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Authors Note: Hi everyone....
- Forbes:
Updates won't be too quick because I have a lot of school but on the bright side : chapter will be long. =)
- Charmed Writer P4:
Thank you - I love to be interesting. ;)
- SlySlayer13:
The Chris Perry caught my attention almost right away. I've been toying with this idea since he was introduced.
- LadyPiper1:
Thank you very, very much....
- IncepteDragons:
You better keep reviewing I am so not kidding. ;)
-Meow14:
Thanks, I thought the eyes thing was interesting too.
Hope every one enjoys....
So without Further ado..............
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"wha....what?" Paige asked after a moment, her voice seemed to echo in the silence.
Piper and Phoebe had gone deathly pale.
"She's my mother, I'm Piper's son." He said seriously, firmly, looking directly at Piper.
Piper glared at him, "If this is some kind of joke..." she said her voice trying to sound firm but wavering horribly.
"It isn't." he said seriously.
She shook her head, then stood and walked away. She came back quickly, though, twice she did this, before sitting down again. No one said anything, it was as if they were all holding there breaths, "Wy...Wyatt's my son." she said hesitantly, her eyes almost begging him to take it back. To not bring this complication into their lives.
But Chris was beyond noticing, his head was pounding, his vision a little blurry and he just wanted to sleep. Nodding he said a bit sarcastically, "yes he is. Occasionally though people have more than one child."
Piper shook her head fighting the tears that threatened, "no... no... " she began, "I mean....how... or why...." she didn't even know what she wanted to ask - there was so much. "...why didn't you say something..." she whispered after a moment, looking at him intently.
He shrugged, "its not exactly important or anything." he replied offhandedly.
"Not important!" Paige said jumping up "Your her son! Our nephew! How's that not important?" she exclaimed.
He sighed, "it was irrelevant to what I was here to do?" his voice was tired, and he was massaging his right temple.
"So you... you... know our future." Phoebe stated quietly.
He shook his head, "no, we changed the future."
"you know what would've been the future." she persisted.
He smirked, closing his eyes, "considering I was part of it, yeah."
"wait a second.... wait a damn second. If your here. and we changed the future that... that means..." Piper said staring holes through him as her mind worked out what that meant.
Opening his eyes slowly, "that means when I came here I wrote myself out of the future." he finished for her, his voice exhausted.
Her eyes widened, "why.... why would you do that?" she questioned softly. Paige and Phoebe wondered also.
"I don't want to talk about this." he said stubbornly.
"Oh well, Mr. You don't just...just tell us that ...me... tell me... that your my... my son and leave it at that. I... I need more." Piper said a bit angrily, and flustered.
"We all need more." Phoebe added quietly.
"you think you can wait till I can keep my eyes open to get it." he said weakly and the girls felt something inside melt as his eyes slid shut.
"lay back down." Piper said quickly, gently, helping him. He was asleep an instant later.
Looking at him, she studied him. Searching his features for any resemblance, what she found was an overwhelming sense of tenderness and a desire to hold him close.
"he's burning up." she said softly as she ran her hand across his face, smoothed his hair.
Paige and Phoebe said nothing, just watched as she continued to touch his face, to scan his features as if seeing him for the first time. Phoebe was having a difficult time controlling her Empath powers because what Piper was feeling was so strong.
"he... he's my son." Piper said in a barely audible whisper, breaking the silence. Rousing Phoebe and Paige from the stillness that had enveloped them.
"I'm going to call the doctor. Its probably a virus or something." Paige said standing and heading to kitchen where the phone book was.
"You okay honey?" Phoebe asked gently, when Piper remained silent.
She was still studying Chris, not acknowledging Phoebe. Several minutes ticked by before she spoke.
"I'm a horrible mother." she said softly.
"what? no your not..."
"yes I am." she interrupted "...what kind of mother of doesn't recognize her own child?"
"he's not your child yet."
"he won't be now." Piper responded then a moment later lifted her gaze to Phoebe's "...why would he do this? come back here?"
"I don't know, honey, but from what I saw things really couldn't have been worse."
Piper was silent a moment then said smiling a little, "you'll have a daughter."
"yeah...."
"wonder who the father'll be."
"Jason, of course." Paige said smiling as she came back in.
"Maybe..." Phoebe said smiling, then "...what'd the doctor say?"
