Chris flipped through the Halliwell Book of Shadows till he came to a page with a picture similar to the one in Robin's book.
"Cousin's, more formally known as Consobrina's, are not distinguished as good or bad. Some say they are lust demons, others say they love love." Piper read out loud.
"They get their name Consobrina from the ancient Latin language, meaning Cousin. They are called Cousin's because they are cousins to three different sub-species of magic. The Siren, the Succubus, and the Nymph."
"The full extent of a Cousin is unknown. What is known, is that they do not come into their full powers till they are sixteen and that they can be identified by a pentagram on the inside of their wrist. On the stroke of midnight on their sixteenth, they start their training that lasts a year. The training is to teach them to control their powers and their desires."
"Cousin's tend not to interact with humans since they live on another plane. The only ones that interact are half-breeds and their Cousin parent. No half-breed is allowed to reside in the Consobrina world after their fourth birthday out of fear of breaking the Treaty of Co'tay'ess. Which states no human can stay in the Consobrina's world for longer then a year. The half-breeds can stay until they are four because they are powerless and defenseless unless their other half is magical."
"There is no sure way to kill a Cousin, it is quite difficult. All you can really do is throw everything you have at them and hope it is enough."
"Note: A pregnant Cousin or one that has a young child is a very fierce warrior and should not be face lightly. Also, members of the Royal family are the most powerful and should not be attacked at all out of fear that we shall break the treaty of Ca'toy'ess and be at the Cousin's mercy." The information was signed: Cassandra Warren.
Piper and Phoebe shared a look, both praying the girl wasn't going to become a threat.
"So you've only just came into your powers?" Coop asked, long been off the phone.
"No, only my mom's, my father was magical as well." Robin looked at Coop with a bored expression before looking back at her book. She had changed pages while Piper spoke and was now looking at the new words sadly. There was a decorative boarder around the page's and a picture. The picture portrayed beautiful Consobrina twins who had blonde, wavy hair and forest green eyes. Words wove around the girls, telling their story. Robin waved her hand over the page and more words were added to the bottom.
"Who's that?" Chris inquired, looking at the page.
"That ones my mom, I'm just finishing her story," Robin confessed, pointing to the twin on the right. "I got my brown hair from my dad."
"Where is your dad?" the question came from Phoebe.
"Dead, he died before I was born. Consobrina carry a child for twelve months. Mother told me she became pregnant just before dad went on an adventure. He died after it, that's why he went, he knew it was the last thing he'd do. But she said neither of them held regrets besides the fact that he never got to meet me." Robin's stomach grumbled as white and blue lights appeared.
As Paige materialized, Piper moved over to the fridge. "Is there anything your allergic to? Do you have a favorite food?" Piper asked Robin.
"I like Milica's," Robin replied, putting a hand on her empty stomach.
Piper looked at Leo. "It's a fruit in her world, kind of like a mango cross a custard apple," Leo clarified.
"Ar, okay, well we don't have that, anything else?"
"Some nice person gave me something two days ago, it was triangle and had melted yellowy stuff on top with other stuff under it. It was called pa-za."
"Pizza? I can make that." Piper then set about getting the ingredients together. "When was the last time you ate anyway?"
"That day." Robin's forest green eyes were wide and innocent. She couldn't work out why the humans looked shocked. "What? I hadn't eaten for four days before that, and a week before that. I had to be careful with the food mom had with her."
"Consobrina's can last a long time without nurturance," Paige piped up. "Oh, and the Elders called me away cause of Robin." The humans calmed down and looked at Paige. "Turns out they wanted to let us know about Wyatt's balance."
"Balance?" Piper's voice went slightly higher, not liking the fact that she didn't know something about her son. The Elders had agreed to tell them anything they needed to know and not hold back. That, and not call anyone away during family or private times unless it was an emergency.
"Piper, relax. Balance: good and evil, Ying and Yan. He's the Twice Blessed, she's the Twice Cursed. The Elders called me away because demons are after her. She's supposed to be on their side because Wyatt's on ours but she's not. Her mother didn't care either way and her father was on our side so she had a choice." At this, Paige looked at the little girl sitting on the table in front of a book. "She chose to turn down the demons offer, so she's on our side, or no ones."
Piper looked at Robin as her stomach gave another growl. "You know, Sweetie, this pizza's going to take a while, so we may as well have it for lunch and I'll make you a sandwich in the mean time. How's that sound?"
Robin looked up in surprise. "Okay."
"Mom likes to cook," Chris explained. "What did your mom like to do?"
Robin thought for a moment before replying, "Dance. I remember her dancing at the Luna festival."
"The what?" Chris gave her a questioning look.
"The Moon festival. There's a celebration every full moon. My mom was also a really good fighter, and a horrid cook." Robin did something rare… she smiled.
"Anyway, back to the balance, Twice Cursed thing." Piper changed the subject as she put a sandwich in front of Robin.
