Back at the Manor, Phoebe continued to remain on the stairs, listening and watching closely. She wanted to barge downstairs and give that man a huge piece of her mind. But a gentle kick from the baby growing inside of her, reminded Phoebe that it was for now, for the best if she stayed put. "Hand that over. It belongs to me. That's my son's." Piper demanded, holding out her hand. "I'm afraid I can't do that Misses Halliwell. This happens to be evidence in your son's disappearance. And frankly I don't understand why you would want. I realize it belongs to your son, but I would think you'd want the police to hold onto it as long as possible in order to try and find your son and who took him and why." The Source responded.
Piper was getting very angry by now. She of course couldn't tell this mortal that she needed it so she could try scrying for her son. "Breath Piper" Prue whispered. "It's just….I…..I…." Piper began to say. She couldn't speak as tears began to flow. "Look Misses Halliwell I realize how difficult this must be for you and your family. But I'm on your side. Now is there anything else about your son I should know about, that might help find him?" Tristian asked. His demonic senses noticed the normally un-noticeable look exchanged between Leo and Piper in response to his question. "We've told you, Detective Morris and every other officer who's asked questions everything we know" Cole said, speaking up.
This amused the Source. "And you are" he asked. "Cole Turner, I'm the boy's Uncle." Tristian nodded. He then pulled his cellphone out of his pocket, and typed in a few words. "Ahh yes, here you are. You're the husband of one Phoebe Halliwell, younger Sister of Piper Halliwell, correct?" Cole nodded. "It says here that your wife was married previously….actually several times." The Source glanced down at the phone's screen, reading over the notes Cole and written up years ago, when the Triad had employed him to destroy the Charmed Ones.
PHOEBE HALLIWELL
POWER: To see the Future and/or Past; Empathy; Levitation (Partial flight); & Pathokinesis
EDUCATION: San Francisco Community College
OCCUPATION: Advice Columnist at The Bay Mirror and Author of Finding Love. (She's working on a second book entitled Finding Happiness, and has a 3rd book idea titled The Bliss Of Parenthood)
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Catering, Quake Restaurant, Realty Assistant, Fortune Teller, Buckland's Auction House, Convalescent Hospital Worker
FEARS: Losing one of her sisters, Elevators, Losing a member of her family
VULNERABILITY: Susceptible to possession by Evil Forces, is easily swayed to the side of evil.
KNOWN LOVE INTERESTS: Michael Emmons, Brian Gross, Hans Fein, Clay Muniz, Eric McLean, Ethan Dubrovsky, Rex Buckland, Zack Estrin, Cole Turner / Belthazor (ex-husband), Leslie St. Claire, Jason Dean, Drake Demon, Dex Lawson (ex-husband), Coop / a Cupid (ex-husband)
PERSONAL LIKES: Favorite Film: "Kill it Before it Dies". (B&W: 1958), Favorite Artwork: "The Birth of Venus". Sandro Botticelli, Favorite Book: "Sense and Sensibility". Jane Austen, Favorite Song: Bittersweet Symphony
HOBBIES: Martial Arts, Arts & Crafts, Surfing the Internet
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Scorpio
PERSONALITY PROFILE: -Unknown—
CHILDREN: Christine (father-Cole).
"According to this" Tristian says, looking back up at Cole. "your wife was previously married…..many times in fact. And has quite a list of ex lovers. Most likely one of them has taken the boy. Since our background searches didn't find nearly as long of a list of past lovers for Piper or Paige." Internally, the Source was grinning from ear to ear, knowing that mentioning Phoebe's past lovers was pissing Cole off and tempting him to use his powers.
"Let's see" the Source began. "There was Michael, Brian, Hans, Clay, Eric, Ethan, Rex, Zack, ahh it appears you and your wife have been married before, Mister Turner. Then there was Leslie" Tristian raised a curious eyebrow. "A woman?" "No" Cole responded through gritted teeth. "Leslie is a man." Tristian nodded, laughing even harder on the inside, knowing he was really getting to Cole. "Where was I…oh yes…Jason, her boss, Drake, Dex, whom she was also married to, but the marriage was annulled, and then someone named Cooper, also another ex husband, and then you again Mister Turner…."
"My Au…..er cousin's love life has nothing to do with this officer" adult Wyatt stated, getting really irritated. "Really" Tristian countered. "Well I think it just might be the very reason for your cousin Christopher's disappearance. More than likely with a woman who gets around as much as Misses Turner does, someone is bound to get pissed by being dumped for the next flavor of the month. Considering how respectable Misses Halliwell is, it surprises me somewhat that Phoebe is such a slut. But then again, Piper must be ashamed of her husband, in order to not take his last name, but instead calling herself Misses Halliwell."
