Chapter 6
July (The crazy experiment)
It was a hot day in July, the whole family was at the manor looking through picture albums from the year 1998 when they found out they were witches to the current year 2008.
"I forgot what it was like when we all lived in the manor" Phoebe stated
"Yeah, we had so much fun, this place brings back so many memories" Piper said.
"Yeah we fought our first demon here" Phoebe recalled
"Oh yeah it was Jeremey, wow that was a long time ago" Piper recalled.
"I had my wedding here" Piper recalled
"And I had my wedding here too" Paige said
"Same here" Phoebe said.
"We met Melinda Warren here" Phoebe recalled
"I met Leo here" Piper recalled as she looked at Leo making lunch with the guys
"We reunited the power of three here" Paige recalled.
"I gave birth to Wyatt here" Piper recalled.
"We watched Prue turn into a dog here" Phoebe said giggling at the memory.
"I met my real parents here" Paige recalled.
"There was also so much that I wish I didn't remember, like when dad left" Piper stated.
"Like when grams died" Phoebe said.
"When you moved to New York" Piper told Phoebe.
"When Andy died" Phoebe said
"When I turned into a wendigo" Piper recalled
"When I was possessed by the woggie man" Phoebe recalled.
"When Prue died" Piper said.
"When future Chris died" Paige recalled.
"When demons kept attacking Wyatt" Piper said.
"zankou" Paige said.
"Wow we've been through a lot in the last 10 years" Phoebe stated.
"I know it started as: us discovering we were witches, Phoebe trying to reunite with Prue after moving back from New York, not even knowing about you Paige, and thinking Leo was just a handy man, us having no father, and me working at quake." Piper said
"Then it was: reuniting with our dad, Piper opening P3 Leo and Piper getting married after the elders agreed, and after Prue crashed it, finding out our mom had an affair with Sam, Prue's horrible death, finding out about Paige, Piper giving birth to Wyatt, and me becoming the queen of the underworld" Phoebe added.
"Then it was finding out Chris was Piper and Leo's future son, utopia, Chris's birth, the angles of destiny, Zanku, fake identities, Billie, finding Christy, finding out Christy was evil, Leo being taken away, Christy turning Billie evil, the ultimate battle, getting Leo back, telling Henry the big secret, Phoebe meeting Coop, my wedding" Paige continued.
"And then it was, my wedding, birthdays, Melinda's birth, the twin's birth, P.J.'s birth, Henry's birth, being friends with Darryl again, reuniting with Prue, well spirit Prue" Phoebe finished.
"Om my god, I just got a crazy idea" Phoebe said
"Oh no" Piper replied
"Why don't we find out what it would be like if we all lived in the manor for a week, and we don't only deal with our own children, we deal with all the children, and the catch is we can't back out" Phoebe explained.
"Phoebe be real, it's a three bedroom house, where are we all going to sleep?" Paige said
"Simple, kids in one room, us sisters in one room, and the husbands in one room" Phoebe replied.
"I like a challenge, I'm in" Coop said coming into the living room
"I'd love it to see how it would turn out, I'm in too" Henry said
"It would be very interesting, I'm in" Leo said
"Me four" Phoebe said
"Well it would be hilarious I'm in too" Paige said
"Ok then I'm in too" Piper agreed.
Everyone went home, packed up everything they would need for a week and met back at the manor.
"Ok today is Monday morning, this experiment ends on Sunday night at 7" Phoebe stated.
The adults un packed while five year old Wyatt, almost four year old Chris, One year old Melinda, One year old Kat, one year old Tamora, 8 month old P.J., and one month old Henry played in the living room. In Wyatt and Chris's room, Paige orbed in the twins cribs from her house, Coop beamed in P.J.'s crib and Leo helped Piper move Melinda's crib into Wyatt and Chris's room. Then in Melinda's room, where the sisters were going to sleep, the sister's conjured up some beds. In Leo and Piper's room, where the husbands were going to sleep, the sisters orbed in Phoebe and Coops bed, and Paige and Henry's bed, Leo already had his bed there.
