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Reviews from Chapter 7 that I never got to answer:
OTHCharmedFreak: Very enthusiastic there. You're my kind of gal.
freakygirl: Awesome? Gee, thanx!
sailorwind: (Chapter 6 review) I know, seriously! I mean, the manor has a lot of rooms, but only three bedrooms and, what, two bathrooms? I mean, that's insane! Well, maybe in the olden days they thought that a house of that size should be called a manor. In the olden days, people weren't that smart. Lol. And, yes, Bianca's learning that now that she's a part of the Charmed family, she has to give up things. Just like every other member. (Chapter 7 review) Well, I said that the three boys were best friends right after Piper died. And, they had been best friends right before Chris came along. But, Chris, Wyatt, and Michael were really not best friends when they were teenagers. But they did care about each other. That's how they got through all the demons and evil and stuff. But, I have to admit, they screwed up The Power of Three more than once. Well, at least Wyatt and Chris did. Lol. : )
piperleo4eva: I like it when you review! I don't care that all your reviews are the same! And, you felt sorry for Chris? Really. I felt more sorry for Michael and Wyatt, but, okay. Sure!
Drewfuller4eva: Yeah! I know! I had so much fun making the two beat the crap out of each other!
Chapter 8 reviews!
ashlee: Nice twist and it added more action? Thanx! That really means a lot to me!
DrewFullerFan4Life: Thanx! And, not much will change. Everyone will think the same of Michael, but his life will be a bit more complicated. You'll know what I mean after this chapter! Enjoy!
Drewfuller4eva: You weren't? Well, neither was I. I hope that was a good thing and you'll keep reading!
ChArMeDcRaZiChIcK: Yeah. Gay guys usually are nicer. That's what I like about them! And, it says a lot about me in a good way? I hope so! And, also, I know what you mean about gay guys not being real realistic on here. But, I know tons of gay and bisexual guys, and they're just the same as a straight guy except for the fact that they date guys. And I'm going to make people understand that through this fic. Because, personally, I'm bisexual, and I just a normal person, too. Anyway, I'm rambling now, aren't I? On to the next review!
Chrissister/Melinda: Thanx!
Raya Halliwell: Thanx. I know I say this to everyone, but that really means a lot to me. Because it was such a huge leap to take, not knowing how people were going to react. So far, I've only gotten one bad review, and hey, if that person doesn't want to read my story because I made Michael gay, then so what? That's their problem. I mean, it isn't like Michael's an actual character. He's just a cool guy a made up! Lol. : )
melissa-p: I could never make Chris gay! I would die if I did! And, I was afraid that I made it a bit obvious that Michael was gay before he told them. Oh well. And, yeah, if gay guys are written just perfectly, they're fun to read about. I just hope that Michael's fun to read about. He won't be in this chapter, but, oh well! : )
OTHCharmedFreak: If you don't want to read my story because Michael's gay, that's fine with me. But know this: Gay people are exactly the same as everyone else. They act the same, dress the same, eat the same. They're just like you and me. And I have no intention of making Michael any different than any gay guy out there. And I will not change this story just for you. A lot of people are happy with the decision I've made, and I am, too. So, go ahead and don't read this story. Because, as you can see by all these replies, a lot of people read this story and I don't care if a lose one reader. Because it doesn't matter to me. Thanx to sailorwind, I write these stories for me and my reader who don't give a damn (in a bad way) if I make one person gay, or kill off another person, or do things that a lot of people hate, not you. Just remember that if nothing else. Yes, you are one of my best reviews, but I just a hunch that a lot more people are coming to replace you.
piperleo4eva: Oh, you're damn right that Michael was soooo cute! I'm talkin about Matt Lawrence on Jumping Ship, baby! God, he was so fine!
WhiteLise: I know? Isn't that weird that people think it's weird to be friends with a gay guy? Just read ChArMeDcRaZiChIcK and OTHCharmedFreak responses and you'll know what I'm talkin about. : )
Mysterious Midnight: Yeah. I love to see Amanda and Bianca beat on their brother-in-law! And the fact that Chris and Wyatt just sit back and watch it happen! Lol. : )
ilovedrew88: Well, I always love, love, love new readers. Hey, you can take over OTHCharmedFreak's spot! Just read their review and/or response for chapter 8, and you'll understand. Anyway, welcome to the family!
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Chapter 9: Emotional Damage
Chris toss and turned a few nights later in bed, his dreams haunting him, unknowing that they always would be.
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Evil Wyatt walked up to Chris slowly. "I'm not gone, little brother. I won't be until I get what I came for."
Chris glared at him. "Kristina killed you. You're never coming back."
