The Lost Ones

Chapter Nineteen: Confusion all around

As Piper and Phoebe finished eating the breakfast Ellie had made them, they sat quietly each lost in her own thoughts; little did they know how close their thoughts were.

Phoebe's POV:

'What am I meant to do now I just found out yesterday that I had a son, and now I have to deal with Cole coming back, the whole first you see him then you don't I can't take it. Can I deal with him? Do I want to deal with him? What about Jason? What am I going to do now? Do I want Cole back? Or do I want to see how things could work out with Jason? Where does Ben fit into this? How am I meant to take care of him? I'm not his mother? I am but I'm not Ellie is…what am I going to do about Ellie? I seriously doubt she's going to just walk out of her nephew's life…and what about his uncle what was his name? They won't just leave I don't need to be an Empath to know that…but there is no way that Paige and Piper are going to stand for that. Maybe Piper I mean Ellie is her mother-in-law. And how weird is that? Ellie is Leo's mom…Cole's sister…which means that Cole was…is…is Leo's uncle…and she is Wyatt's grandmother…okay I'm going to stop thinking now all I seem to do is go around in circles and making myself dizzy…what am I going to do? So much has changed in such short time this can't be good.'

Piper's POV:

'That was nice having someone else cook for a change, which brings to the forefront who said person is, Cole's sister…Cole had a sister…a sister who happens to be my husbands mother…meaning my mother-in-law…which also means my son's grandmother…oh my God she looks as old as I do if not a little younger…my mother-in-law looks better than I do…plus she doesn't seem to have issues with baby fat…I mean she had a baby around the same time I did and she already is a size 2…how unfair is that? Okay I know I'm ignoring the issue which is she crashed into our lives yesterday she tells about a prophesy that freaks Leo out…also ignoring the different faces of Leo that made an appearance last night…he was…I don't know what he was but he wasn't Leo. Then there is the whole Cole thing I don't know what Phoebe is going to do about that…and let's not mention the obvious we live in a world of magic and too much change always leads to something BAD! Now all we have to do is sit and wait for it to happen. Now there's how's Paige going to act which is funny she doesn't to seem to hate Ellie the way she hates Cole maybe that has to do with the whole Leo is her son thing which is just confusing but not as confusing as how Ben came to be. I mean didn't we vanquish the Seer when she was pregnant with the future Source? So how did Ellie do it? The there's the whole her father was from a strong witch line which in some ways makes her a witch of sorts, only she isn't because she did a spell to make Ben speak, and that one hundred percent falls under personal gain yet it seems nothing bad happened to her, I wonder if she could do it for me when Wyatt gets difficult. But this is weird the woman dropped a truck load of magical, supernatural, prophetical shit on us and all I can think of is how I can get my mother-in-law to cast a spell on my son so I can understand what he wants when he's really upset. When what I should be thinking about is the fact that I married and had a child by a whitelighter and it turns out that it was all a part of a prophesy and the same goes for Phoebe and Cole…and it seems Paige is destined for the same fate. The question is that a good or a bad thing? I know it's a good thing for me, and it was a good thing for Phoebe for a little while but we all know how that turned out, and now Paige is in this as well, I guess I wouldn't mind if it was something that she chose for herself…but how good could that be I mean the guy is a demon! At least with Phoebe and Cole they were already in love…but Paige and what was his name? It won't be love it would be fulfilling a prophesy and that's wrong it's manipulation it takes away their right to choose, and we have been told that prophesies have away to fulfill themselves. And as both Ellie, Cole and Leo all said too much of the prophesy has come true and that the rest will force its self to come true, which again brings us to BAD! With a capital 'B'. Which is whole different can of worms…oh…and let's not forget the impending doom that will come because of all the changes that have taken place. This is bad…bad…bad.'

Ellie's POV:

'Okay magic is tricky and has its consequences …a karmic balance that's what Michele said something along the lines what you put out comes back double or tenfold… that's another thing I don't want to think about Michele…what am I meant to do now? Do I want to be with him? Do I want to go there? He's a freaking whitelighter not just a whitelighter for crying out loud he's a damn Elder! It would never work…would it? Okay pushing that to the back burner…other issues need to be addressed. Like what's going to happen with Ben? How are we going to work it out? Is Ben going to live with me until he gets used to Phoebe? Supervised visits and sleep overs until he's happy in the Halliwell manor? What am going to do about Cole he can't…I mean I can't I really leave him in limbo? How do we get him out of limbo? And there's Leo how am I meant to deal with him? God I never thought I'd have to face him again…and there he was God talk about a shock. And then there's William and Paige…how the hell is that going to work out? I know that they will definitely have a kid but is that a good thing? It's only going to hurt Liam in the end, there is no way it wouldn't, Paige maybe cute and from what Liam told me funny but that doesn't mean she'll turn over a new leaf she'll hate him for being a demon, he'll never be aloud to be with his kid and that would kill him. God why does have to be this way? Everything is so unbelievably messed up there is no way anyone is getting out of this without a degree of mental damage Dr. Phil here we come! Okay I am seriously avoiding the issue, but come on after having a hundred plus years of addressing the issue I think I'm aloud a little avoidance every now and then, right? Oh…who cares we have bigger fish to fry as in karmic balance…won't that be fun.'

