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 chapter their reviewing his memories, so this is going to the most emotional chapter of the story, so keep a box of Kleenex close by when you read it. As Chris shows them every death of his family, and for the elders and the quartet: Piper, Phoebe, Leo and Drake they all get it what he lost and what's at stake now in this chapter, before they begin working on things.

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. Phoebe grows closer to Drake and there's a few references to the Twilight Saga for Phoebe and Drake in this story.

Look Who's Barking is two weeks later, so this is the ten days before that as they spend the time working on their house as they prepare to make the family bigger. But the focus in Phoebe's life regarding thing from now till she meets Coop is Drake and Cole, and in the end she has the same choices she's got to make in the show.

But from here the rest of the series is reimagined with Andy and Prue alive, Chris living with them now and Drake part of the family from this point forward. Till the final battle as they prepare for Chris and Wyatt's birthdays and season's five through eight remain the same, but Chris's identity is known by the entire family.

Chapter 16: Traumatizing Memories, Family Preparations and New Beginnings

"Alright so I'm taking off the last five stairs, turning them into a platform to stand on then turning the platform to the left, before the stairs point to the back wall behind the basement door and they're pointed towards the front door that way. So with the platform that way you can watch whoever's training down there and stay out of range, yeah okay got it. Once we destroy the nexus, the basement is clean of any type energy and we're safe now."

"Good point though son, we set up a dart board or just target against the wall in front of the stage and we can do target practice that way with the athames and work it out till we got our potions at the right spot after that." Leo said and Sheila looked at him. "How big is the basement exactly if you're bringing that up?" she asked and Chris answered that. "Covers the entire downstairs, just right below it, and that's big enough to have a darkroom and sparring floor, though with what we're buying it's going to work out now."

"Though fifty percent of the room is the sparring floor and the other half is the dark room, Dad's worktable is against the wall and we move the Christmas decorations upstairs, since we get the occasional attack up there and that prevents them from getting destroyed later." he said and she nodded as she saw her friends in a new way and smiled at that as she looked at her sons and felt relief they were safe.

"Actually guys, the four of you and your grandfather can do that later today while the girls and I go shopping for your furniture honey." Piper said and he nodded to that. "Good point we can get the stairs in the basement worked on while you and your sisters pay for his furniture and school supplies needed for school later, such as the computer and printer honey." Leo said and they nodded in agreement to that.

"I'm looking at another $3,000 just to do repair work you guys and get the furniture, because, with having Aunt Phoebe train me at the dojo, she's gained the training to train me now and we need a full training ring in the basement. And we're not spending $5,000 a month for training when we got a couple of skilled fighters teaching me now at the moment." Chris said and Phoebe smiled as Andy answered him as he said it.

"Yeah well the difference here is I'm also a skilled martial arts expert son. With her it's basic training, I'm teaching you the advanced skills and with that expect me to teach you where to aim when you're fighting a mortal, but the skills needed for demons are different here." he said and she nodded in agreement to that thought. "Alright, the five of us are going to the hardware store and getting what we need, before heading for the sports store."

"And get the training equipment and mats so we got the room set up, but the room is looking like a basic dojo down there and slam-man is getting itself out of storage when we set up the basement down there." Drake said and Sheila smiled. "I'll go with the girls honey, and the kids are coming with me while you do that. So you're sticking around Drake?" She asked and he chuckled and nodded to her as he answered her.

"Yeah I am, but I think we should get the child proof supplies while we're at it with the boys spending fifty percent of their time here later on." he said and they nodded to that in agreement. "Okay so basic childcare equipment, his school supplies and ensuring our house is completely childproof with the fact we got five kids running around this house later, and I'm prepared to take care of a toddler as a result, before I deal with my own." Leo said to him and he nodded to that in agreement as his son looked at him smiling.

"What types of locks do you think we should have on these cabinet doors exactly, to keep the kids from getting anything dangerous when the lower portion of the house is seeing the most excitement?" Piper asked him and he smiled. "I'm paying for thirty key locks honey, like the ones on a file cabinet of the top shelf and the nine of us have the keys. The fireplace and the coffee tables are getting child proofed and the downstairs is completely ready by the time you guys get home here." he said and they nodded in agreement.

"Dad, instead of having the door upstairs locked we should move the attic door to the bottom of the stairs, hex the door and attic itself to keep out evil and lock and padlock the door. This keeps mortals out of there, and aside from the ten of us, nobody, mortals, demons or in the case, of whoever our perp is, angels, nobody has access to the attic." he said and sighed as he told them the truth then, knowing his parents were going to be furious.

"As I said, Barbas gets involved during the months leading up to my birthday, but whoever he was conspiring with, you were furious at and you vaporized them. But this someone is the reason you wanted nothing else to do with with the whitelighters mom, so my guess this someone is a whitelighter, and probably someone above suspicion, because we got involved in Magic school in the weeks after Aunt Phoebe busted me." he told them and they nodded.

"Alright we got a demon definitely, but if it's really a whitelighter or even an elder, nobody but the quartet is being trusted and that includes the headmaster at Magic school and his deputy. Our son is Anakin Skywalker and it's a cross between Obi-wan and Darth Sidious, so to insure our Phantom Menace never gets his hands on him or worse, we're not trusting anyone outside of our circle, magical wise, once the door to magic school opens." Leo said and they nodded in agreement to that thought gently.

"So my son is playing Anakin, I'm playing Ben, alright my son is, once he's three months old is being protected no matter what, demons, mortals, whitelighters, I don't care, but nothing is taking my children away from me. Nobody but the people in this room and the quartet he confided the truth in, are to be trusted." Leo added and she nodded in agreement. "But altogether to ensure the upstairs of the house is completely safe we need to hex the entire hall to guard again evil spells, illusions, hallucinations, the works here."

