Hello there =)
I just realised I never put a disclaimer on my stories. To be honest, I don't think I should have to, as it is fairly obvious I do not own Charmed, as I am not rich.
I must warn you there is character death in this one.
This is not the last chapter, so don't worry.
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November 2018
The ages of the children:
Wyatt (Piper's son) – 15 years 9 month old
Chris (Piper's son) – 14 years 0 months old
Melinda (Piper's daughter) – 11 years 10 months old
Kat & Tamora Mitchell (Paige's twin girls) – 11 years 6 months
PJ (Phoebe's daughter) – 11 years 0 months
Henry Jr (Paige's adoptive son) – 10 years 1 months
Patty (Phoebe's daughter) – 10 years 4 months
Penny (Phoebe's daughter) – 3 years 11 months
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Henry had only been ten for only a month when He had the most terrible experience of his life.
It didn't start out as horrible, in fact, it was Chris' birthday. He was turning fourteen and he was extremely excited. He was even more excited than he was for his last birthday, because recently, when Kat and Tamora were playing with the Ouija Board, the pointer spelled out:
PRUE.
Piper had run straight up to the attic and tried to summon her ghost, but it was Grams who appeared and told her she couldn't summon Prue until Chris' birthday. Piper and Phoebe were just as excited as Chris, but everyone else was just curious to meet Prue. (Except Leo, of course, but he never showed up anyway, he was too busy being an all powerful elder). Chris doubted he would even turn up to his party. He even told his mom about it one time, but she had just said
"Sweetie, he might be there, he might not, just don't set yourself up for disappointment, okay?"
Chris didn't see Piper smile after he turned away. Because Piper knew that Leo was in fact coming to Chris' party. That was the big surprise. No-one else knew the secret.
Except Henry, that is.
The family were round at his house that day, because it was his birthday; he was ten years old, and very proud. He had needed a drink after running around with his sisters and cousins, so he had gone down to the kitchen to hear his mom and Piper talking.
"So he has no idea?" Paige said.
"No, he has absolutely no idea. I can't wait!" said Piper, giggling.
"I can't believe this; it's going to be so amazing! He'll be so happy!"
"So will I!"
"I bet you will!" said Paige, laughing.
"I haven't seen Leo in ages, and now I get to see him again! I can't wait, I'm just so excited!"
At that point, Henry had run into the room and pointed a finger at Paige.
"Leo's coming to Chris' party?" he had shrieked.
Paige had run over to Henry then and put her hand over Henry's mouth.
"Yes he is, and if you tell anyone, Henry Mark Mitchell, I will make sure you never reach eleven. Do you understand?"
Henry nodded.
"Good."
Henry then grinned at Piper, who grinned back, excitedly.
It had finally got to Chris' birthday, over a month later, and Henry and ran into his parents room and jumped on his Dad's belly, hurting him in the process, and shouted,
"Come on! Come on! It's Chris' birthday and he's fourteen and t=we need to get to his party first, so we can give him our present, coz he'll really like it and it will be really fun, coz we'll be playing games, and-"
"Henry! We know you want to get Piper's as soon as possible, but it is half past six, and the party doesn't start until eleven!" groaned Paige. "Go back to sleep, please."
"But I can't!"
"Then go downstairs, put the TV on, QUIETLY, and make Chris a card."
"Okay!"
And he did, and it was a very good card, with big blue and green letters and lots of glitter and foam shapes and stuff. He was really proud of it and he couldn't wait to get to Chris' house to show him. When he showed the card to Kat and Tamora, they gave him a disapproving look, and said, simultaneously, "Aren't you a bit old to be this excited over this?"
Henry just replied with, "Probably."
Henry was practically jumping up and down when they got to Piper's house, and when the door opened and it was Chris stood there, he threw himself into his arms and shouted
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRIS! I MADE YOU A CARD! I MADE IT THIS MORNING DO YOU LIKE IT?"
"Hey, little man! Err... thanks for the card, it's great! Come in, come in!"
Henry ran into the house and straight to the kitchen where Piper was cooking.
"When is he gunna get here, Aunt Piper?"
"Soon." Said Piper, smiling.
Henry grinned and ran out of the room, and went off to play eighth his cousins.
Piper stood in the kitchen as the smile slowly faded from her face, as her thoughts came to her eldest son.
'Oh, Wyatt, where are you?" she asked herself, silently. She wiped a single tear from her eye, and carried on with the cooking.
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Seven hours later, at six pm, after the cake and candles and food and singing, everyone headed up to the attic to meet Prue. Phoebe and Piper were practically jumping up and down with excitement, but a small section in Piper's mind was wondering where Leo was. They were all in the attic when Piper heard the familiar jingle of orbs. She turned around, and in the middle of the attic, stood Leo.
"DAD!" cried Chris. He ran over to Leo and flung himself into his arms. Leo broke out into a grin and hugged his son back.
"Hey, big guy. Oof, you're too heavy for me now, buddy, what's your mom been feeding you? Spinach?"
Only the adults got the Popeye reference.
After the rounds of hugs and long, long kisses from Piper, they were all gathered round the pentagram of candles and Piper, Phoebe and Paige were getting ready to summon Prue.
Then, the day took a turn for the worse.
Before the sisters even had a chance to start the spell, someone arrived in the centre of the pentagram, and it wasn't Prue.
It was Wyatt.
Everyone just stared at him. They didn't know what to do. He just looked at each and every one of them. He smiled. It sent chills down Henry's spine. It wasn't Wyatt's old smile; it wasn't a smile that portrays happiness. It was a smile that looked...
Evil.
And then it clicked.
Wyatt hadn't orbed in, he had ... blinked. Only warlocks could blink.
Henry started to back away from Wyatt, never turning his back. He looked around. Only Chris was doing the same, he must've realised as well. Their eyes met across the attic. Chris' eyes were full of hurt, disbelief and fear. Fear so prominent Henry could practically smell it.
Wyatt took one more look at everyone. His smile faded, he raised a hand and shot an energy ball at Coop. Coop was thrown backwards into the wall and he fell down and landed hard on the floor. Phoebe cried out and tried to run over to him. Wyatt just held her in place. He smiled again.
"It's good to be back."
He whistled, and hordes of demons shimmered into the attic, and the house downstairs, and the killing spree began.