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Chapter 4: Bonding
"I can't believe that I'm being kicked out of my own house." Ricky pouted crossing his arms over his chest.
"I'm not kicking you out I'm just sending you across the street so you can hang out with the guys." Patty replied sweetly kissing him on the nose.
"That is just a nice way of saying that you're kicking me out." Ricky argued.
"Ricky, just leave I'm already sick of you." Emily called out to her brother.
"I'll leave when I get damn good and ready." Ricky replied stubbornly.
"Just go, Derek." Lilly ordered rolling her eyes at her little brother.
"I'm going but I don't have to be happy about it." Ricky grumbled grabbing his overnight bag.
"I promise I'll make it up to you." Patty said pulling him into a steamy kiss.
"You can't just kiss me like that and then expect me to leave." Ricky point out to her.
"It gives you something to look forward to." Patty teased while she led him to the door.
"Bye ladies," Ricky called over his shoulder as he walked out the door.
"Finally, we got all the men gone." Prue said with a sigh.
"What are we doing tonight?" Mia asked they had even got her out of her room.
"A whole lot of nothing. I don't know how they got me to agree to this." Mel said rolling her eyes.
"You know you love us, Mels." Hailey objected to the tone that she was taking.
"Leave Mel alone she is just into being crabby right now." Val said calling her off.
"So what's new with everyone?" Liz asked.
"I got into NYU." Carly announced proudly.
"I thought you had to have a brain to go to that school." Maria teased her.
"Really, must everyone say something like that to me?" Carly asked indignantly.
"Yeah, you leave yourself wide open for comments like that." Bianca informed her.
"I'm proud of you, kid." Prue told her with a smile.
"Thanks, Prue, at least I know that you love me." Carly replied dramatically.
"We can be roommates, I just got my acceptance letter into that internship program today." Val reported proudly.
"God help the world, you two don't need to be running around New York together." Lilly joked rolling her eyes.
"Please, we are going to take that city by storm." Val told her sister-in-law.
"Right, that is what has us all scared." Prue told her but she was very proud of her.
"Charlie, did you ever decide where you were going to go to school?" Calleigh asked the young woman.
"I finally decided on the University of Florida, I just haven't told my mother that yet." Patty replied and she shot a side-glance at Mel to see how she took that news.
"That's really great, Charlie." Mel said giving her a weak smile that she didn't really feel.
"Is the east coast big enough for both you and Carly?" Liz asked her in a joking tone.
"Yeah, it's not like we'll ever have to see each other if we don't want to." Patty replied dismissively.
"I've got news for you, I'm totally headed your way for spring break." Carly informed her younger sister.
"That is why I will be somewhere far away." Patty replied.
"You know you love me so don't act like you don't." Carly said pretending to be hurt by that comment.
"I don't know about anyone else but I could use a drink." Bianca announced.
"I'm right there with you, B, I feel like strangling someone right about now." Mel agreed with her.
"Bianca Lyn, do you really need a drink right now?" Oriana asked her older sister.
"Don't worry about it, Oriana. You can tell mom on me later if you must." Bianca retorted rolling her eyes.
"Don't you two start in on each other tonight, I'm not in the mood to hear it." Rachel warned them.
"I wonder where Slick is she was supposed to be here by now." Mel said looking at her watch.
"This is Paige we're talking about, so I don't think we want to know what she could possibly be doing at the moment." Patty supplied helpfully.
"Really, if I don't know what my daughter is doing at the moment then I won't have to worry about her." Bianca sighed. That girl was one more handful when she wanted to be.
"Speaking of daughters, who has Lyn tonight?" Oriana asked her oldest sister.
"Her and Jeremiah are at the manor playing together. I love that little girl more than I ever thought it was possible to love anyone, but I need a break sometimes." Maria replied seriously.
"That is no way to talk about that sweet innocent little girl." Lindsey teased her older cousin.
Paige as if she knew that she was the topic of conversation orbed in with Savannah by her side at that moment.
"You two are together and you're being nice to each other that is a sure sign that the world is coming to an end." Mel commented dryly. She really didn't feel like being here right now. What she really wanted was to be alone so she could wallow in self-pity.
"We actually get along really well, we just act like we don't like each other." Savannah corrected her.
"No, I really don't like you half the time." Paige told her friend with a smile.
"Coming from you, I'll take that as a compliment." Savannah retorted.
"Paige, I'm glad that you're here." Bianca announced brightly to her daughter.
"You want something from me the only time you sound that cheerful is when you want something." Paige called her on her bullshit.
"You're right, I need you to play bartender because I don't feel like doing it." Bianca informed her.
"At least I know you want me around for a reason." Paige replied with a grin.
"You know that I love you." Bianca told her seriously.
"I know and that is the only reason that you're getting me to do this for you." Paige said.
"Take my car and go down to the liquor store so your mother doesn't start having withdrawals." Maria said holding out her keys to her niece.
"I am not driving the soccer mom car to the liquor store even I have my standards." Paige said shaking her head.
"I guess you want to take my car?" Bianca asked her.
"Yeah, that thing is pretty badass." Paige replied like she should have thought of that to begin with.
Bianca tossed her the keys. "Just know if you get a ticket you're paying the damn thing."
"I wouldn't dream of it, Savannah and I will be back in just a minute." Paige said leading Savannah to the front door.
"This is nice, I can't tell you the last time I hung out with just the guys." Tyler said sinking back onto the couch in Paige and Henry's living room. They had been kind enough to let the boys use their house for the night.
"Dude, I know how you feel I grew up in a house overrun by women." Chase said empathizing with him.
"So did I, I can't tell you the number of times I thought about running away when I was growing up." Jake chimed in.
"We get rid of them for the night and all we can do is talk about them." Mikey grumbled shaking his head sadly.
"We should totally play an epic prank on their asses tonight." Henry suggested. He of course would suggest that he thought he was so damn funny.
"You of all people shouldn't suggest this, you and I shouldn't play pranks on our women they will kick our asses." Chris reminded him.
"No shit, I don't need you guys doing anything that is going to get me in trouble with Sophie." Tyler agreed.
"I can't believe you just called her that you have a higher chance of getting your ass kicked for that." Chase observed. He would know his sisters were always mad at him for some reason.
