Chapter 2: A Wrong Turn
Henry opened his eyes only to see Chris asleep in the chair beside his bed he knew he had probably been there all night.
"Hey Bubba it sure is good to see those pretty brown eyes of yours open handsome man." Victor said walking into the room he was freshly showered and shaved.
"Hi grandpa." Henry said in a voice that made him sound like a five year old.
"You were sleeping when they first put you in here and I came and saw you. How are you feeling ?" Victor asked.
"I hurt all over." Henry complained.
"Do you remember what happened to you ?" Victor asked.
"I remember being at work but after that it gets a little fuzzy." Henry admitted.
"Well you had an accident but they say you're going to be ok." Victor assured him.
"How long as Chris been here." Henry croaked out.
"I don't think he left he's been here all night." Victor covering Chris up and feeling his forehead it really felt like he had a fever.
"Now can I get you anything slugger ?" Victor asked concerned for him.
"I want my mom grandpa I'm scared." Henry said sounding on the verge of tears.
"Ok Bubba I'll call her." Victor said kissing him on the head before walking out and making his phone call.
Paige was in the process of getting ready to go back to the hospital when her phone rang.
"Hello." Paige said fear in voice afraid it was bad news about Henry.
"Paige it's dad Henry wanted me to tell you he needs you to come up here. And somebody needs to come do something with Chris he's running a fever." Victor said into his phone.
"Ok dad thanks I'll be right there and I'll call Piper." Paige said hanging up.
"Henry come on let's go now your son needs us." Paige yelled at her husband.
"Ugh I just don't get what Penny sees in that guy." Val said to her cousins as they sat in the lunch room of their highschool. Val was watching Penny and Torch separate after making out for five minutes.
"Focus Val we have more important problems to deal with like has anybody heard anything about Henry other than what Wy told us this morning." Patty said obsessing much like her Aunt Piper.
"No I haven't heard anything Chris would have called me if anything else happened." Mel replied.
"I hate to say it but we can't do anything to help my brother right now but we can help Penny. Come on guys you all know we only avoided asking her where she got that bruise because Wy was around." Carly said wanting to do something to take her mind off her brother.
"You know we were thinking the same thing that Torch did that to her." Val reasoned.
"What are we going to do about it if he did ? I still say this has gotten out of hand and we need to tell Prue or one of the guys now." Mel said firmly.
"I have another idea first. What if we get one of the Bradford brothers to help us ?" Carly suggested.
"That's a great idea Carly we could ask Ricky to talk to the guy and if he doesn't do the trick we can ask Chuck." Val said her eyes lighting up at the thought.
"Do I want to know the hair brained scheme we're cooking up now that involves my brothers and is going to get us all in big trouble ?" Emily Bradford asked her friends as she sat down.
"It's not going to get us in trouble only Penny will get in trouble if this plan doesn't work that's the upside." Patty said.
"Yeah I've heard that before and it never ends well nobody else has to deal with the wrath of Derek Bradford when one of our plans goes bust." Emily ranted.
"Em I have to deal with Piper Halliwell if I get caught she's much worse than your dad. And look on the bright side our plans don't often go bust without us being able to go to our siblings for help before our parents find out." Mel assured her.
"If this doesn't work we'll tell Prue what's been going on and she'll still only kill Penny and Torch." Carly said laughing.
"There is no way we can lose on this one." Val guaranteed they had all heard that one before and then they normally had to get Jake to fix it.
C.J. was in the attic of the manor standing behind the podium that held the book of shadows.
He had the book open to the page about Belthazor he wasn't quite sure what he hoped to learn by studying that page but he was doing it none the less.
The book had been failing him as of late sure there had been times in the past when the book wouldn't let him touch it but that had always been after he had tapped fully into is demonic powers. But these days it just seemed as if it never let him touch it. Maybe he really was turning evil.
He went to turn the page and the book slammed closed on him and fell to the floor. He let out a long groan and went to try to pick it up off the floor his temper was starting to rise. He cussed and threw one of the books Prue had been studying across the room.
