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I'm a goddess on my knees
When you're hurt, when you suffer
I'm your angel undercover
I've been numb, I'm revived
Can't say I'm not alive
You know I wouldn't want it any other way
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Piper was beginning to feel exhausted and was about to fall asleep, lying on the couch with her newborn baby in her arms when she heard screams coming from upstairs. Not more than ten seconds later she saw two little girls bouncing down the stairs squealing about their little baby sister and who got to see her first.
Melinda ran past her younger sister, who couldn't really run that fast, and jumped on top of Piper.
"Ouch!" Piper gasped for air after Mindy had landed on her stomach and knocked all of the air out of her mother.
"Sorry, are you okay Mommy?" Melinda asked her mom as Mary ran towards her older sister and mom.
"Me too, me too!" Mary yelled as she sat down next to Melinda.
"Hey you!" Piper said, poking Mary's nose. "This is Mary, your new baby sister." Piper said softly; Megan was sleeping.
"Can I hold her, mommy?" Mindy pleaded. "Pretty please?"
"Not right now, honey." Piper said as Leo and Phoebe appeared at the bottom of the steps. They both looked exceptionally happy with huge grins on their faces. Phoebe walked up to Piper's side and kneeled down. Megan must have felt that so many people were looking at her, because her eyes popped open to show her deep blue eyes that were most likely to turn brown that they were so dark.
"Hi little Megan!" Phoebe said in a baby voice, so when she said 'little', it sounded like 'wittle'. "You're so cute that I could eat you up!"
"Phoebe, it wasn't cute for Melinda, it wasn't cute for Mary, and it's not cute now." Piper said. "It could actually happen!"
Phoebe pretended to look hurt and stuck her bottom lip out as she started back up the stairs.
"Where are you going, Phoebe?" Piper shouted after her sister, knowing that she was probably calling mom or grams to see the new baby. Phoebe didn't respond.
"Girls, why don't you go see what Aunt Phoebe is up to." Leo said to Mindy and Mary. They nodded their understanding and chased after Phoebe.
"Alone at last with my beautiful wife and adorable baby girl!" Leo breathed as soon as they were out of earshot. Piper sat up expecting Leo to sit down, but right before he sat down, he glanced up nervously. When he looked back to Piper, he looked ill, his face had lost almost all color and he had a guilty smile on.
"Go ahead. We will be here when you get back," Piper said, not trying to hide her disappointment, something that she had stopped doing years before even Melinda was born.
"Sorry honey." Leo said, "I'll be back as soon as I can!" He leaned down and kissed his new daughter on the forehead and then he kissed Piper. He orbed away leaving a wave of blue/white lights in his trail, but they disappeared after a few seconds.
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Leo arrived in the 'Up There' a second later. He looked around; he hadn't been there more than once since Mary was born, which was two years ago. The place hadn't changed at all. It still had the same white mist covering the ground so you couldn't see your feet and everything was white, as well as all of the elders and whitelighters up there were wearing white robes-all except for Leo, who was wearing blue jeans and a red shirt.
Leo roamed down the hallway, walking very quickly. The sooner he talked to the elders, the sooner he could go back to his wife and children.
He walked up to the big double doors, white with golden handles, and knocked twice. Almost at once, the doors slowly swung open and an elder by the name of Forseti greeted Leo, led him inside and closed the door behind them.
"As you know, we have an issue that we need to discuss with you, Wyatt." Forseti said. Leo nodded and silently urged him to continue.
"You are aware that you have way more charges than any other whitelighter ever has, and three of the most powerful, the charmed ones."
He looked up at Leo and continued, "It is unthinkable that you would have this many, and still be with every one of them for the proper amount of time, but you have proven to be there whenever any of them needed you."
"Anyway, we will not permit you to have more than you already have, not including your new daughter!"
"What!?" Leo asked, rather loudly.
"We will assign a new whitelighter to your children, all three of them so they can be together." Leo opened his mouth to speak, but closed it as Forseti continued. "And no, Wyatt, we will not reassign your other charges. As it is, we will be appointing Celia to your three daughters if you cannot think of anyone else to suggest." Leo's face held a look of disgust and horror when Forseti mentioned Celia's name. He nodded and started to orb out when Forseti yelled, "WAIT!" Leo came back, mid-orb and looked at Forseti.
"What?" Leo asked, somewhat rudely.
"You have a week to decide what you want." Forseti said. "That is all, you may leave now." Leo rolled his eyes and orbed out, into the living room where Piper and Megan were asleep on the couch.
