Author Notes: Thanks to everyone who has given me feedback, you all have been wonderful. This chapter will answer a few questions and bring up some more. I have two things planned for Cole and Phoebe in this chapter. But Cole doesn't actually make an appearance just yet.
Thanks Miranda for Beta Reading!
Pairing: Leo/Piper; Cole/Phoebe; Richard/Paige
Summary: Phoebe finds out some news that changes her life.
Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed or its characters.
Rate: PG
Season: 6- but its AU after The Courtship of Wyatt's Father
Category: Drama
Spoilers: Season 1-6
The Unseen Future: New BeginningsChris could hardly believe it, he had done it; he had saved Wyatt from being turned evil. He would be good and the world would never know the pain he caused. His parents, aunts and uncles would live and enjoy life. Looking at Leo and Piper now made his heart filled with happiness.
Leo was putting Wyatt down in his crib as Piper watched, then she hugged him as he came to her. Piper didn't want to let him go; to afraid they would take him away. Their separation was the worse decision they had made and they knew it. But it would never happen again, because from this day on she would never give him up again. Chris came from the attic smiling as he saw his parents.
"Where are Paige and Phoebe?" Piper asked.
"Paige went home to wait for Richard and Phoebe went to bed," Chris explained.
"Good then we can talk," Leo said.
"About?" Chris asked.
"Let's go down stairs I'll make us something to eat," Piper told them.
They walked down the stairs with his parents they had so many questions for him. So many things they felt they needed to apologies for. Chris took a seat as Leo and Piper went into the kitchen to make them all a little something to eat. Chris sat down wondering what they wanted to talk to him about. Sometime later Leo and Piper came back in with a tray of cookies and milk.
"Do you have chocolate milk?" Chris asked taking some cookies.
"I'll get it," Leo said with a smile.
"Chris I don't know if you heard us but we did a spell that showed us parts of your life," Piper explained.
"What did you see?" Chris asked as Leo came back with in with his milk.
"Your birth for one," Leo laughed.
"And some other moments that should have not happened," Piper told him sadly.
"It wasn't your fault, Gideon and his followers had you all brains washed to think I was powerless," Chris explained.
"But we should have known," Leo argued.
"How…why didn't I put it together when you said Gideon I should have known before now?" Chris admitted.
"You couldn't have known Gideon was the one," Piper insisted.
"And you didn't know that he was lying then but that's done a new future is here," Chris told them eating.
"Don't talk with your mouth full," Piper told him with a smile.
Chris looked up at her with a smile as he took another cookie and ate it. While they did this Phoebe was awake in her room looking around. With Piper pregnant, baby Christopher would need a room which meant it was time for her to leave. Shutting off the light she made her decision she was going house hunting tomorrow. They had proved they could do it, they had to do this.
Cole watched her sleep with a smile on his face, he could hardly believe it, but she got more beautiful each day. It was times like this he wished he could touch her or talk to her for just one moment. Phoebe smiled and mumbled his name in her sleep. If he was able to he would have cried but instead he whispered "I love you" into her ear before leaving to go back to work.
"What do you mean I can't go back?" Chris asked.
"Well you are from an alternate version of the future," Lana said.
"So I'm stuck here," Chris said.
"Yes," Lana said orbing out.
Leo just looked down knowing all of this already, Chris was stuck here because his world no longer existed. On his desk was papers and everything else Chris needed to start making a life for himself. Chris walked over to him with a blank expression on his face he didn't know how he felt about this. He picked up the folder of paper and documents.
"Well at least I get to keep my name," Chris said.
"You can have a life, go to college did you even think about college?" Leo asked.
"No…what would I be dad?" Chris asked.
"What did you want to be when you were a kid?" Leo asked.
"I wanted to be a chef like mom," Chris laughed.
"So go to school for it, get a job, or open up your own restaurant," Leo said.
"I also wanted to be a teacher, a photo journalist, and once I wanted to be a therapist," Chris laughed.
"So take some general classes," Leo told him laughing as well.
"You think I could really do it?" Chris asked.
"Yes I do," Leo replied seriously.
Chris looked at the paper and back up to his father making his decision he was going to register to take classes right away. It had him as Piper Phoebe and Paige's cousin and he was 22 year old. He graduated high school almost four years ago and if he hurried he might be able to make it for spring classes.
This was all coming so fast. A little over two or so days ago he was trying to figure out how to save his big brother from turning evil. Now he was trying to figure out what he wanted to be. He was going to be college student, and maybe, just maybe have a semi-normal life. But there was one thing he needed Leo and Piper to promise him he just needed to find out a way to talk to them about it.
