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Chapter 7: Loose Ends
"B, I don't remember it ever taking you this long to get a little information on a demon before." Rachel whined to her cousin. They were in the library in magic school looking up everything they could find out about the demon that they were going after.
"When I was doing it before I never had to be this careful. You know that my husband and your husband would both shit a fucking brick if I got hurt." Bianca pointed out to her without looking up from what she was reading.
"That's because our husbands are both overprotective when they want to be." Rachel reminded her.
"Chris just worries because he doesn't want to be stuck with that little girl of ours." Bianca joked.
"B, you know as well as I do how bad he is about that girl. As a matter of fact he would probably get pissed off if he heard you say that." Rachel replied. She couldn't help laughing though.
"You're right, I really shouldn't project my feelings on him. I love that girl don't get me wrong, but you better believe I know which days of the week that she's supposed to be with her daddy." Bianca was carrying on a conversation with her cousin without looking up from what she was reading.
"Trust me, her daddy knows what days he supposed to have her too." Rachel observed. "B, I will never understand how you can read and talk at the same time."
"Rach, I multi-task really well, but since the twins were born I'm really good at splitting my attention. If I don't have an eye on both of them at all times there is no telling what they are going to get into." Bianca informed her.
Paige orbed into the library at that moment. "So, where are we?" she asked. She was really excited to get to do some demon hunting. This was pretty much how she blew off steam.
"Ask your mother, she's the one doing the research." Rachel told her.
"We'll be ready to go in just a minute. I'm almost got all the information that I need." Bianca answered before Paige could start bugging her. "Have you heard from your brother?" she asked.
"Nope, but Vic doesn't always feel the need to call." Paige replied.
"So, how was your breakfast?" Rachel asked her in a teasing tone.
"Uh, it was good. I had to remind myself that I can't kill my husband in front of witnesses, but it was good." Paige gave a lot more information than she had been asked for.
"Why were you going to kill him this time?" Bianca asked.
"Don't tell Uncle Hank this because I'm sure Al wants to tell him, but Savannah is pregnant. Of course that prompts my husband to give me what I like to call his 'why can't we have one look' the man seriously knows that I don't want kids." Paige was pretty much just rambling at this point.
"You love kids, your brothers and sisters adore you and you do them." Rachel said calling her on her bullshit.
"That's because I get to let them run wild and then I give them back to mom. I'm not kidding when I say that I let Paige, Victor, and Anna do whatever they want when they're with me. I only drew the line at letting the twins duct tape Anna to a chair. Even if I did think that the idea had a little merit. I let them duct tape Dom to a chair instead." Paige couldn't help laughing.
"I know that I should probably concerned about that, but I don't find anything wrong with it. I'm pretty sure that that says something about me." Bianca said shaking her head.
"It says that those oldest two are going to be just as nutty as you are." Rachel cracked.
"Which set of twins are we talking about?" Bianca asked with a smirk.
"The toddlers, not that I don't have my doubts about the older two sometimes." Rachel teased knowing that it would set Paige off.
"Rach, the two in their late twenties couldn't remind me more of their daddy's if they tried." Bianca told her.
"Actually, that's not exactly true, I'm a lot like Uncle Hank and Vic is a lot like my dad." Paige pointed out to her mom.
"Either way I don't know if that is a good thing sometimes." Bianca added.
"Woman, are you done yet?" Paige asked wanting to get on with this thing.
"Yeah, I've been done, I was just double checking. We both know what your father is like these days. He flips out if he doesn't have a bunch of solid information before we go off on one of these hunts." Bianca reminded her.
"I think that he has this fear of something happening to him while he's hunting demons." Paige replied rolling her eyes.
"Paige, I know how this is going to sound, but it has to be said. One day when you have kids you'll understand." Bianca told her daughter.
"If I have anything to say about it that won't happen anytime soon." Paige said shaking her head.
"To what do we owe the pleasure of your company?" Henry asked his son and daughter-in-law when he came in the living room. He had his youngest child tucked under his arm and he was rubbing his knuckles on his scalp.
"We came by because I felt like seeing mom." Alan smirked at his father.
"I see how you are." Henry replied sticking his tongue out. "You need to go up and finish cleaning your room before mommy gets mad at both of us." he told the little boy in his arms.
"Ok, daddy," Little Al agreed and he ran off when his father sat him on his feet.
"You two actually got most of his room clean?" Paige asked her husband.
"Well, we got started on it anyway." Henry replied with a sheepish grin.
"It's nice to know who I have to thank for your lack of cleanliness at times." Savannah commented to her husband.
"Hey, I clean all of the time. You just don't like the way that I clean." Alan corrected her.
"Alright, you two told me that you would tell me what you were doing here. I think that it's time for you to start explaining." Paige told them.
Alan got a big grin on his face before he answered. "Mom, dad, Vanna's pregnant." He announced.
"That is really good news you guys." Henry said pulling them both into a hug at the same time.
Paige kissed them both on the cheek. "You are both going to make really great parents." She told them.
"Just so you know I plan on pawning this kid off on you every chance I get." Alan cracked.
"We don't mind at all. Your brother does the same thing all of the time." Henry replied.
Proving his point for him Hank came walking into the room with his three children in tow.
"Henry Victor, what are you doing here?" Paige asked her oldest child. She still couldn't believe that her baby was old enough to have babies of his own.
"Mom, I need a really big favor." Hank said giving her a big grin.
"Of course we'll watch them." Henry said already knowing what his son was going to ask. He scooped Anna up in his arms. "How is Papa's girl today?" he asked kissing her all over the face.
"I good," Anna grinned back at him.
"Victor, Al is upstairs in his room if you want to go play with him." Paige told her oldest grandchild.
"Can I, daddy?" Victor asked his dad with a hopeful look on his face.
"Of course you can, Champ, just remember what I said about being nice to your sister. She's younger than you are and it's your job to protect her." Hank said bending down so that he was eye level with his son.
"I remember, daddy." Victor promised him nodding his head before he orbed up to where Little Al was.
Henry stood and shook his head. "I have the hardest time getting that kid not to use his powers."
