Saving My Brother and Family
Disclaimers: The show and characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me everything else belongs to the creator and the movie company.
Chapter 11: Family Plans, Destiny and Attack Plans for the Future
"We're both suffering the same thing, but we got our family and each other, we'll be okay." he said and she nodded in agreement to that. "When you pressed your forehead to mine earlier, that was a ritual we created when I was a toddler, you were the aunt I was closest to in actual truth, because you and mom were in separable, you didn't need to think twice, it was a ritual created from the time I was two and you knew what to do. So you girls were my favorite aunts." he said and she smiled as she answered him.
"Well I see the habits we built when you were a cub are going to be appearing nine years earlier than normal now with you in the past, though you're at the moment five years younger than I am, it doesn't matter anymore. You need me and I'll be here if you need support and vice versa. So when's the conception month, so we can be sure you're born?" she asked and he explained that to her. "It's when you encounter another genie in the bottle situation, but with the added middle eastern culture added to it."
" With me telling you the truth, we just insured our bonds as family just became unbreakable now with the fact I don't have to hide myself feelings anymore with you, we can be like we used to in the future, same bond, just as I'm an adult now, you see me as I am now, but you know who I grow into when I'm born. Dad and I can build the bond needed between us, Prue is alive in my future when we deal with that, and our family is intact after that. So by the time my twenty fourth birthday comes around you'll know and see my baby and preteen self growing into my body after that."
"Though Wyatt is going to get a shock when he sees me as the young man who helped raise him during his first three years of life later." he said and she chuckled. "So what's this mean now, we can be open with each other, when we're together?" she asked and he nodded to her. "Yeah, don't hold in your feelings where he's concerned, it's going to be getting better, just give it time. The girls can see he's not the one, but given time the man I find for you is going to be everything you know in grandpa, dad and Andy."
"Don't give up on love, because of him, and don't hide your feelings either, once he's out of the picture let yourself go and you'll find the man you want and in another form." he said and she nodded as she ended their conversation. " It's been a long day, so time for bed now, love you cub." she said and he smiled at the name as he answered her. "Love you too Aunt Phoebe." he said and hugged her and she tightened her arms around him.
"See you in the morning baby." she said and he nodded. "Night Aunt Phoebe." he said and she got up and left the room and he changed into his p.j.'s and curled up for the night as he turned out the lights. 'Home at last, I just have to keep things going in the right direction now for us.' he thought as he fell asleep, content that he was in his room and home where he belonged now.
The next day the girls were cleaning up the mess in the kitchen and Prue looked at Piper. "Sorry I didn't mean to knock you out last night." she said and she smiled. "No problem, at least you didn't blow me up, though with practice we can insure the bad guys are vanquished, and we also saved our innocent last night as well so don't worry its going to work out here." she said and Piper nodded to that.
"Mm-hmmm, well tell that to Ficus." she said and Prue grinned. "Well you certainly told it to Tarkin, we lost a clone, but Jenna's alive and your ability saved us and her." she said and Piper nodded. "Yeah I know, but it doesn't seem like an even trade, we got the amulets and the spell and vanquished a bad guy, but we lost two good guys in the fight." she said and Prue nodded as she answered her with a gentle look.
"So we're still classifying Cole as good, despite knowing what he's going to do to her later?" she asked and Piper nodded. "Humanity still lives in him, but yeah I finally understand how he feels to have this unexpected power growing in him that he can't control and is capable of hurting the people you love even when you don't want it to." she said and Prue nodded as Phoebe came into the kitchen.
"Sorry guys didn't mean to leave you with morning after clean up." she said and they nodded. "How are you holding up?" Prue asked and she sighed. "I'm not sure, despite knowing this is the right thing to do, it feels like I ripped my heart out." she said and Prue nodded. "Well you got a lot to sort out." she said and Phoebe shook her head. " Not quite, I'm furious he killed an innocent, though it was just a clone, but he nearly kills a family member, I can't forgive that." she said to her and they nodded to her.
"Wheres cub?" Phoebe asked Piper and she smiled. "Getting his records set up by the cleaners, student I.D., drivers license, home address forms. New nickname for my baby, sis?" she asked and they smiled. "Yeah makes a good enough names as any, with your response last night, you're really going mother bear later if he gets hurt." she said and Piper nodded to that gently as she went to the next question."So what's with the candles?" Piper asked and she smiled softly as she answered her.
"I thought we could do a ritual for our fallen sister and for Cole." she said and they nodded to that as they did it in the living room. "For Andrea, a fallen sister, may her spirit soar." Prue said lighting the first candle and Phoebe did the second candle. "For Cole, a fallen love, may he find peace." she said lighting it and they settled then as they sat there in reverence, before Leo walked in gently and looked at her sitting there.
"Hey you okay Phoebe?" Leo asked walking in and she sighed. "Despite it being the right thing to do it's hard Leo. So what's going on?" she asked and he sighed. "I was going to tell you now, but with a private Wiccan ceremony it can wait." he said and they shook their heads. "No we could use some good news." Piper said and he smiled softly."Well it's not magic related, but I do have a passport." he said and she smiled at the news then.
"You went back?" She asked and he nodded. "Any time we feel the need for a private get away, than we go, but Andy and I fixed up a new set of documents for me with the cleaners, I'm now Leo Wyatt, age twenty nine and husband of Piper Halliwell. So if Dan decides to come back he's winding up in jail if he tries anything with Chris living with us now." he said and she nodded in agreement to that as they settled in a gentle silence.
