Back to the Past
Chapter 12: Living and Dying.
A/N: Oh thank God I'm glad to be back!!! I stayed out past my curfew, (only by about an hour or so) and had my computer privileges taken away from me! It was awful! But now I'm back online and posting this really bad chapter, sorry, in my rush to update I think I've messed it up. Hope it is readable!
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The two sets of Charmed Ones watched as Ft. Piper stirred in Chris' arms as he continued to beg her to wake up and for everything to be all right. Kamil and Wyatt were still unconscious, Dermairon was still working on opening the portal and Erech was watching them with a smug look on his face.
"Chris, we gotta get her to Leo now, we can come back and finish him off later," said Ft. Paige.
With Ft. Paige's help, Chris lifted her off the floor and they began carrying her to the tunnel entrance.
"Just where do you think you are going?" asked Dermairon. Suddenly, the portal he had been working on opened and he stepped out of the circle. He waved his hand and a pile of rocks appeared and blocked the entrance to the tunnel.
"Just give her to me Chris," said Dermairon. "If your aunts come with me, He can heal her, but really what choice do you have if you want your mother to live?"
"Go to hell!" said Chris as he waved his free arm and sent a boulder crashing into Dermairon and another into Erech.
"Paige, try and wake Wyatt up, he could heal her, I know he could," he said to Pt. Paige.
"I already tried honey, he's out cold," she said, sympathetically.
"There has to be a way," he said, putting his mother back on the ground gently.
"There is, let us bring her back with us," said Erech.
Pt. Phoebe went over to Erech and punched him, with all her might, causing him to fall to the ground. "Hmm." She said, admiring her handiwork. "You are right, he does fall unconscious really easy."
She turned back round to Dermairon. "You wouldn't even dare trying that one with me, witch," said Dermairon.
"Oh, really? Cause here's me thinking we would," said Ft. Phoebe, moving to back up her counterpart. They both began advancing towards Dermairon, twisting, flipping and levitating to avoid the fireballs as they got in every kick and punch they could to give Chris, Pt. Piper and both Paiges a chance to figure out what to do.
"Dad!" Chris tried calling gain.
"Sweetie, it's no use, we are in the underworld remember? He can't hear you," said Pt. Piper.
"But she's dying, and it's all my fault, I shouldn't have objected to him coming with us," he said, silent tears falling down his cheeks.
"Maybe you should try and heal her?" suggested Pt. Paige.
Chris placed his hands over his mother. When nothing was happening he let out a groan of frustration. "I can't do it!"
"Yes, you can, you just need to relax," encouraged Pt. Piper.
"We know you can do this, we have complete and utter faith in you, you just have to have that same faith in yourself," insisted Ft. Paige.
Chris took a few calming breaths, closed his eyes, and tried to clear everything out of his mind, including his overwhelming fear of loosing her. He put his hands back over her bloodied middle and let his love for his mother consume him.
He opened his eyes, when he heard a large breath being taken and he felt Ft. Piper, sit up in his arms.
"Mom!" he cried as he crushed her in a hug.
"Chris?" asked Ft. Piper. "Did you heal me?"
"Yeah mom, I did."
"That was close," commented Pt. Paige, as they observed the heart-warming sight in front of them.
"Yeah, you're telling me," said Pt. Piper. "Witnessing your own death just would have been way too creepy, not to mention disturbing."
"Good to have you back," said Ft. Paige, helping her sister to her feet.
"Good to be back," said Ft. Piper, standing up and looking around. "What happened to Wyatt is he ok?"
"Yeah, just unconscious, we need to say the spell to vanquish Dermairon and probably Kamil, but Erech . . . well we can probably just blow him up," said Pt. Paige.
"Done," said Ft. Piper, turning round and making a quick gesture to the unconscious Erech, causing him to explode into many little pieces.
"Well, you are going to need the Phoebes," said Chris. "So here goes nothing," he said.
He went towards Dermairon, who was busy throwing fireballs at both Phoebes and throwing them about the room. Chris moved his hand and sent another boulder crashing into him, causing him to fall over.
