Back to the Past
Chapter Six: Foolish Behaviour
At seven o'clock the next morning Piper was in the kitchen, heating a bottle for baby Chris when she heard movement in the attic. Quietly as possible, she went up the stairs to the attic, putting the baby in the crib next to Wyatt.
Hands at the ready she entered the attic cautiously. With a sigh of relief, she realised that it was only Chris, who was wondering about looking at the shelves. "What are you doing?" she asked. "You scared the crap outta me! I never really saw you as a morning person," she said.
"Trust me, I'm not. It's just that you making us go to bed last night without even looking for the charmed ones from out time was killing me inside," he explained.
"Well some things never change, your other self was demon hunting mad as well. For the first few months he worked us so hard we were ready to kill him."
"You guys keep this stuff forever, you know that?" said Chris looking at the bits and bobs about the attic.
"Yeah, your other self told us," said Piper smiling.
"You see that's just creepy," said Chris. "It's really strange that there's another me out there in a different universe who will be eternally destined to come back in time and save us all from an evil Wyatt to keep creating my future. I have to say, I think I got the easier universe by far."
"Yeah," said Piper quietly. "It's pretty cool that I get to meet two different versions of my son before he can even sit up by himself, though," she said.
"Well trust me, you have no idea how freaky it is checking on yourself as an infant," said Chris. "But man, was I one cute baby!" he joked.
"You really are too cocky for your own good mister," said Piper poking him in the ribs.
Laughing, Chris went back over to the Book of Shadows. "Ugh, it's so frustrating, this book doesn't have half the stuff that mine does. I should have thought and brought it back with me," he said, running his hand though his long, floppy hair.
"Do you know what demon it was that took us?" asked Piper.
"Uh, yeah, Dermairon. He just happens to be like the oldest and post powerful demon ever, who just happens to not be affected by time," said Chris opening it at the right page. "I'm not overly worried though because I mean, this has all happened before. Our past selves did the same thing and their charmed ones are ok or otherwise the girls wouldn't have let themselves be kidnapped, right?" asked Chris.
"I think so, you and your past self are the same person so you should do the same things as they did," said Piper.
"That's good because there's not a lot to go on," said Chris.
"In that case, come on downstairs and I'll make breakfast."
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By the afternoon, Chris, Wyatt and the girls had checked every reference they could find on Dermairon, and none of it was pointing them in any one direction.
"This is pointless!" said Wyatt. "We aren't going to find them by reading books. Let's just start summoning demons and torturing them for information," he said.
"As much as I usually prefer that option, it is highly likely that it isn't going to help," said Chris. "Other demons probably don't know much about demons as old as Dermairon. Like do you remember that time we were trying to find where the Cranrio demon's lair was? That was the biggest waste of FOUR HOURS like ever!"
"Yeah, but look at the amount of demons we killed," said Wyatt.
"Nevertheless it's four hours I don't want to waste," said Chris.
"Fine," said Wyatt huffily. "Spoil sport."
"Oh, don't be such a baby!" said Chris, rolling his eyes.
"Lunch!" called Piper from the dining room.
They all went into the dining room where Piper had arranged lots of different dishes out on the table.
"Wow, Piper. When are the other twenty people arriving?" asked Phoebe, sitting down.
"Oh, come on Pheebs, it's not every day my two sons come back from the future," said Piper, handing our plates.
"Actually, in this family, it pretty much is," said Paige, lifting a plate of Piper.
"Ha ha, very funny. Shut up and eat," said Piper, sitting down at the table.
"God I missed your cooking," said Chris though a mouthful of lasagne.
"What do you mean? Surely I still cook for you all?" asked Piper.
"Yeah but Wyatt keeps sucking up and offering to do it or help and you always let him cause you don't want to hurt his feelings. But it's really not the same!" said Chris, a blissful look on his face while eating.
"At least I pull my weight in the kitchen!" said Wyatt.
"Hey, I cooked once!" insisted Chris.
"Oh, yeah and what a fine meal that was," said Wyatt sarcastically.
