Our Choice, Our Rules

by Elfpinkromance

An Alternate Universe of a Charmed/Supernatural Crossover - Not all of God's Drafts are thrown away. Some of them are aware of what Chuck is doing. This is one of them.

178. Chapter 178

David sighs as he signs the papers.

"Another day, another dollar." Being an accountant was boring as hell. "Wish my life was more exciting." He picks up the flyer he picked up from the local library. "An art show?" Eh, he wasn't doing anything anyway. He puts down the flyer and picks up his pen.

In the shadows a demon watches the man, waiting till he is distracted to take over his body.

David gasped when he felt himself fading away.

"Hmph." The demon cracks his mortal neck. "Been awhile since I been back on Earth." He looks at his pen. "You'll do." He had his orders, but first, he needed something.

"Knock knock." David's secretary walks into the room. "Sir, your eleven o'clock is here."

"Yes, send them in." He was holding a gold pen. "Why hello. You must be my first, client." He didn't stand up.

"I'm in a hurry, just give me a damn pen so I can be on my way."

"Of course." The demon holds up his pen. A nice gold one. "Just grab one from the stack there." Pointing to a jar of pens. When David's client starts signing some papers, he stabs his hand with the gold pen he was holding.

"Ahhhhhh!" He looks at his hand that was stuck to the desk. The pen was deep inside the desk, stabbed right through his hand.

"Sorry." The demon says coldly. He looked up to see the secretary running in.

Ari screamed seeing the blood.

"I don't need you two, otherwise I'll take your bodies."

The door closed as screams echoed through the door.

"I'm surprised you agreed to this." Jenna couldn't help but check out the male stripper. "Damn." She took out a dollar.

"What kind of bachelorette would I be without strippers? Woo! Take it off!" Phoebe yells drunkenly.

"No thanks." Piper blushed when the stripper took off his g-string.

"Speak for yourself. Shake it baby!" Paige waves a twenty.

"Just a soda for me thanks." Jenna tells the scantily clad waiter. "But give these ladies more shots!" She slaps a fifty on the tray. "And keep the change!"

"Awesome! I'll be right back!" He moves through the crowd of drunken women trying not to notice his ass getting slapped.

"To Phoebe. May she and Coop live happily ever after!" Once the drinks came.

"Hear hear!" Paige agrees. She clicks her shot with Jenna and the others. "And hope she gets that residency!"

"Yep!" Piper grimaces as she downs her drink. "Ugh. Strong." She waved down a waiter. "Hey! Keep 'em coming!"

Phoebe laughs.

"Bout time you loosened up." Piper was always so straitlaced. "In just two days, I'm becoming Phoebe Halliwell!" She laughed with her sisters. "What?" She saw Jenna's confused expression. "It's a family tradition!"

"Right. The women keep their names." Jenna almost forgot. "To Coop! The future Mr Halliwell!"

They were celebrating Phoebe's last hurrah as a single woman, it was Ladies Night at this nightclub. All four women were celebrating with drinks, strippers and good times.

"Here here!" Paige shouts.

Jenna almost felt envious, she couldn't drink. But she didn't mind. She agreed to be the designated driver, just as long as she kept a close eye on the women.

"Where's Dean?" Paige asked. She was back on the force but was currently on probation. She didn't care, she was happy she wasn't fired.

"Don't know. Don't care." She saw everyone exchanging looks. "Knowing him, he and Sam dragged Coop to a strip club. C'mon! You know I'm not the jealous type!" She didn't want to tell them the real reason why she and Dean started sleeping in separate beds.

"Which makes a healthy marriage!" Phoebe trusted Coop. "Let's not talk about them! Let's dance!" She grabs her drink and heads to the dance floor. "Jen?"

"I'll sit this one out! Have fun!" Jenna's baby was wearing her out.

"Okay! Piper! Paige! Let's ask that hot waiter to dance with us!"

Jenna waves at all three. She was so glad they were having a good time, they needed it. Feeling her phone buzz, she picked it up, she had to keep it on at all times just in case Laura or Dean was in trouble.

'I have an assignment for you. Check your messages.'

"Now?" Figures Murphy would pick a bad time. She signalled to her friends she was heading to the bathroom. "Be right back!" Instead of the ladies' room, she goes outside to her rented car.

"Are the guys hot?" A woman asked Jenna as she walked outside.

"Smokin."

"Awesome."

Jenna smiles as she walks across the parking lot. Heading to her rented car, she opens the trunk to access its contents.

"Where are you." She kept her second phone inside a bag of tampons. "Aha! There you are!" She needed this phone for 'work.' like Sam and Dean, she had a secret phone for hunting.

'There are rumours about demon possession. Right in your neck of the woods. I need you to check it out.'

"What? Demons? About time." She knew how to hunt monsters, but demons were something she was still green about. She whistled. "That'll pay for VIP tickets to Disney, Universal and have money to spend. Must be dangerous." The figure offered was in the five digits. She quickly hid her phone, she didn't want Dean to find out. She heads back inside, she was the designated driver.

"Morning. There's fresh coffee, help yourselves." Jenna was having herbal tea, she read an article that too much coffee wasn't good for pregnant women.

"My head." Phoebe's head was throbbing. She poured herself a cup.

"Mine too." Piper groaned.

"Never again." Paige's face was green.

"Glad I didn't drink." Jenna was reading her phone. "Anyone up to see the new art gallery opening?" There was a new up-and-coming artist whose work was getting featured in popular web blogs.

"Can't, I have to work." Paige was back on the force, but wasn't fully back time yet, so to make extra money she was working as a security guard at a local art gallery. It was only a temporary job, Paige hoped she would be back at work soon. But since she wasn't working till this evening, she decided to help Phoebe with her last-minute wedding details.

"And I'm going Magic School, Coop and I are talking with the Angel of Destiny." Phoebe figured to ask a divine being, since she and Coop couldn't be legally married the mortal way, she asked Jophiel for a favor. He sent Fate to bend the rules a bit so no one would bat an eye that a dead man was getting married.

"And Sam and I are going there as well to see if Magic School would help Mel open up." Piper was still determined to send Mel to a traditional school, but she was getting worried that she still wasn't talking. She wondered if Mel felt self-conscious about being different from other kids.

"Dean will be busy, he and Laura are spending Daddy/Daughter time together." Jenna knew Laura missed her dad. "So I won't be home." She accepted Murphy's assignment but didn't know where to find those demons. However, she still had her day job. "My publicist wants me to promote that new artist. Phoebe, Paige, mind if I borrow your living room for a day? I'll pay." She was stepping away from the public eye but still wanted to work. She figured acting like a publicist would still give her some creative freedom, but still allow her to work in social media.

"Sure, but we need it cleaned by tomorrow, we have to set up for the reception." Phoebe couldn't believe she was getting married in a few days. "In three days I'll be off the market."

"Hopefully your wedding goes better than mine." Piper was over it but grimaced at the memory of Prue ruining her own wedding.

"That's what insurance is for." Paige and Phoebe paid extra for luck. The leprechauns were happy to provide luck, but only if the sisters agreed to help whenever the magical community needed them.

"We won't be long. Sorry, I couldn't help!" She texted Dean at their hotel, she only spent the night to celebrate Phoebe's bachelorette party. Since Dean didn't text back right away, she assumed he was either sleeping and/or Sam took the girls for breakfast.

San Francisco Art Gallery

"Where should I hang this?" Gillian looked crucially at the painting. "The east or west wall?" She hoped everything went well, this art show could make or break her career as an art dealer. Hearing a bell jingle behind her, she didn't turn around.

"Hello?" A man holding a cylinder tube was standing in the doorway.

"We're closed!" She left the door open for her workers, they were helping her set up for tonight's show. "Come back tomorrow!" She turned around to see a well-dressed man looking around.

"Very nice." He was pretending to look around but was looking seductively at the woman.

"Oh! My apologies." She blushed at the stranger. "Are you a buyer?" She already sent out the invitations, sadly only a few accepted.

"Maybe." He smiles. He held up a printed flyer. "I heard you're opening a show." He shifted his package.

"Yes, I am." She looked at the cylinder. "Are you here to buy?"

"Matter of fact I am." He nods at the wall in front of him. "That's a beautiful painting." It was a painting of a pink sunset.

"Unfortunately, I already have a buyer. Otherwise, I would put it away for you." She nervously brushes back her hair. "I do have others I can sell you, although the frames are not included."

"That is alright." He opens the cylinder. "I have this I like to display, but only if you have me have first bids of your work." She was an artist, he saw it in an instant.

Gillian smiles.

"You can tell huh?" Being a starving artist didn't pay the bills, that's why she worked here. "Unfortunately I cannot display any new work at the moment, we are opening tonight."

"That's alright." He closes the package. "I just moved to town, and my condo is pretty bare. I would like to purchase some artwork."

"We are having a show tonight, but I do have some original work in the back that won't be displayed in tonight's show." Gillian painted in her spare time, she always hoped her boss would allow her to display her work someday. "Would you like to take a peek?"

"I like that." He follows her to the back. "Wow." He was looking at a self-portrait. "Is this you?" It was abstract, but he knew right away he was looking at her inner soul.

"It is. I'm surprised you can tell." To the average person, it was a mess of shapes and colours. "I was feeling down and created...this." She was embarrassed, it wasn't her best work.

"It's so sad." The splashes of greys and blues were everywhere. "Yet, there's a glimmer of hope inside." The purple was faint, it was located near her heart.

