A/N: Thanks to Thunder903 and Smart One 17 for reviewing.


Chapter 2: Love Hurts

Jake was in his office pretending to do some work. That way if his dad stuck his head in the door he would look like he was doing something other than daydreaming. He would be glad when the new school semester started then he would be able to get away with coming into the office even less than he did now. The only reason he had been coming into work everyday was because he got bored in the apartment without Lilly. He was not shocked when he looked up to find someone standing in his doorway he was more shocked with who it was.

"Is there something that I can do for you Cole?" Jake asked. He wasn't cold towards him because God knows that the man hadn't done anything to warrant that. He wasn't entirely happy to see him either though.

"I was hoping that you and I could have a talk." Cole began. He didn't know how to play things with this kid. He risked pissing him off no matter how he worded what he was about to say.

Jake thought about it a second before he nodded. "Sure come on in and shut the door behind you. At least talking to you will save me from having to do any real work for a while."

Cole shut the door behind him and he took a seat in the chair across from him. "So how's married life treating you?" he asked him to break the ice.

Jake smiled widely at that question. "It's really good, even her ice cold feet when she gets in bed at night." He shook his head and then grew serious. "What can I do for you Cole?"

"I wanted to talk to you about Dom. I know that I have no right to ask you for anything but I was hoping that I could count on you to be there for him. You're a really great guy Coop and I want my son to know you." Cole figured he would compliment him there was no way he could get too pissed off if he did that.

Jake sighed before he leaned back in his chair. "In what way are you talking about Cole?" he hoped he wasn't going with this where he thought he was going. He had just now gotten shit straight in his head a little bit he didn't need anything to complicate it again.

"If you want to get technical about it you are his brother. I just want you to know that you are more than welcome to have a relationship with him if that is what you want." Cole ventured.

"Cole, I can't I wish I could but I just can't. It has nothing to do with Dom and everything to do with the issues that I have regarding half of who I am. I'm just not secure enough." Jake said gently. He couldn't think of Dom as his brother because then it would mean that on some level he was acknowledging that Cole was his father.

"You are a really great big brother Coop, but I understand if you can't." Cole replied. He didn't know what he was doing trying to reach out to the son that he had given up. He had no right to disrupt his life like this.

"There's nothing wrong with me being Uncle Jake is there?" Jake asked he could at least do that then he wouldn't have to compromise who he was.

Cole smiled. "There is nothing wrong at all with you being Uncle Jake. If that's all I can get then I'll take it. I know that at some point you and I are going to have to talk about the issues between us."

"There's no issues between us. My dad is right down the hall and I know that. I don't hate you like I used to if that's what you're talking about. I can't hate you anymore you've saved our asses far too many times for that." Jake replied with a shrug.

"I'm the reason that you have to suppress half of who you are and I know what that is like. If I hadn't become the source then you would just be a normal witch." Cole pointed out to him.

"My mother is a Charmed One there is no way that I would have been a normal witch. Trust me on this one Cole if we were meant to change things then regrets wouldn't have been invented. The regrets we have build character and they help us to become better people than we were before because we don't make the same mistakes that we regret." Jake was pretty wise when he wanted to be he just didn't always let it show.

"Wow I can honestly say that that was pretty deep for a twenty-one year old." Cole nodded his head thoughtfully.

Jake was glad when he heard a knock on his door. "Come in," he called.

"Hey somebody wanted to see his big brother." Coop said he had Phil in his arms.

"Cole and I were just talking battle strategy. It was nothing important." Jake said he got up from behind his desk and took his brother into his arms. "Did you miss me Phil?" he asked and the little boy just babbled something. "I missed you too buddy."

Cole looked at Coop and shook his head. "Don't look at me I gave no clue what goes on between the two of them. They seem to understand each other though." Coop said laughing he knew that there was more to Cole shaking his head though.

"That either means one of them is really smart or one of them has an underdeveloped brain." Cole chuckled.

"They connect on a really deep level." Coop said joking around.

"You wanna call Lilly? I'm sure that she would like to talk to you." Jake asked his little brother. "Let's call Lilly." He said.

"Look now he has decided it is a good idea to have him call his wife." Cole laughed.

"I don't pretend to understand it. I just have to live with it." Coop replied shaking his head.


"Piper, you have no idea how stressed I am right now." Prue told her sister as she pushed her glasses up on her nose.

"What are you stressed about Prue?" Piper asked knowing she was going to find out what was bothering her whether she wanted to know or not.

"No one told me that this much work goes into owning your own business. I have to deal with the bank and getting equipment. It is enough to drive me insane." Prue vented to her sister.

"It is hard work at first I won't lie to you and say it's not. But once you get everything up and running you don't have so much to worry about. As it stands I don't even have to go into work unless I want to. The kids pretty well keep a handle on things for me." Piper replied.

"I don't remember it being this hard when you first opened P3." Prue whined.

"I didn't have kids when I opened P3 that makes it a little bit more difficult. Chris and Wyatt were still both really little when I opened Charmed and trust me between those two and all the work I had to do I was drained. But trust me you get paid back as soon as my kids were old enough to help out I put them to work." Piper informed her.

"Then you wonder why we accuse you of using us a slave labor." Mel said coming down to the kitchen. She had to work tonight so she had slept pretty late.

"Shouldn't you still be sleeping Paige?" Piper asked her.

"No, I'm wide awake I can't sleep anymore. You have me confused with Jackie, you can't put me down for a nap anytime you feel like it." Mel replied sarcastically.

"I wouldn't dream of it Mel." Piper rolled her eyes at her daughter.

"Mom, I'm kinda hungry." Mel said knowing that there was no way Piper would refuse her.

"Do you want breakfast or lunch?" Piper asked.

"Lunch would be good." Mel replied.

"The only reason you're getting food out of me is because you have to work tonight." Piper stipulated. She didn't know who she was trying to kid that girl had her wrapped around her little finger.

"I'm just glad that I don't have to work until tonight. Poor Chris and Hank had to be at work at three this morning they won't get off until six tomorrow morning." Mel threw out there.

"Holy shit, that's like a triple shift." Prue said in disbelief.

"To the boys that is a double. They won't even be tired when they get off, according to them they are used to doing shit like this." Mel shook her head. Her brother and her cousin really didn't surprise her with anything that they did.

"Mel, those two boys have something wrong with them in the head. They aren't exactly very bright sometimes." Piper pointed out to her.

"I realize this mom. That's why Jason is my partner. He tends to get me in less trouble than those other two do. Chris and I would fight over his need to protect me. And Hank and I wouldn't get anything done because would be too busy playing around." Mel commented.

"At least she's honest. I honestly don't know how Andy ever gets anything done with the group of cops that he has to deal with." Prue said.

"Most of those guys are a bunch of douche bags. I take a lot of flack from them for being the only woman on the squad." Mel informed them.

"I can't imagine that that goes over well with your brother or your cousin." Piper mused.

"It doesn't, Hank told me not to worry about it but it pisses him off anytime they start on me. It's alright though because I have a better arrest record than any of those idiots." Mel chuckled.

"Our dear Henry Jr. has quite the temper when provoked. I'm surprised that he hasn't knocked one of their lights out." Prue said thoughtfully.

"The only thing that stops him is he has a clean work record and he wants to keep it that way. He doesn't have so much as a complaint against him. If he decks another officer that is subject to change." Mel explained to them.

"It's about time that he learned to control his temper. I'll never forget the time he got arrested and Nicole had to use every bit of influence that she had to keep it from going on his record." Piper said shaking her head. She was glad that her nephew had finally gotten over being crazy.

"Mom, all the Halliwell cousins with a bad temper got your temper and none of us know how to control it." Jack pointed out as he walked into the room with Jeremiah.

