Leo orbed into the living room. "Piper?" he whispered. The house looked
different somehow. Then he realized that the window was broken, and most of
the furniture was destroyed. A demon had come. "PIPER!!!" he screamed
looking around the house. He walked into the kitchen and saw Cole sitting
on a chair.
"Cole! What happened here? Where's Piper? Is she alright? Where are the other girls??" he asked, in a panicky voice. Cole looked up at him, pissed off because his thoughts were interrupted. "Piper, upstairs. Paige, not home yet. Phoebe, looking around. Oh, and there was a little incident..here in your living room. I would ask Piper upstairs for all the details...."
Leo ran up the stairs quickly. He burst into Piper's and his room and shrieked, "PIPER!!!" Instead, he found a teenage boy, about 17 years old, looking around at the pictures in their room. The boy quickly turned around. Leo quickly recognized him as the one of the kids he saw this morning. "You! What are you doing here?" he asked. The boy was speechless.
"Um...uh." he muttered. Suddenly, he felt a tap on his back, and found Piper and a young woman, the other person from this morning. "Leo...you're home.." She whispered. Leo lifted an eyebrow. "What's going on here? Are these some new innocents?" he asked. Piper sighed. The girl stared up at him with wide eyes. "I think we all need to talk." Piper said, pushing Leo into the room.
She sat Leo down and pulled some chairs out for the two strangers. The chairs were set up right in front of him. Piper sat down with Leo and pointed to the two. "Leo, these people are from the future. They're our kids." She said, still pointing to them. Sam turned away. Alex smiled and gazed at his dad.
Piper introduced the two. "This is Samantha, and this is Alexander. Otherwise known as, Sam and Alex. Our two kids that we have over the next couple years." She said. Leo sat there in shock. He glanced at Sam, then at Alex then at Piper, then at Piper's stomach. His mouth was open, waiting to say something, but nothing would come out.
"Ah...I.uh.." he stuttered. Sam licked her lips and sighed. The two stayed silent. Piper hit him. "SAY SOMETHING!!!" she screamed. "THESE ARE OUR KIDS FOR PETE'S SAKE!" Leo nodded and looked at Alex. "We have a boy? And a girl? These two? They're ours?" he asked. Sam and Alex nodded. Alex smiled and got up and gave Leo a big hug.
Leo smiled and instead of pushing him away, he grabbed on to him and felt proud. Piper gave a half smile. Sam crossed her arms. Leo turned to Sam. "And I'm guessing you're our first born. We..don't name you Melinda?" he asked her. Sam shook her head. "According to my stories, Mom said that she always hated that name and she guessed that when you saw, well me, in the future a few years ago, that YOU picked Melinda to be my name. So she changed it. She named me Samantha, but Melinda is my middle name..." She said, shrugging.
Leo understood. "You're, beautiful." He whispered. "Everything I dreamed you would be. " he said to Sam, stroking the side of her long black hair, putting it behind her ear. Sam half-smiled. She held her dad's hand as it crossed her ear. Then, Leo turned over to Alex. He smiled. "I always knew that I'd have a little boy...." he said, ruffling Alex's short blond hair. Piper smiled a big smile.
"Are you as powerful as Ramus said you would be?" Leo asked Sam. Sam nodded and shrugged. "I guess so. I am the most powerful next to CJ. I have more powers than anyone else. Of course, right now, I have no powers. My powers got stripped because apparently, I'm in mom's stomach right now, so little Sam has her powers." She said. Leo glanced at Piper. "CJ?" he asked. "Phoebe's kid." Piper whispered back. Alex smirked. Leo nodded and turned to Alex. "What about you Alex? Shouldn't you be more powerful that Sam?"
Alex shook his head. "Nope. I don't have the ability to heal, or other unique powers that Sam has, maybe because she's first born. But, you never know, my powers are still developing. I do have freezing powers, telekinesis, orbing, levitation, thermodynamic generation, electricity generation blah blah blah..the usual." He said. Leo nodded. Then he looked at Piper and smiled. Piper read his mind. "I know, it's hard to believe that they're ours...." she whispered.
Sam looked away and started rubbing her arms. She closed her eyes, and hoped that they would stop, too many memories haunted her, she didn't need anymore. "Look, let's get to the point, you guys are in danger. Big danger." She said, changing the subject. Piper looked over to her and understood her look.
