Saving My Family
Warning: For this chapter Chris and Leo are going to be giving the elders the truth as he settles into his life with his parents, before their next situation starts. Also Billy Zane's character is going to be joining in early, as a friend, till he takes Cole's place in her life and before she meets Coop later.
He's going to become a regular as a friend, before he takes over as her lover, before she meets Coop and from there, Chris's alterations start taking shape and things change direction, before Chris is born. Though they meet the avatars, Chris is alive and things get better for the Charmed Ones and their family.
Disclaimers: The show and characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me everything else belongs to the creator and the movie company.
Chapter 8: The Elders Get The Truth and The First Month III
"Her power as a charmed one is enough to release him from him human appearance immediately, but your powers are the reason you always got the target on your backs. Looks to me that every time he ever tried getting that kiss, Aplacum always stopped it." he said and they nodded. "She's going to listen to me, more then you and Phoebe, if I tell her, Piper, I'm the oldest of the family, at this point, you're still in mourning in that version of our lives."
"To get her to listen to me, it's telling her the truth, I think it would be best to wait and with her being a civil servant, find a fellow civil servant. Your type and you find your forever with them, before you're ready for the bigger step." she said and Piper nodded gently. "We're the first to get married, and erase the future Pratt created, by actually pulling that with the damn dog. But in order to do that, we better hex the sidewalk." she said and Prue nodded sternly in agreement.
"Good point, bad neighbors rudeness blocked by thee, for block courtesy kindness in, rudeness repelled, so mote it be." she said and Chris nodded smiling then. "Well that works better then turning his rudeness by not cleaning it up on him, before said vision hits." Sandra said and Prue smiled at her opinion then. "I think we created the first piece to it, and by hexing our sidewalk, before the twins hit 7, so he tries to do it in front of house, it backfires till he gets the message."
"We never openly attacked him, we just made clear try it, and it jumps off the sidewalk and gets on him instead, everyone on the block knew we're witches. They know if he's around, they're about to get an up close view of his being humiliated by the dog doing it on his shoes. As Rick across the street says it, 'an eye for an eye, a shoe for a shoe, but if I were you. Don't do that here, unless you want us to call the cops to impound that mutt, because we all had it here.'."
"And with you, but what's the problem, you can't take a pooper scooper or just a baggie along with you, that's what good neighbors do, Pratt, the girls are good neighbors. That to us, the fact you're defiling their front walk is enough to have us rally behind them. We sent messages and gotten no where, well enough is enough right now, so keep this up right now. And we're calling, the town sanitation and city hall here, so get out of here.'." Piper said and they nodded gently.
"Rick Davis was the guy living in the house, the man that had his next door neighbor, chucking the cans at him." she said and Andy nodded. "I spent 80% of my time here, that I know if he's having an adverse reaction, something happened and once again it's connected to you. But girls you better do the entire block, so both sides are equally protected so he doesn't do it. And on their side of the block, just hex the entire sidewalk, both sides." he said and Odin smiled gently.
"Good point right now, after Penny passes, just do it again and tell them, if this was before Pratt moved to the neighborhood right now, you're putting in magical anti-pooper scoopers. So some rude jerk comes here to let their dog do their business and not clean it up now. And the sidewalk immediately erases it or just turns it into a fertilizer now, as they get the message. Not cleaning up after said dog, results a pile up of complaints to the pound." he said and the duo nodded.
"You guys are still adjusting to being a new power of 3 but we got 3 versions and technically, I'm still the oldest of us. But stockholm syndrome can lead to falling in love with your captor case in point is Beauty And The Beast. So though she threw herself up in her father's place at the time, as the weeks went by started falling in love with her captor. Yes okay human looks right now, human looks, here it is." Prue said as she read the description then to her and Leo then.
"In his demonic form, Vandalus was an intimidatingly hulking creature with a face that looked like having been mummified for a thousand years. He showed deep fleshy wrinkles, hundreds of sharp teeth and had blank black eyes. In his human form, however, he was extremely attractive, with tall height. Broad shoulders, slim physique, dark hair and blue eyes, he wore suits and formal attires."
"While in his human form." she read out and the commissioner nodded. "I know only one person that matches that description after you had to kill one of the brotherhood, guys. And for attempted assassination of that executive this month, that's Micah Grant." Sheridan said in shock and she nodded sternly. "So we kill them both and be done with it, before they target Paige next!" Piper said sternly and Penny and Patty nodded in agreement to her opinion then.
"When in our off hours, we let her hang with her best friend/former boyfriend, when he gets back, she's safer with her best friend, as her heart is never broken. Leading into said family feud, and then I get her together with Henry Mitchell, that prevents a case of added trouble. In year 7, she's perfectly happy here." Andy said and Piper and Prue nodded. "He's a teenage parole officer, she's a social worker, a perfect match." Leo said and he nodded in agreement.
"She starts seeing him every chance she gets now, and while Drake steps back with said C name, he remains Phoebe's best friend. Prue and I are together with you and Andy, perfectly happy, but 3 good magic and a mortal, said mortal doesn't care what she is. He loves her for her, he's a younger version of dad and grandpa, he loves her for her. Like the guys love mom and Grams for them, forever eternally." Piper said and Prue nodded in agreement to that gently.
"To her, she won't mind you setting her up on a blind date, as you did this out of love, protect her from getting her heart broken. Just like Leo tried to with Phoebe, and he's the catch, Grant is Cole, just in the next generation!" Prue said and Phoebe flinched. "But that's right, Young lady, after Cole, we're never letting it go, over Cole, as you been dabbling. And in the darkside once too often, said fling is not a demon, Micah Grant is." Robertson said to her at that reaction then.
"As I do believe your high school nickname, made you the infamous Phoebe Halliwell, the stealer of other's girls boyfriends. Just what am I supposed to think when you're dating a demon your sister, parents and I approve of, yet you're, in Leo's words, would be acting all feminist. Because Chris rejected her, after she put the moves on him, he never lead her on right now. But in adult's Lorraine's words, when I was his age, I never chased the boy, or called the boy."
"Sat in a parked car with the boy, knowing he was waiting to make him move even go and cross the line, after Prue. But in Bette's words, she's no older then your parents after said debate, 'And did, every guy, most of the senior class, and half the faculty, the male side of it.'. Before they came up with a new plan right now, you and Prue are constantly going at it. While Piper is Diane's character, you're Goldie's and Prue is Bette's." Penny said sternly and she flinched then.
