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Chapter 3: Planning For The Future
"Frank, stop the baby is going to wake up any minute and I don't want you to start something that we can't finish." Lyn admonished her husband. They were lying in bed together and he kept nuzzling her neck with his lips.
"I have no intentions of starting something that we can't finish. It was pretty late when Gus finally went back to sleep he won't be up for a while yet. Besides that I want to show you how much I love you." Frank replied. Nipping her earlobe with his teeth. They were already dressed for what he had in mind, which is to say they weren't wearing anything. He had already taken his time showing her how much he loved her the night before and now he was going back for round two. Actually it was more like round five but Frank was just that damn good.
"I love you too you big dummy. And you know how much I love it when you do that." Lyn was almost breathless. She both loved and hated the effect that Frank's touch had on her body.
"Lyn, just stop talking and go with it." Frank ordered pulling her into a kiss that progressed into a pretty steamy make out session before he turned his attention to the other parts of her body.
"Frank, we have two adult children in the house and they could come walking in here at any minute." Lyn protested weakly she really enjoyed the attention that her husband was giving her.
"The only adult that I see interrupting our fun time right now is you. Now you just lay back and let papa do his thing." Frank said going back to what he had been doing. If you were to ask Lyn what he had been doing was almost better than sex since his tongue was so damn talented.
"Oh Frank, I'm so close." Lyn cried out in passion. She groaned when she heard a knock at their bedroom door.
"Ignore it," Frank told her before going back to what he had been doing. The banging on the door only got louder.
"Frank, I can't ignore it only one of our kids knocks on a door like that." Lyn reasoned with him.
"She can come back later. We're busy right now." Frank replied he knew damn well who was at the door and he knew that she wouldn't go away that easily.
"Yeah, I don't think that's happening." Lyn said as she put his shirt on. "You might want to consider putting some pants on before I open the door." She gave her husband a minute and the she opened the door with a pissed off look on her face. "What do you want?" she asked.
Bianca was standing in the doorway with a smirk on her face and her baby brother in her arms. "Tell mommy not to be so mean to me Gus." She said addressing the little boy.
"Did you need something Frank Jr.?" Frank asked her. He hoped that she had a damn good reason for interrupting them but knowing her that wasn't likely.
"I just wanted to tell you that Gus here has been fed, had a bath, and been changed. He has been up for three hours and he should be ready for a nap soon. I wish I had that easy of a time getting your youngest daughter out of bed. I've been trying to wake her up for the last half hour but she isn't having any part of it." Bianca replied.
"He's been up since six?" Lyn asked.
"Yeah and I didn't want him to wake you and dad up so we've been hanging out." Bianca explained.
"Where's Hank?" Frank wondered aloud.
"Hank ended up getting off later than he thought he was going to it was about five thirty when he finally got to my place. I was ready to lay into him again but I didn't have the heart to after I saw how wiped out he was. He barely got his shirt off before he fell into bed." Bianca replied.
"You're still mad at him?" Lyn asked.
"Hell yes I'm still mad at him. We just have this agreement that we won't go to bed without saying I love you even if we are pissed off at each other." Bianca gave her mother more information than she had asked for.
"Do you look for things to get pissed off at him for?" Frank asked her out of curiosity. He loved his daughter but it was entirely possible that she would do something like that.
"No, I don't know how you could accuse me of such a thing. We have our issues or rather I have my issues and he is kind enough to let me work through them at my own pace." Bianca answered him.
"Why were you trying to wake your sister up?" Lyn asked just remembering that she had said something about Oriana.
"We have things to do today. Uncle Derek wants us to go to the gun range so that we all know how to fire a weapon since that happens to be our only way of defeating the source." Bianca replied.
"Give me Gus and then you can go drag your sister out of bed." Frank said putting his arms out for his son.
Bianca shook her head. "I don't think so, you're not touching this kid. After what we just interrupted you two doing you need to wash your hands and brush your teeth before you even think about it."
"Don't be disgusting Lyn, I can't believe you just said something like that." Lyn told her daughter with a shocked look on her face. She had called her daughter by her middle name but that didn't seem to have any affect on her.
"Hey, this is no picnic for me either. Knowing that you two have sex and hearing it are two separate things. I've come to terms with the fact that you two have done it at least four times but other than that I don't like to think about it." Bianca smirked.
"Let's just go get your sister up." Lyn said rolling her eyes.
"Chase isn't home right now so when you see him next if you could tell him that I need to talk to him ASAP that would be great." Bianca threw out as an afterthought. She really needed to talk to her little brother about his pot growing business and how he needed to shut it down.
