Saving My 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 12: New Family Bonds and Past And Future Traumas

"Did Darryl fill you in dad?" Prue asked and he smiled as he sat down next to his daughters. "Yes he did, and I'm relieved he's back, I've been worried about you ever since the wedding. Whatever trials our family are dealing with later on, I'll help you with, especially out of whoever has children first. But I'm not losing you girls to demons like the ones who took your mother away from me." he said and she nodded to him.

"Was the affair what caused the divorce dad?" Piper asked him and he sighed. " That and Penny thought I wasn't enough for your mother. I'm mortal but that doesn't mean I can't fight for everything I love or fight for the woman I love, I still love Patty, though we separated, she still means the world and everything to me. I know whoever I choose next will never match up to Patty, but if they make me choose between her and our family, it's a no decision needed situation, you girls and husbands are who I choose."

"I know you were pissed that I left baby, but that was because Penny ran me out of the house when you were seven after the ice cream truck fiasco. Though I don't like it that you took up your legacy I accept this is who you are. I'm sticking around for a very long time and I can watch you in your adult lives now. Now what happened here if they're singing that song, choosing love songs for dances on the dance floor and why is she dancing with that young man exactly?" he asked and Leo sighed as he answered him.

"Long story, but at this rate, life shifted to a new course now, we're just helping her cope till her trials over Cole are finished. The elders gave him nearly three years once Cole is out of the picture than she meets Coop afterwards." Leo said to him and he nodded to that. "So what's this mean now exactly with you back Andy?" he asked and he smiled. "I'm you're new son-in-law actually Victor." he said and Victor smiled in delight.

"So two whitelighters in the family, a possible Cupid, hence the Coop right there and whoever fits the bill where my youngest is concerned. Alright, before you ask, that's why I was furious when you revealed you were a whitelighter Leo. Sam got your mother pregnant with your sister, girls, but I don't know what name she's going by right now."

"I don't care you're witches, it doesn't matter, all I see you as are my girls now, with your mother gone, I'm staying close by now. All I want is for you guys to be happy now." he said and they smiled at him at that. "We are now dad, Piper and I have our mates and soon enough she's going to be with him, but first dealing with Cole and I'll explain later, but life just got even better here as well." she said to him and he nodded to her.

As they watched her, smiling gently as things settled for them that night they knew that though they were in a lull, she was their top priority now as things shifted direction, before their family got even bigger as he looked at her gently. "That kid looks closer to what I'd choose for her anyway Prue. The father/daughter dynamics now between us is you search out the man who reminds you most of me. You girls did that and he's everything she's seeing me now at the moment." he said to her and she nodded.

"In other words, though I was furious at you I chose Andy, because he's just like you in terms of personality and I realized that, the only man I wanted was him, and like Leo turned into a whitelighter, he's the perfect man and as a father you'd choose him, Leo or even Drake automatically right?" she asked and he nodded. "Yes exactly, I'm not the kind of man who'd never hurt my mate, I'd never hold anything back on you girls and I'd never hurt you that severely emotionally, but that's why Penny ran me out of the house."

"She's been burned ten times by her mates after Allen was killed by a warlock, she didn't want Patty suffering heart break, but she and I were together till you were six and and your sister was a toddler, but that's what pissed me off, if I had the chance, I would have stuck close and you'd have me with you all the time, but she wouldn't let me. It's half magic and half emotional heart break for your grandmother, but circumstances changed now and I'm part of your life no matter what now." he said to her and she nodded.

"Great, so though we're whitelighters it doesn't matter, you'd choose us for the girls anyway, though I lied to you?" Leo asked him and he nodded. "I'm not happy you told me you were a whitelighter, but yes I'd choose you anyway, once I got the chance to get to know you and now that I have, yes I approve automatically Leo. Andy I watched grow into who he is now and if Drake is getting two and a half, once Cole's out of the picture, him too." he said and the quartet all nodded to that.

Thinking over what Prue said, he looked at her. "Baby what do you mean by it just got even better exactly?" Victor asked and she waved Chris to them. "Eric you take over, the girls need me at the moment." he said and the bouncer nodded to him and he headed over to their spot. "Dad this is Chris." she said and he smiled as he looked at him. "Hey grandpa." he said and Victor's eyes widened on the title as he looked at her.

Looking at Chris he saw gentle green eyes, but brown hair and every feature on his second youngest copied directly into the young man's face and features and smiled, already seeing who's son he was as he said it out loud then as he looked at her. "I know about magic, but time travel, he's yours Piper?" he asked and she nodded smiling.

"Yes I am, dad happens to be Leo actually, long story short, I came back to prevent things from wrecking our family." he said and Victor nodded to that. "First born or second born son?" he asked and Chris sat down next to his parents. "Second born actually, your first born grandchild is also a boy, but we're the oldest of the new heirs to the family name." he said and Victor nodded to that as he smiled at the news.

"My middle name is Victor actually." he added and Victor smiled at that. "So me and probably your father Leo?" he asked and Leo nodded. "It's you guys and and Allen actually, but our oldest wound up with my surname and Baby's adopted surname, things are going to change, but in a few months the roles get shifted and Piper becomes the oldest of the trio, and both versions are living under one roof." he said and Victor nodded to that as he looked at the young man dancing with his daughter then.

