Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed only what I make up.
A/N: I just wanted to send out a big thank you to all those who reviewed. I had twenty review last episode for the first time ever.
Summary: In another effort to do away with his family Greg has a demon work his magic on them and it turns the lives of the Charmed Ones into a musical. Before the thirteen even have a chance to register that something is wrong they get called off on another case. A case that will give them answers once and for all about what happened to Oriana. That will leave the younger kids to deal with the musical mess that their lives have become. Meanwhile Derek's dad is in town to visit and he is driving him crazy. Lilly makes her first attempt at dating since she broke up with Jake. The future kids might finally make some headway into what happened to turn Jake. Mel gets a surprise visit that will leave her future up in the air.
Chapter 1: The Sound of Music
The dance floor of P3 was crowded and people were coming in droves up to the bar. Troy wiped sweat off of his brow as he wiped off the bar. He really didn't know how the hell that Piper had talked him into running P3 while she was out on maternity leave but he had been stupid to say yes.
"Parker how are we doing on beer?" Troy called out he had to yell to be heard over the din of the bar.
Parker was just as exhausted looking as Troy was his dark black hair was plastered to his head with sweat. He cupped his hands around his mouth so that Troy would be able to hear him. "I need to go get some but I can't leave you alone in this madness."
"Parks just go it will be fine if nothing else I'll give Chris a call." Troy shouted back.
"Tell Jake to clean up some of the tables so we don't have that much of a mess later." Parker yelled back and Troy gave him a thumb's up sign.
Troy looked over to where Jake was cleaning dirty glasses up off the bar. "Coop go clean some of the tables." He yelled out to him.
Jake looked at him and nodded his head "Ok I'm on it right now." he called back. He grabbed a tray to put dirty glasses on and walked out from behind the bar.
He headed over to a booth where he saw a heap of dirty glasses sitting. He saw people there but that didn't stop him he would just have to clean the damn mess up later if he didn't do it now. "Hey are you guys done with all these glasses?" he asked having to be loud so he could be heard over the music.
"Yeah go on and take them man." A dark headed man said smiling at him.
Jake got the shock of his life when he looked up and saw the woman who was sitting next to him. "Lilly what are you doing here?" he asked.
Lilly leaned her head back and groaned "I'm on a date Jake." She replied.
Those words might as well have been barbs because they hurt him just as badly as if they had been. "Oh." Jake said simply he didn't know what else to say he hurt too bad to talk.
"It's nice to meet you my name's Max." Max said extending his hand to Jake.
Jake grudgingly took his hand and shook it "The same here. You can call me Jake."
"So you work here with Lilly?" Max asked trying to make conversation.
"Actually Lilly and I go way back we've known each other our whole lives. I could tell you things about her that she rather you not know." Jake said locking eyes with Lilly.
"I think I might have to take you up on that offer." Max replied.
"So how did you guys meet?" Jake asked he was going to get as much information on him as he could. In warfare it paid to know your enemy.
"Max works at the agency where Aunt Piper books all of her talent so we deal with each other a lot and I finally took him up on his offer for a date." Lilly said rising to the challenge that Jake had thrown down. She linked her arm through Max's and scooted closer to him.
Jake's blue eyes turned to steel "Speaking of Aunt Piper I better get back to work before I get fired. It was nice to meet you Max."
"Same here man, take care. " Max replied.
"Good night Jake." Lilly said Jake only grunted in response before walking away.
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Lilly stood looking at herself in the bathroom mirror as she took her makeup off. She should be glowing right now she had a great time with Max it was nice to date a normal guy for a change. He was sweet, smart, and funny not to mention he had been a complete gentleman all night long. He had only ventured a chaste peck on the lips when he dropped her off at the door. But for some reason she had a gnawing feeling in the pit of her stomach.
She took the ponytail out of her dark brown hair and she let it cascade down her shoulders. She then went to her bedroom and slipped into a pair of pajamas. It was nothing but an old faded shirt and a pair of pajama pants but she loved them they were comfortable.
She threw herself down on her bed and turned on her left side. She frowned and let out a sigh when she came face to face with a picture of her and Jake. That was where the gnawing feeling in her gut was coming from. She couldn't get the look on his face when she told him that she was on a date out of her head. Knowing damn good and well that she shouldn't do what she was about to do when she was alone she did it anyway. She opened her nightstand drawer and pulled out a photo album. It basically told the story of her and Jake's relationship in pictures.
The first picture she in the book of them together He was in his football uniform and she was wearing her cheerleader uniform. They looked like a couple of little kids, which they had been at the time he was only fifteen and she was seventeen. Despite herself she felt a few tears start to make their way down her face.
