CHAPTER XI:
A/N: A few people asked me when is Chris' b-day. Chris' b-day is on April 26 and we are on a VERY long April 15, so eleven days and counting.
"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.
"No Chris wait!" I cried in panic, running towards him.
"What?" he asked.
"I need you to stay, I need to help me breaking the news to everybody… I can't do it alone!" I whispered in his ear.
"Chris, I am pretty sure you can." He said softly. "I need to go!"
"Why? Why are you so eager to go face a certain punishment? You haven't even had a chance to say hello to your aunty Paige or talk to my girls." Paige said blinking funny, the way she always does.
Chris smiled lovingly, and walked to her kissing her cheek.
"Hello Paige, I seriously missed you!"
"Then don't leave… look at your cousins, they are dying to meet you!"
Chris hesitantly looked at the three girls that were smiling at him.
"PLeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Chris stayyyyyyyyyyyyy!" The three girls chanted in unison.
"Oh… come on… how can you say no to that?" Phoebe asked "And you know… it's not like they are going to punish you less if you stay less time… what's the rush?"
"I thought you were going to be the first ones to tell me to go, for own my safety and all." Chris said confused. "But sure… I really don't wanna go at all!"
"Then stay." My mom said standing up and sweetly placing her hands around his chest.
Chris sat down again. "If you say so, mom." He said confused.
And so we had the most wonderful and longest breakfast of the entire history. The three girls missed school, Phoebe called in sick, mom told her manager to handle everything, and Jake left to magic school telling Paige not to worry about anything.
"You just stay here and enjoy your nephew's presence" He said kissing her cheek lovingly and orbing away.
So we just stayed and talked and laughed and bond, everybody was delighted, and Chris… Chris was the happiest one of us all! I came closed to believe that if he smiled a any longer or broader he was going to hurt some his facial muscles… but then I thought about it and I never heard of anyone hurting himself for smiling too much.
It was so great I almost forgot about Wyatt and my dream of last night or the fact that he had disappeared for half of the night or that he was grinning stupidly during breakfast or that he had wanted to go to school earlier. Almost… till my mom said.
"Chris, darling…" Both of us looked at her. "Little Chris" I gave her the most awful look that I could manage "Ok… teenage Chris… we'll definitely will have to find a way around this name thingy… but anyway… can you orb to magic school and get your brother? It's already lunch time… tell him to come and have lunch with us!"
I looked at my watch… 1.15? Wow… it was so late! Lunch at school started at 1.00, what the heck was Wy doing? And more important… did I want to know?
"Sure mom!" I said orbing out to magic school. I looked around the cafeteria but my brother was nowhere to be found. I asked his friends and they were all delighted to see me alive and well (they probably thought I was dead from magic poisoning by now or magic OD or something stupid like that!), but none of them knew where Wy was.
Finally I spotted him, he was in a hidden corner, holding hands with EMMA. I tried not to get angry, I tried not to prejudged… but I still heard one of the glasses break in one of the tables beside me, and I am pretty sure me and my TK had something to do with it.
"Wy, mom says you should come and have lunch with us!" I said, hell flaming from my eyes.
"Hey Chris!" Said Emma.
I simply ignored them both and orbed out to the Manor's dining-room; Seconds later my so-call-ex-brother followed me.
"Chris, can we talk?" He asked
"There is nothing to talk about" I said firmly, sitting down at the table and purposely avoiding him through out the whole meal.
Wyatt excused himself saying he had to go back to school because he had a spell-test in the first period that he couldn't miss. WHATEVER! He even made Paige confirm everybody that it was true…
Like I cared, I didn't want to share Chris with Wyatt anyways… he was an older version of MYSELF…
After a long lunch Chris and I went to my room, alone.
"So wassup, kiddo? Why are you mad at Wy?" He asked once we were there.
"I am… I'm not mad." I said, surprised he had realized.
"You know… it's kind of hard hiding things from yourself!" He chuckled a little. "So tell me… what's going on? I saw how you gave him the silence treatment during lunch."
