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 One magikal morning at the manor, Leo and Piper are in the kitchen making coffee. "Leo um... Come with me, I need to show you something!"
 "What, what is it? Is something wrong!?" Leo asks concerned.
 "No, ...nothing's... wrong. !" She says labored.
 "You don't sound like 'nothing's wrong'." Just then Phoebe walks to the fridge and pulls eggs and milk out of it.
 "Whatcha talkin' about?" Phoebe says cheerfully
 "I don't know... She hasn't told me yet!"
 "Sounds pretty serious to me!!" Phoebe says sing-songedly.
 "Can we talk.. alone?" Leo says hinting to Phoebe to leave.
 "No, that's okay. We'll talk later." Piper says as Paige walks into the room.
 "Talk about what later?" Paige interrupts.
 "Nothing." Piper says.
 "Oh, okay!" Paige says happily.
 "Are you sure it can wait?" Leo asks worried.
 "Are you sure what can wait?" Paige interrupts again.
 "Nothing Paige!" Piper says loudly and impatiently.
 "Okay, I can take a hint! Come on Phoebe. Let's go." Paige says disappointed.
 "I'm not goin' anywhere! I makin' eggs!" Phoebe says irritated.
 "I think that we do need to talk, Honey!" Leo says pressing the issue.
 "No, don't worry about it, we'll talk later!" Piper insists.
 "Okay fine, we'll talk later!" Leo says giving up and he walks out of the kitchen followed by Piper, but Paige and Phoebe stay in the kitchen.
 "So what do you think they were talking about?" Phoebe asks curiously.
 "I have no idea! You were in here before me, you should know!" Paige retaliates.
 "Well, they stopped talking when I walked in, so it's something they don't want us to know, or at least not now!" Phoebe states.

 In the sitting room, Piper and Leo continue talking. "Piper, whatever it is, I need to know!"
 "I know you do, but Paige and Phoebe just won't leave us alone! We'll go to Antonio's restaurant for dinner and I'll tell you there." Just then Phoebe walks in.
 "Piper, are you doing anything tonight?"
 "Yes, why?" Piper asks.
 "Well, we need someone to stay home 'cause me and Cole are going on a date tonight! We're going to Antonio's!" Phoebe says smiling then she turns and walks away.
 "Phoebe, no! You can't go to Antonio's, that's where Leo and I are going tonight!" Piper whines.
 "You are?!? Cool, see you there!" Phoebe says.
 "Phoebe!" Piper says with a tone of disappointment.
 "Well, so much for that date! Guess we'll just have to stay at home tonight, huh!!!" Leo says with a huge grin on his face.
 "No, Leo we really need to talk!" Piper says.
 "Really?" Leo starts. "You didn't want to talk before but now we have to!?! Piper just tell me!" he finishes.
 "I want to be alone when we do so just leave it at..." Piper starts but she is distracted when she thinks that she sees someone moving around outside. She slowly walks to the window with her hands in the air. She jumps to the window and freezes the moving figure.
 "Piper!" Paige whines as she slowly walks towards the frozen figure. "Unfreeze Cole!" she demands.
 "Oops, I thought that he was a demon stalking us! Oh wait, he's already done that!" Piper says as she unfreezes Cole.
 "Thanks for freezing me!" Cole wails.
 "No problem!" she says as she walks away from the window. Piper walks back to Leo and she kisses him on the forehead and walks away.

 Piper is sitting in the living room and Leo walks in. Then Cole walks in. Piper hears the sound of Paige's car pulling out of the driveway. "Where are they going?" Piper asks Cole.
 "To P3, they want to 'talk'!" Cole says rolling his eyes.
 "I think that I'll go with!" Piper says as she runs out the door. Moments later, she runs back in and grabs her keys.
 "Anyway, Leo, I wanted to talk to you about Phoebe." Cole says nervously.
 "What about her? Is something wrong?"
 "Well, I'm not sure, I found a home pregnancy test in the bathroom!" Cole starts. "It was positive, and was wondering if Piper said anything about it to you!" he finishes.
 "Oh, um.. no, she hasn't said anything about it to me!" Leo tells him as he suddenly gets a look of horror on his face.
 "Can you give me a minute?" Leo asks as he orbs out quickly.
 "Sure!" he says to himself.

