Chris told Joy about Bianca, his former fiancée. Joy started to cry when Chris told her Bianca was dead.
"I'm so sorry," she said, through her tears. "That must have been so terrible for you. I'm sorry, Chris."
"Thank you," he replied, still amazed at her reaction. He thought she would've acted differently. But she was so...sympathetic, so sad for him.
He asked her if she had any past loves. She shook her head. Her response shocked him.
"I'm not allowed to love. Well, the only thing I'm allowed to fall in love with is another fairy. I guess to keep the throne going. But, I hate all the male fairies. They're such assholes, always staring at me and trying to impress me. It's pathetic. It's so they will be made prince and eventually, king. I don't want any of those assholes sharing the throne with me. So, I've been looking for humans to fall in love with. They're so much more...there's more things about them to fall in love with."
Chris smiled at her remark, then frowned. "But you're not allowed to fall in love with a human?"
"No. If the royalty found out, something terrible would happen. If I fell in love with a human, everything would turn out bad."
"Tell me what would happen."
As she told him the horrors of her world, Chris had a weird feeling grow inside him. He wanted to help her. Make sure that once she fell in love, the other fairy royals would never find out.
But what he didn't know was that Joy was falling in love with him, and he was falling in love with her.
They spent almost everyday together. Talking about things from their past.
Chris told her that he was from the future. He knew this was a valuable secret, but he trusted Joy. She fully understood his reasons for coming back.
She told him how she hated being a fairy, hated more so being a princess.
He asked her what she looked like as a fairy. She replied mysteriously, "Maybe one day, I'll show you."
They had figured out their feelings for one another by the second week that they had spent together.
When they walked, they touched pinky fingers, so it would look like nothing special was happening.
When Joy returned to her world, her mother would ask her what she had been doing so much of in the human world. She would reply that she enjoyed walking around the parks, looking at the flowers and trees.
"Surely looking at flowers could not take all day. So far, you've been gone all day, everyday for two weeks," her mother said suspiciously.
Joy replied simply, "There are a hundred times more flowers than there are parks. And there are a lot of parks."
The Charmed Ones adored Joy. She was beautiful and kind and smart. They understood what Chris was feeling for her. They were relieved when Chris told them that Joy was a fairy. That meant that they could use magic freely in front of her.
Piper listened intently as Joy told her baby care tips. When she asked Joy where she learned all this information, Joy replied, "I have six younger brothers and sisters. All of them were babies at one time. I picked up a few things along the way."
Paige and Phoebe loved Joy for her fashion sense. Even though she was only imitating humans, she had excellent taste. Many shopping sprees occurred. Joy bought nothing, as she had no money, but she lent many fashion tips to the sisters.
"Be wild and crazy. Be beautiful and elegant. Be anything you want to be, as long as you feel comfortable with yourself. Don't ever let a guy tell you what to wear, because he's a guy and he doesn't know what it's like to wear super-short skirts, revealing tops, or high heels. They know nothing about what we have to go through to impress somebody, let alone to be ourselves."
Okay, so her tips were more about self-esteem than fashion. But Paige and Phoebe respected Joy for being her own person. For not letting a man boss her around. They looked at each other and knew that Chris was in for the ride of his life.