Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed if I did it might go something like this.
Summary: Two weeks have passed since the last episode and the older kids are closer than ever to finding all of the rings that they need to bring the Triad down. Mel is still on her spiral out of control and it is taking it's toll on her and everyone close to her. The Triad in effort to keep the older kids from getting their hands on the last ring send them into an alternate reality of what things would have been like if different choices had been made in the past. Hailey decides that she is ready to go all the way with Brady, but he won't give in until she ends things with Dante. So, she must now choose which man makes her happier and who she likes spending time with more. In an attempt to help Mel a spell is cast to remind her that she still has it in her to be the person that she used to be. Mel is going to have to face her past and the choices that she made that led her to where she is today. Chuck tells Prue about his job offer and they come to a decision about what they are going to do. Meanwhile someone that no one expected to see ever again makes their way back.
Chapter 1: Almost There
Bianca was on her lunch break and she had been dreading this day all week. She was having lunch with her mother, her mother-in-law, her husband, and her older sister at Triquetra. She would have preferred to spend her break getting a little bit of peace. It seemed the longer that she worked at that school the worst her students got. Henry was conveniently running late and she made a mental note to give him hell for that later.
"So, B, Oriana and I have been wondering something." Maria started a conversation with her little sister.
"I hyphenated," Bianca, replied she knew damn good and well what she was going to ask her.
"You hyphenated Hoyt and Halliwell?" Maria asked her like she had lost her mind.
"You didn't hear the fight that we had over that one. Hank is the only person that is as stubborn as I am. I told him that I was going to change my name and he told me that I didn't have to. Well then me being me I blew things out of proportion and he ended up sleeping on the couch for two hours." Bianca explained.
"B, you know as well as I do that it isn't right for you to do shit like that to him." Maria chuckled.
"He takes it because the idiot loves me so damn much." Bianca said with a shrug.
"Daughter, where is your wedding ring?" Lyn asked when she saw that she had a string tied to her ring finger.
"I can't find it right now and Hank thought he was being cute by tying this string on my finger before I left the house this morning." Bianca replied.
"You lost your wedding ring after all the shit you give him when he says that his gets in his way?" Paige asked her sounding highly amused.
"I took it off to get in the shower last night and I haven't been able to find it since." Bianca informed her.
"Tyler lost his ring in the bed one time." Maria shared with her.
"I wouldn't be surprised if the dog ate my ring. That dog would eat anything, Wyatt was tossing him peanuts last night and he was catching them in his mouth. I sometimes don't know who's smarter Nash or Wyatt." Bianca chuckled.
"I would say the dog at this point I have to work with Wyatt and I know how stupid that boy can be sometimes. The other day he comes up and asks me where we kept the extra Popsicle sticks." Maria related the tale.
"He meant to ask for a tongue depressor right?" Paige asked her nephew was a sweet guy but he was dumb as a box of rocks sometimes.
"Right, he thought he was being funny and I wasn't in the mood to put up with his shit that day. My hormones were in fucking hyper drive." Maria replied.
"Is my nephew not being nice to his mommy?" Bianca asked her in a teasing tone.
"Your nephew is being a little asshole most days." Maria didn't really feel bad for talking about her unborn son that way.
"He's a man and he has dad's genes I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised that's what makes me the big bitch that I am." Bianca replied. She looked up and saw her husband walking across the restaurant he was wearing a pair of athletic shorts and a black wife beater. The baseball cap that he wore was turned backwards and he had on flip-flops with socks. "Oh dear God, I did not willingly marry that." She said covering her eyes with her hands.
"Henry Victor Halliwell Jr., what the fuck are you wearing?" Paige asked her son when he sat down.
"I'm wearing what I slept in." Henry admitted. He leaned over and kissed his wife. "Hi, B."
"I'm pretending that I don't know you right now, I can't believe you wore that out in public." Bianca told him shaking her head.
"I woke up late I knew that you would be pissed if I was any later than I already was." Henry explained to her.
"Did you get up again after I left for work?" Bianca asked him.
"Yeah, that's why I have these clothes on. Chris takes offense to it if he sees me running around in just my boxers." Henry answered like she was dense.
"Hank, please take your socks off, I don't ask for much." Paige pleaded with her son.
