Chapter 6
For the first time in a long while Christopher Halliwell woke up with a smile on his face. His smile only widened as he thought about how good it felt to have his Mom back to hold once more and to be told that his was loved something that had been missing in his life for a very long time. In fact he was equally as happy to have Leo there. He couldn't believe how much the man had changed and seeing how much his father truly did love him, gave Chris new hope for the future and the confidence necessary to continue on his quest to save his brother.
Even though he was happy that he had his parents with him, he couldn't help but get this sickening feeling in the pit of his stomach that something was about to go horrible wrong. Suddenly he felt dizzy and fell back hard onto the couch that was currently serving as his bed in the office of his mother's club.
"Mom" he whispered as he tried to hold onto something, anything to stop the earth from spinning. After a few moments the dizziness stopped and the boy immediately dressed and orbed out with the hope that his parents were ok.
Back at the manor Piper stood motionless in the center of the attic taking in the scene in front of her. Her future self and Leo were curled up tight together on the attic sofa fast asleep. Studying their positioning very carefully she could only draw one conclusion, that she and Leo were back together again. It became even more obvious when she spotted the wedding rings on their fingers.
She couldn't help but smile to herself as she thought about the future that her, Leo and Wyatt were going to share. But her smile quickly faded as she thought about the extreme circumstances that may have brought the two back into each other's arms again. She began to ponder even further, until she saw the bright white lights that were starting to form in front of her.
Feelings of loathing made its way to the surface as she looked into the pair of blue-green eyes that she had come to despise.
"What the hell are you doing here?" she shouted as she rolled her eyes. Just because the boy might save her sons life doesn't automatically make him her favorite person. Not that she wasn't grateful or anything but come on. He had done nothing but cause her grief from day one and those wounds would not heal easily, no matter what acts of bravery were committed.
"I'm not here to see you so don't worry about it" he said looking at his Mom, not Piper.
"Doesn't matter this is my house." Past Piper spoke in a raised voice causing future Piper and Leo to stir.
"It's her house too" Chris snapped back trying hard not to laugh knowing that he could never get away with this with his Mom.
"You know what you little smart ass you have five seconds to get the hell out of my house or I'm going to blow your ass right back to the future, hopefully to the exact same moment where you where I finally get rid of you once and for all!" she screamed waking both Piper and Leo.
The look on the boy's face almost crushed the woman. Ever since her neurotic little whitelighter showed up in the past he never showed any emotion that was until now. Chris was on the verge of tears because of what she had just said. Although he tighten his jaw and returned to his usual emotionless state, she still felt the need to apologize. She was about to do so when her future self cut her off.
"You cold hearted bitch! How dare you speak to him like that" she yelled causing the windows in the attic to shatter. "Did you not hear me say that he was going to die to save Wyatt, or are you choosing to hear only what you want to hear again?"
"Maybe I would trust him more if you told me exactly what it is that you're hiding. And as far as me being a bitch is concerned, you are me so what does that make you lady?" Past Piper yelled back.
"I cannot believe how absolutely obnoxious I can be" Future Piper said throwing her hands in the air.
All the while Chris stood in the same spot unable to move or speak. He kept hearing his mother's words echoing through his head. Chris wasn't aware of his that his father was now by his side as he wrapped his arms around the boy as he too was in shock over the words that the past version of his wife had spoken. The boy's fists tighten as he fought hard to hold back his anger and disgust at his own mother's words. The sight of her ex-husband standing there trying to console the young whitelighter made past Piper soften her voice a little.
"Listen I am sorry for what I said to Chris and I get that you don't want to screw around with the past and all but keeping me in the dark is not helping your case?"
"MY CASE? I DON'T HAVE A DAMN THING TO PROVE TO YOU! THE ONLY THING I WANT IS FOR YOU TO LEAVE CHRIS ALONE!" she now took a step in her past self's direction.
