Two days later...
At The Leandcoleris Manor. The Manor the boys share.
Leo was seated on a sitting lounge in the library reading when Andy and Cole enter talking about the Halliwells.
"It seems like we all had the pleasure of meeting one," Leo mumbled still reading.
"Yes, it does," Cole said.
"I really wish to see Prudence again," Andy sighed.
"I agree," Leo nodded.
"Where is our young Chris?" Cole asked.
"Out being Chris," Leo replied.
Chris enters carrying Paige's book.
"You would not be talking about me now would you?" he smiled.
"I see you haven't let young Paige's book out of your site," Cole chuckled.
"I'll return it," Chris insisted.
"I heard you actually saved the young lady's life," Leo said.
"Yes, well I heard you saved Miss Piper's life," Chris rebutted, flushing.
"Why, yes I believe I did," Leo gloated.
"You better treat that girl with respect Chris, I think Paige is a sweet girl I hate to see you hurt her," Cole warned.
"You have no reason to fear Coleridge I will never let her come to harm," Chris assured.
"How about we go and pay the Halliwell sisters a visit?" Andy suggested.
"Wonderful idea my dear Andrew," Leo grinned standing.
"Oh, Christopher, Leonard you both wouldn't mind orbing us would you?" Andy requested.
"No, Andrew! I believe we should ride as to not shock the girls," Cole inserted.
"Very well Cole," and the boys exited.
Meanwhile. Halliwell Living room.
"Grams! Have you seen my plaid scarf?!" Phoebe voice echoed through the Manor as she threw pillows aside.
"Grams and mother are out riding, I believe I saw your scarf in the bathroom sugar," Paige called.
Phoebe looked at her younger sister.
Paige sat on the sofa in a rose coloured dress, her legs crossed elegantly at the knee (Author's Note: I don't know if they crossed their legs at the knee in this specific time but oh well, I can't be perfect), her hair up in a tight, sophisticated bun and she was reading Rapunzel/Robin Hood for the fifth time.
"Where is that new book you were bragging about buying?" Phoebe asked forgetting about her search.
"Lord Christopher Perry stole it from me," Paige answered. "As I have but told you many times dearest Phoebe."
"I wasn't listening Paigey-girl, he stole it from you? Lord Perry?" Phoebe cried.
"Well, as I have said he scared me so in my confusion I dropped it and the Lord has yet to return it," Paige explained.
"Paige, the gentleman saved your life and you act like he means nothing to you," Phoebe sighed.
"Should not you be looking for your beloved scarf?" Paige said changing the subject.
"Oh yes, the bathroom did you say sweetie?" Phoebe said and without waiting for a reply she ran off in search of her scarf.
"Oh, this blasted clasp!" Prudence called in a frustrated voice and she came running down the stairs fiddling with the back of her marmalade coloured dress, she then spotted Paige. "Oh, Paige dearest, could you please help me with this?"
"Of course I will Prue," and Paige stood, moved behind her oldest sister and began fiddling with the clasp on the dress.
Prue groaned.
"Where on Earth is that Piper? I have so much work to do today and I could really use everyone's help!" she demanded.
"She has gone to get bread for mother," Paige replied stepping back from Prue.
"Well, I hope she returns shortly," Prue sighed again.
"I do believe..." Paige began but was cut off by Phoebe's scream from the Conservatory.
"Pheebs!" Prue gasped and the two sisters ran into the Conservatory.
Phoebe was being held up against a wall by the scruff of her neck, surrounding by none other than all of the demons that had attacked the sisters in the last few days.
"Hey! Demon scum!" Prue yelled and telekinetically threw the demon holding Phoebe across the room.
Phoebe fell to the floor and levitating kicked pass a demon and joined her sisters.
"I thought they were vanquished," Paige mouthed.
"They were," Phoebe answered as Prue sent three more demons around the room.
A demon threw an energy ball and it hit Phoebe in the shoulder sending Phoebe flying into a table.
Prue and Paige rushed over to her as they heard the front door open.
"Girls?" Piper's voice called.
"Piper! Demon attack!!" Prue screamed.
Piper ran into the Conservatory and straight away blew up a demon, running to her sisters as Paige directed another energy ball back at a demon. "Is Phoebe all right?"
"No, she is out cold," Paige said worriedly.
"No more Miss Nice Witch!" Prue yelled and they all stood as Prue threw another demon aside but to everyone's shock it was reflected back onto her and she was tossed aside like a rag doll rendering her unconscious.
"Prue!!" Piper hollered. "That's enough!" and she froze a demon and blew up another.
