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Chapter 1: Family Tradition

Jake shimmered into the attic he was worried about Lilly he woke up and she wasn't there next to him. So he was naturally afraid that a demon had gotten to her. But coming to his senses he realized where she most likely was. He thought his heart was going to beat out of his chest until he saw that she was sitting at the only table in the attic with candles and the caldron sat out in front of her. And then he looked over to Aunt Pearl's sofa and saw that she had managed to wake Henry up with whatever it was she was doing but he had fallen right back out. Part of him had to smile at this Lilly had never liked being up in that attic alone.

But then he realized just what it was that she was doing and it broke his heart she was trying to bring Roman back. He stepped up behind her and wrapped his arms around her. "Lilly honey what are you doing ?" he asked wiping her eyes when he felt a tear fall on his arm.

"Jake you know what I'm doing I'm trying to bring my brother back and it's not working I may need Ricky and Em." She said her voice hoarse from chanting and her eyes burned from all the tears she had shed.

Jake took a deep breath and looked down at his girlfriend with tender eyes he couldn't cry right now he had to be strong for her. He couldn't imagine losing Prue whether they got along all time or not. "Baby you know he's not coming back at least not right now and we need to go back to my house and go to sleep it's three a.m." he tried reasoning with her but she stubbornly stood her ground. He vowed right then and there to kick Hank's ass for not orbing her back to him the minute he found her up there.

"I can't go to sleep Jake if I do then I'll have to get up and it'll mean he's really gone." she cried harder into his chest.

Jake felt totally inept to do anything to help her so he sat in the spot next to Henry on the couch and held her while she cried. He ran his fingers through her long raven hair and let her cry herself out before he shimmered them both back into his bedroom. He laid her back down on her side of the bed and pulled the covers up over her. He crawled in beside her and wrapped both his arms around her so she would feel safe.

Eva could never remember feeling pain as bad as what she was feeling right now. It hurt to think it hurt to walk, hell it hurt to breathe. She never thought that she would have to bury her son the same way she had to bury her husband and they were close to the same age. Out of both the twins Roman had been the spitting image of his father and it was somewhat fitting that in a few hours they were going to lay him beside his father.

She couldn't help but let sobs rack her body as she laid awake and thought about her oldest son. She couldn't imagine life without him sure she should have been there more but he knew she loved him at least she hoped he knew. But if she let herself think about that there was no way she would be able to hold it together for her other three kids in the morning if she did.

She felt a pair of strong arms wrapping around her and she let herself be pulled in close. "Come on Eva you need to go to sleep I know it hurts. But this not sleeping isn't going to do you any good and you know that you're a doctor. Sweety I love you and I don't want to see anything happen to you right now I wouldn't be able to stand it." Derek said kissing her on the head and hanging on to her for dear life. This was hard for him to Roman had been no still was like a son to him.

He couldn't believe that he was gone he had always figured if a demon got any one of them it would have been either Chuck or Coop. All the others had always been so careful but not Chuck and Coop they ran around and pissed off demons all the time. But no the demon had got to Roman for no reason that any one could find.

Chuck knew without a doubt what he was doing now was signing his own death warrant by meeting Wyatt alone but he also knew that if he ever hoped to have some normalcy in his life again he had to make peace with him. So he shimmered up on top of the bridge and found Wyatt waiting for him there.

"Hey Chuck how you holding up ?" Wyatt asked concern evident on his face and in his voice.

Chuck made a face and shrugged his shoulders he really and truly didn't know how he was holding up. "Fine I guess I'm keeping it together for Ricky and Em I'll probably have my big break down later." he said truthfully Roman, Wyatt, and Chuck had all been like brothers.

Wyatt took the statement in stride because he knew that he was doing the same "Look man I know you're wondering why I asked you to meet me here," he started not good at this sort of thing at all. Chuck just nodded and waited for the Twice-blessed to ramble on "I just wanted to say sorry for all the things that happened between us the other day. And that you and Prue kinda blind sided me with this whole dating thing but I'm cool with it now. So are we boys again ?" Wyatt asked holding his hand out to Chuck hoping he would take.

