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A Charmed Story - Part Two:
Brothers Love Through The Times
Chapter 1

When Wyatt crossed the portal, he looked around, anxiously. He knew Chris had died all the times he had tried to save him; his brother had told him... And his worst fear now was to arrive in the future and find out that his brother was dead. It had all been his fault, he couldn't go on living with that! Even if all his family was alive, even if they had saved little Wyatt in the past, Chris always died in the attempt... Thus, Wyatt was afraid of calling him. The sooner he did so, the sooner he'd find out that Chris was dead.
He just looked around... The attic was dark, but it was THE attic, not the museum he had made out of the manor.
Suddenly, everything started to spin around him... His memories were changing quickly, his being evil, his trying to kill Chris and the family, Barbas... everything was like a dream, a very far-away dream.
Now he felt his life had been good, he had been good, and nobody had died... He had changed completly.
Wyatt grinned, happily. "Chris!" he called.

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Some days had passed, and Chris was like a zombie, pacing from one place to another. Bianca just stood with him, not speaking, not bothering him. Just being his company.
The sisters were really worried. They knew he felt bad, he had even killed and Elder, but what the hell... he had saved Wyatt! He should be happy and proud!
However, they knew he was worried about something else... the time loop... Ok, now he was trapped in the past, but what did that mean? He had to be born, and then what… When he grew up, he'd come to the past? Impossible. So how come he was there now? Shouldn't he have disappeared?
'You belong to another plane, that's all.' People told him and Bianca. Then, shouldn't he had gone back to his own plane? His own plane where Wyatt was evil?
There was no such a plane, Wyatt himself had changed. There could only be one plane, with many memories, the others would be just disappearing...
So why was he still there? Would there be any other Chris in the future? Or would their souls join when the little one was born? Too many questions...
And he had Cole's problem too... He had escaped the ghostly plane, the Elder had promised to cover them all, but they'd discover it. He knew that this had to happen anyway, but Cole had been saved before in a different way. How had the girls handled that? Chris's head ached terribly.
"Chris, can I do something for you?" Phoebe asked when she passed by him. She felt that he was confused and worried about the future more than he ever did before.
"No thanks," Chris said. But it was more like a whisper.
Phoebe sighed and was just about to leave him, when Leo orbed in.
"Hey son," he said and sat down besides him, "are you o.k.?"
"I don't know," Chris answered, "I don't know if I'm o.k..."
Leo hugged his son lovingly: "Don't worry about the future... you've saved it..."
Chris nodded.
Bianca who was sitting facing them, looked at her love with sorrow. She didn't feel that well either, but she knew they had no other chance but going on.
"Well I have some news for you," Leo went on talking.
"What news?" Chris asked.
"I think, maybe we should go downstairs, that's something all the family should know."

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About two minutes later, the whole family, that is the sisters, Chris, Bianca and Cole, sat on the sofa in the living room facing Leo.
"So what's it?" Chris asked a bit impatient. He felt uncomfortable with all the other around him. The sisters had known his identety for how long...? A week?... That was really not enough to behave in a normal way. They were all trying to get used to that situation, but that wasn't easy.
Leo smiled, then he rose to speak: "Well... we had a long and tough discussion up there." He pointed his finger up to the ceiling. "We had a lot of things to discuss... First you, Cole..."
"Me?" Cole was feeling very fearful that moment. He was afraid of maybe be sent back.
"Yes... well... you are human now, and that makes you an innocent one, too... in a way. So... You'll stay here in this world and live a normal live... But be careful... nobody knows how the demons will react on that..."
Cole led out some air from deep inside of him... It took a load off his mind.
Phoebe just put her head on his shoulder and smiled.
Then Leo turned to Chris: "Then we discussed another problem. You... and also me in a way..."
Chris sighed.
But Leo just smiled: "Well... I made an arrangement for you and me..."
"You and me?" Chris asked a bit afraid of what he would answer.
"Yes, Chris, even you ... well there is now one Elder missing in the crowd... and you are one..."
Chris eyes were open wide.
"Shall that mean he...?" asked Piper afraid of losing him like her husband.
"Yes and no," Leo answered. "Well the deal is that you take over the place of Gideon. Not for the reason that this place needs to be filled, but to relieve me... Cause I told them that I have to take care of my family, and that this is the most important thing."
Leo looked at Piper and smiled with love. She turned red, but was visibly happy.
Then Leo turned to Chris, who was smiling himself, about seeing his parents come together again...
"Well... I thought you and me, we could share the Whitelighter/Elder-work and take care of them together," he finished his explanation and then made a little break.
"So... if you agree?" Leo asked finally.
Chris was still smiling. Bianca thought it was the first smile she had seen on him, since... since he had to do that ..."
"I do," Chris answered.
Leo nodded happily.
It seemed that everything was good for the moment, but Phoebe noticed that it wasn't. Chris was still puzzled by something. He was still worrying.

