CHAPTER X:

I was awoken by the grip of someone in my shoulder and a hand covering my mouth, preventing me from screaming. I opened my eyes in panic, only to meet my father's.

"Shhh… buddy" He whispered "It's ok, it's me" He said removing the flesh and blood gag from my mouth. "I am sorry I scared you, I just didn't want you to wake up the other Chris that was sleeping beside you."

I looked at my father confused and somewhere near I could hear my mother's voice yelling.

"And WE are going to have a SERIOUS discussion about this once all this is over, young man! Clear?"

I looked around sleepy hoping that she wasn't talking to me. I realized I was laying down in the love seat in the attic, and me and my dad weren't the only ones there.

Thankfully…my mom was yelling at Wyatt, who was staring at the floor, nervously. I wondered what the heck did he do.

Still, we weren't the only ones in the attic either. The twins and Prue were sitting down in their P'js, their heads in each other's shoulder, more asleep than awake. Paige was standing in front of the book of shadows, Jake and Phoebe were standing next to the girls.

"What is going on, dad? What is all the family doing here, that Chris can't find out about? He as much part of this family as anyone else!" I said kind of annoyed.

"Of course he is, son!" My dad answered. "That's the reason we are here. Jake can you explain it to them?"

Jake is a whitelighter, like my dad; He is Aunt Paige's husband, and the father of the twins. They ran magic school together. Everybody looked at him as he began to explain…

" I went up there after Leo and Piper talked to Chris. We thought it would be less suspicious if I went rather than Leo, since we wanted to find out if they'd realized Chris was gone. Right now… Penny, Patty and Prue are covering for him, but they are running out of ideas and they can't come up with many more excuses of why he is not there. The elders are going to start looking for him soon and I don't think they are going to be nice to him once they find him! They are threatening to take him out of his plane and banned him to the ghostly plane until the find a way to recycle his soul. What in theory can't be done, because technically his soul is yours Chris" He said looking at me.

My dad continued "So if they find a way to do it… they will be also jeopardizing your life… because if they make a tiny mistake in their calculations… both my sons are tiny speck of recycled dust! And since there is NO WAY I am letting them do that to one of my sons, let alone to two of them…We were talking about it" he looked at my mom, her sisters and Jake

Now it was my mom's turn" And we decided the best thing is to do is to cast a cloaking spell, so they can't find it. It has to be as powerful as possible, that is why we woke you all up, and we thought that if we restrict the spell to a small space, like the manor and use all our power it will be powerful enough to cloak Chris from the elders for at least a week or so."

Wooww… something unbelievable just happen, hell is going to run loose and we unveiled the wrath of the elders, once again… I know… what else is new? Right?

"That means we'll get to keep Chris in the manor for a week?" Patty asked peppy.

He he yeah Patty he is a dog that we GET TO KEEP! I thought… but I answered…

"And after that week? And why do we have to hide it from him?" I asked.

"After that week, we'll see… but it will give us time to think what to do. You know that if we tell Chris he will never agree to put us in danger! He would rather suffer any kind of unbearable and unimaginable punishment than have us risking ourselves by hiding him." My mom told us… everybody agreed. "So we also have to find a way to keep Chris in the house, without him knowing he can't really go anywhere. Clear?"

Everybody nodded.

"Ready for the spell?" Paige asked pulling out a piece of paper… we all got together in order to be able to read it.

" The oldest of Piper sons,

The second one in line,

The Chris that's not alive.

In this space this house confines,

We ask you to disguise.

The soul that split in two,

We need this time to shroud,

Don't let any power find it,

From everything and everybody hide it.

Make it invisible to any sense that wants to hound it.

Cloak him, veil him, mask him, so he can not be hunted."

"Well I think we all should go back to bed." Paige said yawing and taking the twins' hands.

Wyatt started orbing out with everybody else, but my mom was too fast for him.

"Where do you think you are going young man? I am pretty sure you owe me and your father and damn good explanation!" She said grabbing him before he could attempt to escape. "Sweet dreams sweetheart." She told me kissing my cheek as a subtle way of telling me LEAVE.

"Night." I said not very eager to get in the line of fire and I orbed out… of course… to a hidden place, right outside the attic… I wasn't going to miss this conversation for the world. What did Wy do? Why were my parents mad at the perfect-all-mighty-double-blessed?

"Wyatt Mathew Halliwell do you have ANY idea how you scared us when we went into your room and you weren't there? How could you orb out in the middle of the night like that? THIS night of all nights? Like we didn't have enough things to worry about for you to disappear on us like that!" My mom yelled at him.

"I am sorry mom, I just really needed to think!" He pleaded.

"Why couldn't you just think in your room?" My mom snapped.

"Think about what?" My dad spoke, he always remained calmer than my mom.

"I… I really had to know what Chris was hiding." I could hear him swallowing from outside the door.

