Saving My Family
Disclaimers: The show and characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me everything else belongs to the creator and the movie company.
Chapter 9: Family Discussions, Messages and Explanations
"Yeah exactly Aunt Phoebe, my only chance at getting you to trust me was by just passing you the obvious clues needed and you figuring out the truth on your own. Well you know the truth now and I'm here to stay, I'm not losing you guys again." Chris said as the tears started running down his face and Piper crouched in front of him and gave him a hug and he buried his head into her shoulder.
"Don't worry son, our family is intact in this timeline, we just make sure nothing gets in the way of that now." Leo said to him and they went into a group hug at that as he burrowed into his parents arms then. "We got two and a half years, before we get added problems here, so with those words in mind, don't hold back on me, just say what you really want to say, we got the truth now, I believe you and 'our' family is intact now."
"But the future consequences remarks we can take, but fron now on til you leave to return to the future, no more lies and no holding back on us. At the moment we can watch the first two and three quarters of season three, and from there the next part and forward we just go through each of these and change the sequences that need changing now from now till we stop and destroy whoever it was that turned your brother."
"Your mother and I are taking the roles we should take now, but whatever I did it's getting rectified right now and our bond is going to be the way you want it to be now. Both right now and when you're born till you reach the age you are, everything you had with me in your future you do with me now and it's staying that way forever son, I mean that." Leo said and he nodded to him as he tightened his arms around both of them.
"I love you dad." he said and he smiled softly. "I love you too son." he said and just hearing those words, Chris knew his chance to fix the future was now in place and he was home where he belonged then. 'Whoever it is that destroyed my family, through my brother is getting exterminated for it. Listen you scum, you come near us and when I find you, I will destroy you myself.' he thought to himself then.
"Time for a family meeting now, instead of the present you, Aunt Prue, you're hearing from my version of you now, mom never mind just reading it out of the book, wing it." he said and grabbed the candles as he put them in a circle then and lit them. "Hear these words, hear my cry, spirit from another time. Come to me, I summon the, cross now the greater divide." she called out and a minute later his grandmother and great grandmother appeared then and they smiled as Patty said it for both of them.
"Deciding to take an active interest in your abilities girls?" she asked and the duo nodded. "Yeah, just learning that if it hadn't been for our powers, I may have never learned what a godsend having my son living with me would be like now. But if having no powers means I never get to see him as he is now. Than screw being normal, I accept my abilities with open arms now." Piper said and she smiled at that gently.
"We're glad to hear that now, we were hoping once you realized it with as who he was to you, you'd accept what we were facing in our time frame without question, Piper." Penny said to her and she nodded. "I do Grams, in fact I understand why you freaked out, but returning to when we have no children in this house was the best choice and mistake with your version of Chris, because without me, she'd never accept it that easily."
"But understanding the danger of being born in the house, combined with being a witch/whitelighter hybrid, the amount of power going through you is way too much. And you can go one way or the other, if something is screwing with your morality. If you wanted the four of us and dad to take your warnings seriously you got your wish now grams, if we can't save him, we swear to god we'll stop him." Prue said and she nodded.
"I know we can't know too much about the future without it erasing someone from existance, but thanks for the loophole in that. So we can go through every episode and fix what mistakes my future self, Phoebe's and Leo's did at the time. But I intend to lay into your versions of us myself for not seeing this immediately. He made the right choice and I'm very proud of him." Piper said and they nodded gently at that remark, smiling.
"Yes well I think it's time you girls got things in the table, because Phoebe is in denial right now at the moment, baby. To you girls, Andy and Leo, having Chris here is a god send, because he's just given you everything you both ever wanted back now. With Cole out of the picture now, it's time to get things on the table now, regarding this and fix the damage the damage he caused to your relationship, indefinitely now."
"But most secrets are dangerous, especially ones relating to a supposed vanquish as you saw with Nattie and you three were beyond distracted at the time baby. You, Leo and Prue all shared the exact same thoughts, it's time to get this on the table after what happened at the wedding. As that nearly destroyed your family, before it could even start." Patty said and she nodded in agreement to her thoughts then gently.
"Oh don't worry we intend to have a serious talk about that after we see his memories regarding me, his father and sister tomorrow. We just need the final clip to his adult self, and you have us completely convinced after that." She said and they nodded to her gently. "Baby, that compensation is getting added on to it every time you need to prepare, this way we can make it seem that the club just got the added reviews."
"Once things are all said and done, the trunk over there by the window you used for Abraxas, are the added family funds and you can use that to start your family lives. But of the four of you, one of you needs to keep the nexus grounded in good while the others move out after that." she added and Piper, Prue and Leo stood up. "Wait what about you and the resistance, mom, you keep sending us the funds like this at the moment."
"And you can't and won't be able to take care of yourselves and whoever's with you?!" Prue said in shock and they smiled. "You guys pull this off and there is no resistance honey. You have five years to pull this off guys, I can't tell you who the reason for why Wyatt turned into this is, but here's a tip, keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer now. Once Cole becomes the Source, the trials regarding things begin."
"But just remember this now, okay, but my first lesson in this to you now at the moment, never just judge by what you can see but look below the surface. And secondly now, nothing is all black and white, it's shades of grey in all areas, so at times we had to break a few rules when it came to fighting. But you misuse magic and it's going to turn around and do you in the process so your sister has to learn that on her own later."
"With the fact that you know what she looks like now, wait till the staged funeral and she comes to the manor. Just play out the episodes like your alternate selves did, but Prue is alive in this time frame now and see where they messed up. But you got a second chance to get it right with Chris here now." she said and the trio all nodded to her. "Don't worry Patty that family is going to be mine, the girls can move in range of the house."
"But Piper and me are taking control of the manor for life now after this, I do have one question, are these focused on our lives before and after Perry came into the picture. He was waiting for someone to bust him, but no one did and we treated him like an outsider?" he asked and she nodded with a sigh. "That's the side effect of having a child in the house and the adult version of your unborn suddenly shows up out of nowhere."