"One good thing they hardly ever attack on the staircase and the hallway up stairs, so all doors upstairs, aside from the nursery are closed, and locked and there's a fence blocking the top of the staircase and it's drilled into the wall, as is the one leading into my bedroom. Setting up a dumb waiter from the first floor to the second floor should work. The intention is to prevent the kids from falling down the stairs, so to prevent that now."

"Once we get an attack, if the kids are here, I'm putting them into their elevator and it's being connected to their nursery, the door us hexed and and theirs a fence at the top of the stairs. The house never got an upgrade yet, so we're adding a few things to modernize it magically So the house goes from early Victorian to across between that and a Tudor like style dad, with the dumbwaiter at the dining room door and that's their escape route." Chris added as he said it with a smile and he nodded to him smiling as she smiled.

"The dumb waiter is the emergency door to get the kids upstairs and into the hallway there and straight into the nursery. Yeah I get the idea, you got us close to $6,000,000 we just use a fifth of that to exact repair and do extended recovery work on the house. Along with making it look like you really grew up here all your life with what we're paying for next. And then the four of us hexing every door and window in the house with an unbreakable charm to prevent us from needing to replace the glass on the Windows and doors every time later." she said to him smiling as he answered her with a smile then.

"Yeah the dumb waiter is the kids security door leading into their nursery and the nursery is hexed with a sound proof hex so they can't hear the noise downstairs. It's also hexed with demon detectors and everything the magical world can come up with, danger wise, and you created several spells for that when Mellie was born mom. To put this gently, Wyatt and I were practically raised around demons and warlocks."

"Mellie was born after the ultimate battle, a year later, while he and I are used to it." he told her and she nodded. "With you guys being that powerful it's easier on you, but with teenage you protecting little you and your brother, we got the security in place and the house is completely safe to mortals and family. The nursery is having all the looks of a junior day care center, as is the sun room later and that's our added safety touch Darryl."

"To explain this, your kids have a miniature door and elevator fit to them and their baby brothers. It's hexed with a energy ball and fireball charm and is magically hexed, to, once the kids are in it, it's leading them directly to safety, because that elevator is leading from the dining room to get them into their nursery. So they're safe and their nursery has every hex I can think of to ensure the demons never hurt them when they're here in the house."

"If we got any more children younger than this, we got a way to handle it now and things get easier this way, especially if it's another mortal child and they're wards of the state. But that door fits children 1 to 10 years old and the nursery is set from 1 to 12 years old, and it's going to get turned into the kids play room, once the early portions are done with, once we're retired here." Leo told him and he nodded as she finished that with a smile.

"We're hexing the hallway to insure the demons can't get up there, so the hall on the second floor and the nursery is hexed to protect the kids and any kid or mortal that needs protection is safe in the protected area upstairs while this is going on. With this amount we got enough to last ten years before we each take our portion of the Inheritence grams left us at the time, but the house is going to be a mixture of mortal and magical now."

"It's also got the toys fitted for their age levels, ages two to five years old and games and puzzles and others pieces that are too big to swallow. So childcare and safety is a big factor when we're creating a semi normal lifestyle in this house and the kids are around magic 24 hours a week as well." She said and they nodded to that. "Miniature elevator set to the kids standards and right into the nursery, well that certainly helps now Piper."

"So once inside the elevator the thing activates and takes them straight into their nursery and they settle in up there, till the battle ends and they come down after its safe and you cleaned up the mess?" he asked and they all nodded to him smiling as Chris looked at them. "With me in the past and I just ensured that the demons, let alone anything else can't break you up, our side of the family is intact now and it's just going to get bigger as time goes on."

"But the six of us are family and we got to get a few pictures taken, and with that, the first family picture, of our family, taken is being done, tonight, with you and dad married. While like Glen was Paige's best friend Drake is Aunt Phoebe's and our family is intact, so that solves added problems and Glen doesn't mind she's a witch either." Chris added and the duo smiled as they pulled him into a hug. "Good point, we're a family again finally, and I get to watch you grow up now." Piper said and he nodded smiling as he gave her a hug.

"I've waited three years for this and we get that chance now mom, you can watch me go through high school, graduate and see me start college now, five years together, I'm not leaving you." he said and she smiled at him and she tightened her arms around him. "Seeing you like you are now, you're everything I wanted you to be Chris, I'm very proud of you." she said and he smiled and tightened his arms around her.

"Guys leading up to my birthday, like two days before, the four of us ended up in the parallel." he said looking at his father and Phoebe and Andy covered his eyes at that. "Parallel, what's that mean exactly?" Darryl asked and Andy explained that. "It's the reverse of our reality, here every good person is a cop, soldier, Doctor, or, in our case, witch and white lighter. In that reality everything is the reverse, of what it is here."

"And we're everything that you and I had to arrest repeatedly, what we swore to put behind bars and in the case of the girls destroy to prevent the demons from destroying us. Evil is good and good is evil, so with that whitelighters are darklighters, witches have become warlocks and everything about our town it's turned into hell on earth. And I mean that literally, if the demons had been honest to god demons like what they created for the game."

"Like what he showed us last night, that's what Chris is trying to prevent by coming back, keep Wyatt from turning evil. Because being the source is like being Satan and he's turned into Darth Vader as a result and it's turned into the Galactic empire as a result in our future and if that video game ever came true, while downstairs everything is in reverse and it looks like the town does right now." he said and Darryl nodded as he got it.

"Right sorry, let the object of objection, become but a dream as they cause the scene to be unseen." she said and it returned to its original look then. "I've got to get used to that in this house now, but this is ridiculous here." she said to them and he nodded as Darryl hid a smile. "Trust me I'm used to it honey, Andy and I were coming up every other day when a case involved them, and I wind up finding out when they're dealing with Mrs. Hellfire." he said to her and she nodded to that explanation with a bemused smile as Andy held it in smiling.

As Chris looked at the attic hall he smiled. "Evil of kinds and levels are true, reject in attic and stairs and innocents and witches are protected in virtue and strength anew, protect this staircase, scan for evil and untrustworthy so all that is true." he said and the attic, attic stairs and attic door glowed gold in response then as he looked at his mother smiling.

