Chapter 2
Pheobe jumps up off the couch and starts calling for Cole. " Cole! Cole! Cole get your half-demonic ass over here right now!" Cole shimmers into the living room with a worried look on his face.
" What! What! Are you ok? Are the kids ok? What demon was it. I'll kill him right now." He opens the palm of his hand, and an energry ball appears. Chris sits back laughing to himself.
" Dinner." Chris says matter-of-factly. Cole puts his energy ball out and looks at Pheobe with a confused look on his face.
" Pheobe, hunny. What is he talking about?" Pheobe turns around a gives Chris a shut-up look.
" Did you remember that Patience is bringing her boyfriend home to dinner tonight?" Cole straigtened his suite out and tried to stay very calm.
" You mean you called me out of my office to tell me about dinner?" Pheobe crosses her arms.
" Fine if you don't care about meeting your daughters first serious boyfriend. You can tell her why you won't be attending dinner." Cole looks mad.
" Wait, she is serious about this boy? Does she know anything about him? Like if he has any demonic relatives we might need to know about? Or better yet what if he is a demon wanting the power of the charmed ones? Or better yet the charmed one's heir, or the twice-blessed child." Cole was simmering now. Pheobe looked up at him.
" So I guess that means you will be attending dinner then right?" Cole nodded his head.
" You can beat your fairies wings I will be there." Pheobe smiled and then gave him a kiss on the cheek, then started to cough. Cole scrunched his eyebrows together and looked at her. " Have you been resting? Taking all the vitamin C? If you want I can stop by the rain forest on the way home and grab an orange or too." Pheobe shook her head, and waved him off with his hand.
" No, no, I'm fine. Go back to work babe. I'm gonna go take a quick shower." Cole gave her a quick kiss again then shimmered out. Waving at Chris as he left. Pheobe turned to walk up the stairs to take a shower when she turned around and looked at Chris. Without saying a word Chris waved his hand and said, " bathroom". Pheobe yelled from upstairs.
" Thanks Chris." He got up from his chair and walked over to the mess from where Piper had blown up the demon. He waved his hand over it and the scorch marks came out of the carpet, and the broken vase disappeared. Once he was done cleaning up he went into the kitchen to get something to drink. He was grabbing a can of pop when Wyatt orbed in with a goofy grin on his face. Chris looked up at him with an irritated look on his face.
"So how is Italy this time of year." Wyatt came out of his daze and looked at his little brother.
" Awww, whats the matter bro, jealous?" Chris snorted and rose an eyebrow.
" Of what? The twice-blessed child, never." Wyatt smiled and grabbed a can of pop before sitting down at the table.
" She is great Chris. Smart, funny, courageous, and she has a kick butt power." Chris joined his brother at the table before opening his pop.
" Awwww...Wyatt is in love. How cute." Wyatt give him a drop dead look, and Chris smiles. Piper comes walking into the kitchen carrying 3 large loads of grocerys.
" You know boys, you could help me here." Chris and Wyatt look at each other, and then at the same time answer.
" Nah." She sets the bags down and then looks at them.
" Haha, very funny." She takes the chicken out and turns on the over. She puts the rest of the grocerys away, leaving out the ones she is going to need for tonight. She looks up at the boys drinking their pops in quiet when Wyatt snaps his fingers and his backpack appears on the table. Chris does the same thing, but he has to call it. They pulls their books out and start working on their homework.
" Hey Chris I noticed that you cleaned up the demon mess, thanks it saved me trouble for tonight." Wyatt looks up at Piper.
" Another attack? Did you take care of him?" Before anyone could answer though Wyatt realized what Piper had said.
" What dinner?" Piper stopped cutting up the carrotts for the salad and looked at Wyatt.
" Patience is having her boyfriend over for Dinner." Chris said between drinks of his pop.
Wyatt looked at Chris, " Patience has a boyfriend? When did this happen?" Chris shrugged his shoulders.
" I don't know, but mom wants us to be nice." Piper cleared her throat.
" Your right I want you to be nice." Wyatt looked back at Piper.
" I will, but maybe we should check into him first. I mean I bet Uncle Cole would appreciate it."Piper shook her head, and went back to cutting.
" Or maybe you shouldn't and just say ya did. Incase you guys are forgetting Patience is an empath. I'm pretty sure she would be able to know if something was wrong." Wyatt shrugged his shoulder and went back to his math homework.
" What is his name anyway?" Chris asks realizing he didn't even know. Wyatt looks up and looks at Piper. Piper stopped cutting and looked at the two boys. Hey eyes wide.
" I have no idea." Chris started laughing and Piper called for Leo who orbed in almost instantly. He looked at the boys and smiled.
" Hey boys." Chris and Wyatt answer through their laughter.
" Hey dad." Leo looks at Piper and has a questioningly look in his gaze. Piper herself was trying hard not to laugh.
