Princess Pinky – Brennan will find his way eventually, and I can't believe you didn't think of it! (Goes to get copyright) And Pam probably has the darkest past out of all of them! But you'll find out all about it if you this story! And this chapter's more of a heartstring puller than comical.
Prince Halliwell – Most of your questions will be answered in this chapter, except from the shaman one, I'm going to keep you guessing! Enjoy!
Phoebe turner – Paige is my favourite character, I'm not going to have her all alone! Don't worry!
Ravenix – Dean might come back, I haven't decided yet, and you'll about the shaman! I hope you continue to enjoy my story!
Piperfairy – Yeah, the family's real secretive! And most of your questions will be answered in this chapter, except from Phoebe's power and Pam's past… that not really most actually. Enjoy!
Wiccanings And BickeringsPhoebe lit the last candle on her living room floor, making a complete circle of five burning wicks. Paige gave her a disapproving as she joined her at her side.
"Going behind your husbands back and summoning Grams… What kind of wife are you?" Paige mocked.
Phoebe made a breathing noise, "Look, we haven't been able to agree to whose family would bless Connor, so I'm taking the initiative and helping to make the decision,"
"So in other words, you're getting your way?" she smirked when Phoebe pursed her lips.
"Hear these words, hear my cry,
Spirit from the other side,
Come to me, I summon thee,
Cross now, the great divide,"
Stardust began to swirl in the centre of the candles, Paige and Phoebe smiled as they what was coming, There was a bright flash and in the place of the swirling lights stood Penny Halliwell, however, her back was to the girls.
"Prue, I told you before, I…" She stopped when she didn't realise her surroundings and turned round in confusion, "Oh, girls. Sorry, but I'm kind of in the middle of something,"
"Something important enough not meet your great grandson?" Phoebe smiled as she gestured to the wriggling form in the nearby bassinet.
"Oh, oh!" it finally registered in her, "Well why didn't you say so?" she walked out of the circle of candles and became a corporeal being.
"Hi," the middle sister greeted her grandmother with a hug, as did Paige.
"Hello, my darling," Grams said as she hugged her youngest granddaughter before pulling away and smiling at the bassinet, "Can I hold him?"
"Of course! He's your family," Phoebe laughed.
Grams went to pick up Connor, but stopped when she saw a symbol beside the triquetra on the baby blanket, it was an elaborate design depicting the many of the natural elements. Penny picked up the blanket and waved it in her granddaughters face.
"Would you mind telling me why the Mulwray line symbol is on this blanket?" she said with a frown.
"Um… Yeah!" Phoebe scratched at her neck nervously, "Well, it might have something to with the fact that he's… The Child Of Storms,"
Penny's eyes widened, " You mean you bred with a Mulwray to produce the most powerful witch of their line?"
"Bred? What am I? A dog?" Paige snorted at her sisters retort, "Look, Grams, he's a Halliwell! He's got my eyes, look at him, he's not a monster, he's my child!" Phoebe exclaimed.
Grams sighed, "What's his name," she said coldly.
"Connor, his name is Connor, named after my husband's mortal father! Someone who had nothing to do with magic!"
"Had? You mean he's dead?"
"Yes… And I'd appreciate you not talking about it when Brennan comes home,"
"Where is he?" Paige asked.
"He's finalising stuff at the hospital, you know, shifts and things like that," She replied. Grams eyed Connor suspiciously, but one smile from the infant was enough to make her heart melt. She smiled and picked up her new great grandson, blanket and all, "Why don't you put him down for a nap?" Phoebe looked at her watch, "It's around that time,"
Penny rolled her eyes, "Oh, very well. I take it he has his own room?"
"Yeah, second on your left after you climb the stairs," She pointed up the staircase as her grandmother walked up to the second floor, "That could be you in eight months time, holding two… Uh, I mean a baby," Phoebe smiled at her sister.
Paige shuffled on the spot, "Um… Actually, it won't it," she murmured just loud enough for her sister to hear.
"What are you talking about?" she folded her arms.
"I'm… booked for a termination tomorrow afternoon,"
Phoebe's eyes widened, "You're kidding. You're kidding, right?"
"No," she answered a bit more strongly.
