Chris stood on the top of the Golden Gate Bridge pacing back and forth
while down several feet below him cars raced along its surface with
passengers trying to go home to their own lives and several feet below them
the crashing ocean churned wildly.
He'd been there ever since his mother and aunts had started on their insane rampage of helping the girl who had attacked them
He was still ready to vouch for them being crazy.
They had to be. There was no other way his mother would let some demon come into the house and just take over. That was just plain nonsense. She was stronger then that. Hell, she was like a lit fuse half the time always ready to go off at any moment the way her temper was.
So, when his aunts and his mother had said that they would help the girl who had attacked Wyatt let alone destroyed the Manor and not just vanquish the bitch right on the spot he had been pretty pissed.
What the hell were they thinking?
That they would just wake up demon girl and they'd all become such great friends. This wasn't an episode of Sesame Street. They should know better. Especially, after all those years that they had been together vanquishing demons and saving the world. When had they ever found a demon that they could get along with?
He thought about it for a moment. Yeah, he was right.
No such demon existed.
He kicked a beam angrily. What were they thinking?
As soon as the pain filtered through his body at what he had just done to himself and he had fallen to his knees he also asked the same question of himself.
Damn, that hurt.
Why were they doing this?
Wyatt was hurt. Probably, dying because of the girl. The best thing that they could possibly do is vanquish her and then see if her powers stopped running their course when she was dead. They'd stopped when she'd been unconscious why wouldn't they not stop when she was dead?
But no.
Chris was the child. Chris was too young to know what he was talking about. No, he couldn't possibly know or even have all the experience as they did to have any right to go against what they were trying to do.
They were going to wake the demon girl up. Then, they were going to talk to her like rational adults and then possibly set her free. Once she was free she would just kill all of them. Why couldn't they see that? Why were they blind to that?
He almost kicked the beam again but stopped himself short. The last thing he needed right now was more pain to add to his frustrations.
Why were they being so stupid?
Phoebe, he could see her possibly taking a stance to see what was up with the demon girl. Phoebe, at times, was more soft hearted towards the evil crowd. It must've been her lifetimes where she was evil or her past source of all evil ex-husband that dredged that one up out of her.
He had never expected Paige to go along with Phoebe. Paige was the sensible one. She was practical. She vanquished demons on cue and she was always ready to vanquish another one. She'd been against the idea for awhile, but then what happened? Why...how even could she agree with Phoebe?
If Paige hadn't agreed then mom wouldn't have had to go along with it. They all had that damn system set up since the days Prue had been alive. That damned voting system. If two of the sisters saw the same side on a matter the other sister had to go along with it whether they liked it or not.
Why did they have to vote the wrong way on this issue?
"Mom, how could you be so stupid?" he asked, the wind blowing around him crazily warning him of the storm he was creating with his mood. He didn't bother to push away the strands of brown hair that flew into his eyes as he looked angrily out at the ocean.
He was still going through more and more venting issues when a spiral of blue and white orbs floated in next to him.
He was waiting to see Paige there ready to take him back home so his mom could try to talk sense into him. She would try to get him to go home with her by sugarcoating the truth by telling him Piper had calmed down and wouldn't yell at him, but he'd know better.
Of course, if it wasn't Paige doing his mom's dirty work then it might actually be mom. If she'd came after him on her own by using the baby's powers, then he knew he was in for it.
Instead of either of them, his father appeared. He was still wearing his Elders robes and he didn't seem very happy at the moment. Leo's blue eyes looked straight into his son's as he appeared on the bridge.
It hadn't taken much time to find Chris.
The bridge had always been his favorite place to go to get away from it all. Leo hated violating Chris's territory to see his son. This was the safest place for Chris to go to get away from it all and Leo didn't want him to think that his dad would come and interrupt him every time he came now that he knew where he was.
Leo was there on more pressing matters.
Chris was surprised to see his dad.
It wasn't that his dad wasn't there a lot.
It was just that in the last month since his father had received his Elder title back he'd been M.I.A.
Sure, he came back to visit once in awhile. Usually late at night, when everything seemed to be quiet around the world. He'd come by to see Chris quite a few times to make sure he had everything he needed for his graduation and to see if he wanted anything exceptionally great that was mystical as a gift.
Chris loved his dad.
But he wanted him around more, and when he was around more he wanted him not to be looking for some kind of gift to buy him off with for not being there the other half of the time. Chris just wanted his father to stop compensating his lack of time with gifts and be a father.