After three days of waiting around Cole shimmered into the cave and Raynor is waiting for him. "I knew you'd come back, I've been waiting for you." he said and Cole answers him coolly. "My father's soul, where is it." he said and he flashes up an orb to give to him. "Of course now that you're evil, what can you do with it." he said and Cole answered grimly.
"That's not your concern." he said with an icy growl and he smirked. "True, your my only concern." he said and Cole answered that with a dangerous tone. "How did you get me to do it, a spell?" he asked and Raynor answered calmly. "Does it really matter, but you enjoyed it, didn't you, killing the witch." he said and Cole answered as he yanked an athame out of of his cloak. " Not as much as I'm going to enjoy this." he said and stabbed him in the chest and dug the blade in as he gave the next remark
"You killed Phoebe's love for me." he growled dangerously. " I feel your heart, it's racing even as mine slows you're enjoying this. I can feel it. This is what I hoped for, your inner demonic nature showing itself for all its glory." he said as Cole pushes him away from him and he clutches his chest. "Now you're truly home, welcome home Belthazor." he says with his final words and goes up in a burst of flames.
And Cole collapses on the floor. "I'm sorry Phoebe, I will get you back, I will show you I can be good." he says as he curls in on himself in the cave he's now living in as his home, feeling his good side getting weaker with every minute as his demonic half gets stronger…
Look Who's Barking Prologue-Chris's POV:
After a week things were becoming a normal routine, as the twins settled into being at home as the family prepared to alter the past and make it. And so they were always there, before they made contact with aunt, as they revealed the truth of their future to their parents. Their aunts and Andy, their grandparents, Penny and the Elders. And as Chris thought over things as he thought over how the elders were going to take this information in what he told Andy and Leo.
"Dad, I think it's time we told the senior elders the truth, Kalina, by that I mean my version of her, suggested I get Uncle Andy back with Prue and set up his work schedule like this." Chris said to him and he nodded to that. "Yeah alright, honey, the boys and I need to have a conference with the sextet that took our side, this works and the ten of us are running the show till he leaves." he said and she nodded to that.
"Nice way of putting it son, that definitely fits, demons are puritans from hell. So we just class him and every Puritan that is a witch hunter this way. Though if Pratt tries that next, he's getting sued for attempted murder next, alright that fits the scenario perfectly. Raynor was an arsonist who murdered a woman with a flame thrower, and finding scorch marks all over the wall your mother, Prue and Darryl arrived at the hospital in time for me to come out of the coma I'd been put into and I immediately decide to get involved."
"I was already engaged to your aunt by that point and with just coming out of then, just seeing your faces is enough to restart my memories and I immediately decide I'm coming home, Leo gets me a spare set of clothes and I'm ready in case Raynor attacks the manor next. Though Cole had a nervous breakdown and nearly kills you in the fight and Phoebe threw him out of the house. That's the official record now." he said to him.
"One other thing here, is that whoever that Cupid was that was harassing Aunt Phoebe, he just caused a slight commotion at the cafe that day, because that was foreshadowing who Aunt Phoebe was to meet, Cole's not the father of my cousin. She married a Cupid in five years, so wait till after she meets Drake than send him down early, okay. My plan is after we get rid of Cole for good we split the time frame in half for the final three years, half with Drake and half with my future uncle." he said and they nodded to that.
"Drake, he's a demon/actor, in fact he's a demon version of a cross between Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, so we get her to open up with him and she falls in love with a Cupid, after he leaves?" Orlin repeated and he nodded to that. "Who's the Cupid exactly?" he asked him. "Cooper actually, we just called him Coop, but he's her husband." he said and he nodded as he smiled at his idea then.
"Cooper, Cooper, alright one failed marriage with a demon who becomes obsessed with her afterwards, so to help her heal she meets Drake and to heal her heart completely we send Coop to her seven months after you're born, that's the entire three years exactly, Leo is staying on earth and you guys and Andy work as one. Alright thanks for the information with the fact we're in charge of the council we'll take it from here son."
"Kalina find Drake and let him stay with her after the divorce, he's got eighteen months before she meets Coop and from there we make it clear there's no reason to give up on love, Drake is an actor and wise guy and is more her type than Cole is. She's got happiness with a man her type than someone who's like Cole so we make systematic changes and she's ready to be the mate of a truly good being, but first she needs to face her fears of evil and being evil than we let her and Drake start together."
"As I said just lay the sequence down for us and if we got all four girls living under one roof that's going to pack a very nice punch, so one sister falls or is playing with the dark arts we got a second picking up the slack till that next test gets started in Phoebe's case, but just be on the look out if the Source causes a secondary problem later." Orlin said to him and he nodded in agreement to that.
Hearing that truth from him, Kalina smiled at the idea as Leo it for her with a smile. "That's a great idea son, Cole I don't trust enough not to hurt her now. Drake is like me and Andy, an exact match and Coop fits the bill perfectly here, Victor would approve automatically of both of them. Whoever Baby Charmed One chooses is an exact match and that's all four of us in their mates."
"Trials and tribulations aside, if it means she and I remain together we'll take the consequences. The trio chose their mates, but all together the eight of us are happy and our family flourishes after this." Leo said to him smiling. "How much like us is he exactly, if they get that close later and you're approving of his choice this fast?" Andy asked and he chuckled as he answered him, knowing he felt the same way then.
"Her favorite horror movie was 'Kill It, Before It Dies', when Piper and I got together last year, when Piper broke up with Dan, but she loves the movie, because of the male lead is who she fell in love with during that escapade, before the demon of illusion brought him out of the movie and into our world. During that situation the two were getting really close, before the demon dragged several psychos out of the move as well and they killed them both, before killing him next. She saw the male lead as the kind of guy she wanted for a future husband, because he's like Victor in personality."
