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Binxs was still fast asleep when they reached the Manor later that afternoon. Prue came out to meet them and smiled when she saw him curled up in the front seat.

"He fell asleep about an hour after we left the hospital. He hasn't made a sound," Piper whispered as she picked up a large box and Phoebe grabbed his backpack.

"Poor little guy must be exhausted; he probably didn't get a lot of sleep in the hospital." Prue said unbuckling his seatbelt "a hospitals a scary place for anyone just visiting, a nine year old whose been through what he's been through spending nights there? Forget it."

"You got him?" Piper asked

"Ya" Prue said smiling wider, she gently picked the boy up "its like there's nothing to him," she said softly and followed Piper and Phoebe into the house.

"The room all set up?"

"Ya, guys came this morning and set up the bedroom set." Prue said as they walked up stairs "I've been in there since they left setting the room up, I just hope its 9 year old enough, I'm positive a 9 year old boy isn't into what we were" she opened the door into the bedroom next to Phoebe's. Piper flipped on the light and Prue carried Binxs over to the bunk bed which stood up against the wall. Phoebe slipped the blankets down and Prue laid him on the bunk, she untied his sneakers and slipped them off. Binxs moved a little, making a whimper noise, but didn't wake. Carefully as not to touch his still bandaged wound and not to move the sling his arm lay in, Prue pulled the covers just under his chin. She brushed his bangs back and kissed his forehead. "Welcome home Binxs," she said as they quietly crept out of the room.

"Should we leave a light on?" Piper asked

"Probably wouldn't be a bad idea," Phoebe said and dimmed the light on the ceiling just dim enough to see she closed the door and sighed as they walked downstairs into the living room.

"What was the sigh for?" Prue asked sitting down on the couch.

"I just can't believe that we found Binxs." Phoebe said "I mean it's just us tucking him into bed, it finally clicked that we're going to be raising him, us raising a little boy."

"Motherlyness kicking in Phebs?" Piper asked grinning

"Cute," Piper shrugged and pulled off the top to the box she had brought in.

"What's that?" Prue asked

"Before we picked Binxs up this morning I stopped by the address that was on Pam's letters. Someone moved into the house a few years ago, but the neighbors all saved some of the things in the house, memorabilia type things."

"Like what?" Piper began pulling things out of the

"This is just a brush of the stuff, there's another box out in the car." She pulled out a Lord of the Rings set containing the three Lord of the Rings books and the Hobbit,

"That was Pam's" Prue said taking the books and looking at them, she opened the first hard covered book "yea see here's her name. I remember she would read these for hours, she must have read all of them a dozen times"

"I figured we could use this stuff to get to know Binxs a little, help us really connect with him" Piper said, she pulled out a framed photo,

"What's that?" Phoebe asked they looked at the photograph. A man in his late 20s wearing a US military uniform a red cross on his arm he was grinning proudly at them.

"It's a photo, must be Max's grandfather or something,"

"I don't remember Max all that much but" Phoebe reached into the box and pulled out a family picture of Binxs in Max's arms and Pam's arm around him. "Max really looks like his grandfather, and Binxs looks a lot like his father, those eyes of his their identical to Max" they shrugged and Prue reached into the box and came up with a palm size velvet box. She opened it and gasped when she saw what it was.

"Looks like Max's grandfather got a purple heart," she said staring at it

"And a medal of honor," Piper said pulling out a medal, she looked at it "there's an inscription here, 'given to Maxwell Burmen, 1943 for outstanding services to his country and to her allies in the medical field.'

"Nice" Piper pulled out a file from her purse "Ok what's that?" Prue asked

"This is Binxs's file from the people at the Home, they kept everything for him,"

"What do you mean everything?"

