CHAPTER IV: BONDING
-"I can ask you the same question" Alexia replied.
-"I was researching on the book. Don't you ever sleep?"
-"Do you?" She asked. She knew he wasn't going to answer "My sister has been kidnapped, I can't go to sleep"
-"My brother has been kidnapped, I can't go to sleep" He copy her.
-"He HE CUTE" She said sarcastically "So...How does it feel when your older brother is a toddler?"
-"Weird, definitely weird. But not as weird as having your mother pregnant with yourself. I keep on thinking how weird its going to be to see myself as a new born."
-"Wow.. it must be kind of spooky, but cool at the same time. Like, you can finally get back at your brother for all the things he did to you, being the older one" she laughed. Chris knew she meant as brotherly stuff, not as "take over the world" kind of stuff.
-"He.He.. yeah I should.. but he is such a cute baby, it's hard"
-"he.. he.. I know what you mean. Alia is the cutest too. You'll see her. It's so hard to get mad at her, or tell her no. She is going to be such a spoil brat!"
-"So where is your mother? If you don't mind me asking. I mean, how come she is not searching?"
-"She died giving birth to Alia"
-"Sorry"
-"It's ok. It was her time, and she left me the most wonderful gift before she left" She smiled.
-"And your dad?"
-"Well, my dad, was also a powerful telepath. She died when I was six. Alia's dad, on the other hand, as I mentioned, is an elder. He had this infatuation with my mom, but when my mom got pregnant, he came with the whole I am an elder and I can't have earthly attachments, or strings.. and whatever crap the elders sell these days, and he disappeared out our lives forever.. not that I care.."
-"I know that tune..." Said Chris with a tragic smile.
-"uh?"
-"My dad is an elder"
-"Really? I am sorry... I mean ...I am sorry that I said something bad about the elders before, did I say something bad?? I probably did... I mean... Well, I must admit. Elders are not my favorite kind of people, specially after what he did to Alia and what they did to Layla."
-"Hey, stop apologizing. We don't like elders here any better. Specially me. I mean, my dad is cool now and everything, but in my real life, he was NEVER there for me. I barely saw him. So I know how your sister feels about her dad. And even though, everything is cool with my dad and all. And it's useful to have a connection with elderland. But...yeah they are not my favorite team either. So Alia's dad and Gideon took your cousin?" She nod "You must hate them!"
-"The worst part...I gotta see Gideon almost every day, it's a hard person to avoid if you teach and live at school. Him, I despise him specially. I mean he seems the type of guys for who the end justify the means... you know what I mean? And he is so arrogant, he always seem to think he can decide everything by himself and he is always right. I don't know.. there is something about his arrogance that gives me the chills..."
-"he is my dad's mentor" Chris laughed.
-"hehe...I try to arrange the situation and I keep on messing it more and more, right? well your dad seemed a lot cooler than his mentor, for what is worth. And I'll remember to keep my mouth shut in front of him"
Chris laughed.
-"With all that love between you and Gideon, how come you ended up living and teaching there?"
-"Well I love teaching there.. I mean, I love the kids and I think knowledge is the key to the future. I just love my job there, so I have to put up with him. Him? I swear, I think he took me in because he is scared of me, like I might do something to him, or like I have a way too scary power. And you know the saying, keep your friends close and your enemies even closer? I swear that guy's favorite book has to be "The prince" by Machiavelli"
-"You really like the guy, don't you?" he said sarcastically.
-"Pff... can't you see I am in love with him?" She answered in the same tone. "So.. is it true, that you left all your life in the future, to come and save your brother from turning evil?"
-"Yeap. Basically"
-"WOW... that requires some guts. And were things that bad? What made you want to come and change it instead of another solution? How was coming to the past?"
-"WOW.. too many questions"
He felt tempted to tell her everything. She had told him so much, so openly. And there was something about her, that it made it easy for him to talk. Besides, he needed friends to talk to, someone outside the family, where the future consequences wouldn't be that bad.
-"So.. let me ask you a question" He said "My brother was super good, the ideal brother, the ideal son. I loved my brother, dearly. I still do, even after all the things he put me through, after all the people he killed. I can't help loving him, for what he was, even if that person is dead. That is why I had to come to the past, and change whatever happened. Cuz I know it wasn't his fault. So the thing is... on my fourteens birthday, my mom got killed. It was hard on all of us. But it was specially hard for Wyatt. But one day, a few days after mom was killed, Wyatt woke up a different person. As you said, his eyes were vacant, dead. It was a zombie in my brother's body. Do you think it might be that this cult thingy, got a hold of him and "woke him" at that time? Though it would make no sense. Cuz there was no threat, no mission. Wyatt didn't obey anybody. He just got insatiable for power"
-"Well, maybe the cult didn't wake him up. Maybe, the combination of the stress and pain of loosing your mother with whatever they did on his head. "Woke" him up, but not completely, or in a different way. Maybe, more than one factor contribute to this unnatural awoken, that mutate it into something different. Or maybe, he was awoken and he was following the orders of the cult, but you never realized and then he became the leader of the cult, so all that power was for the cult. I can not tell you, because I don't know. It's just speculations. For all we know, it wasn't even the cult." She shrug.
