Charmed Lives
A/N: OK, I got the inspiration for this from Aurora2490… well part of it anyway, basically Piper had a third son instead of Melinda and he has this huge destiny and what not but the twist is that he's gay and… well I'm not going to spoil it for you, just suffice it to say that his soul mate is famous. ^_^"" Enjoy!!
~-_May 7, 1992_-~ (1)
"What will you name him?" asked Phoebe smiling at her brand new nephew.
"I'm not sure… what do you think Paige?" replied her sister looking at the third brunette curiously.
"Hmm, he seems like a… erm, never mind," said Paige blushing slightly.
"Paaaaiiiige! What were you going to say?" whined Phoebe putting an arm around her sister.
"No, you'll laugh and say it's stupid," replied the other brunette shrugging her sister's arm off.
"No I won't hun… what do you think his name should be?" cut in Piper before Phoebe could once again embarrass the youngest of the Charmed Ones.
"I… well, when I saw him I thought his name should be… Lil," said Paige, her voice dropping slightly in volume as she blushed again.
"I love it! He'll be Lil Jesse Halliwell," said Piper smiling at her youngest sister as her newborn son giggled happily.
"Looks like he likes it," said Phoebe patting Paige's arm happily. "Good choice sis."
"Thanks guys," replied Paige looking at her new nephew with a wide smile.
~-_Sixteen years, three months, two days, three hours, six minutes, and twenty-seven seconds later_-~
"Lil, where are you?!" shouted Chris moving towards the back door in search of his younger brother.
"I'm right here Chrissy," replied the other young man from the doorway of the kitchen; laughing slightly as Chris glared at him. "Oh, stop it… you know you love me," added Lil smiling and hugging his brother tightly then moving past him into the kitchen.
Laughing himself Chris playfully punched his brother on the arm and reached around him to grab the last of their mother's cookies from the night before.
"HEY! I was going for that," said Lil, pouting at his brother.
"So?" replied the witch-lighter giving Lil a "who gives a damn?" look.
"So, stop being mean!" said Lil increasing his pout level ten-fold.
"Pout all you want little bro, Chris is immune," said a voice from the door.
"WYATT!!" yelled Lil pouncing on his brother. "What are you doing here?!"
"Just thought I'd stop by to see my two favorite men," replied the tall blonde hugging his brother tightly.
"Yo, what about me?" asked the brunette on the other side of the room with a small smirk. (2)
Removing his hold on his youngest brother Wyatt moved over and scooped Chris into his arms. "I missed you Chris," said the blonde kissing his brother deeply.
Wrapping his arms around Wyatt's neck Chris melted into the kiss with a slight moan.
"Okay, like gag me with a spoon!" said Lil rolling his eyes as he shoved past his lip-locked brothers to the fridge.
Breaking the kiss Wyatt ruffled Lil's long dirty blonde hair and laughed. "You're just jealous."
"How could I possibly be jealous of making out with my brother?" asked the youngest Halliwell boy rolling his eyes again and moving towards the living room with his Coke.
"Denial is futile Lil!" replied the blonde laughing as he was flipped off.
"Why do you agitate him so much?" asked Chris a moment later as he slipped his hand into Wyatt's.
"Because he's so emotional and reactive," replied Wyatt once again laughing slightly and walking towards the living room as well.
Rolling his eyes Chris followed and curled up next to Wyatt on the loveseat.
"H-hey Wyatt… how do you know you love Chris?" asked Lil a few minutes later; his face colored ruby red.
"Well, because I know he'll always accept me no matter what and because I just can't imagine living without him in my life… he is the reason my heart beats," responded Wyatt immediately, smiling widely and squeezing Chris' hand.
"O-oh…" muttered the youngest boy reverting his attention to the television once again.
"Was there a reason why you asked?" inquired the blonde raising an eyebrow when Lil blushed again.
"No! Erm, I mean, no, I was just curious," retorted Lil avoiding his brother's eyes.
"You say to the telepathic Empath… come on Lil you can tell me what's on your mind," Said Wyatt fixing his younger brother with a serious look and smiling in a comforting way.
"W-well… there's this guy… and I've been talking with him for a while and we went out a few times recently… and I think I might love him…" said Lil blushing even redder and looking at the floor.
