Saving My 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 15: Preparations, Renovations and Hexes
"So to Wyatt, if we don't change his past and find whoever turned him into that: evil was good, and good was evil, if we don't teach them proper use of their powers from an early age?" Sheila asked and they nodded. "Yeah exactly, I ended up finding out the hard way the girls were witches last year, but it doesn't matter to me, they're like sisters to me now, having my partner back is a big benefit and I get to watch my surrogate nephew grow up while doing it." he said and she nodded to that as he looked at Chris gently.
"And by we, you mean yourself, Paige, Leo and Phoebe, right son?" he asked and Chris nodded. "Whoever caused it you guys were furious, but you never told me, but what I will say is this is the reason you hated Odin and the whitelighters so much afterwards. Because this character got me stabbed with a poisoned athame and tried to kill Wyatt and you and Aunt Paige were furious Aunt Phoebe, as was mom." he said and she nodded to him.
"Prue, again not everyone is a demon, you misjudged Cole when Abby try to kill you, we're cursed with mortals suddenly getting obsessed with us. But if it's not a demon, we got a stalker running loose or its someone above suspicion, like a whitelighter, let alone another peer at work, so with that, before we start going off the handle again. So we look at the motives and write up lists this time, okay." Piper said to her and she nodded to him gently.
"I take this has to do with what happened after the Halloween party at the club, right?" Victor asked and the quartet nodded. "If I was part of either side, I'd be looking at the fact that the kid had to much power coursing through him and it was getting stronger every day. So we wait till the door to magic school opens on the staircase and then go from there." Darryl told the quintet and they nodded in agreement to his thoughts.
"Well fortunately, I'm not the culprit this time, because I just revealed the fact I'm your son, a week ago, and family is above suspicion at this rate. Both blood and surrogate family, though the Morris's are heading for L.A.. Though, if it means a couple drastic measures we got to call for help by a demon scanner when that door opens." Chris said and his parents nodded to that suggestion as he looked at the Morris's then with a sigh.
"At the time, had I not suggested you take that two month vacation leading into my birthday, you would have cut all ties with us and your friendship with my parents has ended completely Darryl. Because the demon that causes this is Barbas, he has the cleaners frame you and the triad of magic has decided to take away her active powers and you barely miss death by lethal injection, that's why I have to get you out of town, before I'm born, prevent our familial friendship from being destroyed."
"We need you." he said and Darryl and Sheila both nodded as she looked at Darryl. "Alright two month vacation we're taking the kids to L.A. and Santa Cruz and spending the trip at Disneyland, camping and going to the boardwalk, family vacation. I run my own business and you're an inspector in the department, we got enough to last four months and we really need this." Sheila said and he nodded in agreement to that.
"Alright, if the state department gets involved they're not going to realize the governor already knows what we, as the paranormal task force are, let alone the chief, because we told them before hand, and we've done more good than they'll ever know, but it's not costing us family or friends. And with those words: I'm not letting them cost me your friendship, because I've been covering for you ever since you told me the truth." Daryl said to Piper and Sheila nodded in agreement to his thoughts gently.
"Well this issue of stress just eliminated any problems in our marriage at the moment as well, as to that if Sheridan decides to tell me the truth, I already know, but our familial friendship is not being destroyed here and neither is our marriage. And with those words, if we need you to babysit, so he and I can go on a date or just need some couple time together, I'll let you know Chris, but just protect the boys." she said and he nodded.
"I just saved two marriages at once and it's right on schedule, by preventing whoever our magical perp is from destroying my brother, but family and extended family come first and with those words, if you need me I'll give you a hand and we can work out a specific schedule. I just got to write down my hours, since I'm working the night shift at the club till school starts, but from whatever time you need me after practice is open." he said and they both nodded to that as Piper changed subjects.
"Check that, I need you to help me with inventory as well at times honey, but when we got the latest shipments coming in for supplies, I need your help in the supply room honey, this summer." she told him. "No problem mom, I can help at the club at whatever times you need me, with school out I got a job at the club, but I'm working odd hours once school starts, with that, practice and them needing me to babysit after preschool and daycare is over." he said to her smiling and she smiled at the way they were together then.
"If there's anything here, it's that the changes in our lives just got a heck of a lot better leading into this, so we have arguments every now and again, but that's the way marriage is. Though said reasons of divorce are a problem, one of which is because of the job and the parent happens to be a cop if our lives are dangerous, but on Monday we need to talk to the chief about letting you take a days off when you need to Darryl."
"Though we're capable business people the job does get dangerous and at the moment it leads to added problems, but getting stuck in a job without flexible hours is an added problem here Phoebes. Prue took on the freelance photographer station here, so though you're a advice columnist, you better talk to your editor about flexible hours and the same is said for Paige later, wherever she's working at." she said and they nodded.
"Wait that's it, the two of us get together and we get added circulation that way for the club Piper. I can get the club settings shot, Phoebe does a column on circulation and we together we can ensure our main source of income has new customers coming in every night this way. This is not personal gain we're just working together as family to boost popularity for a family business now. So while she starts work on the love advice column list and that should do it." Prue told her and she nodded to that in agreement to that.
"Alright with the fact I'm just graduated it's time to put my knowledge to use. I'm working for the Bay Mirror, so that brings in more, I'm doing this before I reconcile with Cole, but at the moment family comes first here." Phoebe added and she nodded to that in agreement to that. "I'm in school, but if I need to recall you for a vanquish if Paige has a court case to deal with, don't get annoyed Aunt Phoebe." Chris told her and she nodded as Piper looked at him.
"Court case, what does she do exactly?" Leo asked and he explained that. "Aunt Paige is a social worker, working at the Bay County Social Services office dad. Though she retired like four months before mom went into her second trimester, but she should split her time she decides on doing all of it together. Dad's working as a teacher later, but teacher, guide, EMT solider." he said and sighed as he looked at him softly as he said it.
