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.
Warning: With this one, they're letting Sheila hear their secret and that cements the bonds of friendship for life after this now. As Chris explains it more easily to them and the families become life long friends from that day forward then.
As they begin work on the house and and things are quiet till Look Who's Barking starts. Each episode is going to stay the same, but there's going to be a couple changes to it and Prue is alive for seasons four through eight as she trains her sister. While Chris, Drake and Andy are part of the household and Victor is visiting every weekend after this to see them.
Chapter 10: Truths and House Upgrades
As they watched him eating his breakfast like them softly as he listened to the conversation and hid a smile as Shelia looked at him. "Why do I feel like he's started on the hard parts of being a toddler, if I'm babysitting now?" he asked and Darryl chuckled. "He's going through the monsters under the bed and in the closet stage son. I'll give you a list of his favorite foods, but make sure the fences are at the stairs, and kitchen."
"At the moment, it's easier for you than my other babysitters, because half these girls bring their boyfriends along." she said to him and he nodded in annoyance. "At the moment the only girls in this house are my aunts, I've got a girlfriend, but I'm not breaking that rule, when I'm supposed to be watching over my young charge. Besides he's safer around me then these girls anyway at the moment." he said to her gently.
"Hey dad, did the hospital call off the on call thing at the moment?" Chris asked and he nodded. "Yes, Dr. Emerson and my unit have decided I'm a stand by with things slowing down, but best be on watch. School ended but these kids never know when to quit after last night's near bar fight at the club." he said and Sheila sighed in exasperation. "Darryl said the kid was speedballing, how much did the report come back on?" She asked him.
"It was .22, and the mixed chemical binge, which to a medic means ten hours in the tank and three months detoxing from the drugs themselves. As if that not enough, that kid is twenty one, and by getting arrested by us, the cops and paramedics. As to that he's just gotten himself thrown out of college here at the moment, On top of that, I'm a EMT, and I was on watch last night, before the outburst at the club." he said and she nodded.
"I knew I guessed right, that uniform belongs to your grandfather for the costume party, isn't that what an army medic was, you're an EMT, making sure your team-mate was stabilized, before you brought them to the hospital?" Darryl asked him and he nodded. "Yeah exactly, I was trained in medical school, before I joined the military myself, my father and grandfather were both army. I'm third generation medic and army corporal."
"I'd just finished my term of service in the military and gained my masters when I came home and found out I had a son at the time. Our frequent little problems of dealing with these maniacs came up after Phoebe got back from New York. Though why of all people Williamson tried that is beyond me, he can't handle it though, they could at the time." he said and Victor looked at her at that as Andy looked at him at that.
"What happened exactly?" he asked and she sighed. "After I came down with the arroyo fever, I suffered the fastest recovery the medics had ever seen and can't understand either and he became obsessed with us. The obsession reached the point to where he thought our blood hold the universal antibody, injected our blood into the monkeys we sprung from the lab then himself as a human test subject and lost his mind as a result."
"After attacking Benny Ritter, he went from basic psychotics to turning into Hannibal lector, without the cannibal stage, and it took ducking the rotary saw blade he threw at us to take him down at the time." she told him and he nodded in shocked disgust. "There's psychotics and there's crossing the line between helping people and murder honey. He crossed the line in going too far in being a good being and this was the point of no return Piper, you had no choice, for the greater good it to be done baby."
"In two years since we saw each other, I knew you'd just gotten a lot stronger, but why separate before you moved in together and Phoebe, honey what were you doing there in New York exactly exactly. Though you gained my capacity for travel, I wished I stayed in touch, though if I had you'd be a lot more self assured, where finding a mate is concerned and you'd be dating Drake right now?" he asked and she smiled.
"I was looking for you actually, Grams said you were in New York, I wanted to double check, after I came home that started things and our relationship turned into what it is now. But the added item attached to it is it brought the guys back into our life and we met Darryl as Andy's new partner at work. As we adjusted to life back together and they started dating by the time she started working at Bucklands." she said to him gently.
"Bucklands, the auctioning house, I'd say that being a photographer honey is more your style here, you're great at that, keep it up." he said and Prue smiled at him. "Thanks dad, were you a cat person by any chance?" she asked and he nodded as they heard a meow in answer to that. "Alright, I'll give you a small slice, but you're not getting scraps from the table girl." Darryl said to Kit with a smile then and gave it to her.
After talking over several different categories then, Darryl looked at Piper and nodded. "Sheila, could we head into the parlor, we need to tell you something." She said and she nodded as they headed in there as she sat her sons down with several of their toy cars and blocks and she looked at the quintet gently. "So what is it you want to tell me." she said and instead of answering Prue looked at the vase and it floated off the table.
"Whoa, how did you do that?" she asked and Piper explained that to her. "You remember the unusual reports of scorch marks and how half of these maniacs suddenly disappear of the face of the earth?" she asked and she nodded. "We're witches Sheila, my entire family are witches, aside from Leo, and Andy. It's our job to protect mortals, from demons, those murderers are demons." she said and she nodded in shock at that.
"That's what you meant by my son being safer with you than anyone else when he's being baby sat, you can protect him from these paranormal maniacs?" she asked and Chris nodded. "Yes, I'm a witch/lighter, roughly translated it means I'm half witch and half angel. The Harry Potter series has it fifty percent correct though, but all the murders in crime investigations are done by by minions of the underworld."
"Drake is an undercover one doing checks for us, but his allegiance is to the greater good and protecting innocents. You're a family friend, we can protect you." he said and she nodded as she closed her eyes to process all of this and then smiled. "Alright, I hear the truth in that and I believe you. But my only request, Darryl, is that when it comes to the dangerous items, I want you at home during those situations."