"Fine," Henry took his socks off and stuck them in his pocket. "Did you order for me?" he asked his wife.
"Yes, I ordered you two of everything on the menu." Bianca replied rolling her eyes.
"I didn't require two of everything just one of everything would have been fine." Henry retorted just as sarcastically as she had.
"You two seriously make me laugh." Maria said chuckling.
"How's my nephew today?" Henry asked reaching over to rub her belly.
"He is being good today, thankfully." Maria said. Henry was just about the only one who could get away with touching her stomach.
"Hey, B," Henry said grinning at his wife.
"What?" Bianca asked she really didn't like the look on his face at the moment.
Henry took her left hand in his and untied the string. "Guess what I found." He told her.
"I don't know, what did you find?" Bianca asked in reply.
Henry took her wedding ring out of his pocket and slipped it on her finger. He kissed her finger after he had put her ring back on her. "I found your wedding ring."
"Where did you find it?" Bianca had looked everywhere for that damn thing.
"I had to take the bathroom sink apart to find to it. You dropped it down the drain." Henry answered her.
"I don't know how it got down there." Bianca said racking her brain.
"I'll tell you how it got down there someone I know likes to sit her wedding ring on the sink and she probably knocked it into the basin without knowing it." Henry was talking to her like she was slow.
"That is probably how it got down there. You should have just kept it I have self defense after this and I have to take it off anyway." Bianca replied.
"That is why I brought you something." Henry said holding up a chain like the one his dog tags were on.
"What is that for?" Bianca asked him like she didn't know.
"You can put your ring on this when you have to take it off that way you won't have to worry about losing it." Henry stated simply.
"You are so smart when you want to be." Bianca replied kissing him.
"You are just a smart ass all of the time." Henry told her before he kissed her again.
"I'm going to have to ask you two not to do that right now, I'm getting a break from the morning sickness I don't need you two making me sick." Maria told them.
Bianca rolled her eyes at her sister. "What did you get done today besides finding my ring?" she asked her husband.
"Chris and I managed to bring our total on those rings up to eleven. Troy and Chord are out looking for number twelve right now and Cole has still had no luck finding that other ring." Henry answered her. For the past two weeks they had been working around the clock to find all of those rings.
"Where did you and Chris have to go?" Bianca asked him.
"You don't want to know and I don't want to talk about it right now. It really was not any fun at all." Henry replied.
"You guys are really close to being ready to go with that aren't you?" Paige asked them.
"Yeah, I just have to talk to grandpa and see if he knows anything about the two that we supposedly have. And then that only leaves us with one and that is the one that Cole can't find." Bianca answered her mother-in-law.
"You should have talked to grandpa already, I'm sure that he knows where those damn things are. You know that man has more junk than anyone should." Maria told her.
"Well, we were trying to track down the harder ones first." Bianca explained to her.
"Do you three think that you could go five minutes without talking shop?" Lyn asked them.
"We could try, but you have to know that we're pretty boring other than that." Henry replied with a mischievous glint in his eyes.
Lyn shook her head at him and she was going to reply when Gus let out a little cry from his car seat. She unbuckled him and picked him up. "Why are you so fussy today?" she asked him. She tried to quiet his crying without much success.
"Aunt Lyn, did you want me to try?" Henry asked. Lyn didn't answer him she just handed him the baby. He laid Gus over his shoulder and patted his back gently. "Hey, Vinny, what's wrong, buddy?" his cries quickly quieted as he rubbed his back and hummed in his ear.
Bianca looked at her husband with nothing but love in her eyes. "I don't know how he does that so fast."
"He is still a big kid himself and he makes them feel safe. I know that Alan loves his big brother." Paige told her.
"You are aware what he did to Alan the other day, right?" Bianca asked her.
"B, it wasn't the big deal that you're making it out to be." Henry said rolling his eyes.
"Yes, I know that he rubbed whiskey on his gums because he is teething. He's right it's really not a big deal I did the same thing to him when he was cutting teeth." Paige replied.
"B, I did the same thing with you too." Lyn told her.
"Mom, let's think about how well that worked out for B." Maria cracked.
"Sophia, I know that your hormones are not that bad." Lyn said rolling her eyes at her oldest daughter.
