Phoebe turner – Thanks! Glad you liked it!

Prince Halliwell – Thanks! Lol, that's where I got my inspiration from! And I can assure you that Phoebe isn't pregnant, not until the sequel. And he could stay nameless forever, could he?

Piperfairy – You'll see about Pam! And there's a twist with Evan! Lol, it's about time, isn't it? And that neighbour's a bitch! Lol, your countdown…

Princess Pinky – Lol, I think that Emma's just sometimes a little too good, so I had to throw in something like that! And yes, there's going to be consequences for Piper… major consequences. And no, Mrs. Noble is the actual name of their neighbour! It's at the start of the season 6 finale.

Ravenix – The marathon is in the next chapter, and you'll find out about the twins soon! Lol, he couldn't stay that way forever now, could he?

Unique deflection – Yeah, they'll start using their powers quite quickly. And yeah, he expelled Pamela's soul from her body.

Aniaka – Lol, I'm glad you liked! And you'll like this chapter, Brennan isn't in it! Yeah, I always thought that Paige would be the one most resistant to motherhood, that's why I added the drama of the abortion. And Piper's going to be getting into a lot of trouble, but it'll be a storyline for her and her family! Heh… you never know, it might be Prue!

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Hunting In A Ghost Town

Paige ran into the attic, her pregnant stomach completely gone, she ran over to the book before flipping frantically through it, looking for a spell that she knew wasn't there, one that would save her. The witchlighter began to shake as the muffled footsteps got louder; she turned her head away as the door became a shower of wood splinters. Macreaus gave her his chilling smile, wheeling his arm in a circular motion and preparing to fire a concussive blast that would throw Paige out the window.

Before it could leave his hand, he was blasted across the room by a light that pierced his back. It sent him into a table, reducing it to rubble, but he got up and growled at Phoebe and Piper, Phoebe had another psionic blast ready to fire.

He got up quickly, sending a large energy ball towards the two Charmed Ones, the oldest managed to freeze it with a quick hand gesture and her younger sister redirected it with telempathy. The demon particled out before the energy ball blew up most of the floor, he reappeared behind the two witches, raising his spiked tail with lightning speed and pierced Phoebe's lower back, the bloody tip flying right through her body and appearing through her stomach. The middle Charmed One coughed up a mound of blood before dying and falling to the floor. Piper didn't have time to react to her dead sister, as Macreaus threw an energy ball at her chest, pounding off her and sending the eldest witch into the wall, her bleeding chest slowly diminishing her life. He turned to Paige, who was holding back the tears for her fallen family. Before Macreaus fired a concussive blast, sending Paige into one of the dressers filled with potion ingredients, the shelves fell on top of her along with countless glass jars, her face were heavily cut and her back was riddled with wood shafts and glass shards.

The assassin grinned, looking around it his work. He had killed the Charmed Ones, brutally, he was about to particle out, when the entire scene froze and the three Halliwell sisters came out of the shadows.

"Paige, I know these astral simulations are supposed to help, but it's really disturbing to see us dying like this," Piper looked obscurely at the identical dead woman on the ground.

"Yeah, and why am I always the one of get the tail?" Phoebe knelt down and prodded at the dead body next to her.

A very pregnant Paige rolled her eyes and clicked her fingers, making the corpses and the demon in mid particle out; disappear in flashes of red light, "Do you realize how long it took to create these astral copies? Tons of research and correct potion ingredients! Not to mention having to word the spell properly!"

"Well, just because they aren't real it doesn't mean the damage isn't, my dresser is ruined!" The eldest sister gestured to the pile of rubble that was made up of glass and wood.

"I was just trying to help…" The baby sister sulked.

"Aw…" Phoebe got up and put an arm around Paige's shoulder, "I love your astral games, sweetie," She stroked her sister's hair, "Even if they are a little…"

"Gory?" Piper offered.

"Graphic…" Phoebe shot a look at her, "Can you give me a lift? I would like to get home before my son goes to sleep,"

Paige nodded, "No problem!" She began to glow with orbs as they spread to Phoebe, making them both disappear. Piper looked around her messed up attic, frowning and putting her hands on her hips,

"Oh sure, leave me with the clean up!"

