Ripples through time

Chapter fourteen: Conversations with dead people….

The statement was meet by shock the sisters didn't know what to think or what to say.

Phoebe looked at Chris and saw a look she had experienced first hand, it was the same look in her eyes she had when she thought of Cole.

"But how can he be evil I mean you're a whitelighter?"

Paige asked perplexed she had always thought that whitelighters were above everyone else due to their angle status.

"That doesn't mean anything."

Chris said with a bit of anger in his tone.

"Chris's right people can have the best parents and yet turn into psychopaths, and in our time even easier."

Jamie said with a casual shrug of her shoulders.

"It can't be that bad."

Piper said not believing that the future could make so that even children of whitelighters and witches weren't safe from the lure of evil.

"And we're here for the scenery."

Chris said giving Piper a 'you can't honestly think that look.'

Jamie looked at the grand-father clock, she couldn't believe how much time she had spent just explaining the fact that Wyatt or as the sister called him 'the Source's hit man' wasn't going to hurt him.

"Listen I've got to go."

Jamie said remembering her promise to Cole and that she was only going to be gone for an hour.

"Where? To meet the hired man of the Source and conspire to kill us?"

Jamie rolled her eyes at Paige's comment her aunt had never trusted her in her own past and didn't trust her now.

'Typical holier-than-thou Aunt Paige. I love her she family and all that but she sure knows how to rub me the wrong way.'

"No in fact what I plan to do has nothing to do with him, but someone else who could easily make the biggest mistake of his life today, and maybe I can talk him out of it."

"I'm sure what ever he does it can't be that bad if he's still alive in the future."

"Paige!"

Both Piper and Phoebe exclaimed shocked at their sister's nonchalance, and obvious disregard to a person.

Jamie and Chris both had to bit there tongues, their nostrils flared and Phoebe could feel the hate, and resentment burning off them and directed at her sister, their hate was so over-powering that for a split second she felt it, and unknowingly let her hand strike her sister across the face.

The shocked gasps were the only noise that filled the room after the resounding sound of flesh slapped against flesh in anger.

Leo thought it best to intervene by turning everyone's attention to the other matter that had had the elders buzzing, he himself had been knocked side-ways by the power of the magic that had been used the night before and it wasn't just the portals opening.

"Listen there is something else that you all must know somebody last night around eleven performed a resurrection spell of some sort… we are still trying to locate the source of such powerful magic."

Both Jamie and Chris exchanged guilty glances that went unnoticed by everyone else.

"Well that's simple it has to be from the underworld."

Piper said as if it was the most obvious thing the world

"Piper what do you mean?"

Leo asked a frown marring his brow indicating that he didn't understand what she had meant.

"What she means is that most resurrections that you guys have dealt with have something or another to do with a formally vanquished demon."

Chris said hoping to explain the logic behind Piper's statement.

"How is it that he doesn't know me but he knows me better than you?"

Piper said pointing a finger at Leo. Leo just shrugged his shoulders hopelessly.

Jamie was starting to feel a little antsy cleared her throat,

"Um…I still need to leave so I'm going to go."

Jamie said as she nodded her head with her hands pressed together pointed at the sisters, a trait Chris recognized, it was one she only used when she felt nervous and was on a time limit.

"Oh yeah…um…go do whatever you have to do, but you and I are going to have one long talk young lady."

Phoebe said in her most firm voice, Jamie couldn't help the smile that spread across her face in that moment it was easy for her to forget that they were in the past and that Phoebe didn't know her that well, she sounded like her mother.

"You can count on it, plus I'm holding you to talk to me about what we were talking about this morning."

Jamie gave Chris a look that showed how sorry she was for leaving him alone with the sisters with what was going on.

With what could only be described as a meek wave Jamie made a quick exit out of the manor.

When she left Leo said,

"Wasn't that your coat Phoebe?"

"Yeah or something like it."

Phoebe answered in a distracted manner trying to block out the memories the coat invoked.

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Cole was standing looking out of the window of the penthouse, he didn't understand what was going on but he had an idea of what might happen next if fact he remembered a part of the conversation he had with his older self.

Flashback:

"They are going to need your help. My help actually if you think about it I'm you you're me."

Said the older version of Cole he had a few gray streaks in his hair, he had a few days stubble growing, his cloths could only descried as worn they had probably seen better days.

It reminded Cole too much of the way he first looked coming back from the wasteland only this time he was older.

"Who are they? Why would they need my help look at me!"

And look at him he did.

"And I wondered why Phoebe never wanted to have anything to do with me? Not only to I happen to have as Jamie would say a funky smell, you my friend are certifiably insane. But keep doing what you are doing and when Chris and Jamie get here take care of them they are good kids…and…uh…"

The older Cole shook his head and was turning to leave when Cole stopped him,

"What about Phoebe? Do we ever get back together?"

"Yeah you do…but trust me when I say let Jamie help you on that front. Trust her she knows what she's talking about especially when it has to do with Phoebe. I've got to go know the window is closing and I need to get back before I get sucked into limbo."