"Oh… so, what's his name?" asked the other blonde smiling warmly at his brother.
"Uh… well, his name's… Joe…" responded Lil slowly.
"Ah, and his last name?" pressed Wyatt once again quirking an eyebrow.
"J-Jonas," said Lil blushing for a third time.
"WHAT?! YOU'RE GOING OUT WITH JOE FUCKING JONAS?!" yelled Chris sitting up suddenly and staring at his brother.
"Well… yeah…" replied the other brunette frowning slightly.
"Why didn't you tell me?!" inquired Chris a small angry glare in place.
"Uh, maybe because I didn't want you to freak out like you just did…" answered Lil sighing and shaking his head.
"Oh… yeah I guess that makes sense," sighed Chris slowly sinking back against Wyatt.
"Okay, seeing as I'm a bit lost here, would you mind explaining everything in detail Lil?" asked the blonde man as he wrapped his arms around Chris.
"O-okay... well Joe is a member of the band The Jonas Brothers, which he and his two brothers Nick and Kevin formed when they were younger and well they're actually insanely famous right now because of Disney (3) and about four months ago I ran into him at P3 while I was doing work for mom... and when I saw ran into I literally mean ran into... like I knocked him down and ended up on top of him." Started Lil blushing furiously as Chris chuckled slightly. "And after about a thousand apologies I accidentally brushed his erm his uhm…" blushing again the youngest Halliwell paused and looked at Wyatt pleadingly. "D-do I really have to say it?"
Laughing slightly Wyatt shook his head. "No, just go on."
Lil smiled gratefully and continued with his story. "Okay, well after I collected what was left of my dignity we went and sat down and we talked over drinks… turns out he and his brothers are all gay and that Nick and Kevin apparently have something going on so he left them alone and wandered into P3… and then I ran into him…" still blushing slightly Lil sighed, "and since then we've had four dates… and I think I'm in love with him… and I know it's kind of fast but I just can't imagine living without him..."
"I see… okay well, when you think about your future, can you see spending the rest of your life with him?" asked Wyatt slowly.
"Yeah… I definitely can see that…" said the other young man sighing slightly, "but I don't know what he thinks about it…"
"So propose and see what he says!" cut in Chris happily, "you'll never know unless you try."
"… I-I guess that makes sense… thanks guys," smiling Lil got up and moved towards the door, "if mom asks I went to the mall, 'kay?"
"Sure, but take your cell," replied Wyatt smiling as Lil grabbed it from the foyer table and walked out.
"I hope it works out for him…" said Chris frowning in a worried manner.
"It'll work out… just trust me, 'kay?" replied the blonde reassuringly pulling his brother close.
~-_ Meanwhile at P3_-~
"PAIGE, WHERE'S THE BEER SHIPMENT FROM THIS WEEK?!" yelled Piper as she moved towards the front of the bar.
"Okay, one: I'm right here… you don't have to yell and two: right where it's supposed to be, it just came in today remember?" replied Paige pointing at the cases of beer which were sitting on the counter.
"Oh… right… sorry I yelled," said Piper moving towards the beer to check the order.
"Uh, Piper are you alright?" inquired Paige worriedly as she followed.
"I'm fine, what's makes you think otherwise?" responded Piper raising an eyebrow.
"Well, you seem a bit… off…" said Paige slowly.
"I… well the truth is I am… last night I had a really weird dream," sighed Piper reverting her attention to her sister.
"Weird like world-endangering weird or weird like not normal weird?" asked the other brunette in a worried voice.
"Just not normal weird… well not exactly not normal just kind of... well it was about Lil… according to the clock I saw it was around nine o'clock and he came in the house and said that he needed to talk to me, so we sat and we talked for a little bit and then he told me he was getting married… and I freaked out a little bit and said he was too young and there was no way he could know enough about love to make that level of commitment… and he stormed out crying," gushed Piper sighing at the end of her rant.
"Oh… geez Piper you scared me there for a second. As for the dream, well I think it was probably more than just a dream… how about you wait until it actually happens and just try and talk to him about it instead of getting angry," said Paige sighing slightly and putting her arm around her sister. "I'm confident it'll work out."
