A/N: Thanks to Thunder903 and Smart One 17 for reviewing.
Chapter 3: Normalcy
"It is ridiculous that a person has to be up this early just to go shopping." Hailey grumbled wiping the sleep out of her eyes with her knuckles as she made her way to the kitchen.
"Morning sunshine," Paige greeted her niece.
"Just let me say that I would object to being up this early if we weren't getting ready to go shopping." Carly said. In her opinion shopping was one of the only things worth getting up this early for.
"I'm still trying to come up with ways to get out of this." Patty mumbled. It wasn't that she didn't want to be there for her brother, she just didn't want to have to suffer through shopping with her sister.
"Hailey, I know that I don't have to lecture you so I won't." Paige began and then she turned her gaze on her daughters. "I want you two to behave yourselves, this means a lot to your brother and I don't want you acting up."
"Mom, I'm not going to do anything, but I do need to tell you that this is B we're going shopping with so she is going to bitch about it more than I do." Patty pointed out to her mother.
"You do have a point so I'm going to let it go for now." Paige agreed nodding her head.
"Hailey, what is that on your neck?" Carly asked her little cousin she hadn't paid any attention to anything her mother had said.
"Nothing," Hailey replied pulling the collar of her t-shirt higher up on her neck.
"That is not nothing, Hails, that is one massive hickey. Trust me I think that I would know." Carly disputed.
"Did Dante give you that?" Patty asked her.
"That is not a hickey, it's a curling iron burn you two pervs." Hailey knew that she was lying. She was going to kill Brady dead the next time she saw him. She didn't know that he had left a hickey on her.
"Hailey Alice, don't try to use the lame ass excuse. Just put some makeup on it to cover it up." Paige ordered shaking her head. She had her reputation as the cool one to protect.
"I guess your little boyfriend felt the need to mark his territory." Carly said barely containing a laugh.
Hailey glared at her cousin. There was no doubt in her mind that Brady had been attempting to mark his territory. "He just got a little excited I guess." She replied lamely.
"That is nothing to be ashamed of, Ricky is bad about leaving his marks on me. I smack the shit out of him every time he leaves a hickey on me but that doesn't stop him." Patty said pulling down the front of her t-shirt showing off her collarbone that had a hickey on it. "At least he has the decency to leave them where I can hide them."
"Jason isn't that territorial, thank God. I'm the one who leaves marks on him. He can't take his shirt off in public because he has my fingernail marks on his back." Carly reported proudly.
"I can't believe we're even having this conversation right now." Hailey groaned she didn't know how they got on such off the wall topics.
"Hailey, we're all women here there is nothing to be ashamed of. Your Uncle Henry is upstairs with Alan right now he doesn't even know what's going on down here." Paige assured the young woman.
"You doing the hanky panky with Dante?" Carly asked making her eyebrows dance.
"If you must know, no I'm not." Hailey said and she didn't feel like that was a lie because she was fooling around with Brady.
"Carly, does everything have to be about sex with you?" Bianca asked coming into the kitchen with Hank.
"I don't see where anything else matters, B." Carly replied with a cheeky grin.
"You two are here early." Paige commented ignoring her daughter.
"Yeah, we figured that we would come over here before we all split up for the day." Hank replied.
"B, I have the twenty-four hour flu, so I can't come with you today." Patty said she even coughed to make it believable.
"Nice try, Charlie, but you and Mels are going to keep me sane today." Bianca smiled and shook her head at the younger girl.
"You burn yourself with a curling iron, Hails?" Hank asked his little cousin with a smirk. He had heard every lame ass excuse from his oldest sister more times than he could count.
"You're really not fucking funny, Hank." Hailey replied through gritted teeth.
"It's not that big of a deal, I've got a bruise on my lower back right now because someone thought she was pushing me down on the couch, but she knocked me over the coffee table." Hank replied looking pointedly at his fiancé.
"For the last time it was dark and neither one of us was sober." Bianca protested.
"What about the bruise on my inner thigh?" Hank asked her in retort.
"You pissed me off." Bianca informed him like it was no big deal.
"I don't want to hear about your sex life." Patty groaned. She didn't know why her family had to over share.
"That isn't us talking about our sex life, that is just the shit that we do to each other.' Hank corrected his sister.
"Hails, if you want I can show you how to cover that up really good. I have a lot of experience in that department." Bianca offered.
"You of all people?" Carly asked her. She didn't think that Bianca had it in her and she was impressed.
"Not for the reason that you think. You tend to get bruises fighting demons, if I didn't have time to be healed I had to cover them up." Bianca explained to her.
"Where's Goose?" Hank asked he hadn't seen his baby brother in a day.
"Your dad is upstairs getting him ready." Paige answered him.
"I'm just going to go see if Big Henry needs a hand." Hank said wanting to get away from the room full of women.
"That man is without a doubt fucking retarded when he wants to be." Bianca said shaking her head.
"What are you talking about?" Hailey asked confused.
"He left the room because there are one too many women in here for his liking." Bianca replied.
"Are you sure that you're not telepathic?" Paige asked her with a smile.
"No, I'm not telepathic, I just know my fiancé very well." Bianca corrected her laughing.
"You seriously pushed him over a coffee table?" Patty asked sounding highly amused.
