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Post by mjp3 on Apr 17, 2005 11:29:44 GMT -5
I do not own Charmed.
This is the first fan fic that I´ve ever written. This is pretty much the first story I´ve ever written, since I don´t see myself as the writing type, but I had this story in my head and I´ve read a lot of great fan fics so I had to have a go at it myself. Any reviews would be greatly appreciated and if you have any helpful suggestions as to how I might improve the way I write, please post. This is set somewhere during season 7, after Utopia but before the 150th episode.
It was a normal day in the Halliwell manor. Well, as normal as it ever would be. Leo and Piper had decided to take the kids out for a walk in the park, Phoebe was at work and Paige, who had started to feel the pressure of being principal of Magic School and had been working overtime, had been forced to take a day off by Piper.
So after helping Piper and Leo get the kids ready and seeing Phoebe off to work, Paige decided to go into town and catch up with the non-magical world. But the problem was, she couldn´t find her phone. So Paige retraced her steps and realized that she´d left her phone in the attic after Piper had phoned her while she was making potions the previous day. So Paige went to the attic and saw her phone lying on the table between all the potion ingredients she had been too lazy to put away. Paige put her phone in her bag and started to clean up the ingredients. Piper would have a fit if she saw the state that Paige had left the attic in.
All of a sudden Paige felt someone else’s presence in the room and turned around to look at the book.
There was a young man standing there. He was in his late twenties. He had shoulderlength, curly blonde hair, he was well built and was wearing a plain white T-shirt and a pair of blue jeans.
It was Wyatt.
He was standing over the book with a pen in his hand as if he was writing something, but the book was closed. He had a very confused look on his face.
He looked up and saw Paige standing there.At the same time Paige started her attack on the stranger.
She saw an athame lying on a table nearby.
“Athame”, Paige yelled.
The athame disappeared in a swirl of blue lights and started making their way towards the young man. The man was startled by the attack and waved his hand at the orb lights as if he was trying to wave them away, but nothing happened.
He had fast reflexes and managed to jump out of the way of the athame just as it was about to stab him.
“What did you attack me for?” Wyatt asked Paige while he was getting up. Something very odd was going on here.
Paige didn’t attack again, since the stranger didn’t seem to know what was going on. And demons normally did actually attack. This man hadden´t. But she kept her defensive posture ready to attack again if it was necessary.
Wyatt had stood up and got his first good look at Paige. His mouth dropped.
“What do you want?” Paige asked rather brutally.
“What happened? You look really young.” Wyatt said in disbelief.
If this demon was trying to flatter her, it wasn’t going to work. But she couldn’t help but relax just a little bit. “ Look buddy, if you don’t tell me who you are and what you want, I’ll vanquish your sorry behind.”
And it suddenly clicked in Wyatt’s head. He didn’t have his powers, Paige didn’t recognize him and she had suddenly lost about 30 years. He dreaded asking the question that was in his mind because it would confirm his suspicion.
“What year is it?” he asked.
Paige was caught slightly off guard by this question. That was a pretty strange question to ask.
“It’s 2005” she said cautiously.
“Great! Just great!” Wyatt said sarcastically as he slumped into a nearby couch. It was going to turn out to be another very long day.
“ And I’m still waiting for an explanation, because that vanquishing offer still stands!” Paige added.
Wyatt pondered his response. He couldn´t change the future in any way, so he had to be careful of what he said. Very careful. His parents had always warned him and his little brother of the consequences of time-travel. They had forbidden him and Chris to ever try such a thing. For some strange reason Chris´ 22nd birthday had been the day they had both been given an especially long speech by their father about it. He could still remember the speech and it came back to him in this moment. Although Wyatt was 28, he still didn´t want to disappoint his parents, and if they ever found out that he had been back in time…
“ My name´s Matthew. Matthew Cullen.” He replied. “ And I´m a witch.”
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Post by leigh19 on Apr 17, 2005 12:48:14 GMT -5
Good start! I really like your idea (*yay future fics*) and I can't wait to see where you go with it!
I don't know if I have any specific suggestions...I suppose I would have liked a bit more detail/description in the beginning...but I can understand wanting to jump right into the main plot. Just make sure you don't move too quickly...it's a good concept, and I think that the more you build it up, the better it will be:)
But don't worry, I thought it was a quite good...especially for a first attempt...and I know it will only get better! Keep it up, and update when you can:)
(Oh one more thing- this may just be a quirk of mine, but I find things easier to read (visually) when the lines are spaced out a bit more…you may want to add some paragraph breaks or something- it’s up to you.)
-Leigh
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Post by staceface510 on Apr 17, 2005 13:33:38 GMT -5
I agree with Leigh. I was slightly confused but I reread it and got it totally. Good idea and keep going!
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Post by mjp3 on Apr 18, 2005 10:39:43 GMT -5
Thank you so much for your reviews! It really means alot to me. I´ve spaced the next bit out a bit more, so I hope it´s easier to read. If you have any suggestions or questions about the story please post in your reviews.
So the story continues where we left off...
A witch. Paige knew that she shouldn´t believe that he wasn´t a demon just because he said so, but she couldn´t help but believe him. He didn´t really look like a demon either. For starters, demons liked to wear black. And blond hair and bright blue eyes didn´t really fit the demon description either. He looked somewhat familiar too…
“I´m Paige. Paige Matthews.”
“So is there any reason why you decided to drop by?” Paige added with a hint of mocking in her voice.
“I don´t know how I got here…”
He was of course using ´here´ as in 2005, not as in the attic. He knew very well why he was in the attic. He had been adding something to the book when the shift occurred. Wyatt realized that he would probably need Paige’s help to figure out how he got there and how to get back. He’d at least need to tell her when he was from.
“ I’m… I’m from the future.” He said rather hesitantly.
This sounded strangely familiar to Paige. And she couldn’t help but sigh..
“You’re not by any chance some relative that is yet to be born that has come back to stop someone from becoming evil, are you?”
Wyatt knew his aunt Paige very well, and knew when she was joking or being sarcastic. But he wasn’t quite sure now.
“Um, no” He said the last part rather long and looked at Paige questionably, but she didn’t elaborate.
All of a sudden Wyatt felt a burning feeling in his shoulder and he brought his hand to the place where he had felt the pain a moment earlier. Someone was in trouble. Someone had been hurt. And that someone could only be one person…
“Chris…” He whispered.
Paige saw Wyatt reach to his shoulder in pain and went over to him to help. She heard him whisper a name. Did he really say Chris? Or did she just imagine it?
“ My friend’s hurt, we have to find him.” Wyatt crossed the room to the scrying table with a determined expression on his face.
“How are you going to find him? You need something of his to scry with.” Paige said.
He picked up the scrying crystal and took of his wristband.
“This is his. He has mine. This way we can always find each other if something like this were to happen.”
“Wow, you guys must be really close to be that prepared” Paige marveled.
