Charmed Lineage 2X06: Leader Of The Pack

by TBorah89

Ricky discovers that as part of his gypsy heritage it is his job to protect the tribe against demons. When the elders bring down the new prophecy they also bring down an old friend with them. Prue and Chuck make everyone sick with their cuteness.

7. Letting It Ride

A/N: Thanks to Thunder903 for reviewing.

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Chapter 7: Letting It Ride

"Alright someone better have a damn good reason for calling us home. It took some doing so we could borrow a car." Jack pouted he and the other future boys had been enjoying their first stress free day since they couldn't remember when.

"No shit we had a good day on the golf course and then we were in the clubhouse and I actually had a chance at scoring a date. " Alan bitched.

"Al you and Jack cheat or at least you cheat." Dom pouted.

"You know I really don't think they would have called us home unless it was important. So it would probably be for the best if we listened to what they have to say." Brady suggested. He was the most rational out of all of Phoebe's kids.

"Thank you Brady you aren't as stupid as you look." Paige told her uncle pinching his cheek. "And trust me when I say that you look pretty damn stupid."

"Brady don't let her bait you right now she would like nothing better than for you to argue with her. But I have an important job for you boys, I need you to see if you can figure out what is keeping Jake from being able to be healed." Bianca explained to the

"My brother is hurt and you didn't call me sooner?" Brady asked incredulously he would do anything for Jake. Point in case he was stuck in the past because he was trying to make sure that he would stay good.

"Wyatt and Maria are in the dining room operating on him right now." Phoebe answered her son she was pacing back and forth in the kitchen.

"Pheebs pacing isn't going to help anything." Prue pointed out to her sister.

"Really mom you didn't do anything wrong this is my fault. It's my job to look after him and I don't always do a very good job of it." Prue told her mother she was really beating herself up about Jake getting hurt.

Chuck wrapped his arms around his wife. "I already told you once that it wasn't your fault."

"He's my little brother Chuck and I need to take better care of him." Prue reasoned with him.

"Prudence Elizabeth you take good care of your brother. Not everything that happens to him is your fault. He's a big boy some of things that happen to him are his own doing." Coop told his first born gently.

"If this is anyone's fault it's Mal's. I don't know what the hell he's playing at right now but I sure as hell intend on finding out." Hank seethed.

Bianca looked at her boyfriend she was afraid that he was going to do something irrational. "Hank don't do anything stupid he was trying to help."

"If he wanted to help he could have just come to you. He didn't have to come barging in when you were obviously in the middle of doing something. I think that he might be trying to win you back hell I don't know." Hank ranted and raved.

"Hank even if he wants me back I don't want him back you are the only one that I want." Bianca promised him.

Hank looked at her with pain in his brown eyes. "Shit I know that B. I'm just in a bad mood right now don't pay attention to me." he sighed.

Chris shook his head at his little cousin. "Hank I can only handle one of my brothers going to pieces on me at a time and right now Wy has that spot sewn up. If you can try to hold out until maybe next week to have a break down that would be great." He told the man he considered to be his little brother.

"Look I hate to be the one to do this because I'm just as worried about Jake as everyone else is but we still have a demon to vanquish." Parker pointed out.

"I know, Ro I was hoping that you and Troy would get started on the potion because we need to go after him as soon as possible." Bianca said turning to them.

"Sure we can get started." Troy said uneasily.

Paige shared a look with her sisters and they nodded their heads. "Guys we have been thinking that you're all worn out right now and you could really use a break. Just this once you're going to let us help. I'll help those two make the potion. And then we'll go with you when you go after this guy."

"No absolutely not." Chris said putting his foot down he didn't want to put his mother and his aunts in danger when this was their mess to clean up.

"Christopher Perry Halliwell, this is not open to debate you are going to let us help and you're not going to bitch about it." Piper told her son firmly.

"Sure Piper we would love help." Calleigh said stepping in before Chris could dig himself a hole.

"Good because you guys really didn't have a choice in the matter you happen to be down a witch right now." Phoebe pointed out to them.

"I can stick around and help if you guys want." Greg offered.

"That would be nice of you buddy." Coop said and he didn't note the looks he got when he said that.

"So are you guys going to stand there or are you going to get started on that little research mission?" Liz asked the future boys.

"Yes we're going to go to magic school right now and see what we can find out." Jack said sighing.

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In the other room Wyatt was preparing to start operating on Jake. Derek and Henry were there to help hold him down. They had sent Coop out of the room because it was too rough on him seeing his son in such bad shape.

"Alright Coop what I'm about to do is really going to hurt but it has to be done. I just need you to be really still or it will hurt worse." Wyatt explained.

"Wyatt just do what you have to and I will do my very best not to behave like a little bitch." Jake replied slurring his words from the blood loss.

"Jakie it's all going to be ok we'll have you fixed in just a second." Maria assured him. She ran her fingers through his dirty blonde hair.

Wyatt pulled Jake's shirt off and laid him out flat on the table. He picked up one of the knives that he had heated and he pressed it into Jake's wound. Jake yelled out in pain and tried to move but Derek and Henry held fast to him. "I know that hurt Cookie Dough and I'm sorry but I have to stop the bleeding." Wyatt said in a soothing voice.

Jake had big tears running down his face. "It's ok Wy I know you didn't mean to hurt me." he replied his voice barely above a whisper.

Wyatt could see that he was making progress with what he was doing. "Wy it's working you just need to put that other knife on the other side of his wound." Maria told him.

"I know this isn't my first day on the job Maria." Wyatt replied he had gained some of his confidence back when Hank gave him that shot.

"Sorry Wy, I was just thinking out loud." Maria informed him. She rolled her eyes she forgot how damn temperamental those Halliwells could be.

Wyatt didn't reply he just picked up the other knife and pressed it into the wound. "There you go Cookie Dough we're all done now." The blood that had been flowing out of the wound like a river had now slowed to a trickle. The blood wasn't running freely now so there was no need for him to torture his cousin any more.

"Wy at the risk of telling you how to do your job I think we're ready to dress the wound now." Maria pointed out to him.

"I was thinking that maybe we should stitch this wound up." Wyatt told her.

Maria shook her head. " I think that you should wait on that until you know for sure that we're not going to be able to heal him."

"Yeah I think you're right." Wyatt replied. He opened up a gauze pad and pressed it down tightly on the wound.

"Wy be a little more gentle with him." Henry winced when he saw how rough Wyatt was being.

"He can take it Uncle Hen." Wyatt replied and then he turned to Maria. "Do we have any pain killers to give him?" he asked.

"I don't have any on me I'm not a walking drug store." Maria replied sarcastically.

Wyatt thought about it a minute as he finished bandaging Jake up and then a thought dawned on him. "Chris I need you to come in here a minute and bring a glass of water with you." he called out to his little brother.

Chris came in a minute later carrying the glass of water that his brother had asked for. "What do you want Wy?" he asked he wasn't very happy with his brother at the moment.

"Do you have any of those pills that you take for your headaches on you?" Wyatt asked him without any explanation.

Chris pulled a plastic baggy out of his pocket with his free hand. "I have them right here," he answered.

"Good I need you to give two of them to Cookie Dough." Wyatt informed him.

Chris went to his baby cousin and cradled his head in his hands; he put two pills in his mouth and tipped the glass at his lips. "Come on and take your pills like a good boy Cookie Dough." He said gently.

Jake struggled to take his pills but he managed to get them down. "Thanks Chris," he said weakly.

"Alright Wy, let's help him to the couch. Because we have to get after this demon before he has a chance to get reinforcements." Chris told him they were still keeping it a secret that he was a member of the brotherhood.

"I agree, Chris I'll help in any way that I can." Maria offered.

"Maria we can't put you in danger, you have a little girl to get home to." Chris argued with her.

"Chris if this involves my little sister then I have to help. No amount of arguing from you or her is going to change my mind on this." Maria put her foot down.

"Chris I think that you have just been out stubborned by a Hoyt." Derek pointed out to him.

"I know Uncle Derek and speaking of Hoyts I really need to call my girlfriend. And hell Chord's dumb ass is already here so we should press him into service." Chris thought out loud.

"I think that that is a good idea now come on help me get fat ass to the couch." Wyatt said referring to Jake.

"I am not a fat ass that is you Wy." Jake slurred from the pills taking their affect. He got to his feet unsteadily. "Come on we have a demon to go fight." He announced swaying like he was drunk.

"There is going to be no demon fighting for you. You aren't in any shape to walk much less fight demons." Chris told him chuckling as he grabbed his cousin by the arm to help him into the living room.

"Really Cookie Dough I would be losing my touch if I let you fight demons in this condition." Wyatt chuckled shaking his head at him.

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Jack pulled his hat up and scratched his head they had been in magic school for about an hour and still they were no closer to figuring out why the hell Jake couldn't be healed.

Alan pulled at the collar of his yellow polo shirt and shook his head in defeat.

Dom shoved his hands deep into the pockets of the khaki pants he was wearing and sighed. He wanted to help his brother but he didn't know how. He thought of Jake as his big brother even if he couldn't accept the fact that he was his brother.

Brady was really down he took his visor off and threw it across the table. They hadn't come this far just to see his brother die now. He didn't know that he would be able to stand it if he did.

"Brady don't even think that way we're not going to let anything happen to Jake and you know it. He isn't going to die because we are going to figure this out. We already stopped him from turning evil we're not about to let him die now." Jack assured his cousin.

"I know but I can't help but feel helpless. I feel like there is nothing that I can do for him." Brady said putting his head in his hands.

Alan put a gentle hand on his shoulder. "You can't think like that Brady, Jake is a fighter hell he's a Halliwell. He'll pull through this you'll see." He reassured him.

"It's always possible that Greg put a spell on him so that he won't be able to be healed." Dom suggested it was the best idea that any of them had had so far.

"It's possible but not likely. He's not that smart to think up something like that and Gideon would have advised against it." Jack said dismissing that idea.

"I have no clue where to even start like this it's like there is something blocking him from being healed." Alan mused.

"Unless it's the doings of the elders I don't understand how that can happen. He is a good witch after all. It could be some other demon but I just don't know." Dom said dejectedly.

Brady's face lit up he had an idea that made sense. "What if it's a demon that we can't fight?" he asked them.

"There are no demons that we can't fight. Sure there are demons that it would be suicide to go up against but I can't name a demon that we couldn't fight." Alan answered his question.

"I was thinking more along the lines of inner demons. Jake hasn't been able to be healed since he found out that he was going to turn evil. You said it yourself Al it's like something is blocking him from healing. What if it's not a something but a who?" Brady said he was really into his idea being right.

"I'm not following you here Brady." Jack admitted he had no idea what his cousin was going on and on about.

"That's ok Jack I'm not really sure that I'm thinking sanely right now. Look at it this way our powers are tied to our emotions and all of his witch powers are based almost solely on his emotions. Well right now he is thinking that he's lower than nothing and he doesn't deserve anyone's compassion or help." Brady explained.

"And so maybe his self doubt is keeping him from being healed because he doesn't think he deserves it." Alan said jumping on his cousin's thought train.

Dom's face lit up with a bright smile. "Damn you and your psychology major Phillip Halliwell I think you might be right." He said banging his fist down on the table.

"Now the question how the hell do we get him to have faith in himself." Jack pondered if only he knew that the answer to that was simpler than he thought.

