A/N: Sorry for the poor format on the first chapter. It has been so long since I have wrote anything new or updated prior stories that I seem to have forgotten how. Charmed is my favorite show and it was a huge blow when they ended the 'Future Chris' storyline. So I thought it would be fun to dabble in their world.
Sara Halliwell is only sixteen months younger than Chris making her 21. I hope that this is enjoyed! Let me know what you think in a review, it would make my day.
Disclaimer: I wish I owned the rights to Charmed! Sadly I do not.
Chapter Two"NOO," Chris moaned pulling his sister close to his chest. How could Wyatt have done this to her? He hadn't thought that Wyatt would actually try to kill their younger sister. Then again he hadn't thought Wyatt would have done many of the things he had.
"Chris help me get her comfortable," Leo said as he tried to take Sara from his son's arms. Chris shrugged away from him pulling his sister closer.
"I've got her," he muttered. Cradling Sara's battered body in his arms he stood and slowly made his way over to the day bed and began to settle her there. He sat on the edge of the bed and gazed down at her. Her breathing was coming in short gasps, making him want to cry. He didn't know how much longer she had. All he knew was that he had to find a way to save her. He watched with tears forming as Leo leaned in next to him, healing the ugly bruise marring her young face.
Chris was grateful for the space his anxious family was giving him. He knew they wanted to help but even he was unsure how they were going to fix this.
"Here, let me help." Phoebe handed him a blanket to cover Sara's shivering form and a cool cloth to wipe her sweating forehead with. "We'll find a way."
Piper waited until Phoebe, Leo and Paige were leafing through the Book of Shadows trying to find anything that may help, before she slowly made her way over to Chris. She was unsure of what to say to her second born. She watched as he held his younger sister's hand pleading to her in hushed tones. Piper found herself not wanting to look down at her daughter, yet it was too hard not to. Sara looked so much like Chris that had she not known better Piper would have thought they were twins. From her thick brown hair to her defined cheekbones and lanky build she resembled him. Definitely a Halliwell. Piper wrapped her arms around Chris as she sat down next to him trying to ease his pain. At first he gratefully accepted, then stiffened and pulled away.
Wyatt Matthew Halliwell was in high spirits. Chris had fallen for his simple plan. Wyatt had never meant for Sara to summon Chris. There was no spell on that paper he had shoved into her hand, but a meaningful note to Chris instead. His Charmed family from the past would soon learn that the only way to save Sara would be by coming back to the future where Wyatt had the antidote. Wyatt paced as he thought of the proper punishment to Chris' betrayal. It would have to be a lesson his headstrong brother would never forget. Sara.
Sara struggled with unconsciousness. She needed to find Chris, to tell him about Wyatt. She felt she had to be in the past since she didn't summon Chris the way Wyatt wanted. Chris had to keep focusing on Wyatt or else the future was going to be lost and that was unacceptable. Sara hoped that if she was in the past that her injured, no dying presence would not affect her brother to distraction. She knew that wakefulness was close when a wave of pain washed over her. Suddenly her body felt like lead, she was freezing, it hurt to breath and every fiber of her being throbbed with pain.
"Ahrg," Sara moaned as she finally managed to pry her eyes open. Chris' worried, tear stained face was the first thing she saw. Everything else was so blurry. "Chris, time?"
Chris immediately understood her question. "2004." He grasped her hand tightly giving her a physical link to hold on to.
"How?" she felt some of her strength returning and couldn't understand why. Hadn't she been shot by a revenge crazy dark lighter packing new and improved poisonous arrows? While her strength was returning, the pain stayed beyond tolerable and her vision refused to clear fully.
"I had the charmed ones summon you here." While his response seemed simple enough, Sara knew the depth to his answer. Her mom and aunts were near? She grew wary and agitated and looked back at Chris before slowly turning her head to gaze unfocused at her surroundings.
Chris watched as his sister caught his meaning and become agitated. Her eye's flickering from him to her surroundings trying to make sense of being in the past. Finally she tilted her unsettling gaze back to him.
"I can't see, everything's foggy" she muttered softly. "What happened?"
"Wyatt made sure I saw everything he was doing to you. He knew if something happened to you, I would put my mission to turn him on hold to save you. Thankfully Dad talked me out of going back to get you and to have Mom, Phoebe, and Paige bring you here instead. Dad healed the wound but we're still trying to find a way rid the poison in your system"
She stared blankly at her brother. Chris told them who he was? She struggled to reach a sitting position but had to settle at being propped up with pillows Chris helped push behind her back trying to get her to take it easy.
