Here's the next chapter. Hope you enjoy.
Chapter 7-Help from a Wise Man
It was a weekday so everyone was accustomed to getting up early. They weren't however accustomed to being woken up by a three year old at five in the morning who chose this time to run through the house screaming.
"Mommy loves daddy! Mommy loves daddy!" he screamed as he ran into each room waking each of his sisters and eventually his daddy.
"Ben, it's too early," Cole told his son, needing every bit of sleep he could get. "Go back to sleep, please."
The boy wore a huge smile and did what his father asked, knowing that after today, his mommy would live with him. He had a plan.
The girls calmed down on their own, still tired and went back to sleep. Ben couldn't sleep though, too excited. He would finally be like all of the other kids at pre-school who's mommy lived with them. He had a mommy before. He knew that but it wasn't the same thing. She had loved him and cared for him but it wasn't the same. Now, when his mommy held him close, he felt complete, loved unconditionally. He had never felt that way with his other mommy.
It was now 1:30 and Bennet along with the rest of his class ran outside to their parents.
"Mommy!" Ben screamed as he ran towards her.
"Hey, baby," she said picking him up. "Did you have fun today?"
"Yeah, does daddy has to work late?" Ben asked.
"Nope. He's leaving early. He's on his way home right now," Pheobe told him as she helped him into his seat in the middle of the twins.
A smile spread across the boy's small face.
"And you are staying wiv us, wight?" he asked.
"Yep. I'll stay until your bedtime," she said.
"Yay!" he exclaimed.
They arrived home and Ben ran to his room, Jaclynn right behind him.
Pheobe put the twins down for a nap and called work to make sure Elise had received her column via email.
Ben, being the very intelligent three year old that he was, knew he could not get them together on his own. He closed his eyes, concentrating.
"Gampa!" Ben said as he jumped into the arms of Benjamin Coleridge Turner.
"Pa!" Jaclynn squealed trying to copy her older brother.
"I needs help, Gampa," Ben told the man. "Mommy needs to live wif us."
"I see," Benjamin said to the small child. "Let's see what we can do about that."
The older man sat on the bed with the toddler in his lap, his finger tapping his temple as if searching for information.
"I got it," Benjamin told the toddler as he stood upand put the boy down. "When your mommy leaves, make your daddy take you somewhere."
"But Gampa," Ben started.
"Just do it. I'll be right back," Benjamin told him as his form began to change into a beaten up younger man.
He orbed out and reappeared in the Halliwell Manor attic.
"You have to help me!" he screamed. "A powerful demon wants to gain my whitelighter powers so that he can slip into witches houses without being detected as evil."
"Wait, slow down," the eldest Halliwell sister said. "Who's after you?"
"There's no time. He can be vanquished with the Power of Three but you have to hurry. He's on his way here," Benjamin told them.
"Paige, go get Pheobe," Piper ordered her younger sister.
"Why do I have to go there?" Paige whined.
"Because you can orb. Now go," Piper instructed.
"Fine," Paige grumbled before orbing out.
It was going as planned but Benjamin didn't know how he would get himself out of this mess since he knew that no demon was after him. He mentally kicked himself for not thinking of something more full proof.
A few moments later, Paige orbed in with a very pissed Pheobe.
"This better be important," she told them
"Daddy, can we's pwease go to da toy store and gets da new inkedable Holk toy," Ben pleaded. "Pwease, since Mommy hads to go."
He quivered his lip and gave his daddy his best puppy dog eyes and in under five minutes, he was on his way to the store.
"I thought you said the demon was on his way here. Where is he?" Piper asked.
Benjamin did the first thing he could think of to keep the plan going and he began to grow taller, more muscular, sharp, jagged teeth forming in his mouth, his skin turning a dark green color.
"Right here," he told them and Piper immediately threw her hands up blowing him into a million pieces which closely resembled orbs.
Benjamin reappeared at his son's house.
"Good thing I was already dead or that would have really hurt," he said out loud even though no one else was in the house.
He waved his hand and the dining room was now set up for the perfect romantic dinner, set for two, candles lit, rose petals everywhere. He smiled, proud of his work and then orbed to his grandson.
"Dad, what are you doing here?" Cole asked almost swerving off the road, surprised.
"I was summoned," Benjamin said as he looked at his grandson.
"Cans we go wif gampa?" Ben asked his daddy. "Pwease. Pwease."
"Wif Pa," Jaclynn chimed in, not wanting to be left out.
"Okay. Make sure you have everything," Cole told his father who managed to grab the twins' stroller, the kids' diaper bag and orbed out with all four children.
"Good luck," Cole said to the air where his father had been as he pulled into his driveway and noticed Pheobe pulling in as well.
"Where are the kids?" Pheobe asked.
"With my dad," Cole told her.
"Oh," she said as she started to get back into her car.
"You don't have to go, you know. You can come in for a little while. I haven't had the house to myself in a long time, and honestly I'm not used to it. I could use some company," he offered.
Pheobe took him up on his offer, after all, maybe they could talk about their relationship, if they still had one, where they stood. This would probably be their one chance to talk alone.
Cole opened the door and let Pheobe walk in first. Once they saw the dining room. They both stood in awe thinking that the other had done it.
"Wow, Cole, this is.." Pheobe had no words.
"I know. I'm glad you feel this way," Cole said. "How did you have time? Was that demon emergency a set-up?"
"What do you mean? Didn't you do this?" Pheobe questioned, confused.
"No, it wasn't me," he told her.
"Then...who?" Pheobe asked.
"Oh, just shut up and enjoy it," a voice told them.
Cole laughed.
"Dad," he said as he held out a chair for Pheobe and they both started to enjoy the dinner that had been magically prepared for them.
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