"I'll have you know that in many countries microwave macaroni and cheese is considered a delicacy!" protested Chris.
They all laughed at the earnestness in Chris' voice as he threatened Wyatt with his fork. "At least I know when my culinary skills, or lack there of, aren't welcome," he said.
"Are you trying to say that I'm not a good cook?" asked Wyatt, clearly offended.
"No, not at all," said Chris. "I'm telling you that you are a fricken awful cook!"
The girls laughed as Wyatt glared at them. "I've heard no complaints," said Wyatt stubbornly.
"That's because we orb it all of our plates every time you turn you head or look down, then we pig out on chocolate. Oh and for future reference, noodles. Yeah there aren't supposed to be served black! That was the worst thing I have ever pretended to eat," Chris told the sisters.
"Isn't orbing the food personal gain?" asked Wyatt.
"No," said Chris. "It's self-preservation! Well when we telekinetically put it into the bin anyway. Orbing is a whitelighter power and therefore, no personal gain."
"You know," said Wyatt, an injured look on his face. "If you keep insulting me like this, I think I'll have to remove you of your status of my favourite little brother."
Chris rolled his eyes as Phoebe gasped. "I have another nephew on the way?"
Wyatt laughed, "No, it's just a general expression, he's, my only little brother. I mean really, if I had another one do you really think the Chris would be my favourite?" he asked with a smirk on his face.
The smirk disappeared as Chris flicked a bit of salad at him with his fork, and landed smack, bam, between his eyes. Chris laughed as the dressing dripped down his nose. "You shouldn't be talking about the future!" he said.
"Oh, can you tell me if in your time, I have my daughter yet?" asked Phoebe.
"No!" yelled Chris.
"No, I don't or no, you can't tell me?" asked Phoebe.
"No I can't tell you!" said Chris.
"Why not?" whined Phoebe.
"Because it could affect the future and change it in strange and unforeseen ways!" he said getting a little angry.
"Wow," said Piper. "You are actually always going to have a stick up your ass about this whole not changing the future thing aren't you?"
"Come, on you are the Charmed Ones. Of all people you should know the dangers of people knowing too much about their future," he said, trying to appeal to their rational side.
"Paige!" exclaimed Chris.
"Positive," said Wyatt. "It was just an expression. It would be like me saying that Patricia was my favourite little sister."
"What?" the three sisters yelled simultaneously.
"Idiot!" yelled Chris, putting his head in his hands as he waved his arm and threw Wyatt of his chair and on to the ground.
"I have a niece?" asked Phoebe excitedly.
"I going to be an aunt again?" asked Paige, a beaming smile firmly in place.
"I have to give birth again!?" screamed Piper, a horrified look on her face.
"Ok, so fess up, which one of you did it?" said Chris.
"Did what?" asked Paige, indignant.
"Which one of you dropped Wyatt repeatedly on his head at birth?" Chris asked them, completely serious.
"What was that for?" Wyatt asked, picking himself up of the floor.
"For being a complete fool and jeopardising the existence of our little sister!" yelled Chris.
"I have a girl?" asked Piper, who was still in a state of shock, but she was gradually working her way around to pleasant surprise.
"Yeah," said Chris.
"What's she like?" asked Phoebe.
"Haven't you be listening, we can't change the future!" said Chris.
"Oh, come on the damage has already been done, spill," said Paige.
"Fine," said Chris giving in. "She's a few years younger than me, and fast becoming a powerful witch. People say she's the second coming of Melinda. She can freeze time, move things with her mind and get premonitions."
"Cool," said Paige.
"She hasn't quite mastered how to channel her TK through her hands yet though," said Wyatt, taking his seat beside Chris again. "Only, when she's really pissed off but she's got the attitude of a good witch. We always joke that she's Chris but without that pesky Y chromosome."
"Science geek," mumbled Chris.
"Shut up!" said Wyatt. "It's nothing that you wouldn't know if you actually went to class."