"After Perry was killed, and even though he tried it still didn't work, your adult self decided that screw this happening again, we had to take it back three years. And to before Wyatt was born just to prevent this from happening twice. Chris came to us, D.J., Tyler, Jared, Prue and Andy and suggested this and we immediately agreed to it." She said and the quintet all nodded to the news as he pulled Chris closer to them.
"So we had it right that Prue and I were his favorite aunt and uncle in our version of the Power Of Three, but though he loved Phoebe, he was closer to Paige in theirs, his version?" Andy asked and she nodded. "Yes, after they murdered the girls and Leo, you and Prue adopted him after that." she said and the trio nodded. "He lashed out in anger after the fight with Raynor, in fact he was ready to kill Cole himself that night."
"For nearly killing Leo and Piper." he said and she nodded. "He's been holding it in ever since Leo was murdered, honey. Cole killed his entire family himself, Piper personally, but Phoebe and Paige accompanied by the add on, but he had a hand in killing all of them and Leo. As he did Henry and Victor, Darryl is also dead and D.J. joined the fight with Michael, because Cole killed their parents." she said and they nodded as he said it firmly.
"Pains of future wrongs, there's no forgiveness right now for this, once Belthazor is destroyed the scrutiny is back on and if he becomes the source. Than we're vanquishing him and this time we're making sure it sticks. At the moment he's got us until Henry and whoever Phoebe's future husband is after that. But if I got this right Cole was a fling, but Drake and whoever comes next are in your eyes the good ones." he said and they and Victor nodded to him as she explained that to him.
"Yes that's right, a girl chooses the man most like her father in personality traits, You're him when it comes to protecting her, Leo in his understanding personality of my gifts and hers, and Drake in his gentle, but funny personality. And to put this firmly, a woman flirts with the dangerous one, but they don't bring him home, they marry the good guy, which is what Jansenn said to Jackman's character in X-men and she's right."
"Our family had the tendency to flirt with the darkside, but in the end we always choose the good side, that's just the way it is when it comes to being witches. We follow the Wiccan rules and we never abuse our powers, family came first, always. And though we wish at times to be normal we know we can't and we just accept that our higher calling is protecting others." she said and they nodded as Lei answered her gently.
"Than I guess our relationship tripled in strength, regarding past mistakes, Dan wasn't the right match for her and seeing what my never being around did to Perry. I decided to change that and our bonds tripled in strength, and losing me was the piece that caused him to choose this just to be back with his mother and me again?" Leo asked and she nodded to him and the young couple nodded as he said it for both of them.
"Well don't worry, we'll take care good care of him, the alibi we chose matches up to his birthday time frame now, had we had him in 1987, whatever alibi you wanted us to choose regarding him, me and Andy. We're doing it tomorrow and getting the added alibi to the reason these guys are disappearing off the face of the earth. So no one comes knocking and we lose a member of our family next." he said to her and she nodded.
"Chris you're going to have to tell them a few pieces to what your parents told you after Perry was killed, leading into your birthday honey. Also to make the alibi as real as it could get its time to make the house looking like you ran several upgrades and making it looks like a teenager lives here now, so no one but us knows you're not from our time frame, but from the future." she said and he nodded as Leo nodded in agreement.
"In order to do that we have t se what his room looked like and replicate it when he turned twelve at the time and things in there are being changed to it looking like a teenager living in the room." Piper said and he nodded, looking at Chris though, he thought it over then. "Son what furniture was in the bedroom and what did your room look like when you were thirteen exactly?" he asked and Chris explained that to him.
"You guys had a double bed in the room, my dresser was by the window, my desk was facing out the window pointed towards the garage and my bookshelf was by the door, but with my being a bookworm. You got me one of the shelves that had three different levels built into it and the added bookshelf was above it. And a set of bookshelves right above it dis paying my trophies and ribbons as for family entertainment in movies here."
"Your idea of movies for us was the basics growing up mom, though instead of Sesame Street we went to preschool at magic school at the time, till we got used to working our powers safely. Then from there we went to kindergarten and life became half magical and half normal after that. With my combining both together as one, you're getting a sneak peek of what to expect once we're preteen to the age we are now."
"Grams, if you and grandma are watching from upstairs, you'll be seeing me as I manage both lives and maintain a normal life as a teenager, trust me this is going to work now. With you binding their powers when mom was fourteen at the time, this is what to expect, but this me is your first born, Wyatt is second, and little me is third after that." he said and they both nodded to that as they made their preparations.
"Three different levels, you mean one with eight shelves, the second portion with six and the last with three, and I had a rack of shelves built into the wall right above it, that type of thing?" Piper asked and he nodded. "Yeah, with my starting middle school, I'd been involved in track and football, my gold medals and trophies were on those shelves and the book library I had was your basic teenager at the time." he said to her smiling.
"Wait a minute, you like sports, but you're a bookworm, Chris had we been living in 1968 what's your catch exactly here?" Leo asked and he chuckled. "You recall the Curtis brothers in 'The Outsiders'?" he asked and they nodded as Piper got it automatically. "Wyatt became Darry and you're Ponyboy, okay, so your grades, intellect and sports techniques here, you were Ponyboy leading into when I was killed and you buried yourself in books and movies to escape the pain, is that it?" she asked and he nodded.
"Yeah that's it exactly, I was in emotional shutdown for three months when I lost you, it was after my best friend was murdered by the demons, before another friend was killed out of self defense at the time. And I'm classifying this as a paranormal version of the Soc/Greaser gang wars here as well, that Penny yanked me out of that vacuum herself by passing his last remaining message to me and three months later Aunt Phoebe was killed and she and I bonded really closely as a result."
"Her father and Uncle Henry gave me the paternal care I needed but that sums it up." he said and she nodded to him gently. "If that's not enough of reason here to take this more seriously, nothing is right now. Alright you went out for track and football when you were in junior high school. But your grades came first and your scores were all enough that by this point, had I been alive, you'd have gotten scholarships by every college in the country at the time." Piper said to him and he nodded smiling to her at that.
"Well that's no longer the case here, we're not on a deadline yet, we got plenty of time and frankly with your frame, you closer to seventeen then what we're classifying you as for school here. Alright so what school did you go to exactly?" she asked and he smiled. "Baker Junior High School actually, though we just use the term middle school now here." he said and she nodded smiling as she said it with a chuckle.