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Wyatt sat on the front steps of the manor with a cigarette in his hand. He ran his fingers through his dirty blonde hair and sighed. He had no clue how he let things get so fucked up. His drinking had almost cost his cousin his life and all because he couldn't deal with the fact that once upon a time line he had been evil. He couldn't reconcile that with the man that he was.

He thought of himself as a mostly good man sure he had his vices like smoking and drinking and lord knows he cussed like the sailor that he once was. But that was it. He was kind and gentle and the best big brother and older cousin that he knew how to be. He tried to listen to their problems and let them make their own mistakes. But never in a million years would he do anything to hurt any of them. He blamed himself every time something bad happened to one of them. Every time they hurt he hurt ten times worse because he always felt like he could have done something to stop it. For years it had killed him to be in the same room as Henry because as am empath he could feel the pain radiating off of him. He had always felt like he could have done more to save Oriana.

Not to mention he still had the thing with Ken and Mel hanging over his head. He had dropped the ball on that one big time. She was his baby sister and it was his job to protect her and Chris. So all of that coupled with him finding out that he had been an evil tyrant had finally drove him over the edge. He couldn't be strong for everyone all of the time it was just not possible. But no he was Wyatt Halliwell the first male born into the Warren line in like three hundred years and the twice blessed he wasn't allowed a little break down without something going wrong. And oh boy did it ever go wrong, his damn brother and male cousins really needed to start being more open about their feelings and about what was going on with them. He wouldn't have been able to live with himself if he would have lost Jake because he had been on a bender.

He was startled when he felt someone put their hand on his shoulder and he groaned to himself when he saw that it was his fiancé. He looked up at Liz and met her concerned brown eyes with his blue eyes. "Hey Lizzie," he said he really wasn't in the mood to deal with her at the moment.

Liz frowned at him. "Wyatt Matthew Halliwell you promised me about your smoking but that is the least of your transgressions right now." she huffed at him.

"Yeah I know I'm trying to quit it's a nasty habit." Wyatt replied giving her a half smile.

"Well you need to try harder." Liz said sitting down next to him. "Wyatt you lied to me you promised me that you would never shut me out and that's what you're doing now. You need to tell me what's bothering you." she said more gently.

"Lizzie I'm sorry about lying I just didn't want to face you yesterday." Wyatt admitted.

"Wy, tell me right now if this is what living with you is going to be like because I don't think I can take it. I rather have you abandon me like Tim did and not be around at all than have you here physically and have you keep things from me. Look I'll be the first to admit that I'm fucked up but I need some reassurance here." Liz told him.

Wyatt felt his heart break into a million little pieces he would never hurt her for anything in the world, yet he had. "God no Lizzie, I love you more than anything in this world and I'm sorry if I made you feel abandoned or second best those were never my intentions. I will never leave you the way he did and I will spend the rest of my life proving that to you." he promised her.

"Prove it to me now by telling me what's wrong Wy." Liz begged him. She didn't like him bottling up his emotions it wasn't good for him.

"You know about Chris's flashbacks well there is more to them than meets the eye. Apparently in that time line I was evil and he died to save me. I just don't know how to live with that you know that I would never do anything to hurt anyone that I love." Wyatt explained to her.

Liz put her fingers under his chin and brought his eyes up to meet hers. "I want you to look at me Wy and listen to what I'm about to tell you. I love you with all of my heart and there is no way in hell that you could ever be evil. You're the guy that used to stay with me at nights until I had finally cried myself out after my dad left. You're the guy who without a second's hesitation got in the car and went to Vegas with me when I was supposed to get married. You're the guy who would never let me get hurt even if it meant sacrificing yourself. Now you think about all those things and then I want you to tell that you're evil. Because I have news for you Wuvey Bear there isn't an evil bone in your body."

Wyatt just sighed. "Lizzie I almost lost him because I was stupid. I got drunk and Coop almost paid the price for it I don't know how to live with that."

"You can't be perfect all of the time Wyatt and no one expects you to be. You just do the best you can to make up for it. That entails going after the demon that is responsible for this whole mess." Liz explained.

Wyatt put his arm around her. "God Lizzie I love you so much that it hurts. I don't know what I would do without you sometimes."

"You'd be lost just like I would be if I didn't have you, you big teddy bear." Liz said kissing him. That turned into a deep passionate kiss until they heard someone clear their throat behind them.

"Liz do you think that I can talk to my son alone for a minute?" Leo asked her.

"Sure thing Uncle Leo." Liz said getting up and going back into the house.

"What do you want dad?" Wyatt asked looking up at his father.

"Son I think you and I need to talk." Leo told him gently.

"There is nothing to talk about dad I'm a failure as a big brother and an older cousin that's all there is to it." Wyatt lamented.

"Son you're anything but a failure. A wiseass yes, a great big brother yes, a bumbling idiot when it comes to Liz hell yes. But a failure you are not. You didn't do any of those things that Chris told you about." Leo lectured him.

"Dad the potential to be that guy is in me though. I would say that the only difference between Chris and Chris Perry it that he didn't grow up with his brother being an evil bastard. " Wyatt reasoned with him.

"Wy there were mitigating circumstances as to why he was evil. I know that Chris didn't tell you this but in that time line your mother and your aunts were dead hell even your Uncle Coop and your Uncle Henry were dead." Leo explained to him reasonably.

Wyatt looked at his father shocked he couldn't stand the thought of anything happening to his mother or his aunts and his uncles for that matter. "Dad I had no idea but still if that's all that's keeping me good then it's only a matter of time before some demon figures that out and lures me to the dark side."

Leo shook his head for the boy to be so much like him he could be just as stubborn as Piper ever dared to be. "That is not going to happen buddy I promise you. Let me tell you something in that time line I was a shitty dad I left to be an elder and I didn't give my family a second thought. But I changed hell I didn't have my powers for over twenty years. I'm not that man son and neither are you."

Wyatt was starting to realize that maybe his situation wasn't as hopeless as he had first thought it was. "Ok, dad I will take your word for it. But I will also do the best I can to make sure I never become that man."

Leo smiled at him. "That's the spirit son. Your mother is going to have a talk with you later and I can't imagine that it's going to be pleasant but as long as you are somewhat ok now that's all I care about."

Wyatt smiled back. "I'm starting to think that I'll be just fine dad."

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Roman and Troy both coughed as the potion they were working on exploded. "I told you boys to stand back that this potion was going to blow up but apparently you didn't believe me." Paige smirked at them.

"This isn't funny Aunt Paige you could have seriously killed us with your potion making." Troy whined.

"Oh stop being a baby Troy if mom hasn't killed anyone with her potion making yet then it isn't going to happen." Hank joked.

"I don't find you very funny right now Henry Victor." Paige told him putting her hands on her hips.

"It's official Aunt Paige spends entirely too much time with my mom she is starting to act like her." Chris said shaking his head.

"Christopher don't talk about me like I'm not sitting right here and besides that you have no room to talk about anyone with what you have for a daughter." Piper pointed out to her son.

"Don't you be talking bad about my baby Aunt Piper she's sick right now." Bianca retorted.

"And to think I never thought that you had a maternal bone in your body Bianca Lyn." Lyn laughed at her daughter.

"Hell I don't it's just that the girl grows on you after a while." Bianca said dismissively.

"How's that potion coming?" Lilly asked she would have been in the other room with Jake but Coop had yet to leave the boy's side.

"It's coming sis it'll be done soon that is if we can keep Aunt Paige from blowing it up." Roman answered her.

"When Aunt Paige kicks your ass I'm going to laugh." Oriana said laughing anyway. She had Alan in her arms she had fallen hard for the little guy.

"You know you may have been her daughter-in-law but I'm her favorite." Roman said sticking his tongue out at her.

"Not true Roman James your little brother is my favorite." Paige joked with him. Trying to distract from the fact he had used the term daughter-in-law. She didn't want Hank and B going off the deep end.

"Yeah you should probably watch him with Charlie are the next thing you know you'll have an infestation of fleas in your house." Roman came back really quick.

"Don't make fun of your brother Roman James. Jimmy I hope you hear this that was classic you." Eva scolded Roman.

"Huckleberry can't help it that he thinks he's funny." Jimmy replied.

"Well I'm going to kick your Huckleberry's ass if he doesn't start being nicer." Eva told him.

"You know speaking of the younger kids I really need to get them up here so they can sit while we go hunt demons. I don't like leaving those babies with just the guys." Piper mused.

"Piper we'll be here if you don't want to call those brats up." Frank assured her.

"No I want to call them anyway just so they can't accuse us of keeping them in the dark." Piper replied.

"Chase was born in the dark so that is pretty much where he lives his life." Oriana said offhandedly.

"O be nice to him, he really missed you." Bianca told her baby sister looking over her shoulder at her. She was glad to be out of her assassin attire she had changed into some clothes she had borrowed from Mel.

"Bianca Lyn what is that on your shoulder?" Oriana asked her sister referring to the tattoo that she had on her left shoulder blade. It was a Rose with the words Every Rose Has Its Thorn around it.

"That would be a tattoo. Thank you for calling attention to it in front of your sister and your parents." Bianca commented dryly.

"Bianca Lyn I can't believe you have a tattoo and you didn't tell me. And I'm ashamed I didn't think of it myself." Maria accused.

"Maria I've been keeping my distance or you would have seen it before. And it's not like you didn't name your kid after her." Bianca replied.

"What's it mean?" Oriana asked.

"Well if I were feeling like an exhibitionist I would lift my shirt so you could see it better. It has your birthday underneath it. I got it for you one night when Chris and I were really really drunk." Bianca informed her.

"Ah, B that is so sweet you really do love me." Oriana said sappily.

"B that is not never mentioning it again. That was not a good night. We had to act sober just so the tattoo artist would work on us." Chris reminded her.

"Perry you have a tattoo?" Piper asked her son.

"I have three of them mom." Chris answered pulling up his shirt. He had a tattoo of a Triquetra on his left shoulder blade, and he had the Marine's symbol over his right pec.

"You said there were three." Piper accused him.

"The third one is covered by my sock right now and it's really sappy so I'm not going to show it to you." Chris replied.

"Come on Chris if you show yours I'll show mine." Hank egged him on.

"Alright but you better show yours too." Chris replied pulling down his sock to reveal an interlocking Alpha and Omega symbol inside the omega were the initials H.V.H.

"I'm a man of my word." Hank said pulling down his sock to reveal the same symbol only he had the initials C.P.H in his.

"That is probably the sweetest thing I have ever seen in my entire life." Rachel said she had shimmered in during the middle of that display.

"I love the stupid gorilla. It was challenge week so we both decided to do it." Chris informed her before he pulled her into a kiss.

"I think I should worry about you two sometimes." Phoebe told them.

"Chris what was so important that I had to stop helping my dad? Not that I'm not grateful to get away from the man for the day." Rachel asked.

"I don't know why you even ask it's a demon it's always a demon." Chris replied.

"Actually Rach I think we could use Uncle Mickey's help on this one we have no clue where to find this demon." Bianca informed her.

"Well I just left him so I'm not calling him." Rachel told her in no uncertain terms.

"Allow me I don't get to pick on him as much as I would like to." Frank said grinning from ear to ear. "Michael Noel Hoyt get your stupid ass where I am now you ugly fuckin momma's boy." He called out to his little brother.

Mickey shimmered in a second later with a pissed off look on his face. "Francis Xavier I don't know who you're calling stupid and ugly but I know you're not talking about me."

Any anger that Mickey was feeling towards his brother melted away when Oriana threw herself into his arms and squealed. "Uncle Mickey."

