Henry moved over to the table where the picture of water was. He picked it up along with one of the glasses that surrounded it. He pulled it more than half way full before he set the picture back down. He walked over to Victor. "Here you go Vic. Looks like you need to refresh."
"Thanks Henry." Victor blinked his eyes as he took the glass in his slightly shaking hand. He brought it to his lips and took a medium drink. He felt himself coming back fully to himself. "Now that's what I call an orb." He looked confused. "But I have never orbed like that before." He looked over at Patty and Penny. He saw his late ex wife smile huge and beautifully at him, but he saw his late mother in law roll her eyes at him. "Hello Penny." He said in a strain voice. He smiled over at Patty. "Hello Patty." He said in a loving voice. He couldn't help it; Patty still had a place in his heart and always would.
"Hello Victor. Sorry about the quick entrance and quick grab." Patty said with a slight shrug of her shoulders.
"Victor." Penny stiffly nodded. She turned to face her youngest granddaughter. "I don't know why Victor is here; whatever help you girls' need, your mother and I are quite able to help you on our own."
Charles stepped forward. "I asked for Victor to be here."
Penny looked at him. "Who are you?" She asked with tightness in her voice as she became corporeal.
"My name is Charles Wentworth and I have asked Paige and her sisters to help me solve a mystery." Charles began to explain.
Penny raised her hand. "I know all about you Mr. Wentworth. It is all right that my granddaughters help you." She turned to face Paige once more. She smiled. "It's good to see you again, Paige."
Paige didn't tear her eyes off of her mother and Victor as they stood off to one side catching up. She couldn't help but think that Patty and Victor made a great couple and she saw why her mother feel in love with Victor Bennett. She just wished that Victor hadn't been hurt so much when after his divorce with Patty, Patty sleeping with her own father Sam Wilder. Than of course she wouldn't have been born. Oh what a mess.
"Paige." Penny frowned as she saw that Paige wasn't pay attention to her. She walked over and put her hand on her youngest granddaughter's chin. "Darling…."
Henry moved over to stand next to Paige and her grandmother. "Leave her be, Penny." He said softly as he saw that his wife was in deep thought.
"Stay out of this Henry Mitchell." Penny said roughly.
Paige came to herself once more. She jerked away from her grandmother's touch and moved closer to her husband. She wrapped her arms around Henry's waist and rested her head on his chest. "Leave Henry alone; Grams. You have no right to speak to him that way."
Penny blinked. "I'm sorry Paige." She looked up at Henry's face. "I am sorry Henry; I had no call to speak to you the way I did."
"It's all right Penny." Henry nodded as he tightens his hold on his wife's body. "It's been a long day is all."
Patty and Victor walked over to join the group. "Mom, what did you say?" Patty frowned slightly at her mother before turning back to face her daughter who was in her husband's arms.
"She was attacking Henry." Paige said.
"Paige, she wasn't. Honest." Henry turned concerned eyes on his wife. "It was a just a misunderstanding between Penny and I. Concerning you Paige. That was all. No attack." He was concerned about his wife.
"She still shouldn't use a hard tone with you." Paige said with a shake of her head. She turned and frowned at her grandmother. "Grandpa Allan was a mortal after all."
"Did I imply that I didn't like Henry?" Grams asked softly.
"No today. But you don't like or respect Victor because he's mortal and he's Piper and Phoebe's father." Paige snorted.
Before any thing else could be said orb lights lit up close to Paige and she held her arms out waiting to catch whom ever was about to land in them. Chris appeared with a laugh in her arms. She held her youngest nephew close to him and kissed his check.
"Saved by the …. Chris." Henry wisecracked. He was relieved to hear his family laugh; also Paige loosened enough up to laugh herself. He tickled his youngest nephew's chin. "Heya bud."
Chris nodded and laughed up roaring.
Patty walked over to stand next to her youngest daughter and smiled down at her youngest grandson. "Christopher, you have grown since the last time I saw you."
There was a frantic knock on the door. "Chris. Are you in there sweetheart?" Piper's voice cried out.
Henry went to the door and pulled it open. "Surprise." He nodded over to where Penny, Patty and Victor were standing around Paige and Chris. "Your son just wanted to say hello to his great grams, and his grandparents is all." He stepped aside as Piper came rushing into the room.