"Thanks Paige," smiled Piper as she went back to checking the beer.
~-_Elsewhere_-~
Lil pulled out his cell as he drove down the road and dialed excitedly. On the third ring the phone was answered.
"This is Joe, shoot," came Joe's voice from the speaker.
"Hey babe, are you doing anything right now?" asked Lil doing his best to sound nonchalant.
"Hey! Uh, not really… why?" replied the dark-haired teen on the other end.
"Well, I was hoping that if you weren't too busy we could meet up somewhere," said Lil crossing his fingers.
"Of course, I'm pretty much just sitting here watching Kevin and Nick make-out… where do you wanna meet?" inquired the other teen with a happy lilt to his voice.
Laughing at the words of protest coming from Joe's brothers Lil considered it for a moment and said, "Let's meet at the restaurant, there aren't too many people there right now and mom said I could use her private table whenever I wanted."
"Cool, it's right down the street from the club, right?" Joe posed the question while a small "thwap" sound was heard in the background.
"Yup, three doors down!" answered the young witch pulling his car into the reserved lot and laughing slightly.
"Okay I'll be there in about thirty minutes," announced the musician.
"I'll be waiting." Lil sighed happily as he hung up the phone and sat in his car thinking. 'I can't believe I'm actually going to do this… god I love him so much.' As he reached for a small black velvet box lying next to him the young Halliwell smiled.
When his hand came into contact with the box he gasped as he was thrown into a vision.
He was sitting at the table with Joe and they were talking and laughing and having fun with each other when suddenly Joe paused and looked deep into Lil's eyes. "Lil there's something I wanted to ask you."
"Joe, there was actually something I wanted to ask you as well… but you should go first."
"You sure?" receiving a nod the musician stood and moved over next to Lil's chair and got down on one knee. "Lil Jesse Halliwell, will you marry me?" pulling out a small box Joe looked deep into Lil's eyes again and kissed his hand.
"Oh my, Joe... I was going to ask the same thing of you." Laughing Lil pulled Joe up and hugged him tightly. "Of course I will!"
Smiling Joe swung Lil around in his arms. "I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you,"
"And I with you," as small tears formed in his eyes Lil kissed Joe and produced his own box. "Will you wear my ring as well?"
"It would be an honor my love," slipping his ring onto Lil's finger he then held out his own hand.
"I'll love you forever Joe," taking Joe's hand and slipping the ring onto it he smiled and kissed his fiancé once again.
Coming out of the vision Lil smiled and got out of the car with his keys, phone and the box in hand. "Always," he whispered to the air as he closed the door to his convertible and paused his eyes still on the scene he just witnessed.
"Always what?" came a voice from behind Lil.
Turning Lil frowned at the figure standing behind him. "Like you don't know… Grams!" hugging his grandmother Lil sighed slightly.
"Oh, baby you really do love him… it's okay, I talked to the Elders, they think he'll be good for you, so they're not going to interfere," said Patty stroking her grandson's hair comfortingly.
"I love you Grams!" said Lil hugging his grandmother tighter.
"I know baby, now you should probably go and get situated, you only have fifteen minutes before he's going to get here," replied Patty kissing Lil's forehead and then releasing her hold on him. "You'll always have him Lil, don't fear what you have no proof of… Oh and try to be gentle when you tell your mother, okay?"
"Alright Grams… I just hope she isn't upset with me because of it…" replied the blonde sighing.
"I'm sure she'll be fine with it… I hope…" said Patty smiling in a reassuring way and walking Lil to the door.
"Thanks Grams… Joe is probably going to be here soon… so I should go," said Lil smiling and hugging his grandmother one last time.
"Good luck hun!" said Patty slowly fading from view with a smile on her face.
Walking into the restaurant with a wide smile Lil greeted Alisha the manager and requested that his mother's table be set for two.
"Oh, meeting your hottie Lil?" inquired the young blonde laughing when he blushed.
"I don't see how that's any of your business," snapped the young man turning away from the girl and moving towards the front to wait for Joe.
'Geez, I was just joking with him…' thought Alisha sighing and turning back to her managerial duties.