"Jackson, if you didn't have your son with you right now I would tell you what I think about what you just said." Piper warned him.

Jack shot a rueful grin in her direction. "I'm sure that you would mom." Then he turned to his son. "Jeb, tell grandma that we're not scared of her."

Jeremiah shook his head violently. "I not telling grandma that I not crazy." He had more sense than his father.

"Jackie, I think that he might be smarter than you." Mel teased her brother.

"I hope so, a smart person wouldn't have the messy love life that I have." Jack said wistfully. All he wanted was to make things right with Emily but she was keeping him at arm's length.

"That's not true. Hank is highly intelligent and he has the messiest love life of anyone I know." Mel reminded him.

"That right there is the shit that happens to you when you fall in love with a Hoyt woman. Trust me I know first hand how that is." Jack grumbled

"Do you want to talk about it?" Piper asked him gently.

"The last thing I want to do is talk about it mom. But thanks for the offer. I'm entirely too sober to even think about it." Jack replied with a smile.

"Do you want to talk about the Emily situation?" Prue asked her nephew.

"That is the second to last thing that I want to talk about. I made that particular mess all on my own. I like to think that I can clean it up by myself but I'm not so sure about that." Jack said shaking his head.

"I'm not taking sides here, but you did lie to her. I'm thinking that it might have been a good idea to tell her that you were engaged before she found out the way that she did." Mel threw out there.

"Mel, leave it to you to remind me that I behaved like a complete and total ass." Jack said with a roll of his eyes.

"That's what older sisters are for." Mel gave him a sarcastic smile.


"Penny, here I am baring my soul to you and you are laughing at me." Emily bitched at her best friend.

"I'm sorry but I can't help it Em. You're such an easy target right now. You need to talk to him." Penny replied after stifling her laughter.

"The last thing in the world I want to do right now is talk to Jack." Emily said crossing her arms over her chest.

"Yeah and the proof of that is you can't go five minutes without bringing his name up in conversation." Penny responded sarcastically.

"Penny, he lied to me he has been lying to me for months. I can't just forgive that." Emily tried to reason with her.

"Em, you have to still care about him or it wouldn't bother you that much." Penny pointed out to her.

"Of course I still care about him, he was my first. Those types of feelings don't go away easily. But I can't get over the sting of what he did to me." Emily sighed and laid her head down on the lunch table.

"She's still droning on and on about Jack I see." Hailey observed as she and Mia walked up to the table.

"Oh yeah, she can't go five seconds without bringing him up." Penny replied.

"Not that anyone ever asks my opinion on matters but I think that it might be wise to give him another chance if he still means that much to you." Mia advised.

"I'll do that when you get your head out of your ass and see that Billy likes you." Emily spit out sarcastically.

"Billy does not like me like that. That is you making something out of nothing." Mia replied but she was blushing a little bit.

"God spare another of Mia's pessimistic rants on love and life in general." Carly sighed as she sat down.

"Leigh, I do believe that you are just as bad as she is when it comes to love." Patty pointed out to her twin.

"Charlie deep down they know that they are all jealous of what you and I have together." Ricky said cockiness oozing from his words.

"I object to that I might dog love every now and again but I'm no where near as bad as Mia is. Besides at least I don't have the gloomy outlook on life that that girl has." Carly defended herself.

"I don't think of it as her being gloomy I like to think that she is just being real." Billy walked over just in time to catch the tail end of that conversation.

"Thank you Billy, I knew that there had to be someone out there who understood me." Mia said gratefully.

"I'm sure that he would like to be able to understand you a lot better than he does now." Penny said suggestively.

"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about cousin of mine." Billy said innocently. He knew damn good and well that he was totally into Mia.

"Sure you don't know what she's talking about. It's not like you have to pick your chin up every time that she walks into a room." Carly said sarcastically. In the absence of Val it was her job to make sure that everyone in their group was in a relationship. She didn't have to like the job she just got stuck with it.

"Billy, they don't know what they're talking about. Honestly I sometimes think that they just say things because they like to hear the sound of their own voices." Mia addressed him.

"That's true most of them are Halliwells so they do like to talk a lot." Billy agreed.

"Billy, I don't know why I must remind of this again, but you are a Halliwell too. Anything bad you say about one of us you're saying about yourself. Maybe it would be wise of you to think before you say something like that in the future." Patty suggested.

"Why would I want to do something like that? There is no fun in it if I can't piss you off a little bit." Billy asked in retort.

"You make me want to hire B to kill you sometimes." Patty told him in a conversational tone.

"I seem to have that effect on people." Billy responded with a smug smile.

"You are so much like my mother that it isn't funny." Penny said rolling her eyes.

"What can I say? It's better than being like Aunt Piper." Billy replied with a shrug.

"I'm right with you on that one. I'm so glad that Mel isn't here anymore to suck all the fun out of everything." Carly agreed with him.

"Now I'm the one who has to make you juveniles behave. I wouldn't wish that job on my worst enemy." Patty rolled her eyes. She didn't know how these people got on some of the topics that they got on but she was forced to listen to their bullshit.


"Heya Huckleberry, whatcha' doin' in so early?" Jimmy asked his son in his usual slow drawl.

"Well, I didn't have anything better to do so I figured that I would come in and help with prep work. And I don't know how many times I have to ask you not to call my Huckleberry in public." Roman answered and he just had to bitch about the name his father insisted upon calling him.

"I've been calling you that since before you were born. It's a little hard for me to change my ways now." Jimmy explained to him.

"Jimmy, I don't know if I've ever told you this but you give me a headache." Roman shook his head and sighed.

"The feeling is mutual on that one. The way you insist upon telling me not to call you that drives me insane." Jimmy informed him.

"The way you insist on messing up my work station drives me insane." Roman countered.

"It was my work station first." Jimmy came back.

"Well it's mine now. You should check the billing I'm pretty sure it lists Roman Nicolae as head chef not Jimmy Ward." Roman pointed out to him.

"I'm pretty sure that I'm the one you got your talents from so I'm the better chef." Jimmy went on these two could go around in circles for days before they ever tired of arguing with each other.

"Would you two quit bickering like an old married couple?" Val asked them.

"What the hell are you doing in so early?" Roman asked her.

"If you must know Frodo, I was bored so I decided to come into work. Bad things tend to happen when I'm left on my own with nothing at all to do. Since Troy is on his crazy search right now that leaves out some of the more interesting ways for me to spend my time." Val replied with a smirk.

"Ok, first of all don't call me Frodo. Second of all don't ever allude to your sex life ever again. I don't need to know what goes on between you and Troy behind closed doors." Roman said doing a full body shake.

"Val, have I ever told you that I like your sassiness?" Jimmy asked her with a big grin on his face.

"That is very sweet of you Jimmy, I don't know why some of that charm couldn't have brushed off on your son." Val retorted.

"Val, I really don't want to have to explain to Mel why I finally killed you, but I will. Besides that I was kinda hoping I would go to jail for killing Prue not for killing you." Roman informed her seriously.

"You and Prue love to argue with each other and you know it. I can't believe you would suggest otherwise." Val said like he was talking insanity.

"I don't love fighting with her she is a stubborn ass who always has to be right. What my brother sees in her I will never know." Roman scoffed at the idea that he liked anything about Prue.

"You're one to talk. You're dating Mel, that girl is enough to drive you insane." Val pointed out to him.

Jimmy gave a crooked grin. "I don't know what you're making a big deal about I like Mel she don't take no shit."

"I happen to love Mel." Roman said sounding defensive.

"I can't believe that I'm about to say this but you should be made a saint for that. We all know that she has been one more bitch to be around for the last year." Val actually said something nice about him.

