A/N: this story belongs to a friend of mine, she can no longer continue this story so she gave it to me to post and continue under my own penname, the prologue and first chapter are written by her and the rest of the story will be written by me, enjoy.
Growing up Charmed
Summary: The lives of the sister's as they raise their children and teach them the craft and what it means to be a Halliwell. Piper/Leo, Phoebe/Coop and Paige/Henry. co-written by bleuoiseau.
Character List :
Piper Halliwell
Husband : Leo Wyatt
Children :
Wyatt Halliwell
Christopher Halliwell
Melinda Halliwell
Phoebe Halliwell
Husband: Coop
Children:
Cassandra(cassie) Halliwell- eldest nickname Ladybug.
Leora Halliwell - middle daughter
Marina Halliwell - youngest daughter
Paige Matthews
Husband : Henry Mitchell
Children:
Henry Jr Mitchell.- aka little Henry
Pandora Mitchell- first born twin
Patricia Mitchell- aka Patty second born twin
Billie- will only be in the prologue
Prologue
"Coop it's time!" Phoebe said breathing through her contractions.
"The baby's coming!" Coop said freaking out even though this would be their third baby.
"Yeah, call my sister's and call Billy to watch, Leora and Cassie." Phoebe said continuing to try to breath through the labor pain. Coop did as he was told and Billie instantly appeared.
"Call me after the baby's born and I'll bring them to the hospital." Billy said putting her arms around Cassie and Leora
"Bye Mommy." four year old Leora said.
"I love you." six year old Cassie said as Phoebe and Coop rushed out of the house.
They arrived at the hospital ten minutes later and after a short labor of two hours , the youngest daughter of Phoebe Coop and the youngest of the Charmed one's children, was born. After she was cleaned up held by her father and handed to her mother, who named her Marina Halliwell. She was introduced to her Auntie's Piper and Paige. Leo was at home with eight year old Wyatt , seven year old Chris and four year old Melinda and Henry was home with six year old little Henry and six month old Pandora and Patricia.
"You did good Phoebe" Piper said looking down at the little girl who had her father's eyes but her mother's hair and other features.
"Yeah, shes beautiful Phoebes ." Paige said looking down at her newest niece.
"I wonder what her powers will be?" Phoebe said after making sure no doctor's or nurses were in the room.
" I don't think we'll have to worry about that for at least a year." Coop said already in love with his baby girl.
"Welcome to the world Marina Amour(love) Halliwell, you've got a great big family and you are going to be very special." Phoebe said kissing her daughters forehead as she opened her eyes and grabbed onto her mother's finger.
One month Later
"Mommy can I hold the baby?" Leora asked holding out her hands.
"Not right not sweetie , I have to get Marina ready for the wiccaning ." Phoebe said as she dressed her youngest, who smiled and gurgled at her mother.
Today, Marina and the twins were going to have their wiccaning. Paige and Phoebe were pregnant at the same time, though Paige was more far along then Phoebe, and they had decided to have the wiccaning for their babies at the same time, which is why the twins were also going to be blessed by the Halliwell ancestral line.
"Mommy is it time to go to Auntie Pipers?" Cassie said bouncing into the room, she had inherited her mother's energy.
"Not yet, why don't you take Leora and go play with your Daddy." Phoebe said as she put a sock on Marina's foot.
"Ok, come on Leora." Cassie said taking her sister's hand and leaving the nursery.
She smiled at her oldest, Cassie was her little helper and she was very protective of Leora and now baby Marina. Cassie had developed her powers at six months old,worrying her parents half to death when she had disappeared and reappeared in the kitchen with her favorite toy, left there at breakfast, in her hand. It had seemed she was going to be a cupid just like her father, but when she had turned two years old she'd developed another power, the power to levitate just like her mother.
The first time she'd used that power also scared her parents half to death,but they were able to get her to come down and as she grew she learned never to use her powers in front of mortals, for reasons explained to her in the best way a six year old could understand. She was also given a ring like her father's for her fifth birthday to help her control her cupid powers. She could be mischievous sometimes , and she could also be very loving especially when it came to her extended family.