~-_Joe's POV_-~
Sitting in the living-room of the Jonas' San Francisco home and doing his best to ignore his lip-locked brothers Joe was glaring at the television.
"Are you all right son?: asked his father as he walked into the room.
Jumping slightly Joe shifted his attention to his father and grimaced slightly, "Erm, yeah... I'm just being a little bitter, I miss Lil... and they aren't helping."
"I see... well, I've got some work to do... I'll see you all later," moving to leave the room he paused and turned back towards Joe. "Oh and Son?... don't worry, I'm sure he'll make the right choice."
Pondering that for a moment Joe crinkled his brow and replied "Wait, da- what?... that was really odd..."
Shrugging slightly the middle Jonas slumped down in his seat on the couch and began watching the television again.
Suddenly a flash of crimson light emitted from a spot in front of Joe and he was immediately on his feet.
"Why if it isn't the Jonas Bitches!" growled a large Zarth (4) demon as it materialized.
"Kevin! Nick! Com on guys, demon!" exclaimed Joe barely avoiding a fireball and diving behind the couch.
Kevin finally noticing the sound of the fireball colliding with the wall jumped up and blasted the demon into the television telepathically.
"Ugh, what is it with these things!" asked Nick an exasperated sigh escaping him as he motioned and smiled slightly as the demon exploded only to frown as it reformed a moment later.
"Shit, this is one of those upper-level bitches isn't it?" asked Kevin doing his best to avoid yet another fireball while trying to get to the door so that he could find the Brother's Book of Shadows.
"No one calls me a bitch!" exclaimed the demon upping his barrage of fireballs.
Emerging once again into the chaos that was their living room Kevin dove behind the couch with Joe and Nick and pointed out the spell. "Ready guys?!"
"As I'll ever be…" sighed Nick jumping slightly as yet another flaming ball of energy exploded against the wall.
"Let's do this!" Exclaimed Joe, grabbing onto his brother's hands as they stood and began chanting.
Demon of fire
Demon of hate
With this spell
We now send thee down a grate
As the Brothers finished chanting the demon burst into flame and burned to a pile of ash a loud wail emitting from the space where it had stood. As soon as the ash had formed a magical grate appeared in the floor and every last particle fell through it.
Smiling Kevin said. "I love it when they clean up after themselves!"
Shaking his head Joe sighed slightly and glanced around the room at the carnage. He cringed and looked at his younger brother hopefully. "Can you clean all this up Nick?"
"Very well…" sighing the youngest Jonas waved a hand and smiling slightly to himself as the room righted itself, all traces of the demonic attack completely erased.
"Thanks bud!" Hugging Nick, Joe smiled.
"HEY!... he's mine!" Protested Kevin glaring slightly at Joe.
Joe rolled his eyes and went back to staring numbly at the television as his brothers continues making out with each other.
Soon "When You Look Me in the Eyes" blared from Joe's cell phone and he jumped once again.
Smiling as he picked up the phone and recognized Lil's number Joe flipped it open and spoke into the receiver. "This is Joe, shoot."
"Hey babe, are you doing anything right now?" asked Joe's beau causing the brunette to smile.
Doing his best to keep his voice level Joe responds, "Hey! Uh, not really… why?"
"Well, I was hoping that if you weren't too busy we could meet up somewhere," said Lil his voice sounding hopeful even through the phone.
"Of course, I'm pretty much just sitting here watching Kevin and Nick make-out… where do you wanna meet?" inquired the other teen with a happy lilt to his voice.
Joe heard Lil laughing slightly as his brothers protested in the background and the after a short pause, "let's meet at the restaurant, there aren't too many people there right now and mom said I could use her private table whenever I wanted."
"Cool, it's right down the street from the club, right?" Joe posed the question as he avoided a smack aimed at him by ducking onto the floor; smiling in satisfaction as Kevin's hand hit the couch.
"Yup, three doors down!" answered the other young witch making Joe smile.
"Okay I'll be there in about thirty minutes," announced the musician.
"I'll be waiting," replied Lil causing the smile on Joe's face to widen exponentially.
The smile was plastered in place as the middle Jonas brother rose from the floor and began to collect his keys and a few other important items, including a small black velvet box.
"Where're you going?" inquired Kevin as he played with Nick's hair a contented look on both of their faces.
