Princess Pinky – Yeah, I'm sort of undecided on abortions, I fell that both sides of the argument make good points, but I would never kill off the twins! And yeah, aren't Jack and Penny just a bitter old couple? I can't wait for the finale of your fic! And I can't wait to see my characters in the sequel!

Unique deflection – Thank you! And I really try to make these chapters good so that people can enjoy them more!

Prince Halliwell – Lol, I know, ain't Penny a battleaxe sometimes? And my views on abortions are in the reply I gave to Pinky. I hope you like this one! This is the first Emma centric chapter I've did in ages!

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Piperfairy – Yeah, I heard that a soap did that with twins, although I can't remember which one! (sob) I think I broke my updating roll lol!

Ravenix – Thanks! And no, Paige's children are going to be called Melinda and Emma! Hope you like it!

A Day In The Past Life

A haze of sand swirled in the desert sky, impairing the vision of the woman that trudged through the storm. She was wearing a golden breastplate that covered the top half of her body, leaving her stomach exposed to the gritty sand that was flying through the air, a skirt of the same material slanted across her legs, making a jingling sound as she walked. A simple silver band encircled her head and strings of gold beads hung from it, but they only went around half way so she could see.

The woman could hear the neighing of horses, the shouts of the soldiers and the thundering hooves of her chasers; she had to speed up if she wanted to escape. Finally seeing the place where she could be safe, a humongous stone creature stood proudly in the desert, the sphinx was magically sealed, if she got there, she would be safe. But fate stood in her way; she tripped in the thick sand, getting a mouthful of the grainy substance. The soldiers and their horses surrounded her, their eyes veiled under the shade of their helmets.

"Die sorceress!" One of them shouted as he raised his spear, the others roared in approval. The sorceress stood up proudly, spitting the sand out of her mouth and moving a strand of her red hair from her eyes.

"I would rather take my own life than lose to the likes of you!" She shouted at the leader, a searing globe of mental energy sprung from her forehead, hitting the ground and creating a ring of roaring fire around herself. She mumbled something in Egyptian before laughing manically, "We shall meet in another life, and I shall have my revenge!" were her last words as a hieroglyph burned into her forehead and the flames consumed her…

Emma shot up in bed with a gasp, her hair plastered to her face by the sweat that covered her body. She looked around the dark room and took a deep breath, thankful that she was back in a familiar surrounding. Feeling that her throat was a little dry, she pushed the covers back with a considerable effort as her arms felt heavy, she swung her legs over the side of bed lazily, as they felt heavy too, but as Emma stood up her legs gave way and she hit the floor with a thud, unconscious. The door creaked open and Piper stood in the doorway, after hearing Emma screaming in her sleep an then a thud on the floor, she had decided to investigate, she flicked on the light.

"Emma? Are you… Oh my God! Leo! Get in here!" Piper had to turn away from the sight before her.

Emma's body was completely covered in horrible burns, the skin underneath was barely visible as her body had been damaged so much. The oldest sister was absolutely revolted and turned out towards the hallway, not being able to look at her friend…

Emma sat in the living room, her shaking hands holding onto a glad of water as she raised it to her mouth uneasily. Piper sat down on the chair opposite and pushed a lock of hair behind her ear, she sat on her hands like a nervous child.

"Was it the dream again?"

The psionic nodded slowly, "It was different this time, I could actually feel the flames burning my skin,"

Leo walked in, he was wearing a t shirt and a pair of black boxers, the two witches wore their respective pajamas, they had got up to address the current situation.

"How is she getting injuries from a person that her subconscious concocted?" Piper asked her husband.

"Well, my first thought would be that it's because she's a telempath, and that's she's somehow channeling the burns," he replied.

"Yeah but I've been having these dreams for the past week, and I've never woken up covered in burns. They're getting more real, next time I might not wake up," she took another sip of the water.

"You said they called you a sorceress? And that you're running towards a sphinx?" Emma nodded at Pier's assumption.

"What are you thinking?" Leo asked.

"What? Oh… It's nothing," Piper said, which everyone knew that, in the Halliwell family, if someone said that, they were probably onto something…

Paige wrote on the clipboard, trying to suppress her shaking hand as she was raging inside. She was sitting in the family room in the San Francisco Memorial, Brennan had called her from work as he had suspicions that one of is patients, a little boy, was being abused by his parents.

"So how did your son get his injuries?" She asked with a neutral tone.

"Um… H-He fell down the stairs," The mother said nervously, while her husband sat shooting eye daggers at Paige. The witchlighter clenched her free hand into a fist to suppress her anger, but suddenly a shelf carrying lots of medical books toppled and hit the man right on the head! Paige ignored the couple and glared at her stomach,

"Stop it…" she growled, knowing that the growing children inside of her had caused it, Paige hoped that they were just being mischievous and not practicing for when they become the most powerful darklighters in the planet.

