He did it for me
Chapter 35
By: teal-lover
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Being twice blessed, Wyatt thought that nothing could ever hurt him. It's devastating to find out how wrong you can be. Takes place in the future that Chris changed.
Christopher just turned 19, Chris was already 19, and Wyatt is three months shy of his 21st birthday.
Disclaimer in chapter 1
AN: I know, I know—I've been promising and promising to tell you why Julius wants them. Well, I don't have to promise anymore—cause here it is…Mostly—the rest will be revealed soon. I have to keep some suspense to myself, don't I:) Actually, I'm just a little scared to let it all out cause I don't want you guys to be disappointed. So if you are, can we just keep that a secret, ok, Please?
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He didn't sleep long because the dreams were relentless. The dreams of what was to come. They pushed their way to the surface and forced Christopher awake, startling his brother when he bolted upright.
Wyatt leaned in, furrowing his brow with concern. "What's wrong?" Seeing the young man's eyes glazed over and unfocussed, his worry grew tenfold as he placed his hand gently on his shoulder. "Christopher? Can you hear me?"
Breathing heavily, Christopher took a deep breath and tried to calm himself before speaking. After several long moments of silence, he turned to his older brother with a haunted look in his eyes. Finally, he answered. "I want to believe it, Wy," he ran his hands across the plush comforter, "I mean it—feels real. But my mind played so many tricks on me. What if this is just another one. Or what if I'm really back in there again and—"
"Yes! Of course, it's real Chris. I mean, Christopher. I wouldn't lie to you!" Wyatt argued in frustration.
Chris crossed his arms as he paced back and forth, "What is it going to take to convince you? Come on man, I've watched you two. You're the one with all the ideas. Think of something. You're the brains, he's the braun."
Wyatt smacked his arm playfully, "Hey!"
Chris raised an eyebrow, "Well I wouldn't say that if I hadn't watched you purposely blow that SAT test a few years back."
Feeling a little more at ease, Christopher grinned and asked Chris, "You caught that, huh? I thought I was the only one who noticed."
Penny walked up quietly and smacked Wyatt on the back of the head, "You did that on purpose? And what were those fake tears for when you came home upset because you did so bad? Do you know how upset your mother was that those scores would keep you out of a good school?"
Wyatt rubbed his now sore head, "That was kind of the point, Grams. And can we talk about something else besides my issues with college?"
Penny threw her hands on her hips, squinting her eyes at the blonde. "We'll talk about this later," she hissed before softening her voice to his brother, "Christopher, darling—I don't know how else we can convince you that you're home, well not home actually, but that you're safe, with family."
Christopher got out of bed, striding up to his counterpart, "I think I know how. Would you all excuse us for a while?" he locked eyes with the familiar green orbs, "We need to talk." He listened as all of the Halliwell women filed out of the room. Sensing his brother still in the room, Christopher merely voiced his name to suggest that he leave. "Wyatt"
The older man pointed to himself, "You didn't mean me, did you?"
At the same time, both Chris and Christopher turned around and gave Wyatt their identical, patented glare. He backed out of the room mumbling something about 'spooky' as he closed the door.
As soon as they were alone, Chris shrugged and asked, "How can I confirm anything for you? You only met me for like a total of 20 minutes? You don't even know me."
"If this is real, and you're the other Chris—then I know you. I know everything about you."
"How is that possible?"
"The seers pool," Christopher answered simply.
Chris shook his head in disbelief, "The seers pool doesn't show everything." He began to think, his mind quickly catching onto the meaning and his eyes widened, "Not unless--"
Christopher finished his sentence, "—They threw me in? Yeah. Now this is where you come in. I need you to confirm a few things that I couldn't possibly know otherwise."
"And then?"
"And then I guess I'll just have to trust that this is real. I really don't have any other choice, do I? But I at least need some peace of mind before I tell you anything."
Chris nodded, "Ok. Shoot…"
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Chris finished his story, then threw his hands up awaiting the next set of intense questions. "Well? What next? Are you satisfied yet?"