"I sent you to my alma mater, I should have seen that coming here, you pack your school jacket honey?" she asked and he nodded to her as he went downstairs then, grabbed it and came back. " The jacket is a bit old, but..., jacket of old, reclaim like new take years off and reclaim it a true." she said and it changed from the faded look to gleaming with a fresh look to it as the patches stitching became more intricate.
"Well if that's your jersey jacket I'm buying the next size up when you start high school here. So track team, football, let me guess, you're doing the hurtles and hundred yard dash right?" Leo asked him and he nodded to him. "Yeah you got it right dad, once the football season comes to end, track gets started, I'm in good shape, because you kept me on a well balanced diet at the time." he said to him and they both nodded to that.
"Well this certainly helps now that I know what to look for in little you, but I don't doubt little you is taking it one further and going out for the swim team next, as he tries to live up to your legend and Wyatt decides on taking football here." he said to him and he chuckled. "They won't need to, that inferiority complex is not needed, I'm leaving my message in the book for them when they're in school themselves."
"But here's the message I'm leaving them when I return to the future, it's going to be in the book beneath the dialogs you put in there. That I loved them both and they'll see me again, just in a new reincarnation later, they were worth coming back to the past and changing the past and future for the better. But I'm telling them the truth in that letter why I came back and why I was around these last eight years now."
"The trio are going to understand, but you're the first to have children as evidenced by me being here. But this message and the next are for the entire family. But this one is going to ours first mom, dad." he said and they nodded in understanding and watched as he took a deep breath as he invisioned his younger self, his baby sister and and Wyatt in the room as he said it then.
"Dear Wyatt, Mellie and Perry, I know that you may not remember by the time you read this, but I came back for a specific reason and that reason is saving our future, 'your' future, but I'm your older brother. Life began for me as a witchlighter when mom and her version of the Power of three began. That version in those days was herself, Aunt Phoebe and her oldest Sister Prue."
"But here's the truth now guys, if you saw my college photo and looked at yourself in the mirror Perry. Well than you can see yourself looking like a teenage version of me at this age. Mom, dad and her sisters, kept this hidden from you after I supposedly left for college at the time. But yes I'm in college, but at a different level, I came back to save you guys, save you and our family."
"Our family as the Wyatt/Halliwell clan, and save our familial friendship with the Morris family, our families were meant to be friends and with it. To save you three, I risked my own life and existance. Our family is worth this and coming back and just because I was good student and sports player, don't just push yourself because you feel like you got to live up to my reputation guys."
"We're witch/lighters, but we're good people, with you being in junior and high school now, I want you to remember this. Just because I was the best at everything I did, doesn't mean you shouldn't be, our parents and family encouraged me to live up to my true potential and I've done that. And now it's your turn guys, we are the future of our family and it's time to live it up."
"The life of a witch/lighter is living up to our skills, we can balance a normal life with a magical one, as long as we never take advantage of our powers and use them for personal gain. Wyatt one day you're to have a very strong legacy, but you and Chris are your own people. Everything you saw on the walls was just inspiration, you can be anything you want to be, excel at anything you want."
"As your big brother, I was a skilled witch/lighter, and I lived up to the legends of our parents lives, but now my legend is the legacy written into the book now. My legend was, as a normal mortal and young man, I was a star player on the football team and track team, and my grades got me recognized by the teachers who are going to teach you, in time you'll learn who I really am to you."
"But remember, just because I did everything you guys have chosen to take on, doesn't mean you shouldn't live up to your true potential, there are many sports to choose from, clubs, sports. The possibilities are endless, choose what you want to do, but remember, don't just live up to my legend in the family. I was first born, but you guys have a chance to really live up to that legend."
"Make your own path and be the best you can be, I came back to protect you guys, and I did what I had to do for you guys, always remember that the future is never set, there is no fate, but what we make for ourselves guys. The movies that I grew up with are your inspiration here, but Star Wars, The Terminator, remember these and when in high school you'll remember these things."
"But power is nothing, like Harry Potter, your choices make up who you are and who you choose to be, your choices make your future. Always remember that and these words brothers and when the time comes, you'll learn the truth of who I am when you're fifteen Wyatt, Chris, love you guys and good look.'." he read out and Piper smiled at that as she looked at him then as she said it.
"You better write that down son, that's your legacy to little you, Mellie and Wyatt, they'll be too young to remember, but hearing your voice in these words, it's enough they'll remember you in a way. But not till little you grows into your body will he remember this message as this version of you is guiding ours into his life later." Leo said and she nodded in agreement to his thoughts as she said what she thought to his opinion.
"Well I can see you're more like me than I thought, so it's best if we frame those pictures you just showed us. What's the official record regarding Rodriguez and your uncle exactly?" she asked and he smiled. " I classified him as a witch hunter who was obsessed with us and the fact he thought we were witches, with my being just short of thirteen by that point, he decided he was killing the first born son and broke down the door."
"And he was carrying a sonic blaster that was equipped with a high pitched tone to it, that, had I'd been any closer, it could have ruptured my eardrums and I'd be disabled enough for him to kill me. But Andy shoved me out of the way and taking the jolt himself, and it threw him into the China hutch. You called Darryl and before he could shoot him, Darryl shot him twice and he bled to death on the floor."
"With the near murder of your brother-in-law and me, you were suing him for nearly killing us, and Aunt Prue was devastated by this, because they were supposed to marry a month later. To that end you decided you were putting me in martial arts classes after that." he said and Phoebe read out the rest of it. "I'm your sensei, with the fact I bought that slam dude to train with, that just gave a bigger reason to help you train."
"You and I spent four days a week training together, and you just gained your green belt tonight. Wait a minute, I'm the one training you, but you don't have the colored belts." she said and he nodded as he yanked some money from his pocket. "Before you ask, the resistance gave me the funds, to fuel our deception regarding these things. Martial art belt levels white through green!" he called out and all five arrived in a swirl of light.
"Training uniform!" he called out and that appeared as well. "How much do you have there in funds, if you called for the fruit and the supplies for those?" Darryl asked and he smiled. "$5,500,000.00 and I just spent $2,500.00 on my training." He said and they looked at him in shock. "You got to be kidding, the four of us sent you here with that much to build on to the deception of the truth?" Penny repeated and he nodded to her gently.