"Oriana if you're not a sight for sore eyes I don't know who is." Mickey said looking his niece all over. He had felt a lot of guilt over what happened to her he should have saw that it was all a set up.

"It's good to see you too Uncle Mickey. I missed you big guy." Oriana replied.

"Stop trying to butter him up O he isn't going to let you fight demons either. Besides that I need his focus on me for like ten minutes. Plus Maria I hope you don't think you're going because you're not." Bianca said laying down the law.

"See this isn't the way it works little girl I'm the older sister and I tell you how it's going to be not the other way around." Maria argued with her.

"Dad tell your oldest child that there is no way in hell that she is going with me." Bianca pleaded with her father.

"Maria I have an idea of how you can help B. You can help B by taking your baby sister out and doing something with her so B doesn't have to deal with her wanting to come too." Frank suggested. He would rather those two be mad him than Bianca.

"Dad could you just this once pretend that you don't love B more than you love me and O?" Maria asked.

"No there is no fun in that." Frank joked.

"Mom did you hear that?" Oriana whined to her mother.

"I can't help it that the man is retarded. Between him and your Uncle Mickey they have managed to make your sister just as bad as they are that is why they get along so well." Lyn told her youngest daughter. God it felt good to be able to talk to that girl again that was her baby girl.

"Anca did Mal tell you that you have an assassin on your ass?" Mickey asked his niece as if the thought just popped into his mind.

"First of all I'm not answering any of your questions if you insist upon calling me Anca." Bianca flared at her uncle she hated that nickname. "Hank there you go you wanted to kick someone's ass for that fucked up situation earlier. It's Michael's fault beat him to a bloody pulp."

"I'm not going to beat him until after he tells us where we can find Blaine because you know as well as I do that he knows." Hank replied. It would just be stupid to beat his ass before they got the information that they needed out of him.

"I'm not going to tell you unless you take me with you." Mickey pouted.

"No way in hell are you going with us father or mine. You and B together on a demon hunt isn't happening." Rachel said firmly.

"Well then I guess you guys are just going to have to find Blaine the hard way. And let me tell you that that won't be an easy task." Mickey told his daughter.

"Mickey you can come on the condition that Frank stays here I can't have both of you feeding off each other." Piper bargained with him.

"I'm not the bad guy that everyone thinks I am." Frank pouted.

"Frank you and your brother are worse than me and my sisters together. That is saying something." Piper pointed out to him.

"No shit you two will get into the argument about who stole whose girlfriend when you were younger. And I just don't think I can stand to hear you guys have that argument again." Phoebe chimed in.

"Well I'm sorry if it's a known fact that my big brother stole all of my girlfriends." Mickey said innocently.

"If this is about my mother you can have her back Uncle Mickey, because I damn sure don't want her." Bianca told him. Mickey had briefly dated Lyn before she dumped him for Frank.

"Thank you very much for that B." Lyn said sarcastically.

"Mom while I submit to being a total badass in all matters I have a good piece of advice to offer you right now. Just go with it because you need to get this over with quickly and the sooner you get this over with the sooner you won't have to deal with it anymore." Paige told her mother.

"That right there almost gets you off the hook for earlier." Bianca replied giving her a smile.

"B the kid is right we really need to get a move on with this thing so let's just let them do what they need to do to make themselves feel better. Because then we're going to have to talk to Jack and the guys to see if they figured out why Coop can't be healed." Chris pointed out to his friend.

"Chris you wouldn't know how to act if we ever just went after a demon." Chord reminded him.

"Shane don't get them started any worse than they already are. I would like to do this while I'm still young." Parker complained.

"Parker that is not helping." Calleigh told him gently.

"But it makes us all feel better Cal you know that." Wyatt said walking into the kitchen. "I'm ready to go any time you guys are."

"Wy me and the guys are just putting the finishing touches on this potion and then we'll be ready." Paige told her nephew.

"We?" Wyatt asked incredulously.

"Wyatt that is not something that you want to get into right now. And I hate to spread vicious rumors but my dad is coming along." Rachel explained to him.

"Uncle Frank isn't coming too is he?" Wyatt asked a little scared to know the answer to that question.

"No you can breathe easy your mom told me I couldn't go if Mickey was going." Frank pouted.

"Frank, Chase will be up here in a little while you'll have him to tease I'm sure you'll be fine." Lyn rolled her eyes at her husband. Being married to him was like raising another kid sometimes but she wouldn't have it any other way.

---

Despite the painkillers that Chris had given him Jake had beads of sweat popping up on his forehead from the extreme amount of pain he was in. He couldn't sleep because he was in so much pain. And no way he laid was comfortable he still felt like his wound was on fire and Wyatt had his bandages pulled tightly. He would give his cousin this much he sure knew how to patch someone up. A low groan of pain emitted from deep in his throat.

"Just try to lay still little Coop." Coop told his son wiping his head off with a cold rag. He placed a kiss in the center of his forehead.

"Laying still doesn't help and neither does moving but I like to think that when I move the pain lessens just a little." Jake replied squeezing his father's hand. Coop had been holding his son's hand the entire time.

"How come you didn't tell mom and me that you couldn't be healed?" Coop asked worry written all over his face.

"I didn't want to worry you guys dad and I knew if you knew that I couldn't be healed then you would worry." Jake explained.

"You don't have to keep things from us big guy we're not going to break. And we can help you." Coop reasoned with him.

"Dad the last year and a half I have been keeping all kinds of things from you and I'm sorry if I hurt you and mom. But some of those things I had trouble coping with myself I couldn't tell you. I was afraid that you and mom would think despite the way you raised me I turned out evil anyway. Hell little did I know at the time that I do end up being evil in the future. I was afraid that you would be disappointed in me, I mean you gave me your name and the only thing that you asked for in return was that I be the man you raised me to be." Jake said weakly tears falling from his eyes.

Coop gripped his hand tighter and locked eyes with him. "I want you to listen to me very closely now son because I'm only going to say this once. There is nothing that you could ever do to disappoint your mom or me. Let me tell you something Cooper Jacob Halliwell Jr. I happen to think that you are one great kid; I couldn't have asked you to be a better big brother. Phil might only be a few weeks old but he already adores you. And I gave you my name because you are my son I don't expect anything out of you because of it. I just expect you to be yourself and you do that every day. Despite what you think you have never and can never let me down. The first time I held you in my arms I fell in love with you and I haven't stopped loving you since. So you just need to get over this feeling like nothing you do is good enough to please me. You're a better man than you even realize Little Coop." he took the hand that held his son's cupid ring and pressed a kiss to it.

"I love you dad." Jake croaked out. It amazed him nothing that he did could ever make that man lose faith in him even when he didn't have faith in himself.

"I love you too son now try to get some rest." Coop ordered him but he made no move to leave his side.

---

"Remind me how I let you guys talk me out of spending time with my sweet innocent baby boy to come hunt demons with you." Phoebe bitched as they walked through the underworld.

"Bullshit you jumped on the bandwagon I don't want to hear you bitching." Prue told her sister. She had refused to sit this one out.

"So did you Prue so really you have no room to talk." Paige pointed out to her oldest sister.

"You guys this is ridiculous there is no need for you to fight this much." Piper sighed rolling her eyes at her sisters.

"This is so not fair. Cal remind me again how you, Chord, and I got stuck with my sisters." Parker told his girlfriend.

"Because your nephews and your niece flat out refused to demon hunt with their mothers and then Liz refused to be in the same group as Chord." Calleigh refreshed his memory.

"Hey I'm just thankful that I didn't get stuck with Uncle Frank I can't believe he weaseled his way into coming." Chord said thankfully.

"There was really nothing that we could say when he decided to come along at the last minute and besides as long as he and Mickey are separated it won't be a problem." Piper explained.

"No the problem lies in the fact that Frank, Chris, B, and Hank are together right now. Those four are all too much alike for their own good I'm worried that bad things will happen with them being alone." Paige sighed there was no telling what kind of trouble they could get into because they all thought alike so there was no one to be the voice of reason and tell them that their idea was stupid.

"Yeah maybe that wasn't such a great idea but if anyone can get the job done it's those four provided they don't manage to get themselves killed first." Phoebe agreed.

"So we're pretty much screwed then they were all blessed with more balls than brains. Or rather they have brains that they know how to use but they let their primal urges override everything else." Calleigh went on.

"Cal sometimes I'm amazed when you open your mouth. I mean just when I think I can't fall anymore in love with you I do." Parker told her.

"Well it's the call of the wild it's the most freeing thing in the world. You're basically stripped down to your most basic urges." Calleigh explained.

"Calleigh how the hell do you know that?" Parker asked shaking his head.

"Parker I don't Eric Nature Boy for no reason. So trust me I know about these things." Calleigh replied cryptically. It really wasn't smart to talk about being half wood nymph while in the underworld.

"Right I didn't even think about that." Parker replied knowing exactly what she was talking about.

"Now if you two would kindly shut up so we could follow this makeshift map that Mickey drew us that would be nice." Prue grumbled.

"Aunt Prue you wouldn't be able to handle demon hunting with all of us then because a lot worse than this goes on." Chord informed her laughing as he threw his arm around her shoulders.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah let's move it I don't want to hear the bitching if we don't make it to where we're supposed to be in time." Piper rolled her eyes her middle son was a little bit of a freak when it came to his plans being disrupted and she wouldn't hear the end of it for days.

---

"Dad I just want you to be aware that mom is going to kill you when we get back." Bianca told her father. Secretly she was glad that he had came she liked having the added safety that his presence provided.

Frank chuckled and shook his head. "I'm not scared of Lyn the most she is going to do is yell and trust me I can handle that." He replied.

"The only reason I'm not freaking out about you being with us now is because for the first time in months we actually know where we're going." Chris said it was a novel concept to them normally they just wandered around aimlessly until they found what they were looking for.

"Chris don't encourage him. He will only want to come with us more often and I can't deal with him and B both at the same time." Henry reasoned with him.

Bianca turned around and glared at her boyfriend. "First off I'm not that bad and second off focus. We've already had enough problems with this demon I don't want to add to that."

"Believe me when I say I'm focused. It worries me that they decided to wait until now to put a hit out on you. It seriously makes me wonder about what the hell is going on." Henry replied.

"So let me get this straight you're not worried about the fact that there is a hit out on me but you're worried about the timing of it?" Bianca asked knowing that that wasn't the case at all.

Henry rolled his eyes. "Of course I'm worried about you but I know that you can take care of yourself. Something about the timing just bugs me. I mean they have had almost a year why wait until now?" there was really no fault with his reasoning.

Chris bit his lip in ambivalence. "I was thinking the same thing. It makes me worry that something really big is on the horizon and it's only a matter of time before we find out what it is."

Frank shook his head at them. "You three worry too much. You need to go with the flow for right now and then worry about what might happen later. It's the only way you're going to keep from going insane." He advised them. If nothing else could be said about Frank Hoyt he was pretty good about giving advice.

"But still dad they're right there is just something troublesome about the timing." Bianca agreed with her best friend and her boyfriend.

Frank laughed the four of them were all so much alike that it was scary. "Look B I don't know everything that is going on right now because you haven't exactly shared it with me. But I will tell you this if you guys all have that nagging feeling in the pit of your stomach then you're right to be worried. You three have the best instincts out of all the witches I know so trust them and trust each other. Now let's focus on kicking this demon's ass and then you can focus on everything else."

"Sounds like a plan to me." Henry agreed.

"Thanks dad," Bianca said.

"Yeah thanks Uncle Frank." Chris chimed in.

