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Chapter 2: Reunion
Bianca was sitting on her living room couch when Chris and Rachel walked in. Her face lit up with a bright smile when she saw her oldest child.
"Come here, Munchkin, I missed you last night." Bianca held her arms open to her daughter who went rushing into them.
"Hi, mommy, I missed you too. I had to see daddy, 'cause I haven't seen him in forever." Paige explained to her mother like she should have thought of that.
"I brought her over for final inspection before we go to the manor." Chris informed his best friend with a chuckle.
"With this being you, I'm just impressed by the fact that she's not dirty for a change." Bianca joked with him. She couldn't find any fault with the way that her daughter looked. She was dressed in jeans and a t-shirt and her hair was done in pigtails.
"You only say that because you didn't see her earlier." Rachel quipped.
"There is no doubt in my mind that this girl was dirty earlier." Bianca informed her.
"Where's Hank?" Chris asked he found it odd that he hadn't seen or heard his partner yet.
"He's upstairs getting the kids dressed. He should be down any minute." Bianca replied. She watched as Paige climbed out of her arms and onto the floor to play with her uncle's dog.
"Come on, Nash, you have to go out in the back yard." Paige told the dog pulling him up by his collar. He nuzzled his head against her side. "You're a silly puppy dog." She said petting him on the head and leading him to the door that led to the back yard.
"Every time I see how good that Nash is with the kids it amazes me." Rachel commented shifting Danny to her other arm.
"Rach, you can lay him down in the floor if you want to." Bianca told her shaking her head. She saw the look on her cousin's face when she said that and she laughed. "Ok, put him in Trip's playpen. You'll get over that whole being particular thing pretty quick."
"It shows that bad?" Rachel asked her.
"Yeah, but it gets better. I don't even bat an eye when one of the kids scrapes up their knees anymore." Bianca assured her.
Paige came running back into the room at that moment. "Mommy, I put Nash outside and I locked the door." She reported. She was proud of herself for being such a big helper.
"Thank you, baby girl, you are such a big helper." Bianca praised her. She knew how hard her daughter tried to be helpful and it made her very proud.
"Mommy, I'm going to go see Vic." Paige announced as she went bouncing up the stairs.
Chris chuckled and shook his head as he watched his daughter walk away. That little girl had his heart firmly in her grasp and they both knew it. "She sure is a little pistol when she wants to be." he commented.
"Well, she always wants to be, I don't think that that child has ever been sweet and innocent. The only hope I have for having a good child is Anna and that's only because the oldest two don't let her make half the trouble that they do." Bianca replied.
"Whether you want to admit to it or not, Paige and Victor both have a lot of you in them. And that goes for both sets of twins not just the ones who are in the house right now." Rachel pointed out to her.
"Don't mention the older set of twins to me right now I have to work with them and it isn't always the most fun thing in the world." Chris snorted.
"Hey, at least you're not their boss like I am. You wouldn't believe the shit that they do that I have to explain to our boss. And trust me she is not easily amused when they have pulled one of their stunts." Henry said coming into the room. He had Trip in his arms, Anna, Victor, and Paige were all following behind him. "Look there, Trip, your buddy Danny is here," he told his youngest child.
"I swear that we should keep those two away from each other so they don't become as dangerous as their fathers are together." Rachel threw out there.
"Rach, it wouldn't help matters at all." Bianca informed her. "Is my mom that bad to work for?" she asked Chris and Henry.
"You know what she's like and that's all I'll say on that one. But, all things considered she might be tough, but she's fair as hell." Chris answered her.
"I don't mind working for her at all. As a matter of fact she is the best damn boss that I've ever had." Henry answered truthfully.
"You are such a kiss ass." Bianca laughed at her husband.
"No, I'm telling the truth. The woman isn't that bad to work for unless you do something to bring her inner bitch out." Henry replied.
"Mel and Charlie didn't get that memo. I swear to God if they wreck one more car she is going to put them on permanent desk duty." Chris said shuddering at the thought.
"And that's why I'm glad that you are their boss and I'm not the one who gets yelled at then they do something stupid." Henry laughed.
"I wouldn't laugh if I were you, your two hotshots get into more than enough trouble for ten people." Chris shot back at him.
"But they do their own paperwork when they mess up, so the boss lady doesn't get near as mad at them as she does at your two non-drivers." Henry pointed out to him.
"Hey, are we about ready to go? I really don't want to piss my mother-in-law off by being late." Rachel asked.
Chris chuckled. "You never have to worry about pissing her off again, you gave her a grandson she'll love you forever." He informed her.
"Yeah, we're ready, I just have to let the dog out." Henry answered Rachel's original question.
"I already did that, Bubba." Paige said brightly. She called him Bubba most of the time and she had since she first started talking.
"Hello, handsome grandson." Prue greeted Billy when he walked into the manor.
"Hi, grandma," Billy replied giving her a hug and a kiss. These days he was sporting a buzz cut and a soul patch.
"It's seems like it's been a long time since I've seen you. You've been so busy working that you don't have time for anything anymore. I have to tell you that Allie is mighty upset that you haven't been to see her lately." Prue started in on him.
"Mom, it's my job to nag the boy, don't take all my fun away from me." Billy joked with her mother.
"I would prefer that neither of you nagged my grandson." Andy said taking up for his oldest grandson.
"Thanks, grandpa, it's nice to know that someone around here loves me." Billy said winking at his grandfather. He caught sight of his only brother sitting on the couch with a pair of headphones on and a laptop in front of him. "What's Colt doing?" he asked. With his little brother he was sure that he probably didn't want to know.