"Cut her some slack Val that thing with Ken made her question everything about herself. Don't tell her that I told you this but she still has nightmares about him." Roman replied seriously looking her in the eyes as he spoke.

"Mel will bounce back she always does and despite the fact that I like to give you a hard time, I know you love her because of how worried you are about her." Val had just said two nice things about Roman in a row.

"Wow, I never thought I would see the day when you were this nice to me." Roman said in shock.

"The only reason that I'm being this nice to you is because you make my ape shit crazy cousin not so nuts." There was the Val that everyone knew and loved so much.

Roman shrugged, "I'll take what I can get when I can get it."

"Huckleberry, you really need to quit while you're ahead. You have no business matching wits with this girl she will mop the floor with you." Jimmy advised him.

"So much for family loyalty Jimmy. You're my damn father you're supposed to be on my side not Val's." Roman said incredulously.

"I'm just looking out for you. I'm trying to keep you from looking like a fool." Jimmy replied.

A small smirk graced Val's lips. "Too late," she couldn't help laughing when Roman shot her a death glare.


"I really wish you people could find a way to make the thirteen and the eleven hurry up and vanquish these damn demons. I've been around them so long I'm starting to think like them." Dodge bitched.

"Dean, if it was possible we would, but they have to do this in their own time." Paige told her younger cousin gently.

"The only good thing is that my empathy isn't bothering me because demons don't have emotions. Other than that I'm about to go insane." Dodge replied in a reasonable tone. "And while we're at it you can stop calling me Dean. It reminds me of my mom and that is the last person I need to be reminded of right now. I don't have time to have an emotional break down."

"Maybe you should take a minute to grieve. You're not going to be able to face it until you do." Brady advised him.

"I've faced it, I face it every day. It's all I can do some days not to go nuts and kill every demon in sight. I'm right there working with the ones that killed her and I have to pretend that everything is fine. It's not fine though and it's never going to be ok that she's gone. So I don't know how grieving or any of your other psycho babble bullshit is going to help." Dodge raged at him.

"Dodge, he was just trying to help you." Dom told him.

Dodge ran his hands over his face and sighed. "I know that he was trying to help, but I don't need any help. What I need is for them to fix this so I don't have to ever deal with it. When I wake up in the mornings just for a second everything is right with the world but then I remember that she's gone and I'm back here trying to make sure that it never happens." He went off on a tangent and the others just left him to it.

"I know that this question is probably going to piss you off, but how is your dad holding up?" Savannah asked him.

"I don't know, he did what he does best he buried himself in his work and since his work takes him away a lot that makes it so much better for him. We all know that he is damn good at running away." Dodge didn't want to think about his dad those emotions while different than the ones he had over his mother's death were still emotions that he couldn't afford to have at the moment.

"Who's taking care of your sisters?" Brady asked him concerned.

"I was and that was the main reason that I gave Victor as to why I shouldn't be the one to do this job. But after Charlie said no he insisted that I be the one to do it. I told him that I wasn't cut out for this job. I've got cupid blood in me, I'm more of a lover. He said that my ability to copy any power that I come in contact with would serve well in this situation and we all know that there is no reasoning with Vic once his mind is made up." Dodge ranted.

"Dodge, I promise you that we are going to stop those fuckers. They won't ever have the chance to hurt you again." Alan swore to him.

"The bitch part of this is if I had stayed home like she asked me to she would have never been distracted and she would still be here right now." Dodge spit out bitterly.

"You're just as hard headed as your mom is you can't blame yourself for that." Paige counseled him.

Dodge let out a derisive snort. "It's my fault I can't lay the blame anywhere else." He reasoned.

"Try blaming the demons. I know that it's something that I have a hard time with, but you and I have got to learn that we can't shoulder the blame ourselves. I understand why I do it I'm Piper Halliwell's son and that makes me a control freak by nature. But you're Phoebe Halliwell's grandson you should be more laid back." Jack said coming into the attic.

"You're really one to talk Jack. You crawled into a bottle when Lyn got killed." Dodge shot back hatefully.

"I'll admit it, I didn't handle it well at all. I still go over those last few hours in my mind all the time. Maybe it was my fault that she was distracted. I know that if I had it to do all over again I wouldn't have picked that stupid fight with her about getting married. It seems so unimportant now. Lyn was carrying my child and I couldn't protect her that is something that I just couldn't live with. So yeah I did turn to booze the reason that they are all telling you to face it is because they don't want you to end up like me. I'm twenty-three years old and I have as many regrets as someone four times my age." Jack said passionately. "But we can't change the past we have to work on making the future better." He went on.

"That's easier said than done I'm not the demon hunter that the rest of you are. I'm just a witch who happens to be part cupid. I don't know what good I can do." Dodge replied with a shrug.

"I'm half witch half cupid and I hold my own just fine." Brady said.

"You're also like the god of love. You are more than half witch half cupid." Dodge argued.

"I know that this isn't what you want to hear but you need to have faith that we can do this. Faith that things will turn out better this time around, faith that we're doing the right thing. Faith that Paige won't get our asses in a bind." Jack made a lame attempt at humor.

"That's not funny Jackson." Paige said crossing her arms over her chest.

"I thought it was damn funny Paige." Jack defended himself.

"And I think that your face looks funny Jack." Paige shot back.

"Don't start children. My empathy can't take it today." Alan warned them.

"Al, you know that you can take your empathy and shove it up your ass sideways." Paige said in a cordial tone.

"I would love it if for once you could all make it through the day without fighting." Savannah said she knew it wasn't going to happen but she was allowed to dream.

"Dream on Blondie, we all like fighting with each other too much to give it a rest. You should damn well know that by now." Jack said sticking his tongue out at her.

"Albie, I don't know if I've ever told you this or not but I can't stand your cousin." Savannah told her boyfriend.

"I know you don't like him and he doesn't like you either so you're even." Alan replied chuckling.

"This whole situation could be resolved if he would just admit that he ate that damn pie." Savannah said to get a rise out of Jack.

"I won't admit to something that I didn't do. For the last fucking time I didn't eat that whole fucking pie." Jack replied hotly.

"Jackie, everyone that knows you knows that you love pie. There is no shame if you were the one who ate it." Paige said to aggravate him.

"One more word about that fucking pie and I swear I'm going to lose my mind." Brady seethed. He got so tired of hearing about that pie.

"I want someone to mention that pie again because insane Phil is funny as hell." Dodge said grabbing his sides from laughing so hard. Brady wasn't going to begrudge anyone who made that kid laugh right now. His nephew was going through hell.

"I don't know when Savannah is going to get over that damn pie. You would think that the boy killed someone." Alan said shaking his head.

"The fat ass knows he ate it like he eats everything, I don't know why he just won't admit to it." Savannah just couldn't let it go.

"That's it I'm going to that thing I call a brother and I'm going to say, 'hey evil brother, you know that bitch sister of yours that double crossed you? You remember her well? Good, I'm going to lock her up in your dungeon and you can do whatever you want to her.'" Brady went off on a Phoebe like rant.

Dom was laughing so hard he was crying. "Dodge was right, insane Phil is funny as hell."

"Insane Phil isn't a very pleasant person to be around, because if he is insane then I have to act like I have some good sense." Paige protested. If anyone in their group got to act like they were crazy then it was going to be her.


Penny was lying across her bed with one of schoolbooks sitting in front of her. She had just finished her homework and now she was relaxing. It was nice not to have her mother breathing down her neck for a change. Phoebe had been really good about giving her, her space lately. It helped that her older siblings were coming around more and their mother had them to focus some of her attention on.