Chuck looked down at Wyatt's outstretched hand but he didn't take it "No we're not boys again," Chuck said hugging his best friend instead of shaking his hand "We're still boys and we better be more than that Halliwell." he finished pulling out of the embrace.

Wyatt's eyes shined with unshed tears that he had been holding back every since the day Roman was killed. "Good because I don't think I could get through what we have to face without you Chip." he said his voice breaking.

Tears also welled up in Chuck's eyes "We'll just have to get through this together and we'll come out stronger for it all in the end." he said his voice just as weak as his friend's.

"Damn right Chuck come on you don't need to be alone tonight come to the apartment with me." Wyatt said not giving him a chance to argue he put his arm around him and orbed them both to his apartment.

"Prue I can't believe I let you talk me into this suicide mission." Chris said as he picked Prue up off the ground. They were in the underworld again trying to find any clue as to who it was that had killed Roman but they weren't having any success at all on that front and they had been at since the night after he died. All they knew was that it was the same demon that brought the Titan back.

"Bullshit Peanut you came willingly." Prue argued dusting herself off.

Chris gave his oldest female cousin a death glare. "Only because you said either I came with you or you would come by yourself Ladybug."

Prue rolled her eyes leave it to a Halliwell man to want to stand in the underworld and argue when they should be getting home before they got attacked again. "Home please Chrissy?" she asked sweetly and grabbed his hand so he could orb them out.

Chris gave a long sigh he just couldn't tell Prue no or any other Halliwell woman for that matter unless it was Carly she had more or less declared war on the males of the generation with the exception of Jake. "Of course Prune." Chris said just as sweetly using her most hated nickname before he orbed them home.

An Ivory white casket was being lowered into the ground a single red rose was on top the headstone for the most part wasn't visible the only part that could be seen was the dates 2007-2024.

Henry Jr woke up with a start a cold sweat covered his body and he ached from falling asleep on the couch. He looked around and he saw that Lilly was no longer there and he surmised that C.J. must have come and got her. He got up off the couch and made his way back down to Chris's old room where he was staying. But he couldn't escape the feelings that dream stirred in him he hadn't had it in so long he thought he was over that. But he knew very well that being a Halliwell sometimes meant your past coming back to bite you in the ass.

Opening Credits:

Starring:

Wyatt Halliwell- Wes Ramsey

Chris Halliwell- Drew Fuller

Henry Matthews Jr- Channing Tatum

Cooper Halliwell Jr- Paul Walker

Charles Bradford- Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Lila Nicolae- Jordana Brewster

Elizabeth Shane- Bethany Joy Galeotti

And

Prue Halliwell- Jennifer Love Hewitt

With:

Melinda Halliwell- Amanda Bynes

Valerie Halliwell- Eliza Dushku

Penny Halliwell- Kate Voegele

Carly Matthews- Sophia Bush

Patty Matthews- Rachel Bilson

Ricky Bradford- Taylor Lautner

Emily Bradford- Hilary Burton

Emily sat on the couch in the apartment that belonged to her brother's girlfriend well one of only brothers she had left anyway it was seven in the morning and none of them had done much in the way of sleeping.

Ricky sat in a chair next to the couch he couldn't bring himself to meet his little sister's eyes. He didn't like what he saw there he saw hopelessness and he knew that he should feel the same way but he didn't. He felt thankful that it was Roman and not Chuck and he hated himself for it. He had always hero worshiped Chuck but not Em she was Roman's girl and everyone knew it.

"Hey how long have you two been sitting up ?" Prue asked as she moved Emily over on the couch and Chuck grabbed Ricky out of his chair and sat him next to Emily. That put them both between Prue and Himself.

"Since six we couldn't sleep here either." Ricky explained laying his head on his brother's chest they had stayed the night at Paige's but were unable to sleep so they had teleported to where Chuck was.

