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"Phoebe! Let's go, Love Spit Love is gonna be at the club in a half hour, and we've got to help set up!" Piper Halliwell's creamy voice rang through the halls of Warren Manor, a large, pink, Victorian house left to the Halliwell sisters after the death of their beloved grandmother.
"I can't believe you're still working!" Piper's other sister, Paige,exclaimed as she walked by Piper to retrieve a chocolate chip cookie from the pan on the stove.
"When I had Wyatt, I worked right up until the end, so why not with this one?" Piper asked, placing a hand on her slim hip. She scowled as she brushed crumbs off of the counter and yelled for Phoebe again. Paige scoffed, blowing more crumbs onto the Formica countertop.
"Yeah, and remember? You got toxcimia and he was premature!"
Piper frowned and shouted for Phoebe, her voice angry and impatient this time. The hot new group was due at 4:30, and it was already 3:57. Jeez, that girl is slow, Piper thought, slipping her feet into blue sneakers and tugging on a hip black leather jacket. The jacket was her favorite and she would wear it for as long as she could, even if the silver buttons couldn't close over her nine month stomach. The garment had belonged to Prue Halliwell, Piper's beloved older sister who had been murdered by the Source of all Evil three years prior.
"Okay, ready to go!" Phoebe Halliwell announced her presence in the room and her sisters looked at her. Paige turned away to hide a laugh, Phoebe was wearing her hair in little butterfly clips and she also had donned a pair of pink overalls and a white tube top underneath. She had a major crush on every man in the band and was obviously trying to lower her age by a decade in order to get one of the young men in the group. Piper rolled her eyes and grabbed her sister's small arm. Piper snatched a set of keys from the hook by the door, she didn't care if Phoebe wore her fluorescent pink bustier, she just wanted to get her out of the house.
Meanwhile, in a dark cavern, the high level demon Torflyn concocted a plan. Torflyn enjoyed tearing apart witch covens by kidnapping the coven leader and masquerading as her. As the head witch, he would slowly dissolve the coven, and as each Wiccan became vulnerable, he went in for the kill. His next target was the Charmed Ones, and he was studying their history to figure out which witch to separate. He thought for a moment and muttered one word;
"Piper"

