Chapter 16 – The Beginning of the End

The next morning, Phoebe wakes up and looks at the empty bed in her room. She sighs as she gets up and goes downstairs. Paige is sitting in the kitchen, drinking a cup of coffee. Phoebe walks over and pours herself a cup of coffee.

"Have you heard from her?" Paige asks. Phoebe shakes her head.

"I don't know where she could be." Phoebe says. "I mean, she's never been out all night."

"Sweetie, she just lost the one person that meant everything to her. She's gonna have to be alone for a while."

"I know." Phoebe sighs. "I'm just worried about her. What she might do." Paige looks up.

"You think she would do something?"

"I don't know. I mean, when I lost Cole, I felt like the world was coming to an end."

"Yeah, but, you didn't actually think about-"

"Killing myself?" Phoebe asks. Paige nods. "No. I never thought about that." Paige sighs in relief.

"Good." She says. "That's good."

"Yeah." Phoebe says. "Except, I haven't lost as many people as Jamie has." Paige looks up and thinks about this for a second.

"Maybe we should go find her." Paige says.

"Yeah, but we don't know where to even begin to look." Phoebe says.

"Well, lets think about this." Paige says. "She would want to be somewhere where Chris spent a lot of time, right?"

"Yeah, but we don't know where Chris spent a lot of his time." Phoebe says.

"Well, I remember Jamie saying something about him liking to go to the bridge."

"Yeah, but how would Jamie get there?" Phoebe asks.

"Good point."

"Okay, what about someplace else." Phoebe says. "Some place he liked, somewhere where he…" Phoebe looks at Paige. "Slept."

"The club." Paige says. Phoebe nods.

"I'll go get dressed." She walks back up the stairs.

OOO

Later, at the club, Jamie was asleep on the couch. Paige and Phoebe orb in.

"Well, she looks all right." Paige says. Phoebe tries to walk over to her, but trips over an empty beer bottle. She walks a couple steps and finds three more empty bottles. Phoebe bends down and picks up one of them and turns to Paige.

"Wanna rephrase that, sis?" She asks.

"Well, so she had a couple drinks." Paige says. "It's not the end of the world."

"She had at least six bottles of beer, Paige." Phoebe says. "Jamie doesn't drink. Ever. I'm pretty sure that the only drink she's ever had was that glass of champagne she had at magic school, when we thought this was all over." Phoebe and Paige look over at Jamie as she moans in her sleep and turns over. Both sisters walk over to her.

"Jamie…" Paige says. "Sweetie…" Jamie moaned again, but woke up. She starred at Phoebe and Paige.

"Oh god." She says, grabbing her forehead and sitting up.

"Welcome to the wonderful world of hangovers, honey." Phoebe says. Jamie stares at Phoebe as the previous day comes back to her.

"Oh god." Jamie says. "It wasn't a dream." Tears roll down her face. "He's really gone." Phoebe sits down next to her and puts her arm around Jamie. Paige sits on the other side of her.

"It's gonna be okay, James." Phoebe says. "It's all gonna be okay."

"How?" Jamie asks. "How is it all gonna be okay? Huh? How? The man I love is dead! Our unborn child is gone!"

"Sweetie, I know right now it seems like the end of the world-"

"No." Jamie cuts Paige off. "No, it doesn't seem like the end of the world. It is the end of the world! I have nothing to live for! Everyone I love is gone!" Phoebe looks at her.

"What about Paige?" Phoebe asks, Jamie looks at her.

"What?"

"What about Paige?" Phoebe asks again. "Don't you love Paige?"

"Well, yeah. But-"

"What about Piper?" Phoebe asks. "Huh? What about Leo? What about Me?"

"What about Wyatt?" Paige asks. Jamie looks at her, tears running down her face. "The person Chris gave his life for?"

"You know I love Wyatt." Jamie says. "And you know I love you guys. And Leo."

"We know, sweetie." Paige says, hugging her. "We know."

OOO

Paige and Phoebe convinced Jamie to come home. And a little while later, Jamie is in her and Phoebe's bedroom, lying on her bed. She is looking through a photo book that she made. She was thinking about the first time she had met Chris…

Jamie was sitting on the couch, saying 'hi' to everyone. She asked where Wyatt was.

