Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed, if I did it might go something like this.
Summary: Chord and Oriana celebrate the birth of their daughter. Parker is thrown further into his downward spiral when his best friend asks him to be his daughter's godfather. Nicole has some news that is going to throw everyone for a is forced to take a long hard look at his life and he may not like what he finds. Greg is forced to spend his life looking over his shoulder because of the demon that wants him dead. Patty and Ricky are growing closer than ever and they are on track to getting back together. Carly and Jason continue the dangerous song and dance that they started in the last episode, they are seriously playing with fire if they think that no one is going to find out about the two of them. Tommy and Brooke continue searching for their demon and more information comes to light in that area.
Chapter 1: Circle Of Life
If there was one thing that Chord Shane didn't do it was nervous. He had been in more hairy situations than he cared to think about and that had taught him to keep his nerves under control. Right now however his vast experience wasn't doing shit to help him, since what he currently faced was completely uncharted territory to him.
"Baby, you need to tell me what I can do to make this better for you." Chord begged his wife.
Oriana shot her husband a glare. "If you want to make this better you can never fucking touch me again and I mean it." She had his hand gripped tightly in hers as she fought through the pain of a contraction. Her skin was covered with a thin layer of sweat and her hair was plastered to her forehead.
"I know that it hurts right now, but it is going to be worth it. It won't be that much longer before we get to meet our little girl." Chord tried to soothe her. He did his best to ignore the throbbing pain shooting through his hand from her grabbing it so hard.
"You just better be prepared to spoil her rotten, because this is the first and last time I'm going through this." Oriana gave him fair warning. She let out a sigh of relief as the contraction stopped for a moment.
Chord flexed his fingers and then shook his hand. He was fairly certain that she had broken it. He picked up a cup of ice chips and spooned a couple out. "Here, chew these, we need to keep you hydrated." He was doing a really good job of not letting his wife see that he was scared.
Oriana didn't really want the ice chips, but she ate them anyway. "Do you want to know what I really want?" she asked, but she didn't wait for her husband to answer her. "I want this kid out of me like yesterday." She bitched. She knew that all of this pain was going to be worth it the first time she held her daughter in her arms, but that didn't make it any easier to bear.
Chord bent down and kissed her tenderly on the forehead. "She'll be here soon and then you won't even think about how much pain you're in." he promised her.
As if on cue her doctor walked into the room. He checked the vitals on Oriana and the baby's monitors. "Alright, everything is looking good. Oriana, are you about ready for your epidural?" he asked her.
"Hell, yes," Chord answered for his wife. He knew that she would be easier to deal with once she had something for the pain.
"Anything that gets this pain to stop." Oriana said and she shot Chord a dirty look. "And if you could hire a hit man to kill my husband for me while you're at it that would be great too." She added.
The doctor just shook his head and chuckled. "Don't worry as soon as you get this epidural you won't be in so much pain." He put his hand on Chord's shoulder. "Don't let her upset you that is just the pain talking. I'll be right back with the nurse so we can do something about that."
A little while later they were in the delivery room and Oriana was getting ready to push. Now of all times she chose to have a mild freak out.
"Chord, I don't know if I can do this. Hell, I don't know what made us think that we're ready to be parents. I mean you're always running off for work and I have a demanding job of my own to deal with." Oriana fretted.
"Baby, I promise you that we can do this. There is nothing to worry about, everything is going to work out, I promise you." Chord swore to her trying to calm her down some.
The doctor looked up at Oriana. "Ok, I'm going to need a big push from you on the count of three." He began. "One, two, three," he counted.
Oriana scrunched up her face as she pushed as hard as she could. She was again squeezing Chord's hand tightly.
"I see the head, you can rest a minute now," The doctor told her. "Alright, let's go again." He said after he had given her a moment to rest.
"Chord, I swear to God, you're never fucking having sex with me again." Oriana screamed as she pushed.
Chord to his credit took it in stride. "I know it hurts, babe, but just one more." He encouraged her.
"You've the shoulders out, now I just need one more big push from you and we'll be done." The doctor told her.
Oriana took a deep breath before pushing one last time.
"Congratulations, guys, you have a beautiful baby girl." A nurse announced holding her up. "Do you want to cut the cord, dad?" she asked Chord.
It took Chord a moment to get over his shock and realize that she was talking to him. He nodded his head. "Yes," he squeaked out. He very carefully snipped the cord and the baby let out a loud cry before another nurse carried his daughter away to be cleaned up. It wasn't too long before she brought her back wrapped in a pink blanket and placed her in his arms.
Chord's breath hitched in his throat as he laid eyes on his daughter for the first time. She was absolutely beautiful. He very carefully counted to make sure that she had all her fingers and all of her toes. His heart melted when she opened her eyes and he saw the most gorgeous pair of brown orbs staring back at him. "Hey, little girl, I'm your daddy. I love you and your mommy so very much." He told her before kissing her gently on the head.
He walked over to his wife and placed their daughter on her chest. "Look what we did, mommy." He said his voice thick with emotion.
Oriana stared up at him with tears in her honey brown eyes. "My God, Chord, she is perfect."
"I know and the best part is she's ours." Chord agreed with his wife. " I love you." he said leaning down to peck her on the lips.
"I love you too." Oriana replied.
Frank, Lyn, Nicole, and Tim all sat out in the waiting room.
"Damn, that girl has been in labor a long time." Frank said consulting his watch.
"Frank, you know that this can take awhile." Lyn pointed out to her husband.
"I know that I was in labor the second longest with Deacon. That was eighteen hours of torture." Nicole grimaced.
"That still wasn't as bad as the twenty-two hours of labor you went through with Troy." Tim supplied helpfully.
Maria who just so happened to be working at the time picked that moment to walk over to the group. "I was in labor with Finn for twenty-eight hours and that's why I told Tyler that we're done." She announced.
"I went through thirty-six hours of labor with your sister, don't talk to me about anything until you've experienced that." Lyn countered.
"Which sister? I have two." Maria asked with a smirk. She adjusted her stethoscope around her neck as she spoke. She was dressed in a pair of scrubs and a white lab coat. She had finally worked her way through medical school and she was now a doctor.
"Which one do you think? You have two guesses, but I bet you only need one." Lyn asked her in reply.
