Chapter four

Henry Mitchell Junior

It was Sunday morning, April twelfth, which meant Payton would be turning ten in two days. At the table the family were together enjoying homemade pancakes, made by Wyatt. Paige and Andy were filling in the adults on how their white-lighter case was going, they still had to find out which type of demon they were dealing with. Wyatt was giving Melinda advice on what to do about a bully in her class. Chris was thinking about the date he had gone on the night before with Dakota, it had been perfect and beautiful. Tamora was complaining about being grounded for piercing Mackenzie's ears the previous month, but everyone was ignoring her. She would be ungrounded at the end of April, that's how mad her parents were. Kat and Henry were making plans for the comic book they wanted to write together. P.J. and Parker were telling Patty and Penny the funny story about a kid in Parker's class ripping his pants a few days previous. Payton and Preston were arguing over who had the most syrup on their pancakes. Paris was telling off Passion and Aria for stealing each others drinks. Mackenzie was eating her food like a dog while the actual dog Belle was sitting on the ground next to her begging. Trixie (P.J.'s cat) was on the counter intensely watching the family eat, she did this during every meal.

"I have an announcement" Payton stated standing up, her family went silent to give her their attention.

"As a thank you to the Elders for bringing me back to life last year, I am going to do a good deed each day for the entire week!"

"That is a wonderful idea honey, and a great way to celebrate your tenth birthday" Andy replied.

"I am very proud of you Payton, doing something for others is very mature" Prue praised her.

After breakfast the family went about their day. Prue started the laundry that was done every Sunday. Piper headed off to work at her restaurant with Wyatt and Chris. Leo and Coop each bathed two of the four year olds. Phoebe threw all the dishes used for breakfast into the dish washer and started it. Henry headed off to his office for a check in with a sixteen year old parolee. Paige and Andy headed off to their charge's house to see if Abigail's pregnancy was showing yet. Melinda and Kat headed out to meet up with Alyssa at the mall. Tamora was in her room on her bed pouting about being grounded. P.J. headed out to complete her cupid duties for the day. Henry wondered into his room to do some reading. Parker and the others except Payton all went out to the back yard to play.

Payton decided to start off her good deed week by visiting the hospital. She followed a lady in to make it look like she was with her mother. As she got out of sight from the sectary she wondered around looking for someone to cure. (She had gotten her healing powers only a few days before.) She soon came across a woman crying in the arms of a man. "Excuse me, I don't mean to not mind my own business but why are you crying?" Payton asked this sweetly with a look of empathy in her eye, this was her trick of getting hurt people to talk. "Our little girl is sick with cancer, the doctors don't think she's going to make it" the woman replied. "May I speak with her alone? I've been through it before" Payton lied. The lady smiled kindly and nodded at her husband. The man opened the door leading to the hospital room his daughter was in, Payton walked in and closed the door. She walked up to the bed and saw a child around eight hooked up to a bunch of things trying to keep her alive. The child looked at her and smiled, "I don't have many visits from kids" she whispered groaning. "I'm here to make you all better" Payton whispered. "You're not a doctor." "No I'm better than a doctor, I'm an angel." Payton placed her little hand on the girls heart and it started to glow in gold, then a second later to glow disappeared. "I feel better, wow you really are an angel" the girl said normally. "Well Half angel, my daddy's a real one though." Payton smiled at the girl who would live because of her. She kissed her forehead and walked out of the room. She was thanked by the parents for being so kind and then went home to tell her family.

At the mall Melinda Kat and Alyssa were in the food court having lunch. Alyssa took a sip of her coke and made an annoyed comment about how the malls Piazza hut employees had forgotten to put in ice. "I can freeze it for you if you want" Kat suggested, "Alright I guess that will do" Alyssa agreed. Alyssa took off the lid and Kat held her hand over the drink ready to freeze it, but instead she made four ice cubes appear in the coke. "Even better, thanks Kat" Alyssa thanked. "I've never conjured up ice before, cool." "Looks like your powers just advanced, that happens time to time" Melinda explained to her.

