Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed, if I did it might go something like this.

Summary: Five years have passed since the last episode and things in the lives of the Halliwells have changed for the better. Most of the older kids have gotten married and started families. Some of the kids have had successful runs in the sports world and a few of them have music careers. Even though they are all getting on with their own lives now they are all coming back together for a wedding. Demons have been giving them a break for the last few years so they haven't had anything really significant on that front for a while. We're going to see how they juggle love, marriage, work, and being parents with demon hunting.


Chapter 1: Five Years Later

Chris Halliwell heaved a heavy sigh when he heard a loud wailing over the receiving end of the baby monitor that was set up in his room. He felt around with his hand to see if his wife was in bed with him and of course he found her side of the bed empty. "That's just my luck." He muttered to himself as he swung his legs out of bed. A quick check of alarm clock on his bedside table told him that it was ten in the morning. He had somehow managed to sleep in and that surprised him greatly given that he had had the tiny bundle of energy he called his daughter last night.

He was broke out of his thoughts by another loud wail. "Hold on, daddy's coming." He spoke more to himself than the baby. He padded quickly down to the nursery where the noise was coming from. He opened the door to the bright blue painted room and walked to the crib. He looked down and saw that his son was not a happy camper at the moment.

"It's ok, Danny, daddy's here now." Chris said picking the infant up and cradling him in his arms. "What's wrong, buddy?" he asked. He checked his diaper and found that it was dry meaning that Rachel had already changed and fed him this morning. "Daddy knows what's wrong no one was paying attention to his little man and he didn't like that too much." He cooed at him. "Let's go see what mommy and sissy are doing. I'm sure that you would like that." he told him as they made their way out of the room.

After a quick walk down the stairs they came upon the kitchen where he found his wife and daughter. Chris put his finger to his lips to silence his daughter so that he could surprise his wife. He walked up behind Rachel who was busy at the stove and wrapped his free arm around her waist. "Good morning, Mrs. Halliwell." He purred huskily into her ear causing her to jump.

"Good morning, Mr. Halliwell." Rachel replied once she had gotten over her shock. She turned around so that she could kiss him. "And good morning to you too, little man. Mommy thought that you would still be sleeping. You didn't wake daddy up did you?" she asked her son kissing his head.

"He did, but it was about time for me to be getting up anyway. I can't believe you let me sleep that long." Chris replied.

"You needed the sleep, you've been working a lot lately." Rachel informed him.

"How'd you keep the tiny tornado from waking me up?" Chris asked sounding amused.

"I didn't have to, when she woke up she just wanted to be held and then she went right back to sleep for a couple of hours. We've only been up about an hour. She was in the bed with us I'm surprised that you didn't feel her invading your personal space." Rachel replied chuckling.

"I'm so used to not having personal space when I sleep that I don't even notice anymore." Chris laughed. He walked to the table and strapped Danny into his bouncy chair. "Morning, Ace." He said ruffling his daughter's hair before making his way over to the coffee pot.

"Morning, daddy." Paige replied flashing him a big grin. The little girl was a carbon copy of her father; just about the only thing that she didn't get from him were the deep brown eyes that she had inherited from her mother.

"Have you been good for momma this morning?" Chris asked as he poured himself a cup of coffee. He knew that she could be a little terror if she felt like it.

"I always good, daddy." Paige said smiling at him innocently.

"If I didn't know better I would swear that you are as sweet and innocent as you like to pretend you are, but you, my child are your mother's daughter when you want to be." Chris chuckled taking a seat beside her.

"I not know what that means." Paige again professed her innocence.

"I'm sure you don't." Rachel laughed. She really loved that kid just like she was her own. As a matter of fact she didn't feel any differently about her than she did about Danny.

"I'll tell you when you're older, Ace." Chris said shaking his head at her antics.

Rachel turned around to smirk at her husband. "Way to sound like a dad, babe."

Chris shrugged helplessly; he just didn't know what to say to his daughter sometimes, so he said things like that.


A raven-haired young woman sat in the first class lounge waiting for her flight to be called. She was looking a little worse for the ware, if she were to remove her dark sunglasses it would become apparent that her eyes were bloodshot and she had bags under them from some hard partying the night before. She pinched the bridge of her nose and rubbed her temples to fight off the headache she felt forming.

"Here, I figured that we could both use one of these for medicinal purposes this morning." A young woman with chocolate brown locks said coming up to the first girl. She was holding two glasses filled with a red liquid.

"Thanks, Val, a Bloody Mary is just what I need right now. We should have thought about that damn wrap party before we scheduled a flight this early. Jesus Christ, it will be a miracle if we don't still reek of booze when we get home." Carly said gratefully accepting the glass from Val.

"Carly, we aren't known well for our clear thinking. Our moms will think nothing of it if we show up half in the bag." Val assured her.

"Who would have thought that when we came out here we would be flying home first class one day?" Carly asked getting a little nostalgic.

"Me, we both knew that we were going to make a big name for ourselves we just didn't know how big." Val replied.

"I mean we knew that we were going to try to make this fashion line work, but we didn't see the Broadway thing coming at all." Carly mused.

"You and I are a couple of go getters, my dear." Val pointed out to her.

"We just didn't get gone far enough to have our mothers quit nagging us." Carly quipped.

"We're Halliwells, we're never going to get far enough away for our mothers not to nag us, it's what they do. But at least we can sleep soundly at night secure in the knowledge that Piper Halliwell isn't our mother." Val laughed.

"I thank God every day that I'm not Mel and I don't have to deal with her." Carly agreed whole-heartedly.

"You gonna be ok seeing him again?" Val asked her cousin. She knew that she didn't have to mention his name for her to know whom she was talking about.

Carly shrugged in response. "I'll be fine, it's not like it's a big deal or anything."

"It's a huge deal, he was your first serious boyfriend." Val reminded her.

"The key word in that sentence is was. Val, we really should have known better than to try to make a long distance relationship work. I was young and stupid at the time though and I just wasn't ready to give him up. I sometimes think that if I had just let him go that would have saved us both a lot of heartache there at the end. Things between us got really bad really fast." Carly retorted.

"You learned a lesson from it though, and that is what is important." Val said winking at her.

"It is entirely too early in the morning and I'm entirely too hungover to listen to your bullshit right now." Carly rolled her eyes. "And I don't think that you would be this calm if I brought up you and Troy at the moment." She called her out.

"Things between Troy and I are complicated at the moment. We'll more than likely work it out, but for that to happen he would have to stay put for more than a week at a time." Val sighed. The problem with her boyfriend was that she couldn't get him to stay in one place for any period of time.

"Things between you and Troy have always been complicated. Hell, you were together for the better part of a year before you admitted to your mom that you were dating." Carly laughed. She didn't feel guilty in the least bit for finding her cousin's relationship problems amusing.

