A/N: As usual, big thanks to everyone who reviewed. I think I responded to everyone, but if I missed anyone, I'm sorry! It wasn't intentional. Please note at the bottom of the story there is going to be a poll. Please vote in your reviews, so you guys can help me with the direction my story. I'm kind of stuck, and need help.

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Leo shot to his feet. "I've seen that athame before. I know I've seen it before."

"Dad, I've checked the book. It's not in there. I cross-referenced the athame with demons, there's absolutely nothing in there. It's like it doesn't even exist." Chris protested.

Leo nodded. "Yeah, I know you did, Chris. Still, I know I've seen that athame before. The scrolls on the handle, I just can't place where or when."

"Maybe you should go ask the elders, Dad." Wyatt suggested.

"No. Wyatt, I can't do that. I don't even want to do that. I broke ties with them for a reason. Elders have their own agendas. I don't want that to interfere in our agenda." Leo's voice was hard, still smarting from the insults the people he'd thought of as family had given him.

"What about Magic School, Leo? Maybe there'll be something in the library that will trigger your memory." Phoebe said quietly. Premonitions were always scary, but there was something about the coldness of that little girl that made Phoebe's skin crawl with fear.

"Good idea, Pheebs. I'll be at Magic School. If you need me, just yell. I'm only an orb away." Leo disappeared in a shower of blue and silver lights.

Chris looked over at Paisley and Ryan. They hadn't moved and were still staring at the space where the screen had been. "Hey, guys, we're going to fix this you know. Your baby is gonna be just fine."

Paisley looked over at him dazedly. "How can you say that? I just watched my baby kill one of your daughters! That's not okay!"

"You saw a premonition, that's all. It's a warning of what could happen if we don't change the circumstances. We've stopped hundreds of premonitions from coming true, Pais. We'll keep this one from coming true too." Chris knelt down in front of his cousin, touching her stomach softly. "Babies aren't born evil, Pais. They get turned evil. We won't let that happen. I won't let that happen."

"By the way, how do you know it's Chris' daughter, Pais? We both orbed in at the same time in the premonition. Phoenix could just as easily be mine." Wyatt added, a little bit jealous that the beautiful little girl was going to be his brother's child.

She snorted. "You guys seriously didn't see it?" Both Wyatt and Chris shook their heads.

"She had light brown hair, green eyes, dimples and that stubborn little chin. She also had Maya's smile. Plus the whole time, she kept her hands in her pockets. Who else do we know that has a habit of keeping his hands shoved in his pockets?" She looked pointedly at Chris, who was standing next to Wyatt with his feet spread apart and his hands shoved into his pockets.

"My daughter…" Chris breathed the words softly, almost reverently. He looked over Paisley's head to Maya, who had an identical look on her own face.

"It won't matter whose daughter she is. If we don't figure this out, she's going to be killed by my daughter." Ryan broke the silence with his dire prediction.

"I'm getting my protection cage." Phyra announced suddenly. "Let a demon try to kidnap her then."

"No! Phy, if the baby is born inside a protective cage, it will protect her against her own powers. She'll be born mortal, and won't be able to get her powers. Her powers are activated when the soul meets the earth. If she's inside a protection cage, she won't get her powers." Paige stated quickly.

"Maybe that's not a bad thing, Aunt Paige." Paisley answered softly.

"What? Paisley, your baby's powers are her legacy. You can't deny her them." Phoebe protested.

"Actually, yeah, I can. I'm her mother. If she's going to use her powers for evil, then I'd rather she didn't have any at all."

"Paisley, look at me. Look at me." Piper ordered softly. "I understand more than you know. When Chris was born, I didn't want to have a wiccaning for him. I thought that maybe if he didn't have powers, he'd be protected from what happened in his other life happening again. But I did it, against my better judgment. Not because I thought that magic would solve all of his problems, or that it would be an easier life for him. I did it because to deny him his gift would have been selfish. In the end, it only would have hurt us all. Paisley, even if you keep your daughter from her powers, she is still a Halliwell. And a powerless Halliwell is nothing more than bait for demons. Can you imagine what could happen if a demon kidnapped her and she had no powers at all?"

Paisley paled and wiped the tears away that were running down her face. "But what if we can't fix it? What happens if she's turned evil no matter what we do?"

"Then I'll go back in time and fix it, just like I fixed Wyatt." Chris' voice was steady and calm. Paisley looked up into his eyes and calmed, seeing the full conviction there. "I promise you, Paisley. I'll keep both our little girls safe. I swear it."

Paisley nodded shakily. If there was one thing she trusted, it was that Chris took care of family first. If he was swearing to something, he'd move heaven and earth to make it happen. She looked over to her cousins and sister. "Why don't you guys go help Uncle Leo at Magic School? You guys know those books better than anyone since you helped organize the whole thing after Patrick blew up the bookcases when he was learning how to use his powers." She smiled gratefully as Phyra grabbed Patience's hand and orbed out with Peyton close behind.

Wyatt looked up as a jingling rang out in his head. "A charge is calling. I have to go." He orbed away quickly, feeling his charge's urgency.