"If Andy is like them now, he can handle things, but our friendship is not getting terminated, because the magical world framed you for something, as to that, it's just being helpful and going to them for magical help, but once the magical big guns come out you back off and let Andy take it from there." she said and he nodded to that request. "You have my word Sheila, I promise. But Andy, Leo and Chris's cover stories, that's the other thing." here said and she nodded to that as she answered him.
"What exactly, what's going on?" she asked and Chris explained that. "I'm not from this time frame, but rather twenty three years after Aunt Sheila. Your son D.J. was my commander in the future, he watched me grow up, instead of the other way around. Like we said, I'm their son, but I'm not born till three years from today." he said and she nodded as the years translated themselves in her head and she looked at him in shock.
"You're from the future, so that remark in the kitchen?" she asked and he nodded with a sigh. "Yeah my future turned into hell on earth, leading into when mom was killed I was living the life I just mentioned in the kitchen, before the demons murdered my mother and from there my entire family was destroyed. I came back to ensure that never happens, and I'm regaining the five years I lost back while doing it."
"My youngest Aunt, she's a female version of me, she's also a witchlighter, it runs in the family actually, first was my Aunt Paige and then me and my brother. But I'm pulling a pre-emptive strike, long before Wyatt's born, to protect our future and family. As for Andy, he wasn't knocked unconscious, he's a angel now himself, but they act like normal humans in this job, he's still the same man you remember Darryl telling you."
"Dad's records were changed and he's the grandson of his 25 year old self from 1942, altogether, we just changed key details and made life a lot easier for all of us. We changed my birthday from four years from now, to when mom was a freshman in high school. But altogether, this me is the one you're able to watch now, before little me grows into my fifteen year old body later." he said and she nodded to that.
"In other words I get to watch you go through high school, and your first year of college, before I watch little you as he grows into an exact copy of what I see in you right now. So the best parts of life as a teenager, I get to watch you at your games and track meets and you're my permanent babysitter for the next five years, before you leave to return to the future." she said and he nodded to her as he explained that.
"Yeah that's it exactly, at the moment the pre-emptive strike has begun, the kids are completely safe with me, but we get a demon attack and I'm placing them in my room till the fight is over. But these guys never know when to quit, fortunately clean up duty is repeated use of the scenery altering spell, which puts the room back to its original state, before the attack and vanquish." he explained and she nodded as she got it.
"I don't know why we never looked through that book, it could have saved a lot of annoyance in cleaning up the house every time we deal with these guys." Piper said and he chuckled as he answered her. "You remember your remark after the demon of illusion though when he came to the house. 'it's a question for the room, every time a demon makes a house call..." he asked and she started laughing as she finished that.
"My curiosity gets peaked, yeah you're right, and at the time I was getting sick of cleaning up after these guys, though that's one heck of memory, and it brought up a horror movie cliche while doing it." she said and Sheila looked at her. "What was the cliche exactly?" she asked and Prue chuckled. "Being stalked by psycho killers and hiding in the bathroom shower." she said and the quartet started laughing at that.
"You know I never expected that with you just telling us the truth, I'd be this relaxed and confident in my new powers with you training me honey." she said and Chris smiled. "Though the job gets testy, aside from the vanquishing, it's fun too. We learn more about ourselves and heritage and it builds the bonds of family while doing it. You and dad are now acting like my parents and our family is now intact and we work together."
"During the first two years though you've got a lot to learn and then once you come into your powers and embrace them and your destiny, that's when you really take the job seriously mom. You taught me that family came first and to protect the greater good, you got to make a choice, but don't turn away from this. There's a drawback or two, but if we don't get it right the first time, we can try again tomorrow."
"If we'd been in the book series, we'd training be in school all week, life from 1 to 10 years old was normal and life after that was a mixture of both worlds, that's what you chose for us actually." he said and she nodded. " Well I'm taking it back five to seven years and you're practicing your control of your abilities from three to twelve years. But starting now you're living a mixture of both worlds and I'm the one training you."
" Along with your father, but from four to middle school we got you practicing to control your powers and you're living both lives and then it's a full time mixture of normal and magical from your tenth birthday to the age you are now honey." Piper said and he nodded. "You better write that down when little me and Wyatt are babies mom, but to get your lives completely balanced out, don't just sacrifice one for the sake of the other now."
"It's part of who you are, we're witches, but we're the same people we always were, and with those words, I'm never giving up my powers now." he said and she smiled as she answered him. "Looks like I changed more than I realized, if I taught you that much honey, alright never mind the old style clean up starting now, guys, we just use that spell every time we got a demon attack in the living room or the parlor now."
"And secondly, starting now, I'm teaching you proper use of your powers, before you make a mistake. So from here the rest of the summer, though you're in school and practice, if we need to deal with a demon attack or anything, we work as one, you teach me every potion we created and I'll teach you how to handle your powers later and we build the mother/son bond you wanted now." she said and he nodded to that.
"Yeah at my age I mastered everything you had to teach me, but growing up a witch is much easier than winging it for the first three years mom. As to that, I'll teach you everything your adult self taught me and dad teaches me to heal people, but I'm growing up normally now. Like you said, we're not on a dead-line yet, but our lives got a heck of a lot better now that I'm with you." he said to her and she nodded to that gently.
"Well as we said there's no need to hide things from us now. Our future five years, once we deal with the Source and get rid of him, name off each situation to the way you told us once we see the next four seasons after this one ends and we alter the sequences after that. But till your brother is born, just think of this as living life normally than once things change direction than we're on a deadline."
"But until then, the eight of us live as normally as possible after that, aside from the fact we're witches and whitelighters. Again, Darryl, the weeks leading up to his birthday, like say from the situation that causes that fracture and forward. Take two months off and head for Anaheim or Orlando, the four of you take a two month vacation, I can cover things till you get back, okay." Andy said and he nodded as he answered him then.