"said there's a bug going around, we should just give'm stuff to bring the fever and keep'm cool."
The girls nodded, "Orb him upstairs Paige." Piper said standing.
She was about to ask why but the look on her sister's face did not welcome it.
Without comment she went over and orbed upstairs into Piper's bedroom. As she was laying him on the bed Phoebe and Piper entered. Phoebe holding a bowl of water and towels, Piper holding Wyatt.
"I'd say he's about twenty, twenty-one at most." Paige said, answering her own question.
"It doesn't matter Paige!" Piper said sharply as she sat Wyatt down on the bed.
"its not my fault you didn't know he was your son, so don't snap at me!" she said glaring at her sister.
"I didn't..."
"yeah you did..." Paige interrupted.
"could you two stop." Phoebe said,
"I'm just trying to make some conversation, since you two seem to be stumped into silence." Paige added anyway, ignoring Phoebe.
"Well soooorrrry I don't feel like a chatterbox after finding out that my whitelighter is actually my son from the future." Piper said bitingly.
"Well, like I said its not my fault."
"what does his age have to do with anything Paige, don't you think we should concentrate on more important things."
"well since he's unconscious it doesn't really matter what we concentrate on, does it!"
"I said stop it!" Phoebe said harshly.
None of the sisters had noticed Wyatt crawling on the bed to where his brother lay.
He was sitting on Chris' chest while looking up at them. His eyes sparkling as if he could understand every word they said.
"She started it." Paige said like a little girl.
Before turning back around and spotting Wyatt, she couldn't help the smile that crossed her face, "Hey what're you laughing at." she said laughingly, noticing his cheerful features.
Scooping him up she went and sat on the rocking chair Piper had in the room, "you think mommy and Auntie Paige are acting silly."
"Of course he does, he's wise beyond reason." Phoebe said smiling.
"I wouldn't be surprised if he'd known this little tidbit of information, all along." Piper said frowning slightly as the idea entered her head.
"neither would I." Phoebe said smiling.
A slight moan drew their attention to the bed. Chris was tossing and turning, muttering something in his sleep, his brow furrowed.
Piper was at the bed in an instant, "Chris..." she said softly smoothing his hair.
"Chris..." she said again a bit more urgently since he didn't seem to hear her.
He turned his face into her hand and she caressed it gently, "wake up, honey." she murmured softly, her eyes intent on his flushed face.
"mmmmmm" he mumbled as his eyes fluttered open "where am I?" he said trying to sit up, his eyes disoriented.
"In my bedroom, lay down." Piper said pushing him back.
He shook his head leaning it into his hand as he propped himself up on the headboard.
"How do you feel? Are you hungry?" Phoebe asked sitting on the other side of the bed.
" crappy and no..." he answered.
"you still have a fever?" she asked reaching out to touch him.
"Nu-uh..." he said pulling away, his eyes still a little unfocused, "no touching."
Everyone was silent a moment before Piper spoke, "I'll get you some medicine."
"Medicine isn't going to do anything." he said.
"See..." Paige called out from the chair, "told you we should'a asked if it was magical or mortal."
"this isn't the flu or something?" Piper questioned, sitting back down.
He smirked, "no, this is caused by prolonged and intense use of magical powers." His tone made it obvious that those were not his words.
"which means..." she asked her eyebrow raised.
"I brought it upon myself by using my powers all the time."
"you don't use your powers all the time." Phoebe interjected.
"he blocks himself off, all the time." Paige said.
"why don't you come over here instead of yelling." Piper said frowning.
Paige smiled and stood, Wyatt nearly jumping from her arms when he was near his mother.
"whoa there buddy..." she said settling him on her lap.
"its funny..." Chris said his eyes focused on Wyatt "...seeing your big brother as a baby." his voice was thoughtful as if he was expressing something he'd often contemplated.
"how much older is he than you?" Paige asked sitting the foot of the bed.
"Almost four years." Chris said softly.
"What's he like... in your time?" Piper asked softly
Chris's mind had wandered, to how insignificant those four years had always been, how Wyatt had never seemed that much older to him, how he'd been his best friend, Pipers question caught him unawares, "Wyatt?" he asked.
"yeah..."
He smirked lifting his gaze to meet his mother's, "you'll be proud."
"do you have to be so vague." Phoebe said.