“We are.” He held the wristband in his hand and lent over the map while he concentrated on finding his brother. If anything had happened to Chris…
Paige watched him as he scryed.
The crystal dropped. It landed somewhere in an alley in San Francisco.
“Let’s go” Wyatt said urgently as he held out his hand to Paige so that she could orb them there.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on there. I’m not orbing you anywhere. I don’t even know you. This could be some kind of…” Her words faded away as she looked at his hand. It still held the wristband.
And on it was the triquetra.
This could only mean one thing. She had heard correctly.
“Chris? Chris is in trouble?” She asked, not daring to believe it.
This man’s friend was Chris. Chris was back. And he was in trouble.
Wyatt looked at his hand and realized how she must of figured it out. He mentally kicked himself and noted that he had to be more careful. But he had no time for explaining. Chris needed their help.
“Yes, he is.” He held out his hand more urgently.
This was surreal to Paige. Chris. Chris. The name brought up the painful memory of the day he died. She could remember how helpless she felt as she watched him struggling to breath in his father’s arms…
But now was no time for memories. Chris needed her help and she wasn’t going to stand around and watch this time around. She walked over to the potion’s table, picked up a few filled vials and handed them to Wyatt.
“Here. You’ll need these since you won’t have any active powers because of the time-travel thingy.” She nodded to him and took his hand.
They disappeared in a swirl of bright blue lights.
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Piper stood downstairs in the hallway with Little Chris, Little Wyatt and Leo. She was starting to get really fed up. She had finally had a chance to go and spend some time away from her sisters with the man she loved and her two precious children. There were finally no magical fiascos or sisters who needed her support with some failed relationship. She had finally had a chance at a normal day and you know what happened? It had started to rain.
Ok, ok. She had to admit that it wasn’t the most dramatic thing that had happened, but she had just wanted a couple of minutes with her family outside of the manor, and now she had been forced back from her stroll in the park a lot sooner than she’d hoped.
At least there weren’t any demons to ruin the day…. Piper thought
…yet.
Little Wyatt sneezed.
“I’ll go get them into some dry clothes.” Leo said while he picked up his two children and took them upstairs.
Piper watched him leave and realized that she could possibly be the luckiest woman alive. She had the most caring husband and two little boys that meant the world to her. Why had she been worrying about rain? As long as they were together and healthy everything was just fine for her.
“Paige?” Piper said as she walked into the kitchen looking for her. “Paige, are you here?”
There was no reply.
She decided to go and check upstairs for her.
“Paige?”
When she reached the attic stairs, she could hear voices from in the attic. A man’s, and a woman’s.
She figured that Paige must have company. But why would they be in the attic?
As she walked up the stairs the voices suddenly stopped. She opened the door and saw that there was nobody in the room.
“Huh” Piper said. They must have orbed out, she thought.
She assumed that he was someone from Magic School. Paige really couldn’t take a break for just one day.
Piper sighed and left the attic to go and check on her darling boys.
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Post by mjp3 on Apr 18, 2005 13:11:46 GMT -5
Wyatt and Paige reappeared in a dark alleyway behind P3. It was raining. There they saw Chris, trying to fight one demon without his powers while a second demon powered up a fireball. Chris was in bad shape. He had a large burn on his shoulder where a fireball had hit him earlier and his clothes were torn and bloody.
Wyatt couldn’t help but feel slightly amazed that his little brother had managed to keep it up, against two demons (although they were lower-level) without his powers or potions. Chris had never been able to come up with a spell in the heat of a battle so spells weren’t of much use to him at the moment. Luckily his aunt Phoebe had taught him a thing or two when it came to fighting.
Paige had frozen. She couldn’t believe her eyes. It was Chris. It was actually Chris.
The second demon saw the new arrivals and threw his fireball at them.
Wyatt managed to push the shocked Paige out of the way just in time, and they both fell to the ground. Wyatt threw one of the potions he had at the demon from his position on the ground and it was vanquished in a blaze of red flames.
Wyatt helped Paige up and turned towards Chris, just when the remaining demon picked Chris up and threw him across the alleyway, where he hit the wall hard and sunk to the floor unconscious.
“Pipe!” Paige shouted and she redirected the old pipe straight into the demon, and it too erupted into red flames.
Wyatt ran towards Chris. His hart was beating fast now. He knelt down beside him and checked for a pulse.
He let out the breath that he had been holding. Chris was alive, but he needed a healer soon.
Wyatt was starting to feel really annoyed at not having his powers.
He would have to take him Leo. He would find out that this was Chris and the whole future would probably be changed, but he had no choice.
Paige ran over to them.
“Is he… is he…?”Paige said, not daring to finish her question.
“We need to take him to Leo” Wyatt said urgently.
Paige took a hold of Chris and Wyatt and orbed them back to the manor.
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Leo was in the bathroom looking for clean towels while Piper was with the boys.
That’s when he heard Paige calling him.
Something was severely wrong. He could tell by the sound of her voice.
He orbed out without hesitating.
When he arrived in the living room the sight that met his eyes caused his hart to stop beating. He couldn’t believe his eyes. Paige was standing over the couch, soaking wet. And kneeling down beside her was….
Wyatt.
And he was holding onto to someone’s hand.
“Wyatt?” He asked uncertainly. This couldn’t be real. This was the same man that had unmercifully stabbed him in the gut a few months prior. But his demeanor was different from then. Kinder, but yet afraid.
Paige stared at Wyatt. Did Leo just say Wyatt? This was Matthew…
But when she said the name in her head it all made sense. Matthew. Wyatt Matthew Halliwell. She knew that he had looked familiar. Those big blue eyes…
Now it was Wyatt’s turn to stare at his father. How did he know? How could he possibly know who he was? But now wasn’t the time to ponder that. He’d come back to it later.
“Dad, you need to heal Chris. He’s hurt”
Wyatt moved aside and Leo got his first good look of the man on the couch. The face that had haunted his dreams for months. The face of his beloved son who had died in agony and who he had not been able to save. That had been the worst moment in his life. He had let his son die. He had not been quick enough in finding Gideon, and Chris had paid the price with his life.
Although Leo wasn’t sure that he wasn’t dreaming, he wouldn’t let Chris die again. He knelt down next to Wyatt and placed his hands over Chris. He noticed that his hands were shaking, but the glowing light came nonetheless.
Chris´ wounds started to heel, and he began to stir.
When the wounds were completely gone, Chris opened his eyes and the first thing he saw were the faces of his father and brother, who were both looking utterly relieved, and in Leo’s case, also shocked.
“Dad….Wy… What happened?” Chris asked while he sat up and also saw his aunt Paige standing over him.
The next moment Leo pulled Chris into a rib-cracking hug, before he held Chris in front of him to have a good look at him.
He looked younger and older at the same time to Leo. Leo guessed that age wise this Chris was older than the Chris he had known, but he also looked a lot more carefree. He didn’t have the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Leo’s eyes filled with tears of joy at having his son back. He then looked at Wyatt, who was staring back at him.
