Notes: Yeah, I'm back. I'm sorry forlong. I always planned on finishing this one, but college just got me so tired and I had no energy to write shit. But well,a gorgeous being came up to me and asked if I could write more of this story, and I though, you know what? I will fuck college, someone still wants to read what I have to write so yeah. Here I am. All thanks to: brendafay. Really U just gave a boos of confidence that's been ages I havan't felt. So here is a new chapt and I already fixing all the others I had already written bot not posted. THIS WILL BE FINISHED. and please I'm really sorry for taking so long to come back =(

Chapter 6 : Picnic

Melinda was helping the sisters to get everything on Phoebe's car, apparently helping get everything ready for the family picnic was Piper's condition for the girl and her brother (when he came back from whatever he was doing) to stay in the Manor's attic while they were off.

The future girl waved her hand as she watched the car go down the street. She then turned her back to the street and entered the house closing the door carefully behind her. A nostalgic feeling started to overwhelm her as she walked around the house admiring how everything was so equal, but at the same time so different.

Every single room in that house held some kind of memory, most of them good, of times where everything was as peaceful as it was now.

"I thought you were supposed to stay in the attic" Leo's voice echoed behind her and she jumped and sweared as she placed her hands on her chest just to feel her heart racing.

"You almost gave me a heart attack!" She screamed turning to him "what was that about?"

"Why are you so startled? Doing something you wasn't supposed to?" Leo crossed his arms and glanced at her suspiciously.

"No" she rolled her eyes "I was just having a trip to memory lane. So many things, good and bad, happened in this house in my past" she trailed off "anyway, I was just going to the attic"

"Yeah, right" Leo rolled his eyes and followed her as she climbed the stairs "Why do you have so many memories in this house?"

"Because of my brother, he and Wyatt were super best friends just like brothers, you know, and well… I was a very good friend of Paige and Phoebe's kids, but please don't tell them that, they would want to know how many kids they will have, if they are boys or girls and I can't answer that" She was starting to panic, she couldn't keep going like this, every time she was talking with Leo she ended up saying a lot more about the future than she should.

"So why you are telling all this things to me?" he asked as they entered the attic and she went over the Book of Shadows.

Oh, isn't that a good question? She asked herself, but bit her lip preventing her from saying something she shouldn't "Because you're an Elder" duh "You know the rules and because of that I know I can trust that some things I say to you, you won't tell them" she didn't even looked at him, just kept a light tone and kept turning the pages of the Book.

"What you're looking for?" Leo started to approach her, but she gave him a 'back off' look that made him stop.

"A lead" she answered "I suppose you should be at a family picnic right now" she eyed him "Piper is going to get really disappointed if you don't show up"

Leo gave her another suspicious look before orbing out. Melinda breathed in relief and closed the book "Chris!" she called and waited for him, but he didn't showed up "Chriiiis!" she tried again. Nothing "CHRIS! GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE. RIGHT. NOW!" now it worked.

Orbing lights appeared in front of her and seconds latter her older brother was standing in front of her "What?" he crossed his arms "I was busy"

"Well… I have a more important matter to deal with right now" she retorted sheepish.

"And what would that be?"

"Your existence, idiot" she rolled her eyes "I have a little plan to make sure that today's picnic really turns out the way we want it to"

"So, please, tell me" Chris sat on the couch, already bored, he knew she wouldn't let him go without listening to her plan.

_/The Picnic/_

Phoebe and Paige were really enjoying themselves as they watched Piper and Leo play with Wyatt. They were laughing, making funny noises and voices and having a really nice time.

"You know what? Melinda was right Piper and Leo really does sound a lot better than Piper and Greg" Phoebe commented.

"This picnic was a really good idea, they are having a wonderful time" Paige contemplated her sister and brother in law realizing it was the first time since they separated that they were laughing and smiling like that.

"Elise is calling me" Phoebe said winking at her little sister and pretended to pick up her cell phone and talk to her boss.

"What a coincidence, my boss is calling me to" Paige controlled a laugh and picked up her cell phone also pretending to talk to her boss.

Both of them finished their 'talking' at the same time and waited for the happy parents to take a break from their tickling attack at their son.

"Piper, hon" Phoebe started approaching the trio with Paige behind her "I'm so sorry but Elise just called me, and Paige also got a call from her boss and we have to go"

"I'm so sorry" Paige apologized trying to look really disappointed.

"But, you both said it was going to be your day off" Piper retorted getting at the same time frustrated, irritated and sad.