"Well I can see that having a guys day out is going to be nice, if it's you, me, Chris and Andy in certain areas, as for the younger two, what's this mean now exactly, if she's seeing that young man and where is Cole exactly, if she's acting like that brunette is who she belongs to at the moment?" he asked and Leo explained that. "Cole had a relapse and to help her heal we got Drake involved." he said and Victor nodded to that.

"What happened if Cole just lost her again?" he asked and they sighed as Chris explained that. "Cole went under cover and they bagged him, so when I arrived, I decided on a bait and switch with the leader of the coven we were protecting last week. So to keep her alive, we created a clone and he killed her, but he blasted me in the back, when we were in battle with his mentor and they nearly killed both me and dad."

"To her that's unforgivable now, killing an innocent, though she was a clone, but still an innocent and nearly killing a blood relative and her older brother, to her she's not able to forgive that. I'm the youngest in the family till my sister is born, but in order, in the Wyatt/Halliwell family, it's Wyatt, me and Mellie. Next to have children is either Phoebe or Baby Charmed One, but they and mom are my version of the Power of Three." he said and Victor nodded to that as the underlying meaning to that hit him.

"So if you're here to prevent the future destruction of our family, it means you can prevent your aunt from...?" he started to ask and Chris nodded. "Yes, and her elder self is helping me do it, but with you dropping in constantly and already knowing the truth about us it means we can live slightly normal lives, but we had an audience with an angel saying we had five years and the final battle is when you meet Wyatt as an adult."

"The next five years involve dealing with Cole, protecting Wyatt, and dealing with the Avatars and a demon called Zankou, followed by the girls new apprentice and her sister. Altogether the plan is creating a power vacuum in the underworld till I return to the future, but my first few areas are helping the girls deal with the added changes, getting Drake involved to help Phoebe, getting Uncle Andy and Aunt Prue back together and keeping my family intact." he said and Victor said to him.

"With you seeing us more often living here in San Fransisco, we want to see you as much as possible now dad, why not get a house a block or two over and in between the lulls, come see us, we can have as much family time as possible now." Prue added and he smiled as he answered her. "Sounds good baby, alright I'll do that, I'm glad we fixed our bond, Patty would be proud you girls turned into who you are, I know I am, especially you son, tough life and you soldier on, alright thrice blessed, if you're saying that..." he said and then translated that mentally as he looked at his daughter and her husband.

"Good grief, alright if you're half of each than that means you got Leo's abilities?" he asked and Chris nodded. "Yeah to put it gently, Wyatt is twice blessed, I'm thrice blessed, meaning not only do I have both, but I've got the abilities of an elder. But he winds up being born in the house, I just never let the power lust go to my head, as to why, whatever spiritual nexus is hiding in the basement, it's a conduit, and being born right on top of it makes you suspectible to going either way."

"Which explains what happened to Phoebe two years ago, so long as we guide him in the right direction we're fine, but some demon gets to him or traumatizes him, screws with his morale at his toddler self, it's going to cause serious problems, but that's why I came back to prevent whoever turned him from getting to him altogether. Aunt Prue is sending DVD packs focused on my following years in this timeline, and we're altering the circumstances till we're rid Cole and Wyatt is safe after that." he said and he nodded.

"What's next on the scenarios exactly?" he asked and they sighed. "Getting her pain and anger out of her, that was just the first step the next one is the upcoming situation in a few weeks Grandpa. But we're pulling another bait and switch in six weeks where Aunt Prue creates a clone of herself, which is where things shift from their PO3 and into mine. But the clone isnt going to just disappear this time, that's the fake funeral here." he said and they nodded to his plan.

"We pull a fake funeral for that one, Andy and I heal your mother and Aunt in the attack and from there we just lay low till Patty says it's time to get your aunt and that is the cover story. Fake funeral, Piper and I take it from there, and we wait for the powers that be to signal it's time for her to activate wait till the assassin attacks and then we find out who she is and things shift from their version to yours." Leo said and he nodded to him.

"Grandpa she's an orphan, her parents died eight years ago, she needs you." he said and Victor nodded with a determined look. "Alright if she needs a father I'm taking it from there. Which area is this going in, she's like Phoebe or is she like your mother and Prue exactly?" he asked and he explained that. "She's across between them actually, but she's a girl version of me, in powers, so expect, when things change directions, to start getting more hectic in the battles, because our powers, when the five of us combine together, are going to be like getting blasted with a cannon later." he said and they nodded.

"Only difference is she half whitelighter, not half elder son, she doesn't have the ability to electrocute a person, you do, but don't use that if you don't have to, but everything else I'm fine with." Leo said and he nodded to that a chuckle. "I figured you were going to save that dad, if you exercise your added powers you can call for things like I can now. That's how I learned to do it, by just calling the item out you can orb it to you." Chris said to him and he nodded smiling as he looked at him.

Looking at her smiling he said it gently. "If you need help in the kitchen you got added back up mom, you trained me yourself in cooking." Chris said and she smiled as she looked at him, as she started seeing everything that made him who he was then. "Top rate fighter, an excellent spell caster, blessed with three abilities and a total golden child, and that's just what I'm getting from you now. Our bond is growing strong and it's only been just short of a week and already our bond of family is deepening."

"If our bond is getting even stronger this soon, I can see that our bond is going to grow so deep, that it doesn't matter things are getting changed in the future, because you got me as an adult now too baby. Don't worry sweetheart, though a minor separation for three years, you got me back now and with me the rest of the adult side of the family, in time, we just make sure nothing ever gets in the way of that."