Leo came bounding up the stairs into the attic his features softened when he saw his nephew sitting on Aunt Pearl's couch with his head in his hands.
"Penny for your thoughts Coop?" Leo asked sitting down beside him.
"It's nothing Uncle Leo it's the book lately it won't let me touch it so maybe I really am evil I don't know." C.J. said blowing out a long breath.
"Well I know this much Cooper you're not evil I've seen you do too much good to ever be able to believe that. Besides evil isn't capable of love and I know you don't have any problems in that department that's all you do is help people find love. I know you're going through some things right now but I just want you to know you can tell me." Leo said ruffling his nephew's hair.
C.J. was sick of avoiding everyone and lying to them and he knew Uncle Leo wouldn't tell on him so he let his defenses down. "Uncle Leo if you want to know what's wrong with me you have to make me really mad first." he explained.
"Why ?" Leo asked a confused look on his face.
"Just do it trust me. Say something that you know will piss me off." C.J. instructed him.
"Why would I do a thing like that demon boy the book already doesn't trust you why should I ?" Leo asked playing along but not wanting to go to far.
"You know the thing about you is your just as damn stubborn as your mother ever dared to be." Leo went on still nothing.
"Come on Uncle Leo you can do better than that." C.J. said goading him on.
"You know I said you were like Phoebe all except for your eyes you have eyes like Cole." Leo stated and that did it.
Where his nephew once was now stood a red and black demon that looked much like Belthazor.
Just as quickly as the demon appeared in a flash C.J. looked like himself again.
"That's what I've been living with for the past six months Uncle Leo I can't control it and it only happens when I get really mad." C.J. explained sadly.
"Have you told anyone else about this ?" Leo asked.
"Only Chuck knows about this but grandpa Sam has known about the demonic bounty hunters for awhile." C.J. said amazed by how easily the half truths were rolling out of his mouth these days.
"That explains why they can track you sometimes. Hey Coop we'll fix this I promise." Leo reassured him.
"Hey Uncle Leo can we just keep this between us ?" C.J. asked hopefully.
"For now but if it gets any worse I have to tell the girls." Leo said.
"Ok deal." C.J. agreed.
"Now how about you tell me what you wanted to look at in the book and I'll look it up for you." Leo said falling back into the roll of whitelighter.
"I was looking up Belthazor and it looks exactly like the demon I turn into I know that but other than that the book was no help it's been failing me a lot lately." C.J. said downcast.
"Alright shimmer us to magic school and we'll start trying to figure out what the hell is going on." Leo said giving him a smile as C.J. shimmered out of the attic.
In a dark remote cavern in the underworld two demons were also discussing C.J.'s problem.
"If he would just turn then we wouldn't have to kill him." demon one said.
"The good is too strong in him turning him would take too long but we could try he would be an asset." demon two said.
"Turning him is two risky because not only do we have to worry about his good side winning out but also about Gorgon using him to gain power. And having him is no good without the half manticore. Get your hands on both of them if you want to try to turn them." a hooded figure said walking out of the shadows where he had been standing the entire time.
"Yes my liege." both demons said in unison before shimmering away.
The demon lowered his hood after looking around to make sure no one else was present there was something familiar about this demon, something about his eyes but no one could say for sure what it was.
Chris was sitting in an interrogation room at the police station waiting for someone to come in and ask him about what happened the night before. He figured he might as well go in and get it over with. His Uncle Henry could only keep them off of his back for so long.
Just then a cop he didn't expect to see walked in the room Chris gave him a questioning look and the cop shook his head no.
"Darryl what the hell did they send you to question me for ?" Chris asked
"Because Capt. Mitchell called and threw one hell of a fit with the commander of IA so I got the job." Capt Darryl Morris said.
"Look I know you don't want to be doing this so I'm sorry I just wasn't in the mood to talk last night." Chris said there had always been an uneasiness between him and the man all the Halliwell kids called Uncle Darryl and he had never been sure why.
