Back to the Past
Chapter Five: Someone Old, Someone New.
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Halliwell Manor, Attic
2004
"So what's the emergency?" asked Paige, walking into the attic.
"Leo was just here," said Phoebe from the book. "He and the other elders felt an evil power surge entering our time a few hours ago. Want us to check it out."
"Wait," said Paige confused. "Our time?"
"Yeah, it's definitely a time demon."
"Tempest?"
"No, I already asked. Tempest has power over time, not that great at going through it apparently," said Phoebe.
"Good to know," said Paige.
Unexpectedly, a blue flash of light filled the attic as a time portal opened up and two figures appeared through it, materialising from the swirl of blue and white lights that signified orbing.
"Whoa, head rush or what?" asked Chris looking round grinning. Turning around to see Phoebe and Paige stare at him, opened mouthed.
"Ok, so yeah, don't vanquish us, we aren't evil," started Chris, misinterpreting their looks. "And I know what you are thinking, that's what evil would say, but I orbed didn't I? Not even black ones!" he said, slowly backing away from them, encase they attacked.
"Oh my god, Chris!" said Phoebe, running and hugging her nephew.
"Out of the way," said Paige, who quickly flung her arms around him too.
"So much for not telling them who we were," said Wyatt, who was still recovering from the time travelling.
"Piper!" yelled Paige.
"What?"
"Get your ass up here, Chris is alive!"
"What do you mean Chris is alive?" yelled Piper, who could be heard making her way up the stairs. "Oh course he's alive, I just put him down for a nap like five mi . . . Chris! You're alive!" she said, entering the attic and running towards her son, relief evident in her eyes as she embraced Chris.
"Ok, this is weird," said Chris, whose voice was muffled, due to the Charmed Ones that were hugging him.
"Damn right it is!" said Wyatt. "I'm the good son slash nephew! Why aren't I being smothered with hugs?"
Everyone turned to Wyatt, acknowledging him for the first time.
"No way!" said Paige, excitedly hopping up and down.
"Wyatt?" asked Piper, amazed.
"The one and only," said Wyatt, pleased that he was getting some attention, as his mom hugged him.
"Thank God for small mercies," retorted Chris. "Sharing a room with one of you is bad enough."
"I missed you, you know that? With you gone, I'm finding it really hard to keep the humour flowing," said Paige brightly.
"Missed me?" asked Chris, confused.
Before anyone got a chance to explain anything, a swirl of blue and white orbs entered the attic and Leo appeared in his elder garments. "Hey, we just felt another power transfer though time, only this time it was g . . . good God!" he said, stopping in his tracks as he noticed who else was in the attic.
"Chris!" he exclaimed as his tightly hugged his youngest son.
With his arms hanging loosely at his side, Chris looked around the room. "Is it just me or did things just get a whole lot weirder?" he asked.
"It's not just you," said Wyatt who was looking a little creeped out as he surveyed the scene in front of him.
"Oh come on!" said Leo, stepping back from Chris. "Surely this Chris can't hate me too!"
"This Chris?" he asked. "Don't tell me you are having issues with my one month old self!" Chris clapped sarcastically, "Now that's what I call parenting."
"Christopher Halliwell!" said Piper, as if it was second nature to her. "Man I missed saying that. You know yelling at the baby just doesn't give you the same satisfaction," she informed them. "But don't speak to your father like that!"
"It's like we actually never stepped through the time portal," said Wyatt absent-mindedly.
"And you are?" asked Leo.
"Hi, yeah, how come everyone knows my annoying younger brother and not me? I'm the well behaved one with the good grades! If anyone was to be rejected by the family, I'd like to think it would be Chris."
"Wyatt?" asked Leo. "You, you, you're not evil!"
"Uh, surprise?" asked Wyatt.
"Ok, so how do you know who I am? How is it possible that you have 'missed me?'" asked Chris, demanding answers.
"Maybe we should all sit down," said Phoebe.
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"Wow, this sure is confusing," said Wyatt, trying to get his head round all the information.
"Chris?" asked Phoebe. "How are you absorbing all of this?"
"You guys keep the aspirin in the third cupboard from the left, in this time too, right?" asked Chris, rubbing his head and going into the kitchen.
"Yeah sweetie," yelled Piper.
"He needs it a lot," explained Wyatt.
"Headaches?" asked Piper concerned, her brain already working overdrive, thinking up ways of preventing it in the future.
"Hangovers," said Wyatt, smiling.
