The Lost Ones

Chapter Thirteen: More questions

"What's wrong was happened? Why did he pass out?" Phoebe asked worry evident in her words and posture.

"Nothing is the matter with the boy."

Grmin said in an annoyed tone, he had never liked humans their skin was to tight, and he liked witches even less. And here he was in a room filled with tight skinned witches. Sure he was friends with the Turners but that was different they were demons. And had saved his loose hanging skin more time then he cared to count.

"If he's okay then why did he pass out?"

Piper asked in an ecqually annoyed tone.

"Because the child needs his rest. I put a mild sedative in with the potion this way it will less painful for the boy."

Grmin said this as if it was most obvious thing in the world. Turning his attention to Ellie who was now carefully shifting Ben in her arms he asked,

"Can I go now?"

"Yeah you can go thank-you."

Grmin squirmed uncomfortably he wasn't accustomed to gratitude; he was more accustomed to escaping with his skin in tact.

"Come on Grmin I'll give you a ride back to the underworld on the shimmer express."

Will then turned his attention to his sister and nephew; walking over to them he kissed the top of his baby sister's head, and gently touched his nephew's forehead. Once more the sisters were shocked by the gentleness the red demon showed.

"El I've got to go"

"Okay" she said nodding her head.

"Ya know maybe I could call in and tell them I won't be coming in tomorrow."

"No…no you said you'd go in and you should."

"Kay, I'll call you to tomorrow. Love you."

"Love you too."

Standing up again Will gestured for Grmin to come stand next to him. When the blue loose skinned demon came up next to him, Will casually draped his arm over his shoulders.

"Oh…and sis, save me some of those cookies. You ready Grmin."

"Yeah I'm ready"

"Well then…come on Grmin you've got to say it."

Grmin mumbled irritably under his breath and with an exasperated sigh said,

"Beam me up Scotty."

With that they shimmered out. Both Ellie and Cole shock their head at there brother's antics.

'Well it's nice to see some things don't change.'

Cole couldn't help the smile that spread across his face

'Will always had a thing for making everything he did more fun. It's amazing he got through medical school.'

Cole turned his attention to his sister and son.

'Son…I have a son.' Stepping closer to his son and sister Cole crouched down to get a better look at Ben.

Seeing his son he couldn't help but feel over powering amount of love and protectiveness come over him. His son was alive and God help him he was going to stay that way he didn't care what he had to do. His son would have the best life he could give him. His son was not destined to live a life of evil. His son was going to have the life that was taken away from him.

'He's not going to be pulled into that life. He'll get the life he deservers the life I fought for and maybe… just maybe it will work out for him. Hell if Ellie's kid can be a whitelighter why the hell not can't mine. Hey…wait a minute how the hell is Ellie's kid a whitelighter? I mean if he's her kid my nephew he's part demon. And there is no way the Elders would make a third part demon a whitelighter and the whitelighter of the charmed one's no less. God I can't believe that saintly Leo is my nephew…you guys up there sure do have a sense of humor. A very dry one but a sense of humors none the less.'

Looking at his sister who he knew could see hear him; it was a small blessing in his lonely isolated existence. Wasn't that the reason he came to the manor to be close to something anything.

"Ellie…Ellie."

When Ellie didn't look up at him he knew he had to pull the older brother routine.

"Elizabeth Grace Turner! You have some serious explaining to do young lady!"

Ellie looked up at her brother and couldn't help but burst out laughing. Chris having seen and heard the exchange couldn't help the smile that tugged on his lips. It was a funny thing to see that Cole had always treated his grandmother the same.

'Well Chris this time things are going to be different. It has to be the prophesy of Elthalath it never came to pass not unusual with prophesies but enough of it had that it's what threw the world and destiny off kilter.'

"What's so funny?" Piper asked.

Ellie shock her head and trying to catch her breath said, "Nothing just Cole being Cole."

"Cole?" When Ellie just waved her off Piper knew she wouldn't get the answers out of her. She then turned to look at Paige hoping she might get some support out of her younger sister to demand an explanation. But saw that she was still frozen. Felling guilty that she had forgotten about her sister's temporary immobility, she turned to Ellie and said,

"Umm…could you like um please unfreeze Paige."

Ellie raised her eyebrows, and then with a small gesture off her hands unfroze Paige.

"I can't believe you guys let me stay frozen that long."

Paige complained today had not been her day at all.

'First with the innocent who was no innocent and turned out to be a demon and not any demon but Cole's sister. Then there was the date that wasn't. Then yet again Ellie came and after giving them a line about the child being the true Source. Then she was frozen by a demon no less. And once more the tables were turned on them by some weird snake demon thingy. Then there were more of Cole's family. The weird red demon and the very talkative kid who yeah guess what also turns out to be Phoebe's and Cole's kid. Oh…and if that wasn't enough Leo's dead mom is not so dead and is none other than Ellie.'

