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Chapter 4: Cupids Gone Wild
Victor walked into his office feeling particularly stressed he had just gotten out of a long boring meeting and it was time for him to put his feet up and relax for a little while. He pulled down his green striped necktie and tossed his suit jacket on the couch that he kept in his office.
"Damn grandpa, it's looks like you're pretty stressed out." Henry commented he had orbed into his office after he left the penthouse because he needed someone to talk to. It had been awhile since he had a heart to heart with his grandfather so he figured that they were about due.
Victor smiled when he saw his grandson was sitting behind his desk with his feet propped up on it. "Hey mean ass long time no see." He greeted him cheerfully.
"Again, I don't know how many times you have been told by my mother and Aunt Piper not to call me that because it's true and then I will think that I have your approval to do the things that I do." Henry replied with a big grin. He really loved his grandpa and he felt bad for not spending more time with him lately.
Victor just shrugged and shook his head. "Your mom and your Aunt Piper don't scare me I'll call you whatever I want to call you." he retorted but he can see in his grandson's eyes that something wasn't right. "What's wrong Hank?" he asked sitting down in the chair on the other side of his desk.
"Why does anything have to be wrong? A guy can't come see his grandpa just because?" Henry asked in reply. But he knew that Victor had always been able to see right through him.
"Sure you can come see me anytime and you know that. But I can see in your eyes that something is going on with you. I think you came here because you want to talk." Victor called him on his bullshit.
Henry sighed and ran his hands over his face. "You're right I do need to talk I'm just not sure that you want to hear about my fucked up love life again."
"Henry, watch your mouth." Victor scolded him lightly. "What did you do to make Bianca mad this time?" he asked trying hard not to smile. It was clear to everyone that those two were crazy about each other they just spent more time dancing around each other than they did dancing with each other.
"I arrested Uncle Frank last night." Henry answered and Victor gave him a look. "I cut him loose into Aunt Lyn's custody, but B came down to the station with her and it wasn't pretty. I don't know if we'll be able to get past this one." He said sadly.
Victor scoffed at that. "Frank is a big boy I'm sure you gave him every chance to walk away and he just didn't take it. That daughter of his that you're so in love with is just as stubborn as he is. You two can get past this you got past the fact that you used to be in-laws just fine."
"I don't know grandpa, she is pretty pissed off at me right now." Henry said shaking his head.
"If you want my opinion I think she's scared. B doesn't deal with her feelings well and that is not a secret. It scares the hell out of her that she loves you so much and that's why she tries to push you away every chance she gets." Victor said solemnly and the truth of the matter was he was right on the money with that assessment of her.
Henry went wide eyed for a moment he didn't know that his grandpa saw things that clearly. "That sounds about like something B would do. It doesn't matter how many times she hurts me or pushes me away I just keep going back for more." He knew that there had to be something wrong with him to put himself through that much pain just to be with another person.
"That's love my boy. You have been in love with her since you knew what love was. To this day I still don't know what you called yourself doing with Oriana, but you live and learn so you can learn to live. The last thing you need to do is give up on you guys because she does enough of that for the both of you." Victor told him and his blue eyes were shinning with wisdom.
"B tries to make it so hard for me to love her but it's not because loving her is as natural as breathing for me. I don't know how not to love her." Henry admitted.
"You're not the one with the problem here Slugger, she is the one who has the problem and that is only because she has been hurt before. Bianca is a lot like your Aunt Prue but I know that she loves you too even if she is scared to show you. Doing what her heart tells her isn't as easy for her as it is for you. You just need to be patient with her because she is going to see what she's doing to you and she will come to realize that she needs you just as much as you need her." Victor went on. He hated seeing Henry hurt so much that boy had been through more than enough hurt for one lifetime.
"I don't know that it's that easy with her. I don't know what else that I can do to show her that I love her and I won't hurt her." Henry replied with a shrug.
"Henry Victor, I am begging you not to give up and walk away from her. You will regret it if you do. You don't want to live the rest of your life knowing that you had the best thing that ever happened to you but you let it go." Victor pleaded with him. He knew what it was like to live with that kind of regret and he didn't want that for his grandson.
"I'm not giving up her grandpa, not now or ever for that matter." Henry swore to him and then he thought of something. "That wasn't about me and B was it? That had to do with you and grandma." He asked knowing that he was right.
"I don't want you to have to live with the regrets that I have. If I could do it all over again I wouldn't have walked away from your grandma. I still love her so much that it hurts but I let your Grams push me away without a fight." Victor said and then he thought about whom he was talking to. "I wouldn't trade you, your mom, your sisters, or your brother for anything in this world though. It's just that if I had stayed Paige would really be my daughter and I wouldn't have to put up with Sam's annoying ass all the time."
