Chapter 8- Sad Goodbyes (for the last time I DON'T OWN CHARMED!)
Ugh. . .how long have I been out cold. Ooh, damn these healing powers, why can't I heal this damn headache and my joints?!
"PIPER!" I hear Leo's voice, what's happened? I rush down stairs, Phoebe is there, Paige is there, Leo is there. . .
"Where's Piper?"
"We, ah. . .don't know."
"She defeated the Titans and disappeared when I asked her to give her powers back."
"SHE WHAT?" Oh god this isn't good, "Look you two better give your powers back and we have to look for her." Well there goes Phoebe's powers, blonde hair didn't really suit her. Maybe she'll stop flirting with me now, thank God!
"I'll start scrying for her."
"MAP! CRYSTEL!" Paige yelled, they orbed down to her, "Ooh, I guess my powers have their use after all, can't say I wouldn't like the Goddess powers though! Here Phoebe, start scrying."
"I'm on it,"
"Are you ready?"
"Just get it out of me." And there goes Paige's powers,
"How do you feel?"
"Phew. Free. Anything on Piper?" She walks over to Phoebe, I better go as well, lets hope she can get a read,
"Nope, I still can't get a read."
"Just keep trying!" Roland was wrong, Piper isn't going to survive this. It doesn't take a premonition to figure that out.
"Okay, even if we do find her, how are we gonna get her back? She's on this major power trip. She destroyed the Titans, not even the Greek gods could do that."
"We've just gotta hope she has some humanity still left inside." Please let there be some, she's not a bad person. . .she'll get through this? Or will she? Dammit why does everything have to be this way?!
"If anyone can come back from this, it's Piper. I've gotta go now. If you need me Chris knows how to get in touch."
"Where are you going?"
"The Elders have returned to the heavens and they're calling for me." That's it? He just left like that?!
"Did he just bail on us? Is that what he did?"
"Uh, what about, you know, helping us find his wife?" I agree with Paige on this one, Leo why the hell are you leaving?!
[i] "Chris, they can find her, trust them. . .[/i] Did he just listen in on my thoughts?! [i] "Help them find her Chris, please. . .I'd go if I could. . .you were wrong, I can't stay, I wish I could. . .find Piper!"[/i]
"He's trusting in you to do that. You need to find Piper and talk her down before she sets up shop somewhere and throws the world into chaos. Then it'll be too late for her." Let's hope she hasn't done it already,
"Okay, maybe you missed the part about Piper being Leo's wife." No I didn't actually!
"Look, you have to understand. Things have changed. The Elders need Leo up there to help restore order." Just do what I've been told to do, pretend to be happy, maybe give a smile. It's always the same,
"Cut to the chase, future man. Is this about Leo being turned into an Elder, or what?"
"He's on the path," Just keep smiling and pretend to be happy with it,
"Okay, don't give us that creepy pod-people smile." Okay maybe cut the false smile, it's ironic how you taught me to give a fake smile, I guess I was never as good as you at it, "Okay, in your world, being an Elder may be cool but in our world it pretty much sucks. Leo is our brother-in-law"
"And our Whitelighter..."
"And our friend."
"And we don't want to lose him." Nor did I. . .
"So listen, you go up there and tell him" HOLY SHIT! A TREE BRANCH JUST SMASHED THE WINDOW! "What is going on with this storm?" I could ask myself the same question, wait does Paige know something? She looks like she does.
"Piper." What about Piper? "Piper's what's up with this storm." Ah ha!
"What do you mean?"
"Remember when the Titans were first released, the major weather shifts, and the earthquake,"
"Yeah,"
"When you have power over the earth like the Titans did, it's bound to suffer your emotional baggage." Paige, you are very sharp!
"And like Leo says, our power comes from our emotions. Okay, okay. So if you're a god and you're angry and you're taking it out on the city, where would you go?"
"Somewhere high where I could enjoy the damage I'm inflicting."
"Hey isn't there a mountain near the Golden Gate bridge?" Finally, my geography comes in handy!
"It's the highest point in San Francisco! Of course! Come on Phoebe, I'll orb us there!"
"It just might be a good idea to grab some coats and an umbrella,"
"Yeah, I'll go upstairs and get them, be right back!"
"So do you think she'll go back with you?" Phoebe knows Piper better than anybody, she must know somehow. . .
"I honestly don't know Chris. Do you know us in the future? You seem kind of familiar."
"Yeah, I do."
"Chris, be honest, who sent you?" I suppose it wouldn't hurt to tell,
"Well, you and Wyatt did." Okay technically it was my idea to go, and Phoebe said to go as well, so it is the truth. . .sorta. . .
"How is Wyatt in the future?"
"He's, well. The whole Titan thing really pissed him off, he wanted to change it. So we figured out a way to go back in time."