"I shouldn't talk about the future."
"But we changed the future, so isn't it safe." Paige said.
He met her gaze steadily, "I only knew you through pictures and stories. Just like Aunt Prue... its been interesting getting to know you.
Paige smiled, "I'll take that as a compliment."
He smiled but it only lasted a moment. His eyes became serious, "there's a reason I didn't tell you who I was. You can't think of me as your nephew..." looking to Piper, "...as your son. You have to think of me as whitelighter."
They remained silent and he looked at each of their faces, "no really, you can't second guess me or treat me like a child. I am your whitelighter now and I am very capable of fulfilling the duties.... and well." He added wryly, then continued, "God knows... I've had enough training."
"training?" Piper said struggling with Wyatt who'd decided this was boring and wanted to move on to better and more exciting things.
"developing of my powers." he said in that tone again that clearly stated they weren't his words, "It was a must in the Hallowell House. We had to do it in hiding of course, but we still had to do it."
"who exactly is 'we'" Piper asked putting Wyatt down so he could crawl.
"I really don't want to discuss this" he said again.
"oh well buddy, we do and since I'm your mother I command you: talk."
Chris smiled a little, "the 'we' is Wyatt, Payton, and me. The twins were too young."
"the what?" Paige asked her eyebrows raised.
"Paul and Andrea, we called her Andre, they were... are... will be.... would've been..." he said finally frustrated, "...twins. They were 11 when I came back here."
"Th...the twins were mine?" Phoebe questioned.
"yeah...."
"and this Payton was mine too."
"yep."
"it sound like you and her were close." Piper said.
"Payton and I were...we were twins." he said softly, his gaze soft as he visualized the dark haired girl with whom he'd shared his entire life.
"oh" was all Piper said he looked tired and she was reluctant to push it.
Paige on the other hand had no such qualms, "I could be wrong but I was under the impression you had to have the same mother to be twins."
"we were Asteral twins..." he said as though they should know what that was. Faced with their blank faces he continued, "....conceived and born on the same days. We could feel what the other was feeling, read each others thoughts, see what the other saw. We were literally two halves of a whole. Both of us together had the same power Wyatt had... or has."
He paused, "you were training us to defeat the Titans." his words were soft and in his tone held was a wealth of information.
"The titans were in complete control in your world, weren't they." Phoebe stated more than questioned but still he nodded, "how did we live like that?"
He seemed to think a moment then said softly, "The house was cloaked, no magical vibes came from it, not till the end anyway, therefore to the Titans it was just another house among the billions that existed on earth. Any and all magical training we did was in a guarded location in another realm that Da...Leo would provide, we'd never, and I mean never, use our powers in this realm."
"So basically what your saying is we hid." Piper said a little disapprovingly.
Chris frowned not liking the way she said that, "you did what you had to do. Think back here okay, Paige was killed when the Titans were first released, that means *poof* for the power of three. I never conveniently show up to tell you what's going on so your clueless for a while, have no idea what's going on except that your baby sisters been killed. You just grieve. Then the Elders are killed, all of them, because Leo too is clueless and doesn't save them and you're left without any safety net whatsoever. " he paused a moment, as if giving them time to actually imagine it. Then continued.
"By the time the Titans fully exposed themselves they were powerful beyond belief and you recognized that you couldn't beat them - not then at least - and you had Wyatt to consider. Wyatt who has a destiny to great for any of to imagine." his voice took on that tone again, the one that said those weren't his words, but it disappeared quickly as he continued,
"He had to be kept safe, he was your secret weapon. Your hope for the future, if you could raise him, somehow manage to train him, then he could defeat the Titans. Then Uncle Cole showed up and me and Payton were on the way and things just... they just went on..."
Chris missed the shocked expressions on the girl's faces, his eyes intent on Wyatt as he attempted to climb onto the chair.
"Wh....what di...did you say?" Phoebe choked out, her face pale and her dark eyes wide. "di....did you say Uncle Cole?"
"As in Cole Turner?" Paige said disbelief coloring her voice.
"yeah." they stared at him like he was crazy. "what? You know him, right? You're in love him aren't you Phoebe?"
"I most certainly am NOT." Phoebe said standing startling Wyatt who plopped down on his padded bottom and stared at her with wide blue eyes.