"Bianca Lyn," Maria didn't even have to think about it.
"You would be right, the girl is damn near thirty years old and she is still giving me trouble." Lyn replied.
"I know that feeling. All I do is worry about my oldest and he is going to be thirty-two." Nicole said. She was actually really worried about Troy; he wasn't in a very good place at the moment.
Before anyone had a chance to reply to that Chord came walking into the waiting room with a grin lighting up his face. "Mom, dad, Uncle Frank, Aunt Lyn, did you guys want to meet your granddaughter?" he asked his voice getting choked up.
"What do you think?" Tim asked standing to pull his son into a hug. "I'm happy for you, buddy."
"Thanks, dad," Chord said the smile never once leaving his face.
Oriana was lying in the bed with her daughter in her arms. Despite the exhaustion she was feeling she refused to close her eyes and give into her body's demand for rest. She was too busy staring at her baby girl. The depth of the emotion that overtook her was actually scary. There had been a time when she didn't think that she was going to get to have any of this and it was more than she could have ever hoped for.
"Hey, babe," Chord said as he came back into the room his voice pulling her out of her thoughts. "You feel up to having a few visitors?" he asked.
"Sure, just as long as it isn't one of my sisters." Oriana joked. She knew that Maria was more than likely on duty and if that were the case she would be one of the first people in the room.
Sure enough Maria stepped into the room with a smile on her face. "I know that you have just been through hell, so I'm going to ignore that comment. Anyway, I didn't come in here to see you I came to meet my niece." She told her as she kissed her on the forehead.
Oriana grinned up at her. "You're really not the sister that I'm worried about." She chuckled.
"Can I hold her?" Maria asked.
Oriana scoffed at that. "Of course you can hold her. I would hope that after having three kids of your own that you would know what you're doing." She allowed her oldest sister to take her little girl from her.
Maria snuggled the baby against her chest. "Hi there, little one, I'm your Aunt Maria. Despite what you're gonna hear from your Aunt B, I'm the cool one." She told her niece in mock seriousness. "She's absolutely beautiful, what's her name?" she asked.
"Aubrey Lynette," Chord answered her proudly.
Maria kissed the little girl on the head before handing her back to her sister. She kissed her baby sister on the cheek. "You did good, kiddo. She's really something special just like her mommy."
"You're leaving already?" Oriana asked her.
"I've gotta get my ass back to work and maybe with a little bit of luck, I'll be out of here at a reasonable hour today." Maria replied. She put her hand on Chord's shoulder. "I'm proud of you, buddy. You made one gorgeous kid."
"Thanks, Maria." Chord grinned at his oldest sister-in-law before she walked out.
"Now, where are our parents?" Oriana asked her husband knowing that a team of wild horses couldn't keep them away.
Before Chord could even frame a reply to that the four people in question walked into the room.
"Baby girl, mommy and daddy should have apologized in advanced for the craziness that you were born into." Chord quipped knowing that it would piss his mother off.
"Chord Isaiah, I just don't know what to say to you sometimes." Nicole said slapping him lightly on the back of the head.
"Nicky, just ignore the boy, we're not here to see him anyway." Tim joked with a smirk on his face.
"That's really nice, dad. I don't have feelings or anything." Chord teased right back.
"Chord, we've talked about you behaving like a grownup now that we have a daughter, I can't look after both of you." Oriana told her husband.
"I swear this is just pick on Chord day." Chord muttered shaking his head.
"Let me see my granddaughter." Lyn said taking the baby from Oriana. "I'm your Nana, little one, you and I are going to spend a lot of time together. You are just as tiny as your mommy was when she was born. I apologize in advanced for your Pop; he thinks that he's funnier than he actually is. Little girl, you are more special than you will ever know." She told her getting choked up. After everything that had happened she never thought that her baby girl would give her a grandchild.
Frank knew what his wife was thinking, because he was thinking something along those lines as well. He put his arm around her shoulders and pressed a quick kiss to her temple. All of his goofiness aside he really did love his wife and kids. "Let me hold her." He went to take her from his wife, but that proved difficult since she was left handed and he wasn't.
Lyn shook her head at him and placed the baby in the crook of his right arm. "After all this time one would think that you would remember that I'm left handed." She chuckled.
Frank ignored her in favor of staring at his granddaughter. Aubrey had dark brown to black hair it was too soon to tell what color it was. "Hey there, cutie pie, I'm your Pop. If there is anything you want all you have to do is ask me for it and it's yours. I'm going to spoil you rotten and there is pretty much no two ways about that. You can't listen to everything that your Nana says about me, because she likes to think she's smarter than I am."
Lyn rolled her eyes at her husband. "What's her name?" she asked her daughter and son-in-law.
"Aubrey Lynette Shane," Oriana answered her mother.
"You guys didn't have to do that." Lyn said she was obviously touched.
"We wanted to. Aubrey is pretty close to Audrey and that's my grandma's name. And then Lynette sounded the best with it." Chord explained.
"Just so you guys know, I'm going to be calling her Bree." Frank announced.
"Daddy, that doesn't surprise me in the least bit. You are well known for the nicknames that you like to give." Oriana laughed at her father.
"Tim, you want to hold her?" Frank asked him.
"What do you think?" Tim asked as he held his arms out for the baby. "Aubrey, let me tell you a story, I never thought that your daddy would ever settle down enough to get something as perfect as you. For a bonehead, he did really good." He kissed her tenderly on her little forehead.
"All that man does is pick on me and he knows that he has no room to talk, because I'm just like him." Chord said indignantly.
"Slaw, you know that your daddy just likes to tease you. He knows that he is to blame for the way that you and your older brother behave." Nicole advised him.
"Nicky, you're not supposed to tell him that, I don't want him to know that I acknowledge the blame for the way he is." Tim said in a stage whisper.
Nicole took Aubrey from Tim. "Sweet Pea, I'm your Mawmaw, the only thing you need to know is that your Nana and I are your only sane grandparents and you don't need to listen to your grandfathers they are both crazy." She cooed at her. She marveled at the little wonder in her arms and she smiled. She felt a pang that she couldn't identify and then she knew what it was, but that could wait. She was going to let things stay good for a little while longer before she sprang the news that she had to share with everyone.
