Disclaimer: See first chapter. The only characters I own are Maria and Rosanna, and half of Pandora.
Thanks for the reviews Alyssa Halliwell, Charmed-Greek, goldstranger, irene(mom), Andy20, and CuteLittleBritt and since they were so nice, I have decided to continue. So here it is:
Chapter 2: Paradise Lost
"OK, this had better be good. I was in the middle of writing some advice to some poor woman, whose husband is cheating on her," said Phoebe has she walked through the front door of the Halliwell Manor.
"Oh, this is much more important than that." said Paige. "This is Rosanna, she is from Chris future. She needs our help in stopping a friend of theirs who went back into the past ...way back ...like to Ancient Greece."
"Oh, yea, that would beat the wife's problem, any day of the week." answered Phoebe. "Ok, why did she go back to Ancient Greece?"
Chris stood up from the arm of the chair were Rosanna was sitting. "Cause she is trying to prevent the same thing I am, but she's too much like.."
"Like?" asked Paige.
"Like me, she's too much like me. Always going off doing something, without thinking it through."
"Ok, so what is she trying to prevent?" asked Phoebe.
" Damn nothing changes, you still don't listen, she went back to prevent Wyatt from turning evil. She went back to prevent Pandora from opening the box. Releasing evil into the world." said Rosanna, catching Phoebe's eyes for the first time.
"Whose she?"
"Rosanna, my friend, did you miss the introduction a second ago?" asked Chris. Not waiting for an answer, he said, "Look we have to get Maria back!"
"Or make sure she succeeds." said Phoebe.
"What?" asked Chris. I can not believe what I am hearing. Is she insane?
"Think about it, she might be on to something. If Pandora can't open the box, evil isn't released, thus preventing Wyatt from being evil." answered Phoebe.
"She might be right," said Piper.
"Could be worth a shot." said Paige.
"We need a spell, we need to trap Pandora in the very box she wants to open." said Phoebe.
As the Charmed Ones went up the stairs to consult the Book of Shadows, Chris stood there, wondering what he was going to do now.
"So that much hasn't changed either." said Rosanna.
"What?"
"They still don't listen. They are stubborn, once they make their minds up, that's the end of it."
"So you think it's funny do you?"
"No, of course not. But it is amusing for me seeing as how I had a charge similar to that. Two of them in fact." she laughed. "Why didn't you tell the Charmed Ones about Maria's dad?"
"Cause if I tell them, they will ask more questions, and it may lead to them finding out who she is."
"Yeah we have bigger problems, if she succeeds in getting rid of evil."
"She will die won't she?"
"Yes, her and her father."
"Come on, we need Leo, maybe he can talk some sense into them," he said as he was about to orb out.
"Wait!" yelled Rosanna.
"What?"
"I can't go up there, they will know who I am."
"I was up there almost a year, and they never knew the truth about me." said Chris.
"But I'm different, and you know it!"
"Yeah, your right, they would know." said Chris, as he started to pace back and forth. "OK, I will just call on Leo, he can come down here. He might be able to sense the truth in you too, but he will keep the secret from the other Elders."
"Sounds like you trust him, that's new."
"Yeah, it is. But he is different here, like I said before he's different without Wyatt being evil."
"Ok, call on him, I'll try to trust him if you do."
"LEO!" yelled Chris.
Just behind Rosanna appeared a flash of blue lights, and as the lights disappeared, Leo appeared. "Hey Chris, what's up?"
"We have a problem, and I need your help with the sisters."
"I have very little influence over them, and you know it," he said with a grin. Glancing to the right of Chris he saw a beautiful brunette girl about the age of 18. He could sense something familiar about her, but different at the same time. He couldn't help but wonder if Chris knew the truth about her? One way to find out? "Whose this?"
"She Rosanna, she from my future. Short story version, she came back to inform me that a friend of ours went back into the past. She went to stop Pandora from opening the box. And mom and my two crazy aunts, are upstairs trying to find away to help, my friend, Maria, succeed!"
"Oh no, that's not good. Where are the sisters?"
"Upstairs with the Book of Shadows."
"Alright, let's go up there. Maybe both of us can talk them out of this."
Leo orbed out, as Chris was about to do the same, Rosanna grabbed his hand. "What?"
"They can't know Chris, they can't ever know who me and Maria are."
"Ok, I will do my best to make they never do, now can we please go."
"It must appear that you orbed me up there."
"But you can orb yourself."
"Chris, I know, but they can't!"
"Fine, maybe while you are here, you will learn the same thing I did."
"What's that?"
"That you have to trust."
Upstairs in the Halliwell attic ....
As Chris and Rosanna orbed into the attic they found Leo and Phoebe in a full shouting match. "No you can't to that!" said Leo.
"And why not?" asked Phoebe.
"Cause then it would change history, and you would set off a set of events that were never supposed to be!" yelled Leo.