“Dad? What’s going…”
But Leo interrupted him
“You’re not evil” Leo said plainly.
This statement came as quite a shock to Wyatt. He didn’t know what to say. How could his father suggest that? Why would he be evil? How could the twice-blessed child, son of a Charmed One and a whitelighter, heir of good magic, be evil?
“Why would he be evil?” Chris asked his father puzzeled.
Leo looked at Chris and realized that this wasn’t the Chris he had known.
They didn’t know. They didn’t know the truth. How could he not have told them?
He looked away.
Chris was having a lot of trouble getting a hold on things. Something was very, very wrong. Why hadn’t his powers worked against those demons? What was up with dad? And what had happened to Paige? Like wow! She looked barely older than Wyatt.
“Would somebody please tell me what’s going on?” Chris demanded.
“It’s 2005” Wyatt said.
Chris stared at Wyatt for a moment.
“How did we get here?” Chris asked, while looking around the room and waiting for a logical explanation.
“That’s exactly what I’d like to know.” Wyatt said as he looked at Chris. Then he shifted his gaze to Leo, “And I have the feeling there’s something you’re not telling us…”
But he wasn’t going to be allowed to finish that sentence anytime soon because at that moment Piper walked in.
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Post by TheOracle on Apr 18, 2005 15:14:09 GMT -5
i like this it really good
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Post by DrewFullerFan4Life on Apr 21, 2005 20:25:22 GMT -5
I really really liked it , i mean a lot. i hope you write more soon!
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Post by mjp3 on Apr 23, 2005 12:46:56 GMT -5
Thank you so much for telling me what you think! You inspire me to write more. This next bit is mainly fluff, but it is essential for the story. There will be some more action soon.
We continue the story:
Piper had gone to look for Leo after he hadn’t returned with the towels and she searched the house for him and ended up walking into the living room.
Chris saw his mother enter the room and was shocked by her youth and beauty. He had to admit that his mother had always been very beautiful, but the Piper he knew was in her late fifties.
He saw Piper look at him in shock, as her eyes widened and her heartbeat increased. She lent back and held onto the wall for support.
Chris stood up and walked towards her to help her, but she backed away from him.
She wouldn’t believe what she was seeing. Chris was dead. This had to be some kind of spell. She had been tricked into believing things that weren’t real before…
“Stay away from me.” She said to Chris angrily.
This confused and hurt Chris. He knew that he must look like a stranger to her, but his mother was usually very nice to strangers.
Leo understood Piper’s reaction and walked towards her to comfort her and to explain. But she backed away from him too.
“This isn’t real, this isn’t real…” she whispered to herself.
“Piper, please calm down” Leo said pleadingly “ This is real. Chris is back.”
“Chris is dead Leo!” Piper yelled angrily “You should know that better than anyone!”
Piper’s comment made Leo very quiet. He still blamed himself for Chris´ death.
This was too much for Wyatt to grasp.
Chris? Dead? How could Chris possibly be dead? Chris was standing right in front of him.
Wyatt had been right in assuming Leo wasn’t telling them something. Wyatt had felt it all his life. There was a secret. Something terrible had happened in the past and his parents had been hiding it from Chris and him all their lives. He had just thought that he was being neurotic at times, so he didn’t mention it, but in this moment he knew that he had been right all along. He needed answers, but he knew that now was definitely the wrong time to ask his questions.
His mother was completely spooked out by seeing Chris, but Wyatt knew that Piper hadn’t recognized him, she saw him as a stranger, and so it was best to let someone she recognized calm her down first. Now it was Paige’s turn to try and help out.
“Please Piper, listen to me. This is real. I didn’t want to believe it either myself, but I’ve realized that it’s true. They’re back from the future and they need our help to get back to their time. We have to help them.”
“Them?” Piper asked questionably.
That was the first time that she had really gotten a look at the stranger on the couch. She walked closer to him and he stood up. Piper now stood right in front of him and searched his face, trying to put a name to the face that looked strangely familiar to her.
Wyatt looked into his mother’s beautiful eyes, while holding his breath.
Piper looked back into his bright blue eyes. She’d recognize those eyes anywhere.
“Wy…Wyatt?” She asked with tears brimming her eyes.
Wyatt let out the breath he had been holding and smiled down at his mother.
Piper knew that it was him.
He looked happy and caring. A thought crossed her mind.
“You’re not,” she said “You’re not…”
Wyatt knew what she was going to say.
“Evil?” Wyatt asked, finishing her sentence for her.
Piper nodded.
“No, I’m not. But you’re not the only one to have thought that.” He said while looking at his father.
Chris sensed that his mother was close to breaking down in tears from all the emotions that she was feeling, so he walked to her from behind and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.
Piper looked up into Chris´ face, her vision blurring. She pulled him into a hug as she rested her head against his chest with her eyes closed.
“I’ve missed you so much, Chris.” She choked out in between sobs.
Chris had no idea what she was talking about, but he hugged his mother back, giving her the support she needed while he shot Wyatt a questioning look over her head.
Wyatt just shrugged.
Leo saw the exchange between his sons.
He walked towards his wife and youngest son and he also placed a hand on her shoulder.
“Piper,” he said.
She opened her eyes and looked at her husband through her cloudy vision.
“They don’t know” Leo said while he averted his eyes to the floor. “They don’t know what happened before Chris was born.”
“What happened before I was born?” Chris asked curiously.
Piper stared at him. How could he not know? How could he not remember?
And then it hit her. Wyatt wasn’t evil. Chris had managed to achieve his goal, to save his brother. The Chris that was standing in front of her had grown up in a peaceful world with his brother by his side and he had never had a reason to come back in time to change it all.
It had all worked out after all.
Leo pondered his response to Chris´ question. Although he didn’t know what it was, he must have had a very good reason to not tell his sons the truth over the years. Although he hated to not be honest with them, he couldn’t tell them.
“I can’t tell you” He said.
“Why not?” Chris asked.
“I don’t know. I hate to have to keep secrets from you, but I must have had a reason not tell you.” Leo said. “I’m sorry.”
Wyatt was disappointed. He knew what his father meant though. This was obviously something huge. If he hadn’t told Chris and him over the years, he must have had a very good reason not to. But he wasn’t going to let it go that easily.
“We’ll just have to ask you again in 26 years.” Wyatt said while looking at his parents smugly.
“And by then I promise that we will have a better answer to your question.” Leo said confidently.
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This is only the first part of this chapter. I will post the next part as soon as I´ve written it.
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Post by mjp3 on Apr 30, 2005 6:26:28 GMT -5
“What are you doing here?” Piper asked her sons.
Chris looked to Wyatt for an explanation. Wyatt always had all the answers to their problems.
“This wasn’t intentional.” Wyatt said plainly.
“Do you know how you got here?” Leo asked them.
“Well, I didn’t cast a spell that could have resulted in this.” He turned to Chris. “Did you?”