"Why didn't he go as well?" Hmm, a little white lie might be in order here,
"He wouldn't have had his powers, so I said I'd go, because I'm a whitelighter I have my powers even now." Okay not exactly the truth but. . .
"C'mon Pheebs! Lets go!" Paige throws a Phoebe a coat,
"I'll stay here, you go find Piper!" Well they're gone. I kind of wish I could have told Phoebe the truth, but that wouldn't exactly be the best idea. Will Piper go with her sisters? Oh God I wish I knew what was going on in her head!
Phoebe is an empath, why can't I have her powers? Maybe I could figure out what's going on inside Pipers head! Dammit I wish I could do something, but anything I do will reveal who I am! That would freak her out even more!
I can't just stand and watch this happen all over again, I'm going to Leo, to the Elders, to find out why this has to happen!
Whoa! Even with the attack from the Titans there's still a lot of Elders. It wouldn't hurt to lose one Elder would it? Wait, there's Piper! She crying,
"Where is he? Where is Leo?" It doesn't take an empath to figure out her emotions now. Leo, he's going over to her now. What is he going to say?
"Piper, what are you doing here?"
"How can you do this?"
"Uh, excuse us for a minute." Finally he gets rid of the Elders hovering around. If I'm lucky I can follow them without being seen,
"You asked me to marry you and I did. You wanted a family and I gave you a son. And now you want me to watch you just walk away?" What have I done, I helped this happen. I promised myself that I wouldn't let it happen.
"It's not that simple."
"Then make it simple, because I'm trying really hard to understand." I don't understand either,
"Piper, if I had a choice in any of this, I would choose you. I always have." Why can't you choose now?!
"Then choose me now. Then let's go home." When you become a whitelighter you have the choice to clip your wings, why can't Elders do the same?
"Don't you think I want to go?" You wanted to marry her and you did,
"I don't know. And that's what scares me the most."
"The Elders were wrong about us. They didn't think our love could survive but it did. Our love blessed us in ways they couldn't even imagine. It gave you the strength that you needed to take over from Prue, it produced a baby with a greater future than any of us," What future? "And it made me,"
"An Elder. . ." Love made him an Elder? So if they can't stop them from loving each other they separate them by any means possible?
"Our love it transcendent, Piper. It lifted me up so high that this was the only possible result. Being an Elder wasn't my destiny, but yet here I am because of you." No you're here because the Elders are fucking prats!
"I can't just give up. I don't know how." I get it now, when she left she had given up. She had never given up before, that's what made her strong before, she didn't give up.
"You can't fight this. Not this." Well there goes her powers anyway, at least that's the fist step to accepting.
"How am I supposed to do this alone?" I'll be here for you Piper, I always complained about you never being there for me. Now it's my turn to try and be there for you,
"You have your sisters."
"It's not the same. Will I ever see you again?"
"I don't know. I'll always be watching over you." That's what people say about the dead. They say that they watch over us, that means nothing.
"But you won't be there for Wyatt. You're gonna miss so much."
"I will never leave Wyatt's side. He will always feel my presence. It's not the same as human love, he needs you for that." How come I never felt him before?
"He's got me. And I hope that's enough. But what if it's not?" I've got her. . .I never had her growing up, does this mean that she'll really stay this time?
"As an Elder I have the power to take your pain away."
"You can't make me forget you."
"No. Help you find peace." HELP HER FIND FUCKING PEACE?! IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN FUCKING DO? GO WITH HER! THAT'LL HELP!
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[I]What if everything you believed in suddenly fell apart around you? What if one moment in time changed your life? A moment is a concentrated reality, the decisions we make in one moment can affect the rest of our lives. Quite often we regret these openly, but secretly if given a chance to change what we did we wouldn't.[/i]
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Here I sit, in complete turmoil. What do I do now? What road do I take now? Why did I let something happen that I swore would not happen? And here comes Leo, oh joy!
"So the Elders decide what to do with me yet?"
"Well, you've been the subject of heated discussion. One thing we agreed upon is you can't return to the future." I should've known, I'll never get to see Phoebe again. The Phoebe I know anyway,
"I figured as much. The timeline's changed, I don't even know what I go back to. So what did they decide?" Does he even know who I am yet?
"The Elders voted to make you the Charmed Ones' new Whitelighter." Wow Roland was right about something. The Elders are right about some things, just not matters of the heart.
"They did?"
"As a reward for helping to defeat the Titans but then somehow I figured you knew that. You know, I can't stop thinking about what Piper said and wondering myself if this wasn't part of your plan all along. Take good care of them, Chris. Don't forget, I'll be watching over you." Yeah, you watch over me. YOU FUCKING WATCH OVER ME!
I did it. . .I blew him up. He never saw it coming; I never even saw it coming! I didn't even mean to do it. I just lost it. . .Oh my God. . .