"You may have lost three years, but you gain them and five more back here in this time line sweetheart, it won't be long now before you got your entire version living with you under one roof, and we and your father and uncles can help you heal, it may have been hard in that life, but you're going to get that future changed and it won't take long either." she said and he smiled as he hugged her at that.

"If it takes destroying every member of the brotherhood, I'm not losing you guys a second time mom." he said and she looked into his eyes. "Baby listen to me, you hold in that quest for vengeance you're going to crash yourself, so in order to heal completely you got to let go. If your brother is Anakin and he let the power lust go to his head, it's because he was so consumed by his anger, fear and hatred it warped his mind."

"We are good witches, but just like everyone else we all got a darkside, so in order to make sure we never let it take hold we got to let go of our anger and fight with light of goodness and strength of heart. I've got you and your father and our family tripled in size, it won't be long, before we're rid of the source and the brotherhood, but don't let this get to you, you have me back, I'm not going anywhere now." she said and ran her hand through the hair on the back of his head and he leaned his head against her shoulder in response.

"Its been a week since I returned, but the pain of those three years still hurts, I've missed you guys so much, I can't take it twice." he said and she pulled him into a hug and he buried his head into her shoulder. "Sweetheart if this need to be useful is out of an inferiority complex there's no need to be jealous, though you grew up with both sets of powers, we knew you longer and your brother and you are getting treated exactly the same starting from the day he's born, but you and I are always together after this." she added out loud and he nodded to her as he looked at her.

"Mom, if I was Anakin, I'd be brushing the darkside myself by losing you when I wasn't ready to let you go, I was fourteen when I lost you, you dream suffering guilt at losing my counterpart, but now, our bond is so tight, I can't lose you again." he said to her and she pressed her forehead to his. "We got three times the whitelighter power now baby. We can rebuild the connections between us, just don't shut me out, if you need me I'm here for you sweetheart." she said to him and he nodded.

"Son that me was an idiot, the one your adult double was dealing with in his future, if I played favorites between you guys, it's not happening in this future. I don't care what my older self did, I'm not that man, I'm the father you want and I'll be here for you if you need me to be." Leo added to him and he nodded as he pulled him into a hug and he buried his head into his shoulder. "Our bond the way it is now, that's all I wanted dad, I wanted your attention at the time."

"Dad, I did a lot of stuff you and the girls wouldn't approve of, this alliance resulted in Cole joining the fight as well, before we turned him human a second time." he told him and Prue sighed. "If there is a way to see these memories, I'm not holding in judgement if they were meant to save a family member baby. Sometimes for the greater good the sacrifices mean doing things that go against your better judgement."

"As to that, if it means saving your family and cousins or anything else there's no reason not to hide it from us, sweetheart, but like your mother told you, we can rebuild, we're not holding your past wrongs against you, when your brother hasn't been born yet, so just show us the memories as you think we should know them." she said to him gently. "So to you, the fact that my counterpart decided on magical marriage counseling is fair."

"Just before I was born, by bringing them full circle, Dan, Alec and Kate?" he asked and Prue nodded as she answered him. "Yes, if I had been killed I wouldn't want her to give up her powers and I'd agree with the fact that you decided to put things on hold and help them by being a magical marriage counselor, baby. Fact of the matter is I wish I'd done that with my parents before grams ran him out of the house, but too little, too late."

"We get a second at fixing things, but learn from the past to created a better future now." Prue said and he smiled as he answered her. "Looks like I'm more like you and Uncle Andy than I thought, and this time we can get to know each other. But I can see that if the alibi had been true, you'd be my favorite aunt and uncle on your version and Paige in there's now." he said and the duo smiled as Andy said it to him.

"If the alibi had been true I'd risk death to keep from losing you, son, you're my oldest now, and with that we got the chance at the way you remember our counterparts. Don't worry about it, 24 years difference, but the same exact bond, you have us like you had them, if you need us we'll take care of you, I promise." he said and Chris nodded as he looked at Prue. "This point in time you're acting like a mother, but that's what I need to talk to you about here as far as your sisters are concerned here at the moment."

"But when your oldest is six months old, the youngest not born yet and the girls at each other's throats. Aunt Prue, mom, dad, what's your opinion to your sister dating a kid suffering from the pre-Darth Vader complex and his family and the family of his fiancé have been feuding for years. And Phoebe is not minding her own business in this situation when she's barely three months into getting used to her empath powers."

"And baby said to stay out of it?" he asked and she sighed in exasperation as she answered him gently. "With Piper dealing with being single mother, and Leo upstairs repeatedly now, if we'd been around for this when it happened, I'd be giving the riot act to Phoebe then for butting in, I mean I never did that with her. Clay, Cole. It's the same issue, yes I worry, but I worry from afar, until she asks, I'm not involved."

"And it's the same for Piper, until she asks we don't get involved. Though with dad's personality we all chose men with his personality, as for baby, it's she chose someone like her adoptive father and we're getting into conversation with mom's spirit repeatedly now and I think we're going to have to do that now. Before we see whatever memories regarding Cole and your brother you have to show us." she said to him and he nodded.

Looking at him gently he thought it over quickly. "Dad, to make sure Aunt Prue survives so she's alive in my future, we have to pull a bait and switch here. Like I said I can't tell you everything without it completely changing the future. But those DVD's show everything I can't tell you, so it's not future consequences when you look at each episode so you can change the future now by minute changes, you had the straight path, just pick what roads to take after watching them." he said and Leo nodded to him gently.

