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Chapter 2: Homecoming
"O, are you mad at me or something?" Chord asked he was lying on his side of his arm wrapped around his girlfriend.
"No, everything is fine." Oriana replied her voice obviously strained.
"You don't sound like everything is fine." Chord called her on her bullshit.
"That's because everything isn't fine. You're leaving at the end of the summer and you didn't even talk to me about it before hand." Oriana told him.
"O, I didn't think I just reacted. This is a good opportunity for me and I needed to jump on it." Chord explained to her.
"That's the problem you just said yes without consulting your girlfriend first." Oriana griped.
"I'm sorry, in hindsight I should have talk to you about it before I took the job." Chord apologized.
"You promised me that you wouldn't hurt me." Oriana reminded him.
"I also told you that I couldn't promise you forever." Chord pointed out to her.
"So, that's it, you want to break up?" Oriana asked him.
"I don't want to break up, I'm just reminding you that I told the only thing I could promise you is that I would be here until we vanquished the Triad. We did that last month." Chord told her logically.
"How can we have a relationship if you're halfway around the world?" Oriana asked her reasonably.
"O, I'm coming back, I don't plan on staying gone forever. My home is here; the reason I stayed gone before is because I didn't think I had anything to come back to. I couldn't hurt my mom by not coming back. This is my dad's version of a peace offering and I can't just turn up my nose at that. You had a dad growing up, O, I didn't. If it is possible for me to have a relationship with him then I want to give it a try." Chord reasoned with her.
"Chord, I want you to have a relationship with your father. I understand if you have to go, but I don't have to like it." Oriana replied.
"So, you'll come with me. You haven't had a chance to see the world yet. It'll be fun for the both of us. And then when the job is done we'll come home." Chord suggested with a big grin on his face.
"I don't think it would be very much fun for you if I came along." Oriana protested.
"It wouldn't be fun for me without you. I would be worried that you were mad at me and all kinds of other things. Either you come with me or I don't go at all." Chord said firmly.
"That is blackmail. You know that I'll go with you when you put it like that, because I don't want to make you unhappy." Oriana pouted.
"So, you'll come with me?" Chord asked brightly.
"Yes, Chord, I'll go with you." Oriana answered him.
"Good, I would have hated to have to kidnap you." Chord teased placing a tender kiss on her bare shoulder.
"Chris, I'm surprised to see you here this morning." Piper smiled at her son when he walked into the kitchen with Rachel.
"You know me, I follow my nose to the scent of food this time of morning. I really wasn't looking forward to cooking. So I figured you wouldn't mind if I dropped in." Chris replied cheerfully. Really he had everything in the world to be happy about. He was more excited about his overseas assignment than he was letting on and he had gotten Rachel to agree to marry him. Life couldn't get any better at the moment.
"I never mind you coming over here to eat." Piper assured him and then she turned to Bianca who was sitting at the table discussing something with Leo. "And you better eat your eggs. I promised your mom that I would get you to eat if you came over here."
"I can't, Aunt Piper, it hurts too bad." Bianca replied both of her jaws were swollen from having her wisdom teeth pulled.
"And you think that you're going to go to work like that." Rachel chuckled. She was over at the coffee pot. "Perry?" she asked her fiancé with an arched eyebrow wanting to know if he wanted some coffee.
"Please," Chris replied with a smile.
"She's not going to work there is no way that she will be able to handle the damn pain. She is only here right now to give Uncle Leo her final." Henry spoke up.
"Here you go, baby." Rachel handed Chris a cup of coffee.
"Thanks, doll face." Chris smirked at her.
"Chris, I would smack you on principal if you said something like that to me." Mel told him. She was feeding Jack his breakfast.
"Mel, you're violent and it amazes me that Roman has stayed with you this long." Henry teased his cousin.
"You have no room to talk about Roman with what you're married to." Mel informed him.
"Hey, I'm sitting right here." Bianca protested.
"You know that I love you, B." Mel replied rolling her eyes.
"Mel, you have to like me, you and I are a lot alike." Bianca pointed out to her.
"So, who wants to hear some good news?" Chris asked with a goofy grin on his face.
