Plutobaby494: Sorry for the long wait! But here it is!! The next chappie! Hope you like!!
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ON WITH THE FICCIE
Chapter 11
Piper stood in the kitchen that night absently making dinner. Both her adult sons hadn't shown themselves for hours and the house had been abnormally quiet. Only Phoebe and Paige had disturbed the peace when they came home from work and wherever Paige had left to this morning. She had spared them no details as she described the fight between her sons. Both sisters had stood silent as they listened, until Piper went silent herself.
"So you think that Mason doesn't know about Chris?" Phoebe questioned, looking at her elder sister.
"It sounds like it" Paige added, thoughtfully.
The ping of the oven interrupted Piper's focus on the conversation and she walked over to it. With her oven mitts on, she opened the door and took out a silver pan, than set it on the cooling rack that was on the island.
She looked at the deviled eggs that were sitting on the pan, each assorted with their creamy yellow yolkish insides, in their own little tray of white.
"But why wouldn't we tell one and not the other?" Phoebe questioned again, grabbing Piper's attention again. She set her oven mitts next to her creation and than turned back towards her potato and cheese soup that she was making for dinner.
"Wyatt knew, so why'd we keep it from Mason?" Paige asked, echoing her sister.
Piper sighed but didn't stop what she was doing. She couldn't answer these questions, and truthfully it was giving her a headache just thinking about it.
She looked over at baby Wyatt sitting in his chair, who was busily eating the rest of his cheerios, picking each of them up individually with his small chubby hands and than shoving them into his mouth.
Tears came to her eyes when she thought of the future version of his face, contorted in pain. He must have been heavily affected by his brother's words; she hoped that she could help him somehow, anything to take that pain away from her baby boy.
Everyone looked up when two voices from the other room were heard, and Piper couldn't keep the confused expression off her face. Wyatt's voice broke through her running thoughts, his tone light and joyous. Masons' came after his, not all sounding like they did earlier.
They walked into the kitchen, Chris in Mason's arms. Wyatt walked forward and sat on one of the stools that surrounded the island. They both were already deep in their own conversation and ignored the sisters completely.
"So who do you think would take a suicide mission and attack while we're here?" Wyatt asked with a raised eyebrow and smirk.
Mason hitched Chris father up his waist and sighed, "Stupid demons"
"Yea their stupid, doesn't mean their suicidal. He must have known going into this that he'd either have to retreat or die" Wyatt shot back.
"Arrogance is not befitting you, Wy" Mason smirked. Wyatt just rolled his eyes.
"You know as well as I do that I could have fried that dude, he just got out in time" Wyatt said, crossing his arms in front of himself.
"Uh huh" Mason said, with is own eye roll.
"Wait, a demon attacked" Paige asked, breaking into their conversation.
"Yea, this morning while you all were at work" Mason replied, turning to face his family.
"Is this the one you were arguing about earlier?" Phoebe asked before thinking about it. Paige swiftly elbowed her in the gut. She coughed as the wind was knocked out her, but didn't say anything else.
Mason glanced at his elder brother, before returning his gaze back towards the sisters.
"Yes, we had a little fight, but it's all good now" Wyatt said, taking one of the deviled eggs that were sitting on in a pan, on the island.
Piper walked over and smacked his hand with her stirring spoon. Wyatt flinched bringing his injured hand back to his chest, cradling it. "Ow"
"You'll ruin you're dinner" she said, with a small smirk on her face.
Mason chuckled, "Not likely. Wy's a human vacuum. He can eat and each but never be full. It's a wonder he's still skinny"
Wyatt clutched his chest in mock pain, "That hurts, baby bro"
"The truth always does" Mason quipped with a smile.
"Ok boys, tell us more about his demon" Pipe said with her own smile, interrupting their brotherly banter. She was glad that they had worked out their differences, and that they were close.
"Just this demon that decided he wanted to die" Mason said with a slight eye roll.
"Yea, but he seemed surprised that we were here, like he wasn't expecting us" Wyatt argued, going right back into their earlier conversation.
"Maybe he wasn't" Paige muttered, quietly. All eyes swung around to look at her.
"What are you thinking?" Phoebe asked with a confused expression on her face.
"Well think about it. If this was the original time line than Wyatt and Mason wouldn't have been here. Who was in the house besides you two?" Paige replied.