"He's in the conservatory." She turned to the, then unfamiliar, voice. And there he stood, Jamie didn't know who this guy was, but she knew he was special. And not to mention the fact that he was a major hottie. Chris leaned against the doorway.

"And, who are you?" Jamie asked him. Phoebe walked over to her.

"That's Chris, he's from the future." She told her. "That's all he'll tell us." Chris sighed.

"That's all I can tell you."

"Right." Jamie laughed at Phoebe. Chris looked at her, she knew she must've had a cheesy grin on her face.

"Who are you?" He asked. She walked over to him and held out her hand.

"Jamie Granger, nice to meet you." She paused for a second. "I think."

Jamie sighs as she comes across a picture of her and Chris on their three-month anniversary…

"Chris," She said. "I can't see!"

"Well, baby, you're blindfolded." He said, while he kept the grip on her hand.

"I know, but I feel like I'm gonna fall."

"I won't let you fall." He said. "I promise."

"But Chris-"

"Relax, we're almost there."

"Where is 'there' exactly?" Jamie asked.

"There is here." He said as he took off her blindfold. Her mouth dropped as saw where they were. Chris had taken her to a harbor and had rented them a yacht. Jamie starred as they stepped onto the yacht. It was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. It had candles everywhere. And a bottle of champagne sitting next to the couch.

"Chris…" She says.

"Do you like it?" He asks. She smiles at him.

"I love it!" She throws her arms around him and kisses him. They sit down on the couch, she snuggled up close to him.

"I love you, Jamie." She smiled at this.

"I love you too."

Jamie sighs again and puts the photo book down. She picks up and hugs a stuffed bear that he had bought for their baby…

"What's this?" Jamie asked, taking the bear from him.

"It's a stuffed bear." Chris said.

"Well, I know that." Jamie said. "What's it for?"

"The baby."

"Piper's baby?" Jamie asked.

"I am Piper's baby." Chris said. "You think I bought a stuffed bear for myself?"

"No, I guess not…" She looked up at him. "You bought a stuffed bear for our baby?"

"Yeah." She smiled at him, looking kind of surprised. "Why are you so shocked that I bought something for my child?"

"I'm not, I just didn't think you had exactly accepted it yet."

"What do you mean?" Chris asked.

"I mean… I don't know." Jamie sighs. "I just didn't think you really wanted a baby." Jamie looked down at the floor when she said this. Chris sat down beside her.

"Jamie, we created this baby." He stopped and realized what he just said. "Okay, I know that sounded a little gross, but that's beside the point." He put his arm around her. "My point is, that I love you." She smiled. "And I know you love me. And this baby is going to have a family who loves him… Her… It." She chuckled at this. "And no matter what, nothing will tear us apart." She smiled and he kissed her on the forehead.

Jamie sighs again. She sits up and wipes the tears from her eyes. She got an idea and walked out of her room.

OOO

Paige and Phoebe walk into Piper's room at the hospital.

"Hey!" Piper smiles. She is holding baby Chris.

"Hey." Phoebe smiles as she and Paige walk over to Piper and baby Chris. "Aw, he's so cute!"

"I know." Piper says.

"Where's Leo?" Paige asks.

"Oh, the elders needed him for something."

"Oh." Phoebe took baby Chris from Piper.

"How's Jamie?" Piper asks.

"Uh, well…" Paige looks at Phoebe.

"She's not doing to good." Phoebe says.

"But, you got her to come home, right?" Piper asks.

"Yeah, after we found her in the back room at the club." Paige says.

"Yeah." Phoebe says. "Uh, there were some, uh… Beer bottles."

"Beer bottles?" Piper asks. "Jamie was drinking?" Piper sits up and Phoebe takes baby Chris.

"Yeah…" Phoebe says. "But, if it helps any, I think she really regrets doing it."

"Major hangover." Paige says.

"Well, someone needs to be with her." Piper tells them.

"Yeah, you're right." Paige says. "I'll go."

"Well, I can go too." Phoebe says.

"No. You stay with Piper and Chris." Phoebe nods and Paige leaves.

OOO

Jamie is in the attic, she's sitting at a table with the book of shadows and a cauldron is in front of her. She had tried many spells already, but none of them worked. She flips to a page that read: To call at witch. The wording is a little off, but she can change it a little bit. She takes a deep breath and says the spell.