"I'll pass on the message just as soon as I see him." Lyn promised. She couldn't help wondering what her oldest son had gotten himself into this time.
"Piper, I don't know what you're laughing at I don't think it's funny." Phoebe scowled at her older sister.
"Come on Pheebs, this is Prue and Chuck we're talking about. They'll work it out they love each other too much to stay mad." Piper assured her sister.
"She packed a suitcase and left him. I think that's pretty serious." Phoebe argued.
Paige chuckled at her sisters. "Dude, she was pissed and she left him in the heat of the moment. You might not be aware of this but not long after Henry and I got married I got pissed off at him and packed all my stuff up. I ended up staying here for a day. It's normal, every couple has that first big fight." She tried getting Phoebe to see a little reason.
"You and Henry never fight." Prue observed.
"He has learned over the years that it's just better not to argue with me about most things because he isn't going to stop me from doing anything. That and we just don't have a lot to fight about." Paige agreed with a shrug.
"I still think that I should be worried about Prue. She was a wreck when she showed up at the condo last night." Phoebe said chewing her bottom lip nervously.
"Phoebe, you of all people know that you get the most pissed off at the people that you love the most. They are going to be fine it's something that every married couple has to go through. If they didn't fight I would be worried about them." Piper told her.
"Wyatt and Liz never fight." Phoebe countered.
"Wyatt and Liz are not a good example. And yes those two do fight, actually they fight all the time you just don't notice because she shuts him down so fast." Piper disputed.
"I thought the older they got the less we'd have to worry about them. That obviously isn't the case." Phoebe observed.
"They're gonna work it out Pheebs. Prue loves Chuck with her whole heart. It's going to take a lot more than a stupid argument to tear them apart." Prue assured her baby sister.
"If Henry Victor and Bianca Lyn can stay together with the way they treat each other then there is hope for everyone else." Paige threw out there. Her son and his girlfriend gave her the biggest headache in the entire world because of the shit they pulled together.
"Aunt Paige, that is one relationship that doesn't need to be used for a gauge as to how well a relationship should work." Mel said coming into the kitchen she hadn't gotten a lot of sleep but she had enough for the moment.
"What did they do now?" Paige asked not really wanting to know what kind of shit had gone on with those two this time.
"Hank arrested Uncle Frank last night." Mel answered she really didn't need to say anymore than that.
"I'm sure that went over well with B." Prue commented rolling her eyes.
"If you want to get technical about it she assaulted an officer. But when said officer happens to be madly in love with her it gets tossed out the window." Mel replied with a smirk.
"She hit him in the station?" Piper asked sounding highly amused.
"It's pretty much his word against hers since they were in Uncle Andy's office. But yeah she decked the hell out of him. He has a pretty nice bruise on the left side of his chin." Mel chuckled.
"Why did he arrest Frank?" Phoebe asked curious.
"I do believe the charge was interfering with a police officer in the execution of his office or some such bullshit. They actually popped Dante and Uncle Frank. We cut them lose of course but we released them into Aunt Lyn's custody." Mel explained.
"I'm thinking that there is a good possibility of two Hoyt women standing trial for murder. I would be ok with that if one of the victims wasn't my son. Lyn is going to fucking kill Frank. And B will do the same damn thing to Hank." Paige said with a sigh.
"In Hank's defense he gave Uncle Frank every opportunity to walk away he just didn't take it." Mel said and then she looked to be deep in thought for a moment. "Freud would have a field day with B. There has to be something to the fact that her father and her boyfriend's names rhyme." She continued thoughtfully.
"Henry is going to flip out when he finds out that they arrested Dante." Paige groaned she had a hard enough time with her husband being nice to him anyway.
Piper stared at her daughter like she was crazy. "Mel, only you sit around and think about the fact that Hank and Frank's names rhyme. I don't know what to do about you sometimes girl." She couldn't help laughing though.
"Uncle Derek, we're here we're dressed I don't know what more you want right now." Wyatt whined to his best friend's dad. If you asked him ten a.m. was entirely too early to be up doing this shit.
"I can't ask for anything more than that so I'm going to be happy with it." Derek replied. He had all the members of the thirteen gathered on a gun range that was owned by a friend of his.
"Seriously man some of us only have like three hours of sleep right now." Chris moaned.
"I know that I'm not hearing a Marine whining like a little bitch right now." a stocky man with a blonde crew cut said walking up to the group.
"Uncle Derek, you didn't tell us that Travis McCoy was your buddy. This guy is seriously a couple cards short of a deck." Henry joked knowing that it would piss the older man off.
"Halliwell, I thought I was through with your ass years ago. You were probably the worst recruit I have ever run through boot camp." Travis teased him.