Christopher sat down heavily on the bed, "I guess so."
Chris nodded in understanding. He took in the saddened look on the other's face, recognizing the cause immediately. "I guess if you've seen everything, then you know I understand right now. I mean, whatever happened up there and all. Are you ok?"
Christopher answered the question with a statement, "Drowning is not fun."
Recalling the incident at the lake, Chris sighed. "Don't I know it."
"Oh, that's right. You were 7, weren't you? Luckily Wyatt was there. He's a good guy, Wyatt. Promise me that you won't mention any of our conversation to him. He'd go nuts."
Chris watched his other self staring down at the comforter, slowly tracing the patterns on it with his fingers absently. "You're stalling."
"I know," Christopher admitted in a soft spoken voice. "I really don't want to talk about it right now. Maybe not ever. Besides, there's more important things going on."
"They'll find a way to bring you back. So all you need to do is get some rest right now. If you want to talk about what happened, without someone freaking outabout it, then I'm—you know. Here."
Christopher smiled at the shy and unassuming way the other offered. He knew that when they clashed at their first meeting, it was probably because he hadn't given him a chance right from the beginning. That and the fact they were simply too much alike to get along indefinitely. They had both been on the defensive at the time. But now that he had seen his life, he felt like he knew him. "Thanks. But it's not about being alive anymore. Chris, you know what the seer's pool can do, right?"
"Yeah. It can show you the future, or the past, depending on what it is you really want to see if you look into it. Bianca and I tried to get our hands on one before I left for the past. To see what turned Wyatt, but it fell through."
"Well that's not all it will show you. Especially if you're submerged in it." The haunted look in Christopher's eyes returned once more. He took a deep breath, "It can show you what has happened. What could happen. What will happen. And I saw it. Everything. I don't even think Julius had planned on me finding out. Arel and Raina just threw me in to find you, but I didn't tell them anything, I swear."
Chris cocked his head to the side inquisitively, "Thanks. I know Raina is an Elder, I've met her. But who's Arel?"
Christopher shuddered unconsciously thinking of the brute demon, "Someone Mom and the Aunts apparently pissed off. He's the demon that she sent to…question me. Look, forget about that. The point is, now I know what Julius wanted from us. Why he wanted us dead."
The word 'us' stuck in his mind, and Chris corrected him. "You mean, you. Julius didn't have anything to do with my death." He stared at the wall and spoke his name with disgust, "It was Gideon. And it wasn't planned. I simply got in the way of him getting to Wyatt."
"Maybe not planned by Gideon. But your death wasn't just you getting in the way. And that's not how it was supposed to go. You were never supposed to die, Chris. We were never meant to be two separate souls. We are the same person. You were meant to have my life. You were supposed to have come back to the future and merge with me. But Gideon screwed that up, and Julius planned for him to do it."
"Julius? How could he know any of that?"
"Because of the first timeline."
Chris asked sarcastically, "Then how come I didn't know about any of this?"
Christopher answered in the same tone, "Because you didn't live the first timeline. Not really."
Chris jumped up angrily and pointing to the other, "Now you're not making any sense. They must have fried your brain."
Getting just as angry, Christopher rose to his feet and stood facing him. "You and I separating? Wake up Chris--It was an ac-ci-dent. But it was…STILL…PLANNED! Julius knew that if he stopped you from making it back to the future alive, then he would pretty much eliminate the fourth timeline—and finally get exactly what he's wanted all along since the original timeline."
"I AM FROM THE FIRST TIMELINE, DOLT!"
"BULLSHIT! You're from the SECOND! I saw it! In the first timeline, everything was nearly perfect! Wyatt was not evil. No one was! That only happened in yours because Julius interfered with it."
"Look genius, you must have been imagining those far out ideas. Now, I understand that you're under a lot of stress right now, and that your mind is probably making up all kinds of crazy. But we need to get serious and figure out what's really going on here."
