The Angel's Guardian --- Updated March 10, 07'

[italiannna]

Ok so I just came up with this new fic. It takes place during Season 6, and it's mostly about Chris and someone who comes to the past to help him out a little bit. It takes place starting from Chris-Crossed and will go up until Bad Bad Bad World, and yes, it will include my own explanation of what happened when Chris died. Maybe I'll add an epilogue (not sure yet). Anyways, enjoy! Oh and comment on it... tell me if you like it, thanks

Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed or any of the characters related to Charmed. Ok, so do not sue me, I'll be too busy with school and life. Thanks bye bye.


Chapter 1


San Francisco: 2026

“Find him! I don’t care what you have to do in order to do it, just find him as soon as possible and bring him back here!”

The tall mysterious figure moved around the room in a commanding stance. He had muscles bulging out from his tight black shirt. He had long wavy blond hair and deep blue eyes that once shone with such vibrancy, but for almost seven years now, the vibrancy was gone was replaced with nothing more than a cold stare.

There was only one person in this man’s life that gave him any happiness whatsoever and she was waiting for him in his room… Or more like forced to wait in his room. He did not tell her what he had been planning; he knew she would not like it and try to talk him out of it. This would lead to an argument and he was deathly afraid what an argument would lead to. His love for her scared even himself sometimes. Pushing her to the back of his thoughts, he turned to the beautiful, dark skinned woman in front of him.

“You know what to do, the spell I cast on you will give you the ability to create time portals. You shall go back to the past to find him.”

“I know, and once I’m there, I take his powers from him. He won’t expect it. It’ll be like taking candy from a baby.”

Unbeknownst to the two figures talking, another person was creeping about. This was the woman who the evil man was in love with. She had figured out what he was up to and knew she had to stop them. She was a witch with the power of Invisibility as one of her powers. She quietly stood behind the dark-skinned woman.

“Bianca, once you have his powers, it’ll be easy to bring him back, then I’ll deal with him.”

“Promise me you won’t hurt him Wyatt. Without his powers, he’ll be defenseless.”

“I don’t want to hurt him, I want him on my side, and I want him to join me. If he needs some persuasion to join me, well then so be it.”

“Please don’t hurt him Wyatt, I promise you I will turn him to our side. I will show him that old way of thinking is wrong.”

“If you promise that you can turn him then I give you my word that I will not hurt him. Now hurry and bring Chris back!”

The invisible witch was in shock after hearing everything she had just heard. She had to stop them. She had to warn Wyatt’s brother. She watched as Bianca waved her hand over a Triquetra symbol and created a time portal. The young witch wondered what spell Wyatt used to cause Bianca to create time portals. Whatever it was, it was very powerful, just like Wyatt Halliwell. She turned her head and watched Bianca give a sly smile to Wyatt and walk through the portal. Wyatt’s love was about to follow Bianca through the portal, when Wyatt’s guards burst into the room.

“My liege! She’s gone! The Queen to be is missing!”

That was when she saw Wyatt turn to face the portal. It was beginning to close; she turned to Wyatt and whispered.

“I’m sorry… I love you… goodbye…”

She then dove into the portal just as it closed, she could barely hear the anguished cry of the man she once loved.

San Francisco: 2004

The young witch landed in an alleyway. She looked around. She saw Bianca a few feet away from her. If she could avoid her, she would be able to find Chris and warn him about Bianca. She turned away from Bianca and she was about to leave…

“So what, you’re just gonna ditch me now? Not very nice is it Ava?”

d**n it! She turned around and turned visible. Ava Quinton stood tall facing Bianca. Ava was about the same height as Bianca maybe a few inches shorter. She had soft honey colored eyes and long dark brown hair. Although she may look like an innocent child, Ava was no one to mess with.

“Since when did I care to be nice to you Bianca?”

Bianca smirked at Ava’s remark. She hated Ava so much. She was Wyatt’s weakness, the one thing that caused him to become weak and pitiful. She also hated Ava because she would always be number one on Wyatt’s list.

“You think you can be all smart behind over here, think again. Wyatt’s not here, and that means I can do what ever I want to you. I can kill you if I wanted to.”

“Oh, I’m so terrified of you Bianca. By the way how did you know I was here? Did you know I was watching you just before you left?”

“You are so pathetic Ava. Of course I knew, I knew you were there the whole time. In case you forgot Ava, I can sense for unwanted trespassers, and you were most definitely unwanted!”
“Really? So if you knew I was there? Why didn’t you tell Wyatt?”

“What? And let him go all soft on you and send you back to your room? I don’t think so Ava, I wanted to deal with you all by myself.”

“Ok, well now you’ve got me, what are you gonna do about it?”

“This.”

With that, Bianca conjured an athame and shot it at Ava, who ducked and avoided it. She then turned invisible and headed behind Bianca. She was about to kick her, when Bianca grabbed her leg and threw her against a wall. The shock caused the invisibility to wear off. Bianca marched to Ava and leaned over her.

“Oh Ava, didn’t I tell you? I know where you are when you turn invisible, so don’t bother using it against me.”

“You b*t**…”

Ava punched Bianca in the face and leapt up from the floor. Bianca threw a punch of her own but Ava dodged it. She went to kick Bianca again, but missed. Bianca then grew tired of Ava’s games and conjured an energy ball. Ava glared at Bianca.

“You wouldn’t kill me…”

“Is that fear I’m sensing in your voice Ava? Not like the Queen of all evil to be scared.”

With that Bianca threw the energy ball at Ava. Ava dodged it. While she was dodging it, Bianca ran into her tackling her against the wall. She then threw her on the opposite side of the wall. Ava lay on the floor, cuts and bruises all over her face. Bianca walked up to her with an energy ball in her hand. She was about to shoot it at Ava, when she noticed the time. She glared at the time. She had to leave immediately in order for her accomplish, what she was set out to do. She looked back at Ava.

“I’ll deal with you later.”

With that Bianca shimmered out as Ava lost consciouness.

[Assassin Witch]

OH OH OH OH OH!!! *jumps up and down* I love Bianca; but you knew I'd say that no matter how you wrote her..lol. Ava seems interesting. Since I've been in an RP with you where I was Wyatt and you were the girl he loved, I can tell this fic will get juicy! Just please don't kill Bianca... *cries*

[italiannna]

Ok here is Chapter 2... I am really loving this fic and I know it;s gonna be super long... So to whomever is reading this fic enjoy!

Disclaimer: Ok all the parts that are underlined in this chapter are actual script dialogue from the Season 6 episode "Chris Crossed". I did not come up with them. The writers of that episode did. I just came up with Ava's reactions to them.


Chapter 2


Ava woke up about an hour later in the same alleyway. She slowly got up and rubbed her head. She looked at her watch. It was about 10 at night. She had to get out of that alley before Bianca came back. Ava walked out of the alley and started walking down a street. She had to find Chris before Bianca did.

Ava looked at the street signs. The corner streets were Pine and Hanover. By whatever knowledge she had of the past, she knew that the night club P3 was not too far away from where she stood. She turned invisible and faded out. Fading was another one of Ava's powers. She could transport places by fading in and out. A few seconds after Ava faded out; Bianca shimmered back to the alley. She looked around and realized that Ava was gone and she had missed her chance. She frowned and angrily stalked off.

