*FINAL CHAPTER* ChrisFic Many Future Consequences

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Sorry, I'm hoping to update soon, maybe today. Should definitely be in the next 24 hours though.

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Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Five

“Chris! Leo!” Piper called out as she placed the last plates of food on the table. Seconds later Chris orbed in.
“Where are we?” Chris asked as he looked around the room.
“This is Gideon’s private Dining Room. He kindly let me use it this morning, now sit down and eat up.” Piper told him.
Chris then noticed the table full of food. “Wow, Mum, when you said breakfast, I thought you meant maybe a piece of toast and a bowl of cereal!” Chris said, surprised at the feast that lay before him.
On the table was a selection of eggs, bacon, hash browns, pancakes, waffles, toast, cereal and fruit.
“I wasn’t sure what you liked, so I just thought I’d make a selection of everything,” Piper said, smiling.
As Chris moved to sit at the table next to his brother who was in his highchair, Leo orbed in.
“Wow!” Leo said, also, as soon as he saw all the food on the table.
“I don’t know what the big deal is?” Piper asked starting to get a little annoyed at their reaction. “So, I just cooked a selection of things for breakfast. I wasn’t sure what everyone wanted.”<br>“No big deal,” Leo dismissed immediately, sensing Piper’s annoyance.
“Everything looks great, and I’m starving.” He said as he moved to sit the other side of Wyatt.
“Really, Mum, this is great, and I can’t believe you cooked it all yourself this morning. You must have gotten up really early, thanks.” Chris agreed.
Piper sat down in between Chris and Leo, “Okay then, dig in.” She said passing them each a plate. “I was up early anyway, I couldn’t sleep again,” Piper said as she watched Chris and Leo fill their plates with a variety of food from the table.
Leo put his plate down as he asked her, “You had more dreams again, too?”<br>She nodded, and then added, “So, I take it you did as well.”<br>Chris had been busy constructing a large bacon and egg toasted sandwich, and was just squeezing some tomato ketchup on it when he asked his parents, “Were the dreams the same as last time? Was there anything new?”<br>When he was finished with the ketchup he put it back on the table and noticed both Leo and Piper staring at him. “What?” He asked.
They smiled, both slightly embarrassed at being caught out staring at their son. “Nothing, I’m just waiting to see how you’re going to pick that sandwich up, let alone eat it.” Leo explained with a laugh.
“It’s not that big!” Chris said defensively.
“I’m just glad to see you’re enjoying the breakfast.” Piper added.
“Thank you, Mum, I am. Very much.” Chris said gratefully. “I cannot tell you the last time I had a cooked breakfast like this.” He said as he managed to take a big bite of his sandwich.
“It’s something we should have done a lot more of while you were here, Chris. I’m sorry we didn’t think of it before.” Piper said to him.
Chris just shook his head pointing to his mouth, indicating he could not answer because it was stuffed with food.
She nodded at Chris as she started to get a bowl of cereal ready for Wyatt.
Leo had already started eating his breakfast when he decided to answer Chris, “As to your question, Chris, my dreams were almost exactly the same as I described, only stronger.” Leo started to explain in between bites of food. “Lots of dark figures moving in circles, Gideon and a Darklighter. Still didn’t make any sense, and there was nothing new.”<br>“Same here,” Piper said as she now started to fill a plate for herself. “This time, of course, I was more aware so I remember it more clearly, but everything was the same as Leo just described, except instead of a Darklighter there was The Source.”<br>“Are you still going to warn Gideon?” Chris asked, before he took another bite of his sandwich.
“I think we should. Nothing else makes any sense.” Leo answered.
“I’ve been thinking about that a lot this morning,” Piper said, as she picked at the food on her plate, “If someone is trying to send us a message, I can’t think of what else it would be. Gideon has done so much for all of us, we should definitely tell him about the dreams, even if we’ve interpreted them wrongly.”<br>“So you both think it’s a coincidence that you’ve had these dreams before I’m due to time travel again?” Chris asked them as he took the last bite of his sandwich.
“There’s nothing in the dreams to connect it to your time travelling. Only the timing of them.” Leo concluded.
“True, but what about Future Leo? His dreams couldn’t have been about Gideon.” Chris questioned.
“No, I honestly don’t know what the connection is there.” Leo answered, and then continued, “I think the best thing is to get you home safely to your own time, maybe even move it forward to today.”<br>“Today!” Both Chris and Piper said at the same time.
“Why not?” Leo asked them. “I’m worried about all of this, I just want Chris home and safe.” He of course stopped short in telling Piper that he intended to go with him, deciding to face that later.
“What about the potion or the spell?” Piper asked him.
“I will work on that with Gideon, and I’ll get Paige to help.” Leo said.
“I’ll help too,” Chris said as he poured syrup over a pile of pancakes he had just piled onto his plate.
“It’s decided then.” Leo stated.
“Only if we are sure the potion or spell will work.” Piper said.
“Agreed,” Leo said, and then they both looked at Chris, who only nodded because his mouth was full of pancakes.
They both smiled again.

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Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Five
Continued

“I’m so glad we were able to have this breakfast together,” Piper said as she broke up some pancakes on a plate for Wyatt to eat. “I didn’t think it would be your farewell breakfast, though, Chris,” she said sadly.
“Neither did I.” Chris said not really knowing what else to say.
“There’s so much more I wanted to say to you. How can we ever thank you for what you’ve done?” Piper said to Chris.
Chris had now finished his plate of pancakes and was sitting back in his chair feeling very full.
“You don’t have to thank me, Mum. I’m just happy and relieved it all worked out in the end. I really didn’t think I would be here this long or it was going to be this difficult to find the demons that turned Wyatt.” Chris explained.
“You risked so much just by coming here, Chris. Even your own existence!” Leo added.
“That, I hadn’t thought through completely!” Chris admitted. “I really thought I was done for, I couldn’t see any way of getting the two of you back together.”<br>“I guess you were just meant to be.” Piper said as she looked at Leo and smiled.
“Yes, but also I think you two are meant to be together.” Chris said firmly.
“Yet you were the one who split us up in the first place.” Leo challenged him.
“I know you’d like to blame me, but truth is you guys split up for a while in my time too when Dad became an Elder. But things worked out, and I’m living proof of that.” Chris told them.
“I didn’t know I became an Elder in your time as well,” Leo said.
“Yes, well, even though the future’s changed now, I still shouldn’t be telling you too much, but yes, you did still become an Elder. What I did when I arrived just moved it forward a little, but it was always your destiny.” Chris explained.
“So that’s why I wasn’t there for you, because I was an Elder.” Leo concluded.
“That was part of the reason, but I really don’t want to get into that again.” Chris said, immediately putting his protective walls up around himself again, not realising he’d dropped them in the relaxed family atmosphere he wasn’t used to.
“I just want to make sure I don’t make the same mistake again, Chris, that’s all. Anything you can tell me would be appreciated.” Leo asked him gently, hoping he’d go back to the relaxed Chris who’d just started opening up to them.
“We’re your family, Chris, there’s no need to be afraid to talk to us, about anything.” Piper added.
“I know, Mum, and I appreciate what you’re saying,” he said, and then paused seemingly deciding whether to continue or not. He looked at both of them looking back at him, eagerly waiting for him to say something. “It’s just not as easy as that. Dad, you did become an Elder and did spend a lot of time “up there”, but you always seemed to be able to make time for anything to do with Wyatt. Anything to do with me, though, was another story.”<br>“He must have done something for you Chris.” Piper suggested.
“No, sorry,” Chris replied shaking his head, “I can honestly say that I can never remember Dad ever coming to see me at school in anything, or watch me play sport. He never even made it to any of my birthdays that I can think of.”
“Not even your birthdays?” Leo asked incredulously.
“That just doesn’t sound like you,” Piper said to Leo.
“You know, if you’d said that to me when I first got here, I would have disputed that, but now I’ve gotten to know you better, I tend to agree.” Chris said to both his parents. “The Leo I knew growing up and the one sitting in front of me now, seem like two different people. I always thought I was the reason you were never around. Maybe I did something or said something that made you not like to be with me.” Chris explained, now not making eye contact with his parents but staring down at the glass of juice he was holding.
“Oh, Chris it could never be you,” Piper reassured him.
“No, Chris, don’t ever think that,” Leo said firmly to him.
Chris looked at both of them and smiled, “The point I’m trying to make is I’m beginning to think that maybe something did happen to change you. I don’t know what, but I’m hoping it had something to do with Wyatt being saved so it won’t happen again this time.”<br>“It won’t happen again, I promise you that, Chris,” Leo said sincerely.
“And I’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again as well,” Piper promised.
“I’m so glad we had this breakfast and this time together as a family. I’ll always remember this day,” Piper said.
“It was a great idea Piper, thank you.” Leo said to her, “but we’d better get working on that potion, if we’re going to send you back to that better future later today.” Leo said as he started to get up from the table.


