Saving My 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 their reviewing his memories, so this is going to the most emotional chapter of the story, so keep a box of Kleenex close by when you read it. As Chris shows them every death of his family, and for the elders and the quartet: Piper, Phoebe, Leo and Drake they all get it what he lost and what's at stake now in this chapter, before they begin working on things.
As they begin work on the house and and things are quiet till Look Who's Barking starts. Each episode is going to stay the same, but there's going to be a couple changes to it and Prue is alive for seasons four through eight as she trains her sister. Phoebe grows closer to Drake and there's a few references to the Twilight Saga for Phoebe and Drake in this story.
Look Who's Barking is two weeks later, so this is the ten days before that as they spend the time working on their house as they prepare to make the family bigger. But the focus in Phoebe's life regarding thing from now till she meets Coop is Drake and Cole, and in the end she has the same choices she's got to make in the show.
But from here the rest of the series is reimagined with Andy and Prue alive, Chris living with them now and Drake part of the family from this point forward. Till the final battle as they prepare for Chris and Wyatt's birthdays and season's five through eight remain the same, but Chris's identity is known by the entire family.
Chapter 12: Traumatizing Memories, Family Preparations and New Beginnings
Sticking the money into the wallet, she put it into her purse and grabbed her favorite sweater then. "Whoa wait mom, with what you saw last night, we have to show Phoebe a brief glimpse of what I told you. Grandpa, could you babysit for maybe fifteen minutes, we're going to the tribunal. I have to make my point clear to the elders and Phoebe, so they can see everything." Chris said and they nodded as they orbed out of the room
The Tribunal
After arriving, the sextet of elders looked at him. "Alright Chris what is it you have to show us, so we can understand that threat to the future?" Zola asked and he explained. "Remember when I said that both versions of the Charmed Ones are gone in my future, though I'm nearing eighteen in looks here?" he asked and the sextet all nodded to him. "We do, so your proving your claims true for us now?" Orlin asked and he nodded to him.
"I am, what I did last week insured that though we lost one innocent we saved the other, the amulets are now split between her new coven and our family and the spell to activate the charm has been destroyed. Is that a good start to my being back in time now though?" he asked and the quartet nodded as they looked at him, his parents, Prue and Andy gently. "It is and nicely done all of you, that was very nice teamwork."
"Alright so that's one, what we have next is a very good question at the moment, but why do you hate Cole so much exactly?" They heard as as two orbs of light appeared then as his grandmother and great grandmother arrived. "Mom, Grams!" Prue and Piper shouted in delight then and they smiled and gave them hug then as he pulled his great grandmother into a hug then smiling as she smiled at him as he said it to her.
"Added issues of toying around with the time travel, it's going to cause your memories to rearrange themselves, but one of said changes. Was and is you're remembering me as a little boy growing up in last decade, before the girls gained their powers." he said and she nodded. "Yes and you with them, I was trying to protect you from having your powers activate too soon, you were still a child and you weren't ready just yet."
"Whatever your aunts considered now, was just it, like the Disney movie Halloweentown I did the same thing with you by covering up your little telekinetic stunts when you wanted a cookie before dinner at the time." she said and Piper looked at her with a bemused smile at that. "I understand why, because if I saw that I'd have realized we were witches and he, Prue and I wanted to remain normal at the time."
"But was that what the heart shaped vial was, the potion to hold off for another six years till he was old enough to handle his abilities and us with him, grams?" she asked her and Penny nodded. "Yes it was, but you decided now with him here and me gone, you had to protect him now with him beginning to adjust to using his powers. Especially with the Grimlocks on the loose." she said and the trio nodded as Victor moved to Patty.
"Patty, I know we wasted 24 years, regarding this over Sam and your affair with him, but I want another chance, would you..." he started to say and she smiled. "Yes, yes Victor we can, we're not divorced and we never were, I'll take you back, you're still my husband, I love you." she said and he smiled as he hugged her and the girls smiled at that as he looked at Penny then as he said it to her gently as the trio stood there.
"Penny, I may be mortal, but I think we can set that aside now, for the girls, they need me with you guys upstairs right now. So if you don't mind, I can take care of them and the boys now, but they need me as the father/grandfather. We just updated the house and Piper asked me to move back in with them, if you don't mind." he said and she nodded. "I left the house to Piper in the will Victor, as I said before in this situation."
"One of the girls has to keep the nexus grounded in good or evil is going to take over the house." she said and he crossed his arms. "What's the nexus exactly anyway?" he asked and she sighed. "Our house was built in the center of a pentagram, it could be a source of unwavering good or evil. To put this bluntly, the shadow character that is in the nexus, Phoebe gave it the name woogieman, it's a demon I've been trying to keep contained."
"But every time we have an earthquake the damn thing breaks out, till I created a spell to banish it back into its hole again. The girls started using the spell and it's been working so far, but if we don't destroy the nexus in the next five years the underworld could use that to start spreading like the flu." she said and he nodded. "We'll take care of it then, but we did a few extensions to the house and we're creating a a small studio."
"A martial arts training system in the basement for him and the girls so they can train between encounters and once Paige comes into the picture. We're not short handed anymore right now with four sisters." he said and she nodded. "Yes well to pull that off right now at the moment is a finishing touch. Prue, you remember when you created two duplicates of yourself?" she asked and Prie nodded as she answered her then.
"Yeah we already had that conversation Grams, I'm creating a double for myself, so once the Source thinks he's killed me. Then we spend four months laying low and and doing renovations on the house, magical renovations. And Chris just told me he took after me and Piper the most, but he's taken care of the items. That you were concerned about, regarding me and Piper now." she said and Penny nodded as she looked at him, smiling.
"You certainly made me proud Chris, I've been trying to get them to realize that being normal is over-rated and its part of who we are. And you just did my job for me by being in the past now, you're my pride and joy, make me proud baby." she told him and he grinned. "Thanks grams I will, and to answer your question grandma, it wasn't just any different batch of Brotherhood demons every time, he's the leader of the group."