"The twins are my baby boys, I love them both, so to me, just what makes you think I will ever take this lightly if Piper and Prue. In truth call your grandmother and me down and tell us this, she over stepped her bounds, and gets rejected. Simple as that, the boys are not to blame, but Piper has the right to eject her from the house right now. Their family is dangerous, they're witch hunters, I know the family, young lady." Patty snapped and she jerked at that in shock.
"The Jordon clan are notorious witch hunters, trying to seduce witches till they let their guard down, drug them and then arrest and strangle till they can burn them at the stake. They find that book, and we're screwed, after your fatal mistake of wanting to give up your powers." Penny said and the Chief and the quintet all nodded in shock. "Is that why Dan moved in next door, so he could seduce me?" Piper said and she nodded and Piper crossed her arms sternly.
"Yeah, but you're taken already, you and Leo had been married for 12 years, you just renewed your vows this year, as a magical family. That we at times need to renew our marriage vows, to keep it binding, as one thing or another came up. Though you were supposed to be on your honeymoon, till we had a back to back near murder here. Your second honeymoon is next season, as Prue has the household, before something else happens." she said and they nodded.
"This potion." she said, holding up the heart shaped vial. "Is, once I create it, is your's alone, it's keeping your powers bound till you're ready, while your sisters get their back in. Piper, Prue and I bound the twins powers, their witch powers, till yours get unbound now. But your sisters had their powers for years, they knew the rules, they were getting my help, my ideas. Combining them with Leo, Natalie and the twins suggestion till we hit the triad, as for the first season now."
"Well we know if they turn our lives into a tv show, then whoever plays you guys, is the one looking like he just had a haircut, before six months here. And looking like you're an 18 year old trapped in 21 year old body, before you get conceived baby." Penny said, looking between them gently. "Make that 17 trapped in 21 year old body." the chief said sternly and she nodded. "Well we got 2 years, before we really need to worry about it, if whoever did it was an elder now."
"And Darryl's going to phrase that the way I said it now, but sometimes the ones closest to us, could be dangerous and we never see it coming. So with those words in mind, keep your friends and family close and your enemies even closer here right now." Patty said and he nodded. "Darryl said that the simplest thing can set these guys off, case in point is Abby, my bartender, and she barely blinded Prue with the chemical solution, she uses for her photos now here."
"Then again, the lack of rest is not helping anything right now, and what the heck is going on out there lately, I been hearing screaming and dogs barking lately." Piper said and the chief nodded. "We got a banshee on the loose, mom." Chris said and they nodded. "Is this anything like your case and mine, baby?" she asked and he nodded to Phoebe and the chief covered his eyes at the news. "We got to get the anger out of her." Prue said and he nodded sternly then.
"She's in emotional pain, for you it was your anger at Aunt Prue leaving you, and for me, if I get dosed with that venom, my anger at losing both of you and Mellie will be the punchline. And like dad said, leave it to him, after you inoculate me with said potion, Eric and I. We had each other and dad, before dad was killed after Wyatt turned on us, as for this right now in truth. Is that both sides had a point, properly paranoid: but at the same time turning dangerous right now."
"And what if we were still cubs and that really was a shotgun, he didn't realize you only left us alone for 15 minutes. As I triggered the trap, after realizing why the heck he was even in the house." Chris said and Piper nodded as she looked at Prue and nodded. "Could be or couldn't be, and why the heck is he even searching the house and in the attic right now?" Piper and Leo said together and Prue nodded in agreement as the chief crossed his arms at Chris's remark then.
"Technically, till you were 14, we never left you guys alone for long, so that though preteens to teenagers, in my eyes, gone for 15 minutes, anything could happen. And we get the anything after Cole breaks into the attic and never sees the trap ready to activate." Prue said and Piper nodded in stern agreement. "There it is, after 18 months since Dan came and went, their father and I never left the twins alone for long, and you and Andy with us." she said and Prue nodded.
"Grams was gone, that left it to you and me now, with Phoebe in school and for some odd reason, Cole is always around, the boys are in the middle of the 8 grade. And all these distractions are making it harder to focus, in all three of their cases. Before Leo realizes it after that anger demon nearly causes a fracture between us, so what the heck is going on. Till we all realize Cole's said demon and he got caught by my trap." she said and Piper nodded to that.
"You're sick of us ganging up on you and judging you, but we're the ones that are doing everything we can to keep the family going. And it doesn't help that while we're busy with household stuff and making sure the twins are fed, your college tuition. Said is removing money we desperately need to feed a growing family, back out." Piper said and she sighed, knowing nothing she said now, altered the fact that it was no longer 'we' but 'me' in her sisters' eyes.
"Mom you catch that, less then 6 hours of me being here and…" Chris started to say and she nodded. "And my maternal instincts over you go crazy, before your brother shows up next and now I really go mother bear, yeah baby, I did, but like I said, more time me. Less time we in the case of me and your aunts, whatever the doctor said, in my marriage counselor. He's right, more time mother and wife, less time being a sister, you come first." she said and the twins nodded.
"Whatever our marriage counselor said, he or she is right, one of us needs to get a life first." she said and Leo nodded. "And one of us needs to be a wife first, but what matters more, is we need more time as a couple, being a family now." he said and Piper nodded as she looked between her sons to her husband as they went into a 4-way hug then. "So more time me, less time we, with 4 sisters, one of us has something come up, the other sister takes that shift now."
"So just say you bail to go to whatever office party Cole has that night, not a big deal, Prue can take your shift if Leo's past in the military comes back to haunt him here." she said and Phoebe swallowed hard at that remark. "Though Paige tells me, he had another relapse, this is not turning into taking sides, not after he nearly killed my family." she said and she swallowed hard a second time, realizing no matter what way she looked at it, Piper was not budging now.
"Though how Paige takes that is anyone's guess right now, once she hears this at the moment, as she knew not to trust him, after learning he was a demon. But whoever said best friend turned imprint is, he's spent a hundred or so years being good. Cole spent a hundred years killing, if the Furies turn their sights on him, that's alot of pain. And that could kill him, and what if Prue had been killed, my anger here is aimed you, if you never been downstairs here now."