"He's working right now. He's has been staring at that computer since we got here." JD informed his son.
"Hey, Jockstrap," Billy called out to his brother.
Colt's head shot up and he gave his brother a dirty look. "What do you want, Billy? I'm trying to work." He asked in an irritated tone.
"I just wanted to say hi to my little brother that I haven't seen in forever." Billy teased flashing him an insincere grin.
"Call me Jockstrap again and I'll kick your ass into the middle of next week, I'm big enough to do it now." Colt threatened him.
"Billy, it's not nice to pick on your little brother. I would have thought someone would have told you that by now." Jake said putting his arm around his younger cousin. For once in his life he was on time.
"Bite me, Coop." Billy shot back at him.
"I would, but I'm reasonably sure that you taste funny." Jake retorted.
"Daddy," Sammy yelled out running into Jake's arms.
"Hey, Monkey, you didn't have to come track me down. I know that I left you at the door with mommy, but I wasn't going to leave you on her mercy." Jake said scooping her up in his arms.
"I wanna be with you." Sammy told him snuggling closer to him.
Jake looked over his shoulder to see his wife walk in the room with their son in her arms. "Do you need any help?" he asked her.
"No, I've got it." Lilly assured him. "Someone is mighty attached to daddy today and I think that it's daddy's fault." She laughed when she saw how their daughter was clinging to him.
"I don't mind, it won't be long before she doesn't want anything to do with me. I'm gonna enjoy this while I can." Jake replied.
"Good luck getting her to go to her grandma later." Lilly said arching her eyebrow at him.
"It won't be a problem, Sammy and I have a little understanding about that." Jake replied winking at her.
"I shouldn't be surprised that you have an answer for everything. You are a lawyer after all." Lilly shook her head at him.
"I know that you're not already beating up on my profession." Greg said making his way into the room he was chewing on something that Piper had made. His blonde hair was done up in spikes and his crystal blue eyes were shining.
"Grego, I can't believe that you're early for a change." Jake quipped.
"I had nothing better to do with my time, so I figured that I would show up early. Aunt Piper just banned me from the kitchen because she said I'm eating up all the food." Greg said taking Sammy from him. "Hey, little girl, it feels like forever since Uncle Greg saw his little monkey." He said kissing her on the head.
"Sammy, say hi to your silly uncle." Lilly ordered her daughter.
"Hi," Sammy did as her mother ordered her and then she kissed him on the cheek.
"You still my girl?" Greg asked her playfully.
"Sammy is her daddy's girl, you'll just have to get in line." Jake shot at his brother jokingly.
"That's just not so, Cookie Dough, she told me that she was gonna come stay with me because you're mean to her." Greg teased.
"Greg, you can have your nephew if you want a kid so bad." Lilly informed him.
"He still not sleeping good?" Greg asked sympathetically.
"Hell no, the boy doesn't really like sleep right now." Lilly answered him.
"Yeah, you can keep him, I need my beauty rest." Greg said shaking his head.
"You got that right, you're ugly enough when you have all the sleep you need." Billy zinged his cousin.
"Billy, I will break my foot off in your ass if you mess with me." Greg threatened him playfully.
"I wish you would do it, Greg, he's being a pain in the ass today." Colt chimed in.
"Hey, Colt, every time I see you you're hunched over a computer working. Lizzie should really know better than to work you so hard." Lilly greeted him.
"This isn't work for Lizzie, Penny and Em put me to work making a video for the wedding and I'm putting the finishing touches on that." Colt explained.
"Don't remind me that my twin is getting married. That's just weird for me to even think about." Lilly chuckled.
"It had to happen sometimes, besides I don't think Mel will hurt him much. I can't be too sure about that though, because from what I hear there is a guy in lockup right now that has road rash on his face from messing with her." Andy laughed.
"Uncle Andy, you should know that he only looks like that because he resisted arrest and I had to take him down that hard way. Besides that I'm a little on edge right now, since I haven't gotten laid in a month." Mel said coming into the room.
"Mel, watch your mouth Colt is in the room and he shouldn't hear dirty things like that." Billy couldn't resist getting in a dig at his brother.
"Mom, can I hire B to kill him?" Colt begged his mother.
"Billy, be nice to your little brother." Billie scolded him before turning to Colt. "And no, you can't hire B to kill him."
"I tell you likes she tells me all of the time you couldn't afford her anyway." Mel added. She let out a squeal when she felt someone wrap their arms around her waist and pull her close. She whipped her head around to see her fiancé was behind her.
"There's my beautiful fiancé, I've been looking all over for you. You didn't call me when you got off of work last night." Roman said releasing her from his grip.
"Hi, Ro, I would have called last night, but I was so tired." Mel said that was as close as she was going to come to apologizing and they both knew that.
"You could have come by the apartment." Roman told her.
"We both know why I couldn't come to your apartment. One of the wedding Nazis would have found out about it and then we would have both been in deep shit." Mel reminded him. They hadn't had sex in a month partly due to the long hours she was working and partly because Penny and Emily had talked them into not having sex before they got married.
"Can I at least get a proper hello?" Roman asked her with a hint of a smirk playing on his wife.
Mel leaned in and captured his lips between hers. "I love you, Ro." she told him.
"I love you too, Mellie." Roman replied before pulling her into another kiss. When they broke apart again he turned to Lilly. "Now, let me see my nephew. It's been a few days and I think that he and Uncle Roman need to do some bonding." He announced clapping his hands.
"Well, there are two of my grandchildren." Piper announced brightly when Chris, Rachel, Bianca, and Henry came in the side door with the kids.
"Hi, Memaw," Paige said running to Piper and hugging her.