"Mom is really your daughter you're the one who has been there for her. But I do get what you're trying to say grandma is the only one for you just like I wouldn't be happy with anyone but B. For what's it's worth though she still loves you." Henry replied. He asked the most unlikely people for relationship advice all the time.
"You're pretty wise when you want to be. I think that you need to go talk to B." Victor suggested.
Henry groaned when his phone chirped. "If only that were possible right now. I've got to go you know the fate of the world rests on my shoulders and all," he said sarcastically.
"It comes with the territory." Victor offered helpfully.
Henry took his feet down off the desk and hugged Victor. "I love you grandpa, thanks for the talk. I'm sorry that I haven't spent much time with you lately."
Victor just ruffled his hair. "I love you too Hank, anytime you need to talk you come to me talking is what we do. You've been busy lately so you have nothing to be sorry for. I'll see you later big guy."
"See you later." Henry said before orbing out.
"Do you mind telling me what was with you and Hank?" Oriana asked her older sister. They were in the kitchen of their parents' house.
"I thought you knew that Bianca is pissed off at him because he arrested your idiot father." Lyn answered her youngest daughter rolling her eyes.
"I'm not an idiot Lyn, I resent that remark." Frank protested he was feeding his son a bottle.
"Yeah mom, I did hear something along those lines but she was pretty short with him today." Oriana replied ignoring her father.
"This right here is why I didn't come around you people for years. You don't know when to leave well enough alone." Bianca sighed. She was in the middle of making herself something to eat.
"Don't be a bitch Bianca Lyn." Lyn ordered her.
"I come by it naturally, you two should have thought about that when you made my middle name Lyn." Bianca replied being the smart ass that she was.
Lyn glared at her daughter with her brown eyes. "Frank, that is your child you do something about her. I'm going to be honest my first instinct is to kill her right now. Let me see Gus and you can deal with the problem child." She said taking their son and not leaving him with much of a choice.
"B, I am a big boy. I knew what I was doing when I didn't walk away when he told me to. That one was all on me I was being stubborn, and I knew damn good and well that he would arrest me if I didn't leave him with a choice. You can't blame this on him because it was my fault and I know that." Frank reasoned with her.
"Save your breath dad, she isn't listening." Oriana said and she was only digging herself a hole with her sister.
"I don't see why you care so much Oriana. It's not like this has anything to do with you." Bianca snarled at her.
"It matters to me because I care about the both of you." Oriana replied not backing down from her.
"O, you still love him don't you?" Bianca accused her.
Oriana paled for a moment. There was no way that her sister could know about the conflicting feelings she had towards Henry it would only hurt her. "B, I was married to him. Deep down I'm always going to love him on some level. But I don't love him like that and I don't think that I ever did." She said finally.
"Just like no matter what I do he is always going to love you so I don't know why I bother to try." Bianca said throwing her hands up in the air. She knew that that wasn't true but it did give her an excuse to be difficult.
Lyn looked at her middle daughter knowingly. "This isn't about Hank arresting your father, this is about you," she said locking eyes with her.
"I don't know what you're talking about mom." Bianca denied her claim.
"Don't you try spouting your bullshit to me Bianca Lyn Hoyt. You finally realized just how much you love him and that scares the hell out of you. So now you're looking for a way to push him away so that you can be comfortable, you look at him and you see forever and you don't think you're ready for that yet but you are. I know that you don't handle your feelings well but you need to realize what you're doing by pushing him away. He is the best thing that has ever happened to you and you will regret it if you lose him." Lyn lectured her.
"Mom, I really don't want to talk about this right now." Bianca deflected.
Lyn just shook her head at her. "Fine, we don't have to talk about this but sooner or later you are going to have to talk to him about it. So until then I'm going to need you to refrain from snapping at everyone who tries to talk to you."
"Dad, can't you do something about your wife and daughter?" Bianca asked Frank plaintively.
"Nope, your mom's right B. The sooner you realize how good you two are for each other the better off you will be." Frank said for once not taking her side.
"Jesus, it's a little early in the morning to have to deal with B's boyfriend issues." Chase said walking into the room with Lindsey hot on his heels. Those two were partners in crime.
"Your sister always has boyfriend issues I don't know why that surprises you." Lindsey replied.
"You two are not helping matters right now." Lyn scolded them.
