Chapter 10
November (Prue's first birthday, and a trip through the years.)
It was November and it was also the morning of P.J.'s first birthday. Piper was in the attic summoning grams, Patty and Prue. Everyone with white lighter blood was setting up the decorations, Coop and Phoebe were in P.J.'s room.
"OK there's our little cutie" Phoebe said kissing baby Prue's cheek.
"Mama, dada" Prue said.
Phoebe and Coop hugged their little girl and Coop beamed the three of them down to the living room.
"It looks great you guys, thanks" Phoebe said looking around.
"HI remember me, Henry and I could use a hand with the babies" Piper said
"I got it" Victor said as he walked in the front door.
"Hey dad" Piper said giving him a hug and then dragged him upstairs
"Hi" Melinda said as Piper and Victor entered her room.
"Hi baby, I got her Piper, why don't you take care of the twins" Victor told Piper as he picked up Melinda from her crib.
Piper nodded and left the room. In the twin's room, both girls were standing up in their cribs, but they were not crying. This meant they didn't need a change, So Piper picked the two of them up and carried them into the kitchen. Piper placed them in their high chairs and Henry served them their breakfast which was already made. Baby Prue was also eating breakfast.
As Victor came into the kitchen with Melinda, Henry left to get baby Henry who was then five months old. The boys orbed in the kitchen and sat down at the table, so Piper made them bowls of cereal and served them. Henry came in with baby Henry and placed him in his new high chair, which Paige and adult Henry had decided he was old enough for. After serving him breakfast, Piper and adult Henry joined the other adults in the living room.
"So what did I miss?" Piper asked as she down beside Leo.
"Not much, we're just talking about how it's going at magic school" Leo filled her in.
"Hi auntie Prue" they boys said as they walked into the living room.
"Hey boys, come give me a big hug" Prue said.
"Boys did you orb your bowls and spoons into the sink?" Piper sternly asked
"Yes, and we pushed in our chairs" Wyatt answered.
Melinda orbed in and baby Prue beamed in, so Phoebe got up to clean up after them in the kitchen. When she came back she was holding the twins. After placing them on the floor, there was a crash that came from the kitchen. Paige got up to investigate and discovered it was baby Henry when he knocked his bowl on the floor. Paige cleaned up the mess and carried Henry into the living room and let him crawl around on the floor with his cousins and sisters.
"Out of curiosity, are any of you planning on having any more kids?" Patty asked.
"Piper and I decided Melinda's our last one" Leo replied
"Same with Paige and I, since our nieces and nephews are like our children now" Henry answered.
"Well Coop and I were thinking of having another one" Phoebe said.
Two hours later Darryl and his family arrived for the party.
"We got her a present of course" Sheila said handing Phoebe the gift.
Phoebe placed it on the kitchen table with the other gifts.
"So how is it with all of you living in the manor?" Darryl asked
"Crazy, interesting, and very loud, but fun too" Coop replied.
"They're getting big, can't believe P.J.'s already one and Melinda's going to be two in four months" Sheila said picking up P.J. who was trying to get on her lap.
"Yeah, time goes by fast, baby Henry's already five months" adult Henry stated.
"And Melinda and P.J. have both said their first words" Leo shared.
"Well actually, Tamora said her first words last week, I just never got a chance to tell you" Paige revealed.
"Mama" Kat said as she tried getting on Paige's lap.
"Well looks like Kat just said her first word" Paige said picking her up and placing her on her lap.
"So how are your boys doing?" Piper asked Darryl.
"Well Mickey's enjoying 7th grade, but Darryl junior is having trouble keeping up in class, he's in fifth grade" Darryl shared.
"I hated fifth grade" Phoebe recalled.
"Phoebe, don't say that in front of the fifth grader" Piper told her off while looking at Darryl JR who had not been paying attention.
A few hours later, everyone except the dead guests enjoyed homemade Shepherd's pie. It was dark outside after supper, so Piper turned off the lights when Phoebe and Coop went to get the cake. In candle light, Phoebe and Coop came in holding the cake with a lighten candle in the shape of a one, as they sang the song.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear P.J., happy birthday to you."
