So...the eagerly (I hope) anticipated sequel to Piper: Falling From Grace...
I know this is probably later then I originally said but I rather stupidly started the sequel to Missing as well so I've got 4 fics all in the early stages of writing...although I'm hoping Interesting will be a fairly short fic...
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Leo put the last box into the van and slammed the door shut. They'd finally sold the Manor, not that they'd been living there anyway, but all of them felt considerably better now that they didn't have to have anything to do with the place. Darryl was dealing with the selling of the club for them, Leo privately thought that Darryl was more interested in the alcohol stocks than selling the place but kept his thoughts to himself. At least Darryl was helping them, most of the family friends had sided with Piper after the split, Leo couldn't truthfully say he cared though; most of them had been Piper's friends to begin with anyway.
Chris and Wyatt were already in the front of the van, the last Leo had seen Chris had fallen asleep on Wyatt's shoulder hugging the little blanket he'd been in the cellar with. He hadn't let go of it yet, apart from when he was asleep and Phoebe had stolen it for an hour to get it washed. It was actually quite a nice blanket now it was washed, a pretty yellow fleecy thing with a small blue triquetra in the corner. He wasn't quite sure where it had come from, but that was a question for another day.
He climbed into the front of the van next to his sons noting that Wyatt had fallen asleep as well, and revved up the engine, Wyatt opened his eyes slightly and gave his father a tired smile before resting his head on top of his brother's and going back to sleep. Leo didn't blame him, they'd been up since 6am finishing off the packing and it was nearly half 9 now. Not to mention that the past few nights had been sleepless for the trio, Chris had been waking up with nightmares every hour on the hour for the past two weeks until Leo finally resorted to letting Chris sleep with him, and naturally Wyatt didn't want to be left out, if Chris got to sleep with his Daddy then Wyatt did too.
They weren't moving out of the city, just onto a street practically on top of Golden Gate Park. Maybe if Chris ever detached himself from his blanket they'd be able to go play catch sometime, that was a big if though. There was also the factor of whether Chris would dare catch a flying object; he'd flinched at a high five.
There was also the issue of demons, he was mortal and it wouldn't be fair to make Wyatt do all the fighting. The power of three didn't really exist anymore, Phoebe and Paige had refused to talk to Piper since they found out and neither of them even knew where Piper had gone. They weren't overly inclined to ask either. So far the solution was just to stock up on potions and hope that it took the Underworld a while to catch on to the splitting up of the Power of Three.
Thanking God that Chris hadn't woken up screaming while they were driving Leo picked the still sleeping boy up and put him on one hip and held the sleepy Wyatt's hand as they made their way inside. Unpacking could wait until morning, Phoebe had already been over and set up beds for them while the boys and Leo were packing. Right now sleep was looking like a really good idea. As was having his own bed. Whether that bed would belong to only him that night however remained to be seen.
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Leo woke up half an hour later screaming, it took a moment for that realisation to sink in, he was screaming not Chris. Had that been happening the whole time? Or had Chris always woken him up before he started screaming himself? He shook it off and went back to sleep, there was no point him worrying over something that happened once, even if it was a nightmare that had woken him up screaming and the last time that had happened he'd only been 10...
The next morning the night was a distant memory for Leo and the next day he got up as if nothing had happened. Chris and Wyatt didn't notice anything, or if they did neither of them commented. Leo wasn't sure whether that was a good thing or not, he didn't want them to not want to argue with him but at least it meant he could pretend nothing had happened. He had no idea how single parent families worked, he'd always had both his parents around and even when he wasn't around Piper was the one who, in the loosest sense of the word, looked after the boys, he was in uncharted territory here and had no idea what to do. He was pretty good at being the dad who played and all that, but being the mom as well? Maybe he should get Phoebe or Paige over for a bit...
Leo busied himself with unpacking, Chris practically clinging to him and still clutching his blanket and Wyatt quite happily wreaking havoc with bubble wrap and tissue paper. Leo was currently spending more time clearing up after his oldest then actually unpacking. Not that unpacking was exactly easy with Chris clinging to him, but then neither was the constant tidying that had to go on because of Wyatt's so called helping. And it was said boy's birthday the next day, Leo was more hoping that Piper wouldn't try anything more than arranging anything – Phoebe and Paige were dealing with all of that. As stated, Leo was more bothered about keeping Piper away than anything else.
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Crappy start but it should get somewhere within a couple of chapters so pretty please stick with it!
Ldf x