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 they start getting everything they need to get the house ready now. 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 18: Cruel Truths And Future Reprimands I
"It's a lucky teenage you arrived this past week, because with what I know of time travel, meeting the adult versions of your children, or grandchildren, the paranoia can and does get out of hand and with that, if she'd bothered to get a better look at you. Because you look like a 21 to 22 year old male version of me with your father's eyes and the fact that you know your way around the house, we'd figure it out in ten seconds."
"And you'd be off the hook what with the fact we'd take it far more seriously." she said and he smiled at her then. "That's the reaction the sextet were hoping for, you remembering what you looked like when you were 17 to 21 years old. And you change the gender, followed by adding dad's eyes, duplicated into our face and then check and watch us as we walked around manor and the book. You'd figured it out by that night."
"Before Uncle Andy busted us and dad got the truth when he did, that's why they decided to have him show up this past week, less paranoia, more time to build the bonds and what with the fact Cole had a relapse. That your mother and papa bear instincts were going to go crazy, before we dropped the bomb on you, though having that outburst was unintended, but he was closer to dad than I was." he said and she nodded.
"Yes, but at this rate we have three with teenage you, your father and your uncle and with your aunt moving in soon enough we have plenty now. I get the idea of why you had to separate us briefly, and I'm fine with that, so early marriage. I just got over my pregnancy and we just dealt with marriage counseling, that's understandable now, at this stage without help your father didn't have enough time balance out all three."
"And with Prue gone, the girls and I only grew closer, but that's part of the problem, I had to spend less time as a sister and more time being his wife and we balanced out still being newly weds with our first child and our magical reaponsibilities. Was this why you felt it necessary though, give us time apart and when we came into our own once we got back together?" she asked and he nodded as he answered her her, his eyes gentle.
"Yeah I did, but I never wanted to break your heart, mom, or hurt either of you, but sometimes in war we have do things that go against your morality. But we got back you back together in time and I'm a true whitelighter now." he said and then he looked at the look on Phoebe's face at that. "Let me take a guess, if this was just after Wyatt as born, your father and I were just beginning to adjust to being parents at the time."
"And with it we'd gone into marriage counseling, and to you, this meant we needed to separate briefly so we can become stronger for my version of you, baby?" she asked and Perry nodded. "Yeah that's it exactly mom, you weren't happy at the time and I figured it would be best for you to be separated, time apart. So you and dad started growing closer till the day of my conception date and that did it finally now too."
"But the perp only made it worse, by saying dad should stay upstairs, it wasn't until I got infected by the spider demon that you and he fixed your relationship and we were working at being a family before little Chris was born, as to that. His version of you, they were even stronger than my version of you, but it still didn't work out. So dad suggested returning to this past week and doing it again, only this time Aunt Prue is alive."
"And with her is Uncle Andy, and D.J., Kalina, Sandra, grandma, Grams and Derek, they all suggested that we let you bust us and that solved it altogether." he said and the couple nodded. "Well it worked, after what we just saw, we're taking your warnings seriously honey." she said and he smiled at her. "At the current moment, in your, yours and Aunt Prue's, opinion it's necessary, in hers this destroyed your happiness."
"And to be frank, sometimes for the greater good, sacrifices must be and with that in mind here. Don't bother saying it Phoebe, that's not happening in this timeline now with the fact Chris told you up front and dad caught us. I solved several problems and like mom, I just gave you a second chance with Cole, before you and Drake get together next and with that in mind now at the moment, regarding my family, it's needed."
"Two and half years I decided on Marriage counseling just to save my family and you gave up too quick, you saw the image of a better life and busted me, and yet when I asked you for help, you said no." he said and she swallowed. "How did you expect me to react when I found out that truth exactly, your parents were happy till you split them up and now you came to me, because you never thought this all the way through."
"You lied to us, and you didn't have the right to come back in time and play with people's lives, because your brother picked on you." she said and he growled at that. "Happy, they weren't happy Phoebe, let me explain to you at what point I arrived at here: Wyatt was three months old. And mom and dad were having repeated fights and he was sleeping on the couch by this point, they were going into marriage counseling."
"It's reached the point to where they're on the edge of divorce and if they had been, no me. So who's the real reason for their marriage falling apart exactly?" he asked and Prue nodded as she answered that question. "Wyatt, he was screwing with their relationship, they were on the edge of separation so what else but act as a magical marriage counselor and let them live their own lives, before they got back together."
