Disclaimer: Ha! I own Drew! Now he's mine! – At least in my dreams…
Jenny and Shina: Thanks for your nice reviews! I love it to read them! And Shina you're right, season 6 without Chris wouldn't be the same… I'll miss him so in season 7… Anyway here comes…
Chapter 4
It was night and Chris was walking through the Golden Gate Park. He had done it for half an hour and he was getting frustrated. Before he had left the manor he had scried for a demon and this was the place where he should have been. But there was no sight of a demon. Chris sighed and was about to orb away as he heard a yell. Alarmed he ran into the diraction where it had come from.
He soon arrived on a meadow where he saw two people fighting against each other. First he just watched them but as one of them raised his hand and a energy ball flew through the air, he stepped out of the forest he had been hiding. The second person, a girl as he could see now, ducked and tried to puch the demon in the face but he grabbed her hand and turned it to her back. Then he pulled out an athame and hold it to her throat.
Chris quickly orbed to the girls side, grabbed her hand and reappeared a few metres away. The girl pulled her hand furiously out of Chris'. The demon looked up surprised as his victim had disappeared. As he saw her and Chris standing in front of him he once again sent an energy ball in their direction. Chris waved his hand and sent it back so it hit the demon and vanquished him.
Then Chris turned to the girl. Her body was shaking, but not from fear. She was really angry. "Why did you do that?" she asked him loudly.
Chris looked at her surprised. "What? Saving your life?"
"I would have handled this without you!"
"I don't think so" he responded. He frowned. Somehow he thought he know this girl. But he couldn't say from where. To his big surprise the girl suddenly punched him in the face with a force he didn't thought this girl had. He stumbled back in disbelief. She gave him a deadly glare and turned to walk away.
"Hey! Wait!" Chris shouted after her.
She turned around. "Let me alone. For your own sake" she said and started to walk away again.
But Chris didn't gave up. He ran after her and grabbed her arm. Then he turned her around and forced her to look into his eyes. Then for the first time this night he saw the whole face from the girl and it hit him. The Newspaper! This was this girl Phoebe had been talking about three weeks ago.
"Let me go. Or you'll regret it" she threatened.
"I know who you are. Your name is Lindsay Preston" he said in a try to calm her down.
"Thanks for telling me. But I've already known what my name is" she responded coldly and and pulled away from him once again.
"Listen. I don't wanna harm you. I'm not a demon…" he tried to explain but she cut him off.
"I know. You're a wightlighter. But somehow you have also wiccan powers. Which I can't really understand but it doesn't matter. I just wanna go."
She turned to leave and this time Chris let her go. If he would bring her to the manor and she would tell the sisters that he has also wiccan powers, they would be suspicious again. And he had the feeling they finally started to trust him. Or let's say Phoebe and Paige started to trust him. Piper still refused to believe him anything and Leo was… well Leo. Chris would never get along with him, he was sure about that. After a last look at the girl that just disappeared in the forest he orbed away.
Once Lindsay was in the forest and sure the young man couldn't see her anymore she turned to look back. She only saw the blue orbs as he disappeared. She sighed. This had been weird. The demon had almost killed her and even if she had told this wightlighter that she would had handled it she wasn't sure about it.
She knew he had saved her life but as he had said that aloud she had been getting angry. She wasn't weak. She didn't need anyones help. Even not from a hot guy who… Wait. Had she just thought hot guy? Come on Lin. You have to concentrate. She couldn't think about this man as a hot guy. He was a wightlighter. And obviously also a witch. This fact confused her.
There were only two people in the world who are half wightlighter, half witch. Paige Matthews, one of the Charmed Ones and Wyatt Halliwell, the son of a Charmed One. She wondered who the hell this guy had been. But it doesn't matter. He was using magic, the thing that she hate most in the world. She had to get him out of her mind. A thing, she realized, was harder to do than to say.
"So, Jason is here this weekend?" asked Piper while drinking her coffee.
"Yes. And that's the reason I have to go now" Phoebe answered and stood up from the kitchen counter. "I don't think I'll come home tonight." She added and turned to walk out of the kitchen as Chris appeared in front of her.
Phoebe jumped. "God, Chris! You scared the hell out of me!"
"I'm sorry. I just…"
"If this is about demons I'm already gone" Phoebe cut him off.
