Chapter 4 – The Result

The room spun in and out of focus as the silver orbs cleared. Paige was relieved to see that she was once again in the manor and if the half broken sofa was any indication, she was in the future once again.

"What date though?"

Paige asked herself. She looked around her in the large room for any indication of the year and the recent events.

And she found it. On the empty wall that first Abraxas and later Chris had used to create a portal through time and space, a large corkboard was hanging.

On it were a multitude of photos, maps, schedules and notes, all with a specific theme. The things she had told Prue to look out for. There were brief notes and comments on them with large ticks or small crosses.

Paige was glad she had been right. Prue was the one with the planning skills while piper and phoebe usually hoped things would work out, and then they didn't.

There was a picture of Cole with the basic information of when/where he would become the source and how to avoid it. It had a green tick

There was a note with how p3 vol 2 killed the source. It had a note attached on how to contain the source's energy in a box similar to the one that holds the Hollow. It was ticked green.

There were notes on the Jenkins sisters. Their post-its were about how to slip Billie a power binding potion after she donated blood. It was marked with a large green tick

"They came in handy"

A voice called to her before she could go through them all. Paige shrieked as she twirled around thrusting a hand out in defense. Of course, nothing happened.

"You didn't get my TK since I never died, sorry"

Prue's green eyes were dancing as she kept her face solemn. Paige let a wry chuckle

"It's okay. What else did I change?"

Prue's returning smile was brilliant.

"Come and see"

The two fell in line walking down the stairs and as soon as they stepped in the kitchen Paige gasped.

"I think I screwed things up too much"

The Whitelighter mumbled.

Piper was in the kitchen cooking up a storm. Leo was sitting on the table playing scrabble with Henry and Coop. Phoebe was kneeling next to a playpen occupied not only with Wyatt and Chris but also a little girl that seemed to be slightly older than Wyatt.

"Nah let me fill you in"

Prue said as both sisters joined phoebe on the floor to pick a child to play with

"We followed your advice on the source"

Phoebe said simply without looking at Prue or phoebe. Prue rolled her eyes

"Are you still mad about Cole?"

"Did you vanquish him?"

Paige asked

"Nope. We did let him rise through the underworld though. It pays well to have your enemies closer than your friends"

Piper called out. Paige bit back the laughter that was about to escape her. She couldn't believe they hadn't vanquished the crazy son of a demoness.

"You also didn't say 'yes' to the angel of destiny, did you?"

"Over my undead body"

Leo stated as he put the word 'spell' on the scrabble board

"Wyatt would still be the 'Twice blessed child' no matter what the girls did with their powers"

Victor added before smiling at her as he placed the letter 's' at the end of Leo's word stealing all his points.

"Anything else I need to know?"

Only that your new niece's name is Pauline"

Prue said with a smile.

"Ask her who the dad is"

Phoebe goaded. Paige smiled as she turned expectantly to Prue who rolled her eyes good naturedly at her sisters

"Bane Jessup"

Paige threw her head up and began laughing

"I like how the whole family has this bad boy feel on our men"

With that Paige put little Pauline back in the playpen where the green eyed girl glared at Wyatt who promptly put the pacifier back to Chris' mouth before the little beast began wailing.

Just as Prue, phoebe and Paige sat with the men of their lives, piper brought breakfast. They all tuck in. Paige watched her family with a smile and put her head on Henry's chest.

This was how it was all meant to be