Well here it is Chris's memory!!! Hope it lives up to expectation! Its suppose to be sad so I hope it is
Part 8[/u]
“She probably realised you wouldn’t be consumed, so moved on to the next person.” As he said these words, Leo and the sisters turned to look at Chris who had once more lost the colour to his face.
“What!” Chris snapped.“Well this should be interesting” Piper remarked, frowning at the ashen-faced young man.
“Don’t get your hopes up – maybe Parox will just end mine like Paige’s” Chris growled out, refusing to look at anyone.
“We’ll see…” Leo interjected.
“Whatever!”
Phoebe and Paige glanced at each other in concern as the scenery around them began to change and Chris stiffened and, if possible, went even paler than before.
At the same time, Piper’s eyes raked over the young witch-whitelighter and gradually filled with concern as she remembered the nightmare he had seemed to be experiencing earlier. The eldest sister wondered if the nightmare had anything to do with this memory they were about to witness.
The changing scenery abruptly came to a stop and they were greeted by the familiar sight of the Manor’s Attic – although there seemed to be more things and did the book look thicker?
“Why are we in the attic?”
“Where’s Chris?”
Paige and Phoebe asked at the same time. It was then that The Charmed Ones and Leo realised that Chris was in fact missing. Before they could comment on the situation, however, a woman ran through the door. They couldn’t see her face as it was concealed by her long dark hair.
Just behind her, following rather reluctantly, was a teenage boy with thick unruly brown hair. The boy let out a sigh as he entered the attic with shoulders slumped.
“Chris?” Phoebe whispered softly.
“Chris!?! Phoebe that boy is too cute to be our neurotic whitelighter” Piper said.
Sharp green eyes, too old for the young face that held them, snapped round and looked right at them.
“I am
not neurotic!” the boy said in a harsh whisper.
“It
is Chris” Paige said.
“Oh my god, you are sooo cute,” Phoebe cried in her ‘baby’ voice.
Chris shot her an appalled look and rolled his eyes heavenward.
“We have to hide the book.”
“What did you say?” Paige asked, turning to face her eldest sister.
“What you looking at me for, I didn’t say a word!” Piper snapped, folding her arms across her chest. “She spoke” she added, pointing at the dark haired woman who was now hovering over the Book of Shadows.
Suddenly a second woman entered the room, shutting the door and gently pushing Chris further into the middle of the room – despite his protests.
“Oh my god!” Paige hissed, all three sisters shocked by who had just entered the room.
“That’s….well its…I don’t believe this” Piper spluttered out, looking back and forth at the second woman and the middle Halliwell.
“Me!” Phoebe cried out, “My hair’s long again” she added tilting her head to the side to study her older self’s hair.
“Weren’t kidding when you said you knew us eh?” Piper said, glancing at Chris who just shrugged.
“I couldn’t hold him,” the second Phoebe gasped out, moving to stand by the dark haired woman. “He’s on his way up now!”
“Chris, what’s happening?” Paige asked at the same time as Leo said “Who’s ‘he’?”
Chris, however, ignored them and moved towards the future version of Phoebe and the dark haired woman.
“We’ve gotta go” he said, pulling a face at the small voice that came out of his mouth.
Future Phoebe offered him a small smile. “Right after we hide the book Chris” she said, ruffling his hair for which he scowled at her and shook his head.
“No! We’ve gotta go now!” he said more forcibly, grabbing the dark haired woman’s hand and would’ve orbed then and there if she hadn’t of released his hold.
“Chris, I know you’re scared honey” she said, the sisters and Leo frowning at the familiar voice, “but we can’t let him have it.”
“But…he’ll get it anyway!”
“He’s right you know” a deep voice growled from thin air. A short while later a blonde haired teen; older and taller than Chris; materialized in the room, followed by just over half a dozen demons.
“Give me the book!” he commanded, casting hate-filled eyes at the occupants of the room.
Future Phoebe and the dark haired woman moved in front of Chris, blocking him from the older boy’s view. The sisters and Leo were so caught up in the scene before them, that they failed to notice the subtle hand gesture the dark haired woman performed or that the demons flanking the blonde teen froze in place.
“You can’t have it!” Future Phoebe shouted.
The blonde haired teen just laughed. “Of course I can – It’s my heritage after all.”
“Heritage?” Paige muttered baffled by what was happening before her eyes.
Piper let out a gasp and shook her head. “No – it can’t be” she whispered and turned to the younger version of their whitelighter. “Chris, please tell me that’s not…Wyatt? Tell me that’s not my son!”
Chris lowered his head to stare at the ground and inclined his head slightly. Piper, however, caught the gesture and he hand flew to her mouth.
“I’m sorry” Chris whispered.
“Evil can’t have the Book of Shadows!” Future Phoebe stated, totally oblivious to the revelation for her past self and family.
