A/N: Thanks to Thunder903 and Smart One 17 for reviewing.


Chapter 7: Undercover Operations

Hailey rolled her eyes as she watched Carly and Val go through the contents of Mel's closest and then dumped several different outfits on her bed. She should have known that agreeing to this was a bad idea but then again someone had to do it.

"I hope you both know that you're putting my clothes back where you found them." Mel said with an arched eyebrow.

"Relax woman, we'll put them back. I don't know how you could suggest that we wouldn't." Val assured her.

Mel now wore an amused look on her face. "I've seen your apartment, so forgive me if the mess you live in doesn't inspire much confidence when it comes to my closest getting organized again." She replied.

Hailey sat down in the desk chair and let out a long sigh. "I knew that this was a bad idea when I agreed to it and yet I still said yes. There has to be something wrong with me." she mused.

"I'm telling you Hay, the only thing that is wrong with you is that you have been hanging around cheerleaders." Mia told her friend with a satisfied smirk on her face.

"Mia, I really, really like you." Mel said grinning.

"Mel, you would like anyone who is a surly as you are." Carly told her.

"Be that as it may, the girl has good judgment. Most of you cheerleaders are bad news. You and Val happen to be worse than others." Mel replied once again getting the upper hand on her cousin in an argument.

Val rolled her eyes. "Leigh, don't even bother arguing with Mel right now. Let's just focus on getting Hails dressed. I know that is hard considering whose closest we're going through but there is bound to be something in here."

"I'm going to ignore that comment for the moment because I have a very important question. Would it be wrong if I thought that Dante was hot?" Hailey asked. Normally she wasn't one to notice men but there was just something about Dante that did it for her.

"Honey, I would think that there was something wrong with you if you didn't find that boy fine." Carly replied like it was nothing and for her it wasn't.

"Yeah but he's got to be at least Jason's age. I think that might be a little old for me." Hailey pointed out.

"Nonsense, the heart wants what the heart wants. And when I say heart in this situation I'm referring to the libido." Val pointed out.

"I think these two scare me a little bit." Mia commented.

"Join the club, they scare the hell out of me too." Mel agreed nodding her head.

"This isn't helping. I really wish you two would just find something for me to wear so I can get out of here." Hailey said she was sorry that she had ever gotten them on this topic.


"We could always set a trap and dangle a little bait in front of her face." Roman suggested. When he started suggesting plans it was time to be worried.

"I really don't want to do that unless we have to. This isn't like fishing, the only bait we have I happen to care about a lot." Chris replied. He really didn't want to use his two crazy ass best friends to lure this bitch out if he didn't have to.

"Ro, I think that maybe you shouldn't think anymore that's not why we keep you around." Lilly told her brother gently.

"Hey, I'm trying to be helpful here." Roman retorted throwing his hands up in the air.

"We could always summon her. That gives us a big advantage, not only would we be catching her off guard but we would be making her play on our turf." Calleigh threw out just to put more options on the table.

"That's not a half bad idea considering that Carl is involved in this." Rachel agreed with her.

"Too bad she is too smart to fall for something like that. I don't think that it'll work." Bianca said blowing that plan all to hell.

"Do you have any other ideas then B?" Oriana asked her sister. She was on thin ice as it was and being sarcastic with her was only going to make it worse.

"I happen to know where she spends her time when she isn't busy killing people so yeah I do have other ideas." Bianca informed her.

"I would really like it if these ideas didn't involve you using yourself as bait." Chris told her not that she would pay attention to him if she didn't feel like it.

"Chris, I only do what I have to based on where the job takes me." Bianca reasoned with him.

Chris shot her a cold glare. "But you don't stop to consider that if something happens to you Paige is screwed." He pointed out to her.

"I know that Chris, but I also know what I'm doing." Bianca replied. She knew that he was talking some sense though. She didn't want anything to happen to their daughter but she was messed up at the moment.

"B, you got mad at me earlier because I brought Paige to help rescue you. But you don't stop to think that she wouldn't be in half as much danger if you weren't always putting yourself in these types of situations." Chris said trying to make her see some reason.

"Are you accusing me of something Chris?" Bianca asked him. Her words had a cold fury about them.

"I'm not accusing you of anything, I'm telling you that you don't think about our daughter before you run off and do some of the stupid shit you do." Chris stated bluntly.

"So now I'm a bad mother?" Bianca was being unreasonable but she didn't feel like being rational at the moment.

"I'm not saying that at all. You're a great mom B, but you don't think before you act." Chris retorted.

Liz let out a loud wolf whistle. "That is not helping matters at all you guys. We need a plan and unless someone can come up with something better, just about the only option we have right now is to use someone for bait."

"I would volunteer but something tells me that nobody would like that idea." Parker offered trying to be helpful.

"You're not going to use yourself as bait. This is my mess I'll be the one to clean it up." Bianca told him. She wasn't letting anyone else put themselves in danger because she had gone a little crazy.

"Ok, I guess we can all live with that plan. Hank will be thrilled actually I think he wants to go kill the bitch." Wyatt said before anyone else could think up another argument.

"We argue entirely too much, I don't know how we're as productive as we are." Chord mused.

"It's a gift of ours. I don't think we would know how to act if we ever did anything without arguing about it." Prue mused.

"I'm thinking that we should go see how Hank is doing with the little kids and tell him about this plan." Troy suggested.

"Yep, we're done here." Chris said but not before glaring at Bianca again.


Chuck was in the kitchen with the old people at the moment. He wasn't really feeling up to helping with planning. He was more concerned with trying to figure out why Carl kept showing up. "I don't get it, I mean why now?" he asked. He was talking to himself more than he was anyone else.

"What don't you get Chuck?" Cole asked.

"I don't get why Carl keeps showing up. I get that he wants me but you would think he would actually come after me instead of staying on the fringes." Chuck replied.

"Demons really don't make a whole lot of sense Chuck. Once you figure that out your life will be so much easier." Nicole offered with a weak smile.

"There is just something off about the timing. He has had years to come after me. I don't get why he waited so long." Chuck went on he was still worried.

"As much as I hate to say it, this is probably Greg's doings." Phoebe said and it pained her. She was still struggling with the fact that her son was evil. She wanted so badly to save him she just didn't know how to do that.

"That does make some sense. But it still doesn't explain why he doesn't come after Chuck directly." Coop more or less agreed with his wife.

"I'll tell you what's really troubling, the fact that he's tied up with so many different magical beings. I can understand him being involved with a siren it makes more sense than him dealing so closely with phoenixes." Frank said that was bothering him a little.

"I can't think of one good reason he would have for going after B when I'm the one he wants. If he was going to try to use someone against me I could understand him going after Prue. I would kill him slowly if he put his hands on my wife, but I would still understand that." Chuck was very confused and this wasn't helping matters any at all.

"Maybe he's trying to throw you off your game by letting you know that he is still out there." Henry suggested. It was a good suggestion and he just wanted to feel like he was being helpful.

"Trying to make sense out of the magical community will only result in a headache." Paige threw out.

"Ok, I'm done this is only confusing me more than I already am. It's time to take a step back." Chuck announced.

"Charles, I just got this baby to sleep if you wake him up I will kill you." Lyn scolded him.

"Sorry Aunt Lyn, I have the tendency to get a little loud when I'm pissed." Chuck apologized.

"Are you sure that this doesn't have to do with Dante?" Leo asked. His years as a whitelighter helped him read people. Plus he knew Chuck very well.

"Why would this have anything to do with Dante?" Chuck asked.

"Because if you get technical about it he is your uncle." Piper pointed out to him.

"This isn't about him. I just stress like this sometimes." Chuck said dismissing the notion.

"Chuck, I think that your aunt and uncle are right. It was easier for you to hate anything related to Vanessa before you met Dante. You see a lot of yourself in him and it scares that hell out of you because deep down you like him." Derek knew his son and he knew the way his mind worked.

"Maybe you're right, maybe it bothers me that we look so much alike." Chuck admitted.

"Chuck, you know that you're mine and nothing is ever going to change that right?" Eva asked him. She knew what was bothering him now.

"I know that mom." Chuck replied.

Eva shook her head at him. "I don't think you do son. So I'm telling you right here and now that you're mine and I love you just as much as I love your brothers and sisters." She promised him.

Chuck let out a dry chuckle. "Great, now I'm starting to act like Coop. I think I need to be checked into a mental institution." But he did feel better hearing that from Eva.

"No, you need to be checked into a mental institution for marrying my cousin, the girl is a pill." Billie joked with him.

"You have no room to talk about Prue, you act just as much like your Aunt Phoebe as she does." Prue told her daughter and then she stopped and thought about what she had said. "Ok, that just sounded weird for me."

"You sounded like Grams." Andy tried hard not to laugh at his wife because it would only piss her off more.

"You have me confused with Piper." Prue replied.

"I'm a little bit like Grams, but it's not as bad as you people try to make it sound." Piper was not going to have this argument with her sister yet again. She flat out refused to do it.

"That right there proves that there are worst people in the world for me to be like than my Aunt Phoebe." Billie said and then she shook her head. "You're right that does sound weird."

"I'm your mother, everything I say is right." Prue told her winking.

Billie groaned. "I'm more like you than I think. I just told Billy something along those lines the other day." She shook her head.

"That isn't a bad thing as long as you don't have an ego like she does." Paige couldn't help it she had to get a dig in on her older sister.

"According to Parker I do. But I don't really listen to him all that much because he makes me want to shoot him." Billie replied.

"And now you just sounded like your Aunt Piper." Prue laughed.

"That didn't sound as weird. Actually that sounded normal at least more normal than Aunt Phoebe." Billie rambled. That right there was the reason everyone said that she reminded them of Phoebe.

"I don't know what to make of that so I'm not going to comment on it." Piper said shaking her head.

"What I have to say will only get me killed so I'm going to keep my mouth shut." Cole said smirking.

"You know that you only have to worry about me killing you. But you haven't been bad lately so I won't let my sisters hurt you." Paige joked with him. He had really grown on her over the past few months.

Cole rolled his eyes but he grinned at her. "That is such a relief, I'm glad to know that you're looking out for me."

"Conversations like this make me thank God, that I have brothers to keep my sisters from driving me completely insane." Chuck said shaking his head.


"They have a brother but he is just like a little bitch when he wants to be so he's not much help." Billie said rolling her eyes.

"You two really like giving each other a hard time don't you?" Prue asked highly amused.

"I live for our daily meetings so I can tease the hell out of him." Billie admitted.

"Speaking of meetings, I'm hiding out in here until one of them comes to get me. I don't think that my head could take listening to another one of their arguments." Chuck grumbled.

"We know for sure that he won't risk exposure in public. So it's reasonable to think that he isn't going to try anything." Henry laid out for the younger kids.

"But still we can't run the risk of him seeing one of us." Patty pointed out to her older brother.

"I wouldn't dream of letting any of you be seen by him. You guys aren't going within ten miles of that place. That would be stupid, if he even gets a hint that you're onto him he will do something drastic." Henry replied. He looked at her like he thought she was crazy for saying such a thing.

"This is about me, I could always go." Torch offered like that was even an option for them.

"That is the one thing that isn't an option. Like it or not and I don't, you are our innocent. So there is no way that we can even think about risking you getting that close to him. There is no telling what he would do." Henry told him point blank. He wasn't about to let Torch and Gideon get in the same vicinity of each other he didn't know what was likely to happen.

"So we're just supposed to let Hailey and Dante meet with him alone?" Emily asked just to be clear on the situation.

