Just let me die
Epilogue
A/N I don't really know why I'm writing this story. I've been reading a lot of Fanfiction about Chris and had many different thoughts of my own, so I'm just gonna write a little bit, to see how I can combine my thoughts and if I can get something decent out of it. (And to see if someone would actually read it)
This is my first fanfic in English and also my first Charmed Fic, so let's see how it works out.
And well, here it goes…
Disclaimer: Yes, I do confess I'm one of the unlucky few who don't own the rights to Charmed, or any of the characters. If my information is correct, they belong to the WB and Spelling Televison (if someone who reviews would care to tell me if that's right, I'd be eternally grateful). If later in the stories unknown characters that aren't from the series show up, they belong to me, unless I point out otherwise. I don't get any profit out of this (Woo, that was a long Disclaimer)
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The only sound he heard was his own, unsteady breathing. And it had been the only sound for over 4 months.
At least that was what he figured. He couldn't be sure since he had no access to a clock, and the only thing that indicated the passing time was the slow discomposure of his fellow prisoner's skull. In fact, that was the only part that was left of this person.
He looked at it closely, as he had done so many times over the past years. Nothing in the stare of the rotten left eye, that was the only one left resembled the loving looks that it once had given him, such a long time ago.
Bianca…
Seeing his former fiancée this way broke his heart. If there still was anything left to break. He doubted it. Too many of his dreams had been crushed, too many times he had lost everything. There was nothing left.
He touched the huge spike that had been pierced through the head and noticed that the long dried blood was easy to peel off. Then again, how did that matter?
He remembered the day where this had happened still as clearly, as if it was yesterday. She had turned her back on him and brought him back to his own time to be totally left to the mercy of his power-hungry, mad, older brother. And as thank for her help, said brother had tortured her to death and had forced Chris to watch it all.
In a way, that was ironic, but it was nothing to laugh about. He tried to keep the horrible images out of his mind, to forget all the gruesome details. Back then he thought that this would be the worst thing that ever happened to him, to watch the love of his life being killed in such a terrible way. He had had no idea, how much worse his life would still get…
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"You're an elder now! Make it happen!", Piper yelled at her former husband.
"That was a unique situation", the elder tried to defend himself. He tried his best to disguise the fact, that he was actually relieved that the mysterious whitelighter from the future would not be able to do any harm anymore.
"Oh, so this is our everyday life!", Paige snapped at him. She couldn't believe how stubborn he was.
"Leo, we need to help him. He's the only one who knows what happens to Wyatt, and without him we may not be able to save him. You wanna safe your son, don't you?", Phoebe tried to reason with the elder, because she could feel that he didn't have a big interest in saving the guy he secretly blamed for banishing him to Valhalla.
"Of course!", he shot back at once. Phoebe had hit a nerve. Wyatt was Leo's soft spot. "But the other elders would never agree to let you travel through time. They wouldn't risk you being lost in an unknown future, where you wouldn't be able to get back from."
"Who says we can't get back!", asked Piper and stared in Leo's eyes.
"We don't know what the future is like, but if what Chris told us is true, it must be pretty awful. You could get captured or even killed. There's no way to know!", Leo tried to reason with the sisters.
"Well, if the Elders won't help us, than we're gonna have to that ourselves", Paige stated stubbornly and crossed her arms.
"Right", Piper agreed and adapted her sister's pose. Leo looked at them without any understanding. Didn't they realize it was way too dangerous?
Phoebe looked at her brother in law and from his feelings it was easy to guess what he thought. "You have to understand, Leo. You said it yourself, the future is awful, and we can't just leave Chris there. We need to help him!", she tried to convince him.
"After all he did? He has done nothing to deserve your trust let alone your help!", Leo half-yelled, hoping they would finally see that they had no reason to risk their lives trying to save him.
"He always made us vanquish demons, he helped us a lot when the Stillman sisters tried to get our powers, he left his fiancé only to help Wyatt and was always a good whitelighter for us. If that's no reason to help him, I don't know what is", Paige snapped back and the determination in her face showed Leo that she wouldn't be convinced to change her mind. But it never hurt to try.
"He isn't even a whitelighter!", Leo yelled to remind Paige of the boy's lie.
"Technicality", Paige said and waved her arm in dismissal.
"It's not just a technicality, it was a huge lie. If he even lied about what he is, who says he's not some demon and that girl just tried to save us from him", Leo argued with a hard look on his face.
"The book always recognized him as good. And I always sensed that he was really concerned to save Wyatt", Phoebe remarked.
"And it's not as if that was a real big deal. I mean, he is half whitelighter, so it was only a half lie", Piper said and hoped finally to convince Leo. Why was he so damn stubborn?
