Disclaimer: I still don't own any of Charmed or their characters. I do, however, own anything that was not mentioned in the show itself.

Thank you to my reviewers, sorry it's taken me so long to update, I've been working on my other story 'Dealing With Death'. I did however think about some of this in an exam I had, and suddenly remembered how long it had been since I updated. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about it. I'll try not to leave it so long next time.

Return to the Future

Chapter 4: Telling Bianca and Fighting Demons

Wyatt was starting to come to terms about the alternate future Chris had come from. After Phoebe and Paige explained everything to him, they left him to think it all through. Even though he knew that he and the alternate Wyatt were the same person, he also knew they were completely different. He would never even hurt an innocent, least of all his own family. He was proud of Chris, however. His little brother had come back to the past to save him rather than kill him, and now he was here to see how he had saved the future.

A call from Chris brought him out of his thoughts. Wyatt orbed out and into the living room, where he had sensed Chris. As he materialised, he realised his 23-year-old brother was not alone. Bianca was with him, and they knelt over a body.

"Wyatt, can you heal her?" He looked at his brother's girlfriend and then at the body she was near. As Wyatt got closer he realised that it was no random innocent, it was Melinda.

"Melinda!" Wyatt ran to his baby sister's side and started to heal the wound on Melinda's chest where she was hit by the fireball, "What happened?" Wyatt looked into his brother's familiar green eyes, as he realised Melinda was being healed fairly easily.

"We were attacked by demons," Chris stated, "Vercoff demons. They attacked Melinda by surprise."

"Vercoff demons?" Bianca asked, "You never said you'd faced them before."

Wyatt looked at the tanned girl and sighed, just as Melinda sat up. He realised that Bianca did not know the truth yet.

"We haven't," Melinda coughed, feeling Wyatt's hands holding her back, helping her sit up, "But you have, haven't you?"

"What's happened?" Piper asked, as she walked into the living room. Wyatt sniggered slightly at his mother's impetuous timing. Walk in after he had healed the baby of the eldest Charmed One.

"How have you face them Chris, if they haven't?" Bianca asked, slightly confused. First the hug and kiss this afternoon in the park and now this, and from the looks on his sibling's faces, they knew what was going on.

"We need to talk, Bianca," Chris sighed to his girlfriend, "But you don't need to worry too much."

That was a complete lie, and Bianca knew it. Chris was never any good at lying to her. She looked to Wyatt and Melinda for answers, but received nothing. She started to wish she had Melinda's telepathy power, then she could get into Chris' mind and find out the truth right away, but she was going to have to wait for an explanation.

"Will someone tell me what happened?"

Chris looked into the brown eyes of his 27-year-old girlfriend. Everything was so like the Bianca that he had known, she was the same person, yet there was so much different about her and now he was starting to see.

"So you're telling me that you're Chris from a different universe?"

"Sort of," Chris explained, standing up from the table in the kitchen of the manor, "I'm from an alternative timeline, so I guess you could say universe."

"How much is different?" Bianca dared to ask her young boyfriend, hoping that there was not too much.

Looking back at his lover, Chris sat back at the table.

"Want the truth?" Chris smiled, seeing Bianca nod, "Everything." He looked at Bianca's brown eyes grow wide, causing her forehead to wrinkle slightly.

"How was everything different? You mean me and you…no wait, you kissed me so you knew exactly who I was…"

"You were the love of my life, Bianca," Chris explained, hoping that he was not laying it on too thick for her. He was still unsure how long they had been dating and how serious they had gotten, so was unsure of how much to tell her about both of them, "But Wyatt, well he was evil. He ruled the world, torturing everybody…"

"Oh my God!" Bianca whispered, raising a perfectly manicured hand to her mouth, "But Wyatt would not hurt a fly."

