Ch.60

My next life wasn't so pedestrian, nor was it kind in any way. I was born a slave in ancient Egypt, beaten and forced to work from the moment I could walk. By the time I was seven, I was found by a witch named Isis because of my immense magical power. Her demon lover Jared killed my master and sold me to the Source of All Evil since my power manifested as a fire starter when I turned nine.

There I was tortured, beaten and made partially demon as they squelched most of my soul from me. I'd had to hide the rest, but I had no love for anyone in this world. I became the Source's right hand and obtained the power to take power from others. Over a thousand years later I was extremely powerful, having killed witches, whitelighters and demons alike, taking their powers for myself.

When the war for power over the throne of the underworld came, I made a brutal name for myself as Ren, the Source vanquisher. I'd killed my last master and taken most of his power, expelling the Source's essence as the new Source squared off against me. He used energy bolts, fire balls and flames, but I watched his power do nothing to me. Instead, I brutally mutilated the left side of his face and took his eye with my advanced fire throwing.

I left him beaten and walked away saying he could have the throne, but no one would ever command me again. He took the throne as denoted his power even wounded, but he sent his minions to try and eliminate me over the centuries. I eventually grew too powerful for even him to wound as my body advanced to a near invulnerable and invincible state. The avatars made their appearance and requested I join them as equals.

This lead to me killing one of them and taking their power with my swords. They left me the hell alone after that while I tortured and mutilated the demons that came my way. Eventually I left the underworld and went topside to earth to live amongst the humans. That lasted all of a century until I killed the three titans in their sleep and took their power for myself.

The elders sensed the massive threat I became and yet I didn't attack them. They were useless ingrates with a self righteous bug up their asses. I hid my power and myself from all those attempting to see me and took the seer, the one that looked like Cordelia, as my lover. For centuries we used each other and she enjoyed my protection.

Looking like Jason Mamoa without the silly Aquaman costume had it's benefits if nothing else. Kyra, the seer, let me know when the BC years were over as I lounged about. She knew I only saw her as a sex partner and didn't care because she was using me for a lot more than that. She charged demons through the nose, knowing if they didn't pay up, I'd take their powers and give them to her since I didn't need anymore.

The Source even stopped sending his assassins after a while, though he made the effort to make it seem as if he was being lenient for my hand in killing the last Source. The truth was no more upper level demons were willing to die by my hands after so long. Soon Kyra let it know that we were lovers and if anyone screwed with her, I'd kill them after I was done playing with them for a century or two of torture. This curbed anyone's bravado when dealing with her and she got paid far higher for her visions than anyone else who had them.

Still, she paid me by walking around the lair naked and letting me take her whenever the mood hit which was a lot. Unfortunately as a full demon she couldn't carry children so no brats were filling the lair with laughter. I did however slip out and have my way with Lady Godiva and beget a bastard there. Unfortunately a demon cult got to it and sacrificed the child for it's power.

This in turn caused them to vanish when I found them and my dead son. I returned to earth a century later and ran into the charmed ones stopping the evil enchantress thanks to a time traveling spell of sorts. I was tall, strong and good looking so when they saw me, their whitelighter recognized me immediately. He raised his sword he'd killed a guard with and I raised an eyebrow.

He warned them for Paige's sake that I was evil and killed a Source I'd been loyal to for thousands of years. I smirked as they seemed fearful, but shook my head. "Go do what you want and I'll do the same. I've no bones with the self righteous feathered fucks or their little witch underlings. Now leave or stop staring at me."

I walked passed them and grabbed cage the princess was stuck in, tearing it to pieces. I grabbed the chains on the wall and snapped them with prejudice. I heard Leo tell them I'd been a slave since birth in ancient Egypt and sold to the Source for power because I was a fire starter and born witch with a lot of natural talent. I gave him a murderous look and he shut up.

The princess thanked me and I told her to piss off because I didn't do it for her or anyone. I walked out after the last of the chains were reduced to slag. The charmed ones stopped the evil enchantress and left so I took the evil enchantress to the lair in the underworld and took her repeatedly. She lived the rest of her mortal days pleasing me until she went topside and died a beggar.

I met the charmed ones again five hundred years later and this time I'd met Cole Turner as well. He paled seeing me and asked what I was doing away from the Seer's lair. I told him I don't answer to him or anyone before telling him to piss off. He said he was on orders from the Triad and the newest Source.

I didn't care which Source sent him or what the Triad wanted so I raised a hand a blasted his ass through a time portal back to his time without needing a celestial alignment. Instead, I met and destroyed the dark witch, letting the sisters win as I met Phoebe and her apple peel showed and R when she asked whom she was destined to be with. She was confused, but I slipped away having not had a hand in it at all. I'd warn a mask at the party like herself so she hadn't recognized me.

I flirted and had sex with Prue whom really hadn't known me. She went back to the future carrying my child, I saw to that. Still, I'd watched them have their fun and when it was time, I protected Melinda Warren from the shadows as I did all their family mostly. In the late nineteen tens, I met the three famous incarnations of the charmed cousins.

I had my way with all three of them until Piper and her would be lover, Leo's reincarnation, met. Still, I incinerated Anton and convinced Phoebe's incarnation to make me a necklace that makes me immune to their powers. It wasn't hard considering she'd become evil while carrying my unborn child. As for Prue's incarnation, she was a fun lover, but like the seer, it was no more than sex.

I was however disappointed Leo's incarnation had managed to lure Piper's out of my bed after years of pleasure. I'd been their firsts, all three of them and done things to them no priest would want to hear, yet for whatever reason, she'd been lured out of my bed and into Leo's. What's more, the sisters managed to get the necklace off me and banish me to the underworld days after it was made years after Piper and Leo's incarnation had gotten together and broken up. Using power I hadn't known about, the child in Piper's incarnation.

They cursed Phoebe's incarnation and killed both her and the child because they were evil. I had a complicated problem then and decided to forge an amulet, storing all my evil powers into it. With a blood ritual and the seer's help, I was able to purge the evil within me up to a point decades later. I met Paige in the early sixties having come back in time with Penny's go-go boots.