"Whatever! He deserved it!" I said and he raised his eye-brows in an interrogating way. So I told him everything about my dream and what had happened.
"SO you are actually mad at Wyatt for something you are not even sure that happened?" He said, trying to prove how stupid my reaction was, but I didn't care.
"Oh come on Chris… they were holding hands! Why would be holding hands?"
"I donno… but you could have asked Wy! And besides, what is the big deal if Wyatt and Emma are together? Don't you want them to be happy?"
"Yeah… but not that way! I mean, if they start dating they are going to forget all about me! Now I lost a brother and a best friend!"
"Oh Chris that is being unfair with them and with you! Wy and Emma love you… there is no way they will stop paying attention to you!"
"Yes they will! How did all this happen? I mean… All this time, did Wy and Emma used me as an excuse to hand out together?"
"Stop being paranoid Chris, we are neurotic and obsessed enough with a huge inferiority complex. I don't want my family to start adding paranoid to our pathologies! Wy has always been there for you since you were born, and Emma since you were what? Three? I seriously doubt they had any hidden romantic interests then, and I don't think they had any after that either… you can't be so mean with them? They don't deserve it; they had always been awesome with you."
"But how? Why are they doing this to me?"
"I don't think they are doing anything TO you on purpose, I am sorry kiddo, but I don't even think that you've gotten into the equation there… and if you did…you were probably the reason they didn't do anything sooner. You knew that Wy and Emma liked each other, even if they never told you anything… you even know when their feelings for each other changed; you just didn't want it to see it."
"No… I didn't" I lied, while I thought of a trip to Lake Tahoe we did four months ago. It was going to be Dad, Wy and me originally, but Emma tagged along at the last minute.
After a pick-nick in this amazing spot beside the lake, where you can only get by orbing, my dad and I went for a hike in the woods. Emma and Wy didn't feel like walking, so they stayed there. I started talking with dad and the hike took way longer than expected.
When we were coming back, hours after we left, I was scared Wy and Emma would be dead bored and mad at me for leaving them alone with each other for so long. Much for my surprise, it was quite the opposite. Emma and Wy were lying on the beach talking and teasing each other having the time of their lives… that was the first time I realized there was something different about the way they looked at each other. Something I had never seen in Emma and I had seen only once in Wyatt, I didn't want to think when, then… but now I knew, it was the way Wyatt looked at his first girlfriend, the only girl he had ever cared about.
"I don't want to talk about it… lets do something else." I said trying to get those thoughts out of my mind.
"Ok..." He sighed resigned "What do you wanna do?"
Chris and I were playing my favorite holographic-video-game, that of course was also his favorite, even if he hadn't play since he was my age. Isn't it weird how time travel works? I mean he played the same games when he was my age, cuz it was basically also the same year and the games where the same… still he hadn't played that game in like twenty-eight years… and yet… twenty-eight years ago the holographic-video-games didn't even exist… how did mom and dad managed to have fun?
Anyways…we were having the time on our lives, playing and talking and teasing each other, I have never had that much fun with anyone… well…except with Wy. And in that moment of my existence Wy was far from being my favorite person in the planet.
Suddenly someone opened the door…
"Can I come in?" Wyatt said shyly peeping through the partially opened door.
"Hey, WY!" Said the other Chris cheerfully before I could answer. "Are you done with your test? How did it go? Come and play with us!"
Wyatt looked sheepish but stepped forward.
"Hey Chris, Chris!" Wy said, Chris looked at him understandingly, so he started ranting. "Look Chris is not like you think it is!"
"Nah? Are you sure?" I said, sarcasm and hatred pouring from every letter. "You didn't orb to Emma's last night and made out with her and tell her that you had been wanting to kiss her for a long period of time? And then you saw her this morning, and you were all lovey-dovey with her when I went to get you? Then tell me…what was it, my imagination? If it's not like I think it is… how is it?"
"How… How…How did you know about last night?" He asked shocked.
"Your brother has a "voyeurism power"!" Chris teased me.