"I go to class!" insisted Chris. "Just not pointless ones. But that still makes you a nerd!"
"You are just calling me a nerd because I'm smarter than you!" said Wyatt.
"Knowing what chromosomes are does not make you smarter than me. It just makes you book smart, I'm smarter in the ways of the world."
"Sure, whatever you need to tell yourself," said Wyatt, going back to his dinner.
"I don't need to tell myself anything. After all, I'm the one that took charge when this whole thing started, unlike someone who became so hysterical that they needed their little sister to slap them!"
Wyatt glared at Chris, seeing the look of amusement on the Charmed One's faces.
"Besides," continued Chris. "I'm the only one in the entire house that knows how to use the picture in picture on the TV!" he said as if it was all the proof that anyone needed.
"Yeah, and you use it to watch cartoons and surf the music channels at the same time!"
"So you two are pretty much a handful," said Piper.
"Pretty much," said Chris grinning. "You learn to love us though."
"I'm fairly sure that we are already there," said Paige smiling at her two nephews.
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Later on that night in the attic, Chris and Wyatt where once again going through the Book of Shadows looking for any sort of clue on where Dermairon might be keeping the Charmed Ones from their time.
"I think they are somewhere in the underworld, the problem is locating them there. For some reason I can't sense them when I'm down there which means that either Dermairon is using some sort of spell so that we can't sense them or they're not there," said Chris.
"Dude," said Wyatt. "You're rambling."
"No, I'm thinking out loud," Chris corrected. "I still can't believe you told them!" he said.
"Sorry," said Wyatt looking rather embarrassed. "It just slipped out!" when he saw the dubious look on Chris' face he sighed. "I'm an idiot, a fool, a complete ass!"
"Tell me something I don't know," said Chris, flipping through the pages.
"I made out with Katie for an hour," said Wyatt quickly and quietly, almost whispering.
"YOU DID WHAT?" yelled Chris, his eyes bulging and his face going red.
Biting his lip, Wyatt scrunched up his face. "Ok, so you're mad and not unexpectedly. I just had to tell you, it's been eating me up inside and-" Wyatt stopped talking and orbed out quickly as Chris made a mad dive for him. Wyatt orbed in behind his mother and grabbed her by the shoulders, pulling her close to him, planning to use her as a shield.
"I'll kill you," came Chris' angry voice from upstairs as he marched down the stairs to find his brother.
"What in the world is going on here?" asked Piper, exasperated.
"Uh, Chris is going to kill me," said Wyatt as if it was nothing.
"Why?" asked Piper.
"Because he made out with my best friend!" said Chris, angrily descending the last few stairs into the hall. Wyatt pulled his mother closer to him and moved her around so that she was facing Chris and protecting him from his brother's wrath.
As Chris made a dive for him again, Wyatt moved from behind his mother and ran around to the other side of the table. "I don't believe this!" said Chris, from one end of the table.
"Sorry," said Wyatt, almost ashamed.
"Uh, ok then, that makes it better!" yelled Chris sarcastically as he began chasing his brother around the table.
"Ok, ok," yelled Piper, stepping in between them. "Let's sort this out. Chris, over there, NOW," she said pointing to one side of the living room.
"Wyatt, over there," she said directing him to the opposite end of the room, as she sat herself down on the sofa between them.
"Ok, what you two need to do is talk this out calmly, rationally and WITHOUT using our powers," she said looking sternly at Chris.
"Fine," he said grumpily, folding his arms and lying back further in his chair.
"Wyatt, you should talked to your brother about this before acting on impulses. After all it is his best friend and it is bound to be more than a little weird for him. And Chris. I have to say I'm a little disappointed at your rather childish and immature reaction. You should be supporting your brother, not ridiculing him."
She looked round at both of them and they both mumbled their sorries.
"Chris, I take it Wyatt just told you this now?" Chris nodded. "Then Wyatt why don't you tell Chris why you didn't tell him until now," Piper suggested in the most neutral tone she could manage.
"Wow, that marriage counselling really rubbed of on you. Are you going to make us use 'the tools?'" he asked.
