Secrets are revealed when the Charmed Ones finally get sick and tired of Chris's lies and decide to do something about it; they cast a spell and bring two little boys to the past and send Chris to the future.
I do not own Charmed.
I Won't Be Your Winter
"I can do it!" An angry 5-year-old shouted when Piper went to grab the blue cup for him. She immediately drew back her hand and the boy pulled out the drawer and climbed onto the counter before he grabbed the cup with ease and got down the exact same way. Piper rolled her eyes and allowed to him wander around the kitchen until he had his cup and box of cereal before Piper grabbed him a bowl, a spoon, and some milk along with the apple juice. They'd attempted to give him orange juice and he'd only freaked out when they placed it down in front of him.
"...And that's how I got 'teven dummy bears up my nose!" Matthew finished before taking a bite of his sandwich as the sisters stared at him with wide eyes. They would have to keep a close eye on Matthew and apparently Gabriel as well. Speaking of Gabriel...the little boy had jelly smeared all over his cheeks as well as his shirt and tiny hands; Piper nearly had a heart attack when Matthew told them that he was allergic to peanuts seconds before the toddler was about to take a bite of his PB&J. At least he told them so they could stop him without having to rush him to the emergency room with no information on him or any medical records that wouldn't exist for some time to come since her son wasn't even one-year-old yet.
"So Matthew...can you tell us your mother's name, yet?" Piper asked since the boy had refused to tell them anything until he got his sandwich. Matthew's brows furrowed for a moment as he thought it over and the nodded before he took another bite of his sandwich as the sisters stared at him. Of course, being only five-years-old he didn't realize that when Piper asked him that they expected him to answer them right away. "Well, what is it?"
"Chris." Matthew answered before taking another bite as their eyes went wide with shock and they continued to stare at the boys in disbelief. Their neurotic whitelighter was the mother of her grandchildren? Her baby was gay!? Piper nearly passed out as she thought about everything that entailed; technically Chris was a Halliwell and part of the family, her son was gay, Chris could have babies, Wyatt touched Chris at least twice...Oh god.
"I guess that explains Gabriel," Paige chirped and Piper finally realized exactly who he looked like. Chris. She knew he looked familiar from somewhere and now it all clicked. That's why Chris came back to the past to save Wyatt...they were in love, probably married. "So Piper, how does it feel to know that you have a son-in-law who was trying to escape his husband but we ended up sending him back to Wyatt and now have their children in the present?"
"Shut up." Piper snarled and Paige smirked while Phoebe cooed at little Gabriel.
"You're so cute, yes you are!" Phoebe cooed and Gabriel simply giggled and basked in the cooing and pinching of his cheeks. Matthew, however, wasn't dealing with the cooing in the same manner and nearly growled at Phoebe for touching his baby Gabriel. Without a second thought the boy threw his sandwich at her and wound his arms around his brother, effectively pulling him away from the Charmed One while Piper and Paige tried to smoother their laughter at the look on Phoebe's face and the anger on Matthew's.
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"Chris, you need to sleep." Wyatt spoke as he looked over at the brunette who was sitting right in front of the map, attempting to scry for the boys. Chris didn't respond to him and kept scrying for the boys. It was currently four o'clock in the morning and Chris had been scrying for at least the last hour and had been searching since nearly ten o'clock that night and Wyatt could tell he was past exhausted but Chris refused to stop searching for the boys and as much as Wyatt wanted to search for them as well, he could barely keep his eyes open. Not to mention that he wanted to get up rather early tomorrow and continue the search for his sons but staying up all night would only make them sleep in later tomorrow. He knew that they needed to be well rested to keep searching because right now he wasn't even sure how he was talking in complete sentences, much less think of ways to search for the two. "Chris..."
After an annoyed sigh Chris finally turned his seat to look at Wyatt. "If you're so tired, go to bed Wyatt – I'm not stopping you. I'm going to keep looking for my sons though."
"Chris, its four o'clock in the morning; we've been searching for them for nearly six hours now and we haven't found anything. I think it's safe to say that they aren't anywhere near us or they're in the underworld. Hell, they could be in a different time and we don't have the energy to go look for them. So...just come to bed and we can keep looking for them in the morning when we're both rested."
Chris rubbed his face and was silent for a moment before he slowly nodded his head. "I'm scared, Wy."
"I know, I am too," Wyatt replied softly and Chris looked up at him with surprise clearly etched on his face and Wyatt scowled lightly at that look. "I can be scared you know."
"Sorry," Chris mumbled. "So...am I sleeping in the dungeons?"