That's when it hit her. She could remember needing to go to the attic to look something up that morning when Leo entered a few minutes later to help her out. It was during that moment when a darklighter appeared and shot an arrow in his direction. Later on they found out that it was a special kind of arrow with a cure that took special indigents to make. Every muscle in the woman's body tensed up when she realized that her son was standing directly in the arrows path. At that exact same second the darklighter appeared. Her past self was too busy yelling about something to notice the man.
"And another thing…" the woman started before being cut off by her future self.
"Chris watch ou…" unfortunately she didn't get the chance to finish her sentence. The woman looked on in horror as she watched the arrow enter her son's back and make its way out of his chest causing him to crash to the floor in agonizing pain. That's when her past self finally noticed the situation and immediately blew the intruder up.
"NOOOOOOO" Future Piper screamed as she rushed to her son's side.
"Oh God no, Chris, Chris please wake up. Please son, you can't leave me again" the man pleaded with his youngest child.
"Leo, heal him. Now!" the woman yelled frantically as she laid her son's head on her chest allowing his blood to flow down her body.
"I can't heal him Piper" he spoke in a somber tone as he stood on the edge of a mental breakdown. He couldn't be losing his son for the second time, he wouldn't.
"Ok go get your past self so we can get him to magic school. Hurry!" the woman yelled as the man got to his feet quickly.
Meanwhile past Piper stood motionless as she watched herself mumbling something into the unconscious boy's ear. Even though she hated Chris she didn't actually want to see him dead. Suddenly she felt an overwhelming amount of guilt sinking heavily into her being. The woman now felt horrible for the words that she had spoken to the boy only seconds before the attack. She then moved a little closer to hear exactly what it was the future version of herself was saying to her unconscious whitelighter.
"Its ok sweetie, mommy's here and I'm not going to let you die. You're going to be ok peanut. Just don't give up baby, stay here with mommy" the woman cried into her son's hair.
She couldn't believe what she had just heard. The boy that she despised, loathed, distrusted and down right hated was her own son, hers and Leo's little boy and most of all Wyatt's brother. Now everything started to make sense. The way he knew his way around the house, how he knew that book so well, why he cared so much about Wyatt, all of the obvious signs were there she just chose not to see them. The woman's knees began to go weak as she held onto the table for support as she continued to suffer from the emotional blow.
"No, it can't be" Past Piper said allowing herself to drop down to her knees as the tears poured down her face. The guilt was threatening to suffocate her as she thought back to all the terrible things she had ever said to him, all the threats, everything came flooding back to her in that instant.
"Why didn't you tell me?" she said as she crawled over to the boy taking his hand in hers. "I'm so sorry Chris. Please wake up" the sound of her voice got her future shelves attention.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" said Future Piper in an eerily calm voice. "You have two seconds to get the hell away from my kid" she spoke without even looking up.
"He's my son too" Past Piper shot back on the verge of hysteria.
"Oh he's YOUR son now" the woman said through a nervous kind of laugh. "That's funny since you wanted him dead a few minutes ago" she spoke with venom in her voice as she snatched her son's hand away from her.
"What's going on in here? CHRIS!" the woman said as she and Paige entered the room.
"Oh my God, what happened?" Paige questioned as she surveyed the young man's injury.
"He was hit by a special arrow from a darklighter" Future Piper said in the same calm manner as she continued to rock her child back and forth.
"Leo! Both of you, please hurry up!" Past Piper called out.
The woman's sudden concern for the child made her future self laugh once more causing those around her to wonder if she had completely snapped.
"What's so funny about my son dying?" the woman screamed trying to knock some sense into her future self.
"What!" both women shouted at the same time.
"Chris is my son" she said in a low voice still trying to process the information.
"He really is my nephew" she said in a soft voice as she reflected on the conversation that she and Phoebe had the night before.
"No he's not your son, he's mine" Future Piper spoke in a possessive tone as she looked into the woman's eyes.
"For the last time he's my son too. So why don't you just go back to the future and let me take care of him" she said as she went to take the boy's hand again before future Piper smacked it away.