"My work was rejected from tonight's show. But I know I'll be discovered someday." She always had lots of likes and comments on her social media whenever she displayed a new drawing. "I'm Gillian." She held out her hand.

"Djall." He takes her hand and kisses it.

"Djall. Is it Italian?" She blushed when he kissed her.

"Latin. I had a name once but forgot it over time." He gives her a seductive glance. "It's been a while since I been with a beautiful woman, your work, is exquisite."

"Thank you." She looks into his eyes. "Your package, maybe I can pull some strings?" She closes her eyes and leans in for a kiss.

"I like that." When her eyes closed, he chants a spell. "Turn hanc picturam in porta daemonium fratres mei."

Gillian gasps. She felt cold.

"Sorry love, but you are part of my display." He opens up his painting, absorbing her soul. He then chanted a spell to bring a demon inside the empty host. "Exite ad hanc testum inanem."

Black smoke goes inside Gillian's body.

"Cough cough." The demon shakes itself off. "A woman?" He looks critically at his new body.

"A host is a host. Besides, you know why we're here."

"I know." She cracked her neck. "Will this even work?"

"This is just a distraction. With everyone busy, no one will bother protecting him." It wasn't Djall's best idea, but he was getting sick of the Underworld anyway.

"With Cole dead, no one will stop us." The demon walks out with Djall. "When do we start?"

"Patience. We have to do this delicately. Remember, the witches and hunters will hunt us down if we don't do this right." He left his painting behind, he didn't need it at the moment.

"I can't believe the Angel of Destiny agreed to that." Piper was pushing Mel's stroller. Sam was walking behind her, both Paige and Phoebe were still at Magic School.

"She did say she was overwhelmed at the moment, performing a magical wedding was probably the break she needed. Hearing voices, Sam cautiously touches his wife's shoulder. "You hear that?" He heard Jenna was here with her new client, but the voice didn't sound human.

"Take Mel." She heard it too. "Don't use your gun." She and Sam were very careful not to use violence around their daughter.

"Be careful." He takes Mel's stroller. Mel was waking up.

Piper walks towards the voices. She saw a tall figure standing in the living room.

"Ha!" She uses her freezing power to freeze the enemy.

"Hey Sis." Jenna says cheerfully. She was immune to her power like Dean was.

"Why isn't my powers working?" She saw the demon staring menacingly at her. She promised Sam she wouldn't use her powers, but this was an emergency. She tries blowing him up. "Huh?" Her destructive power bounces harmlessly off the demon.

"Cool huh?" Jenna was admiring the statue. "Hey Bro! Mel." She saw Sam and Mel standing in the hallway. "Your work, it is so lifelike."

"Thanks." Shaina was putting the final touches on her work. "You think I'll be ready for tonight's show?" The statue was nude.

"That's a statue?" Sam was staring at it. "It's so lifelike."

"A little too lifelike." Piper saw Mel looking at it with fascination. "Ahem." She saw where Mel's eyes were looking at. "Sam?"

"Yeah." Sam quickly lowers her hat. "Let's go upstairs and play tea party." He takes her upstairs.

"Why couldn't I blow up the statue?" She depowered herself so as not to hurt Mel.

"Maybe because I put a spell on it?" Shaina steps off her ladder.

"Can I take a picture now?" Jenna was going to run her social media.

"Go for it."

Flash!

"Huh. Already have people wondering if you take commissions." The picture was only up for a few seconds.

"Sorry, mind if you get rid of it? I need this room to set up the catering for my sister's wedding." Piper asked. Sure enough, both Paige and Phoebe orbed in.

"Another stripper? Whew! What a bod." She looked up and down at the statue. "You think Coop will mind?"

"I think you had your chance. Me on the other hand." Paige licks her lips. "Mason is out of town, and I wouldn't mind a private show." She looks seductively at him.

"You'll knock them dead." Jenna took a picture for her own private use, making sure to zoom in on certain areas.

"He's not real. Hey! I have a small child in here, plus my niece!"

"Laura is with her dad." Jenna convinced Dean to take her out for ice cream.

"Fine." Shaina reluctantly snaps it away. "That was just a treat." As tempting as it was to enter it in the show, it was made of magic.

"That was a statue?" Phoebe couldn't believe it. "Wow."

"It's so lifelike. Mind making me one?" Paige hoped Mason wouldn't mind.

"Take a number." Jenna wanted one for her own use, a life-like statue to keep her fans away. She figured a fake would keep her most hardcore fans happy.

"You're a witch?"

"Of course." Shaina tells Phoebe.

"She's my new client. In art." Jenna saw the sisters exchanging glances.

"I'm trying to be the next big artist. Hopefully, my social media presence will help me launch my career." Shaina dreamed about having her artwork sold at either Christy's or Sotheby's, and also having her work displayed in the Louvre someday.

"Her statues made from clay are amazing." Jenna already bought one from her. "See?" She shows Piper and everyone else the statue she bought. "I'm getting tired of seeing Dean's beer can display in the living room." She was sure Dean would like it. She puts away her phone.

"Very nice." Phoebe remembered the art Prue used to sell at Bucklands.

"Where did you come from? Shoot!" She felt so stupid. "Sorry. I'm Paige." She holds out her hand.

"Phoebe."

"Piper. The Moose that was in here, is my husband Sam. The baby, our daughter Melinda." They shake hands with Shaina.

"Sorry, I should have told you. Ahem." Jenna gets up to help Shaina clean up the living room.

"We were introduced to each other in Paris years ago."

"I hunted there while I had my acting career." Jenna almost missed France.

"Right." Piper heard that Jenna was hunting while on her downtime. Hearing the door slam, Piper helps the women pack up.

"Cool power. What is it?" Phoebe always was fascinated by seeing new magic.

"Mirage."

"Is that the same as illusion?" Paige moves out of the way to let Dean and Laura in.

"Close. I can create things that come to life. Almost." Shaina wished she could bring her mirages to life. "Realistic mirages are the best I can do."

"Mommy!" Laura runs up to Jenna and hugs her.

"Hi sweetie." She kisses her daughter. "Oof! Careful. The baby is inside." She pats her belly. "Hey." She greets her husband.

Dean nodded.

Jenna clears her throat, she could feel the uncomfortable silence.

"Piper, mind if Laura stays with Sam?"

"Why, are you doing FBI work? Agent?" Dean says with sarcasm.

"I just remembered, I, forgot something at Magic School." Phoebe pretends to look for her keys. "I'll see you later. Nice to meet you, Shaina." She walks to the front door.

"And I have to go on patrol. I'll orb you before I head to work." Paige takes Phoebe and orbs away.

"C'mon Laura. Mel and Uncle Sam are having tea party." Piper wondered if she should give them their marriage therapist's number. She and Laura head upstairs.

"Dean, this is Shaina. My client." Jenna felt her face turning pink.

"You a witch?" Dean knew Jenna was working, but a hell of a coincidence her first client was a witch.

"Yes. But I am an artist first. If you excuse me. Jenna, I'll see you at the opening tonight?" She snaps her finger to take everything else away.

"I'll be there this evening to help you set up." She walks by Dean to walk her out.

Dean had a massive headache.

"How's the work?" Once Jenna walked back in.

"Fine. I'm sure I'll have a ton of clients. Mortal clients in my portfolio after tonight." Jenna had a job, but she wasn't going to risk her other job for Dean.

"Same here." Dean heard from Bobby there was something going on in the West Coast, he just hoped his wife wasn't caught in the crossfire. He sighs and hugs his wife. "I'm sorry." Their fight last night, Dean felt terrible.

Jenna sniffled. She hugs Dean back.

"Me too." She and Dean hold one another.

"Is it safe to come down?" Piper's voice says from upstairs.

"Just don't shoot us!" Sam says back.

"We're fine!" Jenna holds her belly. "Dean, let's order something. I'm starving. Fried chicken?" Jenna knew Dean missed eating junk.

"With a vegan lunch." Dean respected Jenna's beliefs.

"I'll bring the girls down." Sam heads back to the bedrooms.

Later that night, the gallery was full of people, men and women were drinking champagne and admiring the art that was being sold.

"Ten grand for that?" Dean was holding a champagne, like the others, he and Sam were dressed in fancy clothes. He looked critically at the painting. "Laura could do better." He polishes off his drink.

"It's not so bad." Like Dean, Sam was dressed up in designer duds. "I'm surprised you agreed to wear that." Sam didn't know much about designers but knew that jacket cost a fortune.

"It was Jen's idea." Dean wasn't sure if he would look good, but when he looked in the mirror, he admitted he looked fantastic. "I can easily walk on Hollywood's Red Carpet and no one will blink an eye." His jeans and shoes were designer as well, Dean was careful not to dirty his clothes. He saw men and women giving Dean lustful looks.

"You look like that actor." Sam read those articles Phoebe and Paige brought over. He nodded at a woman checking Sam out.

"So do you." Sam was dressed in a grey suit. "But we look better." Dean protested when Jenna dragged him shopping, but when he put on his clothes, Dean couldn't believe how fancy he looked. "Beats flannel." He grabs another champagne from a passing waiter. He pointed across the room. "Jen, I hope this new career keeps her out of hunting." Dean kept her out for a reason. He and Sam knew firsthand how dangerous hunting was.

Jenna was talking to Shaina, they were talking excitedly about the potential customers who were admiring Shaina's statue.