"Don't be silly Chris no one should have tried to question you last night Matt Hunter is a jackass who thinks everyone is a dirty cop." Darryl said looking Chris in the eye it was hard for him not to see the similarities between him and the man that came to the past and crossed swords with him.
"Ok what do you want to know about what happened?" Chris asked wanting to get it over with
"Let's start with what you guys were doing that caused you to happen upon this suspect."
"Well Let's see here." Chris began.
Half an hour later Chris was done recounting his tale.
"So neither one of you had time to get a shot off ? Because the perp left blood at the scene " Darryl asked when he was through.
"No." Chris stated but then he thought about it and said "Hold on wait a minute. Hank had his gun pulled when he tackled me it's possible that it went off without him meaning to take a shot.".
"That would explain it. Chris you're done here if IA has anymore questions I'll come find you. You should go home and get some sleep you look like hell. Tell Paige I'll be up to see him later" Darryl said leading him out of the room.
"Thanks Darryl I'll tell her." Chris said walking out to his car.
Henry sat up in his hospital bed his two sister and his favorite female cousin stood around him.
He loved all three of them but he was about to go out of his mind with the way they were fussing over him.
"Can we do anything for you Hank?" Patty asked.
"The only thing you can do for me is get rid of the dragon lady that these people call a nurse a much rather wallow in my pain than deal with her." Henry said his voice still sounded weak but it was a little better and he was pretty sure he looked like hell.
"We could get Jake and Chuck to do something with her." Mel suggested.
"Alright girls don't give him any ideas I think he's probably been giving them hell in here." Piper said moving the girls aside so she could kiss her nephew.
"Hi Aunt Piper." Henry said .
"Hey baby you scared the hell out of us last night don't do that anymore." Piper admonished him.
"Ok I won't. Girls you don't have to stay I know you have better places to be." Henry said knowing it was no fun for them being there.
"Yeah that's right they have better things to do like go wait tables and make sure Ro doesn't mess up the dinner rush." Piper said moving aside so the girls could say bye to him.
"Mel you can use my Mustang as long as you don't let Carly drive it." Henry said as they walked out trying to put on a brave face for him.
"Are you hungry I brought some food and your mom should be back any minute she went to talk to a doctor." Piper told him.
"Aunt Piper I'm not hungry but I'm tired." Henry said sounding really weak again.
"Now I know he's hurt when he rather sleep than eat." Paige said moving to stand beside Piper.
"Mom you scared me I thought you were the nurse from hell." Henry said trying to joke and make her feel better.
"Now you better behave yourself." she said ruffling his hair.
"Too late for that Paige dad already told him to be as mean as he wanted to be as long as it means he's getting better." Piper informed her.
"Oh wonderful he wasn't bad enough already then grandpa gave him permission to get worse." Paige said rolling her eyes.
"Right well he kinda got permission from me too." Phoebe said coming into the room bringing a collection of magazines with her. She sat them on the table next to his bed.
"Aunt Phoebe if they would let me out of this bed I would hug you." Henry said excited that he now had something to read.
"Well we need you to get better so you just stay in bed." Phoebe said kissing him on the forehead.
"Aunt Phoebe you tell Penny that I'm mighty upset with her she's the only cousin that hasn't come to see me today." Henry said joking.
"Oh that's horrible Bubba I'll have to do something about that." Phoebe said playing along.
"Chris slept here grandpa made him leave, Prue came with Chuck and fed me my breakfast, C.J. came, Wyatt, Ro, Liz, and Lilly were all here, Mel, Val, Charley, and even Carly came." Henry said he wishing he could cross his arms.
"Prue came with Chuck did she that's interesting." Phoebe said wondering why her daughter was spending so much time with Chuck and why she had let him put his arms around her.
"My liege the only son of the youngest Charmed One is down I say we take him out while we have a chance." Armes said to Gorgon.