"We couldn't sleep either." Chuck said truthfully he hated this they hadn't had to do this in the longest time.

"No Chuck couldn't sleep and therefore I couldn't since he was tossing and turning." Prue said trying to joke Ricky smiled but it never reached his eyes. But Em just sat there.

Prue let out a great sigh and put her arm around the younger girl "Em honey it's ok for you to hurt and it's ok to cry if you need to. But don't be numb if you need to get mad be mad as long as you're feeling something. The one thing you can't let yourself do is feel nothing otherwise you'll end up like Henry sweety and that's not good." Prue said kissing her on top of the head as she got up to make some coffee.

"Prue is it ok to be mad at Roman ?" Emily asked in such a low voice that Prue barely heard but she did and it damn near broke her heart.

"Em of course it's ok to be mad at him, he left and he wasn't supposed to." Prue assured her but she felt anything but assured herself. She would never get used to burying her friends and they shouldn't have to die just because they were friends with the Halliwells.

Jake and Lilly were sitting at the kitchen table hand in hand when Phoebe and Coop walked in. Phoebe couldn't help but smile when she walked in and saw that scene. And then she saw the ring sparkle on Lilly's left hand. She jabbed Coop in the ribs and directed his attention to the ring on Lilly's hand.

"How long you two ?" Phoebe asked looking from one of them to the other.

Jake looked at his mom confused he really had no clue what she was talking about "How long since what mom ?" and then he thought she must have been asking him how long they had been up. "We've been up since 6:30 we couldn't sleep." he said hoping that answered her question.

Lilly rolled her eyes at her fiancé and flashed her engagement ring at him. Still seeing a dumb founded look on his face she answered for him. "Five days Aunt Phoebe he was so sweet about it too." she said smiling in spite of herself she felt guilty for being happy when she shouldn't be but she couldn't help it. She would never be able to replace Roman but she did still have Jake to make her happy.

Phoebe wrapped the girl in a warm embrace and really gave her ring a good looking over. "Honey I'm so happy for you two. And you got one of the good ones who knows how to pick out jewelry you better reel him in fast." she joked making Lilly smile and for the first day in days it actually reached her eyes.

"Oh Phoebe you give our only son too much credit I bet he had help." Coop said winking at Jake. He never could fool his dad that's where he got the idea of where to take her to propose.

"Ok so maybe Val and Prue might have helped. Prue may have helped me pick it out. And Val God love her may have conspired with Em to get Lilly's ring size. But other than that I did it all by myself." Jake said grinning like a little boy even though he knew he shouldn't be. So he tried to be a little more somber just like Lilly was trying.

Coop however wasn't going to let them do that there would be time for them to be sad later. "Lilly I think I ought to pay you for finally taking that boy off my hands he's nothing but trouble." he said hugging them both and pulling them to their feet.

Phoebe never loved Coop more than she did at that moment for doing what he was doing taking their minds off of the sadness they felt that was the first time in days that either had smiled. "So you two I want details." she said simply no one should even bother trying to keep things from her she would find out whether they wanted her to or not.

"Mom don't tell anybody else not yet anyway Prue doesn't even know and she will be pissed I didn't tell her and you know she knows everything about everyone." Jake explained rolling his eyes his sister was a pain in his ass. And then he realized that he was two sisters down Val and Penny would have both been up by now with the amount of noise they were making. "Where are Valentine and Princess P ?" he asked using his nicknames for his youngest sisters.

"At your Uncle Henry's they stayed all night there with Ricky and Em." Coop explained trying to keep clear of that subject.

"Imagine Patty and Ricky in the same room for all that time it must have been horrible for them." Phoebe said coming to her husband's aide.

"Yeah I think the standing offer is that Hen will pay for their first date if they hurry up and get together." Jake said silently thinking his mom and dad for what they were trying to do.

