A/N: Thanks to Thunder903, Smart One 17, Bikerchick101, and Ph for reviewing.
Chapter 4: Duce's Wild
"It's six in the fucking morning Troy there better be a damn good reason for you having us all up this early." Liz bitched at her brother. They still weren't on very good terms so she wasn't talking to him very nicely.
Troy just glared at her. That was rich she was mad at him after she had been seeing Tim behind his back. If anyone had the right to be pissed he did, he hadn't forgotten what that bastard had done to them. "I figured that we should all be up an hour early since the game starts at seven." He reasoned with her.
"That brings us to a very important topic, who the hell is playing?" Chord asked he knew that he was in for sure. He had even managed to earn his entrance fee for the game the night before.
"Chris and I talked this over last night and we figured that it should be me, him, Wyatt, Chuck, Park, Coop, and B." Henry spoke up that seemed like a good idea to him.
"That seems fair since Ro and the girls can't play poker to save their lives." Troy said nodding his head in agreement.
"Fuck no, there is no way in hell that you guys are going to stick me with those girls all day. That isn't fair." Roman said jumping to his feet in vehement protest.
"I don't like being stuck with you either Hobbit, but it doesn't look like I have much of a choice in the matter." Prue shot out at him.
"What are we supposed to do with our time while you guys are all stuck in there playing?" Lilly asked although she could think of a number of things that she could do. Granted all those ideas were likely to get her in trouble.
"Baby, this is Vegas you can do just about anything that you want. There is all kind of things for you to do." Jake promised her.
"Seriously Lilly, we can do some hardcore shopping here." Oriana said excitedly. It was always about shopping with her.
Prue got a huge smile on her face. "I like the way you think O, I'm fairly sure that we could do some major damage here." she agreed.
Rachel rolled her eyes at them. "Roman you can hang out with me and Lizzie while those three go buy out the whole city." She offered.
"Thank you for taking pity on me as well there is no way I'm being stuck with those three." Liz didn't want to be around Lilly and Prue while they were shopping and Oriana wasn't much better.
"I will have you know that you guys are stuck with me too. If you talk that bad about all of them then I'm not going to hang out with them." Calleigh piped up.
"Don't worry Cal we would never do that to you." Liz assured her. She found they got along a hell of a lot better since they were both in relationships.
"We are not that bad I will have you know that we are all wonderful people." Oriana huffed.
"Guys, I think that it would be wise for us to get a move on we want to be early. Oh and remember the things that we discussed last night." Troy suggested.
"Yeah, I know we've got this under control." Henry assured him.
"Let's just get dressed so we can get some breakfast before we have to go play." Chuck said his world revolved around two things food and Prue.
"Well, these aren't the three cops that I expected to be feeding this morning but this is a pleasant surprise." Piper said as Mel walked in the side door followed by Jason and DJ.
"Morning, Aunt Piper," DJ said going over to her and kissing her cheek.
"Good morning, Mel do I want to know where your brother and your cousin are?" Piper asked a little afraid to know the answer to that question.
Mel went over to the table and took her baby brother out of his bouncy seat. "I'm not really sure where those two are but they both called into work last night. That is why DJ had to work with Jay and me. I'm sure that they probably just took B and Rach and did something on the spur of the moment. I wouldn't be too worried if I were you mom."
"Christopher, Bianca, and Henry together worries the hell out of me I don't care what they're doing." Piper said and if she really knew what they were doing at the moment she would kill them.
"Rach might be with them, trust me Aunt Piper they aren't as bad when she's around." DJ spoke from experience.
"That is still not a comforting thought DJ, Rachel will go along with whatever kind of mess those three cook up." Piper sighed as she went back to making breakfast.
"On the bright side Chris and Hank aren't prone to cooking up messes that is more of a Prue thing to do." Jason offered he had known them for a long time so he knew how they worked.
"This is true so I'm just not going to worry about it until something tells me I should." Piper said trying her best not to stress.
"Jackie is starting to get big." Jason said tickling the little boy's belly he let out a cute little giggle.
"Tell me about it, he is outgrowing his clothes so fast that at the rate he's going he is going to burn through his college fund in no time." Piper replied.
"Mom, I really wish you wouldn't mention the word college right now that just reminds me that I have to go to school in a little bit." Mel groaned. She was stupid to think that she could go to school after she had worked all night.
"I feel your pain on that one Mel. I know what it's like you have to pick which classes you want to sleep in." Jason chuckled.
"I will admit to nothing like that in front of my mother but it is tempting at times." Mel admitted as she rocked Jack back and forth. "You are such a handsome little man yes you are." She cooed at him.
"I like how she uses the kid to change the subject. Though I should know that she is good at changing the subject like that we did date for two years." DJ made an observation.
"Darryl Shawn, you are just asking to have her kick your ass." Piper warned him.
"Deep down Mel knows that she still loves me and she would never hurt me." DJ was seriously tempting fate.
"DJ, you have only recently gotten back in my good graces if I were you I wouldn't play with fire so soon." Mel advised him not that he was going to take her advice but still she felt the need to give it.
"Awe Mels, I hate to do this to you but I don't think that he is the man that you need to deal with." Val said coming in the side door. She and Mel rode to class together on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Mel fixed her cousin with a glare she had no clue what the fuck the girl was talking about. "What are you talking about Val?" she demanded.
"I'm talking about while the head chef we had last night was blonde haired and blue eyed he was also southern as hell I found that out the hard way." Val replied. She had mistaken Jimmy for Roman from behind and she had told him he needed to take Mel to bed and make her happy.
Mel gritted her teeth. "I swear to God I am going to castrate that bastard." She seethed. She knew that Roman had to be up to no good that was the only explanation for him not going to work.
Leo walked in the room at that moment and took his son from his only daughter. "There will be no talk of castration in front of me or the boy thank you very much." He told her kissing her on the head. "Do you want me to orb him to the Arctic Circle without a coat?" he asked. She was his only daughter it was his job to make sure no one hurt her.
Mel smiled at little at that. "No daddy, I have to make sure that he actually did something to warrant being frozen to death first. But I will be getting back to you on that in a moment." She pulled her cell phone out of her pocket and hit speed dial number three. She held the phone to her ear and listened to it ring and ring finally she got his voice mail. "Roman James, I'm sure I don't have to tell you who this is. I just heard that you didn't go to work last night. If you know what's good for you, you'll call me back as soon as you get this. I love you but I'm pissed right now." she ranted.
DJ took in some air and then blew it out. "Oh, I know that that is never a good message to get from her I got quite a few of those. He should really know better than to piss her off. I went too far one time and she blew up my damn lamp of all things."
Mel pointed her finger at him. "You deserved that, you're just lucky that you're not magical so I couldn't blow you up or I would have. Trust me the only thing that saves Roman from that is that he isn't half whitelighter or half cupid."
"Now I'm slightly worried that your brothers and your cousins just might be up to something." Piper said letting out a long loud sigh. She had thought she would have to worry less about her boys as they got older but they were not making it easy on her.