She and I met formally through Penny who introduced me as a former demon and now immortal witch. I'd been up front and honest with her and her husband about everything mostly including having protected their family line for centuries and helped build the manor over the Nexus. Paige asked why and I shrugged, telling her my story and how I purged my demonic aspects when I'd fallen for Phoebe's incarnation who was killed with my child because the evil in me had made them evil.

She said I should've expected it being a demon and I sighed. "Nothing is so black and white, Paige. I had and still have a soul despite all the horrible things I've done. Not even the Source could torture it out of me and believe me he tried, for millennia."

She told me to cry her a river and I asked coldly. "A parentless one like how you are or how about a slave one beaten and not given a name until you were sold and tortured without the knowledge of how to even speak for millennia all so you could serve a master you loathe? Did you think demons were so straight forward? That evil is evil just because?"

I stood inches from her as my magic crackled and shook the manor. Penny and Allen calmed me down and I shook my head as I sighed. "Call it what you will and sure, everyone has problems, but not everyone is given a choice. No angels or white lighters came to my aid, no one came to save me so no, I don't regret a damned thing I've done as a demon besides what happened to Phoebe Russell and our child. I've killed and slaughtered more demons then you ever will and while I've killed witches as well, it was only ever in self defense when your precious elders sent them to try and murder me because I refused to fallen in line and be anyone whipping boy ever again. So take your snarky self righteous attitude and stuff it."

The house no longer shook and I turned to Penny. "The Nexus broke free. I'll go seal it again. I'm sorry for the damage I've caused your home, Allen, Penny."

They said it wasn't a problem and they'd meet me when I've calmed down so Penny can help me adjust my aura again. Even with all the evil out of me, I had the power of three titans and so much more. My body was invincible still so I did what I could to help the Halliwells. When Piper and Phoebe came back in time to get Paige, they recognized me and not from my evil enchantress time.

Phoebe said she'd just left me in the attic back in her time where I'd told her to ask me to help them. I nodded slowly and asked what she needed me to do. Piper asked if I was good yet and I took out the amulet of evil. She said that was good enough for her so she asked me to send them back to their time before anything could be messed with.

I waved a hand and a time portal opened up for them. Paige asked. "Just like that?"

I shrugged and went to walk away but Phoebe stopped me and pulled me into a kiss, saying she knew I loved her past self and I'd been alone since I got rid of my demon side so she wanted me to know we were good together in the future. I kissed her again, deeper, all passion and proof of my desire for her. She moaned lightly saying I'd kill myself if I continued. I snorted lightly and told her I wasn't afraid of dying.

She patted my chest and said she definitely knew that. Paige asked her why it had to be me because she could totally change the past and told him it was Cole or anyone else. As it turns out, Paige just doesn't like me because I'm an ex-demon. They left and Allen died later that evening while I protected the other witches Penny's friend and her warlock lover came to kill.

The warlock had recognized me and failed to flee as he died. Penny killed her witch friend and I helped her mourn, being there for her and Patty when they needed me. I was there when Prue and Piper were born, vanquishing the demon that came after the power of the charmed ones and wiping out a great many more that came to the manor beforehand. When I left, I warded the house against all evil or those with ill intent towards the Halliwell bloodline.

With the nexus there the wards wouldn't last because it was neutral so it's power would erode the wards over time. Still, I told Patty and Penny both that I couldn't be there and still fall in love with Phoebe in the future. Patty touched her stomach and I nodded before telling them about the wards and how to renew them. I told them I left instructions in their book of shadows and left after saying goodbye to little Prue and Piper.

I disappeared in a whirl of wind and built a company in my spare time which I soon had a lot of. I made Armor Tech, the cutting edge future of mankind and it went global. Soon healing tanks and pills were out, medical technology and immune boosters to everything was released and all kinds of advancements were out there. Armor tech of course made armor for firefighters and cops alike.

The military bought a bunch of it though without any contracts because I'd refused them. Witches, immortals and even a few Kryptonians came out to help me help the world, though the Kryptonians eventually returned because they preferred the painted world. Some hunted demons and others helped with the company or studied the magic and the world itself. They used what they and I both knew to find out the full history of magic and how it effected the world.

More in the painted world studied all the potions and made plenty of vanquishing potions for those outside. Demons were chased out of the human world most for the next couple decades. Sure, some came back or hid themselves and warlocks with them, but most of the lower level demons and evil creatures had been vanquished or fled. As the late eighties came, I decided to return to my younger self before joining the sisters in high school.

There was no Freebie because from the moment we met, teen punk rock Phoebe and I were like magnets. More than just her first time was had, she and I were inseparable mostly. She found it odd that Penny Halliwell didn't disapprove of me, but we were so pulled together that it didn't matter much to her. We still hung out with her friends and all that fun stuff, but she knew I was the heir to Armor Tech and a young genius as she called me.

They hung out at the mansion I'd built and had fun in the pool, throwing parties and whatnot. Phoebe and I were all over the place both physically and relationship wise. I'd told her my secret, all of it, when she turned seventeen. I shared the deepest parts of my soul with her and she loved me all the more for it, especially when I showed her sex magic.

Phoebe kept my secret from her sisters and we spent years together before she skipped college and went to New York with me to find her father. When we returned to San Francisco after Penny's funeral, Piper and Prue chewed me out. I didn't argue and I only carried Phoebe's stuff to her room before she asked me to stay with her instead of going back to the cold lonely mansion. I agreed and asked Prue how the wedding went.

She grew quiet before saying he'd been a tool and lied about Phoebe sleeping with him. I stilled and Phoebe snorted saying she'd sooner fuck herself than cheat on me. Prue nodded saying. "That's what I'd said, though with less bluntness and crude words."

I shrugged and told them to let me know if there was anything they needed me to fix around the house since I was staying for now. Prue waved me off saying she'd make a list before asking why we'd gone to New York. I kissed Phoebe and said I'd be upstairs grabbing a hot shower if she needed me. She called me a cowards and I snorted. "Between you and your sisters is a battlefield I'd sooner avoid. I'd die for you Phoebe, but I won't come between you and your sisters. Though if it's voting, my vote will always be with yours."