She saw her phone sitting there on the nightstand and she picked it up. She wanted nothing more than to call Jake and tell him that she forgave him and she wanted him back. She was just so lonely and this time of night was the worst because she was utterly all alone. This had been the time when they would just lay in bed and hold each other she missed that more than she could say. It didn't help matters any that she could hear Wyatt and Liz down the hall giggling it only made her feel more alone.
"Picture perfect memories scattered here across the floor. Reaching for the phone cause I can't fight it anymore. And I wonder if I ever cross your mind. For me it happens all the time." She was singing to the picture of Jake his blue eyes were staring back at her almost sadly but he didn't speak a word. "It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now. Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now. And I don't know how I can do without I just need you now." she continued to sing by now she had dialed the first four numbers of Jake's phone number she just couldn't bring herself to dial the last three.
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Jake was just a little bit tipsy ok he was past that point he was dog ass drunk. He was staggering as he made his way down the hall of Lilly's apartment building. Seeing her at P3 with Max had really done a number on him. He just didn't know if he could hand seeing her move on with another man. He loved her so much that it hurt to be without her and seeing her having a good time with a man that wasn't him was like pouring salt into an open wound.
Finally he reached the door to her apartment but he couldn't bring himself to knock on the door. He knew that Wyatt and Liz were in there too and they were more than likely cuddled up with each other. The thought made him sick because he had, had that and he blew it. Just because he couldn't handle the fact that he was half demon. He sank to the floor right there in the hallway and sat with his back against the door.
"Another shot of whiskey can't stop looking at the door wishing you'd come sweeping in the way you did before. And I wonder if I ever cross your mind for me it happens all the time. It's a quarter after one I'm a little drunk and I need you now said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now." Jake had pulled out his cell as he began to sing he dialed the first five digits of Lilly's number but he didn't know how she would feel about hearing from him so he couldn't make himself go any further. "And I don't know how I can do without I just need you now. Whoa, whoooa ."
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Lilly was up to five digits of his number now but still something was stopping her from taking the next step. "Guess I'd rather hurt than feel nothing at all. It's a quarter after one I'm all alone and I need you now."
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Jake now just had one more number to dial but he couldn't make himself do it. He felt empty inside. "And I said I wouldn't call but I'm a little drunk and I need you now."
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Lilly sighed when she looked down at the phone in her hand she knew that she couldn't do it but yet she couldn't hang up the phone either. "And I don't know how I can do without. I just need you now."
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"I just need you now." Jake had given up he was a broken man he knew that he couldn't call her.
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"Ohhh, baby I need you now." Lilly finally gave up and hung her phone up. She looked at the picture of Jake and turned it face down. "I'm sorry baby but this is for the best." She whispered before turning out the light.
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Out in the hallway Jake hung up his phone and stood up. "Man I don't know who you're kidding you can't call her. She doesn't want anything to do with you just give it up." He said to himself. He checked to make sure no one was watching him before he shimmered out.
Opening Credits:
Theme:
Chariot- Gavin Degraw
Starring:
Wyatt Halliwell- Wes Ramsey
Chris Halliwell- Drew Fuller
Henry Matthews Jr.- Channing Tatum
Cooper Halliwell Jr.- Paul Walker
Charles Bradford- Jonathan Rhys Meyer
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
And
Prue Halliwell- Jenifer Love Hewitt
With:
Melinda Halliwell- Amanda Bynes
Valerie Halliwell- Eliza Dushku
Penny Halliwell- Daneel Harris
Carly Matthews- Sophia Bush
Patty Matthews- Rachel Bilson
Ricky Bradford- Taylor Lautner
Jack Halliwell- Jensen Ackles
Alan Halliwell- Chris Pine
Brady Halliwell- Michael Bublé
Hailey Mitchell- Amanda Seyfried
Puck Cavanaugh- Mark Salling
And
Emily Bradford- Hilary Burton
Chris had his arm wrapped around Rachel they were sitting out on the balcony of his apartment. He had managed to get the place all to himself by begging his brother and cousin to spend the night with their significant others.
"This is really nice. Tonight it just feels like the rest of the world is far away and there is only you and me who matter right now." Rachel said and then she sighed before she laid her head on his shoulder.
"I know what you mean it has too long since I've felt like this. And what I'm feeling right now I have never felt not even when I was with Julie." Chris replied pressing a kiss to her temple.
"Chris I've never felt this way before either. I just don't know what the means right now." Rachel replied in kind.
Chris looked down at her and brushed a strand of long blonde hair out of her face. He marveled at the way the moonlight was shining on her skin. It made everything seem just that more magical. His heart was thundering in his chest. He thought that he might be falling in love. "Don't move baby don't move. Aww, look at you the moonlight dancing off your skin. Our time lets take our time I just want to look in your eyes and catch my breath. Cause I've got a feeling this could be one of those memories. We want to hold on to and cling to one we can't forget. Baby this could be our last first kiss, the door to forever a chance worth taking history in the making." He didn't know another way to express himself so he was doing it in song.
