Saving My Brother and Family
Disclaimers: The show and characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me everything else belongs to the creator and the movie company.
Warning: With this chapter the fight's going to result in the same way, just with a clone in the place of the real one, as Chris and Leo work together
Chapter 4: Exit Strategy and the First Week As Family
Halliwell Manor
As they went over this Piper looked at Chris. "What's next honey?" she asked and he read the next lines as Jenny answered her. "Shake water vigorously for two hundred heartbeats." she said and she nodded to her and grabbed a bottle of Evian and Prue looked at her in bemusement. "You're using bottled water?" she asked and she hid a mild smile as she answered her.
"For Cole, the purer, the better. Before you suggest it, it's okay I got it sis, I can control it, time me though." she said and Prue nodded with a smile. "Alright you said I've to focus on which one I want, but so long as I keep it under control, I'm not going to flame anyone by accident right honey?" she asked and Chris nodded to her.
"Yeah mom, just focus on the one you want and you can control it, but you let it control you and it's going to get out of control, so as soon as things settle, we can do practice runs in the basement and work it out, just stay relaxed and collected. Our emotions cause our powers to go haywire and this is something you need to work through."
"Though I will say that if this works it's enough she's going to be able to heal now." he said and she nodded. "So what's the hold up, why is it taking them so long exactly, if they got jumped in the middle of it." she asked and Prue looked at her. "He probably sent Darryl to the precinct to tell the chief that we had an arsonist running around and let us deal with it to keep anyone from getting hurt, since we deal in a lot of strange happenings here and this is one for the books that are in the confidential areas."
"Though at the moment the less in the know about this the better where I'm concerned as for your powers, we just got to keep them under control. Though at the moment I think that ability is going to kick ass, and we might need it sooner than we think, come here, check this out." she said as she added. "Times up." she said and Piper passed it to Jenny and got up as she took charge as she answered her
"What do you got exactly?" she asked her and she read through what she found. "The amulet is the second half of the ancient charm Leo told us about, but if they want to join the two together they need both, but in order to activate it they need the spell, and it's in the book. So with that I bet the next blow out is going to be here." she said and Piper nodded to that. "Well if this happens and he touches Chris and I'm beating the crap out of him for that." she said with a growl and Prue nodded in agreement to that.
"I'm half whitelighter, but if he knocks dad unconscious and I get hit, Uncle Andy can deal with my shoulder or wherever I get blasted, but that's just going to cement the situation where you're concerned mom, barely six hours and already we're building our mother/son bond. I don't care what Cole says that's no excuse for her when a newly arrived innocent/family member arrives and Phoebe's going to see it the same way." Chris said to her and she nodded to that in agreement.
"How your aunt's going to take this is anyone's guess baby, but what I will say is that if she starts taking her resentment out on you and your youngest aunt and she's in serious trouble. When you came to protect us and your brother, and I'm not accepting her crap, because of your chosen ways in how to do that." she said and he nodded to that. "I was in training to be a whitelighter, before the power lust went to my brother's head."
"With the fact I'm here dad and Uncle Andy can train me further to help me heal injuries, but altogether I'm a witch, I fight the way a real member of the Halliwell family member would. But this is going to result in an injury or two so just be ready for the blow out." he said and she nodded to that as she answered him at that firmly.
" So like I said we work as one, I trained you in your future, so you teach me advanced combat and I'll finish your training so by the time you're returning to your future, you're at a level five in training areas, okay." she said and he nodded to her in agreement. "I guess we always took it more seriously with you when you were little if you're the younger of the two?" Prue asked and he smiled softly.
"Yeah you did actually by the time I was ten I was so much like you and mom that you all got overly protective, though at this rate, once my baby self comes into the picture and it's really going to be busy, as dad is going to turn papa bear in a hurry." he said and she chuckled at that. "At the moment my mother bear instincts already kicked in at this rate, the sense of rightness with you being here is getting stronger every minute honey." Piper said to him with a smile and he smiled at her at that.
Before he could answer the trio walked in. "Leo any trouble?" Prue asked and he shook his head. "No I gave our cover story to Darryl that Raynor is arsonist and he's extremely dangerous and let us handle this. Darryl took that back to the precinct and he's on stand by." he said and they nodded. 'Son, where's Jenna exactly?' he asked him mentally and he locked gazes with him. 'They're hiding in the kitchen in the laundry room, and Kit went to kitten sit Aunt Charmed One till the danger was passed.' he said to him.
"Are you alright?" Piper asked him and Cole sighed. "Not really." He said and Prue answered that in a deadpan tone. "You look like hell." she said and he gave a chuckle. "You have no idea right now." he said and they sighed as they waited for it to change colors. "Is the potion ready?" Phoebe asked and Jenny answered that question. "It just needs to cool and turn blood red and then it'll be ready." she said and they nodded.
"I'll get you some ice." Piper said and Prue answered her with a cryptic tone in her. "Yeah I'll go with you." she said and they went downstairs. "Never mind the ice, we got to get ready, he's ready to break right now, those two have to show up soon." Piper said to her and she nodded, before she could answer Tarkin shimmered in. "Fire in the hole!" she shouted and fired and he quickly ducked and the blast hit the cabinet. "Try again!" Prue shouted and she dodged a swing as Piper a second time.
"Phoebe help me, get down here, get down here!" she called out and Leo quickly answered. "Go we'll cover her, just help the girls." Chris said and yanked his suvival bag out and pulled several potions from it. "Get ready, it's division and distraction dad." he said and Leo nodded and pulled the athame out as well as he got ready as the potion turned red then. "It's ready guys." Jenny said and they nodded as Leo looked at Chris in bemusement at what he just removed from his son's handbag as he said it outloud.
