Chris awoke with a throbbing in both his behind and his head. He slowly rolled over onto his back before jumping up hissing. He quickly decided to stay on his stomach as he heard a low chuckle coming from the other side of his bedroom. Chris quickly composed himself and turned to face the person in his room. As Leo walked over to take a seat on the edge of the bed Chris lowered his head and whispered that he was sorry for the things he had said and did. "Chris, look at me." He slowly raised his head and looked into his father's eyes much like his own and waited for him to continue. "You are my son Christopher, I will never leave you and as a part of this family we will do our best to help you. We do things together here and it will always be that way. Now why don't you get cleaned up and come downstairs for breakfast." With that he stood up to leave and made it to the door as he heard "I love you dad." He paused before turning around with a smile on his face and replying, "I love you too, son."
Chris walked down the stairs instead of orbing hoping that his dad hadn't said anything to his mother and aunt about what happened. As he walked into the dining room he noticed his aunts were not yet there; however, he did notice that in his chair was a small fluffy pillow waiting for him. Piper chose this moment to walk in with the chocolate chip pancakes and syrup and replied "Good morning honey. Did you sleep okay?" "Yeah mom, I slept fine." Well I guess he didn't tell her after all. Wait, what did she just say? "Hello, earth to Chris. I asked if that pillow would be okay. It's the only one I could find." A huge blush fell over his face as he told his mother that it was fine. Phoebe walked in helping herself to a cup of coffee. "So…Chris, which demon are we going after first?" "Well I haven't really…" "We didn't get a chance to look through the book, so I was thinking Chris and I could go up after breakfast. Is that okay?" Chris nodded telling him that he thought it was fine. Breakfast was a quiet affair until Paige came down that is. "Ugh, why are all my temp jobs magic related? Don't I do enough as a Charmed One?" As breakfast was finally through Chris put his dishes in the sink then heading to the attic to the book. "I'm going to head up and make a list of demons. Mom, would you like to help?" "No sweetie, I'm going to do the dishes and clean up Wyatt. I'll let you and your father do all that." After an hour Leo and Chris had successfully worked together to find the next demon they would go after. "Great. I'll grab mom and Aunt Paige and Aunt Phoebe." While Chris went downstairs to inform his mother and two aunts what the plan was Leo took a seat on the couch and awaited their return. He was happy to get to spend time with the son that the future him had (according to Chris) abandoned. Leo was abruptly cut out of his thoughts when Phoebe came in saying this had better be good since she cancelled a date with her current boyfriend Jason. Leo filled the sisters in on what was going to happen when they found the demon. "Chris, I want you to stay here and take care of your brother." "What?! Mom, I am going with you!" "Piper's right; we don't want to lose you Chris. Besides we can't leave Wyatt here by himself." "I can't believe this! Wyatt has a force field for crying out loud! He will be fine!" Piper gave her youngest son a look that told him he was to stay here with his brother; end of story. When she saw Chris about to complain she sharply looked at him and asked, "Do you and your father need to have another discussion about listening to your parents?" Chris looked down at the floor and shook his head no. "That's what I thought."
After half an hour the sisters and Leo returned home from the demon vanquish. "Chris, Wyatt…we're home." "That's strange he should have replied by now." Chris was currently in the underworld scouting around trying to pick up new information. He heard his mother's voice call for him and heard they were home. Uh-oh, this would not turn out well for him if they knew he not only went off into the underworld alone, but also took his brother with him. Chris quickly orbed home, put Wyatt in his bed then telling him that everything they had done was between him and Chris and had to remain a secret and rushed to his room just in time to jump in bed and fake being asleep before Leo opened his door and called for him. Leo watched as the figure in bed grumbled and managed out a "mmm?" "Oh, I'm sorry to wake you son, we just wanted to let you know that we are back. Is Wyatt in his room?" "Yeah."
Okay, so I think I am going to leave it to my readers to decide whether Chris gets caught for going to the underworld with Wyatt and give you guys the choice of what happens if he is caught. Please review and rate! I promise to update soon!
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