Chapter 9: A Dinner Date
Phoebe stared at her visitor, mouth wide open. "J-Jason?" She stammered.
"Um, yes, Phoebe. It's me."
Phoebe opened the door wider so he could enter. He handed her the bouquet, but she ignored it; she was to busy staring at Jason.
"What?" he asked, noticing her staring at him.
"Nothing. It's just, um, not to be mean or anything, but why are you here?"
"I'm here to see you, Phoebe. In these few months, I've realized how much I miss you."
Phoebe just stared at him. She was speechless. This was the last thing she expected, Jason Dean at her door step. She was about to ask him something when Piper, Paige, and Leo came down the stairs.
"Jason!" Piper exclaimed, stopping halfway down the stairs.
"Hey, Piper. Paige, Leo, nice to see you again."
"Hey, Jason," Paige said. "Surprising to see you again."
Piper nudged her in the ribs. "Well, you to catch up and we'll be up stairs." She grabbed Paige's arm and tugged.
"Doing what?" Paige asked, but Piper just tugged on her arm until she followed.
Leo still stood on the stairs. Piper had to come down and push him up the stairs. "What did I do?" he asked and Piper gave him one last shove.
"Did I say something?" Jason asked when they were gone.
Phoebe laughed. "No. It's just hormones, I think."
"Hormones?"
"Yeah. She's pregnant."
"Really? So her and Leo are back together?"
"Yeah."
"I guess I've missed a lot."
"Yeah you have."
"Well, I guess you'll just have to fill me in at dinner. Seven thirty at Marco's?" he asked, naming an Italian restaurant downtown.
Phoebe smiled. "I would love to. Are you sure you want all the details?"
Jason smiled back. "All of the details."
"Even the gory demon explosions?"
Jason made a face. "Leo and Chris aren't going show up halfway through dinner with an emergency, are they?"
Phoebe frowned and looked down. Chris. In her happiness of seeing Jason, she had completely forgotten about Chris.
"Phoebe? Did I say something wrong?"
Phoebe looked up at him. "No, it's just, Chris went back today, and I really miss him."
"Were you two close?" Jason asked, curious if Phoebe was seeing someone else while he was gone.
"As close as an aunt and nephew can get."
"Nephew?"
"Yeah. He's Piper's son from the future."
"Piper's son. Future. Right."
"See? It's just those little details you've missed."
"Little details? Please don't tell me this is normal for you."
"You'll just have to decide that for yourself at dinner tonight. I plan on telling you everything. Everything from the day we became witches to the moment you rang the doorbell." She looped his arm through hers and walked him to the door. "Marco's at seven thirty, no interruptions."
"Sounds good. I'll see you then." Her empathy powers were overloading. She thought he was going to kiss her good-bye, but a crash came from upstairs. "What was that?"
"Jason, you need to go. I'll see you later, I promise." She rushed him out of the door and closed it before he had the chance to say anything else.
What was that sound, he had asked. That was the sound of a demon being thrown around upstairs. Phoebe ran up the stairs to vanquish a demon, determined nothing was going to get in the way of her date tonight. Nothing.
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Leo and Paige were in the bathroom with Piper as she was bent over the toilet.
"I can't believe Jason's back," Paige carried on, and Piper threw up in response.
Leo rubbed her back. "Are you alright, honey."
"Just peachy," she said sarcastically. "I don't remember being this sick with Wyatt."
"Could it be any worse? I remember having your symptoms when Wyatt switched our powers and frankly, I don't see how you handle it."
Piper just shrugged and stood up. Paige looked at her. "Speaking of my magical nephew, how come Chris hasn't been performing any magic tricks? I haven't seen you burping orbs yet."
"First of all, I'm only two months along, and secondly, you shut your mouth. I don't want to be burping orbs or switching powers. Once was enough."
"Too bad you don't have the force field."
"Yeah, that was nice. I guess it's safe to assume Chris doesn't have one."
"Well, big Chris didn't have one, so why should little Chris?"
"Paige, you should know by now how easily the future can be changed. Phoebe's premonitions are proof of that. And the fact when I went to the future, I had a little girl, Prue was alive, and Phoebe was being burned at the stake. None of that is happening now, is it?" A small gnat flew near Piper's face and she waved a hand at it.
At that same instant, Paige flew across the room and hit the far wall, landing on the bed. "Paige!" Piper yelled and ran o her sister's side. "What happened?" Paige just moaned in response. Piper saw no one else in the room. "Leo, was it an invisible demon?" Leo shook his head. "Then what was it?"
Before he could reply, Phoebe bounded into the room, fist raised in a fighting stance. "Prepare to die, demon." She looked around and saw nothing, so she dropped her stance. "What happened?" she said, he eyes falling on Paige who was no sitting up.
"The baby did magic," Leo explained.
"What?!" the sisters exclaimed in unison.
"No he did not!" Piper said in his defense.
"Piper, think about it. When you went into the past, you didn't have your powers because your past selves had them. Only one of you can have powers in the same time frame." The girls just looked at him in confusion. "Big Chris had telekinesis..." Leo prompted.
Piper was the first to get it. "Oh. Since Chris is gone, little Chris has come into his powers." Leo nodded his head in agreement.
"Yeah, but what I don't get is why the unborn children of this family pick me to throw across the room," Paige mumbled. "First Phoebe's demon child, now Chris. I thought he liked me."
Leo laughed. "It's not like that. Besides, Wyatt didn't pick on you. You were thrown across the room because you happened to be in front of Piper when she waved her hand."
"Lucky me," Paige said sarcastically.
"My hands are once again lethal weapons," Piper said, putting her hands in her pockets.