She smiled and kissed me again before saying she'd be right up before dinner. She soon moaned in my ear as I took her in the shower. She sighed as I set her down after an orgasmic squirting experience on her part. She said she couldn't believe I felt so good and wanted her just as much as our first few times.

I told her she was certainly as tight as her first time and more beautiful now that she'd grown into herself. I stroked her landing strip as she turned around and bent over for the shampoo. I entered her and she yipped my name before I held her hips and worked us both into a frenzy. Soon I emptied my balls in her depths again while she moaned throatily.

We washed off and she had to douche because I'd released it all as deep as I could go and she didn't want a mess in her panties later. She sighed saying I was lucky she was on birth control or I'd have an army of kids by now. I chuckled and held her, touching the necklace she put on with the ring at the end of it hanging between her breasts. We both went quiet and I asked when we were going to tell them.

She said after they got their powers back and knew enough about everything. I nodded slowly and she took my hand saying the hard part for me was over and she'd said yes so she'd stand by me no matter what from then on. I kissed her and told her if I somehow died id already put her in my will to inherit everything I built to help this world. She shivered and kissed me before we dressed and left the bathroom.

Piper made dinner and I thanked her before Phoebe told them I had a gift for them. I told them I'd be right back and brought back two cases. I set them on the table and waved for them to open them up. Piper and Prue opened them and saw an injection needle, two vials, a necklace and a bottle of pills. Prue spoke. "Please tell me this is some joke or anything but the beginning of a weird serial killer plot."

Phoebe snorted as I told her I'd told her so. She told them. "The vials are the disease immunity booster that Armor Tech released for all the rich upper crust types. The second vial is a poison immunity booster to all known poisons and toxins while the pills are the latest healing serum pills that can regrow limbs or heal almost anything besides death. Even the military is having a hard time getting enough of them."

I grunted. "That's because my company won't take military contracts and restrict who we sell them to. The advances we make in science is for all of humanity to share and benefit from, not just the military or rich people. Though we do make a lot of donations to VA hospitals and most hospitals across the globe that can't afford to buy them."

Piper asked. "And the necklace?"

Phoebe smiled. "Ryan made them. They're basically bug zappers."

I huffed and told them. "They create a small magnetic field in the human body's own natural energy fields causing a bug zapper effect as Phoebe calls it. But more importantly they repel bullets, and any magnetic metals that come at you when turned up to full power. Though it makes it hard to grab forks and stuff. The dial switch is on the back."

They thanked me and I shrugged. "Phoebe mentioned you not being able to afford some of it on a museum salary so I figured the best of the best my company makes would make a decent gift and apology for kidnapping Phoebe for a year or so."

Piper had a needle issue and I told her she didn't have to look at it because it could be injected into the arm or butt muscles. I suggested she take it to the hospital and have a doctor do it if she couldn't look away. She said no and asked me to use it on her arm. I shrugged and cleaned a spot before telling her that I was the one that broke her window five years ago trying to climb into Phoebe's room.

She barked. "What?"

I injected her twice and set the case down, putting two band aides on her with a cotton ball apiece. She scowled at me and I just smiled wryly as she said Grams grounded her for a week. I shrugged. "She still made me fix the darn things if that helps."

She shook her head and I asked Prue if she needed a distraction as well. She shook her head and I injected her while Piper looked away. I put the band aides on her and disposed of the vials and syringes. When it was over, they had the pills and necklaces so I cleared the table and washed up before kissing Phoebe and telling her I'd be getting some sleep because the plane wasn't conductive to sleep.

She smirked because we'd joined the mile high club in the first class bathroom. She said she'd wake me when she gets ready for bed. We shared another kiss before I headed upstairs to sleep in her bed. I woke up when I felt them get their power.

Waited until Phoebe came to bed and pulled the tight top off her. Her breasts bounced and soon they were bouncing a whole lot more. Fortunately, her sisters knew not to come in because she was quite loud. Still, fun was had and once we were semi dressed, she laid on my chest telling me she'd done it.

I told her I felt it and that her gift was premonition that could grow exponentially in many ways with practice and time. The next day I repaired the manor all the way to full specs, working on everything from electricity to plumbing and fixing the water heater, chandeliers, all of it. Later that night the girls returned home and Prue gave me a look I knew well. It was the I know what you did and you're in trouble look.

I shrugged and sighed, putting the hammer on my tool belt. "I take it Phoebe told you everything?"

She scowled. "Close enough mr.Former demon and ex-lover."

I grunted. "To be fair, I was evil then and I can explain."

At that moment Piper came running in saying Jeremy was a warlock and coming. I sighed and took out the last crystal of raw magic I had prepared. I handed it to Phoebe and told her to set it in the fern by the door. She didn't hesitate and when she did it, runes appeared on the walls in many colors and languages.

It all settled back down and I smirked. "Let Jeremy come in now. The anti evil wards are at full power. It'd be like a bug zapper all it's own."

They waited with me and when he came in, the walls lit up near him and bolts of lightning blasted him into nothingness, vaporizing him. I sighed. "Sadly that was the last of the pure magic crystals Penny had in stock so the wards will only last a few weeks before you'll have to vanquish the demons on your own."

We all sat down and I explained everything about their family, my life in this world and how I'd fallen for the soul of an infamous charmed one. I told them of my encounters with them over the years including with Paige, their youngest sister. All I told them was that her name was Paige and she was the youngest of them as well as the incarnation of the evil enchantress in her past life.

Phoebe said my demon self was less evil and more lonely than anything else. I shrugged and told them after they'd banished me to the underworld because I was evil and cursed Phoebe to die because I'd turned her evil with the baby, I used blood magic to purge the evil and demonic powers in me and since I retained a soul as damaged and feeble as it was at the time from lack of use, I'd lived through it all.