"You guys have no other choice on this one, I don't like it anymore than you do but I can't think of anything else that will work in this situation." Henry said he felt pretty helpless.

"It's a solid plan Hank, don't beat yourself up over the fact that it is the best that we can come up with." Mel said coming into the room with Hailey and the others that had been in her bedroom.

"Hailey, I don't believe that underneath all the t-shirts and jeans there is someone that hot." Penny exclaimed when she saw how her cousin looked.

Hailey was attired in a black cocktail dress with matching heels and a strand of pearls around her neck. Her blonde her was done in curls and it laid down her back. "This doesn't make me look too young does it?" she asked she felt very unsure of herself at the moment.

"Hell no, if I didn't have a girlfriend you would seriously be fending off my advances right now." Huck said and then he smiled sweetly at Penny when she shot him a look.

"You look really nice Hails." Ricky complimented her when Patty elbowed him in the ribs to get him to say something.

"Someone needs to call God and tell him that he's missing an angel." Chase said in his usual goofball manner.

"And then you wonder why you can't get a date." Val said rolling her eyes at him.

"Over my dead body do you leave the house looking like that," Henry said because he knew that it would make her feel good to know that he cared. And then her turned to Mel. "Melinda Paige, I will have you know that Wyatt would have a heart attack if he knew that you owned something like that."

Mel knew what her cousin was doing and she shook her head at him. "You don't need to worry about me you have more than you can say grace over with your oldest sister. I think that your attention would be better spent on her and her escapades." She replied.

"Hailey, I hope you don't think that you're leaving this house dressed like that." Wyatt said when he came into the room with the others.

"That is the second time that I have heard that in the last two minutes. Trust me I don't like being dressed like this anymore than you like for me to dress like this." Hailey informed him.

"Hails, I don't think I can stress this to you enough but you need to be careful." Bianca lectured her.

"I will be and I won't be alone Dante is going with me." Hailey reminded her.

"Dante is a good guy to have around in a pinch but he doesn't love you the way that we all do he might get careless. Not that I'm saying he will because he won't, I've known him a long time and I'm the one who tends to get people hurt not him." Bianca replied.

"Do you understand what your job is?" Chris asked her.

"We just have to get Gideon talking and see if Torch is his son or not." Hailey answered him.

"Under no circumstances are you to let him know who you are." Henry stressed to her.

"I've got it, besides that I'm sure that Dante knows how to handle a situation like this. He does share a profession with B after all." Hailey said she was tired of hearing about it already.

"There are bold assassins and there are old assassins, but I've never met any old bold assassins. Now that is something you would probably have to worry more about if you were going out with my mom or my Grandpa Frank but just remember Dante does have a tendency to do jobs with my mom. I can't promise you that is completely sane." Paige said she felt the need to get in on this little briefing.

Carly smiled because for the first time in her life she actually had a productive idea. "Hit him with the truth spell once you get him talking." She suggested.

"Leigh, I now know that you are my sister that is a great idea." Henry agreed with her.

"So I guess that I'm just waiting on Dante to get this thing started." Hailey said.

Dante shimmered in at that moment. His jaw hit the ground when he saw Hailey. "Hailey, you look very nice." He told her.

Hailey had a hard time finding her words the sight of him had literally rendered her speechless. He was dressed in a suit that hugged his muscles in all the right places. He had on a black dress shirt with a red tie. "You look really nice too." She had to swallow around the frog in her throat to be able to talk. She didn't think it was normal that just the sight of him made her weak in the knees.

Dante dug in his pocket and pulled out a plain gold wedding band. "Here, you need to put this on. I have a semblance of a plan and for it to work you're going to have to be my wife for the day." He said as he handed her the ring.

"That works for me because I have a little bit of a plan too." Hailey replied smiling at him.

"Then you two are just about ready to go. All you have to do is go in the kitchen and tell them you're leaving. While you do that I go find the whore that Al calls his girlfriend and she can tell you more about what time of day he normally goes there." Paige said. She didn't actually hate Savannah but that didn't stop her from calling her all kind of names.

"After they leave we need to have a huge discussion about what is about to go down." Chris said seriously.

"That can wait until we get them out of here." Wyatt said he was in no mood to open that can of worms again at the moment.


Henry's jaw hit the floor when Hailey walked into the kitchen and he saw what she was wearing. "I honestly hope you don't think you're leaving the house dressed like that."

Hailey laughed and shook her head at him. "Relax Uncle Henry, I wouldn't be wearing this if I didn't have to. Besides that I've seen Carly leave the house dressed in less than this."

"Sweetie, she is on a demon hunt right now. The wise thing for you to do is let it go." Paige told her husband gently.

"Dante Angelo, your mother would be impressed if she knew that you actually cleaned up without being told." Lyn said smiling at the young man.

"Let's not talk about my mother right now she is going to be out for blood because I didn't make it to Mass this morning." Dante replied.

"Do you people have a plan or are you just going to wing it?" Piper asked she wanted details. She wasn't about to send her niece off to talk to Gideon without having a solid plan.

"Yes Aunt Piper, we have a plan and the less you know about it the better." Hailey answered truthfully.

"That would involve putting implicit trust in me and I understand that you don't trust me yet. I'm fine with it and I understand why you don't trust me." Savannah said coming into the room with Paige.

"The bitch might seem like she doesn't know what she's talking about but she does so listen to what she tells and don't do anything that she says is a bad idea." Paige told them seriously.

"It'll be about two hours before Gideon shows up at the bar but it would be a good idea to go early so you can scope the place out. Don't orb or shimmer there because that is just inviting trouble. Keep a low profile and try not to appear too interested in him. If you can find a way to strike up a conversation with him that's fine but don't push it if you can't find an opening. I can tell you that he will sit at the far end of the bar so plan accordingly." Savannah explained to them.

"Which hotel is it?" Dante asked.

"The Regent, so it's a good thing that you both dressed up the way you did." Savannah answered.

"I know where that is I'll shimmer us into an alley that isn't far from there and then we can walk." Dante said thinking out loud.

"Don't let him see you leave either, that is the last thing that you want." Savannah said it was almost an afterthought.

"I hadn't planned on it this isn't my first day on the job. When you work with B Hoyt from time to time you learn to cover your ass or she'll kill you." Dante assured her.

"You're Italian right?" Savannah asked him.

Dante gave her a charming smile. "Is the Pope Catholic?" he asked in reply but he asked the question in flawless Italian.

"Paige, I hate to admit that you know more than me, but do you know what he just said?" Savannah asked her.

"He answered your question in Italian. Well actually he asked you if the Pope was Catholic but what he meant to say was yes." Paige explained to her.

"That works to your advantage he considers himself culturally diverse so get him talking about that if you can." Savannah instructed him.

"Paige, you understand Italian very well." Lyn commented to her granddaughter.

"Before I knew that she was my mother I used to hang out with mom a lot. She has a tendency to cuss in Italian and I picked up her bad habits." Paige replied.

"So I guess we should get going then." Hailey said she was nervous at the prospect of being alone with Dante for a couple hours. But that was only because she thought that she liked him.

"Yeah, it's better to be safe than sorry. I'll have to put my arm around you so I can shimmer us." Dante said he felt his heart doing flips in his chest. He knew that she was just a kid but he couldn't help being attracted to her.

"Dante Angelo Falconeri, you will bring that girl back home in one piece or I will be explaining to your mom and dad why I had to kill you." Frank threatened him.

"I won't let anything happen to her Uncle Frank, I promise." Dante swore to him.

"You better not, you have to remember that this isn't B that you're taking with you." Frank said trying to get that through his head.

"I know that and I'm actually thankful for that for the first time ever." Dante chuckled he really didn't want to deal with Bianca considering the mood that she had been in all day.

"Hailey Alice Mitchell, you better be careful because I will kill you if you come back here hurt." Paige warned her.

"I've got it Aunt Paige, I promise that I'll be careful." Hailey swore to her.

"We should really get going." Dante told her.

"Let's go," Hailey agreed as she allowed him to put his arm around her and shimmer them out.

"That plan has trouble written all over it and the older kids weren't even really involved in the planning." Henry said shaking his head.

"She'll be fine I can vouch for Dante, he is almost as good as I am at what we do." Bianca said she was coming in the room to get Chuck.

"Because being good at what you do means getting taken hostage by demons?" Maria asked her younger sister sarcastically.

"Very rarely does that happen, things were a lot less complicated before evil decided to try to kill me." Bianca replied just as sarcastically.

Paige shook her head at her mother. "And then she wonders why I behave the way I do." She muttered more to herself than to anyone else.

"No one wonders why you behave the way you do sweet girl, you're mine and your mother's that's all that has to be said to understand you." Chris said coming into the room. Bianca hadn't come back to the living room with Chuck quick enough for his liking. "B, I never thought I would see the day that I had to come get you after I sent you after Chuck." He said in a conversational tone but he was still pissed at her.

"Well, I hadn't gotten around to talking to him yet. I was arguing with my sister." Bianca replied.

"You need a surgical procedure to have your head removed from your ass today." Chris quipped rolling his eyes.

"You have been crabby all damn day and I'm just about sick of your shit." Bianca shot back at him.

"You make me crazy, you know that?" Chris asked her. He couldn't believe that she didn't understand why he was so mad at her.

Bianca chose to ignore his last comment. "Chuck, we have problems of our own to take care of, so you need to come into the other room right now so we can fill you in on the plan." She addressed Chuck since Chris was really pissing her off at the moment.

"Right, because the plan involves you using yourself as bait again." Chris said sarcastically.

"What the fuck is your problem today?" Bianca asked him she was sick of his shit.

"Your blatant disregard for your own life is my problem. If you want to think so little of yourself that is up to you, but I'm just asking you to realize that the rest of us love you and we wouldn't know what to do if something happened to you." Chris said he was tired of fighting with her.

"I understand that Chris, I really do. I know that I act like I don't but I get it. I will try to be more careful from now on. But for right now I would really love it if you would cut me a break." Bianca replied she was tired of fighting with him too.

"Ok, I can live with that." Chris agreed and then he turned to Chuck. "Now Charles, if you would be kind enough to accompany us into the other room we can get this circus under way."

"Lead on Peanut." Chuck said giving him a mocking bow.


"Thanks," Hailey said smiling up at Dante when he pulled out her chair for her.

"You're welcome, my mother would kill me if I didn't treat a lady with respect." Dante replied with a smile of his own.

"We can't have that we need to keep you around if only to keep B out of trouble." Hailey told him.

"I don't keep B out of trouble she drags me into trouble. Anyone who knows her knows that." Dante chuckled.

"This is very true I don't know why I didn't think about that before I spoke." Hailey agreed with him laughing.

Dante tried hard not to stare at her but he really liked the sound of her laugh. "So tell me a little bit about yourself." He said wanting to know more about her.

"There's not that much to tell. My mom died when I was thirteen and I bounced around the foster care system until Aunt Paige and Uncle Henry took me in. I play a pretty mean first base and I have one hell of an arm. And that is pretty much all there is to tell." Hailey informed him.

Dante looked at her with his big brown eyes. "I'm sorry about your mom." He expressed his sympathy.

"Thanks, me too, she was really great. But that is enough about me tell me about you." Hailey replied not wanting to go traipsing down memory lane.

"Honestly I'm friends with B, you can't expect to find out anything good." Dante chuckled. "I'm a little bit of a trouble maker when I want to be and I don't have to be led into temptation I know the way just fine all on my own. That being said though I like to think that I'm a pretty good guy most of the time. If B's grandma had her way we would have been married at birth. Though I don't like her as anything more than a friend and after seeing her with Henry, I'm pretty sure that having feelings for her would be bad for me." He went on.

