Part 43: Meet the Future

Michael stared hard at Isabel, Alex had told him what had transpired earlier and saying that he was shocked would have been the understatement of the century. Here all of this time Mr. Evans who seemed as normal as possible and the least likeliest person to know anything about the supernatural world just proved him wrong.

"Michael?" Isabel asked he could see the hope shining in her eyes something he had not seen for many years. Letting out a sigh he pressed the heals of his hands into his eye sockets.

"I think that we should tell them Isabel." He finally relented looking at the girl he considered a sister he could see tears forming in her golden eyes.

"Thank you." She whispered wrapping her arms around his neck.

"I think your dad just proved that he is more understanding then I thought." Michael said.

"Come on guys, you are making the Evans restless. The sooner you both get this done the better." Alex said leading the two aliens back into the other room where the two anxious parents were waiting.

"Isabel what is going on?" Diane asked sending her husband a nasty glare. Philip had filled her in on the goings on of the magical world and even though she might like to deny that such things existed too many unexplained happenings in the world said that magic did exist. She could tell from the look on her daughter's face that what her and Michael had to tell them was important and this frightened her because she knew that whatever it was could change her life and the lives of her family forever.

"Mom, dad we have something to tell you."

San Francisco

Piper shied staring at the stick in front of her. She knew that this was coming but she did not think it was going to be so soon. She knew that something was off with her body with how sick she had been lately and this stick confirmed her fears, she was pregnant.

"Piper sweetie you okay in there?" Paige asked knocking on the bathroom door. Wiping her eyes Piper opened the bathroom door letting her half sister in. Paige closed the door behind her sensing that Piper wanted privacy. "Piper?" Piper just held the stick out for her sister to see, two pink lines glaring up at the two sisters.

"Your pregnant?" Paige asked.

"Yes." Piper said wiping her eyes once more as tears continued to leak out the corners of her eyes.

"But sweetie this is a good thing." Paige said wrapping her arm around her older sister.

"Really?" Piper asked.

"Piper I know that you have been trying to get pregnant, this is a great thing. I know that the timing is never right but this is a good thing, you and Leo are finally going to be parents." Paige said hugging her sister a huge grin on her face.

"So you are happy about this?" Piper asked looking hopefully at her little sister.

"Of course I am. Also I think Liz is going to be ecstatic about this you know another woman to share her pain with." Paige said giving her sister another wide grin.

"Actually I think I am going to be looking to Liz for help after all she is farther along than I am. This is just too weird to think about I mean I am over a decade older than Liz and I am going to be looking to her for parenting advice." Piper let out a wet laugh.

"Piper you know I am here for you right?" Paige asked rubbing her back.

"I know, it's just with the Source always after us I am just afraid." Piper cried softly.

"Have you told Leo yet?"

"No not yet I was not sure until now but I suspected something. I still need to go to the doctor but I don't want to go alone." Piper said.

"If you want to wait to tell Leo I will go with you." Paige offered.

"Thanks I think I would prefer to wait to tell him until the doctor confirms it, would you please go with me?" Piper asked.

"You know I will."

Ipswich

Gorman sighed as the figure in the shadows slowly moved about the room. He was getting rather tired of keeping the secret of this person from the sons, he was going against all that his family stood for, for decades.

"Things are changing Gorman I can feel it. The others are ready to know what I have to tell them. Is there any way to get them here?"

"Yes, it's called a phone call." Gorman muttered pulling out a cell phone and waving it in the other person's face.

"You get cell reception out here?"

"Of course." Gorman said pressing 2 on his speed dial getting Caleb Gorman told him to call the others and the Charmed Ones and get them to the home immediately. Moments later the front door of the ancestral home of the Covenant burst open as Caleb, Pogue, Tyler, Reid and Liz rushed in followed by Maria, Kyle, Alex, Isabel, Michael, Cole, Paige, Piper, and Phoebe.

"What is the big emergency?" Caleb asked none of them seeing the person in the shadows.

"I am." He said stepping into the flickering light of the kitchen where everyone was assembled. The teens and Charmed Ones took defensive stances not liking that a stranger was in their midst.

"He is not here to harm you." Gorman rushed to reassure the people in the room. Caleb looked at the man who kept their families safe all his life and saw that the older man trusted the new person.

"You have been watching us." Liz said recognizing the guy from school.

"Yeah sorry about that I had to get a feel for how things were going in this timeline before I could do anything else. I had to see if my plan worked or not." The man said.

"Who are you?" Cole asked as the room took their seats.

"I am Chris, Chris Halliwell I am Piper and Leo's youngest son." Chris said looking at the two in question the two seemed to accept this it was as if they could sense that he was really their son.

"What!" Maria screamed.

"Maria I presume." Chris said with a sigh.

"Yes." The blonde said appearing anxious.

"I regret that I never met you in my timeline but I heard about you. See things in the future I came from are different than here, very different." Chris said.

"Different how?" Liz asked.

"Well where to start, how about Ipswich." Chris said looking at the five sons who nodded each of them wanting to know what happened to them in the future.