"It was an accident we were both drunk and we didn't turn the lights on in my apartment." Bianca defended.
"Are you two normally that rough with each other?" Carly asked.
"That is something that you don't want to get into in front of your mother." Bianca laughed when Carly made a face at that answer.
"B, don't be gross, you may be in love with him, but he is my older brother." Patty protested sounding disgusted.
"B, don't scar the children for life." Hank said coming back into the room with his little brother in his arms. "Goose, can you say hi to B?" he asked him.
Bianca took Alan from him. "Hi, Al, what's going on little man?" she asked tickling his belly.
"Mom, who's watching him today?" Hank asked out of curiosity.
"Your Aunt Piper." Paige replied.
"Charlie, I need a really big favor from you." Bianca told her sweetly.
"I don't do favors anymore they tend to cause me a lot of trouble." Patty replied with a straight face. Seriously the last time she had done her sister a favor it had gotten her into a world of trouble.
Bianca acted like she hadn't heard her say that. "You have a choice to make and I'm warning you right now that you have to walk down the aisle with either Chase or my cousin Mikey. Here's the favor I need, I need to walk with Mikey because he has no business being around Hailey. Mikey would hit on anything with two legs, you can kick his ass Hailey can't."
"B, anyone but Mikey, he is a royal pain in my ass." Patty moaned.
"I know, I swear I'll owe you." Bianca said resorting to bribery.
"There is something wrong with him when even Chase used to ditch his ass." Patty complained.
"Yeah, it's called he's too much like Uncle Mickey for his own good." Bianca agreed with her.
"Fine, exempt me from your damn final and we'll talk about it." Patty bargained.
"Advanced spell writing or advanced self defense?" Bianca asked.
"Both, and I'm serious here, B." Patty replied stubbornly.
"Charlie, you're a senior, I never make my seniors take finals. So I'll do you one better, you don't have to come to either class for the rest of the semester." Bianca compromised.
"It's a deal." Patty agreed reluctantly.
"Can you do that?" Big Henry asked her coming into the room. He took his son from her as he shook his head.
"For Charlie I can do that. With the grades she has in both of those classes it doesn't make any difference if she shows up or not she's still going to get an A." Bianca assured him.
"How is that possible?" Carly asked. She could barely pull down an A.
"Extra credit, try doing it sometimes. Really if you can't get an A in self-defense I'm not doing something right. Spell's class isn't that hard either, Jake and Prue both passed so that should tell you something." Bianca replied.
"B, didn't you pass those two out of the goodness of your heart?" Hank asked her laughing.
"The grades they were pulling down were close enough to passing. That being said there is a reason I steer clear when one of them starts to say a spell." Bianca retorted.
"I don't think Prue is as bad as she used to be." Hank said that was not to say that Prue still shouldn't be trusted around a spell though.
"Just because she has a spell that doesn't backfire every once in a while that does not mean that she has gotten better." Bianca argued.
"Honey, don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying that she has gotten better I'm just saying that her spells are less sucky than they used to be." Hank replied.
"And as much as I would like to argue the way you worded that last comment I just can't right now. I've gotta go you know how my mother is about me being at the house when I said I was going to be there." Bianca said consulting her watch.
Hank stood up and wrapped his arms around her. "I'll see you later, try not to go insane." He begged her. She just let too much shit bother her sometimes.
"I'll be fine, you just behave I know how you can get. What's worse I know how you and my dad feed off of each other, you both think you're funny." Bianca said. She knew that there was no telling what Frank and Hank could get up to together.
"I love you," Hank said resting his forehead against hers.
"I love you too." Bianca replied reaching up to kiss him.
Hank because he thought he was funny let his hands wander to her ass while they were kissing. "You'd better go or I'm not going to want to let you go." He told her.
"I'll see you, just remember to send me a picture of your tux for approval." Bianca reminded him.
"I've got it woman." Hank replied smacking her ass when she turned her back to him. He grinned when he saw the way that Carly was looking at him. "What?" he asked her.
"That was so uncalled for, you only did that to gross me out." Carly answered him with a scowl on her face.
"I don't know how you could accuse me of such a thing. As a matter of fact it hurts me that you would think something like that about me." Hank mock pouted.
"Mother, your son is retarded." Carly informed her mom seriously.
"Leave him alone, Carly, he is in love." Paige scolded her daughter.
About an hour later Hank and all the guys were in the tux shop.
"Alright, Hank, what butt ass ugly colors are we being made to contend with?" Chase asked with his sister he never knew what he was going to have to wear.
"Aquamarine and silver." Hank answered him.
"My daughter actually chose these colors?" Frank asked in disbelief.
"No, she didn't I did. She couldn't decide so she told me to. This is what I came up with." Hank replied.
"You know that this makes me wonder if you're fruity right?" Mikey asked him. Mikey looked exactly like Mickey and Frank. Mikey was about five foot eleven; he had dark brown hair and brown eyes.
"Mikey, I don't put much stock in what you think, so that's ok." Hank replied conversationally.
"Dude, don't mess with Hank. We don't call him the gorilla for no fucking reason." Chase advised his cousin.
"Are we wearing bowties?" Chris asked his cousin.
"Hell no, I told B that that was not happening. I hate those damn things." Hank answered him rolling his eyes.
