Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed, I only like to think about what if's.
Summary: Chris broke up with Bianca, after catching her cheating on him. Coop has a niece, who could use some training in combat, so she moves in with Piper's family. It seems like she and Chris can't get along well, all hel just might break loose... but does it?
Author's notes: This is my very first Charmed story, so please, don't kill me. The characters might be off a bit, I'm trying to work on that. If any spelling or grammatical mistake comes up, please take in mind that English is not my first language. I wrote this without a beta, so if anyone would like to be my beta, I'd be glad. Thanks.
Oh, and comments are welcome.
It was a sizzling hot day when the Charmed Ones were once again together in the kitchen of the manor. Phoebe was leading the conversation, since her husband told her something this morning.
"So, this is it. And I don't know what should I do. Since she is his niece, we should help her. But she can't stay at our place, 'cause the condo is too small for one more person."
"But she needs a mentor, to learn to control her powers in combat." Piper agreed. "Okay. She can come here, since the boys will be training aswell. And I suppose, she is roughly their age. So, she will be welcomed." the mother of the Charmed boys smiled, already foreseeing all the events occuring in her house with Coop's little niece.
"Okay, girls, this is all peachy, but what about her other half. She is part coupid too, not just part witch. Who will train that half?" Paige, as always, interveined.
"Oh, that won't be a problem." Phoebe shaked off the mentioned matter. "Her mother is the coupid in the family, so she was teaching her everything she needed. But her witch-part is slightly untrained, although she knows the basics, like brewing potions, casting spells and things like this. Right now, she needs to learn how to fight demons."
"And the best way is to learn that is training with my boys." Piper closed the matter with placing a few coffee mugs on the dining table. "Okay, the boys should be up around now, and I can call Leo home from the Magic School soon, why don't you call Coop to bring her here."
"Okay." Phoebe noded, and concentrated on Coop.
A few seconds later, Coop appeared in the kitchen, with a young witch. She was 5'1", with shoulder lenght, dark mahagony hair, and hazel eyes.
"Hi girls." Coop greeated. "She is my niece, Emily. Thanks for taking her in."
"Hi Coop." Piper hugged her, Paige following her. "Hi Emily. My name is…"
Piper's voice was washed away, when shouting came from the living room's direction, getting louder by the minute.
"No fair, Wy. I told you, I need the car today." Piper's only daughter was determined to curse his brother.
"Listen, Mel. I need that car, I mean, I really need that car." Wyatt's voice died the moment when he stepped in the kitchen. "Good… morning?" he tried to smile at his mother, but no use.
"Wyatt Matthew Halliwell! Give back the car keys to your sister." Piper stood up, easily intimidating her son, although she was almost a foot shorter.
"Sorry, mom." Wyatt looked defeated. "May I have a coffee at least?" he looked hopeful.
"Here you go. And don't you try to trick the keys from your sister." Piper handed him a mug.
"Thanks."
"Thanks, mom." Melinda hugged her mother, while grabbing her usual mug, tasting the coffe in it. "I have to go to the library today. I still have to research for my thesis."
"Okay, sweetheart. But before that, I'd like you to meet Emily. She is Uncle Coop's niece, and she will be living here for the summer."
"Cool!" Melinda's face lit up even more. "It will be nice to have one more girl here. I'm happy to meet you, Emily." she quickly hugged the silent witch and stormed off the kitchen. "Bye, guys, gotta run."
"Whoa, some tornado." Emily smiled after the girl.
"I'm sorry about my daughter, she can be quite a whirl sometimes." Piper apologised for her daughter.
"It's okay, really." Emily shook her head. "I'm sorry for not introducing myself earlier. My name is Emilia Raven-Scott. Nice to meet you."
"Oh, darling, don't be so formal. My name is Piper, and she is my sister, Paige. I can assume, you know my other sister, Phoebe."
"Very much." Phoebe smiled at Emily.
"Emily, would you like a cup of coffee?" Piper went back to the counter, getting another mug, just in case.
"Yes, thank you. And thank you for having me. It is really big help."
"Oh, don't be silly. I know my boys. They will be training all summer again, so you might aswell just join them. Am I right, Wyatt?" she smiled at her firstborn, who was silently sipping his coffee.
"Yes, mom."
"Speaking of boys. Wy, is Chris still sleeping?" Phoebe asked her nephew.
"No, last time I checked, he was in the shower." Wyatt answered, while stealing away a cookie from the counter for his coffee.
Speak of the devil, he will appear. As if he had just heard it, Chris orbed in the kitchen, clad only in a towel, seemingly all wet from the aformentioned shower.