"That was just me being a smart ass I thought that you would have known the difference by now." Maria said with a smug smile on her face.
"I swear that I'm being tested, this is a test to make sure that I don't kill my oldest two daughters." Lyn rambled to herself.
Henry patted Gus on the back one last time and held him up in front of his face so that they were looking into each other's eyes. "If I give you back to your mommy are you gonna be a man about it?" he asked him. Gus just made cooing noises at him. "Alright, then." He said as if he understood the noise. "Here you go, Aunt Lyn, he promises to be a good boy." He handed the baby back to his mother-in-law.
"Did you really just say that to my baby brother?" Bianca asked her husband.
"Yeah, I talk to Alan like that all of the time." Henry replied with a chuckle.
"You are so lucky that I love you." Bianca told him shaking her head.
"Good, because I happen to love you too." Henry said as he leaned over to kiss her.
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- Alex O'Loughlin
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
Rachel Hoyt- Natasha Livingston
Oriana Hoyt- Jessica Biel
Chord Shane- Jake Gyllenhaal
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
Paige Halliwell-Daniela Ruah
Dominic Turner- Jonathan Rhys Meyer
Savannah Turner- Ali Larter
Chase Hoyt- Chris Evans
Billy Jenkins- Chad Michael Murray
And
Emily Bradford- Hayden Panettiere
"What can I do for you today, Valerie?" Piper asked her niece when she stepped into her office at Charmed. She had left Jack with Prue so she could put her full attention on her work at the moment.
"Aunt Piper, I love Mel really I do, but she has got to go. I can't live with her. She makes me want to punch something." Val told her aunt without preliminaries.
"Val, I can't make her do anything so I don't know what you want me to say." Piper replied sounding helpless.
"Aunt Piper, if I have to live another week like I have lived the last two I am going to kill her." Val stated simply.
"What is she doing to you?" Piper asked sounding amused.
"She has cleaned every damn day and now I can't find any of my shit. I swear she has OCD or something. She is awake when normal people are sleeping even when she has a day off. She makes me use coasters so I don't leave rings on the coffee table. And because she is there I can't be as uninhibited with Troy as I would like to be." Val had a rather long list of complaints. She really couldn't take it anymore. She had moved out so she wouldn't have to deal with the shit that Mel was putting her through anymore. Living with Mel was in some ways worse than it had been living with her parents.
"Is that all?" Piper asked she was trying really hard not to laugh because it wasn't all that funny. More than anything she wanted her little girl back home. She knew that Mel was going to move out one of these days but she rather it be because it was something that she really wanted to do and not because she was pissed off.
"Isn't that enough? I moved out of my parents' house so I didn't have to deal with shit like this anymore and I think Mel might be worse than living at home with my mom and dad." Val said with a loud sigh.
"Val, you can always tell her to leave." Piper suggested.
"I don't think I should, if I told her to leave there is no telling where she would go or if we would ever see her again." Val had thought about that option many times, but she was afraid of what her cousin would do given her current state of mind.
"She would probably just move in with Paige and that might be the better option for her at the moment. Her and Paige are just alike and they would get along fine." Piper assured her.
"Aunt Piper that might not be a good thing either. Like you said they are just alike. If those two put their heads together they could rule the world." Val scoffed.
"Val, I don't know what you want me to do. Honey, if there was anything that I could do to help you I would, but I don't think there is. The only thing that would happen if I talked to Mel is she would just pull further away from everyone. She is stubborn and she is going to have to come to terms with this in her own time." Piper was being open and honest with her niece. There wasn't really anything that she could do about her daughter at the moment.
"The only person that she halfway listens to anymore is B." Val supplied helpfully.
"That's because her and Bianca are a lot alike as well. I can see if she has any ideas about what to do with your crazy ass cousin, but I can't make you any promises." Piper replied.
"Aunt Piper, all I need you to do is try something. The girls is about to make me as crazy as she is right now and that is not a good thing." Val rubbed her temples it seemed like Mel was constantly giving her a headache.
"Don't think that you're the only one that she's making crazy. I'm afraid to leave the little firebug on her own. There is no damn telling what kind of stunt that she will try pulling this time." Piper said with a sigh.
