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peanut2lb: Glad you liked the battle scene between Piper and Persia. Phoebe and Cole are apart…for now. And I can confirm, just for you because you are one of my favourite authors, that Prue will appear from chapter 10 to....wait and see!
The-Cheese-Fairy: I think I'll accept that cheese! Pretty please update sooner than Sunday!
This is set just over four months after the last chapter after the last chapter. The family are back in San Francisco and Cole is in L.A with the other Elementals. Paige is past her due date. I am going to post a new fic after I have posted this chapter, which will be called "The Elementals" which will be about Cole, Andy, Monica and Cheryl protecting the innocent in L.A.
The Guardians of Life:
Paige surveyed her appearance in the mirror, today was her wedding day, and the one week anniversary of her due date, but still no baby,
"you look beautiful," said a voice behind, she turned to see her mother standing with a man,
"mom," she said, taking a step forward and hugging her mother,
"hello my baby," replied Patty.
"Hi," Paige greeted the man, she had no idea who he was and had a bad feeling about him, her baby's power of empathy meant she could feel what he felt, and right now she felt sad, unsure and love, a lot of love,
"Paige, this is Sam," Patty told her youngest daughter,
"Sam? That's so weird, Piper and Phoebe told me that was the name of your whitelighter," Paige said, Patty nodded, "which would make you my dad," Paige continued, she looked at Sam and felt a pain in her stomach.
"Paige? Are you okay, your mother told me you were pregnant," Sam said with concern,
"yeah, it's just my baby channelling her power through me," Paige replied,
"no, I don't think so sweetie, your water's broke," Patty explained. Paige looked down to see her mother was right, she looked around the room, her wedding dress was hanging up on the wardrobe door, her shoes were underneath it, then she looked back in the mirror, her strawberry-blonde hair was wavy with cream pearl pin in the side,
"no, she can't come today, today is my wedding day, I have my hair ready and everything, she'll just have to stay in there for a while," Paige exclaimed, Patty smiled,
"it'll be okay, you don't need to be scared," she comforted her daughter,
"how'd you know I was scared?" Paige asked,
"it doesn't take an empath to know what her daughter's feeling," Patty said.
At the manor, Piper, Leo, Prudence, Phoebe, Charlotte, Victor and grams sat in the attic,
"Piper, darling, where is this Glenn?" grams asked in her voice which made her sound more superior,
"he would be in the basement, finishing getting ready," Piper replied. Piper, Phoebe, Prudence and Charlotte were Paige's bridesmaids, all of their dresses were pastel yellow. Phoebe's dress was knee-length and short-sleeved, she had high-heeled yellow sandals which had straps that wrapped around the bottom of her legs and her shoulder-length dark hair was pulled up into a gold bow. Piper's dress was long with a slit up the side, it was off-the-shoulder with long sleeves, her high-heeled shoes also pastel yellow and her hair was pinned and had a yellow rose in it. Charlotte's dress had short puffy sleeves and the skirt part had a yellow frill along the bottom, her shoes were yellow buckles which were over lacy white socks, her hair was in bunches. Prudence was wearing a dress which was long-sleeved and had frilly white cuffs and the same at the bottom of the skirt, her shoes were similar to Charlotte's except they were yellow and white stripes, her hair was in a gold bow. Leo and Victor were both in tuxes, like Glenn, and grams was wearing a deep crimson dress with gold lace,
"well the wedding is set to start in seven minutes," grams continued, "Prudence be a darling and orb your mother to your aunt Paige," Prudence nodded and took one of her mother's hands in both of hers, then she orbed them to Paige's house.
They orbed into the bedroom to find Paige lying on the bed, Patty and Sam standing at her side,
"what's goin on?" Piper asked, picking up her daughter,
"I fink gwandma and dat man are twying to kill auntie Paige," Prudence whispered in her mother's ear,
"we meant to call, she has gone into labour, get the others over here now," Patty said after giving her second to oldest daughter a hug, being careful not to squash her youngest granddaughter.
"When did Sam get back?" Piper questioned, talking so he couldn't hear,
"he's a whitelighter again, and I have news," Patty replied, "I was allowed to become a human for the past week, just to help Sam protect a special charge from a very powerful demon, and Piper, you're going to be a big sister again," Piper felt her stomach rise to the back of her throat,
"but, you're old," was all she could manage to get out,
"no, I'm not, I'm the same age I was when I died, I'm no older than Prue would be if she were alive," Patty said. Piper couldn't cope with the news, she felt herself slipping into a panic attack and nearly dropped her daughter, who orbed onto the bed, then she jumped when a mirror exploded,
"Piper? Are you okay?" asked Paige from the bed,
"no," Piper groaned before fainting,
"we need Leo," Patty said,
"I'll heal Piper, then I'll go get them," Sam said, the held his hand over Piper's chest, releasing a warm glow which brought her back to consciousness.
