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.
Warning: With this one, they're letting Sheila hear their secret and that cements the bonds of friendship for life after this now. As Chris explains it more easily to them and the families become life long friends from that day forward then.
As they begin work on the house and and things are quiet till Look Who's Barking starts. Each episode is going to stay the same, but there's going to be a couple changes to it and Prue is alive for seasons four through eight as she trains her sister. While Chris, Drake and Andy are part of the household and Victor is visiting every weekend after this to see them.
Chapter 14: Truths and House Upgrades
"Yeah this is what you sounded like when you went into big sister mode when on duty actually, as the leader of the charmed ones, the job gets hectic, but you managed pretty well, but just because there's a set back you shouldn't give up. Being a witch was one step forward/two steps back in training, when you started this late in life, so inferiority complexes and a few other catches in the family, but Paige deals with the same."
"Your animal conjuring spell Aunt Prue, you need to talk to her, because she quits her job to become a full time witch later. And this results in releasing Barbas while doing it." he said and they all nodded. "Barbas, who is that?" Victor asked and Drake answered that with a look of hatred on his face. "He's the demon of fear, he's the epitome of phobias and fear, anything you're afraid of he turns it into an hallucination till you die of fright."
"Before you ask, I'm better off as your demon dictionary and I can explain things far more easily than the book does guys. No offense Leo, but they need someone who understands these demons rather than the book and what you hear from Orlin and the others." he said and Leo nodded. "None taken, just see this as a way to be everything he's not in explanations now." he said and he nodded in agreement.
"Cole's the soldier, I've denied my roots and turned into the epitome of being a good demon. I'm good and I've always been good, I'm not denying my human side and I've got every reason to stay good now as well. When you're evil and something wakes up your good side the battle between each side is going to tear you apart, if you let it, but with those words, you got to pick a side, good or evil and I chose good." he said and looking at Phoebe and she gave him a hug at that as he tightened his arms around her.
"You're a classic example of ignoring your evil side, you started out good and you've been that way for how long exactly?" Patty asked and he smiled as he answered her. "700 years, I've always been good, but to be with you forever, I'd up give my powers and be human. I only use my powers to fight demons, but I can cast spells and use telekinesis, but the combustion, it's only used against demons Phoebes."
"But I'm a actor and I learned to fence and fight with my hands without it getting lethal. In your case, you're my biggest reason to fight now. You remember the original power ranger show?" he asked and she nodded. "That's how you see us at the moment?" she asked and he nodded. "Yes and I'd do anything, be anything for you, if I had a spirit animal, mine is the wolf, a wolf mates for life." he said and she smiled at the wording.
"Just take the added years, in demon, off, I'm twenty five Phoebe, your age, but a lot more mature. Just think of this, if he's the wrong one you got a second chance with me. What's your heart telling you exactly?" he asked and she closed her eyes as she felt something in her change and then looked into his blue eyes. "That you're the one, best guy friend, he burns me one more time and the scales land in your favor and I'm yours." she said and he gave her a hug and she closed her eyes.
"I'm not leaving you Phoebe, I'm always going to be here, our bond is a strong one, because you're attracted to good beings, but you've caught attention to bad ones. But as an actor, I embellish a bit of both in the theater, but I'd never break your heart. I know what he did to you, but I would never, ever do that, you got me, I won't let you down, you can count on me, I promise." he said and she leaned her head against his shoulder.
"You're not being hunted by them are you?" she asked and he shook his head. " No I'm not, my allegiances are to you, your family and the greater good and protecting innocents. In fact the only time I ever use my combustible fire powers is against demons, I just train with use of bows and arrows and a sword, I'm schooled in the old weapons of the 16th, 17th, and 18th. Robin Hood, the musketeers, that type of thing."
"But I never use demonic weapons, not unless I have too." he said and she nodded. "Actor, poet, warrior, you're every girl's dream come true in finding the right man, if I'm who you're falling in love with, I can expect to see you here every day now huh?" she asked smiling and he nodded. "Yeah, but Cole's going to have some very stiff competition later, and he burns you one more time, I can pick up the piece and put you back together, but I'm yours, my soul belongs to you." he said and she hugged him at that.
"Yeah okay I think we made the right choice now, son, look if he started getting obsessed with her, do me a favor and blast him into the next millennium, would you please?" Victor said and Drake nodded to the request as Phoebe looked at her parents then. "If we'd been that book series that Meyer is working on, it comes out in four years, but if we were, than we just hit chapter two of it. New Moon, and I'm entering the darkest portions of my future guys." she told him and he nodded as he answered that gently.
"Yeah and I'm your best guy friend, who's your future imprint no less, I'm always around the house. Your parents are pissed that he's broken your heart twice and landed you in the hospital as are the rest of your friends and the council your friends belongs to. At the moment, we're not the wolf pack, but we're close enough to it at the moment, he's the enemy if he burns you one more time and he's on my hit list after that." Drake said firmly and she smiled at him as Patty exchanged smiles with Victor at this.
"I know I said this is the hard, part, but life as a witch results in added issues, you've been stuck in a rock and hard place ever since Cole came into your life. Yes the C pointed out your future love, but Cole is just a fling, your future husband is a good being, like us Phoebes." Andy said to her gently and she nodded as she looked at him. "And since when did you start calling me that again Andy?" she asked and he smiled.
