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 17: Explanations

Out of instinct Piper immediately raised her left hand and tried to blow Cole up. But he remained in one piece. In fact he didn't even stumble back a bit. Piper quickly handed Baby Chris over to Leo and then she looked over to her sisters. They nodded, knowing that Piper wanted to set their plan in motion. Wyatt also realized it and quickly orbed out of the room.

Leo and Chris stood back and watched how Wyatt reformed behind Cole and threw a lightning bolt at him. Cole just shimmered out of the way. After a second he shimmered in next to the playpen where Baby Wyatt was also awake now. Cole quickly raised his hands in defense and said "Please, I don't want to fight."

"That's bad for you because I won't let you kill my brother!" Wyatt yelled before he sent Cole flying across the room.

Paige took the opportunity and threw a vial with the power stripping potion at Cole's feet. It exploded but nothing else happened and it was clear that it didn't work. Piper felt panic coming over her when she saw how Cole stood up from the floor again. "Leo, bring Chris and Wyatt somewhere else!" she yelled frantically.

"No wait!" Chris suddenly said when Leo went over to Baby Wyatt to pick him up. He had realized something. He didn't know if his theory was right but he hoped so. "We need Baby Wyatt."

Leo looked at him as he was out of his mind. "Chris what..."

"I just noticed something" Chris interrupted him before he grabbed Wyatt's arm who once again wanted to use his powers against Cole. "Don't" he said firmly.

Chris shot a look at Cole and saw that Cole understood what he was thinking. Wyatt however didn't see any sense in his brother's behaviour and quickly lashed out with his other hand to attack Cole. Cole could shimmer out in time and reappeared once again by the playpen. Chris saw his theory confirmed. Cole wasn't here to hurt him.

Seeing Cole so near by Baby Wyatt let Piper's motherly instincts kick in and she tried to blow him up again. This time Cole stumbled back a bit and Wyatt quickly sent a lightning bolt at him now that he was vulnerable. Chris reacted immediately and used his own powers to sent the bolt away from Cole. Everyone gasped surprised and Wyatt yelled furiously "Are you out of your mind! What the hell is wrong with you!"

Chris quickly tried to explain "Just wait a second. Baby Wyatt didn't raise his shield against Cole, didn't you notice?"

"That means nothing" Phoebe said harshly and eyed Cole with a cold stare.

"It means that he's not here to hurt me" Chris said convinced but a second later he turned back to Cole and asked uncertain "Am I right?"

Cole nodded. "You're right. I certainly don't want to harm you or..."

"You're lying!" Phoebe cut him off angrily. "I saw you in a premonition. You're here to kill him!"

"No, I'm not. What you saw was from the other timeline. I admit that I killed him there but I had no other choice" Cole explained.

"No other choice!" Piper shrieked. "You damn bastard! You killed my son!" With that she once again wanted to use her powers but Chris stepped between her and Cole. "Chris, get out of the way!" Piper said impatiently.

Chris shook his head. "No mom, we need some answers, I need some answers and Cole's the only one who can give them."

"He's here to kill you Chris" Leo reminded him while he hold Baby Chris tight to his chest.

"No, I'm not" Cole repeated sincerly. He was truly surprised that Chris stood up for him after he'd killed him in an other timeline. But he was glad that he did.

"Why are you really here?" Chris asked him while his family had to gather all their selfcontroll not to attack Cole again.

"I'm here because I think I owe you an explanation" Cole answered, ignoring the furious looks from everyone.

Piper was near to blow him up again. "Really?" she asked sarcastically. "How nice from you."

"Mom, please stop for a sec" Chris said before he turned his attention back to Cole.

Cole sighed while he looked into Chris' green eyes, the same eyes that had haunted him for so long. He would never forget the terrified look in those eyes when the baby had stopped breathing because of his own hands. Actually he hadn't done anything to the boy this time – a fact Cole was really thankful for. "Maybe we should sit down, this could take a while" he finally suggested.

