Piper had initially been awake for quite sometime. She hadn't been able to get up as quickly like she used to do. Of course, she had a baby coming any day now and that weighed a lot on her back as well as her speed. She was in such a lazy mood that day and she didn't think she would ever get out of it.

She felt funny somehow too. She didn't really feel like herself and yet she felt so free out of no where. She felt like she had finally made the right decision in her life to just not care about her magical duties for one day or hell forever more.

It was great to be free. She stretched out her arms and yawned heavily as she rolled onto her side as she hogged the whole bed to herself. Leo had left earlier because of some big Elder problem that was going on up there. She hadn't really cared about the specifics at the time so she had just tried to stay asleep.

Then, of course, as if the world was against her, at the exact moment she had finally been close to falling asleep she had heard the shrieks. Against her whole magic free kick she had considered making her own spell to use so that she could steal the innocents voice box so there'd be no more noise pollution. Then, the house would be quiet like usual and she could get her beauty rest.

Of course, she would never hear the end of it from Leo so she had decided against it.

"Will it never end?" she mumbled.

Piper really wasn't in the mood for friction that morning. So, she had jumped out of bed haphazardly throwing on her blue slippers that matched her dark blue pajamas set and made her way out of her silent room. Phoebe's door was still shut and she had a feeling that right now Phoebe was sleeping or else keeping a pillow over her ears so she could try to sleep through the inconstant shrieking.

She almost wanted to blow up her door just to get her out in the hallway and awake with the rest of them but a wave of indifference and her whole non-magic kick was in her head to deeply. So, instead Piper made her way through the hall to the wooden staircase.

"Figures," she mumbled again under her breath at her sisters behavior.

Piper came barreling down the stairs in her baggy pajamas and blue slippers. She rubbed her eyes tiredly as the sunlight infiltrated her weary sight and she looked down at everyone in the living room as she came to a stop beside Wyatt.

He gave his mother a half smile as she took in the scene. Chris and Victoria were both on the pull out mattress of the old white couch. They both looked sleepy and ruffled. Chris's hair was horrible. It was going everywhere and he looked almost evil with the whole bed head look. While, Victoria had a lazy look of contempt directed in the direction of their innocent.

Who, at the moment, looked like she was going to scream yet again. Her big blue eyes were the size of quarters and she looked like she was hyperventilating as she stood amongst the small crowd. Piper couldn't be sure but she had thought she heard some mention of an alien baby of some sort as she had came down the stairs. That she didn't even want to think about so she chalked it up to still being half asleep.

Then, there was Wyatt beside her. He was just standing there. He looked a bit embarrassed and she could tell why. He wasn't really handling the innocent well and he sure wasn't ready to be downstairs with everyone. He was still wrapped in a towel and that was it as if he had just come running out of the shower to stop the innocent.

No wonder the innocent was spazzing out. Piper would have been the same way if she had woken up to a strange house filled with strangers. Not to mention the fact that the person who would have been in the room with her as she'd awoke was a half naked boy.

"Uh, Wyatt. What are you doing?" Piper asked with a uneasy smile as she waved her hand at his obliviously half naked self.

He looked down at himself and blushed. "Uh, trying to catch the innocent before she ran out of the house."

"Yeah, well. I am pretty sure you could do that better fully clothed." Piper told him.

"Wyatt just wants to get laid." Victoria said as she laughed. "Guess he came on a bit strong though. I mean look at the poor girl. She's hyperventilating."

"Wyatt, upstairs now." Piper ordered her son.

"But mom.." Wyatt cried out in surprise. He was very annoyed by Victoria's remark and Piper was not about to play referee to them this early in the morning. So, the best thing she could do was send him upstairs for a few minutes to cool off and also to get some clothes on.

"Up. Up Up. Go put some clothes on." Piper ordered.

Wyatt looked at her for a brief moment and then gave Victoria a severe look. Then, he grabbed his towel to him tighter before he bounded up the stairs leaving the room down one supposed 'alien' according to their innocent. Piper didn't even want to know where the girl had even gotten the whole 'alien' assumption from.

"Are you like their leader?" the girl asked her as Wyatt faded away into the upstairs world.

"No, I'm like their mother." Piper told her in a dark voice as she rolled her eyes.

She could see the girl was confused. Heck, she could even believe that the girl wasn't there mentally either. She just hoped that Leo could figure out why they needed to protect her. Or even better why they didn't need to protect her anymore and then piper would be perfectly happy with the whole situation.

"Creepy." the girl said. "I think I need to go home now. I have a lot of stuff I need to do. You know, people to see things to do." she told them as she started backwards towards the front door.

"Where do you think you are going?" Chris asked suspiciously as he jumped up from the bed and was beside the girl in a matter of seconds.

"Stay away from me. I don't know what you are for sure but like I am so not letting you hold me hostage in this dusty, old, smelly house." the girl insisted as she dropped back a few more steps towards the door.

"Hey!" Piper cried out angrily making the innocent shrink in terror.

She could deal with having to wake up because of this girl not knowing when to shut up. But no one ever ever ever insulted her home. Never. It was her home and it had been since the day she was born and it had been past down over the ages as well as fixed up over the ages and no innocent was going to say anything insulting about it. Not if she could help it.

