Chapter 2 – Surprise Surprise, More Secrets From Chris

Paige, Phoebe and Piper were sitting at P3 talking about their love lives, and Piper's sex life, or lack there of.

"My dear, it is time to get back into the saddle." Paige looked at Piper.

"Now a cowboy reference." Paige and Phoebe laughed.

"What about a cowboy?" The girls looked up to see Jamie standing behind them.

"Nothing, just Piper's sex life." Phoebe looked at Piper. "You just need to relax and let it happen."

"Yeah, easy for you to say. You weren't the one sleeping with an angel for three years."

"Yeah, but you were nervous when you and Leo first started…" Phoebe smiled. "You know. I seem to remember you used to freeze him during all the good parts." Jamie shook her head.

"Why do I come here?" Paige laughed and patted Jamie on the back. Phoebe continued talking to Piper.

"Hey, maybe you should…"

"No, I am not freezing Greg. I'm so nervous I'd probably blow him up."

"Well…" Phoebe smiled.

"Gutter. Gutter. Gutter!" They all laughed. Phoebe turned to Jamie.

"What about you?"

"What about me?"

"What's going on between you and Chris?" Jamie looked at Paige as she said this.

"What do you mean?"

"She means, have you guys-" Jamie cut Phoebe off.

"What? No!"

"…Kissed. I was going to say kissed. Geez, and you think my mind is in the gutter?" Jamie blushed.

"We haven't kissed since the other night." Paige looked at Jamie.

"What? You guys kissed? When?"

"The other night, you know, when you guys made us dance." Paige smiled.

"Oh yeah." Piper turned to Jamie.

"So, you guys haven't talked or anything since then?"

"No, we've talked. We've talked a lot."

"So, what, you're just friends?" Phoebe questioned her. Jamie shrugged.

"I guess so." Paige looked at her.

"So, you don't like him?" Jamie blushed.

"I didn't say that." They all laughed.

"What're you guys talking about?" The four girls looked at Chris as he walked to his room in the back.

"Stuff." Phoebe told him. Jamie smiled at Chris, but he continued walking to his room. Paige looked at him.

"Hey, where're you going?" He turned to them.

"I gotta go work on the next demon… striation."

"Chris, why don't you relax and come have a drink with us?" Jamie tried to smile at him again, but he ignored it.

"Thanks, but I didn't come to relax." Jamie frowned as he went into his room. Phoebe sighed.

"That is one bitchy whitelighter"

"You're telling me." Piper nodded. Paige looked at Piper.

"Hey, Piper, why don't you go talk to the guilt machine over there?" Jamie was silent through this entire conversation. Phoebe gave her a hug as Piper got up to go talk to Chris.

OOO

Chris walked into his room. There was a brunette girl, dressed in all leather, sitting in a chair.

"Bianca." She stood up. "I don't understand. What are you doing here?" She shushed him and put her finger to his lips.

"There'll be time to explain later." She trailed her hand down his chest, she had a weird mark on her wrist. "But for now…" He groaned in pain as she stuck her hand into his chest.

"You know all work and no- Hey!" Bianca to throw an energy ball at Piper, but Piper quickly vanquished her. Chris fell to the floor in pain. Piper walked over to him, he was breathing heavy. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I think so."

"What happened? Who was she?" She helped him up. He shook his head.

"I don't know."

OOO

Jamie and the sisters took Chris back to the house. They were in the attic looking through the Book of Shadows; Leo orbed in to help. Paige was flipping through the pages. Piper, Phoebe, and Leo were all sitting, Chris was pacing back and forth and Jamie was standing there, with a worried look on her face.

"Guys, I'm telling you, I'm fine. Don't sweat it." Chris continued pacing.

"You sure she wasn't a darklighter?" Leo looked at Piper.

"I'm sure."

"Well, what else would be after a whitelighter?" Phoebe asked Leo.

"I don't know, that's what worries me." Chris looked at Leo.

"She's gone. Piper blew her away. What's the big deal?"

"The big deal is someone tried to kill you, Chris." Jamie looked at Phoebe when she said this.

"Look at me, not a scratch. Nothing." Jamie sighed.

"How did she get that close to you anyway, if you didn't know who she was." Leo looked at Chris as he stepped on a loose board. He pointed to it.

"You really otta fix that, you know."

"C'mon Chris, who's after you?"

"Has it crossed your mind that maybe she wasn't after me? Maybe she was trying to get to them." He pointed to the sisters. Jamie glanced at Leo.