"You'll think they'll bite?" It wasn't the magical statue Shaina had earlier, but it was just as memorable. "Took me weeks to make that." Shaina spent a lot of time getting her hands dirty. She was proud of it, that statue represented the Salem Witch Trails. The still woman was defiantly glaring at the invisible crowd.

"I think so." Jenna saw the sisters giving the statue uncomfortable looks. It wasn't lifelike like a mannequin, but Jenna knew right away what it was. "I see checkbooks." Jenna was getting her fee, plus a small commission for any of Shaina's work getting sold.

"Let's hope so." Like Jenna, she didn't drink, however, she handed her new friend a bottle of water. "To a new career!"

"Here here!" As they clicked their bottles, Jenna saw a waiter with black eyes. Oh oh. "Will you excuse me, I need to pee." She wondered if this art show was a demon hunting ground. She takes her water and heads to the ladies' room.

"Paige?" Paige was working as security, and although she was back on the force, she was still on probation. She was reduced to working a desk job filing traffic tickets. "Is everything alright?" Both Piper and Phoebe were wearing new outfits, like Jenna, Dean and Sam, both were wearing designer clothes.

"It's nothing." Paige stares enviously at her sisters. Phoebe was wearing a gold dress, while Piper was rocking a slim black pantsuit. "How much did that set you back?" Paige usually didn't care much about designers, however, she felt frumpy wearing her police uniform.

"A Balmain? Piper flinched when she slapped down the credit card." Phoebe knew she and Sam had money, but Piper's frugality was deeply ingrained. As for Phoebe's dress, she had it rented. She and Coop were saving money for the future.

"I'm still getting used to it." She looked admiringly at her husband across the room. "Sam and Dean though, mmm." She and Sam had no regrets about their outfits.

"No argument there." Paige sighs. She saw a blonde guy checking her out, he kept giving Paige shy glances.

"What's wrong?" Phoebe knew she was busy planning her wedding, shame Coop was busy with his duties, otherwise, he'd be here.

"Mason and I, I think we're going through a rough patch." Paige and him were so busy with their careers, they didn't see each other very much. "I doubt this relationship will last any longer."

"I'm sorry Paige." Piper sympathized. She knew how rough breakups were.

"Yeah." Poor Paige. Phoebe looks around at the party. "Where's Jenna?"

"She was with Shaina. Maybe she went to the ladies' room?" Piper knew how annoying pregnant bladders were. "I doubt she'll be hunting here. Especially with three witches and two hunters in attendance." Piper flagged down a waiter walking by with hors d'oeuvres.

"Probably." Paige looked around at the guests. "Gotta get back to work, enjoy the party." She goes to check out the gallery, or more importantly, the cute guy with the ponytail. Seeing her sisters drinking champagne and having a good time, she felt a stab of envy. "Screw this." She decided to say hello to the guest. She nods at him to say hello. When he walked over to her, Paige silently let out a silent 'yes!'

"Too bad Coop couldn't come, he'll love this." Phoebe looked over at Paige talking to a cute guy. "Sam, you think he's having a good time?"

"He looks like it." Sam and Dean were critically discussing an ugly-looking statue. They overheard Sam insisting that Dean try looking at it with his inner consciousness, not his eyes.

"It's still ugly, even with my inner self looking at it." Dean shakes his head. "No offence." He says to people giving him dirty looks.

"Sam, I'm sure he doesn't want Dean to be his date all night. Excuse me." She walks over to her husband and takes his hand. "Dean, try seeing it with your heart. What is it saying to you?" She points a finger at the statue.

"Put it out of my misery?"

Phoebe giggled seeing Piper and Sam looking embarrassed. Dean was getting louder with each drink.

"I think you had enough champagne. I'll get you some water instead." Sam waves over a waiter carrying water bottles.

"And there is only me." Phoebe was debating on sneaking out and taking over babysitting duties from Nina when she got brushed by a larger man walking by. She gasped when she got a vision.

She saw Piper with her back turned, what she didn't see was a hand holding a dagger above her head.

"Piper." She rushes across the room to warn everyone.

"Argh!" The demon screams as Jenna finishes the chant. His vessel collapses onto the floor as the demon smokes out.

"Dammit." She squeezes her now empty water bottle. Hearing the ex-possessed victim groaning, she tosses the bottle aside. "Hey."

"What. Happened. Where am I?" The guy had a massive migraine.

"You must have passed out carrying the crates from the trucks." Jenna lied. She saw the demon waiter walking to the back, so Jenna followed him, but not before turning her water bottle into holy water. "Here." She hands him a new water bottle from a tray.

"Thanks." He allows Jenna to help him up.

"Jenna!"

"Babe! Where are you?!"

"Crap." Jenna whispered. That was Piper's and Dean's voices. She carefully helps him stand up. "Take the rest of the night off. I'll cover for you." Jenna did help organize this thing, she was representing Shaina. After making sure the guy was okay, she ran out back to the party.

"There you are!" Shaina was also looking for Jenna. "I have a potential buyer. But I need some photo ops."

"Sure. Stand next to your work. I'll upload it by tonight." She saw Dean looking frantic. She took a sharp breath. Hopefully, Dean didn't know she was on a job.

"See! She's fine. She probably was getting some air." Sam got worried when Phoebe told them about her premonition. He and Piper were leaving the party to keep an eye on the kids. Phoebe was coming along with them, worried that Piper was in danger.

"Maybe." Dean was naturally suspicious, he actually went to the ladies' room to see if Jenna was inside. When she wasn't there, Dean went outside to check. "I'm going to ask if she saw anything." He walks towards where she was taking pictures of Shaina.

"Don't worry, I can orb them back home as soon as this party is over." Luckily everyone took cabs. "If you see a weird guy, call." Paige doubted this party was anything special, demons wouldn't chance hurting innocents with the Charmed Ones and the Winchesters around. She got the name of the guy at least, he gave her his card. Shame he had to leave.

Jenna feeling arms wrap around her waist smiles.

"Dean! I'm working!" She angles her phone to take another shot of Shaina posing with her work.

"I know." Dean nuzzles her neck when he sees a guy checking her out. 'Fuck off.' He warns the guy silently. The guy looks away. "Just wanted to see if you and the baby are okay." He places his hands protectively on her belly.

"We're fine." God she hoped he didn't see her exorcising the demon a few minutes ago. "I just needed air. Plus give Shaina time to meet some buyers." She gave her new friend a thumbs up when the guy took out a checkbook.

"We have to leave." Once Phoebe told everyone what she saw, Dean and Sam knew they had a hunt. The sisters as well, Piper had to hide the kids. "Piper is in danger." He whispered in her ear.

"What!" Oh no. "Okay. I'll tell Shaina that I have to go. I think she sold her pieces anyways." She only had two art pieces on display. She waited till Shaina walked over.

"Jenna!" Her face was flushed. "Thanks to you, I just made some serious money." Her Salem Witch Trail statue just sold for triple what she was charging. Her other clay statue was sold to a guy in a blonde ponytail.

"Really?" Forgetting about Dean, she hugs her friend. "That's amazing!" She knew Shaina was talented. "Soon you'll be back in Paris."

"Ahem!" Normally Dean would support his wife's new career, but they needed to go. "The cab is waiting for us."

"Right. Sorry Shaina. Gotta go." She hoped Piper wasn't in immediate danger.

"I'll come with you, I'll pay for the taxi." Shaina didn't need to be here anymore, the gallery was taking care of all sales. "Just let me say goodbye to Gillian." She hoped Gillian made it soon, her work was amazing.

"How long do I have to wear this thing." The dress was tight. "Ugh. This woman, if she wants love, she should stop dressing like a whore." The demon tugged uncomfortably at the dress.

"Patience Vephar. All in good time." Djall was watching the hunter and the witch. "Be careful, that man over there, he'll be on us in two seconds." The Winchesters, Djall had to distract them. Spying a man with a blonde ponytail, he looked him over. "Now shut up and act normal." He didn't care about the hunter's wife, although he wondered where his demonic waiter was.

"Gillian!" Shaina waves to her.

"I'm not going back to Magic School!" Jenna shakes her head. "We can only fool Nina for so long." Nina didn't deserve to be caught in their shenanigans. "And neither is Laura." She was way too young to see all that magic.

"Then how am I going to protect you?" Dean couldn't be in two places at once.

"I'll have Paige make a protection spell at our hotel. Plus, I'm a hunter like you." She looked at Dean's face. "Just for emergencies. I'll have salt, plus make sure holy water is pumping in the hotel's water mains. I'll carry a lighter to sense them all off." She hoped it didn't come to that, even with their shared finances, the water damages would bankrupt them. Their hotel room was very expensive.

"Fine." Dean didn't care about Magic School anyway. He agreed that Laura was too young to be a hunter. "There's your friend, let's go home."

"Let's go!" To thank Jenna, Shaina was going to make a wax figure just for her. "But not until we pick up some champagne!" She didn't drink, but this was a night to celebrate.

"What a lovely painting." A heavyset man was transfixed by the trees. "It is like...I'm walking inside." He closes his eyes as his soul disappears inside the painting.

"He's so weak. Couldn't we get a better soul?" Vephar saw the empty husk standing still holding on to a champagne glass.

"Don't judge by appearances alone." This man was so ordinary looking, perfect to hide in plain sight. He nods as another demon possesses him. "Remember our orders."

