CHAPTER XVI:
Wyatt suddenly awoke and my dad that had been god knows where, but apparently got to hear what we were saying, orbed in faster than ever. Mom sent Wyatt to get everybody (they were all in their house next door, but my bro, being as awesome as he usually is, also went to fetch grandpa, knowing that for me and Chris grandpa's presence is always a soothing sight).
We were all sitting down in the sitting room (we decided that it would be better if the little girls didn't come, so they were at Darryl's), the tension could be smelled in the air. Mom sighed and looked at me like "ok?", I sighed and looked at Chris pleadingly, probably like a five year old looking for shelter behind his mommy's lap, Chris sighed and shrugged looking at grandpa for comfort. Grandpa sighed and shocking everybody, he stood up and started talking, avoiding us the horrible situation of putting "The event" in words.
"Do you guys remember when Chris came to 2004" He started saying softly "That Piper asked me to talk to him, to see why he was ignoring her?" He stopped just one second to let it sink, it was more like a rhetorical question anyways. "Well… in our conversation Chris told me his mom was great, so when I asked him why he was treating her like she didn't exist, he answered something that changed my life forever, something that haunted me since that day, I've been replaying his words over and over again in my head, but they were just words, the boys over there are the ones that got the images, the feelings, and I bet those imagines could drive you insane, I don't know if I would be able to live with them….Anyways… so you won't kill me cuz I keep on delaying the issue, his words were and I quote, cuz I replayed the scene so many times in my mind. "Because she doesn't exist in my future, She dies when I turn fourteen, I can't get close her cuz I don't want to loose her again!" He told me with the same face he has now." Grandpa said glooming; everybody turned to look at Chris' glistering eyes and pained expression. Chris was looking at mom, everybody in turn turned to mom. And then suddenly it sank, the peace and quietness were gone.
Paige gasped soundly and held on to the chair se was sitting in so tightly, it seemed like it was going to break. Jake walked to her and hugged her comfortingly, but the news hadn't really sunk in completely, so she didn't really react yet.
Phoebe stood up and went to grandpa, the tears bathing her face.
"You knew this and you didn't tell us?" She said howling angrily and insanely and punching grandpa on the chest. "How could you?"
Grandpa just gently wrapped his arms around her.
"Shh…everything is going to be ok, sweetheart." He said soothingly.
"How… how is anything ever going to be ok if she dies? I can't loose another sister!" She said sobbing, all the feistiness gone. "Why didn't you tell us?"
"I promise Chris I wouldn't! Sweetie I am sorry, but I couldn't betray his trust like that!"
"I can't go throw this, I am not strong enough, daddy! I can't loose another sister!" She cried like a baby in her father's embrace, he held her tight caressing her back soothingly and kissing her hair. Grandpa's eyes were getting red too.
"We won't!" He said comfortingly. "Won't we?" He looked around for some reassurance.
Everybody was just staring at them, I mean I know it doesn't seem logical, but then reacting to the news that your sister/wife/sister in law (Chris, Wy and I already knew about it) in an alternative life time died eight days from now, and that it might happen again, but it might not, and that you might save her, but you don't know which could be the consequences of saving her, it's a lot to take in, to actually react fast. Aside from the fact that even though we are witches and all, this things sometimes DO seem a little surreal.
"Yes we are!" Paige said resolutely standing up, she seemed she wasn't even given the thought of mom dying a chance to get into her head, cuz she was even more cool headed than usual. "We are going to start planning how to fix it RIGHT NOW!" She said definite.
Jake stood up and hugged her tightly from behind, but she shook it off as if she didn't need the comfort. Jake didn't care.
"Notebook, pen" she called and they orbed to her "Now Chris, tell me all you remember about the event!" She said ready to take notes, as if this was an ordinary demon vanquish. "Wyatt you also saw what happened when you cast that spell, didn't you?"
My brother flinched remembering the consequences of his spell, but he would do anything to save mom. So He nodded, besides my aunt was acting in such an abnormal denial sort of way, that if she would have asked me anything, I wouldn't have dare to answered something she wouldn't want to hear, cuz I would have been scared she might snap or do something really weird. At least that's what I was thinking, I donno Wy; but I swear there was something sad about the way she didn't even seem to let the thought of something happening enter her mind.
Phoebe was still crying on grandpa's shoulder, sort of listening hopefully to what Paige was saying. Grandpa was looking at Paige sympathetically. Mom seemed to be thinking with glistering eyes, Dad was holding her hand, sadly and looking around like evaluating every aspect and consequence of what had just been revealed to him.
