DISCLAIMER: All characters are based on the WB show Charmed except the Demon of Malady, which I made up.

In the middle of the night... a red demon with cat's eyes arises from the depths of the earth to search for a female Wiccan host to transfuse his malady to. His illness is called "the dementia of the three warlocks" it was a curse cast unto him by three warlocks 300 years ago. It meant that until he could find a female host of the Wiccan dynasty, he would continuously have seizures of dementia (craziness, uncontrollable seizures).

Two hours later Piper tossed and turned in her bed while beads of hot sweat dripped down her slender face. She uttered a high-pitched scream which a wakened her sisters. They came running into her room. "Piper! What happened? What's wrong?" Phoebe asked. "Yeah... what is wrong anyway? Do you know that I was in the middle of the most wonderful dream in the world? See... in the dream... this dream guy was going to kiss me and then... your little high pitched noise came through and made dream man go away." Prue said half seriously, half jokingly. "Prue you're being silly and this is not time for jokes! Look at Piper... she's... she's... oh my god. Piper's really pale. Look at her... she looks like she's been drained of her color." Piper moaned. "I have a terrible headache..." She was drifting in and out of consciousness. "It was a large demon... like a giant and he jumped into me..." She became unconscious again. "Piper, what happened after that? Piper you have got to tell us!" Phoebe said, almost screaming. "Shhhhhh... you'll wake the neighbors." Prue told Phoebe, but it was clear on her face that she didn't really care about the tone of Phoebe's voice. The most important thing now was Piper. The next day, Phoebe came into the kitchen early in the morning to make Piper breakfast, but Piper was already there when she entered. "Pipe, what are you doing in the kitchen! You're supposed to be in bed! You were burning..." she stopped to touch Piper's forehead only to find that it was normal temperature "...hot last night?" She said. Piper looked at her and she looked back with a but-you-had-it-last-night look. Piper held her head, and then suddenly Piper started jumping around. "Hey! For goodness sake Pheebs! Get on your two feet, you lazy bum!" "Piper? Are you sure you're okay? I mean you were pretty sick..." Phoebe asked in growing concern. "Oh shut up Pheebs! Do I have to listen to your annoying voice everytime I wake up?" Piper yelled. "Piper? What's wrong with you? Are you all right? Why are you yelling at Phoebe?" Prue asked in alarm. "And you big sister... don't go bossing me around because I am sick of your constant nagging. Now it is time for me to go. Ta! Ta!" "Wait! Piper! You can't go!" Prue said, though she was kind of annoyed at what Piper said about her. "And why shouldn't I?" Piper asked lifting one eyebrow. "Because..." Prue began. "Because there is something wrong with you!" Phoebe screamed at Piper. Prue and Piper fell into silence. It was the first time they had heard Phoebe yell at them. Then as if something hit Piper... she fell with a loud thud. "Hey guys" Piper said a few minutes later. "Are you totally sure that you ARE Piper? You know our sister? Oh and in case you forgot... you are OUR sister and you have the power to freeze time and your last name is Halliwell... Let me spell that for you H...A...L..." Phoebe said. "It's ok Pheebs... I'm back to myself... I'm sorry for yelling at you. I don't know what happened to me. It was like something evil took over my brain and it just manipulated my actions." Piper explained. "OH that's all right with me honey, now we have got to find out what is causing this." Phoebe soothed Piper. She stroked Piper's long hair gently and then stopped. "Oh and while you had that seizure... you yelled something at Prue. I don't think she liked it. You told her that you were tired of her nagging." "I'll go say sorry to Prue." "While you're doing that, I'll go and look in the Book of Shadows if there's anything on demons that jump into bodies." "Huh?" "You told us that you had a dream last night about a demon that jumped into your body." "Right!"

Piper walked into Prue's room. Prue was busy fixing her bed even though it was neatly fixed already. "Prue? It's me," Piper said. "Oh it's little sister," Prue said back with a little tone of anger. "Prue... I'm sorry. I had this seizure." "Oh and I get nagging seizures too." "No I got a bad seizure and I felt like something evil jumped into me." "Oh pack it in Piper. You always get seizures," Prue said still mad, but she was starting to soften up. "Prue this is the first one and I'm really sorry." Then Piper walked away. She thought to herself. I must've hurt Prue a lot. For her to be mad like that is very rare. She's usually more understanding than this, but she has got to understand what's happening to me. She shook her head and wondered what happened to her.

