Disclaimer: Sadly I don't earned Charmed I wish I did but I don't. If I did though it would probably be something like this.
Summary: Henry Jr. is turning twenty-one things have seriously come a long way from the beginning of last season. Chris and the future kids figure out who is in the triad. Ricky has problems with his alpha and he discovers something about himself that might make his life either better or a little bit more complicated. Meanwhile Grams comes down to do the wiccaning for the kids and of course she still has a surprise or two up her sleeve. Greg tries to get further in with his family in hopes of having some of them on his side. But really his days are numbered considering the amount of people who know the truth about him. The confusing first line of the prophecy for the eleven is finally figured out and what it reveals will come as a shock to one of the sister's from the Charmed generation. Ricky and Huck continue with their plan to catch Torch doing something wrong. Chuck is going to have to deal with his demonic relatives this episode. Some visitors come from the future that never ends well and it may just put a strain on Jack and Emily's relationship.
A/N: The song used in this chapter is Beer For My Horses by Toby Keith.
Chapter 1: Twenty-One Candles
"You know Chris this isn't really my idea of a good time." Jack Halliwell told his brother. They were sitting in the Hall of Prophecies. Chris had enlisted the future kids' help in figuring out the prophecy about the eleven.
Chris looked up from the prophecy that he was reading and he shot his little brother a look. "Tough shit Jackie, I need to figure out the first line in that prophecy and since you refuse to tell me what that's about you can help me figure it out." He rebuked his whining.
"Daddy I still don't feel good and I'm about to fall asleep sitting here." Paige whined to her father giving him a pitiful look with her big brown eyes.
"I know baby but your mom and your Uncle Hank really needed to be together tonight so you're stuck with me." Chris told her gently. He hated seeing her so miserable and there wasn't a damn thing he could do to help her. The medicine she was on was slowly doing the trick but she still looked and sounded horrible.
Brady discarded the prophecy he was looking at before he picked up another one. "Chris it would be helpful if we knew what we were looking for." He pointed out logically.
Alan gave a derisive snort at that. "Chris doesn't even know what we're looking for so good luck getting his help with that."
"Al don't be so crabby all the time I miss the fun you." Dom pleaded with his friend.
"Well we happen to be looking for anything that either helps us figure out who is in the triad or that part about the first born daughter of a Charmed One." Chris explained.
"Daddy you should have just said that to begin with that is simple enough to find." Paige replied as she got up to look for a prophecy on the triad.
Dom smiled as he watched her walk away and Chris shot him a look. "I don't care if you are engaged to her I don't want you undressing her with your eyes." He snapped at the younger man.
"Uncle Chris I wasn't undressing her with my eyes I was just thinking about how much smarter she is than I am. I mean I can honestly say that you're about to have your answer about who's in the triad in a minute. She just has these eureka moments sometimes." Dom stammered he didn't want Chris being pissed off at him.
"Just keep your eyes to yourself when I'm around and we won't have a problem." Chris said conversationally. He knew he wasn't being fair to the kid but he was crabby and that was his little girl.
"Daddy give your alpha male tendencies a rest for right now I can't take it I have a headache as it is." Paige said sitting back down at the table with a stack of prophecies on the triad.
"Paige you don't seriously think that you're going to find what you're looking for that easy do you?" Alan asked his niece.
"Stranger things have happened and I won't know unless I try. So unless you have a better a idea shut your big ass mouth." Paige shot at him. She wasn't in the mood to deal with crabby ass Alan.
"Paige sweetie if you want to you can lay your head on my shoulder and rest while I look through that stack for you." Dom offered his fiancé he didn't like seeing her so sick.
"I'm fine Dom besides this is one of those times that I'm the only one who knows what I'm looking for." Paige dismissed his concern.
"Oh, God help us all Paige Halliwell is playing one of her famous hunches right now. Those have gotten us in trouble before and yet we still find nothing wrong with them at all." Jack mused his blue eyes sparkling with mischief.
"A lot of the things that Paige does get us all in trouble and we still go along with them. You would think that in this length of time we would have learned not to listen to anything she has to say but no we're not that smart." Brady rambled on Phoebe Halliwell was so his mother.
Paige looked up at them triumphantly "All of you boys can kiss my ass." She said conversationally from the look on her face it was obvious that she had found something.
Chris arched his eyebrow and looked at his daughter. "What did you find Paige?"
"Three evils of old shall fight against eleven righteous souls. An evil with powers as old as the dawn of time, one of the ultimate kind, and one who played for the other side shall complete this destiny in time." Paige read.
"That's it? We're supposed to know what that means from that?" Alan asked incredulously.