I showed them the amulet and sighed. "I tried everything I know of to try and destroy it. From the oldest of magics to the strictly powers of the new age lazy witches. Nothing worked."

I put it away saying I didn't want them to try until I knew it wouldn't corrupt them and I really didn't want to test it on others in case it gave them the powers inside or the ability to control me. I clinched a fist and said I'd never be anyones slave again. Phoebe rubbed my arm and I sighed, telling them. "Once I was free of the evil they'd put in me, I found I was an immortal witch and fire starter so I gathered hundreds of witches and built a company. Armor Tech, a shield to protect the world while advancing human technology in the hopes that I could do more good than the evil I'd done as a demon."

I looked to Piper and Prue. "I helped Penny a lot and Patty as well. In fact I was around a lot and even there for your births except Phoebe's. Both of you knew me as a friend of your mother's for a time until Sam, her whitelighter and guardian angel, came into the picture. I sort of drifted from there and focused on the company after setting up the protections on the manor to empower good witches while in the house and protect you and your family from harm."

I picked up Kit the cat and stroked her as she purred. I told them I focused on my company until I heard Phoebe was having a tough time in school so I reverted my physical age and joined her to protect her mostly until she corrupted my fragile heart. Phoebe wrinkled her nose with a smile at me saying there was a mutual corruption from both sides. Prue snorted. "Eww. Why didn't you tell us before?"

I nodded to Phoebe. "I told Phoebe twice. Once she went and spoke with Penny, causing her mind to be wiped with a spell. I had to tell her again after Penny chewed me out and blasted my ass half way to the underworld. She was a mean one when it came to how you all should be protected. Still, I couldn't be with Phoebe and not have her know everything. It didn't feel right. She warned me against telling you both because you were more responsible and innocent respectively. You'd have told Penny and I'm fairly certain she'd have banished me or cursed me in a bottle or something."

I grimaced. "Hell hath no fury like a pissed off Halliwell."

Prue sighed. "And don't you forget it."

I nodded before promising to tell them anything and everything in the morning, starting with a lesson on familiars and how they protect new and innocent witches. Kit meowed and I chuckled. "I'm well aware it's a secret. Just don't go blabbing to the winged assholes and we'll be good."

She meowed again and I passed her to Phoebe, saying she was a familiar, a magical creature sent to protect them. She petted Kit before passing her to Piper and coming to bed with me. The next few days were spent telling them a lot about their ancestors, their origins dating back to the beginning of magic and Neena, the first witch. I told them of the origins of magic, the wars, angels and demons, elders and magical beings and finally the avatars, titans, gods and well, everything.

I told them of old school magic and how it wasn't as reliant on powers like they'd gained because it encompassed everything. I told them how their powers were theirs by birth and yet the elders would dictate how they were to be used and how they evolved naturally by their hand or were revoked. I told them how to gain their own powers with practice instead of relying on powers that weren't even the elder's to begin with nor had anything to do with them. I told them the power of three and the powers they had gave them a natural boost over demons and other witches, but just relying on that wouldn't help them reach their full potential.

I turned to Phoebe and told her I'd continue teaching her martial arts since her power was passive for now, but that she should begin trying to get visions off random things, not for profit or fame, if she wanted to expand her power and grow it. I turned to the other two and pointed to Prue. "Weight lifting with telekinesis."

I pointed to Piper. "Your power works on molecular deceleration, but if you try to freeze bigger areas or smaller, you could advance it to freeze the world or advance it to the opposite, molecular combustion. Basically blowing up demons and things with a hand wave and an emotional trigger. Your powers are all tied to your emotions so do try to figure out what triggers them and perhaps practice with or without your hands or eye movement."

I sighed and warned them not to be caught because humans fear what they don't understand and they'd likely reinstate the stake burning policy and witch hunts. I grunted. "Not that fire can hurt me, but I have no desire to be forced into another war, this time against humanity."

I handed out a business card to each of them. Phoebe asked what it was and I smiled. "There's a literal coven of hundreds of witches and magical beings working at Armor Tech. If you girls get into too deep of trouble, trust me when I say the power of three hundred witches beats the power of three or anything the armies of heaven and hell can throw at you except maybe the Hollow. Either way they can help."

I kissed Phoebe and told her. "Especially you."

She shivered and smiled, sighing. "Alright, witch study over, now I have something to share."

She showed them the ring and told them how I proposed to her on the Statue of Liberty. Her sisters congratulated us on the engagement and Phoebe said she was going to start college soon since I was a constant college student and more than willing to pay the way for her. She explained my many PHDs and the fact that I'm always looking to learn new things and help humanity. Weeks later she got an offer from a demon I recognized.

I told them what Stefan the photographer was and they took care of it as their first vanquish. They saved a girl that he was about to feed on and another that hadn't died yet from old age. When three shapeshifting warlocks moved in across the street, I warned the sisters and they managed to save their father from the warlocks of all things. Prue wasn't happy with him, but Phoebe was more than happy he was in town.

We ended up getting married with Grams and Patty coming down as spirits to host it in the manor. Victor was my best man and we made it all perfectly legal to boot. When it was over I whirled us off to Hawaii for our short week long honeymoon. We barely made it back in time for Prue's birthday with a gift all our own, a set of photography cameras from all eras up to the newest one on the market.

She loved the giant box of boxes of cameras. I shrugged when she thanked us and Phoebe gave her the old one I'd found from her past life self. Phoebe herself had her own mind palace I'd helped her make over the honeymoon when we were relaxing after kinky and sensual fun. We'd dived the reefs, explored the resorts and relaxed in spas when it wasn't sexy fun time.

I'd promised we'd go back whenever she wanted, but for now her sisters and the innocent needed her. She'd saved an asshole on our trip from the airport since she insisted we come back the human way. A week passed as a dream sorcerer targeted Prue while Phoebe and I were getting classes started. She was going for a psychology major, but beating demon and warlock ass along the way.