Ava faded back into a crowed P3. She looked around for some indication of The Charmed Ones or of Chris. She saw nobody at first, but as she walked to the back of the club, she noticed a woman with bright strawberry blonde hair. She walked closer to her and immediately recognized her as Paige Matthew's, Wyatt's aunt. Seated next to her was a skinnier woman with a pixie hair cut. Ava recognized her as Phoebe Halliwell, Wyatt's second aunt. they were laughing and were having drinks. Ava kept looking at them until she saw two more people join them. One of them was a woman with long brown hair and delicate features. It was piper Halliwell, Wyatt's mother and was like a second mother to Ava while she was growing up. She gasped as she saw her alive again. She had not seen her alive since she was 16. Following Piper was a tall, handsome, young man. The man who was like a little brother to Ava, the man who carried the world upon his shoulders... Chris Halliwell. Ava wanted to run to him and hug him, but she knew that she couldn't do that. It would cause too much suspicious thought from the sisters. Ava knew that Chris wanted to keep his identity a secret when he came to the future and if she knew Chris like she thought she did, then she knew that he did not tell the sisters about his true identity yet and that they still had no clue that he was Piper's youngest child and Wyatt's little brother. Ava smiled at him and sighed in relief as she thought the Bianca had not yet gotten to him. She then watched as Piper talk to the other sisters and she watched Chris roll his eyes and talk in protest. She then saw the three sisters rush into the room in the back and Chris reluctantly follow them. Ava thought for a second about where they could have gone. She then realized that the only reasonable place for them to go would be the Halliwell manor. She faded out to the Halliwell manor.

Ava faded into the living room of the manor. She gasped at how different it looked from the last time she saw it. That day was the day she first broke up with Wyatt. They were about 22 years old and Ava had seen that Wyatt was changing. She no longer saw the happy young man she knew. That man was slowly being replaced by a cold, menacing tyrant. Wyatt had been going on a power hungry craze. He was killing magical creatures left and right. It had started with demonic creatures, but then it grew. Wyatt then went after minor creatures of the magical community. When his father and the other Elders tried to stop him, he went after Whitelighters one at a time. After the Whitelighters, he moved to the Elders and then to witches. There were only a few hundred witches and Whitelighters left in the world and they were in hiding from Wyatt. As for Leo, Wyatt's father, he was one of the only ten Elders left on the earth. He was helping to make sure that the remaining magical creatures would remain safe from Wyatt. After Wyatt killed his first Whitelighter, Ava broke up with him and went into hiding. Leo was managing everything from a protected spot in the heavens. The person running everything from Earth was Chris. Chris had tried to get Ava to leave Wyatt for so long, but she never wanted to believe that Wyatt was evil. When Chris realized she left Wyatt, he had never been more relieved. Then Bianca joined them about two years later, and a few months afterwards, Chris set out to change the past and hopefully save the future. The hope of a better life was the last happy moment that Ava could remember.

Pushing aside all the negative thoughts of heartache and pain, Ava decided to fade into the attic. In order to prevent anyone from catching her, Ava kept her invisibility on as she faded into the attic of the manor and stood a few inches next to the doorway. She stood still and listened to the conversation that was already in play.

“Piper blew her away. I don’t see what the big deal is?” Stated Chris.

Ava wondered what they were talking about. Could they have been talking about Bianca? If so, then Piper blowing her away would not stop her, and Chris knew that. So why was he acting like this. Ava’s thoughts were interrupted by Phoebe’s annoyed voice.

“The big deal is someone tried to kill you Chris!”

Damn it! That b!*c* did get to him! Ava was angry at herself for not finding Chris faster and preventing Bianca from hurting him.

“Look at me, not a scratch. Nothing.”

Ava moved closer to Chris and tried to figure out if he was lying or not. The last of Ava’s powers was telepathy and she was able to read the thoughts of other people. She tried to read Chris’s thoughts, but nothing was coming up. Ava couldn’t let this go, she had seen how much Bianca had changed, and if Bianca had gotten to Chris and if she was trying to get his powers, then Chris would have much more than just a scratch. Ava didn’t catch some of the conversation was she was trying to read Chris. When she paid attention to what was going on, she noticed that Chris was trying to change the subject and for the most part, had succeeded. Ava then watched as Chris left the room. Ava was about to follow when she heard the remaining four people talking. The first to speak was Leo, Chris’s father. Ava obviously knew who he was. She had met him a few times growing up and she often acted as a messenger between Chris and Leo during the hiding out days.

“He’s not telling the truth”

“Well maybe there’s nothing to tell.” Stated Paige. Ava always liked Paige. She would always be the one to defend Chris when his father would pick on him.

“Could you sense anything?” Asked Leo as he turned to Phoebe, the witch with empathy.

“From Chris? No I can never sense anything from him.”

Ava turned to Leo and studied his face. Her mouth gaped open as she realized what Leo truly thought about Chris. He did not trust him one bit. He blamed Chris for the marital problems he was having with Piper. Ava wanted to smack Leo across the head for thinking such awful things about his own son, when she stopped herself. She remembered that Phoebe was present and she would not allow herself to get caught. She swallowed up her anger and left the room to find Chris.

Ava was walking down the hall when she saw a small crib inside a room. She walked inside and peered into the crib. Sleeping soundly in the crib was baby Wyatt. Ava sighed as she watched the sleeping infant who was the past of the man she loved. Ava reached down to gently touch Wyatt’s head when the baby woke up. A startled Ava jumped back and quickly walked out of the room.

A few seconds later, Ava reached the bathroom where she saw that the door was closed except for a tiny sliver of opening. Ava quietly snuck in just in time to see a teary-eyed Chris unbutton his shirt to reveal the huge gaping wound in his chest. Seeing that wound made Ava gasp out loud. As soon as she gasped, Chris spun around to see if anyone had seen him.

“Hello? Who’s there?” Chris quickly re-buttoned his shirt and wiped away any tears that had fallen. Ava slapped her hands on her mouth and cursed herself for not being careful.

“I know you’re there. Who are you and what do you want?”

Ava realized that she had been caught. She closed the door and took off her invisibility. Chris’s eyes grew wide as he saw Ava standing right in front of him. Ava had a few tears in her eyes as she was pained by Chris’s agony and betrayal. Chris slowly walked up to her and held his hand out as if to touch her.

“Ava?”

“Yeah… It’s me Chris.”

Ava went up to Chris and gently touched his face. She saw the tears that were falling down his face and she wiped them away. She then held Chris in her arms as he began to silently weep. After a few seconds of letting some emotions out Chris began to speak to Ava.

“What exactly are you doing here Ava?”

“I came to warn you about Bianca… I guess I was too late.”

Chris nodded sadly. He scratched his head and looked around the room. Ava walked beside and gently took his arm.

“Look we don’t have to stay here… I’m guessing you don’t want them to figure out who I am.”
“No… Come on. Let’s get out of here.”

Chris was about to orb out, but Ava stopped him.

“Wait Chris… I saw that gaping wound in your chest. You shouldn’t try to orb. Here, I’ll get us to where ever you need to go.”

“Ok, can you fade us to the office at P3?”

“Sure thing…”

With that, Ava faded the both of them into the spare room where Chris had been staying at P3. Ava led Chris to the couch and gently sat him down. She then sat down next to him.

“Do you want me to get you some water? Some blankets? Anything?” Chris laughed as Ava went on trying to mother him as she always did back home.

“No, no I’m fine. Look, can you just stay for a while? I wanna know how you got here? What’s happened since I was gone?”

Ava looked down sadly as Chris asked her what has happened since he had been gone. She did not want to tell him that the future has gotten much worse since he left it.

“I followed Bianca through the time portal.”

“But how could you even get that close to Wyatt? He would have caught you in seconds. He can sense you if you’re not cloaked… Unless… you…” Chris suddenly coming to the conclusion that Ava had gone back to Wyatt grew angry at Ava.

“You went back to him??!! Ava! How could you!?” Chris gave Ava a disgusted look. He got up from the couch and stood on the opposite end of the room. Ava got up and walked towards Chris.

“Chris… It’s not what you think…”

“Not what I think? Ava you’ve gone back to that sadistic bastard! How could you betray everyone? You’re no better than him if you’re willing to go back even after knowing about all the pain he’s caused!”

