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 11: Preparations, Renovations and Hexes
Well we got 20% of the equipment needed for that with Chris babysitting for us, but we just get the rest and get your closet turned into a nursery for him Piper, before he's moved into their bigger nursery later, but we got nine months of quiet. But the final month or two before is really going to start getting out of hand later, if we got infrequent demons coming in every other day." Darryl said to her and she nodded in agreement to that.
"Yeah well I may be a mother, but I don't want this changing things between us Leo, you get promoted and I'll support you in that. But if Wyatt decides to switch our powers you're seeing the sides effects of what it's like to be a witch who's pregnant, and if there's one person I need to discuss this with its mom and grams, so I know what I'm doing later. But though I'm on a hiatus, I'm still creating the potions and working on target practice."
"Fresh fruit for training in my combustion powers and I've got to work those out, before I put it to the test later. But with us pulling that bait and switch after we find Paige, we need to stay low and train till we get whatever anger we're holding in out and while I'm on the subject. Prue, that's going to be a very close call, if this assassin attacks, before we use the cloning spell. So expect me to get a bit hot tempered till I finally let you have it." Piper said to her and she nodded to that as she crossed her arms as she looked at her.
"Yeah well with the boys you're on a stand down till after your pregnancy is done, and I'm taking charge Piper, I'm the oldest of the four of us and frankly I'm not risking you winding up in the E.R. because you over did it. And with that in mind, though we're your midwives, we're not medical experts and neither is Leo, so we get a medic involved and monitor your health throughout this, so your vital signs are completely normal, till Wyatt is born."
"I'm seeing this like the arroyo fever Piper. You got sick because you smuggled in contraband and it infects not just you, but twenty others, and the aftermath is Williamson. Her getting burned at the stake, we broke the small rules and we see our lives torn apart, because we crossed a line we can't ever take back. We're witches, but we're not indestructible, we're also not above the law, to ensure we keep our lives and families the way they are."
"We stick together, play it safe and aside from the people in this room, we don't trust anyone. We made that mistake after the party and we get burned by your bartender, so to prevent that this time, once Wyatt is born, we start writing up lists of who's trustworthy and who's not, and altogether we stay together as family. Drake is invited to live with us once Cole's out of the picture, and Dad has his own bedroom in the house as well."
"But we're not breaking anymore rules in the magic community, forgery is another one and your powers suddenly take a massive leap forward. So with that in mind, magic or normal laws, we follow them all, and if need be to pull a raid and hunt down our perp if he decides to pull grand theft auto, we're getting the driver's permission to borrow the keys before taking the car." she said and they all nodded in agreement to that.
"Well I think our first step is hexing the hallway, the Bathroom, the girls, Chris and I are using and the bedrooms, and making them at least twenty to twenty five feet bigger." Andy said to Piper and she nodded as she thought it over, before she smiled as she motioned for them to head upstairs and she stopped in front of Chris's room. "Gram's sewing room, that was Wyatt's bedroom, Chris's the one across the hall from me and by the attic door."
"Wait a second, honey could you get the miniature version of the house?" she asked and he nodded. "Manor dollhouse!" he said and it orbed into the hall. "Okay let's have a look here." Leo said and gently removed the top of it as he looked at the miniature version of their house. "There's two bathrooms in this house, one downstairs, one upstairs. So we just added three more to the upstairs, and expand the kids rooms as well."
"Though instead of adding them physically, I think we can do it by magic to fit an even nine to eleven people up in the second floor and that should fit everyone, so here's the nursery over here. Chris's bedroom gets turned into a master bedroom, as does Paige's, we got the biggest bedroom in the house, and Prue has hers given an extension to the same size as ours. Phoebe gets an added fifteen feet to hers and their own bathrooms."
"But till the kids are like four years old, their using the main bathroom in the hall, but the trio get their own bathrooms, as does Chris and ours has a master bathroom as well. But complete privacy for everyone it's like a one bedroom apartment, just without the kitchen in the room with you. Extensions on the little manor, before we do it on the big manor. That is if Penny never created a duplicate of your ouija board and stashed in the dollhouse." Leo said and she smiled as she lifted it out of the dollhouse.
"Looks like she did, alright, protection and safety to be, if shrunk to fit, house normal and live to be, create like real, so mote it be?" she said and it flashed as everything that was in the house appeared and was the size of doll furniture in it. "If Wyatt decides to shrink us it's we got everything that the real manor has and we got food, shelter and heating in here, till Chris changes us back, and the door is unlocked too." she said and he smiled at that.
"Family growing and no space to spare, expand rooms on second floor all to fair, to fit all to bare." she said and it extended nearly thirty feet in all four directions. "Wait check that, family growing and no space to spare, extend for fit for all to bare, for privacy of a couple or three to live at home and live apart, but with in family, extend to fit and live together in harmony." Chris said and each room turned into a two bedroom apartment at the words.
