Chapter 6

Penny woke up to the smell of warm luxurious coffee. Much to her father's displeasure, she, Henry Jr., and Dora all addicted to coffee. Something they had inherited from their mother. Penny looked across to the other bed to find that Dora was still sleeping unaware of the lovely coffee brewing. Penny then got out of bed and walked upstairs to the kitchen. As soon as she got there she saw her cousins Patty and Jessie as well as her baby sister Pippa.

"Be Careful, it's a bit hot. You're breakfast will be ready in five." Patty spoke as she put out a cup of coffee for the younger twin cousin. Penny nodded her head in thanks as she sipped a bit.

"How did you know that I wanted coffee?" Penny wondered as She moved a bit when Pippa went to sit on her lap. Penny reached out and pulled Pippa's orange juice towards her.

"You always want coffee. And I sensed you coming so I made more coffee." Patty told her as she went to work on cooking the breakfast. Pippa looked up at her big sister.

"Is Chrissy going to be okay, Pen?" Pippa asked her big sister as all three of the elder girls looked at her. Penny then looked up to look at Patty in concern for their elder cousin.

"Of course he'll be fine, Pip. Yesterday was just a fluke. Go and get ready for school. I need to talk to Jessie and Patty." Penny lied as Pippa pouted. She didn't want to go up stairs. She wanted them to be truthful. She understood what they were doing and she didn't like it. But after receiving an evil glare from Penny, she did as she was told and orbed.

"Okay way to early for Orbing." Jessica yelled as she and the other two covered their eyes away from the shiny neon lights. Penny took a bit swig out of her coffee to waken her up a bit more.

"So, Patty you know the truth no doubt. Did I just completely lie to my baby sister?" Penny asked her in concern for both Chris and Pippa. Patty gave her a saddened look as she brought the pancakes over along with her on cup of coffee. And sat down.

"Wyatt spent nearly four hours trying to find anything that could help Chris. He found nothing. Prue and Henry helped to get Chris upstairs. He fell asleep instantly." Patty told the two in concern for her elder cousin. Penny and Jessie both looked concerned about what she had said.

"This is crap. Why do we have to go through all this crap. Why can't a different family. I hate this." Jessie suddenly yelled in anger and rage as the elder two gasped. They had never heard Jessie ever say anything like that ever.

"Okay do you think that Grandpa will be up?" Patty asked as she decided to change the subject. Penny looked happy at the change of topic as well.

"I don't know about Grandpa. But I'm up. And I am doing fine." A voice spoke as the three girls turned to find their very much awake cousin, Chris.

"Chris!" The three girls yelled in happiness as they ran over to him and hugged him. Chris laughed at the way the girls were acting. They never usually acted like this.

"Okay what a welcome. You know it's only been ten hours. And we were all asleep through the lot of them." Chris laughed as the girls all gave him a look. Suddenly neon lights appeared in the room to show Pippa appear right in Chris' arms as she hugged him. Penny groaned at the neon lights again.

"Pip, enough with the Orbing. It's great to see and feel that you're better Chris." Penny spoke as she rubbed her eyes. Patty just looked at him in concentration. Chris felt something weird going through his head. Chris turned and glared at his cousin.

"Patty, stop going through my head! I said I was fine don't you believe me?" Chris yelled at her in anger at what she was doing. His thoughts were his own thoughts. He always hated her constant invasion of his mind. Patty had always been the best in the family at telepathy. So good that she could easily read anyone's thoughts. It was the biggest thing that she had inherited from her mom that worked full force. She was rubbish with her premonitions and hardly ever used her levitation. But her telepathy was annoying enough.

"Chris, you and Prue both get A+ in the art of lies and manipulation. So, no I don't really belief that you are fine." Patty told her cousin in anger. She hated the way Chris and Prue acted like they could do anything, when they couldn't do everything. She didn't understand why her cousins couldn't act vulnerable once in a while.

"Guys you are going to wake up Wyatt." Penny growled at the two as they all gave her a look. They looked at each other and then burst out laughing. Pippa and Jessie joined in to the laughing as Penny just put her hands on her hips and glared at them.

"Are you kidding me? Five explosions and a bull born wouldn't be able to wake him up. Trust me, I know." Chris spoke as he chocked in laughter. It was funny how things like that could brighten his mood so much.

"Who wouldn't wake up?" A voice asked as the group turned to find Wyatt, Haley, Peyton and Henry walking into the kitchen just as Dora came up the stairs and straight to the coffee. Wyatt sat down and walked up to the coffee as well.

