What have we done?
Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed! Sad but true.
Summary: Not knowing who Chris is, Paige casts a spell to reveal his secrets. But something goes wrong, so the CharmedOnes, Leo, Baby Wyatt and Chris end up in Chris' future. Where not everything is perfect and only more secrets are waiting for them. Can Chris keep his secret?
A/N: Sorry that this update came a little bit late – but I was busy But now you all get a pretty long chapter.
I know that it became a little bit complicated with all the new character – but they all have a purpose, I promise. To make it easier for you: here are the important characters once again (and there won't be new ones):
Lil (about 18 years old)
Pee and Kyle (both about 20 years old)
And Richard (whom I didn't invent – he is Paige's boyfriend from season 6; he must be about 50 years old) and the 'second man' (his identity will be revealed later.)
(and of course Darryl, future an past Leo, the CharmedOnes, Baby Wyatt and Chris).
Chapter 5
The sisters, Leo and Darryl had worked on the books for a few hours. Sometime in between Clara had brought them and baby Wyatt something to eat – but she left immediately again.
"Is it just me... or is everybody avoiding us?" Phoebe suddenly asked.
Darryl looked at her. "There were orders. You should know as less about the future as possible." He just answered.
"Who ordered that?" Paige asked curious.
"It doesn't matter... keep on searching." Darryl just said.
"I don't want to complain, but it's surely getting boring. There is so less about time travelling in these books and the stuff we find isn't really helping!" Piper suddely complained.
"I could need a little sleep!" Phoebe added exhausted.
Darryl sighted. "Good. Let's work further tomorrow. Then we actually also can wait till you vanished back in your time on your own." Darryl said. He stood up and put all the books back to their places. "I will show you your sleeping place." He said and everybody followed him.
"You can be happy that you all get your own room… some of us only moved for you… so be thankful." Darryl said – suddenly with a cold voice.
"What's with him now?" Phoebe whispered to Piper, but she only made a gesture which showed that she had no idea either.
"There we are." Darryl said and stopped in front of two doors – which looked like all the others.
"This one…" Darryl opened the left door. "… is for Paige and Phoebe." He said. The others could only see a small room with only two mattresses on the ground, a sink at the wall and a wardrobe.
"Not very comfortable." Paige said, before she could stop herself. Darryl didn't say a word, but the sisters and Leo could see that he flinched at her comment and Leo and Piper gave Paige an angry look.
"And that room is for Piper and Leo!" Darryl said now and opened the right door. The room was even smaller and it only had one large mattress, but there was also one sink and a wardrobe.
"I think there is somebody playing date doctor." Phoebe whispered to Paige, but everybody heard it.
"Somebody is going to bring a small bed for Wyatt into your room…" Darryl only added, before he left the sisters.
Piper glared at Phoebe, who became red.
"I don't need to stay here, you know." Leo said. But Piper calmed down.
"No. Stay. Wyatt needs his father to protect him now." Piper said and entered her room, followed by Leo.
"Good night." They said as Phoebe and Paige entered their room.
"It's so weird… being in the future. It isn't like I had imagined it and everybody hated our baby boy." Piper said to Leo as she laid down on the bed – in her clothes.
"We will change it… I promise." Leo said as he laid next to her. Wyatt already slept in his baby- bed, which a young man had brought in.
"How shall we do that? We don't even know what has turned him. I mean nobody is telling us anything." Piper sadi frustrated.
"Sleep. We are all exhausted. Let's talk about it tomorrow." Leo said and placed a kiss on Piper's forehead – and she let him.
"Do you trust all these people?" Phoebe asked Paige as they both laid on their mattresses.
"I am not so sure. But it's Darryl, right." Paige said.
"But I don't understand why Chris attacked Leo… and Darryl acted as if it was normal." Phoebe said.
"Pheebs… sleep. We will talk about it tomorrow. With everybody." Paige said and rolled to the other side of her mattress.
Phoebe sighed.
In the conversation room Richard and the second man were watching the monitors. One of them showed the two rooms of Phoebe & Paige and Piper & Leo, while the other monitors all showed only the tunnels, corridors or the normal world – up there.
"Never leave them out of your sight. They are not allowed to leave the room for tonight." Richard ordered one of the watchers, who nodded.
"You miss them … her?" The second man asked.
"Let's not talk about it, okay? They will leave tomorrow anyway." Richard answered and went over to a map.
The second man gave the monitor with Phoebe and Paige's room one last look, sighed and followed Richard.
A few minutes later Lil, Pee and Kyle entered. "We checked the area. As far as we could see and sense nobody followed them" Lil told Richard.