"Yes I see what you're saying and he's right Phoebe, they weren't happy at all and he fixed that by being a magical marriage counselor. Were they acting like they did last year at the time Perry, all business in situations and not as a couple. Before they started healing up by the time Wyatt's birthday came around?" she asked and he nodded to her. "Yes that's it exactly as to that, I was acting on two things in this situation."
"One being a magical marriage counselor and two being a babysitter to protect him. I don't have the right to play with people's lives. What about you Phoebe, every time something happens Cole's always around this past year, secondly, is that up to when you came home, they were happy living normal lives. This isn't about me at all, he's the reason mom and dad's relationship was getting weaker, before I was born, I fixed it."
"He didn't just pick on me, he picked on the world Phoebe, I chose that choice to give mom and dad time apart, if there's still problems leading into when the second baby is being due, best to put things on hold. I gave it the allotted time needed and I needed help, Paige immediately wanted to once she learned who I was, she was happy she had another nephew, and was happy she's not alone when it came to powers now."
"I'm a younger version of her, she had someone she could relate to finally, and with it is she was getting sick of you butting into her business. It's not your damn business regarding her love life or mom's, sure you lost Cole, but that doesn't give you the right to get involved in their love lives. It's the child of that sister who had to be the one to put things together and I did that, Piper is my mother, that was my business to help them."
"And you didn't want to help me, because I was acting on a decision that was going to help them, sure you're a advice columnist, but you're not a marriage counselor. I was acting on a magical version of that Kevin Howard film and it worked. They were newly weds with their first child, but they needed time to rekindle their relationship, so acting as a magical marriage psychologist I chose the one option to help them and it worked."
"You recall her exact words regarding dad, she was remembering them and the way they used to be, she didn't want them having a baby to change that and he did. Seeing the marriage counselor helped a bit, but it wasn't enough, to help them I had to get them to remember where it all began. And I took them back to year number two and as time went on that did it." he said and the couple nodded in amazement he remembered that.
"I had to take it full circle Phoebe, beginning from year one to year three, starting with the first, when dad was around as the handyman, moving it up to Alec, Dan, that was Greg, and her having to choose between him and dad. The next fight with a demon, that was when we had a monster like the one your adoptive aunt created, by stripping you of your powers at the time, next came Alec finally and that's my conception date."
"Dad was an elder and they knew they couldn't be together, and she had to let him go, six months later was the trolls, in my case the spider demon and that brought us full circle. She admitted that though she loved him, if it was a choice between her powers and her job and being with him, that she decided that it was a sacrifice she was willing to make. And that did it as he came back and returned to her and me. Our family was in one piece now finally." he said and she swallowed as the couple moved to him at that.
"You had to bring our future selves full circle to get us and our family back together now son?" Leo said and he nodded to him. "Yeah, three years of a relationship. Years four and five were the same as seven and eight and to mom she was determined to carry on. But years 1,2 and 3 were what I had to remind you of when Wyatt caused slight damage in your relationship, I did it to help you." he said and Piper nodded to him gently.
"House Arrest, instead of his idea, you decided to go it a different way and inserted yourself into my life then, helping me look after Wyatt by acting as a babysitter at the time. And from there you denied the other postings, because we were your top concern honey." Piper repeated and he nodded to her. "Yeah mom, I had to bring you back to the beginning, and with it was your alibi for baby me now, what you created in alibis for him, by claiming I was your son and Wyatt's big brother." he told her and the couple nodded.
"We were going on the alibi, you were born in 1987, I must have changed your birthday so I set your age to being a freshman year in college, to fit the time frame at the time. I'd come to depend on you in that four months after Leo left and from that point forward, it didn't matter to me that you replaced him, because you were someone I could open up to at the time, being a supposed stranger. And that's the exact time frame exactly now."
"Alright, alright, so we went for the alibi, you were acting as my oldest son, helping me with Wyatt that young and your father was out of the picture now. And from there it brought it to stage two. And you were bringing me up to when we were dealing with Richard, Jason, Dan, and up to your conception date. And several other issue in the case of men and it's getting out of hand?" Piper asked and he nodded as Leo repeated that in shocked amazement as he realized where that memory was heading now.
"Where it all began, Alec, it began with Alec, and she realized that she loved me. You had to bring us back to our beginning and our alibi, through last year when Dan was around and then straight to when your mother chose her duties over being with me. Before we got engaged?" Leo said and he nodded. "Yeah, marriage counseling by being the one to help you, that guy's was a total stranger, but I'm your son and I saved your marriage."
