Meant To Be

A/N: The first song is 'Don't Let Go' by En Vogue, I don't know if that's too modern for the time this is set in but just ignore that, and the second song is 'How do I live' by Leann Rimes.

The noisiness of the club hit them a little sudden, but as Ben and Rachel made their way to the dance floor, Jessica grabbed Chris as well and dragged him after her to the middle of the crowd.

What's it gonna be

Cuz I can't pretend

Don't you wanna be more than friends?

Hold me tight and don't let go

Don't let go

Have the right to loose control

Don't let go

I often tell myself

That we could be more than just friends

I know you think that if we move to soon

It would all end

I live in misery when you're not around

And I won't be satisfied 'till we're taking those vows

There'll be some lovemaking, heartbreaking, soul shaking

Oh, lovemaking, heartbreaking, soul shaking

Jessica immediately picked up the beat of the song put her arms around Chris's neck and started moving with the rhythm. She'd always loved dancing; she hoped to become a professional dancer someday, she didn't care what kind. Towards the end of the song she forgot everyone around them, there was just Chris and her. She could've looked into those green eyes forever. Chris also seemed to get lost in her extraordinary ocean blue eyes, it was as if they were the windows to her soul, she could try and hide her feelings from them all she wanted but her eyes gave them away again. They were so preoccupied at first that they didn't realize the song had ended and a slow song came on. Automatically they moved closer to each other, and butterflies fluttered in Jessica's stomach as Chris gently put his arms around her and she buried her face in his chest.

How do I,
Get through the night without you?
If I had to live without you,
what kind of life would that be?
Oh, I

I need you in my arms, need you to hold,
You're my world, my heart, my soul,
If you ever leave,
Baby you would take away everything good in my life,
And tell me now
How do I live without you?
I want to know,
how do I breathe without you?
If you ever go,
how do I ever, ever survive?

She couldn't let this happen, Jessica thought to herself, she couldn't let him get close to her again; her heart was still broken from last time. Smoothly she retreated a little from him so they weren't all that close together anymore, a confused look crept across Chris's face but Jessica didn't dare look up at him, instead she looked over his shoulder and frowned slightly.

"You know the gay bartender's been staring at you for quite a while," she said and tried to stifle a grin.

"He's still looking?" he asked and turned them around so he could see him.

"Damn, well I'm just hard to resist," he grinned impishly at her.

She laughed at that in disbelief, "Yeah right, you know I think he'll ask you to dance soon."

"Well than I'll just have to keep dancing with you all night, or we'll just escape through the back," he replied quick-witted and smiled.

"I like Plan B better," she giggled.

"Hey!" he said acting offended, "I'm a good dancer."

"Mhm, no comment on that one," she grinned.

The song ended and they let go of each other. "Come on let's go find Ben and Rachel," Chris shouted to Jessica trying to drown out the sound of the new, loud song that came on.

"What?" she shouted back at him.

'Let's go find Ben and Rachel,' he mouthed and waved his hands trying to indicate something.

She raised her eyebrows at him, waved her hands in the air in return trying to make him see that she didn't get a word he just said and pointed over to the bar. He nodded and followed her. Over at the bar she let herself fall on one of the empty bar stools.

"Man, you really need to work on your sign-language," she teased him.

"Yeah, you're the one to talk!" he said.

"God I'm tired," she said and rested her head on her arms.

"I could use some sleep too," Chris said, "Maybe we should all just sleep over at the manor tonight; it's kind of noisy in here."

She lifted her head and said her voice drifting with sarcasm, "No, you think?"

He shot her a look. "Whatever, let's just go tell Ben and Rachel and then we're off."

She looked over the mass of people and finally spotted them dancing together, not looking tired at all.

"Young love, isn't it wonderful," she smiled cynically and pushed her way through the crowd over to them.

After what seemed like forever they orbed to the manor and finally found out how to pull out the sofa-sleeper in the attic, after many failed attempts, "Why's there no description!", "What the hell's wrong with the couch?", "You really sure it's extendable?"

They put on bedding and Jessica let herself fall on the couch and stretched out making herself comfortable.

"You know I think I can live with this," she smiled after she bounced up and down a few times.

Chris laughed, "Yeah, you sure it's not too hard for your royal back?"

