I had a number of people who didn't like the idea that I bounded everyone's powers. Keep in mind that this is setting up what Kern thinks would be the perfect ending for the sisters. For Leo's reward, I would've loved to have given him his whitelighter powers back. But in Kern's ending, the Scrabble future, Leo's an old mortal, so he obviously never got his wings back. (growl at Kern) Much as it bugs me, I'm doing this Kern's way. In case you want to see how I thought the show should've ended, I did it my way for the ending of my "Morality STILL Bites", which you can read if you want.

(sigh) Unfortunately, for this I had to stick with what the show did no matter how much I disliked it. That's why I bounded everyone's powers. In "Forever Charmed", Old Leo and Old Piper talk about the truce that was mentioned earlier in S8, when the Triad was gotten rid of. Maybe KERN thinks demons have honor, but personally, I can't see demons sticking with that truce. The only thing that would make what Old Leo and Old Piper said be true is to have the DEMONS' powers bounded and the only one who could do that is the Angel of Destiny. Also, during the show's epilogue, no one ever mentions searching for innocents, as they did under Prue, so I'm assuming they all preferred living their own lives rather than being witches, and the only way they could truly do that (you know someone would've eventually caught them using magic, someone possibly like Nathaniel Pratt!) is to bind their powers, too. And if they don't have their powers, but their kids had powers, they wouldn't be able to control their kids any more than Leo could at Magic School. Hence, bind everyone's powers and give Piper what she has said she's wanted ever since she first found out she was a witch, no matter if it truly is or not!

As for Paige, in the epilogue, she also says that life without demons gives her the chance to embrace her inner whitelighter. Again, nothing about helping innocents, just helping fellow witches/whitelighters. So it makes sense to let her be a full-whitelighter without being a witch. And from what she said with the innocent during The Jung and the Restless, I think she would've actually enjoyed that. And with all the horrid things those useless Elders have done in the last couple seasons--since the original angelic ones were killed during the Titan attack--they've lost the right to be able to summon whitelighters, especially Paige, so I very gladly took that away from them!

As for Phoebe, well, you can probably guess what she's going to get. So here's Phoebe's reward:

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

The Angel smiled. "For recognizing someone who had hurt you and your sisters as an innocent, someone who needed to be saved, I have a very special reward for you, Phoebe, one that I know you have been wanting for a long time."

Coop interrupted. "I think I know what your reward is, Phoebe, but only if you truly want it. Am I right?" and the Angel smiled and nodded. "If you want me to, I'm willing to give up my powers as a cupid and become a mortal, so that you may have a love that's not forbidden and I may have the love I know I was always meant to have. But I will only do that if you'll agree to marry me!"

With a shriek of joy and delight, Phoebe ran to Coop and jumped into his arms, kissing him wildly.

The Angel smiled. "I take that as a yes. Enjoy the new world you have created, Charmed Ones. You have indeed earned this destiny!" and she disappeared amidst the magical lights.

Even while everyone talked excitedly amongst themselves, everyone pleased with this new world they had created, they were interrupted by the front door slamming open. Victor carrying Little Wyatt and Patty carrying Little Chris walked into the room, followed by Henry carrying a Scrabble game. Seeing Henry, Paige quickly ran into his arms, so that now all of the Charmed Ones were in the arms of their loves.

"Did we miss anything?" Patty asked.

Everyone laughed and Phoebe, still in Coop's arms, smiled at him as she told Patty, "Everything and everyone is back to where we belong," and Coop smiled back as he hugged her tighter.

"Almost," Grams pointed out. "It will be as soon as Patty, Piper, my great-grandchildren and I are returned to our rightful times."

Piper's children looked at one another. "I hope that the Angel let us keep our powers until we can return to our time," fretted Melinda.

Leo smiled. "I think she did. Try orbing."

"But don't orb near your grandparents!" Coop warned. Everyone turned to look at him in surprise, so he explained. "Now that the Angel of Destiny has given the gifts that have set up the new timelines, you three are no longer in the timeline that you came from. If you orb near your younger self, you'll blend into those younger selves, even you, Melinda. That even goes for you, Piper, so stay away from Young Piper!" and Piper nodded, while Young Piper kept close to Grams.

"As for the kids, let's do this," Leo suggested, as he walked away from his future children, walked over to his in-laws and took Young Wyatt and Young Chris into his arms, giving his sons huge hugs as he did, before walking away from Patty and Victor, but also away from his future children. "OK, now try going to see your grandparents!"

And sure enough, all three orbed out to orb in next to their grandparents, who they gave big hugs. Victor was especially surprised but happy to meet Melinda.

"But what about Grams and Mom and Young Piper?" Phoebe asked.

Her new fiancé smiled. "Like them, I don't think I've lost my cupid powers just yet. I can bring them all back to their right time if you," and he looked at Young Piper, "agree to think about how much you love your sisters."

Young Piper thought about it, then nodded. "I do--most of the time," and that made everyone laugh.

Grams nodded. "And I can think about how much I love Piper's sisters when they were that age," and Coop nodded.

"And I'll think about how much I love Victor," Patty added. "And little Prue and little Piper and little Phoebe-to-be," as she touched her tummy, and everyone smiled.

"Now remember," Chris told Coop. "Be sure to take them all back to just before they were taken, so they won't remember anything."

Wyatt and Melinda rolled their eyes. Mainly thanks to his memory of the different timelines, Chris always thought he knew everything. Usually he didn't and he didn't this time either, as Coop shook his head. "And if I do that, they'll simply blend into the Grams, Patty and Piper of those times and still remember everything, just like you remember the evil time and coming back to save your brother. No, that's one of my powers as a cupid, to allow people to forget love that is too painful. Although this isn't quite the same thing, I can use that power to be sure they forget, just as I promised Grams at the beginning," and Grams nodded.

"Which reminds me," and now he turned back to Piper and Leo's future children. "If you three kids use your spell to go forward in time, you'll blend into the teenaged versions that Young Wyatt, Young Chris and Young Melinda-to-be will grow up to be in this new lifetime. If you do that, you'd still remember the lifetime you've already lived, just like Billie and Christy do, besides retaining the memory of this visit. Not only that, but you, Chris, would still remember both the evil time and the other time you went back, while you, Wyatt would still remember the time you came back and tried to turn yourself evil. That's an awful lot of different memories. Unlike the ones I'm returning to the past, you won't be able to change the future unless you came back again, so that's up to you, whether you want to retain all of those memories. If you don't, I can use my cupid powers to return you by having you think how much you love your parents in your lifetime and erase your whichever extra memories you don't want. It's up to you."

So what do you think Wyatt, Chris and Melinda should do?