"I'm warning you try to touch my baby one more time and you will have a lot more than your guilt to deal with"
"Hey you guys this is not helping Chris. You know he can feel the hostility coming from the both of you so just stop it. Piper" said Paige pointing to the sister form her time. "You need to let her take care of him for now. Then when he's better you can talk to him then, but for now he needs her, not you"
Seeing the hurt look on her sister's dampened face Paige helped the woman off of the floor and held onto her tightly as both Leo's entered the room.
"He told me what happened and we have to get Chris to magic school quickly" he said trying hard not to let his emotions show. But the amount of pain he was in became noticeable as his eyes started to tear up at the sight of his younger son surrounded by a pool of his own blood.
"What happens then? I mean do we know what kind of poison it is"
"I do but it's going to take a while to make the antidote. Anyway we'll worry about that once we get him to magic school where he can't die while we're working on the potion. Come on we need to get going" Future Piper said nodding to the two men.
Piper, future Leo and Past Leo all orbed out with a still unconscious Chris. After a minute of silence Paige spoke.
"Are you ok honey?" the woman question her older sister who held a far away and distant look in her eyes.
"No. I'm not. Do you know that right before this happened I said that I was going to blow him back to the future" she cried burring her face in her hands.
"Oh honey you didn't mean it and I'm sure Chris knows that" Phoebe spoke trying to ease her sister's pain.
"It doesn't change the fact that I said those words to my child right before a got damn darklighter shot him Phoebe! Oh God, he's never going to want anything to do with me again" the woman yelled as she slapped herself on the forehead.
"Listen, why don't you go sit with Wyatt while we head over to magic school to check on Chris" Paige said feeling the need to be by her nephew's side.
"No, I'm going with you. First let me get Wyatt so we can drop him off at the nursery on the way there."
"Honey I don't think that's a good idea" Paige said thinking about the future version of her sister.
"I don't care Paige, I'm going. And if she doesn't like it then that's just too damn bad"
"But Piper she's already his mother, you're not" added Phoebe.
"That's not my concern Phoebe, I'm going to him and that's that!" Past Piper yelled before making her way out of the attic and into her son's bedroom.
Karone Evertree-Well it's easy to update fast when you don't have a life. LOL Thanks for the review.
DrewFullerFanLife-I'm glad you liked it. I just hope you're not too mad at me for the attack on Chris. :)
Hoper Master-Thanks for the nice review (on this story and the other ones as well)
Anianka-I know. I don't understand how any one could not know who Chris was. It was sooo obvious. Anyway thanks for the review and I hope that you enjoy this chapter as well.
Magical Princess-Hee. I'm sure you said it out loud and I'm glad you love my story. I hope this chapter lived up to your expectations and I look forward to reading your review.
Fire Gazer-Well how did you like the chapter? Was it dramatic enough for you? I really do hope you liked it.
IcantthinkofaFnick-Es un lío sino como usted sabe sí que va a consiga una porción entera peor antes de que consiga mejor. Y fuera de todos pienso el piper de la manera descubierto era el mejor y el más dramático.
Phoebe Turner-I'm glad you liked the pervious chapter. Wow you have a good memory. I'm glad you like it and I hope you like the following chapters as well.
Pita-I hope you had a nice vacation! Thanks for the review.
Sparkling Cherries-I am too. It's so much easier then e-mailing it to everyone and this time there's a lot more people who seem to be reading and enjoying it, which is always a good thing.
Aira Sliver-I'm happy that you liked the pervious chapter and I hope you enjoyed this one as well.
Insainchildfic- hanks a lot. I hope you liked the newest chapter.
Billie-Here's your update! I hope you enjoyed it.
Septdenueuf-This chapter is going to lead into several thing taking place that will have a lot more action and drama to it, but not too much. I like to focus more on the emotional side of things rather than a bunch of fighting, unless a particular situation calls for it. Anyway I hope you like the new chapter and don't forget to review and let me know what you thought about it.