Chris racked his brain. He tried to remember if one of the spells that he had cast over the last couple of weeks could of backfired and sent them back in time, but he was quite sure that he hadn’t.
“No. Not that I know of.”
Wyatt trusted his brother more than anyone else and he trusted his judgment.
If it had been a backfired spell then there was only one more suspect on Wyatt’s list. Actually, three more suspects.
“Did any of you cast a spell that could have resulted in this? Or did you ask for help on some magical situation and end up summoning us?” Wyatt asked his mother and Paige.
Piper knew that her sisters and her had been magically inactive for a while. There had been no demon attacks recently, so there had been no need for magic.
Piper looked at Paige and she shook her head.
“No, we didn’t.”
“What about Phoebe?” Chris asked.
“No, she won’t have,” Piper said, “she would have told us.”
“Where is she by the way?” Chris asked his parents and aunt calmly.
It struck Piper how very different his demeanor was. The Chris she had known was slightly aggressive, neurotic and held a lot of pain and loss in his heart that had shaped him to be who he was. The man that stood in front of her looked exactly the same on the outside, but he appeared to be calmer and more thoughtful.
“She’s at work,” Paige answered.
“Paige,” Leo said in his whitelighter way, “you should go and get her. We may need her help.”
“Yes,” Piper said, “We need her.”
Wyatt was hesitant. His parents had always warned him that when time travel was involved, it was best to keep as few people as possible informed, but if Piper and Paige knew, Phoebe would find out anyway.
He nodded his agreement.
“I’ll be right back.” Paige said as she orbed out.
“Well, that means it wasn’t a spell that brought us here then.” Chris said, getting back to business.
“No, Chris” Wyatt said as he paced the room. “That means that it wasn’t someone who summoned us here accidentally or for help.”
“But why would someone send you back in time intentionally?” Piper asked her sons.
“As you know, when you go back in time, you loose your powers because only one of you can have your powers at the same time.” Chris started to explain. “And that would be a very good opportunity to try and…”
Chris hesitated. He didn’t want to worry his parents. He looked at his older brother.
“Try and what?” Leo asked worried.
“Kill us.” Wyatt finished Chris´ sentence for him.
Piper was shocked by her son’s words.
“Do you know who would want you dead?” Leo asked his sons concerned.
“Pretty much, every single demon in existence.” Chris answered.
“And that’s not our only problem at the moment.” Wyatt said with a frown on his face as he looked at his parents.
“Why? What’s wrong?” Leo asked his eldest son as he walked towards him.
“Well, we’ve probably shifted our entire timeline just by being here.”
“What do you mean?” Piper asked him.
“The slightest thing we do or say in this time could have a ripple effect and change all future events.” Wyatt explained.
Chris thought that his brother was exaggerating.
“Neurotic” Chris said with a slight cough.
“No, Chris.” Wyatt said while getting angry with his little brother. “I don’t think you get how serious this is! This isn’t a game! We’ve always relied on our powers to help us, but now we don’t have them anymore! You have to take this seriously! And I think it’s time you realized that I might not always be around to protect you!”
Wyatt turned away from his brother.
Wyatt’s outburst greatly surprised Chris. His brother never yelled at him, Wyatt was always cool and calm in tricky situations. Something was wrong with him.
“What’s wrong, Wy?” Chris asked him concerned.
Wyatt turned back to look at Chris.
Chris looked into Wyatt’s eyes and he saw something there that had never been there before.
It was fear.
Wyatt looked away.
“Wy?”
“It’s just…when those demons attacked you and you were hurt, I realized that I couldn’t heal you and…I thought I might loose you.” Wyatt ended in a whisper.
The room was silent.
“But that turned out ok, didn’t it?” Chris asked his brother to try and cheer him up.
“But what if it doesn’t next time?”
Chris knew how much the whole event must of frightened Wyatt, but he had to know that what had happened wasn’t his fault.
“I’m old enough to take care of myself, Wyatt. It’s not your responsibility to protect me anymore.” Chris said. “And I promise that I will do my very best to give those demons a hell of a time to get their job done. They’re not going to get rid of me that easily.”
Wyatt smiled at his brother.
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Post by anglomaltese on Apr 30, 2005 7:11:27 GMT -5
Great stuff! Love the brotherly interactions and Piper's interaction with Chris. Keep it coming!
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Post by DrewFullerFan4Life on Apr 30, 2005 7:58:06 GMT -5
Wow i love your characterization of each character it's very good. I like the piperXchris moment and chrisXwyatt to
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Post by mjp3 on May 5, 2005 9:07:38 GMT -5
Thank you so much for replying! It´s good to know that people enjoy reading this. Here´s the next part, it continues where we left off:
At that moment Paige orbed in with Phoebe.
Paige had explained the whole situation to Phoebe before orbing back and had warned her that neither Chris nor Wyatt knew of what had happened the year before.
But as Phoebe laid eyes on Chris and the man who was standing next to him, who she knew had to be Wyatt, she couldn’t help but go over to them and pull them both into a hug.
When she released them she had a good look at them both.
“Look at you two!” Phoebe said with a hint of pride in her voice as she saw her two nephews side-by-side and all grown up. Tear s were threatening to spill but Phoebe suppressed them. She was just so happy to have Chris back again and to have Wyatt at his side. She had always regretted ignoring Chris for the last couple of days that he was in the past, and then she had hurried into saying goodbye to him…
“So what are you two up to in the future?” Phoebe asked them hopefully. She knew that if this Chris was anything like the Chris she had known, she wouldn’t get an answer in a million years, but it was worth a shot.
Chris and Wyatt looked at each other.
“We can’t tell you that.” Chris answered. “Anything we say could change the future.”
Yep. That sure sounded familiar to Phoebe. Some things never change.
Wyatt looked at the disappointment on his parents and aunts´ faces and thought about what he had said earlier. Things could have already changed.
And then he had an idea. This way both his family would be happy and the timeline wouldn’t alter.
“Maybe we can tell them, Chris”
Chris thought that Wyatt had lost it. Had he not heard anything of what their parents had told them over the years?
“But what about the timeline?” Chris asked him.
“Well, I’ve been thinking about that. The problem is that we may have already altered the timeline and there is only one way to change it back.” Wyatt said.
“Well, how?” Paige asked him curiously.
“We’ll make you a deal.” Wyatt said as he looked at his parents and aunts. “We’ll tell you anything you want to know about us if you promise to erase your memories of today when we return to our time.”
“No, no, no. We are not erasing our memories! That’s happened before and nothing good has ever come of it.” Piper said dismissing the idea.
“Well then the future’s screwed!” Chris said as he slumped back into the couch.
Paige had a major déjà vu and smiled slightly as she noticed that maybe Chris wasn’t that different after all.
“Please, mom. This is the only way to keep the future from changing,” Wyatt said “Please, do this for us.”
Piper realized that she had no choice. It was ironic that now they were trying to preserve the future when the last time they had been trying so hard to change it.
Piper sighed and nodded her head.