"Leo might have a point honey," said Piper.
"No, Leo doesn't have a point. Ok, he might. But Chris would agree with me."
Chris wish he could orb back out, but he knew he would have to answer that question sooner or later. "Phoebe, please."
"Please what? You came back from the future to prevent Wyatt from turning evil, well here's a sure fire way to do it."
"Yeah, but never releasing evil, while it would prevent evil, we have idea what else it would do." said Chris.
"I can't believe I am hearing this." Phoebe says as the throws her hands up in the air.
"How about I tell you some of the things that will change in your life, if you do this?" asked Rosanna.
"How would you know?"asked Phoebe.
"Cause she is a ..." before Leo could finish, Chris grabbed his mouth. He orbed both him and Rosanna back down stairs. Chris let go of Leo. "Chris, what the .."
"The sisters can't know about Rosanna."
"Chris I can't lie to them, and besides why can't they know?"
"They just can't, you will understand later, after her and Maria have gone back to the future, I will tell you the truth, deal?"
"What I am supposed to tell them then?" asked Leo.
"Tell them I'm an empath." said Rosanna "Please?"
"Alright Chris, it's a deal, now can we go back to your mom and aunts?" with that said all three orbed back into the attic.
"Back so soon," said Phoebe, sarcastically.
"Yeah." said Leo. "I was about to say that she would know cause she is a empath like you were Phoebe." he said.
"Oh, ok so tell me." said Phoebe, looking at Rosanna.
"Ok, you would have never met Cole, cause he would have died before you ever met. You see it was Belthazor who kept him alive for so long. You Paige, would have never met Richard, his family would have never existed without Evil, and you Piper, would have never met Leo, and had two sons with him. And there would have been no war, so Leo would still be with his other wife." she paused to let it sink in, Rosanna continued,"Without the balance of good and evil, there would be no need to reward a person for doing good, hence no white-lighters and Elders. And there would be no Charmed Ones, you would have nothing to fight for or against. There would be witches, but only good ones. This world would be completely different from what you now see it as, you probably wouldn't even have come together the way you did when you first received your powers."After Rosanna finished, everyone stood there stunned. Everything they held near and dear to them would be gone if they went through with there plan to trap Pandora in the box. They wouldn't only be changing their history by going through with this, it would change the world. A huge consequence in itself; something the sisters knew a lot about.
Phoebe was the first to speak, they still had to help Maria even if they weren't going through with the original plan. "Ok, what if we trapped her just long enough to get Maria and return here, then we go back and release her?"
"Would that work?" asked Paige, looking at Rosanna.
"It would, but only if we did it fast." said Rosanna.
"Piper could freeze everyone there in place, they would never know anything was different." said Phoebe.
"But the box wouldn't freeze in time, it would be unchanged, ok, that will work." said Rosanna.
"Ok, then all we need to do is go back in time, just us three though, we can't afford for something to go wrong." said Piper, looking at Leo and Chris, if things went wrong, they wouldn't be there anymore.
"There is something else to consider also." said Paige. "What if our powers are gone or different somehow when we get there."
"Good point." said Phoebe.
"Maybe I can help again," said Rosanna. " I am a Precognitive Empath, I can see things before they happen, each of you come here," she said, motioning for the three sisters to come to her. As they grabbed hands, Rosanna pulls back instantly.
"What? What's wrong," asked Phoebe.
"She saw something, her powers are far more advanced than yours ever were," said Chris, as he put his arm around Rosanna. "What did you see."
"I saw that their powers are more powerful, beyond what they are here. It makes sense, magic was more accepted back then. Not understood, but accepted."
"Do we have anything to worry about?" asked Piper.
"No, nothing." she said as she looked away from them.
"First time for everything." said Paige. "Ok we need a spell to temporarily trap Pandora."
As Piper and Phoebe joined their sister behind the Book of Shadows, Chris walked Rosanna over to the couch. "Ok, what did you really see?" asked Chris.
"I told you, I saw just what I told them." Rosanna answered.
"Yeah, and I have known you long enough that I know you didn't say everything you saw."
"Ok, you are right I didn't. Look, they are not in any danger, yet."
"Yet?"
"They are going to make a huge mistake Chris."
"How huge?"
"We won't know the full extent until after it is done. All I saw was the mistake, and the flashes of anger that followed. That's all I know. I swear."
"They aren't going to die are they?" he asked, looking at his mom. He had just been reunited with her.
"No, not on the trip to the past." Rosanna said, she more than anybody knew how much Piper's death in the future hurt Chris. "After that, I can't say, I didn't want to see the end of the vision."
Let me know how I am doing so far? Should I continue? Do you have suggestions for something I might have missed or messed up a detail. I have only been watching since the middle of Season 6, but have read nearly ever Charmed website I could find. So if I did mess up, sorry.