[i]What have I done?![/i]
Ugh. . .how long have I been out cold. Ooh, damn these healing powers, why can't I heal this damn headache and my joints?!
"PIPER!" I hear Leo's voice, what's happened? I rush down stairs, Phoebe is there, Paige is there, Leo is there. . .
"Where's Piper?"
"We, ah. . .don't know."
"She defeated the Titans and disappeared when I asked her to give her powers back."
"SHE WHAT?" Oh god this isn't good, "Look you two better give your powers back and we have to look for her." Well there goes Phoebe's powers, blonde hair didn't really suit her. Maybe she'll stop flirting with me now, thank God!
"I'll start scrying for her."
"MAP! CRYSTEL!" Paige yelled, they orbed down to her, "Ooh, I guess my powers have their use after all, can't say I wouldn't like the Goddess powers though! Here Phoebe, start scrying."
"I'm on it,"
"Are you ready?"
"Just get it out of me." And there goes Paige's powers,
"How do you feel?"
"Phew. Free. Anything on Piper?" She walks over to Phoebe, I better go as well, lets hope she can get a read,
"Nope, I still can't get a read."
"Just keep trying!" Roland was wrong, Piper isn't going to survive this. It doesn't take a premonition to figure that out.
"Okay, even if we do find her, how are we gonna get her back? She's on this major power trip. She destroyed the Titans, not even the Greek gods could do that."
"We've just gotta hope she has some humanity still left inside." Please let there be some, she's not a bad person. . .she'll get through this? Or will she? Dammit why does everything have to be this way?!
"If anyone can come back from this, it's Piper. I've gotta go now. If you need me Chris knows how to get in touch."
"Where are you going?"
"The Elders have returned to the heavens and they're calling for me." That's it? He just left like that?!
"Did he just bail on us? Is that what he did?"
"Uh, what about, you know, helping us find his wife?" I agree with Paige on this one, Leo why the hell are you leaving?!
[i] "Chris, they can find her, trust them. . .[/i] Did he just listen in on my thoughts?! [i] "Help them find her Chris, please. . .I'd go if I could. . .you were wrong, I can't stay, I wish I could. . .find Piper!"[/i]
"He's trusting in you to do that. You need to find Piper and talk her down before she sets up shop somewhere and throws the world into chaos. Then it'll be too late for her." Let's hope she hasn't done it already,
"Okay, maybe you missed the part about Piper being Leo's wife." No I didn't actually!
"Look, you have to understand. Things have changed. The Elders need Leo up there to help restore order." Just do what I've been told to do, pretend to be happy, maybe give a smile. It's always the same,
"Cut to the chase, future man. Is this about Leo being turned into an Elder, or what?"
"He's on the path," Just keep smiling and pretend to be happy with it,
"Okay, don't give us that creepy pod-people smile." Okay maybe cut the false smile, it's ironic how you taught me to give a fake smile, I guess I was never as good as you at it, "Okay, in your world, being an Elder may be cool but in our world it pretty much sucks. Leo is our brother-in-law"
"And our Whitelighter..."
"And our friend."
"And we don't want to lose him." Nor did I. . .
"So listen, you go up there and tell him" HOLY SHIT! A TREE BRANCH JUST SMASHED THE WINDOW! "What is going on with this storm?" I could ask myself the same question, wait does Paige know something? She looks like she does.
"Piper." What about Piper? "Piper's what's up with this storm." Ah ha!
"What do you mean?"
"Remember when the Titans were first released, the major weather shifts, and the earthquake,"
"Yeah,"
"When you have power over the earth like the Titans did, it's bound to suffer your emotional baggage." Paige, you are very sharp!
"And like Leo says, our power comes from our emotions. Okay, okay. So if you're a god and you're angry and you're taking it out on the city, where would you go?"
"Somewhere high where I could enjoy the damage I'm inflicting."
"Hey isn't there a mountain near the Golden Gate bridge?" Finally, my geography comes in handy!
"It's the highest point in San Francisco! Of course! Come on Phoebe, I'll orb us there!"
"It just might be a good idea to grab some coats and an umbrella,"
"Yeah, I'll go upstairs and get them, be right back!"
"So do you think she'll go back with you?" Phoebe knows Piper better than anybody, she must know somehow. . .
"I honestly don't know Chris. Do you know us in the future? You seem kind of familiar."
"Yeah, I do."
"Chris, be honest, who sent you?" I suppose it wouldn't hurt to tell,
"Well, you and Wyatt did." Okay technically it was my idea to go, and Phoebe said to go as well, so it is the truth. . .sorta. . .
"How is Wyatt in the future?"
"He's, well. The whole Titan thing really pissed him off, he wanted to change it. So we figured out a way to go back in time."