"I don't know why I like you sometimes, bitch." Val replied shaking her head.

"You don't like me you love me." Carly corrected her with a smirk.

"I don't know why sometimes." Val muttered to herself while rolling her eyes.


Opening Credits:

Theme:

Turning Home- David Nail

Starring:

Wyatt Halliwell- Wes Ramsey

Chris Halliwell- Drew Fuller

Henry Halliwell Jr.- Channing Tatum

Cooper Halliwell Jr.- Paul Walker

Charles Bradford- Alex O'Loughlin

Lila Nicolae- Jordana Brewster

Roman Nicolae- Ben McKenzie

Elizabeth Shane- Bethany Joy Galeotti

Parker Halliwell- Eddie Cibrian

Troy Shane- David Boreanez

Bianca Hoyt- Marisol Nichols

Calleigh Cavanaugh- Anne Hathaway

Rachel Hoyt- Ali Larter

Oriana Hoyt- Jessica Biel

Chord Shane- Jake Gyllenhaal

Greg Halliwell- Cam Gigandet

And

Prue Halliwell- Jenifer Love Hewitt

With:

Melinda Halliwell- Amanda Bynes

Valerie Halliwell- Eliza Dushku

Penny Halliwell- Amanda Righetti

Carly Halliwell- Sophia Bush

Patty Halliwell- Rachel Bilson

Ricky Bradford- Taylor Lautner

Jack Halliwell- Jensen Ackles

Alan Halliwell- Chris Pine

Brady Halliwell- Michael Bublé

Hailey Mitchell- Amanda Seyfried

Puck Cavanaugh- Mark Salling

Paige Halliwell-Daniela Ruah

Victor Halliwell- Kellan Lutz

Dominic Turner- Freddie Prinze Jr.

Savannah Turner- Alona Tal

Chase Hoyt- Chris Evans

Billy Jenkins- Chad Michael Murray

Mia Campbell- Olivia Wilde

And

Emily Bradford- Hayden Panettiere


Henry grunted when he felt something land on his stomach. It didn't take much imagination for him to figure out what that something was he really only had two choices and they answered to the names of his oldest two children. He was a little surprised when he opened his eyes and saw that it was his daughter who had decided to practice her dive-bombing skills this morning. He had to hide a smirk, not that it did any good that little girl knew that she had him right where she wanted him.

"Piper Oriana," Henry said sternly and she smiled up at him. "You can't do things like that you might get hurt." He had pretty much melted once she smiled at him.

"Sorry, daddy." Anna apologized looking up at him with her big brown eyes.

Henry lifted her up so that they were locking eyes. That was kind of hard considering that her brown hair was in her eyes. "It's ok, baby, you just have to be careful doing that. If I had been sleeping deeply I could have hurt you, besides that your little brother slept with mommy and me last night. You don't want to hurt him do you?"

"No," Anna said in a serious tone shaking her head. For a one year old she took being a big sister very seriously.

"Is mommy up?" Henry asked her.

Anna nodded head. "She say for you to get Twip up too."

"Ok, thank you, you did a good job." Henry chuckled as he sat her down on the floor. He rolled over and saw that Bianca had put on pillow on her side of the bed to keep Trip from falling off of it. "Morning, JB, your mother has issued an order and I guess we better follow it." He said picking his son up in his arms. JB was his nickname for his youngest son it stood for Junior Bubba.

It took Henry maybe ten minutes to get his son a fresh diaper and clean clothes. When he finally made his way downstairs to the kitchen he found his older two children at the table and his wife putting food in front of them.

Bianca smiled when she saw her husband and youngest son standing there. "It's about time you two sleepyheads got up." She greeted them. She went over and kissed Henry on the mouth "Here, let me take the baby so you can eat." She said taking their son from him.

"B, you don't have to do that. I can handle him and eat at the same time. Besides it seems like forever since I've gotten to see any of them." Henry replied as he watched her strap Trip into his bouncy seat.

"That's what happens when you work as much as you do." Bianca teased sitting a plate of food in front of him.

"I don't want you to think that working that much was my idea, you have to take that up with my boss." Henry said throwing his hands up in a sign of innocence.

"You're not telling me anything that I don't know about your boss she can be a bitch when she wants to be and that is often." Bianca chuckled.

"Mommy, you're not supposed to say that, that's a bad word." Victor told his mother.

"Buddy, you can't listen to everything that mommy says." Bianca said winking at him.

Henry looked around confused for a moment but then he was able to put his finger on what was amiss. "Did Chris get Paige last night when we got off work?" he asked.

"Yeah, they couldn't stand to be apart for another second." Bianca chuckled. The only other father and daughter she had seen as close as Chris and Paige had been her and Frank.

"I'm sure that they couldn't." Henry laughed. "Hey, big man, you're being mighty quiet this morning." He said addressing his oldest son.

"Mommy said that we had to be quiet because you were tired." Victor replied.

Henry smiled at him. "She only meant that you had to be quiet while I was sleeping." He corrected ruffling his hair.

"Did you and Uncle Chris catch any bad guys?" Victor asked him.

"You know it, buddy." Henry replied.

"When I get big I'm gonna be a cop like you and Uncle Chris." Victor proclaimed.

"We'll be glad to have you." Henry smiled at him.

"I'm not even going to comment because it's in his blood and there isn't a damn thing that I can do about it." Bianca said shaking her head. She really had no room to talk with what she did for a living.

"What exactly is your second job, Mrs. Halliwell?" Henry asked her with a smirk on his face.

"Hank, shut up and eat your breakfast." Bianca said shaking her head at him.


"I'm mighty damn surprised to see the both of you up before noon." Dom commented when he saw Victor and Paige both sitting on the couch eating cereal and watching TV. He had just gotten out of the shower and that accounted for him not knowing that those two were up.

"You know me I can only sleep so long and Vic had had his fill of sleep too." Paige said never taking her eyes off the TV to look at her husband.

"As perverse as it sounds we were too fucking tired to sleep." Victor chimed in. Life had really been good to them the last few years after everything that they had lived through in the future.

"Vic, I've asked you two not to do that weird twin thing." Dom said sighing. Really he didn't know why he had thought that it was a good idea to live with the two of them.

"That wasn't him doing the weird twin thing that was him stating the truth." Paige corrected her husband.

"Forgive me ignorance, Mrs. Halliwell." Dom said rolling his eyes at his wife.

"I don't know that there is any forgiveness for you, Mr. Turner." Paige bantered playfully with him.

"So, what is on the agenda for today?" Dom asked.

"We all absolutely have to go to the manor later, you know that grandma pretty much made that shit mandatory." Paige answered him.

"That's right everyone is coming in from out of town." Victor said like that fact had slipped his mind.