"She would still be alive, if this was part of one of the disney movies, a brother died saving his brothers, and the youngest blamed an innocent animal. But his next older brother blamed him, because he never took responsibility for whatever was stolen here. And they had to go looking for him after he picked a fight with said animal." she said and Phoebe looked down. "We're cloning her, like we did after we had two clones of her running loose right now, she's alive."
"Our innocent is alive, it's another win/win, because Paige is taking your shift on that." she said and Phoebe nodded, sighing at the news. "But Prue and I had our powers for 15 years, we been doing it so long, we can improvise at the moment. Every time the Source thought he would win here, we cloned whoever of us was injured and nearly killed. And our innocent with us, always a win/win, that we became pros at juggling our jobs, our lives as witches and being soulmates."
"And mother and aunt to the twins, it became too easy as you activated your powers and then you're being trained by us, before we start training Paige. As we get back together with dad in year 1 of our powers now when Grams reactivated our's now. Prue's and mine, when we're teenagers to young adults now and our family is intact and that's that. But dad came back when you were 18, we saw him every chance we got finally now, Grams buried the hatchet with him."
"And he gets to watch us and the kids grow up." she said and she nodded gently as Penny and Patty nodded in agreement then. "And that's just what I want to hear from you, you can do this beyond easily if you had 15 years juggling. Now in being super witches like me and your mother, as for your father, yes I can bury said hatchet with him. As he's my son-in-law, and our family sticks together here, baby." Penny said and Piper nodded smiling as Patty smiled proudly then.
"Prevention over cure, in years though a witch, it's I'm still on maternity leave until whoever Paige's boyfriend is, comes into the picture. That's in both years now, for the twins as their teenage selves that's the easy part, but baby Wyatt and twins. I need to think about taking a break and resting." she said and they and Prue nodded. "Indeed and we're not saying you shouldn't here, during your last trimester in both cases, Prue takes over, you're on leave here."
"Though we never considered the thought of doing a maternity leave for a witch who has children." Odin said and she nodded. "With my family being your biggest weapon against the legions of hell, now might a good time too, Odin. With 4 sisters here, one of us need to rest if the said is pregnant, the other takes their shift till the pregnancy runs it's course. And this starts directly after Grams reactivates our powers when I'm 16." she said and the Elders nodded then.
"Good point, and this is before Phoebe activated her's though Prue and I have our's, to be on the safe side, I think that the problem. But 2 of the 3 of us have our powers, nothing happens, things stay quiet and the twins are safe, but Phoebe. She activates her and the twins with her, and now we got demons and warlocks knocking on the front door. And Jeremy became their first warlock now." she said and Penny and the quartet nodded in agreement to her thoughts then.
"Word of warning, as you were right, if Abraxas was reading the book backwards, every vanquish you made the year before, was about to come back for revenge." Sandra said and she nodded. "First Jeremy and then the Woogieman, followed by Nick, who's next exactly?" Prue asked and she nodded in agreement. "And we get the answer to that as we had the Grimlocks show up last Halloween, at least it wasn't Alec." Leo said and they all nodded in agreement.
"Or Rex and his assistant right now, and really, just what makes the Source think I'll fall for it, as he never got you, and instead of three, we're four now." Piper added and Prue nodded in agreement. "Uh to put that gently, it was a mental facade right now, not like that episode on the tv show, but his tapping into my brain. So he can try to get me to do the power removal spell, but nice try, I won't do it, I accept my powers with open arms." she said and the Elders nodded.
"Phoebe, you loved being a witch too much to give it up, but always having to choose between your family and your love life. He may be your boyfriend or later your husband, but the family and the boys safety comes first. But if that's too hard for you, it's a parting of the ways now, because the twins and Paige are always right and you're always wrong. When I became a mother and wife, everything changed, my family came first." she said and Phoebe swallowed.
"When you become a mother, you'll understand this, Phoebe, but your children are your very life, you would do anything to keep from losing them. But like Paige, you're not ready to become a wife or a mother, not yet, Prue and I are, we grew up, with raising the boys. Andy is her boyfriend, bordering on husband here, Leo and me, we're newly weds, but we're parents. To me and to Prue, we understand, because child-care, raising a family is part of growing up now."
"But first to get married, have cubs, start a family, all by the time I'm 29, but to me, at this stage, that remark on co-dependency is not valid. It's more time me, less time we, and though I love you guys, I got a life, this is why I'm the first with cubs right now in truth. I can handle this, because I spent borderline 15 years being a mother in truth, the boys may look 18. But in reality to me, with them being in the past, they're 14, my babies, no matter how old they get."
"They're my baby boys, that's how Leo and I see them here, and Prue has spent everyday and night with the twins, Jack never got passed the shields in truth. At the time last year after she quit at Buckland's and started at 415, because my family always came first. If Dan was jealous, I spent more time on my family that's his problem, but the Trudeaus, their father and I. The twins come first in our eyes now, Prue's going to balance it back out with Andy back now finally."
"I know you were playing favorites, Wyatt's like you, born in the house, you adore him, and refused to admit he could be evil, but Wyatt's powers are dangerous. With him half of each of us and born in the house, he's in the same boat you are, the twins are like Paige, Prue and me." she said and Phoebe looked down, knowing she was right, she adored her unborn nephew, but it was because he shared something in common with her, while the twins were like their parents.
"But the twins, in our time, were born first, so for now they get all the attention right now, but we got exactly 20 months, before the pregnancy and conception run their course. But until then I need to prepare, for his birth, yes he's being born in the house here right now. But you know what being trained as midwives involves, you need to learn medical training, you an OB/GYN?" she asked and Phoebe looked down and Prue nodded as Piper said it at that response firmly.
"Piper's right, entering year 6, we got our own lives to live, and though we love each other, we got to think about our own families, more time me, less time we. Though separate lives, we stay under one roof, until we're free of every single battle we have to do. We just do some magical renovations, create 3 penthouses in the manor, those penthouses are set to us. You, me and Paige, while Piper has the manor as her past self was Gran." Prue said and she nodded, sighing.
"Before you say it now, once you and Cole bury the hatchet, you knew this was coming, this conversation, how long do we have to keep living together. How long, before we can move on with our lives exactly, with the twins here, we get the answer to that. Just 5 years, 5 years than we can move out, though we got our penthouses still in the house here. Five years is not that long, it's like high school or college, the time goes fast." she said and she nodded sadly then.