-"everything is so hard" He whine.
-"poor sweet heart" She caressed his face. Her eyes got watery "I can only just imagine everything you went through. I am sorry"
And she meant it, with every fiber of her body. He felt she was sorry for him, but not patronizing him. He hated when people felt sorry for him, and make him feel weak. But she was not making him feel that way. She cared about what happened him, but respect him and admire him, for that. Instead of making him feel weak, she made him feel powerful. And that was all Chris needed to start talking and telling her everything. About his nice childhood with the charmed ones, and Wyatt and his cousin. And how everything but his father, was perfect. What a great brother Wyatt was.
Then, the day his mother died, the day Wyatt turned, every death, every pain, every destruction and how much it hurt. His trip to the past, Bianca. The distrust of his family, how hard it was.
He told her, all the relevant points in his life, and how they felt. She reciprocate with hers.
Before they realized, it was way past dawn, and they hadn't even started to work on the case.
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-"Everybody. Breakfast!" They could hear Piper yelling from downstairs.
-"COFFEE...YES YES YES!" Said Alexia
Chris felt horrible for all the memories he had unleash, but on the other hand, he felt relieved after the catharsis.
-"Are you sure you are not a psychologist?? Because after all you heard from me and all your advice I am pretty sure you can get your degree right away" He smiled
She looked at him guilty.
-"You are? I thought you were a teacher"
-"I work as a teacher at magic school. And I have a degree as magic school teacher, but in non magical world, I have a degree as a psychologist. I just don't practice. But you could be my one and special patient" She said with the cutest smile, teasingly.
-"Am I one and special?" He said sarcastically
-"A very special gentleman"
-"Shall we mademoiselle, then? Coffee awaits" Chris made a bow and extended his hand in a gentleman manner, with an even cuter smile than hers.
The orbed to the kitchen. Chris pulled her chair.
-"Mademoiselle, please be sited" And he offered her a cup of coffee.
-"Who are you, and what have you done with my nephew?" Phoebe asked Alexia.
-"I don't know" She said with a chuckle "but it's kind of scaring me too"
-"Oh god, one tries to be a gentleman in this family. And that is how they repay you?" He kissed his mom's cheek good morning "What do you think, mom?"
-"I think you are the cutest gentleman ever" She said without really paying any attention to what he was saying "Now, go sit down before your pancakes get cold."
Chris sat down besides Alexia and started taking bites from her pancakes, just to annoy her. She was enjoying that marvelously, and teasing him, laughing and stealing from his pancakes. While fighting, trying to protect her own. Piper mother's instinct kicked to fifth gear automatically. Why they orbed together? Why they were both wearing the same clothes as the night before? when did they became such good friends?
-"Who come you guys orbed down together?" She asked trying to sound a lot less interested than she was.
-"Cuz we woke up earlier and went to hit the book of shadows" pseudo-lied Chris while fighting Alexia in order to get into her pancake.
Phoebe seemed to find the scene adorable, and was smiling non stop while looking at her nephew acting so different than usual. Paige seemed shocked, a little amused, but mostly shocked, wondering if she was still asleep and dreaming. Leo seemed to be delighted by his son's good mood, not so delighted by who apparently was the side kick of his son's mood. Everybody's amusement, made Piper even angrier.
-"And did you guys find anything?" She said a lot more harshly than she intended to.
-"Actually we kind of got caught up talking about our lives, that we didn't research anything. We are soo dumb!" She said kind of annoyed, and she quickly stole a bite of
Chris pancake and stuck her tongue at him.
-"Speak for yourself, cuz I am the brightest ever"
-"Yeah, I can see that" While she manipulate his mind, so he would put both set of pancakes in her plate, and sit in front of his empty plate with his arms cross. "Thank you, brightest guy ever!"
She let go of him.
-"That is creepy, dude! Pancakes, plate" He said, while telekinetically orbed all the pancakes to his plate again.
-"Ok dude," She laughed "we seriously have to focus. We've been playing around all... way too much time" She picked up both plates and washed them. She served herself some more coffee. "Do you mind?" She asked with a smile.