"Piper we don't know that they are up to anything they could be innocently doing nothing." Leo tried reassuring her even though the words felt like a lie as they left his mouth.
"Really mom I'm sure dad's right. Ro is probably off doing God knows what, while Hank and Chris are doing something else all together. So I say that for now we have nothing to worry about. Unless you count the fact that you should be worried about what I'm going to do to Roman when I get my hands on him." Mel was just getting her temper good and warmed up.
"Oh Mel, you know as well as I do you won't kill him you will just find a way to make his life hell for a little while." Jason reasoned with her.
"Can't I kill him just a little Jay?" Mel begged him.
"No, you can't kill not even just a little. You know that homicide is illegal and I would only have to arrest you. I don't want to do that because you make working with Chris and Hank bearable." Jason explained to her.
"From the way you talk mister I'm starting to think that you like her better than you like me and I'm your girlfriend." Carly pouted as she orbed in. she was up early but that was because she had been working on whatever it was she and Val were working on at the moment.
Jason went to her and wrapped his arms around her. "For reasons that I can't imagine it just so happens that I am very attached to you." he said kissing her.
"Leigh, before you get distracted by the boy did you get anything done?" Val asked her cousin.
Carly rolled her eyes. "I finished the sketch that I have been working on the last couple of days." She informed her.
"That's my girl I knew that you would get the job done." Val beamed at her with pride.
"Only because my boy had to work last night or I would have been with him." Carly said as she reached up to kiss Jason again.
Huck chose that moment to teleport into the kitchen. "The real fun can begin the sex god has arrived." He announced cheerfully.
"Don't say things like that Huck, it's not nice to lie. Trust me I know that you are no sex god." Val zinged him good that time.
"Perish the thought of course I am and right now I am waiting for my love goddess to show up. I haven't seen her since last night." Huck came back. He was really sharper witted than he let on.
Mel made a gagging noise. "Don't make me puke Huck. I really wish you wouldn't say things like that." She said shaking her head.
"No shit, don't talk about my baby sister like that I will kick your ass if you don't watch your mouth." Val threatened him.
Huck got a big goofy grin on his face. "I can't help how I feel about Penny and I don't care who knows it either." He said defensively.
"Why anyone would ever knowingly date one of my Aunt Phoebe's kids is beyond me." Mel mused to herself.
"Please Mel, we're a hell of a lot better than you and your surly ass brothers." Val retorted with a snort.
"No, you guys are nosey, bossy, pushy, and most of all you can't stay out of other people's love lives." Mel said ticking off each item on her fingers as she spoke.
"I would get mad at that if you hadn't just described Ladybug to a T. Jake, Penny, Phil, and I are none of those things." Val replied. If Greg needed any proof that his plans were failing all he had to do was listen to how his siblings talked they never mentioned him when they were talking about their brothers and sisters.
"Bullshit, Jake and Phil may be normal but you and your sisters are all those things." Mel informed her with a smug smirk.
Huck figured that he better defuse that situation before it got any worse. "Speaking of sisters, I guess it would be too much to hope that you guys have seen mine?" he asked hopefully.
"Sorry Huck, but I haven't seen Cal in a couple of days come to think of it I haven't seen Parks in a couple of days either." Leo said tilting his head to the side like he was deep in thought.
"Aha, I now have conclusive proof that I should be worried about those older kids." Piper announced. She actually liked having something to worry about. Well she didn't like it but she seemed to worry a lot so she didn't know how to act when she didn't.
"Mom, you've got nothing." Mel said trying to calm her down.
"I have more to go on than I did before as you well know Parks and Ro are pretty good friends." Piper said not willing to see that maybe there was nothing for her to worry about.
"Add that to the fact that I don't know where Troy is right now and you have a lot more to go on than that." Val said she so wasn't helping the situation any. But then again she was just a tad bit worried about her boyfriend.
"I'm pretty sure that whatever they're doing they're fine. I would trouble myself to look for them but I have class in like two hours." Mel replied after checking her watch. She loved her brothers and cousins and she wanted them to be ok but she didn't have time at the moment to go looking for them.
"Troy please tell me that there is a point in us being dressed up like this." Parker begged him. They were getting ready to walk out of the hotel so they could go play their poker game.
Troy shrugged, "Well, you see when I got us all into this game I kinda didn't want to use our real names so we all are playing under aliases." He explained.
"How does that have anything to do with Henry being dressed like a cowboy right now?" Wyatt asked the boy was slow on the draw, so him playing poker may not have been the best idea ever.
"Don't call me Henry as of right now I'm Victor Matthews from Tennessee." Henry said in a fake southern accent that was actually pretty good. Hell all he had done was copy Nicole and Jimmy's way of speaking. He was dressed in a red-checkered shirt, he had on a pair of jeans with a huge silver belt buckle, he wore a black Stetson on his head, and his pair of beat up cowboy boots.
"That doesn't explain why Parker looks like he's going to work at one of mom's restaurants." Wyatt replied. Parker was dressed in a white shirt with a black tie and black slacks.
"For right now that's not Parker he's Victor Bennett Jr." Chris explained to his very dense older brother.
"Why?" Wyatt asked this made no sense to him at all.
"Because it's for safety reasons Wy, and it's to bait the other players into making stupid mistakes. Now we really need to go." Troy explained knowing that they would be there all day trying to answer Wyatt's questions.
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Fifteen minutes later the guys and Bianca walked into a hotel that was located in the older part of town. Troy left his friends alone while he went to talk to the desk clerk. The two men talked for a moment before Troy came back over to his group.
"Ok, guys just follow me and be sure you have your money ready." Troy said leading them to an office.
"Troy it's about damn time that you showed up I was starting to think you weren't going to make it." The man in the office said.
Troy just grinned, "You know me I'll be late to my own funeral."
"And that fact that I haven't had to attend your funeral yet surprises the hell out me. I trust that you can actually pay me before hand this time." He replied.
"Of course I can Zack, a guy can change. And if you don't trust me I'll wait while you count it." Troy said pulling a thick wad of bills out of his suit coat.
"I trust you just fine when you have money it's when you don't have money that I get worried." Zack retorted taking the stack of bills from him.
Troy pretended to be insulted. "I wish the rest of you would pay this man so I don't have to stand and listen to him insult me all day." He griped.
"No problem," Henry said laying down five stacks of bills. "That covers me and these six." He said gesturing to Wyatt, Chris, Parker, Jake, Bianca, and Chuck.
Chord set down his stack on the desk. "And that covers me." he chimed in.
"Lead them on Troy, you know where you're going." Zack gestured with his thumb in the direction that they needed to go.
"Follow me again gentlemen and B." Troy said leading to a huge ballroom. There was nothing out of the ordinary about the ballroom itself the only thing different was there was a man guarding the door.
"It's good to see you Shane." The man said giving him what could be considered a smile.
"It's nice to see you too Donnie, we the first ones here?" Troy replied.