"I'm glad that you two showed up. Mel said that you need to stop what you're doing or she was going to have to have an official talk with you." Bianca said not caring that her parents were in the room.
"I don't know what you're talking about B." Chase denied knowing what Bianca was insinuating.
"In plain English that means either stop with your pot growing company or your ass is going to get locked up." Bianca said bluntly.
"Francis Chase Alexander Hoyt, what is your sister talking about?" Lyn asked him with her hands on her hips.
"Nothing mom," Chase said gulping.
"Really Aunt Lyn, it's nothing." Lindsey agreed nodding her head vigorously.
"It doesn't sound like nothing to me." Frank said glaring at them.
"B, what are those two up to?" Lyn asked her daughter.
Bianca was going to answer but she felt her phone buzz in her pocket. "As much as I would love to answer that question I have to go right now. Good luck Chase you're going to need." She said before shimmering out.
"Looks like you're in trouble now Chase." Oriana smirked at her little brother.
"Shut up O, no one asked you." Chase protested. He was going to kill his older sister when he got his hands on her. His mother glared at him and he gulped again.
"Alright children the object of this game is to make your opponent fold their hand." Dodge announced to Jeremiah and Lyn. He had them sitting at the kitchen counter and he was teaching them how to play poker.
"Ok, Uncle Dodge," the two youngsters said in unison.
"Dodge, I'm sure that Maria is really going to love the fact that you're teaching her daughter how to play poker." Jack said shaking his head at his nephew. He was watching Lyn for Maria and it worked out since her and Jeremiah liked playing with each other.
"They're both older than I was when I was taught how to play." Dodge replied shuffling the deck of cards in his hands.
"You were taught by a degenerate gambler though." Jack chuckled.
"You'll get no arguments out of me on that one." Dodge said with a shrug. His father was the one who had taught him how to play and there was no love lost between him and his dad. "We'll do this first couple of hands heads up and then we'll get into the finer points of poker." He said as he started dealing cards.
"Jack, could you explain to me why there is a hell's angel wannabe teaching two toddlers how to play poker in the kitchen?" Phoebe asked her nephew.
"Dodge, is harmless and Vic sent him back to help us out." Jack explained in the simplest way possible. He couldn't believe that his Aunt Phoebe didn't know that he was her grandson.
"Dodge, you wouldn't be chance be a Halliwell would you?" Paige asked him.
"I am and that's all I can say about that." Dodge answered her. "If this were a real game, Lyn, you would want to bet that hand now," he instructed the little girl.
"Please tell me that Dodge isn't your real name." Prue begged him.
Dodge looked at Jack, who nodded his head, before he answered. "No it's not, my name is Dean but I go by Dodge. It's the nickname that my dad gave me." he had said more than he intended to but it was an accident.
"I really wish you people wouldn't question him. He is bound to slip and tell you something that he shouldn't." Paige said coming into the room with Dom following close behind her.
"Paige, if it were up to you the phone book would be classified." Piper said rolling her eyes at her granddaughter.
"Only the good parts." Paige replied with a smirk.
"Paige, I don't know why you tempt fate like that you know that Aunt Piper will blow you up." Dom cautioned her.
"Dom, you're in my good graces right now, if you want to stay there then I suggest that you not say too much." Paige said glaring at him. She had let him spend the night with her she didn't know what more he wanted.
"Ok, fine I won't say anything else." Dom said crossing his arms over his chest.
"Dodge, Aunt Maria is going to kill you when she finds out that you taught her daughter how to play poker." Paige said laughing at him.
"Like I told Jackie, I was younger than they are when I was taught how to play." Dodge retorted.
"Stop and think about who taught you to play and then you will know why that makes sense." Dom pointed out to him.
"Yeah, I really don't want to think about that but thanks for bringing it up." Dodge commented sarcastically. Dom knew damn good and well that he hated thinking about his father. He couldn't believe that he had suggested such a thing.
Coop hearted into Nicole's house with Phil on his hip. He had thought of the perfect way to help her and Cole with their relationship and he was dragging his six-month-old son down with him.
"Hey Coop, what are you doing here? And just let me say that Troy isn't here if you're looking for him because he did something to Val." Nicole greeted him from her place on her sofa where she was feeding Dom a bottle. She knew her oldest son well so there was a good chance that he had done something to upset his girlfriend.
"No, it's nothing like that Nic, I'm here because Cole asked me for my help." Coop replied he couldn't help laughing a little because of what she had said about Troy.
"Benjamin, what did you do?" Nicole asked her boyfriend sternly.