"What's that one you just used exactly?" Prue asked and he smiled. "I just safe guarded the attic and the stairs leading into it by turning it into a scanner, good beings and witches have access to it. But evil and people, if Dan Gordon suddenly gets obsessed with mom, or Jenny gets obsessed with me come back, and it's hexed to keep them out of the attic now. The door can be moved to the bottom of the stairs and we added a padlock and key lock to it."

"And now for the final touch here." he said and walked into the nursery. "Protect of children, family, future family and innocents of anew, defend against evil all levels are true, safety of children and innocents are new, protect good and children so all that are true." he said and the room glowed gold in response then. "Well that should do it, the entire second and third floor are now completely safe to the kids and us now." Orlin said to him smiling gently.

"Not quite, I need to make one last adjustment, because dad said that anyone outside of our circle, by that I mean the four of you. Odin is okay as is Kayla and Sandra, let alone Zola, but for our sake we prefer you four to be in on this only Orlin." Chris said and he nodded to him. "I understand Chris, so who's trustworthy in your eyes, if the four of us were the first to be told and Drake is your aunt's best friend and future love interest?" Kalina asked and he smiled ad he answered her.

"To answer you, its you four, grandpa, my family, me, the Morris's, and Drake, when Wyatt is born, anyone else outside of us is not to be trusted now. We got burned after Aunt Prue was obsessing over demons when it turned out that mom's bartender was our stalker. but Darryl said that any small thing can set these guys off. So with that, we trust no one, but our circle once my brother is four months old and our circle is above suspicion now." he explained and the quartet all nodded to his idea then.

"Nice thinking son, our circle is above suspicion, because family and close friends are the ones insuring your brother never turns evil. The four of us came to see you, so we just got added to the list of trustworthy applicants, than that means the rest of the whitelighters and the elders are not trustworthy. Until the danger is passed correct?" Peter asked and he nodded to him. "i know that Gideon is an elder and his deputy is a whitelighter."

"But starting the day that the door to magic school opens on the staircase, anyone not under the list of applicants that we created now is under severe scrutiny after that. Whatever Darryl told you is correct though: if I was the perp I'd look at the fact that my brother has too much power coursing through him and it's just going to get stronger as he grows older. But we, as elders, and whitelighters, don't choose who's above the law or deserves to die."

"Odin, Zola, Orlin, would you consider killing a child, a defenseless 18 month old baby, to prevent the future I told you about from coming true. You're all powerful, you can save lives, you stop people from dying would you cross that line to ensure nobody dies. And because you got the power of life over death over the magical world?" he asked and the quartet shook their heads. "No we wouldn't Chris, in fact, with whoever caused this, he's got it stuck in his mind, he's the end all and be all of us elders, if the Titans tried to kill us and your father gets promoted."

"But no we wouldn't, we'd act like you do and stop it before it happens. If that elder or white lighter decided on this he's suffering the Darth Vader complex, just in reverse. But we'd never cross that line, we don't choose who has the right to live or not, but if he's working with a demon, than it has to be Barbas now, and for the father of the twice blessed, and with those words, we let your Obi-wan Kenobi take out this Jedi turned Sith." he said to him softly and he nodded as he looked at his father.

"I'm not holding that against you, with you guys being for us and our bonds as friends growing stronger by the minute Orlin, Kalina, as to that, you're the only ones I really trust, you four, and with that in mind. If we're doing this meetings and he's acting like Chancellor Palpatine did and does in the movie when he's manipulating Padme, I'd rather have you at my back, till I can determine, he's a friend of foe. Because with the dial six months before Chris is born." Piper said to him, trailing off, and he nodded to her gently.

"Yes well we fixed things between us and like we decided with you Andy, you and Prue must focus on your jobs too. Okay look you guys, all of you are going to be dealing with this, but like Chris suggested, once Paige comes into the picture, write up a schedule for vanquishes and you rotate between you, though with your pregnancy, you can still help, just don't over extend yourself." he said and Peter finished that remark gently.

"Simply because we're looking at the protection of the future, we're living in the moment, not for the future, until your son is born we focus on the here and now. And then once the year starts than we start on things, but he needs to live as normal a life as possible till the door appears on the stairs, once we reach that day, that's his trial by lava at this early an age." he said to her and Phoebe smiled at the wording. "The Phantom Menace, good thinking, we're dealing with the living force right now."

"Once your brother is born we deal with the unifying force, the future is endanger, because something traumatized your brother and it warps his young mind, that's the threat now. So as to that we watch the rest of the faculty till our perp reveals himself and his true intention here and then we vaporize them. Our perp is a phantom menace, that phantom menace is hiding in plain sight and we let our guard down and its going to destroy us."

"That's what killed the Jedi, they got too arrogant, didn't realize that the danger was hiding in plain sight, and wouldn't change the code and their chosen one turns to the darkside, because he joined the oposition and is suffering from the guilt he killed in cold blood. He lost his mother and he's scared to death of losing his wife and lets this phantom menace destroy him, anger, fear, lust for power and guilt, that's the key to his undoing, we're insuring Wyatt doesn't suffer from the same." Prue said and he nodded to her as Chris said it to her gently.

"So we wait till the week leading into my conception date and work forward from there." He said and the quartet and the others all nodded in agreement his thoughts then. "I'm lucky we love science fiction so much, but best to get movies that allow you to watch and take notes here. With a teenager living full-time in the house now, we're getting whatever movies you loved in your future son." Victor said to him and he smiled at that then.

"Alright I think we better call it here ladies, you guys head out, while the five of us deal with getting the hall worked on and I'm dealing with the attic door." Leo said to them and the quartet nodded to him. "I'll take the kids with me honey, they got first class protection with me and and the trio now." Sheila said to Darryl and they nodded as the couples kissed, before separating, as Phoebe gave Drake a hug and he tightened his arms around her.