"Yes master." Vephar nods. She looks around. "So many souls, so little time." They watch as the hunter and witch walk out with a pregnant woman. Following them was a guy with a ponytail.

Jenna sent a text to Murphy about the demon she exorcised.

'Interrogated a demon bastard, I don't know what he was doing at that art show, wimp wouldn't spill.' Jenna used her holy water to torture the demon, but he wouldn't say a word. 'Want me to keep looking?' She hoped Dean didn't see she was using a different phone.

'Yes. But keep it discreet. Hunters are known to be messy. And the witches, keep them away from my radar.'

'What happens when I break the case? I can't kill the vessels.' Jenna refused to hurt the innocents inside the human meatsuits.

'Don't worry about it. I'll give you more details later on. 10-4.'

'Roger.' Jenna quickly hides her phone under her pillow when Dean walks out of the bathroom with Laura.

"There! Laura and I just finished brushing our teeth." Both give Jenna huge grins.

"Mommy, my teeth are white!" Laura jumps on the bed. "See!"

"You did such a good job!" Jenna hugs her. "Looking good Dean!" She smiles at them both. "We have to get some sleep, we have a big day tomorrow." As they got ready for bed, Jenna wondered why that demon was at that art gallery.

"Would you stop it? I'm fine!" Piper was getting irritated by Sam. "Phoebe said she saw a demon with a knife. But it would be suicide for it to come here!" Piper was dressed up, she was meeting with a financial advisor who agreed to come to the Manor to sign papers.

"I know, but your sister's visions are almost never wrong." Sam was dressed up as well, both were talking to an accountant about their money.

"Almost; remember she's been wrong a few times." She and Sam sent Mel out with Jenna and Dean. "Besides Paige is upstairs, and Phoebe and Coop are a call away." Piper had her cell on her at all times.

DING DONG!

"There's Mr Wiskunde." Piper had no idea why he was in San Francisco, his office was back in Lawrence. It was good timing, she and Sam needed to get this audit out of the way ASAP. "Got the papers?" She wished she popped home to check, although she hated personal gain.

"Have the portfolio ready to go." Sam made sure to double-check everything before they left, unlike Dean and Piper, he always made sure everything was in order.

"I hate audits." She walked to the door to let him in. "I bet when Armageddon comes, the IRS will still be around." She opens the door. "Mr Wiskunde, thank you for seeing us."

The accountant grunts as Piper lets him in.

"You are very lucky I'm doing this while on vacation Mr and Mrs Halliwell-Winchester."

"Our apologies." Sam could handle demons, monsters, Hell, God Himself, but the IRS? Sam felt his palms sweating. "I have, I mean. We have everything in order." Sam places the portfolio on the coffee table.

"Coffee?" Piper sat across with Sam. She saw Sam trembling and held his hand, but withdrew it feeling it sweaty. Yuck. She discreetly wiped her hand on her skirt.

"No thank you." He nods at the portfolio. "Is everything there?"

"Every one." Sam felt his face going red when Piper yanked her hand away. "Our mortgage papers, bank statements, receipts, everything." Sam never been audited before, he and Dean always lived on the fringe.

"Very well. This will be awhile, I suggest you get comfortable." The accountant puts on his glasses.

Paige yawns as she sits in her room. She only agreed to stay behind to keep an eye on Piper, but it seemed unnecessary since her husband was with her. She was looking at her phone, Mason left a message that he couldn't make it to Phoebe's wedding.

"You see it too?" She asks the phone. She cared deeply about Mason, but maybe it wasn't meant to be. She debated on orbing out to see him but changed her mind. "Guess I could check out the Book." Whatever Phoebe saw, maybe Paige could write a spell. She snuck out of her room and goes to the attic.

Piper was very tempted to freeze the room to have a break, it's been over an hour. She and Sam were getting bored just sitting waiting for the accountant to finish their paperwork. Piper was mentally writing new spells in her head while Sam was thinking about how to make his hunts safer.

"Mrs Winchester.."

"Yes?" God she hoped they weren't in trouble.

"How about we take five." He gets up to stretch.

"Sounds good to me." Piper's legs were falling asleep. "I'm going to have some coffee. Sam?"

"I'm going to call Dean, ask him how's Mel doing." He goes to the hallway bathroom for privacy.

"I'll be right back. Would you like a cup now Mr Wiskunde?" Piper asked politely.

"Yes, I would thank you." He yawned.

"Piper should be done by now." Phoebe hated to leave her sister alone, even with Sam and Paige there, she couldn't shake off the feeling. "But if she isn't, use your arrow."

"You want me to use my cupid's bow to make her accountant fall in love? Phoebe." The personal gain rule, Phoebe must have ingrained that rule in his head when he became Cupid.

"Just an infatuation one. That way he'll be distracted if the demon comes. I'm sure Piper or Sam won't mind." A guy in love only had eyes on the subject of their desire. A demon attack won't faze him.

"Fine. But there are always consequences." Coop opens the kitchen back door.

"Shh. If they are busy, we'll wait in here." Phoebe walks inside with Coop following her.

Piper put down three cups, she was glad her sisters didn't change the kitchen layout too much. She goes to pour the coffee, not seeing a knife getting held over her head.

"Piper?" Paige went downstairs to ask her a question about a spell she was writing, but when she saw no one in the living room, she called her name.

Sam walks out hearing Paige's voice. Dean was fine, he wished Sam luck.

"Sam? Where's Piper?"

"She's in the kitchen." He looked around. "Where is that guy?" Sam was gone only a minute.

"Piper!" Phoebe saw the glint of the knife.

BOOM! Sam and Paige were shocked seeing a man flying out of the kitchen holding a knife.

"Who are you?" Paige demanded. The guy had black eyes.

"Your auditor. Die witch." The demon growled. He throws the knife at Paige, luckily she orbed out of the way.

"You're dead." Sam took out his knife to stab the guy.

"Wait!" Phoebe runs out of the kitchen. "There is an innocent in there!" Phoebe heard the guy screaming for help. "Piper!"

"I know." Piper casually walks out with Coop following her. She froze the guy in place. "Don't worry, I saw his reflection from the coffee pot." Piper wasn't naive, she was naturally suspicious. She saw Sam walking across the room to hold her.

"See, now you know why I can't leave you alone."

"Yeah. Yeah." She hugs Sam back. "There's salt in the kitchen, plus rope in the basement."

"I'll be back." Coop walks into the kitchen.

"I'm calling Dean." If any demons were involved, both brothers always kept each other in the loop.

The demon glares at everyone when it unfroze.

"I should have audited you. The IRS scares even the deadliest of demons." The guy taunted. It was tied up sitting in a salt circle.

"Uh huh." Piper had her arms crossed. "Who are you? You are either new or stupid breaking into this place." Her sisters were giving the guy dirty looks, as well as Sam who looked pissed.

"I have tons of holy water, you'll be here for hours." Sam splashes him with a cup. The demon gasps in pain as the water burns him.

"Mmmmm!" The demon moaned as his vessel started smoking.

"Plus I can call for a few favors. My bosses, they know tricks to make you talk without torture." The Head Cupid was known to make demons cower in fear. Coop looked up at the Devil's Trap he made using his ring which was currently glowing on the ceiling.

"Go to hell." The demon groans in pain as Sam splashes him with more water.

"Guess we need to see a real agent. Great." Piper threw up her hands. She rather have the demon audit her.

"Talk." Phoebe demanded. She uses her empath's powers to magnify the innocent's pain to the demon. The demon screams feeling his meatsuit's emotions.

Jenna and Dean were looking at a window display when both their phones started buzzing. Dean immediately answered his, he always did just in case Sam or Bobby needed him.

"Babe?" They were walking around the San Francisco mall with the girls when Dean's phone rang. "I gotta go." He looked at the text Sam just sent him.

"Is it Piper?" Jenna felt her phone buzzing but didn't answer it. She knew who was texting, but she couldn't answer it without Dean or Laura around. She was holding Laura's hand, their nanny went to the food court to pick up a pretzel for Laura.

'That audit, that demon was the would-be killer.' Sam texted. Dean knew the Sisters could handle themselves, however, Dean was protective of his brother and sister-in-law.

"Yep. I need to be there, just in case." Dean knew the sisters didn't like killing the vessels, but sometimes the demon was too dangerous to let go.

'Kill the bastard if you have to. Not everyone can be saved.' Dean texted back. He always felt bad about the people they were possessing, but some demons were too dangerous to let go.

"Alright. I'll text Nina, drop us off at the hotel." Luckily it was on the way. "Tell Sis Mel and Laura would be safe."

Once Dean left, after dropping the two women as well as Laura back at the hotel, Jenna asked Nina for a favor.

"Jenna, what is it?" Nina didn't mind working for the Winchesters, although she wondered why she got amnesia half of the time. But she continued working for them only because Jenna paid her a ton of money.

"My client just called, and I need you to watch the girls."

"Not a problem." She didn't mind watching an extra kid, although she thought Mel was a bit strange.

"Here." Jenna hands her a few bills. "Take them to the carnival, I'll have my friend meet you there." Jenna was going to call Shaina for help, if demons were around, she could make a few mirages to fool any demon, or Dean if he came back.

"Sure. What do I tell Dean?" Secretly she wondered if Jenna was having an affair, she kept her second phone a secret from her husband.

"That I have a new client to meet." Jenna would figure out the details later. "I'll call for a ride."

Once the car showed up, Jenna kissed her daughter and niece.