"Good grief, one day and already I'm getting to know you enough to know that you're carrying this on you to protect yourself when in battle. You're carrying an athame and without thinking twice about it I'm ready in case we got company dropping into the room and pull it from your bag, and you're either too much like me or your mother to know what to do in case of trouble and with that fact in mind, where the heck did you learn this from, because this isn't just survival training, it's hand to hand combat?"
"When the hell did you pack that bag, it looks like it has everything needed in case of surprise drop attacks with these guys Chris and those potions look like they were freshly brewed, before you came back to the past?" Leo asked and he answered that as he looked at him. "I did constant raids into the underworld, before I came back to the past, that was my survival bag when I went down there, and I was always restocking with potions for every raid. You didn't need to think twice you knew I had an athame on me."
"Because you think like I do, though you're a whitelighter, it's our job to protect the innocent and these demons are going to hell." he said and Leo nodded to his information. The young man looked like his wife, but had his ingenuity as he thought over what he said he answered him. "You can tell me later, but if this results in repeat performances, we're working as a team for this, just keep from getting shot with an arrow, because you're half whitelighter that's going to kill you." he said to him and he nodded to that.
Before he could answer they heard an explosion downstairs. "Piper blew him away, it's got to be a decoy, get ready he's got to show up soon." Cole said and they went on the defensive as Raynor shimmered in next. "You're not touching her Raynor." Chris growled and he smiled with a sneer. "We'll see here boy." he said as he fired and they dodged and he fired a second time and Chris called out. "Energy ball." he shouted and it appeared in his hand as he threw it back at him, before he threw a third one.
As he threw several laser bolts at him the next explosion blew up several boxes in the corner and he threw a potion bottle at him. "Hey I bet this gonna turn you into french fried barbecue." he said as he tossed the potion his mother thought up to triple the explosion power at him and he fired but blew it up and it threw him ten feet into the second couch in the room as he stood up and threw another energy ball at him.
As he fired at him he dodged and threw a potion bottle on the floor and it created a cloud of dark gray smoke to block him from view and quickly charged to the book and yanked the spell from it. "Hey Raynor you want that spell you're going to have to go through us first, Andrea's amulet!" he shouted and the first piece flew out of the demons hand and into his. "Hey charcoal breath get away from her." Chris growled and Cole quickly stood up then. "Leave her out of this Raynor." he said and Jenny stood up. "I serve with my breath, even my last." she said and he smiled with a smirk.
Without warning the blast came from behind as Chris went flying into the wall and slammed into a set of boxes and was half unconscious as Raynor blasted Leo and he blasted into blue orbs, before landing on the floor. "I'll have to take you up on that, but I think I'll let my brother do the honors." he said as he threw an energy ball at her and the blast connected with charm, but the jolt threw her into several boxes and knocked her unconscious. 'Jenna's Amulet.' Chris whispered quietly as he fought to stay awake and it materialized in his hand and he put it in his pocket as he lost consciousness.
Hearing the explosion upstairs Piper quickly stood up. "Chris, Leo!" she snapped and they quickly ran upstairs. "Chris, Chris baby, answer me. Stay away from him you bastards?" she shouted. "I've come to take you home." Raynor said to him and he shook his head. "I am home." he said to him firmly. "You will be when you kill the witch. Stop fighting it Belthazor you're a demon embrace it. Let evil make you strong again, give into it." Raynor said to him. "Cole." she shouted. "Cole, Chris, Leo!" She shouted to them.
"The rage is rising in you now, but it's not me you want to kill, it's her, do it yourself." he said and Cole shook his head. "No, I won't do it." he said and Raynor smiled. "Not even for your father's soul?" he asked him and she quickly shouted out at that. "Cole, Cole don't do it!" Phoebe shouted as she saw him scream in anger and a fire light up as he transformed into Belthazor and fires a power ball at Jenny and she goes up in a burst of flames as Raynor shimmers out and she shouted a second time from her angle.
"Cole." she shouted as he shot her and they broke down the door as they found the duo unconscious on the floor. "Chris baby. Leo." Piper said quickly as she ran over to them as Piper ran her hand through Chris's hair. "What the hell did you do to them!" she growled as Phoebe turned to look at them. "I saw what you did." she said and he tried to answer her. "It's not what it looks like, it's just..." he started to say and she interrupted him.
"Jenna is dead and Leo and Chris are unconscious, what else could it be." she said slowly and he swallowed. "Raynor forced me, I had no choice. " He said and she snapped at him at that. "There's always a choice Cole, he's eighteen years old you could have killed him, he's half witch and half white-lighter you could have done worse than knocking him unconscious you could have killed him." she said sharply to him as he looked at her.
"The potion." he said and reached out for it and she grabbed it from him. "They don't have the rest of the amulet, we got both amulets and the spell, and why do you want the potion so badly, you hit the point of no return now by killing an innocent woman and nearly killing my family, Cole it's over now. Phoebe, we pulled a bait and switch for the amulets, they're in his pocket, he used a smoke bomb to cover it up." Piper growled with a furious tone and she nodded as she looked at the eighteen year old.
As Phoebe looked at Chris's clutched hand and opened it to reveal the first half of it then checked his pants pocket and found the second piece of the charm and the spell to activate it and smiled in relief as Prue said it for her with a relieved smile. "Smoke bombs, fighting with use of a athame, fast thinking. And he's like us in combat and he and Leo finished the job together by keeping all three out of their hands."
"Nice thinking baby, you did exactly what I'd do." Prue said to him as they got an answering response to that as he started stirring then. "Mom?" Chris said weakly and she pulled him into her arms. "Yeah I'm right here baby, You okay?" she asked and he answered that. "Massive headache, but yeah I'm alright, what about dad, is he's alright." he said and Prue answered him from across their corner as she sat next to Leo.
"Your father's unconscious at the moment, stay close honey." she said and he smiled in relief as he moved to his father then. "Dad?" he said gently as he gripped his hand, and in response his hand tightened gently around his. "You trying to kill my father, you bastard, not only have you done enough damage to Phoebe, but you destroyed my family in the future?" he said, standing up, as he looked at Cole dangerously.