Later that night, Pamela sat in the chair next to her body; her mother was hovering around her. She finally came out of her concentration and cracked, "I can't do this! How can I control my body when I'm not in it?"

"Pam, this isn't about you controlling your body, it's about working it a little," Prue replied calmly, sitting down on the bed.

"Look, I've never been into the whole "Mind, body and soul" thing, so cut the crap and explain to me,"

The deceased witch smiled at her daughter, "You have your Great Gram's bluntness," She said wistfully, Pamela just rolled her eyes and Prue quickly moved on to avoid another outburst, "Even though you're not in your body anymore, a part of your soul still lives in there, all you need to do is tap into it!"

The young Halliwell's eyes went past her mother and to the people, "I'll tap later, but there are people here to stare at me," She smiled wryly at the three teens that had just walked into her hospital room.

"Wow… She needs her hair done," Jenna frowned at her comatose friend, referring to her fringe that had grown over her eyes.

"Thank you!" Pamela exclaimed, no one had thought to even cut her hair.

Evan's bowed head suddenly shot up as if he had heard something, the ghost hunter frowned and narrowed his eyes as surveyed the room. His eyes resting a little too long at the place where Pamela and Prue were sitting, if the Charmed One didn't any better, she would have thought that he had made eye contact with her.

"What's wrong?" Zach asked his brother with a frown.

He continued to stare into Prue's eyes; she didn't back down, "Nothing…"

"Who is that?" The witch was instantly suspicious of her daughter's visitor.

"Him? Oh, he's Zach's little brother, a little weird of you ask me…" Pamela replied.

"Well Zach, here's your chance to ask her out! She's unconscious!" Jenna smirked.

"Shut up, Jen," The telepath replied.

The ghostly teen's eyes widened at her friend's "confession" but as she looked back, it all made sense, she finally understood all the little comments Jenna had made over the past year. All of the little glances, smiles, it all added up! Zach liked her; she had no idea how to react.

Prue smirked at the rainbow of emotions going over her child's face, remembering the first time she had feelings for Andy, they had been six at the time though, so it was slightly different. She had bumped her head when they were playing and he had said

"I'll kiss it better,"

She rolled her eyes, even back then she was smitten with him. Who would have thought their relationship would end like this? Her being stuck in the afterlife and him living a hollow life as a whitelighter.

Evan continued to stare at the chair Pamela was sitting in; she glared back at him and was surprised when she got a scowl in response, "Can he see us?"

"I don't know, there's something not right about him,"

Paige orbed into her office at Social Services, she had left her purse here and had remembered so late because she had gone straight to Piper's after work to work on the simulation conjuring spell. "There you are…" She said to herself, seeing her small mint green purse on her chair, she went to grab it when a voice caught her attention.

"Paige? I didn't even see you come in," Paige's assistant frowned at her boss.

"Oh… Hi Roxy! Yeah, I tend to do that to a lot of people! I just came by to pick up my purse,"

The tanned woman frowned, "What? You're halfway through your pregnancy! You shouldn't be doing things like that!"

"Yeah, I know, but I left car keys in my purse so I wouldn't be able to get to work tomorrow without them!" Paige grinned nervously.

"Then how did get here?"

"Oh… my… sister drove me; she's waiting in the parking lot. Well, I gotta go!" She went to leave, but her assistant called her from her desk outside Paige's office.

"There's some mail on your desk that you night as well look at if you're here," She said.

The witchlighter mulled it over then turned back to her desk, picking up the various envelopes and looking at them one by one. Roxy smirked as she crept up behind her boss, conjuring an athame in her hand behind her back,

"Did you file the Taylor papers like I asked?" Paige asked without turning around.

"That's the least of your problems…" Roxy said in a threatening tone, which the youngest Charmed One didn't process.

"Yeah, I know, I've still got a lot of other stuff to do, but I really want to get the Taylor's sorted out, you know?"

"Something else needs sorted out…" Roxy replied.

This time Paige caught it slightly, she frowned but still didn't turn around, "Are you okay?"

"Never better…" She replied, raising the weapon above her head and getting ready to strike, to take Paige's powers and her children's too. The witchlighter frowned as the mail suddenly slipped her fingers, she gasped as her porceline skin became see though and her body began the change into water! She gaped at her watery hand before she turned into water completely; Paige turned round to try and explain to her assistant, but gasped when Roxy brought an athame down through her body. She slid through her boss and landed on the other side of the table as Paige returned to her original form. One of the baby's had saved her!