"Dad just because you don't have your active powers, it doesn't mean you're not useful, you're still a combat expert, an EMT a teacher and a guide. So once you choose to fall, you can fall back on your added skills and I'm helping you with the healing and we create an added miniature medical room so no one asks why we got injuries we can't explain." he said he nodded to that suggestion then as Piper looked at Prue and nodded to her.
"Alright hang on." Prue said and Andy called out. "Cleaners!" he shouted and three bright flashes appeared and the trio appeared in front of them. "What do you wish of us now Andrew?" The leader asked and he explained that. "Leading into when Chris is born, his baby self, I want you to leave Darryl out of things, the Morris's are going on vacation they're not going to be here and so do not, I repeat, do not attempt to put him as the reason for whatever alibi that the demon we're dealing is trying to frame him for."
"My partner is only getting involved till it gets dangerous than I'm taking over, he knows about the magical community as does his wife and their children, they're friends of the family now, and my nephew is babysitting their kids as their permanent babysitter. So starting now, they're not being exposed to any crimes or misdemeanors within the magical community, let alone being framed for whatever reason, we're dealing with. If this results in one of the girls losing their active powers, also for whatever reason."
"Darryl and I are cops, we go by the book at work, but we're not having our friendship destroyed just to cover up the magic, if there's a situation Chris has to deal with by borrowing a car. So change the memories to the salesman or owner of said car lending him the keys of that car. And secondly, Drake is working as an undercover cop in the magical crime community, but he's part of the family as a family friend." he said to them gently.
"We understand, but can you control your oldest when he is still an infant?" The second asked and Leo answered that. "We can, by that point I'll be an elder myself, but my son and I are insuring he and their mother are completely safe. As parents it's our job to take care of our children, we missed the hard part with Chris, but my oldest as a new born to eight months old, we can do that easily." Leo said and the trio nodded to him.
"If my sister's powers start advancing, cover up whatever got her in trouble, and we're all taking an empath blocking potion if she's to be an empath later. Just this once though, now, is anyone aside from the ten of us in this room are going to know about us, Chris and the magical community, but we're telling the Chief on Monday and that is to let us change the records from our magical perps and turning every vanquish into a cause to kill the maniac, like we did with Raynor and Rodriguez." Piper added and they nodded to her.
"What do you wish to describe Rodriguez as for your official records exactly?" the leader asked and Darryl answered that one. "Rodriguez was a crazed witch hunter and he was obsessed with the Halliwell/Wyatt/Trudeau family, thinking they were witches and decided to kill Chris, with Chris being the first born child of the family now. He broke down the front door and had a sonic blaster with him that would have disabled him."
"Andy knocked Chris out of the way and took the jolt himself and it threw him into the China hutch and the blow put him into a coma, and Piper called me and I took him down by shooting him twice with my gun. With Andy being my partner, I took over being the family cop and friend of the family, but from that day forward Chris was taking martial arts and the girls called me and vice versa when it came to police information."
"Added help on the job I got involved and helped when they needed me to and I went to them on information on each of my perps from that day forward." he said and they nodded. "As for Raynor he was an arsonist and was part of a witch hunter cult and comrade of Rodriguez, his latest target was Andrea and he killed her, but her co-hart Jenna Higgins was the next target and she was from another coven and we pulled a bait and switch to save her, while this is going on Cole is a recovering drug addict and dealing with being around them."
"Cole finally suffers a relapse in the drugs and nearly kills Chris and Leo, while we pull a bait and switch where Jenna Higgens is concerned and she's safe now." he said and he nodded. "And the Succubus?" they asked and she smiled. " She's a black widow killer and only killed during a very hot summer. Williamson lost his mind because he injected himself with our blood and it had several abnormalities in it that caused him to gain an added chromosome."
"Turning him into an X-men, and he decided to use that to start harvesting organs and then started killing people, but he died by his own sword when he threw a rotary blade at us and it hit the wall and ricocheted off of it." Piper added and they nodded to that. "Okay that sounds sufficient Piper, I will have the records ready and you give it to your commander Andrew." the leader said and he nodded to that, before several flashes showed up.
"Orlin, Kalina, Sandra, Peter, what's going on?" Leo asked and he smiled as he answered him. "Good morning, Leo. Hello Piper, how are you doing now with your cub living with you?" Orlin asked and she smiled. "I'm doing great thank you Orlin. With learning my cub is a result of having magic in my life, I couldn't ask for a better life now, he's got both of us, but he's so much like me it's not funny at the moment." she said and they chuckled at that.
"Leo told me, that once you promote him, he's to be with us here on earth when Wyatt is born?" she said and they nodded to her as Kalina answered that. "Yes Piper we have decided on that decision and it is unanimous, but once we find the culprit, his future, once little Chris comes into the picture, is up to you two, because if it's a whitelighter, he's going to not want to be one of us again after that, if it's connected to magic school."
"But to save the future, we must take drastic measures and if it's an elder we must end that threat, before it destroys and warps Wyatt and it turns him to the darkside." she said and they nodded as she answered her, her tone gentle, but firm. "I'm raising my sons in a mixture of both worlds now, though my oldest I missed the hard parts, I'm watching to see what to look for once his younger version and my second oldest are preteens."
"You won't have to worry about that though, if he suffers a brief lapse in his path, it's a need to fix that, but no we're not turning on you. You four specifically were for us when we got married, but Leo is working undercover when this other group comes into the picture. Though if it's really a whitelighter, or an elder, working with Barbas, than he's paying the price for it." she said and they nodded to her and Peter answered her.