"Whoa hold up, we got to get the money." Chris said and they nodded as they left the room and headed upstairs then. "One, two, three, alright here's $10,000 for you and $10,000 for us that's enough to get everything today, just make two stops baby. Alright the first stop is to the furniture Store and the second is to Walmart and Target so we can get the childcare supplies and stuff. We can bring his furniture upstairs, before you head for the department stores." Andy added to Prue and they nodded to that suggestion.

"Wait, what the devil?" Orlin said as the amount they removed suddenly replicated till there was $80,000 as the money got replaced and he covered his eyes as he looked at his parents. "The resistance has $80,000,000,000,000 in the budget, they're trying to make it seem like I'm from well to do family, but with the amount grams left you guys, we've got exactly $6,500,000. Though they keep this up and we're looking at $100,000,000 and that's going to last till I return to the future mom, dad." he said to them and they both nodded, bemused.

"Well at least this pays for for the second loan we took out on the house last year and the club is a success now. So we put this into a family account that the five of us have access to to it guys. Than once Chris is in his junior of high school he gets his own bank card and that starts his own account with us as well. I don't believe this though, for two years since you start on your craft, we've had to repair and replace things for being destroyed."

"But that's what they're trying to assimilate here, our family is beyond wealthy as millionaires, alright so we're creating your own training ring downstairs, paying for your furniture and your school supplies and we're preparing for your brother's birthday in eighteen months. Okay so we use the amounts needed in the furniture, personal renovations and groceries. And in your case, we get whatever movies you loved in the future."

"It's going to take us a an hour to get that added bookshelf above the five footer with the suspensions in the wall, because that ones got your keepsake book on it and with the fact we hexed the bedroom, you better hex it to protect your brothers later. Since your survival bag has a knife and a bunch of poisons that are poisonous to them." Leo said to him and he nodded. "Don't worry dad, the truck is locked and they're too young to crack a combination lock as well." He said and they smiled and nodded to that.

"With that fact we had brunch, we're stopping off to get a snack for the kids as well so they're not snuck in the strollers and can head for the park later, while you guys are working on the house." Piper said to him and he nodded to that suggestion. "No problem, I'm getting my tools and we're getting to work on the door down here, but we're leaving after you guys do." Leo said and they nodded to that as the elder quartet disappeared then.

"Alright, protection of children, and future family a true, scan dark intentions of those outside of circle of crew, with honor, truth and strength of good, scan, block and trap dark intentions of true." Chris said to the nursery and it flashed red and then gold and he smiled. "Odin, Zola!" he called out and they orbed in then. "What is it Chris?" He asked and he explained that to him. "I'm testing a new magical security system for when Wyatt is born Zola."

"It's programmed to scan for dark intentions. If the person entering the room is trustworthy, they're scanned by a gold light, evil or untrustworthy red, and this way any kids or innocents in this room know that the person who walks is about to become a problem later. Because Dan already showed he can't be trusted after he dug into dad's records and Abby was stalking Aunt Prue, so with that this is the insurance policy this time now."

"The floor is also hexed to neutralize all evil powers and is set to knowing evil or dark intentions from good. Both mortal or magical, so we can find our phantom menace when the door to magic school opens." he said and they nodded as they walked to the door and it glowed gold and they went in. "Okay you're trustworthy, and it's not sensing anything dangerous about you, well that helps later." Leo said and they nodded in agreement to that.

"So gold means the person is trustworthy and good and red means they're not, and with that, for protection of children, mortal and magical friends and future family, all in circle of mortal and magical above suspicion and trustworthy and family, to defense of thee, seek out dangers and untrustworthy associated with circle and protection of thee. Circle of strength and trust, of family, and friends protected in thy walls and defend and defense of thee."

"Search out and defend against evil and untrustworthy in defense of thee, protect all innocents in this room, so mote it be!" Orlin snapped and it flashed gold and they nodded to that with a smile as they exchanged looks. "What was that you just put on to the room?" Piper asked him and he smiled. "It's meant to defend against anyone outside of our circle with Sandra arriving in time to test out the charm Chris put on the room."

"I just strengthened it to block anyone but the eleven of us, when we get demons, warlocks and any other type of evil landing in this house on a regular basis. But anyone in the good spots till your student comes into the picture later." he told her and she nodded as Sandra smiled. "Well the six of us are part of your circle as trustworthy, but I'm not telling Gideon about this." Sandra said to Piper and Leo and they both nodded to her smiling.

"Whitelighters can't read the minds of their own kind, can they Sandra?" Darryl asked and the sextet shook their heads. "No we can't, that's another thing that falls under personal gain, personal gain and misuse of magic have very serious consequences. Because you use it to intentionally inflict trouble on someone, it turns around and does you in the process, though your sister evidently learns that the hard way later girls." she said to them gently.

"Were you guys witches, before you turned into whitelighters if you just put that spell on the nursery Orlin?" Prue asked and they nodded. "We were, but we died like ninety years ago, your brother-in-law was 'born' sixty two years ago and he's one of the younger whitelighters in our grouping." Kalina said and they nodded to that explanation. "Alright time to go." Sheila said and they nodded as they went to get the kids and Piper grabbed an envelope.

Sticking the money into the wallet, she put it into her purse and grabbed her favorite sweater then. "Whoa wait mom, with what you saw last night, we have to show Phoebe a brief glimpse of what I told you. Grandpa, could you babysit for maybe fifteen minutes, we're going to the tribunal. I have to make my point clear to the elders and Phoebe, so they can see everything." Chris said and they nodded as they orbed out of the room

The Tribunal

After arriving, the sextet of elders looked at him. "Alright Chris what is it you have to show us, so we can understand that threat to the future?" Zola asked and he explained. "Remember when I said that both versions of the Charmed Ones are gone in my future, though I'm nearing eighteen in looks here?" he asked and the sextet all nodded to him. "We do, so your proving your claims true for us now?" Orlin asked and he nodded to him.

