Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed or have anything to do with it
It had been a long two weeks for Paige Matthews. Magic school had been giving her problems as there was another darklighter, disguised as a whitelighter, attack the week before and with all of the paper work and endless talks with parents that situation created, her job had been completely unbearable. To add to that though home hadn't been much better. With the arrival of baby Shawn two weeks before the place was in an uproar so she couldn't even go there to catch a break from disastrous and or stressful situations.
Home was like a war zone. Owen, while been a good man, had turned out to be the most overbearing of overbearing husbands and fathers. Every single time that little Shawn even whimpered Owen was by his side in a matter of seconds, checking every possible situation, making sure nothing would hurt his new son. Every time that Chris or Wyatt needed something, he'd try to help while still trying to look after his new son. Every time Piper yawned, he'd be by her side trying to convince her to take a nap, or go out and leave the kids to him for a bit.
In theory those things sounded like he was super-dad, but the truth was he was spreading himself too thin. He was trying to do everything at once and many things were slipping through the cracks and with Paige been the only other occupant of the manor, she found it to be her duty to pick up the scraps, so to speak.
Also Leo had been slacking off again lately. After his huge confrontation with Owen he had written long letters of apology to each of his sons and increased his visits to fortnightly and when ever he could spare a few minutes. It had been going pretty well, Chris had forgiven him as soon as he had been asked and started to also refer to him as daddy. Wyatt, who had always held his dad in high esteem, had loved the fact that he was around more often and didn't even need to be asked to forgive Leo for not been around all that time. But the last couple of months Leo had only been come for very short amounts now and again. He had missed his weekend visits and left only letters of apologies for both his sons. This too was creating a strain for Paige as it was her left to console the broken heart children.
Other things were getting her down as well, more personal things, like the fact that both of her sisters were married with families and she still lived with one of them by herself and had absolutely no prospects of a gaining a husband any time soon.
Paige knew that all these problems would go away soon enough. She was sure that within the week the parents would be slowing down on their abusive messages and that Owen and Piper would be back on top of things soon enough, but until that time came she was in for a quite a bit more stressful times.
It was late on a Wednesday afternoon and Paige had just gotten back with Wyatt and Chris from another torturous day at Magic School. She was currently in the kitchen, trying to catch a little Paige time before a new round of chaos began.
Paige was just pouring herself a well deserved cup of coffee when she heard the doorbell ring. Deciding to let someone else answer it she stayed firmly rooted to the spot where she stood. After three more rings she finally gave in and walked dejectedly to the door to see who was on the other side. The person that was took her by surprise, it was the man from the day Shawn was born, she hadn't expected to ever see him again.
"Hello"
"Hi" said the man back "I'm sorry about the other week, I was just sort of surprised to see a new person living here" he paused for a second and looked to be having some kind of debate with himself in his head, finally he continued "You wouldn't happen to know where the last owners of this place moved to would you?"
"Ah the last owners of this place was my mothers family, this place has been in my family since it was built" said Paige
"That's impossible, unless you're a Halliwell too" said the man unsure
"I'm related, who are you?"
"Your... oh ok, ah does Prue Halliwell still live here?" he asked her
"Prue? You're after Prue?" asked Paige surprised
"Yeah why, is that a problem?" he said hesitantly
"Ah Prue, she's gone" said Paige not knowing exactly how to break the news to this man that she was dead.
"What do you mean gone, do Piper and Phoebe still live here" Paige signalled for him to wait and stuck her head back inside the house
"Piper! Can you come here please" called Paige up the stairs and when she heard an affirmative noise from her sister pulled back around to face the man.
"Who are you?" she asked him "I mean you turn up here, obviously with no knowledge of what happen almost ten years ago looking for a person who you're defiantly not going to find" The man regarded her strangely
"What are you talking about, I can hardly understand a word coming out of your mouth, it's like you're talking to me in code but you haven't yet let on how to crack it, I'm not getting the message" Paige was about to answer when Piper came to the door
"Paige I'm kind of busy, what do yo..." her eyes flew wide at sight of the man before her "Oh my god" she exclaimed "What are you doing here? You didn't escape again did you?" she asked eyes wide with worry
"No I was let out, it's been over ten years Piper" he said softly
"Phoebe!" Piper yelled sticking her head back inside
"Yeah" came the muffled reply
"Call Darryl and..."
"Why you yelling?" she interrupted coming to the door, she caught sight of the man and her eyes went wide "Bane! Oh my god" she quickly scurried off to do what Piper had asked
"You're Bane" asked Paige turning back towards him
"I'm Bane" he answered
"Who's Bane?" she asked Piper
"Where's Prue?" interrupted Bane before Piper could answer "She is the reason I came here after all"
"He's free" came the voice of Phoebe from another room of the house. Piper turned back to him
"Oh god this is going to be difficult, come inside would you" Once they were inside and each had a coffee in hand Piper spoke again.
"Paige this is one of Prue's old ah... boyfriends I suppose" She cast a quick look at Bane before continuing "He's been in prison for the last ten or so years"
"Prison?" asked Paige
"Yeah prison" answered Bane "Consorting with Demons" From the look on Paige's face he could tell that her opinion of him had just fallen rather dramatically so he added on "Prue, she trusted me. Where is she by the way?"
"She died" Paige answered his question rather abruptly "Like nine years ago" Bane had gone rigid with shock
"Wha... What?" he stammered out
"There was a demon attack about a year and a half after you escaped and she died in it" said Piper in a more gentle voice then Paige. Bane looked as if he was about to cry.