"Well that definitely helps, Prue, are you guys about to turn this house into a miniature version of Hogwarts with the amount of magic going on in it with the frequent attacks by these maniacs?" Darryl asked and they nodded. "Though we can't use our powers for personal gain, or hurting people, we found that out the hard way last year. We can use it for repair jobs in certain areas, so you hear an explosion in here, it's because she working on controlling her explosion powers later." she said and he nodded to her.
"Mom we just treat this like books four through seven now that I revealed that truth to you, we're the order of the Phoenix and our enemies are the death eaters. So with that their leader is going to take multiple cases of over kill, before we get rid of him for good here." Chris said and he nodded. "You're playing my version of Kyle Reese and Wyatt is playing Harry, all for gods sakes here, alright I get the point." she said to him and Darryl sighed.
"I've seen your powers get a little nutty at times, but at least I know what look for now: telekinesis and astroprojection, freezing and explosion powers, and divination and levitation, as well as being a red belt in combat now. Alright in this case, though I'm helping out, the minute it turns dangerous, I'm stepping back and Andy takes it from there Prue, Piper." he said and they both nodded to that statement.
"No problem, it's safer for me anyway, because though I'm an angel, I'm still a cop here, and when we got magical crimes coming in every other day, I'm bringing that back to the girls and with Drake acting as my contact, that solves the entire problem. To maintain our friendship now, you need to take that two month long vacation, before Chris is born. Guys, we can manage, but these vultures are not getting a straight answer." Andy said to him and he nodded to that.
Sighing, Prue looked at him and Darryl. "Guys we have to tell the chief, it's our only chance to get inspectors like Cortez or whoever comes after us later off our back." she said and they nodded. "Alright we do it Monday in his office, but our cover story is our job is a witness protection program now and Andy and I turn it to you, and these witches and mortals are our witness protection charges from the multitude of maniacal demons coming after them." Darryl said and Andy nodded in agreement to that.
"Dad, we better create the added cover story for you, we got your uniform from the service, why not add an orderly's uniform as an EMT to it and we can pretend you're an field medic and you're helping the doctors. But you're an on call and when on down time your secondary job is a handyman and contractor." Chris added and Leo smiled at the idea. "Good idea son, alright I'll talk to the cleaners and get that set up and Drake, you're acting an undercover cop gathering information downstairs." he said to him and he nodded as Phoebe smiled.
"Until Cole reconciles with me over this and I'm taking time in getting over him burning me at the moment, again. Drake you want to stick around the house for a while, though mom and dad are not living in the manor they're satisfied I got a friend like you at my side and I'm healing up from what he did to me." Phoebe said and he smiled at that as she looked at him gently as he gave her a hug and she tightened her arms around him.
"At the moment, I'd say this just resulted in the vampire brother losing control of his faculties with exposed blood on the floor and you're the one getting punished for it. Thankfully with me here I gave you something to think about and the pack and your father are relieved that I found you a better match. Though your better match happens to be your best friend and future love interest." Chris said and she chuckled and nodded to him.
"And at the moment he's going to have some very stiff competition now as well, because I'm not playing fair here, when I'm who you're matched too and we got the same likes and dislikes as well. So with that, with him working as a lawyer and D.A., I'm working as an undercover cop, but I'm returning to you immediately and the safest place for me is back at your side and with the family now as well." Drake said smiling and she grinned at that.
"And with those words in mind here when I'm your best friend and we're growing this close with him out of the picture now. I'm the one stitching you back up." Drake said to her and Leo answered that. "At the moment with us being her older brothers, I prefer having you around over him Drake. As to that our family is all good beings, but flirting with the darkside is the dangerous part of this job." he said to him and he nodded in agreement.
"Your choice in careers it's fine with me, in fact I would I'd say you'd should follow your heart and be the writer you want to be. Family responsibilities: family comes first and I'd give you a hand with that too, you don't have to give up your family responsibilities for me either Phoebes, they're my family too and I already feel the connection. So with that, till you're ready to move out, we live here with your sisters and brothers-in-law." Drake said and she smiled at that as the quartet exchanged smiles at this.
"If mom was alive she'd say you're the diamond in the rough Drake, because you're everything a mother would want for her daughter son. As to that, if you guys get together, I'm fine with it." Victor told him and he nodded to him. "If I'd grown up with you living here at the house, you'd have watched me turn into who I am now, as dad and you would be the best of friends Victor." he said and he chuckled as Chris changed the subject smiling.
"Dad with the fact we're turning our basement into a training ring, we're going to need the usual batch of training supplies, because I was taking Tae Kwon Doe from the time I was seven and I'm a green belt after ten years training. The issue of working with a sword comes into it as well, because Excalibur comes into the picture in three years, mom learns to fence and then passes it to Wyatt." Chris said and he nodded to him smiling at this conversation.
"With the amount you gave us we can ensure these parasites can't take another life and they're the ones winding up dead if they do. So training ring with Slam-man in the basement, a bo, a set of sais, excalibur's in the basement and we get another sword just like it and you can teach me fencing if Paige's past life makes a visit later. And a set of nunchucks, the punching bag and the room's got all the looks of a master Japanese martial arts training dojo." Piper said and he nodded in agreement to her thoughts.
"Yeah well that's two sets of bos, nunchucks, our swords on the wall, the mat covering the floor and everything else, we can train in between each encounter and the sais right next to the swords. Though our heavy duty equipment are the athame and the potions, but if one of us loses our active powers, for whatever reason, we go to back ups and that's being a very strong warrior in combat now."
