Princess Pinky – Thanks! I thought I should have some "bonding" between the two of them. And… er…. I'll just say that I wanted a show off Brennan's powers! Yeah, that'll do, lol. And that convo will been a lot very soon!

Aniaka – More bad guy stuff will be revealed in this chapter! And you'll need to read to see how Pheebs reacts. I thought that most of the anger would come from Pam, and that the last thing Prue would do would be to dump all over the daughter she abandoned. I hope I got Piper's character down! Evan's gonna be in the next chapter, so no doubt trouble will follow!

Unique-deflection – Thanks! She might try to use it again, but it won't have good effects…

Phoebe turner – Don't count on the sisters finding out everything! Someone else, how ever… Glad you liked!

Piperfairy – I know! I just though I would add in a little normality to Piper's life and it's the demon that affected Phoebe.

Ravenix – Yup, Evan will be returning, not in this chapter though. I don't know if I'll merge the two families. Glad you liked!

Prince Halliwell – (gasp) No! You're picking up my habit lol! Brennan and Phoebe are already back, I didn't want them gone for so long. And more demon info is in this chapter. Yes, I couldn't bare to leave Pamela out of it completely! There will be more from Piper's gang, don't worry!

In The Pain Of Mine Enemy

Emma picked up some of her belongings from the desk and put them into her purse, opening her compact and moving her hair around before snapping it shut and putting it away. A cold wind blew into the room, sending a jar to the floor and making it smash, it had already been teetering on the edge of the shelf so Emma wasn't that surprised although the sound of breaking glass still mad her jump and made her drop her purse. Sighing in annoyance she bent down to pick up her purse when she realized something, what the hell had caused the wind? She got back up and saw that the window at the back of the classroom was open. The psionic laughed at her own paranoia and went to close the window, there was a knock on her door and Emma suddenly flew around, sending a mental blast flying from her forehead at whoever had entered.

"Whoa!" Was a very surprised Phoebe as she held onto her son tight as she duck out of the way, standing up and looking at her friend in shock, "A little jumpy, Ems?" She looked at her with a dumbfounded expression.

"Oh… Sorry," She said with a nervous smile before going back to pulling the window shut.

"I can't really blame you, what with Zach's little brother and all…" Emma looked at her oddly, "Piper told me. Do you want some company going back? Cause I can wait if you want…" The Charmed One offered.

"No, it's alright, Grant's meeting me. Why are you here anyway?" She walked over to her, beaming at Connor and ruffling his dark hair.

"Research," Phoebe replied, holding up a book with her free hand," You'll never guess what I found, we need to have a family meeting," Emma bowed her head, Phoebe immediately sensed her doubts, "Emma, trust me, you are family. Anyone who can survive living in the Manor for a year and a half definitely deserves a place! You're like… you're like a sister to Piper and Paige, and I hope I can get to know you the same way they do…" Phoebe's face reddened while the potions teacher grinned,

"Thanks!" Emma looked at the cover of the book, "Did it say anything about the feeling you had?"

"No," She shook her head slightly, "It must be an empath thing, we'll know when you come up against him,"

"Well I'll take your word for it right now, because as far as I'm concerned, any demon who can cause fainting and nausea without even doing anything is a danger,"

Phoebe nodded and headed for the door, "You sure you're gonna be okay here by yourself?" She turned around and Grant was standing in the doorway. All the Halliwell could do was smirk, "Never mind,"

Emma smirked back as Phoebe left, walking towards her boyfriend to meet him halfway.

"Hey, ready to go?" He asked her.

"Wait…" She planted a soft kiss on his lips, "Now I am…"

Piper was almost climbing into the bottom kitchen cabinet, looking for the loaf of bread that she was sure she had bought yesterday at the store. She pushed the cereal boxes out of the way and grunted as she stretched to the back; the witch flailed her hand as she touched the bread, but sighed when it was behind something. I'm sure a little magic won't hurt she thought, grabbing the loaf and phasing, pulling it out of the cupboard and towards her. Piper smiled at her success before banging her head off the cabinet as she stood up.

"Okay, I've learned my lesson!" She yelled to the ceiling before slamming the desired object on the counter. Emma walked into the kitchen, tying a knot in her silk gown while smiling to herself, but that vanished when she noticed Piper.

"Piper! Wh-wh-what are you doing here?" She said, slightly out of breath.

"Uh… When a person lives in a house, they tend to spend a lot of time there. Are you okay?"

"Me?" The psionic laughed nervously and rubbed the back of her neck, "I'm fine!" She waved her hand as if to dismiss the claim, "I meant what are you doing up so early?" Emma grinned again.

Piper cocked her head and smirked a bit, determined to catch her out, "I'm always up this early on a Saturday, you're not however. Were you hoping I wasn't going to be here?"

