CHAPTER XV:

Wyatt was standing in the foyer watching his teenage cousins fight for a ridiculously girly thing, his arms crossed at chest level and a small smile in his face as he heard the girls ask him for his opinion on something he knew nothing about. Suddenly he was hit by the worst headache ever.

"Nahh-Ahhh!" Pryanna's blonde hair shook violently along with her head.

"Wyyyy…. Tell her she is soooo wrong!" Patience clenched her male cousin's arm.

"Not now, doll…I think I really need to sit down." He mumbled, raising his left hand to his temples.

His cousins watched worried as he suddenly turned paler than white and his body started swinging slightly trying to regain balance.

"Here… let us help you." Pry said worried, while both girls helped him to a sofa.

"It's going to be ok, Wy." Pat told him probably to comfort herself more than him.

Wyatt threw himself on the couch, resting his head and closing his eyes.

"LEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…. Come here… there is something wrong with Wy!" Pry yelled.

Wyatt moaned at her loudness, while Piper, Phoebe, Paige and Mark, who had been talking in the kitchen, ran to them when they heard the scream. Paula, who was studying in her room, took a little longer, but was also down there pretty fast.

"Chris…" Wyatt whispered with his eyes closed, removing his father's healing hand.

"Why are you not letting your father heal you, sweetie?" Pat asked terrified.

"What's wrong with Chris, Wy?" Leo asked worried.

"Where…Chris?" He gasped.

Leo looked up at Piper. "You said he was still at your apartment taking a shower, that he was coming a little later." Piper shrugged.

"Get… him!" He wheezed.

"Why… what's wrong with him?" Paula asked terrified.

"NOW!" Wyatt pleaded out of air.

"What's going on, honey?" Piper asked caressing his hair.

"Piper… he can barely talk, can't you see? Paige, take her to get Chris, can you? I'll stay with him, ok?" Leo raised his voice out of insane worry, ineffectively trying to heal Wyatt.

"I love you, baby…We'll be back with Chris soon, ok?" Piper said, kissing Wyatt's forehead.

Wyatt opened his eyes and looked at his parents with eyes wide opened and filled with unshed tears.

"Me…mories… BAD… BAD… memories!" He said before passing out.

But they didn't require a longer explanation to understand what was happening.

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They orbed to the living room of Chris and Wyatt's apartment and knocked on Chris' room, but there was no answer.

"Chris…sweetie… open up! Where are you?" Piper cried, desperate.

Still no answer; Piper was about to blow the door up.

"Next time you want to blow a door up, first try to see if it's locked, you are going to save yourself a lot of money in doors for your relatives!" Paige smirked opening the door of Chris' bedroom.

Then they spotted him, passed out, laying in the fetal position outside the bathroom door, his hair still wet, a towel wrapped around his waist.

Piper ran to him, resting his body on her lap "Baby, it's mom…can you hear me?" But there was no answer.

Paige orbed them back to the manor.

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Back in the manor, Wyatt was laying unconscious on the couch, while everybody fussed around him. When they arrived with Chris in similar state and trembling from cold, they diverted their attention. Covering Chris quickly with a blanket, and then… they couldn't do much more than wait.

Fifteen minutes later Chris began to moan.

"Chris, baby, are you ok?" Piper asked him worried.

Chris let go another moan and gradually opened his eyes. He looked around, a little lost, and then slowly sat up.

"Lay down, hon…you've been through a lot, and you've been out for like twenty minutes!" Paige said caringly, while Piper and Paula tried to pushed him back down; still he wouldn't let them.

"Oh my god!" he groaned, elbowing his knees and covering his face with his hands.

He opened his eyes and wrapped everybody in front of him in a tight hug.

"Thank GOD!" He almost sobbed exhaling soundly.

"Are you ok, C.?" Paula asked caring.

"Remind me to never take you guys for granted again!" He looked at them with glassy eyes and Piper engulfed him into a hug. "I love you, mom, I love you so much…I hope you know that…I love you all so much, and you mean so much to me!" He said in his mother's arms.

"We know, hon…we do… and we love you too." She kissed his cheek.

"Nothing like remembering how it feels to lose your entire family, to suddenly look at everything through a whole new perspective." He said tragicomically.

"Are you ok?" Piper asked, caringly.

"It was horrible, mom…really, really, bad…I didn't expect it to be so bad." He sniffed.

"I am sorry, honey!"

"Where is Wyatt?" Chris asked.

Piper pointed him at the couch where Wyatt was laying, the other half of the family around him.

