A/N Season three ended with Prue dying, which so isn't happening in my story. I mean come on, I went to all that trouble to keep Andy alive and them together, killing her off is so totally unnecessary for my story. And let's not forget that Shax, the Source's Assassin is nicknamed the 'evil wind' and travels in a tornado. And Xander's an elemental witch. Even Xander can do that math. 😝
But just because Xander could deal with Shax and prevent a tragedy doesn't mean he can escape the Source's notice. The Source does use multiple Seers after all. The changes are multiplying.
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Piper's wedding passed in a blur of excitement and joy even if Victor did almost have a heart attack when his dead exwife showed up, corporeal. I guess someone forgot to warn him that someone upstairs had agreed to allowing her to be solid for a few hours as her second oldest daughter got married.
"Just leaves you to get married, Phoebe." Patty said to her second youngest.
"I'm not ready to get married, Mom." Phoebe protested. "Cole is doing really well, even if it hasn't been easy for him to be human and no longer have powers, but we do love each other and are working on a relationship. But marriage is a long way off yet."
"And bringing up someone else getting married at my wedding reception is a little tacky." Piper told her mother.
"Sorry, dear. I just want to see all of my girls happy is all."
"Although on the subject of me and Cole," Phoebe said. "I would like to take this moment to announce that I'm moving out, as in, moving in with Cole. Piper and Leo are married now and deserve their own space. If I have a premonition I can just call you guys and Cordelia can orb and Xander can teleport. And Natalie is only an orb away herself, so it's not like we can't still vanquish demons and protect innocents together."
"It isn't like we don't all spend our free time, what there is of it I mean, at the Manor anyway." Prue pointed out. "And family dinners and celebrations of course will still be here, mostly because it's the only place that can accommodate us all."
"Our numbers are growing, aren't they?" Piper agreed. "Two years ago it was just us three and then Cordelia and Xander arrived in our lives, along with her parents. You married Andy and we sort of folded Daryl and Sheila into the family. Now Leo and Cole are a part of us and Dad's back in our lives and Natalie's shaping up to be a friend."
"And if Melinda was right, eventually future daughters." Phoebe reminded them of the premonition their ansestor had when they'd summoned her to help deal with a warlock she'd once imprisoned herself. The one who's betrayal had led to her own sacrifice as she allowed herself to be killed to save her daughter, Prudence, for whom Prue was married.
"I wonder which of us will contribute to the next generation of Warren witches first?" Prue asked as Andy, Daryl, Leo and Xander eased out of the room and away from the scary turn the conversation had taken, with Victor following them. Kids were a some day not today scary topic.
"You've got kids, Daryl." Xander pointed out as the five of them took seats on the porch. "Does it stop being a scary concept when there actually are kids?"
"The scary just changes from vague what ifs to 'did I make sure the doors were locked?' 'Is a bully hassling them?' 'Is that sniffle the start of the flu?' and that's while they're little, I'm not looking forward to the teen years. Or boys who decide they want to date my girls."
"And that's before you involve Magic." Victor pointed out himself. "It was fear of Magic and its dangers that drove me out of the girls lives in the first place. Seeing Penny vanquish demons in front of them didn't help. She thought it would help prepare them for eventually fighting them themselves. Of course that was before she decided to bind their powers to keep that warlock from getting them."
"I suppose it's a conversation Piper and I need to have." Leo mused. "Whether binding our future kids powers while they're kids is a good idea. Demons are aware of the Charmed Ones and won't stop coming after them after all. If the kids have and learn to control their powers they can defend themselves in the event of an attack."
"I liken it to teaching them gun safety myself." Andy told them. "I don't want my kids thinking guns are toys and do want them to respect them."
"Same here." Xander nodded. "Mine and Cordy's kids will likely inherit power from her at least, but my powers are pretty strong even as a practitioner so there's a chance they could inherent from me too. We already will have to teach them to manage the techno vamp abilities, respect for Magic and control over any powers they have will need to be taught too."
Who would be the first set of parents was settled a month later when Cordelia's parents announced their efforts had borne fruit and they were going to have a child.
"I've read the books." Margaret assured them. "Studied them from one end to another. I will need two or three extra blood bags aday to sustain the pregnancy and I'll have to be unconscious to deliver because of the amplified pain, both of which might be why they made it a rule that they could only have one pregnancy every century, not just to keep their population under control and Charles is freaking out over imagining what I'll be going through, but I'm not changing my mind. I want this baby."
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A/N Yes, in the books the immortals the techno vamps are based on, pregnant women do require more blood and have difficult deliveries. And they do have a rule, for population control purposes, limiting themselves to one pregnancy a century.