Lilly shook her head a little sadly "No Jake the offer is that Henry will pay for their first date and Ro would cater their wedding and but now that duty falls to me and I'm the non-cooking twin." she said and Jake kicked himself mentally for bringing that up. "But that's why I keep my other boyfriend Chris around he'll do just as well." she continued not wanting the sadness to overtake her just yet.

Jake put an indignant look on his face. " Well I'll leave you and Julie to fight over him just make sure I'm present I always did love a good chick fight." he said his eyes twinkling with mischief.

Wyatt sat out on the balcony of the apartment smoking and he allowed himself to get lost in his thoughts. He didn't even notice that Liz had come out there until she sat on his lap. "Wy you promised me that you were going to quit after the last pack." she said taking the cigarette from his mouth and taking a puff before giving it back to him.

Wyatt put out his cigarette before answering her. "Well that was before I failed to heal one of my best friends and he died. Besides Roman was supposed to quit with me and we both know that Chuck will go to his grave smoking so I have no one to quit with." he said sadly. He might as well smoke himself to death after all it was partly his fault that Roman had died.

With all the stress he was under Wyatt had been leaving his mental guards down and he hadn't realized that Liz heard him think that. "Wyatt Matthew Halliwell don't you dare think that way this was not your fault if it was anyone's it was mine I should have saw that coming." she said she really did blame herself she saw everything else that she didn't want to but she couldn't see what she needed to. Little did she know the elders had a hand in that so she blamed herself.

"No Lizzie this is not your fault either but I guess we could share the blame if you really want to." Wyatt said dryly knowing deep down that none of them were to blame.

Liz snuggled into his chest "Wy," she looked up into his blue eyes and that was enough to break his heart for he saw sorrow and anguish there. " does today really have to happen ?" she asked in tone that he hadn't heard since she left her last boyfriend at the alter.

Wyatt had a sharp intake of breath he really didn't want to give her the answer to that but he had to. "Yeah Lizzie it does and I know it sucks but it has to happen but I promise you it won't happen ever again." he answered her and he would personally see to it that no one else from this generation got killed even if he had to make a deal with the devil.

"I knew you would say that but I had to try my luck you know me." she said giving him a grin and snuggling deeper into his chest.

Wyatt tenderly kissed her on top of her head and held her tight as he drifted off in his own thoughts again.

"Hank I love you but if you don't want your Aunt Piper to blow you up you're going to have to go get dressed." Victor said clearing a plate out of the front of his grandson.

Hank looked at his grandpa with pleading eyes. "Grandpa I don't know if I can go. I don't think I can do this again." he said it had only been three years since the last time there was no way he could go through this now he had more or less just gotten over it.

Victor looked at the closet thing he had to a son with a tender expression on his face. "I know you Henry Victor you're a Halliwell you can do anything you put your mind to. And besides you'll have me to lean on." Victor said knowing damn good and well that when the time came Henry would be the one letting other people lean on him. He was much stronger than he thought he was and the task would be getting him there.

"Oh Look grandpa," a swirl of orbs appeared in the middle of Victor's kitchen a regular occurrence for a man who had once hated all things whitelighter. " they figured out that I escaped from prison and they sent someone to bring me back." Henry commented dryly when he saw the blue and white lights.

The orbs cleared to reveal Chris and Prue "No we came to take you home so you can get dressed and be fore warned we have half an hour before we have to be at the manor so you'd better come on." Prue said they had obviously been sent to tag team him because everyone knew he couldn't fight both Prue and Chris. Both were already dressed for the day. Prue had on a black pants suit and Chris had on black pants with a white shirt and a solid black tie.

"I don't even rate a hi grandpa from either one of you anymore ? I got to tell you guys that Hank is about to win grandchild of the year he came and had breakfast with me and everything." Victor said pretending to be hurt.

Prue rushed to hug him but Chris hung back just a bit he didn't want Victor to know about the flashbacks and if he looked in his face he would know that something was wrong. "Hey grandpa." Chris said his eyes downcast to keep Victor from reading what was wrong. And then of course he was sucked into a flashback.