"That's what I changed," Chris nodded his head, smiling how he had done what he had hoped for the whole 16 months he was in the past, "That's what I went back to the past to save. But I was killed and now all of a sudden I'm here and I don't have a clue about the world. I get the feeling of déjà vu every now and again, but I…well…"

"You need people to fill you in on what's happened?"

Chris felt himself surprised at how understanding Bianca was being, but then wondered why when he knew this was how Bianca would have taken it in their future. He nodded his head and felt her warm hands take his.

"Ok, we've been together for two years, your family – except Melinda – only think it's been eleven months though."

"How long does Melinda think?" Chris looked at his girlfriend, realising how serious they really were. As he heard Bianca explain Melinda knew from the start because of his relationship with Melinda, he looked into Bianca's eyes deeply, "How did we meet, Bianca?"

Chris already knew this, Piper and Leo explained, but now he wanted to know from Bianca. If his parents had not known the truth about their relationship, then they would not know the truth of how they met.

"I was assigned to kill you," Bianca looked away from Chris' green-eyed gaze, she was ashamed to think about this. Not because of what happened between her and Chris, but because of how she had caused trouble for both of them, "The first time I saw you, I kind of froze. It had never happened to me before, but it was as if I knew you…" Bianca looked up, wondering if it was something to do with the alternate timeline, but pushed that thought away from her, "Anyway, the second time, we were on Golden gate Bridge, you have no idea how cocky you were and I think that's what really drew me to you."

Chris smiled with a warm feeling washing through him, he loved to hear how they met. He still remembered how he met Bianca in the other timeline, much like how she was explaining actually.

"You kissed me that night and one thing led to another and I woke up in your bed," Bianca watched as Chris sniggered to himself, "What's so funny?" Chris stopped laughing and looked at the beautiful woman in front of him.

"Nothing," Chris smiled, "Have I ever told you I love you?" Surely in two years he would have said that, right? But the looked on Bianca's face said something different.

"You really aren't the same Chris, are you?"

"What have I said?" Chris started to panic, maybe they had been in an on-off relationship.

"You've never said you loved me, Chris," Bianca shook her head, but was happy that he had finally said it, "Not after what happened to your first love?"

His first love? Bianca was his first love.

"Who? What? Bianca, I'm confused here. The only girl I have ever loved is you."

Bianca shook her head, explaining his high school sweetheart, Kayleigh Roberts. They had been in love when he was in his senior year at High School, but she left San Francisco for college. Everything would have worked out fine, until Chris found out she was sleeping with his best friend at the time, who had happened to go to the same college as Kayleigh, when he walked in on them.

"She wasn't in my future," Chris explained, "And if that's why I don't say I love you, then push all that out of your mind, because I love you, Bianca. You're the love of my life."

"But if I push all that out of my mind, and you get the memories of this future back, we'll go back to where we were."

Chris sighed understanding what she was talking about, he was bound to get his memory back at some point, even if it was just as déjà vu.

They were interrupted by their conversation by Melinda poking her head around the kitchen door, with a smile.

"Wyatt asks can we go after the demon?"

Chris looked at his sister, he could still not get over how different she was from his version. She was so much happier than his version, yet he remembered her being this happy all the time.

"He wants to go after a demon?" Chris asked, "Has this got anything to do with power?" Even though he knew he was in a different future, where Wyatt was good, he could still not think that there was something else behind it all.

"Power?" Melinda giggled, "Why would it have anything to do with power? Wyatt doesn't care about power. He hates Excalibur because of how much power it possesses."

Chris was slightly taken aback, Wyatt hating his infamous sword? That did not seem right.

"Anyway, maybe you two should join Wyatt and fight the demons," Bianca said, standing up and walked to the kitchen door, "I need to go. I'll see you tonight, Chris."

"Tonight?"

Bianca sighed and looked at Melinda, who just smiled and nodded. As Bianca left, Melinda looked at her older brother.

"C'mon you," she smiled gently, holding out her hand, "Time for a little demon hunting before we go out."