"Hi, baby girl." Piper replied bending down to kiss her head.
"Where are Jackie and Mac?" Chris asked when he didn't see his younger siblings anywhere.
"They obviously don't know you're here or they would have been in the kitchen by now. There is really no telling what those two are up to." Piper answered him.
"Jackie, Mac," Chris called out. Not two seconds later both children came running into the room. Mac jumped right into Chris's arms. "Hello, baby sister, I think that you might have missed me." he laughed kissing her on her cheek before setting her on her feet.
"I did miss you." Mac replied smiling at him.
"I missed you too, Chris." Jack said. He was a great big brother most of the time, but there were times when he got jealous of his little sister.
Chris picked his baby brother up and hugged him close to him. "And I missed you, little man." He said ruffling his hair. "Do you think that you can keep Paige out of trouble for me?" he asked. That was a pretty big job for such a little boy; Chris couldn't even keep his daughter out of trouble for long.
Jack nodded his head vigorously. "I sure can." He replied as his brother set him on his feet. "Come on, Paige, Vic, let's go in the other room and play." He said and then he paused and gestured for Henry to give him Anna.
Henry gave his daughter to his little cousin. "You guys play nice together." He ordered knowing there wasn't much chance of them staying out of trouble.
"Ok, Hank." Jack agreed before carrying Anna off into the other room to play.
"Damn, every time I see how big Jack, Alan, Phil, Joey, Allie, Gabby, Embry, Gus, and Dom are getting I feel old." Henry said more to himself than to anyone else.
"How do you think I feel? I'm gonna be thirty next month." Bianca asked her husband.
"Bianca Lyn, you're still young. If you get technical about it I'm sixty-something, but thanks to the elders and the magic that they worked, I'm thirty-four again." Piper explained to her.
"I love it how mom likes to say that she's sixty-something without ever giving us the actual number. If it wouldn't hurt my head I would do the mental math on that one." Wyatt said as he walked into the kitchen with Liz and their two kids.
"At least you admit your weaknesses, Wuvey Bear." Liz teased her husband.
Chris kneeled down in front of his niece. "Come see Uncle Chris." He said scooping her up. "I haven't seen you in so long, Blondie, your little badass cousins are all in the sunroom playing if you want to go with them."
"Chris, don't call her that you'll give her a complex." Wyatt said. He wasn't really sure what that meant, but it sounded good to him.
"Nixie, I don't know what I'm going to do with your daddy. He likes to use big words that he doesn't know the meaning of." Chris told his niece jokingly. He smiled when the little girl laughed at him.
"Chris, I don't talk about you to your daughter like that." Wyatt pouted.
"Sorry, it couldn't be helped." Chris replied with a smirk.
"Don't you two even think about fighting right now," Piper said staring her oldest two sons down.
"Why do you two always have her yelling at you?" Bianca asked looking between the two brothers.
"Because, my sons have both yet to really grow up. I thought it would get better once they both had kids, but I can see now that that was just wishful thinking on my part." Piper answered her question.
"Aunt Piper, you know that Wyatt is a big kid stuck in a grown man's body." Liz pointed out to her mother-in-law. She then handed her son to Piper when she gestured that she wanted to hold him.
"Chris isn't much better, the only reason that I haven't had the urge to strangle him yet, is that he is hardly ever home anymore." Rachel said rolling her eyes. She understood that her husband had to go to work, but she missed him when he got wrapped up in a big case. She placed Danny in Piper's other arm when it became apparent that she wanted to hold him too.
"I only like giving Wyatt a hard time, because he is so damn easy to make fun of." Chris retorted.
"Just because it's fun doesn't mean it's a good idea. You of all people should know that some of the most fun things we like to do get us in trouble. Take for instance the time that we decided to use the radar gun to see how fast we could throw. I honestly thought that the boss was going to go through the roof on that one." Henry reminded him.
"Henry Victor, you would never dream of doing anything to piss your boss off." Paige said coming into the room with Big Henry and Alan.
"Aunt Paige, with his boss the very act of him breathing will piss her off." Bianca said shaking her head.
"Hey, you have daughters now too, one day they are going to talk about you the way you talk about your mother." Big Henry pointed out to her.
"I still have awhile before I have to worry about that. Right now both of my daughters think that I do no wrong." Bianca replied with a shrug.
"They sure get along better than you and your little sister do." Hank commented and then to change the subject he held his arms open to his little brother. "Hey, Goose, I haven't seen you in so long. You've damn near turned into a man on me now. I guess that you'll be shaving and driving before long." He joked with his baby brother.
"I missed you so much, Hank." Alan said hugging his brother around the waist.
"Bianca Lyn, let me see my grandson." Henry said taking Trip from her. "Hey, little buddy. You're getting to be a big boy on Papa and I see you just about everyday. You're gonna be as big as your daddy before I know it." He cooed at him.
"Hey, handsome, I feel like I don't get to see you anymore." Paige told her son kissing him on the cheek.
"I know that I've been working a lot lately, but we just wrapped our last big case up last night. We're due for a little down time." Hank replied. He looked down at his little brother again. "Goose, all the other kids are in the sunroom if you want to go play." He told him and he chuckled as he watched him run off.
"That is a recipe for disaster." Chris commented shaking his head.
"They'll be fine, they always are." Leo assured his son as he came into the kitchen. He took Shane from his wife and cuddled him against his chest.
Any reply that Chris might have had died on his lips when Hank yelled out. "Heavy on deck."
"If I've told you guys once I've told you a thousand times not to do that every time I walk into a room." Lyn said rolling her eyes at her son-in-law.