Piper dropped her spoon in realization but Mason answered.
"Dad and Chris"
"You think the demon was after one of them?" Wyatt asked, his eyes looking worriedly at Chris.
"They had to be! Was it a whitelighter?" Paige asked.
"It didn't look like one and didn't use a crossbow" Mason answered, hitching Chris up again.
"You're sure?" Piper asked, panic lacing her voice.
"Yea, he just looked like a run of the mill demon, used energy balls and everything" Wyatt answered this time.
Piper nodded and took Chris from Mason clutching him close to her breasts. If there was a demon after Chris, they had to be extra careful not to leave him alone again.
Chris wiggled and scrunched his nose in discomfort at being coddled. He squirmed until his mom relaxed her hold on him and just held him.
"I'll go get the book" Paige said, realizing the happy mood had been squashed, all thanks to this nameless demon.
The kitchen fell silent as she left, the only sounds breaking it was the sounds of both baby Wyatt's and Chris's soft gurgles.
"Leo's been up there a long time, do you think something's wrong?" Phoebe asked, breaking the silence. Both Mason and Wyatt look up towards the ceiling, both having similar confused looks.
"Or he got lost" Piper muttered bitterly, not moving from her spot. Nothing had changed; he still favored his beloved elders over his family.
"Oh sweetie, I am sure he just go held up by those mean elders" Phoebe said with a childish voice. She wrapped one arm around her sister's shoulders and gave her a reassuring smile before turning her attention to the baby in her arms.
"Did those mean elders keep you're daddy away from mommy and you" Phoebe cooed, tickling Chris cheeks and neck.
He giggled and ducked his head trying to get away from his aunts teasing fingers.
She moved on, now tickling his stomach and watch as he squirmed and folded into himself. Phoebe just smiled when he let out a loud giggle, a giant smile on his face.
"Ok, ok Pheebs. I am going to drop my son" Piper said with a smile on her own face. Chris's was contagious and she couldn't help but catch it.
Phoebe complied, pulling away.
Paige walked through the door, the book in her arms. She set it on the island, but didn't have a change to touch it before Wyatt grabbed it, opening it and beginning to flip through its ancient pages.
"Dinner's almost ready" Piper said handing Chris off to a sly smiling Phoebe, who looked at Chris like he was her dinner. Chris squealed and giggled as Phoebe took him into her arms, remembering her last attempts at him.
Chris looked back at Piper who was making the finishing touched to her dinner.
"Momma" he squealed, saying his very first word.
Everyone froze and turned to Chris, who had stopped giggling, noticing that he was the center of attention. Even little Wyatt looked up to see why the noise had stopped.
"Did he just…
"Say his first word" Piper finished for Paige. Dropping all her cooking utensils she walked over and crouched in front of Chris.
"Chris baby, can you say that again" she said, her voice going up a few notches in her excitement.
Chris looked unsure, he didn't do anything.
"Come on baby, say if for momma" she said, using the form of the word he used, so it wouldn't confuse him on what she wanted.
"Momma" he said again, looking around the room and seeing everyone's eyes on him.
"He said his first word" Piper squealed herself and took Chris from her sister.
"You're such a big boy" she said, bouncing him a little. Chris's emerald eyes lit up from all the attention he was receiving, and just from muttering one word.
"Momma" he repeated, happily.
"Good job, baby" Piper said, kissing his forehead and hugging him to her chest.
Wyatt and Mason both looked at the scene in amazement. They both knew that they were going to be messing around in the past, but they never thought they would see something like this.
"Wow" Mason muttered looking over at his mother and big brother.
"This is so cool" Wyatt muttered, walking over and putting his hand on top of Chris's small head, covering his silky hair.
"Good job, buddy" he said, looking at his brother.
"Momma" he repeated again. Wyatt laughed and took him from his mother and hugged him to his own chest.
Piper looked at her son proudly. He was growing up so fast, and soon he would start to walk and run. All the thoughts of the demon and the demon that would soon create such anguish on this family flew out of her mind, as she stared at her son. She knew they would save him. She stared up at her at her elder sons and knew that everything would be ok, Chris was in good hands.
"We won't fail" Piper thought, "Chris is going to live"
Chris beamed at everyone and said his word again.
"I'll set dinner up" Paige said, a smile on her face. This was a moment she knew that everyone would remember.
TO BE CONTINUED
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