IF THIS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE OR SOETHING IS CUT OUT IN ANY WAY TELL ME. I HATE MY COMPUTER IT'S BEEN ACTING UP LATELY AND PUTTING MY WORD DOCS INTO WORDPAD WHICH SCREWS IT ALL UP FOR SOME REASON. I WENT OVER IT THE FASTEST AND BEST I COULD SO HOEPFULLY ENJOY.

They didn't know what to do. They had all stood there and looked down at the girl for a minute after she had fainted. Sure, they had dealt with innocents before but no one like her. Innocents that were either willing, scared at first but accepting of them, or against magic until they all had proved the innocent that they were on their side.

This innocent hadn't really been relieved to find herself alive and well. She had just ran around the house screaming bloody murder, then she had threatened exposing them as a cult as well as possibly suing them for kidnapping her, and then she had fainted on top of everything.

She sure was a winner.

This was not at all like any of them had planned the evening to go when they had initially brought her back to the house to be more protected.

They could only hope the neighbors hadn't heard her.

Of course, after decades of neighbors living next door to a constantly paranormally assaulted house as well as a few thousands demons that appeared on every occasion the Charmed Ones had been lucky not having that many snoopy neighbors as of yet.

"Okay, so what set her off?"Piper asked her family tiredly as she flicked her wrist in the girl's crumpled direction where Wyatt had picked her up carefully and laid her on the white couch.

"I think it was the lucky skeleton head the elves sent us for the baby." Phoebe replied timidly knowing that Piper was about to have a major spaz attack for it still being out in the open.

"Oh, great. That's just peachy. Hold on a second. I thought I said to put everything like that in the basement so something like this wouldn't happen in the first place!" Piper cried as she looked over at the freaky skeleton head that Phoebe has pointed at.

She had never understood all the baby gifts in the first place. It didn't help that she had no place to put them in the already near crowded house. Piper had never understood really how elves thought a creepy black colored Cyclops skeleton head would be the prefect baby gift for a baby either. She thought a perfect gift would be a blanket or a new stroller, but no they were all about giving the baby some of the scariest..not to mention the most unsanitary things for gifts.

"Well, maybe somebody just forgot with all the craziness always happening around here." Phoebe replied as she risked a glance at both her nephews to see who the guilty culprit was. Wyatt seemed unfazed by it as he watched the innocent sleeping peacefully beside him. While, Chris seemed a bit uneasy over the matter.

"Chris!"

"Hey, I'm sorry I forgot"

"Chris, when I ask you to do something I would appreciate it if you would do it. Especially, since I don't ask for much from you in the first place."

"Alright, already I get it. How was I to know we were going to have a psychotically paranoid innocent in our midst?" he cried out in self defense.

"If that's the right terminology for her in the first place." Victoria added in with a twisted smile washing over her lips.

"Hey, now. If you were coming into this house without any knowledge of magic in the first place you would have acted the same way."Phoebe reprimanded her as she watched the small fight between Chris and a very tired Piper move along.

"Right." Victoria drawled. "I would run in circles like an chicken who's head was just chopped off and scream just like a banshee for the hell of it, then I would threaten you with my big, scary, wealthy father and my own private lawyer without any knowledge of why I am here in the first place let alone ignore the fact that my life was somehow saved. All because I am a rocket scientist. Right."

"I'm not saying she had any precedent for what she said I am just saying I can identify with it. We were all like that when we first received our powers. "Phoebe replied as she cast a hand in a small circle around the room that was primarily filled with innately magical beings of light.

"Hey, you guys what the hell are you doing down there?" a wary tired voice called from the hallway.

Everyone looked to see Paige. Paige slowly was coming down the staircase as she rubbed her wary brown bloodshot eyes to see the world around her better. She had on a faded red tank top and some old slightly hole infested pair of dark blue sweat pants as her pajamas. Her dark brown hair was going in a few unreasonable directions from bed head and she was clearly not in the best of moods.

"Oh, sweetie did we wake you" Phoebe asked as she bit her lip.

"Uh, no. Not unless you were that someone screeching like a lunatic that woke me up."Paige replied leaning against the doorway to the sitting room.

"Oh, yeah. Sorry about that."Piper told her youngest sister as she stood up on her very sore feet. Piper touched her bulging belly for a second as she got to her feet from leaning against the white couches arm warily. She felt as tired and incoherent as Paige looked at the moment.

"We have been having a little bit of difficulty with our innocent."Leo told his sister in law.

"Yeah, that would be our technical difficulty." Victoria replied pointing at the unconscious girl on the couch. "Come join the circus for free. Careful though. Don't touch her she might bite you."

Chris tried to stop her in a soft voice as he threw out his nickname for her. "Tora."

"Hey, I'm sorry I just have had a bit of a long day and adding this prep to it isn't scoring any brownie points with me right now." Victoria told him.

"I agree." Piper agreed. "What are we supposed to do with her?"

"You guys have had innocents before. I believe you all know how to handle this."

Leo replied as he watched his tired wife.

