Note: "Charmed" isn't mine. If it were, I wouldn't be writing fan fiction. Duh.



***Prologue***



One month ago, Phoebe Haliwell's husband, Cole Turner, had been taken over by the Source. The Source impregnated her with his child, and used a spell to speed up the growth. The magic not only sped up the growth of the unborn child, but also sped up the evil in the child. Phoebe became Queen of the Underworld, and Piper followed in her malevolent footsteps. To save her sisters, Paige called upon the powers of her deceased mother and sister, Patty and Prue Halliwell. The three vanquished the Source permanently, and his magic was lost, except for the spell the Seer laid on Phoebe's womb. Cole and Phoebe moved back into the manor, and Cole found a way to combine his love of justice and adventure: he joined the San Francisco Police Academy to become a police officer.

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Piper flipped through the Book of Shadows. " You know, Pheebs, this goes under personal gain," she reminded her sister.

Phoebe scowled. " I'm two months pregnant, but I look and feel six, thanks to magic. Really, it's not personal gain. How can I protect good if I'm throwing up in the morning?"

Paige leaned against Phoebe's stomach. " Hi, baby," she cooed gently. " I'm your Aunt Paige."

" Crazy much?" inquired Piper. Paige gave her a withering look. " Babies can hear in there, you know. I'm getting acquainted."

" Oooh, that's not good," Phoebe said protectively, putting her hands on her belly. " My baby's been hearing the cries of demons and all that therapist-patient-in-the-making stuff?"

" It's growing up in this family, it's gonna hear those things anyway," Piper told her sisters. A teakettle whistled. " That's your tea, honey. Paige, you on Book duty?" Paige nodded. Piper and Phoebe walked down the stairs.

Paige searched the book, looking for anything that said "baby", "pregnant", "children", or "birth". As Paige explored the Book, she saw the bright lights of a Whitelighter orb. " Hi, Leo," she greeted him.

It wasn't Leo. Instead a teenage girl orbed in. She pressed a hand to her head. "Orbing through time, not a good idea," she said to herself.

Paige threw out her hand. " Couch!" she cried. It flew across the room. The teen flung her hands out, freezing the couch midair. " Aunt Paige!" the girl called out, annoyed. With another fling the couch dropped to the floor.

" How- what…" Paige was puzzled. " Did you call me AUNT Paige?"

" Yeah, I'll explain later. Where's my mo-I mean, Piper?"

" Downstairs, with Phoebe." Paige and the girl walked down the stairs. " What's your name?"

" Melinda Wyatt."

" You're Piper and Leo's daughter?"

" Well, yeah."

Piper nearly spilt tea down her shirt when she saw Melinda. " Who's this, Paige?"

For once in her life, Piper had nothing to say. " Um…OK." She paused. " Leo!"

He orbed quickly into the kitchen. " Yes?"

Piper pointed to Melinda. " Meet our daughter."



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" Didn't we bind your powers?" Leo wondered aloud, the only one who didn't seem overly bothered by his daughter just bursting in.

" You gave them to me as a thirteenth birthday present. I'm fifteen," Melinda added quickly. She glanced at the grandfather clock. " I've been here nearly half an hour. I should really tell you why I'm here."

Piper studied her daughter, instantly recalling high school. Her daughter had short brown hair, chocolate eyes surrounded by thin, funky glasses, a good-natured face sprinkled with zits, and a warm grin. Melinda was tall like her parents, and solidly built like her father. She could be my daughter, Piper thought with a smile.

Cole burst in, still wearing his police uniform. "So, what's going on?" he asked. He turned to Melinda. " You are?"

" Your niece, Melinda," she introduced herself. Piper noticed Melinda's eyes were suddenly very bright. Cole looked as of he was about to say something, but shook his head. " I'm never satisfied by the answer, anyway." He gently sat down on the couch next to Phoebe. He grasped her hand. " How are you?"

" Fine," Phoebe beamed at him. She turned back to Melinda. " So you were going to explain why you're in the past?"

" Well, um…" Until now, Melinda seemed quite confident and secure. Now she stuttered and looked at the ground during her explanation. " You see, Peter, my cousin, we were at home, and we met up with some demons. You guys weren't home, so we had to defend ourselves. They captured him." Melinda looked up at her parents. " You guys, and Aunt Paige, and Aunt Phoebe, you went to rescue him. You got him, but he met up with somebody named the Seer?"

The color trickled out of everyone's cheeks. Phoebe felt a dizzy spell come on. "Go on."

" I don't know what happened, but he was different. I was upset-we're best friends, only like a year apart. But Pete was weird. He started doing these spells, and wasn't the guy I knew. One day, he just-left. He joined the demons. To prove himself, they told him he had to kill the Charmed Ones."

" Did he?" croaked Piper. The shadows on her child's face answered her question. Tears welled up in her eyes. " I-I tried to save you, but me and Prue-"

" Prue?" wondered Leo.

" My baby sister. The whole world's a mess without you guys. You have to help me. You got to save us."

" Of course," Piper said, embracing her daughter. " We don't go down without a fight."

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The sisters whipped open the Book of Shadows. " We used this spell once, I should work," Phoebe said uncertainly. It wasn't that the spell would go wrong, she wasn't freaked over that. The fact that her own son had killed her in the future was the part that worried her.

" Phoebe, I have to go," Cole was saying. Phoebe shook her head. " No, Cole."

" He's my son, too."

" You could get hurt."

" Me?! You're six months pregnant! YOU should be worried about getting hurt."

This was one battled Phoebe couldn't win. " Fine," she agreed. " You can come."

Piper, Phoebe, and Paige crowded around the Book. "'The Bond which was not to be done, give us the power to see it undone. And turn back time to whence it was begun,'"

The air shimmered, and the Charmed Ones, Leo, Cole, and Melinda entered the year 2019.