"Val and Carly are coming in from New York, Troy and Chord are coming back from wherever the hell it is that they were this time and that should about cover it." Dom said. He didn't even like thinking where his brothers had been off to this time. He was just glad that they hadn't had a need for his services. It was kind of hard to get them out of a bind when he worked for their mother and she would find out what her boys were up to.

"Yeah, you know that everyone has to get home for the wedding." Paige rolled her eyes.

"A smart person wouldn't get married and I always considered her one of the brightest." Victor quipped.

"The only good reason to get married is for the other person's life insurance." Paige chuckled.

"It's nice to know that you think so highly of me, babe." Dom said with disbelief written on his face. He didn't know why anything that came out of her mouth surprised him, but it did.

"Dom, you know damn well how she is, I don't know why anything that comes out of that mouth of hers surprises you." Victor laughed.

"I honestly don't know either." Dom said shaking his head.

"Don't look at me like that you know that I love you." Paige said standing up to kiss him.

"You better, because I love you too." Dom replied.

Victor for his part just shook his head at the both of them. "I swear, I wouldn't have to put up with this if I shared an apartment with Al and Savannah." He muttered to himself. He obviously wasn't quiet enough because his sister flipped him off for that comment.


Tim was reclining on the couch in his living room watching two dark headed little boys playing with a blonde headed little girl. The boys were five and one and the little girl was four.

"I'm impressed, how did you keep them quiet enough to let me sleep in?" Nicole asked sitting down on his lap.

"I told them if they woke you up you wouldn't be a happy camper and they all know better than to make you mad." Tim chuckled while absentmindedly twirling the plain gold wedding band on his left ring finger.

"I swear I am not as bad as you and Chord like to make me sound." Nicole rolled her eyes at him.

"Of course you're not, dear." Tim replied in a tone that said he clearly didn't believe that.

"Have they been good?" Nicole asked him.

"They are always good for me." Tim assured her. At that moment the littlest of the three children toddled over to them.

Nicole picked the little boy up. "Hey, Deacon, what you doing, Mater?" she asked him.

"Nothing," Deacon answered. He was the perfect combination of her and Tim. He had his father's dark hair and his mother's eyes.

"Timothy, I find it hard to believe that you're innocent." Nicole replied chuckling.

"Mommy, why did you call Deacon by Daddy Tim's name?" Savannah asked. She was always curious.

"Because, Deacon's first name is Timothy just like daddy's." Nicole explained and she was happy to see that that answer satisfied her daughter. "Did they eat?" she asked her husband.

"Yep, they've all been fed and as you can see I got them all clean afterwards." Tim reported proudly. The fact that he had managed to coral all three of them was quite a feat.

"Shouldn't you be at work?" Nicole asked him that little fact just popping into her head.

"I've got a little meeting later that is going to require me to get on the jet, but don't worry I'll be back in time for that thing that we have to do later." Tim assured her.

"Is Lizzie going with you?" Nicole asked. Normally when Tim had business to attend to their daughter went with him.

"No, I'm actually being trusted to do something on my own." Tim chuckled.

"Tim, I swear to God if you stop to gamble I will divorce your ass again." Nicole threatened him.

" Nicky, that was the farthest thing from my mind, I promise you that I learned my lesson." Tim promised her.

"Timmy, I know you, so forgive me for being a little cautious." Nicole replied. "So is this a new band or what?" she asked softening considerably.

"It's actually just a single performer this time." Tim answered her.

"Can I go with you, daddy?" Dom asked him hopefully.

"Not this time, buddy, this is just going to be a boring meeting. Next time that I'm doing something more fun, I promise that you can come with me." Tim replied smiling at him.

"I'm afraid to ask, but what did you make them for breakfast?" Nicole asked him.

"We had pancakes, I made enough for you if you want some." Tim informed her.

"The only thing I need right now is coffee." Nicole said her accent coming out as she spoke.

"I guess you do, your Georgia is showing." Tim smirked at her.

"Don't be cute with me right now, Timmy." Nicole warned him.

"I can't help it that I'm just that damn cute." Tim retorted.

"Troy couldn't be more like you if he tried sometimes." Nicole scoffed.

"Roy Boy can't help it that he took after his daddy." Tim grinned because he knew what it did to her when he grinned at her like that.

"Don't you grin at me like you're so pleased with yourself. You know that I can't stay mad at you when you look at me like that." Nicole teased him.

" I'm pleased with myself and you should be too after last night." Tim said with a smoldering look in his eyes.

"Don't start something that you have no time and no privacy to finish right now." Nicole replied seductively.

"I'm sure that the sprouts would love to go see their sister right about now, you should call Savannah and see if she and Al mind watching them." Tim suggested.

"Screw that, I'm not asking she might say no. I'll just have Dom shimmer them over to Lizzie's." Nicole retorted. "Dominic," she called out to her son.

"What mommy?" Dom asked.

"Do you want to shimmer over to Lizzie's?" Nicole asked him.

"Yeah," Dom answered brightly.

"Ok, just be sure to hold on to your little brother's hand really tight." Nicole stressed to him. She didn't feel bad in the least for dumping them off on Liz for a few hours. She knew that her daughter didn't mind and besides it wasn't like Liz didn't do the same thing to her all of the time.


"Hailey, it's a pleasant surprise to see you here this morning." Paige stated brightly when she walked into the kitchen and found her niece there.

"I promised Alan that I would come see him the next time I found a minute and thanks to this whole wedding thing I have time off right now." Hailey explained.

"Don't let your Aunt Piper hear you sound so enthusiastic about it." Henry chuckled.

"Uncle Henry, that woman is being worse than she normally is right now." Hailey pointed out to him.

"Hails, you're not telling either one of us anything that we don't know about my sister." Paige said kissing her on top of her head.

"Mommy, when is Carly gonna be here?" Alan asked his mother. He was really excited to see his oldest sister it had been a couple of months since the last time.

"She'll be home soon, buddy, she can only go as fast as the plane will carry her." Henry answered for his wife.

"I miss her, daddy, I don't get to see her everyday like I do Charlie, Hank, and Big Al." Alan explained to his father.

"You mean Charlie hasn't warned him about Carly?" Hailey asked with an amused look on her face.

"I think that I should worry about the fact that my daughter needs to come with her own warning label." Paige said shaking her head as she walked to the coffee maker.

"Our daughter is one of a kind." Henry chuckled.

"What time do we have to be at the manor?" Hailey asked with a sigh. She had been dreading this all damn week.

"Your Aunt Piper said four thirty, I guess she really meant five, but she always tells me an earlier time because she knows I have problems being on time. I would just like to point out that I'm not as bad as your Aunt Phoebe is about being late." Paige went into a longer explanation than was required for the question that Hailey asked.

"Now you know why you get to come over to the apartment when you want to see me. Your mommy is just a little crazy." Hailey said turning to address Alan again.