"Hank let me see my nephew." Alan said holding his arms out for Trip.
"Trip, go see your Uncle Al." Hank handed his son over.
"Hey, little man, Uncle Al needs the practice. I don't mean to spread tales, but I'm gonna be a daddy soon." Alan told his nephew.
"Vanna, just remember that you could have been rid of his ass." Hank chuckled. He was still always ready with a joke.
"Hank, I love the retard, I can't help it." Savannah replied.
"Son, what exactly are you doing?" Paige asked.
"Mom, this is one of those things that you don't want to know about. But, let's just say that my wife is on one of her kicks right now." Hank replied.
"So demon hunting?" Henry asked to be sure he knew what he was talking about.
"Yep, you know B. She gets a wild hair every now and then and she has to take a job for old time's sake." Hank confirmed for him.
"You getting the kids tonight?" Paige asked. She never minded keeping her grandchildren; she just wanted to know how long she was going to have them.
"That's the plan. I haven't really seen them much in the last couple of weeks and I've missed them like crazy." Hank replied.
"That's because your boss has been working you guys like slaves." Henry chuckled.
"We had some big cases that we had to close. You know that we take a lot of flack because we're the only unit that has a female for a commanding officer." Hank pointed out to him.
"Dude, you might be the only man that I know who actually likes his mother-in-law." Paige couldn't help smirking at him.
"Yeah, I know. The sad part of it is I think I like her more than my wife does." Hank chuckled. It was a damn good thing that he had never claimed to be normal.
"Hey, guys, sorry I'm late, I just had this thing that I had to do this morning." Val said when she walked into her mom and dad's house.
"It's not a problem, Bumblebee, we know that you are a very busy woman." Coop assured his daughter.
"Knowing my sister the way that I do she was just busy gettin' busy." Penny teased her older sister.
"Penny, please," Prue begged her baby sister pointing at her oldest son. "Watch your mouth in front of Charlie. He repeats everything that I don't want him to."
"Prue, Charlie isn't even paying attention to me right now, he is too busy playing with Sammy and Phil." Penny chuckled. She really did have to remember to watch her mouth in front of her nieces and nephews.
"You only think that he isn't paying attention to you right now, I can assure that he is just soaking up everything like a sponge right now." Chuck pointed out to her.
"Sammy has been the same way lately, I swear she is getting too curious for her own good." Lilly more or less agreed with her brother.
"You have to remember that they both have mom's genes in them, so they are going to be nosey." Val felt the need to point out. She acted as if she wasn't the same damn way.
"Charlie isn't as bad about being nosey as he is about doing things that he shouldn't do. I think he may have a little bit of his Aunt Val in him." Prue told her sister with a smirk.
"Don't forget to throw in his Uncle Cody." Jake supplied helpfully.
"Jake, if there weren't kids in the room I would tell you what I really think of you." Greg teased his brother.
"Grego, I'm kinda wondering why you look like you got the shit beat out of you." Brady told his youngest older brother.
"Chase holds these fights and Victor was supposed to take the guy I ended up fighting. He was built like a moose and he would have done a much better job than I did." Greg replied and then he saw his mother go to open her mouth. "Mom, you don't have to lecture me, B already did that for you. She insists that I need to let her give me lessons."
"I swear that you children are all going to be the death of me one of these days." Phoebe said shaking her head from side to side.
"I don't know what you're talking about, mom, Jake and I are both well behaved. It's your other children that you have to worry about." Prue retorted.
"You and Cupcake have done more than your fair share to give me gray hairs over the years." Phoebe called her on her bullshit. Her oldest daughter was nowhere near as innocent as she tried to make herself out to be.
"Mom, Prue and I were not that bad. Sure we got into a little trouble every now and then, but we are nowhere near as bad as our younger siblings are." Jake protested.
"You've got that shit right. I know that I might have a tendency to do things that are ill advised, but I have never done anything as bad as posing in Playboy." Prue hadn't really meant for that to slip out, but it couldn't be helped.
"Prue, what are you talking about?" Coop asked his daughter.
"Your precious second oldest daughter and her partner in crime apparently decided that it would be a good idea to pose in Playboy." Prue replied.
"Valerie Christina Halliwell, I don't know what possesses you to do some of the things that you do." Phoebe said shaking her head at her.
"Mom, it's not that big of a deal. Carly and I got the offer and we both decided that it was too good to pass up." Val explained patiently.
"Val, what were you thinking?" Prue asked her sister. She was really at a loss for what to say for once.
"I was thinking that I'm young, single, and nowhere near ready to settle down right now. I'm not like you and Jake; I don't do domesticated well at all. I realize that by the time you were my age you already had one child and you were pregnant again. You know that I'm more than a little wild and I'm not tied down, so it's alright for me to do things of that nature." Val reasoned with her oldest sibling.
Prue just nodded there really wasn't much she could say to refute that logic, because it all happened to be true. "Val, I didn't mean for it to sound like you had done something wrong. I'm just not comfortable with the thought of thousands of men ogling my baby sister." she replied. She had softened considerably.
"You might not realize this, but you're as bad as Wyatt ever dared to be." Val teased her.
"You better hope and pray that Wyatt doesn't find out about this, because he will blow his stack." Jake felt the need to state the obvious.
"Wyatt wouldn't know how to act if one of us didn't do something to worry him." Greg threw out there.
"Cody, you do more than enough to have people worried about you." Coop pointed out to his middle son.
"I don't know how you can say that about me, dad. You should know that I'm as pure as the driven snow." Greg said trying to put on an innocent act.
"As pure as yellow snow maybe." Jake scoffed.
"Jake, must you always fight with Prue and Greg?" Lilly asked her husband rolling her eyes.
"Prue and Greg wouldn't know how to act if I didn't give them a hard time." Jake explained to his wife like she should have thought of that.
"Lilly, you should just give up. You're never going to get them to not be at each other's throats all the time." Chuck advised his sister.
"Really I should have done more to stop them from fighting when they were little, but that is water under the bridge now." Phoebe said spouting off some crazy bullshit.
"Mom, it wouldn't be a trip home for me if I didn't get to hear my favorite two older people fight." Val said with a mock pout on her face.