"Since I became your brother-in-law, I watched you grow up, it's my job to get overly protective of you. As to that, he burns you one more time, he's got the entire male household ready to barbecue him as a result here next. But demons, warlocks. Son, what's your recommendation for a warlock faction exactly?" he asked and Chris smiled as he answered that as he looked at Piper
"Mom the warlocks blink, so what's the best way to prevent them from blinking right out of the room if we got another supernatural smack down right at the club, like the flare lights messed up the spell on Rex in that dinosaur movie, extensive bursts, you got the control panel by the cash register at the bar in the club?" he asked and she thought it over and then smiled. "Fireworks, of course, the strobe lights, they'll work like the pyrotechnic potions, but on a grander scale and keep them from blinking."
"Themes in time frames rather than years, but 90's, 80's, 70's and so on, our generation's music groups got traded for our kids. I'm doing that every few months here in the club. And while Chris is helping me, you're doing the theme, but if I'm right they're choosing the night we're doing time frames to pull these stunts and it's just when we're getting used to being our version of the power of three Phoebes, you, me and Paige."
"But if that's the case, it's right when we meet Melody later, so that's the key, alright we got to check out these episodes later and then work it out." she said and Phoebe smiled. "Us theme, you potion?" she asked and Piper nodded with a chuckle at the wording. "Yeah, you theme, me potion, just choose the right time frame, that is if Grandpa was based in that time and it's going to be a hit." she said and she chuckled and nodded.
"Grams, mom aside from being a witch, did you ever learn to fight in these battles?" she asked and they chuckled. "We never took martial arts honey, but with a personal training ring right here in the house that really helps to train. Just see this as way to become the best and most powerful witches and forces of good in the world." Patty said smiling and Phoebe nodded as she looked at her sisters to go into it then.
"Alright our training ring is downstairs, that includes the punching bag, I can work out downstairs now. You're my student and slam-man is in the basement waiting to be used, and there's enough room down there to have your darkroom and our sparring ring as well Prue. The money we can create a nice look for your training ring and we can work out together now." Phoebe said and she nodded in agreement as he answered her.
"Yeah exactly, everyone knows you're a skilled fighter, and you're a brown belt, on your way to a red belt at the moment. Basically treat this like we're doing Tae Kwon Doe, you're a brown belt and I'm two belts right behind you. But you're about to progress to a red belt next and the training is the usual. We just, once we do scenario number three, that's when we lay low and you and I train together as much as possible."
"You're my sensei, but I'm your sparring partner now, and I'm not getting that aggressive in the training here. Here you go mom, dad, here's the money needed to pass this off so easily now." he said and passed them the rest of the pile and she took it gently. "So $1,500,000.00, we're paying for your bedroom furniture, and setting up a sparring floor downstairs in the basement, that definitely helps make it seem more real."
"With you living at home here, we can make it as real as it can be now, for the next three years and then your brother sees you as his big brother, before little you is born after that." Piper said smiling and Leo nodded in agreement to her thoughts. "Yeah I can live the teenage life I wanted instead of the dealing with what I left behind, but what I will say is that your memories, Uncle Andy, Aunt Prue are going to change."
"With every new set up here. The amount is enough you can run the remodeling on the house, and buy everything for the basement and my bedroom furniture here. The swing set in the garden our back. Push the backyard further out in both directions, we got enough to make it big enough to fit eight people now." he said and they nodded to him. "Alright, with school ending we got enough time to get your furniture."
"As well as buying you a laptop and printer for the desk, a file cabinet with a lock on it, and get a safe for that athame, one to lock it up and then lock it into the file cabinet that's to lock your athame and survival bag into when your brother is born. But that's everything needed here." Leo said and took the amount and gave him back $2,000, before he grabbed a suitcase and put the rest into it. "Well this just goes back to my original remark now Phoebe, being normal and inheriting a nice sized amount."
"We can be both and still enjoy family life now as we get stronger, I've got my husband back and things are going to get better for all of us now, don't worry it's going to be fine. Chris and the four of us, you got us and Drake, till things change directions honey. I know this is hard on you right now, but it's going to work out, don't give up on being good, because of what you've gone through." Prue said and she nodded to her.
"Aunt Phoebe, I love you, but at the moment, what you need is an understanding guy friend, that's why I chose Drake for you, to help you heal now. He's good for you and grandpa and grandma both agree with this as do the quartet. When the time comes, when you reconcile with Cole our lives are going through some very tough trials, but you have Drake, though you broke it off with Cole and divorced him later for what he put you through, emotionally, later." he said and she nodded as she read that out.
"Emotional trauma and Drake is the one putting me back together and I fall in love with him and he's my mate till I meet my future husband, alright that makes more sense and I appreciate that baby, I appreciate that alot." she said and pulled him into a hug and he tightened is arms around her smiling then gently. "You girls and our family all that matter to me, and I'm doing whatever it takes now to keep our family intact." he said and she nodded smiling as she pressed her forehead to his and he closed his eyes.
"Things changed and though only a few days, I'm not letting anything get between us, with you just telling us, our relationship is completely intact now cub. So though you look like you're seventeen at the moment and ten years my junior, you're really twenty two years my junior baby. Well whoever does anything to hurt you, is getting vaporized when I get through with them." she said and smiling and he nodded to her.
"Well that solves the problem now, a quarter of that is being used to work on the house, $1,000 for your school stuff and bedroom and that solves the program. This amount your father just gave you though, thats your living allowance till we start your paycheck at work though. You're starting your job on Monday at the club honey."
