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"Oh my god," present Phoebe exclaimed.
"Chris, Wyatt, come back!" future Phoebe wailed.
"They're not gonna come...You heard them. Phoebe, I think Wyatt could be evil. We should've heard Chris out, there could've been a way to prevent it..." future Paige choked between her tears. "We'd better call him." With a last sob, she called, "Leo!"
"I know, I know," he cried, orbing in. "I'm only allowed to come down to heal you guys, then I have to go..." His face was streaked with tears but he stumbled past his wife's body and healed Paige and Phoebe, then orbed away.
"After what I've been seeing so far," present Phoebe said in a shaking voice, wiping her eyes, "I highly doubt that he's going back to the elders."
"Can we orb to Chris?" present Piper asked softly.
'. .' (((())))
Chris sat on the very top of the Golden Gate Bridge, shivering in the cold. A storm raged all around him, the water in the bay below thrashing violently and swaying the bridge. All the cars were gone; the sky was much too dark and thunder and lightning boomed and flashed in every direction while the intense rain pounded down menacingly.
He hugged his thin t-shirt, silent tears of remorse running down his cheeks and mixing with the rain. He shivered; partly from the cold and partly from not wanting to believe what he had just witnessed. How could this be happening? He wondered vaguely how the other kids were doing at home. Did they find out?
It didn't matter what was happening at home, though. The look on his face clearly stated that he would never go back if he could help it, [present] Piper could see that even if she wasn't his mother yet.
Leo and Piper crouched down beside what would someday be their son, wishing that there was something they could do. They watched him sitting there for an hour or so in silence before Piper finally spoke up.
"This is what he didn't want to remember. This is why he's always been pulling away from me. I...left him."
Leo pulled Piper into a hug. "It wasn't your fault, Piper...Besides, it's what Chris came back to change. He loves you, I can see that. Even if he doesn't want to remember it happening, your death is clearly one of the things he's trying to prevent," he assured her. "Our timeline will be alright."
"That's not going to make a difference to what Chris has already gone through," she sobbed.
"It will, Piper, he's going to change it. I know he will."
They held each other in their safe little time-transport bubble that deflected off the rain, intent with being in one another's presence for once without an elder interruption. But, in the end, it was an elder that interrupted them—just not the one that they expected...
"YOU MURDERED HER," screamed a furious future Leo. "YOU KILLED PIPER!"
"No I didn't!" Chris scrambled up to his feet in shock, trying to wipe away his tears. "I did not kill my own mother, Wyatt did!"
"Wyatt has never done anything wrong in his life, unlike YOU—YOU—POSER! YOU ARE NOT MY SON! Wyatt's the only son I've got and now he's MISSING because of you!"
"HE IS NOT MISSING BECAUSE OF ME! HE'S MISSING BECAUSE HE'S EVIL, HE RAN AWAY—"
Leo grabbed Chris by the throat so he couldn't speak, strangling him. "I am going to KILL you for what you've done," he boomed, "and there will be NO ONE LEFT to hear you scream!"
"LEO, STOP IT!" Chris begged as Leo dangled him over the edge. "Deep down in your heart, you know that you're better than this spell. Please, you've got to believe me, you have to remember..."
Leo stopped for a moment, loosening his grip as if something in Chris' words caught him by surprise; but, just as suddenly as the moment of distraction came, it passed. His grip tightened on Chris so he couldn't breathe.
"Dad..."
"DON'T CALL ME THAT, ONLY WYATT CAN."
Future Leo threw an energy ball at Chris and released his grip, causing Chris to gasp for air while falling onto the cement of the abandoned bridge. Leo's face, twisted from grief and anger, was changed by his sudden satisfaction. He orbed away, not wanting to witness the fall.
"NO!" Piper shrieked, bending over to look down. He was near the concrete now, he'd die in an instant if he fell...
To both Piper's and Leo's relief, he manage to orb himself, but he was too weak to orb back up to the top and ended up sprawled out on the street. Present Leo orbed down with Piper to see what was happening to him.
Leo surveyed Chris and said grimly, "He's not going to last long...in fact, if somebody doesn't find him soon, he'll be dead."
((()))
Bianca, Mel, Colin, and Prue sat in the attic, drying their tears. Little did they know that past Phoebe and Paige were there in the corner with them, wishing that they could comfort their children, too.
Bianca was pacing back and forth now. "You guys, we don't have time for this...right now we have to stop Wyatt. And to do that, we need Chris."
"You heard Aunt Phoebe and my mom, they said that Chris would be back. They said to just give him some time, that's all." Mel repeated their words but didn't sound all too confident on the matter herself.
"It's not just that we need him to defeat Wyatt, it's more than that. Chris is alone, and, well, you guys saw Leo. He's pissed. He might get Chris or something and I don't want to lose him—he may not actually be my brother but he's my best friend," Bianca said softly, "sometimes more than that."
If it had been two days earlier, when they first arrived, Phoebe would've expected to hear Colin's mocking song about Bianca and Chris, but no song came. He was utterly silent, sitting on the window seat and staring at the ground. "I can't believe he watched her die," he said after a minute or so. "I've never seen anybody die before."