"Wait a minute we can talk this out." Chris said trying to calm his little cousin down.
"One who used to play for the other side. That's not exactly easy to figure out there darling brother of mine." Jack sighed. He was so tired of things being this hard there was no call for it.
Chris looked at him and rolled his green orbs. "I worry about you sometimes I often wonder how it is you were supposed to figure out what turned Coop all by yourself. You and Al don't act like you're very bright sometimes. One who used to play for the other side. That is so easy that's Gideon it has to be it makes sense. We know that he is one of Greg's trusted advisors and who better to aid the source than the triad?" he went off on a tangent that Bianca would have yelled at him for but he didn't care.
Brady cocked his head to the side and his hazel eyes burned with recognition. "Oh, my God one of them is Christy it has to be. She is the only one who was ever referred to as the ultimate power we know that it's not Aunt Billie because she is good." Not to mention he knew other things about Billie that made her being a member of the triad impossible.
Alarm bells started going off in Paige's head. Damn it all to hell she was getting her time lines mixed up again but she knew that that was important for some reason. "That sounds like something important that I should be remembering but that is mixed in with all my other time lines. I know that the answer is right in front of us but for the life of me I can't figure it out." She ranted. It really wasn't hard to tell that she was Chris's daughter she acted just like him sometimes.
"Babe don't push yourself so hard it'll come to you it always does." Dom reassured her. The reason she was so sick right now was because she had insisted on pushing herself well past her limits.
"Powers as old as the dawn of time?" Brady asked hoping to get some clarification on that.
"I have no idea on that one Phillip don't ask me." Alan said throwing his hands up in a sign of surrender.
Jack and Chris both stroked their chins deep in thought. A grin broke out across Jack's face. "I've got it it's Barbas." He announced.
"Explain that in simple terms for all of us stupid people." Dom begged him. He would have thought that he would have been used to the way the Halliwell mind worked by now.
"Fear is a primal response it's one of the oldest that there is therefore it makes sense that it would be talking about Barbas." Chris explained he knew exactly what his little brother had been trying to say.
"Well done Chris I couldn't of said it any better myself." Jack beamed at his big brother.
"Good we have what we need can we go home now?" Paige asked she really didn't feel that great and she just wanted to go to sleep. But just like Dom said what she had been trying to remember came to her hell they had just been discussing this a week ago. Her brain really didn't work right when she was sick.
"Of course we can baby." Chris said pressing a kiss to her temple.
Piper and Leo were sitting in the living room watching TV with her sisters and their husbands. The truth be told they were all enjoying the peace and quiet that they were experiencing.
"Piper when is Grams coming down the kids' wiccaning is in a couple of days?" Phoebe asked her sister.
"I don't know I think she might be coming down tomorrow you know her she does what she can to piss the elders off." Piper replied.
"Oh, well Hank is just going to love that." Paige cracked.
"I know he'll get to see Grams for his birthday he is going to be so excited." Prue joked.
"No we'll be lucky if he doesn't find a ghost or something to vanquish her." Henry corrected his sister-in-law.
At just that moment a portal opened in the room and two people came walking out of it a young man and a young woman. The young man was R.J. and he had a little boy in his arms.
The young woman was dark headed and since that was a common thing for a Halliwell it was hard to tell who her parents were. She took a look around and groaned. "Good going Roman you were supposed to aim for a place where the grandparents weren't." she told him sarcastically.
"Jeremiah tell Jamie not to get on R.J.'s case." R.J. told the little boy in his arms.
"Leave Uncle R.J. alone he's doing the best he knows how." Jeremiah parroted he talked remarkably plain for a kid his age.
"We are so not dealing with this. Henry Victor get your ass to the manor now." Paige yelled for her oldest son.
Hank orbed in a minute later he had his arms wrapped around Bianca. "What mother?" he asked.
"Did I interrupt something?" Paige asked when she saw the state they were both in. Their clothes were askew and they were both breathing heavily.
"Yes you did Aunt Paige." Bianca replied. Paige wiggled her eyebrows at the two of them.
Hank groaned, "You didn't interrupt that mother. We aren't Prue and Chuck we were sparring it was no big deal. Now what do you need?" he asked.
Piper pointed to the young people in the room. "Deal with them please."
"R.J. what are you doing here buddy?" Hank asked his nephew.
"Well I really needed to see Jackie and Paige." R.J. admitted.
"Right always go running to those two for comfort baby." Jamie told her cousin sarcastically.
"You have to be my oldest sister's child there is no doubt about it." Hank told her.
"Very good Uncle Junior you are really very sharp." Jamie replied. Hank shot her a frosty glare there was no way this girl wasn't Carly's Satan spawn.