Brennan came into the room wearing his full doctors uniform, that being a sterile white coat and a set of blue overalls, "Miss Matthews, can I have a word?" the two of them had decided that since Paige would be around the hospital a lot, is was better they keep up a professional demeanor.

"Sure," she answered, standing up and walking out of the room with Brennan closing the door behind her, "Alright Bren, what have we got here?"

"Have a look at this… He led her over to a wall with the light where they showed x-rays, he put up the black film had in his hand and the rib cage of a little boy appeared against the fluorescent light, "This kid has three broken ribs," he indicated to the bones on the film before taking it off, "He's also got a couple of his front teeth missing, looks like we've got abusive parents,"

"Is it possible that he actually did get these injuries from falling down the stairs?"

"Yeah, but when he was getting the x-ray done, the nurse said that he had a ton of bruises centered on his chest, which you definitely don't get falling down stairs, and when you consider the sheer terror this kid's feeling," Paige looked at the parents through the window with a sigh, "What do you want to do?"

"Uh… Can I talk to the boy for a little while? If I can't get the truth out of him then I'll try the mother. It's definitely Daddy that's doing this." She looked back at the stern man, but she suddenly doubled over and put her hand over her mouth.

"You okay?" Brennan blinked a couple of times.

"Bathroom… Where!" She breathed out.

"Down the hall to your left," He pointed down the corridor, Paige ran down the direction he had indicated, leaving Brennan with suspicions of his own…

Emma walked into the library at Magic School, the large bookcases towering above her as she entered. Noticing Miss Donovan shelving behind the desk, she went over to the librarian and asked for her information.

"Oh, hey Emma," she said warmly, they had had many a chat in the staff room.

"Hi Helen," Emma smiled, addressing her by her first name, "I was wondering if you have any books on ancient Egyptian magic,"

"Egyptian? Wow, what do you need that for?"

"Oh… Just research," she smiled sweetly.

Miss Donovan nodded in approval, "Okay, as long as that's all it's for, Egyptian sorcery is pretty dangerous magic," she came out from behind the desk and beckoned Emma to follow her down the isle. Helen led her towards a bookcase filled with old, tearing books. "This is everything we have…"

"Okay, thanks," she beamed sweetly as Miss Donovan went back down the isle, Emma was glad that is was summer vacation, as this place was usually packed with students studying for all kinds of things. Turning back to the bookcase, she noticed one book that was different from them all, it had a golden shimmer to it and seemed in perfect condition. Taking the book down from the shelf, she slowly opened the cover and looked at the first page, it was cover in hieroglyphs, but the strange thing as, she understood it!

"To call upon the Great Atharia… Let her magic soar through time and space… And…" She squinted at the page, trying to make out the next line, "Take her with my power and bring her to this… place?" Emma gasped as she realized what she had done, she could only watch helplessly as a brilliant light shot from the page, making Emma drop the book and blinding her. Emma brought her arm down from her face as the light faded, she looked around and gulped when she saw the woman from her dream staring at her a couple of feet away, she looked just like Emma!

"My spell book!" The woman cried, the book disappeared in a golden glow and reformed in the redhead's hands.

"I thank you for freeing me…" she said in Egyptian, "But I'm afraid this is goodbye!" a searing red globe of heat appeared in front her head, similar to a psionic blast. The sorceress fired the heat blast at the ground, causing a wall of fire to separate Emma and herself. The flames dissipated as quickly as they had came, leaving a shocked and frightened Emma standing there completely stunned…

"Did you find something in the Book?" Phoebe asked as she entered the attic after putting Connor down for a nap in the boy's room. She walked over to her older sister who was staring at a page.

"Actually, yeah," she moved out the way to Phoebe could read the page, "Take a look at this,"

Atharia

A powerful Egyptian sorceress who was highly revered in her time. Greatly skilled in the art of alchemy, many came to her to revive their dead loved ones and to take advantage of her another powers as an alchemist. She also had the ability to concentrate heat into a globe with her mind and use it to cause fires. The sorceress met a dark end when she was hunted down her reviving the Pharaoh's sworn enemy, who was her lover, she decided to take her own life than be killed by soldiers and she used her powers to burn herself to death, swearing vengeance with her last breath.

"She fits the bill for the person in Emma's dream, I just can't figure out the connection though," Piper bit her lip.

"Maybe our lovely niece would know, where is she anyway?"

