Disclaimer: Strangely enough I still don't own Charmed. Who would of guessed?
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Note: Sorry, I forgot to add this before. This story is set somewhere during season 7, after the whole Avatar/Utopia thing, but before the 150th episode.
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Piper stood downstairs in the hallway with Little Chris, Little Wyatt and Leo. She was starting to get really fed up. She had finally had a chance to go and spend some time away from her sisters with the man she loved and her two precious children. There were finally no magical fiascos or sisters who needed her support with some failed relationship. She had finally had a chance at a normal day and you know what happened? It had started to rain.
Ok, ok. She had to admit that it wasn't the most dramatic thing that had happened, but she had just wanted a couple of minutes with her family outside of the manor, and now she had been forced back from her stroll in the park a lot sooner than she'd hoped.
At least there weren't any demons to ruin the day…. Piper thought…yet.
Little Wyatt sneezed.
"I'll go get them into some dry clothes." Leo said while he picked up his two children and took them upstairs.
Piper watched him leave and realized that she could possibly be the luckiest woman alive. She had the most caring husband and two little boys that meant the world to her. Why had she been worrying about rain? As long as they were together and healthy everything was just fine for her.
"Paige?" Piper said as she walked into the kitchen looking for her. "Paige, are you here?"
There was no reply.
She decided to go and check upstairs for her.
"Paige?"
When she reached the attic stairs, she could hear voices from in the attic. A man's, and a woman's.
She figured that Paige must have company. But why would they be in the attic?
As she walked up the stairs the voices suddenly stopped. She opened the door and saw that there was nobody in the room.
"Huh" Piper said. They must have orbed out, she thought.
She assumed that he was someone from Magic School. Paige really couldn't take a break for just one day.
Piper sighed and left the attic to go and check on her darling boys.
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Wyatt and Paige reappeared in a dark alleyway behind P3. It was raining. There they saw Chris, trying to fight one demon without his powers while a second demon powered up a fireball. Chris was in bad shape. He had a large burn on his shoulder where a fireball had hit him earlier and his clothes were torn and bloody.
Wyatt couldn't help but feel slightly amazed that his little brother had managed to keep it up, against two demons (although they were lower-level) without his powers or potions. Chris had never been able to come up with a spell in the heat of a battle so spells weren't of much use to him at the moment. Luckily his aunt Phoebe had taught him a thing or two when it came to fighting.
Paige had frozen. She couldn't believe her eyes. It was Chris. It was actually Chris.
The second demon saw the new arrivals and threw his fireball at them.
Wyatt managed to push the shocked Paige out of the way just in time, and they both fell to the ground. Wyatt threw one of the potions he had at the demon from his position on the ground and it was vanquished in a blaze of red flames.
Wyatt helped Paige up and turned towards Chris, just when the remaining demon picked Chris up and threw him across the alleyway, where he hit the wall hard and sunk to the floor unconscious.
"Pipe!" Paige shouted and she redirected the old pipe straight into the demon, and it too erupted into red flames.
Wyatt ran towards Chris. His hart was beating fast now. He knelt down beside him and checked for a pulse.
He let out the breath that he had been holding. Chris was alive, but he needed a healer soon.
Wyatt was starting to feel really annoyed at not having his powers.
He would have to take him to Leo. He would find out that this was Chris and the whole future would probably be changed, but he had no choice.
Paige ran over to them.
"Is he… is he…?"Paige said, not daring to finish her question.
"We need to take him to Leo" Wyatt said urgently.
Paige took a hold of Chris and Wyatt and orbed them back to the manor.
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Leo was in the bathroom looking for clean towels while Piper was with the boys.
That's when he heard Paige calling him.
Something was severely wrong. He could tell by the sound of her voice.
He orbed out without hesitating.
When he arrived in the living room the sight that met his eyes caused his hart to stop beating. He couldn't believe his eyes. Paige was standing over the couch, soaking wet. And kneeling down beside her was….
Wyatt.
And he was holding onto someone's hand.
"Wyatt?" He asked uncertainly. This couldn't be real. This was the same man that had unmercifully stabbed him in the gut a few months prior. But his demeanor was different from then. Kinder, but yet afraid.
Paige stared at Wyatt. Did Leo just say Wyatt? This was Matthew…
But when she said the name in her head it all made sense. Matthew. Wyatt Matthew Halliwell. She knew that he had looked familiar. Those big blue eyes…
Now it was Wyatt's turn to stare at his father. How did he know? How could he possibly know who he was? But now wasn't the time to ponder that. He'd come back to it later.
"Dad, you need to heal Chris. He's hurt"
Wyatt moved aside and Leo got his first good look of the man on the couch. The face that had haunted his dreams for months. The face of his beloved son who had died in agony and who he had not been able to save. That had been the worst moment in his life. He had let his son die. He had not been quick enough in finding Gideon, and Chris had paid the price with his life.
Although Leo wasn't sure that he wasn't dreaming, he wouldn't let Chris die again. He knelt down next to Wyatt and placed his hands over Chris. He noticed that his hands were shaking, but the glowing light came nonetheless.
Chris´ wounds started to heel, and he began to stir.
When the wounds were completely gone, Chris opened his eyes and the first thing he saw were the faces of his father and brother, who were both looking utterly relieved, and in Leo's case, shocked.
"Dad….Wy… What happened?" Chris asked while he sat up and also saw his aunt Paige standing over him.
The next moment Leo pulled Chris into a rib-cracking hug, before he held Chris in front of him to have a good look at him.
He looked younger and older at the same time to Leo. Leo guessed that age wise this Chris was older than the Chris he had known, but he also looked a lot more carefree. He didn't have the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Leo's eyes filled with tears of joy at having his son back. He then looked at Wyatt, who was staring back at him.
"Dad? What's going…"
But Leo interrupted him
"You're not evil" Leo said plainly.
This statement came as quite a shock to Wyatt. He didn't know what to say. How could his father suggest that? Why would he be evil? How could the twice-blessed child, son of a Charmed One and a whitelighter, heir of good magic, be evil?
"Why would he be evil?" Chris asked his father puzzled.
Leo looked at Chris and realized that this wasn't the Chris he had known.
They didn't know. They didn't know the truth. How could he not have told them?
He looked away.
Chris was having a lot of trouble getting a hold on things. Something was very, very wrong. Why hadn't his powers worked against those demons? What was up with dad? And what had happened to Paige? Like wow! She looked barely older than Wyatt.
"Would somebody please tell me what's going on?" Chris demanded.
"It's 2005" Wyatt said.
Chris stared at Wyatt for a moment.
"How did we get here?" Chris asked, while looking around the room and waiting for a logical explanation.
"That's exactly what I'd like to know." Wyatt said as he looked at Chris. Then he shifted his gaze to Leo, "And I have the feeling there's something you're not telling us…"
But he wasn't going to be allowed to finish that sentence anytime soon because at that moment Piper walked in.
TBC
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