The dream sorcerer was stopped and well, dealt with, while Piper had her fun with a book writer due to a spell she cast. Phoebe had warned her there might be consequences, but added the well endowed bit for her. Piper asked how endowed I was and I heard Phoebe say if I was any more endowed her uterus would double as a pop up tent, but I felt like every thrust was aching for her and while her first time hurt a lot, every time afterwards felt like orgasmic heaven. I walked in and asked if they needed something and Phoebe got up, saying she needed me.

I immediately stiffened in more ways than one. I grabbed her and she laughed as I picked her up and carried her with ease down the stairs to the second floor. She told Piper to be careful and spent the rest of the day and night being fucked stupid with and without sex magic. Prayers to deities were had and eventually a big mess was made on the bed as we both left a lot of our combined fluids there.

Prue ended up in the hospital and got a healing pill only to snuff out her sorcerer. And all was right with the world for a time after they reversed the spell of course. Phoebe and I got roped into helping Piper with the catering for a big wedding. When we met the bride and her maids of honor with the groom's mother, I frowned and Hecate freaked out seeing me.

I raised an eyebrow and scoffed. "What are peon demons like yourself doing out of the underworld? The Source send you lot topside to come after me?"

Hecate looked to the two humans and the witches next to me. I waved a hand and knocked out the innocent seamstress with a spell. Hecate shook her head. "I'm not here for you, though if you're willing then I might give up my current prey."

I frowned. "No thanks, I'm married and I don't screw demons anymore, especially any that look like you under that visage."

I turned to Phoebe. "Honey, meet Hecate, whore of the underworld and mother of demons in human skin like Attila the hun. The bride's maids are harpy like creatures like she is. Hecate, meet my wife, Phoebe Halliwell and her sister, Piper Halliwell, two of the three charmed ones."

Hecate frowned. "Slumming it with witches I see."

I smirked. "As if I'd ever touch you."

She sneered. "Oh, but that whore seer was good enough for you?"

I shrugged. "At least she didn't have horns or any other form other than her human one. Now, do be kind enough to leave peacefully and stay in the underworld. I dislike demons topside."

Hecate growled. "And if I don't? I think the rumors of your power is exaggerated. Any slave can kill a Source if their back is turned on their trusted dog."

The entire building shook as I clenched my fist before I stopped as Phoebe touched my arm. I closed my eyes and opened them as the shaking stopped. "You know, you're right. So let me show you how I killed him and butchered his armies."

I moved, ripping the arms off her first maid, making her scream until I slapped her head off her shoulders. In the blink of an eye o ripped the heart out of her second maid, ripping her in half as a great inferno grew overhead. I walked slowly to Hecate. "When I butchered my former master, he screamed for hours as I pulled him apart piece by piece, begging me to kill him by the time I was done flaying him alive and peeling his eyeballs like grapes. His other slaves were loyal and tried to stop me so they died with him along with his entire faction. All of them victims of the anger I held inside me for millennia. When you meet them in the demonic wasteland, do try and have a bit of dignity."

She tried to flee and when I appeared in front of her at each turn she tried to fight. Phoebe stopped me from torturing her seconds later and told me to let it go. I growled before tearing Hecate's head off and incinerating her with the inferno boiling in the air above us. Phoebe and I walked out of the controlled flames unharmed as the demon blood on me was vaporized.

The fire stopped and left nothing harmed, but the demons utterly vaporized. I turned to the female owner of it all. "Making deals with demons for power and wealth. If I were still evil I'd find you funny. As it is you're just pathetic and a fool. Selling your own son's future for your happiness-"

A fire sparked in my hand and I crushed it as Phoebe told me we don't kill humans. I glared at the woman before asking where she wanted the hors d'oeuvres and stuff. She stared at me blankly in fear before Piper snapped her out of it. She asked what I was and I told her I was an immortal, unkillable badass in love with a goddess.

She looked to Phoebe and Phoebe told her I was just kidding on the goddess part. I scoffed and told her I'd pray to her and worship her like a goddess any day of the week. Piper broke up the stuff and told the woman about the chef changes. She told her the contract was still valid supposing the real bride still wanted to marry, but that was up to them.

Soon we were working and I erased the seamstresses memory of Hecate and us. Phoebe asked how I did it and I gave her a pouch. "Memory dust. I killed a whitelighter a long while back and took it along with his powers. I'm not exactly well liked amongst the feathery crowd even as an immortal witch. Apparently they're quite judgy over mistakes made when you're evil regardless of the fact that they failed to even give me a whitelighter before I was taken. Even Moses had one and he was born a slave like me."

I took a deep breath when she hugged me and held her as if I would lose her if I let go. My pain and memories passed with a shudder. I released her with a kiss and we got to work for pocket change to add to the budget. Piper and Prue had refused to let me help despite living in the same house. Still, they let Phoebe help out and she had access to all the same bank accounts.

They just made sure it was necessary before letting her pick up the rest of the bills. One of my many assistants at the company had morphed into my older form and was leading it in my stead for now. I really didn't need to do anything because the company had all the knowledge necessary to fix up the planet and help all the sick, starving and homeless. Armor Tech did a fuck ton of charity work and donations where the company couldn't directly step in.

Back to the present, the wedding went off without a hitch and no humans died which was a plus. We watched the wedding and I heard Phoebe ask Piper if she was pregnant. Piper said no and asked her if she was. Phoebe said no and stopped, counting down her calendar mentally before looking to me with wide eyes.

I raised an eyebrow and Phoebe told Piper she just might be. Piper's eyes went wide now and Phoebe asked if I could hear her. I nodded from across the wedding venue and she asked if she was pregnant. I looked to her stomach and appeared next to her in a heartbeat.

I put a hand on her stomach and closed my eyes. I opened them shocked. "We're going to be parents."

Phoebe hugged me and kissed me before Piper asked. "For real?"

I nodded after swinging Phoebe around. "Yeah. Though I think it happened just a bit ago because it's really early. Still, it's definitely there."

Phoebe asked if it was going to be a boy or girl and I shrugged. "I don't know, but it explains the flames. The baby protected you so I didn't have to. Odds are that's just the beginning with all the power in me. That baby will likely be deity level powerful if it has half the power in it that I have, all our kids will."