  Back at P3, Phoebe and Paige are sitting at the bar talking to Piper who is behind it serving them drinks. Phoebe is drinking a Singapore Sling, Paige is drinking a Sex On The Beach, and Piper wasn't drinking at all. Right then Leo orbs in and walks over to Piper.
 "Leo. what are you doing here?" she asks.
 "Hey Piper, where's your drink?" Leo says curiously.
 "Oh, she's not feeling well, she didn't want a drink!" Phoebe explains.
 "Piper, we need to talk!" Leo states.
 "I told you we would talk later!"
 "No, we need to talk now!" Leo insists.
 "Okay!" Piper says as Leo and her take a few steps away from Phoebe and Paige.
 "Cole found a home pregnancy test in the main bathroom, it was positive! Now, he thinks that it's Phoebe's! Is it?" he asks her.
 "Well, how am I supposed to know?" Piper yells so that everyone can hear her.
 "So it's not yours!?!"
 "Why would I take a home pregnancy test in the main bathroom, we have our own!" Piper retaliates.
 "Is that a yes or a no?" Leo asks. Before Piper can answer a demon blinks in, grabs Phoebe around the neck and holds an athemae to her. Piper tries to freeze him but the room turns to ice.
 "Woh, Piper! What just happened there!?" Paige exclaims shivering from the intense cold.
 "I don't know! I went to freeze the demon and 'poof!' the room turned to ice.  Something is seriously wrong here!!!"
 "Paige, why don't you try to call for two of those glasses over there. Let's see what happens." Leo instructs.
 "GLASSES!" Paige calls and not only do the two glasses show up on the counter in front of her, but so does a pair of prescription glasses. "Okay. What's this?"
 "Is somebody going to kill this guy?!? His hands are really cold!" Phoebe prompts. and Piper grabs the knife out of his hand and stabs him in the stomach. He disappears with a flash and a cloud of smoke.
 "I don't get it! I'll go talk to the elders and see if they know why your powers are going haywire." Leo says as he tries to orb, but instead, turns into a ball of light and begins to roll around the room. "Okay, this is weird!" he says as he rolls past Piper in a flash of light.
 "LEO!!!" Piper hollers out after him and trying to hide her laughter. Leo tries to stop, but only is able to roll faster. "ARE YOU OKAY!!??!!"
 "I CAN'T STOP!!! SOMETHING'S REALLY WRONG HERE!!! HELP ME!!!!!!!!" he shouts as he passes his second time around the club's dance floor and smashes into the wall across from the girls.
 "LEO" Paige shouts and he suddenly appears standing directly in front of her. "Hi," she says over  Piper and Phoebe's rolling' laughter. (no pun intended)
 "Nobody say anything! I mean it" Leo orders as he begins to laugh right along with everyone else. After a couple more minutes of intense laughter, "You guys, this is really bad. Without our powers, we are pretty much defenseless against the Source and we are SO vulnerable to attack!" Leo gets serious.
 "Well, what do we do?" Paige asks.
 "Let's go back to the house and look in the book." Piper suggests. "Paige! Stop! You can't try to orb there, you saw what happened to Leo." she warns and turns to her husband hiding her laughter once more. "Let's go in the Jeep. Paige, we'll leave your car here for now. We should all try to stay together. If someone, or something tries to attack, we need to be together." Piper instructs.
 "If our powers are going whack, what about our spells?" Phoebe asks.
 "We'll find out when we get to that point. Right now, we need to figure out what's throwing us off.  It's affecting Leo this time too and you can bet that..." Piper stops, "We need to get home NOW!"
 "Let's go then." Leo says. They all walk out of the club and to the Jeep.

