Title: You Love Me But You Don't Know Who I am
Author: alienangel19852003
Summary: Leo kills Gideon before Chris fades away and he manages to heal him. Chris is unable to return to his own time so he is stuck in the present. The Elders give him a new charge and Chris has to start over.
Rating: M
AN: This is an AU story. It is rated M for a reason and that is because it contains a substantial amount of swearing abuse physical violence and mention of rape and incest. Also guy on guy action. This is a SLASH story. You have been warned.
Chapter 1
Chris could not bring himself to look at his infant self and he was thankful that the Elders summoned him. It had been only days after his birthday and since Leo healed him from the knife wound Gideon had given him.
He couldn't help being mad at himself for trusting Gideon. His aunts were buzzing about baby him and also asking him was he okay.
Was he okay? That was the big question. He could not return to the future he was stuck in the past for now. He was okay. He was finally okay He liked 2004.
He liked the music mostly. After three years of only being able to listen to the kind of music his brother allowed which was metal. He liked being able to talk his Aunt Paige's iPod and download whatever he wanted to hear.
So he sat around for the first day downloading songs and listening to them out on the front steps of the manor. Then he heard the jingle from up there. Hoping it wasn't about Leo who had disappeared an hour ago to go to the underworld and kill random demons.
When he got up there he heard a booming voice and saw an Elder he didn't recognize coming toward him. "Christopher." The tall Elder said.
"Please call me Chris." Chris said.
"Okay fine. Chris." The man said almost as if he hated informal names.
"I have an assignment for you. My name is Eli." The man said.
"What is it another time travel suicide mission 'cause I have so had enough of those." Chris said.
The man scowled at him.
"Since we cannot send you home we have selected the perfect charge for you." Eli said.
Chris raised an eyebrow and listened. He wasn't up there long but when he got back down it was September and his mother was furious.
"Where in the hell have you been?" She demanded the second he orbed into the Manor.
Chris rolled his eyes he so didn't need this.
"Look the Elders gave me a new charge and I have to get started on my assignment. I don't have time to pick a fight with you. I have to orb to Missouri and go back to high school. I have to help guide a future Whitelighter to his destiny and I need to be in a good mood when I do it." He told her.
She nodded slowly.
"Leo told me you were up there. I was just worried I guess." Piper said.
"It's okay. Especially with everything that went down in the spring." Chris told her.
"Where's Phoebe?" Chris asked when he spotted his aunts laptop on the couch.
"At work." Piper told him.
"Well then she won't mind if I use her computer then." Chris said as he went over it.
"What are you going to do?" Piper asked.
"Hack into Truman High's database and put myself on the students list." Chris said nonchalantly.
"You're a computer hacker too?" She asked.
"I have many talents mother." Chris replied his eyes never leaving the screen.
"We've never really talked about you. I'd like to know some things." Piper said.
"What do you want to know? I've got a few minutes while this is running." Chris said.
"I don't know." She said after a moment of silence.
"I'll give you the cliff notes version. I can play the drums, the guitar, and the piano though the last sounds more like a blind monkey banging on an out of tune piano."
"I can speak several languages part of the Whitelighter package. I also have empathy like Phoebe but I took a potion before I came to the past to suppress that power I figured two empaths in one house would be too much." Chris said.
He saw how shocked his mother was to learn so much about him. He could also see the pride in her face. He finished forging medical records and a birth certificate and he got himself enrolled in school in less than twenty minutes.
Piper was watching him hack into all those files change and create records. When he was nearly finished she turned to leave.
"Can you make a potion to sort of unsuppress my empathy?" He asked.
Piper nodded and headed out of the room. Chris figured he need all the help he could get he was going back to high school and he was going to have to pose as a 16 year old sophomore.
He didn't know if he hated the thought of returning to high school or he liked it. He hoped it wouldn't be like that Drew Barrymore movie. He would have to make himself look a bit younger as well.
He still had a while though he figured he would show up at Truman High tomorrow seek out his charge and causally bump into him and make friends and then go back to P3 and drink some Australian beer.
Chris had everything all figured out before Piper finished the potion. He was going to have to have to get an apartment there and a job too. If he didn't there would be far too many questions. Since he couldn't bring his parents to Missouri he would just be an emancipated minor living on his own and hopefully no one would give him grief.
He knew the Elders were giving him this little pet project to keep him from getting like Leo and going after every demon in the underworld. He was so not gonna. Now that his crusade to save Wyatt was over he was going to go back to his passive nature.
He went in the kitchen and discovered his mother had not only made a potion but she made Rice Crispy treats too. Piper knew they were his favorite. Sweets were his weakness. Like a lot of people shouldn't get high before they go do important stuff, Chris was that way about sweets.
He was only two bites in before he was bouncing around. Piper had the radio on while she was making lunch. Paige had taken Wyatt and baby Chris to the park and then to Magic School.
So they were alone in the house.
"I can't believe I'm saying this but the dance moves these days are outrageous." Piper said. Chris laughed.
"You haven't even seen me break dance." Chris said.
"No break dancing in the house." She said.
"Things tend to get broken."
"I can't believe they are sending me back to high school. This time at least I know it will be better." Chris said more to himself than to her.
"Popularity isn't everything Chris. I don't want you using magic or hurting other people to get in with the in crowd." Piper said.
Chris figured she would come to that conclusion.
"I know. I know you have given me this speech like what? Ten times." Chris said.
"You could do with constant reminders." Piper said.
"This Jack guy is in with the in crowd. So to be his friend I'll have be their friends too. I never was all that popular in school. In high school at least."
"Why not?" Piper asked.
She saw no reason why he wouldn't be. He was funny and charismatic when he felt like being.
"Do you have any idea what it's like to be a hormonal teenage man witch? You didn't have your powers in high school." Chris told her.
"So you were too afraid to expose your magic to make friends?" She asked.
"Something like that. My weird unexplained absences and disappearances kind of left me lacking in the diploma department." Chris said quickly taking a sip of iced tea.
He really didn't want to talk about his high school days.
"You didn't finish high school?" Piper asked.
"Before you get all mad. I just want to let you know that by the time I was a junior your other son was making a demon army and taking over the world. I doubt the school was even still there when I would have graduated." Chris said.
He wasn't ready to relive that pain, he hated lying to Piper about why he didn't finish school but he couldn't tell her the real reason. That he'd spent what should have been his senior year chained up in the basement imprisoned by his older brother.
He had been held back his junior year for missing too many days of school Wyatt made him stay home after the severe beatings he gave him.
Piper couldn't say anything she was just staring at her son. He had only opened up to her a few times bits and pieces about his life here and there but today she learned more about him than she did in the whole year she had known him.
"I probably shouldn't have told you all that. But you know how they say alcoholics have no secrets sugarholics don't either." Chris said.
Then he remembered the task at hand.
"And this concludes another meeting of sugarholics anonymous." Chris said gulping down the potion Piper had made for him.