"But not checks, we're paying you in cash after work and your pay days are every two weeks." Piper said and he nodded to her as Victor smiled at her. " Nice way to put it honey, to the outside world, we're a normal family, but our private lives, we got Samaritan status. We're helping the cops with the murders where this is concerned and to the outside world the demons and warlocks we deal with are a bunch of psychos, killing innocent people and the brotherhood slaughtered two, before we stopped them."
"Raynor was an arsonist killing an innocent woman, Phoebe see the scorch marks on the wall and know he just struck again, you head here, to tell your sister and Cole reports into you that the cult is getting ready to attack our next witness protection charge. We then head for the hospital and Andy wakes up then, sees our faces and his memory comes back on full force, he's released and Leo gives him a set of clothes."
"Alright Patty I got a few questions here, I need to know about, if Cole just got himself kicked out of the house, again?" Victor said and she nodded. "What is it you need to know exactly?" she asked and he sighed. "Who are the Brotherhod exactly, and why are they such a danger?" he asked and before she could answer that Drake did it for her. "They're called the Brotherhood of the Thorn, highly elite gang of demons."
"They're the personal bodyguards to the Source, he chooses the members himself and they then swear a blood oath of life long loyalty. Though up until the last month they were laying low till they murdered a street prophet, and Raynor realized he turned on them, because he fell in love with Phoebe. Set up maybe, but still I'm not forgiving him for breaking her heart, again." he said and Victor nodded to that information.
"I take it you guys had run-ins with each other, Drake, because your personality is a better fit for my daughter." he said and Drake nodded. "Yeah I did, truth is where this is concerned if she'd been fully mortal and we'd been feuding species, werewolves and vampires here, I'd be the werewolf and he'd be the vampire Victor. But I'm not a soldier in the demonic world, I fight, but I'm not that warrior, though I'm a Mercury demon." he said and she nodded as she looked at him as Victor looked at them in confusion.
"Mercury demon, what is that?" Victor asked and Patty explained that one. "They can combust their victims by turning up the flames or just telekinetic crushing honey. Drake here is a special case though, he's ignored his roots, he's a artist and actor and grew up to be everything I wanted for Phoebe. Girls with these trials, just because you had us as an example, it doesn't mean you should give up on love, okay."
"Your father and I still love each other, but I have two mates now, one Sam, and the other your father, they gave me you girls, that's the best gift of all. So just because you're suffering some very hard trials these next five years, don't give up." she said and they nodded as she thought it over. "We need to photoshop these pictures Prue, get the added thirteen years to the images, exchange Paige's face for yours in one photo."
"Little him growing into big him, till I come back and our first family photo on the wall as he's dressed in his suit, me in mine, and Piper in her favorite dress. This way every outsider that doesn't know sees us as a normal family and he's living at home now. The kids' playroom is next to the sunroom and and I can set up a swing set with a slide on it outback for the kids as they get older, but altogether once little Wyatt comes into the picture..." Leo said and Patty chuckled as Piper said it with a smile then.
"We got the kids living the lives our toddler to kindergarten selves did, I'm a chef, I can teach Chris to cook as he grows up and both together come in handy. Though having a magical nanny that's a different story here though honey." she said and Phoebe answered that one. "Prue, Paige and I can swap off in babysitting duty actually Piper during the day with Chris at school, best to take Wyatt to work with you when you're restocking the shelves in supplies and such, with as many customers as we get."
"Chris's part time job is at the club, but he's working four days a week, and not the night of the games, test and exams he's spending that time studying and altogether we got it running so smoothly that our family life is completely normal to outsiders now. With the seven of us living under one roof and we're able to live normally, but we got to get you a laptop kiddo." she said and Prue smiled at that she added on to that.
"Mom, Grams how did you manage this when we were toddlers exactly anyway, we have to do it the way you did it here, with my boys being half whitelighter here?" Piper asked and Patty sat down on the couch. "Though you and your sister were witches, I treated you as normally as possible, your toddler stages were basic child care. Mom knew about magic school, but we figured it was better you were always around Andy."
"Though you're powerful, you sometimes forget you ever had your powers Pipers, because you were three and six years old, you were too young to remember you had your powers when I was killed at the time. Growing up without me was a setback, if I'd been alive, what Chris told you would be right. I'd have raised you in a mixture of both our worlds and your father would be living here at the house when we did so."
"With Victor doing it for Chris and Wyatt you'll be seeing this more easily, but both lives combined together as one, it's going to become normal honey, trust me. Big Chris is living the teenager life you would have, had I been alive, with maintaining control of his powers he's living in both worlds and you'll see this in action starting this summer. If you need help during the early stages of your pregnancy with Wyatt call me down."
"As for Chris and Eric, once football practice is done with, he's heading for the club and he's doing his homework at the table and babysitting while you're working on something else." she said and Chris smiled at that idea. "Yeah good point, I can babysit once he's ten months old, though the risk factor is less with him in his playpen, I can babysit while I'm doing my homework at the time. But we're with you and he's got his shield if there's trouble."
"Together you and I make a formidable team though mom, my powers are both you and Aunts Paige and Prue together, so just us and we can take out the demons in ten minutes when I've got my handbag ready and waiting on standby as well." he said and she smiled at that idea. "Whatever you continually stock that bag with make sure you keep the dagger out of sight honey, the last thing we need is the cops arresting you for bringing weapons into the high school." Patty said and he nodded to that smiling.
