Chapter 4
May (The search for a father and a double birthday)
On a sunny day in May, Leo and Paige were following their charge in the mall. They made sure to keep some distance from her to avoid causing suspicion of them being stalkers. The charge they were following was the pregnant teen girl who Paige and Phoebe had seen in a restaurant back in January, they were still unsure if the dark lighter was after her or her baby. The girl was hanging out with some friends.
After an hour, Leo and Paige followed her and her friends to the washrooms, Paige went in with her while Leo went into the guy's room. As Paige pretended to be in there to wash her hands, she listened in on her conversation.
"I'm going to go get the movie for my mom, I'll see you later" friend one said
"And I have to get going, I told my dad I'd be home by four" friend 2 said
"Ok, I'll call you tomorrow" the girl said.
As the two friends left, the girl picked up her purse from the counter and that was when the dark lighter shimmered in. The dark lighter got out his crossbow and pointed it at the girl who screamed.
"Kristina duck" Paige told the girl who obeyed
The dark lighter shot an arrow and as it approached Paige she held up her hand and said "Arrow" the arrow turned around and the dark lighter shimmered out before it hit him. Piper helped the girl onto her feet.
"Why is that creepy guy keep following me, you are you and how did you know my name" Kristina asked
"I'm Paige Matthews, I'm a social worker"
"Well thanks for saving my life, that guy must be trying to get revenge for the baby's father" Kristina said
"Who is the father?" Paige asked
"I don't really know, he told me a fake name, everyone knew him as a tough guy" Kristina replied
"Do you know where I could find him" Paige asked
"No he left Sans Francisco, when I told him about the baby"
"How many months are you?"
"8" Kristina answered.
Paige walked her out of the bathroom and gave her some money to get a bite to eat in the food court, so that Paige could talk to Leo alone. Paige told him everything she had told her.
"She had her eyes covered when she ducked, so she didn't see you use any magic" Leo said
"Yeah, and we better find the father soon, she's a month away from giving birth" Paige stated
"Yeah and something tells me he's not the fatherly type" Leo remarked.
Paige and Leo joined Kristina and walked her home after she had finished her meal. The watched as she entered her house and then orbed out after making sure the coast was clear. They orbed to Paige's house were Henry was making the invitations to the twins birthday party.
"Henry we need your help" Paige told him
"Ok what do you need" henry replied
"We need to find someone, but we don't know his name or what he looks like" Leo informed.
"What do you know about him?"
"Well we now he got a teen girl named Kristina Peters pregnant, and that he left town" Leo reported
"And Kristina said he gave her a fake name and that everyone knew him as a tough guy" Paige added
"Well I'll see what I can do, I can pull up a list of everyone who left Sans Francisco in the last 9 months and see if anyone has a reputation, If you can get the girl to look at the pictures of possible guys that will help to" Henry said.
Henry pulled open a drawer at his desk and pulled out his lap top. Henry and Leo got to work while Paige went to tend to the crying twins. Henry got the list and they went through it and wrote down names of teen guys who left with no family, the guys who had a criminal record, and Henry even called all the parole officers and asked them to send him a list of all their parolees. Then after printing off pictures of all the potential guys, Leo and Henry orbed to Kristina's house while Paige orbed to Phebe's house with the twins.
"Hey Coop is Phoebe home?" Paige asked
"No she went back to work today" Coop replied
"Would you mind watching the twins for about half an hour?"
"Sure no problem" Coop answered.
Paige put the twins on the floor and then orbed to Kristina's house where Leo and Henry were waiting for them outside. Together they approached the house and rang the bell, and Kristina answered.
"HI Kristina, its Paige, this is my brother in law Leo, and my husband Henry, he's a parole officer, we need your help to find the baby's father, we brought some pictures and we were hoping you could tell us if one of them is your baby's father" Paige explained.
Kristina nodded and led them into her living room. Henry sat down beside her and passed her the pictures.
"None of them are the father, this one does look a little like him but it's not him, the father is younger he told me he was 17, but that could have been a lie" Kristina stated.
"Kristina, what is your plan for your baby, are you going to keep it or give it up for adoption" Paige asked
"Well my parents want me to give him up but I want to keep him" Kristina replied
"Where are you parents?" Leo asked
"At work, they'll be at 8"
"Well if you do decide to give him up, call me, this is my work number, and this is my home number, and this is my cell phone number" Paige said giving her, her business card.
Paige, Leo and Henry then left Kristina's house, once they made sure no one was in sight, Paige orbed her and Henry to phoebe's house to pick up the twins and Leo orbed back to the manor. After picking up the twins, Paige orbed the four of them home.
"I'm going to look up Kristina and see what I can find on her" Henry said as he sat at his desk and typed away on his lap top.
Paige put the twins in their playpen and then pulled up a chair beside Henry.
"Well, this is her family info, apparently she's an only child and lives with both her parents, she doesn't have a record, she attends Baker high school" Henry said
"Maybe I could visit her school, and talk with some teachers, see who her friends are, maybe someone knows who the father is" Henry added.
"It says here she attends a drama club at her school" Paige said
Henry pulled up the high school website and scrolled down the list of after school clubs.
"There's a meeting today in twenty minutes" Henry said
"And her parents aren't home, that means the house will be empty, I'm going to orb in and search her room, a dark lighter is after her and I need to know why, if the father is supernatural that could mean the dark lighter is after her baby not her" Paige stated.
"Leo" Paige called out
"What is it Paige" Leo asked once he had orbed in.