"Nobody that you know. Well, kind of aunt Paige. But she doesn't count." Chris spoke quickly trying to stop Wyatt from catching onto his actual thoughts. Wyatt gave his brother a weird look as Penny smirked at him. It was then that their grandfather came down. He looked around to notice two people missing from the family.

"Where are Daniel, Melinda and Prudence?" Victor asked as he looked around the room for the three children. It was then that Mel came in.

"Eh? Prue told me to tell you that she is not going to that school. And that you can't make her. And Danny said that he was just going to sleep even more." She spoke as Victor growled at this and grabbed three water bottles from the fridge and walked back upstairs.

"Oh god they are going to get in trouble." Dora sang slightly as the children all glared at her. It was then that they heard Danny screech. The children all ran to the stairs as they heard another scream. Prue's scream.

"GRANDPA!!" They heard Prue's voice screech as Victor walked down the stairs sipping water from on of bottles. Two of which were now missing. Two socking wet children followed their grandfather as the other children burst out laughing at the scene before them.

"Shut up now or I will pour this water all over you." Prue growled and as if to prove a point she telekinetically moved her grandfather's open bottle of water and moved it making it pour all over Chris. Everyone laughed again as Chris glared at his cousin.

"Ha. Cute Prudence, really, really cute." Chris spoke with a laugh as he shook his head from his mop of hair causing the water to go everywhere. And just to annoy his cousin he used his power of hydrokinesis to create a ball of water and flung it at Prue. Prue was hit.

"Back at you, Christopher. And don't call me Prudence." Prue spoke as she spat some of the water out of her mouth. The others were still laughing as Danny used his power of thermokinesis on himself to dry his clothes. The two walked down stairs just as orbs appeared in the place that they had stood.

"Guys get ready, just in case." Chris spoke suddenly very serious and neurotic. The orbs changed into two elders. The elders both looked at them. One with sympathy the other as only an elder.

"What in the hell are you doing in our house?" Patty yelled at the elders. The others took a step back. Patty was too much like Piper. And both Piper and Patty despised the elders. The two looked at the young witch. Odin, the male elder looked at her in distain. While Sandra, the female elder looked at her in sympathy. Patty growled at Odin.

"We are here Patricia because you children no longer have a whitelighter." Odin told the young witch in distain. He hated having to deal with the Halliwell/Matthews' children. Victor looked on in fear at what might possibly happen.

"We have a whitelighter. We have ten whitelighters. Eleven including Uncle Andy. We are not helpless." Patty argued in vain as Sandra just sighed at what Odin was doing. It wasn't enough that they had lost their family but now they had to deal with them.

"You may not be helpless Patricia, but all witches need a whitelighter. A full whitelighter. And Andy has his own charges. He doesn't need to be distracted by your family." Odin spoke again as Danny nodded his head. Knowing Andy didn't even give a damn. Jessie turned to look at him. He could not be serious. She was Andy's daughter.

"Our family? What the hell? Andy is my dad. He's Danny and Haley's dad too. We are not a distraction to him. Not ever." Jessica yelled at the Elder in pain and anger. She couldn't deal with not having her father around. She, her brother and her sister needed him. They needed their dad.

"We understand that Jessica, what Odin means is that Andy has charges as well as hid family. But you children will always be his priority." Sandra spoke as she tried to defuse the situation. But all that seemed to do was cause hurt to the younger male witch.

"His priority? Yeah right, Andy doesn't even give a damn. He never has. He hates us. And I don't want another stuck up jerk telling me what to do when I am only seven and Wyatt is only sixteen. We don't care about getting told what to do. We are kids." Danny yelled in anger, pain and betrayal. His father had destroyed his entire world. He was not about to let another elder take over. He hated them. They didn't need them. He just wanted to be normal and live.

"Yes and that is why we believe that all thirteen of you should be taken up there." Odin told them as Sandra glared at him. The children and Victor gasped at hearing this. Not only had they just lost seven members of their family but now they were going to lose their Grandfather. And so many others.

"No!" They all shouted in anger. None of them were willing to move away because of the elders. They were just starting a new school today for Christ sake.

"Not ever. You are not taking my grandchildren away from me. They are the last thing of Paige and my daughters. They don't deserve this. And you are not taking them away from us." Victor yelled at the elders. He was not in the mood to have his family taken away. Not after he had just lost all of his daughters, Paige, Henry and all his son in laws.