Chris and Victor were seated in a fancy restaurant, Victor looked to be about twenty years younger and Chris looked to be the same age he was now.

"Chris if talking is what we do then talk to me." Victor said staring his future grandson in the face.

"Because she doesn't exist in my future mom dies when I turn fourteen." Chris said glad to finally be free of one of his last secrets.

If it hadn't been for the fact that Piper had always been up with him about his trip to the past he would have been more confused than what he was. He wasn't surprised by the fact he was talking to his grandpa but he was surprised by the fact that his mom had died. And based on the other version of Wyatt he had seen Piper had been keeping some things from him.

Victor saw the far off look in Chris's eyes something he had only seen in Val or Penny when they were having a vision. "Chris you ok ? You zoned out on me for a second there." Victor asked concerned.

"Yeah grandpa I'm fine." Chris assured him while his mind screamed at him that he wasn't doing fine at all he lost one of his good friends and he was seeing things from another time line.

"Peanut you're not fine you're in bad shape like the rest of us. But if you don't want to stay in the land of the living I suggest that you both come on now. If we're not at the manor in twenty-five minutes Aunt Piper will kill us." Prue ranted she was in no mood to face the wrath of Piper.

Hank took a deep breath "Well I'll tell you this much being under the rule of an evil tyrant disguised as a kind loving aunt and mother is no way to live." he said and then he saw the strange look he was getting from his grandpa and both Chris and Prue were trying hard to stifle laughs. "And she's right behind me isn't she?" he asked looking over his shoulder and giving his Aunt Piper his most charming smile.

Piper and Paige were both standing behind him, Piper had gotten Paige to orb her over to make sure Hank went and got ready. Piper had an eyebrow arched and Paige was hiding a smile. " Victor that is no way to talk about your Aunt Piper." Paige started and Henry knew he'd better watch himself his mom only called him Victor when she was really mad.

"No that's ok Paige don't get onto him I expect comments like that from him, he is your son after all." Piper interrupted and shot her sister a look.

"Piper I would never call you an evil tyrant only Hank would say something like that. I personally think more highly of you than that in my book you're more like a prison warden." Paige said giggling a little.

Piper just shook her head and said "See what I mean." the comment was directed to no one in particular. "Hank please go home and get dressed and then all of you be at the manor in twenty otherwise I won't be happy." she said and looked at them until they took the hint and orbed out.

Paige waited until the orbs cleared and they were gone to speak what was really on her mind "So dad how is he really ? You're the only one he lets his guard down around." She asked worried about her first born.

"Yeah dad, Chris could have gotten it out of him but I have a feeling it would have taken a lot of alcohol and he needs to be sober." Piper chimed in.

Victor looked at both of his daughters and sighed "Quite frankly I'm worried I don't think he slept much last night. He said that the dream came back. But he'll act fine for the others and I mean we do need to cut him some slack it's only been three years. You girls know as well as I do that he really loved her." he said his face downcast he really hoped that his grandson was going to be ok with all this in time.

Piper and Paige both just shook their heads something was going to have to be done about Henry they just didn't want to push it yet. They both waved bye to Victor before orbing back out.

Victor breathed a sigh of relief he really didn't want to have to tell them that he thought something was up with Chris too.

The church was packed with people dressed all in black some magical and others not. A huge portrait of Roman sat beside his coffin everyone was thankful that it had been a closed casket none of them could have dealt with seeing him that way. Eva sat in the first row with Derek and all the older Halliwells while Ricky, Emily, and Lilly along with the younger Halliwells were seated in the next row. The priest stood up in front of the crowd and drowned on and on about how Roman was a good man and how much he would be missed. As he came to the end of his sermon he announced that a few of his friends would like to say a few words about him.

