Melinda's POV
As Dad stared at me, clearly impressed I could really tell he was trying to see who I was. I had my hair partially covering my face. God I really am hoping he will stop trying to recognize me. I mean how was I supposed to know that he would be this snoop like. "Wow, you really seem to know about Greek history," Dad commented at me.
Once again, I had to lie to my family, "It was a hobby that me and my Mom had, right before she-," I put my head down again, "she moved on," Aunt Phoebe, wrapped an arm around me, and I was glad. Maybe he will stop with this interrogation. I can't even stand being in the same room much longer with all of my family like this. After Wyatt went all crazy on us, we lost Mom, Dad, the aunts around, Chris and me had to fend for ourselves.
Thank god for Mom's short temper, "Ok, now how the hell are we supposed to vanquish them? Power of Three spell, potion?" Dad finally tore his gaze away from me, and looked towards Mom.
"Well, as she said the only way the Elders were able to stop the Titans the first time was infusing a whole lot of power into 6 humans, and thus became Zeus-,"
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you mean the Greek Gods?" Aunt Paige asked.
"Yes," Dad said, looking at Aunt Paige. I sniffled and I turned around.
"Can I use your washroom please?" tears streaming down my face. Mom's face softened, and told me where the upstairs bathroom, and I headed for it. I can't believe how hard it is to be able to be around my family again. After being away from my family so long, death separating almost all of us into resistance groups, all my life was a battle since being in my early teens. As I heard Dad saying he will go check with the Elders, I heard him orb off. Just when I thought it was going to be safe, Dad orbed right in front of me.
"Jesus Da-," I stopped myself before I could say Dad all the way through. "damn," I said lamely trying to cover it up.
"Are you ok?" Dad asked me. Wow, he has always been so testy and nosy. I guess I just never noticed it before. I tried to calm down, and make my face less sad.
"Yeah, I'm fine," I said wiping under my eyes where tears were minutes before.
"You don't look ok," Dad said, general concern still plastered on his face, in which I haven't seen since I was younger. "Phoebe told me about your mother, I'm sorry," At that point I finally broke down, tears pouring profusely out of my eyes, and Dad wrapped me in a hug.
I couldn't help it any longer, I wanted my Daddy to know my true identity, and it finally slipped out, "Daddy," I whimpered into his shoulder. He pulled away slightly, and looked at my face, finally able to see it up close. In his eyes I could tell he finally connected the dots. My hair, a mix of Mom's dark brown, streaked with Dad's blonde, and his eyes…
"Melinda?" Leo asked, finally seeing his daughter that he thought he would never have. I thought that Dad was just going to run off and tell Mom, but he just pulled me back into the hug. I snuggled my head into his shoulder and he rubbed my back gently. "My daughter," Leo whispered. After I was done crying, dad pulled away.
"You weren't planning on telling us were you?" Dad asked after a minute after giving me a tissue. I wasn't sure what to tell him.
"No.." I said after a minute. I may be Daddy's girl in my time, but I am not sure if him hearing that his oldest son becomes a big power for evil was the best of ideas. He could plainly tell that I was uncomfortable, and I gave him a guilty and sad look, "I can't really talk about it right now Daddy, future consequences," I squirmed uncomfortably as I said that. That sounded way too Chris.
Understanding flooded into his eyes, and I am glad he was just as understanding in this time as he was in my memories. Just one more thing to take care of, him not telling mom, she can't know yet, considering that they didn't even know about Chris yet. "Please don't tell mom who I am yet,"
"Mel, sweetie why?" Dad asked.
"Please just don't tell her yet Dad. Aunt Phoebe knows, but please don't tell Mom or Aunt Paige," I pleaded adding a little bit of disparity into my voice.
"Alright Mel, I won't tell," Dad said promising me, "but you need to tell her eventually," Dad said patting my shoulder.
"Thanks Daddy," I said, and started to head out of the bathroom, but stopped. I really didn't know if I should be telling Dad anything more than I should. I don't want to radically change my future, but I don't want mom and dad to fight like they did when I was growing up. Hopefully he won't stay follow me, wondering what is wrong, I would freeze him if I had to.
"Daddy, don't stay up there too long, Mom is really worried," and with that I left, hopefully. I walked back to the attic, to find Aunt Phoebe browsing through the book alone. I looked around for Mom and Aunt Paige, and saw they weren't here.
"Where is Mom and Aunt Paige?" I asked. Aunt Phoebe turned up and smiled weakly at me.
"Your mom is kind of pissed off about Le-, I mean your Dad, and Aunt Paige went to go calm her down.
"Please tell me they are not having marital problems?" I asked, definitely hoping that wasn't the case.
"They have been to marriage counseling a couple times now," Aunt Phoebe said her face forming into a frown. Shit they are having problems now? I tried racking my brain about what Chris had said about their marriage problems, but I was completely lost. "They are using talking "tools"."
"That sounds annoying and pointless," I snapped.
"You sounded just like just your mom," Aunt Phoebe snickered. As I looked over the room, I didn't see Wyatt. Last I did see him, Aunt Paige was holding him. "Where's Wyatt at?" I asked, not wanting to deal with drama of my parents right now.
"Piper put him down for a nap in their room." Phoebe said. I had wanted to see my big bro as a baby, but I am not doing it while Mom doesn't know who I am yet. Seeing her angry like that reminded me, how she used to punish me, and I have missed it dearly. Seeing her angry like that though, after almost a decade, I was sad. It wasn't her fault she didn't know who I am.
"Mel, what's wrong?" she noticed I was looking starting to look down.
"It's nothing," and at that point I so envied Chris and Wy for being able to orb. Shit, I forgot about Wyatt looking after me, I am going to have to putting a spell around the house so he can't see what is going on. "Ok, that is not totally true. I told Dad who I was.."
"You did?" Phoebe shot up from the book. "Thank god I am not the only one who knows about you," relief flooding into her voice. "Wow, you so inherited my ability not to know a secret huh?" Phoebe asked chuckling. Sadly enough, that was true, I had inherited that from her.
"Unfortunately," I muttered. I just don't know how long I can handle keeping the secret from the rest of my family…