"Mommy and Daddy have to work. Mel, your mom and dad are with Uncle Dean. They'll see you soon." She was glad this service provided children's booster seats. "Bye!" She waved goodbye to all three as they drove away. She then called Shaina who agreed to watch the girls.

"Demons? Why can't your husband and in-laws watch them?" She asked. She didn't mind, she vanquished a few demons herself while a student at Magic School a few years ago.

"They're busy with a different case." She knew Piper would be fine, even without her sisters, she could hold her own. "But if Dean comes around, tell him I'll be busy. My new client, he, and I mean, they are very secretive about their new project." Since Jenna was a famous influencer, she had a ton of potential clients hoping to work with her.

"Got it." Shaina wondered if Jenna was secretly working with a hunter. Wouldn't be the first time. "Don't worry, I'll make sure everyone is kept safe." She flags down her own taxi. "I'll see you later!"

Once she was out of sight, Jenna went to the front desk to leave Dean a message when he came back.

"Hi. Give this to my husband, room 609. Thanks." She writes down a message to give to Dean. Once the front clerk takes the envelope, Jenna walks out of the hotel and down the street to a random coffee shop. Once she gets her slice of lemon pie plus a cup of her favourite fat-free, sugar-free latte, she sits down in a private corner to read her message.

'Two bodies were found dead. A guy had his neck sliced with his hand stabbed on a hard wooden desk, while a secretary was found with her guts sliced open. The guy they are looking for is a guy named David Wiskunde, they believe he might know something. If he's possessed, try to find who the demon he is working for. Be discreet. This may be bigger than two simple murders.'

Simple murders? Murphy sure had his way with words. She had to do this carefully, knowing Dean, he and Sam would be at the coroners' office right after the case with Piper was done. She quickly devours her pie and downs her latte before leaving. She had to go shopping, good thing Devon warned her to always carry cash.

"Agent Jackson. FBI." Jenna was wearing a suit that made her look a bit chubbier, plus using a disguise that made her look way older. It wasn't easy, she had to do a rush job on her makeup, plus buy a cheap red wig as well as granny glasses. "I'm here to see the two victims found this afternoon." She had to ask Murphy to send fake faxes to the coroner's office, just in case Dean and Sam checked to see if Jenna was checking this case out by herself.

"Your bosses told me to expect you. Come with me." The guy leads her to the morgue. Jenna grimaced seeing the dead bodies.

"We didn't have time to seal her up, her guts were all over the place. Compared to what happened to her, the guy got off easy." The dead guy had a huge rip on his hand. "Whoever did this, this psycho sure had a vendetta against the woman, we are still checking out the crime scene." The woman was in the next slab, Jenna could see she was severely tortured while she was still alive.

Jenna forced herself to keep her face neutral as he placed her intestines on the table. They were in a clear tub, Jenna could see a mix of her kidneys inside.

"Damn." How could Sam and Dean do this all the time? She forced herself to look inside. "You find the weapon?"

"No. But we think she was cut open with a hand saw, see how her abdomen was cut open? It's identical to this guy's neck."

"Who are they?" She takes out her phone and takes pictures.

"He's some Silicon Valley entrepreneur, his name is Adam Jake." He hands her his wallet. The woman's name is Ari Haese. She was the secretary to David Wiskunde." He hands her the crime scene photos once Jenna hands him back the wallet.

"Is Mr Wiskunde a suspect at the moment?" She wondered if she could save him, demons didn't care what happens to their vessels once they were discarded.

"You'll have to ask your bosses." He shakes his head. "Why would he do this?"

"Wish I knew." She looks again at the crime photos. "I'll have my colleagues coming by later, mind telling them that you didn't see me?"

"Okay. But why?" He was staring at her with confusion.

"They are new, I want them to do things by the book." She hands him back his folder. "Enjoy your afternoon."

"You too."

Jenna goes to walk out the door when she sees the Impala drive up.

"Shit!" She looks around and runs in the nearest doorway, the men's washroom.

"What will Sis tell the guy once he wakes up?" Dean asks Sam as they walk inside the coroners' office.

"She's smart, she'll just tell him he passed out from exhaustion." The demon refused to talk and smoked out before Dean could use his own torture techniques when the others didn't work. "But the poor guy is wanted by the cops."

"We can't save everyone." Dean says in a dry tone.

"Really Dean?" She was hiding in a stall. "Sometimes I think you're a robot." She waits till their voices echo down the hall before she snuck out. Once she looked around to make sure she was alone, she quickly walked out. She had to dump this disguise, she didn't want Sam tracking her down back to her hotel.

Once Jenna changed her clothes from a nearby supermarket's bathroom, she takes her clothes and disguise, dumps them in a nearby compactor and turns on the machine. She "borrowed" an employee's uniform from a nearby changing room and walked casually out of the store. She kept her glasses and wig though, she couldn't risk being recognized by her fans.

"Miss? Can you help me? My cart, I can't get it out." A shopper asks as Jenna walks by.

At first Jenna was going to say no, but she saw how old the woman was. The poor woman was trying to get a cart out of the corral.

"Sure. Hang on." Jenna tugged till the cart came out.

"Thank you, Gertrude." As she reads her tag.

Gertrude? Jenna looked at her name tag. Better than Harry she guessed.

"Have a good day ma'am. Enjoy your shopping." She had to get out of the area before Sam and Dean drove by. Spying a bus, she sighed. "Beggars can't be choosers." She had to change again, hopefully, her rented car wasn't stolen. She takes out her stolen wallet and checks for change. She wasn't a thief, she planned on paying this person back by that evening, by giving her a few hundred bucks. A thank you as well as an apology for borrowing their things.

"We can't let him out there. What if the demon comes back." The poor guy was dead asleep thanks to Paige's sleeping potion.

"Plus my papers." Piper was kicking herself for not doing her paperwork back in Kansas, however, she and Sam had to come here about old taxes she forgot to file when she owned P3 back in the day.

"Worry about that later!" Phoebe was looking at her phone. "The police are looking for this guy!" She didn't like reading the news, but she had to be more vigilant about evil going ons. So far he was the main suspect in a double homicide that happened the day before.

"The cupids, sorry. Wish we could help." Coop had his hands tied.

"We'll figure this out." Piper saw him snoring away. "The real demon, his boss, we'll bring our own justice."

Paige wondered how she'd explain this to Davidson. He allowed Paige to come back, but only on a restricted basis.

"I won't lose my job again." She places her hands on her hips. "How will I explain why he's here? His car is right outside." Paige missed the days of just working random temp jobs. "Oh sir, I'm sure it was a coincidence that he just happened to be my sister's accountant!" Paige wondered if she could join the army once she was fired.

"Like I said, we'll figure this out." Piper had to make sure Mel was okay. She dials Jenna's number. "Pick up the phone." She mumbled. She sighed hearing the answering machine.

"If you're getting this, we're partying. Kidding. Leave a message, I swear I'll get back to you. BEEP.

"Where are you going?" Piper was putting on her jacket.

"If I know her, she's probably busy making her next video or on a hunt." Jenna must've read the police report. "If Sam calls, I'm heading to her hotel." Piper hoped that Jenna was with the kids, or she'd wring her neck.

Jenna hated rushing, once she changed, she quickly took a quick shower. She throws her borrowed clothes onto her bed and changes back into her normal clothes. Nina just texted that she just came back and was on her way up.

Knock Knock

"Jenna?"

"I'll be right there!" Jenna quickly puts on her makeup and walks to her door, but not before unintentionally moving her salt line away. The maids vacuumed every day, so Jenna and Dean had to resalt the doorway every time they returned to their room. "Hi!" She looked behind Nina. "Where are the girls?"

"The girls?" Nina asked blankly.

"Yeah. Remember I sent Shaina with you?" She looked down the hallway. She wondered if Dean and Sam were still at the coroners.

"Oh! They're all downstairs, having milkshakes." Nina gave Jenna a cold smile.

"Milkshakes huh. The girls will be jumping on furniture tonight." The carnival, milkshakes. Dean would be so jealous. She lets Nina in. "Let me grab my purse, and I'll join you guys."

"You do that." Nina's eyes go black as she takes out a knife from her jeans.

Piper presses the button impatiently.

"C'mon. Hurry." She had a bad feeling something was wrong. When she heard a familiar voice, she quickly turned around. Both Laura and Mel were running towards her with Jenna's friend right behind them.

"Aunt Piper!" Laura runs into Piper's arms as well as Mel.

"Laura? Mel?" She hugs the two girls. "Thank god." She teared up holding them.

"Piper? Did I get that right?" She and Nina kept a close eye on the girls, although she wondered why Nina started acting weird back at the carnival. Her cheerful self suddenly became grouchy, she started acting rude to everyone around her.

"Yep." She didn't know Shaina very well, other than the Manor, they didn't talk much at the art show. She looked behind Shaina. "Where's Jenna?"

"Jenna? Nina said she was bringing her downstairs to have dinner with us."

Piper's heart started beating faster. If Jenna was upstairs, she'd never leave her niece with a relative stranger. She knew Piper and Sam's rules about Melinda. She would call Nina to stay with Mel if she wasn't around; Nina was the only one other than Jenna or Dean who was allowed to watch her daughter as well as her niece if their relatives weren't around.

"Shit. I mean Shaina, call my husband. And my sisters." She unlocked her phone and handed it to Shaina. "Take the girls and keep an eye on them." She had to get to Jenna's room, that demon, it must've possessed Nina. "Don't let either out of your sight." She hoped Jenna wasn't in danger.