"Yup, but you can go on in." Donnie informed him.
Chuck looked at Donnie hard because there was something familiar about him. But he followed Troy and the others into the room. "Troy for some reason your friend at the door seems mighty damn familiar to me." he commented.
Troy laughed at that. "Well he should seeing as he is the one that married you and Prue."
"What?" Chuck asked him with an incredulous look on his face.
"Donnie is an ordained minister you don't have anything to worry about. He just does things like this from time to time. He's a good guy and he owed me a couple of favors so I called him in." Troy explained like it was no big deal.
"Note to self never ask Troy for help again." Chuck muttered to himself.
"Hey, I got the job done and you've got that ring on your finger so that is all that matters." Troy reminded him.
"And let's not forget that he ended up with the shopaholic that I call my sister. So I can see why he would be mad at you not only does he have to keep Prue but he has to pay the bills she makes." Jake spouted off.
"Coop don't start you don't have to see Ladybug today so there is no need for you to bitch about her." Henry said his inner whitelighter coming out.
"Now what do we do Troy?" Bianca asked.
"Now we wait for everyone else to show up so we can get this party started." Troy answered her with a grin.
Prue sighed as she threw her pencil across the kitchen table. "I swear I'm starting to think that Piper and dad were the only two people in this family born with any type of business sense." She groaned.
"Prue what the fuck are you trying to do?" Paige asked her oldest sister.
"This would be me trying to write a business proposal. As I said it's not going as well as I would have liked," Prue bit back sarcastically.
"Piper were you aware that Melinda is so much like Prue?" Phoebe asked a cheeky grin on her face.
Piper bit back a laugh because her daughter and her sister were starting to act alike. "I was aware that Melinda is a bit more like Paige than I would like for her to be but no it has just come to my attention that her and Prue are so much alike. They both have that stressing thing down to an art."
Paige flipped Piper off. "I will have you know that there is nothing wrong with Mel acting like me or Phoebe for that matter it would do the girl some good. She acts entirely too much like you and Prue. The girl has me seriously worried about her right now."
"I know and we'll get back to being worried about my daughter later. Right now I think our sister could use my help." Piper replied. She really was worried about Mel she was afraid the girl was going to burn herself out.
"I have so many issues right now that my issues have issues." Prue informed her sisters.
"Honey, someone with major issues was my son about four years ago." Paige deadpanned.
"My issues are a lot more easier taken care of than the issues he had but still they are pressing." Prue retorted.
"Prue, why are you writing a business proposal?" Phoebe asked not sure what her sister was up to this time.
Prue rolled her eyes at her. "Because you guys bitch about me not having a job and I've been thinking about opening my own photography shop. I think that I wouldn't drive you guys crazy if I had something to do with my time." She explained.
"Piper, help the woman with whatever she needs help with. Lord knows that we all want her to have something to do with her time." Paige said enthusiastically.
"I'm not really business minded either I don't know why you are all looking at me like that. Just because I run four businesses doesn't mean I know what I'm doing. It would be really helpful if Phoebe's future daughter-in-law were here right now. That girl damn sure knows what she's doing and so does Billie for that matter." Piper went off on a tangent.
As if she knew she was being talked about Billie walked in the side door at that moment. "Ah, Billie you're just in time I think Piper and Prue could use your help." Phoebe called out cheerfully.
"As long as it doesn't require me writing a check I will help in any way that I can. I never knew that Billy's senior year was going to cost me this much." Billie whined.
"Billie, it could be way worse you could have twins like I do. Those girls are about to break me." Paige commiserated with her.
"I'm pretty sure that Eva warned you about this but you didn't believe her." Piper laughed at them but she knew what they were going through she had been through it three times.
"Let's make Prue feel even worse than she already does that is all I need is something else to worry about." Prue sighed.
"What's the problem?" Billie asked.
"The problem is I'm attempting to write a business proposal and I have no idea what I'm doing." Prue moaned she really didn't know what she was doing and she needed all the help she could get.
"Let me see." Billie said holding out her hand for the piece of paper. Prue handed it to her and she studied it. "This looks pretty good actually I just need to make a few changes here and there but it will be fine. And you just need to put in what you're going to use a collateral." She said after she had looked it over.
"Well, I was just going to use the house." Prue said lamely.
"That might work and then again it might not with the bank you never know. But you should be good." Billie more or less agreed.
"Ok, now that that is taken care of we can get to my problems." Piper announced.
"Piper, what kind of problem do you have?" Billie asked her.
"I don't have the problem it's my daughter that's the problem. I think she is doing entirely too much and she is going to burn herself out. On the bright side though she has to be one of the highest paid nineteen year olds ever." Piper grimaced just thinking about the number of jobs that Mel had.
"She is your daughter Piper, she's not going to slow down until someone or something makes her." Phoebe pointed out.
"That wouldn't be a problem if I thought she was happy. That girl and happy aren't very good friends anymore. I know that she's more upset about not getting to go away for school than she acts like. But you guys know Mel she isn't going to let it show. Fuck I wouldn't mind her moving out if I thought that would make her happy." Piper sighed she just didn't know what to do about her.
"I could always try talking to her if it would make you feel better. I don't know what the hell I would say but then again it couldn't hurt." Billie offered.
"Billie, I love you for wanting to try but as they like to point out Mel is a lot like me. You my dear are like Phoebe. No way will you be able to reason with that child. That's more of a Henry job that is if I can ever find that boy." Piper said grateful that her niece wanted to try.
"Wait a minute, you don't know where Hank is?" Paige asked suddenly worried about what her oldest was up to.
"Nope, he's missing along with Chris. I don't know if I should be worried or not." Piper explained to her.
"I guess now would be the wrong time to mention that Parks didn't come home last night." Andy said coming into the room.
"Parker didn't come home?" Prue asked with an arched eyebrow.
"No, I was up with the twins at about the time he normally comes in but he never did come home. I mean he could just be with Cal but for some reason I highly doubt that because I called them both and they aren't answering their phones." Andy replied.
"I'm sure that that they're not getting into that much trouble. I mean you guys do fail to take into account that they are adults." Billie offered ignoring the death rays that Piper started shooting her way with her eyes.
"Billie, if this was any other group of people I would agree with you but they have a knack for getting into trouble." Phoebe commented.
"If it's just the boys they're probably fine but if Prue is with them that is only asking for trouble." Paige said it was sad but true.
Phoebe frowned, "I haven't heard from Ladybug today and for some reason I think I should be worried about that. Chuck is at work and she doesn't have to go back to work yet so I should have heard from her by now." she said nervously.
Piper just glared off into space. "I swear those kids are more trouble than their infant siblings. I'm going to kill them when I get my hands on them." She fumed. If only she knew what they were really up to. She would go and drag their asses home.
Ricky sat his and Patty's lunch trays down on the table before he pulled out her chair and then sat down himself. "I shouldn't be this stiff from practice I swear I think Chuck was trying to fuckin' kill us yesterday." He groaned every muscle in his body ached.