"So you don't have a girlfriend?" Hailey asked out of curiosity.

"Nope, I'm sailing solo for right now. What about you?" Dante responded.

"There is this one guy but it's nothing serious, I'm not even sure that he knows I exist sometimes." Hailey answered. She was of course talking about Brady but nothing had happened between them in months, hell he refused to make eye contact with her.

"He must be bone head if he is ignoring a girl like you." Dante told her laying on the charm.

"He's just older than me and it's complicated, I think he sees me as a silly little kid." Hailey explained.

"I'll tell you one thing I don't see a kid when I look at you, I see one hell of a beautiful woman. I can't speak for the rest of the world but I think he's missing out." Dante said with a smile.

Hailey really didn't want to admit it but she liked the way his smile made her feel. "You're not so bad looking yourself. So what do you do for a living?" she asked him to keep the conversation flowing.

"I work for Uncle Frank, he's a bail bondsman slash bounty hunter but I'm going to school though I'm sure for what yet." Dante replied. He wished like hell that they were out on a normal date and not doing surveillance on a demon. If given half the chance he could really like this girl.

"Somehow that doesn't surprise me at all. That is right on line with the type of work you and B do." Hailey chuckled.

There was that laugh again it drove Dante wild. "Yeah, I guess you could say that. How do you plan on wowing that world?" he asked he knew it sounded tacky but it couldn't be helped.

"I want to be an architect, I want to build things that people will still be talking about next century. I know that it sounds corny but I want to leave my mark on this world." Hailey replied after giving it some thought.

"I don't think that it sounds corny at all, I'm sure that whatever you build will be amazing." Dante said as he stared into her bright blue eyes.

"I bet you tell all the girls what they want to hear." Hailey joked with him.

"I would never do such a thing to a woman like you, now other women are another matter." Dante laughed making his brown eyes light up.

"And exactly what kind of woman am I?" Hailey asked highly amused.

"You're strong and just from talking to you I get that you're a survivor. I can tell that you don't put up with bullshit from anyone." Dante replied.

"That's all very true, and you're absolutely right. I can tell that I'm just the type of woman that you need but you would never admit that to anyone." Hailey countered. She didn't know where this sudden burst of confidence had come from but she liked it.

Dante put his hand over his heart and he pretended to be wounded. "You go right for the kill. I like that a lot sometimes I need someone to call me down."

"We still have a little bit of time to kill before our guy shows up. All we have to do is ask him the right questions and he has no choice but to answer us because of the spell we cast in the alley." Hailey said getting around to talking business.

"Right, so there is absolutely nothing to worry about. We get what we need and then we get out. It's as simple as that." Dante agreed with her.


"Alright B, focus here this is a very simple job. You've done jobs like these dozens of times and this time is no different than any other time." Bianca coached herself as she walked through an old abandoned warehouse. She knew without a doubt that the siren would be here and then all Henry had to do was stick to his part of the plan. Everything would be fine just like it always was if he stuck to the plan.

"And here I thought you would have had enough of me for one day." Monica said appearing out of nowhere.

"I don't like to leave unfinished business, it has the nasty habit of coming back to bite me in the ass." Bianca retorted.

"I feel the same way. I should have finished you off when I had the chance." Monica said with no emotion at all.

"You never had a chance before even chained up I still could have killed you." Bianca boasted.

"That may be true, but we'll see just how much of a chance your husband stands against me." Monica said and she began humming softly.

Henry orbed into the room a moment later it looked like he was in a trance. He dutifully walked over to Monica and allowed her to wrap her arms around his neck. Bianca felt a little bit of panic rise up in her chest. "Hank, whatever this is you can fight it. I don't know anyone stronger than you are. You can do this." She told him she was starting to think that maybe this had been a bad idea.

Monica shot her an evil smirk. "I told you that he wouldn't be able to resist me." she gloated but she never took her eyes off of Henry.

"Hank, I'm begging you please don't listen to her. I love you, I always have and I always will." Bianca pleaded with him.

Monica couldn't help gloating just a little bit more. "I knew that he wouldn't be strong enough to fight this, they never are." She said before she closed the gap between her face and Henry's. She pressed her lips to his and then she was surprised when he pulled away from her and took a step back.

Henry bent down and took something out of his coat pocket. It was a crystal and as he placed it, it created an energy field that Monica couldn't escape from. He grinned up at her. "I know that I'm pretty hot stuff and it's hard for any woman to keep her hands off of me but I'm taken." He said throwing his arm around Bianca.

"But how?" Monica asked him confused she had never had a man resist her advances before.

"I'm one of the Charmed Ones, I assure you I have my ways around everything. If that's what you're wondering about, if you're wondering about the crystal cage then you should know that my partner in crime is half elder. All I had to do was keep you looking into these puppy dog eyes and you were done for." Henry explained with a cocky tone in his voice that he didn't normally have.

"Chris, ask this bitch the questions you have to ask her so we can send her to the wasteland." Bianca told her friend who had materialized out of thin air or so it appeared.

"Gladly, just let me get the others here first." Chris replied letting out a loud whistle. The others in their group all teleported in at that signal. "Chuck, would like to ask her a question?" he asked cheerfully.

"You know it Peanut." Chuck said smiling. "Alright bitch, how are you mixed up with Carl?" he asked cutting the niceties.

"A lady never reveals her associations." Monica replied giving him a flirty smile.

"I guess it's a damn good thing that no one ever accused you of being a fucking lady then." Prue said in a very hostile tone. She didn't like the effect that these demons were having on her husband.

"But there wouldn't be any fun in it if I just came out and told you." Monica pouted.

Liz snorted and rolled her eyes. "It's bitches like you that give blondes a bad name."

Chris held a potion vial up in front of her face. "See I've got a little potion here that says you'll tell me everything I want to know if not I'm more than willing to use it on you. Chances are it's completely harmless to you but then again that's not a chance I'd take if I were you," he said in a conversational tone but there was still a menacing quality to it.

"Chris, don't use the potion on her she is just protecting her contacts you know that we do the same thing." Parker said playing devil's advocate. He and Chris had worked out this whole routine before they left the manor.

"Parker, I can't believe that you're taking this bitch's side. We have to do something." Calleigh mock argued with her boyfriend. This was all part of the plan.

"I don't know what you guys are so worried about. This potion won't even work on her unless she is associated with Carl in the way that Hank and I think she is." Chris replied causally.

"But you really shouldn't be tossing that potion with Chuck in the room." Prue pointed out to him just like she was supposed to.

Monica got a panicked look on her face. "Wait don't throw the potion I'll talk." She said hastily.

"Start talking then." Troy instructed her.

"Carl is my father, he has children by a bunch of different magical beings." Monica admitted.

"I should have known that that evil bastard couldn't keep his dick in his pants." Chuck quipped rolling his eyes.

"You should be thankful that he couldn't otherwise you wouldn't be here right now." Vanessa said as she shimmered into the room.

"Oh joy, just tell me that I can kill the bitch this time. I'm really sick of dealing with her." Prue whined.

"Not if I get my hands on her first. I think that she needs to learn that no one puts their hands on my wife without paying the price." Chuck seethed through clenched teeth.

"Chuck, you know that mom and dad like for you to control your homicidal tendencies." Lilly reminded her brother.

"Mom is just going to have to forgive me if I slip just this once." Chuck replied.

"I'm your mother and nothing you can do is ever going to change that." Vanessa told him.

"You're not my mother bitch, my mother is at home." Chuck raged at her. He then caught her off guard by throwing an energy ball at her.

Vanessa managed to dodge the energy ball and she came back with a hurt look on her face. "I know that we don't have the best relationship in the world but that still hurt." She mock pouted.

"I'm about sick of you I wish that you would just go away and leave me the fuck alone." Chuck yelled at her.

"If you want to do things the hard way then so be it." Vanessa snapped her fingers and a large group of demons shimmered into the room.


"There is no feasible reason that it should be taking any of them this long to do the jobs they were sent out to do." Patty stressed as she paced back and forth in the kitchen.

"Relax Charlie, they'll be done soon. And stop stressing so much that is my department." Mel assured her baby cousin.

"I can't help stressing, we sent Hailey off with a guy who thinks working jobs with B is sane. And then our crazy ass older siblings went off using a plan that fucking nutty ass B thought was a good idea. So you can't tell me that there is nothing to worry about here." Patty rambled on.

"Please tell me that she isn't supposed to be the sane one in your group." Mia begged.

"She normally isn't this far off the reservation I don't know what's gotten into her today." Ricky said he was really concerned about his girlfriend's behavior.

"Leave her alone Ricky, she just figured out what the rest of us have known for a long time. My older sister is crazy as fuck." Chase said calling his friend down.

"You have three older sisters dude, any one of them could be classified as crazy." Billy pointed out to him.

"I'm not talking about the old as fuck sister or the shopaholic sister so that only leaves one." Chase explained logically.

Maria took offense to that. "I will have you know that I'm not that old Frankie, I'm just going to be twenty-six at my next birthday. However I have no problems with what you said about Oriana because she does have a problem where shopping is concerned."

"Jesus Sophia, what gave you the first clue?" Frank asked his first-born like she had lost her mind.

"The part where she spends more of her time shopping than she does at home." Maria replied sarcastically.

"Frank Sr., Maria, and Frank Jr. you all better keep your voices down. If any of you wake my baby up you will be getting him back to sleep." Lyn warned her husband and children.

"First of all Frank Jr. isn't even in the room, and second off I'll talk as loud as I want to he is my baby too." Frank replied and then he gulped when he saw the look that his wife gave him.

"Ok, then do something useful and go to the store your son has things that he needs." Lyn retorted she just wanted him out of her hair.

"I will after I know that Frank Jr. is ok." Frank said. He wasn't leaving that kitchen until he knew that Bianca was ok.

"I'm not worried about her, I'm worried about our other daughter because she may very well kill her, but I'm not worried about Bianca. She's too pissed off to get hurt right now." Lyn replied.

"I told you that you shouldn't stress so much." Mel said smirking at Patty.

"You can't seriously be blaming Chase and his big ass mouth on me." Patty said incredulously.

"You kinda did get him started sis." Carly told her twin.

"Carly, you're supposed to be on my side. I am officially disowning you as my twin." Patty retorted.

"You can run away to join the circus with me and Ricky, we've already decided that we're leaving soon." Mel offered the older of the two twitches.

"Carly isn't running away to join the circus with you because then I would never be able to visit her. You people tend to forget that I'm terrified of clowns." Val protested.

"Val, I'll tell you like I told Parker, clowns aren't going to hurt you. They were put on this earth for our amusement." Mel said. The very thought of being scared of clowns was ridiculous to her.

"Clowns are kinda creepy if you ask me." Mia said putting her two cents in on the matter.

"Thank you Mia, I knew that you were a sensible person despite what you said about cheerleaders earlier." Val said gratefully.

"I can't believe that we're all almost adults and we're still having conversations like this." Penny said rolling her eyes.

"I don't know why you can't believe it Penny. The older kids have more ridiculous conversations than this." Billy pointed out to her.

"The older kids are so much worse than we are period end of discussion. They might think that they aren't but they are. I've heard some of the conversations that they have." Huck chimed in.

"Is it too late to opt into going to jail?" Torch asked this was far worse than going back to jail in his opinion.

"Jail isn't even on your list of options anymore unless of course you do something to violate your parole. Like it or not you're stuck with us." Mel broke it to him none too gently.

