Hello my dear readers, thanks for the reviews. I'm going away for a week on holidays with my family, where I have to leave behind my computer and I won't have internet access anyway so I won't be able to write. But I have a little surprise as I got on a bit of a role while writing and wrote two chapters, so I am going to put both up now.

For my story to work, I had to tweek some stuff from the series a little for my world to work better, such as Wyatt and Chris being the only two men of the next generation, and in this story, Excalibur doesn't appear until a few years later. the appearance is still the same as how it is in the episode "the sword and the city" but Wyatt and Chris are 7 and 5 respectively.

I hope you enjoy, and don't worry the story will start properly taking off in the next chapter, I am pretty much creating a whole new world and it took me a while to explain everything.

Chapter 4

Leo's POV

Leo grabbed the elder Joshua by the shoulder and dragged him, with the help of Henry, out of his son's room before he could make his poor boy even more upset. They had been working up to the big bomb shell, but they were at least trying to do it gently. Leo was furious, and he felt lightening start to crackle around his hands. Once they had everyone outside the room, Henry put a hand on Leo, trying to calm the man, but he was a father protecting is son, there was very little that interfere with that.

Leo let go of the man and turned his back to him trying to cool down, looking out the window for distraction, Leo always got frustrated at how Joshua felt he could invade his sons private space, and try and dictate what Chris did, not that he controlled Chris's decisions and leadership, he never interfered with that. Joshua was very proud of the boy (almost as proud as Leo), and believed in him fully, he truly saw Chris as being the best leader, the best king, the world had ever seen. It was the other side of Chris that he tried to control, the part of Chris that wanted to be normal, that didn't want the responsibility of being the 'Anointed Prince' the Future King. The part of him that wanted to go to parties with his friends, to have a girlfriend that wouldn't dump him when she found out he was magic royalty. The part of him that was last night considering running away. Not that Chris would do that, the whole of the magical kingdom (the good part) loved him, depended on him and thought that today, the coronation of their beloved prince, would be the greatest day in a millennia. He could see that they had already started to party in the streets, people were dancing, leprechauns were making rainbows and whitelighters were putting on light shows all in anticipation of tonight. Leo let the city distract him from his worries, the white marble city was awash with colour, banners and flags were flying everywhere, some with saying of well wishing, "We love the king!", "Goddess bless King Christopher,". Others flew the royal insignia, a gold dragon, Excalibur in its claws in flight in front of the triquetra on a green back ground. This insignia was different to Arthur's. His dragon had flown on a red banner and in place of the triquetra had been an olive crown symbolising his ancestry of roman Caesars. Leo remembered watching as the banners changed before his eyes as Chris had entered the city on his sixteenth birthday. A tear ran down his cheek as the through about how much of his life his son had given up for the good of the magical community.

Leo, now calmed down a bit, turned to the very angry elder, his boss, "I'm sorry Joshua, but something happened last night, please can we go to the meeting room to discuss this, I will explain everything." The more senior elder gave Leo and the others a curt knod and stormed off towards the meeting room, clearly not pleased at having been flawed in doing his duty of 'protecting and guiding' Chris. That was his and Wyatt's job, Leo thought cynically to himself, Wyatt was Chris's protector, while he was his son's guide, but he understood that it was the Chairman's job to make sure the transition of power happened and happened smoothly. They walked down the corridors and passageways until they reached a large door. Upon entering it looked remarkably like the roman Curia, tiers on each side for the elder council to sit and a small dais with a chair for the chairman to sit. There were two seats on either side of this, one where the chairman would sit should Chris be joining a council meeting taking the main chair and the other for Leo, the king's father and guide.

(It should be noted that this is the elders' meeting room, the main meeting room, where the round table stood and the knights met was up in the centre of the palace next to the throne room. The workings of the palace were divided into different sections, the royal quarters (east) where Chris and his family live, the public sections (centre) where the throne room, the meeting room, the library and other political used spaces are and the elders quarters (west), where the elders who lived in Camelot stayed and the elders' meeting room is, are three main areas. Other areas include: the prison (underground) the kitchens, guest accommodation and public dining hall(south), and the public gardens (north))

Leo had become an elder again, when Wyatt was 7, Chris was 5 and Mel just 1 year old. Events had caused the elders to look at the Halliwell family in a different light, especially the younger generation, especially Wyatt and Chris. The event: Excalibur had turn up on the surface world, a millennia after the death of the previous magical king. Piper had been found to be the new Lady of the Lake and the elders had delved deep into the hall of prophecies to a locked vault that was only to be opened when the sword surfaced and pulled out the prophecy of the sword bearer. It said that a charmed child would wield the sword and be the greatest force of light the world had ever seen, driving back the darkness more than ever before. At this, the elders were very excited, the new leader would, or had been born (but they had their suspicions that he had been born) and wanted to test the two oldest children immediately. Piper had out right refused as was her right as the Lady of the Lake, stating it was her duty to make sure the sword passed to the right person when he or she was old enough to understand the responsibility. She managed to keep up the fight until her sons were twelve and ten. At this time too, the two young boys had started causing mischief. With Paige, the only one who could orb after the boys and pull them out of trouble, with one small daughter of her own and heavily pregnant with twins the elders took the opportunity to place a guide close to the boys, proposed that they make Leo an elder again. Leo having trouble keeping an eye on his adventure seeking sons as a mortal agreed on a few term, he would be he son's main guide even after one of them had drawn the sword, he would live with his family and they would be higher priority than the elders and he would age and die with his wife. They had been happy to agree with all his term and so Leo had become an elder once again and now he sat to the right of chairman, about to ask them to delay the event that had been planned for over ten years.

