I'm sorry I'm not updating more often. I'm kind of having trouble figuring out where the season finale is going, but I have started writing the first chapter of the next season so that should be up soon. Remember to keep reading, reviewing and checking for updates!
Note: I decided to changed Paige and Henry's girls' last names to Halliwell. I thought it seemed like something Paige would do.
Phoebe pulled herself out of her father's arms, "Uh, you know Dad, it's kind of crazy here today, why don't you come back tomorrow?"
Victor frowned, "Phoebe, if you don't want to see me, you can tell me."
"Oh, no no no," she exclaimed. "It's not that I don't want to see you. Things are just a little-"
"Crazy?" he finished. "No offense, but aren't things always crazy around here?"
"Yeah, but it's a lot more crazy then usual," Phoebe laughed nervously.
Victor gave his youngest daughter a weird look, just as Patty entered the parlor, "Phoebe who's at the-" she looked up and saw Victor- "door."
"Patty?" he smiled. "I didn't know you were here."
"I told you things were a little crazy," Phoebe pointed out. "So it's probably best for you to leave."
"Okay, fine," Victor gave in. "But I'm gonna say hello to everyone first."
Before Phoebe could object, he left the parlor and headed for the living room. Phoebe and Patty exchanged worried looks, then followed Victor.
As soon as he saw Sam, the smile on Victor's face was immediately replaced with an angry frown. He looked over at Patty and exclaimed, "What is HE doing here?"
The whitelighter rolled his eyes, "Nice to see you to Victor."
"Oh don't play the victim here Sam," he replied, glaring at the man in front of him. "You know what you did!"
"He didn't do anything Victor," Patty exclaimed, stepping in, "Now, stop it!"
"Didn't do anything huh?" Victor asked sarcastically, then repeated, "Didn't do anything? Then how do you explain her?" He gestured his hand at Paige, who was standing next to Sam.
"I don't think this is the time or the place for this," Phoebe spoke up. "Why don't you go home Dad? Come back tomorrow okay?"
"Over my dead body!" he exclaimed.
"Victor, enough of this!" Patty yelled. "You have to get over the fact that Sam and I were together. It was a long time ago."
"See?" Sam gloated.
That set Victor off, he immediately threw up his fist to punch Sam. Sam however, quickly orbed out and back into the room, making Victor's fist go straight through the air. Everyone else in the room stepped back, not to get in the way of the fight.
"Men," Grams muttered under her breath.
"Don't you dare orb out, you coward," Victor yelled, and pulled up his fist to throw another punch. As he was about to hit Sam's jaw, Victor froze, along with Sam.
"What the hell is going on here?" Piper asked from the doorway, where she was standing with Leo.
"Your Dad's trying to kill my Dad," Paige explained.
"Oh no," Piper replied. "You let Dad and Sam be in the same room together?"
"Mom and I tried to stop Dad from coming in," Phoebe explained. "But he came in before we could stop him."
"Okay um, we're gonna have to do something about them," Piper gestured to the two frozen men in front of her, "cos that freeze will wear off very soon."
Paige carefully moved Sam away from Victor, "Is that okay?"
"Yeah, it'll stop Victor from giving Sam a broken jaw," Leo winced at the idea.
"I told you that men are good for nothing," Grams pointed out. "They're so proud, and think the only way to handle a problem is to bash each other up, I really don't see-"
"Grams!" Piper yelled, making everyone jump. "Just stop! I've had enough of you and your rudeness and bitterness! Okay, so you had 6 failed marriages, get over it! Stop taking out your anger towards your ex-husbands out on your family, especially not my boys, they deserve a hell of a lot better than that!"
The room was quiet for one second, until Victor and Sam both unfroze, with Victor stumbling forward, and almost tripping over his own feet.
"What happened?" Victor asked angrily.
Piper winced, clutching her stomach in pain.
"You were frozen," Leo explained, not realizing his wife was in pain.
"Can you guys please get over this already?" Prue asked, stepping in between Victor and Sam. "Dad, I know you hate Sam, but what happened was so long ago, you have to let it go."
"No offense Prue, but you have no idea what happened all those years ago," Victor exclaimed. "You don't know what she" -he pointed at Patty- "did to me!"