"Grandma, you think you'll be coming down more often now that I showed up here, you to Grams?" he asked and they both smiled. "Yes we will, baby, alright so that description of your bedroom, that's what it looked like. You got a few photos of that, since that room was and used to be the nursery when your mother and aunts were babies?" Patty asked him and he smiled and passed her the picture and Victor smiled at that.
"Yeah okay, I can pay for a desk, nice sized dresser and that bookshelf is going to fit nicely into the wall under the rack of shelves right above it. I'm looking at $200.00 altogether for the furniture and another $500.00 for the laptop and printer here in the bedroom while you're doing your homework." Leo said and Victor looked at him. "We'll split the bill and I can help you with building the bookshelf Leo."
"As for the desk, this one has an slab for work and can be used to do puzzles as well in addition to homework, but your trunk is locked at all times and keep the fence at the bedroom door to prevent your brother getting into the bedroom son." he said and Chris nodded to the orders. "Hey Darryl, how old is Mikey exactly?" he asked him and he chuckled. "D.J. is two, Michael is five years old now." he said to him and he nodded.
"Well that certainly helps, their going to see us in their lives as as the world's best magic show now, without the clowns in the house, once I'm on duty, but they're safer with me than whoever their normal babysitter is. Besides its not going to be embarrassing where diapers and baths are concerned either, I can do everything and no extra charge, and the kids have got a surrogate older brother." Chris said to him and he nodded in agreement.
"That's an understatement, normally the girls are no longer than two hours and the boys have been fed, bathed and diaper changed already, if you're intending to be my permanent babysitter, you may as well see this as preparation for when you do it it for little you and Wyatt." he said to him and he nodded in agreement to that as Piper ended the conversation at that. "Alright we better call for the night, brunch at 10:30 guys so I'll see you then." she said to Victor, Darryl and Drake and they all nodded to that.
As they left the room Darryl looked at Piper. "Should we just tell her after breakfast, that way we can get that out of the way, and then we can meet up that night for dinner and a game night. Considering our families are about to become really close friends now?" he asked and she nodded to him. "Yeah that would work best, though we keep this up and the kids are going to be playmates for a while." she said and he chuckled at that.
"Well so long as I'm not the one helping with most of these raids we're fine Piper, I'll offer police help when you need me, but if we got any more vultures like Rodriguez digging into our private lives it's going to be as bad as it could get. Cortez is getting far too nosy right now and the chief is making suggestions of calling a detective Sheryl Sheridan from L.A. At the moment." he said and they nodded to that.
"Alright, if she's one of those who are determined to bust us for something it's going to get her killed if this keeps up at the moment. Though if she's like Tom Kelly on Johnny Dangerously, I'm looking at a repeat performance here, till it nearly gets her killed and Andy is the one taking the bullet as a result to prevent her getting killed here." she said to him and he nodded to her at that.
"See you in the morning guys." he said and she gave him a hug then smiling as he tightened his arms around her, before leaving as they heard the front door shut. "Night guys." she said to her mother and grandmother and they smiled as they disappeared in a flash of lights then as they went to bed and he changed into his p.j.'s and laid down.
Telling Sheila and the Truth
The next morning Chris and Piper were up and at the grocery store getting what they needed for breakfast then. "Darryl, that is D.J., is two years old, so basic food safety for him here mom." he said and she nodded as she checked out what she was looking for and they headed home and got to work as Leo and Prue came in. "Morning guys, early start?" Andy asked as he walked in and they both nodded to him.
"Yeah, with the kids, I'm not risking him suffering an allergy attack, so I got several different fruits and other assorted items. And he and I've gone to step two now, so if you guys could set the dining room table. That would be a help now." she said as they heard a knock on the front door as Phoebe went to get it and they heard a bit of talking as Drake and Victor walked in the kitchen.
"Whoa, just short of two hours and this is looking delicious guys." Drake said and he smiled as Andy said it smiling. "Having more than one cook in the kitchen, it speed things things up a bit, but eighty percent done here. My sister-in-law is a master chef, and she's taught my nephew everything he knows Drake. Just don't take in too many cookies, her cookies are so good you're going to gain ten pounds off the carbs." he said to him and she threw the towel at him for that as Drake and Lei started laughing at that.
"Alright you guys chill alright, with my being being around more often, I'm keeping a few things here honey." Victor said and they all nodded to him as Leo though it over. "Last Halloween was we ended up 1697, this coming Halloween we're dealing with the usual, though at this rate it's less likely to to turn into a fiasco in this house." Prue said and Piper sighed. "Don't jinx it, you remember the horror movies coming to us."
"Nice touch, with Halloween being our biggest holiday now in our family, with the fact we're witches and whitelighters, as well as a demon or two in this house, we got to get used to this around here. As to that, time to to sort the bowl out, so chocolate, sugar free and chocolate with nuts. That way we can prevent an allergy attack or worse and check the candy wrappers for anything to be on the safe side too." Leo said to her and she nodded in agreement as Prue smiled at that.
"Yeah well, this Halloween is going to be one heck of a lot better than last year though, our son is part of the household and we got a very nice set of holidays on the rise now for us here." she said to him as she looked at him. "Okay, one, two three, four, alright eight adults and a toddler, that's eight big plates and two salad plates, I bought the toddler version of silverware and a few sippy cups for when Wyatt is born."
"A booster seat and one of the cups with a lid on it to prevent Mikey from knocking it over, boy these kids are going to be part of our lives pretty fast, the kids are starting preschool and kindergarten next school term. And you're working a pretty normal schedule this coming school term as a result, babysitter, part time job at the club, in addition to your martial arts training, after school practice and school schedule."