"No, you've told Paige and Vic not to do that a thousand times, they are the ones who do it." Chris corrected her.
"For some reason it doesn't surprise me that those two would do something like that." Frank chuckled. Gus had seen all the kids in the sunroom so that is where he had headed.
"Of course it doesn't Paige and Vic are both touched in the head just like their fathers." Oriana commented. She had her long brown hair pulled up into a ponytail and she was heavily pregnant.
"Hey, sis, how's the morning sickness treating you?" Bianca asked her with a smirk.
Oriana sighed deeply. "Don't ask that question. I look forward to being able to eat again without wanting to puke." She replied.
"Honey, you're not telling me anything that I don't already know. I had horrible morning sickness with Danny." Rachel sympathized with her.
"With Trip the morning sickness wasn't so bad, it wasn't even that bad with the twins, but I had horrible morning sickness with Anna." Bianca told her sister.
"And yet she causes you the least amount of trouble." Oriana had to laugh.
"The twins aren't as bad as you try to make them out to be." Bianca said in a joking tone. She knew how bad her oldest two could be and she wasn't going to deny it.
Oriana gave her a look that said she was crazy. "B, I've watched those two little brats I know how bad they can be. The funny thing is that Victor is worse than Paige when clearly the opposite is true about their older counterparts."
"Oriana, for some reason it doesn't surprise me that you're talking about me. And normally I would be offended, but right now I just can't bring myself to care." Paige said walking into the kitchen.
Bianca went to her daughter and put her arms around her. "Hi, baby, you know that you can't listen to her right now her hormones are all over the place."
"Mom, I don't pay attention to her most of the time. I'm really too tired to care right now and my body wouldn't let me sleep for as long as I wanted to." Paige replied hugging her back.
"The problem is that we were both too damn tired to sleep for long. You know as well as I do the more tired you are the harder it is to sleep." Victor reminded her. He went to Bianca and pulled her into a hug.
"Hey, sweetie, you are getting to be just as handsome as your daddy is." Bianca said kissing him on his cheek.
"Don't tell that boy such lies, he knows that he is never going to be as good looking as I am." Hank joked.
"Honey, he looks just like you." Bianca said with an arched eyebrow and then she realized that he was trying to be funny again. "Hank, seriously, I don't know what to do with you sometimes." She gave him a rueful grin.
"If you knew how to handle me you would lose interest." Hank teased winking at her.
Lyn looked between Hank and Chris. "I know that you two probably don't want anything to do with me for awhile, but I need just two minutes of your time." She told them.
"Whatever it is that you think that I did, I can assure you that I'm innocent this time." Paige threw out there. More often than not when Lyn wanted to talk to Hank and Chris about work it had to do with something that she and Victor had done.
"You and your partner are anything but innocent, but I already yelled at you two about what you did wrong before you left last night. This is nothing bad, actually I'll just tell you all that you have the next two weeks off." Lyn informed her.
"Thank God, I mean it when I say that I'm not leaving my couch the whole time." Victor said letting out a sigh of relief.
"I'm pretty sure you'll have to fight Dom for the couch, because I'm pretty sure that he's been sleeping there lately." Paige told her brother while shaking her head.
"Where is your husband anyway?" Bianca asked her daughter with an arched eyebrow. With that girl she never knew if she was going to decide if she would be better off not being married.
"Him and Brady are standing out front doing God alone knows what. The less I know about what those two do when they're alone together the better off my sanity is." Paige replied.
"I say the same thing about you and your brother. Like I'm not even going to ask why your grandma yelled at you two. If I don't know then I won't feel like I have to kill you." Bianca said giving her a playful shrug.
"Don't worry about it, B. For them it was really mild and no harm was done." Lyn assured her daughter.
"When she says don't worry, that's just what you should be doing." Frank advised his daughter.
"That's like when she says you're going to like this assignment you know that the opposite is true." Victor agreed with his grandpa.
"Victor, if you're unhappy with what you're doing right now, I can put you on crossing guard duty." Lyn offered and Victor sighed.
Paige laughed at her twin. "You get no sympathy at all from me. At least you have a sweet grandmother, I have that and Piper Halliwell to contend with. You should feel sorry for me."
"Paige, it is very dangerous for me to side with you about anything. I don't want mom, grandma, or Aunt Piper pissed at me and since those are the three people you piss off the most, I try not to pay attention when you talk." Victor told his sister reasonably.
"Vic, don't be such a puss." Paige said with an exaggerated eye roll.
"Dominic, I could use some help with your baby brother if you don't mind." Nicole said as she walked up the front steps of the manor.
"Mom, were you talking to me or half pint?" Dom asked just to be sure she was talking to him.
"Why would I ask your little brother?" Nicole retorted.
Dom walked over to her and took Deacon out of her arms. "Hey, little buddy, where's your daddy?" he asked him.
"Timmy is on a business trip that wasn't supposed to take him very long, but he called a little while ago and said that he was running late and I should just come without him and he would meet me here." Nicole explained to him.
"Was his business trip to Vegas?" Dom asked her sounding highly amused. He really liked his stepfather, but he also liked giving him a hard time.
"If he knows what's good for him it better not have been." Nicole said with a dangerous glint in her eyes.
"I'm sure that he just got hung up. He's not going to stay away from you longer than he has to." Dom assured her.
"I'm not worried about him staying gone, I'm more worried about him getting his legs broken if he loses his ass gambling." Nicole replied with a soft chuckle.
"I thought you gave him his last rites about that." Dom stated, but it was a question.
"I did, but old habits die hard." Nicole retorted with a shrug.