Cole had been standing in the kitchen for a while now, he had seen the easy way in which Ellie took care of Ben and the sisters, it released a great deal of tension he had always felt when thinking of his sister he knew the choice he had made all those years ago had been the right one.

Cole also had trouble understanding what Ellie had said about is non-corporeal situation, he believed, no he knew that Ellie knew more about it then she was letting on and more than likely had the answers he was looking for, she was his sister and he knew her well, her poker face was something that always unnerved him, nothing ever spilled past the mask she put on.

He was pulled out of his musings of his sister when Chris who had it seemed gone ignored so far as all the woman were lost in their own perspective thoughts.

Chris cleared his throat and said in the most self-assured voice he could muster especially considering what he was going to suggest.

"It seems we have a lot to deal with right now…but as far as I go I think the best thing we can do right now it talk about it…I don't know how this will effect the future all do know was that in my original time line Ellie was never able to save Ben, so I was thinking that maybe that was the defining event, but I won't know for sure until we have all the answers which means it's time Leo orbed himself down here and told us what he might know about things, and one of you guys should call Paige…Cole is already here so we won't have to worry about him listening in on what ever info might come to pass, the only other person that should be here and isn't is Ellie's brother. You should call him I'll go get Leo."

Ellie just raised her eye brow, but didn't comment unlike the rest present she knew the kind of person Chris was she had spent a lot of time with him, planning the best way to handle the whole Ben is Phoebe's son aspect, plus their was the fact that she had read him, and seen his life as it played out.

When she was that no one else was doing as he said and glaring at Chris in such a way that sent chills up her spine Ellie went over to the wireless phone and dialed.

"Liam. Hi it's me listen you need to come over to the Halliwell manor… yes it is important…I don't know…listen I don't care get your half-breed demon red ass here…yes it does effect you…because I said so…yes I know you're older…I'll respect you when you start acting like a grown up…huh…huh…yep…okay bye…yeah love you to."

After hanging up she turned to Chris and said,

"He'll be here in fifteen minutes."

Ellie handed the phone over to Piper, and in a very curt manner that showed her true age,

"Call your sister now. Young lady and stop being so childishly stubborn whenever Chris tells you to do anything."

Her glare could only be described as one thing motherly, Piper ducked her head in embarrassment she didn't understand it but there was something about Ellie that made her feel like a disobedient five year old child, not to mention that there was something about her that intimidated her.

Ellie turned to Chris who gave her a grateful smile.

"Chris while you are up there you may want to find Michele he might have the rest of the answers everyone is looking for."

Chris gave her a curt nod and orbed out, just as he orbed out Paige had orbed in.

"You know there are only so many times I can ditch work before they are going to fire me. And frankly I'm sick of all the family emergency I have to come up with."

"Why don't you get yourself a job that you can do from home, or maybe even something that has to do with the world of the supernatural. Like that vampire in L.A."

"Vampire I thought vampires were exiled?"

Phoebe asked clearly confused, she remembered what Cole had told them when Paige had been turned.

"Not all vampires, there are more than one kind of vampire like there is more than one kind of demon they're just all called vampires because they are human first and need blood to survive."

"What makes them different then?"

Piper asked clearly confused.

"Well with the ones you faced they all die if you kill the queen with the second type of vampire like the one from in L.A. they belong to clans, kind of like a family but you kill the head of the family it doesn't kill the rest of the clan, they just feel the end of that link, the death of it. Plus they are vampires straight away none of this they have to drink the blood of the innocent to complete the transition. It's more on the lines do you want to be a vampire? Yes I do. The vampire drinks his or her blood until the heart nearly stops bleeding and then the future vamp drinks the blood of the vampire doing the turning. The amount of blood determines the standing he or she will have in their future family."

"So basically it's a he sucks then the other sucks, all in all there is a lot of sucking."

Paige stated in a simple fashion.

"Yeah basically."

"But why weren't they exiled with the other vampires?"

Phoebe asked wanting to know, she still couldn't get here head around the fact that vampires were still among people. She had thought that when they had killed the queen they had killed all vampires.

"Well this particular breed of vampire never cared about the Underworld, or about the power one could get by running it. They prefer the world they don't over socialize with other demons, and they run with their own group. Kind of like don't bother me and I won't bother you."

Ellie said with a casual shrug.

"Okay but what does all this have to do with me and my job."

"Oh…talk about getting away from the point. Well this vampire what's his name? Oh…right Angle talk about irony a demon called Angle. Any way he owns a private investigating firm or what ever they call it, which investigates things to do with the supernatural. And I don't know why you girls don't do something like that? It would be first of all more practical considering you are the charmed ones. But I guess it's the whole hero, slash martyr complex. I am the chosen one. I can't have a normal life. My life is so hard. No one understands my pain. Bull shit you just don't like looking for the easy way out. And frankly if you think anyone has an easy life you need to get your heads checked."

"Well it's good to see that you haven't lost your ability to make people fell unbelievably small. That is a real talent you do know that Ellie."