"I know, but… I sounded like a real emergency" Phoebe tried to explain.

"Yeah and you know how my temp jobs always involve s someone who needs my help, so I have to go" Paige completed.

"Okay" Piper agreed mechanically and both Phoebe and Paige knew her older sister would hold that against them for a while.

"Sorry" Both said before leaving.

They walked until they reach a place where nobody was and orbed appearing seconds later in the manor.

"Melinda, Chris, we are here!" Phoebe announced but got nothing in response "Melinda?" she went near the stairs.

"I think she's not here" Paige suggested and both of them walked to the Attic, but there was no sign of their future buddies.

"But I though…"Phoebe started "She said she would be here"

"Maybe she had another plans…" Paige shouldered "Maybe she's helping her brother or something" she suggested and started to walk over the several boxes that were in the attic looking for something to do until Piper returned.

"I was hoping she would be here and we would be able to talk to her and know more things about the future" Phoebe sat in the couch frustrated she was hoping to talk to Melinda without all the 'getting Piper and Leo back together' subject for over a week and now the future girl wasn't in the place she was supposed to be.

"Hey, Phoebe" Paige called her while she looked at something she was holding "why there is a picture of Melinda in a box in the attic?"

"What?" Phoebe walked over her sister and took the picture from her hand. The resemblance was incredible, same eye color, same hair, there were some difference though, Melinda's face was a little bit more round than the teen in the photograph and the shape of her eyes were different too "That's Piper in her late teens" Phoebe explained, but couldn't deny, it took her a couple of time to make sure it was Piper and not the girl.

"Weird" Paige commented going back to look at the box.

"Yeah… Maybe too weird" Phoebe kept looking at the photo as some crazy ideas started to flow through her mind "Paige, if you were in Melinda's place, why would you mind if the parents of the baby you are trying to save aren't together?"

"Because if I fail, they being together might be a backup plan?" Paige suggested.

"Yeah, but why not do this after you failed?" Phoebe kept going "why not use the back up plan after your first plan went wrong? Why would it be so important to you that the baby's parents are together now?"

"I don't know…" Paige looked at her sister trying to figure out where Phoebe was going "Maybe I wanted to make sure both parents would be near the kid? You know, more people protecting him"

"Yeah…" Phoebe agreed but something inside her was screaming that it wasn't the case "that does make sense, but what if your reasons were other?"

"Phoebe just go to the point" Paige rolled her eyes starting to feel annoyed by her sister.

"I don't know! I was hoping you would have some ideas, I'm just having this feeling that there are a lot more behind Melinda's intention than she's letting of".

"But what" Paige sat on the floor supporting her head in her hands " What would make it so important for her to want Piper and Leo to be together so badly?"

"I don't know…" Phoebe said a little frustrated for nothing having a satisfying answer and sat in the couch to think.

There was a silence for a couple of minutes, both sisters were deep in thought, analyzing all the alternatives to answer the puzzle they had in hands. Until Paige break the silence standing up excited making an 'eureka' face.

"They came from a future that is what… Twenty years give or take from now, right?" Paige started as pieces of information both the future visitors gave them.

"Yeah… Why?" Phoebe smiled and looked hopeful at her little sister.

"Well… Chris is what… Twenty-one…. Twenty-two years old tops" Paige kept on "so he is probably not even born yet or about to be born, right? So what is the number one problem of time traveling to times before you were born?"

"The risk of not being born?" Phoebe answered uncertain.

"Exact!" Paige almost screamed "So what if for some reason Chris's existence is at stake? What if to make sure he's actually born there is something to do with Piper and Leo?" the younger charmed one looked at her sister smiling to see if Phoebe understood what she was trying to say.

"Well… I remember Melinda saying something about Chris and Wyatt being best friends in the future so… Piper and Leo could have saved their parents and that's maybe why them became some kind of family friends and that would explain why they know us and the Manor so well" Phoebe rationalized her sister's idea and smiled as she felt she was near the truth "You know what that means?"

"What?"

"It means we REALLY need to make sure Piper and Leo are together" Phoebe decided "I don't know how time travel works, but if Chris doesn't exist, then he won't come back and we won't be warned and then Wyatt will turn evil"

"Let's check how the picnic is going?" Paige sugested.

"Yep" Phoebe walked to her sister's side and held her hand before both of them vanishing in blue and white orbs.