"Well, we've already seen she has a shield but other then that, I don't know. She's as strong as Wyatt but her powers are well, opposite. He's are good, when hers might not be." Piper gave Paige a look, telling her to go on. "That's all they told me."
"Typical," Piper muttered with a roll of her eyes.
"Come on Robin, meet my cousins and sister." Chris took Robins plate for her and held out his hand, helping her climb off the table. Before leaving the room, Robin closed her Book of Shadows and scooped the big book up in her little arms.
The adults vaguely wondered why Chris didn't add Wyatt into that but then they figured it had something to do with the fact that it was the fact that she was Wyatt's balance.
Robin sat on the lounge next to Chris as his family practically surrounded her. Well, his cousin and siblings anyway.
"Hi, my names Penelope but you can call me Penny, everyone does," a little girl with blonde-brown hair rambled, her face close to Robin's.
Robin lent away from her, and without realizing, lent closer to Chris. She brushed up against him, but didn't flinch. "I'm Robin."
"Hi, Robin, are you a witch?" Penny asked.
Robin shook her head. "No, I'm a Consobrina." When Penny looked at Robin with confusion, Robin translated. "Cousin."
"You're a cousin? I didn't know we had another one." Penny squealed with excitement.
"No, Penny, she's not a cousin. Cousin is the species she is. Consobrina is Cousin in Latin." Chris rolled his eyes at Penny.
All six of his cousins and his two siblings were looking at Robin in awe. It was clearly making Robin uncomfortable.
After more questioning and some awkward silence, there was a disturbance. The children turned around to see four leather clad demons. They all snarled at the ten little ones. One of the demons looked as though he had been attacked with chlorine. His hair and face were paper white and his eyes were an extraordinarily pale green. Two looked human, with one having black hair and the other, brown. The last had a green face, red hair and two, small purple horns.
Upon seeing Robin, the demons armed themselves with fireballs. The children scattered and Chris knocked Robin out of the way as they threw the fireballs at the couch. The couch blew up and sent chard remains everywhere.
Robin wiggled out from under Chris and ran behind a wall. Crouching down, Robin looked around the wall at the demons and held her fingers to her temples. Robin squeezed her eyes shut. Just as Piper, Paige and Phoebe came running into the room, Robin turned the two larger couch remains, along with the coffee table and a small vase stand, into humans with bow and arrows. The men were tall with lengthened hair and tights. The men started fighting the four demons that threatened Robin.
"Robin Hood, and her marry men." Phoebe chuckled at the memory of a demon that had done something similar.
The three adult charmed ones looked around when they heard the sound of orbing. They looked over to see Chris orb off the floor and over to Robin just as she fell backwards, unconscious. Chris looked at his mother with pleading eyes just before one of the conjured men was destroyed. Instead of blood though, fragments of wood went everywhere. He had obviously been one of the wooden tables. Not knowing what to do, Chris orbed out, taking Robins limp form with him.
Piper, Phoebe and Paige, along with the 'Marry Men', overthrew the demons and vanquished them. Now they faced the dilemma of where did Chris go with Robin?
"I'll go get the Scrying crystal and the map," Paige said, already heading to the stairs.
"Hurry," Piper urged.
Paige did as she was told and was back in moments. It didn't take long to locate Chris either, seeing as Piper did the scrying. They were on the Golden Gate Bridge.
"I'll go get them," Paige volunteered, getting ready to orb.
"No, I will. Chris is probably scared and Robin didn't look all that great. Chris won't want to bring her back here unless he knows it's safe and he trusts me above anyone else," Piper justified.
"She's right," Phoebe agreed. "He seems very protective of Robin. And have you noticed she can stand his touch? Might be the Elder in him."
"Alright, alright, I'll orb you," Paige said, waving her hand and making her eldest sister disappear in a swirl of lights.
Chris appeared on the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, holding the unconscious girl in his arms. He laid Robin gently down on the cold metal. He pushed her wavy hair out of her face as he sat down next to her.
He had orbed up to the bridge a few times before, after hearing about it in many family stories. He felt safe on the bridge, like no demon would attack him whilst up near the skies.
Chris shook Robin softly to try and wake her. When she didn't, Chris started to quiver with fear of what might have happened to her. He held his hands out over her body and tried to heal her, but nothing happened. Fat tears leaked from Chris' jade eyes. Chris pulled Robin into his arms as he rocked her back and forth. He buried his face in the croak of Robin's neck as he cried. This caused Chris to not hear the orbing behind him.
"Peanut, what's wrong?" Piper asked when she saw Chris crying.
"I… I c…can't help her," he stuttered sadly. "I wish I was Wyatt, he's better, he could save her."
"Chris," Piper said in a demanding tone. "Wyatt is no better then you. I never want you to think that, okay?" Piper crouched down next to her middle child and made him look up at her. His face was tear-stricken and full of sorrow. It was enough to break a mother's heart.