Her sisters and husband nodded their agreement.
Wyatt let out the breath that he had been holding. One problem solved, about a thousand left to go.
“Ok. Let’s go to the attic and check the book to see if we can find the demon that sent us here.” Wyatt said getting back to business.
As he walked towards the stairs he felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.
They were being watched.
“Mom, freeze the room.”
Piper did as she was told. She raised her hands and everything stayed the same except that Leo and Chris were frozen.
Piper unfroze them.
“Why didn’t you freeze?” Paige asked Wyatt.
“He never freezes.” Chris said grumpily.
“Why?”
“Because he’s Wyatt” Chris said with a hint of jealousy in his voice.
Wyatt started to walk through the room, inspecting different objects until he stopped in front of a low cabinet.
“Is this yours?” He asked.
Phoebe walked towards it.
“No it’s not.” She answered.
“To help us solve this mystery, show us so that we may see, your true form you will take, as to avoid a mistake.” Wyatt chanted
The cabinet slowly shifted into the form of a man dressed in demonic black. He was still frozen.
“How did you know…?” Phoebe asked him in awe.
“He’s a messenger. Probably sent by the demon we’re looking for to see if we’ve arrived in this time.” Wyatt said.
At that moment the demon burst in to flames.
“Did you do that?” Piper asked her eldest son.
“No, I didn’t. I don’t have my powers, remember?” Wyatt replied, “They must have known that we’d found him out.”
“But now that they know that we’re here,” Chris said, “They’ll start their attack.”
“We need to get you two to Magic School.” Piper said while she started to get worried for her two boys´ safety.
“No mom, we’re not running away from this.” Wyatt said as he looked at her. “We need to stay here to figure this out.”
“But without your powers you could get hurt.” Piper said in protest.
“I’ve been thinking about that.” Chris said.
“About what?” Paige asked him curiously.
“About our powers.” Chris continued.
“The younger versions of you have got them Chris. Remember the time-travel rule.” Phoebe said as she sighed.
“Yes, I do remember the rule. It states that only one version of you can have your powers in the same time,” Chris said “ But it never said which version.” Chris said with a slight smile on his face.
“What do you mean?” Leo asked him.
“What he means,” Wyatt said, catching on to Chris´ idea, “is that we could borrow our powers from our younger selves to help us vanquish the demon we’re after, and then return them when we go back to our time.”
“But what about your younger selves. They would be left unprotected.” Paige stated.
“Take them to Magic School.” Chris said, “They’ll… we’ll be safe there.”
“No way.” Piper said, “That’s too much of a risk.” Piper said to Wyatt and Chris.
“And it’s our risk to take.” Wyatt told his mother with a voice of authority. “We have to be prepared. This isn’t just any demon we’re dealing with here. He must have a lot of power to pull off a stunt like this.”
Piper knew that he was right and that if they ran away from their problems, they would only get worse. But she was still worried about her sons´ safety. All four of them.
“So what do you plan on doing?” Piper asked them.
“I was thinking of a power switching spell.” Chris said, “There should be one in the book.”
“No. You are not using that one.” Piper said. “The last time we used that one it switched all our powers and got us into a huge mess.”
“But it also saved dad’s life.” Chris said knowingly.
“It wouldn’t work, Chris.” Wyatt told his brother, “The spell is made to switch powers, but we don’t have any powers to switch with, only our little selves do.”
Everyone thought about what Wyatt had said.
“But couldn’t we tweak the spell? Change it so that it will lend us our powers?” Chris stated.
“I guess….” Wyatt admitted.
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Post by mjp3 on May 5, 2005 9:08:42 GMT -5
“So what are we waiting for?” Paige asked jollily, “Let’s get this show on the road!” She had kind of missed the excitement that revolved around magic. Although she was head of Magic School, she had been overworking and had needed a break.
She started up the stairs and the rest followed.
“So back to my question.” Phoebe said as she followed Wyatt up the stairs.
“Um,” Wyatt said as he half turned towards his aunt while continuing on his way to the attic “What question?”
“What you two are up to in the future,” Phoebe said.
Wyatt went quiet.
They arrived in the attic. Everyone had heard Phoebe’s question and they were all waiting for Wyatt’s answer. Chris walked over to the book and started looking for the spell.
“Come on. You promised.” Phoebe said. “We won’t even remember what you said.”
Wyatt looked at Chris who paused his search for the spell momentarily, before deciding to go first.
“Well,” Chris said, “I’m a doctor.”
“A doctor?” Leo said proudly, admiring the fact that his son had chosen to follow in his footsteps.
“Yeah, a doctor” Wyatt said “And a pretty good whitelighter too.”
“You’ve taken on Whitelighter duties as well?” Paige asked him amazed, “How do you find the time?”
“It can get pretty hectic at times. But I manage.” Chris explained. “And Wyatt sometimes helps my charges when things get busy down at the hospital.”
“So you’re a whitelighter too?” Piper asked Wyatt.
Chris snorted.
“Wyatt?! A whitelighter?” Chris said while trying to control his laughter.
Wyatt had always been the first one on the job for a vanquish. He wasn’t really one to sit on the sidelines and give advice.
“What’s so funny about that?” Leo asked him.
“The words ´Wyatt´ and ´pacifist´ don’t really go together.” He answered.
“Like you’re a pacifist?” Wyatt asked Chris.
“No, but I’m more of a pacifist than you.” Chris said while he continued flipping through the book, “A lot more.”
He found the page he was looking for.
“Found it!”
Wyatt walked over to a table and picked up a note pad and a pencil.
“I’ll work on the spell. But we’ll need our younger selves to be here for the spell to work.” He said.
“We’ll go get you … them..…you know what I mean.” Phoebe said as she dragged Paige out of the attic with her.
Wyatt stood over the book as he jotted things down onto the note pad, stopping every now and then to come up with a rhyme word, before continuing.
“So what does he do for a living?” Leo asked Chris, because he knew better than to disturb someone who was busy trying to write a spell.
“He’s a cop.” Chris said. “He’s been working with Darryl for the last couple of months, because Darryl’s almost retiring and he’ll need a replacement.”
Piper and Leo fell quiet for a moment as they let this new information sink in.
Piper could hardly believe it. Her sons had been able to lead normal lives as well as handle their magical responsibilities. She couldn’t have been more proud of them. They had both built successful careers in such a short time. Piper presumed that they were only in their twenties.
“How old are you?” Piper asked Chris.
“I’m 26 and Wyatt’s 28.” He answered.
At that moment Phoebe walked in with little Chris in her arms as Paige helped little Wyatt climb the stairs.
“Whoa” Chris said as he saw his baby self and Wyatt as a toddler enter the room.
“Aw, you’re such a cute little baby, Chris” Wyatt said to Chris teasingly.
Paige and Phoebe put the boys down on a blanket on the floor.
“So what do we do now?” Chris said while finding the situation more and more awkward by the minute.
“We read the spell.” Wyatt said as he copied down the spell onto another piece of paper for Chris.