_/The Park/_

A little girl not older than four or five years sat beside Wyatt when he started to play with some of the toys Piper had brought "Heeeeey" she greeted as she put her teddy bear between she and Wyatt "let's play?" she asked with her childish voice. She had a pretty straight brown hair that was poorly held in a pony tail. Her eyes were brown and both Piper and Leo felt as if they knew her from somewhere.

Wyatt smiled and started to play with her, soon both of them were too deep into their play world that none realized that Piper and Leo were trying to get his attention.

"Looks like we lost him for a girl" Leo joked with a proud smile on his lips.

"He's not even one year old! And that girl is way too old for him!" Piper retorted a little upset for her baby being ignoring her.

"So you don't need to get so… 'Mother-in-law' over the subject" Leo laugh and soon Piper followed him "Relax Piper, he's socializing with other kids wasn't it what you wanted?"

"It was, but…" Piper started, but Leo held her hand and made her look at him.

"Don't be jealous, he's just a baby, he needs his mommy" the elder smiled warmly.

"And his daddy" Piper whispered and looked down.

"Up until now I was pretty much around, don't you think?" Leo forced a laugh and let Piper's hand go "Maybe I can figure out a way to be here more, maybe start teaching in Magic School or convincing the elders that Chris and his sister are evil and I need to be here all the time to watch them…" he trailed off.

"So you were just pretending to be THAT suspicious all along!" Piper gave him an accusatory look, but couldn't hold a smile.

"Busted" Leo held his hands up as if he was surrendering "I was and still am suspicious about them, but not that much, now is just a lame excuse to come over here and be with you and Wyatt" he explained so lightly and automatically that he didn't even realized what he was saying at all.

Piper gave him a small smile, but turned her face to look at Wyatt who was destroying the toy tower the little girl built.

Leo put his arms around his ex-wife's shoulder and both watched as his son played ignorant to the fact that maybe things were starting to get better with his parents.

Soon an old man with gray hair and warring thick glasses with the lens a little darkened to protect his old eyes from the sun approached the two kids and touched the little girls shoulder "Hey little one, we need to go home, I told your mom I would drop you by five" the man said.

"But gramps… I don't want to go" she cried and made an irresistible puppy eye expression.

"I'm sorry sweetie, but we have to" The old man said with a sad expression and the little girl stood up and grabbed her teddy bear.

"Bye, bye friend" she said waving her little hand to Wyatt while her Gramps held her by the other hand and conducted her away.

When they both were too far from Piper and Leo's eye sight they hid behind some trees and the old man murmured a spell making him get younger and the girl older. The glasses as well as the teddy bear disappeared and in the place there was only Chris and Melinda.

"So… Care to explain?" A voice came from behind and both of them froze on the spot turning slowly to face Paige and Phoebe.

"Sure" Melinda smiled and looked at Chris expecting he volunteered with an explanation.

"We were giving Piper and Leo some time alone to talk" He explained simply and Melinda looked at him slightly shocked for him be telling the truth.

"Yeah, I distracted Wyatt for a while giving Piper an Leo time to talk, but as I wouldn't be able to get near him as myself we did a little aging spell and everything worked out pretty well" Melinda finished getting the feeling she was sounding incredibly stupid.

"And THAT worked?" Paige asked in disbelief.

"When we left Leo and Piper were getting along pretty well" Chris shouldered.

"A little more than pretty well I may add" Melinda confirmed smiling.

"Now if you excuse me I have to go. Need a lift Melinda?" Chris changed the subject.

"No, she's going to the Manor with us" Phoebe answered.

"Okay. See you guys latter" he waved a hand and orbed away.

"Let's go too" Phoebe held Melinda's arm and Paige hold Phoebe's hand as they orbed away.

_/The Manor/_

The orb lights haven't even disappeared and Phoebe was already turning into Melinda's direction getting ready to ask some important questions "Why is so important for you to make Piper and Leo get back together?"

"I've told you so!" Melinda turned and walked into the Book of shadows direction to use it as a shield "To make sure he will be loved and happy so we can have a chance if my brother fails"

"No, that's important for us, or maybe Wyatt, but it isn't your reason" Paige cleared "We want to know your true reasons"

"Those are my true reasons" Melinda almost screamed, but couldn't look at them.

"You're lying!" Phoebe accused.

"My reasons aren't important, they doesn't concern you" Melinda folded her arms in front of her chest and stared at them angrily.

"You are lying. Again" Phoebe retorted "Tell us the truth, we can't help or trust you or your brother if you keep lying".