"I could always do with good news." Mel quipped dryly.
"Rach," Chris said gesturing for her to do the honors.
"Chris and I are getting married." Rachel said flashing her engagement ring.
"Chris, I'm so happy for you guys." Piper said with tears welling up in her eyes.
"Congratulations," Leo beamed at them.
"I hate you both right now, this means I'm going to have to get dressed up." Mel teased them.
"I know, but you'll get over it." Rachel said pinching her cheek.
Henry held up his hand and pointed to his wedding ring. "Dude, just say no. You don't want one of these." he advised him.
"I'm with Mel on this one." Bianca said nodding her head.
"You'll get over it too." Rachel assured her. "And, Perry, you're wearing a wedding ring." She told Chris.
"Hank, I think that I do want one." Chris chuckled.
"I've told him I don't know how many times that he can take his off if it gets in his way." Bianca said rolling her eyes. She knew that her husband just carried on because he liked aggravating her.
"He never wears his damn ring when he's working." Mel supplied.
"Only because I don't want the damn people we arrest to know that I'm married. We piss off a lot of people in our line of work and I don't want them going after her to get to me." Henry informed her.
"Like she couldn't handle them." Chris laughed.
"Hell, I don't do it for her safety I do it for theirs. She would fucking kill someone." Henry corrected him.
"Mel, you want to go to magic school and give this final for B?" Leo asked his daughter.
"Do I have a choice?" Mel asked in reply.
"It's either you or Paige and we all know how much chance we stand of getting Paige to do something like that." Bianca replied.
"Fine, I'll do it, but you people are pushing your luck with me lately." Mel sighed shaking her head.
"Don't worry, you'll do fine." Bianca assured her.
"B, you teach four classes." Mel said like the thought had just occurred to her.
"I actually teach five, but two of them are in the same class period. Basic powers, basic spells, advanced spells, basic self defense, and advanced self defense." Bianca listed for her.
"You owe me so big for this that it isn't funny." Mel warned her.
"I'll pay up, you know I always do." Bianca promised her.
"I would like to know who I have to kill to get out of going to that damn fashion show tonight." Henry grumbled he had been dreading that for weeks.
"Your sister and her partner in crime. I don't know how the hell they managed this one and I'm not sure that I want to know." Mel replied throwing her hands up in the air.
"Didn't they rope you into being one of their models?" Chris asked his sister with a smirk.
"Yes, the things I do because I love those two bitches are unbelievable." Mel bitched.
"Hey, don't feel bad, Janice batted her eye lashes at me and got me to agree to it before I even knew what I was saying yes to." Henry offered some consolation.
"They talked me into it too. I don't know how." Chris admitted.
"Baby, that's because those girls know that you would do anything for them." Rachel told him gently.
"I would do anything for them within reason. I don't think that this is reasonable." Chris protested.
"Perry, you have to learn to say no." Rachel joked with him.
"I know how to say no, Claire." Chris replied.
"Christopher, you know that I don't like to be called Claire." Rachel reminded him not that she should have had to he knew she didn't like it. "Why? That's what I want to know. Why did mom and dad think that Claire and Rachel sounded good together?" she asked rhetorically.
"You get no sympathy from me, my name is Bianca Lyn." Bianca said.
"At least that sounds like it goes together." Rachel observed.
"Uncle Mickey must have been getting in touch with his Irish roots and then Rachel is a biblical name. You know that they had to appease Nonna." Bianca replied.
"Who by the way is totally your sister's grandmother, because I am refusing to claim her." Rachel felt the need to interject.
"If we're talking about Oriana I totally agree, but I refuse to put that burden on Maria." Bianca retorted.
"Of course we're talking about O, she is the only one that can deal with Nonna. I wouldn't wish her on Maria." Rachel confirmed.
"God, that woman hates my guts." Henry smirked.
"She doesn't hate you as much as she hates my father. Not that she likes Uncle Frank, but for some reason she really hates my dad." Rachel laughed.
"But she has no problems with the littlest Hoyt brother and if she had her say in it that is who Donnie would marry." Bianca went on.
"Never mind the fact that he is thirty-three and Donnie is almost twenty-six." Rachel laughed again.