"I for one know that I would be killed in my sleep if I were to ever call my wife by her given name." Chuck said. He didn't like to think about what Prue would do to him if he called her Prudence.
"I can get away with calling my wife Lila on rare occasion." Jake said.
"I don't even think about calling Charlie by her first name. I'm convinced that bad things would happen to me." Ricky chuckled. His girlfriend had a temper that he didn't want to be on the wrong side of.
"I get a death glare if I think about calling Mel, Melinda." Roman admitted.
"There is seriously something wrong with all of you guys." Jason pointed out to them.
"You're just now noticing this?" Parker asked him seriously.
"No, I've known it since grade school, but I was hoping that they would grow out of it in time." Jason replied.
"At this stage in life we aren't going to grow out of it, it is only going to get worse." Chord intoned solemnly.
"Listen to that my little brother was right about something for once." Troy teased him.
"He tends to be right more than we give him credit for." Wyatt said throwing him a bone; he knew that Chord was going through a pretty rough time at the moment.
"This display right here is a disgrace to guy time." Jack said shaking his head from side to side.
"I agree with you, my friend." Alan piped up.
"And to think they are supposed to know how to have a good time." Brady joked with a smile.
"Paige, is better at that than all of them combined. I'm thinking that we might need to get her over here." Dom suggested.
"I hate to admit it but the stooges are right, we are sounding pretty pathetic right now." Huck agreed with the future boys.
"Don't agree with them they are only going to think that we approve of the things that they do." Billy reasoned with him.
"Who invited Billy over here?" Jake asked in mock seriousness.
"I don't know, I'm pretty sure that neither he nor Chase should be here right now. They should be off somewhere practicing for our next death match." Wyatt answered his partner in crime.
"So boys, what's been going on with you lately?" Chris asked trying to change the topic.
"Nothing much, school and work you know the drill." Huck replied.
"I decided that I'm going to go to the University of Florida in the fall." Ricky announced.
"That's my boy, black and blue football baby." Chuck cheered pulling his little brother into a guy hug.
"I'm going to be watching my little brother on ESPN." Roman said proudly.
"I can only guess that Charlie is going to go with you." Henry ventured. He knew that those two wouldn't separate unless they had to.
"I don't know what she's doing yet." Ricky lied quickly. He wanted to let Patty be the one to tell her brother that they were going to the same college.
"Do you think that the girls are talking about us right now?" Billy asked. He was hoping that Mia was talking about him anyway.
"Fuck yes, that is what women do. They act like they don't, but they talk about us hardcore." Jason answered him.
"And God knows that they talk about how we perform in the bedroom." Chuck sighed. There were some things that he wished his wife wouldn't talk about.
"Women don't like to admit it, but they talk about sex just as much as we do." Wyatt actually made a smart observation for a change.
"Of course they do, I don't know how they pretend that they don't." Chris agreed with his older brother.
"I'm glad that I have never given B anything to complain about." Henry said suggestively.
"I've got to know because I'm curious, you two have angry sex don't you?" Chord asked him to make conversation.
Henry thought about whether he was going to answer or not for a moment before he spoke. "Fuck yeah, you should see some of the bruises that she gives me in the heat of the moment. Just the other night she wanted me so bad that she pushed me over the fucking coffee table."
"It's good to know that Maria isn't the only one who gets a little violent from time to time." Tyler chuckled.
"Dude, these are my sisters that we're talking about I don't know that I want to hear this." Chase said sounding grossed out.
"We won't tell you anything good." Henry replied and made a hand motion for him to shut up.
"Then Jackson has nothing to tell given who he is dating." Wyatt laughed.
"I can only imagine and none of it is good." Henry said. He really didn't want to think about the things that his little sister did with Jason.
"Let me just say that she is kinky as hell and I'll leave it at that." Jason offered.
"Shit, just the other day I got handcuffed to my bed." Roman admitted.
"With Mel that could mean that you pissed her off." Chris knew his sister too well.
"Trust me she wasn't pissed." Roman said grinning.
"Chris, this is our sweet innocent baby sister. I can't believe you want to hear this." Wyatt groaned sticking his fingers in his ears.
"Wyatt, she is a nineteen year old woman with nineteen year old woman needs and that is all I have to say on the matter." Chris replied with a slight smirk.
"I'm not commenting on this subject I have no desire to get my ass kicked." Jack threw out there.
"What, my baby sister isn't good enough for you to sleep with?" Ricky asked and he had to admit that there was something not right about asking that question.
"I'm not going to answer that question either." Jack said. He was smart and he knew what was good for him.
"I think I might be the only guy in this room with no sex life to speak of." Billy kinda pouted.
"You're not alone." Huck admitted.
"I'm married and I have a daughter, I got more sex when I was single. Now if we have alone time she isn't in the mood. I don't want to hear any of you guys complaining, you've still got it good." Tyler informed them.
"No man ever wants to hear 'not tonight honey, I've got a headache.' That right there is woman speak for I don't want you to touch me you bastard." Chuck winced he had heard that a few times.
"I love it when I hear 'can't we just cuddle tonight, babe?' Honestly no, we can't just cuddle, I need something more than that." Wyatt went off on a tangent.
"Nothing can beat 'I don't want sex to be all that our relationship is based on.' That's when I want to strangle someone. It's obvious that I love her and then she says shit like that." Chris lodged a complaint of his own.
"I find it comforting that B will at least tell me that she isn't in the mood instead saying some such bullshit like that." Henry said shaking his head. He honestly didn't want to know where they came up with some of this shit.
"I personally like the if you touch me I'll kill you approach that Mel is so fond of taking from time to time." Roman said rolling his eyes. Though there was nothing that Mel could do that would surprise him in the least bit.
"Cal just tells me not to come by after work because she's tired and I get the hint." Parker shared with them.
"You would be wise to do what she tells you, Halliwell, we all know about your luck with women." Chord teased him.
"We all know that you have to pay for your women from time to time, Shane." Parker fired back at him.
"Oh damn, Parker, I can't have you talking about my little brother like that. It is a known fact that Shane men don't have to pay for women, we have them falling at our feet." Troy defended Chord.