"Dad, I didn't know that you knew McCoy." Chuck said making conversation.
"I know him well before the sadistic bastard became a DI we served together. He agreed to let me train you guys out here as a favor to me." Derek informed him.
"He knows about why we're here?" Parker asked to be sure.
"Yes, I know that you guys are witches that's ok I'm one too." Travis assured him.
"You get the guns I asked for?" Derek asked his old buddy.
"What you wanted with Navy Colts I don't want to know but yes I got them." Travis replied.
"You're right you don't want to know." Derek agreed.
"I don't see why I have to be here right now it's not like I don't know how to use a gun I was I the service." Wyatt complained some more.
"Wy, you were a medic I'm sure you didn't use a gun that often." Liz pointed out to her husband.
"What branch were you in?" Travis asked.
"I was a corpsman in the navy." Wyatt reported proudly.
"Derek, just because it's you I'm going to let it go that you brought a fucking navy boy out here." Travis told him.
"As far as anyone is concerned Wyatt was a Marine. He worked with Marines, he toured with Marines, and he took a bullet with Marines. He got the Purple Heart and the Silver Star and he did it with the Corps." Chris defended his teddy bear of a big brother. It was alright for him and Henry to give Wyatt shit about being in the Navy but no one else could. Normally he would have let it go but he was tired and cranky.
"Chris calm down, you're just cranky right now because you haven't had a lot of sleep." Rachel cautioned her boyfriend. She was there because Derek had insisted that they all show up.
"Who pissed in his Cheerios this morning?" Roman asked his sister in a hushed tone.
"He just worked for like twenty-four hours." Lilly replied.
"How are we doing this?" Bianca asked she just wanted to get this over with.
"I thought that we could just start out with a little target practice." Derek answered her.
"Do we have to give Roman a gun?" Troy asked trying his best not to laugh.
"We'll put him and Prue together maybe we'll get lucky and they'll shoot each other." Jake quipped.
"Jake, I'm not in the mood today. I will gladly shoot you though." Prue said glaring at her brother.
"Jake, I want to try something new today. I would really like it if you and Prue didn't fight." Calleigh said rolling her eyes. She got so tired of listening to those two bitch at each other.
"That's not going to happen Cal, Prue and Jake have been fighting since before they could talk." Oriana pointed out. She really had no business handling a gun either.
"That doesn't mean that you should encourage them O." Chord said shaking his head. He wasn't just shaking his head at what she had said though he was also doing it because she refused to see how good he could be for her.
"Could we get this show on the road here?" Liz asked hopefully.
"Yeah, I'm sure that you all have places to be after this so let's get a move on." Derek said clapping his hands.
Cole was lying in bed with his head propped up on his hand. He was watching his son and the love of his life sleep. If someone would have told him that he would have one day had all of this there is no way in hell that he would have believed him. He ran his hand over the dark fuzz that covered Dom's head and he smiled.
"If you wake him up he will be a bear to get back to sleep." Nicole said though her eyes were still closed.
"I wasn't going to wake him up." Cole replied.
"With babies as little as he is it doesn't take much movement and they're awake." Nicole informed him seriously.
"Dully noted counselor." Cole said chuckling.
"He's a pretty good little sleeper though. I'll give him that he is nothing like his big brother. Troy is a grown man and he still doesn't sleep through the night. I know he was up and down three times last night." Nicole said kissing her son on the head.
"How could you know that?" Cole asked her.
"I'm a mother Cole, I haven't had a decent night of sleep since Troy was born. I don't go into a real deep sleep in case one of the kids needs me. I was always the one who got up in the middle of the night with Troy and Liz. Tim was a very deep sleeper I was doing good if I could get him up with his alarm in the mornings." Nicole explained to him.
"How long has Dom been in bed with us?" Cole asked he just knew that his son hadn't been between them when they went to sleep.
"Since he woke up to be fed at midnight. I put him in here with us so I wouldn't have to make another trip down the hall in case he woke up again." Nicole told him.
"I'm sorry that I didn't hear him. If I had I would have got up with him." Cole apologized.
"You've got nothing to be sorry for Cole. I'm used to doing everything on my own it doesn't bother me." Nicole replied.
"Hey, that's not how this has to be anymore. I want to be an involved father. You don't have to do everything on your own. I'm right here to help you." Cole assured her.
"Cole, it's no secret that I'm a little insecure, so you're going to have to forgive me if I don't believe you. I've heard the words before and I never got the follow through. I know that you're not Tim, but I have a really hard time trusting people after what he put me through." Nicole really was still a mess over Tim leaving her. She had never really taken then time to work through the issues she had because of it. She had been too busy trying to raise her two kids by herself.