"That does kind of make sense."

"Finally, someone's listening. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some work to take care of." Jamie sighed as he walked out of the attic.

"He's not telling the truth." Leo looked at Paige.

"Maybe there's nothing to tell." Leo turned to Phoebe.

"Could you sense anything?"

"From Chris? No, I can never sense anything from him." Leo nodded, Piper looked at him.

"What are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking that if we figure who she was, maybe we'll be able to find out who Chris is." Jamie sighed as he said this, but she stayed out of it. Paige and Phoebe said they had to go and walked downstairs. Jamie decided to go check on Chris.

OOO

Chris was in the bathroom; He unbuttoned his shirt to find a huge circular wound on his chest. He sighed as he thought back to his life in the future. He pulled out a ring and thought about the day he proposed to Bianca. There was a knock on the door.

"Chris?" He quickly put the ring back into his pocket. He opened the door.

"Hey." She looked at him, she could tell that something was wrong.

"Are you sure you're okay?" He nodded.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He started to walk past her, but she stopped him.

"Are you mad at me or something?" He looked at her.

"What? No. Why would you say that?" She sighed.

"I don't know, it's just that you've been avoiding me all night."

"Yeah, I'm sorry. It's just been a crazy day for me."

"I'm sorry." She hugged him.

"Well, I'm gonna go to bed. I'll see you later."

"Yeah, good night."

"Night." He orbed back to his room at the club.

OOO

The next morning, Jamie was helping Leo look for whatever attacked Chris.

"Hey, I think I got it." Leo looked at her.

"Yeah?"

"Yeah, it matches the description." Leo read the page.

"I'll call Paige." Jamie nodded as Leo went to get the phone. A few minutes later, Paige orbed into the kitchen in her nightgown. Leo stared at her.

"Paige when I said I needed you I meant a fully-clothed you."

"Oh, please, Leo. What's the big emergency?"

"We found out who's trying to attack Chris." Paige looked at Jamie.

"Really? Who?" Leo looked at the page.

"She's a Phoenix." Paige stared at him.

"And that is…"

"She part of a family of assassin witches, who are very elite, very powerful."

"Well, does the book say what they want?"

"Just whatever bounty they're after."

"And in this case, it's Chris." Jamie said.

"Which means they're still after him. They won't stop until they succeed." Paige sighed.

"Did you call Phoebe and Piper?" Leo shook his head.

OOO

After little Bianca and her mother vanished, Piper and Paige orbed back to the house. Jamie had just put Wyatt down for his nap and was walking down the stairs.

"Hey, did you find out anything?" Paige looked at her.

"Yeah, apparently Phoenix witches can reform." Jamie stared at them.

"You're kidding."

"Nope." They walked into where Leo and Phoebe were standing. Leo stood up.

"What's going on?"

"There was a mom, and she had a daughter." Paige looked at her sister and Leo. "We tried to vanquish the mother, but she reformed in the other room, then they both disappeared."

"Wait, how old was the little girl?" Phoebe asked.

"I don't know, four, five." Piper said this just as Chris orbed in, but since his powers had been half stripped, he fell to the floor.

"Chris!" Jamie ran over to him, quickly followed by the rest. He was almost passed out, and he only whispered one word.

"Bianca." Paige looked at Piper.

OOO

They got him to the couch and laid him down. Leo unbuttoned the first few buttons of his shirt. They all saw the wound on his chest.

"Oh my god, what is that?" Phoebe looked worried.

"I don't know." Leo shook his head.

"Doesn't matter, just heal him." Piper said. Paige was staring at him.

"Why didn't he tell us about that?"

"What doesn't he tell us about a lot of things?" Piper watched as Leo tried to heal Chris. "Something wrong?"

"He's not healing, something's draining his powers and blocking mine, it's like a virus."

"A virus named Bianca." Phoebe looked at Piper.

"You think she did this?"

"It's gotta be."

"Yeah, but it doesn't explain why she would come back from the future just to kill him." Jamie looked up at Paige as she said 'killed'. Phoebe put her hand on Jamie's shoulder.

"Well, somebody must have sent her, she's a hired gun." Piper stared at Chris.

"Well, we have to find her to save him, figure out what she did to- Woah." She kneeled down next to Chris. Jamie looked at her.

"What is it?"

"Oh my God, he loves her." Jamie looked at her. Paige looked confused.

"Loves who?" Phoebe looked up at Jamie.