"Yeah that would be great, shall I get some tea and coffee too?" Wyatt scoffed.

Chris shot him a warning look before he sat down on the couch. Reluctantly Piper joined him there and soon everyone was sitting in the living room. Well, everyone except from Wyatt. He kept staying there with his arms crossed in front of his chest, but ready to attack Cole again if he should lay a hand on his brother.

Cole took a deep breath before he looked at Chris and started to explain "After the sisters vanquished me the last time I got a lot of powers and one of them is the ability to look through time. It's not like Phoebe's premontions, it's more like a vision quest, just that I can control it and do it whenever I want. In your original timeline I used this power after Wyatt was attacked from Kivan. I had a bad feeling about it and knew that I was right after I saw what would happen to him."

"That he would turn evil" Chris cut in.

Cole nodded. "Yeah. I got a good look at what would happen. Wyatt turning evil and then of course your deaths." He looked over at the sisters. "I knew that I had to prevent this from happening. I considered to kill Wyatt before he could grow up to be this monster but..."

"You of all people talk about being a monster?" Phoebe interrupted him bitterly.

This time it was Wyatt who helped Cole. "He's right. I was a monster" he said quietly, once again remembering all the horrible things he had done.

"That wasn't really you" came the unison response from almost everyone in the room, including Cole.

Wyatt took a step back. "Okay, this was scary" he said and Chris chuckled slightly. However he turned his attention quickly back to Cole. "Why didn't you do it?" he asked him curiously.

"Because I knew that Phoebe would never forgive me for killing her nephew" Cole answered lowly.

"And Chris isn't my nephew!" Phoebe yelled at him in disbelief.

"It's not that simple" Cole said and looked at her. "However I kept the thought of killing Wyatt in my mind but I knew that I would only do it if I had no other choice. After the vision of Wyatt's turning I tried to think of a way to save him, save you all. I created visions to see the consequences of every thought that entered my mind. Nothing worked. I was near to give up when I created a vision in which Chris would have died when he was fourteen. Then I saw the Angel of destiny offering him a second chance to save Wyatt and I knew that this was the only possible way."

"Then why didn't you let everything go the way it did in this vision?" Leo asked while he tried to decide if he should believe Cole or not. "Why did you kill Chris by yourself?"

"Because Chris would have decided against the Angel's offer" Cole answered.

"You're lying" Chris said automatically. He couldn't imagine that he would have done this. "I would do everything to save Wyatt."

Cole looked at him sorrowful. "I know, but in the timeline I created in this vision something happened to you that would have caused you to say no to the Angel."

"No that's not possible" Chris said stobbornly. "I would never give up on Wyatt, no matter what happened to me."

"Not even when he killed you?" Cole asked and caused Wyatt to gasp in horror. Only the thought that he could kill his little brother filled him with incredible guilt and pain.

Chris looked down at the floor before he answered sincerly "Not even this. I would have saved Wyatt even..."

"Chris you have to understand this" Cole cut him off. "It was on the same day Piper died. Your whole world had shattered. You didn't know of Wyatt's turning yet but when Wyatt saw that Piper was dead he told you that it was the only way to prevent this from happening to yourself too that you would join him. You refused because you knew that there would always be good and evil in this world and Wyatt lost his patience. When the Angel of destiny offered you a chance to save Wyatt you were too shocked about what had just happened to accept his offer and that's really understandable."

"No it's not understandable" Chris said, angry at himself. "I should have saved him and not..."

"You did Chris" Paige quickly tried to calm him down.

"She's right Chris" Cole said firmly.

Chris looked at him for a second before he spoke "So you killed me because you knew that the Angel of destiny would sent me back. And you did it when I was very young so I couldn't decide by myself."

Cole nodded. "It was the only way to save you all. I'm truly sorry for what I did but..."

"You don't have to" Chris cut him off. "As you said, it was the only way."