Alex nodded. "Dad, you, in the future, transported us to the past, so we can save you. A warlock, used the book of shadows to go to the past, so he can kill you, and so we wouldn't exist in the future." He said. Sam continued on for him. "He already tried to kill me. And he won't stop. He could strike at anytime, but we can't let anything happen to you. All the good that we have done, and you will do, will be lost forever."
"So, do you know this warlock's name? He could be in the Book." Piper asked. Sam shook her head. "No, we have no info on him. All we know that he's somewhere here." She said. Leo nodded. "Ok, we better get to the bottom of this. " he said as he headed out the door. Alex followed Leo, but stopped when he saw that Piper and Sam were standing still. "Sam, are you coming?"
Sam looked up, and seemed startled. "Oh, yeah, Alex, go ahead." She said. Alex sensed that there was something wrong, but decided to leave it alone and just left the room. Piper walked over to Sam and laid her hand on her shoulder. "Are you going to be ok? You seemed, sad just now..." she said. Sam shrugged and sighed. "Yeah, I guess so.." she said.
Piper looked into her eyes. "Sam, are you sure? I don't want you getting hurt. There's a greater risk involved, since you don't even have any powers...." she said. Sam rubbed her head. 'No, no more memories, no bonding...' Sam thought to herself. 'You came here for one reason, and one reason only, to kill the warlock. Don't get close to mom, only result in heartache...'
"SAM?" Piper screamed to Sam, since Sam was drifting off. Sam stayed silent for a minute, and then gave a fake smile to throw her mother off. "Yeah mom. I'll be fine.. Just had a little..flashback that's all." She said. But Piper didn't buy the smile for a second. "We'll talk later. Ok?" she said, angrily. Sam sighed. "Mom...I.." she started but Piper covered her mouth.
"Ah ah ah! No, we are going to talk later. You got it? You maybe 25, but I'm still your mother whether you freaking like it or not and I'm really worried about you!!!" Piper said to her. Sam tried to argue. "Mom, please...I.." but Piper gave her the wide eye look, and that told her to shut up. 'Great..' Sam thought, as she walked out of the room.
****
Paige walked through the door and hung her coat up on the hooks. "PIPER! PHOEBE! LEO! I'M HOME! DID YOU GUYS FIND THE WHITELIGHTER I WAS TALKING ABOUT???" Paige screamed at the top of her voice. She walked to the table to put her purse down. Then she looked sideways to the living room. She saw the window broken and the furniture destroyed. "Oh crap. A demon. God, I knew I shouldn't have worked overtime.." she said, as she started to run around the house, looking for at least one of her sisters.
"Piper!! Phoebe!!" she called. She accidentally bumped into Phoebe on her jog. "AHHH!" Phoebe shrieked as she fell on her butt. Phoebe rubbed her hip, and glared at Paige. "Paige!" she said, angrily. "What the heck?" she asked. Paige lifted an eyebrow and pulled Phoebe to her feet. "Sorry. What happened to the living room?" she asked.
Phoebe rolled her eyes and put her hand onto her head. "It's really confusing...Paige." she whispered. Paige was confused. "What? Phoebe what are you talking about? Did a demon attack or not? What's with the broken window in the living room? And the furniture?" she asked.
Just then, Rachel ran through from the kitchen, without noticing Paige. "Aunt Phoebe! CJ wants to..." She said but stopped once she saw Paige. Paige immediately recognized her from social services. "Hey! It's you! What are you doing here?" she asked. Phoebe looked at the both of them. "You know each other already?" she asked.
"Yeah! That's the girl, you know, that I was talking about on the phone..." she whispered to Phoebe. Phoebe glanced to Rachel and walked over to her. "Is this your...." she started but Rachel read her mind and immediately nodded. Phoebe realized that Rachel needed some help.
"Paige, this is Rachel. She came here, to us, for a special reason. It involves you. So, I think you two need to talk right now. Rachel, CJ wants to talk to me?" she asked. Rachel nodded. Phoebe smiled and kissed Rachel on the cheek. "It's ok. Just tell her slowly. You'll get through it..." She said, before she walked away to go to the kitchen.