"Good girl…" She patted her stomach lovingly, "I'll take care of the rest," The witch suddenly went into a maternal mode and used her power to pin her "assistant" against the wall, "Show yourself!" She bellowed, tightening her hand slightly to apply pressure on the demon. The evil being writhed slightly before its form changed and her assistant became a dirty man wearing rags for clothes. "Shapeshifter…" Paige groaned, making a swift arm gesture to her left and making the demon fly to the left and hit the ground, "Potion!" She called for the stun potion that she kept in her purse in case of emergencies and it appeared in her hand encased in orbs. She threw it at the ground, a pink gas flew out and went up the recovering demon's nostrils and he fell to he ground again.

"Just my luck…"

"Pam just isn't the same company when she's in a coma…" Jenna mused as she sat down in a chair, while Pamela wore a shocked expression and shouted in her friends face, even though she couldn't hear it.

"Oh… When I get out of this coma, you, Jenna Hollywood, will pay dearly for that!"

As she said that, Evan turned his head from looking at the spot where Prue was, to where Jenna was sitting, she just gave him a strange look.

"I know I'm pretty, but you don't need to stare…" She said with a cringe.

"C'mon, lets go…" Zach said in a sad tone.

The three of them got up to leave, but before he left the room, Evan made sure his brother wasn't watching before pulling out a glowing sphere. He glared at it and the tool began to glow a purple colour. Prue and Pamela watched on in confusion until he looked straight at them and grinned, "I knew it…" He said.

"Oh my God…" Prue gasped, finally realizing what the sphere was as a spear of purple light shot from it and headed straight for her daughter, "Pam, look out!" She screamed, pushing Pamela out of the way and the purple light hit her. The deceased witch began to glow purple before she became a wisp of light and shot back into the ball.

"I'll be back…" He said threateningly to a dumbfounded Pamela who sat shocked on the floor. The ghost hunter walked out, taking his new prisoner in the form of a Charmed One with him…

"Thanks Madeline!" Emma beamed to the magic store owner as she left with a bag of dragon root; she was testing new potions that she was going to put into the senior's course next year. These potions would be very complicated and dangerous and she would need to test them herself and clear it with Leo before she changed the course.

The psionic walked briskly along the sidewalk, cursing herself for parking so far away from the shop in the first place. A chilling gust of wind made her auburn hair blow up into her face as she walked down the lone road. This is the last time I come out for potion ingredients at this time of night! Emma thought to herself as she picked up the pace, but the psionic stopped in her tracks when her powers alerted her to a presence in the alley she was standing at the edge of.

"Help! Someone help me!" The man's voice shouted.

Emma looked around to make sure no one else was looking before igniting a psionic blast for light and hugging the bag of dragon root nervously. She looked around the area, peering her head round every dumpster, trash can, and black bag she could see, Emma decided that San Francisco had too much garbage after seeing how much there was in just one alley.

Her power of intuition aided her as she rolled out of the way of a glowing stream of purple light. Emma got back to her feet after dropping her dragon root and tried to face her attacker, but all that could be seen was a cloaked figure and a glowing purple sphere in their hand. She attempted to fire the blast that she had created for a light, but before the mental energy to make contact, the sphere flashed purple again and the attack changed course and was absorbed by the ball.

"Nor alive… nor dead…" A deep demonic voice echoed from underneath the hood, "Just…being…" The sphere fired another shot of purple light which struck Emma in chest; she screamed and fell to her knees, clutching her head from the pain that was going through her body, "Pathetic morsel… Afraid to accept their fate… you shall defy destiny no more!"

The being walked over to the cowering to psionic, who was shaking on the ground from the agony that coursed through her bones. Emma saw a purple light get brighter out of the corner of her eye, she was finished. But a gushing noise made her eyes flash open and she looked up to see her attacker groan in agony as a large stream of sand blasted him into a wall and made him drop the purple sphere.

The psionic looked up see her savior and managed a smile wearily when she saw Grant with his arms outstretched and dribbles of sand falling from his palm. The cloaked figure got up to his feet and growled at the Elemental before disappearing in a flash of lavender light, leaving the sphere behind.