Weeks Later
Phoebe knew it was time she had done it all and was very proud of her self. She knew that she could not live at the manor for the rest of her life. She needed to move on like Paige did with Richard and she knew Chris did to. He couldn't spend the rest of his life in this time living at P3. So she had the prefect idea, the perfect house, and soon to be the prefect roommate.
"Chris how would you like to have your own room?" Phoebe asked.
"What do you mean?" Chris asked looking at his forms.
"I mean I just bought the house next door and it has a room with your name on it," Phoebe explained.
"You're serious," Chris exclaimed.
"Yes the old owner Dan, never actually sold the house he's been renting it out and it was for rent again, but when I called him and told him I was interested he sold it to me," Phoebe told him excitedly.
"Why would he do that?" Chris asked.
"Well he hasn't been able to keep people in there for long periods of time and when he heard I was looking to move out because Leo and Piper were going to have another baby he sold it," Phoebe explained to him.
"Wait one second, Dan as in Dan Gordon my mom's ex-boyfriend?" Chris asked already knowing the answer.
"The same one so how about it?" Phoebe said.
"Sure they might think it's strange that I live in a club," Chris laughed showing her his registration forms.
"You're registering for college," Phoebe smiled.
"Yep," Chris said shyly.
"You had these for over a month haven't you?" Phoebe asked.
"Yep," Chris told her.
Phoebe just smiled at him, life was starting to actually work out. Paige had reversed Richard's binding a few weeks ago and so far he was able to use his magic again. It seemed that Chris would be a college student soon, which meant he would need to find a normal job. Phoebe had been asked to have her own talk show once again, while still keeping her column. But she didn't know if she wanted it. As much as she liked it she didn't know if that was what she wanted in her life.
Paige walked out her home with Richard and a smile on her face. Slowly it was starting to feel like home but she didn't like being so far from her sisters. Richard saw this and he wished there was something he could do for it but didn't know what yet. They were too busy getting ready for Piper's big dinner tonight.
"Mom," Chris mumbled.
"Yes sweetie?" Piper answered cutting up vegetables.
"About Magic school, um I think you should send Wyatt and baby Chris," Chris stated.
"No I want you guys to have a nice normal life with normal friends and normal jobs," Piper explained.
"But we won't, until I went there I felt like an outcast. We are not normal we are charmed," Chris explained to her.
"How would I explain it?" Piper asked.
"Tell them we go to a private prep school," Chris answered.
"What's going on?" Leo asked coming in.
"Chris thinks Wyatt and little Chris should go to magic school," Piper explained looking up at him.
"I have to agree, we already know our children will be powerful," Leo said.
"Plus dad is the headmaster and Aunt Paige is a teacher, what is more prefect?" Chris asked.
"He's got a point, we could take them to school and bring them back home," Leo agreed.
"We really don't have a choice do we?" Piper asked sadly.
"I just know how I felt going to a normal school when I wasn't normal," Chris said.
"Then I guess we should enroll Wyatt," Piper sighed.
Chris smiled at Leo who was also smiling. Leo orbed his way back to the school to get the needed paper work for enrolling Wyatt in the preschool. Chris left when Piper asked not to be bothered so she could make sure this dinner was perfect. It wouldn't be as hard as Piper thought because the school had a way to be known in the general public but as a prep school like Chris told her.
"Hey," Chris greeted as Richard and Paige showed up.
"So what's on the menu?" Paige asked putting up their coats.
"You name it, mom has cooked it," Chris warned them with a smile.
"Is that a good idea with her morning sickness?" Richard asked.
"She's hasn't experienced that yet," Paige laughed.
"She won't," Chris told them.
"You're here," Phoebe shrieked coming down the stairs.
"Why didn't anyone tell me you guys showed up?" Piper asked walking in.
"You told me not to bother you," Chris reminded her.
"When has that stopped you--or do you always listen?" Piper asked him.
"Where is that husband of yours?" Paige asked.
"I'm here," Leo said orbing in.
"I invited another guest," Paige said as they heard the knock.
"Who?" Piper asked as she opened it.
"Am I late?" Sam said walking through the door.
"Oh no," Piper said freezing the room.
Richard looked at Paige a little confused at why Piper froze the room. It took Piper a second to remember that Richard was a witch so he wouldn't freeze. Leo was frozen so she unfrozen him, he looked at her then at Sam who was frozen. Piper had her panic face on which meant something was wrong.
"Mom why did you freeze him?" Chris asked.
"He can't be here," Piper snapped.
"This is a family dinner," Paige argued.
"But my dad is coming," Piper exclaimed.
"What's the problem?" Richard said as Sam unfroze.
"Richard this is my dad Sam, dad this is my boyfriend Richard," Paige introduced.