"Chris you are such a goofball. What are you doing?" Rachel asked him giggling a little. When she laughed her blue eyes lit up like twinkling Christmas lights.
Chris pressed his finger to her lips in a sign for her to be quiet. He was having a moment and he was going to enjoy it. "Inside baby inside can you feel the butterflies? Floating all around cause I can sure feel them now. Tonight maybe tonight is the start of a beautiful ride that will never end and baby I got a feeling. This could be one of those memories we want to hold on to and cling to. One we can't forget baby this could be our last first kiss the door to forever a chance worth taking history in the making."
Rachel really threw her head back and laughed now. She loved how sweet he was being right now. He might have been a goofball but he was a damn sweet goofball. "Chris if you don't want me to fall hard for you, you need to stop now."
Chris didn't say a word he just pulled her to her feet and began to dance with her "Right here, right now holding you in my arms. This could be one of those memories we want to hold on to and cling to one that we can't forget. Baby this could be our last first kiss the door to forever. What if this was that moment that chance worth taking history in the making." He belted it out for all he was worth. He liked the way he was feeling. He could see forever in her eyes and it was looking pretty damn good.
Rachel had her arms wrapped around his neck. "Chris I don't know what to say to that other than wow. You are such an amazing man any woman would be lucky to have you."
"I don't want any other woman Rachel I only want you. I have wanted you for years." Chris said sincerely. Staring into her eyes allowing herself to get lost there.
"I have wanted you for years too Chris. Every time I saw you with Julie it broke my heart a little bit. I wanted that to be me, we were best friends I knew you better than she knew you. I knew what made you laugh and I understood your powers." Rachel replied just as sincerely as he had.
" I know baby I was just too stupid to see what I had before me. I mean she was what every high school aged boy is supposed to want. But with her I didn't get much more than high school out of her and then she broke my heart I just couldn't see it at the time I let her keep stringing me along. What I want and need right now is a woman and I think you're more than suitable for the job." Chris normally wasn't much of a lover but being out with the moon and all the stars it had him in a loving mood.
Rachel didn't know what to say to that she pulled him closer and pressed her lips to his. "I promise I won't ever hurt you the way she did." She swore to him looking up in his sea green eyes.
"Good because I could take being hurt from anyone but you." Chris replied before pulling her into another kiss.
Mel threw her head back and chuckled when she walked through the door of the manor with Roman and the first thing she heard was her little brother crying his lungs out.
"Jesus Mel that kid has a set of pipes on him." Roman commented dryly.
"I know he does try being asleep and having that wake you up." Mel replied.
"What the hell does it take to make him stop?" Roman asked.
Mel listened for a moment and Jack stopped crying on his own. "Sometimes he just likes to hear the sound of his own voice. But if you want to you can help me come check on him."
Roman grinned at her "I think I would like that a lot."
Mel took him by the hand and led him up to Jack's room. When they opened the door they saw Jack lying in his crib looking up at his mobile. "Hey Jackie what's wrong big boy?" she asked him taking him in her arms.
"So do you by chance know what is making him so unhappy?" Roman asked her he knew next to nothing about babies.
"He probably just needs to be changed." Mel replied.
"Well in that case I think I would like to see the master at work." Roman challenged her.
Mel laughed at him "Oh you're on you have no idea what you just set yourself up for."
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Unknown to either of them Leo was standing out in the hallway watching them. He just shook his head in disbelief at the way Mel and Roman were acting together he couldn't believe that his little girl was grown up. She reminded him so much of her mother that it wasn't funny but yet she was different all at the same time. He could still remember her being a little girl. Somewhere along the way she had turned into a woman on him over night. The woman he was looking at now was the same girl that he had raised with a few differences. She carried herself with a quiet confidence that she had never possessed before and she was just more grown up than he ever remembered her being.
The way she got a twinkle in her eye when she looked at Roman said she knew exactly what kind of control she had over him. Leo felt a pang of sorrow hit him in the gut like a fist. He knew that he was going to have to let her go sooner or later but it was hard.
"Gotta hold on easy as I let you go. Gonna tell you how much I love you though you think you already know. I remember I thought you looked like an angel wrapped in pink so soft and warm. You've had me wrapped around your finger since the day you were born." Leo sang out quietly. That was so true from her very first breath Mel had been his girl. He loved his boys all very much but there was just something special about her. He watched now as she tended to her baby brother. And just the way she moved told the story of the kind of woman she had grown into. She was just so gentle and caring with Jack.