An hour later, Piper was sitting in a chair fanning herself, Patty had decided not to tell any of the others after the way Piper had reacted,
"not much longer," Patty told Paige,
"Piper, what's wrong with you?" Phoebe asked, crouching down by the chair her sister was sitting on,
"I feel sick," Piper replied, glancing from Sam to Patty. She couldn't believe her deceased mother was having a baby, she was going to have a sister younger than her daughter, the thought made her cringe, but she knew when the baby came she would love it like she loves Prue, Paige and Phoebe. Moments later, the cries of Paige's newborn could be heard,
"oh god, I'm a mommy," she said, the words echoed through Piper's head, she could imagine her mother saying that in nine months for the fifth time,
"do you have a name?" grams asked,
"yeah, her name is Penny," Paige replied, grams gave a warm smile, "so it's official, I have a beautiful baby daughter, Penelope Astrid Halliwell-Matthews, as Halliwell-Matthews will be my name if we ever get round of having this wedding."
"Well you never know, wishes do come true," grams said, she took a locket from around her neck and opened it, golden mist released from inside and whizzed around the room, when it had gone the family were in the garden of the manor and wearing their wedding attire,
"grams, I just had a baby, how can my bump be gone already?" Paige asked,
"it' all part of the magic, but it's only for twenty-four hours, this time tomorrow you'll be sporting the stomach of a woman who has just had a baby," grams replied, then the wedding began, Penelope was wrapped in a lime coloured blanket, sleeping in Patty's arms.
The wedding ended as soon as it had begun,
"it's party time," celebrated Glenn,
"not for me," Paige replied, she had just become Mrs Paige Halliwell-Matthews and had her arms around her husband's waist.
"Paige, Phoebe, can I talk to you for a minute? I have some news," Patty said,
"mom, not now, it's Paige's wedding day!" Piper exclaimed,
"Piper, stop it, I am going to tell them," Patty replied, she was usually very calm and understanding but Piper's behaviour was infuriating her. Paige and Phoebe followed their mother into the kitchen, Piper stormed after them, not meaning to blow up chair,
"what is this all about?" Phoebe asked,
"last week, I became alive so I could help Sam protect a charge from a powerful demon, and now I am expecting a child," their mother explained, Phoebe's eyes widened in shock, she fell back and missed the chair, falling to the floor,
"oh my god," Paige said,
"but you're dead, and old," Phoebe said,
"that's what I said," Piper joined in,
"and I replied by saying that during the week I was very much alive, and I am just as old as I was when I died, maybe not in the years of the living, but I am," Patty told her daughters.
"How…how are you going to raise it?" Paige asked,
"I don't know that yet, we'll just have to wait and see," Patty said with a small smile.
9 Months later….
Patty lay on the soft white feather bed in the Heavens,
"she's beautiful," Sam said, handing her their newborn daughter,
"she is," Patty agreed,
"do you have a name?" asked a familiar voice, they both looked back to see the family.
"Priscilla Willow Halliwell," Patty said,
"that's a beautiful name, can we see her?" complemented Piper, Patty nodded,
"where did you get Willow from?" Paige asked,
"well your father's last name is Wilder, so that is similar, and we had our first kiss under a willow tree, I remember it like it was yesterday, your father came to heal me after I was hit by a fireball, and we ended up kissing." Sam handed Priscilla to Piper,
"hi little sister," she said in a babyish voice, "what you doin?" she got a shock when the baby floated from her arms,
"but I thought her power was healing?" said grams' voice from next to them,
"it is," Sam replied. Suddenly, Charlotte, Prudence and Penelope also floated up into the air, the four children now floated in a diamond shape, a four-pointed star created out of light connected them, then a scroll materialised at the centre,
"read it," Piper prompted her husband forward, her reached forward and took the scroll from the air,
"The Guardians of Life," he read, "four beings more powerful than The Charmed One's themselves, destined to use their powers to guide and protect the innocents of the world,"
"wow!" Phoebe exclaimed, "they're more powerful than The Charmed Ones? I didn't think that was possible?"
"well it is," said a man's voice, the Angel of Destiny appeared next to Phoebe,
"don't you get bored of seeing my face?" asked Phoebe, it wasn't that long ago he had visited her and Cole in L.A.
"All jobs come with a price," he told them, "anyway, as the scroll read, your children are The Guardians of Life, but because they are too small and too young to begin their destiny yet, Priscilla will stay up here with her parents, for now, but when time comes she will be sent to earth and will be put in the care of one of her sisters," and with that he was gone,
"what a year," Piper said, they all joined hands and Leo, Paige and Prudence orbed them back down to earth, leaving Sam, Patty and Priscilla in the Heavens.
To be continued…