---

Mickey, Rachel, Lilly, Roman, and Troy were all in a group they were in the underworld bar where they were all supposed to be meeting. Blaine had less of a chance of recognizing this group and they were staking out what he was doing. They were prepared to tell the others if he made a move. So far so good though, he was just sitting on a barstool drinking beer.

"Once upon a time B would have had this guy taken care of without another thought. I'm telling you guys dating Henry has made her soft." Mickey shared his thoughts with the rest of his group.

"Dad she's happy just let it go." Rachel scolded him. She was more concerned with her cousin's emotional happiness than she was with her reputation as an assassin.

"I was just saying Rach the boy has taken a little bit of the edge off of her. Don't get me wrong I'm glad that she's happy but she's been out of the game a little bit too long." Mickey shook his head. Bianca had been his protégé and he was damn proud of her. She was a much better assassin than him and Frank combined.

"Well Uncle Mickey let me tell you something I happen to prefer her the way she is now. We don't have to worry about the bitch going crazy and getting herself hurt." Lilly told him.

"Lilly she's a Hoyt the only group of people crazier than we are is the Halliwells. So she is always going to have a little touch of crazy in her." Mickey explained.

"Fuck being crazy B is a little bit of a bitch when she wants to be." Roman said rolling his eyes. Not that he had any room to talk about anyone like that because Mel was the same way.

Troy scoffed at him. "Dude I can't believe you're just now noticing that. But I feel it as my duty to tell you Mel is the exact same way."

Rachel rolled her eyes. "Well I have to tell you all that if B was here right now you would be in trouble for being so off topic."

"We are always in trouble with her for being off topic that is nothing new. As a matter of fact she has been yelling at us about that for years." Lilly said like it was no big deal.

Mickey beamed with pride. "That's part of being an assassin you have to have focus or someone winds up getting hurt."

"Changing the subject does anyone else think that is was a bad idea to put Wy, Lizzie, Chuck, and Prue in the same group?" Roman asked he really didn't think it was a good idea for those four to be alone together.

"It was no worse an idea than putting Frank, B, Chris, and Hank together." Mickey replied.

"What you're not getting is those four are so immersed in their significant others that they don't know what's going on around them. On a demon hunt that's a little dangerous." Lilly stressed.

"Pot meet kettle." Troy said rolling his eyes she was just as bad with Jake.

"I will have you know that Jake and I were never as bad as any of them are." Lilly retorted. At least they weren't that bad anymore they hadn't really gotten back in the groove yet hell that hadn't even had a date since they got back together.

Just then Wyatt, Liz, Prue, and Chuck walked into the bar. Rachel acknowledged their presence with a nod of her head as they took a seat at one of the tables in back. "You're right there is no way in hell that you're as bad as they are." She agreed. Wyatt was so busy looking at Liz that he had almost run into a wall. And Prue and Chuck were so wrapped up in each other that they didn't know that there were other people around.

"And that would be our cue, Rach get him outside." Mickey told his daughter.

Rachel fixed a pout on her face. "Fine but I don't have to like it." she sighed as she got up and went over to Blaine.

---

"Oh my God, it smells worse here than it does out behind P3 after some drunk has puked back there." Parker said covering his nose with his shirt. They were in the back of the demonic bar that the others were in.

"Parker I don't even want to know how you know that." Piper laughed at him.

"I shouldn't possess that knowledge since I'm a bartender and not a bar back but my manager seems to think otherwise." Parker was once again bitching about Lilly and her tendency to overwork him.

"Oh, my poor, poor abused little brother." Prue mocked him.

"Damn right at least you don't have to work for Lilly it's not one of the most pleasant experiences of my life." Parker shot back.

"Parks just let it go for right now." Calleigh told him she got tired of hearing him bitch.

"No shit if you think working for Lilly is bad I'll have to tell you the story about the time I wound up in a Mexican jail." Chord chimed in.

"Chord I'm not even going to ask because I don't want to know. And if I don't know then I don't have to tell Nicole." Phoebe just shook her head at him.

"I'm a little worried about just where the Fantastic Four are." Paige said sarcastically referring to Chris, Frank, B, and Henry.

"Trust me if I know anything about them I know that they'll be here on time." Piper tried to put her at ease.

"That is if they didn't stop to fight every demon they could find along the way." Calleigh said she wasn't helping the situation.

"B has a one track mind you don't have to worry about that happening she knows she has a job to do right now." Mickey said as he came around back. He was followed by all the others except for Rachel and she was back in the bar trying to talk Blaine into coming outside with her. "And besides that Frank was with them he was super excited about this so they'll be here."

"Oh yay, bringing Frank was overkill. But on the upside this demon will be dead as a doornail." Prue said sarcastically.

"Hey you're not the only one who wanted to leave my big brother behind because no offense but you older siblings are a little bit of a buzz kill." Mickey replied shrugging.

"It's in the job description Mickey you know that." Piper joked with him.

"That's what I've been telling everyone for years but no one wants to listen to that." Wyatt said coming out with his arm wrapped around Liz.

"Wy buddy that's because you have a tendency to smother everyone." Prue told her cousin.

"It's one of the only things he does well just leave him alone." Troy said patting him on the back.

"Yeah well at least gambling and theft aren't on the list of things that I'm good at." Wyatt shot back.

"Hey I will have you know that I'm a first rate gambler myself." Chord said sounding defensive.

"Shut up Chord." The group yelled in unison and silence fell. It was a good thing too because just at that moment Rachel walked out of the bar hanging on Blaine's arm. And of course the other four were no where in sight and it just so happened that they had the potions.

"What's going on here?" Blaine asked looking at Rachel confused.

"You see I failed to mention the part where I'm a good witch and I kinda take offense to it when demons try to kill my favorite cousin." Rachel said pulling an atheme and holding it to his throat.

"Easy Rach," Mickey cautioned his daughter.

"I would listen to daddy if I were you little girl." Blaine mocked her.

Rachel pressed her blade harder into his neck until she drew blood. "And I wouldn't piss off the woman who has the sharp object to my neck if I were you dumb ass." She spat out bitterly.

"You know what? Enough of this." Piper flicked out her fingers and froze him she knew that it wouldn't last long but it was better than nothing. "Those four need to hurry up they're the ones with the potion." She sighed.

"Great we gave them the potion that is just wonderful, Piper what the fuck were you thinking?" Prue asked her little sister.

"We so don't have time for you to rip Piper a new one right now Prue. Just let it go I'm more worried about us being stuck back here with a demon that we can't vanquish without the potion." Parker said sarcastically this wasn't the time or the place to for his sisters to be having a fight.

"Junior's right," Piper said unfreezing only Blaine's head. "Alright buddy who the fuck sent you?" she demanded of him.

"You're crazy if you think I'm going to tell you witch." Blaine spat back.

"You guys really need to think about getting new material. I mean you've been saying the same shit since I became a witch." Paige told him sarcastically. She got tired of demons saying the same damn things all the time.

Blaine's lips curled into a spiteful grin. "Then maybe you witches should stop prying into to things that don't concern you." the grin didn't stay on his face for long because before he knew it he was spitting his own blood.

"I think that it would behoove you to never talk to my mother like that again. And it would probably help your case if you weren't trying to kill the love of my life." Henry glared at him hatefully. Those four had finally showed up.

"Hank now isn't the time for that." Bianca said through gritted teeth. The one bad thing about dating a Halliwell man was they were insanely protective to the point of smothering you. That was fine for Liz and Lilly they liked the attention hell it was even alright for Rachel to a certain point but she couldn't handle it.

"Can we just vanquish the bastard and get it over with?" Chris asked he was tired of doing this for the day.

"My loving daughter has the potion ask her." Frank said offhandedly.

"B send this bastard to the wasteland and be done with it." Hank said sneering at him one more time.

"My pleasure," Bianca said tossing the potion at him. Blaine let out an agonizing scream as he went up in flames.

"The rest of the demons should consider that a warning don't fuck with us." Chuck said with a big grin on his face.

"Sadly they won't head the warning my friend." Henry said shaking his head.

"I'm pretty sure that we should get out of here before Frank and Mickey find some way to get themselves in trouble. Now I really don't care what they do but we would be stuck cleaning up the mess." Piper suggested.

"Yeah that sounds like a pretty great idea to me Aunt Piper." Liz agreed.

---

"Hailey do you believe in love at first sight or should I walk by again?" Chase asked Hailey playfully. They were at the manor and they were keeping an eye on things while the others were away.

"Were you born this stupid or did you take lessons?" Hailey retorted with a question of her own.

Lyn chuckled "It's about time someone asked him that Hailey." She liked seeing her son being put in his place.

Chase went on undaunted though. "Did you know that I'm a senior FBI Agent? As in the Federal Bureau of Investigating your body." He was laying on the charm but he sounded so cheesy.

"Right now I'm thinking about what wine I should pick up at the store because if you get any cheesier that's the only way I'm going to be able to stand you." Hailey told him sweetly while batting her eyelashes at him. For added effect she flipped her long blonde hair over her shoulder.

"That's really telling him Tinker Bell." Billy cracked. He was always getting in a dig at her because she was so short.

"Billy do you know what you and gay men have in common? None of you have ever slept with a woman." Hailey said in retalitation she had really been around the Halliwells too long.

Mel walked up and looped her arm around her shoulders. "That's my girl I taught her and Charlie everything I know." She beamed proudly.

Carly rolled her eyes at that. "Which would be why the three of you never have any fun at all." She pointed out.

"We have fun our fun just doesn't end with us in the back of a police car like it does for you and Val." Patty quipped at her sister.

"Hell a lot of their fun ends in the back seat period end of discussion." Mel chimed in.

"Note to self remind me not to piss Charlie and Mel off right now they aren't in very good moods." Emily said like she was making a mental note.

"I hear you sister those two are being mighty testy lately." Penny agreed not that her and Emily disagreed about a lot.

"Not all of us are practically married like you two are." Val informed her cousins.

"And not all of us were stupid enough to date Troy that one is all on you my dear." Patty told her.

"I will have you know that behind the degenerate gambling and general conman ways he is a very sweet guy." Val defended Troy.

"Hey now my son isn't as bad as you make him sound. He does more than enough on his own." Nicole joked.

Ricky groaned as he checked his watch he was going to have to head back out to Gypsy land as he referred to it in a few hours and he wasn't looking forward to it. "Charlie I've got to go out to Gypsy Ville in a few hours do you want to come with me?" he asked his girlfriend.

"No, Ricky I think I'll leave that one up to you. I have to get some sleep these morning practices are kicking my ass." Patty replied.

"Derek Brian don't refer to it as that." Eva scolded her son.

"Sorry mom but that is how I see it." Ricky shrugged.

"Dude you really want your mom to kick your ass." Huck observed.

"As a I like to tell Hoyt when he starts in on me at least I know that my mom isn't capable of killing me without leaving a trace." Ricky retorted.

"Hey now just because he is annoying that doesn't mean I'm going to kill him even though I would love to sometimes." Lyn protested.

"Ricky I'm doctor son, I could kill you and make it look like you died of natural causes." Eva pointed out to him.

"I can name a few people in this house right now who are going to need a doctor if they don't shut the fuck up so I can sleep." Paige seethed coming into the room.

"Watch your mouth Paige." Leo advised his granddaughter.

"How am I supposed to do that I don't have a mirror?" Paige asked sarcastically.

Chase smirked at her. "God you really are just like my sister."

Paige glared at him. "Don't start something with me that you can't finish."