Piper imagined herself, blowing Alexia up. GEE.. it felt good!!
-"of course not, help yourself" She replied with a fake smile.
-"I'll come to do the dishes later. Maybe when you guys are done" She looked at Phoebe and Paige "You can go to magic school. And Chris' dad can go to elderville."
-"And Chris' mom?" Piper asked indignant.
-"Chris' mom is more than welcome to join us. As long as she promise not to have so many intense thoughts towards my way. Because I am doing a great effort to block them, and they are causing me a head ache. So I would really appreciate if you tell me if you have a problem with me.."
Chris grabbed Alexia's hand and they orbed to the attic, leaving the rest of the kitchen speechless. But not for long.
-"We've been playing around all... way too much" Piper mocked Alexia. "Who does she thinks she is?? Get your hands off my son, you tramp!" She said angry.
Everybody laughed.
-"They were just playing, they weren't doing anything! Besides, your son, the baby... is almost 23, I think he has an age, where he should be allowed to play with girls.. you know? And you have to admit, that is not the normal Chris we are use to, so she is good for him." Said Phoebe smiling.
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A while after that, Leo orbed Piper to the attic, on his way to "up there". She found Alexia going through the book, and Chris going through some other book, she presumed he got from magic school.
The both looked a lot more serious than during breakfast. They were researching and reading, not paying much attention to each other. After a while.
-"I know why you looked familiar" Chris bolt out of the couch out of the blue.
-"uh?"
-"You are Alia's sister" Said Chris as if it was a big realization.
-"DAH! I think we already established that, after the third of fourth time, I mentioned my sister's name was Alia"
-"Not little Alia, BIG Alia"
-"what are you talking about, Chris?"
-"I mean Alia, in my time. I don't know how I didn't think about it before. But you are my time's grown up Alia's sister"
-"Well, yeah, one would expect my sister to grow up. As much as I would like to keep her as a little baby. So how is YOUR Alia, from the future?"
-"Alia? She is super cool. She is the strongest telepath in the resistance, though she can't control minds like you, she can orb and she can heal, instead" He thought about it for a few seconds and then said " She talks about you all the time, now that I think about it"
-"Yeah.. I honestly don't know which power my sister is going to have at twenty five. He is three right now. She talks about me all the time? Cool!" Said Alexia Proud. "And where am I?"
He avoid her glance.
-"I am sooo dead. Right?" She kind of laughed.
-"You don't mind?'
-"You are going to change the future, remember? And if I have to die...well.. it would be my time. I am not going to whine about it now!"
-"yeah I am sorry.. you are actually one of the martyrs of the resistance. Your death saved a lot of lives, if that makes you feel any better!"
-"Yeah.. cool.. is great to know that at least I was of help... Wait.. did you and Alia.. ever.. you know.. Ewww...?"
-"Were together? No.. I had a huge crush on her when I was like sixteen, but she didn't pay any attention to me. She said I was too young... as ironically as that might sound now"
Alexia couldn't help smiling.
-'Well, you are too old now! Mister, so keep your hands off my sister!"
"And you, keep your claws off my son, you tramp" Thought Piper.
-"you have a thing for older women, right?" Piper asked her son, half amuse, half still didn't liking his baby with any girl. "Bianca, Alia. Should I expect you to ever bring a girl your age home?" She said teasingly.
-"Well.. what can I say? I am very mature for my age."
-"Yeah.. we can tell that" Piper answered sardonically, laughing.
At that moment Paige and Phoebe orbed in with tons of books.
-"Well, is nice to see you in a better mood, Piper. Here, we have a lot to entertain ourselves. This is all we could find that might be related"
They spent the next 3 hours going through the books. Leo had already orbed in and was helping.
-"I think I found it!" Said Alexia jumping up and down. "This is how the people in Alexia's mind looked like."
Everybody went to look. She was looking at an old history book from magic school.
"The zervins cult. An extinct cult, it functioned around the 1500, their intention was to conquered the world and where looking for absolute power, they didn't believe in the existence of good or evil, all that matter to them was power . They would kidnap magical children, that came from powerful families. They would have the kids undergo some sort of training or brain wash, for a little over a week. After that, The kids were reinserted into their families with no apparent damage. Until the order decided it was time to fit their purpose, in which case they would call them, with their secret call. The child's brain got possessed by the order and they would follow the cult's leader in whatever they were ask for. With no recollection of their old lives. This way, the cult would have influence over the most prominent magical families and beings. The way to vanquish them, its eliminating all their members, that since they are formerly abduct children, might posses various magical powers. None one has attempted to make a spell, to reverse the effect of the brain wash."
