Summary: Wyatt and Chris died in a car crash and now their family are taking the time to rememberthem. CHANGED FUTURE
Disclaimer: I (unfortunetly) do not own Charmed or any of the characters except the ones that i made up!
A/N I was originally going to just make this a one shot story but i might put in another chappie or two if i get good reviews :) So please r&r:)
Music was playing in the background. Soft, gentle music. Piper hardly heard it though. The music was apparently meant to soothe people before the service but it hardly reached her ears. She sat staring into space, not quite grasping what was happening. Her sisters, Phoebe and Paige sat beside her in the front pew; they too lost in their own thoughts. Their children sat beside them, all of them girls. They all had tears rolling down their cheeks even before the service started. The church was full of family and friends. Darryl and his family, old school friends and even school teachers, people from work and people they had helped like charges and innocents too. All there to pay their respects to Piper and Leo's sons'.
Then the music stopped and new music started playing. Slow, sad music. Piper knew what was happening and before she could stop herself she turned around to look. Her eyes filled up with tears as she saw the two white coffins being carried down the aisle. Her husband Leo was helping carry the first one and her dad Victor was helping carry the second one. Leo had had a hard time deciding which one he was going to help carry down the aisle. He felt he was playing favourites. Victor had talked to him though and they decided he would carry Wyatt up to the service and Chris down to the burial place. Wyatt and Chris. The names echoed in Pipers mind. Thinking about the whole atmosphere and exactly what kind of service they were at was sad enough but to actually think about who the people were laying in those coffins tipped her over the edge. The tears spilled down her cheeks and she sobbed into her hands. Why her boys? Why? She felt a comforting hand on her shoulder but she couldn't stop the tears coming. She looked back up anyway and saw them laying the coffins at the front of the church in front of everyone. Behind the coffins a pull down screen was there with a big picture of Wyatt and Chris sitting on the couch together laughing. It was the most recent photo of them they had, just days before the car accident. It was Wyatt's 25th birthday and they were having a party in the house. They had both been joking around about something and Phoebe had taken a photo of them. They were both looking at the camera and Phoebe said later that they had been laughing at her hat. Chris had just turned 23 a couple of months before. He looked exactly like the other Chris and he even had the same personality except he had had a much happier life. Piper and Leo had told the boys everything about the other future when they had found a box in the attic with some of the other Chris's clothes. They had been totally fine with it. Maybe a little freaked at the start but they got used to it and didn't ask too many questions, for which the sisters and Leo were grateful. After that Piper, Leo and her sisters thought that everything was going to be okay and they would have long, happy lives. How wrong they were.
It was a Tuesday night and Chris and Wyatt were driving to a friend's house. They hadn't orbed because they didn't want to risk exposure since their friend was a mortal. The rain was heavy and there were strong winds. Wyatt was driving with Chris in the front passenger seat. They both had their seatbelts on and were driving within speed-limit but another driver wasn't. A drunken man in his mid-forties was driving his truck down the road 20mph over the speed limit and crashed into the driver's side of Wyatt's car. Wyatt died instantly but Chris was rushed to hospital and put into ICU. He hung on for about a week with his mom and dad barely leaving his side, and then he slipped into a coma. He died 24 hours later. The driver of the truck walked away with only minor cuts and bruises.
Leo laid his hands on both coffins, the tears rolling down his cheeks too. Darryl, who had helped carry Chris's coffin, laid his hand on Leo's shoulder comfortingly. He said something and Leo nodded. They both turned around and walked to the pews to sit down. Leo sat down beside Piper and took hold of her hand. She squeezed his hand and laid her head on his shoulder, trying to stop crying. The vicar stood up and began the service.
"Family and friends, we are here today to not mourn but to celebrate the lives of Wyatt and Christopher Halliwell…
Piper didn't hear much more. She was too busy thinking about her sons that she didn't listen to what the vicar was saying. What was the point in listening to him anyway? He hadn't known them. He didn't know what they were like. He had no idea. He didn't really care about Chris and Wyatt. They were just another job to him.