"And you thought that orbing out in the middle of the night would help you with that?" Mom barked once again.

"No mom, I already knew what Chris is hiding by the time I orbed out…That's what I needed to think about!"

"About what Chris is hiding? And how did you find out?" My dad asked concerned.

"Yes… no… not exactly… see… I cast a spell this afternoon to see what he was hiding."

"YOU DID WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?" My mom freaked out.

"Have you ever heard of personal gain, Wyatt?" My dad added, as if my mom screams hadn't been clear enough.

"Well if I hadn't, I swear I had a pretty awful first hand experience this afternoon." Wyatt answered so heart broken that I wanted to run and comfort him, and I bet my parents couldn't stay mad at him either.

"What do you mean, Wy… what happened?" My mom said way softer than before.

"I saw it all… I saw what he was hiding, yeah… but I saw much more than I bargained for…I saw it all mom… I saw the other's Wyatt's life, I saw the murders, I felt the pain, I smelled the blood…" his voice was braking and fading…

"It's ok honey, that wasn't you, it' ok… it will never happen." My mom was telling him.

"yeah buddy, you shouldn't think about that… now go to your room and get some rest, ok?" My dad said sweetly.

"Yes dad"

"And remember never orb out of your room in the middle of the night without telling us where you are going like that again, understood?"

"Yeah dad"

"We mean it, Wyatt… you do it one more time and I swear I am going to be the one disregarding personal gain and I am going to cast an antiorbing spell in your room, clear?"

"I know you will, mom"

I orbed out of my hiding spot before someone discovered me, and to my bed.

Thank god I did that, cuz seconds after my dad orbed, I pretended to be asleep. Still I realized my dad wasn't coming to check on me, but on the other Chris, who was still sleeping seating down on the floor, with his head on my mattress.

My dad caressed his hair and went to prepare the pull-out-sofa I have in my bedroom, so Chris could sleep on it. Once he was ready, he orbed Chris to it, laying him down comfortably, and taking his shoes off. Chris stirred and moaned.

"it's ok buddy, it's me, I was just trying to help you get comfortable" Dad whispered.

"Dad?" Chris said half asleep.

"yeah… go back to sleep, everything is fine, just go back to sleep"

Chris closed his eyes again, smiling. My dad covered him with a blanket, kissed his forehead and whispered "I love you." Then he came to my bed and repeated the same movements, he covered me, kissed my forehead and whispered me he loved me, I gently felt asleep.

"Chris sweetie, breakfast is ready!" I woke up to the sound of my mom voice, walking up… the other Chris! Ok yeah I admit… I did feel the awful sting of jealousy for like a second… but it didn't last long.

"Arghdaw" he mumbled

I watch them from my bed, my mom was caressing his hair and he was fighting to wake up.

"Chris honey, wake up." My mom whispered.

Chris turned around and opened his eyes, smiling at what he saw. Then he rubbed his eyes like making sure he wasn't still dreaming.

"Mom?" He asked surprised.

"Yeah sweetie, it's me… do you wanna go down and have breakfast with us?" She asked, still caressing his hair.

Chris looked around, trying to remember what was going on. When he spotted me lying on my bed I waved at him and he waved back smiling. Mom turned around to find out I was awake.

"Good morning, sweetie, how are you feeling?" She asked me, walking towards me.

"Great!" I smiled at her. Of course, not believing me, She took my temperature, she sighed in relief when she found out I was actually fine.

"I race you to the dinning room." Chris told me orbing out before I could even accept his offer. Of course he won and my mom was left alone in my bedroom, having no other choice than to walk down after us.

" I won!" Chris told me happily once I was down.

"That's cuz you cheated!" I chuckled.

Chris was too busy devouring a home made muffin to answer me.

"Do ghost even get hungry?" Wy asked curiously.

"When they assume human form they do, they get tired and everything else, like any regular human being. Just like dad." Chris answered with his mouth full." And even if I didn't… I wouldn't miss one of mom's breakfasts for the World!"

Mom smiled at his compliment.

"And what about your powers… do you still have your powers?" Wy smiled smugly as he tk took the muffin Chris had in his hand at made it fly into his hand.

"You BET!" Chris chuckled tk redirecting the muffin to him; only Wy was fast and put up his shield up in a second, blocking the muffin's path and redirected to himself, sticking his tongue out at Chris.

"HA!" Wyatt teased him. He was just playing it's not like Chris couldn't grab one of the tons of muffins that were in front of him if he wanted to. "Yummi" Wy said laughing taking a bite of the muffin.

"That was MY muffin, WY!" Chris chuckled, probably remembering the good old days when they used to play with his Wyatt.

"Oh…You wanted it?" Wy played dumb and threw it at Chris (without using his powers); Chris caught it in the air.

"You already ate half of it." He laughed.