"He's a romantic in terms of his personality, ignored his genes from the time he was hatched and started reading a lot of classics and books, he's into acting and the movies that she likes, everything she is in personality, he's an exact match to her. So that's one part of it and Coop is the rest of it, he's you and me rolled into one, both sides of us in one personality." he said and Andy nodded smiling at that as Kalina chuckled with a smile on her face at that.
"That's why I approve of his decision here, a man like Billy, the male lead, is the kind of guy she's looking for, guys like you, me, and whoever this parole officer is. Drake and Coop are exactly the right kind of guy for her. Cole is train wreck and I'm ready to kill him for hurting her this much right now." Leo said to him and he nodded to that as he answered him at that, knowing he wasn't going to like the answer when he asked it.
"I didn't see what was going on with Cole, before the idiot burned her last week by nearly killing you in the middle of the fight, but what the hell happened exactly if you decided on this arrangement guys?" he asked him and Leo sighed as he was the one who answered that. "They'd been seeing each other for three months when he got the demon of anger and violence involved, his intention was to cause a fracture between them."
"After they fractured the bond, we felt the pulse from up here and I went to check and found out they used their powers on each other, and said they needs to get everything on the table and fix their relationship and fast. They did that and we got a slice of his flesh to make a vanquishing potion when he was in demon form a week later she asked me to heal his injury and and when I tried I got blasted into the wall."
"So that told me several things, first off he's half human, secondly he's got the injury in the exact same place, they took a chunk out of his side and thirdly my powers can't offset his. Once I realized that, it hit me that I just found him, our attempted demon killer was her love interest and I was pissed at that, because I knew she was going to be heart broken when she saw him change for a first time.""
"The bounty hunter just barely missed blasting her in the fight and she decided to fake the vanquish, and the guilt was hitting her so hard, I was the first person she told, before Natalie was killed. The lost and found spell when Tom came into it resulted in the girls finding out and we were all furious she lied to us, when we found out he was back that just made it even worse, and though we decided to give him a second chance it was enough we never trusted him again, even though he cleared Prue and saved Phoebr."
"So his going under cover was enough that we weren't risking her getting her heart broken again, though at the current moment, with him out of the picture. She sees Drake and he gets involved. She's going to be able to heal finally, Drake is who we, as her brothers-in-law would have chosen anyway." he said to him and he nodded to that. "I'd need to meet the guy, before we let them get together, but I think he'd be alright." Andy said and he nodded in agreement to that.
"Drake makes a nice match actually as well, but Coop is like your grandfather, a perfect fit, who does Baby Charmed One marry exactly?" Kalina asked Chris and he smiled. " A mortal parole officer actually, around the same time the trio deal with a eighteen year old witch and her sister, but that's the last date on the list, but all four generations come together for the last date on the list, before things settle and my parents and the girls can have normal lives after that." he said said and they nodded as Kalina looked at it.
Looking at the eighteen year old, Sandra suddenly saw the amount of potential in him and smiled at him as she said it to him. "They give systematic names for these situations, so we know what to look for?" Sandra asked him and he nodded. "The situation last week took the name 'Exit Strategy', the next one is going by the title 'Look Who's Barking' and as to why, we got a banshee on the loose in a few weeks, but that's the area where Phoebe needs to recover emotionally later." he said and they nodded to that as Leo exchanged looks with and Orlin at that as he said it..
"Banshees, barking, barking, wait of course, only a dog can hear the siren like scream from a seventy block radius, though the siren scream is enough to drive them nuts, with their hearing that sensitive, and to have one in range it's enough to have every dog in our neighborhood barking their heads off later. To track one you have to be a dog, they're the only thing to pick up on it and we're on another demon hunt for this."
"So if that's the case..., yes alright I see where that ones heading, the girls turned one of each other into a dog to track the banshee, while the other was dealing with Phoebe, just before the scream turned her into one." Leo said and Andy sighed in aggravation as he answered him. "With our luck Prue winds up being the one to do it. Alright with that fact in mind, if she goes tracking I'm going with her, so we don't get separated."
"Leo, keep a cellphone on you and I'll keep you updated, when we find her, but stay with the duo and Chris." he said to him and he nodded in agreement as Kalina nodded in approval to his idea then for this. "Alright if she starts trying to class Belthazor as doing this, you need to remember that it only works if she's touching anything that belongs to him, she can't live with pointing the finger at him every time she gets hit with premonition that has to anything to do with enclosed alleys or innocents her age."
"Drake is a friend of the elders, we'll send him early and he can act as a family friend, so that's a way to help her now. So you got two demons hanging around the house, along with two angels and a Half whitelighter. As time goes on, every time Baby Charmed One gets paranoid over Cole, Drake is the one who's involved and she trusts him more than Cole and finally Drake is involved as a family friend, we just get him involved tonight."
"You decided on choosing a few guys groups to lift her spirit up. The group that did that last song after their falling out, and they put their feeling on the table, just reinforced what needed to be said that night, this time get that first group involved and that's the punchline for the song either tonight or tomorrow and invite Drake to join you guys at the club for it and he can lift her spirits by dancing and cheering her up, before he and Cole start squaring off later." Sandra said to him and he nodded to that.
"My grandfather died in 1942, May 24, 1942, to be exact and my father met Penny and Allen in the 60's during Vietnam, so I was born four years later just as the Cold War turned into the next one, I was born May 6, 1973. Piper is three months younger, dad got transferred to Germany, just after the gulf war started and I return three years ago, as a medical doctor and handyman." he said and they nodded as she got what he meant.