"We pull a fake funeral for that one, Andy and I heal your mother and Aunt in the attack and from there we just lay low till Patty says it's time to get your aunt and that is the cover story. Fake funeral, Piper and I take it from there, and we wait for the powers that be to signal it's time for her to activate wait till the assassin attacks and then we find out who she is and things shift from their version to yours." Leo said and he nodded to him.

"Grandpa she's an orphan, her parents died eight years ago, she needs you." he said and Victor nodded with a determined look. "Alright if she needs a father I'm taking it from there. Which area is this going in, she's like Phoebe or is she like your mother and Prue exactly?" he asked and he explained that. "She's across between them actually, but she's a girl version of me, in powers, so expect, when things change directions, to start getting more hectic in the battles. But in truth, I took after mom in powers."

"I have Aunt Prue's ability, but in whitelighter form, so you'll get to see what and how it works, but I've to train Aunt Charmed One in how to use it later, she's going to be slightly irresponsible with her powers at first after Aunt Prue is supposedly was killed at the time. But together we win, because our powers, when the five of us combine together, are going to be like getting blasted with a cannon later." he said and they nodded as Leo chuckled as he looked at him smiling.

"Only difference is she half whitelighter, not half elder son, she doesn't have the ability to electrocute a person, you do, but don't use that if you don't have to, but everything else I'm fine with." Leo said and he nodded to that a chuckle. "I figured you were going to save that dad, if you exercise your added powers you can call for things like I can now. That's how I learned to do it, by just calling the item out you can orb it to you." Chris said to him and he nodded smiling as he looked at him.

"What's this mean now for us, real father/son time, before little you is born?" he asked and Chris smiled. "Yeah during our hours off we can really spend that time together and we can build the bond we used to have and still do." he said and Leo moved in on him. "You get smart with me pal and you're busted." he said and got him in the stomach and he started laughing as he fell in to him as he answered him. "Yeah okay. Okay I get the point dad, I give up." he said through his laughter as he went back and forth on his stomach and side as Leo eased up and pulled him into a hug and he buried his head into his shoulder feeling the bond with his father growing every minute then.

'This is all I wanted dad, our bond like this like we had it before.' he thought to him and he heard an answering response to that. 'Yeah I know don't worry son, we're going to get that chance now, you're going to have me raising you now and being there when you need me.' he thought to him gently. 'With you home in our time, we can build the bonds you wanted, because you're not on tight schedule at all right now, so we got plenty of time baby.' Piper added and they went into a group hug at that as Prue hid a smile.

"At the moment we've got eighteen months till your brother is born so we got plenty of time, there's no need for a tight schedule baby so with that, you help us and we can train you to handle your healing powers, and the five of us can work as one now." she said out loud and he nodded to that that. "Be thankful he never took that potion or he's getting a bit stir crazy out of being useless in powers later as to why it was just after this he met Melody dad and the fight got a bit more passionate than normal."

"As to why she was trying to protect him when he didn't need it, and he wanted to go into the underworld, without his powers, and do some information searching and you guys got into a fight over it till dad broke it up and mom let him have it for pushing on her by getting married that soon after Aunt Charmed One came into the bigger and she's accepted her new role." he told them and they both nodded to that in aggravation.

"Stupid idiot that's a good way to kill yourself, no powers and being surrounded by the guys you turned your back on, never mind jumping feet first into these situations. You want to survive in battle, if you're a soldier, you got to think on your feet, think fast and be smart in doing searching in these areas and the last thing we need is him killing himself out of a need to be useful, that is if he didn't bring a damn gun in the house." Leo said in aggravation and he nodded in agreement to that.

"He's a D.A., not a homicide detective, I learned gun safety by the time I was thirty man, for gods sakes alright the only one packing heat in this family when on duty is me, because I'm at work. Though if he wants a weapon he better learn to put his added skills to use, if he's a skilled warrior, because though he lost his powers it doesn't mean he's not completely useless by use of martial arts and sword fighting. And with Drake always at the house he can train you to fight by use of sword fighting and bows and arrows." Andy said to him and he nodded as she answered that.

"Hang on, Eric, come on son, your grandfather's here!" Leo called out and he looked at Chris's twin and smiled as he moved to gently. "So twins huh, alright guys, what's going on exactly?" Victor asked and he explained that to him. "Despite our adult double pulling it off in said other timeline, our brother still crashed. So the resistance decided further back, to when Aunt Prue was still alive and you got back together with mom and the girls and they're newly weds."

"Before we went to switch up now, but we're resetting the clock, turning back things to when mom and Aunt Prue were teenagers. You and Grams bury the hatchet, and our family is intact, you moving back into the manor, mom and Aunt Prue having their powers. A year into us being babies." Chris told him and he smiled in delight at that. "So this way, your aunt and me get our relationship back into place, when we do get our memories back?" he asked gently to him then.

"When our older brother is 5 months old, year 6, it's less we and more time me, as by then Aunt Prue and Uncle Andy are married, she's a full time photographer. Though she's doing taking equal balance out in being married, her job and being a witch. Phoebe's dating Drake there, mom and dad have been mastered being parents mixed into their jobs and owning the club. As for Paige her temp job has her busy with her own fling, till she meets her husband right now."