"At the time before my version of all of you was killed, mom was opening up the restaurant she wanted to, Aunt Phoebe was an advice columnist and Aunt Paige was working as the headmaster at Magic school. But the resistance had $80,000,000 in the budget, but you four and D.J. gave me 5% off the budget, but this is enough to really build on to our cover story and since I had a mostly quiet childhood, up until Rodriguez came into the picture."
"That's what the money was for, build on to the deception of my preteen life, before dad came home and we get the house looking like I really had grown up here, my athletics began in the fourth grade, and we go from there, but here's the truth in my future. In total, the family made twice that amount together, as for grandpa, his job had offered him a raise and better position at the time as well to the point that you revealed there was an added amount you left mom." he said and she nodded as she answered him at that.
"I forgot about that amount. The house was left to me when your great great grandmother died. I'm descended from Piper's past life, she was my mother, our version of the club your mother created was right here at the house back in 1924, in total the amount came $100,000,000. I just never used it because it was meant to be yours ladies, the family had a very serious amount when I closed down the burlesque house."
"Piper there's a trunk by the window you drew on the wall in that corner, when you dealt with Abraxas last year, that's the inheritance I was leaving to you girls. Aside from your powers you came from a well to do family, girls just trust me, there was a charm on the trunk that had our familial ritual stuff in it, this one had a charm that was similar to it." She said and they nodded as they pulled it.
"Charms left, charms removed for the heir to take, I seek the gift to share, remove this charm from the air." Chris said and the trunk glowed gold in response before Prue opened it. "Whoa, I can't believe we never found this trunk, we're millionaires girls, alright for now we just keep this safely tucked away, till we retire guys. Than once we do we each take our share and create a new life for each of our families." she said to them.
"Good idea, my children had a good amount for school and living as a normal a life as possible, but our club is bringing in the funds, as is your job and Chris just brought a back a major investment to make sure we can pull his alibi off now as a result here. And get some work done on the house, but in total, I'm looking at twenty thousand on the construction work in the house and on five for him and Wyatt at the moment."
"Honey your remark about the nursery in our closet, I'm knocking down a wall to widen up the room so that's set up, we don't need to get new equipment with Chris's birth because we already have it. But the boys are growing up in both worlds, and big Chris is now the oldest of the family. So date of birth is October 4, 1986, Wyatt is February 2, 2003 and Christain Perry Halliwell-Wyatt is October 16, 2004." Piper said and he smiled.
"The resistance has fifteen times that in the budget. In fact their entire finance system came to $80,000,000 mom, grandma, grams, they just skimmed 10% off of the budget for us with me in the past. Mom dad, you got the money to remodel the house and set it up the way you want when little me and Wyatt come into the picture now, though now we got work to do on the house. Aunt Prue said you're barely making ends meet, so she decided to help by sending this amount to you." he said and they nodded as Piper smiled at that.
"Always taking care of us, thanks Prue we needed the reimbursement for a while now." she said and the book glowed gently in answer to her remark and they smiled at that as Chris looked at Darryl then. " I ended up having to clean up the mess by doing the reversal spell after you left the kitchen." he said and he nodded with a chuckle. "The spell I used was an improvised one girls. That was the power sharing spell altered for this situation, so instead of learning these spells right out of book."
"Ladies we need to start taking it to the max now creating our own, we're witches, but we can add our own spells to the book and it triples in size by the time you leave it to Wyatt, me and the others later. Aunt Phoebe, do you still have the slam dude?" he asked and she nodded to him. "As wiccans we follow light magic, but we fight evil you and grams were powerful witches, but they taught you early spells when you were little."
"Now it's time to take it to a new direction here." he said and Piper smiled at that as she answered him. "You know you're right, we've been writing up the spells from the book, so time to create our own, like we did with Jeremy, the Woogieman and Nicholas. Our spells you can learn and from there every new spell and potion goes to you and your brother and cousins when we pass the book to you next." she said to him smiling.
"Yeah exactly, but I can give a few clues to manage and you improvise the rest, with you becoming the oldest sister, time to really take up the mantle now and with that..., alright pop quiz here. What's the best way to manage the troll situation last year when your innocent is a kid Kate's age?" he asked and she smiled. "Write a makeshift spell and improvise the wording, if you combine three different spells and it works every time."
"Prue was doing great at that for years, now it's my turn and I'm following her example and I'm taking it to the max. We just create one cupboard for potions ingredients and the other for basic spices for cooking and that solves our problem later." she said as her confidence started building with every word and Leo chuckled at her remark as Chris smiled at her then as he said it.
"Yeah this is what you sounded like when you went into big sister mode when on duty actually, as the leader of the charmed ones, the job gets hectic, but you managed pretty well, but just because there's a set back you shouldn't give up. Being a witch was one step forward/two steps back in training, when you started this late in life, so inferiority complexes and a few other catches in the family, but Paige deals with the same."
"Your animal conjuring spell Aunt Prue, you need to talk to her, because she quits her job to become a full time witch later. And this results in releasing Barbas while doing it." he said and they all nodded. "Barbas, who is that?" Victor asked and Drake answered that with a look of hatred on his face. "He's the demon of fear, he's the epitome of phobias and fear, anything you're afraid of he turns it into an hallucination till you die of fright."
"Before you ask, I'm better off as your demon dictionary and I can explain things far more easily than the book does guys. No offense Leo, but they need someone who understands these demons rather than the book and what you hear from Orlin and the others." he said and Leo nodded. "None taken, just see this as a way to be everything he's not in explanations now." he said and he nodded in agreement.
"Cole's the soldier, I've denied my roots and turned into the epitome of being a good demon. I'm good and I've always been good, I'm not denying my human side and I've got every reason to stay good now as well. When you're evil and something wakes up your good side the battle between each side is going to tear you apart, if you let it, but with those words, you got to pick a side, good or evil and I chose good." he said and looking at Phoebe and she gave him a hug at that as he tightened his arms around her.
