Disclaimer:

"Charmed" and all related characters and events are the property of the WB television network, except for those characters specifically created for this story. This is a work of fan fiction and no infringement of copyright is intended.

Author's Note:

Well, now that Binks has her way into the house will she prove friend or foe? What drama did Chris run off to help Wyatt with and how will Piper survive living under the same roof as the Bianca knowing & keeping all those secrets? These questions and others answered on this "episode" of Turning Bianca!

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"Dude, magic school? I was expecting to show up in some demon's lair. What's going on?" Chris had shown up to help his brother, but didn't expect to land in the boy's dorm.

Wyatt was up to his elbows in teenage boys who were leaping all over the halls trying to catch frogs. This was no escaped pet situation this was downright biblical. "Chris, I need someone, I can trust, to find me a reversal spell or to come up with a new one to get rid of this and a handful of other plagues."

"Plagues? As in leapt straight from the old testament plagues, are you kidding me?" Chris couldn't believe his ears and was timorous about what other plagues were roaming the hallway.

Wyatt lunged at the door to the third floor laundry room and attempted to apprehend a zealous amphibian. This was insanity and he knew the best thing to do was call his dad or Paige to deal with the little hormonal miscreants who started all this, but instead he forced that thought out of his mind and committed to fixing this problem on his own. If Leo was ever going to trust him enough to take on more responsibility he had to prove he could handle… anything!

Finally, holding on to his latest captive with a vice grip, he answered his brother's question. "My guess is this started as a game of one-up-man-ship. They went to see a movie tonight that talked about these biblical plagues and someone thought it'd be funny to conjure one up. The boys decided to kick the game up a notch by conjuring their plague in the girl's dorm… You'll find locust roaming the halls over there. Then the girls retaliated with the frogs and when Holly called me a few minutes ago rumor had it that one of the girls on the second floor had found a boil.

Chris was howling. This was the funniest thing he could never have imagined. Wyatt did not see the humor in the evening events. "Boils? That is outrageous, but it will put them in the magic school history books for sure. Our pranks were never this good."

"It's not funny Chris. Dad and Paige depend on me to keep order in the dorms, to make sure exactly this kind of thing doesn't' happen. What am I going to do? Holly is at the girl's dorm trying to contain things, but I'm not about to ask her to lie to Paige in the morning. This needs to be a distant memory and funny anecdote by the time they get here in the morning."

Noticing that his brother was in true distress over the situation Chris let his laughter dissipate and started gathering frogs as quickly as he could. The boys on the third floor had gotten buckets, laundry bags and shoe boxes to keep the hoppers in until something could be done about them. He was putting his hands up to try and freeze them when Wyatt reached out and grabbed his wrist. He was pulling them to Chris' side.

"Don't! That was my first move… trying to freeze them or blow them up only makes them multiply. Go figure! We're just gathering them up and keeping them in the laundry room. Whatever we come up with has to get rid of all the plagues at once the same way they were conjured."

"Do you know exactly who said the spells and the exact wording? I'm going to need that to do any reversals."

"Holly has Meredith Spring in Paige's office and, he hasn't owned up completely yet, but I think Noah David is the culprit in this building. He's in dad's office." Wyatt answered his cell phone as he pulled the laundry room door shut again. Chris backed out of his way and listened in on the side of the phone call he could hear trying to decode the rest while moving toward his dad's office.

"Good keep them in there…No, that could take all night! We just have to contain this and if we don't nail everyone involved take it as a loss…I'm not! I just need tonight. Let me and Chris figure this out… yeah, about fifteen minutes. I don't think healing is going to work... no I've never had them! I'm not! I'm not. I'm sure they're very miserable. I'm going to get him from Leo's office right now. Fine, I'll meet you in the Great Room." Wyatt flipped his phone shut so loudly Chris was surprised the screen didn't crack. He knew what he was about to say would not lessen his brother's tension. As they reached Leo's office Chris stopped his brother from opening the door.