"Paige Victoria, manor now." Bianca yelled for her daughter. She wasn't dealing with this if she didn't have to.
Jack orbed in before Paige did he took one look at his son in his nephew's arms and his face lit up. He went over and picked up the little boy. "Hi Jeremiah look at how big you got." He marveled at how much his son had grown. He held him close to his chest and pressed a kiss to the top of his head.
"Jack what's going on? And who is that?" Leo asked his son.
"He's my son dad." Jack said and the whole room went quiet after he dropped that bombshell.
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- Jonathan Rhys Meyer
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- Sarah Michelle Gellar
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
And
Emily Bradford- Hayden Panettiere
"What do you mean he's your son Jack?" Piper asked him incredulously.
"Grandma there is no denying that the boy looks just like Jackie." Paige reasoned with her.
" Here buddy go to your Aunt Paige for a minute." Jack handed his son to his niece but not before he kissed him on the back of his head. "I mean I did some things I wasn't proud of I had an affair with Emily. He was the end result. But Em went back to her husband and I never got to be in his life before." He explained to his mother. He was close to tears but he held them back.
"You know I have been meaning to ask you about him it's just with everything that has been going on I never got the chance." Chris added he really had forgot about his little brother having a kid.
"Chris if it isn't painfully obvious he is my child I've never been ashamed of him and I'm not going to start now because I never will be." Jack held his head up high he didn't care what anyone thought all that mattered to him was he was getting to be with his boy even if he didn't know how long that would last.
Chris looked at his brother with understanding shining in his eyes. He felt sorry for the poor guy. "Good, because there is not one damn thing for you to be ashamed of. Jackie he is beautiful man." He went and kissed his nephew on the head.
"Thanks Chris." Jack said smiling from ear to ear.
"If it makes anyone any bit of difference I did tell him not to get involved with Emily both times but that didn't stop him." Alan said he was sticking to that point.
Brady shook his head and sighed. The way his cousin carried on about love and all things related to it made him sad. "I've told your numerous times Alan that there can be no rational thought when the heart gets involved everything else goes out the window."
Coop beamed with pride at his son. "Alan listen to my boy he knows what he's talking about." He advised his nephew. He couldn't help but notice that he was a little bit of a killjoy when it came to love.
"Right because Al just listens so well when it comes to things like that." Jamie said rolling her eyes.
R.J. rolled his eyes at his cousin. "Shut up Jay you and your mouth get us in more trouble than I care to think about." He sighed like his mother he felt like he had to be the parent in his age group.
"So what are you guys doing here?" Dom asked he really was scared to know the answer to that.
"I would like to know that myself." Andy sounded just a little curious.
Bianca looked around and she knew that all the questions weren't going to get them anywhere tonight. "I have a small suggestion we should just let this keep for the night and start in on them tomorrow morning."
R.J. perked up at that. "I like that idea Aunt B and to think they say you have a stick up your ass."
"I'm sure that my daughter is the main one who says things like that." Bianca said casting a look in Paige's direction.
Paige grinned at her mother. "Mom I would never say anything like that I don't know how you could accuse me of such a thing." She tried her best to sound innocent. Chris snorted at his daughter unable to keep on smirk off of his face.
Wyatt, Liz, Chuck, and Prue were sitting at the kitchen table in the Halliwell cousin's apartment. They were the only four who could stand each other and their mushiness. Chris and Henry steered clear of them as best as they could.
"I wonder how we got lucky enough to get rid of Hank and Chris without bribing them." Prue mused as she laid her head on her husband's shoulder.
"Well lets see there were demon related things to do so my little brother gladly jumped at that. And then Hen is with B doing whatever it is that those two do with their time." Wyatt explained to his little cousin.
"While we are supposed to be coming up with ways to keep Hank busy so he doesn't know about his birthday party." Liz reminded them.
"Like I told B this is more of a Chris thing to do he will figure us out with no trouble at all." Chuck chimed in.
"That is why I'm not going to be the one doing anything to distract him. Fuck the boy thinks I'm up to something even when I'm not." Prue bitched they didn't give her enough credit.
Liz looked at her friend and arched her eyebrow. "That's because you're always up to something Prue. I know that you don't think I forgot about the hell you put me and Wy through."
"Something had to be done about you guys and I was the only one brave enough to do that is not my fault." Prue retorted defensively. She couldn't help but smile every time she saw Wyatt and Liz together that was some of her best work.
"Honey you need to let people sort out their own feelings in their own time." Chuck reasoned with her not that there was any reasoning with his wife.
