Disclaimer: I own no one. All characters are from the television show "Charmed", I'm writing for fun, and not for profit.
Spoilers:
5.15 "The Day the Magic Died"
Authors note: I need to clarify that right now in this story, Wyatt is only a few weeks old. Therefore, Phoebe is not yet with Jason Dean. Go back in your head (or on your recorded tapes of Charmed), and think back to "Baby's first Demon". That's around the time that the story is taking place. (Of course, Wyatt's "first demon" wasn't the same demon in the story) So, yeah. Some of the things that has happened in the show either hasn't happened, or won't happen in the story.
As for "Oh my Goddess"... I'm not exactly sure if I want to keep that little twist in the story or not. I'll just have to cross that bridge when I come to it.
Thank you for the reviews, keep them coming!
Title: Sister Switch Off
Author: just always
Chapter Seventeen - The Last Supper
The five adults sat around the dining room table, along with the infant, who lay in a bouncing seat. No one had eaten, though the food had been sitting on his or her plates for half an hour. Not a single word was spoken; each of them had the same thoughts running through their heads.
Dan would lose his healing powers that night. They would be gone, and even though he was a mortal, it would feel as though they were losing a part of him.
Dan cleared his throat. "I've been thinking about something you said this afternoon." He looked at Piper. "About the attacks and all."
Piper looked to Leo, who shrugged.
"What about them?"
"Didn't you say something about Cole magically keeping you out of the house?"
"Yeah. A few weeks before Wyatt was born."
"Why don't you just do that or, the opposite of that; a temporary spell to keep evil out of the manor. Wouldn't that work?"
Paige shook her head. "I've looked it up already. It would not only keep evil out of the house, it would keep mortals out too. And it would keep us locked inside."
"Oh."
"It was a good idea though, Dan." Piper said.
Dan picked up his forked and twirled the spaghetti around it. He wasn't preparing to take a bite, just playing with his food.
"I asked Dan to stay with us for a while." Piper said, looking at her sisters and husband. "Just until he gets a steady job, and gets settled in San Francisco."
"Piper, I think, that is a wonderful idea." Phoebe said. "I can use you." She shook her finger at Dan. "You're a single- well, somewhat single, guy. You can help me with my article. Give me some guy advice to take into my brain and cycle it." She smiled and looked over at her brother-in-law. "What do you think, Leo?"
Leo took a bite of spaghetti, and shrugged. "It's a good idea. Do you want to stay here for a little while, Dan?"
Dan took Paige's hand in his underneath the table and looked at the family sitting around him.
"Paige and I discussed it. I don't want to feel like I'm intruding. If you guys feel the least bit uncomfortable, let me know. I feel like I'm one of you, or I did for the day, at least." He chuckled softly. "I don't know exactly how this will work out or how long it will be, but I'm willing to help out with anything while I'm here. I'm going to take up the offer."
Everyone sitting at the table smiled at each other. The friend that they thought they would never see again came back into their lives, and would stay, if only for a short time.
"We can go pick up your things tomorrow at the hotel." Paige said.
"Not that it's any of my business," Leo said, "but where exactly do you two stand?" He waved his hand back and forth between Paige and Dan.
Paige shrugged. "We're together. It's kind of tacky to say we're boyfriend/girlfriend- but that's what we are." She smiled and halfway rolled her eyes.
Piper smiled. "See, Phoebe, you're the only one left with no boyfriend." Phoebe sent her older sister a playful glare.
"I like being single, thank you. I can go out and check out guys and flirt and mingle and not feel the least bit guilty." She gave herself a nod.
"You're tired of it." Dan stated.
"Yeah. I need a guy."
"Isn't there a spell in the Book of Shadows for finding a man?" Paige asked.
"Tried it. That one needs to be pulled out of the book. Not good." Piper said with a smile.
"When was this?" Leo frowned, staring at his wife.
"Um, it was around the time we met. When I was working at Quake."
"Mkay."
There was a short silence. Dan was the one who broke it.
"What was it like the night Wyatt was born? If you guys don't mind me asking... you guys have danced around the subject and mentioned it a few times."
"Um, well," Piper started.
"Piper fainted. And we found out she had a blood pressure problem." Phoebe said. "And we kept getting magic animals from the elders. Like 'Golden Geese'."
"'Golden Geese'? You mean the ones that lay the golden eggs?"
"Those are the ones." Paige squeezed Dan's hand.
"Well, we came home... we didn't get any magical geese at the hospital or anything." Piper said with a laugh. "I was sent upstairs."
"The Elders sent a unicorn. And then all magic disappeared." Dan frowned at Leo.
"Disappeared?"
"Poof!" Piper demonstrated with her hands, a lot like she did with her freezing power. "Gone."
"And with no magic," Paige said, "there was nothing to keep Piper from going into labor."
"And I did. Then Dad and his new wife, whom we didn't know he had, showed up. And she turned out to be evil. Paige and Phoebe got the bad guys, came back to find Dad stabbed. I tend to forget all of the details. I remember getting on this very table, Leo running in at the last minute. And then Phoebe caught Wyatt." Piper smiled at the vague memory. "There was a bright light as the magic was restored. Wyatt's birth was a great source of good magic, and it helped get everything back to normal."
"You thought he was going to be a girl though right?"
"We went to the future a while back. When Prue was alive, I mean." Phoebe said.
"Oh, I see." Dan took a sip of his drink, and looked up as the tall grandfather clock chimed.
All of the adults sitting at the table looked at it, and counted the times. In just a few minutes everything would be different, very different.
Dan looked around at the four sitting beside him. These were his friends; his best friends. And he was about to lose the piece that kept them banded together; the only common piece between them.
He took in a deep breath and waited.
