Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Charmed. Someone else created the world where I play with the characters they populated it with, creating my own stories with the only purpose to entertain.
Welcome to this charmed story!
When watching the sixth season of charmed, I found that the sisters treated Chris very badly. But he took it like a champ and said "Hey, don't sweat it! Come here mom. *big hugs*". In my opinion no so realistically. So I decided to make my own version of season 6, were not everything goes as smooth. This story will evolve to a Chris-revelation but this is not the biggest part and it will evolve much further, dealing with the fallout.
We go AU from episode 12 in season 6. Most of the background story will be canon up till then, but not everything. Some surprises will be there :)
I hope you enjoy the read!
Thomatshu
ps.: I have a lot of work that comes and goes as it pleases. So I will not be able to keep a certain release schedule for new chapters. They will come when I find the time and inspiration to write.
They were all standing together in the attic: Leo, the three charmed ones, Chris and Prince perfect. Only Wyatt was missing because he was just kidnapped. Taken by the same demons that Chris had been warning the sisters for the whole day. Not only had they ignored him, they also lost their precious time in some useless "normal life" frenzy. If they just would have listened to him, this would never have happened.
But Chris couldn't lose time now. He needed to save his big brother. And fast because the results of this event could be devastating.
Desperately he tried to get the girl into the action.
"Hey listen to me for once! We need to go and get Wyatt! … What are you doing?" Chris asked surprised when the three sisters and Leo ganged up on him, anger displayed on their faces.
"The pheromones wore off." Phoebe said.
"Right after they took my son." Piper continued, angrily glaring at him.
"You don't seriously believe this is my fault, do you?" Chris asked taking the hint, shocked at their suggestion.
"Oh, right, so it's just a big coincidence we all fell under Mr. Right's spell?" Piper questioned.
"And suddenly we all want to bind Wyatt's powers?" Phoebe added.
"You see, Chris, what they really want is for you…" David, the prince perfect, started.
"Is for you to leave." Piper finished.
At these words an ache shot through Chris' heart. He could not believe what he was hearing. The same women, which once would be his mother, and his family wanted nothing more than to kick him out of the house. Together with the pain another feeling erupted. Anger. How could they believe that he ever would purposefully put Wyatt in danger? He had never given them a reason to think that.
He was brought back to the situation at hand when David started to say something.
"Oh shut up you!" Chris yelled to David before making a hand motion, resulting in the prince fading out of existence.
"I can't fucking believe it. Okay, I admit. I altered Mister Perfect by adding another wish. But only so you three would do what needed to be done instead of ignoring everything I say. So what gives you the fucking right to blame me for Wyatt's kidnapping?" he yelled to the sisters.
"Eh, maybe the fact that you continuously lie and trick us?" Leo screamed back.
"Like I got a choice! Do you want to know why I have to keep doing these things? Well let me tell you, oh-holy-elder and almighty sisters. Because it looks like I'm the only fucking person in this room that seems to care about what happens to Wyatt. For fucks sake, I warned you all that this would happen. But did you listen? NO! You were too busy wallowing over your own lives to think about that of your son and nephew." Chris roared.
"We have to go to our jobs." He mimicked female voices. "We don't want all this magic business, we want our lives to be more normal."
"Well I got a big, fucking surprise for you all. You HAVE magic! So as much as you want a normal life the demons and other creatures don't give a shit. It's not because the almighty charmed ones want something that it also happens." Chris continued.
"The only reason I had to use Mister Perfect is because none of you would listen to me this morning. What choice did I have but taking matters into my own hands? And now you stand here accusing me that I am the reason all this happened?"
"The last couple of months I went on two, maybe three, hours of sleep every day, researching and vanquishing demons, putting my own life at risk. Offering up my own health. All in order to prevent Wyatt from turning evil, to protect him. And for what? To be treated like crap by Phoebe, Piper and Leo? To every time I ask for help to be shot down and verbally or physically assaulted because you don't have time for it or because you don't like me or the things I say? Your arrogance and overestimation of your powers as charmed ones borders on the insane. And who is going to pay the price for it when it all goes wrong? Oh that is right: WYATT and the whole fucking FUTURE!" Chris vented his frustration and anger at how he was treated.
Piper and Phoebe looked like they were ready to start a verbal offensive, while Leo was ready to murder him.
"To prevent Wyatt from turning evil? I thought you said you were here to prevent him from getting hurt?" said Paige, the only one who had kept silent up to this point and was still somewhat level-headed.
Chris cursed inside. In his anger he had revealed something he would have liked to have kept hidden from them. He should really be more careful, he scolded himself.
"They are one and the same. From the information we gathered we learned that something happened to Wyatt when he was young. We couldn't pinpoint exactly when it happened but we narrowed the event down to a reasonable timeframe before another certain event that I can't talk about. We believe whatever it was that happened scarred him and was the reason for him turning evil and becoming the new source. In my past, your future, Wyatt went on to expose magic and enslave both the mortal and magic world, meanwhile butchering all who tried to stand up for themselves or the innocents, everyone who opposed his domination. And let's be honest he killed some just for fun or because he could and was bored."