"Oh, that's where you're wrong, Christopher. I will come back. And I'll be strong than ever," Evil Wyatt said, smirking evilly before orbing away.
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Chris woke up, gasping. He looked around. "Oh god," he breathed, rubbing his eyes. "I need to stop reading the BOS before I go to bed over a glass of gatorade." He got out of bed quietly and sneaked up the stairs, opening the door slowly, making sure it didn't squeak as to not wake up Bianca. He close the door slowly and telekinetically turned on the lights as Wyatt walked in.
Wyatt looked concerned. "Chris, are you okay?"
"Uh . . . No. Not really," Chris said, sitting down at the table as Michael walked in. "Both you guys are up?"
"Well, we felt your pain. And your fear. And your confusion. And it woke us up," Michael said, shrugging, sitting down next to Chris.
"Right. I forgot. The bond we received when you were eighteen," Chris said, nodding.
"He says that the memories are fresh in his mind and he forgets the most important fact about the three of us," Wyatt said, sighing. "Figures." Then he smiled and sat down on the other side of Chris. "So, what's up?"
"I had a dream," Chris said, staring ahead of him.
"Yeah, Chris, that's usually what you do when you sleep," Michael said, nodding.
Chris looked over at him. "No. It wasn't a normal dream. It was, like, a warning."
"A warning of what?" Wyatt asked, knitting his brow.
Chris forced a smile as he stood up. "Um . . . Nothing to worry about. I can handle it."
Wyatt grabbed Chris's arm and forced him to sit back down. "Chris, we felt what you felt. And if that warning made you feel that way, then we should know. You always tell us, remember? You're the one that has those kinda special dreams once in a blue moon."
Chris sighed. "Are you going to use the fact that I still don't remember everything against me until I do?" he asked, standing up and crossing his arms.
"Chris, you said that you remembered everything that involved Michael and I, and -"
"I did! But why don't you try to sort through twenty-three years of memories in less than a week and tell me how you feel!" Chris yelled.
Wyatt stood up quickly. "Well, the important facts should stick out, Chris! You shouldn't have to dig to find them!"
"The important facts do stick out, Wyatt! Because your Chris felt that everything that went on between you three were the most important things in the world!" Chris yelled before storming out of the room and past Leo, who had just walked in.
"Uh . . . What's going on?" Leo asked, looking from Michael to Wyatt and back again.
"Oh nothing. Wyatt just pissed off Chris," Michael said, shrugging. "God. I don't know how I'm going to be able to get any sleep when I feel these two's emotions! They're driving me crazy! And I'm not even an empath!"
"Block our emotions," Wyatt said, pissed off, facing his younger brother.
"Well, you know what?! I can't! I've forgotten how to because you guys never had this big of emotions without me feeling them, too!" Michael yelled.
Wyatt sighed. "Chris and I will drink some of Aunt Phoebe's temporary empath blocking potion if you want."
Michael sighed. "No. It's okay. I . . . I shouldn't have overreacted. I've just been so stressed lately with Rachel and her being pregnant . . . It's hard to handle," he said, standing up.
"We're here to help. You know that right?" Wyatt asked, raising his eyebrows.
Michael smiled slightly. "Yeah. I know," he said before orbing away.
"Uh, I'm gonna go talk to Chris," Wyatt said, sighing.
Leo nodded. "Yeah. I think that it would be a good idea."
Wyatt nodded, starting to walk past Leo.
Leo quickly put a hand out to stop him. "And, Wyatt, just remember that this life is still new to him. He's only been here a couple months. And he doesn't remember everything. He doesn't know everything about this life with you, and me, and Michael, and your mother, and everyone and everything else. Okay?"
Wyatt nodded. "Yeah, Dad," he said before walking out of the room. He slowly walked into the living room. "Yeah."
"The light's off. How could you possibly know that I was sitting in here?" Chris asked from the dark.
Wyatt smiled slightly, walking over to his brother. "Cause, ever since I can remember, this is were you came when you needed to be alone. We shared a room when we were kids, and we'd get in fights at night, so you'd sit in the dark in here. I never got it. Michael and I were so scared of the dark, but you sat in it for hours at a time," he said, chuckling slightly. Then he tripped over something.
"Wyatt, are you okay?" Chris asked, quickly, standing up.
Wyatt got up slowly. "Uh . . . Yeah. Ow."
Chris grabbed Wyatt's arm and helped him on the couch. "Are you sure?"
"I just hurt my knee. I'm fine," Wyatt said, sighing. "Anyway, back to what I came in here to talk to you about."
Chris sighed. "Wyatt, I really don't want to talk right now."
"Chris, please. Just listen for a minute," Wyatt said pleadingly.
"Fine," Chris said, crossing his arms.