"You're beautiful baby from the outside in. Chase your dreams but always know the road that'll lead you home again go on take on this ol' world but to me you know you'll always be my little girl." Leo sighed the boys starting out into the world hadn't bothered him nearly this much. And they had both moved out within months of graduating high school. It didn't seem like Mel had any plans to leave him and Piper just yet but the thought terrified him.
"When you were in trouble that crooked little smile could melt my heart of stone. I look at you I've turn around and you've almost grown. Sometimes you're asleep I whisper I love you in the moonlight at your down. As I walk I hear you say daddy love you more. You're beautiful baby from the outside in. Chase your dreams but always know the road that will lead you home again. Go on take on this ol' world but to me you know you'll always be my little girl." Leo watched as Mel changed Jack and then laid him back down in his crib.
Leo showed some pain in his blue eyes when Roman walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her. He was supposed to be the only man that ever held her and the one that she could depend on. "Someday some boy will come and ask me for your hand. But I won't say yes to him unless I know he's the half that makes you whole, he has a poet's soul and the heart of a man's man. I know he'll say that he's in love but between you and me he won't be good enough." He had to pause a moment now as images of Mel through the years sprang into his head.
He just couldn't bring himself to believe that she had grown up so fast. Then when he saw Mel turn her head so that she could kiss Roman he lost it and a lone tear slid down his cheek. "You're beautiful baby from the outside in chase your dreams but always know the road that will lead you home again. Go on take on this ol' world but to me you know you'll always be my little girl."
Leo took a moment to compose himself before he walked into Jack's room. "Hey Mel is he good?" he asked.
"Yeah he was just wet and he wasn't very happy about it." Mel replied she had never once untangled herself from Roman.
"Mel you didn't have to come in here and do that your mom or I would have got him." Leo said smiling at her.
"Daddy he cried like once I didn't think that you or mom heard him. So me and Roman came to check on him." Mel said it really wasn't a big deal she liked helping out with Jack.
"Honestly I didn't and neither did your mom but she heard you in here and she sent me to find out what was going on." Leo said giving her a look that said 'You know how your mother is.'
"Ro and I had him under control you can tell mom that it was no big deal." Mel assured him.
"Melinda Paige you know damn good and well how your mother is I think she might have meant that I was supposed to check up on both of you." Leo said a little lamely.
"Don't worry Uncle Leo they were both in good hands. Though I think that Jackie doesn't show any signs of going back to sleep in the near future." Roman said he looked down and the infant was wide awake.
"Don't worry about him you two I've got him. I'll just put him in bed with me and Piper." Leo said picking his son up. "Come on big boy I know no one was paying attention to daddy's little man. I'm so sorry baby boy come on lets go get in bed with mommy."
"Good night dad." Mel said pecking him on the cheek and then she kissed Jack on top of his head. "Night, night Jackie I'll see in the morning."
Leo helped Jack wave at his sister and her boyfriend "Tell Mel and Roman good night buddy."
"Night Uncle Leo, night Jack." Roma said as he and Mel slipped out of the room.
Leo carried Jack back down the hall to his and Piper's bedroom.
Piper rolled over on her side and smiled when both her men walked into the room. "What was wrong with him?" she asked as Leo got him fixed between them.
"He was wet and he didn't like it one little bit. But his sissy heard him and went to check on him." Leo replied crawling back into bed.
"I see she actually came home I thought I was hearing things." Piper mused.
"She wasn't alone Roman was with her." Leo informed her.
"Leo I kinda figured that when you said that she was here." Piper said gently.
"Hey now there was no need for you to be sarcastic. I was hoping we could wait until Jackie was older than two weeks old for you to subject him to sarcasm." Leo smiled back at her.
"The boy is a Halliwell Leo he is going to be sarcastic no matter what." Piper reminded him.
"Oh trust me I didn't forget that I have met his big brother Chris. They don't come any more sarcastic than that." Leo rolled his eyes.
"Baby she is just growing up but she will always be your little girl." Piper said after they had laid in silence for a moment.
"I don't know what you're talking about Piper." Leo replied trying to be a tough guy.
"I'm talking about Mel and I know that it's hard but we have to let her go." Piper reasoned with him.
"Yeah I know but it doesn't make it any easier." Leo grumbled.
"Hey you're preaching to the choir here it's hard as hell but we did it with the boys and we're fine it won't kill us to let her go. We'll have to do it with Jackie one day too." Piper said that wasn't a very comforting thought.
"Lets not talk about that right now lets just try to get some sleep. You never know when the little man here is going to wake up screaming his head off.' Leo leaned over and kissed her and then he kissed Jack.
The next morning Derek walked into his office looking a little harried. There was a reason for that Eva had let him over sleep his alarm and now he was running late. Victor had been a pretty good sport about the whole thing he called him and asked him if he ever planned on showing up to work this morning. But he was laughing he couldn't do his job without Derek or J.D. for that matter.
