A/N: Thanks to Thunder903 for reviewing.
Chapter 6: Laying It On The Line
Frank and Lyn both shimmered into the kitchen of the manor. They of course were trying to track down their three younger children.
"Where is Frank Jr.?" Frank asked looking around for his daughter and if he was being honest with himself his best buddy in the entire world.
"Be very afraid Uncle Frank she said she was going back to her apartment to change into assassin appropriate attire. I don't think I want to know what that means." Hank answered him.
"That means that unlike her mother she is actually going in prepared." Frank cracked a smile that left his face as soon as Lyn elbowed him in the ribs.
"I was a great assassin Frank I don't know what you're talking about." Lyn disputed.
"I can't believe you two are still having this fight. You been having this damn fight as long as I've known you and that's been a long time." Derek observed shaking his head.
"Please they have this fight at least once a week and that has been going on as long as I can remember." Chase piped up.
"Francis the next time I need your help I will let you know." Frank told his son.
"Oh, daddy it's ok I know that you were a better assassin than mom was." Oriana said hugging her father. She was a daddy's girl.
"Hank where exactly did your woman go?" Chris asked his cousin.
"She said she was going back to her apartment to change. I have no clue what that entails so I don't know how much longer she is going to be. All I know is she took that paper Cole gave us with her." Hank answered him.
"Oh, no that doesn't sound good if you ask me. I remember how B used to be. Lets just say that this might not end well." Wyatt said shaking his head.
"I have no clue what you're talking about right now Wy." Hank replied. His cousin was talking out his ass again or so he thought until his girlfriend shimmered into the room.
Bianca was wearing tight leather pants, a leather vest with nothing on underneath it, she wore high heeled leather boots, and a leather band on her wrist to cover her birthmark. Her hair was pulled partially up in a ponytail so that some of it fell down her back. She was showing a lot of skin. "Hank don't stand there with your mouth hanging open you're going to catch flies. Here take this paper I shouldn't have it. That is more addictive to me than the booze was." She said handing him the piece of paper.
Frank looked at his daughter and his face turned red. "Bianca Lyn Hoyt over my dead body do you leave the house looking like that." He said sternly.
"What's your preferred method of death then?" Bianca asked undaunted. She conjured an atheme to prove her point.
"Bianca put that away before you hurt yourself. You're not going to kill your father and I would really rather you didn't I love my husband." Lyn told her daughter rolling her eyes just thinking about how much alike her and Frank were. Bianca tucked the atheme in the waistband of her pants. Lyn was surprised that she had actually listened to her for a change.
"B did you go shopping at a S&M store without telling me?" Hank asked.
"Don't be ridiculous Hank as a matter of fact just shut up." Bianca told him fighting hard not to blush.
"Hey don't tell me to shut up Frank." Henry shot back at her.
"Then get your fuckin' mind out of the gutter Paige." Bianca countered him.
"Jesus those two fight like they're married." Coop observed.
"Frank I don't know about you but I think we should be offended." Paige spoke up looking between her son and his girlfriend.
"No you two should not be offended they both spoke the truth. B is Frank made over and Henry is you with facial hair." Henry Sr. told his wide.
Frank looked at Henry and shook his head. "Big Henry says we shouldn't be offended so I'm thinking that we should."
"B ignore the juveniles that we call our parents. What is the game plan?" Chris asked his female best friend.
"The same as usual." Bianca replied.
Liz looked between them. "I hate it when they start talking in a language that they can only understand and then they wonder where Paige gets it from." She rambled on.
"Hank do you have any clue what they're talking about?" Prue asked her cousin if anyone could understand those two it would be him.
"I have no fucking clue what they're talking about. The part of the language that they're speaking is the part I'm not fluent in." Hank replied.
"That's right you young'uns aren't old enough to know what they're talking about. You have never had the pleasure of seeing B in full assassin gear before. This used to be a regular occurrence." Chuck spoke up.
"So what is the plan?" Jake asked.
"I figured that Chris, Troy, and I would get up close and personal with the rest of you as backup." Bianca informed him.
"Bullshit you're not going anywhere near that guy without me being right beside you." Hank put his foot down. He thought for sure that she was going to hit him with the way the vein on her neck was sticking out.
Instead she surprised him by walking up to him and kissing him full on the mouth in front of their parents. "It's very sweet of you to worry about me but I'll be fine. I'm an assassin I'll have a conman and a guy who can read any situation right with me together we're pretty unstoppable. And I'm taking your motorcycle too."
"I'm not giving you the keys to my bike." Hank protested.
Bianca just smirked at him. "Rule one in warfare never let your opponent distract you." she told him holding up his keys. She had taken them when she kissed him.
Frank laughed and clapped his hands. "That's my girl."
"So where are we going then?" Lilly asked.
"We're going to a pool hall dress accordingly." Bianca answered.
"Do we have an actual plan are we just going to go in and wing it?" Roman asked.
"The plan is we slice and dice to vanquish this guy we need a piece of his flesh." Chris explained.
"I've got the slice and dice part handled just fine." Bianca assured him.
Just then Nicole walked into the room followed closely by Greg who had showed up at the front door at the same time she did.
"Has anyone seen Cole?" Nicole asked she hadn't heard from her baby's father all morning. She was furiously chewing on a piece of gum.
"No, not today sweetie I'm sure he's busy and he'll be here soon." Phoebe lied she didn't want her temper to explode. It was better to lie to her and let Cole deal with her.
"Mom why the hell are you chewing that gum like you're mad?" Troy asked her.
Liz elbowed her brother in the ribs. "Dude don't piss her off she can't smoke right now."
"Lizzie I love you but don't mention the word again or I will strangle you." Nicole threatened her.
"Nicole do I need to lecture you on the dangers of smoking?" Eva asked her in mock seriousness.
"I know that someone probably needs to give me that lecture I burn through a pack a day." Greg said making conversation.