"Drake is a skilled fencer and you can train with him in using the swords, and we work as one as a family of witches and whitelighters now." Leo said to her and she nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah well instead of having the staircase pointed directly into the training ring, we got to turn it to your workbench dad or shift it left and then turning to the front door, so if Aunt Phoebe's working on knife throwing, you're not in the line of fire, the wall of the platform is good five inches thick too." he said and they both nodded to that.
"Alright so I'm taking off the last five stairs, turning them into a platform to stand on then turning the platform to the left, before the stairs point to the back wall behind the basement door and they're pointed towards the front door that way. So with the platform that way you can watch whoever's training down there and stay out of range, yeah okay got it. Once we destroy the nexus, the basement is clean of any type energy and we're safe now."
"Good point though son, we set up a dart board or just target against the wall in front of the stage and we can do target practice that way with the athames and work it out till we got our potions at the right spot after that." Leo said and Sheila looked at him. "How big is the basement exactly if you're bringing that up?" she asked and Chris answered that. "Covers the entire downstairs, just right below it, and that's big enough to have a darkroom and sparring floor, though with what we're buying it's going to work out now."
"Though fifty percent of the room is the sparring floor and the other half is the dark room, Dad's worktable is against the wall and we move the Christmas decorations upstairs, since we get the occasional attack up there and that prevents them from getting destroyed later." he said and she nodded as she saw her friends in a new way and smiled at that as she looked at her sons and felt relief they were safe.
"Actually guys, the four of you and your grandfather can do that later today while the girls and I go shopping for your furniture honey." Piper said and he nodded to that. "Good point we can get the stairs in the basement worked on while you and your sisters pay for his furniture and school supplies needed for school later, such as the computer and printer honey." Leo said and they nodded in agreement to that.
"I'm looking at another $3,000 just to do repair work you guys and get the furniture, because, with having Aunt Phoebe train me at the dojo, she's gained the training to train me now and we need a full training ring in the basement. And we're not spending $5,000 a month for training when we got a couple of skilled fighters teaching me now at the moment." Chris said and Phoebe smiled as Andy answered him as he said it.
"Yeah well the difference here is I'm also a skilled martial arts expert son. With her it's basic training, I'm teaching you the advanced skills and with that expect me to teach you where to aim when you're fighting a mortal, but the skills needed for demons are different here." he said and she nodded in agreement to that thought. "Alright, the five of us are going to the hardware store and getting what we need, before heading for the sports store."
"And get the training equipment and mats so we got the room set up, but the room is looking like a basic dojo down there and slam-man is getting itself out of storage when we set up the basement down there." Drake said and Sheila smiled. "I'll go with the girls honey, and the kids are coming with me while you do that. So you're sticking around Drake?" She asked and he chuckled and nodded to her as he answered her.
"Yeah I am, but I think we should get the child proof supplies while we're at it with the boys spending fifty percent of their time here later on." he said and they nodded to that in agreement. "Okay so basic childcare equipment, his school supplies and ensuring our house is completely childproof with the fact we got five kids running around this house later, and I'm prepared to take care of a toddler as a result, before I deal with my own." Leo said to him and he nodded to that in agreement as his son looked at him smiling.
"What types of locks do you think we should have on these cabinet doors exactly, to keep the kids from getting anything dangerous when the lower portion of the house is seeing the most excitement?" Piper asked him and he smiled. "I'm paying for thirty key locks honey, like the ones on a file cabinet of the top shelf and the nine of us have the keys. The fireplace and the coffee tables are getting child proofed and the downstairs is completely ready by the time you guys get home here." he said and they nodded in agreement.
"Dad, instead of having the door upstairs locked we should move the attic door to the bottom of the stairs, hex the door and attic itself to keep out evil and lock and padlock the door. This keeps mortals out of there, and aside from the ten of us, nobody, mortals, demons or in the case, of whoever our perp is, angels, nobody has access to the attic." he said and sighed as he told them the truth then, knowing his parents were going to be furious.
"As I said, Barbas gets involved during the months leading up to my birthday, but whoever he was conspiring with, you were furious at and you vaporized them. But this someone is the reason you wanted nothing else to do with with the whitelighters mom, so my guess this someone is a whitelighter, and probably someone above suspicion, because we got involved in Magic school in the weeks after Aunt Phoebe busted me." he told them and they nodded.
"Alright we got a demon definitely, but if it's really a whitelighter or even an elder, nobody but the quartet is being trusted and that includes the headmaster at Magic school and his deputy. Our son is Anakin Skywalker and it's a cross between Obi-wan and Darth Sidious, so to insure our Phantom Menace never gets his hands on him or worse, we're not trusting anyone outside of our circle, magical wise, once the door to magic school opens." Leo said and they nodded in agreement to that thought gently.
"So my son is playing Anakin, I'm playing Ben, alright my son is, once he's three months old is being protected no matter what, demons, mortals, whitelighters, I don't care, but nothing is taking my children away from me. Nobody but the people in this room and the quartet he confided the truth in, are to be trusted." Leo added and she nodded in agreement. "But altogether to ensure the upstairs of the house is completely safe we need to hex the entire hall to guard again evil spells, illusions, hallucinations, the works here."
"One good thing they hardly ever attack on the staircase and the hallway up stairs, so all doors upstairs, aside from the nursery are closed, and locked and there's a fence blocking the top of the staircase and it's drilled into the wall, as is the one leading into my bedroom. Setting up a dumb waiter from the first floor to the second floor should work. The intention is to prevent the kids from falling down the stairs, so to prevent that now."