The last words form Chris’s mouth hot Ava like a cruel slap in the face. She lost her footing and needed to sit down on the couch. Chris had no idea what had happened and why she was even back with Wyatt. She could feel the tears falling down her face.

“You have no idea Chris… You have no idea of what happened… So don’t you DARE compare me to him!”
Chris’s look softened as he saw the broken woman in front of him. Aside from his own mother, Ava was the second strongest person he knew. To see her broken down like this must have meant something terrible had happened. Chris went to the couch and sat down next to her.

“You didn’t go back willingly… did you?”

Ava silently shook her head… Chris pulled Ava close to him and let her cry for a few minutes.

“It’s ok, you don’t have to tell me now…” Chris said. Ava nodded.

“Look Chris… I didn’t come here to cry about what happened. I came here to make sure that Bianca would not bring you back, and judging by that wound, it won’t be too long before she succeeds. You need to go to the sisters and tell them everything…”

“No! They can never know who Bianca is. They have enough trust issues with me already! They don’t need anymore.”

“Trust issues?”

“Yeah it’s a long story… Let’s just say I’ve never felt more alone then I do now. I mean sometimes I just wanna tell them who I really am, but I know I can’t. It’s so frustrating!”

Ava gently rubbed Chris’s back. She rubbed his neck and tried to comfort him.

“Look, how about after this whole Bianca thing is settled, I stay here with you. That way you’ll have a small piece of home to help you out.”

“Won’t Wyatt be pissed?”

“He’s already pissed, and besides, what more can he take from me? You need me here; it’s obvious they’re not taking care of you. You’ve already lost more weight, as if you weren’t skinny enough before. And judging from you face, you look like you haven’t slept in weeks. It’s no debate Christopher Perry Halliwell, I’m staying.”

“I hate when you call me Christopher Perry Halliwell… Thanks Ava.”

“No problem Chris… Look, you need to sleep. I’m gonna try and figure out what to do about your wound because it obviously can’t be healed and I don’t know any potions or spells to counter it.”

Ava let Chris lay down on her lap and she gently stroked his hair until he fell asleep. She then gently got up and began brainstorming on how to tackle the Bianca problem. After a few hours of thinking, Ava fell asleep crouched down on the desk.

[Assassin Witch]

A great episode with more detail, I love it!

My favorite part of this chapter was when Ava went to Wyatt's room and he woke up. He totally knew she was there. True love. *looks around and walks away*

[italiannna]

Author's Note: Update time!!!! Holy crap, this chapter took forever to write, but that's because I had to fill in the many, many blanks of Chris Crossed all while staying in-sync with the story.

Author's Note Part 2: Once again, there are underlined parts in this chapter... THEY ARE ACTUAL SCRIPT DIALOGUE FROM CHARMED!!! And yes, I did make the letters large to stress this fact. So yeah... all underlined stuff is not my work, but the work of whoever wrote the original episode... That is all

Author's Note Part 3: I need to separate this chapter because it does not all fit in one post... Shows how long this chapter is (12 pages!!!) Ok now that's really all...


Chapter 3, Part Uno:

At around ten the next morning, Chris started to feel the intense pain in his chest which jolted him awake. He started gasping for breath and started coughing. His coughing spasms awoke Ava. When she saw Chris in pain, she bolted from her seat and ran out of the office to get some water from the bathroom. Lucky for her, P3 was not open yet and no one was in the club. Ava came back with a bowl of warm water which she used to try and clean up the wound, which wasn’t looking too good. In fact it almost became twice as bad as it was the last time she’d seen it. It was now that Ava was starting to get worried about Chris. Chris had finished coughing and was taking slow deep breaths. That was when Ava decided to speak.

“Chris you need to tell them about this wound. Ok, it’s not getting any better and I wasn’t able to come up with any way to fix it. You have to tell them, maybe they can help…”

“No! Like I said I can’t tell them, not about this. Look, may be if I tried to find Bianca…”

“What? She’ll forget all about her mission and give you back your powers? Unlikely Chris.”

“You don’t know her like I do.”

“You’re right, but you didn’t see exactly what happened after you left… Things changed Chris, and I’m sorry to say this, but Bianca has changed to.”

“No… I don’t believe that…”

“Whatever. Believe what you want, but I’m not about to let you go off like this. You’re far too weak. You can’t risk orbing around. You need to talk to the sisters.”

Chris sighed heavily. He didn’t know what else to say. He was caught. He still wanted to find Bianca, but Ava would never let him go off in his condition. Then Chris came up with an idea.

“Fine, you’re right. I need to go talk to the sisters. Maybe they can help.”

“What? So now you’re just suddenly agreeing with me?”

“Look I get what you’re saying. No I don’t agree that Bianca has truly changed, but I need to get help from them if I’m to get any better.”

“I’m not stupid Chris… You’re not usually the one to cave easily. You’re one of the most stubborn people I know. It’s gotten you into trouble before.”

“I know and that’s why I feel that I should start listening to some advice, starting with advice from someone who knows me better sometimes than I know myself.”

Chris smiled to Ava and she rolled her eyes but also had a small hint of a smile on her face.

“You are so trying to flatter me aren’t you?”

“No, I mean it. I should start to trust more people. Maybe the sisters can help me.”

“They can sure help you more than I can. We don’t even have the Book of Shadows with us. At least in this time we can take a look at it without risking getting killed.”

“Yeah, which is why I see your point in all of this.”

Chris looked around and noticed that he was still wearing the same clothes from the night before. He laughed and realized that it would be a good idea if he changed his clothing before meeting Bianca.

“Hey Ava, do you mind leaving for a few minutes so that I could get changed.”

“Yeah sure, I’ll just be outside. Ummm, what time do Piper’s employees start coming in?”

“The only people who are here this early are Billy, one of the waiters and Clarence, the janitor. Just tell them that you’re a special friend of mine and they won’t say anything.”

“Ok, I’ll just be outside. Call me when you’re done. I’ll get you to the Manor so that you don’t have to orb there and risk killing yourself.”

“I will, don’t worry.”

With that Ava left the room and started walking around the empty club. She smiled as she thought about the times she would hang out here. Ava walked up to the empty stage. She thought about how she dreamed about performing on that stage. It never happened due to the fact that as soon as Wyatt became the Source of all Evil, he destroyed the club. That wasn’t even the worst of Ava’s memories, but she cast her memories aside and waited outside for Chris to finish.

Inside the office, Chris took a clean shirt and a pair of jeans and changed. He turned to the door and felt guilty for going behind Ava’s back like he was about to do, but she was adamant about keeping him away from Bianca and getting him to the sisters. Chris was not going to give up on Bianca, not until he could figure out why she had done what she did. With a heavy sigh, Chris orbed out.

Ava was still waiting outside the office and she was beginning to wonder what was taking Chris so long to get changed. Ava knocked on the door and called Chris’s name. When he didn’t respond, Ava feared the worse and burst into the room to find that Chris was gone.

“Damn it Chris!!!”

Ava slammed the door and stomped out of the club, seen by no one. She angrily walked down the street in search of where Chris could have snuck off to. While walking away angrily she began to think about the last few months she had to endure with Chris gone.

Flashback:

Ava was sitting on her bed in the hiding place where the remaining magical creatures had been hiding from Wyatt. Standing in front of here was Chris. Ava had tears in her eyes and she shook her head Chris explained to her what he was attempting to do.

“You can’t do it Chris… He’ll catch you, and then he’ll kill you.”

“I have to do this Ava, there is no other way.”

“You can’t go… He won’t take you’re going to the past easily. He’ll terrorize everything and anyone left in order to find you Chris…”

“I’m aware of that Ava, but what else can I do? You’ve seen him up close; you know what he’s like. It’s far too late now to change him! The only answer is to figure out why he even became evil in the first place.”