"You guys you need to consider how bad you are when people would rather go to jail than be around you." Piper said shaking her head. Really nothing those kids did surprised her anymore.

"It's a gift of ours Aunt Piper, you know it's part of the reason you love us." Billy said giving her a charming smile.

"There is no way that I am claiming him as my grandson he acts entirely too much like Phoebe for his own good." Prue said in jest.

"Speaking of grandsons, I wonder where Em is with Jeremiah." Eva said. She hadn't seen her daughter in a little while and that worried her slightly.

"I'm sure that there is nothing to be worried about. Jack is probably just trying to convince her not to be pissed at him." Derek assured his wife.

"Really you should be more worried about your oldest three. My middle child thought that a plan was a good idea, we should all be mildly terrified." Lyn said rolling her eyes.

"I would be worried about my two dumb as fuck brothers but I happen to be mad at them at the moment. They both refused to come over later and help me and Jackie decorate the tree." Mel huffed.

As if they knew they were being talked about all the older kids teleported into the room at that moment.

Hank was bent at the waist grabbing his bad shoulder. "Ow fuck, that really hurts like a fucking bitch." He said gasping because of the pain.

"It wouldn't hurt so much any more if you would stop being a big baby and let someone heal that for you." Oriana reasoned with her former husband.

"O, I've never hit a woman before but if you don't shut the fuck up I will make an exception." Hank said through gritted teeth.

"Victor, you got stabbed with a cursed knife let Chris heal you. I know that you'll still be really sore but you'll feel better." Bianca told her husband. Not that he was going to be her husband for much longer but he was still her husband at the moment.

"You don't talk to me either, I did that for you. If that doesn't prove how much I love you and how much I care about you then I'm done and I really mean it this time." Hank said. It wasn't just the pain talking, he felt like nothing he ever did was good enough for her.

"Henry Victor, you have two choices you can either let your cousin heal you or you can let me heal but either way it is happening." Paige told him sternly. She honestly couldn't believe what she had just heard her son say.

"Chris, heal the damn thing but be gentle about it I'm in a great deal of pain here." Hank hissed through his teeth. Chris put his hands over his cousin's wound and it healed in no time flat.

"So this is going to sound like a stupid question, but did you guys kill your demon?" Phoebe asked.

"We killed her and about fifty more that we hadn't planned on killing but we got the bitch." Parker answered his sister.

"We just didn't get the bitch that I wanted to get." Chuck said with a sigh. He had really hoped that they would have killed Vanessa this time.

"We'll get her Chuck you just have to be patient. We were really taking a risk using that potion with you in the room. We didn't want to risk it even more than we already were." Liz reasoned with her other best friend.

"Has Dante come back with Hails yet?" Bianca asked hopefully.

"No, and really they should have been back by now." Patty said she didn't know why she was so worried.

"Relax Aunt Charlie, I assure you that they will be back soon." Paige said walking into the room.

"How can you be so sure?" Patty asked her niece.

"Because, Dante has to have a little bit of sense he does demon hunt with mom after all. You have to be pretty sharp to keep her from getting you killed." Paige explained like she should have thought of that already.

Bianca cast a guilty look in Oriana's direction when Paige said that. "I don't find you funny at all Paige Victoria." She said putting her hands on her hips.

"I think I'm really funny right now. Actually I find the whole situation you're in right now very amusing, for once I'm not the one in trouble." Paige replied.

Bianca glared at her. "I can remedy the situation in a hurry if you keep up with me child."

"Bianca Lyn, I wouldn't worry so much about her right now if I were you. I think you have more than you can say grace over worrying about yourself. She was right about one thing you are in a lot of trouble right now. Don't think that I just forgot about your pulling jobs again." Lyn warned her daughter.

"I'm twenty-four years old mother I sincerely doubt that you can do anything to me." Bianca said rolling her eyes.

"I wouldn't bet on that if I were you B." Maria told her sister unable to contain a smirk.

"Paige, what are you even doing in here right now?" Bianca asked her daughter. It was clear that she was flustered with the girl.

"I got tired of watching the Jack and Emily show, it's on every channel. Today's episode features Savannah apologizing profusely for kidnapping Jeb." Paige replied sarcastically.

"Paige, how many times do I have to tell you to watch your mouth when you talk to your mother?" Chris asked her.

"You've told me so many times that I've lost count by now." Paige said grinning at him like she was pleased with herself.

"Oh, you've got a mouth on you baby girl and I know that I'm the one to blame for it." Chris muttered while shaking his head.


Coop had gathered his oldest three children in the sunroom. He really had to talk to them without Phoebe being present and now was the only time he had been able to pry the oldest two away from their spouses.

"Dad, what is this about?" Prue asked her father.

"This is about your mother, she is driving your poor baby sister and your baby brother insane. But Penny has by far taken the worst of it. The poor girl can barely leave the house to go to school without giving your mother a play by play of what she plans to do for the day. After what happened with her today it will be a miracle if Phoebe lets the girl out of her sight for more than five seconds." Coop explained quickly.

"The woman has always been just a tad bit clingy, Penny knows this and she is just going to have to adjust to it the way the rest of us have." Val replied.

"Bumblebee has a point on this one Big Coop, mom is pretty bad when it comes to us." Jake agreed with his youngest sister.

"The three of you are the ones who have made her this way and now the rest of us have to live with her." Coop stressed trying to make them see the seriousness of the situation.

"Daddy, how can this possibly be our fault?" Val asked she was seriously that clueless.

"We'll start with the fact that Ladybug got married, then we will move on to the fact that you moved out and you're dating a man who is eight years older than you. Lastly we come to the fact that Little Coop got married on the spur of the moment and moved out without any warning. The woman is a complete wreck right now, she thinks that she lost all of guys and she didn't have enough time to show you how much she loves you." Coop laid out for them.

Prue felt a little twinge of guilt since she had married Chuck she hadn't been spending as much time with her mom as she used to. "What can we do to make this better?" she asked. She really felt bad now. She didn't want her mom to think that she had lost her because she still needed her just as much as ever.

"I want you three to come to dinner tonight and I want you to come alone. I know that you oldest two are married but I don't think Phoebe can handle that yet. Besides that it won't kill you to spend a couple of hours away from your spouses." Coop said that was the best that he could come up with.

"Mom's cooking could very well kill us though." Jake reasoned. That was the one thing he didn't miss about living at home, having to choke down his mother's inedible meals.

"Don't worry I'll cook. Now can I count on you three or not?" Coop asked hopefully.

"I think I speak for us all when I say that we'll be there. It won't kill Chuck to find himself something to eat. As a matter of fact he is very good at sniffing out food he won't starve." Prue agreed right away.

"Prue's right we'll all be there. The truth is I miss all of us sitting down to eat together. And I miss Phil being right down the hall from me when I wanted to talk to him. It seems like he grows more in the hours that I don't see him." Jake consented.

"I have absolutely nothing better to do with my time of course I'll come." Val chimed in.

"Good, she really needs this." Coop said nodding his head.


"What the fuck were you thinking pulling jobs again Bianca Lyn?" Lyn yelled at her daughter. They were in the living room of the home that she shared with her husband.

"I told you mom, I was hurting and the only way I know to sort out my feelings is to go out and kill shit." Bianca yelled right back at her.

Lyn pointed her finger at her daughter. "Watch your mouth young lady, I will have you know that you're not too old to get your ass beat." She warned her.

Bianca laughed at that. "I can't believe you just threatened to spank me. For starters Big Frank wouldn't let you touch me. And I wouldn't just stand still and let you hit me."

"That's the problem now your father never thought I was supposed to make you mind." Lyn said shaking her head. "No, that's not the problem you always were a good girl, sure you and Chris went off on your demon hunts but you didn't give us an ounce of trouble otherwise. Baby, I know that there is something wrong with you and I just wish you would let me help you."

"I'm fine mother, there is nothing for you to worry about." Bianca assured her.

"But I am worried B, you used to be so care free and easy going. It just seems like you have been a shell of a person for the last few years. Forgive me but I want my little girl back not the bitch that has taken her place." Lyn said sounding close to tears.

"I'm not a little girl anymore mom, I haven't been for a long time." Bianca reasoned with her mother.

"That still doesn't change the fact that you have changed." Lyn stated logically.

"I'm an unreasonable bitch I realize this. I have been this way since O died, you're only realizing it now because I'm not isolating myself from you anymore." Bianca admitted bluntly.

"It goes back further than what happened to your sister, you had been pulling away way before that. That just gave you the push you needed to withdraw completely. Don't try to deny it I'm a mother, I'm your mother I know these things." Lyn called her on her bullshit.

Bianca ran a hand through her raven hair. "It goes back to Steve, I never got over what he did to me. I thought that it made me weak. I hope you're happy now I admitted to it." She yelled.

"I told you once to watch your tone." Lyn said with steel in her voice.

Frank came into the room at that moment with a scowl on his face. "This is fucking ridiculous. You are both grown women I think that you can talk to each other without screaming, I was outside and I could hear you just like I was in the room." He said firmly. "Bianca Lyn Hoyt, I raised you better than to talk to your mother the way you've been talking to her lately. You are not a child anymore so you can't blame it on your hormones. You might not always like her but she is still your mom." He growled at her.

"I'll make this really simple for both of you and I'll just go. Don't worry about me coming back either. That way you won't have to worry about me getting myself killed." Bianca said.

"Oh fuck no B, we're your parents we made the mistake of letting you push us away once it will not happen again. Now you're going to talk about your feelings whether you want to or not. You can push away everyone else that you want to but you're stuck with us kiddo." Frank told her firmly.

Bianca rubbed her hands over her face and sighed. "You're right and I'm sorry, but if you haven't noticed pushing people away is what I do best. I mean I finally managed to push Hank away like I knew I would. He said that there was nothing I could do to make him stop loving me. I knew that was a lie when he said it. He walked away just like every other man I've ever let myself be a little open with."

"When you said this was about Steve what did you mean?" Lyn asked.

"I meant just what I said. After what he did to me I didn't think there was any way a man could ever love me for me and I was just proven right. And the bitch of it is if I could have loved anyone with most of my heart it was him. I'll never find anyone who knows me as well as he does or who understands why I'm so fucked up. I'll probably end up alone but then again I always knew I would." Bianca said sadly.

"Goober, you should have told us this years ago. You're a great girl any man would be lucky to have you. You're sweet, smart, funny, you have an amazing personality when you let it show, your smile lights up the room, and you're one tough cookie. I don't know what there's not to love about all of that. I promise you that there is nothing you can do to make mom or me stop loving you." Frank said putting his arm around her.

"You have to say that you're my dad." Bianca chuckled at him.

"You're my Frank Jr. I wouldn't lie to you ever." Frank assured her.

Bianca felt a tear roll down her cheek. "I really lost him this time and I don't know what to do about it." She lamented.

"I can kick his ass if you want me too." Frank offered.

Lyn put her fingers under her daughter's chin and brought her eyes up to meet her own. "Baby, you didn't lose him. He was in love with you when you were a mess; trust me he's not going to stop loving you that easily. But you did hurt him, you broke a promise to him and he thought he was the one person you would never lie to."

Bianca shook her head trying hard to fight off the sobs that were threatening to overtake her. "You don't know him the way I do mom, when Hank Halliwell says he's through he means it."

"That's not what he said though baby girl, he said that if that didn't prove to you he loves you he's through." Lyn corrected her. She was really pulling for her and Henry to make this work out she liked them together.