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CHAPTER TWO
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When her sisters left the manor, Paige picked up her nephew and carried him to the living room, set him back down, and put a Teletubbies video into the television, or "Tubby, Tubby!" as Wyatt had christened it. Paige collapsed onto the cushy sofa and cracked open the new Danielle Steele book she had picked up at the grocery store. Ah, she thought to herself, this is the life. Ever since she had moved in with her sisters, Paige Matthews had rarely had any time to herself. Between the demon slaying and learning the delicate art of Wicca, there was no time left for trashy smut novels. Almost the second that she finished her thought, her futuristic nephew, Chris Perry orbed in.
Chris was actually Wyatt's younger brother. One year prior, he had appeared from twenty three years into the future and saved Paige from being vanquished by the Titans. For a while, Chris had masqueraded as the Charmed Ones' new whitelighter. Nine months before, he had come clean to the sisters, which is how they discovered Piper's pregnancy. Kind of like a supernatural pregnancy test. Ever since, Chris had gone from persona non grata, in the manor, to man of the house, since Leo had orbed permanently to the heavens to become an Elder. Chris had been dropping cryptic hints about the future for the past few months, and what really annoyed the sisters was that he couldn't ever go into detail.
"What?" Paige whined, disappointed that her afternoon of serenity had been prematurely dissolved.
"There's been an uprise of demonic activity, and you-"
"Well, hello to you too, my shining star." Paige scoffed, annoyed at her nephew for disturbing her over something so petty.
"Chris, of course there's a lot of demonic activity, you're about to be born!" Paige exclaimed, causing Wyatt to look at her, wondering why his aunt was shouting.
"Oh right."
Paige rolled her hazel eyes and slumped back onto the couch, losing herself in the thick novel. Chris settled himself on the Persian rug, helping his brother to make a tall stack of alphabet blocks. Paige wistfully looked down at her two nephews as the tower tumbled down and Wyatt let out a loud giggle, clapping his tiny hands, fingers spread wide. Chris chuckled, a deep, comforting sound, and smiled at Paige, though behind his twinkling brown eyes, a strange feeling lurked, it was the feeling of impending fear.
Piper walked hurriedly into the main room of P3, not looking where she was going.
"Oh, sorry Piper, are you okay?" The lead singer of Love Spit Love had walked right into her huge stomach, and he had flushed bright red.
"It's alright, it was my fault." Piper said, dismissing the issue with a laugh. She grabbed her belly as she felt Baby Chris kick her kidney, as if to say "How could you mommy?" She resumed walking to her sister, who was pre-occupied flirting with the bass player of the hot new group. Piper chuckled and detoured to her cell phone. She dialed the number for the Manor and waited. After about three rings, she heard her son's voice on the other end.
"Oh, hey Piper." Chris answered.
"Is that any way to talk to your mother? You're grounded young man!, Piper teased, "Oof, I think little Chris here heard me." She groaned as the baby went for another kidney shot.
"So, do you always hate me, or is that just an in-the-womb thing?"
"Can't say, so, what's up?"
"I'm calling to ask what you three what you want for dinner. I want a hot fudge, bratwurst, and pickle footlong on rye, and Phoebe, for some weird reason wants Tofurkey, so it's up to you guys."
"Oh, you're going shopping?"
"Yes genius. Oof, ow, hey! Stop that!" Piper squealed to both Chris'.
"Hang on, I'll check," Chris was quiet for a minute, and Piper could hear him asking Paige.
"Well, Paige wants Chicken Cordon Bleu, I want a meatball footlong, and Wyatt wants a Tinky Winky, whatever that is."
"Well, Phoebe's a vegetarian again, so how about Tofurkey Cordon Bleu?" She waited for the answer.
"Even Wyatt said "yuck" and he eats mud."
"How about a pizza then?" Piper asked with a laugh.
"Extra cheese, pineapple, double pepperoni, and tomato please."
"No pepperoni, you little carnivore! Ow, don't make me come in there!"
"Fine, see you tonight." Piper heard the reciever click back onto the cradle.
"Kids, Piper muttered, "Ow."
"Phoebe, let' go!" she called to her sister and practically had to haul her away from the sexy musician.
"I'll see you tonight guys!" Piper called to the group as she tugged Phoebe to her blue Jeep Grand Cherokee. They had wanted to arrive in style with Phoebe's silver Mini, but Phoebe didn't want to drive, and Piper was now too big to squeeze her pregnant stomach behind the unadjustable steering wheel.
Piper dropped Phoebe off at the manor and went to get the pizza. Little did she know what would happen next.

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CHAPTER THREE


Chris paced the floor, anxiously glancing at the antique grandfather clock in the living room. Phoebe was on the cordless, calling Lieutenant Darryl Morris, a close friend of the Charmed Ones. Aside from being their friend, he was also their confidante and the only mortal who knew their true identities. Paige perched on the sofa, arm outstretched, dangling a clear crystal on a string over a map of San Franciscon. This witchy technique was known as scrying and it could deteect a lost witch if she was in supernatural peril, and so long as her heart still beat. They had put Wyatt to bed hours ago, though if Piper hadn't decided to Ferberize the toddler, they never would have. The child cried persistently for his mother, and later on for his daddy. The sisters had called and called for Leo, but their Elder ex-brother in law wasn't responding. It was weird for him not to orb down as soon as he heard that his young son was in need. Though, for the past nine months, Leo had stayed Up There and the Halliwell's had just assumed that he was no longer allowed to come down to earth.
"Ah, where is she?!" Paige cried, hurling the crystal across the room in frustration.
"Calm down, sweetie, she'll be okay." Phoebe said in a soothing tone, dumping their un-eaten pizza back into the box. After two hours, the delivery guy that the sisters knew so well delivered their cold food, charging an exorbitant amount for an unscheduled delivery. Ever since Piper had gotten pregnant, she had had cravings for weird food, food that her sisters were frankly afraid of. So almost every night they ordered a pizza and picked it up, though since Paige had dated Jimmy the delivery guy, he knew where they lived. And when Piper didn't pick up the food and come straight home, the sisters knew that something was wrong.
"I'm not just worried for her, she has powers, but what if she goes into labor with Chris?" Paige shrieked, grabbing Future Chris in a bear hug.
"You're right, her due date was yesterday." Phoebe said quietly as the realization of how serious the situation was dawned on her.
"Well, Pheebs, look at it logically. Chris is here, which must mean that he was born safely." Paige said, switching roles and attempting to soothe her distressed sister. She orbed the thrown crystal into her pale hand and tied her brown hair into a fashionable twist at the back of her head. As she began invoking the "scry" spell, they heard a loud banging on the heavyu oak door of the manor.
"It's open!" Phoebe called as Darryl Morris came in, his face as concerned as those of the sisters.
"Where's Piper?" He asked, settling himself in the cushy armchair.
"We don't know." Came the stony response.