"Alright, she'll let us know if you need to babysit, but in the mean time, you're getting your homework done once you get off practice and I'll let you know if I need your help when you join me at work honey." she said and he nodded. "No problem mom, I'm acting as normal as possible in school, and living like any normal teenager, but the kids are my responsibility when I'm working, so I've got what I need here." he said to her.
" At the moment we just gather supplies as needed till Wyatt's born, then we use what we bought as he grows into his preschooler body after that." she added and he nodded. "Nice, alright so we're ready by the time he's born and we better get the fences as well so he's not crawling up the stairs or into the basement down there." Chris said and she smiled. "Well I missed the hard part with you, baby, at the moment."
"But the same is not said for little you at the moment, so I know what I'm looking at later as this gets started." she said as she took down several plates and passed them and the silverware to Prue and she took them and Phoebe grabbed the napkins and glasses as they got ready as they set the table as they heard the doorbell go off a second time and Leo went to get it and a minute later the Morris's walked into the room.
"Morning guys, whoa that's amazing, I can't do things like this in two hours." Sheila Morris said with an amazed smile. "Goes with the job of catering and being a chef Sheila, my son is an excellent cook as well, so both of us together we get it finished in two hours now. I wasn't sure what he was allergic to, so I bought several different types of fruit and the baby silverware and cups here." she said and they smiled as she answered her.
"Thanks, to answer the question he's allergic to strawberries, but the rest of this is no problem at all, D.J. is at the 'no' stage, so expect him to get a bit picky at the table when he's got his father and me on both sides of him. Though Mikey is allergic to grapes, but he loves strawberries." she said and Chris smiled. "Hey if you need a babysitter, I can do that, with my becoming an older brother soon enough, I can watch the boys if you want a night out, just bring them here." she said and they smiled at the offer.
"Thanks Chris, we accept the offer here. So how was school the last week, since your graduation there?" She asked and he chuckled. "Straight A's and I'm on the principal's honor roll list this time, and I just got my latest trophy for track this time, first place. The coach said he's naming me starting quarterback next season at the moment." he said and she smiled at that as Darryl hid a smile at the way this was being voiced so easily.
"You keep this up and every college scout in the country is offering scholarships to their schools kiddo." Darryl said and he smiled. "If I didn't know any better, I'd think he was channeling me when I was his age Darryl. I was on the football team and track team, but his personality is me and Piper rolled into one here." Leo said to him and he nodded as Leo ruffled his son's hair and he ducked smiling as D.J. looked at him.
"Chris!" he shouted smiling and walked over to him and he crouched on the floor. "Hey D.J., sleep good last night?" he asked and he nodded. "Yes, when eat?" he asked and he chuckled. "Now actually, come on." he said and he nodded. "I brought his high chair honey." Sheila said and he nodded as he walked him into the dining room and removed the cover, before sitting him in it, buckling him in and putting the tray in place.
"Man am I lucky I brought the sippy cups, he's less likely to spill juice all over the high chair here, what's his favorite exactly?" he heard his mother ask and Darryl answered that question as he got Mikey in his booster seat. "He likes apple juice, but it's alternating between that and cran-grape, Mikey like grape juice though Piper." he said as Drake, Andy and his father brought the food out and they started putting everything on the table, before they all sat down then.
Watching as his father's best friend loaded a small bit on his son's plate and setting it on his tray, before putting his cup next to it and then serving themselves he hid a smile. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say this was turning into a frequent thing around here lately, I heard about the arsonist, what happened exactly?" Sheila asked him and he sighed. "The arsonist was a part of a cult who were killing innocent people and the two charges we were tasked with protection detail were the latest targets."
"At the same time I was just getting used to building the bond with dad, since my parents had been married for three months now, Raynor Jenkins realized that Cole turned on them and turned this into another hit. Killing the first victim, but Uncle Andy woke up and we got him released and I did a bait and switch, but Cole knocked dad and me unconscious in the fight and that did it for mom and Aunt Phoebe." he said to her.
"Attacking an innocent woman is one thing, but attacking a fourteen year old kid, that is as sick as it gets here, I don't blame you for throwing him out Phoebe, believe me, I know it hurts, but things are going to be fine here." she said to her and she nodded. "Anyone check out the fact that ever since we saved that executive it's gone fairly quiet around here since we deflected the hit?" Piper asked and Drake nodded to her.
"Yeah, I'm a undercover cop, but the rumor mill says that old Lucas is biding his time at the moment Piper, but be ready it's going to come up sooner or later here." he said and they all nodded, before she could answer, a grape went flying across the table and landed in the butter. "Oops." they heard and hid a chuckle. "I guess that one didn't want to get grabbed and eaten." Darryl said and they chuckled at that gently.
As they watched him eating his breakfast like them softly as he listened to the conversation and hid a smile as Shelia looked at him. "Why do I feel like he's started on the hard parts of being a toddler, if I'm babysitting now?" he asked and Darryl chuckled. "He's going through the monsters under the bed and in the closet stage son. I'll give you a list of his favorite foods, but make sure the fences are at the stairs, and kitchen."
"At the moment, it's easier for you than my other babysitters, because half these girls bring their boyfriends along." she said to him and he nodded in annoyance. "At the moment the only girls in this house are my aunts, I've got a girlfriend, but I'm not breaking that rule, when I'm supposed to be watching over my young charge. Besides he's safer around me then these girls anyway at the moment." he said to her gently.
