Summary-she had him young and was not able to raise him all by herself. Now, 13 years later, he's back in her life. What's going to happen when his adoptive parents and his real father shows up all to claim him?

Disclaimer-I don't own anyone from Charmed. I do however own all the characters not from the show.

Ch.9

Phoebe was at the door in minutes when she heard the female voice. She saw the look on David's face and knew exactly who the people were. She then looked over at them and saw the look on the man's face. Concern suddenly came and she walked behind David, and as she looked at the two of them, she slowly pulled him back, careful not to touch his shoulders or back. The women looked at him and Phoebe, confused.

"David, what's going on?" she asked. He didn't answer, he just continued to stare at the man.

"Excuse me," Coop started, "we obviously know that you two are David's parents, but what are your names?"

They both looked at him and she said, "I'm sorry. I am Karen and this is my husband Carl. I called David yesterday and I told him that we were coming to get him to bring him home." David looked at her when she said this.

"I am home," he said.

Karen just looked at him and said, "No, David. Our home is in LA, not San Francisco. Now, please, come on. We have to get home."

He just stood there, staring at her, before saying, "No, I am home. I don't want to go back. I want to stay here, with my family." He looked up and smiled at Phoebe. She looked down at him and smiled right back.

"David, you are our son, not theirs. We adopted you. By law, you are our son," Carl said. David just looked at him, before Carl moved in and grabbed David by the shoulder, pulling him out of the door. Once his hand landed on David's shoulder, he cried out in pain. Coop heard this and quickly grabbed him around the waist, pulling him back into the house and placing him back near Phoebe.

"David, are you ok?" Karen asked. She was worried by his scream.

"No, as a matter of fact, he's not. But, why don't you just ask your husband about that," Phoebe said, finally saying something.

"What are you talking about," Carl said, anger in his voice.

"This," Phoebe replied, before turning David around and pulling up the back on his shirt to revel the bruises all over his back.

"Oh, my, god. What did you do to my son?" Karen asked, directing this at Phoebe and Coop.

"Excuse me, but we didn't touch him. He told us that it was his father," Coop said, defending his wife and himself.

"I don't believe that. Carl would never lay a hand on him. He loves David," Karen defended. She then looked at David.

"David, please tell the truth. Who did this to you?" she asked.

David just hung his head, before saying, "mom, you have to believe me. It wasn't Phoebe or Coop. It was dad." Tears were now in his eyes.

"NO!" she exclaimed.

"If you don't believe him, then look at your husband," Phoebe said, as she started to pull David back to her. Karen looked up and saw the look on her husband's face and knew it was true.

"Oh god. Carl, how could you?" she asked, but didn't receive an answer. Instead, Carl went after David and started hitting him more.

"I told you not to tell anyone!" he yelled. At this point, Piper and Leo came running downstairs to see what was going on. All they saw was Coop pick the man up and throw him out the door.

"Get out. Now!" Phoebe said, angrily as she tried her best to comfort the now crying David. Karen took one last look at David, before turning and running to her husband. Coop slammed the door shut, before quickly going over to David. He picked him up and brought him over to the couch. After a couple of minutes, David had cried himself to sleep. Coop laid him on the couch and covered him with a blanket.

"Phoebe, what do you want to do?" he asked her.

She took a deep breath before looking up at him and saying, "I want to get him back. I have missed out on so much of his life. I don't want to do that again," she replied.

Coop just stood there and sighed before saying, "Ok, well, I know that you know that his parents are going to try and continue to have custody of him. So we have to get proof that they wouldn't be good parents. Then, we need to try and dig up all the information we have on Adam so he can't get custody either." Phoebe stood there and smiled at him.

"Thank you so much," she said, hugging him.