He threw his shit down on his desk not that any of it was too important. Because he wasn't sure that had grabbed half the shit he needed before he left Emily had been begging him for money and like a dumb ass he had given her his credit card. All that really matter was that he had his computer that's where he had a copy of all his blue prints and he had that in his shoulder bag. In addition to being an engineer he was also an architect so he had his hands pretty full.
As soon as he had his hands free he started patting himself down looking for his glasses it wasn't like he had time to put his contacts in. Hell he had barely had time to think let alone do anything else. "Aha!" he exclaimed when he found them on the front of his shirt it was a miracle that he had remembered them.
"Talking to yourself is a sign that you've finally gone off the deep end." He heard a voice from the other side of his desk say.
Derek rolled his eyes and groaned when his desk chair turned around to face him and he came face to face with his father. "Hi dad." He said the tone in his voice sounded almost resigned.
"Don't sound so happy to see me." His dad said snorting derisively.
"What are you doing here dad?" Derek asked he had a hectic enough morning as it was without having to deal with his father. Caleb Bradford was a hard man to handle under normal circumstances and he was ten times worse before you had your morning coffee.
Caleb gave his son an impish grin. "A man doesn't have to have a reason to stop in and see his son and grandbabies." He said innocently.
"When that man is you he does need a reason dad." Derek replied.
The two men locked steely blue eyes for a moment. "Derek Caleb Bradford I have no other choice but to show up when I find out that my oldest grandson is getting married and that my son got married and didn't tell me." Caleb said pointedly.
"Dad it's no big deal yeah Jellybean is getting married and I married Eva. I didn't want to bother you hell I didn't know where you were to tell you." Derek replied.
"I was out sailing but that is besides the point I still get mail and email." Caleb pointed out to him like he was stupid.
"Ricky or Emily?" Derek asked he knew it had to be one of those two.
"Neither it was the demon. He actually knows how to keep in touch." Caleb replied talking about Chuck.
"Dad I don't know how many times I have to ask you not to call him that. Chuck is a good boy." Derek stressed rolling his eyes.
"The same amount of times I have to tell you that I don't mean anything by it." Caleb said shrugging.
"Dad I really don't have time for this, this morning I'm late and I'm busy." Derek said throwing himself down in a free chair.
Victor bless his heart picked that moment to stick his head in the room. "Derek I see you finally made it in." he smirked at him.
Derek turned to face his boss and there was anger in his eyes "You knew that he was here." he mouthed so his dad wouldn't know he was talking about him. "Yeah I finally made it my wife let me over sleep this morning."
"Don't worry about it Derek." Victor said putting him at ease.
"Dad as much as I would love to continue this now I have work to do. I will talk to you later." Derek said hoping he would take the hint and leave.
Caleb stood up and threw his hands up "Ok I get it, I can take a hint you don't want me here. I'm going but we will continue this discussion later." he turned to Victor on his way out the door. "Victor it's good to see you again you should be a saint for keeping my son employed."
"It's good to see you again too Caleb. As long as you're in town you have to come to poker night." Victor said shaking his hand.
Derek sat down at his desk and he frowned. "God that man is so damn infuriating." He seethed.
Victor chuckled at him and took a seat in the chair across from Derek. "What is it about him that gets under your skin so?" he asked Derek only got flustered when his dad was around.
"Nothing I have done has ever been good enough for that man. I went in the Marines just like he wanted me to but I didn't do that good enough for him. Then I always get shit about Chuck being half demon, never mind that the other two kids are half gypsy it just really offends his sense of right and wrong that he is part demon. Like I tainted the bloodline or something. But he loves Chuck I mean he really loves Chuck so I don't understand it." Derek mused in disbelief.
"Some fathers are just like that believe me Sheldon Bennett was a hard man to get along with too." Victor said talking about his father.
Derek just nodded his head for a minute. "I still don't understand him though."
"Let me try to explain it to you like this." Victor said and then he broke out into song. "When I was fifteen I left home young tore up the tracks and then some. Me and my dad didn't see eye to eye. I never took to him and he never took the time. Bullet proof more than tough and smarter than he never was. Well I burned those wheels down the highway and I learned what I learned the hard way. Do the best you can do love many, trust few, work hard for the money in your hands. That's the measure of a man. Yeah the measure of a man."
"Ok I think I'm starting to get this now." Derek said. " Anger burns love cools it down. Pretty young woman turned my head around the world through her eyes look so different she lives on faith and she looks for forgiveness. Fool proof it ain't easy I need her she needs me. She stole my heart on this highway she taught me to love through the hard days. Yeah she's cool when I'm not she's steady rock she's as solid as the ring on my hand. That's the measure of a man. Yeah the measure of a man."
