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....
Rain was pounding down hard over the steel bridge. Lighting crackled in the bruised sky as clouds plundered over it. Except for the occasional burst of lightning, there was no light visible on the top of the Golden Gate Bridge. The lights of the city in the darkness were barely visible to him through the constant rain pounding down from the stormy sky above and they gave him little comfort knowing that the world was useless and was going on as if nothing had happened.
Chris knew that at this moment his mother was worried about him and angry at him for acting up. He knew Phoebe was probably out trying to either premonition him back or else scry for him and he knew his dad must have appeared home to heal Paige. His father, the Elder, the one who should have warned him about this in the first place so he could save her.
Chris gulped down the hard air as it froze in patches of rain over his already numb face. He had tried everything. There was just nothing that he could do. He had tried healing her three times now. It was no use. It was like his powers had disappeared and all he could do was stand by as helpless as a mortal when it came to death.
She was just.. Dead.
But she couldn't be. He had felt her breathing next to him only minutes before this all had happened. Her dark blue eyes had been a navy blue color and her smile had been so sad. Her skin had been warm against his.
She had been one pissed off girl too. Her hair... whenever she was angry about something she would always run her hands through it every few seconds just like she had earlier. Now it was wet and a maroon red and black color that was drenched to her head.
She'd been alive earlier.
Why couldn't he fix this problem? Why couldn't he save her from death?
As much as he knew she'd been pissed about him orbing her to hell she would be even more pissed to find out she would've been safer there. He needed to save her. He needed to wake her up and tell her that. He needed to see her angry again even if it was all directed at him. As long as she was alive, he didn't care.
Here she was now. She wasn't coming back to him. She was somewhere else that he couldn't go. She'd been stolen from her family, her friends, and from him.
Chris held her closer to him. He had pulled her into his lap when he had realized he couldn't heal her in order to get her closer to him and her head was now against his shoulder. She was so pale now. She had never been this pale before. It almost looked like her skin was translucent she was so pale. Her lips were almost white too. She looked like what he had expected Snow White to look like.
But the only problem here was that Snow White eventually woke up. She never really died. But Jade was dead....
Jade was in the pool. She was lying there with her belly on the water and her face pressed into its surface. She was completely motionless. Her long black and red hair was limply floating in the water as her body bobbed up and down.
At first he hadn't really thought much about it. He had thought she was pulling a practical joke on him like she usually did. Then, he had gotten closer to her and she still hadn't moved. She was just limp there in the water.
Instantly, all thoughts faded out of his mind. Everything he saw in front of him melted together and he knew only one thing. He had to save her.
"Jade!" he cried.
Before thought patterns came back to him he was in the water.
He was freezing in a matter of seconds, but he ignored his body's constant shivering as he had swam to her. His clothes and sneakers weighed him down heavily in the water, but he had fought it as he got to her. He flipped her over quickly onto her back in the water. Then, before anything else could happen he orbed them both to the sidewalk next to the pool.
His hands roved to her abdomen as he went to heal her from her asphyxiation. Before he could though a rasp of giggling came out of her throat as he kneeled paralyzed beside her body.
"Jade, what?" Chris asked barely even being able to articulate what he was thinking let alone understand why she had been drowning one second and fine the next.
She opened her baby blue eyes as she laughed up at him and slightly coughed a little bit oh some water still lodged in her throat as she said, "Got ya."
"What?" he asked as realization struck him hard in the stomach.
He started to get to his feet annoyed but she sat up instantly and pulled her arms in a bear hug around him as she whispered, "My hero."
"Oh, no you don't!" he cried out annoyed that she thought faking her own death was funny or even acceptable.
He dealt with death everyday and he didn't want his girl to even be anywhere near it. He didn't even want to think about what it would be like if it ever actually happened.
He got to his feet but so did she as she kept her arms firmly planted around him. All he could do was look down into her intense blue eyes as she smiled at him lightly. He was completely annoyed by her as she smiled at him as if she could get away with it. He kept trying to pull out of her grip without success.
"Oh, whatever will I do? You have saved my oh so precious life and I have nothing to give you in return." she told him as he kept stepping back and circling the sidewalk with her still firmly attached to him.