"He killed mom first, than Aunt Phoebe, and then was with a guy like Eames as he killed Aunt Paige and dad. But all four sisters by the very same demon, and it's the one that Aunt Phoebe brought into our lives, by falling in love with him. In his eyes, Paige was the reason their relationship fell apart, and Phoebe chose the three of you over him. He wanted revenge for that and when he saw Phoebe with Uncle Coop, that did it finally."
"You remember Beauty And The Beast?" he asked and they nodded as Drake moved forward at that. "Cole is playing Gaston and Coop is playing whoever the beast's real name is, correct. That's the point of fact because I'm her, or I'm about to be her future love interest and Coop is her true love. I'm the beast, he's the prince, that it and in his eyes she belongs to him, but she loves us and if he can't have her, no one can?"
"Is that what you're telling me son?" he asked and Chris nodded. "Yeah that's it exactly, Paige hates Cole for killing Prue, though he never threw the fireball, she's gone. And Phoebe still blames and blamed her after they supposedly vanquished him three times. In her eyes, 'why should I forgive her for this, if Cole destroys my family, that's fine, so long as I can be with him'." he said and the quartet all looked at her at that.
"But it gets better, I'm just like you mom, in my eyes he's nothing, but a demon, just another demon like every one we destroyed over the years. But guess where this is going to lead, because I'm the reason she threw him out of the house now, with the fact in her eyes Wyatt's as her first born nephew. Though I got here two years, before he was born and in your eyes I just accomplished everything to insure you two are happy now."
"Dad is staying on Earth indefinitely, Andy is back, I just gave you both everything you wanted now. By my just telling you straight off who I am to you: you get a chance at a slightly normal life. Being able to balance between your normal and supernatural lives, your marriage is a lock now. You and Andy getting married, and they're both staying on earth, indefinitely." he said and they both nodded slowly as Piper said it for both of them.
"You're right, you just gave us everything we ever wanted and you're going to be able to show me how to manage with little you and your brother. Show us how you can balance our lives out. Your aunt is an adult you, but three witch-lighters in our family, she hears the truth regarding you and she's got someone who understands her now. To me this is even more helpful, and if that's not enough it's no longer the power of three."
"But the power of four, you have more than all of us together, so you and I can get the job done easily, you and your father can rebuild your bonds, he and I are never getting separated. Prue has the chance at her own happiness and to her that's not enough, just how selfish can you get, it's envy and the need to always be in the limelight. Prue, that's the problem, she's jealous we have a chance at happiness and hers is in utter turmoil."
"She's me after I chose to give up Leo, and you after your I.D. vented your resentful feelings at her. In regarding you had to watch us live her dream and despite the fact you and I, as well as dad and Leo, said he wasn't supposed to be at the house. And just before the wedding, she still brought him in, so what's that say to you Prue?" she asked her and she nodded as Patty crossed her arms then at the news as she answered her.
"It says that she wants to be the best at everything she does, and is going to start holding resentment. Now, for the fact that your son, my grandson, saved the innocent, by sabotaging her relationship. Well that's just too darn bad young lady, we have a job to do, and it means, even if it means running an accidental sabotage. It's for the greater good, your father and I are still married, though I love Sam, Victor is still my husband."
"Your sister and Leo are meant to be and Chris chose the one option necessary to insure that, by telling us, you and his parents the truth. He saved our latest innocent, by setting him up, crossed and doubled crossed, Raynor set him up. So he broke your trust by supposedly killing Jenna, Chris created a clone so you could let out the last bit of anger. At him, this is for the greater good, as is getting Andy back, telling us who he is."
"Preventing a fracture in a friendship regarding you and Darryl, it's all for the greater good, so enough young lady. Piper." she said and she nodded to her at that firmly. "And with all that in mind here's the problem now, my son here, he just risked his own existence giving us a chance at a pre-emptive strike three years before he's born, and before his brother is born as well, and we can insure Wyatt never turns here at all."
"But in her eyes everything he's telling us is a lie and to her, his secrets are destroying our happiness. But no they're not, oh no, instead her god damn catalyst is that someone destroyed her happiness and it's, in her eyes, it's not fair. Well news flash, yes it's not fair, but life's not fair, but that's the way it is Phoebe, so grow up." she said sternly as Prue finished her remark, her blue eyes blazing in anger as she looked at him gently.
"You can't have it both ways Phoebe, you can't be with us as long as you're dating a demon or married to the source, it doesn't work like that. And yes it's not fair, but you have to pick a side, good or evil, that's how it works, even if means giving up something you love you have to choose. We understand that, because of our past lives, we stayed good, because of our great grandmother: Piper's past life is our great grandmother and our great aunt, is my past life, we understand the rules, and we stayed good."
"But your past life is screwing with your responsibility here, you fell in love with a warlock and you turned on us and it gets you segregated from us in your past life, well it's happening again. But the warlock is replaced with a more deadly version and it's a demon and his fellow compatriots. As to that, it's a choice, once you marry him, your trials begin, and your trial by lava is by letting him kill us or you help us destroy him."
"That's the choice, good or evil, that's how it works, but until then, we have a job to do, and even if it means giving up our freedom, we do it and we can get along fine on our own once Paige comes into the picture. Because she's just like us, but this attitude gets started its us and you once he loses his powers finally, and I'm warning you, start trying to get into Paige's love life and she's coming to me and I'm the one letting you have it."
"It's not our business, unless she comes to us to ask, we just worry from afar, like Piper and I always do and did with you, yes she's the baby of that family. But having you smother her, she's going to get rebellious, just like you did growing up. So again until she comes to us for advice regarding this and Richard, it's none of our busines, so we but out, got it." she said with a warning tone and she nodded as she swallowed at that.