"Don't worry I don't think she is ever alone. Roman keeps her occupied as much as he can. She can't work right now because of her shoulder and I think that has pushed her even further into depression." Val really didn't know what to do to help her cousin. But on the other side of the token she needed her out of her space before one of them killed each other.
"I don't know what I would do without Roman to keep an eye on her." Piper admitted. She was so close to having her daughter thrown into the loony bin that it wasn't funny.
"It's official, my balls are fucking blue and it's not even from a lack of sex this time." Chord said he was sitting on the couch in the living room of the Halliwell cousins' apartment shivering with a blanket wrapped around his shoulders.
"Chord, only you would say something like that." Troy told his little brother with a laugh. He too had a blanket wrapped around his shoulders.
"Do I want to know why the fuck you two look like you're about to die from hypothermia?" Liz asked both of her brothers rolling her eyes. The fact of the matter was she probably didn't want to know what they had been up to.
"Chord decided that he wanted to try his hand at fucking a polar bear, so we headed off to the North Pole so he could take a crack at it." Troy replied with a smirk. It was obvious that he had dressed warmer than his brother and that was why he wasn't as cold at the moment.
"You're so fucking funny that I forgot to laugh, Troy." Chord quipped rolling his eyes.
"Seriously, what were you guys doing?" Liz asked them wanting a real answer.
Chord held up his right hand and showed his sister a ring with a diamond in the middle of it. "We got another ring." He explained to her.
"We had to go all the way to Tibet and battle a fucking Yeti to get that damn thing." Troy informed her.
"Troy, you are fucking with me right now." Liz said thinking her brother was talking bullshit.
"Liz, I wish that I was fucking with you, but I promise that I'm not." Troy swore to his little sister.
"You and my husband both share a sick sense of humor, so I don't know when you're being serious." Liz informed him with her arms crossed over her chest.
"Lizzie, I can assure you that we are being dead serious this time. We wouldn't joke about something like that and moreover we wouldn't be sitting here acting like we are freezing to death for no reason." Chord pointed out to his sister.
"This shit just keeps getting better and better. Just when I thought that our lives couldn't get anymore complicated we start having to deal with mythical creatures that play for the other side." Liz raved throwing her hands up in the air.
"Lizzie, this is almost over you just have to be able to hold out a little while longer." Wyatt assured his wife wrapping his arms around her waist. He had just come home and he really wasn't in the mood to stress anymore today.
"I am so sick of this bullshit. I mean we deserve a little bit of a break too. I don't see the rest of the magical community busting their asses the way that we have been." Liz went on. She was worked up into quite a state and it would just be better to let her get it out of her system.
"That is because we are the most powerful. And whether we like it or not with great power comes great responsibility." Wyatt said sounding quite pleased with himself. He had actually said something that sounded smart for a change.
"Wyatt, just when I was starting to think that you might have surprised me by growing a brain. I walk into the room and hear you quoting Spiderman." Chris said shaking his head at his older brother.
"I can't help it that it's true. Chris, you need to think about this we are the most power witches in the world and it is our job to make sure that the world doesn't plunge into darkness. Now tell me that what I said doesn't apply in this situation." Wyatt challenged his little brother.
"I'm not saying that it doesn't apply, I'm merely stating that you just quoted Spiderman." Chris replied with a shrug.
"What is the ring count up to now?" Chord asked trying to keep those two from having a battle.
Chris went to the new chalkboard he had set up on the wall. It was divided into sections and each section had the name of one of the members of the sixteen on the heading with the name with the mythical creature or demon they had to fight or talk to, to get the ring that they needed. He put a check mark next to under Chord's name and then he began to count. "After my epic battle with the trolls earlier that brings our grand total to twelve. There are just four more out there and I strongly suspect that Brennan will be able to tell us where two of those are." He finally replied.
"Wow, we really are getting close to ending this aren't we?" Liz asked. She would be so glad for this to be over so they could get on with their lives.
"If I were a betting man I would say that we are going to be able to end this within a matter of days." Chris assured her with a smile.
"Well, I happen to be a betting man, so if you could give me a rough guess on how many days I could start a pool." Troy said. He had to do something to make this more fun for him.
"Troy, I'm going to error on the side of caution with this one and say that this could be over with in two more weeks at the most." Chris said giving him a rough guess.
"I like those odds. I say that we finish this up in a week." Troy replied.