Paige looked over to Phoebe, confused. "What the heck?" she muttered. Rachel finally got the courage to talk. "I...I need to...tell you something.." she whispered. Paige nodded. "What happened to you today? You just ran away. And I have a feeling that you're probably in need of help because you're a whitelighter?" she asked. Rachel sighed and shook her head.
"My name is Rachel. Rachel Anna Matthews." She whispered. Paige suddenly caught attention. Her mouth slowly formed into a large "o". "Did you just say..." She started but couldn't finish. Rachel nodded slowly and took a deep breath. "I'm here from the future. I'm your daughter. And I'm here to protect you.." she said, nervously. Paige's eyes got wider.
"My...WHAT?" she screamed. Rachel nodded, yet again. "I have a daughter?" she asked again. "That explains why you can orb.." she muttered. Rachel did the only thing she could do, and that was nod. "Oh my..oh my.OH MY.." Paige stuttered. Rachel smiled. "Do you want time alone? I can leave..." She said turning away but Paige quickly grabbed her shoulder. "No, we should talk, let's talk." She said.
Just then, Piper, Leo, Sam and Alex came down the stairs together. Paige and Rachel looked up at the stairs. Paige pointed at the Sam and Alex and glanced at Piper. Piper read her mind and slowly nodded. Piper smiled and gave a thumbs up sign. She pointed to Sam and then pointed to her stomach. Piper then gave a small giggle.
Paige smirked. Rachel looked at Sam and Alex. Sam saw that she was meeting with Paige, for the second time in her whole life. Sam glanced over to Rachel and mouthed the words "Are you gonna be ok?" but didn't say them. Rachel read her lips, and nodded. Then, the four went to the kitchen.
Paige turned back to her daughter. "Let's go talk, on the couch." She whispered as the she put her hand on Rachel's shoulder as they walked to the living room.
****
Phoebe stood in between CJ and Cole. CJ was looking at his shoes and Cole was just turned away, both their arms were crossed against their chest. Phoebe glanced at Cole then glanced at CJ, back and forth, back and forth. "Well?" she asked them. CJ shrugged, and Cole just didn't answer. Phoebe got pissed. "Well, one of you has to apologize some time. Or start talking or something!!! We're never going to get through this if one of you doesn't talk."
"I've got really nothing to say." CJ whispered. Cole glanced up at him and saw the sad face on his son. Cole felt the guilt forming in his stomach. Cole gave a big sigh, stood up, and then held out his hand to CJ. "I'm sorry CJ." He said quietly. CJ suddenly looked up. He was confused by his father's response. "What?" he asked.
Cole sighed and rolled his eyes. "I said, I was sorry." He said. CJ shook his head. "I don't think you mean it. I think you're just doing this so Mom will get off your back. I'm not gonna except a fake apology from a guy who just tried to kill me..." He said. Cole got mad. "WHAT? I JUST SAID I WAS SORRY! OH, AND IT'S NOT LIKE YOU DIDN'T TRY TO KILL ME EITHER!!!" he screamed at CJ.
CJ stood up and they were eye to eye, their faces close to each other. "WHAT? IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT YOU SET MY FREAKING ANGER OFF. YOU DIDN'T EVEN GIVE ME A CHANCE TO EXPLAIN WHO I WAS."
"CAN I HELP IT? I THOUGHT YOU WERE HURTING PHOEBE!!!"
"I WOULD NEVER HURT MOM! I ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT I WAS YOUR FREAKING SON! CAN'T YOU JUST TRUST ME ON THAT? I CAME HERE TO SAVE YOU. And your trust means everything to me. I've never had your trust before in my life." CJ said quietly, sitting down again. Cole felt the guilt again.
"It's probably my fault. I didn't believe you. I don't think I wanted to believe you."
"You never wanted me.."
"That's not true, I'm just not ready. And I'm saying sorry again. I mean it this time. I'm just not ready to know that I have a...a..."
"A boy?"
"Yeah..."
CJ sighed. Phoebe smiled. Cole took a deep breath. CJ looked up at Cole, stood up and held his hand up. Cole grabbed his hand and shook it. Phoebe smiled a show teeth smile. "There, was that so bad?" she asked, patting the two guys on the back. Cole shook his head and CJ did the same. Cole let go of CJ's hand and gave a half smile. "Ok, CJ. Let's try to find out who this warlock is."