Cole looked at her sheepishly she had just broken out his first name. "I didn't do anything I just went to talk to Coop. He didn't have to come over here in all his cupid glory." He replied and he was looking pointedly at Coop as he spoke.
"Like it or not you two need my help. And it just so happens that I have time to help you right now. Just let me help." Coop said but he was looking at Nicole as he spoke. He knew that her stubborn ass was the one that he would have to get through to.
"What do I need your help with Coop?" Nicole asked him. She was pretty much resigned to her fate. She knew that he wouldn't go away unless she gave into what he wanted her to do.
"Nic, you never dealt with Tim leaving you. You're not going to be able to move on with Cole and be happy until you do." Coop spoke to her gently. He knew how badly her ex-husband had hurt her.
"Coop, I don't know what you want me to say about that. I didn't have time to process him leaving me I had our kids to take care of. He didn't give them any thought when he was walking out. I had to be the one to provide for them when he didn't so I didn't have time for me." Nicole replied on the verge of tears.
"Nic, it's obviously still affecting you. Let Coop help us I promise you that you will feel better if you do." Cole tried to reason with her.
"What about Dom?" Nicole asked.
"I was good enough to watch Troy and Lizzie when they were little, but I'm not good enough to keep an eye on Dom? I will have you know that that cuts me deeply Nicole." Coop replied playfully.
"Of course I trust you with Dom. It's just that you have Phil and I don't want to put you on overload." Nicole trying one last time to get out of whatever it was he wanted her to do.
"Phil is getting his first lesson in how to be a cupid. If it makes you feel any better the boys and I will go down to the manor." Coop assured her.
"What is it that you want to do?" Nicole asked.
"Hand me Dom, I'm going to send Cole with you to guide you through your past with Tim." Coop said and she placed the baby in his free arm.
Cole wrapped his arm around Nicole. "How does this work?" he asked now he was starting to get nervous.
"I'm just going to zap you guys with my ring and that will be it. You'll come right back here as soon as you see everything that you need to see." Coop explained.
"Coop, just do this before I change my mind." Nicole said sighing. Coop held up his ring and it glowed bright pink for a moment when the light dimmed Cole and Nicole were gone.
"Ok boys, let's go to the manor. I have a feeling that I'm going to be in trouble." Coop told the two little boys that were in his arms. He hearted down to the manor with a smirk on his face.
Henry looked around at the rundown theater that he appeared to be in. That was odd because one minute he had walked into P3 and the next thing he knew he was here. He didn't like this one bit because he wasn't sure what had caused it. A moment later he no longer had to wonder what or rather who had caused this to happen.
"Oh joy, you're here too." Bianca said leaning against the wall.
"I'm not thrilled about this either." Henry replied. This wasn't his idea of a good time.
"I'm sure that Prue is very happy with herself right now though." Bianca said there was no doubt in her mind that this was Prue's handy work.
"There is no doubt about that." Henry said rolling his brown eyes and crossing his massive arms over his chest.
"What the idiot didn't take into account is I'm the one who wrote this damn spell and I know how to get out of here." Bianca said shaking her head. She couldn't believe that Prue was stupid enough to try to trap her with a spell that she had written.
Henry shook his head he knew that it wouldn't be that simple. "Prue might be a nosey ass who can't mind her own business to save her life, but she isn't stupid. I'm sure that she thought of that before she went through all the trouble of getting us here," he pointed out to her.
Just as Henry spoke the creaking and popping of an old projector starting up could be heard and a message flashed across the screen.
Hank and B, I'm sure that you two are probably pissed with me right now but honestly I could care less. I had to do this for your own good before one of you said something that you would regret. B, before you get any ideas there is no way for you to get out of here. I was smart enough to think of that before I got you two here. There is nothing that you can do but sit back and enjoy the ride. I know that I'm going to be paying for this later that doesn't matter to me as long as you two are ok.
Love, Ladybug
"Well, at least she seems to know what she did is wrong." Henry offered lamely. He sat down in the floor and tried to get comfortable.
"That still doesn't mean that I can't kill her." Bianca seethed.
"I'm right there with you. I'm thinking up ways to torture her right now." Henry agreed.
At that moment the screen flashed again.
I had to get a little creative with you guys so not only are you going to see your dating past but your also going to see your past lives' relationships. I know that it seems extreme but you two happen to be very stubborn. Like I said I know you're going to kill me later but that is just something I'm going to have to deal with.
