Back to the Past
Chapter 13: Back to the Future.
A/N: (Looks at chapter title) Hmm, whatever could happen in this chapter I wonder?
Oh and the evil Wyatt will be written as (OW)Wyatt i.e. Other World Wyatt, as in the Wyatt from the Other World. Just to let you know.
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Once he was satisfied that he had gotten both sets of Charmed Ones plus Wyatt working on a decent plan, Chris went upstairs to try and write a spell to get them back to their own time, away from all the noise.
He was looking through the book, reading over the few time travel spells that were in the book, to see if he could gather any inspiration when he heard a knock on the open attic door. He looked up to see Leo standing awkwardly at the entrance to the attic.
Chris rolled his eyes and continued reading the book.
"Can I come in?" asked Leo.
"It's a free country," said Chris distantly, while pretending to be very engrossed in whatever page it was that was opened of the Book of Shadows, chewing on the lid of his pen.
"I just wanted to talk to you about earlier and apologise," said Leo, making his way slowly into the room, searching his son's face for any flicker of emotion that could give him any indication of how their little talk was going.
He sighed when Chris didn't respond in any way, it was clear that he wanted to make this as difficult for him as he possibly could. "I was being an idiot, I should never have jumped to conclusions like that . . ."
"But you did," Chris reminded him curtly.
"I know and I'm so sorry Chris. I should never have under-estimated you like that. It's just that when the other Chris came back he had some serious issues with me, I mean he hated my guts so much so he beat the crap out of me once or twice."
"Good for him."
Leo continued, deciding to ignore that comment. "So I made up my mind to be the best father to him that I possibly could. Then to have you come back and still be angry with me really threw me off, it's like I'm destined to be a bad father to you. So I became more determined than ever to be the father you deserve and I then go and make a comment like that! I guess I just assumed it was Wyatt cause well, he has more active powers and your 22 year old self couldn't heal."
When Chris showed no signs of emotion, Leo reluctantly made a turn for the door. Chris sighed and finally looked up from the book. "It's not that you are a bad dad," he said, causing Leo to stop and turn around, hope evident in his face.
"It's just that you have a difficult time juggling your elder responsibilities with your family. I mean on average we see you once or twice a week and even then only in small doses, we have even went months without seeing you on occasions.
There were all these things that I begrudged you for, but then I come here and I find out about this whole other world and that another me had came back here and I find myself seeing all these reasons for your behaviour and it's getting harder to resent you for some of them.
I mean like on the rare occasions when you are around you fuss over Wyatt, which you know is apparently cause you are worried about him turning evil.
Then most of the time you were spending time with me was to shout at me or punish me for doing something or the other. Though that's probably because I'm always in trouble for something or the other," admitted Chris shamefacedly.
"You were always nagging at me when we were going demon hunting, which I really resented. I thought that it was because you didn't think I could handle myself, that I wasn't powerful enough to take care of myself while fighting a demon. But I guess that is because you just didn't want to loose me again," said Chris quietly, putting his hands in his pockets.
"I know all of this stuff now and I do understand you a bit more, knowing everything that happened with my other self but then you come out with the same old shit about how Wyatt is so great and powerful . . . what's that one of my sons learnt to heal? It couldn't have been Chris, it must have been Wyatt the wonderful!" said Chris, a little anger creeping back into his voice when he thought about how Leo tended to talk about his eldest son.
"But just so you know," said Chris, his tone soft again, looking down at the ground and shifting awkwardly in his position. "When we get back to our time, I am going to give us another chance, a clean slate of sorts. Sure you could continue to make comments like that one and I could easily go back to not so quietly hating you but you never know, maybe things could be different."
Leo was taken back. It was unusual for his youngest son to open up to him and if he did it took a lot of prying and the pressing of buttons. So Leo was touched that his son was going to give them another chance and that he had actually told him he was going to. He walked over to Chris and pulled him into a bear hug. "Thanks Chris, I really appreciate it."
"Yeah, not this different," said Chris awkwardly, his arms hanging limply at his sides. "I am a teenager after all," he said stepping back from his teary eyed father and picking up a notepad. "Just try not to screw it up, ok? I'm putting a lot of faith in you here," said Chris, leaving the attic.
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"Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!" yelled Ft. Piper.