Paige let out a breath to say that it had been a dull day would be a redundant. Paige looked over to the people in the living-room trying to see if they too were feeling the same way she did. She saw Leo's still had a shell shocked expression almost as if he wasn't sure that the woman sitting in front of him was his mother, yet mixed with awe, that even if he wasn't sure she was still had been the woman that had once been the most important woman in his life.

She saw that Piper had a perplexed look as she observed Ellie with Ben, and Piper nervously looking down at them as Ellie gently rocked Ben back and forth. As she turned and looked to Chris it was his look that surprised her the most as if the events of the day had no impact on him. It was then that it clicked for her.

"You knew!" Paige said pointing an accusing finger to Chris.

Startled by this accusation Chris looked up at Paige.

"What are you talking about I knew, knew what?"

"You knew what would happen today? That's why you threw the book to Phoebe; you knew she would get a premonition off the book. Making it so we would have to save her and Ben."

"Okay, freezing Paige damages her brain." Chris bit out.

"Like you didn't plan it. You asked about the date and then checked the time as you go to check on something you throw the book at Phoebe she's gets a premonition and presto we're off to save an innocent. How did you do it?"

Ellie snorted,

"Do you even think before you speak? How long have you been a practicing witch? Every one knows a witch's premonitions can't be forced. To even suggest such a thing proves how touched in the head you are."

"My instincts are never wrong."

Ellie snorted once again, she then turned to Phoebe who was sitting the chair by her head hovering over her.

"Where can I put Ben down for the night?"

"Wait a minute what do you mean down for the night?" Piper asked

"Did you really think I'd move him now? Plus he's seen his mom and I always promised him the day he did was the day he could stay with her forever. And I don't break my promises."

Ellie said in a clam and firm voice.

"You can put him in my room." Phoebe said ignoring her sisters cries of out rage.

"You'll need to show me the way." Nodding her head Ellie stood up.

Piper couldn't help but notice the easy in which Ellie stood up, while holding a sleeping child in her arms. Piper then looked at Leo who was standing next to her and wondered, she couldn't see any similarity between Ellie and Leo, or Leo and Cole for that matter. Maybe just maybe they had the same color eyes. But that was it.

'Maybe Leo favored his dad when it came down to looks? Or maybe Leo has spent too much time up there that he's beginning to see things.'

Piper shock her head to clear herself to these thought they had other things to deal with right now and who Leo took after wasn't one of them.

Paige looked to her sister and asked her,

"You're not going to let that thing stay here?"

"That thing is your nephew whether you like it or not. And Phoebe has the right to get to know him Paige."

"You believe her don't you?"

"I believe that Phoebe had a premonition that showed her the truth."

"Plus Paige that woman…that woman… is my mother."

"No she isn't. She can't be. She's a demon and you're a whitelighter. She can't be your mother. She'd done a spell or something."

"Paige I know my mother and that woman is my mother. No one but her called me Leonardo. It's her. Everything about her, her voice, skin, her hair, and her sarcasm it's my mother."

"Leo are you sure?" Piper asked her husband worried what this information might do to him.

"Yeah I'm sure. But what I don't know is how she can be alive?"

"Well that's something I can answer."

Ellie said standing at the bottom of the stairs Phoebe right behind her.

"In the kitchen though I promised my nephew he'd have his favorite cookies. You can eat the dough Leonardo. It's also your favorite."

Piper saw the smile that spread across Leo's face he looked like a little kid. She wondered if Wyatt would still be that excited to eat her cookies when he too was a grown man.

"Damn it Ellie you're making cookies and I can't have any."

Ellie then turned her attention to Chris and said,

"When was the last time you had a proper meal Christopher?"

Chris shrugged his shoulders.

"Come on then to the kitchen." Ellie said leading the sisters with both whitelighters and a brother who was in limbo into the kitchen.

The sisters with both whiterlighters took seats at the counter while Ellie went about her way in the kitchen pulling out pans and cooking ingredients.

She began to cook an egg omelet for Chris when that was done she put in front of him a plate with a tall cool glass of milk. Chris dug into it eagerly.

"This is so good El!"

Ellie smiled at him, she then began putting everything away that was used to make Chris's omelet. Loading up the dishwasher. Out of the blue she asked,

"What's the last thing your remember out me Leonardo?"

"I remember I was ten. It was dark and you asked me to hide and not to come out no matter what that when everything was okay that you or Uncle Liam or dad would come get me."

"Do you remember anything else?"

Leo shock his head no. Ellie nodded her head a far away look clouding her face. She then started busying herself in getting the stuff together for the cookies.

"Do you want to know how you're a whitelighter but your mother is a half-demon?"

When everyone nodded their heads in the affirmative, Ellie took a depth breath,

"When I meet you're father Christopher I fell so deeply in love it shocked me… he was someone I would never have ever thought to ever have feelings for…he was so good…so trusting…so…so Christopher…I didn't deserve him… I may never have done anything as far as my demonic side was concerned I never killed or anything like that… but a demon nonetheless… he was so good. Just like you… huh…he asked me to marry him… I of course said yes….we were so in love, we thought the world melt away…nothing else mattered just the two of us… a year later we had you…you were our blessing… when I was pregnant with you, you never should any sings of having any powers…. but…but I didn't want you to be caught in the world I had been in, your uncles Liam, and Cole agreed with me… We decided…we decided it would be best if we stripped you of your demonic side before you were too old to feel the loss of it…and you never knew…and you haven't known…."