Wyatt stepped up to the podium first he took a deep breath and ran a hand through his short blond hair before beginning. " I won't stand up here and say that Ro was a good man and that he will be missed. Those things go without saying but there are things that need to be said. He was the best friend you could ever ask for if you were in a jam he'd do whatever he could to help you. He was like a brother to me and I don't know what I'll do without him. But keeping true to a promise I made him a long time ago when we were on the football team I'm not wearing all black." Wyatt began and he wasn't wearing all black like his brother and male cousins in addition to Chuck and Ricky weren't their ties were all brightly colored. He had made Chris change at the last second when he remembered the promise he made.

"The story goes like this one night we were out past curfew and Ro remarked how his mom was going to kill him. So I told him I would be sure to come to his funeral and he said fine just don't wear all black. Then I told him fine I would be sure to wear the loudest tie I could find." he finished his voice breaking at the end and he couldn't go on for all the tears in his eyes.

Next Chuck took the podium but he kept it short and sweet. "Ro was just like a brother to me and without him I may starve. See I was there on the night Wyatt made his promise and I promised I would be sure to say something witty and now I've lived up to my end of the bargain." and with that he was done and he walked past Eva and kissed her on the cheek.

Chris knew that he would never be able to find his words so he declined to go up there but Henry didn't hesitate. "So I have no stories about Ro that can be told in a church meaning the only one I can tell is the one I swore I never would but it has to be done. When he was sixteen he completely shot the motor in his mom's car racing it and he wasn't supposed to have it out. So he comes to me Henry you have to help me I don't know what to do. This was at one in the morning so I go down and pull the motor out and I told him Ro this thing is done. But he says oh Hank it can't be mom has to use this car in the morning. Me being who I am did the only thing I could do I pulled the motor out of my old rusted out truck and I put it in there and she never found out." by the time he had finished he had the crowd laughing despite their grief and he too kissed Eva on the way back to his seat.

Lilly broke away from Jake long enough to go up and speak. " I was the only one Ro let get away with calling him Roman on a regular basis and only because I wouldn't. He was my twin we knew everything about each other without having to say it. We always gave mom hell together and now I have to do it alone. He was a good man and an even better brother and I know as long as I live I'll always miss him." she began but soon the tears overtook her and Jake had to help her back to her seat.

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Out at the cemetery people were milling around Jake stood steadfastly by Lilly's side as mourners passed by her to pay their respects. Eva clung to Derek as if he were her life raft and he held her close.

Emily stood by her brother's coffin her arm linked with Hank's "Henry how long will it feel like this ?" she asked laying her head on his chest.

"It'll get better as time goes by Em but it'll never be ok that he's gone. But you have to take it one day at a time and it does hurt less." Henry said putting his arm around her shoulders wishing he believed everything that he had just told her.

Wyatt and Liz were standing apart from everyone else in their group Liz had on Wyatt's coat to ward off the chill in the air. Both wore somber expressions it had been years since they had to do this and it had become one time to many. Wyatt again lit up he didn't care that his mom was there he needed something to calm his nerves.

"Wy how many more times are going to have to do this before we make it to twenty-five ?" Liz asked him part of her grief starting to melt away as her anger came boiling to the surface.

Wyatt ran his hands through his hair he honestly didn't know the answer to that but he knew what the answer should be. "Lizzie if I have anything to do with it we'll never do this again until we're old and gray." he said wrapping his arm around her and kissing her on top of her head.

Prue and Chuck came strolling hand and hand to where Liz and Wyatt were talking. "How you two holding up ?" Prue asked her cousin and one of her best female friends.

"Chuck please tell your girlfriend not to ask me questions that she already knows the answer to. Prue I seriously don't know how you and Wy aren't going crazy right now because honestly it's hard for me and my empathy isn't as strong as yours." Liz said lifting her head from Wyatt's chest.

Chuck looked at his girlfriend with concern in his eyes he had forgotten about her empathy "Babe are you ok ?" he asked his eyes settled on her face and he noticed that it looked strained and tired.

Prue gave him a weak smile "I'm holding it together I can't promise I won't lock myself in my room later but I'll be ok." she said allowing him to embrace her.