"What? Is someone killing a cat?" asked Chris, appearing in the dining room, gently tapping his pen on the notebook he had in his other hand.
"No sweetie we just needed to ask you a few things," said Ft. Piper.
"Like what?" asked Chris, pulling up a chair and sitting next to his brother.
"Like what powers the evil Wyatt has," said Ft. Paige. "We need to be prepared."
Chris let out a deep breath and ran his hands through his hair. "Uh, well he has some the same as our Wyatt, orbing, energy balls, exploding power, freezing, spontaneous combustion and the shield. He also has telekinesis. . ."
"Really?" asked Wyatt sitting up straight. "Cool."
"Hey, keep your grubby little twice blessed hands off of my power," warned Chris, glaring at his brother.
"Boys, boys, can we get on with this without you two breaking into an argument?" asked Pt. Piper.
"No," said Wyatt and Chris simultaneously before breaking into similar grins.
"You see that's just creepy," said Pt. Phoebe.
"Yeah they do stuff like this all the time, I'm pretty sure it's just to freak us out," said Ft. Paige.
"Anyway," said Ft. Piper. "Chris, continue."
"Right, he also has telekinesis, telepathy, empathy, levitation, shimmering and fireballs. Most of those powers he got from demons as far as I can tell, a couple he killed good witches for," said Chris, going a little quiet as she tried to deal with the emotions that had gave him his information.
"OK, that's a lot of powers," said Pt. Phoebe, looking a little nervous.
"Why are you looking like that?" asked Ft. Phoebe. "You aren't the one who has to go confront him!"
"Thank God!" said Pt. Phoebe. "Well we are probably going to have to in about 16 years but still, that's a lot of prep time!"
"Well I am going to go whip up some telepathy blocking potion, we can dip into our endless supply of empathy blocking potion," said Pt. Piper getting up from the table and heading to the kitchen.
"So what have you came up with plan wise?" asked Chris.
"Well we have agreed that we can't kill him, or else we would upset the other world's time line and thus jeopardising our own world," said Ft. Piper. "So we are going to send him back to his own world."
"How are we going to do that?" asked Chris.
"I think there is a spell for that in our book," said Ft. Paige.
"We've also decided that I am not going to get stabbed," said Ft. Phoebe, "So the second we get to our time we are orbing the hell out of that attic as fast as we can."
"We can go to Adam's, that's were the girls are," said Wyatt.
"Good, good," said Ft. Paige. "I miss Adam, he's not in this time!"
"Who's Adam?" asked Pt. Paige, raising an eyebrow.
"A witch we are pretty close with," said Chris, getting in first before Paige could tell more to her past self than she should.
Ft. Paige glared at him before folding her arms and slumping down in the chair.
"Sulk all you want, you are not talking about the future anymore," said Chris.
Ft. Paige and Pt. Paige simultaneously pouted and gave their nephew their best puppy dog eyes and batted their eyelashes repeatedly at him.
Chris could help but laugh. "Oh please, like that's going to work, I invented that look!"
"It's true," confirmed Wyatt. "It's registered to the summer of '13, 'Mommy can I go out to play even thought I haven't cleaned my room.'"
The girls laughed as Chris rolled his eyes. His brother remembered the strangest things.
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Soon it was time to go and Chris was looking for Pt. Piper, to speak with her before they went. He found her in the nursery, holding baby Chris. She looked up and greeted him with a smile when she heard the gentle knock on the doorframe.
"Come on in honey, what is it? Are you all going now?"
"In about five minutes," said Chris, sitting down on the edge of the bed, facing his mother who was in the chair. "I just wanted to tell you something."
"What?" asked Pt. Piper, putting baby Chris who had dozed off into his cot.
"You see when I got all the memories of the Wyatt from the other world, I also got the memories that the other me had of the toddler Wyatt when he came to the past to save him."
"Oh," said Piper.
"And seeing as you didn't completely trust him for a very large period of his visit, that's a lot of memories of you mom. So I know that when you found out who he really was you were worried that you hadn't treated him right, that despite his assurances you weren't the best mom to him.
So I want you to know that in all of those memories a got with you in them, there was an overwhelming sensation of love. There wasn't a single moment in his life that he didn't love you. Not even when you were throwing him out of the house for trying to trick you into binding Wyatt's powers," said Chris with a slight grin.