Annoyed, Christopher crossed his arms and stared back petulantly. "Look, we're the same person. Every time you call me stupid, that's saying a whole lot about yourself."
Chris remarked flippantly, "I didn't call you stupid."
"No. You just called me a 'genius' sarcastically. That's a whole lot different. I was the one in the seers pool, ok? And since I went through all of that trouble—drowning and such—to keep YOU hidden, the least you could do is shut up and listen. I was the one who actually saw what happened. You want proof? I saw your timeline didn't I? Should I go into detail about what happened between you and Bianca the night you left to come back to the past?"
Blushing furiously, Chris sat down and prepared to listen. "Fine. Explain this first timeline. What happened?"
"It started with the seer. She met Aunt Phoebe's daughter Melinda. They became friends, and soon, she wanted to become human because she fell in love with some guy and wanted to marry. The Charmed Ones grew to like her and decided to help her become human. The guy was Wyatt. He was 20 at the time, the same age he is now. Before they were going to get married, she wanted to get rid of anything in her old cave that could fall into the wrong hands. She had a lot of enemies." He hesitated, closing his eyes sadly before continuing. "They were surprised by a group of demons. Too many, even for the Twice Blessed Witch—they didn't make it out."
As the other boy spoke, things started to make sense to Chris and he reached over and patted his back, "You ok?"
Christopher lips curled up slightly as he attempted to push the memory to the back of his mind. "Yeah. It's just kind of hard seeing Wyatt die like that. Even though he wasn't really my Wyatt, you know?"
Sighing sadly, Chris nodded, then laughed bitterly. "Yeah, I get it. And I take it, that Chris went back to the past to save him too?"
"You got it. It seems you were right when you agreed with Aunt Phoebe. We do tend to make it our life's goal to save Wyatt. I guess it is our destiny."
Chris rolled his eyes with discontent, "That can't be all there is."
Christopher shared the look before shuddering with another thought. "No, there's more to it. Nothing so nice and glamorous or anything."
"What does Julius have to do with this?"
"Since the seer was now human, he came for her soul. But he got a little distracted by the seer's pool. I guess out of curiosity, he dipped his head in, and saw most of what I saw. So he set the chain of events in motion, since it was exactly what he had been looking for. He convinced that Chris to go back in time as the only way to save Wyatt—told him exactly what he needed to do. Only it was a lie. The only thing he succeeded in doing was making Gideon afraid of Wyatt, but Chris didn't know that. He thought that when he returned to the future, everything would be like it was and Wyatt would be alive. But he didn't know that his timeline would have changed and he would have merged with the second Chris, and forgotten all about his original future or the fact that he even went to the past. Yours is the second timeline Chris. Your Wyatt then grew up traumatized because after the first Chris left, Gideon kidnapped him and tried to kill him after hearing how powerful he would become."
Christopher watched as his counterpart gaped his mouth open in shock. "Yeah, and that's how I know that you and I would have merged to be the same person, and your memories of that old timeline where Wyatt had turned would have vanished—just like they did when the first Chris merged into you."
"Then why did he stop that from happening? Why did he set Gideon up to kill me? Or you even?"
Chris snapped his head around and answered bitterly, "Everyone's a pawn in his little game. He convinced both the Elder and Demon Councils that he would destroy the world if they didn't hand me over to him when I turned 19. They've been planning this ever since you died. I never stood a chance. If the Korack brothers didn't get me, there were hundreds of others line up waiting to finish the job. And not one of them had a clue why they were even doing it. They just fell for everything he said."
"Why is 19 so important to him?"
Christopher's eyes widened in panic as he was once again forced to think about the simple answer, "Because that's how it all began. That's how old the first Chris was when he went back to the past. And that's how it has to end."
"How what has to end?" Chris asked anxiously.
"Everything…" he whispered.
Tbc…
AN: Ok, so what do you think? Does Christopher's last line give you any clues as to what's going to happen?