"Whoa, so this extends us to living together, but we don't have to move out, but we all got enough room to fit and when we retire, we reduce it to just the five of you till your sister is born?" Prue asked and he shook his head as Piper said it with a smile at his idea. "No we leave it like this, our family for family get togethers, after you guys and Paige have children, you got room to live in the apartments that your rooms have and you have privacy too."
"Each room upstairs just got an added five hundred to it and there's enough room for all of us this way. Okay time to extend it to the rest of the house. You said wing this, and it extends to the rest of us while doing so. Honey did I create spell's like this, before I was killed at the time?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah you did mom, in fact by the time I was three years old, you've taken to the mantle and turned into the strongest of the three of you." he told her and she nodded to that.
"Dad, instead of you living on your own, how about moving in with us, finish off the Halliwell/Bennett/Wyatt/Trudeau family?" Piper asked and he smiled at that. " I accept girls thank you." he said to her and she smiled and gave him a hug then smiling and he tightened his arms around her. "I'm the most powerful of the three of us, I've honed my powers so much that I changed as a result of it, I'm turning into mom here now."
"And if I'm acting as a mother now that I have you with me baby and I'm the leader of the Charmed Ones in four months, as well as the wife to my husband. I'm taking the mantle right now. Magic is a part of my life, and if being normal means I don't get to see you as you are now its I choose it and accept it with open arms now, I'm a witch and I'm taking that mantle now." she said and close her eyes as she thought the spell.
"Modifications to model, extend to life, with a growing family preparing for strife, growing family and no space to spare, extend second floor of life all to bare. To fit a family growing, but live apart in times of strife, mimic model and extend to life." she said and the modifications caused the floor to start glowing. "Well that's one and that's not damaging the frame work either." Prue said and she nodded as she went further then.
"Privacy to live and prevents rift, extend for family and create to fit, fit a growing family with space to spare, extend bedrooms of sisters to start a growing family for all to share, I pass this gift through the air." she said and the bedrooms shifted from two bedroom to three bedroom apartments with two bathrooms in them and they smiled at that. "So when we're together once we're retired, the kids have their own rooms and bathrooms."
"While we got our own rooms with our mates, and there's enough to fit, because the house had been converted into a mansion." Phoebe said to her and she nodded. "Wait, For a father and grandfather returned to the nest, being around his family for times of rest, for a family growing and with love and trust, extend and fit to spare, I pass this gift through the air." he said to the model and a six bedroom as it appeared in the model, and they smiled at that.
"My bedroom overlooks the garage, so for Paige, we have her room and extension built right above it, extending the adding modifications to the house, her apartment, is like this for now. But before she meets my uncle, we run the spell and turn it into a three bedroom apartment, two bathrooms, with a kitchen in it. But the apartment is magically hexed to fit into the house and that's her living space now till she and.., Henry start their family."
"And this way you all got your own apartments inside the house, and the downstairs is going to stay the same now. But I'm just going to give you their first names before you meet them for real dad, mom, you have Aunt Paige's adopted surname, but Henry, Richard, Greg and Elise, she's your boss Aunt Phoebe." he said to her and she smiled at that. "Elise is the editor at the Bay Mirror, Richard is whoever our baby sister's fling is, Henry is our brother in law."
"And Greg would have been my own fling, but he's just a friend, and I'm married and I'm not dating anyone else nor am I up up on the market and with those words, if Dan crosses the line and tries to hurt you honey, I'm having him committed." Piper said to him and Leo nodded in agreement. "Henry, that's his name, alright he's a mortal parole officer at the precinct, well once I'm completely mortal again. He's got company and with that, our family is the eight of us and Drake is a friend of the family, with his being your aunt's best friend."
"While Darryl is mine and Andy's and the eleven of us get together for holidays and birthdays this way, but the upstairs is less likely to turn into the type of trouble Chevy Chase had in Christmas Vacation and we got our house running on magic and it's turned into a miniature version of Hogwarts and looks like a white magic version of the Black Manor. But first things first, to ensure she's got a good enough place to live and she's home here in the manor."
"I'm better off changing the roof of that garage, to support the extension and build a ladder into it, so she's got two ways in, one is to the usual way into a normal attic without tripping over anything and the other is directly into the the hallway. Because with near infrequent earthquakes in this city, her studio apartment needs as much suspended support as possible if she's got phobias her room has the privacy needed and she's got a balcony on it as well." he said smiling and she grinned at that plan as he went further.
"Her apartment, if she finds your uncle, is extended to fit all the way to the front of the house and it's got it's own bathroom and has two bedrooms so she's got room for herself, your uncle and their kids. That's their spot, with us being the ones living in the house once we retire, we leave their rooms alone. And we keep our spots like we have them, while your aunts have the spots they're living in till they're ready to move out, and with that in mind."
"The second bathroom connected itself to Phoebe's room, and the third connected itself to Prue's. In Paige's case, I'm adding the extension myself, but this is really coming along nicely, I'm creating a cove for her whatever she does its in the room and she's got her own retreat." Leo said to her and she nodded to that. "So the family gets plenty of room now, Chris is living at home and he's got his own studio apartment now inside of his house."