"Well, maybe the truth can be too hurtful for you and maybe I don't want you guys to live with that weigh over your shoulders, you shouldn't worry about things that haven't happened yet." Melinda screamed getting really nervous and angry at them "Me and my brother should, because those things already happened to us, but not to you, it's our weigh, our responsibility, not yours!" She started to flip the pages of the Book violently "Chris is here so that you can live in a world where nothing that has happened in my past happens in your future. We don't lie because we are evil or because we don't trust you. God! We lie because we want to protect you!" she held her breath attempting to held her tears and took several slow and deep breaths before looking at the two charmed Ones again.

Phoebe and Paige looked at each other for a while, they were shocked, and they didn't expect that the girl would over react that much about the subject. The worst part was that Phoebe felt it was true, everything she said was true and that brought a lot more questions for the sisters. Is the future so bad that they need to be protected from it? And do they really want to know? Isn't it better to continue ignorant, after all no matter what happened in the future it never happened to them and maybe it never will if they save Wyatt.

"Melinda" Phoebe tried to approach the girl "You need to understand, we can't live with all this uncertainty, maybe we need to know more about the future so we can help you and your brother".

"I don't want to tell you" She replied.

"But we want to know" Paige said "Please, tell us."

"I…" Melinda looked around trying to find a way out "I can't. I really want to tell you guys. To tell everything I think you should know, but I can't. Big Brother said to me not to say anything so I'm not saying. I won't betray his trust"

"Melinda we can't help you if we stay in the dark" Phoebe tried to convince her.

"Let's do this... Why don't you try to think of the answers to your questions by yourselves and when you come to a satisfactory one you tell me it and I'll tell you if it's the right one or not. But I'll only listen to your assumption twice a week, so be careful" Melinda smiled, that way she would have enough time to think.

Phoebe opened her mouth to say something but closed it, Melinda wasn't really asking, she was just informing what she was going to do and the empath felt the teenager was being pretty serious about it.

"Ok" Paige smiled.

"What is the demon you are looking for?" Phoebe asked trying to change the subject.

"I'm not looking for a demon, I'm looking for a way to kill a powerful demon without the power of three"

"Why?"

"Because the demon my brother thinks is the guilty one for turning Wyatt evil is too strong and he doesn't want to get you involved" Melinda rolled her eyes, she knew she wasn't supposed to tell them that, but since Chris never really told her not to tell the sisters his plan and since she really thought he would need the charmed Ones help… Well it wasn't for nothing that everyone in the future, deep down, considered her a manipulative bitch.

"Is he idiot? He will need our help, he's not mister super powerful or something" Paige was getting a little bit chocked and angry by Chris's mania to work alone.

"I know" Melinda shouldered "Specially now that I'm powerless and we can't do our super combo" she seemed really annoyed, but Phoebe detected a little pitch of excitement when shoe talked about the combo.

"Cool" Phoebe smiled "how is that combo like?"

"Oh you know, Chris go Pikachu over the demons while I use his telekinesis to make sure all the demons are hit by it. We pretty much rule when we work together" she talked like it was no big deal and like that was one of the many combos she and her brother could do.

"Go Pikachu over the demons?" Paige was laughing "what does that even mean?"

"It's what I call one of his powers" Melinda told not thinking it was a big deal.

"I thought he only had TK!" Phoebe almost screamed.

"He only go Pikachu over a demon when it's absolutely necessary, that power really scares him to death, but I guess it's our father fault".

"Oh" the sisters tried to go along and don't force the subject, they could ask Chris about the Pikachu power anytime. "Why is your father responsible for that?" Phoebe asked.

" Well… If he had though Chris how to use that power, like he was SUPPOUSED to... Maybe Chris would have know how to completely control it and would have used it more, but instead he only forbid Chris to use it and made him scared of his most destructive and important power" Melinda explained with clear resentment "He tried to, when he gave up of our older brother and finally started to act as a father for me and, specially, Chris, but it was too late, Chris never really got confident enough to use that power".

"Older brother?" Paige asked "You guys have an older brother?"

"Of course! " Melinda was completely shocked, looking at them as if they were stupid "I mean, Chris is obviously a middle child, neurotic like that…" she rolled her eyes "come on guys, confidence issues, perfectionism, a little tendency to try to boss over everybody, but always look like he needs someone approval… It screams middle child all over it!"

"Hey! I'm the middle sister and I'm not like that" Phoebe disagreed.

"No, you are the middle sister now" Melinda corrected "you were raised as the youngest. But you know who is exactly like Chris?" a large smile formed on the girl's lips "Piper" she answered her own question.