"Powers of the witches rise, course unseen across the sky, come to me who calls you near, come to me and settle here." She picks up a pin and pricks herself with it. She squeezes a few drops of blood into the cauldron. "Blood to blood I summon thee, blood to blood return to me." The candles that are on the table go out. Jamie sits in silence and doesn't move a muscle. After a few minutes, she sighs and a tear runs down her face. Nothing had happened. Nothing was working. She had to come to face the fact that she was never going to see Chris again. As she starts to clean up, there's a knock on the door. "Chris." Jamie says. She runs down the stars and opens the door with a huge smile and a hopeful heart. Both of them dropped as she saw the person at the door. It was a tall man with brown hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a black shirt with a jean jacket over it. Jamie stared at him, she felt an odd closeness to this man.

"Uh, hi." She says

"Hello." The man smiles

"Um, can I help you?" She asks.

"Well, that depends." The man says.

"Depends on what?" Jamie asks, feeling a little unsure about this strange man.

"On if you know Jamie Granger." The man says. "Do you?" Jamie stares at him and slowly backs away from him.

"I-I'm J-Jamie." She stutters. His smile drops and he stares at her.

"You're…." He looks at her. "You're Jamie Granger?" She nods. He smiles. "Wow."

"'Wow'?" Jamie asks "Who are you?"

"Oh, sorry." The man puts his hand out for Jamie to shake. "I'm Scott. Scott Granger." Jamie's face falls as she hears the man's name.

"No." She says, backing further away. "What do you want?"

"I just want to talk." He says.

"Why the hell would I want to talk to you?"

"Because…" The man stops. "Because I'm your father."

"No." Jamie shakes her head. "No. I have no father." Scott stares at her.

"But-"

"The man that claims to be my father left me and my mother when I was two years old." Jamie goes to close the door, but Scott stops her.

"Jamie, I just want to talk." He looks at her pleadingly. She sighs and opens the door back up.

"Okay." She says. "What do you want to talk about? Huh? Do you want to talk about how you left me? How about how you took my sister away from me?" Jamie stares at him. "Oh, here's a big one, how about how you never ever tried to make contact in seventeen years." She leans against the doorway. "So, dad what could you possibly want? Do you need help with some big bad, or in this case, big good, who's trying to kill you? Well, sorry, but I don't help warlocks." Jamie goes to close the door again, but he stops her.

"You definitely take after your mother." He says.

"Oh, you mean the one you-"

"Left." He cuts her off. "Yes, I get the picture. You hate my guts, you despise me, you want to inflict physical pain on me. I get it."

"Then why are you still here?" Jamie asks as she crosses her arms.

"I am here because I would like a chance to get to know my daughter." He tells her. "And there's a few things that I need to talk with you about."

"Like…"

"Like…" He says. "The fact that I'm not a warlock anymore."

"What?" Is all that Jamie can say. She has a shocked look on her face. "How?"

"Let's just say, I made a deal with an angel."

"So…" She stares at him. "You're not evil?"

"Nope." He shakes his head. "Not a wicked bone in my body."

"Why should I believe you?" Jamie asks, straightening up. "How can I trust you?"

"Well, why don't we go see if I can touch the Book of Shadows?" Scott asks. "I mean, evil can't touch it, right?"

"How do you know about the Book of Shadows?" Jamie asks him.

"Jamie, honey, everyone knows about the Book of Shadows." Jamie stares at him for a few seconds. After a while, she sighs and steps aside.

"Fine." She says. Scott smiles as he walks in.

"Thank you." He looks around. "Wow, I can't believe I'm actually in the Halliwell manor."

"Yeah." She stares at him. "Me either." He turns around and looks at her and smiled.

"God." He says. "You are a spitting image of Renee. Same hair, same eyes… Which look a little puffy." He says, taking her chin in his hand. "Have you been crying?" Jamie turns away from him.

"More like sobbing." Jamie says.

"Why?" Scott asks. "What happened?"

"Wait." Jamie looks at him. "Before we get all 'Lifetime original movie', you still need to prove to me that you're not evil." She walks to up to the attic and he follows. They walk in and head straight for the book. "Touch it." Scot takes a deep breath and walks to the book. He holds his hands above the book and slowly puts them down and he smiles as they touch the book. He looks at Jamie, flipping through the book.