"You can't stop me! Nothing can! Not even the Power of Three can vanquish me!" he said, getting to his feet again.
"Yeah?" asked Pt. Paige. "Well, how you wanna try the Power of Six on for size?" she quipped before throwing her potion at him, while Pt. Piper did the same to Kamil, who was beginning to wake up. "Good thing we brought extra, huh?"
Pt. and Ft. Phoebe ran over to join their sisters and they grabbed hands.
"We call upon our Charmed Ones Power," they read.
Kamil stood up suddenly and realised what they were doing, he made a run for them and when he colided with them he managed to separate Ft. Paige from her sisters' grip.
"Go back to sleep," said Chris, using his telekinesis to throw him back up against the wall.
Before Ft. Paige had a chance to get to her feet and join her sisters hands again, Dermairon gestured for her and she went skidding across the room to him. "You are going through that portal to Him whether you like it or not," he hissed and made another gesture, trying to throw her into the time portal.
Chris, seeing what he was about to do, also gestured with his hand at the same time, trying to use his telekinesis to counteract Dermairon's. As a result, Ft. Paige sort of hovered in the air, beside the portal.
"Paige, I can't hold it, he's too strong, you are going to have to orb," said Chris, through gritted teeth.
"But what if I still end up going through the portal?" she asked, frantically.
"Deal with it!" yelled Chris.
Ft. Paige orbed out and materialised beside her sisters. She opened one eye first and looked around. "Did I go through the time portal?"
"No, honey you didn't now can we say this spell before Dermairon kills my son?" asked Ft. Piper, grabbing her hand as they started to say the spell again.
Chris began throwing boulders at Dermairon again and telekinetically moved Kamil over to beside Dermairon, sending him crashing into her feet and causing Dermairon to fall over. He then continued to divert the fireballs that Dermairon tried to throw at both sets of Charmed Ones to try to stop them from reading the vanquishing spell.
"We call upon our Charmed Ones power,
To double it's strength and in this hour,
Vanquish this evil with the Power of Six forever more.
Let them no longer exist in any plane or time,
No longer exist and with this rhyme,
We vanquish this evil with the Power of Six forever more."
Both Dermairon and Kamil erupted into flames and exploded, and so all that was left of them was a pile of ashes. The time portal closed as they all looked around at each other with smiles on their faces.
"We did it," said Pt. Phoebe.
Chris rushed over and hugged his mom. "I'm so glad you are alright."
"Same here kiddo," said Ft. Piper, embracing her son.
"We should really try and wake Wyatt up," said Pt. Piper.
"Yeah, he missed the entire vanquish!" said Pt. Paige.
"Poor kid, that energy ball really knocked him out!" said Ft. Phoebe.
"Nah, he's probably just faking it, the lazy shit," said Chris.
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Leo was pacing in the manor living room when the blue and white lights, which signified orbing, appeared and both sets of Charmed Ones plus Chris and Wyatt materialised.
"I'm so glad you are all ok," he said, unable to take his eyes of Ft. Piper, carefully studying the person his wife would one day become.
"Yep well the demons have been vanquished and we are all still alive!" said Pt. Paige, chirpily.
"Well there was those scary couple of minutes when I was on the edge of death," started Ft. Piper, smiling when she saw the horrified look on her husband's past self's face. "But once he stopped hitting on the pretty demon girl, our son came through and figured out how to heal me."
"Wyatt you learnt to heal? Well done!" congratulated Leo, pating his on the back. The room went silent for a while as everyone looked about awkwardly.
"What?" asked Leo, confused.
"You see, this is exactly the reason why at home I have a habit of leaving the room once you enter it," said Chris, storming out of the room and up the stairs.
"I'll go," said Wyatt, running after his brother.
"I can't believe I just did that," said Leo, sitting down and putting his head in his hands.
Both Pipers made a move to comfort him, they stopped and smiled at each other and Ft. Piper gestured for her past self to do it.
