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.
Chapter 3
Jack McCallister wanted to eat lunch alone but that was impossible with his little brother Bobby on his heels. Every since the institution of the new rule that said they should spend more time together Bobby wouldn't leave him alone.
He had been ignoring Bobby for the most part. Unfortunately his younger brother was so naïve he mistook the pointed silence for rapt attention. Jack found an empty table and sat down. Bobby was still talking to him about something geeky.
Jack took out his IPod and put the head phones on. He looked at his brother pointed at his head phones and then he started to eat his lunch. Bobby quieted down and started to eat his own lunch. Since the marijuana incident that had got Jack kicked off the track team none of his friends were talking to him.
Which didn't bother him much. He wasn't feeling real friendly right now. He was on the outs with his previous crush Courtney Benedict. He knew he liked her because he couldn't have her not because he was actually attracted to her.
All of his other crushes were unattainable even more so than Courtney. They were mostly men mostly married and they were all famous and they were all so unavailable. Bobby was talking to him again so he turned up the volume and the sounds of Switchfoot blared in his ears.
Chris Halliwell had just gotten himself checked into school. It was frighteningly easy to enroll in a high school. He had been given his class schedule which he had arranged before hand so he had all the same classes with Jack.
It was lunch time Chris went to the hot dog stand and got himself a chili dog. He could sense one of the girls from drama club who was running the hot dog stand checking out his ass as he walked away. He shook his head remembering the high school hierarchy.
He never thought his ass was worth looking at before and he couldn't help the ways he wiggled as he walked away. He could sense his new charge near by. Then he spotted Jack sitting with his younger brother Bobby.
The first thing Chris noticed was how striking Jack was. Blue eyes perfect features and lips that looked so soft. He knew he shouldn't be thinking about making out with his charge on the first day.
But then again he was his father's son. He walked over to the table where the two brothers were sitting.
"I'm new here and I was wondering if I could sit with you guys." Chris said trying not to be nervous.
Jack looked up to see the guy he had been checking out earlier at the drama clubs hot dog stand. Jack turned off his music. He caught the last of what the boy was saying. Before he could reply his little brother offered the guy a seat.
Jack took his head phones off to listen at Bobby talk to the new guy.
"I'm Bobby McCallister, and that is my older brother Jack." Bobby said.
"I'm Chris. Chris Perry." The guy said smiling.
"Where did you move from?" Bobby asked.
Chris took a deep breath he had been trying to prepare himself for questions like this.
"California." Chris said not really wanting to elaborate.
"I'm sure you'll find that this town quite boring compared to life out there." Jack said.
Chris looked up from where he was fiddling with something on his tray.
"Not much in the way of entertainment?" Chris asked.
"Not much in the way of anything." Jack responded dryly.
Chris could feel the boredom and agitation Jack felt. Chris smiled.
"So what do you guys do for fun around here?" Chris asked cocking an eyebrow.
"I run flight simulations on my computer." Bobby said.
"He meant non geek activities Dumb ass." Jack told his brother. Jack looked back over at Chris.
"There's the bowling alley." Jack said and then he frowned and glanced at the girl sitting at the table behind them.
"Ex girlfriend?" Chris asked.
Jack blushed.
"Something like that. How did you guess?" Jack asked.
"I've developed a sort of sixth sense for things like that." Chris said with a smirk.
"Done this before?" Jack asked.
"Changing schools? Only about hundred times. Changing schools isn't that big of deal changing families is way harder." Chris said deciding to get this out of the way.
Both of the McCallister brothers looked at him confused.
"I was in foster care until I got emancipated. The state or whatever decided I needed to be as far away from my brother as possible so they gave me a new social worker and decided I come here." Chris explained but he only left the brothers with more questions.
"Where are your parents?" Bobby asked.
Jack gave him a look.
"It's okay I can talk about it. My mom died when I was fourteen. I don't know where my father is I never see him." Chris told them.
It was pretty much the truth.
"We've never met our father." Bobby said.
Jack shot him another look. Bobby seemed to realize he was talking way too much.
"I'm going to go find Warren he's probably getting beat up again. It was nice meeting you Chris." Bobby said as he got up and collected his stuff.
Chris tuned his attention back to Jack.
"You can ask me whatever you want." Chris said.
"Why don't you live with your brother that's the only part I don't get." Jack said.
"He's not fit to be my legal guardian. He runs with a bad crowd. Technically he is the bad crowd." Chris explained.
"Oh. You have your own apartment right?" Jack asked.
"Yeah." Chris said playing with the straw from his coke.
"I wish I had my own place. My brother is always getting on my last nerve. My mother she's no better." Jack said and then he sighed.
Chris could tell Jack wanted to get out of his house.
"Aside from that though things aren't that bad?" Chris asked.
"Things are okay at home actually. School that's another story." Jack said.
"I know what you mean man I know I'm gonna be so behind." Chris said.
"I could help you what year are you?" Jack asked.
"I'm a sophomore." Chris replied.
"Me too." Jack couldn't believe his luck.
Chris looked about his age but when Chris had told him about his life before he had come to Truman High Jack thought he was older.