"Actually, I'm relieved you have this new power," Leo informed her.
"You're relieved that every time I wave to you, there's a chance I'll send you flying into the next room?!"
Leo hugged her from behind, but Piper refused to take her hands out of her pockets. "You'll just have to learn to control it. Besides, if you just throw me into another room, I'll just orb back in." Piper laughed and Leo smiled.
"Maybe it will be helpful having telekinesis. It sure helped us fight demons when Prue was alive," Phoebe added.
"Yeah, but she knew how to control it. Me, I just moved my hand and Paige was flying across the room."
"You'll just have to practice controlling it," Leo told her.
"How?"
"Practice it. Adjust to having a new power. It will take a while, sort of like your explosion power."
"I have a better way you could practice it," Phoebe suggested.
"Oh yeah? What's that?"
"Use it to keep any demons away and busy while I'm on my date with Jason tonight."
Piper smiled and Paige asked, "A date? Already? He's only been back for what, six and a half minutes?"
"We're just going to catch up. Will you guys promise not to come and get me unless it is an emergency, emergency?"
"Yes, we promise. Now do whatever it is you have to do."
"But I don't have anything to do until my date with Jason."
"You could..." Leo stopped in mid sentence, holding his head up in a listening position. "The Elders are calling." He kissed Piper and orbed out.
"I have a question," Phoebe asked. "Are you to going to get married again?"
"No."
"What?! Why?!"
"Because we never got divorced. I asked him, but nothing was ever legalized. Besides, we were married by a Hand Fasting ritual. It's not like I could go to the courthouse and ask a judge to divorce me and my dead husband, who they have no record of marriage for."
"Good point."
"You could always renew your vows," Paige suggested.
"Let's just take this as it comes. Leo is still technically an Elder and I don't know where we go from here."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean he's been out of our lives for almost a year. That's a lot of time to be made up. Don't get me wrong. I love having him back, I wouldn't change that for anything in the world, but we just can picked up where we left off. It's just not going to happen." Piper sat down on her bed.
"She's right, Paige. It's kind of like that between Jason and me. As much as I'd like to, we can't start off where we left off. There's just too much time."
"Yeah, but you and Jason weren't also married for over two years and had a kid," Paige said.
"Can we just drop the conversation? I don't even know why we're talking about this." Piper got up from the bed. "I am going to go learn how to control my new power. If you need me, I will be in the basement." Piper walked out of the room.
"Basement?" Paige asked.
"Last time she got a new power, she locked her self in the basement until she could control it. She wouldn't even let Leo come near her."
"Should we worry?"
"Nah. She'll figure it out sooner or later. Besides, she has to come up sometime. There's no bathroom down there."
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Piper grabbed the crying Wyatt and gave him a bottle. He quit crying immediately. She took him down into the basement with her. She sat Wyatt down somewhere he would be safe to play with his toys.
Piper didn't know where to begin. She wasn't even sure how this power worked. She decided to base her attempts on something she knew. Prue. Prue at first controlled her power through her eyes, then later through her hands. Piper figured that was the best place to start.
She grabbed an old soccer ball from one of the shelves and put it in the middle of the room. She squinted her eyes at it, but nothing happened. "Come on," she said. Now she tried waving her hand at the ball, but nothing happened. She tried everything she could think of, but nothing worked. She sat down on the floor in frustration.
Wyatt stood up and walked over to her. He telekinetically made the soccer ball rise in the air and go back down. "You can do it, but Mommy can't," she said to him. Wyatt just shook his head. He put his hands over her eyes. Piper moved her head so she could see, but he just covered his eyes again. Piper decided to do what he wanted. He knew how to use telekinesis and she didn't, so what was there to lose? She closed her eyes and tried to relax. She tried channeling her power to her hands. Breath in, breath out. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Wyatt grabbed her hands and moved them for her. She felt calm, peaceful. She decided to risk opening her eyes. She did.
And the soccer ball was floating in mid-air. Piper gasped in surprise and the ball fell. But Piper was happy anyway. She looked at Wyatt. "Mommy did it!" She clapped her hands, and that was a mistake.
A box of Christmas lights and one of Phoebe's old boxes came flying off of the shelves towards Wyatt. Wyatt didn't see the boxes flying towards him. But before Piper could do anything, Wyatt's shield came up and the objects deflected off of it. He shield came down. All of this happened with out him even blinking.
Piper hugged him to her. "Way to use your powers, Wyatt." She picked him up. "Let's go upstairs and see what Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Paige are up to." She head towards the stairs and Leo orbed in behind her.
"Piper," He said startling her. She jumped and one of Wyatt's came flying at him and hit him in the forehead. "Ow!"
"I'm sorry, honey!" Piper looked at his read forehead. "I didn't mean to."
"I know. At least you have good aim."
"So what did the Elders say?"
"The transfer of my powers has to take place down here, two weeks from now"
"Down here as in the basement?"
"No, as in down here on Earth. That's why the Elders have given us two weeks. We need to start undemonizing the house. It's kind of like when Remus gave up his powers. They're up for grabs until the transformation has taken place."
Piper looked at him. "Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Yes. You and the boys are the most important things in my life. I need to be down here with you." Piper smiled.
"Oh yeah. And the Elders want to see Paige."
"What? Why?"
"I don't know."
"They're not going to turn her into an Elder in your place, are they?"
"And break up the Power of Three? Never."
"Then what could they want?"
"We'll just have to wait and see."
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Not all was well in the future, as Chris was finding out. Actually, nothing was well in the future. It seems he changed too much in the past. Wyatt wasn't evil any more, but the consequences were much worse. You could even say they were deadly.
