Chapter 1
January (New powers and Demon training)
Early on a cold morning in January 2008, Piper Halliwell entered the nursery in the manor, where her 10 month old daughter Melinda was standing up in her crib waiting for her. Piper smiled and approached the crib, but she didn't take Melinda out. Instead she allowed her to use her power of levitation to levitate out of her crib and into Piper's arms. Piper then carried her out of the nursery, down the stairs and into the kitchen.
In the kitchen Piper's husband Leo and their sons Wyatt and Chris, were already seated at the table enjoying lucky charms cereal. Piper placed Melinda in her high chair, kissed Leo and the boys and then prepared Melinda's breakfast and then served it to her. The boys finished eating and orbed their bowls and spoons into the sink.
"Boy's push your chairs in please" Piper said when she caught them leaving the kitchen
Wyatt blinked his eyes at his chair and made it move into place using his telekinesis power. Chris who didn't have control over his telekinesis power yet, simply orbed his chair into place to avoid accidently sending it flying across the room. Then the boys orbed out of the kitchen. Melinda then accidently knocked her bowl down, and Piper quickly froze it, then picked it up and gave it back to her.
Ever since Santa paid them a visit the previous month, Piper has been more allowing of the usage of their powers. She finally realized that for the Halliwell's this was their normal, so they might as well embrace and enjoy it. Although Piper now loves the magic part, she still resents the demon part.
Half an hour later, the boys were ready for kindergarten/pre-school and Billie had arrived to take them there because Leo and Piper were expecting company. Shortly after Billie had left with the boys, two elders orbed in the manor.
"OK, state your business" Piper told them in a serious tone
"Relax Piper, we're not here for Leo, we're here with an offer" the women Elder said
"Magic school is being rebuilt, it will open in September, and we're offering Leo the job of teaching the witch white lighters" the male Elder explained.
"Don't you think Paige would be a better fit, since she's one too?" Piper asked
"We already asked her, she turned it down" the male Elder replied
"So what's the catch?" Piper asked
"There is no catch, I understand why you would assume that Miss. Halliwell, but why don't we keep our past behind us and trust each other now" the women Elder suggested.
"So are you interested Leo?"
"Perhaps, I need some time to think it over" Leo decided
"I understand, you have until August, that's seven months" the elder said and then orbed out.
"So what do you think?" Piper asked Leo
"I think I should go talk to Paige, she loves magic school I want to find out why she turned down the offer" Leo said and orbed out.
At Piper's half-sister Paige Mathew's house, she and her mortal husband Henry were looking after their 8 month old twin daughters Tamora and Kat. As Paige served Kat a few crackers and her bottle of milk, Henry came in the kitchen holding Tamora, and informed Paige that Leo wanted to see her.
"Hey Leo what brings you here?" Paige asked as she entered the living room
"Two Elders came by the manor today, and offered me the job they had originally offered you "Leo explained.
"Oh, and you're here to ask why I turned it down I'm assuming"
"Yes, I want to know before I make my decision to take it or not."
"I turned it down because between being a social worker and a white lighter, I just don't have the time. You should take it though, it would be perfect for you" Paige explained.
Leo thanked her and orbed back to the manor and Henry called for Paige.
"What the…" Paige said once she was back in the kitchen and saw a frozen fire on the stove
"Tamora set fire to the stove and then Kat froze it, it looks like our twins have come into their powers" Henry explained.
"It looks like they have the same powers as Piper" Paige said
"Um Paige, I think Melinda just orbed in" Henry said pointing to Melinda who was at the entrance of the kitchen.
Just when Paige went to pick up Melinda Leo orbed in.
"Sorry Melinda here as a new power, orbing, um you do realize your stove is on fire right" Leo said picking up Melinda.
"Oh, the fire on froze, water!" Paige said panicked waving her hand at the fire and orbed it to some place with water
"The twins came into their powers today that explains the fire" Henry explained to Leo who nodded and orbed out.
Meanwhile at Piper and Paige's sister Phoebe's house, Phoebe and her husband Coop were on their bed attempting to make their two month old daughter Prue Johnna laugh by playing peek- a- boo. This failed because instead of laughing P.J. just stared at her parents.
"Come on Prue just give mommy and daddy a little smile" Phoebe asked a little disappointed.
"Phoebe she's two months old, give her a break, she'll smile one day" Coop said as he patted Phoebe's shoulder to cheer her up.
"I know it's just my sister's children all smiled at around two months" Phoebe said
"Well maybe she's stubborn, just like her mother" Coop joked.
