Disclamier: I don't own Charmed or any of the charaters except for the ones I make up in my Charmed warped Mind.

Chapter 4: Coming Home

Phoebe sat in the attic and watched as Piper gathered candles arranged them in a circle and lit them. "Piper I still say this little plan of yours is crazy I'm not so sure that summoning mom to help dad babysit is such a good idea." Phoebe biting her bottom lip

"Look it's the only option we have right now Pheebs. Now do you want to summon her or should I?" Piper asked and shot Phoebe a questioning glance but went on "Hear these words hear my cry spirt from the other side come to me I summon thee cross now the great divide." .

When Piper finished chanting those words white and gold orbs filled the circle and then cleared to reveal the form of their mother Patty Halliwell.

"My beautiful girls," Patty exclaimed as she stepped out of the circle of candles and became corporeal "how are you why did you summon me."

Piper shifted her weight thinking maybe Pheebs was right for once maybe this wasn't a good idea.

Why do people have phones if they don't answer them? That thought ran through Henry's mind like a broken record as he sat with the phone to his ear waiting for Billie to answer. "Damn she's Paige's charge why do I have to be the one to find her ?" he grumbled to himself as listened to the phone ring.

"Hello?" came the voice from the other side of the phone he had finally gotten through to Billie.

"Billie this is Henry. The sisters need you to come over to the manner and help them with

something and if you go somewhere private Paige will orb in and orb you back here." Henry explained to her.

"There's no need for that." was all Billie said.

Before Henry could even register an argument to what she said Billie appeared right in front of him on the arm of a dark headed young man.

"Hey Henry this is J.D. Sam's former charge. Well he's a whitelighter now so that's why I didn't need Paige to orb over and get me." Billie said by way of greeting.

"Hey Billie don't you ever answer your phone? Never mind that right now Piper and Phoebe are upstairs and Paige should be back any minute if you want to go on up there ." Henry explained to her still not over her failure to answer the phone.

"Thanks Henry." Billie exclaimed as she bounded up the steps two at a time with J.D. in tow.

Times like these I wish I could orb Henry thought to himself as he followed them up the steps.

Victor was right in the middle of letting himself get tied by his oldest two grandsons when he saw two figures orb and heart into the middle of his living room he knew it could only be two people.

"Victor I'm not going to ask why Wy and Chris are tying you up but I need to watch Prue for me and Phoebe." Coop said as soon as he hearted in.

"Sure Coop that's fine." Victor replied and then he noticed the baby Paige was holding "Where did you find another kid?"

"Coop just go I'll explain Piper will have your ass if you don't get back fast enough." Paige said

Before Coop hearted out he leaned in and whispered "Have fun with your dad Paige."

She was really going to kill Piper. "Long story short you just gained one more grandson this is Phoebe's son with Cole and don't ask me how the details are still a little vague. But don't worry Piper's working on someone to help you babysit " Paige explained to him. He looked at her intently with knowing eyes why did she have to slip and call him dad.

"Ok I won't ask that question but we do need to talk about what you said on the phone not that I don't love that you said it." Victor said smiling at the young woman he considered his daughter.

"We'll talk I promise but we don't have the time now we have a crisis but then again when don't we. Piper will get mom over here to help you take care of the kids. But when this is over we'll talk about me and my run away mouth I promise dad." Paige said giving into impulse and kissing his cheek before she orbed out.

Victor did a double take did she really just say mom ?

When Paige orbed back into the attic she greeted by the sight of Henry and Leo over in the corner flipping in the book , Billie was standing there was a young man he looked familiar and in the middle of the group stood Piper and her mother.

"Hi mom." Paige said simply as she walked to the older woman and gave her a hug.

"So how did it go at dad's Paige ?" Piper asked her eyes dancing as she teased Paige.

Paige shot her a look that told her not to start in front of their mom it was bad enough that Piper had Coop teasing her about it. "It went fine Victor looked a little confused when I told him that mom was going to come help him baby sit." she said putting extra stress on the word Victor and then she noticed her husband helping Leo look through the book. "Henry I See Piper put you on book duty after you found Billie." she said smiling sweetly at him.

Henry wasn't going to lie magic didn't make him all that uncomfortable hell he didn't even find it all that confusing. But in his chest beat the heart of any normal warm bodied male, he was terrified of his mother-in-law and that was compounded by the fact that she had been dead for awhile now. "Yeah I figured that I'd help Leo it's better than sitting around doing nothing." he said glancing nervously in his mother-in-law's direction.

Sensing Henry's uneasiness Piper too pity on him and said "Relax Henry it could have been a lot worse for you and dad Pheebs wanted to summon Grams too but Leo said it wasn't such a hot idea and I agreed."

Wanting to keep Piper off the subject of Victor as much as possible Paige asked "So do you want Billie and J.D. to orb mom over to dad's while I go get Derek and Chuck?". She had finally remembered the name of the young man with Billie and she also remembered that at one point he had been her father Sam's charge. That's when it hit her like a mack truck she had just slipped and called Victor dad in front of her mother. Damn Piper and all of her teasing if she would have just let it be then Paige never would have given it a second thought.

"Yeah Paige J.D. and Billie will go drop mom off then come back here. So go get Derek and Chuck before Coop and Pheebs get back here with Eva and Roman. When you get back we'll sort out what to do from there." Piper explained to her this time avoiding teasing her .

Paige just shot Piper an exasperated look and orbed out in a shower of blue and white lights.

A/N: Please review and tell me what you would like to see happen