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It was a month before Chris was allowed out of bed, and just in time for his senior year of high school. He still had to return to Wayne Manor once a month for a check up on how he and the baby we're doing. Clark had always made sure to join him, while Lex always seemed to have something else going on.
His doctor had asked if they wanted to know the sex of the baby, which they were dying to know, but didn't want to be told without Lex being there. For this reason he'd made sure to write the date of the appointment for his five month check up on the calendar, but still, no Lex. This time there was also no Clark, which worried him.
"Is that his..." Chloe trailed off while pointing at the image on the screen.
"No, that's the baby's arm." Dr. Chang informed the younger girl. Chloe had adopted a new life's mission to prove herself to be godmother material, and had practically begged him to let her go with for this appointment. The two of them had actually started trying it be friends, and found they had a lot in common.
"Has there been any news on whether or not the other pregnancies were true?" There had been claims of a few other men as far as Metropolis ending up pregnant, and Chloe's theory was that when the ship exploded it emitted a sort of radiation, that affected others like it affected Chris. He didn't care what happened since it made it possible for two of them to claim the baby as being biologically theirs. Not to mention it made it so he wouldn't have to drop out of school to hide his pregnancy.
"I can't tell you much, but I can say that there has been confirmation on that, I have even taken on two more high profile cases." Dr. Chang answered as she handed him towel to wipe his stomach off with. "I can tell you that you and your baby are both healthy."
He smiled at hearing that, but still saked the question that had been weighing on all three of the Kent's minds, "So then there's nothing wrong with me keeping me from gaining more weight?" Martha and Clark, even Jonathan, had expressed concerns about the fact that he wasn't gaining much weight, and was barely showing.
"You're doing just fine, you maintain a very active lifestyle, and are most likely carrying more towards your back, which would explain the smaller baby bump." She smiled gently at him and Chloe, helping to calm his nerves.
"You're not going to leave me again are you?" Chloe asked as he reached for her hand to orb them back to Smallville after the doctor left. He'd finally gotten the hang of orbing to other places, and then orbing people with him.
"I did that once." He laughed as he took her hand to orb them back to the Kent farm. Only it wasn't the living room at the farm they appeared in, but rather, the entry way at his parents' house.
"I think you're a little off." Chloe said with a laugh as she looked around the room.
"I think the baby just hijacked my orb." He said, staring at his stomach in shock. Both heads snapped to look at the door when they heard it open.
"There are more bags in the trunk, " His mom's back was to them as she was yelling at someone in the driveway, her arms full of bags of groceries.
"Quick, up stairs." He whispered, pushing Chloe toward the stairs, and the two darted up the stairs, just seconds before his mom entered the house. He stood just out of sight as his dad and Wyatt followed his mom in just a couple of minutes later, each one carrying an arm full of groceries.
"Melinda, we're home!" His mom called from down stairs.
"I'll be down in a minute mom!" A young girl's voice called from a room down the hall behind them.
"The attic, hurry." He was a couple of steps ahead of her, and held the door open for her, closing it quietly behind.
"Can't you just orb us out?" Chloe asked when he turned around to look at her, he felt bad when he saw the panicked look in his eyes.
"I've tried that, the baby grounded me as well." He told her before looking down at his stomach, "You are so grounded when you come out of there." He grinned at Chloe when he heard her laugh.
"Like your going to remember that four months from now." She moved across the room to sit on one of the couches there. "Why bring us here though?"
"I was talking with Clark this morning about how much I still my family, how much I wish my mom could be there to help me with this." He saw her looking at him in confusion, "Don't get me wrong, Martha's great and all, but she's not the woman who raised me. She's never had to worry about your baby orbing out of it's crib to God knows where. And while she's the authority on your child being able to bench press a tractor..."
"Anything magical may be out of her league." Chloe finished for him, "So I'm guessing since we're here, that was your mom who almost caught is downstairs."
"The whole family actually, I saw my dad and brother come in right before mom yelled up to my sister." Chloe studied him closely as he sat next to her on the couch. "It's funny you know, as much as I want to see them, I know I'm not ready for that. I mean, how do I even begin to get them to forgive me for almost killing my brother and sister, and then disappearing for almost five years?"
"I would think they'd just be glad knowing you were ok." He knot iced how she completely disregarded his comment about his siblings. He was about to argue with het about that when suddenly he felt a burning pain in his chest and had to fight to keep from screaming in pain. "What's is it?"
"Something's wrong." He groaned, as he held his chest, suddenly he could feel himself start to orb, the baby taking control of his abilities again, and grabbed onto Chloe taking her with him.
Moments later the door burst open, and Phoebe Halliwell rushed in, "Chris?!" She glanced around the attic, half expecting to see a short skinny teenager, or tall thin man. Instead there was no one.