She and cousins Chris and Henry jr were best friends and practically inseparable . She was also close with Wyatt who was like a big brother to her and the other cousins.
Leora had developed her powers at a later age then her older sister. She was two when her cupid power emerged , sister Cassie, who was four at that time was able to bring her sister back , who had gone much farther than she had her first time. The sister's had a connection both as sister's and as cupids/witches so their powers worked in the same way as Phoebe's connection to make Coop appear by just thinking about him. Leora only had the cupid power, but Phoebe had a feeling she'd develop more powers just like her older sister.
She could be impatient at times , but other than that she was a perfect child and was definitely a mama's girl, though she loved her father as well, she always was found by her mother's side, the exception being when she was with Melinda, Piper and Phoebe had to practically tear them apart from each other when it was time to go home. She was surprised at how well Leora was adjusting to the new baby, all she wanted to do was hold her and help Phoebe feed or change her.
Phoebe picked up Marina and walked out of the nursery and into their living room , where Coop was playing with the girls. Leora spotted her mother and rushed over to her , holding out her hands so that she could hold the baby in her arms.
"Can I hold her now mommy,please?" Leora said.
"Yes, but you have to sit down first." Phoebe said motioning to the couch.
Leora hurried over to the couch and promptly sat down. Phoebe walked over and gently placed Marina into her big sister's arms. She then left the room to go get dressed herself while Coop watched over the kids. She smiled thinking back to when she'd first been promised a little girl and now she had three beautiful girls and a wonderful cupid for a husband. She finished getting dressed then walked back into the living room.
"Ready to go?" Coop asked as he picked up Cassie and started tickling her.
"Stop it Daddy, help me Mommy." Cassie giggled as her father tickled her.
"Yeah, and put down our daughter, its my turn to tickle her." Phoebe said taking Cassie and starting to tickle her.
"Mommy,no!" Cassie said laughing even harder.
"Ok, gang time to go." Phoebe said putting Cassie down, who promptly grabbed her coat and waited by the front door for her parents.
Phoebe took Marina , from Leora , after promising she could hold the baby after the wiccaning. The family then filed out the house and into their car.
The Manor
"Where's Phoebe, she should be here already, we're on a deadline." Piper said impatiently.
"Calm down Piper, I just talked to her, she's on her way." Paige, who was feeding Patricia a bottle, said.
" I am calm, where are the kids?" Piper said obviously not calming down.
"Chris , Wyatt and Little Henry are playing in the yard and Melinda is watching Henry feed Pandora." Paige said.
"They better not get their clothes dirty!" Piper said heading toward the yard. Just then Phoebe came through the front door with Coop and her girls.
"Piper wait, Phoebe's here!" Paige said stopping Piper in her tracks.
"It's about time,lets get this show on the road." Piper said.
"Nice to see you too Piper." Phoebe said, but Piper had already headed to the attic.
Phoebe shook her head,you'd think she'd be used to it by now after having witnessed six wiccaning's . Each time Piper had stressed they do it in a orderly and timely fashion to avoid any demon attacks against the ancestors they would be summoning. Everyone gathered in the attic the sister's , their husbands and all nine children. Grams appeared and began to chant.
I call forth from space and time,
the Matriarchs of the Halliwell Line:
Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Friends
Our family spirit without end.;;
To gather now, in this sacred place,
and help us bring these children to grace.
After the Chant several apparitions appeared in the attic, including Patty, who Patricia was named after and even Prue who smiled at her sisters. The ceremony was done and the Matriarchs all disappeared , except Grams , Patty and Prue, who were allowed to stay a little while longer as this would probably be the last wiccaning until their children were ready to have kids of their own.
Piper had prepared a dinner to celebrate, so they all left the attic and went downstairs . The three babies were put down for their naps. The adults sat at one table and the kids were seated at a smaller table. Wyatt sat at the head of the kid table as the eldest of the cousins, with his brother Chris and his sister Melinda on his left. On his right sat Leora and Little Henry with Cassie, as the eldest girl, at the other foot of the table.