Ava wiped the tears from her eyes. She took a deep breath and stood up. Chris was right about Wyatt. There was no stopping him now unless they vanquished him, and Ava could not bear the sight of Wyatt getting killed, nor could Chris. He was right, the only way to stop Wyatt is to prevent him from becoming evil in the first place.

“How are you going to figure out what caused Wyatt to be like this? I mean I don’t think the sisters are going to believe you when you come with your story.”

“That’s why I’m not going to tell them anything about my mission. I’m just going to ease my way into their lives and take over as their Whitelighter.”

“Chris… At that time, Leo was still their Whitelighter.”

“Well he won’t be for much longer. I’m going to arrive around the time of the Titan attacks, and when I’m there, I’m going to make sure that Leo does what he’s meant to do in order to become an Elder.”

“But Leo does not become an Elder until 2006, what you’re going to do will cause a huge change in the timeline. Who knows how everything will be affected by it.”
“Which is why after that I can’t tell anyone who I am or what I’m planning on doing. I can’t risk changing anything more, other than to protect and stop Wyatt from turning evil.”

“So, there’s nothing I can say that will make you reconsider this.”

“Not really.”

“Well then, I guess there’s nothing left to say other than good bye.”

With that Chris walked to Ava and gave her a strong hug and she cried on his shoulder. Tears were also falling down Chris’s face, but he knew he had to do this. He knew he had to try and fix what had happened in the past to save his family and to save the world.

“If I get any sense that you’re in trouble, I’m coming after you mark my words.”

“Ava, it’s already hard for me and Bianca to get past Wyatt and his guards to get the Book, there’s no telling what he might do to you if he caught you. You need to stay here and take care of everything while I’m gone.”

“Don’t worry about everything here, you just go back to the past and fix this, I have faith in you Chris.”

“I’ll miss you Ava.”

“Don’t think like that… Who knows maybe when this is all over; I’ll be your sister in law when you get back.”

Ava let out a nervous laugh as did Chris. With a final hug and a tearful goodbye, Chris orbed out of the house. Ava sent out a silent prayer for his safe return.

As Ava thought about the last time she saw Chris, her anger did not decrease, and she was still pissed off at him running out behind her back. Who knew where he could have gone to and if he was in pain or not? While she was thinking intensely, she almost bumped into a young woman with a baby carriage.

“Oh, excuse… me…”

As Ava looked up at the woman she gasped at what she saw. The young woman standing in front of her was her mother. She then looked down at the baby carriage and saw her younger self inside. Ava could feel the tears welling up in her eyes as she saw this. The young woman just smiled politely.

“Oh, don’t worry about it, it’s all good… Have we met? You look very familiar to me.”

Ava snapped out of her daze and looked at the woman. She wasn’t sure if she was dreaming or not. She just kept looking from the woman to the baby.

“Uh… no. No, I don’t believe we’ve ever met. I’m really sorry once again; I hope I didn’t scare your baby.”

“Oh no, don’t worry. My Ava sleeps like a rock. It’ll take a dozen explosions to wake her up.”

The young woman laughed ant looked affectionately down at her child. Ava smiled to as she looked at her younger self sleeping.

“Well I should get going, take care.”

“You to.”

With that Ava started walking in the opposite direction; she turned around once to see her mother walk away. She could feel the tears well up in her eyes, but she decided to ignore them as she continued to walk in the direction of the Halliwell Manor. She had no clue where Chris was but she did know that if she stuck around at the Manor that he would show up sooner or later. Ava walked into a park and snuck behind some bushes where she turned invisible and faded out.

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A few minutes later, Ava was standing in the Halliwell Manor’s living room. Ava casually walked around and noticed Leo sitting down on the couch and he was playing with baby Wyatt. Ava watched them and smiled. Little Wyatt seemed content with playing with some blocks with his daddy, but Ava noticed that Wyatt suddenly looked up at her direction and seemed to put on a big smile on his face. This scared Ava and she quickly walked out of the room. She walked into the kitchen and looked at the many potion ingredients that were in Piper’s cupboards. Ava casually opened a cupboard and examined the contents of a container. The label on the side said “Dried Mushrooms (DO NOT EAT)”. Ava looked in another cupboard and saw a container with a label that said “Chili Pepper (Good to eat)”. Ava laughed, she always wondered how Piper was able to figure out with ingredients were for magical uses and which ones were for regular cooking uses. Ava was about to open a third cupboard when she heard some voices coming from outside the kitchen.

“You hungry buddy? Let’s get you some food and then you can go for a nap.”

Ava quickly put the chili pepper back in the cupboard and stepped back as Leo and Wyatt came into the room. Ava watched as Wyatt’s face instantly lit up as they walked into the room. Leo also noticed this.

“What’s up buddy? Are you that excited to get some food?”

Wyatt just continued to stare at Ava and was smiling at her. Ava was worried that she was visible to the two people in the room. She looked at her hands and they were clearly still invisible, so then how could Wyatt know she was there? Ava shook her head and walked out of the room.

She went back to the living room and sat down on the floor. She then watched as Piper and Paige orbed into the room. They were discussing something about how Phoenixes could reform. Ava rolled here eyes. That was nothing new to her. Piper suggested that Paige go get Phoebe and bring her to the Manor while she went to go talk to Leo. Ava followed Piper into the kitchen. When they arrived they saw that Leo was not there.

“Leo! We’ve got a problem.”

Leo orbed into the kitchen without Wyatt in his arms.

“Sorry, I was putting Wyatt to bed. What kind of problem is there?”

“Apparently Phoenixes can reform, so we’re assuming that the one that attacked Chris can to.”

“That doesn’t sound good.”

“It gets worse. While we were at the Phoenix’s house, we saw a small girl with the same mark as the one that attacked Chris, and it was in the same spot.”

“That’s interesting…”

Leo’s words were interrupted by the sound of orb jingles coming from the living room. Piper and Leo walked into the living room to see that Paige and Phoebe had now arrived at the Manor. Phoebe was the first one to speak.

“Ok so what’s the big emergency?”

“Phoenixes can reform, and that means that Chris is still in danger seeing as the one that was after him is still after him.” Paige was the sister who informed Phoebe on the new information they had gathered. Piper than began to speak.

“Not only that, but we saw at the Phoenix’s house a little girl with the same mark as the Phoenix that attacked Chris.”

“Wait, how old is the little girl?” Questioned the middle Halliwell. Piper thought for a second before she responded.

“I dunno… Four… Five?”

The thoughts and discussions were interrupted by the sounds of orb jingles coming from the hallway. Ava glanced up and saw Chris orb in and collapse onto the floor. Ava gasped and bolted out her seat. She was about to run to Chris’s side but was blocked by Piper and Leo. Ava wanted to push past them but stopped herself. She just stood back and held back her tears as Leo brought Chris to the couch.

Ava stood at the foot of the couch and watched as the Halliwell clan tried to find any indication as to what was wrong with Chris. Ava was getting frustrated because she knew that the cause of this was the gaping wound in his chest. Ava decided to just send a telepathic message to Phoebe. She didn’t care if she got caught, Chris was much more important to her. Ava walked behind Phoebe and stood inches from her ear.

Tell Leo to check his chest… Maybe he’s hiding his injury…

Out of nowhere, Phoebe turned to Ava and looked confused as she saw nothing there. She then turned back to Leo.

“Leo, maybe Chris is hiding his injury, I think you should check his chest maybe he got hit with something.”

With that, Leo opened up Chris shirt to reveal a much larger wound than the one Ava had seen earlier that day. Seeing that wound made Ava sick to her stomach. She placed her hands to her mouth to block out any sounds she made. Phoebe on the other hand reacted quite differently by staring in shock.