"Greg trust me that is one lecture that you don't want. I get that lecture every time I smoke out in the parking lot at the hospital." Wyatt chimed in.
"So it looks like you guys are going demon hunting." Greg observed like he didn't know damn well what they were up to.
"Yeah we just have a demon to take care of it shouldn't be a big deal." Parker told him. He didn't have feelings about him one way or the other.
"Greg you could go with them if you wanted to." Phoebe suggested. She missed the looks that some of the members of the thirteen shot in her direction.
"I wouldn't want to be in the way. But I am capable of helping." Greg said making it sound like more than anything he just wanted to go play with the big kids.
"You wouldn't be in the way Greg I'm sure that they could use the help." Coop said trying to be supportive of his wife he didn't want to have this fight with her again.
"You wouldn't be in the way at all you're more than welcome to come along if you want to." Wyatt told him cheerfully or as close to cheerful as he could come with what he had weighing on his mind at the moment.
"Does this demon have a name?" Calleigh asked if they had to do this she wanted to hurry and get it over with.
"Yeah his name's Blaine it's not the best name for a demon I've ever heard but it's not the worst either." Bianca answered.
"Can I come too B?" Oriana asked her tone pleading.
Bianca looked at her like she was crazy. "Not only no Oriana Rose but fucking hell no. I know that you have lost your mind. It's going to be awhile before I'm ok enough to let you go on a demon hunt with me. I don't see it happening anytime soon so don't hold your breath. You inherited mom's demon hunting skills."
"Why do you think I call her Lyn Jr.? Now in all fairness Lyn was pretty good in her own right but on some things she just didn't have a clue." Frank replied.
"Grandpa when grandma kills you I'm not going to feel sorry for you." Paige said coming into the room.
Bianca cast a stern glance in her daughter's direction she knew how her mind worked. "Not one word about how I'm dressed Paige Victoria. I don't have time to deal with you right now but later you and I are going to discuss where the hell you've been all morning."
"Baby girl must you piss her off?" Chris asked pressing a kiss to her temple.
"It's just a gift of mine dad. Grandma tells me that it's just me paying you and mom back for all the shit you did growing up." Paige replied smiling up at him.
"You are so much like your grandma sometimes that it scares me." Chris told her.
"People I would like to get this show on the road sometime today. I don't want to still be looking for a fucking demon tonight let's move." Chuck yelled out.
"Prue if you don't want to be a widow I suggest you get your husband under control." Hank told his little cousin.
"None of you have time to fight right now there is a demon out there waiting. Now get your asses in gear before I break my foot off in your asses." Andy barked out he got tired of his charges not consulting him and not listening to him.
"Andy has spoken he doesn't get pissed often but when he does I strongly suggest you listen." Prue told them supporting her husband.
"B you be careful with my bike it's my baby." Hank told her.
"I'll bring it back without a scratch." Bianca swore to him.
Chord Shane was a lot of things and among that list was compulsive gambler. Really and truly he would bet on two cockroaches running across the floor if the stakes were right. That is why no one who really knew him would find it unusual for him to be in a pool hall so early in the morning. He had always been pretty good a hustling a game of pool or a game of poker for that matter. It was his Shane genes at work. Whatever it was about the Shane men that made them horrible husbands and boyfriends made them extremely good gamblers.
Chord stood up straight and ran his hand through his dark black hair. His deep blue eyes appeared to be boring into his opponent's soul. That was rule number one when it came to gambling if you're betting against a person always do your best to psyche them out. It appeared to be working because this guy hadn't sunk a ball in a while. It was really all in a day's work for him. He had no need of an honest job when he could gamble so well.
Crazy Eights was nice when compared to other pool halls. It had a spread of ten tables in addition to dartboards and air hockey tables. It was amazing that all the furniture was still in tact with all the bikers that frequented the place. Bar fights were as common as someone losing their whole week's paycheck on one bad game of pool. In other words it was Chord's kind of place, the beer was cold and the glasses were clean. That was all that mattered to him not to mention it helped that there was an never-ending supply of suckers that he could hustle.
As Chord raised his beer to his lips he was forced to conclude that he really had three vices gambling, drinking, and women. He added the last because some foxy thing that had just walked in caught his eye right off the bat. She was dressed all in black leather and she looked like his kind of woman if the bike she had rode in on was any indication then his hunch on that was right. From all the way in the back he couldn't see her face really well but something about her looked really familiar.
Chord went back to his game without giving it a second thought. He finished up his game and when he looked up again he saw his niece and her boyfriend sitting at one of the tables. Hell he saw all of his friends at various places in the bar. Something told him that without really meaning to he had just walked into a whole shit load of trouble.
"I don't even want to know what you're doing here right now." Troy said walking up behind him and startling the shit out of him.
"You know me man I'm just playing pool and drinking beer." Chord replied.
"Well you picked one hell of a time to do it. The shit is about to hit the fan and if you don't want to get splattered you best get out of here now." Troy warned.
Chord was going to reply but then something dawned on him the woman from earlier. "Troy, B didn't by chance stroll in here decked out in leather did she?" he asked.
"Yeah that would be her she is 'working' right now." Troy replied forming quotes around the word working. This was just like a job for Bianca.
"Oh, hell Hank would kill me if he knew the thoughts I just had about her." Chord groaned the last thing he needed was to get in a territory war with a Halliwell male over a woman.
"You got that shit right boy. Now get out of here so you don't get hurt." Troy told him gently. It was his job to look out for the idiot he didn't want to see anything bad happen to him.
"No I'll stick around just in case you guys need some help." Chord said shrugging off his concern.
"Suit yourself but don't say I didn't try to warn you." Troy replied.
Wyatt and Liz were sitting at a table in the corner but it gave them a good view of the bar. Wyatt had a look on his face that was hard to read and that worried Liz since he hadn't really talked to her since he and Chris had talked yesterday.