"You're a classic example of ignoring your evil side, you started out good and you've been that way for how long exactly?" Patty asked and he smiled as he answered her. "700 years, I've always been good, but to be with you forever, I'd up give my powers and be human. I only use my powers to fight demons, but I can cast spells and use telekinesis, but the combustion, it's only used against demons Phoebes."
"But I'm a actor and I learned to fence and fight with my hands without it getting lethal. In your case, you're my biggest reason to fight now. You remember the original power ranger show?" he asked and she nodded. "That's how you see us at the moment?" she asked and he nodded. "Yes and I'd do anything, be anything for you, if I had a spirit animal, mine is the wolf, a wolf mates for life." he said and she smiled at the wording.
"Just take the added years, in demon, off, I'm twenty five Phoebe, your age, but a lot more mature. Just think of this, if he's the wrong one you got a second chance with me. What's your heart telling you exactly?" he asked and she closed her eyes as she felt something in her change and then looked into his blue eyes. "That you're the one, best guy friend, he burns me one more time and the scales land in your favor and I'm yours." she said and he gave her a hug and she closed her eyes.
"I'm not leaving you Phoebe, I'm always going to be here, our bond is a strong one, because you're attracted to good beings, but you've caught attention to bad ones. But as an actor, I embellish a bit of both in the theater, but I'd never break your heart. I know what he did to you, but I would never, ever do that, you got me, I won't let you down, you can count on me, I promise." he said and she leaned her head against his shoulder.
"You're not being hunted by them are you?" she asked and he shook his head. " No I'm not, my allegiances are to you, your family and the greater good and protecting innocents. In fact the only time I ever use my combustible fire powers is against demons, I just train with use of bows and arrows and a sword, I'm schooled in the old weapons of the 16th, 17th, and 18th. Robin Hood, the musketeers, that type of thing."
"But I never use demonic weapons, not unless I have too." he said and she nodded. "Actor, poet, warrior, you're every girl's dream come true in finding the right man, if I'm who you're falling in love with, I can expect to see you here every day now huh?" she asked smiling and he nodded. "Yeah, but Cole's going to have some very stiff competition later, and he burns you one more time, I can pick up the piece and put you back together, but I'm yours, my soul belongs to you." he said and she hugged him at that.
"Yeah okay I think we made the right choice now, son, look if he started getting obsessed with her, do me a favor and blast him into the next millennium, would you please?" Victor said and Drake nodded to the request as Phoebe looked at her parents then. "If we'd been that book series that Meyer is working on, it comes out in four years, but if we were, than we just hit chapter two of it. New Moon, and I'm entering the darkest portions of my future guys." she told him and he nodded as he answered that gently.
"Yeah and I'm your best guy friend, who's your future imprint no less, I'm always around the house. Your parents are pissed that he's broken your heart twice and landed you in the hospital as are the rest of your friends and the council your friends belongs to. At the moment, we're not the wolf pack, but we're close enough to it at the moment, he's the enemy if he burns you one more time and he's on my hit list after that." Drake said firmly and she smiled at him as Patty exchanged smiles with Victor at this.
"I know I said this is the hard, part, but life as a witch results in added issues, you've been stuck in a rock and hard place ever since Cole came into your life. Yes the C pointed out your future love, but Cole is just a fling, your future husband is a good being, like us Phoebes." Andy said to her gently and she nodded as she looked at him. "And since when did you start calling me that again Andy?" she asked and he smiled.
"Since I became your brother-in-law, I watched you grow up, it's my job to get overly protective of you. As to that, he burns you one more time, he's got the entire male household ready to barbecue him as a result here next. But demons, warlocks. Son, what's your recommendation for a warlock faction exactly?" he asked and Chris smiled as he answered that as he looked at Piper
"Mom the warlocks blink, so what's the best way to prevent them from blinking right out of the room if we got another supernatural smack down right at the club, like the flare lights messed up the spell on Rex in that dinosaur movie, extensive bursts, you got the control panel by the cash register at the bar in the club?" he asked and she thought it over and then smiled. "Fireworks, of course, the strobe lights, they'll work like the pyrotechnic potions, but on a grander scale and keep them from blinking."
"Themes in time frames rather than years, but 90's, 80's, 70's and so on, our generation's music groups got traded for our kids. I'm doing that every few months here in the club. And while Chris is helping me, you're doing the theme, but if I'm right they're choosing the night we're doing time frames to pull these stunts and it's just when we're getting used to being our version of the power of three Phoebes, you, me and Paige."
"But if that's the case, it's right when we meet Melody later, so that's the key, alright we got to check out these episodes later and then work it out." she said and Phoebe smiled. "Us theme, you potion?" she asked and Piper nodded with a chuckle at the wording. "Yeah, you theme, me potion, just choose the right time frame, that is if Grandpa was based in that time and it's going to be a hit." she said and she chuckled and nodded.
"Grams, mom aside from being a witch, did you ever learn to fight in these battles?" she asked and they chuckled. "We never took martial arts honey, but with a personal training ring right here in the house that really helps to train. Just see this as way to become the best and most powerful witches and forces of good in the world." Patty said smiling and Phoebe nodded as she looked at her sisters to go into it then.
"Alright our training ring is downstairs, that includes the punching bag, I can work out downstairs now. You're my student and slam-man is in the basement waiting to be used, and there's enough room down there to have your darkroom and our sparring ring as well Prue. The money we can create a nice look for your training ring and we can work out together now." Phoebe said and she nodded in agreement as he answered her.
"Yeah exactly, everyone knows you're a skilled fighter, and you're a brown belt, on your way to a red belt at the moment. Basically treat this like we're doing Tae Kwon Doe, you're a brown belt and I'm two belts right behind you. But you're about to progress to a red belt next and the training is the usual. We just, once we do scenario number three, that's when we lay low and you and I train together as much as possible."
"You're my sensei, but I'm your sparring partner now, and I'm not getting that aggressive in the training here. Here you go mom, dad, here's the money needed to pass this off so easily now." he said and passed them the rest of the pile and she took it gently. "So $1,500,000.00, we're paying for your bedroom furniture, and setting up a sparring floor downstairs in the basement, that definitely helps make it seem more real."