"What?!"
"You react like that in our time too," grinned Wyatt. "In fact, earlier this morning, Chris came in so drunk that . . ."
"Quite enough of that," said Chris, coming back in and deliberately interrupting his brother.
"Wouldn't want to change the future, would we now?" he asked his brother innocently. "Ok, so back to this whole, me saving the world from my brother thing," said Chris, changing the subject. Being yelled at by one mother was quite enough for any Chris to cope with.
"I mean, I clearly changed it or else I wouldn't be here now, with Wyatt, right?" he asked.
"Yeah, I think so," said Paige.
"Wait a minute," asked Piper, something just dawning on her. "How old are you?" she asked Chris.
"I just turned sixteen last month," he said.
"Oh my God," she said, her hand covering her mouth. "And I'm alive right?"
"Yeah."
"I live to see my sons grow up!" she said happily. "You are such a good son!" she said kissing him on the cheek.
"What about me?" asked Wyatt, who was feeling a little left out.
"Hey, you turned evil and basically started picking on the world," said Chris. "I, on the other hand, should be receiving about 8 billion thank you cards any day now."
The sisters smiled. "It's good to know that no matter what future you come from, you will always be sarcastic," said Paige. "It makes me feel like I've been a good aunt to you. Or I am going to be. I'm not really sure," she said, scratching her head.
She smiled as Chris tossed her the aspirin bottle.
"Hold on a sec," said Wyatt, who was trying to piece things together.
"When we came through the portal, you started yelling that Chris was alive. Does that mean the older Chris from alternative future died?"
"Yeah, just as baby Chris was being born," said Phoebe quietly.
"I die on my 23rd birthday?" asked Chris. "Man that sucks. That's like, only two years of drinking!"
Wyatt raised an eyebrow.
"Fine, legal drinking," said Chris waving of his mistake. "But still. I sacrificed everything to come back and make the world a better place, quite literally I might add, and I die for my good deeds! At least tell me what demon did it so I can kill them now and eliminate the threat."
"Don't worry Leo took care of it," said Piper.
"Dad?" asked Chris incredulously. "Didn't know 'the elder' had it in him."
"Yeah, well when you died he flew into a rage. You had died protecting baby Wyatt so Gideon had just tried to kill both of his sons and in one case he had succeeded," said Paige.
"You should give him a break you know, you died in his arms and there was nothing he could do. He couldn't heal you because of the whole wacky thing that was going on, until it was too late," informed Phoebe. "He was really broken up about it. You two had finally grown close when you were taken away from him again."
Chris sat in stunned silence.
"I know it's hard," said Phoebe. "The other Chris hated him too, but they got around it and worked things out."
"It's hard to work things out with someone who's never there," said Chris, sullenly.
"Yeah, well I'm sure you see him sometimes. You two just need to sit down and sort it all out. He has been through a lot with you Chris. He had to watch you die and now that you have grown up, to see that you hate him probably really hurts him," said Phoebe.
"The advice columnist has spoken," said Chris giving a small smile.
"So, let me get this straight," said Wyatt. "If Dad, watched Chris die a month ago, doesn't that mean that you three also would have encountered us coming back through time?"
"You are right!" said Chris, outraged. "They knew this was going to happen! They just let themselves be kidnapped without telling us!"
"Uh, maybe we forgot?" suggested Paige.
"Highly unlikely," said Wyatt.
"Well what did you want? A note?" asked Piper.
"That would have been nice," said Wyatt.
"I can just imagine it," said Chris. "Been kidnapped by time demon, are in 2004, come save us. Casserole is in the oven."
The sisters laughed, "So we must be quite the team," said Paige.
"That we are," said Wyatt. "I can't wait, cause in another three months I get to extract Excalibur from the stone. Then we'll see who is 'super witch,'" said Wyatt.
"Super witch?" asked Piper, curious.
"What can I say, I live for the vanquish and am good with spells," said Chris. "That makes me super witch."
"Speaking of spells, we should see if mine worked," said Wyatt.
"Oh yeah," said Chris. "Wyatt wrote a spell so that we wouldn't loose our powers travelling back," he explained.
Chris waved his arm at a near by vase. Nothing happened. He turned to Wyatt who threw a fork in the air and tried to freeze it.
"Oops?"
"I told you it was a crap spell," said Chris. "Here," he said standing up and taking a piece of paper out of the back pocket of his baggy jeans.
"You wrote another spell?" asked Wyatt, angry. "Good to know you have faith in me."