"I'm sure you do that's why you chase Val around like a lost puppy dog." Jake called him on his bullshit.
"I will have you know that Val and I have agreed that we have to be together since we're both so damn good in bed." Troy said knowing that it wouldn't go over well with Jake.
"Hell, Val is good out of bed." Huck supplied forgetting that Jake and Brady were both in the room.
"You know from experience?" Brady asked him hotly.
"Well, yeah I do." Huck stammered.
"You've slept with Val and you're dating Penny?" Jake asked him incredulously.
"Yeah, I know it sounds bad, but Penny and I have an intimacy that Val and I never had." Huck replied.
"You haven't had sex with Penny?" Jake asked brightly.
"No, I'm not going to pressure her into doing something that she isn't ready for." Huck swore to him.
"I wish Hailey's little boyfriend shared the same sentiments as you. I swear he left a hickey the size of Texas on her." Henry bitched. What he didn't know was that his cousin had done that.
"Some men get a little territorial sometimes." Brady said hiding a smirk. He knew that he was going to be in trouble for that one when Hailey got her hands on him.
"Some women are the same damn way, a certain blonde that I know loves to leave her marks all over me." Alan said shaking his head.
"I don't need to hear about you and my sister. That just puts bad thoughts in my head." Dom protested.
"No one needs to know what goes on between you and Paige either, but she still feels the need to share." Jack chuckled.
"I'm drawing a line at that one, I don't want to hear those things about my daughter." Chris said putting his foot down.
"But, Chrissy, she is a grown woman with grown woman needs." Wyatt openly mocked his little brother.
"She is also my baby girl, when you have kids I'm going to remind you of this conversation." Chris replied glaring at his brother.
"That's it, we need to do something fun tonight. Any suggestions?" Henry asked with a smirk, he had an idea or two up his sleeve.
"They were so damn cute when they were little I don't know what the hell happened over the years." Piper commented. They were sitting in the living room of the manor going through boxes of old pictures of the kids.
"They learned the art of sarcasm and things haven't been the same since." Paige offered helpfully.
"I wonder where they learned the sarcasm from." Phoebe commented rolling her eyes at her little sister.
"Don't look at me, I was still keeping Grams company when they were growing up." Prue said throwing her hands up in a sign of surrender.
"I would say that they learned it from Paige." Piper said knowing that it would piss her sister off.
"Bullshit, if they learned sarcasm from anyone it was you." Paige protested fiercely.
"Let me settle this one, all the kids learned Sarcasm from Piper and Paige, and they learned how to be juvenile delinquents from Phoebe." Derek spoke up.
"I object to that, I did no such of a thing." Phoebe retorted indignantly.
"Right, Troy just learned how to pick a lock all by himself." Nicole threw out there sarcastically. They had forced her to come over since they didn't like her staying by herself with the baby.
"That boy was born with rebel in his blood he didn't need a whole lot of help getting into trouble." Leo couldn't help laughing.
"I know and he got that from Tim not from me." Nicole replied laughing as well.
"Sure he did, Nic, I can't imagine that you never raised a little hell." Eva challenged her friend.
"I was raised the only daughter of a southern lawyer I had to do a little bit of hell raising to make up for the fact that my brothers were so damn over protective." Nicole informed her.
"I've been tryin' to tell y'all for years not to let that southern belle act fool you." Jimmy weighed in.
"Jimmy, don't make me have to kick your ass." Nicole told him conversationally.
"Listen to that Lyn, you're starting to rub off on Nic." Frank smirked at his wife knowing that he was on thin ice.
"Thank God, you haven't rubbed off on anyone but our daughter, I don't think I would be able to stand it otherwise." Lyn replied conversationally.
"Lyn, I want you to know that my son and your daughter fight about as much as you and Frank do." Henry pointed out to her.
"They fight more than Frank and I do." Lyn said dismissing his comment.
"Remind me again why we're going through all these pictures." Coop said he was confused as hell.
"Ask your wife, this is some of her bullshit." Andy told him.
"Really, I figured it would be nice to go through some these and just take a walk down memory lane. Well, that and I need pictures of Hank and B." Phoebe stated. She had entirely too much fun planning weddings.
"Paige, I have this picture of your brother I want you to tell me if he reminds you of anyone." Andy said handing Paige a picture of Parker.
Paige took the picture from Andy and studied it. "Yeah, he reminds me of Hank. The way he is standing in this picture is the way that Hank stands all the time. Parker even has his thumbs hooked through his belt loops the way Hank does." She replied.
"I told you." Andy said turning to his wife.
"Ok, you were right once." Prue admitted not that she wanted to.
"In all honesty the only one of the kids that Parker remotely looks anything like is Hank." Piper observed.
"I know they share a lot of the same mannerisms." Henry agreed.
"Andy, I still don't really believe you about them standing alike." Prue told her husband.
"Henry Victor I need you to come down to the manor for a minute and bring Parker with you." Paige called out to her son. She knew that was the only way to prove to her sister that someone else had been right for a change.
Hank orbed in a second later with Parker who he had in a headlock. "Did you need something, mom?" he asked her.
"I need you to let go of Parker and then I need you both to stand like you normally would." Paige replied. Sure enough both Parker and Hank hooked their thumbs through the belt loops on their jeans and shifted their weight to their left leg.
"Paige, is there a point to this?" Parker asked sounding confused. Just when he thought that his sisters couldn't get any crazier they went and did something like this.
"Park, did you realize that you and Hank stand alike?" Andy asked him.
Parker looked down at the way he was standing and then he looked at the way Hank stood. "Dude, you do the belt loop thing too." He told his nephew.
"I've been doing this since before I can remember." Hank replied.
"You two can go back to what you were doing now. Not that I want to know what you were doing because you are shirtless son of mine." Paige said dismissing them.
"This is a matter of proving a point. Ty thinks that he has better abs than I do and that just isn't the case. The only person who might be able to beat me in the abs department is Ricky." Hank said like they were crazy to challenge him.
"Hank, did you know that you have something on your back?" Frank asked him.
"If you're referring to the bruise I have your daughter to thank for that. She pushed me over her damn coffee table." Hank replied not thinking anything of it.
"No, Hank, you've got some writing on your right shoulder blade." Parker corrected him.