She practically melted in my arms in relief that they could protect themselves. She touched her stomach and told it that mommy already loves it and can't wait to meet it someday. She did it in a cutesy voice and I chuckled lightly while holding her from behind and splaying my hands across her stomach, interlocking my fingers with hers. Piper smiled and congratulated us before shooing us out since her people could handle the cleanup and we had to tell Prue.

We told her at her job, Buckland's auction house, and Prue had a not so positive reaction. She said kids were a lot of work and responsibility to which I replied that I would buy the manor next door for us and build a nursery while hiring one of the more powerful witches to be the baby's wet nurse, maid and guard if demons attack. I told her that the house next door doesn't have the nexus under it so I can ward it into a fortress that would take all the powers of heaven and hell combined to break into, source and everything.

I told her there was a reason they were safe in the manor and it wasn't all Penny's doing. I added that the company basically ran itself and besides school which is a handful of hours every few days, all my time was entirely devoted to Phoebe and helping others so the baby won't be an issue, especially since Phoebe and I don't share the same class schedules so she'd be home with the baby while I'm at school and vice versa, right next door where she can run over and help if need be.

I held Phoebe in my arms and she asked Prue what the real issue was. Prue flinched and sighed before admitting that she was supposed to be the one getting married first and having kids first or that's the way it'd felt to her. I sighed. "I can't say much about that, but if you really think Andy's the one then there's a set of spells I put in the book of shadows a long time ago when Penny was passing out memory charms like they were candy. It can erase the memory of a conversation that happened by the will of the caster and make them remember all the erased memories they'd ever lost."

Phoebe asked how that would help and I grunted. "Andy was one of the main victims of Penny's constant spells until she stripped you all of powers. I never agreed with any of it, but trying to tell her anything against her plans to protect you all wasn't wise even for my immortal ass. She was an extremely powerful telekinetic like Prue only she had decades of practice and my own teachings behind her. Crazy woman once tried to telekinetically castrate me because she started hating men for more than sex and no, I was never one of them, just a victim of being male and in her vicinity."

They winced and I sighed. "Anyways, make Andy remember and tell him the truth. You grew up together and played from the cradle. He was your first everything and I know he'll listen even if he doesn't like what you have to say. Give him a week and if he starts a witch hunt, I'll use my full power to fold back time and stop you from telling him. He's a good guy and he might just understand."

Prue hugged me, thanking me. I huffed. "Don't thank me yet. If he still wants to be with you, I'll take that thanks. If he doesn't and keeps the secret, I don't want a thanks and if I have to fold back time you can tell me 'I told you so'. Deal?"

She nodded and I smiled before reminding her to give him at most a week because after that I'd run out of power and it'd be too far in the past to change. She congratulated us and a week later she and Andy had never been closer. He knew the secret and I gave him a necklace, telling him it was powered by his love for her and her love for him, plus a bit of magic. I told him it would make demonic powers fail or deflect them away so if he gets caught in the crossfire he'll survive.

He asked if they wore them and I shook my head. "It doesn't work for witches, only humans. It's old earth magic from before the time of man when gods walked the earth and fell in love with mortals. The time of man being the fall of Roman Empire and onwards when the Catholic Church falsely said gods didn't exist, only their one God did. Trust me, I'm old enough to know what I'm talking about and considering I killed three deities and took their power, I'm living proof the divine isn't all angels and a flood happy plague flinging God."

I took his gun and fired it into my hand, showing him the flattened bullets before I handed him his gun back. I told him the true history of the world and the girls place in it over drinks. When I finished, I told him that Jeremy Burns was his murderer before and explained all of the rest, suggesting how he should close the cases. He thanked me for everything and got a good understanding of me from my own story and experience.

I told him he was a good kid back then and a good cop now so I was happy for Prue having put her trust in him. I told him how bad it could've gotten and how I'd have handled it before if he did. He said Penny was a piece of work and I shrugged. "She did what she thought was best and in the end that's all any of us can do. Trust me, I didn't have a place to judge her. I may have been an evil demon but I had a choice back when I was a kid. I could've resisted more and forced the Source to kill me. By not doing that I chose my path."

He said no kid should have gone through that and I chuckled. "Perhaps not. I haven't really thought of it like that. Mostly when I think about those times all I feel is pain and rage. I guess we all carry our demons with us no matter how old we are or what we are."

I opened the front door of the manor and found Piper ogling the handyman's butt as he looked for Kit the cat. Seeing it was Leo, I rolled my eyes as Phoebe came in saying. "My Santa, how you've changed."

I growled and told her I could lite a fire if she prefers a warm Christmas. She walked to me and kissed me saying I could stock her stuffing instead. I snorted lightly and Piper told us to get a room. I agreed. "Soon, but I wanted to see if the handyman did full restorations since I didn't have the time to restore the manor next door before we move in. I have one last public appearance to do for the company and some tests all week to finish up a few PHDs."

Leo turned around and had a bird's nest, stilling as he saw me. He went wide eyed and I grunted. "It's been a few decades. Last I saw you, you were feeling up a group of hippie chicks for an orgy in the early sixties."

Leo scowled. "And the last I saw you, you were evil and corrupting the sisters in the twenties."

I grunted. "I've changed."

He narrowed his eyes. "So have I."

I shrugged. "Whitelighters don't change, they can't. They're like vampires and zombies, undead and useless."

He flinched. "I wasn't even a whitelighter when that stuff went down with you."

I nodded. "And I haven't been evil since long before you grew feathers and became a self righteous bird man."

He scowled again and Piper asked what was going on. Phoebe told her Leo is apparently a whitelighter, a guardian angel for good witches and I don't like his kind because I was a powerful witch even as a kid and no one came to protect me. Andy asked. "He's an angel?"

I grunted. "More like a human kotex, wings and all and far less useful because you can patch a wound with a tampon or use it as fire kindling."

I turned to Leo. "On second thought, step further back, we'll see how well you burn."