"I mean it I will scream." the innocent threatened in a whisper.

"Like we haven't heard that before." Chris said sarcastically. "Mom, why don't you just freeze her? That way we don't have to deal with her while we try to save her life."

"Freeze her?" Piper asked, incredulously.

Piper thought about it for a moment. It sounded nice, but she wasn't willing to go down that path anymore. If anything she wanted to not use magic ever again. Yeah, that sounded really nice. Then, she wouldn't have to deal with any magical consequences to any of her actions or whatnot. Heck, maybe she would get away from being on all the evil doers radar for once.

She shook her head and started into the kitchen. Chris followed his mother into the kitchen. He didn't even bother to notice the fact that he was leaving the innocent alone. His mother was acting too weird to let it go. Which, her acting this weird, wasn't normal not even with her usual hormonal pregnancy mood swings.

It was like she didn't care about anything. It was like she was just against using her magic to save everyone the trouble of dealing with the innocent just because she didn't feel like using magic. It was like she was against using magic.

"So you leave me with her?" Victoria asked under her breath giving the girl a look. She was not in the mood this early in the morning and without any source of caffeine to deal with this insane girl. This was just not the best way for her to start her day by making her baby-sit a noisy girl.

Of course, she had noticed that Piper was acting a little off so she wanted Chris to figure that out as soon as possible. Hopefully, it would link to the girl and they would be able to get rid of her quickly . Being Victoria's luck she doubted it.

"Don't hurt me." the girl said as she saw Victoria's annoyed look.

"Whatever." Victoria grumbled and then sulked as she went under her covers.

"Mom, what is wrong with you?" Chris asked as he came up beside her in the kitchen.

Piper turned away from making her coffee and then started to ransack the cupboard. She then found one of the things she was looking for and grinned as she let it plop down on the counter. The package created a small cloud of whatever mix it was and she ignored it as she went on to find other things in the kitchen.

Piper grabbed the pancake mix she had let drop on the counter and then she grabbed bread. "What do you think pancakes or French toast?"

"Huh? At a time like this?" he cried as she balanced both choices in her hands and waited for an answer.

"Well, we should make our guest feel at home. You know let her be happy instead of hysterical. I mean really if I were her and had woken up in a room with a half naked boy.." Piper giggled as her thought ran off with her and then she set the bread back down on the counter where it had been before. "Pancakes with blueberries would be the best right now."

"Mom?" Chris asked as his brow furrowed in fear. He didn't know what was wrong but she definitely was not being herself. She was perky. Too perky and she wasn't referring to the innocent as an innocent but instead as a guest. That and the fact that she wasn't really doing any magic was starting to creep him out just a bit.

"What? We don't have any strawberries left. Hey, I can still make them in little stars and Christmas tree shapes like you like, little man." Piper replied giving his cheek a quick squeeze as she went on her way towards the stove now to find her cooking tools.

"What the hell?" Chris cried dramatically as he raised his hands in the air.

"Chris!" she cried "No swearing! Or I will have to wash your mouth out with soap."

Chris stood gaping at his mother. Piper started humming a song as she set the stove up to make her blueberry pancakes for everyone. Chris was just too freaked out to be able to do anything. His mother had become Mary Poppins or Mary Sunshine. It was just so creepy. For a minute there he almost wondered if he had accidentally woke up in an alternate universe or something because what he was witnessing at that very moment was so not like the mother he knew it was scary.

Wyatt came into the kitchen then. Now, he was fully clothed in black sweat pants and a white t-shirt. He had a small look of confusion as well as he came into them from the living room. He wrenched his finger back in that direction as he said, "Mom, you just left the innocent with Victoria. What are you thinking?"

"Our guest needed some time to relax. Since her and Victoria are both girls I thought they could bond." Piper told him sweetly.

Wyatt gave Chris a side look and then said, "Mom, are you crazy. Victoria hates Leigh."

"Oh, so that's her name. It suits her." Piper said with a brilliant smile as she went on doing what she was already doing while her sons looked at her like she had gone crazy the whole time.

"Alright," Wyatt drawled as he gave Chris a look.

"Mom, has gone off the deep end as we know it." Chris told him as he shrugged his shoulders.

"What? How?" Wyatt asked as Piper came over to them and he shrank away.

"Oh, you guys are talking civilly again. Oh, group hug." she told them and before they could do anything they were enfolded in a hug.

"It's some form of a mutiny. "Wyatt whispered in the tight squeeze his mother had on him as well as his brother as they both squirmed in her hold.

"No, its some evil force that's possessed her." Chris informed him as Piper gave up and giggled at their ranting.

"Oh guys, come on. Can't I just be happy?"

Wyatt and Chris both gave each other a look. Wyatt's was more like 'well, yeah she can, but not this happy. She's creepy' and Chris's look said 'creepy on the side of possessed. Or don' you believe me?'. Wyatt looked over at his mother who was now dancing with a mop and singing loudly in a low off key alto voice. His eyebrows immediately raised as he gaped at her.

"She's possessed!" Wyatt finally agreed.