"And you have a knack for stating the obvious Michele."

"Part of my charm doll face."

This caused Ellie to bust out laughing, as well as Cole though he went unseen by all except Ellie and Chris.

"God I haven't heard that term used since the twenties. It was corny then and it's even worse now."

"Okay who are you?"

Paige asked in an accusatory manner, she didn't know why she wasn't getting a bad vibe off of him but she felt she couldn't trust him especially if he knew Ellie, the fact that the woman was growing on her was not important the fact of it remained she was still a demon and this stranger knew her.

"Now Paige is that anyway to speak to your elders."

To say that the sisters were confused would be an understatement; their confusion was soon put to an end.

"Michele you're Michele…the Michele that Ellie was talking about the whitelighter the one that got her killed!"

Piper said remembering what Ellie had said about the events, until Leo had blown up and called her a lair.

"And you wonder why I didn't trust you it's because you Leo lost his mother."

"Believe me when I say that I never would want Ellie to get hurt. I'd never hurt her. Ellie why didn't you tell them?"

Michele turned his pleading eyes to Ellie, how just scowled at him.

"Honestly Michele you talked to Leo last night did he sound like someone who listened to the whole story, I said Michele… whitelighter and he blew up like the Lusitanian. I don't know why they thought you killed me…plus I would have thought that you would have been their favorite Elder all with the let them marry what does it hurt."

"What do you mean let them marry what will it hurt?"

Phoebe asked confused.

"Michele is the Elder that convinced the other Elders to let Piper and Leo get married I thought you knew that Piper seeing how you reacted to the name."

"I did…I guess…I mean the name did sound familiar but the name Michele is a pretty common name."

Piper tried to explain away. Michele just raised his eyebrow at explanation; he then put his hand to his heart in mock pain.

"Piper I am hurt I would have thought you would have remembered the man who gave you the one and only wedding present when you came up for a visit."

"You were the one that gave me that light thingy."

"That light thingy as you so lovingly put it, works as a warning light for whenever someone is possessed or in some sort of trouble, so I would have thought that the charmed ones would have appreciated a gift like that. But it seems I am mistaken."

All of the sudden Piper felt very guilty for dislike of the gift, the gift she tried so hard to get rid of, after hearing a description of what it did, she now understood why Leo was so eager to put the thing in the living-room.

"Michele what are you doing here?"

Asked Leo who had just orbed in with Chris standing behind him.

"I got an invite."

Was the nonchalant reply of the older Elder.

Any further questions were put to an end by Will shimmering in.

"This better be an award winning explanation for the prophesy unlike you people I have a job, and a boss that has been riding me, so in other words bip…bip people let's get show on the road."

"Okay how about we take this into the living-room."

Michele said as he walked out leading the way, he was quickly followed by both Ellie and Chris.

The now extremely confused Haliwell's and whitelighter followed behind them.

When they got there they saw that Ellie and Michele were sitting next to each other on the same couch she had spent the night on. Will was casual sprawled in the armchair, his nephew sitting on his knee, Ben had shimmered to him uncle the moment he had sat down.

They saw that Chris was standing next to Wyatt's play pen, brooding his attention was directed to the hallway.

If the sisters and Leo had taken time to get to know Chris they would know that his seeing Cole had not just been because they were related and shared the same blood-line but also because of the above and mentioned blood-line he was able to see things that went unseen by most people, like at this very moment he was looking directly at three people if they could be called that.

He knew he had seen them before he just couldn't remember where especially the woman there was something about her that was so familiar she just couldn't put his finger on it.

And then it hit him his eyes widened to comical proportions, she was Aphrodite or Venus or what ever you wanted to call her, he didn't know how he could have forgotten her the first time he saw her, couldn't ever remember seeing anyone more beautiful, and that had been when he had fallen in love with Bianca, and she was here again.

He then took a closer look at the two people she was with, a young man with a ring, which he knew to be a cupid, and the third person made him fear for the worse, the half goat, half man, he knew from his study of mythology could only be one person Puck.

Looking closely he saw that Puck had his hands full, Chris did not take this as a good sign. He saw Aphrodite take something out of Puck's hand and blow the powered across the room.

He then saw all the people in the room pass out, he saw her full pink lips begin to move, he then saw the past out body of Cole materialize on the living-room floor.

Chris noticed that he and the two toddlers were the only ones unaffected by what ever magic she had just cast.

As Aphrodite made her way towards him, maybe floated would be the best way to describe the way she moved.

"Christopher I need you to take your brother and cousin out of this house as I do my work, both your parents, aunts and grandmother and great uncles have taken to much time, they already know how they feel about each other but they refuses to do anything about it so I'm helping things along. No matter what when you come back let's say in an hour you need to trust me, it may be confusing they will be confused but trust me it's for the best like this when the time is right I'll remove the spells cast here."

"What's going to happen?"

She gave him a mischievous little smirk, her eyes sparkling she said,

"Let's just say there will be confusion all around."

To be continued….

A/N Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I'd like to thank everyone who had been reading and reviewing I hope you like this chapter :)