"Not available, Jenna was going to Santa Costa to visit her grandmother and invited Pam along for the ride. Are you even listening to me?" Piper asked, as Phoebe was engrossed in reading about Atharia.

"Look at this part, "She also had the ability to concentrate heat into a globe with her mind and use it to cause fires," don't you think that sounds like a psionic heat blast?"

"You lost me at the word, "part"," Piper said bashfully, Phoebe rolled her eyes.

"Leo!" she called out, her brother in law appeared in a swirl of orbs, "Did you find out anything about Emma's nightmare?"

"Yeah, you're not going to like it," and grimaced and swayed in his heels, "The woman is Emma's dream is called Atharia, she was-,"

"Yeah, skip that part," Piper urged.

"She's in our time," Leo finished.

"What? How is that possible?" Phoebe's eyes widened.

"The Elders say that she only could have been summoned by someone connected to her somehow,"

"So we have a psycho heir of an Egyptian sorceress on our hands? Great…" Piper slammed her hand down on the book and turned to look out of the window.

"No, no, this is okay, the Book says that she's a force of good so I'm sure she'll understand that we need to send her back," the middle sister tried to calm Piper down.

"Actually, it doesn't. Atharia swore revenge on those that forced her to her death, she'll be out looking for the descendants of those people," Piper and Phoebe both groaned in frustration.

"Guys, we have major trouble!" Emma announced as she jogged into the room.

"Oh sure! Make our day even better!" Piper scowled.

"The woman in my dream, she flew out of a book I had, and-,"

"Wait a minute, you released Atharia?" Phoebe gaped and pointed at her.

"Who?"

"Your past life…," Piper added, "By the looks of things,"

Paige and Brennan walked into the ward where the little boy was being kept; the nurse that walked in front of them pulled back the curtain to reveal the little boy sitting up in the bed, another nurse was holding a glass of juice in front of him while he sipped out of it with a straw. Brennan signaled to the nurses and they left, he hung up the little boy's medical chart at the bottom of his bed.

Taking a seat next to the bed, Paige put her clipboard next to her and smiled warmly at the boy, she had had a lot of experience with scared children so she knew that they had to feel safe, "Hey Alex,"

"How do you my name?" the little boy asked with wide eyes, he was amazed that she knew his name without telling him telling her.

Paige nodded at Brennan, "The doctor man told me, I'm Paige by the way," she held out her hand and he shook it, children liked to be thought as grown up in certain situations, "How are you feeling?"

"My chest hurts…" the little boy said with a sad face.

Paige picked up the action figure that was lying on the bed, "Wow, is this Samurai Jack? My nephew has one just like it, but it's not nearly as cool as yours!"

"Are you a Mommy?" Alex asked innocently.

Paige looked at Brennan, who gave her strange look as he was confused by her hesitation, "Um… Yeah, I have two babies in my tummy right now," she rubbed her stomach while Brennan's eyes widened.

The little boy looked shocked, "You ate them?"

She laughed, "No! Babies stay in their Mommy's tummy before they're born!"

Alex sat and stared at her stomach, he couldn't understand how children could fit into a woman's stomach, but he shook it off and kept talking to the nice lady.

After talking to Alex for around twenty minutes, Paige decided to question him about his injuries, "Um… Alex, can I ask what happened that made your chest hurt?" he bottom lip quivered, she put her hand on his, "Honey, did Mommy or Daddy make your chest hurt?"

The young boy shook his head violently before pulling his head under the covers, leaving a frustrated Paige to think of other another way to get the truth…

A dark skinned man sat in his office scribbling his signature on a piece of paper, he sighed and pulled another document in front of him and signed it. He then sat back in his chair and loosened his tie, turning off the desk lamp and beginning to walk to the door until he noticed a woman in his office. Needless to say she was dressed rather fearlessly.

"Who are you?" he asked, slightly mesmerized by the shimmering of the gold in her clothes.

"I'm the last person you're ever going to see," A psionic heat blast flew from her mind, hitting the man and reducing him to his knees in agony, "You shall pay for the prejudice of the ones that came over you," she fired a series of heat blasts into his mind as he groaned and writhed in agony, "There's only so much heat the brain can take before it shuts down completely… I wonder how long it will take for yours to give out?" she fired another series of psionic heat globes; the man was nearing breaking point.

Emma, Phoebe, Piper and Leo stormed in, "No!" The psionic fired a mental blast of her own, hitting her past life with a warning shot and only making her head whip to the side. Atharia turned round and glared at Emma,

"Why do you obstruct my efforts? His ancestors are the type of people that are responsible for us having to hide who we are!" she looked at unconscious victim on the floor with distain.