"Nah, it can't live the high life forever," she replied glib. He grinned and shook his head at her.

"Well, I'll go to the bathroom to change and whatever," she said, got off the bed and walked out the attic door as Chris looked after her.

After ten minutes she was back, ran towards the couch and jumped on it.

"God why are you so hyper all of the sudden?" Chris said and rubbed his eyes sleepily.

"Side effects of time travel, why didn't anyone but anything about that in the book!"

She lay down and snuggled under the blanket.

"I'll sleep downstairs on the couch, good night," he said and walked towards the door.

"What, don't be stupid, first of all it's not comfortable, second of all, they'll wake you up when they come back and you know it's not comfortable and they could wake you up!"

"You sure?" Chris turned around and looked at her.

"Yeah, come on," she answered and patted on the spot next to her with a mocking seductive look.

He smiled, shook his head at her again and walked back to the couch, letting himself fall next to her, "Well you just stick to your side."

She stuck her tongue out at him and turned over so she was lying on the side.

"Sweet dreams," Chris said and turned out the lights with a flick of his wrist.

The next morning she woke up and found herself still lying on the side, but with a pair of strong, manly arms around her, her hand was holding one of the hands that hopefully belonged to one of the arms. Her eyes widened, Chris! She shifted slightly to make it possible for her to turn her head, which made Chris wake up. He squinted in the light and looked around a little disoriented. He looked down and immediately retreated from her.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to…" he mumbled still half asleep and sat up still looking a little lost.

"Don't worry about it," she replied quietly and sat up too.

"I'll go get dressed," she leaped off the couch and quickly walked out the door. Chris sighed and let himself fall back down.

Downstairs in the kitchen they found Phoebe sitting at the table a mug of coffee in one hand the paper in the other hand. Paige leaning on the kitchen island with her elbows, her eyes half closed with a cup of coffee in her hands as well. Rachel and Ben stood next to Paige all over each other. As Chris and Jessica walked in four mumbled good mornings reached them but no one except Paige even looked up at them.

"Well, good morning to you too sunshines!" Jessica replied brightly and walked over to the coffee machine, halfway there she hit her foot on a little piece of wood that was sticking out from the cupboard under the sink.

"Damn it," she cursed jumping up and down on and holding her foot, "Everytime!"

"We'll get that fixed," Paige commented sleepily.

"I'll bet you 100 bucks that you won't," Jessica answered and purred herself and Chris a cup of coffee as well.

Paige gave her a 'whatever' look. Handing Chris his mug, she turned to face Rachel, "What's up?"

Rachel looked at her pitifully, "Long night, huh?"

"I was just trying to make conversation," Jessica said and waved her hands exasperatedly.

"What a sad bunch," she muttered and shook her head in disbelief.

Ben snorted in his mug and started coughing.

"Do you have anything you'd like to share?" Jessica asked sharply.

"Nah I'm fine," he hid his grin and took another sip of his coffee.

"Morning," Piper walked in and went over to the coffee machine. She stopped, turned around to the six of them, each with his/her own mug and shook her head incredulously.

"Isn't it great to know that in the future every one seems to be a caffeine addict?" she said to her sisters and started making a new pot of fresh coffee.

"Yeah well you sure are setting a great example," Jessica countered sarcastically.

Everybody stared up at her. She rolled her eyes, hid behind her cup and fell into silence.

"Well I have to get to work," Phoebe announced, put the paper and the coffee down and quickly walked out of the kitchen.

"Right behind ya," Paige said and followed her.

"Well, I guess I'll fill you guys in on the demon stuff," Chris said and looked at Rachel, Ben and Jessica, "Let's go to the attic."

As no one was left in the kitchen but Piper she looked around and muttered, "Fine, go ahead and leave, I'll just clean this up all by myself."

Up in the attic Chris walked towards the book of shadows and started flipping through it, "I think I have most of the demons covered that could be a threat to Wyatt, but there are still a few left so why don't we split up and vanquish as many as possible of the ones that are left?" He looked expectantly at the others.

"How do you know all their demon friends won't come back to bite us in the ass, I'm sure they don't like it very much when half their species gets killed," Jessica replied skeptically.

"I'm with her on that one," Rachel said quickly.

