Author's Note: Thanks for all the reviews! I do intend to make much fun of Bianca. You already know I don't own them. Anyway here's Part two of Chapter 13. Some dialog taken form the episode Chris crossed.
Chapter 13 part 2
Lizzie was in detention with Miranda. They had gotten to school late and missed half of their first class because Miranda got the bright idea to stop off at a CD store before going to school.
"I can't believe I let you talk me into buying that Areosmith CD." Miranda admonished.
"I can't believe you made us a half and hour late for school." Lizzie hissed.
"Ladies could you please quiet down!" Coach Jackson said.
In the classroom with ten people in it Miranda and Lizzie were the only to talking the other kids in detention were freshman who didn't know you could talk in detention. And of course the coach didn't get that memo either.
"It's not like we're learning anything anyway. And it's our senior year. You and Gordo take this all way to seriously. You've already been recruited by UCLA and Gordo's going to USC. I'm going to a great Art School." Miranda said.
Lizzie shrugged, Miranda did have a point.
"I guess your right 'Randa." Lizzie said.
Miranda opened her mouth to reply, but the door to the classroom opened and suddenly everyone in the room froze except Lizzie. She wasn't at all surprised to see Piper and Paige standing in the doorway.
"Lizzie, come we've got a Phoenix to vanquish." Piper said.
"Where's Chris?" She asked getting up from her chair.
"He's MIA as usual. Phoebe's at work so we're gonna need your help. And you need the practice." Paige said.
Practice was good. A missing boyfriend well that wasn't good either considering that he was attacked last night.
Lizzie grabbed her purse and left all of her other stuff on the table, and went over to where Piper and Paige were waiting.
Paige put a hand over Lizzie's and Piper's shoulders and orbed them into the hallway of an upscale apartment building.
"This is nice," Lizzie said.
"It is. Phoenix assassins get paid top dollar for retrieving their bounties." Paige said.
"Did you say assassins?" Lizzie asked.
"Yep,"
"Won't we need Phoebe for the vanquish…I'm not good under this kind of pressure."
"You'll be fine. Just hit her with this potion if we get into any trouble. You spent all weekend training for a big vanquish this is it?" Paige said.
Lizzie nodded dumbly and slid the potion into her jacket pocket. Piper was knocking on the door, there was no turning back now.
"Hi, we just moved into town and we wanna meet our new neighbors." Paige brightly told the woman with cropped blonde hair who opened the door.
"Of course come in." the woman said with a pleasant smile.
But Lizzie noticed the smile didn't come anywhere near the woman's cold blue eyes. They were hard and calculating.
"Where did you all move from?"
"Phoenix." Piper supplied quickly.
"Nice place," Paige said shooting a glare at her older sister.
"Thanks," The woman said just as a little dark haired girl no more than five ran up.
Lizzie thought the little girl was cute, she was cuddling the most adorable teddy bear.
"Mommy, will you play with me? Mommy who are your friends?" the little girl asked reaching out to her mother with her free hand, Lizzie noticed the strange symbol on the inside of the little girl's wrist.
It was a Phoenix.
"Bianca sweetie," the woman smiled at the little girl, "Why so many questions? You're always just as curious as a kitten, why don't you go in your room and play with your toys?"
"Okay Mommy." The little girl said and the woman guided her over to the back bedroom.
She shoved the girl inside locked the door and then turned back with a no pretenses energy ball forming in her hand.
She threw the energy ball directly at the three of them. They barely had time to react. Piper dodged right, Paige ducked and Lizzie jumped left toward the door.
Before the assassin could launch the second energy ball she had formed Piper blew her up.
"The kid!" Piper and Paige shrieked at the same time.
Then the three sprinted toward the door, Piper threw the door open just in time to see the Phoenix they had just vanquish reform and grab her daughter and shimmer out.
"She reformed," Piper stated.
"She can reform after being blown up?" Lizzie asked.
"I guess so which means the one that was after Chris can too which means she's still after him." Piper said.
"When you blow up a demon they are supposed to stay dead for at least a while. Now we're gonna have two angry Phoenixes after our Whitelighter." Piper said.
"This is not what I had planned for the week." Paige said as she orbed them back to the Manor.
At the Manor they found Leo and Phoebe who was home on her lunch break.
Chris had lied to Lizzie the night before. He hadn't wanted to lie but there would be nothing gained by telling her the whole story. And besides she'd get really pissed at him. And he didn't want Lizzie to see him the way people in his time saw him. As a liar and cheat who would stop at pretty much nothing to get what he wanted.
