Phoebe, and Paige are sitting at the kitchen table. Piper closes the oven door and places the steaming croissants into a basket. She places them in the center of the table for them to cool.
"OUCH!" Phoebe yelped as she yanked her hand back from the food and stuck her finger in the mouth. "THOSE ARE HOT!"
"No, I thought that they'd be cold." Piper said sarcastically, as Paige giggled in the background.
"Very funny." Phoebe said through a sarcastic smile.
There was an awkward silence that was soon broken by Piper's worried voice. "Umm, guys, I have to ask you something."
Paige finally spoke, "What's wrong Sweetie?"
"Nothing major, just… it's just that I'm a little confused about Melinda."
"Melinda?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeah, remember when we went to the future and I had a daughter? I'm just curious as to why I never had her. It's kind of been bugging me lately. Don't get me wrong, I love Wyatt and Chris, and I wouldn't give them up for anything in the world. It's just weird because I got to meet her, and…" Piper spoke softly, trying not to let the tears burning at the back of her eyes fall. "And then I found out I was pregnant I was so looking forward to knowing her and then… I never had her."
"Aw hunny," Phoebe said behind a slight smile. "We saw a lot in the future that hasn't happened. It's just the way that destiny worked itself out. There's nothing you could have done about it."
"But… I don't know. I sound really dumb right now huh?" Piper said, forcing herself to smile.
"Come here," Paige said, motioning for Piper to give her a hug. "You don't sound dumb at all. You're just a mom who saw that she was going to have a little girl, and never got to know her. It's perfectly understandable why you'd be upset. But you gave birth to two Beautiful baby boys, and gave me two nephews, who can be a major pain in the butt sometimes…" (piper laughs)
"Hey, they're my nephews too." Phoebe chimed in laughing.
"Yah, you guys are right. Thanks for the pep-talk." Piper said, wiping her eyes.
"Anytime sweetie, anytime." Paige said, giggling.
"I'm going to go check on the boys." Piper said as she got up and head towards the stairs.
As Piper fixed Chris's blanket, tucking him back in, she looked over to her right to see Wyatt fast asleep on the floor by his toys. She laughed to herself while she put Wyatt in his bed and tucked him in too. She gave them both a kiss on the forehead and left the room. Piper stepped out into the hallway, and instead of going back downstairs to her sisters, she found herself heading up towards the attic. Which to Piper wasn't so odd. "I always feel better when I come up here," She thought the herself. Next thing Piper knew, she was sitting on an old comfy couch with the Book Of Shadows In her lap. She was just casually flipping through the pages when she came upon something that she thought might help her answer some of the questions that had been floating around in her head for days…
"No. I can't. This has personal gain written all over it. But then again, I can't focus on my 'wittily' duties if I have so much on my mind. So it's technically not personal gain. But in a way it is." Piper argued with herself like that for about 15 minutes before she finally decided to take the risk and do what she felt she had to do.
Within a couple of minutes, She had assembled everything she needed for the spell. She glanced at the book once last time, confident enough that she had made the right choice. She began to chant:
"I call upon my destiny
To show me what I need to see
Show me what my life has been
I need to see what should have been…"
Piper Kneeled between the circle of candles that she had lit and the table that held all the things her spell needed bracing herself for what might happen when she had finished reciting the spell. She turned to realize that Nothing had happened. Nothing at all. "Damn it! I should have known that I'd screw this stupid spell up." Piper said aloud to no one in particular. "I must have left something out."
Just as she was standing to check things over to see what she did wrong, there was a gust of wind and Piper found herself staring at the circle of candles. Blue and white orbs spiraled round and round within the circle. Figuring that it must be Leo just happening to orb in at that particular moment, Piper turned to put the book of shadows back on its stand. When she turned back around to face her husband, she couldn't believe her eyes. Before her was a group of 5 teenagers.