"Hey dad, did the hospital call off the on call thing at the moment?" Chris asked and he nodded. "Yes, Dr. Emerson and my unit have decided I'm a stand by with things slowing down, but best be on watch. School ended but these kids never know when to quit after last night's near bar fight at the club." he said and Sheila sighed in exasperation. "Darryl said the kid was speedballing, how much did the report come back on?" She asked him.
"It was .22, and the mixed chemical binge, which to a medic means ten hours in the tank and three months detoxing from the drugs themselves. As if that not enough, that kid is twenty one, and by getting arrested by us, the cops and paramedics. As to that he's just gotten himself thrown out of college here at the moment, On top of that, I'm a EMT, and I was on watch last night, before the outburst at the club." he said and she nodded.
"I knew I guessed right, that uniform belongs to your grandfather for the costume party, isn't that what an army medic was, you're an EMT, making sure your team-mate was stabilized, before you brought them to the hospital?" Darryl asked him and he nodded. "Yeah exactly, I was trained in medical school, before I joined the military myself, my father and grandfather were both army. I'm third generation medic and army corporal."
"I'd just finished my term of service in the military and gained my masters when I came home and found out I had a son at the time. Our frequent little problems of dealing with these maniacs came up after Phoebe got back from New York. Though why of all people Williamson tried that is beyond me, he can't handle it though, they could at the time." he said and Victor looked at her at that as Andy looked at him at that.
"What happened exactly?" he asked and she sighed. "After I came down with the arroyo fever, I suffered the fastest recovery the medics had ever seen and can't understand either and he became obsessed with us. The obsession reached the point to where he thought our blood hold the universal antibody, injected our blood into the monkeys we sprung from the lab then himself as a human test subject and lost his mind as a result."
"After attacking Benny Ritter, he went from basic psychotics to turning into Hannibal lector, without the cannibal stage, and it took ducking the rotary saw blade he threw at us to take him down at the time." she told him and he nodded in shocked disgust. "There's psychotics and there's crossing the line between helping people and murder honey. He crossed the line in going too far in being a good being and this was the point of no return Piper, you had no choice, for the greater good it to be done baby."
"In two years since we saw each other, I knew you'd just gotten a lot stronger, but why separate before you moved in together and Phoebe, honey what were you doing there in New York exactly exactly. Though you gained my capacity for travel, I wished I stayed in touch, though if I had you'd be a lot more self assured, where finding a mate is concerned and you'd be dating Drake right now?" he asked and she smiled.
"I was looking for you actually, Grams said you were in New York, I wanted to double check, after I came home that started things and our relationship turned into what it is now. But the added item attached to it is it brought the guys back into our life and we met Darryl as Andy's new partner at work. As we adjusted to life back together and they started dating by the time she started working at Bucklands." she said to him gently.
"Bucklands, the auctioning house, I'd say that being a photographer honey is more your style here, you're great at that, keep it up." he said and Prue smiled at him. "Thanks dad, were you a cat person by any chance?" she asked and he nodded as they heard a meow in answer to that. "Alright, I'll give you a small slice, but you're not getting scraps from the table girl." Darryl said to Kit with a smile then and gave it to her.
After talking over several different categories then, Darryl looked at Piper and nodded. "Sheila, could we head into the parlor, we need to tell you something." She said and she nodded as they headed in there as she sat her sons down with several of their toy cars and blocks and she looked at the quintet gently. "So what is it you want to tell me." she said and instead of answering Prue looked at the vase and it floated off the table.
"Whoa, how did you do that?" she asked and Piper explained that to her. "You remember the unusual reports of scorch marks and how half of these maniacs suddenly disappear of the face of the earth?" she asked and she nodded. "We're witches Sheila, my entire family are witches, aside from Leo, and Andy. It's our job to protect mortals, from demons, those murderers are demons." she said and she nodded in shock at that.
"That's what you meant by my son being safer with you than anyone else when he's being baby sat, you can protect him from these paranormal maniacs?" she asked and Chris nodded. "Yes, I'm a witch/lighter, roughly translated it means I'm half witch and half angel. The Harry Potter series has it fifty percent correct though, but all the murders in crime investigations are done by by minions of the underworld."
"Drake is an undercover one doing checks for us, but his allegiance is to the greater good and protecting innocents. You're a family friend, we can protect you." he said and she nodded as she closed her eyes to process all of this and then smiled. "Alright, I hear the truth in that and I believe you. But my only request, Darryl, is that when it comes to the dangerous items, I want you at home during those situations."
"If Andy is like them now, he can handle things, but our friendship is not getting terminated, because the magical world framed you for something, as to that, it's just being helpful and going to them for magical help, but once the magical big guns come out you back off and let Andy take it from there." she said and he nodded to that request. "You have my word Sheila, I promise. But Andy, Leo and Chris's cover stories, that's the other thing." here said and she nodded to that as she answered him.
"What exactly, what's going on?" she asked and Chris explained that. "I'm not from this time frame, but rather twenty three years after Aunt Sheila. Your son D.J. was my commander in the future, he watched me grow up, instead of the other way around. Like we said, I'm their son, but I'm not born till three years from today." he said and she nodded as the years translated themselves in her head and she looked at him in shock.
"You're from the future, so that remark in the kitchen?" she asked and he nodded with a sigh. "Yeah my future turned into hell on earth, leading into when mom was killed I was living the life I just mentioned in the kitchen, before the demons murdered my mother and from there my entire family was destroyed. I came back to ensure that never happens, and I'm regaining the five years I lost back while doing it."