Chris also started to rise, “I’ll help you Dad,” he said as he walked over to Piper. To her surprise he bent down to hug her, “Thank you, Mum, this has been really nice.” He said as he hugged her warmly. This was the first sign of physical closeness Chris had shown her since she’d found out she was his Mum and she relished every second of it.
“I’m glad you both enjoyed it,” she said to them, as Chris pulled away.
“We’ll drop in to see Gideon first, then we’ll be out in the Library working on the potion,” Leo said, and then turned to walk to the door.
“Okay, I’ll catch you later,” Piper said as she watched them both walk out the room. She turned to Wyatt still sitting quietly in his highchair munching on the bits of fruit she’d given him after he’d finished the pancakes.
“Well I hope you’re planning on doing the dishes, because I’m certainly not doing them,” she said to him as she collapsed in a chair. “What a perfect morning,” she mumbled to herself as she put her feet up on another chair and just enjoyed the peace and quiet for a few moments.

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Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Six

From his void he knew he had come close to reaching them. He knew his messages were getting through, they just weren’t able to interpret them correctly. Sending them images of Gideon with their own greatest threat he thought would help them understand Gideon’s true intentions. He didn’t realise how well Gideon had hidden those intentions, so well in fact that he was completely trusted by all of them.
From his void he continued to watch, or more accurately sense the effects of his messages. Chris went through a portal that day with Leo but it did not lead to the future as they had intended, instead it led to the alternate universe where the Charmed ones were evil and Barbas was the demon of hope. He knew that this was exactly what Gideon had intended; only because he had seen this entire sequence of events play out before. And not just once. Over, and over, and over again. He was desperate for some change, not just in an attempt to break the world from this time loop, but also to free him from this void of boredom and monotony that he was imprisoned in. And this is why, when Chris and Leo went through the portal to the evil world, as they had done every other time, he was swept with a wave of disappointment and exhaustion. He knew he had failed in his attempt to break free from the loop, and that meant he would need to wait until the next opportunity presented itself to make another attempt.

He watched as, in Leo and Chris’ attempt to escape from Evil World, they changed the balance between good and evil, changing the world into a Smiley World where everyone was a little too happy. The time before Piper gave birth to Baby Chris was chaotic, frightening and tragic. While Piper was fighting in hospital to save her own life and that of her unborn son, Leo was also desperately fighting to save the life of both Big Chris and Wyatt, because of Gideon. Not everyone would survive that day, and it was Chris who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Leo kept his promise and made sure he was there for Chris, creating a much happier life for him this time. As time progressed Wyatt was given Excalibur by mistake and used it for several years. By the time Leo and the other Elders realised it was meant for Chris, Wyatt had been corrupted by the Magical Sword and getting it back was all that mattered to him. As a result he became an outcast. When Phoebe, through her visions, discovered that Chris was still destined to die at the same age as the other Chris, Wyatt had decided to bide his time and wait until Chris was no longer in the way for him to claim Excalibur.

And so this timeline moved along. Patiently he watched from his void waiting for another chance. Finally, a few months after the family dinner when Chris introduced his new girlfriend, Jeni to his parents, he saw an opening. A slim window of opportunity existed to finally break the time loop they all continued to exist in. He took that opportunity.

“No!” Piper and Leo screamed as they both sat up in bed at exactly the same time.
“What the hell was that?” Piper asked, still breathless from the nightmare.
“Did you have a dream, too, or did I just wake you?” Leo asked, also catching his breath.
“No, I had a dream all right. Actually it was more like a nightmare. But why did we have it at the same time, now that is weird.” She said to him as she reached over and turned the light on next to her side of the bed.
“You okay?” Leo asked her as he rubbed her gently on the back.
“Yes, I am now, but did that dream seem familiar to you?” Piper asked.
Leo thought for a few seconds before he remembered as well.
“Back before Gideon hurt Chris, we both had dreams. I remember now.”
“Yes, and we all talked about it. We had a family meeting if my memory is correct.” Piper said, and then added, “And the family breakfast the next day. Just our little family,” she remembered fondly. “That was a good morning, do you remember how Chris started to open up to us a little?”
Leo smiled at the memory, “Of course I do,” he said.
“So what are these dreams meant to be telling us now. And why would we be having them so long after the other ones? This just doesn’t make any sense.” Piper said, frustrated.
“Well, we don’t know what the first message was to the other Leo, but we do know that the second message was telling us about Gideon being evil. We worked that out in hindsight.” Leo summarised.
“What did you see in your dreams?” Leo asked.
“Very similar to before, I think. There were a lot of figures moving in circles and I think Wyatt was in there somehow with Excalibur maybe? Like all dreams, it was very mixed up.” Piper tried to explain.
“My dream sounded almost identical to that, but there is one thing that worries me,” Leo said.
“And what’s that?” Piper asked him.
“The timing of the dreams. Remember Chris said the first dreams came the day before he was due to travel back in time. The second dreams also came the day before Chris was due to travel back in time, except we know that never eventuated.” Leo explained.
“So you’re worried that Chris might be planning a trip back in time again?” Piper surmised.
“Well it’s hard to ignore the timing of the other dreams.” Leo said.
Piper thought about what Leo had just said, and then all of a sudden jumped out of bed.
“What are you doing?” Leo wondered.
“We’ve got to stop him, come on, get up and get dressed!” She demanded.
“Piper it’s five in the morning, we can’t go over to Chris’ place now.” Leo tried to reason.
“You’re right,” she conceded. “We’ll wait till seven, it’s a work day, he should be up by then.”<br>Leo sighed, but agreed, “Okay, we’ll go over at seven.”<br>When she continued to put her dressing gown on he asked, “Why don’t you come back to bed?”<br>“There is no way I could sleep now, Leo, I’ll go downstairs and cook some breakfast.” She said as she headed toward the door.
Leo’s mind immediately went back to the huge breakfast they had the last time Piper couldn’t sleep with these dreams. “I’ll just have some toast,” he called to her as she disappeared out the door. And then reluctantly he got out of bed.

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Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Six
Continued

Two hours later Leo orbed himself and Piper outside the door to Chris’ modest apartment he now shared with Jeni.
Piper went to knock on the door, but hesitated.
“What wrong?” Leo asked her.
“I was just thinking,” Piper replied.
“Thinking what?” Leo asked.
“Well, I was just thinking what if we’re….you know…..interrupting them.” Piper finally got out.
“What do you mean inter……oh,” Leo said suddenly understanding what Piper had meant.
“Don’t you think we should have thought of that before!” Leo said, a bit too loud.
“Well, I didn’t, so maybe we should go home and call first.” She suggested.
Leo sighed. Heavily. “Piper, we’re here now, let’s just do this,” he said as he lifted his hand to knock on the door.
“No wait!” She said holding on to Leo’s hand to stop him from knocking.
Before Leo could ask Piper what she wanted to wait for, the door in front of them suddenly opened.
A very sleepy looking Chris appeared before them dressed only in boxer shorts.
“Mum, Dad, hi. Let me make it easier on you, how about you come inside and tell me why you woke me up this early.” Chris said to them, as he turned to walk back into his apartment leaving the door open for them to follow him.
“And don’t worry,” he said to them, without turning around, “You didn’t interrupt anything but us sleeping in after being up to three o’clock this morning marking exam papers from Magic School.”<br>“You heard us?” Piper asked, horrified.
“Mum, our bedroom is the front window, of course we heard you.” Chris said stating the obvious.
“I’m sorry, son, but what we want to talk to you about is pretty important,” Leo justified.
“Don’t worry about it,” Chris said trying to stifle a laugh. “I guessed it must be important for you to come around at this time. So shoot.”<br>“I’m just going to cut to the chase here, and I’ll explain the question afterward. I want you to promise to answer honestly, no secrets okay?” Leo said firmly.
“Fine, I promise.” Chris agreed.
“Are you planning to time travel at all in the next few days?” Leo asked him.
Chris had certainly not expected to be asked that question. “What!” He exclaimed, very surprised. “You’re serious?” He checked.
“Completely!” Piper confirmed.
“No, absolutely not. No way am I planning on time travelling in any way shape or form in the next couple of days.” Chris answered and could see the immediate relief on both his parents’ faces. “Why?” He asked.
“It’s a long story,” Leo said.
“Well I’m up anyway, how about I put a T-shirt on and make us a coffee, and we’ll sit down and you can tell me everything?” Chris asked them.

They decided to do just that. Leo and Piper explained to Chris how they had both had dreams just before the other Chris that had travelled from the future more than twenty years before was due to go through the time portal. They also told him about how the Leo from that Chris’ original future had also had the dreams before that Chris went back in time. And finally how they had both had the dreams that night themselves once more, and were concerned it had something to do with him planning a trip through time.
Chris listened patiently to everything they had told him. “That is very confusing,” he said, “but I think I understand what you’re saying. So if these dreams don’t have anything to do with the time travel, then what message do you think they are trying to tell you?”<br>“We have no idea!” Both Piper and Leo said at the same time, feeling very frustrated.
“That’s if it is a message,” Piper added, starting to doubt whether they were on the right track.
“What else could these dreams mean?” Chris asked.
“Maybe they’re just dreams.” Piper concluded.
Leo thought about that and then shook his head, “No, I don’t believe that. There is definitely a reason why we’ve had these dreams at these exact times. And I still feel it is someone trying to communicate in some way.”<br>“Okay, then who communicates through dreams?” Chris asked the logical next question.
“I don’t know, I hadn’t really thought about it,” Piper answered him.
“Neither had I,” Leo said, “We’ve been so busy trying to interpret the dreams, we haven’t really thought about who would be trying to communicate to us through them.”<br>Immediately Piper stood up, “Well, we’d better go and check the book of shadows.” She said.
Leo and Chris stood up as well.
“Let me know if you find out anything,” Chris said as he walked over to give his Mum a kiss goodbye.
“We will,” Leo said.
“Bye honey, and thank you,” Piper said before they both orbed out.
Chris looked at the time and considered going back to bed, but decided he’d better have a shower and get ready for work.