"Believe me now?" He asks. Jamie stares at him.

"The books been fooled before." Scott sighs.

"Come on, Jamie." He says. "What do I have to do for you to trust me?"

"I don't know, can you turn back time and redo the last seventeen years?"

"You better be careful." He says. "That cockiness will come back and bite you in the ass someday." She sighs. "Come on, can't you just believe me?"

"No, you know, I can't." She says. Scott sighs.

"Jamie?" They hear a voice call at the end of the stairs. "Jamie, are you home?"

"Uh, yeah, Paige." She yells. "I'm in the attic." Paige makes her way to the top of the stairs and walks into the attic. She stops and stares at Scott.

"Oh, uh, hey." She says.

"Hi." Scott says. Paige looks at Jamie.

"Oh." Jamie says. "Paige this is Scott. He's, uh… My dad." Paige stares at her.

"You're dad?" She asks, Jamie nods. "Oh… Wow."

"Yeah." Jamie says.

"Wait a minute." Paige says. "Isn't your dad a warlock?"

"Uh, yeah, he claims that he made a deal with an angel, and now's he's good."

"And you believe him?"

"No." Jamie asks. "I'm just trying to figure out a way for him to prove it to me."

"You do know that I'm standing right here, right?" Scott asks.

"Did you try the book?" Paige ignores him.

"Yeah." Jamie answers. "He was able to touch it, but the book's been fooled before."

"That's true." Paige says.

"Do you have any ideas?" Jamie asks.

"Hello?" Scott says, waving his hands. "Can you not see me? Am I invisible?"

"Holy water?" Paige suggests. "We can throw some on him, and if he burns, he's evil."

"Paige, he's not a vampire." Jamie says.

"Oh, right." Paige and Jamie continue to think. Scott sighs.

"I guess so." He walks over and sits down on the couch.

"What about a truth potion?" Paige suggests.

"I thought about those, they can sometimes backfire." Paige nods at this.

"Oh, I know!" Paige says. "How about I just say a spell and make all the evil in him appear."

"You can do that?" Jamie asks.

"Sure I can." They walk over to Scott. "Stand up please." Scott stands. "Okay, now, if he's evil, a black aura should appear around him."

"And if he's good?" Jamie asks.

"Um, well, I'm not sure." Paige looks at Scott. "Okay, uh… Let us answer the question that we seek, is this man strong or is he weak. Show us the truth inside, is this man good or has he lied." Jamie stares at Paige as she finishes the spell.

"Wow." Jamie says.

"Shut up, it should work." The look at Scott, who is filled with a white aura. Jamie stares at her father as he stares at her.

"Believe me now?" He asks. After this, Jamie did something that she hadn't done since she was two years old. She hugged her father.

OOO

Meanwhile, at the hospital, Leo had returned to his wife's side. Leo was holding baby Chris in his arms.

"It's amazing, you know." Leo says with a tear in his eye. "Just yesterday, I watched him die. And today…"

"He's here." Phoebe finishes for him. "I know, it's a miracle." Piper smiles at this.

"The only thing I'm worried about is Jamie." Piper says. "I mean, I know we didn't lose him. But, in a way, she did."

"Yeah." Leo turns to Phoebe. "How was she this morning?"

"Not good." Phoebe tells them. "Actually, I think I'm gonna head home and check on her." Phoebe walks over and grabs her purse. She walks back to Piper and gives her a hug.

"Give Jamie a hug for me." Piper says.

"I will." Phoebe walks over to Leo and baby Chris. She hugs Leo and looks at Chris. "I love you little boy." She smiles at him. She walks to the door and looks at them. "I'll be back later."

"Bye." Both Piper and Leo say as Phoebe leaves.

OOO

Back at the manor, Paige had decided to give Jamie and Scott a few moments to catch up. She is in her room and Scott and Jamie are sitting in the living room talking. They were mostly talking about Jamie's mother, and a little bit about Jamie.

"So…" Scott looks at her. "Are you going to tell me why you were crying when I first showed up?" Jamie sighs at this.

"It's a long story." She says.

"I've got nothing but time." Scott tells her.

"Okay…" Jamie says. "I was crying, because…" A tear runs down Jamie's face. "The man I love, has just died." She barely chokes out the last word. Scott stares at her.