"Good. I think you all should rest now… it was a hard day." Richard said.
Pee noticed the monitor with the sisters' room. Her face got hard. "Yes it was." She just said and left the room.
"I told you something happened… she is acting strange since then." Lil said.
"Can you blame her?" Kyle just answered and focused on Richard again. "I will check the last groups once again." Kyle said and left the room in the opposite direction of Pee.
"I will go and check on… Chris!" Lil said as she saw Chris entering the room.
"Are you okay?" The second man asked.
"Yes… yes, I think I only have to get used to be home again." Chris said.
"Well, I will go now, too…Good night." Lil said quickly and left the room.
The room was pretty empty at the moment, only some watchers and some few witches and other magical beings were in the room and they were all standing far away from Richard, Chris and the second man.
"So you know it? I mean Leo." Richard asked Chris.
"Could we please talk about something else… I am pretty sure they already told you my opinion." Chris said with a calm voice.
"Do you want to be updated about the last half year now, or shall we talk about your little trip first?" Richard asked with a serious look.
"Oh great… I think hell would be a better place now." Chris said.
"You joke about it now? I think you spent too much time in the past." Richard said still serious.
"What exactly do you want to hear? I already said I am sorry and as it seems anything has changed… it was a stupid idea – I got it. And I also know that I screwed everything up, by allowing the Charmed Ones to be here. What… what do you want to hear?" Chris yelled at Richard.
"Chris calm down… You are no use for us in such a condition. And by the way, we already talked about it – let's forget it…. What's done is done." Richard said. Then he looked back at the map. "Okay. Let's see what has changed the last half year!" Richard started his report. The three men talked and discussed the whole night and later Kyle came by too. It was just like the time before Chris had left.
"What's mine is yours, what's yours is mine. Let our powers cross the line. I offer up my gift to share. Switch our powers through the air." Leo – from the future - heard as he opened his eyes.
"Hey!" Lil said. "Don't worry you have your powers back."
"You saved my life again." Leo said as he sat up. "Why, why are you doing that?" He asked and looked into her eyes.
"As I said: I love Chris… and you are his father. He needs you… and somehow I have the little hope that you are telling the truth." She answered.
"You are the only one, right? You are the reason why I am not tied up in you prison." Leo said.
"Well… actually we have no prison… but else: the others are pretty angry. You killed a lot of us, and you know it." Lil said serious.
"What about Chris?" he asked softly.
Lil looked away. "He is fine!" She said.
Leo laughed sadly. "Let me guess: He wants me to stay away from him, right?" he said.
"Well… yes. But what else did you expect? I told you to stay away from him first, but you immediately ran over to him as I left the room. How stupid can somebody be? Wasn't it obvious that he would try to kill you? God… if Pee and Kyle hadn't stopped him you would be dead!" Lil said loud.
"I am sorry, okay" Leo said. "I know that I deserve it, but I thought that he was dead too. I just wanted to see him."
"Listen Leo. Take this one advice now: Give him time! Let him come to you… because I am not so sure that Pee and Kyle will be there the next time." Lil said and with these words she left the room. But before she closed the door she once again turned around and said: "Don't leave this room tonight. They are watching you." Then she closed the door.
"Wow. That was a pretty interesting night." Chris said as the conversation room was filling again.
"Wanna sleep?" Kyle asked sarcastically.
"Very funny. Let's just check the area… now that I am up to date, I think it could be fun again." Chris said and he and Kyle wanted to leave as Richard said: "Kyle take somebody else with you. Chris has some more important duties…" and he pointed to the monitors where the sisters just woke up. Chris sighted and glared at Richard, but then he left to go to the sisters.
The two doors opened at the same time.
"Morning!" The four adults said unison.
"Oh… there is my sweet nephew… did you sleep well?" Phoebe said and took Wyatt out of Leo's arms. Wyatt giggled.
"So what shall we do now?" Phoebe asked as she looked around… watching different people passing by, but she didn't recognize anybody.
"Why don't we look around on our own?" Paige suggested.
"Great id…" Phoebe said enthusiastic.
"I don't think so." Chris interrupted her as he just came along the corridor. Paige and Phoebe made disappointed faces. "I will bring you to the Max. I think there will be somebody who can take care of you. We still have 12 hours." Chris said and he already went away. The others followed him quickly.
"Wait. What's the Max?" Phoebe asked.
"A place where you will get something to eat." Chris only said.
"And coffee?" Paige asked.
"Coffee too." Chris said a little bit annoyed.
"Friendly like we love him!" Paige said annoyed to Piper and Leo.
"Chris. I have a question." Phoebe said as she tried to keep up with him.