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hey guys, this is the next chapter, sorry it's been so long!
lotz of luv,
Lauralai

"Where's Piper?" Darryl asked, glancing at the sisters' stony faces, and at Chris who was practically inhaling a Bud Lite.
"That's a good question Paige, where is Piper? Oof. Ow." Chris freshly retorted, causing his angry aunt to shove him off of the arm of the couch.
"We don't know where she is Darryl, she never came home!" Phoebe answered the lieutenant as he sat down, as she cast a scowl that could send Stalen quaking in his combat boots to her younger sister and nephew.
"Demon?" He asked. Darryl was accustomed to bizarre disappearing acts by the sisters. In all of the years he'd known them, they had each been witchnapped at least three times, and they had all turned into weird creatures about nine times combined. Yeah, he was used to the Halliwell's.
"We don't know, but she's somewhere magically cloaked, so the chances are pretty good." Paige said, still dangling the crystal over the map. Darryl turned to Chris and barked;
"What do you think you're doing? Your mother's missing and you're getting hammered?"
"Yup."
Paige picked up a plate and smashed it over his head. The young man collapsed to the floor, knocked unconcious by the force.
"Paige!" Darryl and Phoebe exclaimed, surprised at her actions.
"What, don't tell me he wasn't annoying you too! This way, we can search for Piper without worrying about a drunk 23 year old."
"Good point, so what advances have you made in the Piper search?"
"None."
"Well, that's helpful."
"Hey, watch it lady, I got another plate here you know!" Paige snapped as Phoebe shut up and slumped back into the cushy armchair.
"Do you two know who took her?"
"Maybe, there's a demon called Torflyn who fits the M.O."

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Piper awoke, her head throbbing and her shoulder bruised.
"Ow." she groaned. "Chris, are you okay?" she whispered her round stomach, feeling it for any scratches or bruises. She felt a sharp, angry kick and was reassured. She opened her brown eyes and examined her surroundings. As far as she could tell, she was in a dungeon. Again.
As she tried to stand, she realized that she was bound to the floor, but the motion caused a sharp, familiar pain to spread through her lower body, and an equally familiar wetness to appear on her thighs. She cried out in pain and swore loudly, alerting her captor to her consciousness.
"Oh, you're awake, good. I can leave now, your sisters wil be getting worried." Without another word, he flamed out, and Piper screamed for help. She knew that she had begun delivering Chris and that if she didn't get ready, her baby could be hurt, so she created a sort of delivery bed out of her jacket and long skirt and cried out again as another contraction came.
"Phoebe! Paige! Leo!" She yelped, praying for one of her family members to appear. But no cloud of blue lights appeared, and she was all alone, but not for long.

There y'all go, I'll probably add to it tomorrow. Sorry it's not too long.

