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: Don't worry... it's still the same story. This chapter is a memory of Chris' past. It will explain a few things. And by the way... I really have a problem with Bianca being so much older than Chris, so I made her a few month younger than him. Otherwise it really would have been odd.
Chapter 13
It was Friday afternoon. Piper had to check some stuff in P3, for tonights live band.
She actually had planned to stay at home today, but two of her assistances got sick, so she even had to start earlier than normal. She had hoped that one of her sons would help her with some work, but as it was the last days of their summer holidays, they of course were out with their friends.
Piper went over to the bar and checked the supplies. She took some empty boxes and headed to the back room.
She opened the door and ... the boxes dropped to the floor.
She looked shocked and went pale, while the two teenagers immediately jumped apart after they heard the door opening.
"Mom... what are you doing here?" Chris asked shocked and surprised.
"I could ask you the same question..." Piper said furious. "... you think nobody is here, so you can make out with this ..."
"Mom, I am 13, I think that I can..." Chris defended himself.
"I think somebody should leave us alone." Piper said cold.
Bianca looked at Chris, who nodded.
"I am sorry Misses Halliwell." Bianca apologized and shimmered out.
Chris actually hadn't expected her to do this, but he knew that whenever she was nervous, she followed her instincts, which meant her powers.
Piper hadn't expected that either. She looked at the spot where Bianca had been a second ago. She was paralyzed, but slowly the facts reached her.
"...you have to be kidding me...My god." Piper said angrily.
"Mom... she isn't what you think." Chris tried to defend himself.
"So... I didn't just see her shimmering out?" Piper asked back.
"Yes... but..." Chris tried to defend himself.
"I don't want to hear it Chris... I have to say I am really disappointed. I thought you had a better judgment than that." Piper said.
"You know Mom, you are so damn stubborn. You don't even know her, only because she can shimmer it doesn't mean that she is evil. I thought YOU had a better judgment!" Chris fired back.
And before Piper realized what she was doing her hand met Chris' face... hard.
Chris' face flew to the side. His skin was burning like hell. He looked up to his mom, who was looking at her hand in shock. Then she slowly looked up to her son.
"Chris... Sweety, I am sorry!" Piper said and stepped forward.
But Chris backed away. He looked at his mom in shock but also in disappointment. He shock his head and orbed out.
Piper was sitting in the living room, muffled in a blanket.
"Here sweety." Paige said and passed her sister a hot tea.
Piper took the cup thankfully. Her eyes were red from the crying. "I still can't believe all this happened...I was just so shocked as I saw him with the girl... I had expected he would tell me immediately when he got his first girlfriend... Wyatt did." Piper said in thoughts.
Paige sat down opposite to her and smiled at her sister.
"He is 13. A teenager... they are not always acting like you think." Paige said. "I am really not looking forward when Prudence and Kyle are getting to the age." Paige admitted and Piper had to smile back.
"You are right... it's just that Chris has always been my baby. He was mine and Wyatt was more Leo's. I just had expected him to be more open with me." Piper said.
"Maybe they came together today." Paige suggested.
"No... I think they are together at least since the beginning of the vacations." Piper said. "God... a demon... I still can't believe it." Piper whispered.
"Actually she is Phoenix." Leo said, who just orbed in.
"Hey." Piper said, jumped up and hugged him. "Could you sense him?"
"No... I have no idea how he managed it... maybe a potion or a spell... but don't worry. He is our boy. He can take care of himself." Leo reassured her.
"I don't want him to take care of himself, for gods sake. I want him to be here... God, I slapped him... he will never forgive me." Piper cried in Leo's arms and he could only hold her in his arms.
Chris was in a park, sitting near a lake, flipping stones over the water. So his mother finally found out. He was sure she was just having a huge debate or even fight with his dad about his acting and so on.
Otherwise the two would have showed up here a few hours ago already now. He actually was a little bit disappointed. He had expected his mother and father to come after him immediately... he had even thought about the way he would argue against them. But by now already four hours have passed and still no sign of them. He himself was of course too stubborn to go back by himself. Besides his parents, or at least his father, always knew where he was, no possibility to run away.
But Chris slowly but surely became worried. What if his parents were really angry with him. Did they even care?
He stood up, to walk a little. Not only because he was bored of sitting, but also because he had the strange feeling that somebody was watching him, but every time he looked around there were all the normal people who were concerned with their own stuff.