"You look really deep in thought Pens." Huck said teleporting into his girlfriend's room. He had to stifle his laughter when he saw her jump.

Penny turned to glare at her boyfriend. "Puck, you scared the hell out of me. You can't just teleport in here like that and scare the shit out of me whenever you feel like it." She huffed but in all reality she was glad to see him.

Huck shot her a charming smile. "Don't even act like you're not glad to see me because we both know that you are. Besides that I'm really glad to see you I've missed you this week." he told her.

"You act like we don't see each other at work all the time." Penny said rolling her eyes.

"I know that we see each other at work all the time but it's not the same thing as getting to spend some alone time with you." Huck replied.

"My mom will have a fit if she finds you in here." Penny pointed out to him but she pulled him down on the bed with her and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Since when has that ever stopped you?" Huck asked with a smirk on his face.

Penny arched an eyebrow at him and smiled. "You do have a point. We both know that I love a good challenge." She replied thoughtfully before she pressed her lips to his.

Huck chuckled at that. "That's why you're dating me, I like to think that I'm a pretty big challenge."

"Deep down you're not as bad as you like to make yourself out to be. Underneath the massive ego you are a big softy. You just don't want anyone to know that." Penny teased him.

"I can't have you saying things like that my sex god reputation will suffer greatly." Huck said incredulously.

"Puck, I hate to tell you this but you're the only person who thinks of yourself as a sex god. The rest of us just let you talk and sound like a raving idiot most of the time." Penny smirked at him.

Huck put his hand over his chest like her words had cut him deeply. "Oh, Penny, that one hurt bad. I can't believe you would say something so mean to me." he was just being dramatic and Penny shook her head at him.

"The truth isn't always nice but it's always true." Penny pointed out to him.

Huck looked at her with mischief shinning in his eyes. "Now you're just toying with me Ms. Halliwell." He accused her.

Penny scoffed at the suggestion. "I don't know how you could accuse me of doing such a thing Puck. I thought our relationship was based on trust."

"Our relationship is based on trust. We both trust each other to do exactly what we expect." Huck quipped. He thought he was so damn clever sometimes.

"That is so messed up and yet it doesn't surprise me that something like that came out of your mouth." Penny observed.

"You know that you find it irresistible." Huck teased her.

"I'm thinking not so much." Penny said dealing a huge blow to his ego.

"Woman, you are seriously killing me today." Huck said pretending to be wounded.

"Puck, I don't who you're trying to kid right now. You and I both know that you like the fact that I don't buy into your bullshit." Penny called him out.

"My bullshit is all part of my charm." Huck said sending her the most charming smile that he could muster.

"You are just full of shit period end of story." Penny joked with him.

"I have been accused of such by my sister of all people." Huck admitted.

"I think that your sister just might be right about you." Penny suggested.

"Just do me a favor and don't tell Cal that she was right about something there will be no living with her then." Huck begged.

"I don't know why I enjoy the pleasure of your company so much." Penny couldn't do anything but shake her head at the idiot.


"Hey little man, what's going on?" Chuck asked Jeremiah when he stepped into his apartment and found his nephew there.

"Nothing Uncle Chuck." Jeremiah answered him innocently.

"It sure is a surprise to see you here today buddy." Chuck said scooping the little boy up in his arms.

"His mommy and his daddy needed to talk so Aunt Prue volunteered to watch him." Jake told his brother-in-law.

"Don't you and my sister have an apartment of your own?" Chuck asked him out of curiosity.

"We actually do Chuck, but Jake and Prue had to get their daily round in." Lilly answered him rolling her eyes.

"Hell, I don't care if you guys are here I was just joking around." Chuck said defensively.

"I know that you were joking or I would have beat the shit out of you." Lilly replied.

"But other than those two we have the apartment to ourselves. Wyatt and Liz are out doing God alone knows what and Chris and Hank are both at work." Prue informed him.

"Where are Jack and Em?" Chuck asked he really wasn't sure that he wanted to know.

"The two of them finally got their heads out of their asses and decided that it would be best if they talked things out." Prue told him.

"Prue, what did you do?" Chuck asked he didn't put it past his wife to have worked her magic on his baby sister.

"I didn't do anything Chuck. I don't know why you automatically have to assume that I have done something." Prue didn't like the tone that her husband had taken with her. It was beside the point that she had actually worked a little of her magic on Jack and Emily. It had just been the way that Chuck had said it that pissed her off.

"Maybe that's because you're always up to something." Chuck suggested.

" I am not always up to something. I haven't done anything really noteworthy in months." Prue objected.

"Hank and B," Chuck threw out there.

"Ok I might be guilty there, but nothing I try with those two ever works so I have given up." Prue acknowledged that she had tried some things with those two.

"Bub, why are you so cranky this afternoon?" Lilly asked him.

"I'm not cranky, I just wish that my wife wouldn't practice her powers on my baby sister." Chuck replied reasonably.

Jake could see the show down looming between his sister and Chuck and he didn't want to be anywhere around them when shit went down. "Baby, you and I are meeting Parker and Cal for dinner soon. I think we better get a move on." He said hoping his wife would get his meaning.

Lilly looked at her watch she knew that they still had plenty of time but she knew what her husband was trying to do. "Yeah you're right we need to get going. You know how pissy Cal gets when we are late." She went to stand by his side and he wrapped his arms around her.

"We'll see you guys later." Jake said before he shimmered them out in a hurry.

Chuck locked eyes with his wife but then he looked down at his nephew. "Hey Jeb, why don't you go in Uncle Hank's room and let the puppy out of his crate? I'm sure that Nash would like to play with you." he asked him with a smile that he didn't feel.

"Uncle Hank won't get mad that I'm in his room?" Jeremiah asked he really wanted to play with the dog but he didn't want his Uncle Hank mad at him.

"No baby, Uncle Hank won't get mad. Actually he will be really happy that you're playing with Nash while he's working since he can't. Now go on, Uncle Chuck and I will be right in here if you need something." Prue said sending the little boy on his way.

Chuck's eyes turned to steel once his nephew was out of the room. "Ok, Prue, I'm going to ask you this one more time. What the fuck did you do?" he demanded.

"I didn't do anything bad, the only thing I did was lower their inhibitions a little so they would talk to each other." Prue admitted.

Chuck ran his hands over his face. "Damn it Prue, I wish you could learn to mind your own damn business. They would have worked it out in time they didn't need your help."

"I'm sorry the only thing I was trying to was help. I can't stand seeing the two of them so miserable." Prue defended her actions.

"I get that you mean well but sometimes it is just better to let people work things out in their own time." Chuck reasoned with her. He knew that she didn't think she had done anything wrong.

"And if I let some of them figure things out in their own time then we would still be waiting for them to see the light. You have to realize that being a cupid is half of who I am." Prue replied just as reasonably.

"And you have to realize that after I deal with bullshit at work all day the last thing I want to do is come home and have to deal with some mess you made." Chuck shot back. He didn't know why his temper was running so hot at the moment but he couldn't help it.

"Chuck, let's just both calm down before we say things that we don't mean." Prue said she knew that she didn't want to get into this with him right now.

"You're right, and maybe I'm just a little cranky right now because it has been a while since I ate." Chuck agreed.

"We have to feed Jeremiah, why don't you order us a pizza or whatever you feel like tonight." Prue suggested.

"Sure," Chuck pecked her on the lips but it was no where near close to being the type of kiss that they normally shared.


"Em, I'm really glad that you agreed to come out with me tonight." Jack smiled across the table at his girlfriend.

"I'm really glad that I came out with you tonight." Emily replied with a smile of her own.