"That was really cute, Hailey Alice." Paige said mock glaring at her.

"So, Hails, how has work been?" Henry asked.

"It's been educational, Uncle Derek has taken me under his wing at the moment just to show me how things are done around there. He says that I don't need the training that other architects do, so he is working with me on my engineering skills. He thinks that in addition to being a really great architect that I'll make a good structural engineer too. He basically said that we are going to turn me into another him." Hailey replied.

"Listen to Derek he does know what he's talking about." Paige advised her.

"Actually, Uncle Derek and grandpa let Jack and I have a pretty big project all to ourselves. And they don't ever turn loose of the reins for anyone else." Hailey reported.

"That's because you and Jack are both good at what you do." Henry beamed at her with pride. "I'm proud of you, kiddo." He said pulling her into a hug.

"Thanks, Uncle Henry." Hailey smiled back at him.

"I'm proud of you too, Hails." Paige said kissing her on the head.

"Thanks, you're the one who made me see that it wasn't stupid to want to be an architect." Hailey replied.

"That's because I happen to think all three of my girls are brilliant and I don't mind making them see that." Paige replied winking at her.


Parker woke up on the couch in the back room of P3 that wasn't really that unusual an occurrence for him anymore. Nor was the fact that his eyes felt like they had grit in them and his tongue felt like sandpaper. To him that was a sign that he had once again had too much to drink and he had stumbled back here to pass out. The first thing he did when he got up was walk over to the desk, he picked up the glass that was sitting there, and he poured about an inch of whiskey in it. He tossed that back straight.

"That should take care of the damn hangover for a little while." He muttered to himself. His face showed the signs of the hard living that he had been doing. His chin was covered in a thick beard and his eyes were sunken and hallow in addition to being bloodshot all of the time. When he had occasion to smile it never reached his eyes and he felt tired in his body and soul.

He took a look around the room and he couldn't help thinking that this is what his life had been reduced to. He would do just about anything to keep from going home even if it meant more or less living in this rabbit hole and bouncing around his sisters' houses to shower.

He consulted the watch on his right wrist and cussed mentally. "Shit, I'm going to have to grab a fucking shower and a change of clothes." He pulled a photo out of his wallet and stared at it intently for a moment. "Oh, well, I don't know that I'm ever going to be able to get that back, so there is no sense obsessing over it." He said before walking out to his car.


"What are you two doing?" Lilly asked walking into the living room of her house where her husband and daughter were seated.

"We're watching cartoons, we didn't have anything else to do at the moment." Jake answered his wife. "Sammy, tell mommy not to worry about it, because we have everything under control." He told the dark blonde headed little girl sitting next to him.

"Don't worry, mommy." Sam parroted her father with a smile. At one she was picking up on everything that her parents said these days.

Lilly pointed her finger at her husband. "Cooper, you're gonna get her in trouble one of these days." She chuckled.

"How's little man this morning?" Jake asked her about their month old son.

"He is still sleeping and I would like it if he stayed that way for a while." Lilly said she was pretty much warning him not to wake him up.

"I wouldn't dream of waking him up, I know how hard it is to get him to sleep. Trust me I was up with him a two this morning." Jake assured her.

"Well, I was up with him at six, so that should tell you that he isn't thinking kindly about sleep these days." Lilly replied rolling her eyes. They had been through this with Sam so it wasn't anything that they couldn't handle, but it was tiring.

"Coop, is obviously his Aunt Prue's nephew with as troublesome as he is being these days." Jake couldn't help laughing. He was never going to out grow giving his sister a hard time.

"Your sister isn't even here right now, do me a favor and don't say anything that can piss her off." Lilly begged him.

Jake knew that he had to choose his next words very carefully or he would piss his wife off. "Baby, if you're still tired you can go back to sleep. Sammy and I are both very content right now and I'm more than capable of handling Coop if he wakes up." He didn't want to insinuate that she was being crabby even if that was the case, so he had settled for saying what he had said.

Lilly gave him a withering look, but after a moment she softened considerably. "I'm being a bitch right now and I realize that, I'm sorry I didn't mean to take it out on you, it's not your fault that Coop isn't sleeping through the night. My hormones are still a little out of whack, you and Sammy are both bearing the brunt of that, I'm going to be better from now on." She apologized before kissing him. "You're sister is coming in today." She said to make conversation.

"I'm well aware, I'm not sure what time her flight is though." Jake replied. He knew that their discussion of her mood swings had been closed.

"Sammy, Aunt Val is coming in today and she is going to be so excited to see you." Lilly told her daughter.

"I wuv Aunt Val." Sammy said enthusiastically.

"Don't let Aunt Penny hear you sound so giddy, she thinks that you love her more." Jake teased her.

"I wuv Aunt Penny too." Sammy replied in a tone that said her father should have thought of that.

"Thank God or we would never be able to get rid of you." Lilly joked picking her up.

"Oh, that's not nice mommy." Jake mock scolded his wife.

"I'm the mommy I have to be the hard ass, you're the daddy you get to be nice." Lilly pointed out to him in mock seriousness.

Jake shook his head at her. "You're lucky that I love you so much." He couldn't help laughing at her.

"I think that you might be lucky that I love you, because you are far crazier than I am." Lilly shot back and then she kissed him when she saw the pout that he fixed on his face.


"Chuck, what did you do to him?" Prue asked going to her husband and taking her youngest son from him. "Come here, Cal, mommy knows that daddy doesn't know what he's doing." She had the three month old over her shoulder and she was rubbing his back in a soothing manner.

"Well, Charlie and I won't try to help anymore, will we, bubby?" Chuck asked his oldest son.

"Nope," Charlie agreed with his father. He was the spitting image of Chuck. He had the same dark hair and dark eyes as his father, while Caleb looked more like Prue.

"Chip, do me a favor and get him dressed." Prue said pointing at Charlie. "It's ok, Cal, mommy's gonna make it better."

"Here's his bottle, I think he got pissed because I took away to burp him." Chuck replied handing her the bottle. "Alright, Charlie, let's go get you some clothes on." He picked up his three-year-old son and prepared to carry him up the steps.

Prue patted Caleb gently on the back and he let out a loud burp. "There you go, now you can finish eating." She said settling him in her arms and putting his bottle in his mouth.

"That's my boy." Chuck beamed with pride.

"Chuck, just go do what I asked you to and then when Cal is done eating I'll get him dressed." Prue ordered rolling her eyes.

"We better go before we get in trouble." Chuck told Charlie as they walked up the steps.

"Your daddy and your brother are both silly. That's ok, we still love them." Prue said kissing him on the head. "You just eat, so you'll be my happy boy again." Five minutes later she had him burped and was walking up the stairs so that she could change him. She walked into the boys' room and found Chuck having a hard time getting Charlie's shirt on him. "Chuck, what are you doing?" she asked.

