I wondered what everyone would think of this special twist. It's the only thing that made sense to me for spending so DARN much time of the show's final season on the Jenkinses! Actually it was the writers who suggested it to me. In Mr. & Mrs. Witch, they say that although Billie & Christy's mother isn't a witch, their grandmother is; that the powers skipped a generation. I was POSITIVE that meant that their grandmother was also Grams. (After all, you don't really think that with all those marriages she only had Patty!) And I was disappointed that the writers never picked up on it. I like the idea of the Triad making sure that ALL Warren descendants would be killed, like what should've happened at the end of "Kill Billie Vol 2" if Paige wasn't half-whitelighter and panic-orbed

And this chapter includes the person that everyone (especially Piper!) has been waiting for! Enjoy!

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

"Our cousins!" cried Phoebe in shock.

"But how can that be?" asked Paige, confused.

"Mom doesn't have any sisters," pointed out Piper, picking up on the fact that Grams had asked Billie about her maternal grandfather.

Grams spread her arms. "Very well, your half-cousins. Their grandfather was my third husband"

Phoebe smiled. "Then they're cousin-witches, even if they don't have powers anymore"

Piper smiled at Paige. "In this family, there is no such things as halves, just family. So they are our cousins." And Paige felt a thrill of joy run up and down her spine as she smiled happily back at her sister.

Grams said good-bye to Billie, telling her that her cousins would talk with her later.

Phoebe was still amazed how close they'd come to vanquishing relatives. "The Triad must've known. They must've known that even if they killed us, there were still other Warren descendants out there, ones who could've used their powers to vanquish them,"

Grams nodded, feeling a lot of regret and remorse. "I wish I kept in contact with William Delaney even after the divorce. Maybe if Patty had known about her non-magical half-sister--the main reason for the divorce; since I kept trying to make her use powers she didn't have--and you girls knew about your half-cousins when you were young, I could've helped find and free one of my granddaughters when she was first kidnapped. To think she was being held against her will, being turned evil, being set up to kill my other granddaughters even when Patty, Coop, and you, Paige, came to visit me…" and she shuddered.

Phoebe went over to hug Grams. "You couldn't have known, Grams," and Grams smiled at her.

Paige smiled. "And at least it looks like we've straightened everything out now."

"What's wrong, Mom?" Melinda asked. "You still don't look too happy."

Piper sighed. "Someone's still missing."

"Our father?" Chris asked.

Piper nodded, tears in her eyes. "Even if they're our cousins, we still never beat the Jenkinses in battle. Maybe that means I'll never get him back."

As if on cue, magical lights appeared. "No, Piper," the Angel of Destiny smiled. "This is exactly how the Battle was supposed to end--with Warren descendants not killing Warren descendants and the Charmed Ones saving the ultimate innocent--Christy. Congratulations to you all!"

Piper narrowed her eyes and put her hands on her hips. "So?"

And the magical lights lit up the room once more..

"Leo!" cried Piper as both she and her husband ran into each other arms. She quickly pulled him in for a big kiss, and everybody applauded.

Then their kids ran over. Maybe Wyatt and Chris had only known their father when they were very young and maybe Melinda had never met him, but they knew who he was from Piper's stories. Wyatt still remembered how Leo saved him from evil the other time he visited and had told the other two all about it many times.

Chris had told stories, too. He was able to remember both the Leo from the evil future and Leo from the past he'd gone back to, and knew he loved the one he'd met there and that this was that man. He was first to reach his parents and gave Leo a huge hug, who happily hugged him back. Even frozen, Leo had been able to watch everything that had happened and was thrilled to have his whole family here, even if these were the older versions of his kids, and he was especially excited about getting to meet his daughter, who he now gave a huge hug, followed by one for Wyatt. Soon they were all in a huge family hug.

"Charmed Ones," the Angel of Destiny spoke again. "Thanks to your actions you have created a new timeline, one that includes a special reward for each of you."

"You mean more than just getting Leo back?" Piper asked, surprised, as she hugged him again.

The Angel nodded, smiling. "That was simply a condition for winning the battle by not battling. These are extra rewards."

"Well, it better include us getting to play Scrabble in the future!" Paige insisted.

Again the Angel smiled. "Yes, Paige, you are now in that timeline. But this includes more than that."

"What's that?" Phoebe asked.