"With you living at home here, we can make it as real as it can be now, for the next three years and then your brother sees you as his big brother, before little you is born after that." Piper said smiling and Leo nodded in agreement to her thoughts. "Yeah I can live the teenage life I wanted instead of the dealing with what I left behind, but what I will say is that your memories, Uncle Andy, Aunt Prue are going to change."
"With every new set up here. The amount is enough you can run the remodeling on the house, and buy everything for the basement and my bedroom furniture here. The swing set in the garden our back. Push the backyard further out in both directions, we got enough to make it big enough to fit eight people now." he said and they nodded to him. "Alright, with school ending we got enough time to get your furniture."
"As well as buying you a laptop and printer for the desk, a file cabinet with a lock on it, and get a safe for that athame, one to lock it up and then lock it into the file cabinet that's to lock your athame and survival bag into when your brother is born. But that's everything needed here." Leo said and took the amount and gave him back $2,000, before he grabbed a suitcase and put the rest into it. "Well this just goes back to my original remark now Phoebe, being normal and inheriting a nice sized amount."
"We can be both and still enjoy family life now as we get stronger, I've got my husband back and things are going to get better for all of us now, don't worry it's going to be fine. Chris and the four of us, you got us and Drake, till things change directions honey. I know this is hard on you right now, but it's going to work out, don't give up on being good, because of what you've gone through." Prue said and she nodded to her.
"Aunt Phoebe, I love you, but at the moment, what you need is an understanding guy friend, that's why I chose Drake for you, to help you heal now. He's good for you and grandpa and grandma both agree with this as do the quartet. When the time comes, when you reconcile with Cole our lives are going through some very tough trials, but you have Drake, though you broke it off with Cole and divorced him later for what he put you through, emotionally, later." he said and she nodded as she read that out.
"Emotional trauma and Drake is the one putting me back together and I fall in love with him and he's my mate till I meet my future husband, alright that makes more sense and I appreciate that baby, I appreciate that alot." she said and pulled him into a hug and he tightened is arms around her smiling then gently. "You girls and our family all that matter to me, and I'm doing whatever it takes now to keep our family intact." he said and she nodded smiling as she pressed her forehead to his and he closed his eyes.
"Things changed and though only a few days, I'm not letting anything get between us, with you just telling us, our relationship is completely intact now cub. So though you look like you're seventeen at the moment and ten years my junior, you're really twenty two years my junior baby. Well whoever does anything to hurt you, is getting vaporized when I get through with them." she said and smiling and he nodded to her.
"Well that solves the problem now, a quarter of that is being used to work on the house, $1,000 for your school stuff and bedroom and that solves the program. This amount your father just gave you though, thats your living allowance till we start your paycheck at work though. You're starting your job on Monday at the club honey."
"But not checks, we're paying you in cash after work and your pay days are every two weeks." Piper said and he nodded to her as Victor smiled at her. " Nice way to put it honey, to the outside world, we're a normal family, but our private lives, we got Samaritan status. We're helping the cops with the murders where this is concerned and to the outside world the demons and warlocks we deal with are a bunch of psychos, killing innocent people and the brotherhood slaughtered two, before we stopped them."
"Raynor was an arsonist killing an innocent woman, Phoebe see the scorch marks on the wall and know he just struck again, you head here, to tell your sister and Cole reports into you that the cult is getting ready to attack our next witness protection charge. We then head for the hospital and Andy wakes up then, sees our faces and his memory comes back on full force, he's released and Leo gives him a set of clothes."
"Alright Patty I got a few questions here, I need to know about, if Cole just got himself kicked out of the house, again?" Victor said and she nodded. "What is it you need to know exactly?" she asked and he sighed. "Who are the Brotherhod exactly, and why are they such a danger?" he asked and before she could answer that Drake did it for her. "They're called the Brotherhood of the Thorn, highly elite gang of demons."
"They're the personal bodyguards to the Source, he chooses the members himself and they then swear a blood oath of life long loyalty. Though up until the last month they were laying low till they murdered a street prophet, and Raynor realized he turned on them, because he fell in love with Phoebe. Set up maybe, but still I'm not forgiving him for breaking her heart, again." he said and Victor nodded to that information.
"I take it you guys had run-ins with each other, Drake, because your personality is a better fit for my daughter." he said and Drake nodded. "Yeah I did, truth is where this is concerned if she'd been fully mortal and we'd been feuding species, werewolves and vampires here, I'd be the werewolf and he'd be the vampire Victor. But I'm not a soldier in the demonic world, I fight, but I'm not that warrior, though I'm a Mercury demon." he said and she nodded as she looked at him as Victor looked at them in confusion.
"Mercury demon, what is that?" Victor asked and Patty explained that one. "They can combust their victims by turning up the flames or just telekinetic crushing honey. Drake here is a special case though, he's ignored his roots, he's a artist and actor and grew up to be everything I wanted for Phoebe. Girls with these trials, just because you had us as an example, it doesn't mean you should give up on love, okay."
"Your father and I still love each other, but I have two mates now, one Sam, and the other your father, they gave me you girls, that's the best gift of all. So just because you're suffering some very hard trials these next five years, don't give up." she said and they nodded as she thought it over. "We need to photoshop these pictures Prue, get the added thirteen years to the images, exchange Paige's face for yours in one photo."
"Little him growing into big him, till I come back and our first family photo on the wall as he's dressed in his suit, me in mine, and Piper in her favorite dress. This way every outsider that doesn't know sees us as a normal family and he's living at home now. The kids' playroom is next to the sunroom and and I can set up a swing set with a slide on it outback for the kids as they get older, but altogether once little Wyatt comes into the picture..." Leo said and Patty chuckled as Piper said it with a smile then.
"We got the kids living the lives our toddler to kindergarten selves did, I'm a chef, I can teach Chris to cook as he grows up and both together come in handy. Though having a magical nanny that's a different story here though honey." she said and Phoebe answered that one. "Prue, Paige and I can swap off in babysitting duty actually Piper during the day with Chris at school, best to take Wyatt to work with you when you're restocking the shelves in supplies and such, with as many customers as we get."