Ellie explained all of this with out looking up at Leo she had done so once when she told him he was a good man. But that was it.

"Why?"

"Why? Why did I strip you of your demonic side? Why did I make it so that you wouldn't have to live in the underworld? Why did I make it so that you wouldn't have to walk between two worlds never belonging to one? Hated by both because of who you are… what you are? I had lived that life Leonardo. I did not want that for my own son. We protect our children from the evil of the world, even…even if that evil is in us."

Ellie wiped away the tears that had gathered in her eyes. She then turned her back on the people in the kitchen and started getting things out to make a pot of coffee. When the pot started brewing Ellie turned to the sisters and said,

"We've had a long day a think a cup of coffee is in order for everyone."

"Mom" it was hesitant it felt unfamiliar he hadn't said it in more that seventy-five years.

"How?"

"Leonardo you need to be more specific. There's a lot that needs to be answered with how? Tonight we have, how is that I'm a card holding member of the we were dead but now are members of the land of the living? Or how did you manage to get baby me to drink to potion successfully striping him of his demonic side? Or how is that you were able to carry Ben for the rest of the pregnancy and how did we actually get it work out the way it did? You are going to have to pick one."

Ellie said raising an eyebrow. Paige couldn't help the snort of laughter that escaped her. She had to admit demon or not Ellie sure knew how to take a person down son or no son.

For Phoebe it was a slightly different realization she had known that the woman standing before them was Cole's sister but it never showed so much it till that very moment. The arrogance, the self-assured confidence that nothing stood in their way and the self-control that she never saw in anybody else. Jason did have some of the characteristics that drew her into Cole. But seeing her sister she knew what Jason was missing, he may have be confident, arrogant, and in control, but he was lacking that spark.

Leo once more was feeling the bite of being in his mother's presences. She was still the same. Still demanding that he give full questions she never expected anything else.

"How are you alive I was there the day you died, I saw it happen."

All in the kitchen took in a deep breath. Even Cole couldn't believe it. He had remembered what it was like to see your parent murdered he had witnessed his father's death at the hands of his mother. He knew that something like that never left you.

Chris was in shock he never knew that his dad had seen his mother died. It gave him a new perspective on the man who now sat off to his right.

Piper didn't know what to do she knew from what Prue had went through after she saw her mother died that she was never the same. She didn't know what it must have been like for Leo. She just hoped it wasn't a witch that had killed Leo's mother.

Paige was shocked to find out that Leo had seen his mother's death suddenly she understood why Leo was so understanding about her own helping regarding her adoptive parents.

Ellie looked at Leo mouth open in shock, and then her face clouded over with anger,

"I told you to stay hidden. I told you not to leave until one of your uncles or your father came to get you Leonardo!"

"What did you expect me to do? I heard yelling, I heard loud crashing. You were down there by yourself. And you expected me to stay hidden I was ten."

"You were ten Leonardo there was nothing you could have done."

"And you what I was meant to stay hidden away? You're my mom you were by yourself and you were in danger was I mean to sit back and wait for you to die or someone to come get me?"

"Yes you were you should have listened to me Leonardo! If something should have happened to you do you know what would have happened?"

"It already did you died!"

"Yes I did but it doesn't matter all that matter all that ever mattered was you. He could have killed you."

"But he didn't he killed you."

"Okay I think everyone needs a time out."

Phoebe breathed out having not only heard the fight between the mother and son, but also having felt the feelings boiling under the surface.

Both Piper and Paige nodded their heads in agreement. Chris couldn't quit shack off the feeling that the argument that both Ellie and Leo were having was an argument that both he and Leo would have. It was shocking to see that their relationship wasn't any better than his was with his father.

Ellie shock her head and throw her son a reproachful look, turned around and started pulling out seven mugs for the coffee she slammed them down onto the counter, putting one in front of everyone even Cole. She then poured coffee in everyone.

Cole looked at his sister and knew she was at her rope's end to the point she forgot that he was in limbo and unable to touch anything.

"Uh…Ellie sweetie I can't drink coffee remember limbo and incorporeal."

"Damn it! Cole just drink the coffee."

The sisters looked at Ellie as if she had grown another head.

'Okay she's now one flews over the Cuckoo's nest.'

Paige thought. Cole looked at his sister and thought it best to try and drink the coffee she had poured for him.

Reaching out he was expecting his hand to go through the mug but no one was more shock then he when his hand made contact with a warm mug. Shock was the expression the crossed the faces of all those in the room, the sisters couldn't believe it in there kitchen stood the tall figure of Cole Turner.

"That Leonardo is how I'm alive."

"Huh?" Was the reply echoed by the people in the room.

To be continued….