"Wuvey Bear what's wrong?" Liz asked the concern was clear in her voice.
"Nothing's wrong Lizzie." Wyatt tried to assure her when he felt anything but assured himself. He couldn't help wondering what if. What if he turned into that monster from the other time line? What if he did something to hurt his family? What if he wasn't as good as he thought he was? The list just went on and on with endless possibilities that were driving him insane. After all Chris was the same person that Chris Perry was that meant he could be like Lord Wyatt. Just thinking the name left his stomach feeling sour.
Liz looked at him and she could see a thunderstorm brewing behind his deep blue eyes. "Bullshit Wy, I've known you a long time so I know when something is bothering you don't try to lie to me and keep things from me. Not only are we best friends but we're getting married."
"Lizzie now really isn't the time for this." Wyatt cautioned her he couldn't be off his game or someone he loved might very well get hurt. He was keeping an extra watchful eye on Chris right now because he felt the need to make up for the hell the other version of him had put his brother through.
"I have to do this now or I don't know when I'll have the chance again. You have been avoiding me since you and Chris talked yesterday that isn't like you." Liz said laying her hand on top of his.
Wyatt managed to give her the smile that she loved so much. "It's not even like that at all Lizzie. Like I said I was behind at the hospital and I needed to catch up there was nothing more to it than that."
"Wyatt you know that I know that you're lying to me right now but if that is the way you want to handle this for now I understand. That doesn't mean I'm not pissed and it doesn't mean that I will forgive the way you have been ignoring me but I do understand. Whatever it is you and Chris talked about you need time to process before you tell me I get that it's the kind of guy you are." Liz told him looking him dead in the eye.
Wyatt felt about two inches tall at the moment she had hit the nail right on the head. He felt bad because of the times he had told her he would never abandon her and that is basically what he had done. "Just give me a little time Lizzie I need that much." He replied finally finding his voice.
"Don't take too long Wy, I don't like being lied to." Liz told him giving him a sharp glance.
"So do you guys have any clue what we're doing here?" Greg asked Calleigh and Parker they had stuck him with them since they didn't know who he really was.
"B has an assassin after her we're here to try to vanquish him." Parker replied sounding bored.
"Oh really." Greg said like he didn't know damn good and well that he had sent a assassin after Bianca. Really it hadn't been him it had been Gideon's idea and he had gone right along with it.
"Yeah as if we don't have enough to worry about." Calleigh said rolling her eyes.
"When you deal with the triad prepare to have a few curveballs thrown your way. They pretty much have the best assassins. The Brotherhood of the Thorn is not a group you want to mess with." Greg replied he didn't realize that he had slipped up on the last part. The only ones who knew that Blaine was a member of the brotherhood were Chris, Henry, and Prue they hadn't shared that with the rest of the group.
"The only thing I know for sure is I want to get this over with." Parker mumbled not realizing what he had just heard. On the other hand the wheels in Calleigh's head started turning she made a note to talk to one of the others about this later.
"This is bullshit I can't believe my ex fiancé who happens to be my current boyfriend is making me sit over at a table with my brother while he and my other brother sit at the bar. Prue is sitting up there too I don't understand why everyone must treat me like an invalid. I swear I'm telling dad about this when I get home." Lilly bitched to Roman they were sitting at yet another table.
Roman was tuning his sister out he was letting her eyes filter in one ear and out the other. His blue eyes showed boredom with the present task. He was thinking about Jimmy and how he didn't know how to act around him. "Hey Lilly can I ask you a question?" he asked his older sister.
"I think you just did but sure ask away." Lilly replied being a smart ass because it was apparent to her that he hadn't been listening to a word she said.
"How do you feel about Jimmy being back?" Roman asked her.
Lilly looked at him and sighed she could see so much of their father in him that it was scary. Her mom should have just named him Jimmy and been done with it. "I don't know I mean on one hand it's good but on the other hand I don't know how to act around him. I don't know what I should call him. Derek Bradford is my dad but then again Jimmy is my father and he didn't do anything that deserves hatred it's really not his fault that he died."
"Well I don't know I feel like I'm just supposed to welcome him with open arms because I got all his genes. I look just like him and I got his cooking skills." Roman explained to her.
"Ro at the end of the day you're still your own person. You may have gotten all your physical traits from Jimmy but that doesn't make you him. You don't have to think of him as your dad if you don't want to but you can't be mean to him either." Lilly replied she really didn't know what to say to him.
"Lilly you've spent time with him alone. Is he a good guy?" Roman asked.
"Yeah he's a pretty great guy, Ro you remind me so much of him. You have the same sense of humor and everything. I think that we should give him a chance but that doesn't mean we have to forget dad he did raise us. The whole time he and mom we're being stupid and refusing to get married he was always there for us. He treated us the same way he treated Ricky and Em and he still does. He doesn't hesitate to give me his credit card when I bat my eyelashes at him and say daddy." Lilly put it in the best terms that she knew how.
"I think you're right he does deserve a chance it isn't his fault that he died. This is going to sound bad but on one hand I'm glad he did because I couldn't live without Ricky and Em." Roman said after a moment.
"I know I tend to be right a lot people just have a tendency not to listen to me." Lilly huffed she was back to being pissed off about being kept out of the action.
"Lilly just tell dad when we get back he'll give his credit card and tell you to go shopping." Roman chuckled. How Derek kept Emily and Lilly from maxing out his cards with their shopping habits he would never know.
"I know that B knows what she's doing but I really hope she hurries it up." Henry sent to Chris.
"Relax Hank she is an expert at this she is working the bar right now looking for the right guy. She'll get the ball rolling in a minute." Chris replied.
Henry's gaze shifted to his girlfriend and sure enough she was scoping the place out and looked like she had locked in on the right guy. Then his gaze went to Prue and Chuck who were busy making eyes at each other. Jake sat at the other end of the bar waiting to pounce at any sign of trouble.