" The boys are just being dumb." She looked at them real quick and then started talking to Leo again. " Do you happen to know Patience's boyfriends name?" Leo looked at her like she was nuts.
" Patience has a boyfriend?" Piper shook her head and waved her hand at him.
" Nevermind, go ahead and go back to what you were doing." Leo shrugged, leaned down to give her a kiss, said good-bye to the boys, and orbed out.
A couple hours later...
" Hmmmmm...what smells so good?" Henry asks with a wiggling Sadie in his arms and a tired Paige beside him.
" I have no idea, but I am so tired right now I just want to go to bed." Paige answers him through a yawn. Henry puts Sadie down and she goes running to the kitchen. They follow closely behind, and when they enter they see that the kitchen is very busy. Wyatt and Chris are setting the table in the dining room, and Peter is following them around with an ice tray and glasses. Pheobe is tossing a salad, and trying to sneeze all over it. While Piper pulls a chicken out of the over, Cole and Leo are looking at the newspaper.
" Woah, looks like a circus in here." Henry says in awe. They all look up to see Henry and Paige standing in the doorway.
Pheobe smiles, " Hey you guys are here just in time to help." She wiggles her eyebrows at him, and Paige gives her a closed lip smile.
" Great, just what I wanted to do. What is the special occassion for?" Cole through a very gruff voice answers her.
" Patience has a boyfriend, and we are having dinner to meet him." Henry goes over and sits at the table with Leo and Cole to look at the newspaper. Paige shakes her head and laughs a little.
" Poor girl, Cole you are going to be nice aren't you?" He looks up at her not smiling. So Pheobe answers for him.
" Of course he is. He is going to be the good demon I know he is." Cole raised an eyebrow at her, and Pheobe walked over and gave him a kiss. He went back to looking at the newspaper never saying a word.
Paige goes over and grabs a bowl off the counter and takes it into the diningroom, and it is there where she finds Sadie filling each glass up with ice using her power. While Wyatt and Chris are chasing Peter around the diningroom, yelling something about a frog. Paige shakes her head. Sometimes she feels bad for Cole and Pheobe, sure not only are little boys dirty on their own,and love animals of any kind, but when they get one that can talk to them,and make them do what he wants. Even turn into a couple. It was ten times harder than your average boy.
" What is going on in here?"Paige asks in her I mean buisness voice. Peter comes to an immediate stop which makes Wyatt and Chris run right into him. Paige is looking down at him with her arms crossed and her foot tapping quietly. Peter looks up at her and smiles, the same smile that made Pheobe fall in love with his daddy.
" Hi Aunt Paige, I was just. Well, you know. I was thinking. Um, well." Paige stands there with her eyebrows raised. She has learned not to give into those smiles of the Halliwell men. Chris speaks up, panting a little from chasing is younger cousin around.
" He was going to put that frog in whats his names chair." Paige raised one eyebrow, and stared at Peter.
" Now why would you do something like that?" Peter shrugs his shoulder.
" Because I want too, and it is my obligation as a younger sibling to torment the older one." He stares at Paige with a matter-of-fact look on his face. Paige trying not to laugh decides to call Cole into the room. He comes in all grumpy mumbling something under his breath.
" Im sorry, I didn't catch that. What did you say?" Paige asks Cole with a teasing smile on his face.
" Nevermind." He mumbles. Paige smiles and points to Peter.
" Your son was going to stick a toad in," she stops suddenly realizing she doesn't know his name either," umm...in our company's chair." Cole looked at Peter and smiled a huge smile. The first smile I had seen him smile all day.
" Was it a warty one?" Paige hits him, and Cole clears his throat.
" Peter that was a very wrong thing to do, and I'm very disappointed in you." Cole crosses his arms and looks at his son. Peter looks down at the ground. Not about to disobey his dad. Cole turns to look at Paige and she nods her head, and he walks back in the kitchen.
Paige walks over to the table, and helps the kids set the table. Chris is just standing there with his arms crossed. Wyatt looks irritated, and stops putting the dishes down.
" Whats your problem? To good to set the table?" Chris raises his eyebrow.
" For your information, no I wasn't, I was just thinking of saving time." Chris gave a michevous grin and waved his hand over the table at the time he said, " silverware." All the dishes went up in blue orbs and came back down in their proper place. Paige stood there staring Chris down.
" Christopher Halliwell, do I need to tell your mother what you just did?" Chris grinned, shrugged his shoulders, and walked out of the room towards the kitchen. Paige looked up at the ceiling and shook her head. Wyatt came over and put his arm around her.
" Aunt Paige, just give it up. He is never gonna learn." Paige looked up at thim and grinned.
" Do you really think you should be talking about learning lessons?" Wyatt smiled showing all of his teeth, and turned around to go back in the kitchen. Paige helped Peter and Sadie with setting the rest of the table, that Chris didn't get to, which wasn't much. By the time they were done they could hear Patience yell through the front door that they were home. Probably to make sure if we were up to anything magic wise that we needed to stop