"Thank God, I don't know how to tie one of those to save my life." Wyatt said in relief.
"Wy, for some reason that just doesn't shock me old buddy." Troy teased his brother-in-law.
"This is Wy we're talking about here, there is no reason to be shocked about something like that." Roman knew that he was treading on dangerous ground but he had to tease his friend.
"I swear to God, if I ever get married I'm doing it in jeans and a t-shirt." Chord said. They were about to drive him crazy with always having him get dressed up.
"That is assuming that you ever find a woman who can put up with your ass for more than five seconds." Parker zinged his best friend.
"That goes for both of you." Chuck said shaking his head.
"Hank, what kind of tuxes are we going to wear?" Tyler asked him out of curiosity.
"I don't have an answer to that question at the moment. I figured that I would just try something on and go from there." Hank replied with a shrug.
"Can you just remember that I'm paying for this?" Frank asked him jokingly.
" Thank you for reminding me, I now have to go find the most expensive tux in the place." Hank joked back with him. Those two got along really great they always had.
"I personally think that you should go with one those ruffled shirts." Frank threw out there.
"Not happening Uncle Frank. Your daughter would kick my ass into the middle of next year. She is not very happy that she has to go through all this shit just to get married, so I don't want to do anything to piss her off." Hank replied shaking his head.
"Just so you know he was never this cool when I was getting married to Maria." Tyler told him.
"Ty, you know that I love you too. I was just trying to make sure that you were going to take care of my little girl." Frank said putting Tyler in a headlock.
"There is something wrong with him." Jason whispered to Hank.
"What was your first clue?" Hank asked his friend in reply.
"Why don't you boys all go try some clothes on?" Big Henry asked shooing them away.
"Thanks, Henry, I didn't think they would ever get out of our hair." Frank said clapping him on the back.
"Hey, Frank," Henry said with a grin.
"What?" Frank asked with a grin of his own.
"Do you want to get matching tuxes?" Henry asked excitedly.
"Hell yeah," Frank agreed enthusiastically. Those two together only spelled trouble.
"Really, Prue? This is me that we're talking about." Bianca said turning up her nose at the dress that the younger woman was showing her.
"Come on B, O and I thought that it was pretty." Prue protested.
"We've been through this, I don't do ruffles, I don't do lace, and I don't do sequins, that fucking abomination has all three of those things." Bianca pointed out to her rolling her eyes. The dress in question kinda looked like a combination between a cloud and a circus tent.
"B, that doesn't leave you with a whole hell of a lot of options. So if you could get your head out of your ass that would make my day." Oriana pointed out to her sister.
"You two go terrorize someone else, let Rachel and I handle B." Maria ordered chasing her little sister and her best friend away.
"Thank you so much, Maria, those two were starting to get on my nerves." Bianca gushed and she wasn't one to gush.
"This doesn't have to be stressful, you just have to relax and learn to let a lot of things go." Maria advised her sister.
"I'm not stressing, you've seen me stressed. This is me wanting to be anywhere but here right now." Bianca replied.
"B, they are not being that bad and you know it. They are actually being pretty good for them, I honestly expected them to be so much worse." Rachel said trying to make her feel better.
"They make me want to bang my head against the wall sometimes. Don't tell me that they're not that bad." Bianca argued with her playfully.
"I share your sentiments on that one B, just remember that you owe me for keeping Carly and Lindsey occupied." Mel said walking over to them.
"Trust me, I know that I owe you for that one. The only thing that could make those two any worse is if Val was with them." Bianca wasn't even going to put up an argument about that one.
"Don't wish that on me, B. I used to have to deal with that and let me tell you it is no walk in the park." Mel replied shaking her head.
"How do any of you girls ever get anything done with the way you all stop to talk?" Paige asked them out of curiosity.
"Aunt Paige, this was a motivational speech, I was about to have one less sister and you were about to have one less niece if I didn't step in." Maria said grinning at her.
"Already with the violence, B?" Lyn asked her daughter.
"Mom, you should have seen why I was about to go off my rocker. Oriana and Prue found the ugliest dress I have ever seen in my entire life that they wanted me to try on." Bianca informed her mother. It wasn't like she was being unreasonable here.
"Heaven forbid that you do anything remotely feminine." Lyn rolled her eyes.
"It's not even like that mom, the damn thing looked like a circus tent." Bianca replied with an eye roll of her own.
"I'm afraid to ask, but what colors are we working with?" Carly asked her soon to be sister-in-law.
"Aquamarine and silver." Bianca answered her.
"You of all people picked these colors?" Carly asked the fashion designer in her approved of this choice though.
"No, your brother did. I told him to pick and he did a pretty good job." Bianca replied.
"You are the only woman I know who would leave something like that to a man." Lilly told her.
"Please, I'm jealous I couldn't have trusted Wyatt to do something like that. I love him, but he is totally color blind." Liz scoffed.
"Sweetie, your husband is a child stuck in a grown man's body when he wants to be." Calleigh pointed out to her and Liz couldn't argue with that.
"B, do you have any clue what kind of dress you're going to get?" Lindsey asked her cousin. She really didn't want to be stuck doing this all day.
"I know what I don't want if that helps any." Bianca offered.
"I now understand why you and Mel get along so damn well." Hailey couldn't help laughing just a little bit.
