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Chapter 7
The demon who had sent Chris flying over the meadow during the darklighter attack was standing there, with one arm around Pipers waist and with the other hand holding an athame to her throat. She didn't seemed to be hurt and struggeled in the demons arm. But he just smirked evilly.
"If you move I'll kill her" he said threatening.
Chris didn't know what to do. He didn't want to risk Pipers life. "What do you want?" he asked icely.
"Oh nothing special. Just your powers."
Piper was surprised. Why would a demon wanted to get the powers of a wightlighter? They were useless for a demon. But then she thought about Amas. Amas had been a warlock who had killed a wightlighter to get his abilty to orb. With that he had wanted to go up there and vanquish all elders. Luckily she and her sisters had been able to stop him. Maybe now this demon wanted to try something like this.
Before Piper could thought about it more a darklighter appeared behind Chris and summoned a crossbow. "Chris watch out!" she shouted.
Chris immediately turned around and orbed out just in time before the darklighter shot an arrow towards him.
"Damn it!" the demon yelled. "Come back or your charge will die!"
After a few seconds Chris orbed in again, behind the darklighter. He quickly stabbed him with an athame he had just took from the kitchen. The darklighter gasped in pain and dropped the crossbow. Chris picked it up and fired. The arrow hit the darklighter in the stomach and vanquished him.
"Very well" the demon said dangerously calm, still holding Piper.
"Let her go" Chris responded, taking a few steps towards them.
"I don't think I will do that. I think I better kill her – very slowly. I could torture her for a few hours. First I could…" he started to talk about how he could cause Piper pain and Chris was sure he would do it if he got the chance. Carefully, so that the demon didn't see it, he looked at Piper and made the same move with his hands as she always did to blow things up. Then he pointed at himself.
Piper wasn't sure if she had understood him right. Should she try to blow Chris up? She frowned and Chris repeated the move with his hands. Still she didn't know for sure if she should do that. And why she should do that. It didn't make sense.
Suddenly the demon stopped talking. He laughed out loudly. "I'll come back after I killed this witch and then I'll kill you" he said to Chris and wanted to shimmer out with Piper.
"Now!" Chris yelled and Piper, hoping that whatever Chris had planned would work, raised her arms towards him and let her power out.
Chris telekinately threw Piper away from the demon and hold up his other hand quickly. He deflected Pipers power and sent them back at the demon, who was vanquished before he even had the time to realize what had happened.
"Ow" Piper said from the floor, rubbing her elbow.
"Are you okay?" Chris asked worried and kneeled down beside her.
"Yeah. Thanks for your help."
"Anytime" he smiled and stood up again, as Piper got to her feet. She stared at him and he already knew what would come now. "Listen, before you say something, I'm sorry that I've lied to you. But I didn't had a choice. There are things you shouldn't know…"
"Like that you can use telekineses?" Piper threw in. "Why the hell didn't you tell us?"
"Because I thought that if I tell you then you would trust me even less then you do already" he answered lowly.
"So you're half wightlighter, half witch?" she asked in disbelief.
Chris just nodded.
"I can't believe this. How do you expect us to trust you, when the only things you were telling us are lies?"
"That's not true. This was the only thing I was lying about I promise. That's also the reason why I don't tell you anything else, because I don't wanted to lie to you" Chris tried to explain but Piper didn't seemed to be in the mood to forgive him.
"What about this threat to Wyatt? How do we know that you're not lying about this so you can be in his nearness?" Piper finally asked the question she had been thinking about since Chris had arrived.
"I didn't lie about this! It's the truth. You have to believe me!" Chris pleaded sadly. If the sisters didn't take this serious then maybe all he was trying to prevent by coming back to the past will happen again.
"No Chris you're wrong. I don't have to believe you anything. And if you want to hurt Wyatt then I'll…"
Chris didn't let her finish. "Piper please. Listen to me. I really don't want to harm Wyatt. I'm here to stop him from turning evil, to save him."
