Hello! Welcome back to the second chapter of What the Future Holds! I know that it has been a seriously long time since I've updated this, but I kind of lost a little bit of interest after starting my two newest stories and then I've had so much going on this year…yeah, not really a good excuse huh? Well, I ended up typing this chapter a while back, but, along with the 9th P.o.w.e.r. chapter, the computer brainwashed itself and lost the two chaps that I had been working on! (and the same thing happened again with the 10th P.o.w.e.r. chapter, so I am not very happy…) It's easy to tell how angry and upset I am that this has happened, but who knows. Maybe writing this chapter a second time will prove to be a little better.

(If you don't like basically "filler chapters" that don't have much action and drama, then you might as well wait for the next one and the ones after that. Though it may be boring, all of the chapters dealing with the past have a huge impact on the rest of the story, so just deal with it if you want to read on, lol.)

Ch. 2: Most Magical Moment

Fourteen years ago…

"No way!" Will breathed as she sunk into the couch in shock. "Are you serious, Cornelia?"

"Positive," Cornelia said. Will could tell that she was absolutely beaming.

"Wow, that's huge news." Will told her. "Congratulations!"

"I know, I know! I just can't believe it, Will. I'm actually going to have a baby!"

Will smiled as she fingered a lock of her moppy red hair.

"And the others? Have you told them yet?"

"Well, I was actually meaning to get together and tell everyone the news in person. We need an excuse to get the old gang back together anyway." Cornelia said.

Yes, Will thought. Between Taranee working as an instructor at the dance studio, Hay Lin being a flight attendant, and Irma still studying in college (with the real shocker to everybody being as that she actually went to college), it had become extremely difficult to manage around everyone's schedules and try to find a time for the five women to just chill out and talk. Any time that they were together, somebody had an emergency call for work or there were cancellations for each of their own prior busy schedules.

But still, Will sighed. I really miss us all being together like we used to be.

"It's like all of our lives are a little too crazy now, you know? And this is real life drama, without magic." Cornelia said.

"Yeah, I know. But it seems without all of the magic though…"

Will gulped and became silent. What she meant was perfectly clear in her head. Ever since the Oracle had declared that the Guardian's mission was finished and that they had successfully brought the universe to harmony, they had each returned to their own lives, being instantly driven apart. Cornelia worked hard on her skating, Taranee on her dancing, Hay Lin on establishing her artistic ability for the world to see, and Irma made a resolution to attain to her studies more. Will, on the other hand, had felt that nothing new had changed within her. Dean Collins had proposed to her mother (and Will was actually quite glad) and they had gotten a puppy, to somewhat make Will feel better after the loss of her beloved dormouse. But all in all, everything was changing drastically. The Guardians drifted farther apart, while she and Matt only became closer and closer.

Will blinked as Cornelia interrupted her troubled thoughts.

"Yeah, I understand. Without W.i.t.c.h….well it's not like we all stopped being friends or anything, right? We just all became…busy."

"Uh huh. Some of us more than others." Will said with a teasing laugh.

"Oh, very mature." Cornelia said in embarrassment. "So, what's going on with you and Matt?"

"Well, everything's going just great, if you have to know. Matt and I finally bought our own place. I came back here this morning and had to send Dean away. He had already started unpacking and he probably would have kept "helping" if I hadn't have come here early to unpack. Oh wait, that's what I'm supposed to be doing right now!" Will said as she frantically jumped off the couch.

Ugh, I had a schedule of what I needed to do today, but what do I do? Sit down and lounge all day and talk to my friend. Hmm, where did that list get to anyway?…

"Oh! I just can't wait! You girls are going to have to help me buy a crib and toys and, oh! All the shoes and cute little outfits! You know that I always used to say that the shoes draw the outfit together. Pink would look so cute! Oh but what if it is a boy…"

Okay, the plates go over here, Will thought. Oh, where did those stupid glasses go?

"And I suppose I do need to buy newborn clothes, but I wouldn't mind buying more to set ahead. I still need to know which gender it is. Let's see, I can start buying some neutral colors…"

"Uh huh," Will mumbled into the phone as she ran around the kitchen trying to find where all of her glasses had gone.

Oh well, I'll just unload some other kitchen stuff while I'm in here.

"Yeah, I think that would work. Alright, about this meeting stuff. Oh my god!"

"What?" Will yelped as she spun around in surprise from Cornelia's sudden outburst and tripped over one of the boxes. Clinking glass tipped over and Will groaned.

Well, I found the glasses…

"Napoleon! Oh my gosh!" Cornelia cried.

"What? What happened Cornelia?" Will asked repeatedly.

No answer.

Oh great, please say that nothing bad has happened, Will thought desperately.

It took only a few minutes for Cornelia to come back onto the phone, out of breath.

"Oh my god, you won't believe what just happened!"

Instead of letting Will stay annoyed and in suspense, Cornelia kept talking.

"Dean just saved Napoleon! I saw it all from my window. He got out somehow and ran into the street. A car was coming, and Mr. Collins just happened to be walking on the sidewalk and saw him and got the car to stop right on time. I can't believe it." Cornelia breathed.

Will's eyes opened wider in shock.

"Are you serious?" Will asked.

Mr. Collins saving Napoleon? Could this day become any better? Or stranger?…

"Wow Will, I have to go. We'll set up a time and place to get together later. Oh, and have a good time with Matt today." Cornelia said mischieviously.