Prue glared at him. "Babe I gave them eight years and I behaved myself that whole time but I couldn't take it anymore so I had to do what I had to do."
Wyatt laughed and shook his head. "B would so kick our asses right now if she heard how off topic we are. I don't even know how it happens it just happens."
"Because I swear that we have ADD sometimes and I'm not even joking about it." Liz was being serious that was the only explanation she could come up with as to why they got as off topic as they did.
"Oh, Lizzie it's just our way of coping with all the shit we have to deal with. We make jokes and talk about totally random things to keep from going insane." Prue was pretty much right on the money with assessment.
"So I have yet to be told exactly what the hell we are doing for Hank's birthday." Chuck said raising his hand.
"Well the gorilla said that he didn't want a party that he would just stick to the family dinner since we have to get ready for the kids' wiccaning. But he is going to be twenty-one, his girl and his best friend just couldn't allow that. So we're pretty much going to take him on the same binge that we took Chris on when he turned twenty-one. He can't know about it though so we have to keep him distracted. Chris is waking him up super early and they are going fishing I don't know what we're going to do with him the rest of the day but we'll figure something out." Wyatt explained.
"Why is this our job? I'm more of a skilled laborer." Chuck asked confused.
"It's really not our job but they told us to think up shit to do with him. Because some of us are in charge of decorating the club and getting it ready." Liz went on he asked way too many questions.
"Lizzie we aren't seriously going to let the parents bear witness to his twenty-first birthday binge are we?" Wyatt asked his fiancé confused.
"Fuck no Wy we're just starting out there. There is nothing for you to worry about we have this under control. Besides that you know how Aunt Paige gets about his drinking there is no way that his epic drunkenness is going to happen in front of her." Liz explained like he was crazy.
"So then we just have to think up ways to keep him busy. That shouldn't be hard this is Hank we're talking about he is very easily amused." Prue pointed out and the other three nodded their heads in agreement.
Jake and Lilly were sitting in a booth a P3 he had his arm around her shoulders. They had just been on their first real date since they had gotten back together. Things between them still weren't what they had once been. And they were really working hard trying to get back to that.
"Are you having a good time tonight?" Jake asked Lilly giving her a smile. There had been a time when he didn't have to ask her that he just knew.
"Yeah Jakie I always have a good time when I'm with you. Dinner was really nice and I liked it a lot but you don't have to try so hard." Lilly replied kissing him.
"I know but I'm just a little weird right now and I'm sorry about that but I can't help it. We're in a funk I know that we're trying to get back to normal so I'm stepping my game up." Jake sounded unsure of himself. He never sounded unsure of himself when it came to her.
Lilly gave him a watery smile. "This is my fault and I'm sorry Jakie. I want us to go back to how it was before I just don't know how to make that happen."
Jake's eyes lit up like they did when he had an idea. "Lilly I don't want it to be like it was before." He told her.
"You don't?" Lilly asked him confused.
Jake smiled at her. "No I don't, I want it to be better. I know that we can make it better this time. I think that we can be just as annoying to everyone as Prue and Chuck are if not worse." He was speaking from his heart on this one.
Lilly made a split second decision in that moment. "Jake did you want to come back to my apartment?" she asked they hadn't had sex together since they had gotten back together.
Jake arched his eyebrow this was a huge step for them. "Lilly are you sure about this?" he wanted nothing more than to go back to her apartment with her he knew that Liz wasn't there. But he wanted to be sure that she wanted this as badly as he did.
Lilly looked at him with a smoldering fire in her dark brown eyes. "I'm positive Jakie, it's been a long time." She said seductively drawing out the syllables as she spoke so there would be no question about what she wanted.
"Oh, it has been such a long time Lilly." Jake agreed he was starting to feel hot underneath the collar.
Lilly gave him a wicked grin. "Then I think that maybe we should do something about that."
Jake fished his car keys out of his pocket. He still had yet to buy himself a new car but he had been driving his dad's. "Let's go then I'll drive." He said his voice raising a couple of octaves. The woman had no clue what she did to him but he loved every minute of it.
Ricky could honestly say that one of the greatest things he had ever felt in his entire life was the freeing feeling he got when he phased into a wolf. It would have been nicer if he weren't subject to the rule of a dictator. Carson was seriously a pain in the ass he was not giving him a moment's peace. He had him out running every night and then he had to go right to football practice in the morning. And Carson expected him to come out there after football practice to have breakfast with the pack. He didn't even have time to see Patty anymore. The only time he got to see her was when they were both done with practice or when they were at work. But they never had any free time to be together. Hell he was going to have to fight tooth and nail so he could have a break for the next three days so he could go to Hank's birthday dinner and help out with things for the kids' wiccaning.
