Hey guys. I know that it has been a while since I lasted posted but I had a bit of road block put up on my creative thinking lobe so it took me a while to write this out. But after two private emails from PiperandLeofan101, they finally gave me the inspiration that I needed to post this chapter. This chapter again is filled with much needed fluff but do not worry. I still have about four more chapters that I want to add to this story. Just stick it out with me and i promise I will not disappoint.
Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed. I never have and I possible never will unless I win it at a game of strip poker with Brad Kern. Man I wish but some dreams will never come true, but without any futher adu my next chapter.
Everything's Back to Normal
It had been a week since Leo had been released from the hospital and the family was getting back into the swing of things before the stalker business. Since being released, Leo had been searching for some more teachers. He had found an assistant headmaster to help him out around the school. It was a teacher who wanted the job and got it. For now Paige was helping him out teaching a class since she had been the headmaster before and knew how things ran in the school. He had been looking through plenty of applications but still hadn't found the right person. Leo had been right about one thing, Piper had completely changed his eating habits since he came home from the hospital. Once he got back, he could not eat any unhealthy food or drink alcohol. It was a big adjustment but hey there was nothing he could do about it.
"At least I still have my guy night" Leo smiled to himself as he looked through resumes. He had to leave that day because he had promised Piper he would go with her to Thomas's house. Piper wanted to thank him for saving them from Dan and even though Thomas stated that it was his job Piper wanted to thank him properly. So they had planned a dinner to have at his house but Piper was bringing all the food. It was just going to be the three of them because everyone else had plans and didn't want to cancel them. Leo was fairly shocked that Piper didn't force them to come but all the same it would be an eventful evening. Leo was brought out of his thoughts when there was a knock at his door.
"Come in." Leo said as he took off his glasses and looked up and saw that it was one of his interviewees.
"Hello Mr. Wyatt, my name is Johnathan Dorian , I have an appointment for the assistant headmaster's job at three."
"Yes, Mr. Dorian, you are just in time." Leo said as he sat up and shook his hand. "It is so nice that you could make it this afternoon."
"Oh the pleasure is all mine but please call me Johnathan."
"As well call me Leo, please sit down" Leo said pointing to the chair in front of his desk.
"Thank you Leo." Johnathan replied sitting down.
"Well shall we get started."
"Yes, what do you want to know."
"Your application and resume are remarkable. It says that you have been a teacher for 9 years now."
"Yes I actually graduated from Magic School when I was 18 and got my degree in Education from Berkley. Ever since I graduated I have been teaching at various public and private school."
"Have any of these schools been magical ones." Leo asked.
"The last one that I worked at for the last four years was one. The name of the school was Roger and Simpson's School for the Young and Gifted. It was composed of middle and high school level students."
"Ah yes I have heard of that school. Some of our teaching assistants have graduated from there. That school has an excellent facility."
"It is one of magic's finest but I hate to say that I have outgrown it."
"So why do you think that you would make a great teacher."
"Well I have great experience and I think that I would be an even greater asset to this school. I understand where these children are coming from if they ever need someone to talk too. Plus I understand that I might have to teach more than one class."
"Would that be a problem."
"Not at all, I love teaching and am great with students. I don't use traditional teaching methods, I like to spice up learning a bit making more interesting."
"That is a good attitude to have, but can I ask you a question."
"If you are going to be my new boss then ask away."
"Why did you want to become a teacher."
"Well" Johnathan laughed. "At first I didn't but before I graduated from this place, I had a teacher for two weeks named Drake Demon."
"Drake" Leo said as he smiled at the name. Drake was the demon they had met about 13 years ago who had made a deal with a sorceress to be made human for a year. The deal was not a very good one because at the end of the deal he had to die but it was okay because he did everything that he wanted to do. He had taught all of them to stop worrying about tomorrow problems and just enjoy all the little moments that life had to offer.