"I thought all your parents were dead?" Richard asked confused.
"They are, he's a whitelighter," Paige stated.
"There never is a dull moment in this house," Richard declared as Victor walked in.
"Dad," Piper greeted.
Sam took a step back looking at Paige who just lipped sorry as Victor walked more into the house. Chris waited until by Leo until Piper could explain who he was. Victor had a smile on his face until he saw Sam. It wasn't that he was still mad at Sam and Patty for their affair, he wasn't. He got over that a while ago, he abandoned his wife and children. Sam had been there to help her and they fell in love. But that had given them Paige, and she helped bring the family back together.
"Sam," Victor greeted.
"Victor," Sam greeted.
"So you two do know each other?" Paige asked uncomfortably.
"Paige, its okay I came to terms with it along time ago the past is the past," Victor explained.
"Still," Sam began.
"We both made mistakes in our lives and we are lucky enough to get a second chance lets not ruin it with what if and what could have happen," Victor told him.
"Dad, he's right let's think about the future," Paige agreed.
"Speaking of the future there are some things we need to discuss," Piper said.
All of them walked into the living room. Phoebe and Piper just smiled at each other glad that their family dinner wasn't ruined and glad their dad could accept Sam in their lives. Victor noticed Chris right away as well as well as Richard he figured they were two new boyfriends of the girls.
"First of all, Leo and I are back together," Piper smiled. "But I think the best news is that we're going to have another baby."
"I thought you might be…what are you six months along," Victor asked smiling.
"Four," Piper corrected.
"His name is Christopher, but we just call him Chris," Leo told him.
"How do you know it's a boy, isn't it too soon for that," Victor asked confused.
"Because he came from the future to save Wyatt from turning evil," Piper explained calmly.
"Excuse me?" Victor muttered unbelieving.
"Dad met your grandson, Christopher Perry Halliwell," Phoebe said pushing Chris towards him.
"Hi Grandpa," Chris laughed.
Piper wondered what universe she was in, because the dinner went off without one problem. Her father and Sam actually had a decent conversation. Mainly due to the fact they both wanted their children out of the world of magic, but failed at it. They put their past behind them and looked on to a future. But what was strange was when Chris told them that Sam had taken the place as the second grandfather, like Victor did with Paige's children.
"When is the doctor's appointment?" Leo asked.
"Our four month check up is on Thursday," Piper smiled.
"You like being pregnant don't you?" Leo asked.
"Yes especially the whole invincible thing," Piper laughed.
"I like that," Leo admitted kissing her.
"So where do we stand on marriage counseling?" Piper asked.
"If you want to start it again I'll do it, but Piper I don't think we need it," Leo told her.
"You don't?" Piper questioned.
"No, do you?" Leo asked concerned.
"No," Piper smiled.
"Then it's settled," Leo said. "Now come to bed."
Phoebe looked around the house with a smile, she was glad it was almost exactly like the manor. Chris was already in his bedroom sleeping. They had got him a bed as soon as he said he would take the room. Chris had decided on photo journalism as a major once again proving how much like Prue he was. Piper had hired him to work at the club so he could make some money. Life for the Halliwell sisters seemed to finally be in place. Paige was happy with Richard, Piper was back with Leo and having a baby, and she was finally just happy.
Of course nothing for the Halliwell family was that simple, the world liked to give them twist and turns. That was what made their family so special, well besides the whole have magic powers things. Chris knew something was he could sense the moment he saw Phoebe in their unfinished kitchen.
"Dad and I are going to finish up the house today and move the rest of the stuff in," Chris told her.
"Good," Phoebe answered as she walked in the living room
"Darryl and Richard said they'd be by later to help," Chris yelled at her.
"Okay I'll be back tonight," Phoebe yelled back.
Chris knew something was wrong with Phoebe but he couldn't tell what. Leo came over as soon as breakfast was done and they finished up what needed to be repaired and started to move the stuff in. When Richard and Darryl showed up Chris began the unpacking and putting the stuff out. He knew how Phoebe had the place decorated in the past and hoped she liked it now.
Phoebe was in a panic, because this could not be happening. There was no logical explanation for this, but here it was it was happening. Walking into her house she stopped dead in her tracks as she looked around with a smile. The men had put all the furniture up and Chris was finishing up of unpacking all her stuff and putting it out.
"Chris this looks great," Phoebe said looking around.
"Change anything you don't like," Chris told her with a smile.
"Don't worry I will," Phoebe laughed.
"What's wrong?" Chris asked worried. "You've been acting weird the last couple of days."
"I'm pregnant but I haven't been with anyone since Jason," Phoebe told him.
"Oh god," Chris groaned.