"NOT FUNNY!" I said at the same time Wy answered "UH?"
"I donno… for some reason I dreamt it and I saw it all!"
"You saw it ALL?"
"Well I saw a LOT more than I wanted to see, at least! AGGGHHH"I said disgusted.
Chris chuckled; Wy and I gave him a fulminating look that shut him up, he looked bashfully at the floor and shrugged.
"But… Chris… I really care about Emma, I promise… she is not "Another conquer for my little black book." And I am hoping that Emma really cares about me too… You don't know how happy I was when she told me that she liked me too! I mean you SAW US! As disturbing as that is… you have to know… I really care about her."
"I DON'T CARE!"
"Chris, why are you doing this to us? I thought you were my friend and Emma's, I thought you cared about us, I thought you wanted to see us happy!" Wy said sadly, but I was too scared of loosing my two best friends to let his words touch me too much.
"I am and I do… but can't you just be happy alone? Without hooking up with each other?"
"Ok Chris, if you want to… if it really bothers you… We won't do anything. I know Emma will agree with me, that if you are going to hate us for being together, it is not worth it… no matter how much we like each other." He muttered heart broken, looking at me pleadingly, begging for my permission with his eyes.
And I was soo tempted to tell him to do whatever he wanted, Wy was the best, and I probably cared for him more than I cared about ANYONE else, even mom… I felt horrible hurting him; and I loved Emma too, my mind tortured me with imagines of Emma's sadden face when she find out she won't be able to be with Wyatt anymore. Still… that proved my point, I loved them too much to share them with anybody… less of all with each other! Emma would start coming home to be with Wyatt and not with me… they were going to leave me alone at lunch and soon forget all about me! And the thought of that was unbearable!
" No Wy… I DON'T want you and Emma to be together!"
Wy looked at me like I just grabbed his heart and choked it to death.
"Ok…" He whispered brokenhearted barely looking my way, I think his eyes were a little watery, which made me feel like crap, he quickly proceed to stare at the floor and with his hands on his pockets, said " I will talk to her tomorrow… Now if you'll excuse me, I need to… do something." He orbed out.
"How could you be SO selfish?" Chris looked at me disappointed.
I was feeling bad enough, the last thing I needed was a moral lesson courtesy of my older-alternative-life-alter- ego, and somehow his words and disappointment pissed me off. I guess it was cuz I was feeling bad enough as it was, and the thought of him being disappointed on me hurt me too much to bear it calmly.
"Whatever dude… you are the one calling me selfish cuz I wanna keep Wy by my side? Look at what YOU did when you started to loose him… you killed a Valkary, you lied to your whole family, you send dad to Vahalla, you let Bianca…" I cut off my speech at that moment… I mean, I was angry, but not angry enough to blame him for the death of his fiancé… I knew THAT hurt him more than enough. "The point is… that you did all those things cuz you could STAND loosing Wyatt… so now you are blaming me for just asking him not to be with MY best friend?"
I hit a nerve there and I knew it… I mean, he was me after all, and who knows better how to hurt you than yourself? I knew I was unfair, I knew Chris reasons were a lot more valid than mine and he was anything but selfish, but still I was angry and I couldn't stop my mouth from moving.
He shook his head hurt and disappointed. "I am going to talk to Wyatt!" He said obviously aching as he orbed away.
I threw myself heavily on my bed, feeling like the worst human being in the planet. Then… I probably was… I wondered how the other Chris…someone completely selfless, a hero, our savior could share the same genes with a scum-rat like me!
Now I had not only managed to hurt Wyatt but also Chris… "Way TO GO Christopher!"
Suddenly I panicked… where did the two of them go? What if Wy had orbed himself to the Golden Gate Bridge and Chris had followed? He couldn't leave the house!
I sensed them and luckily enough Wy had just gone to his room… I still felt horrible that my selfishness and recklessness could have put Chris in danger!
