"Charlotte!" Ruth gasped. "That must be Charlotte, but where is she? There's no one there."
"They're invisible." Cole murmured. "Clever. I didn't anticipate that. Witches!" He called out. "There are witches here, find them!"
"Do something, expose them!" Ruth demanded. "How can my men find them if they're invisible?"
"By making them reveal themselves." He answered. "One of my powers is the ability to sense other beings, even when they're not visible. I'll find them, now that I have a direction." He moved in the direction the scream had come from, reaching with his senses. All around him the witch hunters had their weapons out, ready to shoot if they too found a hidden witch. And then he found a disturbance that told him someone was nearby.
The girls held their breathes as a man in a mask approached them, praying the invisibility would hold. And suddenly Phoebe was there, she kicked the man's knee sending him stumbling to the ground. "Run!" She yelled. "Don't look back!"
"God, no!" Prue yelled as one of the witch hunters hit Phoebe knocking her down. "Get Charlotte out of here!" She ordered Piper and Cordelia and threw herself out of the invisibility spell, which caused it to collapse and attacked the man who'd hit Phoebe.
"Phoebe, Prue..." Piper froze, terrified, help her sisters or help the woman in labor. Cordelia solved her dilemma herself when her own fear for her sisters safety triggered another whitelighter power, orbing and she and Charlotte disappeared in a swirl of lights and reappeared at the edge of the woods.
"Woah! What a rush." Cordelia exclaimed, nearly passing out. Between fear for her sisters and the strange feeling of orbing, she wasn't sure if she wasn't going to loose her lunch. Sally darted forward.
"What an extraordinary power!" She got an arm around Charlotte's waist. "Quickly, we must get her to the cave."
"No, you get her to the cave, I have to help my sisters." Cordelia insisted. "Go." Turning, Cordelia ran back toward the party, toward her sisters and found all three being held by men, witch hunters, while others held guns pointed at them. Behind her Sally struggled to get Charlotte through the woods to the cave. Cordelia was terrified, how could she help her sisters? An answer came as the wind began to move, increasing in strength and swirled around a spot between her and her sisters and became a vortex and out walked four men.
Xander spotted the girls being held at gunpoint abd reacted, sending a blast of air at the men holding them, sending them tumbling away from the girls. "Leave them alone!" He ordered striding forward, Andy and Daryl each holding one of his shotguns keeping pace beside him with Leo right behind them.
"Another witch! Shoot him!" Someone ordered and Xander felt a ball of lead hit him in the shoulder. So much for fortifying himself with blood earlier, he was going to need a ton to deal with that. He didn't stop until they'd reached the girls and then he called out a spell.
'Enemies fly and fall, circling arms raise a wall!'
And used energy he couldn't afford to use right now to form the shield around them. "Where's Cordelia?"
"Trying to save a pregnant woman." Piper answered. "By orbing for the first time."
"Wow." Xander was both impressed and terrified.
"We're stuck, Xander." Leo told him. "They can't get in, but we can't get out either. How long until the barrier goes down?"
"A better question to ask is how long can I hold out until I need blood." Leo immediately moved to check Xander's damaged shoulder.
"That looks bad, Xander." Leo had seen plenty of bullet wounds when he'd served in WWII. Without Xander's techno vamp healing ability, his shoulder would never have been the same after a flintlock tore it up.
"As long as Cordelia can get Charlotte to a protective circle with her coven so they can deliver her baby before midnight we should be okay." Prue told them. "That's what we were sent here to ensure. Someone evil wants the baby, it has to be born in a protective circle to keep it out of evil's hands. Oh and only Cordelia's powers are working, but we've been able to work other Magic."
"Busy day." Andy held Prue with one arm while keeping the shotgun aimed at the ground. Leo stopped fussing over Xander's shoulder, accepting that there was nothing he could do about it and moved to hug Piper.
"Never mind them." Ruth ordered. "Find Charlotte, she's escaped!" Her men immediately broke off and began searching for the pregnant woman. Knowing there wasn't anything she could do to help Xander or her family, but that she could help Charlotte, Cordelia reluctantly turned away and raced back to Sally, who was struggling to help Charlotte, who was bent over in agony.
"We're out of time." Sally said in a trembling voice. "Charlotte's water broke awhile ago and she says she can feel the baby. Can you get her to the cave?"
"Yes." Cordelia spoke with a confidence she didn't feel, but she knew she had to try. The witch hunters were closing in on them and the baby was coming. It was now or never. Wrapping an arm around Charlotte's waist, Cordelia centered her thoughts on the cave and orbed for the second time, this time carrying two passengers, a woman and an unborn baby. They rematerialized just inside the entrance to the cave, in front of Charlotte's startled coven.
"Ooh." Cordelia said. "I think that took a little too much out of me." And just like Xander had done after the first time he called done a lightening strike, she fainted.
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A/N Sensing is listed as one of Cole's powers according to the Charmed wiki.