Just like every birthday, the parents placed the cake on the table in front of their daughter and helped her blow out the candle. Everyone clapped to get little P.J. excited and Coop served the cake. After cake, instead of opening her gifts like normal infants, P.J. decided to beam her presents out of the wrapping paper or boxes.
A few days had passed and Remembrance Day had come. The plan was to cast a spell to go back in time to all their favourite memories. The family gathered in the attic early that morning and Piper casted the spell she had re-written (from the time Leo and Piper were in marriage therapy) for this occasion.
"Let the truth be told, let our lives unfold. So we can relive our memories, throughout our histories."
They suddenly found themselves in the attic of the manor back in 1975.
"Ok, so we are in 1975, the day mom came home with baby Phoebe" Piper explained
"How do you know?" Paige asked.
"It's the way the spell works, you think of a time and place, and the spell does the rest, we can change to another memory at any time" Piper replied.
"Can anyone see us?" Phoebe asked.
Piper shook her head and the family left the attic and found grams with 5 year old Prue and 3 year old Piper on the couch in the living room.
"Who are those little girls?" Chris asked
"The older one is auntie Prue, and the little one is mommy" Phoebe informed him.
The family watched as the front door opened and Patty along with Victor came in carrying baby Phoebe. Patty and Victor hugged their little daughters and had them sit on the couch. Patty then placed baby Phoebe on the girl's laps.
Present Piper and Phoebe smiled at this, and Piper remembered how she felt holding her new baby sister.
"Ok my turn" Phoebe said.
Phoebe closed her eyes and when she opened them again, the family was still in the living room, except now it was Phoebe's first Christmas.
"I was a year old here, my birthdays in November" Phoebe said.
They watched baby Phoebe get excited over a Barbie and little Prue and Piper open up their gifts near their father.
"Ok go for it Paige" Piper said
"Really, you want to see my child hood too?" Paige asked
"Of course" Phoebe said.
Paige closed her eyes and brought them to her childhood home, where her four year old self was having a tea party with her adoptive mom.
"You looked like Prue at that age" Piper noticed.
"Can I have some more tea please?" Mrs. Matthews asked little Paige who nodded and poured some pretend tea into her plastic cup.
The family watched a little longer and then adult Henry brought them to his childhood home where his 6 year old self was playing cops with his dad. Six year old Henry caught his dad behind the couch and hand cuffed him. Present Paige laughed and present Henry smiled at the memory.
"We used to do this every day, he was training me how to be a cop" Henry informed.
Piper then brought them to a camping trip when she was 8, Phoebe was 5 and Prue was 10. It was dark out and the past family was gathered around the camp fire eating smores and telling ghost stories.
"Prue was the only one us who could actually tell a scary story, if any of us tried, everyone only pretended to laugh" present Phoebe shared.
"Grams was the worst at it" present Piper recalled which made everyone laugh.
Paige then brought them to a field where her 9 year old self was running as fast as she could with a butterfly net.
"I was determined to catch that butterfly" present Paige recalled.
Nine year old Paige did catch the butterfly and trapped it in a bug cage. She then ran to her adoptive father and showed him with a proud smile on her face. Present Paige remembered how proud she had felt at that time.
"Pretty" Melinda said pointing to the butterfly.
They all decided to skip their teen years, since both Phoebe and Paige were troubled, Piper was feeling like a freak, and Henry was dating a girl he didn't think Paige would want to know. Instead Phoebe brought them to the time she moved back to the manor in 1998.
"Phoebe, welcome home" past Piper said as she approached her and gave past Phoebe a hug.
"It's so good to see you" Past Phoebe replied.
"Yes it is, isn't Prue" Past Piper said shooting past Prue a look.
"I'm speechless" Past Prue stated.
Then Phoebe brought them to when she had her first premonition. Past Phoebe was riding her bike when she suddenly gasped.