"I am, what I did last week insured that though we lost one innocent we saved the other, the amulets are now split between her new coven and our family and the spell to activate the charm has been destroyed. Is that a good start to my being back in time now though?" he asked and the quartet nodded as they looked at him, his parents, Prue and Andy gently. "It is and nicely done all of you, that was very nice teamwork."

"Alright so that's one, what we have next is a very good question at the moment, but why do you hate Cole so much exactly?" They heard as as two orbs of light appeared then as his grandmother and great grandmother arrived. "Mom, Grams!" Prue and Piper shouted in delight then and they smiled and gave them hug then as he pulled his great grandmother into a hug then smiling as she smiled at him as he said it to her.

"Added issues of toying around with the time travel, it's going to cause your memories to rearrange themselves, but one of said changes. Was and is you're remembering me as a little boy growing up in last decade, before the girls gained their powers." he said and she nodded. "Yes and you with them, I was trying to protect you from having your powers activate too soon, you were still a child and you weren't ready just yet."

"Whatever your aunts considered now, was just it, like the Disney movie Halloweentown I did the same thing with you by covering up your little telekinetic stunts when you wanted a cookie before dinner at the time." she said and Piper looked at her with a bemused smile at that. "I understand why, because if I saw that I'd have realized we were witches and he, Prue and I wanted to remain normal at the time."

"But was that what the heart shaped vial was, the potion to hold off for another six years till he was old enough to handle his abilities and us with him, grams?" she asked her and Penny nodded. "Yes it was, but you decided now with him here and me gone, you had to protect him now with him beginning to adjust to using his powers. Especially with the Grimlocks on the loose." she said and the trio nodded as Victor moved to Patty.

"Patty, I know we wasted 24 years, regarding this over Sam and your affair with him, but I want another chance, would you..." he started to say and she smiled. "Yes, yes Victor we can, we're not divorced and we never were, I'll take you back, you're still my husband, I love you." she said and he smiled as he hugged her and the girls smiled at that as he looked at Penny then as he said it to her gently as the trio stood there.

"Penny, I may be mortal, but I think we can set that aside now, for the girls, they need me with you guys upstairs right now. So if you don't mind, I can take care of them and the boys now, but they need me as the father/grandfather. We just updated the house and Piper asked me to move back in with them, if you don't mind." he said and she nodded. "I left the house to Piper in the will Victor, as I said before in this situation."

"One of the girls has to keep the nexus grounded in good or evil is going to take over the house." she said and he crossed his arms. "What's the nexus exactly anyway?" he asked and she sighed. "Our house was built in the center of a pentagram, it could be a source of unwavering good or evil. To put this bluntly, the shadow character that is in the nexus, Phoebe gave it the name woogieman, it's a demon I've been trying to keep contained."

"But every time we have an earthquake the damn thing breaks out, till I created a spell to banish it back into its hole again. The girls started using the spell and it's been working so far, but if we don't destroy the nexus in the next five years the underworld could use that to start spreading like the flu." she said and he nodded. "We'll take care of it then, but we did a few extensions to the house and we're creating a a small studio."

"A martial arts training system in the basement for him and the girls so they can train between encounters and once Paige comes into the picture. We're not short handed anymore right now with four sisters." he said and she nodded. "Yes well to pull that off right now at the moment is a finishing touch. Prue, you remember when you created two duplicates of yourself?" she asked and Prie nodded as she answered her then.

"Yeah we already had that conversation Grams, I'm creating a double for myself, so once the Source thinks he's killed me. Then we spend four months laying low and and doing renovations on the house, magical renovations. And Chris just told me he took after me and Piper the most, but he's taken care of the items. That you were concerned about, regarding me and Piper now." she said and Penny nodded as she looked at him, smiling.

"You certainly made me proud Chris, I've been trying to get them to realize that being normal is over-rated and its part of who we are. And you just did my job for me by being in the past now, you're my pride and joy, make me proud baby." she told him and he grinned. "Thanks grams I will, and to answer your question grandma, it wasn't just any different batch of Brotherhood demons every time, he's the leader of the group."

"He killed mom first, than Aunt Phoebe, and then was with a guy like Eames as he killed Aunt Paige and dad. But all four sisters by the very same demon, and it's the one that Aunt Phoebe brought into our lives, by falling in love with him. In his eyes, Paige was the reason their relationship fell apart, and Phoebe chose the three of you over him. He wanted revenge for that and when he saw Phoebe with Uncle Coop, that did it finally."

"You remember Beauty And The Beast?" he asked and they nodded as Drake moved forward at that. "Cole is playing Gaston and Coop is playing whoever the beast's real name is, correct. That's the point of fact because I'm her, or I'm about to be her future love interest and Coop is her true love. I'm the beast, he's the prince, that it and in his eyes she belongs to him, but she loves us and if he can't have her, no one can?"

"Is that what you're telling me son?" he asked and Chris nodded. "Yeah that's it exactly, Paige hates Cole for killing Prue, though he never threw the fireball, she's gone. And Phoebe still blames and blamed her after they supposedly vanquished him three times. In her eyes, 'why should I forgive her for this, if Cole destroys my family, that's fine, so long as I can be with him'." he said and the quartet all looked at her at that.

"But it gets better, I'm just like you mom, in my eyes he's nothing, but a demon, just another demon like every one we destroyed over the years. But guess where this is going to lead, because I'm the reason she threw him out of the house now, with the fact in her eyes Wyatt's as her first born nephew. Though I got here two years, before he was born and in your eyes I just accomplished everything to insure you two are happy now."

"Dad is staying on Earth indefinitely, Andy is back, I just gave you both everything you wanted now. By my just telling you straight off who I am to you: you get a chance at a slightly normal life. Being able to balance between your normal and supernatural lives, your marriage is a lock now. You and Andy getting married, and they're both staying on earth, indefinitely." he said and they both nodded slowly as Piper said it for both of them.