Just then, Piper, Leo and their descendants walked into the kitchen. Phoebe saw Leo. "I see you've met your kids..." She said, laughing. Leo grinned. Sam shoved her hands into her pockets. "I think we should go look in the Book of Shadows for something, anything." She whispered. Alex and CJ nodded. The three walked silently out of the kitchen.
Piper motioned for Leo to get him and Cole out so she and Phoebe could talk. Leo read her signs. "Cole, why don't you and me go upstairs and help them find them something." He said to Cole. Cole looked confused. "I'm sure they could find it...." he started but Phoebe kicked him slightly in the knees. Cole got the idea. "Oh, ok. Let's go."
The two guys walked out of the kitchen and Piper and Phoebe pulled out a chair for themselves. Piper sighed and laid her head down on the kitchen counter. Phoebe sighed. "I still can't believe it. CJ looks exactly like Cole..." Phoebe said. Piper nodded and gave a small groan. Phoebe looked at her. "Piper, you ok?"
Piper shrugged. "I really don't know. My kids are beautiful. My son's an artist, my daughter is running the club. They are...everything I dreamed they would be." She said. Phoebe sensed another sentence coming on. "But."
"But, my son had no idea what I looked like and how much I love him because he was only five when...and my daughter just, is grieving over her loss. I mean, I want them to have better lives, and I don't want them to be so depressed all the time, but I just can't help them. They've been through so much. They deserve so much better."
Phoebe nodded. "Well, what do expect out of Sam. I mean, she was a teen, she was left all alone, with nobody to look up to as a role model. I don't blame her."
"I had a lot of unfilled promises that I gave and it's tearing her apart that she didn't have the perfect, ideal childhood. She dropped out of college when Leo died for pete's sake. She never got to get a degree, and...." Piper didn't finish. She rubbed her head. "How's your boy doing?"
Phoebe shrugged. "He lost me at a young age. He never got to meet Cole. It tears him apart...wish I could do something.." she said. They both sighed and put their arms around each other to give each other comfort. It didn't work that well.
A/N: I know I know!! This chapter totally sucked cuz it's all talk. When is the action going to start again? Well, I'm trying to think what I'm going to do for the next chap so just hold your horses and review as much as YOU CAN!!!! Ok, I'm done.
"Cole! What happened here? Where's Piper? Is she alright? Where are the other girls??" he asked, in a panicky voice. Cole looked up at him, pissed off because his thoughts were interrupted. "Piper, upstairs. Paige, not home yet. Phoebe, looking around. Oh, and there was a little incident..here in your living room. I would ask Piper upstairs for all the details...."
Leo ran up the stairs quickly. He burst into Piper's and his room and shrieked, "PIPER!!!" Instead, he found a teenage boy, about 17 years old, looking around at the pictures in their room. The boy quickly turned around. Leo quickly recognized him as the one of the kids he saw this morning. "You! What are you doing here?" he asked. The boy was speechless.
"Um...uh." he muttered. Suddenly, he felt a tap on his back, and found Piper and a young woman, the other person from this morning. "Leo...you're home.." She whispered. Leo lifted an eyebrow. "What's going on here? Are these some new innocents?" he asked. Piper sighed. The girl stared up at him with wide eyes. "I think we all need to talk." Piper said, pushing Leo into the room.
She sat Leo down and pulled some chairs out for the two strangers. The chairs were set up right in front of him. Piper sat down with Leo and pointed to the two. "Leo, these people are from the future. They're our kids." She said, still pointing to them. Sam turned away. Alex smiled and gazed at his dad.
Piper introduced the two. "This is Samantha, and this is Alexander. Otherwise known as, Sam and Alex. Our two kids that we have over the next couple years." She said. Leo sat there in shock. He glanced at Sam, then at Alex then at Piper, then at Piper's stomach. His mouth was open, waiting to say something, but nothing would come out.
"Ah...I.uh.." he stuttered. Sam licked her lips and sighed. The two stayed silent. Piper hit him. "SAY SOMETHING!!!" she screamed. "THESE ARE OUR KIDS FOR PETE'S SAKE!" Leo nodded and looked at Alex. "We have a boy? And a girl? These two? They're ours?" he asked. Sam and Alex nodded. Alex smiled and got up and gave Leo a big hug.