"Us? There is only you here." Odin spoke not understanding what Victor meant by us. Victor just looked at them. Did they really think that he was the only one that was looking after those children.

"No there is Daryl and Shelia Morris. There is Charlie Ryan and Billie Jenkins. They are family and you are not taking those kids from them." Victor yelled as he thought about how Billie and Daryl would react if the children were taken away.

"Well that is not your decision Mr. Bennett." Odin spoke in anger at this person talking to him like that. Chris glared at Odin. He never did like that elder.

"No, it might not be grandpa's choice. But it is ours. And don't you dare say a damn thing against it, Odin. We are a family and we are sticking together. No matter what." Chris yelled as he felt repulsed by the very thought of living up there in Elder land. Or even at Magic school.

"Christopher, you don't see to…" Odin began to speak when Chris cut him off not even trying to let him destroy their lives any further than they were already. It was their life.

"The hell I don't. Listen we are not controlled by you. We are human beings. Our lives don't resolve around you and this crap. So, go to hell." Chris yelled at them. He had had enough of being Mr. nice guy. He knew more than anybody that they didn't need to live up there. He knew what it was like to have no family. And he had dealt just fine.

"Fine, you might have made your choice to stay here but that does not change anything. We will send a whitelighter some time later today." Odin spoke as the group sighed in anger at having to deal with another annoying whitelighter/elder to deal with. But before anyone could say anything he orbed away.

"God I hate those sons of a bitches. Why are we always effected by that kind of crap. WE DON'T WANT A WHITELIGHTER!!" Patty screamed in hatred. Everyone took a step back as Patty began to cry. She had finally broke. And all of them could tell.

"Patty, it going to be okay. Mommy and daddy will make the stupid elders go away." Peyton spoke as she walked over to her big sister and hugged her. Patty gripped on to her baby sister as tears ran down her eyes. Prue looked on in the background, unable to get close because of her empathy. She felt all the pain that her sister was going through and then some. And it all hurt.

"I just miss them so much. I want my mom and my dad back. I want the aunts and the uncles back. I want the elders to leave us alone. I want everything to stop." Patty cried as Henry walked over to his best friend. He knew how she felt. They along with Wyatt and Jessie were the oldest in their own family. And it was always hard to have to be the strong one all the time.

"Patty, kiddo, it will get better. I promise. I has to get better. Mom always told me that it gets better. So did Billie and Uncle Charlie. You just need to calm down and breathe." Wyatt told her as he noticed her face going a bit red showing sighs of hyperventilation. Patty glared at her cousin.

"It hurts to breathe.

It hurts to talk.

Everything hurts

And I want it to stop.

I just want it to stop." Patty spoke not realizing that she had rhymed to the point of her words being a spell. Nobody noticed the spell until a change went through Patty. Prue looked at her. Her empathy was away from Patty. She couldn't feel anything and neither could any of the other empaths.

"Pat, honey, are you okay? I can't feel anything anymore." Mel asked in concern as she gave a look to Prue who just shrugged. Patty looked at Mel and also shrugged.

"I am fine. Well I will be after I get ready for school. TTFN. Tata for now." Patty laughed as she hearted out of the room and towards her bedroom to get changed fro school. Everyone just looked at were she had left in concern. Wyatt immediately took control of the situation again.

"Maybe we should listen to Patty's advice." Wyatt spoke as the others all sighed a little angry that Wyatt was yet again taking over. And being all bossy Wyatt again.

"How about no. I have to get to work on looking for that demon. So, like what my sister said TTFN. Tata for now." Prue spoke with a smirk as she went to heart up to the attic to do research but before she had the chance Wyatt stopped her.

"Prudence Halliwell, unless you want to be living it up in the town of white with bossy elders. Or you can go to school and live here. It's all your choice." Wyatt yelled as he gave his little cousin an ultimatum. Prue growled at him and after realising that he wasn't going to back down she screeched.

"Fine! I'll go to school. And don't call me Prudence!" Prue yelled as she ran upstairs in anger to get ready. Wyatt sighed in relief that Prue was finally doing as she was told. He walked over to his Grandpa as the others ran to their rooms to get ready for school.

"Well this should be a fun day. Good luck Grandpa." Wyatt said as he patted Victor on the shoulder before running up to his room to get ready for school. Victor sighed. Today was going to be a really long day. And Patty's sudden change of attitude concerned him a lot. Victor sighed again as he went to the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee. Wyatt was right. Today was going to be a very long day.