"What's the circumstances now, that you and Paige are about to be the reason for their failed relationship, because you're both so against him and you prefer Drake and Coop to him. He's determined to make it look like you're hallucinating to her until she gets the proof later he's turned back to the darkside baby? You have the knowledge of the future, but I have to know this Chris, honey, which version of you am I looking at here."
"Which version are you, sweetheart, the one from the first time frame of the season DVD's or the baby that was born after that you was killed by whoever our perp is?" she asked and he sighed. "I was born, after my twenty two year old self was killed by your perp. This me is after my version of Wyatt fell to the darkside, when Cole, though he got trapped in the ghostly plane, broke out and he killed both of you."
"Wyatt was twenty in that vision of the future I showed you, but that's from four years worth of power corruption, we're eighteen months apart in age. But this me, this me is four years younger than the one in the DVD packs, because I was born after the timeline in those DVD's. You and dad fixed your relationship, dad chose being a whitelighter, but he got recalled, maybe five years after Mellie was born, but that's the truth now mom."
"In all honesty, I'm entering my senior year of high school in my future, but dad chose to have me see you, mom and him at your current ages. As its now 2001, I chose this past week to arrive to prevent it at all costs. But this me is from 2021 Aunt Prue." he said and she nodded to him firmly. "You're my baby boy, the one that was born after the adult you was murdered by our perp?" Piper repeated as she walked over to him gently.
"I am mom, this me was just about to start my senior year when dad was killed finally. But the brotherhood got Cole back and he slaughtered our entire family, because he's crazy jealous, and he and the darklighters annihiliated our entire family by the time I hit the age I am. All I have left in my future is Coop, and Penny, that's it, that why I chose this, and dad said go back to now so I could see you and him at your current ages"
"That's why I lost it last week when I went off in him, he killed you and Phoebe on the side of six months, seeing you now, I can't lose you again. He never killed Aunt Prue, but I still blame him for the destruction of our family, me and Paige share the exact same appeal here regarding this. And here it is, in our interpretation now mom, but he's the reason Prue is dead in our eyes, it's always been Cole, Cole killed her, first."
"Than you, to us, we wanted revenge, because he took you away from us, for me it's even worse, I'm a mama's boy, you're my entire world, I'm not losing you again. But to Phoebe it's always been circulating around him, even though she married Coop she still hold resentment towards you and Paige. She was resenting Paige for her having to kill Cole in both the DVD time frame and my past, because of the damn baby, mom."
"And you hated that thing so much, because, in your eyes, that baby corrupted the good in her and she turned on us. With me being the first of the two of us to drive a wedge into their relationship, before Paige does it. You know what I'm really saying here, I lie to you, but it's because I'm trying not to completely screw with the time, we fix the family, and the future, but you and dad are together for life now, Andy's back and I got Drake."
"But with these improvements now, in your lives, I'm about to become the one she's going to start getting disgusted with, even though I made you happier than you've ever been now mom." He told her and she pulled him into a hug then. "Indeed, you fixed things in their relationships, that's more than gentle changes, by making them completely happy, I don't see that as relationship sabotage, I see that and everything."
"Whatever you're planning next as being the golden child and my favorite great grandson, because you chose to go against the odds so your mother and aunts were completely happy. I'm not disgusted by that and neither is your grandmother, to protect us, our family from being destroyed, we do what must be done, and you're a true Halliwell Chris." Penny said to him gently, smiling as Prue finished that gently.
"She's right, these consistent jumps in time can be useful, by altering key things in the past and the us of the future grow more hopeful and confident with every change you make. We give it a few more weeks and Piper won't have to worry about me being gone, because of Cole, because in your changed future I'm alive, and Andy and I are married. Your parents marriage is complete lock, Drake is alive in your future, and little you."
"Little you is going by your middle name now and our you is getting ready to go off to your second year of college in your future by the time this ends. To us every change you make, is making us happier than we've ever been now, and if knowing our future, after the end of the series is over, is future consequences. We can take the secrets as well, but with the fact you gave us the dates of everything already in our future."
"Just tell us a way to reorganize them by giving us a few ideas and your mother and I will take it from there. But this is not relationship sabotage or you're lying to us, you chose the best way to make your mother and me happy. And before our lives were a constant struggle in balancing everything out, with you here, you can show us how to do that, your mother gets what she wanted, and it's a normal family life."
"I get what I wanted and it's Andy and putting balance back into my life, by separating my magical life and my normal life, but both sides of me balanced and our pre-dispositions are another lesson in that as well. But all in all you being here is a big help. But we can't know too much about the future, because of the future consequences rule, so we make our fate by choosing what forks in the road to take, it's that simple now."
"You showed us the future and we change that future by looking at those DVD's and changing things and we save all of our innocents, and finish things, whoever our perps were, had I not survived, they're facing me as well later. So don't worry baby, we're nipping this thing in the bud, right now." Prue asked with a dangerous growl and he nodded with a sigh and they nodded as Piper turned and let her have it then.
"I don't believe you Phoebe, is that what you're really thinking here right now, but instead of Paige being the one that supposedly ends your relationship and marriage, it's my son now. You listen to me now, you start thinking this way once Paige tells me and Leo he's gone back to the darkside, I'm not getting caught in the middle, I'm taking her side. I'm Prue now, once our version of the Power Of Three gets started Phoebe."
"And with that I'm acting the way I should be, the way Prue was acting when you dragged him into our lives. Family comes first, so you choose him over us, that's your choice and we can manage without you, because we still have the Power Of Three in this timeline with Prue alive. Thanks to my son being in this timeline now when you get pregnant. My son gave me exactly what I wanted now, and it's a chance at a normal life. Said normal life a true family life, I get to watch my son through his high school years."
"With him here we can learn what happens when you mix witch and white-lighter blood together, learn to balance both sides of us out and live like the mortals do, that's a very big gift and help. And it's not your family at risk here or is in endanger either. Mine is, that's my son who risked his own existence just to prepare us for what's coming, what's coming is his brother turned into a power hungry maniac, that precious little angel."
