Charmed No Lies (1)
(Ask Me No Questions and) I'll Tell You No Lies
Chapter One: Honesty is the Best Policy
"Paige? Oh my god!" Phoebe yelped as she saw her younger sister encased in stone.
"She's still alive." Chris told her. Phoebe jumped and turned around to see the man-boy-demon-stranger who had 'saved' her by telling her not to look into the eyes of the Titans. She glared at him suspiciously from stone-Paige's side.
"Who the hell are you!" She asked.
He rolled his eyes. "What you don't recognise me? That's okay, Aunt Phoebe – I haven't been born yet."
Phoebe stared at him stunned. "Wha… huh…!"
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"Piper! I think you need to come up stairs right now!" Phoebe yelled. She was starting to get a headache. She just knew it was going to be one of those days.
"Why… oh. Oh no. Please don't tell me that's Paige." Piper said, her hands falling down and slapping her thighs in frustration, irritation, and annoyance. Yes, it was definitely one of those days. Then she noticed the strange green eyed man.
"Friend or foe?" Piper asked, staring at the scruffy looking man-boy-demon-thing that stood leaning against the window with his arms crossed and his expression disbelieving.
"I'm not sure yet." Phoebe admitted.
"What do you mean? I saved Paige didn't I!" Chris pointed out.
Phoebe wore an expression of complete disbelieve. "Oh so you call that saving do you?"
He moved away from the window, arms still folded defensively against his chest contradicting the smug look on his youthful face. Piper estimated that he couldn't be more than twenty-two. "She's still alive isn't she? Which was the whole reason for my coming back here." He told them, sitting down 'comfortably' on the sofa near the Book of Shadows.
Piper sent Phoebe a confused look – her replying one was more of a 'don't go there' look however Piper ignored it and asked anyway, "what is that supposed to mean? Coming 'back' here." She asked.
"Didn't Phoebe tell you? I'm from the future. I'm your son."
"Eck?!" Piper screeched. "The hell you are! I only have one son mister and you are not Wyatt! I think I'd recognise my own son."
Chris winced. "I'll try not to take that offensively after all you haven't even conceived me yet… but I promise you that is the truth. I will be born in a years time; my name is Christopher Perry Halliwell – after Leo's father. I came back here to keep the Power of Three alive until the next generation can take over. In short – I came back to stop the world turning to shit."
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Piper and Phoebe had left Chris alone with Stone-Paige and the BOS but they hadn't had much choice – Leo wasn't answering their calls and they needed to have a private chat.
"There is no way that person is my son!" Piper exploded once they were in the safety of her kitchen. She stormed around the room, picking up vials and herbs and randomly adding them to a pot on the stove.
"I agree." Phoebe said. "But what does he have to gain by pretending that he is?" She asked, genuinely worried as Piper flew around.
"I guess he thinks it'll gain our trust." Piper muttered. "Huh!" She hmphed scornfully. "Not that we should be concentrating on him – what we need to do is find away to save Paige before she dies and we lose another sister. Especially as we may need the power of three to vanquish 'Chris'!" Piper said and they returned to the attic where they found Chris leafing through the book.
"Hey!" Piper said. "Hands off." She said.
Chris stepped away with attitude, hands raised and eye brows arched. "The book trusts me – even if you don't." He said, his voice bitter.
"Well you can't just waltz in here and say 'guess what I'm from the really crappy future where Paige is dead and oh yeah – I'm your unborn son'. How stupid do you think we are?" Piper said, rolling her eyes in a gesture that was nearly identical to the one which Chris had done earlier.
"I thought honesty would be the best policy. I didn't want to lie because that would make you distrust me – after all Phoebe is about to come into a new power soon and would be able to tell if I can lie or not." Chris revealed.
"I get a new power!" Phoebe said excitedly.
"Sush!" Piper flapped at her sister. "Look – do you know how to save Paige or not?" Piper asked.
Chris smiled. "That's easy. Then all you have to do is defeat the Titans."
"All?" Piper snipped.
"How do we do that?" Phoebe asked, slapping her sister's arm.
"You have to become Goddesses." He said, gleefully.
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The deeds were done, the battle was won, and Piper's heart was broken. She hadn't even had time to tell Leo of Future-Boy's ridiculous story before he was telling her that he was an Elder and he had to leave her to be with Them. He was leaving her – her and Wyatt – his FAMILY – to go be a being of immeasurable good! How dare he!
Then Piper was wrecking the city. Mother Nature was pissed. It was all Leo and Chris's fault! All CHRIS'S FAULT! And if he was a demon – which was not possible as the book accepted him and when he orbed it was with shiny blue lights not black – the she would vanquish him. Goddess she wanted the city to feel the pain.
She found Leo eventually when the rain and storm was no longer enough to slate her anger and pain. She yelled and cried and begged for her husband to return to her. Her and Wyatt. All she felt was sorrow and pain and blame (herself, as well as Chris and Leo and the god-damn Elders). And then she felt nothing. She fell asleep to the familiar sounds and smells of her bedroom, waking the next morning feeling serene despite the crick in her neck that had developed from sleeping on wet hair.
TBC…