"You're right I'm not Tim. I don't care how long it takes me I'm going to prove to you that I'm not going anywhere." Cole swore to her he hated it that she sounded so broken when she said things like that.
Nicole smiled up at him. "I love you Cole, don't make me regret giving you my heart." She begged him.
"I love you too Nic, I promise you that your heart is safe with me." Cole promised. "Now how about I go make you some breakfast?" he asked her.
"Breakfast would be good but if I get out of bed the baby is going to wake up." Nicole replied.
"That's why you're not getting out of bed I am." Cole said kissing her before he got up.
Henry was sitting behind his desk when there was a knock on the door. He looked up to find the man that had become the thorn in his side over the past month standing there. "What can I do for you Dante?" he asked going back to what he had been doing. Really there wasn't a damn thing wrong with Dante he was a good guy. Henry just couldn't see that because he was so much older than Hailey. He knew that he was making a big deal out of nothing but he didn't want to see his niece hurt anymore than she already had been.
Dante shifted his weight from foot to foot nervously. "I came to see you because we need to talk. I have something to tell you that you need to hear from me." he said trying his best not to stumble over his words.
"Have a seat, we can talk about whatever you want to talk about. Just so long as you haven't done anything that is going to hurt my niece." Henry said offering him a chair.
Dante sank down in the chair that was on the side of the desk opposite Henry. He couldn't help but notice that in this chair he had to look up to Henry slightly when he talked to him and he figured that that wasn't an accident. "I'll cut right to the chase since you seem like the kind of guy who doesn't like to beat around the bush. I got arrested last night, it wasn't for anything serious and I wasn't charged with anything." He began.
Henry did his best to keep his composure he was sure that this was nothing. After all Frank wouldn't have vouched for the kid if he was really bad. "What did you get arrested for?" he asked.
"Interfering in a police investigation or something like that. The released me and Uncle Frank into Aunt Lyn's custody." Dante explained running a hand through his shaggy hair.
Henry arched his eyebrow now this situation was starting to sound amusing to him. "Frank got arrested too? Not that I'm surprised it's not the first time and it probably won't be the last. You bounty hunters don't know when to get the fuck out of the way and let us do our jobs." He chuckled. He was so glad that he wasn't Frank at the moment because he didn't want to have to deal with Lyn when she was pissed off.
"Yeah, Chris arrested me and Henry arrested Uncle Frank. B wasn't too happy about that but from what I gather all those two do is fight." Dante replied laughing.
"So that is what you came here to tell me?" Henry asked. He couldn't help it the kid was starting to grow on him a little bit.
"Yeah, I just wanted to be up front with you. You needed to hear that from me before someone else told you. I didn't want you to think that I was trying to hide things." Dante answered him.
Henry shook his head and sighed. "Don't let this go to your head but you're not half bad." He said with a smile.
"Cal, do you know what you're doing?" Parker asked stepping behind his girlfriend.
"Not really, but I did manage to get this damn thing loaded without any trouble. So we'll just have to go from there." Calleigh replied smiling at him. They were still out on the gun range.
"Getting it loaded is half the battle. Do you need me to show you how to shoot it?" Parker asked in reply.
"If you wouldn't mind I guess I could use a little bit of help." Calleigh told him leaning against him.
"I would be more than happy to help you." Parker smiled at her so that his dimples showed.
"Parker, how the hell do you know about guns?" Jake asked his uncle.
"I was raised by two cops I know more things than you people like to give me credit for." Parker retorted.
"That's not hard to do I don't give you credit for knowing much at all Halliwell." Chord teased his best friend who flipped him off in response.
"I don't know why we all have to be here. It's nothing more than a waste of time if you ask me. We all know that either Hank or Chris are going to be the ones handling this gun anyway." Prue bitched. She just wasn't in a good mood at all because she was still mad at Chuck.
"Prue, I know that this isn't your strong suit, but did you ever stop to think that there is a possibility one of us might have to end up handling this gun?" Chuck asked his wife harshly. He knew that that was uncalled for but he was still more than a little upset with her.
"If we could make it through the rest of the morning without you people fighting that would be great." Chris said breaking up the squabbling that they were doing.
"Fat chance of that happening Chris. Think about the group of people that we're with and then think about what you just said. For them not to fight it is damn near impossible." Henry pointed out to his cousin.
"Because you're so much better than the rest of them are about not fighting." Bianca said sarcastically. She wasn't trying to hide that fact that she was still livid with Henry.