"He's still unconscious…thank god at least one of you was here when it happened!"

Chris looked at himself and understood why he was so cold.

"I am going to go home to get some clothes, if he wakes up tell him I'll be right back, ok?" Chris said starting to orb out.

"Are you kidding me? Do you understand that you've been unconscious for god knows how long, you've been hit with 22 years of horrible memories, you are not going anywhere yet!" Piper barked forcing him back down.

"MOM… I am cold and naked!" He barked back.

"Don't you have any clothes here? Mark or your dad can lend you something… or I can go to your house!" Paige offered.

"Yeah…I still have some of their clothes in my closet!" Paula said running to get them, since Paula, who had been sleeping with Pat and Pry till then, had moved to Wyatt and Chris' bedroom when they moved out.

"I think he is coming to!" Leo said when he saw Wyatt was slightly moving.

"Wy…can you hear me?' Mark asked him, shaking him a little.

Wyatt opened his eyes and looked around, he immediately close them back.

"Come on buddy, let us check a second that you are ok and then you can go back to sleep if you want." Leo told his son sweetly.

Wyatt turned around, hiding his face in the couch's pillows.

"Noooo…." He moaned childishly his face still hidden.

"Wyatt please, we are really worried, just let us check that you are ok and then we won't bother you any more, ok, sweetheart?" Phoebe said attempting to caress his hair.

Wyatt let go a sob and orbed out of the room before she was able to touch him.

Chris stood up quickly ready to follow his brother, but he couldn't finish standing before he felt back down to the couch.

"Woah." He said exhaling soundly, he waited a second and tried again, this time slowly.

"No, no, no…you are staying here and laying back down!" Piper ordered him, pushing him back down.

"Mom! You don't understand!" And he sounded pretty much like the old time Chris.

"Probably… but I do understand that you couldn't even stand up…and that we are worried enough for you to add us more worries with your kamikaze tendencies!" Piper retorted.

"That's my point…I couldn't stand up and he seemed in worst shape than me… you don't care about him?" He snapped.

Piper looked at him and her eyes got watery. "How can you say I don't care about my son?" She was angry because he hurt her, Chris knew it.

"I am sorry, mom… I didn't mean it like that… I am just worried, he didn't seem to be dealing very well with this."

"All the more reason for you not to add to his and our worries by doing something stupid. Just lay down, and we'll take care of Wyatt, ok?"

Chris frowned disapprovingly, but still rested his head on the back of the couch and closed his eyes.

"Where is he?" Piper asked Leo.

"In our old bedroom." Chris answered from the couch.

"Ok, lets orb there!" Pry and Pat said, both clenching to Leo.

"No… I don't think it's a good idea… we don't want to overwhelm him, orbing all of us all of a sudden there… better give him the chance to decide who he wants to speak to." Leo said walking up, the rest following him, while Paige and Mark stayed downstairs taking care of Chris.

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Paula was still searching for Chris' clothes in the back of her closet when a bulk with the shape of Wyatt orbed into her bed, she could hear him sobbing and it broke her heart, she had a slight idea of what this new memories were about and Chris had said they were a lot worse than he expected them to be. She wouldn't want to be in Wyatt's shoes right now for anything in the world.

She dropped what she was doing and ran to him.

"Hey, tough guy!" She said banteringly walking to him; she tried caressing his hair but he moved away. "You don't sleep here anymore, remember?" she teased, not knowing what else to do. She loved Wyatt, dearly, but she always got along better with Chris than with him. Wyatt always had a soft spot for the two little ones and her mom.

"Ahh, right…ok…" he said lost and sobbing, ready to orb away.

Paula pushed him back down. "Hey… hey… hey… stop there…where are you going? I was just kidding."

Wyatt looked at her for the first time, his eyes were teary and broken, looking into them you felt you would never be happy again.

Paula attempted to touch him again, he moved away.

"Shh…it's ok, Wy…it's ok…calm down…it's ok, Wy…" She repeated over and over again as softly as she could until Wyatt relaxed a little and let her touch him. "I don't know what to do to make you feel better, Wy! And it hurts me so much to see you like this…Do you want me to go look for Chris or your parents or my mom or anyone in particular?"

Wyatt shook his head.

"Are you sure, honey?"

"I am not ready to face Chris yet, and everybody else will want me to talk…I don't want to talk yet." He sobbed.

Paula hugged him tightly. "Shh…you don't have to talk or face anything you don't want to right now…I just feel, I am so inadequate for this, Wy…I don't know…I love you, Wy… I do… you are such a great cousin! But you are closer to Pat and Pry than to me…are sure you don't want them to be here?" She kissed his temples.