"How do I… wait. Did you just say stop him from turning evil?" Piper asked confused.
As Chris realized what he'd just said, he quickly tried to take it back "No… I mean yes, but I – I didn't mean it like this…" he stammered.
"Oh now I understand" Piper said suddenly, causing Chris to look at her in surprise. "Really?"
Piper nodded. "Yeah of course. Now that I know that you've lied to us and that I'll the my sisters and Leo, you want to make yourself look like someone who just wants the best for my son. But I tell you something: Wyatt isn't evil. And he'll never be. But I'm not sure if you're not evil."
Chris shook his head "I'm not evil and I really just want the best for Wyatt."
"Then leave. I don't want you to be near him." Piper responded coldly.
Chris was really hurt by her words. But now he didn't have the time to become emotional. He had to convince Piper that he needed to be around to save Wyatt. "You don't understand anything. You don't know what the future will look like. But I know. And you can believe me when I say that you don't want to see this future."
"A future where my son is evil?" Piper asked still didn't want to believe what Chris told her.
"Yeah. Someone will turn him. And I'm here to make sure this will never going to happen."
Piper looked at him for a moment. He looked so sad and honest, but she knew he could just try to deceive her. On the other side she somehow felt that he was saying the truth. But this couldn't be right. Wyatt was her baby, he could never become evil, she was sure of that. At least she wanted to believe that she was sure of that.
"I don't know what to believe Chris" she said honestly. "I mean I just found out that you are lying to us the past months and now you want me to believe you that my son is going to be evil."
"I know it's hard to believe. But if you accept that it's the truth and help me, then we can still change it" Chris responded, trying to comfort her. He had never wanted to hurt her. That was also a reason, why had wanted to keep that as a secret.
Piper looked at him with watery eyes. "It just can't be. He's my son. He's a good boy, he would never harm someone."
Instinctively Chris pulled her in a tight embrace. He had never been able to watch her cry and just standing there without doing something. First it seemed like Piper wanted to push Chris away but then she let herself go and sobbed in his shoulder. "He isn't evil" she repeated her voice barely a whisper.
"I'll fix it. I promise" Chris said calmly.
In the next morning Paige went upstairs smiling brightly. She had spent the whole night with Richard and even if she just know him for two weeks she already felt that she was falling in love with him. One of the best things about their relationship was that she didn't need to hide for him that she's a witch, because he was one too.
At this point she had to thought again at Chris words in P3 as he had met Richard. He had just orbed away in front of them. That would mean that he really had to know him from the future. Maybe Richard and she will be still together there. Her smile went even brighter at the thought of this. She started to whistle a song, but stopped as she passed Pipers room and saw her sadly sitting on her bed.
Paige sighed. In the last time Piper hadn't been happy very often but Paige had thought that the fact Leo is back would cheer her up a bit. She went into her room and asked softly "Hey do you want to talk about it?"
Piper looked up. "About what?"
"What's bothering you."
"Nothing's bothering me"
"Piper I know I don't have Phoebes empath powers. But that's really not necassery to see that you're upset. So if you want to talk about it I'm here"
Piper gave her a weak smile. "I know. Thanks."
Paige went over to her and sat down at her side. "And?" she asked after a while.
"It's just something Chris had said yesterday." Piper finally answered.
"What did he say?" Paige asked curious and already getting angry with Chris to make Piper feel so sad again.
"He… he told me something about the future."
"What? Really?" Now Paige was very surprised. Chris had never spoken about the future. And Paige didn't know why he should change his mind now.
Piper nodded. She had been lying awake almost the whole night thinking about Chris' words. But still she won't believe it. Everytime she looked at Wyatt she couldn't imagine that he would become evil. Chris had lied – that's the only possibility. But as hard as she tried to think like this, she couldn't. She knew he was telling the truth even if she don't know why she believed him.
"And what did he tell you?" Paiges voice pulled Piper out of her thoughts.
"Something about… this threat to Wyatt."
"Do he know who is after him?"