"But I couldn't tell you the truth, though I just said we were family, what I meant was we were going on the alibi that I was a surrogate son at the time. Your 32 year old self was slightly furious and aggravated for my needing to give mom some time. By getting you out of the way. Because when you got turned into an elder she was on the edge of divorcing you by that point, while I inserted myself into her life and was helping her deal by her going back to dating mortals, because I started warmimg up your relationship."
"I saved your marriage, by making her remember what you were like before. Greg was Dan, reincarnated, and you and she were going through that portion of it, yet again, and Wyatt is the catalyst that caused your marriage to fall apart. So what's left to do, but bring you back to the very beginning, you were her handyman, and then her whitelighter, leading into my birthday it went full circle now." he told him and they nodded gently.
"If that's not marriage counseling, nothing is right now and you're right, you saved our marriage and gave us another reason to take it seriously, but with little you in our timeline. He's babysitting your brother, we got more time to be a couple and a chance to be a very strong couple now. Phoebe he's right, it's not your business what goes on in our love lives so stay out of it, he's my son, it's his business." Piper said and he finished.
"Do you know what that says to me though and the fact you gave up to fast, I had a month left, before I disappeared. So what if you were a genie when this was going on, you tricked me when I asked you to put a lust wish on them, and were acting on some piece of crap notion. There's no rules when it comes to survival, let alone war, to survive we change the rules and do what must be done, and we do what must be done."
"To keep the balance, sure you're scared of being evil, but that's no excuse, to save my family there are no rules when it comes to us making sure they never get the Nexus. Did you ever conside And though Paige was even working on doing a date for for them, and decided on a chance of talking things over so they could. You gave up too fast and it takes them admitting their feelings on the ghostly plane and doing it there and the next day dad leaves, and I'm abandoned by my father in that time frame and with that."
"That thought is you don't want another nephew in my side of that family, I was trying to insure he stays good that entire time, and you're questioning my motives, I was pulling every trick in the book to protect him. And it takes you busting me to get the damn truth out, he's my brother. Wyatt is and was your only nephew, and that tore me apart, because everything he said to you is the truth, when turned evil, you tell the truth."
"No matter how much it hurts the person you're bashing, you like being evil, because you're free of the restraints of the rules, chosen to rise, destined to fall, that's you all over and frankly. I wasn't letting my brother fall to the darkside and you still managed it when mom died. It took mom and dad choosing it themselves that saved me and then you deliberately broke orders, again, by mom, not to tell him the truth."
"And yes I do have the right to make changes and play with people's lives, especially if my brother becomes Darth Vader without the mask. Especially when it wasn't just me that he picked on, but the entire planet, he picked on the entire world Phoebe, you want to talk sacrifices though. Try sacrificing your happiness for the greater good, than we'll talk." Perry said to her sternly as Chris finished his sentence then, his tone ice cold.
"Because mom and Aunt Prue have been doing that ever you activated their powers, to them it's not fair when they want to be normal. That's the will of the force. The force willed what happened to the Skywalker family to happen like that and it's willing me to make changes in the past by making my parents, Aunt Prue and Uncle Andy happier than they were before." he said to her sternly then as Orlin changed the subject.
"At the moment trying to make changes in your past comes in handy, but the greater good must be served. As that episode of that Scifi show displayed, even sometimes, to bring hope, you got to do stuff that goes against your morality. Like the second to lead character displayed by killing a tank full of those aliens, he killed a couple dozen to save millions, that's the point of this." he said and Perry nodded to him in agreement.
"Yes exactly, sometimes for the greater good sacrifices must be made, my sacrifice was by risking my life and existance to save my brother, and my family and though it worked. That's no excuse for biting my head off at the time, just because I can't tell you the truth without it killing me, your children, or even Mellie, Phoebe. Fact of the matter is I had no choice, my choices saved our family and yours nearly destroyed it."
"Yes I know there is always a choice, when it comes to survival there is none though. You're still on the edge of childhood, my last eight years turned me into an adult faster than you'd expect and to be blunt, if you'd been through what we'd had. You do the same thing just to save your parents. Because you're acting like Samantha Carter on the first season, before she mellowed out." he said and she flinched at the wording.
"Chris is in emotional agony, because of your secrets, you dragged Cole into our lives, never vanquished him and lied to our parents and Aunt Prue and look what it does to our family in his future. So don't give me this crap, that I destroyed their happiness, your choices destroyed my family, and look what it does to him!" he said sternly and she swallowed at the remark as she looked at him as Perry looked at his 17 year old self.
