Prince Halliwell – Prue and Pam are on another plane where they can't be seen, even by witches. I don't have a name for the sequel yet, but there will be one! And you're exactly right; one twin has dominant whitelighter side, while the other has a dominant elemental side! There's isn't much of Jesse and Lexa in this chapter, but they're in the next one!

Unique deflection – Thanks! And what those two have to tell Brennan is a MAJOR twist!

Phoebe turner – Glad you enjoyed it! And your questions will be answered!

Piperfairy – Lol, it is pretty obvious by now isn't it? And Paige will be fine, don't worry!

Princess Pinky – Paige wasn't pregnant because the real Paige had programmed them so they would have the best chance of winning against the simulation, and having a pregnant Paige isn't exactly the best way to win a battle. I know! I'm tempted to bind his power this instant! But I won't although something will be happening to someone else's powers… There isn't much JL stuff in this chapter, but there will be in the next chapter!

Kendallpaigecharity – Thanks! Lol, I meant to confuse people with the simulations!

Phiona – I didn't include glamouring because it's only until recently that the show has remembered she has it for a power. Thanks!

Aniaka – Bring Aidan back? Is that an order? Humph… Lol, I love that tantrum, I usually just bang my head off the keyboard. Lol, I hate that dumpster, Phoebe was right, it is an eyesore! Shalimar will be making an appearance soon, trust me! Ah… violence solves all problems, don't you think? And I don't know what I'm going to call the sequel yet, but it will exist! Don't worry!

Something Mutated This Way Comes

Emma hissed through teeth and rubbed her temples as another wave of emotions crashed against her mind, "Give me the damn potion already!" She yelled. Paige waddled down from her kitchen with a steaming mug that she had just poured from a pot on the stove.

"Okay, this should bind your powers temporarily until we can find a permanent fix," She handed the scolding cup to her best friend and she downed it instantly, sighing in relief.

"Ah… that's better," The psionic turned to Paige, "Sorry to be bothering you with all this,"

"Are you kidding? This is great! I've been looking for something to do ever since I went on maternity leave!" She beamed.

"I'm glad to see my pain is bringing you so much joy," Emma replied wryly before yelping in agony and putting down the cup on the coffee table, stopping to rub her temples again.

"You're still getting these hits? But that's the strongest binding potion I've ever made! The next step is stripping them permanently!"

She winced again and doubled over, "If these emotions don't stay out of my mind, then that may be my wish!"

"You know…" Paige began, ignoring her friend's pain, "This is awfully familiar, I had the same sort of trouble when I first became a whitelighter and got a charge. Maybe it's something like that?"

"I'm not whitelighter! Although I do fit the criteria…" She said, before sighing as the pain went away, "I am dead after all,"

The witchlighter frowned, "No, if it was a whitelighter call, your other powers wouldn't be affected. I'll look into it for you," She hugged Emma, "Don't worry; you go to Magic School and try to do your job,"

The potions teacher gave her a look as if she was out of her mind, "What? All those teenage hormones give me a headache even when my empathy isn't stuck on the "on" switch!"

Paige rolled her eyes, "Okay, but I'm going to check this out. You just stay here and try to block out those feelings,"

"What going to leave me here alone? What if my mystery attacker strikes?"

"So… you don't want to be left alone, but you don't won't to go the place where you'll be the safest?" Emma nodded frantically, "Choose, now," The psionic groaned and took her friend's hand, "That's what I thought!" They both orbed out…

"Please… Just leave me alone!" The thin blonde haired woman crouched into the corner of the warehouse in fear as her attackers advanced on her. They were led by a dark skinned woman wearing a black suit; she smirked as she walked forward.

"Oh, c'mon, you can do better than just scream! Show me what you got!" The woman coaxed.

The blonde girl stood tall, "Alright, but you asked for this!" her eyes flashed mustard yellow before she began to jump around, sticking to each surface that she touched.

"Damn arachnid ferals…" The woman in the black suit cursed as her target clambered around on the ceiling.

