Paige and Jamie are sitting on Piper's bed, looking through Phoebe's old yearbook.
"Interesting." Paige says. They hear a toilet flush.
"Are you okay in there?" Jamie asks and Piper walks out of the bathroom.
"I don't remember having morning sickness this bad with Wyatt." She tells them.
"Oh, honey, that sucks." Paige tells her as she sits down next to them. "I'm just going over some pictures here, trying to educate myself before I go to Phoebe's reunion." They look down at the yearbook, Piper looks at a picture.
"Hmm, Todd Marks." She says. "I wonder if he's even still alive."
"Alive? What kind of school did she go to, anyway?" Paige asks.
"Not a bad one, actually. It's just that Phoebe tended the hang out with the bad boy crowd. You know, anything to piss off Grams."
"Was he her first love?"
"More like first lust." Piper turns the page to another picture. "Talk about crazy though, Rick Gittridge, he was kind of the leader of their little gang."
"Phoebe was in a gang?"
"Not the drive by kind, but he was kind of the type. If he is at the reunion I'd stay away from him."
"This is so weird." Paige looks back down at the book. "It's a whole different side of Miss Phoebe."
"Yeah, I think she missed mom in her life more than Prue or I did. And the more Grams tried to control her, the more she became rebellious." They hear Phoebe scream. They all run into the hallway. Phoebe is running towards them holding a dress.
"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god."
"What happened?" Jamie asks.
"What happened? You wanna know what happened?" She holds up the dress. "The dry cleaner ruined my dress for tonight. That's what happened."
"Phoebe, you know better than to scream in this house if there isn't a demon." Piper scolds her.
"I'm sorry, but what am I supposed to wear to the reunion tonight?"
"How about some prison stripes." Paige jokes, Jamie chuckles.
"You told her about the shoplifting?" Phoebe asks Jamie and Piper.
"You little thief." Paige tells her.
"No, I acted out. Okay, now back to what I'm supposed to wear tonight."
"I don't know, why don't you try your little black suit, the one with the thigh slit. You know, sexy, looks successful." Paige suggests.
"No, I think black's too threatening." Phoebe turns around and walks back down the hall. "I'll be in my closet." Once she's gone, Chris orbs in wearing.
"Chris, hi." Piper says. Jamie looks at him.
"Hey, look, I need your help. I think I've got scabbers on my tail." All three of them stare at him.
"Oh, well, I have some hydrogen peroxide in my bathroom…" Piper says.
"No! Scabber demons." He tells them. "I went undercover to follow a lead on who turns Wyatt but I think they're onto me. All right, I need a cloaking spell just in case. Is the book still in the attic?"
"Yeah, last I saw." Paige tells him.
"You want me to help you?" Chris ignores Piper as he walks upstairs "He hates me."
"No, he doesn't." Jamie tells her.
"Yeah, he does." They walk back into Piper's room.
"He's just distracted, that's all, by you know, imminent death." Paige says.
"That's no excuse. I mean, he's been avoiding me for weeks, he won't even look at me. What could I have done in the future that would be so bad?"
"Maybe he should have a father son talk." Paige suggests.
"No, I can't do that to Leo. He had a hard enough time letting go. Besides, he doesn't even know that I'm pregnant."
"I know, but don't boys need their..."
"I know, and that's why I called my father so he could figure out why his surly new grandson hates me." Piper's stomach grumbles, she stands up. "Uh-oh."
"I got you." Piper and Paige go into the bathroom. Phoebe walks in holding another dress.
"Guys, how about this one?" The door closes in her face. "Okay." She turns to Jamie. "What do you think?" She holds up the dress, but Jamie's not paying attention.
"I'm gonna go check on Chris, see if he's all right." Phoebe sighs as Jamie walks out of the room and up the stairs. Phoebe sees her yearbook on the bed. She walks over and picks it up, she reads the signatures in it. "I remember this poem. 'Those who mock who I am, let them always remember when.'" Phoebe changes into her teenage self and then changes back.
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Jamie walks into the attic to find Chris rapidly flipping through the Book of Shadows. She slowly walks in.
"Hi." He looks up.
"Hey." He continues to look through the book. She walks over to him, he ignores her. She sighs.
"Are you mad at me for some reason?" He looks up at her.
"What? No. Why would I be mad at you?"
"I don't know." She shrugs. "I mean, you haven't been around in a while-"
"I've been undercover. Baby, I told you that I wasn't gonna be around for a few days." He says.