"Finally someone that gets us." Mel joked with a smile that she didn't really feel.
"Why did I have to be cursed with the most stubborn child on the face of the earth?" Lyn asked rhetorically. She really didn't want or need an answer to that question.
"Mom, I don't know what you're carrying on about. I happen to think that she is being good and that is something for her." Maria told her mother seriously. Honestly she had expected her sister to act a lot worse about this.
"You're so funny that I forgot to laugh, Maria." Bianca replied rolling her eyes.
"Come on, let's go find you a dress." Rachel said pulling her cousin along by her hand. "Don't look at me like that the sooner we find a dress the sooner we can get out of here."
"Ok, fine, but I don't have to enjoy doing this." Bianca relented allowing herself to be drug along.
Lyn could only shake her head. "I hope that son of yours knows what he's getting into." She commented to Paige.
"He knows and he still loves her with all of his heart anyway." Paige replied.
"I have to say that he impressed the hell out of me last night. He handled my mother very well. No one can handle my mother." Lyn replied.
"Hank is a cop, he knows how to deal with people. I'm just thankful that he behaved himself." Paige said. She always worried about what her son was going to do or say, because with him there was just no telling.
"My mother makes you want to shoot her I'm not going to lie about it." Lyn said shaking her head.
"Hank would put up with anything for your daughter. I'm telling you that he really loves her, Lyn." Paige replied.
"I know that he loves her, there is no doubt in my mind that he loves her. I have been pulling for the two of them." Lyn responded to that.
"So have I, I don't know two people in the world that deserve happily ever after more than they do." Paige agreed.
"So what do you guys think?" Hank asked as he stepped out of the dressing room. He was wearing a black suit with a jacket that had silk lapels. He had on an aquamarine tie and vest. The pocket of his jacket held a silver and an aquamarine handkerchief.
"I think that you better ask your fiancé what she thinks." Wyatt said. He was a smart man he knew better than to do things without asking his wife's approval first.
"I think that someone might be just a little bit whipped." Chris said smirking in his brother's direction.
"I think that I need to get a bigger waist size in these pants, I can barely move." Tyler said tugging uncomfortably on the pair of dress pants that he had on.
"Well, I need to get some that are shorter in the legs." Roman said he was tripping over the bottoms of the pants that he had on.
"Ro, you know that you're a short shit, I don't know why you try to convince yourself otherwise." Chuck teased his little brother.
"Now Chuck, don't start with him." Jake said with a smirk.
"These damn shoes aren't working for me. They are too fucking small." Chase said flexing his toes and it was indeed painful for him.
"You have huge ass feet, Chase, stop pretending like you don't." Mikey reminded his cousin.
"I need a bigger shirt, this one is entirely too fucking tight." Parker said pulling at the collar of the shirt that he had on.
"And I have to get a smaller jacket." Chord said the jacket that he had on could fit two other people in it with him.
"Everything I have on fits me just fine." Troy bragged shaking his head. He didn't understand how grown men couldn't get themselves the right sizes.
"Everything fits me right too." Chris said he knew his sizes well though because of his marine dress uniforms.
"I have no complaints in that department either." Jason said.
"All my shit fits me too." Hank said. He was smart enough to know what size he wore too though.
"You guys all look good, I think you did a good job of picking those tuxes out." Frank said nodding his head in approval.
"Alright, I better take a picture of you guys and send it to the women." Henry said pulling his phone out.
"Oh my God, Lyn, you need to see how those boys look." Paige said when she got the pictures that Henry had taken.
"Hank did a damn good job of picking those colors." Lyn said they did look really nice.
"My baby isn't a baby anymore. He looks so handsome. I swear that I'm not going to cry yet." Paige replied sounding close to tears.
"Paige, he looks just like you. Hank is a very good-looking man. I think my girls have both done really well when it comes to picking their men." Lyn told her.
"Hey B, come here." Paige yelled out to the young woman.
Bianca came walking over wearing nothing but her sport's bra and her athletic shorts. "Yeah, Aunt Paige?" she asked.
"Your fiancé wants your approval on the tux he picked out." Paige told her with a grin.
Bianca took her phone from her and looked at the pictures that were on there. "I don't want this to go to his head, but he did good. He did really good, as a matter of fact that looks perfect." She said a smile forming on her face.
"Bianca Lyn, you are built like a brick shit house, how come you never show your body off?" Lyn asked her daughter she hadn't realized just how good a figure that girl had until that moment.
"I don't know mom, I just don't like showing that much skin." Bianca replied with a shrug.
"I have asked her the same question I don't know how many times. If I had that body I would be showing it off." Maria said sticking her tongue out at her little sister when she shot her a look.
"Really, Sophie? You're not doing that bad in that department either." Bianca replied rolling her eyes at her.
"I've had a baby I don't have the abs that you do anymore." Maria argued with her playfully. "Mom, ask her how she got a body like that." She said turning to their mother.
"B, how did you get a body like that?" Lyn asked her middle child.
"I work out two times a day six days a week and once on Sunday." Bianca informed her mother before addressing her sister again. "I will have you know that your baby is the only reason I put up with you. If it weren't for Lyn then I wouldn't deal with your ass."
"I don't know what to say to you right now so I won't even try." Lyn said shaking her head.