Opening Credits:
Theme:
Turning Home- David Nail
Starring:
Wyatt Halliwell- Wes Ramsey
Chris Halliwell- Drew Fuller
Henry Halliwell Jr.- Channing Tatum
Cooper Halliwell Jr.- Paul Walker
Charles Bradford- Alex O'Loughlin
Lila Nicolae- Jordana Brewster
Roman Nicolae- Ben McKenzie
Elizabeth Shane- Bethany Joy Galeotti
Parker Halliwell- Eddie Cibrian
Troy Shane- David Boreanez
Bianca Hoyt- Marisol Nichols
Calleigh Cavanaugh- Anne Hathaway
Rachel Hoyt- AJ Cook
Oriana Hoyt- Jessica Biel
Chord Shane- Jake Gyllenhaal
Greg Halliwell- Cam Gigandet
And
Prue Halliwell- Jenifer Love Hewitt
With:
Melinda Halliwell- Amanda Bynes
Valerie Halliwell- Eliza Dushku
Penny Halliwell- Amanda Righetti
Carly Halliwell- Sophia Bush
Patty Halliwell- Rachel Bilson
Ricky Bradford- Taylor Lautner
Jack Halliwell- Jensen Ackles
Alan Halliwell- Chris Pine
Brady Halliwell- Brandon Barash
Hailey Mitchell- Amanda Seyfried
Puck Cavanaugh- Mark Salling
Paige Halliwell-Daniela Ruah
Victor Halliwell- Kellan Lutz
Dominic Turner- Freddie Prinze Jr.
Savannah Turner- Ali Larter
Chase Hoyt- Chris Evans
Billy Jenkins- Chad Michael Murray
Mia Campbell- Olivia Wilde
And
Emily Bradford- Hayden Panettiere
Ricky groaned rather loudly when he heard the blaring of an alarm clock breaking through his sleep. There wasn't any reason for him to have an alarm set, because he didn't actually have a job that he had to get to. He rolled over to slap the alarm and he was shocked when he hit something solid. Had he been in a clear state of mind he wouldn't have been so shocked, but at the moment his brain was fogged by the amount of alcohol he had drank last night.
"What the hell did I do last night?" Ricky asked throwing his arm over his eyes to block out the sunlight.
"I think that I should be just a little bit hurt that you don't remember what went on last night." A female voice said from beside him.
Ricky actually let out a sigh of relief when he recognized the voice. "What happened to taking things slow this time around, Charlie?" he asked sounding highly amused.
Patty turned the alarm off and rolled over to face him. "I just broke my rules for you last night it isn't wise for you to mock me right now." she warned him.
"What's with the alarm?" Ricky asked.
"I probably should have been at work two hours ago. There is no telling how much trouble I'm going to be in when I get there." Patty said making a face.
"So, don't go in today, stay and spend some time with me." Ricky pouted.
Patty leaned over and kissed him on the lips. "As much as I would love to stay in this bed with you I just can't. I have a shit load of paperwork that I have to get done and there is no telling what kind of cases the boss has dug up for us to work on. Besides, that I'm pretty sure that my direct boss will hunt me down if I don't come in."
"Live a little, Charlie, when's the last time that you did something impulsive?" Ricky asked pulling her down on top of him.
"I'm thinking that would be last night when I came home with you." Patty replied kissing him again. She ran her hands up and down his bare chest.
"Well, in a couple of weeks if you feel like letting your hair down, I've got this training camp that I can't miss and I would really like for you to come with me. I'll only be busy for a couple hours during the day and the rest of the time I would be able to be with you." Ricky tried to tempt her.
"You want me to come with you? I would have thought that you would have wanted to be alone so you can pick up women." Patty replied.
"Charlie, you know that you're the only woman that I want. I don't know why you're being so damn difficult. I think that you can afford to take a week off of work and I promise to make it worth your while." Ricky was kissing her neck and letting his hands wonder over her body as he spoke.
Patty groaned, leaned down and kissed him hard on the mouth. "Let me think about it for a couple of days and then I'll get back to you. I have to admit that I do miss you and every time that I let you get me alone like this I forget why we ended things." She relented. Actually she was really close to giving into what he wanted her to do.
Ricky grinned up at her. "Well, I guess if you're going to be that reasonable then I better let you get ready for work without distracting you."
Patty climbed off the top of him and grabbed his shirt off of the floor and put it on. She kissed him again. "My car is here, so I now have to do the walk of shame across the street and see if I left any clothes at mom and dad's house." She grumbled knowing that her mother would give her a hard time about this.
"Charlie, I love you." Ricky called to her as she went to leave.
"I love you too, and that is the problem." Patty replied flashing him a smile. It was really useless for her to try to fight her feelings for him; she had been in love with him since they were fifteen and that wasn't likely to change any time soon.
"Are you sure that you have time for this right now?" Bianca asked her husband as he kissed down the side of her neck.
Henry grinned up at her with mischief sparkling in his brown eyes. "Do you really want me talking right now?" he asked her arching an eyebrow. He had her body pinned under his, so it wasn't like she was going anywhere, but he was feeling a little deprived at the moment.
"If you're going to do this be fast about it, because I have to be at the office by nine." Bianca replied.
Henry groaned and heaved a sigh. "You're really thinking about work right now?" he asked a hint of a whine in his voice. It seemed like they never got anytime alone anymore and when they did she wasn't in the mood.
"No, not really, I'm just giving you a hard time right now." Bianca chuckled deep in her throat when she saw the face that he made.
"Trust me, that's not the only thing that you're making hard right now." Henry quipped. He kissed the hallow of her throat and then down between the valley of her breasts. "You've gotta be fucking kidding me." he bitched when he heard his cell phone ring.
Bianca grabbed his phone off the nightstand and answered it for him. "Lt. Halliwell's phone," she wasn't sure who was on the other end so she was being polite at the moment. "Actually, mom, he's a little busy at the moment, he'll have to call you back." She blushed when she heard what her mom had to say next. "Mother, I'm gonna pretend like I didn't hear that." she sighed talking on the phone to Lyn was like pulling teeth sometimes. "Alright, he'll handle it even though it's his only day off and I now have to find someone to watch the kids." Another pause and she listened some more. "I'll be up there as soon as I can. I have to work today too." She rolled her eyes as her mother droned on and on. "I love you too, bye." She said before hanging up.
