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It was 4:00 am as Leo Wyatt went through the house checking on everybody Piper had fallen asleep a mere hour ago but Leo couldn't sleep he had this urge to look at his future kids just in case if something happened. After several hours of research Piper had insisted that they get some sleep and start fresh in the morning everyone agreed although they did so grudgingly. Once that they were in they room the happy reunited couple had spent every moment in an embrace and they eventually had "cuddled" as how Paige had put it a couple of hours before Leo had already checked on Melinda with whom Piper seemed to have bonded intuitively once she had heard her name, Bianca who was sharing her room with Mel was also sleeping (on Pipers demand much to Chris's embarrassment) and Wyatt who was soundly asleep on the couch as the clocks tick and tack could be heard. There was only one missing but Leo didn't need to look far as he found Chris in the kitchen warming up milk
"Morning dad" he whispered not wanting to wake up the others "You aren't going to crush my spine again aren't you?" he asked jokingly referring to Leo's earlier reaction namely once Leo saw big Chris he hugged him so tight that it took the combined might of Melinda, Piper and Paige to separate them
"Morning" he replied half yawning, "What are you doing so early up" he asked concerned
"Can't sleep so I'm warming up some milk it usually helps" he explained although he kept quiet the fact that he was once again plagued by his nightmares
"Got that from you", he continued, "When I was little and couldn't sleep you would always bring me some warm milk and it became a sort of habit"
That last sentence had a profound impact on Leo and it gave him the confidence to ask his the question he had wanted to ask him since yesterday afternoon a question that had tormented him for hours he needed to know a conversation he needed to have with his future son
"Chris am…am I a good father to…" he trailed of not knowing how to actually finish the sentence praying that this Chris would tell him that he did good that he didn't miss birthdays and played favorites
"Dad your PTA mom and soccer coach all rolled into one" Chris answered quickly as he saw the hurt in his fathers eyes
"So I've always been there for you and your siblings" probed Leo as hope shot up his chest
"Dad the only time you missed something was that one time when Melinda had her appendix surgery" Chris continued, "Not to mention that you used to take us camping every summer break I mean sure we had our ups and downs but just like any other regular family…" he fell silent for a moment lost in thought "…and that would be the only thing we had as any other regular family" he added jokingly as he drank the warm milk out of his glass
Leo felt a great burden being lifted from his shoulders as he heard his son's words and then he simply grinned then jumped up and pulled Chris into another embrace
"Dad I love you too but please stop with the hugs already its murder on my back" he complained
"Smartass" replied Leo now finally feeling at peace after a long time
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Up there
"Manah I still don't understand…" began Odin
"Odin the timeline has been compromised surly you see this" she replied as the two elders debated and the others listened sometimes shaking their heads and sometimes giving approving nods
"And all of that you base on that girl?" he asked incredulously
"My dear Odin has Leo been allowed any visits?" she asked
"Of course not…"
"Then explain the girl's existence, I for once doubt that Piper can impregnate herself, and if he wasn't allowed any visits then that leaves us only with one option someone has manipulated the timeline already and they are correcting it now"
"So you think Leo was never accused?"
"Probably has but was also set free", she answered, Odin frowned as Manah continued
"You still haven't informed us of the origin of your evidence how do you know that it hasn't been tampered with?" she asked as Odin deflated and remained still
"But the children…" began one of the other elders
"What is with them you agreed that young Christopher represents no threat and I don't see any reason to hold on to Wyat either" she turned around and spoke to the whole council
"Until our investigation is complete Leo Wyatt, the Charmed ones and their progeny are not to be contacted and are going to be allowed to perform their own independent investigation" and with that Manah concluded the meting
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When Piper woke up she reached next to her but found her bed empty quickly she jumped up grabbed her PJ got dressed and went down the stairs looking for Leo franticly a sense of relief washed of her as she heard laughter from the kitchen
"…and so his hair was pink for a week he didn't dare to take a steep out of the house" she heard Chris voice followed by laughter as she entered she found Leo and Chris sitting at the table laughing. She felt so relived as she saw the father son bond between them especially since the other Chris had issues with Leo she was even happier to see that this Chris doesn't.