"Can I see your schedule?" Jack asked.
"Sure," Chris said reaching into the back pocket of his jeans.
Chris handed him the wrinkled copy. Jack scanned the schedule and discovered they had all the same classes.
"We have all the same classes. Jack said.
"What a coincidence." Chris said with a smirk.
Jack wondered if it was just his imagination or was Chris flirting with him.
"We have gym next. You'll hate it Coach is a real bastard." Jack said taking a bite of his turkey sandwich.
"Please tell me you guys don't have to climb that damn rope." Chris said.
"Nope. Today is Monday, we play dodge ball." Jack said.
Chris looked relieved for a second and then terrified again.
"You're kidding me right?" Chris asked.
"No. I'm serious. I hate it too I can't wait until I get back on the track team. So the lameness that is boys P.E. will be over." Jack said with a huge grin.
Chris was shaking his head. "Will I be expected to play?" Chris asked.
"Everyone plays." Jack said.
"I'm not the most coordinated person when I have to do something involving balls." Chris said.
"The way I see it if you keep moving they can't hit you." Jack said.
"That's true." Chris said.
"I'm sure you'll do fine." Jack said.
The bell rang a second later.
"I sure hope so." Chris whispered to himself as he gathered up his stuff and followed Jack to their next class.
Gym class was exactly what Chris had expected. A smelly locker room and a hard ass for a coach. He was given the gym locker next to Jack's and issued a P.E. uniform which consisted of blue shorts and a yellow shirt that said Truman High on it.
Chris detested the idea of having to wear shorts. He had nice legs but he just didn't like wearing shorts and having everyone see them. He also didn't like having to get undressed in front of the other boys because of his previous experience with men.
Fortunately, Coach Davis gave him a little speech which took up at least ten minutes and during the time he spent talking to the balding fat man all the other boys were dressed out in their P.E. uniforms. He went in to the locker room as most of the guys were going out.
Jack was sitting on the wooden bench by their lockers still not dressed. He looked up at Chris and blushed. He had never figured Jack for the shy type but he knew that Jack had been waiting out the crowd.
Jack waited patiently for all the other guys to get dressed slowly untying his shoes. He didn't look at anyone while they got dressed he always looked down at his shoes or in his locker and concentrated on breathing.
He hadn't been long discovered that he was interested in members of the same sex. He wished he could go back to the way things were before when he didn't have to be so self conscious in the locker room that he could be around those guys while they were half dressed like that without embarrassing himself.
Once the other guys had cleared out he was about to get changed hoping Coach would keep talking to Chris for a few minutes but a second later he looked up to see Chris coming through the locker room door. Jack couldn't help but blush.
The locker room was the best place to find out who was straight and who was gay. Chris knew this from the little time he had been in school the first time. He may have just had better gaydar because he was an Empath.
Whatever the case was he could tell, and the waiting thing that Jack had done was typical for someone who was hiding. Chris used to do the same thing. Because of all the bruises and the cuts on his body and also because he liked looking at the other boys and he didn't want them to know.
He knew some to the Seniors would have made him their bitch and he was already Wyatt's bitch and bitch to half the Underworld. He just figured he'd better wait until the other guys left.
He didn't have those fears now but he was still shy about getting undressed in front of Jack. Partly because he didn't want Jack to see his scars the other part was something else something he wasn't ready to name.
"So you talked to Coach?" Jack asked trying very hard to keep his eyes on the wall while Chris was taking off his clothes.
"Yeah and dude needs a breath mint. He kept yammering on and on about how the boys these days need to toughen up. Tighten up something like that." Chris said.
"He gives that speech to everyone." Jack said finally giving in to temptation and looking at Chris who was shirtless and facing the other way.
Chris was tall and lean with smooth pale skin and sinewy muscles. He had a birthmark on his shoulder that Jack noticed instantly.
With closer inspection he saw that it was more of a burn like someone had branded him or something. It was a weird symbol. Three sort of oval shapes connected to each other and kept inside of a large circle. Chris slid his shirt over his head and turned and faced Jack blushing.
"I'll tell you about the brand on my shoulder one day." Chris said giving Jack a small smile.
"You don't have to, I'm sorry it was rude of me to stare at it for so long." Jack said.
"It's okay." Chris said and Jack noticed some other marks on Chris' body.
There were scars on his wrists going all the way around.
Chris didn't strike him as the type to cut and the scars looked more like his wrists had been shackled for a very long period of time. Jack wondered who would do that to him. Jack wanted to cry at the mere thought that someone had hurt his new friend.
His sadness was short lived it was soon replaced by anger. He didn't like the fact that someone had hurt Chris. He wanted to beat the shit out of whoever the fuck had hurt him.
"Don't worry Jack." Chris said looking at Jack with tears in his green eyes looking more beautiful than any creature had a right to.
"It was a long time ago. I'm okay now." Chris said.
"Did your brother do that to you?" Jack asked in a low growl.
"Please Jack lets not go there." Chris said.
"He did." Jack said realizing it from the look Chris was giving him.
"I'm okay." Chris said again. It did nothing to quell Jack's rage.