"Very well it would keep a certain prophecy from coming to pass. Do what you must to be rid of him." Gorgon ordered.
"Uncle Leo this is getting us no where we've been at it for hours and maybe there is just nothing to find." C.J. said frustrated if he were going to find anything anywhere it would be here at Magic School.
"Coop just calm down I promise we'll find something." Leo assured him.
"That's easy for you to say you don't have bounty hunters after you." C.J. shot back.
"Ok I'll tell you what we'll go back home and then we'll see about this some more tomorrow." Leo said not wanting to fight with him but he was like Phoebe he got pissed when he couldn't find what he was looking for.
"Ok let's go home I spent less time here when I was a student than I do now." C.J. complained as he took his uncle's hand to shimmer them home.
What C.J. didn't know was that Cole was watching him and had been for some time.
"Damn if only that boy wasn't so stubborn I could warn him what was about to happen but the powers that be won't let me so I have to settle for stalking my own son." Cole laughed to himself.
"Now explain to me why I'm putting myself in harms way and basically giving my dad a reason to kill me." Ricky Bradford said wondering why he let the Halliwell cousins drag him into another mess.
"Because you're are last resort before we have to tell your brother and if that doesn't work we have to tell Prue." Val explained to him as if the answer should have been obvious.
"Which brother I have two ?" Ricky asked wondering why one of them just couldn't do it.
"Chuck we never ask Roman to do anything like that because it would get right back to Aunt Piper and that is one thing we all don't want the parents getting involved in this." Carly ranted.
"Good let's just call Chuck that seems to be the easiest solution I have heard of all day." Ricky pleaded.
"Not happening Ricky not unless we have to we always run the risk of our loving big brother telling Wyatt and that would almost be worse than telling Aunt Piper." Emily argued with her brother.
"And besides that Ricky we trust you more than we trust any of our other brothers and only someone as strong and handsome as you can do it." Carly said batting her eyes at him.
"Fine I'll do it nothing can be worse than being the second son of Derek Bradford and the little brother of Chuck Bradford who everybody knows is dad's favorite. Just tell me where they are." Ricky relented and walk to the direction they pointed in.
"Carly you are shameless you would flirt with a demon if you thought you could get what you wanted." Val said rolling her eyes at her half whitelighter cousin.
"No I only flirt with extremely hot half manticore demons that look really good with their shirts off and are best friends with Wyatt." Carly said talking about Chuck.
"That's sick Chuck is just like a big brother to us Carly." Patty said making a face.
"How did you see Chuck without a shirt on and why didn't you tell Mel and me ?" Val asked she thought that Chuck was hot too.
"He teaches gym at school three days a week I saw him changing in the parking lot I took pictures and I plan to blackmail him." Carly informed them.
"It does me no good to say that I think Jake is very hot because he's my sister's boyfriend so I won't. But Henry on the other hand is a very different matter I think I might be in love with him." Emily said trying to get to Carly.
"Come on let's focus." Mel said taking charge like always.
"Yeah I wonder what's taking Ricky so long." Patty said agreeing with her cousin.
"She would be thinking about Ricky at a time like this." Val said everyone knew that Patty and Ricky were as blind as Wyatt and Liz when it came to seeing they liked each other.
"No he's only been in there for five minutes he should be fine." Emily said.
"Great how do I let myself get talked into things by the Halliwell girls and my sister ?" Ricky asked himself silently wondering how he got in the situation he was in right now.
He was squared off with Torch Williams and he was probably going to kill him. Ricky's only regret was never telling Patty how he felt about her.
"Ricky just leave nothing is going on here." Penny begged him not wanting to see him get hurt.
"No Penny if this pussy has something to say let him say it so I can kill him and get it over with." Torch said sneering a Ricky.
"Torch you need to leave Penny alone and stay away from her." Ricky said doing his best impression of his brother.
"What are you going to do if I don't pussy boy ?" Torch asked a sadistic grin on his face.