"Mom, have you seen my jeans? I can't find them anywhere." he asked, grabbing his mug of coffee, not even bothering to look around.
"Christopher Perry Halliwell!" Piper shouted at her younger son. "We have a guest here!"
Chris turned red in a blink of an eye, and orbed right out as his eyes met Emily's.
"Sorry." was the last word they could hear from him.
Everyone at the table doubled over laughing, while Piper shook her head at her son.
"I'm sorry you had to see this. But, apparently, this is an ordinary morning in the Halliwell household, so be prepared."
"Don't worry, it's okay." Emily said absent mindedly. After a few seconds, she realized what she had just said, and turned just as red as Chris was a few minutes ago.
The laughter got even higher, until Piper had enough and turned to her oldest.
"Wyatt, please, go up, and tell your brother, that his jeans are in the dryer." Wyatt noded, putting down his empty mug, and left the kitchen right away.
After the lively morning events, everyone seemed to have small talks with eachother, leaving Emily to calm down a bit. This was the moment, when Phoebe choose to get close to her.
"Quite something, isn't he?"
"What?" Emily looked puzzled. "Who?"
"Chris. I've sensed that you find him attractve." Phobe smiled at the young girl. "It's okay. And he did orbed here in a towel. Everybody would take a look, or two." she continued when see saw Emily wanted to cut in.
"Here you go, Emily." Piper sat down to them, placing a mug of coffee in front of her. "Welcome to my family."
"Chris." Wyatt orbed into his brother's room. "Mom says your jeans are in the dryer."
"Thanks." Chris sat on his bed in a boxer and a shirt, looking a bit distracted.
"You okay?" Wyatt was concerned about his brother, usually he didn't look so distant and out of his usual character.
"I don't know. It's just that…"
"What?" Wyatt started to grow impatient.
"Noone had seen me naked since Bianca." how Chris ended the sentence wasn't to Wyatt's liking at all.
"I know, I know. I should try to forget her."
"Yes, you should. I mean, man, she left you 3 months ago, and she never came back. Not once."
"I know, I know. No need to stress it!"
Wyatt looked sympathetically at his brother, who stood up and left his room. In a few minutes, Chris returned, with his jeans in his hands.
"Let's change the topic." he said. "Who's this girl here? I think, I need to know more about her, since I've managed to embarass myself in front of her."
"Oh, her." a huge grin appeared on Wyatt's face. "She is the niece of Uncle Coop, a cupid-witch. She will be staying with us for the summer, since she needs training in combat. And mom suggested that we should help her, since we won't be doing anything else this summer than training. I don't know anything about her powers yet, but I'm intended to find out."
Chris shook his head smiling. Typical Wyatt. If it's not his girlfriend, Hailey, he's not interested in her personal details.
'Looks like I have to find it out myself.' Chris thought before reaching for a box. Followed by Wyatt's curious look, he tracked down Bianca's every personal belonging, which was left in his room after their break-up.
"What are you doing?" he heard his brother's voice behind his back.
"Gathering her things." Chris shrugged carelessly, while closing the top of the box. "She is coming over today to get them, and I want her out of my life as soon as possible."
Wyatt seemed surprised, but a moment later a blissful smile appeared on his face.
"That's my brother." he hugged Chris.
"You know, I wasn't entirely heartbroken this whole time. I was pissed of and shocked too. I mean, how dare she cheat on me?"
Wyatt was grinning like a madman as he listened his brother's outburst.
"Nice to have you back." he commented when Chris finished ranting.
"Nice to be back. It just took some time to realize that I wasn't at fault here." Chris stepped out from his room, with the box in his hands and Wyatt right behind him.
In the corridor, he ran into his mother, who was obviously showing Emily around.
"Hi, Peanut." Piper smiled at her second born. "Where are you going, and what's that box?"
"Mom, please!" Chris groaned at the mention of his nickname. This day was just getting better and better. First that incident in the kitchen, and now this.
"Christopher Perry Halliwell. I'm your mother, thus I'm allowed to call you as I please." Piper scolded her second son, not bothered by the fact that Emily was standing not three feet from them. "So, am I getting an answer for my questions?"
"These are Bianca's things. She is coming over to get them, and I want to get over with it asap." the explanation Chris gave, satisfied Piper's curiosity, but she flinched at the mention of his ex-girlfriend's name.
"Okay, but don't go anywhere far. Emily's moving in today, and she will need help. Coop is bringing over her thing now."
"Okay, mom." Chris noded and turned to face Emily. "I'm Chris Halliwell by the way, or Peanut, as my mom likes to call me."