"What? Your spell didn't work! And besides it's not like I put a lot of time or effort into it! I just made a few alterations to a spell that was already in the book," said Chris.
"Let me see," said Piper, motioning for the spell. "Oh, yeah," she said scanning through it. "Clever substitution, it should work."
Chris gave Wyatt an 'I told you so,' look, which caused Wyatt to cough the words "mommy's boy."
"Hey!" protested Chris. "I am not . . . I just prefer mom to dad!"
"Whatever," muttered Wyatt.
"Isn't there a potion needed to accompany the spell?" asked Piper.
Chris produced two vials from his pocket and handed one to Wyatt.
"Huh, so much for not preparing it," said Wyatt.
"Oh stop complaining and drink the god damn potion," said Chris, drinking the potion.
They read the spell,
"Powers of we witches rise,
Come to us through space and time.
Come to us who call you near,
Come to us and settle here."
Once they had finished they looked round. "I don't feel any different," said Wyatt.
He squinted, trying to set the clock on fire. "Nothing! Ha!"
He said as Chris tried moving various objects in the room telepathically and failing.
"Your spell wasn't so great either was it now, magic boy?"
"I don't understand, it should have worked!" said Chris reading over the spell.
"Well it didn't, so get over it," said Wyatt.
Just then, toddler Wyatt appeared in the room.
"Wyatt!" said Piper, picking him up. "How many times must I tell you not to orb out of bed?"
As she was heading up the stairs with him, there was a large crash. She turned round to see a lamp of theirs, lying on the ground shattered.
"What was that?" asked Piper.
"I think our little Wyatt just threw an energy ball!" said Paige excitedly.
"Aww," cooed Phoebe. "He's just getting so big and oh so powerful," she said walking towards him smiling. "Yes, you are. That's right,"
"Uh, guys?" said Wyatt, interrupting Phoebe's baby talk. "I only got that power last year."
"What? How can that be?" asked Phoebe.
"I don't know," admitted Piper, who liked the rest of them was stumped.
"You idiot!" said Chris finally after many moments of deliberation.
"Me?" asked Wyatt.
"Your spell . . . instead of binding your powers to us, it brought them back and bound them to our past selves!" Chris explained. "It is at this time that I would like to point out that this was why my spell didn't work. Mine was calling our powers to us through time but they were already here with us, it would have required our younger selves to take the potion!" said Chris.
"Thank God," Chris said, collapsing on the sofa relieved. "I thought I was loosing my touch there, for a few brief moments."
"I'll go whip up another batch of the potion needed," said Paige heading for the kitchen.
When she came back she gave it to Piper who made little Wyatt and baby Chris drink it. The teenage Chris and Wyatt said the spell once more. Chris who was sitting on the couch gestured to the remote, which went flying across the room and into his hand. Putting his feet up on the table, he turned on the TV.
"Smart ass," said Wyatt shaking his head in disbelief of how much of a show off his brother could be at times.
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A/N: Ok, so this chapter was a bit of a non-happener but I didn't want to end up wit one really long chapter so I spilt it up. Next one will be up pretty soon so don't worry.
Thanks again to everyone who reviewed, keep them coming people!
Flephanie: no, sorry that one wasn't as long! Lol, you'll just have to try harder next time! I can't believe you didn't catch on to that though, you must have just thought it was a pretty random title . . . and summary as a matter of a fact. Lol, I laugh all the time apparently for no reason. Don't worry people get used to it and just increase your medication. But it's always good to know that my humor is appreciated.
NoAlias: hope that lived up to your expectations. If not, tough, cause it is already posted, lol. Though there is another sort of similar chapter coming so if there is anything you would like to see happen mention it and it'll be brought under consideration.
Calen: Only to a certain extent! I don't know if I am going to be able to live up to this now! I'm not sure about this whole 'bunny rabbits of doom thing,' lol. Are you a Donnie darko fan or was that just random?
Becka5: wow, by the end you are going to like really love it, lol. Thanks though.
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Corrupted Purity: thank god you are not someone wanting k/c. it was beginning to make me a little angry. Yeah, we haven't got one tree hill here yet, it's like starting next week or something so I have no idea what you are talking about. Sounded reasonable enough though.
Random Insane Person: you left out random, lol. Thanks, I just though that all of Piper's children should be all fiery like her and I thought the slapping was a nice touch.
The Magic Bringer: I did, see! Look I updated the same day as you reviewed . . . cool or what?