[charmingaussie]

Thank you for reading my story, I'll be posting more chapters in the next few days.

If you are enjoying it, I would appreciate you voting for it in the "fan fic of the week" poll.

There haven't been many votes so far, compared to the amount of people reading all these stories.

[ShantaD]

I'm still really enjoying your story. I loved the breakfast scene. In fact, you're doing a great job with all the intimate scenes between Chris and his parents. These are just the sort of scenes they left out last season and they add so much to the story. I'm looking forward to more.
I'm also curious how (or if) you're going to resolve the time travel paradox (these things just make my head spin). If I'm following this right, there are two Chris's I believe: the one whose mother died, whose father wasn't there for him, who got engaged to Bianca and who is stuck in the time loop and the one whose mother didn't die, whose father was there for him, who got engaged to Jeni and who knows about the previous Chris.

[charmingaussie]

Thanks ShantaD for your nice comments. I'm enjoying writing the scenes that I would have liked to have seen as well, it's been alot of fun.

About the timeloop and the Chris's. I'm sorry it's so confusing when I came up with the idea in my head I always knew it was going to be difficult to have it make sense on paper. And now resolving it is even harder.

There is only one Chris really, but to begin with there were two I suppose.

The first Chris lost his Mum at age 14 and grew up without Leo being around, he went back in time and thought he changed the future and was killed by Gideon. When Baby Chris grew up it was a much better future his parents were still alive and together, Leo was around for him, Wyatt was still evil, but not as bad as the first time. Wyatt was evil because he was given Excalibur by mistake when it was meant for Chris.

The second Chris was always destined to die at the same age as the first Chris because of Gideon's magical athame, so they all saved him by merging both Chris's and removing the curse. So now we only have one Chris with two sets of memories.

That Chris accidentally goes back in time with Wyatt when he tried to go back to get Excalibur and that's how they both ended up in the time of the shows we are watching on tv at the moment.

Unfortunately, the Avatars who had been defeated were dying and because Wyatt had come back in time they were made aware as to how powerful he was and transferred all their power to him. And so we have the evil Wyatt from Chris's first future when he was engaged to Bianca.

The twist I put into the story was that Chris was actually the cause of the Wyatt from his first future to become evil by coming back in time with him. Had they not landed in that time then the Avatars never would have realised how powerful he was and given all their powers to him.

So the whole of season 6 of the show where Chris is looking for the evil that turns Wyatt in the future in my story is actually him (unintentionally of course). And not only that, but it has now caused a timeloop where the same years will be lived over and over again.

It all makes sense in my head, but trying to explain it is very difficult. If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask them, I'm happy to try to explain anything.

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Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Seven

Piper and Leo had spent most of the day discussing all the possibilities of who could be trying to contact them through their dreams. They had even called Phoebe over to try to shed some light on what was going on. Her premonition and empathic powers had grown considerably over the years, so it made sense that if someone were trying to contact them, she would be able to sense it.
“Sorry, nothing.” Phoebe said after holding on to both of them and concentrating quietly for a few minutes.
“Nothing at all?” Piper asked.
“No, I’m really sorry.” She answered sincerely.
“This is hopeless!” Piper exclaimed as she walked over to and then collapsed in a nearby couch.
“It may seem hopeless, but we can’t give up yet.” Leo said to them and then added, “I won’t give up yet.”<br>“Okay! Fine!” Piper said as she got up again and started pacing. “According to the Book of Shadows, the most likely thing to attempt to make contact through dreams is a ghost.”<br>“Well, why don’t we just try to summon it?” Phoebe suggested.
“Because we don’t know which one to summon,” Leo answered, “We’ve already thought of that,” he added.
“Maybe we could try a general summoning spell?” Phoebe asked.
“Is there such a spell?” Piper questioned.
“Not that I know of, but I don’t see any reason why we couldn’t write one.”<br>“You’re right! Let’s get to it.” Piper said as she walked over to get a handy pad of paper and pen on a nearby table.
Suddenly Phoebe doubled up in pain holding her stomach, and at the same time a terrified look came over Leo’s face.
“What is it? What’s wrong?” Piper asked as she ran to Phoebe.
“It’s Chris,” Leo replied, breathless.
“He’s in a lot of pain in his stomach,” Phoebe said trying to compose herself. “It’s begun.”<br>The anguished expression on both their faces said it all and Piper immediately dropped the pad and pen she was holding and both she and Phoebe moved next to Leo, orbing out seconds later.
They arrived at Magic School to find Chris collapsed on the floor clutching his stomach, blood seeping onto his hands and fingers. Paige and Jeni were next to him and concerned students were standing all around.

All their efforts and concentration had now moved to saving Chris from the curse of the athame Gideon had used twenty-three years earlier. The idea of trying to summon the ghost had temporarily been forgotten. The day progressed as it had before. They were able to save Chris by bringing the Chris who died in the past to merge with this Chris and then by using the combined Power of Three with the Elders the curse was finally broken.

As Chris tried to sit up after being saved, Leo asked, “Are you sure you’re feeling up to it?”<br>“I’m fine, Dad,” Chris replied; now sitting upright. “ I feel amazing! Thank you to everyone who helped. I cannot thank you enough; you’ve given me my life back. In fact,” he said pausing for a moment, not really knowing how to put it into words, “you’ve given me two lives.”<br>“What do you mean two lives?” Piper asked as she sat down on the couch next to her son.
“This is going to sound really weird, and I don’t want you guys to freak out on me or anything, but the Chris that died in the past, he is now a part of me. I have all his memories now too.” He paused to look at the reaction around the room. Everyone seemed to be trying to process what he had just said.
So you’re telling us that the Chris that came from the future twenty-five years ago is now a part of you too,” Leo said trying to understand.
“That’s exactly what I’m saying, Dad,” Chris replied. “I remember everything. I remember Valhalla, Gith, Ginny the Jeanie, the Spider Demon, and Gideon. I even remember the breakfast you cooked for us Mum, the morning before we went through the portal to the evil world. And the dreams you both had the few nights before. I also remember the dreams the other Leo from my original future had before I came back in time the first time. I now understand your visit this morning and why you were so worried about the dreams. It all makes so much more sense now.”<br>“How is this possible?” Leo asked the Elders.
Before they had a chance to answer, Chris continued, “Did you find out anything about the dreams today? Have you worked out who’s sending them?”<br>“What dreams?” Paige asked.
One of the Elders cut in before anyone could answer Paige. “If we are not needed anymore, we will take our leave.”<br>“Of course, thank you so much for everything,” Leo said to them. They nodded in response and then all disappeared in a cloud of orbs.
After the Elders had gone Paige reminded everyone of her question.
“Dreams?”<br>“We didn’t bother you because you were busy at Magic School, and then all of this with Chris happened, so we haven’t had a chance, but Leo and I have had the same dreams again that we had twenty-three years ago.” Piper explained. “Do you remember we all had a family meeting to discuss them the night before Chris and Leo went through the portal?”
Paige thought about it for a few seconds, and then nodded as she remembered, “Yes, I do. Didn’t they have dark figures and circles or something like that?”<br>“Good memory.” Leo complimented her, “Yes they did, and now they seem to have Wyatt in them as well.”<br>“So you’ve been trying to work out what they mean all day,” Paige clarified.
“Well if we’d gotten the message right last time, Leo and Chris would not have gone to the evil world!” Piper concluded.
“You’re right!” Phoebe said excitedly.
“I know I’m right. So what?” Asked Piper.
“Well, we knew afterwards that the potion that we made would have worked. If we had known that Gideon was evil back then, Chris and Leo would have really gone to the future.” Phoebe explained.
“Yes – so?” Paige asked.
“This future.” Phoebe said. “They would have found out about Excalibur and when Leo went back he would have been able to stop Wyatt from ever using it, so everything would be different.”<br>“And Wyatt would be truly saved.” Chris said.
“Exactly!” Phoebe said.
“So whoever is sending us these messages through these dreams is either trying to save Wyatt or stop things from happening that shouldn’t be happening for some reason.” Leo said.

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Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Seven continued

“We were about to write a spell to try to summon the ghost we think is sending us these messages, before Chris collapsed.” Piper said.
“I think we should finish that spell and give it a try.” Phoebe stated.
“Agreed,” Piper said.
Paige nodded, and went over to get the pad of paper and pen she had picked up off the floor not long before to write the spell to merge the two Chris’s together.
She ripped that spell off the pad and walked over to place it on the Book of Shadows, thinking it may come in handy some day, then set about writing this new spell.