"Ok, then, the three of you, tell me everything, we'll put the story together and then figure out what is the best thing to do next!" Paige said ready to write. "I also think you Piper should move to magic school until all this is over, you'll be safe there. I'll make sure that nothing happens to you, and you'll be able to see the kids all the time, well… except Chris…but well, we can't be cautious enough!" She ordered practically.
"Honey, I hate to say this, but…" Jake leaned his head on her shoulder and started talking sweetly in her ear.
"THEN DON'T!" She interrupted him harshly, probably not knowing what he was going to say, but knowing that whatever started with an "I hate to say this" couldn't be good.
"Baby, we have to think this through very carefully, you know that altering the future just like this could bring dreadful consequences. The angel of death doesn't like to be fooled, we saw that more than a few of times. It could just be worst if we change everything to save her!" He said caring.
"Who's side are you ON?" She asked angrily forcing herself out of his embrace and turning around to face him.
He caressed his cheek tenderly, his eyes were glassy.
"On yours, baby, that is exactly what I am telling you what you don't want to hear, even if it breaks my heart to do so!"
"NOO!" She said firmly. "She is NOT going to die, and if the whole world is doomed because of that, well then… too bad! I save the freaking world every day, and this is how I get repaid? Well… then I'll start ignoring the fate of the world, to see if I get better results!" She said angrily, but by the end she was already breaking down, Jake hug her and she started crying on his shoulder.
Surprisingly Paige's arguments had convinced my brother and somehow touched my dad.
"No you are right Paige, we can't let mom die and screw the future consequences!" Wyatt snapped and Chris and I trembled out of fear.
"Wyatt you of all people really shouldn't be saying that!" Chris told him scared, knowing Wyatt would know what he meant.
"Why? Maybe if I would have lost it before mom was killed, she wouldn't have died! NOBODY WOULD HAVE DIED! I would have PROTECTED my family, and if that is what I need to do, then I'll do it… even if I have to loose myself in the process!" He said with glassy eyes.
"Wyatt you are scaring me!" I couldn't help saying.
"I am sorry bro, but I thought about it, I had to always carry the burden of being the most powerful being in the creation and the burden of knowing I was evil, and trust me, everybody might think that is easy, but is not, I defy any of you to be in my shoes for one day, and you'll see how it feels! Well…if the world is going to torture me and pressure me all the time because of that, it is time to put those burdens to work, cuz I am not letting anything or anyone killing my mom and hurting all of us!" He said broken hearted.
"But Wy…" I said.
"Look at them Chris!" He said pointing at my aunts, uncle and grandpa. "They don't deserve that pain! With all the good they did in their lives. Gee… YOU don't deserve that pain! I can't just sit here and see how someone rips you off from your mother, I can't let you suffer like that!"
"And you are planning on going on a big power/insanity strike to prevent that?" I asked horrified.
"If I have to! I won't let you loose your mother again!"
"But you'll let us loose our BROTHER again?" Chris asked angry and sad. Wyatt looked at him guilty.
"I just don't want my family to suffer!" He said oh ever so sadly. "I would do anything to prevent them from suffering!" He cried.
For the first time since all this started my mom reacted; she walked to Wyatt and hugged him, kissing his forehead and caressing his hair. (Wyatt was sitting down, if not, there is no way my mom can kiss his forehead!)
"We know you would, but becoming a power freak like before won't help anyone honey, and it would just hurt everybody a lot more!" She said comfortingly and kissing his hair tenderly.
He hugged her back, tightly. "I don't want you to die, mom." He cried like a baby "I know I am being selfish and I can't see the bigger picture here and all, but I really don't want you to die! I would miss you so much!"
"Shh…" my mom comforted my crying brother, Phoebe intensified her crying and so did Paige, grandpa and Jake were trying to stay strong, which meant, they weren't making a lot of noise while the cried, but silent tears were flowing.
Chris had come near me and had a hand in my shoulder and the other one on my knee, comfortingly. I had a hand on top of his in my knee; with the other I was TK making a pen, that was on the table in front of me, come back and forth in a rhythmic motion, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Chris was staring at the pen with me. Both of us, trying to avoid getting sucked into the pain vortex around us, and feeling HORRIBLE, and I stress the AWFUL feeling we had knowing we had provoked so much pain, we felt so guilty, this was all our fault, if we hadn't tell anything…if we hadn't knew… If we had been able to protect her the last time… if we wouldn't be so weak… so dumb… if we have been a good brother… if we had comforted Wy the way we should he would have never turned evil… if we had been a good son…maybe mom wouldn't have died that first time, and maybe dad would have loved us that first time and he would have been there…maybe…if we haven't…
Dad's eyes were glassy but he was resisting the urge of crying.