"I can't believe mom made us bring Greg. What's worse I can't believe Wyatt said that we would be more than happy to have him." Jake grumbled to his two older cousins.
"I know look at him playing dumb like he doesn't know what he did. I swear just looking at him pisses me off." Henry agreed. But then again he hadn't been in a good mood since Oriana showed up.
"Hank I'm worried about Wy I told him yesterday and I don't think he's taking it very well. It's not like him to shut Lizzie out that is more something you or I would do." Chris mused in his cousin's head.
"Chris he'll get over it, I don't mean to sound like a dick but he will. He just needs time to process what you told him. The big teddy bear takes everything to heart." Henry replied.
"Hey morons look alive I've got the guy and I'm going to need back up." Bianca's thoughts filtered through their heads. She wasn't telepathic but she knew they could hear her.
Bianca strolled up to a guy in a leather jacket; he was sitting on a barstool. He had his jet-black hair slicked back with gel. She steeled her nerves for what she was about to do. "Excuse me," she said sweetly.
Blaine turned to face her was his dark green eyes. "Hey sweetie I don't think I've seen you in here before." He said he liked what he saw.
Bianca said a silent prayer that Henry didn't do anything foolish because of the way he was looking at her. "No I'm new here."
"Then sit right down next to me and let me buy you a drink. What will you have?" Blaine asked her in a sickly sweet voice.
"Bourbon straight." Bianca replied that was her drink of choice when she was drinking. Actually during that period of time she would have drank anything. Drinks were her best friends but she had preferred either whiskey or martinis. But after what she had been through the last couple of days she needed the whiskey.
"Bartender give me two whiskeys neat." Blaine ordered for them. Both waited for their drinks to show up before they spoke again. "So what brings you in here?" he asked her.
Bianca took a healthy swallow out of her drink before she answered him. "Work," she said simply it wasn't a lie this used to be her job. Mickey paid her very well for the work she did for him. Sometimes she missed it but other times she knew that it wasn't good for her.
"Really what kind of work do you do?" Blaine asked smoothly.
"Oh, I'm a club promoter and I just make my rounds checking out all the local hang outs." Bianca told him batting her eyelashes she had never been good at the flirting part of this job.
"Well I can tell you anything you want to know about this place it's mine." Blaine bragged.
"It's a very nice place." Bianca said it was about time for her to get the hell out of here. Things were going well so it was time to quit while she was still ahead. No sooner had she thought that than Mal her ex-boyfriend showed up and came walking over to her.
"B what the hell are you doing with him? He is supposed to kill you." Mal demanded of her.
"Oh shit here we go." Bianca said conjuring an atheme and slicing a piece of Blaine's skin before he had time to react. If only things had continued to go that smoothly. But no all the bar patrons turned out to be demons. "Mal when this is over I'm going to kill you. Do something useful and start fighting." She yelled at him.
"B I'm sorry I thought I was helping." Mal replied throwing an energy ball at Blaine.
Chuck put Prue behind him and he began throwing energy balls out like he was pitching baseballs.
Jake was locked in hand to hand combat with a demon and he was doing fine until he let his guard down and the demon stuck a knife into his side. It went in deep and he feel to his knees.
Henry took note of that and he knew that they needed to get out of there. "That's it we're out of here now," he announced freezing all the demons in the room. "Chris get Coop we've got to split fast this won't last long. B come on we're taking the bike home." He yelled pulling her behind him. The others all orbed or shimmered out. They made it out just before all the demons unfroze.
Paige was helping Piper clear dishes off the table when she caught the strong odor of alcohol coming from one of the glasses she had in her hand. She sniffed it and sure enough it had whiskey in it. "Oh I'm going to kill one of those two." She said sounding pissed off.
"What are you talking about Sis?" Prue asked her baby sister.
"Hank and B one of those two is drinking right now. And I'm less apt to kill Henry than I am Bianca. She was a worse drunk than he was." Paige explained.
"Paige you don't seriously think that B is drinking again do you?" Frank asked he knew how hard a time she had had kicking the habit before.
"I hope neither one of them are but this is whiskey and that was their drink of choice." Paige replied.
"Paige don't jump to conclusions for all you know it could have been Chris's and if that is the case I will kill him myself." Piper said in hopes of calming her sister down.
"Well Piper I'm trying not to but other than me how many former heavy drinkers were here?" Paige asked.
"Troy was here you know he likes his drinks too." Nicole said helpfully.
"Troy only drinks when he gambles." Paige dismissed the idea.
"Paige I'm sure that they're not drinking again. Neither one of them show the signs of it. They acted like they were fine." Leo added.
Then something dawned on Piper. "Paige I'm almost positive that it wasn't them I think it was my first born Chris told him everything yesterday and you heard Liz say that he's avoiding her. It makes sense."
"That doesn't mean that I'm still not going to have a talk with those two for my peace of mind." Paige replied.
"You do that sis but they have both grown up a lot they know better." Phoebe assured her.
Paige was about to say something else but she heard a loud crash in the living room.
Chris orbed Jake into the living room of the manor but they had had a crash landing he had hit the table when he had been aiming for the couch. With the help of Wyatt he got him laid out on the couch so he could get to his wound.
"Just hold on Coop and I'll heal you." Chris assured him.
Jake groaned in pain he knew it wouldn't work but he was willing to let his cousin try. "Ok," he muttered hoarsely.
"Do we have any clue what the hell went wrong this time?" Liz asked the room in general.
Chris had his hands out over Jake's wound trying to heal it. "My best friend can't handle her men that's what happened. If anyone failed to notice she was doing fine until Mal showed up. He always did feel the need to protect her." he could see the familiar golden glow coming from his hands but it didn't seem to be doing the trick. "Ah, Wy I think I'm going to need your help on this one."