"You only say that because you don't have to see them all of the time." Penny sighed rolling her eyes.
"That's right they do get on my nerves after awhile. I remember throwing a party after Prue moved out, because that meant I wouldn't have to hear them go at it as much." Val replied after thinking it over.
"I don't even know why I miss her when she is on the other side of the country." Prue said shaking her head.
"I don't know why either, it's not like we don't have the male version of her right here with us." Jake pointed at Greg.
"Bite me, Cookie Dough." Greg flipped his older brother off.
Charlie jumped up into Greg's lap at that moment. "Uncle Greg, you're not supposed to be mean to Uncle Jakie."
"Buddy, if I didn't talk mean to your Uncle Jakie he wouldn't know how to act." Greg chuckled ruffling his nephew's hair.
"Prue, you might have a situation on your hands." Jake said seriously pointing to Charlie.
Prue looked at her son and sighed. He had a faraway look on his face and she knew what that meant. "You've got to be kidding me. I was hoping that he wouldn't have to deal with those." She pinched the bridge of her nose.
"Prue, I'm sure that it's not a big deal." Chuck said trying to calm his wife down.
"I know that it's not a big deal, but that power sucks pretty bad." Prue pointed out to him. She knew that this day would come and she knew that she was going to do her best to help her son harness his power. It wasn't like he didn't already have other powers that he used on a regular basis. If only she knew what her son had seen she wouldn't be acting that calm.
Roman woke up when the bright sunlight streaming through the hotel window reached his eyes. He had to smile when he looked over and saw his sleeping form of his wife next to him. He couldn't think of anything better than waking up next to her every day for the rest of his life.
He very gently brushed a strand of hair out of his wife's face before kissing her forehead. If this was a dream then he didn't ever want to wake up. This right here was everything that he had ever wanted since the moment that he and Mel had started dating. Granted they had gone through a rough patch, but he had always known that they would end up together.
"Roman James, are you watching me sleep?" Mel asked her husband her brown eyes flying open.
"Must you always sleep so light?" Roman asked her in reply.
"I'm a cop, and sometimes I pull long shifts and I have to sleep at the office. When I do that I have to sleep so that I can be alert in a hurry if I need to be." Mel explained to him.
"Let's not talk about work right now, Mrs. Halliwell." Roman joked in a light tone.
"You're right, I can think of several things that are more fun that we can do, Mr. Nicolae." Mel replied laying her head on his chest.
"I really like the way you think, wife." Roman said wrapping his arm around her.
"Stick with me and you'll figure out that I have some pretty good ideas, husband." Mel replied. She couldn't help the grin that came to her face when she said the word husband.
"I know that already. I seem to recall that someone who shall remain nameless almost got us arrested for having sex on the beach. If you hadn't showed your badge our mothers would have been bailing us out of jail." Roman chuckled in reply.
"We were never in any danger of getting arrested. And besides that I was twenty years old and it had been a couple of months since I had saw you. You can't blame a girl for getting a little adventurous when she goes that long without getting laid." Mel retorted. He should have known that he couldn't make anything on her.
"That would explain why you were being so damn aggressive last night. I don't mind it in the least little bit, but damn, Mellie you totally rocked my world last night." Roman laughed deep in his throat.
"You weren't so bad yourself, hot stuff." Mel replied giggling.
"Jesus Christ, I really love you, Melinda Paige. I don't know what I did right enough to deserve you, but I'm not going to question it." Roman told her seriously.
"I really love you too, Roman James." Mel said kissing him.
"Thanks for meeting me here on such short notice, Car." Jason stood from the table where he was sitting and greeted Carly with a huge smile plastered on his face.
"Well, you said that it was important and I didn't want to keep you waiting." Carly replied. She smiled when he pulled out her chair and helped her into it.
"I just wanted to see you outside of the bedroom, so that we can have a chance to talk." Jason explained to her.
"Jay, you know as well as I do that there is nothing to say. We really shouldn't be doing this. You have a family now and I don't want to do anything to break that up." Carly retorted.
"Carly, I can't help how I feel about you. I wish that I could make these feelings go away, but I can't. I know that this is idiotic on my part, I really love my daughter and I don't want to have to put her through the pain of having her parents separated, but I can't be miserable either." Jason reasoned with her.
Carly smiled inwardly when he said that. She took more comfort in what he didn't say though. At no point in that passionate speech had he mentioned loving Katie. She strongly suspected that he was only with her because she had gotten pregnant and he had just confirmed that. "Jay, I won't know what you want unless you say the words." She told him.
"I want to be with you. I know that we hurt each other before, but that doesn't mean that we have to again. I love you Leigh and I want to be with you." Jason was damn pleading with her.
"Jay, I haven't changed, I'm still the same person that I was when we were together before." Carly pointed out to him.
"Let me ask you a question, do you love me?" Jason asked her.
Carly didn't even have to think about that question. "Of course I do." She answered automatically.
"Say the words, Carly. I know I told you that I wouldn't make you say them until you were ready, but I need to hear them if I'm going to do this thing." Jason told her bluntly.
"I love you, Jason, I always have and I always will." Carly replied firmly.
"Baby, I love you too." Jason said leaning over the table to kiss her.
"Jay, this isn't as simple as you're trying to make it out to be. I still live in New York and that is part of what was our undoing in the first place. We tried to make a long distance relationship work and it didn't. Hell, look at what being separated did to Mel and Roman. They knew how much they both loved each other and they still weren't able to stand the strain of being separated all of the time. I can't give up my clothing company; I've been working to get it off the ground since I was eighteen. And I don't expect you to move to the other side of the country to be with me, I know damn well what you would be giving up if you did that." Carly reasoned with him.
"Carly, you can't try to be reasonable about this, because there is no reason to it. You of all people should know that with your Uncle Coop being who he is. If I don't give us just one more shot I know that I'm going to regret it for the rest of my life." Jason replied.
"Jason, ignoring the problem isn't going to make it go away. Like I said before we really haven't changed, I'm still am who I am and you're still you. I don't know why you think that we can make this work this time around when we weren't able to make it work before." Carly retorted.