"Come and get me!" The blonde was now the one doing the coaxing, as she lowered herself down slightly with a sticky thread growing from her palm, then using the web to pull herself back up. The dark skinned woman clenched her fists and signaled to her henchmen, who brought out guns from their long trench coats and began to fire rapidly. Using her heightened senses and reflexes, the feral was able jump and weave through the support beam that held the building up while managing to dodge bullets at the same time. But her luck ran out when she swung too low and a bullet grazed her arm, making her let go of the sticky vine she was swinging from and fall to the ground.

"Your luck just ran out, spidey…" She smirked at the unconscious form on the floor.

"No, that would be you!" A man's voice came from the top of the building. Everyone looked up to see Brennan descend with clouds of sparks flying from his hands. He landed on the ground, making a soft padding sound as his shoes hit the floor. The gunmen readied to shoot, but Brennan was quicker and propelled himself into the air with his powers and fired two electrical arcs from a safer area, knocking out the two men and leaving the leader by herself.

Brennan jumped back down from the higher ground and stared her down, until she activated her power and began to glow a golden colour. He suddenly realized why she looked so familiar, this was the mutant that had tricked them and tried to steal Connor when he was born.

"Rebecca?" He said in disbelief.

She smirked and lowered her deflective aura, "Brennan… nice to see you again," She began to walk towards him, "How have you been with… Frankie?"

"Phoebe." He replied coldly, "And I have nothing to say to you, you tried to murder my wife and steal my son,"

Her eyes widened, "Wow, so bitter, aren't we?" She twirled her hair, "Can't we just put that in the past? We both know I would have been a way better mother to your child, and a way better partner to you." The mutant said with a smirked as she moved even closer.

There was a sudden whooshing sound and Brennan looked up to see his wife descending quickly with her levitation power and landing not so smoothly next to him. Phoebe placed a well aimed kick in Rebecca's stomach and she stumbled back.

"Why don't you go back to the street corner Ashlocke found you on?" The Halliwell suggested with a cheeky grin.

"Why you…" She growled, running at Phoebe and aiming for a kick on the chest, but the psionic blocked it by crossing her arms in the shape of an X and catching the attack. Rebecca then aimed for a punch; Phoebe grabbed it before it hit her face but she kept her arm going and caused the witch to lose her balance, forcing her to levitate into a horizontal position and land on all fours.

"Aw… C'mon, Frankie. You can better than that, I've seen your file," She smirked as Phoebe returned to her feet.

My file? She thought to herself for a second, "It's… Phoebe!" She snarled, firing a light of mental energy from her forehead. Rebecca began to glow golden and the psionic blasted bounced off her and came back at its master. Phoebe quickly ducked and Brennan sprung into action, blasting it with a tesla coil.

"Damn!" She cursed, before running out of the building, leaving her two henchmen behind.

"You guys are so cute, kicking ass as husband and wife…" Phoebe ignited another psionic blast and Brennan's hands sparked with electricity.

"Who's there?" Brennan called out, looking to see where the voice was coming from.

There was a man's laugh, "Relax man," A bright flash caused the couple to shield their eyes from the light and when they turned back, Lexa Pierce and Jesse Kilmartin stood in front of them!

"You brought an Elder down to help me?" Emma glared heatedly at Sandra.

"Look, Emma, as much as I'd like to help you, I'm too busy here…" Leo began to explain, "Mainly, trying to find someone to cover your classes today!"

"Emma… I know you're not very fond of our kind-," Sandra began.

"Not fond?" The psionic stormed over to a couch in the Magic School Great Hall, "You tried to recycle me when I got a second chance at life!"

"You did what?" Leo questioned his fellow Elder is disbelief.

She sighed, "It was all a misunderstanding,"

"Yeah, one that almost got me killed!" Emma spat.

"Look, like it or not, she's the only one here to help you with your powers," Leo injected, but she clenched her eyes shut and winced in pain, doubling over from the emotions that were slamming her head.

"I can't run the marathon tomorrow if I'm like this!" She exclaimed before sighing, "What the hell… I'll try anything right now," Emma admitted defeat and the Elder smiled.

"I'll take it from here, Leo," She said, letting him orb out to find a replacement teacher.

Sandra turned to the witch and gave her a warm smile, "Something very special is happening to you Emma. You have the chance to do some great things!"

