Princess Pinky – She's been a social worker all this time lol! And I have all of the kids powers decided, and telekinesis doesn't show up again, well, maybe not in its pure form! And you'll see about their souls as the story progresses! I can't wait for "Every Halliwell Counts" have you got an ETA on it?

s.halliwell24 – It usually take me around 4 days to write a chapter, but I don't go back to school for another week so I've had a lot of free time, the frequent updates will probably slow down after that.

Ravenix – Thanks! And Atharia will return! Emma will gain some more knowledge! I mean she can now understand hieroglyphs!

Andy20 – Ugh… I hate viruses! I had all the chapters from "A Power Divided" on my computer, and my computer was wiped by a virus! And I understand, it'll just make receiving a review from you all the more better!

Phoebe turner – heh… Wouldn't you like to know, it will be revealed!

Prince Halliwell – Yeah, I though it was a very Paige thing to do, and as I said above, telekinesis is not one of the kids powers. An you'll need to wait and see about the sisters souls!

Unique deflection – The souls thing will remain a mystery, and Pam's in this chapter along with Emma!

Piperfairy – Heh… Read on and find out!

The Ex Factor

Phoebe turned away from the computer in her office and went to look out the large window that took up the entire back wall behind her. It had turned out that the paper had moved buildings shortly before she had came back to San Francisco, so she was able to get one of the good offices instead of one of the desks in the bullpen. There was another window on the opposite side that looked into the bullpen, where assistants were running about with folders, cups of coffee and Elise was doing her rounds, shouting at people who weren't going to meet their deadline, Phoebe being one of them. She grimaced and got back to typing, glancing at her wriggling child in the playpen, the elven nanny had been busy today, and since the hospital was no place to look after a kid, Phoebe had taken Connor to work with her. She smiled; Connor hadn't taken a tantrum all day which was a relief for both Phoebe and everyone in the paper.

Elise breezed in the door, "Phoebe, that column better be on its way to the printers by now!"

"Um… Just give me a couple more minutes, I'm almost done," She pleaded.

The weary editor sighed, "You're lucky I'm in a slightly good mood," Phoebe laughed and pushed her glasses back up her as they had fallen slightly. Elise looked towards the cooing baby, "Can I hold him?"

"Sure, go ahead," The Charmed One offered. She went over and picked up the baby while Phoebe smirked, "I didn't figure you for the baby type?"

Elise chuckled, "Phoebe, I do have two sons you know, and believe it or not I was your age at some point!"

"Really?" she made while pursing her lips.

Elise narrowed her eyes after putting Connor back into the playpen, "You know, not many bosses would let you get away with that,"

"Oh, I know…" Phoebe laughed.

"Actually, while we're on the subject of bosses… Jason's coming to check up on the paper tomorrow,"

Phoebe's fingers stopped typing immediately, "How long have you known that he was coming?"

"I found out just a couple of hours ago, it's one of these surprise inspections," the Halliwell sighed, "Do you want to e-mail your column in from home tomorrow?" Phoebe clicked on print and her column began to appear in the paper tray. She stood up, swinging her purse onto her shoulder and picking up Connor,

"No… I've been away from here for too long, an ex-boyfriend shouldn't chase me away. I'll see you tomorrow," she smiled and walked out of her office…

Paige ran a tired hand through her hair as she stepped out of the coffee shop with a frothy take away cappuccino in her hand, looking up at the summer sun beating down on San Francisco. She smiled slightly as she watched everyone heading home after a hard day at work, woman were taking off their shoes and rubbing their feet at bus stops, while men fanned themselves with the evening edition of the newspaper and loosening their ties. Paige's own end of work ritual was getting a cup of coffee from Starbucks then walking home, she lived so close to the agency so she thought she might as well take advantage of the proximity.

Weaving in and out of the rushing people on the sidewalk, she tried to walk as quickly as she could while sipping from her cardboard cup at the same time. As Paige was taking a sip and not paying attention, someone who was walking in the opposite direction bumped into her harshly, making her drop her coffee, but not before most of it spilled onto her top.

"Oh my God! My am so… Paige?"

