A Destiny To Fulfill
Summary: Set after "It's a bad bad world". Chris died, but he is sent back to fulfill his destiny to save Wyatt (Gideon wasn't the one who turned him in my story). Will he be able to make everything alright?
Chapter 3: Piper learns the truth
It was now almost a month ago since baby Chris was born and Piper was happier than ever in her life. Wyatt was save from turning evil and Leo had even given up being an elder to be with his family again. She remembered clearly that Chris had tried to talk him out of this, but there was nothing he could have done to change Leos mind. Piper knew that this time Leo wanted to be there for Chris, but still…
Somehow it seemed like Leo was a bit too overprotective of him. Since Gideon was dead Piper had thought everyone could relax now a bit, but Phoebe and Paige went almost every day on a demon vanquish and everytime Chris wanted to go too, Leo tried everything to stop him. It was really weird and Piper knew that something was going on, but she couldn't figure it out what.
She sighed and looked once again down at baby Chris who was sleeping peacefully in his crib before she walked out of the nursery and downstairs. From the hallway she could hear Leo and her sisters talking about another demon in the kitchen.
"He is powerful and we might need Chris' help" Paige was saying.
"No!" Leo yelled. "I'm not going to risk his life!"
Piper had to roll her eyes at this. Leo was really dramatic. Chris wasn't a baby anymore. Well, at least not this Chris.
"Leo, I understand that you are worried that something happens to him, but you can't lock him up in his room. He's an adult and he can take care of himself." Phoebe said in a soothing tone.
"Yeah like with Gideon right?" Leo shot back. "I can't loose him, I can't watch him die again" he said with a low voice, but Piper could hear him.
She stopped walking and tried to understand what Leo was talking about. Die again? But Chris was alive, he was healthy. Confused and wanting to know why they all were acting so strange the last month, Piper walked into the kitchen. Immediately everyone wanted to leave to go to work or something else. "Wait. Could somebody please tell what's going on?" she asked before any of them could leave the room.
Paige laughed nervously. "What do you mean?"
"I mean that ever since I came home from the hospital everyone is avoiding me and totally overprotective towards Chris" Piper responded and looked at Leo. He was sitting at the kitchen counter with his head in his hands. It seemed like he was really desperate.
"Sweetie we're not avoiding you" Phoebe said. "And Chris is just a baby, sure that we're a bit overprotective."
Piper shook her head. "I'm not talking about baby Chris. I'm talking about his neurotic future version. Leo even refuse to let him go and vanquish demons. So what's going on?"
They all exchanged looks and Piper started to get really annoyed. She turned to Leo. "He is my son too and if anything happened to him, I want to know about it."
"Why do you think something happened to him?" Paige asked.
"Because Leo said he can't watch him die again" Piper answered lowly.
Everyone looked at her in shock. She had figured it out. After Chris had returned he had made them promise that they wouldn't tell Piper about what had happened to him and they all had agreed. They knew that she would be very upset about it and didn't wanted to worry her so she could take care of her sons until they would find the demon who's after Wyatt.
Piper watched her sisters and Leo closly and she could say that she had been right with the suggestion that they were hiding something. But never even in her worst dreams she could have thought about something like this. Still she was confused. It didn't made sense what she had found out. She sat down beside Leo and asked "What happened? And no games any more. I want to hear the truth."
Phoebe and Paige sat down too and together they told her sister about everything. About how Chris had tried to defend Wyatt and got stabbed with an athame from Gideon. How Leo had tried to heal him but failed because Gideon was the only one who could have been able to stop it. As Paige told her about the moment Chris had fade away she had again tears in her eyes but she blinked them away as Phoebe explained to Piper the situation in the hospital as Chris had come back. The whole time they were talking Leo remained silent. He didn't even wanted to think about this day, let alone speak about it.