Brady bent down and scooped Savannah up in his arms while Nicole and Dom were talking. "How are you today, Princess?" he asked kissing her cheek.
"I'm good, Uncle Brady." Savannah answered him giggling.
"That's good, baby girl, now if only that hellion older brother of yours could be as good as you are." Brady teased Little Dom ruffling his hair.
"I'm good too, Uncle Brady." Dom protested, but the glint in his eyes said that he could get into trouble if the occasion called for it.
"Where the hell is that daughter of mine at? Honestly, I'm starting to get worried, she should have been here by now." Phoebe said consulting her watch.
"Pheebs, darling older sister of mine, it is an accepted fact of life that Carly and Val are going to be late for their own funerals. I can assure you that they are both fine and we have nothing to worry about when it comes to them getting here in one piece. You will note that I didn't say we have nothing at all to worry about with those two, they give us plenty of reasons to worry, we just don't have to worry about them getting in trouble on an airplane." Paige launched into a long drawn out reply that was not at all necessary to get her point across.
"Paige, I think that you might be rambling more in your old age than you ever did before." Prue quipped. She loved teasing her baby sister; it was really a sport for her.
"Don't you two start fighting." Piper warned them.
"Relax, mom, I don't listen to half of what Prue has to say." Paige retorted with a smirk.
"The only group of siblings I know who fight more than you guys are the Hoyt brothers." Lyn commented laughing.
Nicole shook her head and hid a smile behind her hand. "I think that you girls should be insulted, she just compared you to Frank and Mickey. We all know how bad those two are."
"Lyn, we are nowhere near as bad as your husband and brother-in-law are." Paige corrected her.
"I don't know, you guys fight about the same pointless shit that Mickey and Frank fight about." Angie put her two cents in on the matter.
"Ange, you're really not helping right now." Eva advised her.
"It's not Angie's job to help, she only makes matters worse. Trust me on this one, I've only known the girl her whole damn life." Lyn supplied helpfully.
"Aunt Lyn, I don't know if anyone ever told you this, but it's not nice to pick on your little sister." Mel said with an amused look on her face as she entered the kitchen.
"Melinda, it would not be wise for you to mess with me, I am your boss after all." Lyn reminded her.
"That's ok whenever you decide that you want to transfer me Uncle Andy told me that he would be happy to take me back." Mel replied smugly.
"Mel, why aren't you with the other kids?" Piper asked her daughter.
"Because I have no desire to hear them have one of their pointless discussions right now. As it stands Wyatt and Chuck are discussing whether or not a pirate can beat a ninja in a fight." Mel informed her mother.
"Yeah, there is really no hope for those two. I'm not really sure how their wives stand them sometimes." Leo felt the need to put his input in on the matter.
Chris came walking into the room at that moment with his son in his arms. "Let daddy tell you a little story, Henry Dan, the only thing that keeps me from doing away with your mother sometimes is the fact that your Aunt B won't do it." He told him seriously.
"Christopher, has my daughter done something specific to piss you off?" Mickey asked him he knew that Chris would never hurt Rachel.
Chris pointed at Danny. "Every time this kid starts behaving in a less than angelic manner he becomes my son. Now if I remember my anatomy correctly it took the two of us to make him, but when he's fussing, needs to be changed, or is hungry and I'm not doing anything he solely my child." He answered his father-in-law.
"Chris, you should realize that he gets all those undesirable traits from you." Angie teased him.
"It's not just my wife who does that to me. If my best friend is to be believed our daughter got all of her bad qualities from me." Chris replied.
"My daughter would never say anything like that." Lyn said sarcastically.
"Chris, just out of curiosity, why won't Frank Jr. kill her cousin?" Frank asked. In his mind it was a perfectly valid question.
"Because, she has this rule that keeps her from performing hits on someone's spouse. She says that it's a sure fire way to get caught." Chris chuckled at Bianca's reasoning.
"I honestly worry about that girl sometimes." Lyn said shaking her head.
"I don't worry about her because I know that she enjoys every damn second of her insanity." Chris replied. He was now rooting around the refrigerator for his son's bottle. "Here we go, Danny, and mommy says that you and I can't do anything." He cooed at his son.
"Chris, let me feed my grandson." Angie ordered him.
Chris smiled as he placed his son in his mother-in-law's arms. "He shouldn't give you any problems, he is a healthy little eater. You don't have to worry about burping him until he has finished his whole bottle." He explained to her.
"I know, Chris, I have done this before believe it or not." Angie joked with him.
Chris grinned when she said that. "I'm still not as bad as your daughter is about him. I guess it's because I've done this before and I know that I don't have to handle him with kid gloves, but she gets worried every time that kid makes a sound."
"She'll get over it, I did the same thing when she was a baby." Angie assured him.
Before Chris got a chance to reply Tim came walking into the room trailed by his two sons and the Halliwell cousins from New York.
"Nicky, look what I found at the airport. I hope that these belong to somebody, because I sure as hell don't want them." Tim said by way of greeting.
"I guess the big hairy one belongs to us, but the one with the hippie haircut has a wife." Nicole replied playing along with her husband.
"Oriana Rose, get your ass in the kitchen, I've got something that belongs to you in here." Lyn yelled out to her daughter.
Oriana came waddling into the kitchen a moment later, there really was no other way to describe the way that she was moving around these days. She was going to glare at her mother, but her face broke out into a wide smile when she saw her husband. "Chord," she yelled out throwing her arms around his neck.
Chord pecked her on the lips before kneeling down to kiss her belly. "Hi, little one, daddy missed you and mommy so much." He stood up and gave his wife a proper kiss hello.
