This is one of my own favorite chapters! If I were giving my chapters titles, I'd call this one "Interruptions"! Enjoy!

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Phoebe and Paige couldn't help rolling their eyes. So did Wyatt and Melinda. Not Piper. She was royally pissed and turned on her younger son. "To hell with future consequences! We couldn't care less about them!"

"But, we do!" Chris insisted. "It's our future! We can't have it messed up!"

Piper glared as she rolled her eyes, and Paige and Phoebe ran over and held her hands down; afraid she might end up blowing up her son! "Look, buster! You're talking about a future where all of us sisters are widows and we don't even have time to play a simple game of Scrabble, while Paige is talking about a time where we're all alive and have time to play games!" and Paige nodded. "If the future consequences of we want you to tell us is that we'll be able to live the future Paige saw, well guess what! That's what we want!"

"But—" Chris interrupted, trying to explain.

"No buts, buster!" Piper interrupted right back. "Look. If I really wrote that entry in the Book of Shadows, or if I'm going to write that entry, or, if, well, whatever, you know what I mean, well, then obviously that means that we need your help and how the hell can we ask you to help us if we don't know what the hell happened to bring you back? So forget about the future consequences, buster, and start talking!"

Chris opened his mouth to argue, to explain, then thought about it, then closed his mouth again.

Melinda grinned. "She's right, Chris. Mom's always right."

Wyatt nodded. "You should know better than to argue with Mom!"

Chris sighed impatiently, "Oh, all right, but you already told them everything anyway." Turning to Piper, he shrugged. "We found that entry in the Book of Shadows that says we helped you get Wyatt his Twice-Blessed powers back, and helped me get the ones I once had, which also helped bring our father back, so here we are."

Melinda nodded. "I can't wait to meet him!"

"What?" cried Piper. "You haven't met your father yet?"

Melinda shook her head. "I was born after he was frozen. I just know him from your stories and pictures."

Piper stared at her, knowing she had to be Leo's daughter. Despite the dark hair, she looked too much like Leo not to be. Suddenly Piper's eyes grew large as her hand went to her tummy, a tummy much bigger than it had been when she lost Leo, one that she thought was simply growing from all the comfort food she kept fixing for herself, and as for that other thing that didn't happen each month, well, she was certain that was a result of stress. Now she knew better.

Suddenly it hit her sisters, too, as they screamed in delight and ran to hug Piper and rub her tummy, as she tried to shrug them off. The older versions of Piper's kids just shrugged at one another and Grams, Patty and Young Piper did the same.

Phoebe was ecstatic about Piper's condition, but confused about something else as she turned to Melinda. "But then how can you orb? Leo must've been mortal when he and Piper made you, not a whitelighter."

Melinda shrugged. "You guys wondered about that, too. Mom figured that even tho my father was mortal, he must've still been able to pass down his powers, the way he was able to pass them down to my brothers, even tho he was technically dead," and the others nodded.

Paige was confused, too, as she turned on her niece and nephews. "I still don't get something else. Why would Piper ever write such a thing? Wyatt, you're the Twice-Blessed Child--the most powerful kid ever. Only the Power of Three must be stronger," she added, remembering how it had vanquished the Hollow. "Of course you have powers."

"My great-grandSON the Twice-Blessed Child?" Grams demanded as it suddenly hit her. "Not my great-grandDAUGHTER?"

Again Piper sighed impatiently, sounding an awful lot like Chris. "Not now, Grams! Not now!" She turned back to her older son. "Did you ever have your powers?"

"Well, I did," Wyatt admitted. "I vaguely remember having them when I was very small. But neither Chris or I have powers now."

"Sure," Melinda agreed. "I mean I have powers, as do the rest of the cousins--''

"COUSINS?" interrupted Phoebe and Paige.

Coop laughed. "Of course. How else could you have grandkids?"

Phoebe spun on Paige. "GRANDKIDS?"

Paige nodded. "Later!"

"Later, both of you!" Piper barked, then motioned her children to continue.

"Chris and I are the only Halliwells who can't kick demon a$$."

"Watch it, young man!" reprimanded. Grams.

Wyatt hunched his shoulders. "Yes, ma'am. We're the only ones who can't kick demon butt," and as Grams nodded, Patty, Phoebe, Melinda and Young Piper all giggled while Chris rolled his eyes.

Not Piper. She was too worried. Shushing the others, .she asked Wyatt to continue.

He nodded. "So when Patty--"

"Patty?" Phoebe interrupted, while Patty smiled. "Who's Patty? Is she a cousin? Who's her mom?"

"Yeah, she's our cousin," Chris told her. "Your oldest daughter."

"OLDEST?" cried Phoebe. "I have more than one!"

Piper rolled her eyes. "Phoebe! Please! Time enough for that later. What did Patty do?" she asked.

"She's the one who found the entry," Chris told them. "And I remembered the time-travel spell from the other time."

"Other time!" This time it was Piper who interrupted. "You still remember the last time you were here?" and Chris nodded.

"But how?" cried Paige. "Leo and I saw you die!"