She breathed out a laugh while her chest rose and fell quickly, "Don't be ridiculous! I…"

"Hey, I found my shirt…" Grant walked in as he buttoned up his shirt, without realizing a dumbstruck Piper standing in the kitchen before he looked up, equally surprised, "Uh… Hi,"

The eldest Charmed One managed to stifle a laugh as Emma held her head in her hands, "Hi," She responded, putting a hand on her hip and putting the other on the counter, "Sleep well?"

Grant smiled awkwardly, "Yeah, look, I'm sorry, I'll get out of your way," He tripped over his own words.

"No, that's okay, Emma lives here too. She's allowed to have sleepovers," She grinned at her friend, whose face had gone crimson.

"I'll show you to the door," The psionic took the elemental's hand and led him out of the kitchen.

"Um…" Piper brought their attention back, "Sock," She pointed to white sock on the kitchen table. Nervous smiles were exchanged again before Emma got to the front door while the eldest Halliwell stood in the kitchen doorway, watching the scene unfold.

"I'll see you later," He whispered before kissing Emma on the cheek.

"Bye…" She watched him walk down the steps while leaning her head on the open door and sighing. Emma closed the door and turned around to see Piper grinning at her with folded arms.

"So…" She began.

"Please don't," She begged, but Piper continued.

"Why was his sock on the kitchen table? We eat there, Emma," Piper teased her friend and followed her into the kitchen, "How'd it happen anyway? You usually don't sleep with guys after just a month,"

Emma looked offended, "I'm not that conservative you know! And we have been flirting for ages so it was just a mixture of passion, pent up sexual tension and… maybe a little booze,"

"Well, I guess since you've been training for the Marathon the last four months, you're trying to fit in as much exercise as possible before next week," Piper laughed.

"That's disgusting!" Emma scolded her, taking a bottle of water out of the refrigerator.

"Coming from the person who did it on the kitchen table…" Piper added in, pursing her lips to hold in her laugh.

Emma spun around and scowled, "Three more questions! That's it!"

"Oh, alright! First time with each…"

"Yup,"

"On the kitchen…"

"No,"

"Was it…"

Emma's eyes glazed over, "Oh yeah!"

Phoebe sat in her dining room with her glasses perched on the bridge of her nose; she would occasionally look at some of the files that were sitting around her before typing on her laptop. Brennan came walking down the stairs holding a baby monitor,

"Connor's down for his nap, you want any lunch?" He asked, setting the monitor down on the table.

Phoebe looked up from the computer screen, "Um… I think I'll just have a sandwich, I'm not that hungry,"

"Are you sure? Because I can go get you something of you want," he offered.

"Wouldn't leaving me alone break your "Protect Phoebe at all costs" program? Brennan," She took her glasses off, "You've been treating me like a fragile ornament ever since we got back from your Mom's. What's wrong all of a sudden?"

"I'm just making sure you're safe, you saw how that demon affected you,"

"I know, that's why I'm doing this research," She gestured to all the paper lying about on the table, "So I won't get sick again and I can help fight him with my sisters,"

Brennan raised his eyebrows, "You're actually accepting help for a change?"

She laughed and looked back at her screen before gasping, "Oh my God!" Before she could explain her surprise, Connor's cries began to flow through the baby monitor.

"I'll get him…" Brennan walked back into the front area, taking the steps two at a time.

Phoebe began to read the internet page that she had miraculously found.

Ancient Pagan lore tells of a vicious blue scaled creature that came from the fires of hell. This demonic horror rampaged through towns, brutally murdering all others that stood in his way. Centuries ago, the beast was said to have been contained by a powerful Wicca named Brendan Stewart…

Phoebe paused at that name, Brendan Stewart was the witch who began the Mulwray line and fore told the prophecy of the Child of Storms. She was definitely convinced that this demon was Macreaus.

…who sealed him into the ground of his homeland with an array of spectacular abilities to alter and control the elements. He is said to be an assassin bred for the sheer purpose of serving the one with no form, Setanor.

Her heart began to pound, "Assassin…" She whispered out loud, knowing that her and her sisters didn't fare well against demonic assassins, especially since Phoebe had lost Prue to one and had almost lost Piper. "Setanor…" Her eyes widened, it had to be the Nameless One!

There was a crash upstairs and Connor's screaming became more piercing, "Mommy's coming!" Phoebe shouted as she leapt from her chair and bounded up the stairs.

When she ran in, Brennan was holding a bleeding arm while slumped on the floor, his leg was clearly broken judging by the obscure position it was in and his lip was bleeding.

"Phoebe, stay back!" He grunted, trying to stand up from the wreckage of a changing table, but his wife ignored him and charged forward, igniting a psionic blast and preparing to fire.