"Very funny; you're sleeping in our bed." Wyatt replied as he got up and made his way out of the room and Chris was shocked for a second before he got up and followed his husband. To be honest, he had expected Wyatt to beat the crap out of him or at least freak out on him but so far he's actually been pretty civil and hasn't brought up him going to past since the first meeting in Gabriel's room. When Chris walked into the bedroom he saw Wyatt climb into the bed and he laid on his side and rolled over to face the window so his back was to Chris.
He hesitated before he walked over to the closet and poked his head in and was actually relieved to see that his most of his clothes were still hanging up in the same spots. After grabbing a pair of pajama pants and a t-shirt he made his way to the bathroom and quietly shut the door behind him before changing and he then explored the drawers and noted that all of his bathroom things had been replaced and glanced back at the door. Why in the world would Wyatt have them replaced and just let them sit there?
Once he was ready to go to sleep he opened the bathroom door and just watched Wyatt for a moment and knew instinctively that he was still awake. He quietly walked over to the bed and lifted up the blankets before he climbed in and fixed his pillows before he laid down on his back and stared up at the ceiling before he eventually rolled over to his side to face Wyatt's back. It had been so long since he'd been able to have a real night's sleep and oddly enough he felt very, very comfortable at the moment and could easily pass out in a second.
Chris raised a hand and paused for a moment before he reached out and lightly touched Wyatt's back and was relieved when Wyatt didn't move away from his touch. In fact, he didn't even move closer to farther from him but Chris did note the way his back tensed. He could see in his broad shoulders and moved his hand up to lightly rub them and that was when Wyatt turned over so he was facing him and Chris's hand fell down to rest on the bed in front of him.
"I'm sorry," Chris finally whispered and Wyatt's brows furrowed. "That I left. I didn't want to, I really didn't."
"Then why did you?" Wyatt asked just as softly, the last thing he needed was to get into a fight with Chris after he managed to hold in his anger the entire night just to blow it now.
"I...I want you back. The real you."
"I am the 'real' me, Chris."
"No...You're not. You're not a dictator, Wyatt. Remember when we first started dating? I want that Wyatt back." Chris mumbled and Wyatt only sighed lightly and didn't respond for a while.
"Goodnight, Chris."
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"So how are we supposed to get Chris back?" Piper asked her sisters as she flipped through the pages of the Book of Shadows and her sisters were just as lost as she was.
"I don't know Piper, I mean, maybe we can cast the lost witch spell? Use the boy's blood to call him?" Phoebe suggested and Piper frowned lightly but nodded.
"It probably won't work for bringing him twenty years from the future Pheebs," Paige said and Phoebe sighed lightly before she looked at Paige. "But I guess we can try." They all three turned to the two boys and Matthew gave them a suspicious look and grabbed onto Gabriel's hand if he had to orb them out of the attic quickly.
"We need your help to bring your mommy here, can you help us?" Phoebe asked and Matthew hesitated before he nodded his head.
"Do you know my mommy?" Matthew asked and Piper nodded.
"Yeah, your mommy's an old friend of ours." Piper said and Matthew grinned while Paige went and grabbed a knife from off of the small table and approached the boys but the moment Matthew saw the knife in her hand he paled and his smile immediately vanished.
"Sweetie, we just need a little drop of blood to bring your mommy here." Paige said softly and Matthew's head shook from side to side rapidly. There was no way they were going to touch him with that, even if it did bring his mommy here. He didn't like bleeding...or pain.
"No!" Matthew screamed when Paige took a step towards him.
"Do you want some candy?" Phoebe asked from her spot and Matthew seemed to be considering her question before he shook his head when Paige took yet another step closer to him and a scream tore from his throat that made the Charmed Ones cover their ears and almost immediately Gabriel joined in on the screaming and was even louder than Matthew.
"Bad idea!" Piper shouted above the screaming. "Very, very bad idea!"
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"You know, when I heard that you were down here torturing people, I honestly expected to find you with a demon." Wyatt spoke and Chris whirled around to face him before shrugging his shoulders and then glancing at the woman in front of him who was begging him to leave her alone and that she didn't know anything about their missing sons.
"Shut up!" Chris snapped at the woman and immediately she went silent. Chris then turned to look at Wyatt once more. "I already tried them; they didn't know anything so I've moved on to the Resistance; she is the second-in-command and you didn't capture her until this morning."
"So she knows something?" Wyatt asked as he leaned against the doorframe and Chris then turned and gave him a dark glare.
"Whose side are you on?" Chris snapped
"I could ask you the same question." Wyatt replied calmly and Chris fell silent.
"I'm...I...I just want my babies back here safe. I have no side."
Short? Yes. Update? Hell yes.
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