Title: birthday gifts
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: unchanged future
Pairings: Bianca/Chris
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 195
Point of view: third
Prompt: Charmed, gen, spells cast on your birthday are more potent
He never tells them, but the first time he steps back in time, he left the future on his birthday. In that first life, he'd barely had time for a magical education and learned everything fly-by-night, cobbled together from books he could find and his memories of the good times.
It's so much worse than he ever lets on, even to Grandpa.
There are many things he's never taught, never realizes he knows, and so much of his magic is instinct. He knows his magic in a way his aunts and mom never did because they didn't grow up with it. They never knew it was locked inside them.
He and Wyatt and their cousins - their magic is a part of them, another limb, another sense.
He knows so much more than he'll ever realize.
Chris can't explain it to Bianca, but he knows he has to cast the spell on his birthday as close to the moment of his birth as he can.
The last thing he hears before he steps into the portal is, Chris? in a mind-to-mind touch he hasn't felt in years. He doesn't hesitate to send back, Goodbye.