"Did it work, did the duo fall for it? Because I have the amulet and the spell, they never got to either one, because of my whitelighter abilities." he asked and Piper answered that. "We lost Jenna, but the surgical attack worked perfectly honey, and you took a really good blow to the head, stay sitting down okay. And keep that temper of yours honey, I know you're as furious as I am, but keep it together."
"As for the amulets they couldn't see through the smoke bomb that you grabbed all three, before he or Raynor blasted you and whatever spells you left in there worked perfectly." she said to him gently and he smiled at her. "That potion was meant to block you from view, and you created one to act like the strobe lights mom as well as a second that tripled your exploding powers. As time furthers I'll help you create them."
"So give it time and we can create enough for any and all evil doers, without needing the book, and just wait and you'll see it now. Mom, you and I are even closer than you think I'm telling you the truth in a minute. Phoebe, I think this consurmates the fact there's no going back now, with the fact he just blasted me, and nearly killed both me and dad." he said and Phoebe nodded in agreement to his opinion as she answered him.
"If he'd killed you I'd really be pissed right now, though we just got to know each other, but killing an innocent for whatever reason is unforgivable right now. And aside from that the feeling of rightness with you here is growing every minute Chris, the connection almost feels like you're my blood, my youngest nephew cub." she said to him as she ran her hand through the hair on the back of his head and he leaned into her hand.
"I'll tell you the truth tonight Phoebe, but you're right about there's going back. And well I'd say this goes under the line that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong and be prepared, we just forgot to do back to back, and he hit me in the back." he said to her and she hid a chuckle as she stroked a hand through his hair. "Morbid jokes after the fight, I see you listened to me too much in the future, whoever you are to me I'm not giving you up now baby." she said and pressed her forehead to his and he closed his eyes, remembering that ritual from when he was younger than twelve.
"God I missed this bond with you, you guys are all that matter to me." he said and she smiled and pulled him into a hug and he tightened his arms around her as she nudged his head with hers and the duo smiled at the way they were together. "This is how we were together Phoebe, you acted like this around me when I was little." he said and smiled. "Than we're putting it into place now baby." she said and he pressed his forehead to hers smiling, as Prue and Piper wrapped their arms around both of them in a hug.
As Cole looked at her as he saw the way Piper had her arms wrapped around the eighteen year old and the look of maternal protectiveness in her brown eyes as he looked at Prue and saw the same look on her face and the way Phoebe was acting with him, the gentle look of love of a son and nephew for his mother and aunts in Chris's eyes as he looked at the girls and he couldn't hold his shock in as he said the words then.
"He just arrived, what's wrong with you guys, you're acting like he's your son and nephew and he isn't, he's not really family?" he said and Phoebe answered that, before she could though Chris said it for her firmly then. "Actually if she's acting like this with me if I wasn't family, would she be this pissed you just barely missed killing me and Leo, because denial of the truth that lies in front of you is not going to help your case."
"Guess again though Cole, the reason I came back to this timeline, now, is because so I could help the girls, but I lost 'my' family, my entire family, by the time I was seventeen, every demon in your quadrant, every warlock running loose. Every Darklighter that was around, they all decided on a surgical strike and slaughtered my family and your group, most of all, they're going to get vanquished first when we get through with them."
"You though,, you're still just a member of the brotherhood of the thorn, in my eyes you're the enemy, as to that. How do you suppose mom's going to take it that you nearly killed me next after killing three quarters of our side of the family, huh, how exactly. Pain of future wrongs ring a bell now Cole." he said as he felt the anger and rage shoot through him and let him have it then, as he fought the pain and anguish in him.
"My quadrant?" Cole repeated and Chris nodded as he answered him. "Yes you and your quadrant, you demons of the Brotherhood were furious we killed your current master so they decided to use the one person that could decimate my family, a sixteen year old whitelighter who's the son of the oldest of the charmed ones. Said son is the owner of the legendary sword in the stone legend and the son of a white lighter."
"That young man turned into the new Source of all evil. Because of one thing and one thing only, he lost the most important thing in the world to him, the most important thing in the world to me, our mother And he combined every evil you can think of here, demons, warlocks, darklighters and they decided that if we destroyed their compatriots it was time for some payback and started with the leader of the Power of Three."
And it's on the one day she and I were getting ready for some mother/son bonding time, when dad's not here and they broke down the front door and stabbed her with a poisoned athame. My mother was the first to go, following her is Phoebe. She was stabbed through the chest with Excalibur, and poisoned by an athame and do you know who's Athame it was, in both situations or the demon that did it."
"The one who became the plant at this stage and was trying to get to the younger sister by falling in love with her?" he asked dangerously and Cole shook his head, as the last remark started filling his heart with fear. " No, it's not, it can't be..." he started to say and Chris nodded to confirm that thought. "It is Cole, after all this time, you set out to do what the Source asked you to do finally, only its sixteen years later."
"It was yours, it was you, you were the demon who helped your new found Source kill mom and Phoebe, you finally did what would you were ordered to do and stabbed her to death repeatedly after he got her in the stomach. My mother was first and you killed Phoebe next, so after all this time you finished what you set out to do and slaughtered the charmed ones you met in this time." he said with a growl as his anger started growing as he named everything off.
"I couldn't do it before, why would I do it now, I don't believe you." he said and Chris answered that coldly as he opened up the bag. "Oh no, well does this look familiar. " He said and yanked the knife and flipped it handle first and gave it to him and he paled. "That was in my apartment, how did you get this?" he asked him in shock and he pulled something else out and said a spell. "Sizes made and sizes changed reveal so all can be explained. Mom as I said you want the truth I'm giving it to you now, I am family." he said and it grew to its full sized as they saw a trunk in front of them.