"Paige… Why?"
"Because I can barely look after myself right now, let alone a baby! Not to mention the fact that I might be bearing a powerful evil darklighter!" She sighed, "I can't handle anything right now… And the thought of raising a baby by myself? It's just… terrifying…"
"So you're going to kill your child just because you're scared? Paige, how do you think I felt when I fell pregnant? I didn't plan it, it just happened! And now my life has been enriched by my beautiful baby boy, I have a husband who I love fiercely and I'm surrounded by my family again!"
Paige was about to respond, when there was a crash upstairs, "Girls!" came Patty's scream.
Phoebe sighed in annoyance and pointed at Paige, "We're not done here!" she ran up the stairs with her sister close behind.
Grams jaws getting up from her lying down position in the hallway is Phoebe ran into the room to see what was attacking. The demon was wearing a black cloak with its hood raised while a golden mask covered his face. Connor screamed as his Electrical shield stood and protected him, the demon conjured energy ball and threw it at Phoebe, who levitated into the air, spiralling out of the energy ball's path and kicking the demon right in the face.
She blew a piece of hair out of her face as she landed, "Bastard…" she spat as the demon hit the floor. Paige ran into the room with Grams just in time to see the attacker glow and disappear.
Phoebe picked up her wailing son and began to calm him down as Grams sat down in the rocking chair, scowling at a bump on her head.
"Looks like I got here just in time…"
"So what did you tell Phoebe you were doing?" Leo asked as Brennan lit the final candle in the Great Hall.
"I told her I was finalising stuff at the hospital, which I was… yesterday," he grinned.
Leo shook his head, "Going up against a Halliwell… Pure suicide," he folded his arms and continued to shake his head.
"Well, the way I see it, Connor fulfils a prophecy of my family, so it makes sense that he's blessed by my family. Phoebe knows I'm right, she's just to proud to admit it,"
The elder sighed, "You're both as stubborn as each other, that's probably how your marriage works so well! It's the same with Piper and me, we both refuse to budge on anything, and then we just meet each other half way. Maybe you should do that with Phoebe?" Brennan responded by starting the spell.
"Hear these words, hear my cry,
Spirit from the other side,
Come to me, I summon thee,
Cross now, the great divide,"
Swirling lights appeared and spun around at an amazing speed, after a blinding flash a man stood in their place. He had jet-black hair with a few grey hairs and he was dressed in beige pants with a patterned jumper.
"Brennan? Is that you?" the man asked, squinting his eyes.
The elemental laughed, "Yeah Gramps, it's me,"
"Well, it's about time you got off your lazy ass and summoned me!" he laughed.
"He's a little eccentric," Brennan murmured.
"I get that…" Leo whispered back.
The old man stepped out of the candles with a spring in his step, walking over and using a special handshake to greet Brennan.
"Heh… I see you still remember how to do it," he said.
Brennan laughed and put an arm around his Gramps and turned him towards Leo, "Leo, this is Jack Stewart, Gramps, this Leo Wyatt," the two of them shook hands, "He's my brother in law," The elemental finished.
"Nice to meet you. So, what brings me down here?"
Pamela sat in the kitchen eating cereal with her five year old cousin, she was always got up late at weekends and vacations, the only reason Wyatt was eating with her was because he had wanted a snack and cereal was the only thing in the Manor. Piper had gone to the store and Emma was out running, which she did every morning these days as she trained for the Marathon.
"So, you looking forward to the next year of school?" Pamela took another bite.
"Uh huh, it means I'm bigger now!" He said proudly. "Where's Uncle Aidan?"
Pamela stopped raising the spoon to her mouth halfway and but her lip nervously, "Um…" She rubbed her neck, "Well, certain grown up stuff means that Uncle Aidan can't be with Auntie Paige anymore,"
"Why?" Wyatt asked with wide eyes.
She ruffled his hair, "I'll tell you when you're older,"
Emma jogged through the back door drenched in sweat, she was taking deep breaths and she opened the refrigerator and pulled out a bottle of water.
Wyatt let out a laugh, "You're all wet!"
"Yeah, go take a shower, sweaty," Pamela said as she took another bite of cereal.
