DISCLAIMER TWO: I DO NOT OWN THE DIALOGS THAT ARE ON THE Episode 6.19 Crimes and Witch-Demeanors (the dialogs will be between
C/W C/W
CHAPTER V : PAST CRIMES.
A week later.
C/W Chris orbed into the manor.
-"There is the book, do you mind?" He asked
-"No.. knock yourself up" Said Phoebe
-"I've been working on some demonic connections. I think I have a new theory on who might have be trying to turned Wyatt evil"
-"oh A new theory.. what is that.. like the third one this week?" Said a sarcastic Paige.
-"what are you keeping score now?" Chris got angry
-"She is just grumpy, cuz she hasn't had her coffee yet" Phoebe helped her sister.
-"I am not grumpy... ok, maybe a little. But you have to admit you had a lot of different theories lately and none of them has panned out"
-"That's why they called them THEORIES" Explained Chris
-"Do we even get along in the future?"
-"How is piper, have you seen her?" Phoebe decided to save the sarcastic, smart ass pair.
-"She is good.. eh.. big. You know, I keep thinking how weird is going to be, to actually see myself being born"
-"And how is Leo?"
-"Leo.. I donno.. haven't seen him"
-"That is cuz you are avoiding him still, aren't you? Chris, he is your father, you have to talk to him. How are you going to change anything in the future if you don't?"
-"That is not the future I came back to change, Thanks." He said orbing out. C/W
Chris orbed in and started pacing frenetically.
Was that really a part of a future, he didn't came to changed? He really didn't care if he solved things with his dad? But thing were beyond solution, he just should stop thinking about it. But he couldn't. He hated when they reminded him of all that. Why do they keep on trying so hard to make him forgive his dad..Leo? It was killing him, and it wasn't fair, they hadn't live what he did, they didn't suffer the way he suffered. It was just not fair!!
-"Everything is fine, Chris?" Asked victor concerned.
-"yeah. It's nothing!"
-"Are you sure, cuz I bet that's not what the big hole you are leaving in my carpet is going to think. Anything you want to talk about?"
There was something about his grandfather that always made him want to open up.
-"Phoebe, Paige... they are complaining that I am avoiding Leo"
-"That is probably because you ARE avoiding Leo"
-"And you think that is wrong? Everybody thinks I should forgive him, but...it's not that easy!!"
-"Nobody thinks its easy, Chris. And we don't think we should forgive him. We think you should give him a chance. Leo is not the man he will be, and he is trying"
-"But.."
-"Look Chris, I know you always wanted a father, and you didn't have it. But now is your chance to have him, why do you wanna blow that chance?"
-"I don't want a father. I don't need a father. I was raised fine without one"
Victor threw him a disbelief look.
-"I know its hard Chris. But look at me... I was an awful father myself. And if my kids wouldn't have given me another chance, we wouldn't be here right now. Sometimes, second chances are a good thing. Besides, you give yourself a chance now, and you are giving your mini self a chance, of maybe, not having to relive all the pain you went threw"
-"It won't work, it's not that easy. Grandpa."
-"Yes, it is. If it's not, tell me, what happened? Why it's not that easy?"
Chris looked at him embarrassed. He didn't know what to say, what to think. So he did what he always did in a situation like this. He orbed out.
-"magical families can be so annoying sometimes" Laughed Victor.
And he had bought his grandson a lot of new clothes. Did he really needed to go around in the orange version of a little house in the prairie, male pajama? (A/N: Ok... yeah that t-shirt is hideous, come on!)
That night Victor waited up, he knew his grandson. He knew he wasn't going to let his feelings affect his work, but he also had came to realize, that despite popular belief and besides Chris' own belief, talking about it, made Chris feel better.
Around two am, he heard, the now familiar, sound of incoming orbs.
-"Chris!"
-"Grandpa, are you still up? What are you doing? Were you waiting for me?" Victor heard in his voice a mix of happiness and exasperation. But on the other hand, surprisingly, Chris mainly sounded as if he was use to this.
-"yes, I did. I thought you might needed someone to talk. Come and have a cup of tea with you old grandfather, will you?" Saying that, made Victor felt really old.
