Thanks to Amorythewriter for beta reading :*
It had been a hard year for Halliwell's family, since it had been just a year since Chris disappeared. Everything was wonderful and everybody was happy. But then, bam. He vanished,Just like that. One day he was at home, the next he was gone. Nobody knew what happened to him. The whole family was looking for him. Searching every dark hole in the underground, questioning demons.
After half a year passed, they started to give up. Depression crawled into their lives, mainly Wyatt's life. Since he always felt like the protector of his little brother.
After the remaining months, everybody except Wyatt had tried to move on. But he just couldn't do it. He couldn't explain how, but he knew that his brother was alive. There was always a strong bond between them. He just knew. Even if he tried to do something with his life, he spends his free time searching for his missing brother.
Now it was one year, three months, a week and two days since Chris's disappearance.
Wyatt, Piper, Leo, Paige, Henry, Phoebe and Coop were all sitting at the table, eating dinner. The other charmed ones' children were not present at today's dinner in the HalliwellManor. Due to the extra lessons in magic school.
Wyatt didn't want to be there, it was not the same without Chris.
Other members of the family tried to pretend it was, but it was not.
Suddenly Wyatt just dropped his fork, with a stunned expression on his face.
- Wyatt. Honey, something wrong? - Piper asked. Wyatt just orbed away without a word.
- What is going on? - Phoebe asked looking at the empty chair, where Wyatt was sitting just a few seconds ago. She looked over at Piper and Leo. Before they even had a chance to say another word, they heard jiggling of orbing in the living room. They all rose up from the chairs and rushed to the other room. Where they saw Wyatt kneeling next to the sofa, healing someone.
- Is that... - Phoebe started, but her older sister screamed.
- Chris! - Piper shouted, looking at her younger son lying on the sofa. She kneeled next to Wyatt and looked at her younger boy. He was bleeding from the stomach, an ugly wound but Wyatt was healing it already. He seemed to be ok except that. She was scared that he was tortured. Maybe he was. He was probably in the hands of the demons this whole time.
- How did you find him? Where? - Leo started to asking.
- I just felt him again... like before he vanished and I felt that he was in bad shape. - Wyatt answered and took away his hands after he finished healing the wound.
There were a million different versions of events playing inside their heads.
Then, Chris woke up with a yelp.
- Easy, easy... you're safe Chris. - Piper said with a warm smile. God only knows what he had been through this whole time.
Chris looked at her with doubt in his eyes.
- Of course, I am. Why shouldn't I be? - he answered casually. Like there was no shock for him that he was seeing his family after a long year of being absent in their lives. Piper didn't know what to say.
- Well, since I'm all well. Thanks, Wy for healing. I'll be going. I have work to do. - He said, sitting up to be sat on the sofa. Starting to rise and stand up to leave.
The family was beyond shock because of Chris behavior.
- What. Chris... you've been gone for over a year... - Wyatt was searching in his head for any logical explanation of Chris behavior. He just couldn't accept the simplest one.
- Well, I know bro. I can use a calendar, you know? - Chris chuckled. - I needed space from the rest of our family... sorry that I didn't contact you, but I knew that you would tell them that you saw me. You are an awful liar. - Chris answered.
Wyatt couldn't believe what he was hearing. All of that... Chris had just left them? Just like that? Without a word?
- Sweetie, what... - Piper didn't understand, but before she could ask anything, she was interrupted by an 'oh my god' let out by Paige. All of them turned to looked at her, she was staring at Chris. She couldn't produce any more words, but she realized something that others did not. Chris only chuckled.
- Well. You didn't want to see me again after Wyatt was saved. Wyatt is alive, good and well. - Chris said, looking at his mother and then turned to his father - You wanted to kill me and said, that I'm not family. So... I completed my mission and left your happy family without my evil neurotic influence. - Chris rolled his eyes.
Then the realization hit Phoebe, Piper, and Leo. Henry and Coop didn't know what this was about, Wyatt too. Wyatt couldn't even image a situation as the one Chris was describing. Did dad want to kill him? Mom never wanted to see him again? That was impossible!