"Em, I know that I hurt you by not telling you about Lyn. That was wrong of me, but I did it for selfish reasons. It hurts me to talk about it so I never told you." Jack said getting to the point.

"I haven't exactly been a saint either Jack, I didn't give you a fair chance that night. I demanded an answer from you right then and there and that was not fair to you at all." Emily acknowledged that they had both been at fault.

"Em, ask me again right now." Jack told her. He knew how to answer her this time.

"Are you still in love with Lyn?" Emily asked him just like he wanted her to.

"Yes a part of me will always love Lyn, but I don't love her in that way anymore. You don't have to worry about fighting a ghost to be with me because when I'm with you the only woman that I see or think about is you." Jack assured her.

"I guess that I can live with that, you come with a past and I have to accept that." Emily replied reasonably.

"You can ask me anything that you want to know and I'll answer your questions." Jack was going to be an open book with her.

Emily thought for a moment before she came up with a good question. "Why are you still so hung up on her? If it hurts you to answer then you don't have to." She asked but she was also taking his feelings into consideration.

"In the interest of full disclosure so there are no more secrets about that relationship, I will tell you that Lyn and I were engaged and she was pregnant with my baby when she got killed." Jack answered just thinking about it ripped his heart to shreds, but he had to focus on what he could have and stop worrying something that would never be his.

"Jackie, I'm sorry if I had known I wouldn't have been such a bitch. You could have just told me that to begin with." Emily replied.

"Like I said it hurts to talk about. That part of my life is over though, I have you and you are the only woman that I want." Jack promised.

"Jackie, I know I've been a bitch, but would you consider being my boyfriend again?" Emily asked him.

A playful smile came to Jack's face. "Well, I guess you're not too bad as a girlfriend and I don't really want to be alone when I could be with you. So I would really like to be your boyfriend again." He answered.

Emily leaned over the table and kissed him. "I'm sorry," she made a blanket apology not only for the way she had treated him but also for everything that he had had to go through.

"I'm sorry too." Jack said he really was sorry that he hadn't told her everything.

"If only we could have just had this conversation sooner." Emily joked.

"There is no doubt in my mind that Prue did something to us or wouldn't be having this conversation right now. I don't know whether to thank her or strangle her." Jack laughed.

"Whatever you do don't thank her it will only make her worse." Emily cautioned him.

"We're going to pretend like we don't know that she did anything that way she still gets a win and we don't have to put up with her." Jack suggested.

"I like the way you think." Emily said before reaching over and kissing him again.


Phoebe had absolutely no clue who could be knocking on her door at ten at night. It wasn't like it was all that late but she was trying to get Phil to sleep and the noise wasn't helping. She was shocked when she saw her oldest daughter standing there with tears streaming down her face and a suitcase in her hand. "Ladybug, what's wrong baby?" she asked pulling her into the condo.

"Chuck and I had this really huge fight and I walked out on him. I don't have anywhere else to go. Is it ok if I stay here for the night mommy?" Prue got out through her sobs.

"Baby, this will always be your home of course you can stay here. Just let me get daddy to take care of Phil so I can take care of you." Phoebe said sitting her down on the couch. "Coop, get your ass in the living room now." she yelled at her husband.

Coop came into the room a second later fully intending on giving his wife hell for calling him like that. All that went out the window when he saw his oldest daughter in tears. "Ladybug, what happened?" he asked.

"Her and Chuck had a fight." Phoebe answered for her daughter.

"What do you need me to do?" Coop asked. He hated seeing his daughter so miserable but he knew that this was more of a mom job.

"I need you to take Phil and get him to sleep while I take care of Ladybug." Phoebe said handing over their son.

Coop settled his son in his arms before he kissed his daughter on the head. "Baby, whatever this fight was about I promise you that you guys will get through this." He told her before walking out of the room.

"Mommy, I don't mean to be such a pain in the ass. You could have just told me to leave if you were busy with Phil." Prue said hiccupping.

Phoebe sat down beside her daughter; she put her arm around her, and ran her free hand through her hair. "Nonsense, Phil will be just fine with your daddy. You're the one who needs my help now, I didn't stop being your mommy just because you got married." She assured her.

"I don't even know how we got to this point mom." Prue said through her tears.

"Prue, if I'm going to help you I need to know what you two were fighting about." Phoebe told her gently.

"Chuck came home and Jeremiah was there and the first thing out of his mouth was 'what did you do?' I'm not going to deny that I worked my magic on Jack and Emily so those two could be happy, but it was the way that Chuck said it. You can ask Jake he was there. Anyway we had it out for a minute after Jake and Lilly left and then I told him that we needed to calm down before one of us said something that we didn't mean." Prue explained.

"You two weren't fighting in front of that baby were you?" Phoebe asked just to be sure.

"No we sent him to Hank's room to play with the dog. So anyway we had dinner and we got Jeremiah ready for bed. As soon as Jack and Emily picked him up Chuck started in again. It snowballed from there, all I know is it ended with me saying that if this was how it was going to be then I quit and I packed up and left." Prue went on and then she was wracked by sobs again. "I don't want to lose him mom, I really love him."

"Baby, I know that you love him and so does he. You're not going to lose him. All couples have this fight and it's usually over something stupid. You think that there is nothing that you can do to make it right but nothing could be further from the truth." Phoebe tried making her see reason.

"I don't know how we can bounce back from this though, some of the things that we said to each other were horrible." Prue cried harder.

"Baby, they were just words said in the heat of passion. Neither of you meant any of the things that you said to each other. But you did deliberately pick the most hurtful things that you could say to one another because that is what happens when you're in love with someone. You say the things that you know are going to hurt them the most." Phoebe held her close to her and rubbed soft comforting circles on her back like she had done when she was a little girl. She just wished that she could fix all her daughter's problems as easy as she had been able to when she was still a child. She knew she couldn't this one Prue had to work out on her own. She could tell what she should do but in the end she would still have to do it herself.

"I know that I didn't mean anything that I said to him but he just made me so mad. No, that's not true, he flat out pissed me off." Prue replied.

"You're a Halliwell baby you have a horrible temper. His father is Derek Bradford so he has a horrible temper too. It's not a good combination when you two get pissed off at each other but I promise you that it will all work out." Phoebe had to resist the urge to chuckle. She could only imagine the things that those two had said to each other.

"It's ok that I love Chuck but I just don't like him right now?" Prue asked sounding like a small child.

"That is perfectly fine baby. I'm sure that he feels the same way about you at the moment. You don't have to like him all the time." Phoebe assured her pressing a kiss to her temple.


"Why the fuck did I get married? I mean honestly, what the fuck was I thinking?" Chuck asked rather loudly. He was sitting in the living room of his parents' home.

"You were thinking that you aren't commitment phobic like your father is." Eva threw out there for him to think about. She couldn't help chuckling just a little bit.

Derek shot a look at his wife and shook his head. "You're not helping the situation Eva." It was taking everything he had not to laugh.

"And more than that, why the fuck was I stupid enough to marry a Halliwell? They are only the most stubborn people on the face of the earth." Chuck continued on his rant.

"Chuck what happened?" Eva asked her son.

"My wife can't mind her own damn business that's what happened. On the plus side though you will be glad to know that Jack and Emily are back together." Chuck spit out bitterly. Prue was always more worried about other people's relationships than theirs.

Derek was glad to hear that his middle daughter wasn't going to be walking around with a permanent frown on her face anymore. "So you're mad because Prue worked her mojo on Jack and Emily?" he asked.

"Yes, she can fucking play cupid to anyone else she wants to but I want her to leave my baby sister out of it." Chuck said stubbornly.

"Chuck, Prue isn't exactly playing cupid honey, she is half cupid and you need to remember that." Eva pointed out to him gently.

