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"Oh my little Lexie grew up to be so beautiful!!!" Theresa shined upon seeing her future daughter upstairs in their loft apartment. Even Alex wandered around her future self very overjoyed to see she was going to be hot and good-looking in the future.

"Well, I should…" Adult Alex shined at all the attention. "I spent over fifty thousand dollars of Justin's money in lipo and plastic surgery to keep this body!"

"What???!" Justin screamed upon hearing he was still getting ripped off by Alex in the future.

"Okay…" Jerry moved from the kitchen nook sipping his coffee and motioned toward the sofa. His future daughter had sat down in the center of it flanked by her younger counterpart and her mother. Max was on the end with Justin sitting on the far end. "I don't get this part." He sipped his coffee again. "Explain to me how you got to this time without your magic."

"Okay…" Adult Alex was not happy about this part. "After Justin became the wizard in the family…"

"Yes!!!" Justin suddenly screamed. "I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!!!!" He jumped around singing and dancing. "In your faces!!!" He lorded the future over Max and Alex.

"He gave up his powers to Max in order to marry Harper." Future Alex continued her story.

"Yes!!!" Max jumped up excitedly as Justin became crestfallen. "In YOUR face!!!" Theresa reached to constrain them.

"Wait a minute," Younger Alex reacted disgusted. "I don't get to keep my powers in the future? That's so totally not fair!"

"Get over it!" Jerry looked at his daughter then her future counterpart. "Go on, honey…"

"Harper and Justin have two little girls…" Adult Alex predicted the future. "And they're like so evil. Every time I try to baby-sit those monsters without any magic, they turn me into something to get their way. I've been turned into a mouse, a Barbie doll, a horse, a statue, a painting, a tree, a guinea pig… This time they got into the magic book and ganged up on me. God, I hate babysitting those little monsters!"

"I don't have my powers in the future?" Justin was still depressed over what he was hearing. "I'm married to Harper?!"

"Get over it!" Max lorded it over him. "Can we get back to the part where I'm the one who gets to keep his powers?"

"Never mind that." Theresa lightly forced Max to sit in his seat. "Do you have any pictures? I so want to see pictures of my future grandchildren!"

"Theresa, please… this is having all sorts of repercussions." Jerry set aside his coffee mug. "Wizards are not allowed to time travel because of the repercussions it has to the time stream. The minutest changes to the past can cause incredible changes. Look right now, Justin is upset. Alex is depressed. Max is… well, being Max. We should not be hearing this." He stood up straight with a face. "You got to be sent back to the future."

"Do I have to go back?" Adult Alex was hesitant to return. "I really don't want to baby-sit those monsters unarmed any more." She looked at her teenaged counterpart. "Why didn't you study your magic? Why didn't you study? This would never have happened if I been the one to keep my magic!"

"Great!" Younger Alex stood up. "This is all my fault?! I'm stuck babysitting the spawn of Justin in the future because I don't have my powers? That's so totally not fair!" She looked back at her future self. "Well, at least I'm still hot!"

"You've got to go back." Jerry looked at his thirty-year-old daughter. "You can't stay in this time. The problem is I can't do it. Time traveling anything or anyone into the future is a very powerful spell. It's like the nuclear bomb of magic, Justin, Max and Alex aren't trained enough to do it."

"Fine…" Adult Alex stood up from the sofa with a bit of attitude. "I'll stay in this time." She looked at her past self. "I'll teach myself to be a better wizard, and I'll be the one to keep my powers!" She glared at her brother shaking his head at her. "Those brats are going to be toast!" She high-fived her younger counterpart.

"No, you're going back to the future." Jerry reprimanded his extra daughter. "Now, the simplest psychic magic only uses about the same wattage as a… a… a…" He looked around the room and saw the TV. "Television set, but more higher magic like teleporting or transmutation commands more energy on the scale of a diesel engine while higher spells using incantations invoking against the known rules of the universe resonate from the endless energy of the universe. A time travel spell demands the most possible mystical energy… I don't think Max, Justin and Alex together could muster it." He realized their novice potential.

"Then it's settled…" Adult Alex fell right back to home back in the sub shop loft. "I stay in this time and become like a big sister to myself."

"Yeah, dad… that could be so cool!" Younger Alex liked that idea.

"She's not staying, so get that idea out of your head." Jerry sipped the last of his coffee and turned away from the sitting area. "Now, you three together can't muster enough power to return her to the future, but going into the past doesn't take as power. You'll just send Alex into the past."

"I don't get it." Theresa shined and hugged her adult daughter. "Why send her even more further into the past."

"Because dad had his powers in the past, and he can send adult Alex to the future by himself." Justin got it.

"Exactly…"

"Okay, we're overlooking something here." Adult Alex was just as conniving as her modern counterpart. "Did I mention the bratty nieces, no powers and getting turned into a horse? I don't want to go back."

"If you don't want to go back, then what are you doing here?" Jerry confronted her. "You had to know I'd send you home if you came here."

"Because…" Adult Alex looked at her past self and younger brothers. "I was hungry, alone and had no money… and I can't get money out of the bank because my bank account doesn't exist yet."

"Then it's settled…" Jerry looked at this stunning beauty that was his adult daughter. "Tomorrow, I send you back to the future!"

"Just like the movie!" Max recalled a certain Michael J. Fox motion picture.