Paige frowned and looked up, ready to shout at whoever had made her drop her coffee, "You might want to watch where you're… Glenn!" she beamed when she saw that she had bumped into her old boyfriend. Paige went to hug him when he backed away; she then realized that her top was covered in coffee,

"I would, but…" He began.

"Yeah… What are you doing here?" they began to walk along the street towards Paige's apartment.

"I'm visiting the folks, how have you been? Any witchy stuff going on?"

She rolled her eyes, "When isn't there? But I will tell you something, I moved out of the Manor,"

Glenn gave her a strange look, "I'm not gonna say anything until I know how you feel about that,"

"It's a good thing!" she hit him playfully; "You wanna come to my place? I'm wearing my after work treat so I guess its instant coffee for me,"

"Alright then, I'd like to see this place of yours!" he replied enthusiastically, "So… Are you living with someone at this apartment?"

"No… But thanks for that ever so subtle enquiry into my love life… I used to be with someone,"

"What happened?"

"He left, leaving me a couple of surprises," She tapped her stomach.

Glenn's eyes widened, "He left you pregnant? How far along are you? What an asshole…"

Paige shook her head slowly, "I'm two months along. It's not his fault, he left for a good cause and I didn't tell him about the twins…" She decided to leave out the fact that the father could be an evil darklighter

"You're having twins? Well that explains why you're that big at two months!"

She looked down at her stomach, it was bigger than she remembered Piper's at this stage. It suddenly dawned on her that she would be double the size!

"Anyway, speaking of significant others, how's Jessica?" Paige asked with slight distain in her voice, which Glenn didn't pick up on.

"She stayed in Australia. I think she was sorta nervous about seeing you after what happened last time,"

"I can't really blame her…" Paige said, suppressing a smirk as she remembered orbing her down to Purgatory…

"C'mon Piper, all we'd be doing is vanquishing a couple of demons then be getting out of there," Brennan pleaded with Piper as she drained a pot of potato's.

"I'm still trying to get over the fact that you went home, scried for evil and now you're asking me to go fight it with you,"

"You get to kick some evil ass before dinner time! What could be better than that?"

"There won't be a dinner if I go to vanquish demons, and speaking of dinner shouldn't you be heading home for yours?"

"Phoebe was working late so she's picking up something for her and Connor; I've already eaten, c'mon,"

Pamela, who had been sitting at the table with a cup of coffee, stand up, "Oh for the love of God! I'll go! I'm half your age and you're even starting to bug me,"

Brennan rubbed his hands together, "Alright, let's go!"

"I think I'll drive," Pamela said in a matter of fact way, "You seem a little too wired for my liking,"

Piper smirked, "Nice try missy, but you're not taking the car,"

The young Halliwell stomped her foot, "Oh come one! I can drive anything. You many people can see that they could drive a Harley when they were fourteen? I may have been legal for a year, but I've been driving for three," she said proudly.

"I don't care," Piper replied calmly before turning to Brennan, "Make sure she doesn't take control of the steering wheel with her powers,"

Pamela glared at her aunt before walking out of the kitchen towards the front door, "Killjoy…" she muttered as walked into the dining room, grabbing her leather jacket while Brennan went out the back to bring the car around. Just as she opened the door, a man was about to knock on it, he looked slightly stunned as Pamela looked at him.

"Can I help you?" She asked.

"Um… Who are you?" the man asked.

"You knock on my door and you asked me who I am?" She smirked.

"Does Piper Halliwell live here?"

"Who's asking?" She replied defensively, she didn't what it was, but she didn't like this one bit.

The man sighed, "Dan Gordon… Does she live here?"

"No, the Halliwells moved out a couple of years ago," She said casually. Dan looked as if he was about to reply when he stopped moving, Pamela gave him a strange look until she realized he was frozen. Turning round with a grimace on her face, the teen saw her aunt standing behind with her hands outstretched.

"He looked shifty," Pam said weakly.

"Uh huh, go on, your hyper active uncle won't wait much longer," she out the door, Pamela sighed when she saw Brennan tapped his fingers off the steering wheel.

"Ugh… Okay, Leo!" She called before leaving, smirking at her now manic aunt.

"Pam!" She groaned as Leo appeared in a swirl of orbs next to her.