Of course, he had to admit he did see his father more then Wyatt ever did. Wyatt was always busy or gone whenever their father was around. If anyone were to complain about lack of time with their father it would be Wyatt.
Chris just wanted his dad to be there for his mom. She had had a hard enough time as it was trying to be the strong one for her family let alone vanquishing every demon that popped up at their house everyday and then managing the nightclub. She deserved better then an occasional visit from her husband.
His father still had a family on earth to care about and be with. The other Elder's didn't, but he did. Chris just wished he'd act like it more.
Of course, just by seeing his father shimmer in at that moment made him more annoyed then he had been before. Of all times for his father to come, it had to be now.
He was probably there to tell Chris how his mother had made the right decision and how he should go back there and help her out. But he wouldn't. He was still too angry at her right now to care.
"Chris, what's wrong?" Leo asked, appearing in front of his son.
"Dad, come on. I want to be alone. That's why I came here." Chris responded, harshly.
"Well, I would have left you alone like you wanted if you hadn't started a few sudden hurricanes." Leo told him. Then, he pointed out at the water in a reply to Chris's confused look. A few miles away a few small hurricanes had started to form over the waters surface.
"Oh, sorry." Chris said, focusing his energy on the hurricanes as he stopped them in their tracks. Once he was done his father gave him a quick look over of him, and then he patted a part of the beam suggestively so that Chris would sit by him. Chris could just feel his father's need to have a heart to heart talk taking over for the situation.
The last thing he wanted to do at the moment was talk with his father, the all knowing Elder, about why he was angry.
"Now, sit down. I came here to tell you about the girl who attacked Wyatt." Leo told him.
"Oh, great. Like I haven't already heard this once today. Will you all just give it a rest. She's evil . Nothing more to say about it. I say we just vanquish her and get on with our lives." Chris told his father.
"Looks can be deceiving, Chris. As well as this whole situation with her." Leo informed his son.
"Yeah, well this girl seems to be deceiving everyone but me." Chris replied, his green eyes slitting.
"Look, Chris. I came to tell you this before your mother and before your aunts. I think you need to know this just as well if not more then they do. You need to know the truth so that you can help them."
"Yeah, right. Help them? They won't even listen to me!" Chris cried, throwing his hands up in the air.
"That's because you aren't looking at the whole situation. Maybe, if you did instead of taking a temper tantrum then they would." Leo responded.
"I am not taking a temper tantrum." Chris said, crossing his arms over his chest and frowning on his father.
"The girl that attacked Wyatt.. She's good, Chris. The Elder's have been trying to keep her a secret to the world for awhile now because of how powerful she is. How powerful she will become one day when she meets her full potential." Leo told his son almost excitedly.
"Yeah, she's powerful alright."
Powerful enough to kill all of them if she got the chance, Chris finished the statement silently in his mind.
"They even foresee her helping out your mother and aunts for years to come." Leo told him.
"Yeah, well tell the Elders that their long distance carrier is wrong." Chris told him getting up and walking to the edge of the beam and looking down at the crashing blue waves of the ocean below him.
"Chris, what happened today was only the beginning of her powers," Leo insisted, trying to get through to his son how important this all was.
"Great. That's just wonderful. Do you know what mom and them are doing right now?" Chris asked.
"No, what?"
"They're helping her! They are helping her wake up and then they're going to talk to her like rational adults, and then they are probably going to let her go free. They're just going to act like nothing happened, dad. Like she didn't try to kill Wyatt and everyone else. They are going to let her go free so she can do whatever damage she has left to do to Wyatt. So sorry, dad. But contrary to popular opinion, I think this sucks." Chris said, kicking some dirt off of the beam.
"It doesn't seem like it to you now, but they are doing the right thing here, Chris." Leo responded following his son to the edge of the beam.
"Yeah, then why does it seem like suicide mission? Huh?" Chris asked, quietly.
"Chris," Leo started to try to comfort his son.
But he was instantly interrupted.
Someone had started calling for him. A very familiar voice who sounded so very tired at the moment. Worry came over Leo as he thought of what his son had just said. Hopefully, his wife and her sisters weren't in danger.
Hopefully, the baby was okay.
"Now, what? Are they calling you again?" Chris asked annoyed as he looked up at the dark black sky. Why did the Elders have to influence everything they did? Why did they have to interrupt everything else?
"No, it's your mom," Leo replied, softly.
"Mom?" Chris asked, panic rising in his belly.
"She needs me." Leo said and quickly orbed away from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Chris, not caring of the consequences, instantly orbed after him. If they needed help back at the Manor he was going to provide it. Then, once they had vanquished the girl, he would rub it in their faces that he had been right about her all along.