"Yeah, Drake was an excellent teacher. He used different methods to teach us his students. I remember when he conjured a troll to our classroom when he was teaching us about using meter and tempo's in spell casting. He changed my life."
"I know exactly what you mean."
"Did you know Drake, Leo."
"Yes I was fortunate enough to meet him when he started teaching here at the school. That was when Paige, my sister-n-law, was the headmaster here. He taught me that I should enjoy every moment that life had to offer."
"He was good that way." Johnathan laughed.
"Yes he was." Leo laughed back. Leo knew that Johnathan had the potential to teach here at the school and there was no need to keep the interview process going.
"Well Johnathan it appears to me that you are exactly the kind of teacher that we are looking for. If you have nothing else to add to this, then I would like to offer you the job."
"Really."
"Yes really, how about Monday."
Johnathan got up and shook Leo's hand vigorously and pushed his chair under. "Thank you so much. You have no idea what this means to me." Johnathan replied as he made his way towards the door. "Thank you so much, you won't be disappointed"
"No problem, see you Monday." Leo smiled as he watched Johnathan leave out of the office. He looked at the time and realized that Piper would be home soon so he decided to go ahead and find something to wear to Thomas's house tonight. Even though Leo had been looking forward to this dinner all week long, he knew for a fact that it was going to be a long night.
Wyatt and Chris were in their rooms preparing for what would be a very boring weekend for both of them. The Elders decided that since they were both half white lighters that it would be soon that they got their first charges. But before they could get a charge they would have to have some proper training to deal with the charges. That would have been fine for the brothers if they didn't have to go to white lighter training for a weekend. Well it really wasn't a weekend. It was more of six hours but because time moved differently up there with the Elders it would appear to be three days on earth to everyone else.
"Man I can't believe that we have to go to this stupid seminar thingy." Wyatt huffed as he started to throw his basketball up against the wall.
"I know, now we have to be with those holier art thou's all weekend. I don't even want to go."
"Same here but did you see dad's face when we told him what the elders summoned us for. He looked so proud."
"Yeah, he had the same look mom had when she found out that I had her explosive power. Even though she was mad that I blew up my alarm clock."
Wyatt laughed at the memory of when his brother was twelve and had blown up the alarm clock because it scared him while he was sleeping. "Yeah that was funny."
"It wasn't funny, how was I supposed to know I would be getting that power. And did you remember how she wouldn't buy me another one until I had the power under control."
"You were late to school so many times that month."
"Anyways stupid, do you think dad cares if we do this, I mean become true white lighters." Chris asked
"Of course he does Chris, we are continuing the work that he started. It's like he feels more connected to us somehow." Wyatt replied. "That is the only reason to why I agreed to do this, for dad. If it wasn't for him, I would so not be going."
"If it wasn't for him stupid, we wouldn't even be here." Chris laughed.
Wyatt threw his basketball at his head and realized that he had a point. The reason that they were half white lighters was because Leo was a one before he fell from grace. Being a white lighter wouldn't be that bad if the Elders didn't have such a problem with their family.
"I guess that is to be expected when we break every rule possible." Wyatt thought to himself and then caught his ball back when Chris threw it back at him. "I guess you're right Chris, this is all dad's fault." Wyatt laughed back.
"We should blame this all on him."
"But all the same, I wouldn't want any other dad"
"Yeah me too, so did you read the white lighter manual yet." Chris asked his brother even though he already knew the answer. Wyatt never studied for everything and always seemed to do just fine in school. While Chris study until the answers were literally leaking out of his head, Wyatt would just read any assignment once and it would be in his head forever.
"No I didn't I got all day don't I."
"No actually you have about 2 hours. Did you forget that we leave at four." Chris laughed.
"Shit" Wyatt mumbled as he hoped out of bed and pulled the manual off of the dresser and began to leaf through it. "Hey Chris would you."
"Yes Wyatt, I'll help you study. But you so owe me."