"I'm sorry about the way I acted in the kitchen. It was stupid, and rude, and uncalled for," Wyatt said, looking down at the ground.
"Wyatt -"
Three people showed up in the doorway. "Okay, this is all very nice and touching, but we got bigger problems," Kristina said, her hands on her hips.
Wyatt and Chris quickly looked at the doorway.
"Great. Now you're all here," Wyatt said, rolling his eyes as he stared at Kristina, Future Chris, and Future Leo.
Kristina looked up at Future Leo. "Grandpa, I really think that we should talk to Grandma about this instead, not Dad's past self."
"Well, you know as well as I do that your Dad is the only one who really knows anything about this, so he's the only one who can get the people in this time ready for it," Future Leo said, looking down at his Granddaughter.
Bianca walked up behind the two. "Uh . . . Hi."
Future Chris quickly turned around. "Bianca . . ."
Bianca smiled. "Great. Now all three people from the future are here, not just Kristina."
Leo orbed in. Then he stared at the three visitors. "What -"
"Our future selves are here, Dad. Ain't it grand?" Chris said, standing up.
"Chris, were you sitting in the dark again?" Bianca asked, turning on the light. She chuckled. "You really gotta stop doing that every time Wyatt pisses you off."
"Hey, I resent that," Wyatt said, standing up.
"You would," Bianca said, putting her hands on her hips.
Piper orbed in. She smiled, confused. "First of all: Why is everyone awake when it's very, very late. And second of all: Why are Leo and Chris's future selves here, along with Chris's future daughter?"
"Piper . . ." Future Leo said, staring at her, pain in his eyes.
"Right. I'm dead in your time, huh?" Piper said, turning to him. She looked over at Leo. "You mind?"
"Well, he is me, technically, so no," Leo said, smiling slightly.
Piper smiled and walked over to Future Leo, kissing him deeply. Future Leo pulled her close, deepening the kiss.
Future Chris turned to Chris. "Can I do that to Bianca?"
"No," Chris said, shaking his head.
"Yeah, I didn't think so," Future Chris said, nodding.
Piper broke away from Future Leo, smiling, and walked over to Leo, who kissed her on her cheek.
"So, why are you guys here?" Wyatt asked, looking at them, his eyebrows raised.
"Wyatt's not vanquished," Future Chris said.
Chris chuckled. "Wait. What? Kristina vanquished him."
"Apparently she didn't," Future Chris said, turning slowly to Kristina.
"Well, I'm so sorry, Dad, but I did exactly what you told me to do. Show up here and throw the potion at evil Wyatt. I even double checked to make sure that it was the right one like you told me. Although, it wasn't hard to miss. He was icky while the good Wyatt was clean. And he didn't have a tuxedo on, so, yeah," Kristina said, nodding.
"You ramble a lot, don't you?" Wyatt asked, staring at her.
"Yeah. Grandpa says I get it from Dad," Kristina said, nodding as both she and Future Leo walked further into the living room.
Future Chris looked at his father. "I do not ramble."
"Yes you do," Future Leo and Leo said in unison.
"I resent that," Chris said, crossing his arms.
"Can we get back to business here, people?!" Piper yelled.
"Wait. Why was Wyatt in a tux?" Future Chris asked, confused.
"Well, evil Wyatt showed up in the middle of your wedding, right?" Kristina asked.
"Yeah . . ." Future Chris said, still confused.
"Well, so did I. But, don't worry. I didn't ruin it. Evil Wyatt was there before I was," Kristina said, nodding.
"Well, you know what I think?" Michael asked from the doorway.
"You know what's really sad?" Future Chris said, turning to Wyatt and Chris. "He's more of a pain in my ass dead than alive. And I remember how bad he was when he was alive."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Michael asked, crossing his arms.
"That you always have to put in your opinion. It gets really annoying really fast," Future Chris said, his eyebrows raised.
Michael rolled his eyes. "What I think is that we should all go back to bed, then we should talk about this in the morning."
"You know what I think?" Kristina asked, turning to Future Leo. "I think we should get Leona, Michelle, Abby, Amy, Brian and Breanna in this time."
"And why is that?" Future Chris asked, crossing his arms.
"Because they're not safe with Wyatt in our time," Kristina said, crossing his arms.
"Talking about me?" Evil Wyatt asked from the doorway. He smirked as everyone stared at him. Then he telekinetically threw everyone backwards, hitting the wall and each other, then telekinetically picking Chris up and floating him towards himself. "Come back, Christopher. And join me."
"I'll never join you, Wyatt," Chris whispered, glaring at him.
"Then I'll just have to kill you," Evil Wyatt said, shrugging.