Leo smiled and instead of pushing him away, he grabbed on to him and felt proud. Piper gave a half smile. Sam crossed her arms. Leo turned to Sam. "And I'm guessing you're our first born. We..don't name you Melinda?" he asked her. Sam shook her head. "According to my stories, Mom said that she always hated that name and she guessed that when you saw, well me, in the future a few years ago, that YOU picked Melinda to be my name. So she changed it. She named me Samantha, but Melinda is my middle name..." She said, shrugging.
Leo understood. "You're, beautiful." He whispered. "Everything I dreamed you would be. " he said to Sam, stroking the side of her long black hair, putting it behind her ear. Sam half-smiled. She held her dad's hand as it crossed her ear. Then, Leo turned over to Alex. He smiled. "I always knew that I'd have a little boy...." he said, ruffling Alex's short blond hair. Piper smiled a big smile.
"Are you as powerful as Ramus said you would be?" Leo asked Sam. Sam nodded and shrugged. "I guess so. I am the most powerful next to CJ. I have more powers than anyone else. Of course, right now, I have no powers. My powers got stripped because apparently, I'm in mom's stomach right now, so little Sam has her powers." She said. Leo glanced at Piper. "CJ?" he asked. "Phoebe's kid." Piper whispered back. Alex smirked. Leo nodded and turned to Alex. "What about you Alex? Shouldn't you be more powerful that Sam?"
Alex shook his head. "Nope. I don't have the ability to heal, or other unique powers that Sam has, maybe because she's first born. But, you never know, my powers are still developing. I do have freezing powers, telekinesis, orbing, levitation, thermodynamic generation, electricity generation blah blah blah..the usual." He said. Leo nodded. Then he looked at Piper and smiled. Piper read his mind. "I know, it's hard to believe that they're ours...." she whispered.
Sam looked away and started rubbing her arms. She closed her eyes, and hoped that they would stop, too many memories haunted her, she didn't need anymore. "Look, let's get to the point, you guys are in danger. Big danger." She said, changing the subject. Piper looked over to her and understood her look.
Alex nodded. "Dad, you, in the future, transported us to the past, so we can save you. A warlock, used the book of shadows to go to the past, so he can kill you, and so we wouldn't exist in the future." He said. Sam continued on for him. "He already tried to kill me. And he won't stop. He could strike at anytime, but we can't let anything happen to you. All the good that we have done, and you will do, will be lost forever."
"So, do you know this warlock's name? He could be in the Book." Piper asked. Sam shook her head. "No, we have no info on him. All we know that he's somewhere here." She said. Leo nodded. "Ok, we better get to the bottom of this. " he said as he headed out the door. Alex followed Leo, but stopped when he saw that Piper and Sam were standing still. "Sam, are you coming?"
Sam looked up, and seemed startled. "Oh, yeah, Alex, go ahead." She said. Alex sensed that there was something wrong, but decided to leave it alone and just left the room. Piper walked over to Sam and laid her hand on her shoulder. "Are you going to be ok? You seemed, sad just now..." she said. Sam shrugged and sighed. "Yeah, I guess so.." she said.
Piper looked into her eyes. "Sam, are you sure? I don't want you getting hurt. There's a greater risk involved, since you don't even have any powers...." she said. Sam rubbed her head. 'No, no more memories, no bonding...' Sam thought to herself. 'You came here for one reason, and one reason only, to kill the warlock. Don't get close to mom, only result in heartache...'
"SAM?" Piper screamed to Sam, since Sam was drifting off. Sam stayed silent for a minute, and then gave a fake smile to throw her mother off. "Yeah mom. I'll be fine.. Just had a little..flashback that's all." She said. But Piper didn't buy the smile for a second. "We'll talk later. Ok?" she said, angrily. Sam sighed. "Mom...I.." she started but Piper covered her mouth.
"Ah ah ah! No, we are going to talk later. You got it? You maybe 25, but I'm still your mother whether you freaking like it or not and I'm really worried about you!!!" Piper said to her. Sam tried to argue. "Mom, please...I.." but Piper gave her the wide eye look, and that told her to shut up. 'Great..' Sam thought, as she walked out of the room.