"What's it say?" Hank asked. He had a damn good idea of who had written on him.
"I don't know it doesn't look like it's in English." Parker replied.
Hank sighed. "If it's not in English then it's in Italian, does it look like teacher handwriting?" He was trying to look at his shoulder and it wasn't working for him.
"I don't know what teacher handwriting is supposed to look like." Parker retorted.
Henry took out his phone and took a picture of his son's back. "Here now you can see what it says." He said handing it to Hank.
Hank shook his head and rolled his eyes. "What's it say, Hank?" Parker asked him grinning.
"It says, 'my sexy ass and other parts are no longer my property and they belong solely to my fiancé.' Then she signed her damn name under that. There is no doubt in my mind that B did this, for a second I thought it was Chris but that is her handwriting." Hank had to take a second to translate it to English.
"That sounds like something my daughter would do." Frank couldn't help chuckling.
"I know that she thinks that shit is funny, I've got news for her though payback Hank Halliwell style is a bitch." Hank fumed. He wasn't really mad at her though. He gave his father his phone back before he forgot.
Chris orbed in at that moment. "Are you two going to play around up here all night?" he asked them with his hands on his hips.
"I was getting ready to go back down there, but apparently my fiancé felt the need to brand me." Hank said pointing to his back.
"That is funny shit, and that is so something that B would do." Chris laughed.
"I'm glad you think this shit is funny, Peanut." Hank pouted crossing his arms over his chest.
"Come on, we need to get back. We found a tape measure and everything." Chris said wanting to get back to what they were doing.
"Parks, we're bouncing, come on." Hank said putting his hand on his shoulder. The three of them orbed out without another word.
"Frank, your daughter is just like you when she wants to be." Lyn informed her husband like he didn't already know that.
"There is a reason that I call her Frank Jr." Frank replied with a shrug. He knew that Bianca was just like him and he wasn't going to try to deny it either.
"She just started one hell of a war with her fiancé, I hope she knows what she got herself into." Paige said shaking her head.
"Paige, you know as well as I do that that boy's brain turns to mush where she is concerned." Piper said shooting her sister a look that said get real.
"Not if they are in a competition with each other." Lyn pointed out.
"That's right, they are both highly competitive by nature. I just hope that no one gets caught in the crossfire." Henry chuckled while shaking his head.
Mel walked into the kitchen and pulled her pill bottle out of her pocket. She turned the faucet on and filled the bottom of a glass with water. She poured two pills into the palm of her hand and dumped them into her mouth and then she chased them with the water.
"Mels, what exactly are you taking those pills for? This is the second time in as many days that I've caught you with them." Bianca asked scaring the shit out of her. She hadn't even heard her come into the room.
"It's not a big deal, B." Mel replied but she avoided answering the question that her friend had asked her.
Bianca took the bottle out of Mel's hand and she surprisingly gave it up without a fight. "These are anti-depressants they are a big deal, Mel. I remember these things not so fondly, until about a year ago I was popping the things like they were fucking candy." She called her on her bullshit.
"These pills are the only thing that get me through the day without wanting to kill someone." Mel told her opening up a little bit.
"Lyn, what's really going on with you?" Bianca asked calling her by the nickname that Wyatt and Chris had for her.
"According to the doctor that I saw I suffer from acute depression and I have an anxiety disorder. I can't imagine how anyone could say such horrible things about me." Mel joked weakly.
"Do you think you're depressed?" Bianca questioned.
"I know I am. I'm happy for Carly, Val, and Charlie, but honestly it's like someone poured salt in an open wound. B, I didn't get to go away to school because of this stupid prophecy, and now they're getting to do what I wanted more than anything." Mel admitted. It felt good to finally get that off her chest. She knew that she could talk to Bianca and she was in no danger of her mother finding out.
"I hate to bring this up, but how much of this still has to do with Ken?" Bianca asked she knew that that was the root of Mel's problems.
"I would say more than half of it. That thing with Ken just made me feel so powerless and weak. Those just so happen to be the two things that I don't do well at all." Mel said honestly.
"Why didn't you say something sooner?" Bianca asked putting her arms around her.
"I didn't want anyone to think that I was weak or that I can't handle my shit." Mel replied.
Bianca snorted at that. That was something that she would have said. "You don't have to be strong all the time and no one expects you to be either. I just wish you hadn't let it get this far. You could have come to me with this at any time and I would have been there for you. Hell, you could have told Paige you two are together all of the time."
"I wanted to handle it on my own and I'm obviously not handling it very well. Besides that I didn't want to bother Slick with my problems she had enough going on at the time without having to worry about me. Not only that, but I'm her aunt it's my job to take care of her not the other way around." Mel reasoned with her.
"You are more like me than is healthy for you. I have been where you are right now, sure it wasn't for the same reasons, but I have still been there. I even used the same reasoning that you're using now. I didn't have to go through any of that alone I was just too stubborn to see that at the time. I don't want you making the same mistakes that I made." Bianca tried getting through to her.
"I don't know who I can turn to without seeming weak." Mel said helplessly.
"You can turn to me, I think of you as my little sister and I love you as much as I love Oriana. I just want you to know that I'm not going to judge you for anything that you tell me and it will stay between us." Bianca leveled with her looking her in the eyes. She knew how much Mel meant to Chris and to Henry for that matter and she didn't want to see her in pain.
"Thanks, B, that means a lot to me." Mel said hugging the older woman.
"Come on, let's get back out to the living room before the others think something is up. You know they will pry." Bianca said leading her back to the living room.
"Ok, you two alone together scares the hell out of me. I'm pretty sure that you could take over the world if you wanted to." Liz said in jest. A look of understanding passed between her and Bianca. She knew that meant that she had gotten Mel to open up a little bit.
"Perish the thought, if I were going to focus on world domination I would be holding clandestine meetings with Paige. We all know that she is more the take over the world type." Mel said forcing a laugh.
"Thanks for the vote of confidence, Mels." Paige spit back sarcastically.
"Child, I refuse to believe that you didn't get a ticket with as fast as you got back from the store." Bianca told her daughter.
"Believe what you want, but I didn't get a ticket." Paige replied with a shrug.
