So this story is set before it's a bad, bad, bad world. Leo and Chris have sorted out their relationship BUT Chris crossed never happened – sorry for any Bianca fans but I didn't really like her. Sorry!

Disclaimer: me no own charmed, just my OC Jade!

CHRIS 2

We all orbed back to the manor, thankfully, and right into the attic. Mum and I arrived first but only two seconds later Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Paige arrived too. Before I could get myself together though I was on my knees, staring blankly at the floor. Then out of nowhere my mum had her arms around me rubbing my back and twirling my hair in her fingers in a soothing manner – just like when I was a kid, and just like Jade did, does. Leaning further into her embrace I soaked up the comfort, hoping the pain would ebb away. I felt Phoebe and Paige hover nearby clearing not knowing what to do but settling at placing their hands on my shoulders offering silent comfort.

"Leo, Leo, LEO" mum shouted at the top of her lungs and barely a few seconds later my dad orbed in, looking confused at first then his expression went to sheer shock at me and mum huddled on the floor and every tear stained face in the room.

"What happened" dad asked moving towards us with his brow furrowed in confusion. I felt mum lift her head but she still kept her arms around me securely and began talking to dad.

"Big, bad demon from the future working for Wyatt – future evil Wyatt that is and um…" she was obviously struggling for words until I pulled out of her embrace, stepped up quickly and rushed to the book, flipping through the pages furiously, determination set to stone on my face.

"Chris?" dad asked hesitantly and I knew why. The last time I turned gladiator me and my dad were battling each other with a sword and shield in Valhalla. Not a good memory. All I did was look up at him, my determined look turning into one of intense grief.

"He's got her" was all I said before setting my eyes downcast and carrying on flicking through the pages. I heard mum explaining to dad what happened but I tried not to listen. I didn't want to hear the tale told again, it would make it more real. Finally I found him. There was only a small entry and I had to hold back a scoff. This demon stalled the charmed ones, travelled back from the future and there was only a small entry. I began to read aloud interrupting whatever Paige was going to say.

Dagon:

Capable of stealing powers and honing in on emotions known to spend time in the underworld contains adequate amounts of information which is usually useful to other demons or magical creatures isn't known for extreme use of violence (scoff) but is perfectly capable to use manipulation to those who are on their bad side.

And there was a lovely picture of Dagon: tall, hooded black clock with long skeletal fingers. I had to repress a shudder.

"Chris?" Phoebe asked sympathetically, stepping towards me "don't worry we'll vanquish the demon like the do all the others" she said with a small smile – one that didn't reach her eyes.

"I know it's just…" I trailed off not knowing what to say but they seemed to understand.

"Chris you know if you wanna talk… we're here to listen. We're your family" mum said, and before I knew it I was talking, letting the words flow freely out of my mouth.

"We were best friends since we were kids you know. She moved in just across the street when I was five. Showed up in the prettiest white dress with a smile on her face. We didn't know it then but they were witches too, pretty powerful as well. A few months later they saw Wyatt use his powers, accidental of course. You guys were freaking out; ready to do some sort of memory spell – but they showed us what they could do. Then I looked up and saw her smiling at me, so happily you would've thought Christmas came early. From then on there were play dates and birthday parties, family meals the whole nine yards. Best friends throughout our time at magic school and she was even friends with Wyatt. You guys adored her from the get go, thought she was adorable, called her your little jade" I looked up and saw everyone was listening intently with small smiles plastered on their faces.

"Then when Wyatt turned she… she stood by me, helped me through some hard times. I probably wouldn't be here now if it wasn't for her. She helped me set up the resistance, save people from Wyatt's wrath – even though she was risking her life daily to do it. Since I was around fifteen I knew I loved her but I couldn't act on it, there was a war going on and the number one priority was to stay alive. After a few near death experiences she got injured. Real bad and I didn't think she'd make it. That was when I decided to tell her, spur of the moment thing I guess, and you know what she did? She squeezed my hand and said 'I love you too'. We managed to save her and the rest is history I guess".

I let out a long sigh. It felt good to get it off my chest, after all these months of bottling up my emotions I could finally let some of it out, a weight had been lifted off my shoulders – not a huge one – bit it helped lighten the load. Looking up at my family there wasn't a dry eye in the room, even dad had shed a tear or two at my unravelling story. Before I knew it Phoebe had ran up and gave me the hug of the century, cracking my ribs in the process, sobbing. Phoebe was always the emotional one, probably because of her empathy.

"Oh Chris I'm so sorry" Phoebe declared letting go of me.

"Yeah I know, but look, can we begin working on a vanquishing potion or something so I can kick his demon ass back to hell?" I asked, trying to change the subject. I couldn't get emotional now.

"Yeah of course honey" mum said tearfully, hearing my emotional story and her raging hormones probably wasn't a good mix.