"Hey…" He helped his girlfriend to her feet, "Are you okay?" He brushed his thumbs across her cheeks and looked into her eyes. She breathed heavily and suddenly jumped on him, hugging Grant a tightly as possible as she rambled into his shoulder.

"Oh God! I thought I was finished! Where did you come from?"

"You were supposed to meet me at the restaurant. I called your house and cell and got no answer to I sensed for you. Why didn't you fight?"

"He… he…" She Emma struggled to remember the last few minutes with a throbbing headache, "He used a ball… or something,"

Grant noticed the ball on the ground; its glow was now weakening as it had been separated from master. He picked it up and looked at it strangely, shaking it in his hand, "You recognize it?" he showed it to Emma, who, upon looking at it, winced in pain and squinted her eyes as the ball began to glow violet again, "Maybe I should just keep this in my pocket…" He stuffed it in his jacket before taking Emma's hand and sanding out…

Piper yawned as she flicked another page of her magazine. Both she and Phoebe were guarding Paige's bedroom after checking the Book of Shadows and seeing that the shapeshifter that had attacked her was part of a tribe, so there would be more. She glanced up from the couch in her sister's apartment to see Phoebe on the balcony outside, running a hand through her long brown hair as she yelled down the phone to her boss and ex-boyfriend.

"You can't just call me from Tokyo and demand a rewrite of tomorrows… no, today's column! Even I were to do what you asked, you really think the printers are going to "stop the presses" just to put my column in? Especially since the morning edition is out in another three hours!" She scowled as she listened to Jason's shouts on the other line, Phoebe gaped as she listened, "My writing was crap? The only crap is the one that's on the other end of my line, you jackass! Oh yeah? Go to hell? Been there, done that!" She said defiantly before slamming her flip phone, "That arrogant, piece of sh-," She cut herself off when she saw Piper suddenly leaping off the couch and into Paige's room, Phoebe quickly opened the glass door and run back inside to help.

As the two sisters burst through, they saw a woman identical to Phoebe holding a pillow over Paige's face, slowly cutting off her air and smothering her. The eldest reacted immediately and blew up the attacker, making it take its true form before dying, which was a man that fit the description of her youngest sister's initial attacker.

"Oh my God…" Piper whispered, running to the side of the bed and pulling the pillow off her now unconscious sister's face, "We need to do CPR!"

"I'll get her chest!" Phoebe volunteered, bounding up onto the bed and beginning to push on Paige's chest while Piper blocked her nose and breathed air into her lungs. They continued this for another thirty seconds before the pregnant witch spluttered to life,

"UGH! What did you have for dinner?" She exclaimed, sitting bolt upright.

"Lasagna... with some garlic bread on the side…" Piper added sheepishly.

Phoebe smiled, "She's back,"

"Next time, just call Leo," Paige groaned, flopping back into her bed.

Piper's cell phone began to vibrate and dance across the coffee table in the living room; she walked back into the main area of the apartment and picked it up, seeing the words "Emma Del" on the screen.

"Hi," She greeted her friend.

"Hi! Look, Piper, don't worry, but… the book isn't here," Emma said, waiting for the witch to go crazy.

"I know, I've got here at Paige's. Why do you need it?"

"Oh… No reason," She lied, "What are you doing at Paige's so late?"

"Oh, she was attacked by a clan of shapeshifters; we're guarding her until morning,"

Emma's voice seemed to heighten, "You mean you're not coming home?" She squeaked.

Piper frowned, "No, why?"

"No, it's nothing, Grant's staying tonight anyway to I'll be fine,"

"Why wouldn't you be?"

"I gotta go! Bye!" The line went dead, and left Piper confused…

"Damn those witches!" The leader of the shapeshifter clan spat as he felt another one of his men being vanquished by the Charmed Ones. He was a thin, scrawny demon that wasn't really dressed any better than his minions, his teeth were yellow and he had short black hair that barely covered his scalp.

"They've seen through the disguise of a co-worker, even as a sister, what else can we use?" his final willing minion asked him.