Emma shot her glare, "Watch it you, or you'll be getting an F next year in Potions," she walked out of the kitchen and went up the stairs.
"Emma, wait! I need to talk to talk to you!" Pamela slid off her stool and ran after the psionic.
She caught her at the bottom of the stairs where Emma was sipping on a bottle of water, "What is it?"
"Follow me," Pamela walked past her and climbed the stairs towards the next floor with Emma behind her. Turning towards her room, Pamela walked in and went over to her chest of drawers, where she opened the top drawer and brought something out. She handed the object to Emma; it was a positive pregnancy test.
"Oh my God… Are you pregnant? Is it Zach's?" Emma's eyes widened.
Pamela snorted, "Okay, no and definitely no. I found in Paige's jeans when I was putting them in the wash,"
Emma's jaw dropped, "This is Paige's?" The teen nodded, "Oh my God…" She sat down on Pamela's bed, "How did this happen?"
The Halliwell rolled her eyes, "Am I going to have a talk with you?"
Emma shot her look, "You know what I mean! Who's is it?"
"I think Paige is the only one who can give us the answer to that,"
"Give you the answer to what?" Pamela and Emma spun round to see Paige walking into the room, "Well? What do you need?"
"Uh…" The two witches looked between each other, "Um… Emma was… wanting to… borrow your leather jacket! Yeah, that's the answer we're looking for," Pamela turned back to the psionic and widened her eyes; Emma caught on and subtly hid the pregnancy test behind her back.
"Oh… Yeah, sure, I'll give it to you after we sort out some demon stuff. Is the book upstairs?" She pointed upwards.
"No, it's in the kitchen. I was testing a new batch of potions and I had to check some stuff," Emma jumped in.
"Okay, I'll meet you guys downstairs," She walked out of Pamela's bedroom; the two of them breathed a sigh of relief when they heard her footsteps on the stairs. Pamela put her hand on her forehead.
"What are we gonna do?"
Emma looked out of the door, "We're going to confront her," she stomped out of the bedroom with a stern look on her face.
Paige was pouring over the Book of Shadows in the kitchen, looking at a demon called Belgan, who killed young children to gather more power, he fitted the bill for the demon that had attacked this morning. Wyatt slid down from his stool slowly and walked over to the sink to put his cereal bowl in the sink, but when he saw it was too high for him, he blinked and the bowled orbed into the sink, leaving Wyatt to go upstairs and play.
Emma passed Wyatt on the way into the kitchen; she had kept up her fierce demeanour and stomped into the room with her arms folded. Paige looked at her best friend suspiciously, knowing that this behaviour was out of character.
"Um… What's wrong?"
"I don't know, you tell me," She slammed the pregnancy test down in front of the witchlighter and watched the colour drain from Paige's face.
"Wh-Where did you this?" she picked it up with a shaky hand.
"Pam found it when she was-,"
"Pam knows too? Well that's just great!" she sighed and put her hands on her hips.
"Why didn't you tell me? I'm your best friend!" Emma exclaimed.
"Because after tomorrow I won't be pregnant!" she shouted back.
"You're getting an abortion?" Pamela walked in with wide eyes.
"Dammit! This doesn't concern you guys! I'm not having a child, so no one else has to know about this!"
"I'm home!" Piper's voice echoed from the foyer.
"Ugh… I'm outta here," Paige stood up straight and disappeared in a swirl of white lights.
"Paige don't you dare… run away…" Emma finished her sentence weakly as she realised she was talking to an empty space.
"Hey, I thought I asked the two of you to clean the attic? I went up there and it's still a tip!" Piper scolded them both, "C'mon! This is Connor's Wiccaning!"
Emma and Pamela shared a glance, "Um… Piper, we'll do it when we get back from Paige's, we need to talk to her,"
"About what?" the oldest Charmed One raised an eyebrow.
"Um… Emma wants her leather jacket," Pamela saved their hides for the second time today.
"Alright, I guess, just don't be late!"
"We won't," The two witches said in unison.
"Uh… Em?" Piper called the psionic back.
"Yeah?"
"You might want to take a shower first,"
Emma looked down the realised she was still covered in sweat from her run, not to mention her running clothes stank. She smiled sheepishly and ran upstairs towards the bathroom.
