What Could Have Been:
"It worked, the spell worked," Piper whispered under her breath,
"what was that sweetie?" Leo asked,
"nothing, who says we go bake some cookies?" Piper replied,
"yeah," Melinda cheered, Leo and Piper laughed. The three ran into the kitchen where Prue was feeding a baby girl, who sat in a high chair,
"Prue, is that your daughter?" Piper asked her big sister,
"yes, this is Brianna, your niece, remember?" Prue said,
"are you sure you're okay?" Leo asked his wife,
"yeah, probably banged my head," Piper replied.
"Oh yeah, Phoebe said she'll be back about five to pick Bianca up," Prue told them,
"Bianca?" Piper asked, then she thought, "Phoebe's daughter,"
"yeah, she's asleep upstairs," Prue replied. Piper watched as Brianna wriggled about, flicking her hands and telekinetically floating a chocolate muffin to her,
"no, your too young for that," Prue said taking the muffin, Brianna started crying, "someone's tired, lets get you to bed," she took her daughter from her high chair and carried her upstairs.
"Mommy, you said we could make cookies," Melinda said,
"okay, go and get the big bowl," Piper told her, a baby moniter next to them released loud cries,
"I'll go get her back to sleep," Leo said orbing up to Bianca. Piper looked down at her stomach again, she guessed she was about six months along,
"so, what names would you like for the baby?" Piper asked her daughter,
"I like Leona, just like you said," Melinda replied,
"Leona, Leona Haliwell," Piper repeated.
"Hey mommy, remember when da baby used one of her powers and protected you with a forcefield?" Melinda said,
"yeah," Piper fakely agreed, "I remember."
About an hour later, Melinda was sitting playing with her dolls and eating a cookie, while Piper and Leo were watching Brianna and Bianca, Prue and Phoebe were both at work. Suddenly, a demon shimmered in and formed a fire ball, throwing it at Melinda, she raised her hands and froze it, Piper and Leo turned to see it float over to Brianna's crib and then Bianca destroyed it with a mini energy ball.
"Energy balls? Isn't that a demonic power?" Piper asked,
"well Cole is half demon," Leo said, Piper flicked out her hands, blowing the demon up,
"Cole, right," Piper said. A few minutes later, Piper was looking through photo albums and diaries to find out more about her family in this reality, so far she had found out Phoebe was married to a half demon called Cole and they had Bianca, Prue was married to a journalist at 415 called Alex and they had Brianna, she and Leo had never been divorced and had Melinda and expecting another daughter, who they were planning on calling Leona, just like Melinda had said. A group of warlocks blinked in, there was about five of them, the first one conjured an athame and tried to stab Piper, a glowing, violet, forcefield surrounded her, the athame couldn't pass through it and the warlock formed a fire ball. The force field dropped and the warlock smacked the fire ball into her stomach, she was blasted across the room and a large burn was on her stomach,
"my baby," she yelped, the fire ball had killed the baby. A voice filled Piper's head,
"you only have one choice, you must reverse the spell, if you ever want this to come true you must reverse it, for the baby," it said, Piper closed her eyes and chanted;
"Return what is, reverse what if,
Let this spell be cast adrift,
Take me to where I'm from,
I leave this place, let me be gone,"
she changed into golden lights which disappeared into the air.
Piper reappeared the attic, Leo was standing behind her with Melinda,
"where'd you go?" he asked,
"to where I wanna be," Piper replied, pressing her lips to his in a passionate kiss, he orbed them to the bedroom,
"bye, bye," Melinda giggled, she sat down on the floor and started colouring in some pictures.
To be continued...
Next chapter- Prue meets a journalist at 415,and Piper and Leo discover Phoebe's hideout.