"I'm just merely stating you are my sister made over." Chase replied and before he knew what was happening Paige had slammed him face first into the counter and had a pair of handcuffs on him.

Paige laughed. "That is a personal record for me."

Chase was slightly off balance but he righted himself. "How the hell did you learn to do that?" he asked in amazement.

"Once upon a time before shit got complicated I was a cop a damn good one at that." Paige informed him.

"That's my girl." Henry yelled not that it was a really good idea to encourage her.

"Oh, shut it Uncle Hen she gets that from me. I can get someone in cuffs faster than anyone in the department." Chris said orbing in with the others.

Bianca just arched her eyebrow at her daughter "Kid I know that he is an annoying little piss ant but you need to uncuff your Uncle Chase now." Paige did as she was told surprisingly.

"Did you guys get your demon?" Lyn asked her daughter.

"Yeah we got him mom." Bianca answered sounding weary.

"Good now maybe we can all relax for a little while." Piper said not that she had high hopes of that happening.

"Fat chance of that happening we still need to figure out what's wrong with Jake." Phoebe scoffed.

As if on cue Jack, Alan, Brady, and Dom all teleported into the room they were all wearing big grins on their faces.

"Do you guys have something for us or have you just been drinking?" Paige asked her nephews and son sarcastically.

"We have a hunch it's not a lot to go on but it's something." Brady admitted.

"Well you might as well tell us what the hell you think." Prue told her nephews.

"Here's the thing we don't think that it's an outside force that's keeping Jake from being healed we think it's more of an inner demon type thing." Jack explained.

"I don't think I understand where you're going with this." Derek admitted he tried his best to understand what was going on but that didn't always happen.

"What you're saying is it's something on the inside of him keeping him from being healed?" Jimmy asked he was reasonably sure that's what they were saying.

"That is exactly what we're saying Uncle Jimmy. We think that he doesn't think he's worthy of being healed so it's blocking everyone's attempts. We just have to find a way to make him have faith in himself again." Alan confirmed.

"I have no idea what we can even do to help him with that." Leo said feeling helpless Jake was his favorite nephew.

Wyatt cocked his head to the side and his eyes lit up. "Dad I have an idea I'm not sure that it will work but it's worth a try." He said before heading off in the direction of the living room.

"Hey Chris while he's doing that I need to talk to you about something important for a minute." Calleigh said pulling him aside.

"Sure we can go up to my room really fast." Chris said. "Rach I'll be right back." He pressed a kiss to her temple and led Calleigh out of the room.

"I think I should be worried that my girlfriend wants to talk to my nephew alone." Parker said pursing his lips.

"Relax, my boyfriend can be trusted." Rachel assured him. she knew that it was probably something magic related that they had done and Chris didn't want Piper to find out about it.

"I'm going to go help Wy out it might take both of us to heal Coop if he pulls this off." Hank said excusing himself.

---

Jake's pain had only gotten worse as time went on he wasn't in good shape at all and to make matters worse Greg had been in the room with him and his dad for the last couple hours. If he didn't feel so shitty he would have said something but he just didn't have the energy for it at the moment.

Coop brought a cool washrag up to his face and wiped the sweat off of it. "Just hang in there buddy everything is going to be ok I promise."

"Maybe we should get him to a hospital." Greg suggested but on the inside he was dancing for joy. He had put one of his demonic stooges up to hurting Jake. He was hoping that he would kill him and that would be that. But this was so much better getting to watch him suffer.

"Actually Greg I think we might be able to hold off on that." Wyatt said walking into the room.

"What do you have in mind Wy?" Coop asked his nephew.

"Well Coop here is keeping himself from being healed he doesn't think he's worth it." Wyatt told him.

"I'm not worth it Wy I'm just going to hurt everyone that I love. You guys would be better off if I died." Jake gasped out it was how he felt. He didn't want to cause them any pain.

"Hey don't you say that Cooper Jacob you are worth it. Your sisters love you like crazy and they would miss, I would miss you, mom would miss you, but most of all Phil would miss you. Son you don't see the way his eyes light up when you talk to him or when you walk into the room. Your baby brother adores you more than you think. Besides that he lives for those heart to hearts you have as much as you do." Coop reasoned with his son.

"Coop just because you were going to be evil in the future doesn't mean you have to be." Wyatt said he figured that he could help Jake the same way his dad had helped him.

"I don't see any way around it Wy." Jake said sounding pathetic.

"Tell him Wy." Henry said from the edge of the room.

Wyatt looked at his cousin and nodded. "Cookie Dough I was evil once. In the future that Chris Perry came from I was evil. I sent the world to hell and he still came back to save me just like those guys and Paige came back to save you. So you know that they still love you."

"I don't know Wy." Jake said sounding ambivalent.

Wyatt sighed his little cousin was just as stubborn as he was. "Coop the point is this I'm not the guy that did all those things and you're not the guy who did those things in the future hell you will never be that guy. So we both need to learn that we don't have to beat ourselves up for the things that we didn't do."

Jake wanted so badly to believe him because he couldn't stand the hurt he was feeling anymore. "Do you promise Wy?" he asked weakly.

"I promise Cookie Dough. We're the good guys we always have been and we always will be." Wyatt said with a profound certainty.

"Ok, then I believe you." Jake said and he felt like a weight had been lifted off of him.

Wyatt put his hands out over his wound and it slowly began to heal. "Hank I need your help. I want to heal all these all wounds before they scar."

"You've got it Wy." Henry said getting on his knees beside his cousin. He took over healing the main wound while Wyatt healed all the older ones.

"How you do you feel son?" Coop asked when they had finished.

Jake sat up with a big grin on his face. "I feel great dad. I haven't felt this good since Greg told me I was going to be evil in the future." He replied.

"Hey I can't help what I see." Greg said defensively.

"But you could have shown a little more tact Cookie Dough is sensitive." Henry spat out at him.

"Apparently not sensitive enough if he sends the world to hell in the future." Greg retorted.

"I just said that's not going to happen." Wyatt told him with steel in his voice.

Coop looked between the four young men. "That's enough boys, break it up. Jake go see your mom and let her know that you're ok."

"Sure dad." Jake said going off in search of his mother and his girlfriend he knew that Lilly had to be worried too.

---

"Alright Cal what is this about? I have a feeling that there is going to be talk if we stay up here alone for too long." Chris asked in a light tone. He was sitting in a desk chair while he let Calleigh take his bed.

"Chris was that assassin a member of the Brotherhood of the Thorn?" Calleigh asked him point blank.

Chris looked taken aback they had kept that under wraps they didn't want the others being worried. "Yeah, how did you know?" he asked.

"The better question is how did Greg know?" Calleigh countered.

Chris went in his pocket and pulled out a telepath blocking potion and handed it to her. "Before we discuss that you need to drink this." He said in no uncertain terms.

"What is it?" Calleigh asked making a face as she drank it.

"That was a telepath blocking potion you needed it because Greg is the one from the prophecy. There are only four members of the thirteen who don't know that Parker, Lilly, Wyatt, and Troy. Long story short he is the one who had the triad send the brotherhood after B. We have to find a way to stop him before it's too late." Chris explained.

"I knew I never liked that guy for a reason." Calleigh replied.

"You and me both Cal, you and me both." Chris said shaking his head.

---

Bianca had somehow managed to get herself and Henry roped into going over to Maria's house she wasn't sure how it happened all she knew was she had got a call from Tyler and now they were there. The only problem her two sisters were nowhere in sight even Chase was on time for a change. Hell even her mom and dad were there.

Tyler and Henry were standing behind the grill and they were having a mild argument.

"Ty, I'm telling you that if you want to cook a steak well done then you have to leave it on for twenty minutes." Henry told him.

"And I've heard fourteen minutes." Tyler argued with him.

"Tyler my aunt is a chef I think I know these things. Don't make me call Aunt Piper or Roman and have them put you in your place." Henry shot back.

Bianca walked over to them with a thermometer. "Here boys use this end of argument." She told them. She had Lyn up on her hip. "Sweetie boys are very silly and they will argue over anything." She regarded her niece.

"That takes all the fun out of it B, besides that I was enjoying listening to Tyler lose that argument." Frank chimed in.

"Francis behave yourself." Lyn told him rolling her eyes.

Chase laughed. "Dad I do believe that you have just been told."

Frank shot his only son a glare. "I wish I knew where the hell your sisters were."

Lyn wiggled out of Bianca's arms and went to Chase. "Play with me Uncle Chase." She begged giving him puppy dog eyes.

Chase smiled down at her. "What do you want to play Lyn?" he asked.

"I want to play soccer Uncle Chase." Lyn told him.

Chase groaned. "Lyn you don't want to play something more gentle like dolls?" he asked.

"No I want to play soccer." Lyn said firmly.

"Ask your grandpa to play soccer with you." Chase whined every time he played soccer with that kid he got hurt.

Henry had grown bored with aggravating Tyler so he walked over to Lyn and scooped her up in his arms. "Uncle Hank will play with you I'm not a sissy like your Uncle Chase." He told her before he sat her back down on the ground.

"Hank I warn you don't play with her she will hurt you." Chase cautioned the older man.

Henry clapped him on the back. "That's right you're the baby you were the one who did the hurting. I'm the oldest I have two younger sisters and three little female cousins that used to crawl all over me and otherwise beat the hell out of me. Though I think you should be used to it O terrorized you all the time. Honestly Chase she used to shove carrots up your nose."

"I know and I was hoping that my niece would maybe take it easy on her poor Uncle Chase but that wish didn't come true." Chase pouted.

"Come on Lyn we don't need him." Henry told the little girl taking her hand but then he bent down and whispered something in her ear.

Lyn looked up at Bianca with her big brown eyes. "Aunt B do you want to play with me and Uncle Hank?" she asked in a voice that Bianca just couldn't refuse.

"Sure remind me to have a word with your mother about teaching you that face later." Bianca said taking her free hand.

Tyler watched as his sister-in-law and her boyfriend played with his daughter. "You know Lyn I never thought I would see the day that those two finally got their heads out of their asses." He commented dryly.

"I know they both seem really happy. My stubborn ass daughter finally stopped blaming herself for what happened to Oriana." Lyn replied.

Chase made a face. "I don't care what anyone else has to say but those being together is weird for me. It's almost like incest." He said doing a full body shake.

"How do you figure that Chase? And apparently that only applies to your sister and Hank because you had no problems with dating Mel." Frank asked his only son. He loved his boy but Bianca was his Frank Jr. he couldn't help but take her side.

"Dad he was married to our sister if that doesn't scream trailer park white trash I don't know what does." Chase pointed out.

"To be fair Bianca loved him first she just didn't act on her feelings." Lyn told her son. It was odd for her to take Bianca's side over Oriana's.

Frank arched his eyebrow at his wife "You feeling alright Lyn? Because you just took Frank Jr's side." He asked highly amused.

"Well damn Frank she is my daughter and I do love her we just don't always get along." Lyn replied.

"Mom you and B get along about as well as oil and water." Maria told her mother she had finally decided to grace them with her presence.

"No putting mom and B together is like putting together two elements together that will explode." Oriana corrected her sister.

Lyn caught sight of her mother and went rushing over to her. "MOMMY!" she yelled throwing herself into Maria's arms.

Maria caught her daughter and kissed her on the head. "Hi Lyn, I take it that you missed me." she laughed.

"I missed you a whole lot mommy, daddy isn't fun like you are." Lyn pouted.

