Post by StoryGirl83 on Aug 27, 2008 23:44:37 GMT -5
Chapter Twelve – Surprising Mom
Piper Halliwell loved cooking. Sometimes her assistant chef, Callie Jacobs, worked in the kitchen with her, but most of the time when she was in the kitchen she wanted to cook alone. Callie mostly cooked when Piper was off for the day. Besides Callie she had various others who helped both of them in the kitchen, but it was slow right now, so she had sent her helper on break. The sound of orbing pulled her attention away from the stove as behind her Wyatt orbed in. She turned around as a second set of blue-white orbs formed into Chris. “Boys!”
“Hi, Mom,” Wyatt grinned.
“You orbed!” Piper stared at them. She had almost gotten used to the fact that they could and now here they were, orbing again. A smile formed on her face.
Chris nodded, grinning.
“We don’t know if it is permanent or not,” Wyatt admitted.
“What ever happened?” Piper asked, her full attention on her boys.
Chris didn’t say anything, instead keeping his attention on the stove behind his mother.
As a result it was Wyatt, once more, who answered. “Cilly told us something weird was going on in the park, so we went over to investigate. When we got there we found two witches under attack.”
Chris walked around Wyatt and Piper to the stove.
Piper followed him with her eyes. “Oh. Thanks.”
Chris grinned. “Not like you to forget food cooking.”
“Not every day my sons orb in to let me know their powers are back,” Piper returned in kind.
Chris grinned and turned back to the food.
A waiter, Tyson Addington, walked into the kitchen with a customer’s order. He looked up and frowned at the sight of Wyatt and Chris. “Weren’t you alone back here?”
“The boys wanted to surprise me,” Piper informed him, “so they snuck in.”
“Oh,” Tyson stared at them for a second, “well. I have an order for you.” He handed the order to Piper and headed back to the dining room.
Piper turned to her sons. “You guys had better go before someone else wonders why you are here. Chris, I’ll take back my stove.”
“You sure?” Chris asked, reluctant to leave.
“Yes,” Piper reaffirmed, “now go.”
Chris moved away from the stove, allowing his mother in.
“Do you know where Dad is?” Wyatt asked. “We wanted to surprise him, too.”
“We did?” Chris asked, surprised.
Wyatt raised his eyebrows.
“Well, okay we did,” Chris conceded, “but we didn’t discuss it.”
“He’s been teaching Hank,” Piper informed them, “so I’d check over at Henry and Paige’s.”
“Thanks, Mom,” Wyatt grinned before orbing out.
Chris chuckled. “And on it goes. See you later, Mom.”
After she watched him orb out, Piper turned back to her stove.