“How do you know it won’t switch all our powers?” Piper asked him.
“I changed it a bit so that wouldn’t happen.” Wyatt answered as he handed the copy to Chris.
Piper looked at the spell Wyatt had written down and nodded in approval.
The Charmed Ones and Leo watched as Chris and Wyatt walked up to the blanket where their past selves were sitting as they recited the spell.
“From old to young your aid we ask, To help reveal the demon’s mask, In this place and in this time, Let our powers cross the line, We offer up our gifts to share, Lend us our powers through the air.”
There was silence.
“Did it work?” Paige asked them.
“Let’s see” Chris said as he reached his hand out towards a toy that was lying on the floor. It flew into his hand.
“Yep. It worked.” Chris said before handing the toy to little Wyatt. “What about you?” Chris asked the grown up version of the little boy playing on the floor.
Wyatt conjured up an energy ball in his hand. “Ok. Now we should get our little selves to Magic School.” He said as he extinguished the energy ball.
He looked towards his parents and aunts and saw that they were all staring at him.
“What?” He asked them.
“I don’t think that little you can conjure energy balls yet, Wy” Chris said.
“Oh” He said, suddenly understanding their reactions.
“So what are your powers?” Leo asked his sons.
“I don’t think that I can actually answer that,” Wyatt said. When he saw that they were about to protest he continued, “Not because I don’t want to, but because I don’t think I really can.”
“What do you mean?” Piper asked him
“Well, I have normal powers like orbing, healing, sensing, glamouring, telekinesis and stuff like that, but I also have powers that aren’t whitelighter powers or powers of the Warren line.” Wyatt continued, “Stuff like energy balls or sometimes its just like my senses have been boosted and I pick up stuff that other people don’t”
“It’s hard to explain. It’s kind of like a sixth sense.” Wyatt explained, “A sense for magic.”
The Charmed Ones and Leo had all known that Wyatt was going to turn out to be powerful, but they hadn’t realized exactly how powerful until that moment.
“As long as you’re not seeing dead people.” Paige said with a slight laugh.
“What?” Chris asked her, completely lost.
“Nothing,” she said, “It’s a movie. Forget about it.”
“What about you Chris? Anything besides telekinesis and orbing?” Leo asked him.
“I never said I could orb.” Chris told him suspiciously.
“Well…I,” Leo said trying to find a way to cover his slip up, “Since Paige and Wyatt can orb and they’re half-whitelighter , I figured you could too. You can, can’t you?”
“Yes, I can.” Chris said. But he was still slightly suspicious, “But I don’t have any other powers besides those two.” He said getting slightly embarrassed. He was nothing compared to Wyatt.
Chris knew that his parents loved him just as much as Wyatt, that they were just of proud of what he had accomplished, but he was still jealous of his older brother. Wyatt was always the best at everything that he did, but Chris knew that Wyatt was also the best brother in the world. Wyatt always helped him and stood up for him, no matter what. He always had, and he always would. They were more than just brothers, they were best friends and nothing would ever change that.
“Somebody better take little us to Magic School before there’s an attack.” Chris said.
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Post by mjp3 on May 5, 2005 9:10:39 GMT -5
“I’ll go” Leo said as he picked up little Wyatt and little Chris and orbed out.
“So any idea which demon we’re looking for?” Chris thought it better to stay on track. If there was an attack they needed to be prepared.
“Not really.” Wyatt said as he started to aimlessly flip through the book, “I can’t think of any demon we know that has the power to send us back in time.”
“What about Tempus?” Phoebe asked him.
“No,” He answered while continuing to look through the book, “He can only turn back time with everyone in it, he can’t just send two people to a different time.”
“What about the Avatars?” Piper asked him.
Wyatt looked up from the book. “The Avatars? You’ve already met them?”
“Don’t remind us.” Paige said.
“I guess they do have the power to send us back in time, but I don’t think they would. What would they accomplish by getting us killed?” Wyatt asked.
“Nobody’s heard from them since the last time you saw them,” Chris said, “And they’d ask Wyatt to join them first before they’d even consider trying to kill him.”
Wyatt stopped at a certain page.
“What about Zayon?” He asked.
Everyone went to look at the page that Wyatt had opened the book to. It didn’t have a lot written on it.
Zayon or Praesagium is a low-level demon. His power is premonition. He forms no threat.
“You might be right.” Chris told his brother.
Paige was somewhat confused. How could a low-level demon with the power of premonition send two very powerful witches back in time?
“Um, guys. Low-level, premonitions, not a threat.” Paige said while pointing to the words in the book.
“Maybe in this time, but not in ours.” Wyatt said, “His powers have grown rapidly over the years. First it started off as premonitions but then he managed to go to the times that his premonitions took place. Soon he could travel between different times at will. We’ve been trying to vanquish him for weeks, but we’ve been having trouble finding him. I was actually updating this entry when the time shift occurred.”
“But how would he be able to send you two back in time?” Phoebe asked them.
“I don’t know,” Wyatt said.
At that moment Leo orbed back in.
“Hey. What did I miss?” He asked.
Piper filled Leo in as Wyatt continued to look through the book for a reasonable explanation to their problem. Maybe Zayon had used a spell to boost his powers?
Suddenly Wyatt’s shield went up. It formed a large blue dome around all those that were present in the room.
Chris knew what this meant and got ready to use his powers against any demons that might attack.
Piper, Phoebe, Paige and Leo were confused and wanted to ask what was going on, but a second later their questions were answered.
About fifty demons shimmered into the room and formed a circle around the blue shield. Piper, Phoebe and Paige recognized the demons instantly.
They were Scabber Demons.
But there was also another demon standing outside of the circle. He was a short man but well built. He was dressed completely in black and he had an amulet of some sort around his neck. They recognized him from the picture in the book of shadows. They had been correct, it was Zayon.
He spoke, “I see that you’ve gotten your powers back. Handy. For you that is”
He gestured for his demons to attack.
The Scabbers opened their mouths and started to spit their burning acid onto the shield.
Wyatt’s shield became more translucent for a moment while he was hit by the impact of the burning acid on his shield, he stumbled back a few steps, before closing his eyes and focusing on keeping his shield up.
“You may be powerful Wyatt, but you can’t keep your shield up forever!” Zayon shouted.
Wyatt knew that he was right.
“Orb out of here!” Wyatt shouted at his family.
Leo took a hold of Piper as Chris grabbed Phoebe’s hand, but nothing happened.
“Anti-orbing charms really do come in handy” Zayon said with a smirk on his face.
“There’s a vanquishing spell in the book!” Piper yelled to Phoebe.
Phoebe and Leo hurried over to the book and started looking for the spell.
Piper started to blast the demons. It didn’t vanquish them, but it distracted them for a moment.
Paige on the other hand was having better luck at vanquishing the demons. “Icky stuff!” She yelled at the acid and it disappeared into a swirl of orbs as it was sent back towards its owner. The demon was vanquished in a burst of flames. She then turned her attention towards the next demon.