"Times he's been sick, his likes, dislikes, allergies, doctor visits, I mean its like they kept a journal for him its all in here." Prue took a sheet from the folder and read it,

"Well, according to this Binxs is allergic to strawberries, loves milk, and has never been in any serious trouble," Phoebe looked over her shoulder and grinned

"Other then a few times he's been caught breaking into random parts of the building" Piper and Prue exchanged a look and looked over Phoebe's shoulder

"Well at least we don't have to deal with Chicken Pox," Phoebe said smiling "he had them when he was 7 and by the sounds of this had them pretty bad."

"But we do have to deal with Binxs's having a breaking and entering habit," Phoebe shook her head and read from the note

"According to this when they talked to Binxs about picking locks, he admitted that he was just seeing if he could. He apologized for it and there haven't been anymore incidents." Prue sighed

"Well why don't we just talk to Binxs once he's settled, see what he says about it." She paused and looked over the papers again "what else is there?"

 "Well apparently they had no idea that Binxs had asthma, I mean all that's written is he seemed to get frequent coughs and wheezing but the doctor he saw said it was just a cold."

"Well Tammy, down the street saw the stuff being moved in and stopped by to ask what was going on. I told her and she wrote down the name of the pediatrician she uses for her two kids."

"So it begins," Piper said smiling, Phoebe unzipped Binxs's backpack,

"I wonder what he's got in here," she said and began pulling things out, the first was three books,

"Well one thing is for sure, our nephew has a thing for reading. I mean look at these books, Red Badge of Courage, Shiloh, Oliver Twist," Prue said looking at the titles. "I mean Oliver Twist and Red Badge of Courage; those are pretty advanced for a 9 year old." Piper pulled out a folder in the backpack and opened it,

"He also has a talent for drawing, look at these." She said pulling out a sheet of paper

"That's pretty good,"

"And there's more this folder is full of drawings," Phoebe reached back into the bag and pulled out a wolf stuffed animal and a well worn teddy bear. She picked them up and looked at them

"Does this bear look familiar to anyone?" Prue looked at it and took it staring at it,

"Ya, this was Pam's bear, I remember how many times Grams tried to throw it out"

"And Pam always managed to get him before he made it to the trash."  Piper said, they chuckled a little at the memory.

"We should probably put this upstairs with Binxs; he's probably going to have a semi panic attack waking up in new surroundings, might be a full panic attack if he wakes up and doesn't have anything that looks familiar," Phoebe said picking up both animals. "I'll go," she stood up and headed upstairs. In Binxs's room he was still asleep, in the mists of a dream. Phoebe walked over to his bed and put the bear and the wolf near his head and quietly walked out of the room shutting the door.

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In his dream, Binxs was back at the hospital only it was different, scarier. He was walking down the halls, the lights where flickering on and off making the hallways seem even scarier then they had when he was really there. A noise down the hall made the boy turn and look, it was one of the guys with the dark sunglasses the one that had approached him.

"Leave me alone," Binxs said backing away from the man,

"Come on son; don't be like that it is not as bad as your making it out to be."

"I don't wanna go with you, just leave me alone!"

"Do you really think you're going to be welcome where you are?" Binxs stopped backing up and stared at the guy

"They...They promised they'd,"

"Son it is just a trick they want your powers that is all, you are a smart lad, very, very smart, you must be able to see what they want." Binxs started to step forward believing the man for a moment, "I want to help you, help you understand your powers." Binxs was all set to believe him, but then he remembered. This guy was the reason he was an orphan, the reason he didn't have parents.

"You're lying," he said softly

"What?"