"Once we get an attack, if the kids are here, I'm putting them into their elevator and it's being connected to their nursery, the door us hexed and and theirs a fence at the top of the stairs. The house never got an upgrade yet, so we're adding a few things to modernize it magically So the house goes from early Victorian to across between that and a Tudor like style dad, with the dumbwaiter at the dining room door and that's their escape route." Chris added as he said it with a smile and he nodded to him smiling as she smiled.
"The dumb waiter is the emergency door to get the kids upstairs and into the hallway there and straight into the nursery. Yeah I get the idea, you got us close to $6,000,000 we just use a fifth of that to exact repair and do extended recovery work on the house. Along with making it look like you really grew up here all your life with what we're paying for next. And then the four of us hexing every door and window in the house with an unbreakable charm to prevent us from needing to replace the glass on the Windows and doors every time later." she said to him smiling as he answered her with a smile then.
"Yeah the dumb waiter is the kids security door leading into their nursery and the nursery is hexed with a sound proof hex so they can't hear the noise downstairs. It's also hexed with demon detectors and everything the magical world can come up with, danger wise, and you created several spells for that when Mellie was born mom. To put this gently, Wyatt and I were practically raised around demons and warlocks."
"Mellie was born after the ultimate battle, a year later, while he and I are used to it." he told her and she nodded. "With you guys being that powerful it's easier on you, but with teenage you protecting little you and your brother, we got the security in place and the house is completely safe to mortals and family. The nursery is having all the looks of a junior day care center, as is the sun room later and that's our added safety touch Darryl."
"To explain this, your kids have a miniature door and elevator fit to them and their baby brothers. It's hexed with a energy ball and fireball charm and is magically hexed, to, once the kids are in it, it's leading them directly to safety, because that elevator is leading from the dining room to get them into their nursery. So they're safe and their nursery has every hex I can think of to ensure the demons never hurt them when they're here in the house."
"If we got any more children younger than this, we got a way to handle it now and things get easier this way, especially if it's another mortal child and they're wards of the state. But that door fits children 1 to 10 years old and the nursery is set from 1 to 12 years old, and it's going to get turned into the kids play room, once the early portions are done with, once we're retired here." Leo told him and he nodded as she finished that with a smile.
"We're hexing the hallway to insure the demons can't get up there, so the hall on the second floor and the nursery is hexed to protect the kids and any kid or mortal that needs protection is safe in the protected area upstairs while this is going on. With this amount we got enough to last ten years before we each take our portion of the Inheritence grams left us at the time, but the house is going to be a mixture of mortal and magical now."
"It's also got the toys fitted for their age levels, ages two to five years old and games and puzzles and others pieces that are too big to swallow. So childcare and safety is a big factor when we're creating a semi normal lifestyle in this house and the kids are around magic 24 hours a week as well." She said and they nodded to that. "Miniature elevator set to the kids standards and right into the nursery, well that certainly helps now Piper."
"So once inside the elevator the thing activates and takes them straight into their nursery and they settle in up there, till the battle ends and they come down after its safe and you cleaned up the mess?" he asked and they all nodded to him smiling as Chris looked at them. "With me in the past and I just ensured that the demons, let alone anything else can't break you up, our side of the family is intact now and it's just going to get bigger as time goes on."
"But the six of us are family and we got to get a few pictures taken, and with that, the first family picture, of our family, taken is being done, tonight, with you and dad married. While like Glen was Paige's best friend Drake is Aunt Phoebe's and our family is intact, so that solves added problems and Glen doesn't mind she's a witch either." Chris added and the duo smiled as they pulled him into a hug. "Good point, we're a family again finally, and I get to watch you grow up now." Piper said and he nodded smiling as he gave her a hug.
"I've waited three years for this and we get that chance now mom, you can watch me go through high school, graduate and see me start college now, five years together, I'm not leaving you." he said and she smiled at him and she tightened her arms around him. "Seeing you like you are now, you're everything I wanted you to be Chris, I'm very proud of you." she said and he smiled and tightened his arms around her.
"Guys leading up to my birthday, like two days before, the four of us ended up in the parallel." he said looking at his father and Phoebe and Andy covered his eyes at that. "Parallel, what's that mean exactly?" Darryl asked and Andy explained that. "It's the reverse of our reality, here every good person is a cop, soldier, Doctor, or, in our case, witch and white lighter. In that reality everything is the reverse, of what it is here."
"And we're everything that you and I had to arrest repeatedly, what we swore to put behind bars and in the case of the girls destroy to prevent the demons from destroying us. Evil is good and good is evil, so with that whitelighters are darklighters, witches have become warlocks and everything about our town it's turned into hell on earth. And I mean that literally, if the demons had been honest to god demons like what they created for the game."
"Like what he showed us last night, that's what Chris is trying to prevent by coming back, keep Wyatt from turning evil. Because being the source is like being Satan and he's turned into Darth Vader as a result and it's turned into the Galactic empire as a result in our future and if that video game ever came true, while downstairs everything is in reverse and it looks like the town does right now." he said and Darryl nodded as he got it.
"So to Wyatt, if we don't change his past and find whoever turned him into that: evil was good, and good was evil, if we don't teach them proper use of their powers from an early age?" Sheila asked and they nodded. "Yeah exactly, I ended up finding out the hard way the girls were witches last year, but it doesn't matter to me, they're like sisters to me now, having my partner back is a big benefit and I get to watch my surrogate nephew grow up while doing it." he said and she nodded to that as he looked at Chris gently.
"And by we, you mean yourself, Paige, Leo and Phoebe, right son?" he asked and Chris nodded. "Whoever caused it you guys were furious, but you never told me, but what I will say is this is the reason you hated Odin and the whitelighters so much afterwards. Because this character got me stabbed with a poisoned athame and tried to kill Wyatt and you and Aunt Paige were furious Aunt Phoebe, as was mom." he said and she nodded to him.