"Mom, dad, grams. What are you doing here?" Piper cried with a happy smile on her face, she saw that her son was quite safe in Paige's arms so she didn't try to take Chris from Paige.
Leo with Wyatt in his arms rushed into the room and stopped in relief when he saw Chris in Paige's arms, "Why was he able to orb? I thought no orbing was allowed." He swung angry eyes at Charles.
"I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you. You may orb in the house and on the grounds. You just may not orb anyway else." Charles blushed but didn't look away from Leo's eyes. "I knew that the boys would want to orb to you and Piper at times when you two are in different areas of the house and the land. So I made orbing possible here."
"Why have you prevented orbing at all? Why have you trapped my daughters and grandsons here?" Patty demanded rushing over to jerk Charles around to face her. "Are you a demon or a warlock? My girls will vanquish you no problem."
"I'm mortal. I'm an innocent. I have heard of the Charmed Ones and I was waiting until the Elders were done using them in San Francisco and the evil there. I had a long wait; eight years." Charles shook his head. "I'm sorry for this way of getting your granddaughters to help me, but I was desperate."
Before Patty could demand more answers from Charles she saw her second youngest daughter rush into the room with a glad smile on her face. She turned to face Phoebe fully.
"Mom, dad and grams what a lovely surprise." Phoebe rushed over to hug her mother tightly. She never grew tried of happily and childishly greeting her mother. Patty had died when she was only three years old after all; and she didn't have many memories of her mother while Patty was alive.
"Hello darling." Patty said hugging Phoebe close to her. This was the first daughter whom had hugged her since she had arrived. When she pulled away from her second youngest she turned to face Paige who was softly cooing down at Chris. "May I hold Chris?" She held out her arms for her youngest grandson.
Paige pulled Chris even closer to her as she stared some what wide eyed at her mother. She didn't mean too, it was her mother; Chris's grandmother; she was safe for Chris to be around, but every time Paige held Chris to her she couldn't bare to give him up. Not even to Piper.
Piper understood and walked closer to her baby ½ sister and her mother. She placed a gentle but firm hand on Paige's back. "It's ok, Paige." She said softly. She smiled down at her son.
Paige nodded and handed Chris over to Patty to take. She watched eagled eyed as Patty moved her arms more securely around Chris's body. She watched as Patty started to softly talk to her youngest grandson. She stepped back and smiled before she turned back to the task at hand. That was Victor who still looked quite green around the gills.
"Are you all right Victor?" Paige asked as she walked over to where Victor was sitting sipping from the glass of water that Henry had given him. She didn't like the color of his pallor.
"I'm getting there." Victor said taking a deep slow breath. "Slowly. I'm just not used to orbing in this fashion is all. Orbing and than crossing the great divine while I'm still every much alive is very hard on ones body." He wisecracked. He looked over at Wyatt who was looking at him with a funny face and grinned. "I'm feeling better all ready. I get to spend some time with my two grandsons," he looked over where Patty was standing bonding with Chris, "I get to spend time with Patty, and," He glanced over at Penny and slightly rolled his eyes. "And I get to spend time with my lovely mother in law." He smiled to let Penny know that he was just kidding about the eye roll.
Penny just shook her head. She went right back to talking with Phoebe who had dragged her over to Coop after Patty had left Phoebe's side for the company of Christopher.
"I'm sorry for not being able to come to you and explain to you why I needed you to orb here the way you did." Paige said placing a hand on Victor's shoulder. "I just had time to orb back home, tell Piper, Phoebe, and the husbands what was going on and that the Charmed Ones were needed, and orb them back here to join Henry."
"It's quite all right, Paige." Victor said standing to his feet. He had handed his glass back to Henry before he stood to his feet. He wrapped his arms around the young woman; whom was his late ex wife's daughter by another man and hugged her.
Paige received the hug and closed her eyes as she felt the love out pouring from her sisters' father and her mother's husband when her mother was alive. She knew that it took a lot for Victor to be to show this compassion for her to her. She was grateful and she accepted it whenever Victor offered it.
END CHAPTER SIX