"What did the dragon lady want?" Henry asked. Anytime that his boss called that early nothing good happened.
"Oriana had the baby and mom and dad are up at the hospital with her. She said that you are going to have to go in today and be the acting captain since Chris has to be in court most of the day." Bianca relayed.
"Oh, yay, that is just what I wanted to hear." Henry rolled his eyes and sighed.
"I guess you want to get in the shower now after you got me all hot and bothered." Bianca hazarded a guess.
Henry flashed her a devilish grin. "I wouldn't dream of doing such a thing to you. I can afford to be late if you can." He replied.
"Honey, I can be a lot late if necessary." Bianca informed him seriously.
"Foreplay or no foreplay?" Henry asked her.
Bianca consulted the bedside clock before answering him. "I think we had better skip right to the main event. Your son is going to be up in a little bit looking for a bottle."
Henry took her at her word and he pulled his boxers and her underwear off. "Do I need a condom or are you back on the pill?" he asked.
"I'm not breastfeeding, I've been back on my birth control for awhile and you know that." Bianca told him.
"Thank God, I don't even think we have any condoms right now." Henry retorted as he thrust into her. They both let out lust filled moans as he proceeded to rock his hips in and out.
"Roman, you need to stop, I have to go to work and if you keep this up you're gonna make me late." Mel whined to her husband who at the moment was hampering her progress at getting out the door. "For real, Roman James, you need to give me my badge, so I can get out of here. You don't work for the crazy woman I work for. I'm on thin ice as it is. She will have my ass if I'm late to top it all off."
Roman couldn't help thinking that his wife was sexy as hell with that gun strapped to her left hip. He knew that she wouldn't be ready to actually step out the door until she clipped her badge to her belt. As long as he didn't give it to her he could keep her in the apartment for a little while longer. "I don't want you to go to work today, I want you to stay here with me." he pouted.
"Ro, I have to go to work. We have these things called bills that have to be paid. I'm pretty sure that grandpa wouldn't evict us, but I like having money. Not only that, but I'm pretty sure that we both have brand new cars that need to be paid off." Mel reasoned with him.
"You're no fun. You could always give up being a cop and come be my manager again. I know that Aunt Piper wouldn't mind giving you your old job back at all." Roman reasoned with her.
"We would get tired of each other if we worked together again and I really don't want to have to go through a divorce." Mel replied. "I know that you and my mother can't stand it, but I like being a cop." She pointed out.
"That doesn't mean that I don't worry about you every damn time you walk out that door." Roman countered.
"Honey, I'm a witch on top of everything else, I could get hurt just as easily by a demon attack as I could at work." Mel argued. She wasn't going to just let him win this argument. She knew how he felt about her being a cop, but it was something he was going to have to learn to deal with.
"When you're so adult about it like that I find that I run out of arguments. I guess I better let you get to work before Aunt Lyn has your ass." Roman said handing her, her badge back.
Mel clipped her badge on her belt before she kissed her husband. "I love you and I promise that I will do my best to come home to you at the end of my shift." She swore to him.
"If you know what's good for you, you better. Aunt Piper would bring you back from the dead just so she could kill you again." Roman reminded her.
"I know how my mother is, you're not telling me a damn thing that I don't know. I'll try to stop by the restaurant and see you on my lunch break, but I can't make any promises on that." Mel said before pecking him on the lips again.
"If you come alone, I'm pretty sure that I can find something interesting for us to do." Roman replied making his eyebrows dance.
"When you put it that way, I'm going to have to try my damndest to see you on my lunch break." Mel said before consulting her watch. "But, I really do have to go now." she said a hint of regret in her voice as she spoke.
"I love you, Mellie, be safe." Roman ordered pulling her into a hug.
"I love you too, Ro. You know that I'm always careful." Mel replied kissing him one last time. She didn't stop to take into account the string of wrecked police cars that she had on her record, but now wasn't the time or the place to bring that up. Really it was never a good idea for her to bring up her wrecks it only pissed her boss off. And the last thing that anyone needed was Lyn being pissed off. She was not a pleasant woman to work for when her ire was up.
Henry stood in the middle of the squad room with a frown marring his face. Today was supposed to have been his day off, not only that, but he really didn't feel like being the boss. That was a lot more work than it should be and he liked to think of himself as a simple cop. But, the powers that be had conspired against him to see that he was going to have one hell of a headache today.
"Alright, listen up, ladies and gentlemen, I only plan on saying this shit once. So, for those of you who don't like to listen I suggest you make an exception just this once." Henry had to yell so that he could be heard over the chatter. He waited for it to die down before he spoke again. "Thank you," he said with an exaggerated sigh. "The boss lady is out today and my wonderful partner is in court that means you have to deal with me for the day. This is going to be really simple, don't do anything that you wouldn't do if the boss was around. As far as I know we don't have any open cases right now, so you can just catch up on your paperwork if you have any. I expect those of you who don't to be out on patrol. That's all I have, any questions, comments, or concerns, come see me." he concluded.
Paige of course had to come strolling up to him. "Where's the dragon lady?" she asked him.
"Oriana had her baby, so she is at the hospital with her and Chord. I'm not even supposed to be here today." Henry grumbled.
"You poor baby. She didn't have to call you in, I'm perfectly capable of running this operation for one day." Paige replied.
"I'm pretty sure that she is afraid if she turns over power to you she won't get it back." Henry chuckled.
"What do you want me to do today?" Paige asked him seriously.
"If you could go out on patrol for a little while that would be great. I think that Mel could stand to learn something from you, so I'm partnering you two together for the day and I know I'm going to regret it. I have Vic teaching Charlie tactical driving today. Just be thankful that you didn't get stuck with that shitty detail. I'm pretty sure that my sister got her license out of a Cracker Jack box." Henry informed her.
"If Charlie and Mels wreck one more car the boss is going to put them on permanent desk duty." Paige pointed out unnecessarily.
Henry rubbed his eyebrows with his forefinger and thumb. "You're not telling me anything that I don't know. That's why I'm having Vic work with the worse of the two. Mel is good at tactical driving, she just wrecks cars on purpose." He gave a dry chuckle.