"So we turn this you into the grandson of your WWII self Leo, you and Piper are the exact same age practically, so how do we explain this with Chris exactly?" Sandra asked him and he smiled. "Andy how long have you known the girls?" he asked him and he smiled. "I've known them since we were kids actually, why exactly?" he asked and he explained that. "Than what's your opinion to Piper getting pregnant with my child when you and Prue were seventeen and getting ready to graduate exactly?" he asked him and he smiled at that.
"I'm annoyed by that, but I'm around to watch him grow up, before we go our separate ways and then I see them after Phoebe gets back and..., yeah okay I see where you're going with this. By the time the gulf war ended we'd have been juniors in high school, and you and Piper were fourteen by that point, your father gets transferred to Germany in 1986, and it's the winter of that Chris is conceived at the time, you're gone for thirteen years and come back just as he's turning twelve." he said and Leo nodded to him.
"Yeah exactly Andy, That's the time frame right there, he's twelve going on thirteen just as I get back to San Francisco, and our lives come together as one now, you get put into a coma when Rodriguez loses his mind and throws you through the wall and right into the China hutch at the time. The official record is he was working for some think tank and tested a sonic amplifier and it blasted you into the wall. Piper was furious and Darryl shot him twice to take him down, because it was self defense."
"Piper then decided he was going into martial arts classes, and she and I agreed my name was also on his birth certificate. It was after meeting Dan that he chose me as his father, and Piper chose me and we started dating again till we got married a few months ago, but that's the time frame now. Okay that's in the official records, we got to get the cleaners in here for this." he said and they nodded as Orlin called then. "Alright, cleaners?" Orlin called out and the trio appeared in a flash.
"You wish to see us Elder?" The leader asked him and he nodded. "We're changing the records in my and Piper's case here. The Leo Wyatt that was killed in WWII is my grandfather, my name is Leonardo Wyatt. My father is Christopher Perry Wyatt, and Piper and I both went to school at the same middle and high school, but she got pregnant just as my father got transferred, military, to Germany and we came back in '97 and she and I got reunited after Phoebe got back from New York and their lives as a trio got started."
"I learn, when we do, she was pregnant with my thirteen year old son and I choose to move into the manor and she and I are now being the family he wants and we just married two months ago, he's fourteen and he's starting high school two months before his birthday. Andy just came out of a coma and he's restarting his job, at the precinct, while I'm working as carpenter and handyman and my wife is the owner of the club."
"Chris is working on getting his drivers license and is spending the summer working a part time job at the club, before school starts again now, his permit is saying Christopher-Allen Perry Halliwell-Wyatt. That's on his school records as well. His parents are me and Piper and he's fifteen years old. His college of choice is..." he started to say and Chris finished that. "Once I start college, I'm going to Knoxville and going to U.T., my specialty is biology and pharmaceuticals, so I'm studying to be pharmacist later."
"First year is over the computer, than I'm heading for Knoxville after that, but I've got a scholarship and I'm a quarterback in junior high, and my coach contacted the high school football coach, I'm starting quarterback. My favorite sports teams are St. Louis Cardinals and the San Fransisco Giants, as well as as the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins." he said and they nodded as they flashed this information to everyone outside of their circle then. "It is done Christopher, Leo. If there is anything else, don't hesitate to ask." he said and they nodded as they ended the meeting between them.
"Here are your files for that Leo, Christopher, my recommendation is, if your future selves already made this decision, create the look that Christopher was already living in the house the previous fourteen years and 'your' pictures and medals are your grandfather and father's, and your degree of being a medic is on the wall in the house Leo. But here's your new status on life now, as to that." he said and he nodded to that as he thought this over.
After getting back downstairs they went to the girls then. "How did it go up there guys?" Piper asked and Leo smiled. "It went fine sweetie, but they know who he is to us and we just arranged things. Orlin, Kalina and Sandra are coming down to check out the DVD's when your sister comes into the picture. But we reorganized how to explain my files and death certificate that Dan got his hands on at the time." he said and she nodded to him.
"Are these the ones that were siding with you over Odin at the time?" Prue asked him and he nodded to her as he answered. "Yeah they are, in fact they're the ones who lifted the probation Prue after we broke the rules and did the kill up there where Eames is concerned at the time. To answer the unasked question here, they agreed to let me stay down here, leading into when Chris is born, but we just figured out a way to explain things to the rest of the city." he said and she shifted position on the couch as she answered him at that with a confused look on her face at that.
"How exactly Leo, who are these guys exactly that can do that?" Prue asked him and he planned that to her. "They're called the cleaners, basically they prevent magic from ever being exposed, by erasing memories or changing memories in certain cases. But for this we just changed the records. To explain why I look like my twenty five year old self, but that's the easy part now, here look at this." he said and removed the photo album off the shelf. As he looked at the medals in the box that she had of them in, he hid a smile then.
"God is that Christopher, he looks just like you." Prue said in shock and he nodded as he turned a picture to another, with Leo standing in his army uniform. "That's my grandfather, it's genetic, I look like my father and grandfather, so with those words in mind the Leo Wyatt that was killed in WWII was Leo Wyatt I, Dad was born at the same time your parents were, and I was born May 24, 1973, so this me now is Leo Wyatt II." he said and she smiled at that as Piper smiled as she got it.
This picture of you, it looks like your grandfather when he was twenty five Leo." Prue said to him and he nodded to her as he smiled. "That's the entire point, its fifty six years, and to put this gently my father was transferred to Germany just as we're starting high school here Piper, the time table fits in just right now. I return to San Fransisco just as you guys get reunited with Andy, I'm always around the house, our relationship starts heating itself back up just as Dan comes into the picture and you choose me over him and I'm now living in the manor after that." he said to her smiling.