Love Prue,
Act I
Henry
Age 15
Henry was standing at his locker in the hallway of the high school he attended with his cousins. His hair was longer and he had it spiked up, he wasn't as muscular as he would be later in life but he still wasn't lacking much in that department. He was dressed in a football jersey and a pair of jeans. At the moment he was staring off into space or rather he was staring at someone. Bianca was just down the hallway standing at her locker talking to Oriana. Bianca really looked the same; her long dark hair was pulled into a ponytail, she was dressed in her softball jersey and a pair of jeans. At eighteen she had already started the transition from awkward teen to adult.
"Hank, I don't know why you're standing here making googly eyes at B." Chris said leaning up against his cousin's locker and scaring him in the process.
"I don't know what you're talking about Chris. I'm not making googly eyes at B, I'm just in a zone right now." Henry replied defensively while looking down at his feet a sure sign that he was lying.
"From where I stand you were either looking at B or Oriana. Just let me say that your chances are better with the younger Hoyt sister." Chris advised him.
"I'm seriously going to do not nice things to Prue when I get my hands on her." Henry commented dryly.
"Henry, I didn't think that it was any secret that you have been in love with me since you were like fifteen." Bianca replied tensely.
"It's not I just don't think that there is any need in rehashing all of this." Henry pouted.
"Would it be so wrong if I liked B that way?" Henry asked his older cousin.
"No, but I'm telling you B is my best friend so I know that you don't have a chance with her." Chris tried letting him down gently.
"You don't know that for sure. Maybe I should ask her to go to homecoming with me." Henry said getting a goofy smile on his face.
"No chance in hell of that happening." Chris shot back at him.
"Why not?" Henry asked plaintively.
"Because unless I can find a date in time I'm going with her." Chris replied patting him on the back.
"Come on Chris, it can't hurt me to ask." Henry complained.
"Yeah it can and that's why I don't want you to ask her. The last thing I want is to see you get hurt." Chris said he was really just trying to look out for him.
"You really liked me didn't you?" Bianca asked him in a softer tone than she had spoken to him with all day.
"Yeah B, I thought you were gorgeous I still do." Henry replied looking at her with nothing but love in his eyes.
A time shift occurred and now Henry was approaching the table where Bianca ate lunch.
"Hey B," Henry said cheerfully sitting down next to her.
"Hey Hank, what are you doing?" Bianca asked. She wasn't like most upper classmen who wouldn't have anything to do with the freshmen.
"I have to ask you something." Henry said seriously looking into her deep brown eyes with his own.
"What do you have to ask me Hank?" Bianca asked smiling at him.
"You were so skinny." Bianca said chuckling.
"I was only fifteen. I can't even make fun of you because you looked great as always." Henry replied.
"Hank, I was just a kid too." Bianca said blushing. Only he had that affect on her.
"I was just wondering if maybe you wanted to go to homecoming with me?" Henry asked hopefully.
Bianca looked at him sadly and sighed. "Hank, I love you and you know that, but I'm telling you that maybe you should go with O. I promised Mr. Big Bad Football Player that I would go with him since he can't find a date and he and Julie are broken up right now." she told him gently.
"If you weren't going with Chris would you go with me?" Henry asked just setting himself up for heartache.
"Hank, you're a really sweet kid, but I'm no good for you. I know that you have a crush on me but I'm telling you to get over it." Bianca reasoned with him.
Henry forced himself to smile. "That's ok, I just thought I would ask. But you're right I should ask O even though she gets on my last nerve." He tried to sound upbeat but the hurt was apparent in his voice.
"I really hurt you didn't I Hank?" Bianca asked. She had never given that day anymore thought but it was apparent from the look on Henry's face that he still remembered it.
"Yeah, it did hurt pretty bad, but I was asking for it Chris had tried to warn me." Henry replied.
"I just can't ever seem to do the right thing where you're concerned." Bianca said more to herself than to him.
Henry, you have always loved B no matter how many times she turned you down. B, you have always had Hank's best interests at heart even if it meant you not being happy. I wish you guys could just get over yourselves and be together.
Prue
"She is really a pain in the ass isn't she?" Bianca asked sitting down next to Henry.
"You can say that again." Henry replied rolling his eyes.
Cole and Nicole appeared in front of what looked to be the beach. "Nic, these are your memories where are we?" Cole asked her.
"We're at the beach and this is the first time that I met Tim." Nicole answered him as the scene unfolded in front of them.
Nicole was sitting on top of a sand dune; she had her long blonde hair pulled up to keep it out of her eyes. She had on a pair of jean shorts to cover her bikini bottoms; her bare feet were buried under the sand as she sat there reading.
"God, Nic, you were hot." Cole commented and then he whistled.