"We are going to make this thing work or die trying. We both know that things can't go back to the way that they were before. We both have to make an effort here. Don't think I forgot about the little fact that we have a daughter together." Jason told her seriously.
"Jay, the future can change with every decision that we make. Paige and the boys changed a lot of stuff. Whose to say that they didn't change us having a kid together." Carly replied rationally.
"I've had a lot of time to reflect on it and I don't think that that was one of the things that they changed. Carly, I know that you're still young and you don't want to think about settling down now and I'm not telling you that you have to. I'm perfectly willing to take you anyway I can get you as long as it means having you in my life." Jason replied. He wasn't going to let her talk him out of this. He was just about convinced that they belonged together.
"How do we combat the long distance thing?" Carly asked him. If he thought that he had all the answers then she was going to test him.
"Carly, I don't have everything figured out yet. I just know that we can make this work." Jason told her.
"Jason, what you need to do is go home to your fiancé and your daughter. I think that we are wasting each other's time." Carly said. She didn't see how that they could be together again when the same problems that had broken them up to begin with still existed.
Jason was going to reply to that, but his phone buzzed and he shook his head as he saw he had a text from Katie. "Carly, you don't have to believe me right now, but I promise you that we belong together."
"You say that now, Jason, but that's only because I'm right here. Things won't be so easy when I'm back in New York." Carly reasoned with him.
"We'll just have to make sure that this works out. I'm not going to promise you that this will be easy and I'm not going to promise you that we'll figure it out right away. The only thing that I can promise you is that I will go to my grave loving you and it will be a mistake if we don't give this one more shot." Jason gave her an impassioned speech.
"Jason, give some time to think about it. I don't want to feel like I'm being a homewrecker or anything like that." Carly sighed in resignation. She couldn't deny that he had made some pretty valid points.
"Take all the time that you need. I don't think of you that way, this is my choice not yours." Jason told her.
"Ok, I'm not saying yes, but I'm not saying no either." Carly relented.
"Can I see you again before you go back to New York?" Jason asked her hopefully.
Carly grinned at him. "If you can find a way to get away for awhile then yes you can see me again."
"Don't worry, I'll make the time to see you." Jason grinned back at her.
"Thanks again for watching them both like this, mom." Chris said he was sitting with his parents and his cousin at the kitchen table of the manor. He had his son in his arms for the time being.
"Chris, I don't know how many times I have to tell you that they are my grandchildren and I love spending time with them. Besides that Paige and Jackie keep each other entertained. Now, I might have to worry about them doing something to Mac every now and then, but for the most part they are good together." Piper replied.
"Mom, I've told her that it's her job to protect Mac since she's littler than she is." Chris informed her.
"Chris, they don't do anything that bad to your baby sister. They might tease her a little bit and they may not always let her play with them, but they are good to her for the most part." Leo assured his son.
"I'm sure that my little brat is the ringleader of most of the stuff that they do." Chris was the first one to admit that his daughter was no angel.
"Chris, not that I mind, but why exactly am I watching the kids?" Piper asked her son.
"Something tells me that you rather not know the answer to that question." Chris replied.
"That tells me that you're demon hunting again." Piper commented dryly.
"Aunt Piper, you know that my wife has to do something with her free time or she tends to get in trouble." Henry said attempting to make a joke out of the whole thing.
"In all fairness this wasn't exactly B's idea, she just felt the need to step in before things got out of hand." Chris corrected his partner.
"Tommy and Brooke are involved, I'm pretty sure things are already out of hand." Henry cracked.
"I'm pretty sure that the only reason B got involved is because Paige and Vic are involved. You know how she can be when it comes to those two." Chris reminded him.
"Chris, she's their mother, you might not get it, but we do tend to worry about our kids." Piper pointed out to her son.
"Mom, I think that I'm starting to understand the concept of worrying about your kids. I have a three year old whose mission in life is to do things that make me insane with worry." Chris replied seriously.
"And she drags her twin down with her every chance that she gets." Henry added.
"Hey, I will have you know that some of the things they do are Victor's ideas." Chris protested. He knew that his little girl was no angel, but for some reason he couldn't come out and admit that to a roomful of people.
"Chris, it's time for you to face facts. Our little girl is a natural born leader. That is both a good and a bad thing. On one hand I'm proud of that fact, but on the other hand that means that she can talk everyone into doing things that they shouldn't." Bianca said walking into the kitchen with Rachel. She was dressed in her demon hunting gear.
"I know that you're talking about Slick and not Ace." Chris teased he knew damn well which of their daughters she was talking about.
"I know damn well that you know that I was talking about Ace. Although, what I said is true about either of them." Bianca replied rolling her eyes at him.
"Speaking of Slick, where is she?" Henry asked when he didn't see his niece. Nobody but Mel really called Paige, Slick, but it help to have that distinction when talking about both of them at the same time.
"She had to go get Victor and then she had to go change into her demon hunting attire." Rachel answered him.
"Where are the two idiots that started this whole mess?" Chris asked with an arched eyebrow.
"I don't really know, but Paige said that she would go find them before they managed to get into anymore trouble." Bianca informed him.
"Who went to keep Paige out of trouble?" Leo asked with a smirk on his face.
"If she knows what's good for her she will just find those two and get over here like she said that she would." Bianca rolled her eyes. She knew that her daughter was perfectly capable of getting sidetracked.
"Mom, I will have you know that I'm too fucking tired to do anything but what you asked me to do." Paige said as she orbed in. Brooke and Tommy shimmered in at the same time.
"Where's you brother?" Bianca asked.
"He's on his way, he had to put all the files that he was looking at back so the dragon lady doesn't find out that we've been nosing around. Trust me, we will all be in deep shit if she finds out about this before we have something solid to tell her." Paige replied.
"Does Lyn know that you call her that?" Piper asked shaking her head.
"I'm pretty sure that she knows we call her names behind her back, but I don't think she knows what names we call her. If she knew we would all be in deep shit for that." Chris answered his mother.