"That future first born nephew you fawned over, he turns into Darth Vader without the mask and the resistance wants him either destroyed or we prevent his turning at all costs. And the resistance sent back their own Kyle Reese to prevent the future, their future from ever coming true, and the said Kyle Reese meant to do it hapens to be my second youngest who is now my oldest son now. And he risked his own existence to prevent that Phoebe, I don't care what your feelings are here, I'm taking his advice!"
"I saw the dangers of his future, I saw what his brother turned into, and with that its a no choice needed I choose my family, I'm taking his opinions, advice and training the next three years till baby him is born. But you want to give up on him, when it's time for him to be conceived that's your choice, because I'm not. Why, well it's because Leo and I are still together in this timeline. He's not the reason for the fracture in our relationship."
"No the only thing that could possibly do that is your god damn demon of a husband Phoebe, my marriage is intact and a total lock now. So whatever you're thinking regarding this, if he's holding back certain information, it's on a need to know basis, our futures are written into those DVD packs. And though it's future consequences and we can accept that: me, Prue, Leo, Paige and Andy, we can accept his holding back secrets."
"But your secrets nearly destroy our family and look what it does to our future, Chris did an intervention just so you could heal emotionally, but you know what, we all agree with him. He's doing everything he can so you can move on from Cole over these next four years, by bringing Drake into your life now. But starting now leading into when Chris is born it's screw arguing over this, we have a job to do and we do it, without a fight."
"If we have to go on repeated demon hunts, we do it, if we have to sacrifice one side of us for the sake of the other, we do it. You wanted and loved being a witch, I felt a burden regarding my powers, but suddenly everything is in reverse now. Prue and I are the super witches, we have a families, we're ready for the responsibilities of parenthood, and Chris is the first step to that. She and I can manage regarding working over time."
"But my son insured she and I can resort to a semi-mortal life now and still get the job done. And Chris had it right, it's always been about you first: you, you, you, I want this, I want that, change this, change that, me, me, me, my feelings, my, my, my. And I am so sick of this and your attitude and with that, enough is enough here. So if you start bashing my son, so help me god, you're the one getting thrown out of the manor."
"Till you get over this attitude, because Dan is the past, Leo, is my present and future, and Chris is my son, family comes first over the ex-boyfriend and his little whore of a niece if she starts having the hots for my son, understand!" Piper said with a dangerous growl and she swallowed. "And don't bother coming to me whining over this either Phoebe, because once Wyatt is six months old, I'm acting like Piper as well."
"Chris, Wyatt and our family come first, so I'm not allowing that bastard into manipulating us into throwing my, right now, oldest nephew out of his house. We all stay in the manor, we take shifts on the job, and you are staying out of Paige's love life. And I'm not kidding, this holier than thou attitude of yours is getting checked at the door, once you gain these powers." Prue added and she nodded quickly then to her thoughts.
"You want a chance to live your life that's fine, but the three of us can manage without you with the fact you're having to choose between us and Cole every time now. As to that, with Prue still alive in this timeline, we still have the power of three, it's just rotating the shifts each time. But if you want to go join Cole for whatever happens that's fine, I'm choosing Prue to fill in your spot, and we still get the job done."
"It's that simple now, you want to move on with your life, get your own apartment, you can do that, but the three of us are staying put till our job is done. Chris, Baby, show it to her of what the attic looked like when you gave us that sneak peek." Piper said and he nodded and stepped into the ring as the memory played itself back. As she looked at the state of his attic. "Dear god, what the hell happened in here?" Victor asked and he sighed as Phoebe repeated the remark in shocked disbelief then.
"Is that our house, what the heck happened to it?" Phoebe asked in shock. "That's what we saw last night Phoebe, when he told us the truth, he wasn't lying to us at all. In fact everything he told you the night he arrived is exactly what happened to us, and that's what we're here to see. And as to why the future is at risk. Son rewind, show her how I died, we're getting the entire story now." Leo said to him and he nodded to him.
Watching they saw as a man who looked like Alec point his crossbow at Chris. "Nooooo!" they heard a voice shout out as someone shoved him out of the way and he hit the floor as he looked at the person and they saw Leo with the arrow sticking out of his chest. "Noooo, Crossbows!" he shouted as it orbed out of the man's hands and shot him in the heart and he went up in a burst of block orbs then as he was vanquished.
"Dad, stay awake, it's alright." he said and Leo shook his head. "It's too late Chris, he got me in the heart son, there's no surving this." he told him and he shook his head violently in denial at that."Don't give me that, we beat the odds before dad, I just have to get it out and heal you!" he said as his color started paling then as Chris said it frantically."Nooooo! Dad, hang on, just hang on!" he said as he tore his sleeve off and got ready to yank it out as Leo grabbed his arm to stop him.
"No Chris don't, you're half whitelighter, touching it is going to kill you!" Leo said through a gasp of pain. "Dad I can't just let you die!"he said through heart wrenching sobs. "Son you can fix this, and our relationship, if you go back even further than when your brother is born, and tell me the truth. You may have lost this me, but the me of twenty four years ago was a better person, a better man. The me you need was the 28 year old me and your mother now."
"Your other version, the one who resented me for never being around, the one who died and is the reason I was so lost when you were little. We had this talk, but you, you and I fixed our relationship, you're my pride and joy, Chris, listen to me, at first when your alternate version showed up. He showed up in the middle of your mother and me getting used to being parents at the time."
"And we'd just gone through counseling regarding this and several other things, we didn't trust him. Because of his reasoning to do everything none of us wanted to accept the possibility that Wyatt could ever turn evil, even though he'd been born in the house. We were all in denial of that truth and didn't know who your adult version was or his true intentions and our attitude were even worse. Because of this and to you mother and me."
