We're three at last!

By Liam Henshaw

Prologue:

The charmed ones are settling in with baby Chris, but the loss of the Chris that they knew, looms over them like a midsummer mist. Piper, handling her hectic life, still fits in time to be anxious about what the future is like for Chris to live in. Piper and Leo, become increasingly close, as baby Chris feeds off their energy for attention. So Paige as usual, tries her hardest to help, by managing the club. The manor has calmed down since the Gideon debacle, but life with the Halliwell's is still as frenzied as ever. Piper's inquisitiveness takes the better of her, and of course, this leads her into a teeny weenie baby-sized amount of trouble.

Chapter 1: Keeping up appearances

The Halliwell manor was awakened by the spine shattering scream let out from the tiny mouth of baby Chris, as he cried to be fed. Piper, still weary from the night before, flowed her fingers through her hair and steadied herself on the edge of her bed. She made her way to the crib and picked Chris up to comfort him. Piper looked at the clock above the door and noticed that the time is 6:40 and considered herself lucky as she had managed to get an almost full 8 hours of sleep. The next to awaken was Phoebe; she opened her bedroom door and walked out wearing a very expensive-looking velvet dressing gown and with hair as if she hadn't gone to bed at all. Piper, who looked a bit like she had been help upside down on a washing line, got a little jealous of Phoebe's appearance.

"How the heck did you do that?"

Phoebe, slightly puzzled by the question replied "Do what"

"Well, you go in there, sleep, and wake up looking better than you did originally. Whereas I have split-ends, Chris has decided to get into the terrible twos a year early and Wyatt is orbing all over the place during the night!"

"He's still doing that? Where did he go….downstairs?"

"Yes and also to magic school to play with the toys…I still say that that boy is going to get himself in big trouble soon"

"Where is he now?"

"Well he's up with Leo in the attic; we're trying to find some kind of spell to stop him or at least to understand him"

"He just wants to have some fun"

"Yes but there is a thin line between children playing and piper going crazy"

"I think that line got crossed way before Wyatt"

Phoebe sniggered and a few second later got smacked on the back by Piper. Chris, seeing this, tried to smack Piper's head but could only reach her ear.

"Aww he's so cute…already trying to vanquish mental people"

"Oi you! Get downstairs and start getting breakfast ready and just remember loonies are prone to get violent"

Phoebe made her way down the stairs and towards the kitchen but Paige was still in her bed.

"Paige, get up, remember you said you would help Leo learn the ropes of magic school today and we haven't got all day…PAIGE!"

Paige who was slightly asleep couldn't resist the awakening tone of Piper and so slowly opened her eyes to forego the ritual of waking up, which she hates more than any demon could hope to be. She slumped off her bed and into her gown, shuffled to the door and was presented with a smug Piper.

"What's with the grin Piper?"

"Well I need to get ready and you get to take Chris for an hour or so"

"But..."

"No buts missy, the club opens in a couple of hours and I need to get ready and check the book of shadows quickly"

"What do you need with the book?"

"Oh don't you worry your messed up hair about it…just looking for things to help us with Wyatt, Phoebe will fill you in downstairs"

"Come on then Chris…lets get some toast"

"Oh Paige wait…Wyatt hasn't had anything to eat either, bring him down with you as well please"

"Ok but no more 999 nanny calls…ok?"

Piper sniggered and nodded her head. She called Wyatt and instantly he orbed downstairs to his mum.

"Wyatt, you go with Auntie Paige and Chris and have something to eat ok?"

With that, the three of them went downstairs to meet phoebe in the Kitchen. Piper went up to the attic where Leo was sitting on the chaise langue reading the book of shadows to find anything that might help the child tantrum debacles.

"I've looked through it twice now and the nearest spell is one to age someone by two decades, so do you want to work your rhyming fingers and alter it slightly to work for the kids"

"I'm not making them 20!"

"Piper, its only temporary as you can reverse it whenever you like and this way we can understand them"

"I suppose…well I see its going to be a power of three spell so ill start thinking and you go and get Phoebe and Paige ready"

Leo made his way downstairs to the rest of the family and saw Wyatt and Chris messing around with the buttered toast sitting on the tray of their high-chairs. With a flick of his wrist, Wyatt cast the toast to life. It morphed and twisted until it somewhat looked like a small horse, galloped over the Chris and stole his toast. Chris bawled with tears and Paige decided to stop the horse before it caused any more baby havoc.

"What this was, is now not,

Remove the life from the highchair top,

Return the toast to its original state,

Buttered and crisp on Wyatt's plate"

"What was that?" Phoebe sniggered

"Its early…anyway I didn't see you make a spell off the top of your head for a possessed piece of bread Phoebe"

"Well I was busy making breakfast"

"You are waiting for coffee to peculate….that isn't really 'making'"

To that the only reply Phoebe could think of was to stick out her tongue, Chris laughed at this so Wyatt hit him.

"Oi Wyatt…what did you do that to your brother for?"

Wyatt, noticed he was in trouble, orbed upstairs to Piper…"UM LEO…I THOUGHT WYATT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE EATING BREAKFAST".

Leo shouted up the stairs to Piper "Yes he was but he prefers violence towards his baby brother"

"Ok ill deal with him"

Leo grabbed Chris out of his high chair and explained what the plan was for the spell, the girls and him made their way up towards the attic and stood next to Piper by the book.

"Now I want you to do is to check the spell as I am a bit rusty"

"Oh I am sure it will be fine Piper, they always are"

"Ok then lets start"

"Speed up the flow of time and space,

Let minutes fly and hours race,

Through 20 years time shall be moved

To understand why my boys feud"

A gust of wind then span around the attic, circling the girls, Leo and the two boys. With a large flash of light, everything had changed, but was it as planned?