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"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."

-Percy Bysshe Shelley-

Soon days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, and months into years, and life went on in the Halliwell Manor. No one ever really got over the loss of Chris, but watching him grow up as a happy child brought to everyone so much joy and hope. In their hearts they knew everything would be okay. As life went on in the Halliwell Manor, many things changed. Less then a year after Chris died, Paige became a teacher at the Magic School and soon met her husband Perry. That same year Phoebe met her husband, Drew. He was an innocent that they had saved. When Chris was a little over 5 years old, Phoebe had a little girl, whom she named Melinda. Then on one fateful day, a little over 7 years since Chris died, something happened, something no one had expected.....

Future-Manor.

"Chris, Wyatt, hurry up or else you won't be able to have breakfast before you leave for school!" Piper shouted up the stairs.

She returned to the kitchen to find her youngest sister eating some crazy breakfast of bananas, pickles, and cheese. "Paige that is the weirdest combination of food I have ever seen!" She said giggling at her little sister.

"Hey, I am just happy that I can eat. She has finally decided to stop making mommy sick. So I really don't care how weird it is." Paige stated will patting her slightly swollen belly. She was now just a little over four months pregnant.

Soon two boys came racing into the kitchen. One was a blonde and the other had brown hair. "Morning Mom! What's for breakfast?" Wyatt asked.

"Pancakes," Piper said, smiling at her younger son Chris. She knew that pancakes were his favorite. Piper always had a tendency to spoil him. She knew she shouldn't, but she couldn't help it. "but you two better eat fast. You have to leave for school soon."

Piper couldn't help but smile as she sat and watched her family eat. Her two boys, they were happy and healthy. They had a father who adored them both and a mother who would give anything for them. They had a normal life, well as normal as a Halliwell could have. They are having the childhood that they both deserved. When Piper snapped back to reality when she heard her younger sister saying it was time to go.

"Bye Mom" her sons shouted back at her, as they ran behind their aunt, making their way to school. Once they had left, the house was silent. She began to clean up the breakfast dishes. Leo then orbed in, "Piper, we need to talk."

"Yea, sure, Leo. Sit down."

"Piper, the Elders have assigned me another family to me as Charges. I am still the family's Whitelighter, but now I have an additional five, well soon to be six, new charges," Leo said clearly upset. "But why? Why now, Leo? And what is this five soon to be six business?" Piper asked.

"Well you see, I have a whole other family. It is a young couple, with 3 children. Their fourth child will be born in about a month. I think I was assigned because of where this family is living." Leo stated, still clearly annoyed and upset with the Elders for doing this.

"What do you mean 'where they are living'? And don't they already have a whitelighter"

"As in they are living next store. They are our new neighbors. The couple who are moving into Dan's old house. From what little I know, their whitelighter was killed. I guess the pregnant wife was kidnapped by a darklighter and when the whitelighter came, the darklighter killed the whitelighter. But there is more to this; like some unseen consequence that even the Elder's do not know about." Leo stated staring off into nothingness.

When he came back he smiled at his wife, "Piper, I must go. They want to brief me on the family. I was wondering if you could do me a huge favor and invite them over for dinner tonight. It would make meeting them a whole lot easier. Plus they are going to be our neighbors. Our children will end up playing together."

"Sure, I was thinking about doing that anyways." She kissed her husband goodbye just as he was orbed out.

It was 1pm before Piper could make it over to the new neighbors house. She started over to the house that she had spent so much time in, so many years before. It was somewhat odd going back over there now. But there was something about this house, or the people moving in that drew Piper there. So she knocked on the door. She waited for what felt like an eternity. A young woman opened the door. She was clearly very pregnant and she held a small boy who was no more then a year old. A young girl hid behind her legs, trying to hide but at the same time see who this person at their door was. The woman who answered had long brown hair, and these piercing green eyes. She smiled at Piper.

"Hi, my name is Piper, Piper Halliwell. I live next door. I am Leo's wife."

"Ah yes! Please come in!" the young woman gestured, "My name is Mariam, you can call me Mari. This is my daughter Chrissy and this is my son Warren." She said shaking her hand. Piper looked up at her in surprise upon hearing the names.

They made their way to the living room, "Is there anything I can get you? Water? Lemonade? Tea?" Mariam asked Piper as they sat down.

"Oh no thank-you!" Piper said looking around the house. Boxes where everywhere, but once everything was unpacked it will be very nice. "If you don't mind me asking, I heard that you had 3 children....You certainly don't look old enough to have that many children!"

Mariam couldn't help but giggle, "I am 27 years old. I start early, you could say. I meant my husband, Gabriel, when I was only 18. I was married on my 19th birthday and then 10 months later our eldest daughter, Prudence, was born. She is attending Magic School until she is old enough to go to Avalon. My husband should be home soon with Prue."

"You weren't kidding when you said you started out young." Piper was getting a bit uncomfortable, all these names where connected to the Halliwell's, "How did you pick your children's names?"

"My husband, Gabe, he insisted upon them. I tried to get to name them something else. I wanted to name Prue after my Great-Grandmother Elian but Gabe wouldn't have it. I finally gave up and let him name them." She smiled at Piper.

There conversation was interrupted by the sound of laughter coming from upstairs. And soon, man in his early 30's came bouncing down the stairs with a small girl upon his back. Chrissy, upon seeing who was coming down the stairs, immediately ran over to her father. He scooped her up, "So how is my bub today? Where you a good girl for mommy?"