"Or Mr. Charmed, as everybody else calls you in the magical community." Emily smiled. "My name is Emily Raven-Scott, and I hate it too, when my mom calls me sugarbean."
At first, everybody looked at her shocked, as they've never heard Chris being mentioned by the name Mr. Charmed. But when she finished her introduction, Chris was the forst one to laugh. Emily had found the best way to ease his embarassment.
"Smart one." Wyatt praised her from behind Chris' back after he gathered his breath.
"You have to tell me about this Mr. Charmed thing later." Piper still giggeled as she looked at her sons. "Okay, boys. You two go, do what you need to, and come back 'till lunch. Emily will surely need help by then."
"Okay, mom." they said in unison. Chris wanted to say something else, but the front door's bell disturbed him.
"I'll be right back." he sighed, as he walked down the stairs.
Piper shook her head, and turned back to Emily.
"Come on. This might take a while for him. In the meantime, I'll show you your room."
Emily nodded, and as soon as Piper turned her back to her, she looked questioningly at Wyatt.
"I'll fill you in later." he mouthed, and Emily smiled thankfully. She was more and more curious about this Chris Halliwell.
Chris opened the door with the box in hands, seeing exactly what he was expecting. Bianca stood on the porch, with her sunglasses in her hands.
"Hello Chris."
"Hello, Bianca." Chris handed her the box. "Your things. Everything is in there."
Chris wanted to close the door, but Bianca stopped him.
"Listen, if it means anything to you, I've never wanted to hurt you."
"But you did." he said nonchalantly. "Otherwise, you've had broken up with me, before you've cheated on me. So, let's just end it here."
"Chris, I'm sorry." Bianca pleaded.
"Don't be. I'm over you. So, just go, and don't think about it or me again." Chris shrugged and closed the door. "Good bye, Bianca."
"Good bye." she whispered, before getting into her car.
When Chris turned avay from the door, he'd found his father leaning against the living room's doorframe.
"That went smooth." Leo said approvingly. "A little hars, but smooth."
"I think, I have every right to be a little harsh, don't I, dad?"
"Indeed." he said, as he walked over to his son. "And don't misunderstand me. You were fair with her. I'm proud of you." Leo hugged his son.
A minor thud echoed in the kitchen, causing both males to look up.
"This might be Coop, with Emily's things." Leo said with a smile, as they were walking towards the kitchen.
"You know about her?" Chris looked surprised.
"Yes. Coop came to see me at Magic School, before he went home to gather Emily's bags."
"Bags? As in plural?" as always, Chris wanted everything to be straightened out.
"Four of them, to be exact." said Coop, as he put down the last bag from his shoulders.
"Cool." Chris nodded. "I'll call Wyatt to help."
"Okay, son. Emily's room will be right next to yours." Leo called after him, as Chris was already climbing up the stairs.
"You think, this will be alright?" Leo asked Coop, when Chris was out of hearing range.
"Leo, calm down." Coop just smiled at the former Elder's nervousness. "It will be alright. Good too. Trust me."
"I know. But I can't help to be worried." Leo admitted laughing, but his eyes remained serious.
Before anyone of them could say anything else, Chris and Wyatt entered the kitchen, so any more conversation was impossible.
Upstairs, Piper showed Emily her room.
"This is it. I know, it's not much, but I hope, you're not disappointed." Piper looked around the room, which was roughly the same size as Chris'.
"It's perfect." Emily was delighted as she looked around he spacious room. "I love it." she smiled at Piper.
The oldest Charmed One was relieved, as she heard the young woman's answer. She had a feeling, that she will like Emily.
"So," Piper sat down on the bed. "tell me something about you."
Emily just smiled, since she was waiting for this question.
"Well, I'm…" she stopped mid-sentence, when the boys orbed in the room.
"Wyatt! Chris!" Piper was pissed of. "What did I tell you about orbing in the house?"
"Sorry, mom." once again, they answered synchronised.
"I'm sorry." Piper turned to Emily. "My boys are just downright lazy. They won't orb into your room once again."
"They had every right to orb here. My bags are somewhat heavy. So orbing them up was the easiest way. It's not a problem. And, by the way," Emily turned to face the boys. "I could've bring them up myself."
"It's not like they couldn't use some work out." said Piper, while Chris and Wyatt burst out.
"Our father rasied us gentlemans. We won't let you carry heavy bags."
Emily laughed at their antics, already liking them.
"Okay, okay." she laughed. "But let me enlighten you. I'm not the „damsel in distress" type, so I won't need much help."
Wyatt and Chris looked at eachother, rolling their eyes, while Piper sat between the three of them, enjoying their little arguement.
It seemed, life was going to be more and more interesting.