"You're right, you just gave us everything we ever wanted and you're going to be able to show me how to manage with little you and your brother. Show us how you can balance our lives out. Your aunt is an adult you, but three witch-lighters in our family, she hears the truth regarding you and she's got someone who understands her now. To me this is even more helpful, and if that's not enough it's no longer the power of three."

"But the power of four, you have more than all of us together, so you and I can get the job done easily, you and your father can rebuild your bonds, he and I are never getting separated. Prue has the chance at her own happiness and to her that's not enough, just how selfish can you get, it's envy and the need to always be in the limelight. Prue, that's the problem, she's jealous we have a chance at happiness and hers is in utter turmoil."

"She's me after I chose to give up Leo, and you after your I.D. vented your resentful feelings at her. In regarding you had to watch us live her dream and despite the fact you and I, as well as dad and Leo, said he wasn't supposed to be at the house. And just before the wedding, she still brought him in, so what's that say to you Prue?" she asked her and she nodded as Patty crossed her arms then at the news as she answered her.

"It says that she wants to be the best at everything she does, and is going to start holding resentment. Now, for the fact that your son, my grandson, saved the innocent, by sabotaging her relationship. Well that's just too darn bad young lady, we have a job to do, and it means, even if it means running an accidental sabotage. It's for the greater good, your father and I are still married, though I love Sam, Victor is still my husband."

"Your sister and Leo are meant to be and Chris chose the one option necessary to insure that, by telling us, you and his parents the truth. He saved our latest innocent, by setting him up, crossed and doubled crossed, Raynor set him up. So he broke your trust by supposedly killing Jenna, Chris created a clone so you could let out the last bit of anger. At him, this is for the greater good, as is getting Andy back, telling us who he is."

"Preventing a fracture in a friendship regarding you and Darryl, it's all for the greater good, so enough young lady. Piper." she said and she nodded to her at that firmly. "And with all that in mind here's the problem now, my son here, he just risked his own existence giving us a chance at a pre-emptive strike three years before he's born, and before his brother is born as well, and we can insure Wyatt never turns here at all."

"But in her eyes everything he's telling us is a lie and to her, his secrets are destroying our happiness. But no they're not, oh no, instead her god damn catalyst is that someone destroyed her happiness and it's, in her eyes, it's not fair. Well news flash, yes it's not fair, but life's not fair, but that's the way it is Phoebe, so grow up." she said sternly as Prue finished her remark, her blue eyes blazing in anger as she looked at him gently.

"You can't have it both ways Phoebe, you can't be with us as long as you're dating a demon or married to the source, it doesn't work like that. And yes it's not fair, but you have to pick a side, good or evil, that's how it works, even if means giving up something you love you have to choose. We understand that, because of our past lives, we stayed good, because of our great grandmother: Piper's past life is our great grandmother and our great aunt, is my past life, we understand the rules, and we stayed good."

"But your past life is screwing with your responsibility here, you fell in love with a warlock and you turned on us and it gets you segregated from us in your past life, well it's happening again. But the warlock is replaced with a more deadly version and it's a demon and his fellow compatriots. As to that, it's a choice, once you marry him, your trials begin, and your trial by lava is by letting him kill us or you help us destroy him."

"That's the choice, good or evil, that's how it works, but until then, we have a job to do, and even if it means giving up our freedom, we do it and we can get along fine on our own once Paige comes into the picture. Because she's just like us, but this attitude gets started its us and you once he loses his powers finally, and I'm warning you, start trying to get into Paige's love life and she's coming to me and I'm the one letting you have it."

"It's not our business, unless she comes to us to ask, we just worry from afar, like Piper and I always do and did with you, yes she's the baby of that family. But having you smother her, she's going to get rebellious, just like you did growing up. So again until she comes to us for advice regarding this and Richard, it's none of our busines, so we but out, got it." she said with a warning tone and she nodded as she swallowed at that.

"What's the circumstances now, that you and Paige are about to be the reason for their failed relationship, because you're both so against him and you prefer Drake and Coop to him. He's determined to make it look like you're hallucinating to her until she gets the proof later he's turned back to the darkside baby? You have the knowledge of the future, but I have to know this Chris, honey, which version of you am I looking at here."

"Which version are you, sweetheart, the one from the first time frame of the season DVD's or the baby that was born after that you was killed by whoever our perp is?" she asked and he sighed. "I was born, after my twenty two year old self was killed by your perp. This me is after my version of Wyatt fell to the darkside, when Cole, though he got trapped in the ghostly plane, broke out and he killed both of you."

"Wyatt was twenty in that vision of the future I showed you, but that's from four years worth of power corruption, we're eighteen months apart in age. But this me, this me is four years younger than the one in the DVD packs, because I was born after the timeline in those DVD's. You and dad fixed your relationship, dad chose being a whitelighter, but he got recalled, maybe five years after Mellie was born, but that's the truth now mom."

"In all honesty, I'm entering my senior year of high school in my future, but dad chose to have me see you, mom and him at your current ages. As its now 2001, I chose this past week to arrive to prevent it at all costs. But this me is from 2021 Aunt Prue." he said and she nodded to him firmly. "You're my baby boy, the one that was born after the adult you was murdered by our perp?" Piper repeated as she walked over to him gently.

"I am mom, this me was just about to start my senior year when dad was killed finally. But the brotherhood got Cole back and he slaughtered our entire family, because he's crazy jealous, and he and the darklighters annihiliated our entire family by the time I hit the age I am. All I have left in my future is Coop, and Penny, that's it, that why I chose this, and dad said go back to now so I could see you and him at your current ages"

"That's why I lost it last week when I went off in him, he killed you and Phoebe on the side of six months, seeing you now, I can't lose you again. He never killed Aunt Prue, but I still blame him for the destruction of our family, me and Paige share the exact same appeal here regarding this. And here it is, in our interpretation now mom, but he's the reason Prue is dead in our eyes, it's always been Cole, Cole killed her, first."