"I know this is a really bad time, but I gotta bail on ya bro. I can come back, but I thought you were being attacked so I left with a lot of flair and zero explanation which means that mom is going out of her mind, not to mention Bianca and the sisters. I have to go back and explain. Any longer and they'll be gathering a Wiccan posse."

Wyatt leaned on the door. He knew Chris was right, but that left him an able mind short and he didn't need that now.

"How soon can you get back?"

"We'll I should probably wait till they're asleep. I can't just go to the attic and start mixing potions without invoking a little suspicion. Look, squeeze those delinquents for answers and gather as much information and supplies as you can for a potion. I'll get back as soon as I can."

Chris started to orb out when Wyatt called his name. He reformed exactly where he was an annoyed look plastered across his dark features.

"Make sure dad and Aunt Paige stay far away from here. No matter what it takes! I have enough disappointing news to tell him and mom without adding this to the mix."

"So, you're what asking me to 'crawl under the bus' for you. They just came through in a major way dude; I'm not lying to cover your butt, especially when I don't know why, so what'cha hiding from the folks big brother?" Chris' annoyance had been quickly replaced with the mirth a sibling gets when he realizes he isn't the biggest screw up for the day.

"Not important now, besides you'll find out soon enough. I just need you to keep them away from here for the night. Can you do that?"

"I guess, but you owe me big time." And with that Chris orbed out to the Manor while Wyatt entered his father's office with none of his dad's strength or wisdom. Wyatt found it hard to come off as the "adult" in charge when just a few years ago he would have found this prank exceedingly funny.

"Where the hell have you been?" Piper didn't even let his orbs settle before she started with the inquisition.

"Hi to you too. I was helping Wyatt with a charge. No big deal I was strictly back-up and it was completely unnecessary. So, did you all figure out how to get Bianca's things?" Chris was dodging his mother's question and glare. Piper wasn't having it tonight though.

"Yeah, that's vague. What charge and where? Your brother can usually handle things on his own and you, mister, left here downright panicked." She was right on his heels now as Chris tried to move around the room.

"Christopher!"

He turned on his heels and stopped cold. "Mom, everything is fine. There's nothing to worry about so chill okay. It only took so long because we were talking after things settled. I came right back just so I could put your mind at ease." Smooth as ever Piper's baby boy went in for a hug. She responded in kind, but put her questions on a "shelf" for later. "Sorry we worried you."

"You better be sorry." She released him from her embrace and informed him what the collective had decided. "You and Bianca will make your morning class and then she'll go to her place and get her things. Her mom should be at work."

"Who's going with her? What if something happens to her? I'm not sending her into a group of assassins alone." The fear was rising in his voice and Chris' eyes pleaded with his gathered family members.

Bianca moved to her boyfriend's side and laid a reassuring hand on his arm. "Chris I'll be fine. My mother isn't a danger to me, but you and I both know she will flip if she finds me with you or worse still a Charmed One. It's best for me to go it alone."

Chris was having none of it, "no."

Paige and Phoebe had been standing on the side in a strictly observing posture, but Phoebe went to calm Chris before he said something she knew he would regret. "Honey what would make you feel more comfortable with this situation?"

"If I went with her," folding his arms across his chest displayed strength he wasn't feeling.

"Not going to happen!" Piper on the other hand was feeling and embracing her strength.

"Piper what if there was a way to please everyone, at least a little." Paige was the youngest, but could often be the voice of compromise and reason.

"I'm listening, but let me say this I feel I've made all the concessions I'm going to for one night." Piper flopped into the wicker chair in front of the double doors in the conservatory.

"We could send Leo. He's a white lighter, he can orb, it's not like anyone would be expecting him and it will keep Chris and us out of the line of fire." Awaiting her big sister's approval always felt the same to Paige… like she was fifteen and in the principals office.

"Leo?"

Chris and Piper were watching him for his non-verbal response before any words left his mouth. They were both mildly mollified and when he agreed it seemed as though this night would finally come to a close.

"I'll meet you on campus at noon." As always he was calm and reassuring, exactly what everyone needed.