"We won't hold that against you for all the good you've done these last three years, but remember what you learned so far. To win you must work as one." He said and Phoebe answered him. "During her pregnancy, Paige, Prue and I can take it, she's on a stand down when pregnant with Wyatt and little Chris, so this gives her more time for a normal life that way, but since Wyatt had a protective shield, she's protected." she said and Chris finished it.
"While dad is with her and I'm involved by protecting her, but though she's on stand down from demon hunting both times, she and I are working on potions and target practice now." he said and they nodded to that. "Well that helps to keep my mind occupied, but after two years of this regarding you and your brother and with Cole getting obsessed with your aunt, I've got you to protect me after you're finished at school and practice." she said to him.
"Leo if Gideon is the Elder that does happen to be the one joined with Barbas, than once he's gone, we want you to take his place as head of magic school after that, and I mean if and that's a big if. After you've face your path, and choose a new future, that's your future now, teaching and your family." Orlin said and he nodded to him at that. "Got it Orlin, we're leaving the door to Magic school there below the window on the stairs." he said to him gently and he nodded as Piper added on to that.
"My kids are living a life in both worlds, though once we take back control of magic school, from the demons, because we're destroying the nexus. The door is locked from the time school ends to when the day begins, so from 8 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon and we're starting sport teams as well, it's not a year round boarding school, they get to see their families. They're living both lives magical and normal like my children do. If we're the ones teaching the kids." she added to him and the elders nodded smiling at the idea.
"The resistance sent me back with a 5.5 million to build on to the deception of my being in the past Kalina, this was your idea with grandma, grams, Aunt Prue, Uncle Andy and D.J., but we're getting to work on getting the house worked on, So I think we're in a lull with the fact we prevented the Brotherhood from killing Jenna and the representative of that company the last week and a half here." he said and she nodded to that gently.
"So what's your intention of making it look like you lived here your whole life Chris, Eric?" Orlin asked him and he smiled. "Well I'm a martial arts expert and in my future I was on the track and football teams at my middle school, a star student and an honor roll student, so I just brought everything that was in my quarters at the resistance. Dad, the guys, Grandpa and I are beginning work on the basement and turning it into a training ring for me to train in."
"And every door and cabinet in the house is having a child proofed lock to it, with the fact I'm babysitting for my parents best friends. That includes the usual set of toddler stuff needed: fences to keep him out of the kitchen, going into the basement and off the staircase to prevent them from getting upstairs. Silverware safety, high chairs, booster seats, ecetra, since I'm babysitting for the Morris's now as their permanent babysitter."
"And the last touch is turning my bedroom from a preteen's bedroom to a high schooler and I'm gearing up to take several electives at the high school in addition to my sports equipment. I brought my photo album and they got pictures of me with them, but we're Photoshopping Paige's face for Aunt Prue's and Aunt Paige is learning that truth as soon as the door slams shut later." he said and they all nodded to that plan.
"We're hexing the bedrooms to expand a good twenty feet longer here and the bathroom is going to be hexed, but I'm adding another bathroom upstairs, but we got a lot work to do, but it's 1.5 to fix the house and get the alibi worked out for you son. As to that, whatever the lull is between when you arrived and when the banshees shows up we got maybe three weeks of work to do here, so it's going to be pretty quiet around here." Drake said to him.
"Whatever curse that demon put on you I'm disabling it here, so you can stay around as much as possible, you're part of the family, though I'm marrying Coop later, and frankly you're my best friend, I'm not giving you up Drake." Phoebe said and he smiled and gave her a hug. "Love you too Phoebe, don't worry, to run this through I'm talking to this demon and he's going to agree that I get to stay for a very long time now with this."
"I may be a demon, but I gave up that sinister side and if it means I remain in your life I'm taking the power stripping potion and I can work as a true homicide detective now with Andy and Darryl at work later." he said and she smiled and gave him a hug at the news. "For now till the danger is over with, I think you're better off keeping your powers, than once we retire, you take the power stripping potion and you and the guys work as a team." she said and he nodded in agreement to that.
"Is it against the rules to start doing near infrequent magic in this house when magic is going to be part of our lives now for good Orlin?" Piper asked and he shook his head. "No, if you were treating this like the Harry Potter novels than best to go by their example and learn as you go, but magic as a frequent piece to your lives helps now. You three and Paige lost your chances to grow up the way he did these last twenty two years, so to rectify that."
"We're letting you do your own version of the Weasley house, with the door connecting to Hogwarts on the staircase. Though Chris is living both lives together, to put this gently you guys were raised as muggleborns, not knowing you're witches till you three were reunited with each other, and she was adopted by a family in town. While he was raised a halfblood, as to that, if you're intending to get work done on the house, you got time too now."
"Because there's a lull till the next situation gets started and it changes directions from there, but whatever plans you got here for chapter three, we need to insure they don't realize you're still alive Prue, before Paige takes over and you become the Power Of Four after that." he said and they all nodded to that. "What's the information on the Nexus exactly anyway because I'd been hexed at the time, because I was born here?" Phoebe asked him and he explained that to her and sighed, knowing the sextet weren't going to like this.
"You had the spiritual nexus portion of it correct Prue, but your house was built in the center of a pentagram, which is a spiritual void. If in the hands of good, the nexus stays grounded in good, but evil have the house, they gain gain access to the nexus and from there the evil starts spreading like a plague till it reall is hell on earth, excuse me. To all intents and purposes, the demons created a way to combine the video game and Resident Evil."
"Demons, Zombies, specters and the like, though you're not dealing with honest to god demons like what they created, the wendigo was another one, that's what you're really taking down here and to put this bountly. The nexus is the entrance into hell, which explains the video game they created, you've been destroying demons for three years. But that nexus, the shadow demon, is the Spector and soul of Satan hiding in the basement."