"And to answer your denial, Cole, I wasn't really family, how could I get my hands these trinkets when they all belong to the girls and Leo, let alone Andy, Darryl and Victor, or should I say grandpa." he said and unloaded each one by one and Prue, looking over his shoulder, straightened up in shock. "Holy crap, I recognize a fifth of this stuff, this is from every member of our family, and only a family member can get their hands on this as well." Prue said and Piper nodded.
"Yeah that's my rabbit Cottentail, your necklace, and Phoebe's stuffed dog Woofs, dad's favorite jacket, Leo's Purple Heart and medals when he was mortal. That's Andy's shield and Darryl's gold shield, and what's the pendant around your neck?" she asked and he removed his necklace and set it on the floor as Piper removed hers and put it next to it and saw an exact match as she smiled. "Yeah there's no way he could get these."
"Unless he's family. That's my locket, alright, so the books belong to our youngest, my locket, your necklace, Woofs, dad's favorite Jacket, he uses that during the winter now here. The chief gave you Andy's shield when he was killed and that gold one is from when Darryl's gaining a future promotion after this. And the medals that Leo gained after being killed in the line of duty." she said as she and Prue exchanged looks then.
"Only a family member knows and can get their hands on this stuff." Prue said and he smiled as he pulled something out and put it next to the toy dog. " My rabbit, Cottontail, he's looking a bit more wiped out, after thirty years, but he's got his green ribbon still around his neck. My favorite color is green, and if you're the same way..." Piper said trailing off and saw his t-shirt and smiled. "Alright lay it on me what happened to the rest of the family, just let go." Phoebe said to him and he vented the rest of his anger.
"That's two of my version dead, and Baby Charmed One, who is like me half witch and half whitelighter, poisoned arrow, she was murdered by a friend of yours. And said friend is a Darklighter and she died by Darklighter arrows which as you know can't be pulled by someone with whitelighter blood in them. Following her is Leo, my father, he too was murdered, because your buddies are allied with darklighters, guys like Alec, who wanted an innocent woman to sire a Darklighter."
"Guys like Eames, who'd kill a good being just to take out whitelighters and that brings it to the mortal side of my family, the quartet were murdered by your friends and Darklighters and so was my uncle, who was a mortal parole officer who was dedicated to helping his charges, saw a magical being and didn't care he married a witch with whitelighter powers, he was a good man who was Baby Charmed One's husband."
"They killed him by athame and left him bleeding to death and from the blade being poisoned, and that's five and my grandfather was also murdered by the demons in the brotherhood, he died by athame. No matter how you rationalize this for them, it's not going to save your case now, because I hate your kind with a passion for everything you did to us, you did so much damage to us it's too late to fix it now Cole!"
"As for my brothers and sisters and cousins, it's even worse, and as to why I was the middle child of three in my family, your buddies traumatized my brother enough he lost all sense of right and wrong and our mother was his breaking point and he falls to the darkside, and converts two of my cousins and my sister is murdered when that happens as well and of nine young heirs to the family name only two survived."
"My sister is murdered, because like me she's trying to stop the Source, and all six of my cousins are either killed or converted, but two, and do you know who killed them all, huh do you, well if you don't it was your buddies in the brotherhood. Your buddies are the first on my list to get destroyed now, well I'm here to prevent that at all costs now. You demons of the Brotherhood of the Thorn took everything from me and now it's my turn."
"And it's because you're not taking my aunt away from me again, let alone the rest of my family, not again and never again. No matter how many times you try to get her back its not happening, I'm not losing her, my mother or Baby Charmed One ever again. You finally pissed me off now and with that, you and your friends are going down no matter what Belthazor!" he said with a dangerous growl, as the trio heard the agony and anguish in his voice they exchanged looks at what they just heard.
'That's not normal, he's furious and in emotional turmoil here, his tone sounds like we're more than just adoptive family, it's like we really are are Piper.' Phoebe said to her with her eyes and she nodded as he looked at the demon coldly as he looked at Piper then. 'If we're really family he's got to be either mine or yours, because he looks closer to us in looks than Prue, but his eyes are across between Prue and Leo, but he looks like her and me mixed together.' she said to her and she nodded in agreement as he looked at the trio.
"Tarkin and Raynor look like him in demon form, just in a different color. They all carry that warrior look to them and they're just much stronger than he is, because he's half human, but the blood brother ritual insures they're all connected. Mom his species are like him in demon form, and I mean of two kinds, red with black tattoos or black with red tattoos all over their bodies, he's not an endangered species in fact there's eighty more just like him in the Brotherhood of the Thorn, both types as well too."
"But they're all blood related from the blood brother rituals and the vanquishing spell and potion you created back then is enough to destroy them all at once if they come here, and with that fact in mind. The Brotherhood are your blood brothers Cole, well fine, then tell them that Christopher Perry is making sure they're not a threat to the Charmed Ones and their days are numbered when we get through with them."
"Here's something else to think about, the girls all have names that start with 'P', though I'm a boy, mom gave the added 'P' to my name, in addition to the rest of my name. So with those words in mind here, Christopher Alan, 'Perry', Victor. Girls I'll give you two guess but you're only going to need one here. I'm the second born child, I too was born in the hospital and to top that off I know things about you I couldn't know..." he said trailing off and Prue finished his sentence as her eyes widened on the trail off.
"Unless you were family, Perry, I was going to name my son, if I had one, Perry. Christopher Perry, Christopher Allen Perry Victor, there's only one way you can gain those names in our family, because our grandfather's first name is Alan. Leo said his father was Christopher Perry Wyatt and the Victor, only one of the three of us named you after dad, so keep going it's the only way to clarify baby, that you're who I think." she said to him.
"As to why I'm really here and I chose now to come back is the future Source of all evil who replaces your current source in twenty five years and hes the man I'm preventing from coming true at all costs, as to why the boy who grows up to become him happens to be my big brother and I blame you and your brethren for everything that happened to my family and your boss and your fellow demons are never touching him if I got anything to say about it and whatever demons the bastard sends after us are getting eliminated, one by one and with that fact in mind here."