"So exactly 5 years now, and by then it's going to take that long another 17 years for the power vacuum downstairs to create any semblance of order. And until then life is quiet and as we train the next generation of witch and whitelighters to take over." Odin said and Chris nodded. "Yeah, after the Ultimate power, we can grow up normal, mom and the girls can live in peace. As they train us and my cousins till we're old enough to take over." he said and they nodded then gently.
"Guys what was your brother's favorite color, growing up, before he turned?" she asked and Eric answered that. "Blue mom, he was blue, we were red and green." he said and they nodded. "So he's Dewey, you were Huey and Chris was Louie?" Prue said and Chris tried to keep from smiling and they nodded. "Nice wording Aunt Prue, but yeah, or to go it the other way, he's Billy, we were Jason and Tommy." Chris said and she nodded smiling gently at the news then at that.
"Reverse time, we had the equipment already, but that was toddler to preschool, but just born to 18 month old infants, we're back to that again, we never bought the infant equipment. Let alone said high chair, bottles and the changing table yet, we got a lot of work to do here. So leading into his birthday, but Piper you're deactivated, Phoebe, Paige and I got it here. And the boys can protect you, while baby him is casting a forcefield over you to protect you now."
"Growing up into our current ages with our powers once activated again, 10 years ago now in truth, there's the case of knowing what being born and raised in the house causes. And we forgot this part, mom had a premonition of us coming back from now to get little us. And protecting us from Nick, meaning baby has powers right from the womb here. So for the out of the house born, it takes exactly 18 months till our powers come online at the time right now."
"Not an inferiority complex here, if you weren't born in the house, you were slow bloomer." Piper said and Prue nodded in agreement to that. "There's the catch, born in the house makes you more connected to it, you can go either way here right now. If there is something screwing with your morality or worse, you got traumatized so severely here right now. Your hate for demons causes you to self destruct, if you never took movies like Starwars seriously now in truth."
"Guys, don't worry about it, born in the house it speeds up your powers, to the point you get it from the womb, so though he protects her from within, you protect her from out here." Prue said and Piper nodded in agreement and the boys nodded gently smiling in relief. "Though I would like to know who's bright idea it was to do this in the house, when the girls. Let alone Leo and I learned I was pregnant?" she said and the twins looked at Phoebe and she paled at that.
"Question, what happens if you're not born in the house, but are twice blessed?" Prue asked and they exchanged looks. "Your only powers showing are whitelighter, but your witch side will not activate till you're a toddler." Sandra said and Piper nodded. "So though he can use his shielding and orbing powers, he can't conjure anything out of the tv or whatever it might be?" she said and Sandra nodded. "That's it exactly Piper, until he's 18 months." Odin said and she nodded.
"So what happens if we alter our relationship 16 years in the past, you picked yourselves as our whitelighter mentors, until the guys took over, or Nattie tried to?" she asked and he smiled gently. "What it means is a solid friendship, nothing can get between us and we stand a better chance at success, because you don't see us as elders. But parental friends as your magical mentors with Penny and your mother dead." he said and she nodded as she looked at the twins.
"Was I pushed into having the baby in the house, though I wanted to do it at the hospital, guys, because if I did that with you, I clearly never knew the dangers of mixing the two together. But change the past and with my knowing you're thrice blessed, I do now?" she asked and Chris nodded. "Yeah mom you were, you kept saying you're having Wyatt in the hospital, but the girls wouldn't listen, it's like she wanted to live with having a baby in the house through you now."
"No Aunt Prue, and you were trapped in dealing with Cole, but to get rid of Cole in this case, before you could relax completely, as in a witch sense here in truth. In truth here is you're on maternity leave, after we reach the last instance with Cole a few months before Wyatt's born." Eric said for him and she nodded. "She lost her baby, so mine was the next best thing, knowing his powers were the good version of her son's, I'll ask here when we get to that later right now."
"Odin, how fast do our memories catch up in the case of our future selves right now, say of 3 years into the future?" Piper asked and he crossed his arms. "You go to the future yourselves, that's you and Leo, and the changes will be immediate, so whatever you're thinking now. Will get shoved into their heads and as your love for Chris, or the twins gets thrown into them. Until we get to the last chapter and of this season now, Prue will not appear in their future now."
"Until after you handle that, but she may say that Chris doesn't have the right to come to the past and screw with our memories, our lives, because their brother was picking on them. Well in our eyes he does, nothing was fine by the time we hit that moment, Piper. You were separated, possibly on the edge of divorce, so yes Chris does have that right. It's his family, your family is the key, it always was, prevention over cure." he said and Phoebe swallowed hard at that news.
"We have to Piper, like I said, as my future self of 9 years into the future, I am, we are, trying to protect the greater good, by stopping a terrible evil. And from being unleashed on the planet, but the tv show, Jason's alter ego as his first animal after being unleashed. On the city after getting his zord, or just Anakin, I don't know, but to prevent that now is by exposing it. And before we tell show them the truth, of what could happen if he turns evil here, to them in truth."
"But our future selves of a year later can't jump back in time to tell them without future consequences, but we can jump forwards through time. And drop the bomb on them, give the clues, like Andy did to me and you and then you remind her and your double. Of your own mistake as I passed you the message, before doing it again, by leaving the book on the page. To have you jump to 2009, to see what breaking the rules causes." Leo said and Piper nodded then.
Before she could answer a time portal opened and they saw a young blonde and Chris stood up. "Billie, what are you doing here, you out of your mind right now, we already have my twin here, why follow us?!" he asked and she said it, while pulling him into a hug and he closed his eyes tightly. "To insure they know who the final battle is against, Christy and Dumaine are, after that it's over finally, I'm a friend of the family." she said and he nodded gently as Piper said it then.
"Who are these people and why does my son know who you are?" she asked and Billie looked at her. "I'm Christy's younger sister, my name is Billie Jenkins, I was your apprentice, till the boys were old enough to take over for you." she said and Piper nodded. "Piper, not a trick, my sister and a demon by the name of Dumaine are in league with the triad. That's the last battle, the ultimate power is the duo, I sided with your family." she said and Piper nodded gently then.
"We met a few weeks in after a case of identity crisis, till after you tried to retire, but no go, but I was with your family that entire year, my sister. She and Dumaine tried to convert me, but no, not after everything you, Phoebe and Paige ever did for me, could I turn on you. I chose our friendship, our adopted sisterhood and stood at your side as we vanquished my sister. Her and the quartet." she said and Piper nodded as she looked at the young blonde gently then at that.
