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 15: Nothing makes sense

Phoebe was now sitting on the floor in the attic and tried to comprehend what she'd just seen. She knew that it wasn't possible but in the same moment she realized that it was true. He was back – again. He had entered her life again to destroy her family. To kill her nephew. This thought made her incredible angry and she had to bang her fist at the ground.

She could hear her family pleading and shouting at her that she should say something but she found it impossible to get a single word out of her mouth. When she would speak it out loud what she had just witnessed then she would have to admit it to herself that it was the truth. And she didn't know if she could bear it.

Suddenly she remembered his feelings. They just didn't fit to his actions. She hadn't even sensed a bit hatred or something like this coming from him. But why would someone kill a baby for no reason? But then his words echoed in her head. Please forgive me Phoebe, but I had to do this. You'll understand someday.

How should she ever understand this? How could he do this? She knew that he had done a lot of horrible things in his life but since the day they have met he had never done anything that was so cruel. And he had never done anything that would hurt her. But the thought of loosing her nephew hurt her like hell, so why did he do this?

"Phoebe!"

Finally she snapped out of her thoughts and realized that tears were streaming down her face. She quickly wiped them away and stood up from the floor. Her gaze fell onto Chris who was looking at her with deep concern. What made everything even harder was that she knew he wasn't concerned about what she had seen but about how she was feeling. She had never met someone who was so unselfish like her nephew.

"Phoebe what did you see?" Piper asked now while she tried to stay calm. Her sister had obviously seen more than just what she had already in her premonition or else she wouldn't be in such a state right now.

Phoebe swallowed hard and took a deep breath before she answered with a voice that was barely audible "Cole."

"Cole?" was the unison response from her whole family. Phoebe nodded, unable to say something else.

"Wait – you mean Cole is the one who's going to kill Baby Chris?" Paige asked in disbelief. Again Phoebe nodded while she tried to hold her tears back.

"This damn bastard!" Piper suddenly yelled loudly. She threw up her hands and a chair on the other side of the room shattered into tiny little pieces as her power hit it. "I can't believe this! How many times do we have to vanquish his sorry ass before he leaves our family alone!"

"I can't believe it either" Phoebe finally said. "But it's the truth. This time I could see his face. It was – is Cole."

"But Cole's dead" Chris cut in, like always the voice of reason.

Paige sighed in defeat. "Yeah but how many times did he already managed to get back?"

"But why would he want to kill me?" Chris asked.

"Because he's a fucked up demon who does nothing else than to destroy our family!" Piper yelled again. She wasn't able to control her anger. This man had caused her family already enough pain, there was no way in hell she was going to let him get her little boy. "But I'll kill him and if it's the last what I do!"

"That could be really the last what you do" Wyatt suddenly said who had remained surprisingly silent til now.

Everyone stared at him confused. "What do you mean with that?" Leo asked finally.

"Cole has become immortal after you've vanquished him the last time" Wyatt explained. "He has a lot of powers and as long as you don't find a way to strip them off you have no chance against him."

"How do you know that?" Chris asked surprised.

"I met him in our original future" Wyatt answered. "I wanted to vanquish him because I knew that he was the only one who was a real threat to me. But I couldn't. He let me go though and…" He trailed off when he suddenly remembered something.

"And what?" Paige asked impatiently.

"He told me that I should let my brother save me" Wyatt finished his sentence.

Chris was startled by this statement. "When was this?"

Wyatt thought about it for a few seconds then he answered. "I think you were just seventeen then. He couldn't knew that you intended to go back to the past because you came up with this plan years later."

Leo suddenly realized another thing. "This whole thing doesn't make any sense. Why would he kill Chris only to tell Wyatt years later that he should let Chris save him?"

Everyone tried to think of something that would explain Cole's actions but no one could find an answer to their questions. It was like Leo had said. Nothing made any sense.

"What are we going to do now?" Chris finally broke the silence and tried to suppress the fear in his voice. It didn't seem like they would be able to stop Cole.

Piper immediately noticed her son's sad expression and pulled him into a hug. "I don't know yet sweetie. But we'll find a way to keep you save, I promise."

"And how are we going to do that?" Wyatt asked while he sat down on a chair. He really didn't want to be the one who pulled his mother out of her imagination that everything would work out somehow. But just pretending that it would, wouldn't help his brother.

"Maybe we should summon Cole?" Paige suggested.

"Are you crazy!" Piper shrieked and pulled away from Chris. "You want to summon the demon who's going to kill my son?"

"Piper he'll come anyways" Paige tried to reason with her. "And when we summon him now we can take him by surprise."

"But we don't even know how we can vanquish him" Leo threw in. "Not even Wyatt managed it."

Phoebe eventually spoke again "He was acting really weird in my vision quest. He didn't seem like he wanted to kill Baby Chris but more like he had no other choice."

Piper glared at her. "Phoebe I don't know what feelings you still have for him but he's going to kill your nephew so would you please stop defending him!" she screamed at her sister.

"No other choice?" Chris asked his aunt and ignored his mother's angry words. "What do you mean with this?"

"I could feel that he was sorry and that he hated himself for doing what he did" Phoebe answered and tried to remember Cole's feeling as exactly as she could. "He was… desperate. And he somehow felt like he had no other choice."

Leo suddenly felt the urge to be at Baby Chris' side. He needed to protect him. "I think I better orb to Magic School and see how the kids are doing" he said before he orbed away.

Chris sighed heavily. He was getting a great headache. Nothing of what Phoebe's vision quest had revealed to them made sense. He once again thought it all over. Cole had apparently killed him when he was two in his original future. But when it was true what Phoebe had felt then Cole didn't really want to do this. However he had been sent back to life by the Angel of destiny so that he could once go back to the past to save his brother. But before this thought has even entered his mind Cole had told Wyatt that he shouldn't stop him when he would try to save him. And now he was here, Wyatt was save and everything was the way it was meant to be, except that he was still going to die on his second birthday. Killed by Cole, who actually didn't seem to want to hurt him.

"I don't get it" Chris admitted while he sat down on the couch.

"Me neither" Paige and Wyatt said at the same moment.

Piper started pacing in front of them. "There's still something missing. Something important, but what?" she asked frustrated.

"The reason why Cole's doing this" Phoebe answered. "That's what's missing. If I'm right and he felt like he had no other choice then something must have happened that made him believe that. We just need to find out what it was."

"Great and how?" Paige asked.

"Another vision quest?" Wyatt suggested.

Chris shook his head. "No I don't think that Phoebe can take more right now. And it would maybe take too long anyways to find the right spell to make her see what we want to know."

"Okay then we have to find something that can strip Cole off of his powers" Piper said firmly. "Once we did this we summon him and kill him once and for all."

No one contradicted. It was at least a plan, even if they didn't know if there was even something that could strip Cole's powers off. And another question was how they could make sure that he wasn't coming back again when they would manage it to kill him. But all that mattered right now was not to give up and try at least to keep Baby Chris save from him.

TBC... (Everyone has already known that it's Cole, but I still have a little surprise at the end! Anyway please review again! I'm so happy about the feedback I got so far!)