#alt version that isn't a power of four is paige stays on the fringes of their lives

[phoebehalliwell]

a couple weeks after Morality Bites, a portal opens up in the attic and out stumbles a fatally-injured woman holding Piper's future daughter in her arms. "This is the only way she'll be safe," the woman says before dying, and Piper s left with the kid she knew for less than an hour. But this is still her child, and she's here in their time, so Piper ends up adopting her own daughter and in the process meets social worker Paige Matthews who is identical to the woman who brought Melinda to her

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaa i love it. i think obvi there’d be like A really weird adjustment period bc melinda just got thrown ten years back in time so a) the way you thought the world was is super weird, tech’s not the same, school’s not the same, and all your friends are gone and b) your parents aren’t divorced bc they aren’t ever married yet they’re just like,, dating & everyones a decade younger and aunt prue isn’t blonde and we still talk to aunt phoebe like what?? and then on top of that piper’s what like 26?? with like an eight year old daughter?? so the energy with which piper and melinda’s relationship is regarded by the outside world has also shifted, which is probs not something an eight year old can vocalize but def something they’d notice. so that’s trippy for melinda. what’s trippy for the sisters is a) raising a daughter with magic. (we have no idea what melinda’s powers are in canon but as the eldest of the charmed next gen and the daughter of two powerful magical beings, we can assume she packs quite the punch) and b) finding the woman who would evidently die for them. bc like. why??? what was their relationship????? they literally held her in her arms as she died and they know nothing about her and now here she is again?? is she fated to die? is this their next innocent? okay, whatever, we’ll answer these question as they arise right now let’s just get her back to the manor where she’ll be safe woah What The Fuck is going on with the chandelier.