Emma sighed as the pain went away, "What are you talking about?"

"Destiny has put you on an amazing road! It's up to you to follow it!"

She rolled her eyes, "Cut the crap and give me a straight answer," Emma snapped.

"Your powers acting like this is the first sign of then maturing and you being to ready to become an empath!"

"What are you talking about? I'm already an empath!"

Sandra kept smiling and shook her head, "You have the powers, but not the attributes. You see, empaths were originally immortal beings who live on earth, helping those who were in great pain and trouble, but empathy has somehow become a power that witches possess. So, we've had to move with the times and this first sign means you're ready for your first charge,"

The wave of emotions hit her again and Emma winced in agony, "I will try anything! I just want this to stop!"

"Then you need to focus, Emma. Somewhere in the chaos of all those emotions, lies the feeling of your fist charge. You just need to sift through them and find the one that calls out to you the most," Emma gave her a doubtful look, "Right now, you're fighting it, that is what's bringing you pain, not the emotions. If you can concentrate and calm down, you'll find what you're looking for…"

The potions teacher gave Sandra another look before crossing her legs on the sofa and closing her eyes, she concentrated, separating the cloud of emotions and trying to find clarity. It was there Emma found it, the most powerful emotions within the bunch, she could sense that whoever it was on the verge of a breakdown. Her eyes flashed open and she grabbed Sandra's hand, "Orb. Now." The psionic ordered, the Elder smiled in approval and carried them away in a swirl of orbs…

"Is it true that a teenager under your care is currently a comatose patient and the Memorial?" The social worker asked, she wore a sensible suit and her black hair was in a tight bun. She scribbled down on the clipboard as her colleague inspected the living room that they were sitting in.

"Um… Yeah, is was my-my-my… niece," Piper finally managed to stutter out as she pulled at the cushion that she had her arms wrapped tightly around, "Can I ask what this is all about?"

The woman looked up, her eyes looking Piper up and down from behind her half moon spectacles, "Well, a lot of your neighbours report disturbances. Things like noise and bright light, they make it sound as if you have a non stop party, and add that to the claim that appeared on our desk and you're due for an inspection,"

"Inspection of what?"

"To see if you and your husband are capable of looking after your children," She replied like a drone.

Piper's heart began to pound in her chest, just the thought of losing her children, the thought of them being put in a home, was enough for her to break down instantly. But the witch held her head high; she wasn't going to give these vultures the satisfaction of breaking her down.

"Is this fire damage?" The man who was looking around asked, as he moved the curtain slightly to reveal a scorch mark behind it.

Piper resisted the urge to scream. Of all the places he could look, under the rug, behind the mirror… and he had chosen the place where the demon had thrown a fireball at this morning,

"Okay, that's all folks," She said before outstretching her hands and freezing the two social workers on the spot, "Paige! Paige, I need you. Your nephews are in trouble!" Although it wasn't technically true, Piper knew that that would get her sister moving. Sure enough, the youngest Halliwell sister appeared in a cloud of orbs, immediately feeling queasy as she materialized.

"Ugh… I really need to lay off the orbing," She took a seat, not noticing the two people frozen, "It's making me nauseas every time I do it, but that's what I get for having charges,"

Piper put her hand to her forehead, "Paige… we can talk about your problems later, but mine are frozen and sitting next to you,"

Her sister frowned and looked to her side, "Who's the uptight gal?"

"A social worker…" She said in a cracked voice, "Seeing if I'm capable of being a mother,"

Paige continued to frown at the woman, "That's weird, I work at one of the biggest agencies in town and I've never seen this woman,"

Piper's brow furrowed, "You think they might be demons?"

The witchlighter shrugged, "Posing as a social worker then taking your kids away… sounds like a demon plan to me. You got any lollipops?"

"Um… In the kitchen, sweet jar, the kids usually have something when they come from school,"

"Great! I will be waiting in the kitchen for you!" She began to orb out, when Piper gestured wildly at the man staring at the scorch mark, "Oh…" Paige cringed, before grinning and standing up with the perfect plan in her mind.