"How much money are we putting on this?" Chord asked his brother.
"I say a hundred is a fair bet." Troy retorted after thinking it over for a minute.
"I'll take your bet I say that we finish this up in about a week and half." Chord said shaking hands with him to seal the deal.
Liz just looked at her two brothers and shook her head there was really no hope for either one of them. "I just don't know what to say about those two anymore."
"Don't look at me, they're your brothers." Wyatt said giving his wife a shrug.
"Don't remind me." Liz commented dryly with a roll of her eyes.
"Mom, you're never going to guess what I found out today." Patty said her voice taking on a melodious quality as she practically danced across the kitchen to get to her mother.
"It must be something pretty good from the way you're acting." Paige replied with a smile.
"Ricky and I are the top two in our class." Patty reported proudly.
"Which one of you is first?" Paige asked with an amused look on her face. She was glad that all of her kids were happy at the moment. Seeing Mel acting the way that she had been made her thankful for her good she had it at the moment. She remembered when she had to help Hank through his dark phase.
"I am, " Patty replied.
Paige felt herself tearing up. Her girls really weren't babies anymore. "Charlie, I am so proud of you right now." she said hugging her.
"Thanks, mom," Patty replied she just couldn't get the grin to leave her face.
"You know this means you have to write a speech don't you?" Paige asked her.
"I know and I'm not looking forward to that part." Patty sighed but that wasn't going to bring her mood down.
"I know that you have it in you." Paige assured her.
"Mom, I'm not Hank, I don't have the ability to command a room like he does. And I'm not Carly either, I don't thrive on attention the way that she does." Patty really was worried about that speech. She didn't have the people skills that both her older siblings did.
"I know that you're not either one of them and I thank God every day that you aren't like Carly I don't think my nerves would be able to handle that. You are a little bit like your brother you two share all the same good qualities. It's not a bad thing that you're not a natural leader like he is that doesn't mean that you don't have it in you though. You just have to make people listen to you, show them that they need to be hanging on to every word that you say. I know that over the last few years you have felt like you were damn near invisible to your father and me because first Hank had all of his problems and then Carly started acting out and you didn't think that they we had time for you. I always knew that you were there though and I tried to give you just as much attention as the other two. I just haven't had to worry about you as much as I have the older two, but I promise you that I know you're here and you have turned into one hell of a remarkable woman." Paige told her daughter honestly.
"I never felt invisible, mom, I have always known that you and dad care about me just as much as you care about the other two. I've just tried to be less problematic then they are. That is why I very rarely go to parties and you don't see me looking for trouble. I want you and dad to be able to say that you had at least one child who was easy to raise." Patty explained to her.
"Your father and I are thankful that you have been so well behaved, but honey you don't have to worry about that anymore. Now it's your time to shine and I know that you will be brighter than any star." Paige said kissing her on the temple.
"Hank is still your favorite though." Patty teased her.
"I don't have favorites, but if I did there would be two of them you and Hank." Paige said with a rueful grin. They all knew that her oldest child was her favorite.
"Damn, I wish I had a video camera. I walked in just in time to hear mom admit to what I've been accusing her of for years." Carly said snapping her fingers.
"Carly, just shut up sometimes." Patty told her sister.
"Honey, trust me it is going to take a lot more than you telling me to, to get me to shut my mouth." Carly replied with a smirk.
"Where is Hailey?" Paige asked. She didn't really have to keep tabs on her niece because she wouldn't get into trouble, but she still liked knowing where she was.
"She is either hanging out with Mia or Dante. I don't remember which at the moment." Carly answered her mother.
"We're just not going to tell your dad that she might be with Dante. That would send him through the roof. For some reason he has a problem with her dating him." Paige said. She really didn't want to have to deal with Henry's temper if she could avoid it. Little did she know that Hailey actually wasn't with either of those two people.
"Damn, I can't believe that you actually let me take you out this time." Brady joked as he and Hailey walked out of the movie theater together.
"Well, as much as I like the other things that we do together I thought that we could try something different today." Hailey said grabbing his hand.
"I sure as hell don't mind strutting around with you on my arm." Brady replied winking at her.
"Just when I start to think that you're different you prove to me that you are such a man." Hailey said rolling her eyes at him.