"Paige, just be useful and pour me a shot." Bianca ordered her shaking her head.
"The shots are already poured, mother." Paige said rolling her eyes and making a gesture with her left hand.
"Paige, what is that on your hand?" Prue asked her niece innocently.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Aunt Prue." Paige denied and she quickly put her left hand in her pocket.
"Let me see your hand." Bianca ordered her daughter. She had a damn good idea of what she had on it.
Paige flashed her engagement ring at her mother. "Dom and I are back together and he actually put a ring on my finger this time." She admitted knowing there was no way they were going to let up until she told them.
"You know I can…" Prue started to say but Paige cut her off.
"I don't need a wedding planner just yet, Aunt Prue, but thanks for the offer. Dom and I are ok with just being engaged for right now." Paige said quickly.
"Has anyone ever told you that you're just like your mother?" Rachel asked her with a smirk.
"My father tells me that on a daily basis, but that is only because I have just used his stubborn ass genes against him." Paige replied. No one was ever going to make anything on her and she really didn't know why they tried.
"Paige, did you by chance buy out the liquor store?" Calleigh asked pointing to all the stuff she had bought.
"Nope, I only bought half of it." Paige quipped in reply.
"You said you poured shots?" Bianca asked her she really needed a drink.
"Whiskey straight up." Paige informed her gesturing to the table.
"B, is it really a good idea for you to be shooting whiskey?" Maria asked her sister. She didn't want to see her fall back into old habits.
"You don't have to worry about me falling back on my old vices, Maria, I'm fine." Bianca assured her before she downed a shot.
"Just watching you do that makes me sick." Lilly cringed. She couldn't stand the thought of shooting whiskey. She was a little bit of a girl when it came to drinking.
"That's why Paige and I bought this top of the line margarita maker." Savannah said she was in the process of making margaritas.
"Did you have my credit card?" Bianca asked she put nothing past her daughter.
"I do have my own money believe it or not. If you must know though, I picked daddy's pocket earlier." Paige admitted with an impish grin.
"That's ok then," Bianca said like it wasn't a big deal.
"Who wants to really party?" Lindsey asked cryptically.
"Linds, you would do well to remember that we do have a cop in the room." Carly reminded her friend.
"Mel wouldn't bust us." Lindsey assured her.
"The only reason I wouldn't bust you is because there is a shit load of paper work I would have to do if I did." Mel was only half joking with that comment.
"I'm up for some fun." Val of course was the first one to take her up on that offer.
"I guess I could be up for something different." Emily said and she got a stern look from Lilly.
"Em now is probably not the time for us to be smoking." Penny advised her best friend.
"That is probably one of the smartest things that I have ever heard come out of your mouth." Hailey said. Not that anything her cousins did surprised her in the least bit.
"Just when I think they can't do anything else to surprise me they talk about smoking pot." Mia muttered to herself.
"Mia, you're going to learn that there is nothing that they won't do." Patty told her gently.
"Sophie, you're not drinking tonight?" Oriana asked her oldest sibling.
"You and B do more than enough drinking for all three of us. I think I'll sit this one out." Maria replied quickly. She chose to ignore what her sister had called her.
"Come on Maria, live a little bit." Rachel teased her cousin.
"I'm just not a really big drinker." Maria said hoping to change the subject.
"Maria, if you're not drinking because you feel like you have to watch me that isn't an issue." Bianca said she didn't want her sister to think that she was going back to her old ways.
"B, I know that you're ok, it's not that. It's just that, I'm pregnant." Maria admitted.
"What?" Bianca asked thinking she hadn't heard her right.
"I'm about six weeks pregnant, I just found out yesterday." Maria explained to her.
"Does Ty know?" Oriana asked.
"Yes, Tyler knows and he was thrilled. He said that maybe he'll get his boy this time." Maria couldn't help smiling. She was happy she just didn't know if the timing was right.
"Maria, that is really great. I told you that you needed to give my god daughter a sibling." Bianca teased her.
"I'm about ready to let you have demon child, she acts exactly like you." Maria joked right back with her.
"Well then, she is a complete and total angel." Bianca couldn't even say that with a straight face she knew that she was bad news.
"Maria, me being me I have to ask, is Tyler any good?" Carly asked.
"A lady doesn't kiss and tell," Maria said fighting a smile. "However, I never claimed to be a lady. Tyler is damn good as a matter of fact I broke up with Wyatt for him."
"Thanks for reminding me that you used to date my husband." Liz retorted playfully.
"Liz, I didn't have any real feelings for him he was just good in bed." Maria assured her.
"That I know first hand." Liz agreed she didn't find it odd in the least bit that she was having this conversation.
"Oh boy, here we go." Mel said rolling her eyes.
"Don't act like you and the hobbit don't screw like rabbits." Val said defensively.
"I never claimed that Ro and I don't go at it all the time." Mel replied she couldn't help smiling thinking about her boyfriend. Or that could have just been the pills kicking in.
"Trust me I know that, I live next door to him. You two are not as quiet as you think you are." Lilly sounded disgusted.
"They can't be as bad as they were when they first got together." Liz objected.
"We've mellowed out with time." Mel defended herself.
"That's because you two are like an old married couple. Troy and I aren't very big on being quiet." Val reported proudly.
"Val, how can you stand my brother's hairy ass?" Liz just had to know.
"I make him wax, if he didn't he would look like a grizzly bear." Val informed her.
"Speaking of sex, my twin isn't the prude that I thought she was." Carly chimed in.
"Carly, what did you do?" Patty asked scared to know the answer to that question.
Carly picked up a hand full of condoms and showed them to her sister. "I don't want to know why you and Ricky have flavored condoms it puts bad thoughts in my head."
"You went through the night stand on my side of Ricky's bed didn't you?" Patty asked knowing that's what she had done.
"I don't know how you could accuse me of such a thing." Carly replied in mock indignation. "I had to get dirt on you somehow, you don't keep any of this stuff in your room at home."
"With damn good reason you would use it to blackmail me." Patty pointed out to her.
"That's right, I would." Carly wasn't going to dispute that.
"What exactly have you and Ricky been doing?" Val asked her teasingly.
