Chapter one

January (New Year's, and two huge surprises.)

It was supper time on New Year's Eve. The Halliwell's had planned a party with close friends and family. Piper Halliwell and her husband Leo had just sat down at the table after serving everyone else. Piper's sisters Phoebe and Paige along with their husbands Coop and Henry were already at the table eating. Piper and Leo's sons, five year old Wyatt and four year old Chris, were managing to not make a mess with their meal for the first time. Their almost two year old daughter Melinda was sitting on a chair eating at the table like a big girl for the first time.

Paige and Henry's one year old twin daughters, Kat and Tamora, were still using their high chairs, and were having more fun throwing their spaghetti on the floor than eating it. Their seven month old son Henry JR was also throwing his spaghetti on the floor. Phoebe and Coop's one year old daughter P.J. was eating her spaghetti very messily.

Paige finally got annoyed at her children, and took their bowls away. She then orbed the spaghetti into the garbage can and then sat back down. They started screaming and banging their high chairs, so Paige gave them a second chance and orbed the bowls of Spaghetti back to them. The twins and baby Henry had been in the bad habit of throwing food, for the past three days.

Around seven, the sister's father Victor and the families friends Darryl his wife Sheila and their two sons arrived. Their witch friend Billie soon followed. This year, Phoebe had invited her boss Elise who came shortly after. Everyone gathered in the living room and chatted.

"Congratulations on the baby news" Elise told Phoebe and Coop.

"How many months are you now?" Sheila asked.

"I'm two months" Phoebe replied.

The adults talked while the children played for the next few hours. It soon came time for the count down.

"10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, Happy new year's!" everyone shouted.

Paige got up to make the toast.

"It is now the first day of 2009. We are gathered here with family and friends. I hope the New Year brings nothing but good to everyone. During this year, our children will grow, new powers may be discovered and our family will be bigger. To 2009."

"To 2009" everyone else said.

After that it was time for bed. The guests left and the family fell asleep fast. The next day, everyone got a huge surprise. Everyone was sitting in the living room playing a game of candy land when someone orbed in. Everyone looked up and the adults were shocked and their mouths were wide open. Standing in front of them smiling was Andy, the guy Prue had dated 11 years ago before he died, and he had just orbed in like a white lighter.

"Andy what the hell?" Piper said startled and very shocked.

"Surprise" Andy said.

"Andy you cannot just orb in here after being dead for 11 years, and just say surprise" Phoebe stated.

"Sorry, I'm a white lighter now, my reward for helping you and your sisters" Andy explained.

"Yeah, I figured that out, when did this happen?" Piper asked.

"Last week, I didn't come alone, the elders wanted to thank you for your service all these years" Andy revealed.

In a wave of blue light the best thank you orbed in. The sisters put their hands on their mouths to prevent them from screaming, as tears came down their cheeks. Standing in front of them was a beautiful woman with long dark hair, this woman was someone they cared about very much, it was their oldest sister Prue who had died seven years ago.

"Are you a white lighter too?" Piper asked sobbing

"No, I'm human again, the elders brought me back" Prue replied as she cried too.

"Are you here for good?" Paige asked

"Yes, I'm here for good, until we die of old age" Prue said and cracked a smile.

The sisters flung themselves at Prue and the four of them cried as they hugged. Andy joined in on the hug with the others.

"We need to celebrate, let's all go out for ice cream, my treat "Piper said wiping her eyes.

"I'll call Darryl and Sheila and invite them out with us, Darryl will want to see Andy and Prue, are you staying Andy?" Phoebe asked.

"Yes, the elders said Prue and I could be together as long as we follow the rules, like you and Leo, Piper" Andy explained.

"Oh baby steps Andy" Prue said which made them both laugh.

The family arrived at dairy queen and Darryl arrived with his family. Victor and Billie also came along.

"Hi daddy" Prue said hugging victor.

"So are you returning to the police force?" Darryl asked Andy

"No, I'm a whitelighter now, like Paige" Andy replied.

"I'll make sure to visit though, the elders have already casted some magic of their own, whoever didn't know about magic, now think I left town instead of dying, same with Prue" Andy explained.

"Look mommy, I'm the ice cream monster" Chris said with his face covered in chocolate ice cream.

"I can see that, looks like the ice cream monster is going to take a bath when he gets home" Piper stated.

The family finished up with their ice cream and went home, where Leo gave Chris a bath. Meanwhile Wyatt played in his room, while the babies took naps, and the adult's talked up a storm. After his bath Chris joined Wyatt in their room and played trains with him. Leo joined the others in the living room and helped them set up a new TV, that Billie had gotten them for Christmas, since Piper blew up the last one.

"You know normal mothers ground their kids from the TV, they don't blow up the TV" Leo stated.

"Well normal children don't conjure things from the screen, normal children draw what they see on paper" Piper replied.

Once the TV was set up and working Piper called down the boys. The boys orbed down and Piper allowed them to watch some cartoons, while she and Paige, Piper and Prue made lunch. Coop, Henry and Phoebe went to tend to the babies, and Leo stayed behind to keep an eye on the boys with the others. The adults entered the living room with the babies and placed them on the floor. Piper called out "supper" so they picked them back up and placed them in their high chairs, except Melinda who now sat at the table like a big girl.

Once the boys were seated as well, Piper served them the food. The boys were sitting beside each other, which had been unusual lately. Everyone noticed and kept an eye out for signs of a fight coming. However, they didn't fight, the talked nicely. Although this was a surprise, no one made a big deal about it. Maybe Wyatt was growing up he was almost six.