"I'll go check with the elders, they might have some new information" giving me a small smile, one that I returned, dad orbed 'upstairs'.

"So what do you need?" I asked, but my voice felt heavy and husky, I guess it was because I was still trying to hold back tears, ones that were threatening to fall any moment.

"it's okay Chris we got it, if you want some time alone to think or…whatever, you know, we'll call you down when the potion is ready" mum offered with a watery smile. I looked around the room and saw Phoebe and Paige agreeing. Giving them a small nod of gratitude I orbed away from the manor and to the only place where I could think: the bridge.

For some strange reason the bridge is the place where I could think properly. Maybe it's because of the privacy or the complete calmness there is watching everyone going about their day to day lives: but whatever it is, it soothes me. The wind ruffling my hair and the utter emptiness there is. It gives me time to think. How could I let that happen? The person I love is in danger because of me, hurting, all because of me. Stray tears tumbled down my face. The bridge is peaceful and quiet where no one can disturb me. This is where I can let my emotions out. So I did. I remembered just before I left to travel to the past how uncertain I felt leaving her, our friends, with no leader to protect them – because Wyatt would take advantage of this situation. She than took my hands, looked into my eyes and said

"Don't worry about us we'll stay safe and out of trouble, I promise, when you save Wyatt it'll all be worth it". She wasn't like anybody else I've ever met, instead of saying if you save Wyatt, she said when. She had complete faith in me. I don't know how long I was sitting up here but it was getting toward noon when I heard my mum shouting for me. Wiping my face to remove the evidence of crying I stood up and orbed back to the manor.

I landed in the attic and the sisters and dad was there, waiting for me, and they all had sympathetic looks on their faces. I couldn't help but sigh.

"So is the vanquishing potion ready then?" I asked trying not to look at their faces.

"Yeah we got it done, now the only thing is finding the demon" Paige answered holding up the little bottle full of bright red liquid.

"Good, I think I know where the demon might be hiding" I answered back but when I saw my mum standing up I protested back

"No mum, not you, you're going back to magic school because this is too dangerous, you don't know this demon like I do" I said forcefully to mum

"Chris, its okay I've done this befo…" she started but dad interrupted her.

"Sorry Piper but I have to agree with this Chris on this one… it's just too dangerous" dad answered back despite mum's protests. I saw Phoebe and Paige nodding and knew they agreed with me and dad. Mum, seeing how futile it is to argue raised her hands in a 'I give up motion' and said "fine whatever, but let me know how it goes, okay?" she asked

Just as we were about to orb out Dagon shimmered into the attic wearing his black cloak and looking absolutely furious.

"Paige, potion" I shouted to Paige and she threw it right at Dagon, but he deflected it easy with a force field leaving us all stunned.

"Really Paige that's not a very nice hello, is it?" he asked, smiling widely

We were all rooted to the spot again; unable to move even dad with his elder powers couldn't help him. Mum was unprotected and we couldn't go and help her. Damn it. Dagon just stood there looking at us all in turn.

"Running, or orbing out should I say, out of a conversation is very rude is it not Chris?" he asked but I just glared back making him laugh even more at my characteristics.

"Well look what we have here, an elder, I gotta say I didn't see that one coming" he declared. When he got no answer from us he seemed to get a little bit madder.

"Look we're all friends here I just thought I would show you all something, especially Chris. There was no need to try and vanquish me" and before we could answer back or fight our way through Dagon's defences we were plunged into a memory.

Ughhh. Peeling my eyes open, without pukking, I realised we were defiantly in one of Dagon's memories. It was, or could be, San Francisco in the future. The streets were empty and the places were trashed beyond recognition. It looked like there was a war going on. Which there was, or will be. Damn. Time travel is hard.

"Where are we?" dad asked breathlessly, probably trying to get a grip on his bearings.

"I don't know but where ever we are it doesn't look good" Phoebe answered, holding her stomach and looing uncertainly around the place.

"Chris?" mum asked a frown on her face, looking at me curiously. I turned around and looked at them all in turn, wondering how I could tell them this is the future I grew up in.

"We're in one of Dagon's memories of the um… future" I answered back quietly, and they were all shocked into silence, looking around at the ruined state of San Francisco. I was about to explain to them about how Dagon's powers have obviously advanced and how this isn't their fault but a large explosion to the left of us made us all jump

A girl ran out of the blown up building at full speed with about six demons on her tail. I squinted trying to figure out why Dagon would want me to see this until I recognised her long dark brown hair and the way she was running. It was Jade.

"Chris honey, what is it?" I heard mum distinctly ask, but I couldn't take my eyes away from the scene, all I said was "Jade" and I think they all understood because they stood closer to me, watching the scene silently.