"I know but she didn't have to drag Emily down too." Chuck pouted.

"Son, not that we mind, but why exactly are you here?" Derek asked.

"I said some things that made her cry and she packed her stuff and left me. I can't sleep in our bed without her." Chuck admitted.

"Chuck, what happened?" Eva asked him wanting to help him get this sorted out.

"We had a fight mom, I know that I said some things that I shouldn't have and I didn't mean it. But she just made me so damn mad. I was already having a bad day anyway." Chuck admitted.

"Chuck, you do realize that this is your fault right?" Derek asked his son.

Chuck just nodded his head. "Of course I know that this fight was my fault. I regret everything that I said to her, but I don't know if she's ever going to want to talk to me again."

"Chuck, you just have to apologize." Eva advised him.

"I know that I have to apologize, but with Prue it's not that simple. She is pretty pig headed when she wants to be." Chuck sighed shaking his head.

"She'll take you back Jellybean, she loves you just as much as you love her." Derek assured him.


"Piper, what's the matter with Jackie?" Leo asked his wife. He had heard his son screaming from downstairs.

Piper had her son thrown over her shoulder and she was trying to calm him down. "He's a little fussy, I think he has a little cold."

Leo felt his son's face. "He does feel a little warm. We can take him to the hospital if you want to." He offered.

"I just gave him some Tylenol, so I'm going to give that time to work. I don't think it's anything to be too worried about." Piper replied.

"Maybe he's cutting a tooth." Leo suggested.

"He's at about the right age for that to start happening. He has been putting a lot of things in his mouth lately." Piper agreed.

Leo took Jack from Piper. "Hey buddy, I'm sorry that you don't feel so good right now." Jack let out a small whimper.

"I wish that he could tell me what's wrong with him. I hate not knowing what to do to help him." Piper said running her hand gently over Jack's head.

"We've been through this before. I remember when the other three were this little and we had to deal with this with them." Leo threw out there.

"Two of the three still act like big babies when they get sick. And the other one likes to push herself until she can't go anymore." Piper said rolling her eyes.

"Piper, just because they're grown up doesn't mean they're not our babies anymore." Leo pointed out to her.

"That's exactly what it means Leo. They're not babies anymore, Wyatt is married now and I can't imagine that Chris will be far behind I mean you've seen him with Rachel. The only one that we're not remotely close to losing is Mel and that is only because she refuses to get married before she finishes school." Piper reasoned with him.

"Wyatt comes over here just as much as he did before he got married. Chris is over here every damn day and Mel still lives here. They are still our kids Piper, we're not going to lose them any time soon." Leo assured her while rubbing Jack's back.

"I know that, it's just hitting home lately that they're not babies anymore. There are some mornings that I still expect to see them all come running down the stairs arguing about something. I know that it sounds wrong but I miss when I was the one who could fix all their problems." Piper admitted.

"Piper, it says something about our parenting that our kids don't have to come running to us with every little problem that they have. I happen to be damn proud of the people that they have turned into and I know that you are too." Leo knew that she was just having a little separation anxiety.

"I'm proud of them too Leo. Mel told me today that she has a better arrest record than any of the cops in her squad other than Hank and Chris. I like the idea that I had something to do with that." Piper relented with a smile.

"My point exactly we did a good job and now we get to not be bothered with their problems as much." Leo said putting his free arm around his wife.

"I know it's just harder letting them all go than I thought." Piper replied.

"If it makes you feel any better Jackie really needs his mommy right now because daddy just isn't doing the trick." Leo offered helpfully.

"That makes me feel a lot better actually." Piper said taking her son back.

"How about this, you and Jackie go watch some TV and I will get him a bottle?" Leo asked.

"I think that is a very good idea." Piper agreed. "Come on big guy, let's go sit on the couch while daddy gets you a bottle. You can even sleep with mommy and daddy tonight baby bear." she told her son.


"You are the best husband in the whole entire world." Lilly said as she reached up to kiss Jake on the mouth.

"Thanks, you're not so bad yourself." Jake replied. They were soaking in the bathtub together.

"This is one of the best ideas that you have ever had." Lilly said pressing her body closer to his.

"I just wanted to make sure that you know how much I love you." Jake informed her.

"There isn't a doubt in my mind about your love for me. I love you too." Lilly assured him.

"I just thought it would be nice if I showed you that I love you." Jake kissed her bare shoulder.

"It is nice of you to make me feel like a woman." Lilly admitted.

"I don't want you to ever forget that you're my woman." Jake said possessively.

"Always and forever." Lilly promised him. She couldn't think of spending forever with anyone but him.

"Just remember you said that the next time I start getting on your nerves." Jake chuckled.

"You're not planning on doing anything stupid are you?" Lilly asked him with an arched eyebrow.

"Of course I'm not planning on doing anything stupid. I normally only do stupid things on the spur of the moment." Jake laughed.

"With you I have to make sure because you do have a tendency to go with your less wise impulses." Lilly replied.

"I was just thinking that maybe instead of going to the office tomorrow I would try to help Troy find that damn sword." Jake said innocently.

"That would work well if we didn't all have to go to the gun range. You know that my dad decided that it would be a good idea to make us all practice our gun handling skills." Lilly said rolling her eyes.

"I didn't forget and all I can say is that it is going to be damn amusing." Jake said shaking his head at the thought of his sister or wife handling a gun.


Henry was sitting with his feet up on his desk and he was studying the diamond engagement ring that he held in his hand. There had been so many times over the past month when he had almost given it to Bianca. But he had stopped himself because he knew that she wasn't ready and his heart couldn't take the hurt of her rejecting his proposal.

"Hank, what are you studying so hard?" Frank asked him he was sitting in a hair with his hands cuffed behind his back.

Henry groaned as he was brought back to reality. "It's nothing Uncle Frank," he replied.

"Come on Hank, amuse me. I'm not going anywhere until Lyn comes to pick me up. The least you can do is talk to me." Frank pleaded with him. He had managed to get himself arrested for interfering with a police investigation.

Henry sighed there was just something not normal about arresting your girlfriend's father because he got in the way of your investigation. He stood up and took the handcuff key out of his pocket. He walked over to Frank shaking his head the whole way. "Sit up Uncle Frank." He ordered the older man. "If we're going to have this conversation we're not going to have it with your hands cuffed behind your back. You're more of a danger to yourself than you are to me." he said when Frank fixed him with a questioning glance. He undid the cuffs and threw them on his desk.

Frank was rubbing the feeling back into his writs. "So what is that you're looking at?" he repeated his question.

Henry tossed him the engagement ring. "Here have a look at it for yourself."

Frank caught the ring and studied it for a moment. "This is my mom's engagement ring." He stated he would recognize it anywhere.

"She gave to me about a month ago. She told me that me and B belong together and she wants to see it on her finger." Henry explained.

Frank chuckled and ran his hand over his beard. "That sounds like something that my mother would say." He said tossing the ring back to Hank. "So are you going to ask her or not?" he asked.

"I would have asked her already if I thought that she would say yes. I'm a little bit of a coward when it comes to B. I couldn't handle the sting of her rejecting me." Henry informed him.

"My daughter is a little bit of a mess. She wouldn't choose what was good for her if it were looking her right in the face." Frank admitted with a shrug. His brown eyes were intently studying the young man in front of him. This was the guy that he wanted his daughter to marry. He had her best interests in mind and he loved her with everything that he was.

Henry had to laugh at that. "You've got that shit right. I just don't want to pressure her into doing something that she doesn't want to do. Because I'm in this for the long haul and I'm perfectly willing to wait for her to be ready."