"Chris do you want to colour with me after supper?" Wyatt asked

"Yes I do, Melinda do you want to colour with us too?' Chris asked their sister.

"Yes" Melinda replied.

"What are you going to colour?" Wyatt asked

"I'm going to colour a dragon" Chris answered.

"Puppy" Melinda shared.

"Cool I'm going to colour a dyno" Wyatt stated.

"I really hope P.J.'s going to get along with her new sister" Phoebe stated.

"How do you know it's a girl?" Piper asked

"She will be a Halliwell, and we're not known for having boys" Phoebe replied.

"Hello, example one, two and three" Piper said pointing to Wyatt, Chris and Henry JR.

"Ok Henry doesn't count, he was adopted, and you proved my point boys are very rare" Phoebe replied.

"Who wants to bet, Prue and Andy are going to have some kids" Phoebe said

"I'll take that bet" Piper agreed.

"Ok hold on, we're not even dating yet" Prue reminded them

"Yet? So does that mean we will?" Andy asked

"I'll think about it" Prue teased.

The rest of supper was silent. Afterwards Wyatt, Chris and Melinda coloured together, the twins flipped through a book over and over again, P.J. played with Henry and the adults relaxed on the couch. The kids were playing nice with each other which was rare. Then Tamora hit her sister after Kat tried to take the book away from her.

"Hey no, no, no we do not hit" Paige said picking up Tamora and placed her on the time out chair.

Henry comforted Kat who was still crying and Tamora stayed on time out. Once Tamora's timeout was over Paige had her hug Kat and say sorry. She was then allowed to continue playing and she decided to play nice.

"Must be nice to have a kids who can't orb out of time out" Piper remarked.

"We don't have to worry about that anymore, now that we have that magic Proof timeout room, which Chris loves so much" Leo stated.

Prue decided to turn on the camera and recorded the kids, but it turned out to be a bad time. The twins bit each other, Wyatt threw a train at Chris who threw a truck at him, baby Prue hit Melinda and then hit Henry JR. Prue turned off the camera. Henry and Paige put the twins on a timeout in the living room, Coop put P.J. on a timeout in the magic proof room along with Wyatt and Chris. Leo stayed in there to keep them from attacking each other.

"What is going on with them?" Phoebe said confused and shocked.

"I don't know, maybe they feel over crowded?" Paige suggested.

"Well whatever the reason, I hope it doesn't last much longer" Coop stated.

"Yeah but you could be right Paige, maybe their crowded, we should let them be on their own sometimes, let them breathe" Piper stated.

"You're right, sometimes they start fights for no reason, like there was no reason that Wyatt threw a train at Chris" Phoebe said.

"You know I could teach Wyatt how to make potions, that will give him his little only for me thing, Chris can learn how to scry" Piper said.

"And we can take the babies out one on one" Henry stated.

"That's a good idea, give them some quality time with their parents" Coop agreed.

Leo came back with the kids once their time out was over and Paige allowed the twins off time out as well. As the kids played, the adults told Leo the plan on getting the kids to get along better. Leo thought it over and agreed with them.

That night something weird happened to Phoebe. She was sitting on the couch, when all of the sudden she beamed into her room. Coop was sitting on the bed playing with baby Prue and looked confused.

"Honey did you beam me in here?" Phoebe asked her husband.

"No, maybe it was P.J." Coop said looking at his daughter.

Phoebe nodded and decided to stay in there with them. Then all of the sudden, she felt hungry and beamed into the kitchen. She was very confused and after getting a snack she beamed back to her room.

"Ok that's not normal, I'm not supposed to beam" Phoebe said confused.

"It's probably just P.J. playing a trick on us" Coop said and tickled P.J.

Phoebe laughed and Coop beamed P.J. to her crib at bedtime. As Phoebe closed her eyes to sleep, part of her felt it wasn't P.J. who was beaming her, it felt like she was doing it herself. It felt different from when P.J. or Coop beamed her. Eventually Phoebe forgot about it and drifted off to sleep. When P.J. woke up crying, Phoebe beamed to her room, but was too tired to realize. She took care of P.J. and then went back to her and Coop's room and fell asleep. Prue and Andy slept in the guest room.

The next day it happened again, Phoebe beamed into the kitchen while everyone had already started eating breakfast.

"Phoebe?" Piper said startled.

"What on earth, why am I beaming, I'm not supposed to be beaming" Phoebe said confused.

"I don't know, maybe you got a new power?" Leo said

"No only Cupids can have the power of beaming" Coop replied.

Phoebe sat down at the table and poured some cereal into a bowl and then poured in the milk. When she beamed out of her chair and then back again everyone exchanged looks.

"I'll go check with the elders see if they know what's going on" Paige said and orbed out.

"Are you feeling any different?" Piper asked

"No, unless you count morning sickness" Phoebe replied.

Paige orbed back in and everyone looked at her. Before she could say anything P.J. beamed out and Phoebe realized what it was on her own.

"My new baby, she already has her beaming power doesn't she" Phoebe said

"Yes, which is why you keep beaming" Paige confirmed.

"Let's just hope I don't beam out of work in front of everyone" Phoebe sated.

"Maybe you should work from home, until you're sure you can control it" Leo suggested

"Yeah you're right, it's a pretty cool power though" Phoebe agreed.