He knew that he wasn't much better than Wyatt. That's why he had to do this. He was just stubborn enough and headstrong enough to do it. However, he didn't see the whole Bianca thing coming.
Lying to his girlfriend wasn't the worst thing he'd done. Just like an idiot he orbed to Golden Gate Park where he knew Bianca was waiting for him.
He knew she knew that he sometimes went there to think, and remember the good times before everything all went to hell.
Orbing hurt more than he had expected. Last night his chest had only hurt now he hurt all over.
He orbed onto one of the stone benches landing heavily, panting. Orbing wasn't supposed to take that much out of him. Damned Bianca, he wanted to give her a severe cursing, but he would have to play nice to find out what she wanted and why she had tried to steal his powers. He wouldn't be beaten yet, and hopefully he could do it with out involving any of girls. There would be too many questions, and he refused to let Wyatt or Bianca win.
"You know Chris you really shouldn't orb." Bianca said stalking out of her hiding place.
Chris winced turning his head to regard her. Leaving the power stripping unfinished was slowly killing him he knew that but he would rather die than lose any chance of being able to do what he came to do.
"It could kill you," she stated stalking around him.
"Like I didn't already know that." He snapped.
"We both know that if I wanted to kill you would be already dead." Bianca said smugly.
Chris hated knowing that anyone could best him and Bianca was one of the few people he knew that could.
"Yeah, yeah whatever. You assassin. Me bounty. I know how this works. So what do you want from me?" he asked deliberately pissing her off.
An angry and hurt look flashed across Bianca's face for a second and then her cool exterior was back into place. She smirked and propped her leg up on the bench next to her. If he still could access his TK he would have swept that leg off the bench with a flick of his wrist and sent her tumbling to the ground.
He hated all of her cool overconfident bravado; it was all a fake defense mechanism. And Chris knew a lot about defense mechanisms.
"You know what I want Chris." She said flipping her chestnut colored hair off her tanned shoulder.
Her espresso colored eyes bored into his green ones, neither of them willing to back down.
"You are coming back to the future one way or another Chris." Bianca told him.
"Don't bet on that." Chris said. He knew he was fading but he would never admit defeat. He was Piper Halliwell's son after all.
It was no secret that Chris really didn't like what his time had become. He had really grown to like the year 2003. In the future there was not time to even stop and smell the carnage; it was all fighting and death. Though he thought it was extremely primitive in a lot of ways but it gave people a chance to slow down and maybe enjoy life. And his mother was alive in this time. And even though she was sometimes a bit harsh with him it was still nice to have her around.
"Anyway," she stated rolling her eyes, "I was interrupted last night whilst I was stripping your powers. And if I don't finish you'll die soon. And then no one will be around to look out for that blonde you're seeing." Bianca said unable to hide the bitterness in her voice.
She played with her athame and tried to look intimidating. Then she set it on the bench. He stared at it he was going to swipe it would be good for the girls to scry with to find Bianca and save him.
"Don't you even think of going anywhere near Lizzie!" Chris said.
"So that's her name I thought she was a Sandra or Jamie or Britney or something like that…" Bianca said.
Then she grew thoughtful, "Is she the new flavor of the week? Are you just going to leave her with out telling her that you going anywhere and disappear into the future this time?" Bianca asked.
"I would not do that to her, but I guess someone like you can't understand that." Chris stated simply having no clue why they were even getting into that.
"Isn't that what you turn a girl into the town tramp and then you dump her and move on to the next?" Bianca asked.
"You were already the town tramp!" He pointed out, "The first time I ever saw you was when I walked in you having sex with some guys from the Resistance."
"I was not the town tramp!"
"Not the town tramp? You sleep with nearly every guy I know except Preston. You slept with my brother while we were together. Things weren't that serious but you could at least have the decency to sleep with someone outside of my immediate family." Chris said.
"And how did he manage to turn you anyway?" Chris asked.
"We were both stupid to believe we could change things. That we could even do some good in that ruined city. To try and beat him?" Bianca laughed bitterly.
"You don't believe that at least you didn't." Chris said.
"I do now after you left me there I did what I had to do."
"Don't give me that jilted girlfriend bullshit. It wasn't even like that and you know it." Chris managed to choke out he was feeling worse by the minute.
