NEW CHAPTER, not that it means that much as barely anybody gives a damn. For this one chapter i will waive me no flames clause so i can see what those who hate this think about it. Enjoy this chapter and to all those that it concerns, a happy Easter.
Harry watched Chris from his side of the table as he nursed his beer with an expression of shock that hadn't been seen on his face in a long time. "So let me get this straight. You came back from the future to stop your brother from turning evil and to save your aunts and mother from certain death." He summarised receiving a nod in return, "You do realise that by coming back here with no plan whatsoever other than to stop this is the most difficult thing you can ever do. In fact your coming here may be the very thing that turns him evil in the first place." He said after thinking.
"But I'm not the one who turns him evil so my coming here may not be the reason he changes but the reason he won't" Chris reasoned
"Well I highly doubt that if we sent you home right now that everything would be sunshine and rainbows." Harry commented, alcohol had a strange effect on his vocabulary.
"No, but Paige is alive, you are free, that's a lot better than it could ever be." He said causing Harry to raise an eyebrow.
"Interesting side effect of time travel." Harry remarked as he finished his bottle and picked up another from the table. "Well then count me in because I am not going to let that happen if there's anything I can do about it." He raised his bottle with Chris doing the same "to the future." He toasted
"To the future." Chris toasted as he clinked his bottle with Harry and drank.
Harry groaned as he awoke the next morning as the sunlight became too intense for him to stay asleep. It also blinded him due to the fact that he had a hangover. It was when he noticed a lump next to him that he smiled and put his arm around it. "When did you come over?" he asked moving slightly closer until they were almost touching. The lump moved and groaned until a head came up from the covers causing Harry to scream and fall out of the bed. "Please tell me you have pants on." He pleaded with Chris from his position on the floor.
"Please tell me we didn't sleep together" Chris begged ignoring Harry's question
"Well we slept in the same bed but I somehow doubt there is enough alcohol in the world to make me sleep with you."
"Right so moving on before we go too far deep into this conversation." Chris replied to which Harry nodded "do you remember last night?" he asked
"Nope not one bit but I have a feeling I'm going to be slapped a few times before the night is out." Chris nodded
"Yeah I have the same feeling."
The two got dressed and headed downstairs where they found Paige sitting at the table somehow managing to eat a slice of toast and glare at the two of them at the same time. "I hope you're happy with yourselves" she said, her hair was red today so Harry was slightly reminded of Mrs Weasley but he abandoned that thought as quickly as it came when he reminded himself that he was sleeping with Paige and didn't need those kind of images.
"Well we don't remember a thing, we woke up in bed together and you are glaring at us as if we just killed your cat so I'm gonna say no." Harry replied taking one of her slices of toast. "So are you going to tell us or do I have to drag you to the next room and convince you?" Paige blushed but relented, although Harry knew she would prefer the second option any day.
"You two came into the manor screaming about how Harry was cheating. Apparently you two were playing orb tag whatever the hell that was, and Harry had cheated by summoning Chris because of his elder status." Harry grinned, sober or not that was something he would do. "You then woke Wyatt up and started playing with him much to the annoyance of Piper. "Harry shared a look with Chris making a silent pact to never drink whatever they drank last night. "She tried to blow you up but you two orbed out screaming something about going to kill a siren."
Harry turned to Chris who had a grin on his face that Harry knew was matched on his own, "Well then now that we now what happened let's go out to lunch." Paige looked hesitant and Chris had already gone to get his coat, "it's my treat?" he tried and watched as Paige smiled and ran home for her coat telling them to call over for her.
Chris got his jacket and so did Harry when the two made their way over to the manor slowly. They both knew that Piper would be furious with them and they were thankful they had taken empathy potions back when they did because they were still hung-over and Phoebe could fry their brains so easily with empathy. The two entered the manor cautiously and Harry had his hands raised just in case.
"Don't worry Piper is out and Phoebe is at work again so you're safe." Paige said as she came down the stairs. Harry and Chris immediately relaxed.