"I know that you don't see it, but you are beautiful and you are oblivious to the way that men look at you." Brady explained to her.
"Brady," Hailey said blushing.
"You've got to know that you are sexy as hell without meaning to be and men take notice of that." Brady told her seriously. For once he wasn't joking.
"Jesus Christ, I'm starting to sound like Mia. She doesn't think that anyone could find her attractive." Hailey said. She loved her friend, but that didn't mean that she wanted to be like her in that respect.
"You are both a little insecure because of the foster homes and I understand that. But I can see the difference in how you two were raised before you went into the system. It's obvious that you came from a loving home whereas she didn't." Brady was letting his psychology major take over for a second.
"Brady, we've talked about you trying to analyze me before and you know that I don't like it." Hailey reminded him.
"I can't help myself, I am Phoebe Halliwell's son after all." Brady replied with a shrug.
"As long as you try to control your impulses I suppose that I'll keep you around." Hailey quipped pinching his cheek.
"You'll keep me around?" Brady asked quirking his eyebrow.
"Yes, I don't have to hang out with you." Hailey informed him.
"I'm pretty sure that you hang out with me because you like what I do to you." Brady pointed out to her.
"No, that is why I let you into my pants." Hailey corrected him.
"Forgive me for even thinking that you might like me because you enjoy my company." Brady said sighing dramatically.
"I do enjoy your company, I just happen to enjoy what you do to me when we're fooling around." Hailey teased him.
"Seriously though, Hails, I'm really glad that you let me take you out on a real date today. I was starting to think that you were ashamed to be seen out in public with me." Brady replied seriously.
"I'm not ashamed of you, I just don't know how Uncle Henry and Aunt Paige are going to react when they find out that I have been seeing you." Hailey told him.
"If you're worried about the whole we're practically family thing then don't be. I promise you that Aunt Paige and Uncle Henry aren't going to care about us seeing each other." Brady was trying to talk reason to her.
"I don't want to mess with a good thing." Hailey replied.
"I think you're scared because you're starting to like me more than you like Dante." Brady teased her.
"Brady, I let you take me out today because I decided that I'm ready." Hailey admitted.
"Ready for what?" Brady asked her like he didn't know damn well what she was talking about.
"I'm ready to go all the way." Hailey answered looking down at her feet while she blushed.
"Are you sure?" Brady asked but he sounded hopeful.
"Brady, I'm positive. I told you that I wanted you to be my first and I meant that." Hailey replied.
"Ok, as long as you're sure." Brady said with a nod of his head.
"So, I was thinking that we could go back to P3 like we normally do." Hailey said rubbing his chest through his shirt.
"Hails, it's not going to happen like that. You only get one first time and I want it to be special for you. I'm not just going to take your innocence on the fold out bed in the back of my aunt's club. You deserve so much more than that and that is what you're going to get." Brady said pulling her close to him.
"I'm pretty sure that if you gave me five minutes I could convince you to see things my way." Hailey batted her eyelashes at him.
"Not happening, we're going to do this right way. You have to remember who my father is when you ask me to do things like that." Brady said firmly. More than anything he wanted to give in to her.
"Ok, so we wait for everyone to be out of the house and that is going to take forever." Hailey sighed.
"Not to worry, I have a plan when it comes to that." Brady grinned at her.
"I should have known that you would have a plan." Hailey smiled back at him.
"I only have one request." Brady told her.
"Name it," Hailey said.
"If you want me to make love to you then you are going to have to choose between Dante and me." Brady said. He had let her have her fun with Dante and now he wanted her to be serious about them.
"Can I think about it?" Hailey asked him.
"Of course you can, I know that you are still young and if you decide that what you really want is to be with him I will understand that." Brady replied he didn't like making her have to choose but he cared about her so much.
"No, you're right, I need to choose one of you and commit to my choice. I know what I have been doing isn't fair to either one of you." Hailey admitted.
"I just feel like you use me to fool around with and him for companionship." Brady told her.
"I promise you that I will make a decision soon, but until then I'm just asking you to be patient with me." Hailey responded.
"Anything for you." Brady said kissing her hand.
"Puck, I really wish you would stop distracting me." Penny bitched at her boyfriend. He was running his hand up and down her thigh.
