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italic underlined - memories/visions
Previously on Fate's Destiny - "Chris baby, listen to me," Piper said softly as her body began to shake slightly. "I-I need you t-to b-be strong. Please peanut, be strong." Tears began pooling into Chris's eyes and ran down his cheeks now as he fell to his knees beside her and put his hands above the bleeding wound on her chest. Taking in small shaky breaths, he willed all the strength he had but his powers wouldn't work. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't activate his ability to heal, and his mother's life was slipping away.
Panic seized him as he began to hyperventalate. He couldn't risk losing his mother he just couldn't. There was no way he could lose her not now not ever. "Come on," Chris muttered while sobbing. "Please work! Please!" Sudenly he felt his mother's hand on his shoulder as he looked at her throught teary eyes blurring his vision. "Sweetie, it's not going to work, just please get out of here." Piper said gently. "Orb up to the Elders and find your dad and brother." Chris shook his head in response. "No, mom I'm not leaving you!" He sobbed.
"Forget about me sweetie, go and find Wyatt." Piper said as she coughed up a small stream of blood. Chris began to sob harder now as he called out, "Dad! Dad where are you?! Mom needs help! I need you!" Tears blurred his vision as Chris took a look at his mother she began to grow pale and became weak as though she was about to take her final breath. "Mom, no!" Chris cried out. "Don't leave me!" Piper just simply looked at her son with tears in her eyes as she muttered out softly, "I love you peanut. I will always be with you." "Mom? Mom, No!" Chris cried out as everything started to go white and hazy.
Once Chris came out of the vision, he looked up at his mother and fell into her arms crying and sobbing. "Shh, it's okay baby." Piper said gently rubbing his back lovingly. "It's okay. I'm here now. Everything's okay." Hearing his mother's voice only made the thirteen year old sob harder as he thought of his vision and what he had just seen. He knew losing his mother was not an option, but how was he going to keep it all from coming true? Whatever the case was, Chris knew he had to try. He had to do whatever it took to keep his mother alive and stop that horrible vision from ever coming true and tearing his family apart.
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Chapter 2 - Time Stands Still
It was early the next morning, when the smell of pancakes, beacon and sasauge reached Chris's nostrills. With hunger gnawing at his stomach he opened his eyes and licked his lips hungrily. "Kids!" He heard his mother calling from downstairs. "Breakfast!" Out of the corner of his eye, he could see the faint glow of blue and white orbs belonging to Melinda shimmering past his bedroom and down the stairs. She really needs to lay off on using her powers so much. Chris thought as he got out of bed and proceeded down the hall toward the stairs. He caught sight of his older brother's shaggy blonde hair as Wyatt descended down the stairs, but stopped when he caught sight of Chris. "Hey little brother," He said with a small smile. "You doing a lot better since last night?" Chris nodded slowly even though the images of the vision still played out fresh in his mind but he ingnored it and replied, "Thanks for having my back Wy." Wyatt smiled and gently patted Chris's shoulder. "Anytime bro."
"Hey slowpokes! Better hurray up if you want any pancakes left!" Melinda called teasingly as the two brothers shook their heads in annoyance before running down the stairs and into the kitchen to find Melinda sitting at the table already eating. "Mel! did you eat all the pancakes already?" Wyatt asked narrowing his blue eyes at his little sister. Melinda swallowed the bite of food that was already in her mouth and replied, "Relax guys was just kidding. You know Mom always makes more." Wyatt rolled his eyes in annoyance. Sometimes being the eldest was a pain in the butt, especially when it was dealing with Chris and Melinda's antics or dealing with his cousins, either way, he had to admit it, sometimes he wished things would just play out a little differently.
As the two of them took their seats at the table, and Piper handed them each a plate of pancakes, Wyatt couldn't help but feel like something was wrong. He looked over at Chris who just seemed to be off somewhere else as he was just staring at his plate of food in a daze. "You okay bro?" Chris snapped out of his daze for a second and looked up to see the concerned look in his brother's blue eyes. "Chris?" "Yeah, I'm okay." He answered quickly. "Guess I'm just not hungry this morning." Upon hearing that, Piper turned and walked toward Chris while placing a hand gently on his forhead. "Are you feeling alright peanut?" Chris didn't answer and just stared down at the floor as his mother tried to lift his head up so that he could look at her. "Chris look at me baby. I need to know what's wrong." She said softly.
"Nothing's wrong." He replied in a sad tone. "I'm just not hungry today. Can I be excused?" Piper turned toward Wyatt and gave him a slight nod as the fourteen year old rose from his chair and took a quick glance at Melinda as she too rose from her chair looking at Chris in deep concern. "Mommy? what's going on?" Melinda asked as Piper replied, "Wyatt, take your sister into the living room for a bit okay? I need to talk to your brother for a second." Wyatt nodded and gently walked over toward his little sister to guide her into the living room. Once they were out of the room, Piper pulled up a chair next to her son and gently began to rub his back soothingly, but he still wouldn't look at her. "Sweetie I can't help you if you don't tell me what's wrong." She said lovingly in a soft voice.
"There's nothing wrong." He protested as he tried to remove himself from the chair and his mother grabbed ahold of his arm. "Honey, please." She said as she lifted his head up and as their eyes met, Piper could see tears gleaming in her son's eyes as he tried to hold them back from falling down his face. "Honey, I know you. Okay? your my son, now please tell me what's wrong." Chris shook his head and allowed his tears to fall as he finally gave into his mother's pleads and concerns. His lip quivered and the tears in his eyes began to fall as he held back a quiet sob and Piper pulled him close.