"Okay." Shaina was wondering why the nanny kept snapping at the girls all of a sudden back at the carnival. She seemed so sweet when they met. "Good luck."

Sam was waiting for Dean who was busy interviewing one of the witnesses. Sam was keeping an eye out for any cops, he didn't want Paige in any more trouble than she already was. When his phone rang, he quickly answered it seeing Piper's number.

"Hi. Is everything alright?" He nodded to Dean that he was talking to his wife. "What? Speak slower. I can't understand you."

"And then you saw the bodies." Dean was interviewing one of the employees who worked here. The office where the two murders took place was closed off with police tape.

"Yeah." The woman was shaken. The office was closed because of the murders, however, she was an accountant for the Internal Revenue Service, and they never took a day off. "David, I don't understand how he could have done this." She puked seeing what he did to Ari, she was the nicest person alive.

"Is this Sam or Dean?" An unfamiliar voice asked over the phone. Sam immediately tenses hearing a stranger using his wife's phone.

"Who is this? Why do you have my wife's phone." He growled. He still was shaken about that demon he saw earlier that nearly killed his wife.

"Shoot! I mean." Sam heard giggling in the background. "This is Shaina. We met at the Manor yesterday, and the art show? Your wife and Jen asked me to watch the girls."

"Is something wrong?" Sam gestures to Dean to come over.

"Thanks for your time." They already saw the office, other than the smell of blood and chemicals, they also smelled sulphur. Once Dean closes his notebook, he walks over to Sam.

"What's up? Is Sis alright?" Sam's eyes had this look of shock and disbelief. "Sam?" Dean's heart started beating faster. "Are the girls safe?" Screw this case, their families were more important. Dean tried to listen to whatever the person was telling Sam on his phone.

"What?! Are you sure? We'll be there as soon as possible. Call her sisters. Make sure the girls are never out of your sight!" Sam quickly hangs up.

"Sammy? What's wrong?" Sam had a look of panic, but it was his eyes that really worried Dean. "Sam?"

"Not here. Outside." Other than that one witness, there were people going in and out. They head back outside.

"Sis, is she okay?" Dean was getting worried. Sam was looking pityingly at Dean. "Are the girls alright?" Dean grabbed Sam. "What's wrong?" Dean already knew, even before Sam opened his mouth.

"It's Jenna. She, she was found in your hotel room." Sam teared up seeing Dean's expression. "Your nanny, she was possessed by a demon. Piper, she was the one that found her." Sam had no idea if Nina was still alive.

"What about Laura." Dean was breathing hard, he was holding his chest.

"The girls are fine. Phoebe and Paige are with them. I'll drive you to the hospital." No way Dean could drive in his condition. He looked like he was ready to kill someone.

Piper was praying hard in the hospital room.

"Anyone out there. My sister, she needs a whitelighter." Jenna wasn't a witch, but she was her best friend. "Anyone. Help her." Her sisters weren't here, Piper asked them to watch the girls. As for Shaina, she swore she didn't know Nina was possessed.

"Why wasn't Jenna with you? With the girls!" Piper was furious. She didn't mean to take her anger out on a stranger, but Piper had no idea who she was.

"Jenna asked me for a favor! She and I go way back! She said she had to see a new client!" Shaina and Jenna had a mutual agreement, they don't ask about each other's business.

"And you never questioned it?" Piper was breathing hard. Both watch as the paramedics take both women away. Poor Laura was asking where her mommy was. Piper was trying her best to hide the truth, but she already saw Mel crying. What happened in that room, she did what she had to do.

She looked up to see Dean running in.

"Dean wait!" Sam was right behind him.

"Sam!" When Sam sees Piper, he immediately grabs her in a hug.

"I'm glad you're okay." Sam knew she was fine, but he needed to make sure.

"Calm down sir." Dean was demanding to see his wife.

"She's pregnant! Is she okay? Is my baby okay?!" Dean was breathing hard. His eyes were red.

"Sir?" A doctor walked out behind a curtain. "Come with me." Dean took no time running in.

"Piper, is she.." Sam was worried about Dean. He never cried, but Sam knew he was ready to explode.

"She's fine." Sam gave out a sigh of relief. "I came in just when the demon was ready to stab her." It was very close. Jenna was smart, she had an invisible Devil's Trap on the ceiling. Unfortunately, the demon managed to hurt her, luckily the wound wasn't very deep. "I had no choice but to blow up the demon." Piper seeing Jenna hurt felt so angry, that she channeled her anger onto the demon and blew it up from within.

"Was Nina possessed?" When she nodded, Sam closed his eyes.

"She's fine. When the demon died, she fainted. I'm already planning on telling her she passed out from exhaustion." She felt too lazy to give her an explanation, so she decided to recycle the same excuse she gave their accountant. "The doctor said it was a flesh wound." Jenna was incredibly lucky, she dodged the knife in time. The knife merely sliced her chest, she was getting stitches at the moment.

"And the baby?" Sam knew how devastated Dean would be if he lost his unborn child.

"I don't know." Piper buried her head into Sam's arms. Exhausted, she started crying.

"It'll be okay. Shh." Piper's adrenaline was wearing off. "She's okay. The baby is a Winchester. She'll be fine." Their family was very stubborn. When Dean walked out, they stood up.

"Is she alright?"

"She's fine. The doctor wants her to stay a few days." Dean's face was blank.

"And the baby?"

Deans sighs. Both Sam and Piper hold their breath.

"Perfectly healthy." Dean nearly collapsed hearing the news when the doctor told him the news. "They're both fine." Dean after seeing Jenna was relieved. But couldn't hide his anger. "I'm going to find the bastards responsible." He didn't know if Nina was okay but didn't care about her at the moment.

"I'll come with you." No way was Dean doing this himself.

"No I will. My sisters and I will." Piper saw Dean's expression. "Laura needs her dad. Jenna needs her husband. Sam, stay with Dean. And don't argue." She froze both their feet to the ground. Both brothers looked surprised.

"But..." Sam began.

"NO. You don't know what kind of demons are involved. We've been fighting them for years. You two are good, but we're the Charmed Ones." Piper gave them a look of defiance. "Be human first. Put family first." Immediately both expressions softened. "I'm calling my sisters. Dean, be there for your child. Laura needs you." Dean just stared at her.

"But..."

"Dad wasn't there for us, don't do what he did." Sam must've cried several times for John growing up. Dean did his best, but he was a child himself. Sam heard Dean crying, even as a teen. Sam saw Dean soften with Sam's words.

"Yeah. You're right." Dean remembered the promise to Laura to be a better dad. "Sam, keep an eye on Nina. Bring the girls here. I'll order a pizza." Just when Piper was about to walk out of the hospital, Sam calls her name.

"Piper? We can't move." Both men were still frozen to the ground.

"Oh! Sorry." Piper waves her hand. Immediately both men nearly fall on the floor.

"Really?!" Dean smiled. He was so glad Piper was part of the family, she was the sister Dean never had. "Sis. Kick some serious ass. And make those bastards suffer."

Piper goes up to Sam and kisses him on the lips, then kisses Dean on the cheek.

"I swear."

"I wish Piper would tell us what's going on." Phoebe whispered. Both girls were playing with Miracle, who even as a dog was trying to cheer up Laura who seemed depressed. Poor Mel was trying to show off her new doll, a limited edition one Sam brought back from New Orleans a while back ago. Laura looked at it and shook her head.

"She will." When the front door slammed, Paige and Phoebe looked up.

"Phoebe? Paige?"

"Auntie!" Laura tries to run out of the room, but Paige stops her.

"Stay with Aunt Paige. I'll be back." Phoebe rushes downstairs. Once she got there, she saw Piper looking around.

"Huh? Where's Mr Wiskunde?" Piper left him on the couch surrounded by paperwork.

"We sent him home." Phoebe and Paige couldn't hold him against his will, plus couldn't take chances with two young children in the house.

"Okay fine." Guess they'll find a way to prove his innocence at a later date.

"What's going on? Shaina, she wouldn't say anything!" She left after the sisters picked up the girls, saying she had an appointment with the art gallery.

"Jenna was attacked." She saw Phoebe tear up. "She's fine. The baby too." Phoebe sighed in relief, but couldn't help the tears coming down.

"How?" Jenna and Dean took every precaution.

"That demon that we got rid of, it went to the nanny."

"Piper? Phoebe? What's going on down there!" Paige was trying to keep the girls distracted by using her whitelighter powers to use light tricks in the room, but she knew it wouldn't last long.

"Get the girls, I'll explain on the way!" She called Coop and left him a message. "Honey, got a demon pest problem. Don't worry, we got this. Bye." She hangs up.

"Paige, take the kids and orb them to the hospital, Sam and Dean will watch over them." Piper needed them safe and sound.

"Got it. Girls, your daddies want to see you. Let's fly away like the fairies. I'll be back in a minute." Paige orbs away with the kids.

"Argh! Why isn't this working?!" Djall's spell was supposed to be flawless. Every soul that stared at his painting should have been captured. Instead, people were just staring dumbly at it. Every guest at the art show the night before was still at the gallery; all were hypnotized by his special painting.

"I don't know sir." Vephar was shaking her meatsuit's head. "We have enough cages to keep every soul inside in the Underworld." What was supposed to be hundreds of souls only had two downstairs.