-"There is nothing to talk about" He used his favorite slogan once again, while he walk to prepare some tea for his grandfather and himself.
Victor smiled as he watch him move around the kitchen preparing everything, he loved his grandson so much, he was so generous and giving. It was just hard to see it, because he was force to shut his emotions since he was a kid, and pretend to be a lot tougher than he was. But just the fact that he left everything to save his brother, and not even a nice brother, and evil brother, showed it.
But at this moment, he was mainly thinking how much Chris looked and acted like his mother. Specially now, that he was in the kitchen. He chuckle.
-"What?" Asked Chris.
-"I donno, I was thinking how much you look like your mother physically, and being so clean and working in the kitchen, and all bossy like you are, and stubborn, you are so much like your mom, its amazing"
-"Well Gee... should I consider the bossy and stubborn as part of the compliment?"
Victor looked at him like, "Dude, I didn't made you. I just tell the obvious".
-"Yeah, everybody always said that I looked like mom" He said with a sad smile.
-"It's that bad?" Victor asked shocked.
-"No.. not really, except that that, pushed a lot of people away from me, because they would see her, when they looked at me, and they couldn't handle it."
-"Like your dad?"
-"I donno, that is what Paige said. That is what happened to her, after mom died. It was so hard for her to see me, she said every time she would see me, she would see mom. And it made her so sad." Chris looked sad "But I guess, its just probably as Wyatt said. Every time they looked at me, they just remembered that I failed them, that I couldn't save mom, that it was my fault. That mom was dead because of me." He became cold and uncaring again.
-"Oh my god. That brother of yours was cruel! You cant feel guilty for what happened to your mother. It was not your fault, and I don't think anybody else thought it was"
-"Yes, it was. I was there, and I couldn't save her. I made my dad abandon me, and then I made my mom abandon me too. And I was left all alone, and it was MY FAULT" Tears were clouding his vision.
-"NO CHRIS. You tried, you are not superman. You tried and you couldn't save her. Those things happen, its not your fault at all. On the contrary, Chris. You tried to help her, and it's terribly unfair, that any fourteen year old boy has to watch his mom died in front of him. You were fourteen, you just couldn't save her"
-"Wyatt would have been able...That is what he told me, over and over again. He would have been able to stop him. I was nothing, I was scum and a disgrace to the family, cuz I couldn't save her. Loosing mom was what threw an already, not that stable Wyatt into insanity. And its all my fault. It's my fault that dad didn't want to see me any more, its my fault that mom died, and it's my fault that Wy went crazy, because I couldn't save mom"
-"Christopher.. you can NOT live with all that in your conscious, it's not YOUR FAULT. None of it. You didn't kill your mom, you didn't push your brother into insanity. Those things just happened and you were as much of a victim as anybody else, or more. And I don't know what happened with your dad, but I bet it wasn't your fault" He went and hugged his grandson.
He looked so tiny and frail, he was thin and breakable, he just probably hadn't had the chance to actually let him self relax and brake in so long. Always carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, and the guilt of destroying his family on his heart. And that must had been real hard.
-"Do you hear me Chris, IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT! OK?"
-"Grandpa... I missed you so much some times. You are the only to whom I can tell everything and really listen. You are the only one that can make me feel, that I am not the worst scum in the universe."
Victor looked angry at his grandson.
-"Kid, I might not be a powerful magical being, but if I EVER, ever hear you calling yourself like that again, I swear I'll knock you down, ok? You are a GREAT kid, and I am extremely proud of you, and your mom is extremely proud of you, and your dad, and your aunts. So don't you dare say something like that again, ok?"
Chris hugged him again.
-"I love you grandpa. Sometimes I just forget what you told me so many times already, and I need to hear it again. Cuz sometimes it gets hard, and I need you to remind me, that it wasn't my fault, that people still love me , that it's still worth it, that I AM still worth it."