"Wyatt. . ." warned Piper.
"Fine, fine," said Wyatt, holding up his hands in defeat. "Well when it happened I was pretty confused. We both were just figuring it out ourselves and I guess we thought . . ."
"Oh so it's 'we' now is it?" asked Chris. "Shall I expect just one Christmas present this year from the both of you?" he asked.
"I doubt you will be getting any if you continue to mock them like that," said Piper.
"Well I didn't feel that I could tell you what was going on until I knew myself," said Wyatt.
"Very good Wyatt," said Piper. "I know this time must be very difficult and confusing for you, just know that you have our support and our love," she said, looking at him kindly.
"Uh, ok," said Wyatt, slightly confused.
"Just, how did this happen?" asked Chris. "Actually, I change my question. WHEN, did this happen? How long have you two been keeping this from me?"
"When you had sneaked out to see Melissa . . ."
"Hold it there," said Piper, looking round at Chris.
"You 'sneaked out?'" she asked.
"Yeah, I'm grounded," Chris, admitted sheepishly.
"Why?"
"I came home past my curfew."
"Drunk," added Wyatt.
"Thanks man," said Chris.
"Wow, those teenage years are just a whole barrel of fun for me, huh?" said Piper. "I take it I get to call you 'Christopher' a lot?"
"It's fair to say that you are glad that you gave me two middle names," said Chris.
"Yeah, I'm guessing it sounds more intimidating," said Piper, thinking about it. "But anyway, continue," she said to Wyatt. "Remembering that you have our love and support," she repeated.
The brothers gave her a strange look, but Wyatt continued anyway. "Well once you had sneaked out, Katie came tumbling in through our window, cause she had heard you were grounded and so she thought she would keep you company," began Wyatt only to be interrupted by his mother again.
"'Katie?' 'She?' Chris' best friend is a girl?" she asked confused.
"Uh, yeah!" said Wyatt. "Oh my God! You thought I was . . ."
"Gay!" laughed Chris, the tears tripping down his face. "She thought you were gay! Oh my God this is priceless. I have to ring like everybody in my entire year and tell them!" he said, still laughing uncontrollably.
"Yeah well everyone in your year are still busy being born or are napping so tough luck," said Piper.
"Mom!" yelled Wyatt.
"What?" asked Piper, waving off her mistake. "boy's best friends tend to be other boys! I thought that Chris' violent reaction was because he was homophobic or something."
Wyatt glared at her. "Well just be glad to have such a trendy mom, who would be cool about it," she said.
"So if you were gay . . ."
"I'm not!" insisted Wyatt.
"But if you were," said Piper. "You know I'd be cool with it!" she said. Wyatt glared at her. "So you're not gay?" she asked.
"Mom!"
"Just checking, just checking!" she said getting up. "Well Chris is too busy laughing to inflict any physical damage so I'm going to leave you two to finish sorting this out by yourselves."
Once she had left the two brothers stared at each other. Wyatt glared at his brother causing Chris to burst out laughing again.
Shaking his head in disgust, "Oh grow up!" said Wyatt getting up and throwing a cushion in his brother's face as stormed out of the room.
"What? It was funny. Made funnier by all the times you have called me gay!" said Chris, getting up and going after his brother still laughing.
He ran into his mom in the hallway. "Thanks for that, it brightened up my day," he told her patting her on the back before going up he stairs and into the attic.
Piper smiled as she heard Wyatt yelling, "Stop laughing! It's not funny!"
"Definitely going to be fun," she said, smiling to herself as she sat down with baby Chris in her arms and toddler Wyatt beside her.
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A/N: Once again, I meant to have more stuff happen in this chapter but the stuff that did happen just ran away from me and went on longer than expected. So the next chapter will be action packed I swear! We get to catch up with the charmed ones that have been kidnapped! Well unless the bit at the start goes on for WAAAAAY to long. But that's doubtful.
Thank you so much for the reviews, they really inspire me to write faster if you get my drift.
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