"Thanks" Wyatt smiled. "You're my favorite brother."
"I'm your only brother" Chris smirked as he grabbed his own manual and began to help Wyatt study for their seminar.
Piper had been home for about an hour fixing the dinner she was taking over to Thomas's house. She still had no idea how she got roped into doing the cooking but soon realized that it was her fault. He had offered to cook but when she realized that he wasn't the greatest cook, she quickly declined. Leo wondered why they just couldn't invite him to the manor but Piper said that was out of the question. They didn't need a demon attacking during dinner and explaining themselves to Thomas. Since Piper wanted to do something nice for Detective Martin, she decided that she should do the cooking and bring it to his place.
"That was a stupid idea" Piper muttered to herself as she put the lasagna in the oven.
She had been home since three trying to prepare this meal and there was no sign of Leo anywhere. She knew that Melinda had SGA after school and Wyatt and Chris were upstairs practicing for their white lighter training. As her mind wondered back to Leo, she hoped that he wasn't working to hard because he had promised to cut back on the work at the school that he had be doing. Ever since she found out about his condition her worry over him had increased at least one hundred times more. In the mist of her worrying she felt one strong arm wrap around her and pull her close. Scared of what happened last time Piper picked up her knife from the counter and cut the arm. The person screamed out in pain and Piper turned around to freeze the person. Piper had a look of horror on her face when she realized that the person had been Leo.
"Ouch Piper what did you do that for" Leo howled in pain as he grabbed a towel and place it over his cut.
"I'm sorry" Piper screamed as she ran over to Leo and helped him apply pressure to his wound. "You just scared me and I was a little jumpy."
"Is something wrong"
"No, I just got scared by what you did."
"What" Leo started to say but then he didn't. He realized that Piper was scared because of what happened when Dan had tried to do what he did. He pulled Piper into a hug and began to stroke her hair. "Piper it's okay, I shouldn't have scared you like that."
"It's not your fault, I just..." Piper stuttered.
"You have a right to be scared you know." Leo smiled. "You don't have to be so strong anymore, you have the right to be scared."
"I know but it is just so hard." Piper whispered.
"I know but we will get though it together."
"You promise."
"I promise."
"Good." Piper replied as she took the towel from Leo's hand. "Wyatt, Chris, could one of you come here for a second."
Piper was about to call her children again when they both orbed in front of her.
"What have I told you about orbing in the house."
"Mom come on, we didn't do anything major."
"Yeah we just orbed from one room to another." Wyatt replied.
"Anyways" Piper huffed. "I need one of you to heal your father, he was in an accident."
"What kind of accident" asked Wyatt as he moved closer to his father and healed his cut.
"Your mother accidentally cut me with her knife."
"Oh so that is why you were screaming, I thought a demon attacked or something."
"No just a very jumpy mother." Piper muttered to herself. "So are you boys ready for your training this weekend."
"No not really" Wyatt pouted.
"You know boys you don't have to go if you don't want" Leo replied after he saw the look on Wyatt's face. He had a feeling that the boys really didn't want to be white lighters they were just doing it for him.
"Dad we don't mind." Chris inputted as he grabbed an apple from the table.
"Yeah, we really don't."
"Look I know that you two aren't thrilled to be doing this training and I also have a feeling that you are only doing this to make me happy."
"Well yeah dad we are doing this for you, this is a part of who we are and that part comes from you. But we realize that we are half white lighter and we will never be able to escape that side of us."
"So we might as well get it out of the way, we can't deny who we are."
"That's good, but I am proud of you guys" Leo smiled as he hugged his sons.
"Dad" both boys whined as they each tried to pull away.
"Well when I have a charge I hope I don't get one who always complains about wanting a normal life and screwing destiny." Chris replied.
Leo looks over at Piper and thinks about all the times she complained about wanting a normal life and not using her powers.
"Son if you have the same luck as me, I wouldn't count on it."