"Tell them leave us alone or you're getting destroyed by us. You and your buddies destroyed my life and I'm making sure you're getting vanquished and as to why. The girls happen to be my mother and aunts and Leo is my father. They acted like my parental guardians and one by one I lost them, before I reached the age I am now. Well now I'm back to prevent evil from destroying my family and this is the end of the line."
"Once you cross the line of attacking an innocent, though you claim you're turning good now, there's no going back from slaughtering an innocent woman, redemption is not going to come and potion or no potion, you're still a demon." Chris said with a growl as he stood up and moved to Phoebe's side and she pulled him into a hug as he tightened his arms around her in relief as Cole looked at him in a panic..
"No that's a lie, you're not family, you're not her son!" Cole snapped and he smiled dangerously at him then. "Oh no, let's see you're a district attourney, Andy is a copy, he went into cop analysis mode when he named off every factor to my father, and in order, here they are." he started to say as someone else did it for him then. "You can't escape the evidence Cole, it's very clear here, that boy is Piper's son. He's been separated from our future versions ever since you helped slaughter 3/4's of his family and believe me, I'm beyond pissed off right now at it, but the clues are pretty clear."
"Starting with the first, A) is he looks like his mother, but has his father's eyes, that's my exact words when I confronted him when he arrived Cole, I busted him within hours of his arrival now. He doesn't have to hold back on us regarding who he is, once we busted him and with that, if you think I don't know my sister at this age, you're wrong, because I do, and as to how and why that is, it's because we were closest in age."
"So with that, to repeat my remark upstairs, son, If you think I don't remember what your mother looked like at this age your wrong, because she was with your aunt and me a lot. I watched your mother grow up and you look like an seventeen year old male version of her. You look just like your mother, but have your father's eyes. Dark brown hair and bluish green eyes'." they heard a voice say from the door as Andy walked into the room then, his brown eyes blazing in anger that at the other man as he quoted word for word what he said to him that afternoon.
"B), is that he did the spell in the attic, creating a door between our time frames of the same symbol as the family emblem, the triquetra, and he did the spell right here in the attic. And same window that was created when Abraxas showed up last year, and if you beamed into the attic the book started glowing in anticipation. The reaction which I can guess is because the book reacted to you like it knew you and your magical signature."
"C) is that the cat did the same thing on your arrival, acting like you were her owner when she saw you. D) is if you managed to call Leo to the attic when you got here than its by a familial bond. You were sounding like a son to his father and he responded to you automatically. E) is that you know how to get up here and deal with the elders, because you've been up here before in your timeline at the time."
"You were reacting to Kalina like you knew her, Sandra, Orlin, Odin, Zola and Peter in the same way, which I'm guessing is because you're probably from a different time line than ours, and your mother was slightly annoyed with the sextet, being elders and all. F) Going by your reaction when you're around Cole when you saw him, you've got your aunts sense of wariness when around demons, and though he's half demon you're not letting your guard down, and as to why, he's burned her once already here."
"Your reaction is more and it's because a demon is a threat no matter if he's a good demon or bad one, G) is that you seem to know your way around the house. And from there it's going down the line in powers now. And you have the abilities of both of them, orbing and witch abilities, I can also sense a slight tension when you're around Leo, like you blame him for something, meaning you've got daddy issues like they do, or not, emotional pain is more probable than that now and with it is the added abilities of a witch, scrying, potion making, spell creating and so on."
"And H) You're able to orb and you have telekinesis, which is Prue's power, but another version of it, because it's been mixed with whitelighter blood in your veins, making it stronger than her power, you said one of each, you also said they're your surrogate parents. That's what I got from seven minutes of examining him and with it, is the alibi. The alibi was he's their son, but the alibi is true, every word of it." he said to him coldly.
As he looked at Phoebe he felt a jolt of anger and hatred shoot through him as he looked at Cole as he thought it over. 'No forget it I'm not holding back, I have to tell them now I'm home and I'm protecting my family.' he thought as he said that outloud. "Alright you know what, screw holding back the truth of who I am Cole. Everything I just told you is true you bastard, every word of it, you destroyed my family when I was just fourteen."
"My family is the Halliwell/Wyatt clan, I'm Piper's and Leo's son and you just pissed me off right now, you done enough damage to her emotionally the past five months and I'm calling it right now. You destroyed my family, you helped destroy the planet's best chances of staying good. You're the reason my brother went to the darkside, mom was his breaking point." Chris said with an icy look as she looked at him.
As Cole walked forward he shouted at him. "Get away from my father you bastard!" he screamed and blasted him into the wall then. "You took away my mother, my sister and my father, well now it's my turn, rest in hell you asshole!" He shouted at him as they quartet got what he meant then as they saw the power broiling in him. "Oh my god, everybody get down now." Prue shouted as a lightning blast shot out of him.
"Chris stop, calm down honey, it's okay we're here, we're here!" Piper shouted as he lunged at the other man and knocked him to the floor then as he hit him with a blast. "Son stop, calm down, we're here, you didn't lose us!" Andy shouted out for her a second time as he grabbed him as he felt him shaking out of grief then as he pulled him away from him and wrapped both arms around him as he looked at his father in grief.
"Dad, come back, please, come back!" He heard him say frantically. "Flashback, he's having a flashback to when he lost Leo, Piper." He said and she nodded. "Get him to calm down, before that happens again." she said and he nodded as he refocused on him, seeing the sixteen near seventeen year orphan in him. As she stood up as she froze Cole as Chris collapsed on the floor as Andy crouched in front of him to calm him down.