Wyatt looked at the scene in front of him and he realized how much Chuck really loved Prue and how wrong he had been to beat the shit out of Chuck. Now was not the time for them to be separated on any issue they had to stick together if they wanted to survive what the source and this new demon had in store for them.

Out of consideration for the fact that being a friend of the Halliwells had most likely gotten Roman killed Piper held the after funeral reception at the manor. She knew that Eva was going through one hell of a tough time and she shouldn't have to worry about having to clean up a mess.

Henry, Chris, and Prue were all hiding out in the kitchen for the time being because none of them could stand to hear another person tell them how sorry they were for their loss.

Chris and Prue both stared at Henry as if he had three eyes or something. "Why do you two keep staring at me ?" he asked when he looked up and saw that his cousins' eyes were trained on him as they had been for most of the day.

"We're just worried about you Bubba that's all." Prue said reaching across the table and giving his hand a squeeze. Chris remained silent on the matter he knew that Henry would eventually come to him if he wanted to talk.

"Well don't worry I'm fine really." he said but neither one of them believed him his eyes had black circles around them and it looked like he hadn't slept in days. And that was not to mention the fact that he had only been out of the hospital a little less than a week. "So what did you guys find out in the underworld ?" he asked hoping to shift them to a safer topic.

"Nothing really we just went down there to blow off some steam." Chris began but stopped short when Piper, Phoebe and Paige walked in the room.

All three cousins got up to walk out into the living room but Piper stopped them. "Not so fast you three we want to talk to you." she said and they all groaned as they sat back in their chairs.

Ricky laid across his bed his suit jacket hung from the bedpost and he had his tie pulled down he was lost in his own little world and was startled when he looked up and saw blue and white orbs forming in his room. "Hey Patty." he said without waiting for the orbs to form a person he knew it had to be her she was the only Halliwell who orbed into his room without calling first.

"How did you know it was me ?" Patty asked him as she sat down on the bed beside him.

"You're the only one who orbs in here whenever they feel like it," he said a smile coming to his face. " not that I'm unhappy to see you, but what are you doing here ?" he asked knowing full well he had made sure no one saw him leave the manor.

"You're dad couldn't find you so he sent me to look for you." she said laying so that her head rested on his chest. "Why did you leave anyway ?" she asked glad that he had because it had given her a chance to get out of that house.

Ricky looked over at her before he answered "I couldn't handle one more person telling me how sorry they were for my loss and I couldn't stand seeing the look on my mom's face so I projected my ass to this room."

Patty mistook his meaning and thought that he wanted her to leave. "I can go if you wanted to be alone." she said not wanting to leave him alone in the shape he was in.

Ricky immediately regretted his poor word choice "No, no Patty don't be silly of course I want you to stay the last thing in the world I want is to be alone right now." he said giving her another smile this one far more genuine than the first. "As a matter of fact I thought we could have a drink." he said sitting up and pulling a bottle of tequila out of his night stand. He also produced two shot glasses.

Patty did not really want to drink but it was hard for her to refuse anything he asked her. "Yeah sure I'd like that just let me call my mom and tell her that I'm going to hang out with you." she said pulling out her cell phone quickly dialing her mom's number.

Paige hung up her cell phone and turned back to the discussion that her and her sisters were having with their children. "That was Patty she is at Derek's with Ricky keeping him company." she said they had all been worried about where he had run off to.

"Now back to you three," Piper said giving all three young adults a hard look " there was stuff up in the attic that looked like you guys have been demon hunting." she accused if one of those three were involved in something then all three of them were.

"Nope haven't been to the underworld since it happened Aunt Piper that was Lilly. She was trying to find a way to bring Roman back I just slept on the couch while she tried." Henry answered quickly sparing his two favorite cousins from lying.