Through our dreams you make contact
Spirit from the other side
Come to me, I summon the
Cross now the great divide

She showed the spell to Piper and Phoebe.
“You only changed one line,” Piper noticed.
“Yes, but it was an important one,” Paige defended.
“It’s fine,” Phoebe said, “Let’s do this.”<br>She then instructed everyone to stand in a circle and hold hands. Phoebe in the meantime was collecting candles and placing them in a circle in front of them. Piper leant down and carefully lit each candle.
Together the three witches said the spell while everyone else stood, waiting anxiously for something to happen. Unfortunately, nothing did.
“I don’t understand, that should have worked,” Paige said, frustrated.
“Should we try again?” Chris asked.
“No, if it was going to work, it would have worked the first time.” Phoebe explained.
“Well how else can we contact a ghost?” Chris asked.
The three sisters looked at each other and it was as if a light bulb went off in their heads at the same time, “The spirit board!” They all said together.
“Are you suggesting a séance?” Asked Jeni, who had remained silent up until now.
“That’s a good idea.” Leo agreed.
“I’m not even really sure where the spirit board is, we haven’t used in years.” Piper said.
“Wyatt and I used it a lot when we were younger,” Chris said, “It should be on the top shelf of that cupboard over there.” He said pointing.
“You did?” Piper asked, surprised. “Why didn’t I know about that?”<br>“Mum, really, don’t go there. I think there’s a lot of stuff we used to get up to you don’t want to know about.” Chris said, suddenly feeling six years old again.
“Mmmm, we’ll talk about it later.” She said not willing to drop it that easily.
In the meantime Leo had retrieved the spirit board from the exact place Chris had said it would be.
“Where do you want to do this? Up here? Or down in the Sitting Room?” He asked, but before he could answer all their attention was drawn to someone orbing into the attic.
“Having a family reunion without me?” Wyatt asked sarcastically.
Nobody had seen him for several months, and were surprised at how he looked, dressed in black trousers, black T-shirt, his blonde curly hair now down to his shoulders.
“Wyatt,” Piper started to say, but was cut off by Leo.
“What do you want?” He asked coldly.
“Nice to see you too, Dad. Don’t worry, I won’t keep you long, I just came by to congratulate my little brother for surviving Gideon’s curse. Well done, everyone, reversing his magic was quite an achievement. Unfortunately, it has resulted in a drastic change of plans on my part.”<br>
From his void, he knew how close he’d come this time. The spirit board would have helped, because he would have been able to send them a short message that would have made a lot more sense than the dreams. Through dreams he could only send images, on the spirit board he could send words. He consoled himself that they had made a lot more progress in this timeline and that many changes had taken place compared to the previous loops. After saving Chris, the dinner they had many times before had not even happened this time. In fact they had spent the entire time in the attic trying to work out his messages until Wyatt appeared. He knew, though, that now Wyatt had appeared, the rest of this timeline would play out as it always had. They would all follow Wyatt to Magic School where Piper would be critically wounded when Excalibur would be accidentally destroyed. He knew that Wyatt, in his desperation to have Excalibur, would open a time portal to the past and Chris, equally as desperate to stop Wyatt, would end up going through that portal with him. This time, however, Chris would have all the knowledge of their discussions about the dreams, and when he arrived in the past he hoped he would tell the Piper and Leo from that time about the spirit board.

He made a decision to use all his concentration to send one last dream to only one person this time. This would be his last hope before the timeloop started all over again. This was his last chance, and it had to be perfect.

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I will try finish this story over the next few days. Thank you to every one who has taken the time to read it and also anyone who has voted for it for fanfic of the week.

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Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Eight

Chris ran in slow motion across the room. The more he ran, the further away Baby Wyatt moved from him. He had to reach him before Gideon did; he promised Leo he would protect him. As he was desperately trying to reach the helpless baby version of his older brother, he watched him change from a baby into Big Wyatt, and then turn to Chris and begin laughing at him. Suddenly Piper and Leo were standing next to Chris, telling him about their dreams and asking him to help them use the spirit board to contact the ghost they thought was sending the dreams. Chris protested, telling them he had to save Wyatt from Gideon. When he looked back at Big Wyatt he had stopped laughing and was now holding a baby. To Chris’ horror he could see it was him as a baby and Wyatt was threatening to kill him. Chris turned to his Mum and Dad for help, but they just kept telling him to come with them. Chris had never felt so frustrated, and could not understand why his parents would be acting this way. Suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his stomach and looked down to find blood seeping from a deep wound. He collapsed to his knees in agony looking desperately at his parents and then back at Wyatt for some kind of help, but no one seemed to care.

Chris jumped as he opened his eyes. Baby Wyatt was in front of him touching his stomach, but his jolt must have scared Wyatt, because he let out a startled cry and ran away. Chris, catching his breath from what he’d just experienced, sat up and looked around and realized he was lying on the couch in the living room of the Manor and everything he just thought was real was only a dream. Or was it? He stopped to think for a second, trying to clear his head and work out what was real and what was not. So much had happened in the last couple of days his head was positively spinning. The dream he just had was such a mix of different events and different times that sorting it all out was going to take patience. Having to cope with the two sets of memories he now had and separating each of them was also difficult. He looked around at where he was and suddenly realised he had no memory of going to sleep there. Trying not to panic he attempted to think back to his last memory and then hopefully work back from there. He remembered Wyatt threatening his Baby self after he and Wyatt had come from the future. He shook his head and mumbled to himself, “I can’t believe I time travelled again!” Then he remembered the dreams his parents had in the future, and how they’d asked him if he was going to time travel because all the dreams had happened before he was due to travel in time. Of course he’d denied it because he certainly hadn’t intended to, but as it turns out he did. “What the hell is going on?” He asked out loud as he put his hands to his head and went to lie down again.
“That’s what I’d like to know.” A familiar female voice said to him.
Chris sat up and saw his Mother walk into the room holding Wyatt.
“I’m sorry if Wyatt woke you.” She said to Chris and then turned to Wyatt and said, “You see, Chris is fine.”<br>“I think I startled him when I woke up, I’m sorry. I had the weirdest dream, there is just so much going on in my head at the moment.” Chris explained.
“Don’t worry, he seems all right now.” Piper said as she walked over and put Wyatt in his playpen. “More to the point, how are you feeling?” She asked Chris.
“Fine, I think, I was just trying to work out where I was. Yesterday was a very long day!” He said to her.
“You can tell me all about it when your Dad gets here,” Piper said. “You were pretty badly injured last night. Leo healed you, but you were so exhausted, you went straight to sleep again after you regained consciousness. You’ve been asleep for nearly twelve hours; I was beginning to get worried.”<br>“Twelve hours? Wow, I can’t remember the last time I slept twelve hours,” Chris said, surprised.
“Well, you must have needed it. I’ll call Leo and you can tell us what is going on.” Piper said as she looked to the ceiling and then shouted, “Leo!”<br>A heartbeat later Leo orbed into the room.
He smiled at Chris, “You’re awake,” he said.
“Finally,” Chris replied.
Piper sat down on one of the chairs in the living room and said, “okay, Baby Chris is asleep, Wyatt is in his playpen, now tell us what is going on, but first, I have to know, are you the same Chris who was living with us the last couple of years?”<br>“Piper..” Leo started to say, but was cut off by Chris.
“No it’s okay, Dad, I don’t mind, because I’ve got a few things to ask you as well, before we go into how and why I’m here.” Chris paused and took a deep breath. “Am I the same Chris?” He repeated, “The short answer, yes and no. There is only one of me, but I have two sets of memories, one from the Chris who lived with you as your Whitelighter and the other from Baby Chris upstairs.”<br>“How is that possible?” Piper asked.
“Really it’s a long story, but I have to ask you both a few questions first. Have you guys been having any strange dreams lately?” Chris asked.
Both Piper and Leo looked at each other and then back at Chris shaking their heads, “No,” they both said.
“Nothing out of the ordinary,” Leo added.
“Are you sure?” Chris checked again.
They both nodded. “Chris, what’s that got to do with you and Wyatt coming back from the future. And what does Excalibur have to do with everything?” Leo asked him.
“Okay, maybe it would be easier if I just started at the beginning.” Chris sighed.
“You have our full attention.” Piper said.
“First of all, I am Baby Chris grown up. My life has been great, everything has been so much better.” Chris started to explain.
“Except Wyatt is still evil?” Leo asked, basing his comment on seeing Wyatt the night before.
“He has problems, but he is no where near as bad as the first future. And we all know the reason this time, it’s because of Excalibur.”
“Why Excalibur?” Piper asked.
“Excalibur was really meant for me, not Wyatt. He was given it by mistake and its power corrupted him. Since Dad and the other Elders took it away from him, he has been completely obsessed with getting it back. That’s all he thinks about. That’s why we’ve come back in time. Excalibur was kept protected at Magic School, but Wyatt tried to steal it. In his attempt it was accidentally destroyed, but he was so desperate to still have it, he opened a time portal to come back in time for it. I tried to stop him, but unfortunately ended up going through the portal with him. I don’t think he intended to come back to this time, because the spell he used was just for him, so when I went through with him we were thrown around like we were in a tornado and then thrown out here.” Chris continued to explain.
“So that’s how you ended up in the attic last night.” Leo concluded.
“I can’t believe Excalibur is meant for you, it hadn’t even occurred to us.” Piper said.
“I know, Wyatt the all powerful and twice blessed superwitch,” Chris said sarcastically. “Don’t worry, everyone just naturally thought it was meant for him. But when you pulled it out of the stone Mum, it was because it was meant for your son; I just hadn’t been born yet. Maybe it was because I was here from the future that it appeared at that time, unfortunately as you know I was out looking for more demons after Wyatt, so missed everything that happened back then anyway. It was all over and Excalibur had been hidden in the attic by the time I got back.”<br>