Chris eyed her critically, "you're lying." he said simply, she started to deny it, to ascertain her hate of Cole but he cut her off.
"I've heard the story of how you and Uncle Cole met and fell in love and separated and got married and every thing in between, from vanquishes to evil conversion to demonic spawn, about four million times. Andre spent an entire month telling and retelling it after the first time she heard it. Thought it was a freakin fairy tale. And let me tell you, directly from the mouth of my Aunt , that she always loved him. That there was a time when she told her self she didn't but she always did." Chris spoke firmly, looking at Phoebe.
"I'm guessing this is that time." he added after a moment.
"Cole is dead." Phoebe said warily, pleadingly, her tone begging him to take it all back.
"yeah but.... actually....." he seemed to calculate something in his head before continuing, "no....yeah your right, he's dead or rather vanquished, which is different, you know..."
"no...." she said softly then with more strength, "no....NO I don't KNOW! for Christsake how many times do I have to kill the man before he leaves me alone!!!!"
Chris laughed and she saw red, "this is NOT FUNNY!!" she roared, pacing back and forth.
"No I guess from you perspective it isn't..."
"Its not funny from any perspective." Paige said seriously. Her eyes shooting dark daggers.
"Don't get mad. Its not my fault. I'm just telling you what I know. And you wonder why I didn't tell you who I was sooner." He said closing his eyes.
Phoebe opened her mouth but Piper silenced her with a "shhhhhhhed" Phoebe glared but still remained silent, taking into account that he looked very tired.
Paige too was silent. "get some sleep." Piper said gently standing, "I'll go make you soup." she added as she head for the door.
"Tomato?" he questioned wonderingly, opening one eye. He'd been wondering for weeks now, how he was going to manipulate her into making him, her tomato soup.
"Not chicken?" Piper asked as she stopping in her tracks. Her sisters and Leo and even Wyatt, at his young age, had expressed a clear preference for her chicken soup over her all her others, especially her tomato. No one liked her tomato.
"I'd prefer tomato...." he said sweetly putting on his most adorable smile.
"her tomato isn't normal." Paige put in, "she sticks stuff and pours things and sprinkles stuff on it."
"I know ..." Chris said smiling, "its my favorite."
Piper met his gaze, "Mine too." then added, "Tomato it is. Get some sleep we'll be back later."
The sisters existed the room, leaving Chris to wonder what the hell was going to happen now that they knew his great secret. Left him to wonder what Leo would say, what would happen tomorrow. Left him to wonder what his life would be like now.
He laughed as his gaze fell on Wyatt who was still trying to get up on that chair.
"They forgot you..." he said smiling. He knew he should get up and go get him but he didn't think he'd make it all the way.
"I can't orb him here", he thought, "if I do I'll sleep till tomorrow. I'm not going to have any strength left if I orb him here." He reasoned.
His eyes were beginning to droop, he was going to fall asleep and Wyatt would be alone in the bedroom. That wasn't safe.
Sighing, he whispered, "Wyatt." and the baby was enfolded in blue lights then appeared in his arms.
The wave of weakness that flowed through him was familiar, it had happened after the first few days of training. His mother had freaked - yelled her head off at his dad, told him he was being to harsh, then pampered him for days.
He smiled slightly at the memory, as his eyes slid shut. His grip on Wyatt tightened and the baby began to play with the buttons on his shirt.
"No, I can't go to sleep with him awake and alone." The thought rippled through him like a bullet. He'd learned this long ago when babysitting the twins.
"I'm gonna be sorry for this one.", he thought, before whispering, gently, a little spell his mother and aunt had used on all of them:
"Shhhhh little one
Let sleep come"
Almost instantly, Wyatt laid his head on his chest and slept. Chris too was asleep an instant later, his last thought, "I'm the big brother now..."
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"Phoebe if you could stop, I'd appreciate it." Piper said from where she stood at the stove stirring a pot.
"Your gonna put a hole in the floor." Paige added from the kitchen table.
"He's wrong, he has to be. I mean one being can only resurrect himself every so often, right? It can't be a regular occurrence, can it? He has to be wrong? Confused or something, you said yourself he has a high fever... Its a mistake, Cole isn't such an uncommon name, right? I mean there has to be more than one Cole Turner in the world, right? -"
"PHOEBE!!!!" Piper said harshly. The named witch stopped her pacing and looked at her big sister with wide frightened eyes, "Oh honey." Piper said gently and started turning the stove off, it was impossible to be upset with Phoebe when she looked at you like that, like she was depending on you to fix her world.