Melinda was not half whitelighter like her older brothers, having been born after Leo became human, but she was still very special, because she had inherited the same power as her mother. Her powers had first surfaced on her third birthday, when she accidentally froze Leo after getting upset at brother Chris for orbing away her candles. Piper had hurriedly frozen the rest of the room, before anyone else noticed. She was both shocked and excited for her daughter, who she calmed down, in case she'd inherited the exploding power too, then told her how to unfreeze her father.
A year had passed and the exploding power hadn't showed up, which relieved piper, she hoped if her daughter did receive the exploding power as well,that it would be when she was older and had learned to fully control the freezing power first.
Little Henry's powers had surfaced when he was three years old, orbing away from his father in the grocery store. Henry had rushed home to find the toddler in his mother's arms, who was very proud of her little whitelighter, while Henry was ready to scold the child for orbing away from his dad. But when he saw how excited Paige was he decided to let it go , realizing his son had only wanted to show his mother, who he had seen orbing all his life , that he could now do it too.
Henry knew that Paige would have a connection with their kids that he would never have, but he had come to terms to the fact that he would have a different relationship with his kids , he would keep the balance between their magical and mortal side. Though he accepted and had come to understand the magical world, he wasn't in any hurry to see the twins develop their powers, Little Henry was a handful just on his own, with his orbing powers.
"Mommy, Chris orbed away my chicken!" Melinda yelled out from the kid table.
"I did not, she's lying!" Chris yelled back.
"I am not!" Melinda yelled.
"Are too!" Chris yelled back.
"Both of you hush! Wyatt did you see Chris orb Mel's chicken ?" Piper said from the adult table.
"Do I have to say?" Wyatt asked not wanting to rate out his brother or not stick up for his was the kind of kid the eight year old was. He didn't like to get between anybody, he'd rather not say anything , so that neither of his siblings got in trouble.
"Yes, now who's telling the truth?" Piper asked in that stern voice of hers as she walked over to them.
"I don't know I didn't see anything." Wyatt lied.
"What about the rest of you?" Piper asked referring to her nieces and nephew. They all shook their heads not wanting to rat out their cousins.
"So no ones talking eh, I'll get you another piece Melinda ,but if I hear another peep out of you, someones getting in trouble." Piper warned then went back to the adult table.
"Everything ok." Phoebe asked when Piper came back to the table.
"It better be." Piper said throwing a glance on the kids who were behaving.
They all finished eating and the husband offered to clean up to give the sisters some bonding time while the older kids were also napping.
"I can't believe we all have three kids." Paige said as the sisters sat together talking.
"I know, guess our kids will have their own power's of three."Phoebe said.
"Well they are Halliwells." Piper said.
" I know that we took care of the more powerful demons years ago,but I still worry about my girls sometimes." Phoebe confessed.
" I do too, soon they'll all have powers and powers attract demons, what if we can't protect them." Paige said thinking about her kids.
"Of course we can , were the charmed ones and look how future Chris and Wyatt turned out , I'm sure they didn't learn how to become strong witches just from me." Piper said.
"Your right, I can teach them the craft and guide them as a whitelighter." Paige said remembering what future Chris had said about her in the future.
"And I can make sure they always believe in love." Phoebe said thinking back to her journey of love and loss that ended when she found Coop.
"Sounds like a plan." Coop said walking in with Henry and Leo. They each walked over to their respective spouses.
"We'll all teach them together, with magic school, the charmed ones for mother's and us three as Dad's , they'll be just fine." Leo said smiling at Piper.
"They'll have plenty of love." Coop said taking Phoebe's hand in his.
"And protection." Henry said wrapping his arm protectively around Paige.
"They'll be Charmed." All three sisters said together.
A/N: So that's the prologue, I will posting the first chapter this wkend or early next wk. Thanks for reading please review, I accept constructive criticism and any suggestion, but please no flames or hurtful comments.