"Yeah okay, I get where this is going Leo, keep going, because the forging just got changed. and its changing into real life files and explanations here, and into being right on schedule." she said to him smiling and he nodded as he went further into their cover story. "He had my files, but you didn't care that I'm a whitelighter, but to put this gently I'm passing myself off as a carpenter and medic in the house, with my 'father' being a medical doctor."
"To match the time frame up perfectly I took off the added year, to relinquish the fact, I'm a year younger. And I just found a way to explain this to the entire town here with him suddenly arriving a few days ago for us. You wanted to change my passport information and the records just got changed for it now. I'm now the grandson of my WWII self, my grandfather is the spitting image of me at this age. As for you and me, we'd been dating since we were thirteen."
"Our relationship changed directions and with my father getting transferred to Germany, we had a spur of the moment decision, and I left a week later, but what I didn't know was you'd gotten pregnant and you were scared to tell me at the time. So you waited till I was back, and I came home two years ago, and you told me Chris is my son. You also said you named him after my father, Christopher Perry and his name was Christopher-Allen Perry Halliwell and I saw my son had grown into a male version of you, he's, before we fixed that connection, feeling what you and Prue did with Victor."
"With hearing that information and seeing him face to face, the slight resentment is enough I decided I was sticking around as much as possible, though hearing that he was beyond irritated at me for leaving I decided I was making sure I was around for both of you as much as possible. With Dan getting involved and his attitude started getting more possessive, I decided I was sticking around the manor as much as possible now. as things change Phoebe is now starting her first year of college and we are now undergoing issues of school and emotional traumas in the house."
"Before Dan turned crazy jealous, when you broke it off with him, and he lays into me just as Tyra and Biggs come into the situation along with that Ex-Libris situation and I decided screw it, I was moving into the manor. Just as Williamson loses his mind, our problems in that area now result in you guys, just inviting me to live with you, and we been dating for a whole year, again, before we got married and by that point our son was starting high school now."
'So starting this semester and forward with Cole now becoming a problem, Phoebe has been through hell thanks to him and we were all furious that, he's now endanger of getting blasted if he does that again. as to why its because Andy, Chris and I are beyond furious here and at the moment the school year just ended and we're now preparing for his summer break and job. His part time job is at the club and he's working at getting a permit as well."
"So with the last semester coming to an end he just graduated from junior high and we gave him a part time job at the club this summer and he's starting high school this fall, he's starting quarter back, he's chemistry wiz, APEX style student and he's on the JV team, and a star student, to the point he's work on several scholarships to the schools he's trying to get noticed by now." he said and she smiled at the idea as she said it then.
While looking at him she stood up,and grabbed the box then. " Alright, what's that in your hands exactly?" she asked and he passed it her. "That box you have is loaded with my grandfather's files and death certificate. This one is mine, and here my bachelors degree and master's as EMT. This other set of files is Chris's birth certificate, library card, and medical slip now. But everything is rigged and ready to explain this."
"I was born 1973, and we met in middle school,and we're dating for three years, dad gets transferred and we decided one last night together, but that night gave me the biggest gift of all, a family. But everything that go into this file, no one's going to know the truth about it now, the memory's completely altered now, here check this out, Leonardo Wyatt II, born May 6, 1973." he said to her and she nodded smiling at that.
"Nice way to explain it, we're both 29 now, though my birthday is in a few months here, but the time frame matches up perfectly, you left when we were fourteen. Alright so in this case, he's gaining the five years he lost, back, and while that's going on we really do act like his parents now around others: part time job at work, high school, if he's got a game, we're going to it and you guys can build the bond he wants now."
"Alright so whatever was in that trunk you had better set up your room the way you want honey, than once your toddler self is born and two years old we move him into your room and your clothes and stuff, your teenage self wore in clothes I mean. I know what to look for here and everything you had in your room is ready when you return to the future, likes, dislikes, everything this version of you had."
"It's ready and waiting on the shelves for you honey." she said and Chris nodded with a smile as he answered her. "You guys ever wondered what it would be like if you'd grown up the way I had, and by the time you hit puberty you're able to multi-task, live both lives without sacrificing one for the other?" he asked and the duo both nodded to him. "Well starting next school year, I can show you that, but it's not as hard as it looks."
"Had grandma been alive you'd all be able to see it as the five of you learned to combine both as one and dad was around as well to see this too. But I can live a normal life and still work my job as witch/lighter now, don't worry mom, it's going to be fine. So with that as you guys train me, I can be in high school and on the football team, have a driver's license and live the way normal teenagers do, but I'm a witch/lighter."
"Trust me, you won't regret learning this once baby me is in the house later, but baby Wyatt is attracted to others like himself, so with that, though he's got me, he needs to be around the kids in Magic school. But there's a nursery at the school and when you're in the last four months with me, bring him to the school and he and the toddlers can play, this me is finishing my junior year of high school and starting my senior year."
"And with that in mind, I'm you're oldest, Wyatt is next and than you just use my alias where baby me is concerned. The boys are not going to remember I'm really baby me, not till I'm fourteen and you see me growing into my body after that. Though Wyatt gets used to seeing me around the house like this, he's not going to remember that till he sees my pictures of me dressed in my football jersey and my tuxedo for graduation."