"The thought that he, that you were our son was something we had a hard time accepting, because we were feeling guilty for what we said to you, that you. It was also upon seeing the way the duo were acting when your conception month had arrived and we got stuck in the ghostly planes at the time. Did we realize why Paige and Phoebe were desperate to have us getting together.
"Just before I became a full time elder and it's because they were getting desperate to have you conceived by that point. Back to the future time paradox, you risked your own existence just to save your brother, and I learn you're my son six months later. But upon hearing that, that did it, I was being the father you needed a second chance and we slowly fixed our relationship."
"By getting a second chance, but that second chance is getting relabeled as a third chance now. And as to how and why is that if you show up long before your brother is born. But the adult you was murdered after we stopped the demons running that survival tv show and I lost my way as a result when you were killed I left being an elder, and turned into an avatar."
"Before becoming fully human and in the end I ended up as the teacher at magic school. You're the one I got overly protective over at the time, but to stop the ridicule and the mistrust when you arrive. To prevent that and you gaining our trust, let alone insuring we, and the elders take it more seriously far more seriously and listen to you and and we can change little things in the past, you have to go back even further than a few months after Wyatt's born."
"I'm sorry if things still turned out the way they did in your future, your adult self tried and it still happened, but we can fix that,..., if you change our past and tell your mother, Aunts and me the truth the second you arrive, or we figure it out on our own. If Andy and I bust you within minutes of your telling us your half truth, that solves the entire problem and we act like your parents."
"From that day forward we can be your parents for real, we can pretend you were born in the late 80's and you're living in the manor after that. To save our family it's the only way son, return to when your mother and me were twenty eight years old. And we can change the records and you're our first born starting the day you tell us who you are, or we figure it out on our own."
"But just change the sequence, whatever day you choose, begin that day and we move forward from there. Remember these words, but 'The Future is not set, there's no fate, but what we make for ourselves.', that fate is by choosing which forks in the road to take. Your mother needs you, as does your aunts, Prue and Paige, they need a chance at what you're offering us so we can prepare for your brother's birthday till he's safe now."he said to him gently.
"I love you dad, if it takes risking my own existence, I'm insuring we get that second chance, I can't lose you again." Chris said through his crying and he smiled softly. "You will I promise son. And you'll never lose me once I figure out you're my son, I love you, of my two sons, you're my pride and joy, make me proud now." he said as his breathing started weakening as his head landed on the floor.
"Oh god!" Prue said as he grabbed him. "Dad, nooooo, dad, dad wake up, dad, Daaaad!" Chris said said through his crying as he slumped on the floor."No, I can take this, mom, dad, Mellie, I'm the only one left in my side of the family. Nooooooo! You bastards, I'm going to kill you, you hear me!"he screamed out in pain and anguish as he stood up and started firing lightning blasts around the room till he collapsed on the floor as he broke and started sobbing as he looked at his father.
"First mom, Mellie, Aunt Phoebe, Aunt Paige and now my father. Twenty eight years old self, dad, your twenty eight year old selves, you and mom, that's just before Aunt Paige came into the picture, that's my only chance. You gave me part of the truth to how the alternate me saved Wyatt, but it didn't work then, how do I change the future now, if it's happened once already, unless..."
"Unless I go back to the day when all four sisters are still alive in their timeline, twenty eight year old versions of my parents, that's the only chance we have to save the future, because though I tried when I was twenty one, my alternate self. Go back to before Wyatt is ever born, I can work from two years, before he's born, they trust me and I'm with my family finally, that's the key here."
"Even though I went back in time once to the year, before I was born, it still didn't work. It's my only chance, go back to just before Shax killed Aunt Prue, that's it, that's the key. I can change the future by getting to Aunt Prue, and my parents by giving the clues to who I am, and they trust me right off the bat. I don't have to hide my secrets from them if they figure it out on their own."
"Dad catches me in my lie first he and mom and are going to react like I'm really their son, we change the alibi to my being born in the 80's and I'm living at home after that. That's the key now and I'm now the first born after that in my parents eyes, I'm first born, Wyatt is next and little me is the youngest of the three of us and with that, the future is going to change for the better."
"You demonic bastard's exactly how long can you people expect me to take this, before you destroy me as well you parasites! I swear to god. I will make you pay for this, well if you want a war, you're going to get one now, but it's a war of attrition now. Return to the past, there is no fate, no fate, that's it, the future is not set, there's no fate, but what we make for ourselves."
"I'm a junior in high school and my life was destroyed, because of the evil that destroyed my entire family. But no more, the future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves. Well I'm making that fate, listen you asshole, you want a war, you're going to get one and I will destroy every last one of you. As for you Cole Turner, you're never getting your chance now, my family will live on and you're all going straight to hell when I get through with all of you."
"Screw future consequences, there is no fate, but what we make, and my family will prevail, so look out you devil's spawn. The ones who destroyed my family, I'll kill you myself, if you ever come near my parents or my family, you want a war, I'll give you one, it's a war of pre-emptive military tactics now you son of a bitch. Let's see you handle this in the past, because we're destroying every last one of you who ever had a vendatta!" They heard him scream out in anger then.
"I was the one who gave you this idea, how long did it take for you to finally bring it up Prue exactly?" Leo asked and he sighed as he answered him. "Maybe six weeks later, mom's been dead for three years, as was Aunt Phoebe. Aunt Paige, she was barely weeks prior to this. As was Mellie, in your eyes I was now your pride and joy, because I stayed good and he's turned on us dad." he said as he wiped the tears off his face then.
"That's one, Leo was your breaking point finally here, alright what about your sister and me?" Piper asked and he nodded as they saw him when he was fourteen, dressed in a mini version of her husband's favorite sweater and jeans as Piper watched her future self walked into his room smiling. "Honey ready, the guys just left and your sister is with your cousins today?" she asked and he nodded to her smiling then.