"We just turned this house into a better version of an boarding house, and we all share the expenses and stuff." Phoebe asked and he nodded. "Yeah exactly, you're getting your own apartment in the house, your bedroom had its own bathroom. Piper and I are in the master bedroom, while Prue has Patty's old bedroom up here, and each room has its own retreat off the bedroom, the nursery is going to become the playroom in four years though."
"Paige is going to have her own studio apartment with a bathroom built into it, so you don't have to move out if there's trouble." he said and she sighed as she said it. "At the moment with my being born in the house, I'm afraid of the changes that are going to come with reconciling with Cole. With Chris returning from the future, Andy back and the fact we just saved Jenna, I'm afraid of what my past life is going to reveal now." she said to him softly.
"Wait you think we just meet her now, instead of later, we just wait till after the supposed funeral to reveal we're her family?" Prue asked and he shook his head. "No we reveal we're witches and whitelighters she's going to panic, we just cast the find a missing sister spell and let her figure it out on her own, if the messenger targets her next." Leo said and she nodded as Piper looked at Phoebe then to answer her fears then.
"You suffered two brief reveals, but you're not evil, you're good." Piper said to her and she looked at her. "So was she, but she fell to the darkside because someone seduced her to the darkside, demon, warlock, it doesn't matter. Prue you saw what it was like when the warlock got to you, you get a taste of dabbling in the dark arts, it's intoxicating like the freedom from the rules becomes what you want most, but in doing so you sell your soul to the devil."
"That's what my past life felt, Anton gave her a chance to be free of the rules and she starts using her powers to take lives, but yours cursed her, and that's what scares me now at the most, we became enemies after that. And what if that's who I really am when born under the nexus. I can go either way, good or evil, that's what scares me, what if that's who I really am." she said and he sighed as he answered her as he looked into her eyes.
"Phoebe listen to me, I know you're thinking things are going to change once I'm an elder, but they're not, having children is not going to change things either, and neither is getting a job or becoming the middle sister. You're scared of the changes that came with the fact you just finished college: you've broken up with Cole, Chris just returned to the past, Andy's back, you have a new best friend who's everything Cole's not and we learned you're to be a big sister, you're not ready to completely become an adult, but that's okay, we understand."
"The four of us, your father, Chris, Darryl, we can take care of you girls till you're ready to get married, in the mean time, the only changes you're dealing with are a job and becoming the middle sister, but his pushing you to get married. I'm not allowing it and neither are Andy and the girls, til like you, we think you're ready, than we go through with it, but not until then, you're recovering from what he did to you, but you're not alone right now."
"You have the six of us, your father and my son, until you're fully healed, things stay the way they are between us. I'm living at home and my marriage is intact, basically think of this as Seasons four through six reimagined now. Because we all know the truth, and Prue and Andy are still alive once Wyatt is four months old now. As for you, you're dating your best friend and you become the writer you should be." Leo told her and she smiled at that.
Looking at him, she gave him a hug and he tightened his arms around her. "Love you big brother." she said to him and he smiled. "Love you too baby sister, it's going to be okay, yes you're entering your trials, but you have your family, evil will never win as long as there is good in our hearts, remember that." he said smiling and she nodded to him. "He's right baby, nothing's going to change till we think you're ready, he wants to pressure you he's in big trouble when you're just beginning to get used to things and your new life."
"I'm alive and Andy is back, you got enough responsibilities as it is, but marriage is change you're not ready for and you won't be till your heart, body and emotions think it's time for that time. As to that when you're dealing with the changes once Paige is part of the family, you're not ready, and not when you're adjusting to your job and your responsibility as the middle sister." Prue said and and she nodded as Chris looked at her to say it.
"Alright to put this gently, you remember Yoda's remark about his future being cloudy, masked by his past, his youth, in the Phantom Menace?" he asked and she nodded. "What he meant was your past can determine your future, or in this case your past life and the person you are now, if you don't learn from your past mistakes. Like mom and Aunt Prue, she saw that Dan wasn't the right one for her and chose dad, you're in the same scenario."
"Aunt Prue saw she was a photographer and she chose her past occupation as her future career. Now Anton was a foreshadowing of your life with Cole and that's your trial of lava, when the time comes to choose if he kills one of our charges and the seven of us are in the room with you and Cole, you have to make your choice between us. You can choose to be who you're meant to be, be with your family, and keep up your birthright."
"Or you can sell yourself into slavery and sell your soul to the devil by remaining at the side of the embodiment of everything that you swore to destroy. Anakin was born a slave and he sold himself back into slavery by becoming a Sith, that's what you're facing. Middle sister, new job, just married and to top it off you're pregnant, you're under too much pressure, that's what caused him to break and he fell to the darkside."
"You saw your past mistakes these last eighteen months, now you must learn from them, when the time comes when the forces of good and evil put you into that position, you have to make a choice now. We're going to be in the room, as is Cole, and you have to choose which side you want to take. Wyatt is Anakin if he'd been raised from birth in the temple, you're him from late teens to early twenties, one too many traumas and you're in love and to top it off you're pregnant." he said and Peter crossed his arms as he finished that remark.