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("Girls, why don't you go see what Aunt Phoebe is up to." Leo said to Mindy and Mary. They nodded their understanding and chased after Phoebe. ) They ran up the stairs silently, to make sure that Phoebe didn't know that they were following her. She walked up to the attic, so Mindy and Mary followed.
Phoebe opened up the Book of Shadows to the page with the summoning spell even though she had already memorized it. She read the spell allowed and waited impatiently for mom and grams to show up, but nothing happened. Phoebe cast an angry glance upwards, hoping they would see it and come down, but they didn't, so she read it again, this time yelling it.
When no-one appeared, Phoebe let out a cry of disgust.
"You didn't let them come when Mindy was born, and you didn't let them come when Mary was born! WHY WONT YOU LET THEM COME AS PIPER'S THIRD BABY DAUGHTER WAS BORN!? WHY?" Phoebe shouted, looking towards the sky.
Mary yelped when Phoebe yelled, not expecting her to.
"Why did you do that?" Mindy hissed at her younger sister, but instead of an answer, Mary's bottom lip started to quiver. Not even a minute later, Mary started wailing. Melinda's eyes widened and she pasted an innocent look on her face, knowing that Phoebe would come out to see what was going on.
Sure enough, Phoebe walked outside and scooped Mary into her arms.
"What's wrong, Mary?" Phoebe asked, wiping the tears off of Mary's cheeks.
"I didn't do it!" Mindy yelled and ran down the stairs. Melinda didn't really think it was her fault, Mary was probably just surprised from Phoebe yelling, and didn't know why she was or something, but just to be safe she ran to her mommy.
"Mommy!? Daddy!?" Melinda screamed. She started running towards Piper when Leo orbed in.
"Hey, munchkin!" Leo said, picking Melinda up and spinning her in a circle. He didn't want her to have a different whitelighter, but he knew that he couldn't reason with Forseti, unless. . .
"Mindy, go get Paige!" Leo said to his daughter.
"What? Why?" Mindy asked.
"Just go get her and come back down here." Leo said again. "Quickly!" Mindy nodded and ran around the house trying to find Paige. She finally found her in her bedroom, reading something on her bed. Melinda jumped up next to her.
"Daddy says to get you and bring you downstairs." Mindy said.
"Why?" Paige asked.
"I dunno. He didn't tell me, he just said, 'go get her and come back down here'." Mindy said, doing her best to mimic Leo.
"Okay." Paige said, stifling a laugh. She got up off of the bed and walked out of the door, Mindy trailing behind her.
Paige walked down the stairs and walked into the living room, where Leo was sitting on the floor, watching Piper sleep.
"Oh how sweet," Paige said to Melinda. Leo looked up and smiled.
"I need to ask you something." Leo said, looking at Mindy.
"Melinda, go up and play with Aunt Phoebe and Mary." Paige said, clueing in to Leo's hint right away. Mindy's eyes got huge and she pursed her lips together.
"Awwww. Do I have to? I want to stay here with you." Mindy pleaded. It was hard to resist when she did that, but whatever Leo was going to ask, must have been important.
"Yes, sweetie." Paige said, "You daddy and I need to talk privately." Melinda pouted and looked at Paige and Leo with Puppy eyes, but went up the stairs. After she was upstairs and out of sight, Paige looked up at Leo.
"Now, what did you need to ask me?" Paige asked. "Must be important."
"I just got back from 'up there' and Forseti told me that unless I can think of a better person, that he was going to appoint Celia to watch over Melinda, Mary, and Megan because I'm not allowed to have anymore charges, so I was thinking." Leo said.
"Well, how would you like to have three charges?" Leo explained.
"I'd love to, Leo, but would they let me, I mean. . ." Paige let her voice trail off. Leo knew perfectly well what she meant. The elders hadn't let her have a charge before, mostly because of her job, but now that she wasn't working, they suspected it was because she was only half- whitelighter, but Leo didn't think that they had much of a choice, considering that Paige already lived with them.
"They have to. I'll go ask them right now." Leo said, and orbed out of the room.
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Leo orbed into the 'Up There' and walked straight to the double doors. He knocked and the doors opened. Forseti was still in there.
"Have you come up with something already, Wyatt?" Forseti asked.
"Paige." Leo said hopefully, "She already lives with us, and she's half whitelighter."
"No." Forseti said. Leo opened his mouth to say something more, but Forseti talked first. "NO!"
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A/N: Who wants to know why? ( Review and find out!)