Chris kept walking till he came to a fountain – a place where a lot of people were doing their stuff.
He just wanted to walk on, as he saw them. His mom suddenly stood before him... and SMACK, the cheek which had been throbbing, now was red again and hurt like hell.
"Mom?" Chris now asked really shocked. He seriously hadn't expected this reaction.
"You are really a shame to our family." Piper yelled at him. Chris looked at her unbelieving. This wasn't his mom... something was terribly wrong. Then he looked around and saw that a few people were looking at them weird, but they didn't seem to be pretty concerned.
"Mom... I..." Chris said, but was suddenly flying through the air. His father had thrown him to the ground.
Chris now was angry and scared at the same time. He knew that his parents must be possessed or under a spell... but the fact that they were in public didn't allow him to use magic...
"Hey boy... are you okay." A man asked gave him a hand to help him up.
"Yeah, thanks." Chris said confused. He stood up, but never left his eyes from his parents.
The man who had helped him looked at him weird for a few seconds, but then simply moved on.
"Hey guys... I know you want to fight, okay... but maybe we should go somewhere else." Chris said to his 'possessed' parents.
But his father only smirked. "Why? I like it here. Remember? We went here every Sunday as you were still a kid. And you got lost nearly every time. You just couldn't listen, could you. Wyatt never did this. He was the perfect son... while you, you were a burden to all of us. You were a mistake." Leo said.
Chris knew he didn't mean it, but it nevertheless hurt. "Whatever... I..." Chris said... but was interrupted as he saw Wyatt orbing in. Directly in front of the people.
"Hey Chris." Wyatt said with a smirk.
"What the hell is the matter with you?" was Chris' first reaction, he screamed at his brother.
"Chill out, bro. No reason to scream." Wyatt simply said and Chris looked at him unbelieving, but then he noticed the people all looking at him.
"Oh no... oh no." he mumbled. He was surprised that they all weren't running away in panic. Something wasn't right here.
"You seriously want to expose magic? For gods sake, under what kind of spell are you?" Chris whispered to his parents and Wyatt.
All this was just crazy... he had the feeling as if he had lost his mind... or it was some kind of joke... but it definitely wasn't funny.
But the others simply smirked.
"What the hell do you want?" Chris yelled at them desperately, angrily, confused and lost. He was definitely overcharged by this situation and scared. He remembered the stories his parents and aunts have told him about the danger of exposure.
"Chris... Chris. Calm down." Wyatt said smirking.
"You never do a thing right. I can't believe you are my child!" Leo said disgusted to Chris.
And Piper started to go against Chris now too.
Chris tried desperately to focus, to shut the voices out... the voices which sounded too much like the parents, who loved him – or so he thought. What if they had casted a truth spell? What if that was how they really felt. Tears began to fall down his face and he tried to talk to them, convince them, but they would only insult him further. And after a while his aunts and uncles were there too and even his cousins.
Soon the words reached his subconsciousness. And he started to believe the words. He cried desperately and held his hands against his ears, but the voices didn't stop.
Chris had totally forgotten about his surrounding. But they hadn't. They actually only saw a boy, who was talking to people who weren't there. He screamed and cried... and so they did the only thing they could think of...
"How could you do that?" Wyatt yelled.
"Don't yell at your mother, Wyatt." Leo said angrily to his son.
"So you tolerate her action? Did I miss the new family rules? We have a girlfriend, we get hit?" Wyatt answered back.
"Okay, guys. I really think you should calm down. This is not helping to find Chris!" Phoebe interrupted the fight, before Leo really hit Wyatt.
"Oh and what exactly is? We have midnight now... and we searched for hours, but we couldn't find him yet. I just can't believe that is happening." Wyatt said angrily.
Paige wrapped her arms around her nephew. "It's okay Wyatt. You love your brother, we now that... but remember that we do too. We will find him. I am sure of that." Paige said.
"What ever." Wyatt said now calmer. He released himself from the embrace and went to the door.
"Where are you going?" Piper asked.
"Finding my brother." Wyatt answered a little bit confused about his mother's question.
"It's midnight." Piper answered.
"Yes? And what? Chris is out there too..." Wyatt said angrily again.
"We will search for him... but you should sleep a little." Phoebe tried to calm him down.
"And let him out there alone? Forget it!" and with these words he orbed out.
Piper sighed. If she had tears left, she would cry now... but she was only exhausted and she felt guilt really guilty... but she knew that she had to find Chris first, before she could deal with her feelings.
