Thanks for reviewing! You made my day and you guys inspire me to write. I hope you like this chapter. I think there will be at least 8 chapters (I know, "Missed Moments" was so much longer!). Mainly because I already because I have a pretty good ending planned out and I don't want to drag this out and make it boring.
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"Grams, you are a genius!" Chris exclaimed fondly fingering the book and smiling towards the heavens. He slammed the Book closed and ran down the stairs.
"Whoa, okay." Phoebe said in confusion. "Chris?!" She called after him, following him down the stairs.
Piper met her in the hallway and saw Chris fly past her, not noticing her.
"Oh great Phoebe you upset him didn't you!" Piper accused, putting her hands on her hips.
"What? No! He saw an entry in the Book and went all giddy on me!" Phoebe exclaimed.
Piper raised her eyebrows. That was weird.
Chris continued down the stairs looking for Piper and ran smack into Leo who had orbed in just at the moment Chris landed at the bottom of the stairs. Chris flew back and smacked his head hard on the stairs.
"Ow…" He said in a daze.
"Oh gosh! Chris are you okay?" Leo said worriedly, helping Chris up. Chris was in a daze and wasn't really standing up.
"Oh my god! What happened?" Piper exclaimed, grabbing onto Chris to support him.
"Grams…Angel…Dad…Steps…Book…Flip…" Chris mumbled. Leo healed him before he passed out.
Phoebe couldn't help but laugh seeing Chris act all giddy like that.
"Whoa, hello…" Chris said, standing up straight.
"You okay sweetie?" Piper asked, checking him for any other injuries.
"What happened?"
"You smacked your head on the stairs" Leo said, smiling a little.
"Mom we have to summon the Angel of Destiny" Chris said suddenly.
"He did hit his head hard!" Piper said, making Chris sit on the couch.
"No I'm serious."
"Um…why?" Piper asked, raising her eyebrows.
"To see if I affected the future by saving you."
Maybe Piper was just in a bad mood. Maybe it was just hormones. Maybe she was just completely crazy. But she just snapped.
"Well I'm sorry that saving my life is so much trouble for you!" Piper said loudly, her eyes filling with hot angry tears.
"What?!" Chris stared at her with wide eyes, obviously shocked and hurt.
"You heard me! We were finally happy, life was finally normal, and you have to question it! Like it was a mistake or something!"
"I've told you, I do not regret saving you. I never will regret it. Don't you know that, Mom?" Chris said quietly, not allowing himself to cry over this. He hated when his mom yelled at him, or when he hurt her feelings. This time it was obviously both.
"I just want you to be happy, Chris. I want us to be a family." Piper said, sniffling and calming down.
"Me too…" Chris whispered, hugging her. "I'm so sorry I upset you. I won't summon the Angel if you don't want me to."
"I don't want you to." Piper said, stroking Chris' hair.
"Okay. I won't."
"Thank you."
"Anytime. I would do anything for you Mom," Chris whispered.
"Aww…" Piper smiled.
A crash in the attic broke up the tender moment. Paige grabbed Phoebe's hand and orbed, with Leo right behind them.
Piper stuck out her hand, indicating for Chris to orb her, but he shook his head no.
"I can't risk you."
"I'll be fine! We need to help!" Piper insisted.
"No. I'll go. You stay here. Please. We need to be careful," Chris said, pointing to Piper's stomach.
"Fine. Go." Piper ordered playfully.
Chris saluted and orbed up the attic, where many crashes were being heard.
Piper rolled her eyes and said, "My son the smartass."
Chris orbed up in the midst of chaos. Phoebe and Leo were throwing potions left and right at a bunch of demons. Energy balls were flying throw the air, and it was all Paige could do to keep them away from her family and herself.
"Energy ball!" She kept yelling, and sending them back at the demons. What were there, 10, 15 demons up there?
Chris sprang into action, helping Paige to deflect energy balls and ducking away from any that he could TK away. He also used his telekinesis to spilled potion at the demons. In the space of a minute, he had vanquished about 8 demons, and the rest of his family had finished them off.
"Wow Chris, didn't know you had it in you," Paige said smirking.
Chris smirked back. He knew he barely used his powers and usually had sent his aunts demon hunting.
Paige rolled her eyes and patted Chris' shoulder. "Oh you're hurt." She pointed to his side, which was bleeding from being grazed by a stray energy ball.
"Aww…no biggie. Dad can you heal me?"
"Sure thing, buddy." Leo quickly healed his son and ruffled his hair.
Chris rolled his eyes jokingly. It got a little annoying being treated like a little kid. But he secretly was loving it.
Leo saw the eye roll and playfully smacked his arm. "Smartass."
"If I had a dollar for every time I've heard one you call me that…I'd be so rich!" Chris said, pretending to be hurt.
"Well it's true!" Paige, Phoebe and Leo chorused.
"Yeah, yeah…" Chris said, heading out of the attic back down to Piper, following by his aunts and his father.
"Hey how'd it go?" Piper asked, seeing everyone descending down the stairs.
"Chris opened up a can of whoop ass!" Phoebe exclaimed, putting her arm around his shoulder and grinning.
Chris blushed and grinned too. He loved getting praise.
"Aww you're blushing!" Paige teased.
Chris stuck out his tongue at her.
Paige rolled her eyes.
Chris smirked.
"Very mature you two." Piper said, standing up. "Okay well I'm starting dinner now."
"Great, I'm starving," Leo said, smiling. "I am going to go 'Up There' for a little bit and inform the Elders about the demon attack."
"Okay. Love you." Piper said, giving Leo a big kiss. Chris, Paige and Phoebe grimaced and rolled their eyes.
Leo orbed out mid-kiss.
"God I hate that," Piper mumbled, heading into the kitchen. "You three need to grow up!" She exclaimed. "Chris come help."
Phoebe, Paige and Chris had been pretend gagging at Piper and Leo's display of affection. But they were thrilled to see them together again. They knew that. Chris froze.
"How does she always know?" Chris muttered, following Piper.
Paige watched him leave. "He's such a funny kid. I'm so glad he's our nephew."
"Yeah it's nice to see him happier like this."
"Absolutely. Between being afraid of losing Piper, and then the consequences of saving her, it's nice to see him relax for once." Paige smirked.
"I know what you mean. But I can't help but wonder if he's right," Phoebe said quietly, mostly to herself.
"Huh?"
"Well what if Chris has a point? I mean we never have messed with destiny like that before! What if there are consequences for saving Piper?"
"Honey…I think we would have known by now if there were any."
"Ooh don't say that! That's always when the consequences show up!" Phoebe said.
"Oh all right!" Paige rolled her eyes and headed upstairs.
Phoebe followed her slowly. She didn't want to think that Piper was meant to die when Chris turned 14, but what if it was true?
"Maybe I will summon that Angel and find out for myself," She whispered, opening the attic door.
Paige noticed her sister sneaking into the attic and followed suit.
TBC…
Haha what will the Angel of Destiny say? I just have to make a few tweaks to Chapter 7 and that should be up soon!
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