Chris was trying to go through another endlessly boring day of his high school film class. This time he was stuck watching the drama movie classic Great Expectations. It played softly in the background of a small classroom that he sadly was occupying at the moment. Of course, the only good thing about it was the fact that he had Jade to accompany him throughout the boredom .

Chris leaned back against Jade's legs as he sat on the hardwood floor next to a small red couch in the back watching one of his top ten hated films. While he spent his time hating the film, Jade sat on the couch and slowly braids her long red an black hair into small braids. She obviously was into the movie more then he was since it was a romantic tragedy in the making and that was the types of movie she always fell for.

On the screen, is Finn. A man who has never gotten over his childhood love for a girl, Estella, who has no heart to give anyone and was never taught how to love. She has just explained to him why she doesn't know how to love him or even how to accept his love for her without hurting him. Chris is completely annoyed by the whole movie now and Jade is slowly getting into it by this time since she has finally found out that it is an ongoing obsession.

"Wow, that was one awesome quote." she said as Estella finished her metaphor of love by using the example of a little girl who is taught to afraid of sunlight.

"Whatever you say." Chris replied coolly as he ran a hand through his hair.

"Chris, come on. It is so poetic. It says exactly metaphorically even why she can't be with him." Jade replied as she moved her knees a little to annoy him.

"What I don't get is if she knows that something is wrong with her why doesn't she fix it? And why doesn't he get over her? There's like a million girls in the world. What is so special about that one?" Chris went on as he waved his hand at the blond woman looking on the screen who was looking out the taxis window.

"You obviously have never fallen in love?" Jade asked him cryptically.

Chris knew she was trying to find out what they were at that moment. At the moment, he didn't really know. They were close. They had even kissed once, but he didn't know if he wanted to do anything about it. Sure, he really liked her, but he had a lot more baggage then the average guy did. He didn't want to make someone deal with it too. Hell, he didn't even know if he could even tell her enough to let her handle the extra baggage too.

He stayed quiet for a moment as he pretended to contemplate what she had said. He risked a few small glances at her as she waited for something to come form him, but he stayed quiet.

She shook her head at him and told him her point of view on the whole movie. "I understand her. Heck, I feel the same way sometimes."

"Yeah, but you aren't a tease." he retorted.

"She's not a tease she just was always taught to fear love. She was never taught to accept it. I mean look at her major role model. It was a woman left on her wedding day who didn't trust men so she poisoned her own relative to get back at men. Now, that is demented." Jade told him flicking a random smile in his direction as she made her point confidently.

"So you are saying your demented then?" he asked her with a brief smile.

"It's so sad too." she said as she ignored his last comment.

"Ah, he deserved it he knew she would never love him."

"So, what? Would you try to go after the girl of your dreams even if it meant going through all that hardship and problems?" she asked slightly annoyed.

"Well, no."

"Then why fall in love, Chris?" she asked him with her brilliant sky blue eyes staring into his....

Paige ran over to Chris and took his hands away from Jade's body. She held them in hers as he tried to break away but she held them tighter. Chris looked at his aunt as she stared at him with hard brown eyes. When their eyes met hers softened but not enough to stop her from telling him what he wasn't willing to know.

"She's dead, Chris." Paige told him the inevitable fact....

'Then, why fall in love Chris?' Jade's words haunted him now as he gazed helplessly down at her. Paige was still holding his shaking hands in hers as she stared at him clamly with a look pf pity over her pale face.

He felt raw and bruised and beaten. He knew what Paige had said to him was true. He could feel that Jade's body was cold and unmoving beneath his hands while he had tried to heal her. He could see that her chest wasn't rising, but he still couldn't accept it.

He could see the bloody, burned damage that the fireball had caused her. Her whole chest was burned and blackened. She was like a human marshmallow that had been flambéed. Even as he kneeled beside her with Paige holding onto his hands he still couldn't believe it.

How could a demon just appear out of no where and take out the girl he loved?

Like losing her and knowing she was leaving him for good wasn't good enough so a demon had to come in and kill her?

He hated his life more then anything right at that moment. He hated it. He hated how unfair it was to kill off someone who had nothing to do with his fight with good and evil. He hated the fact that she was dead right now in front of him and he was completely useless at helping her. He had gotten her into the problem and now she was dead.

If only she hadn't been so pissed at him earlier. She wouldn't have come back so quickly before they had even killed off the demon that they had needed to. She wouldn't have been standing right in the very center of a dart board for the demon. She would still be alive and with him.

Why did she have to break up with him? Why hadn't he tried to stop her from leaving? If he had tried harder or he had orbed her away to the bridge or somewhere else even she would be safe now. If he had orbed her home for the last time instead of just watching her walk out she would still be breathing. If he hadn't let her surprise him so bad by breaking up with him then they wouldn't have to be dealing with this.

He just couldn't believe this was happening to him.

Jade was too young to die. She had to be alive. She couldn't just die.

Paige was wrong and she was taking up precious moments he needed to save Jade from dying. How many times had he and his family died before and been resuscitated? Why would Paige even stop him now from trying it with Jade since she was an innocent?

Unless she had never wanted them together in the first place.

"Get away.." Chris whispered raggedly as he looked at her with tear ridden wild green eyes.

"Chris!" Paige cried in confusion.

"I said get away from us!" he yelled at her.

"Whoa, Chris. Calm down." Paige cried out as she defensively raised her hand towards him as she tried to start to calm him down from whatever hysterical attack he was having.

He dropped Paige's other hand that was still holding onto him as he looked at her with rage in him. Then, he used his telekinesis to throw her back away from him and Jade. She was the threat to Paige now. Her and his mother and his other aunt who would side with her because they were sisters and they were older then he was and then had so much more experience. Whatever excuse they were going to provide him with now for letting Jade die he wasn't going to listen to.

He didn't pay attention to Paige's surprised scream as she fell back onto her arm hard. His mother cried out in shock as she rushed forward towards him and Phoebe rushed to Paige's side as she glared at him like he had gone crazy.

"Chris, stop it right this minute." Piper cried out.

He didn't answer her. Instead, he slowly picked Jade up from her crumpled position on the floor. For a long moment, all he could look at was her pale normally tanned face. Her eyes were shut closed to the world. She only looked like she was sleeping. He knew he could wake her up if he got the chance to. Not here though. He hadn't gotten the chance to try to save her here.

He turned to look at his family looking at him like he was the monster because he loved a girl and he wasn't willing to let her die. Jade lay heavily in his arms growing colder as the moments passed. He saw his mother with a shocked expression on her face as she watched him with clearly worried brown eyes. Her long dark brown hair flamed around her face as she took a few steps forward towards him. As usable, she was angry with him for not listening, but he didn't care.

"I won't let her die." he told them evenly.

Then he orbed out of the Manor and as far from them and as quickly as possible. He orbed to the Golden Gate Bridge and instantly cloaked himself from them as well as his Elder father. Then, he quickly went into doing the task of saving his girlfriend from certain death.

He didn't care what they said. He was going to bring her back. He didn't care if it was with magic or not. He was going to find a way to wake her up and keep her alive.

He knew now that he had been wrong before. He would go through all the problems with Jade because he had fallen in love with her. She deserved that.