"Prue, again not everyone is a demon, you misjudged Cole when Abby try to kill you, we're cursed with mortals suddenly getting obsessed with us. But if it's not a demon, we got a stalker running loose or its someone above suspicion, like a whitelighter, let alone another peer at work, so with that, before we start going off the handle again. So we look at the motives and write up lists this time, okay." Piper said to her and she nodded to him gently.
"I take this has to do with what happened after the Halloween party at the club, right?" Victor asked and the quartet nodded. "If I was part of either side, I'd be looking at the fact that the kid had to much power coursing through him and it was getting stronger every day. So we wait till the door to magic school opens on the staircase and then go from there." Darryl told the quintet and they nodded in agreement to his thoughts.
"Well fortunately, I'm not the culprit this time, because I just revealed the fact I'm your son, a week ago, and family is above suspicion at this rate. Both blood and surrogate family, though the Morris's are heading for L.A.. Though, if it means a couple drastic measures we got to call for help by a demon scanner when that door opens." Chris said and his parents nodded to that suggestion as he looked at the Morris's then with a sigh.
"At the time, had I not suggested you take that two month vacation leading into my birthday, you would have cut all ties with us and your friendship with my parents has ended completely Darryl. Because the demon that causes this is Barbas, he has the cleaners frame you and the triad of magic has decided to take away her active powers and you barely miss death by lethal injection, that's why I have to get you out of town, before I'm born, prevent our familial friendship from being destroyed."
"We need you." he said and Darryl and Sheila both nodded as she looked at Darryl. "Alright two month vacation we're taking the kids to L.A. and Santa Cruz and spending the trip at Disneyland, camping and going to the boardwalk, family vacation. I run my own business and you're an inspector in the department, we got enough to last four months and we really need this." Sheila said and he nodded in agreement to that.
"Alright, if the state department gets involved they're not going to realize the governor already knows what we, as the paranormal task force are, let alone the chief, because we told them before hand, and we've done more good than they'll ever know, but it's not costing us family or friends. And with those words: I'm not letting them cost me your friendship, because I've been covering for you ever since you told me the truth." Daryl said to Piper and Sheila nodded in agreement to his thoughts gently.
"Well this issue of stress just eliminated any problems in our marriage at the moment as well, as to that if Sheridan decides to tell me the truth, I already know, but our familial friendship is not being destroyed here and neither is our marriage. And with those words, if we need you to babysit, so he and I can go on a date or just need some couple time together, I'll let you know Chris, but just protect the boys." she said and he nodded.
"I just saved two marriages at once and it's right on schedule, by preventing whoever our magical perp is from destroying my brother, but family and extended family come first and with those words, if you need me I'll give you a hand and we can work out a specific schedule. I just got to write down my hours, since I'm working the night shift at the club till school starts, but from whatever time you need me after practice is open." he said and they both nodded to that as Piper changed subjects.
"Check that, I need you to help me with inventory as well at times honey, but when we got the latest shipments coming in for supplies, I need your help in the supply room honey, this summer." she told him. "No problem mom, I can help at the club at whatever times you need me, with school out I got a job at the club, but I'm working odd hours once school starts, with that, practice and them needing me to babysit after preschool and daycare is over." he said to her smiling and she smiled at the way they were together then.
"If there's anything here, it's that the changes in our lives just got a heck of a lot better leading into this, so we have arguments every now and again, but that's the way marriage is. Though said reasons of divorce are a problem, one of which is because of the job and the parent happens to be a cop if our lives are dangerous, but on Monday we need to talk to the chief about letting you take a days off when you need to Darryl."
"Though we're capable business people the job does get dangerous and at the moment it leads to added problems, but getting stuck in a job without flexible hours is an added problem here Phoebes. Prue took on the freelance photographer station here, so though you're a advice columnist, you better talk to your editor about flexible hours and the same is said for Paige later, wherever she's working at." she said and they nodded.
"Wait that's it, the two of us get together and we get added circulation that way for the club Piper. I can get the club settings shot, Phoebe does a column on circulation and we together we can ensure our main source of income has new customers coming in every night this way. This is not personal gain we're just working together as family to boost popularity for a family business now. So while she starts work on the love advice column list and that should do it." Prue told her and she nodded to that in agreement to that.
"Alright with the fact I'm just graduated it's time to put my knowledge to use. I'm working for the Bay Mirror, so that brings in more, I'm doing this before I reconcile with Cole, but at the moment family comes first here." Phoebe added and she nodded to that in agreement to that. "I'm in school, but if I need to recall you for a vanquish if Paige has a court case to deal with, don't get annoyed Aunt Phoebe." Chris told her and she nodded as Piper looked at him.
"Court case, what does she do exactly?" Leo asked and he explained that. "Aunt Paige is a social worker, working at the Bay County Social Services office dad. Though she retired like four months before mom went into her second trimester, but she should split her time she decides on doing all of it together. Dad's working as a teacher later, but teacher, guide, EMT solider." he said and sighed as he looked at him softly as he said it.
"Dad just because you don't have your active powers, it doesn't mean you're not useful, you're still a combat expert, an EMT a teacher and a guide. So once you choose to fall, you can fall back on your added skills and I'm helping you with the healing and we create an added miniature medical room so no one asks why we got injuries we can't explain." he said he nodded to that suggestion then as Piper looked at Prue and nodded to her.
"Alright hang on." Prue said and Andy called out. "Cleaners!" he shouted and three bright flashes appeared and the trio appeared in front of them. "What do you wish of us now Andrew?" The leader asked and he explained that. "Leading into when Chris is born, his baby self, I want you to leave Darryl out of things, the Morris's are going on vacation they're not going to be here and so do not, I repeat, do not attempt to put him as the reason for whatever alibi that the demon we're dealing is trying to frame him for."