Meanwhile, the demon of malady was enjoying some peace of mind. It would only be 24 hours until his sickness would fully transfuse into Piper's blood, then Piper's seizures would be even more intense. The seizures would get more and more unbearable causing Piper's brain to eventually explode. Then she'd die.

"Piper! Piper! There's something in here that might be helpful." Phoebe said from the attic. "Calm down Pheebs..." Piper answered running up the stairs. "See... the demon of malady appears only in dreams and it has a sickness called dementia of the three warlocks." "Dementia of the three warlocks? Whoever named this sickness must have lived ten thousand years ago." Piper joked. "Yeah well apparently, the curse was cast on this demon 300 years ago and it would continuously seize him until he found a descendant of the Wiccan dynasty. A female one. His sickness will fully transfuse into the Witch's body within 24 hours of the first attack. When this happens the Wiccan descendant will die." "OooH" "But he can be vanquished with a frozen potion made out of amaretto and rhododendron petals. You think you can get those?" "Yeah" then she left. Piper drove to the brand new Wiccan cult shop. Then she felt that evil coming over again. UH oh. She thought. Here we go again. Her brain felt as if it was being compressed. It was worse than what she felt in the previous seizure. She jumped out of her car and ran quickly into the store. She started laughing hysterically when she got in the store. "Excuse me Miss? Is there something wrong?" The saleslady asked. "Oh I'm sorry there's nothing wrong." Piper said returning back to herself for a minute. "Alright, then what do you want?" "I'd like amaretto and rhododendron petals please." Piper said. Then the seizure took over again. "OH and give me some chicken legs and meatloaf, miss saleslady person," Piper said loudly as if she were drunk. "I'm sorry Miss this is supposed to be a Wiccan shop. YOU can get those in the supermarket" "Why wouldn't you love meatloaf, I mean have meatloaf?!" "Miss this is not a butcher's shop." The lady said. "Oh no, you don't tell me what to do. I want chicken legs from here! So give 'em to me." Piper tried to stop herself, but she kept talking. "And..." Just then Piper started shaking uncontrollably. She moaned loudly and held her head. Her seizure was getting more and more intense. "Hello 911? There's a crazed woman in here," the lady said frantically. Andy burst through the doors. "Piper! Are you OK? Everyone stand back. This is the FBI." Then the shaking stopped and Piper was unconscious. "I have got to call Phoebe and Prue," Andy said.

Back in the house, Phoebe was trying to make Prue forget about what Piper said. "Prue, she had a seizure." "OH really... Prove it" "See it says it here in the Book... her seizures are caused by the demon of malady. He came into her last night... while she was sleeping." "OK, ok, you win Pheebs," Prue sighed. "Now, where is Piper?" "Oh yeah...we forgot about MY younger sister and YOUR older sister." Prue joked. "Piper said she was going to the new Wiccan cult shop. Let's go! Oh and Prue, I'm driving!" "Ep... stop right there who said you was driving." "Me?" "You?! That's my car in the driveway, I'm driving." "Fine, be like that", Phoebe joked.

When they got there, Andy was nursing Piper. "Oh, Piper honey are you OK?" Phoebe asked. "No, I started acting like a lunatic in here and the next thing I remember, Andy was here asking me if I was OK." "Piper? I'm sorry for acting badly a while ago. Phoebe explained everything to me, I'm sorry" Prue hugged her sister. "Umm... Prue let's save the hug for later? We've only got two hours to make the potion and kill the demon. And don't worry, apology accepted." Piper assured her sister.

They went back to the house and mixed the potion up. "All ready everyone!" said Prue. "Ok... Piper, Pheebs we're ready to kick some demon butt but we have to vanquish the demon while we sleep. Apparently this demon lives only in dreams." "Meaning?" asked Phoebe. "Meaning we all have to sleep holding hands so that we'll have the same dream which is supposed to be a dream where the demon appears." "Then we can kill throw the concoction of amaretto and rhododendron petals at him." Piper finished for Prue. "Right." Prue said. Then a moment of silence. "Well! Come on! Let's sleep!" Phoebe said breaking the silence.