The other thing that sucked about being a wolf was that he had to put his mental walls up higher because when he phased he could hear every thought every member of the pack was having. He especially didn't like Letti's thoughts about his brother that was only asking for trouble from Mel. And he really didn't want to have to keep Mel from killing someone. But he liked to think the older woman only had those thoughts in hopes of making him lose his temper.
"Everyone phase back now." Carson ordered all the wolves his voice was a deep baritone when he was giving orders that was the alpha in him.
Ricky groaned he wondered what kind of new torture that he had thought up for him tonight. Or maybe he was letting him go early. He didn't even want to think that because it was too much to hope for. He ran until he was close to the cabin where the wolves stayed and then he ducked behind a tree so he could phase back. Once he was dressed he walked back to the fire pit where they always met up to find that the rest of the pack was already there.
Tanner walked up to him and threw his arm around his shoulders "You're not doing too bad for the new guy kid."
"Thanks Tanner." Ricky said giving him a smile. Out of all the wolves he probably liked him the best but he was really easy to get along with considering what he had for a sister.
Carson stood in front of the fire with his arms crossed over his chest. "After the end of the week we will be able to cut back down on patrols again. I've just been pushing so hard this week because Ricky is new to this and I wanted him to learn the ropes." He announced and some of the members of the pack let out what could be called howls.
Ricky figured that this was his moment it was now or never he had to bring up what was on his mind. "Carson I'm not going to be able to patrol the next three days I have things to do. I do have other responsibilities."
Carson looked at him through narrowed eyes. "Ricky I need you to be here because you need to learn the ropes and make sure that you're in control."
"I can't be here I have very important things that I have to be doing." Ricky maintained he wasn't going to back down from him.
"Don't push the issue with me I have been nice I didn't make you break up with your witch." Carson replied his voice was coldly furious.
Ricky saw red. "Don't think you can make me do anything especially not when it comes to her. Now I told you that I have things to do. Like right now I'm going home to get some sleep." He announced walking away before he let his temper get the better of him.
"Ricky don't you dare walk away from me when I'm talking to you." Carson seethed at him.
Ricky turned around on his heel. "I told you not to tell me what to do." His brown eyes held a fury that was foreign to him. He normally wasn't one to get very mad but this guy really pissed him off to no end.
Carson advanced on Ricky until he was right up in his face. His eyes were gray and cold. "I'm you're alpha I rule your life. I tell you when to eat, I tell you when to sleep, and hell if I wanted to I could even tell you when to piss. You will do well to remember that." He was poking him in the chest as he spoke.
Ricky took his hand and removed it from his chest. "Don't you dare put your hands on me ever again." His voice was calm but there was an unmistakable tone of authority in it.
"You think you're a real bad ass don't you? Well I can cure you of that." Carson said with an evil smirk on his face.
Before Ricky knew what was happening Carson had phased into a gray wolf and lunged at him. He managed to dodge his attack by going down to his knees he phased as he rolled out of the way. He got up on all four of his legs and growled at Carson as he circled him.
"Oh, little boy you think you can play with the big boys. You have no idea what you have just gotten yourself into." Carson sneered at him through their shared link.
"I'm better at this than you think I am." Ricky replied. He knew not to let his opponent distract him with too much talking having Bianca as a teacher had taught him that much. She knew what she was doing so he tended to listen to her when it came to things like this.
Carson reared up on his hind legs and Ricky did the same it kind of looked like they were in the middle of a boxing match. Ricky was holding his own that was until Carson managed to make him lose his footing and he fell flat on his back. Carson lunged like he was going to jump on top of him but he threw him over his head using his back legs.
"Holy shit Ricky is a natural you guys just saw him phase without any hesitation." Grady said in awe. He and Ricky also got along really well.
Levi nodded his head in agreement but he didn't say anything he was busy watching the show that Ricky and Carson were putting on.
At the moment Carson had the upper hand he had one of Ricky's ears held tightly between his teeth. Ricky let out a howl of pain but he let all the tension go out of his body as he fell to the ground taking Carson with him. He rolled so that Carson ended up on his back. He put one of his massive paws on his throat and he got really close so that it looked like he was going to bite his throat but he didn't. That was a mistake on his part because Carson swiped him across the face with one of his paws and he tried to get up. Despite the pain he was feeling Ricky slammed Carson back down on the ground and sunk his teeth only far enough in his throat to draw blood.
"Now you see that I'm not so little if you know what's good for you you'll stay down and you won't try to challenge me again." Ricky seethed at him before turning away from him.