"Too much stress and you break from the pressure, that's what the darkside does to you, being good means you live by the rules, but the rules are there to keep you on your path and your birthright. You bent the rules when you stopped Eames, that's not breaking the rules, you bend them, to kill a warlock/Darklighter, you thought about the greater good that's not breaking the rules, you did the right thing ladies, Leo." he said and Chris smiled at him.
"Had I not arrived when I did, Aunt Prue would be dead and you'd be suffering the emotions of trying to hold things together between you, mom and Paige as you're adjusting to the responsibility of being the middle sister and his pushing you to get married. To put this gently, you're suffering from multiple changes from just graduating from college, you just got back together after he relapsed, Aunt Prue's gone, you just found Paige and taken mom's place as the middle sister, and then to top all of this off he proposes to you."
"The idea of marriage, being that much of an adult, is terrifying to you, we: the quartet, grandpa, Darryl and I understand that, but he can't, and the only one who does is Drake as he's your age. In retrospect, I just added two new changes to the list now with changing the timeline in the tv show, with bringing back Uncle Andy and me returning to the past. All this together, being the middle sister and learning you've got a nephew, who's just dropped the bomb on you that your future is at risk, and you just gained back a man you loved like a brother since you were kids, all of this is information over load right now."
"That's why I came back, to ensure you got more reasons to choose, I'm everything you're trying to protect, we got a year before that choice arrives so we just wait it out and deal with the kinks of you being the power of four now, and you're adjusting to your new lives now. It's going to be fine, I'm not going anywhere and we got time work it out." he said and she nodded and gave him a hug. "You're right, I'm twenty five, I'm not ready to get married yet, that much responsibility, being that much of an adult is terrifying, and I'm not ready."
"I nearly lose Prue, discover Paige and become the middle sister, I learn I have a nephew who risked his life and his own existence to save me, I just got my brother back and to top it all off you propose, the idea of marriage, of being that much of an adult, is terrifying Cole. As to that, my first concern is dealing with things as they are now, I'm getting a job first, before you start hounding me about it, but keep bringing it up and my sisters are blasting you." she said in exasperation as she looked at her older sisters and said it softly.
"Did I say it, no, but I don't have to, you're my big sisters, you've only known me my whole life." she said looking at the girls and they nodded in agreement to that remark. "He asks me that question in the kitchen when I'm letting him have it, I'm phrasing it the way you just said it Phoebe, though the moment, just enjoy the minor freedom this summer till you get a job." Piper said and she nodded, as Leo looked at Drake. "We: you, Andy, Victor, Chris and I got four months and seventeen days to work on her extension Drake, that's more than enough time here with the fact you graduated from college yourself now."
"So we're pulling a cloning spell and she's doing a glamour till we reveal to them that she hadn't been killed and our familial powers are so strong that they want to mess with us, they're getting vaporized here." he said and Drake nodded. "That's five months and until Cole decides to come back after she is supposedly is killed, I'm sticking around and Phoebe and I are spending as much time as possible together." he said to him and he nodded in agreement to his thoughts as Chris looked at him.
"You think she's going to wonder what it is we're working on here?" Prue asked and he nodded. "Yeah I do, but this is a surprise for her, she's the youngest of the family, so she needs to be with her family, but when she feels like she's ready to move in than we present it to her. Though if I'm reading the dating right, it's maybe three vanquishes into her new life with us in her life and dealing with another information overload is a catch we got to deal with, but we don't pressure her to move in." Leo said to her and she nodded to him.
"I bet the misguided notion on the funeral is on my birthday actually, so we set it for a week later, and we change the dates that way, but starting from the messager attacking us to the day of the fake funeral, we begin working on the extension and we're training. So we didn't lose a family member, we're laying low for a while till the Oracle reveals to the Source that Paige is another chance to reconstitute the Charmed Ones and its in the next attack that night after the funeral." Chris said to him and he nodded to him as Drake looked at him.
"What do you suggest son, regarding this messager?" he asked and he sighed. "After he killed her at the time mom spent months trying to find some way to bring her back at the time, so we create a clone that is an exact look a like and then she changes her appearance when the doctor sells us out. But here's the bad news for that spiel at the moment, because he sold us out in my future straight to the press at the time and it got mom killed."
"As to how exactly, it was repeat performance of the demon that made Cole start turning up the AC in the house last winter. We had another stalker, like Abby, stalking us and she shot mom with a rifle through the living room window. I'm not going to have enough time to study my training to heal to prevent this again, so while dad is in the underworld dealing with Cole and Aunt Phoebe, Uncle Andy, I need your help in guard duty here at the house."
"You, mom, dad, Aunt Prue and I are up here and things and we wind up getting exposed, but I..., shielding spells, that's it. Future spirits, addressed by thee, shield future vanquishes in public, disguise by me, change it to mortal, so mote it be." he said and they felt their powers take a hit and smiled. "So every time we do a vanquish in public, they're just going to see us doing this as self defense now, is that it?" Piper asked and he nodded to her.