"But though they're not like the demons on the game there's still demons that look like the ones on the game, just without the need to kill people that way. It's going to take all four of you girls to destroy the nexus without it blowing up the house, the four of us, if Chris gets poisoned by an athame. We can add our healing powers to yous, Andy and Paige's to keep him alive and he survives to see his little self born, Leo." he said and they nodded to that.
"With that in mind I've got eighteen months before my 'younger' son is born, but once I get the news I'm pregnant, I'm spending the next nine months in a hiatus guys. You, Phoebe and Paige can cover things, but Leo, Chris and I need to prepare for his brother's birth if he's being born in the house and you guys need to train to be nurses if you're going to be my midwives as well Prue." She said and they nodded to that as Darryl answered to her thoughts with a bemused look on his face.
Well we got 20% of the equipment needed for that with Chris babysitting for us, but we just get the rest and get your closet turned into a nursery for him Piper, before he's moved into their bigger nursery later, but we got nine months of quiet. But the final month or two before is really going to start getting out of hand later, if we got infrequent demons coming in every other day." Darryl said to her and she nodded in agreement to that.
"Yeah well I may be a mother, but I don't want this changing things between us Leo, you get promoted and I'll support you in that. But if Wyatt decides to switch our powers you're seeing the sides effects of what it's like to be a witch who's pregnant, and if there's one person I need to discuss this with its mom and grams, so I know what I'm doing later. But though I'm on a hiatus, I'm still creating the potions and working on target practice."
"Fresh fruit for training in my combustion powers and I've got to work those out, before I put it to the test later. But with us pulling that bait and switch after we find Paige, we need to stay low and train till we get whatever anger we're holding in out and while I'm on the subject. Prue, that's going to be a very close call, if this assassin attacks, before we use the cloning spell. So expect me to get a bit hot tempered till I finally let you have it." Piper said to her and she nodded to that as she crossed her arms as she looked at her.
"Yeah well with the boys you're on a stand down till after your pregnancy is done, and I'm taking charge Piper, I'm the oldest of the four of us and frankly I'm not risking you winding up in the E.R. because you over did it. And with that in mind, though we're your midwives, we're not medical experts and neither is Leo, so we get a medic involved and monitor your health throughout this, so your vital signs are completely normal, till Wyatt is born."
"I'm seeing this like the arroyo fever Piper. You got sick because you smuggled in contraband and it infects not just you, but twenty others, and the aftermath is Williamson. Her getting burned at the stake, we broke the small rules and we see our lives torn apart, because we crossed a line we can't ever take back. We're witches, but we're not indestructible, we're also not above the law, to ensure we keep our lives and families the way they are."
"We stick together, play it safe and aside from the people in this room, we don't trust anyone. We made that mistake after the party and we get burned by your bartender, so to prevent that this time, once Wyatt is born, we start writing up lists of who's trustworthy and who's not, and altogether we stay together as family. Drake is invited to live with us once Cole's out of the picture, and Dad has his own bedroom in the house as well."
"But we're not breaking anymore rules in the magic community, forgery is another one and your powers suddenly take a massive leap forward. So with that in mind, magic or normal laws, we follow them all, and if need be to pull a raid and hunt down our perp if he decides to pull grand theft auto, we're getting the driver's permission to borrow the keys before taking the car." she said and they all nodded in agreement to that.
"Well I think our first step is hexing the hallway, the Bathroom, the girls, Chris and I are using and the bedrooms, and making them at least twenty to twenty five feet bigger." Andy said to Piper and she nodded as she thought it over, before she smiled as she motioned for them to head upstairs and she stopped in front of Chris's room. "Gram's sewing room, that was Wyatt's bedroom, Chris's the one across the hall from me and by the attic door."
"Wait a second, honey could you get the miniature version of the house?" she asked and he nodded. "Manor dollhouse!" he said and it orbed into the hall. "Okay let's have a look here." Leo said and gently removed the top of it as he looked at the miniature version of their house. "There's two bathrooms in this house, one downstairs, one upstairs. So we just added three more to the upstairs, and expand the kids rooms as well."
"Though instead of adding them physically, I think we can do it by magic to fit an even nine to eleven people up in the second floor and that should fit everyone, so here's the nursery over here. Chris's bedroom gets turned into a master bedroom, as does Paige's, we got the biggest bedroom in the house, and Prue has hers given an extension to the same size as ours. Phoebe gets an added fifteen feet to hers and their own bathrooms."
"But till the kids are like four years old, their using the main bathroom in the hall, but the trio get their own bathrooms, as does Chris and ours has a master bathroom as well. But complete privacy for everyone it's like a one bedroom apartment, just without the kitchen in the room with you. Extensions on the little manor, before we do it on the big manor. That is if Penny never created a duplicate of your ouija board and stashed in the dollhouse." Leo said and she smiled as she lifted it out of the dollhouse.
"Looks like she did, alright, protection and safety to be, if shrunk to fit, house normal and live to be, create like real, so mote it be?" she said and it flashed as everything that was in the house appeared and was the size of doll furniture in it. "If Wyatt decides to shrink us it's we got everything that the real manor has and we got food, shelter and heating in here, till Chris changes us back, and the door is unlocked too." she said and he smiled at that.
"Family growing and no space to spare, expand rooms on second floor all to fair, to fit all to bare." she said and it extended nearly thirty feet in all four directions. "Wait check that, family growing and no space to spare, extend for fit for all to bare, for privacy of a couple or three to live at home and live apart, but with in family, extend to fit and live together in harmony." Chris said and each room turned into a two bedroom apartment at the words.
"Whoa, so this extends us to living together, but we don't have to move out, but we all got enough room to fit and when we retire, we reduce it to just the five of you till your sister is born?" Prue asked and he shook his head as Piper said it with a smile at his idea. "No we leave it like this, our family for family get togethers, after you guys and Paige have children, you got room to live in the apartments that your rooms have and you have privacy too."