“My God! What is that?”

Ava couldn’t stand to be there anymore. She left the room and went into the bathroom. It was there that she completely lost it. She stared at the mirror and wanted to smash it with all her might. She was about to but once again, Ava stopped herself. She splashed some water on her face and snuck back to the living room just in time to hear them talk about how Leo could not heal him and about Bianca. Ava knelt down next to Chris and began to cry next to him. She began to send telepathic messages to him hoping for some kind or response.

“Chris… why didn’t you listen to me? You can’t die… Please fight this… You are all I’ve got left… I love you Chris. You’re like my little brother… Please don’t give up…”

Ava could feel her heart breaking as she watched Chris fight for his life. She was hoping for some kind of response to come to her. Sadly Chris did not respond to Ava telepathic message, but Phoebe did. She was talking to her sisters when she suddenly paused as she felt a strong empathetic feeling of love coming from Chris’s direction. Seeing only Chris on the couch, she assumed that the feelings of love were coming from him.

“Oh my God… He loves her…” Paige looked at her older sister in a confused manner.

“Loves who? Bianca?”

“Yeah… She broke his heart.”

Ava’s heart sped up as Phoebe read her emotions like the pages of a book. She thanked God that Phoebe assumed the feelings were from Chris and not from Ava. Ava did love Chris, but that love was like a love that a brother and a sister shared. Chris was her best friend and he was like a brother to her, which is why her heart was breaking as she was watching him. Ava watched as Phoebe took Chris’s engagement ring from Chris’s hand. Ava could not even being to imagine what Chris was feeling at this point… Well she could because she had also seen the love of her life betray her and change right before her eyes. But Ava didn’t care about Wyatt or her past anymore, all she cared about was that she could have helped Chris and she didn’t because she wasn’t there fast enough. If Chris died… Ava would blame herself for it…

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The sisters were now gone to do whatever they needed to do in order to save Chris, which Ava knew they would do. It was in their nature to protect someone they knew, no matter how annoying they thought said person was. This just made Ava even more angry because Chris did not listen to her and went off on his own when he was severely injured.

Damn it Chris!!! Why didn’t you listen to me??? I knew you had to go see the sisters…

Ava reached out and grabbed Chris’s hand and caressed it. She saw Leo sitting behind her on the table. She turned to try and study his face. She didn’t try to enter the thoughts of an Elder. She could invade the minds of The Charmed Ones without detection, but an Elder… They were very experienced with these sorts of things and would detect her presence in a matter or seconds. So she just decided to study his features. She saw worry and disappointment on Leo’s features. She was glad that he did care somewhat for Chris, but she could not understand why he was disappointed in the young whitelighter/witch. Ava just assumed that he was disappointed that Chris didn’t come to them right away when he needed them. Ava rolled her eyes at her own assumption. Considering how they’ve been treating him, she was surprised Chris hadn’t given up yet. Ava turned away from Leo and continued to hold onto Chris’s hand.

Leo then got up and went into the kitchen. Ava took this opportunity to move Chris’s long brunette strands of hair away from his delicate face. Ava continued to cry for her friend. She suddenly got a worried feeling. She knew that Chris must have gone to see Bianca, so Bianca would not be too far away and she would be plotting to get Chris back… This would be the perfect time seeing as Chris was very injured. Ava looked down at Chris.

Don’t worry Chris… I’ll make sure she doesn’t get you… She will not bring you back…

Ava then heard Leo come back into the room. She backed away from Chris to let Leo do whatever it was that he was going to do. Ava smiled at Leo as he gently placed a wet towel on Chris’s face to wipe away the sweat that was forming on his face. She was glad that Leo was showing that he cared, even though he didn’t know that Chris was his son. She just hoped that he stayed this way even after Chris got better. Ava then saw The Charmed Ones enter the room. Piper handed the engagement back to Leo to give back to Chris. Ava found out that Bianca was at her mother’s house and rolled her eyes. She knew she was plotting something, she just didn’t know what exactly she was planning. It was at that moment that Ava watched a weird glow appear over the faces of the Charmed Ones and they suddenly forgot all about saving Chris and rushed off to hook up with their current shack-ups. Ava shook her head angrily as she figured out what Bianca’s plan was.

Stupid people…

Leo got up from his current place and started pacing back and forth calling for Paige and Phoebe to come back from wherever they were. Ava rolled her eyes while watching Leo.

Yell and scream all you want… They’re not coming back. They’re in their own little worlds…

Ava then turned her head and saw Piper come down the stairs. She chatted something about Wyatt and a baby monitor, but Ava couldn’t care less about what Piper was saying. She turned back to Chris and gently touched his face. She heard the door close as Piper left the house. Ava sighed as she continued to try and take care of Chris, after a few seconds, she heard Leo fall to the floor. Ava leapt from her place and saw Bianca head right towards them. Ava walked to the nearest table and grabbed a vase from it. Bianca knelt down in from if Chris and was about to shimmer him out of there.

Don’t even think about it…

Without a second thought, Ava launched the vase and it hit Bianca right on her head. Bianca stumbled back and hit the floor. Ava then took off her invisibility shield. She walked up to Bianca and kicked her in the ribs.

“Stay away from him!!!”

Bianca got up from the floor and gave a cold hard glare at Ava. She threw a kick to Ava and it landed right on her face. Ava spun around and kept her balance. She straightened herself up and delivered a few punches in Bianca’s direction. Bianca blocked a great deal of her punches and returned a few of her own. Ava then turned on her invisibility and began fighting while she was invisible, which angered Bianca. This fighting continued on for about a few minutes, until Bianca got fed up of it and conjured and athame which she sent in Ava’s direction. Ava dodged it, but it ended up getting her in the shoulder. The shock of it made Ava lose balance. Bianca took this opportunity to deliver a final kick which sent Ava crashing into the wall and losing consciousness. Bianca smiled at accomplishment and decided that instead of killing Ava, she would just leave her trapped in the past while she finished off her mission. Bianca collected her athame and walked up to Chris.

“Come on. We’re going home.” With that, Bianca shimmered out with Chris.

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About an hour later, Ava opened her eyes and rubbed her head. The first thing she felt was the stabbing pain in her shoulder. She gently touched and felt the dampness of blood in the stab wound that Bianca caused. Ava groaned at her stupidity and slowly got up from the floor. The first thing she noticed was that Chris was gone from the couch. Ava gasped. That meant that Bianca had him and was taking him back. Ava quickly faded out of the manor and headed to Bianca’s house.

When she faded in she saw Chris and Bianca head into the portal. Ava ran to catch up with them, but the portal closed just before she reached it….

No… No… No…

Ava did not notice the sisters orb out of there, while she started to slam her fists against the wall screaming the same thing over and over….

“NO!!! NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!”

Ava began to scream and cry and blame herself for this happening… She knew what was going to happen… Chris was stuck in the future without his powers and with a very pissed off Wyatt and this was all Ava’s fault. She knew hat if she had arrived a few minutes earlier. She should have ignored Bianca when she saw her. Ava knelt down on the floor and pressed her face to the wall and whispered to it.

“I’m so sorry Chris… I’m so sorry…”

[italiannna]

Chapter 3, Part Due:


She then lifted herself up and decided that she should try to help the sister’s figure out a way to save him. She faded out of the apartment and back to the Manor. She expected to land in the attic, but instead landed in the hallway. Ava walked and passed the bathroom. She looked at the stab wound on her shoulder and decided to clean it up and wrap it up. She then decided to change her shirt. She thought for a second if she should borrow one of Piper’s shirts and then give it back when she was done with it. Ava walked to Piper’s room and started to look through her closet from something she could borrow. Ava found a shirt way in back of the closet. It looked ok and Ava assumed that it wouldn’t be missed if it was in the back of the closet. Ava took off her old shirt and put on the new one. She held onto the old shirt and was about to walk out when she got the weirdest feeling to peer inside the nursery. Ava looked around in confusion as to why she felt she needed to be here and her answer came when she saw baby Wyatt start laughing when she arrived. She turned to the laughing toddler and looked at him questioningly. She slowly walked up to the playpen and sat down in front of it. Wyatt stared at her.