"He'll have our heads if we don't finish our mission!" Djall was starting to panic. "We cannot fail!" Death would be considered merciful compared to his punishment.

"Consider this your lucky day then." Piper walked in with her sisters. Immediately Djall grabbed Vephar's meatsuit and held a dagger to her neck.

"Back! This girl is still alive! She may be downstairs, but if her meatsuit dies, her soul stays in eternal hellfire!" He warned.

"I would listen to him, he's been with us for centuries." Vephar warned. Djall was one of the earliest students of the Demonic Academy.

"Shit." Piper was going to freeze the room, but she already saw his itchy trigger finger. "Paige?" Maybe she could orb a distraction.

"I'll risk exposure." Paige knew there were cameras everywhere. She saw various people walking by. With the age of social media, it wouldn't take long to expose themselves as witches.

"Wait!" Phoebe holds up her hands. "Trade with me." Phoebe been downstairs several times, she knew almost every entrance to the Underworld.

"Pheebs what are you doing?" Piper saw Phoebe stepping forward.

"Why take hundreds of unworthy souls? You need at least one unique one! Your bosses, they'll be pleased with mine." A Charmed One, especially a former Queen of the Underworld, would make a fine prize.

"He'll be pleased with her soul. Her soul alone is worth a hundred souls." Vephar tells him. He never had the pleasure of meeting the Source of All Evil, but remembered hearing he had a Queen by his side.

"Hmm." Djall was studying her. "You'll sacrifice yourself to save a worthless human soul? The ones that were chosen won't be missed by society. This one." He pushes the blade deeper into Gillian's neck. No one dared move, they saw a small line of blood dripping down her skin. "Is nothing! She did nothing with her life! Except create paintings no one will ever see."

"So? Every soul is unique. You." Phoebe stared right into his eyes. "You sold yourself, for petty revenge."

Djall gripped his knife harder into her neck.

"Phoebe. Don't." Paige warned.

"Swap my soul for hers, and my body is yours to use." Phoebe saw more blood coming down the girl's neck.

"Fine." He shoves the woman away. "Vephar!"

Phoebe closed her eyes as Vephar smoked out of her body and into hers. When the girl on the floor started moaning, Piper gave her signal.

"Shaina, now!" She saw 'Phoebe' looking confused.

"Huh?"

In that instant, two of the 'party guests' woke up. Both Phoebe and Shaina unglamored from their positions ready to fight.

"Now Shaina!"

Shaina used her powers to make a mirage of Piper who started attacking the demon. The copy runs in his direction with its leg arched out ready to kick ass.

"Clever." Djall raised his arms. "But I've been around!" He holds up his arms. He let out an oof when 'Piper' kicked him in the face. "Bitch!" He swore when the mirage disappeared when he punched it.

"Ow!" Piper fell feeling that punch.

"Sorry!" Shaina warned that her mirages would come to life, but only if the sisters were willing to share the pain. It was the only way to fight.

"Be more careful next time!" Shame the mirages couldn't use magic, Piper would have used her twin to throw his ass around the gallery.

"Ha!" Paige orbs his painting away from the wall and throws it in his face. "Evil painting! Hit the evil artist!" The painting flies in his direction.

"Pathetic! I can create more!" He kicks a hole in it, destroying it.

"So you say." Phoebe throws a demon-vanquishing potion at him.

"Child's play." He merely tosses it aside, breaking the container.

"But can you handle this!" Shaina uses her power to amplify many copies of the potion.

"Vephar!" Djall knew the potions wouldn't hurt him, but he was starting to get annoyed.

"Yes master." When Vephar tried to use his new body, he stood in horror when he realized he was tricked. He couldn't move.

"A mirage, looks real doesn't it?" Velphar didn't have time to scream as Shaina snapped him away to nothing. She then created another illusion to distract Djall.

"Hurry!" Paige, Piper and Phoebe huddled together, they had to hurry, Shaina was starting to get tired. "Read together." Paige wrote this spell in the car.

"He Who Sold His Soul

Give Back Those He Stole

Dispel His Will

Make Him Remember His Kills."

Djall screams as he burns alive, he feels the pain of everyone he hurt over the centuries.

"Enjoy Hell!" Piper screams. Djall lets out a loud shout as he blows up.

"Where am I?" Gillian was looking around. "Huh?" She looks down at herself. "My dress." She looks around to see everyone talking and looking at the paintings, she and everyone else had no idea how much time had already passed.

"That was a big pain in the ass." Piper shakes her head. She hated demons, but not as much as demonic graduates. She sees the cameras and walks to the back to destroy the security footage.

"Hopefully everyone here thinks they had too much to drink." As for the waiters, Phoebe would make them believe they were bored stiff and blanked their minds to get through the extra overtime.

"That was amazing." Paige couldn't believe it. "You were a double agent?" They met at the Manor earlier, just when they were about to leave, they saw Shaina with her finger about to press the doorbell.

"Shaina?" Piper didn't know why she was here. "If you are looking for Jenna, she is still at the hospital." She was thankfully okay. "We'd love to chat, but we gotta go." They had no idea where to start, that demon that tried killing both her and Jenna had a master. But no one had an idea where to start.

"If you are looking for Djall. I know where he is." Shaina needed the Charmed Ones for this mission.

"Djall?" Paige racked her brain if she recognized the name.

"Sounds like an artist's name." Phoebe studied art history at NYU.

"You're almost right."

"Look. We're in a hurry, we'll talk later." Piper closes the door, they had to find this demon before it hurt another person. She and her sisters walk down the Manor's front steps.

"Djall. He's the one who ordered the attacks." Shaina swallowed in nervousness seeing Piper's expression. She jumped when a planter sitting by the front door blew up beside her.

"Talk. NOW." She never carried a gun but was tempted to blow her down the steps using her powers. She saw Shaina step back in fear.

"I'm like you, I fight evil. Jenna was telling the truth that we used to hunt together in France. Djall, I've been after him for years." She held up her hands to show she wasn't armed. "I was a former student at Magic School, and am trained to fight demons as well as anything evil."

"A hunter?" Paige knew all about hunters, but she didn't think Shaina was one. "If you were a graduate, why didn't we hear of you?" They didn't know many hunters, but if there was a witch who fought evil on a daily basis, Leo would have told them.

"I prefer to stay under the radar, you know better than anyone good magic attracts evil." Shaina rarely used her magic, she didn't want to draw attention to herself. Instead, she used traditional weapons to fight, with the exception of potions that she used on demons.

"Fine." Piper didn't care. "We're running out of time, explain in the car." Whoever this psycho demon was, it was ending today.

"He sold his soul?" Phoebe was shaking her head. She never understood why people would willingly throw themselves into eternal hellfire for brief materialistic pleasure.

"He was bitter and disillusioned when his former master kept stealing his work." Shaina had her own magical tome like the sisters, Djall had his own page written in it. "My family, we've been after him for centuries." She was the descendant of Djall's master, the one who stole Djall's work as his own. "He became a demon once he spilled his first blood, he used a demonic blade to kill his master."

"Sounds like Corporate America." History never changed. Piper hated the typical rat race. "So when his master died, what happened next?"

"Like I said he became a demon. The demon he was working for, ordered him to make more kills. The ones that Djall's master was working for, were all slaughtered. Their souls getting taken down to the Underworld, their husks taken over by demons. My family spent years tracking them all down and killing them." Luckily they stayed in France, it wasn't too hard to find them over the centuries.

"What about the demon that turned him? What happened to her?" Phoebe wasn't a history buff, but this was an exciting story. Shame most magical history was reduced to fairy tales and spooky stories.

"Dead. I killed her back in France, bitch was planning to join Djall. My magic, her ego couldn't beat all my mirages." Shaina was so glad she practiced her magic in her downtime, it wasn't an easy fight with that demon.

"Then why is he here?" Piper was driving, the car was in her name.

"He's under orders to steal souls." Shaina said grimly. "His new master, he or she, ordered the bastard to take as many human bodies as he could, that way demons could take over Earth. His painting, he used his blood to create a link to the Underworld."

"That explains the attacks." She wondered if Nina knew what she had done. Technically she didn't do anything wrong, but would Jenna and Dean still want her around? Piper wouldn't, she'll let her go for her safety.

"Any idea who this new master is?" Phoebe asked. Hopefully, it wasn't an upper-level demon, those were a pain to kill.

"No clue." Shaina shook her head.

"Then where is this Djall guy?" Paige was writing a spell. She looked at the Book earlier to vanquish the demon Phoebe saw in her vision earlier, but if this was a soul stealer, she needed to revise it.

"Still at the art gallery." For a former human, he wasn't very bright. It was very easy to track him down.

"A farm." Piper was kicking herself for leaving last night. "Is anyone in danger?" All those innocents in one place, it was a perfect slaughterhouse.

"Everyone that is still at the art gallery. His painting needs time to charge, he could only take so many souls at a time."

"Then why didn't you tell us last night?!" Piper wanted to punch her.

"I was hoping his new master would show up."

"Dumbass." Piper needed an aspirin.

"That's a big risk. He could have taken more souls that we didn't know about." Mr Wiskunde/Nina, they were incredibly lucky. Piper gripped her wheel harder as she drove down the road.

"Impossible, he lost his humanity over the centuries, whatever scraps he has left, his blood supply is almost gone." Demons preferred hybrids, they were the perfect Trojan Horse to hide and infiltrate among humans.