The Source was very proud of himself. "That's it" Leo responded. "Officer, unless you have something to tell us, about information you've been able to get off that piece of evidence, then I suggest you leave now. You are at this moment, invading our privacy." Leo turned and looked at adult Melinda. "Mel, call Darryl and ask him to please come over right away." Melinda nodded, and ran for the kitchen to use the telephone.
Meanwhile on the stairs, Phoebe was furious. "Slut? Just who in the hell does he think he is" she thought to herself. She was about to stand up and march down the rest of the stairs and slap the smirk off his face when she felt a cool, gentle breeze which told her that Prue was near. "Let it go Pheebs. My instincts tell me he's trying to get someone to do something foolish. Perhaps to give him a reason to use that gun." Phoebe heard her big sister's advice in her mind and nodded and then took a calming breath.
"We understand why you can't give us that, even though it's our son's" Leo says, gesturing towards the evidence bag. "Leo" Piper exclaims. Leo shoots his wife a look, which normally would come from her, telling her to be quite. "Can you at least tell us where you found it? You mentioned a park. Which one?" Tristian thought for a moment, while thinking "this is working out better than I planned". "Hyde Park, near the sewer." The Source finally answered. Then he grabbed up the evidence bag and began walking towards the front door.
As he did, he made sure to open the bag up slightly and allow a little toy car slip out onto the floor. When Tristian reached the Manor's front door he turned back to look at the Halliwells. "If you're hiding something or are responsible for your son's disappearance, I will find out. And you will rot in prison." Then he slightly bowed his head at Phoebe who was still sitting on the stairs. The Source pretended to act like he'd just noticed her now, but in truth, he'd sensed her presence as soon as she came down from the basement. "Ma'am" he said softly too her. Then he opened the front door and walked out, shutting the door behind him. He walked over to an unmarked police car and got in. The Source hated to travel like a mortal, but it was necessary in order to continue fooling the witches. He started the car's motor and drove away from the manor.
"Can you believe that guy!" Phoebe exclaimed, finally coming down the rest of the way and joining her family in the living room. Prue's spirit followed her and quickly became a solid human form. "Hi Aunt Prue" adult Wyatt replied with a smile upon seeing her. "Hi sweetie" she responded. "Leo, why didn't you insist he give that back to us. We could have used it to scry for Chris!" Piper yells. "Because Piper, that could have been too big of an exposure risk" Leo answers. Piper knows he's right as a witch, but as a mother she's pissed off. "To hell with exposure" Piper yells. "I want my son back! Both of them!" "Piper" Prue says calmly. "Sweetie, that's how I felt when that lunatic shot you when we were exposed trying to vanquish Shax." Prue says. "But the exposure and my using my powers on innocents, to save you couldn't go unpunished….."
Prue looked down at her feet them as the reality of what she was saying hit Phoebe, and then Piper. "Oh my God" Phoebe exclaimed. "That's why you died…..the Elders punished you for using your powers." "WHAT" Piper yells. "Just who in the hell do they think they are! You were saving my life…..saving their precious Charmed Ones….." "By using my powers to punish the innocent" Prue counters. "Which was wrong. We learned that lesson when they sent us to the future to prevent Phoebe from being burnt at the stake." "Excuse me" Cole says, looking at his wife, after hearing this. "Burnt at the stake?" "Not now honey" Phoebe responds. "I'll explain later, I promise."
Piper was still enraged over the officer's reluctance to hand over his evidence in Chris's disappearance. Piper understood why he couldn't from a mortal point of view. But considering she was one of thee most powerful witches in the world; from a magical point of view, that evidence could easily bring her son home. Leo was standing next to Piper, with his arm around her, while Cole was scolding Phoebe for not staying upstairs in the Attic, where she would be safe. Adult Wyatt had Orbed to Magic School to get Christine and bring her home, while little Wyatt and little Melinda were in the kitchen eating their lunch; with Wyatt's shield surrounding the both of them.
Prue walked into the kitchen and told Wyatt it was safe and he quickly lowered his shield. "You're such a good boy" Prue said, smiling at him. "Always protecting your sister and brother." In the living room, adult Melinda then spotted a tiny metal object laying on the floor; the little toy car that Tristian had let slip out of the evidence bag on purpose. "What's that" she said, as she walked over to it and then bent down and picked it up. Her question captured everyone's attention. As Mel held up the little toy, Piper's eyes widened. "That belongs to Chris" Leo said. "Victor gave it to him for his birthday last year."