A fire ball appeared in my hand and Phoebe took it, crushing it in her hand to Leo's shock. She told me no burning the whitelighter without recent reason. I grunted, annoyed now. Phoebe told Leo to step away from the fire place and not to goad me or she wouldn't stop me since he's supposedly immortal anyways.

I told Phoebe I'd go work next door and get the house ready since I didn't trust him and I wasn't feeling very amorous at the moment. I left them to talk and worked at superhuman speeds with clones. I upgraded everything to the best possible materials while maintaining the design and natural looks. Soon the power was switched over to solar while the roof was re-shingled with solar energy absorbing ones.

The whole place was heavily warded, inch by inch, while the nursery was the copy of Piper's room since it was the warmest and closest to our master bedroom. I was busy and missed the whole teen witch Kali demon problem that came, but Phoebe she'd dealt with the demon and shot lightning from her hand, vanquishing the demon after Piper froze it and freed the teen witch it had possessed. She said Leo was telling the elders of the baby and our marriage.

I snorted and told her I didn't fear them, just losing her and the baby like before. She said I'd never lose her and that if they try anything she'd go to the painted world and live there with me. I kissed her and she asked if I was amorous now. I raised a hand and she guided said hand to her moist panties, showing me she was in need of me.

That's all it took for me to be more than ready. We fucked like it was our last night on earth and her body greedily devoured my seed enough for me to worry that she'd grown a black hole in her body until soon a mess was made once more. Weeks later we'd moved into the manor and I'd finished several of my classes, starting another set. In the meantime a warlock from the future came after my employees at Armor Tech and ended up very dead for pissing off a coven three hundred strong.

No humans died in his hunt and Phoebe was never burdened with seeing the would be deaths. Still, I introduced her to all of the witches, male and female. I told Phoebe they were all children who grew up in the immortal world and wanted to experience the mortal world as witches. She was very happy to meet them all and asked if any of them were children of my past lives.

Jake, the guy pretending to be me, morphed back into his normal self and told her. "Just me. My mother's a witch named Bonnie. She and my dad are with his other wives happily relaxing on a beach in the immortal world. I was curious about what it was like to see and experience change like we all were."

Several of the witches agreed and Phoebe asked me. "Other wives?"

I shrugged. "It's a long story, but don't worry, you're the only wife I'll ever take in this lifetime. The immortal world is vast and I've lived many lifetimes, all of which are locked away and separate from the here and now."

I pulled her into my arms and told her that I have no contact with them and don't remember them beyond the basic information. She relaxed and Jake told her that the immortal world was way different. He explained that no one ages or dies there and kids are expected to pick up at least five studies of magic to master before they're allowed out along with all the knowledge of advanced sciences and technology. He went on to tell her that it was a lot because the magical knowledge of many worlds combined was extremely extensive even compared to the technology.

She raised an eyebrow and I grunted. "I've been to a lot of worlds with magic apparently. Companies like this remain in most worlds and send back kids who want to come back to the immortal world alongside the newest magical knowledge and technology. This way not even the immortal world stagnates. My own knowledge is whole and complete which is an advantage, but each world is different and the way of channeling magic for the same spells is different as well so it's difficult without practice."

I shrugged when she asked why I didn't use it to free myself earlier. "I'd lost hope of ever being free and gave into the rage and hatred. Even as knowledgeable as I am, my powers were sealed off by my other selves when I gave in, leaving me only with the power of this world. They had to ensure the safety of the immortal world and this one so I didn't turn into a demonic god of evil or something by abusing all I had access to."

I sighed and rubbed her slight two and a half month bulge in her stomach. "When I found you as a demon back then, I found hope again even when it turned you evil, I held onto that and my soul fought back. After I lost you and the baby, my soul capitalized on it and freed me from evil. Even in losing you both, you'd saved me so I waited, having met you in the past while you dealt with the evil enchantress and saved Melinda Warren, then again when you came back in time to save Paige from the sixties."

Phoebe sighed. "I have a lot of time traveling under my belt huh?"

I kissed her forehead. "You will and just your presence will give me hope that I won't have to be alone anymore."

We shared a kiss and I let the coven snatch her away to help her learn things or answer questions. I helped Piper deal with her manager by going with her to Quake and telling him to hire more people or she'd quit and buy the place just to shut it down and fire him. He said I couldn't do that and I passed him a magazine with my picture on it of the latest release of Armor Tech's charitable work stopping wars in Africa as state of the art villages were built. I told him. "I'm the heir to the largest multibillion dollar corporation in the world. Trust me, buying a restaurant and firing you is the least I could do for a family member."

He turned to Piper and she patted my arm saying. "He's my brother-in-law and he's very protective of all of us. So, are you going to hire the extra workers?"

He nodded and agreed, saying all she had to do was say so. I glared at him before telling Piper that Phoebe was stopping by for lunch so we could get a table. She agreed and told her boss that today was her day off so she'd come in tomorrow. Phoebe came in hungry since she was finally able to keep the food down and eating for two.

I ordered us some of everything on the menu and watched Phoebe go while eating a bit. Piper rolled her eyes and said I had a satisfied male look because I knew the baby was mine and both strong and healthy like it's mother. Phoebe smiled I stroked her stomach while humming a tune I'd heard long ago from Cassie. The memory was vague, but Piper asked why she couldn't find a guy like that.

Phoebe told her there was always Leo, her knight in shining wings. I stilled and let it go, not letting my old issues cloud the good before me. I continued humming and enjoying my nachos while they talked about Leo and ate. I paid the bill and thanked the waiter with a hundred dollar tip.

Life went on and sure enough I ended up having breakfasts each morning with the sisters because they began to complain that they hardly ever see Phoebe anymore even though we lived next door. When Mathew Tate made an appearance, I reminded them I was forbidden from interfering. Phoebe said she needed to draw her own blood to call Malinda Warren so I brought out a sword.

She snorted. "I said draw my blood, not impale myself."