"Whose he mommy" Chris asked entering the room clad in his monster truck pyjamas
"This is an old friend of your Aunt Prue's Chris" answered Piper taking her sons hand
"He was here when Shawn was born" said Chris
"He was" she asked. Chris nodded in confirmation
"Ah...Paige?" he looked to Paige eyebrows raised she nodded and he continued
"Paige answered the door, I thought you had moved" he continued in an emotion filled voice. Paige felt a fair amount of compassion for him when she saw just how cut up he was about Prue been dead and took pity on him
"Would you like to stay for dinner" she asked eyes on the floor a little embarrassed about the way she had acted before
"No thankyou, I'm... I think I'll just go home" he said. Just as he was turning to leave Chris spoke up again
"Why are you so sad Mister" he asked. Piper looked down at her son and answered the question for Bane, who looked on in silence
"Bane here just found out that Aunt Prue died. He didn't know before, so he's a little bit sad because of that. It's not nice to loose a friend Chris"
"Well she is still around" stated Chris trying to calm this man. He didn't like it when people were upset
"What do you mean kid" asked Bane. Wyatt who had heard that last bit of the conservation walked quickly into the room answered that question before Chris got the chance to
"Chris thinks that when people die they look down on us from heaven" Wyatt then shot Chris a look that plainly said 'Don't say a thing'. Bane nodded and continued walking to the door. He was walking faster this time as if he couldn't wait to get out of there and with each step he took the look on his face just got more pained.
"Wait up!" Paige called a minute later running out after him. As soon as they were gone Chris felt the presence of another in the room. His head quickly snapped to his right and he saw his Aunt Prue's head poking in the room staring with unfocused eyes after where Bane and her sister had just run out.
"Mommy where's Shawn" asked Chris
"He's in my room taking a nap" answered Piper distractedly
"Com on Wy lets go talk to him" Chris said letting go of his mothers hand and taking Wyatt's, pulling him out of the room
"Chris Shawn can't talk yet, he's only two weeks old" Wyatt said confused. Chris ignored him, let go of his brother's hand and ran to into the waiting arms of his Aunt Prue.
"Aw Chris I missed you too" She said hugging the little boy "And you little Wy" she added when the boy had realised that she was there and come to hug her too.
"Why haven't you come for a long time" asked Chris
"I've been very busy Chrissie. The strange attacks have been happening more and more often and they are becoming more brutal" answered Prue sadly
"Well come on Aunt Prue you haven't seen Shawn yet" said Wyatt excitedly
"Piper had the baby?" asked Prue, eyes lighting up "Lead the way"
They walked up to Pipers room been careful not to be seen by Owen who was still somewhere upstairs. Once they reached the bedroom Prue let go of the boy's hands and walked quickly into the room
"The future power of three" said Prue under her breath looking down at her new little nephew and the at Chris and Wyatt, both whom were oblivious that she had spoken "He's gorgeous" she stated aloud happily
"Shawn isn't all that you missed Aunt Prue, Aunt Phoebe is pregnant again" said Wyatt smiling "And she's naming the baby after you 'Prudence Melinda Halliwell'"
"Well you two certainty know how to lift a person's spirits" said Prue ruffling Wyatt's hair.
"That man" said Chris changing the subject "do you love him?"
"No Chris I don't, but I do care about him deeply and he was very hurt when he found out I'm dead" she said her eyes clouding over a bit "but I have a feeling he'll be alright" she added smiling a little about the way her little sister had run out after him.
"Well I really have to go before someone finds me" said Prue while stroking Shawn's little sleeping head
"Will you come back soon" said Chris, eyes dropping to the floor
"I'll be back as soon as I can" said Prue kneeling so she was eyelevel with him. The kid defiantly had some abandonment issues, and with a lousy father like he had she couldn't blame the little dude.
After hugs were given and more promises of return were made Prue orbed out and back to her reality of endless paperwork and research. Because of who she was before she died she had been given the job of trying to put all clues together and come up with suspect lists of who might be the head of the strange attacks that had been taking place since the day of Piper's wedding. The Avatars were big suspects but the problem was they hadn't been registered of even have done any magic for about six years.
All was silent, tension was in the air, then suddenly a noise broke the silence, it was the sound a little baby's whimper. Everything was great; his newest little cousin had been born. With that sound the tension in the San Francisco hospital waiting room seeped away and chatter broke out. Eight year old Chris turned to his ten year old brother Wyatt but he was engaged in a conversation with their grandpa so Chris let them be.
In front of them Bane was pacing back and forth just outside the doors to the delivery room and Phoebe was beside him trying to calm him down. The door he was in front of opened and a nurse clad in blue walked out with a baby wrapped in a pink blanket in her arms.
"This is Patience Halliwell-Brody" said the nurse quietly
"She's beautiful" said a deep voice softly. Bane spun around and came face to face with his brother whom had only just arrived at the hospital.
"She's yours" said Bane
"My baby girl" Kyle Brody exclaimed putting down his briefcase and touching his little angels cheek. Kyle took the baby girl in his arms, not taking his eyes of her beautiful face and walked into the room where his wife, Paige Halliwell was waiting.
A/N: Thankyou to everyone who answered my question, I'm sorry to those who said no for Kyle but I went with majority rules. I figured that since Chris changed the timeline, in his old one Paige could have met Kyle much later. So yeah thanks and please review, you guys have all been so great, it really keeps my writing.