"My daughter didn't do anything to you Victor!" Grams argued, stepping forward next to Patty. "You're the one who walked out on her and left her to take care of 3 little girls, including a 3 month old baby. No wonder she had to find comfort in another man!"
"Oh please!" he replied. "I didn't want to leave, but you practically pushed me out the door!"
Piper, still clutching her stomach, slowly moved back and sat down on the lounge.
Charlotte took this chance to step in and try to control the fight, "Look, I don't know the full story, but don't you think you should all get over this?"
"You stay out of this!" Victor exclaimed. "You don't know the first thing about our family!"
"Don't speak to my mother like that!" Leo yelled at his father-in-law.
"Why do you have to be so rude?" Phoebe asked her father. "Charlotte was just trying to help!"
The arguing continued between the Halliwell-Wyatt-Bennett-Mitchell-Wilder-Matthews family, until everyone was yelling at everyone.
Everyone except for Piper, that is. She was still sitting on the lounge, very much in pain. "Hey!" she called out as loud as she could.
Still, nobody acknowledged her.
"Hello!!" she called, a bit louder.
"Excuse me!"
"Over here!"
Piper called out a few more times, before giving up, and blowing up a vase. Everyone in the room stopped yelling and looked over at Piper.
"What did you do that for?" Grams frowned.
"Well, it's the only way to get a little attention around here!" Piper replied, then gasped and clutched her stomach in pain again.
"Oh my God," said Leo, rushing over to his wife. "Honey, are you okay?"
As everyone began surrounding her Piper groaned and replied, "No, I'm not. I think I'm in labor."
"What?" Leo exclaimed, panic clearly recognisable in his voice. "We need to get you to a hospital."
The Hospital - Piper's Hospital Room
"It was what?" Piper and Leo both asked Doctor Roberts in unison, after finding out the results of Piper's tests.
"False, or fake labor," Doctor Roberts repeated, looking down at Piper's chart and scribbling something down. "It's quite common for pregnant women in their third trimester to experience pains and cramps that feel much like labor pains. We have a lot of women who turn up here, thinking they're in labour. But really, it's just the baby, moving around a lot more, stretching your muscles, therefore causing discomfort."
"Oh," Piper replied, feeling slightly stupid. "So I can go home?"
"Yes, but your husband will need to sign some papers before taking you home," the doctor explained.
"Great," Piper forced a smile.
"Don't worry Piper, you'll go into labor eventually. It's nothing to worry about," Doctor Roberts informed his patient. "Anyway, I need to go see a few more patients, so I'll see you two in a couple of weeks for the real thing."
"Thanks Doctor Roberts," Leo shook his hand.
"Thank you," Piper added, with a smile.
With one last nod, the doctor left the room.
"So, we're not having a baby today after all," Leo said, sitting down on Piper's hospital bed.
"Aw honey," Piper took her husband's hand. "I'm sorry I got your hopes up, but it really felt like I was in labor."
"I know. I wouldn't really like our baby to be born today anyway," he replied, giving Piper a gentle kiss on the nose. "With all the fighting and everything..."
"Good point," she agreed. "So what do you say we go home and do Sam and Rach's wiccanning."
"You're still thinking of doing it after all that's happened?" Leo asked, surprised.
"Yeah. If Paige still wants to do it, why shouldn't we?" Piper replied, getting out of the hospital bed. "Now I'll just get changed, you go sign those checking out papers and we'll go home okay?"
"Okay," Leo smiled. He kissed Piper one more time on the lips and left the room.
The Manor
The whole family, minus Piper and Leo, were sitting in the living room in silence, apart from the sounds of Wyatt, Chris, Samantha and Rachel playing with building blocks on the floor.
"I don't believe I made Piper go into early labor," Grams sighed.
"It wasn't just you," Victor argued. "It was me too."
"And me," added Sam.
"And me," added Patty.
"And me," added Charlotte.
"Okay, it was all of us, we get it," Phoebe spoke up.
"I feel so bad," Paige sighed.
"Me too," Prue agreed. "What if something happens to Piper, or the baby?"
"Nothing's gonna happen," Henry replied. "We can't think like that, we have to be positive."
Suddenly, the front door opened and Piper and Leo walked in.
