" I really don't think this is a good idea" Victor Bennett cautioned

"piffle" came the reply as Penny "Grams"Halliwell, matriarch of the Halliwell family, riffled through her old spell book.

"Piper will lose it if she finds out that you've cast a spell on her children" Victor continued as he strode across the attic to where Grams stood.

"That's ok then, because she's not going to find out is she?" it was a statement not a question, nobody questioned Grams, they all obeyed her, that was the rules, didn't this idiotic mortal know this by now?

"Look" she said speaking slowly and carefully as if conversing with a three year old. " I cast a quick and painless spell to erase the boys sibling rivalry, they stop fighting, Piper relaxes, we have our wiccaning, everyone's a winner. The girls are downstairs what they don't know can't hurt them can it?"

Victor did have to agree with her on that score, but still… " I 'm not sure.." he began only to be cut off by Grams raising her hand as if to silence him.

" I'm the expert here Victor, I'm the one who dealt with the girls' rivalry as they grew up , I'm the one who knows best."

With that the formidable witch gathered her two great-grandsons by her side. "there we are my darlings, just wait here a minute." She set them both down in the play pen.

"just hurry up" Victor hissed, glancing nervously at the door.

Penny ignored this and turned her attention back to the boys and began to recite " Cast your petty jealousies into darkest night, let these feuding siblings no longer fight"

As soon as the final word left her lips the room was suddenly engulfed in a bright blue light.

Jeez thought Victor as he shielded his eyes, I may know nothing about witchcraft but I'm sure that wasn't supposed to happen.

There was a scream, and a crashing noise coming from the corner of the room. The light faded and victors eyes slowly came into focus, he noticed the play pen was broken into pieces, and standing in the middle of the debris was ….

"Grandpa!" 20 year old Wyatt bounded across the room and enveloped his grandfather into a hug.

"Grams. What did you do?" 18 year old Chris asked as he brushed the dust from his jeans.

"That's exactly what I'd like to know" Victor turned to face his ex-mother in law.

"there's really no problem" said grams, her face suggesting otherwise. "slight hiccup that's all, let me just cast a quick reversal…."

"No!" Victor cut in. "It was you casting a "quick spell" that got us into this mess, "I know what I'm doing blah blah…Piper will never know yadda yadda" don't you think she might notice that her infant sons are now all grown up. This is what happens when you start using magic"

" You think you can reverse this without using magic the do you?" said Penny stubbornly, hating to admit that she was at fault. " well go ahead and try!" she shouted as she disappeared in a cloud of orb lights.

"COME BACK" Victor shouted raising his eyes heavenward. Typical of that woman he thought, nothing but destruction and mayhem wherever she goes.

"Um grandpa" Wyatt ventured. "Are we in the past?"

"Yes, your grandmother cast a spell to stop your sibling rivalry and.."

"oh crap" Chris groaned as Wyatt slapt himself on the forehead.

"what?" Victor sensed this was not good a sign.

"We learnt about that spell in Magic School, it was part of our "Introduction to the dangers of home made Spells" course, .."

"Danger, what danger?"

"Well, you see" but before Chris could venture any further they were interrupted by the sounds of orbs

"So you've decided to come back and fix this mess" Victor drawled sarcastically as he turned around, only to find his former wife materialising in front of him.

"sorry I'm late" Patty apologised as she stepped out of the circle and became corporal, " The elders wanted a quick word. ….what mess?" She looked questioningly at her former husband "oh" she caught sight of her two oldest grandchildren

"hi grandma" the brothers chorused.

"What happened?"

"Your mother happened that's what." Victor tried to remain calm. "she cast a spell to try and stop the jealousy between baby Chris and Wyatt, it went wrong…"

" As I was saying" Chris interrupted. As his grandparents turned to hear his explanation." We learnt about this spell in class. When you make up your own spells you have to be extremely careful with the wording, the slightest alteration and the whole thing can back fire. Grams must have gotten the words mixed up. Anyway, what happened, is that instead of erasing our jealousy from our infant selves, she changed us to the age when we finally out grew our jealousy"

"Hence, Adult us" Wyatt explained.

"Well that's ok," Victor was relieved. "We get your mother and aunts up here, reverse the spell and hey presto, back to normal!" Patty nodded in agreement

"you mean to say mum and the aunts are in the house?" Chris squeaked.

"double crap" Wyatt muttered

"Yes" Victor replied cautiously, not wanting to hear the answer.

"Dammit !" Chris cursed " if any siblings are within ½ a mile radius of the spell being cast, the jealousy thing effects them, only in reverse"

"meaning?" even Patty was confused now.

"meaning" Wyatt explained, " if we are now at the age when we out grew our jealousy.."

"The girls are at the age they were when their sibling rivalry was at its height" Victor finished. He cast a glance at hi ex-wife, they both suddenly made a beeline for the door.

"I hope they're ok" Patty cried as they raced down the stairs. Arriving on the bottom step they heard voices from the living room.

"you give that back Phoebe, its mine" Piper screamed.

"is not"

"is"

"is not"

"is"

"is not"

Patty and Victor skidded to a holt in the doorway, to find 7 year old Piper and 3 ½ year old Phoebe squabbling over a bar of chocolate.

"Mommy, Daddy" they cried, as Phoebe grabbed Victors leg, and Piper hugged their mother.

"Hello my darlings " they replied, Victor scooping Phoebe up in his arms, and Patty planting a kiss on Pipers cheek.

Chris and Wyatt, hot on their grandparents heals, jumped the last few stairs and entered the living room.

"Sweet Jesus is that mom?..shes soo cute" Wyatt's eyes bugged out of his head.

"uh where's aunt Paige?" Chris enquired glancing around the room

"bah" a noise from the corner of the room suddenly caught the adults attention. Patty rushed over to the Play-pen, inside sat a 14 month old baby with little black curls and big brown eyes. She lent over and picked the child up. "Mama?" The baby seemed to ask.

" Yes darling" Patty replied, turning to face the adults "I think we've found her"

Victor gently placed Phoebe down, and walked over to his ex-wife"What the hell are we going to do?..."

TBC