"That is none of your business, I'll just say that we haven't been doing anything that my mother would approve of." Patty phrased it delicately.
"It's always the quiet ones that are kinky." Prue professed solemnly.
"You're not quiet and from what I understand you're pretty kinky yourself." Patty zinged her.
"Chuck and I have been known to get a little creative from time to time." Prue admitted freely.
"Tyler is into the nurse thing and of course that is what I do for a living." Maria threw out there.
"Wyatt has his obsession with cheerleaders and I just so happen to still have my old cheer uniform." Liz shared.
"I let Jason use his handcuffs on me." Carly said not that that surprised anyone.
"Bitch you know you like it," Val told her.
"This coming from the woman who tied Troy to her bed using silk scarves." Carly retorted.
"I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit." Mia said they seriously had no boundaries at all.
"Those two aren't right you can't pay attention to them." Hailey said trying to comfort her friend.
"Troy let you tie him up?" Liz asked.
"Well, he was drunk so he didn't exactly let me he just couldn't put up much of a fight." Val threw back her head and laughed.
"Mel, don't pretend that you don't use your handcuffs on Roman." Carly said when she saw her cousin make a face.
Mel shrugged before answering. "I only did that once and only because he pissed me off. But then I couldn't resist having my way with him because he couldn't do anything about it."
"I'm pretty sure that Hank and I are the only ones with a normal sex life." Bianca said nodding her head.
"Bullshit, as he likes to point out Chuck and I share a bedroom wall with him." Prue protested.
"We get a little rough with each other sometimes in the heat of the moment and that's it." Bianca defended.
"B, he has a bruise because you pushed him over a coffee table I think that is more than a little rough." Patty ventured.
"That was an accident I thought I was pushing him down on the couch." Bianca said throwing her hands up.
"Hails, I think I need to know how you got that hickey." Oriana addressed the young woman.
"I think that should be fairly obvious." Hailey replied not wanting to talk about it.
"Yeah you let a twenty-four year old man give you a hickey." Mia scoffed at her.
"He's only twenty-three." Hailey said before she caught herself.
"No, Dante is twenty-four like I am." Bianca corrected her.
"That wasn't just a slip, who else are you seeing?" Prue asked knowing damn good and well who else she was seeing.
"Ok, just don't flip out on me, but for the last few weeks I've been messing around with Brady." Hailey admitted before looking down at the floor.
"Brady as in Phil?" Penny asked her just to be sure.
"Yeah, that'd be the one." Hailey answered.
"You and my brother are doing the horizontal tango?" Val asked her in disbelief.
"We haven't gone all the way yet." Hailey said nervously.
"He is obviously Prue's brother then, because he doesn't get the being stuck on third base shit from me." Val finally said cracking a smile.
"You're not mad?" Hailey asked.
"Hails, this is me we're talking about of course I'm not mad." Val assured her.
"I'm pissed that you didn't tell me sooner, this was good gossip." Penny joked with her.
"I knew, Brady told me." Prue threw out.
"You are making me so proud right now, Hails." Carly gushed excitedly.
"I know I'm behaving like you and Val at the moment by seeing two guys at once." Hailey said like the very thought of it disgusted her.
"Brady gave you that hickey didn't he?" Calleigh asked her getting in on this conversation.
"Yeah, the ass marked his territory like he's a damn dog or something." Hailey fumed.
"I told you Ricky does the same thing, I think the wolf in him makes him territorial." Patty told her again.
"Chris, is pretty good for leaving his damn marks on me. He just has a tendency to leave them where only I will be able to see them." Rachel spoke up for the first time in a while.
"I do that to Hank, I pinch that tender spot on his inner thigh, he goes around with a constant bruise there." Bianca wouldn't have admitted to Henry that was why she did that, but she liked showing him that he was hers.
"Parker is a little more subtle in marking his territory. He just leaves his toothbrush in the holder next to mine." Calleigh laughed.
"That's what I do to Alan." Savannah opened up.
"I don't want to hear about what goes on between you and Al." Paige objected fiercely.
"I don't want to hear about what goes on between you and Dom, but I still do." Savannah retorted after scoffing.
"Dom and I…" Paige started but she didn't get to finish.
"Paige Victoria Halliwell, I don't want to hear it. If I don't know about it then I won't have to fight the urge to kill him." Bianca stated firmly.
"Mom, I didn't even say anything." Paige defended.
"Good, just make sure you keep it that way." Bianca said sternly.
"You sure you want to do this Mikey? You still have a chance to back out." Henry asked the younger man.
"This shit is on, let's do it, Hank." Mikey replied putting up a bravado.
"Alright, gentlemen, I want a good clean match, no tricky stuff." Chord ordered in his best ref's voice. "On your mark, get set, wrestle."
Henry and Mikey were right in the middle of an arm wrestling bout. Hank was using his weak arm and he wasn't even exerting that much energy as opposed to Mikey who was giving it his all. Finally he took pity on the young man and slammed his hand down on the table.
"And that is how it's done." Henry announced flexing his muscles.
"I still say you cheat." Tyler groused.
"I don't cheat I'm just that damn strong." Henry protested. He wasn't a cheater.
"Ty, let him feel good about himself. He has to do something to feel like a man after my sister branded him." Chase said howling with laughter. He thought that was just the funniest thing that he had ever heard.
"Cool it, Hoyt, if Hank kills you then we won't be able to have our little competition." Billy advised his best friend.
"What kind of competition are you two having?" Huck asked he wanted to know because he might want to get in on that action.
"We're just in a little competition for Mia's affections." Chase replied like it was no big deal.
"Dip and Shit, she is a young woman not some prize you can win and you shouldn't treat her like she is." Jake scolded them. Hell he might as well have been half cupid, it made him hurt when they said things like that.
"No shit, Coop is right. You boys don't need to do something like that to her, that isn't even nice." Henry lectured them.
"It's boys like that that make me fear my daughter growing up." Tyler pointed out to the group.
"Ty, I'll help you kick the ass of any guy who treats my god daughter like a dickhead." Henry assured him.
"I've got your back too, Tyler." Chris said. He had a daughter of his own he knew he would want backup too.
"Uncle Chris, just for the record I would never treat Paige with anything but respect." Dom felt like he had to let that be known.
