Not All Change Is Good.
Disclaimer: As much as I would love to say that I own the show and everything associated with it, I cannot. It all belongs to someone else.
Chris saved Wyatt but changed his family for the worse. Can he and Wyatt put right the wrong before he loses Wyatt for good?
This story is set just before Chris dies in It's a Bad, Bad world Part 2.
Chapter 1: Surprise visitors.
Leo rushed over to the bed where his youngest son lay dying from a stab wound. He still couldn't get over the fact that Gideon, his mentor and his friend had stabbed his baby boy.
"Chris," he said brushing his hair back.
Chris turned weakly to his dad. He knew he didn't have long left now. "Hey," he said softly.
Paige stood in the doorway watching, the tears running down her cheeks.
"Hey, I'm here now. You can hold on okay. Hold on, hold on. I'm here you can hold on okay," begged Leo and Chris gave him a weak nod. "Don't give up ok?" he added tears falling down his face too.
"You either," replied Chris and he closed his eyes.
"No, no, no. Please no, please," begged Leo but it didn't change anything. Leo dropped his head down missing the flash of purple that flew into Chris. Chris' body then disappeared.
Chris' body then reappeared in the back room of P3 where two people bent down over it.
"Is he still alive?" asked one. He was a young man with blonde hair and piercing blue eyes.
"Just. I managed to hold his death off long enough to get him here," replied the other, a young woman.
"I hate making them think he is dead," said the man.
"I know but we had to make sure that Leo would actually go ahead and kill Gideon. If Chris had survived he may not have been angry enough to actually kill him."
The young woman then knelt down beside Chris and sprinkled some gold dust over his stomach wound. The man placed his hands over the wound as she began chanting. Slowly the familiar glow of healing appeared from his hands. The young woman then copied him but a purple glow emitted from her hands.
Finally, after what seemed like forever, the wound healed up and Chris began breathing normally. The two future people looked at each other in relief as the young man opened his eyes groggily. He glanced around him and then spotted the two people with him.
"Wyatt?" he asked in shock.
"Hey there little brother," he replied with a smile.
"What are you doing here?" he asked warily.
"Saving you of course. Can't let my favourite little brother die now can I?"
"But you're evil and want me dead," he said feeling more confused.
"No I'm good, you saved me, well dad is about to anyway. I'm from the future you helped to create."
"But how is that possible?"
"Well we came back to save you from dying. You deserve to live for what you did Chris," said the young woman with a smile.
"Who are you?" asked Chris sitting up.
"I'm Eva-Rylee McKenzie. You don't know me yet but you will," she replied with a smile.
Suddenly orbs filled the room and an angry looking young man stood before them.
"What are you doing here Chris?" asked Wyatt staring at the version of his brother he knew.
"Well I cast a spell to make to you and it brought me here. What the hell are you doing in the past and oh my god is that me?" he asked pointing at his other self still sat on the couch. Wyatt just nodded.
The other Chris sat staring at the man before them. This was him from the future, the good future, the one where his brother wasn't the Source. He looked just like him but there were some subtle differences. His hair was slightly shorter and there was a lot less pain in his green eyes. In fact, this version of him looked much happier and he was glad about that.
"Um hi," he said to his other self.
"Hey yourself," replied the other Chris who then turned to his older brother. "You saved me didn't you?" he asked and Wyatt nodded again. "Wy you could have messed with our whole future. Why would you go back in time to do that?" he asked angrily.
"Because you didn't deserve to die saving me and you know what it did to mom, dad and the aunts. I wanted to save them the pain of losing you."
"Oh Wy," he said calming down and approaching his brother. They both knew how much their parents had struggled to get over losing him and even now 23 years later they still weren't totally over it. His death had hung over them like a shadow and totally affected everything that they did, including how they treated their children.
"Does our family know I'm alive?"
"Um no they think you died," replied Wyatt.
"What!" replied both Chris'.
"We had to make sure dad would actually kill Gideon and not try and save him. It was the only way," said Wyatt defending his actions.
"Well we better go and let them know he, I'm, we're alive. Man this is weird," said Chris from the good future.