"Oh." He says. "Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry. When… When did it happen?"

"Yesterday."

"Wow."

"Yeah." Jamie sighs.

"Do you, uh, do you want to talk about it?" Scott asks.

"No." Jamie says quickly. "No."

"Okay." They sit there for a few minutes. Jamie looks at her shoes.

"His name was Chris." She says in a low voice.

"What was that?" Scott asks.

"Chris." Jamie says. "That was his name. Chris Halliwell."

"Halliwell?" Scott asks.

"He was Piper's son."

"Oh." Scott looks at his daughter. "Wait a minute, Piper isn't old enough to have a son your age-"

"He was, uh, from the future."

"The future?"

"Yeah, he came from the future to save Wyatt, his little brother."

"Oh."

"Yeah." Jamie looks at Scott. "We were gonna have a baby."

"You mean, you're…" Jamie shakes her head.

"No." She says. "I-I lost it."

"Oh." Scott looks down at the floor, unsure of what to say. They sit in silence for a few seconds.

"God." Jamie sighs. "I'd give anything to get him back."

"How…" Scott stopped and thought about how to say this. "How did he-"

"He was stabbed."

"Do you have the knife?" Jamie stares at him.

"Excuse me?"

"Do you have the knife that he was killed with?"

"Why?" Jamie is about to burst into tears. Scott walks over to where Jamie is sitting and kneels down in front of her.

"Jamie, would you be willing to do anything to get him back?"

"Well, yeah." She says.

"Okay, Jamie, I think I know of a way to get him back." She looks at him. "But, it requires the weapon that the victim was murdered with." Jamie shudders at the word 'murdered'.

"I-it might still be in the attic." Jamie says.

"Okay." Scott says.

"Okay." Jamie says, a little unsure of what her father was proposing. They get up and walk to the attic. Jamie looks around the spot where Gideon stabbed Chris. She bends down and under a table, there was the knife. She takes a deep breath as flashes of the attack fly threw her mind. She shakes them off and picks up the knife. She hands it to Scott. He takes it and looks at it. He sees that there is still blood on it, but doesn't say it because he knows it would upset Jamie.

"Okay, we're gonna need a few things." Scott says.

"Okay…" Jamie listens as Scott tells her the ingredients.

OOO

Jamie walks into the kitchen a few minutes later, while she looks for all the ingredients needed for the spell, Paige walks in.

"Oh, hey James." She says.

"Hi." Jamie says, not looking from the cupboard. Paige looks at the stuff that Jamie has laid out on the counter.

"Uh, James…" Paige says.

"Hmm?" Jamie says.

"What are you doing?" Jamie looks at her.

"Oh, uh… My dad is, uh, helping me with a spell."

"Oh." Paige says. "Okay." Jamie sighs in relieve, she wasn't sure if she should tell Paige and the sisters just yet. "So, you're getting along pretty well, then?" Paige asks as she gets a glass of water.

"Uh, yeah." Jamie says. "I mean, I don't exactly forgive him for everything yet. But, it's nice to have some family around. Other than you guys of course." Paige smiles.

"Well, I'm glad you're happy." Jamie's smile quickly fades as Paige says this.

"Yeah." She says. "Happy."

OOO

After gathering the rest of the ingredients, Jamie and Scott mixed everything and set the spell up. Jamie is kneeled down in front of a caldron with a picture of Chris in front of it. There were candles put down in a circle around her. Jamie looks at Scott.

"Are you ready?" He asks her. She slowly nods. "Okay, you have the spell, you know what to do." She nods again.

"Osiris…" She starts. "Giver of darkness, taker of live, god of gods. Accept my offering." She takes the knife that has Chris's blood on it and cuts her hand. "Blood. bone, flesh, breath. Yours eternally." She adds the blood into the cauldron. "Blood. bone, flesh, breath. I beg of you, return to me." As she continues to repeat this, one by one the candles go out. They are left in darkness. Jamie hears a thud in front of her. She looks directly in front of her, and she can sense someone there.

"Jamie?" A voice says.

"Chris?" She asks into the darkness.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

Hey peoples! Sorry it's taken SO long to update, my computer has been being a butt-head. Lol. Sorry to leave you here, but, there will be one more chapter. Well, I'll ttyl!