"It's my death" Said mom calmly and softly "And I think I should be the one that decides." Still in the same tone.
If you know my mom, you know that whenever she says something important in that tone, you should start fearing! I mean, my mom bickers, my mom yells and fights, she doesn't say things in soft, calm tones. Still, she was right, it was her death…
"And what's your decision, sweetie?" Phoebe asked her.
"Whatever is meant to be, will be…everything happens for a reason." She said firmly and resolutely.
"DON'T GIVE ME THAT ELDER BULSHIT!" Dad yelled at her with teary eyes "I have to listen to it up there all the time, and I am honestly sick of it… You of all people are not going to start quoting them now! I am NOT going to let the boys loose you, not after all they've been through!" My dad has been a little edgy lately, have I mentioned that? I guess the whole Chris in jeopardy and my mom dying wasn't really suiting his normally calm personality.
Wy was crying and I realized I had a couple of tears too. Chris was staring at us heartbroken, I don't know if he was remembering how he felt when his mom died, or if he was wondering if he would get to see mom if she died, but then… we didn't know if the elders were going to let him enjoy his afterlife once they get to him, or if he was only suffering because he knew how much pain it would cause to all of us if mom died.
"Whatever is meant to happen will happen, here or anywhere else; if my destiny is to die that day, I will day one way or another, there is no way to escape the angel of death sometimes… we all know that!" Mom said calmly." I knew that was true, death has it ways, and sometimes is unavoidable, we see that a lot in our line of work, unluckily. "Its my baby's birthday and I want to spent it with him, moreover, if that is my last day, I sure as hell want to spend it with my love ones! I am not a fool, we will take extra precautions and I will be super extra careful, I am not looking forward to die that die, and hopefully all this happened so this particular event can be changed; but… risking sounding like an elder, my dear." She said lovingly, caressing gently my dad's cheek "Whatever has to happen will happen, and no matter what you do, no matter how hard you plan it you can't always avoid that." My mom wasn't crying, she was probably the only one in the room, aside from me and Chris.
I tried to stay strong for her sake, she was still hugging Wyatt's shoulder, who was crying like a baby, Wy was always a really sensitive boy, something that you wouldn't guess staring at his muscular body, Wyatt was pure passion, impulsive and he felt everything in extreme and to extremes. Mom smiled sadly at me and Chris, and I did my best to smile back at her.
April 19-20, 2018
I didn't write in my diary these days. We've been real busy searching for ways to help Chris and to appease the elders, we've tried everything we could think of. I swear, if I didn't hate the elders before, I sure do now!
If dad was edgy before, now he is dreadful! I mean, is nice to know that if one day something happens to me my dad is going ROAR and show his claws, but I am certainly trying to avoid being in his presence any longer than necessary.
Mom, is being mom, kicking and bickering, barking but not really biting and focusing all her energy in saving Chris, trying not to think about her possible death.
Phoebe is doing her best to help, but she keeps on breaking down, it breaks my heart to see her eyes swollen and red and hearing her crying almost non-stop.
Paige has been working herself to exhaustion, she is not allowing herself to stop, probably fearing that if she stops a second she might start thinking and if she starts thinking she will start feeling and if she starts feeling she wouldn't be able to handle the emotions inside of her.
Jake spent the two days in elderland, talking to the elders, he just came down three times without any real interesting news.
Patty has been researching evenly with the adults, she would just sit there, deep in concentration and read and would perform any task she is asked for, which is REALLY odd, since she is not the most obedient little girl.
Penny had relieved my mom from kitchen and house cleaning duty, making sure everything and everybody is fine, and she even managed to stay quiet sometimes, which is shocking, since Penny is non stop talking machine.
Prue spends most of her time comforting whoever is down, with very few words, Prue is not a talker, but with her sweet manners and her affectionate ways she manages to make everybody feel better, specially her mom.
Wyatt is the true image of hidden devastation, he would try to follow Paige's tactic and kill his mind loading himself with work, but every hour or so, he would just disappear for ten minutes and then appear with his eyes red and swollen, but without saying anything. Once in a while too, his powers would go berserk and the space around him would become a war zone. Still even if everybody tried talking to him, he is not talking to anyone and he is just saying everything is fine. Only at night we can hear him crying.
Emma was here all the time too, helping us.
Chris, is being Chris, he put on his immutability mask and has work harder than anyone, mostly in how to prevent mom's death, of course. He tried comforting Wy and telling dad not to worry, but it didn't work. He comforted Phoebe a couple of times, and it did work, but she started crying back two seconds after he was gone, so he got tired of it.