"If you think I'm letting my grandson be blessed by your family, then you've got another thing coming, you battleaxe!"
"Oh please, the only thing my grandson would get would be a life tormented by evil if he was blessed by you!"
The two grandparents had been going at it like this for around half an hour. Brennan and Phoebe had sat awkwardly in the Great Hall while this unfolded, watching both of their families representatives go at it with each another. Phoebe jiggled a sleeping Connor delicately in her arms, trying to keep him asleep through all the shouting.
"But he's fulfils the prophecy of my family! He's ours by legend!" Jack shouted at Penny.
"The hell he is! Was it that prophecy that gave birth to him? No! He popped out of my granddaughter! That makes him ours!"
"Actually, that makes him mine and Brennan's," The two turned round and saw that Phoebe has spoken, "He's doesn't belong to our families, he mine and Brennan's, Connor is my son and I love him more than anything in the world! So stop treating him like a prize,"
"But Phoebe, I…" Grams began.
"Alright, I've had enough of this," Brennan stood up with a scowl, "The two of you resolve your differences and come to an agreement, or you're on the next train back to the afterlife and your great grandson goes unblessed! You hear me?"
The two spirits gasped, "How dare you talk to us like that! " Grams exclaimed.
"Yeah, respect your elders!" Jack added, before turning back to Penny and restarting the fighting. Brennan growled in frustration and flopped back into his chair while Phoebe stood up slowly, careful not to wake the sleeping bundle in her arms,
"I'm taking him to the nursery. He doesn't need to wake up and hear his great grandparents fighting about him," Brennan nodded weakly and went back to watching the fight between spiritual oldies.
Phoebe put a now awake Connor in the playpen and looked down on him lovingly before turning to the teacher, Mrs Winterbourne, "Is it okay if I leave here?" she glanced at her son again.
"Sure, he's a delight to look after," she smiled at the Halliwell.
"Thanks," Phoebe went to leave when Paige suddenly orbed in in front of her, which startled her, "What's wrong?" She asked, noticing the tear marks on her sister's cheeks.
"Um… Can we go to my place and talk?" She whispered.
"Uh… Sure," Phoebe took her sisters hand and they orbed out together.
They reappeared in Paige's living room, Phoebe looked around and noticed that there was a lot of boxes scattered around the apartment, she looked around the place with pity as she realised that all of the things in the boxes belonged to Aidan.
"It's about time you got here…" The two witches jumped when they noticed Emma and Pamela sitting on the sofas.
Paige sighed in annoyance, "Glad to see you just let yourself in…" she growled, "If you're to talk me out of the termination, then you're wasting you time," She walked into the kitchen and got a bottle of water from the refrigerator.
"Wait, they know?" Phoebe gestured at the two people sitting on the couch.
"I slipped up with my pregnancy test," she opened the bottle.
"Well I'm sorry Paige, but you know how I feel about you getting this procedure!" Phoebe made your opinion known.
"Add me to that…" Pamela added, the two who had agreed looked at Emma for the same answer.
"I've thought about this, and… I'm going to support you whatever you decide," Emma finally responded.
"What?" Phoebe and Pamela shouted together.
"You guys," she got up and walked towards the youngest Charmed One, "At the end of the day, this is Paige's decision and we shouldn't try and influence it. She'll do what she thinks is right,"
"Does that mean you'll come to the clinic with me tomorrow?" Paige asked her best friend with pleading eyes.
Emma pulled her into a hug, "Of course…" But their tender moment was broken by Phoebe's shouting.
"Emma, how can you go along with this? Paige is destroying the very thing that could be the best thing to ever happen to her! Don't you want her to be happy?"
"Of course I do! But we'll get nowhere by pushing her into our beliefs! This is her choice, and she's made it!"
"You can't be serious!" Pamela began, "This could be her only chance at having a child and you want her to get rid of it in a second?"
Emma was about to answer when a golden masked demon shimmered in, sending an energy ball at the psionic and hitting in the back. Emma went sailing across the room and landing in the glass coffee table, smashing it and hitting the floor. Before anyone could react, Belgan had shimmered in behind Paige, grabbed her, and shimmered out.