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Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Eight
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“If you are Baby Chris grown up, how is it that you have the other Chris’ memories as well?” Leo asked.
“When Gideon stabbed me, the athame had been cursed with powerful magic, Dad, that’s why you couldn’t heal me.” Chris started to explain.
Leo nodded, not enjoying the memories this conversation was resurfacing.
“What you didn’t know at the time, was the athame had also been cursed to kill in any timeline. Remember, Gideon was obsessed with Wyatt turning evil and wanted him gone for good. He didn’t want to kill him, just to have you go back in time and save him again. He wanted the job done properly the first time. Well, unfortunately he stabbed me with it, and not only could you not save me at the time, but Baby Chris, who is me, is now destined to grow up and die at the same age.”<br>“How did you find out about this?” A shocked Piper asked.
“Phoebe did. She started getting premonitions, and with the help of the Elders you came up with a counter spell to Gideon’s magic.”<br>“Well it must have worked, thank goodness, because you’re here telling us all about it.” Piper said relieved.
“Not exactly.” Chris told them.
“What do you mean?” Leo asked.
“The counter spell by itself did not work. What you had to do was bring the me who had died in the past to merge with the me who was dying in the future. It got very complicated, but suffice to say that everything worked out in the end, and I woke up with two sets of memories. Apparently that is what would have happened if I had returned to the future anyway.”<br>“Wow, this is amazing. I hadn’t really thought about what would have happened when you returned to the future, because of course if the future had been changed there would have been no need for grown up Baby Chris to come back to the past.” Leo said and then continued, “Did that make sense?” He asked.
“Don’t worry about it, if you think about it too much you get dizzy!” Piper said. “The main thing is Chris is back and we need to help him.”<br>“There’s more I have to tell you first.” Chris said to them.
“The dreams?” Leo asked.
“Exactly! Do you remember just before we went through the portal to the evil world you both had strange dreams?” Chris queried.
Piper and Leo thought back to the few months before and both nodded their heads.
“Yes, why are those dreams relevant to what’s happening with Wyatt?” Leo asked.
“Not with Wyatt, no.” Chris answered, then paused for a second trying to think of how to explain about the dreams now. “Okay,” he continued, “Remember I told you that the Leo in my original future had the dreams just before I travelled back in time to you guys?”
“Yes,” Leo answered. Piper nodded.
“And then you both had similar dreams the night before you and I, Dad, were due to travel in time to the future. Well, those dreams were showing you images of each of your greatest threats, and of course Gideon. At the time because you trusted Gideon implicitly you guessed that you were being warned about an evil that was after Gideon, and not that the evil was Gideon.”<br>“Yes, we’ve talked about that since everything happened. The benefit of hindsight makes such a difference sometimes.” Leo said.
“Well, if we’d known that Gideon was evil and used the potion as we had intended, then we would have gone to the future that day. And it would have been the future I’ve just come from.”<br>Before Chris could continue, Piper cut in suddenly connecting the dots, “Leo would have found out about Excalibur.”<br>“And when I came back, I would have been able to prevent it from happening.” Leo concluded.
“Yes, and the whole future would have changed. Again!” Chris said, “Wyatt would have truly been saved this time.”<br>“That is very interesting,” Leo commented, “but what does it have to do with us having dreams now?”<br>“The Piper and Leo in my future also had the dreams.” Chris told them.
“Again? What’s going on? Who’s sending these things and why?” Piper asked frustrated.
“I wish I knew, Mum, but I may have a way to find out.” Chris answered her.
“What were the dreams about this time?” Leo asked.
“They said they were similar to what you described. Dark shapes of people moving in circles, and Wyatt and Excalibur were in them as well.”<br>“So, it happened just before you time travelled again, and it warned about what was going to happen with Wyatt and Excalibur.” Leo stated.
“It appears that way, yes.” Chris agreed.
“So how do we find out who’s sending these dreams?” Piper asked.
“You guys in the future, along with Phoebe, said your best guess would be some kind of ghost.” Chris said.
“A ghost?” Piper repeated.
“That does make sense, ghosts definitely communicate through dreams.” Leo said.
“Trouble is, we tried to summon it, but it didn’t work, so we were just about to try the Spirit Board when everything happened with Wyatt and I ended up here.” Chris said as he sat back and took a deep breath. “And that’s it, now you’re completely up to date!” He said relieved.
“Well we should try the spirit board as well.” Piper suggested.
“But we haven’t had any dreams yet.” Leo said.
“Oh, that’s right. Does that matter?” Piper asked.
“I really don’t know. Most of this has been guess work.” Chris answered.

Before Piper and Leo could question Chris further, suddenly the room was filled with the sound of a baby crying. Piper picked up the baby monitor, “Baby Chris must be hungry,” and then she realized, “and you must be hungry too, Chris. I am so sorry, we were so involved in finding out why you were here, I completely forgot to offer you some food. You must be starving.”<br>“I hadn’t realized either, but now that you mention it, I am pretty hungry.” Chris replied honestly.
“Leo, I’ll take care of the baby, you take care of the adult,” she instructed as she got up to leave the room.
After she left, Leo and Chris also got up to head to the kitchen. As they were walking together, Leo stopped and turned to Chris, seemingly wanting to ask him something, but not really knowing how to begin.
“What is it Dad?” Chris asked.
“I was wondering about your memories of the day that Gideon attacked you?” Leo asked him hesitantly.
“I remember everything, why?” Chris answered him.
“Because that day has haunted me for months now,” Leo confessed.
“That was a bad day, with the evil world and then happy world,” Chris started to agree, but was interrupted.
“No Chris, I’m not talking about any of that,” Leo said, but then corrected himself, “Of course, that was all bad enough, but I’m talking about a promise I made to you. I promised I would save you and send you back to your own time. I left you on that bed to bleed to death, and you trusted my promise that I would save you. I’ll never forget the look on your face as I orbed out. You were in incredible pain and yet you were still only concerned about your brother. I have relived that day, over and over again, trying to think of what I could have done to save you. I never should have left you alone with Wyatt in the first place. I knew Gideon was after him, I knew you could not possibly defeat him, he was a powerful Elder.”<br>Chris had let his father talk, because it was obviously something he needed to get out of his system, but decided to cut in, “Dad, that was a crazy day, even with the dreams to warn us, there was no way you could have predicted what was going to happen, and I certainly don’t blame you for anything. The whole reason I came back from the future was to save Wyatt. I was always willing to give up my life if it saved the future, because so much more was at stake than just my life.”<br>“I know that now, Chris, I don’t think any of us really understood back then. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I’m sorry I put you in that position and I’m sorry I didn’t keep my promise to save you.” Leo said earnestly.
“Dad, there’s no need,” Chris started to say, but was interrupted by Leo.
“Just say okay, Chris, please.”<br>Chris looked at the pain on his Dad’s face, “Okay,” he said softly.
The relief was immediately evident as Leo sighed, “Thank you. Now we’d better get you some food before your Mum gets back.”<br>“I’d really like one of your famous chicken, lettuce and mayo sandwiches.” Chris requested.
“I have a famous sandwich?” Leo asked him surprised.
“Yep! Mum finally let you in the kitchen.” Chris told him.
“Well, I’d better get to making it then.” Leo said as the two of them walked into the kitchen.

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I know that chapter may have seemed a little bit repetative, but I have to do that so that you'll notice the changes in the timeloop.

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Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Nine

After having one of his Dad’s famous sandwiches, Chris went with his parents to the attic to look for Excalibur, just as he had done in the many loops before. This time, however, they were also looking for the Spirit Board, which had not been used in a long time. After finding Excalibur on top of a cupboard covered in dust, and then locating the Spirit Board on the top shelf inside the same cupboard, the decision was made to wait until Phoebe and Paige came home that night before trying to use it to make contact with the ghost. Chris then orbed to P3 to get some of his old clothes, so that he could have a shower and clean up. Of course, this is where he accidentally saved Jeni’s parents, which would prevent him from ever meeting her. A distraught Chris then returned to the Manor almost ready to give up on everything. After having a long shower and thinking everything through, he joined the rest of his family who were patiently waiting for an explanation as to his behaviour at P3. Paige promised him that she would contact Jeni’s parents in London and let them know what had happened, and that she would make sure that Chris would still get to meet her, and that part of his future would not be changed. After overcoming that crisis, they all decided it was best to wait until morning to use the Spirit Board, as it had gotten very late. A very relieved Chris decided to sleep on the couch in the Living Room again, and the rest of the family adjourned to their bedrooms.