"You okay mom?" he asked as he noticed her standing
"Huh… oh I'm fine since have you two been here?" she asked
"Since somewhere around four couldn't sleep so dad stayed and kept me company" he explained as Paige entered the room wearing her bath robe, slippers and her hair looking as if she had orbed through a tornado
"Morning" exclaimed Piper as she saw he sister
She walked right past her murmuring something about morning the only recognizable word being "Coffee" Chris quickly handed her a mug as Paige continued to mummer something about Chris being her favorite nephew as she took a sip and sat down at the table.
Half an hour latter Mel and Bianca joined them as Piper now fully dressed, finished her first batch of scrambled eggs for Leo, Chris and Paige and went of too make them breakfast as well
"Were are Wyatt and Phoebe anyway" she asked while breaking an egg
"Wyatt likes to sleep longer just like aunt Phoebe" explained Mel as she sat next to Leo
"Someone talking about me?" asked Phoebe as she entered the kitchen followed by a sleepy Wyatt
"Just wondering when you are going to wake up" answered Piper as she put a plate with eggs on the table and went up to check on baby Wyatt and Chris
"That coffee?" asked Bianca as Paige poured her some into a mug
The kitchen was soon filed with commotion as the family ate together breakfast
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The underworld
The cave in which the Halliwells mystery attacker from the future resided had been lit up with hundreds of candles in the middle of the room stood a small pedestal on it a golden urn with in it ashes the hooded female approached the urn and gently whispered
"Soon…very soon you are going to return to me to guide me as you once have and should have remained…" she gently whispered to the ashes in the urn
"I'll avenge you and he will suffer I promise"
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The Manor
After the large breakfast Piper was washing up while the family had continued to debate next to her while the baby versions of Wyatt and Chris were in the middle of the kitchen playing while Bianca watched them. Piper couldn't help but to feel slightly uneasy as she watched the young woman the memory of her fist sticking in Chris chest was still bothering her but she was sure to leave that part out of the explanation they have told their future children
"I can't believe how cute you were" spoke Bianca as she picked up baby Chris and held him as Chris smiled sheepishly
"Neither do I so what happened?" asked Mel teasingly as both Wyatt and Chris sent her a glare
"Ok guys can we focus here we were going through the attack pattern of the demon… again" went on Paige ignoring Mel's comment
"We already told you she crept up the stairs in the attic while we were fighting her astral projections down stairs" answered Chris
"So she has astral projection, fireballs…"
"More like fire waves" commented Mel as she remembered her earlier confrontation
"Why didn't she shimmer up there I mean if she wanted to go to the attic" asked Phoebe as she wasn't the whole day there she had to go to the Bay mirror
"Mom cast a spell over the stairs and first floor to prohibit anyone to magically transport themselves in or out" explained Wyatt
"I get the in part but why out I mean wouldn't that block your orbing too" asked Piper as she took baby Chris from Bianca and looked at the three
"You mean their orbing I can't orb" explained Mel "And it had to do something to do with Chris and Wyatt orbing in and out…with girlfriends" she added as Piper's eyes went wide, Leo grinned sheepishly at his two sons, Phoebe giggled while both Wyatt and Chris went red
"What spell was that again?" asked Piper as Bianca poured herself some tea and Phoebe giggled
"Oh stop the giggling already aunt pervy" said Paige as she to was trying to suppress a laughing fit
"Do you mind explaining me what's with the pervert thing?" asked Chris the red in his face subsiding
"Oh nothing much your aunt just thought that I was having a threesome with you and Wy" explained Bianca as he mug glowed slightly but that went unnoticed as both brothers shuddered at the thought
"Ew! Aunt Phoebe" both men winced
"You were in your underwear what was I supposed to think? And anyway why can't you orb?" she asked hoping to turn the attention away from herself
"Because when you are half whitelighter you get one trait but have the potential to develop others I my case I can heal, they can orb" she concluded
"But what about sensing?" asked a slightly thrown off Paige
"It goes with orbing with out it you wouldn't know were you are orbing yourself its something like a blind man trying to drive a car" explained Leo
"Don't change the subject" interrupted Piper "Were is that spell?"