How does he know I’m here if I’m invisible?

Ava continued to look at Wyatt. Wyatt then reached out and barely touched Ava’s face. Ava couldn’t help but laugh at that. She then looked around and closed the door just a little, but enough for her to notice on time if anyone walked in. She then took off her invisibility shield. That seemed to greatly please Wyatt as he started to smile and laugh. Ava then sat down again in front of the playpen.

“Hey there Wyatt… How did you know I was here?”

Wyatt just stared at smiled back at Ava. This was starting to feel weird for her. She then poked Wyatt’s nose and he started to laugh. Wyatt then reached his hands out to her as if he wanted her to pick him up. Ava smiled and shook her head.

“I don’t think so Wyatt. Your mother would probably think I was a bad guy and blow me up if she saw me.”

Ava’s sarcastic remark sent a sad feeling to Wyatt and his changed into a face that was about to cry at any second. Ava looked at the small Twice-Blessed Child and her heart softened.

“Ok, ok… Don’t cry please…”

Ava then took Wyatt from his play pen and started to walk around the room with him. Wyatt smiled some more and wrapped his tiny arms around Ava’s neck and buried his face on her shoulder. Ava then heard some noise coming from the attic. Wyatt the lifted his head up and got a scared look on his face. Ava rubbed Wyatt’s back gently and began humming a nice song to him. She then began to think about how impossible it seemed to be that this sweet innocent child could ever become the monster she knew so well. She couldn’t think about it… She didn’t want to think about it. Ava could feel the tears beginning to well up in her eyes and she had to put Wyatt back down in his play pen. She turned her invisibility back on and stood behind the play pen and Wyatt walked to the other side. Ava sadly looked at him and then her heart sped up as she saw Chris walk to the doorway of Wyatt’s room. Ava got up from her place and rushed to hug him but was stopped as she hard the cold words escape from Chris’s mouth.

“If I can’t save you, I swear to God I’ll stop you…”

He then turned around and walked away. Ava followed him out of the room. She grabbed his shoulder and spun him around while taking off her invisibility. Ava looked into Chris’s eyes and saw nothing but pain, heartache and sorrow. From this look, Ava immediately knew what had happened during Chris’s short return to the future. Saying nothing, Ava held onto Chris and faded the both of them back to the office in the back of P3. She led Chris to the bed where they both sat down. Chris turned to Ava and began to speak about what had happened.

“She’s gone Ava… Wyatt was about to kill me, and she sacrificed herself in order to save me...”

Ava said nothing in response. She just began to rub small circles on his back.

“What happened?”

“Wyatt has not changed at all… He’s more of a monster than he was when I last saw him. He was hell bent on getting me to join, and when I fought back, he tried to kill me.”

Ava looked down sadly. She knew that Wyatt had gotten worse after Chris left. When Chris was still in the future, Wyatt would have never thought of to kill his little brother. But things change…

“How did you get your powers back?”

“The sisters sent them to me by the creaky floor board in the attic. While Bianca was distracting him, I opened up the floor board and found the spell they put in. that gave me my powers back… But they couldn’t help me save her…”

It was here where Chris began to lose it. He felt the tears in his eyes threatening to spill over. He wanted to fight them. Ava noticed this and pulled Chris into a hug. Chris then began to quietly sob on Ava shoulder as he thought about the woman he loved and how she slipped away from him. Ava slowly rubbed Chris’s back and gently began to rock back and forth with him. Ava could feel the tears coming into her own eyes as she continued to try and comfort him.

“I failed her… she’s gone… What else do I have to push me to fix this?”

“You can still fight to save your future Chris… If you save Wyatt, you save Bianca from dying and you save everything that was lost during Wyatt’s reign…”

Ava didn’t mention that Chris would also save her from going through the horrors she went through during the last few months. It wasn’t the time for it. Chris pulled away from Ava’s grasp and nodded. Ava grabbed one of Chris’s hands and rubbed it gently. She then lifted up Chris’s face so that he was looking right at her.

“Chris… You do whatever you think you have to in order to change the future… But don’t go to crazy over this. You can’t spend 24 hours a day demon hunting.”

“You don’t understand…” Chris looked away from Ava.

“Yes I do Chris… More than you’ll know.”

Chris turned his head back at her and started to wonder what she meant. That was when he noticed the wound on her shoulder and the bloody shirt she was holding.

“Oh my God… Are you alright?”

Ava turned to her shoulder and rolled her eyes.

“Yes I’m fine Chris… Don’t change the subject. Look, you can’t give up on your mission now… Bianca wouldn’t want you to. She’d probably yell at you and tell you to get a grip.”

Chris laughed at what Ava said. Mostly because it’s exactly what Bianca would have done. Chris grabbed Ava’s arms and looked up at her. She was pretty much the only person he had left and he couldn’t feel safer with her than he was now. He thanked God that she had come back to help him through everything. If she wasn’t there with him, he didn’t know what else he would have done.

“Ava… Promise me you won’t leave…”

“Chris, I told you before… I’m staying here with you.”

“No, I mean…”

Ava realized what Chris meant and she nodded.

“Don’t worry Chris, I won’t leave… I promise…”

“Thank you…”

Chris then laid his head on Ava’s lap while she helped him get to sleep. While she was helping him get to sleep, she once again thought about Wyatt and that sweet innocent child she was playing with earlier today. She then thought about Bianca and her heart broke for her. She did love Chris, and her sacrifice was enough proof for Ava. After an hour or two of thinking, Ava fell asleep on the couch with Chris asleep on her lap.

[Assassin Witch]

Reviewing Part One:


Oh, I totally still go with my favorite part being another Little Wyatt/Ava scene. I'm sorry, but I'm a COMPLETE sap for these types of scenes.

The couch scene with everyone, at first I was like...blah, I liked it with his feelings for Bianca, but then I thought, you're is better because Phoebe SHOULD NOT have been able to feel Chris's emotions. Nice job on that!

And Chris lying to Ava. God, he totally loves Bianca to do that.

[Assassin Witch]

PART TWO

Wyatt..oh my god, how people don't like him, I don't know, but Oh, what a boy. I LOVE HIM. And, as usual and if you keep writing scenes like that, they will always be my favorite of the chapter.

"Yes I’m fine Chris… Don’t change the subject. Look, you can’t give up on your mission now… Bianca wouldn’t want you to. She’d probably yell at you and tell you to get a grip.”

She then thought about Bianca and her heart broke for her. She did love Chris, and her sacrifice was enough proof for Ava. [/img]
TOTALLY TRUE! And I'm glad that Ava realized that Bianca really did love Chris. Only reason Bianca did what she did was because of love, and that's why Bianca is my favorite nonCharmed character.

[italiannna]

Note: Ok, I'm gonna post a section of Chapter 4 now because I haven't done anything to this fic in a super long time, so i'm gonna post one part to it.

Note 2: In this chapter and following chapter, there's gonna be telepathic conversation between Ava and Chris. Ava's thoughts are in black and Chris's thoughts are in blue.

Disclaimer: Underlined parts are from "Witchstock"


Chapter 4


“Chris! It has been three weeks now and you have not given this a rest! You need to stop this crazy demon hunting thing before you go too far!”