"Well, Charlie and I are having a little trouble with this shirt." Chuck explained to his wife.

"You take him and I'll get Charlie dressed." Prue said handing him their youngest child. In about five seconds she had Charlie's shirt pulled over his head with no problem at all. He was dressed aside from that. "Now, can you get Cal dressed or do I need to do that too?" she asked her husband with a smirk on her face.

Chuck thought about glaring at her but then he thought better of it. "I can get him dressed just fine." He assured her.

"Well, I didn't know, you had a hard time getting Charlie dressed and he is much easier to get clothes on than Cal is." Prue replied innocently.

Chuck walked over and planted a kiss on her lips. "I don't know why sometimes, but I sure do love you." he told her.

"I love you too, Chip." Prue then wrapped her arms around his neck.

"No kissy face, yuck." Charlie yelled out covering his eyes with his hand.

"That boy is so your son." Prue told her husband laughing.

"I have no comment on the matter right now." Chuck laughed shaking his head.


"Do I want to know what your brothers and sister are doing here?" Wyatt asked when he walked in the living room with his son in his arms and found his wife's younger siblings and his daughter watching cartoons.

"I'm not even sure that I want to know what they're doing here, so I didn't ask them. I think mom sent them over, and if she did that it was because she wanted to spend time with dad. So, like I said I just don't want to know." Liz replied.

"Well, I managed to get Shane clean, if that makes you happy." Wyatt offered.

"That makes me very happy and I will love you forever, I know that he is two months old, but he gets dirtier than Nixie ever did at that age." Liz said taking her son. He was dark headed unlike his sister, but he did have his mother's brown eyes.

"I'm happy to know that it is so easy to please you." Wyatt replied kissing her.

"Don't start, that's how we got Shane." Liz teased him.

"Really? Thanks for telling me, I've been wondering where babies come from." Wyatt joked right back with her.

"Shh, you really don't want to say that too loudly with Dom right here. He's at that age where he is starting to ask a lot of questions. You know that as well as I do your little brother is the same age." Liz scolded him lightly.

"Jackie knows way more than he should, because mom made the mistake of letting Paige babysit him." Wyatt retorted.

"I wouldn't bad mouth Paige if I were you she is the one that babysits for us when we can't find anyone else to do it." Liz reminded him.

"I'm just saying." Wyatt replied with a shrug.

"I hope Shane stays clean for awhile because we have to be at the manor at five." Liz said hopefully.

"I'm sure that he'll try his best to stay clean, but you know how that boy is." Wyatt told her seriously.

"He's a handful just like his daddy." Liz teased him.

"Oh, no, that boy is high maintenance just like his momma." Wyatt refuted her accusation.

"I'll show you high maintenance when you're sleeping on the couch." Liz zinged him.

"I love you." Wyatt said giving her a huge grin.

"I love you too, I just don't like you sometimes." Liz replied with a fake smile.

"I think that I'm just going to go for a run or something now. Because, I happen to know what's good for me." Wyatt was nodding his head vigorously.

"I'm only teasing, you don't have to leave the house to get away from me." Liz assured him.

Wyatt looked at her warily. "Ok, with you I never can be sure."

"Just go sit down and watch cartoons with the kids, you big goofball." Liz said kissing him.


Jack let out a low whistle when he walked into the manor via the side door in the kitchen. "Damn, mom, if I didn't know any better I would say that you're cooking for an army." He said in reference to the number of pots and pans she had going on the stove at the moment.

"I am cooking for an army. You know how many people are coming over here tonight." Piper replied scoffing.

"Where's dad?" Jack asked out of curiosity.

"I sent him to the store on a little errand he should be back shortly." Piper answered her son.

"I bet you'll be glad for this stupid wedding to be over." Jack commented.

"Don't even go there with me right now, it is not a nice place to be at all." Piper replied.

"It's gonna be ok, mom." Jack assured her with an amused grin.

"What are you doing off of work right now anyway?" Piper asked him sounding mildly annoyed.

"Hailey and I are farther along on the project that grandpa and Uncle Derek gave us than they thought we would be at this point, so they gave us the day off to keep us from burning out. We have been working a lot of late nights and weekends on this one." Jack explained to her.

"I'm really proud of you, Jack." Piper told him offering a small smile.

"Thanks, mom, that means a lot to me. I know that it took me a little while to adjust to being stuck here and you were really great through all the bullshit that I put you through." Jack replied gratefully.

"Jack, you were really easy to get through the process Dom and Alan were the ones who had a hard time with it. You only did the things that you did to keep them out of trouble." Piper said waving off his thanks.

"Still it couldn't have been easy for you with us being gone for two months at a time here and there when we were trying to sort things out." Jack wasn't willing to just let the matter drop.

"I knew that you guys would all come back home where you belonged, so it didn't worry me too much." Piper assured him.

"I can't believe that my mother of all people just said that she didn't worry about something." Jack quipped knowing damn well that he was playing with fire talking to her like that.

"Hey, I said that I didn't worry too much, that is not the same thing as saying that I didn't worry about you guys." Piper corrected him.

"You couldn't have worried about us too much, because you had Chris and Hank to worry about at the time." Jack joked with her.

"One of the good things about those two having kids is they don't do half the stupid shit to make me worry that they used to." Piper threw out there.

"I'm pretty sure that those two are always going to be able to find trouble, but they have toned it down some since they became fathers." Jack agreed with his mother.

Just then the side door opened to reveal Leo, Little Jack, and a little girl of about two. The little girl went rushing right into Jack's open arms.

"How is the most beautiful little sister in the world?" Jack asked the little girl kissing her on the head.

"I good, Jackson." The little girl replied. She called him Jackson and her other brother Jackie to keep from getting them confused.

"That's good to hear, Mac, I missed you." Jack told her.

"I missed you too." Mac replied kissing his cheek. She had light brown hair and brown eyes. She looked a whole lot like Piper, but you could still see Leo in her too.

"Mackenzie, you leave your brother alone. I'm sure the last thing he wants is you crawling all over him." Piper scolded her daughter lightly. Mac had been her and Leo's little surprise. They really hadn't planned on having any more kids, but she came along and threw a wrench in that plan. It had actually done her a world of good, because she was stressing out over Mel being all the way across the country.

"Mom, she's not bothering me, you know that I like doting on her." Jack said waving off her concern. "Hey, Jackie, you got a little love for your big brother?" he asked the little boy so he didn't feel left out.

"Hi, Jack," Jack said hugging his brother around the legs. He thought it was cool that they had the same name so he didn't bother calling him anything else.

"The only other person they mob like that is Chris, you should feel honored." Leo chuckled.