Maria laughed when she saw the stricken look on her husband's face and she mouthed a silent 'I love you' to him. " Lyn I have someone here that I want you to meet." She said pointing to her youngest sister. "Can you say hi to your Aunt Oriana?" she asked.

Lyn perked up and looked at her youngest aunt. "Oriana is my name too." She said.

"It sure is daddy and I named you after her." Maria explained as she sat her daughter down on her feet. "O this is my daughter Oriana Lyn, Lyn say hi to your Aunt O."

Lyn wrapped her arms around Oriana's leg. "Hi, it's nice to meet you you're very pretty."

Oriana stooped down so that she was eye level with the child. "Thank you, you're very pretty too." She said kissing her niece on the cheek.

"Lyn don't let my baby sister fool you she's not as sweet as she seems." Bianca told her niece her and Henry had made her way over she was holding hands with Henry.

"Don't poison the child against me B." Oriana said looking up at her sister.

"I would never dream of doing such a thing O. I don't know how you could say that about me. You just have to remember that I'm the bad ass aunt and we'll be fine." Bianca told her with a smirk on her face.

Henry chuckled to himself. "That is Uncle Hank's girl and she knows it. You two don't even have to bother having this fight because I'm her favorite."

Lyn put her arms up for Hank to pick her up and she kissed him on the nose. "I love you Uncle Hank."

"And I love you very much Lyn." Henry replied smirking at his girlfriend and his former wife.

---

Ricky was not at all happy about being out here tonight but it was made slightly better by the fact that he was finally able to talk Patty into going with him. so there they sat out in front of a campfire, lighting bugs flashed off in the distance and there were so many stars that they looked like Christmas lights off in the distance.

Carson stood up in front of the fire and motioned for the other members of the pack to be quiet. "Well I know that it's been awhile since a new member has joined the pack but we'll take all the help that we can get. It makes it so much better when that help comes from a grandson of Ephraim Nicolae. So help me in welcoming Ricky." He announced putting his hands together.

Ricky stood up and he was blushing. "Thanks Carson but all this really isn't necessary. I can't say that I know what I'm doing with this whole wolf thing but I can promise you that I'll fight my ass off if the occasion calls for it."

"You'll get the hang of it in no time." Tanner assured him clapping him on the back.

"Carson we're starving can we eat yet?" Aden asked actually it was more of a plea.

"We can eat in a minute if all of you promise that you'll use your manners. That goes for me too we don't eat the most polite out of any group the I've ever met." Carson advised them.

"Aw, come on Carson you're only saying that because Ricky brought his girlfriend." Letti argued with him.

Patty laughed she could tell that Letti was trying to intimidate her and it wasn't going to work. And God help the girl if Mel ever got a hold of her she would be begging for mercy. "You guys don't have to alter your eating habits on account of me. I'm really used to it. His older brother and my older cousin are both a couple of pigs it's really not pretty."

Tanner gave her a grin. "Well you ain't seen nothing yet."

Carson just shook his head in resignation. "Alright guys dig in," he yelled. Every member of the pack mobbed the food table as he went over to Patty. "Increased appetite is one of the side affects of being a wolf. So is a short temper." He told her.

"I'm used to him having a short temper and I have one just as bad so we are pretty evenly matched when it comes to that." Patty replied.

Carson rubbed the spot behind his ear. "I don't quite know how to say this so I'm just going to say it. It would probably be better for the both you if you put some distance between the two of you for the time being. Just until he gets used to this phasing thing, because the worst thing that could happen to him would be for him to hurt you when he phased. And it is a real possibility. I was actually hoping that you could talk him into staying out here just until he gets this under control."

A frown appeared on Patty's face as the meaning of what he was saying sunk in. "No way he would never hurt me. And what's more I don't think he could stand being separated from me any more than I could stand being apart from him. Not only is he my boyfriend but he's my best friend too."

"I could always order him to stay away from you for both your sakes and he would have to listen to me I am his Alpha." Carson replied.

"Yeah but those orders wouldn't apply to me. You couldn't keep me away from him no matter how hard you tried. So you would only be wasting your time and your energy by trying to do something like that." Patty told him her eyes narrowed.

"I don't think that you want to fight me." Carson said conversationally.

"Let me tell you something you don't know who you're messing with my mother is one of the Charmed Ones. And I'm not scared of much, you can bring on whatever it is you think you have." Patty dared him. Her temper wasn't quite as bad as Mel's but it ran a close second.

"So you could get yourself healed if he hurt you but don't think that he would be able to live with himself if he did. Besides that I rather not have a love sick wolf on my hands." Carson replied trying to keep his temper.

"So that's your angle you don't want us together at all." Patty shot back at him.

"It's not that I don't want you together it's just I really need him to put all of his focus into this right now." Carson reasoned with her.

Ricky walked up at about that moment and he looked between the two of them. "What's going on here guys?" he asked.

"Oh, your fearless leader here doesn't think that it's a good idea for us to be together. He said that he was going to order you not to see me." Patty said and she knew that she wasn't helping the situation but Ricky needed to know.

"Carson I have to see her." Ricky said his hands gripped in fists of rage.

"So you're telling me that you could live with yourself if you hurt her? That's a real possibility." Carson asked with a hooked eyebrow.

" I would never hurt her." Ricky said with a lot of certainty.

"No, you would never hurt her on purpose but you can't control your inner animal yet bad things can happen." Carson pointed out to him.

"I would never hurt her period end of discussion." Ricky said through gritted teeth.

"Oh, you could hurt her worse than you could possibly imagine and I'm not talking about physically here either. I'm talking mentally. But that is something you're going to have to find out for yourself." Carson said letting the matter drop but he cast a glance in Letti's direction as he spoke.

"That won't be a problem because I will not let it happen." Ricky swore.

---

Wyatt should have known that he couldn't put this off forever hell that he couldn't put this off at all. This was his mother he was talking about after all so it came as no surprise at all to him when he opened the door to Liz's apartment and found his mother standing there.

"Lizzie you might want to make yourself scarce I'm about to get yelled at and it isn't going to be pretty at all." Wyatt yelled to his fiancé. "Come on in mom." He said opening the door wider to allow her entry.

"Wyatt now really isn't the time for you to be a smart ass you're in enough trouble as it is." Piper pointed out to him.

"Hi Aunt Piper," Liz said cheerfully as she slipped a pair of shoes on.

"Hi Liz I hope you don't mind but I need to talk to my moronic first born son for a little while." Piper replied.

"No I don't mind at all I have yelled at him about all I can for one day. Besides that he keeps making that adorable face that I can't stay mad at." Liz informed her.

"I wish I would have know that and I could have stopped your tirade before you hit me." Wyatt shook his head. "Mom, Lizzie beats me." he whined to his mother.

"You deserve it after the way you've been behaving." Piper countered and he looked down at the floor.

Liz knew that this was her cue to get the hell out of dodge. She stood up on her tiptoes to kiss Wyatt. "Wuvey Bear I'm going to the grocery store so I can make dinner. Is there anything special you want?" she asked him.

"Surprise me I'm not picky and I could eat a horse right about now. Really as long as I don't have to cook I'm fine." Wyatt replied.

Liz laughed. "I like this apartment you are not burning it down with one of your lame ass attempts at cooking. Now I need your keys and I need some money."

Wyatt handed her his car keys and some cash. "There that should buy you a damn week's worth of food." He swatted her on the butt as she headed out the door.

"I love you." Liz called over her shoulder.

"I love you more Lizzie." Wyatt called back and then he faced his mom. "You might as well sit down I want you to be comfortable while you're yelling at me."

Piper made no move to sit. "Wyatt Matthew Halliwell you know as well as I do that drinking and lying are not the answers to your problem. You lied to Liz I never thought that you would do that but you did and I just don't know if I'm going to have to worry about more of this behavior from you. You know better than to shut the people who love you out when you have a problem. You saw what that did to Henry and B and you would want to put all of us through that again." She laid into him.

Wyatt didn't know what to say because she was right he couldn't refute any of the things she was saying. "I messed up mom it's as simple as that. I was scared, confused, and quite frankly I was pissed. I didn't know what to do or where to turn. So I did the stupid thing I went looking for answers in the bottom of a bottle. I know that I let you down and I'm sorry."

Piper's expression towards him softened. "Shit kid you just took all the fun out of yelling at you. I liked it better when I would have to tell you what you did wrong. Honey I'm just worried about you if you're feeling scared or upset tell someone it doesn't have to be me or your dad. Just so long as you work through it that is all that matters to me."

"Dad talked to me earlier and he helped me see the error in my thinking. I didn't do any of those things and I'll never be that guy. But mom I would really like to know just what the hell I did." Wyatt replied.

"Wy there are only two people who know the full extent of what happened in the other time line. Chris and your Aunt Paige good luck getting it out of either one of them. I have been trying to get Paige to tell me what the other Chris told her for over twenty years and she won't do it." Piper informed him.

Wyatt sighed. "I just wish that he wouldn't be so stubborn and he would let me be there for him. Chris says that he's protecting me but it's my job to protect him. He has suffered with this for about a year without saying anything to anyone. It makes me feel like a horrible big brother I knew that something was wrong with him but I didn't press the issue." He lamented.

It was Piper's turn to sigh. "He hasn't exactly been suffering in silence this whole time. Your Aunt Paige figured it out shortly after his flashbacks started and she made him tell her. Then he told Henry and Prue because it affected them too beings as they are the power of three."

Wyatt threw his hands up in a sarcastic gesture. "Oh, that is just great my brother trusts everyone but me to keep his secrets. I can see him telling Hen those two are practically attached at the hip and Prue would have found out anyway. But come on he told Aunt Paige before he told me that totally breaks every pact we made as kids. It was a very simple rule we try to get ourselves out of trouble before we go to you guys but he couldn't even stick to that."

Piper chuckled at him. "Chris didn't have much of a choice I love your brother and he's a momma's boy you know that. But he has a very special relationship with your Aunt Paige she can get him to open up about things that no one else can. Believe me he told her begrudgingly but he can't refuse me or your Aunt Paige anything we want."

"I'm really sorry for the way that I behaved mom I know better." Wyatt said sounding very sincere.

"You do know better than that but I forgive you. Wyatt you do know that there is nothing you can do to make me not love you anymore and I can't stay mad at you for long. I can't stay mad at any of you kids for long I'm not as much of a hard ass as you make me out to be." Piper replied cupping his face in her hands.

"I know mom and I'm just glad that I was able to help Coop in the end that's all that matters anyway." Wyatt responded.

"You're a very good man Wyatt Matthew you just don't know how good." Piper told him gently.

"Thanks mom I thought for sure that you would have yelled at me longer." Wyatt laughed.

"Just don't let it happen again young man because if it does you're ass will be grounded." Piper said with her hands on her hips.

"I hear you mom, I hear you." Wyatt replied shaking his head.

---

Eva was lying in bed with Derek reading since she couldn't sleep and he was watching TV.

"Babe if the TV is keeping you up I can always turn it off." Derek offered when his wife let out a restless sigh.

"Derek it isn't the TV that's bothering me my back hurts and I just can't get comfortable." Eva replied.

Derek turned to his wife and looked at her with concerned eyes. "Baby I wish that there was something I could do to help you. I hate knowing that you're in all this pain because of my baby."

"Sweetie that is really sweet of you but really there is nothing you can do unless of course you can make this little one decide to come early." Eva told him giving him a small smile.