"I don't need him to protect me or fight my battles for though mom, it's not who I am. I know that he loves me and I love him as much as I'm capable of loving anyone." Bianca admitted she was having a harder time keeping the sobs at bay.

"He didn't mean it Goober, he just has a Piper Halliwell temper and you pissed him off good this time. That's how I know the boy loves you, you piss him off like no other." Frank chuckled.

"I just don't want to lose him." Bianca said her bottom lip quivering.

"You won't you'll see." Lyn assured her.

"I really love him mommy." Bianca said as she buried her head in Lyn's chest and cried.

Lyn was startled at first even when she was little Bianca had always gone to Frank when she wanted to comforted. Bianca turning to her was new to both of them. "Oh baby, I know you love him and so does he. Everything is going to be ok." She promised her as she sat them both on the couch and began rocking her daughter back and forth gently.

"I really don't know how to live without him. He was the reason that I quit drinking." Bianca cried harder. Lyn just continued to rock her and every now and then she would press a kiss to the top of her head. After a little while Bianca sat up and dried her tears. "I can't believe that I just broke down like that." She said shaking her head.

"You're only human Frank Jr. I cry all the time there's no shame in it." Frank told his daughter. He really didn't know what to do. He was kind of jealous that she had turned to Lyn and not him.

"I still love you too daddy, I guess I just need my mom sometimes even though I won't always admit to it." Bianca assured him. With his rough exterior Frank was still a big softy on the inside.

"Bianca Lyn, I have a bone to pick with you about your drinking by the way." Lyn said looking at her sternly.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Bianca said she wasn't going to admit to anything.

"I don't think that Maria was lying when she said that you were so drunk you couldn't make it to bed last night. Don't let yourself get like you were before ever again. It will not be pretty if you do." Lyn warned her.

"I won't mom, I promise that you don't have to worry about that." Bianca swore to her.

Oriana came into the room at that moment with her screaming baby brother in her arms. "Mom, I think I broke Gus." She said clearly panicked.

"Let me see him." Bianca said taking her brother from her sister. She swayed him back and forth gently a few times and his crying stopped. "I know that O is scary and I promise you that I won't ever leave you alone with her again. She can barely take care of herself much less someone as little and helpless as you." she cooed at him.

"Shut up B, I don't like you." Oriana pouted.

"I don't like you either but I sure do love you for some reason." Bianca told her with a grin.

"I love you too sissy." Oriana replied.

"Frank, you do know that we have to have our parents over here tonight so they can meet the baby?" Lyn asked her husband.

"Aw Lyn, I really wish you wouldn't make me do that. I don't want your mother and my mother in the same room." Frank whined.

"Tough shit babe, I already called them." Lyn told him with a smirk. "B, what are the chances of your daughter coming over?" she asked.

"Hell has a better chance of freezing over but I'll call her." Bianca said and then she yelled out "Paige Victoria Halliwell, I need to see you a minute."

Paige orbed in a second later with her arms folded over her chest. "What mommy?" she asked sweetly sarcastic.

"You're having dinner with me and your grandparents tonight. I'm not going to argue with you about it either." Bianca told her flat out.

"Do I get to bug the hell out of stupid?" Paige asked pointing to Oriana.

"Sure she's fair game." Bianca answered.

"Don't leave me on the mercy of that thing you gave birth to. She is even worse than you are." Oriana said indignantly.

"Trust me you'll be fine and it's like I told her she could hit you." Bianca replied rolling her eyes. Lyn handed her daughter the cordless phone. "What am I supposed to do with this?" she asked like she was dense.

Lyn just gave her a look. "Call him Bianca, you need him here and I want him to be here." she ordered her. She knew she wouldn't talk to Hank unless she gave her a little push first.


Hank ran his fingers through his hair. "I can't fucking believe that I said that to her. I know that I must be fucking stupid. I can kiss any chance I ever had with her goodbye now. She is never going to speak to me again. The only thing I did was give her what she wanted. I'm sure she is very pleased with herself right now I proved her right. I can see the smug smirk on her face now" He ranted as he paced the kitchen of the manor.

"Hank, you didn't tell her that you were done with her. You told her if you hadn't proved your love to her by taking a knife for her you were done. There is a huge difference." Chris tried to soothe his cousin. He got so tired of being stuck in the middle of the mess those two created that it wasn't funny.

"Chris, you know her as well as I do I might as well have told her that we were through." Hank reasoned with him.

"Son, you love her and you were pissed or you would have never said that. I know that you two love each other because of the way you piss each other off so easily." Henry assured his son.

"I'm a fucking idiot. I promised her that I would love her no matter what and then I told her that I'm done with her. I can't be sane there is no way in hell a sane person would say that to Bianca Hoyt." Hank went back to venting.

"Henry Victor, I'm going to have to ask you to calm down so I can worry about Hailey in peace." Paige told her son.

" I'm sure that Hailey is fine if Hailey wasn't fine Jimmy would have sensed something by now." Roman tried to comfort her.

"Ro, Jimmy is a brilliant chef but he sucks as a whitelighter." Mel told her boyfriend.

"Don't talk about me like I can't hear you." Jimmy protested in his thick drawl.

"Mel, I'm trying to reassure Aunt Paige here and you're not helping." Roman pointed out.

Just then Dante and Hailey shimmered into the room. Hailey was wearing Dante's suit jacket to ward off the chill that was in the night air.

Piper cocked her eyebrow and looked at Hailey. "It's nice of you to finally join us Ms. Mitchell. If you were running late a phone call would have been nice."

"This is my fault I took her out for coffee after we finished. I thought we both needed time to process the information that we got." Dante said throwing his hands up in a sign of surrender.

"And the verdict is?" Billy asked sarcastically.

"Torch, sorry buddy but Gideon is your father." Hailey said sounding genuinely contrite.

"That's ok, at least I know now." Torch replied.

"Hay, I can't believe you left me on the mercy of a couple of cheerleaders for that long." Mia huffed at her friend.

"Sorry Mia, he owed me after I had to listen to him and he of the fake British accent talk about the opera for an hour." Hailey apologized.

"I told you that the opera isn't the bad at all. It's really beautiful. This settles it I'm taking you and you're going to love it." Dante told her.

"We'll see about that." Hailey replied.

Hank looked down at his phone to see that he had a message from Bianca. "Well, now that the demon business is done for the day I have to go. I have things to do and a relationship to try to salvage wish me luck." He said before orbing out.

"I should probably get going too. The demon hunting aside I had a really nice time today." Dante said as Hailey handed him his jacket back.

"Me too, maybe we can do it again when there isn't a demon involved." Hailey had to fight the urge to squeal when he kissed her cheek before shimmering out.

" I guess I should probably get back to the home before they miss me." Mia said she really didn't want to go but she didn't have any other choice.

"Not so fast, I have come up with a solution to your problem. Just remember this is better than the alternative." Paige told the young woman.

"Kyle Dylan Brody get your ass to the manor now." Andy yelled for his friend.

Brody orbed in a second later. "Yes Andrew," he said with a smile and he sent a wink his way.

"Mia, this is Kyle, Kyle, this is Mia." Paige said introducing the too.

"I don't get how this helps any." Mia said sounding really confused.

"Mia, I know that this isn't the most ideal of situations but I'm your new foster father." Kyle said extending his hand.

"Are you kidding me? This is great, I just don't get how it all happened so fast." Mia gushed.

"It helps when you know the head of social services but that is neither here nor there." Kyle said smiling.

"Does this mean I'll have my own room again?" Mia asked she missed having privacy.

"Yep, and I even promise to knock before I come in." Kyle promised her.

"You'll be close by right Henry?" Mia asked her whitelighter.

"You can call me anytime of the day or night. But Brody is a good guy he'll do right by you." Henry said calming her fears.

Mia surprised them both by hugging him. "I don't know how you did this but thank you."

"You're welcome it helps when the head social worker is your wife. Paige did all this not me but I'm glad you're happy. Us foster kids have to look out for each other." Henry said winking at her.

"You were in a foster home too?" Mia asked.

"Until I was fifteen. You'll be fine now you don't ever have to go back." Henry said knowing what her fears were.

"This means that you and I will be going to the same school again." Hailey told her friend happily.

"I can't wait this is going to be so great." Mia could barely contain her excitement.


"I'm really glad that you called." Were the first words out of Henry's mouth when Bianca opened the door of her parent's home.

Bianca smiled at him. "I'm really glad that you came over. Sit with me on the swing a minute?" she asked.

"Of course," Henry replied as they both took a seat on the front porch swing.

"For what's it worth I really do love you and I know that you love me. You don't have to keep proving yourself." Bianca said charging full steam ahead.

"I love you more than anything B, but you broke a promise to me. You swore to me that you were done doing jobs and you started again." Henry reasoned.

"I was confused, I'm over that now. I'll fight for you if I have to but I don't want to be with anyone but you." Bianca told him.

"I didn't mean what I said earlier I could never be done with you, you're like a drug to me." Henry said wrapping his arm around her.

"I love you Hank." Bianca said leaning into him.

"I love you more B." Henry said before he pressed his lips to hers.

Bianca pulled away after awhile. "As much as I like where this is going, we should get inside. I have to make sure Paige doesn't kill Chase." She laughed.

"She wouldn't hurt him much." Henry laughed right along with her.

Bianca and Henry walked hand and hand to the kitchen where her family was gathered. He shot her a look. "You could have warned me that your grandma was here that woman hates me." he whispered to her.

"If I had told you, you wouldn't have come." Bianca reasoned with him.

"Hi Hank, I'm glad you could make it." Lyn said hugging him. "You ever make her doubt that you love her again and I'll kill you. That being said she needed you to put your foot down with her." She whispered in his ear.

"I'm glad I could make it too. Plus I had to come over I haven't seen my little girlfriend in a long time." Henry said as he bent down to pick Lyn up. She had been wrapped around his leg. "Hello, Ms. Oriana Lyn, did you miss Uncle Hank?" he asked tossing her up in the air.

Lyn giggled and kissed his cheek when he caught her. "I always miss you Uncle Hank. Are you back for good?" she asked.

"I sure am, a team of wild horses couldn't keep me away." Henry told her but he had really meant that for B.

"Nonna, you remember Henry don't you?" B asked her mom's mother.

"Of course I do, though I wonder what you're doing holding hands with your sister's husband." Bianca said bluntly. This was the grandma that B was named after and also the one that she wanted to kill.

Lyn barked something at her mother in Italian and then she shook her head. "I'm just glad she isn't fighting with my mother." Frank muttered under his breath. He was holding Gus in his arms.

"I heard that Francis." Rose Hoyt scolded her son.

"I didn't say anything ma, I was making airplane noises for the baby." Frank lied quickly.

"Francis Xavier Hoyt, don't lie to me." Rose warned him.

"Mom, look I just remembered that there is this demon that I have to go after and there is no way it can wait." Paige said she wanted to get the fuck out of dodge.

"Nice try but I know you would never forget about a demon. If I'm stuck here so are you." B told her.

"I've got this one." Frank said. "Paige, I'm going to bribe you. If you sit through dinner you can raid my weapons cache." He bargained.

"I can take anything I want?" Paige asked intrigued.

"Yes, but you have to behave yourself and not complain too much." Frank said.

"You've got yourself a deal grandpa." Paige agreed.

"Dad, you're not supposed to encourage her to be an idiot she does fine on her own." B argued.

"B, it does no good arguing with you when you get in one of these moods and Paige is no different. I'm telling you the girl is like Frank the third." Frank reasoned.

