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Professor Wyatt

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Chapter 17 - Father & Son

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"Ouch!" Chris said. It was a couple hours later. Chris was up and sitting on the edge of a hospital bed getting stitches on his forehead.

"I'm nearly done," the young female nurse smiled at Chris.

"So the doctor mentioned a man came here with me. He didn't happen to be some man in a black suit did he?" Chris asked.

"Yes he was. He's waiting out in the waiting room," the nurse said as she finished with Chris. "Do you want me to get him?"

"Umm... Yeah, if that's all right?"

"Not a problem," she smiled at Chris leaving.

A few minutes later Leo walked into the room to see Chris trying to put his jacket on, "Let me help you with that.. Chris." Chris looked up to see Leo coming to wards him. "Your name is Chris right? It's what the doctor told me."

"Yeah it is," Chris told Leo.

"So the doctor tells me your fine as along as you get rest for the next couple of days."

"Yeah."

"So where do you live? I'll drop you home," Leo offered.

"Well I live in San Francisco," Chris told Leo.

"You're a long way from home."

"Yeah well I came here to look for someone."

"Leo Wyatt right?" Leo asked.

"Yeah. You know him?

"You could say I do. Why are you looking for him?" Leo asked.

"Oh it's nothing," Chris said not wanting to tell the stranger why.

"Nothing, you come all the to LA just to see a man about nothing?" Leo joked.

"Well it's not really about nothing. If you know him could you please tell me where he is?" Chris asked.

Leo looked at Chris wondering what a teenager would want with him. He took a deep breath and answered Chris, "I'm Leo Wyatt. You're looking for me."

"You are? Why didn't you tell me?" Chris asked with a questioning look.

Leo saw doubt in Chris' face. Then pull out his wallet getting out his drivers license and handed it to Chris. "It says I'm Leo Wyatt on my drives license." Chris looked at the drivers license that prove to Chris Leo was who he said he was. He noticed his date of birth. Doing his maths Chris figure out this Leo Wyatt was six years older than his mother. Chris handed Leo back his driver license, "So why are you looking for me Chris?" Leo asked.

"Well were do I start," Chris said to himself. "You use to teach English at Collage back in San Francisco right?"

"Yes, I did a very long time ago," Leo told Chris.

"Then you might know a Piper Halliwell?"

Leo paused for a while not knowing what to say about Piper Halliwell, one of his students he had an affair with. "Piper Halliwell was one of my students back then," Leo said.

Chris paused for a while trying to find the right words to tell the man in front of him he was his son. "My mother attend collage there. She was involved with one of her Professors. As a result of that she had me. My mother is Piper Halliwell."

"I'm sorry what?" Leo asked shocked trying to taking in what Chris had told him.

"Piper Halliwell is my mother. Which makes you Leo Wyatt my father," Chris told Leo.

"I'm sorry are you telling me I have a son... That you're my son?"

"Didn't I just tell you that?"

"I never thought that... What I mean is..." Leo paused trying to find the right words to tell Chris, but nothing would come out. "I left your mother not because I didn't love her. I left her because I was afraid what would happen to her if the board officials found out about us. I didn't know she was pregnant when I left... Maybe if I knew things might have been different," Leo explained to Chris.

"I don't know. I just wanted to meet you. I just wanted to meet my father," Chris said looking at Leo in the eyes.

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"COLE!" Phoebe yelled as she unlocked the door to her and Cole's home. She had just come back from the supermarket with her hands full of bags. "COLE!" She yelled again needing help with her bags. Phoebe dropped a couple of bags in the hall way making her way into the dinning room. She place her shopping bags on the table and went back to get the rest. As she walked back with her shopping bags she went to check if anyone left any messages on their answer phone. As she walked over to the phone she found a note left by Cole saying Chris was missing and he was over at Piper's house. Phoebe placed the bags she had on the dinning room table and ran out the house grabbing her keys.