"You're telling me I had to soak in the shower for an hour last night. Mom, came to the door three times to ask me what I was doing." Billy agreed cracking his neck.
"Grams was right all men are babies." Carly said rolling her eyes.
"Carly, leave them alone they haven't done anything to you. You're only crabby because whatever Val has you doing is keeping you away from Jason." Patty told her sister. She really didn't want to know what those two were up to. The very thought of what it could be scared the shit out of her.
"I have no problem with that statement. I have a problem with her saying that Grams was right about something." Emily interjected.
"No shit, it's bad when anyone agrees with Grams." Penny agreed nodding her head.
"Em, you're only in a good mood because you were with Jack last night." Hailey teased her.
Emily shot her a glare. "I was not with Jack last night he only orbed in briefly at about midnight to make sure that Jeremiah and I were ok." She corrected her. She didn't need her brother knowing that Jack had stayed a couple of hours so he could get some sleep.
Ricky arched an eyebrow at his sister. "Oh, does Jack just orb into your room often?" he asked. He didn't like the thought of his baby sister being alone with any man he didn't care who it was.
"I don't know what business it is of yours since you do what you want but no he doesn't." Emily shot back at him.
Ricky smirked at her. "I'm eighteen you're not. What Charlie and I do is none of your business." He replied calmly knowing that it would piss her off more.
"Don't you two drag me into this." Patty said not wanting anything to do with the battle that was about to start between the two siblings.
"Charlie, you ended up right in the middle of this when you spent the night with Ricky last night. As a matter of fact I can't believe mom let you spend the night with him." Carly said like the thought had just occurred to her. She liked having dirt on her supposedly innocent sister.
"I will have you know that mom knew asswipe so don't get any thoughts about telling on me." Patty replied sticking her tongue out at her.
"Fuck, I wish you and Henry weren't so damn perfect all the time you two make me look bad." Carly pouted.
"No, you make yourself look bad." Hailey corrected her. "I'm just saying." She said throwing her hands up in the air in a sign of surrender when Carly glared at her.
"This is not fair we just got rid of Mel, I was hoping that I could get some peace to misbehave a little but I can see that that isn't going to happen." Carly lamented.
"It'll be alright I promise Leigh, we can always think up ways to get into trouble." Penny said giving her a smile.
"Do you promise?" Carly asked.
"Of course I promise, we're talking about getting into trouble here. I don't know about you but I don't joke about trouble making." Penny said like the question had offended her.
"Dating Huck has not been good for that girl she was bad enough before." Billy sighed he hated being one of the Reasonable Halliwells.
"Says that man who is friends with Chase Hoyt." Penny countered.
"Once you learn to take Chase with a grain of salt you're fine. It's when you start taking him seriously that problems arise. You have to remember that he is actually the good one when compared to his sisters." Billy said defensively.
"Speaking of sisters I haven't heard from mine today. I think I'm going to count my blessings that she forgot to check up on me." Emily said it was odd if she went a whole day without hearing from Lilly. The woman liked knowing what she was doing at all times.
"Don't feel bad I haven't heard from Hank today and we talk at least once a day." Patty threw out there. She wasn't ashamed to admit that she was close to her big brother.
Ricky got a wistful look on his face. "I remember when my brother used to be like that. Sadly he fell under the spell of a woman and now I hardly ever hear from him." He intoned solemnly.
"Ricky stop being stupid you're kidding yourself if you don't think Chuck always knows what we're up to." Emily reminded him.
Ricky snapped his fingers like he was remembering something. "Oh, that's right he knows what we're doing we just don't know what he's doing."
"Dude, cut him a break he has to deal with my sister that is a full time job for anyone." Penny said coming to Chuck's aide.
"Ricky has a point though they always want to know what we're up to but they never let us know what they're doing unless of course they want us to cover for them." Only Carly would agree with Ricky about something like that.
"Leigh, from what I've seen of the older kids we probably don't want to know what they're up to sometimes. I think it saves us from getting into a whole lot of trouble with Aunt Piper." Hailey put her thoughts in on the matter.
"Hails, does have a point. Aunt Piper can't kill us for the things we don't know about." Penny agreed.
"But still they get to have all the fun while we sit around and do what they tell us to." Emily pouted.
"And God knows they would kill us for doing half the shit that they do." Billy threw out there. If only they knew what their older siblings were doing this time they would be pissed that they hadn't asked them to come along.
"On a scale of one to ten how bad an idea do you think it was to let Prue, Oriana, and Lilly just run off to go shopping?" Roman asked it was a valid question. Those three were very capable of buying out every store in Vegas.
"It was a horrible idea but you know those three once they make their minds up there is no stopping them." Rachel replied she didn't want any part of what those three were doing. They didn't know when to quit.
"I can't believe that the others stuck us with them while they're off playing poker." Calleigh said. She wasn't happy that Parker had picked a poker game over spending time with her.
"No, I'll tell you what I can't believe. I can't believe that Troy thought this would be a good idea. Aunt Piper is going to be so pissed when she finds out and believe me it is only a matter of time before she figures out that we're up to something." Liz raved she wasn't in the best mood. But then again the way that Troy had been giving her the cold shoulder was pissing her off.
Roman looked at her concerned. "Lizzie, what's with you and Troy?" he asked he knew that something was going on between the two of them.
"I don't know what you're talking about Ro, there is nothing with us." Liz replied biting his head off in the process.
Rachel looked at her and gave her a knowing look. "Girl, there is something seriously wrong with you and your brother. You just bit Ro's head off for no reason at all. I suggest you spill before I sic B on your ass you know she will make you talk."
Liz let out a long loud sigh. "He's pissed because I asked Tim for money." She admitted.
Calleigh got a confused look on her face. She knew that Troy didn't talk to his dad so the only way he could have known would have been for Liz to tell him. "Liz, I didn't think he talked to Tim. If you knew it would piss him off why did you tell him?" she asked putting her thoughts into words.
"It's not that simple, Troy showed up at Tim's hotel room while I was there and he thinks that I've been spending time with him. And he isn't wrong to think that I've seen him a few times. I'm sorry but I've lived most of my life without a dad, if at all possible I would like to get him back." Liz explained.
"Lizzie, he just doesn't want to see you get hurt again. We all remember how hard you took it when Tim left." Roman reasoned with her.
"He promised not to hurt me again Ro. I have to at least try with him. God knows I should hate him but I can't because I've never stopped missing him. That's why I'm so fucked up now." Liz admitted to her friends.
"Tell Troy that, make him understand why you're doing it. I promise you the only thing that boy wants is for you to be happy. That's all he has ever wanted since Tim walked out. You may think that your brother doesn't care about you but trust me he cares more than you will ever know." Rachel could see right through Troy and façade that he put up she knew that he was hurt but she knew that he was more worried about Liz.