"You don't want to be near me…" Wyatt sobbed, so insecure it broke Paula's heart.

"Of course I want to be near you… I always wanted a good excuse to get closer to you…" She laid beside him and caressed his hair. "I am just scared I won't be able to make you feel better. And I don't want that coz, cuz you know we love you so much, it just destroys us to see you so sad."

Wyatt's sobbing got more intense and Paula, laying beside him, just caressed his hair with one hand, and languidly rested the other on his forearm, in silence. A couple of minutes later, Wyatt mumbled.

"Please…tell them to go away…I don't want to speak to anyone right now…I can't face them, yet. Would you do that for me, munchkin?"

A second later there was a knock in the door.

"Wy… please open up!" His father sounded desperate.

"Sweetie… please let us talk to you." His mother sounded even more desperate.

"Wyatt open up cuz I swear we are going to find a way to cloak Chris from your father and orb the three of us in there!" Pry yelled and apparently Piper looked severely at her cuz she meekly answered "It was a joke Aunty Piper, we would never risk Chris' health!"

"Why didn't we orb in?" Pat asked infuriated.

"Because he might not want to talk, and he doesn't, I am sorry." Paula said opening the door and closing it right behind her.

They all looked shocked at her, with all the turmoil they forgot she had gone to the bedroom.

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Chris was lying down, trembling a little and trying to sort the memories in his head. He was glad almost none of all that hell had happened, and amazed how changing a small detail could have changed it all. Not only Wyatt's character had changed quite a lot, still very sensitive and impulsive, this time line Wyatt was not much of a fighter and wouldn't get angry as easily or wasn't as paranoid as the other time line Wyatt.

Dealing with Gideon before Chris was born had implied that his father was never forced to leave them, that no one had attacked on Chris' birthday, and being that Piper and Paige were alive, neither Phoebe nor Mark had died seeking revenge. Being that all of them were alive, Paula had never been allowed to go to the underworld at the age of eleven and even if Patience was captured and turned into a banshee, since there were a lot more Halliwells working on it, they were able to save her in time. The darklighter that had shot Pryanna never did it, maybe because it had been something against Wyatt, after all, or because it was quite impossible to be alone at the manor nowadays.

Austin had still died in the car accident, and grandpa's cancer had come back only a half a year ago, but he was still struggling against it and everybody hoped he could beat it.

"Do you want some tea, or something, sweetie?" He heard his youngest aunt ask him, while she gently caressed his hair.

Chris nodded, with his eyes still closed. "Please… I would love to." He mumbled softly and with his eyes ajar, he watched as she left the room.

His mind couldn't help plotting a plan to get to his brother, he needed to know he was ok; after all, he had never wanted Wy to remember and all the pain his older brother was going through was his fault.

"Mark…" he whispered, trying to use his weakest, most sleepy voice.

"Yes, Chris?" He said, immediately by his side.

"Do you think you can go get me some of your clothes? I don't think Polly could find any; and I am cold." He mumbled weakly, pretending to be half asleep.

"Sure, Champ, I'll be right back!" He said, storming up the stairs.

Chris checked to verify that no one else was in the room, and then orbed to the bathroom, beside the bedroom he used to share with his brother.

As soon as he saw Paula leave the room he walked to Wyatt, and placed a hand on his forearm, just like Paula had just done.

"You are not ready to face me, Wy? Why? Why did you say that?" He asked him with a hurt, soft voice.

Wyatt turned around to look at him, startled.

Their eyes met and Chris could see in his brother's baby blues, all the woe, all the tragedies, all the fear… an immense, heart breaking, guilty panic.

"It's going to be ok, Wy." Was the only thing he managed to whisper, in a husky voice.

Still… Wyatt broke the eye contact, turning around again in a piercing, painful silence.

"It's going to be ok." He tried again, this time forcing himself to regain the use of his voice.

Wyatt curled up even more, shivering a little, and closed his eyes.

"I am sorry…I didn't want you to remember… that's not how it was supposed to be… I am sorry, bro." Chris said, heartbroken and Wyatt sniffed a little.

"We'll find a way to fix it… to make you forget…everything is going to be ok!" Chris continued with his broken hearted monologue; and both brothers were so absorbed in what they were going through, they didn't even noticed Paula inside the room.

She did see them; but thinking that it was probably best for both of them to talk, she discretely locked herself in the bathroom, since she knew that if she left the room, someone else was going to go in it, looking for her cousins.

