Another one of my favorite chapters! Enjoy everyone—have a nice weekend!

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Piper still smiled. "Yeah, I guess you were."

Just then the doorbell rang. "Go get it," Grams told her.

"Go get it!" Piper yelled to Paige.

As always, Paige obeyed Piper and opened the door to find "Henry! What are you doing here?" and she suddenly felt bad about not letting him know how the time-travel trip had gone. He and Victor must've been worried silly.

"Well, I don't hear from my wife in twelve hours, I start getting a bit worried, especially when she's a witch and Charmed and can have all sorts of evil coming after her."

That's when Paige realized that this Henry didn't know anything about her time travel trip or the battle with the Jenkinses. "Well, I'm OK, I guess. We're all OK, I guess. But I don't know if we're going to stay that way."

"What do you mean?" and he sounded worried.

"Hopefully something we can fix soon, so hopefully nothing to worry about right now."

"You told me that you and your whitelighter got together," Grams told Piper. "Like Patty and Sam," and Piper nodded. "So did Paige marry a whitelighter, too?"

"No, Henry's mortal."

Grams sighed. "A whitelighter, a cupid and a mortal. Two out of three isn't bad."

"Hey, you married four mortals!" Piper retorted, not telling her that Leo was no longer a whitelighter.

"And now you know why I wish all of my girls hadn't! Did Prue and Andy…"

"They would've if they'd had a chance," Piper answered quietly.

Paige and Henry weren't listening; they were still talking. Suddenly she had an idea. "Can you go out and buy a Scrabble game?"

"A what?"

"A Scrabble game. Somewhere in our future, all of our future, we have the time to have a life, not just to fight demons. Somewhere you and Coop are still alive, and he's with Phoebe, even if she hasn't accepted that yet. Somewhere Leo's not frozen. And somewhere in that future, all six of us are playing Scrabble. Somehow or another, that's the future we're going to have! And we're going to start having that future by getting that Scrabble game!"

Henry smiled. "Sound like a plan." He leaned over and kissed her. "I'll be back, and I'll bring the game with me," and Paige smiled as she watched him leave.

"The potions are ready," Piper announced. "Let's get back to the Manor and see if my kids are back yet."

"Phoebe! Piper!" called Grams. "We're ready to leave."

Phoebe led Young Piper out of her bedroom, where she had been regaling her younger older sister with tales of their adventures as the Charmed Ones. It seemed so weird telling Young Piper stories that usually starred Piper. She finally understood how weird Chris felt when he was around his big little brother.

She'd also been having fun playing a different sort of game of catch--throwing things she no longer wanted to keep into the air, so Young Piper could freeze the object. Phoebe would always remember the shocked pleasure in the young girl's eyes the first time she used her power.

Now Young Piper asked eagerly, "Do we get to orb?"

Grams rolled her eyes: "She IS going to forget this, right?" and Paige and Phoebe giggled.

Piper looked at her younger self. "Is that really me? Enjoying magic?" and that made Paige and Phoebe giggle harder.