"Don't worry, Aunt Piper, we talk about you worse behind your back than we do about Aunt Lyn. She can be a bitch, but she still comes in second to you in that area if that's what you're worried about." Henry smiled sweetly and batted his long eyelashes at his favorite aunt as he spoke.
"Henry Victor, you are such a smart ass when you want to be." Piper a reproving tone in her voice. However, she couldn't manage to keep her grin from showing through.
"Hank, where are the crib midgets?" Bianca asked her husband. It had just occurred to her to ask about their kids.
"I think that they're with my mom, I can't be sure about that though. I did have Victor orb them over there. So there is a very good chance that they are lost somewhere right now." Henry reported with a dead serious look on his face.
"Hank, I don't think that's funny." Bianca said glaring at him.
Henry looked at her and rolled his eyes. "B, you know that I wouldn't actually do that. I dropped them off with my mom and dad myself. Though I think Uncle Alan might have borrowed Trip for a couple of hours since he needs the practice." He chuckled.
"Your mom called over here as soon as she got a chance to and told us that Savannah is pregnant." Piper told him. She then turned to Paige. "When are you gonna start having kids?" she asked knowing damn good and well how her granddaughter felt about having kids.
"Never if I can help it. Though, I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to put Dom off. He wants kids right now and I don't, I'm pretty sure that I don't need to have kids." Paige answered her adamantly.
"Ok, Paige, we will have time to talk about your issues later. Right now, I think we need to focus on the demon." Brooke told her.
"Brooke, you know not to mess with me, the next time your ass needs help with a demon I'm pretty sure that I'm just going to let you go talk to one of your brothers and you can see how eager they are to help you." Paige shot back at her.
"Alright, don't you two start fighting. I for one would really like to get this demon gone so I can go back to Boston." Tommy said shaking his head. He was pretty sure that his family was fucking nuts.
"Tommy, you know that we can't go back to Boston yet." Brooke reasoned with him.
"I'm just going to go upstairs and check the book. B, I need you to come with me, since you're the one who knows about this demon." Chris said handing his son to his wife.
"Chris, maybe I'll just sit this one out." Rachel said hopefully.
"Rach, I'm not going to tell you what to do, I'm just going to tell you that you're never going to be ready to leave him to go demon hunting. I'll let you do what you think you need to do though." Chris advised her.
"Chris, where is our daughter?" Bianca asked him.
"She's in the living room playing with Jackie and Mac. Though, I'm pretty sure they're being too quiet, so there is really no telling what they are doing to Mac right now. I'd better check on them on my way up to the attic." Chris said with a thoughtful look on his face.
"I'm just going to call dumb ass and see where he is right now." Paige said pulling out her phone to call her twin. That proved to be unnecessary though, because Victor orbed in at that moment.
"Don't look at me like that, Paige. You know that I had to put those files back where I found them or the boss lady will figure out what we're up to sooner than we want her to." Victor said when he saw the look his sister was giving him.
"Did you find anything?" Brooke asked him.
"Based on what I found I don't think that the demon we're taking care of today is the one that you guys are looking for. I did find some similar cases to the ones that you told me about, but this had a different feel to it." Victor replied.
"Shit, that's just fucking great." Tommy said throwing his hands up in the air.
Patty was sitting on the living room couch enjoying the hell out of the fact that she had the apartment to herself for the day. Actually, that was a lie, she didn't really like being alone, because that gave her entirely too much time to think about the fact that she was single and the reasons for that. There were times when she thought that she had done the wrong thing by breaking up with Ricky. But, then she it always came back to the fact that he had decided to go pro without telling her. She had known that it was coming, but she thought that he would have at least consulted her before he did something like that. A reasonable person though, would have stayed around so they could have talked it out, by the time that thought had entered her mind her pride wouldn't let her go back to him.
She was mildly thankful when she heard a knock at the door, since she was right in the middle of one of her pity parties. Her gratefulness turned into frustration when she opened the door and saw the man that haunted her thoughts standing on the other side.
"Ricky, what are you doing here?" Patty asked him a mild tone of contempt in her voice as she spoke.
Ricky shrugged and grinned at her. "I figured that we might need to talk." He told her.
Patty opened the door wider to allow his entry even though the last thing she wanted to do was talk about what had happened between them. "Come on in, I don't see what we have to talk about though."
"Charlie, we need to talk about what happened last night. We didn't do anything wrong, but I would really like to know where we stand." Ricky replied evenly.
"Ricky, I don't know what there is to talk about regarding last night. We did what we did and it doesn't have to be more than that." Patty responded with a shrug.
"What if I want it to be more?" Ricky asked her sinking down on the couch.
Patty reluctantly sat down next to him at an angle so they were facing each other. "We've tried that once before and I will be the first to admit that we were great together. That is until things fell apart and as great as everything else was the end was just as spectacular on the other end of the spectrum. Things were so bad at the end that I don't know if we could even get back to how we used to be."
"There were a lot more good times than there were bad, I know that there at the end we could have been a case study for toxic relationships, but we were so good together. Things were good for a hell of a lot longer than they were bad. I should have known that things were over those last two weeks though. All we did was fight over everything." Ricky retorted.
"In all fairness I was being a bitch for those last two weeks." Patty admitted.
"Charlie, I wasn't the easiest person to live with for those last few weeks either." Ricky would take all of the blame for why they had ended if it meant that they could get back together.
Patty shook her head sadly and her brown eyes filled with tears. "Ricky, you know why we were fighting and it is my fault, I just couldn't accept that some things happen for a reason."
Ricky's huge brown eyes filled with tears now too. "Baby, you had just had a miscarriage and it was natural for you to be a little depressed. In hindsight it might have been a good thing I think that we proved that we weren't ready to be parents."
"We know that we both blamed me for losing the baby and we just grew apart from there." Patty replied.
Ricky leaned over and cupped her face in his hands. "Charlie, I know that you blamed yourself, but I never blamed you. Like I said we were in no way ready to start a family. That being said I want nothing more than to have a family with you someday. You've just got to give me one more chance, I promise you that I can walk away right now and never play football again if that is what you want." He pleaded with her.
"Ricky, I'm not going to ask you to give up on your dream just to make me happy." Patty replied her derisive snort making it clear what she thought of his last comment.
