A/N: This fanfic begins on May 16, 2016. I will be using present tense to signify that time period, past from before it, and future after it. Makes sense, right? Alrightee then. If I get any facts wrong please message or review me.
10 Years and a Few Kids Later
"…happy birthday Dear Chris, happy birthday to you," He blew out his candles. All of his friends and family were there. He had finally turned twelve years old; he had been waiting for this forever. But he didn't want a party. All he wanted was to start training to become a witch like his brother had started last year. His mother wouldn't hear of not throwing a part though, she loved to plan things like this and nothing could stop her once she got started, she was like a force of nature, and Chris laughed to himself about his own little joke.
"Yay!!" everyone shouted. He was reminded yet again why he didn't like parties, especially his own. This year his birthday was held at Halliwell's, his mother's restaurant.
"Present time," Piper, his mother shouted.
"Mom, when can I start training?" Chris asked her impatiently.
"Tomorrow, I promise. Could you just enjoy your birthday now?" She answered.
"Sure," Chris answered praying that tomorrow would hurry up.
"Hey little bro. Come on, you won't believe what I got you." Wyatt said. Wyatt was his best friend and his biggest enemy. Wyatt was nearly everything that Chris wasn't.
"Okay, I'll be there in a sec." Chris answered. And he walked over to his huge pile of presents all his friends and cousins were circled around.
"Hey Chris hurry up!" one kid yelled. Chris tore through most of his presents. They were all from his friends because tomorrow was when his family would give him their presents. He was excited for that.
He had gotten Baseball cards from his favorite team, the San Francisco Giants as well as a baseball cap and a few books. One strange thing about Chris was that he loved to read, especially things about cars. This wouldn't be so strange if he couldn't just orb anywhere that he wanted to go.
"Hey Chris, open mine next!" It was his little sister, Melinda. She was the biggest pain in the butt that he had ever met. She was 9 years old and had the biggest mouth in the world. Mom has always joked that she should have been named after Aunt Pheobe.
"Sure Melinda" Chris answered, a little suspicious. He took her present and inside was a can of nuts. "Um, Melinda, what is this?" he asked even more suspicious.
"Just open it up" she answered, smiling. Chris opened the can and found a live frog hoping around in it.
"You always said that you wanted a pet!" she said.
"Thanks Mel, but I was thinking more like a dog…" Chris said, quickly putting the lid back on the can to keep the frog from jumping out. He was sure she had used her powers to freeze and catch the poor thing.
The rest of the party was fairly uneventful except for a really stupid lower level demon, but Piper froze the room and blew it up before Chris even had a chance to see it. Wyatt says he sort of remembers when their mom and aunts were constantly fighting demons and everything. Back then, mom would have gone insane if a demon came and ruined one of their parties. But since then she had taken a much calmer approach to it. She has now taken to ranting and yelling about it, after they got home.
Piper, Leo, the boys, and Melinda all returned to the manor. Piper immediately began talking about how dumb that demon had to have been and so all the kids sidled out to avoid her tirade, and of course Leo stood there like a deer caught in headlights, agreeing with everything she said. Chris went straight to bed thinking that it would make tomorrow come sooner.
Tomorrow was a Saturday and Aunt Pheobe and Paige were coming to help start out his training. Wyatt was currently learning how to orb objects to anywhere on God's green earth, so he would be spending a lot of time with Aunt Paige. Chris was supposed to start on potions first, so his mom would be teaching him. Wyatt said that it kind of sucked because she wasn't as fun about this stuff as Aunt Pheobe and Paige, but Chris couldn't help but be excited.
He had always felt especially out of place. Wyatt was popular, good at sports, and well optimistic. Chris was fairly uncoordinated, quiet, and the biggest cynic in the family. Chris loved magic though. He new Wyatt was more powerful than him, but there was something about it. He wanted to help people with his magic. He was constantly dreaming and he would see the worst things happen, but he new he was not allowed to do anything to stop it. Despite what his family says he knows that what he sees is real and now that he will be trained, he can do something about it.
"Wake up! Wake up!"
"What?" said a groggy Chris. He opened his eyes and as they gained focus he realized that Melinda was jumping on top of him.
"Melinda… Leave me alone…" Chris said, still not with it enough to remember the day.
"But Chris! Aunt Pheobe and Paige are here!!" Melinda reminded him in her most whiney tone.
He had nearly forgotten. With that he jumped out of bed and grabbed his glasses. He couldn't wait to get his contacts next week. At least the Harry Potter cracks would stop. He was so excited he orbed downstairs, entirely ignoring all the house rules.
"Chris! You know better than to orb! Any other day I would take away your Wii 6000!" Piper began to nag.
