Chapter 34: Going Home
A/N: as you can tell by the title, this story is almost over. There is only 1 more chapter after this one. I'm still deciding whether or not I should add an epilogue. Tell me in your review whether or not I should. I started a new story called "Trouble in Paradise". If you like me writing, please read it!
Past Piper had finally calmed down. Future Piper was finally ready to go home. After sleepless days, and exhausting demon fighting, she had done it. A state of complete unreality had settled upon her. She told her family that she was ready to go. While they were sad to see her go, they knew that she had to return to her own time. Piper knew the potion she would need to get her home. It was the one they had for Chris. It would have worked, she knew that.
The whole family was gathered in the attic. There were some tearful goodbyes on the part of everyone there. Future Piper didn't really understand it. Her family still had the past version of her. It wasn't as though they were loosing her forever. What could they possibly miss? What the past Halliwells didn't know, was that it wasn't exactly past Piper that they would miss. What they would miss was knowing what was to come. For Past Piper and her sisters, they would miss knowing that things would work out for all of them in the end. For Chris it was the hardest. Chris was loosing his mother.
For a brief while, Chris had his mother back. The Piper of the past wasn't really his mother, not yet. Future Piper knew him, much more than he would like to give her credit for. It was hard, really hard, to loose her again. All he had to hold onto was the fact that having Future Piper here may have changed something. Maybe it would make everything better. The potion had been brewed, and everything was set. Future Piper was still hesitant to throw it. She was afraid of what she would find when she stepped through the potion this portal was to create.
The goodbyes had been made, the hugs had been given. There was really not much else to do. Piper raised her arm and hurtled the potion at the attic wall. It hit exactly where Chris had once drawn the triquetra to escape to the past. A portal flickered in and out of existence. The potion didn't seem strong enough. Future Piper looked nervously around the attic, for something that could fix this. "It's not working", she said anxiously. Her family looked at a loss. Suddenly Chris stepped forward.
"I think I have an idea", he said.
"Go for it", his mother told him.
He didn't look convinced that he should really go for it. He was afraid of what would happen if something went wrong. He didn't want to lose his mother forever. Still, his mother told him to do it, so he would. He would never let her down. With his mothers approval strengthening him, he cleared his throat and began to chant the spell of his own invention.
"I call upon the ancient power
To help us in this darkest hour
Hear the words, hear the rhyme
Heed the hope within my mind
Send her ahead to where she'll find
The place she wants
The moment in time!"
The portal swirled again, stronger than before. For a second, Future Piper was mesmerized by the swirling silver energies. "Hurry up, before it closes!" Chris said urgently. This brought Future Piper back to reality. She forgot all of her fears and all of her hesitation. If she was to go home, it was now or never. Without further hesitation, without again looking back, Future Piper stepped into the portal.
She was immediately hurtled forward. She was moving at blinding speeds. Flashes of memories, slightly altered, flitted through her mind. The rushing wind of sound of color was slightly disorienting. It made her head spin. Suddenly, all went quiet and she was thrown through the air. She landed hard on the floor of the same attic she left. The only difference was that this attic was now empty. It had worked!
Piper swayed slightly on her feet. Inexplicably she felt dizzy. The room before her began to blur and swim strangely before her eyes. 'What have I done?' she wondered. Then everything went black…
TBC…
Sorry for the short and crappy chapter, but I'm really tired. There's only one more chapter, and maybe an epilogue. Please R&R both this story and "Trouble in Paradise". They're both great stories written by yours truly.