Chapter 12: A Familiar Time
A/N: The votes are in! Piper will be going back to soon after they met Chris. Since it was close with season 1, I have a little treat for those who wanted her to go to season 1. Prue's coming back (for real this time). Thanks to those who reviewed. I own nothing.
Chris was in the attic, looking through the Book of Shadows. He seemed to never do anything else. He had been in the past for about a month, and still, the Charmed Ones didn't trust him. They never took him seriously. What hurt him most, though, was how his mother treated him. He knew in his heart that Piper didn't mean it. She didn't know who he was. Still, she was just plain cruel. He looked up from the book when he saw a shinning blue portal appear on the attic wall.
Out of the portal stepped Piper Halliwell. Chris knew she was from the future, but not that far. She was only 2 or three years older. The moment she saw him, she ran up to him and embraced him tightly. "Oh Chris!" she cried. She looked exhausted, both physically, and mentally as well. Chris hated to see his mother in so much pain. Without thinking, he said, "its okay mom, what happened?"
It took him a moment to realize that he had called Piper mom. He looked stricken, waiting for her reaction. She smiled at him and said, "It's okay Peanut, I know. I'm from the future. You're about a year old. Thing's went…bad, in the future." She had used his childhood nickname. She was his mother…the one he had yearned for during 8 long years without her. Now, she seemed to be on a mission of her own. What had happened two years from now that had been so terrible? There was nothing he could remember.
He gently led his mother to the lumpy couch in the attic. They both sat down, and Piper took deep steadying breaths. It looked as if she would burst into tears at any moment. "Tell me about it", Chris said gently. Piper took a calming gasp, and began to tell him. As she continued to speak, Chris' expression became more and more horrified. When she told him about Paige's baby, he whispered "That wasn't supposed to happen. Apparently, in his time, his cousin was alive and relatively well.
When Piper told him about Piper, Paige and Kyle's horrific deaths, Chris gasped. That was definitely not supposed to happen, not yet. Had he changed more then he had planed to by coming to the past? Mother and son were quiet for a moment, unsure of what to do. After a moment, Chris asked softly, "Do you know what sort of demon…?" He left the painful question hanging in the air. "Jorgen Demons", was all Piper said.
That name shot fear through Chris' body. The Jorgen Demons were the ones that had killed his mother on his fourteenth birthday. He had, for a while, been obsessed with vanquishing them. He had wanted revenge. In the end, it was Wyatt who vanquished them. He did it because they were threatening to take his thrown as king of the underworld. They needed some help. Chris knew just where to turn.
"I have an idea", Chris told his mother. He got up and sat cross-legged in the center of the attic. He drew a chalk circle in the center of the attic. He then took an athame from his pocket, and lightly pricked his finger. He winced only slightly at the sight of his own blood.
He chanted strongly,
"Hear my words,
Hear my cries,
Spirit from the other side,
Come to me,
I summon thee,
Cross now the great divide"
He let three drops of his blood fall into the center of the circle. He continued with his chant.
"Powers of the witches rise,
Course unseen across the skies.
Come to me, I call you near.
Come to me, and settle hear.
Blood to blood, I summon thee,
Blood to blood, return to me."
The whole room was bathed in extremely white light. When it subsided, the corporeal form of Prue Halliwell appeared. Piper looked at her older sister in shock. "Is it really you?" she gasped.
"It's really me", Prue said comfortingly, "I promise."
TBC… I also promise that it's really Prue.