Hey, thanks for all the reviews! Sorry I didn't update sooner, I was away. Glad you all liked it so far, and your questions about what's wrog with them will be answered in this chapter pretty much. Hope you like it.
"What's wrong with them!" Phoebe's voice filled with panic as she shifted Ben in her arms so his sippy cup wouldn't burn her.
"I have no clue." Leo answered, brushing some of Wyatt's hair from his glazed eyes. Not even five minutes the boys were fine and energetic, and then they just fell into a deep illness of some sort. " But I agree that it has to be something magical. Otherwise it wouldn't be effecting their powers." He nodded, staring at the sippy cup that was up in flames.
"Cole!" Phoebe called for her husband that was upstairs getting dressed from a quick shower. Getting no response, she decided to get straight to the point. "Ben's sick!" She yelled, watching him flame in only moments later in only a housecoat.
"What's wrong?" Concern filled his face immediately as he stared at his tiny son who was all pink. He gently took him from Phoebe's arms and let several kisses drop to his curly dark hair. "He's burning up." He stated, feeling the warmth just from holding him through their clothes.
"They all are." Andy motioned towards Wyatt before looked back down at Darien who was practically passed out in Andy's arms.
"What sort of supernatural thing would do this to them?" Prue asked, smoothing out Darien's fine hair, not taking her eyes off him once as she spoke.
"It may not be supernatural." Piper interrupted. " Kids get sick all the time, and if they're sick maybe their powers would be a bit wonky?"
"Not this sick, that quickly." Prue replied, looking to Leo and Cole who knew more about the supernatural since they had lived through it longer.
"I know of a demon that may do something along those lines." Cole answered, catching Prue's gaze.
"Point him out in the book?" Prue "suggested", but Cole knew it was more of a demand as she began walking up the stairs.
"Here." Prue felt his hand wrap around her forearm and pull her around to him. "This is faster." He mumbled, pulling her a bit closer and flaming into the attic.
In the living room, the others stayed with the boys.
"Maybe we should put them to bed." Phoebe suggested, shifting Ben into a more comfortable position than the one Cole handed him to her in.
"Definitely. Or at least lay them there to rest until we figure this out." Andy nodded, fading up into the boys' room with Leo and Piper orbing away behind him.
"Oh, so everyone gets a cosmic taxi ride but me!" Phoebe grumbled, beginning her way up the stairs with the 30-pound weight in her arms.
Once she reached the room, Piper was the only one in it, sitting in the middle of the room watching the two sleeping boys.
"I want to give them some sort of medicine for their fevers or something, but I'm afraid it would mess up whatever is happening to them even more." Piper informed, moving from the rocking chair to fold down Ben's blanket so Phoebe could place him in the bed with little movement.
"Yeah, well hopefully they're finding out lots about the demon up there." Phoebe whispered, moving over to Darien's bed and fixing his moved covers.
She gently bent down to give her nephew a tiny kiss too, but as soon as her lips met his burning hot forehead, an electric shock went through her entire body, causing her to fall back into Piper.
"Whoa, Phoebe are you okay?" Piper asked, helping her gain her balance again.
"Yeah, I guess Ben's powers aren't the only ones off." Phoebe gazed down at the sleeping tot, shaking off the strange tingling sensation from the shock.
Attic
Prue and Cole were flipping through the pages quickly as Leo and Andy watched intently, wondering what they were looking for.
"Aha!" Cole jumped, starling everyone. "Here he is."
"Mallet, an upper level demon" Prue read, brushing her finger along the picture as she began to read aloud. "Has the power to infect magical beings with an illness that slowly takes their life force and powers." Panic quickly took over as she searched the page for a vanquish or cure.
She began flipping the pages wildly before landing on the page that held the cure. "The only known cure is for him to reverse it."
"Alright, let's go and threaten him till he does." Cole stated, walking closer to Leo and Andy.
"I don't work with demons." Andy shot back, walking behind Prue and placing his hands over her shoulders for comfort.
"Do we still have these issues?" Cole asked, Prue and Andy had never trusted him, even when dealing with Phoebe and his son.