After they've finished Piper had tears in her eyes. It was all so horrible. Why Chris, she kept asking herself. It wasn't fair. He had done so much to save Wyatt. And then he get stabbed by a bastard from an elder who claims to do this for the greater good. How was killing a baby or a man like Chris who had done nothing else than good in his life, for the greater good? "Why didn't you tell me?" she finally asked.
Phoebe walked over to her and pulled her into a tight embrace. "We didn't wanted to upset you…"
"He is my son Phoebe!" Piper shouted and stood up. "You had no right to keep this from me!"
"But Chris didn't wanted to tell you either" Paige tried to defend their actions.
Piper gave her deadly glare. "Yeah because he's a martyr. He don't want me to worry about him. But I'm his mother for goddess sake! I'm supposed to protect him, not the other way around!"
Just then Chris orbed in. "Hey, have you found something about this sceptre yet?"
Everyone just stared at him. Chris frowned. "What? Why are you staring at me?"
Piper swallowed and walked over to him. "I'm so sorry sweetie" she whispered and pulled him into a hug.
Confused Chris wrapped his arms around her. "Why are you sorry?"
Piper didn't respond. Chris didn't knew what was going on but as he looked at his aunts and his dad and noticed their sad expressions, he understood. They had told her everything, altough they have promised they wouldn't. He sighed "Why did you tell her?" he asked them, while holding his mother close. It was the hardest thing in the world for him to see his mom hurt like this.
"We didn't wanted to. She heard some parts from our conversation and almost figured it out on her own" Paige explained.
Suddenly Piper turned on her heel to face her sisters again. "You should have told me! You…"
"Mom, please calm down. It was my idea to hide it from you" Chris said and grabbed her hands.
"But why Chris? Why do you still refuse to get close to me?" Piper asked with tears in her eyes. "Do you really think I'm such a bad mother that I'm not able to care about you?"
"No" Chris said quickly. "You're a great mom, I already told you this. I didn't tell you because I know that care about me and I didn't wanted to hurt you."
Again Piper embraced him. "You're not doing this again, do you understand? It hurts me more that you have such horrible secrets from me."
Chris hugged her back. "I'm sorry mom." After a while he pulled away and looked at his aunts. "So, have you found something?" He referd to the sceptre that was lying on the kitchen counter. A few hours ago a demon had attacked them and had lost it in the manor.
"Actually yes" Paige answered. "It belongs to Kivan, a very powerful upper-level demon. With the sceptre he is almost invincible. Good for us that he lost it."
Chris looked at her thoughtfully. "Yeah, maybe…"
"What's up Chris?" Leo asked concerned.
"Well, I was thinking if this sceptre is really so important to him, then he would surely take more care about it."
"So what will you say? That he lost it on purpose?"
Chris shrugged. "I don't know."
"But that doesn't make sense. Why would he want to loose something that makes him invincible?" Piper asked. But no one could give an answer to this.
"Well, we should be glad and go and kick his ass as long as we can" Phoebe said finally.
Chris nodded. "Okay let's go."
"No!" Leo stood up from the chair and walked over to his son. "You're not going anywhere. Even if Kivan don't have his sceptre, it's too dangerous."
Chris rolled his eyes. Not that he doesn't liked it that his father cared so much about him, in fact he loved it, but it started to get on his nerves. "Oh come on dad. Don't you think you're overreacting?"
Leo shook his head. "No Chris I'm serious. You can't go on like this. It's way too risky…"
"Leo, I know you're scared" Piper cut him off. "I'm too. But it's you who can't go on like this."
"She's right dad. There is a reason why the Angel of destiny sent me back. I have to find this demon who turns Wyatt and I can't do this without your support" Chris said, trying to get his father to understand that he had to continue with his fate.
Leo stood there for a while just staring at his son. Then he nodded slowly. "Okay… but be careful. If anything happens just call me and I'll be right there."
Chris smiled. "Sure." He turned to his aunts. "Okay then let's go and kick some demon butt."
TBC… (So what do you think? Did the demon lost the sceptre on purpose? And when yes, why? Please review, I'm so happy about the feedback I got so far)