"I know that there are probably so many things you wish you could have said to him before he died so I just wanted to comfort you with the knowledge that you were the best possible mom to him. I know you are probably beating yourself up about it but trust me there was nothing you could have done. But I just wanted you too know that he loved you, you were his world and not to worry, cause he knew you loved him too.
And don't worry about living up to your rep as a great mom, things aren't that different in our reality and I know Wyatt will back me up on this, you kick some serious maternal ass."
By this point, Piper was in floods of happy tears and she got up and flung her arms around Chris. "Thank you so much," said Piper, hugging him as tightly as she could.
"Anytime mom, anytime."
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"Come on people, let's get this show on the road!" yelled Ft. Paige.
"So eager to leave?" asked Pt. Phoebe.
"Or so eager to get back to this 'Adam'?" asked Pt. Paige.
"I'm choosing to say nothing," said Ft. Paige.
"Good option," said Chris, who had appeared in the attic with Pt. Piper who was holding baby Chris.
"I knew you'd approve," said Ft. Paige.
"So I guess this is it," said Pt. Piper.
"Yeah, good luck you guys," said Pt. Phoebe, who had Wyatt and was trying to hug everyone with one arm during the great hug exchange.
"Enjoy them at that age," said Ft. Piper, pointing to the young versions of her sons. "You know, before they learn to talk," she said, giving Chris and Wyatt meaningful looks.
"We have great sons, I'm going to enjoy it the whole way," said Pt. Piper, who was tearing up again, as was Pt. Paige and Phoebe.
"Bye Dad," said Wyatt, hugging Leo.
"Be good," said Leo.
Wyatt laughed, "I'm going to pretend you meant that in the normal kid way rather than 'don't become evil and take over the world.'"
"Well that too," said Leo smiling.
"You know, when you were leaving for the future last time, I was upset cause I knew it would be 23 years before I saw you again," said Pt. Paige, hugging Chris. "But to see your sixteen year old self here and now, it's good to know I won't have to wait that long to get you back for good."
Chris laughed, "See ya Aunt Paige."
Ft. Phoebe went over to her past self. "I know that right now you are on the desperate search for a man but just chill out a little and enjoy your single years and have faith that he will come to you and you will have everything you ever hoped for," she whispered quickly into her ear while hugging her.
"Does that mean that . . .?" asked Pt. Phoebe, wide eyed.
Ft. Phoebe gestured over to Chris who was talking to Leo and put a finger up to her lips before winking at her.
"I meant what I said earlier about giving us a new start, giving you the benefit of the doubt, so try not to be too much of a dickhead ok?" Chris said to Leo with a small smile.
"Chris, language!" said Leo who despite his harsh tone was smiling.
Wyatt was hugging Pt. Piper. "I'm really going to miss you," said Pt. Piper.
"Well I'll be back before you know it," he said tilting his head to his toddler form.
"Oh and don't worry about the whole parenting thing, you are going to do great," he told his mom with a smile.
"So I've heard."
"Love you mom," said Chris hugging Pt. Piper.
"Love you too Chris," said Pt. Piper, wiping at her eyes. "I don't know about you guys but I'm having serious déjà vu," she told her sisters with a laugh.
"What about when it is our time to do all of this? What should we do?" asked Pt. Phoebe.
"It's up to you," said Ft. Phoebe. "You go through the reasons before it happens. In the end we decided it was sort of like a Rite of Passage for them, like Abraxas was for us."
"Abraxy what now?" asked Pt. Paige.
The three future Charmed Ones looked around at each other, much amusement evident in her expressions. "We really don't change that much," said Ft. Paige.
"That's cause of all of that anti-wrinkle cream you started applying when you were like two," said Chris.
Ft. Paige hit him on the shoulder. "That is not what I meant and for your information we Halliwell women age well," she said indignant.
"I thought you weren't technically a Halliwell?" said Chris.
"In name only, I am in blood," said Ft. Paige, echoing her nephew's earlier words.
"Well are we going home or what?" asked Wyatt.
"Fine, fine," said Ft. Phoebe. "Chris you got the spell?"
"Yeah," he said producing a sheet of paper from his pocket. "It should work though I can't make any guarantees with this one. I was still trying to keep my emotions under control when I was writing it," he said passing it to Ft. Paige who was in the middle and they all began to read the spell.