Leo removed the final piece of glass from Emma's bleeding back and began to heal her. Piper, Phoebe and everyone else stood watching, Grams paced the paced the room.
"Oh for Gods sakes Leo! What's taking so long?"
Leo gritted his teeth, "She almost died, it's going to take a while,"
Phoebe stood in Brennan's arms and was grateful that Connor was at Magic School with he rest of his cousins, but then she realised that there were two cousins still in trouble.
"Pamela, can I talk to you for a moment?" she whispered to that Piper wouldn't hear.
The teen gave her a strange look and walked over to the kitchen in Paige's apartment with Phoebe, "I think I figured out why the demon took Paige,"
"Yeah, I was thinking why he would take an adult when he needs young children,"
"Yeah, that's the thing, he did get a child. What's younger than a baby who hasn't even been born yet? When it's in its mothers womb,"
"The Book said that the younger the victim, the more powerful he becomes,"
"And when you add that the amazing powers Paige's baby must have…"
Pamela sighed in realization; "He'll become unstoppable," Phoebe nodded slowly, "We need to find Belgan,"
"You think?" Was Phoebe's sarcastic response. There was a gasp signalling that Emma had awakened, she sat up and blinked a few times to register her surroundings, before her eyes grew wide and she jumped up.
"Paige! What happened to her?"
"The demon took her," Brennan answered.
"What I don't get is how he got her," Piper began, "I mean, with four powerful witches in the room, how did he hit Emma and grab Paige without you guys doing anything?"
"Uh… We were a little distracted," Phoebe said, as her face grew red
"By what?"
"We were arguing with each other…" Pamela finished.
"About what?" Piper continued to question.
"Does it really matter? We need to get to Paige!" Emma managed to veer Piper away from the truth.
"The girl's right," Jack mumbled, "Belgan attacked at Brennan's Wiccaning looking for a fresh meal, so I know that it will take a lot of magic to find him, since he hides his lair,"
"What do you mean "A lot of magic"?" Pamela asked with a confused expression.
"I mean that we need a lot of power behind that scrying crystal if we're going to find him!"
Phoebe smirked slightly, "Will the combined power of a Halliwell and a Mulwray be enough?"
Leo orbed into the dark crypt with Piper, Brennan, Penny and Jack. The two grandparent dropped hands instantly as they materialised, still not budging on their believes and still not coming to decision about the Wiccaning. Following the mumbles and groanings that were coming from deeper in the cave, they heard Belgan talking to Paige.
"You will be a treat to devour," he said, Piper could tell he was smirking even though she couldn't see him, "I'll be more powerful than any demon!"
"Sorry buddy, but the feast's cancelled," Penny announced as she walked in casually before making a series of quick gestures with her fingers and causing the demon to be suspended in mid air, but the telekinetic grip wasn't strong enough, as Penny groaned from the strength that was needed. As if reading her mind, Jack and Brennan stood on either side of her and fired powerful bolts of lightning at the writhing creature; they kept the electricity going from their hands. Piper ran over to her chained to the wall sister and quickly freed her by blowing up the shackles.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, just a little woozy…" Paige turned her head to the side and vomited, Piper grimaced.
"I'll heal her cuts and bruises," Leo began, "Finish him off," Piper nodded at her husbands instructions and made a hand gesture towards the ground, to beams of orange energy shot from her palms and into the ground.
"Okay! Slam him down!" Piper yelled over the noise of shifting rock. More light burst from her hands and a giant fissure opened up in the ground, the three witches brought their arms down swiftly, causing the demon to fall with them and get swallowed by the abyss. Piper lowered her arms and the fissure disappeared with a simple command from her mind. She turned to the two spirits.
"See what happens when our families work together?"
Phoebe walked into a spotless attic with Connor on her hip, her entire family stood in a semi circle round the Book of Shadows, they were all dressed up for the occasion and Phoebe felt that this was just how she pictured it. Penny and Jack stood side by side in front of the Book of Shadows, facing the family and Brennan stood in between the two, waiting for his son and wife.
Penny smiled at her granddaughter, "Let us begin," She took hands with Jack and they chanted the spell,
"We call forth from space and time,
The Mulwray and Halliwell line,
Parents, children, siblings, friends,
Our family spirits without end,
To gather now in this sacred place,
And help us bring this child to grace."
