Chapter Three

"I am the son, I am the heir, I am hum-"

"Paige!" Piper shouted suddenly to her sister.

"What?" Paige paused for a moment, "Oh, sorry, I just got the song stuck in my head at the moment, and I've only ever heard it once, and that was when Leo sang it."

"Well, please, try not to sing it?" Paige nodded.

It was getting close to evening and Piper was starting to get paranoid that the Charmed One's were in danger, though she didn't care if she was in danger, she had to look after her sisters, her sons and Leo.

She knew that she needed to get in to contact with Prue but at the moment she was too scared in case she found out something she wished she didn't know; or in case Prue was altered beyond belief and the Prue that Piper knew was no longer the same ghost Prue. Or perhaps she would be just the same and it would make Piper sad as it would remind her of how much she missed having Prue around.

"Piper, what do you think will happen if Prue is no help?" Piper found this question strange. She turned to Phoebe. Of course Prue will be of help, she's wise, and she knows stuff that we don't.

Piper shrugged. "Then I guess we will have to find out what is going on another way." Phoebe nodded but didn't look convinced; her sister was hiding things from her. She knew because of that amazing bond that sisters have. Yet, for now, Phoebe couldn't work out what it was the Piper was hiding. Usually she will only hide things for a little while and then tell us because she knows she has to. Phoebe smiled at Piper and turned away in the knowledge that eventually Piper would fess up to what she was hiding.

"Mummy?" Wyatt was at the doorway. Piper turned and walked toward her son and bent down to be at his height.

"Yes baby boy?"

"Mummy there's a strange man in the lounge."

Leo?

Piper ran in to the lounge and saw no one but Leo, still lying asleep on the sofa. She walked over to Leo and stroked his forehead gently.

"Wyatt? Where's the strange man?" Piper called Wyatt in who crept in slowly behind Paige's legs. He took a frightened gasp when he saw his mummy stroking the head of 'the strange man.' He pointed at his dad.

"Wyatt? What do you mean honey, this is your daddy?" Wyatt shook his head.

"My daddy left a long, long time ago." He then turned and ran out of the room. Paige shrugged and turned to go and run after Wyatt.

"Leo? Leo sweetie, wake up." Leo woke up and sat up immediately,

"What? What's wrong?" He then got up on to his feet.

"It's Wyatt."

Piper then explained everything that had happened while Leo was asleep and at the end she burst in to tears. She was comforted only by Leo running his fingers gently through her hair and down her back and shushing her.

"I don't understand, Leo, I wish I understood what was going on. Perhaps you should have told us sooner about Prue talking to you." Leo shook his head and then looked away from Piper,

"Or perhaps I shouldn't have told you at all." Piper shook her head and reached out to make Leo look at her,

"You did the right thing in telling us."

"But this all started from when I told you. Perhaps if I hadn't told you Wyatt would still notice me as his daddy-" Piper put a finger to Leo's lip and shook her head again.

"It's no good saying perhaps it is? It's all already done and what we need to do now is we need to sort it out." Leo sighed and felt guilty but there was no point in him feeling bad, he had told Piper and there was no point in trying to take it back.

"Phoebe…Phoebe…Phoebe wake up." Phoebe opened her eyes to see Paige looking down at her. She turned over and looked at her clock, expecting to be told she had overslept or there was an emergency. 3:37AM. She sighed.

"Paige,"

"Yeah, yeah I know but I can't sleep. There's something I need to tell someone. I can't tell Piper because she will just worry too much so I need to tell you."

"Tell Leo…" mumbled Phoebe and she tried to roll over. Paige sighed and pulled the sheets away from Phoebe.

"Listen, please."

"What?" Phoebe opened her eyes and sat up quickly. Paige took a deep breath. "I'm loosing sleep here!"

"Ok, Ok calm down. I don't know if you remember earlier I was singing that song?" Phoebe nodded. "Well the noise was coming from me but I wasn't singing it, it was like there was something inside my head making me sing that had taken over my voice. I don't know that song at all because I was never around when Prue sang it so I would have no idea of the tune or any of the words, would I?"

"So the same thing happened to you that did for Leo?"

"I don't think so because I didn't feel the same emotion as Leo described. I felt like I was on top of the world as I sang it, as though that moment was the most beautiful moment in my life and I would give anything to feel it again, just one more time." Phoebe sighed and shook her head.

"You need to tell Piper." Paige shook her head,

"I can't she-"

"You are going to have to. She is your sister and you owe her that much. She could do with any information you can give her at the moment and she needs our help otherwise she will start to feel alone." Paige nodded.

"But I'll wait till the morning; I don't want to wake her from her sleep."

But Piper wasn't asleep. She was looking out of her window at the shooting stars. Leo was in bed and the children were asleep but she felt uneasy about something that she couldn't describe.

Prue will be able to help. We'll all contact her tomorrow and talk to her and ask her why she's talking to Leo through song and why everyone else seems to have some strange connection with the song. Even Paige. I don't know how I know but she knows more that she's letting on at the moment. And Wyatt, why…?

Piper fell asleep with her chin resting again the window sill; at least tonight she would get some sleep.