"Dom, I know that you respect my daughter, and I respect you for that. Any man who treats my little girl as good is you do is alright with me." Chris told him punching him affectionately on the arm.
"I demand a DNA test there is no way he is Troy's or my little brother, we normally get fathers chasing us away with shotguns. We don't get their respect." Chord announced at the top of his lungs.
"That is because you two have a tendency to disrespect women. I don't think I have to remind you that you just up and walked off on Prue." Chuck said. He was still pissed off that Chord had treated Prue that way.
"What can I say? I am my father's son." Chord replied bitterly. If he hadn't hated Tim before he damn sure did now that he knew he was his father.
"You're noting like him Chord, don't down yourself like that. I happen to know that you're doing right by O and that's all that matters." Troy swore to him. He shot Chuck a look for talking to his little brother that way.
"You and my sister are dating?" Chase asked him.
"Yeah, I finally got her to agree to date me." Chord reported happily.
"When my dad finds out he is going to kill you." Chase told him conversationally.
"If Uncle Frank never found out that would be alright by me." Chord replied.
"Dude, mom knows, if mom knows Aunt Lyn knows, the only reason Uncle Frank doesn't know is because he is being purposely blind." Troy pointed out to his brother.
"Billy, every time you open your mouth it causes a snowball effect." Roman pointed out to the younger man.
"This is in no way, shape, or form my fault." Billy said throwing his hands up in a sign of surrender.
"I'm pretty sure that we're going to blame this on you though." Parker winked at his nephew.
"I think that that sounds about fair." Jack agreed nodding his head.
"I am aligning myself with my partner in crime." Alan said, not that he and Jack disagreed about much.
"Brady, a little help here." Billy pleaded with his cousin.
"Sorry, Bill, I'm going to have to agree with my boys on this one." Brady replied shaking his head at him in mock seriousness.
"What are you laughing at, Wyatt?" Billy asked his oldest cousin sounding pissed when he saw him laughing.
"I'm laughing, because for once I'm not the one who is in trouble." Wyatt only laughed harder when Billy fixed his face in a pout.
"I know the feeling, Mel is always yelling at me about something when we hang out." Huck and Wyatt were both huge goofballs.
"Mel wouldn't yell at you if you weren't always doing something." Ricky said logically.
"I'm not always doing something, it's not my fault that Billy and Chase are so damn funny all of the time." Huck defended himself.
"I'm pretty sure that it is your fault that you don't shut up when she tells you to." Chase countered.
"All of you stop talking about my sweet innocent girlfriend that way. She is no where near as bad as you make her out to be." Roman said keeping a straight face, but the corners of his eyes were creased with laugh lines.
"Sweet and innocent are the two words that I wouldn't use to describe my sister." Jack wouldn't describe his sister as anything but a hard ass.
"There are two words that describe Mel perfectly." Chris said and the others waited for him to go on. "Piper Jr." he continued holding up a finger each time he said a word.
"You've got that shit right, when we were working the other night she gave me an Aunt Piper look for no good reason. I didn't even do anything and she looked at me like I was in trouble." Henry rambled sounding just like his mother.
"And now Paige Jr. has been heard from." Chris chuckled and he ducked when Henry chucked a pillow at him.
"I say we go across the street and mess with the girls." Chord suggested.
"If you enjoy drawing breath that is not a good idea. Oriana just likes to pretend that she's not as violent as her older sisters." Tyler advised him.
"B isn't violent she just doesn't take any shit." Chase replied lamely taking up for his sister. Bianca was his favorite sister after all he had to defend her.
"Chase, you have to say that, she is your favorite sister. Trust me when I say that your sister can be pretty damn violent if the situation calls for it." Henry corrected him.
"Chase, it's nothing to be ashamed of my sister is violent too." Chris told him gently.
"You shouldn't talk about my partner like that, Chris, I don't say bad things about your partner." Jason joked with him.
"You don't say bad things about my partner because he is a gorilla and he will kick your ass if you piss him off." Chris pointed out to him.
"I will have you guys know that I am very sensitive and it hurts my feelings when you refer to me as a gorilla." Henry joked in a feminine lisp.
"For real I think that we should go spy on the girls." Wyatt said.
"You only say that because you can't stand being away from your wife for extended periods of time." Troy called him on his bullshit.
"I think Wy has a point we should have some fun with the girls." Parker said with a grin he just couldn't resist disturbing the peace.
"Billie, are you ever on time for anything?" Prue asked her daughter.
"I'm telling you that she is just like Phoebe. She had trouble being on time before she had kids, I can honestly say that she hasn't been on time for anything since Billy was born." Piper reasoned with her older sister.
"Thanks for the vote of confidence, Aunt Piper." Billie replied sarcastically.
"I will have you know that I'm not as bad about being late as Billie is thank you very much." Phoebe protested.
"Besides that no one gave me a set time to be here." Billie defended herself.
"It's alright, baby girl, don't listen to your mom and your crazy aunts." Andy said pulling his daughter into a hug.
"In my defense I'm not the one who is always running behind that would be my husband." Billie shifted the blame from herself to JD.
"Thanks, Billie, it's good to know that you love me so much." JD said rolling his eyes. He knew better than to be sarcastic with her but he decided that he would risk it for a change.
"John, don't make me hunt down a darklighter to get rid of your ass because I will." Billie threatened him.
"You wouldn't do that to the father of your children." JD said pretending to be hurt by her comment.
"That is exactly why I would have you killed, you did give me Billy after all." Billie pointed out to him.
"Why must you always be so down on son number one?" JD asked her playfully.
"Because son number one and his little partner in crime are always doing something that I have to get on to them for." Billie replied.
"If Chase ever starts behaving like his father send him home and I'll kick his ass for being stupid." Lyn told her.
"Chase is a sweet kid, he and Billy just know how to push my buttons." Billie assured her.
"You don't know anything about two people who know how to push all the right buttons until you have had to deal with Christopher and Bianca. Those two could get into more shit then anyone I have ever met. And the sad thing is that you wouldn't even know that they had had their asses in a bind until after they got out of it." Piper said. She still had nightmares about how bad Chris and Bianca had been together growing up.