"That is a moot point because I don't even know where the hell he is right now." Bianca replied.
"The last I heard he was in Japan." Henry offered.
At that moment recognition dawned on Bianca's face. "I love my grandma, so lord forgive me for what I'm about to say. That no good son of a bitch is the one who talked you two into shipping out, isn't he?" she asked. The no good son of a bitch she was referring to was Daniel Emmett Hoyt, her uncle.
"He's a Lt. Col. when he asks for us for a favor we really have no choice in the matter." Chris said shrugging innocently.
"I'm gonna fucking kill him." Bianca announced. It didn't surprise anyone she said shit like that all of the time.
"Just don't kill him until I get off of work. I want to have a word with him, but I have to get going or I'm gonna be late." Rachel said looking at her watch.
"I can't make any promises, but I'll try." Bianca grumbled. She was not happy at all at the moment.
Coop was sitting at his desk with his feet propped up and his eyes closed. He really didn't have anything much to do. At the moment all was right with the relationships in San Francisco. He didn't even bother opening his eyes when there was a knock on his door. "Come in," he called. He figured it was just his son coming in to give him a hard time.
"Well, Coop, I can honestly say that you've done well for yourself." A man said walking into his office. The man had his dark hair cut close to his scalp and he had an intense set of hazel eyes.
Coop's eyes flew open and his mouth formed a small o. "Cody?" he asked his voice barely above a whisper.
"Hey, big brother." Cody said waving shyly at him.
"What are you doing here?" Coop asked getting up from behind his desk to hug his younger brother.
"I figured that I'd just stop in and say hi." Cody replied.
"Damn, it sure is good to see you, baby brother." Coop gushed. He had thought for sure that he would never see his brother again.
"You've got that right, I never thought that I would see you of all people sitting behind a desk. You were going to single handedly solve the relationship problems of the whole world." Cody joked.
"I've settled on fixing the love lives of the greater San Francisco area. It's an easier job and it helps just as much." Coop chuckled.
"Mom and dad would be so proud." Cody said sarcastically.
"What have you been doing with yourself?" Coop asked him.
"I'm the baby brother that means I get to be the screw up. I've just mostly been kicking around the last few years. I give the cupid thing a try every now and then, but I'm pretty sure that I do more harm than good." Cody replied.
"I guess twenty-something years really doesn't make a big difference when you've lived as many lives as we have." Coop commented.
"Yeah, you know me, I never have been much of a cupid, I'm more dad's son." Cody laughed.
"The implication of that being I'm more mom's son." Coop chuckled.
"You said it, I didn't, but it does happen to be true." Cody teased him.
"I'm a lover not a fighter, you on the other hand like to get in drunken brawls over women." Coop teased right back.
"It's not my fault that women can't resist the Valintine charm." Cody shrugged with a grin.
"Even if they are married women." Coop corrected him.
"You know, I do what I can." Cody had a cocky look on his face. Brady was actually a lot like his uncle.
"I'm well aware of what you can do and it scares the hell out of me with good reason." Coop said shaking his head.
"Hey, dad…" Jake said sticking his head in the door he stopped short when he saw that his dad was busy. "Sorry, I didn't know you were working, I can come back later." he apologized.
"Don't be ridiculous, come on in there is someone that I want you to meet." Coop said ushering his son into his office. "Coop, this is my little brother Cody. Cody, this is my oldest son Coop." he said introducing the two.
"It's nice to meet you, nephew." Cody said offering him his hand.
"It's nice to meet you too." Jake said shaking his hand. "Is this the brother that Greg is named after?" he asked his father.
"Yeah, he is that Cody. I should explain that we get along about as well as you and your older sister." Coop chuckled.
"So, you've told him that his birth certificate was an apology from the condom factory?" Jake asked. That was one of the more creative things that Prue had said about him.
"I'm not quite as creative as your sister, I just used to beat the tar out of him." Coop replied laughing.
"How many nieces and nephews do I have?" Cody asked him.
"You have three nieces and three nephews." Coop informed him.
Phoebe came into the office at that moment with Phil in her arms. "I'm sorry, I didn't know that you and our son were actually working for a change." She said.