"She won't wake up!" Chris' voice hitched from the tears. "I tried to heal her but I couldn't. Mom, I couldn't heal her."
Piper rubbed her sons back as she shushed him soothingly. Leaning over, Piper tried to find a pulse, but couldn't in the neck, chest of wrist. Just as she was about to suggest orbing her to Paige, Chris dropped his head in sorrow, placing it on Robin's stomach. Suddenly, Chris' eyes flu open as his ear stayed against Robin's stomach.
"Mom, I can feel her heart. It's in her stomach!" Chris told her, pure happiness on his face.
"Good, now let's get her to Aunty Paige," Piper instructed.
Chris straightened up and took his mothers hand as he placed his other on Robin's stomach, feeling his heartbeat on his palm. He orbed out and back to the Manor. They landed in Chris' room with robin lying on his bed. Wordlessly, Chris let go of his mothers hand and waved his at Piper, orbing her out of the room and down to the kitchen. She was back in moments, coming through the door with Paige, Phoebe, Leo and Coop in tow.
"Aunty Paige, heal her," Chris ordered, his whole body shaking with fear.
Paige ignored the fact that her nephew had just given her an order, and instead of scolding him, obliged. She moved forward and held her hands over Robin's body, but there was no light emanating from her hands; there wasn't any injury to heal.
"She's not injured," Paige informed them.
"But then why is she out cold?" Phoebe asked.
"She's only knew to her powers, maybe she over did it and passed out. It's not uncommon for this to happen to young Consobrina's," Leo eased their worries.
"So she'll wake up?" Chris asked his father, finally dragging his eyes away from the little girl.
"She needs a Mind and Body Strengthening potion. She has a lot of power for a little body and it, along with her mind, can't take it." Leo sighed. "It's a good thing I know a Consobrina that owes me a favour from back when I was an Elder. I'll get in contact with him."
"I bet you never expected Chris to have a girl in his bed so young," Phoebe teased her older sister.
Piper rolled her eyes as the man stirring something in a pot chuckled. "What are you chuckling at?" Piper demanded to know.
"Oh, nothing," the handsome man replied. The man, who was around twenty, had black hair, warm brown eyes and tanned skin. He was well toned and it was made obvious by the tight, grey top he wore.
"Aiden, how's the potion going?" Leo asked, coming into the kitchen.
"It's going," Aiden informed him as he added another herb into the potion. "Good thing you told me what you needed before I came over because you don't have all the ingredience I needed. I had to go to the old home to get it."
"The old home, that's where Mute lived 'till recently, right?" Paige asked, using Robin's nickname that she rather liked.
Aiden nodded his head as he added a piece of weird fruit into the potion, causing it to sizzle. At the girls quizitive look, he said, "Milica, it's really healthy, strengthens the body and mind… not to mention makes the potion taste better."
The potion took ten minutes to simmer and in that time the girls tried to not notice how attractive Aiden was. They did find it amusing that when the little girls came into the kitchen and spotted the other bean working on the potion, they would blush, drop their eyes and run from the room. They found it even more amusing that Aiden failed to notice as he concentrated on making the potion correctly for the little on like him.
"Okay, it's done. After this first dose, give her another one every three weeks." Aiden ladled some of the pink liquid into a cup before letting Piper lead him to Chris' room.
Piper opened the door slowly and found Chris sitting on the floor, leaning against the bed. Robin was still laying on it unconscious but Chris had orbed her under the blankets.
Aiden walked passed Piper when she held the door open for him. He smiled at Chris as the boy scurried out of the way. The man sat down on the edge of the bed and propped Robin up against him. Tipping her head back slightly, Aiden fed Robin the potion.
As Robin gave a cough, Aiden laid Robin back down against the pillow. The small group waited as the potion took affect. After a while, Robin opened her forest green eyes and looked around in confusion.
"What happened?" she whispered.
Aiden chuckled his silky chuckle as he looked down at the little girl. "Stay laying down, little one. I have just given you a Mind and Body Strengthening potion."
Robin obliged but looked over at Chris. "Are they gone?"
"Yes," Piper answered for her son. "My sisters and I, along with your conjured men, vanquished the demons. That was some display of power."
"Thank you, my mother told me it was a favoured trick of my fathers. He was a conjurer among other things." Robin looked down sadly as she mentioned her deceased parents.
"I've been told that you have you have nowhere to live, and the Halliwells can't put you in an orphanage seeing as you're not human," Aiden confessed. "Well, I have a large house and only me to fill it. Not to mention I understand about what you are seeing as I, myself, am a Consobrina." Robin just looked up at him with big, green eyes, not letting on to whether or not she knew what he was getting at. "Do you want to live with me? When and if you feel like it."
Robin stayed quiet as she mold over the proposal. Finally, she slowly moved her head in a agreeing jester. "Okay."