-"Superb!" Said Alexia sarcastically
-"Well, they look pretty alive to me, to be extinct" Said Chris in the same tone "What are we going to do.. go around asking if anyone has seen a extinct cult?"
-"I LOVE THE OPTIMISM OF THE YOUTH!" Paige cried keeping up with the sarcastic tone, she was the sarcastic in the family.. and this people were stealing it from her!
-"I'll go up there to see if anyone has heard of something" Leo Orbed out.
-"I'll go down there to see if anyone has heard of something" said Chris, starting to orb out
-"How cute.. he used the same words as his dad" Said Phoebe.
Chris rematerialize himself.
-"you have serious mental problems, you know that, right?" He said teasingly to Phoebe.
-"Hey, wait. I'll go with you. After the other time, I already kind of built myself a reputation down there" Alexia told him
-"Yeah.. as the girl that makes the demons smack their own heads into the wall?" Chris laughed.
She grabbed his hand, laughing.
-"Probably" As they orbed away.
-"AHH probably" Piper Mocked her when they were gone "Didn't I say.. get your hands off my son, you tramp!?"
Phoebe laughed.
-"And I am the one with serious mental problems?"
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Vamp-Lynette: Of course I LOVE Wayne's world. I say we are not worthy with the whole movement all the time.. LOVE IT.. thanks.. I hope you like this long chappie too. Yeah, well I actually came home after Halloween, and wrote like 20 pages at once. And I have a lot of free time lately. THANK YOU! I am the one not worthy of such a good reviewer.
Chris always blames himself for everything. He did on the show all time. Everything somehow it was his fault. A natural born Martyr that kid.
Chris is super happy here, so I hope you like him. Even if Wyatt was kidnapped, I don't know.. typing this is what it came out. And what I have of next chapter.. Those two in the underworld. I am like where did this come from?? Even my demons are looking at them like.. dude?? What are you guys so perky about? You are choking me out of air for god sake!
Pukah: No, I haven't written till the 6th chapter. Actually I came back from my Halloween weekend, and I had this whole story on my head, so I typed from chapter II till here in one shot. But I did do an outline for the next like 15 chapters, and I know what is going to happen in like the 10 chapters after that (I know WOOW.. I don't know.. I came with this plot while coming home. And then when I started diving it into chapters, the first third of the story occupied like 15 chapters. And now.. this chapter is actually the length of four chapters. But I thought after dividing it, that it would just make the story too dense) Cuz chappie some funny demon ass kicking and hopefully some more stuff. As for the line in chapter 6. Yeah, I do write random lines when I get the ideas, and just stock them in my word, so I can pulled them out when needed. I actually have a line that is probably going to go in like chap. 25 if I ever get that far.
Ok I hope that answers your question. I am so glad you like my plot and think my story captures the spirit of charmed, I watched a few episodes and I was, hmm that is mainly what is all about. So we have to keep on with the spirit of the show!
And yeah.. if I never comment on truth..., cuz I don't think I did, I still LOVE your story. Its just that I have another nick, and I send you comments with the other. You actually like my other stories too. Or that is what you say :) .
andy20: Ohh chan chan. It is so mean to fool people with people walking up the stairs when its nothing... sorry. But I had to do it... the odds was that it was nothing.. right? THANK YOU SOO MUCH for reviewing, I hope you liked this chappie too. And please let me know. THANKS
CharmingPiper: I read and comment your story. Thank you for sharing it with me! Look for your emails, though I never watch OTH. Sorry, I hope you liked this chappie too. I swear, next chapter sarcastic demon interrogation. Or at least the first part I have written! I really liked it, hopefully I'll still like it when I re read it. I don't know if I smacked a lot of people in this chapter. I think I didn't. But Piper wanted to blow her up, that was funny, or at least for me. But I'll keep in mind you like the smacking. I have a couple of smacking scenes on deck anyways.
son gomay vidal goku: Thank you, I hope you like this chapter too. : ). No, Prue is not going to be on the trip to the past. But, if you want to, I can bring her in as a whitelighter. Between reading your review and writing this, I thought of a very cute/funny scene for Prue to come back as a whitelighter. So let me know if you want me to do it, and I will in a few chapters. Also, I don't remember that much about Prue's personality, so if you could give me the brief version of her personality and any key thing I have to remember I would really appreciate it. So.. let me know what do you want me to do.
AHH I checked you bio.. GEE... that is a LONG bio. Is the genesis in fan fic.! Jonas married Rachel and they had ... (yeah.. I don't remember the genesis and you appeared to be very catholic, so I don't remember the names in the genesis, forgive me).