"What?" he asked.
"Magic isn't blocked here, right? I mean you used you powers to attack Leo… so why can't I channel anything from the people here? Can they all block me?" Phoebe asked.
"Wow. You are the one with the passive power and you are the first one who notices? ... Well, let's say using powers here has to be trained. Or better… you need to stay at least a week in 'Home' until your powers get used to the spells that protect this building. Unimportant how powerful you are. That's also a protection for us, because in case somebody would be able to enter our 'Home' without permission, we could easily find him and fight him." Chris explained to her. As he ended they had already reached Max. The four adults looked unbelieving to the big room. The room looked like a restaurant and it was decorated like a five star restaurant. The room was filled with over fife hundred beings, who sat at tables or at the bar.
"Wow… that's something I hadn't expect." Piper had to admit.
"It is not very exiting down here… so we thought that at least a few rooms should be special…" Chris explained.
"So that is all magic?" Leo asked.
"Isn't that personal gain?" Piper intervened.
Chris sighed. "You will never understand, will you? There is no Elder who can punish us for that and…" Chris tried to explain.
"But magic punishes itself; it's not all the Elders doing." Paige corrected Chris.
"… well magic hasn't taken revenge yet. And we actually don't have a lot of other choices. There is hardly one of us who can work up there without being killed immediately. We try to get s much food from the normal world as possible, but it wouldn't be enough for half of us… So what would you chose? Let hundreds of people, including little children – just like Wyatt – die or risk personal gain so that all the people here – who have less hope to get their normal life back, because of Wyatt – have at least something good to eat!" Chris asked the sisters and Leo. They all looked away, but Chris didn't care. He heeded to the bar and greeted the waiter and talked to him. The others followed.
"Chris. I am sorry… I didn't want to…" Piper started, but Chris didn't even look at her but left the bar again to an empty table.
"Sit." He ordered and with these words he left the room.
"God… his attitude is getting annoying." Paige complained as they all sat down.
The next second a Leprechaun appeared… it was Finnegan
"Finnegan?" The sisters and Leo asked surprised. He actually hadn't aged at all, but his eyes showed that he went through hell, but nevertheless he smiled at them.
"Did somebody call for some luck?" He asked and he let a gold nugget glow and the table was set with a delicious breakfast for all of them.
"Thanks!" Paige said.
Finnegan smirked and conjured – with a flick of his hand – a higher chair next to them and sat down.
"So the rumours are right. Chris brought the Charmed Ones from the past in our time." He said.
"Seems so." Piper said.
"So you know Chris?" Leo asked.
"Oh… yes. I was at the party as he was born. He was really a sweet baby and jklhj rzrs hukuh." Finnegan said and immediately shut his mouth and smirked at the others innocently.
"What?" Paige asked confused.
"Oh thank god… I already though I got crazy." Phoebe said relieved as she noticed that the others hadn't understood the last comment either.
"Let's say: Chris knows that I like to talk and sometimes I forget a few orders. So he cast a spell on me, to prevent me from revealing secrets." Finnegan explained.
"God… this kid has really persecution complex." Piper sighted.
"Oh come on… don't tell me you didn't thought about it." Finnegan smirked.
Paige and Phoebe rolled their eyes. "So you just came visiting us or are you staying longer?" Piper asked as she helped Wyatt eating his food.
"Oh didn't I say? I am your leader for today." Finnegan said with a big smile.
"A big change… a god one." Leo said.
"Mmmh… that pancake is great!" Piper suddenly said, as she started to eat.
"Oh yes. Chris wrote down the recipe for us, but it's actually gredgr jkh gred." Finnegan babbled.
"Okay, what exactly could you have reveal now?" Phoebe asked surprised, while Finnegan got red. "Hehe… this damn Whitelighter." He said as a joke.
"So Chris can cook?" Piper asked.
"In our time he never stayed long in the kitchen." Phoebe remembered.
"Well that's maybe because bhk th jil…" the Leprechaun now looked really annoyed. "Can't somebody once finish his sentence?" he mumbled.
"Hey… what about the question game where you only need to nod or shake your head?" Paige suggested.
"No 1: Chris thought about it too, so that I will sometimes lie and sometimes I will tell the truth and No 2: I would never go against Chris with intention." Finnegan said serious.
"Would he hurt you if you did?" Leo asked – remembering the fight between his future self and Chris yesterday.
"God. No. I… we all admire Chris. He is good. How can you even think about him as evil?... Oh, yes. You of course would." Finnegan said angrily.
"Again." Paige said.
"What?" Piper asked confused and shocked by Finnegan's outburst.