"Talk to me, Wy… say something… please!" He begged.

"Go away, Chris, please… go away." Wyatt begged him between sobs.

"And leave you like this?" He asked, shocked.

"I am sure you have your own good chunk of memories to deal with yourself." Wyatt mumbled.

"I was thinking it was probably better if I dealt with them with you." He said softly, laying down on the bed, too. "I don't want to do it alone… and I don't understand why you have to do it alone…"

Wyatt turned around to face him, and Chris saw his tear scarred face.

"Please… Chris… just go." He begged once again.

"I am sorry! I am sorry… please, forgive me!" Chris' face contorted with pain.

"Forgive you? For what?" Wyatt sighed, unable to understand why his brother wouldn't leave him alone after all he had done, and unable to understand what the hell did he wanted him to forgive.

"For putting you through this… I should have made sure that you didn't remember! And now you don't want to talk to me, and hate me and shut me off because of I what I did," Chris pouted.

And Wyatt actually laughed, sadly. "You are quite a character Christopher Perry Halliwell, you know?"

Chris darted him a questioning look, but was relieved to see his brother was finally showing some signs of …something.

"You save the world, you save me and then you ask for forgiveness? You do have a Martyr complex!" He said with a sad smile.

"Then why can't you face me? Why don't you want to talk to me?" He asked.

"Why I don't want to talk? Cuz I feel like CRAP, Chris! You don't even have an idea of half of the things I did in the other life! Guilt is eating me alive! Why I can't face you? Because you were right… and I was wrong… because all that I put you through… all that you had to live because of me!"

Chris put a hand on Wyatt's shoulder and was about to answer when someone orbed in.

"I thought I told you to stay resting in the living-room!" Piper told Chris, angrily throwing some clothes at him.

Ok… one more chapter to go! I have it already written… so review so I can post it!

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Cassi

"I have a problem in waiting for the next chapter." Then no reason to worry my friend.. the chappie is here!

" Specially when we'll read if Chris did, safe the future... But the goodbyes were awesome, you have the power to make me cry girl..." Thanks! I am glad you liked it!

JadeAlmasy

"wow i did not know she could curse!" Yeah… that's why they were all sort of shock… it worked though!

"This is wonderful it brought me to tears!" Really? Wowww I feel flattered

"god i dont think i would have let him go, i would be like phoebe lock him up and never let him go!" Yeah… it has to be hard! That's why I was sad when in the actual show the took like 2 secs to say goodbye and nobody seemed too sad!

Well here it is… the next chappie… I hope you like it!

midnite-magic

"wow, what a geat heart-wrenching chapter, especially Piper not wanting Chris to leave...brilliant! and such a nice long chapter too!" Thanks! I am glad you liked it… yeah I guess if I were Piper I wouldn't let him go… but I wouldn't want to be Piper cuz that would mean I have very incestuous thoughts about my son!

hope master

"that was hot that was like burning , and sad snd ...(voice beraking)CRAZY AS HELL,sniff sniff MAGICKAL PANDIMONIUM 2005- 2006" Heheheh you always amuse me sooo much… I loved the magical pandemonium!

"ps im a suker for mushy saop opera like momments ...sniff...sniff" heheh yeah… we all are.. we might hate to admit it, but once in a while… we want some mushy-mushy reading!

teal-lover

"yeah, definately ok--but it would make me feel better if I knew what kind of torture paige took him off to:)" I know…my bad…I really have no good excuse why I didn't show it… I guess cuz your mind will be able to torture him in worse ways than I could possibly write?

"this chapter was so cute, sad though. Made me want to cry," Awww… I am sorry? Well but it was sad in a cute sort of way

"and I'm not even going anywhere." That made me laugh so bad!

"I like it when wy gets all mushy." Yeah me too… can you tell?

"so now, anxious to see how the future is.

more please.." Here you go… and next chappie super soon… it's already done!

Embry

THANKSSSSSSSSS

The Halliwell's little Angel

You are always soo sweet, you are gonna make me cry one of this days!

Victorious Light

"Another good teary chapter!" Thanks… I am thrilled you liked it.. speaking of which… a couple of fictions are coming into my mind… you know the author uses just the same nick you do…what a coincidence! And those fics are wonderful, you know? Amazingly written… but they haven't been updated in a while. And I miss them!

"I just have to say I particulary like the way you write Paige, with her quirks and all!" Thanks! She is my favorite sister!
here you have the next chappie… I hope you liked it!

foxhana

"hey i follow this story though i didn't reviewed much, didn't have the time to. " Don't worry.