In the same mall but on the other side in a clothing store Paige and Andy were following Abigail. They were pretending too look at clothes while making sure they stayed close enough to Abigail to see her bump, and far enough away to avoid looking like stalkers. It took a whole twenty minutes before one of them got a good enough look at her stomach. "Bump look like yours did when you were four months pregnant with Kenzie" Andy whispered. "So that means our demon is a father of hell" Paige stated.

Paige and Andy returned to the manor where Sam was talking with his three of his four grandchildren Tamora, Henry junior, and Mackenzie. Paige's white-lighter father Sam Wilder rarely ever visited, he was mostly seen only at New years eve, his grand-kids birthdays, and sometimes Christmas. "Dad what are you doing here" Paige asked giving him a quick and semi awkward hug, they were not very close but she understood he was often too busy with his job to visit. "I am here because I want to take the children out for the day." "For what reason?" "Do I need a reason to want my grandchildren for the day" Sam asked then seeing his daughter's face said "I have the day off and thought it would be nice to spend the day with them then have supper with you, them, and Henry." "Can we mom please" Kenzie asked. "Yes, but wait until Kat gets back from the mall, she'll be home soon" Paige agreed.

While waiting for Kat Sam sat in the living room telling his grand-kids stories of his adventures. He had charges all over the world and that had allowed him to experience so much. He had always been an amazing story teller, knowing how to change his tone of voice to fit what he was talking about. The children loved it when he came to visit.

"Grandpa what are you doing here" Kat asked when she and Melinda got home.

"Ah there she is...but wait you can't be her, your to big" Sam teased as he hugged Kat.

"Grandpa is taking us around the world today" Tamora filled in her sister, she was happy because it meant an exception to her grounding.

Tamora Henry Junior and Mackenzie got on their shoes and coats, Kat hadn't taken hers off after getting home. Once they were ready Sam held hands with Henry jr. and Mackenzie as Tamora held Kenzie's other hand and Kat held hands with her brother, that way Sam could make sure they all orbed to the right place, and Henry couldn't orb on his own since he was mortal. The first place they went was Paris. Sam took them to different shops so they could each buy an outfit and souvenir. He had tons of money saved up, he never had to use it since he didn't live a mortal life. After shopping they had lunch by the Eiffel tower.

"Tamora what is one place in this realm you would want to visit" Sam asked her.

"Texas, I want to do that country dance"

"Then that is where we will go when you're all done eating" Sam declared.

The children hurried to finish eating then all held hands again. They orbed to a club in Texas where they could do that dance Tamora had mentioned. They joined the other people as the music started. Sam knew how to do this and told the kids to just follow along. Tamora couldn't keep up at all and fell once but she just got back up and laughed as she tried again. At one point Kat ended up kicking Henry when lifting her foot to high. Kenzie was trying her best but was no where near close, it didn't matter since she was having a blast anyways. Henry However turned out to be really good at it even though he had never done it before.

When the dance came to an end Kat got to pick the next place, she wanted to go to Canada to try maple syrup. Sam took them to a regular grocery store in Canada and bought them each a bottle of maple syrup. They then sat in a park and tried it. Tamora liked it and Kat loved it. Henry didn't really care for it, and Mackenzie liked it but complained because it was sticky. They then went swimming with mermaids in Australia, and after went to London, England because Mackenzie wanted to stand on the London bridge as i her favourite nursery rhyme was the London bridge is falling down.

Sam brought the children back to the manor just in time for supper. They told their parents everything they had done that day as they all walked to a restaurant. Inside they found a table together. Sam spent the the evening catching up with Henry and Paige but made sure to involve the children into the conversations. Paige found it odd that her father had taken her kids on a tour of the world and had supper with them. Even as she put Mackenzie to bed that night she still didn't believe it had happened. The next morning she found out why he had done it when she got a visit from the head Elder.

"Mrs. Matthews I am very sorry to have to inform you that your father was killed last night" Head Elder informed looking sad, the entire family was there to hear the news too.

"What happened" Paige asked as Kenzie wrapped her arms around her waist, Paige wrapped an arm around her to her comfort her.