"Bianca. She broke his heart." Jamie stared at the space in front of her. She was shocked. Phoebe looked down at Chris's hand, he was holding something. She took it from him and held it up. "Engagement ring." Jamie's mouth dropped open. Paige looked at her.

"James, are you-"

"I'm fine." Jamie cut her off. "I just- I need to go for a walk." She ran out of the room, Piper sighed.

"Well, at least we have something to scry for her now." The girls walked out of the room and left Leo with Chris. Chris was dreaming about the day he came from the future, he and Bianca were in the Halliwell manor, but it was a museum now. They made their way to the basement and waited there until the museum closed.

OOO

Meanwhile, Bianca was at her house looking for a spell book. Her mother came in.

"Who are you?"

"Who do you think I am." She held up her wrist. "Mother."

"Bianca?"

"In the flesh." She continued looking for the book while her mother asked her questions. "I don't have time for reunions, okay. And I'm not gonna make the same mistake a thousand other demons have made, now where's the damn book?" Her mother summoned the book. "Thanks." Bianca walked over and grabbed it. Once Bianca got the spell she needed, she left.

OOO

A little while later, Jamie walked back into the living room. Leo was wiping Chris's forehead with a washcloth. She sighed and walked over to them.

"How is he?"

"He's not getting any better." The sisters walked in.

"We found Bianca, she's at her mothers." Piper said.

"Little Bianca?" Leo asked.

"No, the one we want. Here." Piper handed him the ring. "Something for Chris to remember her by, or not."

"We've got the vanquishing potion, so after we orb over there I'm gonna…" The spell Bianca cast kicked in. Leo and Jamie didn't notice, Leo looked at Paige.

"You're gonna… What?"

"I'm gonna move into Richard's house." Paige smiled.

"Are you? Good for you." Piper sounded very happy for her.

"That's a great idea, I think I'm gonna go check out what's going on in Hong Kong." Phoebe grinned.

"Cool." Leo stood up.

"Hang on, this isn't you guys, you must be under some kind of spell, you have to fight this."

"How can you fight your heart?" Phoebe asked.

"Or your hormones." Jamie stared at Piper.

"Yeah." Phoebe turned to Paige. "Will you drop me off on your way to Richard's?"

"I would love to."

"Paige, Phoebe, listen to me." Leo tried to stop them, but they left. Piper went into the other room to get ready to go. Leo and Jamie looked at each other, shocked. Chris shifted, mumbling in his sleep.

OOO

Leo stood in the living room. Yelling for Paige and Phoebe to come back. Piper walked.

"Wyatt's sleeping and the monitor's in the kitchen." Leo walked over to her.

"But, Piper, you can't go anywhere, what about Chris?" She smiled at him.

"Wish me luck." She walked out the door. Leo walked back into the living room. Jamie looked at him.

"Did she leave?"

"Yeah, I gotta go find her." He looked at Jamie, she sighed.

"Go, I'll stay here. Keep an eye on Wyatt… And Chris."

"Thanks." Leo orbed out. Jamie sighed and walked back over to Chris. She brushed away the hair that had fallen in his face. She put her hand on his forehead, which was burning up. She sighed.

"You need to get better, Chris." He shifted again.

"Jamie." Jamie stared at him as he whispered her name. She started to grab his hand but was interrupted by Bianca's foot as she kicked her. Jamie flew across the room. Bianca walked over to Chris.

"Come on, we're going home." And then they were gone.

OOO

Leo and the sisters orbed back into the living room, Jamie was knocked unconscious. They ran over to her.

"Jamie, honey, wake up."

"Phoebe?" Jamie's voice was weak. She touched her forehead, which was bleeding.

"Yeah, we're here." Leo knelt down next to her and healed her. She stood up.

"Thanks."

"What happened?" Piper asked.

"Bianca. She has Chris." Paige sighed.

"Let's go find 'em."

OOO

Piper, Phoebe, and Paige orbed to Chris and Bianca. Piper tried to throw a potion at her but failed. Bianca stood before her, holding a knife to her throat. Phoebe looked at her.

"Wow, she is good." They started to walk to her.

"Ah, ah. I can kill her in half the time it takes you to even think about it."

"Yeah, I bet you can knock her out too. Just like you did with Jamie." Chris looked at Phoebe.

"Jamie?"

"Yeah, we found her passed out on the floor, bleeding."

"Is she-" Chris looked worried.

"She's fine. Thanks to Leo." Bianca looked at Chris.

"Why do you care?" Chris didn't say anything. She looked at the sisters. "Put the vials down, slowly."