"What is that supposed to mean" Piper asked as she looked up and Leo and put a smirk on her face.
"Piper every other week you were screwing destiny or magic. You just wanted to be normal."
"Well that is because for 27 years I had a normal life and then Phoebe reads some incantation and boom I'm a witch." Piper laughed. "But over the years I have learned to accept my witch destiny and I am cool with that."
"See now that is the type of witch I want" Chris replied.
"Yeah just don't fall in love with any of you charges, this family has broken enough rules with the Elders." Wyatt laughed.
"Have fun with that one." Leo laughed back.
"Mom I wonder, if Mel gets a white lighter of her own, do you think she will fall for him." Chris asked.
"Why would you ask that"
"Because look at women in this family track record. Grandma Patty fell in love with Sam Aunt Paige's father, and you fell in love with Dad. It seems you guys have some sort of pattern.
"Well I don't know" Piper replied. "With her luck, she might and if she does then we will support."
"We" Leo said.
"Yes, we. Problem with that."
"No problem with that but don't you think we are thinking to far ahead. I mean she is only 13 she is not even thinking about boys yet."
"Leo she is 13 and she is thinking about boys. Trust me I used to be a teenage girl once and I always thought about boys."
"That is not the point."
"I think the point is that you are an overprotective father but you can't deny that Melinda will go on dates soon."
"Over my dead body" Leo grumbled as he opened a soda that he recently took out of the refrigerator.
"And" Piper laughed. "She will grow up and get married."
"You just have to accept it dad" Chris laughed.
"Our little girl is growing up" Wyatt said in an high pitched voice as he wiped a fake tear from his eye.
"Leo you need to get your children." Piper laughed as she checked her lasagna in the oven.
"How come when they behave they are your children but when they make sarcastic remarks, they are mine." Leo replied. 'You do realize that their sarcasm comes from your side of the family."
"Yeah like who."
"You, your grandmother, Prue, and lets not forget the queen of sarcasm Paige." Leo laughed.
"Well Paige is pretty sarcastic but they are still your children."
"And I love them."
"But who do you love more" Chris asked smiling.
"You know that I don't have a favorite."
"Yeah we know dad, just testing you" Wyatt replied while pointing to himself and mouthing "Me" to Chris.
"In your dreams," Chris mouthed back as he Tk'ed a pillow to his head.
"Hey" Piper yelled. "No using powers against each other."
"He started it" they both said at the same time causing Leo to laugh at his children even harder.
"See" Piper replied shaking her finger at Leo and smirking. "This is why these are your children."
"Boys behave." Leo smirked.
"Yes dad" Wyatt and Chris said at the same time.
"Are you two ready for your training session."
"Yeah Dad, as ready as we will ever be." Chris replied
"And you have read the entire white lighter manual"
"Yes dad."
"I still can't believe that white lighters have a manual." Piper smiled.
"Yeah it even makes them more uptight." Wyatt laughed.
"But back to Dad's question we are ready for it." Chris said. "When you see us Sunday we will be professional white lighters."
"I'm so proud of you guys" Leo smiled again. "How about when you get back we can go somewhere, just the three of us."
"Cool, maybe we can go fishing or something." Wyatt suggested.
"Yeah I'm up for it" Chris replied. He looked down at his watch and noticed that it was time to go. "Come on Wyatt, I don't want to be late."
"Okay coming, but you guys remember that we won't be able to hear your call if you need us for healing."
"Don't worry, we can handle ourselves." Leo replied.
"And if not, we can call Paige."
"No you can't, Aunt Paige is going to be up there to help with the training. So she won't be able to hear you either." Chris reported.
"Fine, then we will call one of her children, go we will be fine."
"Alright, but be careful" Wyatt replied as he kissed his mother on the cheek.
"What he said." Chris responding doing the same thing that Wyatt had done.