- What are you talking about Chris? Mom and Dad love you. Maybe the Demons did something to your head. - he started to suspect some memory manipulation or something. Chris was gone for a year, that is more than enough time to manipulate somebody.
- Chris? - Piper asked with tears in her eyes. - Yeah, that's me. - Chris shrugged.
- Of course, it's you. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to sense you like I did. - Wyatt rolled his eyes like it was the most obvious thing that this is Chris Halliwell, his younger brother.
- I almost believed that you forgot about me. - Chris answered with a calm voice, but there was a lot of anger inside him.
- No, Chris... it is not like this... - Leo started, but Chris halted him.
- Stop this. You didn't even warn me about soul merging. It was fucking elders that said it. The elders that I fucking hate since birth. Well, at least now I know why. One of them killed me. - Chris laughed shortly. - You all had a long 23 years of my living to tell me the truth, but you preferred to forget about my sacrifice. When elders told me, I started to ask questions, I wanted to give you a chance to come clean with me. But you started to lie in my face. So, I quit. You didn't find it even suspicious that I vanished after my 23rd birthday? After the day that I died in the past? - Chris chuckled.
Wyatt was just looking at his family. He didn't understand a single thing.
But his parents, on the other hand, looked guilty. They knew what was going on.
- We thought... - Piper and Leo said at the same time.
- I don't care. Back then... I was freaking broken. I was desperate for your love, even if it was an obligatory one. But now, I've had time to think about everything you did to me, and I realized that you hate me. You hate that neurotic future-boy I am. So, I made it easier for you. - Chris shrugged.
- We love you, Chris. - Piper denied his words.
- Maybe you loved this time Chris. Your little boy, but I'm not him. I'm not even the same future-boy you know. I'm a crazy mixtape of them both after our souls merged. - Chris rolled his eyes. Before anybody managed to answer to his words. Chris's phone started ringing. Lyrics of animals of Maroon 5 started to playing, Wyatt looked at Chris with shock. He had a phone. Of course, he had a phone all this time!
Chris picked his phone from the inside pocket of his jacket and put it to his ear.
- Hi sweetie, what's up? - he started talking to the phone just like that! Like he was not in the middle of something important. Or maybe this phone was more important to him than meeting with people that still believed to be his family?
- No, no... I'm fine. Well. Wyatt healed me. - He admitted.
- Yeah, I'm in the Manor now. Yeah, just peachy. I will be back home before you put Angel to the bed, don't worry. - he answered to somebody on the other side. - Milk and what? Look to the fridge and send me a list. No, I'm fine really, you don't have to come here. See ya. I love you. - He ended his call with that and looked at his shocked family.
- What? - he asked.
- With whom did you talk to? - Wyatt asked.
- With my wife actually. - Chris answered, then he heard his parents gasps. - What, you find that surprising that the first thing I did was find Bianca? And when I realized that she remembered me I totally married her? - Chris chuckled.
- Okay, that is enough what the hell is going on!? - Wyatt yelled, he hated not knowing what was going on. He was left in the blind, he hated that. He hated that he missed his brother'swedding because of some family secrets! God, his baby brother had a wife!
- Long story short. Our parents hate me, so I decided to make it easier for them and I disappeared from their life. I'm sorry that I left you bro, but I needed some space. - he explained shortly.
- Chris. Whatever happened, your parents love you... you can believe me. - Coop who was silent this whole time finally said something. But that made Chris only laugh some more.
- Your "Cupid love talks" don't work at me. You know why? Because I saw you fall. I was sixteen when that happened. I saw cupid that stopped believing in love. So, your talk about family love doesn't mean shit for me, because I saw what happened to you when aunt Phoebe and P.J died. - Chris looked at him but then he stepped back, using the shock that he created.
- I will get in contact with you bro, trust me. But if you bring any of them with you, you won't see me again. - Chris said to his brother and orbed away.
And again, Wyatt couldn't sense him.
Here it goes, my first Charmed fic. :D
Finally I managed to write this idea, cuz I thought about it long time ago, but I've never had time to write it.
I hope that you enjoyed.
See ya in the next :*