Phoebe stood up to say a few words. Her hands were shaking so badly that she nearly dropped the piece of paper she was holding. She turned around and faced everybody. Looking down at the piece of paper for a moment she took a deep breath and began. Her voice was shaking too but she didn't let that stop her.
"What can I say? Wyatt and Chris were two of the most fantastic people you could ever hope to meet. Their hearts were bigger than anybody's and they were always there if you needed them. I think Wyatt was the more behaved of the two whilst Chris had quite the reputation, especially when he was a teenager, of being quite the little trouble-maker," Piper smiled at that, remembering what he had been like. "but at the end of the day you could always rely on him. They both had a great sense of humour. When they were kids they would play practical jokes on people, which was funny if you weren't the target. And they always worked as a team. They were inseparable as kids and even when they grew up they spent a lot of time together. It's sad to think that they'll not be able to do all the things they wished to do now," Tears were falling down Phoebe's cheeks now. The same with everybody else in the church. "But wherever they are I know they'd not want us to sit crying over them, but rather celebrate the life they had and enjoy the life we have left." Phoebe folded the paper and sat back down. Tears were streaming down her face but she didn't make a sound. Her husband Dex wrapped his arms around her and she sobbed into his shoulder. Her sixteen year old daughter, Kanira, took hold of her moms hand as she looked at the picture above the coffins.
The vicar stood back up and he asked them all to join him in a hymn. Everybody stood up and started singing from the page in the hymn book. Now that she thought about it, Piper didn't see the point in having hymns about God and Jesus. Wyatt and Chris had never believed in them. When they finished singing the vicar said that Victor had something to say. Piper, her sisters and Leo looked at him suprisedly. They hadn't planned for Victor to say anything at the service. Victor stood in front of the coffins and cleared his throat, trying to stop himself getting too emotional.
"About 23 years ago a special person came here. He came from a place that was full of darkness and despair. A place he wanted to change. He opened my eyes to a lot of things. That no matter how hard things get in your life, it's important to keep fighting. He was fighter. Wyatt and Chris were too. All through their lives they stood up for what they believed in and what was right no matter how small it was. They were an inspiration to a lot of people. An inspiration to me. I wish they could have fulfilled all their dreams in life and experienced everything that's worth living for but fate was cruel this time. Parents shouldn't outlive their children, like Piper and Leo have, and grandparents shouldn't outlive their grandchildren like I have. But I'm not going to cry about it just now. Just like Phoebe said, we have to celebrate their lives and remember all the good things about them. I can tell you some of the things I remember about them right now; I remember how witty Chris was, that no matter what you said to him he would always have some quick remark that could always make you smile. I remember how level-headed Wyatt was and how he could always calm down any situation and make everyone feeling better no matter what was happening. I remember how Chris's hair would stand up in every bloomin' direction when he got up in the morning," Everybody laughed. "or how Wyatt practically sleep-walked until he got some coffee into his system." They laughed some more. Victor laughed too as he remembered. "I also remember when they were little boys, Chris was about three or four, and Wyatt told him the moon was made out of cheese. From then on for about three years he thought that whenever he ate cheese he was eating bits of the moon." The whole church was filled with laughter. Victor was in full swing now as more and more memories flooded into his mind. "Wyatt got a pet bird one year for his birthday which he called Yokit and there was this woman that lived across the street who was really horrible to him and Chris. One day they found out she hated birds so he decided they would give her fright and he put Yokit through an open window in her house. Yokit went crazy and started pecking the woman's head. Let's just say she wasn't very happy but she did move so a good thing came out of it. Wyatt was grounded for two weeks though! Another time when he was thirteen, Chris got a pair of roller skates for his Christmas. He'd never rode in roller skates before but unlike a normal person would he didn't practise on them. He instead went up to the tallest road hill he could find, put on his roller skates and rode down it at full speed. When he came home he was in a right old mess. He'd fell and scraped his hands, his face, all down his arms and his jeans had two big holes on the knees but he was laughing! That's when I decided Chris was absolutely bonkers. We all thought he'd hit his head and gone weird didn't we!" Victor asked looking over at the family. They were all laughing but all managed to nod their heads. Victor continued. "When he was asked if he was in pain, I think his exact words were "Yeah it's bloody sore but I saw a bird fly into a billboard as I fell and I can't get it out my head. It was so funny!" The kid was wired up wrong I think!" Everyone in the church couldn't stop laughing as they thought about all the things Victor was telling them. Piper and her sisters had tears of laughter rolling down their cheeks as they remembered everything their dad was reminiscing about. "All in all, Wyatt and Chris were both people that won't be easily forgotten by anybody. Who would want to forget them anyway? I know I don't. They were kind, generous, smart and had hearts of gold. They both had their own unique personalities but were so alike in many ways. In life they were inseparable. It only seems right that they were together in death too." Victor turned around and looked up at the picture on the screen. "God Bless you both."