"But the cops, the head doctor at the hospital, the judge, FBI and homeland security all know what we are, so that solves that problem. The chief did mom and Grandpa's, your age group, Darryl and Andy our's and the commissioner Grams, we just got to tell Sheila. And then tomorrow after mom and dad give my adult double's version an earful. We reset the clock and the timer stops after Wyatt's first magical blunder." he said and Victor nodded smiling gently.

"Okay I understand and this works as I get to watch you and the girls grow up, who is Melody anyway?" Victor asked him and Leo sighed. "She's a muse, like the muses of the Greek arts, she's the spirit of inspiration and there's eighty more just like her, but she's a friend of mine. If this is just after that particular scenario it means she's coming to see me just to fill me in. On, in what the heck kind of parasitical group caused her to need the trio protecting her at the time."

"At any rate Victor, the first six months after a shift within the trio is the part you better watch yourself here, as to why it takes time to work the kinks out. Piper is taking eldest, or in this case spotting shifts with Prue, Phoebe is the middle sister and Baby is the youngest. With the entire family living under one roof expect the noise levels in the house to start getting out of hand the next five years when you come to see us." he said and Victor nodded as Prue looked at him.

"Well at least we can live slightly normal lives till we retire, and if one of us needs a rotation off we take shift to fill in the empty spot here." Prue said and Chris nodded to her. " I was going to suggest that actually, so with four, one of you needs to focus on something else, a job for more money, time with a friend, getting involved in a friend's project or needing time to yourselves. We write up a schedule and you spot your rotations into the schedule and we can prevent added trouble."

"Secondly with me here, I'm just as powerful as both of you together, so you need a break mom, I can cover for you, same for you Aunt Prue and you guys, Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Charmed One, can spot work, and free time, or just alone time for a rotation off, but altogether with four we can throw off the underworld with the amount of permutations we can create with four of you here living at the house." he said and Piper smiled at that as she answered him.

"Good idea baby, we can get them to exhaust themselves mentally, so every time they attack our rotation is different than what they expect. Mental functions aside, they try to get to me and I'm not falling for it, I have everything to live for here, I'm a witch and I'm proud of it now. The burden of it is gone and I can really come into my own now and with that fact in mind here Old Scar Face tries to get me to give up my powers or ours and I'm not falling for it, the power stripping spell is trapped in my subconscious."

"Chris did that ever happen when Baby took over?" she asked and he nodded. "He tried to simulate a psychiatric hospital in our house and you were delusional, but it took dad getting into your head, after they wounded him to snap you out of it. Fact of the matter is you were ready to quit after Aunt Prue died. Aunt Prue I needed that season now, so we can put these names on the dates I gave them." he said and a pink DVD pack appeared and she bagged it and Piper nodded as she said it as she looked at Prue.

Looking at her smiling he said it gently. "If you need help in the kitchen you got added back up mom, you trained me yourself in cooking." Chris said and she smiled as she looked at him, as she started seeing everything that made him who he was then. "Top rate fighter, an excellent spell caster, blessed with three abilities and a total golden child, and that's just what I'm getting from you now. Our bond is growing strong and it's only been just short of a week and already our bond of family is deepening."

"If our bond is getting even stronger this soon, I can see that our bond is going to grow so deep, that it doesn't matter things are getting changed in the future, because you got me as an adult now too baby. Don't worry sweetheart, though a minor separation for three years, you got me back now and with me the rest of the adult side of the family, in time, we just make sure nothing ever gets in the way of that."

"You may have lost three years, but you gain them and five more back here in this time line sweetheart, it won't be long now before you got your entire version living with you under one roof, and we and your father and uncles can help you heal, it may have been hard in that life, but you're going to get that future changed and it won't take long either." she said and he smiled as he hugged her at that.

"If it takes destroying every member of the brotherhood, I'm not losing you guys a second time mom." he said and she looked into his eyes. "Baby listen to me, you hold in that quest for vengeance you're going to crash yourself, so in order to heal completely you got to let go. If your brother is Anakin and he let the power lust go to his head, it's because he was so consumed by his anger, fear and hatred it warped his mind."

"We are good witches, but just like everyone else we all got a darkside, so in order to make sure we never let it take hold we got to let go of our anger and fight with light of goodness and strength of heart. I've got you and your father and our family tripled in size, it won't be long, before we're rid of the source and the brotherhood, but don't let this get to you, you have me back, I'm not going anywhere now." she said and ran her hand through the hair on the back of his head and he leaned his head against her shoulder in response.

"Its been a week since I returned, but the pain of those three years still hurts, I've missed you guys so much, I can't take it twice." he said and she pulled him into a hug and he buried his head into her shoulder. "Sweetheart if this need to be useful is out of an inferiority complex there's no need to be jealous, though you grew up with both sets of powers, we knew you longer and your brother and you are getting treated exactly the same starting from the day he's born, but you and I are always together after this." she added out loud and he nodded to her as he looked at her.

"Mom, if I was Anakin, I'd be brushing the darkside myself by losing you when I wasn't ready to let you go, I was fourteen when I lost you, you dream suffering guilt at losing my counterpart, but now, our bond is so tight, I can't lose you again." he said to her and she pressed her forehead to his. "We got three times the whitelighter power now baby. We can rebuild the connections between us, just don't shut me out, if you need me I'm here for you sweetheart." she said to him and he nodded.

"Son that me was an idiot in his future, if I played favorites between you guys, it's not happening in this future. I don't care what my older self did, I'm not that man, I'm the father you want and I'll be here for you if you need me to be." Leo added to him and he nodded as he pulled him into a hug and he buried his head into his shoulder. "Our bond the way it is now, that's all I wanted dad, I wanted your attention at the time."

