"Vindicated"
Hope dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption
Winding in and winding out
The shine of it has caught my eye
And roped me in
So mesmerizing, so hypnotizing
I am captivated
Chris had made it, back to the past that is. He had done what he had come to do, or at least he had tried. Dying never had been part of the plan, but hopefully now that the whole situation was in Leo's hands Chris could trust that it would come out all right. Chris could trust that Leo would save him and Wyatt and stop Gideon from destroying the world as it should be. He was dying, and all he could think of was all the wrong he had done towards the sister, his mother and aunts. They had been through hell with him around and had still forgiven him when they had found out.
I am Vindicated
I am selfish
I am wrong
I am right
I swear I'm right
I swear I knew it all along
And I am flawed
But I am cleaning up so well
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself
He had truly been forgiven in the end, they had taken the blame off his shoulders for Wyatt, they had protected him, they had defended him after realizing his justification in being in the past, and now these thoughts of them were setting him free from his painful life in the hopes that he would never have to live it again. Even though to them he had done a great thing, Chris knew it was because he wanted a happy world for himself and Wyatt. He had gone against everyone who had told him to just kill Wyatt and not try to save him. And yes in situations Chris had done wrong things to get the right result, but despite everything, sometimes Chris felt like his presence on the planet was wrong; although everyone told him it was right and had him convinced. After countless demon vanquishes and almost getting his mother and aunts killed by that demon that trapped them into their own fantasies. He knew that some of his views on how to get things done were defective at best, but once they had found out who he was he had fought to fix the mass mess he had made of his relationship with Piper, Phoebe, Paige, and even Leo. He was fighting for Wyatt his older brother and once they had all found out they had gone on, and on, and on about how they had missed it. How they had missed his resemblance to the Halliwell family, they had compared his hair, eyes, facial structure, and even his hands and even though he had never seen these things before, due to his lack of attention towards his appearance, he had begun to see them when he was there with the Charmed Ones in their youth.
So clear
Like the diamond in your ring
Cut to mirror your intentions
Oversized and overwhelmed
The shine of which has caught my eye
And rendered me so isolated, so motivated
I am certain now that
I am Vindicated
I am selfish
I am wrong
I am right
I swear I'm right
I swear I knew it all along
And I am flawed
But I am cleaning up so well
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself
His eyes were so unclouded that Leo could see every emotion and pain he had ever felt in his entire life sparkling in Chris' eyes, his son, his baby. Leo now realized that he could never wish for better sons than the two that he had. He new that Chris was the only person he had ever felt a desire for vengeance for. Gideon was responsible for the twenty-three year old lying on a bed bleeding to death and he himself was powerless to heal the neediest innocent in the world, at least in Leo's eyes. Gideon wasn't going to get away with this. He could shove all the greater good crap where the sun don't shine for all Leo cared, Gideon was going to pay. He was sure of that and if it wasn't himself who caused him to pay, then it was going to be the sisters, no-one got away with hurting this family and that meant elders too.
So turn
Up the corners of your lips
Part them and feel my finger tips
Trace the moment, fall forever
Defense is paper thin
Just one touch and I'd be in
Too deep now to ever swim against the current
So let me slip away 3x
So let me slip against the current
So let me slip away 4x
Chris's lips curled into a smirk that was filled with complete sadness and Leo saw it and called out his name, but his voice seemed so distant and Chris responded with Leo's name. Chris then heard Leo's voice again only this time it was tell him to hold on and telling him it was okay. He felt his head nod slowly in reaction to the comment and Leo said something else. This sounded clearer to Chris and it hit him that Leo was telling him he couldn't give up, but Chris could already feel that he had lost the fight and his body was weak and tired. Chris told Leo to hold on too, as if knowing what Leo was going to do to get vengeance for his sons. He could feel his breath leaving him taking his life force and soul along with it and could sense his fathers panic at his labored breaths and register him repeatedly saying 'no' and then 'please' as if it would heal Chris. He felt himself drifting away and out of his body escaping the pain he had felt for almost an entire lifetime and then he felt like he was being submerged in sadness as his soul was guided gently somewhere else, and although he couldn't remember anything he had a dull feeling of the pain of someone in his heart and a world that waited to be discovered anew.
I am Vindicated
I am selfish
I am wrong
I am right
I swear I'm right
I swear I knew it all along
And I am flawed
But I am cleaning up so well
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself
Leo knew that Chris had sensed his end was hear and he knew that the future Chris had come back to save was not going to happen if he had anything to say about it. Chris had worked hard and even died to save Wyatt. He had grown up before he should have and he had fought an unbearable fight to save his family and Leo wasn't going to let his son be trapped going back into that atrocious future that he had fought so hard to prevent. He sensed Paige's shock briefly as he made the ultimate decision and orbed out to kill Gideon, the vital evil that would turn the world back to normal. Leo knew that if he didn't fix this now, he would never get the chance to save his relationship with his youngest son and so with conviction he raised his hands at Gideon, who was now standing before him in the underworld trying to plead his case, and Leo shot lightning out of his finger tips at Gideon and killed him: for the future, for his wife, for his sisters-in-law, for Wyatt, and mostly for Chris, who had died for an older brother who had tortured him and taken over the world. If that didn't qualify Chris for a good life than Leo didn't know what would and if he didn't get that life then Leo would personally assure that whoever prevented it would pay the price, no matter who they were.
Slight hope
It dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption...
Leo stood in the hospital, outside of the room that they had placed Piper in, with Phoebe, Paige, and Wyatt in their arms. The doctor walked out to inform them that Piper and the baby were going to be fine and that one at a time they could go in. Then a nurse walked out with a small bundle in her arms and handed it to Leo who peered into the mass of blankets in his arms. Phoebe and Paige peaked around his shoulders with Wyatt and smiled at the small child with green eyes staring back at them and here at this very point they new that Chris had never really died and he would never die like that again if they had a say in it. Leo smiled at baby Chris in has arms and then was shoved in to see Piped with the tiny bundle that he held and deep in side he knew that this was the same Christopher Perry Halliwell that had just died in the manor in his arms. Leo vowed to the sleeping infant that he would never let anything bad happen to him and that he would always be there for him; no matter what.