"At the moment, with me just finishing junior high, I'm passing myself off as a high school student right now, but you just offered me a job at the club and I'm doing that all summer, once school starts. I'm getting everything needed for my bedroom, and my trunk is at the foot of my bed and you'll see things as they start to come together after this." he said and she smiled at that as she hugged him then.
"If this helps in getting ready for when little you and Wyatt are teenagers themselves, I'm definitely putting that knowledge to use. Though my photos as a teenager myself were a little embarrassing." she said and he chuckled. "Not where I'm coming from, you're still the beautiful mother and woman I'll always remember mom, you recall that backstreet boy song they created for Mother's Day?" he asked and she smiled at him.
"That's how you see me baby?" she asked and he nodded as he looked at her. "Yeah, during the course of my childhood, you were the one giving me the support, you were my biggest fan growing up. Though I lost the chance to have you watch me start high school and graduate, you're getting that chance now, just as my teenage self, before you watch baby me grow into my body later." he said and she nodded to that.
"You, Aunt Phoebe, Aunt..., alright I'm just saying her name now and you'll be meeting her in a few months, but Aunt Paige, you girls got to watch me grow into my fourteen year old self, but during my conception date some Elder ordered dad to stay upstairs. But with the council of elders altering that decision the five of you and grandpa get to watch this me in every major event that goes on in high school, before I start college."
"When I return to the future, I start my sophomore year and I'm redirecting my plans to going to U.C.L.A. For the plans as I get into school on a scholarship, but that me and this me are converging when I get back, I'll have memories of both timelines, but this me we'll remember everything we, as a family went through together." he added and she nodded as he changed the subject then.
"Mom I found a way to insure Phoebe recovers after we get rid of Cole forever." he said and she and Prue nodded. "What do you have in mind dear?" Prue asked and he smiled. "I know you hate Cole, but not all demons were born bad here, there's a demon by the name of Drake, his name was a play on words, but he chose to be going by this alias, but he's an artist, actor and bit of a wise guy, but an exact match later here."
"In my future, before she married her husband she fell in love Drake Reynolds, he's practically everything she loved about the male lead in 'Kill It, Before it Dies', and he's the kind of guy who'd heal her heart, before she meets her Cupid husband later, but it's not against the rules. The elders approve of this automatically it wasn't, won't and will not be forbidden mom, trust me, this is going to work later." he said and they nodded.
"We'd need to meet the guy, but if he's what we remember in Billy when we saw him, we're fine with it. Would this account for his parking whatever his vehicle is in the front yard, let alone the driveway, because if he's really what I hope for in her case, he's living here till his time is up and she meets her Cupid later." Prue said to him and he nodded, before Andy beamed back in with a young man of around Phoebe's age and he smiled.
"Hi girls, I'm Drake Reynolds, and you must be Phoebe's older sisters?" he asked and they nodded. "So what do you do for a living?" Prue asked and he smiled. "I'm into philosophy, if given the chance I can be a teacher, but I like certain movies, 'Kill It, Before it Dies, was actually a favorite of mine. You don't remember this, but I was one of the faces in the audience, though I saw everything I knew who you were when I saw you and Phoebe. Believe me when I say I would kill myself before I ever hurt her like he did."
"If you guys give me a chance I can be everything you remember in the guys, her exact match in equals, I can help you with the kids, if you're the first to have Children Piper, I'll just be an adoptive uncle till she finds Coop." Drake said and Piper smiled as she saw in him what she saw in Leo as she answered him with a gentle smile. "I think you'll fit in nicely with us. Normal life aside, you're magical and guys who see us like this are going to get spooked when they see us with our powers. What powers do you have exactly?" she asked and he smiled as he answered her.
"I don't use energy balls, but I do fight with the use of an athame, with guys like the brotherhood, in fact I'm a turncoat altogether, I renounced my evil side completely, from the day I was hatched I read tons of books, I took up creative arts, I like everything she likes. My weaponry are along the weapons that Robin Hood and the trio use in the Three Musketeers, swords, sword fighting, archery, bows and arrows, I use conventional weapons to fight, not energy balls or fireballs."
"My demon power I was using against demons themselves, but I work by use of my hands and I don't use my powers unless I have to. In fact, aside from the shimmering I never use my powers at all, I just fight by use of my hands and weapons from the early 17 to 1900's."
"As for vehicles, I drive a motorcycle, but altogether, I'm into the movies and books that she likes, I'm an artist and actor, I was going to try working for the school as an English teacher when Baby Charmed One works as head of the school, but I love kids, if Chris is yours I can act like his uncle till I leave and Coop takes my place in their and your lives from there Piper. I promise I'll never hurt her in that way at all I promise."
"I can insert myself into her life when or just before she meets her boss and from there it starts getting better, but they gave me eighteen to twenty months and up to two years, before Coop takes my place. As for a ro-test get the book, you'll see." he said and Prue went to get it and set it in front of him and he laid his hand on it and it stayed put and gently glowed in acceptance of his morality and they smiled at that.
Seeing the demonstration she smiled gently as she realized she found the perfect match for her younger sister then as she said it out loud. "Yeah alright you're perfect for her Drake, just keep dropping in, and act as a friend, next summer leading up to when we get him out of her life, you take your place as her mate, when they're divorced, though by that point our family is going to be preparing for my pregnancy."
"And if it takes a battle or clash of the demons, you vs. him, show you're everything he isn't. She's going to love you automatically when we're free of him. As soon as he's gone for good you're moving into the manor and you're around when I have my oldest later." Piper said to him and he nodded with a smile.
"I'll say you're a friend at work and you can help me, you know who we are, but there's no reason to get paranoid later, Baby Charmed One is going to love you when she meets you later though. So after we destroy the Source drop in, like say once or twice a week and when she starts dealing the good verses evil morale and chooses us, you take it from there and you're living in range of the house."