Phoebe playfully slapped his hand for his comment and got off her bed and went into the kitchen to prepare P.J. a bottle since she started crying like she usually does at this time for a bottle.
Phoebe and Coop had not yet gotten used to life with little P.J., but they were taking it one step at a time and following Paige and Piper's helpful advice. Although she would never admit it, Phoebe was a little board since P.J. didn't do very much, and she missed going to work. So she had decided to go back to work in April when P.J. would be five months old.
Phoebe returned to the bedroom where Coop was sitting up on the bed holding P.J. so Phoebe gave him the bottle and went for a walk. She ended up going to Paige's office to invite her out for lunch.
"Knock, knock" Phoebe said in the doorway of Paige's office.
"Hi stranger, what brings you here" Paige asked
"To invite you out for a child free sister lunch, my treat" Phoebe offered
"Alright sure, let's go" Paige agreed.
The sisters went to Quakes for lunch and had just received their meal when a young teen ran in passed them and approached the table beside them where a man and women were sitting.
"She's scared" Phoebe whispered to Paige.
"Mom, dad, some creepy guy was following me, he was stopped by a guy who just came from nowhere, so I could get away, we should go home" the teen said to her parents.
The parents nodded and hurried out of the restaurant with their daughter. A few seconds later Leo orbed in close by. He looked around and seemed to be looking for someone, he then spotted Phoebe and Paige and approached them.
"Did you see a young teen girl with light brown hair, wearing a purple shirt and black jeans come in" Leo asked them.
"Yeah she just left with her parents, what's wrong" Phoebe replied and asked
"She was being chased by a dark lighter, she's a future white lighter, I was going to see you Paige, the Elders want both of us to keep an eye on her" Leo explained.
"Why both of us?" Paige asked confused
"She's 16 and pregnant, the Elders are not sure if he's after her or her baby, no one knows who the father is, she won't tell anyone" Leo explained
"The Elders figured two white lighters plus your status as a social worker could keep her from him until the baby's born, they think its father may be supernatural" Leo added
"Well can I finish my meal and call my boss to be excused before I go with you to find her"
"No need, she's with her family right now I'll keep an eye on her, meet me at 3456 Pine lane once you're done work" Leo said and orbed out.
Later that day, Paige, Phoebe and Emma, the young witch Paige found as a social worker, were in the attic at the manor. They were standing in front of the book of shadows and Emma was holding a leaf, Phoebe and Paige had just finished explaining the last step of the potion she was making. The Three of them approached the table where the cauldron was, Emma dropped in the leaf, there was the normal small explosion, and then it was like it hadn't happened.
All of the sudden they were back behind the book, and Emma was holding the leaf she had just put in the cauldron.
"What on earth, weren't we just over there and didn't I just put this leaf in?" Emma asked confused
"Yeah, time just rewinded, and since we remembered, maybe it was Billie using her projection power" Phoebe suggested.
"Guess again," Piper said walking into the attic holding Wyatt's hand.
"I have a new power" Wyatt announced excitedly
"Of all the powers it just had to be projection right!" Piper said rolling her eyes at ceiling
"There you are, I found you" Chris told Wyatt after he orbed in
"How did you find me" Wyatt asked
"Well I couldn't find you, so I sat down to think where to look, and then I saw you and mommy in the attic in my brain." Chris answered
"Hey that's sounds a lot like sensing" Paige said.
"Yeah now that you mention it, no one has been able to win hide and seek against Chris lately, and he always says the same thing, I saw you in my brain, I guess he has a new power too" Piper recalled
"So, Wyatt now has the power of projection, Chris has the power of sensing, Melinda can now orb, Tamora can blow things up and start fire like you Piper and Kat can freeze things like you Piper, I hope P.J. won't be getting any powers soon, I don't think I'm ready for that yet" Phoebe said.
A few days later, Paige and Henry were at the police station with the twins. Henry was just finishing up work for the day. All of the sudden, the garbage can, near his desk was on fire, then the fire froze, Paige orbed the garbage can, out of the station.
"Paige honey I know how important magic is to your family, but I think we should bind Tamora's power, it's too dangerous for her age" Henry suggested
"No, we can't do that to her it won't be faire when she's around her sister and cousins" Paige refused
"But if we don't she can cause some serious trouble without meaning too, at least think about it for a few days ok" Henry insisted
"Alright fine I'll think about it" Paige agreed.
At the manor, Piper and Leo were talking in the kitchen.