"I'm not the one who sits around and thinks about stupid shit that we can fight over. I try to be the reasonable one. That doesn't work out so well for me all the time though." Henry retorted. He was trying hard not to lose his cool with her but she made it pretty difficult.
"Trouble in paradise?" Liz asked looking between Henry and Bianca.
"When isn't there?" Oriana asked sarcastically. She pretended like she didn't see the look that her older sister shot in her direction.
"Lizzie, trust me when I say that you don't even want to know. But I'll tell you anyway, B is pissed at Hank because he arrested Uncle Frank last night. It's not the stupidest thing that I've even seen those two fight over but it's still pretty bad." Chris informed his sister-in-law.
"That sounds like something that Uncle Frank would do." Rachel said nothing her uncle did surprised her in the least bit. But then again Mickey Hoyt was her father and he was just like his big brother.
"I'm not even going to ask." Wyatt said shaking his head. The less he knew the better off he was sometimes it kept him from getting confused.
"Let's not act like this is the first time that Frank has been arrested. In his line of work it's a miracle that he has never actually been charged with anything." Derek chuckled. He was thinking along the same lines as Big Henry at the moment. He was damn glad that he wasn't Frank right now because dealing with a pissed off Lyn was not fun at all.
"I know that he's been arrested before and I'm not even going to pretend like he hasn't. All I'm saying is Hank could have let him walk away." Bianca reasoned. She knew that she was being unreasonable but she didn't give a damn.
"I did try to let him walk away but he wasn't having any part of that. It's not my fault I was just trying to do my job." Henry argued he didn't know why he was trying to argue with her though. He knew damn good and well once her mind was made up he would be hard pressed to get her to change it.
"When are you two not fighting?" Roman asked. He had never seen two people who were supposed to be in love fight as much as they did.
"Those times when you and Prue are fighting that is when they choose to be reasonable and not fight with each other." Lilly answered her twin with a smirk.
"If you're all done bitching and moaning you're more than welcome to get this show on the road." Travis barked out causing them all to stop in their tracks.
"Travis, this group of people has to fight with each other. I will never understand why but they can't do anything unless they get into a fight first." Derek replied shaking his head.
"I don't see how they ever get anything done." Travis threw out there.
"We are actually very productive. I don't see how with how off topic we get but we take care of business." Henry reported proudly.
"Ok, enough bullshit. All of you get your asses on the firing line now." Travis ordered and surprisingly not a single person opened their mouth to argue with him.
Mia slammed her locker door shut and she turned to smile at Billy. "Thanks for carrying my books for me you didn't have to do that." She told him gratefully.
Billy just shrugged. "It's not a big deal. I was headed this way anyway. I figured why not help a pretty girl like you out." he replied with a charming smile of his own.
"You're getting kinda cheesy there Billy, you might want to watch yourself." Mia teased him.
"You've met my Aunt Piper she would kill me if I didn't treat you the way a gentleman should." Billy retorted with a sly grin.
"In that case thank you for the compliment." Mia replied blushing.
"You know if you ever…" Billy began but of course Penny, Emily, and Hailey came over to them at that moment.
"What are you two up to?" Penny asked smirking at them. She had a hard time keeping her cupid genes in check around those two. She just wanted to pair them up so badly.
"Nothing Billy just carried my books for me after class. We were talking and killing time before next class." Mia explained it really wasn't that big of a deal.
"If you really want to find out how to kill time between classes you should talk to Val and Huck." Emily smirked.
"Hey, let's not talk about the fact that my sister and my boyfriend were still getting on like three months before we got together." Penny protested. She tried to block out the fact that Huck and Val had ever been together.
"I've been meaning to talk to you about how wrong that is by the way." Hailey chimed in.
"Nobody asked you Hails. Trust me if I wanted to hear about that particular thing I would have asked Mel." Penny replied scowling at her.
"Should I be insulted that they are telling us to talk to Val and Huck about something?" Mia asked Billy sounding confused.
"Yes, you should be highly insulted I know that I am. It's a known fact that Val and Huck used to have sex in the janitor's closet here at school." Billy replied crossing his arms over his chest and glaring at Emily.
"And then they wonder why I say the things I do about love and relationships. It's only opening yourself up for pain and heartache." Mia said rolling her eyes. She didn't notice that Billy's face fell a little when she said this.
"Not everyone is a messed up as Val and Carly are when it comes to relationships though." Billy offered. He just needed to know that he had a snowball's chance of getting with her.
"Those two are just the tip of the iceberg you have met your cousin Henry haven't you?" Mia asked him.