"Nothing to justify his death", Paige said and secretly prayed they wouldn't be too late to save him. But on the other hand, it was time travel, how did it matter.
"But…" Leo started but then let it go as he saw the Charmed One's faces. He looked at Piper pleadingly, who was startled by the defeated look in his eyes. "I don't want Wyatt to lose his mom", he said quietly and looked to the floor.
Piper stared at him. But then a forgiving smile came across her lips. "Don't worry. We'll take care."
Leo looked at her sadly as he said, "I hope so!"
"Don't worry Leo, we know how to take care of ourselves", Phoebe stated reassuringly and gave him a little smile.
"Well, ok, I'll try to help you under one condition", Leo said finally and looked at the three sisters that now eyed him suspiciously.
"You take me with you"
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He touched her hair that was barely still existent. He hardly noticed the rotten smell that the leftovers of his fiancé caused.
"I miss you", he told the head and looked at her sadly. There used to be a time when every time he looked at it, tears shot up his eyes and he started sobbing uncontrollably. He didn't do that anymore. Seeing her still caused him pain, but he was too exhausted to cry over it anymore. He had spilled way too many tears in his life without having any help or comfort. Where was the point?
He kept looking at her when he said to himself: "There is no point"
He thought back to the time when things still had a point. When he came back to the past, when he still had hope. Not only for himself but for his brother, his mother, his aunts… grandpa… Bianca…
The girls had treated him with suspicion and never quite trusted him, but he didn't mind. Only to be able to see their faces, to be near them filled him with joy, that he had a hard time to hide.
What wouldn't he give to see them again. To be in their happy time again. But he knew that was impossible. "and that's you fault", he told the skull and immediately regretted it. She hadn't done anything wrong. It was Wyatt's fault, he had threatened that if she didn't bring Chris back he would kill him. So she did what she thought was best. Though it didn't do him any good. But how could she have known?
He remembered the day when she told him, that if she didn't bring him back, someone else would bring his body. Oh, that would've been sweet. "You know, in a way I envy you" he told the skull. "You had to suffer I know and it was most horrible, but at least you're dead, and that's a lot better than this" He tried to talk further, to have some other sound in the darkness than the mind-crushing silence, but he couldn't. His mouth was way to dry and every movement hurt. So he kept silent and tried to imagine what it would be like if his tears flowed, because he would have cried if he could. But he couldn't…
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"I've moved the diapers in the other cupboard, this one right there", said Piper pointing to said furniture item. The elven nanny just snorted.
"I would've found them on my own", she said, insulted by how little Piper thought she could handle.
"Well, we might be gone for a while, so feel free to use the bedroom and bath", Piper said and pointed to the door of these rooms. She decided to ignore the elven nanny's hurt pride and decided that the woman knew all she had to know, and went up the stairs to see how far her sisters had come with the spell.
"So how's it going?", she greeted the other witches that were bent over a notepad.
"Well", Paige sighed and looked up. "We have a spell, we're just not sure if it's good enough."
"Let me see", Piper asked and took the notepad from her sisters hand and read through it.
"It should work", she finally exclaimed and handed the pad back to her sisters.
Leo's concerned voice rang to them from the opposite of the attic, where he had drawn a large chalk triquatra on the wall. "You'd better be careful, it's easy to get lost with time travel, so better check on it again."
"Oh don't be such a worrywart!", Piper told her husband, "the spell is fine"
"Well, I'm just trying to be careful", Leo shrugged and put the chalk aside.
"Are you ready?", Phoebe asked no one in particular and got head nodding from everyone in the room.
"Well, then lets get it on", she said and stood up. Her sisters followed her and together they stood before the large triquatra.
"Don't you think that thing is a little huge?", Paige asked suspiciously as she eyed the shape whose upper point was already on the ceiling.
"I'm just being careful", Leo said and looked up and down his drawing uncomfortably.
"It should work", Piper said, not wanting to loose more time. Her sisters let out a sigh, and all three of them looked at the notepad and began to recite the spell.
In time and space
We seek the place
Where our whitelighter dwells
We hope he is well
Take us to the future now
The place where we ant to get him out
They all watched carefully, as the large triquatra turned into a blue glowing portal, just like the one that Chris had disappeared through just some hours ago. Carefully Piper took the first step…
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A/N Well, that's the first chapter. I hope you like it and want me to continue. Please review, so I know what to improve and if I should keep going. It's not that I wouldn't continue without reviews, but it would give me a lot more will to do so.
So let me know what you think.
And finally, one random thing, some people write at the end of each chapter TBC. What does that mean?