"So to save our marriage you acted as a magical marriage counselor, honey?" Piper asked and he nodded. "Yeah mom, with two whitelighters now at the house we were acting on guiding you, but when one of unavailable. You had a back up, but her empathy was getting in the way, causing friction between her and Paige, one shot to save our family, I had to get you to remember what you were like. Your dreams regarding Dex, I had to remind you of them of what you were like, before Wyatt was born at the time."
"This way you could come to depend on me acting as your son, being there for you to take care of him. While dad was acting a father, between both together that was helping and the four of us, leading up to your birthday, acted as a family. Your future self said some cruel things, but just trying to get you to listen was getting harder every day. It wasn't till Phoebe got possessed that I realized I ran out of time, and you dropped it."
"And you gave me another chance, we started fixing our bonds and by then you came to depend on me. You called me your favorite whitelighter and I knew that only reinforced the reason, to help you both and so you could spend more time for yourselves and it was working. Leading into my conception date, I realized that I spent too much time working on protecting him, and I was running out of time."
"We talked things over, and when the door arrived, I had to get a demon scanner, but it never crossed my mind it wasn't a demon, but someone you least expected. Barbas was working with a whitelighter, and not till you reach the season I came into your lives will you learn who. But what I will say is you see him hovering around Wyatt, never leave him alone. Teenage me is babysitting, but don't leave them alone." he told her and she nodded gently.
"You did the right thing honey and you're right, without you, that would be it for our family, with teenage you in the past that takes care of those repercussions now. Because your father and I have a better chance at making it through this now with teenage you here as he is acting as the big brother and we have added help. Though now that your father is always around helping me, that solves it altogether, I have you both."
"We need you more than ever now, it's our only chance, you saved us, our family, and brought our family back together. Whatever the season episodes show, I'm taking it seriously, if I need you to babysit, I'll let you know." she said looking between them and they smiled at that. "To save our family we act like our family now, I'm the first born, Wyatt is next and little me comes last now." Chris said and she nodded to him gently.
"I'd say you're more like me than you think Perry and you're right, don't give him a hard time because he's holding back secrets, Phoebe. Rules of time travel here are important, you make one fatal mistake and it could change the future, he didn't do that and instead was acting as marriage counselor to help us. So with that, it's not your love life so stay out of now Phoebe, he's my son, and I'm not condemning him for that choice."
"Aside from that there's the future consequences rule now and with is the fact he can't tell us everything, but minuscule details, and as to why. He can't tell us everything in that truth without it destroying everything he knows. And for the record he's right, sometimes just to save your family a bit of separation time between parents is needed. Which was the whole point of that kids movie, give them time together and it helps."
"And marriage counseling works to, and he decided on a magical version on that preteen movie at the time, him acting as an elder, us needing time apart. And Leo and I needed a chance to rekindle our relationship and once we did that was the day of his conception in the end and he survived. But if you're not the one who's love life is concerned than but out of it." Piper said and Leo finished that remark with a stern look on his face.
"He saved our marriage rather than destroying it, by giving us a chance to act like a couple, I got a life, Piper was working at getting used to things, and together we saved our family in the end. And for the record here, he's right again, you lied to us and look what it does to my side of our family. Your demon boyfriend slaughtered three quarters of our family. And look what it does to my son." Leo said to her sternly then.
"I know you miss mom and dad in your future, believe me, I understand, but with you in the past things are going to change and get better, with you acting fifteen years old in this time line, you have five years now with our parents. So four years of high school, two years college and you return on our 24th birthday, just make the best of this time with our parents now." he said and Chris nodded to him softly then.
"At this age with him in our time frame now at the moment, the first person that even comes near him, if he's evil, is getting blown apart now. We established our bond in one night, he told me the truth and I'm ready to kill anyone for hurting him this much." Piper said and he nodded in agreement to that. "Trust me, if you'd seen what I'd been through, you'd kill every demon that comes near me mom."
"Because from this point till Mellie is born I'm staying right here." Chris said and she smiled at the news. "So six years instead of five honey?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah, though Wyatt is going to remember, briefly, little me won't, and Mellie won't either. But to have our family in one piece I'd gladly stay in the past forever. But I'm never leaving home or you." he said and she smiled as Perry hid a smile at that.