****
Paige walked through the door and hung her coat up on the hooks. "PIPER! PHOEBE! LEO! I'M HOME! DID YOU GUYS FIND THE WHITELIGHTER I WAS TALKING ABOUT???" Paige screamed at the top of her voice. She walked to the table to put her purse down. Then she looked sideways to the living room. She saw the window broken and the furniture destroyed. "Oh crap. A demon. God, I knew I shouldn't have worked overtime.." she said, as she started to run around the house, looking for at least one of her sisters.
"Piper!! Phoebe!!" she called. She accidentally bumped into Phoebe on her jog. "AHHH!" Phoebe shrieked as she fell on her butt. Phoebe rubbed her hip, and glared at Paige. "Paige!" she said, angrily. "What the heck?" she asked. Paige lifted an eyebrow and pulled Phoebe to her feet. "Sorry. What happened to the living room?" she asked.
Phoebe rolled her eyes and put her hand onto her head. "It's really confusing...Paige." she whispered. Paige was confused. "What? Phoebe what are you talking about? Did a demon attack or not? What's with the broken window in the living room? And the furniture?" she asked.
Just then, Rachel ran through from the kitchen, without noticing Paige. "Aunt Phoebe! CJ wants to..." She said but stopped once she saw Paige. Paige immediately recognized her from social services. "Hey! It's you! What are you doing here?" she asked. Phoebe looked at the both of them. "You know each other already?" she asked.
"Yeah! That's the girl, you know, that I was talking about on the phone..." she whispered to Phoebe. Phoebe glanced to Rachel and walked over to her. "Is this your...." she started but Rachel read her mind and immediately nodded. Phoebe realized that Rachel needed some help.
"Paige, this is Rachel. She came here, to us, for a special reason. It involves you. So, I think you two need to talk right now. Rachel, CJ wants to talk to me?" she asked. Rachel nodded. Phoebe smiled and kissed Rachel on the cheek. "It's ok. Just tell her slowly. You'll get through it..." She said, before she walked away to go to the kitchen.
Paige looked over to Phoebe, confused. "What the heck?" she muttered. Rachel finally got the courage to talk. "I...I need to...tell you something.." she whispered. Paige nodded. "What happened to you today? You just ran away. And I have a feeling that you're probably in need of help because you're a whitelighter?" she asked. Rachel sighed and shook her head.
"My name is Rachel. Rachel Anna Matthews." She whispered. Paige suddenly caught attention. Her mouth slowly formed into a large "o". "Did you just say..." She started but couldn't finish. Rachel nodded slowly and took a deep breath. "I'm here from the future. I'm your daughter. And I'm here to protect you.." she said, nervously. Paige's eyes got wider.
"My...WHAT?" she screamed. Rachel nodded, yet again. "I have a daughter?" she asked again. "That explains why you can orb.." she muttered. Rachel did the only thing she could do, and that was nod. "Oh my..oh my.OH MY.." Paige stuttered. Rachel smiled. "Do you want time alone? I can leave..." She said turning away but Paige quickly grabbed her shoulder. "No, we should talk, let's talk." She said.
Just then, Piper, Leo, Sam and Alex came down the stairs together. Paige and Rachel looked up at the stairs. Paige pointed at the Sam and Alex and glanced at Piper. Piper read her mind and slowly nodded. Piper smiled and gave a thumbs up sign. She pointed to Sam and then pointed to her stomach. Piper then gave a small giggle.
Paige smirked. Rachel looked at Sam and Alex. Sam saw that she was meeting with Paige, for the second time in her whole life. Sam glanced over to Rachel and mouthed the words "Are you gonna be ok?" but didn't say them. Rachel read her lips, and nodded. Then, the four went to the kitchen.
Paige turned back to her daughter. "Let's go talk, on the couch." She whispered as the she put her hand on Rachel's shoulder as they walked to the living room.
****
Phoebe stood in between CJ and Cole. CJ was looking at his shoes and Cole was just turned away, both their arms were crossed against their chest. Phoebe glanced at Cole then glanced at CJ, back and forth, back and forth. "Well?" she asked them. CJ shrugged, and Cole just didn't answer. Phoebe got pissed. "Well, one of you has to apologize some time. Or start talking or something!!! We're never going to get through this if one of you doesn't talk."