"He is right... talking won't help us now. We should keep on searching." Paige said
"Where? For gods sake. We used magic. We searched the whole city and all the other places he likes to go... but we couldn't find him yet. Where shall we search?" Piper yelled at her sister.
"Piper... we will find him and Chris can take care of himself pretty well. I am sure he is okay." Richard said, although he wasn't so sure of what he said.
"I think you all should go home for today. Take care of you children. You did enough for today" Piper said.
"Noway we leave you alone. We are family, forgotten?" Phoebe asked.
"I would rather say we stay here for awhile, if you don't mind." Paige supported her sister.
"No..." Piper said and left the house to search her son.
Leo looked lost and exhausted too. He had orbed around the whole world and had tried to sense Chris, but just couldn't find him.
"I will help Piper." he said and rushed after his wife, as Phoebe and Paige nodded.
"I'll get the kids and tell Jason?" Richard asked Phoebe.
"He will kill me that I haven't told him before... but he had been talking about the meeting for over a month... Can you take me? I want to tell him." Phoebe said.
"Sure." Richard answered and materialized out with her.
Paige went back to the Book of Shadows to try some more spells.
"Mommy, is Chris back?" nine year old Lil asked her mother as she came downstairs.
"No, sweety." Phoebe answered sad. She was exhausted, she had only slept about fife hours since two days and she knew that Piper, Leo and Wyatt had even slept less. Chris was missing now for two days and atmosphere in the manor was very tensed.
They had tried everything...even went to Bianca's house, which had nearly caused a vanquish. But Chris hadn't been there either.
They all just hoped that he was okay.
Phoebe was just making coffee for everybody – for just another sleepless day. She took her daughter by her hand and went to the living room, where Paige and her twins were already sitting.
"Mom, please let us help. We want to go out and search with Dad. We are 11 years old." Kyle said angrily.
"I told you already. We don't need to lose more than one child. You stay here." Paige said firm.
Kyle just wanted to say something as the phone rang. Phoebe answered the phone.
"Phoebe Halliwell." She said.
"Oh. Hi." Phoebe said sad.
"Really? Where?" Paige and the children looked at Phoebe expectantly.
"What? Are you sure?" Phoebe yelled.
"Of course. I will tell them." Phoebe answered and hung up. She was pale.
"Phoebe? Who was it." Paige asked.
"Darryl... he thinks he found Chris." Phoebe said in trance.
"What? Where?" Paige immediately jumped up, looking at her sister expectantly.
"I ... I have to talk to Piper." Phoebe said still dizzy. But then she closed her eyes and focused once again. "Leo... Piper! Get home now! I have some news." Phoebe yelled to the ceiling.
A few seconds later a tiered Leo and Piper orbed in.
"Darryl found Chris." Phoebe said.
The faces of the parents immediately lighted up. "Where?" Piper asked.
"I don't think that you are going to like it." Phoebe said nervously ...
"No...I sure like hell don't understand how this could happen. And how could it take two days till you found him..." Piper yelled.
"Could you please keep your voice down Misses Halliwell." The doctor said.
"No, I won't. If you have done anything to my boy, I swear I am going to kill you." Piper threatened.
"Piper, please calm down." Darryl said and Leo laid a comforting hand on her shoulder, although he himself was furious too – he just didn't show it.
"He hadn't any papers with him. And they couldn't keep him calm. I searched through all missing files, but I couldn't know that it was under the crazy files." The second he had said that Darryl wished he hadn't. He himself was exhausted. He had done his best to help Piper find her son. After all he was Chris' godfather.
"My son is not crazy." Piper said calm.
Before Darryl could apologize the four adults reached a metal door and the doctor opened it with a special key.
They all got quiet. They entered the next corridor and the doctor opened the first door on the right with a special card.
He stepped aside to let Piper and Leo in.
There he was. Lying chained up to the bed in white robe. Staring to the ceiling with a blank expression.
Piper froze. Seeing her baby boy like that broke her heart. She could see all the monitors and other stuff, which were showing his condition.
"Oh my god." Piper whispered and tears were running down her face.
"What have you done to him." Leo asked numb.
"He was screaming and yelling the whole time. He was kicking and hurting the nurses and he was talking to people who weren't there. We had to calm him down. Before he hurt himself." The doctor explained.
"Is this always the excuse? He is just a kid!" Piper said angrily. "He is my child. This shouldn't happen." And more tears were running down her face.