Wyatt walked over and gave Jake a soft smile. "There is nothing to worry about Coop we're going to have you fixed up in no time." He assured him but even his healing powers coupled with that of his brother didn't work.
"It's always possible that it was a cursed object and we need more people." Chris said trying to keep the worry out of his voice.
Jake groaned in pain again. "Lilly explain this to them." He begged her.
Lilly looked at him concern written all over her face. "Are you sure Jakie?" she asked.
"I'm positive Lilly just tell them." Jake said he was too weak to argue with her about this.
"Ok," Lilly agreed kissing Jake on the forehead. "You guys aren't going to be able to heal him. Ever since he found out that he is evil in the future he can't be healed. I don't know what the cause is but it just won't work."
"Wy please do something to help him. You're the one that used to be a medic." Prue begged her older cousin. She felt like a total failure as a big sister at the moment.
"Don't even think like that Prue you're a great big sister. You didn't know about this because he didn't want you to know." Chuck told her. He may not have been able to read her mind but he could read his wife's facial expressions like a book.
"How did you know what I was thinking?" Prue asked him.
"You had that expression on your face, the one you get when you think you have failed as a older sister." Chuck explained to her.
"After everything did we get what we were after or not?" Calleigh asked hoping that didn't go through that for nothing.
"Here's the thing we won't know until Hank and B get back here. She was the one who was supposed to be dealing with Blaine." Chris answered absent mindedly he was trying to help his brother slow the flow of blood that was coming out of his cousin's side.
In the mean time Henry and Bianca had come through the front door and they were having one hell of a round.
"I can't fucking believe you right now B. I think you have lost your fucking mind." Henry yelled at his girlfriend.
Bianca stalked past him and into the living room "It wasn't like I was trying to hook up with him Hank I was doing my job the only way I know how to. I don't have eyes for any man but you and you damn well know that. You're just being a fucking dick right now because you were afraid I was going to get hurt."
It only took Henry two steps to catch up with her and grab her by the arm. "Damn it B I can't believe you thought that's what I'm pissed about. That is the farthest thing from my mind right now. I'm more concerned with the fact that you let him buy you a drink. You know damn good and fucking well that you shouldn't be drinking this time of morning. You know what it's like to have to quit. But I take you're a huge fan of the withdrawal symptoms." He was starting to lose his temper now and his grip on her arm got tighter.
Bianca fixed him with a cold glare. "First of all get your damn hands off of me. And second of all lower you're fucking voice." She spat out at him coldly furious.
"Don't tell me what to do. I'm the one looking out for you here." Henry screamed back at her. But he did release his grip on her arm.
Any reply she might have had died on her lips when Paige and Lyn came into the room. Paige strode right over to her son and smacked him on the back of the head. "Don't you ever be guilty of talking to her like that again and I mean it. I swear to God, Henry Victor if I ever hear you raise your voice to her like that again I will kick you ass." She told him.
"What are you two fighting about anyway?" Lyn asked shifting her gaze between the two.
"It doesn't matter." Bianca replied sharply.
"The hell it doesn't matter B." Henry said fixing her with a cold gaze of his own.
Paige pointed at both of them. "You two kitchen now." she ordered sternly as she herded them both into the kitchen. "Now what the fuck is going on?" she demanded once she had got them back to the kitchen.
"Ask B," Henry said pointing at his girlfriend.
Paige's eyes went to Bianca and stared at her intently like she was trying to see into her soul. "It's nothing Aunt Paige, Hank was just letting his Halliwell temper get the better of him." Bianca explained like it was no big deal."
Henry took a deep breath and shook his head. "Then I guess you forgot the shaking, the puking, the mind numbing pain coming from every nerve ending in your body, sweating all over everything and that's when you're not freezing. And I guess you're a really big fan of the hallucinations, of it getting to the point where you don't know what's real and what's in your mind. All of that must be really fucking fun for you if you think that wasn't a big deal."
Paige knew exactly what her son was talking about. "Bianca Lyn were you drinking?" she asked.
"I had one and not even a whole one. I had to make the guy think that I was interested in him so I could get a piece of his flesh. " Bianca admitted for some reason Paige was the only one of the Halliwell sisters that really and truly terrified her.
"B you know how hard it was for you to quit." Lyn said looking at her daughter with pleading eyes.
"Mom I remember I'm the one who went through it. Hank just described it perfectly. But I swear to you I'm not burying my feelings with booze again I can't go through that ever again." Bianca said firmly and then she turned and looked Henry in the eyes. "I get that you were worried about me because I ordered straight whiskey and I love you for that. But you have to have a little faith in me. I have you I don't need the whiskey anymore." She had a hold of his hands by the time she had finished speaking.
Henry gave her the lopsided grin that she loved so much. "I'm sorry I let my Aunt Piper like temper explode I should have known that you wouldn't do that. I'm sorry that I yelled at you and I'm sorry if I hurt you when I grabbed your arm. I just love you so very much and I don't want to see you go through all that pain again." He leaned down to kiss her when he had finished speaking.
"Henry Victor I have a question for you." Paige said looking him dead in the eyes so she would know if he were lying or not.
"Ask away mom I'm an open book." Henry replied.
"Are you drinking again?" Paige asked bluntly.
"God no mom I haven't been drunk in months. As a matter of fact I only had beer when we went out the other night. I'm fine really despite what you heard me talking to Goose about this morning." Henry swore to his mother.
"Then I'm sorry because I picked up a glass off the table and it had whiskey in it and that happens to be what you two drink." Paige explained.
"Aunt Paige no offense but you should think about playing cop later. Aunt Phee you really need to get in the living room Coop is in bad shape and we can't heal him." Chris said coming into the kitchen.