"No no. I just want to talk to Piper."
"Oh." Phoebe looked back at Piper who didn't seemed happy about the sight of a nice little chat with Chris. "Then have fun you two" she said grining and walked away.
There was awkward silence before Piper finally asked. "What do you want?"
Chris sighed. He didn't know how he should ask her because he know she still didn't like him. But this was very important. "Er… Listen. I know you don't like me and you don't want me around here. But I would like to ask you for a favor" he started quitely.
Piper didn't respond. Great. This was so Chris-like. If he comes around then it was always about demons. And now he was starting to ask for favors. Since Leo was more here she wasn't so angry with him like before, but still… she didn't trust him. She looked him straight in his eyes. "What?" she asked with an indifferent look.
"Well I'm runing out of money and…" he began but Piper cut him off in disbelief.
"You gonna ask me for money?" That she really hadn't expected.
"No! Just… can I stay here?" Now it was out. Chris knew it was dangerous and really not a good idea to stay so close to the sisters but he had no other choice. He can't buy hotel rooms forever and he didn't know many other comfortable places.
Piper frowned. "What do you mean with stay here? We already know we can't fire you as our wightlighter…"
"No that's not what I meant. I meant stay in the guest room in the manor." As he saw the look on Pipers face – which wasn't a nice one – he added "Just for the nights. You'll not even notice I'm here. Please!"
Piper was stunned. Now it was her turn to be speechless. She understood why Chris was asking this but still she didn't want him around so often. Especialy not in the night when no one could look after what he's doing. And he would always be in Wyatts nearness. One thing she had been trying to avoid in the last two months.
Chris who saw her hesitate tried it again. "Look. It really wouldn't be so bad like you imagine it. I mean in fact it doesn't even matter cause I can always orb in and out – even in the night. And when I'm here I can also protect Wyatt better!"
That again. Since Chris had arrived he always talked about a threat, he know about from the future, to Wyatt. Piper didn't know what to think about it. On one side she didn't trust Chris, but on the other side she didn't want to put her son into danger by ignoring this warning. She looked at Chris who looked back at her with pleading eyes.
"Er… I don't know. I mean…" she stuttered still uncertain. Then a tought hit her mind. "Wait! The P3! You can stay in the store room. I've put a couch in there a few years ago. This must be enough."
"Yeah okay. Thanks." Chris said and orbed away. Piper couldn't help but felt a bit guilty. He had looked very disappointed at her response. But he really couldn't expect her to welcome him with open armes in the manor. She shook her head. There is no reason to feel guilty. She stood up and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Paige closed the door behind her and her new boyfriend Richard. She grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him to the bar from P3. There they began to kiss passionate. They stood there for a while and Richard was about to pull Paiges top off as they heard a door open. Quickly they pulled apart and looked to the store room. Chris was walking out of it but froze as he saw them.
"Chris!" Paige gasped. "What are you doing here?"
"Er… I'm moving in" he answered a bit emberrassed as he realized what they where up to.
"Moving in?" Paige repeated confused.
"Yeah. Piper said that I could use the store room to sleep while I'm here."
"You want to use the store room of a club to get some sleep?"
"Well what are you doing here?" he responded grining and ignoring her sarcastically question.
Paige blushed. She looked at Richard then she said "Richard, this is Chris. Chris – Richard."
Richard hold out his hand to shook Chris'. Chris took it. "Yeah I know you."
"What?" Richard seemed confused. He was pretty sure he didn't know Chris.
Chris smiled. "Nothing. Forget it. So, I better leave so you can be alone a bit." With that he orbed away and reappeared in the attic from the manor. He was still smiling about the fact that Paige obviously had met her future husband, but his smile disappeared as he saw Leo standing in the doorway. He sighed and went over to the book of shadows, completely ignoring Leo.
"Do you recognize that?" Leo asked and hold out the necklace Chris had once took from the guard from Valhalla.
Chris looked at it for a second then he turned his attention back to the book. "Yeah sure. The Valkyries wear this" he said calmly.
"Right. But this one is from a dead Valkyrie. You don't know something about this that you wanna tell me?" asked Leo and raised his eyebrows suspicious.
"No" Chris answered simply and orbed away before Leo could ask anymore questions.
