Chapter 4, when Piper and Leo had to tell ...
One morning Piper, Leo and the children went up to the attic. Piper wanted to throw old stuff away. It was true, what future Chris had said 7 years ago. They kept their stuff for ages.
And now it was time to clean things up.
Wyatt was 8 years old and old enough to help go throw old boxes, filled with all kinds of stuff they didn't use for ages.
Six year old Chris was looking in the book of shadows. His all time favorite thing to do. He loved to look at the pictures.
And 4 year old Melinda was sitting on the ground playing with her dolls.
Leo and Piper where having a hard time discussing what to throw away and what to keep.
Then suddenly Wyatt held a picture in the air. "Mom, where did he go?" He asked, pointing at the picture. "I remember I liked him, we played together and then suddenly he was gone."
Piper looked at the picture, then she looked at her husband. Leo only nodded.
"OK guys, will you please sitdown on the sofa. It's time for a story."
Leo picked up, Melinda and sat next to her. Wyatt and Chris joined their father and sister on the sofa. Piper sat in front of them. "Wyatt, can you give me that picture."
She held the picture up and asked Chris: "do you know who are on this picture, honny?"
"One of them is Wyatt, but I don't know who that man is." Chris told his mother.
"You are right, the child is Wyatt. The young man is somebody who saved this family. He was very important to all of us. Without him, we wouldn't been sitting here like this."
"Mommy how did he save us?" Wyatt asked his mother.
"It was 7 years ago, you where the only one that was born already, Wyatt. Then he came here, in the middle of a fight. He helped us with that fight. And he helped us with a lot of other fights to. He told us he came from the future."
"Like in that old movie, back to the future?" Chris asked his mother.
"Yes like in the movie, sweety."
"He came from the future to change something that had happened to Wyatt."
"What had happened to me, mommy?"
"He told us, something had made you grow up to be very angry. And because of that, you where very hard to people and witches."
"Did he change the future?" Chris asked, looking at his mother with his big green eyes.
"Yes sweety he did, he changed it, and because of that we are sitting here with the 5 of us."
"Mommy, I remember you calling him Chris."
"That's true, Wyatt, I called him Chris." You remember I told you he came from the future?"
Wyatt and Chris nodded, Melinda was silent and just looked at her mom. The girl with the big dark eyes and dark hair looked like her mother. Her hair was a little curly, that was one of the differences between Piper and her daughter. Melinda looked like her mother, but her character was more like her dads. She sat at her dads lap and didn't move a muscle.
Maybe she was to young to understand the story, Piper taught.
"I called him Chris, because it was Chris. It was you Chris, who came back from the future to save you brother."
Chris looked at his mommy. "So I'm going to timetravel? Cool!!"
"No you will not," Piper said. "He changed time, you don't need to timetravel."
"Future Chris has had a different life then you, Chris. His brother was different and I think he didn't have a sister, he never told us about her. He didn't tell us much about the future, but with all the trouble his mom and dad had to go throw, I think they never would have had another baby. And sweety, that's why I'm so glad that future Chris came to us. He not only saved Wyatt, he saved Melinda and himself to. We sure, didn't want to life or live without Lin. We will always be thankfull for that."
"Mom, what happened to him, where did he go?" Wyatt asked.
Pipers eyes started to tear. Leo took over from his wife. He also had tears in his eyes, when he said: " he died in front of me. He dissappeared and never came back."
Suddenly Melinda, who had been silent all the time got up from the sofa. She screamed, "No, Chris issen't going to die, no, no, no"
Leo and Piper tried to calm her down, but she was getting more upset by the minute. Her little arms where up in the air, thing where exploding around her. She had the same power as her mother and she couldn't controle them right now.
Then Chris stood up. He got a hold of her hands, looked her in the eyes and said: "Lin, I will always stay with you, I will never leave you." This calmed her down, she cried in his arms.
Little could Chris know that this sentence wouldn't leave him alone for years. He couldn't hold his promise. He couldn't stay with her. Demons took Melinda away, two months after Piper and Leo had to tell the children about future Chris.