"It's nice to know where I rank nowadays." Oriana teased before kissing him again. "Chord, have you been drinking?" she asked.
"I might have had a drink or six on the plane." Chord replied he had a goofy drunken smile on his face.
"Damn it, Chord, you're drunk. I swear I can't trust you to behave when you're with your brother." Oriana said slapping him in the center of his chest.
"Come on, doll face, don't get all worked up. You know that the stress isn't good for the baby." Chord tried to placate her.
"Chord, I'm not talking to you for the next few hours, because I don't trust myself not to kill you." Oriana huffed walking away from him.
"O, we can talk about this, please be reasonable." Chord said following after her.
"That right there is why I'm never getting married." Val said giving Troy a meaningful look.
"Valerie Halliwell, you have been in this room for at least five minutes and you haven't said a word to me." Phoebe mock pouted as she threw her arms around her daughter.
"Hi, mom, I missed you." Val said hugging her back.
Coop went over and wrapped his arms around his daughter and wife. "Hey, Bumblebee, it has been entirely too long since the last time I saw you. You don't get to stay gone so long anymore." He joked pressing a kiss to her temple.
"Daddy, I just had lunch with you last week when you were in town for business. I think that you'll be ok." Val replied in a teasing tone.
"He still gets to see you more than I do." Phoebe said hugging her closer to her chest.
"Only because he had cupid business to attend to and I just so happened to have a free minute." Val informed her.
"Besides that it was a spur of the moment thing she didn't know that I was coming until I showed up on her doorstep." Coop assured his wife.
Henry walked over to his oldest daughter and pulled her into a hug that lifted her off of the floor. "There's my little girl. I've been so excited waiting for you to come home." He spun her around a couple of times before sitting her feet back on the floor.
"I've missed you too, daddy." Carly chuckled at his childlike antics.
"Hey, baby girl, you gotta little love for your momma?" Paige asked pulling her into a hug.
"Hi, mom, I know that I haven't come home as much as I should, but I've been really busy lately. We just got the new line off of the ground and then we had to finish our last Broadway show." Carly explained to her.
"Baby, that's alright, I only ask that you drop by every now and then and let me know that you're ok. I am so proud of you." Paige kissed her on the cheek.
"Thanks, mom, I wouldn't be where I am right now without you." Carly replied with a smile.
"You all act like you're happy to see them. I only wish that I could have gotten a break from them for the last couple of months. They have been driving me crazy." Mel said rolling her eyes. If she were to be honest with herself she really missed those two sometimes, but she was still glad that she didn't have to keep them out of trouble anymore.
"Hey, I will have you know that you should be nicer to us. We saved you from having to shop for a wedding dress by making it for you." Val reminded her.
"Right, I know that you two were just totally put out by designing the attire for my wedding." Mel replied sarcastically.
"It was actually a lot of fun, it would have been even better if we didn't have to chase Ricky down to get his damn measurements." Carly said. She didn't like to think about the fact that her sister and Ricky had broken up. She had more than she could say grace over dealing with her messed up love life.
"Carly, Jason is going to be hanging out with us later tonight. I hope that it's not going to be weird for you." Mel said while she was thinking about it.
"Honey, I assure you that I can handle Jason. We've been broken up long enough now that it doesn't even seem real that we were ever together." Carly promised her. No one but Coop caught the hint of pain behind her words.
"Well, I'm more concerned with you and his girlfriend getting along." Mel replied.
"Mel, I'm not going to make a play for him or anything like that. I'm pretty sure that we had our chance and it just wasn't meant to be." Carly said with a shrug.
"Carly, I mean it, his girlfriend is a cop and she is not the kind of woman that you want to mess with." Mel warned her.
"Mel, it's nothing that I can't handle. Jason and I had a long talk before he started dating again. Like I said I pretty much missed my chance with him and I'm ok with that." Carly replied just wanting her cousin to drop it.
"If it makes you feel any better Paige can't stand her." Mel offered.
"There aren't a whole lot of people that Paige does actually like. That isn't much consolation." Carly chuckled.
"If it helps any I don't like her either and that's because I happen to think that she is a shitty cop who thinks she's better at the job than what she is." Lyn chimed in.
"Damn, Aunt Lyn, tell me how you really feel." Carly made a joke out of the whole thing she didn't really feel like talking about Jason anymore. It was going to be bad enough when she actually did see him.
"Damn it all to hell, Victor Parker Alan, you scared the shit out of me." Victor said clutching his hand to his chest. He had just walked into the living room of his house and was surprised to see his son there.
Parker gave his father a little laugh. "Sorry, dad, I didn't mean to scare you, I just needed to grab a quick shower and change clothes." He explained.
"I take it that that is the reason you aren't at the manor yet." Victor said hedging the subject carefully. He knew that his son wasn't in very good shape these days and he didn't want to do anything that would send him over the edge.
Parker bit his lip and gave his father an apprehensive look. "Actually, I was thinking about not going today. I'm just not in much of a mood to party." He replied.
"Son, you need to go. It's not healthy for you to stay in the house all of the time. You need to get out and be around people again. I know that what you are going through right now hurts, but it will get better." Victor reasoned with him.
"I don't see how it can get any better, dad. I feel like my heart has been ripped out of my chest. I'm just tired in my mind, body, and soul right now. It hurts the most when I first get up in the morning and for just that split second I think that everything is ok and then reality sets in." Parker tried to explain what he was feeling the best way that he knew how.
"That's just how you feel right now, but I promise you one day it's not going to hurt as much. You'll never forget, but in time you will get numb." Victor felt powerless to help his son get through what he was going through at the moment. What made it was worse was he wasn't sure that Parker wanted to be helped.