"You're starting to get it Derek now bring it home." Victor said making a give it to me gesture with his hands.
"Last night she handed me a son of my own. It killed me to do it but I picked up the phone. Hey dad I burned ten years down this highway and I learned what I learned the hard way. Truth is I need you we'll cry if we need to and I'll swallow my pride if you can. That's the measure of a man. Oh yeah the measure of a man." Derek finished and then he sat down and sighed again.
"You feel any better now?" Victor asked him.
"A lot better." Derek replied managing a smile.
"Now what did you learn?" Victor asked him.
"I need to make peace with him if not for my sake then for my kids' sake." Derek said throwing his hands up.
"I always knew that you were smart Derek. And remember just handle him the way you would Penny they are the same type of person." Victor coached him.
"No Grams is sweet when she wants to be that man is Satan." Derek corrected him.
"I've yet to see that but I'll believe that if that is what you think." Victor laughed.
"Can I have the rest of the morning off? I'm going to have to deal with him. And before I can deal with him I have to confer with my girls." Derek said referring to the Halliwell sisters.
"Of course you can Derek take as much time as you need son." Victor said putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Wish me luck I'm going to need it." Derek sighed before he grabbed his shit again.
Troy smiled when he rolled over in bed and he saw Val laying beside him fast asleep. He just looked at her and marveled at her beauty. He loved her bronze skin tone that she got from her father and she had the same full lips as her mother. Lips that he loved kissing. He lived to entwine his fingers in her long raven hair.
Those were thoughts that he never thought he would be having about a woman. He was more the type to wake up next to a strange woman, collect all his clothes off the floor, and leave without saying goodbye. Bur there was just something about Val that kept him coming back for more.
"She got eyes that cut you like a knife and lips that taste like sweet red wine. And pretty legs that go to heaven every time. She got a gentle that puts me at ease and when she walks in the room I can hardly breath. Got a devastating smile knock a grown man to his knees." Troy sang before he pressed a gentle kiss to her lips so as not to wake her up.
"She got whatever it is, it blows me away. She's everything I wanted to say to a woman but I couldn't find the words to say. She got whatever it is I don't know what to do. Cause every time I try to tell her what I feel it comes out I love you." He continued he really thought he was falling in love with Val. And it made it better now that her family knew about them.
"You know I've never been the type that would ever want to stay. Bring 'em home at night and they're gone the next day. But that all changed when she walked into my life. And people askin' why it is I tell I don't know. Just something about the woman makes my heart go haywire and she's gonna be my wife." That was really unusual for Troy he had never thought about marriage before. He really wasn't the marrying type and he had said as much to a lot of women before. Now he was the one thinking marriage.
"She got whatever it is, it blows me away. She's everything I wanted to say to a woman but I couldn't find the words to say. She got whatever it is. I don't know what to do cause every time I try to tell her what I feel it comes out I love you." He was back to just staring at Val now. He couldn't help it he was just so taken with her.
"Now when you love me girl that's how I feel. When she loves me I'm on top of the world. When she loves me I can live forever. When she loves me I am untouchable." That was true he was dating the child of a charmed one demons would be stupid to mess with him.
"You got whatever it is, it blows me away. You everything I wanted to say to a woman but couldn't find the words to say. You got whatever it is I don't know what to do. Every time I try to tell her how I feel it comes out I love you, I do. You got whatever it is." Troy finished just as Val was starting to wake up.
"Troy please tell me that you haven't been watching me sleep." Val said still half asleep.
"I can't tell you that but I can tell you that I haven't been watching you sleep long." Troy replied grinning at her.
"You're lucky you're cute or I wouldn't be happy with you." Val warned him grinning back.
"Val I never thought that this was possible but I think I'm falling for you." Troy said.
Val wished that he wouldn't have said that because so far she had managed not to feel any guilt about slipping around with Huck around his back for months but now he was making it hard. "Troy I think I'm falling for you too." She replied.
"So here we are the two that could never make a commitment in love with each other." Troy said letting out a nervous chuckle.
"Yeah I know I would have never thought that either one of us would be settled down let alone with each other." Val agreed.
"So do you want me to make you breakfast?" Troy asked.
"Troy you know as well as I do that my mom's kitchen very rarely gets used for cooking." Val laughed that was a joke.
"Yeah well there is a first time for everything." Troy said rolling out of bed looking for his shorts and he quickly located them. "Come on I'm sure Aunt Phoebe won't mind."
Val grinned widely at him "Ok just give me your shirt." She ordered him but she took it anyway since it was on her side of the bed. She buttoned it up and pulled it over her head. "Ok lets go." She said slipping her small hand into his much larger one.