It was Ricky's turn to shake his head. "If you'll recall playing pro ball was never my dream. My dream was to open my own auto shop, I guess I just got caught up in all the hype that was made about me in college that I decided to go pro." He corrected her.
"Ricky, you are a pretty big deal, I mean you shattered every record for a quarterback at that school. I think in the back of my mind I always knew that you were going to go pro. I just wish that you had talked to me about it first. We were supposed to be getting married and you made a decision that affected both of us without running it by me." Patty explained to him.
"Charlie, I didn't think, I just got the offer to play pro ball and I jumped at it." Ricky replied lamely. There really wasn't much that he could say on the subject.
"That's the problem, you just jumped without taking me into consideration." Patty pointed out.
"Charlie, I didn't know how to broach the subject with you. It seemed like everything that I had to say back then set you off. I'm not saying that I shouldn't have tried to talk to you, but I had no clue what else to do." Ricky said shrugging.
"Ricky, we're not going to get anywhere by rehashing the past." Patty said shaking her head sadly.
"You're right, I don't care about the past right now, I just want to know what to do so that we can have a future together." Ricky replied.
"Ricky, I don't know what you want from me right now. More than anything I want things to go back to the way that they were between us, but I don't think that's possible." Patty reasoned with him.
"I understand if you don't feel like you can give me forever right now. Let's just take this thing one day at a time." Ricky came up with what he thought was a reasonable compromise.
"I don't know that it's a good idea for us to go into this expecting to get back what we had before. What we had before was pretty damn great and I'm afraid that we would just be setting ourselves up for disappointment when that doesn't happen." Patty told him seriously.
"I don't expect us to get back what we had before right away. I'm not naïve enough to think that this is possible, but I do think that with time we can have something even better than that. Charlie, I'm begging you to give me one more chance. I know as sure as the sun sets and rises everyday that I will never love any woman, but you. I realize that I messed things up and I want a chance to make them right." Ricky spoke passionately.
"Ricky, I just don't know that we should do this again. As it stands I think that we have a pretty good chance of staying friends. If we go out again and it doesn't work out we might not even have that. I'm sorry, but I rather have you in my life as my friend than not at all." Patty argued with him.
Ricky reached over and cupped her face again. "Charlie, just give me the afternoon to change your mind. I'm in pain without you." he said his brown eyes searching hers like he was trying to stare into her soul.
Patty closed her eyes tightly and sighed. "Fine, you can have the afternoon, but don't expect miracles." She relented. If she were being truthful with herself she wanted this just as badly as he did, but for some reason she was being resistant.
"I promise you that you won't regret this." Ricky swore with a grin and then he leaned over and kissed her.
"Brady, it's a pleasant surprise to see you here at my apartment door. I let you stay with me last night, I don't know what more you can want." Hailey joked with her on-again-off-again boyfriend.
"I think that I might have left my watch here last night and I just came back to get it." Brady said flashing her a charming grin.
"Don't you grin at me like that, you know where that got us last night." Hailey replied unable to keep a smile from gracing her lips.
"I don't know about you, but I really like where this grin got us last night." Brady replied bending over to peck her lips.
"I loved where this grin got us last night." Hailey retorted.
"So, you're not having any morning after regrets about sleeping with your ex?" Brady asked her cocking his eyebrow.
"The only regret I have is that you had to go so early and we only had time to do it one more time this morning." Hailey said wrapping her arms around his neck.
"As much as I hate to mess with a good thing, I'm going to have to ask where this leaves us." Brady stated firmly. He wasn't going to let her play with him again like she had done the last time and he meant it.
"This leaves us in a place where I'm going to have to stop meeting you like this or my boyfriend is going to get jealous." Hailey cracked.
"And who is your boyfriend?" Brady asked her a slightly confused look on his face.
"That would be you, Mr. Halliwell. My heart is always going to belong to you and there is no use in me fighting it." Hailey informed him.
"I'm so glad that you said that, Ms. Mitchell. Otherwise I was going to have use my shrink skills on you and we both know that we don't want that." Brady joked.
"Brady, we've been through this, I have one too many issues for you to try to analyze." Hailey joked lightly.
"And seem to recall that I've told you countless times that I love you because of your issues not in spite of them." Brady reminded her.
"Just like I love you because of your psychology degree and not in spite of it." Hailey chuckled deep in her throat when she saw the wounded look that crossed his face.
"Everybody has always got to pick on the psychology degree." Brady said shaking his head in mock sadness.
"And by the way, I know that you left your watch here on purpose. I'm wise to your ways." Hailey called him out.
"I don't know how you could accuse me of such a thing." Brady said pretending to be offended.
"I don't know how I could accuse you of such a thing either. It's just that I know how your mind works and that should probably scare the hell out of me." Hailey teased him.
"Hails, if I scare you there are some of my patients that you better hope you never meet, because they are way worse than I am." Brady informed her.
"I know that you don't really want to talk about your patients right now." Hailey said standing up on her tiptoes to kiss him.
Brady put his arms around her and pulled her closer to him. "You're right I don't want to talk about such things right now." he replied before kissing her again.
"Hey, Emmett, I didn't expect to see you so early in the day. I figured that you would still be nursing a killer hangover." Frank greeted his baby brother when he stepped through his kitchen door.
"I am nursing a killer hangover, but I thought it would be wise if I tracked my baby sister down, I never know how long it will be until the next time that I get to see her." Emmett replied.
"Brooke isn't here right now, as a matter of fact she is with Tommy. And in turn they are both with B and I'm sure that you really don't want to think about what that could mean." Lyn explained to him.
"That means that they are off having fun without me." Emmett retorted with a mock pout on his face.
"I'm pretty sure that there is still time for you to catch up with them if that is what you want." Mickey informed him.
"Nah, I would just be in the way and B would kick my ass." Emmett was smart when he wanted to be.
"Emmett, you give my little sister entirely too much power over you. She wouldn't be half the bitch that she is if you guys all didn't let it be known that you're terrified of her." Maria commented shaking her head.
"Maria, don't you have a house of your own?" Emmett asked his oldest niece with an arched eyebrow.