"It's just hard to trust you when you're the Source of all Evil." Prue reasoned, Ben was the last to show symptoms and didn't have quite as severe symptoms as Wyatt and Darien. And he knew the demon. She loved her nephew to death and would do anything for him it was just his father she'd never trust.
"I can't believe this." Cole shot his hands up in the air before sitting down on the couch letting out a heavy sigh. "We've been through this for over three years and yet you guys still manage to think I'm evil. How many times do I have to say that I use my powers for good! That's why bounty hunters have been coming after me so much lately; someone else is trying to take over. No clue who, but they are."
"Well you can't blame us, can you? You tried to kill Darien!" Andy yelled, quickly remembering that was in the past he had changed. The Belthazor in this time had never come near Darien since the spell never took place.
"I what!" Cole was hurt; he loved that boy almost like his own son and would never lay a finger on him.
"Can we all just shut up and save our children first?" Prue interrupted standing between the two angry men. "We've got bigger and better problems to deal with." Andy nodded a sympathetic nod to Cole as Prue pushed him a bit further away before wrapping her arms around his waist.
"You guys go get Piper and Phoebe and fill them in while I… go to the bathroom." She quickly finished before running down the stairs.
Once she reached finished emptying what was left of her breakfast of her breakfast, she took a damp towel to wipe her forehead and mouth.
"You've gotta stop making me so sick, we have to save your brother." She whispered to her flat belly. She had been getting symptoms of early pregnancy for almost two months, but didn't want to tell Andy incase she was wrong. He loved Darien to pieces, but had always dreamed of them having more children.
Of course she hoped the belly wouldn't start coming until a few weeks later. Their wedding was finally going to happen in less than two weeks. They had waited until after Darien was born, and then until he was a bit older so he could be a ring bearer.
She then swiftly left the bathroom and walked into the boys' room two doors down.
"You girls ready to go?" She asked looking to Piper and Phoebe who were both with their husbands staring at their children.
"Yup" The both answered, getting up from their sons' beds and walking over to Prue.
"Just a second." Prue said, walking to Darien's bed and bending down.
"Uh, I wouldn't do that." Phoebe advised, as Prue received an electric shock from kissing his tiny head.
"Ouch." She mumbled, before Andy walked over to her side, taking her in his arms.
"He's been doing that to everyone it seems." He said, covered her already tingling lips with his. "Feel any better?" He asked, moving from her side and sitting next to Darien before feeling his forehead one more time.
"I was until our son began playing favourites with you!" She huffed, smiling as Andy purposely moved closer to Darien.
"It's just the connection we all have with the boys. His powers trust me since they're linked through blood and magic." He explained, Darien had pretty much only inherited power from Andy with the slight use of possible telekinesis.
"Uh huh." Prue laughed, walking over to her sisters as they all linked together through holding hands.
"If we're not back soon, then you can worry." Phoebe gave a smile as Leo waved his hand, sending them down to the Underworld.
"Notice we still get left behind even when we have huge power? Andy laughed at the fact that the men always stayed behind with the boys while they fought.
"Oh yeah." Cole mumbled, as he began to pace around the room some more.
"They're Charmed." Leo added with a smile of his own before a horrific noise stopped them all.
Darien began wheezing and desperately trying to breath through his unconscious state. Andy picked him up and held him close, trying to calm his body down, but it soon began shaking involuntarily.
Leo and Cole ran to his side and watched in horror as his tiny body struggled. But Leo quickly ran to the other side of the room as Wyatt began doing the same thing from his bed, making Cole run to Ben to see if he'd begin anytime soon, but he didn't. His fever was down and he was his usual tanned colour, and no longer pale.
He let out a sigh of relief as he caresses his son's cheek hoping he wouldn't wake up to hear or witness what was happening to his cousins.
Underworld
"Hello witches." The hooded demon chuckled as they walked into the room. With grief and determination written all over their faces. He knew he would have to be careful, mothers were always very protective, but he couldn't imagine the Charmed One's in that state. He almost wondered if he was sent on this mission simply to get himself killed. But if so, at least he would die to save Evil from its new Source.