"Son, shh, easy son, it's okay, shh we're here you didn't lose us, it's okay." Andy said as he pulled him into his arms. "Dad, why did you leave, you promised, you promised you'd never leave me. Come back, please come back, come back." they heard as the tears started pouring down his face then as Andy looked into his eyes gently as he calmed him. "It's okay, you didn't lose us in this timeline, we're here, it's going to be okay son." he said soothingly as Chris looked at him and buried his head into his shoulder.
"Why did he have to do that, he didn't have to take that arrow for me, I want him back." he said through his crying and Andy nodded to him gently. "Its alright son, it's going to be okay, we're all alive and with you, you're not losing us again, we promise." Andy said and he nodded as he looked into her eyes as she looked at him closely and nodded. "Holy shit, alright I see it now baby, you're really mine, it's okay, it's okay.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm here, it's going to be okay." Piper said to him, as he buried his face into her shoulder as she felt him shaking from suppressed sobs then. "Don't leave." She heard him say and she closed her eyes in pain and anguish at the wording. "I'm not going anywhere honey, it's okay baby, it's going to be okay." she said and Andy repeated that softly as he and Prue crouched behind him as he rubbed his back gently.
"It's okay son, we're alive in this time frame, it's okay, it's going to be okay." Andy said softly to him as he pulled him into a hug as Piper explained to Phoebe then. "He's had enough for one night, Leo was his final straw, I'm dead and Leo's all he has left and he loses him next Phoebe that explains that power blast, I think Cole was with the Darklighter when he shot Leo, that's why he lost it now." Piper said and Phoebe nodded in agreement to that as she finished her sentence as Piper unfroze Cole.
"You can tell me later why you brought that up Chris, but if my abilities start changing on me, I need more information on why you chose now to return to the past and to answer your remark of denial Cole, because he's talking like a Halliwell at the moment. Only a Halliwell could ever react like that regarding the loss of their family. Witch/whitelighter/elder, he's part of the family and he's their son and with that."
"That's where you're wrong Cole, I don't have to hear out loud right now to know who he is in my heart. Because the sense of rightness with him in my life right now is that fits the family dynamics perfectly, and he was protecting her and he'd never hurt an innocent, I don't have to hear the words, but he's the adult version of a future blood relative and you could have destroyed that relative by the relapse when you knocked him unconscious. That eighteen year old is probably my adult second born nephew."
"Said second born nephew Piper's son and you could have killed both him and his father in one shot, Piper's right you just passed the point of no return, by nearly killing who is probably my nephew, my brother-in-law and killing an innocent." she said and he reached out for the potion. "The potion, before it's too late." he said and she shook her head. "It's already too late, you killed an innocent woman there's no going around that." she said and he quickly tried to answer her.
"I didn't want to do it, I can still be good." he said and she shook her head. "There's nothing good in you anymore." she said and Prue answered that. "Maybe there never was. You have to read the spell to activate the amulets, maybe that was your plan all along Cole, to get the book." she said and Piper looked at her. "But evil can't use the book or the amulets." she said and Chris moved to check on his father.
"Evil can't, but a neutral, they can and that neutral is fully mortal mom. Before you ask, dad's going to be fine, but will just wake up with one hell of a headache later." he said and Phoebe read that out to her. "He could if we stripped his powers from him. Is that why you wanted the potion Cole, so you could get the spell and use the amulets against us." she said and he quickly tried to answer her to get himself out of the hole.
"Phoebe you got to believe me." he said and Piper said it firmly. "I think she's believed you once to often Cole." she said and he growled at her. "Stay out of this, this is between me and her." he said and Phoebe answered that with a low tone. "There's nothing between us anymore." she said and he tried to answer her with a desperate tone.
"Phoebe don't let Raynor take this away from us, don't let him win." he said and she answered that firmly. "Raynor didn't set you up, you set me up." she said and he answered with a sigh. "Please, save me." he said and she answered that with a tone of finality in her voice. "Save yourself." she said and smashed the potion on the floor and he sighed and shimmered out as Chris grabbed her and sat her on the couch.
"Hey it's going to be okay." he said and she looked into his eyes and threw herself into his arms and he tightened them up around her. "Let go, just let it out." he said as he felt her shaking with suppressed sobs. "Shh, it's going to be okay." he said and she burrowed into his arms. "New member of the family, it's best when you got me arriving today than any of you do it, because you guys know each other too well and I can get her to open up now." he said and Prue nodded in agreement to that as she answered him. "What a mess, what now honey?" Prue asked and he sighed as he said it.
"We stopped evil from getting the amulet, and we got both pieces now, though we lost one innocent we saved the other and we destroyed the spell to keep the demons from using it or the amulets, but the fall out has begun. Phoebe, listen to me carefully, you had to let him go, for your own sake to heal now from the previous situation, but that was not really Jenna, she's fine, and she's in the laundry room." he said and she looked at him. "If she's fine than why did you pull this raid?" she asked and he explained that.
"What's the biggest reason of your anger at him, think about it, what did he do, before you hid the fact he was alive from mom and Aunt Prue?" he asked and she nodded. "I've been burned twice in five months by him and this was to get my anger out of me at him for getting that close to me and my deceiving my sisters. Yes alright I see what you mean, but it still hurts." she said and he nodded to that as he answered her.
"Yes I know, but this was like every other test you're going to be going through, you're going to be tested on strength of heart, and this was one of them, but don't give up on love, because of him, you'll find your true soulmate, just give it time." he said and she nodded and hugged him. "The sense of rightness with you being here is growing every minute, it's like I already know who you are to me right now and with that."
"You said eighteen to twenty two years into the future, so with that, I watched you grow up till you were fifteen, before some demon killed me. Why wait till now to come to the past, and not when you're dealing with your brother?" she asked and he sighed. "Because doing it now, keeps you three intact, because my version, by that Aunt Prue becomes the matriarch of our family, but my version of the power of three starts in four months. Both versions under one roof till we get rid of the Source completely."