"Yeah, every time we do a vanquish or chase in public, it's putting a mist to shade it to make it look like, to mortals, that the victim left town or in the case of Cole that he up and left Aunt Phoebe during her decision. She chooses us and the results are going to be it's going to be he turns into a deadbeat dad, which is what the spell is going to reduce him to the guys investigating it." he said and she nodded to that gently as Drake looked at her and Leo.
"With Cole out of the picture for the next five months, aside from the next two episodes, we got five months till he comes back and between now and then we can build our friendship and though he's trying to force you into marrying you. I'm letting him know that at the moment you're not sure what you want right now, though he says for me to wait for you to say it, if we share a kiss for a first time, I'm telling him that you asked me for that kiss." he told her and she smiled as she pressed her forehead to his smiling.
"Prue and I prefer you to him anyway, you're our brother Drake, we break the spell you're in our lives forever, good demon, Angels, cupids, mortals and witches. That's our family now, you're part of our family starting today Drake." Piper said and he gave her a hug and Phoebe leaned into his side smiling as she looked at him then with a grin. "My best friend, we get to act like kids and the six of us, dad, Chris and the Morris's are now family."
"If this is between now and when I do accept that engagement ring, I'm closer to you emotionally, because you were the one stitching me back together, that was bound to have an effect on both of us and it has and had. I couldn't ask for a better friend, to repeat what I said last night, he burns me one more time and the weight scales are landing in your favor and you're moving into the manor once I vanquish him for real this time." she said and he nodded to that as Chris hid a smile at that as he looked at the older man.
"Yeah well at the moment she's undergoing chapter one, Twilight, and with that, Drake, where I'm concerned I see you as a real Uncle, he's just a fling, you're the good one. She's stuck in chapter one right now, next year begins chapter two and she's entering her new moon, where she's facing her darkest portion of her life at the moment. Then chapter three she's got to choose between you guys, the werewolf and her life and family, or the vampire and she gives up everything." he said and they all nodded to him as he looked at the house to think it over as he looked at the model and smiled as he gave the spell.
"Model upgrades to real, family growing in times of strife, upgrades given to and upgrades exchanged, model mimic real for all to bare, I pass this gift through the air." he said and the dollhouse started glowing as they felt the house give a gentle shake and then settle. "Model mimic, whoa, you mean the dollhouse is going to mimic every change added to it when we start work on the house?" Andy asked him and he nodded to him
"We got to add that to the work on the garage too, it's being connected to the garage." Piper said and he nodded. "Modifications from models extend to life, reverse the life to mimic and prepare for strife. Models and reverse to share, I pass this gift through the air." he said and the model glowed as the house gave a gentle shake to answer the remark then.
"I got to create a small blueprint and sculpt the garage and Paige's extension, but once done, the connector between the garage and the back door to it, I'm creating an area to keep your bikes son, but that spell just ensured that every change to the house we create the model has it and we're ready by the time we retire." he added smiling to her and she grinned.
"Yeah whatever extensions and spells given to the house we create, the model is going to get the same extensions and Grams is going to love this idea, because mom and I turned into her at two different ages. She, if she'd had the chance would extend the house further by magic at the time, if she hadn't had that heart attack. She'd be suggesting we do this anyway, to fit the entire family." Chris said to him and he nodded in agreement to that.
"Yes you're right about that Chris, your grandmother and I discussed this at one point, to fit a growing family, the house needs to be modified so you don't have to move out till you're ready. Though a pressuring husband is big thing, you girls needs to make your own choices, aside from that that she would choose Drake anyway, he's everything your grandmother and great grandmother would choose for your aunt, no pressure here."
"I talked to Penny and Patty before we came down to check on you and your parents, and they would have recommended this anyway, just choose spells to make the inside of the house bigger." he said and Victor looked at him. "How well did you know Patty exactly Orlin?" he asked and he chuckled. "For us, we become good friends with our charges, though Sam fell in love with his at one point, and that's not uncommon either by the way."
"But I happen to be Penny's whitelighter, and she, Sam, Patty and I discussed this, when it came time for the girls to take on their destiny. But with the girls to remain the strongest source of good in the good in the magical real, nothing can get in the way of their relationship here. But with the fact Piper is taking the mantle now, she's acting like Patty and she's going to react like a very protective mother and sister, in the later years."
"As to that, the first rule to bring the eldest is keeping the family together, but once Paige joins the family, there's instead of three, there's four, the Power of four, which is going to pack more of punch, but to repeat whatever you decided on here, you need to take shifts. So nobody gets overwhelmed though with whatever happens next year we got a lot of work to do." he said and Kalina finished that gently as she looked at the girls then.
"And you can mix the magic with mortal means and by the time it's done, the house is the size of of a mortal millionaires mansion from the inside. This way you can live without the added problems that come with being normal. Since the Callahans are a family of witches and they live in a mansion, so just pick what you want to add, that includes a pool, a tennis and basketball court and a nice field to for you to train in between sports during the school term." She said to him and he nodded to him as he smiled at the news at that.