"Piper, watch out!" Paige yelled and tackled her as a demon threw an energy ball and as they crashed to the floor a window shattered over their heads.
"Thank you sister dear," Piper smiled and they stood again.
"Oh my Lord! Paige!" Piper cried and directed her sister's attention to a demon that had just materialised a Darklighter bow.
"Oh no!" Paige gasped and they ducked to the floor.
"That was close..." but Piper was stopped mid-sentence as Paige was hit in the side with a Darklighter arrow.
"Paige!!" Piper almost sobbed as she lowered her sister to the floor. "Paigey, what do I do?"
"We need help," Paige wheezed wincing from the pain.
"From where? How?" Piper gasped in total hopelessness.
"Piper!" Paige gripped at her sister's shoulder. "Chris and Leo, they are part Whitelighter..."
"Why?" Piper cried warding off three demons by freezing them.
"It hurts!" Paige whined.
"Paige honey, tell me why," Piper pleaded.
"Help me call them Pipes," Paige groaned.
"Very well, anything to help you darling," Piper refroze the demons and breathed. "Leo!!"
"Chris!!" Paige cried out hoarsely and they kept calling.
The four lords were nearing the Halliwell Manor when Leo and Chris doubled back on their horses.
"Paige!" Chris cried.
"Piper!" Leo cried.
"You heard that?" Chris asked Leo.
"Yes," Leo replied.
"What is wrong?" Cole requested.
"The Halliwell sisters, they are in trouble," Chris called.
"Let us orb," Leo suggested and he grabbed Andy and Chris grabbed Cole.
They orbed into the Halliwell's Conservatory to find an unconscious Prudence against the far wall, an equally unmoving Phoebe in the wreckage of a table and Piper Halliwell standing protectively in front of a still conscious but fading fast Paige warding off many recognisable demons.
"Well, if it isn't little Lord Christopher," one of the demons that had attacked Paige mocked.
"And Lord Coleridge," one of Phoebe's attackers added.
"Oh, and Lord Leonard!" the street demon mimicked.
The four boys clenched their fists
"Let's get rid of this one then we can kill the others," demon six said gesturing to Piper and without waiting for an answer hit her with a fireball.
Piper was thrown across the room and she fell unable to stand again.
The demons turned and smirked at the men.
"Let's go," Andy said to his cousins.
Leo threw an energy ball at a demon and blew it up.
Cole threw a fireball at one and blew it up.
Chris telekinetically threw one aside before blowing it up with an energy ball.
Andy however was fighting omne without magic.
"Is this all you can do," it teased.
"No!" Andy smiled and raised his hands to the roof. "Winds and Lighting."
The sky outside became dark and lightning cracked before a flash hit the demon and vanquishing it.
"I can control weather," he chuckled.
Soon all the demons were gone and by that time Prue and Phoebe were stirring.
"Prue!" Andy called running over and helping her to her feet.
"Phoebe!" Cole did the same.
"What happened?" Prue asked dazed.
"Piper?!" Phoebe cried and she, Prue and the four cousins kneeled around Piper.
Leo held his hands over Piper's wounds and healed them.
Piper sat up and her sisters hugged her.
"Paige," she immediately gasped.
They all looked over at Paige, she was now lying unconscious and her breathing was now non-existent.
"Oh my god!!" Prue exclaimed and they all ran over to the lifeless form.
"Paigey! Paigey-girl!" Phoebe cried touching her sister's cheek. "Wake up sweetie."
Prue pulled the arrow out of Paige's side and Piper blew it up.
"Please save her, Leo!" Chris begged.
Leo placed his hands over Paige. Very slowly, the wound healed and Paige breathed in deeply.
"Oh, thank goodness!" the other three sisters sighed.
Paige smiled at them and with everyone's help she stood up.
"Don't ever scare us like that again," Prue smiled embracing her youngest sister.
"I don't think those demons are gone for good," Paige whispered.
"I agree with you there Paige," Chris said.
Paige looked at him as if he'd just appeared.
"You saved my life again?" she questioned.
Chris gave her a shy half smile.
"It wasn't only me, Leo healed you and Cole and Andy helped to keep the demons away," he said.
Paige turned to the other men and thanked them before mindlessly wrapping her arms around Chris's shoulders, collapsing into him completely, exhausted.
"Can you just take her to the sofa Lord Perry, I am afraid our dear little Paige is not used to an attack that powerful or exhausting," Piper smiled.
Chris did so, sitting down beside her.
"Would you like to stay for dinner my lords? It is the least we can do and Piper is a wonderful cook," Prue bragged.
