Ooc: Thought I would write a little story about the characters of charmed…and their close encounter of meeting themselves…

The smell of pancakes cooking filled the Halliwell manor; it drifted up the stairs and was met by Paige walking slowly down the steps with her fluffy slippers dragging down each step as she moved from one to another. Her hand rested on the banister as she used it to lean against, she had been living there now for over three years and felt the manor was finally home to her.
"Morning sweetie…" Phoebe's voice cut through the air as did the morning traffic from outside before the front door slammed shut.
"Morning" Paige answered quietly as she returned a small smile to her bubbly sister who seemed to skip into the hallway and passed her into the kitchen.
"Guess the news….I'm so excited" Phoebe chatted away, her voice rose and rose until was a high pitched squeal, she was getting to the best part of her news when lights seemed to fill the kitchen just as Paige walked in.
"Whoa" Paige covered her eyes and standing before the three women was Grams and Patty. "My girls…" Patty whispered, her eyes filling up with tears as her one hand stretched out to just touch one cheek but Penny pulled her hand back, "Patty please…this is serious, no time for family reunions we need to protect the ones we have…" Her voice serious and firm, her face stern as she searched each of her granddaughters faces knowing whom each were as they visited regular.
"Piper, Phoebe and Paige, this is serious….please sit down" Penny addressed each of the women and pointed to the table.

Piper exchanged a look of concern and yet bewilderment with her sisters as she slowly sunk into the chair next to Phoebe. Paige seemed to stand the longest until she was directed to the chair by her mother.
"You know there are alternative universes…you know this" Penny didn't want to go into details, she knew her granddaughters – the charmed ones, knew this and knew it in great detail, so she felt she could carry on. "Well…you…yourself are in danger!"
"Grams we ca-"Phoebe was interrupted.
"Let me finish…you're in danger in the other universe, you are only children there growing up with powers and also growing up together including Paige"
Paige took a deep breath in, things were way too complicated to understand especially when she had only just gotten out of bed.

Patty cut in ever so gently, "I-We need you to protect yourselves…here the danger of being found and killed is very unlikely, but that would mean the little girls would have to stay with you until the danger is sorted and gone" Silence built up like a wall. "There will be four in your guardianship"
"Grams will put a spell on the house, making it the same on the outside to others, but inside you can accommodate the little ones, magic school will take of them in the day and there will be no extra expenses…it's all sorted…all you have to do is agree" Her voice sounded shaky, she didn't really want to ask this of her girls but she knew in order to protect their future she would need them to take the job seriously.

Phoebe spoke up first, "H-how old are we...them I mean" She said sounding not very convinced at the idea.
Patty smiled; she always knew Phoebe was the one ready to take on any adventure.
"Prue's 12 and protective as ever, Piper is 9 and already a good cook, Phoebe – you are 7 and ready for anything and Paige is 5 and mischievous as normal" Her voice wavered as she spoke, to leave her children as young as they are was going to be hard for her…she knew she would have to leave them soon as for in the alternate universes she didn't die until the girls were at least in their teens.

Piper gasped, hearing Prue's name made her heart give a little flutter, she missed her older sister more each day and now to find out she was going to see her at 12 years old was going to be hard, but she knew she had to do it.

"Ready my girls…ready to me your new chargers?" Penny asked, knowing that it was going to be interesting to see the two sets of charmed ones together.

The three women nodded in unison. This was going to be very interesting indeed.