 Back at the manor, Cole is in the kitchen making himself a chicken pot pie for lunch. "Hey guys! Leo, can we talk?" Cole greets them.
 "Yeah, sure, Cole."
 "Hello to you too, HONEY." Phoebe says sarcastically.
 "Hi, Pheebs! Leo, what did you find out?"
 "Cole?"
 "Yeah, what?" Cole responds irritated that she won't leave him to talk to Leo in peace.
 "You know that PRUE is the only person who can call me that. Not even you can call me Pheebs!"
 "Sorry." Cole apologizes, "I didn't mean anything by it, I was just..." he is interrupted by her.
 "You were just trying to get me out of the room so that you could talk to Leo. Right?! Fine, I have something upstairs to take care of anyway."
 "Phoebe, I didn't..." he begins again but she walks out of the room, "I  didn't think." he says to himself.
 "Cole?" Leo gets his attention, "I really didn't find out much of anything. Piper says that Phoebe didn't say anything to her and so I asked her if it could be hers, but she got defensive.  She didn't really say it was hers, but she didn't say it wasn't either. We've been talking about it a lot lately, do you think?"
 "I guess it's possible, but why would she take a test in the main bathroom when you have your own?"
 "I don't know, that's what she said.. I just thought that maybe..."
 "You just thought that maybe she would be pregnant and that is what she's been trying to talk to you about all day, right???"
 "Well, yes."
 "Hey, guys???" Paige comes running into the room with something in her hand.
 "Yeah Paige, what is it?" Leo asks, "What's in your hand?"
 "Yeah, what are you hiding???" Cole asks.
 "Well, I was just in the upstairs bathroom and..." Paige is interrupted.
 "Do we really need to know about your bathroom experiences?" Cole jokes half seriously.
 "This one, yes.  Anyway, something in the trash can caught my attention..."
 "What is it Paige?" Cole presses her.
 "Well.  . here." she says holding out the object that she had been hiding.  Leo takes the object from her and shows Cole.
 "ANOTHER one!?!" both of the guys exclaim.
 "What do you mean, 'another one'?" Paige asks.
 "Well..." Cole says as he holds out the original find.
 "Omigod!" Paige gasps when she realizes that one of them is positive. "Does this mean what I think it means?" At that moment Piper and Phoebe walk into the room.
 "I don't know what you guys are talking about, but whatever it is, it's not important. We need to fix our 'technical difficulties'!" Phoebe jokes. Leo, Cole, and Paige just stare at the two girls in the hall.
 "Are you guys okay?" Piper asks.
 "Oh, yeah.. we're just. .talking." Paige hesitates.
 "Well, let's take a look in the book." Leo suggests.
 "BOOK!" Paige calls out holding out her hand. "I said BOOK, not BUCK!!!" Paige shouts in angry surprise when she realizes that instead of the BOS, two five-point deer fell from out of nowhere and landed on her hand dropping her to the floor and a stack of books pop up as well.
 "Okay, maybe we should just go up to the attic, that didn't work." Piper jokes as she freezes the room, the whole room. "I've really got to work on that!" says laughing Everyone files up the stairs and into the attic. Piper walks to the book and opens it up. After a couple minutes, she finds a page on Abraxis.

ABRAXIS

Abraxis is the demon of literal meaning. When targeted, all of your powers will be confused or turned literal.  The following is a list of alternates that will occur:

 If your power is: This will happen:

 Orbing Yourself Turn to a ball of light and roll    around the room

 Orbing Objects  Anything that you call out loud    will instantly orb to you

 Premonition All of your dreams will happen   as   seen in the morning

 Freezing The object you try to freeze   will   turn to ice

 Blowing Things Up The object you try to blow up    will expand like a balloon

 Levitation  As you try to become      weightless, you will become   heavier and   glued to the floor

 Healing No effect will take place

Take warning that anyone in your household that has had any powers, good or evil, in the past and/or present will have their powers returned to them in an altered fashion.

 Energy Ball  Sudden burst of energy

 Shimmering Turns to sparkly dust
 

VANQUISH

Ashes to ashes
And dust to dust
Return our original powers
Unto us
Destroy now this evil being
Take him from this world
Without seeing.

