* From this point on words in italics are memories and bolded words are premonitions. I also decided to make future Piper worse than I had originally planned, meaning that she is going to be a very horrible mother. So sorry if her actions and attitude towards her children offends anybody.

Piper stared at the space that once contained her daughter. She couldn't believe that Mel was her daughter. She had her suspicions sure, but now that they were confirmed they scared her. Mel was her daughter. She couldn't stop saying that in her head. Those weren't the only thoughts in her head. Piper kept trying to figure out why, her daughter, was so afraid of her. What had she done as a mother to alienate the girl? What was her future like? Why did she come back? And why was her hair pink?

The more that Piper thought, the more that she began to feel woozy. She was going to faint. "Leo help me. LEO!" She called out before passing out.

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Mel couldn't believe that she revealed her identity, to Piper no less. Sure she loved her mother, but her mother's love felt forced, especially as she got older. Piper was always fighting some stupid demon instead of actually caring for her. If it wasn't for her brothers, especially Chris, she would be all alone. Ever since they were children, they had made a vow to protect each other.

That all changed of course when Wyatt became a teenager. He had changed. He left Chris and her, with their mother.

"Wyatt, what are you saying? You can't leave us here all alone with her!" Chris yelled at his older brother after he had told both of his siblings that he had decided to become a full whitelighter. He was going to renounce his witch powers and finally answer the Elder's call. Their mother had forbidden them to contact the Elders or any other whitelighter (or former whitelighter-their father). "Come join me. She won't be able to hurt either one of you ever again," Wyatt pleaded with his siblings. "We said that we would always protect each other. You leaving is breaking that promise," Chris continued. Mel looked at her two brothers. She had been silently crying while the two were arguing. Her brothers continued arguing until Wyatt finally orbed out.

Mel shook the memory out of her head. That was the last time she had seen Wyatt. She was eleven at the time. Piper was furious when she found out. Of course, she took her anger out on Chris and Mel. As a punishment, she forced her youngest children to fight upper level demons by themselves. They had barely escaped with their lives and when they got home, Piper was angry that they were late to dinner.

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"Piper, what happened?" Leo said while helping Piper up from the floor. "Do you need me to call Paige? Are you hurt? Did a demon attack? Is the baby okay?" "Leo, I get that you are worried, but I am fine. I just got a little light-headed and I fainted. I'm fine. And if the baby was hurt, you would know because then something would happen to Mel," Piper reassured her husband. "Piper, we don't know for sure that Mel is our daughter," Leo said with a confused look on his face. "Actually Leo, you just missed her. She finally came clean with me. She is our daughter. Oh, and she looks a lot like me," Piper said. "Don't worry, I'll explain later," She replied seeing the look on her husband's face. "I am worried about the future she comes from. She was very fearful around me. So all of these thoughts popped into my head about how I was a bad mother, and I fainted," Piper continued. "Piper, you are a great mother. I don't think she was fearful of you, maybe just of this situation," Leo replied. "Now you need to rest. You can worry about our daughter later," Leo finished ushering his wife into their bedroom. Piper agreed to lie in the bed only to get Leo of her back. She knew that she wouldn't be able to rest until Mel answered more of her questions.

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Then the newborn baby looked up at his mother and fell asleep in her arms. The mother looked up from the baby and looked at the father. "Look what we did. We created the evilest creature ever to walk the earth." Deztrix smiled back at the mother, his wife, a former 'Charmed One' and replied "Yes, we did."

Deztrix smiled. He was so thrilled by this premonition. This new power was so worth killing the demonic seer over even though he had been banished. He knew that he would escape his imprisonment and take over as ruler. He looked over at himself in the mirror, so happy that he was finally going to get his revenge on the ones who killed his father. And he was going to have a son, more powerful than any other creature ever. He knew that his plan was finally ready to be put into action.

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Mel had orbed herself onto the Golden Gate Bridge. It had been her first time up there. She now understood why Chris liked to sneak up here as often as he could. It was so peaceful here. Plus, it was the one place that her mother couldn't find him. She made a mental note to come up here if she ever returned to the future. She sighed. She knew that she was being unreasonable to Piper. Mel couldn't get over what the woman would become. She couldn't allow herself to get close with this Piper, because the Piper she would return to wouldn't be the same compassionate, loving woman. That's why she always left the room as soon as Piper looked at her, or tried to get to know her.

Her mother wasn't always that bad. She was loving at first, but as Mel grew older, Piper's love dwindled down. No, that wasn't fair. Mel believed that Piper still loved her. Her mother just had interesting ways to show it.

Piper looked at her children. She was so disappointed that they weren't the powerful second generation 'Charmed Ones' that she thought they would be. Her eldest, her most cherished, her golden son had abandoned them when she needed him most. He was just like his father in that way. Mel looked up at her mother, seeing all of the hurt and disappointment that her and her brother had brought her. Piper then looked up at the demon and nodded. Her children started screaming as soon as the whipping started. They were supposed to be whipped for every minute that they were late to dinner. They were a half an hour late. And since Mel's powers were all passive, then she was going to get half as many whippings as Chris. Mel screamed and begged the demon to stop. He wouldn't, not until his job was done. Piper was angry that her children forced her to punish them. Or at least hire a demon to punish them, seeing how she could never physically hurt her children herself. She hired this low-level demon to punish them. In return, she had promised the demon that he would be spared, once the war was over, whenever that was going to be. Finally, her children's punishment was nearing the end. She sighed, hating the fact that she had to prepare her young children for battle, but since they were now down a Charmed One, they needed to be prepared for anything. She wouldn't be able to survive if she lost them too.

Mel stopped thinking about that painful memory. She hadn't realized that she was crying. She wiped away the tears that had fallen from her face. If only things were different. If only her family had still been together, then these painful memories would have never happened. No, she couldn't allow herself to think like that. She couldn't have hopes for a better future, especially if she had to go back to that horrible one that she came from. She wasn't here to change anything, she reminded herself.

She sighed, finally deciding that she should go back to the Manor. As much as it hurt to see her mother, her family needed her. She was the only one who knew that something very bad was going to happen soon-the event that started her whole dark future.