GN chapt 10

Previously...

Minutes pass, Chris knows there's only minutes left, his eyes begin to flicker and he can't fight anymore, his eyes close and he slips into a possibility endless sleep.

Phoebe's shovel hits wood, "Found it." Phoebe, who is wearing the glasses again shouts, "Hurry, there's no pulsing left."

Leo and Paige pull open the coffin and...

-/Chrishalliwell11\-

Chris's eyes and he sucks in a much needed breath of fresh air, "You found me."

"Did you ever doubt we would?" Phoebe asks.

"Truthfully the coffin gave me pause." Chris replies siting up, "Why are you wearing my glasses Phoebe?"

"I cast a locator spell on them so we could find you." Phoebe answers offering Chris her hand.

Chris accepts the hand and rises unsteadily to his feet, "Can I have them back?"

"What? Oh, sure. Sorry." Phoebe removes the glasses and places them in Chris's outstretched palm, the glasses glow with bright white light as they're reunited with their owner.

Chris puts his glasses on and climbs out of the coffin, steadying himself on Phoebe's shoulder, "Alright buster as soon as we get home you're in bed or on the couch, no buts." Piper instructs in a firm tone, "You're obviously sick and exhausted."

Chris lowers his head in defeat, "Yes Piper." It takes all of his willpower not to say Mom.

Everybody joins hands and orb out, they reappear at the Manor minutes later and Piper immediately pushes Chris down on the couch, "Sit, I'll bring you some soup."

Leo orbs away to retrieve Wyatt from Darryl's, Phoebe and Paige sit on the couch adjacent to the one Chris is on.

Paige shakes her head in dismay, "You have the worst luck, you know that right."

Chris grins weakly and sneezes, orbing out at the same time again, "Not again!" Paige yells and grabs his orbs, anchoring him in place.

Chris reforms and sniffles, "Maybe we should cast an anti-orbing spell on me."

"Good idea. Question aren't your powers still bound?" Phoebe says getting up to fetch a piece of paper and pen.

"My witch powers are, but not orbing." Chris answers in a husky tone.

Phoebe returns and jots down a quick spell,

"Orbing problems fix them now

Bind the powers let it be."

Phoebe recites and a blue aura surrounds Chris momentarily.

Chris sneezes again, but no orbs form, "Not your best work, but it did the trick."

Piper enters the room carrying a bowl of soup and a spoon, both of which she presents to Chris, "Here you are. Would you like some tea for your sneeze?"

"Thanks Piper, and yes please." Chris replies accepting the food.

Piper leaves the room for the kitchen to make the herbal tea they made for Paige when she was sneeze orbing.

"Do you even know how to have fun?" Phoebe asks.

"Yeah have you ever had fun?" Paige adds.

"I had fun once it was awful." Chris finally answers, nobody sees the tears shining in the emerald depths of his sorrowful gaze.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Piper asks returning with a steaming cup of tea.

Chris sips his tea before replying, "My father always played favorites when it came to me and my older brother, he was never there on my birthday until my cursed fourteenth."

"Why cursed?" Paige asks gently.

"It's cursed because that's the day the world starts going to the demons, the one day I had fun and actually thought I might have a chance at being happy." Chris says remembering the day his world fell apart.

"If you're okay to talk about it, it might help." Phoebe says in a comforting tone.

"My Dad showed up as a surprise and we went to pick out ice cream, we had just exited the store when he got a call from a charge and told me he'd be back soon, so I orbed home to find the house on fire, my brother nowhere to be seen. I raced inside and found my mother on the kitchen floor a huge hole in her stomach, bleeding out." Chris's voice cracks and he drinks out of his soup bowl to hide his tears.

"If it's too hard to continue we understand." Paige says.

"No it's okay, I've told you this much, might as well finish. I never learned how to heal, my dad was always training my older brother. I yelled for my family to come help but nobody came. I remember feeling my mother take her last breath, but I was in denial, I orbed us onto the lawn and the next thing I know I'm in my bed in the house. I thought it was a dream, but when I went downstairs my mother was still dead." Chris draws in a shaky breath and continues, "I found out later that my Aunts and Uncles were attacked by demons and at there homes and didn't make it. My father showed up at the funeral and told me that it was my fault they were dead, if I hadn't been born they would all still be alive. My brother and Grandfather stood up for me and my dad retreated to the Heavens, I haven't seen him since. Rage, grief and the quest for revenge drove my brother off the deap end months later he joined Wyatt when he came to power a year later. The day I thought I could let myself have fun ended up being the worst day of my life, the day my mother died and everything went wrong." Chris finishes and is unable to contain his sob of grief.

Piper's maternal instincts take over and she wraps her arms around Chris, "It's alright, you're going to stop that from ever happening."

Chris jerks away, "Stop it! Don't comfort me it's my fault you're dead, it's all my fault. My dad is right." Chris doesn't realize what he said, but the sisters do, Piper stops stunned and stares at Chris, "It's all my fault, you're all dead because of me. If I hadn't been born you'd be fine. How can you ever forgive me?" Chris sobs, the pressure and stress of keeping his secrets and saving his future finally overwhelming him.

Leo chooses now to orb in as Piper says,"You're my son." utter shock and disbelief in her voice. This neurotic witchlighter from the future that they'd all been mistreating is her son.

Chris doesn't reply he just nods and sobs.