That voice, Piper knew that voice. But it couldn't be. "No, Piper, it is not him. Chris has been dead for over 7 years now." She regained her composure and stood to meet Gabriel. But when she turned around she saw someone she had dreamed of seeing again, but never expected to see again. She froze there, in shock; her face was as white as a ghost. She could hear Mariam saying "Piper, I would like you to meet my husband Gabriel and my daughter Prue." But all Piper could think about was the man she saw before her eyes. The ghost. "It can't be him. He is supposed to be dead. No Piper, get it together. This is not happening. Breathe Piper. He is not Chris." But every fiber in her being was telling her that her beloved son, whom she had lost so many years ago, was standing before her. She heard him speaking,

"Piper? Piper? Can you hear me? Are you okay? It looks like you have seen a ghost. Maybe you should sit down." Gabe said motioning toward the couch.

She laughed and thought silently to herself "seen a ghost. If you only knew. This can't be happening. I need to get out of here."

"No, no I am fine. I was just a bit taken back about how much you looked like someone I once knew many years ago. But I really must be going..."Piper started toward the door, "I was hoping that you and your children would come over to dinner tonight. You know, meet Leo. The kids can play. Nothing too formal." She turned to ask the ghost and his wife.

"Sounds great! What time?" Mariam said smiling. "Around six! Well see you then." And Piper walked briskly out the door.

As Gabriel closed the door, he turned to his wife and said, "Somehow she seems familiar. Like I have known her before. But I am not sure how. I have never met her before. Weird."

She had never walked so fast in her life. She could not get home fast enough. "How could that be him, Piper? He has been dead. No he hasn't and you have felt it all along. You know it is he Piper. But how? How could this be?" She finally reached the door. As soon as she had closed the door behind her, she slid to the floor, and started to cry. "How, How can this be? Why is he here? Why doesn't he know who I am?" All she could do was cry. Seeing him had just opened her old wounds. Wounds that never fully closed, but it still made it hurt much worse. All she could do is cry there, on the floor. She needed someone and so she waited for someone to come. Eventually someone did come, Leo. Her beloved Leo came to her.

When Leo orbed in, he found his wife on the floor near the door, weeping. "Piper, what is wrong? What has happened?" Leo asked kneeling down besides her.

"I, I saw him Leo. I saw Chris, adult Chris." She looked at him pleading, hoping that he would believe her this time.

"Piper you know that is not true. He is dead. He died. I was there." Leo stated, recalling that painful memory.

Piper just looked at, helpless. She knew she was alone. Leo wasn't going to listen or believe her. So she turned away from and just cried. They sat there in silence for what seemed hours. It only broke at the sound of the return of their children, Chris and Wyatt, and Paige and her husband Perry. As the four came down the stairs, they all turned toward the sound of crying. They saw Piper, sitting on the floor, crying and Leo kneeling next to her. Before the boys could say anything, Paige looked to her husband and he nodded silently. "Come on boys, let's go get some food." Then the three of them disappeared in a swirl of bright orbs.

Paige rushed over, asking "what happened?"

"She saw HIM again."

"oh" Paige realizing who the him was, "Piper, why don't we go sit down and I will go get you something to drink, and then we can talk about what exactly you saw."

Leo helped, a reluctant and still clearly upset Piper, up and lead her to a near by couch. Meanwhile, Paige went into the kitchen to get Piper a glass of water. Almost immediately she called their sister, Phoebe.

"Phoebe, I think you need to come over here like ASAP. Piper is very upset and claiming she saw adult Chris again...."

"What?" Phoebe exclaimed, "I thought we were all over this. What happened?"

"I am not sure. We are getting ready to talk about what happened....but Phoebe, I think you need to come over here like now."

"Alright, but how about you come and orb me to the manor....." But before Phoebe could even finish her thought Paige had already orbed her back to the manor.

"Well, geeze, Paige. Could you have waited any longer?" She said clearly annoyed with her younger sister. "Now come on, Piper needs us."

Both walked out of the kitchen and joined Piper and Leo. Phoebe immediately hugged her sister. It didn't take an empath to know that Piper was hurt, confused and upset. "Piper, what happened?" She questioned.

Piper looked up meekly at her sister, her eyes were red and puffy, "I, I, I saw him. I went next door and I saw him. He didn't seem to have a clue who I was. He looked so happy. He had a family."

"Piper, you know that is not possible. Chris died over 7 years ago. I was there, and Leo was there." Paige pleaded with her sister.

"No, no, it was him. I know it is him. I felt it with every fiber in my being; I felt it in my heart. Plus, learning the children's name, it only convinced me more. Who other then a Halliwell, my Chris, would name their children, Prue, Chrissy and Warren? Who?" Piper said, becoming more and more upset with each passing word. By the end, she was up and pacing.

"Piper..." Phoebe started to say, but this only set her elder sister off more.

"Don't you think I don't know what you all are thinking? 'Poor Piper, there she goes again.' I know who I saw, and I saw Chris. It was him. I shall even prove it. Tonight. They are coming over to dinner," she then stormed off to the kitchen to start making dinner.

She left her sisters and Leo standing, bewildered at her behavior. The three of them exchanged worrisome glances.