"We have to take him home." Piper said.
"I fear this isn't possible... as I said, he is..." the doctor wanted to explain... but Piper didn't listen anymore. She had heard Chris moaning and then she saw something. It could have been an illusion, but she doubted it.
She rose her hands and she froze everything.
"Piper what are you doing?" Leo asked shocked. "When somebody is..." then Leo saw what Piper had seen.
A woman sitting on Chris bed. Leaning over him and whispering something in his ear.
"What..." Leo said confused.
"Get away from my son..." Piper threatened.
The woman turned around slowly. She smirked. "I am impressed that you saw me... That actually never happened before." the woman said.
"Well I am not some ordinary person, now step aside." Piper said again.
"Yeah I know. A Charmed One. But even that fact didn't help you to find your boy did it?" The woman said still smiling.
"You shielded him from us." Leo noticed.
"Who are you?" Piper asked.
"Demon of Illusion. Debra" she answered. "You know...he was really hurt from your action. And even more confused as you didn't show up." she said to Piper who had her hands in position.
Debra stroked Chris' hair. "He is such a good boy. Isn't he." She said.
"Stay away from him." Piper said again.
"You can't kill me. I am immune to your powers, thanks to your little boy here." Debra said.
"What do you mean?" Piper asked a little bit unsure.
"The reason why I actually went after your boy. Actually I was after the older one. He is way more powerful... but it would have cost me a lot more time and when you get the possibility, why not use it?" Debra said. "My powers are to create illusions... and the longer I can keep them under my influence, the more they believe the illusion... I get their powers... I am nearly finished with him... and after that he will die." Debra answered with a big smile.
Piper and Leo got really pale and this time Piper really used her powers to let Debra explode... but nothing happened.
"I told you." Debra said calm.
"But Chris isn't immune to my powers." Piper said confused and in panic.
"No... but you all have the same blood. Didn't I mention that? That's another advantage of my powers. With Chris as my victim I am immune to the Power of Three now. It's like to be invulnerable." Debra laughed.
"Stay back." Piper suddenly whispered to Leo.
"What...?" Leo asked confused.
"Go." Piper said cold.
Leo looked at his wife. Her expression was hard and as he saw in her eyes he shivered. Her eyes were cold and determined. He had never seen this look before, but he knew it meant nothing good – for her enemy. He stepped back fast.
"You may be immune to the Power of three, but are you also immune to the powers of a mother? A mother who is really pissed and hasn't slept for two days?" Piper asked and Debra got insecure. But before she could answer Piper began to use her powers.
She made the gesture with her hands to let the demon explode... but nothing happened – again. Debra laughed. But Piper didn't stop. She repeated the gesture over and over again... Piper got more and more angry and suddenly the demon got thrown back to the ground. Debra looked shocked... and Piper kept on... But now Debra used her power too and threw a fireball in Piper's direction... which exploded before it reached Piper and then a shield around Debra got visible and Piper used her powers one more time, before Debra exploded and vanished in pain.
But Piper didn't even show a little happiness... she immediately rushed over to her son's bed and stroked his hair.
"Hey Sweety, it's me, Mom. It's okay." She whispered in his ear.
Leo immediately rushed over to his family and helped Piper to unfasten Chris' bonds.
"We have to get him out of here!" Piper said.
"What about the doctor." Leo reminded her.
"I don't care about the doctor, Leo. I just want my son safe!" Piper said angrily. But then she breathed in deeply and said with a calmer voice. "Use memory dust, or something like that! Just bring us home okay!"
Leo nodded and just wanted to orb them as Chris moaned and woke up.
"Oh my god Chris!" Piper said and embraced him. "It's okay honey. Everything is okay now." She said with a smile. But Chris suddenly pushed her away.
"Chris?" Piper asked confused.
Chris jumped past his parents from the bed and hid in a corner of a room.
"Chris it's okay it's me." Piper said after she recovered from the shock.
"Leave me alone." Chris yelled. Tears began to fall down his face. "You are not real..." he mumbled and held his hands against his ears and shut his eyes.
"Honey..." Piper said with tears in her eyes. She stepped forward, but Leo was faster.
He ran over to Chris and tried to hug him. "Hey Buddy, it's okay. It's me..." But the second Leo touched his son, Chris began cry and kick. Leo wrapped his arms around him and tried to calm him down.
"No Chris. It's me." Leo whispered in his ear.