They turned around and watched strings of light fall through the ceiling, each one taking the form of an ancestor. The attic was completely packed if you counted all of the spirits. Pamela gasped as she noticed her real mother standing at the front of the Halliwells, Prue smiled at her and mouthed "I love you" The Mulwrays were a family led by men, all of them stood proudly in their transparent states as everyone else stood in awe at the beauty of the occasion.
"The next generation has been born into our families, our legacies…" Grams addressed the spirits as Phoebe handed Connor to her; she shared holding her grandson with Jack as he continued.
"We pledge to be with this child, this handsome boy, always…" Jack said, the two grandparents alternated lines from there.
"Free, but never separate…"
"Apart but never alone…"
"He is one of us, and because of that…"
"We shall bless him with the goodness that we are,"
The two of them spoke together as they held their grandson, "Welcome to our families, Connor Halliwell Mulwray," Penny kissed his check and Jack ruffled the first waves of his dark hair. Connor was handed back to Brennan as the two grandparents took their places next to the other spirits and floated back to the heavens in a whisp of light.
Paige sat in the waiting room at the clinic, nervously rolling up the magazine she had in her hands as Emma filled out a from that the receptionist had given them when they had came in.
"Who s hall I put as "Call in emergency" person?" Emma asked nervously, knowing that it had once been Aidan.
"You're my person for that…" Paige choked out, her throat was scratchy and she hadn't talked ever since they had got into the car to drive here.
"Okay…" Emma quickly scribbled down her details.
"Emma…" Paige whispered, "Am I doing the right thing?" the psionic gave her a strange look, "It's just that… with the Wiccaning and all yesterday…"
Emma held the clipboard next to her chest, "Paige, this is your decision, I'm not going to tell you what to do when your life could be changed forever,"
"Paige Matthews," a nurse called from the room where "it" happened.
"Do you want me to come in with you?" Emma offered her best friend.
Paige sat there for a moment before shaking her head, "No, I'll go myself," She took the clipboard from Emma and walked into the back.
Pamela propped up her aunt with more pillows as she sipped on a glass of water silently. Emma stood in Paige's kitchen making a snack, just as quietly.
"How many cookies do you want?" she asked.
"Three," Paige replied as Pamela stuffed another cushion behind her back.
"Are you comfortable?"
"Yeah, thanks honey," she had a quick embrace with her niece as Emma brought a plate of cookies over. The psionic sat on the new wooden coffee table in front of Paige and gave a pitying look.
"How do you feel?" Emma asked.
"A little strange, but I guess that's to be expected…" she replied before sipping at her water again. The buzzer went and Emma shot up quickly to answer it, "You just rest, you've been through a lot today," she reassured Paige who had went to get up.
She opened the door and Phoebe stood in the hallway with an apologetic smile. "I brought a cheeseburger and fries, I know how Paige likes to eat fast food after going through something big,"
Emma smiled at her kindly and invited her in, where Phoebe took Emma's original sitting place on the coffee table and the psionic moved to sit next to Paige on the sofa.
"How are you?" Phoebe bowed her head.
"I still feel not quite right, but it's probably what's supposed to happen… Or…" Paige's voice grew louder at that word, "It could just be morning sickness," Phoebe looked up and suppressed a smile, wanting to know if it was true, but when she looked at Emma and Pamela, she knew it was for real, "I didn't get the procedure, Phoebe. I was there, I was seconds away, but in the end, I couldn't give up my babies,"
Phoebe raised an eyebrow, "Babies? As in plural?"
Paige nodded with a big grin on her face, "The doctor said there was two heartbeats when he checked me out, I'm having twins!"
After that, the apartment erupted in screams of joy and laughter as Phoebe hugged her sister tightly, knowing that there would be a new addition to the Halliwells.
What an ending! Wouldn't you agree?
NEXT TIME: Emma begins to have strange dreams of ancient times and battles of long ago, desperate to know what it means, she searches for her origins. Paige tried to find a way to tell Piper of her pregnancy.
Chapter 5 "A Day In The Past Life" will be up soon!