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Chapter 10

Chris was walking through the Golden Gate Park. He had never felt so lost in his entire life. A few hours ago Piper had also thrown him out of the store room from P3. Again he had tried to convince her that he was just here to help but she didn't wanted to listen to him. He sighed. That was all Leos fault. Piper had started to trust him and now she didn't want to see him anymore. How the hell should he now protect Wyatt?

Suddenly he realized that he was at the meadow he had once met Lindsay. He sat down at a bench and looked over the grass. At the thought of Lindsay he couldn't help but smiled a bit. It had meant more to him than he would ever admit that she had defended him yesterday. He was still confused about the fact that this girl seemed to be so important to him even though he just knew her for a week.

"Hi" suddenly a voice called behind him. Surpised he turned around and saw Lindsay walking towards him.

"Hi. What are you doing here?" Chris responded.

"I searched for you. And I don't know where you usually go when you want to be alone so I hoped that you would be here" she explained while stting down next to him.

"If you knew that I want to be alone why did you search for me?"

She smiled at him "Because I had the strange feeling that you don't want to be really alone."

Chris looked at her, secretly surprised that she was right. He really didn't want to be alone. He wanted to go back to the manor. To Wyatt and Piper.

"Was I right?" Lindsay asked softly.

He smiled slightly back at her "Maybe…"

They sat in silence for a while and Chris was glad that she didn't said anything. He just enjoyed her company and it was a really good feeling to do it. Finally Lindsay spoke again "You really like her, don't you?"

Chris sighed. He knew of whom Lindsay was talking about. But he didn't wanted to answer.

"You should go and talk to her. Maybe she calmed down a bit" Lindsay tried to cheer him up.

But he shook his head. "No I don't think so. Two hours ago she threw me out of P3."

"What did you do there during the day? Do you work there?"

"Actually I live there. Well in the store room" he answered sadly.

"You lived in the club? Why?" Lindsay asked surprised.

He looked down at the ground a bit uncomfortable. "It's complicated. Forget it."

"And where will you live now?"

He laughed lightly. "I have no clue. Surely not in the manor."

Lindsay felt very sorry for him. He looked so sad and desperate. Before she could think about it any further she said "You could stay at my place if you want."

Chris looked up at her, totally surprised. "Why did you offer that?"

She shrugged. "I don't know for sure. And you better take your chance before I take it back."

Chris didn't know what to answer. At one hand he couldn't deny that he really wouldn't have something against living with her for a while and he needed a place to stay. But on the other hand there was still this thought about the fact that he barely knew her. But she was the one who wanted him to live with her and maybe they would get to know each other better then.

Lindsay saw him struggle and added "If you don't want to I understand that. Maybe I can help you find a other place where you can stay."

"No" Chris responded quickly. Lindsay frowned. "I mean, I think it would be okay to go with you. But only if I really don't disturb you."

Lindsay grined. "Nope. But you'll have to take the couch to sleep."

"That's just fair" Chris smiled at her.

"Okay then lets go." Lindsay stood up but Chris grabbed her hand. "Thanks" he said simply not just meaning her offer. It had really felt good talk to her and it seemed like the weight of his shoulder was a bit lighter.

Lindsay seemed to understood. "You're welcome. Now come on we have to go. It's a bit far to my place."

"Well I would know a quicker way" Chris said and orbed them away.


"You know you did the right thing" Leo said to Piper, who had again started to question her decison to throw Chris out after she was back from P3.

"What if not? What if he was saying the truth and we risk Wyatts future because we don't believe him" Piper asked, the uncertainity getting her mad.

"Piper you saw how Wyatt reacted at Chris' presence. He think he's a threat and by sending Chris away you did the best for Wyatt. I'm sure of that."

Piper glared at him "Yeah because you don't trust him. But I started to do. Maybe all Chris said was right and he really just wants to help."

Before Leo could respond Paige and Phoebe walked in the living room. They wasn't surprised to see Piper and Leo quarrel about Chris. They had did this the whole day. And since Piper had come back from P3 three hours ago she had been talking with her ex-husband without interruption.

"Hey you two. I really think I didn't hear you talk more altogether in your entire life than in the last few hours" Paige said teasingly.

"Yeah and I start to get a great headache because of your emotions" Phoebe added, rubbing her head.

"I'm sorry" Leo apologized.

Piper turned to her sisters. "What do you think? Was it right to throw Chris out?"

"Well it's a bit too late to ask. He's gone" Paige answered.

"But I think he would probably come back if you call him" Phoebe suggested.

Leo looked displeased "Yeah but we don't want him to come back."

"Would you please stop with that" Piper snarled at him.

"With what? Protecting my son?"

Piper sighed. "I don't know what to do. Somehow I still trust Chris, even though I don't know why." She sat down at the couch and Phoebe quickly walked over to her and wrapped an arm around her shoulder.

"You know what? I think we should call him back." She ignored Leos angry looks and continued "I mean if he really wants to harm Wyatt we can at least watch over him. And if he's just here to help then… well then I think we own him an excuse."

Piper thought about it for a second then she yelled loudly "Chris!"


Chris and Lindsay appeared in a small apartment that was in a sort of chaos. Everywhere were lying books, newspaper and on the couch were lying some clothes. Lindsay looked at Chris embarrased.

"I'm sorry. I didn't expect visitors – or co-inhabitants."