"Jade, you tricked me." he told her with a small moment of giving up.
"Oh, no, my savior is angry with me?" she said in a floundering voice of some southern belle from the Victorian age girl in the old courting days.
Before he could even answer her their legs entangled with each other as he tried to pull a fast one on her. Instead, they both ended up back in the pool. They splashed heavily as they belly flopped almost into the pool again and he could hear her not being able to stop giggling at him. They both hit the water at the same time still entangled but on their way up she let go of him instead to start circling him in the pool like a preying shark.
"Jade!" he cried out with the first breath of air he got.
"What? Like you weren't already wet." she replied to his annoyed yelp of her name.
"Yeah, but you didn't have to trick me."
"Geez, oh man, Chris. You're starting to sound like a broken record." she informed him.
"At least I'm playing with a full deck," he retorted as he swam towards the shallow end of the pool and she followed.
"Alright, Chris. What if?" she responded.
"What if?" he asked in suspicion.
"What if I had drowned." she finished.
"What do you expect from me? I thought I saved you and here you were just playing games. Which is so not cool," he told her pointing his finger at her.
"Oh, so that's not cool. Just like that pouty annoyed look you're giving me right. About. Now." she said as if it were a countdown.
"Alright, I'll play your game. What if you had drowned and I never came? What then? The brilliant Jade got an answer for that?" he asked as he folded his arms together as water poured from his shirt into the pool that he was standing in now.
"I would have died I guess." she told him. "God, Chris. Why do you have to be so serious all the time? Why not live a little?"
He just stared at her. If she only knew what he had had to live with his whole life. Maybe then she would understand why he was always so serious. He didn't have time not to be. He had to save the world along with his family on a daily basis which consisted primarily of him losing any chance he had ever wanted at having a life.
He was serious because of his circumstances. If he could he would be as free as Jade was, but he couldn't. That was probably why he liked her so much. She had something about her. She had a freedom that only a child had that he had never been able to keep. She had this life that was completely free of worry and she was happy like that.
He couldn't be happy when his family was the number one target on zillions of bad guys wish lists. He had to stay focused or he was nothing.
"Hey," she whispered as she got him out of his thoughts. "Where did you go?"
"What?" he asked. "What do you mean?"
He was afraid he had orbed without knowing it.
She didn't know his secret quite yet and he sure didn't want to just orb out of no where in front of her without telling her everything first. Of course, orbing and him didn't get along half the time. Whenever he started to get into his own thoughts or he'd daydream he had the tendency to just disappear from wherever he had been for a few minutes only to reappear a short time later.
"You looked.. I dunno. "she whispered. "Chris, what if you had a big secret. What if you told me your secret?"
"You wouldn't want to know." he told her truthfully with a hard grin over his lips.
"I duuno. More crazy things have happened. Besides, I wouldn't mind being able to finally pick apart Chris Halliwell's brain just so that I could find out exactly what makes him Mr. Mysterious all the time."
"Hmmm. Maybe another day." he replied.
"Like always. The present day is never good enough for you," she retorted as she threw her arm around him and lead him out of the pool....
She had always been willing to let him in. He had barely ever done that with her. When he had it hadn't even been a good time for it either.
Now look where letting her in had lead them. They were both stuck on the top of the Golden Gate Bridge because he couldn't face his family right now. Not after everything that had happened and not after everything he had done. Especially to Paige. He hadn't meant to hurt her he had just went crazy.
Kind of like he was doing now.
He should have never told her. If he hadn't told her she still would be alive.
That was it wasn't it though. He had screwed up majorly and now she had to pay. Or did she?
Alright people. I need a little help. I have a few ways this story could go. I just need a way to (cough) resurrect Jade from death. (OF COURSE I WILL ALWAYS HAVE A FEW REPRECCUSIONS AS WELL AS TRICKS UP MY SLEEVE WITH THS ONE.)
So you must vote.
a) Chris goes back in time and changes it so that she doesn't die.
b) Chris somehow heals her in his last chance of healing.
c) Chris goes to a bad guy to resurrect her.