The Future Evil (part 3 posted 12/24/04)

[Nite Owl]

Author: Aurora Nightstar

The Future Evil

Note: This story takes place almost immediately after Hyde School Reunion. It is a sequel to Aftermath of a Wish. If you have not read that story, what you need to know to understand this one is that Prue came back to life because of Richard’s wish to bring the charmed ones back to life. However, because she was supposed to die, death was still on her trail. She choice to become a Valkyrie instead of dying again. She also did find out who Chris is. Paige already knows who her future husband will be.


“What!” Leo exclaimed.

“The charmed ones have really crossed the line this time,” Ramus said. “They no longer have a right to a whitelighter.”<br>
“Yes, we are revoking their whitelighter,” Zola added.

“No way!” Leo insisted.

“Leo, you can’t allow your personal ties to affect your judgment. The girls have crossed the line and you know it!” Ramus insisted.

“Can’t you just teach them a lesson like you did before,” Leo requested.

“No!” Zola and Ramus said simultaneously.

“Leo they obviously didn’t learn their lesson the first time around,” Ramous stated.

“Oh, come on, isn’t this the first time something like this has happened since then?” Leo stated.

Zola rolled his eyes. “No, it isn’t,” he stated empathically. He opened a vision to the past.

(PHOEBE grabs her bag and turns to leave the office. SPENCER RICKS tries to stop her.)

SPENCER RICKS: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Where are you going, toots?

PHOEBE: Home, if you must know.

SPENCER RICKS: Home? Are you nuts? We got a column we gotta write, and ... (he lifts up a sheet of paper) ... I've just found the perfect letter for us to respond to. "Dear Phoebe, I am a breast man at heart, but the problem is, this girl I like is flat as a board. ...

(He chuckles in amusement. PHOEBE looks down into her bag and pulls something out.)

SPENCER RICKS: ... Should I even bother asking her out?"

(He laughs.)

SPENCER RICKS: Now this is a letter I can respond to.

(PHOEBE throws the vial at SPENCER RICKS.)

PHOEBE: Uhh!

(There's a blinding flash of white and SPENCER RICKS morphs into a gunting pig.)

PHOEBE: (unsympathetically) Must have been the wrong potion.

(PHOEBE heads for the door and squeezes her way past the pig.)

PHOEBE: Excuse me. (to the pig) This way. (She swishes him into her office.) Inside. Inside. Inside.

(PHOEBE shuts the door behind her leaving the pig inside her office.)

“Wasn’t she under a spell when she did that?” Leo questioned.

“Nope, when she was under the spell, she turned him into a turkey!” Zola insisted.

“Phoebe obviously forgot we use magic to protect the innocent, not punish the guilty,” Gideon added.

“And what is worse, she could have exposed magic with that one,” Zola added.

“True, I mean, what if one of her coworkers walked in at that exact moment,” Gideon stated.

“You have to admit, it is kinda funny though,” Kevin chuckled. The other elders shot Kevin a cold star. “Oh come on that guy being transformed into a pig isn’t really that big of a change now is it?”<br>
“Yeah, but there actions are far more serious this time,” Zola stated.

“It actually resulted in someone’s death,” Gideon reminded everyone.

“There whitelighter will have to be revoked,” Zola restated.

[Nite Owl]

Gideon paid Piper a visit and filled her in on everything. “Chris,” Piper called out. Sure enough Chris orbed only moments later.

“Yeah, mo… Piper,” Chris changed what he was going to say as he saw Gideon. “What is it?” Chris said.

“Your assignment as the charmed ones whitelighter has been revoked,” Gideon informed Chris.

“What, why?” Chris yelled. “I will bet this was Leo’s idea!”<br>
“The decision was reached by the council of elders,” Gideon stated rather unemotionally.

“No, no, no!! They can’t do this!” Chris protested.

“They can and they did!” Gideon insisted.

“What the hell am I being punished for now?” Chris wanted to know. Chris rolled his eyes.

“Not you, them.” Gideon insisted.

“Rick Gittridge, do you know what happened with him,” Piper asked.

“Who?” Chris questioned.

“Where were you when all of this went down anyway?” Gideon asked. He crossed his arms and looked down on Chris taking on a condescending tone.

“What, so this is my fault?” Chris questioned.

“You should have been watching your charges more closely,” Gideon added.

“What?” Chris raised his voice.

“None of this was Chris’s fault,” Piper insisted. She glared at Gideon.

“Of course, but he should take more responsibility as their whitelighter,” Gideon insisted.

“Oh, so you are making this my fault?” Chris thought for a moment. “And what exactly is this anyway?” He said as he rolled his eyes.

“Nothing, it is not your fault,” Piper insisted.

“Thanks,” Chris said. He smiled at his mother. “What exactly isn’t my fault?”<br>
“Phoebe and Paige killed someone,” Gideon announced.

“They did what!” Chris exclaimed.

“No, no, no! They didn’t kill him. They just gave him a new face! Yours!” Piper insisted. Chris stared at his mother clearly perplexed. “Then those demons that were after you melted him down!”<br>
“Yes, which was clearly their intent!” Gideon added.