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Leo unlocked the front door to his three story mansion. He walked in switching on the foyer lights and place his keys on the side table near the door. "Well this is home Chris," Leo said to Chris who walked in behind him with his bag.

Chris looked up at the high ceiling to notice a huge crystal chandler sparkle in the light. It was like something he had only seen in the movies. "It's nice," Chris told Leo.

"Leo, you're home," an old lady said dressed in a black maid's outfit.

"Hi Mrs. Bells," Leo said.

"And who might you been?" Mrs. Bells asked looking at Chris.

"This is Chris, he's going to be staying with us for a while," Leo explained.

"Oh I see. Well I'll go and get dinner ready for the both of you and then get the guest room ready for Mr.?"

"It's Halliwell, but please just call me Chris, Mrs. Bells."

"All right then," Mrs. Bells said and then left to wards the dinning room.

Leo turned to Chris, "Just leave your things here and I'll get Howard to take them up to your room when Mrs. Bells has it ready. Why don't we go to the dinning room and have dinner," Leo said leading the way.

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"I don't know. We just had a disagreement the day before. But we've had disagreements like that before. Chris just wouldn't run off like that," Piper explained to Darryl and Andy. All her sister's were there and so was Cole after hearing the news that Chris was missing.

"Piper as a cop Andy and I can't do anything..." Darryl started only to be cut off by Cole.

"What the hell do you mean you can't do anything!?!" Cold yelled.

"We can't unless he's been missing for over 24 hours," Andy explain. "But Darryl and I can do some work that is not really police related by talking to his friends. But even if they know anything we can't really force it out of them."

"I don't care I just want my son back," Piper said in more tears as Prue hugged her sister.

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Leo was heading down the hall to wards Chris' room when he saw Mrs. Bells walking in with fresh towels. "Is Chris in there?" Leo asked Mrs. Bells as they both reached the door.

"Yes he is," Mrs. Bells told Leo. They both walked in to find Chris' bag in front of the bed but no Chris. "I can hear the water running he must be in the shower," Mrs. Bells said has she walked over to the dresser placing the yellow towels on top of it.

Leo noticing Chris' bag walked over and opened it up. He saw his wallet on top and pulled it out. He just wanted to be sure that Chris was who he said he was. He opened his wallet to find normal teenage things like bus cards, school ID, couple of condoms. 'My son is having sex?' Leo thought to himself. He then saw a picture of Chris with a girl his age. She was pretty, but looked a bit like the smart kind, nothing like Chris who had pierced ears, tongue and eye brows from what Leo could see, and always seemed to wear black. Chris had his arms around the girl in the picture. Leo figured it must have been his girlfriend. He then noticed a corner of the picture hanging out under the picture of Chris and his girlfriend. Leo pulled it out to see a picture of Piper, just how he remembered her. She was young in the picture with a toddler who looked like he was trying to walk with Piper kneeing behind him holding his hands. Leo turn the picture over to see writing on the back in what he recognized as Piper's handwriting saying, 'Chris just ten months old and learning to walk. My little baby and the most handsome man in the world just like his father.' Leo laughed to himself at Piper comment. He had all the proof he needed from Chris' date of birth to the picture of Piper. He placed the photo back into the wallet and back into the bag.

"What were you looking at?" Mrs. Bells asked Leo.

But before Leo could explain Chris walked out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. "Chris." Leo said caught a bit off guard by Chris.

"Leo," Chris said. Leo narrowed his eyes a bit hearing his son call him by his name but Leo let that past since Mrs. Bells was in the room.

"Well it's getting late so I'll let you go to bed. Sleep well," Leo said heading for the door.

"You too," Chris said as Leo was about to close the door behind him and Mrs. Bells. Leo smiled at Chris and then shut the door heading down the hall to the living room with Mrs. Bells.

"So who is this young man?" Mrs. Bells asked taking a seat on the couch.