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The remaining Halliwell sisters, a drunken Chris, and a bewildered Darryl all turned their heads to the Halliwell foyer, where they had just heard the door slam shut.
"Piper! You're home!" Phoebe and Paige cried simultaneously as they jumped up and wrapped their "sister" in a warm embrace.
"Jeez, I was only gone a couple hours, you don't have to turn into some fifties tv show!" Torflyn snapped, pulling away from the sisters and heading for the kitchen. All of a sudden, he had the weirdest craving for a pickle sandwich on rye with hot fudge and cherries.
"Piper, they're just worried about you! You've been gone for five hours, you're going to pop any minute, and we had no idea where you were!" Darryl said, leaping to the sisters' defense. He felt something weird about Piper's behavior, something a little off. He dismissed it as pregnancy hormones and added;
"I had better get home, Sheila is waiting up. Glad you're okay Piper, call me tomorrow and I'd love to hear your explanation." With that, he grabbed his coat from the hook and exited the manor. Chris fell to the couch with a groan and began to snore, leaving the sisters alone to talk.
"Piper, Paige began, pulling a chair up to the kitchen counter, while Phoebe perched precariously on the sink, "Where the hell have you been? We were worried sick!"
"Chris dosen't seem too concerned." Torflyn/Piper quipped with a glance towards Chris, who let out a loud snort.
"That is his way of dealing. Gee, I wonder where he gets it! Now, no more getting off topic, where were you?" Phoebe barked, not at all acting like her normal serene self.
"I got lost, ended up in San Diego, some old guy in a Bullwinkle hat gave me directions home, no big deal! I'm going to bed." With that, Torflyn/Piper stormed up to Piper's room and got into her queen sized bed. He grumbled as he struggled to get comfortable around the huge stomach to which he was unaccustomed.
More later, am tired and have cramps, so tell what you think and I'll probably be back later to read them and MAYBE post more!

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Torflyn waited until he heard the sounds of Paige and Phoebe dragging a still unconscious Chris up to bed. He waited for them to say good night, and then he flamed out. When he arrived in his dark chamber, he was surprised to see Piper looking very different than she had when he'd left her five hours before. She had somehow gotten her arms out of their shackles and was sitting up, resting her back against the wall. Her hair had fallen in her face and her forehead was covered with perspiration. But the most surprising thing to Torflyn was that a tiny baby lay sleeping in her arms, wrapped in a denim jacket. The child let out a sigh and turned over in his sleep, and Piper looked up at the demon, who was staring at her and her new son.
"You missed a lot." She remarked, cuddling her baby closer to herself.
"How did you get free?" Torflyn bellowed, glancing nervously around the room.
"I helped." The demon turned to the sound of a masculine voice coming from a dark corner of the dungeon. Upon seeing who was approaching, the low level demon sank to his knees, as a sign of respect for the former Source.
"Your majesty, how did you get down here?" He asked, rising to his feet.
"How do you think? Did no one ever tell you never to question demonic royalty?" Cole replied, waving his hand at Torflyn. Within seconds, the demon was restrained by chains of fire, and he cried out in agony. Sending two blasts of negative energy at the shackles binding Piper's ankles, Cole offered the witch his hand.
"Why did you help us? After you tried to kill Phoebe, Paige, and I?"
"Demonic mind control works many different ways, Piper. You should know that by now."
"You were under mind control?" She asked, switching Chris to her other arm.
"Yes, one of Chester's many powers. Unless we can get Phoebe and Paige to believe me, the three of you may not be safe."
"What, why?"
"The only way to protect yourself from a demon under the control of another is to believe in the true demeanor of said demon." Cole answered solemnly, passing a tiny smile to Chris, who woke up at the sounds of the voices and yawned.
"Is that why you never hurt Phoebe, even when the Source's powers had your compassionate half under control?"
"Yes, that's why I never hurt you as well. You may not believe it, but in your heart, you wanted to believe in me and in my love for your sister. That's what protected you-"
"But not Paige."
"That's right, with her distrust in me, her vulnerability to my demonic powers intensified to the point where-"
"You almost killed her."
"Right again. Now, let's focus on getting you out of here."
"Hold on a minute, slow down. We vanquished you last year, why are you back?"
"It was just an illusion. After I realized that Phoebe no longer had any love for me, I gave up on pursuing her heart. I retreated to Purgatory and waited until I was almost gone from her mind, and then I resurfaced."
"Why, though? She was finally happy, she had a human who loved her, and who she loved fiercely, and you broke them apart!"
"Jason?"
"Yes, Jason! Jason Dean, the latest 'love of her life', and YOU broke them apart!"
"Jason isn't, or wasn't human, Piper."
"What? What was he?"
Cole waved his hand at Torflyn, who morphed into Jason Dean.
"He was Torflyn, well, Torflyn's human form. This demon was sent to infiltrate the Power of Three, and to figure out how to separate the three of you, ultimately causing in the destruction of the greater good."
"But who sent him?"
"I did."

