Back to the Past
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Chapter Six: Another Future Visitor
Tanya woke up the next morning on the couch, finding the house silent and Chris gone. She headed upstairs and knocked on the door to Paige's room.
"Come in," Paige yelled. She walked in to find Paige standing in front of her open closet, looking for something to wear.
"Morning. What's up?" Paige asked.
"Morning. I need to borrow some clothes since mine are in Phoebe's room, and she and Alex are still sleeping," Tanya replied.
"No problem, grab anything you want. One of the joys of having a sister is raiding her closet," Paige said, grinning mischievously.
"Thanks," she said, choosing an outfit.
A few hours later, Piper, Phoebe, Paige and Tanya were sitting at the bar of P3, discussing their various love lives.
"So Phoebe, how's it going with this Alex guy? What's he like?" Paige asked.
"He's great," Phoebe said, a dreamy look on her face. "I met him at work actually, about a month ago. He's sweet, and funny and last night was amazing."
"We really don't need details. I could hear you guys last night all the way down the hall with the door closed," Piper teased.
Phoebe blushed, "Oops."
She looked up as Chris walked in and came down the stairs. "What are you guys talking about?"
"Stuff," was Phoebe's answer.
"Hey, where you going?" Paige asked as he walked past them.
Chris answered without looking back, "I'm going to work on the next demon attack."
" Chris, why don't you relax and come have a drink with us?" Phoebe asked.
"Thanks, but I didn't come here to relax."
"That is one bitchy Whitelighter," Phoebe said.
"You're telling me," Piper replied.
Tanya kept quiet, realizing they didn't even know he was half witch yet, then decided to defend her friend. "He doesn't seem that bad. Besides, he's just tense about saving Wyatt. I'm gonna go talk to him."
"When did they become so close?" Paige asked, watching her walk off.
Chris walks into the room and sees a girl standing there. "Bianca! I thought you were dead!"
"Shh, there'll be time to explain later. But for now..."
She runs her finger down his chest. She has a red symbol on her wrist. She reaches into his chest and starts draining his power. Tanya walks in and Bianca pulls her hand out of his chest, creating an energy ball. Tanya telekinetically throws her against the wall. Bianca turns, and Tanya sees her face before she shimmers out.
"Chris! Are you okay?" she asks, kneeling next to him.
"Yeah, I think so," he replied, leaning against the wall for support.
"Was that… Bianca?" Tanya asks, shocked.
Chris winces. "Yep."
"But I thought she was…"
"Dead? Yeah, I thought so too."
"Wyatt must have been keeping her all that time. I guess he finally turned her," she said, upset, as she and Bianca had always been good friends.
"NO! I refuse to believe Bianca is evil," Chris said.
Back at the manor, Piper, Tanya and Paige were playing with Wyatt downstairs, Chris having convinced them he was fine. They had run in after hearing the thud and Tanya had told them what had happened, leaving out the facts that Bianca was from the future, they knew her and she was a phoenix. Phoebe was once again out with Alex and Chris was in the upstairs bathroom.
"I'm gonna go upstairs," Tanya told Piper and Paige, getting up. She handed a giggling Wyatt to Piper and headed out of the room.
In the bathroom, Chris unbuttoned his shirt to find a large wound on his chest. Looking up, he saw Tanya in the mirror and turned around to see her standing behind him.
She looked at the wound and winced. "Looks like it hurts. Let me put something on it for you."
Chris was silent as he reached into his pocket and pulled out an engagement ring. "She gave this to me two weeks before I left for the past. It was the ring I gave her, she said to take it with me to remind me of what I had to come back to. That was three days before we thought Wyatt killed her."
Chris sighed and orbed out.
"Chris!" Tanya yelled, reaching out to grab him, as his orbing was now much slower, but he was already gone.
Leo orbed back into the house to find Paige and Piper.
"What did you find out?" Piper asked, looking up.