"We're not, Phoebe, this is my little brother Cody, Cody this is my wife Phoebe." Coop said introducing the two.
"What is a pretty girl like you doing with my bonehead older brother?" Cody asked.
"He's not so bad, like right now he is going to take his son so I can go to the office and get some actual work done today." Phoebe replied handing Phil to Coop.
"Pheebs, I can't, I think I have a meeting later." Coop told her.
Jake took his little brother from his father. "I have just decided that since I'm an all around splendid fellow that I have earned the day off. Phil and I are now going to go to Lilly's place of employment and bug the shit out of her." He announced.
"Cupcake, are you sure that you don't mind watching him?" Phoebe asked.
Jake scoffed and then smirked at her. "Perish the thought, woman, Phil and I haven't had the chance to bond in awhile. I'm thinking that we might go throw Cody out of bed to have a Halliwell brothers bonding session. That and I need to advise them both on how to handle Prue. It's shameful for me to admit this, but my twin can't handle our sister."
"Oh, God, Jakie, Prue is going to kick your ass." Phoebe warned him.
Jake snorted upon hearing that. "I would love to see her try, I will simply sic my cousin the gorilla's wife on her." He said. "Come, Phillip, we must go off and do masculine things." He told his little brother as they walked out of the office.
"Are you two sure that there isn't something wrong with that boy?" Cody asked.
"Actually, we know that there is something wrong with him. It's called he's a Halliwell." Phoebe replied.
"Halliwell, as in the Charmed Ones?" Cody asked.
"I see that my sisters and my reputation precedes us." Phoebe commented dryly.
"Coop, you hit the jackpot my friend and by extension so have I. I have a little problem that I was hoping to discuss with a group known as the thirteen and I was hoping that you would know how to find them. Now I know that I did the right thing by coming here." Cody stated.
"What do you need with the thirteen?" Coop asked him a worried expression crossing his face.
"That is nothing for you to concern yourself with today. We can deal with my problems tomorrow." Cody assured him.
"Coop, you should bring him tonight." Phoebe told her husband.
"Cody will fit right in at a fashion show. There will be tons of women for him to hit on." Coop laughed.
"Damn right," Cody said with a smirk.
Frank and Lyn were sitting at the kitchen table. Gus was sitting in his bouncy chair on the table and Chase and Donnie were standing at the counter drinking a cup of coffee.
Frank looked up from reading the sport's section when he heard someone else walk into the room. A big grin lit his face when he saw who it was. "Daniel Emmett Hoyt, if you're not a sight for sore eyes I don't know who is."
"Hey, Frankie, I hope you don't mind that I used my key to let myself in." Emmett replied. He went by his middle name. He was six-three with dark brown hair and brown eyes. He had a buff build from all of his years in the Marines.
"Of course we don't mind, Emmett, let me get a look at you." Lyn said hugging her brother-in-law.
"That guy standing at the counter can't be who I think it is. The last time I checked my godson was this short gangly little thing." Emmett said pointing at Chase.
"Hey, Uncle Emmett, I will have you know that I grew and I am almost twenty-one." Chase protested.
Emmett went to Donnie and kissed her on the cheek. "Donnie, you're looking beautiful as ever I see."
Donnie's skin flushed bright red at the compliment. "Emmett, long time no see." She commented.
"The last time I saw you was in Germany I believe." Emmett smirked at her.
Donnie glared at him for mentioning that. "Yeah, I think that was the last time I saw you." she replied tensely.
Emmett turned his attention to Gus. He went over and picked him up out of his chair. "And who is this little guy?" he asked.
"Emmett, that is your nephew Augusto." Lyn informed him.
"Gus," Frank told his brother.
"Auggie," Chase interjected.
"Vinny," Donnie chimed in for good measure.
"Way to confuse the poor kid." Emmett chuckled. He turned back to Gus. "I'll tell you what I'm going to call you Vince. I know it's one more name that you have to answer to. Vince, I'm your Uncle Emmett, and I'm sure that your Uncle Mikey has been talking a big game to you, but I'm the cool one." He told the little boy.