Piper flushed.
"We would love to my ladies," Andy replied.
"Our parents are not expected home until tomorrow," Cole added.
"Our mother and Grandmother will also not be home until tomorrow," Phoebe said.
"It is settled then," Chris beamed from the sofa. "We shall stay."
The couples all ate dinner in different places.
Chris and Paige remained on the sofa.
Leo and Piper sat in the Conservatory.
Andy and Prue sat outside and Cole and Phoebe sat in the Dining Room.
"I want to thank you for helping myself and my sisters and to your cousin for healing Paige," Phoebe whispered shyly as she took a bite of her dinner next to Cole in the Dining Room.
"My pleasure Phoebe and Leo is a Whitelighter, it is what he does," Cole said smiling at her shyness.
"I do not know what we would have done if little Paige had died," Phoebe added.
"She is the youngest is she not?" Cole requested.
"Yes and the most naïve, I know she is no longer a little girl but she is still so young."
"According to my cousin she doesn't seem to like men," Cole smiled again.
"No, well, she has been hurt by many men in her lifetime, so she is naturally very wary of them," Phoebe told him.
"I am sorry, I don't understand Phoebe," Cole answered.
"Well, our Grams has had quite a few husbands, my father left us when we were young and Paige's father never wanted to meet her," Phoebe explained.
"Excuse me," Cole was a little confused.
"Well, Paigey-girl isn't really our full sister..."
At Cole's bemused look she continued.
"After mother, Prue, Piper and I were abandoned by our mortal father, mother had an affair with her Whitelighter, Sam Wilder and that resulted in Paige, so technically she is more magical than the rest of us," Phoebe finished.
"And technically she isn't a Halliwell," Cole stated.
"She is to us," Phoebe snapped.
"I'm awfully sorry Phoebe, I meant in no way to offend you," Cole apologised.
"That is quite all right, you do realise this is the second time you time saved my life," Phoebe flushed.
"And I would do it a thousand times more," Cole commented.
Phoebe blushed and looked down at her feet.
Cole gently lifted her head and slowly lent in and they kissed.
"You must really love your sisters," Leo said to Piper as they sat in the Conservatory.
"What makes you say that Leo?" she asked curiously.
"Well, you risked you own life to protect them," Leo replied.
"Yes, I do love them, we all love each other more than life itself, our powers are based and depend on that bond. I mean, Phoebe and Prue don't get on very well at times and we all get frustrated at Paige's carelessness and even though Prue, Phoebe and I don't really like each other at times we all get along with Paige the best I believe because she is the youngest. Deep down though we treasure each other and couldn't bear it if any of us died," Piper explained.
"You fought so bravely to protect them all and you never left Paige's side, I would do the same thing for my cousins and Chris' status is just like Paige's," Leo said and they looked into the lounge room where Paige and Chris sat. "They all mean the world to me."
"My sisters and I are so different from one another," Piper smiled. "Prue is the strongest and the motherly figure, I have the second strongest powers and I never like to take sides Phoebe has the weakest power but she is so happy with life and Paige, oh Paige she's the most magical and carefree one who's always getting into some sort of trouble," and she finished with a hearty laugh.
"My cousins and I are the same, Andy is the oldest and the most powerful, I'm half Whitelighter and am the biggest rule breaker there is, Cole has the build of someone really tough and he is but as your two youngest sisters have proved is a big softy and then there is Chris, he's just like Paige except he's not a cautious," Leo smiled.
"I am very grateful to you for saving my life," Piper said. "Again."
"I would do anything to protect you Piper," Leo whispered.
"I'm a big girl Leo," Piper insisted.
"I know that but even the Charmed Ones need their own group of Guardian Angels even if only two of us are technically real angels," Leo protested.
"I believe so," Piper grinned shyly.
"I know so."
"You know if it hadn't been for you Paige could've died and my sisters and I would've been devastated," Piper told him.
"I would do everything to keep you happy," Leo promised.
"I have no idea how I can ever repay you," Piper said.
"You..." she cut him off.
"I mean you already have everything a man could want," she sighed.
"Not everything," he replied in a hushed tone.
She looked across at him. Brown eyes met crystal-blue.
"You don't?" she managed to squeak.
"No," he murmured.
"Oh," was all she said.
"Give me just one kiss Piper and even if I never see you again I'll always have it, to remember you by," his voice was now husky.
"Only if you promise to kiss me back," Piper replied.
Leo smiled.
"I promise."
Piper also smiled.
They leaned in and shared a lingering kiss.