Paige offered to orb Phoebe home and she'd come back for her car tomorrow. Coop and the girls were at home and she had taken much longer then intended. Whenever he was left alone with his teenage daughters for too long Coop told Phoebe he felt like he was sitting on a question time bomb and he never liked dealing with, what he called, 'things you should talk about with your mom' stuff.

For Paige it was the exact opposite. Henry respected her magical lifestyle and work and was well suited to keeping the mortal home fires burning bright. He was adept at dinner, homework, bills, cleaning and all the mundane and still found time to be an attentive and exciting husband and lover. Just thinking about him always put a smile on her face. At times she felt less then her sisters for having married a mortal, but things were tough with a dual magic household and Henry kept her grounded in all the normalcy she had grown up with before she found out she was a Charmed One.

As Piper turned off lights and headed upstairs she glimpsed Chris and Bianca snuggled up on the sofa in the parlor. Everything about tonight was running around in her head and she couldn't shake the feeling that this was the calm before the storm. She was supposed to have at least four years before his twenty-third birthday and the unveiling of the truth. The nightmares were bad enough, but with Bianca in the picture already she was sure bits and pieces would be surfacing from his subconscious more and more each day. Things had turned out different then they would have before Chris' trip to the past. Wyatt was good, the boys were closer than ever, they had Melinda and she had lived past her son's fourteenth birthday. She just hoped her luck held out and that this Bianca too was a changed woman. Because if she wasn't Piper had every intention on getting rid of her before any permanent damage could be done.

"Good night guys don't stay up too late. Chris make sure everything is off down here when you go up please." Piper walked behind them and kissed her son on the top of his head. "I love you. Bianca I'll make sure Mel leaves something out for you to sleep in and wear for tomorrow."

"Night mom. Love you more and thanks."

"Thank you Piper."

"So, I didn't think we'd be living together yet did you?" Bianca was sitting curled up in Chris' arm with her head on his shoulder. She was kidding but deep down a part of her was excited at the thought of seeing him in the morning with bed hair and in his pajama bottoms.

"Don't let my mom hear you say that. She's already suspicious. And did you see the look Phoebe gave us. She's a powerful empath we are going to have to keep our "feelings" in check around her or she'll have mom putting a lock on my door." They both started laughing at that image.

"With her on hallway watch anyone of us could get blown to kingdom come."

"Look I have to tell you something and I don't want you to get angry or worried, but things with Wyatt didn't exactly get handled the way I told the family. He's still in a bind I needed to wait for everyone to bed down before I left again."

"Why'd you think that would make me angry? He's your brother, do what you have to do. Is it dangerous?"

"No, just ridiculous. I'll explain it all to you tomorrow on the way to class. I'll be perfectly safe, unless my folks find out so let's do the 'goodnight' thing and this way I'll be able to sneak out sooner rather than later.

They got up from the sofa and Bianca walked around with Chris while he checked all the doors and lights in the conservatory and dinning room. When they got to the top of the stairs he grabbed her hand and walked her the fifty feet to Melinda's door. It was closed as usual and after a few knocks the door swung open and Melinda stood on the other side looking more inviting then anyone would have suspected.

"Well, are ya coming in or what?"

"Thanks for walking me to my door." Bianca pulled gently from Chris' grasp and he leaned his six foot one inch frame down to kiss her.

"Night."

"Yeah, yeah, we're going to bed not off to war. See you in morning 'lover boy' and with that Mel closed the door. Chris used his powers to push it ajar again and screamed through the door.

"Goodnight Lindy."

The door slammed with a little more force this time and Chris moved quietly down the hall to his own room to pull the door shut. If his mom saw that she would just assume he was asleep. Creeping back down the hall he headed to the attic stairs and ran smack into his mother.

"Why are you going to the attic?"

"Mom? I thought you were in bed already…"

"Nope. So, what's going on now?" Putting her hand on his shoulder Piper turned her son away from the stairs and as she guided him in the opposite direction he looked over his shoulder wondering how the hell he was going to get what he needed in time now….