"Leo, we had innocents before that needed our help. Whenever have we had a trust fund baby that doesn't know she almost died and we saved her from danger? Who, by the way, just threatened legal action on us that once it hits channel one news we're screwed." Piper told her husband throwing her hands in panicked circles of nervous energy as she talked.

"You guys, she's like any other innocent. She just.. Panicked alright? Give her a chance." Leo told them all as they watched in a tired rebellion.

"You think she will calm down once she wakes up?"Phoebe asked him hopefully.

Leo took a moment and watched the girl lying on the couch as he thought about the question and then he finally answered. "Not really, but try to reason with her."

"Hold on a second, buster. That sounds like a 'I have to go meet with the Elders'

sentence." Piper interrupted him in complete annoyance as she poked him in the chest with her hand.

"It is." Leo responded as he went over to his wife and put his hands on her shoulders as he looked deep into her soft brown eyes. "Piper, I will be back here as soon as I can. It sounds important. Who knows it might be about her."

"Then, take her with you." Piper said as she joined his train of thought. "Don't you have some kind of calming affect up there that'll tranquilize her until we figure this out?"

"Or some magic that will shut her viceroy down?" Paige asked.

"Piper, it's against the rules."

"Leo, you are an Elder now. Screw the rules."Piper reminded her husband intensely with a growl.

"Piper," Leo tried.

"Leo, what do we do if we can't talk sense into her? I mean you have the whole calming effect on everyone and she resisted that. What do we do if she wakes up and goes nutty?"

Phoebe asked as tried to help Piper's fight.

"She's a victim not an enemy."

"Oh, really, cause she was spouting a threat about a lawyer about a minute ago or have you forgotten?"Piper replied annoyed.

"I'll be back as soon as I can."Leo said as he looked up at the ceiling expectantly. Piper could tell her husband was in a hurry and that she wasn't going to win this fight. As much as she wanted a vacation away from the supernatural, she knew her own husband wouldn't go off and baby-sit their innocent anytime soon.

"Fine. Go do your Elder thing just hurry up." Piper replied as she gave up and folded her arms over chest and turned away from fighting Leo.

Leo frowned at her. He didn't know what to say. He knew she didn't want to deal with this and that she was tired. He also knew he had to get up to the Elders since something important was about to happen that they needed to tell him about. So he orbed away from the Manor and his family.

"Typical," Chris said.

"Give him a break he's got a responsibility to us as well as the world." Wyatt told his brother in frustration.

"Yeah, well that's nice. All he does is discuss stuff. Has he ever taken action?" Chris asked, annoyed.

Piper looked over at Chris and sighed. She saw in him as the same young man that had came to her from the future so long ago. She saw in him the sadness, the resentment to the world, and the feeling of being number two in his own father's priorities.

Leo had done something once. He had been so consumed by rage and revenge that when Chris had been murdered by Gideon. Gideon, who had been all of their ally as well as trusted friend, had been the one after Wyatt the whole time. Gideon had tried to take Wyatt away from his own family to kill him and Chris hadn't let him without a fight. Of course, Chris had died saving his own brother in that fight.

Leo had killed Gideon then. He had done it for the world. He had done it for his family and he had done it mostly for Chris.

Chris would never know that though. Piper had made sure that everyone in the family had to keep it a secret. It didn't happen anymore like it had before. The future had been changed thanks to Chris. So no one had to know what had happened in the past. Even if it explained everything in the present.

Piper slowly started for the doorway of the room feeling as if she were slowly being buried alive. At that moment she had to get out of there. She had to get some air and be away from everyone for one second or else she might do something that her own sons would never understand.

One thing she knew for sure too about her sons was the fact that they had Halliwell blood in them. Which meant, they would find a way to figure out what was troubling her and then their little secret would come out and she didn't want it too.

It had been hard enough trying to deal with it when it happened so dealing with it now would never help matters. It would only complicate things further.

"Mom?" Wyatt asked as he saw her start to leave the room.

She looked over at Chris though clearly saddened and said. "Your dad has done a lot for us as well as for the world. Cut him a break now and then, alright?"

"Piper?" Phoebe asked.

Piper knew Phoebe could tell what was coming to the surface. She knew her sister wanted to be there for her, but she couldn't right now. She had to be alone and if Phoebe did come along for the ride then her sons would start to wonder about it.

"I'm fine I just need a second. You guys can hold down the fort for a minute right?"

Piper asked with small smile.

"I guess. "Phoebe replied uneasily as she stayed in her spot sitting in a chair crossed legged and wanting to comfort fatigued sister, but couldn't.

Piper nodded and then left the room. Paige entered it as she did and looked down at the girl lying peacefully on the couch.

"Is she wearing Armani?"she cried.

"Yeah," Phoebe replied shaking her head. "That dress let alone those shoes would sum up the amount of money that I will ever see in a lifetime."

"Preaching to the choir."Paige said. "So what do we know about her?"

"She was singing at P3 and a demon threw a energy ball at her."Wyatt informed Paige since no one really jumped to offer the information. " She somehow survived it and came to us. We healed her, she woke up, she screamed bloody murder, mom doesn't know what to do with her, and then you came into the picture."