All Macreaus did was smile at her with his white teeth glowing against his blue skin and red eyes, but it sent such a horrible empathic shock through her body that she fell to the floor immediately, unconscious. Connor screamed as his electric field hummed with power around him, the scaly demon merely smirked before sending the spear-like end of his tail into the electrified dome, making the defense spark and sizzle, as if it was angry. He gritted his teeth as the breaching of the shield sent voltage through his body, but it finally retracted back into the bawling infant lying in the crib before Macreaus picked him up with his sharp claws and grinned.

"It doesn't help to have an empathic mother when I'm around…" He said in a threatening voice, before exploding into thousands of tiny particles and flying out the window, the wails of a child separated from his parents echoing as the demon left…

"Um… Piper?" Emma cringed as she looked out the front window.

"Yeah?" She answered absent mindedly, flicking through a magazine.

"Wyatt's bike is blue with the green handle bars, right?"

"Yeah, why?" Piper stood up from the couch and began walking towards Emma.

"Because Mrs. Noble's putting it in her dumpster…" She clenched her eyes shut, knowing that Piper was about to lose it. Instead of losing it, the witch took a deep breath and extended her arm out, managing to freeze the woman, who was reaching into her dumpster with a bike, from there.

"That crone had dumped her last kid's toy…" Piper growled, making Emma jump when she slammed the door.

Wyatt looked on as the mean old lady next door shoved his beloved bike into her big orange box, the little boy's lip quivered in anger before he realized that she was frozen and his Mommy was standing next to him,

"Mommy, you told me and Chris not to use our magics on other peoples," He looked up at Piper.

"Neighbours from hell are the exception," She answered and tapped her foot in annoyance.

"Do we vanish her if she's from that bad place?"

Piper knelt down and smiled at her son, "If only the entire world thought like a five year old boy, the world would be a better place…" She ruffled his hair before standing up and unfreezing Mrs. Noble and getting ready for a fight.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" She challenged.

Mrs. Noble didn't turn around until she had dropped the bike in the dumpster, "Your little toe rag wouldn't move his bike, so I did it for him," She smiled smugly.

"Who the hell do you think you are? Do you realize how much those things cost these days?"

"Oh, don't preach to me about parenting! From what I can see, you're a terrible mother!"

Piper's eyes widened with rage and her face contorted into one of fury, "How dare you! I-,"

"You curse in front of your children, I've never seen any mother use the "H" word so many times, your kids misbehave, and they don't respect their elders!"

"So, bad behaviour to you is when a child doesn't move something immediately when they're told,"

The neighbour sneered at her, "You can't really blame them, it's not the child's fault if they have an incompetent mother…"

Piper gasped in horror and froze the insulting woman, although she was tempted to blow her up. Emma had sensed her anger and ran out, standing next to her friend.

"Okay, your emotions are beginning to make me angry, what's she saying to piss you off so much?"

"Oh… Nothing, just trashing five years of raising children…" The angry witch gritted her teeth and unfroze the woman, who looked strangely at Emma.

"Where did you come from?" She looked Emma up and down.

"Um…" The psionic struggled for an answer until Piper jumped in.

"She's been standing there all this time, were you too senile to notice?" She spat.

Mrs. Noble sneered again, "I don't have to listen this…" She went to turn away, then stopped, "By the way, she…" She pointed at Emma, "Has to be like, the hundredth person to stay in your house, not a stable environment if you ask me!"

Piper's face went dark, "You have no idea what my life is like, you sad, lonely, bitter, twisted old woman! For your information, Emma is a highly respected teacher and is a great influence on my boys!"

Mrs. Noble growled and stomped back up her driveway, while Wyatt blinked and his bike reappeared next to him in a swirl of orbs. The neighbour turned round and Emma stepped in front of the bike so she wouldn't start another fight.

"Bitch…" The eldest Halliwell growled, Wyatt gaped at his mother cursing.

"What did you say?" He breathed.

"Bike! She said… go… put your bike away!" Emma beamed as she lied to her little roommate. Wyatt nodded and wheeled his bike up the driveway.

"We need you inside, the demon that Phoebe and Brennan ran into took Connor,"

Paige took her hand off Brennan's leg as she finished healing, she stood up then sat back down again, putting her hand on her lower back and taking a deep breath. Emma smirked slightly, knowing that her best friend hated having to live like this, especially wearing the maternity clothes.

"You know, if one kid would just pop out right now, I think I could handle that better. My orbing power is a god send these days,"

"You want help up to the attic sweetie?" Emma smiled.

"No thanks, I got it covered," She grinned before orbing out of the living room.

Emma sighed and stood up; she nodded towards the stairs, "You coming?" She asked Brennan, who has holding his head in his hands.

"I failed my son; I let that bastard take him!" He lashed out and punched the table in front of him, making a dent in Piper's coffee table and making his knuckles bleed.