Paige got a thoughtful look on her face and then she cussed. "Damn it, I have surveillance to do today. It's not a big deal, but it has to be done."
"No problem, just take Mel with you while you do it. Like I said, I think that she can learn a thing or two from you. I don't want this to go to your head, but you're a damn good cop, Paige." Henry told her seriously.
"Thanks, Hank, coming from you that means a lot." Paige replied smiling at her uncle.
"Just try to stay out of trouble. I don't want three hours of paperwork before I get to go home." Henry begged her. "Your mom isn't happy that I had to come in as it is." He added lowly.
"I'll do what I can, but I make no promises when it comes to that." Paige retorted with a grin and a shrug.
Henry just laughed and shook his head. "If you can refrain from pulling your weapon I'll be impressed."
Bianca was dressed in combat boots, utility pants, and a black t-shirt that had her last name over the left breast. She had a duffel bag slung over her shoulder. She had every intention of changing out of this garb the minute that she got the chance to. She adjusted the skeleton holster in the small of her back as she walked down the corridor of the hospital. She had promised her mother that she would try her best to get up there to see her sister and since she was on her break she figured that now was as good a time as any.
She let out a low whistle when she walked into her sister's hospital room. "Damn, girl, you're looking sexy." She teased the younger woman.
Oriana was tired looking and her hair was plastered to her face by dry sweat. "I sure as hell don't feel sexy right now. I feel like I've been run over by a truck." She grumbled. Chord had gone home to take a quick shower.
Bianca walked over to her and kissed her on the forehead. "That would be known as childbirth, my dear. It'll take you a couple of days to feel like a real person again." She informed her. "Where's mom?" she asked.
"She went to see about getting me some real food instead of the crap that they tried to feed me and dad went with her." Oriana answered her.
"Now, for the really important question, where is my niece?" Bianca asked her with a big smile.
"She is over in her crib and she is absolutely gorgeous if I don't say so myself." Oriana replied her face lighting up as she talked about her daughter.
Bianca walked over to the crib. "Of course she's gorgeous, she probably takes after her Aunt B." She picked Aubrey up and held her close to her chest. "Hey there, pretty girl, I'm your Aunt B and I can tell you anything that you want to know about your mommy. Now let me get a look at you," she said looking the baby over. "You unfortunately got your Pop's feet you poor thing and those are just not attractive on a woman, trust me I know. Fortunately you're gonna have long legs like your mommy and daddy and they aren't going to look as funny on you as they do on me. You sure do look like your mommy, but you've got your daddy's ears." She cooed at her.
Oriana smacked herself in the center of the forehead and she shook her head at her sister's antics. "She does have dad's feet doesn't she?" she asked.
"That's ok though, she's in good company. I have dad's feet, Chase does and that's ok since he's a man, Paige has dad's feet too, and actually Maria has pretty big feet too." Bianca explained walking back over to her sister's side. "Now what is this little lady's name?" she asked.
"Aubrey Lynette Shane," Oriana reported proudly.
Bianca studied her niece really hard for a moment. "I'm gonna be calling this girl, Bree just so you know."
At that moment a loud booming laugh filled the room. "I said the same thing, Frank Jr." Frank said coming into the room.
"Daddy, tell me that you brought edible food with you." Oriana begged her father.
"Of course daddy brought his baby something edible. I wouldn't make you suffer anymore than you already are." Frank said going over and kissing her on the head.
"What did you bring me?" Oriana asked an excited grin lighting his face.
"I brought you pancakes and if you're still hungry later I will get you something else." Frank smiled at her.
"You, let me see my granddaughter." Lyn addressed Bianca.
"Bree, I gotta tell you, that you're gonna have to get used to me and your Nana fighting it's pretty much all we do." Bianca chuckled handing the baby to her mother.
"Why do you look like you're dressed to go to war?" Lyn asked out of curiosity.
Bianca sighed and rolled her eyes. "I had training this morning, we had to re-qualify with our weapons and run the obstacle course, like we have to every six months. I have to go borrow Maria's office so I can change clothes, because I have to go liaise with SFPD after I finish up here." she answered her mother.
"What unit are you working with this time?" Lyn asked. The two of them had worked together several times in the past and it wasn't something she was looking forward to doing again.
"Special operations, I know that that's your command, but it doesn't deal directly with what you do. I just have to talk to the commander of Swat. That would be simple if I could find out who the hell that is, but I figure I'll go over there and they'll point me in the right direction. Of course that means I'll have to deal with one of my two stooges, but it's for work." Bianca replied. She didn't like working with her mother at all.
"You don't know whose over Swat?" Lyn asked her with a highly amused look on her face.
"You ask that like I should know the answer to that question. You know that I can't stand it when you play mind games with me, mother." Bianca sighed. She could never just get a straight answer out of the woman; it was like pulling teeth at times.
"I'm going to tell you this, only because I don't want you to go in there and piss some of my more ill tempered cops off, but don't tell him I told you this, let him think you figured it out on your own." Lyn said talking in circles.
"Mom, what are you talking about?" Bianca was pretty sure that there were times that her mom talked just because she liked to hear the sound of her own voice.
"You should know who the head of Swat is because you share a bed with him every night. I don't know why he hasn't told you yet, but then again he did just find out about it two days ago." Lyn informed her.
"We haven't seen much of each other over the past couple of days. I've been busy with my paperwork and that has been keeping me at the office later than I would like. God knows, that going on maternity leave is like the crime of the century around that place. Besides that, I really don't want him talking about work when I have his attention for five seconds." Bianca grumbled.
"Do I want to know why you answered his phone earlier?" Lyn asked.
"I plead the fifth on that one, because there are just some things that I can't say even when I am trying to be a smartass." Bianca retorted, even she had her limits.
"Never mind, I don't want to know." Lyn said throwing her hands up in the air.
"I really have to work on my timing, I tend to hear things that I don't want to hear and then I just have to shake my head sometimes." Chord said. He had taken like a record-breaking shower so he could get back to his wife and daughter.
Bianca went to him and punched him affectionately on the shoulder. "You did good, daddy, she is beautiful." She praised him.
"Thanks, B, I like to think that she is too." Chord had a silly grin on his face as he spoke.