Tanner was at Ricky's side right away with some clothes. "Here you go Ricky I figured you might need some new clothes." He placed the clothes in his mouth and allowed him to go behind the tree and change.
Carson laid there in disbelief he made no move to get up but that was because of the tone in Ricky's voice if that meant what he thought it meant then things were about to get really complicated for him. He was the alpha no one had ever been able to make him submit before.
At about five in the morning Chris and Hank were sitting out on a lake in a bass boat. The sun wasn't up yet so they had the lights on the boat and a lantern to afford them a little bit of visibility. They had been out since about three and they had hauled in a few catfish that were a pretty nice size.
"So you're not going to bitch at me for getting you up so early?" Chris asked but he could see that his cousin was happy. Hank had a huge grin on his face.
"I'm having a great time Chris and besides this I've got more sleep now than I did last year on my birthday mom woke me up." Henry reminded his cousin.
"I'm glad you're having a good time Bubba so am I. We needed this time to unwind with everything that has been going on lately." Chris pointed out.
"So do you think we can get Aunt Piper to clean those fish?" Henry asked laughing.
Chris grinned at that. "Fuck no but if we clean them she will cook them. You know how excited she gets about making fresh food."
"I got a better idea gypsy boy will clean them and cook them he is even worse about stuff like that than Aunt Piper is." Henry referred to Roman.
"Good point man good point." Chris agreed laughing his ass off.
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By ten Chris and Henry were back at the manor today wasn't just Henry's birthday it was Piper's birthday as well so they were making her breakfast for a change.
"Jackie must have decided that he was going to give mom and dad a break this morning or they would be up by now. Either that or he started fussing and Mel put him in bed with her I wouldn't be surprised if that happened." Chris mused as they went about getting everything they needed to make breakfast. They were both freshly showered since they had been dirty from fishing all night and they had reeked of fish.
Henry wasn't paying attention to his cousin he was whistling a tune as he cracked a couple of eggs and put them in a bowl. He then added cinnamon and milk to that bowl so he could make batter for French toast. "Well a man come on the six o'clock news says somebody been shot, somebody been abused, somebody blew up a building, somebody stole a car, somebody got away, somebody didn't get too far yeah, they didn't too far." He sang just for the hell of it.
"Grandpappy told my pappy back in my day son a man had to answer for the wicked that he done. Take all the rope in Texas find a tall oak tree round up all of them bad boys hang 'em high in the street for all the people to see." Chris sang picking up where his cousin had left off.
"That justice is the one thing you should always find. You gotta saddle up your boys you gotta draw a hard line." Henry sang as he mixed his batter.
"When the gun smoke settles we'll sing a victory tune and we'll all meet back at the local saloon." Chris sang trying hard to fight off laughter. He was busy warming up a frying pan to make bacon.
"We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singing whiskey for my men beer for my horses." The two cousins sang in unison. Now Henry was using a whisk as a mic and Chris was using a fork.
"We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds." Henry executed a little spin at the end of that line.
"Too much corruption and crime in the streets." Chris did a little dance as he sang.
Henry nodded his head along with the beat. "It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground."
"Send them on to the maker and he'll sit them on down." Chris sang out in answer as he played the drums on the counter.
Henry pretended to pull a six-shooter before he sang again. "You can bet he'll sit them down. 'Cause justice is the one thing you should always find. You gotta saddle up your boys you gotta draw a hard line."
"When the gun smoke settles we'll sing a victory tune and we'll all meet back at the local saloon." Chris was playing air guitar now.
"And we'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singing whiskey for my men beer for my horses. Whiskey for my men beer for my horses." They both sang at the top of their lungs they were really having too much fun.
"You know justice is the one thing you should always find. You gotta saddle up your boys you gotta draw a hard line." Henry sang again.
"When the gun smoke settles we'll sing a victory tune and we'll all meet back at the local saloon." Chris wailed.
"And we'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singing whiskey for my men beer for my horses. Singing whiskey for my men beer for my horses." As the two men finished the song the pretended to toast with shot glasses before dissolving into a fit of laughter.
"You guys are silly." A tiny voice behind them said. They both turned to find Jeremiah standing there.
Chris smiled as he bent down in front of his nephew and tousled his dirty blonde hair. "Good morning buddy, where's your daddy?" he asked. He couldn't imagine that his brother had let his son out of his sight after what he had told them last night.
Jeremiah smiled up at his uncle. "Daddy's still sleeping but I couldn't sleep anymore and I heard you." he had such a cute little voice and he was a carbon copy of his father. Emily trying to pass him off as Billy's child was a joke.