"Bianca, don't. Let her go and I promise I'll go with you."

"Chris, what are you doing?" Paige asked.

"If you kill her, there won't be a future for either one of us to go back to and you know it."

"What are you talking about." Phoebe looked confused.

"You'll see if you live long enough." Bianca took the knife away from Piper's throat. They started to leave.

"Piper, freeze them!" Piper tried to do as she was told, but it didn't work.

"Ah, okay. I get why she didn't freeze, but why didn't he freeze?"

"Unless he's a-" Chris cut Phoebe off.

"I'm a witch too?" Paige's mouth dropped open. "That's right. Part witch, part whitelighter. Just like you, Paige."

"You lied to us?"

"I had to. It was the only way I could get you to trust me."

"Trust you?" Phoebe looked at him.

"Never mind, it doesn't matter anyway."

"So you're just gonna leave?" Piper asked.

"I don't have a choice! She stripped my powers. Looks like Leo's gonna have to fix that floorboard without me." They all looked confused. He turned to Bianca. "Let's go."

They walked through the portal into the attic in the future.

"Welcome home, Chris." A man with blonde hair walked up to him.

"Hello, Wyatt."

OOO

Piper and Jamie were sitting as Phoebe and Paige looked through the Book of Shadows. Leo walked back and forth.

"There's gotta be a spell in here somewhere." Phoebe continued flipping through the pages.

"To take us to the future, I don't think so." Paige sighed.

"Well, Bianca's a witch, she could do it. How could she do it?"

"We don't know how." Piper looked at Leo.

"How did we do it five years ago?"

"The elder's made that happen, remember."

"Well, you're an elder. Make it happen."

"That was a unique situation." Paige looked at him.

"This isn't?"

"Hey, I don't like this either. Don't you think I wanna save him too."

"I don't know if I wanna save him or kick his ass."

"I'm with you on that one." Jamie said.

"That still doesn't change all the good he's done." Paige looked at him.

"Well, you're certainly singing a different tune. You've come a long way, baby."

"Okay, despite all his secrets, I still believe that he came back to protect Wyatt. And that is enough for me to want to save him."

"The question is: How?" Leo looked at Piper as he walked on the loose floorboard. "Leo."

"What?"

"Fix the floorboard." Phoebe said.

"Maybe he was trying to tell us something." Jamie looked at Paige.

"Huh?"

"Maybe. Maybe that's where Bianca was taking him. To the attic in the future." Phoebe walked over to Piper, who had gotten up.

"But that would still be there in the future, wouldn't it?"

"Yeah, unless we fixed it." Paige said.

"Or used it. To send him something. Something that he needed." Piper looked at Leo.

"Like what?" Jamie asked.

"His powers."

OOO

Future Wyatt walked across the floorboard, which was still loose. He told his men that they were no threat and they went away. They talked for a few minutes about how it was all about power.

"And whoever has the most power wins. Is that it?"

"That's it." Chris shook his head "That's why I keep this museum in tact, to remind everyone of the power of which I was born, and that which I posses."

"To bad that the rest of the city isn't fairing as well as your little shrine here."

"You know if anyone else tried what you tried, I'd kill them on the spot. But you… I've forgiven Bianca, I can forgive you too if you promise never to cross me again."

"I think you know me better than that." Wyatt looked at Bianca.

"I thought you said that you could talk some sense into him!"

"Leave her out of this!" Wyatt started to close Chris's airway. He knelt down, grabbing in throat.

"Pardon me?" Wyatt threw Chris across the room.

OOO

Paige was quickly writing the spell for Chris.

"Hurry. Hurry. Hurry!" Phoebe said.

"I'm trying. I'm trying." They passed it down and put it in the floorboard.

OOO

Chris was still getting thrown around the room. Bianca looked at Wyatt.

"You promised you wouldn't hurt him!"

"And you promised you'd turn him. Just like I turned out, or at least I thought I had." She ran over to Chris.

"Please." A tear ran down her face. "I didn't bring you here to die."

"Don't worry I know what I'm doing." He looked down at Wyatt's foot, which was on the floorboard. "I think." He ran at Wyatt, but he threw him across the room.

"Have you lost your mind?" Wyatt closed his airway again and was conjuring an energy ball. "I don't need you." Bianca ran up to Wyatt and put her hand in his back.

"Whatever you're gonna do. Do it fast. I can't hold for long." Chris ran to the floorboard and grabbed the spell. He quickly read it. Wyatt threw Bianca.