"We can use one form that is sure to stun the Charmed One from her senses," He smirked before his body began to change, his thin black hair becoming thick and blonde, his clothes becoming a pair of jeans and a tight black t-shirt, and his smirk becoming a warm grin,

"We use the appearance of her former lover, the father of her children," He grinned at his minion before shimmering out in Aidan's form…

Piper got out of her car after spending a sleepless night at Paige's, she was about to climb the stairs when she saw Emma's car getting a ticket from the patrol guy and Mrs. Noble looking on with a smirk, "What is going on?" Piper stomped over to her neighbour.

"Your permanent house guest parked her car in my driveway!" The plump woman spat.

"She wouldn't have to if those idiots who empty your dumpster hadn't put it in front of our driveway instead of yours!" Piper pointed angrily at her.

Mrs. Noble gaped and turned to the patrol guy, "This is what I have to put up with!"

The man just sighed and slapped the ticket onto the windshield of Emma's car, but Piper froze both of them and remembered a spell from the book.

"These words will travel through the minds,

Of stubborn parties and unbind,

The thoughts too rigid to be kind,

A compromise they'll disentwine!"

A swirl of lights went across the patrol guy and Piper unfroze her two victims, the man blinked a couple of times before answering, "You know, it really is your fault that your neighbour was forced to park here, I should be punishing you for not paying attention when your dumpster was dropped off,"

Piper grinned at Mrs. Noble as she walked up the steps to her house, watching the woman's mouth open and close in shock. As she went in the door, Piper was sure to glare at the newly planted flowers in her neighbours garden, making all of then die instantly…

Paige unlocked her apartment, struggling with the bag of groceries in her arm as she pushed the door open, but she dropped them as soon as she saw who was sitting in the chair, the spaghetti sauce mix smashed as soon as it hit the floor, "Aidan?" She breathed, close to tears.

The blonde haired father of her children sat up silently and walked across the room towards her, his green eyes full of regret and love. He put his hand onto her face and pulled her into a passionate kiss, Paige was rendered stunned to this but returned it all the same, leaning up as much as she could with her pregnant stomach. Her eyes suddenly flashed open and her face contorted into a painful one as she fell to the ground with her chest bleeding from the heart.

Aidan smirked at her as he held a blood stained athame to his lips, licking the blood off it then glowing brightly as the powers of the three witches entered him. He turned back into his true form,

"Thanks for the powers…" He said, shimmering out and leaving Paige and her children to die…

The shapeshifter leader shimmered back into his lair with a smirk playing on his bloody lips. The minion looked at him strangely before speaking, "Did you get her?" He asked, but he knew from the expression on his boss's face that he had. The leader was about to speak, when his minion was blown up by something in the shadows, he turned around to see all three Charmed Ones ready to kill him.

"That's impossible! I killed you!" He boomed, pointing a shaky hand at Paige.

Phoebe frowned, "What? Oh… you mean her?" She pointed to the ground, where a dead Paige with a chest wound had just appeared, "Astral simulations are great, aren't they? My sister invented them," Paige clicked her fingers and the simulation vanished in a flare of red light.

"She's been at Magic School all day…" Piper smirked, "You should really more attention,"

"Yeah dude…" Paige began, "The guy left me pregnant five months ago to play "Kings and Queens" I wouldn't just jump back into his arms. Although there's something else I'd like to do to him…" She growled absent mindedly, her older sisters noticed this.

The youngest Charmed One threw out her arm aggressively, sending the demon into the wall and he landed hard, "That was for trying to kill me…" She walked over to the demon trying to crawl away and threw a potion at him. He writhed in agony on the floor as the fires took him, sending him to hell with a bang, "And that was for trying to kill my children…"

She walked back over to Piper and Phoebe, who were stunned by their sister's ferocity, "What was that?" The eldest gasped.

"That was me giving up on love; it just gets me stabbed in the heart, no pun intended,"

"What?" Phoebe exclaimed.

"You heard. Lets just get out of here, I've had enough," She took her sisters by the hand and orbed out, leaving them both shocked by Paige's proclamation…

NEXT TIME: Lexa and Jesse visit San Francisco and give Brennan some shocking news about his wife, Piper begins to pay for her misuse of magic with Social Services investigating her skills as a parent. Phoebe is determined to make Paige believe in love again, and Emma begins to hear the call of the empath.

Chapter 14 "Something Mutated This Way Comes" should be up soon!