Lindsay was lying on the meadow where she had fought the demon yesterday night. The sun was shining on her face and she had her eyes closed. She tried to relax and fight the habit to keep her eyes open everytime. But this was not the only thing she was fighting. Again and again the face of this mysterious wightlighter appeared in her mind. As hard as she tried she can't forget his beautiful green eyes.
She sighed angrily. Damn it. Forget him. Even if she would like him she didn't think she'll see him again. And there are more important things she had to think about. For already five years now she searched for this demon who had killed her mother. It was now eight years ago that this had happened and she still wasn't over it. But she didn't want to think about her mother or this witghtlighter. She had to concentrate on finding this demon.
She opened her eyes and wanted to stand up but she found herself looking directly at the face of the mysterious wightlighter from yesterday. He was leaning over her and smiled. Lindsay just stared at him. Was he here because he knew she would be here? But this was nonsense. Why should he look after her? He had saved her life and instead of thanking him she had punched him in the face.
"Nice day isn't it?" he asked and hold out his hand to help her up. Lindsay hestited. But then she grabbed it and let him pull her up. As soon as she was standing she pulled her hand out of his and looked at him nervously. This was really strange. She hadn't felt nervous for years. Why the hell did she felt it now? She bit her lip and said very quitely "Thanks."
"What?" he asked and leaned forward to hear her better.
She gave him a deadly glare. She knew she hadn't threatened him right but she was never good in saying things like thanks and she really don't want to repeat herself. "Fine. Then not." She said clearly louder this time and turned to leave.
She had just made a few steps as the wightlighter walked after her and asked with a confused voice "What did I do?"
Angrily she turned again to face him. "I just wanted to thank you. But if you want to play games then you have to look for someone else!"
"Listen. I really didn't understood what you had said. I don't wanted to play games" he responded. Lindsay looked at him carefully. He seemed to mean what he said. She immediately regreted how she had yelled at him again.
"I'm sorry. I thought you want to tease me." I'm sorry. Again some words she didn't used for years. Maybe it wasn't good to speak with this guy. He brings up sides in her she had thought she had under control.
"It's okay. I'm Chris" he said and hold out his hand once again. This time Lindsay took it without hesitation. She smiled a bit but remained silent though she had many questions. Like why he had wiccan powers and the ability to orb.
"Why are you always fighting demons?" Chris asked suddenly. Lindsay looked at him surprised.
"What?" she gasped.
"Hey! I thought you don't want to play games?" he said grining.
"What do you mean with always?" she asked after she had get back her composure.
"Well everytime I hear about you or see you, you're fighting against a demon" he answered.
"When did you hear about me?" she asked confused.
"As you had fought a demon in the house of the Halliwell sisters. Phoebe told me about it."
"You know the Charmed Ones?"
Chris nodded. "I'm their wightlighter."
"Oh." Normally Lindsay would be concerned to be somehow in touch with the Charmed Ones but in the presence of Chris she felt otherwise. "Though with one thing you weren't right" she said smiling.
Chris raised his eyebrows. "Yeah? With what?"
"Not every time you meet me I'm fighting a demon. This time no one is in sight."
Chris started to smile too as his eyes went open in surprise. "I'm afraid I was right after all." he said and grabbed her arm to turn her around. A man was standing in front of them, dressed totally black. As he saw them he hold out his hand and a darklighter arrow appeared in his hand.
"A darklighter!" Lindsay gasped and turned to Chris. "Orb! Hurry!"
Chris was about to orb away as he was thrown over the meadow. He fell to the ground five metres away. A demon, who was standing behind Lindsay, laughed out loudly and shimmered out. Chris, still lying on the ground couldn't do anything as the darklighter fired an arrow at him. It hit him in the shoulder and he screamed out in pain.
"No!" Lindsay shouted, anger but also fear in her voice. She raised her hand at the darklighter and suddenly fire shoot out of it and hit him. The man screamed as he exploded. Chris moaned in pain but Lindsay didn't even noticed it. No this can't be. She looked down at her hand in disbelief. She hadn't used this power since she was twelve. Since the day her mother had died.
Breathing heavily she shook her head. How did this happen? Without a look or even a thought of Chris she ran away in the forest.
TBC… Please review! Then I'll hurry to write more! lol