As they walked into the kitchen and loaded up a snack tray of popcorn, a few packages of candy and sodas an moved into the living room. "I take it we chose a movie marathon that day." Piper asked him and he nodded to her gently. "Yeah we rented a few movies and we decided on a movie and cooking that day, we were making dinner that night for the five of us and the rest of the family that night." he told her and she nodded to him.
"The five of us, so though I wasn't around as often as I could be, you, or rather we, still decided on acting as a family though your mother and I were supposedly separated or divorced at the time?" Leo asked and he nodded to him. "Yeah, mom told you she was pregnant with me after the spider demon and out of my anger at you never being around enough, which is what the DVD's are going to show, I beat the crap out of you."
"But this me, as you know me, grew up from the timeline in the DVD's, everything they show in season six is what happened. But baby me grew into my body and you tried to change things after I was killed dad, that is 22 years old me. But the future still played itself out and I decided to prevent that by going back further in time to this past week, to prevent it now." he said and the trio all nodded angrily at the news then.
Just as he was grabbing the remote several flame balls lit up the room and they both stood up then, as they saw five red skinned with black tattooed men and five more with the reverse. "Aw shit, it's the brotherhood, honey, together." she said and he nodded as they killed eight of the ten, before he heard a scream and saw her lying on the floor with leader poised over her with a blood drenched athame.
"That's for taking Phoebe away from me." they heard and Prue stood up from the table at that. "Belthazor, that's Cole!" she shouted in shock and he nodded. "You'll never get her back Cole, she belongs to Coop now." she said through labored breathing. "If I can't have her no one can, rest in peace, you bitch." he growled as he flared out and just as he was doing it. "Athame!" Chris shouted out and it orbed into his hand as they saw the anger and hatred in his eyes, he ran at him.
Coming at him, from behind he sliced his arm as a piece of flesh landed on the floor and he flamed out at that. "Mom, mom stay with me, mom. Dad, Dad, mom needs your help, dad, Wyatt." he started shouting. "Honey it's okay." she said weakly. "Mom don't, don't leave me, stay awake." he said frantically as she put something in his hand as he looked at what she gave him and Piper saw her locket. "Take this, it's yours now, I love you baby." she said as her breathing stopped then.
"Noooooooo!" he screamed as he broke down then and pulled her into his arms. "Mom, don't leave me, I need you, come back, please come back." He said crying as two orbs came into the room then. "Piper?, Piper wake up!, Noooo, god, what happened?" Paige snapped and he looked up at her. "Cole's what happened, he attacked us and killed her, she's gone, and I'm killing him myself!" he said as he stood up and got ready to orb as she grabbed him then as she looked at him gently.
"Honey don't, he's too strong for you." She said and Wyatt stood up his blue eyes blazing in anger and hatred then. "Him yes, but for me, not a chance, alright you asshole, you want to take out our family you got a war your hands now!" he screamed in agony then. "Alright, alright, I've seen enough of this clip, push it forward to your sister." Leo said with a furious growl in his tone then as he went further.
"So Cole was his breaking point, because of Cole murdering me, he finally loses his mind out of grief and he goes on a killing spree after this. I'm looking at the 'Attack Of The Clones' scenario here Leo, loss of his mother caused Anakin to wipe out the entire village, we got to get the entire series so we can insure that never happens. But whoever our Palpatine is, he's ending up dead before this ever happens and with that."
"Everything he told us that night is true, first me, than Phoebe, Mellie, Paige and your grandfather, and now your father was next, who's left of the family exactly, if Drake is dead in this timeline?!" Piper asked him quickly. "This point in time it's just me, Mellie, Dad, Penny, and Uncle Henry, along with Uncle Coop. The duo are so pissed, that Henry is ready to hunt him down and shoot him." he said and they nodded to that.
"Mellie he's turned on us, we rush things, it's going to get us killed, dad's chosen us, now, and he's coming to see us." Chris said as they saw a fifteen year old version of Piper standing next to him. "We've lost mom and Aunt Phoebe, what's left of our family has either gone to the darkside or is dead, grandpa's gone now. We have to take the fight to him, Chris, it's the only chance, Cole helped slaughter our family!" she snapped at him and just as she finished saying that.
A set of orbs lit up the room as they cleared and they saw Leo then. "Dad!" they said together as he pulled them into a bear hug gently. " Hey guys, listen to me baby, he's right, you rush the fight, it's going to kill you if you go in half cocked." he said though just as he finished saying there was burst of flames and they all looked up at that. "Cole don't try it, you already killed the girls, there's no use touching my daughter, get out of here!" Leo snapped at him and he smirked at him then.
"So the big bad elder wants to fight me, come on Leo try it, your darling children lost their brother and mother, what's left to fight for now exactly?" he snarled and he moved in front of her and Chris. "The act of not losing my babies, my youngest children, touch them and I'm killing you again, so get out of here. I'm giving you one chance, you already done enough damage to my family so get the hell out of here, before I kill you myself Cole!" he growled at him then.
"Your original version of the charmed ones are dead, all that's left is Paige Leo, your children are strong, but they're not the power of three. The Source has victory at last." he said, smirking. "Alright fine Belthazor, you want a fight, let's go at it?" Mellie shouted as she blasted him into the wall. "So you want to fight, little miss Charmed one, fine." Cole growled as he threw the fireball then and she ducked it as she got ready to blast him a second time then.
"No stop honey, don't!" Leo shouted out. "Mellie don't, don't do it!" Chris snapped he shoved her out of the way, but the power blast hit her dead on and scorched his arm. "Mellie, Mellie, wake up, wake up" He shouted out as Leo ran over to her and he saw scorch marks across her chest and lowered his head as Chris struggled to put some weight on his arm, before he got up then.