"I was sixteen years old Cole. That was what my body looked like before I had three kids." Nicole replied rolling her eyes at him.
"So that's where you met Tim huh?" Cole asked.
"Watch and you'll see." Nicole replied before turning back to the scene.
Nicole looked up when she saw a shadow fall over her. Standing over her was a good-looking boy around her age. He had dark brown hair that was close cropped and brown eyes. He was clad in only swim trunks; he had no shirt on and his well-muscled torso was on display.
"Is this seat taken?" he asked her with a grin that showed off his pearly white teeth.
"No, you can sit down if you want to." Nicole replied smiling back at him.
"Tim Shane," Tim said offering his hand to her.
Nicole took the offered hand and shook it. "Nicole Covington, and from the sounds of it you're not from around here Tim Shane." She said in her thick southern drawl.
Tim laughed at that. "I'm actually from California, I'm here with my parents and my brothers on vacation. I guess that's pretty obvious from the way that I talk though."
"I'll say that that gave you away." Nicole replied with an impish grin.
"I guess that this is home for you then?" Tim asked trying to get to know her better.
"No, I'm actually from Atlanta, but we have a beach house here." Nicole explained to him.
"I don't want to sound too forward but I would really like to take you out if you'll let me." Tim said getting right into what he wanted.
"That's really nice of you and I would actually like that a lot." Nicole said taking a chance on him.
"Nicky, is this guy bothering you?" a blonde headed young man said coming over to them. He was about 5'10 with sandy blonde hair that was cut close to his scalp. He was also made of muscle.
"No, Landon I'm fine. You can go back to doing whatever it is you were doing." Nicole answered him.
"Are you sure he's not bothering you?" Landon asked her again.
"No, but you are." Nicole said through clenched teeth.
"I'm telling mom." Landon told his sister.
"If it get's you out of my hair I could care less." Nicole replied shooing him away. "I'm sorry about that. Older brothers can be the worst sometimes." She said once her brother walked away.
Tim chuckled. "You're not telling me anything that I don't know I have two older brothers."
"I have four older brothers and I want to kill all of them." Nicole laughed.
"They drive you to it." Tim agreed.
"Your brother's name is Landon?" Cole asked her sounding highly amused.
"Yeah, and out of my four brothers he is the biggest jerk." Nicole said rolling her eyes.
"So about this date?" Nicole asked Tim.
"Right, if you give me your address I can pick you up at seven tonight." Tim offered.
"Sure, that sounds good to me." Nicole agreed with a smile.
"That's all it took for him to get you to go out with him?" Cole asked he had practically had to beg her to go out with him.
"Yeah, I thought he was cute and he was from out of town I couldn't resist him." Nicole replied grinning at him.
"So I guess you moved to California for him." Cole ventured a guess.
"No, I moved out to California for school. Tim and I had a relationship that lasted two summers and that was it. It ended the summer before my junior year of high school I didn't see him again until college." Nicole explained to him as the scene started to shift.
"Jesus Christ, Uncle Greg, you scared the shit out of me." Greg said when he found his uncle sitting in the living room.
"I told you that I would be around don't act so surprised that I'm here." Gorgon replied shaking his head at the boy.
"I'm not surprised you just scared me I didn't expect you to be here." Greg reasoned sitting down beside him.
"I thought you wanted to talk about redemption?" Gorgon asked him.
"I do I just don't think that there is anyway for me to redeem myself." Greg replied looking downcast.
"This is the part where I say I told you so." Gorgon said like it was no big deal.
"What for?" Greg asked him sounding highly insulted.
"I told you that messing with Gideon would bring you nothing but trouble. You chose not to listen to me. Had you listened then you wouldn't be in this mess right now." Gorgon explained his reasoning to the hardheaded boy he had raised. He had always had to learn things the hard way.
"Uncle Greg, the last thing that I need right now is one of your lectures. I need your help. I don't want to be the source." Greg pleaded with him.
"Benny, I don't know what to do with you sometimes. You get yourself in these messes and then I have to come bail your ass out. Hell, I'm bailing your ass out from the wasteland." Gorgon said rolling his eyes as Greg began pacing.
"I know, trust me I know I'm the source of all evil and I need my dead uncle to bail me out." Greg said as he continued to try to pace a hole in the floor.
"Benjamin, how many times do I have to tell you about your pacing?" Gorgon asked him sounding amused rather than annoyed. He missed the young man in front of him more than he was willing to admit.
"The same number of times that I have to tell you that it helps me think." Greg shot back at him.