Liz scoffed at that. "Rach, I know that he cares about me more than he likes to let on. If I know nothing else I know that but he can't be pissed at me for this."
"Troy is only mad because you're doing what he wants to do deep down but he's too afraid to take the risk." Calleigh said she was a hell of a lot wiser than people gave her credit for being.
"Cal, that right there is why we keep you around. You hit the nail right on the head. But I'm not going to worry about my brother right now. We are in Vegas and the others are gambling and shopping we must find something to do." Liz said perking up.
"I'm glad that you said that because I'm thinking that we can go see an Elvis impersonator." Roman said with a huge grin plastered on his face.
"I can't believe the nerve of those people. I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to come with us we know how to have fun." Oriana bitched as she, Lilly, and Prue browsed around a shop.
"I know I don't know who they think they are. They act like we are just the most horrible people on the face of the planet." Prue agreed with her.
"I for one am glad that my brother didn't want to come with us he would only have whined and I didn't feel like hearing him bitch." Lilly put her two cents in.
"Just for that I'm not buying them anything and they know how much I like to buy things." Oriana pouted.
"I have to take something home for Phil because I'm going to need to do something to appease my mother. I'm not stupid enough to think she isn't going to find out about this." Prue mumbled she knew that they were all going to be in deep shit this time.
"I plan on playing the B made me come card. I'm pretty sure that mom will buy it I'm not really sure about dad though." Oriana offered when all else failed she blamed her older sister for the things that she got into.
"Just so you know B won't like that very much and she'll make you stay home next time." Lilly pointed out to her.
Oriana smirked. "Just because B thinks she can tell me what to do doesn't mean I always listen to her."
"You are a brave woman Oriana, B scares the hell out of me sometimes. And let's just say she has been crazier than normal for the last few years." Prue explained.
"I know that what happened messed her up pretty bad but there is no reason for her to be such a bitch all the time. I would really like to oh, I don't know spend time with my sister without her bitching at me." Oriana sighed.
"No, what happened fucked her up royally and she has just recently gotten to the point where she can joke again. Trust me when I say I had to work my ass off trying to get her and Henry together. Those two are still fragile so you do have to cut them both a break. I know that this isn't easy on you sweetie but it's even harder on them." Prue explained gently.
"I know that Prue I really do but those have to be the two most stubborn people on the face of the earth. They can't just allow themselves to be happy I think it would kill them if they didn't have something to torture themselves with." Oriana grumbled.
"You know that we wouldn't love them if they were any other way. But that doesn't mean that they don't get on our nerves sometimes." Lilly chuckled.
"Sometimes is the understatement of the year. They get on my nerves quite a bit of the time. Me being who I am they reek havoc on me, it used to be I couldn't be in the same room as those two." Prue corrected her.
"That is ironic because now they don't want to be in the same room as you and my brother." Lilly pointed out she was very pleased with herself for being so witty.
"Ha, ha you're very funny Lilly. Chuck and I aren't as bad as all you people try to make us sound. I think I for one would like to know what has been going on with Miss Oriana and Chord." Prue said taking the heat off of herself.
Oriana blushed, "There is nothing going on between Chord and me. We have just been spending a lot of time together lately. I didn't know that it was that big of a deal."
"I think that you like him." Lilly taunted her.
"I don't like him like that he's just my friend." Oriana replied lamely.
"He's just a friend whose babies you want to have." Prue teased her.
"I do not Prue, and don't you even think about trying to play match maker between the two of us it won't work." Oriana warned her she could see the wheels in Prue's head turning.
"I would never dream of doing such a thing O, I don't know how you could say something like that." Prue replied sarcastically.
"I don't think you need to be reminded of what you did to Wy and Liz." Lilly pointed out.
"That was for their own good as well as our sanity and as you can see that worked out just fine. Besides that B helped me it wasn't like I did it all by myself." Prue defended herself.
"Ladybug I'm begging you to give it a rest though. I'm not even sure if I have feelings for Chord. God knows that I still need to take time to get over Henry." Oriana said hoping that would make her back off.
"Don't let your sister hear you say that. She loves him but she would walk away if she thought you still wanted to be with him." Lilly advised her.
Oriana shook her head. "I don't want him. I know that much I just know that neither of us got any closure. We just ended without any preamble."
"O, as your best friend let me advise you that you might want to let it drop. That is not a place you want to go." Prue counseled her.
"Honey, trust me I know that I don't want to go there but I just feel like a part of me will always love him." Oriana admitted.
"He was your first love of course you'll always love him. It is normal for you to feel that way. Don't tell Chuck I said this but a tiny part of me will always love Chord but I don't love him the same way that I love my husband." Prue explained to her.
"Love is a bitch when it wants to be." Oriana threw out there.
Lilly sighed. "You're preaching to the choir on that one sister. Now if you two are done being all deep and shit we have shopping to do." That got them off that topic in a hurry.
Chord studied the cards that were in his hands and then he studied the cards on the table. He quickly worked out a math equation in his head before he bet. "I'll go in two thousand." He said professionally. The other two players left at his table called. He stared them down trying to read by their expressions what kind of cards they had. He felt safe with the cards he had it would take one hell of a twist of bad luck for him to lose this hand. The last card was laid down and he knew that he had them. "I'm all in." he said standing up. Much to his surprise they both called him again.
Chord felt the first hint of nervousness hit him when he saw the first player lay down a full house. The next player laid down only a flush. He smiled when he laid down his two aces along with the two aces on the board there were only two hands that could have beat him. He pumped his fist in the air. "Chord Shane is back baby." He announced happily.
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Troy, Parker, Wyatt, Chuck, Henry, Chris, Jake, and Bianca were all out in the hallway outside of the ballroom when Chord walked out to join them. They had all won at their tables and now they were waiting to be placed at another table.
"How'd you make out Shane?" Parker asked his friend.
Chord gave him a huge grin. "I won my table." He reported proudly.
"That's good so did we." Chris responded to that.
"It's starting to look like we may have a chance of pulling this off." Wyatt said from where he was sitting on the floor.
"Miracles do happen sometimes." Henry commented dryly. He just knew his mom was going to be super pissed when she found out that he had left the state without telling her.
"What's wrong Double H?" Bianca asked laying her head on her boyfriend's shoulder.
Henry pressed a kiss to her temple and wrapped his arm around her shoulders. "I'm fine B. Lyn don't worry about me. I'm just thinking about how pissed my mom is going to be that's all."
"Aunt Paige isn't that bad you get to talk to me when you have to deal with Lyn Hoyt. She is going to go ape shit crazy over this one." Bianca replied.
"Says that woman who fears Aunt Paige but she isn't scared of Aunt Lyn." Chris chuckled.
"My mom bitches and nags where as Aunt Paige just yells at you and she's done. Now my mom will put up with my drinking to a certain extent where Aunt Paige would kill me if I ever fell off the wagon again." Bianca explained as if that should have been evident to him.
"Aunt Piper is going to kill us all dead this time and there is nothing we can do about it." Chuck whined it seemed he was picking up some of Prue's more undesirable traits.
