This is quite a fun chapter and focuses on Sam and Victor rather than Paige.
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The-Cheese-Fairy: Glad you liked it! Glad you liked the tension between Piper and Paige! I'm so glad you could see Prue how I described her in your head, my original plans for that chapter included a fight on the roof of the Sydney Opera House, but I thought that was more like something you'd see on X-Men than Charmed! My pleasure!
Fanmania: Glad you liked it!
Peanut2lb: Glad you liked it! The Prue/Andy-ness was especially for you lol! Glad you liked true love being the cure!
The Daddy Swap:
"Congratulations," burst out amongst the family after Sam announced the Elders had agreed to make him one of them,
"this is a cause for celebration," Paige stated,
"not really, he's becoming an Elder, in my opinion it's a time for mourning," Piper quipped, waddling over to the couch with her hands on her seven month pregnant baby bump. Paige playfully slapped her sister on the arm,
"that's my dad you're talking about him," she said,
"dad," Sam repeated,
"what about it?" Paige asked,
"that's the name I want to keep forever," he smiled, kissing his daughter on the cheek. The doorbell went and Prue jumped up hopped of the table, where she was sitting,
"that'll be dad," she said, opening the door to find she was correct, Victor stood on the porch.
"Can I come in?" he asked with a smile, as Phoebe stood next to Prue as if to block the doorway,
"yeah…well…it's…urm…just," Prue stammered, trying to find the right words to tell her father the reason for his divorce was standing in the foyer room.
"What's wrong?" Victor asked, beginning to get concerned,
"I think it's because I'm here," a voice said, as Sam walked up behind Prue and Phoebe,
"you," Victor hissed, pushing past his eldest and youngest daughter, swinging his fist at Sam's face and forcing him to the floor.
"Whoa dad, calm down," Prue instructed, stepping in-front of him,
"what is he doing here?" Victor snarled,
"he's my father," Paige replied, the normally calm witchlighter glared at her sisters' dad,
"everybody just needs to relax," Piper stated, making a 'timeout' sound with her hands.
"Dad, Paige is our sister, and Sam is her father, so he is welcome in this house, and you need to learn to deal with that, besides, you're in San Francisco about once a month," Prue told him,
"actually, that's one of the main reasons I came, apart from to see you of course, but I'm moving to San Francisco, permanently, I have a job here and will soon be happily married," Victor said, everyone's jaw dropped when he said 'married'.
"When did you get engaged?" Phoebe asked,
"shortly before you died, but I couldn't seem to find the right time to tell you," he replied,
"you've had plenty of chances," Prue spat, getting caught up in the moment and squinting at her father while giving him a glare, pushing him into the wall.
"It doesn't look like you're father of the year," Sam mouthed, without anybody taking notice,
"okay, I've had fun with this bombshell, but there's someone new joining work today and I've gotta go," Phoebe said, giving Cole a kiss,
"I'll shimmer you," he told her, shimmering them out.
He shimmered them into her office at the Bay Mirror and they shared a quick kiss, before he shimmered back out,
"Phoebe? are you in there?" a voice called, knocking on the door,
"come in Elise," Phoebe said. The boss walked into the Angelic Seer's office with a redhead behind her,
"Phoebe, this is Gabrielle, she's our new fashion reporter," Elise explained, Phoebe glanced up from her desk and looked at the newcomer, her shoulder-length, straight, red hair had a perfectly straight fringe. Next Phoebe looked at Gabrielle's clothes; she wore a grey-blue sweater over a knee-length, flower print, dark blue dress, this was all topped off by small-heeled, satin, blue slip-ons.
"Please, call me Gabby," Gabrielle said, offering her hand to shake, Phoebe excepted the handshake,
"I'm Phoebe," she said, trying to read the woman while their hands were still together,
"I know who you are," Gabrielle smiled.
"So is it just Gabrielle, or do you have a last name?" Phoebe asked, as Elise left so the two women got get acquainted,
"Gabrielle Watts, but in a few weeks it'll be Gabrielle Bennet, or maybe Bennet-Watts," Gabrielle replied,
"Bennet?" Phoebe gasped, her eyes widening in shock. Gabrielle nodded and Phoebe stumbled, struggling to sit down before she fainted with shock,
"so who's….who's the lucky man?" she asked, hoping it was just a coincidence,
"Victor, he's a bit older than me, but we're in love," Gabrielle told her, a bit older? about twenty-something years older, you're about thirty-four and my dad's…wait, how old is he? Phoebe thought, beginning to doodle on a notepad, not wanting to make eye contact with her father's secret fiancé.