Jade was running full pelt dodging fireballs that the demons kept throwing at her continuously. She carried on running right at us until I thought she would run right through us until she stopped about ten feet on front of us and turned around and faced the demons. I did get a good look at her though and I just wanted to give her a big hug and tell her everything would be okay. She looked as though she hadn't slept in week, her clothes were torn and covered in soot, and she looked so defeated it broke my heart, but there was a look of determination on her face though. Dagon was at the front of the group watching happily looking as though he knew how this would turn out.

Jade didn't give up though, she dodged and deflected the fireballs one after another until the demons decided to get their hands dirty and fought back, closing in on her. Jade threw some well-aimed punches which knocked out the demons for a few seconds. It looked as though she was gaining the upper hand until a demon, one I didn't recognise, closed in behind her and grabbed her around the neck. Even though it was a memory and I couldn't do anything I started forward only for Jade to twist out of the demons' embrace and kick him so hard it sent him flying backwards a good few feet. Then Dagon pulled out a knife and aimed it toward Jade, and her too busy fighting off demons didn't notice.

"Jade" I shouted but obviously she didn't hear. My dad pulled me back though when I started running forward whispering quietly in my ear "you can't do anything" and "calm down". Realising it was futile I settled back into his embrace and watched my nightmare play out with my parents and aunts support.

She sent another couple of demons flying backwards but then Dagon threw the knife with a flick of his wrist and it went spinning through the air and hit its target. It impacted in Jades' right shoulder and she stumbled a bit but kept upright. Then a demon started forward again seeing her weakened state but Jade pulled the knife out with not much of a wince and stuck it in the demons gut. He looked shocked for a second then he collapsed whining about how much it hurt. Jade kept stabbing and slashing though but she was obviously knackered. Her top was stained with blood and she looked ready to drop any second. As Jade was doing a one on one duel with another demon Dagon grabbed her wrist and judging by the crack it made, he broke it. She let out a small gasp, turned around and slashed the knife across his face, from his right eye down to his chin. She raised the knife again going straight into attack mode but Dagon, steaming with anger, grabbed her arm on the way up and held her arms securely so she couldn't move them

"the shackles, NOW" Dagon ordered one of the demons struggling to keep jade in his embrace, and the demon conjured up two pairs of old fashioned shackles and helped Dagon fix them to her wrists. They were rough handling her and forcing her broken wrist into the shackles. I could see her eyes fill with tears of pain but she stubbornly put up a fight, despite the pain. Eventually the shackles were securely on her wrists and Dagon bent down to put another pair on her feet. Jade began kicking and even landed a blow to Dagon's rib cage.

"Someone hold her, TIGHT" he shouted a pair of battered looking demons and they stood on either side of jade, holding her ankles so tight I'm surprised they didn't break. Dagon, even though bleeding and bruised, smiled at Jade showing his broken yellow teeth.

"Well, we have finally caught the elusive Miss Granley; you have led us on quite a chase I must say, Lord Wyatt has been anxious for months." Jade just laughed, which shocked me.

"Yeah? Well Lord Wyatt" she said patronisingly "has just got to learn he can't always get what he wants" narrowing her eyes at him which he didn't like and smacked her hard around the face it drew blood.

"You are coming with us Miss Granley and if you wish to live you will tell him what he wants to know, got it?" he asked furiously

"Well what does lord Wyatt wish to know?" Jade asked knowingly but she sounded off and I realised it was because that bastard split her lip. I couldn't help but growl.

"I think you know missy, your boyfriend has disappeared off the face of the earth and Lord Wyatt wishes to know where he has gone, or what he wishes to accomplish, and you WILL tell him, got it? Or the consequences will be… severe" he snarled at her.

But Jade stood defiantly and raised her eyebrows.

"To be honest Dagon I think you caught the wrong girl because my lips are sealed. You won't hear a single word from me where Chris is so congratulations, you've just wasted your time" she stated bravely.

Dagon looked amused at her resistance; in fact it looked like he was trying to hold back some laughter.

The other demons didn't look so calm and relaxed, they were glaring daggers at her holding their wounds and looked completely beat up

"Well we'll just have to see about that, won't we?" he asked and stuck his finger in her shoulder wound, drawing even more blood, but jade didn't scream, she winced and closed her mouth determinedly. I could see the effort it was costing her, sweat broke out on her forehead and her mouth was a thin line but not a single scream was let out.

"Hmmm, it seems you're harder to break than we thought. I guess we'll just have to try harder" and with that he began dragging her away by her broken wrist. She put up a fight but it was no use, she screamed insults at him, tried to fight back but all he did was put more pressure on her broken wrist and carried on dragging her.

I felt my dad's grip tighten on me assuming I was going to chase after her, but I didn't I couldn't. I felt absolutely and completely useless.

I turned my tear stained face towards my mum and aunts and my expression was mirrored in their faces. They looked absolutely defeated.

The last thing I heard was an agonised "Chris" and then the sun set and Dagon's memory abruptly ended.

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