"Chris is a pretty great big brother and a tough act to follow." Jack replied smiling at his father.

"You don't do so bad." Leo said ruffling his hair. "I'm surprised that you're not with Em right now. I know that it's been awhile since you two got the chance to spend time together."

"Em is busy with this wedding, she wouldn't have had time for me anyway. Besides I spent most of the night with her last night, so it's not like we didn't get to see each other." Jack shrugged in response.

"Jackie, can you please take Mac in the other room to play?" Piper asked her younger son sweetly.

"Sure, mommy." Little Jack agreed. "Jack, I need you to put Mac down so I can do what mommy asked." He had had almost six years to figure out it was wise to always do what his mother wanted.

Jack obliged by sitting his sister down on her feet. "You two behave." He said before sending them on their way.

"There is virtually no chance of that happening, but it was a good try, son." Leo shook his head and chuckled.

"My daughter is an angel, it is your son that gets into trouble especially when his niece is around. That goes for both Big Jack and Little Jack." Piper pointed out to her husband.

"Paige is a bully I do what she says so she won't beat the shit out of me." Jack said throwing up his hands in a sign of surrender.

"I refuse to believe that that sweet little girl bullies Jackie into doing anything." Piper was now talking about the younger set of children with those names.

"That little girl isn't as innocent as she likes to act like she is." Jack corrected her.

"She's a Halliwell isn't she?" Leo asked in jest only to get a glare from his son and his wife. He really knew better than to say things like that, but at the moment he just couldn't help himself.


"Why doesn't your cheap ass spring for first class more often? This is really nice." Chord inquired of his brother. Of course he had a drink in his hand and he knew that his wife would kill him for it. These days he was wearing his hair shoulder length and he had grown a thick beard.

"Because, it never crossed my mind to do it until today and that was by accident it was the last two seats they had on this flight and we really needed to get back." Troy explained to his addled brained little brother.

"Don't look now, but I think that you're about to be in trouble." Chord said as he saw a woman with a pissed off look on her face approaching them.

"Oh shit, you're not kidding." Troy said when he caught sight of his girlfriend. "Hi, Val, fancy running into you here." he greeted her.

"Where the hell have you been, Troy?" Val demanded of him.

"I've been around." Troy replied giving her a cheeky grin.

"I'm just going to go back and sit with Carly so you two can have a minute to talk." Chord excused himself as quickly as possible. He had a woman of his own to deal with he didn't need to deal with his brother's woman too.

"Have a seat." Troy offered her the seat that Chord had just vacated.

"Seriously, where have you been?" Val asked him sounding calmer than she wanted to.

"I was in Georgia with my grandparents. There was a dig going on at a site not far from their farm and I was in charge of it. Chord was with me because I needed help with the job." Troy explained to her.

"You walked out on a pretty serious fight a couple of weeks ago." Val reminded him.

"I know and I'm sorry. I really had to go right then. You knew when we started dating that I'm not the type of person who can stay in one place for any period of time. I don't know why that is coming as a shock to you now." Troy replied.

"It's not that, Troy. It's just that we're apart more than we're together and we have broken up I don't know how many times in the last year. Lately you've been the one pressuring me to take things to the next step and I don't know that I'm ready for that yet. I just got a business off the ground and I spend all of my time focusing on that. I don't think that I can be what you want me to be right now." Val leveled with him.

Troy sighed and took a moment to collect his thoughts before responding to that. "Val, I've always been up front with you about my commitment issues and my rambling ways. But, lately I've taken a look around at how happy my brother, my sister, and all my friends are with being married and starting a family that I've thought that that is something I might like to have. I'm gonna be thirty-two at my next birthday and the closest I've come to ever settling down was with Donnie and that was ten years ago. I want to get married and have kids of my own. Don't get me wrong, I love being Uncle Troy, but I don't really have anyone who is going to miss me if I decide to go off for anywhere from three weeks to a month. Chord and I had to do this last job in a hurry because he had to get back home to his wife." He explained his reasoning.

"Troy, we've both been honest with each other from the beginning and I'm not going to start lying to you now. I just don't know that I can ever be what you want me to be. As a matter of fact I happen to think that I would make a pretty lousy wife and mother." Val replied.

"I guess that leaves us at an impasse then, I promise you that I will convince you to see things my way." Troy replied with the grin that she loved so much.

"We'll see about that." Val said with a hint of a challenge in her voice.

Troy smirked back at her as if to say 'game on'.


"I'm so glad that Gus is good enough to keep those little ones entertained." Maria said pointing to where her baby brother was in the floor playing with her younger two children.

"I can't believe how big that little boy of yours is getting. It feels like it's been forever since I've seen any of them." Lyn replied. Maria and Tyler had finally gotten their boy about two years after their youngest daughter had been born.

"That's because you work all the time, Nana." Lyn complained to her grandmother.

"I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that's noticed." Frank said sharing a smile with his granddaughter.

"Ok, this is not pick on Lyn day." Lyn said mock glaring at her husband.

"How is work, mom?" Tyler asked. He wasn't really close to his own parents so he sometimes called Lyn and Frank, mom and dad.

"It's good, I'm glad that we're getting a little time off, because we really burned the oil on that last case. Although, if a certain two officers of mine wreck one more car I'm going to make them do the paperwork that goes along with it." Lyn was now a captain in the police department. After it had come out that she had been a cop before opening her own PI firm.

"Ty, you should be thankful that you just have to deal with her at home. Poor Hank has to deal with her at home and at work and then he gets to go home to an even bigger bitch than her." Maria cracked.

"Sophia Maria, don't call your sister a bitch." Lyn scolded her daughter.

Maria glared at her nine-year-old daughter when she giggled. "You find something funny, Oriana?" she asked her.

"I can't say that I do." Lyn replied with a smirk.

"You get more and more like your Aunt B everyday. That right there is some of the shit that she says to your Nana." Maria informed her shaking her head.

"Maria, leave that girl alone she didn't do anything to you." Lyn told her.

"Mom, are you going to deny that she reminded you of B a second ago?" Maria questioned her mother.

"Finn, come see Nana it seems like it's been forever since I've seen you." Lyn said ignoring her daughter. She opened her arms to her two-year-old grandson. The little brown haired gray-eyed boy shook his head stubbornly.

"Finn Xavier, go give your Nana kisses." Tyler ordered his only son.

"Finn isn't going to do anything he doesn't want to do, daddy." Lyn pointed out to her father. Her baby brother proved her point for her by staying firmly rooted to the spot that he was in. She walked over to her grandmother and sat on her lap. "Look, Finn, I love Nana and you should too." She said kissing her on the cheek.

Finn toddled over to his grandmother and sister and he allowed his grandma to sit him on her free knee. "Wuv you, Nana." He said kissing her cheek.