While they got ready for sleep Piper asked, "Prue, I am very sorry for causing you hurt." "That's alright and I am sorry for hurting you too by not believing you. I should trust you by now. I guess it has something to do with mom, ever since she died I was afraid to trust anyone else because I thought that they would just go away one day. Just like mom did", Prue said sadly. She covered her face and sobbed quietly. Piper put an arm over Prue's shoulder. "Prue, you know that you can trust us. We ARE family and just because mom left us, doesn't mean you have to leave us too. Don't be afraid to love us fully. Phoebe and I love you and trust you. Prue, it's your turn." "Yes, I guess you're right Piper. Thank you," Prue said wiping off the tears. "Always welcome big sis", Piper replied. They locked in a long embrace. Just then, Phoebe came in the room... "Ok, is it just me or do I always get stuck watching the Kodak moments?" Phoebe said. Then Phoebe went over to Prue, "Has Piper been lecturing you again? Because the last time she did it also ended up with a hug? Now, do I get to be part of this sisterly embrace or am I just to watch you two?" Piper smiled, "OK Phoebe come join this bone crunching experience." "Yeah come on Phoebe after all you are family too", Prue said. Then they all hugged. After a few moments, "OH my Gosh... we have to go to sleep now or we'll run out of time!" Phoebe exclaimed. They hastily pulled up the covers and prepared to challenge the demon of malady.

The dream started. "Okay guys we are in dreamland now", Phoebe said. "Yup and we gotta find that demon." Piper started. "Before you get another seizure Piper", Prue said warningly to Piper. Just then, black smoke arose and before them stood a tall red demon with catlike eyes.

"Well, well, well, what have we here?" said the demon of malady. "For your information we have come to destroy you for good demon of Marco polo", Phoebe said defensively. "Hey, Phoebe its not demon of Marco polo its demon of malady," Piper whispered. "Who cares?" Phoebe whispered back. "Ahh... but you are too late my three witches and you have made it even easier for me to transfuse my disease into your sister by bringing her here with you," laughed the demon. He snapped his fingers and green light came out of Piper's body. He closed his hands and said, "Now, she is mine." Prue and Phoebe looked helplessly at their sister's lifeless body. "OH no you don't!" Prue said while zapping him. Phoebe threw the potion at the demon and almost instantaneously, green blood started oozing out of his eyes, ears, and mouth. Slowly the green blood drained out of his now orange body. He dissolved rapidly into thin air. The two sisters let out a sigh of relief. Then they remembered Piper whose body was still strewn like a rag doll on the pavement. "Piper! Piper, are you ok?!" Prue cried. "Piper, talk to us! The demon is vanquished." Phoebe said while shaking Piper, "I don't understand Prue, I thought that she was supposed to wake up by now." Prue looked at her sister in alarm, "Could it be that her life was vanquished too? I remember that the demon had his hands closed when we vanquished him!" "OH no Prue, no. No, Piper, don't do this to me!" Phoebe cried tears flowing freely down her face. The sisters' joy of vanquishing the demon quickly turned into the grief of losing their sister. After a few minutes of weeping, a light appeared. "Prue, Phoebe, why are you crying?" The two sisters looked at the light and realized that it was Piper only she was a spirit. "Huh? Prue its Piper!" Phoebe said. "Wait a minute, I thought that you were dead already, the demon had your life in his hands," Prue began. "Prue, the demon took my life not my soul and my soul still lives now wake up this is a dream remember", Piper's spirit reminded them. "Will you be alive when we wake up?" Phoebe asked tears forming again. "Yes, I will be alive, mom reassured me that if a life is taken away in dreamland and the soul still lives that person will still be able to live when that person wakes up. Now wake up", Piper's spirit said.

Once again they were back in their house. Prue and Phoebe were awake, but Piper was still sleeping. Prue looked at Phoebe, then looked at Piper worriedly. Just then, green light came back into Piper's body and Piper woke up. "Thank God!" Phoebe exclaimed. They went to Piper to give her a hug and once again a demon vanquished, another life saved.