"Pens, we're not even doing anything that you could be distracted from." Huck pointed out to her with a smug grin.
"We're supposed to be watching a movie and you are distracting me by having your hands all over me." Penny told him.
"I thought you liked it when I put my hands on you." Huck replied.
"I do like it and that is the problem. One of these days I'm not going to be able to stop myself from ripping your clothes off." Penny informed him.
"And you think that that would bother me?" Huck asked her making his eyebrows dance.
"I know that it wouldn't bother you, I just don't want sex to be something that we do on the spur of the moment." Penny explained to him.
"Pens, you don't have to explain yourself to me, I know that you want to wait until you're ready and I'm not going to pressure you about it." Huck swore to her.
"I know that you have been very patient with me about the whole sex thing, but it has got to be killing you." Penny replied.
"Think nothing of it, I could wait for you forever." Huck assured her.
"Huck, I find it very hard to believe that you are having a easy time with not having sex." Penny said.
"Sex isn't as important to me as the intimacy that I get out of just being with you." Huck knew the right things to say. Inside though he felt like he was going to die.
"So you never get the urge to want to do anything with me?" Penny asked him.
"Pens, I would be lying if I told you that I didn't. I find you incredibly attractive and it is all I can do some days to keep myself from throwing you over my shoulder and going a little caveman on you." Huck admitted.
"I'll make you a deal. If you can wait until after we vanquish the Triad then I'll be ready." Penny offered.
"I've already waited this long a little while longer isn't going to hurt me." Huck told her seriously.
"That doesn't mean that we can't try fooling around. Part of me wants to know what I'm missing out on." Penny said seductively.
"You happen to be talking to the king of fooling around. You better believe that I can take you places that you have never been." Huck told her leaning in to kiss her.
"I think that maybe we should take this up to your room then. I wouldn't want your dad walking in on us." Penny said giving him a wicked grin.
Huck stood up from the couch and scooped her up into his arms. "Your wish is my command." He told her before heading up the stairs to his room.
"Thanks for rescuing me from my younger siblings today." Billy told Mia gratefully. He was always happy when he got to spend time with her.
"I don't think that they are as bad as you're making them out to be." Mia teased him.
"They are little monsters, you have no idea just how bad they really are." Billy maintained.
"So, we have this whole apartment to ourselves. There is no telling when Kyle is going to be home. So we can do pretty much whatever we want to do." Mia told him.
"I like just being able to hang out where I can think without two little kids pestering the hell out of me." Billy joked.
"They sure do know how to push your buttons sometimes." Mia agreed with him.
"And that is putting it mildly." Billy agreed with a laugh.
"So, we could always have a movie marathon today." Mia suggested to him.
"I like the sounds of that." Billy said. Actually he liked anything that let him be close to her for a little while.
"Pick your poison." Mia told him.
"I say that we go with classic westerns today. We did mob movies the last time that we did this." Billy suggested.
" I like the way that you think." Mia agreed with him.
"So, I'll work on the snacks and you can get the movies." Billy offered.
"That works for me." Mia told him.
Billy of course couldn't resist gloating to Chase about this. So he sent him a text message that read. Dude, I'm totally winning this competition right now. It sucks to be you.
Chase fired back with, You can think that you're gaining ground all that you want to just know that all I have to do is swoop in and turn on the charm and you'll be done for.
"Hey, Billy, you coming?" Mia called to him.
"Yeah, I'll be right there." Billy called back putting his phone away.
"Chuck, you're making me nervous. You told me that you had something important to talk about and now I can barely get you to say two words." Prue told her husband. She didn't know what it is that he had to talk to her about, but she was worried.
"It's nothing to worry about I just have to think about how to word this." Chuck said he was studying the food that was on the plate in front of him. He had made a big show of taking Prue out to dinner just to get her in a good mood for what he had to talk to her about.
"Honey, just tell me. Whatever it is I promise you that I won't be mad and we will work through it together." Prue assured him.
"Prue, I got a job offer that I really want to take I just don't know how you'll feel about it." Chuck told her.
"A job offer from where?" Prue asked him. This wasn't as bad as she had thought it was going to be.
"I got an offer to coach football at USC. I really want to take it, but I don't want to force you to move away from your family." Chuck said.