With that he had felt.

Now that he thought back on it there was something about the way his older self had talked about the girl Jamie, and there was something about her the way she looked at him, the way she had been taking care of him until she had to leave. There was something about her similar to that awareness the seems so tangible yet slightly out of reach.

He was pulled out of his thoughts by the ding on the elevator; he turned around to see Jamie walk in with a bag of take-away.

"Hay you're up and walking about… without the funky smell…I got Chinese."

She said holding up the bag she moved into the living room and put the food down on the coffee table she un-buttoned her coat and put it on the couch.

"Did you get egg rolls?"

"Yep enough for both you and Chris to gore yourselves."

"Yeah I forgot you're future girl."

"Yep that's me future girl to the rescue."

Jamie said with a bright smile that Cole easily recognized as Phoebe's.

"Oh my god you're Phoebe's daughter aren't you?"

"Still quick at the up take, I see, you wanna know something funny? Well not ha ha funny but more oh the ways life like to screw with you funny?"

Cole knew that it was a rhetorical question so he stayed quite.

"She can't see it but you; I could never get one over you."

It was than the awareness that had been out of his reach previously finally clicked.

"You're ours… mine and Phoebe's you're our daughter, but Chris isn't but…but he's your family isn't he?"

"My cousin."

"Leo and Piper's kid."

Jamie nodded her head.

"Well that explains the coat."

"What?"

"You've got to know the coat."

When Jamie showed no sign of recognition, Cole explained it further.

"It's the coat she was wearing the day she married me."

"No it wasn't if she was wearing a coat the day she married you she should have had her head checked it was too warm."

"Not in the future before from when I was the Source."

"You mean when you were possessed by the Source we have to be very clear on that point."

"Crystal."

"Good now let's eat before the food gets cold, lucky for us Chris is a freak and actually like his Chinese cold verse nice and warm the way it should be."

Cole and Jamie began eating there Chinese both feel into easy conversation, the main theme being the evil that both Jamie and Chris were trying to prevent, followed by the things Cole shouldn't do if he ever wanted to be with Phoebe again.

"Well what he did the last time definitely wasn't the way to go anything else… gravy."

Chris said as he orbed in.

"Oh…egg roles."

"Are you sure he's Leo's kid he's too much of a punk."

Cole said pointing at Chris throwing Jamie a disbelieving look.

"You told him!"

Chris yelled at Jamie.

"Hay! My dad unlike yours is not clueless"

Chris nodded his head and practically threw himself in on the couch next to Jamie, quickly scoffing down the remaining egg roles.

"That's so gross Chris…so… how deep are we in it with the sisters?"

"Well deep was three states back, but that's not the problem Wy is. And the fact that he's dating Paige and I can't seem to get it through her head that the guy is bad news but I can't tell her he's her nephew oh… and let's not forget the source of all evil."

The end of Chris's rant was meet by a mirthless laugh from Cole

"Hay can you guys make sure that whatever she says about this guy is on type just so I can show little Miss I'm- better- than- you how she sounded during this whole thing."

Both Chris and Jamie just raised there eye-brows, and both said,

"Yeah sure why not?"

"Jay do you think that this thing that is going on with Wy is the reason you have your demonic powers now, that because of her relationship with him she never felt justified to bind your powers?"

"Maybe…or maybe with dad being here a year before the original timeline changed things ya know I am now older… maybe the potion she original used had to be used at an exact age and exact alignment. At the end you never know about time travel kind of like the butterfly effect or the chaos theory there is a method to the madness."

Chris nodded his head and went back to eating his food, Jamie had finished eating got up washed her hand and went into the room that was now being called her room and changed she came out wearing sweat pants a t-shirt over it was a zip up hooded sports jacket and trainers.

"Kay I'm off to see the sisters and talk with Phoebe maybe I can get her to enchant the medallion or the rings for me so that Wy won't be able to track me when I shimmer or use magic when he's not in the underworld? Oh…yeah and my own personal rendition of the parent trap how could I possibly forget that I'm trying to insure my existence on this trip."

"Hay while you're at it could you get my mom and dad together you know because I would really like to be conceived in like then next couple of weeks because if I'm not bye-bye Chris."

"I'll see what I can do short of casting a lust spell and locking them in a room with aphrodisiac food and drink."

"How about we call that plan B"

"You two do know that the follow lust spell thing does work."

Cole said remembering the time the Seer had done something similar.

"Yeah we do. Bye Chris, dad… hay dad you might wanna look into getting a job. I'll see you guys around."

With that Jamie left both Chris and Cole to their cold Chinese; as Cole talked to Chris he found it amusing to see that he did get on well with people of the Halliwell bloodline just not most of the female side of the family.

As Chris and Cole talked they knew that this would be the only reprieve they would have from the up and coming battle. Soon neither could sit and talk as if there was nothing bad happening the plan that had been in Chris's mind since he had planned Cole resurrection was coming to a head, Wyatt was in the past he was working on getting a strong hold in the underworld. Now was the time for action Chris prayed that he had made the right choice.

To be continued…..