"Leo," she said, sitting down beside him. "Chris will come round, he just needs a bit of time and space and he'll be fine. You just have to think before you open your mouth, ok?"
Leo just nodded. "Uh, I'm just going to go check on the boys and bring them back here then go back Up There, they're calling me for news of what happened."
"Ok, hurry back," said Pt. Piper, giving her husband a kiss on the cheek before he orbed out.
The three Ft. Charmed Ones watched her with amusement.
"What?" demanded Pt. Piper.
"Nothing, nothing," said Ft. Piper. "It's just that I see things are finally back on track with you and that disappearing husband of ours."
"Yes they are, though of all people I'm sure you already knew that," she said.
"Yeah, but I also know how happy you are that things are back to normal, I'm just re-living a bit of that," said Ft. Piper.
"Ooh, quickly, here's our chance," said Pt. Phoebe, pulling up a chair. "Chris isn't here to tell us off for talking about the future, so quickly spill, is it fabulous?" she asked excitedly causing everyone to laugh.
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Wyatt found Chris in the attic going through a book, just for a change then. Anytime Chris felt like he needed to get away, he was always doing something about demons.
"Hey man," said Wyatt.
"Hey," said Chris, not even bothering to look up. "You should really have Leo heal you, you were unconscious for a while, probably have some bumps and bruises."
Wyatt sighed upon hearing Chris call their dad Leo. "I could always have you do it."
"I have a feeling that this particular whitelighter power which is triggered by all these fluffy emotions isn't going to work so good when I'm angry."
"Probably not, I guess just like any other power you just have to get used to it, and control will come with time."
"Yay!" said Chris sarcastically. "And then I can be a great whitelighter just like daddy dearest."
"Oh come on Chris don't do that," said Wyatt.
"Why not Wyatt? I mean just when I was beginning to see things differently he reverts back to the same old dad, always underestimating me, well when he's actually around anyway. It's just so frustrating!" he said slamming the book closed.
"Chris I know he can be a bit of an ass at times but he does have good intentions, it's just that his foot has a bad habit of setting up camp in his mouth."
Chris broke into a grin at his brother's imaginative imagery. "No arguments there."
"That makes a change," commented Wyatt.
"Shut up," said Chris, smiling while he shook his head.
"Look let's just go back down stairs, we have to figure out what to with about evil me and you are the one with all the memories locked up in your head. I think that Dad went to pick up mini-us so you are free for a while now anyway."
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"I have to say I've forgotten how much I loved my hair that colour!" said Ft. Paige, twirling her own dark red tresses.
"Yeah, but I don't know, I'm thinking of going blonde again," admitted Pt. Paige. "I mean I like the brown and all, it's as close to my natural colour as I'm going to get I guess."
"You have a natural colour?" asked Pt. Phoebe, clearly shocked at the news.
"No I was born with dyed hair Pheebs," said Pt. Paige rolling her eyes.
"God can you even remember that far back?" asked Pt. Piper, genuinely fascinated at the idea that Paige's hair was once free of artificial colours.
"Not really," admitted Pt. Paige.
"It's ok, when Petulia is born, she inherits our natural colour, and everyone finally gets to see the way I once was. Unfortunately she is already looking at bottles of dye when we are in the pharmacy!" Ft. Paige told her past self.
"Like mother like daughter then?" asked Pt. Piper.
"So what's going on?" asked Chris, descending the stairs and entering the room with Wyatt in close pursuit.
"Uh, nothing," said Pt. Phoebe, looking down at the table.
Ft. Paige gave her a dig in the ribs for saying anything. Phoebe's inability to lie was almost as famous as her status as a Charmed One, in some circles even more so. Chris surveyed the six women in front of him, who were looking for all the world like school girls caught doing something they shouldn't by their teacher.
"You were talking about the future weren't you?" asked Chris angrily.
"No?" said Ft. Phoebe, hopefully.