"Nooooo! Mellie, come on, stay with me, don't leave me." Chris shouted out as Cole flared out as he charged over to her, but Leo caught him. "Son, Chris stop, it's over, she's gone, Paige get in here, Paige."Leo said to him as he struggled to hold him then as he called out to her and she orbed in. "Paige give me a hand here, he's hysterical"He said and she nodded as she grabbed him."What happened now Leo?"she asked and he sighed. "Cole, she's gone." He said and as they struggled to him.
"No, Mellie, let me go, Mellie!" he shouted as Leo hold him back. "Son it's too late, she's gone." Leo said as Chris collapsed against and broke down as he buried his head into Leo's shoulder as he rocked him. "I lost mom and Mellie, you're all I have left. Dad don't leave, please don't leave me." he said through his sobs as Leo rocked him gently as they saw the tears pouring down his face. "I won't son, I'm not going anywhere. Shh." Leo said and they all nodded as Piper got it then.
"You two were even closer than the version in the DVD's and Leo got overly protective of you as a result, to him, you were his youngest, his pride and joy. That bastard slaughtered our family, alright enough is enough, I'm not leaving my cub alone around him. Phoebe I swear to god, he turns back and I'm vanquishing his sorry ass and making sure he stays dead this time." She growled at her and she swallowed at that.
"How do we know that Wyatt turned exactly, what about the gene defense,we discussed this last night, we're not born bad, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. For all we know this could be another lie." she said and Orlin crossed his arms. "With what I just saw, memories can't be tampered with Phoebe, his trauma is easy to see, alright son show us your brother after Cole killed your mother." he said and he nodded.
"As you saw from the brief glimpse, you're not going to like this, Pratt turned us outcasts and Wyatt was hunting us down., it's the greater good defense and all of us good beings chose a terminator 2 judgement day call here Orlin. Only you chose for me to hunt down the being, good or bad, that caused him to turn and destroy them. It's the entire story line." he told him and Piper nodded as she got it then as she said it then.
"Alright so I'm playing Sarah Connor, you're my Kyle Reese, and you came back to protect me till Wyatt is born and then protect him, and little you from whoever turned him in three years baby?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah that's it exactly mom, I'm teaching you how to fight, improve your craft and together we can take them down and then when Wyatt is born, you, dad and I do it together." he said and the couple nodded.
"Alright let us have it, if our lives turned into that movie son." Peter said to him and he nodded as he got it started. "If that's what the attack looks like, what the heck is the reason for that exactly?" Drake asked and he sighed as he heard his remark and his past self say it for him. "After he lost it completely, he turned the house into a museum, but that's the very beginning, you'll see why I decided to come back in time, come here." he said and they watched as his parents walked to his side as he opened up the attic window and they looked at the state of their block in shock.
"Aw god, the entire neighborhood looks like a bomb hit it." Leo said it shock, before he could answer they heard a new voice answer that remark. "You could say that father, though I never expected to see you in the future, let alone Chris being the one to betray me." he heard and turned to see a young man of his age with curly blond hair down to his shoulders, a goatee and blue eyes and looked at him in shock. "Oh my god, is that Wyatt?!" Penny said in shock and he nodded to her
"Welcome back Chris." he said and he straightened up as he answered him. "Hello Wyatt, just short of week and you wait till I come back on my own to ambush us. You do realize that where I went, mom is still alive, she knows who I am and who you are." he said and he looked at him with an arrogant look on his face as Piper looked at him at the address in shock. "Wyatt?" Piper asked and he smirked as he answered her. "That can't be Wyatt!" Phoebe said in shock as they heard his remark.
"What don't recognize me mother, oh I see why, it's because in your time I haven't been born yet. Pre-emptive strike brother, before I'm even born Chris. Of all the people to betray me..." he said and Chris answered him firmly as he moved in front of her. "I didn't go back to betray you Wyatt, I went back to save you, keep our family intact." he said and he smirked. "Save, save me from what exactly?" he asked arrogantly to him and he sighed at thst.
"From whatever evil turned you then." he said and he smirked at that. "That's always been your problem, stuck in the good verses evil, morass. I'm so over that, it's all power, it always was." he said and Leo crossed his arms at that. "The one with the most power wins is that it son?" he asked and he smirked. "That's it, that's why I keep this museum, to remind everyone of the power of which I was born and that I possess." he said coldly and Chris answered that in disgust.
"To bad the rest of the city isn't faring as well as your little shrine here." he said and he answered him with an arrogant look. "You know it were anyone else, that just tried what you did, I'd kill them on the spot, I've forgiven Bianca, I can forgive you, if you promise not to cross me again." he said and Chris smiled firmly. "I think you know me better than that." he said and on that the five moved all at once at the battle got started.
"How the heck did you know that you had to deal with him, before Chris brought you back to our time exactly?" Penny asked and Leo smiled. "Parently intuition, less than a week together and our familial connection snapped into place automatically. So though he's not born in our time frame, we're still acting like parents and he and I worked as one regarding the amulet and the three of us did it together last night." he said and she nodded as they watched as Chris did a kamikasi run at Wyatt as the other fought it out.
As he lunged at him, he knocked him away from him. "Have you lost your mind." Wyatt said in shock. "Without mom neither of us, or Mellie, are born Wyatt, remember that, you send Bianca, and we will do this again. You will see me again. Just stand down now, you want me come back in two in half years, send Bianca if you have to, just wait it out." he snapped as Wyatt suddenly screamed out in pain as they then saw a young woman with her hand in his back.
"Whatever you're doing, do it fast, I can't hold him for long. I'm sending that message to Prue, Tyler and Derek, just get out of here." he heard and looked up to see his girlfriend standing behind him, and he nodded to her. "Hear these words, hear the rhyme, heed the hope within my mind, send me back to where I'll find, what I wish in place and time." he said and the portal opened and the seven of them all jumped through it as the sextet nodded and Sandra said it for all of them.
"Alright we've seen enough, we believe you honey, and this is our first priority now in your case. Girls, though we need you to continue helping innocents these next three years till Chris is born, your primary job is insuring whoever this evil or good being is, they never get their hands on him or worse. I'm hereby assigning you to familial detail and you just focus on your family boys." she said and they nodded to her then.