"You know that he doesn't like to be called Mikey anymore than I liked to be called Frankie." Frank reminded him. The truth was his baby brother was the only one who could get away with calling him Frankie.
"I don't really listen to much you and Mickey have to say." Emmett replied and then Gus started fussing in his arms. "Vince, when you start that I give you to your mommy, because Uncle Emmett knows jack shit about kids." He said handing him to Lyn.
"Mom, have you seen my glasses?" Oriana asked coming into the room.
Emmett's eyes went wide with surprise when he saw his niece. "Is that who I think it is?" he asked his brother.
"Yeah, it sure is." Frank replied with a smile.
"Oriana Rose, get over here girl." Emmett called out opening his eyes to his niece.
"Uncle Emmett," Oriana yelled out as she went running into his arms.
"You have no idea how good it is to see you." Emmett told her kissing her on the head. He felt tightness in his chest and it hurt to breathe. Finally he took a shuddering breath and let tears flow freely down his face.
"Uncle Emmett, are you crying?" Oriana asked him sounding highly amused.
Emmett swiped at the stubborn tears with his knuckles. "Yes, because I thought that I was never going to see you again, little girl." He kissed her on the head again as he held her close to him.
"I thought marines didn't have tear ducts." Oriana joked with him.
"This marine damn sure does and he isn't ashamed of that." Emmett replied finally letting her go.
"Em, not that I care, because I'm glad to see you, but what are you doing here?" Frank asked his baby brother.
"I had some business to take care of, I don't know how long I'm going to be around." Emmett replied.
"I'll tell you this much you're not going to be around for long after I get my hands on you." Bianca said coming through the side door.
"Is that any way to treat the uncle who you haven't seen in forever?" Emmett asked her with a pout on his face.
"Yes," Bianca replied in a clipped tone.
"When am I going to get to see this husband of yours?" Emmett asked knowing damn well that he had already talked to Henry.
"Don't give me that innocent act, Emmett, you know damn good and well that you already talked to Hank. You somehow convinced him to go along with your fucking insanity by putting him in an officer's uniform." Bianca spat back at him acid dripping from her words.
"B, I promise that this is important, I need him and Chris or I wouldn't have asked for them. I know that you're mad at me, but he's not going to be gone long. This is a four-month assignment and I don't think it will take more than three. Besides that I might be able to get him home to you on leave a couple of times." Emmett assured her.
"Damn it, Emmett, when you talk rationally like that you make it hard for me to stay mad at you." Bianca sighed.
"For what it's worth I had to threaten to ship him out as a private to get him to go." Emmett offered.
"I know, he told me that." Bianca replied.
"Can you forgive me?" Emmett asked her.
"I guess I can just this once." Bianca replied a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth.
Emmett pulled her into a hug. "Damn, it's good to see you, B."
"It's good to see you too, when did you get promoted?" Bianca asked him.
"I made Lt. Col. a couple of months ago and I knew when they gave me my new assignment that I was going to have to have Chris and Hank to help me set this up." Emmett replied.
"Emmett, you take care of them and make sure that they come home to me." Bianca pleaded with him.
"I promise and I will get them home as quickly as possible." Emmett swore to her.
"In that case I no longer feel the need to kill you." Bianca told him.
"Good, I would have had to let you kill me, because I'm pretty sure dad likes you more than he likes me." Emmett joked.
"I know that he likes me better than he likes you, I can keep up with him when I drink with him and you can't." Bianca pointed out to him.
"I find that highly insulting, I am a marine I can drink anyone under the table." Emmett protested.
"You couldn't out drink me on a bet." Bianca rolled her eyes at him.
"If that was a challenge, Mrs. Halliwell, then you're on." Emmett replied.
"You bet your ass that was a challenge, Col. Hoyt." Bianca smirked at him. If given enough time to get their act together those two could be a very dangerous combination.
Maria was sitting on her couch enjoying the hell out of the fact that she didn't feel the urge to throw up at the moment and the fact that her daughter was taking a nap, so she was pretty much left in peace for the time being. Her peace was shattered when Donnie came walking through her front door.
"What are you doing here, Donnie?" Maria asked sighing. It wasn't that she minded her aunt being there; it was just that the look on her face said that something was bothering her.