"B, what do you think of this dress?" Mel asked her friend walking over to her. The dress she had on had one strap that went around the back of her neck, the front was spilt down the middle with a sliver sash that feel right under the chest area. The dress was about ankle length and she set it off with a pair of silver heels.
"Mel, this is the part where I tell you that I knew you coming along was a good idea. I love that dress and I'm being serious, it's perfect." Bianca replied. Maybe this didn't have to be so hard.
"Those shoes present a problem though, you're already taller than Roman this is just going to make it worse." Lilly pointed out logically.
"See that is where you guys are wrong, I'm not taller than Ro, he's taller than me by an inch." Mel corrected her.
"Still in those shoes you are taller than the hobbit." Prue said. She was not going to pass up the chance to get some Roman bashing in.
"Mel, don't listen to them at least you don't have to crane your neck to look up at him the way I have to do with Hank. He's half a foot taller than I am." Bianca said shaking her head.
"Tyler is eight inches taller than I am and he is still shorter than Hank." Maria threw out there.
"Frank, were you planning on finding a dress sometime today?" Rachel asked her cousin calling her by her uncle's name.
"I have one more to try on, just let me go back to the dressing room, Mickey." Bianca replied glaring at her.
"I don't know how anyone could ever accuse sweet innocent B of being difficult." Liz joked rolling her eyes.
"She would never dream of such a thing." Oriana sighed. Her older sister really drove her nuts sometimes.
"Oriana Rose, don't even think about it. Your sister will seriously kick your ass." Lyn scolded her youngest daughter.
"I don't want to hear that girl say shit to me, it did not take me this long to pick out a damn dress." Prue said crossing her arms over her chest.
" I can't imagine that you did something that involves shopping fast." Hailey quipped. She grinned when she saw the look that Prue shot her.
"You and Mel have seriously been hanging around too much." Carly stated. There were no two ways about it Mel had corrupted Hailey.
"It's all fun and games until people start hanging around Mel or B then things get boring." Lindsey intoned solemnly.
"I'd be nicer to B if I were you, she passed your ass and she didn't have to." Rachel said while fighting the urge to strangle her younger sister.
"Why people feel the need to test either Mel or B I will never know." Patty could only shake her head on that one.
"Lizzie and B fight with each other all the time, but that is only because neither one of them wants to admit that they love each other." Calleigh teased Liz.
"We admit to it all the time we just enjoy fighting with each other." Liz scoffed at her.
"You have to be the only person on the face of the earth who enjoys fighting with my sister." Maria said. She avoided fighting with Bianca at all costs, because quite frankly she hit like a man.
"Sophia, your sister isn't as bad as you try to make her out to be." Lyn told her.
"Mom, I never said that she was bad, lord knows if I said that I would be saying that about my baby girl. Lyn is just like B and I'm not kidding. There are times when she will start studying something really hard and I swear she gets the same look on her face that B gets when she's doing the same thing." Maria said throwing her hands up in a sign of surrender.
"She only reminds you of B because Lyn is exactly like your father too." Lyn corrected her.
"Don't wish that on me, B acts enough like daddy for the rest of us." Maria pleaded with her mother.
"I heard that, Maria." Bianca said emerging from the dressing room again. The dress she was wearing a strapless dress that was inlaid with beads on the bust, the body, and the train, there was a blue sash right under the bust area that wrapped around the back of the dress. "What do you think, mom? I really like this one." She asked.
Lyn had to fight off the wave of tears that she felt coming on. "Oh, Bianca Lyn, you look beautiful. I knew that there was a feminine woman in you somewhere." She gushed.
"I don't look like a circus freak?" Bianca asked.
"B, you look fine, and I assure you that Hank is going to love it." Patty told her.
"Alright then, I guess this is the one." Bianca said making her mind up.
"Thank God, I didn't know how much longer I was going to be able to take this." Mel joked with her.
"That makes two of us, Mels." Bianca replied. They really were two peas in a fucking pod sometimes.
"Come on, Paige, can't we just take a little break? We have been training for two solid hours." Alan asked his niece in a whine.
"Do what you want, I never said that you had to train with me." Paige replied with a shrug. She was really bored and it was starting to show. She now had nothing better to do with her time than train for demon hunts.
"Paige, you have been training rather intensely lately, maybe you should take a break." Jack suggested to her. He knew better than to order her to do anything it would have the opposite effect.
"I'm a machine when it comes to training, I'll be fine." Paige assured him. She really didn't want to get into an argument with him but she would if she had to.
"The rest of us happen to be delicate, not all of us have mothers who are self defense teachers." Savannah bitched. She hated it when Paige got bored that normally meant she was going to get her ass worked off.
"Sometimes I think your brain is delicate." Paige quipped rather quickly.
"Paige, I'm begging you two not to get into a fight today I don't want to hear it." Brady pleaded with her.
"Paige, how about you and I go do something?" Dom asked her hopefully. He was still trying very hard to worm his way back into her good graces.
"Like what?" Paige asked he had her attention now.
"Anything you want, but going to the underworld." Dom offered. He just wasn't in the mood for demon hunting. Not only that but she was going to get them all killed one of these days.
"I guess we could go catch a movie or something if you wanted to. I don't have anything better to do and I am getting pretty tired of training." Paige replied.