"And I'll go start a po…" Chris broke off as he too got a call from a charge. "Mom, you'll have to work on the potion to ward off evil from the room. I've got to go to a charge too." He also orbed away before anyone could answer otherwise.

"Aw, crap." Paige muttered as she also started to hear jingling. She shared a look with her sisters. "This is almost too planned. Stick close to her, okay?" Piper and Phoebe nodded, concerned as she orbed away. Paige was right. Having one of the white lighters have a call from a charge was completely normal. Having all three get calls within minutes of each other was perplexing to say the least.

"I'm going to go get started on that potion. Better safe than sorry." Piper said nervously.

"I'll help you." Maya offered quickly. She usually helped Chris make them, but wanted to work with Piper. She knew that Piper was unusually close to her sons, and had to be taking both of their marriages pretty hard. Abby and Piper always butted heads, but Maya really wanted to make Piper love her. Without a mom of her own, she secretly thought of Piper as hers. Truthfully, she thought to herself, that's part of Chris' allure. Not only was he sweet, gorgeous, powerful, healthy, gorgeous, kind, loving, and, oh yeah, did she mention gorgeous, but he had a family that was big, sprawling and overtly loving. She couldn't wait to be a part of it.

"Okay, well then I'm going to go work on a spell. Maybe if I can't get the demon to pop up early, then we can trap him and make him tell us who he's working with." Phoebe said, heading up the stairs to the attic. It was her favorite and most productive spell-writing spot. Abby followed her, wanting to help, but not quite brave enough to go with Piper.

Ryan moved off the couch, swinging Paisley's feet up onto the spot he'd just vacated. "Why don't you just relax for a few minutes, okay, baby? I'll be right back; I'm going to make you some hot chocolate."

Paisley smiled gratefully. "Thanks, Ry. I'm sorry to be such a scaredy cat."

Ryan grinned, and shook his head. "Don't worry about it, Pai. Trust me; I'm even more scared than you are. I'm just good at hiding it. It's the shape-shifter in me."

Paisley laughed. "More like, it's the guy in you."

"Could be that too, I suppose. I'll be right back."

Paisley sank back into the soft couch with a sigh. Her back hurt, her head hurt and she was terrified for her baby. Maybe a little rest wouldn't hurt. She closed her eyes, and started to doze off.

A demon appeared silently from the corner, casting off his invisibility cloak, and started chanting in Latin. "exorior puerperium. exorior malus."

(A/N: I don't know Latin, but I looked up these in a dictionary. Means "come forth childbirth, come forth evil.")

Paisley immediately gasped, and clenched her stomach, coming fully awake. The demon quickly cloaked himself again. "RYAN!" she yelled, terrified.

Ryan came running into the room. "Oh my God. PIPER, PHOEBE! COME QUICK!"

A loud crash sounded in the kitchen. "DEMON!" Piper screamed, as several demons stormed the kitchen. Piper threw her hands up and started to blow up demon after demon as Maya started firing energy balls.

Ryan looked up as more thuds and crashes sounded from upstairs. Phoebe and Abby were busily fighting another group of demons.

"Ryan! Oh God... oh god, it hurts. I have to push… it hurts so much!" Paisley cried out.

Ryan knelt down beside the couch, and helped her to pull off her underwear and skirt. "Oh, shit." He swore, as he looked queasily. "CHRIS! WYATT! LEO! ANYONE!"

He looked back down at Paisley, seeing the head start to crown. "C'mon, Paisley. Push! I see the head. You're doing so good. Come on, one more." Ryan coached enthusiastically.

Paisley groaned and visibly gathered her strength as she pushed again.

A tall slender demon shimmered in behind Paisley. Ryan yelled and stood up, stepping away from Paisley, reaching into his back pocket for the ceremonial athame they were planning to use to cut the cord. He threw it, hitting the demon with precision accuracy, sending him up in flames. "CHRIS WYATT LEO!" He screamed again, recognizing the scene from Wyatt's premonition.

He turned around at Paisley's scream, and saw two demons standing over her and their newly born baby. One of the demons raised his hand, palm out, temporarily paralyzing Ryan. The other demon held a scrolled athame in his hand, severing the umbilical cord in a jagged cut. The remains of the cord attaching to the baby turned dark and leaked blood. The demon that had cut the cord picked up the baby and shimmered away silently as Paisley broke free from her paralysis and screamed heartbrokenly.

The sounds of the demon fights stopped abruptly, and Piper, Phoebe, Maya and Abby all ran into the living room. Orbs sounded as Chris, Wyatt, Paige, Leo and the girls orbed in together. Chris' head dropped to his chest in regret as Wyatt looked to the ceiling, searching for something no one could see.

No one could say anything as Paisley started sobbing hysterically.

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A/N: Ok, so here's what I need from you guys. Please pick a choice to help me figure out where to go from here. Please try to vote ASAP, because I'd like to update again tomorrow if possible.

Do you think:

they should find the baby ASAP

they find the baby after a few weeks with the demons

they don't find the baby

Chris goes back to the past to fix things

Either Wyatt or Chris offers himself as a sacrifice for the demon