"Yeah and going to get confusing so you can be Chris," he said pointing to the brother he knew. "You can be Perry for now so we don't get confused," said Wyatt pointing at the other Chris.
"Is it safe to leave yet?" asked the young woman who had been listening quietly.
Wyatt closed his eyes and sensed for his family. "Yes they are all at the hospital."
"Let's go then," replied Perry leaping up and then staggering backwards.
"Take it easy, you almost died," said Wyatt helping him to regain his balance.
"Uh thanks bro. Can I call you that?" he asked glancing over at Chris not wanting to offend him.
"Course you can. You are my brother after all. You both are," replied Wyatt with a smile. Perry then did what he had been longing to do since he had woken up. He hugged his big brother. Wyatt grinned and hugged him back.
Meanwhile at the hospital a nurse has just bought baby Chris out to meet his family. She smiles at them all and hands him to Leo.
"Oh look, he's beautiful. Baby Christopher," gushed Phoebe. She then turned to Wyatt who was gazing down at the little baby. "That's your brother."
"Looks like we didn't lose him after all," said Paige unable to stop a few tears falling.
"No you didn't," said a voice.
They turned round to see Chris standing behind them alive and well. Phoebe and Paige raced to their nephew hugging him tight so pleased to see him alive. Leo just stood in shock not knowing what to say. He had watched his son die and now he stood before them alive and well.
"Hey dad," said Chris approaching his father.
"Chris," he said softly tears filling his eyes.
"It's me dad."
Paige took the baby from Leo so he could hug his son properly. Leo pulled him into a fierce hug and Chris didn't resist at all. He knew this was exactly what his dad needed and to be honest so did he.
"How is this possible?" asked Phoebe when they finally broke apart.
"Yeah we saw you die," said Paige.
"I was healed by some very special people," replied Chris with a smile.
"Who?" asked Leo. It had to be someone very powerful to override Gideon's magic.
"You want to meet them?" he asked with a grin.
"I do," said Phoebe excitedly.
Before Chris could say anymore, the doctor came back over. "Your wife is asking to see you Mr Wyatt," he said.
"May we all go in for a few minutes?" asked Leo.
"Well just for a couple of minutes then," replied the doctor walking off.
They entered the room forgetting about the people who had saved Chris for the moment. Piper smiled at them all especially Chris when she saw him. She had no idea what had happened to him whilst she had been in the hospital but was still happy to see her baby boy.
"Hey mom," he said leaning down to give her a gentle hug.
"Hi sweetie," she replied kissing his cheek.
Leo then sat down on the bed beside her whilst Paige handed baby Chris back to her. Phoebe gently placed Wyatt on the bed beside them and gave Piper a kiss on the cheek. She then stood up and wrapped her arm around her nephew. She just needed to touch him for a while to truly accept that he was here. Paige did the same on the other side but then remembered their earlier conversation.
Chris heard a voice in his head asking if he was ok and remembered that the others were nearby still waiting.
"Mom, dad I have a couple of people I think you should meet," he said and then told Wyatt to come.
The door opened and three people walked in. Everyone instantly recognised the other Chris but the other two were a mystery.
"Why is there two of you Chris?" asked Piper.
"This is me from the future we just saved," he replied.
"And the other two?" asked Paige.
"You mean you don't recognise me Aunt Paige," said Wyatt with a grin.
"Wyatt," said Leo standing up.
"Hi dad."
"Don't worry he is from the good future too," replied Chris sensing their worry.
"I am I swear. This by the way is Eva-Rylee or just Rylee to her friends. She is the one who saved Chris," said Wyatt proudly.
"Saved Chris from what?" asked Piper anxiously.
"Gideon tried to kill me," replied Chris or Perry as Wyatt had now named him.
"He did what! I'm going to kill him," said Piper angrily.
"Honey calm down, he is already dead," said Leo.
"You are so handsome," said Phoebe moving to hug Wyatt. That then started everyone off and before long, everyone was hugging everyone else. Leo did notice though that Wyatt seemed a little uncomfortable with all the attention and it worried him a little. There was something in his eldest's eyes that didn't seem right and he intended to find out what it was.
"Son are you ok?" he asked.