"As much as I would love to stay here I have to go liaise with my husband and this is not going to be pleasant, but first I must go borrow my older sister's office, so I can change my clothes. If I go over to the station looking like this I'm only opening myself up to jokes." Bianca said. She kissed her parents and her sister before she left the room.
The only word that could correctly describe what Henry was feeling at the moment was boredom. He wouldn't have minded being in charge if there was something exciting going on, but as it stood he was babysitting a bunch of grown ass people while they did paperwork. He now knew what it felt like for his wife teaching at magic school.
He was currently going over the paperwork that had already been submitted. He looked up with a gaze of thankfulness and annoyance on his face when he heard the knock on his door. "Come," he yelled out. The truth be told he was more grateful for the interruption than he wanted anyone to know.
"You better get out here, the guys got there hands on something that they probably shouldn't have and you're the only one who can make them behave." Jason said sticking his head in the door. He tried his best not to let his face betray the amusement that he was feeling at the moment.
Henry heaved a great sigh as he stood from behind his desk. "I swear we shouldn't give some of these people a weapon. They are five year olds stuck in adult bodies." He grumbled walking out into the bullpen. He saw a crowd gathered around DJ's desk. "Alright, what are you punks doing?" he asked.
Victor looked up at his father with a look of great amusement on his face. "We're scoping out the latest issue of Playboy." He answered without missing a beat.
Henry felt the back of his neck go flush with rage and embarrassment. "You really shouldn't be looking at that, your aunts are naked in there." He pointed out to his son mentally, but Victor only smirked. "You are all supposed to be working."
"Let me be the first to say that your little sister has really grown up, Lieu." One of the cops teased him.
"Callahan, I'll rip your arms off and shove them up your ass if you even think about putting the moves on my baby sister." Henry threatened him. Why that guy couldn't have stayed under Andy's command he had no clue.
"I'm sure that there is a picture in here that won't offend you." DJ said flipping the pages of the magazine before he landed on one of a knockout brunette in a yellow bikini. "Now, you know that you can't object to this."
"What man in their right mind would object to something like that?" Henry asked him in reply. He knew that if his wife ever found out about this he would be in deep shit.
"The kind of man who is as married as you are." Jason teased him.
"You're one to talk, Jackson, besides that, just because I'm married doesn't mean I don't still have eyes." Henry ribbed him. He knew damn good and well that there was something going on between Jason and Carly again he just couldn't prove it.
"If I was married to who you are married to I wouldn't make comments like that." DJ snorted.
Henry gave a cocky smirk. "What my wife doesn't know isn't gonna hurt her one little bit."
"I'm sure that it would hurt you if she ever found out." Victor quipped. He realized that his dad was just playing, but he didn't like the thought of him thinking of any woman who wasn't his mom.
"That woman knows that I handle my business and she damn well better stay in line." Henry teased. His wife, his mother, and all of his aunts would beat him if they heard him say something like that.
Bianca had walked into the bullpen in time to hear the totally inappropriate conversation that had started, but she had kept quiet so she could see what kind of hole her husband dug for himself. The temptation to mess with him was too great to stay silent any longer. "If you gentlemen are quite done behaving like teenage boys with their dad's stolen Playboy, I have business to discuss."
All the color drained from Henry's face and he knew that he was in for it when he got home. "We were just holding an important discussion." He said and it sounded lame even to him.
"I'll tell you what I'm looking forward to getting a good night's sleep tonight, since I'm not the one who is going to be getting up with my four month old when he cries to be fed and changed. I'm also looking forward to having my bed to since my husband is the one who is going to be up with our son and he is also sleeping on the couch." Bianca said. She had changed at the hospital and she now wore a white button up shirt and a nice pair of black slacks.
"You guys are supposed to warn me when any of the boss's daughters show up here. You all know that that only means trouble for me no matter which one of them it is. I have the oldest one constantly on my case about something, then I always have to get the youngest one out of trouble, and that brings us to the middle daughter who always wants something from us." Henry was just digging himself a deeper hole now.
"This wouldn't be any fun for me if you knew that I was going to be here." Bianca replied with a fake smile plastered on her face.
"What can we do for you today, Deputy Marshal Hoyt?" Henry asked professionally.
"Quick question, is there anyone in this room who doesn't know about our situation?" Bianca asked him in reply and he shook his head no. "Good, Henry Victor, the very next time you say something like that just playing I will kill you. We have a daughter and you would shit a brick if some man said about her what you just said about me."
"B, I was only playing. They all know that I'm fucking terrified of you." Henry stammered.
"I don't care if you were just playing that shit isn't funny." Bianca retorted.
"I love you," Henry said the only thing that it was acceptable to say given the situation.
Bianca went to him and wrapped her arms around his waist. "I love you too. I know that you were only playing, I was just giving you a hard time. Trust me, you're the last person I would think meant anything by that." she assured him.
"Now, what do you need?" Henry asked untangling himself from her.
"My boss wants your Swat team to run the obstacle course against our Tactical Response Team." Bianca informed him.
"When?" Henry wanted to know.
"Tomorrow, if that is possible." Bianca answered.
"That's doable," Henry agreed.
"Our best against your best. And what's this I hear about you being named head of Swat and not telling me?" Bianca responded.
"I haven't had the chance to tell you yet, we've both been super busy and the only time we get alone is when we go to bed." Henry replied.
"I need one more favor from you." Bianca told him.
"You name it and it's yours." Henry said automatically. He didn't even have to know what she wanted, if it was in the realm of possibility he would do it for her.
"My gun needs to be field stripped, I can't remember the last time that I cleaned it. I don't know anyone who can clean a weapon better than you do. I guess it has something to do with you being a marine." Bianca requested.
Henry looked at her like she had lost her mind. "Your gun isn't clean?" he asked.
"It's not really dirty, but it's not pristine like yours is either." Bianca replied.
"Let me see it," Henry ordered holding his hand out. He took the gun from her, pulled the slide back, and pulled the magazine out of it. "Bianca Lyn, this gun is filthy. I'll clean it for you now before you go back to work."
"I just looked at it, it's not that bad." Bianca argued.
Henry sat her gun down and then he handed her his weapon. "Take a look at that and tell me if you can see the difference."