"You killed my mom and dad your lyin!" Suddenly the hallway disappeared and turned into the cave he had seen in his nightmare back at the hospital. Hurriedly he looked around

"You can't escape your destiny boy, you can try to hide from it but you will never be able to escape destiny." The man now dressed in a long black cloak like he had seen in the other nightmare walked towards him reaching a hand towards the boy. "Come,"

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Suddenly Binxs sat up fast, breathing heavy he looked around trying to figure out where he was. He rubbed his eyes a little at looked around the dim room; he looked up and saw a lamp above his head. He reached up switched on the light, wincing a little as the bright light blinded him a little. Blinking Binxs looked around his new surroundings, he was on a top a bunk bed, but when he looked down instead of another bed like his room back at the home, there was a desk built into the bunk next to the desk was a bureau. Binxs winced as he moved his shoulder wrong, he looked at the blankets he was tucked under a blue comforter marked with racecars and the letters NASCAR in bold. He looked around the room; it had a few posters covering the walls Michael Jordon, San Francisco at night, and other assorted posters. On the wall his bed was against was a framed picture, he recognized his aunts right away, though they looked younger. Standing next to Prue was someone who Binxs had only seen in pictures, his mom, and standing next to his mom, arm around her shoulder was his father.

"Mom…dad…" he said quietly. Sighing, Binxs looked at his watch and saw that it was only 7 o'clock and he had to use the bathroom. Slowly and carefully Binxs one handed climbed down the ladder and crept to the door he carefully pulled his arm out of the sling and took it off leaving it on the doorknob inside his room, opening it a crack, he could hear Prue, Piper, and Phoebe's voices downstairs, he walked to the staircase and looked over the railing. He could see their shadows on the floor moving around and moving down the stairs a little more he could hear what they were saying.

"What I'd like to know is why he has powers," Prue said, Binxs sat on the stairs and slowly slid down the step by step so he could hear them better

"Anyone's guess is as good as mine," Piper said "but according to him, he has the power of premonition and telekinesis, which,"

"Which makes us wonder if he's has the power to freeze too." Phoebe added, on the stairs Binxs cocked his head curiously power to freeze what did that mean? Freezing as in making ice? Like Icemen from the X-men, could he make snow and ice just like him? That be kinda cool,

"And it still leaves us with the main question," Piper said "are demons after Binxs?"

"He seems positive that it was demons that shot him and I don't doubt him at all." Binxs felt a tickling feeling in his nose and knew what was coming. Possibly the loudest sneeze he had ever had came seconds later echoing throughout the entire house. Prue, Piper, and Phoebe stopped talking abruptly. Panicked that they would be mad about him listening in on their conversation, Binxs started to move, he saw a shadow get up and start walking towards the foyer, for a quick second Binxs closed his eyes wishing he was back in his room, he felt a tingling feeling throughout his whole body, and when he opened his eyes he was back in his room. What the heck had just happened?! Binxs looked around quickly and heard someone climbing the stairs. As quickly as he could he grabbed the sling threw it back on, climbed up the ladder, dove under the covers and closed his eyes. The door opened and Piper walked in, she walked over to the bed and brushed his bangs back,

"Binxs, sweetie you awake?" He opened his eyes slowly as if just waking up,

"Ya," he said quietly "where am I?" she smiled

"San Francisco,"

"Oh," he said rubbing his eyes.

"How are you feeling?"

"Ok, still kinda tired,"

"Do you want to get up and have something to eat or do you want to go back to sleep?" Binxs sat up and looked at her

"I am a little hungry," Piper smiled

"Just a little?" Binxs grinned a little and nodded

"Just a little,"

"Why don't you change out of those clothes and put on the PJs first, that way you'll be all set for bed." Binxs nodded Piper picked up the flannel pants and a tee shirt to match off the desk chair. She handed it to him as he climbed down the ladder, "do you need any help?" he shook his head

"No I can do it," she nodded and turned around. Quickly Binxs changed out of his jeans and tee shirt and put on the PJs, "k all set," he said. Piper turned back around

"How do they fit?" she asked

"Fine,"

"They look a little big, but that's ok."

"Um where should I put my dirty clothes?"

"Over there near the closet is a hamper, all your dirty clothes go in there ok?"

"Ok," Binxs walked over to the hamper and tossed his clothes inside

"well lets go downstairs and I'll fix you up something to eat." Binxs nodded

"Ok," Piper put her arm around his shoulder "do you want to take this off?" he nodded and she helped him take the sling off "you should be fine without it," she placed it on the bureau and they walked out into the hall.