"well, just to let you know... the good bye part was too long. try to make it shorter next time."Ok… I guess it was a little long, I just didn't like it how they did it on the show… so quick and unemotional when Chris was leaving… so I guess I got carried away : )

" and the cliffie! the cliffie! perhaps a peek into the next chapter? anyway update soon!" See…here it is… I didn't take too long : ) I hope you liked it!

Altaira

"O! Is is a good future or has Chris go the wrong person? I hope its a bad future coz I want this story to go on for longer! Is that wrong:" heheh nahh that's very flattering actually… well… don't be too sad, there is still one more long, long chappie to go!

Sparkling Cherries

"This has got to be the best line for describing wy and chris:

"Great… my nephew the victim versus my nephew the martyr… aren't we lucky?"

That line was fantastic and succint (sp?)" Hehehehe I am glad you liked it! According to word's spelling thingy it's succinct (if you really wanted to know, that you probably didn't and I can even teach you how to spell it in Spanish and you can brag with all your friends "sucinto" don't you feel enlighten now? I know I do.. cuz I use that word SOO often I seriously needed to learn how to write it (and I hope you are hearing my sarcasm)
"so is the next chapter the last one? I'm gonna be sad to see the end of this but glad to know what happenes." No, one more… so just hang on with me one more chappie…

Kawwen

"Aw now i'm crying too." Aww I am sorry

"Can't he stay? sniffs." Nahhh It would be harmful to my plot (see that's an evil, insensitive writer!) Nahhh… actually they have to go back to the future… to see if they solved everything!

" that was fantastically written as always, well done you. X" Thanks you humble me!

Nikki14u

"Aww, that was such a sweet chapter." THANKSSS

" I just feel so bad for Chris and Piper. Chris because he just got his family back only to loss them again" I know the story of his life… completely unfair… but now he got all he deserves…except the memories that are kind of torturing them

"and Piper because she has to let her child go into a future that is still uncertian."

Yeahhh that must be horrible

" This was amazing and I can't wait to see what the future holds for both Chirs and Wyatt." Well… here you are… I hope you liked it… and there is still 1 more chappie 2 go.

Wicked R

"you write so quickly! you must be having the time of your life with this" I am having a good time, thanks…and taking advantage of my free time! Yeah… and actually I write really quicly too… I hope you are liking it too!

shyeye

Heheh here you have… and there is still one more!

Starry Sky 44

"Brilliant, as usual." Thanks

" But I wish Gideon would have gotten killed in a much more painful way." Oh he did… I didn't write it and I can say… yeah its all my fault! I don't get too much pleasure out of writing torture scenes (I know I sound such a goody good I am about to slap myself… but … its true)

"Which is one thing I liked about the season six finale. You know, apart from the fact that they killed off our perfect Chris..." I am guessing the last part of is sarcastic… you actually enjoyed that they killed Chris? I mean… I enjoyed having ppl fussing around him, but the fact he died wasn't fun!
"I love the little funny parts here and there.."You say very interesting things when you are delirious." lol Yup he sure does."

Heheh I am glad you like those sorts of parts!
"But when Chris and Wyatt were saying goodbye was so sad. I got all choked up. Especially when he had tears in his eyes at the end. Emotional Chris needs a hug. I volunteer!" Hehehe yeah I think a couple of us… we are going to kill him with our love! I am glad you found that part emotive.

" I can't wait to see the changed future." Here is the future… I hope you like it

"How much longer is the stpry going to be? I don't want it to end!" One more chappie… yeah… it's sad that it has to end…

Phoebe turner

"wow! the future better change now! and if its gonna stay evil my heart gonna break!" Nahh thought it would give me more material to continue the story… but everything is great in this new future, except the halliwell boy's head.

"update son, tomorrow?(just kidding)" Actually today… cuz you sent this a little while ago.

Septdeneuf

"Ok, you are forgiven about the gay thing." Thank you! Hehehe I thought it was in this chappie, but it's in next chappie that Patience makes a small comment about all the women that are chasing Chris , just to prove Chris' non gay status!

"But I think the rules just mean that an author's note can't be the entire chapter but asides from that it's ok. That's just my interpretion of it all, might be wrong." Yeah I think it's a pain too… I mean… why? Don't they like the fact that writers and readers (or actually co-writers) bond?

"I love the goodbye scene. It's just so emotional and it totally fits the characters." Thanks soo much! That's a really nice comment.