"You can't use my cousins as a gauge for what's normal in a relationship. None of my cousins have normal relationships. And that goes double for Henry." Billy pointed out to her.
"Billy, it might be best if you just stopped talking now. This cousin of yours is perfectly capable of kicking your ass if you don't shut up." Penny warned him.
"I have to get to get to class anyway. Mia, you're going my way you can walk with me if you want to." Billy offered with a charming smile.
"I'd like that Billy." Mia agreed taking the arm that he had offered her.
"Do you think that either one of them knows what they're getting into?" Emily asked after they had walked away.
"Not a chance." Hailey said shaking her head from side to side trying hard not to laugh.
"The sad part is that the two of them don't even realize what's happening." Penny agreed.
"When do one of us ever really know what we're feeling?" Emily asked and she made a pretty valid point.
Coop was sitting on his living room couch watching TV when Cole shimmered in out of the blue. "Cole, can we get a bell to tie around your neck or something? You seriously just scared the shit out of me." he said jumping a little.
"Sorry, I would have called but I didn't even think about it." Cole replied with a shrug.
"It's not a big deal I'm just hanging out with Phil today. He's taking a nap right now so I'm on my own." Coop said.
"I don't even know what I'm doing here right now." Cole said rubbing his hands over his face as he sank down on the couch next to Coop.
"My guess is that is has something to do with Nic or you wouldn't be here." Coop offered helpfully.
"You know that woman is stubborn as hell?" Cole asked not really expecting an answer.
"I'm well aware of how stubborn she can be and that must be what's causing you problems. I'm a cupid I know that something isn't right with you I just can't put my finger on what it is." Coop leveled with him. To some the fact that he was helping his wife's former husband would have been strange, but not to Coop. The way he saw it he owed Cole for giving him his boy.
"It's like no matter what I do I can't make her forget Tim and what he did to her. I get that he ripped her heart out of her chest really I do. But I can't make her see that I'm not him." Cole sighed.
"Cole, she loved him, I mean she really loved him. She loved that man with everything that she had. I can also tell you that she has never really taken the time to deal with what he did to her." Coop informed him.
"Maybe that's the problem then. She has never faced what he put her through so she can't be happy until she does." Cole guessed.
"That is actually not a half bad idea Cole." Coop replied thoughtfully with a gleam in his eye.
"I know that look you're about to do something really cupid like aren't you?" Cole asked he was a little scared. Cupids weren't exactly the most sane people on the face of the planet.
"Do you trust me?" Coop asked him with a grin.
"I guess so." Cole replied uneasily.
"Then as your cupid trust me when I say that I have your best interests at heart." Coop reasoned with him.
"You're not going to do anything that will piss Nic off are you? Because if you are then maybe this isn't such a good idea." Cole stammered out. The last thing he wanted was for Nicole to be mad at him.
"It might piss her off but believe me she will be mad at me not you. I can't count the number of times that she has told me that I better not start trying to play cupid to her. Not that that has ever stopped me but still trust everything is going to work out for the best." Coop said the wheels in his head turning. He was excited about this the number of ways that he could help Nicole and Cole out were pretty much limitless.
"I have a feeling that hanging out with you is going to get me in trouble." Cole said shaking his head.
"Let me put it this way, you've met my oldest daughter I'm where she gets the nosey cupid act from. You might want to keep that in mind." Coop chuckled when he saw Cole gulp.
"That's really a comforting thought. Prue is a pain in the ass if you haven't noticed." Cole said sarcastically.
"I know she is and she learned from the best." Coop said beaming with pride.
"I think that that was the most pointless thing that we have ever done with our time." Oriana bitched crossing her arms over her chest. They were all gathered in the Halliwell cousin's penthouse after their training session at the gun range.
"I wouldn't call it the most pointless but it was pretty high on the list." Wyatt agreed whole-heartedly.
"Remind me when the time comes that we're not giving that gun to either one of those two." Bianca said rolling her eyes.
"Gladly, they go on the list right under Roman and Prue." Chris joked knowing that he was going to piss his brother and his baby cousin off.
"I'm pretty sure that list should go Oriana, Roman, Wyatt, and then Prue. Let's face it Prue is the least likely to shoot herself or someone else." Lilly of course was going to take up for Prue she was one of her best friends after all.
"I'm actually not going to argue with that." Prue laughed shaking her head.
"Shit let me call the newspapers, Prue Halliwell just said that she wasn't going to argue with someone about something. I think we need to check to make sure she isn't sick." Parker said and then he put his hand to his niece's forehead like he was feeling her temperature.
"PJ, why you even get them started I will never know. You know as well as I do how much they like to find something to fight about." Calleigh loved them all like family but they got on her nerves fighting sometimes.