"So then where do you want to go?" Chris asked the two as they walked
"There's a café around the corner. It's where Phoebe takes her dates." Paige answered him causing Harry to turn to her
"And where do you take your dates?" he asked her with a grin.
"Well lately I haven't had any." She replied causing Harry's grin to disappear as fast as it came
"Sorry about that, I thought with the amount of time we had spent demon hunting I never noticed that we didn't spend as much personal time together." Harry slipped his hand into hers as they reached the café. "We'll go out tonight for dinner, just me and you how's that sound?" Paige nodded
"That sounds nice and if you can make it happen I will be very happy."
They had lunch at the café like any other people. They shared news, stories, and had fun all over coffee and a meal. Harry felt slightly awkward around Chris due to the fact that he was Paige's nephew and he didn't really know how to handle that. But he did manage to pass off a sense of normality at least until Paige had to leave.
"I have to go to work" she laughed when Harry refused to let her go and gripped her in a bear hug
"But you can just orb in five minutes and be right on time," Harry pleaded
"I'll make you a deal. You let go and I'll stay at yours tonight, sound good?"
Harry was sorely tempted to not agree and spend more time with her now but he relented and let go. He watched as she walked away off to work with a sad smile on his face. He turned to Chris though, with a very serious expression. "We have to get to work on the demons. Anybody with a slight chance of turning Wyatt evil has to be vanquished and fast." Chris nodded.
"So we use the book of shadows and see who is capable of it."
"Yes but we have to tread carefully though so nobody realises what we're doing they may take the idea unto themselves." With that said Harry grabbed Chris and blinked them to his home where they immediately started checking the book of shadows.
That night after vanquishing ten priests/priestesses, five demons of seduction, two telepaths and one demon that just pissed them off, Harry was sitting with Paige at a candle-lit table on top of a construction site near the ocean.
"Tell me again how you managed to do this." Paige asked as she played with her pasta
"Technically we shouldn't be here and if anybody knew I'd be fired but the job is more of a hobby rather than a necessity so I don't particularly care." Harry smiled, "as for the actual doing it, it was a simple matter of cooking food and orbing it here while you weren't looking."
"So what's with the sudden closeness with Chris? You hated him a week ago but now you're off drinking with him and causing mayhem?"
"I never hated him; I just didn't trust him because he was too secretive. But now I know him and I know why he did what he did." Harry smiled, "And we didn't cause that much destruction did we?"
"No you just orbed all over the place while Chris screamed about you cheating." She took a sip of her wine while Harry raised his hands and renewed the floating orbs keeping the lights over them.
"So you know all about me yet I know barely anything about you." Harry commented as he too sipped his wine.
"Well you already know about my parents, how I was adopted." She began, Harry waved his hand and the empty plates disappeared; another wave and the wine bottle refilled their glasses. "I was given a normal life by my adopted parents. I met Philip Lewicky who gave me a bracelet and became my first love. Oh give over." She said when she saw his face at the mention of her first crush. "In my eighth grade graduation, I was supposed to sing the school song in front of eight hundred people, when the time arrived, I froze, ran out and missed my own graduation, it turned out to be the worst day of my life all my friends laughed at me and a my boyfriend named Bobby Maynard dumped me." By now the two had abandoned the table and sat on one of the metal beams facing the sea.
"Sounds like you had a fun childhood." Harry commented, "I hope it stayed that way."
"No I became a troubled teen I started to hang out with the wrong friends and began drinking, smoking, skipping classes, and disobeying my parents. When my parents died I changed my tune and went to school again. I was accepted to UC Berkeley and graduated with a degree in social work." Harry wrapped his arms around her while she rested her head on his chest.
"And you …" Harry didn't finish as he went stiff for a moment, "Chris?" he whispered to nothing before he orbed out with Paige still holding on to him.
The two reappeared inside the back room of P3 where they saw a woman with her hand inside Chris's soon as she saw them appear she pulled her hand out of his chest and an energy ball appeared in her hand but Harry had already thrown a fireball which struck her and blew her up. Paige ran to Chris who had fallen to the ground, "What happened? Who is she?"