 "Okay, this is now beyond weird!!!" Piper states.
 "Wait, if someone was once evil.. COLE!!!" Paige shouts as Cole appears in front of her.
 " I have to stop doing that!" Paige tells herself.
 "Cole, are your powers back?" Piper asks him.
 "Not exactly, I have powers, but they're... different!" he tells her.
 "And that's bad, why?" Paige says.
 "Okay the book was right! What powers do you have?" Phoebe asks.
 "He should have the power to give energy to anyone he uses his power on!" Piper reads from the BOS.
 "Yeah, exactly!" Cole answers as he walks over to Phoebe.
 "Cole, do you have any other powers?" Paige asks.
 "No, just the energy ball and shimmering. Except.. not!" Cole answers.
 "That's not to bad!" Paige says.
 "Yeah, but how long will this last, I was just getting used to being a human!" Cole complains.
 "I guess until they vanquish them!" Leo answers.
 "Well, we'll vanquish him as soon as we get our powers figured out!" Piper says.
 "Well, we got a while before he's gone!" Paige says.
 "That's not funny!" Piper retaliates.
 "I'm not joking!" Paige responds.
 "You're right, it will be hard, but we can get it done if we just try a little!" Phoebe says giving her sisters a little pep talk.
 "Fine!" Paige finally says giving up.
 "Now, I think that we need to practice our new powers! Try and come up with different uses for it, we need to do as much as we can to beat this guy!" Piper says.
 "Piper, can we talk?" both Leo and Phoebe say at the same time.
 "Uh, what!" Piper asks them.
 "It's okay Phoebe, you go talk to her. Cole and I have to finish talking!" Leo relieves his wife.
 "Are you sure, Leo?" Phoebe asks making sure that she is not intruding.
 "Yeah, go ahead." Leo insists. Piper and Phoebe walk out of the attic.

 Phoebe and Piper are sitting on Phoebe's bed in her room. "Okay, Phoebe, what is it?" Piper questions her sister.
 "Well, um, you see, it's like this..." Phoebe begins hesitantly.
 "Like what!? You said you wanted to talk, so talk."
 "Okay.. have you been feeling alright lately?"
 "What do you mean, I've been fine." Piper responds.
 "Well, you know how I have premonitions on occasion, right..."
 "Yeah, So..."
 "Well, I had a premonition last night about a, you know, one of those REALLY tiny humans that... people have."
 "You mean... a baby?" Piper asks knowingly.
 "Yeah, one of those." Phoebe smartly.
 "Okay.. but what does that have to do with me?"
 "Well, you and me are the only women in the house who have a significant other, so I don't think Paige would be, you know, so that kind of leaves us, and I'm not, so, are you!?!?" Phoebe babbles nervously.
 "Are you sure you're not?"
 "I'm sure."
 "How?"
 "I took a test."
 "And..."
 "Failed." Phoebe says with a half smile half frown.
 "I'm sorry."
 "No, that's a good thing.. So, are you?" Phoebe says nudging her sister's arm.
 "Well, if I am, I haven't found out about it yet." Piper answers. Just then, Paige knocks on the door.
 "Are you guys alright in there?!" Paige shouts from outside the closed door.
 "Fine! Hey, come in here a minute will you Paige!" Piper yells back at her. Paige walks in with both of the pregnancy tests in her pocket and thinking that this is the perfect time to find out what the tests are doing in the house, and who they belong to.
 "Yeah, what is it?" Paige asks her sisters.
 "Phoebe had a premonition last night and, well.. is there anything you want to tell us?"
 "Okay..." Paige begins, "I guess this is as good of time as any." she begins as she reaches into her pocket to pull out the tests.
 "What is it Paige?" Phoebe prompts, "Are you...?"
 "No, not me, but which of you are?" she says holding out both tests to her sisters, handing the negative to Piper and the positive to Phoebe thinking that this was who they belonged to.  As the girls are about to spill the beans, Cole and Leo knock on the door.
 