"Don't you have a girlfriend that you need to go take your turn with?" Maria asked in reply. A hint of a smirk was playing on the edge of her lips.
"First of all, Donnie is not my girlfriend. Second off, I don't think you're funny, Sophia." Emmett shot back at her.
"Don't start a war that you can't win, Daniel." Maria warned him.
"Aren't you both a little old to be fighting?" Angie asked looking between the two of them.
"No, not really." Emmett replied with a shrug.
"Emmett, what exactly is going on with you and my baby sister?" Lyn asked him out of curiosity.
"I don't think anyone but Donnie knows the answer to that question. It would help matters a lot if I didn't actually like Greg, but since I do I can't beat his ass." Emmett answered her.
"I think the better question is, what's going on with Brooke and Tommy." Maria threw out there.
"That's a question we've all been trying to answer for like the last ten years and no one has come up with anything useful yet." Angie said rolling her eyes. It was plain to her that her baby brother was head over heels for her husband's baby sister.
"Nothing damn well better be going on between those two. Tommy knows that I'll kill him if he even thinks about looking at my baby sister in a sexual manner." Emmett fumed.
"You're not going to kill him. Brooke could do a hell of a lot worse than Tommy. Hell, she has done worse than Tommy. It's a matter of getting those two to see that they would be great together." Frank put his foot down with his brother about the matter.
"Good luck with that one, dad, the most normal guy that Brooke has ever dated is Hank. We've all been trying to make Tommy and Brooke see that they would be good together for years now. " Maria pointed out to him.
"How many of the women in this family have had their way with that poor boy?" Angie asked rolling her eyes.
"I'm pretty sure that Rach, Lindsay, and Donnie are the only ones who haven't." Maria replied.
"Sophia, when did you have the time to be with him?" Lyn asked her.
"Mom, when he was thirteen I kissed him and that was all. I only did that because I said that his first kiss should be from someone who knew what they were doing." Maria answered her.
"That's not normal, nor is the fact that Frank is trying to pimp out our baby sister." Mickey said putting his two cents in on the matter.
"I did that to my sisters all of the time before they both got married, it's not a big deal, Uncle Mickey. Hell, I still do that with Chase, not that it does any good." Maria said dismissing his concern.
"You need to put some of that concern on your cousin, I'm reasonably sure that Sean is gay." Angie told her oldest niece.
"Sean is not gay, he's just a whore and he knows that you're like mom and he can't bring his skanks around you." Lyn corrected her.
"I am not like mom." Angie protested.
"The hell you aren't." Lyn snorted.
"If it's possible you two fight more than B and Oriana do." Maria muttered.
"It's not possible for anyone to fight more than your younger sisters do. I don't know what it is with those two, but they can't get along for more than five seconds." Frank threw out there. Not that he had to say it everyone knew how much Bianca and Oriana fought.
Emmett just rolled his eyes and sighed. "And to think, I came here willingly. I don't know what I was thinking." He said more to himself than to anyone else.
"Piper, I need to tell you about the damn fool thing that I did last night." Parker announced when he walked in the front door of the manor. He managed to pass the sunroom without being mobbed by his nieces and nephew. That was quite a feat considering those kids.
"Parker, I don't think that you can be more of a fool than you already are, but I'll listen to you anyway." Piper yelled back.
Parker shot her a look when he walked into the kitchen for what she had said. "Pip, I will have you know that I have very tender feelings and they get hurt very easily." He informed her.
"Parker, I'm not going to baby you right now. I happen to think that you might benefit greatly from being knocked upside the head." Piper replied dryly.
"Look, I know that I have been behaving like a jackass lately, but at least hear me out right now." Parker damn near pleaded with her.
"Since you seem like you're in a better mood than you have been in I will listen to what you have to say." Piper told him.
Parker took a deep breath he knew it was better to just say what he had to say and get it over with quickly. "I slept with Calleigh last night."
Piper looked at him with a confused look on her face. "And that is something important why?" she asked him with an edge of sarcasm in her voice.
"Piper, I had sex with Calleigh last night and again this morning as long as I'm being honest." Parker stressed. He didn't know why his sister didn't see what a big deal this was.
"Parker, you slept with your wife, I don't know why you want me to make a big deal out of that. It's what you're supposed to do." Piper was being blunt with him, but only because she had already tried handling him with kid gloves.
"And that wouldn't be a problem if my wife and I were actually together at the moment, but we're not." Parker reasoned with her.
"Parker, I've never been in the position that you're in right now and I hope to God that I never am, but you two need to lean on each other instead tearing each other apart. I honestly don't know what else to tell you anymore." Piper replied with a sigh.
"Pip, I feel like I have complicated things more than necessary. Things were hard enough between Cal and I before we slept together, now I don't know what to feel." Parker admitted.
"Parks, you didn't do anything wrong. The only thing that you are doing wrong is constantly having a bottle to your lips. I know that what you're going through isn't easy, but this isn't the man that Jesse would want you to be." Piper knew that she had to be firm with him if she wanted any chance of getting through.
"Don't talk to me about Jesse, I'm obviously not the man that he thought I was. If I was I would have found him by now." Parker disputed.
"Parker, you're his daddy, that means that you can do no wrong in his eyes. He loves you just as much as you love him. You just have to have faith that you'll bring him home soon." Piper told him.
"I'm not sure that I even deserve to have his love anymore. Piper, I just wish I knew one way or another what happened to him. It's the not knowing that is killing me here." Parker informed her.
"Honey, I know that what you're going through right now has to be really hard, but that doesn't mean you have to give up. I hate seeing you this unhappy and knowing that there isn't a damn thing that I can do to help you." Piper said putting her arm around him.
"Piper, it's never going to be ok that I didn't do more to save him. I just don't know what to do about finding him right now." Parker retorted.
"Jesse knows that you did everything that you could and that you are still doing everything that you can to get him back. Things like this just take more time than we want them to sometimes. I promise you that one way or another we are going to find him and you can take that to the bank." Piper swore to him.
Parker looked at his sister with tears shining in his eyes. "Thanks for being so great to me, Pip. You have no clue how much this means to me." he said hugging her tightly.