"Each room upstairs just got an added five hundred to it and there's enough room for all of us this way. Okay time to extend it to the rest of the house. You said wing this, and it extends to the rest of us while doing so. Honey did I create spell's like this, before I was killed at the time?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah you did mom, in fact by the time I was three years old, you've taken to the mantle and turned into the strongest of the three of you." he told her and she nodded to that.
"Dad, instead of you living on your own, how about moving in with us, finish off the Halliwell/Bennett/Wyatt/Trudeau family?" Piper asked and he smiled at that. " I accept girls thank you." he said to her and she smiled and gave him a hug then smiling and he tightened his arms around her. "I'm the most powerful of the three of us, I've honed my powers so much that I changed as a result of it, I'm turning into mom here now."
"And if I'm acting as a mother now that I have you with me baby and I'm the leader of the Charmed Ones in four months, as well as the wife to my husband. I'm taking the mantle right now. Magic is a part of my life, and if being normal means I don't get to see you as you are now its I choose it and accept it with open arms now, I'm a witch and I'm taking that mantle now." she said and close her eyes as she thought the spell.
"Modifications to model, extend to life, with a growing family preparing for strife, growing family and no space to spare, extend second floor of life all to bare. To fit a family growing, but live apart in times of strife, mimic model and extend to life." she said and the modifications caused the floor to start glowing. "Well that's one and that's not damaging the frame work either." Prue said and she nodded as she went further then.
"Privacy to live and prevents rift, extend for family and create to fit, fit a growing family with space to spare, extend bedrooms of sisters to start a growing family for all to share, I pass this gift through the air." she said and the bedrooms shifted from two bedroom to three bedroom apartments with two bathrooms in them and they smiled at that. "So when we're together once we're retired, the kids have their own rooms and bathrooms."
"While we got our own rooms with our mates, and there's enough to fit, because the house had been converted into a mansion." Phoebe said to her and she nodded. "Wait, For a father and grandfather returned to the nest, being around his family for times of rest, for a family growing and with love and trust, extend and fit to spare, I pass this gift through the air." he said to the model and a six bedroom as it appeared in the model, and they smiled at that.
"My bedroom overlooks the garage, so for Paige, we have her room and extension built right above it, extending the adding modifications to the house, her apartment, is like this for now. But before she meets my uncle, we run the spell and turn it into a three bedroom apartment, two bathrooms, with a kitchen in it. But the apartment is magically hexed to fit into the house and that's her living space now till she and.., Henry start their family."
"And this way you all got your own apartments inside the house, and the downstairs is going to stay the same now. But I'm just going to give you their first names before you meet them for real dad, mom, you have Aunt Paige's adopted surname, but Henry, Richard, Greg and Elise, she's your boss Aunt Phoebe." he said to her and she smiled at that. "Elise is the editor at the Bay Mirror, Richard is whoever our baby sister's fling is, Henry is our brother in law."
"And Greg would have been my own fling, but he's just a friend, and I'm married and I'm not dating anyone else nor am I up up on the market and with those words, if Dan crosses the line and tries to hurt you honey, I'm having him committed." Piper said to him and Leo nodded in agreement. "Henry, that's his name, alright he's a mortal parole officer at the precinct, well once I'm completely mortal again. He's got company and with that, our family is the eight of us and Drake is a friend of the family, with his being your aunt's best friend."
"While Darryl is mine and Andy's and the eleven of us get together for holidays and birthdays this way, but the upstairs is less likely to turn into the type of trouble Chevy Chase had in Christmas Vacation and we got our house running on magic and it's turned into a miniature version of Hogwarts and looks like a white magic version of the Black Manor. But first things first, to ensure she's got a good enough place to live and she's home here in the manor."
"I'm better off changing the roof of that garage, to support the extension and build a ladder into it, so she's got two ways in, one is to the usual way into a normal attic without tripping over anything and the other is directly into the the hallway. Because with near infrequent earthquakes in this city, her studio apartment needs as much suspended support as possible if she's got phobias her room has the privacy needed and she's got a balcony on it as well." he said smiling and she grinned at that plan as he went further.
"Her apartment, if she finds your uncle, is extended to fit all the way to the front of the house and it's got it's own bathroom and has two bedrooms so she's got room for herself, your uncle and their kids. That's their spot, with us being the ones living in the house once we retire, we leave their rooms alone. And we keep our spots like we have them, while your aunts have the spots they're living in till they're ready to move out, and with that in mind."
"The second bathroom connected itself to Phoebe's room, and the third connected itself to Prue's. In Paige's case, I'm adding the extension myself, but this is really coming along nicely, I'm creating a cove for her whatever she does its in the room and she's got her own retreat." Leo said to her and she nodded to that. "So the family gets plenty of room now, Chris is living at home and he's got his own studio apartment now inside of his house."
"We just turned this house into a better version of an boarding house, and we all share the expenses and stuff." Phoebe asked and he nodded. "Yeah exactly, you're getting your own apartment in the house, your bedroom had its own bathroom. Piper and I are in the master bedroom, while Prue has Patty's old bedroom up here, and each room has its own retreat off the bedroom, the nursery is going to become the playroom in four years though."
"Paige is going to have her own studio apartment with a bathroom built into it, so you don't have to move out if there's trouble." he said and she sighed as she said it. "At the moment with my being born in the house, I'm afraid of the changes that are going to come with reconciling with Cole. With Chris returning from the future, Andy back and the fact we just saved Jenna, I'm afraid of what my past life is going to reveal now." she said to him softly.
"Wait you think we just meet her now, instead of later, we just wait till after the supposed funeral to reveal we're her family?" Prue asked and he shook his head. "No we reveal we're witches and whitelighters she's going to panic, we just cast the find a missing sister spell and let her figure it out on her own, if the messenger targets her next." Leo said and she nodded as Piper looked at Phoebe then to answer her fears then.
