Warning! You may get a slight headache from this chapter yourself, but I promise it will all make sense eventually!
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Everyone stared at the newcomers, still totally confused. Paige began to think she was back in the future with all this confusing talk and went to fetch some aspirin for both herself and Piper, who looked absolutely sick from the pressure.
Piper kept staring at Melinda, the only thing that was keeping her from going totally insane. She was going to have a daughter, a daughter that had to be Leo's because she looked so much like him, even more than Wyatt did. She held that thought close in her heart. It had to mean that they would somehow get Leo back. That helped her headache even more than the aspirin that Paige insisted she take.
"So these are my grandchildren?" Patty asked in amazement. "Whose are they?"
Piper had to smile. "They're all mine," and Patty smiled back, pleased, while Young Piper just stared in shock. These kids who were supposed to be hers were even older than she was!
"Grandsons!" cried Grams. "I have great-grandsons? And they had powers? Only the girls are supposed to have Warren powers!"
Piper rolled her eyes. "Grams, we've already had this argument or we're gonna have this argument or, or, whatever. Face it. They're my sons, they have powers and if they don't now, we're gonna get them back for them, and I love them and eventually you do, too. Either face it and accept it or have Coop take you back right now!"
"Coop!" cried Wyatt. "Uncle COOP?""
Chris rolled his eyes at his brother. "Watch it! I warned you about future consequences!" but it was much too late, because Phoebe was already calling out, "Uncle COOP?" and Coop sheepishly shrugged.
"But you're not dead!" cried Melinda, staring at Coop. "Does that mean Uncle Henry is alive, too? What about our father? Is he still frozen?"
Chris rolled his eyes at his sister. "Not you, too!"
Paige was staring at Melinda in shock. "No! They can't be dead! They can't! How can they be dead and still play Scrabble?"
Now it was Piper and Phoebe's turn to look at their younger sister as if she was nuts, but Coop and Patty nodded.
Paige turned to her niece and nephews. "Your parents play Scrabble, don't they?"
Not it was Piper's children's turn to look at their aunt as if she was nuts.
"You kidding?" Wyatt asked, while Chris sighed impatiently. Wouldn't his brother ever learn? "I don't even think they own a game."
Melinda nodded. "They're too busy fighting demons, just like the whole family always is. Well, everyone except Wyatt and Chris. Except for them, we never do anything but battle demons. We can't even go to school. I don't even know how to play Scrabble or any games. I don't think my family even own any games," and Wyatt nodded while Chris now rolled his eyes at his sister.
But Paige was still insistent. "Maybe not in your future," she told the next generation. "But in some other future I'll bet your parents taught you, because in some other future they do play Scrabble and that's the future I'm determined to have! One that allows us to do something besides fight demons and one that includes Henry, Leo and Coop alive," and that startled Phoebe.
Coop nodded. "Your heart took you to the future you wanted," and his eyes smiled at Phoebe.
"But it was real!" Paige insisted. "Our older selves told us how to save everyone. All of our older selves!" and both Coop and Patty nodded.
Grams nodded. "So you must have to do something more than just getting rid of the Hollow and these kids must have a role in it. And since they just came now, it must have been something you've done recently."
Piper nodded, then turned to her children. "Please tell us exactly what happened to bring you here."
"We can't tell you," Chris insisted. "Future consequences!"