Chris blinked a couple of times, turning confused on the person beside him.
"Phoebe? What . . .?"
"Hey, how are you feeling?" asked Phoebe
"How . . .?"
"Shhh. That's not important now. There will be plenty of time later to talk" said Phoebe with a reassuring smile. "You must be hungry, I'll bring you something".
Without waiting for a response, Phoebe turned and headed towards the kitchen. There she found her sisters and Leo.
"He woke up!"
"What are we going to do now?" asked Piper with concern.
"Well, we can not leave him alone" said Paige.
"Without his powers, he's not a danger for himself" said Leo.
"Are you sure?" asked Piper with disbelief.
"At least not for us" joked Paige with a smile. She saw the serious faces of them, 'ok no jokes' thought Paige. "However, somebody should talk with him".
"I'll talk with him" said Piper determinated.
"Piper, go easy on Chris, okay?" Phoebe pleaded remembering the last time she talked with him in the attic. "He really doesn't need a lecture right now."
"Okay, okay," Piper hushed. When she turned around they found Chris who was leaning on the door.
"Jeez, you scared me!" whispered Piper. "How long have you been here?" asked Piper trying to hide her concern. 'What if Chris has heard everything?' thought Piper.
"You want to talk with me, don't you?" asked challenging her.
"Chris we know that Bianca was your fiancée" said Phoebe carefully.
"So what?" asked challenging Chris once again, he really didn't want to talk about Bianca, not now, not with them. "Now that she's dead, you care about her!" said with resentment. "You guys worked on the vanquishing potion for her, you were willing to kill her but finally I was-"his voice broke as he remembered the scene where she died.
"She wanted to kill you Chris" said Piper, not believing what she was hearing.
"We didn't have a choice" confessed Paige. "It was her or you"
"I wish you have chosed her-"whispered for himself. However Piper that was near him, heard it. She looked at him with sympathy, Chris really loved her.
"Chris" said Piper ternely. She stepped closer to him and tried to put a hand over his shoulder, but he took a stepped behind.
"Please leave me alone" demanded Chris in a low but hard voice.
"We're not going to leave you..."
"Either you leave or I'll leave" Chris threatened. Chris just glared at them who didn't move. "Fine, I guess I'll leave then". He tried to orb out but he couldn't. "I-I can't orb" mumbled confused. "What did you do?"
Nobody said anything. His eyes opened wide as he realized what was happening.
"Have you bind my powers?" asked alarmed.
"I'm sorry Chris but-" said firmly Leo.
"How-how could you?!" mumbled stunned as he sat down to let his mind wrap about all that had been said. He looked at them.
"You were a danger for yourself Chris" said Paige.
"How-?" repeated Chris not listening to anybody. "I-I need some time to think-"whispered for himself as he stood up and left the kitchen towards the stairs.
Paige was about to follow him when Phoebe squeezed her arm and shook her head. "It's better to leave alone now". Paige nodded.
Chris opened the attic door and got into the darkened room. He stepped past the doorway. Chris was suspicious of all the sudden darkness of the room, all he could see were shadows of the furniture and the concrete floor. He walked into the attic completely and slowly.
Chris stopped when he saw Bianca's form stepping out from the darkness, her features cast in the shadows.
"Bianca..." mumbled Chris. She moved toward him. Chris shook his head in confusion. "I-I thought you were-"
She placed her finger against her lips and closed the door softly behind her.
Then with one swift movement, Bianca tossed Chris towards the wall. Then she aimed at Chris again and he hit the cabinet hard, breaking it and later crashed into the table in the attic. Without his powers, he was vulnerable. He stood up with difficult. Bianca reached forward him and stabbed Chris in the chest. Chris glanced down at his chest in surprise. He staggered on his feet.
"What-?" croaked Chris confused. Chris slowly slided down the wall, gasping and clutching in chest in pain. "Leo" mumbled Chris. He was nearly unconscious when suddenly there was a dark orb flash and Bianca changed into Gideon.
"I'm sorry kid but it is for a good aim"
Leo was still in the kitchen with all the girls. He raised his head and looked up at the ceiling above.
"What's wrong Leo?" asked Phoebe.
"Chris?" said Leo. "He has called me" without losing any other minute, he just orbed out to looked for Chris.
Leo orbed in the attic. As soon as Gideon noticed the orblights of Leo, he orbed out. Leo found Chris on the floor, wounded and bleeding. Leo fell to his knees beside his son rolling him over. Chris groaned in pain.
"Chris!" yelled Leo.
Paige, Phoebe and Piper went up to the attic when they heard Leo yelling Chris' name. When they arrived they looked down at Chris who was lying on the floor. Leo's hands were on him to heal him. After a few seconds, Piper noticed that Leo was having a difficult time healing him.
"What's the problem?" asked alarmed.
Leo shook his head desperately. "I don't know. He's not healing. Something's blocking my powers to heal him, it is as if he didn't want to be healed" confessed Leo however he tried again and again.
"Damn it Chris, don't you do this to me" pleaded Leo, his tone hushed, choked with despair. "I can't lose you. Not like this..."
Chris mumbled, his words soft, breathless, and still impossible to make out. Feeling helpless, Piper reached out to pat Chris' shoulder. Through the clothes, Piper could feel the heat radiating off Chris. The fever continued to ravage his body despite Leo's best efforts to bring it under control.
"Bianca..." mumbled Chris.-Dream scene-
"You can give up Chris. You still have to protect baby Wyatt and the Charmed Ones. You have to keep them alive for our future". Chris shook his head. "Chris... please don't do this. Don't give up on everything that we fought for" said Bianca. "Leo is trying to heal you, I can feel it, but he will not be able to do it if you don't let him heal you Chris"
He looked away. "Why for? Nothing really matters now""Yes there are lots of things to care about. The future"
"What future?" asked incredulously.
"A better future Chris. A future where we can be together. Chris, you're the only one who can do this. You're the only one who can save us" said Bianca and smiled softly at him.
Chris shook his head. Bianca took his head with her hands, so Chris couldn't avoid looking at her. "Save Wyatt, means saving us" Bianca could see that Chris was hesitating. "Yes, he killed me in the future, but that future can be changed... it wasn't your fault".Chris sighed, deep inside he knew he could still change that future and be again with Bianca. "I don't know where to begin to look for. I've been trying to search the one who turned Wyatt evil, but I didn't find anything-"confessed Chris. "I couldn't find anything in the underworld-"
"Maybe you didn't search in the right direction-"
"What do you mean?" asked Chris.
"Maybe the one who turned Wyatt evil, wasn't evil. Maybe he thought he was doing the right thing-"
Suddenly Chris remembered something he had heard when he was attacked, something he had almost forgotten. A man's voice saying 'I'm sorry kid but it is for a good aim'. He recognized that voice.
"Gideon" said both at the same time.
"I must stop him before it is too late" said Chris, he was determinated but when he looked at Bianca he hesitated. "But I-I don't want to go. I don't want to leave you again" said Chris and embraced her.
Bianca reached her pocket and placed the engagement ring in the middle of Chris' palm. "Take it again. This will remind you why are you doing this". She kissed him passionately. "I'll always be at your side""I love you Bianca" mumbled Chris.
"Close your eyes, my love, let Leo heal you, everything will be alright" said Bianca.
I know, I know I'm a little slowly updating the story, but you know, for good things you always have to wait and this time the chapter is longer than usually. I hope you enjoyed as much as I did writing it. And as I always say, DO NOT FORGET TO REVIEW! Your reviews help me to write faster ;P there are a really good motivation!