"Kristina has a club meeting in 20, think you can follow her and keep her safe while I search her room" Paige explained
"Yeah, but make sure you leave her room the way she had it" Leo reminded her.
20 minutes later, Paige waited across the street and watched as Leo greeted Kristina and drove her to her club meeting in Piper's car. Paige then orbed into Kristina's room and looked around. Paige went through her desk, school bag, closet and dresser. The only useful thing she found was Kristina's diary.
Paige sat on Kristina's bed and flipped through the diary, she soon found a useful one and read it.
"July 17th 2007, today I met a guy in an ally close to a restaurant called P3, he told me his name was George Gracin. He's really cute and he likes me, a lot of people know him as a tough guy who you shouldn't mess with, but they judged him wrong."
Paige flipped though more pages and found another entry worth reading.
"August 14th 2007, so George and I have been talking about taking things to the next level. His parents are leaving town in a few days and he wants me to spend the night with him. He told me to tell my parents I was going over to a friend named Grace's house, of course Grace is actually George. I'm not sure I should, he said we would use protection but I'm still unsure."
Paige flipped through more pages looking for the entry where she did agree to it.
"September 1st 2007, so today is Saturday and George's parents are leaving town. I finally agreed to spend the night with him. I told my parents the lie he told me to tell them, and he's sending a girl he knows to come pick me up soon.
Piper turned the page.
"September 3d 2007, so I spent the weekend with George and it was great. I never knew how much fun it would be my first time."
"September 28th 2007, I'm not feeling well, I haven't been for a few days. My mom is taking me to the clinic in a few days if I still don't feel well."
"October 6th 2007, so my mom took me to the clinic yesterday. It turns out I'm pregnant, a month to be exact. My parents are very upset, but they'll probably cool down by tomorrow. I can't wait to tell George."
"October 20th 2007, I can't get a hold of George, he never answers his cell phone. He does get grounded a lot so that's probably what happened."
"January 10th 2008, today I went to the ally where I met George. He's brought me there a few times so his buddies and I are close. I found one of his buddies who never shares his name and is known as big W. I asked him if he's seen George, and he told me George was in jail and that his name is not George, he's known as Big R, but no one knows his real name. On my way home this creepy guy came from nowhere and pointed a crossbow at me. Then this other guy came from nowhere and pulled me out of the way. I looked for the creepy guy but he was gone, it was like he disappeared."
"April 16th 2008, So Big R got out of jail yesterday and I went to see him. After I told him about the baby he told me he was leaving Sans Francisco, and that I couldn't come. He told me to give birth in the ally, where his friend who used to be a nurse before she turned bad would be there, and to give the baby to big W, who would give it to him. He said I couldn't come because my parents would call the police to find me, and they would find him too."
Paige heard the front door open and quickly closed the dresser where she had found the diary and orbed out, but she had forgotten to put the diary back. Kristina walked into her room and thought she had left the diary open on her bed. She picked up the diary and read the entry after the last one Paige read.
"May 4th 2008, I've had it with my parents, they still want me to give the baby to child services. I have a plan to follow. I wasn't planning on running away, at first I was just going to go to the Ally when my water broke, but now I'm going to run away next month, I've already called Big W and he said I could stay with him. I'll return home after the baby is born and just tell my stupid parents I changed my mind and gave the baby to child services."
Paige met up with Leo outside and told him everything. They orbed to Paige's house and told Henry who looked up big R on his laptop. No results were found and the same happened when Henry typed in big W, and Gorge Gracin.
"He must have kept changing his name, it seems as though Kristina was helping his cover up, so she won't identify him if we bring all the pictures of previous prisoners. She also must of thought he'd come back from her, probably when she was an adult, if she was so willing to give him the baby" Henry stated.
"We'll keep an eye on her and you do whatever you can to find the father, he wouldn't have ran if he was super natural, now I want to find him so he doesn't get the baby, the baby won't be any safer with the dad then with his mom. We'll find a family to take him, a good family." Paige decided.
A week later it was the twin's birthday. Paige and Henry had decided to not send out the invitations due to everything that was going on with Paige and Leo's charge, who could need them at any time. Instead it was a simple family party. Billie was the first to arrive, then Leo and Piper orbed in with the boys and Melinda, and Phoebe beamed in with six month old P.J., Coop beamed himself in, and Victor was the last to arrive since he had to use human transportation.
For the first few hours, the adults just sat around and talked, while Wyatt and Chris played with the babies. Then the pizza arrived and everyone sat down to eat.
"Ok so we have, just cheese for Chris, Piper, Paige and Phoebe, we have pepperoni and cheese for, Wyatt, Henry and myself, we have an all dressed for Coop, and we have plain pizza for the babies" Leo said as he served everyone.
Melinda tried to shove the whole thing in her mouth, so Piper took it from her and broke it into pieces and did the same for the twins and Prue. Wyatt ate his slice messily and had sauce all over his face, Chris made a big mess too of course. After Piper and Leo washed the boy's faces, Leo videotaped Paige and Henry as the came into the kitchen holding a cake with a lighten candle in the shape of a one, and sang the birthday song.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Kat and Tamora, happy birthday to you."
Paige and Henry placed the cake on the table in front of the twins and helped them blow out the candles. Leo videotaped everyone enjoying their cake and after videotaped the present opening. Although they loved all their presents, Kat especially loved her doll, and Tamora especially loved her stuffed toy horse. When it was time to put the twins to bed, Paige and Henry knew that the twins didn't need a big party to have fun, they were perfectly happy with a party filled with family and fun.