"My partner is only getting involved till it gets dangerous than I'm taking over, he knows about the magical community as does his wife and their children, they're friends of the family now, and my nephew is babysitting their kids as their permanent babysitter. So starting now, they're not being exposed to any crimes or misdemeanors within the magical community, let alone being framed for whatever reason, we're dealing with. If this results in one of the girls losing their active powers, also for whatever reason."
"Darryl and I are cops, we go by the book at work, but we're not having our friendship destroyed just to cover up the magic, if there's a situation Chris has to deal with by borrowing a car. So change the memories to the salesman or owner of said car lending him the keys of that car. And secondly, Drake is working as an undercover cop in the magical crime community, but he's part of the family as a family friend." he said to them gently.
"We understand, but can you control your oldest when he is still an infant?" The second asked and Leo answered that. "We can, by that point I'll be an elder myself, but my son and I are insuring he and their mother are completely safe. As parents it's our job to take care of our children, we missed the hard part with Chris, but my oldest as a new born to eight months old, we can do that easily." Leo said and the trio nodded to him.
"If my sister's powers start advancing, cover up whatever got her in trouble, and we're all taking an empath blocking potion if she's to be an empath later. Just this once though, now, is anyone aside from the ten of us in this room are going to know about us, Chris and the magical community, but we're telling the Chief on Monday and that is to let us change the records from our magical perps and turning every vanquish into a cause to kill the maniac, like we did with Raynor and Rodriguez." Piper added and they nodded to her.
"What do you wish to describe Rodriguez as for your official records exactly?" the leader asked and Darryl answered that one. "Rodriguez was a crazed witch hunter and he was obsessed with the Halliwell/Wyatt/Trudeau family, thinking they were witches and decided to kill Chris, with Chris being the first born child of the family now. He broke down the front door and had a sonic blaster with him that would have disabled him."
"Andy knocked Chris out of the way and took the jolt himself and it threw him into the China hutch and the blow put him into a coma, and Piper called me and I took him down by shooting him twice with my gun. With Andy being my partner, I took over being the family cop and friend of the family, but from that day forward Chris was taking martial arts and the girls called me and vice versa when it came to police information."
"Added help on the job I got involved and helped when they needed me to and I went to them on information on each of my perps from that day forward." he said and they nodded. "As for Raynor he was an arsonist and was part of a witch hunter cult and comrade of Rodriguez, his latest target was Andrea and he killed her, but her co-hart Jenna Higgins was the next target and she was from another coven and we pulled a bait and switch to save her, while this is going on Cole is a recovering drug addict and dealing with being around them."
"Cole finally suffers a relapse in the drugs and nearly kills Chris and Leo, while we pull a bait and switch where Jenna Higgens is concerned and she's safe now." he said and he nodded. "And the Succubus?" they asked and she smiled. " She's a black widow killer and only killed during a very hot summer. Williamson lost his mind because he injected himself with our blood and it had several abnormalities in it that caused him to gain an added chromosome."
"Turning him into an X-men, and he decided to use that to start harvesting organs and then started killing people, but he died by his own sword when he threw a rotary blade at us and it hit the wall and ricocheted off of it." Piper added and they nodded to that. "Okay that sounds sufficient Piper, I will have the records ready and you give it to your commander Andrew." the leader said and he nodded to that, before several flashes showed up.
"Orlin, Kalina, Sandra, Peter, what's going on?" Leo asked and he smiled as he answered him. "Good morning, Leo. Hello Piper, how are you doing now with your cub living with you?" Orlin asked and she smiled. "I'm doing great thank you Orlin. With learning my cub is a result of having magic in my life, I couldn't ask for a better life now, he's got both of us, but he's so much like me it's not funny at the moment." she said and they chuckled at that.
"Leo told me, that once you promote him, he's to be with us here on earth when Wyatt is born?" she said and they nodded to her as Kalina answered that. "Yes Piper we have decided on that decision and it is unanimous, but once we find the culprit, his future, once little Chris comes into the picture, is up to you two, because if it's a whitelighter, he's going to not want to be one of us again after that, if it's connected to magic school."
"But to save the future, we must take drastic measures and if it's an elder we must end that threat, before it destroys and warps Wyatt and it turns him to the darkside." she said and they nodded as she answered her, her tone gentle, but firm. "I'm raising my sons in a mixture of both worlds now, though my oldest I missed the hard parts, I'm watching to see what to look for once his younger version and my second oldest are preteens."
"You won't have to worry about that though, if he suffers a brief lapse in his path, it's a need to fix that, but no we're not turning on you. You four specifically were for us when we got married, but Leo is working undercover when this other group comes into the picture. Though if it's really a whitelighter, or an elder, working with Barbas, than he's paying the price for it." she said and they nodded to her and Peter answered her.
"We won't hold that against you for all the good you've done these last three years, but remember what you learned so far. To win you must work as one." He said and Phoebe answered him. "During her pregnancy, Paige, Prue and I can take it, she's on a stand down when pregnant with Wyatt and little Chris, so this gives her more time for a normal life that way, but since Wyatt had a protective shield, she's protected." she said and Chris finished it.
"While dad is with her and I'm involved by protecting her, but though she's on stand down from demon hunting both times, she and I are working on potions and target practice now." he said and they nodded to that. "Well that helps to keep my mind occupied, but after two years of this regarding you and your brother and with Cole getting obsessed with your aunt, I've got you to protect me after you're finished at school and practice." she said to him.