"Than you, to us, we wanted revenge, because he took you away from us, for me it's even worse, I'm a mama's boy, you're my entire world, I'm not losing you again. But to Phoebe it's always been circulating around him, even though she married Coop she still hold resentment towards you and Paige. She was resenting Paige for her having to kill Cole in both the DVD time frame and my past, because of the damn baby, mom."

"And you hated that thing so much, because, in your eyes, that baby corrupted the good in her and she turned on us. With me being the first of the two of us to drive a wedge into their relationship, before Paige does it. You know what I'm really saying here, I lie to you, but it's because I'm trying not to completely screw with the time, we fix the family, and the future, but you and dad are together for life now, Andy's back and I got Drake."

"But with these improvements now, in your lives, I'm about to become the one she's going to start getting disgusted with, even though I made you happier than you've ever been now mom." He told her and she pulled him into a hug then. "Indeed, you fixed things in their relationships, that's more than gentle changes, by making them completely happy, I don't see that as relationship sabotage, I see that and everything."

"Whatever you're planning next as being the golden child and my favorite great grandson, because you chose to go against the odds so your mother and aunts were completely happy. I'm not disgusted by that and neither is your grandmother, to protect us, our family from being destroyed, we do what must be done, and you're a true Halliwell Chris." Penny said to him gently, smiling as Prue finished that gently.

"She's right, these consistent jumps in time can be useful, by altering key things in the past and the us of the future grow more hopeful and confident with every change you make. We give it a few more weeks and Piper won't have to worry about me being gone, because of Cole, because in your changed future I'm alive, and Andy and I are married. Your parents marriage is complete lock, Drake is alive in your future, and little you."

"Little you is going by your middle name now and our you is getting ready to go off to your second year of college in your future by the time this ends. To us every change you make, is making us happier than we've ever been now, and if knowing our future, after the end of the series is over, is future consequences. We can take the secrets as well, but with the fact you gave us the dates of everything already in our future."

"Just tell us a way to reorganize them by giving us a few ideas and your mother and I will take it from there. But this is not relationship sabotage or you're lying to us, you chose the best way to make your mother and me happy. And before our lives were a constant struggle in balancing everything out, with you here, you can show us how to do that, your mother gets what she wanted, and it's a normal family life."

"I get what I wanted and it's Andy and putting balance back into my life, by separating my magical life and my normal life, but both sides of me balanced and our pre-dispositions are another lesson in that as well. But all in all you being here is a big help. But we can't know too much about the future, because of the future consequences rule, so we make our fate by choosing what forks in the road to take, it's that simple now."

"You showed us the future and we change that future by looking at those DVD's and changing things and we save all of our innocents, and finish things, whoever our perps were, had I not survived, they're facing me as well later. So don't worry baby, we're nipping this thing in the bud, right now." Prue asked with a dangerous growl and he nodded with a sigh and they nodded as Piper turned and let her have it then.

"I don't believe you Phoebe, is that what you're really thinking here right now, but instead of Paige being the one that supposedly ends your relationship and marriage, it's my son now. You listen to me now, you start thinking this way once Paige tells me and Leo he's gone back to the darkside, I'm not getting caught in the middle, I'm taking her side. I'm Prue now, once our version of the Power Of Three gets started Phoebe."

"And with that I'm acting the way I should be, the way Prue was acting when you dragged him into our lives. Family comes first, so you choose him over us, that's your choice and we can manage without you, because we still have the Power Of Three in this timeline with Prue alive. Thanks to my son being in this timeline now when you get pregnant. My son gave me exactly what I wanted now, and it's a chance at a normal life. Said normal life a true family life, I get to watch my son through his high school years."

"With him here we can learn what happens when you mix witch and white-lighter blood together, learn to balance both sides of us out and live like the mortals do, that's a very big gift and help. And it's not your family at risk here or is in endanger either. Mine is, that's my son who risked his own existence just to prepare us for what's coming, what's coming is his brother turned into a power hungry maniac, that precious little angel."

"That future first born nephew you fawned over, he turns into Darth Vader without the mask and the resistance wants him either destroyed or we prevent his turning at all costs. And the resistance sent back their own Kyle Reese to prevent the future, their future from ever coming true, and the said Kyle Reese meant to do it hapens to be my second youngest who is now my oldest son now. And he risked his own existence to prevent that Phoebe, I don't care what your feelings are here, I'm taking his advice!"

"I saw the dangers of his future, I saw what his brother turned into, and with that its a no choice needed I choose my family, I'm taking his opinions, advice and training the next three years till baby him is born. But you want to give up on him, when it's time for him to be conceived that's your choice, because I'm not. Why, well it's because Leo and I are still together in this timeline. He's not the reason for the fracture in our relationship."

"No the only thing that could possibly do that is your god damn demon of a husband Phoebe, my marriage is intact and a total lock now. So whatever you're thinking regarding this, if he's holding back certain information, it's on a need to know basis, our futures are written into those DVD packs. And though it's future consequences and we can accept that: me, Prue, Leo, Paige and Andy, we can accept his holding back secrets."

"But your secrets nearly destroy our family and look what it does to our future, Chris did an intervention just so you could heal emotionally, but you know what, we all agree with him. He's doing everything he can so you can move on from Cole over these next four years, by bringing Drake into your life now. But starting now leading into when Chris is born it's screw arguing over this, we have a job to do and we do it, without a fight."

"If we have to go on repeated demon hunts, we do it, if we have to sacrifice one side of us for the sake of the other, we do it. You wanted and loved being a witch, I felt a burden regarding my powers, but suddenly everything is in reverse now. Prue and I are the super witches, we have a families, we're ready for the responsibilities of parenthood, and Chris is the first step to that. She and I can manage regarding working over time."

"But my son insured she and I can resort to a semi-mortal life now and still get the job done. And Chris had it right, it's always been about you first: you, you, you, I want this, I want that, change this, change that, me, me, me, my feelings, my, my, my. And I am so sick of this and your attitude and with that, enough is enough here. So if you start bashing my son, so help me god, you're the one getting thrown out of the manor."