"Alright guys that's enough we get the point, and at the moment you're both right, Piper passed that test by saving Kate and bringing her home, it's your turn now Phoebe. It's either your happiness or focusing on your duties, and you can't have it both ways young lady when you're dating an evil demon, it doesn't work like that. That's why we're insuring Prue survives the fight in this timeline." Patty said and they both nodded gently.
"How old are you son?" Orlin asked and Perry sighed. "I'm twenty two Orlin, that season was me pulling stunts that I'd never ever do in my life. But in a war there are no rules, just a whole lot of cheating by the bad guys. And with that, everything that happened, dad becoming an elder, it was willed to by fate and the future." he told him and they all nodded. "Yeah well you're not being hold accountable for those actions now son."
"That me did my best to race seventeen year old you and I still failed. Well third times the charm now to get it right, I lost it and my way after you were killed by whoever caused your brother to turn and don't bother telling us, we're playing it by year now. But I lost my way, because I lost you, you're my baby boy and there is no way in hell I'm losing my teenage version of you now, son." Leo said and he nodded to him smiling then.
"I'm lucky Andy caught me in my lie, it's my only chance of making sure that never happens here now. Hey Chris, to pull this off, your only chance, before we're born, is triple the whitelighter power and Wyatt sees you alive when dad destroys the perps for his nearly killing you in three years." he said and Chris nodded to that remark as Prue said it. "Yeah the catch was not arriving at the age you were when you arrived honey."
"It's coming back to when Andy and I are alive and a whitelighter in our timeline and you got three years to fix things. After Phoebe was born in the house and the earthquake. It's enough to make me realize we could have a repeat performance and we take over from there. And it worked, your surgical strike got replaced as a pre-emptive strike and this time it's paying off now." Prue said and Leo finished that remark firmly then
"And we will and did, by making drastic changes in the past and insuring whoever caused that is ending up dead when I get through with them. You young man, Wyatt, are never turning into that monster we saw whatsoever now, not if I have anything to say about it. Change is evolution, without change we can't ever hope to progress. The Jedi never changed the code and look what it does their future and the galaxy as they know it."
"We're not making that same mistake, their's was giving him special treatment, and throwing his title on him every time he turns around, but not making drastic changes to the code for him. And I can't believe that-that nine year old turned into a monster in the Starwars saga, but then, we're in the exact same position right now with your brother. With you here, you're the one getting the attention, and I'm training you to help you control your healing powers, and turn you into a real whitelighter this way."
"We train every day, new spells, new potions, I don't care, but that future is not happening whatsoever now. Your adult self is Darth Vader, I'm Obi-wan Kenobi and with that fact in mind. I'm doing whatever it takes to keep you from falling to the darkside now son, and if I can't save you, I swear to god I'll stop you when and if this happens, Wyatt." Leo said with a stern growl and he nodded as he looked at his parents then.
"Yeah I said the same thing at the time, but I'm more like you than you think dad, you and mom are both sides of me. The act of trying to be evasive, holding back what I really wanted to tell you and everything else. You have no idea how much it was hurting me not to be able to tell you who I am." he said and they nodded to him. "With the fact that little you chose the past week it works better son, we're newly weds now."
"So just having your uncle break it down for your aunts and me, it worked better than you hoped for. And seeing teenage you at this age, I can see everything you're going to grow into and I couldn't be more proud of you son." Leo said and he smiled and gave him a hug and they tightened their arms around him."Well that's the episode information needed guys." he added and they all nodded to him gently as he went further.
"We got a severe view of Wyatt last night, so is that what happened to him, six to seven years power corruption and he looks like a gothic crime lord now in our future. And we even had half the conversation you did with him, during the battle, in case he thinks he got to her, should we just play it out this time?" Leo asked anf he nodded. "With the fact you trained teenage me for two and half years in healing, yeah do it alright."
"He's able to heal her and then erase him memory a second time while teenage me grabs that spell and prevents him from sending anyone else through dad. I should have just told you that night of who I am, but..." he said and Piper nodded gently as she said it for him. "But you can't, but not because you don't want to. But because there is only so much you can tell your father and me without it changing the future too much, we get it and we understand." she said and Leo finished her sentence gently then.
"At this rate now that we know the truth regarding you, the cross examination and suspicion is being thrown out the window. So that's what happened, they took your powers, he thought he turned her, she brought you back and you had the same exact conversation our version of you had with him. Before we got you your powers back?" he asked and he nodded to him gently. "Yeah that's what happened alright."