Wyatt came into the living room carrying a wide array of medical supplies he was going to need them if he wanted a half assed chance of stopping Jake's bleeding. "I hope that you don't like this shirt Coop because I'm going to have to cut it off of you." he told his cousin.
"I don't give a fuck about my shirt right now Wy. Just stop the bleeding." Jake replied he didn't care. His head was starting to get dizzy from all the blood he was losing.
Wyatt held a pair of scissors and he noticed the shaking in his hands he was beginning to regret the amount that he had drank to keep his mind off what Chris had told him. He managed to get his cousin's shirt off without cutting him. "Chuck help me sit him up we've got to get this all the way off." He told his best friend. Chuck helped Wyatt sit him up and they were both taken aback by all the wounds that he had covering his abdomen and his back.
"Oh my God, Jakie what happened to you?" Phoebe asked coming into the room. She was shocked by her son's appearance.
"Those are mostly old wounds mom they have healed a little. This new one however is a whole other ballgame." Jake explained trying to calm her down.
"Jake why didn't you have someone heal those?" Phoebe asked.
"Because I can't be healed mom. Ever since Greg told me that I'm going to be evil in the future I can't be healed. I don't know why but that is the way it's worked out." Jake said gritting his teeth.
"Just try not to talk if it hurts Coop. I need you to be still. I'm going to apply a pressure dressing and that should stop the bleeding." Wyatt explained with his shaky hands he could barely open the packaging for the bandages but he managed it. "Ok, Cookie Dough this isn't going to feel nice but it has to be done. If it starts to hurt to bad tell me."
"Just do it Wy." Jake said he wanted the bleeding to stop.
"Chuck I need help on this one. I need to get this as tight as I can. To do that I'm going to need you to hold steady pressure on this piece of gauze." Wyatt explained he had never had to do this for someone he cared about before.
"I've got it Wy don't worry." Chuck said holding down the piece of gauze on his brother-in-law's wound. Wyatt applied tape and then another piece of gauze and more tape. He repeated that process two more times before he took a roll of gauze and pulled it as tight as he could.
"Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick you weren't kidding when you said that would hurt Wy." Jake bitched.
"That should do the trick if not I'm going to have to get you to the hospital." Wyatt said he couldn't think of anything else to do.
"I should be good I just need a shirt now. We should go in the kitchen and see what the hell kind of mess we're in this time." Jake suggested sitting up. He winced in pain but he didn't let that stop him.
"Something tells me that we should feel guilty about hiding out down here while there are more than likely demons to deal with at the manor." Hailey mused. They were all sitting around Paige's living room.
"Hails you're more than likely right but I can't bring myself to care." Carly admitted shrugging.
"Well it just so happens that they are dealing with a demonic issue as we speak and I just can't help but be glad it's them and not us." Chase said interlocking his fingers behind his head.
"Hoyt be fucking glad a little more quietly I'm trying to sleep. Someone's crazy as fuck older sister woke me up two hours after I went to bed. So I'm going to be a tad bit cranky right now." Mel yelled at him from her spot on the couch. She was attempting to get some sleep. Bianca had drug her out of bed at seven and she hadn't been happy about it either.
"It's not my fault B is fucking nutty as a bedbug you'll have to take that up with her." Chase replied he had to duck when Mel chucked a pillow at him.
"Hey our asses will be grass if one of you guys breaks something horsing around." Patty warned them.
"The only one that's scared of Aunt Paige is B and no one is scared of Uncle Henry so I don't think we're in any danger." Val pointed out.
"Not true I'm scared of Uncle Henry. But that is only because he has dirt on me that I don't want mom and dad ever being made aware of." Penny objected.
"Pens I can't believe you would ever do anything that wasn't completely innocent." Huck said making his eyebrows dance.
"Well trust me the girl is no angel and neither am I but I am damn proud of that. There are only three people in this room who haven't been in an ounce of trouble in their lives. Mel, Charlie, and Ricky." Emily said cockily.
"Hey now I will have you know that I got detention once." Ricky protested.
Mel laughed she had pretty much given up on sleep for the moment. "Tell why and from who Ricky."
"B gave me detention for excessive stupidity but Uncle Leo didn't make me serve it. He pretty much told her to remove the stick from her ass only he said it in nicer terms." Ricky chuckled at the memory.
"My sister is a bitch so that totally doesn't count. She gave me detention more times than I care to think about. And of course my dad always said. 'Well if Frank Jr. said what you did was bad then it must have been pretty bad.' I swear she could murder someone in front of him and he would say 'That's my girl.'" Chase informed the room.
" I don't know why you carry on like that you once told me that B was your favorite sister." Mel reminded him.
"Hell yeah, Maria used to treat me like a dress up doll and Oriana used to chase me around and stuff carrots up my nose. B can be pretty cool when she wants to be and she's not so bad by older sister standards but she is still a bitch." Chase complained.
"At least you don't have the older sister that I have she is always up in my business." Val bitched about Prue.
"Hey don't complain at least you have sisters I have three bad ass brothers. I will be the first to admit that Prue is nosey but it makes her a great listener." Mel took up for her cousin. Prue was the closest thing she had to an older sister.
"No one gets to bitch until they have the older sister that Ricky and I have. Lilly really is a bitch when she wants to be. I can't stand her sometimes she was really bad when her and Jake were broke up. She acts like I'm supposed to behave like a nun. She fucking flips her lid any time I so much as get a date. But knock on wood she hasn't said shit about Jack and I dating yet." Emily rambled on and on.
"I'll tell you what's bullshit. This damn prophecy is about Billy too but I don't see him anywhere around right now. No he is off doing whatever it is he does that I really don't want to know about." Ricky bitched because he really wasn't happy about having to go back out to the gypsy reservation later. He had always thought of himself as a witch and besides that he didn't like the way that Carson thought he could boss him around.
"Well to that point I would like to make a radical suggestion." Hailey spoke up.