"Uh, 'fore food can you point out the bathroom please?"

"Oh, oh sorry sweetie," Piper said "bathrooms right over there," Binxs sighed

"Thanks," he ran down the hall and into the bathroom. When he came out Piper was waiting for him at the top of the stairs.

            "Better?" Binxs nodded

            "Ya much better,"

            "So, still just a little hungry?"

            "Starvin," he answered grinning

            "Come on then," she held out her hand and Binxs took it. Downstairs they walked into the living room; Prue and Phoebe were sitting talking. "Look who's awake," Piper said. Both stood up and walked over to him.

            "Hey Binxs, how'd you sleep?" Prue asked

            "Good,"

            "No nightmares?" Phoebe asked Binxs shook his head

            "Nope," he didn't want to lie, but why worry his aunts?

            "So what are you hungry for?" Piper asked Binxs shrugged

            "Dunno,"

            "Ok what do you like?" Binxs was beginning to feel shy; he knew he shouldn't, these were his aunts, but he felt his ears go red as he shrugged again. Piper sighed and ruffled his hair a little

            "Let's just see what looks good in the kitchen huh?" Phoebe said, he nodded and followed the sisters into the kitchen. It was big, though it was much smaller then the one at the home, but it felt well, what was the word? Homey ya that was a good word for it. Piper began digging around in the cabinets as Binxs sat at the table with Prue and Phoebe.

            "So Binxs, Piper told me you have powers?" Binxs looked at his hands and nodded not looking at his aunts.

            "Its not something to be ashamed of Binxs," Phoebe said

            "Sez you..." Binxs said quietly Prue and Phoebe looked at each other; Piper was looking around the cabinets franticly

            "Piper, I haven't gone shopping yet, you're not going to find much besides cereal."

            "That's fine," Binxs said looking up a little "I like cereal," Phoebe grinned and ruffled his bangs a little "cause I really like milk

            "So we've heard, so milks your favorite drink" he grinned and nodded

            "Ya! I like it better then anything else" Piper looked at her sisters

            "I'm a chef I don't know how to just make cereal!" Phoebe snickered as Piper pulled out a box of corn flakes, and set them on the table with a bowl, a spoon, and a carton of milk. Binxs grinned wider as he poured the cereal into the bowl and poured the milk over it. Phoebe got up and set a glass next to the bowl and Binxs poured the milk into the cup.

            "Um…can I have some sugar please?" he asked, Prue looked at Phoebe and Piper for a moment then looked towards the counter. Binxs's eyes widened as a small sugar bowl floated over to the table and sat in front of him. He was at lost for words,

            "You can do that too?!" he managed to squeak out. Prue nodded smiling

            "Mm hmm" she said, slowly Binxs sprinkled some sugar on his cereal and began eating, after eating hospital food for almost a week he was starving. He reached for the milk and accidentally knocked it over, before anyone else could react, Binxs's hands moved to catch the carton; it didn't move. Binxs stared at it then looked at Prue, Piper, and Phoebe.

            "I…I…I didn't mean…I'm sorry…."

            "Sweetie its ok," Piper said, Prue nodded and picked up the tilted milk carton and placed it upright. Slowly Binxs moved forward and looked into the carton.

            "Was that freezing?" he said without thinking, then quickly covered his mouth.

            "You know about the power to freeze?" Phoebe asked, Binxs stared at his bowl of cereal not sure how to answer;

            "Binxs?"

            "I heard you guys talking a little while ago, I woke up and heard your voices so I followed them. I was on the stairs, I didn't mean to eavesdrop." He finally said softly "I'm sorry,"

            "Hey, hey, its ok we're not mad. You should have just come down."