"Can I shower first?" Dom asked giving her a smile that showed off his white teeth.
"Of course you can, I have to jump in the shower too." Paige said.
"I'll pick you up in an hour then." Dom replied biting his bottom lip to keep from breaking out into a face splitting smile.
"It's a date," Paige said winking at him.
Dom had to calm his erratically beating heart. He didn't want to be hopeful just to get shot down again. "Really?" he asked grinning.
"Yes, a real date." Paige was tired of denying herself his love she just couldn't do it anymore.
Dom had to keep himself from dancing with joy. "Ok, I'll see you in an hour." He said before shimmering off.
"Paige, you have no idea how happy you have just made him." Savannah told her.
"You might not believe it, but I do love him, Blondie." Paige told her seriously.
"We all know that you love him, you just seem to like pushing him away." Brady observed.
"I don't like pushing him away, I share my feelings with him. It's just I needed some time and I think that I have had more than enough time." Paige replied before stalking up the stairs of the basement.
"Way to piss her off, Phil." Jack commented dryly.
"She'll get over it she always does." Brady replied giving him a shrug.
"Piper, thanks for doing this for me today." Paige told her sister. They were all seated in Charmed.
"Paige, we're not open for lunch and I don't mind doing this for you. You don't have to thank me." Piper replied it really wasn't a big deal.
"Why does it not surprise me that my daughter went straight for the booze?" Lyn asked as she watched Bianca walk behind the bar and make herself a drink. She didn't really expect an answer to that question though.
"Mom, she earned it. She just spent the whole day without threatening to kick anyone's ass. I'm very proud of her right now." Maria laughed.
"Where the hell are the guys?" Piper asked checking her watch.
"Knowing my husband the way that I do he had to try on five different sizes before he got the right size tux. Some of his little buddies aren't much better than he is about that." Liz replied.
"I wrote all of Chuck's sizes down for him so he would know what to get." Prue threw out there.
"Prue, that is wrong on so many levels." Carly said rolling her eyes. She didn't understand how people could be that absorbed in each other.
"Carly, let me give you a little lesson about men. If they come into a marriage functioning just a little independently then it is a miracle. What happens in most cases is they go from their mothers taking care of them to having their wives take care of them." Lilly said giving her a word to the wise.
"Jake is that bad?" Patty asked her.
"He can't buy his own underwear, that should answer your question." Lilly replied.
"I have to order Roman's contacts for him or he lets them run out." Mel supplied.
"That doesn't surprise me in the least bit, my brother is blonde after all." Lilly said rolling her eyes.
"I feel sorry for whatever woman gets either of my brothers there is something wrong with both of them." Rachel said. She loved her brother but they got on her last nerve most of the time.
"You don't have to worry, Claire, neither of them will be able to find a woman who can stand them." Lindsey assured her.
"Aunt Lyn, can I kill her?" Rachel asked her aunt in a pleading tone.
"Angie loves her or I would let you." Lyn replied teasingly.
"Aunt Lyn," Lindsey protested.
"Don't call her Claire, she doesn't like it." Lyn pointed out to her shrugging.
"So you left Leo alone with both the boys?" Paige asked her sister.
"Yeah, they were having a good time when I left." Piper chuckled.
"Those guys are never hearing the end of this, I can't believe we made it here before they did." Patty said glancing at her watch.
"Honey, they don't give a damn. There is no telling what is taking them so long." Calleigh pointed out to her.
"So much for women taking longer to do things than men." Hailey commented.
"Why am I not surprised that you're running your mouth Tinker Bell?" Chase asked as he walked in the door.
"Chase, I might be small but I'll still kick your ass." Hailey seethed at him.
"Chase, don't embarrass me and yourself. She will kick your ass and I don't want it to be known that I was your self defense teacher." Bianca told her little brother.
"What took you guys so long?" Lyn asked her husband.
"Lyn, you don't want to know so don't ask that question." Frank answered her with a sigh.
"I took me forever to find that right size pants to fit me." Tyler volunteered.
"Tyler Justin, all you had to do was pick up the phone and call me I could have told you what size to get." Maria scolded her husband.
"You could have told me that before we left the house." Tyler pointed out to her.
"You are a bigger baby then our daughter is and she is three and a half." Maria rolled her eyes at him. There were times when it was better for her not to talk to him.
Tyler smiled at her knowing that she couldn't stay pissed at him when he smiled. "That one hurt, if that is how you feel I'll sleep in the princess bed and Lyn can sleep with you," he countered.
"Don't knock the princess bed I find it very comfortable. Even if my darling niece does put makeup on me while I sleep." Chase grumbled.
Hank walked up behind Bianca and wrapped his arms around her waist. "Was it as bad as you thought it was going to be?" he asked resting his chin on the top of her head.
"It actually wasn't that bad. You looked really handsome in that tux." Bianca replied leaning into him.
"That is one more thing to cross off the list." Hank mused.
"I love you." Bianca said turning her head so she could kiss him.
"I love you too." Hank replied.
Chris swept Rachel off her feet and up into his arms. "Heya, doll face," he said leaning his head down to kiss her.
"Heya back, handsome." Rachel replied wrapping her arms around his neck.
"How was it?" Chris asked sitting her back down on her feet.
"Not as bad as I expected." Rachel informed him.