"Hank, I know that you don't need it, but you have my blessing to marry my stubborn ass daughter. No one else could put up with her the way you can and still love her as much as you do. Trust me all you have to do is ask her and she will say yes." Frank wanted him to know just how he felt.

"Uncle Frank, that means a lot to me coming from you. I know how much your Frank Jr. means to you and I know that letting her go won't be easy." Henry acknowledged.

"You I don't mind losing her to. I can see how happy you make her and I can see how much she loves you." Frank replied trying not to let his emotions get the best of him.

Chris dragging Dante over and sitting him in the chair next to Frank interrupted any further conversation they could have had.

"What the hell took you so long Chris?" Henry asked he had been starting to get worried about his partner.

"Besides the fact that I had to chase Dante down, it took me I know ten minutes to read through his damn arrest record. In his defense though he has never been convicted of anything. Then I had to let him make his damn phone call." Chris explained to his cousin.

"You didn't book him did you?" Henry asked him incredulously.

"Fuck no, I didn't book him I'm not stupid. It just took me a while to get him back here." Chris answered defensively.

"You had to stop to call Rachel on the way didn't you?" Henry accused him.

"I don't know what you're talking about Henry, you're starting to sound really paranoid." Chris replied but he was smirking.

Henry threw his hands up in the air. "My partner has lost his mind I'm sure of it now." he said shaking his head.

"I didn't think you two were serious when you said you were going to arrest them." Mel said walking into the squad room with Jason.

"We were dead serious they can't be trusted not to poke around a crime scene if we let them go with a warning." Henry pointed out to his cousin.

"He has a point there, bounty hunters are pretty much the bane of law enforcement agencies everywhere." Jason agreed with him.

"Hank, you do realize that your girlfriend is going to flip out on you don't you?" Mel asked him just out of curiosity. She wouldn't trade places with him for anything at the moment. B was seriously going to be pissed with him.

"Flip out is putting it mildly Mel. B is going to be fucking pissed off at me and I know it." Henry replied he knew that he was in a shit load of trouble and he wasn't going to try to deny it either.

"This isn't the first time that we have arrested Uncle Frank and it more than likely won't be the last." Chris said shrugging but he knew that his best friend was going to be livid with both of them.

"At least you two will be alive for her to be mad at. She is going to kill me, she told me the next time I got arrested she was going to beat me to death. She seems to think that I should be a better bounty hunter than what I am." Dante interjected.

"Dante, I don't think that I like the idea of a jailbird like you dating my cousin." Mel told him in all seriousness.

"I've never been convicted. Pretty much all bounty hunters have been arrested at least one time. That tends to happen when we get in the way of the police." Dante pointed out to her.

"Something tells me that my dad isn't going to see it that way." Henry chimed in.

"Hank, stop terrorizing him you know that we aren't going to like any guy that one of those girls drags home." Chris reasoned with him.

"Hey, I take offense to that." Jason said sounding indignant.

"You're the exception to the rule Jason. I know damn good and well that my sister can do a lot worse than you and trust me when I say that she has." Henry informed him.

"And you don't even know the worst of it Hank." Mel grumbled. She had had to put up with Carly and her numerous juvenile delinquent boyfriends for years.

"Mel, take the cuffs off of Dante, he's not going to do anything to hurt us." Chris ordered his sister who did what he told her to.

"Thanks, man I'll hand it too you, you know what you're doing with those things. That has to be the tightest I've ever been cuffed." Dante bitched while rubbing the feeling back into his wrists.

"I wouldn't have cuffed you so tight if you hadn't run from me. I always put the cuffs on tight when I get pissed off." Chris pointed out logically.

"Man that is totally police brutality right there." Dante objected.

"It's the way things work and everyone with any sense knows that. You resist arrest and we slap the cuffs on tighter." Henry informed him.

"Hank, I don't think that you're supposed to admit to that." Lyn said walking into the squad room carrying her son in his car seat with her middle daughter hot on her heels.

"Heya Lyn," Frank greeted his wife cheerfully.

Lyn fixed him with a cold glare. "Don't you 'Heya Lyn' me Francis. I am furious with you right now. I had the wake the baby up and then I had to get B out of bed just to come get your ass." she raged at him.

"You know in my line of work I tend to get arrested from time to time." Frank answered in his own defense.

Lyn then turned to glare at Dante. "Dante Angelo, you do not have to let Frank drag you down with him. Your mother is going to kill you when she finds out that you got arrested yet again."

"I was just doing my job Aunt Lyn." Dante offered weakly. He knew well enough to know that one did not argue with Lyn Hoyt when she was pissed off.

Henry and Bianca locked eyes she didn't have to use words for him to know that she wasn't happy with him. "Later B, I'm trying to work right now." he said trying to get her to table the discussion he knew was coming for later.

"Now Henry," Bianca replied forcefully.

"I don't have the time to get into this right now Bianca." Henry said just as forcefully.

"You better make time because there is no way in hell that I'm talking to you otherwise." Bianca informed him with ice in her voice.

"Chris, can you manage for ten minutes?" Henry asked his partner.

"I can manage for as long as you need me to." Chris assured him. He wanted him to get things taken care of with Bianca for all their sakes. It was not pleasant when those two weren't on speaking terms.

"Uncle Andy's office is right this way." Henry told Bianca pointing down the hall with a flourish of his arm.

"Come on then." Bianca said dragging down the hall by his arm.

Chris could only shake his head. "I wouldn't trade places with him right now if you paid me. I've only seen B this pissed a handful of times and it has never ended well."

"Bianca is not happy with him right now that is for sure. But you wouldn't want to trade places with Francis either because I had to be talked out of killing him." Lyn replied but she was starring daggers at her husband.

"The boy was just doing his job. I was in the way and I was being stubborn. He gave me every chance in the world to walk away but I wouldn't do it." Frank defended Henry. He didn't want Bianca mad at him over something that he had caused.

"You should have just walked away, but I know that isn't who you are you have to be a pain in the ass. I tried explaining to her that Hank was just doing his job but she was having no part of that." Lyn said shaking her head.

"Did you know that my mom gave him her engagement ring?" Frank asked his wife.

Lyn smirked at him. "I know a lot that you don't know. Mostly because I talk to your mother more than you do." Gus let out a little cry. "You know you're the one who is getting him back to sleep right?" she asked her husband.

"There is no doubt in my mind about that." Frank said smiling. He didn't want to piss Lyn off more than she already was that would not be a good idea.

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"B, before you say anything I was just doing my job and I didn't even book him. I just had to keep him from messing up my investigation." Henry started defending himself as soon as he closed the door behind him.

"He's my father Hank, you could have let him go with a warning or something." Bianca replied her brown eyes cold.

"I gave him every chance to walk away but he wouldn't do it. I wish he would have. I didn't like having to arrest him any more than you like the fact that I did." Henry reasoned with her.

"That doesn't change the fact that you didn't have to bring him down to the station you could have let him go." Bianca was not going to be reasonable about this.

"I'm sorry honey, I don't know what you wanted me to do. I have a job to do and I can't let anyone interfere with that." Henry replied somewhat lamely. He didn't like her being mad at him.

"If you loved me as much as you claim to you would have let him go." Bianca said that was a low blow and she knew it but she was pissed.

Henry's deep brown eyes showed the hurt that she had caused with her last statement. "I do love you." he said trying his best to keep his voice from breaking. He tried to put his arms around her but she pushed him away.

"No, you're like every other son of a bitch that I've heard that from. You're only interested in using me until you get what you want from me. Don't touch me right now I'm mad at you." Bianca knew that it wasn't true but she knew it was what would hurt him the most.