"Frank, I think I warned you about turning your daughter into an assassin." His father told him.

"You would be proud she's a regular Brennan Hoyt," Frank replied.

"Nonsense boyo, no one is as good as your dad." Brennan said like he was talking crazy.

"B, I've gotta ask how do Uncle Frank and Aunt Lyn even understand each other when they have a conversation?" Henry asked.

"They don't, he's Irish and she's Italian, they just go for the booze that's the only thing not lost in translation with them." B quipped.

"Hank, I will tell you like I told Tyler, run while you still have the chance." Maria said her grandparents made her crazy.

"I can't I have to make sure that my niece keeps her Halliwell temper in check. I don't want her killing anyone." Henry replied.

"Bianca Lyn that will be the last crack about alcohol from you of all people. I think you let your Irish genes run wild a few years ago." Lyn was dead serious. She didn't like her daughter making light of the fact that she had been an alcoholic.

"Mom, you only say that because I reached for the whiskey and not the vino." B replied laughing.

"Frank, tell your daughter that I don't find her amusing and she knows why." Lyn pleaded with her husband.

"Frank Jr. that's enough for right now." Frank told her. "Gus, your sister is silly and she's bad don't ever be like her. But between you and me it's ok if you are." He told Gus in his baby voice.

"Mom, I can't believe you named that boy Gus." Tyler told his mother-in-law.

"I didn't I named him Augusto but that is what Bianca got out of it. But I also named Maria, Sophia, B, Bianca, O, Oriana, and Chase, Francis. You see that none of them go by their given names either." Lyn replied with a shrug.

"Little Brennan, I know you can rustle your grandpa up some good whiskey." Brennan called out to B. He was partial to her because she was so much like him. That was also part of the reason Frank had started calling Bianca, B.

"I can't grandpa, mom would kill both of us." B retorted.

"That's why I always carry a flask." Henry said pulling a flask out of his pocket and handing it to Brennan.

"Bless you son, you will be rewarded in heaven." Brennan professed.

"Hey Al, you don't need that anymore than I do." B told him with a stern look on her face.

Henry knew that she was calling him an alcoholic but he had to mess with her. "I don't know why you're calling me by my baby brother's name." he said innocently.

"That would be short for Al. K. Hall. I'm sure I don't have to spell it out for you." B arched her eyebrow at him.

"It takes one to know one my dear." Henry said tapping her nose with his finger.

B wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. "I love you."

"I love you too B. Lyn." Henry replied. He liked this side of her a lot better than when she had her walls up.

"Bianca Lyn, I don't understand you and why you're kissing your sister's husband." Bianca told her granddaughter.

"Nonna, he's not my husband anymore." Oriana said rolling her eyes.

"He's my boyfriend Nonna, we've been together on and off for a year now." B said fighting the urge to kill the woman.

"Henry, what are your intentions with my granddaughter?" Bianca asked him.

Henry had to bite back the first response that came to his mind. "To love her and take care of her as much as she is capable of letting me take care of her." He answered speaking from his heart.

"You my boy are a fool, I love her but she will run you ragged." Brennan told him.

"Just so long as you treat her with respect you and I won't have a problem." Bianca said like she hadn't heard Brennan.

"I would never treat her with anything but respect." Henry assured her.

"That's good because I've met the girl and I realize that she makes you want to hit her." Bianca retorted.

Paige just shook her head and groaned. "Grandpa, would it count if complaining if I asked what I did to deserve this?" she asked.

Frank chuckled at her. "No, I have been wondering that exact same thing myself."

"Paige, I thought you were working on not being such a smart ass all the time?" Lyn asked her granddaughter.

"That little task was imposed on me I didn't take it up willingly." Paige replied with a sweetly sarcastic smile.

"B, I don't guess I could get you and your boyfriend to set the table could I?" Lyn asked ignoring Paige. She couldn't even think up a reply to what she had said.

"Aunt Lyn, I would but no one likes the way I set a table." Henry said coming up with the first excuse he could think of.

"Hank, I wasn't aware that you could set a table wrong." Maria said she didn't know where he came up with some of the shit he said sometimes.

"Tell her Oriana, she won't believe me." Henry told his former wife.

"There are three ways to set a table, the right way, the wrong way, and the Hank Halliwell way. Trust me when I say this his way is very amusing." Oriana informed her sister.

"Uncle Hank is a southpaw you're going to have to remember that. People like us tend to do things ass backwards." Paige pointed out to the room.

"Paige, you're left handed?" Bianca asked her daughter. She had never taken the time to notice that before.

"I have been my whole life mother. You just haven't noticed because you have never seen me write anything." Paige replied.

"Babe, can you get the plates while I get everything else?" Bianca asked she hoped that they were over the rough patch that they had gone through.

"Of course," Henry said giving her a smile. He winced when he had to reach above his head but he tried not to let it show that he was in pain.


"I'm pleasantly surprised that you three could make time in your very busy schedules to join me here in hell." Penny told her three older siblings when she saw them in the kitchen of the condo.

"Pens, it can't be that bad." Val replied not knowing how wrong she was.

"Let me put it to you this way, before this shit happened today mom was watching me sleep. I shudder to think how bad it is going to get now." Penny informed her in a tone that said she wasn't joking.

"Mom has really been that bad?" Prue asked she couldn't stop the nagging guilt that she felt.

"Think of the worst she has ever been then multiply that times ten and you'll still be a long way off from how bad the woman has been. I live for the little errands she sends me on for the wedding so I can get the hell away from her for a little while." Penny was dead serious. Phoebe was about to put her in the nut house from being so clingy.

"Butterfly, I feel bad that we all moved out and left you to deal with her. I know that she is clingy under the best circumstances so I can't even imagine what she is like now." Jake apologized to his sister.

"I'm not the only one who has to deal with her. If poor Phil knew any better he would be complaining too." Penny said in all fairness it wasn't just her Phoebe was driving insane.

"We dropped the ball big time kiddo and we're sorry as hell for that. I didn't stop being your sister just because I got married you could have come to me at any time and told me what was going on." Prue told her gently.

"I didn't want to seem like I was whining. Most of the time I can tolerate it and I like getting so much attention but there are times when I just feel like being left alone." Penny replied.

"That's done and over with now, I promise you that it won't happen anymore now that we know what's going on." Jake swore to her.

"All of you guys have lives to live, I don't want you put those on hold because of me. I'm just whining everything is fine. I can't promise that there aren't times I want to kill mom but there is nothing to worry about." Penny said not all that convincingly.

"Like Prue said, we didn't stop being your older siblings because we got married and moved out. We're all always going to worry about you Penny Marie you should be used to that by now." Val told her shaking her head.

"You should be used to Prue being a pain in your ass anyway that isn't something that is easy to forget." Jake took a dig at his older sister. He couldn't be in the same room as her and not make a smart-ass comment it was unheard of.

"The only pain that you're going to have is the pain I inflict when I kick your ass Cookie Dough." Prue threatened him. No one got on her nerves the way her little brother did.

"If I didn't know any better I would swear that Prue and Jake were here fighting. Coop, your children fight so much that I even hear them fighting when they're not around." Phoebe's voice said from the other room but she was coming closer. A moment later she was in the kitchen. She had Phil in her arms. "Well, it looks like I'm not going crazy after all my oldest two babies were in here fighting." She shrugged.

"We're not fighting we're just having a mild discussion." Jake assured her with a charming smile.

"You'll have to forgive me if I think you're full of shit Cupcake. That's all you and Prue do is fight." Phoebe called him on his bullshit.

"You know us mom, we don't know how to act unless we have one good round a day." Prue admitted.

"I have to say it is a pleasant surprise to have all of my babies in the same room without a demon being involved." Phoebe was smiling from ear to ear.

"That needs to change, we hardly spend any time together anymore." Val said broaching the subject.

"It's ok all you kids have your own lives, besides that I still have Penny and Phil to keep me company." Phoebe said dismissing her daughter's statement.

"Mom, I love you I really do but you have been smothering me lately and I can't handle it anymore. I don't feel like I have any breathing room here." Penny told her honestly.

"I'm sorry Penny, I just want to make sure that you know how much I love you." Phoebe responded to that.

Prue really, really felt guilty now. "That's what this is about? You think that Cookie Dough, Bumblebee, and I don't know that you love us." She asked incredulously.

"I feel like I didn't get to spend enough time showing you kids how much you mean to me." Phoebe informed her.

"Is she serious right now?" Val asked she couldn't believe that her mom thought such a thing.

"Oh mom, we know that you love us." Jake said he honestly didn't know where that woman got some of her ideas.

"I just feel like I don't get to spend any time with you guys anymore." Phoebe told them.

"In my case that is totally my fault. I didn't stop being your daughter just because I got married. I don't come home as often as I should but that isn't because I think you don't love me." Prue spoke from her heart.

"I see dad everyday at work and I'm sorry that I don't ever stop to think that maybe you would like to see me. But I still come home more than my sisters because I have withdraws if I don't see my boy everyday." Jake said in a lighthearted tone.

"I could come home more than I do but the thought of Troy alone in my apartment scares the shit out of me. The man attempted to do my laundry once and it wasn't pretty." Val said shaking her head at the thought.

"Mom, I don't know if you're getting this or not, but this is still home to all of us. I know that this will be home to me until I have kids." Prue tried making her see reason.

"I know that you all had to grow up it would have been easier had you all not decided to grow up at the same time. Cupcake, you really threw me for a loop, you moved out and got married in the blink of an eye on me." Phoebe expressed her feelings.

"Well, we're all here now and we figured that you would like to have dinner with us." Val offered.

"I would like that a lot." Phoebe said smiling.

"I just have one question, where the hell is Brady?" Penny asked she hadn't seen her brother in a while.

"Trying like hell to make every excuse he could to try to get out of coming to dinner." Coop answered as he hearted in with his other son.

"It's not even like that dad, I merely said that I have cupid like things to do." Brady scoffed at him. In all actuality he had been going out with every intention of getting drunk. He hadn't missed the way that Hailey had looked at Dante. As much as it pained him to do it he was letting her move on and see other people.

"Your cupid like things can wait because you are going to sit down and eat with us. Someone has to side with daddy and Jakie they are outnumbered here." Prue told her little brother putting her arm around him.

"Oh fine, I'm not going to win this argument anyway I don't know why I even tried." Brady said throwing his hands up in a sign of surrender.


Mel stood in front of the tree she had just bought with Jack on her hip. She had boxes of ornaments set out on the floor. She couldn't believe that her two older brothers had refused to help her with it. "Well Jackie, it looks like it's just you and me big guy. I tried getting Wyatt and Chris to help us but they couldn't they said they had other stuff to do." She was pretty much having a one sided conversation but he was all the company she had at the moment.

Jack just giggled and cooed at his older sister. "I don't know what you just said kid but I totally agree with you," she laughed.

"He said that his big brothers are boneheads and they should have never told you that they had other things to do." Chris said. Mel turned to see him and Wyatt standing in the doorway of the living room.

"I don't want you two here just because you feel guilty I want you to want to help." Mel replied a little more gruffly than she had intended.

"It's his first Christmas Mel, of course we want to be here. He's growing like a weed and before we know it he is going to be grown." Wyatt said.

"You're already grown and I guess what we're saying is we take it for granted that you guys are always going to need us." Chris admitted.

"Of course I'm always going to need you two. I just need you guys to back off sometimes and let me make my own decisions." Mel gave him a small smile.

"I'm the one who has the issues with boundaries, I know that you have to make your own choices. I just live in constant fear that you're going to get hurt." Wyatt told her not holding back.

