A/N: OKAY...so the past was change successfully and the prophecy now includes all four sisters. Stay tuned to see if changing the prophecy changed the sisters' fates. And READ and REVIEW

"Are you ready for another one of those," Penny asked knowing what handfuls her granddaughters were.

"They are the Charmed ones, mother. I'm sure it will all be fine," Patty said.

White clouds of mist parted and figures began to appear, covered by hooded robes. "What do you want," Sam asked. "Why did you bring me here?"

"You have broken your oath as a protector of the greater good by having a relationship with one you were meant to watch over and guide," the Elder said. "You must face the consequences of your actions, Samuel."

"I love her," he said, finally allowing himself to admit his secret without fear of what would happen.

"And that is why we aren't recycling your soul," the Elder told him. "You are, however, being stripped of your powers and responsibilities as a whitelighter."

"Why?" Sam didn't know why the Elders weren't recycling him. The past few weeks they had made a point of reassigning him to other charges in order to keep him and Patty away from each other.

"Because," the Elder replied, "your daughter will need her father."

The next thing Sam knew he was in the manor.

"Sam," Patty whispered as tears came to her eyes. She had cried almost every night since the last time she had seen him, hoping that someday he would come back to her. "What are you doing here," she asked after she ran to him and held him. "I've missed you so much," she said before pulling away. "Won't you get in trouble?"

"We don't have to worry about that anymore, Patty. I'm mortal," he said as he caressed her cheek. "They sent me here, back to you."

"I don't understand. Why would they do this?"

"For her," Sam said gently putting his hand on her stomach.

"How do you know? How do they know?"

"I don't know, but I don't really care. I just want to be here with you and the girls," he said before kissing her.

"But how will we explain you..." Patty began to ask questions when Penny Halliwell walked down the stair case, holding the railing.

"Because, my dear, we're witches. Leave this to me," she told them.

"Who was at the door, mother?"

"No one dear."

"Then why are they knocking on the door again," Patty asked as she walked from the sun room to the double doors, opening it to find her ex husband standing there. "Victor, what are you doing here? You don't get to take the girls until tuesday," Patty reminded him.

"I'm here to talk to you," he said. "In private," he elaborated when Penny stood next to her daughter with a look that said she wasn't going to budge.

"Um, mother. Do me a favor and go pick up Prue and Piper from school. Sam can't get them because he has an interview."

"Alright but if you need anything just remember there are extra potions in the kitchen."

"Mother," Patty said harshly at the not so subtle idea of vanquishing her ex. There relationship had always been rocky and their marriage had ended by the time Phoebe was ten months old. Penny's constant interference certainly hadn't helped matters.

The doors slammed shut and Patty walked over to the table and sat, gesturing for Victor to do the same. "What is it?"

"I don't particularly care for some man to be living in a house with my daughters, but I can't stop you from inviting him into your home, but to hear from your doctor's accountant's daughter that you were there for a pregnancy test is unacceptable. When we decided to cut our losses and raise our girls as best we can apart we also agreed that we had to be open with each other about our situations. I may not live here anymore but I deserve to know what's going on with my family," he told her.

"You're right. I'm sorry you heard about it that way, but I thought that I would have more time to tell you. The truth is that I'm about two and a half months along with Sam's child."

"Your mother always did think that you would deliver the Charmed ones," Victor said remembering the other woman's excitement when they had Phoebe. "I just always thought it would be me and you together for all of them," he said, softening.

"I did, too. And I know that a part of me will always love you Victor. You gave me three amazing girls, and the years that we had together may not have always been peaceful but they were magical. Sam is a good man, and I love him. I believe that someday you will also find someone else to love, and that the people we choose to bring into our girls' lives will be deserving of being a part of their family. Sam will never replace you in their eyes, but you have to realize that they have two men in their lives and that you'll have to get along for their sake."

"I'll always love you, too," Victor said. "I'll try to work things out between Sam and I, but your mother is another story," he joked.

"Don't let her chase you away," Patty said and took his hand. "We're going to work this out."

"I know."

Sam entered the manor and put his leather messenger bag on the foyer table. Loosening his tie, he walked back to the kitchen and found Patty feeding Phoebe while Prue and Piper were playing outside. "Hi, sweety," he said and bent to give her a kiss. "How are my girls today?"

"Good, but Priscilla is kicking really hard," Patty said rubbing her pregnant belly. She was now six months pregnant and things were going well for them, as Sam had gotten a job as a Professor at a local college. Penny had helped him to "get" official paperwork for a social security number, license, updated teaching certificate and college transcript among other things. With the added income and Victor's child support and alimony payments Patty had been able to quit her job at Buddy's and stay home with her girls full time.