"How do we do those modifications exactly, because stretching the house that far on the inside is going a little too far?!" Piper said to him in shocked amazement. "Alright wait, give me a minute, mom." he said and he went to get the book of shadows and read the inscriptions of spells created for the house and grinned. "Found it, 'to help a growing family', alright the spell needs a potion to get this correct for the downstairs, but once we do this."
"The house is the size of most of the mortal mansions, the main rooms that get the most excitement are normally the ones that get hit. So the added rooms are not in view of the parlor and the sitting room, let alone the sunroom. As to that the added rooms are going to be out added on to the house by magic, we just choose which ones to add, but to name a few, an entertainment room, with a movie screen like tv that's our tv room."
"And from there our familial tastes get added to the house and that's including an indoor pool, a basketball court, football and track course, and I can train with my friends every summer this way for the next five years. With that its including everything needed till the kids are born and it includes a library in the house, and five other spots, we just write what we want to add to the downstairs and that should do it." he said to his parents and they nodded to that as Leo answered him.
"Alright what's the potion needed for this exactly?" Leo asked and he looked at it. "Well it's a house modification spell, but the ingredients are all light magic ones here, but ginger-root, Rose leaf, cockle shells, toadstool and..., the four elements as well. Alright, we can do this after we get to work finishing up with the second floor and the basement staircase later, as well as the dumbwaiter." he said to them and she nodded smiling at the news then. "So air, water, fire and earth. Well that's simple enough, since we got the entire ingredients."
"Salt, that's earth, wind, that's air, fire, that's a lit match, and water and that's the purest form as well, so we're getting a bottle of water for that. As well so with that, once things settle today after we get some basic room work done on the house this week, than we'll start adding the new additions to the house later. But in the mean time lets just get the handmade ones in, before we get the magical ones done." Piper said to him and he nodded to her.
"Protection of innocents and children to all remain, neutralize danger in hall all the same." Chris said and the hall flashed in response. "Alright test check." Drake said and threw a fireball at the wall but it just went up in a cloud of smoke. "Scan for evil and trust worthy of like, neutralize powers all evil in the ways of psyche, with trust, friend and justice of true, scan evil and negate it unto." he said and the hall flashed in response to that.
"Evil of kinds and levels of true, block innocents from them for all that is true." Piper said and the hall flashed a second time. "Well the upstairs hallway is perfect. It's defending all good beings and is negating all evil or untrustworthy in the hallway, once we got Paige living here the added extensions are being put on her room and bathroom, but we all got enough room to fit into the house together." Leo said to her and she nodded smiling then.
"What's the added extensions you just put into the bedrooms guys?" Darryl asked and he smiled. "The hall is the neutral zone Darryl, it neutralizes all powers used by evil, with Drake about to join the family, he's considered a good demon to the hallway. Cole comes into the hall his powers are neutralized and the attic it's the same difference, once the girls and Chris hex the attic, to answer your second question."
"The extension spell expands the rooms to act like a one bedroom apartment, with a bathroom, but no kitchen, but they all got their privacy in the house, and I'm living in the master bedroom and it has a bathroom." He said, before they heard an explosion as the wall leading into the hall exploded then. "Honey, we're not doing that today, alright." he added as Sheila started laughing at this as Piper answered him.
"Right sorry, let the object of objection, become but a dream as they cause the scene to be unseen." she said and it returned to its original look then. "I've got to get used to that in this house now, this is ridiculous here." she said to them and he nodded as Darryl hid a smile. "Trust me I'm used to it honey, Andy and I were coming up every other day when a case involved them, and I wind up finding out when they're dealing with Mrs. Hellfire." he said to her and she nodded to that explanation with a bemused smile as Andy held it in smiling.
As Chris looked at the attic hall he smiled. "Evil of kinds and levels are true, reject in attic and stairs and innocents and witches are protected in virtue and strength anew, protect this staircase, scan for evil and untrustworthy so all that is true." he said and the attic, attic stairs and attic door glowed gold in response then as he looked at his mother smiling.
"What's that one you just used exactly?" Prue asked and he smiled. "I just safe guarded the attic and the stairs leading into it by turning it into a scanner, good beings and witches have access to it. But evil and people, if Dan Gordon suddenly gets obsessed with mom, or Jenny gets obsessed with me come back, and it's hexed to keep them out of the attic now. The door can be moved to the bottom of the stairs and we added a padlock and key lock to it."
"And now for the final touch here." he said and walked into the nursery. "Protect of children, family, future family and innocents of anew, defend against evil all levels are true, safety of children and innocents are new, protect good and children so all that are true." he said and the room glowed gold in response then. "Well that should do it, the entire second and third floor are now completely safe to the kids and us now." Orlin said to him smiling gently.
"Not quite, I need to make one last adjustment, because dad said that anyone outside of our circle, by that I mean the four of you. Odin is okay as is Kayla and Sandra, let alone Zola, but for our sake we prefer you four to be in on this only Orlin." Chris said and he nodded to him. "I understand Chris, so who's trustworthy in your eyes, if the four of us were the first to be told and Drake is your aunt's best friend and future love interest?" Kalina asked and he smiled ad he answered her.