Piper shook her head, but remained silent.
"Then what did he tell you exactly?" Paige asked worried about Pipers strange behaviour. If she knew more about the threat to Wyatt, why didn't she tell her? Every little information was important if they really wanted to save Wyatt.
Piper sighed. "That Wyatt will be… evil" she finally said.
"What? Chris really told you that Wyatt will be evil in the future?" Paige asked in disbelief. "How could he? I'll call him and kick his ass! I mean what was he thinking by telling you such lies?!"
"He didn't lied" Piper responded.
Paige frowned. "Piper we're talking about Wyatt. Your son. The twice-blessed child. He can't be evil in the future."
"I know of whom we're talking about!" Piper yelled out in frustration. As she saw the hurt impression of Paiges face she added calmly "But we know too that it's your decisions that make you to who you are, not from where you've been born."
"Do you really believe Chris? After all he did?"
"He just told me the truth. He didn't do anything wrong. Well, except that he had hide the fact that he's half wightlighter, half witch."
"What?! He lied to us all the time?" This was getting ridiculous. First Piper told her that Wyatt would turn evil and now she said that she still trusted Chris after he had obviously lied to them.
"Actually he didn't lied to us. I mean he never said that he is a fully wightlighter."
Paige couldn't believe what she heard. She had never thought that she would hear Piper talking about Chris like this. "Why are you defending him? I thought you don't trust him."
"I… I don't know. But I'm sure he's telling the truth. I just know it" Piper answered, still surprised by herself that she suddenly trusted Chris. She thought again at yesterday after he had told her about Wyatt. He had hugged her. If she hadn't been to sad about what she had just heard, she would have been very surprised at this. She had never seen him becoming emotional in any way in the last two months.
"Well if you sure about it then I'll will support you in everything you'll do. But I also have to tell you that I'm not really able to trust Chris. Above all now we know that he'd lied – didn't told us very important facts" Paige corrected herself immediately as she saw that Piper wanted to respond something. "Anyway I'll still watch over him when he's here. And I think Leo's going to do the same."
Leo. Piper had been thinking about if she should tell him or not. But he wouldn't believe it anyway. He didn't trust Chris at all and Piper was sure that this news are not going to change his mind. "Listen Paige. Don't tell Leo about this okay? I don't want him to be more furious about Chris."
Paige nodded. "Okay. It's your choice." She looked at her clock. "Oh. I have to go to work. But if you need me I'll stay at home" she offered.
"No it's okay. I'll be fine."
Paige looked at her for a moment and hugged her. "It will all going to be good. You'll see."
Piper pulled out of the embrace and gave her sister a warm smile. "Yeah… thanks. Now go or you'll be late."
Paige smiled back at her and stood up to go to work.
After breakfest Lindsay had been sitting on the couch in her apartment thinking about her date – stop calling it like this – with Chris yesterday afternoon. Even if she didn't wanted to admit it, she had really enjoyed it – too much like she thought. It had felt good to be able to talk about this whole magic thing. She still didn't want to use her powers, but she began to realize that it was maybe the only way to find and vanquish the demon she's after.
That and the information she would get from book of shadows. She was starting to feel guilty of the thought that she just use Chris to get to the book but then she shook her head heavily. If he's stupid enough to trust me then it's his own fault. Lindsay knew that if she seriously wanted to complete her plan, she had to do something to stop feeling the way she do when Chris was by her side. But how?
She sighed. The last few days had turned her whole world upside down. Everything had changed. She had her powers back and now she was feeling things she hadn't for years. Lindsay didn't know if she was really able to finish her mission. But what was she thinking? Finally she had a chance to get to demon who had killed her mother and she hesitated to take it because of some guy who was nice to her?
No. She will not do the mistake of letting this chance slip away. She owned it her mother to vanquish this demon and she also wanted it for herself. Then she maybe will be able to start her life all over again even if it won't be with Chris. She had to take the risk of loosing him, if she wanted to get peace.
TBC…