The tips of Parker's ears and his neck turned red. "Cal, I don't know how many times I have to ask you not to call me that." He complained. He didn't think that he had been acting like any of his sisters when he said that.
"In this situation it did apply, you kinda sounded like Aunt Phoebe." Henry pointed out to him.
"Did everybody but me know what PJ stood for?" Parker asked throwing his hands up in the air.
"Dude, it was pretty obvious that she only calls you that when you start acting like one of the aunts." Chord reasoned with his friend.
"Bite me Chord, that's it you and I are no longer best friends." Parker mock pouted.
"Halliwell, don't be like that you and I have been bros going on twenty years." Chord protested though he knew no matter how much Parker teased him they would always be best friends.
"I swear to God they fight like an old married couple sometimes." Troy chuckled shaking his head. He found those two highly amusing.
"You're right they do, they kinda remind me of Fred and Wilma." Henry agreed with him.
"Henry, I'm pretty sure that we have things that we can be doing other than wasting time." Bianca pointed out to him coolly.
"I'm just trying to let a little steam off here Bianca, there is no need for you to jump down my throat." Henry replied glaring at her.
"I don't like it when you two call each other Henry and Bianca that means you're about to have one hell of a fight." Liz said looking in between her two friends. They seriously killed her empathy sometimes.
"Actually we're right in the middle of one hell of a fight. Someone I know refuses to acknowledge that I was just doing my job." Henry said pointedly while still glaring at Bianca.
"You could have done your job without arresting my dad." Bianca was just being unreasonable.
Rachel shot Chris a look and he pinched the bridge of his nose. "B, you know I stay out of it when you two fight, but you're wrong this time. We gave Uncle Frank every chance in the world to walk away and he didn't take it. Neither one of us wanted to arrest him and Dante, if we had been given a choice we wouldn't have. We had no choice in the matter they were in the middle of our crime scene. Hank wouldn't have been the one to arrest Uncle Frank if Dante hadn't run, but he did so I had to chase after him I'm faster than my partner." Chris reasoned with his best friend.
Bianca turned to glare at Chris. "Chris, just stay out of it Henry is a big boy he doesn't need you to take up for him." She spit out bitterly.
"B, you're being a bitch right now." Rachel told her cousin.
"You've met my mother I come by it naturally." Bianca replied with a shrug.
"Prue, I can't believe that I'm about to say this but do something about them." Chris sent to his cousin. He hated to get her started but they weren't leaving him with much of a choice.
A smirk spread across Prue's face. "Gladly, it's just going to take me a minute Peanut." She replied sweetly.
"We'll buy some time just get it done." Chris ordered. He couldn't take listening to those two fight any longer. "Alright, here's the plan let's take a couple of hours and get some sleep and something to eat then since we have nothing else to do we can help Troy look for that damn sword." He suggested.
"That sounds good to me little brother." Wyatt agreed quickly.
"Sounds good to me too." Jake chimed in.
"Cookie Dough, he mentioned getting food of course you agree with the plan." Prue teased him.
"I'm no worse than your husband is." Jake defended himself.
"Honey, let's just go get some food and maybe take a nap. I'm going to need it if I have to do hours of research." Lilly begged him.
"Ok," Jake agreed before he shimmered them out.
"Chris, are we staying here or are we going to my place?" Rachel asked him.
"We can go to your place." Chris said before he orbed out with her.
"Ladybug, baby, can I talk to you for a minute?" Chuck asked his wife hopefully.
"I guess we probably need to talk." Prue agreed and she motioned for him to follow her to their bedroom.
"I'm out of here call me when we're ready to make a move." Bianca said shimmering out. Oriana shimmered out behind her sister she wasn't just going to let her go off alone.
"I'll be around just give me a shout when you need me." Henry said tensely before he orbed out.
"I should probably go see Val before I go off on my research mission again." Troy said and he threw a teleportation potion at his feet.
"What are we doing Cal?" Parker asked his girlfriend.
"I figured that you, me, and Wilma would go get some food." Calleigh suggested referring to Chord.
"Whatever you say Betty." Chord smirked at her.
"We're just waiting on Fred so we can go." Calleigh replied playfully.
"Come on let's get out of here." Parker said shaking his head.
"I'm just going to go see Mel. If you need me I'll be at the manor." Roman threw out there.
Once everyone had gone Wyatt sat down on the couch next to Liz and put his arm around her. "Listen to that, it's quiet we pretty much have the place to ourselves right now." he said.
"Prue and Chuck are still here they make more than enough noise for any two people I know." Liz chuckled resting her head on his chest.