"Don't worry" Leo said as he saw his children wave goodbye to Piper and himself. He couldn't stop smiling as he thought of his children continuing his legacy and he knew that they had a hard journey ahead of them.
"An even harder one if they fall in love with their charge." Leo smiled to himself as he placed his arms around Piper and rested his head on her shoulder while she was trying to frost her cake.
"Are you scared." Leo whispered in Piper's ear.
"That they are growing up to fast and pretty soon it will just be me and you in an empty house all alone because our kids will have lives of their own." Piper replied all in one breath. "No not at all."
"Me neither." Leo replied as he licked some frosting off of the cake and laughed as Piper hit him on the arm.
"I will never finish if you try to lick all the frosting off of the cake." Piper laughed.
"Well I much rather lick it off of you" Leo smirked as he kissed Piper's cheek.
"I'm going to pretend that I didn't hear that." Mel said as she entered into the kitchen and made a grossed out face. "Or feel that either"
"Sorry about that, we didn't hear you come in"
"That is because I am not really here" Mel laughed.
"Then where are you then."
"My body is still at school"
"You got a new power sweetie that's great" Leo replied and went to give his daughter a hug.
"Yeah sweetheart, what is that number four."
"Yep number four. I just discovered it. I love SGA and all but today's meeting is so boring so I was thinking about just going home and boom here I am."
"Don't you think you should be getting back now before someone notices." Leo suggested.
"You are so right" Mel gasped. "See you in about 30 minutes" she replied as she astral projected out of the room.
"Our children powers are coming really fast, she already has more than me." Piper sighed.
"Are you scared now."
"You know the answer to that one, hell yeah I am scared. I want a new power" Piper whined.
"Piper you want a new power."
"Well yeah. It's not fair that everyone else has more powers than I do. I am the oldest, I should have more."
"Piper you don't need anymore powers. You two very good active powers that a regular witch would kill for."
"I know" Piper sighed as she finished frosting the chocolate cake. She looked at the rest of her frosting and then smiled back at Leo.
"Hey Leo" Piper smiled.
"Yeah babe"
"What time did Melinda say she would be home"
"In about 30 minutes, why do you ask."
"Because I wanna know something."
"What."
"Still wanna lick this off of me." Piper smirked as she picked up the frosting canister in her hands and winked at Leo.
"You know me, you don't even have to ask me that twice" Leo responded as he picked Piper up into his arms and carried her up the stairs.
Around six thirty Thomas had just entered his home after a hard day of work. He was really tired but he wouldn't be able to get any rest because the Wyatt's were coming over for dinner. Well not the children, just Piper and Leo but still. He had to entertain them. Not sure of what type of beverages they preferred he had to stop by the store to pick up some beverages that they might drink.
"At least I don't have to cook" he thought to himself as he placed his bags on the counter. He opened his refrigerator and took out a beer. As he opened the bottle he smiled at the fact that he soon would be going on a one week vacation. He had booked a first class plane ticket to the Bahamas and couldn't wait to get there. He placed the bottle on the counter and took out all the drinks and put them in the refrigerator. Thomas went upstairs to get ready for tonight's dinner, and he couldn't wait. It had been a long time since he had a home cooked meal and he hoped that it wouldn't be his last. After taking a thirty minute shower, he stood in front of his mirror and tried to pick out the perfect outfit to wear to dinner. He also wondered what had Piper planned to cook.
"Whatever it is, it will be delicious" he smiled to himself knowing of great of a chef Piper was. Eating at least once a week at Halliwell Haven had taught him that. After another fifteen minutes had passed, Thomas gave himself a once over in the mirror. Realizing that he was ready for the evening, he smiled and went back down to the kitchen and grabbed his opened beer. Tonight was going to be a night to remember.