"The you from that future was completely different than how I know you now dad, arriving three years before I'm born was an even better idea than arriving after you and mom got counseling for your few marital problems after Wyatt was born. That's season five and I arrive at the end of that season and just before Phoebe becomes an empath. As for Dan stay clear of that guy, he's an accident waiting to happen.'"
"With teenage me here, I have five years to finish fixing the damage of whoever caused that in the first place. As for the multi-verse, get ready, they're to evenly matched so its going to be a super smash bros smack down when that happens dad." he said to him and they both nodded. "Good luck guys and see you on the other side." he said and they nodded as he disappeared and they sighed as Piper turned to her new oldest then.
"Thank you for showing us that clip honey and the warning is being taken seriously as of now, that surgical strike is now a pre-emptive strike and one we intend to deal with. Starting now, till the Angel of destiny comes to your aunts and me, we focus on the Source and Cole, and get used to having the nine of us all living in the manor. You show us how to balance it out and we get settled into a family life with a kid in the house now." Piper said and he nodded as he looked at his entire family and their allies then.
"Come on, time to go home." he said and they all orbed out as they got back to the manor then. "Guys everything that happened these last ten days, your future selves, by that I mean you: grams, Prue, Andy, Kalina, grandma and D.J., but they were all hoping for you to take that warning seriously and accept me without the reservations." Chris said and they all nodded as Penny answered him then. "Yes well they get their wish, after what we just saw and your brother, the state of the town and our house."
"They get their wish, we're preventing that at all costs now baby, your our oldest as of now, but we can change the records to your grandmother and me being alive, but we were both in a coma, though I suffered a heart attack at one point. I've been on life support these last three years. But don't worry, we're changing the future so you have a something worthwhile to return home to now Chris, we promise, and with that in mind."
"That future is never happening if we have anything to say about it now." Penny said to him gently and he nodded in relief then. "She's right, at this stage, without him in the picture it's not the future as of yet now, and until he is born. So we change things, go through each episode, changes certain details and have our family friendships intact." Sheila said to him with a determined look on her face as Darryl looked at him gently.
"What about you and Darryl?" He asked and they both smiled. "With the fact you told us the truth and brought back Andy, my husband's career and our marriage is intact now. Don't worry, to insure our families stay friends and once the trouble truly gets started, he's backing out and Andy takes over after that." she said and he nodded as Darryl looked at him gently as he finished that remark as he said it softly then.
"Don't worry son our friendship is intact, but to prevent whatever happens in that time just before you're born, and keeping our familial friendships intact. My family is heading out of town till your family deals with the end of it and your birth, and then we'll be back. Two months prior, we leave and we come back one month after Piper, it's the only way." he said and she nodded smiling at him as she answered him gently.
"That's fine, Andy can cover for us here, but it's matter of national security and magical exposure now, so we tell your chief the truth and he's not letting whoever is trying to bust us from doing it." she said and he nodded to her smiling. "Cleaners!" She called out and they appeared at that. "What can we do for you?" the leader asked her and she got started. "When the two months leading into Chris's birthday come up."
"Darryl and his family are going to be out town for three months, so he's not going to be here, for whatever fiasco we have then at the time. Also starting from when both occasions happen: from when Wyatt is born, to when Chris is I'm stepping down so I can just live a normal life, though I'm creating potions and keeping my powers strong. But the elder sister role goes to Prue and I'm taking care of my family."
"During the wedding, my mother and grandmother are going to be here for Phoebe's wedding so we need the record changed in exactly seven months to ten months. The record is that they both got put into a coma thanks partly to several fights with a couple perps and the Sea Hag is getting changed to some maniac trying to drown her. And she's been in a medically induced coma these last eighteen years and just came out of it."
"Grams, she had a heart attack and was put into a medically induced coma these last three years, before Phoebe came home and we activated our powers. As for the records regarding my son, husband and Andy they're to remain the same as we put it. But Chris did a spell to protect us from exposure, though depending on just how powerful Wyatt is, we can control it, just give us a chance to clean up the mess." she said and they nodded.
"We understand, and the records will be changed." he said as they saw pictures of Chris and them all over the walls and a board that had his gold medals on it and smiled. "Well that's one step, but we still have a lot it a lot of work to do." Leo said and they nodded in agreement. "Chris was training at the dojo, in midtown, so with him at this age, we create his own training ring in the basement now." Piper said and he nodded in to her.