"Nic is going to kick my ass into next week. I lied to her and then I left town without telling her for reasons I can't imagine she frowns on that." Chord rambled on.
"Andy is going to wring my neck and that's before my sisters get on my ass." Parker shuddered just thinking about it.
"I'm sure once we explain to them that we couldn't let Chord get killed they will understand." Chris said but there was a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"Yeah, that one is going to go over real well. We'll be lucky if we're not put on house arrest. Not that they can ground us anymore because we don't live at home." Henry was rambling a little bit but he was his mother's son so he got a pass on that.
"But I can assure you of one thing Oriana will find a way to not get in trouble for this. I don't know how she does it but she is just like Maria that way those two walk through rain drops." Bianca grumbled. She never had been able to figure out how her sisters managed to keep themselves out of trouble when they were just as guilty as everyone else.
"Of course she will weasel her way out of trouble that is one of her talents." Henry said like that went without saying.
Troy looked to the bouncer at the door and nodded his head. "Come on guys they are ready to restructure the tables." He said pulling himself up off the floor. He said a silent prayer that this idea would help Chord out because after this he didn't know what else to do.
"I will be so glad to go back to work I am bored out of my mind right now." Phoebe moaned laying her head down on the kitchen table.
"Aunt Phoebe, you can have one of my jobs anytime you want them." Mel offered she was sitting at the counter with Val eating her lunch.
"Mel, no one wants all of your jobs. I don't know how you go to school right after you get off work." Val admired the hell out of her cousin for the things that she did.
"I'm still wide awake when I get off work. I don't start to get tired until my second to last class." Mel admitted.
"Mel, just let me say as a doctor that that isn't the most healthy thing in the world." Eva pointed out to her.
"I know it Aunt Eva but it's how I keep from going insane." Mel replied. If she kept busy she didn't have time to think about her problems.
At that moment shimmers rippled in the air to reveal Frank and Lyn. "Piper have you by chance seen Oriana?" Lyn asked her friend. She felt panicked anytime she didn't know where her youngest daughter was.
"No, Lyn I haven't seen that girl since yesterday." Piper retorted.
"Then I guess it would pointless to ask if you've seen B?" Frank asked hopefully. He worried more about his Frank Jr. than he did any of his kids.
"No, I haven't seen her either and that worries me because I don't know where Chris is." Piper said sounding worried.
"Oh good, I'm not the only one who lost their children. I don't know where Troy, Liz, or Chord are." Nicole said walking into the room with Cole.
"Mom, you now have my permission to worry as much as you want to. If B is missing along with Chris and Hank nothing good is going on." Mel said she would hate to be them when Piper got her hands on them.
Lyn glared at her husband. "Frank, I'm going to strangle your daughter for dragging my daughter into one of her messes." She seethed at him.
Frank crossed his arms over his chest. "Lynette, I will have you know that B doesn't have to lead Oriana into temptation she knows the way just fine all by herself." He retorted with a snort.
"Francis, if you don't want me to kill you, you will never call me by my given name again." Lyn warned him.
"Lyn your rage is misplaced at the moment you need to be mad at those kids. As a matter of fact you can help me think up ways to punish them if it makes you feel better." Piper said cheerfully.
"Should we go look for them?" Cole asked he didn't know what they were up to but they hadn't heard from Greg in a couple of days so he was worried what he had done to them this time.
"I don't know for all I know this could be a repeat of Mexico last year." Paige said she was still upset with them about that.
"Mexico?" Cole and Frank both asked at the same time.
"Oh, Troy just went into an Aztec temple and took some things and he got himself cursed you know the usual." Phoebe explained like it wasn't a big deal.
"Frank your daughter really doesn't keep us in the loop at all." Lyn commented dryly. She was already thinking up unpleasant things to do to her two daughters when she found them.
"She is a grown woman Lyn and if you remember correctly at the time she wasn't really speaking to us." Frank reminded her.
"I don't understand what the hell they could be doing unless of course they got sent on another of their little trips by a demon." Prue offered but that wasn't much help.
"I wonder if my children are involved in this in anyway." Eva wondered out loud.
"If my boyfriend knows what's good for him he better be with the others." Mel raged she was pissed at Roman.
"While you're cooking up ways to torture Roman think up unpleasant things I can do to Troy." Val instructed her.
"Eva, if Prue is involved then Chuck is right beside her. And if those two are involved so are Jake and Lilly. And then by default Roman is into it too." Phoebe said after thinking it over.
"Would it seem wrong if I grounded my married son?" Eva asked it sounded like a good idea.
"No, because I was thinking something along those lines when it comes to Prue and Jake." Phoebe replied.
"Where the fuck could they be?" Nicole asked.
"With them I'm thinking that we really don't want to know." Frank said he couldn't help chuckling to himself a little bit.
"Frank, only you would find this funny. You won't be laughing if something is really wrong with our girls." Lyn spit out at him.
"Nothing is wrong with our girls Lyn. It's just that neither one of them knows what a phone is for." Frank replied fighting the urge to roll his eyes.
"None of them know how to use a phone or a watch." Piper threw out there.
As if they didn't have enough to deal with some of the future kids came into the kitchen at that moment.
"I'm so tired that it's not even funny right now." Caleb complained as he laid right in the middle of the kitchen floor without any regard at all for the fact that people had to walk there.
"Cal, don't be a baby we're all tired we were up at the ass crack of dawn and we're just now getting back. But I don't hear anyone else complaining." Peyton reasoned kicking her brother in the side with the toe of her shoe.
"Then you obviously weren't on the same demon hunt that I was on. All Derek and Coop did was bitch." Charlie said shaking his head at his little sister. "Caleb Brian, get your stupid ass out of the floor right now." he ordered his little brother.
Caleb flipped his brother off. "Fuck you Chuck." He replied cheerfully.
"I don't know how many times you have to be told not to call me by dad's name idiot. If you must call me anything call me DJ. God knows dad does all the time." Charlie replied.
"Charlie, I have a feeling I know but what does DJ stand for?" Eva asked her grandson.
Charlie laughed at that. "Derek Jr., dad says that I'm a lot like grandpa when I want to be."
"That's why we get along so well between my Piper genes and his Derek genes we have the same temper." Paige laughed throwing her arm around her little cousin's shoulders.
"Everyone has to have at least one friend." Coop said sounding like he was proud of himself.
"Cooper Jacob, shut your fucking mouth I swear if it wasn't for Aunt Lilly and Uncle Jake I would kill you." Paige yelled at him gruffly.
"Just so you know I tried to get Victor to send Trip with me but he wouldn't do it." Peyton said her cousin got her nerves too.
"Coop and I aren't so bad I don't know how you can talk about us like that." Derek protested.
"You and your brother are a couple of dumb asses Derek James." Paige said smacking him on the back of the head.
"Paige where are the other guys at?" Piper asked the last thing she needed was to have misplaced the adult version of her youngest son.