"You suffered two brief reveals, but you're not evil, you're good." Piper said to her and she looked at her. "So was she, but she fell to the darkside because someone seduced her to the darkside, demon, warlock, it doesn't matter. Prue you saw what it was like when the warlock got to you, you get a taste of dabbling in the dark arts, it's intoxicating like the freedom from the rules becomes what you want most, but in doing so you sell your soul to the devil."
"That's what my past life felt, Anton gave her a chance to be free of the rules and she starts using her powers to take lives, but yours cursed her, and that's what scares me now at the most, we became enemies after that. And what if that's who I really am when born under the nexus. I can go either way, good or evil, that's what scares me, what if that's who I really am." she said and he sighed as he answered her as he looked into her eyes.
"Phoebe listen to me, I know you're thinking things are going to change once I'm an elder, but they're not, having children is not going to change things either, and neither is getting a job or becoming the middle sister. You're scared of the changes that came with the fact you just finished college: you've broken up with Cole, Chris just returned to the past, Andy's back, you have a new best friend who's everything Cole's not and we learned you're to be a big sister, you're not ready to completely become an adult, but that's okay, we understand."
"The four of us, your father, Chris, Darryl, we can take care of you girls till you're ready to get married, in the mean time, the only changes you're dealing with are a job and becoming the middle sister, but his pushing you to get married. I'm not allowing it and neither are Andy and the girls, til like you, we think you're ready, than we go through with it, but not until then, you're recovering from what he did to you, but you're not alone right now."
"You have the six of us, your father and my son, until you're fully healed, things stay the way they are between us. I'm living at home and my marriage is intact, basically think of this as Seasons four through six reimagined now. Because we all know the truth, and Prue and Andy are still alive once Wyatt is four months old now. As for you, you're dating your best friend and you become the writer you should be." Leo told her and she smiled at that.
Looking at him, she gave him a hug and he tightened his arms around her. "Love you big brother." she said to him and he smiled. "Love you too baby sister, it's going to be okay, yes you're entering your trials, but you have your family, evil will never win as long as there is good in our hearts, remember that." he said smiling and she nodded to him. "He's right baby, nothing's going to change till we think you're ready, he wants to pressure you he's in big trouble when you're just beginning to get used to things and your new life."
"I'm alive and Andy is back, you got enough responsibilities as it is, but marriage is change you're not ready for and you won't be till your heart, body and emotions think it's time for that time. As to that when you're dealing with the changes once Paige is part of the family, you're not ready, and not when you're adjusting to your job and your responsibility as the middle sister." Prue said and and she nodded as Chris looked at her to say it.
"Alright to put this gently, you remember Yoda's remark about his future being cloudy, masked by his past, his youth, in the Phantom Menace?" he asked and she nodded. "What he meant was your past can determine your future, or in this case your past life and the person you are now, if you don't learn from your past mistakes. Like mom and Aunt Prue, she saw that Dan wasn't the right one for her and chose dad, you're in the same scenario."
"Aunt Prue saw she was a photographer and she chose her past occupation as her future career. Now Anton was a foreshadowing of your life with Cole and that's your trial of lava, when the time comes to choose if he kills one of our charges and the seven of us are in the room with you and Cole, you have to make your choice between us. You can choose to be who you're meant to be, be with your family, and keep up your birthright."
"Or you can sell yourself into slavery and sell your soul to the devil by remaining at the side of the embodiment of everything that you swore to destroy. Anakin was born a slave and he sold himself back into slavery by becoming a Sith, that's what you're facing. Middle sister, new job, just married and to top it off you're pregnant, you're under too much pressure, that's what caused him to break and he fell to the darkside."
"You saw your past mistakes these last eighteen months, now you must learn from them, when the time comes when the forces of good and evil put you into that position, you have to make a choice now. We're going to be in the room, as is Cole, and you have to choose which side you want to take. Wyatt is Anakin if he'd been raised from birth in the temple, you're him from late teens to early twenties, one too many traumas and you're in love and to top it off you're pregnant." he said and Peter crossed his arms as he finished that remark.
"Too much stress and you break from the pressure, that's what the darkside does to you, being good means you live by the rules, but the rules are there to keep you on your path and your birthright. You bent the rules when you stopped Eames, that's not breaking the rules, you bend them, to kill a warlock/Darklighter, you thought about the greater good that's not breaking the rules, you did the right thing ladies, Leo." he said and Chris smiled at him.
"Had I not arrived when I did, Aunt Prue would be dead and you'd be suffering the emotions of trying to hold things together between you, mom and Paige as you're adjusting to the responsibility of being the middle sister and his pushing you to get married. To put this gently, you're suffering from multiple changes from just graduating from college, you just got back together after he relapsed, Aunt Prue's gone, you just found Paige and taken mom's place as the middle sister, and then to top all of this off he proposes to you."
"The idea of marriage, being that much of an adult, is terrifying to you, we: the quartet, grandpa, Darryl and I understand that, but he can't, and the only one who does is Drake as he's your age. In retrospect, I just added two new changes to the list now with changing the timeline in the tv show, with bringing back Uncle Andy and me returning to the past. All this together, being the middle sister and learning you've got a nephew, who's just dropped the bomb on you that your future is at risk, and you just gained back a man you loved like a brother since you were kids, all of this is information over load right now."
"That's why I came back, to ensure you got more reasons to choose, I'm everything you're trying to protect, we got a year before that choice arrives so we just wait it out and deal with the kinks of you being the power of four now, and you're adjusting to your new lives now. It's going to be fine, I'm not going anywhere and we got time work it out." he said and she nodded and gave him a hug. "You're right, I'm twenty five, I'm not ready to get married yet, that much responsibility, being that much of an adult is terrifying, and I'm not ready."