"The premonition was two boys being hit by a car" present Phoebe explained.
They watched as Past Phoebe tried to warn the boys to stop then rode in front of them saving them but getting hurt in the process.
Then past Piper brought them to when she discovered her powers. Past Piper was getting her audition recipe ready in a restaurant kitchen, and the chef came in and told her time was up. Past Piper tried to tell him she wasn't finished, and when the chef was about to take a bite anyways, Past Piper froze him. At first she was confused and tried to get his attention, but then past Piper took the port (the last ingredient) and added it to the piece he was about to eat. Then the room unfroze.
"I love you Piper, all of the sudden he freezes and you're confused and freaked out, but you still managed to get the idea of adding the last ingredient anyways. It was like you were thinking, I have no idea how he froze, but since he did I might as well add the last ingredient" Phoebe laughed.
Then after a lot more memories, Paige brought them to the time where Piper accepted her as her sister. Past Paige was in her office at work and past Piper came in and gave her a muffin basket. After Past Paige thanked her, past piper said
"I like to cook, I'm best in the kitchen, it was Prue who liked to chase demons." After a little conversation past Paige asked
"So how are you?"
Past Piper sat down and calmly but somewhat sad said
"I've had bad hours, and hours that aren't quite so bad, I guess you know how it is."
"Yeah, when my parents died, there were some days where I didn't think I would survive the sadness" past Paige responded sympathetically.
"It will never be ok that she's gone Piper, I promise it will get better" past Paige added.
Past Piper looked at past Paige's wound on her neck and said
"You know Leo can fix that for you."
"It's my first war wound, I think I'll wear it with pride" Past Paige said giggling.
"Well unfortunately in this family it won't be your last" Past Piper stated
"Well every family has its pros and its cons" Past Paige replied.
After a little more talking, past Paige's boss comes up and says
"My, my, my, that piles looks the same as it did about an hour ago."
Past Piper got up and admitted
"Oh that was my fault, I distracted her with muffins."
"And you are?" Past Paige's boss asked Past Piper.
After a moment past Piper looked at past Paige and back at her boss and answered
"I'm her sister."
Then past Piper walked away. Present Piper smiled at present Paige who smiled back.
"That was really sweet Piper" present Phoebe said.
"Yeah I forgot to tell you how much it meant to me" Present Paige said
"I know how much it meant to you, because it meant just as much to me" present Piper replied.
Then Piper brought them to the day Wyatt was born. Wyatt had just been born and when past Phoebe turned the baby so past everyone could see him they were confused.
"Is that what I think it is?" past Paige asked
"If you're referring to Mr. Winky between the legs than yeah" past Phoebe replied.
As Past Piper took baby Wyatt into her arms, present Wyatt asked
"Who is that mommy?"
"That's you sweet heart, when you were born, when you were just a tiny baby" present Piper answered.
The present family, except the babies all smiled as they remembered that day in their hearts. After more memories, Phoebe brought them to the day Chris was born. A nurse gave Past Leo baby Chris as the past family was standing beside him, past Phoebe was holding past Wyatt.
"Look baby Christopher, that's your brother" past Phoebe told past Wyatt.
"Looks like we didn't lose him after all" past Paige stated.
The present family watched and smiled as Past Leo brought baby Chris into the delivery room and gave him to past Piper.
"Is that me as a baby?" present Chris asked
"Yeah that is you" Present Piper said hugging him.
The family then relived many more important memories including "weddings, birthdays, Paige meeting Henry, Paige telling him the big secret, Phoebe kissing Coop, and many small moments. They then ran out and Piper casted the reversal spell she had written. They all arrived back in the attic in the manor in their present time, November 11th 2008. Only it was a few hours later then when they casted the spell of course.
"We should do this again sometime, it was very touching" Paige stated.
"Yeah, we'll have many new memories to revisit" Henry agreed.
"We will definitely do this again, I feel like we're closer now than yesterday" Piper stated.
"Same here" the other's agreed.