I do not own Charmed or any of the characters.
Chris sighed as he sat on the couch he was using as a bed. He knew that coming to the past was going to be hard but it was a lot harder than he thought it was going to be. The sisters and Leo hated him, and he was hungry and exhausted all the time. "I can't do this anymore," he said, his eyes shining with tears, unaware that someone was watching him. Later that day Phoebe Halliwell called a meeting with her sisters and brother-in-law. "What's up Pheebs?" Paige asked the younger of her older sisters. "I was at P3 earlier to talk to Chris and I found him in there almost in tears. He said that he can't do this anymore. I think we need to be more supportive of him." The others were suprised because Chris always had an iron grip on his emotions. "How can we? We can't trust him," Leo countered. "I'm not so sure," Paige added. "More often than not I have to fight myself not to blow him up," Piper said agreeing with her husband. Phoebe felt a crushing wave of saddness, despair, and betrayl hit her before the tell-tale signs of someone orbing. "I think he heard you." Chris orbed to the bridge and broke down in tears. Ever since that day he had feared they would hate him and regect him. Well, his fear had just been confirmed. He felt empty. Everything that he had been fighting for seemed worthless now. With a wild imaginatio he could almost see Phoebe hugging him and reassuring him, while Piper baked cookies. When they were done they would all sit together and eat them and him and Paige would banter back and forth with sarcastic comments amussing the other two. "Well," he thought, "I might as well be useful," and orbed away. Meanwhile at the Manor Phoebe was trying to figure out what to do. "Leo can you sense him?" After a moment of trying he shook his head no. "Ok, Paige anything in the book?" Another no. "Piper, scrying?" When Piper also said no she sat down defeated. "I don't know what to do. He felt so hurt and betrayed. The fact that I could feel his emotions at all is a big deal." "Why would he feel hurt and betrayed?" "I don't know," Phoebe answered her older sister. Paige thought for a moment before an idea occured to her, "Why don't we ask?" "Paige I doubt Chris would answer truthfully if you asked him," Leo pointed out. "No not ask him. What if we ask us? The future us." "That's brilliant Paige," the empath said excitedly, and ran off to write a spell. Twenty minutes later she was back. They set the candle circle up, light the candles, and chanted the spell.
Sisters from the other side,
cross now the time divide,
Several answers are what we seek,
cross now so that we may speak
Blinding, white lights fill the air in the circle and the older versions of the Charmed Ones appeared. The only thing was they were ghosts. "We're dead," Piper said shocked. "Yes, you are. Why did you summon us?" They all looked at the ghost of Paige when she spoke. "We had some questions starting with why would our whitelighter, Chris Perry, feel hurt and betrayed when we said we didn't like him?" "Chris? Chris is here?" Piper's ghost (GPiper) appeared worried. "Yes. Why? What's he to you?" Piper asked. The ghosts ignored her. "What are we going to do?" "I don't know. You know how reckless he can be." "All the work we put into assuring him that wasn't the case just went down the drain." A loud and sharp whistle cut them off. "What's going on here." Piper was yelling. Before the ghosts of the sisters could answer blue orbs appeared revealing Chris, covered in blood, who swayed on his feet then collapsed. "No Chris," GPhoebe yelled and ran to the boy. "Leo come heal him!" It took longer than normal because of how badly he was injured, but soon Chris was heal. After that GPaige orbed him and GPiper to her room. GPhoebe headed down the stairs and after a little debate the others followed her. GPhoebe had gotten a rag and a bowl of water. When they got to Paige's room GPiper was tucking a still unconcious Chris in bed, GPaige was closing the curtains, and GPhoebe was cleaning blood off of his face. When the three of them were happy with their work they left the room. "Why is Chris so worn out? He's exhausted, not to mention malnourished," GPhoebe snapped. She felt a had on her shoulder and looked to see her big sister smiling a comforting smile at her. "Let's all go down stairs and discuss," GPaige suggested. Once everyone was comfortable the people from the past told them what they knew. "That's it," GPiper questioned, "that's all you know?" They just nodded. "First of all Chris Perry isn't his full name. His full name is Christopher Perry Halliwell, and he is our younger brother," she stated calmly. Those from they past widened their eyes. "My younger, twin brother to be exact," GPaige stated. Jaws dropped.