"What is it?" He looked at Dan "What the hell is he doing here?"

"That's what I'm about to find out, c'mon, get into the living room before he unfreezes!" She ushered her husband into the next room just as Dan unfroze.

"Wh… What happened to the obnoxious girl that here?"

"My niece? Oh, she's going out," Dan turned around and saw Pamela waving sweetly as him, Piper mouthed to her niece, "Don't you dare," Making her pout as Brennan's car took off. Just to make the situation even more awkward, Leo came out from the living room and placed his hands on Piper's shoulders defensively.

"I never should have come…" Dan shook his head and turned around, walking down the stairs. Piper sighed and went to run after him, but Leo grabbed her arm gently,

"Piper, why do you feel some responsibility for this guy?" He growled.

"I owe him that, don't I?" she shook free off his grip and run down the stairs after her ex…

Phoebe stepped out of the elevator and headed towards her office with Connor on her hip, the evening sun setting a warm glow across the entire floor, unlocking the door to her office, she started talking to her son.

"Okay, where did your silly Mommy leave her house keys, huh?" she began to rummage around on her desk until she heard a knock at her door.

"Jason…" She whispered, seeing her former boyfriend standing at the door

"Hi," the businessman said confidently, although he was shaking like a leaf inside.

"Wow, I haven't seen you in…" She tried to remember.

"So long…" He finished her sentence.

They stood their in silence until Connor broke the silence by cooing, coming between the awkwardness. Jason noticed the diamond ring on Phoebe's finger and immediately realized that she wasn't just babysitting.

"Uh… So who's this little guy?" he asked, touching Connor's tiny hand, but he pulled it back when a got a slight static shock, Phoebe stifled a laugh,

"This is Connor," She held him close, "He's around three months old,"

"Is he magical? Because I don't know of that many kids that can act as their own generators,"

Phoebe smiled, remembering how Jason had found out about her secret, "Yeah, his Dad's pretty much the same,"

He raised his eyebrows, "His Dad's a witch?"

"Yeah, it's probably the best in the long run…" She looked down at the ground.

"Honey, are you ready to go?" A tall blonde woman with a porcelain face stood in the doorway with a white fur coat.

"I… better get going," He said, "It was good to see you again,"

"Yeah… You too,"

Brennan and Pamela walked down into the cellar of the alleyway. They could hear chanting coming from the base of the stairs, which was unusual as they were in the centre of the city. The hum of chanting could be heard from the bottom of the stairwell, the two witches carefully advanced. Looking at the situation from the shadows, five demons with hooded cloaks stood in the shape of a pentagram in front of an impressive looking box, it was covered in diamonds and seemed to be made from some sort of silver, the chanting got louder and slowly, particles began to float up from the box.

"Okay, I think this is where we jump in," Pamela hissed, before jumping out and making their presence known. One of the demons turned around and the two witches grimaced when it seemed like the demon had had has skin turned inside out, as all the muscles on his face where visible.

"Keep chanting!" the demon growled to his comrades as he took on the intruders. Brennan sneered at the creature and threw a tesla coil at him, but instead of flying back into the wall, the demon braced itself and gritted his teeth as the electricity hit him. He took a swing a Pamela, who ducked and sweeped his legs while taking the athame from the demons belt as he fell. She stabbed him in the chest, but he then grabbed her collar and threw at the wall. Planning on doing the same to Brennan, he ran at the witch, but he was smarter and he used his jet propulsion power and jump over to his and niece and help her up.

"C'mon, we can beat these guys!" he said strongly.

Pamela blew her hair away from her face, "Easy for you to say, you didn't get a backful of wall!" she retorted, while sending the charging demon into the opposite wall with an aggressive wave of her arm. Brennan swirled both his hands together, electricity sparked loudly in his hands as he hit the demon with two bolts of lightning, while Pamela hit him with multiple explosive blasts from her hands. The demon finally exploded, but a blue light hung where he last stood, before at whizzed into the box in the centre. The other four beings blew up became blue lights that flew into the box also.

"Oh my God… Don't tell me we just helped them with what ever they were going to do," Pamela groaned.

"They would have sacrificed themselves anyway, I think we just stalled the process," Brennan replied.