"Over my dead body," Leo growled, getting up.
Evil Wyatt looked back at him. "That can be arranged."
Then suddenly he was blown up from behind, and two women and three teenage girls and one teenage boy stood there, smiling.
"Nice aim, cuz," one of the women said, smiling at at one of the teenage girls, who looked a lot like Bianca.
"Thanx," the girl said, smiling. "I'm just too good. Sorta like Grandma."
"Okay, what are you guys doing here?" Future Chris asked, his hands on his hips.
"Well, we figured out that the last time Kristina came here, you handed her the wrong potion, Uncle Chris. And you three came here unarmed. So we decided to help out," the second woman said, crossing her arms.
"Dad, I told you it wasn't my fault," Kristina said, facing Future Chris.
Future Chris smiled and scratched the back of his head. "Uh . . . Oops?"
Then Future Wyatt and Future Michael came running down the stairs.
"You two are . . . alive?" Future Chris asked, smiling. Then he ran towards the two and hugged them tightly.
Future Wyatt and Future Michael smiled.
"Yeah, it's nice to see you, too, Chris," Future Wyatt said, hugging Chris back tightly.
"But we got problems," Future Michael said as Future Chris let the two of them go. "Evil Wyatt may be dead, but we still have to take care of all the demons that worked for him."
"Well, at least we know that he's really dead this time. Cause those two are alive," Kristina said, smiling.
"Yeah. And so is Amanda, and Bianca, and Rachel, and Mom, and the aunts, and the uncles -" Future Michael started.
"Okay, okay. We get it. They're all alive cause evil Wyatt was the one who killed them," Future Chris said, nodding.
"Who are those six people?" Piper asked Kristina, pointing to the four girls and boy.
"Well, they're my cousins, little brother, and little sister. But, no time to introduce. We gotta go," Kristina said before orbing away, her cousins doing the same.
"She lied to us!" Piper said, offended, crossing her arms.
"No. She really didn't," Future Chris said, shaking his head. "Bianca took my youngest kids a long time ago. I didn't think that they were alive, because Bianca turned up missing. But they were. And I'm so, so happy." He smiled and hugged the boy and the teenage girl who blew up Evil Wyatt. "And, as for the other four, we thought that they were dead, too. And we just found all of them when Dad got his sensing ability back. So, she wasn't lying. She was just telling you all what she knew. Anyway, we really gotta get back now." He orbed away, still holding onto his kids.
"Sorry," Future Wyatt said, shrugging, before orbing away with Future Michael.
"I should go," Future Leo said before orbing away.
"Either I have three daughters in the future," Wyatt started, turning to Michael. "Or you have another kid after this one."
"That's not possible. I'm gay," Michael said, chuckling a bit.
"Well, we'll find out in time, now won't we?" Chris asked, smiling.
Amanda walked in. "Hey, guys. What was all that noise?"
Bianca, Chris, Wyatt, Michael, Piper and Leo looked at one another. "Nothing," they said in unison, looking back at Amanda.
"See, I would understand this a lot more if Bianca weren't in this group, cause then it'd be a family thing, but since she is, I don't see why she's in on it and I'm not," Amanda said, crossing her arms.
"Well, Bianca's been part of this family way before her and I started dating. She's been here about eighteen years now," Chris said, looking over at Bianca. "Right."
Bianca smiled. "How'd you know that? Did you remember?"
"Well, Dad kinda told me in a dream the night before our wedding," Chris said, smiling.
"Gee, Leo, you should haunt his dreams more often," Bianca said, smiling at Leo.
"Am I interrupting anything?" Rachel asked from the doorway.
"Uh, no. Wh - What's up, Rach? I haven't heard from you for a few days now," Michael said, slowly walking over to her.
Rachel sighed and looked down at the ground. She looked back up at Michael, smiling slightly, tears slowly making their way down her face. "Yeah. I know. I'm really sorry. I just had to work everything out in my head. I had to sort out my feelings. And, after all that sorting, I've come to a conclusion."
Everyone stared at her, waiting in the suspense.
"I'm so sorry, Michael. But I don't want you to see our baby after it's born. I just want you to stay away and stay out of my life," Rachel said through her tears before running out the door into the rain.
"Rachel, wait!" Michael yelled, running after her. He stood just beyond the steps as he watched her drive away, the rain covering up the tears that were streaming down his face.
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Wow. That was an emotional ending for me. I think it's partly because I just watched Tiger Cruise on Disney Channel, and that got me so emotional, that I started crying and couldn't stop. I mean . . . I don't know. Plus there's the fact that I'm also a very emotional person. But, I feel really bad for Michael right now. Poor guy. Anyway, review please! Ciao!
Hannah