The adults then went down stairs to find the living room a complete mess. The boys had orbed in a bunch of toys and toy bins and books too. Wyatt was throwing everything out of one toy bin which came from his room, as he searched for something, Chris was sitting in a pile of books, he picked one up flipped through the pages then tossed it beside him, the play pen where henry was, was filled with stuffed animals, Paige quickly went to rescue him from suffocating, Melina kept orbing out and orbing back in with a new teddy bear, the twins were surrounded by puzzle pieces and rattles, and P.J. kept beaming out of the way when she kept almost being hit by everything Wyatt was throwing.
"Phoebe I have a question, are we allowed to use our powers to help us in this experiment?" Piper asked
"Well ok, but not yours Piper that would make it to easy, keep yours for emergencies only" Phoebe decided.
"Alright freeze, who started this?" Piper sternly asked the boys
"I did, we were bored" Wyatt admitted.
"Thank you for telling the truth, and since you did you won't go on time out, but you do have to clean this mess" Leo told him.
Wyatt nodded and orbed all the toys back in the bins, and Chris orbed everything out of the living and to where it belongs to help out. P.J. and Henry started crying, Melinda was rubbing her eyes, and the twins were hitting each other which made them cry.
"Melinda's tired" Piper noticed
"The twins are cranky, which means they are too and so is Henry" Paige stated
"And so is P.J., I guess it's nap time" Phoebe said.
The sisters picked up the babies and brought them upstairs. After conjuring some rocking chairs, Piper rocked Melinda in one, Paige did the same with her three except she also sang to them, but Phoebe walked around with P.J. in her arms and gently rocked her as she walked. Melinda was the first one down, and after putting her in her crib Piper took Henry who was fast asleep, from Paige who was still trying to put the twins down, and placed him in his crib. P.J. was next and after putting her in her crib Phoebe along with Piper sang along with Paige to help her get the twins to sleep. It took a few minutes but the twins finally gave in and fell asleep. Piper and Phoebe left the room as Paige put the twins down in their cribs.
Downstairs the boys and husbands were watching cartoons on TV. Wyatt conjured bugs bunny, but luckily Paige orbed him back in the TV before any damage was done, they didn't need a repeat of the conjured dragon. It was pretty quiet and relaxing until Piper went into the kitchen to make lunch. The babies all started crying so Phoebe, Coop, Leo and Henry went to tend to them, Paige stayed behind to send more conjured Disney friends back into the TV.
Upstairs Leo was changing Melinda, Phoebe and Henry were trying to change the twins as fast as they could so they could get to baby Henry who was getting impatient, and Coop was trying to figure out what P.J. wanted after checking her diaper and attempting to feed her only to be hit in the face with the bottle which was her way of telling him she wasn't hungry. Coop gave up put his daughter in her crib and let her cry as he tended to Henry was in need of a change. Leo finished up with Melinda and orbed her to the kitchen where he gave her to Paige, who put her in her high chair and Piper came over to her and served her lunch.
Leo orbed back upstairs to see if he could figure out what P.J. wanted and Coop beamed down holding Henry junior and gave him to Paige to be fed, and took a permanent maker out of Chris's hand as he walked by with it. Leo orbed Phoebe, Henry and the twins into the kitchen, where they placed them in their high chairs and Piper served them lunch as well. Leo orbed back into the kitchen holding P.J. who was still crying and handed her to Phoebe who knew what to do. Phoebe snuggled her and rubbed her back and P.J. stopped crying.
"Boys lunch time" Piper called.
Wyatt and Chris orbed into chairs at the table in the kitchen and Leo served them a sandwich. As the adults sat down to eat, Wyatt reached for a cup and took a sip and unintentionally started fight.
"Hey that's my cup, go to your room" Chris said and orbed Wyatt to their room
Wyatt orbed back and said "I didn't know it was your cup"
"Yes you did" Chris argued
"No I didn't," Wyatt argued back.
Wyatt crossed his arms, blinked at Chris's chair and orbed away Chris's chair causing him to fall down. Before anyone could say or do anything, Chris blinked his eyes at his brother and sent him flying across the room. Before hitting the wall Wyatt orbed behind Chris, but before he could do anything Paige jumped out of her chair and orbed Chris to his room.