"Let the object of objection,

Become but a dream,

As I cause the scene,

To be unseen,"

Blue-white lights covered up the black smudge on the wall, and when they had disappeared, so had the scorch mark. Paige looked extremely proud of herself, "I think you can take it from here!" She orbed out, beaming.

At that moment, the two of them unfroze and the man stared in disbelief at the spot where he was sure he had seen something damning. The woman also frowned at the spot behind the curtain before her colleague let the drape go; they both turned to Piper, who wore an innocent smile,

"I don't see anything…"

Emma walked down the busy New York street, pushing past all the people that were talking in the opposite direction while looking at the massive buildings that surrounded her. Sandra walked next to her, but instead of the usual Elder attire, she was wearing something that fitted the average woman of what age she looked, the blonde haired woman wore black pants with black high heels while her top half was covered by a thick suede jacket she was wearing, for once, the Elder blended in perfectly.

"How am I supposed to find this woman in all this chaos?" Emma spoke rather loudly so she could be heard.

"The fact that you can tell it's a woman should tell you that you're closer than you think. She's here somewhere," Sandra replied.

The psionic glanced at her angelic companion, "Wow, you Elders should wear normal clothes more often; you're a lot less intimidating that way,"

The Elder looked down at her clothes, "Really? You think we are intimidating in our usual attire?"

Emma let out a chuckle, "Yeah! Who knows what you could be hiding under those robes!" She laughed; even Sandra managed a slight grin.

"It has been some time since I wore mortal clothes…" She seemed to be thinking, "Maybe I shall adopt your way of thinking!"

Emma was about to respond when she felt a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach. She could sense that the woman she was looking for was close and she needed help, any help. Just then, a woman came out of a shop, carrying four large brown paper bags, she had red-brown frizzy hair and had large bags under her eyes, it seemed as if she hadn't slept in days! Some bumped into her on the Manhattan sidewalk and she dropped all of her groceries, making everything fall out onto the ground. Emma was hit with that same feeling and she knew that this woman was the one she had been looking for.

"Here, let me help you…" She offered, bending down and beginning to pick up oranges and jars, things that were close to rolling onto the road.

The woman gave her a grateful smile, "Thank you… not many people would stop,"

"I'm here to help," She replied, looking around for Sandra to see that she had gone. Emma smirked at the fact that the Elder had left, "Yeah, I'm definitely here to help…"

"What are you guys doing here?" Phoebe took a seat in their living room.

"We came to see our godson!" Jesse grinned at her as he and Lexa sat across from her, "And that we've been hearing about groups catching mutants and… well…" He trailed off, "I think that explains it,"

"Where did Sparky run off to?" Lexa asked with a frown, as her old "frienemy" had left as soon as they had appeared at the warehouse.

"He had to pick up some at the hospital," The psionic looked at her watch, "He should be back soon though. How long are you guys staying?"

The two mutants shared a look, "Um… Probably for about a week, we have to some stuff to take care of and we need to discuss something with Brennan," Lexa explained.

Phoebe cocked her brow, "What about?"

"Just some boring shop talk," Jesse replied quickly while the Charmed One narrowed her eyes. Something about their story didn't fit; she decided to have a little probe about in their minds to see what was really going on. Before she had a chance, the baby monitor began to filter Connor's cries through itself,

"Excuse me for a minute…" She smiled and ran up the stairs just as Brennan walked in the door. The two Mutant X members on the couch shared another glance before calling their friend over.

"Brennan… could we talk to you for a sec?" Lexa asked with a careful tone.

"Uh… sure," He walked over to couch with his hands in his back pockets and sat down, "What's up?" Jesse reached into his jacket and handed his friend a folder, Brennan scanned the front and name "Halliwell, Patricia" was on the front. He frowned at it, wasn't Patricia, Phoebe's mother's full name? "What is this?"

"We stormed an old storage place a while back, and we found all these files from patients at Genomex," Lexa explained, "It says that Patty went in for gene therapy while she was with child, and by the dates on the file, it looks like she was pregnant with Phoebe…"

Jesse then took over, "Adam also said that they pumped her with so much meds that… there was no chance that the baby wasn't affected by the therapy,"

Brennan gave the files a quick scan and stared at the red letters stamped across the paper "Extreme Caution" He looked up to his friends, "Phoebe's a mutant witch?"