"You should learn to share LITTLE brother!" Wy teased back.

" I am OLDER than you!" Chris smiled self-content.

"You really think so?" Wy stuck his tongue at him.

"MOOOM, Wyatt is picking on me!" Chris pouted amused.

"I can see that!" She smiled amused "And you seem to be loving every second of it!"

Everybody in the table that had been looking at those two in amused surprise couldn't help laughing. Chris shrugged and Wy smiled widely at him, they both started laughing too and Chris threw the muffin back at Wyatt and the muffin war begun! For like five minutes before my mom threatened us with cleaning after our own messes.

After a while…

"Mom…?" I asked shyly.

"Yes sweetie?"

"Do you think I could stay home today with Chris, instead of going to school?" I asked bashfully… I mean… I had already lost quite a few days of school and I knew it was probably a good idea to go to class so I wouldn't be too far behind, but then… I really wanted to spend some time with Chris, talk to him, get to know him.

"Of course, honey, actually I wasn't planning on allowing you to go to school yet. Your fever might be gone, but we don't know if it might come back, and besides you should rest, you are still very weak and pale. So it's nice to know you won't be throwing a tantrum cuz you have to stay home." She said caressing my cheek.

I tried my best hate glare, but she just ignored it.

Everybody looked at Wy, that was engulfing his breakfast as if there was no tomorrow, with a STUPID happy grin on his face.

"WHAT?" He asked confused when he realized that everybody was staring at him.

"Nothing, honey." Mom answered; shocked that he hadn't ask her to stay home too. Wy would usually use any excuse to cut class!

"Oh… look at the time." My brother said staring at his watch that till now, I had thought was a merely decorative object in his wrist. " I wanted to go to school earlier to finish a project." Wy said kissing my mom's cheek and putting a hand on my shoulder and the other one on Chris'. "Have fun and be good BABY brothers!" He chuckled as he orbed away.

"That was sure happy camper! What happened to him?" Paige asked amused.

"I donno but Chris wants to cut school and Wy wants to go there earlier? Something must be seriously wrong with the world" My dad chuckled amused.

Something must be wrong with the world… yeah… and I didn't even wanted to think about it, nor about the disturbing dream I had last night.

I know I am being selfish by wanting to throw up at the mere thought of Wyatt and Emma getting together, but I can't help it! I mean Wyatt is my best friend, and so is Emma… and I love it when the three of us hang out together, I do, and it happens… A LOT… but that doesn't mean I want them to start dating and forget all about me. If Wyatt and Emma get together I am going to be left alone. It has nothing to do with the revolting feeling that I have in my guts when I see them both tongue wrestling… I swear it doesn't. I mean I saw Wy kiss a lot of girls and Emma kiss a few boys, and is GROSS, but I can tolerate it. It has to do with the dreadful feeling I have in my heart when I see them together. The little voice that tells me "I know I am going to loose them". If the two get together, they are just going to forget about me, I mean… they are WYATT AND EMMA and I am me… If you get my hint… and how am I going to go on if they don't care about me anymore?

The other Chris interrupted my chain of thought.

"Yeah… about that, Chris… I would love to spend the morning with you, and with everyone, I REALLY WOULD… but I think it would probably be better if I get going." Chris said and the rest panic as he stood up, ready to leave.

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Nathy1000000: ". Así que no es un pink elephant...chanfle! Yo quería saber qué decía." Y eso lo confirma… estas LOCA… los elefantes NO hablan :P! Salvo que un demon les haya casteado un spell ahí tendrias un walking, talking, kidnapping, pink elephant! Si, si Chris ya tiene dueña, mas de una… aunque sea un nene de catorce! A parte es mas interesante que la mejor amiga se ponga de novia con el hermano… mucho mas dilema! AHh me encanta que me digan que cuando estan los dos Chris se nota que son la misma persona pero diferente (no fuiste la unica que me lo dijo) pero me parece super cool, sera mi perfil asi re psicologico que me encanta que me tiren lo de las caracterizaciones de mis personajes!  GRACIASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS sos una fenomena! Y no solo en el sentido de que ve fenómenos como elefantes rosas que hablan! Si a mi de hecho me parecio cute la interaccion entre Wyatt y Emma… me parecio que eran muy tiernos : ) (Y yo me alabo a mi misma… DIOS que mal! Pero juro que no soy yo… son las voces en mi cabeza que me hablan y yo las escribo! Y ahora lo confirmamos… no solo tengo problemas, sino que estoy certifiably insane!)