"No!" Chris threw Wyatt across the room and ran to Bianca, she had a wooden spear through her. "Bianca, No. No."

"Haven't we been here before?" He smiled.

"Maybe we will be again." She slipped her ring into his hand.

"If you can finish what we started." Wyatt started to wake up. "Go." He nodded and got up and ran over to the Book of Shadows. He quickly started reading the spell, while dodging an energy ball. Once he finished the spell, he ran into the portal and ended up back to where the sisters, Leo, and Jamie were. Jamie gasped.

"Oh my god, are you okay?" Paige asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He stood up. "Nice spell."

"Yeah, but we just put it in there, like, two seconds ago." Phoebe said.

"Yeah, well you see, the way time travel works-" Leo looked at her.

"Yeah, I don't wanna know. I already have a little headache."

"You have some serious explaining to do, young man." Piper stared at Chris.

"I know."

"I'm sorry I lied to you, I really am. But-"

"No, no buts. It's about time you tell us the truth. Now." He looked at her.

"I can't. But not because I don't want to. But because there's only so much I can tell you without the future being changed too much."

"Um, isn't that your whole point? To come and change the future?" Paige said.

"Yeah, but that was supposed to be more like a surgical strike."

"To save Wyatt?" Chris nodded.

"To save Wyatt."

"What about Bianca?" Phoebe questioned. Jamie looked at him, but when he looked at her, she turned away. He sighed.

"Bianca won't be a threat to anyone anymore." Jamie looked up. Phoebe looked at Chris.

"I'm sorry."

"Me too. So you guys still all right with me hanging around here?"

"Absolutely." Chris smiled as Leo said this. "But next time you're in trouble, you gotta tell us. Trust works both ways." Chris nodded.

"Okay." He tried to look at Jamie once more, before walking downstairs. He stopped in front of Wyatt's room. "If I can't save you, I swear to god. I'll stop you."

OOO

Phoebe, Piper, and Paige were all sitting at the table.

"What's going on?" Phoebe asked Piper.

"Well, I've been thinking."

"Uh-oh." Paige said. "Does that mean I'm in trouble?" Piper smirked.

"I think it's time we make some changes around here." Phoebe and Paige looked at each other."

"What kind of changes?" Phoebe asked.

"Like I think you should move to Hong Kong, with Jason." Piper turned to Paige. "And you should move into Richard's." They were both shocked.

"I never said I wanted that." Paige said.

"You didn't have to, the spell did that for you." She turned to Phoebe. "And you too."

"No, we can't leave you alone. We have to stick together."

"No, I know, believe me, I know. But you can't keep sacrificing your lives forever. And neither can I. Mom did that. Grams did it. And even Prue. And look what happened to them. It's not a legacy I want us to inherit."

"What if it doesn't work out? Us going our separate ways." Paige asked.

"Well, we'll worry about it then."

"Are you sure about this?" Phoebe asked. Piper nodded.

"Yeah." They all sighed and put their hands in each others.

OOO

A little while later Jamie was sitting on the pull-out bed in Phoebe's room. She was reading a book, there was a knock on the door.

"Jamie?" She sighed when she heard Chris's voice. "Can I come in?"

"It's not my room, I can't stop you." He opened the door. "Hey."

"Hi." She didn't look up from her book. He sat down on Phoebe's bed, which was across from Jamie's.

"Um, I kind of wanted to talk." She continued to stare at her book, even though she had been reading the same sentence over and over since he walked in. "I should've told you about Bianca." He sighed when she still didn't look up. "Can you put the book down for a minute?" She sighed and did as she was asked.

"Happy?"

"Yes. Thank you." He looked her in the eye. "I'm sorry." She sat there for a few seconds. "Now would be a great time to speak." She looked at him.

"What do you want me to say, Chris? The other night at P3, we danced. Yes, the dance was forced on both of us, but after, you sat and talked to me for hours. Then, when the night was over, you kissed me. You kissed me. Not the other way around." He nodded.

"I know." She shook her head.

"God, I'm such an idiot. You know, I thought you actually liked me."

"I do."

"You're engaged!"

"Was! I'm not anymore."

"So, what? You're looking for some rebound action? Newsflash, not gonna happen here."

"Jamie, no. That's not-" He sighed. "That's not what I mean. I just want you to forgive me."

"Yeah, well, maybe someday I can." He nodded and walked out of her room. She sighed and fell back onto her pillow.

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A/N: Whew! Lol. I hope you like the fic so far. I'm having a lot of fun writing it! Please review and tell me what you think