Chapter 3
Phoebe and Paige walked in the manor with their families.
"Piper call you too?" Phoebe asked.
"Yep!" Paige replied.
Phoebe, Paige, Coop and Henry met Piper and Leo in the living room while the kids played in the conservatory.
"What's up Piper?" Phoebe asked.
"I've got some news that's going to blow y'all away. Remember... Of course you remember. When we went to the future and you were-" Piper started.
"Burnt alive?" Phoebe finished.
"Yeah."
"Still feel the flames. What about it?"
"Remember I had a daughter?"
"Of course."
"She's here."
"Here? Here where? In spirit?"
"No. Literally."
Melinda and Pharah entered the room with Wyatt and Chris.
"Meet my daughter Melinda."
"Whoa." Phoebe and Paige said.
"You were right. She is beautiful." Phoebe said.
"So are you." Melinda said, amazed. She hadn't seen Phoebe in a decade.
"This is Pharah... Prue's daughter." Piper said.
"Ok. Head spinning. What?" Paige said.
"I think I get it. Melinda from a life that didn't happen and Prue's daughter. They must be from that world." Phoebe said.
"Accept it did happen in that world, a world where we didn't change our paths." Piper said.
"And you're Prue's baby?" Phoebe just started crying and hugged Pharah. "Aren't you just the cutest. You have her eyes. You're so pretty just like she was." Phoebe's cry suddenly changed from a happy cry to a sad one. "Aww! You poor babies!" She embraced Melinda into the hug too, feeling their pain because of her empathy. "You're both in so much pain but we love you and you're not alone. You'll never be alone."
"They're staying here." Piper informed.
"Good. They can't go back where they came from." Phoebe said.
"I almost forgot you were psychic." Melinda said.
"I'm an empath as well..."
"I'm your aunt Paige. Do you know me in your world?"
"Yeah. We were close." Melinda said.
"Good. Then you know you can come to me for anything."
"I know this is the hardest for you, Pharah but we got you. You're surrounded by so much love, ok?" Phoebe said. Pharah nodded. She never met Phoebe in the other world but she liked her already. She was so nice, sweet and motherly. She could tell she had an element of being child-like in the best way as well. "Meet your cousins. Girls and Deuce!" Phoebe called the kids over.
"These are your cousins, Melinda and Pharah." Paige introduced.
"Mel, Pharah, these are my daughters, Parker (11), Patrice (8) and Pandora (3)." Phoebe said.
"These are my daughter's, Patience and Peace (10) and my son Henry Jr. (8). We call him Deuce." Paige said.
Melinda and Pharah looked at each other thinking they hit the jackpot when they landed in this universe.
"Pharah, want to play with us?" Patrice asked. Pharah nodded then Patrice took Pharah's hand and the girls and Deuce went back in the conservatory.
"So we're all gone in your world?" Phoebe asked. "I had a vision."
"Yeah..." Melinda replied.
"I'm so sorry." Paige said.
"How are you going to explain them?" Henry asked.
"I figured we could say Melinda was Wyatt's twin separated at birth." Piper said.
"Far fetched but I guess it'll work. DNA would prove we're related but how will we explain Pharah?" Phoebe asked.
"We can't very well say she's Prue's daughter. She died sixteen years ago." Paige said.
"You'll have to make something up." Coop said.
"Maybe we can say she's our sister." Phoebe suggested.
"Another long lost sister? If we can't say she's Prue's daughter, we definitely can't say she's mom's." Piper said.
"No, not mom's, dad's. We can say she's dad's daughter." Phoebe explained.
"It's such a big lie though." Piper said.
"But it's the only one people won't question." Paige said.
"None of us can exactly make up having a seven year old daughter." Leo said.
"So we have to tell people she's our sister? I don't like it." Piper said.
"What else do we have?" Phoebe asked.
"Grandpa's still alive here?" Melinda asked.
"Yes." Wyatt replied.
"Maybe we should just go with aunt Phoebe's story, as long as we know the truth, right?"
"It's just that, the bigger the lie, the more lies we have to come up with to cover it up." Piper said.
"We're just happy to be here, we don't care how we have to stay." Melinda said.
That night after a wonderful family dinner, Melinda and Pharah were in their room.
"Think you'll like it here?" Melinda asked.
"Yeah. We have cousins and most of them are close to my age. Everyone seems much happier."
"They have less to worry about I guess. I'm curious about how they ended up with this life while we ended up with the other. What did they do that was so different?"
"For starters, my mom died and aunt Piper had a boy instead of you."
"Don't say it like that. You make it sound like we're the reason our world is a disaster or something. Besides, there are other reasons. Other things caused those changes just as they caused the others."