"I think that it would have been helpful had someone mentioned to me earlier that that damn demon was going to explode like that." Paige bitched wiping demon guts off of her shirt.
"Hey, don't think that that was fun for me either. Had I known that was going to happen I damn sure would have planned for it." Bianca retorted while glaring at her daughter. Those two were probably never going to be able to get along for more than five minutes at a time.
"Must you two do this right now?" Chris asked looking between his best friend and their daughter.
"Ask your precious little baby, she is the one who started it." Bianca shot back at him.
"Come on, B, you really don't want to get in between those two's messed up relationship." Henry begged his wife. What he really wanted to do was go home and spend some time with his babies.
"Hank, I don't know why you even try, you know that those two can't get along for any amount of time." Rachel pointed out to him.
"Just tell me that we got the right demon." Brooke begged. She really hated to think that she had gotten covered in demon guts for no damn reason.
"Brooke, this is B we're talking about, there is no way that we didn't get the right demon." Tommy reminded her.
"If we could maybe discuss this somewhere a little safer that would be great." Victor threw out there. He knew that his family didn't think anything of holding a discussion in the underworld, though.
"Vic is right, we should get out of here. We'll just go back to the manor." Henry announced.
"Chris, are you taking Paige again tonight?" Bianca asked him.
"I can take her again, I mean I haven't got to spend that much time with her with everything that we have had going on. That is unless you want her with you tonight." Chris replied.
"Chris, spend some time with your daughter. It's not like I don't see her everyday too." Bianca told him.
Chris grinned at her. "Thanks, B, you have no idea how much that means to me."
"I know damn well how much it means to you. Chris, you and that little girl are crazy about each other. I for one happen to think that it's sweet." Bianca said smiling at him.
"With that settled, let's get out of here." Rachel said putting her arm around her husband so he could orb them out.
Huck was in the studio for lack of anything better to do at the moment. He was a little surprised when he saw Penny walk in. He was sure that from the pissed off look on her face that whatever she was there for wasn't going to be pleasant.
"What can I do for you, Penny?" Huck greeted her cheerfully. He didn't know what he had been thinking when he messed up their relationship, but it had been a damn fool thing for him to do.
Penny just glared at him. "I think you know why I'm here. I would really like it if you didn't try to put on that innocent act with me. We both know that you are anything but innocent." She told him bluntly.
Recognition dawned in Huck's eyes. He did know what she was so pissed off about. "Penny, listen, I know that I promised you that I wasn't going to use that version of the song, but it was too good not to use. I would have consulted you before I did it, but I know that you would have balked at the idea." He was doing so quick talking, because the last thing he wanted was for her to be anymore pissed off at him than she already was.
"Puck, I expect things like this out of you, I don't know why I even let it surprise me anymore." Penny replied rolling her eyes and pinching the bridge of her nose. Really she didn't know why she was so pissed off with him about that song. In the grand scheme of things he had done a hell of a lot worse than that before.
"I just got the numbers back for that song and trust me, we're a hit. I couldn't have done this without you." Huck tried flattering her.
"Puck, don't try to be charming right now. I think that I have let you charm me one too many times. I don't know why I even trust you when I know damn well what you're like." Penny was madder at herself for trusting him than she was at him.
"Penny, I can only apologize for my lapse in judgment so many times, you can either accept what I have to say and get over it or break things off with me for good. Whatever this is that we're doing right now isn't working though." Huck told her seriously.
"Puck, believe me, I know that things aren't working out between us right now. I guess we've just been together too long for me to know what it's like to be with anyone but you." Penny replied.
"I think we both know that you didn't come here today because of that song, you came here to end things with me, you just don't know how to do that." Puck informed her.
"You're right, I think that you and I need to take a step back from each other for a little while and see other people." Penny agreed with him.
"Penny, for what it's worth I really do love you and I'm sorry that I messed up." Huck apologized again.
"I know and I love you too, I just think that we need some time apart." Penny said smiling at him sadly.
"I'm going to give you the time that you're asking for, but I want you to know that I'm going to fight for you." Huck said before pulling her into a kiss.
"We'll see how things turn out, this doesn't have to be the end of us forever, this just has to be the end for now." Penny replied once she had pulled away from him. "I'll see you around, Huck." She said walking back to the door. That was one of the hardest things that she had ever had to do. She couldn't help the tears that welled up in her eyes as she forced herself not to look back over her shoulder at him.
-END-
Guest Starring:
Piper Halliwell- Holly Marie Combs
Phoebe Halliwell- Alyssa Milano
Paige Matthews- Rose McGowan
Prue Halliwell- Shannen Doherty
Leo Wyatt- Brain Krause
Henry Mitchell- Ivan Sergei
Coop Valintine- Victor Webster
Andy Trudeau- T.W. King
Derek Bradford- Dominic Purcell
Eva Nicolae- Eva La Rue
Nicole Shane- Emily Proctor
Tim Shane- Chris Noth
Frank Hoyt- Jeffery Dean Morgan
Lyn Hoyt- Angie Harmon
Angie Hoyt- Kelli Giddish
Mickey Hoyt- Gerard Butler
Jimmy Ward- Josh Lucas
And
Eric Cavanaugh- Adam Rodriguez
Special Appearances By:
Victor Bennett- James Read
Billie Jenkins- Kaley Cuoco
Maria Hoyt- Kelly Monoco
Donnie Castigliaono- Emmy Rossum
Cole Turner- Julian McMahon
Emmett Hoyt- Josh Duhamel
Colt Halliwell- Sean Faris
Hayden Halliwell- Lucy Hale
Brooke Hoyt- Mercedes Masöhn
Tommy Castigliaono- Colin Egglesfield
And
Jason Jackson- Geoff Stults
A/N: Finally I've got the last chapter up and I'm sorry for the long wait, I just got over a terminal case of writers block and I've been really busy. That being said I'm not as happy with this chapter as I could be, but I felt like I had to get something out to you guys. I know it seems like I left a lot of things unfinished in this chapter, but they are going to come up again in future episodes. I hope you guys enjoyed this, until next time please review.