Before Jack could say anything else Coach Davis poked his head in the door.
"What are you Nancies waiting for? Get out there on the court." He shouted.
Once Coach was gone Jack sat down on the bench and put on his shoes Chris did the same thing.
"Is that why you don't live with him any more because he hurt you?" Jack asked
. Chris nodded solemnly he hadn't expected to tell so much on the first day. He trusted Jack but he just never meant to reveal so much so soon.
"I know you don't want to talk about it now. I won't bother you about it anymore but promise me you'll tell me one day." Jack said once he had got his shoes tied.
"I promise. I really do want us to be friends." Chris said.
"Me too." Jack said.
"Dodge ball requires intense concentration, focus, skill, dexer- dexter- the ability to dodge a ball." Coach Davis was saying. Jack wasn't listening he was making faces and doing an impression of Coach Davis behind his back to make Chris laugh. And it was working.
He had Chris giggling like a school girl he had never worked so hard to make any one person laugh before. Working so hard at it he nearly got caught by the Coach.
"McCallister? What are you doing? You can gossip on your own time. This is my time for the next forty five minutes you boys are mine." Coach Davis said as he continued to stalk around the class which he had lined up military style.
Coach Davis was one of those typical high school gym coaches that still think he is in the army. Which was just one of the many things Jack openly ridiculed behind the coach's back of course.
He couldn't help thinking how cute Chris was when he was trying so hard not to break into hysterical laughter as Jack mimicked the stance and the facial expressions and mouthed the words of the coach.
"If I have to tell you to sit still again McCallister I'm coming over there and cracking skulls and tell your little friend that too. "Yes Sir! Yes Sir!" Jack said saluting. The class broke into loud laugher. Chris was rolling on the floor at this point and Jack could barely stand his sides ached from laughing. "You little smartass. That's 20 laps." Coach Davis said.
"And you Perry? You were in on it too 20 for you." Coach Davis said. "And if anyone else wants to run laps just keep on laughing." Coach Davis said and the laughter stopped all but Chris and Jack.
"Get out there! Move it!" He commanded the other boys in line. "Santos, you're a captain. Chavers, you're a captain now get to picking." Coach Davis commanded and the other guys went running. Coach Davis turned back to glare at Jack and Chris who had recovered from the all out laughter and were trying to restrain their giggles.
"This isn't the way you should start off at new school." Coach Davis said with fire in his eyes. "I'm sorry Coach,giggle it's just that I haven't really laughed in a long time." Chris said. "McCallister's a real smartass are you sure you want to get mixed up with him?" Coach Davis asked. "Sir I think I'm already mixed up with him." Chris said.
"Oh just go do your laps." Coach said waving one of his arms. Jack shot off first and Chris ran after him. He could tell that Jack was keeping the pace slow for him and for that he was thankful. Chris was in pretty good shape but he had never done any long distance running before.
Partly because he could orb and also because he didn't like getting sweaty. "You do a good impression of old Coach." Chris said running along side Jack. Jack laughed. "Was that really the first laugh you've had in long time?" Jack asked. "I just never see anything really that funny." Chris said.
"I don't laugh that much either unless Bobby and Warren get themselves into a geeky situation. Which happens quite often actually." Jack said. "Well, at least we don't have to play dodge ball." Chris said. "You mean 'get hit in the head ball' there will be other Mondays." Jack said.
Chris laughed. "What?" Jack asked looking at his new friend with new curiosity. "Nothing. Do you watch the 'River'?" Chris asked. "No what's the 'River'?" Jack asked. "It's like one of those teen dramas on Fox my an- a friend of mine got me into it." Chris said.
"You said what Spacey said in last week's episode. He told Lawson, 'There will be other Mondays sparky.'" Chris quoted with reverence. Jack just smiled at Chris and shook his head. He had heard of the 'River' but he had never taken the time to watch it. He made a mental note to check it out.
They finished their laps and then the Coach made them sit on the bench for the rest of the period where they made much fun of the Coach behind his back. When the other guys went in to shower the Coach made Chris and Jack go put up the girls volleyball equipment as further punishment for their shenanigans.
"I told you Coach was a hard ass." Jack said as they walked into the girls' locker room where the volleyball stuff was kept. Chris had never gone in the girls' locker room at his old school. It was much cleaner than the boys and it smelled different too.
"Smell that that is the essence of the she." Jack said wrinkling his nose as if it was fouler than the boys' locker room it wasn't even close to being that foul. As they ventured further into the locker room Chris heard two girls talking.
"Shh. That's, Lacey Witt and Carla Simms the two star players on the girls' volleyball team." Jack whispered point at the two girls undressing further down in the locker room. They were in a position so the girls couldn't see them. Chris watched as the girls undressed and got dressed and he wondered fleetingly why the female form didn't excite him it only confused him.
Finally, Jack took one end of the net and the Chris grabbed the other and they slipped out without the girls knowing.
Quickly working as a single unit they put up the net and went in the locker room just as the other guys were coming out and the Volleyball girls were coming in the gym. "You to hit the showers." Coach Davis said.