Scully spent much of the rest of that day reading about magic, in the Book Of Shadows. She was becoming less and less sceptical at the turning of every page. The first hundred pages or so were about the Charmed Ones' and other Wiccans' destinies. She quickly learned that good had been fighting evil through the centuries and that the Source of all Evil was gone now, thanks to the three women who'd now be mentoring her to control her power of invisibility. She flipped the pages, skim-reading every piece of information on each, until she came to Balthazar. This section, she gave quite a lot of attention, considering all the inside information on him. She read with great interest about his demon half, and his human half. And again found herself wondering about her relationship with Mulder.

Mulder, as far as she knew had no connection to the Underworld whatsoever but she couldn't help but compare how she felt about Mulder with how Phoebe felt about Cole - Balthazar's human identity. Like Phoebe and Cole, she and Mulder weren't supposed to have a relationship because the FBI frowned upon co-workers dating. Like Phoebe, she found herself falling for Mulder even though she shouldn't. Unlike Phoebe though, she hoped, she wouldn't get as badly burned by love.

"Wow she reads quickly." Piper thought, as she entered the attic.

"What?" Scully asked aloud.

"I didn't say anything " Piper answered, confused.

"Invisibility is a psychic's power, I hope she can't read minds too!"

"Actually, now that you mention it, I think I can." Scully replied, slightly overwhelmed at this new information.

At that moment, Leo chose to Orb in to check on his and Piper's son. Scully screamed and looked around for an athame.

"It's okay," Piper said. "It's just Leo, remember we told you about the new Elder?" She added bitterly.

Scully suddenly felt very awkward, being in the middle of this little reunion. She once again found herself invisible, having wished she could just disappear so as not to be involved in a possible battle of the exes. Sneaking silently past the bickering pair, she left the attic unnoticed and went to the kitchen, where Paige was cooking up some sort of potion. She looked up as Scully entered the room.

"Oh hi Dana, seen Piper anywhere?"

"Yeah," she sighed. "She's in the attic… With Leo."

Paige groaned, she knew this wouldn't be good. Especially since now Piper was quite visibly pregnant, her second son due in just a month. She knew Leo would have a lot of questions about that, considering their second son had come back from the future not so long ago. And, in fact was still here - off demon hunting or something for the last couple of weeks.

Paige and Scully listened to Piper's voice grow steadily louder and louder until -

BOOM!

An almighty explosion shook the house.