"I know…" Emma truly sympathized with the sorceress, "But this isn't the way! Killing him with her powers isn't going to make people accept us, they're going to fear us and hate us!" Atharia looked at the dark skinned man on the floor,

"It's not too late," Leo chipped in, "You can reverse heat just as quickly as you create it, you could finally move on… And be with man that turned you on this path of revenge in the first place,"

Her eyes widened in anger, "Don't you dare talk about him…" she growled, a heat wave blasted from her head, reducing everyone in the room to their knees. Atharia walked over to her future life and mumbled something in a language she knew Emma would understand, before disappearing in a tower of sand.

"Ugh… Is everyone okay?" Emma pushed herself up to her feet.

"I think I've got a bit of a temperature but I'll be fine," Piper stood up and blinked a couple of times.

"Emma, do you think could scry for her again?" Phoebe got back onto her feet.

She shook her head, "Don't have to, she told me where she was going,"

"Okay, well, let's go vanquish her sorry ass," Piper said confidently while straightening out her back.

"No, she's good inside, it's just… She really loved the person that the Pharaoh killed; she's doing this for him. I have to help her move on, and that's means going alone. You guys stay and make sure he…" she gestured at the unconscious man, "Doesn't remember anything once you've healed him," she looked out of the window, "I'll deal with everything else…"

Paige stood looking at the parents in the family room with a heated glare, she knew that the brute of the father was hitting his wife and child, but she couldn't prove it! These sorts of cases made her blood boil. Brennan walked over to him with a medical chart with a frown on his face.

"Paige…"

"Please don't say you're letting that kid go home with them!"

"My bosses are telling me that since there's tangible proof we can't keep him here,"

Paige glared at the people on the other side of the window, and then she turned to Brennan, "You want tangible proof? I'll get tangible proof!"

She stormed off towards the bathroom, pulling out her tape recorder that she used make verbal notes. Looking around and making sure that the bathroom was empty, she went into a cubical just to be safe, setting her tape recorder to record, she orbed out of the cubical.

Making sure no one would see her; she orbed into one of the long cupboards and began to listen to their conversation.

"You could have killed him John!" the woman hissed.

"Shut up and just stick to the story, that bitch of a social worker is stalling this deliberately,"

"That's because she can probably guess that a kid doesn't get three broken rips just by falling down the stairs! Unless he fell down them repeatedly,"

"Oh yeah? Well, if you don't keep your mouth shut, you'll be taking a trip down the stairs if you know what I mean!"

Paige cursed under her breath and orbed out, knowing that she had probably saved a life today…

Emma appeared in the crypt in a tornado of white lights, she ignited a psionic blast so she would have some source of light to see through the darkness. She had transported herself into an ancient pyramid; Atharia had whispered to her the location of where she would be if Emma wanted to stop her.

"So you came…" Atharia's voice appeared in the darkness, the room suddenly illuminating with a large fire on the ground.

"How did you do it? How did you hold on for all this time?" Emma whispered.

"Revenge is something that can last a lifetime. The lust of it, and the grudge that you hold… Can easily sustain you through an eternity of being on limbo,"

"You can't do this! You can't kill these people!" Emma pleaded.

"Why not? You're a witch, are you not? Your kind were burned at the stake for decades… centuries even! How can you be so forgiving to the very same people that would condemn you for what you are?"

"Because the prejudice that you're talking about doesn't exist today! And what do you think killing these people will solve? They weren't the ones that killed your love!"

"Doing this will end it! It will mean I can finally move on!" she shouted.

"No, it won't, killing innocent people makes you no better if not the same as the people who forced you to your death. You know I'm right… It's because of your self control, it's because of your kindness and compassion throughout your life, that I am able to live happily, instead of repenting for your mistakes. Please, don't do this!"

Atharia looked at the ground with tearful eyes, "I'm scared,"

Emma smiled sympathetically, "I know… But he will be waiting for you on the other side,"

The sorceress stood proudly and smiled, "Thank you… I'm glad to see my mind is still strong through the ravishing of time and space. I want you to be wary of the witches you have befriended,"

"Why?" Emma frowned.

"Their souls… They are among the oldest I have sensed, they are not new to this world… be careful," She whispered, a bright flash surrounding her as she moved onto the afterlife…

I hope you liked it! My computer's been acting up for the last couple of days so it took a little longer. I know that the characters all seem to be doing separate things, but it's taking me a while get used to having them all together.

NEXT TIME: It's men galore in San Francisco when each of the sisters bump into their previous boyfriends, each of them were pretty serious with each other! Emma does more research into her past life, and Brennan and Pamela accidently release a powerful evil while on an uncle-niece demon vanquishing session.

Chapter 6 "The Ex Factor" will be up soon!