Paige stood and went to her, grabbing her gently by the forearms she led her to a chair. "Don't do this to yourself honey."
Phoebe's eyes filled with tears, "Am I never going to be free of him?" she questioned pitifully.
Piper sat down at the table too and spoke gently, "Oh sweetie..." she said tenderly, smoothing her hair. After a moment though she asked seriously, "Do you still love him, Phoebe?"
Phoebe glared at her, "Of course not." she sniffed.
"You're sure?" Paige questioned.
She nodded, "yes. I'm sure" she said a bit defensively.
Then tears filled her eyes, "I don't want to be married to him again. I don't want that future, It... it scares me. I don't want it to happen...."
"We've changed the future, Phoebes, its not set in stone." Paige comforted.
"But that doesn't mean he won't.... he won't re-live himself again." she said wiping away the tears.
"No but it does mean that you won't necessarily end up married to him." Paige reasoned.
They were silent a moment and then Phoebe's face crumbled and she buried her face in her hands.
"Oh honey..." Piper said taking her in her arms, "what is it? Don't cry Phoebes it'll be okay....shhhh..."
"what is it?" Paige said softly.
Lifting her face she said tragically, "If I don't marry him, I won't have those children Chris talked about. Those babies..."
Piper's eyes widened at the word babies, moments later the other two mirrored her reaction.
"Oh my god...." she said standing running to the stairs, "Wyatt...."
Every problem fled from Phoebes head as she followed her older sister, taking the stairs two at a time. Fear for their baby made the girls fly up the stairs.
In the Manor one instant alone for the baby could mean death. At the least expected moment some demonic being made a grab for him and Chris was in no in state to offer any protection.
They reached the doorway seconds after Piper and fear turned to panic when they saw her just standing in the doorway.
She tuned to them, though, smiling, and their breathing resumed, "Look..." she whispered.
Phoebe and Paige peered over her shoulder and their mouths dropped open at the scene before them.
Wyatt was sprawled across Chris's chest. His silky blonde head underneath Chris's chin, his little arms on his shoulders. Chris had an arm thrown over Wyatt's little mid section, his other hand holding a little sock-clad foot. Both were sound asleep their breathing in gentle rhythm. The amazing part, though, was that Wyatt's force field was up and it enfolded them both completely.
Paige let out a breathy laugh, "I think that's the sweetest thing I've ever seen."
"Doesn't that thing only go up when there's evil around?" Phoebe questioned, looking around suspiciously.
"Well if there was its gone now." Paige answered.
Phoebe smiled, "True, true, So any ideas on how to get that thing down."
Piper smiled, she hadn't said anything just looked at them. Now she walked in gently, when she reached them, she sat on the bed. A moment later the force field went down.
"ooooooh cool, that's power." Paige said as she entered.
"shhhhhhh..." Phoebe said, "be quiet..."
Gently Piper went to lift Wyatt, when she did though the baby made a moaning sound and Chris' hold on him tightened.
"Alright then..." she whispered, gently.
Phoebe and Paige just watched and decided to quietly leave. Whatever Piper was feeling right then was way over there heads.
"you guys stay like that..." Piper continued gently. Her eyes caressing their sleeping forms.
It was amazing really, she felt like a mother towards Chris.
She felt it, like he was hers.
It hit her then, though, the reason why she'd never picked up on it before. The boy had blocked it off, that's what he'd meant.
Smiling, she shook her head, well she knew now, she felt it now whatever happened from here on out. Chris was her son and whitelighter or not she intended on acting on that.
Instinctively, with a gentleness that was inherently loving, she leaned down and placed soft kisses on each brow, "sleep well my little ones." she whispered.
Getting up she went to find a book and a blanket before making herself comfy on the rocking chair. Where she could keep an eyes on her babies.
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From the shadows of another realm dark eyes followed her every movement.
Next to that image were joined one of Phoebe in her bedroom writing her column and one of Paige in the kitchen packing away the untouched tomato soup.
"Soon..." the word was whispered so lightly it was lost in the wind that ravaged the place day and night.
"One day soon..."
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