"Hey you bring him back right now, so I can kick his ass" Wyatt shouted at Paige
"WYATT MATTHEW HALLIWELL, YOU WATCH YOUR MOUTH YOUNG MAN, SIT YOUR WHITELIGHTER ASS BACK ON YOUR CHAIR AND EAT, YOU'RE LUCKY YOU'RE NOT ON TIME OUT TO" Piper snapped at Wyatt who immediately sat back down on his chair and ate.
Chris orbed back down stairs and stuck his tongue out at his brother.
"CHRIS PERRY HALLIWELL, ORB BACK TO YOUR ROOM THIS MINUTE, AND STAY THERE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO GET YOU" LEO SNAPPED.
"And what if I don't" Chris talked back
"I'll blow you up" Piper threatened.
The minute Chris heard this he nodded his head scared and orbed back to his room. All eyes were on Piper.
"What? Oh come on, he'd be fine, his white lighter side would save him" Piper stated
"Interesting new parenting method, I could see it on a book" Paige teased
"Yeah a book called: How to blow up your half white lighter kids, by Piper Halliwell, the volcano witch mother" Phoebe teased.
Everyone started laughing even Piper, and then Phoebe got an idea.
"I have an idea" Phoebe stated
"Oh no, no more ideas from you miss, let's all move into the manor" Piper said.
"Relax volcano mom, this one is not a bad idea, we should write a parenting book on raising magical children. Imagine it, we are raising whitelighter witches, Cupid witches, half mortal half witch children, plus an adopted mortal child, lots of magical parents would love to have a book not only by someone's whose experienced it but also someone whose experienced it as a charmed one" Phoebe explained.
"Yeah that's not a bad idea Phoebe" Paige agreed
"Yeah, there must be other witches who have children like ours" Piper agreed.
"And we'll all write it, Piper you and Leo can write what's like raising whitelighter witch children, Coop and I will write about raising cupid witch children, and Paige you and Henry can write about raising half mortal children and a full mortal child" Phoebe said.
"Bye, bye" Wyatt suddenly said
"Wyatt honey, why did you say that" Piper asked
"Melinda and P.J. orbed out" Wyatt said pointing to the two empty high chairs.
"How can P.J. orb?" Piper asked Phoebe and Coop
"She can't but she can beam, that's the cupid version of orbing" Coop replied.
"I just sensed them, they're upstairs with Chris" Paige revealed.
Leo orbed upstairs to find Chris sulking on his bed and Melinda playfully knocking over P.J.
"Chris did you orb the girls up here?" Leo asked
"No, they did it, can I come out now?" Chris replied and asked
"Are you ready to be nice?" Leo asked
"Yes, very nice" Chris said.
Leo told him yes and he orbed out of the room. Leo picked up the girls and orbed into the living room where he placed them in the play pen.
"Ok girls play in here, no orbing or beaming out" Leo told them and headed back to the kitchen
In the kitchen Chris wanted some milk but couldn't reach it since it was across the table from him. He blinked his eyes at it and made the open milk carton slowly move towards him. Piper's eyes followed the milk carton and when it bumped into the salt and was about to fall over, Piper froze the room. Leo was frozen at the entrance of the kitchen, Adult Henry was frozen in the position of lifting his cup, Coop was frozen in the position up getting up from his chair, and baby Henry was frozen in the position of drinking from his frozen bottle which being held by a not frozen Paige. Piper leaned forward picked up the frozen milk carton and placed it up right then unfroze the room.
Chris could now reach it and poured it into his cup. Unfortunately the milk carton was a little too heavy for Chris and he dropped it, causing the milk to spill all over the table and onto the floor. The twins thought that was funny so they picked up their bowls of spaghetti which they had instead of sandwiches and dumped all the spaghetti on their high chairs and on the floor.
"Ok that's it lunch is over, boys take your sandwiches into the living room, someone clean the up the double trouble" Piper said.
Henry picked up the twins and left the kitchen to wash them up as the boys obeyed their mother. Paige casted the vanishing spell to take care of the mess.
"Let the object of objection, become but a dream, as I cause the scene to be unseen."
The milk and spaghetti vanished, all the food, silverware and utensils also vanished.
"What a great and quick way to clean up" Paige said
"Oh really, you should just write on your forehead, personal gain come find me" Piper said leaving the kitchen.