Phoebe however eyed Prue and Chris suspiciously it wasn't that she didn't believe Hank because she did. But Prue and Chris did tend to act on their more stupid impulses without involving him because he would try to talk them out of it. "Prue you're sure that you haven't been to the underworld in days ?" she asked and Prue bowed her head. "Prudence Elizabeth Halliwell that is reckless and you know it." she went on in Prue's not answering Phoebe had her answer.

"Christopher Perry Halliwell don't you try to act innocent either I know Prue roped you into whatever she did." Piper raged starring down her youngest son when he tried to look innocent "You guys knew how dangerous that was after Roman got killed but you still went look I'm not interested in continuing this sick family tradition of burying those we love before their time." she went on and her last statement caused Hank to finally snap.

"Aunt Piper we know and we don't want to anymore than you do," he began tears filling his eyes "but that had already touched me three years ago so it's too late for that now. Don't guilt trip us ok Chris and I were the ones who had to make it look like a mugging to keep from exposure." he ranted but his heart just wasn't in arguing right now.

Paige looked at her son with compassion in her eyes she knew he had to be hurting and this wasn't helping any at all. "For starters Henry Victor tell Aunt Piper you're sorry," she paused long enough for Hank to say the word sorry and then she went on " Piper attacking them when they're hurting doesn't help we need to trust them to be able to do what they have to." she continued getting a thankful look from her son, niece and nephew. Besides it wasn't like Henry had been involved anyway he was still a prisoner at the manor.

Piper shot her youngest sister a look like the one Prue used to give Phoebe. "Not today you two," Phoebe said stopping the looming fight between them "my hurts enough already without the two of you going at it." she said and it was true empathy was a pain in the ass at times like this.

Piper sighed Phoebe was right they had to hold it together for a little while longer. "Fine but all I'm saying is Paige would think they all were innocent even if she saw them doing something wrong. Because I don't believe for a second that Henry has just been idle all week." she said staring her nephew down. Paige and Phoebe too turned their gaze to him it was true he was probably up to something he was just smarter about it than his usual cohorts.

Henry bared up to their intense scrutiny for a moment before he finally broke "Alright you caught me maybe I called Bianca and asked her to check some things out for me. But I still don't know anything because she hasn't found anything out yet." he said.

Chris's mouth was open in shock "Bianca you called Bianca ?" he asked incredulously he was surprised that Hank had gone to her for help instead of coming to him. Sure Bianca was friends with all of the Halliwells but she was more Chris's friend than anyone else's.

"Yeah I couldn't leave lock up here with you because they would have known we were up to something but there was nothing wrong with me meeting my friend for lunch." Henry explained his logic.

"Well does she know anything ?" Piper asked she wanted to find out as much about the demon that killed Ro as possible.

"No." Henry answered simply not mentioning that he was leaving out an important fact but they didn't need to be bothered with that just yet.

Mel had silently slipped away to her room when her mother and aunts had gone to the kitchen she never knew anything could hurt so much and the one person that she had shared the truth about her and Roman with said that it would hurt for awhile. Everyone just thought she was upset because they had been close friends and they had worked together for years. But it was more than that she just could never tell anyone. She had just about decided that she was going to spend the rest of her life alone because of the sick Halliwell family tradition of losing the person you were in love with. When she heard on knock on her door.

"Hey Mel how you holding up ?" D.J. Morris asked coming into her room if he were any other guy she would have thrown him out but D.J. was harmless.

"Alright all things considered." she said sitting up on her bed.

"Good because I kinda need a favor." D.J. said sitting next to her and slipping his arm around her.

"What do you need D.J. ? And don't try to be charming it won't work." she warned him but it was all in good nature,

"I have a case I think it's demonic and I could use your help. You up for it ?" he asked hopefully.

Mel's face lit up at this she would give anything to get of the manor. "D.J. if it gets me out this house I'm so in. I think I might want to kiss you for this." she said pecking his cheek. "Now get out while I change I'll meet you in the kitchen in five minutes." she said glad to going on this little adventure she might even have to get her cousins to help this could be fun.

A/N: So here is the first chapter I hope you like it. Please Review.