"Then I'll have to kick your ass all the way back to jail where you belong." Ricky said finding his confidence however it was short lived when Torch said
"Why don't you come over here and try ?"
Ricky put his head down like he was playing football and charged torch and tackled him to the ground and began beating the shit out of him.
Seeing how bad their ringleader was getting beat up two of his goons ran over and grabbed Ricky off the top of him and Stood him up.
Torch got off the ground blood gushing from his mouth and walked over to a tool box and grabbed a wrench and began working Ricky over good.
When Torch had finished with Ricky he said "Your last name might be Bradford but you're nothing compared to your brother. It must suck knowing that you'll always be second best when it comes down to you and Chuck." Before Torch had his two friends throw Ricky out he spit in his face and laughed at him.
"Ok now you guys I'm really getting worried he should be back out here by now." Patty said pacing back and forth in the parking lot.
"She's right maybe we should call Chuck." Mel said trying to make the others see reason.
Just then they saw Ricky walking slumped over making his way back to them.
"Alright ladies and Ricky who wants to explain to us what happened?" Prue asked they were all less than thrilled when she had shown up with Chuck.
"Penny has been dating a Car thief for about three months." Val said cringing.
"Chuck take Ricky to the hospital I'll take care of this problem." Prue said giving herself time to cool off before she dealt with her sisters and cousins.
Chuck dragged Ricky through the hospital to the waiting room where all the Halliwells minus the ones that were still at the scene of the crime were sitting.
Chuck had just finished getting Ricky stitched up and he had placed a call to Eva paging her to that floor and he had called his dad at work.
"Ricky what happened to you, you look worse than Bubba and he got shot twice ?" Paige asked when she saw the younger Bradford brother's appearance.
"He'll explain when his mom gets up here trust me you want to hear this oh look Ricky mom and dad both showed up at the same time." Chuck said very upset with his brother.
"Chuck what the hell happened to your brother ?" Derek demanded of his oldest son.
"He got the shit beat out of him." Chuck said simply.
"Why ? Is this your or Roman's handy work ?" Eva asked.
"Aunt Phoebe Ricky has something he wants to tell you. Go on Rick tell her." Chuck said grabbing his brother's arm hard.
"Aunt Phoebe don't get mad at me for not telling you as soon as I found out but Penny is dating a car thief." Ricky said.
"What else Derek Brian ?" Chuck asked using his brother's full name.
"Well we think he's been hitting her and we decided that I would try to stop him." Ricky admitted.
"Whose we ?" Piper asked knowing Mel was somehow involved in this.
"Mel, Val, Carly, Patty, Emily and me." Ricky said looking down at the floor.
"So what happened to you Ricky ?" Eva asked
"Ricky beat the hell out of the guy so he had his two friends hold him down while he beat him with a wrench." Chuck explained for him.
"Where is Penny now ?" Phoebe asked.
"She's still with Torch she wouldn't leave with me." Ricky said sheepishly looking down at the floor.
"Wait what is his full name ?" Chris asked coming to life.
"Jack Williams." Ricky answered for him.
It was C.J.'s turn to stare at the floor he could have stopped this.
This action was not missed by Paige.
'What do you know C.J. and you better tell now." Paige ordered him.
"Penny has been dating him for three months I knew and I let it go on without telling anyone when the girls came to me about it to fix the problem." C.J. admitted.
"Chris do you know this guy ?" Big Henry asked
"Me and Hank caught him boosting cars and we arrested him. And he works for Ray." Chris said.
"Chris you need to come with me to go get the girls Prue is with them and she's trying to talk some sense into Penny." Chuck said he was not happy about leaving his girlfriend alone but he better than to argue with her.
"No me Leo and Coop will take care of this." Big Henry said getting up and his two best friends following suit.
"Em's with them I coming too." Derek said.
"Chuck, C.J. come on we need to back them up." Chris said standing up
"No Jake stays here I'm going." Victor said.
"Alright grandpa." Chuck said putting his arm around Victor and walking out with him.