Lexa shook her head, "No, a mutant witch is someone who was a mortal before they got their DNA tampered with. Phoebe's a mutated witch; her powers are unstable and unpredictable, growing at least once a month. If she had been mortal before the gene therapy, then she would be just like us, but she's probably more powerful than us and her sisters combined!"

"That's a good thing, right?" Brennan suggested, "It means she can take care of most of the demons that attack,"

Jesse gave him a pitiful look, "It's highly doubtful that she would be able to keep control of all of her powers. They could overpower her and eventually lead to her self-destruction,"

He groaned and shook his head vigorously, "No, if Phoebe had all these powers, how would she hide them from us, me?"

"She hid her Charmed status from us for a long time, do you not remember that?" Lexa chipped in, Brennan knew she was right but he didn't want to admit it.

"Hey!" Phoebe beamed as she walked down the stairs with Connor, not noticing her husband slip the file behind a cushion, "I think he just sensed his godparents here and wanted a little visit!" She smiled again, but this time she noticed Brennan's hurt expression, "Honey, what's wrong?"

"Oh… Nothing," He smiled, moving over slightly to let Phoebe sit down and to cover up the folder.

As he watched her play with his son, Brennan found it unbelievable might lose control of her powers and fight against them. She smiled with so much joy as she watched Lexa hold Connor awkwardly, he just couldn't let his wife become, a monster, some capable of harming their son.

He wouldn't…

Emma put the mug of coffee next to Janice, the woman she had helped on the street; she had also helped her charge back to her apartment with the groceries, not to mention paying the babysitter for her child. Janice had felt that making a cup of coffee for the kind stranger would be a way to thank her, but Emma had insisted on doing that too.

"Thank you for all your help…" The tired woman rubbed the back of her neck, "Although I still don't understand why you helped,"

Emma rubbed her coffee mug, "Um… I don't know, I just wanted to help…" She said sheepishly.

"Well…" She stood up and went over to her two year old son on the floor playing the toy blocks, "I'm glad you were there,"

She was suddenly hit with an empathic wave, she could sense that this woman felt so lost, as if she was drowning in her life and didn't know where to start to make things better. Emma was determined to fix this, mostly to stop her powers from acting up, but also just to help this poor woman.

"He's beautiful," She smiled at the toddler playing on the carpet.

"Thanks, his father split when he found out I was pregnant." She looked at her son lovingly, "But even with everything that's gone on in my life, he's still the best thing that's ever happened to me… Aren't you, Tom?" She grinned and tickled her boy's cheek, he giggled in response.

"How are things right now?"

The woman stood up and sighed, "Tight. I lost my job last week and I've had to break into Tom's college fund just to get by…"

"Oh no…" Emma said sympathetically, "How?"

"Because Tom had a fever and I was worried about him. I want to find another job, it's just hard… I don't have time for interviews and things are tough with a kid and all,"

The witch mulled it over for a while, "Okay, here's what we'll do. Do you have today's paper?" She nodded in response, "We'll circle some jobs that you think you could do and we'll take it from there,"

"I don't know, Emma…" Janice folded her arms.

"Janice, you're not alone anymore… I'm here to help you!"

She woman looked Emma straight in the eye, "Who are you?"

"I'm a friend…" She replied simply…

"Okay Mrs. Halliwell, we'll be in touch." The social worker said as Piper politely ushered them out of her home.

"Okay, you drive safely now, goodbye!" She closed the door, "Don't ever come back…" The witch muttered. Paige's head popped out from the kitchen doorway, she played with the lollipop in her mouth.

"Is it safe for me to come out now?"

Piper rolled her eyes, "Children stealing bastards are gone," She said cheerfully.

It was the witchlighter's turn to roll her eyes, "Piper… They really do have the kid's best interests at heart, but I agree, you are a great Mom and whoever doesn't think so should be shot,"

"Here here!" She raised an imaginary glass of wine before turning her head upwards, "I could really use some support from my husband right now!" Piper yelled, stomping her foot and making the ground shake with her power by accident.