“Come on Gideon, can you get this decision overturned? I can’t leave yet. I have not even finished what I came here to do,” Chris pleaded.

“I will try, but I probably won’t have much luck,” Gideon stated. “Once the elders make up their mind, that is usually that. There is no changing it!”

“I know,” Chris said rather unenthusiastically. Chris orbed out.

[Nite Owl]

Wyatt started eating some macaroni and cheese, but mostly he was wearing it. “Wyatt has such cool powers. Just think what I could do with that force field, no demon dare mess with me,” Phoebe joked.

“Yeah and that power to conjure something from the TV set. Date with Brad Pitt here I come…” Paige chuckled happily.

Chris orbed in. “What have you two done,” Chris scoffed at them.

Phoebe glanced up at Chris. “What are you talking about,” Phoebe asked.

“Does the name Rick Gittridge ring any bells?” Chris demanded as he crossed his arms.

“Oh, we took care of him,” Paige declared emphatically.

“By killing him,” Chris darted a glare at Paige, very unpleased at how jovially she took this.

“We had not choice! He had a gun,” Paige said.

“Oh, right and you couldn’t have just called for his gun,” Chris rolled his eyes. Paige’s jaw dropped.

“Don’t blame her, it was my idea,” Phoebe said.

“Your idea to do what exactly,” Chris asked.

“He demanded a new face,” Phoebe said.

“A young face, a handsome face,” Paige chimed in.

“So we made him look like you,” Phoebe said.

“What why,” Chris uttered.

“Those scarab demons won’t be after you anymore, they think they already got you,” Paige added with a smile.

“What? You let them go! What if they are the future evil that gets to Wyatt!” Chris raised his voice slightly. Chris could not believe what he was hearing.

“Don’t be ridiculous!” Phoebe insisted.

“I will tell you what is ridiculous! The elders. They are revoking your right to a whitelighter because of this!” Chris informed them. Paige and Phoebe looked at each other in shock.

“They can’t do that Chris,” Paige paused then added gently. “You are family.”<br>
“Yeah, but we are not telling them that,” Chris insisted.

“But Leo,” Phoebe started in.

“None of them,” Chris demanded.

“How can this be happening?” Phoebe asked.

“You used magic to punish the guilty,” Chris stated.

Phoebe gasped as she remembered being burned at the stake. “Yeah, so what?” Paige said.

[Nite Owl]

Gideon rejoined the elders. “Look, Chris isn’t the typical whitelighter,” Leo started. “He came from the future to protect Wyatt. Those orders didn’t come from us. We have no jurisdiction over him,” Leo told the other elders.

“No, Chris will have to go back to his own time,” Gideon retorted Leo’s argument. “He had no business here in the first place!”<br>
Leo stopped and though for a moment. “You may have already given Phoebe her lesson, but what about Paige? Doesn’t she deserve the same change?” Leo questioned.

Gideon paced and turned his back to Leo. He bore down hard on his teeth. “No,” Gideon mumbled to himself.

“He does have a point. Paige deserves the same chance Phoebe got,” Kevin smiled and nodded at Leo.

“I don’t know, Paige has always been,” Zola started in.

“No, the charmed ones have already given more then enough chances,” Gideon said.

“Paige deserves,” Leo started in.

“Paige has already stepped out of line too many times,” Gideon interrupted.

“Watch,” Zola conjured up another image.


PHOEBE: Great! We just need to borrow your soul for a couple of hours.

PAIGE: Yeah. We'll give it right back.

PHOEBE: It's perfectly safe, really. Your body will just slip into a coma, and
as long as we get your soul back in time ...

PAIGE: ... which we will ...

PHOEBE: ... you'll be fine. Just a little headache, that's all. What do you
say?

(DARRYL stares at them, processing what they're saying. His expression doesn't
change.)

DARRYL: You're serious, aren't you?

PHOEBE: Please, Darryl. It's the only way we can save Leo.

DARRYL: No. I--I ain't doing it.

PHOEBE: Darryl, please.

DARRYL: No. Absolutely not. Listen. I love Leo like a brother, ...

(DARRYL turns around and heads back to the end of the alley, his back to the
girls.)

DARRYL: ... but, you know, there is a limit ...

(PAIGE raises the vial and throws it at DARRYL, hitting him square in the back.)

DARRYL: ... to what you can ask a man to do, ...

(Immediately, DARRYL'S body falls to the ground, presumably in a coma, while his
spirit continues to walk and rant in the alley.)

Leo looked on horrified. “She did that without his consent!” He looked to the ground shaking his head.

“See,” Zola glared at the reflection and pointed to it. He looked at Leo with a sheepish grin and smiled. “See!”<br>
“I see that Paige is long over due to be taught a lesson,” Leo declared.

“I agree,” Kevin nodded.

Zola thought for a moment. “Do you really think they can learn!”

“Yes,” Leo declared at the same time Gideon said “No!”<br>
“We will give them this chance, and if they don’t learn their lesson, then Chris will have to go back!” Zola agreed. Gideon realized he was outvoted.