I chuckled. "Sadly this sword is the only thing in existence that can penetrate my skin without extinguishing my soul that I have access to. It's fused with the sword of Methuselah and an angel's blade so it can draw powers out and kill anything with a lethal wound, but for our purposes you'll be fine so long as you're the one holding it as well. Just a nick will do."

She agreed and took it, surprised. "It's really light."

Prue commented. "And gorgeous. What is it made of and what is the jewel on the end?"

I smiled. "The jewel is called an Arkenstone and it's made of Mithril, forged by elves and blessed by gods, bathed in their blood and that of beasts like the Gorgons, three titans, a fallen angel, a lot of dragons and the hidden one, a Sumerian god I killed with it. The greenish glow is elvish magic and the runes are high enochian, the language of the angels and creation. The sword of Methuselah which it absorbed was blessed by the Christian God and the angel blade it took in was the fallen angel, Orion's. In all of creation it's one of three or four weapons I know can destroy me or anything."

Phoebe asked what the others were so I brought out the second one. "It's companion blade, possibly Excalibur and the ancient Athame, a weapon forged to extinguish even souls. I have two out of four and no interest in the other two unless they're being used against me."

Phoebe asked about the nexus and I shook my head. "It isn't powerful enough. Why do you think my evil self didn't care about it? Sure, it's a mystical pool of magic, but it's nowhere near as powerful as a single Titan, let alone the three I killed for their powers long ago."

I put the second sword away and soon the one from Phoebe, putting it in a sheath and handing it to her. "In case you ever need to vanquish me. I'd sooner be dead than hurt you, ever. Plus if you kill the warlock, you'll take his power."

I tapped the jewel and it turned red. "And now it'll store the evil powers and taint in the hilt, giving you only the good or neutral powers he has like immortality and power mimicry. Just be careful Phoebe, you're pregnant and you may be invincible, but this sword can kill you and the baby if he takes it away. It's a double edged sword and not literally."

She nodded and kissed me before promising to be careful. She went upstairs and I stayed downstairs with Andy to explain Tate. I tapped a blank page and created a portrait of Tate. "This should help with the APB. Just say he was hunting Halliwells and Prue managed to scare him off. Beyond that, I've got nothing to explain the jump except maybe dumb luck or mechanical prosthetic implants in the legs."

He thanked me and asked. "So Excalibur is real?"

I nodded and he shrugged before leaving. When the girls came down with Leo and Malinda, Malinda recognized me immediately. I winced as she said my name. "You've finally gotten rid of the evil in your heart, Ren."

I sighed. "It's Ryan in this time, Mel."

She smiled and Phoebe asked. "Mel?"

I grunted. "I was evil and wanted the power of the Warren line once, just like Tate."

Melinda nodded. "Definitely evil, only you were more upfront about what you wanted. Tate seduced me into falling for him while Ryan here told me he wanted my power for himself. When he learned premonitions were one of the powers, he didn't want them anymore. He said they were the one power no one should have because if they spend their lives looking into the future they'd forget to live in the now."

I grunted. "That wasn't the only reason. I didn't want to repeatedly see my own past every day just touching my stuff. I had to live it and once was enough."

Melinda said I was so sad and angry even as a demon that she couldn't bring herself to kill me. Then she told them how we'd had sex under a cherry tree and she became a woman. She said it was only the once because she saw I'd fall in love with her descendant in the here and now. Phoebe smacked my chest lightly and I flew into a wall.

I got up and she winced. "Sorry. Bad baby."

I grunted and rubbed her stomach. "Our baby girl isn't happy I was with anyone other than her mommy."

I turned to Melinda. "Maybe learn to dodge because if she starts throwing lightning or fire you could be in trouble."

Melinda raised an eyebrow and asked. "She's pregnant?"

Phone answered with a yes and I wrapped my arms around her while she stroked my arms. Melinda smiled and congratulated her while Prue asked if I was any relation since we'd had relations. Melinda and I both said no before Melinda told them she'd had her daughter Prudence years after she'd chased me off. She told Phoebe that I was powerful and so was the Warren line so our children would be even more so.

I grunted saying they could be invincible or immortal, but Melinda touched Phoebe's stomach before shaking her head. "No, those powers will stay with the children's mother. Still, they'll have many of your other powers, especially the power of fire and the deflecting shield power you have. They will be protected and cherished, growing into their powers and sparking more powerful generations of witches to come."

She smiled softly and Phoebe asked. "Wait, I'm invincible and immortal?"

Melinda nodded. "You will be when the baby girl is born. It's a good thing too. I can't imagine what Ryan would do if he lost you."

Phoebe started freaking out about her haircuts and stuff until I stopped her with a kiss. I pulled back and told her I'd teach her how to selectively store her powers in a ring or something so she can do all that. She thanked me with a kiss before we were pulled apart by her sisters for getting hot and heavy in front of them. Honestly I'd forgotten they'd existed in that moment.

Melinda laughed lightly saying we'd have a great many children with passion like that. Phoebe smiled and I left Tate to her and the sisters. I gave them each space rings telling them I'd made them for their witch supplies and filled them with grimoires, book of shadows and spell books they could learn in their free time. I told them even the rarest ingredients like dragons blood, Phoenix feathers and unicorn's horns were inside with common things.

Melinda told them it was a rare gift as I hadn't given anything so precious to her even after three years of teaching her many forms of magic. I shrugged saying she'd forbidden me from her bed and my demon half was spiteful so it hadn't interfered even when she was burned at the stake. I told her I couldn't apologize for it because it brought me to Phoebe, but my demon self protected and ensured her line would continue afterwards because it had nothing better to do. They soon dealt with Mathew and Melinda gave me his locket, saying if I ever changed my mind on seeing the future I could take his power and share powers with Phoebe.

I grimaced and she held out a hand. I asked if it was wise to take it where she was going and she nodded. "There it will be sealed away for good with the power of the whole Warren line, past, present and future. Protected and safe so that it can never be used against you like you fear."

I grimaced and took out the Blackheart amulet I'd stored the evil and demonic power from myself in. Phoebe said it was ok so I handed it over to Melinda and prayed she was right. We said our goodbyes and they released her to the other side.