"Well things are bad to put it lightly. Liz you did not go to Ipswich this past summer instead you went to Florida like you said you did, you stayed with your dad's friend you never reconnected with Tyler. Chase came back and fought the four of you, killing Reid in the process." Chris said seeing the pain cross the sons faces. Liz looked distressed about not ending up with Tyler who wrapped his arm around her pulling her close.

"Chase was eventually killed by Caleb and Pogue but at the expense of yet another son, Tyler." Chris said stopping when he heard Liz sob. Caleb motioned for him to go on.

"Eventually Pogue and Caleb went on to Harvard and married Sarah and Jessica. For years the two women tried to get pregnant only to learn that they were not meant to be together. Caleb was ambushed by a demon clan and killed and then 

Pogue was killed by the new Source a few days later. The Covenant no longer exists in my time." Chris said.

"But there are others out there besides the five of us that make up the Covenant." Reid said.

"True, but without the five sons the others were not strong enough to go on and were wiped out as well." Chris said turning to the Charmed Ones.

"Now for my family things were a lot different than they are now. After aunt Prue died things changed a lot within our family besides aunt Paige coming into your lives. All of you killed the Source but at a cost, Cole took the Hive within himself." Chris said startling the room into silence.

"Wait the Hive?" Caleb asked looking alarmed.

"I would have had to be mad to do something like that." Cole said looking sick.

"Well you were not exactly in your right mind at the time but you loved the power and did not want to give the Hive up. To make a long story short, Phoebe and Cole got married and became the Source of the underworld and his evil bride and Phoebe got pregnant. Cole was eventually vanished leaving Phoebe pregnant with his evil spawn who was eventually taken by the Seer and then both were vanquished. Then Piper got pregnant with my older brother Wyatt and then me fighting many other beasts along the way splitting up with my dad along the way." Chris said letting his family take in all that he told them.

"Please tell me that was all." Leo said looking distressed.

"Not even close. Leo becomes an Elder which led to the separation of my parents. Paige took over magic school and a few of the Elders betrayed my parents since they thought that my older brother should not exist and that he was too powerful. A lot of other crap happened to all of you and then the worst came, the Avatars." Chris said.

"The what?" Liz asked.

"The Avatars. They are these people who have apparently always existed building up their power biding their time until one day they wiped out all evil making reality perfect." Chris spat bitterness evident in his eyes.

"That does not sound so bad." Maria said looking hopeful.

"Maria without bad there is no good." Kyle said.

"Exactly, but luckily they stopped them but it cost them their freedom." Chris said.

"No more." Piper whispered and Chris nodded knowing that all of this was killing his mother.

"What happened to us?" Alex asked he saw pain flash in Chris's eyes letting the Roswell teens know that their fate was just as brutal.

"Tess happened." Chris sighed.

"What?" Isabel asked looking alarmed.

"Well let's see she killed Alex, seduced Max and got pregnant with his baby and then convinced all of you that the baby could not survive on Earth only for Liz to tell all of you about her betrayal keep the three of you on Earth and Max let Tess blast off with his baby. Apparently Tess and Nasedo have a deal with Khivar where she was to get pregnant with Zan's heir and then deliver the other three royals to him and she almost did." Chris said stopping when he saw Isabel, Maria, and Liz clinging to Alex who looked lost.

"Why did she kill me?" Alex asked.

"Because you were decoding the destiny book and to get you to do so she had to mind warp you and the continuous sustained mind warps killed you. She made Kyle carry your body to the car and then made it look like a suicide. All of you fought over Alex's death. Liz was the only one who thought Alex was killed by an alien, it pitted humans against aliens. Then after Tess was gone Max was obsessed with finding his son getting Liz, who was back with Max, into more trouble than was safe and her father forbid her from seeing Max but the two of you continued to do so in secret." Chris said hating the sick look on Liz's face as she clung to Tyler who held onto his girlfriend for dear life.

"I don't know some of the other details that happened to all of you but I do know that by your Senior year the FBI caught up with all of you. Liz developed alien powers and so did Kyle and after graduation all of you went on the run. Liz and 

Max got married and a few months later Liz got pregnant. Max not wanting to risk having a baby on the run aborted the baby destroying Liz. You never forgave him for that." Chris said his heart breaking at the sight of the small brunette who was sobbing in Tyler's arms. Tyler looked disgusted at the thought of Liz pregnant by Max.

"Isabel you married a man named Jessie but you had to separate when you went on the run, you did not know you were pregnant at the time and after seeing what Max did to Liz you and Kyle ran off shortly after Liz ran as well with Michael and Maria and Max got captured by the FBI." Chris said staring at all of the occupants of the room.

"So you came back to fix things?" Maria asked.

"Yes."

"How?" Alex asked.

"Easy all I had to do was change one little event." Chris said.

"Which one?" Alex asked.

"Me coming to Ipswich." Liz whispered.

"Correct, it was this change that fixed the timelines." Chris said.

"Yes except now my brother is evil and Tess is still around." Isabel said.

"Yes well I am hoping I have changed enough that the last part of why I came back does not come true." Chris said looking even more grim.

"What?" Michael asked.

"See after all was said and done the Antrian enemy still existed. Khivar was still around and he eventually took over Earth. Khivar won the war."