Henry tried to put his arms around her again. "This has nothing to do with me and you baby. This was just me doing my job. The only reason you had to come pick him up was because I have to keep up appearances." He explained.

Bianca pushed him away from her again and this time her fist right fist connected with the left side of his jaw. "I said don't fucking touch me right now Henry." She seethed at him.

Henry had tears shining in his eyes but he refused to let them fall. "I'm sorry that I pushed you." he said his voice barely above a whisper.

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"That doesn't sound good at all." Mel observed. The fact that they couldn't hear those two yelling at each other was not a good thing.

"It's too quiet, so more than likely she has probably decked him by now." Chris replied nodding his head.

"It wouldn't surprise me in the least bit if she did. Her temper was in rare form." Lyn agreed with the two siblings before turning to her husband. "Just so you know if she breaks up with him again it's your fault."

"It won't be my fault you of all people should know that no one makes that girl do anything that she doesn't want to do." Frank replied he was lucky that he was holding his son in his arms or Lyn would have hit him on principle for arguing with her.

"You might not be able to make her do anything but you sure as hell facilitated it." Lyn bit back sarcastically.

At that moment Henry and Bianca came walking down the hallway holding hands. They were still carrying a lot of tension between them but the hostility had visibly melted. Henry was rubbing his jaw.

"How hard did she hit you?" Jason asked highly amused.

"Hard enough to rattle my damn teeth." Henry admitted.

"I can arrest her for assaulting an officer if you want." Chris offered jokingly.

"That won't be necessary." Henry said quickly.

"Dad, where is your car?" Bianca asked him.

"Hell if I know Frank Jr." Frank answered with a shrug.

"It's on the impound lot. One of us will have to take you down there so you don't have to pay to get it out." Henry informed him.

"You are something else you know that?" Bianca asked him but she reached up to kiss him. It wasn't passionate but Henry didn't care at least she was letting him touch her.

"Jackson, be useful go get his car out of impound so I can get my squad room cleared out." Rafe said coming into the room. He was just reporting for work. "Halliwell, how many times do I have to tell you to keep Frank Hoyt's ugly mug out of here?" he asked turning to his subordinates.

"Gee Sarge, I didn't have much of a choice it was either arrest him or let him prance through my crime scene." Henry answered him sarcastically.

"I'm going to let that go because I know you've been here for almost twenty-four hours. Just get my squad room cleared out and then make sure your paper work is done. I want you out of here within the next two hours." Rafe said shaking his head.

"My paperwork is done. That is one of the perks of working a double." Henry informed him.

Rafe turned to Bianca. "I don't know how a sweet girl like you puts up with a knucklehead like him." He told her.

"I know how to handle him." Bianca assured him with a smile.

"Halliwell, you're my only good one I need you to give me a briefing about what's been going on tonight. I just hope there isn't a bunch of shit, I just got done having a huge round with my sister." Rafe ordered Mel.

"She break curfew again Sarge?" Mel asked him sympathetically.

"Of course she did. I thought I was going to have to call you guys to track her down again. Those friends of hers are going to get her in a world of trouble one day." Rafe rolled his eyes. "Let me get some coffee and then I'll be ready for your briefing." He told her.

"Sure thing Sarge." Mel said smiling at him.

"Mel, you are such a kiss ass." Chris said shaking his head at his sister.

"I can't help it that he likes me better than he likes you guys." Mel said sticking her tongue out at him.

"Uncle Frank, I called the impound lot. You can go get your car now." Jason said he had just hung up his phone.

"Come on Frank, let's get your car. I don't want Gus's schedule to get messed up." Lyn told her husband. He and Dante both followed her as she started walking away.

"I'm sorry that I hit you." Bianca told Henry.

"It's ok, I know better than to push you when you're pissed off." Henry said shrugging.

"Come by when you get off. I need you to wake me up anyway since Uncle Derek is dragging us to the range in the morning." Bianca replied and then she pecked him on the lips. Things were definitely off between them but she would worry about that later.

"I love you." Henry told her. He knew that she was still mad but he could live with that as long as she was still talking to him.

"I love you too. I better go mom is pissed anyway I don't want to piss her off anymore." Bianca replied.

"Hey B, hold up a minute." Mel said when she started to walk away.

"What do you need Mel?" Bianca asked the younger girl.

"I need you to have a talk with your little brother about certain things. If I have that talk with him I might have to make it official." Mel warned her hoping that she got her meaning. She was talking about Chase's pot growing company.

"I'll talk to him. I'm going to kill him but I'll talk to the idiot thanks for the head's up Mel." Bianca replied before she walked away.


Greg was pacing back and forth in his sitting room. He had a week's worth of beard on his chin and he looked like he hadn't slept since he became the Source. He wasn't sure how his life had gotten to this point but he knew that he didn't like it. He blamed this on his Uncle Greg. He was the one that had raised him to be evil. But in the back of his mind he had always felt like it was wrong. It hadn't helped matters any that he had been undercover with the Halliwells for months.

"Ben, my boy you need to pull yourself together. Your humanity is showing through and it isn't pretty." Gorgon taunted his nephew.

Greg had to blink his eyes to make sure that he wasn't seeing things. But sure enough sitting there in what had been his favorite chair was his Uncle Greg. "Uncle Greg, how are you here you're dead? I watched them kill you." he asked confused.

"I'm not really here, this is just a piece of me. I'm using your mental powers to communicate with you from the wasteland." Gorgon informed his nephew.

"Well, you sure as fuck picked a hell of a time to show up. I've been seriously going through hell the last few months." Greg yelled at him.

"I know all about you being shot and then your sister betraying you. Honestly you should have expected that from her, we Turners might not have invented betrayal but we damn sure perfected it." Gorgon replied with a shrug.

"Uncle Greg, I don't know if I'm cut out to be the source. I'm second-guessing myself all of the time. I don't know if I'm doing anything right." Greg poured his heart out to his uncle.

"You're doing just fine my boy. I'm very proud of you." Gorgon told him with an evil smirk.

"Uncle Greg, I don't think I want this." Greg admitted.

"I know that, and there may be redemption for you. It won't be easy though. I just can't have you making the same mistakes that I did." Gorgon said shaking his head sadly.

"What do you mean?" Greg questioned him.

"I can't tell you anymore than that yet. I have to go now but I promise that I won't be far." Gorgon said before he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Greg rubbed his eyes with his knuckles and blinked to clear his vision. "I've really got to get it together. It's bad when I'm seeing my dead uncle." He muttered to himself.


A/N: Here is the next installment I hope that you guys enjoyed it. It looks like Cole's little talk with Jake didn't go as well as he had planned for it too. But then again he should have known that Jake isn't capable of acknowledging that he is his father even on a small level. You had to love the Jake and Phil scene though, Jake adores his baby brother. It looks like there may be a little spark of something between Billy and Mia. I had to throw in a Roman and Jimmy scene. I feel like we haven't gotten to see enough of Jimmy lately or Roman either for that matter. We've got a little clue as to who Dodge's parents are now he admitted to being part cupid and he doesn't seem to like his dad very much. Only Savannah and Jack would fight about something like a damn pie but it's funny as hell. I had to throw in a Huck and Penny scene too I feel like I have been neglecting them lately. Prue and Chuck had to have it out just once I mean their marriage can't be that perfect I'm sure that they'll work through it no time. Poor Piper is starting to feel the strain of having her older three kids being grown up. Honestly leave it to Frank to get himself arrested by Henry and Chris he isn't as good as he thinks he is sometimes. Here Hank and B go on their roller coaster of a relationship again. Those two really need to get their shit together everyone can see that they belong together. Now Greg is seeing his dead uncle that can't be good at all, but he did mention redemption so who knows? Until next time please review.