"They are in the living room with Jeremiah. Brady mentioned something about taking a nap." Paige replied.
"Paige have you by chance seen your parents?" Frank asked not having much hope that she knew where they were.
"I saw mom yesterday afternoon and she had me take over her class for her. I haven't seen her since. She just told me to be careful with whatever it was I was doing." Paige reported.
"So I'm thinking whatever they are doing isn't demonic related because they have been at it since yesterday." Prue said helpfully.
"Paige! I need you in the living room now we have a situation." Jack's voice could be heard from the living room.
"That sounded bad I should go now. Come on guys." Paige said gesturing for her other cousins to follow her.
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In the living room Jack, Alan, Brady, and Dom were surrounded by a group of ten demons. Jack had Jeremiah clutched tightly to his chest in case one of them tried something with him.
"Jack what the fuck is going on in here?" Paige asked her uncle.
"Don't act like this is my fault Paige, just do something about it." Jack yelled back at her.
"You dumb asses might want to think about getting the boy out of the room." Alan yelled at both of them.
Jack orbed Jeremiah into Coop's arms. "Coop get him upstairs with the others and make sure you stay with him." He ordered.
"You got it Jack." Coop said before shimmering off.
"This is ridiculous we barely saw any demons the whole time we were in the underworld and now there are more demons than we know what to do with." Derek bitched.
"That's the way things tend to go man, now shut up and start fighting demons more and bitch less." Charlie ordered his little cousin. He produced an energy ball that had a pinkish tint to it. The demon he hit with it grabbed its head in pain before he exploded. "I love that power." He gloated with a smug smile.
"Way to rub it in bro." Caleb replied conjuring an energy ball of his own.
"I wish you people would shut up until we get rid of the fucking demons." Brady seethed at his nephews.
"We're working on it here Phil don't be so crabby you're starting to sound like Al." Dom told as best friend as he vanquished two demons at that same time.
"Dom now is so not the time." Paige called out as threw an energy ball at one demon and then she killed another using her molecular combustion.
Jack unleashed his elder bolts on the remaining demons and he turned them to dust like they were nothing. "That was fun. I wish I would have known that they were going to come after us it would have kept us from having to get up so early." He muttered sarcastically.
"You were the one who wanted to get up that early it wasn't me." Alan said shooting death rays at his cousin with his eyes.
Jack would have replied had Derek not fallen to knees gripping his side in pain. "What's wrong Derek?" Jack asked his nephew concerned.
"It's Coop I think he's hurt." Derek replied gasping for breath because of the pain he felt.
Jack went white as a sheet and his heart felt like it was beating out of his chest. "Jeremiah," he said his voice barely above a whisper.
"Al, get Jackie to the kitchen Dom and I are going to go upstairs and see what's going on." Paige ordered she knew that Jack wasn't going to be any good to anyone in the current condition he was in.
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Coop had shimmered up to the nursery with Jeremiah held close to him. "It's all going to be ok buddy Uncle Coop's got you. I won't let anything bad happen to you," he promised him as he pressed a kiss to the top of his head.
"Coop, you shouldn't make promises that you can't keep." Savannah said stepping out from the shadows.
"Savannah, I don't know what kind of game you're playing but I assure you that I won't work." Coop said through gritted teeth.
"Awe Coop, it's so sweet that you're all brave all of a sudden but it's not going to help you now. Now hand over the boy and we won't have a problem." Savannah said in a business like manner.
"Over my dead body do you get your hands on this boy." Coop said not backing down.
Savannah smirked at him and conjured a fireball. "I think that that can be arranged." Coop was caught off guard he couldn't defend himself without putting Jeremiah down and he wasn't about to do that. So instead he ended up taking a fireball in the side. He fell to the floor on his back so he didn't hurt the child in his arms. "This could have gone so much easier had you just done what I asked you to." She said taking Jeremiah from him before shimmering out.
Dom and Paige shimmered in just a moment after Savannah shimmered out. "Coop, what happened?" Paige asked her little cousin as she kneeled beside him so she could heal him.
"Savannah, she took Jeremiah. I swear I tried to stop her. Jackie is going to hate me for this." Coop replied feeling sorry for himself.
"It's going to be alright just let me heal you and I'll explain to Jack." Paige assured him even though she knew that Jack was going to go off the deep end for sure.
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Jack was sitting at the kitchen counter staring blankly out into space when Paige, Dom, and Coop finally came down. It only took one glance at the look on Paige's face and he knew. "Fuck, Emily is going to kill me for losing that boy."
"It'll be alright Jackie we're going to get him back." Paige promised him.
"It's not ok Paige, he's my son I'm supposed to protect him." Jack yelled back at her trying to fight off the tears he knew were coming.
Mel went to her baby brother and kneeled down in front of him with her hands on his knees. She forced him to meet her eyes. "Jack, I promise you that I will get you your son back." He didn't answer her he was too numb.
"Jackie for what it's worth I'm sorry I didn't mean for this to happen." Coop said looking down at the floor.
Paige put a gentle hand on his shoulder. "Not helping Coop." she said shaking her head.
"Jack look at me," Mel ordered him and he brought his eyes up to meet hers. "Has sissy ever lied to you?" she asked and he shook his head no. "You're just going to have to trust me right now. I will do everything within my power to bring him home safe." She swore.
"Do you promise Mels?" Jack asked in a voice that made him sound like a little boy.
"I promise Jackie." Mel replied kissing him on the side of the head. she turned to Piper. "Mom, I think you need to find a way to get the older kids here. I'm going to need their help. And I need to round up the rest of my crew I'm going to need them for this one too." She said taking charge of the situation.
"Mel, if I can find them you'll have them." Piper said picking up the phone to dial Wyatt's number.
Frank sighed, "I'm going to go out and see if I can't track down my girls. B blocks me so I can't sense her but Oriana has never been great at that."
"I'll go with you Frank." Cole said and they both shimmered out on the spot.
"Aunt Mel what are we going to do?" Paige asked she didn't really have a clue this time.
"After I get my posse and get their asses in gear you are going to tell me everything that you know that could be deemed helpful. Then we'll go from there. We can't wait around for the older kids not this time." Mel replied there was a fire burning behind her brown eyes.
"What is the point of having a meeting time is no one is going to stick to said time?" Roman asked. He was sprawled out across the couch in the living room of their hotel room.
"Ro, in their defense they did tell us that there was a chance they would be running a little late." Prue pointed out to her brother-in-law.
"Well, that's not helping when we're getting calls from home like crazy." Liz said at this point she had turned off her phone so she didn't have to deal with it anymore.
"That's why you become widely known for not carrying your phone on you then you don't get nonstop calls." Lilly replied but it was a known fact that she always had her phone with her because she needed it for work.
"Lilly, if I actually thought that would work I would have started doing that a long time ago." Prue said with a sigh.