"So that's our last fight, before we can retire, your sister, her mentor and the triad." Prue said and she nodded gently. "Yeah that's the one now, I can't tell you everything, the rules, I just came to tell you who to expect once you encounter me in 5 years. And then encounter my sister, before the clock starts, as that's when Paige's husband comes into it that year." she said and they nodded, as she left then and Leo and Piper exchanged looks at that news then.
"You suggesting we actually show them our love for Chris and then throw the word back in their faces: son, baby and so on, name off the clues, before I remind my double and Phoebe's. About our own mistake in coming back to the past when we had kids in this house?" Piper said and the quartet nodded. "Yes Piper, that's exactly what I'm saying you should do, it's not against the rules of time travel for the past to tell their present selves the truth, but it is for the future."
"The future versions of yourselves to your past self, the boys are just giving us enough to handle this and we do the rest, as he can defend himself, or they can defend themselves." Odin said and she nodded. "Boys, where in the present are we exactly, for your adult double, because we're doing it after we tell Sheila, and you shows us proof to your claims." she asked gently to them. "Paige's new boyfriend, and his family feud." Chris said and Piper nodded sternly to that.
"Feud, we ended up in the middle of family feud, familial last names?" Leo said sternly and he sighed. "Montana and Callaway, her boyfriend is Montana, his late girlfriend was a Callaway, and Paige was playing the part of Rosaline." Eric said and he nodded sternly. "And to repeat what you said to me, I had more privacy in New York, this is getting ridiculous. I at least gave you some space." Prue said and Piper and Leo nodded sternly in agreement to that remark then.
"We can go over that later girls, but when you gained your next set of powers, that doesn't give you the right to abuse them by spying on your sister. Your divination is meant to prevent deaths, not be used for telling the future on your own wants. But Prue was right, when you break the small rules sooner or later the big ones get broken next too. The twins being here, is to make life better, not interfere with lives, but make them better." Odin said and she swallowed hard.
"And you thought your double playing Q was a handle, but he's about to come into the picture as Colonel Simmons on SG-1." Prue said in response and he nodded with a bemused smile. "Was that really necessary, Prudence?" Penny asked and Chris lowered his head as he tried to keep from laughing at this. "Alright you guys, that's enough of that already." the chief said with a bemused smile and they nodded as Penny said it to her grand daughter with a stern tone.
"It's his life, his family that he's trying to save, Eric with him, they chose to save their family, that's noble, and in our eyes, this doesn't give you the right to treat them like this. Simply because you lost Cole after the boys set the trap and he walked right into it. Phoebe, I may not be here physically, but what's the response going to be if I learn you moved out. And Paige with you, why did you move out, and you know I never fell in love again after your grandfather now."
"Do you hate the gender, or is it because anything connected to your sister's happiness, affects you, the fact your sister accepted her powers with open arms, Prue with her. And now Paige, they learned to juggle being normal with being witches, while the boys. Your brothers-in-law, all learned to juggle being whitelighters with being husbands here. Said adjustment period is not that hard, I'm a super witch, I juggled my job with raising you and being a witch here now.
"Same for your mother, she's like me, you're married or trying to live a life separated from Piper?" she asked and Phoebe flinched. "To be with him, whoever it is?" she said and Penny nodded. "Don't ask, the decision to let her or Paige leave was a hard one, but it's not now, after we create 3 penthouse apartments in the girls bedrooms. As we're not normal, just when is she going to realize that, looks like it's never here right now?" Piper said and Penny nodded gently.
"So you accepted this baby, you and Prue accepted your powers, with us changing things in a 16 year time span, as with the twins being toddlers. I gave you a few tips, and you took to it, accepted your heritage, to you, you're a mother, wife and witch. You're a businesswoman, and you accepted this wholeheartedly?" she asked and Piper nodded. "Prue?" she asked and Prue nodded gently. "Yeah we both accepted what we are." Piper said for both of them gently at that.
"Mom, the club can be used as a side business, as you become partners with the guy that was offering to help in a few months, this way. Right now, you got money set aside for college and creating your restaurants." Eric said smiling and she nodded "Mom listen to me right now, but everything on pains of future wrongs is no excuse to condemn him. Now that the truth comes out and not when Phoebe's decision on Cole destroyed us." he said and she nodded sternly then.
"She is so self righteous. but look at the facts, tried to save Cole, but gave up too quickly for Tom, what does that say to you. Or she gave up too quickly, when we were days before our conception, but she never stopped for Wyatt…." Eric added and she paled at that. "Doing deals with demons is wrong huh, how about you consorting with one here, Phoebe. Because of you Prue was dead, because of you mom gave up because of you not doing your job right now."
"Mom, dad, and Mellie are dead." Chris snapped and she jerked and the quartet nodded sternly as Chris laid the final boom. "Do not give us this crap about how we're destroying our family's happiness, just to save the future, you were not so responsible. When you went and fell in love with a demon that is irresponsible, putting your happiness ahead of our's is selfish. We save our family, we do it on our own, and to hell with you." Eric said and she flinched at that remark.
"Don't say it Phoebe, they're channeling their mother and me, but I agree with the twins here, if you just did your job, they would never be. In truth here, on the edge of being vemonized by the spider demon." Prue said sternly and she swallowed hard at that. "And this attitude of your's is putting you in the doghouse right now, because the twins should be the ones. Now, in truth, getting their family back together, not your love life, but out." Andy said sternly at that remark.
"He's right Piper, what happened in the future can be changed, but there is no need to condemn someone for the actions that have not been done yet. However decisions like Phoebe's started a chain reaction that destroys not just our family, but the entire world. Phoebe's decisions on Cole is what you should be furious about here, not Chris for holding back a few things." Patty said and she nodded as she said it, looking between Prue and Piper gently as she said it then gently.
"I need you to be honest, but if you jumped back to 25 years now, to when your sister was in the womb, or 23 years, would you do it to save the future. Knowing you don't and what you saw when you did that to Pratt happens?" she said and they both nodded. "In your words, you can't jump back in time and screw with people's lives because your sisters are picking on you. But you know what, what happens if they did the same?" Penny said sternly to her and she paled then.