Chris was throwing the demons into the walls, cabinets and anything that they happened to land on as he used his power to distract them long enough from spitting more acid onto Wyatt’s shield. Chris looked over towards his brother and he knew that he wouldn’t keep it up long.
Wyatt’s face was full of concentration, but the effort of keeping his shield up was draining all his energy. They needed to find the spell fast.
Zayon was getting annoyed that his plan wasn’t going as well as he’d hoped.
“Faster! Get his shield down now!” He yelled.
The demons doubled their effort.
This was too much for Wyatt. He was exhausted. He couldn’t hold his weight any longer. He sunk to his knees and his shield changed colour. It was now only barely visible. It would soon all be over.
“Wyatt!” Chris yelled as he threw both his hands up and two of the demons were thrown through the air and were knocked unconscious as they hit the wall.
“We could really use some help here!” Phoebe yelled up to the ceiling as she continued to look for the spell.
A gust of wind turned the pages of the book to the page they had been looking for.
“Piper! Paige!” Phoebe yelled.
They both hurried over.
“Scabbers, who in the darkness dwell, We vanquish you with this spell,”
Zayon yelled in anger and flamed out.
“Acid made of anger and hate, Let it turn on you, and incinerate”
There was a blinding white light and Chris put his hand up to cover his eyes. Sounds of yells filled the room as the demons were vanquished by their own acid. When all went quiet the light faded away.
The first thing Chris saw when his eyes adjusted to the darkness of the room was Wyatt.
He was lying on the floor, and he wasn’t moving.
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There´s the next part. Hope you liked it. Please tell me what you think!
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Post by anglomaltese on May 5, 2005 9:40:58 GMT -5
Great! I liked hearing about what the future is like for Wyatt and Chris - a Cop and a Doctor, cool! I want to know what happens next though, so update soon!
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Post by DrewFullerFan4Life on May 5, 2005 14:32:34 GMT -5
Wow, impressive chapter! I really enjoyed it! Write again soon!
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Post by mjp3 on May 8, 2005 11:15:29 GMT -5
Thanks for replying. You guys keep me going!
The first thing Chris saw when his eyes adjusted to the darkness of the room was Wyatt.
He was lying on the floor, and he wasn’t moving.
“Wyatt!” Chris yelled as he ran to his brother’s side, “Dad!”
Leo was already there. He placed his hands over Wyatt, but no golden glow came.
As Chris watched, tears started to sting his eyes. Why wasn’t he healing? Why wasn’t he waking up? He couldn’t be…. He just couldn’t be…
“Dad?” Chris asked his father, his voice starting to shake. He dreaded the answer he might receive, “He’s not…he can’t be…” His voice faded away.
“No, he’s alive” Leo said.
Chris let out a sigh of relief.
“But why can’t you heal him?” Chris asked him.
“Because he’s not physically hurt,” Leo said, “He’s just exhausted. Not just physically, but mentally too. It must have taken all the strength he had to keep up his shield for that long. All he needs is rest. I’ll put him on our bed.” Leo said as he looked at Piper, who nodded her head in agreement.
She had been completely frozen until then. She hadn’t dared to move, dared to breath as she saw her eldest son lying motionless on the floor. But it was all going to work out.
Leo placed his hand on Wyatt and disappeared in a swirl of orbs and Chris soon followed.
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A few hours had passed, and it was getting late. Chris was in his parents´ bedroom. He had refused to leave his brother’s side. Piper was in the kitchen making him a sandwich to try and get him to eat something.
Piper walked back into the bedroom and saw that Chris was still sitting in the chair next to the bed as his brother slept.
“I brought you something to eat,” She said as she handed him the plate.
“Thanks,” He said as he took the plate and put it on the bedside table next to him, but he didn’t touch the sandwich.
“You really should eat something Chris,” Piper said as she sat down in the chair next to him.
“I’m not hungry,” He replied.
Piper watched him in silence. She wanted to rap her arms around him and hold him like a little child, and whisper to him that it was all going to be okay.
“You now,” He said seriously as he looked at his mother, “In all his life, Wyatt’s never been hurt before.”
“What?” She said. She found it quite hard to grasp the fact that somebody could never get hurt.
“Well, except when he was little and he fell and hurt his knee in the park, and he couldn’t heal himself because there were other people about,” He said, “ But besides that…”
He fell silent as he watched his brother sleep.
“I never realized what he must of gone through every time I was hurt,” He continued, “I mean, I never really considered what would happen if something happened to Wyatt. I just assumed that he’d always be there. But today made me realize that he’s just human too. The same weaknesses, the same mortality.”
“Chris,” Piper said as she placed her hand on his cheek and turned his head so that he would look at her, “When I lost Prue, I tried everything I could to get her back. But in the end I realized that I couldn’t change fate. However much we love someone, Chris, we can’t change what’s meant to be. People have weaknesses, and that’s so they would learn from them and grow stronger from them. Everything happens for a reason, Chris. Remember that.”
Chris nodded to show his mother that he understood. She saw the bags under his eyes and knew that he must be exhausted by all that had happened that day.
“You should get some rest,” She said, “I’ve already made up the couch.”
“What about you and dad?” Chris asked her.
“Your father is spending the night at Magic School, with little you and little Wyatt, and I’m bunking with Phoebe.” She answered.
He nodded and stood up to walk towards the living room. He realized that his mother was right. He was exhausted, he needed some rest.
“Thanks mom” He said as he gave her a kiss on her cheek, “Good night.”
He left the room and made his way to the couch.
Piper watched him leave as a single tear ran down her cheek.
“Goodnight, Chris” She whispered.
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Post by mjp3 on May 8, 2005 11:24:12 GMT -5
The next morning Paige walked into the kitchen to find Piper, Phoebe and Chris already up.
Piper was busy over the stove as Phoebe ate a bowl of cereal, and Chris was sitting at the table with the Book of Shadows open in front of him as he munched on a piece of toast.
“Haven’t you memorized that thing by now?” Paige asked Chris grumpily.
“Good morning to you too,” Chris said unfazed as he continued to look through the book.
“Is Wyatt up yet?” Paige asked as she poured herself a cup of coffee.
“Nope, still asleep,” Chris answered.
“What you looking for anyway?” Paige asked him as she grabbed a piece of toast and took a seat next to Chris at the table.
“Yesterday, when Zayon was in the attic, he was wearing some sort of amulet around his neck, I’m seeing if I can ID it.” Chris said.
“Do you think it has anything to do with this?” Paige asked him.
“I’m not sure, but I’ve never seen him wearing it before,” He answered.
At that moment Wyatt walked into the kitchen. He had just woken up and he still looked really tired.
“Wy!” Chris said happily as he saw his older brother, “You OK?”
“Not so loud, Chris,” Wyatt told his brother as he took a seat at the table and started rubbing his temples, “I’ve got a killer headache.”
