AN: Okay, so I managed to make one more chapter before I get busy with school stuff (it's Sunday for crying out loud!) so I hope you enjoy! I might be able to update later this week but if not, I'll update next Sunday. That's a promise! But the chapters from now on MIGHT not be as long as these but I'll try... Have faith in me and I'll be as good as I can! Okay, so read and then tell me what you think.
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Chapter eight: Sharing moment with Dad
Three months... and all they had found out was where the demon POSSIBLY lived with his army of lower level demons and a family of demons that the Book of Shadows didn't know. Paige had now too pregnant to do the abortion so all they could do was wait. And every night Chris's dreams became more horrible and he still hadn't told anything about them to Wyatt who woke up almost every night when Chris started to scream. Chris could tell that Wyatt was getting anxious to get some information but Chris just wasn't ready... The dreams were bad enough but talking about them...? Chris's stomach turned up side down even from the idea.
3.08. And Chris wasn't sleeping. He sat in the kitchen listening to the quiet humming of the microwave. He sighed. This was getting redicolous, he had to get some sleep! Wyatt was getting more and more worried and Wyatt was rarely worried about anything. But now he was, and he had a reason to be. Chris was usually the one to open up.
"Chris? It's like 3 am!" Chris looked up and saw Leo standing right in front of him.
"How long have you been there?" Chris asked.
"About ten seconds. Why aren't you sleeping?"
Chris mumbled 'nightmare' in a way that Leo barely heard and turned his gaze to his hands. Suddenly the microwave stopped humming which told Chris that his midnight snack was ready. He got up and got his cheese-turkey sandwich out. He could feel that Leo was looking at him with the worried expression that was so much like Wyatt's. Maybe he could talk to Leo. He was his Dad, after all, and in the future always the one that Chris opened up to most willingly. He didn't turn all over-protective or judging. He just listened... and gave the advice that only Dad/Whitelighter could.
Leo sat down in front of Chris. He could tell that the boy was thinking about something, maybe something that he wanted to share but didn't know should he. So Leo decided to open the conversation with something that didn't have anything to with the mission that his boys had in their hands.
"So, what can you tell me about the future?"
Chris looked up, his face turning confused.
"Don't worry, I know you can't tell me everything. But something that won't change anything. Like... well, I don't know. You start."
Chris thought for a sec. It was obvious that he couldn't tell about his cousins or his aunts' husbands but maybe something about him and Wyatt... Something that would make Leo proud of him... as proud as the future Leo was.
"Well, I'm in highschool, Wyatt's in Columbia, as you already know... I am thinking about going to Med school after I graduate", Chris started his story.
"Really?" Leo said, interested.
"Yeah. And uh... well, demon attacks are rare but we hang out at the Magic School a lot. Wyatt said that I'm like walking-talking witchgraft dictionary. I might be, I have never thought about it but... I DO know a lot of witchgraft."
"And you still manage to do good in school?"
"Yeah. Straight As", Chris said, not looking Leo in the eye.
"That's great. It sounds like you are happy." Chris could hear from Leo's voice how glad and proud he was. That gave him the gourage to look up again.
"We are. All of us. We are living as normal life as we can. Well this, of course, is out of the ordinary but... Well, change is for good, right?"
"I don't know. I think you could have live without this", Leo pointed out, smiling a little. Chris smiled, too and shrugged.
"Don't know about that..." he said quietly.
"Sorry?"
Chris shook his head and looked Leo straight in the eye. He saw the so familiar look in his eyes, the same look that he always got when he had something to tell, even if it was just about a girl that he had a crush on or about hard time in school. Yeah, maybe Chris could open up.
"It's nothing... lately I've been just having nightmares about what could happen if we... let the baby live. It's horrible and uh... well, the nightmares are keeping up at night. They just won't go away!"
Leo's eyes got a worried light behind them. It shone but he still encouraged Chris to go on.
"We're having dinner. Or just a family moment, it changes sometimes. And then suddenly all the windows open up and the air turns cold... first Mom dies by a fireball... it just appears from no where. Just like the darklighter arrow that... that kills you. And then Wyatt dies by a fireball, too, just after he tells me to get down. That scares me the most, Wyatt is, or is suppose to be, so powerful that fireballs aren't suppose to affect him. Or at least not kill him! That just tells how powerful the baby is!"
Leo took a deep breath. "Are you sure this isn't just a nightmare?"
"Believe me, I hoped so too. But I've been having them for a month now! And I've had like two nightmares in my whole entire life before this one. I don't know why I have them... I don't want to have them!"
"Hey, it's okay. We're gonna figure things out, your dream will not come true, k? I promise."
Chris smiled. Maybe he could actually believe that promise. "Does Wyatt know about your dreams?" Leo asked.
"No... he knows that I have them, I usually wake him up. But he doesn't know what they are about."
Leo nodded. "Well, I think you should tell him. It seems that you guys are pretty close and in here he knows you the best. Maybe in the future, too, I don't know. But my pont is that, you were BOTH sent here, not just you. This mission belongs to you both, you don't have to handle it on your own. And me and your Mom and your aunts... aunt is here to help too. Trust me, you'll feel a lot better after you tell him."
"I feel a lot better already", Chris said smiling. "But yeah, you're right, I should tell him. I should have told him weeks ago." Chris ended his sentence with a big yawn.
"Go to sleep. Try not to think about the nightmare, maybe it won't come to you."
"Maybe, thanks Dad."
"Anytime, kid."
Chris got up, leaving half of his now cold sandwich behind. "Hey", he said, before going to livingroom and turned around. "You never told me why you're awake."
"Had a feeling hat I should come down. Got it right, didn't I?"
"Yeah, you totally did. Goodnight."
"Goodnight, Chris", Leo said as Chris went back to the livingroom. He sighed, hoping that Chris would have a peaceful night. After few minutes he got up, too and went upstairs to his and Piper's room. On his way there he stopped by the nursery where both his little boys were in fast asleep. Leo smiled. At least he knew that he had made it up. He had done good this time. "I love you", he whispered and closed the door.
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AN: AWWWWW! I hope you like it! This is a complete sharing-caring moment without tears and I don't remember writing any moment like this before. And I think it became clear that I like Leo a lot. From the very first episodes that he was in! Anyways, review! I promise, there'll be more action again in the later chapters. No more Disneylands and father-son moments. Sorry for those who like them. But the big brotherly moment that I was talking about. I'll make it happen in the last or second to last chapter if I make it. I have an idea of how to make it, I'm just no sure yet... Okay, 'til the next chapter!
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