Ruth's party was in full swing and the entire village was there, enjoying themselves as she approached Cole, who was watching the crowd.

"Do you know what they look like?" She asked. "The force from the future."

"What are you doing here? I told you to stay at the house." Cole spared her a brief, annoyed look before returning to watching the crowd.

"The house is guarded by men and Magic, Charlotte is not going anywhere. You did not answer my question."

"I know what at least three of them look like. But if they're wearing masks and they'd be smart to since more than half these people are, I'll have to identify them some other way. Force them to use their powers perhaps. And I'm from the future, Ruth. Your ignorance is your destiny." He finished cryptically before donning his mask, they knew what he looked like too. He moved through the crowd, searching for the Charmed Ones.

"Charlotte should be in the first bedroom at the top of the stairs." Sally informed the girls as she led them back to the village. "Be careful, Ruth's guards are everywhere. If they see you with these tools, they'll know you as witches. I wish I could go with you, but our coven is in hiding because of Ruth and they know all of us on sight."

"We don't intend to fail again." Prue was resolute on that point as they slipped the tools into the pockets on their cloaks.

"If they catch you with these tools they'll know you for witches." Sally insisted. "As brave and determined as you appear to be, don't add reckless to your traits. Especially since there's a baby's life at stake. Not to mention good Magic."

Prue nodded. "Reckless is something we've been working on not being. Thank you for the reminder."

"Which of you will be standing guard for the others?" Sally asked.

"Phoebe." Piper asked. "She's well trained in defensive arts. If we had access to a gun, Cordelia too, since she can shoot, but there's a chance some of her other powers, besides her healing power, might still be active. If so, she could get a vision or premonition and that could guide us, so she has to come with us."

"Blessed be and I pray you succeed." She watched anxiously as the four witches from the future approached the talismans that kept her coven from saving their sister witch and was pleasantly surprised when they didn't react at all as the sisters moved passed them. A good start. She blended back into the trees, to wait and guide them back to the cave.

"Okay, any idea how we're going to save the baby?" Piper murmured. "Getting a pregnant woman out the house, especially if she's in labor, is not going to be easy."

"Xander's silencing spell." Cordelia reminded her. "That should help with any noise, there's a couple of hundred people at this party, the protection spell is protecting us from Magic and remember the Genie, when we were discussing ways of making invisible things, visible and Phoebe mentioned there were spells to make things invisible in the Book of Shadows?"

"Yes, an invisibility spell would come in handy." Prue agreed. "Except I don't know any, do you?"

"Make one up." Cordelia answered. "The words are for focusing the Magic, basically you tell the Magic what you want, what you need and it responds."

"You're right." Piper nodded. "Phoebe's very good at making up spells, we should be able to do it."

"So, we get close to the house." Prue murmured. "We cast an invisibility spell and hope it works and that gets us into the house. Once in the house we'll have to drop it and then recast it while we're getting Charlotte out and keep it up as we get her through the crowd and back to the woods. We can do this, Sally's right, a baby's life is at stake and so is good Magic."

They worked their way through the crowd until they were near the house and then moved around the side, checking to see if there was anyone around. When they found this side, away from the party, clear of people, Prue cast the invisibility spell she'd worked out. She once again felt energy move through her and hoped it worked as they moved towards the back of the house and inside. Once inside they made their way up the stairs and before entering the room Sally thought Charlotte was in, Prue reversed the invisibility spell.

"Hi." Piper said cheerfully as they entered the room and saw the pregnant women on the bed.

"Who are you?" Charlotte asked.

"Eva sent us, Charlotte, we're here to help you." Prue told her.

"You're lying. I-I don't believe..." She groaned as a labor pain rippled through her.

"Oh, here." Piper reached behind Charlotte and found a space on her lower back and pressed.

"How are you making the pain go away?" She asked.

"Magic." Piper told her. "Technically it's called acupressure. We have go, Charlotte, we're going to do everything we can to get you out of here safely."

"Silencio." Cordelia recited the silencing spell and gently helped move Charlotte to the edge of the bed and from there to her feet and she and Piper slowly helped her down the stairs. Once at the door, Prue recited the invisibility spell again and the four walked out of the house and headed for Phoebe and beyond her the woods and the cave with its protective circle.

They just forgot one thing, there were two versions of the silencing spell. One for regular conversation and one for loud noises, like shotgun blasts.

Or a woman in labor. Acupressure could only do so much to deal with that kind of pain. A scream ripping through the air and no one appearing to be there could really grab attention.

"Oh. Crap."

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A/N Piper does use acupressure to help Charlotte, first and only time that I'm aware of.