"Yeah, well trust me, Col; it isn't pretty."
A bolt of lightning flashed visibly out side the window, followed by a great rumbling of thunder. Colin jumped off the window seat in fright.
"I hope he's indoors," said Prue, voicing everyone's thoughts. Her eyes welled with fresh tears. "Why did Aunt Piper have to die?" she sobbed.
Bianca walked over to her cousin (technically speaking) and wrapped her in an embrace. "It was just her time, honey, but it'll be fine. We're gonna be fine." She forced a smile. "We have Chris and Paige and Phoebe to take care of us, nothing bad will happen."
Suddenly she jumped up. "Chris," she breathed. "I don't know how to explain it, but I can feel it...he needs me. Stay right here, I'll be back."
She shimmered away, coming back seconds later with an unconscious Chris.
Piper and Leo orbed in after her, unseen.
"Chris! Chris, wake up!" Bianca pleaded. Her eyes flashed to the stairs. "PHOEBE! PAIGE! CHRIS IS BACK, WE NEED YOU!"
Phoebe's footsteps bounded up the stairs and Paige orbed in. "What is it?" asked future Paige. She saw Chris on the floor, sopping wet and bleeding. "Oh my god, no...We can't lose them both! LEO!"
"You can't call him!" Bianca screamed. "HE DID THIS!"
"WHAT!?" future Phoebe exclaimed. "Bianca, stop your nonsense, Chris is hurt and we need—LEO! LEO, PLEASE!"
"He won't come."
"Bianca, please—"
"I'm dead serious, HE WILL NOT COME. He's under a spell that Wyatt cast. Leo's convinced that Chris is evil, which is exactly why he attacked tonight." She determinedly looked up at the sky, shrieking, "ALRIGHT, ANY RANDOM WHITELIGHTER, FEEL WELCOME TO ORB DOWN IN HERE AT ANYTIME!!"
To their shock, an elder orbed in—robes and all. "No ordinary whitelighter can fix this, only an elder can...because only an elder can fix the damage done by another of his kind. Don't count on us coming again; this is a special case, he has a destiny to fulfill, the Angel of Death told us so."
He bent down and healed Chris, orbing away before Chris could see him.
Chris looked up quizzically, expression confused and blank. Once he saw all the red, puffy eyes, he immediately remembered and his heart sank. "Leo..." he mumbled. "Where did he go?"
Just then, the two red-striped demons shimmered in.
"We have been resurrected to redeem our master's faith and pride."
A/N—okay, we all can guess what's next...
"Oh my god," present Phoebe exclaimed.
"Chris, Wyatt, come back!" future Phoebe wailed.
"They're not gonna come...You heard them. Phoebe, I think Wyatt could be evil. We should've heard Chris out, there could've been a way to prevent it..." future Paige choked between her tears. "We'd better call him." With a last sob, she called, "Leo!"
"I know, I know," he cried, orbing in. "I'm only allowed to come down to heal you guys, then I have to go..." His face was streaked with tears but he stumbled past his wife's body and healed Paige and Phoebe, then orbed away.
"After what I've been seeing so far," present Phoebe said in a shaking voice, wiping her eyes, "I highly doubt that he's going back to the elders."
"Can we orb to Chris?" present Piper asked softly.
'. .' (((())))
Chris sat on the very top of the Golden Gate Bridge, shivering in the cold. A storm raged all around him, the water in the bay below thrashing violently and swaying the bridge. All the cars were gone; the sky was much too dark and thunder and lightning boomed and flashed in every direction while the intense rain pounded down menacingly.
He hugged his thin t-shirt, silent tears of remorse running down his cheeks and mixing with the rain. He shivered; partly from the cold and partly from not wanting to believe what he had just witnessed. How could this be happening? He wondered vaguely how the other kids were doing at home. Did they find out?
It didn't matter what was happening at home, though. The look on his face clearly stated that he would never go back if he could help it, [present] Piper could see that even if she wasn't his mother yet.
Leo and Piper crouched down beside what would someday be their son, wishing that there was something they could do. They watched him sitting there for an hour or so in silence before Piper finally spoke up.
"This is what he didn't want to remember. This is why he's always been pulling away from me. I...left him."
Leo pulled Piper into a hug. "It wasn't your fault, Piper...Besides, it's what Chris came back to change. He loves you, I can see that. Even if he doesn't want to remember it happening, your death is clearly one of the things he's trying to prevent," he assured her. "Our timeline will be alright."
"That's not going to make a difference to what Chris has already gone through," she sobbed.
"It will, Piper, he's going to change it. I know he will."
They held each other in their safe little time-transport bubble that deflected off the rain, intent with being in one another's presence for once without an elder interruption. But, in the end, it was an elder that interrupted them—just not the one that they expected...
"YOU MURDERED HER," screamed a furious future Leo. "YOU KILLED PIPER!"
"No I didn't!" Chris scrambled up to his feet in shock, trying to wipe away his tears. "I did not kill my own mother, Wyatt did!"