He'd been there ever since his mother and aunts had started on their insane rampage of helping the girl who had attacked them
He was still ready to vouch for them being crazy.
They had to be. There was no other way his mother would let some demon come into the house and just take over. That was just plain nonsense. She was stronger then that. Hell, she was like a lit fuse half the time always ready to go off at any moment the way her temper was.
So, when his aunts and his mother had said that they would help the girl who had attacked Wyatt let alone destroyed the Manor and not just vanquish the bitch right on the spot he had been pretty pissed.
What the hell were they thinking?
That they would just wake up demon girl and they'd all become such great friends. This wasn't an episode of Sesame Street. They should know better. Especially, after all those years that they had been together vanquishing demons and saving the world. When had they ever found a demon that they could get along with?
He thought about it for a moment. Yeah, he was right.
No such demon existed.
He kicked a beam angrily. What were they thinking?
As soon as the pain filtered through his body at what he had just done to himself and he had fallen to his knees he also asked the same question of himself.
Damn, that hurt.
Why were they doing this?
Wyatt was hurt. Probably, dying because of the girl. The best thing that they could possibly do is vanquish her and then see if her powers stopped running their course when she was dead. They'd stopped when she'd been unconscious why wouldn't they not stop when she was dead?
But no.
Chris was the child. Chris was too young to know what he was talking about. No, he couldn't possibly know or even have all the experience as they did to have any right to go against what they were trying to do.
They were going to wake the demon girl up. Then, they were going to talk to her like rational adults and then possibly set her free. Once she was free she would just kill all of them. Why couldn't they see that? Why were they blind to that?
He almost kicked the beam again but stopped himself short. The last thing he needed right now was more pain to add to his frustrations.
Why were they being so stupid?
Phoebe, he could see her possibly taking a stance to see what was up with the demon girl. Phoebe, at times, was more soft hearted towards the evil crowd. It must've been her lifetimes where she was evil or her past source of all evil ex-husband that dredged that one up out of her.
He had never expected Paige to go along with Phoebe. Paige was the sensible one. She was practical. She vanquished demons on cue and she was always ready to vanquish another one. She'd been against the idea for awhile, but then what happened? Why...how even could she agree with Phoebe?
If Paige hadn't agreed then mom wouldn't have had to go along with it. They all had that damn system set up since the days Prue had been alive. That damned voting system. If two of the sisters saw the same side on a matter the other sister had to go along with it whether they liked it or not.
Why did they have to vote the wrong way on this issue?
"Mom, how could you be so stupid?" he asked, the wind blowing around him crazily warning him of the storm he was creating with his mood. He didn't bother to push away the strands of brown hair that flew into his eyes as he looked angrily out at the ocean.
He was still going through more and more venting issues when a spiral of blue and white orbs floated in next to him.
He was waiting to see Paige there ready to take him back home so his mom could try to talk sense into him. She would try to get him to go home with her by sugarcoating the truth by telling him Piper had calmed down and wouldn't yell at him, but he'd know better.
Of course, if it wasn't Paige doing his mom's dirty work then it might actually be mom. If she'd came after him on her own by using the baby's powers, then he knew he was in for it.
Instead of either of them, his father appeared. He was still wearing his Elders robes and he didn't seem very happy at the moment. Leo's blue eyes looked straight into his son's as he appeared on the bridge.
It hadn't taken much time to find Chris.
The bridge had always been his favorite place to go to get away from it all. Leo hated violating Chris's territory to see his son. This was the safest place for Chris to go to get away from it all and Leo didn't want him to think that his dad would come and interrupt him every time he came now that he knew where he was.
Leo was there on more pressing matters.
Chris was surprised to see his dad.
It wasn't that his dad wasn't there a lot.
It was just that in the last month since his father had received his Elder title back he'd been M.I.A.
Sure, he came back to visit once in awhile. Usually late at night, when everything seemed to be quiet around the world. He'd come by to see Chris quite a few times to make sure he had everything he needed for his graduation and to see if he wanted anything exceptionally great that was mystical as a gift.
Chris loved his dad.
But he wanted him around more, and when he was around more he wanted him not to be looking for some kind of gift to buy him off with for not being there the other half of the time. Chris just wanted his father to stop compensating his lack of time with gifts and be a father.
Of course, he had to admit he did see his father more then Wyatt ever did. Wyatt was always busy or gone whenever their father was around. If anyone were to complain about lack of time with their father it would be Wyatt.