"After we destroy him for a second time, you take your spot and start on a few ways to help her heal and then move in with us, before she decides to move out, and start dating her boss later. We could use your help. So if we need information, you think we could ask you during these raids?" Prue asked him and he nodded. "Sure, if we got a problem, I'm sure we can work it out together later." he said and they nodded as they looked at him.
"At this rate I actually prefer you to him right now, he's the right hand man to the Source and you're exactly who I'd have chosen if I was mom right now. Moms going to agree when I say this, but playing matchmaker is fine as long as she doesn't give up on love, because she's gotten burned by a guy like Cole Turner. As to that, you're the one we approve of right now anyway, since we're getting to know you as who you are."
"Instead of how we met him in the first place, she kept her heart closed down from the time she was fifteen, and she's gone through multiple boyfriends without an exact match finding her, till now and we never approved of the guys in her life, till now, you're exactly who we would have chosen right now anyway Drake." Prue said to him and he smiled at that. "So how do we explain this when she sees me hanging around the house when she and Cole get engaged exactly?" he asked her and she explained that to him.
"You're a friend of mine from work and are helping me with my projects, as things lead up to when she starts shirking her responsibilities here, you're here giving us a hand and when she chooses us, you're here waiting at the house and she's able to open up to you after that. Like she did with Chris, and from there to prevent any more trouble, you take your place in her life for the following two and half years, before she meets Coop." she said and he smiled at that idea as a white flash came into the room as they saw a black woman dressed in a white lighter elder's dressing robes standing there.
Seeing the woman in front of them Piper was the first to say what they were all thinking then. "Whoa, uh hello, who are you?" Piper asked the woman gently and she smiled. "I'm the Angel of Destiny, aside from Drake, as Chris said, this wasn't, won't and will not be forbidden, she's been hurt, but that doesn't mean she should give up on love Piper, as for you and Leo, you yourselves are going to suffer certain trials over the next five years, but you'll be together forever in the end, but you too shouldn't give up on love either, you found your life mate, he's who you belong to, so don't give up."
"Though you protect the greater good, never let yourselves give into doubt, because that's a negative emotion, you can handle anything as long as you have family and are there for each other, but love is always there and you'll find and have your men forever in the end, just have trust. You girls have a long and strenuous road ahead of you, but don't let it discourage you, just use it as a way to make yourselves stronger as time goes by and use it to strengthen you." she said and they nodded to that.
"What's our last test in the end, before we retire to slightly normal lives?" Prue asked and she explained that to her. "The last test is in five years, the ultimate battle will be a week, before Chris returns to the future, and Wyatt comes to the past to see you. You'll see him as he is as an adult, after vanquishing the being who nearly turned him evil, but you'll get to see him several times as a good witch."
"As Chris said, you were involved in the decisions Prue, but as am I, everything you girls go through I'll be there to help Leo, Chris and Andy guide you, just guide baby Charmed One in the right direction. Her future is a mortal parole officer, and he too won't care you're witches, he loves and will love her for who she is and who you are. Like Andy and Leo do." she said and they nodded as that cemented it for them.
"No I'm not going back till Mellie's two mam, I want to be with my parents at the moment till the ultimate battle. But I have nothing to return to at the moment when that happens. In fact we have to kill Cole and make sure he stays dead now. I want to stay till my brother and little me are five and three years old and my sister two years." Chris said and she nodded. "If that's your wish, we and the elders will abide it by now."
"You are now the oldest of your parents children, in your family." she said and they looked at the records sitting on the table as everything they needed got recreated and they smiled as Piper wrapped her arms around him. "So we just play it by year regarding our other selves, figure out what roads to take but starting now it's time for more caution and less recklessness now at the moment." Leo said and Piper nodded to him.
"Our family is the three of us for the next eighteen months now, until Wyatt is born, with you just telling us the truth and us busting you that solves any and all problems now baby. Mam, is what Chris's counterpart had in mind for me and Leo an act of magical marriage counseling, before he was born. Because I intend to lay into our double's: mine, his and Phoebe's myself?" she asked and the Angel nodded to her gently.
"Indeed it is, but the battle the other night, that was how it was supposed to end, save the innocent by working as a single family, together. The power of one, the three of you working as one, as you girls figured out last year, but as a magical family, it works the same way." she said and the young family all nodded as he answered her then at that.
"So we thin out the ranks of the bad guys, find the parasite who turns my brother and get rid of him, stop the avatars and deal with the ultimate battle, before my brother and I return to the future. and we and our sister and cousins are the next generation to take up the mantle in twenty years. Though at the current moment it's making sure we all make it out alive now?" Chris added to her and she nodded to him.
"Yes that's correct, if you create a power vacuum in the underworld over the next five years and destroy the nexus, they're going to be fighting each other once you destroy Zankou, but that's going to last till you and your brother are sixteen to seventeen and you take the mantle after you start your sophomore and senior years of high school. Just like your parents just work out things, but your partners on the job are Wyatt and Junior, while the girls are working in twos and threes had Prue not survived later."
"With you here in the past that's no longer the case anymore, but with Prue alive later this is going to be turning into mostly work runs, you boys have your version of the power of three and your cousins and sister have theirs. But four groups working in tandem with each other, you're the next generation of the Halliwell and Charmed One legacy." she said and they nodded to that.