"Apparently she's a phoenix. They're a family of assassin witches who are very elite, very powerful and who were born with a distinct birthmark symbolizing the rise from Salem's ashes."
"Okay let's find her," Paige says.
Piper and Paige are standing outside an apartment. Piper walks up and rings the bell. A woman opens the door and looks at them.
Piper: Hi, how's it going?
Woman: Can I help you?
Piper: Hopefully.
Paige: Yeah, see, we just moved in from out of state and we wanted to get to know our neighbors.
Woman: Oh, well, welcome. Where did you move from?
Piper: Phoenix.
Woman: Really. Please, come in, come in.
Paige: Thank you.
(Piper and Paige walk into the apartment. The woman closes the door and locks it.)
Piper: Wow, nice place.
Paige: Yeah, real nice.
Woman: Thank you.
(A little girl runs in.)
Girl: Mummy, mummy, mummy, can I play with...?
Woman: Bianca, sweetie, can you give mummy a minute, okay?
(Piper and Paige see the red birthmark on the girl's wrist.)
Bianca: Okay.
Woman: Go and play with your toys. I'll be right in, okay?
Bianca: Okay.
(The woman takes the girl to her room.)
Paige: Now what?
(The woman turns around and throws an energy ball at the girls. It flies past them and hits the wall. Piper blows the woman up.)
Piper: The kid.
(They go into the girl's room and the woman reforms.)
Woman: Hurry, Bianca.
(She grabs the girl and shimmers out.)
Paige: They can reform?
Chris orbs into the park, the same spot where he had proposed to Bianca in the future to find her sitting there.
Bianca: You really shouldn't try to orb anymore, you know. It could kill you.
Chris: Is that what you want?
Bianca: If that's what I wanted you'd already be dead. All I want is to bring you back.
Chris: How'd you know I'd be here?
Bianca: Same reason you'd know I'd be waiting here. This is still our spot, isn't it?
Chris: No. This is what we hoped it would be. This is what we were trying to preserve for our future. Do you remember?
Bianca: We were naive to think we could change anything, to stop him.
Chris: You don't believe that. Or at least you didn't.
Bianca: Well, I do now.
Chris: What happened to you, Bianca? How did he turn you back? I thought you were dead!
Bianca: That's not important. What is important is I was interrupted in stripping you of your powers. And if I don't finish what I started, you'll die soon. Think of it as an infection, and I'm the only one with the antidote.
Chris: Here or there, I am dead anyway.
Bianca: No. He gave me his word he wouldn't hurt you. Please, Chris, don't make this any harder than it has to be.
Chris orbs out and into the manor. He collapses on the living room floor where Leo, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige are waiting, worried about him. Tanya thought he would be at the park, but didn't want to tell them as they would wonder how she knew. She had gone upstairs a few minutes ago to check on Wyatt. Leo goes over to Chris and puts his hands over his chest, attempting to heal the wound.
Leo: He's not healing. Something's draining his powers and blocking mine. It's like a virus.
Piper: A virus named Bianca.
Phoebe: You think she did this?
Piper: It's gotta be.
Paige: Yeah, but it doesn't explain why she would come back from the future just to kill him.
Piper: Well, somebody had to have sent her, she's a hired gun.
Phoebe: "Well, we have to find her to save him. Figure out what she did.." She senses something. "Whoa."
Leo: What is it?
Phoebe moves closer to Chris. "Oh my god, he loves her."
Paige: Loves who? Bianca?
Phoebe: "Yeah. She broke his heart." Phoebe looks in Chris's hand and finds a ring. "Engagement ring."
Paige: Obviously an acrimonious split.
Piper: Well, at least we have something to scry for her now. You guys work on the vanquishing potion in case she's not in the mood to help.
Chris: Bianca. Bianca.
A/N: Yay, a long chapter! A lot of this chapter was taken from a season six episode, Chris-Crossed. Please review!