"Bitch" by: Meredith Brooks
The name Forseti comes from the Norse god of Justice
I'm a goddess on my knees
When you're hurt, when you suffer
I'm your angel undercover
I've been numb, I'm revived
Can't say I'm not alive
You know I wouldn't want it any other way
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Piper was beginning to feel exhausted and was about to fall asleep, lying on the couch with her newborn baby in her arms when she heard screams coming from upstairs. Not more than ten seconds later she saw two little girls bouncing down the stairs squealing about their little baby sister and who got to see her first.
Melinda ran past her younger sister, who couldn't really run that fast, and jumped on top of Piper.
"Ouch!" Piper gasped for air after Mindy had landed on her stomach and knocked all of the air out of her mother.
"Sorry, are you okay Mommy?" Melinda asked her mom as Mary ran towards her older sister and mom.
"Me too, me too!" Mary yelled as she sat down next to Melinda.
"Hey you!" Piper said, poking Mary's nose. "This is Mary, your new baby sister." Piper said softly; Megan was sleeping.
"Can I hold her, mommy?" Mindy pleaded. "Pretty please?"
"Not right now, honey." Piper said as Leo and Phoebe appeared at the bottom of the steps. They both looked exceptionally happy with huge grins on their faces. Phoebe walked up to Piper's side and kneeled down. Megan must have felt that so many people were looking at her, because her eyes popped open to show her deep blue eyes that were most likely to turn brown that they were so dark.
"Hi little Megan!" Phoebe said in a baby voice, so when she said 'little', it sounded like 'wittle'. "You're so cute that I could eat you up!"
"Phoebe, it wasn't cute for Melinda, it wasn't cute for Mary, and it's not cute now." Piper said. "It could actually happen!"
Phoebe pretended to look hurt and stuck her bottom lip out as she started back up the stairs.
"Where are you going, Phoebe?" Piper shouted after her sister, knowing that she was probably calling mom or grams to see the new baby. Phoebe didn't respond.
"Girls, why don't you go see what Aunt Phoebe is up to." Leo said to Mindy and Mary. They nodded their understanding and chased after Phoebe.
"Alone at last with my beautiful wife and adorable baby girl!" Leo breathed as soon as they were out of earshot. Piper sat up expecting Leo to sit down, but right before he sat down, he glanced up nervously. When he looked back to Piper, he looked ill, his face had lost almost all color and he had a guilty smile on.
"Go ahead. We will be here when you get back," Piper said, not trying to hide her disappointment, something that she had stopped doing years before even Melinda was born.
"Sorry honey." Leo said, "I'll be back as soon as I can!" He leaned down and kissed his new daughter on the forehead and then he kissed Piper. He orbed away leaving a wave of blue/white lights in his trail, but they disappeared after a few seconds.
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Leo arrived in the 'Up There' a second later. He looked around; he hadn't been there more than once since Mary was born, which was two years ago. The place hadn't changed at all. It still had the same white mist covering the ground so you couldn't see your feet and everything was white, as well as all of the elders and whitelighters up there were wearing white robes-all except for Leo, who was wearing blue jeans and a red shirt.
Leo roamed down the hallway, walking very quickly. The sooner he talked to the elders, the sooner he could go back to his wife and children.
He walked up to the big double doors, white with golden handles, and knocked twice. Almost at once, the doors slowly swung open and an elder by the name of Forseti greeted Leo, led him inside and closed the door behind them.
"As you know, we have an issue that we need to discuss with you, Wyatt." Forseti said. Leo nodded and silently urged him to continue.
"You are aware that you have way more charges than any other whitelighter ever has, and three of the most powerful, the charmed ones."
He looked up at Leo and continued, "It is unthinkable that you would have this many, and still be with every one of them for the proper amount of time, but you have proven to be there whenever any of them needed you."
"Anyway, we will not permit you to have more than you already have, not including your new daughter!"
"What!?" Leo asked, rather loudly.
"We will assign a new whitelighter to your children, all three of them so they can be together." Leo opened his mouth to speak, but closed it as Forseti continued. "And no, Wyatt, we will not reassign your other charges. As it is, we will be appointing Celia to your three daughters if you cannot think of anyone else to suggest." Leo's face held a look of disgust and horror when Forseti mentioned Celia's name. He nodded and started to orb out when Forseti yelled, "WAIT!" Leo came back, mid-orb and looked at Forseti.
"What?" Leo asked, somewhat rudely.
"You have a week to decide what you want." Forseti said. "That is all, you may leave now." Leo rolled his eyes and orbed out, into the living room where Piper and Megan were asleep on the couch.