Paige was obviously going to ask a question, the others were too stunned to react, but he silenced her non-magically by putting up one finger before continuing. Something in his stance made her clear that speaking up would not be a good idea.
"The reason I didn't tell you is because I didn't think you would believe me. Hell I still think you won't believe me. How would it have sounded? 'Hey I am from the future and I am here to prevent your son turning in the biggest evil the world has ever seen?' That would have gone well. Like you would have believed me. The rest is simple logic. When you don't believe me you will not help me, not that I had much help now though so in the end it didn't make much difference. Anyway I decided to tell you the truth, but not the whole truth. That I tried to prevent him from getting hurt." He tried to explain, knowing they probably wouldn't listen anyway.
The shit-storm he expected was nothing compared to the force of the heads-on-full-force-three-way-frontal assault that was unleashed on him. Two, what a bystander would describe as bat-shit-crazy, women and one man, someone could describe looking like he was an axe wielding killer looking at his next target, started showering him with yelling and insults.
"How dare you!" Piper yelled at him.
"You are lying!" Phoebe followed next.
"That can't be true!" Leo shipped in.
"Why should we ever trust you?" It was Phoebes turn again.
"Not my small pumpkin! He could never be evil!" Piper yelled out.
"The prophecy said that he would be the greatest source of good magic ever to be seen!" Leo tried.
"You piece of filth, how dare you accuse my nephew like that." Phoebe felt like she needed to add.
"It bet it is you!" Piper suddenly whispered. The room went silent. "I bet you are evil yourself. I bet you are the one trying to turn him. What? You couldn't match up to him in your time and now you went here to corrupt an innocent little baby into joining your side?"
These words cut through him like a hot knife through butter. He couldn't believe what they just said. How could they. After all he had done to protect his family. To protect his brother. Anger flared up. Anger that he no longer could control completely and started to spill through.
"How dare you." He whispered and though he had whispered everyone in the room had clearly heard him. The sisters and Leo falling silent, feeling the shift that had taken place in the young whitelighter. Chris usually never showed any emotion on his face or in his stance. The only thing that normally held any emotion was his voice which was frequently filled with the sound of annoyance. But now both his face and voice showed clear anger.
"How dare you!" He continued louder. "How dare you stand there accusing me of being evil? Accusing me of being the one to turn Wyatt evil. I who have suffered beyond your imagination for this family. Who would willingly give my life for Wyatt. I who have done everything in my power to protect him. And you stand there accusing me of trying to harm him."
"I don't understand you all. Not once did I do something that endangered this family and especially not Wyatt's life." He continued. "To be honest more than once I saved your asses. Do you know how easy it would have been for me to harm one or all off you if I wanted? I can name more than ten occasions from the top of my head where I could have killed one of you and none of the rest would have been able to stop me or even so much as suspect me of the deed. But yet here you all stand. Safe and sound. Well everyone except Wyatt. Who has been kidnapped as a result of your incompetence if I might add. Oh yeah! I said it! You all like to think you are perfect and everything bad that happens is someone else's fault. But news-flash: that's not true. Most of that shit happen because of your incompetence and arrogance, as I have said before. So next time you are going to accuse me of things I'm not responsible for or off things I had nothing to do with, I suggest you shut the fuck up and think about your own faults and doings before pointing out someone else's."
His response stunned everyone present. Not only with his words but also with the authority he said them with. He was no longer the young, neurotic whitelighter they all had known for some months now. In front of their eyes stood a new man. A leader. A man who could move a crowd with his words. A man who gained respect because of the aura he displayed in his stance.
The only person not affected by this change was apparently Piper. After all she was known to be the most stubborn one of the living charmed ones, a close second to Prue. In her rage she had projected everything bad that had happened onto Chris, naming him and him alone the reason for it all. A rage that only grew with every word he said.
"But don't you get it, Chris? You are not a part of this family. So whatever you tell us, we will never trust you. And don't try to make this our fault. You came back from the future and since then all things went to hell." She told Chris.
"Now I'm going to make this crystal clear for once and for all. I don't want to see you anymore near my family. I don't want to see you anymore near this house. I don't want to see you anymore near the book. And most importantly, I don't want to see you near Wyatt ever again. You have 5 seconds to leave before I blast you out."
Chris was stunned. Nothing in the entire world could have shocked him as much as the words he just heard coming from his mother. No. Not his mother. The person who stand before him was nothing like his mother. Chris could not believe that they could be one and the same person. That this one would grow into the woman he loved unconditionally. The woman that had cared for him, that had loved him. The woman who had listened to him when he had something to tell. The woman who had cheered him up when he was feeling down, who was always there for him whenever and however he needed her. That woman would have recognized him immediately, would have known that he was her son. She would have felt the connection that exists through all planes and time streams between a parent and their children.
And suddenly he realized something. Maybe she could become that woman in the future for her sons she was going to raise.
But she would or could never again be that woman for him. Not now, not in the future. He would never again feel the warmth he had felt in the relationship with his mother. And with his brother fallen to the evil side, he stood alone. No mother. No brother. No aunts. And, even though he despised him and did not want to see him ever again, no father. No family.
It was his fight now. His and his alone.
To be continued.
And there we end chapter 1.
Let me know what you think of the story so far. I always welcome feedback.
