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Phoebe and Cole walked down the stairs in silence. Future Phoebe was still upstairs trying to comfort Patrick whose sobs had gone down considerably. The last thing that the two saw was Patrick hugging future Phoebe with the intention of never letting go.

Half way down the stairs to the first floor of the manor, Phoebe stopped Cole. She looked him in the eye and said, "Cole, I want you to answer a question for me."

Cole looked at her and nodded.

"Are you the Source?"

There was a bit of silence for a while then Cole replied, "No, I'm not."

Phoebe bit her lip and looked at him again. "If you were, would you honestly tell me or would you lie to me?"

Cole pulled back from Phoebe and turned around. "Honestly, I'm not too sure what I would do, Phoebe." Cole took Phoebe's hands in his and said, "The Source doesn't work that way. If I became the Source, I wouldn't have a say in the matter."

"What do you mean?"

"The Source possesses people. It'll do what it wants," replied Cole evading Phoebe's gaze. "If it was possible for me not to be possessed, I would tell you…and hopefully you would find a way to get rid of it from me."

Phoebe looked Cole straight in the eye and answered, "Ok Cole, I will take your word on that." She sighed and took his hand in hers and said, "So, if we break up over something related to this, you cannot get mad because it is entirely your fault."

"Phoebe, what… do you think that I'm lying to you?"

"Honestly, I have no idea. I mean just looking at this family in this time has brought so many doubts into my head. I mean just look, Leo has been missing for quite a while and they don't even know where he is. You've vanished and your son is out for my blood…"

Cole took Phoebe's face in his hand and kissed her forehead. "Phoebe, I swear I will never do anything like that. I promise."

Phoebe looked up at him. "Really? You're not just saying that?"

"I give you my word."

Phoebe smiled at him her brown eyes beaming. She took his hand and said, "Come on, let's go down before anyone wonders what happened to us."

Downstairs, there was a heated discussion going on between Chris, Prue, Paige, and both Pipers. They were trying to figure out a way that would send them back in time and keep them there.

"Prue, how many times do I have to tell you? Ever damn spell in the book that deals with time travel is a two way spell! If we try and send them back, something will happen that will make them come back here. Only the person who cast the spell can take them back and no one knows who that is!" yelled future Piper.

"Piper, calm down! We just half to tweak it a little, that's all," replied Prue calmly.

Paige got up and said, "Isn't there a spell we can use to find out who cast this spell in the first place?"

"No, that's not possible, Aunt Paige," said Chris. "Any big magic we do will setPhilip on us and that won't be pretty."

"Oh be quiet," muttered Paige hitting the back of Chris's head. Chris yelped and glared at Paige.

"Well, I think that maybe there's a trigger somewhere here," said Piper who had been thinking quietly to herself.

"A trigger? Like what?" asked Phoebe, who was standing with Cole on the stairs.

"Like, maybe we have to do something and then another portal or vortex or whatever it was will open up and send us back," replied Piper.

There was silence for a while and then Prue said quietly, "It's times like these that I wish Leo were here." Prue looked up at future Piper who rolled her eyes.

Future Piper stood up and said, "Why don't we focus on what we have instead of what we don't have." She turned to Piper and said, "Do you mean trigger like that time we got sent to Charlotte Warren's time?" she briefly looked up at Cole whose jaw dropped for a second.

Piper who didn't see the short reaction between the two frowned and said, "Possibly…do you remember, Pheebs?"

Phoebe hugged Cole tighter and said, "I think so…we delivered Melinda then after we found out that we were related, the vortex open and sucked us back."

"What happened?" asked Paige with a confused look.

"Yeah, what happened?" asked Chris folding his arms. "You never told me that one, Mom."

"There's a time and place for everything…that one must have slipped my mind," replied future Piper.

"Remind us to tell you when we go home, Paige," said Phoebe. Paige nodded then proceeded to roll her eyes at Cole who was smirking at her.

"So what exactly do you think that trigger is for us to go back?" he asked.

"Probably…wait a minute, how did you get here?" asked Prue.

"Yeah," said Phoebe. "How did you get here?"

Cole shifted nervously and said, "I asked Tempus to help me…I said I'd kill him if he didn't."

Both Pipers rolled their eyes at the same time then looked at each other and started laughing.

"Well, we can't exactly do that here, Uncle Cole," said Chris grinning at him.

"And why not?" asked Prue glancing suspiciously at her nephew.

"Because, Wyatt and I killed him a few years ago!" replied Chris triumphantly. Everyone in the room groaned. "What did I do?"

"You just took away one of our chances of getting back, you moron," retorted Paige whacking the back of Chris's head again.

"OW! I'm sorry, Wyatt and I were going demon hunting, and he was the first one to show up so we killed him."

"As I said," continued future Piper glaring at her son, "let's not focus too much on what we don't have…so any ideas for what the trigger could be?"

The seven magical beings sat in total silence for a few minutes. During this time, Chris was trying to through small pieces of paper from his pocket at Paige's head, Paige was glaring at Cole, both Pipers were deep in thought, Prue was pacing around the room, Cole was hugging Phoebe and staring into space, and Phoebe was looking around at all the people in the room smiling to herself.

"Anything?" asked Prue stopping. Everyone shook their head. Prue sighed then looked up at Chris who was still throwing paper at Paige's head. "Chris! Will you cut that out? I can still ground you, you know."

Chris muttered, "Sorry," and gave his attention to future Piper who was smiling at him and shaking her head.

Future Piper looked around at everyone in the manor and said, "What should we do then?"

Just then, future Phoebe came down the stairs her face stained with dries tears. Future Piper and Prue walked over to her and gave her a big hug.

"You ok?" asked Prue.

