Alright then, on with the story.
"Mommy, guess what! Guess what! Guess what? Guess what!" Eight-year-old Chris Halliwell ran around the kitchen like the Tazmanian Devil (oh...those Looney Tunes...how we adore you!), and pestered his mother to no end. His ten year old brother was in his room, like a good boy...why couldn't Chris do the same?
"What, Chris?" His mother indulged. Yes...he was indulged quite a bit around the Halliwell manor. His parents figure that an annoying Chris is better than an evil one, so they let him run and shout.
"No, you have to guess!" He urged, and Piper Halliwell sighed. She had to cook dinner, do the sound check for the club, and prepare to open...she didn't have time for the mothering thing at the moment.
"Did you..." She thought for a moment...if she said something stupid enough, he would go away, right? "win the Olympic medal in Figure Skating?" There, that oughta get rid of him...
"No! Mom, that's silly! Guess again!" Chris giggled and orbed on top of the counter. Piper sighed again and she thought of something else.
"I don't know, Chris. What did you do today!"
"I won the spelling bee!" Chris was incredibly excited, apparently (note the extra exclamation marks), and then orbed a few laps around the kitchen before settling in a chair at the table.
"Wow, honey! That's great!" Piper was proud of her son. Sure, the spelling bee might have less priority than the arts of magic, but it was still a big deal!
"Yeah! And, in two weeks, there's the world wide magic spelling bee! Mom, can I go!" Chris pleaded with his mother, hoping she would forget about the stupid Hogwarts thing two years ago. It was FOREVER AGO! He was just a baby back then!
"Who's chaperoning?" Piper asked, and then, her answer came in by the form of a very tired witch.
"Ugh, Piper...you'll never guess what I have to do in two weeks!" Paige Halliwell said, dropping her head on her arms and drooping onto the table.
"Chris just told me..." Piper said, and shooed off her son. For once, he obeyed her call, and flew upstairs to tell his big brother what he had done.
"I can't believe it. I run the place...how did I get stuck going to freakin' New York City with an armful of children! Not to mention, they're all very rambunxious and magical kids, so I'll probably be trying to track down every orb, energy ball and invisible prank they pull..."
"Well, you'll have Chris, and he won't really misbehave..." Piper tried to reason.
"Are you kidding? Who do you think is pulling all the pranks? He's their ringleader! The four of those kids together spell nothing but disaster...oh, and by the way, thought you should know, Bianca is one of the children." Paige added this on intentionally, knowing the Piper would not enjoy hearing this news.
"Wait, Bianca Bianca? As in Phoenix girl who tried to kill my son?" Piper was shocked. "You let her in your school?"
"You know I have no say in it, really. And since Billie left three months ago, and we had to hire that new girl, it's been a conspiracy against me. Sarah and Jaclyn have the two-to-one advantage."
"This isn't the power of three, this is the office of Magic School! You started that stupid place! I don't want my son to go to New York with that...that...thing!" Piper stated as calmly as she could.
"That thing? She's a girl, like any other girl."
"No, she's an assassin! She throws fireballs and shimers...she's a freakin' demon, Paige! You let a demon into your school!"
"Look, Piper, if you are that much against it, I'll just tell Chris he can't go and put his replacement in, alright?" Paige was just a little fed up. If it wasn't her sister's, it was a parent... "Now, I have to go meet Peter for dinner."
"Oh no you don't. I made dinner, and you're eating it!" Piper said, and as Paige began to orb out, a light shattered above her, making Paige immediately retreat.
Once she re-materialized, she shook off the glass, and stared at her sister.
Piper's anger dissolved quickly after that glass broke. "Look...I'm sorry. I shouldn't have lost control. I just can't stand this...it's like history is repeating itself..."
"If you really want, I can make sure they never see each other anymore..." Paige said, but Piper waved her hand.
"No, Chris was so excited about this spelling bee...and you say they do everything together already?" Paige nodded and Piper closed her eyes. "Then, it's too late anyways. How about this- I accompany you to New York. Maybe with his mother around, Chris won't try his usual tricks."
"Alright...but I really should get going. Peter's expecting me." Paige said, thinking of her boyfriend of, now, about a year.
"Why don't you bring him to the Manor? I mean, he already knows us, he might as well sit down with us." Yes, you know it. Peter is indeed Leo's charge...Peter Gayle. Witch to rule them all- well, not really. He's kinda weak...but he has a...sensitive soul...
In other words, he's butt ugly and has a pretty bad sense of humor.
Eh, once again...we're over-exagerating. Peter Gayle used to be a "bad boy", if those still exist. He rode the Harley, and smoked the cigarettes non-stop. But when his mother died, giving him his powers, he changed. Found the "greater good" to be a better thrill than a cigarette (aw, how sappy...) ...either that, or he met Paige (better...much better). We're still not sure.
Enter Paige, smart, pretty, everything you might want. Peter fell for her, but she...well...this is not a story about Paige. You don't need to know. All you do need to know is that eventually, with his yellow teeth and fish-like eyes, he won her over.
She thought a little about this (more about the fish eyes than about the story, to be honest), and orbed out to retrieve him. It was time he ate with her family. If they were going to get married and all...he'd have to realize that she was married to her sisters and her work first... yes, we know how sick that sounds. Get over it.
In the mean time, Piper went to get her sons. If they were going to be royal pains, they were at least going to be royal pains who set the table.
That's all you get. Until you cough up the reviews you owe!
Hehehe.
Hope you liked it. I'm going to move the story along a bit now...between this, my school, and trying to catch that one episode where Little Chris and Wyatt are at the school...with Little Melinda...well, life is busy.
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Sincerely,
Starving Leora