"I've got really nothing to say." CJ whispered. Cole glanced up at him and saw the sad face on his son. Cole felt the guilt forming in his stomach. Cole gave a big sigh, stood up, and then held out his hand to CJ. "I'm sorry CJ." He said quietly. CJ suddenly looked up. He was confused by his father's response. "What?" he asked.
Cole sighed and rolled his eyes. "I said, I was sorry." He said. CJ shook his head. "I don't think you mean it. I think you're just doing this so Mom will get off your back. I'm not gonna except a fake apology from a guy who just tried to kill me..." He said. Cole got mad. "WHAT? I JUST SAID I WAS SORRY! OH, AND IT'S NOT LIKE YOU DIDN'T TRY TO KILL ME EITHER!!!" he screamed at CJ.
CJ stood up and they were eye to eye, their faces close to each other. "WHAT? IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT YOU SET MY FREAKING ANGER OFF. YOU DIDN'T EVEN GIVE ME A CHANCE TO EXPLAIN WHO I WAS."
"CAN I HELP IT? I THOUGHT YOU WERE HURTING PHOEBE!!!"
"I WOULD NEVER HURT MOM! I ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT I WAS YOUR FREAKING SON! CAN'T YOU JUST TRUST ME ON THAT? I CAME HERE TO SAVE YOU. And your trust means everything to me. I've never had your trust before in my life." CJ said quietly, sitting down again. Cole felt the guilt again.
"It's probably my fault. I didn't believe you. I don't think I wanted to believe you."
"You never wanted me.."
"That's not true, I'm just not ready. And I'm saying sorry again. I mean it this time. I'm just not ready to know that I have a...a..."
"A boy?"
"Yeah..."
CJ sighed. Phoebe smiled. Cole took a deep breath. CJ looked up at Cole, stood up and held his hand up. Cole grabbed his hand and shook it. Phoebe smiled a show teeth smile. "There, was that so bad?" she asked, patting the two guys on the back. Cole shook his head and CJ did the same. Cole let go of CJ's hand and gave a half smile. "Ok, CJ. Let's try to find out who this warlock is."
Just then, Piper, Leo and their descendants walked into the kitchen. Phoebe saw Leo. "I see you've met your kids..." She said, laughing. Leo grinned. Sam shoved her hands into her pockets. "I think we should go look in the Book of Shadows for something, anything." She whispered. Alex and CJ nodded. The three walked silently out of the kitchen.
Piper motioned for Leo to get him and Cole out so she and Phoebe could talk. Leo read her signs. "Cole, why don't you and me go upstairs and help them find them something." He said to Cole. Cole looked confused. "I'm sure they could find it...." he started but Phoebe kicked him slightly in the knees. Cole got the idea. "Oh, ok. Let's go."
The two guys walked out of the kitchen and Piper and Phoebe pulled out a chair for themselves. Piper sighed and laid her head down on the kitchen counter. Phoebe sighed. "I still can't believe it. CJ looks exactly like Cole..." Phoebe said. Piper nodded and gave a small groan. Phoebe looked at her. "Piper, you ok?"
Piper shrugged. "I really don't know. My kids are beautiful. My son's an artist, my daughter is running the club. They are...everything I dreamed they would be." She said. Phoebe sensed another sentence coming on. "But."
"But, my son had no idea what I looked like and how much I love him because he was only five when...and my daughter just, is grieving over her loss. I mean, I want them to have better lives, and I don't want them to be so depressed all the time, but I just can't help them. They've been through so much. They deserve so much better."
Phoebe nodded. "Well, what do expect out of Sam. I mean, she was a teen, she was left all alone, with nobody to look up to as a role model. I don't blame her."
"I had a lot of unfilled promises that I gave and it's tearing her apart that she didn't have the perfect, ideal childhood. She dropped out of college when Leo died for pete's sake. She never got to get a degree, and...." Piper didn't finish. She rubbed her head. "How's your boy doing?"
Phoebe shrugged. "He lost me at a young age. He never got to meet Cole. It tears him apart...wish I could do something.." she said. They both sighed and put their arms around each other to give each other comfort. It didn't work that well.
A/N: I know I know!! This chapter totally sucked cuz it's all talk. When is the action going to start again? Well, I'm trying to think what I'm going to do for the next chap so just hold your horses and review as much as YOU CAN!!!! Ok, I'm done.