Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed... I would however love to meet Holly Marie Combs.

OK, My Great Friends Jess and Britt encouraged me to continue this story and i owe them a great load of thanks.

Chapter 9- Married Life And A Little Light Reading

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Phoebe- Prue is feeling neglected.

Coop- What do you mean neglected? By us?

Phoebe nods her head- Yes, and she's rebelling, Bad! She's not talking to Melinda anymore and we all know how close they used to be. She's smoking and god knows that else, and she won't even think of talking to me. I think she wanted to though.

Coop looks at Phoebe in disbelief- What do you mean?

Phoebe- She wrote a letter to Ask Phoebe, I didn't even know it was hers until I caught her smoking and tried to talk to her. I don't get it, I was so looking forward to being a mom adn I was sure I was gonna be good at it. I mean yeah, magic kinda makes it hard but, look at Piper, she runs P3, cooks at her restaurant, she's a wife, and she knows everything Melinda does before she does it. I mean it took us 2 weeks to figure out Prue was skipping classes.

By this time Phoebe was crying, Coop pulls her into a tight hug.

Coop- We're gonna figure this out and were gonna make everything right again.

Phoebe nods her head and they head back up to the attic.

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Leo- Piper hunny, what's the matter?

Piper walks over to Leo and pulls him into a tight hug- Melinda and the girls got attacked demons and ran away and won't even talk to us about it, they're blocking themselves from us. I just want her home! You should have seen the way she looked at me.

Leo- I might have an idea.

Piper lays her head on Leo's chest but keeping her arms around him- How do you mean?

Leo- The elders think that a grouup of demonic empersonators called Replacers are trying to empersonate you. That maybe it. They are desquising as you and attacking the girls.

Piper- They should be able to sense that they're not us.

Leo- The demons have a way around that. It's also why they disappeared before you came in the room. The only way to vanquish them is if the true versions of the witches they're empersonating say the vanquishing spell.

Piper- So we need to get the girls back to try to tell them this and then summon the Replacers and vanquish their sorry asses.

Leo- OK, I'll see if I can sense the girls, just in case.

Piper and Leo break the hug and when Piper finds the demons in the book it glows and disappears.

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Paige called Henry and told him what was going on. She was waiting for him to come in the door when she heard Piper scream.

She quickly orbed upstairs to see what was going on. She sees Piper standing over an empty podium where the Book Of Shadows should be.

Paige- What happened?

Piper- The book disappeared.

Paige- What do you mean disappeared? Life from demons?

Leo- No, like from a spell. The girls must have cast it.

Piper- You can sense them?

Leo- I can't sense them, but I can sense the spells magic and it had to have been the girls.

Piper nodded her head and hugged Leo again, feeling safe in his arms.

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The book appeared in the penthouse and Prue picked it up. She looked at the page it was on, it read:

Replacers:

Upper level demons with the power to steal the identity, looks, and ability from their choice of witch. Most of the time go after the most capable of witches. Most common prey is mother/daughter pairs.To vanquish these demons their prey must recite the following spell:

Demons who illude,

& want to fuel the mother/daughter fude,

will know know the pain,

without worry of personal gain.

Prue looks at the entry and her eyes widen- Uhh, Guys You Might Wanna Come Look At This!

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I hope you liked it, Please R&R! Thanks peytonpaigepatriciahalliwell (Jess) for the help with the spell!