He stood up and cleared his throat and turned to the chairman, "Chairman Joshua, fellow elders and brothers, My son has regain the memories of his other past, and at the moment they are suppressing his memories of this life. He woke up in a room he doesn't know, a world he doesn't know and is scared. He has only just found out courtesy of Joshua's invasion that he, not his brother like this version of himself has always believed, is the heir to Excalibur and the throne. From the research we did when my son was a baby, on what would happen should this occur, we discovered that his two selves would merge, but until that happens, until Chris regains his memories of this world, I ask, please postpone the coronation, he is not ready, it would hurt him to badly to go through with it tonight. There are eleven more full moons before he turns a year older, and as much as we all want to give his reign this blessing, it should not come at the extra pain to my son."

The elders had sat silent until Leo finished is speech and sat back down, but then the room was a raw of chaos as everyone tried to talk at once. Leo turned to Joshua, who sat back in the chair, shocked. Leo himself was in a state of shock, he could not believe that they had forgotten about this possibility and had planned the coronation for this day. The age Chris had been when he died in the past. He couldn't believe that they had overlooked such a major thing and judging by the rest of the room neither could the rest of the elders. The seemed to be berating themselves and each other for letting such an important thing slip passed them. A majority of them were in Leo's favour, the Anointed Prince, needed time to recover and adjust. They respected that Chris put everyone else's needs before his own, but in this case they mostly seemed to all agree that the prince's needs came first. But it was not just their decision; they needed the approval of the Joshua to make any changes to the proceeding. Joshua was now clearly berating himself and Leo leaned over from his seat to rest his hand on the arm of the man who held the fate of his son. Joshua looked at Leo and gave him a weak smile, "You know I love your son like he is my own, and I have done my best to turn him into the best leader the world will ever see. I had always hoped that the prince would regain his lost memories as I believe they are the final thing he needs to become just that. Of course we will postpone the coronation, I would not hurt him like that, but I can only delay the coronation until the next full moon, the magical community and all, it should be enough time for his two selves to merge together, or at the very least give the prince time to adjust." With that he stood up an announced the same to the other elders. Adding with a grimace, "I must now go and inform the community, Lord Leo, would you accompany me." Leo nodded, he then looked to a young looking elder, "Mathew, would you mind calling all the journalists and the leaders of the community to the Great Courtyard, I will address them there."

With a final nod from Joshua, the elders left their meeting room and both remaining men slumped back in there chairs in defeat. "Why did I not consider this, I never forgot the fact that he might remember, I just didn't connect that it would happen today or all days."

Leo turned to the older man, "Do not hold yourself solely responsible, I, his father did not realise. I am more at fault than you." With that they sat in silence until it was time to address the magical community. They were not going to be please, but he hope they loved his on as much as he did.

The address to the community had been hard, but Leo had been surprised how, instead of anger at the coronation being postpone, they asked with worry after the condition and health of their king and wished him a speedy recovery, they did not like their king to be in pain. Yes, their king, not yet crowned and the magical community saw him as their king and had for over a year now, ever since he started to fully turn into a strong and wise young man. He remembered how his son had cringed slightly the first time someone had called him "Your Majesty" instead of "Your Royal Highness" or how if it wasn't for Wyatt, Chris would have run, the first time a dwarf called him "My King" instead of "My Prince".

Leo and Henry were making their way back to the royal chambers. Leo had asked for the key to the golden shackle but had only got the one that released the chain, not undid the cuff. Joshua had feared after last night's 'performance' and today's turn of events that Chris might run.

He opened the door to see the whole family on or leaning on his son's bed. He son saw him and gave him a smile before begging for the shackle to come off. Leo sat down and released the chain so his son could at least leave the bed, but had to explain at his glare that the elders, that Joshua, thought he might orb away. He felt his heart shatter as Chris said he had nowhere else to go. He hated seeing his son looking so hurt and lost. He leaned forward and pulled his son into his embrace rubbing circles onto his back, "I'm so sorry Chris, I know this isn't what you expected or what you wanted, I wish you could have the future you imagined."

Wyatt, doing the eldest child thing, tried to hold his family together. He started to rub Chris's back and placed his other hand on his father's shoulder. "The coronation?" He asked quietly trying not to let Chris hear, but he did. He looked up into his father's eyes, his own full of fear, wanting the answer to Wyatt's question.

"It has been postponed until the next full moon, to give Chris time."

"And the community?" Prue asked, "They were ok with this?"

"Yes, they took it better than any of us expected. They completely forgot about the celebration and only wanted 'Chris' to get better." He made sure to phrase it that way, he though saying they wanted their 'king' to get better would upset Chris more than he already was.

Chris's POV

Chris had tuned out after his father had said the coronation had been postponed, it was the best thing he had heard since his awakening, except for the fact that he had a sister and a lot more cousins that expected. His mother and aunts being alive and still happily married and having a good brother also trumped the news but he saw that, it wasn't really said. Chris couldn't imagine what it would be like if the coronation was not postponed, being crowned king in a palace he didn't remember to be a king he didn't know how to be. He dearly hoped that his other memories would help him, otherwise he was screwed. He never considered that he had the qualities already, generosity, kindness, strength of character, and unstoppable willingness to give himself to the needs of strangers. Chris had been born to be King, created by destiny herself to lead good magic into the new age, a world of peace and prosperity.

End of Chapter 4