Paige regained her balance after the tremor her sister had caused with her anger, "Piper, as one of the children stealing bastards, I can tell you that bringing your house down when you're pissed is not a good thing,"

The eldest sister sighed in frustration and began to climb the stairs, "Leo!" She called again and again as she made her way to the attic, hoping that something would help her in the nightmare that was unraveling before her. Just as she went to open the Book, Paige orbed in and slammed her hand down firmly on the cover, "What are you doing?"

"Stopping you from making this situation worse!" Paige argued.

"What are you talking about?" Piper put a defiant hand on her hip.

"Isn't it obvious that this is a backfire to your "To Reach a Compromise" spell? Piper, you have to stop using magic like this! Or it might end up taking away your children in a way you won't be able to get them back!"

She seemed to think about it for a while, before realizing how she had been acting. Killing the plants, using spells, she had frozen Mrs. Noble more than anything I her life lately and even Piper could see that a pattern was forming, "I'm sure one more spell won't hurt…" She went for the book, but Paige grabbed it.

"If you're going to be like this, then I have no choice!" She orbed out, leaving Piper without the magical tome…

Emma paced the red metal of the Golden Gate Bridge, occasionally looking out to the horizon where she could see ships coming in to the harbour and the summer sun dipping underneath the line that separated sky and sea. Lights lit up the area momentarily as Sandra orbed in, now clad in her Elder clothing, "Are your powers back to normal?"

"Yes," Emma responded stiffly.

"And how did things go with your charge?"

She folded her arms, "Janice had got a couple of job interviews lined up and a cheap babysitter. I built the foundations; it's up to her now,"

The Elder raised her eyebrows, "You can show that much restraint to a suffering woman?"

"Well, like you said, empaths aren't a constant in their charge's lives, they move on after they feel their work in done, and I feel that mine is…"

Sandra smiled, "You show great potential to be a great empath! Knowing when to leave your charge's life is a vital key to being one of many who work making the world a better place,"

"Wait a minute, I never asked for this! I have a boyfriend, a job and friends! I don't have time for empath charges!"

"Well, you seemed to have managed fine today!" Sandra extended her hand and a stream of pinky rose orbs flew from her palm, hitting Emma in the chest and making her glow with the same pink colour, "We'll be in touch Emma. I'll leave you to get down yourself, as you can now orb…" She smirked before leaving in a dazzle of blue-white lights. Emma looked around awkwardly before scrunching up her eyes nervously and leaving in a cloud of light pink orbs…

Brennan stared at his sleeping wife in the bed, she was beautiful. Her long brunette locks lay splayed on her pillow while some of them sat perfectly on her face, covering over her right eye as she turned to the side in her sleep. He had slipped the potion into her wine at dinner, so he knew that he had to act fast before it wore off.

He got up from the bed carefully, making sure to disturb Phoebe as he reached under the bed and pulled out a piece of paper and a medium sized glass jar that was shaped like a fish bowl. Brennan crept to the bottom of the bed and held out the piece of paper in front of him while holding the jar up high.

"Powers of the witches rise,

Course unseen across the skies,

Come to us, who call you near,

Come to us and settle here,"

He whispered the spell under his breath, but when Phoebe's sleeping form began to glow, he knew it had worked, little balls of light began to fly from her body as she slept on, not realizing all the light that was pouring from her body and into the jar. Brennan watched in amazement, he never knew that Phoebe had contained such power inside of her! That was the only explanation for how long this was taking. The lights finally stopped the jar's top closed with a snapping noise, making the Charmed One stir slightly. Brennan quickly put the spell and jar under the bed and clambered back in, letting her roll over and cast her left arm over his chest, he pulled her in closer and she smiled in her sleep. She remained oblivious to the fact that her very own husband had just stripped her of her powers…

NEXT TIME: Rebecca teams up with a good turned evil being and causes trouble for the Halliwells as they cheer for Emma in the marathon, but they don't end their rampage there, as the duo infect Paige with a demonic parasite. The sister's quickly expel it, but what effect has it had on the six month pregnant witch? Phoebe tries to hide the fact that her powers seem to be gone, as she has no leads, and will someone return to save the day?

Chapter 15 "Double, Double, Twins In Trouble!" should be up soon!