            "I didn't want to interrupt." He reached for the milk again and poured more into the glass. He grinned a little as he drank some and wiped the milk moustache off. "This is good,"

            "Glad you like it," Prue said

            "So Binxs, how would you like a tour of the house? It's your house too," Binxs nodded and picked up his bowl.

            "Here I'll get that," Piper said taking the bowl from his hands and putting it in the sink. She walked back over to the table and took his hand. "Ready for the tour?" he nodded. Phoebe grinned and waved her hand gesturing to the room

            "Well this is the kitchen," Binxs grinned and laughed a little "most of the time you'll find all food you need right here," she said. They walked out into another room with a long wooden table. "This is the dinning room,"

            "And this is the foyer," Piper said. Binxs nodded he liked this house, it felt safe, something that he hadn't felt 100% in a long time.  They continued the tour through the parlor, back into the foyer and moved upstairs.

            "You already know your room, hey wanna know something?" Phoebe asked Binxs nodded, "Your room? It was your mom's"

"It was my mom's?!" Phoebe nodded

"Mmm hm," she said "and this is mine right next-door" after Prue's and Piper's rooms, they climbed up some more stairs and into an attic. Binxs looked around in awe; it was huge, lots of different stuff around, toys, books, furniture. A large stain glass window was at the far end, but it was the podium in front of the window, with the huge old looking book that caught Binxs's attention. Slowly he walked over to it and felt the cover of the book.

            "What's this?" Phoebe came up behind him and hugged his shoulders

            "That is called the Book of Shadows." Binxs's gently touched the triquatra symbol on the book.

            "A magic book?" Binxs asked

            "Mm hm," Phoebe said

"It looks really old,"

"It is, it belongs to the family that book is almost 3 hundred years old." Binxs's mouth dropped open "go ahead and open it."

            "I don't wanna hurt it."

            "You wont, it belongs to you too,"

            "Me?" Prue came up on his left side

            "You're a Halliwell aren't you?" Binxs rubbed his fingers on the symbol again

            "I guess," now Piper joined them,

            "Binxs look at me," she put her hand under his chin and gently lifted his head up. "You are apart of this family, you got that?" Binxs nodded and Piper hugged him tight. When she let go of him, Binxs touched the cover of the book and opened it. He began flipping through the pages staring at the pictures, downstairs the phone rang.

            "Ooo I'll get it," Prue said she ruffled Binxs's hair and hurried out of the attic, Piper kissed Binxs's forehead as he stared at one of the pictures of a demon.

            "So that's a demon?" Binxs asked afraid of the answer

            "They don't all look like that." Phoebe said softly

            "Binxs why don't we head back downstairs, let me just take a look at your shoulder ok?" Piper asked seeing the look of fear on the boy's face.

            "K," Binxs said closing the heavy book gently.

            Downstairs in the living room, Binxs sat on the couch and Piper sat next to him. He looked around the room and took a deep breath.

            "How does it feel?" she asked

            "Better," Binxs answered wincing a little when she touched it. He yawned and rubbed his eyes a little.

            "Still tired?" Phoebe asked coming in with three cups. She handed one cup to Piper and the other to Binxs. "Got you a glass of juice, you like apple juice right?" Binxs nodded

            "ya, I like most fruits, just don't like strawberries." he said and drank some he looked up at Phoebe "Mrs. Abraham at the home said I was allergic to them." Piper nodded "and I don't like peaches, they taste weird"

            "We know,"

"So are you still tired?" Phoebe asked

"ya a little,"

            "Why don't you head back up to bed? We've got a lot to do tomorrow," Piper said Binxs looked at her questioningly

            "We do?"

            "You, me, and Phoebe, are going shopping,"

            "Shoppin?"

"Yup," Phoebe said sitting down next to him

"What are we shoppin for?" Binxs asked taking another sip of his juice.

"You need some new clothes, and some other things to make your room a little more for you. We weren't sure exactly what you liked so we only got a few things."