Back at the manor, the family stood in the kitchen, in-between Victor and Sam,
"can you please just call it truce?" Piper asked, both men shrugged,
"this is pathetic," Prue and Paige said in unison,
"looks like they're all just like their mother," Sam stated,
"looks like," Victor agreed, the eldest and youngest sisters smiled, they had become the ones trying to make peace between to the men, since Phoebe was working at Piper was heavily pregnant, so she didn't need any stress right now.
"I have an idea," Paige said, then she chanted;
"stop their petty rivalry,
help these men not be enemies,"
white lights left Victor's chest and entered Sam's, then the same thing happened but the other way around.
"What was that?" Victor groaned, holding his head,
"you know how I feel about magic," Sam said, rubbing his own forehead, both men looked at each other and screamed,
"you're in my body!" they exclaimed at the same time.
"Oops," Paige mumbled, "I've gotta get to school," she said quickly, beginning to orb out,
"not so fast, you need to fix your spell, plus, it's Saturday, school's not open," Prue stated,
"actually it is, they have extra lessons on a weekend," Paige argued,
"don't you two start," Piper warned, wagging her finger at her sisters, Paige pulled a tongue at Prue and the eldest sister responded by telekinetically shoving her tongue back in her mouth.
"I think the spell swapped them with Karis and Grace," Leo smirked, he and Andy laughed, as did Patrice, but then again, she always did,
"will you just fix this?" Victor/Sam snapped, (A/N. Victor/Sam means Victor in Sam and the same the other way round) while speaking he accidentally used Sam's Elder powers and shot a lightening bolt from his hand, destroying a vase.
"I'll try another spell," Paige told them,
"no you don't missy," Piper stopped her, "you're banned," she said, before chanting;
"I say these words to fix my sister's mess,
and to these men their own lives bless.
A cluster of light exited Sam/Victor's chest, but before it could reach Victor/Sam he dissolved into orbs,
"what'd he do that for?" Piper questioned, beginning to get moody
"he probably didn't do it on purpose, orbing's hard to control," Leo replied, handing Patrice to her, "why don't you take her up for a nap and I'll tell you when we find Victor," he said,
"okay," she nodded, carrying Patrice upstairs.
Victor/Sam looked around and discovered he had orbed into the corridor at the Bay Mirror, he walked in and headed straight to Phoebe's office,
"come in," she said, after hearing him knock. He entered the room and got a shock when he saw Gabrielle standing there,
"hey Sam, what's wrong?" Phoebe asked, Victor/Sam walked over to her and whispered the situation in her ear,
"okay this is uncomfortable," Phoebe said, looking from Victor/Sam to Gabrielle,
"I think we should get back to the manor," Victor/Sam said, leading Phoebe out of the office and leaving Gabrielle in there alone. Gabrielle took this opportunity to be nosy, she closed the door and began rifling through Phoebe's desk, she stopped when she found a glass vial containing a yellow liquid,
"a potion," she whispered, "so I was right, the most famous advice columnist in the city is a witch, either that or something else, something evil," Gabrielle said to herself,
"and who are you?" a voice asked, Gabrielle turned to see Cole.
"Gabrielle, and you don't have to worry about me exposing your witch friend, because I'm one too," she replied, waving her hand and creating a clone of herself, then they both walked over and kissed Cole on the cheek, before becoming one again and strolling out of the office.
Meanwhile, Piper repeated her spell and the two father's returned to their own body,
"dad, can I speak to you for a minute?" Phoebe asked,
"sure," he replied, already knowing what it was about. They walked through into the kitchen,
"I can't believe you're engaged to someone half you age," she said,
"don't speak so loud, that's one of the main reasons I didn't tell you," he told her,
"why? cos I speak to loud?" she asked, getting confused,
"no, because I knew the age thing would bother you," Victor replied,
"you need to tell the others," she stated,
"I will, in my own time," he said, walking back through to join the family.
To be continued…
Next chapter- Paige and Kyle go demon hunting in Rome; will being in a very romantic city lead to them taking their relationship a step further? Phoebe proves she can't keep secrets by spilling the beans about Gabrielle to Cole, and gets angry and jealous when she discovers how Gabrielle flirted with him in her office.
'The City of Love' should be up soon.