 

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 "Are you girls alright?" Leo asks them as he looks down to see the tests.
 "Phoebe/Piper, it there something you need to tell me?" Leo and Cole ask their girlfriend (or husband) at the same time.
 "Phoebe." Piper says looking at Phoebe.
 "Piper." Phoebe says looking at Piper with a look that says "I knew it!"
 "Paige!" they both say looking at Paige asking her to bail them out.
 "Are you telling us that you two didn't even know that there were two tests?" Paige asks surprised.
 "No!" they both answer.
 "Well, who's is who's!" Cole asks eager to find out if his girlfriend is pregnant.
 "Um.. Hey you guys, we still have to vanquish this demon, you know!" Piper says changing the subject as she gets up and walks out of the room. Phoebe quickly gets up and follows her.
 "Like that's any help!" Paige says.
 "Well, someone has to fess up sooner or later!" Cole says trying to make things better, but only making everyone more anxious.
 "I still think that I know who's is who's!" Leo says.
 "Well then, tell us!" Paige says impatiently.
 "Well, I think that Phoebe isn't pregnant and Piper is!" Leo says.
 "I hope that you're right!" Cole says nervously.
 "Well, I think that Leo isn't sure, he just wants it to be Piper!" Paige says knowingly.
 "How do you know that?" Leo says questioning if Paige really knew what she was talking about.
 "We all know that you have wanted to be a 'daddy' for the longest time, and now might be your chance to be one!" Paige responds.
 "You're right, but I still think that it's Piper!" Leo says.
 "Personally, I think that it's Phoebe. She has be so down lately, and if she wasn't don't you think that she would be happy, not the other way around? And besides, am I the only one who has noticed her weird food cravings?" Paige asks.
 "I guess, but still, Il..." Leo begins but he is once again cut off by Paige.
 "Want it to be Piper." Paige says finishing Leo sentence.
 "We better get down there, they're probably talking about who's is who's, and I really want to find out!" Cole says hurrying Paige and Leo up.
 "Me too!" Paige says eagerly.
 "Let's go." Leo finally says giving up from his little tiff with Paige. They all slowly walk down the stairs and then into the living room, but Piper and Phoebe couldn't see them from where they were standing.
 "Well, I just can't believe that this is happening to me, I was just so sure that..." Phoebe begins but stops because Piper hugs her.
 "I know!" Piper says to Phoebe stroking her head.
 "It is Phoebe, I was right!" Paige exclaims.
 "Yeah." Leo mumbles with a very sad look of disappointment on his face.
 "Leo, your time will come! Mine just came a little too early!" Cole says very nervously. Just then Piper and Phoebe begin to walk towards them and Leo, Cole, and Paige begin to run back toward the stairs.
 "It's okay, we already knew you were there." Phoebe says wiping her tears.
 "Phoebe, I'm..." Cole starts but he is cut off.
 "Cole, you don't have to be sad, this is a good thing!" Phoebe says as she walks away.
 "Come on we better..." Piper starts but is interrupted when two demon come running through the front doors.
 "Not again, how many more of you do we have to fight today, we were talking about some serious stuff before you came!" Piper yells annoyed. She tries to freeze them but just like before the whole room turned to ice.
 "This is why I wanted to practice!" Piper complains.
 "BOOK!" Paige yells, "ATHEMAE!" she yells again as both an athemae and the BOS appear in front of her, then a pile of books comes falling out of nowhere! She finds the page on Abraxis and quickly runs to her sisters.

"Ashes to ashes
And dust to dust
Return our original powers
Unto us
Destroy now this evil being
Take him from this world
Without seeing."