Piper was happy to find her children working together again, she had been worried after telling Wyatt about the other future, but Phoebe and Paige's talk seemed to help. She was just glad that Chris had not said everything to Wyatt, at least her eldest did not know about torturing and killing Melinda in the other future, only Melinda knew about it, but she knew her daughter would be able to cope. After everything she had faced, something like this would not knock her back too much.

She was at the club with her loving husband, her nieces from Phoebe's side and her nephew from Paige's side (the twins had been out while Paige sent Henry Jnr over) and her potential daughter-in-law, waiting for the three to return from their demon vanquish, and setting the place up for Chris' birthday. The sisters had left it to their progeny now, as they were all getting too old for all the running around. After all, the children were now old enough to handle everything themselves, though it did not stop her worry about them. As she looked at her watch she realised that her babies had been gone for two hours now, what if something had happened? But surely not, not to all three of them anyway, someone would have come back to tell them and to send in the rest of the troops, they had obviously taken their time in locating the demons.

Hearing the sound of someone orbing, she looked up, hoping it to be Wyatt, Chris and Melinda, but it was one of the twins, Hope.

"Hi Aunt Piper," Hope chimed in her low-toned voice, she was the tomboy of the family, always preferred to run around climbing trees rather than spoil herself with manicures and the like, "Do you need any help? Mom said that Wyatt and Melinda were on a vanquish."

Piper smiled at the brunette twin, "If you don't mind, Hope, could you get some boxes from the back room for me? They're the new order."

"Course I can."

Hope was always happy to help with household things, even though she was a tomboy, and Piper was always happy to have her company. She sometimes wondered whether it was because she had never met Hope in the alternate future, but then she always like Henry Jnr's company, especially when he had a new story to tell about one of his charges. Even though Henry was 17, he already had three charges, but that was possibly because he was a full whitelighter, he would never get any wiccan powers – or so the Elders had told the family. It was the same with Phoebe's youngest daughter, Patricia Charlotte (Patty for short) she would never get any wiccan powers, she would be a full Cupid.

Hearing more orbing, Piper decided not to look up, thinking that this time it would be Hannah, looking for her twin. Hannah amazed Piper, she was so shy and quiet, so different from her twin sister, but held a darkness to her. Maybe that was how Wyatt turned her in the other reality, Piper thought to herself, remembering that when Peyton asked Melinda about Hannah, all Melinda would say was that Hannah was not being tortured. Piper never did know the truth about the teenager, and whether Hannah was truly evil or not, but Melinda never denied to Peyton that she was not.

"Hey mom," she heard Wyatt's voice, "Need help, we're finished?" She looked up to see her eldest son covered in green demon slim, so it was not Hannah that had orbed in.

"What are you doing here? Get home and get cleaned up."

She saw a mischievous look in the blonde's eyes and then saw him running towards him.

"Oh no you don't!" Piper said and froze Wyatt by focusing on his Whitelighter side. Melinda had taught her how to do that when she was a young teenager, of course her daughter had found a way to freeze her brothers if they were spying on her or causing trouble when she was with a boy.

"Hope, sweetie?" She called to the back room, smiling at the grin Wyatt had on his face. She had missed that today, after he had found out about his other self.

"Yeah, Aunt Piper?" Hope asked, as she walked back into the bar to see her eldest cousin frozen with demon guts all over him. She instantly started laughing, her dark brown eyes shining.

"Can you orb this one back to the manor, and ask my other wonderful children to make sure he gets washed up before he comes back to see me?"

Hope smiled, grabbing hold of her frozen cousin and orbing them out of the club.

Once the blue and white lights disappeared, she turned around to see Leo watching them from one of the booths.

"Nice to see you just stand and watch." She called to him, as she grabbed one of the boxes that Hope had already taken out of the office, and opened it to view the contents.

"I have no powers to do anything," Leo reminded his wife, "So what could I have done?"

Leo walked to Piper and kissed her, "But at least he seemed happy. No longer so guilt ridden about his other self."