"I know. It's just that I haven't seen you since that night last week when you orbed in… And we didn't exactly talk then." A smile slowly appears on her face.
"Yeah." He chuckles as he walks over to her.
"Don't get me wrong, that night was-"
"Amazing."
"Well, yeah." They both smile. "I just miss you." He puts his arms around her.
"I miss you too." They kiss. They hear someone calling Chris's name. They both look at each other.
"Is someone calling me?" He yells downstairs.
"Yeah, uh, sweetie, could you come here a sec?" Piper yells back. Chris and Jamie walk down the stairs and into the living room.
"Can we air this out, 'cause I gotta-" Chris looks up to see Victor Bennett sitting in the chair beside Piper. "Grandpa!" Chris smiles as he walks over to Victor and hugs him. Piper and Jamie look at each other in confusion.
"Uh, hi." Victor says. He looks at Jamie. "Hello Jamie.
"Uh, Hi, Mr. Bennett." She says, still staring at Chris. Piper stands.
"Well, why don't we go into the kitchen." She says, as she starts walking into the kitchen. They follow her. Victor, Chris and Jamie sit down at the table, while Piper gets them all a cup of coffee.
"So we're close?" Victor asks Chris.
"Yeah." He smiles. "You're awesome, Grandpa."
"Did you hear that?" Victor asks Piper. "Awesome."
"Yeah, after the event happened." Chris frowns. "We got really close."
"What event?" Jamie asks.
"I can't tell you."
"Is this, um, event my fault?" Piper asks. "Is that why you're treating me like a non-person?"
"I can't talk about it, it will mess with the future."
"But you did say I was awesome, right?" Victor asks. "You can talk about that?"
"Yeah." He smiles. "You're the best, I love hanging out with you."
"I gotta admit, I'm a little surprised. I mean, it's no secret I wasn't the greatest dad." Victor looks at Piper, then back at Chris. "It means a lot to me that I could do something to make up for it."
"You do." Chris says.
"After the event." Piper adds.
"Right."
"That you won't tell me about."
"I told you," He raises his voice. "I can't talk about it, okay?"
"Hey," Victor says. "Don't talk to your mother like that, okay?"
"You're right. I'm sorry." They hear the door open and close.
"Piper!" Paige calls. They all walk into the living room, where Phoebe and Paige are standing.
"Hey, what's going on?" Piper asks.
"Hi, daddy." Phoebe walks over to Victor and hugs him.
"Hi, sweetie."
"Okay, I hate to cut this reunion short, I think we've had enough of those for today." Paige pulls Phoebe away from Victor. "Now you go upstairs until we figure this out."
"Bye, daddy." Phoebe walks upstairs.
"What happened?" Chris asks.
"Well, you've heard of recapturing your youth, I think Phoebe's youth is trying to recapture her." Paige tells them.
"Explain." Piper says.
"I don't know, it's like one minute she was totally normal, the next it's like she's freaky Phoebe."
"Great." Chris says. "Who else saw?"
"No one. She changed back before anyone noticed."
"I'm having a little trouble keeping up here." Victor says. "Phoebe's being chased by, what, demons?"
"Maybe inner demons or a spell gone wrong?" Paige turns to Piper. "It seemed to happen after someone named Paula Marks called her 'freebie'."
"Oh, yeah, that'll do it." Piper replies.
"You wanna go upstairs with me and check the book, see if there's anything?"
"Okay." Piper nods.
"You two go ahead." Chris says. "I need to get back to the Scabber demons before they know I'm missing."
"Hey, wait, what, and leave your awesome grandpa alone?" Piper asks. "Grab a sandwich, grab a beer," She leans into Victor, "get an answer." Piper and Paige go upstairs. Jamie looks at Chris.
"I'm gonna go check on Wyatt." She tells him.
"Okay." He nods. She smiles and kisses him quickly, then walks up the stairs. Victor pulls out two cigars from his coat.
"Cubans?" He asks. Chris turns up his nose, but takes the cigar from his grandfather and they walk outside. "So, you and Jamie are together?"
"Yeah." Chris says as Victor hands him his lighter. "She's…" He stops at a loss for words. Victor smiles.
"Sounds like you're in love."
"Yeah, I am." Chris smiles as he takes a drag of the cigar. He starts coughing.