"That's your problem you always were more of a Halliwell than a Turner. But your witch genes are strong I suppose that I should have seen that from the beginning." Gorgon mused.
"I don't know why I'm doing this. I can't go back to them my mom will never forgive me for the things that I have done and forget my siblings and my cousins they hated me anyway." Greg rambled on just like Phoebe would.
"Your father managed to redeem himself and he was far worse than you are, I would say that there is hope for you yet my boy." Gorgon tried calming him. He really didn't like to see him in this much emotional distress.
"I don't see how." Greg argued. That was the Halliwell in him coming out he couldn't just go with the flow he had to argue with everything.
"Trust me there is, you might try talking to that new demon you made friends with." Gorgon suggested getting him on the right path.
"Dodge? I don't see what help he will be he is just a demon." Greg replied.
"That's where you're wrong. Talk to him I promise it will help you." Gorgon swore.
"Fine, but when you're wrong I get to say I told you so." Greg said petulantly.
"I'm not wrong, I have to go for now but I will be back when you need me." Gorgon said and with that he was gone.
Greg ran his hands over his face. "I am really nuts I have to be there is no other explanation for it." He muttered. He looked at himself in the mirror his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep and he had grown a thick beard. When he could be bothered to shower he didn't bother with shaving. Hell he barely ate unless his stomach told him that it needed food. He was in sad shape and all because he seemed to be on the wrong path.
"Just so you two know we're dead when they get back." Chuck said to Prue and Brady.
"They're not going to kill us. Sure they are going to be pretty pissed off but they're not going to kill us. Hank likes his job too much and he won't let B kill us because he couldn't live with her being in jail." Prue said dismissively.
"I'm not worried I have you two to hide behind." Brady said picking at his fingernails a sure sign that he was worried.
"I take it that you guys did the deed." Chris said walking up to them. They were in the living room of the manor since they had to do research.
"Hell yeah, those two needed help and I wasn't going to sit around and let them throw a perfectly good relationship away." Prue answered him like he was crazy.
"As long as you're the one that they're pissed at and not me I can care less." Chris said shrugging.
"Bullshit, when they start yelling I'm telling them that it was all your idea." Chuck protested.
"Be a man and take one for the team Chuck." Rachel teased him.
"If this was Wyatt and Liz I would gladly take one for the team but this is Henry and Bianca. There is no way I'm putting myself in the way of their rage." Chuck said like she was talking insanity.
"I'm thinking that you should have thought about that before you helped your wife send them skipping down memory lane." Rachel pointed out to him. She was glad that she wouldn't have to deal with her cousin.
"What are we talking about?" Wyatt asked when he orbed in with Liz.
"Hank and B." Brady answered his oldest cousin dryly.
"That is one topic that I rather not discuss. I had to deal with both their crabby asses earlier today and it was no pleasant for me." Liz said shaking her head at the thought of those two.
"I see there's still trouble in paradise." Mel commented at she came in the room with Roman.
"Ro, tell you girlfriend that she has to go play with the rest of the little kids." Chris joked knowing damn good and well that his sister would get pissed.
"Fuck you Chris, I don't think you're funny damn it." Mel said glaring at him. And then she went over and punched him in the arm for good measure.
"Ow, Mel, that shit hurt. I was only joking you fucking brat." Chris said rubbing his arm where she had hit him.
"Children behave yourselves." Wyatt spoke to his younger siblings with an air of authority.
"Shut up Wy," Chris and Mel yelled at him in unison.
"Ungrateful ass younger siblings I swear they don't know that I'm just trying to look out for them so mom doesn't kill them for their arguing." Wyatt grumbled. Chris and Mel looked at each other and then they both pulled him into a hug.
"We love you, you big teddy bear, you're just the one of us who is the easiest to pick on." Mel said ruffling his hair.
"Only because no one would dream of picking on you or Chris because you two are so much like Aunt Piper." Roman said and then he smiled at her sweetly when she glared at him.
"Watch yourself Roman James, the next time that you wake me up I'm going to throw you out of my bed." Mel said wrapping her arms around him.
"You know that you're not going to throw me out of bed. That's where I do my best work." Roman said making his eyebrows dance.
"Cut it out Huckleberry, my big brothers are both standing right here." Mel teased him.
Roman blushed he hated being called that. "Don't call me that, only Jimmy can call me that and only because I can't figure out how to get him to stop."
"Huckleberry Hound was one of the greatest cartoon characters of all time. If you ask me that is a pretty sweet nickname." Chris joked.
"It's not just a damn nickname it's on my fucking birth certificate." Roman said incredulously.