"Don't worry Sandra, we intend to find out who caused this and they're going to get it when we do." Piper told her and she nodded. "Piper, depending on how long it takes to run through those episodes you better do them in order till you get to season 6 and we learn who the culprit is. If you said it doesn't start till the door to magic school opens then Chris." she said as Chris looked at her then.
"You want to see the rest of the ending of that episode, because like I said this me was born after that version was killed?" he asked and they all nodded to him. "Yeah, but back it up to what happens when she's stalling him, because I get the feeling this has to have a major consequence honey." Piper said to him and he nodded as he rewound that portion of it as he tore the rug off the wooden floorboards and yanked something out.
"Frequency, time travel notions and we did that for you this time if they stripped you of your powers in this timeline at the time. By sending you the spell needed to reactivate them. I want to see how strong you really are son." Leo added to him and she nodded in agreement to his thoughts. "Whatever you're doing, do it fast, I can't hold him for long." Bianca called out to him and he nodded as he opened it and read it out.
"Powers of the witches rise, come to me from across the skies. Return my magic, give me back, all that taken from the attack!" he called out and they watched him start glowing blue, before Wyatt was free the power hold as he knocked her away from him and she's lands on a table leg. "No!" he shouted out as he blew him into the wall. As they watched him crouch next to her.
"Bianca, no, no, no, no." he said and they could tell he was trying to hold it in then. "Haven't we been here before." she asked and he smiled sadly. "And maybe we will be again." he said and she smiled weakly. "Maybe." she said as he sighed sadly. "No." he said as he tried to hold it in as she gave him the ring then as she finished her remark. "If you can finish what we started. Take the spell, so he can't send anyone else. Finish this, finish what we started honey." she said and he nodded as her eyes closed as he lowered his head then as Prue rubbed his back gently.
"Oh dear god no, not her too." Prue said and he nodded as he watched his adult self as he ran to the book then and read out the incantation. "Hear these words, hear the rhyme, heed the hope within my mind." he read out, before Wyatt fired a energy ball at him and he ducked the blast as he finished reading it out. "Send me back to where I'll find, what I wish in place and time." he called out as he the portal opened as he grabbed the page, tore it out and he jumped through it and landed in the attic and landed hard on the floor in front of Paige and the trio and she grabbed his arm.
"Oh my god, are you alright!" Paige asked and he nodded. "Yeah I'm fine, nice spell." he said as he looked at her with a gentle smile and they all could clearly see the love in his eyes and the gentle demeanor of a son and nephew to his parents and aunts. "Yeah seeing it from this angle we can see he's definitely looking at the four of you with the love of a son towards his parents and aunts." Prue said and let her version have it.
"I don't believe you guys, how could you not see this, the factors are all there, because A) he looks like Piper, but has Leo's eyes. B) is that he knows his way around the house, C) is that he knows things about you he couldn't possibly know unless he was family. D) is that the book responds to his Halliwell blood and E) is that the cat knows him on sight here." she growled sternly at the future versions of her version of the Power Of Three.
"Best guess is this how Grams was feeling when we showed up out of no where Prue, but then we don't have a toddler or a preschooler in the house and the sense of rightness with him here was getting stronger by the minute. Though the boys busted him and he told us the truth within six hours of his arrival." Piper said and she nodded as she rubbed the young man's back gently as the six elders hid smiles at the way their version was acting around them and him and Leo hid a chuckle as he answered her.
"Alright Prue take it easy, otherwise you're going to blow the holoprojector. I don't blame you whatsoever for that remark, but this is our future selves and not us, but you lose your temper and you're going to break something next. Oh boy and here comes that situation regarding frequency regarding that too." Leo said smiling and she chuckled as they watched him stand up then. "Yeah, but we just put it in like two seconds ago." Phoebe said to him and Leo started laughing at the bemused smile on his future self's face as he answered that.
"Yeah well you see, the way time travel works..." he started to say and Phoebe chuckled as she answered that. "Yeah, but I really don't to know, I have a little headache, so thanks." she said and Piper sighed as she crossed her arms then as she listened to her future self's remark. "You have some serious explaining to do, you man." she said and Piper answered that sternly as she looked at herself.
"Actually no he doesn't, it's future consequences and until he deems us ready to know, then the minor details are fine for now till we figure it out, that that's our little boy and bust him ourselves. So with that you better get your rear in gear and focus on the problem at hand regarding Wyatt, because the future is at stake right now. That young man that arrived is harmless and if he doesn't want us to know those future details."
"Because they could change his future entirely, than it's none of our business, so what if he's lied to us a few times, it's for the greater good. Everything he's done is for the greater good and get over yourself now, you fool, you're acting like Prue when we had that fight and we got everything on the table. And that young man who arrived, risked his existence to change the future, to save you and Wyatt, isn't that enough."
"Or do only his secrets matter huh, when those secrets are meant change things, he's our little boy, it's private. His personal life is just that you idiots, he's a good boy, a good man and he's showing that every time he's around you, and is acting like a son, not some stranger. But like he's family, why don't you just get a better look at him: his eyes, his face and look in the pictures of what you looked like nine years earlier."
"Because if you can't tell he's even your son, than you're not me at all, because a mother knows their Cubs on sight, even if they're adults, they know. If he's been spending these last four months with you, acting like a son, and working at being your whitelighter, maybe you should take him seriously without cross examination. And not when they're are more important things at stake, like say making sure the youngest stays good."
"And our family never gets destroyed at the moment, after Prue. He's harmless and he's trying to protect you and save Wyatt, isn't that enough. So cut it out with the cross examination you fool and focus on the matter at hand. And leave my son alone, it's none of our business till he deems it to be and that's it." she said and pulled Chris into a position between her and Leo and as they wrapped him in a hug and he closed his eyes.