"Chuck, if you want to take the job, take the job. This thing with the Triad is almost finished and it should take the underworld a little while to reorganize after we get rid of them." Prue said. She wanted him to be happy and she knew that she would be happy as long as she was with him.
"I really, really want this job. It would make me like the youngest collage ball coach ever." Chuck admitted.
"Chuck, I want you to take this job. We will hammer out all the details later. I can be happy as long as I am with you." Prue assured him.
"Prue, I know how close you are to your family and I don't want to do anything that is going to mess that up." Chuck reasoned with her.
"Nothing you do is going to mess up the relationship that I have with my family. Besides I think that it would be a good idea for us to get out on our own for a little while. We both know that this job isn't going to last forever." Prue countered.
"I just want you to make sure that you are positive about this before I say yes." Chuck told her.
"Baby, as long as this is what you want then I'm more than positive. We have all sacrificed a lot over the last year and a half. It's time to do something for us for a change." Prue stated firmly.
"Ladybug, I love you so much." Chuck told her with a smile on his face.
"I love you too, Chip." Prue said leaning across the table to kiss him.
"Mels, maybe you need to go easy on the booze tonight." Paige suggested to her aunt.
"I'm fine, Paige. The last thing I need is for you to be worried about me too." Mel replied downing a shot.
"I'm not worried about you, I'm just telling you that mixing that booze with the pills you're taking might make you a little loopy." Paige said throwing her hands up in a sign of surrender. She wasn't trying to tell Mel what to do; she knew that that would only make matters worse.
"I appreciate the concern, but I promise that there is nothing for you to be worried about." Mel assured her.
"So, I hear that this thing with the Triad is almost done." Paige said trying to change the topic.
"Yep, that's what they tell me. I for one will be very happy to send those bastards to the wasteland." Mel replied before downing another shot. The only reason they could have that conversation was because there was hardly anyone in P3 tonight.
"Mel, I don't think that you'll be as happy to get rid of them as Dodge will. I just saw him earlier today and he was bitching because he needs a break." Paige informed her.
"That's the cupid in him it makes him a whiner by nature. I mean you have met Prue." Mel joked.
"You're not telling me anything that I don't know." Paige replied shaking her head.
"We're just waiting on the older kids to collect their rings or whatever the fuck it is that they are doing at the moment." Mel said with a sigh.
"My dad is on the case and you know that he won't rest until this thing is over with once and for all. I think that the older kids are about burnt out from all of this shit." Paige was just trying to make conversation at this point. She wanted nothing more than to strangle Mel for the way that she had been acting lately.
"I can't say that I blame them, they have been at this shit a lot longer than we have and it has taken so much from them. Look at Chord and Oriana those two got screwed over worse than anyone has." Mel replied.
"That's the elders for you they can be a real pain in the ass when they want to be. Not only that, but they have never been really helpful." Paige commented.
"You're preaching to the choir on that one sister. The only reason they have gotten a little bit better lately is because my dad is one of them again and he won't stand for their bullshit. I think he learned his lesson the last time after what happened with Gideon and the Avatars." Mel stated.
"I agree grandpa had to go through some shit because of them. I don't know how he can trust them." Paige shrugged her shoulders. It was sad that she didn't even know what to talk to Mel about anymore outside of demons and other magic related stuff there was a time when they were super close.
"Paige, this family has gone through more bullshit then I care to think about, but still we always come out alright in the end." Mel admitted and something about that statement made her have a little bit of hope for herself. She didn't like being like this and she would do just about anything to get back to the way that she used to be.
A/N: Here is the first chapter of the new episode. I hope that you guys enjoyed it. It was nice to see some normal interaction between Henry, Bianca, and their mothers. Val should have known when she told Mel that she could move in with her that those two weren't going to be able to live together because they are so different. The older kids are really close to being done with the Knights of Chaos and it will be good for them to get a break for a change. It looks like Chuck and Prue are going to be moving on for a little while. I wonder how the others are going to take them moving away. Brady put his foot down with Hailey he wants her to commit to him if she wants him to be the one to take her innocence. Mia and Billy are getting close then ever I don't think she would react well if she knew about the competition between him and Chase. Mel really wants to get better it looks like she just doesn't know how to do that. Until next time please review.