"Piper, I have to disagree with you on that one. No one was as bad together as Wyatt Matthew, Charles Derek, and Elizabeth Ashley were when they were teenagers." Derek disputed.
"That's because they couldn't clean up after themselves, they would get in so far over their heads that by the time they decided to run they would normally have a demon right on their heels." Nicole reminded him.
"Don't get Piper started on those three she could go on for hours about them." Leo cautioned his friends.
"There is a lot that we shouldn't get Piper started on for the sake of all our sanity." Henry agreed.
"No one has to worry about my sanity I lost it a long time ago." Frank threw out there.
"What was that supposed to mean, Francis?" Lyn asked him arching an eyebrow in his direction.
"It means that I lost my sanity the moment I married you and had to start dealing with your mother." Frank replied with a grin. He really thought that he was funny.
"I'm not going to argue with you on that one. My mother makes you question your sanity." Lyn agreed with a nod of her head. She really couldn't stand her mother and then she wondered why her daughters fought with her.
"Lyn, I don't think your mother is as bad as you make her out to be." Eva teased her.
"No, she is worse than Lyn can put into words." Frank said with a sigh.
"Frank, I'm pretty sure that it is normal for all men to hate their mother-in-law. You're not the lone ranger on that one buddy." Coop reasoned with him.
"It's not Frank that hates my mom, my mom is the one who hates Frank, though I can honestly say that she hates Mickey worse." Lyn informed Coop.
"Lyn, this is Frank and Mickey we're talking about, normal people don't like those two." Henry laughed at his own joke.
"Henry, I wouldn't laugh if I were you, the woman isn't all that fond of you son either." Lyn told him.
"Hank is an acquired taste, he knows how to get under a lot of peoples' skin." Henry was just full of jokes tonight.
"Actually she just hates him for the sake of hating him. I don't think she likes Chris very much either though. The only one of those girls that has brought home a guy she likes is Maria." Lyn pinched the bridge of her nose just thinking about her mother and how difficult she could be.
"Hank and Chris together are a lot to handle and you know that yourself." Piper reasoned with her.
"Piper, those boys didn't do anything that woman is just very stubborn and in her mind no one is good enough for her granddaughters. The way she sees it she failed at getting Angie and I to marry respectable men, so now she has started in on our daughters." Lyn ranted and raved.
"In other words she is just like Grams." Paige said with a shrug.
"No, Penny at least has a reason for being the ball buster that she is. Bianca is a pain in the ass for the sake of being a pain in the ass. My mother gets along with everyone and she can't even get along with her." Frank stressed. They just didn't grasp that his mother-in-law was a first class bitch.
"That remains to be seen, Grams has her more undesirable qualities too." Billie commented dryly.
"I take it that someone is still a little mad at her great grandmother." Phoebe chuckled while winking at her niece.
"I'm not really mad at her, I'm just not ready for her to know that I'm not mad at her." Billie was pretty much talking in a circle.
"Prue, your daughter and my oldest son are a lot alike. Wyatt does that talking in circles bullshit too." Piper informed her older sister with a dry chuckle.
"I'm telling you they get it from their Aunt Phoebe it is nothing to worry about." Andy joked and he laughed when Phoebe stuck her tongue out at him.
"It is still weird for me when you refer to them as my aunts." Billie admitted.
"It's weird for me that your son refuses to come up with something to call me other than grandma." Prue countered.
"Billy only does that because he knows that you don't like it." JD pointed out to his mother-in-law.
"I know why he does it, I'm onto his game." Prue assured him.
"Henry, I honestly hope those boys don't burn our house down." Paige told her husband.
"They are all either men or almost men, I think that they can be trusted not to burn the house down." Henry said trying to make her feel better. All the while he was trying to remember if he had hid all the flammable items in the house.
"I have a feeling that Ricky is going to have a fit when he goes home in the morning. You know that some of those girls aren't the best in the entire world about picking up after themselves." Derek was just making conversation.
"Namely Prue, Oriana, and Lilly. I find it curious that the ones with the shopping addiction are also the ones who are messy." Phoebe supplied for him.
"That is the one thing that I can't say about B, she isn't messy at all. I sometimes think that the girl is anal retentive." Lyn actually said something nice about her daughter instead of nitpicking her for a change.
"You should see her grade book it is pristine, so I'm thinking that she is just a little anal retentive." Leo said holding his index finger and thumb very close to together.
"Chris has OCD and B is anal retentive, I'm thinking that it should come as no surprise to any of us that Paige has some obvious mental health issues." Prue said smirking a little bit.
"Paige doesn't have mental health issues she is just a control freak." Piper defended her granddaughter. Well if that could be called defending her, she was only speaking the truth though.
"It takes one to know one." Coop quipped and then he smiled sweetly when Piper glared at him.
"I will take responsibility for all the kids who turned out to be control freaks if you take responsibility for the ones who are a pain in the ass." Piper bartered with him.
" I don't think that is a fair trade at all." Coop pouted.
"Then stop your bitching." Piper glared at him.
"Do these two always fight like that?" Prue asked.
"Prue, those two enjoy fighting with each other so we just let them go." Phoebe told her sister.
"I don't know why Coop likes pissing her off, I know that I don't want Piper mad at me." Henry said he knew what was good for him.
"Henry, you are just like my little brother at this point in time so I only aggravate you because I love you." Piper told him sweetly she really did have a soft spot for that goofball. Leo wrapped his arm around her shoulders and she let out a contented sigh. Just having a normal night was nice for a change.
A/N: We've got another chapter out of the way, I hope you guys enjoyed it. I warned you that this was going to be mostly fluff, but we will get into the meat of the story next chapter I promise. On a good note at least Mel is opening up to Bianca about what is going on with her. That girl seriously needs to talk to someone she has been keeping things bottled up for more than a year now. As expected she didn't really take the news that her cousins are getting to go away to college very well at all. Leave it to Val and Carly to be talking about sex all the time not that I can say that those boys are much better about it because they aren't really. Only Bianca would write something like that on Henry's back and not tell him about it. Only those boys would have a contest to see who had the better abs and break out a tape measure and everything. I Can't believe that Hailey spilled the beans about seeing Brady with almost no pressure put on her at all. Until next time please review.