Piper agreed with her dark blonde-haired husband.

"I do think we should have told them all something a little sooner though," Piper commented, "I mean, we should have seen this coming."

"You mean, I should have seen this coming?" Leo asked for clarification. He was an ex-whitelighter/Elder/Avatar, he should have known all the possibilities of what could happen to Chris' soul, but he thought Chris had died and his vanishing was a way of magic covering up after everything, he never thought about Chris' soul merging with well…his soul…man, this was confusing, now he knew why the sisters got so many headaches when he would try to explain it.

"No," Piper shook her head, in thought, "Do you ever think he'll get his memory about this time back?"

Unfortunately, Leo had no answers to that question, and he was wondering the same thing.

Chris was watching a news program to find out about the world, he never really cared about television, but he needed to know what was going on in the world today. At least it was nothing to do with Wyatt taking over the world, and who he had killed today.

"There's nothing interesting happening." He heard his sister's voice coming from the stairs. As he looked around, he saw her with her blonde hair still wet from the shower. Wyatt was not the only one to be hit by the green slime, Melinda was too, luckily for Chris, he was behind them so did not get caught with it when the demons were vanquished.

"I can see." Chris smiled, but really found nothing interesting, well, interesting! He had be in a world where something was always going on, where he was running for his life everyday, protecting his family, saving his family, and to come to a time where he could just watch his family protect him was great in his books. Though he did know that it would get a little boring after a while, he was use to adventure.

"Wyatt in the shower now?" Chris smiled, he laughed when he saw his 18-year-old cousin orb in with his brother with a stupidly goofy grin on his face. Although he did wonder how Piper had managed to freeze him, after all he was a witch.

"Yeah he is," Melinda nodded, she had read his mind and heard his thought but decided not to comment, unless he asked her, "Ok, move over." She sat on the couch, next to her older brother and hugged him.

"What's this for?"

"Well, I don't know when you last got one of my wonderful hugs, so I'm giving you one now."

Chris was slightly taken aback, the last time she had hugged him like this was just after she had returned from her torture, but before that was when he was 15, and had just returned from the torture himself. She was not one for hugs. She had closed herself off, unless something drastic had happened, or it was Ryan.

"Ryan?"

Now Melinda could not help it, she had to find out about this. She fancied the ass off Ryan, and from what he had read, in his reality there was something going on between them.

"Will you stop reading my mind?" Chris asked, "You weren't this bad in my reality for reading minds. Only when you wanted to be awkward."

"Well, I want to be awkward. So what was that about Ryan?"

Chris wondered whether he should tell her, they were not together in this future, and Piper and Leo had said not to say anything, but what harm could it really do? Although, he did not like Ryan, he was still unsure of what side Ryan really was on. But then again, he did remember seeing Ryan's body in the hideout nearly a year ago, Wyatt had obviously killed him, or was it that Melinda had had to kill him? But would she have done if she had to? How deep was their love for each other?

"Chris, please answer my question."

Chris looked at his sister's shining blue eyes. He had not seen them shine in years, but yet he had.

"You really like him, don't you?" Chris smiled, partly wondering whether this future self was trying to help him with memories slowly, starting with his sister. She was the only person that he seemed to get déjà vu moments about.

"Yeah, I like him," Melinda blushed, "But he's Wyatt's best friend, there is no way he could like me."

Chris sighed and then answered her question, "You were together in my future. You got together a few years after Wyatt took over the world. He saved you from the torture you went through with Wyatt. Brought you back to Peyton and everybody." He looked down at Melinda's smile.

"What happened to him?" Melinda asked, knowing that she was setting herself up to be hurt.

"You don't want to know," Chris shook his head, "It'll only hurt you."

"He died, didn't he? Just like everybody else." Melinda had found out that the rest of her family was killed, she still did not know about herself though. Only the torture.