Victor turned back round and walked back to his space on the pew. Someone on the back stood up and started clapping. Another person followed suit, then another. The sisters and Leo stood up too and soon the whole crowd was standing up and clapping. Even the vicar was up on his feet clapping. When the claps died down everyone sat back down on the pews.
"Thank you for your words Mrs Halliwell and Mr Bennet. All of us gathered here today to pay our respects to Wyatt and Christopher Halliwell, who both were unforgettable and inspirational people. I ask all of you to look to the screen and remember the wonderful memories you have of them."
The vicar went and stood to the side of the church and music started playing. Different pictures flashed onto the screen. Piper watched them with tears in her eyes. They were pictures of Wyatt and Chris, from when they were babies up to the age of their deaths. Chris and Wyatt with their family, Chris roller blading, Wyatt brake dancing, numerous birthdays, Wyatt graduating, Chris graduating, lots of pictures of them together laughing, them sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by bits of a dishwasher they were trying to fix last year, Chris when he was small on Leo's shoulders, both of them playing at a soccer match...
Many more pictures followed. The people that had been carrying the coffins to the service stood up and walked over to the coffins. This time Leo went beside Chris's and they lifted both of the coffins at the same time. The music and pictures stopped and everyone in the church followed the coffins outside to the spot of where they were to be buried. The vicar walked behind at the very end of them all, carrying his bible. When they got to the right spot the vicar began the second part of the service. Piper put a white rose on each coffin and planted a kiss on them before they were lowered into the graves which were right beside each other. When she straightened up again, Leo put his arm around her shoulders and held her gently. She leaned back against him and closed her eyes, grateful that he was there. She opened her eyes and took the chance to look around at everyone else as the vicar spoke. Phoebe had hold of Kanira's hand who didn't mind at that moment in time, with tears still rolling down her cheeks. A lot of other people were in a similar state. Paige was standing beside her husband, Brian, with her two daughters, 10 year old Bethany and 12 year old Lucy standing in front of her. Piper knew it was really hard for Paige since she had already seen the other Chris die. Piper looked over at her dad who stood looking into the graves. He wasn't crying but Piper could see the tears in his eyes. Piper looked at him deep in thought but was snapped out of it when it was her turn to sprinkle dirt onto the coffins. She took a handful and knelt down. Sprinkling the dirt onto each coffin she smiled sadly.
"Hey my special boys," she whispered. "You say hi to your aunt Prue for me okay? I love you two so much and you will always be in my heart. I'll never forget you. We'll meet again someday. That's a promise."
She stood back up and everyone else that was meant to do it sprinkled the dirt too. The vicar said his last few words and the service ended but before it ended completely, Piper and Leo each lit a candle beside both of the marble gravestones which had a photo of each son. They stood together for a moment watching the flames. There was no hint of wind in the air but the flames flickered violently. Piper smiled, knowing that was her sons' way of letting them know they were there watching over them.
Okay that's the first chappie done and dusted! Should i continue or just leave it as a one-shot? It'sup to you:)