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Later Chris was sitting on top of the Golden Gate bridge again. He was sitting there thinking about his life, when Leo orbed there.
"Hey," Chris said, "what are you doing here?"
"Phoebe told me, that you're still worrying, and Bianca told me that too."
Chris smiled. He should have known that.
"So what is it, Chris?" his father asked.
"It's about me... I mean... what will happen... will I be born again? And if it is so, what will then happen to me?"
Leo smiled. "There is no problem about that Chris," he said. "Do you remember, what I told your brother, here at this place? I told him to take care that his brother would be there in his future. That's why I made that deal with the Elders."
Chris sighed: "And me...?"
"Nothing... look, there are also two Biancas in this world right now. And nothing happened to her... You liberated yourself from the time, and so you did also from the other version of you... Maybe it will be a bit difficult to explain this to your younger version, why we have two of you... But when it's time to do that, we'll find a way..."
Leo made a short break: "So stop worrying, o.k.?"
Chris nodded: "O.k."
He stared at the front for a while, still serious, with his eyes lost in the dark sky.
Leo patted his shoulder: "Everything's ok now, son! Everything's fixed, there are no more worries, no more dangers, no more lies or secrets, no more suffering... You should be jumping out of happiness! Don't you think so?"
Chris shrugged.
"Looks like we're one big happy family again," continued Leo, quoting Chris on purpose. His son couldn't help but chuckle.
"It seems so, yeah..." he muttered.
"So?"
"So... That's what worries me... Now everything is so perfect that I can't believe it! After so many years of struggling, after such bad memories that I have accumulated in my mind... After so many deaths I suffered and which are stuck in my memories forever... It seems unbelievable that I can be happy finally!" answered Chris, holding back some tears.
Leo hugged him again: "That's not so weird, Chris.. It'll be normal, until you get used to this... But don't be too happy! I guess we'll have many demons to fight and many works to carry out for the Elders, so now... Enjoy your perfect moments with us, and don't worry about it! You deserve it, ok?"
Chris nodded, and smiled. "Yes, I suppose you're right... So what if we go back home and do something special, like... a party, or something?"
"I think that's just... perfect!" joked Leo, teasing him. "Come on, let's go home!" Then, they orbed back to the manor.

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"Wyatt?" The tall blonde man heard his name from downstairs.
It was his mother, who was approaching. After a while she appeared, frowning. She looked pale, sick, tired... and older. As if that was the worst moment of her life.
"Are you ok, son?"
"Yes!" he answered, grinning widely, "I've never felt better!"
"Oh..." mumbled Piper. "I just thought you had called..." then she looked him in the eyes. "It's ok, it doesn't matter. That's normal... It happens to me, too."
"Where's Chris? That's what you must have heard, mom. I called him." Wyatt was starting to worry, and a lot.
Piper startled. Then she turned back to him again: "Wyatt... don't you remember?"
She was undergoing a terrible pain, he could see that in her eyes, but he didn't understand a word. He tried hard to see all his new memories. All so good! This didn't fit at all. Chris was on them, little and adult Chris, he had even recent memories... Very recent.
Suddenly, he felt as if a bolt of lightning struck him. He couldn't breathe, he couldn't think... He was about to faint, so he had to sit down.
"Wyatt, just breathe, ok? You need to calm down..." Wyatt stared at her eyes, which were full of tears.
"What... what the hell...?" That wasn't possible.
Chris had been there all those years, both of them. He had had very good moments with them, and knew Leo had kept to his promise, he had kept Chris alive for his future...
But now... The only thing he could remember now was that he had had a terrible night. He had dreamed about a timetravel, a portal opening... and also about Chris. Finally, now, right now, he was completely awoken.
The dream was going away, and he started to remember the reality, the true reality... The day before, in the future, the two versions of his brother Chris had died.
"I know you wanna forget it, Wyatt, you want to ignore what happened. But you can't. None of your brothers won't be here anymore, we'll need to accept it and go on living. That's something we all learnt when our sister Prue died. That's what we're about, Wyatt... Son, we're witches, we fight evil... It's easy to die fighting evil. But we have to move on, and you can't get down, ok? Because if you do, you'll be failing your brother, you'll be breaking your promise to him." Piper was crying devastated. But she had to help her son. Nobody could believe what had happened the day before.
Wyatt was just awakening... was just remembering, and realizing it was true. Chris, both of them, had died the previous night. He had had a great life with them, full of good moments. But now, it was all over. They had passed away on his arms, and he had made a promise to the eldest Chris.
"Never give up, never go to the other side. Because if you do, I would have failed again..." Chris had said, "and I know that this time, I haven't failed." Wyatt had promised him that he would never do that, even if he didn't understand why.