"Yes," Chris finally plucked up the courage to tell her, "But saving you." Chris could not tell her the truth that he had never seen Ryan killed, and did not know the story behind it, but from what he saw of Ryan and Melinda in their last day, he would have said Ryan would have chosen Melinda over Wyatt.

"Chris," she started, sitting up away from her big brother, "Answer me truthfully here, did I die?"

Chris looked away, feeling tears form in his eyes, he could not live that moment again. He dreamt of it so many times, how he managed to save Melinda, taking the arrow himself, and then others where Leo had returned or where he had convinced Melinda to come to the past with him to help save Wyatt.

"Chris…?"

Her voice sounded weak.

"You…erm…yeah, you died." Chris finally answered, but felt the words catch in his mouth as they were coming out. He could not look at his younger sister, could not see the pain in her eyes.

"So that was what the bone-crushing hug was for." He heard her voice, sounding so strong now, like she was not bothered about being killed. Chris looked at her slightly confused, wondering why it was not bothering her.

"Chris, it was a different timeline," She stated to him, with a smile on her face, "It wasn't me. I'm here."

Chris laughed slightly, through his tears, at how Melinda was taking all this news. He was surprised at how well she took everything, but maybe nearly turning evil had helped her, or maybe she was just a very open-minded person. Feeling Melinda pull him into a hug, he wiped a tear that was falling down his cheek. He was glad to have his sister back, and still so caring and close to him. He was especially glad at this time that the future had not changed their relationship.

"I can't believe mom froze me!" Both siblings looked up to see Wyatt enter with just his jeans on.

"Wyatt put a top on, your body isn't that great." Melinda called out, rolling her eyes. She was lying however, Wyatt's body was perfect, but she did not like him in that way, she just admired how much he liked to keep fit. His build was so different to Chris', Chris was tall but skinny, he had a swimmer's body, where as Wyatt had a football player's body. Melinda on the other hand just stayed toned from when she was a cheerleader.

"How did mom freeze you by the way?" Chris finally asked.

"What, she never figured that out in your timeline?" Wyatt laughed, "She can only freeze me, you, the twins and Henry. Does that give you a hint?"

Chris looked to see both of his siblings looking at him with smiles, then realised what Wyatt was getting at. The people he mentioned at Whitelighter or Elder (in his case) blood in them.

"She freezes the whitelighter side?"

"Man, you are smart. It took me ages to figure out what Melinda was doing when we were teens."

Chris looked at his younger sister, laughing slightly, "You realised how to do it?"

"Of course," Melinda nodded smugly, "Do you really think that Mom would figure that one out? I taught her how to do it." Chris was impressed, his sister had figured something out that nobody in their family had figured out in the other timeline.

"And all because of some trick we were playing on her," Wyatt smiled to his brother, running his hand through his still wet blonde curls, "Hey are we eating before we go out, Mel?"

"Do you ever think of anything but food?"

"You two are going out?"

Chris wondered whether there was something planned that he could not remember.

"You're coming with us, Chris," Melinda smiled to her younger of the two brothers, "To P3."

Melinda knew she was safe to tell him that, since he did not know about the 'surprise' party they threw for him every year. For some reason, Piper and Leo would make big deals about all three of their birthdays, she was never really sure why, but at least she knew she had a family that cared for her.

"So, yeah, are we eating before it or while we're out?" Wyatt asked again, wondering whether to grab a snack.

"Don't know," Melinda shrugged, "Call mom."

Sighing, Wyatt decided to just grab a snack anyway, it was nearing six pm, Piper would not have time to fix together dinner before the party, there was obviously going to be food there.

"So, what's going on tonight?" Chris asked his sister, after Wyatt had left. He was still unsure around Wyatt, even though everything about this Wyatt screamed good, he still had the memories of Wyatt killed Melinda and Bianca, that was enough to put anybody off him.

"We're going out to celebrate your birthday, dumbass," Melinda laughed, still knowing he would not expect a surprised party this year, "What else?"

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