"All suggestions are welcome in this group radical or otherwise. Actually the more radical the better." Chase informed her with a big smile.
"Chase stop flirting with Hails. And Hails go on and talk." Mel ordered.
"It's just a thought but I think we should just forget about the prophecy today it's not like we're going up against that triad right now. So I say we enjoy this last little bit of normal while we still can." Hailey pointed out really she didn't miss much.
"Hails I say that you're right on that count although we're not normal anyway but still I'm going with it." Patty agreed.
"Why the hell not?" Ricky asked rhetorically.
"Good it's settled then you guys can make idle chit chat while I try to sleep." Mel told them covering her head up with a pillow.
"She is being such a kill joy these days I just don't know what to make of it anymore." Carly said with mock sadness in her voice.
"I know I'm not quite sure what happened to the Mel that we all know and love." Val agreed with her best friend.
Mel stuck up her middle finger in their general direction. "Fuck you both you can tell me about being crabby when you don't get to go away to school." She replied conversationally.
"Ah, Mels it's not so bad here. just think had you gone all the way down to Florida you would have missed us and I know that you didn't want that." Chase said laying it on thick.
"Chase don't make me tell my boyfriend that you were flirting with me he would do very not nice things to you. Although he doesn't have room to talk right now his slut of an ex-girlfriend kissed him this morning." Mel ranted she was tired so she wasn't making a lot of sense to herself at the moment.
"I'm not scared of the shrimp." Chase replied.
"No one is some of us just act like we are so it makes him feel good about himself." Ricky chimed in.
"B I'm begging you to tell me that you got what you needed after I was turned into a human skis kabob." Jake said coming into the kitchen he had found a plain white t-shirt and he had put that on.
"Of course I got it and for the record that was all Mal's fault. For some reason the bozo feels the need to protect me." Bianca replied.
"Well I'm going to kick his ass on principle when I see him. It's my job to protect all he did was put you in more danger than you already were in." Hank pouted.
"I love you too sunshine. Don't worry about it I'm fine. Jake was the one who got hurt. And he wasn't even the one dealing with the most dangerous demon in the room." Bianca said. She felt like adding. 'We left Parker and Calleigh with the most dangerous demon in the room.' But for the obvious reasons she didn't.
"So I take it that we have a potion to make." Roman said but it was more of a question than a statement. He felt a little unsure of himself because he didn't normally make potions like this.
"How much of that flesh did you get B?" Prue asked she was stuck on potions duty because if she even thought about a spell it backfired.
"I got a pretty good chunk." Bianca said holding it up to show her.
"That is fucking disgusting." Troy gagged.
"I do agree with you on that one Troy but it is one of those things that just has to be done." Chris said patting him on the back.
"Wy do you think we'll be able to manage this potion? We've never done something this big without help before." Roman asked his friend but it seemed like Wyatt was in another world.
"Yeah we should be able to if not we can just wing it." Wyatt replied half-heartedly.
"There will be no winging it that is what you guys have me here for. It should work the same way the vanquishing potion for Cole works. It should be just as simple as following that formula but using a different demon's flesh." Paige explained feeling the need to take over.
"Could we not talk about vanquishing my son's father?" Nicole asked.
"Nic we would never actually vanquish him." Phoebe assured her and then Nicole gave her a look. "Ok, well we wouldn't vanquish him again. He's good now and unless he does something to hurt you I see no reason why we should."
Eva looked at Jake and she saw blood blossoming out across the front of his shirt. "Jakie are you ok?" she asked him concerned.
Jake's face had gone white as a sheet and a thin layer of perpiration covered his forehead. He had small beads of sweat popping up on his upper lip. He felt light headed like he hadn't got enough sleep the night before. At the moment the only thing he felt like doing was curling up into a ball and going to sleep. "Aunt Eva I don't feel so good and I really don't think I should be seeing two of you." he replied his voice was weak.
"Wyatt what did you do for his wound?" Eva asked it was a matter of life and death.
"Wait you knew he couldn't be healed and you didn't tell me?" Phoebe demanded.
"Hold on a second he can't be healed?" Coop asked sounding frantic he would die if anything happened to his little boy.
"Not now you two. Wyatt answer the question." Piper ordered her son.
Wyatt shook the cobwebs out of his head. And he was fighting hard to stop the shaking he was doing. "I applied a pressure dressing and it should have worked." He replied.
"Wyatt you need to stop the bleeding I would do it but I'm too big to get down on the floor and operate on him. I can walk you through it though." Eva informed him.
"I don't know what more to do than that without taking him to a hospital." Wyatt reasoned.
"Wy you need to cauterize the wound." Chris pointed out to him even he knew that much.
"Right but how?" Wyatt asked he really wasn't thinking clearly at the moment.
Chuck had to grab Jake before he fell down. "Come on Coop just sit on this stool and you'll be fine in a minute. They'll fix you up I promise."
"Wy what the hell is going on with you right now? This is the basic shit they teach field medics you should know this." Eva asked him she couldn't believe he was acting like this.
"Aunt Eva it's not that easy to think when it's my little cousin that needs my help. There is a reason why they don't want you to operate on family." Wyatt covered up the real reason he couldn't think. He had to put his hands in his pockets in hopes of getting them to stop shaking.
"Hank help me get him to the dining room we need to put him on the table. If nothing else you and I can do this we know how." Chris said to his cousin.
"C. Perry get Chuck to help you I need to talk to Wyatt for a minute." Hank replied.
"No don't worry about it I'll get him. Henry give me a hand." Coop said and Henry got up to help his brother-in-law.
"Sure thing Coop." Henry replied.
They both went to Jake and took one of his arms. "Easy does it Little Coop we're going to make you all better in just a minute." Coop assured his son.
"Coop lay him out on the dining room table." Eva told him.
"That's what I planned on doing." Coop retorted.