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At the manor the whole family sat around the big table, having evening meal together.
Everyone, even Chris, had been in a good mood. They were joking and laughing.
"Well," Piper then said, "I don't want to break with the fun... But I think we should also talk about how it will go on, here... I mean... Our house is large, but..."
Everyone was looking at her.
Cole was the first to realize what she wanted to say: "I thought I might try to find a job as a lawyer again. And then I'll look for my own apartment."
"No," Phoebe said, "you have to stay. You're still in a little danger, if the demons find out... and I want to have you here."
Cole smiled. The last days had been great for him. He and Phoebe had become closer again, little by little. But now it seemed to him that they had become closer than he had thought... She wanted him to stay... that made him very happy. He kissed her cheek.
"So, we'll look for something on our own," Chris said and looked at Bianca, "I think it's time to leave the parents house."
She smiled. She knew that Chris wanted to be on his own again, just to have a little rest from that family-business.
"Why don't you live in the magic school?" Paige asked, "I mean, since now..." She didn't want to make everyone remember about what had happened, but she accidently did.
Chris got pale again. Bianca took his hand and caressed it.
"Well I thought there is a room available now," she explained.
Leo sighed: "Well, the school will be closed."
"What?" everyone yelled at the same time.
"That can't be, the kids need that place," Paige said.
"Yeah," Piper added, where shall I send my kids to, if I'm busy killing demons?"
"They have no head teacher there, no one will take care of them," Leo explained.
"So why don't we do this?" Chris asked. He didn't want that the kids had troubles because of what HE had done.
"We? Who do you mean exactly?"
Chris looked at his father: "I mean you, me, mum, the sisters, Bianca, everyone... Everyone can take part in this."
"Yeah, and Cole could play the guinea pig for them," Phoebe said smiling.
"How funny, sweetie," Cole answered.
"And Bianca and I could live there," Chris added when he saw his father frowning, "so what do you think?"
The others looked at each other waiting for any of them to answer.
Finally, Leo turned to Chris and smiled: "Well, I guess it's a good idea... as long as you're able to handle little naughty witches willing to play with their powers all the time..."
"And don't get so neurotic as you got with us! You'll need to be patient," added Paige.
"Yeah... and don't forget, it'll take your time for demon-hunting with us" joked Phoebe.
Little by little, Chris was turning pale.
"Ok, people, stop it!" Bianca interrupted them, "You're scaring my boy!" she said, chuckling. Piper laughed, and patted his shoulder: "Hey, don't listen to them... It won't be so terrible! It's just a school, so I think that was a good idea. Why not?"
Chris finally laughed: "Ok, for a moment I felt as if I was going to deal with little demons, rather than witches."
"Aaaahahaha!" Paige laughed enjoying her victory, "That's what I wanted, to see you scared with your own medicine! You always made us hunt all those demons, I just wanted to make you pay for that!"
Chris grimaced mockingly at her: "That wasn't funny!"
"And you need to relax, darling..." murmured Bianca, as she kissed his cheek lovingly.
Cole smiled, so happy! He had never been so happy as he was being now. The problem is that he was remembering those days in which he had given up his powers and couldn't handle it...
"Don't worry, honey..." said Phoebe in his ear, "this time I'll help you."
"What?" he turned, surprise. How did she know what he was thinking about?
"I'm an empath, and I know you perfectly well," she said as she winked.
Cole grinned and took Phoebe's face. Then, he pressed his lips against hers and kissed her passionately.
"You two should learn from your elders..." said Paige, half joking pointing at the young couple.
Chris and Bianca blushed embarrassed.
"Hey! You're speaking to MY son, ok? That's disgusting!"
All of them laughed at Piper's expression.
Little Wyatt was in the playpen, too far to enjoy the happy atmosphere, and finally, he decided to join the gang. He orbed straight to his brother's arms.
"Kis" he said, giggling.
"Hey, buddy!" Chris felt so flattered that his little-older brother was able to somehow say his name, and loved him so much! He stroked his hair tenderly.
"I may have to learn from those unbearable lovers," he said, meaning Cole and Phoebe, and ignoring their complaints, "but I'll teach you soooo many things, no girl will be able to escape from you."
This time, it was Bianca that complained. Chris started to laugh heartly, seeing how the child chuckled, as if he had understood.
"I was just joking, ok? Well, going back to the topic... I'll do as I said, as long you agree, honey." he added, turning to Bianca.
The girl nodded without hesitating for a moment.
"Ok, we'll talk to the other Elders, and let's see if they like the idea. We'll all help there! It'll be nice to help those apprentice-witches all you girls know," he said.
"And what do I do all the time while you're working?" asked Cole.
"Well, you can baby-sit!" answered Piper, jokingly: "Little Chris will need a babysitter until he's old enough to go to the magic school."
Cole turned to Chris, with a weird expression on his face, and Chris grinned at him: "I told you, we'd spend a looong time together, you were gonna be my best friend of all!"
Cole grimaced: "That's not funny, either... " Obviously, he was thinking in those moments in which he'd have to change his nappies... However weird and disgusting he found it, the rest of the family saw it as something really amusing, because all of them started to laugh at the sight of his expression.
"You'll have to practice, Cole..." said Phoebe, looking at him significantly. They were having a really good time that day... Finally.