"I nearly lose Prue, discover Paige and become the middle sister, I learn I have a nephew who risked his life and his own existence to save me, I just got my brother back and to top it all off you propose, the idea of marriage, of being that much of an adult, is terrifying Cole. As to that, my first concern is dealing with things as they are now, I'm getting a job first, before you start hounding me about it, but keep bringing it up and my sisters are blasting you." she said in exasperation as she looked at her older sisters and said it softly.
"Did I say it, no, but I don't have to, you're my big sisters, you've only known me my whole life." she said looking at the girls and they nodded in agreement to that remark. "He asks me that question in the kitchen when I'm letting him have it, I'm phrasing it the way you just said it Phoebe, though the moment, just enjoy the minor freedom this summer till you get a job." Piper said and she nodded, as Leo looked at Drake. "We: you, Andy, Victor, Chris and I got four months and seventeen days to work on her extension Drake, that's more than enough time here with the fact you graduated from college yourself now."
"So we're pulling a cloning spell and she's doing a glamour till we reveal to them that she hadn't been killed and our familial powers are so strong that they want to mess with us, they're getting vaporized here." he said and Drake nodded. "That's five months and until Cole decides to come back after she is supposedly is killed, I'm sticking around and Phoebe and I are spending as much time as possible together." he said to him and he nodded in agreement to his thoughts as Chris looked at him.
"You think she's going to wonder what it is we're working on here?" Prue asked and he nodded. "Yeah I do, but this is a surprise for her, she's the youngest of the family, so she needs to be with her family, but when she feels like she's ready to move in than we present it to her. Though if I'm reading the dating right, it's maybe three vanquishes into her new life with us in her life and dealing with another information overload is a catch we got to deal with, but we don't pressure her to move in." Leo said to her and she nodded to him.
"I bet the misguided notion on the funeral is on my birthday actually, so we set it for a week later, and we change the dates that way, but starting from the messager attacking us to the day of the fake funeral, we begin working on the extension and we're training. So we didn't lose a family member, we're laying low for a while till the Oracle reveals to the Source that Paige is another chance to reconstitute the Charmed Ones and its in the next attack that night after the funeral." Chris said to him and he nodded to him as Drake looked at him.
"What do you suggest son, regarding this messager?" he asked and he sighed. "After he killed her at the time mom spent months trying to find some way to bring her back at the time, so we create a clone that is an exact look a like and then she changes her appearance when the doctor sells us out. But here's the bad news for that spiel at the moment, because he sold us out in my future straight to the press at the time and it got mom killed."
"As to how exactly, it was repeat performance of the demon that made Cole start turning up the AC in the house last winter. We had another stalker, like Abby, stalking us and she shot mom with a rifle through the living room window. I'm not going to have enough time to study my training to heal to prevent this again, so while dad is in the underworld dealing with Cole and Aunt Phoebe, Uncle Andy, I need your help in guard duty here at the house."
"You, mom, dad, Aunt Prue and I are up here and things and we wind up getting exposed, but I..., shielding spells, that's it. Future spirits, addressed by thee, shield future vanquishes in public, disguise by me, change it to mortal, so mote it be." he said and they felt their powers take a hit and smiled. "So every time we do a vanquish in public, they're just going to see us doing this as self defense now, is that it?" Piper asked and he nodded to her.
"Yeah, every time we do a vanquish or chase in public, it's putting a mist to shade it to make it look like, to mortals, that the victim left town or in the case of Cole that he up and left Aunt Phoebe during her decision. She chooses us and the results are going to be it's going to be he turns into a deadbeat dad, which is what the spell is going to reduce him to the guys investigating it." he said and she nodded to that gently as Drake looked at her and Leo.
"With Cole out of the picture for the next five months, aside from the next two episodes, we got five months till he comes back and between now and then we can build our friendship and though he's trying to force you into marrying you. I'm letting him know that at the moment you're not sure what you want right now, though he says for me to wait for you to say it, if we share a kiss for a first time, I'm telling him that you asked me for that kiss." he told her and she smiled as she pressed her forehead to his smiling.
"Prue and I prefer you to him anyway, you're our brother Drake, we break the spell you're in our lives forever, good demon, Angels, cupids, mortals and witches. That's our family now, you're part of our family starting today Drake." Piper said and he gave her a hug and Phoebe leaned into his side smiling as she looked at him then with a grin. "My best friend, we get to act like kids and the six of us, dad, Chris and the Morris's are now family."
"If this is between now and when I do accept that engagement ring, I'm closer to you emotionally, because you were the one stitching me back together, that was bound to have an effect on both of us and it has and had. I couldn't ask for a better friend, to repeat what I said last night, he burns me one more time and the weight scales are landing in your favor and you're moving into the manor once I vanquish him for real this time." she said and he nodded to that as Chris hid a smile at that as he looked at the older man.
"Yeah well at the moment she's undergoing chapter one, Twilight, and with that, Drake, where I'm concerned I see you as a real Uncle, he's just a fling, you're the good one. She's stuck in chapter one right now, next year begins chapter two and she's entering her new moon, where she's facing her darkest portion of her life at the moment. Then chapter three she's got to choose between you guys, the werewolf and her life and family, or the vampire and she gives up everything." he said and they all nodded to him as he looked at the house to think it over as he looked at the model and smiled as he gave the spell.
"Model upgrades to real, family growing in times of strife, upgrades given to and upgrades exchanged, model mimic real for all to bare, I pass this gift through the air." he said and the dollhouse started glowing as they felt the house give a gentle shake and then settle. "Model mimic, whoa, you mean the dollhouse is going to mimic every change added to it when we start work on the house?" Andy asked him and he nodded to him
"We got to add that to the work on the garage too, it's being connected to the garage." Piper said and he nodded. "Modifications from models extend to life, reverse the life to mimic and prepare for strife. Models and reverse to share, I pass this gift through the air." he said and the model glowed as the house gave a gentle shake to answer the remark then.