"Dad, I don't see how I'm ever going to feel any better than I do right now. I'm never going to be ok with what happened and that is something that I have to learn to live with." Parker said his ire rising.
"I know that you're in pain right now, but your sisters would really like to see you. I also happen to know that it would mean the world to all of your younger nieces if you could show up. Carly and Val aren't in town that often and I know that they miss you." Victor tried playing to his family loyalty.
"Fine, you win, I'll go, but I'm not making any promises about how long I'm going to stay." Parker said giving in. He knew that his father wouldn't give up until he did what he wanted him to do.
"Parker, if you could stay sober for the next couple of days that would be a really big help." Victor figured that since he had gotten this far he might as well attempt to get in a little further.
"Dad, don't push your luck. I'll do what I can, but I'm not making any promises." Parker replied rolling his eyes with a sigh.
Sam orbed into the room at that moment. "Hey, fellas, I see that I'm not as late as I thought I was." He smiled cheerfully at both of them.
"Hey, Uncle Sam," Parker said waving at him.
"Sammy Boy, you whitelighters are never on time for anything. That is why we don't ever give you a timetable. That way we get a nice surprise when you actually show up." Victor chuckled clapping him on the back.
Sam smiled and shook his head. "I don't know why I put up with you sometimes."
"Because, Brennan and Johnny can't listen to your whitelighter bullshit the way that I can." Victor supplied an answer to his unspoken question.
"Dad, I thought that you would have figured out by now that whitelighters are full of shit." Parker quipped. These days there was no mirth behind his sarcasm so it came across more scathingly than it normally did.
"You would know all about whitelighters, you were raised by two of them." Sam replied. He wasn't quite sure what to say to Parker anymore. So, he settled on the bare minimum. For right now it was just best to let him work through things at his own pace.
"Alan Andrew, if you don't hurry up we're going to be late, and I'm not the one who is going to face the wrath of Aunt Piper for this." Savannah yelled to her husband. Any other time she was the one rushing to get out of the door and the one time that it counted he was the one running late.
"There will be no need for either of us to face the wrath of Aunt Piper, I'm ready." Alan said coming into the living room. It was obvious that he had just gotten out of the shower.
"Albie, I don't want to know what the hell took you so long to get ready. I know that I'm running behind because I had to cover my shift at the hospital, but you were off today and you had absolutely nothing else to do." Savannah turned to glare at him with her hands on her hips.
Alan gave her a sheepish grin that made his blue eyes light up. "Alright, you caught me. I was sleeping on the couch most of the day, I didn't wake up until you called to tell me that you were on your way home." He admitted. He found that he could stop a lot of their arguments if he just told her the truth to begin with.
Savannah frowned upon hearing this. "That of course means that you didn't do a fucking around here that I asked you to do today."
"I'm sorry, baby, I didn't mean to fall asleep. If you let me I promise you that I'll make it up to you later." Alan said seductively as he kissed her neck.
Savannah fought the smile that she could feel forming. "I just want you to know that you can't bribe me with sex every time that you screw up." She informed him.
"I'm not trying to bribe you, I'm just trying to be a good husband." Alan replied smoothly.
"You just make sure that you don't get too drunk to fuck tonight and I'll take it into consideration." Savannah replied. She was proud of herself for not melting into him.
"You got yourself a deal, wife of mine." Alan agreed knowing that he had just dodged a bullet.
"We better get to the manor, your sister should be here by now and I know that you have really missed her." Savannah changed the subject before the got sidetracked and showed up even later than they already were going to.
"Shit, you're right. I just have to get Little Al's toy truck, he left here the last time that I watched him." Alan replied.
"I love you, even if you are a dumb ass sometimes." Savannah told him.
"I love you too, babe." Alan said giving her a sexy smirk.
Savannah had a brief moment of indecision before she decided to throw all caution to the wind. "Screw it, we can be a lot late." She said jumping into his arms and wrapping her arms around his neck.
"I wish someone would tell me again why we have to be the ones to do this." Henry groaned as he stood behind the pedestal that housed the Book Of Shadows.
"Because, Aunt Piper made up a bullshit rule that says if you're the one who needs Grams' services you have to be the one to summon her." Prue informed her cousin in case he had forgotten.
"Mom made that rule up on the spot five minutes ago. She just didn't feel like summoning Grams herself." Chris said rolling his eyes.
"Are we going to do this or not?" Rachel asked her husband.
"Rach, give them a second. You know as well as I do that the power of three can't do anything without holding a discussion about it first." Bianca teased.
"You're being diplomatic when you call it a discussion, what they do is argue and there is no trying to sugar coat it." Chuck threw in his opinion on the matter.
"Chris, you do it you're the oldest." Henry still hadn't gotten over his dislike of Grams.
"I will have you know that I'm not the oldest person in this room right now. That honor goes to my very best friend in the whole entire world." Chris said giving Bianca a pointed look.
Bianca sighed and shook her head. "If it will get you idiots to shut up I will be glad to summon her. One of you just get the candles in a circle for me."
Henry used his powers to place the candles in a circle and then he lit them. "Ok, baby, we're ready." He announced.
"Hear my words, hear my cry, spirit from the other side, come to me, I summon thee, cross now the great divide." Bianca chanted.
A moment later swirling golden lights coalesced into two transparent forms standing in the middle of the circle of candles.
Patty Halliwell stepped out of the circle first in the process becoming corporeal. "Hello, my darlings." She said holding her arms open to her three grandchildren. The three adults went to their grandmother and hugged her.
"I see that I come in second to my own daughter with you people." Grams griped.