"Chris's part time job is at the club, but he's working four days a week, and not the night of the games, test and exams he's spending that time studying and altogether we got it running so smoothly that our family life is completely normal to outsiders now. With the seven of us living under one roof and we're able to live normally, but we got to get you a laptop kiddo." she said and Prue smiled at that she added on to that.
"Mom, Grams how did you manage this when we were toddlers exactly anyway, we have to do it the way you did it here, with my boys being half whitelighter here?" Piper asked and Patty sat down on the couch. "Though you and your sister were witches, I treated you as normally as possible, your toddler stages were basic child care. Mom knew about magic school, but we figured it was better you were always around Andy."
"Though you're powerful, you sometimes forget you ever had your powers Pipers, because you were three and six years old, you were too young to remember you had your powers when I was killed at the time. Growing up without me was a setback, if I'd been alive, what Chris told you would be right. I'd have raised you in a mixture of both our worlds and your father would be living here at the house when we did so."
"With Victor doing it for Chris and Wyatt you'll be seeing this more easily, but both lives combined together as one, it's going to become normal honey, trust me. Big Chris is living the teenager life you would have, had I been alive, with maintaining control of his powers he's living in both worlds and you'll see this in action starting this summer. If you need help during the early stages of your pregnancy with Wyatt call me down."
"As for Chris, once football practice is done with, he's heading for the club and he's doing his homework at the table and babysitting while you're working on something else." she said and Chris smiled at that idea. "Yeah good point, I can babysit once he's ten months old, though the risk factor is less with him in his playpen, I can babysit while I'm doing my homework at the time. But we're with you and he's got his shield if there's trouble."
"Together you and I make a formidable team though mom, my powers are both you and Aunts Paige and Prue together, so just us and we can take out the demons in ten minutes when I've got my handbag ready and waiting on standby as well." he said and she smiled at that idea. "Whatever you continually stock that bag with make sure you keep the dagger out of sight honey, the last thing we need is the cops arresting you for bringing weapons into the high school." Patty said and he nodded to that smiling.
"Grandma, you think you'll be coming down more often now that I showed up here, you to Grams?" he asked and they both smiled. "Yes we will, baby, alright so that description of your bedroom, that's what it looked like. You got a few photos of that, since that room was and used to be the nursery when your mother and aunts were babies?" Patty asked him and he smiled and passed her the picture and Victor smiled at that.
"Yeah okay, I can pay for a desk, nice sized dresser and that bookshelf is going to fit nicely into the wall under the rack of shelves right above it. I'm looking at $200.00 altogether for the furniture and another $500.00 for the laptop and printer here in the bedroom while you're doing your homework." Leo said and Victor looked at him. "We'll split the bill and I can help you with building the bookshelf Leo."
"As for the desk, this one has an slab for work and can be used to do puzzles as well in addition to homework, but your trunk is locked at all times and keep the fence at the bedroom door to prevent your brother getting into the bedroom son." he said and Chris nodded to the orders. "Hey Darryl, how old is Mikey exactly?" he asked him and he chuckled. "D.J. is two, Michael is five years old now." he said to him and he nodded.
"Well that certainly helps, their going to see us in their lives as as the world's best magic show now, without the clowns in the house, once I'm on duty, but they're safer with me than whoever their normal babysitter is. Besides its not going to be embarrassing where diapers and baths are concerned either, I can do everything and no extra charge, and the kids have got a surrogate older brother." Chris said to him and he nodded in agreement.
"That's an understatement, normally the girls are no longer than two hours and the boys have been fed, bathed and diaper changed already, if you're intending to be my permanent babysitter, you may as well see this as preparation for when you do it it for little you and Wyatt." he said to him and he nodded in agreement to that as Piper ended the conversation at that. "Alright we better call for the night, brunch at 10:30 guys so I'll see you then." she said to Victor, Darryl and Drake and they all nodded to that.
As they left the room Darryl looked at Piper. "Should we just tell her after breakfast, that way we can get that out of the way, and then we can meet up that night for dinner and a game night. Considering our families are about to become really close friends now?" he asked and she nodded to him. "Yeah that would work best, though we keep this up and the kids are going to be playmates for a while." she said and he chuckled at that.
"Well so long as I'm not the one helping with most of these raids we're fine Piper, I'll offer police help when you need me, but if we got any more vultures like Rodriguez digging into our private lives it's going to be as bad as it could get. Cortez is getting far too nosy right now and the chief is making suggestions of calling a detective Sheryl Sheridan from L.A. At the moment." he said and they nodded to that.
"Alright, if she's one of those who are determined to bust us for something it's going to get her killed if this keeps up at the moment. Though if she's like Tom Kelly on Johnny Dangerously, I'm looking at a repeat performance here, till it nearly gets her killed and Andy is the one taking the bullet as a result to prevent her getting killed here." she said to him and he nodded to her at that.
"See you in the morning guys." he said and she gave him a hug then smiling as he tightened his arms around her, before leaving as they heard the front door shut. "Night guys." she said to her mother and grandmother and they smiled as they disappeared in a flash of lights then as they went to bed and he changed into his p.j.'s and laid down.
Telling Sheila and the Truth
The next morning Chris and Piper were up and at the grocery store getting what they needed for breakfast then. "Darryl, that is D.J., is two years old, so basic food safety for him here mom." he said and she nodded as she checked out what she was looking for and they headed home and got to work as Leo and Prue came in. "Morning guys, early start?" Andy asked as he walked in and they both nodded to him.
"Yeah, with the kids, I'm not risking him suffering an allergy attack, so I got several different fruits and other assorted items. And he and I've gone to step two now, so if you guys could set the dining room table. That would be a help now." she said as they heard a knock on the front door as Phoebe went to get it and they heard a bit of talking as Drake and Victor walked in the kitchen.
"Whoa, just short of two hours and this is looking delicious guys." Drake said and he smiled as Andy said it smiling. "Having more than one cook in the kitchen, it speed things things up a bit, but eighty percent done here. My sister-in-law is a master chef, and she's taught my nephew everything he knows Drake. Just don't take in too many cookies, her cookies are so good you're going to gain ten pounds off the carbs." he said to him and she threw the towel at him for that as Drake and Lei started laughing at that.