Chris just wanted his dad to be there for his mom. She had had a hard enough time as it was trying to be the strong one for her family let alone vanquishing every demon that popped up at their house everyday and then managing the nightclub. She deserved better then an occasional visit from her husband.
His father still had a family on earth to care about and be with. The other Elder's didn't, but he did. Chris just wished he'd act like it more.
Of course, just by seeing his father shimmer in at that moment made him more annoyed then he had been before. Of all times for his father to come, it had to be now.
He was probably there to tell Chris how his mother had made the right decision and how he should go back there and help her out. But he wouldn't. He was still too angry at her right now to care.
"Chris, what's wrong?" Leo asked, appearing in front of his son.
"Dad, come on. I want to be alone. That's why I came here." Chris responded, harshly.
"Well, I would have left you alone like you wanted if you hadn't started a few sudden hurricanes." Leo told him. Then, he pointed out at the water in a reply to Chris's confused look. A few miles away a few small hurricanes had started to form over the waters surface.
"Oh, sorry." Chris said, focusing his energy on the hurricanes as he stopped them in their tracks. Once he was done his father gave him a quick look over of him, and then he patted a part of the beam suggestively so that Chris would sit by him. Chris could just feel his father's need to have a heart to heart talk taking over for the situation.
The last thing he wanted to do at the moment was talk with his father, the all knowing Elder, about why he was angry.
"Now, sit down. I came here to tell you about the girl who attacked Wyatt." Leo told him.
"Oh, great. Like I haven't already heard this once today. Will you all just give it a rest. She's evil . Nothing more to say about it. I say we just vanquish her and get on with our lives." Chris told his father.
"Looks can be deceiving, Chris. As well as this whole situation with her." Leo informed his son.
"Yeah, well this girl seems to be deceiving everyone but me." Chris replied, his green eyes slitting.
"Look, Chris. I came to tell you this before your mother and before your aunts. I think you need to know this just as well if not more then they do. You need to know the truth so that you can help them."
"Yeah, right. Help them? They won't even listen to me!" Chris cried, throwing his hands up in the air.
"That's because you aren't looking at the whole situation. Maybe, if you did instead of taking a temper tantrum then they would." Leo responded.
"I am not taking a temper tantrum." Chris said, crossing his arms over his chest and frowning on his father.
"The girl that attacked Wyatt.. She's good, Chris. The Elder's have been trying to keep her a secret to the world for awhile now because of how powerful she is. How powerful she will become one day when she meets her full potential." Leo told his son almost excitedly.
"Yeah, she's powerful alright."
Powerful enough to kill all of them if she got the chance, Chris finished the statement silently in his mind.
"They even foresee her helping out your mother and aunts for years to come." Leo told him.
"Yeah, well tell the Elders that their long distance carrier is wrong." Chris told him getting up and walking to the edge of the beam and looking down at the crashing blue waves of the ocean below him.
"Chris, what happened today was only the beginning of her powers," Leo insisted, trying to get through to his son how important this all was.
"Great. That's just wonderful. Do you know what mom and them are doing right now?" Chris asked.
"No, what?"
"They're helping her! They are helping her wake up and then they're going to talk to her like rational adults, and then they are probably going to let her go free. They're just going to act like nothing happened, dad. Like she didn't try to kill Wyatt and everyone else. They are going to let her go free so she can do whatever damage she has left to do to Wyatt. So sorry, dad. But contrary to popular opinion, I think this sucks." Chris said, kicking some dirt off of the beam.
"It doesn't seem like it to you now, but they are doing the right thing here, Chris." Leo responded following his son to the edge of the beam.
"Yeah, then why does it seem like suicide mission? Huh?" Chris asked, quietly.
"Chris," Leo started to try to comfort his son.
But he was instantly interrupted.
Someone had started calling for him. A very familiar voice who sounded so very tired at the moment. Worry came over Leo as he thought of what his son had just said. Hopefully, his wife and her sisters weren't in danger.
Hopefully, the baby was okay.
"Now, what? Are they calling you again?" Chris asked annoyed as he looked up at the dark black sky. Why did the Elders have to influence everything they did? Why did they have to interrupt everything else?
"No, it's your mom," Leo replied, softly.
"Mom?" Chris asked, panic rising in his belly.
"She needs me." Leo said and quickly orbed away from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Chris, not caring of the consequences, instantly orbed after him. If they needed help back at the Manor he was going to provide it. Then, once they had vanquished the girl, he would rub it in their faces that he had been right about her all along.