"Same here, it was actually kinda fun." Chris said shaking his head at the antics of Henry and Frank those two were pretty damn funny together.
"Aunt Piper, has Jimmy been in my kitchen alone?" Roman asked.
"Not yet today, but he will be for a little while later." Piper answered him.
"I was just making sure he messes my stuff up when he's back there alone." Roman bitched.
"It's good to see you too, babe. It's nice to know that I rank below your kitchen." Mel said incredulously.
Roman walked over to her and kissed her on her cheek. "You know that I didn't mean it like that. I love you,"
"I love you too, but you're still an ass when you want to be." Mel replied grinning at him.
"Hey, Jay," Carly said wrapping her arms around her boyfriends neck.
"Hey, Leigh," Jason replied kissing her.
"I'm in serious need of a drink." Wyatt announced.
" I can't get a hi first?" Liz asked her husband.
Wyatt went to her and kissed her. "Hi, Lizzie,"
"You sound stressed." Liz observed.
"No, I'm fine, it's just not everyday that I get to see Hank and Tyler arm wrestle." Wyatt replied.
"Henry Victor, tell me that you didn't." Bianca begged her fiancé.
"I didn't hurt him and I wrestled him with my weak arm. You know that I'm left handed." Hank defended himself.
"It was quite comical, if you ask me." Big Henry said.
"Weak arm my ass Halliwell, I don't think you have a weak side." Tyler argued.
"It's not my fault that you arm wrestle like a grandma." Hank replied.
"Allow me to change the topic. Rach, can you do something about your little brother?" Troy asked. Mikey was a royal pain in the ass.
"Michael, what did you do?" Rachel demanded of him.
"I didn't do anything, I swear." Mikey promised her.
"His mouth doesn't stop ever." Chord chimed in.
"They're not joking. I said that we should put Mikey and Prue in a room together and see which one of them got tired of talking first." Jake commented and he knew that it would get his sister going.
"Cookie Dough, I will kick you ass." Prue glared at him.
"I told you not to start with her, Coop, but you couldn't listen." Chuck said putting his arm around his wife.
"He was dropped on the head as a small child, I'm pretty sure that Wyatt was the one who dropped him." Prue said leaning into her husband.
"You two just like fighting with each other." Lilly said as she hugged Jake around his waist.
"Of course we do, we wouldn't know how to act to be in the same room and not get into a fight." Jake agreed.
"Hails, have you had the displeasure of meeting my terminally retarded cousin Mickey?" Chase asked Hailey.
"No, I can't say that I have." Hailey replied.
"Mikey, this is Hailey, Hailey, that's Mikey." Chase said introducing them.
"It's nice to meet someone as pretty as you." Mikey said turning on the charm.
"It's nice to meet you too." Hailey said with a tight smile. "Chase, he's worse than you with the bad pickup lines." She told him.
"My pickup lines aren't bad, you just don't fall for them." Chase defended himself.
"I can't get better lines if that's what you want." Mikey offered.
"Don't even think about it, Michael, not only will Hank kick your ass, but so will Dante." Bianca called him down.
"I'm not scared of Dante, I'll risk it." Mikey replied.
"Mikey, I'm not sure that it's even safe to stand next to you, I don't think I want you putting the moves on my baby cousin." Hank told him.
"I can take care of myself, but thanks, Hank." Hailey smiled at her older cousin.
"Are we going to eat soon? I'm starving." Chuck asked predictably.
"The food is ready, it's just back in the kitchen." Piper informed him.
"Ro, you're the chef, help me out." Chuck begged his little brother.
"I don't even know what to say to you sometimes, Chuck." Roman said rolling his eyes.
"I'll give you a hand Ro, I know how delicate you chefs are. I'm a bartender I'm used to heavy lifting." Parker joked with him as they made their way back to the kitchen.
Paige and Dom were sitting across from each other in a booth in a diner.
"I'm really glad that you agreed to come out with me today." Dom told her grinning like a fool.
"I'm really glad that I came too, I'm having a good time." Paige replied grinning back at him.
"This is nice it's just like back when we first started dating before we had to deal with everything." Dom observed. He felt like he had to make conversation with her.
"Dom, you don't have to try so hard, I'm with you right now because I want to be." Paige informed him. She could tell that he was nervous from his body language.
"It still amazes me that you can tell I'm nervous without me saying anything." Dom chuckled and he started to feel more at ease.
"We've been friends for forever, I know you better than you would like to admit." Paige pointed out to him.
"I'm sorry that I seem so awkward right now, this is just the first time we have been out alone like this since we broke up." Dom apologized.
"You have nothing to apologize for this was my fault. I was being stubborn as usual." Paige dismissed his apology.
"But, you were right we do need the time apart so we don't rush into anything." Dom said he knew how much she liked hearing that she was right.
"We did need the time apart I think that it was good for us." Paige agreed with him.
"What do you mean we did need time apart?" Dom asked her sounding confused.
"If you'll have me I would like to get back together. I love you, Dom and life is too short for us to be fucking around like this." Paige said she wasn't used to being in this position.
"I would be stupid not to take you back. Ever since I've known what love is I have been in love with you." Dom replied reaching over the booth to kiss her.
"Thank you for being so patient with me." Paige said gratefully.