ShhhDon'tTalkDon'tTalk/ LiquidRedSexGeniusInABottle : Ok, I already answered you this in For Chris' sake chap. 24… but here goes again….OHHHH that is SOOO UNFAIR! I can't write any whip cream licking in any of my fictions! They wouldn't go with the plot at all.. I envy you… besides I bet Brandon is flipping hot too! It doesn't matter… cuz since Alexia from For Chris' sake it's pretty much like me… I can tell you there is a LOT of whip cream licking in her bedroom… and in her kitchen and if those Attic walls would talk… hmm… Piper and Leo would pee on their prude pink French Italian sock and would forbid Chris to EVER come near Lexy again! And Wy… lets see Alia grew up with Alexia and Chris… and Wy kind of was there all the time…and actually Wy didn't even need any stimulation to get kinky! But unluckily to see some whip cream action between Wyatt and Emma we have to wait a couple of years… she just turned fourteen! I would go to jail for it… and trust me if I am going to go to jail… I'll rather sleep with a minor, instead of writing about a girl!

ChrisBianca: Yeah fan fic system was down last time, but you made up with your great review this time : )… Well he wasn't being kidnapped but it did had to do with the other Chris' appearance. Lets see what happens next : ) and tks for the lovely review, as always!

Starra: Aww you did hope for Emma to go for Chris? I am sorry…actually when Emma appeared in the story lots of ppl told me that they didn't want her to end up with Chris, not that it changed anything, Emma was always supposed to end up with Wyatt, I thought it would make the story a little bit more interesting. Yeah we'll see what is going to happen next… I hope you liked this chappie and tks again and again and again for reviewing.

phoebe turner: Well then you are lucky that I updated super soon : )! I hope you liked this one too… the cliffie is not that evil !

FRENCH "Butt kicking" SPARKLESbe careful what you wish for, that goes for Chris and for Wyatt, and the other Chris too cuz I bet he was wishing he could stay with his family. Now not only he is trapped in the manor, but he doesn't know about it. I don't know if I can imagine hugging myself but I definitely can picture myself being hugged by two versions of Chris and trust me is a VERY pleasant picture. : )

Polo Mint Midget: Hehe I love your nick! I am so glad you liked it and here is my update super, super soon, so I hope you like it, and tons of tks for your review!

Nikki14u: AHHH I really like Emma-Wyatt, so I hope you like it too… I think they are cute… ok, maybe not as twisted and weird, yet absolutely adorable like Autumn and Wy… but then… it adds an interesting twist to the story… besides everybody thought I wanted to pair her up with Chris, so I kind of surprised everybody! Jejejej I am evil! Tks for your adorable reviews, as usual.

Gwen: Thank you very much, I hope you still like it. And yeah I completely agree, Drew Fuller is the hottest man in the world!

teal-lover: You are sooo nice… specially considering you are such a good writer than reading my stories must be like reading sth written by a two year old! Nah it wasn't big Chris waking him up, but THAT was a really good guess, and it was pretty close from what really happen. : ) TKS TKS TKS.

Pukah: Heheh have I ever told you you are like the FUNNIEST reviewer EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR:

On the other hand, we do know he is good with 'over the edge' situations... neurotic, but good. I just can see his agenda:
1.- Hit the Book of Shadows.
2.- Go vanquish some demons.
3.- Split mum an dad (not really necessary, but fun) while vanquishing more demons.
4.- Tell the truth (no matter how little sense it makes with the rest of the season).
5.- Hit the Book of Shadows and go vanquish some demons.
6.- Get mum and dad togheter AND vanquish some demons.
7.- Hit the Book of Shadows.
8.- Get killed in a very angsty way.
9.- Be almost forgotten by my family, just mentioned for Leo's angst and then simply ignored.
10.- Vanquish a last couple of demons.

This was SOOO freaking funny, I probable read it 12 times when I got the email and another dozen times just now… and I am still laughing… it cracks me up! Badly. I know more and more pressure on poor old Chris' back… but hey that how the dude works… what is sad its that if Piper dies, he gets to stay with her… if she stays alive (and that is what he trying to help them with) god knows when he is going to see her again.. he is such a cute dude. "

Oh, and remember that it will be YOUR responsability and that Wyatt could turn EVIL after that, and that we could DESTROY the cosmic balance... but, hey! don't stress yourself"
And Chris shots himself, but... uops! he is already dead!" DUDE how can you be SOOO funny? Specially cuz is super tragic! You are the best!

Emma and Wy…nah he just saw it cuz his connection with Wyatt and cuz he was idiotic enough to ask himself what was Wyatt going to do in a girls bedroom at two a.m in the morning, what did he expected, that they were going to play checkers? That would suck grandparents-voyeurism… I am going to puke for the rest of the day. I can see Wyatt taking his shirt of, no problem… but my grandmother touching even my grandfather pinky would be too much for my stomach!

No Bianca, at least yet… but yeah she is probably something in magic school… like I have no idea how you call them in english… but we used to have preceptores in high school, that were the ones that… I never knew really what they did… but they helped the kids when you needed something. She is one of those and they are going to end up in the cleaning supplies room… hmm