"Two sets of people with identical minds,
But each belong in their different times,
Send us back to where we should be,
And reset the world's balance and harmony."
Piper, Phoebe, Paige and Leo watched as they disappeared in bright white lights.
"I'm going to miss them," said Pt. Phoebe, wiping at the tears that were settled on her cheeks.
"Me too," said Piper, looking down at baby Chris. "Me too."
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Once they had materialised they looked around them.
"It worked," noticed Wyatt.
"Ok people, orb, orb, orb!" yelled Phoebe frantically.
The next time they materialised they were in Adam's family home, the only person who was in the room was Patricia who was watching TV.
Chris cleared his throat, Patricia turned round, and her eyes lit up.
"They're back, they're back!" she began shrieking, hopping over the sofa to get to them. "Mom!" she yelled, running into her mother's outstretched arms.
"Hey sweetie," said Piper, gently stroking her daughter's hair.
"What's with all the noise?" demanded Adam, running into the living room.
"Oh my god you're back!" he said, lifting Paige before swinging her around.
"Uh what part of me yelling 'they're back' exactly did you have trouble with?" asked Patricia.
Chris grinned, "I missed you, do you know that?" he said hugging his little sister.
"And who wouldn't?" asked Patricia.
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After an hour or so of catching up and one angry reunion with Leo, (apparently Chris and Wyatt had 'forgot' to tell him when the girls had got kidnapped and they decided to go get them) the Halliwells had decided that they were going to have to chance it and go back to the manor for the book.
"But he's probably waiting for us there and we might take too much time looking for the spell," said Phoebe. "We don't even know what spell we are looking for!"
"You just don't want to get stabbed," said Chris.
"Well duh!" said Phoebe. "Thank you Captain Obvious."
"Tell me why we can't take the book out of the house again?" asked Wyatt.
"Because it's protected in the house," said Piper. "We can't risk taking it out only to leave it somewhere."
"Fine but this is ridiculous he's going to find us and then he's going to stab me!" said Phoebe who was panicking a little.
"What about the spell that Great Grams used to send you back with Nicholas?" asked Patricia.
"What about it?" asked Chris.
"That should be an easy enough substitution, right?"
"Maybe," said Piper. "But I'm not sure where in the book it is."
"I know, I was looking through that section last week," said Patricia. "I could go with you, find the spell and orb straight back out."
"Absolutely not," said Chris and Piper at the same time.
"Oh please, I'll orb out at the first sign of trouble plus I have the Charmed Ones plus my brothers backing me up. I'll be fine," insisted Patricia.
"Honey, I don't think that . . ." started Piper.
"Ok," said Chris. "Just stay close to me."
"Excuse me!" said Piper. "When exactly did this become your decision?"
"It isn't but aren't you the one always telling us to know when to use available resources and if Trish knows where exactly the spell is in the book, doesn't that make her a very valuable resource?" said Chris.
"Well yes but . . ."
"Plus the quicker we find the spell the quicker we send evil Wyatt back and the quicker it is much safer for everyone," said Chris.
"What do you guys think?" asked Piper.
The adults in the room all looked away. "It's your decision Piper, not ours," said Paige, speaking for all of them.
"Leo?" asked Piper.
"I'm not happy with the idea of Patricia going with you, but then again I'm not exactly thrilled with Chris or Wyatt going either but I know they have to," said Leo.
"Oh come on mom, I'll be fine I swear," said Patricia.
"Fine," said Piper after many moments of deliberation. "But stay close to your brothers ok? And so help me if you don't orb out at the first sign of trouble you will be so grounded."
"Ok," said Patricia.
"Not the second or the thrid sign of trouble," said Piper. "The first."
"Geez mom I heard you the first time," said Patricia.
"Yes but you are too much like your brother and have a flair for only hearing what you want to hear," said Piper glaring at both of them who continued to look indignant at such an accusation.
"We should probably find out what exactly Wyatt has been up to since he has been here," said Paige. "Leo would you orb Adam down into the underworld and see what you can find out?"
"Sure," said Leo.
"I'm going to ring the girls at their friend's house and tell them that you are all home safe and sound," said Jason.