"Wyatt has never done anything wrong in his life, unlike YOU—YOU—POSER! YOU ARE NOT MY SON! Wyatt's the only son I've got and now he's MISSING because of you!"
"HE IS NOT MISSING BECAUSE OF ME! HE'S MISSING BECAUSE HE'S EVIL, HE RAN AWAY—"
Leo grabbed Chris by the throat so he couldn't speak, strangling him. "I am going to KILL you for what you've done," he boomed, "and there will be NO ONE LEFT to hear you scream!"
"LEO, STOP IT!" Chris begged as Leo dangled him over the edge. "Deep down in your heart, you know that you're better than this spell. Please, you've got to believe me, you have to remember..."
Leo stopped for a moment, loosening his grip as if something in Chris' words caught him by surprise; but, just as suddenly as the moment of distraction came, it passed. His grip tightened on Chris so he couldn't breathe.
"Dad..."
"DON'T CALL ME THAT, ONLY WYATT CAN."
Future Leo threw an energy ball at Chris and released his grip, causing Chris to gasp for air while falling onto the cement of the abandoned bridge. Leo's face, twisted from grief and anger, was changed by his sudden satisfaction. He orbed away, not wanting to witness the fall.
"NO!" Piper shrieked, bending over to look down. He was near the concrete now, he'd die in an instant if he fell...
To both Piper's and Leo's relief, he manage to orb himself, but he was too weak to orb back up to the top and ended up sprawled out on the street. Present Leo orbed down with Piper to see what was happening to him.
Leo surveyed Chris and said grimly, "He's not going to last long...in fact, if somebody doesn't find him soon, he'll be dead."
((()))
Bianca, Mel, Colin, and Prue sat in the attic, drying their tears. Little did they know that past Phoebe and Paige were there in the corner with them, wishing that they could comfort their children, too.
Bianca was pacing back and forth now. "You guys, we don't have time for this...right now we have to stop Wyatt. And to do that, we need Chris."
"You heard Aunt Phoebe and my mom, they said that Chris would be back. They said to just give him some time, that's all." Mel repeated their words but didn't sound all too confident on the matter herself.
"It's not just that we need him to defeat Wyatt, it's more than that. Chris is alone, and, well, you guys saw Leo. He's pissed. He might get Chris or something and I don't want to lose him—he may not actually be my brother but he's my best friend," Bianca said softly, "sometimes more than that."
If it had been two days earlier, when they first arrived, Phoebe would've expected to hear Colin's mocking song about Bianca and Chris, but no song came. He was utterly silent, sitting on the window seat and staring at the ground. "I can't believe he watched her die," he said after a minute or so. "I've never seen anybody die before."
"Yeah, well trust me, Col; it isn't pretty."
A bolt of lightning flashed visibly out side the window, followed by a great rumbling of thunder. Colin jumped off the window seat in fright.
"I hope he's indoors," said Prue, voicing everyone's thoughts. Her eyes welled with fresh tears. "Why did Aunt Piper have to die?" she sobbed.
Bianca walked over to her cousin (technically speaking) and wrapped her in an embrace. "It was just her time, honey, but it'll be fine. We're gonna be fine." She forced a smile. "We have Chris and Paige and Phoebe to take care of us, nothing bad will happen."
Suddenly she jumped up. "Chris," she breathed. "I don't know how to explain it, but I can feel it...he needs me. Stay right here, I'll be back."
She shimmered away, coming back seconds later with an unconscious Chris.
Piper and Leo orbed in after her, unseen.
"Chris! Chris, wake up!" Bianca pleaded. Her eyes flashed to the stairs. "PHOEBE! PAIGE! CHRIS IS BACK, WE NEED YOU!"
Phoebe's footsteps bounded up the stairs and Paige orbed in. "What is it?" asked future Paige. She saw Chris on the floor, sopping wet and bleeding. "Oh my god, no...We can't lose them both! LEO!"
"You can't call him!" Bianca screamed. "HE DID THIS!"
"WHAT!?" future Phoebe exclaimed. "Bianca, stop your nonsense, Chris is hurt and we need—LEO! LEO, PLEASE!"
"He won't come."
"Bianca, please—"
"I'm dead serious, HE WILL NOT COME. He's under a spell that Wyatt cast. Leo's convinced that Chris is evil, which is exactly why he attacked tonight." She determinedly looked up at the sky, shrieking, "ALRIGHT, ANY RANDOM WHITELIGHTER, FEEL WELCOME TO ORB DOWN IN HERE AT ANYTIME!!"
To their shock, an elder orbed in—robes and all. "No ordinary whitelighter can fix this, only an elder can...because only an elder can fix the damage done by another of his kind. Don't count on us coming again; this is a special case, he has a destiny to fulfill, the Angel of Death told us so."
He bent down and healed Chris, orbing away before Chris could see him.
Chris looked up quizzically, expression confused and blank. Once he saw all the red, puffy eyes, he immediately remembered and his heart sank. "Leo..." he mumbled. "Where did he go?"
Just then, the two red-striped demons shimmered in.
"We have been resurrected to redeem our master's faith and pride."
A/N—okay, we all can guess what's next...