"Grams, you just got here. I suppose it would be too much to hope that you could not start for a least ten minutes." Henry grinned at her.
"You still give me way too much lip, young man." Grams said glaring at him before turning her gaze to Bianca. "I don't see why you can't do something about him." she told her.
Bianca gave her a shrug. "Grams, I pick my battles with him. There are times when it's just not worth it to fight him." she replied.
"I really don't see how you stand to be married to him." Grams retorted.
"Mother, that is enough." Patty said putting her foot down with the older woman.
"What are we doing here?" Penny asked as if she didn't already know the answer to that question.
"Mom thought that it would be a good idea to get you guys down here for a wiccaning while we have everyone together. As if we didn't already have enough going on this week." Chris answered her question.
"That's right you three decided to reproduce again." Grams commented rolling her eyes.
"Grams, I promise that things aren't as bad as you're trying to make them sound." Prue assured her great grandmother.
" I still say that men can't be trusted with magic." Grams complained.
"Grams, you have quite a few years before you have to worry about those boys using magic." Chris chuckled at her.
"Really, I should worry more about your daughter." Grams agreed with him.
"There you people go again with that your daughter bullshit. I will have you know that I wasn't the only party involved in her conception." Chris said sounding indignant.
Bianca couldn't resist the urge to give him a hard time. "I hope that you don't think that she acts that way because of me."
"I think that you have a hell of a lot to do with it." Chris retorted.
"That is just not true, all you have to do is ask her and she will tell you that she is just like her daddy." Bianca just couldn't let him get the last word in.
"Ok, where are my new grandsons?" Patty asked changing the subject.
"They are downstairs, come on and I will take you to them." Chuck said throwing his arm around her shoulder. He knew that if he got on her good side then she wouldn't let Grams give him any trouble.
"Aunt Piper, how long before we can eat?" Greg asked his aunt with a whining tone in his voice.
"It shouldn't be much longer. We're just waiting on your sister and cousins to summon your Grams." Piper replied.
"I still don't understand why we can't just summon grandma without summoning Grams." Greg went on.
"Because, your Grams would take it as a personal insult if we didn't summon her." Coop informed his son with a laugh.
"God forbid we do anything to offend Grams." Greg replied rolling his eyes.
"I heard that, young man." Penny Halliwell said making her way into the kitchen.
"Hey, Grams, long time no see." Greg said giving her an innocent grin.
"You just be sure to watch yourself." Grams warned him.
"Don't take it personally, Louie, she has been like that since she got here." Hank offered his younger cousin.
"Henry, I've already warned you once, don't make me have to tell you again." Grams looked at him with an arched eyebrow.
"Babe, what is your going rate for ghosts?" Hank asked his wife out of curiosity.
"If you have to ask then you can't afford me." Bianca joked with him.
"I can't believe that you would charge me." Hank said pretending to be offended.
"You don't get to be as good as she is by killing people for free." A dark headed young man said stepping in the side door.
Lyn groaned when she saw him. "Giovanni, what are you doing here?" she asked with a resigned sigh.
"Lenny, I really wish that you wouldn't call me Giovanni, I prefer to be called Tommy and you know that." Tommy reminded her.
"I'm your older sister, it's my job to make your life hell." Lyn replied glaring at her baby brother.
"Tommy, what are you doing in town, sweetie?" Piper asked him sweetly.
"I heard that Roman was finally getting married and I decided that that was something that I had to see." Tommy replied.
"You know that you're more than welcome here." Piper said smiling brightly at him.
"Don't tell him that, Piper, we'll never get rid of him again." Angie joked.
"Don't be like that, Ange. At this rate you and Lenny are making me long to see Donnie and we all know that she used to torture me." Tommy laughed. He flashed a grin that showed his deep dimples.
"Tommy, don't think that flashing those dimples will stop me from killing you for calling me Lenny. You know that I hate it when you call me that." Lyn glared at the younger man.
"And I don't like to be called Giovanni, but that doesn't stop you from calling me that." Tommy retorted with a smug smirk.
Frank felt the need to step in and save his younger brother-in-law from his wife. "Tommy, don't try your sister's patience." He warned him.
"Giovanni Thomas, I will kick your ass into the middle of next week if you don't stop with me." Lyn told him seriously.
"B, save me from my sister by telling me where I can find my nieces and nephews." Tommy begged his niece.
"They're in the sunroom, Tommy. Just try to behave yourself." Bianca answered him with a laugh.
Tommy grinned at her in response. "You know me, B, I will try to behave, but things don't always work out the way that I want them to."
"Tommy, just go play nicely with my oldest daughter. I assure you that you two will get along great, you're the same age mentally." Chris joked with him.
Tommy put his hand over his chest like that comment had hurt him. "That one hurt, Chris, here I thought we were buddies."
"Tommy, you have always been the price of being friends with B. You're kinda like another little brother to her." Chris replied clapping him on the back.
"Seriously, Aunt Piper, can we eat now?" Greg asked again hoping to get an answer this time.
"We can eat now." Piper relented. "You just have to go round up the usual suspects and let them know that dinner is ready."
"You've got it, Auntie P." Greg replied flashing her a smile.
A/N: Here is the next chapter, I hope you guys enjoyed it. I know that it is kinda slow right now, but I promise it will pick up soon. Right now we're just getting to see where everyone is at in their life. Lyn's little brother is in town and I don't think that that is a good thing, who knows what kind of trouble he has brought with him. Parker is in a really dark place right now, I promise that there is a good reason for that and it will be addressed in the next chapter. We'll also get a better explanation of what it is the Liz and Huck do for a living soon. Until next time please review.