"Dad, I did a lot of stuff you and the girls wouldn't approve of, this alliance resulted in Cole joining the fight as well, before we turned him human a second time." he told him and Prue sighed. "If there is a way to see these memories, I'm not holding in judgement if they were meant to save a family member baby. Sometimes for the greater good the sacrifices mean doing things that go against your better judgement."

"As to that, if it means saving your family and cousins or anything else there's no reason not to hide it from us, sweetheart, but like your mother told you, we can rebuild, we're not holding your past wrongs against you, when your brother hasn't been born yet, so just show us the memories as you think we should know them." she said to him gently. "This point in time you're acting like a mother, but that's what I need to talk to you about here as far as your sisters are concerned with when your oldest is six months old."

"Aunt Prue, mom, dad, what's your opinion to your sister dating a kid suffering from the pre-Darth Vader complex and his family and the family of his fiancé have been feuding for years, and Phoebe is not minding her own business in this situation when she's barely three months into getting used to her empath powers and baby said to stay out of it?" he asked and she sighed in exasperation as she answered him gently.

"If baby wants us to stay out of it, we do that, if she's feeling suppressed, we give her some space, but not till she comes to us and your father for advice and help do we do anything. Phoebe doesn't know this kid, and though we don't, not yet at least, we're taking the time to get to know him, before running judgements of persecution here in that area. Though if it takes all of us taking an empath mind blocking potion we do that."

"Though she's my sister, I'm worrying from afar, like I did when I did it with Cole and Clay, that's the only way to maintain a sisterly bond, and if it takes us getting everything on the table, again, we do that to prevent another fracture in our bonds. Though Phoebe has the toughest time keeping secrets, but subtle ways of hinting that she doesn't like who baby is dating when she's an adult, I'm not allowing that whatsoever in the house."

"Subtle articles in advice column, to another person asking for advice, that is reflected by both herself and the family she's talking about here. From there advert behavior with the charge itself, if that makes it clear she doesn't like the charge himself, nothing does. But Chris, Leo and I are getting involved in this to end it, if she's acting like this, because though you're the future oldest Charned one, I'm the matriarch of the family."

"As to that, of the three of us, I'm the one who should be worried, since I protected you guys for three years. As to that, if she wants me to stay out of it, I'll worry from afar, but I'm not bringing it up till Baby asks me for advice. I can worry from afar, and worry about you guys, but I'm doing it the way I've always done it and you and I can discuss this with our version of it." she said and Piper nodded in agreement to her thoughts.

"I cover my side of the PO3, and you continue to cover ours, as the oldest sisters we insure nothing destroys us." she said and Prue nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah exactly, where our version is concerned I'm dealing with Phoebe if she starts acting like this, where yours is concerned, you just deal with being the oldest now. But this is your toughest point, it's our job to keep to the family together Piper."

"You're not a failure, if she's flirting with the darkside and she's going through her trial, we'll get her back, just don't quit on me, we got the guys, they can heal us, eighty percent of the family is intact, while she's dealing with her trials of Cole. But once this gets started, you can't shut down on me, though your version lost a member briefly, we got ours with baby involved, we're still the power of three, no Piper listen to me."

"Until she starts wavering between good and evil, and starts struggling with being away from us, we make it clear, one side or the other, we got the power of three, Chris is with us as are the guys. We'll make it, just don't quit on me okay. As for her attitude regarding baby's choice of love interests, it's not her business and that conversation is between us as the original PO3 only and that's it, though what I will say is that if Jenny comes back and falls for Chris, it's no choice at all, he comes first no matter what."

"The boys come first, once Wyatt is born, if Dan comes back, he's getting arrested for becoming a maniacal stalker and if Jenny forces us into that same choice, it's Chris and it will always be Chris, he was here first and he comes first, before Jenny." she said and Piper nodded to her thoughts as she looked at her seventeen, near eighteen year old son. "They force me into that choice, it's no choice needed, you were here first baby."

"I choose you, though the girls start acting like grams when you refuse Jenny's advances, and mom's getting called down and it's a very stern reprimand for that. The baby always comes first, before the guest in the house, you're an adult maybe, but to me, you're still the baby and with that fact in mind, whatever happens if Dan does come back, it's a no choice needed: it's you, and it will always be you." she said and he smiled at that as he answered her smiling as he said it.

"Well now you're sounding like grandma girls, she said the exact same thing." he said and the girls nodded. "If it takes us making it clear that we stay out of it where baby is concerned, we do that. And while I'm on the subject here baby, if you and your father are fooling around with time portals be careful while you're doing it otherwise you're likely to wind up in the wrong time while we're occupied with your aunts."

"As for baby herself, she deserves some space where her love life is concerned, when we all chose magical beings for our mates and when my nephew is barely a year old, and you're suffering from issue overload in the house at the moment. But that happens, I'm the one going big sister with my baby sister, as to that she starts acting arrogant when she becomes an empath, than you and I are taking charge right then, to prevent your power of three from getting broken in half, and while I'm on the subject here."

"We got to get Phoebe off of baby's back if she falls in love with a charge, though I had reservations about Cole. I kept them to myself and only said it to you without throwing it at her, but with my being the oldest, I'm running the big sister support if she gets wrapped up with other things in her job." she added and Piper nodded in agreement. "If she asks us to stay out of it, we do it, so three yeses and only one no."