Piper finished putting her hair into her long loose fitting curls and began to apply her lip gloss. After their frosting incident, her and Leo decided to take a shower. But Leo being the romantic that he was, he decided to run them a bubble bath for them. They would still be in that tub if Melinda hadn't came knocking on the door needing help with a potion that she was making. Getting out of the tub reluctantly, Piper and Leo had decided to get dressed. Leo had gotten dressed and went downstairs to help their daughter out while Piper finished getting ready. Piper smiled at how eager he was to help Melinda out whenever she needed helped. As she smacked her lips together, Leo came back into the room and kissed her on the cheek.
"You look beautiful" Leo said he kissed her again on the neck.
"Why thank you, you don't look too bad yourself."
"That is because I am standing beside a gorgeous woman like you. You make any man look good." Leo smiled.
"Well that is because I have a handsome man beside me." Piper said as she turned around and kissed Leo on the lips. "You are to good to be true, you know that."
"Yeah, I did but I don't mind hearing it again." Leo laughed.
"Conceited much"
"Not at all" Leo laughed as he grabbed Piper's hand and twirled her around. "So are you ready to go."
"Yeah, just let me put on my shoes, grab my purse and I will be ready to go." Piper said as she let go of his hand and walked over to the closet. "We really need tonight to go well."
"Don't worry it will, we are going to have a great evening"
Piper finishes getting dressed and Leo puts on his sports jacket. After giving each other a once over they leave from the room and head downstairs.
"Wow" Melinda whistled. "You look like celebrities. What going to some big Hollywood party."
"No" Piper laughed. "Just a humble thank you dinner. So did you finish your potion."
"Yeah, I did with dad's help."
"What does the potion do." Piper asked.
"Well it was just an experiment potion but if it works properly it could stop the body from bleeding. That way if there is a demon attack and there is no one to heal us, we can stop our body from bleeding out until help arrives."
"Oh my God, sweetie you are such a genius. That is a very good potion."
"She gets that from me" Leo pointed out.
"Anyways" Piper said hitting Leo's arm. "Does the potion work."
"I'm not sure, I haven't really had anyone to test it on and I am not using myself as a guinea pig." Mel laughed. "But if someone was willing to volunteer, that would be lovely"
"No not me" Leo replied shaking his head as he saw Melinda looking at him.
"Come on daddy, you said that you would do anything to help me." Mel pouted.
"Fine" Leo huffed. "But not tonight, tonight me and your mother are going out." Leo replied as he pulled Piper into his arms and they began to dance in the foyer.
"Yes I know, and I know all the house rules. No summoning demons, don't open the door for strangers, and no people over." Mel said counting off the list on her fingers.
"Especially no boys" Leo growled.
"Dad you can so totally trust me. You know that I am not that kind of girl."
"I know but I just wanted to remind you." Leo smiled.
"Shouldn't you two be off now wouldn't want you to be late now would you."
"I think she is trying to get us to leave" Piper smiled.
"I think you are right, maybe we should stay longer." Leo smirked.
"No you can't because you promised that you would be there at seven thirty and it is already seven fifteen. The food is in the car and you two should really get going." Mel explained.
"Fine." Piper sighed. "We're going but you better be careful."
"Keep a potion around you always and I already activated all the crystals so you should be safe tonight."
"I will be fine, so stop worrying" Mel laughed as her parents kissed her on the head and went out of the door. Mel was glad that they finally left because she had a lot of studying to do and was looking forward to a house filled with nothing but piece and quiet. After putting a couple of potions in her pocket, she turned on the stereo, grabbed her sandwich and books, and sat in the living to begin her peaceful night.
"This is just what I needed" she thought to herself as she opened her Biology book and began reading her notes.
Now that the Halliwell's life are back to normal, they should be fine right. What else could be lurking in the shadows and what is going to happen when it comes when they least expect it. All will not be okay in the Wyatt household, and someone's life will change forever. Find out on the next chapter:
Lighting Strikes.
There you have it folks, my newest chapter. Hope you enjoyed it and reveiw if you did. If you didn't, don't really care because you aren't forced to read it. Adios.