Ava was at her wit’s end with Chris. She had lost count of how many demons Chris was chasing, or having Piper chase them. He was obviously not dealing too well with Bianca’s death. Ava thought it would last for a week at most, but this was seriously starting to get ridiculous. It had come to the point where Chris wouldn’t wait until morning to get another demon, and would sneak off at night while Ava was still sleeping. It was not healthy and Ava could see the damage it was beginning to do. Chris was growing paler and had lost more weight and was starting to get circles under his eyes.

“Ava I promise, this will be the last demon for a while, until the next attack.”

“Yeah, that’s what you said last time Chris! And the time before that as well!”

“Look, I mean it this time. There have been no leads since the last time I went into the Underworld…”

Ava got so annoyed when Chris mentioned the Underworld. He had been spending almost everyday there at least once and she was fed up of having to wait for him to get back and worrying if he was ever going to come back. Ava told herself that it would come to more than 5 hours without a word from Chris when he went into the Underworld, that she would follow him down there. So far, it never happened, although Ava was starting to worry that soon she would have to follow him.

“Yeah, that’s another thing Chris; it’s so not cool of you to keep doing that. One of these days, a demon’s gonna catch you, and then what are you gonna do?”

“I’ll worry about it then, right now I need to get Piper and Paige together so that they can get rid of that slime demon that feeds on magic.”

“Good luck getting Paige to come, she hasn’t been too great with showing up for demon hunting.”

“I told her to meet Piper and me at this lumber mill for noon, she’ll show up.”

“Ok, so let’s go. I wonder how you guys are gonna vanquish…”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa! You’re not coming.”

Ava was starting to fade out when Chris’s statement halted her at her spot. She stared at him in a shocked and annoyed manner. She put her hands on her hips and she demanded an explanation.

“What? Why not Chris?”

“That thing feeds on magic. If you turn yourself invisible to hide, it’ll detect you and swallow you whole. I’m not having that.”

“God you’re such a baby. How about if I hide behind some lumber…”

“No… Look, just wait for me to come to the Manor.”

He was pushing her away, and she knew it. He had come up with every reason possible to keep Ava away from the demonic hunts that Chris was doing. He had even begun to talk to her less and less as the days went by. She knew this was Chris’s way of dealing with loss, and she just had to let him, but she couldn’t help but feel worried about him.

“I’m kinda fed up with this whole waiting around. Look I came here for a reason Chris and that was to make sure you would be ok and so far, I don’t believe it’s working with you obviously pushing me back.”

“I’m not pushing you back…”

“Yes you are. Don’t even try to lie to me Chris; I know all of your habits when you lie.”

Chris sighed and began to look around the room, never catching Ava’s gaze.

“Like that! That averting eyes thing. Look… I get that you’re still dealing with what happened, but like I’ve told you so many times before, you can’t lose your head over this. Otherwise, you’ll lose focus on what you really need to do.”

Chris looked down. She was right. He needed to relax a little with the demon hunts. He couldn’t even recall the last time he had a full night’s sleep, other than the night he came back from fighting Wyatt. He didn’t mean to push Ava away… But he did and he was starting to regret doing so. She was the only person there who he was able to really talk to. Yes, his mother was in the past, alive and well, but he knew that Piper saw him as nothing more than the annoying, bratty whitelighter/witch from the future.

“I’m sorry Ava… I mean it this time, this demon will be the last one I go after without explanation. Please, just go to the Manor and wait for us to arrive.”

“Fine Chris… Whatever.”

With that Ava faded out and not too long afterwards Chris orbed out to meet Piper at the lumber yard.

Ava faded back in the hallway of the Manor where she immediately turned invisible as Leo walked into the hallway. Ava moved around and was careful not to raise any suspicions from the Elder. Leo was about to go upstairs, but stopped and looked around. Ava rolled her eyes and prayed that he would just go upstairs. She let out a sigh of relief when he finally did. She quietly followed him into Wyatt’s new room, which had previously been Paige’s room.

I wonder if Paige has seen this yet.

The second she walked inside, she noticed that Wyatt’s face lit up instantaneously. Ava smiled and waved at him. Leo looked at his son in curiosity.

“Hey there buddy, happy to see me?”

Ava had to contain her laughter at Leo’s comment. She still could not understand however, how Wyatt was able to see her even though she was invisible. Leo left the nursery to go get Wyatt’s milk. Ava then walked to his crib and stood beside it. She took off her invisibility just for a second.

“Hey Wyatt, how are you today?”

Wyatt responded with a laugh and a wave of his hand. He caused one of his stuffed animals to orb to him. Ava smiled at him.

“That’s a pretty cool trick Wyatt. What else can you do?”

Wyatt smiled from ear to ear when Ava expressed how impressed she was. He then orbed the stuffed animal to Ava’s arms and orbed himself next to her. He then activated his shield for a few seconds and then took it down. He looked up at Ava and laughed. Ava laughed back. She placed the stuffed animal back in the crib and picked Wyatt up.

“I gotta admit that was pretty cool. I bet your mommy and daddy are proud of you huh?”

Wyatt smiled and pointed to Ava’s cheek. He looked at her eyes hopefully. Ava hugged Wyatt and smoothed out his curly blond locks. She was about to say something more when she heard Leo’s foot steps coming up. Ava placed Wyatt back into his crib and put on her invisibility. Before Wyatt could start to cry she whispered to him.

“Don’t worry Wyatt, I’m just gonna be right there on the floor next to that bench thing with the pillows ok? So don’t cry, your daddy is not gonna like that.”

Wyatt sniffed a bit but then smiled a little as Leo walked back into the room with a bottle. Ava sat down on the bench against the wall and waited for Chris to come back. Leo picked up Wyatt and took him to a rocking chair where he fed him his bottle. After a few minutes, Ava saw Chris walk into the nursery. Leo looked up at Chris and nodded a hello to him.

“What took you so long?”

“You’ll find out when the girls get up here.” Chris looked around the room as if to try and sense if Ava was there. Leo noticed that Chris was looking around.

“Looking for something Chris?”

“No, I’m just checking out the new nursery.”

Ava rolled her eyes at Chris’s lame excuse. She then got up and gently tapped his shoulder to let him know where she was. Chris nodded and sat down on the bench. Ava stood near him. They began to send telepathic messages to one another.

Seriously, what took you guys so long?

It was Aunt Paige, I swear I’m getting really annoyed at her missing these vanquishes.

Ok… So if Paige didn’t show up, how did you guys get the demon?

Their telepathic conversation was interrupted when Leo started to speak again.

“Where are the girls now?”

“Piper and Phoebe are downstairs now getting cleaned up. That demon was very messy.”

“How come you didn’t get splattered?”

“I sorta ducked out of the way when Piper blew it up.”

Oh wow… The great brave Christopher ducking away from the evil slime….

It was an instinctual reaction!

Sure it was…

Shut it Ava…

I love you to Chris.

Ava sent a silly smile to Chris. She saw him roll his eyes. Although he didn’t see her, he knew she was smiling at him. Ava was about to say something more when she saw Phoebe and Paige walk into the room. Ava saw Chris roll his eyes and let out an annoyed sigh.

Wow… Since when was Phoebe back?

Since I got fed up with Paige never showing up…

I see.

Ava watched as Phoebe squealed over baby Wyatt and how Paige freaked out about how her room. Ava shook her head. She stayed quiet as the others in the room began to talk. She overheard Chris giving out a sarcastic remark to Phoebe about losing more than a room. Phoebe then returned a sarcastic mark back at him, which then, to Ava’s surprise, caused Leo to defend Chris.

Whoa, did Leo just defend you?

Chris didn’t hear Ava’s comment as he and Leo were in conversation about how irresponsible the two sisters had gotten. Ava was confused at the near peaceful interaction between the two. Ava was wondering why Leo and Chris were suddenly getting along. She got her answer when Leo explained that because of what Chris had gone through, he should help Chris with his mission instead of questioning him. Ava did not notice the green slime come out of the air vent and crawl onto Chris’s shoe.