"She's outnumbered five to one, and you're giving us added help by tracking down the ingredients for the empath blocking potion and get it created for the six of us to keep her out of our heads son. As for her column, that's her business, but if she persists we're calling a family meeting and going over this at the time. You, your father and uncles are in the room for the arguments and we deal with this."

"So with those words in mind, once we reach for the first five months after Wyatt's born we begin making sure Phoebe doesn't start driving baby nuts. With Chris arriving, it's less likely to turn into a fiasco now." she said to her and she nodded in agreement. "Hey dad, you think you could teach me to heal people?" he asked and they nodded. "Well that's my first job now, creating a whitelighter handbook for you and your cousins."

"Okay starting with Cole and the Source, we then move to dealing with Cole himself, till we find the reason your brother turned evil, whoever this Character Zankou is and whatever reason for the added problems and then we deal with whatever this ultimate battle is and then after five years of work and battles, we can live semi normal lives and and I raise you and your brother and sister in as normal a life as I can make it."

"Though I clip my wings agains, I'm going to my back up skills after that, teaching and my job as a medic, if I fall from grace, because you're my catalyst, though if you become my catalyst and I'm killing the parasite responsible for that." he said firmly and he sighed. "With our bond growing that strong, it's more than likely now dad, your first job and concern was our family, I'm the first of the family to arrive, and in eighteen months Wyatt arrives and you got us both after that." Chris said to him and he nodded gently.

"All this over a single decision, God, mom I know you want a normal life at the moment, but we can't have that, we're witches, it's in our blood, had I not come back now. You would have suggested the girls be with who their dating and move out of the manor after that. To grams her opinion would be it's because your choosing your love lives first and your wish to be normal, over your main calling and it's helping people."

"I'm going to have to tell her who I am, but when she finds out, she's going to berate you for letting them leave and when we're a serious situation, with enchanted objects and stuff, things locked on purpose, like the locket Rex passed off to Aunt Prue to let Matthew Tate out. To put this bluntly, though a five year difference, last time it was Matthew Tate and the locket this time it was a set of go go boots that got hexed by her."

"As if that's not enough to annoy her at the moment, she sees our powers as a gift, not a curse, being normal is over rated, you once told me our powers were a gift, our heritage was a gift. Just forsaking our heritage to be normal is in our ancestors eyes a blasphemy. My counterpart had an extremely tough time regarding this when this happened, but he couldn't get you three together long enough to focus on the matter at hand."

"Let alone we have magical pests running amok in the house, I'm getting used to my powers being back when they stripped them from me, or him in that timeline, he couldn't tell you the truth, even though you wanted him to. And to top it off being in the past, means trying to keep from erasing myself from existsance now and to top that off is she's going to realize why I came back. And she, her future counterpart was and is going to be pissed that you're not taking the danger seriously enough." he said to her gently.

"Yeah okay I get the point honey, had Prue not survived the fight with our latest demon, I'd want to be a normal person, after that maniac hijacks me and puts into a lucid dreaming state meant to destroy our powers and if that happens we're done for. Phoebe is a love machine, but her problem is taking advantage of her powers at the worst possible time, and mortals like whoever her co-worker are, let alone these other guys."

"It's just asking for trouble, to insure we don't have trouble leading into when your brother is three to four months old. So nobody is moving out of the house, and to ensure we can protect my son and you, and at the moment you're the oldest, we're all staying in the manor. We just give each other space and privacy when needed, but nobody is moving out, Drake is sister approved, he's who I choose for Phoebe, starting now."

"I'm taking those warnings you tell me seriously, but I need to see those memories, or at the very least we go to the future and see what he did to the manor." she said and he nodded. "Future consequences maybe, but I..., aw for gods sakes, yeah Uncle Andy, you suggested that to, so I'm giving you a sneak peek. So you can see Wyatt for yourself, but that's it mom, you all need to see why I came to the past."

"But you're not going to like what Wyatt turned into, you trained us, but being born in the house, we can go either way." he said and the trio nodded. "Yeah we learned that the hard way after the Nexus got loose, but being born in the house makes you more suspectible to going either way. But what's also dangerous is that much power in your system, being born as half of each and being born in the house, you're likely to go either way, if something or someone is tampering with your morality." Andy said to him gently.

"As we saw from Phoebe's reaction the previous two years, that's what being born in the house does to you, if you've been traumatized at an early age." he said and Prue nodded to him. "Alright we use the time travel spell tomorrow and you take us to the house, so we can see that truth of what he turned into and then we take it from there. Just what is the danger of being born in the house exactly?" Victor asked him and he sighed softly.

"With being born in the house you're more connected to it then the others are, aside from that if it's two magical beings the power lust starts going to your head, if you suffered a past life, you're seeing the person you were once dad. But we're taking that threat seriously and evil is never taking over the house and we destroy the woogieman." Prue said for him and he nodded to that as Leo looked at Chris gently.

"With us just starting our family, whatever memories you had before I need to see what I did in order to rectify those same mistakes here. Or rather them itakes my counterpart did, because this time we got five years and we don't have a deadline right now. So 'our' family consists of you, your mother and me right now, before your brother is born, so we got two and a half years like that, before your brother is dealing with the more dangerous issues." he said and she nodded in agreement with his thoughts then.