"With you this vulnerable right now you needed the support and comfort from someone you didn't meet yet and though I'm practically your younger brother in looks, I'm a future relative and you can talk to me about anything you need to as time goes on. There's less tension now then when Wy' is born than there would be when I arrived, four months into his being born. We got a chance to put our bonds into place and by the time he's born, our bonds are going to be the way you think, mother/son, aunt/nephew."
"While my version of Prue was a whitelighter, I get to see her as she is now, and with her alive, as does my youngest aunt, but that's situation number three. We're family and I'm insuring our entire family stays intact, by coming now rather than in two years." he said and she looked at him as she saw the caring look in his eyes that she saw in Leo and the way his hair curled around his forehead and smiled as she said it.
"You're really my nephew aren't you, that's why you came back, the future versions of us were murdered by the demons and you came back to help us and be with us as the younger versions of who you know us to be. We're your family like you said, but with my being so focused on him, I didn't get a good look at you till you named off the indicators of who you are and now that I heard that, you're her son?" she said and he nodded to her as the girls crouched down in front of the couch in front of them.
"Everything you said to him, you've been holding it in for two years baby, that's why you lost control, because after seeing us like this, like we are now, you're ready to break down emotionally, that's what caused the release baby?" Piper said and he nodded. "You have no idea how much I missed you guys, the brotherhood killed you first and with no way to train to heal injuries, you died right in front of me, truth is we were getting ready to spend some mother/son time together and they killed you, because we were alone."
"With no way to heal you I tried to get dad down here and he or someone was blocking my callouts to him and you died right in front of me. Once is bad enough I can't lose you again mom, I won't." he said and she pulled him into a hug and he buried his head into her shoulder as she felt him shaking from the silent sobs then as every ounce of pain he felt start pouring out of him then and she tightened her arms around him.
"It's okay baby, it's going to be okay, you got us back, we're not going anywhere." Piper said as she rocked him and Prue looked at him with a worried look on her face. "Now this just gave me another reason to hate those guys and demons for real, he was fine till the attack, he comes back to the past, sees us like we are now and has an emotional breakdown and the release after seeing Cole like that and after Tarkin nearly kills Piper."
"If I'm the whitelighter in the future, you and Baby Charmed One helped raise him Phoebe, he needs you, Piper and her the most now. I was a whitelighter, you're his version now, you three. That's what's causing this, he lost all of you and Leo, dad and his uncle in eight months, he knew me as a whitelighter and his family was destroyed along with our entire legacy, and the ones to blame are Cole's species and the brotherhood and the darklighters, he's half whitelighter Leo was killed by a guy like Alec." she said and Phoebe's eyes narrowed in anger and hatred at the news as she answered her.
"I'm the one he's closest to out of his version of us, alright screw it then, if it takes destroying every demon and Darklighter we can get our hands on or we can find we're finding the ones who killed us and we're killing them first. Before they can do the damage he told us about in that venting. If Cole's the failed marriage, I'm finding the asshole demon who caused this to happen and his buddy, or buddies, and I'm sending them straight to hell for this." she said with a growl as she looked at him gently.
"Hey shh, it's going to be okay now, you're not losing us now, if it means preventing your brother from falling we're doing whatever it takes. We may not be your versions, but we're close enough for you to heal now." Phoebe said to him gently. "I was fourteen when I lost you mom, barely nine months later they killed you Aunt Phoebe, and Aunt Baby Charmed One was killed by a Darklighter arrow, and that's all three in a year, dad was trying to help me, but he gets hit with an arrow and it kills him, while they killed Mellie and Patty six months after that and my uncle, but that's why I lost it now."
"All that's left of our family that stayed good and are in the resistance are me, your husband, and Penny, your daughter. That's what's killing me now, I lost everything because of evil and I decided that to prevent that at all costs is to find the guy who turns my brother into that and destroy him. I took it to you Aunt Prue and she agreed this was a good idea, but seeing you guys now, I can't hold it in or act indifferent, I want our relationship like it was before they took you away from me." he said and they nodded.
"That part about Cole, that wasn't a lie either, though you stripped him of his powers, some guy in the Brotherhood had a way to reverse the potion. He figured with you married to a good being, than if he couldn't have you no one could, went to his new Source and decided he was stealing your soul, by poisoning you till there was no way Aunt Charmed or dad could save you and you died with him standing over you." he said and she nodded as she switched subjects gently.
"Was I who you were closest to, out of your version, me, Piper and our youngest, we're your version?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah you were, you three: you, mom and Aunt Baby Charmed One, were my version, Prue died, before we could know her as who she was to us and they turned her into a whitelighter, so we never knew her. But you three, you practically raised me yourself after mom was killed by the brotherhood."
"Losing you hit me even worse after losing mom and Aunt Baby Charmed One was half whitelighter, so just one area and that's it, as you learned the hard way, to save us, only a non whitelighter can touch the arrow without getting poisoned. I lost dad and her in six months after losing you and mom, eighteen months after you died and all I had left was Penny and her father. Andy and Prue took over parental responsibilities, though they were whitelighters, I'm an orphan and all I wanted was you and him back mom."
"While the eight were either killed or converted and the demons somehow got to my brother and he crashed and fell to the darkside, altogether everything I lost was because of the Brotherhood and the Source, now that I'm back here in the past, and see you like this, I can't take losing you, either version of the Power of Three, dad, or grandpa, let alone my uncle, sister or cousins, or my brother, again. I can't lose you again and I won't." he said and she nodded as she pulled him into a hug and he buried his head into her shoulder. "Shh, it's okay, it's okay." she whispered as she held him gently.
"Mellie, Melinda, that's her nickname?" Piper asked and he nodded to her as he wiped the tears off his face then as he looked at her. "Yeah it is, you gave your daughter our grandmother's names, her full name is Melinda Patricia, but us boys took our father or grandfather's names, while the girls got ones beginning with the letter 'P'. Aside from Mellie, you chose to start with our starting point while the girls went to 'P' names."