"I love you too, Finn." Lyn replied ruffling his hair and then she turned to her other granddaughter. "Addie, come here, baby." She called out to her.

Addie went running into her grandma's arms and someone Lyn managed to situate her on her lap too. "I missed you, Nana."

"I missed you too, baby girl." Lyn said kissing her on top of her head.

Maria took one look at the pout on her baby brother's face and held her arms open to him. "Gus, come here, bubby." She picked him up and sat him on her lap. "I love you, little man, you'll always be sissy's special boy." She whispered in his ear.

"I love you too, Maria." Gus replied snuggling into her.


"Greg, you scared the holy fuck out of me." Donnie said clutching her chest when she saw that Greg had let himself in her apartment by using his key.

Greg was reclining on the couch and he gave her a noncommittal shrug. "Well, I would have called first, but I couldn't take the chance that you would tell me not to come by." He replied simply.

"When do I ever tell you not to come by?" Donnie asked him rolling her eyes.

"When you have a date with Emmett." Greg answered without having to pause to think about it.

"Greg, I've told you I don't know how many times that I have to see if I can make things work with him." Donnie explained to him yet again.

"You're not telling me anything that I don't know, Donnie. I just sometimes wish that you would choose between us already. Despite the way I act, I'm really not ok with playing second fiddle." Greg retorted.

"When we set up this arrangement a year ago I told you that if you weren't ok with the way things were going to go from now on that you could walk away at any time." Donnie reminded him.

"I'm not going to make your decision for you. I realize that it would be easier on you if I were to just walk away, but I'm not going to do that. For once in your life you're going to have to make a decision like a rational adult." Greg shot back at her.

"Greg, I'm really trying here." Donnie told him.

"Bullshit, Donnie, you're not trying, you have no reason to try. The way that things stand now you have the best of both worlds you get to have your cake and eat it too. That's not the way that things work though, you can have one of us or the other, but you can't have us both." Greg said firmly putting his foot down.

"Greg, if you're unhappy with where things stand between us you can always go back out that door the same way you came in. Otherwise, I suggest that you stop bitching so that we can enjoy our time together." Donnie replied just as firmly.

Greg stood up and lightly brushed his fingertips over her face. "God help me, woman, I love you entirely too much to walk away." With that he leaned in and kissed her.

"I knew that you would see things my way." Donnie smirked up at him.

"Don't look so smug, you haven't exactly won yet." Greg retorted before kissing her again.


When Ricky walked through the front door of his parents' home he was mobbed by the two tiny tornadoes that he called his baby brother and sister. Somehow the twins both found their way into his arms.

"Mommy, daddy, Ricky's home." The twins called out in unison.

"Well, I see that you two wasted no time in attacking your big brother. At least give him a minute to get used to being home before you launch your attack on him." Eva said coming into the room.

"Don't get on to them, mom, I guess they've missed me as much as I've missed them." Ricky planted a kiss on each of their dark haired clad heads before setting them on their feet. The only difference between the twins aside from the fact that one of them was a boy and the other was a girl was that Damian had his father's blue eyes and Gabby had her mother's brown orbs.

Eva walked over to her son and enveloped him in a big hug. "Hi, sweet boy, it's good to have you home, I've missed you so much."

"I've missed you too, mom." Ricky said hugging her back.

Derek came into the room at that moment with a huge grin plastered on his face. "There's my champ, I've been excited about you coming home for days." He said patting him on the back. "Are you wearing it?" he asked.

Ricky held up his right hand to reveal a Super Bowl Championship ring. "I thought that you might get a kick out of seeing me with it on." He chuckled.

"You know that I couldn't be prouder of you if I tried." Derek said pulling him into a headlock.

"Hey, old man, don't mess around like that, I can't have you hurting my neck and shoulder, I have to throw a ball." Ricky joked with him.

"You better be glad that you made it home when you did. Penny and Emily have been trying to hunt you down for days." Eva informed him.

"Shit, they probably want to make sure that my stupid tux fits." Ricky cussed the last thing that he wanted to do was get fitted for that damn thing again.

"You know what those two are like with these things, they have a tendency to go overboard." Derek reminded him.

"I swear that this is just too much fucking torture for one person to endure. Getting married shouldn't have to be a minor stage production." Ricky grumbled rolling his eyes.

"Well, it is and you're just going to have to grin and bear it." Eva said pinching his cheek.

Ricky shook his head and sighed. "I swear, the things that I do for love around here." he muttered.


"I'm giving you two fair fucking warning, you better get away from me with your crazy bullshit. I just wrapped up one of the biggest cases of my career and I'm not in the mood to deal with you guys today." Patty warned Penny and Emily. They were in the living room of the penthouse apartment that oldest four Halliwell siblings used to share. It now belonged to Mel, Patty, Billy, and Chase.

"Charlie, if this wasn't super important we wouldn't be bothering you." Emily pointed out to her.

"I can think of nothing so important that you two have to bother us with it right this minute. The only thing that Charlie and I want to do at the moment is relax." Mel informed the pair.

"Mel, you two don't really have the option of relaxing at the moment this wedding is in two days and we have to make sure that everything is ready." Penny reminded her.

"I don't know who had the bright idea that getting married would be smart." Mel went on sarcastically.

Patty gave Mel a withering look. "Don't even go there right now," she warned her.

"Mel, I hate to tell you this, but it's a little late for you to be getting cold feet right now." Emily told her rolling her eyes.

"I'm not getting cold feet, I'm gonna marry his dumb ass. I just don't know why I thought it would be a good idea to get married. I just turned twenty-five last week." Mel replied.

"Because, you love him and you decided that you want to spend the rest of your life with him." Penny suggested to her.

Mel smiled when she heard that. " I guess he is pretty great and I can't imagine spending my life with any man but him." she acknowledged.

"Then there you go, just stop being so damn difficult about the whole thing. Trust me when I say that Penny and I have made this is as painless for you as possible." Emily assured her.

"I know that, you guys know me I just hate getting dressed up." Mel replied.

"It's only for a few hours, if I can survive it so can you." Patty said shaking her head at her best friend.

"I wouldn't be so stressed if I was sure that my two best friends were going to behave themselves around each other." Mel said giving Patty a meaningful look.

"Look, Ricky and I are so over fighting with each other now and I promised you that whatever problems we have with each other we can put them on the back burner for a couple of days. We haven't been together in well over a year and that's ok, maybe we need this time apart. I mean he is still my best friend, so I like to think that we can get back together one day." Patty assured her.

"Why did you two break up again?" Penny asked just out of curiosity.

"Ricky and I broke up because he decided that he was going to play pro football without consulting me first. It's not that I would have objected to it, he just didn't talk it over with me and we were supposed to be getting married." Patty explained.

"I swear I think you two both acted worse than I did when I broke up with Roman." Mel said rolling her eyes.

