Chapter 14: Walk the Path of Life

Okay, this is just my prediction: After what happened to Chris last night, there will be about a kazillion fanfics where he doesn't die. Will I too, jump on the bandwagon? You'll have to read to see! I mean, how could they do this to him? Evil murdering monsters! He was like my favorite character! And so damn hot! Oh Chris, why did you have to die? Honestly, i hope you feel the same about Alex. I didn't want to kill him, but i had to. I guess that helps me understand about Chris. I still want him back, though.

You just want to rewind your life to the last time he was there,
To give him a hug and a kiss and tell him how much you cared.
To comfort his family and say that everything will be all right.
When you are the one who cries yourself to sleep every single night.
To walk to the place where he was killed and just sit down and cry.
To wonder to the Lord why he was the one who died.
To sit next to his casket and hold his hand and pray.
To give him a kiss on his cheek as tears scroll down my face.
No one can ever take his place; it wasn't his turn to die.
But it's something I can't turn my back on; it's something I can never do.
We'll think of him everyday. He was loved oh so much.
He'll never know how many lives that he has gently touched.
He'll always be with us as we walk the path of life.
Even though every step won't always be precise.
His soul will always be with us.
His memory will always go on.
He will be loved everyday even though his body's gone.
-Hillary Tamburello

I'm not sure how qualified I am to write this, as I have never lost someone truly close to me, but I will do my best.

Alison was sobbing, curled up on her bed. He couldn't be gone, he couldn't. How could this have happened? There had to be some way to save him, to change what had happened.

Wyatt will pay for this, she thought. I will make him pay. It would be so easy to find that baby, to kill him, to stop all of this from happening.

But she knew that to do that would be to create a paradox. If I kill my father before he meets my mother, I will never be born. If I'm never born, I can't kill my father. If I don't kill my father, I will be born. It was a paradox people had wondered over for many years.

And Alison knew how it turned out. My being alive proves that I did not kill my father in this time, that neither I, nor anybody else, swayed him from his path of evil. So the only way to win would be to go back to her time. That would be better anyways.

Meddling with the past was risky stuff. There was a good chance the result would be worse than whatever you were trying to fix. But if she didn't change the past, how could she save Alex?

Alex- the thought brought a lump to her throat. It reminded her of the hole in her chest where her heart should be. Where he should be. Maybe I could just change it a little. Find a way to seal the Manor from time travel. Like put up my barrier not only in space, but in time as well.

Maybe I could save him. Or maybe I will end up killing myself, she thought, along with everyone else. Oh, like that would be so bad? At least then I would be with Alex. At least then I wouldn't be in this pain.

Don't think like that, she told herself; they are depending on you to save them. You have to pull through. You have to survive this and fight him. Yes, and kill him. To hell with that chance he could be turned back to their side. Evil was evil, so matter his parents. Power corrupts.

That got her thinking. She had the same amount of power that he did, what was there to stop her from turning as evil as him? Just listen to your heart and do what you think is right. The words came unbidden from the depths of her memory, said by her mother so long ago.

All she had to do was remember that. Or was it? The line between good and evil was thin, she knew, but once you crossed it it was so hard to turn back. How would she now when to stop?

More importantly, how would this limit affect he fight with Wyatt? If he could do whatever he wanted, kill whomever he wanted, and she was limited like this, how would she fight him?

He would have an advantage she could not afford to take. I'm fighting to avenge my friends, to make the world right again. She had heard that despite mortal's notorious ability to ignore magic, the rest of the world had figured out what was going on.

People came from all over the country to see if the stories were true, and few of them left. She had heard that the US government was considering napalm or an atom bomb to get rid of the threat.

Of course, all that would do would kill all the humans, as the demons would simply shimmer to the underworld and Wyatt had his shield. Then they would take over another city and everyone would be back to square one, except tons of people would be dead.

Dead. Like Alex. How could Wyatt be allowed to do this? He should be the one who is dead, for doing this to her. She could hear her rage building. Maybe if they bound baby Wyatt's powers, or better, stripped them. Bound powers can always be unbound, but if we removed his witch powers...

They could leave him with his whitelighter powers- healing, orbing, and his force shield- so that he could protect himself, but take away all his powers that could be used to hurt others.

But he met my mother in the underworld! If he never becomes evil, how will I be conceived? She lifted her chin. If I must die, then so be it, she thought. Better me than thousands of innocents. Better me than- the name still brought tears to her eyes- than Alex.

She realized that she was shaking. How could he do this to her? How could he dare cause her this much pain? Didn't he know what she would do? Was he so sure of himself that he could not see she was as powerful as he was?

She would kill him for this, she would destroy him. Her hands formed into fists and her teeth clenched, as she tried not to scream in anger, fear, in grief. How could you leave me like this? She silently asked Alex.

Why wasn't I there? I should have been there, I should have saved you. I should have known he would do this. How could I leave you like that? I knew you weren't powerful enough to face him. I'm the only one who is. You'll never know how many times I wish this burden had fallen on anybody but me...