In the living room Leo was trying to chase the white rabbit from Alice in wonderland back into the TV. Wyatt and Chris were laughing their heads off. Paige came in and took care of it, and Piper who had enough of TV conjuring, blew up the TV and dramatically went upstairs. Paige rolled her eyes and orbed the remains of the TV to the dump.
"Why don't we take the kids for a walk" Phoebe suggested when Piper returned to the living room twenty minutes later.
"Alright, now remember kids, no orbing, beaming or levitating" Piper sternly told them.
After putting the kids in strollers except Wyatt and Chris, they left the manor and strolled down the street. They then saw Darryl approaching.
"Did I catch you at a bad time?" Darryl asked
"No, we're just going for a walk, want to join us?" Coop offered.
"Sure, Henry I got a name on that guy in the picture you brought" Darryl informed
"Finally" Phoebe said.
"His name is Christopher Mercer, he was in jail for stealing a car, he's 18, and he's the son of a very bad criminal, it's a good thing you took in little Henry JR here" Darryl said.
"And the other's?" Henry asked
"The one know as big W is really Walker Peers, the nurse is Rebecca Jason, both are in jail for kidnaping Kristina, you were right Paige, Walker's not a teenager he's is 25" Darryl said.
"And what did you tell Kristina's parents?" Leo asked
"Told them she was shot after giving birth, and that we got the shooter" Darryl answered
"And about the baby" Paige asked
"Exactly what you told me too, child services took the baby and that he's in a good home, and they're ever getting him. They said they didn't mind as long as he's taken care of" Darryl said.
"Thanks Darryl" Phoebe thanked.
"No problem, in as little detail as possible, what really happened?" Darryl asked.
"Dark lighter shot her with a poisons arrow, Paige orbed the baby out of her stomach" Leo described.
"Alright, well I told Sheila I'd pick up the kids, so I'll see you sometime" Darryl said walking the other way.
As the family continued their walk, Henry Junior, Prue, and Kat fell asleep. When Wyatt started complaining about sore feet, and Chris started complaining about being thirsty, the family went home since the boys would orb home and they can't stay home by themselves. At home Wyatt dramatically flung himself on the couch, and Paige handed a glass of orange juice to Chris who sat down at the table to drink it. Phoebe, Piper and Coop placed the sleeping babies in their cribs. And the adults all sat down in the living room and allowed Tamora and Melinda to crawl around on the floor.
Chris came into the living room and was not happy to find Tamora playing with his toy train. Chris took it away from her and she started crying.
"Chris honey, that wasn't very nice, you have to share your toys" Leo told him
"Oh alright, here Tamora, you can play with it, just be careful" Chris said giving her back the train.
"Auntie Paige, can you read me this book?" Wyatt asked holding up the book
"Sure honey, Chris would you like to hear a story too?" Paige asked Chris who nodded.
The boys sat on Paige's lap and she read to them while Phoebe, Piper and Leo went upstairs to tend to baby Henry who was crying. Upstairs Leo fed Henry, while Phoebe and Piper changed the girl's diapers. Afterwards, Leo orbed down with baby Henry, and the sisters had to take the long way back to the living room holding Kat and Prue.
A few hours later, Phoebe and Piper made supper. When everyone was seated at the table ready to eat, Henry laid down some rules.
"Ok, to make this is a nice family supper, there will be no food fight, arguing, fighting, or power fighting, if you are mad you tell us and you can leave the kitchen" Henry instructed.
The boys nodded and Paige orbed the food onto the table. Piper shook her head at this and started thinking of any possible personal game consequences in this situation. Deciding this was just harmless magic, Piper put it in the back of her mind and enjoyed the meal with her family. Once everyone was finished, the adults soon found the personal gain consequence, everything was glued to the table, even orbing didn't work.
"Look at that, personal gain consequence, I told you so" Piper teased as she passed Paige on her way out of the kitchen.
Everyone left the kitchen leaving Paige to solve her mess. Paige decided to use the vanishing spell which also back fired. When she opened the cabinet to pull out a bottle, she found the cabinet empty. Paige opened every cabinet and the fridge and found them empty as well.
"Mommy said to say, strike 2" Wyatt told Paige and then ran out.
