Chapter 8
August (Friday the 13th in 1973)
Phoebe smiled at Parker as she dressed her in her party dress. Coop came into the room with PJ in his arms.
"I can't believe its Parker's first birthday" Phoebe stated.
"I know, and I can't believe PJ will be three in three months" Coop stated.
"They grow up so fast" Phoebe remarked.
"The guests are here" Piper said in the door way of Phoebe and Coop's room.
Phoebe and Coop carried the children and followed Piper down to the living room. Elise, Darryl, Sheila, Victor, Billie, and the family were all seated in the living room.
"Happy birthday angel" Billie said and took Parker into her arms.
"So Billie, are you ever going to have your own children" Phoebe asked.
"I hope so, but I'm only 24, I've got lots of time to find a boyfriend at least" Billie said.
"Hi Elise" PJ said after sitting down on the sofa beside her.
"Hi PJ, how are you" Elise asked.
"I'm good, very good" PJ replied.
"How old are you now" Elise asked
"Almost three" PJ said excited.
"Wow, you're a big girl now" Elise said.
"How old are you" PJ asked.
"Prue Johnna, that's not a question you should ask people" Phoebe said.
"Why not, she asked me the same thing" PJ pointed out.
"I mean that's not something you ask adults" Phoebe corrected herself.
"So how's everything down at the station" Andy asked Darryl.
"Calmer now that there are not as much supernatural cases, thank you for that ladies" Darry said.
"Just doing our job" Paige stated.
'So Phoebe, is Parker still sharing a room with you and Coop" Victor asked.
"Yes, Coop and I were thinking of having PJ share her room with her, when Parker's a year and a half old" Phoebe replied.
"Ok, good idea" Victor agreed.
After a few hours flew by the family and guests sat down in the kitchen to enjoy homemade pizza.
"So boys are you excited for school next month" Sheila asked Wyatt and Chris.
"I am, I'm going to be in grade two" Wyatt said excitedly.
"That's great, what about you Chris" Sheila asked again.
"I'm excited too, I'm skipping SK, because I'm smart, so I'll be in grade one with Wyatt's old teacher" Chris answered.
"That would be Mrs. Cannon, you'll like her" Wyatt informed his brother.
"Henry, are you excited to start pre-school" Sheila asked Henry Jr.
"Yes" Henry Jr. replied.
"He's going to help us cause trouble" Tamora Joked.
Everyone laughed at this and went back to their meals. After supper, Phoebe and Coop came in holding the cake while singing.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Parker, happy birthday to you."
Phoebe and Coop placed the cake on the table in front of Parker. Parker dug her hand into the cake and then rubbed her hands that were full of cake and icing all over Phoebe's face. Leo caught this on camera, and everyone laughed at Phoebe and she wiped off her face. Since Parker's hands were clean, Coop served the cake anyways.
After cake it was time for presents of course. She got some cute clothes and pajamas, some bath toys, Piper had knitted her a blanket. She got a few dolls, a baby trampoline (which was small enough to put on a table.) She also got a new rattle and some little stories for bed time.
She must have had fun, because it didn't take her long to fall asleep that night. Prue even noticed that four month old Payton slept a little better than usual. However both Payton and Parker still didn't sleep through the whole night, but Parker slept through most of the night.
On Friday the thirteenth, Prue and Andy wanted to have Payton's wiccaning. Prue went into the attic and summoned grams.
"Hi dear, what have you summoned me for" grams asked.
"For Payton's wiccaning" Prue informed.
"A wiccaning? Isn't it Friday the 13th?"
"Yes it is, I thought it would be the perfect day to have her wiccaning, it is the most powerful day for our kind" Prue said, as the rest of the family entered the attic.
"Prue, Friday the thirteenth is not a good day for a wiccaning" Grams informed.
"Why not" Piper asked.
"Well there are a lot of reasons Piper, for one, Friday the thirteenth can bring many curses, jinxes or bad luck, at any moment during the wiccaning a demon could attack" Grams explained.
"That can happen any day grams, they're demons not shooting stars" Phoebe pointed out.
"I know, but this day gives an extra chance for an attack" Grams stated.
"Grams, you seem awfully concerned, is there something you're not telling us" Piper asked.
"Ok you know I can't lie, Piper during your wiccaning a demon kidnapped you, Prue and your mother, and your wiccaning was on a Friday the 13th" Grams revealed.
"Who was the demon, mom would have vanquished it" Paige said.
"We never found out who it or what it was, Prue you were the only one who saw his face, you were the one who vanquished him, how I don't know' grams recalled.
"He was wearing a mask, and your mother said he took you aside into a different room, in the cave he had brought you all in. He took his mask off when he was alone with you, then you somehow vanquished him" Grams recalled.