"With Aunt Prue gone, you chose to honor her memory by giving me the name Perry, in addition to great grandpa, both sides of the family and grandpa. But you took to the mantle so much, I couldn't be more honored than I was that I was the son of the oldest charmed one, you took Aunt Prue's place as the super witch. As for the girls, though Phoebe kept up the tradition, name wise, your sister took a different route in that."
"Can't tell you the names of each one, but what I will say is you chose the names you thought would fit into family dynamics Aunt Phoebe, you had three, mom had one and Aunt Charned had two girls, but there's three boys in the family and I'm one of them, you'll meet my uncle in five years, but I'm arranging it so you can find true love, before you meet your soulmate and husband for real. As for why I lost it, mom, when I let him have it and why we connected so fast when I got here."
"It's because out of the two of us, as your sons, I was closest to you mom, no playing favorites, but our relationship was very strong, in fact I was always with you. I became a mama's boy and we did everything together, now that I'm this timeline we can prevent things from coming forth." he said to her and she nodded to him. "Well that answers every question we need to know about why you broke down now after arriving."
"We may not be your version, but both versions together, that's enough to do a lot of damage, whatever asshole touches you is getting vanquished, alright, so is that why you chose today to come back instead of when your brother is born, so we had time to get our bond together?" Phoebe asked him and he nodded to her. "Yes I did, the truth is not only did I come back to save my family, I came back to save you and the youngest of the new Charmed Ones, she's the youngest of the four of you, but to protect all of you."
"Aunt Prue's got three months, before she steps down as the eldest sister and you meet your baby sister, that's the version from my future: you, mom and Aunt Baby Charmed One. The next battle or two resulted in killing Aunt Prue in my future, but they turned her into a white-lighter, so to reconstitute the power of three, they decided it was time to tell you the truth you had a baby sister, who was a female version of me." he said and they nodded to that as Piper answered him.
"Female version of you, you mean she's half witch and half whitelighter?" Piper asked and he nodded. "Yeah mom that's exactly what I mean, grandma had an affair with Sam like you knew, but the union resulted in a pregnancy, but that's what pissed grandpa off at the time. Sam got grandma pregnant, though he's not happy you decided to take up her legacy at the moment, he's not going to care, because he loves Aunt baby Charmed One like another daughter in my timeline." he said and they nodded to that.
"I guess my fears over whether having children with a whitelighter are no longer valid, were you guys beaming out of your room or anything I need to be concerned about when you were kids, before you lost me?" she asked and he shook his head. "No we never used our powers for personal gain, we got busted, we just took it, but we did play hide and seek while using it in the house, but nothing like orbing all over the globe, you and dad put us on certain rules when we were five to six years old." he said to her gently.
"Okay so if I'm right the three main powers running through this family were mine, Prue and Phoebe's, you and your brother got or wound up with all three because of your whitelighter blood and your sister just got all me and the rest of the next generation wound up with one or all of them as they got older. Lovely, alright so your sister wound up with just me in powers, you and your brother got both me and your father."
"Though if Odin starts screwing with your abilities, before your sister is born and I'm blasting him for that. Alright you said the three main powers in our family were telekinesis, freezing and divination Phoebes. So though when mixed with another being the powers get mixed with whatever it was the partner was and is, whether mortal or magical the powers either get stronger with who their mixed, magic or its just one."
"Your cousins wound up as witches or whitelighters in our sister's family and Phoebe wound up with all one kind and that was witch, that is if she didn't marry a Cupid and that's screwing with a person's love life. This is just getting ridiculous, alright as I said, with each situation that comes up we alter it further, Jenna's alive so that's one, we just deal with draining the rest of her anger out of her and spend the next few weeks deepening the bonds." Piper said and Prue nodded in agreement to that.
"Wy' you named him Wyatt, Piper, alright whoever the youngest of our sisters is, you used her last name, by that I mean her adopted surname, but her last name and bingo, Wyatt middle name Halliwell, alright he's our young twice blessed and Chris is thrice blessed and he said you're his parents and I know that surname is a fake baby, what's your real name exactly if you decided to just drop the act with us."
"Alright so what's your real name exactly baby?" Prue asked him. "Christopher-Allen Perry Victor Halliwell." he said and then they heard Leo answer that. "Dad, your grandfather, Victor, my father's full name was Christopher Perry Wyatt and with what Grams said I'd say you kept your last name honey, though when we were in public you stamped the Wyatt on for good measure, but that's one." he said and Piper stood up. "Leo, all thank god, you alright?" she asked and he nodded to her.
"Yeah I'm fine, son what happened if you had to break it to him the reason you looked like Piper, but have my eyes exactly. Because I thought we were waiting till your mother was in her second trimester with your brother to tell her?" he asked and he sighed. "What happened in here exactly, the cabinet took some damage and why is there a smoke coming off of it?" he said and Andy quickly explained that.
"Whatever reaction you had to losing his adult counterpart in our future in four years it just happened in reverse Leo. He's half witch, half whitelighter and half elder, thrice blessed, way more powerful and you were his last straw. He just blasted him into the wall and was getting ready to electrocute him just now." he told him and he nodded as he crouched in front of him as he ran his hand through the hair at the nape of his neck as he said it to him. "Hey it's okay son, I'm here, I'm right here." he said and Chris buried his head into his shoulder as he rocked him gently as he calmed him down.
"With the fact your uncle and I busted you, no more lies and no holding back, the future consequences remarks we can take, just reveal the sequences as every situation starts son." Leo said to him and he nodded to him as he pulled him into a hug and he tightened his arms around him as Prue answered him, before he could though, Leo went to the question needed then. "What happened to me to make you lose it like this son?" he asked and Chris sighed as he answered him, before Leo went to the factor over it, feeling him bury his head into his shoulder he rocked him gently.