"Yeah alright we're doing whatever it takes to keep our family intact, no matter what, thank you for coming mam, we hope to see you again someday." Piper said to her and she smiled and disappeared and they looked at each other. "Alright we start tonight Drake come to the club, we're getting All 4 One as the band tonight, that's your cue, Cole's out of the picture right now, so lift her spirits by getting her to start dancing with you." Andy said to him and he nodded with a smile at the idea.
After getting arranged, they called the band into her office then. "Hey guys, during the concert, could you do that one focused on finding a soulmate, I'm arranging things for my sister so she's able to heal with her future boyfriend, second or third song in the album here." he asked and the leader nodded to him. "Sure, I take it she got her heart broken by some jerk and this is needed in terms of helping her then?" he asked him.
"Yes, my sister has been burned twice by this jackass, and frankly she needs a guy we consider her exact Prince Charming right now and Drake happens to be that man we chose for her at the moment. He's everything our parents want for her anyway at the moment, but two good matches in five years which for us and her father's opinion, that compared to a man who once he realizes he loses her is going to lose it."
"As it outweighs the minuses in favor of the benefits for her and she needs a chance to focus on something and this would help do it." he said and they nodded to that. "The song, 'I can love you like that', that's the one needed for her right now and Drake is everything the girls, their father, my brother and I want for her now, to help her heal." Leo said and they nodded as the band leader answered him at that.
"Yeah alright, if it means helping your sister we'll help you, just give me the signal when you want us to play that one and I'll take it from there." the leader said to him and they all nodded to that as that settled it for the night as they got ready for her to start healing that night. Later that night they were all at the club and Chris was working at the bar as he looked at the quartet and nodded to them and they nodded.
As they played the chords to their next song and Drake held his hand out to her and she took his hand and moved on to the dancing floor as the lead singer got started. 'They read you Cinderella, you hoped it would come true, that one day your Prince Charming would come and rescue you. You like romantic movies and you never will forget, the way you felt when Romeo kissed Juliet'
'And all this time that you been waiting, you don't have to wait no more... I can love you like that I can make you my world, move heaven and Earth if you were my girl. Be all that you need, prove that you're everything that is precious to me, if you give me a chance..., I can love you like that. I can you like that.'they sang out as everyone in the room started dancing as Chris smiled as he watched his aunt dancing with a smile on her face and knew their first changes and her feelings over Cole were being forgotten then as he exchanged smiles with his parents and uncle and aunt.
As Phoebe danced with him, she leaned her head against his and he smiled as they went to the next verse, knowing it reflected his feelings as they sang out everything he wanted to say to her as he hid a smile then. 'I never make a promise, I don't intend to keep, so when I say forever, forever's what I mean.'
'Well I'm no Cassanova, but I swear this much is true, I'll be holding nothing back when it comes to you..., You dream about love that is everlasting, well baby open up your eyes..., I can love you like that, I can make you my world, move heaven and earth if you were my girl. Be all that you need, show you're everything that is precious to me, if you give me a chance, I can love you like that..., I can love you, I can love you like that."
'If you want tenderness, I got tenderness, and I see through to the heart of you. If you want a man who will understand, will you baby you don't have to look very far, I can love you like, I can love you like that. Girl I can love you like that, I can make you my world, move heaven and earth if you were my girl, be all that you need, show you your everything that is precious to me.'
'I can love you like that, I can make you my world, move heaven and earth if you were my girl. Give you my heart, show you you're everything, I can love you like that.' they sang and the entire audience applauded as they went for the next song and as their family watched they saw the glow they remembered in her eyes and smiled at how well their plans to help her heal were working then.
Watching the two Prue smiled as she looked at Andy and Piper. "It's working we just keep it like this now for the time being, every time she starts getting depressed, he takes things up till we go to step two and Cole and him are facing being each other's rivals now later for her affections once they're divorced. Drake is our choice as will Coop when we meet him we just keep it like this for a while." she said and they nodded with smiles.
"He burns her for a third time I don't doubt Drake is going to be who she chooses later, two and a half years together once Cole's out of the picture entirely. He's going to lose it, but it turns into a clash and Drake is her mate after the divorce, and she meets Coop right after his time is up, she met a perfect man and soon enough she meets her mate and she's happy for the first time in three years." Piper said to her and she nodded.
"Yeah exactly, best to make sure he sticks around the house all year this coming year, he's just going to let Cole know that with him trying anything, he's just going to make his situation worse and if he so much as crosses the line where Baby is concerned I'm vanquishing him myself later. Drake is our choice in her case, as is Coop, Cole is a demon soldier, not the type of man I want around her. Drake is exactly who I'd have chosen."
"We already made our choices of approvals and if baby sees it the same way, she's going to like Drake on sight once she sees him around the house all the time later. Though if it takes us pulling our secondary plan, she's got to realize it's a choice: us or Cole and when she realizes that, she's doing what she should have done five months ago." she said and she sighed as Andy said it for her then.
"As long as Cole is a danger I'm treating him like a perp till we blow him away, I'm a homicide detective I'm not letting him break her heart for a second time here. My baby sister has been through enough, I want her to be happy and Darryl and Victor are going to say the same later." Andy said and they nodded in agreement to that. "I once asked where Victor stood on demons actually, and I don't know what his answer to this is going to be here later." Leo said to him and before he could answer him they heard a new voice join in the conversation as he answered that remark.
"With Cole I don't think so, especially if he hurts her for a third time, but that fellow over there with her, yes I'd approve automatically, as would I approve her future husband kiddo." they heard and the quartet all smiled. "Hey dad, decided to come see us?" Piper asked and Victor Bennett nodded with a smile. "Yeah I did, hey son, good to see you back now." he asked and Andy nodded with a smile and gave him a hug.