"Wy what the fuck is your deal?" Chris demanded of his brother while he watched Hank go under the sink and pull out a bottle of whiskey. "I don't want to know so I'm not going to ask Hank."
"I don't have a deal Chris I just can't think when one of my best friends is hurt." Wyatt responded gruffly.
"Chris you'll see in a minute." Hank informed his cousin. "Wy let me see your hands." He had seen them shaking before.
"Why?" Wyatt asked keeping them firmly in his pockets.
"Just humor me Wy." Hank replied. Wyatt pulled his hands out of his pockets and they were shaking like mad. "Wyatt Matthew what the hell were you drinking?" he asked.
Wyatt knew he was caught Hank knew all the signs. "I left the hospital at three last night. I drank myself into a stupor on whiskey and then I started up again this morning." He admitted.
Hank poured the bottom of a tumbler full of whiskey. "Drink this it will stop the shakes." He said handing the cup to his cousin.
"Are you sure?" Wyatt asked.
"Trust me I'm sure I know these things I've gone through withdrawal before. This is just enough to stop the shakes now drink this Cookie Dough needs you." Hank replied firmly.
Wyatt tossed back the whiskey in one gulp. He could feel the fog that had come over his senses receding. "Much better now I can think." He said.
"Hank you swore to me that you got rid of your stash." Bianca said staring him down.
"B. Lyn you know me I like a challenge. I needed that one bottle to challenge myself it has sat there for three and a half years and it has never been opened before today. Baby I beat my demons you don't need to worry about me." Hank assured her.
"Wyatt Matthew Halliwell you and I are going to have a talk about your drinking later." Piper told him a cold steel in her voice.
"I got it mom." Wyatt grumbled.
"Wyatt you're going to need to get a couple of knives and heat them until they are glowing red. Then I want you to go in there and hold them to that wound. That will stop the bleeding. And then somewhere really needs to see if they can figure out why he can't be healed." Eva ordered.
"Paige!" Bianca called out to her daughter she knew she was bored and this gave her something to do. "Paige!" she called again and still she got no answer. "Paige Victoria Halliwell I know you hear me." this time Paige materialized in a swirl of orbs.
"What do you want woman? I was watching the all day western marathon." Paige asked she was dressed in sweatpants and a baggy sweatshirt despite the heat.
"You're lucky you're sick right now. Look I need you to find out why your Uncle Jake can't be healed. Can you do that for mommy?" Bianca asked her sweetly.
"No I can't but I know four boys who can. My head hurts too bad to research right now." Paige said in all honesty.
Bianca pressed a kiss to her temple. "Thank you baby, go lay down if you don't feel good."
"You want a pill baby girl?" Chris asked her.
"No that will make me loopy as fuck but thanks daddy." Paige replied.
"Shit how the fuck am I going to get these knives hot enough in a hurry?" Wyatt wondered out loud.
"Stick them underneath the coils on the stove top that should do the trick Uncle Wy." Paige suggested to her uncle.
"Thank you Paige you got your mother's brains sweetheart." Wyatt said gratefully.
"No as much as I would like to take credit for that that was the Chris in her coming out." Bianca informed him.
"Wyatt you're going to need help call Maria." Eva told him.
"No she's going to kill me I told B to call her and she didn't so therefore it will be my fault." Wyatt whined.
"Dude be a man and call my old as fuck sister." Oriana told him.
"Oh, fuck I'll call her although she won't answer unless I call her on the phone." Bianca mused. "Maria come to the manor I need you." she called out only to get no response. "Maria now or I will tell mom and dad you're not the angel that they think you are." That got her attention Maria shimmered in a moment later.
"I see when you want something you can call me. But not when mom says you have something to tell me." Maria huffed.
Bianca glared at her mother of course Lyn would make her tell her that Oriana was back. "Maria look to your left I'm not the only sister you have in this room."
Maria looked shocked when she laid eyes on her baby sister. "Oriana?" she asked around the lump in her throat.
Oriana went to her oldest sister and hugged her. "Hey sis, I'm back." She said.
"Child if you even think about doing anything stupid I will kick your ass and trust me I can." Maria threatened her. "God O, I missed you so much. I love you kiddo."
"I love you too Maria." Oriana replied.
"Ok, now that that has been sorted out Wy needs your help. He has to cauterize a deep ass stab wound that Jake got. He's heating the knives to do that now." Bianca explained.
"Oh, shit if Doc Halliwell is on the case you guys should have called me sooner." Maria groaned.
"Will you help me or not?" Wyatt asked.
"Of course I'll help you, you goofball. I love Jake so I don't want you to kill him by practicing medicine on him." Maria replied.
"I think that I'm going to need to knock him out." Wyatt mused.
"No, Wy if he's lost a lot of blood that's dangerous we can't monitor his heart rate here. Someone will just have to hold him down." Maria told him like he was stupid.
"Ok so once these knives are ready we'll get to work. Thanks for helping me I'm kinda in the dog house right now." Wyatt said giving her a shy little grin.
"No problem Wy." Maria replied. One thing was for sure things were never boring at the manor.
A/N: See I promised you guys more action in this chapter so anyway I hope you liked it. So they now know the deep dark secret about Jake not being able to be healed. Oh, hell Now Wyatt is drinking things are really going down hill. You have to admit that B in assassin mode reminds you a lot of Paige that happens to be where the girl gets it from. Leave it to Greg to make a general pain in the ass out of himself. You have to love the little scene between Oriana and Maria. I find it funny that while all the other kids fear Piper Bianca fears only Paige. Frank and Lyn together crack me up arguing over who was the better assassin. Hank and Bianca sure do have matching tempers but that is part of the reason why they work together so well. Wyatt is seriously going to be in trouble with Liz for lying to her he knows that the girl has abandonment issues. Leave it to Chord to be a gambler just like Troy. So there will be some surprises in the next chapter. Until next time please review.