"Oh my God!" Phoebe exclaimed jumping up from the lounge and running over to her sister. As she gave Piper a hug she asked, "Why are you guys back? What happened?"
"It was a false labor," Piper explained, trying to move free of Phoebe's tight grasp. "Pheebs, you're suffocating me." Finding no reaction from her Piper added, "And the baby."
Phoebe immediately let go of her sister and put her hand on Piper's stomach, "Ooooo, I'm so sorry baby. Aunty Phoebe didn't mean to suffocate you, I promise."
Leo laughed at the look of annoyance on Piper's face.
"Oh enough with the touching already, the baby forgives you," Piper playfully swatted Phoebe's hand away.
"I'm so glad everything's okay," Grams spoke up, getting off the lounge and coming over to Piper. "I just hope everything can be okay between us now Piper."
"Only if everything can be okay, between you and them," Piper nodded her head into Wyatt and Chris's direction.
"Of course sweetie," Grams smiled, pulling her grand-daughter into a hug. "I love Wyatt and Chris, you know that. And whoever this is gonna be" -Grams rubbed Piper's stomach- "I'm going to love it too, whether it's a boy or girl."
Piper smiled, and gave her grandmother another hug. When she pulled away, Piper announced, "So who's ready for a wicanning?"
"Wait, what about Sam and Victor?" Patty glanced over at the two men.
"I have nothing against Victor anymore," Sam announced.
"What about you Dad?" Prue asked. When he didn't answered, she repeated, "Dad?"
"I guess I can't be mad at you Sam," Victor gave in. "Patty and I weren't together anymore so you guys had a right to be together. It was none of my business, and I'm sorry."
"How long has it taken for you to admit that Dad?" Piper smiled.
He rolled his eyes at his daughter, "A while, I know. But I'm stubborn, where do you think you get it from?"
"I've always wondered," Piper nodded. "So, now are we ready for a wicanning?"
"If you still want to do it now," Paige replied.
"I would be honoured to do it," Grams announced, "with a little help from you Patty. I don't think I can hold both of them at once."
"Of course," she nodded with a smile.
"So, it's settled then!" Phoebe grinned. "My nieces are havin a wiccaning!"
The Attic
15 minutes later, the whole family, including Coop who had arrived had gathered in the Attic for Samantha and Rachel's wicanning.
Grams and Patty stood before the rest of the family in the middle of the Attic. Grams nodded with a smile, and Paige and Henry stepped forward and gave the twins to their Grandmother and Great-Grandmother, then stepped back again.
Grams cleared her throat and began;
I call forth from space and time, matriarchs from the Halliwell line, mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, our family's spirit without end, to gather now in this sacred place, and help us bring these children to grace.
Orbs began to swirl in front of Grams and Patty, and eventually take the form of the ghosts of Halliwell women across time.
Grams smiled and continued;
We pledge to be with these children, these beautiful girls always. Apart but never separate, free but never alone. They are one of us and because of that, we will bless them with all the goodness that we are. Welcome to the family, Samantha Grace Halliwell, and Rachel Patricia Halliwell. Blessed be my darlings.
Grams and Patty both kissed the twins, then handed them back to Paige and Henry.
"Take care, everyone," Patty smiled. Then she and Grams stepped back with the ghosts, becoming ghosts again themselves.
With one more smile at the family, Grams and Patty disappeared, along with the rest of the ghosts.
Paige smiled at her daughters, "Are you guys happy? You're officially Halliwells."
Of course, neither baby understood what their mother was saying, but nevertheless, it was a beautiful family moment. One that would be remembered for years to come, not by the Halliwell-Wyatt-Bennett-Mitchell-Wilder-Matthews family, but by the Halliwell family as a whole. For they were one family, who had been through a lot but still stood by each other no matter what.
And that's what makes us truly Charmed, Piper smiled.
END OF SEASON
Please review and tell me if you like the ending. I was thinking there may be a little too much fluff but I dont know, tell me what you think. The new season should be up soon. Check on this story for an update where I'll place a notice and a link to 'Charmed - My Season 10'. Thanks to all my readers who have read Season 9 and I hope you will all go and read Season 10 when it's up. Thanks again!