Downstairs

"Wait, who is sleeping?" Phoebe asked.

"Alison. She's Wyatt's daughter from the future. She's kinda going through a bad time right now."

"Oh?"

"A lot of people died. She feels responsible, even though it wasn't her fault."

"So who's fault was it?"

"Well no ones fault really, I mean Wyatt was the one who killed them, but he's evil, so..."

"I thought we saved him." Chris shrugged.

Then the ground began to shake. Paige screamed. The earthquake was over as quickly as it began.

"Okay, what was that about?" Paige asked.

"I'll check the book" Chris announced.

"It was just an earthquake, it doesn't have to be supernatural," Phoebe said.

"But it could be."

When Chris got upstairs, he saw that Alison was already there, sitting cross-legged on the floor with the book in front of her. She was sitting in a circle of candles, and various herbs surrounded her. She was chanting a spell, as tears streamed down her face.

"Power of the witches rise,
Course unseen across the skies
Come to us who call you near,
Come to us and settle here."

When nothing happened, she tried another one.

"Blood to blood I summon thee,
Blood to Blood return to me."

She drew a knife across her palm, letting the blood drip into a bowl. Nothing happened. She stood up and orbed candles into a circle then lit them. She began to speak.

"Hear these words, hear my cry.
Spirit from the other side.
I come to me, I summon thee
Cross now the great divide."

Again, nothing happened. The air was still. She collapsed to the ground and started to cry in earnest. Another earthquake rocked the manor.

"That wont work," Chris said from the doorway. "There's no way to bring back the dead." She sighed,

"I know. I had to try, though. You know that."

"Yeah." He had tried every spell in the book, and many that weren't, to try to bring back his mother after Wyatt killed her.

"So did you cause these earthquakes?"

"No, that must be something else." Yet another earthquake came, this one way worse than the other two. There was a crash from downstairs.

Alison held her hands over the Book and the pages turned, coming to rest on one she's never seen before. She scanned the writing, her face growing worried.

"Apparently we screwed up destiny or something." She looked annoyed.

"You mean when I came back to save Wyatt?"

"No, you were allowed to do that, it's when I brought you back from the past, that messed it up."

"Is there a way to fix it?" "Yeah, there's a spell."

The Underworld

Piper watched helplessly as Gideon cut through Wyatt's force shield with a knife. She was prepared to see her son die, but she wasn't prepared for what happened next.

Wyatt used his magic to stab Gideon with the knife, and he screamed in pain, then orbed out. Piper suddenly realized that this was how Wyatt turned evil.

He had to defend himself against Gideon, for god knows how long. She started to cry.

Halliwell Manor

Alison studied the spell, frowning. "I think this will work," she tod him. "It sounds a bit risky, though."

"What does it do?"

"It sets everything back the way it should be, as if I'd never pulled you from the past, only it doesn't actually undo it. It only transports you to that exact mement."

"So everything we did in the future..."

"Will still have happened, but nothing in this time since you left."

"Do it."

"Are you sure?"

"Do we have a choice? The world will shake itself apart if we don't."

"Okay, shouldn't we ask the sisters?"

"No, they wont even remember it."

"All right." She began to read the spell. When she was done, she realized that she had forgotten to figure out where she would be. Oh well.

The world shook again, and everything was right again. Alison found herself in her old hideout, a bubble of air in the San Francisco Bay. That was odd; she'd created that, many years in the future.

She tried to orb out, but couldn't. She couldn't shimmer either. How annoying. Maybe this was the spell's way of stopping her form further screwing up the way things were supposed to be.

Inside the bubble were a bed, a kitchen well-stocked with food, and a television. She turned to look at the TV, and it turned on, showing a picture of Magic School. Paige and Gideon were there, working on a spell.

She watched in horror as Gideon plotted to kill Wyatt with his evil mirror self. She had to get a message out, she had to warn them. But she couldn't.

So she stayed, and found that when she changed the channel, it went to a different location. She watched the entire scene play out, up until thepoint when Gideon took Wyatt.

"Chris!" she screamed, seeing him get stabbed. "No!" She fought harder against the bonds that stopped her from leaving this magical place, but couldn't move.

Then Leo orbed in, and she reaxed. "He'll be able to heal him," she told herself. But he couldn't. Alison watched the SWAT guys come, and go.

Then she realized that no one was going to save Chris. Leo knelt beside Chris, crying, pleading with him to hold on. But it was no use.

Chris was going to die, and there was nothing anyone could do to save him.

Reviews:

Winter Blaze: See below. If he does come back, it wont be for a while. I'm not making any promises...

lil-whitelighter111488: Yes, he did have to die, it's crucial to Alison's mindset.

Authors note: this is my way of making everything fit in with last night's episode, again, I hate them for killing Chris! I hate Gideon for killing him! Okay, I'll stop yelling now. There's always reruns. Sigh. Just a question- it i resurrect ALex, will they bring back Chris?

Please Review! Thanx!