"Prue it wouldn't work they would just start sending smoke signals up to get in touch with us. It's not worth the hassle besides that they would just have another reason to yell at us." Rachel broke it to her gently that that wasn't as great an idea as she thought it was.
"All I know is when you all get in trouble for this I'm going to make sure I'm far, far away. Your mothers have tempers that I don't want to mess with." Calleigh wanted no part of the Halliwell sisters' tempers when they found out about this one.
"Please Cal, knowing them the way I do they probably tracked your dad down and he is with them right now. They don't do anything half assed when it comes to punishing us." Oriana said busting Calleigh's bubble.
"I thank God everyday that I'm not you or B and have to deal with Lyn Hoyt. I love the woman but she has a temper." Roman threw out there. He was thankful that his mother wasn't known for having a temper that was more Derek's style. His dad would kill him and he knew it.
"Don't feel bad for me I can blame this on B and get away with it." Oriana replied like it wasn't a big deal.
"Guys, I have some bad news." Chris said by way of greeting when he and the others walked into the hotel room.
"You all lost your asses off at poker." Oriana guessed but it was more of a question.
"Ha, ha you're so damn funny I forgot to laugh Oriana Rose. No, we are all doing very well thank you very much baby sister. The bad news is we are all going to be in trouble sooner than we thought." Bianca replied sarcastically. She honestly didn't know how she and her sister were related sometimes.
"I hate you sometimes Bianca Lyn there was no need for you to be bitchy with me. And we know the parents have been calling us nonstop for about the last two hours." Oriana informed her sister.
"Well, we've got a three hour break so I figure it won't kill us to go see what's up with them." Henry suggested.
"I don't see where that would hurt anything as a matter of fact it will only help our case." Wyatt said after giving it a moment's thought.
"Wy, just so you know when my mom's temper explodes I'm standing behind you for protection." Liz told her fiancé.
"I'm the one who Nic is going to be really pissed at I lied to her to her face. I'm pretty sure that I can keep you and Troy out of trouble this time." Chord said he knew that she was going to be seriously pissed at him this time.
"My suggestion is we stop talking about how pissed they're going to be and go see what they want before they get even more pissed than they already are." Chuck offered. He had to deal with Derek Bradford he wasn't looking forward to that at all. His only hope was his mom wasn't completely pissed and didn't let his dad go too far.
"I'm with Bradford on this one I think we should go before we make this worse." Parker said he didn't want to face his sisters when they were all pissed.
"Well, then let's go my mom isn't happy with me anyway I don't need to give her any more fuel for her fire." Jake said he wasn't crazy. His mom was normally the easy one but he didn't want to tempt fate. She turned into one more bitch when she was pissed off.
"You guys know the drill grab someone who doesn't have their own means of transportation and let's go." Troy announced he was going to have to play the momma's boy card to the hilt to keep her from killing him this time.
"Paige, I have a question for you are you crazy or just plain stupid?" Piper asked with an incredulous look on her face.
"I didn't do anything Piper." Paige protested to her sister.
"Do you really want me to answer that question grandma?" Paige asked her grandmother.
Mel chuckled from where she was standing with an ice pack pressed up against her neck. "You two should learn to take note to the tone in her voice. She only says Paige like that when she's using my middle name. And honestly mother I didn't do this on purpose the demon caught me off guard and threw me into the wall." She answered truthfully.
"You shouldn't have been in the underworld to begin with Melinda Paige you don't even know what you're up against yet." Piper seethed at her only daughter.
"She used my first and middle name that time at this rate she is going to burn through all her rage before she gets to my brothers. But we had to do something the longer we wait the higher the chances are of something going wrong." Mel replied. She saw the look that crossed her brother's face when she said that. "But nothing is going to go wrong. I promised you that I'd get him back for you and I will Jackie."
At that moment all the high school aged kids and Huck came through the side door. Chase was right on their heels it looked like he had just rolled out of bed.
Jack went to Emily and wrapped his arms around her. "I'm so sorry that I lost him Em I promise that I'll get him back." He said still trying to keep his tears at bay.
Emily looked up into her boyfriend's blue eyes clearly confused. "What are you talking about Jack?" she asked him.
"I lost Jeremiah and I know that you have to hate me for losing your baby but I tried my best." Jack got out in a choked sob as the tears started to fall.
Emily felt tears of her own pooling in her eyes. "What do you mean you lost him Jack?" she asked panic taking hold of her heart.
"Aunt Emily, what he means is I lost him I was supposed to be protecting him and I let him get taken." Coop said he was feeling lower than dirt at the moment.
"Em, I'm going to tell you what I told Jack. I promise you that I will get him back. You will be holding him in your arms again before you know it." Mel swore to her. There was a look of determination on her face.
Paige looked at Huck. He was dressed in a white wife beater and he had on a pair of jeans. Work gloves we sticking out of his back pocket. "Huck where the fuck have you been?" she demanded of her uncle.
"First off I was landscaping today I was trying to help my dad out and I clearly know where he is now. Second of all what happened to Uncle Huck?" Huck replied and he shook his head when he saw that his father was sitting at the kitchen table.
"That isn't important right now. We need to focus on getting Jeremiah back that is priority one at this moment." Paige went on like she hadn't heard the last part of his response.
Derek raised his hand slowly. "Paige, you do know how much you just sounded like Aunt B right?" he asked.
Charlie smacked him on the back of his head. "This is so not the time for that right now Derek." He informed his cousin.
Big Derek walked into the kitchen at that moment. "Please tell me that I'm not to late to yell at some kids." He said rubbing his hands together. He was way too excited to lay into his children.
"No, you're right on time they haven't been answering our calls, Frank and Cole couldn't find them anywhere." Piper answered she glad her partner in crime was there now.
As if they knew they were being talked about all the older kids teleported into the kitchen at that moment.
"I don't want to hear one word out of any of you at the moment if you know what's good for you, you will go into the living room and you won't argue with me about it. I'm beyond pissed with all of you this time." Piper ordered them pointing her finger in the direction of the living room.
A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter I even got it out faster than I have been. Oh shit, Savannah has Jeremiah that is so not good but knowing the Halliwells it won't be like that for long. The older kids are in deep shit this time and I don't think that they're going to be able to talk their way out of it. Only Piper would enjoy sitting around and thinking up ways to punish them but then again she has to do it so much that it has become like a sport for her. Frank and Lyn pick just about the most inopportune times to fight but they are funny. Poor Mel the girl is burning the candle at both ends if she isn't careful she is going to burn herself out soon. Frank and Cole together is not a very good idea those two are likely to wind up getting themselves hurt if not someone else. Leave it to Lilly, Prue, and Oriana to spend their time shopping those three really need to get some help for their addiction. Jack is going to be pretty useless right now because he thinks it's his fault that he lost his boy and there is no telling what he is going to do because of it. Prue and Jake's kids are really them made over they fight just like they do and everything. I'm thinking that within the next couple of chapter they are going to find out what Greg is really up to, then the older kids are going to be in more shit for not telling them sooner. Until next time please review.