"You have to relax," Chris soothed.
"You told them who you were?" she demanded in a pain filled voice.
"They figured it out."
"And about me?"
"I kinda had to tell them about you." He stated finding it hard to look into her unhappy gaze. "I needed their help."
"What you need to do is save Wyatt." She gasped. There was a sudden shooting pain that made her see stars and become sickeningly dizzy. "You…have to."
"Sara?" Her eyes had glazed over and she seemed about to pass out then she sighed and looked back up at him.
"It hurts Chris," she whispered, tears starting to form in her eyes.
"Do you have anything yet?" Chris called franticly to aunt s and father. "She's in a lot of pain."
"We're trying Chris!"
"I'll be right back," Chris murmured to her. "I might see something they overlooked." Chris turned to his mother who had stepped back to give him room.
"Sit with her, please." Piper stood unable to move. Chris hugged Piper then quickly made for the book. What would she say? Wyatt, Chris and Sara were her children yet she hardly knew anything about them. She didn't share the memories that they had of her. Slowly Piper made her way over to her daughter's side.
Sara felt someone sit down on the edge of the bed and opened her eyes. She had expected Chris' familiar face to be looking down at her and was startled when she saw her mother instead. It had been seven years since Sara had last saw her mother. Even though Chris had told her their mother was there she was finding it hard to except. Perhaps it was her still cloudy vision.
"Mom?" she tried to focus. "Is that really you?"
"I'm here, Sara" Piper tried to comfort her stricken daughter by taking her cold hand in hers. "It's really me."
"Please…stay"
"I'm not going anywhere." Piper knew Sara had fallen back toward unconsciousness. Piper began to adjust the blankets when she saw a crinkled piece of paper clasped in her daughter's other hand. Curious, she took it from her hand and unfolded it.
Chris looked over sharply when he heard Piper's muffled gasp. She was holding Sara's hand yet gazing at a crinkled paper. He quickly moved to her side, noticing Sara was asleep he turned his attention to Piper.
"What is it?" he asked indicating the paper locked in her grasp. Instead of speaking Piper only shook her head, her eyes wild. Chris began to worry.
"Piper?"
Nothing.
"Mom?"
A soft sob, then nothing.
"Here let me take a look," he made a grab for the for it but she clutched the offensive paper to her chest.
Chris threw a pleading look in Leo's direction. "A little help here would be nice!"
"Piper, let me see that," Leo said coming over and putting an arm around his wife. When she refused to move Chris locked gazes with Leo. Worry was beginning to turn into dread. Suddenly Piper's soft voice broke the uneasy silence.
"How can a baby that is so sweet and innocent become so cold?"
"That's from Wyatt, isn't it?" Chris felt his stomach turn and flip when Piper answered his question with a nod of her head. She looked up at him then with sorrow filled eyes and handed him the paper in question. Chris sighed and began to read the all too familiar handwriting.
Chris,
You need to come back now. I am the way I am and there is nothing you can do to change that. Just accept it. Time is not on your side. Sara will die and the only thing you will be able to do is watch. Just like with Mom. However, if you come home I can change Sara's fate. I have the only antidote. The longer you wait the more painful it will become for her. I'll be waiting. I trust you'll do the right thing by our sister. You wouldn't want her death on your conscience.
Wyatt
Chris closed his eyes. Why did he always have to choose between those he loved and saving his power crazy brother? He knew deep down that Wyatt was the only who knew how to save Sara and time was running out. He could hear that his sister's breathing had become jagged and short. It was time to choose and Chris couldn't see how he was going to be able to save both. He knew what Sara would want him to do. She would tell him that if he saved Wyatt, he saved the future and more than one life would be spared. However, if he failed in his attempt to turn Wyatt, Sara would be gone forever. Either way he looked at it, Sara's life hung in the balance and he couldn't justify letting his sister die. There had to be another way, he just couldn't see it.
"Chris?" Paige asked coming to stand beside his still form. She looked down at the letter, began to read, and was joined by Phoebe and Leo. They were all too shocked to speak when they finished.
The attic was eerily silent except for Sara's raspy gasps for air. Wyatt was right. They were running out of time.
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