"What?" Phoebe asked.
"You have…um Uncle Cole it wasn't a dream well not really anyway," Chris explained.
"Excuse me!" Phoebe exclaimed.
"He thought it was a dream and so did you but it wasn't," Chris told her.
"How am I going to explain this?" Phoebe asked
"Oh that'll be the least of your worries," Chris laughed.
"Chris!" Phoebe shouted.
"If this happens like it did in the future the other part will happen tomorrow," Chris told her.
"I can't tell them, not yet…is it a girl," Phoebe asked.
"Yes, her name is—will be Prue," Chris smiled. "This whole future and past thing gets confusing sometimes."
Phoebe laughed softly, so Prudence Melinda Halliwell was born, for a moment there Phoebe thought she might not be. She looked at Chris at his smile and she knew they must have been close. Maybe even as close as she was with her sisters now, god knows she didn't used to be that close to them.
"You were close," Phoebe asked with a soft smile.
"Yes being only four months apart we did everything together," Chris laughed remembering.
"What happened to her?" Phoebe asked.
"Wyatt wanted her power so she went into hiding underground," Chris explained.
"That's how you knew it so well," Phoebe concluded.
"Yep three years of trying to find her where she was hiding at the time," Chris admitted.
"Why did he want her powers?" Phoebe asked.
"She was powerful, when you and Cole conceived her he was still the invincible demon," Chris explained.
"The child of the source," Phoebe muttered.
"Yes but she used her powers for good, Uncle Cole made sure of it, but Wyatt wanted her powers," Chris explained.
"Why?" Phoebe asked confused. "What was so special about her powers?"
"She could command all demons and warlocks and could control the whole underworld," Chris told her.
"I still don't understand," Phoebe admitted.
"All witches followed Wyatt but demons and warlocks didn't, so they would fight him but with Prue power," Chris began.
"He could control them all," Phoebe finished.
"How about I make you something to eat why you relax?" Chris decided.
"Enough future talk for one night," Phoebe laughed.
"Prue was special and Uncle Cole was always there to help her," Chris told her.
"Wait Uncle Cole," Phoebe questioned.
"That you'll have to figure out," Chris smirked.
Phoebe went to work waiting for whatever was supposes to happen to her today happen. Her morning sickness was starting to kill her she couldn't be around food at all. She knew it wasn't going to be that long before couldn't keep it from anyone else. But she still had no idea what she was going to tell people.
"Ms. Halliwell," a man said.
"Yes," Phoebe said not looking up.
"I'm David Hornsby I'm a lawyer," he said getting her attention. "I'm afraid I have some bad news."
Piper looked at Wyatt's old Nursery and smile as she started to put the stuff together for Chris. She smiled as she felt the fluttering of Chris inside her. Sometimes it still felt weird that she knew what he was going to look like in 22 years from his birth. Walking down stairs she heard the door open and someone storm in by the storming it was Phoebe.
"Leo Paige Chris!" Phoebe yelled.
"What's going on?" Piper asked.
"We have a problem," Phoebe said as they all orbed in.
"What?" Leo asked.
"I'm gong to have Cole's baby," Phoebe blurted out.
"Excuse me?" Paige said.
"How do I find him Chris?" Phoebe asked.
"Put an ad out for him here, in New York City, and Boston, I can't remember which one he was in," Chris explained.
"Cole is dead," Leo said.
"No he's not, the elders made him mortal for all the good he did in limbo but he's in a coma. It'll look like an accident, so Phoebe can tell people he came to town they slept together and he left when he returned home where ever that is he got in the accident," Chris explained with a shrug.
"Is that what I used in the future," Phoebe asked with a smirk.
"Yes," Chris told her softly.
"You need to relax and stay calm stress isn't good for you or our niece," Piper told her.
"Or nephew," Paige added.
"Niece," Chris told her as she was leaving the room.
Piper looked at Leo and they finally realized how Cole had come back on their lives. Piper couldn't help but like him, after all he did for Chris in the other future. He had helped him and saved him making him who is today. Cole helped shape him into the man that would sacrifice everything to save his big brother and family. For that alone Piper would help him, besides he was human now he needed their help. Leo looked at her agreeing silent together they would help protect Cole like he helped protect Chris.
They walked into the living room Paige walked back into the room with a glass of water. All Phoebe was thinking about was the fact she had a High School reunion in a month. And now she had to think about the fact she was pregnant with Cole's baby and what that stupid lawyer told her. Sometimes she really hated the law system and how so many criminal almost get away with stuff.
"There something else isn't there?" Paige asked knowing the answer already.
"Yes there is," Phoebe sighed. "Cole and I are still married."
Next Part: The Return of Cole Turner