Leo poured two glasses of gin with tonic and handed a glass to Mrs. Bells, "Who is Chris? That's a good question." Leo said standing in front of the fire burning in the fire place.

"Well what did you find out about him from going through his things?"

Leo turned his head to face Mrs. Bells. "Chris is special child Mrs. Bells," Leo tried to explain.

"Well Leo every young child you have brought home are special. You've helped them and they have gone off the do greater things in this world," Mrs. Bells said. Leo being a lawyer of a well known firm had defended a number of kids who started life on the wrong foot. He brought most of them to his home and looked after them for a while and put them back into school. After a while they moved to the Holden Center which Leo build 15 years ago for homeless and abused children to have another chance in life. His parents always though it was to fill the empty space in Leo's heart of the fact that he never had children. In some ways it was but it was also the thought of knowing he made them happy and brought a smile to their face was the biggest gift Leo had ever got which made it all worth it.

"Remember how I use to teach English at collage some years ago in San Fransisco?"

"Yes, many many years ago Leo," Mrs. Bells said remembering after a year Leo returned back.

"I told Mom and Dad I left because it wasn't what I wanted to do, but that wasn't the truth. Truth was I meet someone. She was young but we got on really well. Piper, that was her name, we started seeing each other not long after we meet. I remember how I was very attracted to Piper after a couple times of meeting her. Piper was so kind and caring, she had a big heart and she loved to cook. We started seeing each other and it was only a matter of time before Piper and I were in love. We were together for just about a year but we also knew we couldn't have a future together."

"Why is that?" Mrs. Bells asked confused.

"Because Piper was one of my students."

"Oh!" Mrs. Bells said in shock. After all this was Leo and Leo had never broke a law in his life, well so she thought.

Leo looked at the expression on Mrs. Bells face, "I know what you're thinking."

"So why did you leave her? Did you get caught or something?" Mrs. Bells asked.

"No. One day Dan came over and walked in on us."

"Oh I see," Mrs. Bells said letting out a little laugh to lighten the mood.

Leo let out a little laugh too but it disappeared at the thought of his brother Dan. "Later that day Piper had returned back to my place picking up some books that she had left behind early that day but I wasn't home, Dan was. When I return back home I found Dan trying to force himself on Piper as she was screaming at him to get off her, but Dan was a lot stronger than her. I through Dan across the room not realizing I had but the fact the he tried to hurt her, I just lost all sense of time and space. That night all I could think of was what would of happened if I didn't forget my wallet. I was at the supermarket and half way through my shopping I remember I left my wallet on the table near the door, that's why I came back home that day. After thinking what could have happened it also made me realized what could happened to Piper if it was ever found out about us. I did want her to go through that. I didn't care what happened to me, all I cared about was what was going to happen to her. Which is why I ended it and left."

Mrs. Bells walked up to Leo and hugged him, "You did the right thing Leo. Even though it may have hurt to break her heart but you didn't take away everything she had work for," Mrs. Bells said as a couple of tears escaped Leo's eyes. They parted from their hug and Mrs. Bells took Leo's hand in hers, "So the young man upstairs?" Mrs. Bells asked.

"He's my son. When I left Piper I didn't know she was pregnant."

Mrs. Bells smiled at the thought that Leo had a son and told Leo, "That was faith." Leo smiled at Mrs. Bells. "Well you better get some sleep. You have have a whole day ahead of you with your son tomorrow."

Leo and Ms. Bells headed up stairs and went to their own ways to their bedrooms. Leo closed his bedroom door behind him. He walked over to the side table near his bed opening the top draw. He pulled out a picture in a frame. It was the picture of him and Piper which was form years ago when they took that romantic trip to Fiji. Leo then picked up his cell phone and dialed the operator. "Hi I'd like the number to a Piper Halliwell in San Fransisco," he asked.

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Next Chapter will be about Leo & Chris bonding and Leo & Piper. I thought Leo and Chris made a great team when they got on well and when they were fighting on Charmed.

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