"You're welcome, Pal, you're one of those women worth waiting for." Dom said smiling.
"And you're one of those guys who shouldn't be allowed to get away." Paige complimented him.
"I've got something for you if you want it." Dom broached the subject.
"What is it?" Paige asked him.
Dom didn't answer her instead he got out of the booth and got down on one knee. " I know that we've been here before and I let you push me away, but that will not happen again. I am in this thing for the long haul. I know you always said that it didn't matter that I couldn't give you a ring, but it mattered to me. Paige Victoria Halliwell, will you be my wife?" he asked slipping the engagement ring the Chris had given him on her finger.
Paige smiled at him with tears in her eyes. "Yes, Dominic, I would love to be your wife." She answered him. She had never been surer of anything in her entire life.
"I really am sorry that I didn't give you a ring before." Dom said.
"It never mattered to me, Dom." Paige assured him.
"We don't have to get married right away. I know that you want to wait." Dom said so she didn't feel pressured.
"I know, this just feels right, I like being engaged to you." Paige replied kissing him.
" I like being engaged to you too. This time we'll make it to the alter." Dom swore to her.
"I know we will, this time we did things the right way. This was nothing like the other two half assed proposals that you gave me. This one meant the most and not just because you had a ring." Paige told him seriously.
"I love you so much." Dom gushed.
"I love you too, Nic." Paige replied kissing him again.
"Hey, Momma, I was wondering where you got off to this morning." Nicole greeted her daughter when she shimmered into the living room.
"Paige was being a freak and she decided that we needed to train some more. Not that we have anything to train for anymore, Greg is gone." Savannah replied a little sadly. She was still getting over her brother's death.
"Are you doing ok with everything that happened?" Nicole asked her. She was worried about her; she had been quiet and withdrawn the last few weeks.
"I'm fine mom, I know that it had to happen, it just doesn't make it any easier. I know that he was an evil bastard, but he was still my big brother." Savannah opened up to her mother.
"I know that it hurts, but one day soon it won't hurt so bad." Nicole soothed her.
"It's just he understood what I go through being half demon. Dom doesn't have the problems that I have controlling his demonic half. There are days when I feel like it would be easier to give in than it is to fight it. Greg got that and he didn't judge me for it." Savannah replied with tears streaming down her face.
Nicole pulled her down onto her lap. "You are good, I want you to understand me, you could never be evil. You are such a sweet girl and you don't have to worry about turning evil because you don't have that in you." she said running her hand through her long blonde hair.
"It doesn't feel that way some days." Savannah cried harder. That was her main worry that she would end up turning evil. What she failed to take into account was she had spent years on the dark side and she hadn't turned.
"We all have our bad days, but that doesn't mean we give up." Nicole spoke to her gently.
"Did you know that I was studying to be a nurse?" Savannah asked her mother.
"I didn't know that, baby." Nicole replied. There was so much that she didn't know about her daughter, but she wanted to learn.
" I had to drop out of nursing school when everything got so complicated. Mom, I was so good at it though, but it was one of those sacrifices that had to be made." Savannah gave a dry chuckle.
"Momma, if you want to go back to nursing school I'll pay for it." Nicole offered.
"Greg, left a letter for me at his house and he gave me a check that more than covers what nursing school would cost. He told me that I taught him what love was." Savannah told her.
"Tell me what you want me to do." Nicole couldn't help her if she didn't tell her what she wanted.
"I don't know, mom. I honestly don't know I just want to put all of this behind me." Savannah replied.
"Then, that's what we'll do. Just let me pay for you to go back to school. You keep that money and do something else with it." Nicole said. She knew that she would not be able to move on if she still had that money from Greg.
"Thank you for being so great, mom." Savannah said resting her head on her shoulder.
"I'm your mom, that's my job." Nicole replied kissing her on top of her head. "Where's your brother?" she asked her.
"Which brother? I have three." Savannah asked being a little bit of a smartass.
"Dominic," Nicole answered her.
"Dom and Paige had a date. So maybe the two of them will get back together." Savannah replied. She could only hope that they would get back together they were starting to drive her crazy.
"We can only hope, your brother isn't very happy without her." Nicole observed.
"Dom and Paige have a bit of a fucked up relationship. They dance circles around each other, but it is obvious that they are in love." Savannah informed her.
"Yeah, I was starting to notice that. It's not completely their fault though, Paige comes by it naturally she is her mother's daughter when she wants to be." Nicole chuckled.
"A fact that has saved my life more times than I care to count." Savannah said. Truthfully if it weren't for Paige being a badass demon hunter they would have been dead a long time ago.
"You better stop talking while you're ahead, you can't get in trouble for doing stupid things that I don't know about." Nicole advised her.
"I would never dream of telling on myself." Savannah replied with a grin.
A/N: Alright, we've got another chapter out of the way. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Hailey is going to kill Brady when she gets her hands on him for leaving that damn hickey on her. Bianca is pretty much the only woman on the face of the earth that would let her fiance pick out the colors for their wedding. Paige totally just made Dom's life by agreeing to be engaged to him again. Everyone always has to be dogging on Roman and his lack of height. I had to throw in a scene with Nicole and Savannah I don't think that we have explored their mother daughter relationship enough yet. Only Tyler and Henry would insist on doing something like arm wrestling each other. Until next time please review.