“No! No! What do you want? I can’t reach you!” Leo yelled out in his sleep.
Piper jumped up with the sudden noise and then turned to Leo lying next to her, shaking him in an effort to wake him from his nightmare.
“Leo! Leo, wake up. You’re dreaming!” She urged him.
It took a few minutes but eventually Leo opened his eyes and sat up, breathless and still shaken from his vivid dream.
“Are you okay?’ Piper asked concerned.
Leo didn’t answer her straight away, as he was still trying to regain his composure and get his breathing back to normal.
“Wow!” He finally said.
“What happened?” Piper asked him.
“Did you dream it too?” Leo asked her.
“No. I didn’t have any dreams that I can remember.” Piper answered him, and then realised, “You’ve had one of the dreams Chris was talking about, haven’t you.”<br>Leo nodded, “Yes, but this was so much more powerful than the ones we had a few months ago.”<br>”What was this one about?” Piper asked.
“It was very mixed up,” Leo said trying to make sense of what he had just dreamt. “Dark figures and circles again.”<br>“Every dream has had that, I hope we find out what the hell that means.” Piper said to him.
Leo put his hands to his face and rubbed his eyes, and then kept them closed trying to visualize again what his dream had just shown him.
“You were calling out to someone and asking them what they wanted.” Piper said trying to help him remember, “And you said something about not being able to reach them.”<br>Leo opened his eyes, “I remember.” He said looking at her. “And I think I know who is sending us the dreams. I saw him very clearly and he’s a ghost.”
“Who?” Piper asked.
“Do you remember Clyde?” Leo asked her.
“Clyde who?” Piper asked, the penny not yet dropping.
“He was the ghost from the past, a malevolent spirit who helped me take Paige back to visit her past and overcome her issues with her parents?”<br>“Oh, that Clyde, yes of course I remember him.” Piper said nodding her head.
“Well, I saw him very clearly in my dream.” Leo said.
“Well that doesn’t mean he sent the dreams, Leo, we’ve both seen a lot people in our dreams, but they didn’t send them.” Piper queried him.
“Yes, but no one else has been a ghost.” He reasoned. “And everyone else has been relevant to what was going on at the time. I wasn’t even thinking about Clyde.”<br>“No, but we were thinking about ghosts, so maybe your subconscious made you dream about him.” Piper suggested.
Leo considered what Piper had just said. “Maybe you’re right. I don’t know anymore, but there’s one way we can find out, we’ll summon him.” Leo said.
Leo looked at the clock and saw it was almost 7.00am.
“We’ll wake everyone up, and after breakfast we’ll summon him and try to get some answers.” Leo decided.
“Fine, I just hope we do finally get some answers because this is really starting to annoy me.” Piper said as she got out of bed.

Later that morning Paige, Phoebe, Piper and Chris were all waiting in the Living Room when Leo orbed in.
“The kids are safe at Magic School, okay, let’s do this.” He said impatiently.
“Who is this Clyde again?” Chris asked.
“He’s a ghost from the past,” Paige explained, “He helped Leo and I travel to the past to deal with some issues I had with my parents.”<br>“Like in that Christmas story?” Chris asked.
“Yes, I believe that was him.” Leo stated.
“So, where’s the summoning spell?” Chris asked.
“You don’t summon him the normal way,” Piper told him.
“Clyde ignores them.” Leo said, “There’s only one way to get Clyde down here.” Then Leo shouted angrily, “Clyde! Get your butt down here you fetid worm from the bog of eternal stench!”<br>“What are you doing?” Chris asked, very surprised.
“You’ve got to make him mad.” Phoebe answered Chris.
“Well, that’ll do it.” Chris mumbled to himself as Leo continued.
“Your mother was a chunky substance from a gin cesspool. And she smelled bad too!”<br>They all waited. Nothing happened.
“That should have worked.” Leo said.
“It worked last time,” Piper advised.
“In my dream, I was trying to reach him, but couldn’t. Maybe that’s why he’s attempting to make contact. He might be trapped somewhere and needs our help?” Leo surmised.
“We should use the spirit board.” Chris suggested.
“I’ll get it from the attic.” Leo said just before he disappeared in a cloud of orbs.

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Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Nine
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Everyone else walked into the Dining Room where Leo met them with spirit board in hand. He placed it on the table as each person sat down around it.
“Everyone put a finger on the pointer,” Phoebe requested, “And close your eyes and concentrate. Leo you can ask the questions.”<br>They all did as they were told as Leo asked. “Who is sending us these dreams?”<br>Everyone opened their eyes, as immediately the pointer started moving towards the letters on the board. They all watched as it spelled out C-L-Y-D-E.
“Clyde. You were right Leo.” Piper said to him.
Leo nodded to Piper and then asked his next question. “Why have you been trying to contact us?”<br>They all watched once again as the pointer spelled out T-I-M-E-P-A-R-A-D-O-X.
“Time paradox?” Phoebe questioned when she worked out what the letters had spelled out.
“What’s a time paradox?” Paige asked.
“I’ve studied a lot about time.” Chris answered her. “Considering all the travelling.”<br>“Do you know what it means?” Piper asked him.
“Isn’t it when time continually repeats itself or something like that?” Leo asked Chris.
“Sort of, the example given in books is say you go back in time and kill your grandmother, then of course, you could not be born, which in turn would bring it about that you could not have travelled to the past, thus you could not have killed your grandmother, which means now you would be born, so you can go to the past and kill your grandmother. And so it goes on and on and on. A paradox.”<br>“But none of us killed our grandmother?” Phoebe queried.
“No that was just an example Phoebe, what it means is changing an event in the past can cause a paradox,” Chris said trying not to laugh at her question. Then it occurred to him.
“Do you think I’ve caused a paradox somehow?” Chris asked, concerned.
“Let’s find out.” Leo said and then asked, “Did Chris cause a paradox?”<br>The answer was immediate. Y-E-S.
Everyone sat there stunned for a second, until Chris broke the silence, “My God, I had no idea.”<br>“I don’t feel like we’re living the same day over and over again.” Phoebe said.
“It doesn’t have to be a day, Phoebe, this isn’t Groundhog Day, it can be years that we’re living over and over again.” Leo said to her.
“Let’s think about this for a minute.” Chris said pausing before he continued. “The first Chris goes back in time to 2003 from 2026 and then time continues on until 2027 when I go back in time again, this time to 2005. What if something happens now to make sure we never go past 2027. Something happens to make me go back in time again. The dreams have come in all those years I’ve just mentioned.”<br>“Yes, but there could have been other years and other dreams that you just don’t know about.” Leo said to Chris. “We can’t guess at this, we’ll ask.” Leo then asked, “How do we stop the time paradox?”<br>The pointer started moving again to spell out, D-O-N-O-T
“Do not -“ Phoebe said, but was interrupted as they all jumped when someone orbed in behind them. Startled by the sudden intrusion, they all took their fingers off the pointer, in turn breaking the connection.
“Leo, we’ve being trying to contact you.” Odin, an Elder, said urgently.
“I’m sorry, Odin, I’ve been deep in concentration here, I mustn’t have heard you.”<br>“There are many demon attacks happening around the city, we need the sisters to go out immediately to stop them.” He implored.
“Wyatt!” Chris exclaimed.
“I can’t go,” Piper protested. “I’ve got to stay here with Chris. What if Wyatt comes after him.”<br>“I’ll stay,” Leo told her. “You go with your sisters, and if you need my help just call.”<br>Phoebe who had gone into the kitchen to grab some potions returned and said, “Okay, I’ve got a heap of potions, we’d better go.”<br>With that Paige and Piper moved next to her.
Piper gave a trusting look to Leo, before she orbed out with her sisters.
Odin orbed out at the same time.
Chris looked back at the spirit board and noticed the pointer was vibrating.
“Dad, what does that mean?” Chris asked him.
They watched as it then started moving all by itself. Adding more to the sentence it had just started.
Y-O-U-R
“Your?” Leo questioned.
“Do not save your,” Chris said.
“What the hell?” Leo asked. “What is that supposed to mean?”<br>“It means to stop the paradox something will happen to cause you to have to save someone, and Clyde is telling you not to.” Chris concluded.
“I can’t do that.” Leo said firmly.
“You may have to, Dad. If it’s the only way.” Chris said to him, and then continued, “Look, believe me, I don’t like the sound of this any more than you do, but I also do not want to be responsible for a never ending time paradox.”<br>“Put your finger back on the pointer.” He ordered Chris.
“Why what are you going to ask?” Chris queried as he did as he was told.
Leo answered him by asking the question, “Do not save my what?”<br>The pointer did not move.
“He must be all out of energy, or with just you and me there is not enough power to channel him.” Chris worked out.
“Chris, I can’t watch someone die because a spirit we think is Clyde is telling me to. I won’t do that.” He said firmly.
Before Chris could answer he could see Leo was being called.
“What is it?” He asked his Dad.
“It’s Piper, she needs me.” Leo said looking at Chris.
“Well, go, quickly, she might be hurt.” Chris said to him.
“I’ll be right back.” Leo said as he orbed out.
Chris was only alone for a few seconds before he heard someone orb in behind him. He turned, knowing exactly who it would be. Wyatt stood in front of him, confidently holding a sword of his own.
“Hello, Wyatt,” Chris said to him, then his eyes moved down to the sword Wyatt was holding.
“You noticed I’ve come prepared. I must say I am surprised that you are not.” Wyatt said noticing that Chris did not have Excalibur.
Everyone had been so busy trying to work out the mystery of the dreams, that he had not had time to even think about Excalibur. He should have been training, preparing for this showdown he knew would be coming. Unfortunately that had not happened. Even though he did not stand much of a chance against Wyatt with Excalibur, Chris knew he stood no chance at all against Wyatt without the power from the magical sword, and so without saying a word he orbed to the attic in hope of getting to Excalibur before Wyatt could get to him.

[CanadianHalliwell]

Hi, I am back. It has been a hard 4 days without being able to read. This story is really good. The twists that you keep throwing out is keeping me on my toes. I can really see all the hard work you have been doing while creating the twists!