"Sorry, bad idea." Victor takes the cigar from him.
"It's cool, it's just strong."
"I was just trying to help us bond a little, you know."
"We don't need help bonding, we're cool."
"In the future, but I haven't been there yet, you know. I'm feeling a little out of sync here. Um, well, are you hungry? Do you wanna grab a bite?"
"Yeah. Yeah, that'd be great." He looks down at what he's wearing. "Just, um, let me change first, okay?"
"Okay."
"Uh, listen," Chris turns around and looks at Victor. "About those things," He looks at the cigar. "You might wanna pick up a different habit. To avoid any future problems if you know what I mean."
"Oh, geez." Victor quickly puts the cigar out. "Thanks for the tip." They go inside. Chris walks upstairs. He walks down the hall and finds Jamie about to walk into the room she shared with Phoebe. He walks up behind her and puts his arms around her.
"Hey." She jumps as he does this.
"Geez, you scared me." She laughs as she turns around in his arms.
"Sorry." He smiles.
"You're in a good mood." She tells him.
"Yeah."
"So, what did you need? I mean, you're away from your awesome grandpa and all." She smiles.
"Cute." He says.
"I thought so." They both laugh.
"Um, actually he's taking me to dinner." She looks at him, trying not to look disappointed.
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah." He says. "So, I was wondering if you still had the clothes I left here last week."
"Uh, yeah. I do." She opens the door and they walk in. They both look around the room.
"Isn't Phoebe supposed to be up here?" He asks.
"Uh, yeah. Maybe she went to help Piper and Paige." Jamie walks over to her dresser and opens a drawer. "Your clothes are in there." She says. He stares at her.
"You gave me my own drawer?"
"Uh, yeah. I mean, I figured you could use it. Ya know, just in case you don't want to orb home." He looks at her.
"Isn't it usually the guy that cleans out a drawer at his place?" She laughs.
"Yeah, well considering you live in the back room on a club, I think we can make an exception with us." He smiles and kisses her.
"Thank you." He says. She looks up at him.
"Anytime."
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After Chris and Victor leave, Paige goes to find a missing Phoebe. Jamie follows Piper into the kitchen. Piper looks at her.
"You okay, sweetie?" She asks as she gets a pint of ice cream out of the refrigerator.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Piper hands her a spoon and opens up the ice cream.
"Are you sure?"
"I don't know." Jamie sighs as she takes a bite of ice cream.
"Well, what's wrong?"
"I don't know, it just seems like I never get to see Chris anymore."
"Aw, sweetie, I'm sorry. It's my fault he's with my dad-"
"No, no." Jamie says. "It's not that. I honestly don't care if he's with his grandfather. I'm happy he is. I just miss him."
"I know what you mean." Jamie looks up at her.
"Really?"
"Yeah." Piper nods. "I know it seems like I don't want Leo around." She takes a bite of ice cream. "But I really do miss him."
"I'm sorry."
"Yeah, well, what're you gonna do?" The phone rings after Piper says this. She answers it. "Hello?"
"Okay, I found Phoebe." Paige says from the other end. "I have good news and I have bad news."
"Give me the good."
"Well, I think I now know what Phoebe was like as a teenager. That's also the bad news."
"How bad is it?"
"In a word... bad." There's a loud crash and Paige hangs up on Piper.
"Paige? Paige?" Jamie looks at Piper.
"What's going on?" She asks.
"I don't know." Piper sighs.
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Chris and Victor are sitting in a French restaurant, a waiter is waiting by the table while Chris looks at the menu.
"Uh, what is the gi-got?" He asks. The waiter sighs.
"Ze gigot" He corrects. "Is your choice. Leg of lamb or mutton."
"Oh, what is that, meat?"
"Yes, is meat. Comes from a sheep, you know? Baa-baa." Chris looks like he's about to punch the guy when Victor interrupts him.
"Why don't you just bring us a couple of steaks, please. Medium. Thank you." The waiter walks away. Victor looks at Chris. "Sorry, I thought you might like a fancy meal."
"Why?" Chris asks.
"Trying to live up to my rep."
"With cigars and mutton?" He laughs. "Sorry, grandpa, that's not how you did it."
"Did I take you to batting cages?"
"No."
"Strip clubs?"
"God, no."
"What did I do? You gotta tell me because I am crashing here."
"Nothing. You just... we talked."
"Oh."