The blonde teen, Wyatt, shook his head. “When will you learn” he said, as if talking to mere children, “it’s not about Good and Evil – only about power and who has the most” he said, clenching his fist to prove a point. “And you two are all that’s left standing in my way!”
“You…you wouldn’t hurt family” the dark haired woman stuttered out, unsure even as she voiced the statement.
“Tell that to Aunt Paige!”
“I’m dead!” Paige squeaked out, “my own nephew killed me? Err kills me?”
“Please stop...” the sisters and Leo turned to look at where the small pitiful voice had come from. They saw Chris walking slowly backwards, shaking his head with a stricken expression upon his young face.
“I d-d-don’t w-w-a-a-nt to reli-i-ve th-th-this” he stuttered out in barely an audible whisper, “Please stop!”
“It’s ok Chris,” Phoebe said, moving towards him, “honey we’re here.”
But Chris seemed not to hear her and looked straight through her as if she wasn’t in front of him.
“You wouldn’t hurt….me!” They turned their attention back to the dark haired woman as she spoke, all of them feeling as if they knew her.
“You’re right,” Wyatt said, his face softening as he looked at her, “I couldn’t hurt
you mom!” A sneer appeared across his face as he stressed the word ‘you’.
“Mom!?! That’s me?” Piper cried out, feeling her legs buckle as realisation hit her. Leo supported her and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.
They watched as Wyatt clinched his fist and then they heard the sound of choking. They saw that Future Phoebe was clutching at her throat as if she were being strangled.
“No…please” they heard Chris whimper from beside Phoebe, who had paled considerably.
With an evil grin, directed at Future Piper, Wyatt violently flicked his wrist. At that moment a sickening crack echoed around the room and Future Phoebe fell to the ground – her neck snapped in two and her sightless eyes staring with a shocked expression.
“No!” The sisters, Chris, Leo and Future Piper all shouted at the same time.
“Phoebe? Oh god Phoebe!” Future Piper cried out, running to her sister’s side and cradling her head lap, “no.”
The sisters and Leo watched helplessly as Wyatt dematerialized with the Book of Shadows clasped in his hands. It was then they noticed the frozen demons around them.
Chris suddenly ran from Phoebe’s side and to Future Piper, utter determination; or was it desperation; upon his face.
“Come on, we can still orb out!” he said, grabbing hold of her hand he tried to pull her away from her sister’s dead body.
“I’m so sorry Phoebe – this is all my fault!” Future Piper whispered, tears rolling down her cheeks.
The sisters and Leo stood shell-shocked, watching as Chris tried once again to pull her away. They noticed that he kept glancing at the frozen demons.
“I’m dead!” Phoebe muttered over and over, not taking her eyes off of her future self’s prone body.
“Oh god Leo!” Piper cried, resting her head on Leo’s shoulder as he held her. “Our son grows up to kill his own aunts…”
“Shhh – we won’t let that happen Piper” Leo said, looking her square in the eye, “I promise.”
Suddenly, all at once, the demons unfroze and looked around them in confusion.
“No” Chris murmured, tugging on Future Piper’s arm but she ignored him.
With her back to the demons, she failed to see one of them produce an energy ball or see the delight on his face as he let it fly and shimmer out with the others. She did however feel it impact solidly in her back and it burn through her skin and flesh.
“NO!!!!!!” Chris screamed, becoming firmly rooted in place as her hand slid from his and to the ground.
“Oh god!” Paige gasped and looked over at Phoebe, both thinking the same thing – poor Chris.
“What? That’s how I die!?!” Piper gasped out, not believing her eyes. She felt Leo stiffen and looked up and his shocked and saddened expression, unaware that he was thinking where the hell his future self was at this very moment when Phoebe and Piper needed him the most.
They watched as Chris dropped to the floor beside Future Piper with tears brimming in his green eyes.
“No, no, no….please no” he muttered, as he leaned other her.
“Chris?” she gasped out, her breath hitching as she spoke, “I’m so sorry sweety” she continued, gazing into his eyes.
“No” he said, shaking his head, “don’t say goodbye, please!”
Future Piper lifted her hand to his face and brushed the long strands of hair from his forehead. “Not much of a 14th birthday party huh?” She tried to smile but it turned into a grimace of pain. “I love you honey!”
Leo frowned at that and looked down at Piper to see the confusion on her face as well. Paige and Phoebe were practically crying along with Chris.
“NO! I’m not giving up on you!” Chris vowed. He stood up and raised his head to the ceiling and shouted out.
“Help, someone help!” he cried, tears streaming down his pale face. He hesitated and looked down at Future Piper, seeing her lying there he swallowed and made a decision.
“Dad! Dad please, for once answer me!!!” he cried and then with one deep breath he let out a huge shout.
“MOM NEEDS YOU!!!”
To Be Continued...Well, what did you think? Please don't kill me cause of the cliffhanger