Derek rolled over on his so that he was eyelevel with his wife's belly. "Hey little one do daddy a really big favor and go easy on your mommy. You're causing her a little bit of trouble right now," he said in a baby voice. It sounded so funny coming from a tough guy like him.

Eva made a face and then she looked at her husband. "Baby what I said a minute ago about you being able to make the baby come early?" she asked and he nodded. "Well that must have done the trick because my water just broke."

Derek's eyes went wide. "Ok, I'll get the bag everything is going to fine I promise." He said giving her a quick kiss.

XXXXXXXXXX

A little while later Derek was pacing around his wife's hospital room he was really starting to get impatient.

"Derek honey pacing isn't going to help you have to remember that I was in labor with Emily for a long time." Eva pointed out to him.

Derek let out a small chuckle at that. "That girl has been giving us problems since day one. She always has been a hard headed little thing." He mused.

"Not as hard headed as all of your sons are." Eva replied.

"I'll give it to you that Ricky and Ro are both hard headed. But Chuck was fairly easy we just had to worry about what kind of trouble he and Wyatt were going to decide to get in to." Derek laughed.

"Speak of the devil there he is." Eva said when she noticed Chuck standing in the doorway.

Chuck went over and kissed her on the cheek. "Hi mom, I got here as fast as I could but if you've ever been in Prue's car you know that you have to baby that thing for a minute before it'll start."

"I can't believe that you managed to separate yourself from your wife just to come down here." Eva told him sounding amused.

Chuck smiled and looked down at the floor. "Well she's in the waiting room. I couldn't stand to part with her for that long. I don't know when this whole I feel the need to be with her every waking second is going to stop I just can't help it."

Derek rolled his eyes. "Oh boy, you've got it bad but I'm glad you're happy son."

Chuck blushed just thinking about his wife. "Anyway I was wondering if you guys wanted to know what I know now or later?" he asked shifting his attention.

Derek looked at his son with confusion written on his face. "What the hell are you talking about?" he asked.

"Derek I gave Chuck the envelope with the baby's sex in it and I told him to pick the name." Eva informed him.

"Oh, so can I know now or do I have to wait?" Derek asked.

"Let's wait and be surprised." Eva told him.

Chuck bit his lip and looked at his parents. "See there is something that I do need to tell you so you're not surprised."

"What Chuck?" Eva asked him.

"Well you see you're having twins." Chuck rushed out of his mouth.

"Chuck I know that you wouldn't tease me about something like this." Derek said hoping that his son wasn't trying to be funny.

"I'm being dead serious right now dad. I really wouldn't joke about something like this." Chuck swore to his father.

"Oh, wow I don't even want to know. I just want to go to my happy place now." Derek said shaking his head. He didn't know if he was prepared to take care of twins.

"You work on that dad I'm going to be in the waiting room if you two need me so do me a favor and don't need me." Chuck laughed.

"Chuck tell her that we said hi." Eva told him referring to Prue.

"I will don't worry mom besides you'll see her you know she loves kids." Chuck replied walking out the door.

---

Prue was sitting in the waiting room where Chuck left her but she wasn't alone. Lilly and Jake had shown up along with Roman, Mel, Emily, Jack, Ricky, and Patty. Chuck just sighed as he sat down next to his wife and put his arm around her.

"You guys should go see mom before she goes back to the delivery room I think she would like that." Chuck suggested to his brothers and sisters.

"I don't think I want to go back there I don't even want to be in the room when I have kids. The thought of it just makes me want to hurl." Roman said he looked a little queasy.

Mel arched her eyebrow and looked at him. "Roman when we have kids which won't be for a long time anyway, but you will be in the room." He was crazy if he thought she was going to go through all of that alone.

"Yes dear," Roman said dutifully.

"Come on Em let's go see mom." Ricky said pulling his sister up by her elbow and away from Jack.

Emily glared at her brother. "Don't man handle me Derek." She spat at him.

"Em please don't fight with me right now I can't afford to lose my temper in public." Ricky pleased with her.

Emily's eyes softened. "Sorry I forgot."

"Yeah I know let's just go." Ricky said and she willingly went with him.

"We'll meet you guys back there in a minute." Lilly called after her younger siblings referring to her and Roman. "Charlie how is he really?" she asked turning to Patty.

Patty shrugged. "I think he's doing pretty well with the whole thing he didn't even phase when his alpha told him that it wasn't a very good idea for us to see each other right now. He said something about Ricky hurting me emotionally if he didn't hurt me physically."

Roman rubbed his hands over his face and sighed, "Carson is a jackass he should have explained to Ricky why he said that. There is this thing known as imprinting it's like a soul mate type deal. I guess he's afraid that you and Ricky aren't really meant to be together and he'll hurt you when he finds his other half." He explained.

"Bullshit that guy needs to talk that imprinting crap to someone who isn't a cupid. My ring glows just as bright around those two as it does around Mr. and Mrs. Love Fest." Jake said pointing to the ring his dad had given him. He was referring to Prue and Chuck.

"Jake cousin of mine I love you but you're not a cupid." Patty pointed out to him.

"Yeah he is and he's a damn good one at that." Jack chimed in.

"Jackie what do you know that the rest of us don't?" Prue asked her cousin.

Jack smirked. "Well I know a lot that you don't know but you also know that I can't tell you."

"Jack if I wasn't so tired I would get up and put my foot up your ass for being so smug." Mel seethed.

"Ro, let's go see mom." Lilly told him.

"I don't wanna." Roman whined.

"I don't care if you want to or not you're coming with me to see our mother." Lilly said putting her foot down.

Roman got up in a huff. "Fine but I don't have to like it." he bitched.

"Well I don't like you sometimes and I'm still stuck with you so you can live with this." Lilly replied.

Jake laughed to himself. "God I love that woman but she is one more pain in the ass when she wants to be."

Prue looked at her little brother with concern in her eyes. "How are you feeling Cookie Dough?" she asked him.

Jake gave her the thumbs up. "I feel better than I have in months. I'm still a little sore but that's what happens when you go around with a bunch of old injuries."

"Dude next time don't keep us all in the dark we can help you." Chuck told his brother-in-law.

"Hey you know that I wasn't in a good place and I'm still not back to my full glory. But I'm getting there. I think I'll be one hundred percent when I know that Lilly and I are back to normal. We're still feeling each other out we haven't been back together that long." Jake replied.

"You two will get there if there are two people I know who belong together it's you guys." Patty assured him.

"Prue when can I look forward to my crabby ass brother going home?" Mel asked her cousin.

Prue chuckled and leaned in closer to Chuck. "Soon as much as it pains me to say it I have to go back to work and so does Chip. And besides that no one told those three to leave they did that on their own."

"Prue you two seriously make me want to puke so you're pretty bad. That would probably be why those three guys left." Patty pointed out to her cousin.

"Hey we are not that bad." Chuck said defensively.

"Right Prue just knows the longest you've been apart since you got married. You guys aren't bad at all." Jack said rolling his eyes.

"Watch it Jackie Prue will kick your ass and then Mel and Prue will have it out. As much as I want to see that I don't think mom and Aunt Piper would find it very amusing." Jake cautioned him.

"Jakie I love you but you're a jackass." Prue told her brother sweetly.

"And you're a bitch but I still love you most of the time." Jake would never ever admit it to her but he had missed arguing with her.

"I would really love it if you two didn't have one of your famous rounds right in the middle of the hospital." Mel said looking in between her two cousins.

Patty threw her head back and laughed because she had just thought of something.

"What's so funny Charlie?" Mel asked.

"I just thought of the most hilarious thing in the whole world. You do realize that Prue's sworn enemy is her brother-in-law." Patty was referring to Roman and Mel laughed too.

"What the hell are you two carrying on about?" Prue asked confused.

"Ladybug they're talking about the fact that Ro is your brother-in-law now. That is pretty damn comical with the way you two fight." Jake laughed.

Prue groaned. "I didn't even think about that until you guys mentioned it. Damn that hobbit he is always finding new ways to annoy me."

"Hey, he's big where it counts and that's all that matters to me." Mel defended him.

Chuck rolled his eyes. "Mel I didn't need to know that about him but thank you for that interesting piece of information."

XXXXXXXXXX

A little while later after the other four had come back from visiting Eva, Derek came out with a huge smile on his face. "Chuck your mom wants to see you now and she said since she doesn't want to cause you pain bring your wife with you." he told his oldest son.

Eva was lying in her hospital bed with a small bundle in each arm one was wrapped in a blue blanket and the other was wrapped in pink. She looked up and smiled when she saw that Derek had brought Prue and Chuck back with him. "Chuck do you want to hold them?" she asked.

Chuck smiled and nodded his head he didn't trust himself to speak as his father placed an infant in each other his arms. He flashed back to the day that Ricky was born.

A seven-year-old Chuck held tight to his dad's hand as Derek led him down the maze of corridors in the hospital. He was excited because his dad had told him that he had a surprise for him. Though for the life of him he couldn't imagine what kind of surprise would be at the hospital. But Derek had promised him that it was something really great he would be the judge of that though.

Finally Derek led him into a room and his big brown eyes went wide when he saw Eva lying there with a tiny bundle in her arms. Derek scooped Chuck up and sat him down on the bed next to Eva.

"Daddy what's my surprise?" Chuck asked he wasn't one to have patients.

Eva looked at the little boy with his mop of dark hair and smiled. "Chuck do you want to meet your new baby brother?" she asked him sweetly.

A big grin broke out on Chuck's face. "I have a baby brother?" he asked in disbelief.

Derek smiled at his son. "You sure do Jellybean, do you want to hold him?" he asked.

Chuck nodded his head in excitement. "Can I? I mean he's so tiny I don't want to break him."

"Of course you can hold him you won't hurt him. Just put your arms out and support his head." Eva said transferring the baby into his arms.

Chuck really studied his new brother he had coal black hair and brown eyes. "What's his name?" he asked.

"Derek Brian Bradford Jr." Derek told his oldest son.

"Derek is my middle name and it's your first name daddy." Chuck pointed out to his father.

"What you don't like it?" Derek asked.

"No I like it just fine it's just you two will get confused if he doesn't have a nickname. You know like Uncle Henry and Hank." Chuck said logically and Eva chuckled at the face he was making. "Hmm, now let me think you're middle name is Brian but you don't look like a Brian I guess I could call you Ryan. No I've got it I'll call you Ricky." He addressed the baby in his arms.

"Why Ricky?" Eva asked him.

Chuck shrugged. "I don't know because it sounds good and because we need a way to keep him and daddy from getting confused."

"I like it Jellybean." Derek beamed at him.

Chuck smiled down at his baby brother. "Ricky I promise you that I'm going to be the best big brother ever. I will always protect you and watch out for you because that's what big brothers do. And I promise that I'll always love you no matter what." He swore to the infant.

"Chuck are you still with us?" Derek asked pulling his son out of his thoughts.

Chuck shook his head and blinked his eyes to get rid of the cobwebs in his mind. "Sorry dad I was just thinking about when Ricky was this small." He told his father and then he turned his attention to the two babies in his arms. "Hi guys I'm your big brother, well one of them anyway. I'll always protect both of you and love you no matter what because that's my job." He told them. He had gone through that speech when Emily was born too.

Eva smiled at him. "Charles I realize that I was playing with fire when I asked you to name them. So please tell me you came up with something good."

"Well I wanted to name them Nash and Crash but Prue told me I couldn't. So I settled on Damian Embry and Gabrielle Evangeline." Chuck replied with a smirk.