"Penny come on now you're coming with me." Prue said forcefully.
"She doesn't have to do anything she doesn't want to do." Torch said getting an attitude with Prue.
"Little boy if you know what's good for you you'll shut your mouth right now before I sick my Uncle Henry on you he's a cop." Prue threatened.
"Prue just stop I want to stay with him." Penny argued.
"Penelope Marie Halliwell do as your sister tells you now." Coop said as he and the other guys came busting through the door.
"Jack, Jack, Jack have you been putting your hands on my baby cousin ?" Chris asked circling him.
"Maybe, maybe not that all depends on what way you mean law man." Torch said getting in Chris's face.
That was all it took and Chris grabbed him by the throat and pushed him against the wall. Acting quickly Leo went and tried to pull his youngest son off the boy. Seeing Leo wasn't having much success Victor went over and tired to help him while Henry arrested the other two punks and Coop tended to his daughters.
"Here let me help." Derek said pulling Chris off without any problems.
"Thanks Uncle Derek I lost my temper." Chris said calming down.
"Jack Williams you're under arrest for assaulting an officer." Chris said turning his attention back to Torch and slapping the cuffs on him.
Henry was laying in his bed with his eyes closed Paige was trying to get him asleep before she and her sisters left. He was almost asleep when there was a knock on his door.
"Officer Henry V. Halliwell?" Inspector Matt Hunter asked him going through the same routine as he had with Chris.
"Yeah that's me." Henry said weakly opening his eyes and straining to sit up.
"Inspector Matt Hunter from IA I need to ask you a few questions about what happened last night." Hunter said.
Henry groaned and racked his brain he really didn't remember what happened last night.
"My son is recovering from two gunshot wounds I think this can wait." Paige said testily.
"No it's ok mom I'll talk to him. I don't remember anything but I'll talk to him" Henry said he was tired and he just wanted to get this over with so he could go to sleep.
"Ok if you're I'll wait out in the hall until you're done." Paige said kissing him on the head and then added for Inspector Hunter's benefit "Make it quick he needs his sleep he's still in critical condition."
"Yes ma'am." Hunter said.
"Children where do we even begin with you ?" Derek asked Rhetorically all the guys and the younger children along with Chuck, Chris and Jake were all gathered in Derek's kitchen which never got used for cooking.
"What do we have to do to get through to you the lying and keeping secrets is dangerous ?" Coop said since this seemed to apply more with his kids than anyone's.
"You guys know that sometimes the best way to help is to tell someone." Leo said his whitelighter skills showing again.
"We did and all he did was cover for her." Carly said shooting death rays at Jake.
"Jake are you kidding me since when do we keep things from each other ?" Prue asked her brother pissed at him.
"I don't know Prue why don't you tell me ?" Jake asked looking at Chuck with a questioning glance when he said it.
"Hey we're not getting any where playing the blame game guys so let's just start from the beginning here." Henry said.
"The part where Patty and I said this was a bad idea ?" Mel asked her uncle sarcastically.
"Well you went with it willingly Mel." Val said.
"You and Carly wouldn't hear of doing anything else. You're damn plans are always so fucking perfect." Patty yelled at her cousin.
"Mel and Patty are right we did try to tell you guys but you wouldn't listen so we had to keep you from getting in trouble." Emily said finding her voice.
"What else is new Mel is the only angel I know that doesn't have any whitelighter blood." Carly remarked sarcastically.
"And Carly you're more of a fucking demon than Jake ever will be." Mel shot back.
Victor let out a shrill whistle to get the girls attention.
"Melinda Paige Halliwell, Carly Janice Matthews you two knock it off right this instant." Leo yelled at both of them causing them to stop in their tracks.
"You guys can't fight each other you have to stick together." Victor said.
"You guys grandpa is right together you're stronger." Jake said trying to get them to stop..