"I'm actually glad I told you the truth a few days ago, no holding back, I can be myself with you, without the suspicion getting in the way of it, our family is intact, and I've got both of you now." he said to him and he sighed. "You're lucky we busted you the second you arrived, or we'd fall into the same trap our future counterparts did when your's arrived here, just after your mother and I had counseling at the time."

"For him, if your brother was alive at the time we would have. What with you not just telling us your real name if you arrived when your brother was four months old, I'd be suspicious that you're hiding things from me and your mother. Let alone your aunts and uncle, but with you just telling us who you are now, on your arrival, the suspicion has been thrown out the door son." he said and he smiled as he looked at him gently.

"Our bonds as father and son, let alone nephew and son, they're going to get pretty strong, though now that we solved that problem on your arrival and we figured it out on our own, that solved the issue security, insecurities and suspicions in the house, you're living at home and our bonds as family are now intact, and in place. There's less likely to be added trouble now that you told us, though Peter and Kalina said to tell your aunt."

"When we find her, so with that in mind, once we get past the first forty eight hours, and she passed that test, tell her when we're together. And with those words in mind here as your mother decided, when we're together like we are now, just use the titles you always called us by when in family, but around everyone else, your aunts and I are treating you like our brother." Andy added and he nodded as he looked at him.

"With you and dad, you figured it out on your own and after laying out the first five clues to the girls they got it in five minutes, though he was in shock they were reacting like that to me when I just got here." he told him and Victor answered that. "Hearing the truth and seeing you face to face is enough that knowing which of the girls you're the son of is enough of shock, but you look like just your mother, if she was seventeen."

"When's your birthday exactly?" he asked and he smiled. "My conception date is the week of Wyatt's birthday, but it's October 4, 2004, he's February 2, 2003, as to that the first eighteen months after Phoebe deals with this issue regarding Cole, Wyatt is born after we take him down for good. I was going to come five months into his being born, but chose now instead grandpa, this way we got five years together as a family."

"But mom is the first to have children, and Aunt Prue is next, before Phoebe's trials with Cole get started. And from there things in the family change directions, we're adding on to the house. Grandpa does it bother you that we all took up our legacy here?" he asked and he sighed. "I'm not happy that you did, but so long as you're careful, that's all I can about son, as to that, family holidays together, we see each other as much as possible now, I want to watch you grow up son, though I see you as you are now."

"I want to watch as you grow into the man you're going to become now. Girls, I think it's time we saw each other as much as possible now, so I'm getting an apartment close by, and I'm coming to see you every weekend, along with family holidays together, birthdays, holidays, everything, our family in one piece." he said and Prue smiled as she answered him. "The four of us are living under the same roof till we retire dad, as to that, I'm getting you a key, so you can get into the house so make yourself at home."

"Victor never mind about visiting when in town, we'd rather see you as much as possible now." Andy added and he nodded smiling to that. "My firm transferred me here a few weeks ago, and with the girls wanting to see me now, we just healed the damage, but I'm seeing you guys as much as possible and getting an apartment within range of the club after this." he said and they smiled as Chris looked at them.

"The Ice cream truck fiasco, I was seven, and the girls were five and two at the time, so thanks to that grams thought you were incapable of taking care of us. Well once Piper has my nephews, you're getting your chance dad, the boys can protect you, but you protect them, okay." Prue said and he smiled at that. "That's all I wanted, I never got the chance to watch you grow up, because Penny ran me out of the house baby."

"But I'm getting that chance now with the kids, you girls are my entire life, I'm not losing you now." he said and she hugged him tightly at that. "Just be ready, because we were practically raised around demons after multiple battles in the house grandpa, so we got added help if they decide to repeatedly check the manor. Til Wyatt blows them away, so expect that to happen a lot and mom's new charge winds destroying the ones that attack the manor ten months before the ultimate battle." he said to him and he nodded.

"Anything I need to know where that's concerned?" he asked and he nodded. "Yeah Aunt Baby Charmed One is suffering an identity crisis, after they destroy the woogieman in the basement, multiple diguisis's till Phoebe decided on one look and one only, when they decide enough is enough and stopped using magic when I was a year old." he told him and he nodded as he sighed at that.

"Look it's not that I'm not worried, I am, but you guys can't just stop using magic, it's part of who you are, I've come to accept that girls, son." he said and they nodded. "Don't worry, we're not retiring till we end this once and for all and the future is safe from evil." Piper told him and he nodded. "I'm lucky that we know where these details are heading, before they start getting out of control, forwarned is forearmed."

"As to that, we rotate things between normal and abnormal in the house starting now guys. But both together and we get much stronger after this right now. So just combine the best of both jobs together and we get stronger that way, alright." Leo said and they all nodded to that as Chris looked at him. "Well one thing is for sure, we've got to create some new family traditions in the house, and with it being a weekend now."

"With it being a Friday, how about family brunch every weekend now guys, so say between 10:30 and 11:00 you and Drake come by the house for breakfast and Saturdays and Sunday's and from there we get to see each other every weekend now. Mom and I can make breakfast and we got the family in one piece that way after this, before the real trials get started in the family because they begin in six months."

"But between now and then, we live life as normally as possible when Aunt Baby moves in and Drake is a member of the family now, we just treat him like family till things change directions and she chooses him over Cole after this. Though Cole is getting short changed by having Drake in the house afterwards." he said and they smiled at the idea. "Good idea son, alright we do this every weekend and create a new family tradition in our family now." Leo said smiling and he chuckled at that as he answered him.