Bianca looked down the breech of his gun before handing it back. "Ok, your gun is way cleaner than mine is. You have time to do this shit, I have twins and a one year old to run after not to mention a four month old who is very demanding on my time." She pointed out to him.
Henry gave her a gravely serious look. "If you want to come home to them you will do a better job of keeping your gun clean. You don't want that damn thing to jam because it's dirty." He reasoned.
"How long will it take you to clean that?" Bianca asked knowing he was serious because he didn't talk harshly to her that often.
"I'm taking it down to the gunsmith's shop and really working it over. It should only take me fifteen minutes at the most and it will only take that long since I have to be thorough." Henry answered her without pausing to think about it.
"Do you think you have time for lunch?" Bianca asked him hopefully.
"Yeah, they should be able to fend for themselves for an hour while I go eat." Henry replied grinning at her.
Parker was really unsure about what he was doing at that the moment. As a matter of fact if this were anyone else asking him to do what he was doing right now he would have said no, but Chord was his best friend and the closest thing he had to a brother.
"Hey, Wilma," Parker greeted his friend as cheerfully as he could when he stepped inside the hospital room. He had to act like this whole thing wasn't tearing him apart. Times like these he missed his son more than ever.
Chord was sitting in the rocking chair that was in the room holding his daughter. He smiled when he heard Parker's voice. "Hey, Parks," he grinned at him.
Parker walked over to his friend and looked at the little girl he held in his arms. "I think that I've just stepped into the twilight zone. Chord Shane with a kid of his own is something that I didn't think I would ever see." He cracked punching him affectionately on the shoulder.
"I know I have to keep blinking to make sure that I'm not seeing things. I never thought I would be the one to make him settle down and be so domesticated." Oriana agreed with him. Those two still loved to pick at each other, but they could agree about something every now and then.
"Do you want to hold her?" Chord asked him.
Parker felt embattled for a moment, he didn't really trust himself around children anymore since he had failed his son, but if he said no he knew that he would just cause his friends and family to worry about him more than they already were. "I would love to hold her."
"Aubrey, this is your Uncle Parks, he's a little touched in the head, so we try not to listen to him too much." Chord told his daughter before handing her over.
"Little girl, it is a damn good thing that you got all of your momma's good looks and you don't look like that good for nothing daddy of yours. I've known him more years than I care to count and he is nothing but trouble. That being said he is a pretty good dude and you're lucky to have him and I guess you're lucky to have your momma too. She can be a little bit of a pill just ask your Aunt B. She gets on her nerves almost as much as she gets on mine." Parker joked.
"That was really cute, Park." Oriana said rolling her eyes at him. She was going easy on him these days, because she knew that he was going through a tough time.
Chord got an uneasy look on his face, what he was about to ask Parker wasn't easy. "Hey, Park, can I ask you for a favor?" he asked him tensely.
"Sure, man, you know you can ask me anything. But, if this has to do with one of your bookies, I'm not doing it." Parker replied jokingly.
"I don't know how to say this, so I guess I should just ask." Chord broached struggling to find his words.
Oriana saw that her husband was having trouble verbalizing himself at the moment, so she stepped in. "Parker, Chord and I were wondering if you would be Aubrey's godfather?" she asked him.
Parker looked both stunned and unsure at the same time. "I don't know, guys." He said when he knew that that was the last thing he wanted to do.
"Parks, I know why you're unsure about this, but it would mean a lot to me if you would do me this one small favor. Take a look at that little girl in your arms and tell me that you can say no. If something happens to Oriana and I, I need to know that Aubrey will be taken care of and I know that you will do whatever it takes to make sure she knows that she is loved and safe." Chord pleaded with him.
"Chord, you know that you shouldn't trust me with her. You saw the bang up job that I did with my own kid." Parker reasoned with him.
"Parker, do it as a favor to me. I know that I've asked you for a lot during our friendship and that included a bunch of shit that could have gotten you in trouble, but this really means a lot to me." Chord countered.
"Park, I've never asked you for anything, but if you could just do me this one favor I will go a whole entire month without picking on you." Oriana said trying to lighten the situation.
Parker looked at his two friends and then at the baby in his arms before sighing. "Alright, I'll do it, but only because I know that it means a lot to you guys and I think that Jesse would want me to."
Chord took his daughter back from his best friend. "Thanks, buddy, I knew that I could count on you." he smiled and then he turned serious. "Park, we're gonna find Jesse."
Parker had to swallow around the lump in his throat just so he could speak. "Yeah, I uh, I gotta go, but congratulations." He said quickly walking out of the room before his emotions got the better of him.
Chris was sitting with Paige in a booth at Triquetra. He had nothing better to do with his afternoon and he figured that he would spend some time with his daughter. With the way he had to work so much sometimes he felt like he didn't get to spend as much time with her as he would like to.
"Did you have fun with Papa at magic school this morning?" Chris asked. She was sitting across from him in a booster chair. He couldn't help thinking that with the way she was growing she wouldn't need that for much longer. She had thankfully gotten his height. Not that Bianca was really short, but she wasn't all that tall either.
"Daddy, you're not supposed to talk about that here." Paige told him like he was being insane for bringing up magic in public.
Chris grinned at her and shook his head. "You don't have to worry, Ace, nobody can hear us." he assured her.
Paige looked at him and then she shrugged seeming to accept what he had said. "Papa let me play with my powers, it was fun, daddy." She told him making sure to keep her voice low.
"That's good, I know how much you like doing that." Chris said reaching over to ruffle her hair.
"I got to see mommy's classroom." Paige told him brightly.
"I bet you liked that. Your mommy is one of the smartest women that I know." Chris replied.
Piper came walking over to the table at that moment and she sat a dish of macaroni in front of Paige. "Chris, you and that best friend of yours talk better about each other to other people than you do to your faces." She chuckled.
"I should have known that you were here right now or dad wouldn't have had Jack and Mac with him." Chris replied chuckling. "Paige, tell Memaw thank you." he ordered his daughter.
"Thank you, Memaw." Paige parroted dutifully.
"You're welcome, baby girl, I know how fussy you get when you're hungry." Piper leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. "I thought that you had court all day?" she asked her son.
