When he had originally been born they had named him Leo Jr. When he travelled back in time he gave them the name Chris. The future consequences of them finding out who he was were too dire to risk giving them his real name. When they did find out he was too busy to correct them.
When he was born the second time they named him Chris Perry.
When he was finalising the plan for going back in time he decided that he needed to ensure that he would remember. What if he made everything worse? And in some sense it was penance, he hadn't been able to save the world, he should remember his failure. The personal gain element to his spell meant that with his birth and death he would regain those memories. As they happened.
He lived two lives. As a baby and into his early years he was so confused. In one life he had a father and a mother and he was called Chris. In another he was called Junior and only had a mother. The extra information and simulation meant that he was a quiet baby who didn't always react to what was happening and slept a lot.
Chris was three years old when he sorted his experience into something he could handle. Where he was Junior was a pretend world. Chris was the real one because Chris saw Junior but Junior didn't see him. Having classified his memories and finding a way to deal with them, knowing now what to really concentrate on meant that Chris began to interact with the world better.
Piper and Leo were relived. They knew Chris was going to grow up fine but his late development and the way he daydreamed had worried them. As harsh as it sounded they didn't have time for a child that wasn't on the ball. They needed their children to grow up quick. To learn to look after themselves, or they would die. Demons would attack the children and they wouldn't wait until someone was around to protect them.
Because Chris seemed slow his parents thought it better he spent more time with Victor. Where he would be safe and someone had the time to concentrate on his needs.
This was so different to what Chris was seeing in the pretend world. Where he sat and read with his mother and his brother showed him how to orb the toys they wanted. Because of the differences Chris had difficulties. He wouldn't respond when spoken to, he would forget he hadn't eaten, he would claim to be tired after a long nap. He would seem surprised to find himself at his grandfather's house and would sometimes just sit or stand still staring off into space.
It was a vicious circle. Chris wasn't alert and aware so for his safety he spent the day with his grandfather, which was so different to the pretend world so his attention was spilt, with meant he seemed out of it, which meant more time with his grandfather.
It was when he started school that things started to click. His mother had dropped him off in both worlds, it was the same building, his class was exactly the same, the same things were said and done, everything was the same. This sameness meant he could relax. He was living only one life at school and he loved it. School immediately became his favourite place.
He learnt everything quickly, he was doing it twice so it was easy. He soon raced ahead of the pretend world but there still a sense of cohesion at school that he didn't notice the subtle differences.
School helped him to learn to focus on the real world. The pretend world was still there, he was living that day too, but he learnt to push it to the side to pay better attention to the people who called him Chris.
But it wasn't just the consequences of the memories that changed Chris' life it was what his family knew.
They knew that Wyatt could have been a great evil. And while they stopped a big threat to him there was always something in the back of their minds. They paid more attention to Wyatt than they ever had before.
They watched him and when he did something wrong they explained to him why it was wrong. They took a greater interest in his life. Listening to all he had to say, questioning him. They trained him in his powers carefully and with gentle encouragement. They focused on him ensuring that he had a life outside of magic too and supporting him in that much as they could.
They weren't bad parents in the first time-line but this time they were super-parents. And while they didn't ignore their other children there just wasn't as much time for them. Phoebe and Paige's children all started banding together, they didn't feel unloved but they still had each other to rely on. Being a boy and away at their grandfather's a lot meant that Chris was excluded from their group.
The worse consequences came from knowing that the man that came from the future was their son and nephew. In the end they may have loved Chris but they didn't like him. He had been broken by a war but he never let them see that. All they saw were the coping mechanisms, behaviour that kept him alive was viewed as bad in the safe world his young family lived in. They never understood, or really tried to, what it was that Chris had been through, why it was that he had survived.
They thought they knew him, they expected him to marry Bianca and become demon obsessed. When he developed an interest in space and astronomy they didn't foster it, they thought they knew it was only a phase. In the pretend world Chris got a telescope for his tenth birthday and a trip to the science museum. In the real world Chris got generic boy toys and a small party in the garden.
While he had a father in the real world, in the pretend world there was a man that would take Wyatt out to see baseball games and would just stare at him unsure, the pretend world seemed so much better.
As Chris grew the centre of his life drifted away from the Halliwell home. His teachers became the encouraging force that drove him to do well. He learnt judo and tai chi at the YMCA instead of karate from his aunt Phoebe.
He never spend lazy Sunday afternoons being taught cooking and potions by his mother he spent them on his grandfather's couch eyes closed tight focusing solely on the pretend world.
But the pretend world changed suddenly. His mother died, driven to suicide to protect her sons when she was processed. The demon had Junior, taunting him with his mother's voice using her to beat him. He called for his father, Wyatt had been knocked out while Paige and Phoebe were dealing with a crisis demon Piper had caused, but the Elder never came. It was just him and the demon. Piper regained control of her body but only enough to stab herself in the thigh to stop the horrors she was seeing and couldn't stop. She bled out quickly, the demon causing her to laugh and scorn Junior as she died.
Leo had sensed the loss of Piper and had orbed in. Healed Wyatt but not Junior, Leo was grieving he blamed his youngest son for not protecting Wyatt or Piper and for not getting help.
Everyone knew there would be deep emotional wounds from the hours of physical and mental torture given by demon Piper before her death, and then watching her kill herself, but the grief of losing another sister, and a wife meant the adults forgot about the young boy who sat quietly.
Wyatt raged, this they could deal with, they knew what he was thinking and they saw how he was self destructing, Wyatt began to take up their time.
He wasn't sneaky, in fact the death of his mother showed him how little time he really had. He wanted to take control, to never hurt again. So he gained an army and fashioned the world into what he wanted. His family too stunned to fight against him, unwilling to harm Piper's son.
Junior was forgotten, he was forgotten until he lead the first battle against Wyatt's new regime, leading mortals, demons, warlocks, witches, fairies, ogres, and all other manner of creatures magical and non.
Living a quite life while watching a war turn into a genocide, watching family kill family, was hard on Chris and he retreated further and further from the Halliwells.
It wasn't until in the pretend world he started forming a plan of time travel, he may defeat Wyatt one day but billions of people would still have died and suffered, the human race would never had recovered from Wyatt's reign, that Chris finally understood.