"To answer you, its you four, grandpa, my family, me, the Morris's, and Drake, when Wyatt is born, anyone else outside of us is not to be trusted now. We got burned after Aunt Prue was obsessing over demons when it turned out that mom's bartender was our stalker. but Darryl said that any small thing can set these guys off. So with that, we trust no one, but our circle once my brother is four months old and our circle is above suspicion now." he explained and the quartet all nodded to his idea then.
"Nice thinking son, our circle is above suspicion, because family and close friends are the ones insuring your brother never turns evil. The four of us came to see you, so we just got added to the list of trustworthy applicants, than that means the rest of the whitelighters and the elders are not trustworthy. Until the danger is passed correct?" Peter asked and he nodded to him. "i know that Gideon is an elder and his deputy is a whitelighter."
"But starting the day that the door to magic school opens on the staircase, anyone not under the list of applicants that we created now is under severe scrutiny after that. Whatever Darryl told you is correct though: if I was the perp I'd look at the fact that my brother has too much power coursing through him and it's just going to get stronger as he grows older. But we, as elders, and whitelighters, don't choose who's above the law or deserves to die."
"Peter, Orlin, would you consider killing a child, a defenseless 18 month old baby, to prevent the future I told you about from coming true. You're all powerful, you can save lives, you stop people from dying would you cross that line just to ensure nobody dies, because you got the power of life over death over the magical world?" he asked and the quartet shook their heads. "No we wouldn't Chris, in fact, with whoever caused this, he's got it stuck in his mind, he's the end all and be all of us elders, if the Titans tried to kill us and your father gets promoted."
"But no we wouldn't, we'd act like you do and stop it before it happens. If that elder or white lighter decided on this he's suffering the Darth Vader complex, just in reverse. But we'd never cross that line, we don't choose who has the right to live or not, but if he's working with a demon, than it has to be Barbas now, and for the father of the twice blessed, and with those words, we let your Obi-wan Kenobi take out this Jedi turned Sith." he said to him softly and he nodded as he looked at his father.
"I'm not holding that against you, with you guys being for us and our bonds as friends growing stronger by the minute Orlin, Kalina, as to that, you're the only ones I really trust, you four, and with that in mind. If we're doing this meetings and he's acting like Chancellor Palpatine did and does in the movie when he's manipulating Padme, I'd rather have you at my back, till I can determine, he's a friend of foe. Because with the dial six months before Chris is born." Piper said to him, trailing off, and he nodded to her gently.
"Yes well we fixed things between us and like we decided with you Andy, you and Prue must focus on your jobs too. Okay look you guys, all of you are going to be dealing with this, but like Chris suggested, once Paige comes into the picture, write up a schedule for vanquishes and you rotate between you, though with your pregnancy, you can still help, just don't over extend yourself." he said and Peter finished that remark gently.
"Simply because we're looking at the protection of the future, we're living in the moment, not for the future, until your son is born we focus on the here and now. And then once the year starts than we start on things, but he needs to live as normal a life as possible till the door appears on the stairs, once we reach that day, that's his trial by lava at this early an age." he said to her and Phoebe smiled at the wording. "The Phantom Menace, good thinking, we're dealing with the living force right now."
"Once your brother is born we deal with the unifying force, the future is endanger, because something traumatized your brother and it warps his young mind, that's the threat now. So as to that we watch the rest of the faculty till our perp reveals himself and his true intention here and then we vaporize them. Our perp is a phantom menace, that phantom menace is hiding in plain sight and we let our guard down and its going to destroy us."
"That's what killed the Jedi, they got too arrogant, didn't realize that the danger was hiding in plain sight, and wouldn't change the code and their chosen one turns to the darkside, because he joined the oposition and is suffering from the guilt he killed in cold blood. He lost his mother and he's scared to death of losing his wife and lets this phantom menace destroy him, anger, fear, lust for power and guilt, that's the key to his undoing, we're insuring Wyatt doesn't suffer from the same." Prue said and he nodded to her as Chris said it to her gently.
"So we wait till the week leading into my conception date and work forward from there." He said and the quartet and the others all nodded in agreement his thoughts then. "I'm lucky we love science fiction so much, but best to get movies that allow you to watch and take notes here. With a teenager living full-time in the house now, we're getting whatever movies you loved in your future son." Victor said to him and he smiled at that then.
"Alright I think we better call it here ladies, you guys head out, while the five of us deal with getting the hall worked on and I'm dealing with the attic door." Leo said to them and the quartet nodded to him. "I'll take the kids with me honey, they got first class protection with me and and the trio now." Sheila said to Darryl and they nodded as the couples kissed, before separating, as Phoebe gave Drake a hug and he tightened his arms around her.