"So tomorrow you can pick out stuff for your room." Phoebe picked up his backpack and handed it to him "here you go sweetie." Binxs took it

"thank you," he peaked inside quickly then looked at Piper

"Can I get some new books?" Piper nodded

"And toys, that's your room now you can do whatever you want to make it yours." Binxs nodded

"Thank you," he said "thank you for everything," he hesitated for a moment, but hugged Piper tightly Piper looked Phoebe who smiled and shrugged

"You're welcome," Piper said softly rocking Binxs gently. "Ok sweetie, bed?" Binxs let go of Piper and nodded

"K," he said "night,"

"Night Binxs," they both said. Binxs put his backpack on and climbed the stairs, but didn't head to his room. He walked up into the attic and over to the book. He opened it and began flipping through it again. He didn't know exactly what he was looking for, but he suddenly felt like there was something in this book that he needed to know. Ever page he came across was a shock and yet intrigued the boy. Finally he came across a page with more pictures on it, nothing was different from the other stuff he had seen except the fact he suddenly felt a wave of warmness pass over him. He read the words running his pointer finger over them as he read them.

"The Chosen One." Binxs bit his bottom lip feeling his curiosity grow, he kept reading "during the time when the Charmed Ones shall serve all that is good, a child will join them as a guardian and protector. The Chosen One will aid the Charmed Ones in defeating the evil that threatens the world; and will eventually make a sacrifice to end evil and protect the Charmed Ones." Binxs bit his lip harder and tasted blood, he really hoped the sacrifice they where talking about wasn't what he thought it was. "The powers which the Chosen One will posses cannot be determined until the coming of the child, the strength of the power can possibly be limitless. However once the coming of the Chosen One evil will have its sights set on the child. If the child loyalties should be swayed towards evil by using his or her powers to aid evil, the world itself may face destruction with all hope for good lost." Swallowing, Binxs looked at the picture of a kid standing with three women using magic, in the next image, the kid was standing in front of the women protecting them.

Quickly Binxs closed the book and backed away from it. He was more scared now then he had been when he first found out about his powers. He realized that he didn't just have powers because of the magic that his family had. He had powers because he was supposed to protect the Charmed Ones, which he figured was his aunts. A clap of thunder outside made the boy jump and as he jumped, Binxs felt that tingly feeling again and when he opened his eyes he was still in the attic. Thinking for a moment, Binxs closed his eyes and concentrated on his room. He felt the tingly feeling and when he opened his eyes he was in his room. He was beginning to understand that disappearing and reappearing thing. It was easy once he figured out all he had to do was concentrate on where he wanted to go, there'd be blue shiny lights, he'd feel tingly, and bam he was where he had thought about. He remembered the dream he'd had at the hospital, where he had been older and had fought those guys in cloaks and had disappeared that's what he had done here, but something kept telling him he shouldn't tell anyone not even his aunts about this power, not yet anyways.

Giving another yawn Binxs dropped his backpack on the floor, climbed up to his bed and crawled under the covers minding his arm still sore, he saw his mothers bear and picked it up and stared at it, no matter how hard he tried, Binxs couldn't remember his mother every time he got a little memory of her it would slip away, sniffing a little Binxs held the bear close to him hugging it hard. Suddenly he felt that pulling feeling and an image fluttered into his mind. He saw his mom rocking him as a baby in a rocking chair, brushing his bangs back and singing to him.

Slowly Binxs opened his eyes he sighed a little and sniffed back tears. He wanted his mom, he wanted her to hold him like she did in that vision, to know what song she was singing to him, to hear her voice tell him she loved him. He put his hand on the picture touching it gently.

"Love you mom," he said softly and with that he reached up and shut the light off, holding his mother's bear tight.

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Awwww what is with me and the cuteness thing…hehe aw well…anyways hope you liked the new chappie!!! Next chapter will be up very soon its almost written!! No flames but any other reviews are welcome as usually! *bows* danke