"Hey, how did you know about-?"

Cornelia hung the phone up and Will sighed and placed the phone back onto the charger with a click.

"Hmm, well, that was most certainly an interesting phone call." Will mused. "I wonder what other surprises are in store for me today."

Well, not much at the moment except for unpacking, Will thought with a wry smile. I want to get as much done before Matt gets back from whatever he's doing today. He said it was a job interview, or something…

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Hours passed by and Will had been through at least half of the house. The kitchen, the bathrooms, the bedroom, they were all unpacked and looking more and more like a home after each box was opened. Will's hair was pulled back in a bandanna and her working overalls had already gotten a bit of paint on them after she had painted over that hideous yellow wall color in the kitchen (which was one drawback of the house for her, but Matt still had insisted on buying it.)

There wasn't much to do at the moment in the living room, so Will had saved that for last. All the furniture had been moved in the day before, and the T.V. still had many wires that needed to be hooked up. Matt had joked with her about talking to the T.V. and making it plug in itself, but Will still wasn't so certain about using her powers now that she finally had a chance at a normal life.

But do I even truly want a normal life, Will wondered as she started cutting through a box of mantle items for above the fireplace. And yet again, I'm not even sure if my powers work anymore, or if they are as strong as they once were, when all five of us were together.

Will unloaded picture frames above the fireplace and stood back to see how everything looked.

"Wow…" she breathed as her eyes swallowed in the years of memories.

There was a picture on the very left of Susan and Dean's wedding. Will could hardly remember the time in her life when she despised her mother for dating her History teacher. Will loved them both so much now and felt that Dean was more of a dad to her tan Thomas Vandom ever was.

Will looked at another picture, the one with everybody that Will loved and cared about in it. There was the W.i.t.c.h. gang and each of their families and boyfriends (or in Irma's case, just Martin) and then they had somehow smuggled in Will's old dormouse and Cornelia's cat, Napoleon. Will could almost feel the spring breeze from that picture and sighed with contentness.

"If only everything could have stayed exactly how it was back then," she sighed.

There was another picture of Cornelia in her wedding dress when she had married her husband, David, just last year, and with Irma, Taranee, Hay Lin, and Will as her bridesmaids, all smiling happily into the camera. Will chuckled at the picture of Matt and his grandfather at the pet shop.

There, of course, was a picture of Will and Matt on a date. They had just gotten some random stranger to take it and laughed about it afterwards. Will had to smile at the two of them, there, together. It just seemed too perfect and unbelievably real to her.

"Wait, there's a spot missing." Will mumbled as she sifted through the box to find one last photograph to complete her quick path down memory lane. She finally found the last picture. And it was the one picture that seemed to have changed her life forever.

Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, Hay Lin, and Elyon grinned up from their Halloweeen costumes from the Halloween party at the Sheffield Institute. Behind the frame, Will could almost see Cedric lurking about the gym for Elyon to take her away to her brother, Prince Phobos, who wanted to drain her of her powers and take away the throne of Meridian that she had inherited. She could see the great battles of the rebels fighting for the freedom of Meridian, the battles that the Guardians had helped in to defeat Phobos for good. Will could see that one fateful day when Hay Lin's grandmother told a story to the five girls and of their elemental powers. She remembered seeing the Heart of Candracar for the first time...

"Knock knock? Anybody home?"

"Matt!" Will gasped in surprise. "Sorry, I got a little caught up in the moment."

"Ah, old photographs. I think we all do every time we look into the memories." Matt said with a chuckle.

"But anyway, do you want to go on a walk? A bit of fresh air out of this stuffy place might do you some good."

Will smiled.

"But what about you? You just got back. Are you sure you're not tired?"

"Too tired to come home and spend some time with you?" he asked. "Never."

"Alright. Let me just change and I'll be out in a bit." She said as she went into the bedroom. It wasn't long before she had come out and grabbed her jacket and they were both walking out the door.

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"Ha ha. What is the real reason you brought me out here, Matt?" Will asked with a laugh. The fall breeze gently waved the trees around them. Brightly colored leaves were floating to the ground and the air was a cool feeling of fall. Matt looked back at her lovingly and looked up at the tree above them as they stopped their walk through the trees of Heatherfield Park.

"Do you remember when we met here? You had just saved a dormouse from Uriah's gang and I came down from the tree-"

"And I bonked you on the foot." Will said with embarrassment. "Yes, I remember."

"Well, Will, I secretly liked you from that very moment. We had many troubles along the way, but we finally came to admit our feelings for each other." Matt continued.

"You're not going to break up with me, are you?"

"No! Of course not." he laughed. "Will, I love you and you mean the world to me. I wish I could tell you how much, but I guess I could always show you."

Will's lungs seemed to stop and her heart beat as if wanting to escape her chest as Matt got down on one knee, the leaves swirling around them now in the most magical of magical moments that she had ever lived through in her life.

"Will," Matt started. "Will you marry me?"

Will chocked on her words as she stared at Matt in shock and as tears filled her eyes. She had never expected this, it was all too wonderful. And it was such an amazing feeling!

"Yes," Will whispered.

"What?" Matt asked as he stood up. He grabbed her around the waist and swung her around before kissing her and looking into Will's brown eyes.

"Yes." she said