Emma just shook her head, "How does Phoebe put up with you? I can't believe you're still this insecure! You'd go crazy every time Shal saved your ass during a mission, now get out of your self pity and help find your son!" She stormed off into the kitchen.

"I thought you were going upstairs?" He shouted.

"I had a brainwave. I need to make a very special potion,"

"Are you getting anything?" Phoebe hovered over Piper who was scrying.

"Do you see the crystal dropping? Pheebs, calm down, my kids have been kidnapped countless times and they're fine,"

"Yeah, and Wyatt almost turned evil!" She spat, before instantly recoiling, "I'm sorry, it's just that this is the first time that a demon has got him, unless you count a psycho mutant," The middle Halliwell growled.

"Wait a minute!" Paige suddenly shouted, "Why the hell are we scrying for the demon when Connor is with him?"

"Oh my God, you're right… Give me the crystal," Phoebe walked over to the table.

"Why?"

"I'm his parent, aren't I?" She argued.

"Then I'll do it," The sisters looked confused as they turned around to see Brennan.

"Really?" Paige said doubtfully.

Brennan ignored her and took the crystal off the table, wordlessly spinning the crystal around the map. Phoebe walked up to him and squeezed his shoulder, giving him a quick peck on the cheek, "Thanks…" She whispered, kissing his cheek. He smiled before turning back to the amethyst that had just dropped on the map.

He uttered the famous "successful scrying" words, "Found'em,"

Piper and Brennan appeared in a swirl of bright lights, causing the dark cave to light up for a split second as they appeared. Walking cautiously into the darkness, the Halliwell carried a bag of normal hand grenade potions while Brennan held one potion that looked like gold nail polish.

"Looking for me?" a voice said, Macreaus particled in with Connor in his arms, he looked surprised to see Piper instead of Phoebe, "Who are you?"

"I'm the aunt!" She said simply, releasing a golden glow from her hands and into the ground, making the scaly demon fall to the ground while Connor stayed in mid air, he was levitating! "Brennan, throw Emma's potion," The Mulwray complied and threw the gold substance at the demon on the ground, a silver cloud of gas floating up from the mixture.

"Phoebe, it's all clear now," He shouted, and his wife appeared in the same swirl of lights that he had come in. Connor giggled in the air and floated over to his mother, who, for once, wasn't sick around this demon. When Macreaus got up, he grinned at her.

"Didn't you learn your lesson from the last two times?"

"Didn't you realize the effects of the potion that got thrown at you?" She replied innocently, "See, with all the stuff I found about you, by friend, who's an expert on potions, managed to figure out your secret," She wore a look of pity, "The only reason you affect empaths in the way you do is because you are constantly in pain, that's how you were bred. But thanks to that little potion, its blocks you from all my psychic senses, you'd think that be a good thing, but…" She hit him with a psionic blast and he flew across the cave, smacking against the wall, "It's hard bare all that pain by yourself, isn't it?"

"Pheebs, let's get outta here before he recovers!" Piper urged, leading the two of them out of the cave…

Piper stood in the doorway of the room that her sons shared, she stifled a laugh when Chris turned over and snorted slightly, while Chris slept peacefully, that was how her youngest son did most things, quietly. She blew them both a kiss before closing the door, on her way to the bedroom, Leo orbed in right in front of her.

"I'm sorry I'm so late," He kissed her on the cheek, "Meetings, schedules… Who would think a school would be so busy at the weekend?"

She smiled, "I'm just glad you're here now. Leo, am I a bad mother?"

"What?" He stroked her hair as he walked into the bedroom, "You're a great Mom, who's telling you different?"

"Nothing… I just had a stupid fight with Mrs. Noble," Saying that name felt like acid on her tongue as she looked out into the dark street.

"All you need to do is look at our boys to see what an amazing mother you are. Piper, if you were a horrible mother, I'd have taken them away from you a long time ago, but you're caring, kind, sensitive, and most of all loving!"

She turned to him and smiled, "I love you…"

He looked surprised, "Where did that come from?"

"Just that you can make me feel better no matter what," She sat on his knee on the bed.

Leo smiled at his wife, "I love you too,"

I know there was a lack of Paige in his chapter, but she's in the next one, and…

The twins will be born in Chapter 15! I know it seems quite early, but I have a way around that! It will be called "Double, Double, Twins In Trouble"

NEXT TIME: A clan of shape shifters makes an attempt to steal Paige's unborn children. Piper continues to clash with Mrs. Noble and makes the mistake of using magic, Phoebe fights with Jason and Emma is barely saved by Grant from an unknown force. Evan senses a presence in the hospital when going with Zach and Jenna to visit Pam.

Chapter 13 "Hunting In A Ghost Town" will be up soon!