"Whoa hold up, we got to get the money." Chris said and they nodded as they left the room and headed upstairs then. "One, two, three, alright here's $10,000 for you and $10,000 for us that's enough to get everything today, just make two stops baby. Alright the first stop is to the furniture Store and the second is to Walmart and Target so we can get the childcare supplies and stuff. We can bring his furniture upstairs, before you head for the department stores." Andy added to Prue and they nodded to that suggestion.
"Wait, what the devil?" Orlin said as the amount they removed suddenly replicated till there was $80,000 as the money got replaced and he covered his eyes as he looked at his parents. "The resistance has $80,000,000,000,000 in the budget, they're trying to make it seem like I'm from well to do family, but with the amount grams left you guys, we've got exactly $6,500,000. Though they keep this up and we're looking at $100,000,000 and that's going to last till I return to the future mom, dad." he said to them and they both nodded, bemused.
"Well at least this pays for for the second loan we took out on the house last year and the club is a success now. So we put this into a family account that the five of us have access to to it guys. Than once Chris is in his junior of high school he gets his own bank card and that starts his own account with us as well. I don't believe this though, for two years since you start on your craft, we've had to repair and replace things for being destroyed."
"But that's what they're trying to assimilate here, our family is beyond wealthy as millionaires, alright so we're creating your own training ring downstairs, paying for your furniture and your school supplies and we're preparing for your brother's birthday in eighteen months. Okay so we use the amounts needed in the furniture, personal renovations and groceries. And in your case, we get whatever movies you loved in the future."
"It's going to take us a an hour to get that added bookshelf above the five footer with the suspensions in the wall, because that ones got your keepsake book on it and with the fact we hexed the bedroom, you better hex it to protect your brothers later. Since your survival bag has a knife and a bunch of poisons that are poisonous to them." Leo said to him and he nodded. "Don't worry dad, the truck is locked and they're too young to crack a combination lock as well." He said and they smiled and nodded to that.
"With that fact we had brunch, we're stopping off to get a snack for the kids as well so they're not snuck in the strollers and can head for the park later, while you guys are working on the house." Piper said to him and he nodded to that suggestion. "No problem, I'm getting my tools and we're getting to work on the door down here, but we're leaving after you guys do." Leo said and they nodded to that as the elder quartet disappeared then.
"Alright, protection of children, and future family a true, scan dark intentions of those outside of circle of crew, with honor, truth and strength of good, scan, block and trap dark intentions of true." Chris said to the nursery and it flashed red and then gold and he smiled. "Odin, Zola!" he called out and they orbed in then. "What is it Chris?" He asked and he explained that to him. "I'm testing a new magical security system for when Wyatt is born Zola."
"It's programmed to scan for dark intentions. If the person entering the room is trustworthy, they're scanned by a gold light, evil or untrustworthy red, and this way any kids or innocents in this room know that the person who walks is about to become a problem later. Because Dan already showed he can't be trusted after he dug into dad's records and Abby was stalking Aunt Prue, so with that this is the insurance policy this time now."
"The floor is also hexed to neutralize all evil powers and is set to knowing evil or dark intentions from good. Both mortal or magical, so we can find our phantom menace when the door to magic school opens." he said and they nodded as they walked to the door and it glowed gold and they went in. "Okay you're trustworthy, and it's not sensing anything dangerous about you, well that helps later." Leo said and they nodded in agreement to that.
"So gold means the person is trustworthy and good and red means they're not, and with that, for protection of children, mortal and magical friends and future family, all in circle of mortal and magical above suspicion and trustworthy and family, to defense of thee, seek out dangers and untrustworthy associated with circle and protection of thee. Circle of strength and trust, of family, and friends protected in thy walls and defend and defense of thee."
"Search out and defend against evil and untrustworthy in defense of thee, protect all innocents in this room, so mote it be!" Orlin snapped and it flashed gold and they nodded to that with a smile as they exchanged looks. "What was that you just put on to the room?" Piper asked him and he smiled. "It's meant to defend against anyone outside of our circle with Sandra arriving in time to test out the charm Chris put on the room."
"I just strengthened it to block anyone but the eleven of us, when we get demons, warlocks and any other type of evil landing in this house on a regular basis. But anyone in the good spots till your student comes into the picture later." he told her and she nodded as Sandra smiled. "Well the six of us are part of your circle as trustworthy, but I'm not telling Gideon about this." Sandra said to Piper and Leo and they both nodded to her smiling.
"Whitelighters can't read the minds of their own kind, can they Sandra?" Darryl asked and the sextet shook their heads. "No we can't, that's another thing that falls under personal gain, personal gain and misuse of magic have very serious consequences. Because you use it to intentionally inflict trouble on someone, it turns around and does you in the process, though your sister evidently learns that the hard way later girls." she said to them gently.
"Were you guys witches, before you turned into whitelighters if you just put that spell on the nursery Orlin?" Prue asked and they nodded. "We were, but we died like ninety years ago, your brother-in-law was 'born' sixty two years ago and he's one of the younger whitelighters in our grouping." Kalina said and they nodded to that explanation. "Alright time to go." Sheila said and they nodded as they went to get the kids and Piper grabbed an envelope.