And me… well… I am just hanging on and hoping for the best, I've been keeping myself busy and researching almost as frenetically as Chris, we almost didn't sleep this two nights and we haven't shed a tear, though they are somewhere there, hidden…It's that we fear that if we some day let them go, we will never stop crying, you don't live his life without learning to swallow the pain, and if you don't learn to swallow the pain, you can't live with his memories.
April 21, 2018
Chris and I went to bed at four last night, we were researching a new theory of how someone that dies outside their own time line, should be able to return to their original time's afterlife, which meant that Chris would be sent to 2027's heaven, but it was better than loosing him. Everybody was asleep, though we could hear Wy moaning in his bedroom.
I woke up at seven and went to wake up Chris, so we could keep on researching; only his bed was empty. "That's odd." I thought " he should have woken me up." But then… he probably wanted to let me sleep. I orbed to the attic and he wasn't there.
"CHRISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS…?" I yelled freaked out hoping he was somewhere, I tried sensing him, but he is a ghost so I can't sense him at all, even if he is a feet away from me.
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teal-lover
Oh really? I feel flattered! Yeah angry Wyatt seems to be popular… he is a cute dude! Though I like Wyatt from For Chris' sake better, but they are still pretty similar. Yeah he listened to reason for how long? That's the problem. He is a freaking stubborn boy and I swear everybody in that family needs a really good shrink. Here you have the update you wanted… see… that was super fast (I had an exam yesterday, so I didn't feel like doing anything today… it happens, right? I need a day of mind distraction!) I hope you liked this chappie 2.
Pukah
Hehe big happy family? Well.. not THAT big (I donno… I am used to my family that's huge) happy, not that happy at all right now… caring yes… happy, I wouldn't say that, and don't tell them that they are all going to get really angry, and we are learning we don't want an angry Halliwell.
Yeah they are tempted to kill the elders, and they'll get more tempted soon! I love Psycho Chris' song… so very cute, a very creative little guy. I understand the need to sedate him, he is Psycho and a teenager after all, bad combo… my Psycho Wyatt was at least an adult. But maybe you can send Psycho Chris to play with Psycho Wyatt or Wyatt can go there…he is telling me he has cookies and tea and is dying to see his brother…but he is actually killing a couple of demons… is kind of a Freudian sublimation… he says I am dying and he kills… pretty logical actually. But he is waiting for him with cookies and milk actually. He can bring his own cookies if he wants too, but Wyatt has someone that taste all his food before eating it, he is an important man, he can't risk getting poisoned.
Yeah everybody wants him to stay and yet still they all make it so difficult… specially Chris, but well, is understandable, its Chris. Yeah my reviewers definitely want him to stay.
No I bet the idea of telling your mom that she is dying wakes you up for default.
Yeah not only Leo, Paige was kind of out of it for a minute, Wyatt has problems, Chris has other problems. Piper was right when she said the whole family needs a shrink, a real good one actually, they will save a lot of grieve if they get rid of their traumas.
Well Chris admits it in this chappie…cool with Psycho dad as long as it helps Chris, but I rather not be in a room with him….
"good dad, go play with the elders dad.."
"No, I can't I've already killed them all, and all the demons in the underworld… and I am still mad… nobody is going to hurt Chris!"
"But I AM CHRIS DAD…AND YOU ARE HURTING MEEE!"
Yeah he is been bottling up since he saw Chris die, but yeah if he wasn't dead he would be already.
I am updating now, super fast.
You have to wait, like two days… cuz I AM MEANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Muahahahaha
YEAHHH now I want truth, I need truth, I am goiong to send Psycho Leo and Psycho Wyatt to get you if I don't get truth, though I am scared they are going to stay trying to talk to Psycho Chris in your kitchen. Cuz Psycho Wy and Leo are all about making sure Chris is fine!
"Argh... I hate elders!" Well I promise you'll hate them more in the next chapter.
"About fics and children for the charmed ones... well, there's the two options:
Paige and Phoebe playing Patty and Selma (Simpsons)." Yeah great option, and Piper is Marge?
"Or the Halliwell sisters being some kind of mutant rabbits with like seven or ten childs" That would be a cool spell for them!
"SEVEN?... there's only a family allowed to have seven children, the Weasley. " I LOVE the Weasleys but my mom has six sisters… (I told you I have BIG family!)
If that comes cuz I said there were a LOT of new characters in some parts of my other fic, no actually Piper has 3 (or 2 but they are 3, complicated), Phoebe has 2 and Paige has 3. But then Wyatt has a baby and the husbands/wife and the girlfriends and a few more characters that appear.