"I'm glad that you're getting married, because Single Mel is very irresponsible and a little bit of a slut if the truth be told." Patty chuckled.

"Hey, just because I would come dragging back to the apartment at all hours of the night doesn't make me a slut." Mel defended herself.

"It doesn't make you a saint either." Patty quipped.

"By the way, you two do remember that the two hookers from New York are getting in this afternoon, right?" Emily asked them.

"We're well aware that Carly and Val are coming into town. Now if we can only keep them out of trouble as long as they're here we'll be in good shape." Mel chuckled.

"They never behave so the best that we can do is keep them out of jail." Patty replied with a laugh of her own.

"Agreed, now will you let us go over some last minute stuff with you?" Penny begged.

"Ok, you have my undivided attention for the next ten minutes use that time wisely." Mel relented.


"Where have you been, Colt?" Billie demanded of her son when he walked in the front door.

"I'm sorry that I'm running late, I had football workouts this morning and then I had to run by the studio and do a last minute edit on the video that Penny and Emily wanted me to make." Colt was now sixteen and he stood at about six feet even. He wore his dark brown hair cut close to his scalp and his brown eyes shimmered every time that he laughed.

"Your Aunt Piper is going to be pissed if we're late again." Billie reminded him.

Colt consulted his watch and then he shook his head. "You need to relax, mom, it's only three. We still have an hour and a half before we have to be at the manor." He said in a patronizing tone.

"Colton Jonathan Halliwell, you know as well as I do that I still have to get your baby sister ready and Hayden takes forever to get ready. I'm sure that you need a shower and everything else." Billie scolded him. She had changed Colt and Hayden's last name to Halliwell and she had given Billy the option to do the same thing for himself. When she had gotten pregnant the last time she made her little girl's last name Halliwell from birth.

"Mom, I had a shower after practice. All I have to do is throw some clothes on and that is it." Colt assured her.

"Would you please hurry up?" Billie begged him.

"I'll get dressed as quickly as humanly possible." Colt promised her fighting the urge to roll his eyes. "I swear that woman is going to be the death of me." he muttered to himself.

"I heard that." Billie said swatting him on his butt as he walked past her.

Colt looked at her with an amused grin on his face. "Was that supposed to hurt?" he asked in an even tone. He didn't want to laugh at her because it would piss her off.

"Just go get dressed." Billie sighed shaking her head at him.


Huck walked into his apartment and he was a little surprised to see his sister there. "Hey, Cal, what are you doing here?" he asked her.

"Nothing, I just thought that I would pop in and see you, but you weren't home, so I used my key to get in." Calleigh replied giving him a smile that never quite reached her eyes.

"Yeah, I was at the studio with Rocket and we were just playing around to kill time." Huck informed her. "What was so important that it wouldn't wait until we were both at the manor?" he asked out of curiosity.

"I came over here to tell you that I'm not going." Calleigh answered him.

"Come on, Cal, you need to go. I've talked to dad and he says that you don't leave the house unless it's to go to work. I'm worried about you and I don't worry about anything." Huck reasoned with her.

"Puck, if I go Parker is going to be there and the less I see him the better sometimes. We're just not good for each other right now." Calleigh replied.

"No, you two are very good for each other and you need each other right now, you just both refuse to see it." Huck replied he had gained a little wisdom as he got older, but that didn't mean that he always used it.

"Puck, I don't want to have this conversation with you. I'm just saying that Parker and I can't look at each other without seeing what we used to have and what we lost because of our stupidity." Calleigh explained to him.

"Look, you should go you don't have to talk to him if you don't want to, but if you want to get technical about it he is still your husband." Huck reminded her.

"You don't have to remind me that I'm still married, I know better than anyone that I'm married and yet I go home and have to sleep alone every night." Calleigh retorted.

"You're going if I have to drag you there myself. You need to get out and be around people. I know that you might hate me for it, but it's a risk I'm willing to take if it means that you're going to start acting like a normal person again." Huck said putting his foot down.

Calleigh sighed and rolled her eyes. "Fine, I'll go, but I don't have to be happy about it." She relented.

"That's what I like to hear." Huck said giving her a big grin. He knew that he would be able to wear her down without much effort. That didn't really excite him it was like she had no fight left in her anymore.


"Brady, I should kill you for getting him all riled up like that after I just got him all cleaned out." Phoebe scolded her son when she found him and Phil wrestling in her living room.

"Phil, tell her that you and your brother are just being boys and she needs to leave you alone." Coop said taking up for his sons.

"We're just being boys, mommy, don't worry about it." Phil said grinning at his mother.

"I'm starting to think that I let you spend too much time with Jakie, because you're starting to sound like him." Phoebe informed her youngest son.

"No you don't, I love spending time with Jakie." Phil protested. He loved his oldest brother more than anyone in the world.

"Really, mom, you should know better than to say things like that to him. He worships the ground that Jake walks on." Brady pointed out to his mother.

"Are you actually going to be on time to the manor for a change?" Coop asked his son.

"Yeah, I've got my work all done for the day and I'm ready and everything." Brady reported proudly. He was normally late because of work.

"That's a shock, I half way think that I should go down to the underworld to make sure that hell hasn't frozen over." Phoebe quipped.

"I'm not late all that often, there are just times when I get hung up at work and I can't help it." Brady replied rolling his hazel eyes.

"Brady, don't let her give you a hard time, I have to go drag her out of her office some days." Coop teased his wife.

"You only had to drag me out of my office once and that was because I was really behind." Phoebe huffed sounding indignant.

"So, Val should be getting in soon." Brady said trying to change the subject.

"She was supposed to call with her flight information, but she never did. I'm sure she won't have any problems getting to the manor though." Coop said thoughtfully. It didn't surprise him in the least bit that his daughter hadn't thought to check back in.

"You know that Bumblebee has a lot going on right now and it probably just slipped her mind." Phoebe took up for her daughter.

"Mom, she is that scatterbrained when she doesn't have anything going on." Brady chuckled.

"Uh huh, just get your brother straightened back up. We have to be at the manor soon." Phoebe ordered shaking her head.


A/N: Here is the long awaited and much anticipated first chapter of the next season. I hope you guys enjoyed it and I'm sorry that it took so long to get this cranked out. This chapter was just to set up where everyone is at in their lives right now. Patty and Ricky are broken up at the present time there is no telling how that is going to work out. Parker and Calleigh both seem to be going through something major at the moment and whatever it is, is tearing them apart. Val and Carly both seem to be doing very well for themselves, but they haven't given up on their partying ways just yet. It's hard to imagine Chord being settled down and married, but it seems to be working out pretty well for him. I promise that this is going to be a great season and we're going to explore more of the mortal side than the supernatural side. I think you guys will really enjoy all the story lines that I have planned. Until next time please review.