"Ok," said Phoebe. "Tell Polly that I love her."
"Ooh and tell Petulia the same," said Paige. "Only you know that I love her, not Phoebe. Not that Phoebe doesn't love her just that, you know."
Jason laughed, "Yeah I do. God I have been in this family too long."
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"Ok Patricia, find the spell and be quick," said Piper as she Paige, Phoebe, Chris, Wyatt and Patricia materialised in the manor attic. Chris followed his little sister over to the book as Patricia flicked through the pages. After about twenty seconds she had found it.
"It's about time you showed up," said an eerily familiar voice.
The Halliwells turned round to see (OW) Wyatt standing in the attic.
"Patricia, orb now," said Piper.
"I can't," she said.
"Me neither," said Chris as Wyatt and Paige confirmed the same thing.
"Yeah sorry about that," said (OW) Wyatt. "After I missed you last time I put a spell on the attic to stop anybody from orbing out."
"Even yourself?" asked Paige as Chris moved round to stand in front of Patricia.
"Oh don't worry about me, I'm fine," said (OW) Wyatt. "I can shimmer out."
"What do you want?" asked Piper.
"Nice to see you too mom," said (OW) Wyatt. "It's just so good to see everyone alive and well again. Well Chris, you are still alive and kicking in my world too. I must say it's particularly delightful seeing my other self. Not too bad, not too bad at all," he said weaving in and out between them.
"And who's this?" asked (OW) Wyatt when he came to Chris and Patricia.
"You stay away from her," warned Chris.
"Always so resilient Chris, especially when protecting those so close to you like . . . your sister perhaps?"
"Did I get a bad dose of empathy or telepthy blocking potions?" Chris asked.
"No Chris for even with those telepath and empath blocking potions you all appear to have taken I can tell she is your sister Chris, our sister. You have a fierce brotherly love for her, you see I always could read you like a book, it's in your eyes."
"I've came to make you all a proposition," said (OW) Wyatt. "Join me, all of you. Though I would particulary like my other self and Chris to join me, but Chris turning is highly unlikely."
"That's it?" asked Paige. "If that's all you wanted you didn't have to go to all of this bother you should have said so before."
(OW) Wyatt smiled, "I was hoping you would see sense."
"If you had just said so in the first place we could have told you to go get cosy with a sheep and saved yourself a lot of effort," said Paige.
"Yeah, what she said," said Piper.
"I agree, you can shove your proposition up your ass," said Phoebe, walking over closer to her sisters.
"What about you?" said (OW) Wyatt walking over to his counterpart. "We are the same person, same mind, same urges, I know you want to let loose. Be free of the constant restrictions of personal gain like I am."
"I'm not you, never will be," said Wyatt firmly.
"Shame, you don't know what you are missing. Well I guess I'll just have to kill you all," said (OW) Wyatt.
"Like hell you will," said Chris.
"Ah, Chris. Poor little Christopher Halliwell," said (OW) Wyatt walking over to him.
"I know by now that I needn't bother tempting you. After all I've already taken so much away from you and still you remain strong, not to give in, not to turn. Our mother, our aunt, our cousins even. But this world is different, there are people here that don't exist there that you love. Like out little sister, what was it? Patricia? I can tell from that look in your eyes that you would do anything for her. You'd kill for her, you'd even die for her. Tell me Chris, would you turn for her?" asked (OW) Wyatt before making a motion with his hand and Patricia went flying across the room to him.
"No!" yelled Chris trying to use his telekinesis to counteract the movement but it was too late for by that point (OW) Wyatt had taken Patricia and shimmered out with her.
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A/N: God I love not having to write Pt. or Ft. in front of either Piper, Paige or Phoebe! It was really doing my head in! anyway there you go evil Wyatt has been introduced. The next chapter isn't too long but chapter 15 is going to be a nightmare to write, it's sooooooo long. Well it will be I haven't quite finished it yet.
So anyway I have just celebrated my half birthday so why don't you all review your asses of as a present!
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Emma15: Lol, yeah they do sort of take after Piper, don't they? Anyway, Leo wasn't a complete twat in that chapter or was he? Evil Wyatt was already in their world as I'm sure you realised in this chapter and as for Wyatt/Chris interaction . . . well you'll see. Thanks for reviewing!
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