"I'm here because I have a potential disaster on my hands." Donnie replied throwing herself down on the couch next to her niece.
"What did you do this time and is mom going to want to kill you?" Maria asked.
"I didn't really do anything per se. I just have a feeling that a situation is going to develop." Donnie replied.
"Again, what did you do?" Maria repeated her question.
"You know how Troy is really the only serious boyfriend I have ever had?" Donnie asked her. Maria nodded her head. "Well, that isn't exactly true. I know I say I don't do serious relationships well, but that is a lie. I found the guy that I could settle down with the only problem was that he wasn't ready."
"How is this causing you problems now?" Maria asked her.
"He's here and I kinda sorta have a thing with Greg. The thing is the minute I saw him all those old feelings came rushing to the surface, I know that if he wants to try again I'm not going to turn him down." Donnie explained.
"Donnie, for some reason it doesn't surprise me that you have managed to make such a mess out of your love life." Maria sighed.
"There's more," Donnie said she waited for that to sink in before continuing. "The guy I'm talking about is Emmett."
"My dad's brother?" Maria asked her with an incredulous look on her face.
"That'd be the one." Donnie confirmed.
"Donnie, Emmett is a player he keeps true to that adage about marines having a girl in every port. Not only that, but I think he's a little too old for you." Maria replied.
"Like I said, I'm about to have a situation on my hands." Donnie said shaking her head.
"Greg is actually a nice kid, so you had better think long and hard about what you want before you do anything that is going to hurt him." Maria warned her. She knew that she should have hated Greg after what he had had done to her sister, but she also knew that he hadn't really had a choice in the matter. The elders were the ones responsible for him being evil and he had more than made up for the things he had done. She wasn't going to hold it against him.
"Greg and I have an understanding about how neither one of us wants a serious relationship at the moment." Donnie informed her.
"You could do a lot worse than him, Donnie. I understand though if you're not ready to settle down. I love my daughter with all of my heart, but I wish I would've waited until I was a little bit older to have her." Maria replied.
"I don't do settled well, I'm not Lyn or Angie. I'm a little bit of a free spirit." Donnie went on.
"A little bit of a free spirit who took one look at Emmett Hoyt in his uniform and decided that she was in love rather than in lust which was actually the case." Maria commented dryly.
"Hey, I'm supposed to be the older of the two of us. For some reason you are so much wiser than I am." Donnie observed.
"It's because I'm a mother, I have to act like I know what I'm doing or I'll have a revolt on my hands." Maria chuckled.
"You were right about one thing. Emmett looks damn fine in his uniform." Donnie replied with a rueful grin.
"Donnie, until you said that I was starting to think that there might be hope for you." Maria replied shaking her head.
"Park, you do know that you have employees that you can call in to polish glasses for you, don't you?" Calleigh asked her boyfriend with an amused expression on her face.
Parker looked up from the glass that he had been polishing. "I was told that things tonight are supposed to go off without a hitch. That means that I have to oversee it, and what that further means is if I want things done right I'm better off doing them myself." He replied.
"I'm pretty sure that Piper wasn't talking about you polishing the damn glasses when she told you that." Calleigh chuckled.
"With her I can never be sure, so it is better to play it safe." Parker informed her with a laugh of his own.
"Billie is going to jump your ass when she finds out you came down here and rearranged her bar again." Calleigh pointed out to him.
"Let her jump my ass I got permission from the dragon lady herself to do anything and everything to make sure everything is perfect for my darling nieces tonight." Parker replied with a smirk.
"I can't believe that you just referred to your sister as the dragon lady." Calleigh laughed she knew that he wouldn't say something like that if he even suspected that it had a chance of getting back to Piper.
"My sister was being that thing that rhymes with witch and starts with a B when I talked to her earlier." Parker replied with a shrug.
"Parker, when you say things like that it makes you sound like a five year old." Calleigh pointed out to him.
"I do what I can, hot stuff, you know that." Parker said leaning over the bar to kiss her.
"You are a big fucking goofball." Calleigh told him before kissing him again.
"I'm just good like that." Parker replied when he pulled away from her.