Jake was sitting at the kitchen table with a burp rag over his left shoulder, he had a bottle in his right hand and he had Phil in his left arm. "Come on big boy all you have to do is burp for me and then you can go right back to eating." He cooed at him.
Phil just made a cooing noise and smiled at his big brother.
"Kiddo you have no idea how you make my heart melt every time you look at me like that. But that still doesn't change the fact that you have to burp for me." Jake said putting his bottle down and rubbing his back in hopes of getting him to burp.
Phil let out a little cry he wasn't happy that he didn't have his bottle and he really needed to burp.
Jake started to panic "Oh come on big guy none of that it'll be better in just a minute." He tried to sooth him by making shushing noises.
Phil just started crying harder.
"Ok there is one more thing I can try and I warn you I don't do this lightly." Jake said as he began walking the floor with his baby brother.
In response Phil just let out another cry.
Jake started humming and bouncing him up and down "Oh why you look so sad? Tears are in your eyes. Come on and come to me now. Don't be ashamed to cry let me see you through. Cause I've seen the dark side too. When the night falls on you, you don't know what to do nothin' you confess could make me love you less. I'll stand by you; I'll stand by you. Won't let nobody hurt you I'll stand by you." he started singing it was the only other thing he knew to try.
Phil was still crying when he checked on him so he bit the bullet and started singing again "So, if you're mad get mad. Don't hold it all inside. Come on and talk to me now. Hey, what you got to hide? I get angry too well I'm a lot like you. When you're standing at the crossroads and don't know which path to choose. Let me come along cause even if you're wrong I'll stand by you. I'll stand by you won't let nobody hurt you I'll stand by you."
Phil's crying quieted and now he was staring intently at his big brother so Jake decided he would go with what was working. "And when the night falls on you baby you're feeling all alone you won't be on your own. I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you won't let nobody hurt you. Take me in, into your darkest hour and I'll never desert you."
Jake and Phil were both really getting into it now. Jake was dancing around while Phil giggled in his arms. "I'll stand by you, I'll stand by you. Won't let nobody hurt you. I'll stand by you yeah. Won't let nobody hurt you. I'll stand by you. I'll stand by you. won't let nobody hurt you. I'll stand by you. No, no, no, no, no take me in into your darkest hour. And I'll never desert you. I'll stand by you. I'll stand by you."
At the end Jake and Phil were both smiling at each other and then without warning Phil burped and he spit up all down the front of Jake's shirt. "I would be mad at you if I wasn't so happy about you burping." He said he wiped the front of his shirt off with the towel and then he stuck the bottle back in his mouth.
"Jake what the hell are you doing to my baby brother?" Val questioned him as she walked into the kitchen with Troy.
"I wasn't doing anything to my baby brother. He had to burp and he wasn't happy about it." Jake replied. And then he raised his right eyebrow in a question mark at the two of them. "Does mom know that he stayed all night?"
"Yes she does and she was ok with it." Val replied sticking her tongue out at him.
"Good morning Phil." Troy said waving at the little boy but he was way too engrossed in his bottle to care.
"He says good morning back Troy." Jake said waving Phil's hand at him.
"Coop you want breakfast?" Troy asked him.
"Of course I want breakfast Troy that was a stupid question I'm always hungry." Jake replied like his friend was crazy.
Phoebe and Coop came into the kitchen a moment later. "Hey Jakie you have spit up on your shirt." Phoebe pointed out to her son.
"I know mother Phil and I had a little accident we couldn't get to the burp rag in time. We had a little coordination issues." Jake explained.
"Oh I see. I guess that nothing to do with the fact that you were dancing around the kitchen with him." Coop ventured.
"How did you know dad?" Jake asked in disbelief.
"Believe it or not Jakie we do know how to take care of your little brother just as well as you do. We heard him crying and we spied on you two it was very cute." Phoebe said tweaking him on the nose.
"Hey we hit a little rough patch and we worked through it." Jake defended himself.
Coop went to his sons and he took the youngest from the oldest. "Hi little man I thought you and I talked about you going easy on your big brother. He is doing the very best he knows how and you're not helping by giving him a hard time."
"He didn't mean anything by it he just wasn't happy that I took his bottle away from him." Jake assured his father.
"He's obsessed with the boy dad he wouldn't say he did anything wrong if he was being a little holy terror." Val pointed out.
"He was a holy terror the other night when we were both here. He was wailing his little lungs out. I often thank God that I am a year older than Lizzie and I didn't know when she was crying." Troy rambled on.
"Troy you just promised me breakfast. Either you have to deliver or I'm going to have to go to Aunt Piper's for breakfast. And let me tell you something Mel isn't nice and sweet like Aunt Piper is about me eating over there. As a matter of fact she has been down right cranky lately." Jake whined.