"No... don't touch me." Chris yelled and kept on kicking. But he didn't get passed his father.
"Leo stop it... you are hurting him." Piper yelled shocked. But then Leo let go of Chris with one hand, but kept a grip on him with his other and reached into his pocket. He took something out and threw sand over him, which caused that Chris collapsed into his arms.
"What did you do?" Piper asked. She ran over to her son and looked if he was okay.
"Sleeping dust... I bring you home now. I will follow soon, when everything is done here." Leo said to his wife and she nodded.
"Hey..." he added and reached for her. He kissed her on the head. "Don't worry. We will fix this. Everything is going to be okay." He promised, but Piper didn't answer.
Leo sighed and with a move of his hand, the two disappeared in blue-white light.
"It's all my fault." Piper cried.
"It's nobody's fault. It has nothing to do with your fight." Phoebe reassured Piper.
"They
wouldn't have caught him, if he hadn't run away." Piper
countered.
"Piper... listen to me... Chris is going to be fine.
He is a strong boy... he will get over it. And you saved him before
they could really harm him." Paige answered.
"Fine? Did he look like somebody who is fine? He was scared to death. As we tried to bring him home, he got crazy and kicked like hell. I am supposed to protect him..."
After they had bought Chris back home. Chris hadn't said a word. Shutting himself out. He didn't even eat... it was like he was in a coma or something comparable.
He lay in his bed, although it was midday. His face was turned towards the wall.
"Chris… honey. Please. Talk to me." Piper said, touching Chris shoulder softly. But as he flinched under her touch she immediately pulled back her hand.
Tears were streaming down her face.
"I want my little angel back. I want to have my smiling angel back." Piper said pleading.
But Chris didn't turn around. He didn't smile, he acted as if Piper didn't exist.
Piper sat next to her youngest son for a few minutes, but then she finally stood up and went to the door. "There is food on your table… you should at least eat something." She whispered and left Chris alone. Outside the room he heard his mum breaking down, sobbing.
"Chris you know that this is stupid right. I mean… who would spent so much money for such a stupid game? Well believe me or not… Roger did… and expected – it's not as exiting as it is shown in the advertisements… just what I said. You didn't miss a thing." Wyatt said.
His little brother was still lying on his bed with his back to him – like the last fife weeks. And he – Wyatt – had spent every opportunity to be with his brother in those weeks. Not caring what his family, especially his mother or his little brother said or thought or wanted. He just didn't give up hope. His mother wasn't right to give up or give him time and space… Wyatt knew exactly what was good for his little brother – even when he didn't even knew it himself. So he kept on talking – his monolog.
During his whole babbling he had thrown a little baseball against the wall the whole time. His mother had yelled at him because of that a couple of times – it was giving her the willies. Well he actually doubted that it's was caused by him, so he didn't stop.
"And I guess you don't want to know what Mrs. Langley said about strawberries…" Wyatt kept on talking – sometimes yelling, sometimes laughing, just as if he was really talking with Chris.
And it slowly became dark. Wyatt threw the ball maybe the millions time today against the wall which Chris was looking at – or not.
"You know. You can look at your beautiful wall as long as you want… but it won't change. In a few years there will be the same people living here – going on your nerves. It's your decision what you are doing with it. I mean you can still think that we are all evil or that we neglected and hate you, but look at the facts: it can't be that bad. The last three weeks you caused this whole crying and yelling thing. You have everybody's attention. You could just try it. I mean in case we are these bad people in the end – you can go back in this position again. Well I actually don't care. You can keep watching your wall for another twenty years – meanwhile it's a good excuse why I don't have my homework done completely… and I like talking to somebody who doesn't answer… but I just thought that it could become a little bit boring for you. Was just a thought…" Wyatt said.
Wyatt threw his ball against the wall again… but this time the ball didn't hit the wall, but nevertheless came back. Wyatt looked up surprised – noticing that his brother had used his telekinese powers… and then his little brother suddenly began to move and turned around to him. He looked like as if he just awoke from a dream. And then Wyatt heard the confused voice of his little brother after over a month silence. "Wyatt?" Chris mumbled…
-to be continued-
A/N: Hope you liked it... I am really busy at the moment. But I really try to update... and get inspired. I had planned this chapter for a long time, but when I finally got the chance to write it, I just had this huge writing blockade – I guess some authors here know what I mean.
Hope it nevertheless got understandable a little :)