"Yeah," replied future Phoebe wiping her face.

"Where's Patrick?" asked future Piper.

"I told him to go back.Philip might suspect something if he can't find Patrick." She looked around at everyone else. She gazed at Cole with hatred evident in her eyes then looked at her past self with a softer gaze. "So what were you guys talking about?"

"We're trying to figure out what could be the trigger to send us all back home," said Paige.

"It must be something big," replied future Phoebe.

"Like what?" asked Piper.

"How about something like, oh, I don't know, makingPhilip forgive us?"

The eight people in the family room of the manor turned to look at the owner of the voice. Standing on the steps of the manor were two men. One was very tall, had brown hair with a few shocks of sliver in it, and had piercing blue eyes. The clothes he was wearing looked a bit shabby and old. The other man was shorter and thinner, had blond hair that had a few grey hairs in it, also had blue eyes, was wearing extremely dirty clothes, and looked very tired.

Future Phoebe and future Piper immediately stood up. Standing on the steps were their husbands, Leo and Cole.

Since future Phoebe was unable to say anything, future Piper spoke us. "Where. The. Hell. Have. You. Two. Been."

"Piper, I can explain. We…"

"Explain, Leo?" she hissed storming up the stairs towards him, "EXPLAIN? You think that you can explain why one day you were just gone without warning? How the hell do you think that you can pull that off? I'd really like to know."

"Yeah, buddy," said Piper joining her future self in front of Leo. "You have a lot of explaining to do.

"Piper, why is…"

"Well, if you had been here, you would have known, Leo," hissed future Piper at her husband. And so the conversation between Leo and both Pipers went on just like that. Chris on the other hand was feeling very awkward at the moment so he went back to flicking pieces of paper at Paige's hair.

Future Phoebe and future Cole on the other hand were in a different situation. Cole had started walking down the stairs towards future Phoebe with a smirk on his face. "What aren't you going to welcome me home?"

Future Phoebe started walking towards the stairs. As she passed by Cole and Phoebe, she said, "Let this be a lesson as to what could happen in the future to both of you." Phoebe glanced at Cole who was still hugging her asthey both started moving away from the stairs so that future Phoebe and future Cole would be able to meet. "So, Cole," said future Phoebe. "You want a welcome home from me?"

Future Cole nodded and reached out to touch future Phoebe's face. "If course I do," he whispered. "You have no idea how hard it was staying away from you."

Future Phoebe took his hand which was on her cheek as tears started to spill out of her eyes. "You want a welcome home? Then I'll give you a welcome home." Future Phoebe took her hands and pulled his face towards hers and kissed him with all the force she had. Future Cole who was not at all expecting this responded eagerly to this.

"You're kissing him?" shrieked Phoebe detaching herself from Cole. She stomped over to her future self who was still kissing future Cole and said, "He deserted you for god's sake and you're kissing him?"

Future Phoebe pulled out of the kiss and said, "That was the first welcome home, here's the second one." Then without warning, she shot her foot out and kicked Cole in the chest. In fact she kicked him so hard that he went flying over both Pipers who were shouting and Leo into the hallway upstairs. Future Phoebe shot Phoebe a nasty look at pushed past everyone into the hallway.

Phoebe looked down at Cole and said, "Well, I did not see that coming…"

"Yeah," he replied walking up the stairs towards her. "Who knew you could kick so hard?"

Phoebe glared at Cole and said, "Do you think we should go make sure they don't do anything…drastic?"

Cole gazed at Phoebe who had a small smile tugging at the corner of her mouth and nodded. The two quickly ran upstairs before anyone could stop them.

Amidst the sudden family reunion, Prue and Paige were feeling very left out. Prue had shouted at Chris once again for throwing paper into Paige's hair. Then Chris said that he had to leave because one of his "secret charges" he called them were calling him. Once Chris had orbed out, Prue flopped onto the couch next to Paige.

"So, Paige, how's your love life treating you?"

Paige snorted and said, "I can tell you for sure that it's nothing like this. How's yours?"

"It's great actually. Andy's always been here. I couldn't be happier. My children are wonderful as well."

Paige smiled at her older sister and said, "You all have two children?"

Prue's smile faded. She looked towards both Pipers and Leo and said, "Phoebe and I have two children each but Piper…"

"What happened?" whispered Paige.

Prue's face broke into a smile as she said, "Nothing, I was just joking. We all have only two. More than that then we would have needed a bigger house."

Paige glared at Prue as she shook her head. "This is one messed up family when I think about it."

Prue laughed as she said, "That is an understatement; you should have seen us growing up…now that was messed up. It's funny though, I swear that I knew you before I met you today."

"Apparently you do," said Paige. "I was Phoebe's lawyer."

"No, I'm not stupid, Paige, from before that."

"I went to Baker High," said Paige hoping that it would maybe trigger something.

Prue frowned and said, "That's possibly it. Oh well." She flashed Paige a smile then said, "Did you hear what Cole said when he appeared?"

"About getting Philip to forgive them?"

"Yeah, that. Do you think that'll work?"

Paige frowned as she replied, "I'm not sure but that seems to be the only thing that needs to be done around here now. I mean Leo and Cole are back. Patrick saw Phoebe, what else is there to do apart from that?"

Prue nodded in agreement and said, "Yeah well, forPhilip to forgive them we're gonna have to come up with one hell of a plan."

Paige nodded. Then she put her head on Prue's shoulder and said, "Do you mind? All this thinking about Phoebe's deranged family is making me tired."

Prue smiled and said, "No problem." Then she frowned and said, "You know what? You're right; all of this is about Phoebe's family…why are we so boring?"

Paige laughed at her sister as she fell asleep.