Whitelighters

When the white lights disappeared there was a man in the room, he was tall, and his body was slightly tanned complexion, he had black hair and dark eyes. The confusion was written on his face.

"Paige" said the man who seem to know her, his voice was nothing more than a whisper.

"Hello" Paige said a little surprised by the strange attitude of the newcomer. "Have we met before?"

"What? Of course we've met." replied the startled man "What is happening?" He said this time addressing the kids, who also looked surprised.

"It's a long story" said Henry, he looked at his cousins and they nodded. "Come with me, I'll tell you it dad" and that Henry and his father left the room to talk with more privacy.

"Who was he?" Paige asked to see Henry and his apparent father leave the room.

"Henry's father, our uncle" said Payton.

"He's a whitelighter" Leo said to the obvious situation, to which he received a look of irritation off Chris.

"Yes" replied Parker, who had not noticed the exchange of glances between Chris and his father "he is our Whitelighter."

"Wait, I thought that your whitelighter was a boy named Percy" said Phoebe confused, Parker looked alarmed.

"How do you know about Percy?" she asked.

"We saw him in one of Chris's memories" replied Leo.

"Chris's memories" repeated Payton. "That was what the spell did? It allowed you to see Chris's memories?"

"Yep" repeated Melinda suddenly sounding bored. "Very useful, huh?"

"Useful?" Leo intervened suddenly upset by the behaviour of his daughter. "You could have caused serious problems to the Grand Design, not to mention you could erase your existence and everyone else here?"

"Do you think I didn't know that?" Melinda answered now upset as well. "Honestly Leo, don't you come now with your morality lecture, I'm not one of your charges, and you know that will not work with me."

Everyone looked surprised at Melinda's reaction, Chris smiled softly to the comments of his sister but to see the face of astonishment of Leo.

Phoebe could feel the tension in the room and decided to intervene.

"Okay ... Why don't we all chat a bit" she proposed.

"I agree" said Paige, but she did not move pending authorization from any of the future kids.

"No" said Melinda surprising everyone again. "We have already lost too much time."

"Mel is right" seconded Chris. "The longer you're here, the more we risk causing serious harm to the Grand Design" concluded using, much to his dismay, the words of his father.

"Chris, don't you think that this whole thing can wait a few more hours?" Parker said, trying to appear on his mother and aunts' side.

"No Parker, they're right" Leo stepped receiving looks of surprise of everyone. "This is not about them" he said pointing to the past Charmed Ones. "Neither is it about any of you, this is for the greater good."

"Oh" Parker said not knowing what to say. If it was inter personal relationships, she could give a lecture, but when is about magic she did not understand a word.

"Okay" Melinda said. "Make sure that Henry is aware and that he reaches us in the meeting room" she now turned to Parker.

"Sure" she replied as Mel nodded.

"Well, I will convene a meeting" she continued "Chris ..."

"I will go get the spell to summon the Book" he interrupted "and then I'll find you."

"Okay" she accepted the answer. "In that case, Payton want to help?"

"Of course" Payton agreed "let's go."

"Yes" said Melinda "Parker, be careful with them" she said to her cousin referring to their visitors and knowing full well that they can be persuasive.

Melinda went to a table and took a device slightly larger than a cell phone, immediately she turned to the door and left followed by her cousin Payton.

"It seems that we know who gives the orders here" Phoebe tried to joke.

"Seems so" Piper said, agreeing with her sister.

Chris smiled, Melinda had always been that way, always taking control of situations. But sometimes he wished they were just normal kid,s who were not in the middle of a magical war.

"I must leave too" he announced. "Leo, you come with me" he said to his father.

"But ..." he began, only to be interrupted by Chris.

"You know you can't stay, I'll see what to do with you" he said "now walk".

And so they left the department.

"Okay, why don't you all sit for a while" Parker said trying to eliminate the awkward silence that had generated. "I'll make some tea."

"I'll help" Piper automatically said, seeing a chance to talk to someone privately.

"No, it's okay, it's just tea" she replied entering the kitchen.

Piper, Phoebe, Paige and Leo sat on the couch. For a moment no one said anything, they seem to be lost in thoughts, then a little girl entered the room, everyone recognized her as Parker's sister.

"Hello, you're Parys, right?" Phoebe asked.

Parys nodded and sat on the couch in front of the one were the others were.

"Do you need something sweetheart?" continued Phoebe seeing the girl said nothing.

"You want to play with me?" she asked, looking at the floor embarrassed.

"Sure" said Phoebe lively, making Parys look up and smile, Phoebe smiled too.

"Great" Parys said this time more lively too, got up and took her mother's hand last directing her into a room.

'Maybe Phoebe can get answers from that little girl' Piper thought 'I hope so'

This chapter is edited. Thanks to my Beta