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("Girls, why don't you go see what Aunt Phoebe is up to." Leo said to Mindy and Mary. They nodded their understanding and chased after Phoebe. ) They ran up the stairs silently, to make sure that Phoebe didn't know that they were following her. She walked up to the attic, so Mindy and Mary followed.
Phoebe opened up the Book of Shadows to the page with the summoning spell even though she had already memorized it. She read the spell allowed and waited impatiently for mom and grams to show up, but nothing happened. Phoebe cast an angry glance upwards, hoping they would see it and come down, but they didn't, so she read it again, this time yelling it.
When no-one appeared, Phoebe let out a cry of disgust.
"You didn't let them come when Mindy was born, and you didn't let them come when Mary was born! WHY WONT YOU LET THEM COME AS PIPER'S THIRD BABY DAUGHTER WAS BORN!? WHY?" Phoebe shouted, looking towards the sky.
Mary yelped when Phoebe yelled, not expecting her to.
"Why did you do that?" Mindy hissed at her younger sister, but instead of an answer, Mary's bottom lip started to quiver. Not even a minute later, Mary started wailing. Melinda's eyes widened and she pasted an innocent look on her face, knowing that Phoebe would come out to see what was going on.
Sure enough, Phoebe walked outside and scooped Mary into her arms.
"What's wrong, Mary?" Phoebe asked, wiping the tears off of Mary's cheeks.
"I didn't do it!" Mindy yelled and ran down the stairs. Melinda didn't really think it was her fault, Mary was probably just surprised from Phoebe yelling, and didn't know why she was or something, but just to be safe she ran to her mommy.
"Mommy!? Daddy!?" Melinda screamed. She started running towards Piper when Leo orbed in.
"Hey, munchkin!" Leo said, picking Melinda up and spinning her in a circle. He didn't want her to have a different whitelighter, but he knew that he couldn't reason with Forseti, unless. . .
"Mindy, go get Paige!" Leo said to his daughter.
"What? Why?" Mindy asked.
"Just go get her and come back down here." Leo said again. "Quickly!" Mindy nodded and ran around the house trying to find Paige. She finally found her in her bedroom, reading something on her bed. Melinda jumped up next to her.
"Daddy says to get you and bring you downstairs." Mindy said.
"Why?" Paige asked.
"I dunno. He didn't tell me, he just said, 'go get her and come back down here'." Mindy said, doing her best to mimic Leo.
"Okay." Paige said, stifling a laugh. She got up off of the bed and walked out of the door, Mindy trailing behind her.
Paige walked down the stairs and walked into the living room, where Leo was sitting on the floor, watching Piper sleep.
"Oh how sweet," Paige said to Melinda. Leo looked up and smiled.
"I need to ask you something." Leo said, looking at Mindy.
"Melinda, go up and play with Aunt Phoebe and Mary." Paige said, clueing in to Leo's hint right away. Mindy's eyes got huge and she pursed her lips together.
"Awwww. Do I have to? I want to stay here with you." Mindy pleaded. It was hard to resist when she did that, but whatever Leo was going to ask, must have been important.
"Yes, sweetie." Paige said, "You daddy and I need to talk privately." Melinda pouted and looked at Paige and Leo with Puppy eyes, but went up the stairs. After she was upstairs and out of sight, Paige looked up at Leo.
"Now, what did you need to ask me?" Paige asked. "Must be important."
"I just got back from 'up there' and Forseti told me that unless I can think of a better person, that he was going to appoint Celia to watch over Melinda, Mary, and Megan because I'm not allowed to have anymore charges, so I was thinking." Leo said.
"Well, how would you like to have three charges?" Leo explained.
"I'd love to, Leo, but would they let me, I mean. . ." Paige let her voice trail off. Leo knew perfectly well what she meant. The elders hadn't let her have a charge before, mostly because of her job, but now that she wasn't working, they suspected it was because she was only half- whitelighter, but Leo didn't think that they had much of a choice, considering that Paige already lived with them.
"They have to. I'll go ask them right now." Leo said, and orbed out of the room.
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Leo orbed into the 'Up There' and walked straight to the double doors. He knocked and the doors opened. Forseti was still in there.
"Have you come up with something already, Wyatt?" Forseti asked.
"Paige." Leo said hopefully, "She already lives with us, and she's half whitelighter."
"No." Forseti said. Leo opened his mouth to say something more, but Forseti talked first. "NO!"
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A/N: Who wants to know why? ( Review and find out!)
"Bitch" by: Meredith Brooks
The name Forseti comes from the Norse god of Justice