"Sam knew there was a gang of dark-lighters after him, he knew it would happen yesterday. He came to us that morning asking for the day off so he could say goodbye to you."

"The dark-lighters, what happened to them" Kat asked holding hands with her sister and brother.

"They are being dealt with as we speak, last night we simply got there to late, but Sam did give us a message for his family."

"Don't focus on my passing, focus on the fun we had. I'm sorry I wasn't around enough, I regret that. Being a white-lighter should be no excuse for not seeing your daughter and her family."

With it being a sad day the children were excused from school, and the working adults took the day off. In the back yard with all their family and friends they had a funeral for him tough there was no body to burry. "At least he's with grandma now, she and grams will take care of him" Mackenzie said with in sweet yet sad little voice. Paige nodded to the young child and took her into her arms.

"When you think you'd never lose someone it hurts ten times more when you do" Mackenzie whispered in her mother's ear.

As the week went on the household was quiet as Paige and her children mourned and healed. The rest of the family was supportive, quiet out of respect. It was times like these when a family needed to come together. Yet Payton still did one good deed everyday. Monday she saved a newborn not expected to make it, Tuesday she returned a lost dog to its owners, Wednesday she donated all the things she didn't need or want anymore, Thursday she returned a lost child to his desperate and worried family. Friday she helped a new student in her class with an assignment. Saturday morning she stood up for a kid being bullied just outside the manor. On Saturday afternoon the head Elder returned to the manor and the family gathered in the living room.

"Payton Halliwell please come forward" Head Elder called out.

"What can I do for you sir" Payton politely asked.

"Nothing young child, this is about you. For all the good deeds you have done this week, and as a gift for your tenth birthday, you are getting a reward."

"Awesome, I mean thank you, what is it?"

"Whatever your heart desires."

"Bring back Sam Wilder, as a white-lighter again!"

"Payton, I love you so much for asking that, but you should ask for something that would make you happy" Paige said smiling at her.

"Aunt Paige seeing you and my cousins happy is the only thing right now that can make me happy. Sir, my wish is for you to bring white-lighter Sam Wilder back!"

Head Elder nodded and waved her hand towards her right. In A flash of light blue light Sam Wilder appeared the same as he was before his death. The Elder orbed out as Tamora and her siblings ran over to Sam for hugs. Paige tightly hugged her niece for the kindness she could never repay, then hugged her father she never thought she'd ever want around as badly as she did.

"You are going to make a fine white-lighter some day Payton Halliwell" Sam told the young child.

"Why didn't you tell us you were being haunted, my sisters and I could have stopped it" Paige asked her father.

"You have white-lighter blood Paige. A dark-lighter's arrow poisons only those with white-lighter blood. So how could I ask my daughter to risk her life just to save mine?"

These words made little Henry come to the biggest realization he would ever have.

"Grandpa my mother was killed by a dark-lighter's arrow."

"Yes that is correct."

"The elders knew all along, made sure it was Paige and Leo who took the case, I was the only white-lighter who knew everything about you before you were even born. Was told you would figure it out when the time was right" Sam went on to say.

"Was my mother a...a white-lighter" Henry asked, his heart pounding in his chest.

"Kristina was our best white-lighter, one with a destiny. She was reborn as a white-lighter to your grandmother after being a white-lighter for several centuries. However she was raised without knowledge of magic. Her destiny was to have you."

"What makes me so special, I am mortal."

"You were still in Kristina's womb when she was shot with the arrow, yet you survived. Haven't any of you ever wondered why that was, why the dark-lighter was after Kristina or Henry?"

"Mom was a white-lighter that's why she was shot with the dark-lighter's arrow, and I must be alive because I was orbed out in time."

"The dark lighter wanted to kill you not your mother, but it had to be done before you were born."

"Grandpa I have no white-lighter powers, no powers at all, I am nobody special."

"Why should that mean you never will be?"

"Now you're scarring me, what do you mean?"

"Henry you will be the one to run the entire world after your mortal death. You will be the most powerful being ever created, nothing will be able to kill or harm you. Henry Mitchell junior...you will be god!"