"Look, we should just get back. I'm under cover with some demons who are gonna be looking for me very soon."
"No, no, no, wait. Let's talk. We need to talk."
"Let me guess. Piper asked you here to find out what's wrong with me, right?"
"She just wants to know why she's such a terrible mother."
"She what?" Chris looks shocked. "No, no, she's great."
"Then why are you treating her like she doesn't exist?" Chris sighs as Victor talks. "Chris. If what we do is talk, talk to me."
"Because she doesn't exist in my future, okay?" Chris says with tears in his eyes. "She dies when I turn fourteen." Victor stares at him.
"That, that's the event?" Chris nods. "How?"
"I can't, alright. I've already said way too much. The point is after I save Wyatt, I have to back to where she isn't. I can't get close to her because I don't wanna lose her again."
"Maybe that's all the more reason to get close to her."
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Later, Paige, Piper and Jamie are sitting in the attic, trying to find Phoebe.
"Damn it, I thought I had her." Paige says. "She's on the move again."
"Well, we better find her soon because we're gonna need her if those Scabber demons come after Chris." Piper says. "I can't believe I let him go out with dad. What was I thinking?"
"Piper, it's not your fault." Jamie tells her. "Hell, I forgot too." Chris orbs in with Victor, who has a sick look on his face.
"You're okay." Piper says. Victor looks at her.
"Who says I'm okay." He says. Chris laughs.
"Don't worry, you'll get used to orbing in the future."
"I thought something might have happened to you." Piper says.
"No, we're fine, we just talked." Piper stares at him. "Really, I'm fine."
"Yeah, well, Phoebe's not." Paige says. "She's out there running around with her old gang."
"I thought she was downstairs." Victor says.
"Nope, she climbed out the window."
"And even worse, she's under the influence." Paige adds.
"Of alcohol?" Chris asks.
"No, adolescence."
"She stole a cop car as a prank." Piper tells them.
"That's not a prank, that's a felony."
"Yeah, well, teen Phoebe also happens to have her adult powers and she cast a spell on her entire reunion class." Paige says.
"What?" Chris looks worried.
"Don't worry, Paige was able to reverse it all, but..." Piper stumbles back. Chris and Victor grab her arms.
"Are you okay?" Chris asks.
"Yeah, I'm just a little light headed."
"Sorry." She stares at him. "You know, about me."
"Huh." Piper looks up at her dad. "Must have been some hell of a talk there."
"Yeah." He replies. "Go get off your feet, honey." Piper and Victor leave the room.
"Look, we need to stop Phoebe before she gets into some trouble we can't get her out of." Chris says.
"Hi honey." Jamie says to him. "I'm doing great, how about you?" He looks at her.
"Sorry, it's just that we need to get to Phoebe."
"I'm trying, she keeps moving, she keeps moving. Uh." Paige says. The crystal points to a place on the map. "I got her." Two Scabber demons appear. Chris grabs Jamie and orbs out. The Scabber demons spit yellow acid-like goo and it hits a cabinet, smashing the glass. Paige kneels behind a table. Chris orbs in behind her.
"Glass!" Paige yells. A piece of broken glass orbs into one of the Scabber demon's stomach. It melts away, not harming him in any ways. He spits more acid goo and it hits the table, melting it away. Piper and Victor run in.
"Get back!" Piper pushes Victor out the door. She tries to blow one of the demons up while the other one spits at Paige.
"Icky stuff!" She yells. The yellow goo orbs back to the demon, vanquishing him. The other one disappears. Piper looks at Paige.
"Icky stuff?" She asks.
"It worked." Victor walks back in. Chris looks at Jamie, who hadn't let go of his hand, not that he had tried to let go of hers
"You okay?" He asks. She smiles at him.
"Yeah. Thanks to you." He smiles and walks over to Piper.
"Sorry about all this."
"It's okay, kids are messy." Piper says.
"They'll be back."
"Then we'll handle it."
"Uh-oh." Paige picks up the, now melted, scrying crystal. "Any idea how we're gonna find Phoebe now?"
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A while later, Jamie is helping Piper put crystals around the room to protect Chris.
"The crystal's should protect you." Piper tells him. "They won't be able to find you as long as you stay in the attic."
"You sure about that?" He asks.
"Well, I'm pretty sure."
"Okay. Well, you and Wyatt need to go some place safe. I'm gonna go get him." He starts to leave, but Piper stops him.