"I still can't believe that you let them talk you into modeling for them." Calleigh was cracking up laughing.
"I wouldn't laugh if I were you because I told them that we both would help." Parker smirked at her.
"If I didn't love you so damn much I would kill your stupid ass right now." Calleigh said hitting him with his own towel.
"Hey, baby girl, what are you doing here?" Mickey asked his oldest daughter when she stepped into his living room with Chris.
"I just figured that I would come over here since it doesn't seem like I've had much time to spend with you lately." Rachel replied.
"I see that you couldn't part with your boyfriend long enough to come see your parents." Angie teased her.
"Mom, I don't mean to spread rumors, but you're getting more and more like Nonna everyday." Rachel told her mother with a smirk on her face.
"Watch yourself, Claire." Angie warned her.
"Aunt Angie, you might not want to call her that, she was carrying on about her name earlier." Chris spoke up.
"Rach, all blame for you being named that horribly goes to your father." Angie said pointing at her husband.
"Why is it that I think you two came here for a reason?" Mickey asked glaring at his wife.
"Because I wouldn't come here and risk seeing my younger annoying ass siblings for no reason." Rachel replied reasonably.
"What can daddy and I do for you?" Angie asked her.
"I kinda need money." Rachel said making a valiant effort not to let her facial expressions give her away.
"What do you need money for?" Mickey asked sighing he thought that she was his responsible child.
"Just for the record I'm not going to say anything because of the number of times we've had to bail your brother out." Angie said rolling her eyes.
"Rach, what do you need money for?" Mickey repeated his question.
"Well, I don't really need money I just need you to pay for something." Rachel replied she was really toying with her parents now.
"What could you possibly need us to pay for?" Angie asked the possibilities running through her head weren't good.
"Just this little thing that I like to call my wedding." Rachel retorted with a big grin.
"Did you just say wedding?" Mickey asked his eyes going wide.
Rachel flashed her engagement ring. "Chris asked me to marry him and I said yes."
"No shit?" Mickey asked with a huge grin on his face.
"No shit, we're not getting married until after he comes back from his assignment, but there are still some things that I can do without him." Rachel replied.
Angie stood up and hugged her future son-in-law. "You'll take care of her, right?" she asked him.
"I plan on taking care of her for the rest of our lives." Chris replied with a smile.
"Chris, if you hurt her I will break both of your legs." Mickey told him in a friendly tone.
"I wouldn't dream of hurting her, I love her too much to be able to hurt her." Chris promised him.
"Daddy, be nice, you know that Chris wouldn't hurt him. He knows that his best friend would kill him if he even thought about it." Rachel assured her father.
"I always knew that I would be able to count on you to pick a good man to marry." Angie told her daughter.
"Even if it did take us forever to get together." Rachel grinned.
"At least we're not as bad as Wyatt and Liz. We knew how we felt about each other, we were just always with other people." Chris protested.
"Baby, no one could be as bad as Wyatt and Liz." Rachel pointed out to him.
"I know that, I was just merely making an observation." Chris replied.
"Chris, do you know anything more about when you're leaving?" Mickey asked him.
"No, those details have not been forthcoming. I'm sure when I do find out they will want me the day before." Chris chuckled.
"You could always ask Emmett." Rachel suggested to him.
"What does Emmett have to do with that?" Angie asked knowing that she probably wouldn't like the answer.
"He's just the one that talked him and Hank into this nonsense." Rachel couldn't fight the urge to roll her eyes.
"He didn't talk us into this he ordered us to do it. We might have made a deal with him, but it was an order." Chris defended himself.
"I didn't even know that the little brat was back in town." Mickey huffed sounding highly indignant.
"I don't think that he wanted you to know he was back until after he got us on board with what he needs us to do." Chris informed him.
"I can't get over him being grown up enough to give people orders." Mickey commented.
"Mickey, at some point you're going to have to start thinking about him like he is an adult." Angie told him.
"No matter how old he gets he is always going to be the Runt to me." Mickey snorted.
"Dad, you know that he doesn't like to be called the Runt." Rachel reminded him.
"Rachel, I am his big brother. I will call him whatever I want to." Mickey intoned solemnly.