"Alright now that I showed all that to you, what's your opinion here?" he asked and Leo growled. "Once we reach Cole's losing his powers to whatever happens next. The scrutiny is back on and I'm not trusting him any further than I can throw him. What with the fact he broke her heart twice, but this time it's on and staying on. Drake, you I can trust, you're a good demon and one who gave up your demonic self, he's been serving as a warrior to the Source for 100 years." he said and Drake nodded to him gently.
"Yeah and I have a question for you and Aunt Prue, mom." Chris said and she looked at him gently. "What is it honey?" She asked and he took a deep breath. "I need you girls to be honest, but were you doing alright before I arrived at the time last week, with the fact I just showed you what's at stake here. Last night's meeting in the attic was made imperative, but now, but we got to go over this with fact I brought you the money."
"And I can train you to balance your lives out, between being mortal, and being witches, I also got you everything you ever wanted back. And with me in the house you know just being a witchlighter does for you now when Paige comes into the picture while the expenses for things like the furniture just got taken care of as well. And with that fact in mind, that's what I need to know, your feelings regarding both of these things."
"I brought you back the money needed to keep us going, finances, mortgage and everything else. Your thirty six old self said you were having a tough time at making ends meet and you took out a second mortgage loan on the house just to buy the club. Phoebe was in college and you were a photographer, before mom broke up with Dan, Aunt Prue, is it true?" she asked and the duo sighed as she said it.
"Yes every word my future self told you is true and to answer your first question and to be honest, for her and me." Prue said and Piper finished it. "No we weren't, I wanted to be normal, and I felt and used to feel a burden towards my powers, like they took everything away from me. That's including your father, when the rules were keeping him and me apart, we lost your grandmother, because of it. It removed dad from our life."
"I never had the chance to really live my life since we became witches now. But you arriving, that just changed it for good, you gave me the best gift of all baby, a family, you can show me how to balance out both my magical and my mortal life, that's a big gift now. If our last battle is in five years and we can live normal lives, I can wait that long." she said and Prue nodded to her thoughts as Phoebe looked at them in shock.
'Oh boy, she's in denial now of that truth, she thinks we were doing fine, before my son arrived.' Leo thought to himself. "Yeah I agree with her, I was always the oldest sister, the super witch, I wanted a normal life, a chance to find love, find happiness and I was sick of always watching my sisters enjoying their's and I wanted my chance too. With what you just brought back for in finances, we have the money needed now finally."
"And it's to do and get some real work done on the house now. With you living with us, we're acting as though you're really our oldest son and nephew. But here's the truth baby, in all honesty, at the time we were trying to make ends meet and the results were everyone was getting testy. Our lashing out at each other was because of this, that's the reason for why we went off on each other, before your parents got married."
"We were all holding resentments towards certain things, Piper getting caught in the middle of our fights, and being taken for granted. Me, because I was getting sick of being the oldest sister, and bailing their buts out of the fire every time, I know I have responsibilities, but I just want balance. As for Phoebe, she's working towards her graduation and is still not quite ready to grow up yet at the current moment."
"And while we're bringing the money in, her college tuition is tearing it back out, and I'm a freelance photographer and I do jobs when they're available, and the club is only just getting started in making money and bringing funds in. While the repeated demon and warlock attacks are destroying the house. So yeah, we weren't doing so well till you arrived and now that you have we have the money to and a shot and putting balance into our lives now baby." she said and he nodded to her as he looked at her smiling.
"Girls I need you to be honest now, now that grandma went into it, I just gave you back everything you ever wanted since you became witches now. But just go ahead and say it, were you doing fine, before I arrived, and grandpa came back into the picture now?" he asked and Piper answered that for both of them gently. "No baby we weren't, at the time when we were just getting used to our powers now, and grams was gone for a month."
"Prue was ticked at Phoebe for taking off on us at the time, and for abandoning us, not long after the funeral. And suddenly after she comes back, our powers come back online, Andy returns to us and we're trying to get used to being witches and getting ourselves into a normal routine now that the three of us were living together. Last year was the result of us trying to live normal lives and Dan comes into the picture."
"And suddenly our finances have gone crazy with us pulling a second mortgage on the house, opening up the club and Phoebe starting college, while Prue chooses a new career occupation. And we're trying to make ends meet, because while we got money coming in, her college tuition and the constant attacks on the house are yanking it back out. Tensions in the house were getting worse by the minute and then comes the biggest change of all, and it's your father and I are trying to find a way to stay together."
"And with it Cole comes into the picture and Leo and are trying to focus on both our jobs and each other now. Just so we can get married now, while Prue is trying to put more balance back into her life as a result. But that sums it up, with you here, you just solved ten different problems all at once. And we couldn't be more grateful than we are right now that the resistance sent you to us." she said and he nodded as he answered her.