"Yesterday Lucy said something about the way Leo thinks too… and Chris attacked Leo. What is it all about?" Paige asked. Leo looked at Finnegan expecting. But Finnegan only said: "Let's talk later… eat first!" and he began to eat.
The others knew that they had no other choice then to wait, so they followed his example.
Chris meanwhile was going through the corridor, greeting and talking to different people – giving them hope. It was good to be home, but it also means a lot responsibility.
"Chris stop worrying!" Lil suddenly ordered from behind, just as he wanted to enter the conversation room.
"You can read me?" He asked surprised.
"No! But you always worry… so I could actually say it the whole time and I would be always right!" Lil said with a smirk.
"Well it's the best thing I can do." Chris said back.
"Oh, yes. That's right!" Lil laughed and opened the door to the conversation room. "Let's go to the meeting."
This time Pee and Kyle were at the meeting too. As Chris was now informed they could talk about further plans. This time it was actually a pretty comfortable meeting. It was good to be together again – to be complete. And with Chris – new hope was there.
"Finnegan? Can't we meet Leo? I mean the Leo from this time?" Piper asked as they all had finished breakfast.
"Or our counterparts?" Phoebe asked.
"We only want to talk a little. And maybe they can help with the spell." Paige added.
"No." Finnegan only said with a smile.
"What? Only a no? No excuse or explanation?" Paige asked.
"No is no." Finnegan said.
"Are you afraid that we could change the time? We met our counterparts in other timelines too… and nothing really worse happened." Phoebe complained.
"We go to the magic room… and that's my last word." Finnegan said, jumped from his chair and made his way.
"Oh… he can be serious." Piper mumbled, but then they all followed him.
The sisters and Leo were again searching through the books in the magic room, while Finnegan was playing with Baby Wyatt.
But Finnegan didn't notice that the others weren't only working on the spells. To prevent Finnegan from noticing anything they wrote down their messages on papers. Besides the books about time travelling Paige and Phoebe had managed to get some books about the history too.
But before they could really begin reading, Chris appeared in the room hidden by a bookcase, so nobody could see him. But he immediately saw what the sisters and Leo were planning.
"Stop it!" Chris yelled shocked.
to be continued-
A/N: I have to say that I am not so enthusiastic about this chapter. I have a writing blockade, so I guess there was a lot babbling in here, sorry. I nevertheless hope, that some of you liked the chapter or at least some parts. I try my best to write better in the next chapter. So please keep on reading ;) … and especially reviewing.
Sci Fi Fan Gillian: Thanks.
Mizunderstoodwriter: There will be more about the flashback later. Keep patient. And Thanks.
Septdeneuf: Thanks. I try to keep the many characters as low as possible… I guess this chapter was confusing again… but I really have reasons why I invented the new characters. Glad you liked it nevertheless.
Eloise: Thanks… and this story is about Chris and the Charmed Ones don't worry. I guess I overdid it a little bit with the new characters… sorry. I try to focus on the old characters again as soon as possible.
Nathy 1000000: Thanks. The end of the flashback will come later. I am glad that I could surprise you :) . I hope I can keep on doing that… Keep on reading.
DrewFullerFanLife: Thanks. Sorry it took a while.
The Magic Bringer: Thanks. And you will see. I think it will take some time till they finally all find out about Chris identity. But just keep on reading :).
IcanthinkofaFnick: Well… I think you will have to see on your own (I know I am mean) concerning the relationship between them all (in case there is one). But be sure that Kyle isn't Paige's friend (my Kyle is only 20 years old and I guess Paige's is about 30?). I am glad you liked the chapter. Don't worry: I don't get it wrong. I will start to let the story be bet read … And yes you got it right (and I read the story, and I am not so sure if I read it before I came to the explanation of after I read it… but it will be different anyway). Let's say that Leo fought together with Wyatt since his turning, and now Lil and the rest think that he maybe was under a spell (the only question is if it's the truth) the whole time. I won't say more… Just keep on reading.
Shadowhisper: Thaaanks. I am totally happy. I liked Chris outbreak too (but don't get it wrong: I like Leo).
Magical Princess: So you guessed right. After Lil's opinion it was cast eight years ago.
Piper Chris fan: Thanks. Great idea… I am planning on, don't worry.
Fire Gazer: I am going to… Chris is the main character: You will learn the truth later.
Cassi: Cool. This chapter was less about Leo and Chris: but it will come… And the flashback: later… there will be some pieces in the next ones.
Stony Angel: Thanks. Yes – the sisters will take a time till they finally understand… :)
MzPink: Thanks. And I promise that Wyatt will appear too.