"There there baby." She said softly rubbing his back as she hugged him. "It's okay peanut. Everything's okay, just calm down." Chris sobbed against his mother's shoulder and tried to hold himself together but the memories of the vision still haunted him as he couldn't get Piper's dying form out of his mind. The thought of losing anyone in his family traumatized him, and he knew that he had to do whatever it took to keep it from happening.
"What happened sweetie?" Piper asked gently. "Please, talk to me." Chris's body shook against his mother's shoulder as he took in a quivering breath and shook his head. "I can't." He muttered while choking back a sob. "Does it have something to do with me?" Piper asked. Chris nodded slowly as more tears began to fall as his lip quivered again. He drew in another shaking breath and whispered, "I saw you die last night in a vision. It was on my birthday." Piper let out a silent gasp of shock and surprise as Chris once again laid against his mother and rested his head on her shoulder quietly sobbing as she hugged him.
"Everything okay?" Piper turned as she saw Wyatt standing in the doorway from the living room and slowly nodded. "Your brother's just having a rather difficult time adjusting since his nightmare last night." She replied as Wyatt nodded as he turned toward Chris. "I'm okay." He said as Piper handed him a napkin. Wyatt's eyes gleamed in concern as Chris rubbed his face with the napkin. "Really Wy, I'm okay." He said noticing the look of concern in his older brother's blue eyes. Wyatt nodded and replied, "If you need anything little bro, I'm here for you." Chris smiled and nodded as Wyatt turned his focus of attention back onto Melinda who was currently in the middle of watching an episode of her favorite show the Powerpuff Girls. "Blossom always reminds me of mommy." She said with a soft smile. "Why cause she wears pink?" Wyatt joked with a laugh. "No cause she's a leader and mommy's the leader of the power of three." She said turning to him and beaming a smile which quickly shifted to concern. "Is Chris okay?" Wyatt nodded affermenatly as Melinda turned back to the TV screen.
A set of footsteps alerted Wyatt now as he turned and caught sight of Chris out of the corner of his eye heading up the stairs toward the attic, and a pang of concern flowed through him as he felt his big brother sense go up in alarm. Something was up and Wyatt felt it. With Melinda not paying attention to him, Wyatt removed himself from the couch and followed Chris up the stairs where sure enough he found him in the attic already skimming through the famed Book of Shadows.
"Hey, you okay?" He asked as Chris looked up from the book and nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine." He said quickly turning his eyes back to the book and skimming through it again. "So what are you doing up here?" Wyatt asked raising an eyebrow of suspicion. "And don't say your looking for something for mom because I know something's up." "How can you tell?" Chris asked this time not bothering to look up at him. "Because you've got that look that aunt Phoebe always gets on her face whenever she has a bad vision and something's wrong." Chris laughed lightly. "That's funny, I don't know what your talking about." "Don't play dumb Chris." Wyatt replied his voice shifting to serious mode. "You saw something last night in your dream what was it?"
Chris shook his head and replied ina slightly yet annoyed tone, "It's nothing okay? Can you please just drop it?" Wyatt let out a sigh and walked up toward him while slaming his hand down hard on the book nearly slaming it closed on Chris's hand causing him to jump back. "Hey!" He yelled out his voice suddenly shifting angrily. "I wasn't done looking through it yet." "I don't care Chris." Wyatt said his eyes clouding over in a mixture of concern and frustration. "I want to know what you saw last night, and why you were crying." Chris shook his head again and Wyatt let out a sigh of frustration and replied, "You can either tell me right now what's going on or I'll call dad down here to come straighten you out."
Chris let out a quivering sigh and his body shook as tears threatend to form in his eyes again as he fought the urge to break down. He had already showed enough emotion, and he didn't want to risk showing anymore in case his powers started short circuiting. "I'm trying to find a spell in the book to either slow down time or something." He said trying to hold in his emotions. "I need something to help me save mom." He said finally as tears started to fall down his cheeks. "Save her?" Wyatt looked at his younger brother in confusion for a minute before his eyes shifted to immediate concern. "Save her from what?"
"Because in a few months on my birthday she dies." He admitted as he fell to his knees sobbing. "She died right in front of me, and you and Mel weren't there." He said drawing in a shaky breath. "I couldn't do anything to save her." He sobbed as Wyatt went over and wrapped his brother in a hug. "Chris, why didn't you tell me this sooner?" He asked as Chris's body quivered as he drew in a shaky breath. "I'm scared Wy." He said his voice breaking as he sobbed even harder now. "I don't want to lose her." "Your not going to lose her." Wyatt said softly in a reassuring voice. "We're going to figure this out okay? together." Chris nodded and sobbed as Wyatt now began rubbing his brother's back in attempt to keep him calm as he looked up at the ceiling and he immediately thought about his father.
If anything happened to their mother would their father be there to take care of them? Or would he abandon them and leave them on their own? Wyatt shook his head and wanted to believe that was nonsense but with his father's duties as an Elder taking up a lot of his time, he always knew in the back of his mind there always was a possibility that someday his father would have to choose. Between his family or his job, and lately Wyatt was beginning to get the feeling of what choice his father would make, which ment that if he and Chris couldn't figure out a solution to save their mother that they would be on their own, and that was definitely not an option.
TOO BE CONTINUED...Poor Chris! Will he and Wyatt be able to find a way to save their mother before it's too late? Stay tuned for the next chapter to find out. Hope you enjoy and as always please review!