"You're just getting a taste of what me and the girls have been putting up with for months. I don't know what's wrong with her but she had been one crabby bitch lately." Val said shaking her head. But she was a little worried about her cousin. It wasn't like her to be in a bad mood all the time.
Henry was sitting on Bianca's couch playing around with his guitar. It had really been years since he had his muse to just mess around with it like that. He hadn't played seriously since Oriana had died.
"Hank what are you doing playing this early?" Bianca asked him coming out of the bathroom toweling her hair dry.
"Oh Lilly needs an act to play P3 and I was thinking about seeing if Chris wanted to get the band back together for a night." Henry replied absent-mindedly.
"Yeah that would be good." Bianca replied.
"Well we're down a female singer if you wanted to fill in." Henry ventured the reason they hadn't really played since Oriana died had been because she was in their band.
"Oh I don't know Hank I don't really do the singing thing all that well." Bianca replied unsure of herself.
"Sure you do B it's just all about finding your muse again." Henry said and then he started playing a tune on his guitar. "Livin' my life in a slow hell. Different girl every night at the hotel I ain't seen the sun shine in three damn days. Been fuelin' up on cocaine and whiskey I wish I had a good girl to miss me lord I wonder if I'll ever change my ways. I put your picture away sat down and cried today. I can't look at you while I'm lyin' next to her. I put you picture away sat down and cried today. I can't look at you while I'm lyin' next to her." He started signing and then he pointed to Bianca.
"Ah Hank I don't know. I haven't done this in a long time." Bianca said still uneasy.
"Come on it will be good for you." Henry urged her.
"Ok fine." Bianca said. "I called you last night from the hotel everyone knows but they won't tell. But their halfhearted smiles tells me something just ain't right. I've been watin' on you for a long time. Fuelin' up on heartache and cheap wine I ain't heard from you in three damn nights. I put your picture away I wonder where you been I can't look at you while I'm lyin' next to him. I put your picture away I wonder where you been I can't look at you while I'm lyin' next to him."
Henry played a few more chords and then he pointed at Bianca again. "I saw you yesterday with an old friend." She sang out.
"It was the same old same how have you been." Henry picked up.
"Since you've been gone my world's been dark and gray." They sang together.
"You reminded me of brighter days." Henry sang.
"I hoped you were coming home to stay. I was headed to church." Bianca came in.
"I was off to drink you away." Henry wailed.
"I thought about you for a long time. Can't seem to get you off my mind. I can't understand why we're living life this way. I found your picture today I swear I've changed my ways. I just called to say I want you to come back home. I found your picture today I swear I've changed my ways. I just called to say I want you to come back home. I just called to say I love you come back home." They sang together again.
Henry looked over at her when they finished and he saw the hint of a smile playing on her face. "I don't know about you but that felt pretty damn good to me." he said.
"Yeah that did feel pretty good. So I guess if you need another girl then I'm in." Bianca relented. Just in time for Paige to orb in with Dom.
"Don't you two have something to be doing like oh I don't know saving the future?" Henry asked sarcastically.
"Yes Uncle Doofus but we're taking a break from that right now." Paige replied just as sarcastically.
Bianca stood and put her hand on her daughter's forehead "No she's fine I can't explain it." She joked.
"What are you talking about mom?" Paige asked confused.
"I was making sure you didn't have a fever because it's not like you to just give it a rest without being told." Bianca replied.
"Aunt B she was told. Aunt Piper told her to give it a rest. She didn't put up an argument." Dom informed her.
"Ok here is another question. Don't you have a father to bother Paige? Maybe I was trying to get lucky with your mother." Henry reasoned with her.
"Ok first of all you're fucking gross when you want to be Uncle Hank. And second of all dad is on a date with my other mom. I really didn't want to orb in on something I didn't want to see." Paige replied like he should have known that.
"Paige honey, baby I love you with all of my heart but you're fucking retarded sometimes. We could have orbed in here and saw something that we didn't want to see." Dom pointed out to her.
Bianca smacked him on the back of his head. "Don't talk to my daughter like that."
"Mom it's fine I've got it. He knows that he is going to pay for that later." Paige said glaring at Dom.
"Honey I'm your mother it is my job to take care of you." Bianca reminded her.
"And I love you for it mom but I've got this under control. Worry about me when I start wanting not to hunt demons all the time." Paige said dismissing her concern.
In a deep cavern of the underworld Greg was watching his family through a pool of water. Everything seemed to be going to plan so far.
A/N: I hope you guys like this so far. I've been toying around with the idea of making a musical for a while now. Nothing really big went on this chapter. It was more of a filler chapter to introduce what is going on. Lilly went on a date but I think she is starting to realize how much she misses Jake. Don't worry the rest of the thirteen will be back next chapter. Until next time please review.