-"We all love you, a lot Chris, and you are more than worth it. And I will always be here to remind you, of what a wonderful person you are. I just wish I could make your life, less hard. It's so unfair that you had to go through all that, kiddo! I wish I could just start punching all the people that hurt you. You just didn't deserve all that pain in your life" Victor eyes were misty, he meant every word he said. He had loved Chris since day one, but the more he knew him. The more he loved him, and he would have done anything for his amazing 22 year old grandson.
-"Thank you, grandpa. But it's ok, I always had you there, to make things less hard for me" Chris, was actually crying.
-"So tell me, what happened today that you've been in such an emotional mood?"
-"Actually not that much. Paige and Phoebe were on trial for misused of their magic. And Dad and mom trick me, so I could help Leo" He was smiling
-"Hehehe.. they trick you to do that, that is funny!" He chuckle.
-"NO. It's not. Leo made mom call me. And when I came, there he was"
-"Well it's not like you would have gone if he would have called you! Besides, you are loving it kid. Something deep, deep inside of you, it's so happy that your dad went looking for you. It's so happy that your Dad ask for your help. Admit it"
-"NO"
Victor looked at him like "WHATEVER"
-"ok, Ok, maybe a little. But anyways... so we are researching all this possibilities and thinking about different theories, and D..Leo...wouldn't listen to a word I say. I mean, why would the dude, went into all this trouble to get me to help him, if he is not going to listen to what I have to say? But whatever...it's Leo, it's stupid of me to pretend something different!."
-"No Chris, it's human to pretend something different. Because he is not Leo, he is your dad!"
-"Anyways.. at the end, I figured out something that almost solved the case, though Paige also helped, but the dude was like.. see I knew we could work together. When he didn't do anything! The only good thing, is that he admitted he was a terrible father in the future"
-"And that you proved your Dad that you were smart and you can solve a case, and that maybe will make him proud of you, and he'll pay attention next time, right?"
-"I didn't say that! I don't care"
-"yeah it shows! All you talk its about your father, you almost called him dad so many times, Chris, you care, and it's fine!"
-"No its NOT. Cause HE doesn't !! And that hurts" His eyes were watery again.
-"Of course he does"
-"NO!! He doesn't "
-"Chris.. If I tell you a secret, you promise you won't get mad?"
-"What?"
-"Promise me" Victor felt like a five year old. But hell might run loose when he told Chris, Leo had been there when he was unconscious the week before.
-"Shoot, ok, ok. Now tell me"
-"Well...remember last week when you asked me how you got from the car to your bed, after we came back from the hospital?" Chris nod "Well.. your father orbed you to bed"
-"WHAT??"
-"He appeared in front of us. He said he had been coming to watch you sleep almost every night since you move in. He probably still does. Since you won't let him come near you when you are awake. And then, you were having a night mare, and he try to comfort you, and you heard his voice, and said something like "DAD.. please don't leave me, again" and you grabbed his hand and wouldn't let him go."
-"No I didn't" Chris said angrily.
-"You know you did, why would I lie Kiddo? The point is, you wouldn't have acted like that of you didn't care, and he was VERY concern about you! So what happened with your father, Chris?"
-"I told you, he wasn't there when I needed him. He abandoned me."
-"Care to elaborate your answer a little more?"
Chris stared at the wall, and started talking, as if he was talking to himself.
"Mom always said, that when I was little I was crazy about dad..."
A/n: was that evil? I hope.. next chappie. What happened between Leo and Chris.
Lex: This is the author of discoveries in the torture cell. So, you actually read my stories with Grandpa, or at least one of them. If you want to read more Chris-Wyatt bonding, I don't know if you read When two lives collide, that was my first fan-fic (written under Icantthinkofafnick) I love that fic personally.
Yeah they will be more Leo, and Piper and everybody I guess. The thing is this story is following the storyline of season six, so Chris doesn't start being nice to Leo until Witchwars. I hope you liked this chappie too. And THANKSSSS for all your support.
Vamp-Lynette : Yeah I owe you the magic recipe. It will come! I have to.. cuz of course I love those aww things.. look at my story!! The thing is this story is following the storyline of season six, so Chris doesn't start being nice to Leo until Witchwars. Still I hope you liked this chapter too. Thanks for everything, you are the best!