"To propose to my boyfriend, you guys need anything while I'm out, I can always swing by the store or something…?" replied Joe pausing at the door to look back at his brothers.
"Nope we're good, make sure to call and tell us how it goes, 'kay?" replied Nick snuggling up against his lover happily.
"Absolutely… and if there's another demon attack don't you dare refrain from calling me because you don't want to interrupt my date, clear?" said the dark haired young man as he checked that he had everything one last time.
"Wouldn't dream of it bro, now go get your man!" said Kevin officially dismissing his younger brother.
"'Kay… hey you know I love you guys right?" said Joe suddenly feeling like he needed to make his feelings about their relationship clear.
"Obviously considering you haven't ever protested to us being together… thank you Joe for always being here. Now go!" replied the youngest of the three sending Joe one of his patented "get out or you'll regret it" glares.
"Alright, alright I'm going," replied the other musician as he turned and left. "I'll be back in about three hours, call if you need me!" that said he walked out the door and climbed into his car.
~-_Twenty minutes later_-~
Lil sighed as he looked at his watch for the twentieth time in the last five minutes and began to worry, knowing that although Joe was infamous for being "fashionably late" to things, the other brunette would never miss something this important, especially if his vision was correct.
The young man jumped slightly as his cell phone rang a moment later and he scrambled to answer it.
Noticing Joe's number Lil smiled to himself and opened the phone, "Hey babe."
"Lil? Oh my god you need to get here fast!" responded a surprising though completely recognizable voice.
"Kevin? Why do you have Joe's phone… wait no, what happened?!" asked the now nearly panicked teen hearing the pain in the other witch's voice.
"I-I don't know, but Joe got hurt somehow… I think a demon attacked him or something and you're the only one who can heal him… I mean even the elders couldn't… oh god… Lil please hurry I think he's fading!" Lil stiffened as he heard the oldest and whom he had always considered the strongest of Joe's brothers completely break down in sobs.
"I'm on my way," said Lil forcing back his own despair and panic with a quick meditation technique his aunt Phoebe had taught him.
"Oh g-god please hurry!!" nodding though he knew the other young man couldn't see him Lil Orbed to where he sensed his boyfriend, consequences be damned.
Kevin jumped slightly as Lil placed a hand on his shoulder and moved away from Joe's nearly lifeless body.
"Oh god." Chocking back tears as he looked at the love of his life Lil slumped next to the brunette and took the other man's hand in his own.
"Joe, Joe baby you have to come back to me… I won't be able to live without… literally I will die if you aren't here for me to love… god you're the only thing that keeps me going anymore…" as he spoke he ran his Healing Touch over every part of Joe he could reach blinking back more tears as it failed to do any good.
"Oh God please if you only ever do this one thing for me, even though I'm a sinner because I'm gay and I've disgraced you, please please oh lord please don't let Joe die on me, he's the only thing that fuels me the one thing that keeps me fighting for the greater good," in his moment of despair Lil relapsed into the Christian beliefs of his childhood and as his tears finally flowed freely he laid his head on his love's chest for three seconds listening to the slowing beats of the man he loved.
A moment later Lil's eyes flew open as he suddenly understood something that had never quite clicked in his power and he moved his hand back over Joe's body, his Healing Touch now a brilliant white glow as opposed to the customary gold.
Footnotes: (1) … yeah that's my birthday… except with a different year… lolz I'm not self centered at all…
(2) … Uhm what was I gonna put here?.... damn I forgot… I think it ha something to do with WyattXChris 4-ever though… xDDDD
(3) Which I don't own… but it really is their fault… xDDDD
(4) Yeah I don't know where I got that from… I was just kinda inspired with that one day… xD I might have got it from something though… give me an opinion on the name, 'kay?
Ending notes: alright, I'm gonna leave it at that for now, mostly because this is making me uber emotional about my own boyfriend and I can barely focus… and because I want to be a bastard and make you all wait for the outcome… pleasepleaseplease review me, 'kay? I really appreciate all the support I'm gotten from all of my readers and hope I can inspire someone or maybe even avert a crisis… waiting with bated breath for my reviews.
~Inuyasha Lover 123