"And I don't think that a character must be in the story that must to have background... with a single line there's enough sometimes. And more if the character has said background even if it's not in the story (did you know that that's what Rowling does? )" I honestly didn't understand what you said in here. I got confused… explain it to me… I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Harry… he is the best!
Ok, I make sure Chris dresses in white from now on… though he is not to thrill about it, little Chris tells you to go you know where, he is going to wear blue or whatever color he wants. Wyatt is just laughing at you and telling you "try me" and show you which color YOU end up with… nahhh he is just showing off, he'll never hurt you, but he'll wear whatever he wants (though golden is not his color!)
EveryNineSecondsYouDoThisToMe
Yeah manhattan is kind of far… my parents are going there tomorrow… but u wouldn't want to meet them… I'll dress slutty and seduce a couple of dudes here… I actually do that a lot… I must admit I am the biggest tease on the planet ( blushes… sad but true!). wait for me manhattan… here I go..(or maybe I'll just search for a manhattan bar around here!)
Victorious Light
Ahh I am so glad you like Patty, yes she is cute and she cares about Chris so much!Yeah and the boys are such a darling comforting the little girls.
Hehe I am glad you liked the Phoebe dating part, I was laughing too picturing the situation, Chris and Wyatt saying she should not date and Leo's face when he heard it and he was like NONONNONON don't tell them that, and I could imagine their reaction if they would have!
So you liked the testosterone display? Yeah.. we like boys!
I hope you liked this chapter! Thanks
phoebe turner
Here you have it… I am glad you liked it and I hope you like this one too.
Chris-Halliwell
No TYOU are not dead, the other you is dead (confusing right?), plus the other other you is not dead either
No Wyatt is still good, though he was thinking about loosing it for a second… your other you and your other, other you got really scared, did you get scared?
Evil Wyatt will come in the sequel, though, that is getting nearer and nearer.
Chris actually already left now…(you asked!)
Wy's birthday is nine months before Chris, July the 22nd (Leo… the sign, not your father… that explains why he was evil… not that I know much about signs…but Leo is a very strong sign).
I will be thinking evil till you ask another question so help me… cuz I don't know how long can I survive thinking Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Without driving nuts… or evil!
ilovedrew88
OHH its cool that you liked my chappie… I hope you liked this one too…so Wyatt's outburst was shocking? He is a very impulsive and passionate guy, that says the first thing that comes to his mind, and sometimes he regrets it afterwards… still…Chris did needed something to "Wake him up!" and Wyatt was really scared and hurt. Well we'll know about the elders really soon/
Yeah he was cute with the little girl (I like little kids and guys that are cute with little kids : ) )
Nikki14u
Yeah I am an evil tease…I should be shoot, but then I hope some people will be upset if that happens…
Yeah one of my reviewers expressed it perfectly "I loved Wyatt's testosterone display… yeah we like it when Wyatt shows his testosterone… though he is devastated in this chappie. Wy is way too impulsive and passionate so he kinds of has BIG reactions to everything, sionce chapter 1. But yeah he yelled at him, but what he was saying was super cute! Is like I AM SOOO ANGRYYY… CUZ I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, So listent o me!
Ohhh you'll come all the way to Argentina to get me? I might even end it badly so I get you to visit me muahahaha
Nathy1000000
Si a mi que me encantan los nenes y los hombres consolando a los nenes…Vamos a comernos a los Chrises You tell him WY! Y como una de las chicas dijo… me encanto el desfile de testosterona de Wyatt! Heheh eme encanto esa review! No te imaginas tener a tu hermano clonado? Con uno basta y sobra! Y Chris… pero pensa que dudo que Wyatt tenga los pensamientos que a nosotros se nos cruza por la cabeza cuando pensamos en Chris…El tiene esos pensamientos mas por Emma o por las nenas.
Tan todos enojados con los elders y se van a enojar mas
NO le digo nada a Emma de tu romance con Wyatt…el se siente medio mal, pero dice que vos sos irresistible… el resto te lo explique por email
r...dun dun!
FRENCH "Butt kicking" SPARKLES:
So you are becoming a teacher? COOOLLL yeah kids are so cute.. and damn freud is stealing away the childhood tenderness from me.
Hehe another coffee addict? Yeah I know the feeling.
Yeah I think I'll go with teal –lover to cliffies anonymous or whatever club she was planning on joining.
Ouch you scared me girl…so here is the update : )
DrewFullerFanLife
Yeah Wy really cares about Chris! And he would do or say anything to protect him. Thanks for all your nice words.