"We'll give him a break and let him sleep Paige works him very hard. You can help me and Uncle Hank make your grandma breakfast." Chris told him picking him up.
"I'm good at that, daddy let's me help him cook all the time." Jeremiah said brightly.
"Good deal pal me and Uncle Chris can use all the help we can get." Henry tickled his side lightly.
"Hank you should open the cooler and show him the fish you caught." Chris suggested to his cousin.
Henry took Jeremiah from his cousin he carried to the cooler that was sitting just inside the door and he opened the lid. "You see those bass? I caught those this morning." He pointed to two largemouth bass. One was about twenty inches long and the other was twenty-five inches long.
Jeremiah's little blue eyes went wide. "Those are really big fishies Uncle Hank." He said in wonderment.
Henry smiled at him. "Do you want to hold one?" he asked.
Jeremiah nodded his little head enthusiastically. "You bet I do."
Henry handed him the biggest fish but he kept hold of it with his hand too since Jeremiah's hands were so small and the fish was heavy. He held the other fish in his left hand. "Chris get the camera and take our picture." He told his cousin with a big grin on his face.
Chris pulled a camera out of his cargo shorts. "Alright guys smile." He said before snapping a picture.
"If that wasn't so damn cute I would be mad at you guys for having fish in the house." Piper along with Leo and Mel who had Jack in her arms had woken up and was now in the kitchen.
Chris went to his mom and put his arms around her. "Happy birthday mom."
"Thank you Peanut." Piper said kissing his cheek.
"Happy birthday Aunt Piper." Henry told her from across the room where he and Jeremiah were washing their hands from playing with those fish.
"Thanks Bubba happy birthday to you too." Piper replied.
Jack came shuffling into the kitchen at that moment wiping the sleep from his eyes. His face lit up when he saw his son. "There you are buddy you scared daddy for a minute you can't just run off like that on me."
"Sorry daddy, I was with Uncle Chris and Uncle Hank." Jeremiah explained to his father like he was dense.
Jack laughed and shook his head. "A true Halliwell male if I've ever met one. You have an answer for everything that someone says to you."
"Speaking of Halliwells I wonder what R.J. is doing here." Leo mused to no one in particular.
Mel's ears perked up at that. "R.J. as in my son?" she asked in disbelief.
"That'd be the one he's here and believe it or not he brought Carly's daughter with him. But all interrogations can wait until after breakfast. It is not often that Hank and I cook." Chris said with and air of authority.
"I'm so confused right now like I don't want to know where Jack got a kid and I don't want to know what my kid is doing here. But I find it funny as hell that Carly has a kid running around." Mel replied laughing.
"Why are you boys cooking?" Piper asked she knew that her kitchen wasn't in danger of being burnt down form those two but still it was odd.
"Well Aunt Piper breakfast is part of your birthday present from me and Chris." Henry informed his aunt.
"Thank you boys that is very sweet of you. I'll have you know that Wyatt hasn't even bothered to call." Piper sighed she loved her oldest but he had the brain of a fruit fly sometimes.
"Don't worry mom Wy will be over here in a little bit he isn't going to let food go to waste." Chris assured his mother.
Just then Paige and Dom came in the room followed by R.J. and Jamie. Paige went right to Hank and kissed him on the cheek. "Happy birthday Uncle Hank."
"Thank you sweetie." Henry replied.
"Roman James why am I just now finding out that you're here?" Mel asked her son looking at him sternly.
R.J. knew from experience that there was no right answer when she looked at him like that and he would just have to tell the truth and hope for the best. "Because I was sleeping by the time you got home. I didn't want to bother you or dad last night." He tried but he knew that his mother was a hard woman to please.
Mel pointed her finger at him. "Alright you're off the hook right now." she said it just wasn't worth arguing with him this soon after waking up.
R.J. looked at the tiny infant in his mother's arms. "Holy smokes mom is that Jackie? He is so tiny."
"No dumb ass that's Al. Of course it's Jackie." Jamie answered rolling her brown eyes at him.
R.J. glared at his cousin. "I'm really sick of you Jamie not only do I have to keep you from doing stupid shit but I have to listen to your mouth." He spat back at her.
"Hey you two language there is a three year old in the room." Dom pointed out to them.
"Shut up Dom." R.J. and Jamie said in unison.
Paige arched her eyebrow at both her little cousins. "Don't make me kick your asses."
"Paige you don't scare me." Jamie said looking back at her just as hard.
R.J. threw his hands up in a sign of surrender. "Again that is how I know I'm smarter than you are Paige terrifies me."
"Shut up momma's boy." Jamie snarled.
"You're one to talk juvenile delinquent." R.J. sighed.