As I am laying in my bed all I can see it's my opened pulled out sofa, where Chris slept last night and the picture that I have on my night-table of me and Wy smiling happily. Tk I closed the bed and put the picture down, facing the table, so I don't get to see it. Still everything there remains me of what I did! I closed my eyes, covering my head with my pillows… but the memories haunt me! Damn it! How can one hide from his misdeeds? I grabbed my diary and now I am writing…as a cathartic way to expiate my crimes.
It's been a couple of hours since I've started writing. I was so engaged with what I was doing, I didn't even realize that Chris and Wyatt had orbed back to my room. They were both staring at me writing with a guilty expression, god knows for how long. Chris faked a cough (I mean, he is dead… I seriously doubt he needed to cough!) to get my attention.
I looked at them…I bet I looked like crap out of guilt, but they didn't look any better.
"I think you two need to talk!" Chris stated, and it was more like the order type of statement.
Chris-Halliwell: Older Chris is going to do a lot of things, hopefully : ). I don't think Bianca is going to come into the story yet, I would make little sense if they start their romance when he is 13 and she is 18! But it would definitely cause some confusion in older Chris I guess :P! I haven't decided if Chris has had a first kiss, what would you think?
Pukah: Hehehe wanna hear sth funny? You know how I copied your whole Chris' agenda last time I answered your review? Well I guess many ppl read it for some reason and I had lots of ppl telling me it was hilarious! Muffins are not chainsaws… for sure! You are always SOOO funny! Tks for your great reviews!
phoebe turner:TKS: ). 11 days Hill Chris' birthday!
Nathy1000000: Y las voces en mi cabeza me dicen tantas cosas! Pero creo que no estan demasiado en tema con tu locura personal… probablemente les cuesta reconocer la locura en otros. Asi que tu Chris esta demasiado ocupado para irte a darte un abrazo curativo? Ahh te mando el de esta, tiene solo 13 años, pero es cute… y los de mis fics que son adultos si estan re ocupados. Todavía Chris no sabe que puede salir pero cuando sepa… le va a dar un kick de su Mesiah/Martyr complex! Espero que este tb te haya gustado.
ChrisBianca: Hehehe… Thanks but the Chris to do list is not mine, is Pukah's she sent it to me in her review and it cracked me up, so I copied it to answer. She is like the FUNNIEST ever… and if you haven't you should definitely read her fiction "To trust or not to trust" this girl is SOMETHING and SOO funny. Yeah or we can make number 11.- travel to the past with evil Wy. 12.- Check the book of shadows 13.- Send evil Wy to kill brad kern. 14.- Hit the book of shadows and kill some demons while we are at it (maybe even kill them HITTING them with the book of shadows) 14.- Save evil Wy. 15.- Kill some more demons, to retrain my newly found good brother and see of maybe hitting the book of shadows 16.- Stay with my good brother in the past helping (though somehow they call it driving them crazy) mom and the aunts. 17.- Make sure to establish a love-hate relationship between Leo and the rest of the cast with constant changes and fluctuations, all that while we tell Mom and the Aunts that they had to kill the 1000 demon of the day, hit the book of shadows and send Wyatt in yet another quest. What do you think? I know I miss Chris terribly too and I hate that they don't even seem to care about his death!
Victorious Light: "Oh, and WOW! English isn't your first language? Do you mind me asking what is? I wish I could speak another language so well!" THANKSSSSSSSSSS, I speak Spanish, I am from Argentina (South America). I am so glad you could catch up. I am owing you that, but I will get there soon, I hope. I am so glad you are liking my fic, I hope you liked this chappie 2. "Honestly some of the scenes are very dramatic and sad." Is that a good or bad thing? I hope is good. I mean I know this fic is really dramatic, but I honestly think their reactions are extremely plausible, only people are not in this sort of situations every day. I mean… how would you react if you see your son that has been dead for fourteen years and worst if you feel responsible for his death! THANKS SOOO Much for your reviews!
ilovedrew88: THank you, thank you, thank you! NAhh Chris can't leave! If he leaves we are in trouble! And we don't like the elders that much! I am so glad you liked this story, I hope you liked this chappie too.