"Think about it, you saw the future of what abusing your powers causes, it got you burned at the stake, so what happens if your sisters jumped back in time. To when I was still pregnant with you, try to get an abortion, no modern day witch trials. No demons running amok, trying to kill the family, Paige, Piper and Prue are the Power Of Three. And the future the twins grew up in, before Wyatt crashed, is the result." Patty said and she swallowed hard at her remark then.
Now realizing they sided with Chris then. "Cole or no Cole, if the boys did what would we have, jumped back 23 years to save the future, we would do so in heartbeat. This is no different, you say you can't play with people's lives, because a sibling picked on you. But newsflash, said sibling picked on the entire planet here." Prue said sternly to that. "The twins are their mother and Prue, in boy form, that's the catch now." Odin said sternly and she swallowed hard at that.
"But get Paige involved this young, Piper, if Phoebe's downstairs, you have Paige, so you kill said messenger and be done with it, and lie low for a few months now. Before erasing that memory from the said innocent's mind, but put a tracker spell on them. And we monitor that until Paige's window of choosing who she wants to be with her powers closes. And that's it, as she settles into getting used to having a family again." Sandra said and Piper nodded gently to her then.
"And to repeat what I said to your sister, as your whitelighter, I'd follow your instincts, but as your brother-in-law, going up against your sisters is suicide." Leo said to Piper and she nodded. "Yeah and with the kids in the house, it's we're now being normal parents, aunts and uncles, it's too soon for falling in love right now, but with her head not in the game. That could get her killed, we got to talk to Paige and tell her the truth here, as for being born in the house now."
"There it is right now, though conceived in the house, he's being born in the hospital, as that gives us 18 months, and then. Now, I bind his witch powers, so he can still use his orbing and shield, leaving the twins there to protect him now." Piper said and Prue and Leo nodded in agreement to that remark as the elders crossed their arms. "Well you got two versions of being the middle sister, both this year and next year, and then it's Phoebe's turn right now in truth."
"But Paige's love life is none of Phoebe's business, you're the one that has any reason to be worried when dating a witch, and it's boys and girls by the way. But said male witch is suffering an Anakin Skywalker complex here, but you and Prue only." Odin said and Piper nodded gently as the quartet exchanged looks at his remark gently. "With that change up, you knew the side effects, but we never seen what being half of both us causes, till the twins arrived now."
"But throw in the fact that Leo is an elder when the twins were born now, and it's an electrocution waiting to happen. Now, if they lose their tempers enough emotionally, to trigger that type of outburst here." Zola said and Odin and Sandra nodded in agreement. "Yes, Piper I agree with him, though Wyatt is very powerful, the twins are the stronger of the trio. And he's right, Leo had to become an elder to make room for Chris as your whitelighter, or in this case."
"Both of them now and that's not if Chris's adult self, his 22 year old self, shows up on the doorstep next, as he becomes Paige's whitelighter, and Andy is Prue's now." Kalina said and the quartet nodded in agreement. "Getting everyone fitted together into this house, we got to magically renovate here." Prue said and he nodded gently. "Well that throws some severe wrenches into the works of evil converting your son, Leo." Odin said and Leo nodded sternly.
"Well I can call that if her baby was not going to be the next source of all evil, then being pampered and having his ego inflated, followed by losing you. Would cause it now, baby, as that's clearly, Cole still had some influence on her, though gone." Sandra said sternly to that. "As his adult self, is that he's thinking not good or bad, it's about power, it always was." Chris said and they nodded. "The one with the most power wins, that it?" Zola said sternly and he nodded.
"That's it exactly, but I was like my parents, Aunts Prue and Paige, and Grams and Grandma, to me, I followed the rules as did Eric." he said and the Elders nodded. "And you're our pride and joy boys, you understand perfectly." Sandra said and he smiled softly at that. "Like your mother said, first born cub, golden child to us, you could do wrong boys, we knew you longer. As you can actually talk to us and we can make arrangements to handle this right now in truth."
"But like you said this is going to be a long 5 years, nothing's changed but got better, once Paige comes into it, and once we had that last episode of this season. Just kill whoever said demon is and be done with it, and then lay low till October." Odin said and they nodded. "But in honesty, I know you're hurting right now and I don't mean to get confrontational here. But the point is, that with children in the house, we have to think about what's best for them now here."
"Phoebe, I'm sorry this is a bad time right now, but I'm being honest right now, and Paige will be later, but like your past life, this is the next step up. Prue, Paige and me, we all see this same way, but Paige and me, we're beyond close, she needs me. Like I need Prue, to her, she won't be able to manage, she loses me and it's going to be my reaction over Prue. But who is the catalyst once again though?" Piper said and Phoebe looked down and the sextet nodded sternly.
"We just got these next few months, with Paige back involved, we can get rid of his messenger and be done with it, we never lost Prue and we got both versions now. Paige's powers activate fully, she can either sell the apartment, or put it up for rent and move in. As we got everyone under one roof, we clone Prue, we clone whoever we're protecting and that's it. So everytime they try it, we close the person they target." she said and Odin smiled at her idea then gently.
"And to say this the way the boys would, if we have Wyatt's good self show up in a few years, by accident or not in truth right now but we're sending someone. Now, to you that is perfect for you, and we're not putting you and him through what Leo and Piper are right now. It wasn't and it will not be a forbidden love and marriage, we swear to that, one too many loves. Flings, till you get the right one and until then said other demon is really a artist and actor of sorts now."
"But he's more along the lines of being your total equal in everything, if things don't work out with Cole now later on, you got him to help you recover. And once we lift whatever spell there is, he's staying around as long as possible now for you. But this is why you need time, but like your sister, not the first to be burned by a demon. We know how much that hurts, and how much you hurt." Sandra said and she nodded as she wiped the tears off her face, at hearing that reveal.
"Is he the special C name?" Prue asked and she nodded. "Yes, but the C didn't mean Cole, but this man we're sending to her, he's a Cupid, not the one you met last year. But a completely different one now." Odin said to her and she nodded in relief. "Her best guy friend, turned imprint, his name is Drake, Drake De'mon." Kalina said and the duo, Leo and Andy all nodded. "Take away the apostrophe and that's demon, nice catch." Andy said smiling and they nodded.