"I'm thinking that us deciding to double date was a dangerous idea." Brady told his cousin with mirth in his eyes.
"I know that it was a damn bad idea, but you practically begged me, so I couldn't say no." Jack replied.
"I really hope that you two aren't talking about us that way." Emily said batting her eyelashes at her boyfriend.
"Of course we weren't talking about you and Hails, we were talking about ourselves. Brady and I can get into trouble if the occasion calls for it." Jack replied like he would never think of such a thing.
"Jack, you sounded really condescending when you said that." Hailey observed.
"Words like that are why we say that you hang around Mel too much." Emily informed her seriously.
"Actually, I read a lot. If I were hanging out with Mel that would imply that she had time to spare, which she doesn't. When she isn't at work she is with your brother, that doesn't leave a whole lot of time for anything else." Hailey corrected her.
"And to think you used to be sweet and innocent a year with us sure did cure you of that." Emily chuckled.
Brady mimed putting a gun to his head. "Just shoot me now." he pleaded with Jack.
"Phillip, behave yourself." Hailey scolded him.
"Yes, dear," Brady replied with a grin.
"I sometimes think that they like trying to piss us off." Emily commented.
"I know that they do, it's not in their best interests, but they do it just to see how much we'll let them get away with." Hailey replied.
"Jesus Christ, I'm starting to think that this was a horrible idea." Jack muttered running his hands over his face.
"At least we know now that those two aren't man enough to handle more than one woman at a time." Emily supplied.
"We don't need more than one woman when we have the two of you to contend with." Brady retorted.
"I am not as bad as Emily, thank you very much." Hailey protested.
"That doesn't mean that you can't be a real pill when you want to be." Brady replied.
"Phillip, if that is the way you feel I can gladly go find another boyfriend." Hailey said barely keeping a smirk off of her face.
"Perish the thought. I wouldn't dream of you having another boyfriend. I was merely saying that you have a knack for being difficult when it suits you." Brady said trying to placate her.
"See what you started with your mouth?" Jack's question was directed at Brady.
"I was stating facts, dear cousin of mine. And I was obviously right." Brady grinned at him.
"You and your psychology major get on my last fucking nerve most of the time." Jack told him.
"This has nothing to do with my psychology major, you can leave that out of this quarrel." Brady was really on a roll today.
"Damn it all to hell, Brady, I can't deal with you when you get like this." Jack cussed.
"These two are highly amusing." Emily said turning to Hailey.
"I know it's almost better than watching TV." Hailey agreed.
"This is what you two do to us. You turn us into a couple of raging idiots." Jack pointed out to them.
"Jackie Sam, you two were idiots before we ever got our hands on you." Emily countered.
"What makes you say that?" Brady asked.
"You two are Halliwells, you're not known for being the most sane people on the face of the earth as it is." Hailey explained to him.
"I will have you know that every Halliwell is certifiably sane we just are very quirky people. If you've ever spent two minutes with my older brothers you will know this to be a profound truth." Jack said solemnly.
"Jackie, I will never know what keeps me with you." Emily said shaking her head.
"You were the one who decided she didn't like being left alone to watch the Charlie and Ricky show and then you made your move on me." Jack grinned at her.
"I don't think that was how it happened at all, but I will allow you to think what you want. If my memory serves you're the one who said and I quote, "I'm going to kiss you now, Em.' Or words to that effect." Emily corrected him.
"I stand corrected." Jack said throwing up his hands in a sign of surrender.
A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. So, it looks like Oriana is going to be going off with Chord on his little adventure. I thought that I should throw Coop's brother in the mix since we have been hearing so much about him lately. He also ties in with the kids getting sent back to Ancient Greece. Emmett also serves a couple of purposes in this episode, I couldn't just let Donnie and Greg be happy without messing with them a little bit. He is really going to come into play next season I think, you guys will understand more about that later. I thought that we could use some interaction between Emily, Hailey, Jack, and Brady, I feel like I don't use them enough. Only Donnie would have dated Emmett and decided that he was the one she wanted to settle down with when that wasn't what he wanted. We'll get more into that later too, though. I think I feel a love triangle coming on lol. Until next time please review.