Chapter 19-'Mommy, I need you!'

"No!"

"Parker..."

"No!"

"Hunny, we have to."

"No!" Parker announced stomping her foot like a child.

Piper sighed, "Sweetie, I don't like this anymore then you do but we have to. We couldn't find the demon in the book of shadows, we have to call your father and ask for his help. The kids are safe at magic school with Paige. We call him, ask for help, and he leaves after the demons vanquished and your children will finally be safe."

It had been over a week since the demon attacked and they were running out of options. Parker and the twins had been staying at magic school since and they hadn't seen or spoken to Dillon. They also hadn't brought up the turn of events before the demon attack.

A demon was after her kids, her mom shipped her off to magic school (yet again), her boyfriend left, and now, her mom wanted her to call Leo and ask for his help. Parker's life was just so screwed up and it was starting to take it's tole. The twins had quit waking up in the night when they were around 2 or 3 months old, and now, they woke up every 5 minutes. 'Ever since that damn demon.' Parker grumbled in her head.

Piper noticed this. Parker's eyes had lost some of their sparkle. She had been moody and tired all the time for the past couple days. "Sweetie, are you OK?"

Parker nodded, "I'm fine mom." she grumbled sitting on the old couch in the attic and putting her head in her hands.

Piper goes over, a worried expression on her face, and lent down infront of her daughter. "Don't lie to me Parker. What's wrong?"

"What isn't wrong?" Parker snapped back, not in the mood for her mother's interegation. "There's a demon after my kids, their father's no where to be seen, and I'm back living at magic school because you don't think i can protect myself or my children, and now you want me to call the man who told me that my kids, shouldn't have been born and ask for his help!"

Piper just sat listening to her daughters rant. She sweetly replys "Done?" at Parker's nod she contined with, "Sweetheart, I know you can take care of your kids, I never said otherwise. I'm just making sure I know your safe. Dillon's not worth it Parker, any guy who trys to make you choose him over your own flesh and blood itn's worth it. All we're gonna ask Leo is to go ask the elders if they know anything about the demon. How about this? I'll call Paige and ask her to call and ask Leo if he can go ask the elders if they know anything about the demon. Me and you can go to magic school and watch the twins until he leaves."

"Ok. That'll work." Parker said closing her eyes for a second. When she opened them back up, she quietly asked, "Mom? Can I hug you?"

Piper looked at her daughter, not seeing a witch, not seeing a mother, but seeing a broken little girl. "Oh baby." she mumbled as she pulled her into a tight embrace, Parker clinging to her as if she was afraid that she would dissappear if she let her go.

Parker silently cried onto her mom's shoulder. She was so scared. She had lost everything important to her. Her dad. Dillon. Aunt Phoebe moved away. Aunt Paige quit coming over as often. And now, she might loose her children. Her only reason to be alive. "What if something happens to them?" she sobbed into her moms hair.

"Nothings going to happen to them. We won't allow it. I won't allow it." Piper stated gently but firmly, holding her daughter tighter. Parker just nodded not relenquishing her mother from her grip. The one person she could always count on. Her sole provider, care taker, parent, cookie baker for valentines day parties. The person she would run to when she was scared. The person she would lay down in bed with and cuddle into when she had a bad dream late at night. Her since of security. The only true person she felt safe around. Her mom, and she wasn't going anywhere. She reluctantly pulled back wiping the tears from her eyes and stood back up, her mom standing right beside her wrapping her arms around her and putting her head on her shoulder. "Now, are you ready to go call in a favor to Aunty Paige?" Piper said with a laugh.

"Yeah." Parker said orbing them away. She know knew that what her Aunt Phoebe had been talking about when she was younger.

You never truely know how much your mother loves you until you become one yourself.

If Piper felt anywhere near as much love for her as she did for Phoenix. She loved her a whole hell of a lot.