There. Are y'all satisfied? I'll try to put more up tonight, but I don't have school tomorrow, so that also holds possibilities!
Lauralai

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What chapter is this now? Oh, hell, y'all know, so insert your own at the question mark.
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Phoebe lay in bed awake, wondering what was wrong with her older sister. Her behavior that night had been uncharacteristically cold, hormone factor aside. She figured that Paige had just dismissed it as in fact, hormones. Phoebe listened to the stony quiet of the house and realized that something wasn't right. Usually the manor at night was filled with Paige's deep breathing and occasional cries, ever since the young woman had begun fighting demons, she had had a series of recurring nightmares, and Phoebe could usually hear Piper's rocking chair going as she watched her baby sleep. A lifetime insomniac, Piper only got about three or four hours of sleep a night, the rest of the time was usually spent rocking in the chair, watching her son, reading a book, or watching television with the sound turned off. With none of these sounds present, Phoebe began to worry. She also noticed that Chris's masculine snores were not echoing through the halls, even though his room was right next to Phoebe's. The increasingly worried Charmed One got out of bed and placed her ear up against the wall. All was quiet next door, except for a very quiet tv. She was startled to hear a quick rap on her door and a second later, Paige burst in, her pale face flustered.
"What's wrong?" Phoebe asked her half sister, getting more worried by the second.
"Come and see." was Paige's only response.
Phoebe followed Paige's lead into the next room. All of Chris's things were missing, the lights and television were turned on, and his bed was still made. Paige crossed to the dresser and picked up a piece of paper, handed it to her sister wordlessly and sank into the armchair. Phoebe was shocked as she read aloud;
Dear Piper, Paige, Phoebe, Leo, and of course, Wyatt,
As you can probably tell, I'm not here right now. But that we'll get to later.
Piper is in SERIOUS DANGER. She is trapped in a dungeon at Devil's Rock Cavern. A demon called Torflyn put her there and I'm with her. Torflyn's threat has been eliminated by a much more powerful demon, so he's not a problem, but the other demon is. Paige, you can't orb down there because of the magical barrier. Call down a whitelighter or an elder to help you out. Don't bother with Leo, he won't answer. I know that you probably miss him very much, but you won't see him again, not for at least fourteen more years.
When Piper dies of breast cancer, Leo comes down and tries to be a father to Wyatt and I. He does a horrible job, sending Wyatt into evil and me to run to Grandpa. Now that I've been born, it's your turn to stop this from happening. MAKE HER GET EXAMINED, ALOT. She gets diagnosed when I'm eleven, fights demons until I'm twelve, and then you three relinquish your powers in order to spend more time with her. She decides not to get chemotherapy, MAKE HER GET THE CHEMO, it will save the world, trust me.
As you can tell, since I'm gone, it means that I've been born. I am in the dungeon with Piper, but she wouldn't let anything happen to me, so don't worry for me.
I'll see you in the future, hopefully.
Love,
Chris
PS: Phoebe, you will find the right guy, and in time too. Your baby will be a girl, but Paige's will be a girl.
C
Phoebe put the letter down as a lone tear rolled down her cheek. Paige rose and gave her emotional sister a hug. After the warm sister moment, they separated and went to look in Piper's room.
"Paige, you know she's not going to be there!" Phoebe protested, as Paige barged in.
"Obviously, but we need an elder, preferably Leo, and if we can't get him down here, maybe his son can!" Paige replied, scooping up her small nephew.
"Okay sweetie, call for Daddy!" She said sweetly to the infant.
"Daddy! Daddy!" He giggled, clapping his hands. To the surprise of the sisters, a swirling cloud of white orbs appeared before them. Leo materialized in the nursery.
"What?" He asked, impatient at the sisters for summoning him from the heavens.
"Watch Wyatt."
"Other elder dude, we need you too!" Phoebe cried, waiting for another cloud to appear, which it did.
"What do you need? I'm Chris."