"Leo, I just overheard the boys talking, Wyatt was explaining how he would vanquish demons, it wasn't a bad plan, and Chris had his own good plan too" Piper stated
"Are you saying you think we should start training the boys? Aren't they a bit young, they can't even dress themselves yet" Leo said
"If they were just normal witches then I wouldn't train them yet, but there are the sons of a charmed one, twice blessed, and part white lighter too, with us around I think they could vanquish lower level demons" Piper said
"Alright, we'll train them and see how it goes, maybe we can summon Prue so she can teach them how to use their telekinesis power to defeat demons, Billie can teach Wyatt how to project, Paige and I can teach them whitelighter stuff, you can teach them how to scry and set traps, and Phoebe can teach them self defense" Leo stated.
A week later after school, the boys met with Prue in the park.
"Ok boys, I want you to pretend these basket balls are demons ok, use your telekinesis power to make them go flying, do it fast like they were about to attack you, ok" Prue said.
Prue tossed up the two balls in different directions and watched as Wyatt made one fly all the way to the other side of the park, and Chris made the other go a few yards. They then brought them back using their power.
"Great job guys" Prue said giving them both a high five.
"Can we do it again" Chris asked
"Go for it" Prue said.
Prue videotaped them like Piper had asked, she knew Piper would be shocked on how well these little kids could use this new power. The next day after school, Wyatt was at the manor for his lesson with Billie, while and Piper brought the other two to the park. Leo and Paige taught Chris more about his sensing power at Paige's house.
"Ok come sit beside me, I want you to close your eyes, and think of what you did five minutes ago" Billie told Wyatt.
Wyatt sat down beside her and did as she said, he thought of playing with Chris five minutes before.
"Do you see it" Billie asked him
"Yes"
"Ok now I want you to see yourself going there right now, you have to see yourself sitting here and then going there ok,"
"Ok"
Wyatt concentrated but then thought of the ice cream truck. Wyatt opened his eyes and found him and Billie in the mall where a toy ice cream truck was sitting on the shelf inside a store. Billie watched confused and saw herself and Wyatt, along with Chris and Melinda approach the ice crema truck. Billie then realized this was last Thursday when she was babysitting and had brought them to the mall. Billie projected them back to the attic.
"Ok good job we didn't go where we were supposed to but good try" Billie told him
"Ok let's try again ok, see yourself sitting here and then being in the living room 10 minutes ago" Billie said.
Wyatt tried again but thought of a movie he had seen a few days before. He projected them inside the movie.
"Wyatt, where are we" Billie asked
"I think were in the Winnie the pooh movie" Wyatt answered.
Sure enough Billie and Wyatt spotted piglet and tiger approaching. Billie projected them back to the attic once again were Leo was waiting for them.
'Where did you end up" Leo asked them
"In a whinnie the pooh movie, right after visiting the mall last week" Billie informed him.
"Sorry Billie" Wyatt apologised
"It's ok, I wasn't excepting you to get it right on your first try, why don't we stop for today and try again in a few days" Billie suggested.
Leo thanked Billie and orbed her home. The next day, Leo took Chris to the park and Piper taught Wyatt how to scry using Chris's plastic soldier he had just played with. Wyatt took the crystal from his mom and moved it around a map. Shortly after the crystal fell on golden gate park. Piper called out for Leo, who then took Wyatt and left Chris with Piper.
Piper had Chris scry for Wyatt which took him a little longer than it took Wyatt. Chris was able to locate him though so Leo orbed him home and they all called it a day. From then on, one day the boys had lessons with Prue, the next Wyatt had lessons from Billie while Chris had Lessons from Leo and Paige, then the next day they had lessons from Piper, and the last day they had lessons with Phoebe on self defense. Then it was time to put the boys to the test.
The plan was that Piper told the boys a demon had taken Melinda, but really the demon was Leo. The first step was having the boys scry for Melinda.
"I found her, she's here" Wyatt told Piper
"That's golden gate park," Piper said.
The boys took Piper's hand and orbed her to the park, where Billie had casted some illusion demons. Wyatt was the first one to spot a demon and he sent him flying, who knows where it would have ended up if it was a real demon. Another illusion demon took Piper and Chris used his power to send it flying too.
They walked into the forest and saw Melinda sitting on a log with Leo who pretended to look scared because there were illusion demons all around them. Wyatt used his telekinesis power to get the closer demons away and Chris orbed the rest of them to a volcano. Then together the boys used their telekinesis power to get to ropes around Leo and Melinda to untie.
The boys had past their test and Piper, Billie and Leo brought them out for ice cream to celebrate. And after a huge house fire that had to be dealt with by fire fighters, Paige agreed to bind Tamora's powers until she was at least five and old enough to learn how to control it. And to be fair to her, she binded Kat's power too.