"Don't bitch at least you found this shit out before you got married." Lilly said shimmering in with Jake. She had not been happy when she came across her birth certificate and found the name Clementine on there.
"Baby, it was funny as hell. I don't think I've ever seen you so pissed off at Aunt Eva before." Jake laughed just at the thought of how his wife had gone through the roof.
"It wasn't funny at all Jake, the woman lied to me my whole life. And I didn't find out until I went to get my last name changed." Lilly said glaring at him.
"Lilly, do you still sign the wrong name to your checks?" Liz asked her.
"Hell yes, I get pissed off every time I do it. When I'm at work it's not a big deal, it's when I'm making out the checks for the utilities that it matters. I can't tell you how many times I've been right in the middle of writing a check and I realize I put the wrong last name on there." Lilly replied.
"I do it damn near every time I go to sign my name to anything. I went to register for classes this semester and that was a joke. I had to take my time signing everything." Liz said rolling her eyes.
"That's why you do what I did you don't change your name." Prue smirked at them.
"The only reason you didn't is because Grams would have a fit." Mel pointed out to her cousin.
"Like you would change your name Mel." Prue retorted.
"Hell no I'm not changing my name when I get married. Criminals happen to fear the Halliwell name I like things that way. Besides that I can't spell Nicolae to save my life." Mel informed her.
"It's true not many people can." Roman said nodding his head.
"Mel, sweet baby sister of mine. I think you might be a legend in your own mind. We're basically undercover cops no one knows our last name." Chris chuckled.
"Chris, just don't mess with me right now." Mel said putting both her hands up palms out.
"Ro, you did this to her she used to be sweet and innocent." Lilly accused her brother.
"Are we talking about the same person right now?" Roman asked a dubious look on his face.
Mel smiled at him sweetly. "Babe, why don't you go fuck yourself?" she asked in a conversational tone.
"Because you already did today." Roman replied giving back as good as he got.
"You're lucky that I have things to do that don't involve you. I have to go torment the kids by making sure they'll be ready when we have to face the Triad." Mel groaned. Getting them to train was about like trying to get a toddler to sit still.
"I love you Mellie, please be careful." Roman said pulling her close to him.
"I love you too, Roman James. I'm always careful I have to worry more about you and your band of idiots getting hurt." Mel replied kissing him before she left the room.
"I resent that I'm not an idiot." Wyatt said with a confused look on his face.
"That look on your face right now says different." Brady ribbed his older cousin.
"Brady, I need you to go keep my daughter out of trouble." Chris said shaking his head at him. He had to stop him and Wyatt from getting into it.
"Paige leads me not the other way around. She is a bitch just like her mother when she wants to be." Brady grumbled.
"Hey, say what you want about Paige because you have earned the right just leave my cousin out of this." Rachel said smacking him on the back of the head.
"He is only speaking the truth my sister is being a really big bitch today. So much of a bitch in fact that even mom told her to stop being a bitch." Oriana said coming into the room with Chord, Parker, and Calleigh.
"By my count we should only be missing Troy right now." Chris said taking inventory of who was there.
"He's with Val, I expect him to be running a little late." Prue said shaking her head at the thought of what her little sister could be doing with Troy.
"Where are Hank and B?" Parker asked he knew that those two were never late for anything.
"Prue sent them down memory lane." Chris answered with a shrug.
"Prue, tell me that you didn't." Liz yelled at the younger woman. She still had nightmares about that shit.
"The situation clearly called for drastic actions so yeah I did. The two idiots deserved it; trust me they have been torturing us all for months. Now it's their turn to suffer." Prue replied like it was no big deal.
"They are going to be fucking pissed." Calleigh said what everyone else was thinking at the moment. But they rather that they be pissed at them than deal with their relationship bullshit any longer.
A/N: Look at that you guys are getting two chapters in one day. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I thought that Hank and Victor needed to have a heart to heart it's been a while since we've seen Victor. I loved Lyn calling B on her bullshit like it was nothing. Dodge teaching the little kids how to play poker was funny as hell and it was just about something that his father would do that's a pretty big clue to who his parents are if you haven't figured it out yet. Coop is showing just where his kids got their cupid skills from and he is damn good at it. Greg is going nuts or something he is seeing his uncle and holding conversations with him. Hank and B are not happy at all at the moment, but so far we're seeing that their relationship has never been easy. We're finally getting to see how Nicole and Tim met and see a little into their relationship and how it worked. One day soon we might have to get into why Tim left but that is something for another time. Until next time please review.