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The 17-year-old girl ran through her room. She was looking really crazy. Her hair was red... real red, her eyes were made up with a dark green eye-shadow, her lips were black, she had a piercing in her nose and in one eyebrow... and about five in every ear.
"No!" she yelled, at her father.
"Come on Patrica," Cole said helpless, "could you not imagine, that your mother needs you these days? Aren't you mourning the loss of your cousins, at least?"
Patrica stopped her walk: "I do dad... But my life goes on, and my friends planned that party for over two months... And I will go there," she said. Then she grasped her bag and left the room.
Cole followed her with his eyes, but stood still in front of her room. Then he heard the door slam. He shook his head and sighed.
"Don't worry," a soft voice said to him.
He turned around and looked into the eyes of his wife. She smiled a bit: "She is just like me, when I was her age."
Cole smiled while imagining Phoebe dressed up like their daughter. Then he turned serious again: "Are you o.k.?"
She nodded: "But can you look after Wyatt? He is in the attic and I think he needs someone to talk."
Cole nodded, kissed his wife, and went upstairs.
Wyatt was sitting in a corner of the attic, when he entered.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"Phoebe thought it would be good for you to talk," Cole answered and went closer.
"That will not bring him back, right...? So why wasting so many words."
Cole sat down next to him. None of them spook a word for a few minutes. Then Cole decided to tell him a little story, a true one.
"I don't know if your brother, well the big one, told you what the real reason for his existence was... Did he?"
Wyatt shook his head. "But I always believed that there was something more, than that story about the Titans..."
"So," Cole went on nodding," he was here, cause he traveled through the time. He came to the past to save..."
"The future, I know that uncle," Wyatt interrupted him.
"Yeah... But... He came back to save... to save you."
"Me?" Wyatt asked. And he felt that there was something inside him, like a shadow.
"Things went on very complicated, Chris changed a little too much for himself I think... And so... he and his wife had to stay in our time, after they finished their work there."
"They saved me? From what?" Wyatt asked.
Cole weighed up if it was good to tell him that... But, then he did: "He saved you from turning evil..."
Suddenly Wyatt felt sick. He knew that these words of his uncle were true, he felt it, deep inside. And now he understood why his brother asked him to be always good, just before he died.
"Are you o.k.?" Cole asked after a moment of silence.
"Yes I am... but I want to be alone, if it's possible."
Cole nodded and started to leave. At the door he turned around: "You are a good man Wyatt, don't worry about the past. I'm sure Chris would be proud of you, both of them."
Wyatt nodded and Cole left him alone.
As soon as his uncle was out of sight, Wyatt jumped up, picked a sheet of paper and a pen and started to write a spell.