"Oh my God, that is me and Carly fighting I don't think I can handle this right now." Mel shook her head and gave a half laugh.
"Alright you two cool it and I mean it." Piper told them both sternly. They both backed down not that that came as any surprise to anyone in the room.
"Mom are we summoning Grams today?" Chris asked as he and Henry put food on plates.
"Yeah we are." Piper answered her son and then she turned to Jack. "Jackie baby can you warm a bottle for me?" she asked.
"Sure mom." Jack replied.
Henry groaned. "We have to summon Grams?" he asked in a whine.
"Yes she has to do the wiccaning and it helps to have her around a couple of days before hand so we can make sure everything is in order." Piper chuckled at him. It was apparent to her that him and Grams really didn't like each other all that much.
"We can't just summon grandma though?" Henry asked that made a lot of sense to him.
Leo laughed at his nephew. "Sorry Bubba you know your Grams she would be pissed if we didn't call her."
"Well then maybe she should think about being nicer." Henry sighed he knew that he wasn't going to win this argument but he had to try. It was bad enough that he was sacrificing his twenty-first birthday binge for those kids to make sure there were no demonic threats but he shouldn't have to put up with Grams too that wasn't fair.
"Would now be the wrong time to tell him that he reminds me of Grams sometimes? That is why they don't get along." Paige asked.
Henry felt the vein on his neck pop out. "B if you don't want me to kill your daughter you will get to the manor right now." he called out to his girlfriend.
Bianca shimmered in a minute late she went to him kissed him. "Happy birthday Double H."
Henry pulled her closer to him. "Thanks B. Lyn I love you."
"I love you too handsome. Now why are you threatening my child?" Bianca asked in reply.
"She told me that I act like Grams." Henry said like the thought was unbearable.
Bianca felt the beginning of a smile tugging at the corner of her lips. "Honey you and Grams do have the same temper but that's it. You are nice most of the time." She told him gently.
Henry put his hand over his heart like that comment had wounded him. "Not you too B you're supposed to be on my side."
Bianca sighed and looked at her daughter as sternly as she could under the circumstances. "Paige Victoria your Uncle Hank is nothing like Grams. Tell him that you're sorry for even saying such a thing." But she winked at her.
Paige had to fight off the urge to laugh. "I'm sorry Uncle Hank you're nothing like Grams at all." She apologized sarcastically.
"And to think you're my favorite niece and you talk about me like that." Henry said feigning indignation.
Chris shook his head at his unofficial little brother. "Stop being dramatic like Ladybug and get some more plates down you damn gorilla."
"That hurt Chris." Henry said flipping him off. But he got the plates down. "We almost done?" he asked.
"Yeah we just have to get the hash browns off and we'll be done." Chris replied.
"Good I'm starving someone I know woke me up at like two this morning and I haven't had anything to eat since then." Henry said like Chris had been mistreating him.
"Fat ass we got snacks and you ate them. It's not my fault you have a bottomless pit for a stomach." Chris joked with him.
"Uncle Chris you're not supposed to call Uncle Hank that Uncle Wy is the fatty." Jeremiah piped up.
"Finally someone that loves me." Henry said sounding vindicated.
"Hank he's three he just doesn't know any better yet. Don't worry though I'll teach him the ways of the world." Jack joked with his older cousin.
Henry pointed his finger at him. "If I were you I would shut my mouth I'm pretty sure you have a beat down coming to you. Don't make me kick your ass for sending us to Oz because I will do it I'm still suffering the metal effects of that." He warned him. Jack just laughed in response there was nothing he could say to that.
A/N: So here is the first chapter I hope you guys enjoyed it. I figured we should pick up here where we started last season to show how much has changed. I thought that I would throw Jeremiah in this episode since Jack never really got to be with his son and I didn't want to leave that unresolved. There was pretty much nothing but fluff this chapter but it was a good start. I can't believe that Hank didn't want a birthday party so he could help get ready for the wiccaning. No worries though his friends aren't going to let him get away with that. Honestly you have to love Chris and Hank together those two guys share a brain. I wonder what kind of shit the future kids know that they're keeping secret now and what does it have to do with Billie? Add in the fact that Grams is coming down it can't end well at all. I also wonder why R.J. and Jamie brought Jeremiah to the past there has to be a good reason for that. Hell I had to throw Jamie in because I thought it would be funny to see what Carly's kids were like. The fight between Ricky and Carson was pretty sweet but I wonder what it means for the wolf pack. It looks like Lilly and Jake are trying to get back in the groove we haven't spent enough time focusing on them lately with everything that has been going on. Until next time please review.