There was an awkward silence after this. Everyone except from Chris still had doubts if Cole told them the truth but they had to admit that everything made sense now. After a while Cole stood up and said "I want you to bind my powers forever. I made a spell that should work if you use the power of three, well in fact you have to use both."

"Both?" Piper asked confused.

"Yeah yours and your children's" Cole answered.

"But I only have two kids, there is no power of three" Piper said, still confused.

Wyatt and Chris looked at each other before Chris turned to their mother. "Well actually there is a new power of three in the future" he said.

"What? But how is this possible?" Piper asked, not able to comprehend the meaning of Chris' words.

"You will have another baby!" Phoebe squealed happily. "A boy or a girl?" she asked her nephew's. Piper looked over to them too, a bit shocked about the fact that she was going to be the mother of three children.

"A boy" Chris answered. "His name is Rick and he's a bit more than two and half years younger as I."

It took Leo just a second to realize what that meant. "She's pregnant?" he asked also a bit shocked.

Wyatt and Chris nodded and smiled while Paige stated "So I'm gonna have three nephew's to spoil."

Cole watched them, also with a smile on his face. He was so happy that his plan had worked and Chris didn't seem to be mad at him. He had watched over the boy all his life, never able to forget about what he had done to him. He had always feared this moment where he would have to face Chris and explain his actions and he was really glad that Chris understood him. "This is the spell" he finally said to get the family's attention back and hold out a piece of paper. "After you bind my powers I want you to say the other spell I've written. It will block me from any magic. I will never be able to get any powers."

Phoebe took the paper and read the spells. They seemed right but she couldn't stop being a bit suspicious. "How do we know that this isn't a trick?"

Cole had to smile. "You're the best spell writer I've ever met Phoebe. You would notice it if something's wrong with the spells."

Phoebe nodded but didn't return his smile. "Okay then let's do this."


A half hour later Cole was stripped off of his powers and blocked from ever getting them back again. He looked over at Phoebe who was standing next to her sisters. She was so beautiful like he had remembered her. He had never stopped loving her and hadn't been able to suppress the hope that she would forgive him and be with him again. But as he now saw that she avoided his gaze completely he realized that it was too late. He had had a lot chances to show her that he was good in the past and he had always failed. Cole couldn't blame her that she didn't want to try it again. He sighed before he spoke "I should better go now. I'm really sorry for everything and I hope that you'll once be able to forgive me."

He turned to leave but Chris called after him "Hey, what are you going to do now?"

Cole frowned confused. "What do you mean?"

"I mean you're a mortal now. Do you even have a place to stay?" Chris asked.

Cole was more than just a bit surprised at this. He hadn't expected that Chris would actually be concerned about him after what he did to him. "Don't worry, I'm gonna be fine" he assured before he left the house.

No one made any attempt to stop him but Chris could clearly see the pain and longing in Phoebe's eyes. "Go after him" he said to her.

Phoebe hesitated a second but then shook her head. "No I can't. It's not..."

"Aunt Phoebe, he still loves you and I'm fine. He did everything just to save us all" Chris said firmly.

"Hey, since when do you call her Aunt?" Paige asked. "And why don't you call me that too?"

Chris ignored her and continued to look at Phoebe. "Go" he said once again. "Before it's too late."

Phoebe hesitated another second before she wrapped her arms around her nephew. "I love you Chris. Thanks." Then she pulled away from him again and ran out of the house after Cole.

Chris looked after her with a smile on his face. His smile got even brighter when he watched how his father went upstairs with his baby self to get him to bed while Paige started to talk with Piper's stomach and Baby Wyatt watched them oddly. Chris looked over to his adult brother and saw that he was also smiling happily. It was truly over. Wyatt was save, Phoebe would work things out with Cole, his father was always there for him and soon his little brother Rick would be born. Chris felt a bit disappointed that he wouldn't be able to see him as a baby too but he knew that he and Wyatt had to go back to the future where they'll finally be able to live the lives they deserve.

TBC... (This was actually the last chapter. The next will be an epilogue and the real end. Hope you liked it!)