Then he came back in and said "and it's coming out of your wallet" and then ran out again.
Paige walked into the living room where Piper was grinning.
"Very funny, sending in the kid to do your dirty work" Paige said as she sat down beside Henry.
"Fine, you were right, I'll head to the store and replace everything we need" Paige said and orbed out.
At the store Paige ran into Billie.
"Hey Paige what brings you here?" Billie asked
"A magic backfire" Paige whispered to Billie
"I see, ok well tell Piper I'll be by tomorrow for Wyatt's projection lesson, he's getting close" Billie said.
Paige nodded and bought everything which cost her a lot. She orbed back to the manor with everything.
"Can I get a little help here?" Paige asked her family
"Sure, cold food goes in the fridge, utensils go in the drawer" Piper said
"Duh, thanks for the help" Paige sarcastically said headed into the kitchen to put everything away.
That night was a nightmare, all night the five babies cried every 20 minutes, and the boys kept sounding that dam demon alarm. Worst of all around three there was a demon in the nursery, one they had not seen before. Piper blew him up which let out a lot of stress, and two adults stayed in the nursery at all times. They didn't know if Wyatt and Melinda's orb shield could protect all of the kids. There were no more demon attacks after the first.
The next morning, Piper and Leo got the boys ready for magic camp, Phoebe and Paige got ready for work, and Henry got ready for work. Piper, Leo, and Coop stayed at the manor with the five babies. Billie came to pick up the boys and dropped them off at magic camp, and the three working adults left for work. Leo and Coop were in the living room with the babies while Piper was in the attic looking through the book of shadows for the demon they caught during the night.
Piper found the demon and after about him, she ran downstairs and said
"We've got a big problem."
"The demon is called the Demon of witches extinct, there a tribe of demons who plan to make witches extinct by killing off their young, that way when the witches die of old age, there will be no more living decedents therefore witches will be extinct" Piper explained..
Piper sat down in-between Coop and Leo and the looked at page.
"They have to kill the offspring before his or hers Wiccaning or else the infant will be safe from their magic" Coop read.
"So Wyatt and Chris are safe, but the babies are not, Henry is safe too but I'm not sure about the twins, they don't have their powers but are still witches" Leo said.
"Wait, it says here, binding the infant's power will have no effect, the demons know they can get them back and they don't have the power of killing a fully grown witch" Piper said.
"Here's more bad news, orb shields can only hold them off for three minutes at the most, they will attack if the child is alone or with others, and they can only be vanquished with the power of three, they also reproduce every week, and there is no way of killing them all at one time" Coop read.
"So that means, they don't work like the vampires, and the one who came last night can show up at any time" Piper said.
The demon suddenly shimmered in near the twins and Piper blew up him up again to by some time.
"Ok, Coop you beam to the others and tell them the situation, Leo you stay here with me in case I get hurt, and or we need to orb them out, the boys are safe since they had Wiccanings, and I will summon grams and set a date to have the Wiccanings for Melinda, the twins and P.J." Piper instructed.
Coop beamed into Phoebe's office where she was talking to Elise.
"Coop, you startled me" Elsie said when he suddenly beamed in.
"Sorry I forgot to warn you about that, what are you doing here honey" Phoebe asked.
"Very bad demon, you need to come home now, Piper will tell you everything, Elsie Phoebe may be out of work for a while" Coop said and beamed out with Phoebe.
They beamed to Paige and told her and the three of them beamed to the manor where Piper explained the situation.
"Ok I summoned grams, who said the best time to have the Wiccanings, in on August first, it gives us four days to vanquish all of them that come, and hopefully that will be enough" Piper said.
During the next four days everyone stayed home and vanquished 18 of these demons. It was a battle to keep an eye out for the demons while taking care of the seven children. They couldn't move back to their homes because they needed the power of three, so they all stayed at the manor. In fact they decided to magically expand the manor to have a third floor with more bedrooms, the parents slept in the room with the children. It was Leo, Piper and Melinda in one room, Phoebe, Coop and P.J. in one room, Paige and the twins in one room, and the mortals and the boys in one room. The night before the Wiccanings, everyone was relieved it would all be over soon, and they were all praying for the best.