"It's okay. I've seen worse" Chris said thinking of how the store room of P3 had looked like as he'd lived there. Well it still looks like that. His things were still there because he hadn't known where to go.

"Yeah? I don't think so" Lindsay responded walking over to the couch and started to grab the clothes together.

"Believe me. The store room of P3 don't look any better."

"Great. Another chaos freak" Lindsay exclaimed grining.

"Hey you are the one who want me move in so don't complain" he responded smiling back at her.

"You're right. I just hope we'll find our things in the future. You better go and get your stuff. I'll try to find some place where you can put it in till you come back."

Chris nodded and orbed out to P3. He was about to put his things together as he heard Piper calling his name. He frowned. Why was she calling him? It didn't seem to be important and he decided to ignore it. But Piper didn't stop yelling for him. Finally Chris sighed and orbed to the manor.


"Chris!"

Piper was getting angry although she knew she didn't have the right to it after how she'd threatened Chris. After all she had thrown him out and he just seemed to follow her order to stay away. She wanted to give up as blue orbs appeared in front of the couch and a second later Chris stand there.

"It's about time" Leo snapped.

Chris glared at him "I thought you don't want to see me ever again?"

"You're right. I don't want to…"

"But I" Piper cut him off and looked at Chris. She remembered her harsh words from yesterday and this afternoon. At both times he had looked so sad as she had told him to leave.

Chris was surprised but tried to hide it. Maybe Piper still trusts him. Maybe everything was going to be okay at the end. But he don't want to hope until he knew the reason why Piper had called him. "So what do you want?"

Piper wasn't sure of what to say. After a few seconds of silence Phoebe, who was still sitting next to her, hit her elbow slightly in her side. Finally Piper spoke "I just wanted to say that we agreed that you can still be our wightlighter."

"Really? I feel so touched" he answered sarcastically.

"Don't be such a smart ass. Keeping you as their wightlighter is more than you can expect from them after all you did" Leo exclaimed.

"Whatever. Is that all?" Chris asked turning again to Piper.

She just nodded and Chris orbed away. As he reappeared in P3 he had to sit down for a while. For a second he had really thought that they would trust him. But he realized that he should be grateful that he could at least protect Wyatt. Finally he sighed, grabbed his clothes and orbed back to Lindsay.


"Hey I've put my stuff outta here so…" Lindsay said, standing in front of an opened wardrobe as Chris orbed in, but trailed off as she saw that he was only carrying some clothes. "Is that all you have? And that took you so long to get together? You really have to live in chaos."

"I've warned you" he joked.

She looked at him carefully. Though he was smiling he seemed to be very sad again. She wondered what had happened but decided not to ask right now. "Seriously, is that everything you have?"

Chris nodded. "That and some books."

"Well okay. You can put your stuff in there. I also set up the couch already. The bathroom is over there." She pointed at a door on the other side of her room.

"Okay thanks. I really hope that I'll not going to get on your nerves."

"We'll see" she smiled. Chris went over to her and put his clothes in the wandrobe. Then he closed it and turned to face Lindsay. His heart began to beat faster as he stood so close to her. He had just once felt like this and that was years ago as he had fallen in love for the first time. Chris could still remember his first girlfriend and the happy times they had shared. But their relationship hadn't last long – Wyatt had killed her five months after they had met.

He tried to shake off this thoughts. If he started to think about what he had lost then he knew he would soon think about his mothers death and he didn't wanted to remember that again. He sighed and leaned against the wandrobe.

"Is everything alright?" Lindsay asked concerned.

"Yeah I'm just tired I think."

Lindsay didn't believe him but didn't want to bother him with more questions. "Then lets go get some rest. It's almost midnight."

Chris nodded and followed Lindsay out of her room into living room where a pillow and a blanket were now lying on the couch. "I hope it's comfortable enough" Lindsay said uncertain.

"It will be fine. The couch at P3 was surely worse" Chris answered and sat down.

"Okay. Then good night."

"Good night" he responded and watched her walking in her room, closing the door behind her.

Once she was gone, Chris layed down but he couldn't sleep. Still he couldn't stop thinking about the deaths he had seen. Many of them had been his friends, even his family. And they were all murdered by Wyatt. Sometimes Chris was getting so angry that he wished he could kill him but he know he would never be able to do it. The only chance to make everything good again was saving Wyatt from turning evil.


Lindsay sat in the dark looking at a sleeping Chris. It was just four in the morning but she couldn't sleep. She had wanted to drink something as she had seen Chris and had sat down on the table in front of the couch. He looked really cute while sleeping. For once he didn't seemed to be distressed or bothered with pain.

She didn't know why she had offered him to live with her. The Halliwells didn't trust him, that means he was useless for her. So why had she let him move in? Maybe I just wanted some company. But Lindsay knew that this was just the half truth. Still she refused to think about the other half because that was just confusing her.

Suddenly Chris started to moan and Lindsay automatically grabbed his hand to comfort him. He threw his head from one side to the other as he wanted to shake something off. Lindsay was about to wake him up but then he calmed down and rested his head again into the pillow. She looked at him with sorrow in her eyes. It seemed like he had gone through a lot – like she had. Maybe one day she will be able to talk to him about all that's pesters the both of them. She sighed, released his hand and stood up to get some rest by herself.

TBC…