"In all honesty, and Paige will agree with me, once you and Cole bury that hatchet right now, her first responsibility after her friend meets us and learns what we are. Are the boys, the boys come first, the safety of the family and our innocents comes first over our own wants. It's not fair yes, but this is how it is, when we became witches, we had a responsibility now. To protect each other, protect the family, to protect the millions of innocents we deal with it here now."
"But cops, fireman, doctors, same thing now, we help people, that is why the target is always on our backs, protectors of good people now. Once Paige gets into it, she becomes like Prue and me, but it's only 5 years, once our last fight is over we can enjoy our adult lives. But until then we live under the same roof, we just make the manor bigger on the inside. Create a penthouse apartment in your room, and the girls, while the boys, Leo and me got the house now here."
"But the manor belongs to me as my past life, before me as I am now well, but we're sick of you putting the twins at risk of everyone of your mistakes, Phoebe. When I became a mother, my priorities changed, the boys come first to me and in my eyes and they always will. As such, with them this age, the boys and I can work on cooking and doing a switch between normal cooking. And potions right now, but Prue had a very good point, why is it when something happens."
"That Cole's always here, Prue was right, and it's only after Leo saw the cut, and then barely gets killed by the blast do we get it, Cole was the demon we were looking for." she said and Patty smiled gently. 'Yes there's my baby girl, she understands now, and now that the boys are here, she gets to be the mother and watch the boys grow up. Something I miss and never got the chance to do with her.' she thought as she and Penny exchanged knowing looks then gently.
"I'm 29 now, and had the boys conceived at 16 and they were born when I was 17, Prue grew up after the boys were born, and we had 5 years of peace and quiet. Followed by another 7 leading into when you activated your powers and their's by accident. That Andy didn't realize Leo is not mortal, but whitelighter and every time they lose their tempers. They orb out right now, that Grams and I put a protection spell on the house." she said and Prue nodded then.
"Yes and girls you better do that again, and we get the cleaners, they can rewind the last 16 years, from the time you guys were teenagers till your current ages. But the way you had the cabinets was the way I did it, one cabinet was for potions, the other was normal food. But that heart shaped vial you found Piper, that was the potion, if they had a clipshow here. I meant Phoebe, you and Prue were ready and I reactivated your's." Penny said and the quartet nodded.
"Girls, with the fact Cole killed said demon right now for driving said wedge between you at the moment and I really don't blame you for that argument. But remember the last time we felt the blast after your triad snapped?" Odin said and the duo nodded gently. "We know Odin, but little things started piling up that day, I never wanted to do the homeowners meeting. Prue's car ran out of gas, and she missed her job that day, till it snapped after he fanned said flames here."
"But in all honesty here is that was coming sooner or later, after repeated messes, and the reminder of her friends tape recording the spell changes was enough to irritate me." she said and Penny covered her eyes. "Someone tape recorded said spell changes, and it turns into a 3-ring circus at your club?" Patty repeated and the duo nodded to her. "There's the reason I never wanted her powers activating when still in her teens, it was something like this happening."
"But said spell in her year book, that turns her back into a teenager, she uses a spell to turn her graduating class back into one, it's a riot waiting to happen next." Penny said sternly and the chief nodded in shocked disbelief at the news. "You trusted us with our powers at the time, we grew up and became responsible young adults." Prue said to her at that. "And I don't care who was in the right here, after three years of this, but that fight was coming sooner or later."
"And it had to happen, before he got possessed here right now, but we lose our powers, as do the boys and we're all at risk. Leo what was it you said, the book was an extension of us, we turn evil, the book itself turns evil in the process?" Piper said and he nodded. "That's it exactly Piper, but the boys lose their witch powers, they still got my side, so they can orb out. So you lose your powers, they lose their's, but one side disabled, they got the other at this age still."
"As we deal with the attack, your triad is back in one piece, restoring your powers, kick-starting their's and we're okay, but we got to get it on the table. Before that happens twice and frankly we're still in the middle of the aftermath to that right now. And once again Cole's the catalyst, so with that, whatever you guys are thinking here, just say it and get it out of you." he said and the duo nodded to him then as she said it for both of them gently at that remark then.
"Rewind that argument right now, I am so sick of you always putting the boys at risk right now, but jealous that I got to do college twice, jealous. Jealous, that I can live like a normal person now, jealous that my actions are putting my nephews, my babies, at risk here. By near exposure right now!" Piper said and Prue nodded sternly. "I have had it here right now, the boys safety and our's comes first over our wants, being parents comes first." she said and the trio nodded.
"Or in this case aunt and uncle." Andy said and Piper nodded to that. "My responsibility to protect my family, and like you girls, I was the same way, after you ended up in our past, Prue." Penny said gently and she nodded in agreement. "Yeah you took it seriously here, before the heart attack, and Prue and I had been managing since then. Before we started getting reports of warlocks killing witches, and the latest got Andy back together with us, been in a coma now."
"For 18 months, comes out of it, tonight, and now we got baby sister about to come into the picture, and a new version of the Power Of Three is created now." Piper said and Penny and Prue nodded in agreement to that remark. "Yes okay, so you reactivated our powers at 16 and 18, we had them, since our late teens, and the only one that didn't was Phoebe. But now I understand why, she gets her powers back and we got demons and warlocks knocking on the front door."
"And my irresponsibility gave out after the twins were born, Phoebe got worse as she reached her mid teens. Chief, is it the same for baby, the previous 6 to 7 years, if she and Phoebe are 18 months apart, before whatever happened?" Prue asked and he nodded. "Before the car accident, she was just like Phoebe, and then stopped with that and became a social worker, baby." he said and she nodded. "Talk about deja vu here." Penny said and Prue nodded in agreement then.
"So we rewind the last 16 years, make it so by the time we were teenagers, only Piper and I had our powers, and it's after the twins were born. Our over protectiveness got taken to a whole new level after Jeremy revealed he was a warlock. And after Phoebe unbound her powers and the twins with her, before we get the added shock. Leo wasn't mortal, he's a whitelighter borderline elder, his father was an elder, as for Cole, I didn't trust him after he keeps coming into it here."
"That I booby trapped the attic in case we had a demon breaking in to get the book, after Rex tried to abolish our powers after he framed me for stealing that tiara. And just what the heck is he doing in the attic here, as that trap was for demons, not mortals." Prue said and Piper and Leo nodded in agreement. "And technically you both had a point, but as did Darryl right now, that the simplest thing can set these guys off." Leo said and the chief nodded in agreement.