"It's like us older kids I'm the brain, Wyatt, C.J. and Chuck are the brawn, Ro is the one that keeps us fed, Prue is the heart, Liz is the soul, Lilly is the comic relief, and Hank is the one that holds us all together without him we'd fall apart." Chris explained.
"Mel you're the Hank of your group, Ricky you're the brawn, Patty you're the brain, Penny you're the rebel you keep them on their toes a lot, Em you're the heart, Val you're the soul, and Carly you're the one that keeps things from getting too serious." Chris said applying the same logic to them.
Chris's words seemed to calm them down he would make one hell of a whitelighter if he ever got charges.
"Now how about we try to take this from the top more calmly this time ?" Henry asked
"Penny met him at the beach about three months ago which was fine until we found out he stole cars." Mel began.
"When we found that out he had been in jail we knew we had to break them up." Val said.
"We wanted to do it where no one would ever find out."Carly added.
"How did you find out he'd been in jail ?" Henry asked
"Carly flirted with Officer Drake and got him to run Jack's record." Patty explained.
"Well sometime after this they tried to get my help and that was the week I was a hostage in the underworld. The only thing I did to help them was get Penny to go with them and I just let it go on." Jake admitted feeling guilty.
"Dad mom met him she just doesn't remember it because she was fifteen at the time he was the one that was shoplifting from the liquor store with her we just took the blame." Penny said.
"Do me a favor Penny don't tell my partner that while he's still in ICU you'll kill him he's still pissed about that." Chris said.
"So today we were looking for something to take our minds off of Hank being in the hospital so we came up with this plan." Val said
"This isn't Ricky's fault he wanted to call Chuck right away but Carly flirted with him to get him to do it." Patty said.
"As long as we're telling things I also flirted with the two guys that helped beat Ricky up." Carly admitted.
"Uncle Hen if you want to keep your son out of prison you may need to send Carly to a convent." Chuck said trying lighten the mood.
"No shit I know." Henry said.
"Carly anything else you want to confess to ?" Chris asked.
"I may have blackmail pictures of Chuck without a shirt on." Carly said innocently.
Chuck blushed three shades of red and Prue gave him a look that could kill. "Carly Wyatt would vanquish me himself if he finds those." Chuck said finding his voice.
"Now seriously Penny you need to tell me and Prue did he ever lay a hand on you ?" Jake said looking into his sister's brown eyes when he asked her.
"He never hit me he just grabbed my arm really hard and left a bruise." Penny admitted and Jake nodded his acceptance of that answer.
"You know I still get to kill him come on Jake." Prue said getting riled up.
"You're not going to kill anybody but demons." Coop told his oldest.
"And you say Wy is bad Prue you're almost worse than he is when it comes to Jake and the girls." Victor said laughing.
"Ricky why don't you get Chris to heal your ribs I know they have to hurt bad." Penny said feeling bad that her friend had gotten hurt because of her.
"No it's fine really Penny but thanks for offering me use of Chris.' Ricky said making her laugh.
"Healing like the cosmic taxi isn't free and it's not cheap either." Chris said seriously.
"That's why Chuck and I go to Hank he doesn't nag us like Wy and he doesn't have a fee like you do." C.J. said in a good mood for the first time in weeks.
"Here is how it's going to go you guys were looking out for each other so we're going to try to keep the moms off your backs in return for you promising you'll come to us next time." Henry said all the other guys nodding in agreement.
Paige and her sisters had been sitting in the waiting room for half an hour when Inspector Hunter came out and said he was done with Hank.
Paige walked back into her son's room and she found him sleeping or so she thought when she tried to nudge him to wake him up he just wouldn't respond.
"It's done me liege. The young whitelighter won't be a problem anymore." Armes said
"Good that's one less thing to stand in the way of me collecting powers." Gorgon said laughing evilly.
"Mom slow down I can't understand you. Ok I got it." Chris said hanging up his phone
"That was mom we need to get to the hospital something is wrong with Hank they think he's in a coma." Chris said not wanting to let the girls see him panic.