual pain she was feeling as a consequence of Chris' rant and her amusement at the term welder.

"Well I think," said Chris hopefully, "its some kind of ripple in reality caused by my being here, some unforeseen consequence of my time travelling."

"Maybe it's telling you you've succeeded?" suggested Phoebe.

"No," said Chris firmly, "the future hasn't changed yet, I am sure of that. Although it does seem to be having an effect on my Wyatt," he added thoughtfully.

"What kind of effect?"

"It's making him feel," Chris paused to find the best word, "nostalgic."

Phoebe looked at her nephew carefully, "how do you know that?"

He shrugged off the question with "you really don't want to know."

About to protest Phoebe stopped herself, the last thing she 'hadn't wanted to know about' had been Chris' future, and she didn't want to provoke another outburst like before, she didn't think she could cope with that much emotion.

"Ok," she agreed a little unwillingly, "maybe we should get back to the manor let your mom and Paige know that you are alright. Then later, we can have a little chat, and me and Paige can lecture you about hiding your identity from us."

Chris rolled his eyes, before realising what his aunt had just told him.

"Paige knows?" He snapped, "you told her?"

Phoebe went a little red with embarrassment, "lets just get back to the manor."

Paige

Flicking through the book of shadows, Paige easily found the Demon that attacked them, "Schlark," she read, "low level demon with a tendency to attack magical creatures with greater power than it and to whom it stands no chance of beating. No one knows why, but it is for this reason Schlark demons are disowned by the demonic community and almost extinct"

'Ha,' she thought happily, 'at least one thing in my simple at the moment, there's even a spell to vanquish him which doesn't require the power of three.'

Demonic being known as Schlark,

I vanquish you by saying hark!

"That's a vanquishing spell?" asked Piper as the demon melted away into nothing.

Paige shrugged innocently, "it did say it was a low level demon."

"Still," said Piper, "that spell was pretty awful."

"Yeah," agreed Paige, "what does hark mean anyway?" Before Piper had a chance to respond, the conversation was interrupted by the appearance of Phoebe and Chris.

"Hey, they let you go!" said Paige cheerfully, "we wondered if you'd actually be declared insane, I mean any explanation you could have given would have seemed pretty crazy… oh god I'm rambling aren't I?"

'Aren't' thought Paige again, 'that word is going to haunt me for the rest of my life; a reminder of my stupidity.'

"Fraid so honey," commented Phoebe, "now you and I need to go and have a word with Chris, about you know what."

"Hold your horses," said Piper as her sister tried to shuffle her out of the room, "what do you want to talk about?"

"Um," said Paige thinking quickly, " your pregnancy?"

Unfortunately at the same time Phoebe answered; "your birthday."

Piper looked at them suspiciously, "my birthday isn't for weeks yet so you can talk about it later, as for my pregnancy anything you say about that you can say in front of me!"

"Er…" said Phoebe

"And speaking of my pregnancy, this darn baby exhibited another power earlier today!"

"Telekinesis?" guessed Phoebe glancing at Chris.

"No," replied Piper, "it froze a demon; literally!"

Paige saw a look of shock appear on her nephews face, (Chris obviously, Wyatt in his play pen was looking as angelic as ever,) as she heard him say, "that isn't the baby's power; it's yours."

"Awww…" she complained, "that means I am the only one who's powers haven't developed this week. That's so no fair."

"Er Paige?" asked Piper staring at her sisters arm, "didn't you get hit with a fire ball?"