She turned back to look at her unexpected but strange host. She read the truth in them and knew that she and her sisters had to help him. "I'll be back." Letting go of her husband's hand she nodded and watched as Charles tossed a bottle at her. She orbed.
"Don't look so angry Henry." Charles said as he walked over to where Henry was still standing glaring at him with his arms folded across his chest. Henry had been standing like this since the moment Paige had disappeared from sight. He didn't like the fact that Paige agreed to orb back to her sisters to help this strange man. He didn't trust Charles farther than he could throw a truck.
Not that Charles was an bad guy; as a cop Henry had horned his instincts to know who was good and who was bad. He knew as a mere mortal Charles Wentworth was good. But because Charles had asked Paige and her sisters to help him in his supernatural problem; Henry didn't trust the man. Henry breathed deeply through his nose as he continued to glare at the older man who suddenly became his host.
BACK AT THE MANOR
Piper shook her head as she watched Wyatt glare at his baby brother. "Wyatt, Chris is here to stay. You have to get used to being an older brother." She walked over and knelt down in front of her three year old son. "Don't you dare think of orbing Chris anyway."
Wyatt had thought about orbing Chris to the North Pole just to get the interloper who was his baby brother out of his house and away from his mommy and daddy. But he read correctly his mother's glare. He knew that if he had orbed Chris even up to the nursery than his mother would be berating him. He had finally learned that his mother didn't like him orbing Chris anyway. He just shook his head and got to his feet and walked away from where Chris was sitting among baby toys. He had much better toys to play with anyway.
Piper sighed through her nose and watched as her oldest son went over to where he had left his toys. Wyatt had orbed all his toys out of Chris's reach when Chris tried to play with them. She didn't know what to do with Wyatt. It had been over a year since Chris was born and Wyatt was still jealous of him. She couldn't remember treating Phoebe this way when they were Wyatt and Chris's age. But she knew that she must have felt jealous of her baby sister because that's how all older siblings feel when they are meet with younger siblings.
Piper looked down as she felt a small hand on her knee. She suddenly smiled brightly as she looked into her youngest son's blue eyes. "Hey there peanut." She said softly as she brought her hand to rest on top of one year old Chris's head. She thought back to adult version of Chris who had died in his father's arms the day that baby Chris was born. A frown came over her lips.
Chris looked sad at the sudden change in his mommy's face. He couldn't understand how one second his mommy was happy to see him and in the next second she was sad to see him. He began to cry in fear. He felt such sadness but he didn't understand it he thought that his mommy didn't love him anymore.
Piper broke out of her trance as she looked down at her baby boy. "Oh Chris honey it's ok. " She softly said as she picked her little boy up and cradled her into her arms. She sat down so that she could balance her son without fear of dropping him.
"What's wrong with Chris?" Leo cried suddenly rushing into the room. He saw his wife with their youngest son in her arms. His heart broke at his son's cries. His heart always broke when his youngest son was crying. It didn't matter if it was a sad cry or an angry cry. When Chris cried Leo wanted to stop all his pain. He owed his son that. He knelt down next to his wife and put his right hand to touch his baby boy's face. "It's all right Chris daddy is here."
"I accidentally looked sad when I was looking at him. He picked up on the sadness and he doesn't understand." Piper said knowing exactly why Chris was upset. She began to rock side to side. "I'm sorry Chris; I didn't mean to frighten you honey. Mommy loves you very much."
"Daddy loves you very much also." Leo said softly as he kept his hand on his son's face.
Wyatt just watched the scene between his parents and younger brother. He was quite used to scenes like this; there had been many scenes like this one since his baby brother was born. He understood that his baby brother Chris was the same Chris who had become his mother and aunt's white lighter two years ago. He knew that Adult Chris had time traveled back from the future to save him, Wyatt Halliwell, from turning evil. Wyatt was grateful and all but it still bugged him that he had to be saved by his younger brother. The younger brother that he had no knowledge of in this present. Wyatt knew that adult Chris was murdered by the evil Elder Gideon and that was why his mommy and daddy were so over protective of baby Chris. But Wyatt also knew that they had to get over it otherwise baby Chris would become such a mommy and daddy's boy that he would be a weaken in his adult life.
Phoebe and Coop walked into the living room and saw the scene that was playing out. They sighed and looked into each other eyes and just silently shook their heads. They knew that if Piper and Leo kept going on like this where Chris was concerned than this Chris would be in some major trouble when he grew up.
For that matter Paige reacted to baby Chris just as Piper and Leo did. Paige did see adult Chris die in Leo's arms for that matter so Paige was over protective of baby Chris also even perhaps to more extremes than Piper and Leo. It seemed like Paige could just sense Chris's emotions so she always orbed to her baby nephew side whenever Chris was sad or angry. Phoebe knew that Paige was trying to come up with a spell to remove all the bad emotions from Chris. But she prayed to God and to her Grams and mom that Paige wouldn't succeed. Chris needed all his emotions if he was to survive in this world.