“Do you want anything to eat?” Piper asked him concerned.
“Yeah, sure, anything’s fine,” He said as he poured himself a cup of coffee. He was very aware of everyone staring at him as if he might collapse, “What happened? My memory’s kind of fuzzy. I remember that Zayon came with those demons and that you were saying the spell to vanquish them, but then its kind of a blank”
“The effort of keeping your shield up drained you Wyatt,” Phoebe said, “After the demons were vanquished you were unconscious. You’ve been asleep since then.”
“Oh,” He said slightly embarrassed as he looked at the floor. Things like that didn’t happen to him, he was meant to be strong. He was meant to look after his little brother and the rest of his family, not the other way round.
“You saved our lives, Wyatt,” Piper said as she placed a fork and a plate with some eggs and toast on it on the table in front of him.
“But it’s my fault that we were attacked in the first place,” He said.
“It’s not your fault, Wyatt,” Phoebe said, “You didn’t ask the demons to attack. The only one that’s responsible for the attack is Zayon, and him alone.”
Phoebe’s words did cheer him up slightly. She was right, and nobody had gotten hurt, but as he looked around the room he realized that his father wasn’t there.
“Where’s dad?” He asked.
“Don’t worry,” Piper said, “He’s at Magic School. Eat something. You look starved.”
Wyatt obeyed his mother. He hadn’t realized how hungry he really was. He hadn’t eaten since breakfast the day before.
“Whatcha looking for?” He asked Chris.
“Zayon was wearing an amulet yesterday. It looked kind of familiar,” Chris said “Have you seen it anywhere before?”
Wyatt thought back to the day before. It had all happened so fast, but Chris was right, Zayon had been wearing an amulet and it did look strangely familiar.
“I think I have,” Wyatt said, “But I can’t remember where.”
He munched on a piece of toast.
“What about those demons. Maybe they’re connected to it,” He continued, “What were they anyway?”
Paige was about to explain but Chris answered first.
“They’re Scabber demons,” He said matter of factly, “They’re easily talked into killing someone, and they won’t stop until that person’s dead. But they’re very useful for information. They get around a lot, know a lot about what’s going on in the underworld, but they’re pretty hard to get rid of once they’re on your tail. You can only vanquish them with their own acid.”
Chris flipped through the book to the page about Scabber demons and then he handed the book to Wyatt.
“How did you know all that?” He asked his brother, “All it says here is how to vanquish them.”
This made Chris stop what he was doing. That was a very good question. How did he know that?
“I dunno. Haven’t we met them before?” Chris asked his brother.
“Not that I know of,” He answered.
“Huh,” He said as he tried to remember where he had met them before. He had an odd feeling of déjà vu.
“Are you okay?” Wyatt asked him.
“Yeah,” He said as he shook off the feeling, “Yeah, I’m fine.”
He took the book back from Wyatt and continued to flip through it, looking for the amulet.
Piper, Phoebe and Paige all looked at each other. They were all thinking the same thing. Maybe he was remembering what happened in his other life?
Leo orbed into the kitchen.
“Morning everyone,” He said brightly as he looked around the room. He spotted his eldest son sitting at the table, “You okay Wyatt?”
“Yeah, I’m fine, dad,” Wyatt said and then he caught site of Chris.
Chris was sitting with a dreamy expression on his face as he sat staring at the page that was open in front of him.
“Are you sure you’re okay?” He asked his brother.
There was no response from Chris. It was as if he hadn’t heard him.
“Hello!” Wyatt said as he waved a hand in front of Chris´ face.
Chris snapped back to reality.
“What?” He asked, “Sorry, I was thinking about something.”
Wyatt leaned forward and read the title of the page Chris had been staring at.
“Valkyries?” Wyatt asked him curiously.
This confirmed the sisters´ suspicion. He really was remembering.
“It’s just,” Chris said, “Ever since we arrived in this time, I’ve had this strange feeling. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, Wy. It’s kind of like I’m remembering stuff, but from a dream, or from a long, long time ago. And I don’t know if it’s real or not.”
Piper took the book away from in front of him and started to rapidly flip through the book without saying a word.
“What are you doing?” Chris asked her.
“Confirming my suspicion,” She said as she placed the book back in front of Chris.
He read the title.
The Spider Demon
Images flooded Chris´ mind. A dark cave. His father caught in a spider’s web.
And then he felt hate. Uncontrollable hate as he threw his father across the cave and started to punch him. Again and again and again.
The images stopped and Chris looked at his mother carefully. She had known what would happen if she showed him that page.
“It wasn’t a dream, was it?” He asked her and he saw tears beginning to well up in her eyes.
She shook her head.
Wyatt was totally lost.
“What’s going on?” He asked.
Chris looked at him, but he didn’t see the caring and loving brother that had always been there for him, he saw the merciless killer that had ruined his life. The man that had single handedly taken away everyone he had ever cared about. The man who he hated more than anything in the world.
Chris shot out of his chair and backed away from his brother.
“Stay away from me!” He growled.
“Chris?” Wyatt said. He had no idea what was going on.
He reached his hand forward to Chris.
“Calm down.” He said as he cautiously walked towards his brother. It was as if Chris didn’t recognize him. “It’s me. Wyatt.”
Chris threw up both his arms and sent Wyatt flying into the basement door. He crashed straight through it and tumbled down the stairs.
Chris was still standing in the kitchen, breathing heavily. He was staring down at his hands in shock.
“What’s wrong with me?” He asked shakily, no louder than a whisper before orbing out.
They heard a groan coming from the basement.
“Wyatt,” Piper said as she rushed towards the door.
“I’m okay,” He said as he climbed the stairs back to the kitchen, “I’m okay.”
He walked into the kitchen and everyone saw that here wasn’t a scratch on him.
Piper remembered what Chris had told her about Wyatt never getting hurt.
“How…. How is that possible?” Phoebe asked him in amazement, “You were just thrown through a door and into the basement.”
“Being part-whitelighter can come in handy sometimes.” He admitted. “Would somebody please tell me why Chris just tried to kill me?”
“Phoebe, Paige, you explain,” Piper told them, then she turned to Leo, “We’re going to go and find Chris.”
“Any idea where he might be?” Phoebe asked them.
“I think I have a hunch,” Leo said as he took a hold of Piper and orbed them out.
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Post by anglomaltese on May 8, 2005 14:16:53 GMT -5
Cool chapter! Interesting twist with Chris remembering his 'alternate' life! Keep it coming!
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Post by leigh19 on May 8, 2005 15:19:07 GMT -5
Wow wow wow. I'm so sorry I haven't had a chance to keep up recently, but I'm so glad I caught up now! This is a really great, and I love where it's heading. It's so cool to see these versions of Chris and Wyatt, and I love how everyone has reacted to them...also love Chris being a doctor/whiotelighter in the future. Thats so cute. I am so impressed by how far you've come as a writer...the first chapter was good, but these last few have been amazing! Great Job! Can't wait for more:) -Leigh
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