"Oh come on, that only happened one time, it doesn't mean something like that will happen again" Prue said.
"I'm sorry Prue, summon me again tomorrow and we will have Payton's wiccaning" Grams said then vanished.
"Ok anyone else curious, how Prue was able to vanquish a demon at age 3" Paige asked.
"You bet, shall we take a trip to the past" Piper asked.
"Oh yeah" Phoebe agreed.
"I'll do the honors, I still have my cupids ring" Coop offered.
"Ok Honey" Phoebe agreed.
"I'll stay here with the children" Henry offered.
Coop slipped on the ring and everyone except Henry and the children traveled to the past in white light. In the past they were in the attic, where past grams was performing baby Piper's wiccaning. Past Patty, Past Victor and past Prue was standing nearby. To remain unseen the present adults hid behind a pile of trunks.
In the middle of baby Piper's wiccaning, a demon shimmered in and grabbed past Prue. Patty ran forwards and took baby Piper so grams could take care of the demon. Just as grams lifted her hands, the demon knocked her into the wall. Patty ran towards the demon and attempted to freeze him. Her powers were useless against him, and the demon, who still had Prue's arm, grabbed Patty who was still holding Piper, and shimmered the four of them out.
Grams came to, and shooed Victor out of the attic. She rushed over to the book of shadows and flipped through all the pages. When she realized she didn't know what she was looking for, grams said a little prayer that they would be ok. The present adults traveled to where the demon had taken Past Patty, past Prue and past Piper.
They found themselves in a cave, and Paige cloaked them all with her cloaking power, so they could go in unseen and not have to hide. Inside the cave, the demon threw past Patty and baby Piper into a large bar cage, and locked them in. The demon tossed the key onto the floor far away from the cage, and dragged past Prue, who was screaming, into another room. The present adults followed.
In this room, the demon tied past Prue to an old rusty chair, and took off his mask. He had an ugly face, and then green smoke came from his mouth.
"Gross, it looks like he was eating you" Paige said disgusted.
Suddenly Prue stopped screaming, and blinked her eyes, which sent the demon flying using her telekinesis power. The demon fell into a table that had a lighten candle on it. The candle fell off the table and landed on the demon. The demon caught on fire which vanquished him. Then surprisingly, in a wave of bright blue light, past Leo orbed in.
Past Leo orbed off the ropes and helped past Prue to her feet.
"Are you ok" past Leo asked.
"Yes, thanks Leo" Past Prue said.
Past Leo brought past Prue into the room where past Patty and past Piper were still in the cage. Leo orbed them out of the cage. He then orbed them back to the manor.
"Leo, if you were around to orb off the ropes, why didn't grams or my mom call you for help" Present Piper asked Present Leo, once they were back in their time.
"Only you and your sisters could call me, your grams and your mom were not my charges so I wasn't able to hear their calls" Leo explained.
"Why didn't you interfere until I had vanquished the demon on my own" Prue asked.
"White lighters are not supposed to vanquish the demons, except for in emergencies, we're around to heal and protect" Leo explained.
"Still, that was pretty cool, good job sis" Phoebe said to Prue.
The next day, Prue summoned grams and everyone got into position for Payton's wiccaning. Grams stood behind the book of shadows. Across from her stood, Prue who was holding Payton and Andy was beside her. Next to Andy was Piper, Leo was beside her and their children stood in front of them. Beside Leo was Phoebe, Coop was beside her with Parker in his arms, PJ stood in front of him and Phoebe. Beside Coop was Paige, Henry was beside her, and their children stood in front of them. Grams opened the book of shadows and casted the spell.
"I call forth from time and space, Matriarchs from the Halliwell line, Mother's daughter, sister's friends, our family's spirt without end."
As grams said this the Matriarchs appeared in spirt form behind grams.
"To gather now in this sacred place, and help us bring this child to grace" grams finished.
Grams held out her arms to signal Prue to give her Payton. Once Prue handed Payton to grams, she got back into position. Grams turned around to face the spirts with Payton in her arms and stated
"We pledge to be with this child, this beautiful girl always, apart but never separate, free but never alone, she is one of us, and because of that, we will bless her with all the goodness that we are. Welcome to the family, Payton Angle Halliwell."
Grams kissed her on her cheek and then said "Bless be."
Once grams said it the spirts said "blessed be"
Then the alive adults said "blessed be"
Then the children who could talk said "blessed be."
The spirts disappeared and once Prue had Payton in her arms again, Grams disappeared too after waving good bye. Prue gave her daughter a hug and Andy did the same. Payton's wiccaning was over, she was finally blessed by the entire Halliwell line.