"I love you Lizzie." Wyatt said bending his head to kiss her.
"I love you too Wuvey Bear." Liz replied.
Prue was sitting on the bed watching Chuck pace the floor of their room. She watched as the muscles in his back tensed and he cracked his neck to relive the tension that he was feeling. Finally she stood up when their brown eyes met. Neither spoke for a long moment they just stood there staring at each other.
"Listen, I'm sorry." Both spoke at the same time. Each gave a dry chuckle at that.
"I know that I'm not the easiest person in the world to live with and I'm sorry that I upset you." Prue apologized.
"Prue, I'm the only one who has anything to be sorry about. I wasn't mad at you I know how you are. I was just pissed because I had a rough day at work. And then to top it all off my little brother and your little cousin decided that it would be a good idea to use my office to have sex and I walked in on them." Chuck said rolling his eyes.
"Ricky and Charlie?" Prue asked sounding amused those two never did anything wrong.
"That'd be the ones I'm talking about. It was one thing to know that Ricky was having sex but seeing it made it real for me. I raised that kid and it made me realize that he isn't a little boy anymore. So when I came home and you told me that you had worked your magic on Emily and Jack I lost it. I still see her as a baby when that's not the case. I'm sorry that I accused you of trying to play cupid because you're not playing at it being a cupid is half of who you are." Chuck explained.
"Chip, I'm sorry about the things that I said to you I was mad and I wanted to hurt you." Prue apologized.
"Hey, I brought that on myself I said things that I didn't mean either. I love you, I mean I love everything about you not just the good things but the bad as well. I love you for who you are and I don't expect you to change." Chuck went on passionately. The tension in his body relaxed when Prue allowed him to slip his arms around her.
"I love you too Chip, just remember what you said when I tell you what I'm about to do." Prue replied with the hint of a smirk playing on her face.
"What are you up to now?" Chuck asked her smiling.
"Chris seems to think that something needs to be done about Hank and B. I'm going to have to get a little creative. I need to know that you have my back on this." Prue explained to him.
"Ladybug, I've got your back. Just as long as you know that this is most likely going to end in bloodshed." Chuck laughed. He knew that Henry and Bianca would both be pissed off about this.
"I know and I'm prepared for them to be pissed off at me. It doesn't really matter as long as the two of them finally get their heads out of their asses." Prue replied with a shrug.
"I guess we better go to the manor then. I have a feeling that we're going to need the book for this." Chuck said nodding his head.
"You're sure you want to help with this? There is still time for you to back out if you don't want to do this." Prue gave him the chance the walk away.
"If you're going to do this then so am I. We took vows Prue and I'm going to stand by them." Chuck replied passionately.
"I suppose that you and I have a lot of work to do then." Prue said smiling up at him.
"You're right about that. This is me and you if we use a spell then it's going to take some time." Chuck joked.
"That's what we have the future kids around for they know a thing or two about a thing or two." Prue laughed.
"We can't use the same spell that you used for Wyatt and Liz. B wrote that spell and I'm pretty sure that she would be able to figure out a way around it." Chuck said thoughtfully.
"That's all the more reason that we should ask Brady for some help. He might not listen to me as good as Jake does but he is still my little brother." Prue had her ways of making him do things even when he didn't want to.
"We could ask Uncle Coop for a hand I mean he has been a cupid for a long time." Chuck suggested.
"I'm not thinking that we'll have much luck there. Daddy refuses to touch Hank and B's love life because they make him hurt as a cupid." Prue reminded him.
"We'll find a way we always do." Chuck assured her before he shimmered them over to the manor.
A/N: Here's the next chapter I hope you guys enjoyed it. I don't know about anyone else but Henry and Bianca give me a headache. That's ok though because Prue is on their case now and it isn't going to bode well for them. Billy and Mia are pretty cute together I don't think that they even realize that they like each other. Poor Nicole clearly still isn't over Tim leaving her the way that he did and now she can't really open up her heart to Cole. I have a feeling that Coop is about to show us all just where Prue gets her cupid skills from. Prue and Chuck made up and that's a good thing although we all knew that they couldn't stay mad at each other for long it's just not how they operate. Chord seems to have it pretty bad for Oriana but she just can't see that. Next chapter I think we're going to have to check in on the future kids and Greg there is no telling what kind of mess they can get into without us keeping an eye on them. Not to mention we still have to figure out who Dodge's parents are and that might come out in the next couple of chapters as well. It's pretty sad that Henry and Bianca are so bad that not even Coop will touch their relationship. I hope Chris knew what he was doing when he asked Prue to do something about them. Until next time please review.