"Yeah fine why?" asked Wyatt a little too quickly.
"You just seem a little uncomfortable with all this," he replied.
Chris knew what was wrong with his brother and came to his rescue. "Oh just ignore that dad. Wyatt just doesn't like all this attention do you bro," he said slinging his arm around him. Wyatt gave him a grateful smile.
Paige looked between the two Chris' and frowned. "This could be a little complicated," she said with a grin.
"Well the neurotic Chris that you guys know is now going to be known as Perry well till we go back anyway and the one I know will remain as Chris," explained Wyatt.
"Okay cool," replied Paige.
Phoebe walked over to the young woman who had come with them. She had dark auburn hair and eyes the colour of burnt honey. Phoebe could sense that she cared for both of the young men but her feelings for Wyatt ran deeper.
"So are you Wyatt's girlfriend then?" she asked with a grin.
"Not exactly," replied Wyatt.
Riley quickly hid her hands behind her back but she wasn't quick enough and Piper spotted the ring on her finger. She grinned knowingly at them.
"I think she is a little more then just a girlfriend right honey?" she said turning to her oldest.
"Um well, yeah," replied Wyatt.
"You're still wearing your ring?" asked Chris glaring at them both. He couldn't believe she hadn't removed it before coming back.
"Well funnily enough I was more worried about saving your ass then whether I was wearing my engagement ring or not," she retorted.
"How did you though. I thought only Gideon could heal me?" asked Perry.
"Rylee is a special type of healer meaning her healing powers go way beyond the Elders," explained Chris smiling at her.
"Thanks for saving me," said Perry.
As he moved to give Rylee a hug, he brushed up against Chris and there was a flash of light. The two Chris' merged leaving just one before them.
"Uh Chris?" asked Leo approaching his youngest.
"Hey dad. Wow that happened quicker then I thought it would," he said rubbing his head.
"Here drink this," said Rylee handing him a bottle. Chris took it and quickly swallowed it down feeling the relief it gave him.
"Thanks Ry," he said hugging her tight.
"Anytime Chris," she replied.
"What did you give him?" asked Piper.
"Just something to help ease my headache. When I first started getting the other memories it would give me really bad headaches so Rylee came up with something to help," explained Chris.
"Yeah and I always keep some on me in case he ever needs it," added Rylee.
"Yeah she's always looking out for me," said Chris wrapping his arm around her.
"Watch it you, she's marrying me," said Wyatt with a frown.
"Yeah but I still think she picked the wrong brother though," said Chris cheekily.
The others all smiled at the friendly banter between the two brothers. Leo had been worried that Chris would always resent Wyatt for what had happened but that clearly wasn't the case.
"Yeah I wonder sometimes if I'm marrying the wrong one too," replied Rylee grinning at the look on Wyatt's face. She then walked over to him.
"I love Chris you know that but I will always love you more," she said softly.
"I love you too Rylee more then you will ever know," he said hugging her tight and Phoebe could sense there was more to that comment then anyone realized.
"I've been wondering something. If the future is good, Wyatt's good and you guys are happy. Why did you come back in time to stop Chris from dying?" asked Phoebe and then quickly added. "Not that I'm not happy you didn't die though."
"Thanks Aunt Phoebe," said Chris rolling in his eyes.
"Aw you know I love you honey but I was just wondering if there was something wrong in the future?" she asked hugging him again.
Wyatt, Chris and Rylee all glanced at each other for a moment not knowing what to say.
"There is isn't there?" asked Paige.
"I don't think this is the right place for a discussion like that," said Chris trying to buy them some time.
"Chris is right. Piper needs to rest and whatever it is, it can wait until she is home," said Leo. He really wanted to know what it was but he didn't want to worry her whilst she was still recovering.
"Yeah we should probably go before they kick us out," said Wyatt relieved that they could get off the subject of the future.
They all kissed Piper and baby Chris goodbye and then they all disappeared leaving Piper and Leo behind.
"They are hiding something," said Piper worriedly.
"You just concentrate on getting better honey and I will worry about them," said Leo giving her a hug.
Authors Note: So what are the future people hiding from their family. Could things really be bad in the changed future?
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