"Well there won't be any left to come bite us in our asses, as far as I'm concerned," Ben contributed his part to the conversation.

"That's my man," Chris said with a satisfied look on his face.

"Okay, how about, you and Ben go vanquish and Rachel and I, we'll just stay here and make the potions," Jessica offered trying to compromise.

"That's my girl," Rachel grinned widely.

Chris and Ben looked at them not quite convinced.

"Come on you guys! Please? It was a really long night and I don't feel like having demon guts all over me!" Rachel begged.

Jessica shot her a look, "Rach, we were doing fine, you just screwed up our whole tactic!"

"Tactic?" Chris raised his eyebrows at her amused.

"Whatever," Jessica said, put her hands on her waist and started tapping her food on the floor.

"Fine, under one condition," Ben finally gave in.

"Yes…?" Chris asked questionably.

"Don't worry I have it all under control," Ben assured him, "We go hunting, you cook."

"Yeah that was exactly what I was saying," Jessica replied confused.

"What?" Ben said, "You said you'd make vanquishing potions."

"Yeah, and you said we'd "cook" same difference," Jessica said indicating the quotations marks with her hands.

"I didn't say "cook"," Ben imitated her, "I said cook, you know like food, people eat it."

Rachel looked back and forth from Ben to Jessica, "Okay guys you're giving me a headache here."

"Ohhh," Jessica said finally getting there, "Deal."

And with that she grabbed the book and dragged Rachel out of the attic downstairs into the kitchen.

"You can cook, right?" she asked Rachel as soon as they stopped and put the book on top of the kitchen island.

"Yeah sure, I mean it can't be that hard you just follow the recipe," Rachel answered unconcerned.

"Yeah we'll worry about that later," Jessica decided, "Let's start with the Gutter demons."

"Eew, gross, they explode after the vanquish, emptying all their viscera on you," Rachel said and wrinkled her nose.

"God I'm glad we stayed here," Jessica laughed while collecting the ingredients from the cupboards.

"So," Rachel said after they started chopping and mixing, "What's going on with you and Chris? And don't say nothing because it's not nothing, it's something."

"What?" Jessica said caught completely off guard, "Nothing's going on, he's engaged, remember?"

"Come on, Jess, I saw you too dancing yesterday."

"Yeah so? People dance."

"You slept on the same couch," Rachel insisted.

"I wasn't going to make him sleep downstairs," Jessica answered annoyed.

Rachel sighed, but she wasn't going to give up.

"We're just friends," Jessica said as she saw the look on Rachel's face.

"Yeah, except for the fact that he obviously still has feelings for you and you obviously still have feelings for him!"

Jessica threw something in the potion which made it explode in their faces. "Damn it," she muttered.

"Look," she turned to the side to face Rachel, "I'm not going over this with you again, stop worrying, I'm fine."

"Hey! Stay out of my feelings."

"It doesn't take an empath to see that you're worried."

"Well, you never know," Rachel shrugged.

"Let's just drop this, ok?" Jessica pleaded.

"Fine but you can't keep living in denial forever," Rachel finally said slightly huffed.

"So," Ben said as he and Chris waited behind a rock in the underworld for the demons to come back from wherever the hell they were, "What's going on with you and Jess? And don't say nothing because it's not nothing, it's something."

"What?" Chris replied slightly irritated, "Nothing's going on, we're just friends."

"Yeah, right…"

"What 'yeah right'?" Chris said getting more and more irritated.

"Nothing I just don't get it, it's obvious that you still have feelings for eachother, in fact, that only thing that's not obvious is why you're not together." Ben looked at him questionably.

"Let's see," Chris replied and seemed to be thinking hard. "Maybe," he said slowly his voice drifting with sarcasm as it was often the case with him, "It's because she broke up with me and I'm engaged now…"

"If you would just get over yourselves," Ben said and shook his head.

Chris opened his mouth and was just about to respond something as the demons shimmered in. Ben looked at him and he nodded. One, two, three, Ben indicated with his fingers, and they jumped out of their cover.

A/N:

Shadowhisper: Well, I think Chris's childhood wasn't perfect at all, since his mom died when he turned 14 (?) and Leo was never there for him. I just thought you'd all figure that so I just didn't put it in the story.

Hope you liked it, plz tell me what you think!