"Getting hurt is part of growing up you can't protect me from that. I know that I can lean on you if I do get hurt but I need to know that I can stand on my own." Mel retorted.

"I love you Mel." Chris said not knowing what else to say.

"I love you too Chrissy." Mel hugged him with her free arm.

Wyatt wrapped his monkey arms around both of his older two siblings. "I love you guys so much. I want you to know that just because I'm getting married it doesn't mean I'm going to stop being your big brother."

"We love you too Wyatt." Chris and Mel replied in unison.

"Ok, enough of the chick flick moments we have a tree that isn't going to decorate itself." Mel announced.

"Come here Jackie, me and you are going to show these two Christmas freaks a thing or two about decorating a tree." Wyatt said taking his brother from Mel.

Chris and Mel shared a look. "He only thinks that he is going to show us how this is done." Chris said.

"Oh totally, he doesn't know who he is messing with and he is only dragging the boy down with him." Mel agreed.

"They think that they are so funny Jackie, but let it come down to which one of them can decorate better and they will be at each other's throats." Wyatt knew just how to start a war between those two.

"Nice try Wyatt, we will not be distracted but you are more than welcome to try again." Chris knew exactly what his brother was trying to do.

"Wy, I love you but you're better off if you try not to think so hard it isn't your strong suit." Mel smirked at him.

Wyatt rolled his eyes. "I know they talk to me like I'm an idiot Jackie, there is no hope for them at all."

Mel and Chris just laughed at him there was really nothing more that they could say to that.


"What did you get up to today sis?" Greg asked Savannah when she shimmered into the living room where he was laying on the couch.

"Nothing really, and I told you to keep your ass off the couch you're going to get sick from laying around so much." Savannah sighed there really was no hope for him at all.

"I hurt too bad to move. I did try getting up and going on a little walk earlier but my knee started killing me so I had to sit down." Greg replied.

"Then I guess it's lucky for you I came home long enough to help you work out your knee before I go back out." Savannah gave him a big grin.

"You really are evil, you are enjoying torturing me way too much." Greg pouted.

"Nah, I just get a little kick out of watching you squirm. It's my God given right as your baby sister to do things to torment you." Savannah gave him a smirk that made her look like her father.

"You're so funny I forgot to laugh. Seriously though, what have you been up to today?" Greg asked.

"I picked up the last plan you had where you left off." Savannah answered like it was no big deal.

"Ok, maybe it will work better for you than it did for me. I just want you to be careful. If they catch wind of what you're doing then it won't end well." Greg cautioned her. He trusted her judgment she had yet to steer him wrong.

Savannah swallowed down the huge wave of guilt she was feeling. "Trust me, I've got Alan eating out of the palm of my hand. He trusts me and that works to my advantage. Don't worry too much about me, I'll be fine."

"I don't want to see you get hurt, you're one of the only people I have ever cared about. Promise me you'll bail out if you think they're onto you." Greg really did love her and that was the truth.

"I promise, now come on let's work out your knee so you're not laying on this couch for another three months." Savannah said quickly changing the subject.


Kyle was showing Mia around his apartment he didn't know how he had been talked into this but he was glad that he had let it happen. This girl had a lot of promise she just needed someone to care about her. He opened the door to what used to be his room but he had converted it for her. It had a bed, a nightstand, and a dresser. "Ok, this is your room. I'll admit that I don't really know what teenage girls like so I thought that we could go shopping or something this week."

Mia smiled at him. "Really Kyle, this is great you didn't have to do all of this I would have been happy just having a room to myself." She told him.

"I know that but I wanted to do this." Kyle replied.

"You did more than enough by getting me out of that damn group home it wasn't the most pleasant place in the entire world." Mia informed him.

"As long as I'm drawing breath you won't ever have to go back there I promise you that." Kyle swore to her.

"That means a lot to me thank you for everything." Mia replied gratefully.

"Really it's my pleasure. Now I'm going to level with you, I know next to nothing about teenage girls so I'm learning this as I go along. You're going to have to bear with me but I'm going to do the best that I know how." Brody told her seriously.

"I can't ask for anything more than that. I promise not to be too much of a pain in the ass, but like you said I am a teenage girl and that comes with the territory. If you can forgive my imperfections than I can overlook your more undesirable qualities." Mia bargained.

Kyle chuckled at that. "You have yourself a deal Mia. I'll even try to remember to put the toilet seat back down for you."

Mia smiled at him again. "That is a big promise right there I won't hold you to that too strictly but you better make the effort." She warned him playfully. She was fine with people one on one the way she was now it was larger groups of people that she really had a problem with.

"My room is right down the hall if you need anything at all any time day or night. Don't hesitate to come get me if you want something or if something is bothering you and you need to talk. I'm not going to be too strict on you, all I ask is that you do well in school and you try to be home by curfew. That's eleven on school nights and midnight on the weekends." Kyle laid out the only rules that he had.

"That sounds fair and I think I can manage that. You're not as bad with teenagers as you think you are." Mia retorted.

"I've been through this once before. Andy and I raised Parker so I have a little experience but that was mostly Andy." Kyle informed her.

"I'll try to make this easy for you but I can't promise that I'll always be easy to live with." Mia let him know what he was getting himself into.

"That's fair I can be a bear to live with sometimes too. So I'm going to go out to living room and watch some TV and I thought we could order a pizza or whatever. I know that you have to be hungry because I'm starving. You can sit in here or you can come out there with me it's up to you." Kyle grinned at her. He wanted her to feel at ease around him.

"I've been alone for way too long I think that I'll just watch TV with you." Mia replied and then she thought of something else. "Thank you for taking me in." she said hugging him.

Kyle hugged her back. "You're welcome Mia, you don't have to thank me." he assured her.


"Alright, Hailey spill," Carly ordered her cousin they were all over at the manor watching the babies so the old people could go out and unwind.

"Carly, I have no clue what you're talking about right now. There is nothing to tell." Hailey replied looking at her like she had lost her mind.

"The hell there isn't anything to tell, don't think that any of us missed the way you were drooling over Dante." Emily called her out.

"They do have a point Hails, I think that you like him." Penny taunted her.

"He's a nice guy and like I said there is nothing to tell." Hailey said blushing a little bit.

"Hails, he is hot there is no denying that at all. If you like him there is nothing wrong with that at all." Carly told her.

"Leigh, leave the poor girl alone. It's not going to kill you to not know her business." Patty chided her sister.

"You need to keep in mind that he is probably crazy, he is friends with my ape shit crazy sister." Chase reminded them.

"He's very sane and he's really easy to talk to. You guys are making something out of nothing here." Hailey sighed. They really didn't know when to mind their own business.

"Hailey, you know them as well as I do so you know that they aren't going to leave you alone. You would do well to just tell them what they want to hear so they will shut up." Ricky pointed out to her.

"Listen to Ricky, Tinker Bell, he speaks Crazy Halliwell fluently." Billy laughed.

"Billy, let me remind you that you are a Halliwell too, so you just insulted yourself." Carly reminded him.

"Well, I'm not a Crazy Halliwell." Billy shot back at her.

"There is no such thing as a sane Halliwell. We're all crazy to one degree or another." Penny dismissed his previous comment like he was talking nonsense.

"Ok, maybe I do like him a little bit and maybe we have a date to go get coffee next week. But that is it, there not like anything can come of this he is eight years older than I am." Hailey admitted to them.

Huck laughed at that. "It's not like age has stopped anyone else in this group before. Roman is four years older than Mel, B is three years older than Hank, I'm three years older than Penny, Jack is seven years older than Emily, Troy is like eight years older than Val. I think you're getting the picture here."

"Troy is only seven years older than Val by the way. He's twenty-six and she's nineteen." Carly corrected him.

"Right, I'm going to use that as evidence when Aunt Paige and Uncle Henry ask me if I've lost my mind." Hailey said rolling her eyes.

"Mom and dad aren't going to say anything to you. Jason is six years older than Carly. Trust me on this one dude if you want to date him they aren't going to stop you." Patty informed her gently.

Hailey sighed and rolled her eyes. "There is seriously no hope for you people and your meddling. I would expect this out of Prue or God help me Brady but you guys are supposed to be my friends."

"We are your friends that's why we have to make sure you don't end up alone." Emily said sweetly.

Hailey snorted. "Oh, I give up." She said throwing her hands up in the air.


The usual gang of thirteen along with their parents sat in one of the alcoves at P3. They also had a few extra people like Val, Mel, Maria, and Tyler.

"Where the hell did Hank disappear to?" Prue asked she worried about her cousin and she knew that he and Bianca still weren't really on the greatest of terms.

"He probably had to go get a drink so he could sit here and listen to you ramble on some more." Jake took a dig at his sister.

"I don't even like you at all Jake." Prue pouted.

"Fuck no, I refuse to listen to you two fight tonight. Every other night I'm fine with it but you guys are taking this too far." Calleigh said shaking her head at them.

Chris clapped his hands sarcastically. "It's about damn time someone called those two on their bullshit." He laughed when he saw the looks that both his little cousins shot at him.

"You and Hank have both been very crabby lately. I feel sorry for poor Mel she has to work with you guys." Lilly shook her head at him.

"Speaking of Hank, I just found him in case anyone was wondering." Mel said.

"I'm surprised that he hasn't run half way around the world by now after the dinner we had to sit through." Bianca chuckled.

"From the looks of things he has no intentions of going anywhere." Parker said his nephew was up on the stage with a guitar in his hands.

"I don't think I want to know what that boy is up to this time." Henry just shook his head at his son.

Quite frankly Hank wasn't sure what he was doing up on stage but it just seemed like the thing to do at the moment. He was just living in the moment, he knew that Bianca would most likely kill him for what he was about to do but he didn't care.

He ignored the crippling pain he was feeling in his arm as he began playing. He made sure that he made eye contact with Bianca before he started singing. "She never mentions the word addiction in certain company. Yes, she'll tell you she's an orphan after you meet her family." He started singing putting a lot of feeling into the words.

Bianca loved him for what he was trying to do really she did but she was going to kill him. "Does that remind you of anyone B?" Maria asked her sister. Oh yeah, she was going to kill him when she got her hands on him.

"I have no clue what you're talking about Maria." Bianca said falling back on the old deny everything defense.

"She paints her eyes as black as night now, pulls those shades down tight. Yeah, she gives a smile when the pain comes. The pain gonna make everything alright." Hank continued singing. He didn't know why but for some reason this song reminded him of Bianca. "Says she talks to angels they call her out by her name. Oh yeah, she talks to angels, says they call her out by her name."

God, I don't think there is anyone in this world who understands me the way he does. Bianca thought to herself. He had her pegged with this song and she knew it.

"She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket, she wears a cross around her neck. Yes, the hair is from a little boy and the cross from someone she has not met, not yet." Henry's eyes never once left Bianca as he sang. He didn't know if she knew it but he was damaged goods too. She was the only one who made him feel whole inside.

"You can't ever accuse him of not knowing you well." Lyn told her daughter.

"That doesn't mean anything mom, that's just Hank being Hank." Bianca dismissed her thoughts on the matter.

"Says she talks to angels, says they all know her name. Oh yeah, she talks to angels. Says they call her out by her name. She don't know no lover, none that I ever seen. And to her that ain't nothing, but to me it means, means everything." He put a lot of feeling into this part of the song. He felt like he had to prove to her that she would never know any other man the way she knew him. He had bared his soul to her and there weren't many men out there who would leave themselves that vulnerable.

