Yin and Yang

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Charmed, only my O.C's are mine especially the twins, Melinda and Gideon.

Summary: This story is the sequel to Entwined Destiny and is set a few years after it. Chris and Bianca are happily married and their twins are thriving but unbeknown to the happy parents, trouble is just round the corner.

A/N: I was going to hold off uploading this story and try to finish off the other Charmed story that I have currently as WIP but I did promise a couple of people that I would get this up on New Year's day and yes I know I am a day early but to one of those readers, the original bitch, (yes that is her ff name) I have got one thing to say, Have a great Birthday!

Chris gazed around his workshop looking for the sequins he had planned to put onto one of his newest creations, when all of a sudden he yawned loudly because of the sleep he had missed last night when the twins had woken up and refused to go back to sleep no matter what he had done. They missed their mother, she was away on a job and the twins were always unsettled a little whenever they were away but never as unsettled as they were this time.

He heard the sound of water running in the bathroom and a deep bass voice belting out, singing off key, Chris grinned as he listened to the badly rendered version of a child's nursery rhyme. The sound of his children giggling had him turning and he saw both of his young scamps as they disappeared around the corner towards the sound of the running water, he waited until he heard a surprised yelp from the bathroom before he put down his work and went to rescue the children's nanny, Arthur.

A most unusual nanny but truly dedicated to the twins was Arthur, he was a half leprechaun who had a way with children, despite the fact that his present young charges had just pushed him into the bath. Chris tried his best not to laugh at the soaked nanny as he sat half in and half out of the bath, trying to look angry but failing miserably, the twins both laying on the ground giggling at their antics.

As Chris gazed at his children, he thought back over the last few years since his aunt had died and left him her home, he had met their mother Bianca and subsequently they had fallen in love and married despite a curse that had been placed on the coven that Bianca's family belonged to and a curse which Chris's coming had broken. The last three years had not easy for them but at the same time it had given both of them something that the badly wanted and needed, unconditional love from one another and a family in Chris's case, that accepted them for who they were and not what they were

Bianca's family had accepted Chris without any problems at all but his family still did not accept Bianca and as such had nothing to do with his children, in fact they did not even know about the twins. Chris had never informed them about the imminent birth of his children when Bianca had been expecting, they had been angry enough when the two of them had married and there was no way that Chris was going to let them pour their scorn onto his children hence why as far as the kids were concerned the only family that they had were their parents and the members of the Phoenix coven of witches.

The splashing spluttering sounds from Arthur brought Chris back to the reality of what was going on in front of him as Arthur pulled himself out of the bath, glaring at the unrepentant Phoenix twins who both were still sitting and half laying on the floor, still giggling slightly at what they had done neither of them realizing that their dad was standing behind them, shaking his head at what they had done to Arthur.

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"The giant picked its nose and…."

Chris was reading to the twins, it was his turn tonight and it was one of the jobs of being a parent that he loved. Both were snuggled down in their beds and he could see the vivid green eyes as they peeked out from under their bedclothes, both of them seemed to like to burrow under their blankets like a pair of moles.

Both children giggled as they listened to their dad as he changed what he read, their mummy would not be happy with the change of the words especially at the giant picking his nose but what mummy didn't know well daddy could get away with or at least until mummy found out thought Melinda. She never knew how but mummy always managed to catch her beloved daddy out but she knew that despite the telling off that she would give, her mummy and daddy loved not only each other a lot but her and her brother.

Melinda felt her eyes getting heavy as she listened to her daddy read about the giant and she felt her eyes closing. Across from where his daughter was now sleeping Chris looked up and saw that both of his children were now in the land of nod and very quietly he closed the book, marking the page where he was at and placing it on the side before tiptoeing quietly out of the room.

Just as Chris entered the sitting room, he felt a presence behind him and before he could turn or react in any way, he felt a hand cover his mouth and another wrap around his waist. There was a tingling movement of breathe on the back of his neck as the person behind him moved in even closer and breathed in his scent.

"I do like your smell, you smell like the pine trees in the woods."

Chris grinned as the person holding him whispered in his ear and then nibbled on his earlobe as their hands moved down his body; he turned until he was facing the perpetrator.

"Well I should hope so, as you are the one who brought it."

He smiled as he gazed into the eyes of his beloved wife.

A/N: Hope you like the first chapter and if you have the time or inclination a review would be appreciated. Oh and Happy New Year one and all!