Derek got a little misty eyed. "Chuck you do know that Gabrielle was my mom's name don't you?" he asked.

"I know dad, grandpa, Prue, and I all had a little brainstorming session. They shot down all of my ideas except for those." Chuck informed him.

"I have to say I like what you settled on and Prue thank you so much for not letting him do anything stupid." Eva addressed her daughter-in-law.

"Aunt Eva you're welcome I wasn't going to let him name them anything stupid." Prue replied.

"Oh, you liked Finn and Harley so don't go there with me woman." Chuck defended himself. "Alright Gab listen to your big brother on this one you are allowed to date anyone you want to with the exception of Phil Halliwell because that would just be weird for me. It is very important that you follow that rule since that is the only rule I will ever have for you." he told his baby sister.

"Chip baby it's not like one of my brothers isn't already dating one of your sisters." Prue reminded him.

"They started dating before we did dear. Tell me that it wouldn't be just a little weird for you." Chuck said with an arched eyebrow.

"Ok, it would be a little weird but it would be cute." Prue said kissing him on the cheek. "Chip I really want one." She told him.

"I know but not right now." Chuck replied putting that conversation off yet again.

"Chuck I'm afraid to ask but what nicknames did you cook up for them?" Derek asked his son.

"Well I figured that Damian could go by Embry the only reason that's his middle name is because I couldn't get anything to sound right with it as a first name. And I think little sister can go by Evangeline." Chuck replied he hadn't thought it all the way through yet.

"I just so happen to have the perfect nicknames for them." Ricky said coming into the room.

"And what would those be Ricky?" Eva asked her son.

"Dodge Dakota and Ford Ranger." Ricky replied.

"Ricky not only no but hell no you are such a gear head baby brother." Chuck laughed at him.

"Just you wait and see what I end up calling them then you won't think I'm so funny." Ricky informed him.

"Here Ricky take your brother." Chuck said handing Damian over.

Ricky just had a look of wonderment on his face. "Hi buddy I'm you're big brother and I might not always know what I'm doing but I promise that I'll always be there for you. I'll teach you everything you need to know about women. The first thing about that is never ever fall for a Halliwell woman I know it's very tempting but don't do it."

"Ricky you know I could say the same thing for you Bradford men." Prue teased him.

"You married him I could have told you not to." Ricky replied.

"Here big mouth take your sister now." Chuck handed him the other infant.

"Hey there sweetheart I love you so much. I just have one thing to tell you, you're not dating ever so don't even think about it. Oh, and don't listen to Emily she will get you in trouble." Ricky imparted his words of wisdom into his baby sister.

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Parker was standing behind the bar at P3 once again he had managed to get himself roped into doing a little bit of bartending thankfully they weren't very busy tonight. So he was wiping down the bar and polishing glasses. He groaned when he looked up and saw all four of his sisters sitting on barstools. "What can I get you four ladies?" he asked managing a charming smile.

"Well Dimples you could lose the sarcasm." Prue told him.

Parker laughed. "I can't do that I'm a Halliwell sarcasm is in my blood." He pointed out.

"Junior we're here because we have something for you." Piper said.

Parker looked at his middle sister warily. "Pip you only call me Junior when you want me to do something." He had caught on to that over the last few months.

"Dude just button your lip seriously." Paige advised him.

"Ok what do you have for me?" Parker asked.

"A present." Phoebe replied sounding giddy she laid a gift bag on the bar.

Parker picked it up and opened it to reveal a black t-shirt. "You guys got me a shirt?" he asked not bothering to read it.

"Victor read what it says on it." Piper suggested.

Parker looked the shirt over on the back was the logo for P3. Over the right breast there was a smaller P3 logo and over the left it said manager. He broke out into a grin. "Seriously Piper?" he asked excitedly.

"Yeah I thought about what you said and I couldn't think of a better person to be bar manager than you." Piper explained.

Parker reached over the bar and pulled her into a hug. "You have no idea how much this means to me." he gushed.

"Just when I think he is nothing more than a combination of Piper and Paige he starts gushing like Phoebe." Prue commented dryly rolling her eyes.

"Leave the boy alone Prue remember he was raised by two men he gets a pass on some of the things he does." Paige reminded her.

"Right I grew up lacking a female influence in my life so you'll have to forgive me if I behave weirdly from time to time." Parker agreed with his youngest sister. He said it in jest but underneath it all his sisters could see that he was in pain.

"Honey you get a pass on some of the things you say and do because you're a Halliwell. We're not the most normal people on the face of the planet." Phoebe said laying her hand on top of his.

"Halliwell and normal don't even belong in the same sentence." Parker pointed out.

"And there he goes being sarcastic like Piper and Paige again. I tell you I don't know what we're going to do with the boy. I don't know how mom was so sweet but all of her kids are a bunch of smart asses." Prue said shaking her head.

"I think we all get it from Grams that woman is hell on wheels." Parker laughed.

"That woman can be just a little bit of a bitch when she wants to be." Phoebe pointed out to him.

"Pheebs you only think that because you did things in hopes of pissing both Prue and Grams off." Piper reminded her.

"Piper you and Grams had an unholy alliance I don't even want to talk about it right now." Prue rolled her eyes.

"I can see where Piper and Grams are a lot alike." Paige said and she fought the urge to cringe when she saw the look her sister gave her.

"I don't want to hear anything from you or Parker you are both exactly like mom." Piper said glaring at her youngest two siblings.

"You told me that was a good thing." Parker reminded her.

"Oh shit Rach I think we picked the wrong time to come to the bar those five are having an argument." Chris said walking up holding Rachel's hand.

"We are not having an argument we were merely having a discussion." Piper told her son.

"No Chris your mother and your aunts were having an argument that they drug me in." Parker informed him.

"Parks you were born into it buddy." Rachel pointed out to him.

"Chris I liked your girlfriend until she said that to me." Parker told his nephew.

"Hey now boy I will kick your ass if you say anything bad about my woman." Chris said defensively.

"Chris I could so take him don't worry about it." Rachel said kissing him on the nose.

"Great not only do I have a girlfriend of my own who wants to kick my ass all the time now I have yours in on it too. Not to mention B scares the holy hell out of me." Parker mused.

"Parker if B ever picks on you all you have to do is tell me she's scared of me." Paige told her little brother.

"Aunt Paige I thought you were supposed to be the cool one?" Rachel asked her.

Paige made a dismissive gesture with her hands. "Don't be silly of course of the cool one Rach. It's just that your cousin happens to be scared shitless of me she has been since I got her off the bottle. I'm sorry to say but drinks we're that girl's best friend at one point in time." She explained.

"Shit with O being back that just might happen again." Rachel mused.

"Please Rach none of us could take that again. I had to leave home for a year because of those two I don't want a repeat of that." Chris groaned. He loved both of his best friends but they had put him through the wringer after Oriana had died.

"You told me you took that overseas assignment because you had no other choice." Piper said fixing him with an accusing glare.

"I lied a little mom so sue me. I couldn't help it. I had to get out of here for a little while. I asked for the assignment. Aunt Paige and Aunt Lyn knew what was really going on and they swore they wouldn't tell you unless they had to." Chris explained giving her a little grin.

"Perry I think that Aunt Piper is going to kick your ass." Rachel pointed out to her boyfriend.

"Don't start something that you can't finish Claire." Chris shot back.

"Bad move Chris never ever under any circumstances do you call my cousin by her first name." Bianca said walking up behind him hand and hand with Henry.

"She started it she called me Perry." Chris defended himself.

"Right so you just had to retaliate C. Perry. I got you man but you know as well as I do that we're only inviting trouble if we try to argue with these women. The only women I know that are as stubborn as Halliwell women are Hoyt women." Henry said he liked his cousin he would like it if Rachel didn't kill him.

"Hey don't even start lumping me in the same category as Prue or my surly ass niece for that matter." Maria told him. Her and Tyler had dumped Maria off on her parents so they could go out.

"Don't worry I don't want to be in the same category as you either." Prue said coming up with Chuck.

"Where the hell have you two been? Not that I want to know the details but you're late." Chris asked.

"I will have you know that we were at the hospital I have a new baby brother and a new baby sister." Chuck reported proudly.

"That's funny Chuck your dad never mentioned anything to me about having twins." Piper told her nephew-in-law.

"That's because he and mom didn't know until I told them. They wanted to be surprised so I didn't tell them until just before she went back to the delivery room. There names are Damian Embry and Gabrielle Evangeline." Chuck responded.

"Hell Parks this calls for a drink. Give me my usual and give Chuck double that." Hank ordered.

"So you want me to give him a quadruple whiskey?" Parker asked.

"Hell yeah." Hank replied he didn't miss the look his mother gave him. "Don't worry mom I'm not off the wagon." He assured her.

"B speaking of drinks you and I need to put our heads together I know someone whose having a birthday next week and it's a big one." Chris said grinning mischievously at his best friend.

Bianca grinned back at him. "You're right I do believe that you and I need to have a talk about that. Hank drink your shot your cousin and I will be right back." She said looping her arm through Chris's as they walked away.

The End

Guest Starring:

Piper Halliwell- Holly Marie Combs

Phoebe Halliwell- Alyssa Milano

Paige Matthews- Rose McGowan

Prue Halliwell- Shannen Doherty

Leo Wyatt- Brain Krause

Henry Mitchell- Ivan Sergei

Coop Valintine- Victor Webster

Andy Trudeau- T.W. King

Derek Bradford- Dominic Purcell

Eva Nicolae- Eva La Rue

Nicole Shane- Emily Proctor

Cole Turner- Julian McMahon

Frank Hoyt- Jeffery Dean Morgan

Lyn Hoyt- Angie Harmon

Ben Turner/Cole Halliwell- Cam Gigandet

Paige Halliwell- Mila Kunis

And

Dominic Turner- Freddie Prinze Jr.

Special Appearances By:

Chase Hoyt- Chris Evans

Maria Hoyt- Kelly Monaco

Tyler- Josh Hartnett

Oriana Hoyt- Jessica Biel

Chord Shane- Jake Gyllenhaal

And

Mal- Josh Duhamel

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A/N: So we've come to the end of another episode I hope you guys enjoyed it. Jake is thankfully able to be healed again, you have to admit Brady is around for more than his good looks and charm. I think that I'm a little afraid of the way that Greg has just been hanging around his family without putting plans in motion to kill them. Hell I don't like how he is worming his way into Coop's good graces Jake has to have at least one of his parents on his side. Poor Parker you can't help but feel sorry for him because he was raised without a mother figure of any kind at least his sisters had Grams. Hell you've got to love Frank and Bianca together they are just alike and it's pretty funny watching their interactions. Chase and his lame ass attempts to use pick up lines on Hailey crack me up. Oh, God the Charmed Ones just had to dust off their demon hunting skills to help the kids out I guess they were starting to feel useless. I think poor Wyatt has finally come to terms with the fact that he isn't the man who did those things. At least I hope but he still hasn't found out the full extent of what he did. Chuck was so sweet with his younger siblings and you know Prue just had to pester him to have one of their own. Ricky and Carson are probably going to come to blows because there is no way that he is going to stop seeing Patty it took them too long to get together. By now most of the thirteen knows that Greg is the one that they are supposed to defeat I don't know if Wyatt will ever see the light without neon signs pointing it out to him. So there are some surprises that deal with the first line in the prophecy for the eleven coming up next episode and trust me when I say it is going to come as a major shocker. I don't know how much longer until they all find out about Greg but it is going to happen soon because I have big plans in the works for them. Until next time please review.