"Aunt Phoebe's nice."
"Yeah. She's really cool. She's so bubbly. That's not how I remember her. She wasn't like that in our world, at least not for the time I can remember her. We weren't that close but back then no one was... This is our family now. We should cherish the good memories we have but the rest, we need to leave in the past." The girls held hands.
Meanwhile, Piper and Leo were talking as they sat up in bed.
"Everything happened so fast today. You're ok with Melinda and Pharah staying, aren't you?" Piper asked.
"Yeah. I meant what I said earlier. It's nice to finally meet Melinda. You used to talk about her all the time before Wyatt was born." Leo said.
"The day Wyatt was born was the best day of my life. When he was born instead of Melinda I knew the future was full of possibilities but I missed Melinda too. All I wanted to do was give her a better life than she had in that other world. I was able to give that to Wyatt and Chris. I wasn't absolutely sure what happened to her when we came back, maybe an alternate universe was created maybe she ceased to exist but now I know. She's here and now I can give her the life I wanted her to have. I get to rescue her like I wanted to before. I missed her growing up but now I get to have Wyatt, Chris, Melinda and apart of Prue too. It's really amazing. I'm sorry about what happened to the other versions of us but I'm sure they'd be happy to know that their girls are finally safe."
"I think so too."
"None of us wanted to end up like our future selves when we went to that time. Phoebe, a murderer, me, a divorcé and Prue, a lonely workaholic. Prue decided to change her path, not focus on work so hard and focus a little more on family. She never got a family of her own but it looks like the alternate future version of her finally learned what our Prue did and got Pharah in the process."
"I'm glad they're here and from what Phoebe said, they need to be here as much as it seems. I'm looking forward to getting to know them too, after all they're my daughter and my niece." Leo kissed Piper.
The next morning, Melinda was looking out the window. The sky had a beautiful glow to it. Pharah woke up and Melinda looked over to her.
"Did you sleep well?" Melinda asked.
"Yeah." Pharah replied.
"Day 2 in our new world. I wonder what our destiny holds now. I told you, somewhere over the rainbow there was something much better for us. Come on, let's wash up and go downstairs."
Melinda and Pharah went down to the kitchen and found Piper starting breakfast.
"Good morning." Melinda and Pharah said.
"Good morning, little angels. I figured since this was our first morning together, we should have a nice family breakfast." Piper said.
"That'd be nice. Mind if we help you?" Melinda asked.
"I'd love that." Piper said.
"Do the boys cook?" Melinda asked.
"Chris does. Wyatt is more of a fixer like your dad."
"Cool." Melinda said.
"What are you going to tell people about me?" Pharah asked.
"Aunt Phoebe thought it'd be a good idea to say that you were grandpa's daughter but you were staying here because of insinuating circumstances." Melinda explained.
"Why don't you just say I'm adopted. It's an easier lie." Pharah suggested.
"But then people wouldn't know we're all related." Melinda said.
"We'd still be related and we could just say my name was changed when I was adopted. As long as we know the truth, right?"
"Ok, then that's the story." Piper said. "Now I just have to make up some proof of your existence so that you two can go to school and everything else."
"Wow. I haven't been to school since aunt Phoebe's execution and Pharah's never been to school. We were home schooled. Everyone wanted to have a normal life but trying so hard to blend in felt less normal than being a stand out. At least when we were just those strange neighbors we were being ourselves... Anyway, I think we could conjure our birth certificates and other important documents."
"Sounds like a good idea." Piper said.
"I'll go get the book when we're done." Melinda said.
"Can't you call for it?" Piper asked.
"The only power I'm really good at is orbing, all the rest don't work so well. I wasn't allowed to use them. That whole use them or lose them thing."
"Right. Well the only way you'll get better is if you start using them so why don't you give it a try." Piper said.
"From all the way upstairs?" Melinda asked.
"It's worth a shot. Just relax, focus and believe." Piper said.
"Book!" Melinda called a few times.
"You're too tense. Just relax." Piper said. Finally Melinda called and it worked. "It'll take some practice but you'll get there. Melinda went through the book. "What's your power, Pharah?"
"Replication but I don't know how to use it." Pharah replied.
"Aunt Prue bound her powers when she was a baby, she almost exposed them in public a couple times. She couldn't risk it."
"We can do something about that now if you want." Piper said.
"Yeah. I want to learn my powers too." Pharah said.
"I found a spell." Melinda said then said the spell to conjure their documents. They soon appeared in front of them. "Everything we need."
"Good." Piper said.
"At least my non-active powers still work." Melinda said.
It was the beginning of a great new life, full of possibilities and... magic.