"No, you are not leaving this room." She says.
"What about you?"
"What about me? I have to stay here and help Paige summon Phoebe."
"I'm part witch, remember? I can help Paige do that."
"You can't vanquish the demons if they come and attack again."
"Well, I can try." Victor stands near the doorway.
"Listen to your mother, Chris." He says.
"What if something happens to her?" He asks, worried.
"Nothing's gonna happen to me." Piper says. "Unless you know something that I don't."
"Nothing's gonna happen to you, honey." Victor walks over to her. "Not now." Jamie looks at Chris, who is staring at his grandfather.
"Oh, so when?" Piper looks at Chris. "Chris? Is that what you've been living with, knowing that something happens to me? I see. Well, does it happen soon?"
"I can't tell you that. It could change the future in even worse ways." He replies.
"Right. But isn't that why you came here in the first place? To make the future better? How do you know you haven't already changed mine?"
"She's got a point." Jamie tells him.
"Well, whatever it is, it obviously doesn't happen until you're born, so save it. You got it?"
"I got it, mom." He looks shocked as he says this.
"Huh?" Piper laughs, Jamie smiles at him.
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Later, Piper is standing in Wyatt's room, watching Wyatt sleep. Victor walks in.
"Mm, I wish I was asleep." She says.
"You should sleep." He replies.
"No, I can't. Not until Phoebe's back and Chris's demons are vanquished, and I accept the fact that apparently I die young." He stares at her. "You know, don't you? When it happens?"
"It's like you said, the future could have changed. I do know that Chris loves you."
"Yeah?" She smiles.
"Yeah. I love you too." They hear a crash.
"Wait here. Wyatt's force field will protect you." She heads for the door. But Paige walks in.
"You stay put, I'm gonna take care of it, okay?" She says. "Keep Chris in the attic." She yells up to Jamie.
"Will do!" Jamie yells down the stairs. She looks at Chris, who is pouting. "Don't even try, it's not gonna work."
"Come on, Jamie." He says. "They need my help."
"Yeah, and they need you to be alive." He sighs at this.
"I'm sorry." He says as he walks up to her. "It's just that I worry about you…" He walks a little closer. "And my mom… And, that's a really nice outfit." She looks at him.
"Uh… Thanks."
"You know, we could go to your room. Phoebe's not there and it's empty…" She takes a deep breath at this.
"As tempting as that is, I would much rather have you alive and not melted away." He groans.
"You're impossible, do you know that?" She smiles at him.
"Thank you." They hear a crash. Jamie looks at him. "Stay here, I'm gonna go see what that was." She starts go leave, but he stops her.
"No, I don't want you getting hurt either." She looks at him and leans in and kisses him.
"I won't get hurt." She walks downstairs to find Paige and Phoebe hiding. She looked in the hall to find Chris, who was now wearing a police uniform. Jamie watches in horror as the Scabber demons appear and spray acid-goo on him. He melts away to nothing. The demons disappear. "Chris!" Jamie runs into the living room, Phoebe and Paige stop her.
"Jamie, that wasn't Chris."
"What do you mean it wasn't Chris, I just saw him!" Chris runs down the stairs.
"Jamie?" She stares at him, then at the sisters.
"What the hell is going on?"
"That was Rick, not Chris." Phoebe tells her. Jamie stares at her. "We put a spell on him to look like Chris so the demons would come and attack." Jamie sighs in relief. She runs and puts her arms around Chris.
"I have seen you die to many times." She looks at him. "Please don't do it again."
"I don't plan to." He chuckles. She hugs him tighter.
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Later, Jamie and Chris were sitting in the middle of the floor, playing with Wyatt.
"I'm gonna go get something to drink." Jamie says. "You want anything?"
"No, I'm good." Chris says. She smiles and kisses him. She stands and walks a few steps, she turns and watches the love of her life play with his older brother, she then chuckled at how strange that sounded. Not the older brother part, the love of her life. Jamie never thought she would ever fall this hard for someone. What she didn't know was, Piper was staring at the exact same thing, from a different room. Piper was watching her two sons play. She feels baby Chris kick, she smiles and puts her hands on her stomach.
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Hey guys! I hope you like this chapter – Thanks again for ALL the reviews, they're MUCH appreciated. I'm sorry this chapter had, like, no Phoebe in it, but I figured that I couldn't really change that story line much, so… lol, next chapter should be up soon. Bye for now!