Bianca actually looked hurt by what he'd said. He guessed she had reason to be. He had just left one day and come to the past without even telling her. With the help of his cousin Preston he'd managed to pull off his plan.
They were all staying in whatever citadel that the Resistance had taken for their own, Chris figured that either Preston would tell her when he got back there or she'd notice when he didn't come back.
Plus he really hadn't wanted to get into it with her about him leaving anyway. He had the sinking suspicion that Bianca had fallen in love with him. And that was simply the last thing that he needed.
He wasn't good at goodbyes. He'd told the French exchange student in seventh grade, "Smell ya later".
He didn't know what he'd tell Lizzie when the time came for him to leave. He really didn't want to leave.
He'd been such a jerk to Bianca, he'd treated them all pretty badly and he'd felt guilty every time but he always seemed to keep doing it over and over again. But he'd be dammed before he hurt Lizzie. He wanted to get this right.
"Oh shut up and let me finish what I started." Bianca snapped, her emotionless mask was back into place.
Chris just shot her an apologetic glance and grabbed the athame before he orbed away as painful as it was for him to orb. If his powers had been working right she wouldn't have even came close to touching him but this time she narrowly missed him. He orbed back to the Manor and landed brokenly on the floor in the foyer.
He could hear Lizzie shrieking and the whole group running over to where he lay.
"Damned Bianca." He muttered still pissed off about her stripping his powers as he tried to fight off unconsciousness.
He could feel Lizzie's hands on his face, and he could hear Paige and Leo calmly assessing the situation while Phoebe and Piper argued.
Lizzie had been getting bored with the discussion. She was trying to keep the extent of Chris' injuries a secret. He told her that he would be fine but the longer he was away the more she worried and the harder it was for her to keep the secret.
"How old is the little girl?" asked Phoebe who hadn't been present at the non-vanquish.
"About four or five." Piper told her, just as bright lights descended in the form of Chris who fell to the floor.
He was obviously hurt. Lizzie rushed forward, kneeling on the floor beside her barely conscious boyfriend.
Paige kneeled beside her. Piper, Leo and Phoebe leaned over to inspect the damage as well.
Lizzie smirked though the tears she was already crying when she heard Chris mutter, "Damned Bianca."
Lizzie was a total mess as was Phoebe who was channeling her emotions, Piper was yelling at them to stop blubbering and Leo was telling Piper not yell. Fortunately, for Chris Paige had her wits about her and assessed the situation.
"Okay. We need to get him over to the couch. Leo do you think you can do that? Then we can see what's wrong with him." Paige asked.
Leo nodded, with a wave of his hand Chris orbed over on to the couch.
"He has a wound on–on his chest it looks like a burn." Lizzie revealed.
The Charmed Ones looked at her. Leo simply ripped open Chris shirt and looked at the fist sized wound.
"What is it?"
"Well, I did tell you I caught her sticking her fist through his chest Leo. Does it really matter what it is just heal him and quit talking." Piper said.
Leo rolled his eyes and positioned his hands over the wound. The golden glow appeared but the wound didn't heal.
"Something seems to be blocking my powers and draining his. It's like a virus." Leo said.
"A virus named Bianca. You can look at that girl and tell she got something…" Piper let the sentence trail off her sisters nodded in agreement.
"I should have told you all but he told me he was going to be alright. He said it wasn't serious. He isn't going to…he's not gonna die is he?" Lizzie asked wiping her face.
"If we don't do anything yes. He told you stuff?" Piper said.
Lizzie nodded sniffling.
"What else did he tell you?" Paige demanded.
"Nothing." The word came out as a sob, it was the truth basically. Chris had told her other stuff, but it wasn't entirely relevant to the situation.
"I don't get why she came back from the future to do this." Phoebe said, before most curiously she kneelednextthe couch beside Chris.
"He's scared. Really scared." Phoebe revealed.
"You're actually getting a read off Mr. Unemotional?" Piper asked.
"Yep and he feels really scared and…ashamed." Phoebe said.
"Why would he be ashamed?" Paige asked.
Phoebe wrenched the athame from his hand.
"Why does he have that?" Piper asked, "He shouldn't be orbing with scissors or…athames."
Phoebe concentrated for a minute, "It's Bianca's."
Eight pairs of eyes darted over to Lizzie, who shrugged her shoulders.
"Are you sure you don't know anything else? Chris is closer to you than anyone else. He must have told you something." Paige said.
