Rodriguez suddenly found himself in the underworld. "Son of a bitch!"

"Failed again I see." Tempus mocked.

"Yeah, but I've learned. I've got to get the youngest first." A weird and twisted smile crossed Rodriguez lips. "Third times the charm."

"Phoebe! Come on wake up!" Paige yelled excitedly as she leapt up onto her sisters bed.

Phoebe groggily sat up and looked at the alarm clock beside her bed. It was 7:00 am. "Paige!" Phoebe whined, "It's way too…."

Phoebe suddenly remembered everything that just happened. She looked up at Paige. "Oh ok. Umm I need you to listen to me ok? We're stuck in a time loop."

"A time loop?" Paige asked confused.

Phoebe nodded. "Yes and unless we find a way to stop this we're gonna keep living this day over and over again!"

Phoebe jumped out of bed and ran up to the attic.

Paige followed her and stood in the door way watching her sister suspiciously. "Where were you last night? You missed out on the funniest Christmas eve ever! Me and Glen made up and him and Kyle joined me and Dad…."

"for a cookie feast." Phoebe finished. "We've had this conversation before. Twice I think."

Phoebe let out a frustrated cry and slammed the book shut. "There's nothing in here about time loops!"

"umm, I'm gonna go wake up Prue and Piper." Paige began to back out of the attic.

Phoebe put her head in her hands, "You don't get it! If we don't stop this then we're all gonna die!"

Downstairs Phoebe was still trying to explain what was going on but none of her sisters seemed to be getting the idea. After a while Phoebe was about to give up trying to explain to her sisters when the phone rang.

"It's dad." Phoebe stated walking out of the room carrying the book of shadows.

"He never phones." Piper said frowning. "Paige answer it."

Paige scowled then picked it up, "Hello?"

"Oh. Hello, Paige." It was Victor Bennett, Piper, Prue and Phoebe's dad. "Can I speak to one of my daughters?"

Paige held the phone out to Piper. "If Phoebe's right then a warlock's gonna attack us."

Phoebe sighed and put the book on the bottom of the stairs. She couldn't find anything about time loops. Suddenly the book's pages began to flick by themselves. They stopped at a page about a demon called Tempus.

"Guys! I've found something!" Phoebe called and Prue and Paige came running in.

"The demons called Tempus and the book says that he's the devils sorcerer." Phbe read from the book.

"Does it say how to vanquish him?" Paige asked.

"uh, take him out of the time he's in." Phoebe looked up at Prue. "What does that mean?"

Before Prue could answer the front door burst open and Glen and Kyle came in. "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

Phoebe's eyes grew wide, "Oh Piper!"

She ran through into the living room where Piper was just hanging up on Victor. "Pheebs? What's wrong?"

As the others came into the living room Phoebe explained, "We have to keep our eyes open. The warlock is gonna attack and last time it went for Piper first."

Then, as if on cue, Rodriguez blinked in. Piper got her hands up ready to freeze whatever he threw at her but Rodriguez sent an energy ball flying at Paige who orbed out it's way.

Prue TK'd him into the tree. As he jumped up Piper threw her hands up and froze him.

"I think I get what's going on." Phoebe muttered as she ran out of the room.

"What's going on?" Glen asked not taking his eyes off the frozen Rodriguez.

"And uh, how long's he gonna stay like that?" Kyle was about to ask something else when Phoebe ran back in carrying a load of rope.

"Come on help me tie him up."

A short while after they tied him up he unfroze. "Let me go witches! Or I'll make your deaths even more painfull!"

"I think I've worked out what triggers the time loop. It's his death!" Phoebe motioned to Rodriguez.

"So how do you Vanquish him without reseting time?" Kyle asked not taking his eyes off Rodriguez.

Prue bit her lip then picked up the book of shadows. " I think I know. If we get rid of Tempus, then we can vanquish Rodriuguez without a problem."

"You can't vanquish Tempus!" Rodriguez shouted.

"You two better go home." Paige told Kyle and Glen, ignoring the warlock tied up in her living room. "I don't want your parents to worry."

"Will you be ok?" Kyle asked unsurely.

Paige nodded and gave him a peck on the cheek. "I'll be fine."

After they left the sisters gathered round the book and read aloud the spell to accelerate time.

'Winds of time, gather round.

Give me wings to speed my way.

Rush me on my journey forward.

Let tomorrow be today.'

Paige noticed that the hands on the clock began to spin forward until they read midnight.

"now how do we vanquish him?" Piper asked gesturing to Rodriguez.

"With the Power of three spell." Prue stated simply.

The four said the spell until Rodriguez erupted into flames.

"I really hope he doesn't come back again." Prue sighed.

Paige looked up at the clock her face falling. "We've missed Christmas."

"Aww," Piper wrapped an arm around Paige. "No we haven't. I mean, I'm not tired, how bout we celebrate it now."

"Yeah," Prue said with a big smile. "You haven't opened up all your presents yet."

"Yeah, wait till you open mine." Phoebe said shutting the book. "It's way better than anything anyone else got you!"

"Well, we'll just have to see about that." Prue laughed as the four made their way towards the half broken tree.

A/N: Okay hope you liked that. It'll probably be the last time I update till after new year. Have a merry Christmas and please be nice and R/R!