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Chris and Bianca were walking through the grand hall of the magic school.
"I think this is a really nice place," she said to him hugging him.
"So, do you?" he answered smiling and kissed her.
"Mr. Halliwell... Mr. Halliwell!"
Chris turned around: "Sorry, I... I'm not used to be called like that." He smiled.
"There is a little problem in the library," the little girl of maybe 12 years old said.
Chris sighed.
"I will look after that, sweetie," Bianca said smiling. She took the hand of the girl and they left the hall.
Chris followed her with his eyes. 'Maybe now everything will be really alright, finally...' he thought.
Then, he walked to his office. He had picked up his own room, he didn't want to work in the old head-teacher's office. He sat down on his desk. There were lots of papers, reports, and books everywhere, and he needed to classify them, throw away the useless ones and read the rest... Too much work!
After all the time he had spent fighting demons, he would have never thought that working with papers and books would be really hard. Children were not the little demons he had thought when he spoke with the sisters. But papers, and reports... That was a different thing. Now he was sure, demons had invented all that stuff to make their lives more difficult.
He sighed and closed his eyes...
"Chris?"
He opened his eyes and looked around. There was no one there...
"Chris!"
Oh, Gosh, it was Cole's voice... He was alone at home, fine, and he was bored... But he couldn't keep calling him each time he felt lonely!
However... what if he was in danger?
Chris thought for a moment of Bianca and the little problem in the library... She hadn't called him, so she'd surely handle it on her own, or with the help of the sisters and Leo... Maybe he could afford to go and check that his uncle was fine, so he orbed away.

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At the manor, Cole had been reading a novel, Timeline by Michael Crichton... He had become really fond of that stuff, and wanted to understand what had happened with his nephew, all the changes, the timelines... everything. However, after having read the first half of the book, he had realized that the only thing that he had received of the timetravelling stuff was a headache.
"Chris!"
Cole tensed up at hearing that voice in the attic. A demon? He shivered... What if they had found out about him, finally?
But hadn't he called Chris? A demon calling Chris? Cole frowned, no way... That couldn't be a demon.
"Chris, brother, where are you?" cried the voice again.
Cole was shocked... Brother? Wyatt? That wasn't little Wyatt obviously... Not only did he have an adult voice, but he was pronouncing the name with all the letters!
What had happened?
Cole stood up, and was walking to the stairs, when the tall blonde man orbed in front of his uncle, startling him.
"Wow! Wyatt!" Cole stepped back, suspiciously. He didn't really know if that was the good one, or if the evil one had come back.
But the man went to him, pale and worried: "Uncle Cole! I need to talk to Chris."
"What has happened?"
"I'll tell you both when he comes, but I don't want anyone else to know, just in case..."
Cole nodded.
"And... where's he?"
Cole just looked up and cried: "Chris?"
Both men waited for a moment, but nothing happened.
"He's at the magic school, he must be busy, Wyatt... Can't you just tell me?"
Wyatt shook his head: "He's the one who has to know this... Besides, I need to see him."
Cole frowned... What? He had both Chris in his future, didn't he? He felt that something wasn't going on well, so he finally called his nephew in a louder voice: "Chris!"
After a few minutes, Chris appeared in the middle of both men.
Really shocked by the sight of his adult brother, and afraid of everything starting again, Chris stepped backwards.
But Wyatt didn't noticed that. He just hugged him, glad to see him alive.
Chris frowned, oberserving his brother, who looked really different than the last time he had seen him. His hair was short, his eyes were looking friendly and peaceful. Could that be possible?
"What are you doing here?" Chris asked.
"I'm here 'cause I have to tell you something," his brother explained.
Chris was still skeptical, but what should he do. "And?" he asked.
"You know..." Wyatt didn't really know how to start, "you know, uncle Cole told me about why you were here... are here... That you've saved me."
"Told you?" Chris asked, "So you don't remember that?"
"How could I?" his brother asked back.
"Well..." Chris wanted to say something but Cole stopped him.
"Let him tell what he wants to tell you... You changed his life as it seems, so how could he remember..."
Chris nodded, then he turned to his brother again.
"Well," Wyatt started again, "I'm here, 'cause I want to..."
Suddenly a dark cloud appeared in front of them.
"What the hell is that?" Chris asked.
"Oh-oh," his uncle said, "I think they want me."
Chris and Wyatt looked at Cole, at the fear in his eyes.
"Don't worry," Chris said, and orbed him away.
"And now?" Wyatt asked while the cloud was coming closer.
"Don't know!" Chris yelled with a little panic in his voice.

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"Where the hell am I?" Cole asked himself, looking around terrified. He was standing in a big room, with a big table and some magic stuff spread around. He didn't know that place. Then he heard a group of kids... kids?
'The magic school,' he thought and called: "LEO!"
Seconds later the Elder appeared next to him.
"Cole? What are you doing here?" he asked. Then he noticed that he was pale, he noticed the fear in his eyes.
"What happened?" he asked.
"Chris, and Wyatt..."
"Wyatt?"
Cole nodded, and went on spluttering: "The adult one... there was the smoke of death... they wanted to catch me, but... Chris orbed me here and..."
"You stay here," Leo just said and orbed away.

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Seconds later Leo reached the manor... But there was no sign of Chris nor of adult Wyatt...

(Chapter 1 written by Belén and Chrissy.W.x)