-x-
Authors note: What's next? Hrm, I wonder... reviews tend to make me update faster.
Spoilers:
5.15 "The Day the Magic Died"
Authors note: I need to clarify that right now in this story, Wyatt is only a few weeks old. Therefore, Phoebe is not yet with Jason Dean. Go back in your head (or on your recorded tapes of Charmed), and think back to "Baby's first Demon". That's around the time that the story is taking place. (Of course, Wyatt's "first demon" wasn't the same demon in the story) So, yeah. Some of the things that has happened in the show either hasn't happened, or won't happen in the story.
As for "Oh my Goddess"... I'm not exactly sure if I want to keep that little twist in the story or not. I'll just have to cross that bridge when I come to it.
Thank you for the reviews, keep them coming!
Title: Sister Switch Off
Author: just always
Chapter Seventeen - The Last Supper
The five adults sat around the dining room table, along with the infant, who lay in a bouncing seat. No one had eaten, though the food had been sitting on his or her plates for half an hour. Not a single word was spoken; each of them had the same thoughts running through their heads.
Dan would lose his healing powers that night. They would be gone, and even though he was a mortal, it would feel as though they were losing a part of him.
Dan cleared his throat. "I've been thinking about something you said this afternoon." He looked at Piper. "About the attacks and all."
Piper looked to Leo, who shrugged.
"What about them?"
"Didn't you say something about Cole magically keeping you out of the house?"
"Yeah. A few weeks before Wyatt was born."
"Why don't you just do that or, the opposite of that; a temporary spell to keep evil out of the manor. Wouldn't that work?"
Paige shook her head. "I've looked it up already. It would not only keep evil out of the house, it would keep mortals out too. And it would keep us locked inside."
"Oh."
"It was a good idea though, Dan." Piper said.
Dan picked up his forked and twirled the spaghetti around it. He wasn't preparing to take a bite, just playing with his food.
"I asked Dan to stay with us for a while." Piper said, looking at her sisters and husband. "Just until he gets a steady job, and gets settled in San Francisco."
"Piper, I think, that is a wonderful idea." Phoebe said. "I can use you." She shook her finger at Dan. "You're a single- well, somewhat single, guy. You can help me with my article. Give me some guy advice to take into my brain and cycle it." She smiled and looked over at her brother-in-law. "What do you think, Leo?"
Leo took a bite of spaghetti, and shrugged. "It's a good idea. Do you want to stay here for a little while, Dan?"
Dan took Paige's hand in his underneath the table and looked at the family sitting around him.
"Paige and I discussed it. I don't want to feel like I'm intruding. If you guys feel the least bit uncomfortable, let me know. I feel like I'm one of you, or I did for the day, at least." He chuckled softly. "I don't know exactly how this will work out or how long it will be, but I'm willing to help out with anything while I'm here. I'm going to take up the offer."
Everyone sitting at the table smiled at each other. The friend that they thought they would never see again came back into their lives, and would stay, if only for a short time.
"We can go pick up your things tomorrow at the hotel." Paige said.
"Not that it's any of my business," Leo said, "but where exactly do you two stand?" He waved his hand back and forth between Paige and Dan.
Paige shrugged. "We're together. It's kind of tacky to say we're boyfriend/girlfriend- but that's what we are." She smiled and halfway rolled her eyes.
Piper smiled. "See, Phoebe, you're the only one left with no boyfriend." Phoebe sent her older sister a playful glare.
"I like being single, thank you. I can go out and check out guys and flirt and mingle and not feel the least bit guilty." She gave herself a nod.
"You're tired of it." Dan stated.
"Yeah. I need a guy."
"Isn't there a spell in the Book of Shadows for finding a man?" Paige asked.
"Tried it. That one needs to be pulled out of the book. Not good." Piper said with a smile.
"When was this?" Leo frowned, staring at his wife.
"Um, it was around the time we met. When I was working at Quake."
"Mkay."
There was a short silence. Dan was the one who broke it.
"What was it like the night Wyatt was born? If you guys don't mind me asking... you guys have danced around the subject and mentioned it a few times."
"Um, well," Piper started.
"Piper fainted. And we found out she had a blood pressure problem." Phoebe said. "And we kept getting magic animals from the elders. Like 'Golden Geese'."
"'Golden Geese'? You mean the ones that lay the golden eggs?"
"Those are the ones." Paige squeezed Dan's hand.
"Well, we came home... we didn't get any magical geese at the hospital or anything." Piper said with a laugh. "I was sent upstairs."
"The Elders sent a unicorn. And then all magic disappeared." Dan frowned at Leo.
"Disappeared?"
"Poof!" Piper demonstrated with her hands, a lot like she did with her freezing power. "Gone."
"And with no magic," Paige said, "there was nothing to keep Piper from going into labor."
"And I did. Then Dad and his new wife, whom we didn't know he had, showed up. And she turned out to be evil. Paige and Phoebe got the bad guys, came back to find Dad stabbed. I tend to forget all of the details. I remember getting on this very table, Leo running in at the last minute. And then Phoebe caught Wyatt." Piper smiled at the vague memory. "There was a bright light as the magic was restored. Wyatt's birth was a great source of good magic, and it helped get everything back to normal."
"You thought he was going to be a girl though right?"
"We went to the future a while back. When Prue was alive, I mean." Phoebe said.
"Oh, I see." Dan took a sip of his drink, and looked up as the tall grandfather clock chimed.
All of the adults sitting at the table looked at it, and counted the times. In just a few minutes everything would be different, very different.
Dan looked around at the four sitting beside him. These were his friends; his best friends. And he was about to lose the piece that kept them banded together; the only common piece between them.
He took in a deep breath and waited.
-x-
Authors note: What's next? Hrm, I wonder... reviews tend to make me update faster.