"He did tell me some things." Lizzie said.
"He didn't tell me much about the future and nothing about Bianca. What he did tell me was in confidence and I can't betray his trust."
"Do you wanna save his life?" Leo said.
Lizzie reached out and brushed hair off Chris' forehead, "More than anything. But not at the expense of betraying his confidence."
"Anything you can tell us would be helpful." Paige said.
"Please don't tell me you are fishing for details about Chris at a time like this. Maybe I should be asking you if you wanna save his life." Lizzie said stalking from the room taking the athame from Phoebe with her leaving the younger two Charmed Ones gaping.
"I'll help Lizzie scry for Bianca you to make more potions." Piper said.
"Are you alright?" she asked Lizzie as they started upstairs.
"I'd feel better if we went and beat that hoe down." Lizzie said.
"I'd have to agree. All of the shrinks say violence isn't the answer but when I got to deck that blonde the other week made me feel so good. Demon fighting is hard work but you get to blow up stuff cast spells and hit people. And not to mention save lives while you do it." Piper said
"I just can't believe he just lied to me like that last night. If he would have told us she could reform… we could have vanquished her already. But I'm getting the feeling he doesn't want us to vanquish her." Lizzie said.
"I see. What do you think he's hiding?" Piper asked.
"He hides a lot Piper… things that if he shared with us would take so much off him. He told me some stuff. But nothing really too heavy." Lizzie said.
Twenty minutes later the group reconvened in the living room where Chris was still going in and out of consciousness.
"We found Bianca, she's at her mothers." Piper revealed.
"Little Bianca?" Leo asked.
"No skanky Bianca." Lizzie said.
Leo shrugged and turned back to taking care of Chris. Lizzie moved closer to watch him.
"Yep right after we orb over there I'm gonna…" Paige stopped.
Leo perked up looking over his shoulder at the Charmed Ones, "Gonna what?"
"I'm gonna move in with Richard." Paige said of her current boyfriend.
"Really that's great." Piper said.
"It is and I think I'm gonna see what's going on in Hong Kong." Phoebe said.
"Okay what's with them?" Lizzie asked.
"They must be under a spell." Leo told her.
"Look this isn't you have to fight this, this is just a spell that cowardly skank has put on you guys to distract you." Leo told them.
"How can you fight your heart?" Phoebe asked.
"Or your hormones." Piper said.
"Or keep having to orb home for lingerie." Paige said.
Phoebe nodded, "Do you think you can drop me off on the way to Richard's place?"
"I would love to." Paige said taking her sister's hand and preparing to orb them away.
"You two aren't going anywhere." Leo said.
Phoebe said something in Chinese that Lizzie was quite sure was very dirty and Paige orbed them away. Piper just shot Leo a look and left the room with a nod of her head.
"We need to work on getting them back. You go work on an inhibitions antidote. There's one in the Book just put the ingredients in." Leo said.
"I can do that." Lizzie said going to get to work on the potion.
She went up and made the potion and put it in six vials just in case they missed with one. When she came downstairs she discovered Piper had also left the house and that Chris was gone and Leo was lying unconscious on the floor.
She could only assume that this was the work of that skank Bianca. And if she did anything else to Chris she was going to beat the skank within an inch of her life assassin or no assassin Lizzie was going to make Bianca pay for hurting her boyfriend.
She shook Leo awake.
"Did Bianca do this?" she demanded.
Leo nodded dazed.
"Okay I made the potion six vials in case you happen to miss or they put up a fight. Get the sisters. Because I'm probably going to need them to save me and Chris." Lizzie said.
"What are you going to do?" Leo asked.
Lizzie smiled grimly, "I'm going to the future."
"Lizzie, I don't think–"
"Look Leo, I have to do this. Bianca is going down, and not in the way she's used to going down." Lizzie said she was firm resolute and the Elder could probably see there was no arguing with her.
"I'll get the sisters. Do what you have to do, but there's no spell or potion in existence that can get you to a specific place in time." Leo said.
"Well, I guess I gotta write one." Lizzie said starting upstairs.
For the sake of this chapter not being so long, I'm gonna give you Chapter 14 to Back to the Future and Straight to the Source, in a few days. To all my reviewers you guys rock. Any questions, comments or suggestions, shout them out in the reviews. Sorry about the delay in this particular chapter. I wanted it to be good. It's still not what I'd like it to be but I hope you all enjoyed it nonetheless.