"It's not that she doesn't know what to do with her. Piper is just tired. She was sick earlier and she passed out and then she was dizzy for awhile." Phoebe told them confidentially.

"Well, if I was hormonal I wouldn't either."Paige responded as she plopped into a chair nearby.

"Well, that's not all" Phoebe replied as she leaned forward in her own chair as if to start telling a ghost story to a group of excited camp goers.

"What do you mean?"Wyatt asked as he watched his aunt clasp and unclasp her hands together nervously.

"That really doesn't sound good."Chris added.

"Chris, whenever is it a good thing?"Victoria asked him lightly.

"Shhh. I wanna know."Paige shushed them with a wave of her hand.

"Okay, well, when she fainted I ended up having a premonition."

"Past, present, or future?"Paige asked.

"Definite future."Phoebe responded staring at Paige as she told her the news. "Piper was there in my premonition and she was having the baby. She was in a lot of pain.."

"No," Chris said angrily as he realized instantly where it was going.

"No way. Mom is fine. She's not.."Wyatt said.

"She died in my premonition."Phoebe ended.

"Well, we'll change it. We'll fix it. There's no way we are going to let Piper die."Paige said flabbergasted.

"I know. We just. We have to be careful."Phoebe added.

"So, she just died of child birth?"Victoria asked in a weird calm.

Of all things for the oldest most strongest Charmed One to die from she had never expected it to be child birth. Killed by her own child? That was just weird.

"I dunno. She was in a lot of pain in my premonition. I think there might have been something wrong with the labor or something." Phoebe informed them as she tried to figure out her premonition.

"Did you tell her?"Paige asked.

"Are you kidding? Uh, no. Did you see her right now? She's tired and she needs to rest. If I had told her that she was going to die in child birth then she would worry about it forever. She wouldn't rest and she could make things worse not to mention..."Phoebe broke off.

"Not to mention what?"Wyatt asked as he folded his arms over his chest as he shut the world out.

There was no way he was just going to lose his mother. He cared about her too much to lose her now. Plus, she was going to have a baby. The baby needed her just as much as any of them did. Maybe, even more.

"She might go back into the whole will and testament kick again."Phoebe replied.

"Oh, yeah."Paige said as she remembered the last time Piper had been on that kick.

Leo had been hesitant about it. Leo hadn't ever wanted to deal with anything like a legal document let alone his own wife dying on him. He hadn't wanted to sign the will because then it would be final. Then, he had to accept losing his wife one day and for awhile there he had been against it.

"Yeah, and I am not watching her go through with that again. I'm not going to watch her be tormented again while she is knowing there is a possibility she would die this time round."Phoebe whispered softly.

She had never thought of Piper dying. Sure, she knew it would happen one day, but it hadn't yet. They all had had so many different hit and misses with death. Prue hadn't been able to stop it from taking her away. Piper, though, Piper was the one who held the family together. She was strong and she always had been strong. She had always been the quiet strong one that they all took for advantage.

Phoebe didn't think she could get over losing another sister. She didn't think that she could deal with becoming the leader of the family either.

"Wait, when was the last time she had the will done?" Paige asked out of no where.

"Around Wyatt being born."

"So, Chris isn't even in it?" Paige asked.

"I don' t believe this! You guys, I can't believe you are talking about this. That's my mother you are talking about! There is no way I am going to let her die now. No way in hell." Wyatt cried out in frustration.

Who cared about wills? Who cared who was on the will? He cared about his mother. Right now he cared mostly about keeping her alive. So, to hell about caring about the will. He wanted to save his mother.

"What do we do then?" Chris asked. "Isn't fighting with death a no win situation?"

"I can't believe you are saying that. It's our mom we are talking about here." Wyatt said as he shook in frustration.

"Wyatt, he didn't mean that." Victoria started softly as she saw him start to spaz out. She had seen it before in her last life and no matter how much he had changed she knew it wasn't a good thing. Especially, with how powerful he was in this life.

"Stay out of this." Wyatt told her threateningly.

"Hey," Paige started as she saw how affected her oldest nephew was by this conversation.

"Don' t talk to her that way." Chris warned his brother angrily.

"This isn't between her and me this is about our mother." Wyatt told his brother as he looked at him evenly.

"I know. Don't you think I know that? Don't you think I want to save her?" Chris spazzed. "I love her too. But I am willing to admit I don't know what to do here. This is death we are talking about. I am all about saving mom. I just don't know if we can. You have heard all the stories, too. Don't act like I am being insensitive. I am going to fight to keep her alive and I am going to save her if I can. But you know death is more major enemy for us then any demon we come across is. We can't beat death, Wyatt. Only he can beat us." Chris told his brother

"I know. But if I know one thing for sure there is always a way to get around everything. And I'm going to find it."Wyatt insisted.

"Find what?" Piper asked as she came back into the room holding a cup of warm milk in one hand and a very odd looking sandwich in the other.