"Leo if Gideon is the Elder that does happen to be the one joined with Barbas, than once he's gone, we want you to take his place as head of magic school after that, and I mean if and that's a big if. After you've face your path, and choose a new future, that's your future now, teaching and your family." Orlin said and he nodded to him at that. "Got it Orlin, we're leaving the door to Magic school there below the window on the stairs." he said to him gently and he nodded as Piper added on to that.
"My kids are living a life in both worlds, though once we take back control of magic school, from the demons, because we're destroying the nexus. The door is locked from the time school ends to when the day begins, so from 8 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon and we're starting sport teams as well, it's not a year round boarding school, they get to see their families. They're living both lives magical and normal like my children do. If we're the ones teaching the kids." she added to him and the elders nodded smiling at the idea.
"The resistance sent me back with a 5.5 million to build on to the deception of my being in the past Kalina, this was your idea with grandma, grams, Aunt Prue, Uncle Andy and D.J., but we're getting to work on getting the house worked on, So I think we're in a lull with the fact we prevented the Brotherhood from killing Jenna and the representative of that company the last week and a half here." he said and she nodded to that gently.
"So what's your intention of making it look like you lived here your whole life Chris?" Orlin asked him and he smiled. "Well I'm a martial arts expert and in my future I was on the track and football teams at my middle school, a star student and an honor roll student, so I just brought everything that was in my quarters at the resistance. Dad, the guys, Grandpa and I are beginning work on the basement and turning it into a training ring for me to train in."
"And every door and cabinet in the house is having a child proofed lock to it, with the fact I'm babysitting for my parents best friends. That includes the usual set of toddler stuff needed: fences to keep him out of the kitchen, going into the basement and off the staircase to prevent them from getting upstairs. Silverware safety, high chairs, booster seats, ecetra, since I'm babysitting for the Morris's now as their permanent babysitter."
"And the last touch is turning my bedroom from a preteen's bedroom to a high schooler and I'm gearing up to take several electives at the high school in addition to my sports equipment. I brought my photo album and they got pictures of me with them, but we're Photoshopping Paige's face for Aunt Prue's and Aunt Paige is learning that truth as soon as the door slams shut later." he said and they all nodded to that plan.
"We're hexing the bedrooms to expand a good twenty feet longer here and the bathroom is going to be hexed, but I'm adding another bathroom upstairs, but we got a lot work to do, but it's 1.5 to fix the house and get the alibi worked out for you son. As to that, whatever the lull is between when you arrived and when the banshees shows up we got maybe three weeks of work to do here, so it's going to be pretty quiet around here." Drake said to him.
"Whatever curse that demon put on you I'm disabling it here, so you can stay around as much as possible, you're part of the family, though I'm marrying Coop later, and frankly you're my best friend, I'm not giving you up Drake." Phoebe said and he smiled and gave her a hug. "Love you too Phoebe, don't worry, to run this through I'm talking to this demon and he's going to agree that I get to stay for a very long time now with this."
"I may be a demon, but I gave up that sinister side and if it means I remain in your life I'm taking the power stripping potion and I can work as a true homicide detective now with Andy and Darryl at work later." he said and she smiled and gave him a hug at the news. "For now till the danger is over with, I think you're better off keeping your powers, than once we retire, you take the power stripping potion and you and the guys work as a team." she said and he nodded in agreement to that.
"Is it against the rules to start doing near infrequent magic in this house when magic is going to be part of our lives now for good Orlin?" Piper asked and he shook his head. "No, if you were treating this like the Harry Potter novels than best to go by their example and learn as you go, but magic as a frequent piece to your lives helps now. You three and Paige lost your chances to grow up the way he did these last twenty two years, so to rectify that."
"We're letting you do your own version of the Weasley house, with the door connecting to Hogwarts on the staircase. Though Chris is living both lives together, to put this gently you guys were raised as muggleborns, not knowing you're witches till you three were reunited with each other, and she was adopted by a family in town. While he was raised a halfblood, as to that, if you're intending to get work done on the house, you got time too now."
"Because there's a lull till the next situation gets started and it changes directions from there, but whatever plans you got here for chapter three, we need to insure they don't realize you're still alive Prue, before Paige takes over and you become the Power Of Four after that." he said and they all nodded to that. "What's the information on the Nexus exactly anyway because I'd been hexed at the time, because I was born here?" Phoebe asked him and he explained that to her and sighed, knowing the sextet weren't going to like this.
"You had the spiritual nexus portion of it correct Prue, but your house was built in the center of a pentagram, which is a spiritual void. If in the hands of good, the nexus stays grounded in good, but evil have the house, they gain gain access to the nexus and from there the evil starts spreading like a plague till it reall is hell on earth, excuse me. To all intents and purposes, the demons created a way to combine the video game and Resident Evil."
"Demons, Zombies, specters and the like, though you're not dealing with honest to god demons like what they created, the wendigo was another one, that's what you're really taking down here and to put this bountly. The nexus is the entrance into hell, which explains the video game they created, you've been destroying demons for three years. But that nexus, the shadow demon, is the Spector and soul of Satan hiding in the basement."
"But though they're not like the demons on the game there's still demons that look like the ones on the game, just without the need to kill people that way. It's going to take all four of you girls to destroy the nexus without it blowing up the house, the four of us, if Chris gets poisoned by an athame. We can add our healing powers to yous, Andy and Paige's to keep him alive and he survives to see his little self born, Leo." he said and they nodded to that.
"With that in mind I've got eighteen months before my 'younger' son is born, but once I get the news I'm pregnant, I'm spending the next nine months in a hiatus guys. You, Phoebe and Paige can cover things, but Leo, Chris and I need to prepare for his brother's birth if he's being born in the house and you guys need to train to be nurses if you're going to be my midwives as well Prue." She said and they nodded to that as Darryl answered to her thoughts with a bemused look on his face.