The two of them fell to the ground when it began to shake. A bright blue beam shot from the box, flying through the ceiling and bringing down some of the plastering. Pamela was helped to her feet by Brennan and they could only watch in horror as the scene unfolded. The blue light disappeared, along with the box and was replaced by a man, his black hair made his place stand out and the long leather coat he was wearing went down to his ankles despite his height.

"Who are you?" Pamela asked stupidly.

"Your death," the demon replied, he put his hands together then outstretched his arms, a massive blue cloud of energy shot forth and sent Brennan Pamela flying, hitting against the wall and landing on the floor. Just as the demon was going to finish them off, orbs began to surround his victims, "No!" he shouted, as he watched them both disappear in their own swirls of white and blue lights.

Andy stood in the shadows, watching the demon lose his temper. He was grateful that he was able to save his daughter and Brennan in time…

Emma ran down the stairs, she heard the timer go in the kitchen and since Piper had ran after Dan and Leo had left to blow off some steam, she was left with the cooking. She was about to enter the dining room, when orbs began to form on the floor in the foyer, as they materialized, Emma gaped when she saw Pamela and Brennan's unconscious bodies.

"Wyatt! Could you come down here quickly?" Emma shouted, the fiver year old appeared in his own set of orbs, "You need to heal Pammy…" that was what he called Pamela, "And your Uncle Brennan, okay?"

"Okay," the little boy went between the two people and light burst from his palms, the gashes on the two witches' heads immediately disappeared.

Pamela sat up with a groan, "Ugh… What happened?"

"You tell me, you were the ones who appeared on the floors in orbs!" Emma exclaimed as Brennan came to.

"Man… Emma not so loud!" he blinked a couple of times.

She hit him on the chest in response, "You're not hung-over you idiot! What happened?"

"Dan! Wait!" Piper had chased him into the alleyway that stood close to P3; he still hadn't stopped walking ever since he had stormed away from the house. She finally caught up to him and grabbed his arm.

"How can you still be with him? He's a fraud, Piper! I gave you the evidence!" he shouted.

"What were you expecting? That you would come here and find me realizing Leo was a mistake and run into your arms? Well, you're wrong! I have two beautiful children with him and don't regret a day of it!"

"Oh, c'mon Piper, he was never there for you! He was always disappearing!"

"Yeah, so was I! I think your exact words were "Time stops for a minute and then she's completely different," I can't believe you came here to play the jealous ex! I though you were better than that!"

"I am!" He bellowed, "But what I don't understand is why it couldn't have been me! Is it because he knows your damn secret?"

"That's part of it, and the fact that I know that you would never accept me if you knew what it was!" Piper exclaimed, remembering how he reacted to her secret before the genie had erased his memory.

"Well how do you know? Try me!"

"You really want to know?"

"Yes! Tell me!"

"Alright! I'm a-," she was cut off by Dan suddenly flying across the alley and hitting the side of a dumpster, knocking him out. Piper looked at who had done it; she stared at a demon with dark blue eyes, jet-black hair and a long leather coat.

"Can't have him getting in the way now, can we?" he smirked as he threw a fireball at Piper, who phased and let the attack sail through her. The demon snarled and threw another one, but the oldest Halliwell suddenly vanished, reappearing behind the demon and blasting him, making him a mass of swirling particles.

"Not exactly the desired effect but it'll do, Leo!" Piper shouted into the night sky, her husband appeared in a cloud of orbs with his arms folded, but his cold attitude faded when he saw Dan unconscious and particles swirling in the air.

"What are you waiting for? Blast those particles and scatter him!" Piper exclaimed. Leo sighed and blasted the demon with two lightning bolts, causing the molecules to fly into the sky and separate for the time being. The Elder hesitated before Piper pulled him towards Dan to heal him, "Okay, we'll orb out before he comes to and figure out what the hell just attacked us," He quickly healed the unconscious man and orbed out with his wife, leaving Dan to wonder what had just happened…

Phoebe strapped Connor into the baby chair in the back seat of her Mini, the multi story parking lot was dead at this time of night, as no one wanted to be in the city at this time. She finally made sure that her son was safe in the back seat before closing the door, but a black haired man stood in her way.