"Your powers, will you use them, or use traditional weapons?" Phoebe preferred magic but was willing to fight hand-to-hand whenever necessary.

"You said you use the power of illusion." Paige wondered how that power worked.

"Mirage." Shaina corrected.

"What's the difference?"

"llusions are illusions. They are like a mirror. A mirage, on the other hand, can almost become real."

"Your statue." Piper was amazed at the detail. "Could it come to life?"

"Almost. But only if I control it. It does have its drawbacks though. I have to share the danger. If it gets hurt, I get hurt. Luckily for me, the injuries aren't as strong, although I won't be stupid enough to put myself in real danger." Her shared mirage, if it was in danger and was destroyed, Shaina paid a heavy price.

"Which is why you became a hunter." Piper understood now. "Is that why you didn't have a whitelighter?" Most witches had a whitelighter, those that chose to ignore their magical side also lost their magical protection.

"When I graduated, I told mine I wasn't interested in fighting evil as a witch. I didn't want to be a slave to the Elders."

"Good girl." Piper liked her already.

"And you're asking for our help because?" If she was a hunter, she could easily kill him. As good as she was as a witch, Phoebe wondered how good she'd be as a hunter. She should train harder, she remembered how hard life was without magic.

"Traditional weapons or magic won't kill him, I need the Power of Three." Demon hybrids were very tricky to kill, which made them very valuable to demonkind.

"We're more famous than we thought." Paige was flattered. She looked at her spell. Not bad.

"We're here." Phoebe looked inside, guests were still inside. Although they looked like statues. "I hope we're not too late."

Piper pulled up across the street from the gallery so as not to raise suspicion from the enemy who was walking back and forth in the gallery.

"Before we go in, I have a plan." When Piper told them what her idea was, everyone was in agreement. "No failures, otherwise we'll lose everyone."

"That's a big risk, but you're thinking smart." Both Shaina and Phoebe were going to pretend to be guests, both transformed into an older couple in well-dressed clothes.

"Wouldn't he notice two extra people?" Paige didn't get out of the car, she was going to orb everyone inside. She looked around to make sure no one saw them disappear into thin air.

"Djall and his fellow demon wouldn't notice. They'll be too busy worrying about their boss."

"Let's go before anyone sees us." They orb away.

Jenna burped when she finished her pizza. She wasn't the biggest fan of vegetarian pizza, but she was hungry. She wasn't alone, Dean, Sam, Laura and Mel were in her room watching cartoons.

"Wonder what's going on right now." Sam was getting anxious, he hated worrying about his wife and friends. He tried to act normal, he didn't want to worry the kids.

"Knowing Sis, she's kicking as...butt." Dean smiled when the girls giggled.

"Butt." Mel giggled. "Butt." She laughed with Laura.

"Mel said a bad word." Laura giggled.

"And I'm a dead man." Dean couldn't help but laugh when Jenna hit his arm, he and Laura were sitting beside her on her hospital bed. Piper was going to kill him.

"Her first word. You must be proud." Jenna laughs with Sam and Dean. "Ow." She touched her chest. The stitches were new.

"Easy there." Dean didn't want to stress Laura who was worried sick about her mom.

"Just a scratch. Mommy is fine. See?" Jenna tried not to grimace hugging her daughter.

"Mel, that's not nice." Sam scolded in a light tone. He places Mel on his lap. "Can you say, mommy?"

"Mommy." She points at Dean. "Dean." Sam smiled at Dean's joy. "Daddy." When she looked up at Sam.

"Aw." Dean smiled when Sam hugged his daughter. "Can you say Uncle?" As pissed off as he was at the whole situation, he forgot about it when the kids were around.

"What about Jenna." Jenna was so proud. Before Mel could say anything else, Piper and her sisters walked in.

"Mommy!" Mel jumps off Sam's lap and runs into her arms.

Piper looked surprised.

"I'm her first word?" She teared up. Sam, Dean and Jenna didn't dare correct her. She hugs her daughter.

"Awww!" Paige and Phoebe say together.

"Shh." Jenna tells Laura. "Let's keep it our secret." Laura liked to talk.

"Okay. Butt." She giggled with Mel.

"How was the hunt?" Dean asked. He distracted the girls by turning up the volume on the television. They were too young for this conversation.

"It's all taken care of. We're starving." Piper takes a slice of pizza from Jenna's bed table. "We have a lot to tell you."

"Later. Right now, Wile E is on." Dean loved that coyote.

Once everyone, including Laura with the exception of Dean, went home for the night, (Dean wanted to keep an eye on Jenna) she was surprised when her phone rang with an unfamiliar number.

"Hello?" She almost never answered unknown numbers, but Murphy emailed her and said to expect him sometimes.

"Good job on the demons."

"But I didn't do anything, the sisters did." Jenna felt terrible about what happened to Nina. The poor woman was begging Jenna for forgiveness, saying she didn't remember stabbing her. Jenna said it was merely an accident, she told the police Nina tripped when handing back her knife. She wasn't in deep trouble but hired a lawyer anyway to make sure any charges didn't stick.

"I asked you to take care of the demons, and you did that."

"How? I screwed up." She grimaced at her chest, the doctors couldn't give her pain medicine because of her pregnancy. She already made an appointment to get laser surgery for the possible scar, she had to get over a hundred stitches on her chest.

"You did your investigation, that's all I asked. Now tell me everything."

Dean was walking back from the snack machines, he was hungry. Just when he was about to walk back into Jenna's room, he stopped hearing her talking. Just when he was about to walk away to give her and her doctor some privacy, he stopped dead in his tracks when he overheard something about a dead body.

"A dead witch?" Jenna immediately checked the doorway to see if anyone was listening. She had to be careful, Dean would be back at any moment. "How do you know that? Janna Luz? Sorry, I don't know the name." Her friends were witches, but she never heard Janna's name mentioned even once. "But how?" Murphy asked her to investigate Janna's murder. "I'm stuck in the hospital for three days at least. Her body may be buried by then. You saw the body. Okay." Murphy, what an odd guy. "If her killer is out there, I'll need more hazard pay, plus coverage for my hospital bills. I was hurt on a hunt."

Dean clenched his fist, breaking open the bag of chips he was carrying. His wife, she lied to him. He forced himself to calm down, he had to know who she was talking to. He listens more closely.

"Uh huh. Yes, she did her job, Shaina, it was nice to work with a old friend again. I'm surprised you hired her. Uh, huh. It would be hard, especially when I'm pregnant at the moment." Jenna caressed her belly. "I'll need a raise, plus extra insurance."

Dean purposely walked into the room, pretending he didn't hear anything. He saw Jenna's fear, she hurriedly hung up her phone.

"I love you too Mom. Tell Dad that I love him. Bye." She clicked off the phone. "Mom says hi." God she hoped Dean didn't hear anything. She mentally kicked herself for not being more discreet.

"Tell Mommy I said hi back." Dean sheepishly holds up the busted bag. "I sorta had an accident."

Jenna smiles. Phew. Dean didn't hear anything.

"Nice phone. What happened to yours?" Jenna was using an old Blackberry. He watched her face, her smile faltered.

"Oh. This?" Jenna smiled nervously. "My backup. Just in case I get robbed. Nine one one is free." She carefully puts it inside her nightstand. "I'm getting tired. I'm going to tell the doctor I need to go home tomorrow. I need to prepare for the wedding."

"Yeah, might as well sleep." Dean yawned. "Night Babe." He kisses her goodnight. "Night Baby." He rubs her belly.

"Goodnight." Jenna shuts off her light and tries to sleep. God she hoped Dean never found out about her 'job', she hated keeping secrets.

Two hours later, Dean was still awake. He stayed up to see what Jenna was hiding. To be safe, he waited another hour to make sure Jenna was deep asleep. Dean had to know what she was hiding, who she was working for. Once he heard her deep breathing, Dean very carefully got up from his cot.

"Babe, I don't know what's with the secrets, but I'm going to find out." He silently walked around her bed, he had to see what was on her phone. He hoped it was just hunting, he didn't want to think about the alternative. He opened up her drawer, he racked his brain trying to remember if the old phones used passwords. He turned on the Blackberry. "Blocked number? Yeah, that's not suspicious." He whispered to himself. There weren't many, it spread back only a few months. "What are you hiding?" He carefully puts back the phone. He then opened her purse to see if she had secrets on her primary phone. "Damn." It was password-protected. He was tempted to open it using her fingerprint but didn't want to risk waking her up. He put it back in her purse, he didn't want to be caught.

Dean sent a message to Sam that there was a possible case. It was late, but Sam always answered him back. Five minutes later he texted.

'Janna Luz? I'll look it up. FBI?'

'Yep. Plus look over the camera footage at the coroners. See if an agent came by to check out the two murders before or after we did.'

'Okay. Get some sleep. Night.'

'Night.'

Dean stared at his pregnant wife, she looked so innocent.

"I'm gonna find out what you're up to. For your sake, I hope you know what you're doing. If not." Dean didn't finish his train of thought. He rolled on his side and fell asleep.

Paige stared at the card. All it said was his name, Gabe Pintor.

"I'm not a cheater." But she had to admit, she was tempted. She put his card into her drawer, she didn't want to sully herself. She got up to get some water to help her sleep.

"Paige Matthews, it's a pleasure to meet you." Gabe stamped out his cigarette as he walked away from the tree he was spying from. He walked down the dark street, disappearing into the darkness.