"I don't know." Chris answered but Harry knew he did. Nobody could have gotten that close to him if he didn't want them to.
While the sisters were trying to find out how the woman was Harry was talking with Chris. How they managed to not draw the attention of the other he didn't know but the situation forced him to ignore secrecy.
"Chris this is bullshit and you know it. Who was that woman?"
"Bianca, a member of the phoenix coven and my fiancé."
"Phoenix coven? The legendary power strippers? You were engaged to an assassin witch?" Harry asked incredulously
"Yes, yes, yes. She was part of the resistance against Wyatt in the future." Chris explained, "She helped me come here but now I think Wyatt converted her to his side"
The two were pulled from their argument by Leo and the girls "how did she get that close to you, anyway, if you didn't even know who she was?" Leo asked him from the book
Chris and Harry moved over to the book but on the way Chris stepped on a squeaky board "We really oughta fix that, you know."
"Come on Chris, stop avoiding the subject, who's after you?"
"Has it crossed your mind that maybe she wasn't after me? Maybe she was trying to get to them."
"It kind of makes sense." Paige cut in from her position from the book, "People used to go after you to get to us." She directed that at Leo.
"Finally, somebody's listening. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some work to take care of." Chris started to walk out but Harry grabbed his arm.
"Come over to mine and I'll help you." He whispered in his ear before joining the sisters. "Paige if you want to stay over, come ahead but I have to take care of some things first." With that he orbed out leaving them alone.
He reappeared in his house to find Chris with his book of shadows but he wasn't reading it as he was looking at the wall in front of it with his eyes glazed over.
"Chris we have to focus" Harry said as he smacked him over the back of the head. "You have to have your powers taken by a phoenix otherwise you'll die. And given the fact that you're the only one capable of stopping Wyatt at the moment we need you alive." Harry sighed, "But we can't do anything tonight so go sleep on the couch and we'll fix this tomorrow."
Harry walked into his bedroom to find Paige already asleep. With a sigh and a wave of his hands to remove his clothes he got into bed beside her and fell asleep to an endless void like so many before.
Harry awoke first the next morning and left a note for Paige on a breakfast tray so she wouldn't worry. After that he and Chris orbed to a park but Harry blinked to the other end after arriving. He watched as Bianca appeared behind a pillar and as she talked to Chris when she tried to grab Chris Harry appeared behind her and held an athame to her throat.
"I see you did change the past." She noted to Chris when she saw just who was holding her captive.
"Save it princess. Now I'm going to let you go and you're going to take his powers away so he doesn't die." Harry hissed "And when you're done you're gonna go and leave us alone while we try and save the future."
As Harry released her he raised his hand and a bolt of electricity shot forth towards Bianca but it stopped just before reaching her. As she got closer to Chris the bolt followed and as she bent down the bolt lowered. Her hand glowed as it entered Chris's chest and it seemed as if she was looking for something as her arm twitched every once in a while. In a few minutes she removed her hand from Chris and stood up.
"Good gi_" Harry never finished as Bianca shimmered behind him and knocked him out. But in his last moments of consciousness Harry waved his hand and orbed Chris to the manor where hopefully he would be safe.
It was at least two hours until Harry woke up. The first thing he did was swear so badly a sailor would blush before going to fine Chris. His search took him to the attic of the manor where he found the most interesting sight. Bianca was holding an athame to Piper's neck while Chris and the other sisters stood by the charmed symbol on the attic wall. He knew he couldn't do a thing without jeopardizing Piper's life and if she died then Chris would never be born. So he made himself invisible and waited for the opportune moment to strike.
"If you kill her, there won't be a future for either one of us to go back to and you know it." Chris pleaded, Harry knew what he was talking about but the others didn't.
"What are you talking about?" Phoebe asked.
"You'll see if you live long enough." Bianca said, she let go of Piper and headed towards the portal with Chris.
"Piper freeze them!" Paige screamed. Piper raised her hands but Harry grabbed them stopping her.
"It won't work." He whispered in her ear, "but leave it to me. I need you to find a way to get Chris his powers back and fast." He then let her go and followed the other two through the portal just as it closed.