"Oh my God…" Phoebe recognized him, "You're the demon from my premonition!" she exclaimed.

"Glad to see I'm well known…" He smirked, before bringing hand across her face and sending Phoebe sailing across the lot. Just before she hit the windscreen of a car, she levitated and managed to flip in the air, landing on the ground before hitting the car.

"I'm not your average witch…" She growled.

"Oh, I know," He walked towards her, "Phoebe Halliwell, middle Charmed One, Class A Psionic, mother to the Child of Storms, not to mention you're probably more powerful than the two of your sisters combined,"

Phoebe smirked, "Wow, you are good, if you can guess my shoe size you get a free t-shirt," she said sweetly. He advanced on her and she retaliated my firing a psionic blast, but he only stumbled as the mental attack entered his mind.

"Oh c'mon, you can do better than that!" He taunted.

"Of course I can…" Her eyes went black as dark waves of psychic energy blasted the demon into the air and making him land on a nearby car. Phoebe took this chance to run for her car, opening the door and slamming her foot down on the accelerator as she sped away to the Manor…

Paige was sitting in her apartment with Glenn, they had basically talked all night, she had really needed the company since she was living alone in this massive apartment, and it was actually what they were talking about.

"So why don't you get a roommate or something?" He asked.

"Because I don't need one, I struck a deal with the landlady so I can still afford the rent,"

"But aren't you lonely here by yourself?"

Paige held onto her mug tighter, "Not really, it's good to have some peace and quiet when I come home, besides I might as well enjoy it while it lasts," she patted her stomach.

"Oh, so you're the one carrying?" a voice said, Paige spun round to see the demon that had attacked Phoebe and Piper.

"Who the hell are you?" She stood up proudly. The demon didn't answer, he just waved his hand casually and Glenn went flying towards the wall, "Glenn!" Paige called for him, her friend disappearing in orbs and reappearing next to her, "Tell my sisters I need them! Manor!" she gestured at him, Glenn disappeared in a flurry of orbs.

"Looks like it's just you and me," The demon smirked.

"Looks like it…" She replied.

The demon grinned and threw out a fireball which caught Paige by surprise, all she could was look in horror as the fireball came hurtling towards her, her eyes widened when a disc of orbs extended from her stomach, shielding her and protecting her from the fireball, which rebounded off the wall of orbs and hit its master, who winced.

Piper, Phoebe and Leo orbed in just in time to see the orb shield and Paige's shocked expression, Phoebe nodded a little bit while Piper and Leo looked just as shocked as the youngest sister.

Phoebe shook her older sister, "Piper blast him!" she urged, opening the wooden box that had five magic crystals within them.

"But Paige… She…" She sighed and blew up the demon.

"Paige! The crystals!" The older Halliwells ran towards their younger sibling.

Paige nodded, "Crystals, circle!" There was a blue glow in the box and the crystals reappeared around the demon just as he reformed, trapping him. They began to the spell that they had used to vanquish the Source, not to mention many other demons after that,

"Prudence, Patricia, Penelope, Melinda,

Astrid, Helena, Laura and Grace,

Halliwell witches stand strong beside us,

Vanquish this evil from time and space!"

The demon screamed and writhed in agony before a massive explosion claimed him, making the Halliwells fall to the ground from the force. The smoke began to clear and the sisters regained their feet, Phoebe gasped in horror as she saw that the demon was survived! Their most powerful spell, and he had survived it!

He smirked and wiped his clothes down, "See you around…" he flamed out, leaving the girls completely astounded. Phoebe walked towards the now broken circle of crystals while Paige stood in shock,

"Our most powerful spell… And he survived it…" She breathed.

Phoebe put her hands over her mouth, "I don't think seen the last of him… Not by a long shot…"

Okay, the big bad has been revealed! I've so many ideas for this story!

NEXT TIME: Unbeknownst to the Charmed Ones, a power struggle between their counterparts and their mystery demon begins in the Underworld. Paige gets a dog, Phoebe and Brennan have their first argument as a married couple and Emma goes on a date with Grant.

Chapter 7 "Ignorance Is Bliss" will be up soon!