"What's your thought to my being here exactly now with the fact we're having Aunt Paige coming into the family pretty soon, and I just fixed these three things in the family and gave you that sneak peek last night, regarding Wyatt?" he asked and they both grinned as Piper said it for both of them then. "That your arriving and telling us the truth was a blessing from God, now, with four sisters we can alternate the line up now. And enjoy a chance at both ways finally as you teach us how to balance both sides of us finally."
"Having you here, is the best gift we could have had sweetheart, I'm very proud of you. Thank you." she said and he smiled as he gave them both a hug and they tightened their arms around him gently. "Mom, I wanted you to realize your misgivings and let go, but just because things got more complicated once you reactivated your powers. Doesn't mean they're a burden, it's part of who we are now and with that."
"So long as we're together nothing is going to happen, if the duo want a night out, you, me and Aunt Prue can take a shift, we can just alternate the line after every attack now. But mortal and supernatural, it can be balanced out. And you'll see how when I start school this fall. But trust me, what you guys are feeling is what the original eleven power rangers were feeling, Tommy hated his title so much he wanted to be a regular ranger."
"That's you mom, his girlfriend felt like she lost everything when she lost her powers herself, you're feeling both sides of the power couple. One side of you hates your being singled out now and two, you feel like you lost everything and your powers are becoming a burden. With me arriving I just solved that problem, you both want a normal life, but it's completely normal, we're only human." he said and they nodded to that gently.
"Well I'd say we just solved several issues now that you told us up front and Andy and I busted you within ten hours of your arriving, son." Leo said and she nodded in agreement to that. "I'll say, having you here is a gift from God, we can act like regular people and still help our innocents. Because we rotate the shifts between vanquishings, our family is intact, and you arriving you're my first born baby. You really helped me now." She said and took his hands as she looked at him smiling.
"And if not having magic in my life, means I never see the courageous, caring and selfless man you are, than I choose being magical with open arms now. I have everything I ever wanted now, you gave that to me. Your father and I are never getting separated, he gets his promotion, I have both of you offering me advice regarding who our later parasites are, all in all having you here in our time is worth it now."
"Your aunt and I feel the same way, having you here is a real gift from God, and we're not losing you now." she said and he smiled and pressed his forehead to her and she wrapped her arms around him in a hug as Leo smiled at that gently. "So in your eyes, Chris doing what we can't, is the biggest gift of all, that's understandable at the current moment Prue, honey. Our family is the one most at risk now, and we're slowly bring our family together piece by piece, with things changing Chris is both of us together."
"Chris and Paige saved and will save us, they brought this family back together, Cole is the link that snapped that chain and if that's why your version of Prue was killed. It's her secrets destroyed our family and look what it does to the future. So you coming back, telling us that truth up front and showing your mother, aunt, grandfather, Darryl, and me that sneak peek, you just saved our family and we're taking your choices."
"And decisions in how to do this without question, the future is at stake. But the future is not set in stone and there is no fate, but what we make for ourselves, so let's make it a good one now." Leo said and the duo both nodded to his thoughts in agreement. "Leo, Andy we're letting you both stay on Earth as of now, we can assign your charges to someone else til the five years are up now. But until then, you two and Drake take care of the girls." Zola told them and they nodded as Andy answered him smiling.
"Thank you Zola, Kalina, Orlin, we appreciate that immensely. At the moment we need family time and we can prepare for life and our future with our second oldest being born in a couple years. At the current moment my son is my primary concern along with my wife, we can get used to being a normal family now." He said and and they nodded to him as Drake looked at him as Chris explained things to him.
"Orlin, at one point in my past you offered my grandfather a shot at you raising us, it's not necessary now, by the time we destroy the nexus, I'm a freshman in college and just getting started, the final year is the last obstacle for my parents and the girls. So briefly turned human for eighteen months and then returned to a normal whitelighter in the end, but he was headmaster of magic school in my future." he said and they nodded.
"Is that what the epilogue in the last episode was when we wrote it out for you baby?" Piper asked and he nodded to her. "Yeah, but it's no longer the power of three now, but the power of four and my message to little me and Wyatt is going to be just over it. Dad may be gone for a few months, but don't quit on me, I need you. I'm your oldest now, and together you and I can handle things in our family till the ultimate battle." he said and she nodded as she and Leo hugged him and he closed his eyes at their love.