"I got out earlier than I thought I would, so I picked this one up from dad. I know better than to go into work when I don't have to. Aunt Lyn would just find something for me to do if I did. I really didn't want to do anything else today, so I'm hiding out." Chris informed her.
"You didn't have anything to worry about, Lyn isn't at work today, she's with Oriana." Piper told him.
"I actually knew that, oh I remember why I didn't go to the office today." Chris laughed shaking his head.
Piper just rolled her eyes at her middle son. "You two just try to behave yourselves. I know how hard that is, but I believe in you guys." She joked kissing them both on the head before walking away.
"I can't believe she talks about us like we're trouble." Chris teased his daughter.
"Don't ask me, she's your mommy." Paige pointed out to him.
Chris couldn't help laughing at that. There was just about nothing that his little girl could say that would surprise him anymore. "I know, Ace, I try to block that fact out, but it's still there." He agreed with her.
"Holy crap, you two are alone together and she is still clean, this has to be a world record." Henry said walking over to the table. He was on his lunch hour.
"You have no room to talk, I've seen how Victor and Anna look after they have been alone with you." Chris countered. Then he saw his best friend walking over. "Look, Paige, there's mommy." He said pointing to Bianca.
Paige waved excitedly at her mother. "Hi, mommy," she had a big grin plastered on her face.
"Hey, Munchkin, you have no idea how much mommy has you missed you since last night." Bianca said sitting down next to her daughter.
"B, pretty soon your short ass is going to have to stop calling her munchkin, because she is going to be taller than you." Chris pointed out he loved pushing her buttons about her height since he was well aware of how much her short stature bothered her.
Bianca acted like she was scratching an itch on her face, but in reality she was giving Chris the finger in a way that their daughter wouldn't see it. "You are so not funny, Perry." She said calling him by his middle name.
Chris gasped at the gesture in mock shock and his hand went to clutch his chest like it had offended him. "That was not nice at all, mommy." He teased knowing that he was digging a pretty deep hole for himself.
Bianca smirked back at him. "What you said wasn't that nice either." She pointed out to him. "Is this seriously the only thing that you can get her to eat?" she asked.
"B, you know that the girl likes to eat, she was starving and you know what she's like when she's hungry. I assure that won't be the only thing that she eats. We have everything under control we don't need you micromanaging right now." Chris joked with her.
"Hell, I should just choose my battles, with the two of you I'm just happy that she's clean for a change." Bianca retorted.
Henry looked between his wife and his cousin and then he looked at Paige who just grinned at him. "Paige, it's a miracle that you're sane with you what have to deal with as parents. Your mommy is anal retentive and your daddy is OCD." He smirked when he saw how Chris and Bianca were looking at him.
"Hank, you're already sleeping on the couch, I know that you don't want to dig yourself an even deeper hole." Bianca reminded him. They both knew that she was just blowing smoke she had never actually made him sleep on the couch. Sure there were nights when she made him up a place on the couch, but she always ended up letting him get in bed with her.
Chris could only shake his head at those two sometimes and that's what he chose to do now. "What are you two doing together right now anyway?" he asked a little scared to know the answer to that question.
"I have to have an excuse to have lunch with my wife now?" Henry asked him putting on an innocent act.
"No, I was just wondering if there was anything going on that I needed to know about." Chris replied.
Bianca laughed and then decided to take pity on Chris. "My boss wants us to run our training course against your Swat team. He wants to see if there is anything that we need to work on." She explained to him.
"You run that by the boss first?" Chris asked his cousin.
"She actually called and left me a message to deal with her in any way that I saw fit. So, I'm gonna do it, I think that we could use the practice. Plus you know that the less this one and the boss have to deal with each other the better." Henry informed him.
"You're not telling me anything that I don't know. At least you don't have to listen to those two argue over the best way to handle a case like I do." Chris agreed with him.
"I don't think that either one of you are funny." Bianca said she was wiping Paige's face as she ate. She would never understand why that kid couldn't handle a fork. "Munchkin, how do you always manage to get so dirty when you eat?" she asked.
"I don't know," Paige offered with a shrug and an impish grin.
"The kid can't handle her eating utensils. I don't know what the problem is. You know that the doctor said her motor skills are just fine." Chris replied.
"You mean you two don't know?" Piper asked walking back over to the table. She was well aware that they were all grown people, but she still liked to keep an eye on those three, because they had a tendency to get into trouble.
"What don't we know, Aunt Piper?" Bianca asked sounding confused.
"Lyn and I just got done having this conversation about you two not knowing." Piper went on.
"Mom, I have no clue what you're talking about right now. And I think that it should scare the shit out of me that you and Aunt Lyn have been talking." Chris looked at his mother like she had grown three heads or something; he really didn't know what she was talking about.
"The reason that baby gets food all over when she eats is because you two try to make her right handed and she's not, she's a southpaw." Piper pointed out to them.
"It does make sense, Slick is left handed." Chris said nodding his head.
"That would explain a lot." Bianca agreed with him.
Henry just shook his head at both of them. "I can't believe you two didn't know that she is left handed, I've known that for like a year now." he chuckled.
"Chris and I are both right handed that's why the thought never occurred to me." Bianca admitted.
"But, Aunt Lyn is left handed and that's probably where she gets it." Chris pointed out.
"Your sister, Parker, and Hank are all left handed too. It's not as big a shock as you two are acting like it is." Piper told them.
"I just hope that she never wants to take up golf, left handed golf clubs cost out the ass." Chris muttered.
"Only you would say something like that." Bianca shook her head at him.
"You know that we were both thinking it." Chris retorted with a smirk and a shrug.
"I don't know why I associate with you sometimes." Bianca laughed at him.
"You know that you love me." Chris argued.
"That doesn't mean that I feel like dealing with your stupid bullshit most of the time." Bianca argued right back.
Henry shook his head and looked at his aunt. "You don't know it from the way that they act, but they really do love each other." He commented.
"Hank, you're not telling me a damn thing about those two that I haven't known for years." Piper agreed with a nod of her head.
A/N: Here is the first chapter of the next episode, hopefully I'll get this one out quicker than I did the last one. You really have to feel for Parker, he is just not in a very good place right now. I wonder what Nicole has been keeping from everyone and how life altering it is. Remember I did say that we were going to focus more on the mortal side of things this season. Until next time please review.