"My youngest Aunt, she's a female version of me, she's also a witchlighter, it runs in the family actually, first was my Aunt Paige and then me and my brother. But I'm pulling a pre-emptive strike, long before Wyatt's born, to protect our future and family. As for Andy, he wasn't knocked unconscious, he's a angel now himself, but they act like normal humans in this job, he's still the same man you remember Darryl telling you."
"Dad's records were changed and he's the grandson of his 25 year old self from 1942, altogether, we just changed key details and made life a lot easier for all of us. We changed my birthday from four years from now, to when mom was a freshman in high school. But altogether, this me is the one you're able to watch now, before little me grows into my fifteen year old body later." he said and she nodded to that.
"In other words I get to watch you go through high school, and your first year of college, before I watch little you as he grows into an exact copy of what I see in you right now. So the best parts of life as a teenager, I get to watch you at your games and track meets and you're my permanent babysitter for the next five years, before you leave to return to the future." she said and he nodded to her as he explained that.
"Yeah that's it exactly, at the moment the pre-emptive strike has begun, the kids are completely safe with me, but we get a demon attack and I'm placing them in my room till the fight is over. But these guys never know when to quit, fortunately clean up duty is repeated use of the scenery altering spell, which puts the room back to its original state, before the attack and vanquish." he explained and she nodded as she got it.
"I don't know why we never looked through that book, it could have saved a lot of annoyance in cleaning up the house every time we deal with these guys." Piper said and he chuckled as he answered her. "You remember your remark after the demon of illusion though when he came to the house. 'it's a question for the room, every time a demon makes a house call..." he asked and she started laughing as she finished that.
"My curiosity gets peaked, yeah you're right, and at the time I was getting sick of cleaning up after these guys, though that's one heck of memory, and it brought up a horror movie cliche while doing it." she said and Sheila looked at her. "What was the cliche exactly?" she asked and Prue chuckled. "Being stalked by psycho killers and hiding in the bathroom shower." she said and the quartet started laughing at that.
"You know I never expected that with you just telling us the truth, I'd be this relaxed and confident in my new powers with you training me honey." she said and Chris smiled. "Though the job gets testy, aside from the vanquishing, it's fun too. We learn more about ourselves and heritage and it builds the bonds of family while doing it. You and dad are now acting like my parents and our family is now intact and we work together."
"During the first two years though you've got a lot to learn and then once you come into your powers and embrace them and your destiny, that's when you really take the job seriously mom. You taught me that family came first and to protect the greater good, you got to make a choice, but don't turn away from this. There's a drawback or two, but if we don't get it right the first time, we can try again tomorrow."
"If we'd been in the book series, we'd training be in school all week, life from 1 to 10 years old was normal and life after that was a mixture of both worlds, that's what you chose for us actually." he said and she nodded. " Well I'm taking it back five to seven years and you're practicing your control of your abilities from three to twelve years. But starting now you're living a mixture of both worlds and I'm the one training you."
" Along with your father, but from four to middle school we got you practicing to control your powers and you're living both lives and then it's a full time mixture of normal and magical from your tenth birthday to the age you are now honey." Piper said and he nodded. "You better write that down when little me and Wyatt are babies mom, but to get your lives completely balanced out, don't just sacrifice one for the sake of the other now."
"It's part of who you are, we're witches, but we're the same people we always were, and with those words, I'm never giving up my powers now." he said and she smiled as she answered him. "Looks like I changed more than I realized, if I taught you that much honey, alright never mind the old style clean up starting now, guys, we just use that spell every time we got a demon attack in the living room or the parlor now."
"And secondly, starting now, I'm teaching you proper use of your powers, before you make a mistake. So from here the rest of the summer, though you're in school and practice, if we need to deal with a demon attack or anything, we work as one, you teach me every potion we created and I'll teach you how to handle your powers later and we build the mother/son bond you wanted now." she said and he nodded to that.
"Yeah at my age I mastered everything you had to teach me, but growing up a witch is much easier than winging it for the first three years mom. As to that, I'll teach you everything your adult self taught me and dad teaches me to heal people, but I'm growing up normally now. Like you said, we're not on a dead-line yet, but our lives got a heck of a lot better now that I'm with you." he said to her and she nodded to that gently.
"Well as we said there's no need to hide things from us now. Our future five years, once we deal with the Source and get rid of him, name off each situation to the way you told us once we see the next four seasons after this one ends and we alter the sequences after that. But till your brother is born, just think of this as living life normally than once things change direction than we're on a deadline."
"But until then, the eight of us live as normally as possible after that, aside from the fact we're witches and whitelighters. Again, Darryl, the weeks leading up to his birthday, like say from the situation that causes that fracture and forward. Take two months off and head for Anaheim or Orlando, the four of you take a two month vacation, I can cover things till you get back, okay." Andy said and he nodded as he answered him then.
"Well that definitely helps, Prue, are you guys about to turn this house into a miniature version of Hogwarts with the amount of magic going on in it with the frequent attacks by these maniacs?" Darryl asked and they nodded. "Though we can't use our powers for personal gain, or hurting people, we found that out the hard way last year. We can use it for repair jobs in certain areas, so you hear an explosion in here, it's because she working on controlling her explosion powers later." she said and he nodded to her.