"Unbelievable!" exclaimed Chris, throwing his hands up in the air in disbelief. "Honestly. I leave you unsupervised for all of what? Five or ten minutes and here you are threatening our future. I'm ashamed of you really. You are the Charmed Ones for God's sake. If we can't trust you to not jeopardise the future who can we trust?"
"You apparently, Mr. Time Travel," muttered Ft. Paige.
"Oh don't be such a nag," said Ft. Phoebe. "We didn't tell them anything that important, just that we all have kids."
She winced as Chris yelled, "What!?"
"We didn't tell them who with," she said as if that made it ok.
"Yeah you probably didn't want to do that," said Wyatt. "He threw me of the chair when I accidentally told that we had a little sister."
"You did what?" demanded Ft. Piper. "Christopher how many times must I tell you not to use your powers on your siblings?"
"But mom!" protested Chris in a whiny voice, now that the tables had been turned.
"Not buts Christopher!"
Frowning, Chris sat down in a chair with his arms crossed. "Tell tale," he mumbled to Wyatt when he sat next to him, who just smiled.
"So, do we get any cool new powers?" asked Pt. Paige.
"Oh, come on!" said Chris. "You can't tell them that, surely!"
"Not really," started Ft. Paige. "More like advances, for instance a lot of the time I just have to . . ."
"Paige!" protested Chris.
". . . think of the object to summon it."
"Yeah, and my freeze lasts for much longer and reaches a wider area," said Ft. Piper as Chris continued to bang his head repeatedly of the wooden table.
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For the past half an hour the girls had just been chilling out and chatting casually while cooing over baby Chris and Wyatt. The boys were not amused to say the least, especially when they were cracking bad jokes such as "Aww, aren't they so cute," then looking over at them and going, "Yeah, whatever happened?" before falling into a fit of hysterics, marvelling at their own comic genius.
Chris had long since given up trying to warn them about future consequences and telling them there was work to be done. All he got was glares, mutterings about how he was 'no fun anymore' and rants from Ft. Piper about how she had been tied up and held captive by demons for a week and that she deserved a little relaxing time, before going to hunt more demons. Now they were telling their past selves stories of some recent vanquishes.
"Right so we were trying to think of this big plan to vanquish the demon because he kept sneaking up on us so we thought we should be really careful in case he did it again," said Ft. Phoebe.
"But then Chris just goes, 'Oh for God's sake!' grabs the vanquishing potion off us and orbs out. Orbs back in like twenty seconds later dusting off his hands. The little twerp just went and vanquished him by himself!" said Ft. Paige. "He was all like 'what? you were wasting time not to mention irritating the crap out of me,'" she said doing a bad impression of her nephew.
"God he is going to be a handful, I knew it!" said Pt. Piper, with a small smile playing at her lips.
"So apparently you never learn the art of being tactful," commented Pt. Paige.
"Tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic," Chris informed them.
"So that makes you the least tactful person on the planet then," said Pt. Paige.
Chris rolled his eyes and Wyatt grinned. When seeing Chris' disapproving look, Ft. Piper, rolled her own eyes and gave in. "Fine, fine we'll do some work."
"Good," said Chris. "It's about time, do you have any idea how many innocents we could be loosing in our world every minute we waste here?"
"God no need for the guilt trip . . . mom," said Ft. Paige.
"None of that cheek young lady," said Chris, pointing at her sternly. "That's the problem with the youth of today, no respect for their elders!"
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A/N: that, my friends, was my poor attempt to try and bring some humour back into the fic cause I'm pretty sure it stopped being funny around chapter six. I'm trying I really am! just stick mith me, it'll get better i swear!
Thanks to everyone who reviewed, you guys are great, please keep at it!
Calen: I'm not sure about the whole lightning bolts power. I'll have to have a good long think about that. Thanks for the review!
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Emma15: Such a smart cookie! Yes Chris healed her, sorry about the cliffie and the lack of update. You can sleep well tonight cause this one doesn't have a cliffie! As for evil Wyatt he's coming into it next chapter so you will just have to wait and see what happens. Thanks for the review.
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