Phoebe was surprised that Paige hadn't orbed to Chris the moment he felt sad. Matter of fact Phoebe was surprised that Paige had decided to orb Henry to the beach for a real vacation.
Paige had asked Henry to move into the manor with Piper, Leo and their family when she couldn't bare living apart from Piper. She had said after she came back from the alter reality that Cole had created and said that she wouldn't be moving out of the manor until she was in love and married. But married life and away from the manor wasn't in store for Paige.
Phoebe always did know that Paige wouldn't find happiness if she had moved out of the manor. It would have been different if Paige had grown up in the manor with Grams, Prue, Piper and Phoebe but Patty had to give Paige up for adoption to protect her youngest daughter against the Elders wrath if they found out about her affair with her white lighter Sam. But times have changed since Paige's birth; Piper and Leo had made the way for white lighters and witches to be in love and be married. Heck they made the way for cupid and a witch to be in love and be married.
Thankfully Henry had understood and agreed to sale his townhouse and move into the manor. Once they were officially back in the manor everyone was surprised when the manor magically expanded upstairs to create a lot more room. You couldn't tell on the outside because the manor still looked like the manor; but once you walked upstairs you could see the difference. They knew that their Grams had somehow thought up a spell to make the second floor of the manor to be able to fit multiple families.
Phoebe was still very happy in her apartment that she had brought a year and a half ago. She didn't want to move back to the manor and Piper and Paige totally understood. She wanted to have her new husband to herself for a while. Well Phoebe knew that she couldn't have Coop all to herself because Coop was after all Cupid. The being of love. Her husband had a job to do and Phoebe respected it she did really. It just sometimes she couldn't get past the jealous feeling of knowing that other women are in love with her husband just so they don't give up on love. Phoebe was confused by it all but she knew she could trust her husband not to betray her or their marriage vows and with constant heart to heart talks Phoebe and Coop were working through the hazards of Cupid being a married man and the being of love.
Chris continued to cry because although he heard his mommy and daddy's words and heard the love and calm in their voices he still felt loss. He didn't understand why he felt sadness and anger as he did; how could he; he was only a year old. He had no memory at all about his past adult self traveling back from the future and dying on his twenty third birthday. Although baby Chris knew that he was missing something important about himself. Something that he had in his mommy's womb but didn't have anymore once he was outside in the world. He began to howl as the feelings kept coming in doves. He wished his mommy and daddy could stop him from being so scared and alone. But for once they couldn't stop this.
Blue and white lights brightened up and Paige was suddenly standing in the living room facing Piper and Leo. She had a worried look on her face as she heard Chris's cries. She knelt down quickly and took Chris out of Piper's arms and brought her baby nephew closer to her chest as she began to hum a lull bye that she had sang softly when she first held him in her arms.
Chris quieted down as he realized that he was in his aunt Paige's arms. He knew now why he couldn't calm down with just his mommy and daddy; he had missed the other most important person in his life his Aunt Paige. His Aunt Paige who always knew how to calm him down and who always was there to hold him and love him when he was feeling scared and alone.
Piper just watched as her baby boy quieted down in her youngest sister's arms. She didn't feel at all jealous over this. Not like when Wyatt was a baby and sometimes just wanted Paige to hold him. No she completely understood why Chris was sometimes felt more self in his aunt Paige's arms than her own.
Leo stood to his feet and walked over to his younger sister - in - law who was holding his youngest son and just watched as she comforted his son. He wanted to wrap his arms around Paige and rock her and his son sideways but he knew that it wasn't his place. One he was married to Piper and two he knew that Paige and Chris needed this moment for just themselves. But Paige had been there for him when adult Chris had died in his arms and he wanted to be there when Paige was comforting baby Chris.
"Hello Paige." Coop said with a sigh as he looked over at his younger sister - in - law. "Did you leave poor Henry baking on the beach?"
Paige just drew Chris closer to her so she could rest her check against his forehead. She closed her eyes and she and her baby nephew just stayed in that position for several minutes. Paige finally opened her eyes and pulled away from Chris's face.
Piper had stood up and walked over to stand in front of her baby sister. She held out her arms and was relieved when Paige gently placed Chris in them. She wrapped her arms around her youngest son and gathered him against her arms. She looked sideways at Wyatt who had silently watched the entire scene. She felt bad for ignoring Wyatt during this inter play. But when it came to Chris's cries Piper just had a one track mind and that was to get Chris back to being happy.
Leo silently nodded and turned around and walked over to his first born son. He knelt down to face Wyatt. "Hey there bud." He held out his arms for Wyatt to climb into them.
With a grin Wyatt stood to his feet and rushed into his father's open arms. He wrapped his arms around his father's neck and just clung to him as Leo slowly and carefully stood to his feet after Leo wrapped his arms around Wyatt's back.
Leo walked back over to the group.
"So where is Henry, Paige?" Phoebe asked looking curious at her baby half sister who had suddenly frowned deeply.
Paige sighed. "You guys aren't going to be too happy. But we have a Charmed Ones duty to perform in England. Henry is there waiting for us."
END PART THREE