Melinda stared at the little object and then slowly nodded. "I seem to faintly remember this sitting on his dresser and he would never let me touch it, even when we got older" she said. Then the young witch smiled. "Let's try scrying for him with it." Before anyone could speak, Melinda turned and ran up to the Attic, with Piper and the others quickly following after her.
In the Manor's Attic, just as quickly as the scrying crystal had dropped, it raised back up and began spinning around again. "What the hell" Piper exclaimed. "The crystal's never done that before" Prue stated. Everyone nodded their heads, agreeing with her. "I don't get it" Melinda said, looking up at Wyatt. "I found him….the crystal found him and now a second later it's lost him again? How could that happen Wy?" "Wy?" Leo repeated. "Chris and I started calling him Wy when we're teenagers. It sorta stuck" Melinda explains, while Wyatt is thankful she didn't explain why they had started calling him that. "How did that nickname come about" Cole asked, and then noticed Wyatt blushing. "Long story, one you'll find out soon enough" Wyatt quickly answered.
He turned his attention back to the map and scrying crystal. "Let me try" he said to Melinda, who quickly handed him the crystal. Wyatt leaned over the table and said "Scrying secrets come to me, Drop again so I might see." To everyone's amazement the crystal dropped again, back on the spot where it had dropped when adult Chris had escaped from his prison. "Nice spell" Paige commented. "Yeah" Phoebe added. "Where'd you learn that?" Wyatt glanced at Melinda and the two realized that in this time, their Aunt Paige hadn't yet created that spell. Wyatt cleared his throat. "Ummm in our time it's in the Book. You guys just haven't wrote it yet must be." "Well, we can fix that" Paige said, and then she started to walk towards the Book Of Shadows. "Umm Aunt Paige, no" Melinda said. "You can't write it down in the Book yet." "Why not" Piper asked. "Because" Wyatt answered. "You guys haven't thought of it yet. Adding it into the Book now could possibly throw off the time line."
"You mean more than it already is" Phoebe added a bit sarcastically. "Yes" Prue answered. "He's right. If in this time you three haven't created that spell yet, then you can't add it to the Book Of Shadows now, just because you heard Wyatt use it and he told you that it their time it is in the Book." "But Prue" Paige said. "No Paige" Prue answered. "Even a tiny little spell like that one, if entered into the Book before it's time could throw things off. You might not have access to the Book at the time when you need that spell…..then what would you do?" "She's right" Piper finally said, and Paige sighed and walked back over by the table.
"So now what" Leo asked. "Mel and I go looking for Chris here. He had to be here at least for a moment" Wyatt said. "Err well…at least one of him was there." He looked at his sister, confused. "This is really giving me a headache" he commented. "Dito" Melinda said. Leo and the others laughed, recognizing how much like Piper the pair were. "Want some asprin" Piper offered. "No thanks Mom. We'd better get going" Wyatt answered. Melinda stood up and took hold of her brother's hand. "We'll be back" she said. Wyatt began to Orb them out when Piper reached out and grabbed hold of Wyatt's shirt sleeve, pulling him back.
"Oh no you don't" she said. "You're not going anywhere without me." "But Mom" Wyatt began to protest. "You're not going anywhere without all of us" Paige chimmed in. "Aunt Paige, no. It could be too dangerous" Melinda said as memories of her Aunt's death in their time flooded her mind. She glanced over and Cole, who was now her Uncle, instead of Coop, which was completely confusing to her and Wyatt. "Well I'll go" Cole stated, and then looked at Phoebe. "But you are staying right here." "Hell no" Phoebe responded. The group began to argue amongst themselves about who should go and who should stay when suddenly Piper whistled loudly to get their attention.
"Phoebe stays put. Don't argue Pheebs, you're pregnant. I won't have something happening to your baby on my conscious." Piper said. "Besides, little Wyatt and baby Melinda need someone here, to protect them." Then she looked at Wyatt and Melinda. "I'm going with you, and there will be no buts about it. That's my son out there…both of them. And I'm going to bring them home." Piper looked away then. "And I can't risk something happening to either of you two" she added softly, causing Leo to hug her. Wyatt looked at his baby sister; they both knew there was no point in fighting with the Sisters. Wyatt sighed, praying this wasn't a bad idea. "Okay Mom" he said. "Aunt Phoebe and Uncle Leo stay here with little us" Melinda suggested. "Maybe Aunt Prue too…." She was cut off by Prue shaking her head no. Melinda sighed then. "Okay fine."