"Alright you guys chill alright, with my being being around more often, I'm keeping a few things here honey." Victor said and they all nodded to him as Leo though it over. "Last Halloween was we ended up 1697, this coming Halloween we're dealing with the usual, though at this rate it's less likely to to turn into a fiasco in this house." Prue said and Piper sighed. "Don't jinx it, you remember the horror movies coming to us."
"Nice touch, with Halloween being our biggest holiday now in our family, with the fact we're witches and whitelighters, as well as a demon or two in this house, we got to get used to this around here. As to that, time to to sort the bowl out, so chocolate, sugar free and chocolate with nuts. That way we can prevent an allergy attack or worse and check the candy wrappers for anything to be on the safe side too." Leo said to her and she nodded in agreement as Prue smiled at that.
"Yeah well, this Halloween is going to be one heck of a lot better than last year though, our son is part of the household and we got a very nice set of holidays on the rise now for us here." she said to him as she looked at him. "Okay, one, two three, four, alright eight adults and a toddler, that's eight big plates and two salad plates, I bought the toddler version of silverware and a few sippy cups for when Wyatt is born."
"A booster seat and one of the cups with a lid on it to prevent Mikey from knocking it over, boy these kids are going to be part of our lives pretty fast, the kids are starting preschool and kindergarten next school term. And you're working a pretty normal schedule this coming school term as a result, babysitter, part time job at the club, in addition to your martial arts training, after school practice and school schedule."
"Alright, she'll let us know if you need to babysit, but in the mean time, you're getting your homework done once you get off practice and I'll let you know if I need your help when you join me at work honey." she said and he nodded. "No problem mom, I'm acting as normal as possible in school, and living like any normal teenager, but the kids are my responsibility when I'm working, so I've got what I need here." he said to her.
" At the moment we just gather supplies as needed till Wyatt's born, then we use what we bought as he grows into his preschooler body after that." she added and he nodded. "Nice, alright so we're ready by the time he's born and we better get the fences as well so he's not crawling up the stairs or into the basement down there." Chris said and she smiled. "Well I missed the hard part with you, baby, at the moment."
"But the same is not said for little you at the moment, so I know what I'm looking at later as this gets started." she said as she took down several plates and passed them and the silverware to Prue and she took them and Phoebe grabbed the napkins and glasses as they got ready as they set the table as they heard the doorbell go off a second time and Leo went to get it and a minute later the Morris's walked into the room.
"Morning guys, whoa that's amazing, I can't do things like this in two hours." Sheila Morris said with an amazed smile. "Goes with the job of catering and being a chef Sheila, my son is an excellent cook as well, so both of us together we get it finished in two hours now. I wasn't sure what he was allergic to, so I bought several different types of fruit and the baby silverware and cups here." she said and they smiled as she answered her.
"Thanks, to answer the question he's allergic to strawberries, but the rest of this is no problem at all, D.J. is at the 'no' stage, so expect him to get a bit picky at the table when he's got his father and me on both sides of him. Though Mikey is allergic to grapes, but he loves strawberries." she said and Chris smiled. "Hey if you need a babysitter, I can do that, with my becoming an older brother soon enough, I can watch the boys if you want a night out, just bring them here." she said and they smiled at the offer.
"Thanks Chris, we accept the offer here. So how was school the last week, since your graduation there?" She asked and he chuckled. "Straight A's and I'm on the principal's honor roll list this time, and I just got my latest trophy for track this time, first place. The coach said he's naming me starting quarterback next season at the moment." he said and she smiled at that as Darryl hid a smile at the way this was being voiced so easily.
"You keep this up and every college scout in the country is offering scholarships to their schools kiddo." Darryl said and he smiled. "If I didn't know any better, I'd think he was channeling me when I was his age Darryl. I was on the football team and track team, but his personality is me and Piper rolled into one here." Leo said to him and he nodded as Leo ruffled his son's hair and he ducked smiling as D.J. looked at him.
"Chris!" he shouted smiling and walked over to him and he crouched on the floor. "Hey D.J., sleep good last night?" he asked and he nodded. "Yes, when eat?" he asked and he chuckled. "Now actually, come on." he said and he nodded. "I brought his high chair honey." Sheila said and he nodded as he walked him into the dining room and removed the cover, before sitting him in it, buckling him in and putting the tray in place.
"Man am I lucky I brought the sippy cups, he's less likely to spill juice all over the high chair here, what's his favorite exactly?" he heard his mother ask and Darryl answered that question as he got Mikey in his booster seat. "He likes apple juice, but it's alternating between that and cran-grape, Mikey like grape juice though Piper." he said as Drake, Andy and his father brought the food out and they started putting everything on the table, before they all sat down then.
Watching as his father's best friend loaded a small bit on his son's plate and setting it on his tray, before putting his cup next to it and then serving themselves he hid a smile. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say this was turning into a frequent thing around here lately, I heard about the arsonist, what happened exactly?" Sheila asked him and he sighed. "The arsonist was a part of a cult who were killing innocent people and the two charges we were tasked with protection detail were the latest targets."
"At the same time I was just getting used to building the bond with dad, since my parents had been married for three months now, Raynor Jenkins realized that Cole turned on them and turned this into another hit. Killing the first victim, but Uncle Andy woke up and we got him released and I did a bait and switch, but Cole knocked dad and me unconscious in the fight and that did it for mom and Aunt Phoebe." he said to her.
"Attacking an innocent woman is one thing, but attacking a fourteen year old kid, that is as sick as it gets here, I don't blame you for throwing him out Phoebe, believe me, I know it hurts, but things are going to be fine here." she said to her and she nodded. "Anyone check out the fact that ever since we saved that executive it's gone fairly quiet around here since we deflected the hit?" Piper asked and Drake nodded to her.
"Yeah, I'm a undercover cop, but the rumor mill says that old Lucas is biding his time at the moment Piper, but be ready it's going to come up sooner or later here." he said and they all nodded, before she could answer, a grape went flying across the table and landed in the butter. "Oops." they heard and hid a chuckle. "I guess that one didn't want to get grabbed and eaten." Darryl said and they chuckled at that gently.