Bianca felt herself tearing up. God, she had been a fool to push him away like she had. He loved her so much that it made her ache for him. No one else would ever get her the way that he did.

"She paints her eyes as black as night now, she pulls those shades down tight. Oh yeah, there's a smile when the pain comes. The pain gonna make everything alright, alright, yeah." Henry really did know her better than she knew herself. He knew that if she didn't have something to beat herself up over then she wasn't happy.

"B, you've got to admit that the boy is romantic." Oriana teased her older sister.

"The boy is full of shit sometimes that's the only thing I'll admit to." Bianca would always keep her walls up around her younger siblings she didn't want them to see her as vulnerable.

"She talks to angels, says they call her out by her name. Oh yeah, yeah angels call her out by her name. Oh, oh, oh angels, they call her out by her name. Oh, she talks to angels. They call her out, yeah, yeah call her out, don't you know that they call her out by her name." Henry jumped down off the stage once he was finished with the song.

Bianca stood with her hands on her hips so that she could better stare down her husband or boyfriend or whatever the hell he was to her at the moment. She almost faltered when he gave her the lopsided grin that she loved so much. "Hank, what the hell was that?" she demanded.

"That was I'm sorry for being such a dick earlier and last night." Hank replied looking at her with his puppy dog eyes. He had wrapped his arm around her waist. She hadn't fought him on it surprisingly.

Bianca wanted to melt in his arms. "I love you so much." She said leaning into him. She felt a lone tear roll down her cheek.

Hank wiped the tear away gently using the pad of his thumb. "I love you more than you will ever comprehend. I'm just like a bad penny you're not getting rid of me that easily." He replied before he kissed her.

"At least one of them finally got their head out of their ass." Frank said rolling his eyes.

"Don't be like that daddy, I happen to think he's sweet." Maria told her father.

"I'm not being like nothing I'm just stating facts." Frank replied crossing his arms over his chest. He didn't know whether to be glad that his daughter had someone that loved her so much or be jealous because she wasn't his little girl anymore.

Mel just looked at Roman. "Babe, you're an ass," she told him out of the blue.

Roman looked shocked at that. "What the hell did I do? You know I'm not a mind reader if you're pissed for some reason you have to tell me." he said defensively.

"Nothing, and that would be the problem." Mel informed him conversationally.

"There is no way for me to win with you." Roman didn't really know what to say.

Mel laughed she loved watching him squirm. "You knew that before you decided to date me."

"Melinda Paige, go work the bar for a minute. There is nothing even right about you torturing that boy like that." Piper ordered her daughter.

"Fine, I was just having a little bit of fun with him it's not my fault he doesn't know when I'm joking." Mel grumbled as she got up to go to the bar.

"I still say that anyone who willingly dates my sister or female cousins has something seriously wrong with them." Wyatt said shaking his head.

"Hey, I take offense to that. And believe me you're not the sanest person in the world either. I often stop to consider just what it is Lizzie see's in you." Prue said glaring at him.

"Prue, really you have to learn not to listen to him when he's trying to be clever. I love the boy but honestly you and I both know that he just isn't the sharpest tool in the shed." Liz said and she kissed Wyatt when she saw the wounded look that crossed his face.

"I should probably get up and make sure that the bar is stocked but I don't feel like it." Parker mumbled to himself.

"Parks, just because you have a few grays in your beard does not mean you get to act like a little old man." Billie told her uncle with a sweet smile.

"Dude, you don't seriously have gray hair in your beard do you?" Troy asked he thought it was amusing since he was the oldest in their little group.

"I do it's my birthmark. I'm glad you all find it so funny." Parker replied sarcastically.

"Come on PJ, I want you to make me a drink and you can check on your bar while you're up there." Calleigh said taking him by the hand.

"If he's making drinks then I'm coming with you." Liz said following behind them.

"I'm in too." Prue said.

Wyatt breathed a sigh of relief when Liz walked away. "Ro, while Lizzie has her back turned give me a cigarette I'm dying here," he begged.

"I don't have a cigarette or I would give you one. Mel took mine and she didn't give them back." Roman said with a puzzled look on his face.

"Chuck do you have one?" Wyatt asked his best friend hopefully.

"Nope, I have no desire to sleep on the couch. Trust me I would have to sleep on that damn couch if Prue finds out I didn't quit." Chuck replied.

"Chris?" Wyatt asked his little brother.

"You know I don't smoke Wy, I can't help you out sorry." Chris fought the urge to laugh.

"What about you Hen?" Wyatt was pretty desperate.

"I don't smoke my tobacco I spit it. If you want a pinch I could help you out." Hank offered helpfully.

Billie took pity on her younger cousin. "Here Wyatt, don't say that I never gave you anything." She said handing him a cigarette.

"If I wasn't engaged and you weren't my cousin I would kiss you right now." Wyatt said happily.

"Billie, I didn't know you smoked." Prue told her daughter.

"I don't smoke often but sometimes I get the urge." Billie replied like it was no big deal.

"I'm enjoying this while I still can. I only have four more days to be able to smoke. I just left my pack in my car." Wyatt said. He knew that Liz was going to make him quit one way or the other.

"You seriously have a sickness Wyatt." Rachel laughed at him.

"I do not I can't help it that I enjoy smoking." Wyatt pouted.

"Wy, you are pretty bad about smoking." Bianca agreed with her cousin.

"At least I can't say that my best friends are named Jack, Jim, and Johnnie." Wyatt came back.

"Wait just a damn minute, don't ever accuse her of being a scotch drinker." Frank protested.

"That is one sure fire way to inflame his Irish temper." Lyn shook her head.

"No self respecting Hoyt drinks scotch. It's regular whiskey or we don't drink at all." Frank boasted.

"And you have me confused with Hank, he is the one who has to drink the shit that is made in Tennessee. Let me let you in a little secret my drink of choice used to be bourbon it's lighter and you don't get drunk as fast." Bianca told him with a smirk.

"It's all whiskey to me, but you can't go wrong when it's charcoal mellowed." Hank said like it didn't matter to him.

"I don't find either one of you amusing right now. You know I don't like it when you start making light about that fact that you were a couple of drunks." Paige said glaring at them.

"I don't think the shit is funny either. I actually don't know which one of them was worse. All I know if that they both drove crazy enough that I had to go to a warzone to get shit straight in my head. I think that says something about those two and it isn't anything good either." Chris could only shake his head. Those two's drinking had affected him worse than it had anyone else.

"Chris, let's not go there we both know that it isn't a nice place to be." Rachel told her boyfriend.

"You would be wise to listen to your girlfriend. I haven't been happy since I found out that you asked to be shipped to a warzone." Piper advised her son.

"It was a long time ago mom we were all different people then. I came home safe and that's all that matters." Chris said knowing that it would appease her.

Piper shook her head. "I guess they all turned into adults on us while we weren't looking, they aren't even fun to yell at anymore. They know why what they did was wrong and they don't try to argue about it."

"That's why we all started over again I think we like having people who need us." Lyn commented.

"I think that Troy is always going to need me. The boy tried to do his laundry and it wasn't a pretty sight." Nicole laughed.

"Hey, that washing machine is possessed or something." Troy said defensively.

"No, you're just not smarter than the washing machine Troy, you never have been." Liz told her brother as she rejoined the group with the others.

"Lizzie, don't be crabby just because mom and Aunt Piper are forcing you and Wyatt to sleep alone until the wedding." Troy countered.

"That's not why I'm crabby, I'm crabby because mom is making me come home and I'm going to have to live with you again for a few days." Liz joked.

"Troy and I aren't that bad, it's Cole you have to watch out for. That man has been suckering me at cards lately." Chord pouted.

"Chord, it's like I keep telling you. You shouldn't gamble you're not very good at it." Cole told the young man. They all got a pretty good laugh out of that one.

"Lizzie, just be thankful that you're not the one who has to go to the manor. It looks like Santa's workshop in there and I'm going to have to put up with Mel. I think that I have the worst end of this deal." Wyatt pointed out to her.

"Wy, don't make me kill you before you have a chance to get married." Mel warned him.

"You can't kill me before I finish writing my vows." Wyatt protested.

"Wuvey Bear, I can't believe you're still not done with that." Liz shook her head at him.

"I'm almost done with them. I just have to word them right." Wyatt informed her.

"Liz, it's not too late you can still back out of this deal. I know that he brings down my IQ just being in the same room." Chris joked.

"I love him Chris, I can't wait to be married to him." Liz replied.

XXXXXXXXXX

Later that night Wyatt and Liz stood on the front porch of her childhood home. They were both putting off saying goodnight. It had been a while since they had slept alone and neither one of them was looking forward to it.

"So, I guess this is it. I really hate saying goodnight to you." Liz said she had her arms wrapped around his neck.

Wyatt smiled at her softly. "It's only for a few days I'm sure that we can manage. But I don't like this anymore than you do. But just think the next time you and I go to sleep together we'll be married." He offered it was the only thing that was keeping him sane at the moment.

"I meant what I said earlier, I really can't wait to be married to you." Liz told him.

"I'm looking forward to knowing that you're mine in every sense of the word." Wyatt replied.

"I'm looking forward to that myself. I'm also looking forward to building a life with you. I love you so much Wyatt Matthew." Liz gushed. Those two really had it bad for each other.

"I love you too Elizabeth Ashley." Wyatt grinned. "I just wanted you to know that this has been the best year of my life and it's about to get so much better."

Liz felt tears pool in her eyes; he was so sweet when he wanted to be. "This year has been amazing for me too."

"This time last year you were waiting for an answer from me and I have never once regretted saying yes." Wyatt went on.

"I'm glad that we stopped being idiots and saw what we had in front of us." Liz said her voice wavering.

Wyatt kissed her softly. "I should go but I'm only an orb away if you need me."

"I know but I don't have to like it. Goodnight, Wuvey Bear." Liz said finally letting go of him.

"Goodnight, Lizzie, I love you." Wyatt said taking a step back so he could force himself to leave.

"I love you too." Liz replied before she opened the door and went in the house. Wyatt sighed as he walked back to his car. The clock was ticking now they wouldn't have to be apart for long.

-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

Cole Turner- Julian McMahon

Frank Hoyt- Jeffery Dean Morgan

Lyn Hoyt- Angie Harmon

Jimmy Ward- Josh Lucas

Eric Cavanaugh- Adam Rodriguez

Ben Turner/Cole Halliwell- Cam Gigandet

And

Savannah Turner- Ali Larter

Special Appearances By:

Maria Hoyt- Kelly Monaco

Tim Shane- Chris Noth

Dante Falconeri- Dominic Zamprogna

Kyle Brody- Kerr Smith

And

Mia Campbell- Olivia Wilde


A/N: Alright, we finally finished this episode I know that it took me forever to get it out and I'm sorry. It looks like Henry and Bianca have things sorted through at least for the moment anyway with those two you never know. Hailey really likes Dante and I don't think Brady likes that one little bit. Torch is Gideon's son that is interesting to say the least there is no telling what kind of problems that is going to cause. It was a good idea for Coop to get all his kids together because Phoebe was driving Penny insane. Bianca and Paige are both more alike than either of them wants to admit. Bianca finally came clean to her mom and dad about what has been bothering her. It was good to see her show a little weakness for a change. Leave it to Paige and Henry to talk Kyle into taking Mia in. Nicole and Piper crack me up only they would insist on Wyatt and Liz not staying in the same apartment until after their wedding. Speaking of that next episode we get to deal with their wedding and trust me it's going to be good. Until next time please review.