"Yuck" came Bianca's remark with noises of disgust as she put her mug down "I thought this was tea" she explained
"It is" assured her Chris
"No its caramel" countered Bianca as she gave him the mug as proof
"That's funny how that happen?" asked Paige as Mel eyed Bianca suspiciously
"Have no idea" both Chris and Bianca replied a bit to quickly for everyone's liking
"Okay first what are your powers?" asked Piper "If we are going to do this then we need to know"
"Orbing, sensing, telekinetic orbing, energy blasts, force fields, thought projection, astral projection, glamouring, molecular combustion and Excalibur but I don't use it that much" answered Wyatt as the currently powerless Phoebe rolled her eyes
"Mine are telekinesis, premonitions, healing, levitation" came a reply from Mel
"Shimmering, energy ball's summon athames and can reform myself"
"I can orb, sense, freeze and blow stuff up and I can phase between the normal world and the ghost plane" finished Chris
"You can what?" asked the eldest charmed one as she put baby Chris in the playpen with Wyatt
"It means that I can access the ghost plane whenever I want you know travel between them" he explained
"Where did you get that power?" asked a confused Paige
"It probably has to do something that he was conceived at the astral plane" blurted out Phoebe
"Phoebe!" yelled both Leo and Piper
"What?" asked a highly startled Chris while the others looked more then confused
"Why were you in the ghost plane?" asked Melinda
"A darklighter attacked us and sent them there" continued Phoebe and closed her eyes waiting for the explosion
"Phoebe do you mind STOP telling my children about my sex life" snapped Piper as Leo face went red that matched Chris and Wyatt's a few moments before
"I'm sorry you know I'm no good at keeping secrets" she defended herself
"Ok rewind for a sec here you were at the ghost plane and then you get it going on?" asked Mel as Piper blushed
"W-well no I mean w-e were stuck and your father was dieing f-from…" began Piper stuttering completely thrown out of the loop by Mel's question but was timely stooped by baby Wyatt orbing down
"I'll get baby Chris" said Bianca, Wyatt and Phoebe and left the room as Chris finally spoke
"Well you always said that I came as a surprise"
"So you get laid on your deathbeds but if I kiss a guy all hell breaks loose?" said Mel indignantly as she rounded up on her parents
"Mel not now" snapped Chris "They haven't done anything" Mel just shot him a glare and went up to get the book
"What was that about?" asked Paige
"Uh when Mel started dating dad caught her kissing a guy in front of the door and reacted badly" Chris sighed
"How old was she?" asked both Leo and Piper
"Future consequences" said Chris as he felt the same impulse he had yesterday in his mothers room
"Not that mantra again" moaned Paige
Yesterday they have informed the future people of the other Chris of how he came back to save Wyatt of course they had left out the Wyat was an evil overlord part. They shared a couple of laughs about the other Chris neurotic side a part that obviously had survived by Melinda and they had however concluded with Chris death after which fell a ringing silence. They didn't have any time to see how they reacted or cooped with that piece of information since Chris insisted that they continue they search "just like the old days" commented Paige.
Of course Bianca and Chris had understood now the nature of his nightmares, they weren't any they were probably memories of his past life which he was accessing,
The family had assembled themselves in the parlor room where Piper began giving orders
"Alright Paige you and Mel go to magic school se if you can find out anything there, Wyatt you take Chris and go "up there" se if the elders know something new…"
"What about me?" asked Phoebe
"You are going to the Bay mirror or Elise is going to fire your ass"
"Good point" and with that she went to get her purse
"I should probably go to the underworld check it out if she is hiding then its probably down there"
"Chris you don't know anyone down there in this time" countered Piper
"You are right but they know me or at least my other me"
"Ok how about this I go with Chris down while Wyatt checks "up there" Mel and Paige go to magic school, Phoebe goes to work, Piper stay here with the kids" everybody turned as they saw Leo taking charge
"What about me" asked Bianca
"You can come along with us" offered Leo slightly blushing at the fact that he forgot Bianca
"No Bianca should stay here… with mom in case…" began Chris slightly stuttering
"A demon attacks, we don't know if our friend has got back up just in case" finished Mel for him
Seeing that she was outnumbered Piper gave in and with that Wyatt, Paige with Mel, orbed out
"Just be care full she told her husband" Piper said to both of them while looking at Leo
As Bianca kissed Chris probably telling him the same thing
Tbc…