"Where's your mother and what do you mean, Priscilla?"

"Mother's at Aunt Gail's house for their bridge club and I'm trying out names for the baby. I've already vetoed Penelope much to mother's disappointment. What do you think?"

"Priscilla is nice. How did you think of it?"

"My favorite actress growing up was Priscilla Lane, and oh what a beautiful voice she had," Patty told him. "I'm also thinking of Peyton, Paula and Pearl. Pearl is a family name, just like Prudence and Phoebe."

"Little Pearl Halliwell," Sam said and sat down across for Patty. "Well, I like Pearl and Priscilla the best. What would we do for a middle name," he asked.

"Well, if we name her Priscilla then I was thinking we could just go for it and name her Priscilla Lane Halliwell, and if we went with Pearl I was thinking something simple like Marie."

"What are the other girls' middlenames?"

"It's Prudence Victoria, Piper Michelle, and Phoebe Rose. I guess we still have a couple of months before we have to decide on a name," Patty said. "And, I have a surprise for you," she told him. "Mother and Aunt Gail have decided to become room mates. Aunt Gail has been lonely since her husband died and the manor is becoming crowded so Aunt Gail and Mother will be living together in Aunt Gail's house."

"That's great," Sam said.

"It also means that we have an extra room for a nursery. I figured Prue would stay in her room and we would move Piper into Phoebe's room. This way none of the girls have to share with the baby. It will be bad enough for us having to get up in the middle of the night. We don't need all four of the girls irritable, too."

"That sounds good," Sam agreed.

"So you won't mind painting it, would you," Patty asked and Sam kicked himself mentally. He should have seen that one coming.

"Just tell me what you want done," he told her and she proceeded to tell him that she wanted the wall paper stripped and the room painted a satin peach color and the trim painted white, and that after he painted the room he could find the old Halliwell crib upstairs in the attic. It was a round crib that had been passed down for the past three generations. The sheets would be a satin ivory color with a hint of yellow that would look good against the peach.

"I'll do it this weekend," he told her.

"Oh, there's no rush," Patty said. "The baby's not due for three more months."

Victor and Sam sat in the conservatory with the girls as Prue and Piper played with their Barbies and Victor bounced Phoebe on his knee. Patty had gone into labor a month earlier then she was due, and Penny and the doctor were the only ones allowed in the room at the moment. The men had been left in charge of preoccupying the children as the women took care of the work.

"Are you excited," Victor asked Sam, trying to put the past behind them if only for his girls.

"Nervous is more like it. Your girls are already really powerful but Paige was conceived while I was still a whitelighter. I don't know how that will affect her powers, if at all."

"I never really asked, but what kind of powers to whitelighters have?"

"Orbing, which is how we get from one place to the next," Sam told him.

"Right, that's how you go all over the world to see your charges," Victor said.

"Right, and we also heal those who are injured and then there's levitation, the ability to expand matter and some other powers that we have for an added bonus but healing and orbing are really the main ones."

"That's good to know," Victor said, "and handy for all of the girls, especially since you're mortal now."

"I didn't think of it that way," Sam said as he kept glancing at the stairs as he waited for some news.

"So, when are you going to pop the question?"

"What?"

"Well, you are having a child together," Victor said. "Haven't you thought of making it official?"

"I guess, but technically I died almost one hundred years ago."

"It didn't stop you from being able to get a teaching job. Besides, you're living in a house with my young daughters and soon to be one of your own. What are you going to tell them when they ask why you two aren't married? I mean, what happens when they're older and they have boyfriends and they see that you and Patty never got married," Victor said trying to make his point.

"I never really thought about it. I'm surprised that you did, though."

"Yeah, well, if you two do get married then I don't have to pay alimony anymore," Victor joked. "It's a win-win," he said before Penny was seen coming down the stairs.

"Sam, would you like to see your daughter?"

"She's here already? What did Patty name her?"

"Paige Marie Halliwell," she answered and led him to the room and he moved to Patty's bedside where she was holding their daughter, who was wrapped in her sisters' old baby blanket.

Patty handed Paige to her mother and grabbed the car keys. This summer she had put Prue and Piper in day camp at Skylark and when the drownings had started happening she had become increasingly nervous. Sam had tried to advise her not to go after the water demon that was lying in wait in the lake, and she knew that if he was aware of what he was doing that he would stop everything to go with her, which was why Patty hadn't told anyone -including her mother- what she was doing.

Penny just thought that she was leaving early to go to the grocery store before she picked Prue and Piper up from camp, she didn't know that Patty was going to face the demon on her own.