Well, well, looks like past Leo may not be as bad as once thought…

Get used to it… He’s never this nice… He’s just being nice because he feels sorry for me. Whatever.

Ok… That may be the case, but look; this Leo is not the same Leo you grew up with…

No… But he’s gonna end up becoming that Leo… Just you wait…

Ava was about to respond to that, when she saw Piper come into the room. She asked her sisters if they liked Wyatt’s new room. Both the sisters complained about how they liked their room much more. Ava rolled her eyes…

Last time I checked, they moved out, not Piper…

“Well you guys were the ones who moved out, not me.”

Ava smiled as Piper’s thoughts completely matched her own. She looked over to Chris who had let out a few giggles.

Ok, you gotta admit, that was amazing.

The three sisters left the room to search for some new clothes for Phoebe to wear. Ava looked over to Chris. He got up and left the room Ava decided to follow him.

I hope they don’t realize that you took some of their clothes to give to me. I mean I’m actually wearing some of Paige’s clothing right now.

I doubt that they’ll notice the sudden disappearance of a couple of clothes here and there, and plus I took both Paige and Phoebe’s clothing. Which reminds me, how come you only wear Paige’s stuff?

As much as I admired your Aunt Phoebe for her great love advice and for helping me with my love issues, I have to question a lot of the stuff she wears. Although Paige is not to great herself… Anyway, what’s going on now?

I dunno, I guess we just relax for a bit until the next demon surfaces.

Gotcha.

Look Ava, I’m sorry for avoiding you these last few weeks.

Don’t worry about it Chris, it’s all good, I totally understand.

Yeah… I have another thing to ask you.

Ok, what’s up?

Ok, not that I’m thankful that you’re here, because I am. It’s just that I wanna know what exactly happened after I left…

How about we talk about that another time? Like when we’re not at your parent’s house and when I’m not invisible.

Ava was definitely changing the subject. She wasn’t ready to tell Chris what had happened. With that Ava took off her invisibility and sighed. Chris looked wide eyes at her.

“Ava, are you crazy? Why did you take off your invisibility?”

“After a while, it gets uncomfortable, talking to someone who has no idea where you are, plus I felt like I had to take it off and to stop using my telepathy for some reason. I’m gonna put it back, don’t worry.”

Before Chris could respond, a panicked yell from Piper came from the attic. Chris pushed Ava into the bathroom as Leo ran out. Then they both ran to the attic to see what had happened. Ava walked out very annoyed at Chris. She rolled her eyes and spoke to herself.

“You know I do know how to put my invisibility back on Chris.” Ava sighed, “Men…”

She looked up and noticed that Wyatt was back in his playpen and was giggling at her once again. Ava smiled at the infant and waved at him. Wyatt waved back at her. Ava walked into the room and stood at the edge of Wyatt’s crib. She poked his nose and he smiled. Wyatt then lifted his arms up to her. Ava looked back and shrugged, thinking it would be alright. She picked him up and started walking around with him. She brought him the chair and started rocking back and forth wile playing with Wyatt. Wyatt was starting to fall asleep when Ava heard an explosion coming from the attic. She brought Wyatt back to his crib and placed him inside his crib before she heard footsteps heading downstairs. She was about to turn invisible when she saw Chris run into the room.

“Quick Ava! Hide in the closet and do not turn invisible again!”

Ava was so confused she just stared at Chris with a look that stated that she thought he totally lost his mind. Before she could say anything, Chris grabbed her shoulders and shoved her into Wyatt’s closet before Leo ran into the room.

“How’s Wyatt.”

Chris looked over the crib and saw his brother sleeping soundly.

“He looks ok, I guess the slime didn’t detect him just yet.”

“Ok, I’m gonna start looking around to see if I can find it.”

“Ok, I’ll look in here to see if there’s anything that looks different.”

Leo nodded and left the room. When Chris was sure that Leo was away from ear shot, he opened the closet door. Ava walked out looking very angry and put her hands to her hips. Chris put a finger to his lips signaling to Ava to keep her voice down. Ava just rolled her eyes.

“Ok, what is the matter with you? First you say to put my invisibility back on, and then you run here like a maniac pushing me into a closet and saying to not out it back on. Chris what’s going on?”

“Remember the demon I told out about this morning?”

“Yeah…”

“Well, it’s here now and like I said earlier it feeds on magic. It almost swallowed me up whole.”

“What? Are you alright?”

“I’ve had worse, don’t worry, I’m fine. Look you need to get out of here; you can’t turn invisible again without the slime catching you. It could be anywhere now.”

“Oh yeah, cause I can totally leave this house unnoticed while there’s three witches and an Elder walking around.”

“Make that an Elder, two witches and a spirit.”

“What?”

“Paige is missing, she put on a pair of Grams’ go go boots and disappeared, so piper and Phoebe summoned her, and that’s when the slime started eating me up. It was apparently on my shoe and I didn’t even notice.”

Ava got an excited look on her face when Chris mentioned Grams. Ava loved Penny Halliwell. She got along so well with her while she was growing up and hanging out with the brothers.

“Grams is here? Oh my God I haven’t seen her in so long, I wonder if she’s any different from when I last saw her.”

Ava started to walk out of the room, when Chris grabbed her arm.

“Ava, are you nuts? What if Leo catches you? He’s looking around in each room to see if the demon is anywhere.”

“Well then, how about you go ahead of me to see if he’s in the hallway and distract him while I go downstairs.”

Before Chris could say anything more, Ava shoved him out of the room, just as Leo was walking out of Piper’s room. Chris looked back and saw a smug look on Ava’s face. He then turned back and walked up to Leo.

“There’s nothing in Wyatt’s room.”

“Yeah and I found nothing in Piper’s room. Ok you take the bathroom and I’ll take the new workout room.”

“Ok.”

Leo turned away and walked into the exercise room. Chris turned back to Ava and rolled his eyes before heading into the room. Ava poked her head out of the room and started to quietly walk downstairs. When she reached the bottom she noticed the three witches talking in the living room. Ava snuck down the hall into the conservatory and crouched down near doorway and started to listen in on the conversation. The first voice she heard was Penny’s yelling.

“They’re not normal Piper! And neither are you! When are you going to learn that?”

Ava had to hold back a giggle from the classic attitude that Penny had. She knew that Piper would never stop wanting to have a normal life. She then listened as Piper sated to say something and how the two sisters started to giggle.

I wonder what Grams thinks about these two acting this way?

Ava soon got her answer as Grams began another attitude-induced rant.

”How many times have I told you? Men are utensils. You use them, wash them, and throw them in a drawer until you need them again!”

God, I love that woman!

Chris then Leo both entered the room as they were trying to find the slime. Chris put his ear to the wall and tried to hear for it. The wall creaked and Ava bit her lip. She began to wonder how she was going to get out of the house without being noticed. She wanted to stay and make everything was fine, but it wouldn’t help Chris at all if she was caught. As she listened to the conversation, she noticed that Grams was not being too nice to Chris. Ava rolled her eyes and then got up from the floor. She went to leave through the door of the conservatory when the wall behind her cracked as the slime detected her. She wanted to open the door and run out but she saw that the edges of the door were staring to become green.

Uh oh!

[elderess]

This is well good, can't wait for more, I always thought the bit on the couch was stupid too, coz she wouldn't have been able to sense his emotions! Good job... ;D

[evilcharmed]

This is really amazing! Please do more!

[italiannna]

Wow... I haven't opened this fic in months... Glad to see some ppl are reading it... I should have an update soon...

[austink2009]

Please do update soon...this fic is great!!