"Mom we just treat this like books four through seven now that I revealed that truth to you, we're the order of the Phoenix and our enemies are the death eaters. So with that their leader is going to take multiple cases of over kill, before we get rid of him for good here." Chris said and he nodded. "You're playing my version of Kyle Reese and Wyatt is playing Harry, all for gods sakes here, alright I get the point." she said to him and Darryl sighed.
"I've seen your powers get a little nutty at times, but at least I know what look for now: telekinesis and astroprojection, freezing and explosion powers, and divination and levitation, as well as being a red belt in combat now. Alright in this case, though I'm helping out, the minute it turns dangerous, I'm stepping back and Andy takes it from there Prue, Piper." he said and they both nodded to that statement.
"No problem, it's safer for me anyway, because though I'm an angel, I'm still a cop here, and when we got magical crimes coming in every other day, I'm bringing that back to the girls and with Drake acting as my contact, that solves the entire problem. To maintain our friendship now, you need to take that two month long vacation, before Chris is born. Guys, we can manage, but these vultures are not getting a straight answer." Andy said to him and he nodded to that.
Sighing, Prue looked at him and Darryl. "Guys we have to tell the chief, it's our only chance to get inspectors like Cortez or whoever comes after us later off our back." she said and they nodded. "Alright we do it Monday in his office, but our cover story is our job is a witness protection program now and Andy and I turn it to you, and these witches and mortals are our witness protection charges from the multitude of maniacal demons coming after them." Darryl said and Andy nodded in agreement to that.
"Dad, we better create the added cover story for you, we got your uniform from the service, why not add an orderly's uniform as an EMT to it and we can pretend you're an field medic and you're helping the doctors. But you're an on call and when on down time your secondary job is a handyman and contractor." Chris added and Leo smiled at the idea. "Good idea son, alright I'll talk to the cleaners and get that set up and Drake, you're acting an undercover cop gathering information downstairs." he said to him and he nodded as Phoebe smiled.
"Until Cole reconciles with me over this and I'm taking time in getting over him burning me at the moment, again. Drake you want to stick around the house for a while, though mom and dad are not living in the manor they're satisfied I got a friend like you at my side and I'm healing up from what he did to me." Phoebe said and he smiled at that as she looked at him gently as he gave her a hug and she tightened her arms around him.
"At the moment, I'd say this just resulted in the vampire brother losing control of his faculties with exposed blood on the floor and you're the one getting punished for it. Thankfully with me here I gave you something to think about and the pack and your father are relieved that I found you a better match. Though your better match happens to be your best friend and future love interest." Chris said and she chuckled and nodded to him.
"And at the moment he's going to have some very stiff competition now as well, because I'm not playing fair here, when I'm who you're matched too and we got the same likes and dislikes as well. So with that, with him working as a lawyer and D.A., I'm working as an undercover cop, but I'm returning to you immediately and the safest place for me is back at your side and with the family now as well." Drake said smiling and she grinned at that.
"And with those words in mind here when I'm your best friend and we're growing this close with him out of the picture now. I'm the one stitching you back up." Drake said to her and Leo answered that. "At the moment with us being her older brothers, I prefer having you around over him Drake. As to that our family is all good beings, but flirting with the darkside is the dangerous part of this job." he said to him and he nodded in agreement.
"Your choice in careers it's fine with me, in fact I would I'd say you'd should follow your heart and be the writer you want to be. Family responsibilities: family comes first and I'd give you a hand with that too, you don't have to give up your family responsibilities for me either Phoebes, they're my family too and I already feel the connection. So with that, till you're ready to move out, we live here with your sisters and brothers-in-law." Drake said and she smiled at that as the quartet exchanged smiles at this.
"If mom was alive she'd say you're the diamond in the rough Drake, because you're everything a mother would want for her daughter son. As to that, if you guys get together, I'm fine with it." Victor told him and he nodded to him. "If I'd grown up with you living here at the house, you'd have watched me turn into who I am now, as dad and you would be the best of friends Victor." he said and he chuckled as Chris changed the subject smiling.
"Dad with the fact we're turning our basement into a training ring, we're going to need the usual batch of training supplies, because I was taking Tae Kwon Doe from the time I was seven and I'm a green belt after ten years training. The issue of working with a sword comes into it as well, because Excalibur comes into the picture in three years, mom learns to fence and then passes it to Wyatt." Chris said and he nodded to him smiling at this conversation.
"With the amount you gave us we can ensure these parasites can't take another life and they're the ones winding up dead if they do. So training ring with Slam-man in the basement, a bo, a set of sais, excalibur's in the basement and we get another sword just like it and you can teach me fencing if Paige's past life makes a visit later. And a set of nunchucks, the punching bag and the room's got all the looks of a master Japanese martial arts training dojo." Piper said and he nodded in agreement to her thoughts.
"Yeah well that's two sets of bos, nunchucks, our swords on the wall, the mat covering the floor and everything else, we can train in between each encounter and the sais right next to the swords. Though our heavy duty equipment are the athame and the potions, but if one of us loses our active powers, for whatever reason, we go to back ups and that's being a very strong warrior in combat now."
"Drake is a skilled fencer and you can train with him in using the swords, and we work as one as a family of witches and whitelighters now." Leo said to her and she nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah well instead of having the staircase pointed directly into the training ring, we got to turn it to your workbench dad or shift it left and then turning to the front door, so if Aunt Phoebe's working on knife throwing, you're not in the line of fire, the wall of the platform is good five inches thick too." he said and they both nodded to that.