[charmingaussie]

Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Ten

Chris materialised in the attic right next to where he knew Excalibur had been placed the day before. Quickly he reached for the Magical Sword and pulled it out of the stone as quickly as he could because he could hear Wyatt orbing in behind him. He was so focused on reaching the sword before Wyatt, that it did not even occur to him that it was the first time he had ever actually freed the sword from its home of stone, confirming once and for all that he was its true master. He turned just in time to block Wyatt as he tried to strike him down. Chris could feel the power flow through him, but never having any training with the sword made that extra power boost useless. All he could do was try to block Wyatt’s relentless attacks. He thought about orbing out, but knew that Wyatt would only follow him so decided to stay in the confines of the attic, where his parents would know to find him. Chris fought as bravely and as well as he knew how, but unfortunately the battle was a short one. Wyatt had years of training with Excalibur before it was taken away from him, and that training meant Chris was no match for his older brother, even with Excalibur. After being slashed badly in the thigh and the shoulder, Chris finally found himself cornered. Wyatt looked at his brother weakened and in pain and easily knocked Excalibur from his hands. Chris once again considered orbing away, but knew he was probably too weak to travel very far. And Wyatt, who did not have a scratch on him, would probably stop him by grabbing his orbs, as Leo had done years before when he had tried to orb away from him when he returned from Valhalla. He really could see no way out, and so decided to call for his Father.
“Dad,” he called as strongly as he could.
By the time Leo, Piper, Paige and Phoebe all orbed in to the attic Wyatt had retrieved Excalibur and was holding Chris against the wall with his left hand around his throat. His right hand was holding Excalibur pointed to Chris’ stomach.
“Oh my God, Wyatt no, please!” Piper begged as she started to move closer to her sons.
“Stay back, Mum, I only came for the sword. If you let me go, I won’t hurt him.” Wyatt told her.
Chris was clearly gasping for air.
“Let him down, Wyatt, you’re choking him. Let’s talk about this.” Leo pleaded.
“The time for talking is long gone, Dad. I want your word that you will let me go, and I will release him.” Wyatt shouted to them.
“Okay, okay. Just let him go. I promise we’ll allow you to leave.” Piper agreed.
“Piper!” Leo protested, but she interrupted him.
“Leo he’s killing Chris!”
They all breathed a sigh of relief as Wyatt released his grip around Chris’ throat and Chris at the same time gasped desperately for air.
“See, that was easy wasn’t it.” Wyatt said to them.
Their relief was short lived, however. Helplessly they all watched in horror as Wyatt suddenly and unexpectedly lunged the cold sharp blade of Excalibur into Chris’ stomach and then started to orb out at the same time.
Without thinking, her reflexes taking over, Piper motioned her destructive powers toward him and Wyatt rematerialised before being flung back into the wall behind him by a small explosion near his stomach, falling motionless to the floor.
Chris, still conscious and no longer being held up by Wyatt, started sliding down the wall he was leaning on, leaving a trail of blood behind.
“Chris!” Piper called as she ran to him.
She dropped down by her younger son’s side and told him confidently, “Don’t worry, honey, your Dad’s going to save you. You’ll be fine.”<br>Paige was next to Piper and Phoebe had gone to check on Wyatt.
“Wyatt’s unconscious, but alive.” Phoebe shouted to them.
“Thank God.” Piper said relieved. “Leo, quickly,” she said looking up expecting to see Leo behind her, but he wasn’t there. Desperately she looked around the room for her husband, but could not see him anywhere.
“Where’s Leo?” She asked to Phoebe and Paige.
They were as surprised as Piper to see he wasn’t with them.
“Leo! Leo!” Piper screamed desperately. “Where the hell are you!!”<br>“This can’t be happening,” she mumbled to herself.
Chris coughed next to her. “Hold on Chris, please, just hold on.” She begged him, tears rolling down her cheeks.

Leo materialised in a very dark place. He looked around and saw nothing but darkness. “Where am I?” He shouted. “Who are you? What do you want from me?”<br>“We need to talk,” came the reply from a familiar voice behind him.
Leo turned around and could not believe who was walking toward him.
“I thought I’d seen the last of you,” Leo said bitterly to Alpha, the Avatar who had now stopped in front of him.
“So had we,” he replied.
“Why have you brought me here? My sons are injured, return me to the Manor immediately.” Leo demanded.
“Yes, but first we need to talk.” Alpha calmly said to him.
“I have nothing to say to you!” Leo replied angrily.
“We did not intend to make contact with you again, but circumstances have changed.”<br> Alpha started to explain, but was interrupted by Leo.
“What do you mean?”<br>“We will explain everything in good time. For now, we need your word that you will not attack us. We do not wish to fight you, nor hurt you. We just want you to agree to hear our proposal.” Alpha told him.
Leo was looking around desperately trying to figure a way out, so he didn’t have to listen to them again, be fooled by them again.
“Time is against you Leo, at this moment both your sons are near death. You need to make a decision.” Alpha advised him.
“If I don’t agree?” Leo asked.
“Then, unfortunately you will not make it back in time to save them.” Alpha replied coldly.
“Save them.” Leo repeated to himself, the words echoing in his head. Suddenly, reality hit Leo as hard as if he’d been hit by a truck and memories of the spirit board came rushing back to him with the cryptic message “do not save your”. Without any more information he could only guess that this was the moment he was not supposed to agree to the Avatars proposal and therefore risk losing his sons in the process. With time not being on his side, Leo decided to call Alpha’s bluff just to see his reaction. “I will not make any deals with you again!” He said as firmly as he could.
The look on Alpha’s face was one of complete surprise.
“But your sons Leo?”<br>“I’ve told you my decision. I’m sick of you manipulating situations to your own advantage.”<br>Alpha looked away for a few seconds as if he was sensing a message from the other Avatars. Then he looked back at Leo. “This is,” he paused as if thinking of the right word, and then continued, “unexpected.” He said.
Leo didn’t move. He remained completely still and silent as he looked at Alpha, who for the first time seemed flustered.
“Fine, we’ll do this your way.” He said.

[charmingaussie]

Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Ten
Continued

Suddenly Leo reappeared in the attic and immediately saw Piper, next to a very badly injured Chris who was leaning up against the wall, Paige was comforting her. Wyatt was sprawled out on the floor unconscious, not far from them with Phoebe next to him.
“Oh, no!” Leo exclaimed as he ran to Piper.
“Leo! Oh thank God!” Piper said through her tears as she saw Leo running toward her.
“Quickly, Leo, heal them.” She pleaded with him.
Leo moved over to Chris and went to place his healing hands on the deep wound to his stomach.
Chris, however, pushed them away. “No, Dad. You can’t. Remember the message.” He said through laboured breaths.
“What’s he talking about? What message?” Piper asked.
“Chris, we have no proof that the message was meant to be about you and Wyatt.” Leo said. “Just let me heal you –“
Before Leo could finish Chris interrupted, “Dad, who else could it be about?”<br>“Leo, can’t you see he’s delirious. Why are you hesitating? He’s dying, Leo, both our sons are dying!” Piper said desperately, but trying to stay calm.
“The message from the spirit board said, do not save your,” Leo tried to explain.
“You’re not seriously telling me that the reason you’re not healing Chris and Wyatt is because of that message.” Piper uttered incredulously.
“Mum,” Chris called weakly.
Piper turned to look at the adult version of her younger son, lying gravely wounded and struggling to breathe.
“Chris, please let your Dad heal you, we’ll sort all this out later.”
“Dad saving us is what causes the paradox, I’m sure of it.” He said trying to sound convincing.
“Chris, how can you be sure? It was a message from a spirit board, it could mean anything.” She said as calmly as she could, trying to reason with him.
Chris looked up at his Mother with his piercing green eyes, and said to her confidently, “I’ve been through this before, and it’s not that bad. Don’t blame Dad; he’s doing the right thing. The only thing.” Chris then noticed the man standing behind them all. “Who is he?” He asked.
Nobody had noticed Alpha who had been standing there all this time.
Piper stood up and faced the Avatar. “Was it you that took Leo away from us? What do you want this time?” She asked angrily.
Alpha ignored Piper and asked Leo, “Why aren’t you saving your sons, Leo? They will die soon.”<br>Leo, now starting to get more suspicious of Alpha’s motives queried, “Why do you want me to save them? What is it to you?”<br>“You’re wasting time Leo.” Alpha said starting to lose his patience.
“Why don’t you just heal them yourself?” Leo questioned him,
“We are too weak, Leo. We only have enough power left for one last act.”<br>“Tell me Alpha. Tell me what this is all about.” Leo demanded.
“We have a proposal to put to one of your sons, but he has to be alive to hear it.”<br>“Which one?” Leo asked him.
“I’ve told you enough, Leo, you must make your decision.”<br>“Leo just heal them, please!” Piper begged him desperately, as Chris’ breathing started to become very laboured.
Leo looked at Alpha and then looked at his sons.
“I don’t understand, why won’t you heal them?” Piper asked him, tears streaming down her face.
Leo then made the toughest decision of his life. He knelt down next to Chris, but instead of healing him he gently held his hand. The scene was all too familiar as Chris looked up at his Father who had tears streaming down his cheeks. Chris nodded to him acknowledging that he knew he was making the right decision as Leo gently kissed his forehead and whispered, “I’m sorry, Chris.” With the decision made, Chris had no reason to hold on any longer and so finally let go, allowing his body to go limp under Leo’s arms.
“No! No! No!” Piper screamed as she leaned her head into Chris’ hand she was holding.
She looked over to Phoebe who was next to Wyatt. Phoebe shook her head as she too sobbed, indicating that Wyatt had also died. Paige witnessed everything quietly crying also.
Alpha looked at the scene before him and quietly said, “I suppose it just wasn’t meant to be,” before he faded away.
Piper, who was now completely inconsolable, stood up and started hitting Leo.
“I will never forgive you for this! Never!” She shouted at him.
With tears rolling down his own cheeks, Leo allowed her to lash out at him. The sting of her words hurt Leo more than anything else had ever hurt him in his life. He could only hope that his decision had been the right one.

