"Wow, she is good!" Phoebe said.
I had to resist the urge to smile. I liked her. She was my favorite Charmed One as of this moment. Of course, I wasn't here to pick out who in the family I liked the best. I was here to bring Chris home. Now that the time period of him being plagued by the stripping powers disease was over we needed to get out of here.
Wyatt was waiting for us to come home. He had a homecoming party all picked out for the both of us. Now, all I needed to do was get around Chris and Wyatt's family and get Chris home before anything else haphazardly went awry.
I didn't look at the other members of the family. I didn't need to. I could tell what they were feeling and thinking about doing. I hadn't just spent time researching their history I had watched as much as I could of them through memories.
I knew how they worked. I knew that Paige would be the one to try to overcompensate in this situation and try to kick my ass. That Piper would stay calm for a partial amount of time before her emtions took a turn for the worst. I also knew Phoebe would think on her feet but not be able to do anything valuable since she had no real active powers.
What Paige didn't know was that I didn't care what she thought she was going to do to me for kidnapping their whiteligher. I still had the knowledge that she was egocentric not to mention stupid enough to call the all powerful Titans to her without anything but a simple vanquishing potion. For how powerful the Charmed Ones supposedly were they still could be idiotic when it came to stroking their egos.
Paige's had to be overfilling hers right about now because she was still alive and she thought she could take on anything. She didn't know she wasn't supposed to be here anymore then Chris or I were.
She needed to be taken down a notch or two.
I didn't have time for that now. I had other more pressing demands on me like time. So, I was going to get out of here as soon as I could. Besides, it wasn't my destiny to teach Paige a lesson on being over egotistical.
So, when she moved foreward I warned her.
"Uh, uh. I can kill her in half the time it takes you to even think about it." I informed her not even looking at her.
Instead, I looked right into what may have been my future mother in laws brown eyes. I could see where Chris got his dark looks from. His stubborn nature and his short temper also seemed to come from her. I think his soft hearted nature may have come from his father though.
Maybe one day I would find that out for sure.
Paige stopped in her tracks and frowned, "Yeah, we still have enough potion to vanquish you."
"Maybe. But then you really will have to hope the power of two will do. Won't you, Paige?" I asked her. I knew showing her that I knew exactly who she was and the future of her would take her a step off of her pedestool. "You'd be surprised what's in the history books. Now put the vials down slowly."
No one moved. We were at a stalemate of the moment. I had no time for them to come to their senses. I wasn't the evil one here.
Well, not completely.
I was the one trying to save Chris's life. They didn't even know who he was. They didn't even know what he was defending so why did they care what became of their white lighter? He was nothing to them but a guide lined whiterlighter that they probably didn't even listen to.
"Bianca, don't. Let her go and I promise I'll go with you." Chris interrupted my battle of wills with Piper.
That's all I needed to hear. Hell that was all I had wanted to hear all evening. At least this way Chris would come home with me willing.
"Chris, what are you doing?" Paige asked, looking at him as if he were crazy.
"If you kill her there won't be a future for either one of us to go back to and you know it." Chris said.
I knew that one. Maybe it would easier for both of us that way.
"What are you talking about?" Phoebe asked confused.
I had the moment to feel a creeping happiness envelope me. He had never let on to them who he was. He had been so very worried about that last time we had been together but they had no clue. Even now, they were still so very confused. I could have pieced the information together why couldn't they?
"You'll see if you live long enough," I told Phoebe as I drew back away from them and walked to Chris.
I never let my eyes leave them. I came to stand beside Chris and looked up at him for a moment. I think he thanked me with his eyes for not killing his mother but I could have been wrong. I didn't stay on the matter long because I knew the Charmed Ones would try anything possible to keep Chris with them.
"Piper, freeze them!" Paige ordered.
We both had turned. Piper froze the room, but I didn't freeze. I was above those powers. I was neither good nor evil and right now I had more good intentions then bad ones.
Chris didn't freeze either. He just shuffled in his steps as he realized he would have to explain himself to them since he should have frozen when the room had.
Piper itched her head and said, "Uh, okay. I get why she didn't freeze, but why didn't he freeze?"
Chris turned as I watched him. Even now he was trying to conceal his identity to them. I had to hand it to him he was doing a good job of it since they didn't seem to know what he was exactly.
"I don't... Unless he's a.." Phoebe started.
Chris interrupted as he answered Piper's question. "I'm a witch too." at Paige's annoyed yet surprised expression he kept going. "Half witch half whitelighter. Just like you Paige."
"You lied to us?" Paige cried.
I had to keep myself from smiling. It was enough just to see the Charmed Ones off their game and completely surprised. I could die happy now.
"I had to. It was the only way I could get you to trust me." he answered.
"Trust you?" Phoebe cried in disbelief.
"Never mind. It doesn't matter anyway."
"So that's it? You're just gonna leave?" Piper asked him completely surprised he had given up so quickly.
"I don't have a choice. She stripped my powers. Looks like Leo's gonna have to fix the floorboard without me. Let's go." he said to me finally as he turned his attention fully on me.
I had been waiting forever to hear that one. He was right though ; he had no chioce. I didn't either. We were both in a game that continually made us losers.
I waved my hand towards the portal and the same silvery blue light from before pierced through the room as it announced its presence.
It was time to go. Even now I felt horrible about this. I hadn't had the chance to get Chris to understand why this was happening. He didn't fully know everything and he hadn't agreed to side with Wyatt. I knew he never really would but at least that way he would be alive for our future then dead in it.
It was too late now.
We walked right into the protal and felt time rip through us as we made our way to where Wyatt was waiting for us. A dark feeling chilled my body as we did.
I had a feeling something horrible was going to happen and neither one of us would survivei this. I pushed the feeling aside and hoped that Chris would keep his wits about him.
Otherwise, he was as good as dead.
We were welcomed by the voice I had learned to hate over a very small amount of time, "Welcome home, Chris."