"I got to create a small blueprint and sculpt the garage and Paige's extension, but once done, the connector between the garage and the back door to it, I'm creating an area to keep your bikes son, but that spell just ensured that every change to the house we create the model has it and we're ready by the time we retire." he added smiling to her and she grinned.
"Yeah whatever extensions and spells given to the house we create, the model is going to get the same extensions and Grams is going to love this idea, because mom and I turned into her at two different ages. She, if she'd had the chance would extend the house further by magic at the time, if she hadn't had that heart attack. She'd be suggesting we do this anyway, to fit the entire family." Chris said to him and he nodded in agreement to that.
"Yes you're right about that Chris, your grandmother and I discussed this at one point, to fit a growing family, the house needs to be modified so you don't have to move out till you're ready. Though a pressuring husband is big thing, you girls needs to make your own choices, aside from that that she would choose Drake anyway, he's everything your grandmother and great grandmother would choose for your aunt, no pressure here."
"I talked to Penny and Patty before we came down to check on you and your parents, and they would have recommended this anyway, just choose spells to make the inside of the house bigger." he said and Victor looked at him. "How well did you know Patty exactly Orlin?" he asked and he chuckled. "For us, we become good friends with our charges, though Sam fell in love with his at one point, and that's not uncommon either by the way."
"But I happen to be Penny's whitelighter, and she, Sam, Patty and I discussed this, when it came time for the girls to take on their destiny. But with the girls to remain the strongest source of good in the good in the magical real, nothing can get in the way of their relationship here. But with the fact Piper is taking the mantle now, she's acting like Patty and she's going to react like a very protective mother and sister, in the later years."
"As to that, the first rule to bring the eldest is keeping the family together, but once Paige joins the family, there's instead of three, there's four, the Power of four, which is going to pack more of punch, but to repeat whatever you decided on here, you need to take shifts. So nobody gets overwhelmed though with whatever happens next year we got a lot of work to do." he said and Kalina finished that gently as she looked at the girls then.
"And you can mix the magic with mortal means and by the time it's done, the house is the size of of a mortal millionaires mansion from the inside. This way you can live without the added problems that come with being normal. Since the Callahans are a family of witches and they live in a mansion, so just pick what you want to add, that includes a pool, a tennis and basketball court and a nice field to for you to train in between sports during the school term." She said to him and he nodded to him as he smiled at the news at that.
"How do we do those modifications exactly, because stretching the house that far on the inside is going a little too far?!" Piper said to him in shocked amazement. "Alright wait, give me a minute, mom." he said and he went to get the book of shadows and read the inscriptions of spells created for the house and grinned. "Found it, 'to help a growing family', alright the spell needs a potion to get this correct for the downstairs, but once we do this."
"The house is the size of most of the mortal mansions, the main rooms that get the most excitement are normally the ones that get hit. So the added rooms are not in view of the parlor and the sitting room, let alone the sunroom. As to that the added rooms are going to be out added on to the house by magic, we just choose which ones to add, but to name a few, an entertainment room, with a movie screen like tv that's our tv room."
"And from there our familial tastes get added to the house and that's including an indoor pool, a basketball court, football and track course, and I can train with my friends every summer this way for the next five years. With that its including everything needed till the kids are born and it includes a library in the house, and five other spots, we just write what we want to add to the downstairs and that should do it." he said to his parents and they nodded to that as Leo answered him.
"Alright what's the potion needed for this exactly?" Leo asked and he looked at it. "Well it's a house modification spell, but the ingredients are all light magic ones here, but ginger-root, Rose leaf, cockle shells, toadstool and..., the four elements as well. Alright, we can do this after we get to work finishing up with the second floor and the basement staircase later, as well as the dumbwaiter." he said to them and she nodded smiling at the news then. "So air, water, fire and earth. Well that's simple enough, since we got the entire ingredients."
"Salt, that's earth, wind, that's air, fire, that's a lit match, and water and that's the purest form as well, so we're getting a bottle of water for that. As well so with that, once things settle today after we get some basic room work done on the house this week, than we'll start adding the new additions to the house later. But in the mean time lets just get the handmade ones in, before we get the magical ones done." Piper said to him and he nodded to her.
"Protection of innocents and children to all remain, neutralize danger in hall all the same." Chris said and the hall flashed in response. "Alright test check." Drake said and threw a fireball at the wall but it just went up in a cloud of smoke. "Scan for evil and trust worthy of like, neutralize powers all evil in the ways of psyche, with trust, friend and justice of true, scan evil and negate it unto." he said and the hall flashed in response to that.
"Evil of kinds and levels of true, block innocents from them for all that is true." Piper said and the hall flashed a second time. "Well the upstairs hallway is perfect. It's defending all good beings and is negating all evil or untrustworthy in the hallway, once we got Paige living here the added extensions are being put on her room and bathroom, but we all got enough room to fit into the house together." Leo said to her and she nodded smiling then.
"What's the added extensions you just put into the bedrooms guys?" Darryl asked and he smiled. "The hall is the neutral zone Darryl, it neutralizes all powers used by evil, with Drake about to join the family, he's considered a good demon to the hallway. Cole comes into the hall his powers are neutralized and the attic it's the same difference, once the girls and Chris hex the attic, to answer your second question."
"The extension spell expands the rooms to act like a one bedroom apartment, with a bathroom, but no kitchen, but they all got their privacy in the house, and I'm living in the master bedroom and it has a bathroom." He said, before they heard an explosion as the wall leading into the hall exploded then. "Honey, we're not doing that today, alright." he added as Sheila started laughing at this as Piper answered him.