[charmingaussie]

Many Future Consequences: Fragments Chapter Eleven
(Final Chapter)

“Do you realize what you just let happen?” Piper said to Leo, hysterically.
“Piper you need to calm down.” Leo tried to reason with her.
“I just killed my own son!” She shouted, still hysterical. And then repeated more quietly as reality set in, “My God, I just killed my own son. How am I going to live with that?” Then she turned to Leo and asked, “How am I going to able to bring up Wyatt, knowing that one day I’ll end up killing him?”<br>Before Leo could answer his distraught wife, Phoebe called out from the other side of the room. “They’ve disappeared.” She said.
Both Leo and Piper turned to see what she was talking about and saw that the bodies of Chris and Wyatt had indeed disappeared.
“Where did they go?” Piper asked running over to where they had just been.
“Do you think the Avatars stole them?” Paige asked.
“No, I don’t think the Avatars had anything to do with this.” Leo said, as he looked at all three sisters looking back at him waiting for his explanation.
“I’m hoping,” he said, “that the fact that they’ve disappeared means that the future has changed, and that we’ve stopped the paradox.”<br>“If there ever was one.” Piper mumbled.
“There’s only one way to find out, I’ll try to summon Clyde again and we’ll see what happens.” Leo suggested.
“Clyde! Get your butt down here you fetid worm from the bog of eternal stench! Your Mother was a chunky substance from a gin cesspool. And she smelled bad too!”<br>Suddenly a gust of wind appeared above them, flying around the room. Slowly it settled next to Leo, finally turning into Clyde.
“Well it’s about time, Leo! I’ve been on so many loops I was starting to get dizzy!” Clyde exclaimed.
Piper opened her mouth to speak, but Leo got in first, “Clyde, please tell me I did the right thing.” He almost begged.
Clyde could sense his anguish, “Yes, Leo, you did the right thing. What you did not only saved me from being trapped, but you saved the world from an eternal paradox.”<br>“But my boys?” Piper asked him, “Are they always destined to die now?”<br>“No, Piper that’s not how it works. Trust me when I say that they are both fine, in the sense that their futures will now be.” Clyde explained.
“I don’t understand.” Piper said exasperated.
“Please, Clyde, can you tell us what happened. From the beginning.” Leo requested.
“Of course, happy to. You saved me after all.” He said gratefully as he looked around at all of them.
“It’s quite simple really. Your sons caused a paradox when they came back in time together. When that paradox was formed I must have been travelling in between time periods because I was thrown into some kind of void, where I’ve been trapped. The only way I could communicate was through dreams, and even that took a long time to master.”<br>“How did they cause the paradox?” Phoebe asked him.
“I’m not quite sure of the exact moment, but as far as I can tell, the original timeline had Wyatt growing with Excalibur. It corrupted him and was accidentally destroyed in the future, so he tried to travel back in time to retrieve it. He only planned to go back to the time when he was a teenager and was still training with it, but when Chris accidentally went through the portal with him, the spell couldn’t cope and the vortex spewed them out in this time.”<br>“What did the Avatars have to do with everything?” Leo asked him.
“The Avatars did not get a chance to tell you this time, but they are dying. The power they used to change the world and then rewind time was too much for them and as a result, their collective is now dying. There was nothing they could do about this until Adult Wyatt showed up and they could sense how powerful he was. The Avatars, in their sneaky way, hoped to get permission from adult Wyatt to give him their powers, and then transfer them to Baby Wyatt. That’s why they were so keen on you healing them, Leo.”<br>“So if I had saved Wyatt’s life he would have been given all the powers of the Avatars.” Leo clarified.
“Yes, and that did happen many times before, and you helped him develop those powers as he grew. Because you had been an Avatar, you would have been drawn to him, to guide him, and the Avatars knew this.”<br>“So consequently I would have neglected Chris, which is the other future Chris came from.” Leo said realising where this was all leading.
“That’s right. When Chris and Wyatt coming back in time together, that actually caused Chris’s other future where Wyatt was obsessed with power. The future that Chris came back to save when he sent you to Valhalla.”<br>“So Wyatt would have grown up evil and Chris would have come back in time to save him again.” Leo said.
“Exactly! That Chris would have died because of Gideon, and then Baby Chris would grow up with Baby Wyatt who would be given Excalibur by mistake and then we start all over again.”<br>“Are you following any of this?” Leo asked the girls.
“I think so.” Piper said, still thinking it all through.
“What about the dreams?” Phoebe asked.
“Good question.” Piper complimented her.
“I sent the dreams at very particular times when I knew the paradox could be broken. If Chris could have been prevented from ever travelling back in time from Avatar Wyatt, then the paradox would have ended. That’s why I sent them to the Leo who had neglected Chris in the future.”<br>“But we would have been stuck with an evil world.” Leo said.
“I never said my plan was perfect, but I didn’t have many opportunities.” Clyde justified.
“What about the next time?” Paige asked.
“If you’d known Gideon was evil you wouldn’t have used his spell for the portal, you would have used your own potion. You would have gone to the future, discovered why Wyatt was evil and then returned to the past and fixed it. And the paradox would have also been broken.”<br>Before he was asked Clyde continued, “And the third time I was trying to prevent Chris and Wyatt from coming back in time to get Excalibur because that’s what caused all of this in the first place. And lastly now by allowing your sons to die, Wyatt will not grow up an Avatar and their future will be changed. Given you also know about Excalibur, I’d say that the future is looking pretty good.”<br>“Okay, I understand about Wyatt, but why did Chris have to die?” Piper asked him.
“Well he didn’t really, it was only Wyatt who the Avatars were after.” Clyde said.
“Are you telling me I just watched my son die an agonizing death for nothing?” Piper asked angrily.
“Piper, please believe me, everything has turned out all right. There was no way I could let you know not to let Chris die, and anyway, I’m not completely sure the Avatars wouldn’t have been after him if Wyatt had died anyway. He’s more powerful than he realizes.”
Piper just shook her head, then she had a thought, “Why the images of people moving in circles?”<br>“How else do you visualize people living in a continual loop? Please understand it was very difficult for me to send any messages. I could only send you fragments of information. The fact that I got through to you at all was a miracle. You’ve got to remember, I didn’t cause this, and I am very much the victim here.” He said looking for sympathy, but not getting any. “And you witches need to learn to leave time travel to the professionals!” He chastised.
“How long did the paradox go on for, anyway?” Phoebe asked.
Clyde looked at them and sighed, “Forty-two loops!”
“Forty-two!!” They all exclaimed at the same time.
“You’ve been trapped for all that time?” Leo asked him.
“How many years is that?” Paige queried.
“Way too many! That’s how I know so much about your lives. I watched it all over and over and over,”<br>“We get the point,” Piper said, cutting him off.
“Why didn’t anyone else sense the paradox? We deal with magical people every day, surely someone would have sensed it.” Leo asked.
“Because you were all living it. If I had not been trapped in that void, I would have been living it as well. Even the Avatars who are supposed to exist outside of time and space didn’t sense it. I was a lucky anomaly. Because I had been thrown outside of the paradox, I could see how to stop it.”<br>Clyde looked at the girls and Leo. “Does everyone understand now, are there anymore questions you’d like to ask?”<br>Piper looked sadly over to the corner of the attic where she’d just witnessed her sons’ death. She looked to the floor, still fighting tears as she remembered what they had just gone through. She looked up at Clyde and said quietly, “I understand what you’re saying. I see now that they had to die, but that doesn’t make it any easier. I still have the memories of watching Chris suffer.” She put her hand up to her mouth, trying hard to stop herself from breaking down. After she composed herself she continued, “Can you tell me, with absolute certainty, that what happened today will lead to Baby Chris and Baby Wyatt having a better life?”<br>“I’m sorry, Piper, I’m not the ghost for the future, I am the ghost of the past, so I cannot tell you with absolute certainty, no. But I can tell you that now Wyatt will neither grow up an Avatar, nor with Excalibur, because you have prevented both those things. You know about Jeni, and I’m sure you will contact her parents in London to make sure that she and Chris meet in the future. You have so much foresight, that I’m sure everything will turn out just fine.”<br>Piper smiled at Clyde, appreciating what he had just said. “Thank you, but it would just be nice to know for sure.”<br>Clyde looked away as if he suddenly had a thought.
“What is it?” Leo asked noticing.
“I’m not sure. Why don’t you go downstairs and relax for a few minutes. I just have to check something. I’ll be back as soon as I can.” He told them.
Before anyone could answer, he disappeared in a big gust of wind, which swirled around the room, and then it was gone.