"Till you get over this attitude, because Dan is the past, Leo, is my present and future, and Chris is my son, family comes first over the ex-boyfriend and his little whore of a niece if she starts having the hots for my son, understand!" Piper said with a dangerous growl and she swallowed. "And don't bother coming to me whining over this either Phoebe, because once Wyatt is six months old, I'm acting like Piper as well."

"Chris, Wyatt and our family come first, so I'm not allowing that bastard into manipulating us into throwing my, right now, oldest nephew and his twin out of his house. We all stay in the manor, we take shifts on the job, and you are staying out of Paige's love life. And I'm not kidding, this holier than thou attitude of yours is getting checked at the door, once you gain these powers." Prue added and she nodded quickly then to her thoughts.

"You want a chance to live your life that's fine, but the three of us can manage without you with the fact you're having to choose between us and Cole every time now. As to that, with Prue still alive in this timeline, we still have the power of three, it's just rotating the shifts each time. But if you want to go join Cole for whatever happens that's fine, I'm choosing Prue to fill in your spot, and we still get the job done."

"It's that simple now, you want to move on with your life, get your own apartment, you can do that, but the three of us are staying put till our job is done. Chris, Baby, show it to her of what the attic looked like when you gave us that sneak peek." Piper said and he nodded and stepped into the ring as the memory played itself back. As she looked at the state of his attic. "Dear god, what the hell happened in here?" Victor asked and he sighed as Phoebe repeated the remark in shocked disbelief then.

"Is that our house, what the heck happened to it?" Phoebe asked in shock. "That's what we saw last night Phoebe, when he told us the truth, he wasn't lying to us at all. In fact everything he told you the night he arrived is exactly what happened to us, and that's what we're here to see. And as to why the future is at risk. Son rewind, show her how I died, we're getting the entire story now." Leo said to him and he nodded to him.

Watching they saw as a man who looked like Alec point his crossbow at Chris. "Nooooo!" they heard a voice shout out as someone shoved him out of the way and he hit the floor as he looked at the person and they saw Leo with the arrow sticking out of his chest. "Noooo, Crossbows!" he shouted as it orbed out of the man's hands and shot him in the heart and he went up in a burst of block orbs then as he was vanquished.

"Dad, stay awake, it's alright." he said and Leo shook his head. "It's too late Chris, he got me in the heart son, there's no surving this." he told him and he shook his head violently in denial at that."Don't give me that, we beat the odds before dad, I just have to get it out and heal you!" he said as his color started paling then as Chris said it frantically."Nooooo! Dad, hang on, just hang on!" he said as he tore his sleeve off and got ready to yank it out as Leo grabbed his arm to stop him. "Eric!" he shouted out and his twin appeared immediately.

"Dad, noooo!" Eric shouted as he went to them. "No Chris don't, you're half whitelighter, touching it is going to kill you!" Leo said through a gasp of pain. "Dad I can't just let you die!"he said through heart wrenching sobs. "Son you can fix this, and our relationship, if you go back even further than when your brother is born, and tell me the truth. You may have lost this me, but the me of twenty four years ago was a better person, a better man. The me you need was the 28 year old me and your mother now."

"Your other version, the one who resented me for never being around, the one who died and is the reason I was so lost when you were little. We had this talk, but you, you and I fixed our relationship, you're my pride and joy, Chris, listen to me, at first when your alternate version showed up. He showed up in the middle of your mother and me getting used to being parents at the time."

"And we'd just gone through counseling regarding this and several other things, we didn't trust him. Because of his reasoning to do everything none of us wanted to accept the possibility that Wyatt could ever turn evil, even though he'd been born in the house. We were all in denial of that truth and didn't know who your adult version was or his true intentions and our attitude were even worse. Because of this and to you mother and me."

"The thought that he, that you were our son was something we had a hard time accepting, because we were feeling guilty for what we said to you, that you. It was also upon seeing the way the duo were acting when your conception month had arrived and we got stuck in the ghostly planes at the time. Did we realize why Paige and Phoebe were desperate to have us getting together.

"Just before I became a full time elder and it's because they were getting desperate to have you conceived by that point. Back to the future time paradox, you risked your own existence just to save your brother, and I learn you're my son six months later. But upon hearing that, that did it, I was being the father you needed a second chance and we slowly fixed our relationship."

"By getting a second chance, but that second chance is getting relabeled as a third chance now. And as to how and why is that if you show up long before your brother is born. But the adult you was murdered after we stopped the demons running that survival tv show and I lost my way as a result when you were killed I left being an elder, and turned into an avatar."

"Before becoming fully human and in the end I ended up as the teacher at magic school. You're the one I got overly protective over at the time, but to stop the ridicule and the mistrust when you arrive. To prevent that and you gaining our trust, let alone insuring we, and the elders take it more seriously far more seriously and listen to you and and we can change little things in the past, you have to go back even further than a few months after Wyatt's born."

"I'm sorry if things still turned out the way they did in your future, your adult self tried and it still happened, but we can fix that,..., if you change our past and tell your mother, Aunts and me the truth the second you arrive, or we figure it out on our own. If Andy and I bust you within minutes of your telling us your half truth, that solves the entire problem and we act like your parents."

"From that day forward we can be your parents for real, we can pretend you were born in the late 80's and you're living in the manor after that. To save our family it's the only way son, return to when your mother and me were twenty eight years old. And we can change the records and you're our first born starting the day you tell us who you are, or we figure it out on our own."

"But just change the sequence, whatever day you choose, begin that day and we move forward from there. Remember these words, but 'The Future is not set, there's no fate, but what we make for ourselves.', that fate is by choosing which forks in the road to take. Your mother needs you, as does your aunts, Prue and Paige, they need a chance at what you're offering us so we can prepare for your brother's birthday till he's safe now." he said to him gently.