"Why didn't he go as well?" Hmm, a little white lie might be in order here,
"He wouldn't have had his powers, so I said I'd go, because I'm a whitelighter I have my powers even now." Okay not exactly the truth but. . .
"C'mon Pheebs! Lets go!" Paige throws a Phoebe a coat,
"I'll stay here, you go find Piper!" Well they're gone. I kind of wish I could have told Phoebe the truth, but that wouldn't exactly be the best idea. Will Piper go with her sisters? Oh God I wish I knew what was going on in her head!
Phoebe is an empath, why can't I have her powers? Maybe I could figure out what's going on inside Pipers head! Dammit I wish I could do something, but anything I do will reveal who I am! That would freak her out even more!
I can't just stand and watch this happen all over again, I'm going to Leo, to the Elders, to find out why this has to happen!
Whoa! Even with the attack from the Titans there's still a lot of Elders. It wouldn't hurt to lose one Elder would it? Wait, there's Piper! She crying,
"Where is he? Where is Leo?" It doesn't take an empath to figure out her emotions now. Leo, he's going over to her now. What is he going to say?
"Piper, what are you doing here?"
"How can you do this?"
"Uh, excuse us for a minute." Finally he gets rid of the Elders hovering around. If I'm lucky I can follow them without being seen,
"You asked me to marry you and I did. You wanted a family and I gave you a son. And now you want me to watch you just walk away?" What have I done, I helped this happen. I promised myself that I wouldn't let it happen.
"It's not that simple."
"Then make it simple, because I'm trying really hard to understand." I don't understand either,
"Piper, if I had a choice in any of this, I would choose you. I always have." Why can't you choose now?!
"Then choose me now. Then let's go home." When you become a whitelighter you have the choice to clip your wings, why can't Elders do the same?
"Don't you think I want to go?" You wanted to marry her and you did,
"I don't know. And that's what scares me the most."
"The Elders were wrong about us. They didn't think our love could survive but it did. Our love blessed us in ways they couldn't even imagine. It gave you the strength that you needed to take over from Prue, it produced a baby with a greater future than any of us," What future? "And it made me,"
"An Elder. . ." Love made him an Elder? So if they can't stop them from loving each other they separate them by any means possible?
"Our love it transcendent, Piper. It lifted me up so high that this was the only possible result. Being an Elder wasn't my destiny, but yet here I am because of you." No you're here because the Elders are fucking prats!
"I can't just give up. I don't know how." I get it now, when she left she had given up. She had never given up before, that's what made her strong before, she didn't give up.
"You can't fight this. Not this." Well there goes her powers anyway, at least that's the fist step to accepting.
"How am I supposed to do this alone?" I'll be here for you Piper, I always complained about you never being there for me. Now it's my turn to try and be there for you,
"You have your sisters."
"It's not the same. Will I ever see you again?"
"I don't know. I'll always be watching over you." That's what people say about the dead. They say that they watch over us, that means nothing.
"But you won't be there for Wyatt. You're gonna miss so much."
"I will never leave Wyatt's side. He will always feel my presence. It's not the same as human love, he needs you for that." How come I never felt him before?
"He's got me. And I hope that's enough. But what if it's not?" I've got her. . .I never had her growing up, does this mean that she'll really stay this time?
"As an Elder I have the power to take your pain away."
"You can't make me forget you."
"No. Help you find peace." HELP HER FIND FUCKING PEACE?! IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN FUCKING DO? GO WITH HER! THAT'LL HELP!
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[I]What if everything you believed in suddenly fell apart around you? What if one moment in time changed your life? A moment is a concentrated reality, the decisions we make in one moment can affect the rest of our lives. Quite often we regret these openly, but secretly if given a chance to change what we did we wouldn't.[/i]
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Here I sit, in complete turmoil. What do I do now? What road do I take now? Why did I let something happen that I swore would not happen? And here comes Leo, oh joy!
"So the Elders decide what to do with me yet?"
"Well, you've been the subject of heated discussion. One thing we agreed upon is you can't return to the future." I should've known, I'll never get to see Phoebe again. The Phoebe I know anyway,
"I figured as much. The timeline's changed, I don't even know what I go back to. So what did they decide?" Does he even know who I am yet?
"The Elders voted to make you the Charmed Ones' new Whitelighter." Wow Roland was right about something. The Elders are right about some things, just not matters of the heart.
"They did?"
"As a reward for helping to defeat the Titans but then somehow I figured you knew that. You know, I can't stop thinking about what Piper said and wondering myself if this wasn't part of your plan all along. Take good care of them, Chris. Don't forget, I'll be watching over you." Yeah, you watch over me. YOU FUCKING WATCH OVER ME!
I did it. . .I blew him up. He never saw it coming; I never even saw it coming! I didn't even mean to do it. I just lost it. . .Oh my God. . .
[i]What have I done?![/i]