"Yeah I remember that, after thinking we got it wrong and technically he had a point, that crystal trap is like a shotgun on a line, pointed at the front door and that's illegal. Be careful, before you shoot an innocent person, but both sides had a point here right now. Turner always seemed to be around when something happens, but at the same time here. Your paranoia was becoming dangerous to the point you're a threat to yourself and everyone around you, baby."
"And what if the cubs were still 10 years old, and triggered the trap, one of them could have been shot." the chief said and Prue nodded, realizing with the fact her nephews were in the house, she had been so reckless that she could have killed her baby nephews then. "And now I see why mom turned into you, before I was born, though properly paranoid. Everyone at the academy was a suspect here, till you realize it was an elder." Chris's twin said and Prue nodded.
"Yeah there you see baby, properly paranoid till we thin out the ranks, once done, whoever it was, just kill them and be done with it." they heard as a white flash of orbs came in as they saw a man no older then their parents next. "She called the 4 of us down so we could come up with new cover story to why we got Chris here. Before his twin dropped in as well, but it's not just being twice blessed, but born in the house over the nexus." Zola said and he nodded to him.
"Thank the lord he explained that to us, but we forgot Phoebe was born in the house as well, that you can go either way, if something is screwing with your morality." he said and the quartet nodded gently. "Well in this case it's a double whammy here Orlin, but in my case what was considered a inferiority complex switched to knowing the dangers. But dad was already the son an elder, it went from grandpa, to him and right into us." Chris said and they all nodded then.
"Leo's grandfather my age group, Chris your grandparent's age group and your father is your parents." Penny said and Chris nodded. "Well I look closer to your daughter's age group anyway Penny, but if your Leo was an elder, it was from one generation right into the next. Before Leo himself makes elder and his power goes into the twins." the elder said to her. "Yeah, but though we make an adjustment or two, thinks gets better for the girls." Leo said and he nodded gently.
"My age group's version, your name-sake?" he asked and Chris nodded gently. "I can't remember much as I was a toddler, but age you 5 years, you're the elder. Now, that dropped by after dad got hit again, when Wyatt was 3, the day of his birthday party." he said and she nodded in shock. "Oops." Leo said and Prue started laughing at that as Phoebe hid a smile. "Oh good grief, so the one time we got you guys dropping in repeatedly the resentment just caved."
"After whatever happened and that got changed to we were willing to give it another shot after whatever happened here and the day of the party. We got you dropping in to visit, as with dad not around, you were the next best thing here." Prue said and the man nodded as he said it to Chris then. "Then I should have knocked, before I orbed in to check on your mother that day, son, but if that's the case, I'm here if you need me Piper, in truth, I get the uncertainty."
"Whatever reason you girls had a problem with us after cub was born, that's not our fault, we also didn't realize that whoever it was in us, as Elders, was a traitor." he said and Piper nodded as she looked at the greying bearded elder. "Was whoever did that one of those that thought he could do anything, regardless of this straining our relationship with you. Till we want nothing more to do with you?" Prue asked and he nodded with a sigh and Piper nodded sternly then.
"Afraid so Prue, to him, we're elders, this is what we do, erase dangers to the future, for the greater good, but it's not your son that's a threat. It's whoever traumatized him so severely that he turned into that, that greater good remark could be seen as an excuse to commit. Now, a very great evil, and none of us knew he was the real traitor, till you, Leo, killed him. But we understand, your family always came first we get that, once you become an elder now."
"Once relieved of being a normal whitelighter, it's your clients are passed to someone else, Paige can take over if need be, but to the 5 of us, your position, if Gideon is the traitor. Is you're the new head of magic school effective immediately." he said and Leo nodded gently. "Though an elder, my position is back to being a headmaster or teacher, only this time. I'm not gone for hours at a time every day, but there when Piper needs me, I understand and thank you."
"But Gideon doesn't need to know the twins are from the future, we need to rewind the clock, make it so, that gift came from their grandfather, as thrice blessed." he said and the quintet nodded smiling gently at his idea then. "And to repeat big me, when Gideon said that something could go wrong with the time portal, I don't think he knew how wrong." Chris said and Orlin crossed his arms as Odin, Kalina and Sandra exchanged furious looks as Zola said it then.
"Dead man walking, from the look on your faces?" Andy said and they nodded. "We just found our elder, it was Gideon, Piper, Leo, he did it, but if he's in league with a demon. Then we killed one, but we got to find the other, if you never created the Source vanquishing spell yet. But we got 7 months here to deal with our current one, but boys, reveal each scenario. As we hit each one, so your mother and the girls can handle it now." Orlin said sternly and they nodded then.
"You guys dropping in to help out though we got Andy and Leo here for this, Orlin?" Prue asked and he nodded gently. "We are, but just me and Sandra, Odin, or Zola, we'll be holding the place Gideon was attempting. Till he got caught after whoever in the demons in that parallel universe turned our version into us." he said and they nodded. "What was it, what was it, sometimes the ones you love most can hurt you the hardest." Eric said and he nodded gently to him then.
"Oh he knew alright, he knew all along, it was all him, he's after Wyatt, guys, him and some demon, combined together, caused this. But if Cole was one side of why he crashed, who is the other exactly?" he asked and Chris shook his head. "I don't know, but then…." he said and they all nodded. "Future consequences, can't tell us, that's fine, we just thin out the ranks till we get the right one and then kill him." Odin said for all of them and the Wyatts nodded in relief then.
"Dad gave me the idea of coming back to now, to alert you of this, but Eric wanted to come, but Aunt Prue and Uncle Andy told him to wait till we dealt with Jenna, then follow me." he said and they all nodded smiling in relief he said that. "Well that answers that, and we reverse time, so we can pretend you were born in '87, until we activate the memory recall. In 2003, borderline '04, and finish out, if you're staying till your sister is born." Sandra said and he nodded to her.
"I am, you got us for 8 years, though I said 7, I just added another year to that, as we lost 3 years with mom, he and I want them back." Chris said and Piper and Leo smiled. "Matching you to your adult self, at 22, we understand, that's great news." Leo said smiling at that remark and the twins nodded. "You and mom mean everything to us dad, we would do whatever it takes to keep from losing you again." he said and Eric nodded in agreement to his opinion then gently.