 As they are reading the spell ashes and dust come falling out of the same place as the piles of books did.. nowhere! When they finish, the demons start to disappear in a heap of smoke and fire. And with one loud shriek, the demons were both gone!
 "That was easy enough!" Cole exclaims.
 "Well, it gets a little easier when you've done it a million and one times!" Piper jokes.
 "Can we talk, alone? I think that we need to!" Leo asks.
 "No, we should talk here!" Piper answers.
 "Piper and I have something to say..." Phoebe begins.
 "Phoebe isn't pregnant!" Piper says. Leo looks at her first with a look of confusion, then excitement.
 "You mean that you aren't.. we aren't going to.. YES!" Cole exclaims.
 "Are you telling me that you're, we're.. This is so.. so... this is  wonderful! I love you, I love you so much Piper!" Leo says as he kisses Piper.
 "I can't believe that I was wrong, I was so sure it was Phoebe!!!" Paige whines.
 "I love you, Leo!" Piper says back to her husband. Phoebe walks over to Cole and pulls him into the kitchen where they can talk in private.
 "Are you okay, Phoebe?" Cole asks her sympathetically.
 "Yeah, I'm fine." Phoebe begins, "I had that premonition last night and I guess it got my hopes up..." she pauses for a moment and looks into Cole's eyes, "...on second thought, no, I'm not alright. I.. I really wanted this to be. I was really hoping I, I would be pregnant and to have a baby.. a real life growing inside of my body... to be responsible for another life that I.. no, WE created..." she finishes with tears beginning to run down her cheeks.
 "Well, we'll have the spotlight soon enough." Cole tries to comfort her as he reaches to her face to wipe her tears then leans over and kisses her on the forehead. "Maybe we could get a cat or something in the mean time." he jokes.
 "You've seen how often we have to fix the clock, and you want a cat?!" Phoebe jokes back with a grin.
 "Okay, maybe not. Have you thought anymore about my proposal???"
 "Hey, what time is it?" Phoebe changes the subject.
 "Six o'clock, why?"
 "We have to get ready to go, our reservation is for seven thirty!" Phoebe runs up the stairs to get dressed.
 "Okay..." Cole says to himself.

 Later that night at Antonio's, Cole and Phoebe are sitting at a private corner table. Phoebe is eating chicken alfredo with sun dried tomatoes and Cole is eating the veal parmesan. "Cole," Phoebe begins as she reaches across the table and takes his hands in hers, "I'm sorry that I have been putting this off as long as I have..."
 "What are you..." Cole begins.
 "Shhhh, don't talk, let me finish.  I'm sorry that I have been putting this off so long, but I've been thinking and have come to a decision. Our relationship started off with you trying to kill me and my sisters and has led to your becoming human. We have been through more ups and downs than most couples and have come through them better than most people that I can think of. I couldn't imagine my life without you and frankly, I don't want to. I love you more than I thought it was possible to love another person in all of eternity. Cole, when you proposed to me, I was caught off guard and out of shock, I've put you off far too long, but I know now what I knew then. Cole, it would be not only an honor, but also a privilege to be able to spend the rest of my life with you by my side. What I'm saying is..." she pauses, "yes, I will marry you."
 "Yes!?!" Cole asks excitedly.
 "YES, YES, YES!!! I can't wait to marry you!!!" Cole leans across the table to kiss her.
 "I can't wait either." he says to her and kisses her once more then they sit back down to finish their meal.
 

 Later, after Cole and Phoebe had finished and paid for their meals, they are on the way out when they run into Piper and Leo who are on their way in. "Why do you two look so happy!?" Piper jokes unknowingly to her sister and new brother-in-law to-be.
 "Yeah, what's up with you guys???" Leo adds.
 "Nothing.. sis!" Cole says back.
 "Nothing.. SIS?!?!!" Piper says confused.
 "Nothing.. we're only........" Cole pauses.
 "Only WHAT!?!" Piper insists.
 "Only engaged!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!" Phoebe says letting Piper and Leo in on their little secret.
 "ENGAGED!!! Since when!??!" Piper exclaims.
 "Since about eight o'clock."
 "WOW!!! Congratulations!!! We're just full of good news in this family aren't we!?!" Leo bursts still reeling from the news that he is a daddy-to-be.
 "We sure are!" Cole agrees.
 "Enjoy your night you two.. I know we will!!!" Phoebe says as she turns to Cole and they both walk out.
 "They look happy!" Piper comments.
 "Well, they probably feel like we did when we got engaged!" Leo responds.
 "Yeah!" Piper agrees as a waiter walks up to them and seats them. They were sitting at the table and Leo was staring at Piper. "What?" Piper asks as she too begins to stare.
 "Nothing, I'm just so happy that we are going to have a baby, we deserve this more than any other couple we know. I'm just excited!" Leo answers sweetly.
 "I love you, Leo!" Piper says.
 "I love you, Piper!" Leo says back.