"Oh Piper," Paige said to Chris's defense, "he's just excited. Anyway, he's the only one that doesn't constantly break the rules behind your back" Aunt Paige was Chris's favorite relative. She was the only one who understood how he felt about his bad feelings and his dreams.
"Auntie Pheobe!" Melinda came yelling as she ran down the stairs.
"Hello, miss Melida. And what are we going to be up to today?" Pheobe answered. Since the boys were going with her sisters, she would be staying with Melinda.
"I keep seeing funny things, Aunt Pheobe. Like I knew that matt was the one who pulled Molly's hair in class, but they were in the back, and I sit in the front!" Melinda said in a dramatic and exaggerative way that only a nine year old girl could manage. Pheobe glanced at her sisters and they exchanged a look of understanding. Not until recently had the sisters found out what Melinda's power was exactly. You see, they were not positive that it was the same as Pheobe's because the wrong doings involved in them were so miniscule, that they could hardly count as premonitions. Then, they realized: small witch, small problems. Today Pheobe was planning to work with Melinda on how she can control her powers.
"Mom! Can I start yet!!" Chris said, in a more excited voice than anyone in that room had ever heard from him a day in his life.
"You have to eat breakfast first, sweetie. We all do. I made your favorites…" Everyone sat down and ate Piper's ridiculously good breakfast and began to talk to each other about the days plans. Well, except for Paige.
"So, Paige, what are you and Wyatt doing today?" Piper asked, all of a sudden suspicious.
"Oh, you know, the usual" Paige answered vaguely…
"Paige! What are you up to!?"
"Ooooo" Melinda said, "Aunt Paige is in troouuble" She drew out her words.
"Well, Piper, now don't get mad, but, it's perfectly safe.."
"Paige!"
"I was just gonna take him, you know, to the bridge…"
"What! Paige what if he falls off! And…"
"Oh, don't get your panties in a twist piper. He will be perfectly fine and you know it. It's not like I'm taking Chris..." she finished trying to lighten the mood.
"Hey!" Chris objected, "I'm not that uncoordinated!"
"Fine, you can take him. But if Wyatt doesn't come back in one piece I will freeze you for the next two years." Piper said with a wild look in her eyes.
"Mom, what kind of potion are we gonna make today!? Something for upper level demons maybe!" Chris asked still enthused. No one had ever seen him smile so widely before.
Wyatt began to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Chris asked Wyatt angrily.
"Chris, today you spend the entire time learning about the herbs and crap. You don't actually make anything for like a month." Wyatt said, although he was kind of upset that Chris's smile was done for another 12 years.
"But I already know all of that, mom." He said. Too upset to think before he spoke.
"How would you already know, Chris?" Piper asked, very suspiciously.
"Hey Wyatt," Paige hurriedly interjects, "we better get going, don't want to miss anything!" Wyatt quickly stood up and walked over to Paige.
"WAIT!" Piper yells. 'Crap' Paige, Wyatt, and Chris think. "Paige, what did you do?"
"Oooooo, Auntie Paige is in trouble" Melinda chimed in and received a glare from her father.
"Well, now Piper, don't get mad, I just kind of gave him my old herb study sheet about a month ago, so he could get a good start…"
"Don't get Mad! Paige you broke the rules I set for my children! You aided him in breaking my rules! You know why I have those rules—"
"Now Piper, Chris was not going to be chased down by a demon because he new that powdered toad stool is an aphrodisiac." Piper glared at Paige.
"Fine, but you didn't mention the meaning of aphrodisiac to him, right?" Piper asked, just to be certain.
"Of course not. Why, what kind of Aunt do you think I am!?" Paige answered. "Now Wyatt, are you ready?"
"Be careful!" Piper yelled as they orbed away. "So you, young man already know what I was intending to teach you today?"
"Yes mom." Chris answered, hoping that he still gets a lesson today.
"Okay, then you will just have to take the test today to find out." Piper said shortly, still annoyed.
two hours later
"Wow. I'm impressed Chris. 100. "
"What you didn't think that I would be as good as Wyatt?"
"No Chris, that's not it at all. Actually, you did much better than Wyatt."
"I did! He said that he got a perfect score!"
"Chris, magic isn't a competition with your brother. You both—" At that moment a demon shimmered in. Piper tried to freeze it but it wasn't holding. "Chris, orb out!" She yelled. Chris was gone. Piper tried to blow it up but it had no more impact than a low charge energy ball. Eventually the demon shimmered out; it was wounded badly by then.
"What the hell was that!" Piper said.
The demon had long blonde hair, the usual leather attire and blue sued shoes. It was nearly seven foot and not much fatter than Leo.
"Leo!"