"Chris is gone sweetie." Piper was next to her, tears in her eyes. She had watched her sister struggle with the death of her son, and didn't want to dredge up that pain again.
"I know we thought that Piper, but I heard him talking to someone in here." Piper looked like she didn't want to dare dream of believing her. "He's alive Piper, I just know he is. We're going to find him." She ran her hand across the back of the couch, and was instantly hit with a vision of Chris a little older than when he left, but slightly younger than future Chris. He was sitting on this couch, talking with a young blond girl. She couldn't hear what they were saying, but she saw them orb out seconds after he started looking like he was in pain.
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"Jonathan he's not breathing!" Chris orbed them in to see Jonathan on the floor next to Clark, who was bleeding out from a hole in his chest, while Martha panicked holding something that looked like a glowing green bullet. It was all too clear to him that someone made a bullet from kryptonite and had shot Clark with it.
"Clark!" He rushed to the younger boy's side, checking for a pulse. There was one, but it was barely there, and it was fading fast. "You can't die on me." He practically ordered him, but he had no idea how to make him obey.
"No!" Lex was next to him in an instant, also checking for a pulse. Chris was able to see he wasn't finding one, and he just broke down, fighting against Lex when he tried to pull him into his arms.
"He can't be dead, please, he can't be." He didn't think he could handle losing Clark, especially when he could feel Lex pulling away. Finally he just collapsed in Lex's arms, "He can't be gone, he's not supposed to leave us...I love him" As he said the words his hand started to glow, and he turned quickly, his hands hovering just above the wound, he about laughed and sighed when the wound started to seal itself, and the blood disappeared. Moments later Clark gasped for breath, and his eyes flew open.
And then just like that everything around him froze. He turned half expecting to see his mother, but saw an older man in a gray robe. "Blessed Be." He'd read his family's Book of Shadows cover to cover many times over, had practically mesmerized it, trying to live up to the Future Chris and Wyatt. Because of this he recognized Angel of Destiny when he saw one.
"Please don't tell me I wasn't supposed to save him, and that you have to take him away." He would take Clark and Lex away from here now, he'd figure out a way to hide hide them. He's known the cloaking spell future Chris wrote would not be strong enough, but he would improve it.
"I'm not here to take him, his destiny has not been fulfilled yet, no, I'm here for you." The Angel's voice was gentle.
"Will you at least let me say good bye?" He asked, assuming the Angel meant to take him away.
"I'm not here to take you from these people, though I can see where you'd think that." The man had a kind smile on his face, "No, you've not completed your destiny either, same with Lex. After all, the next Charmed Ones, your Charmed Ones, are going to need you to teach them."
"My Charmed Ones?" He asked as his hand went to his stomach.
"The first of three," He couldn't help but be stunned at the man's words, "Though her sisters will come when you are a little older." The man winked, but he picked up on one word.
"It's a girl?" The angel gave a slight nod, and he was excited, but scared all at once. "Why me though, why not Wyatt or Melinda?" Automatically he thought there must be some mistake, there was nothing special about him to make him deserving of this honor. In fact he was likely to screw it up, like he's done everything else.
"I think we both know Wyatt, while magically strong was never an eager student, it is the same with Melinda. You on the other hand are equally powerful, are always eager to learn, always ready to help people. You would have sacrificed yourself for another in a heartbeat. You have already diverted a major evil by getting people to open up and let Lex in. His destiny was quite dark before you brought him into the light. It was the reason we did not intervene when you ran away. You needed to come here, to open the eyes of Jonathan and Martha Kent." To think that he'd been meant to be running toward this was rather daunting. "But it was also important for you to run away, as it helped you learn to control powers that were, admittedly, too strong for you."
"So why show up now?" Of everything was working out the way it was supposed to, why even appear to him?
"Because we have come to the realization that we have taken the choice away from you. We helped you away from the elders and your family all these years, every time you removed your necklace. For this reason we are returning that choice. If you choose I will return you to the day after you ran away. Your father will be waiting to take you home having tracked you down, you will have no recollection of the abuse you suffered in the foster system or on the streets."
"I'll not remember, Clark or Lex. My baby?" He asked, his hand going to rest over his stomach, and he knew by the look on the man's face that she would never exist. "Then thanks, but no thanks. I can live with the thought of running away from my family if it means I was running toward my men and daughters."
"Very well, I will not pretend I'm not pleased by your answer, and also tell you that staying here does not mean giving up your family for good." He was confused by the last part, but could tell he wouldn't get an answer on it. "Oh, and we'll be letting you keep the new power, it may just come in handy here." He watched as the man was surrounded in golden lights, then the room came back to life.