PS- I had to change something in the first two chapters for the story to make sense...so now, Wyatt's 6. Sorry, people. I know, I suck! Hehe.
Wyatt Halliwell-Wyatt is a weird name...and other random thoughts.
by hyperleo01
May 16th, three days later after "the puppy incident" as it was now known as, found Wyatt sitting alone on the counter while Piper was baking an exquisite cake that everyone wishes they could eat, but no one can because it's not for them. This cake was for Chris, who was turning 5. Yes, we know we have been saying he was 5 for the past week, but really, what difference does it make?
"Mommy?" Wyatt asked his mother. Chris was out with his father, (who, for some reason, insisted on days alone with each of his children like, 3 times a week...really, it made no sense.), and Wyatt was having a day with his mother. Days with Piper Halliwell were never as fun as days with Leo, who would take his boys out to all places of the world. Yes, Leo can orb, he was given back his original whitelighter powers when Wyatt decided to take Chris on a field trip to the arctic, and Paige was stuck fighting off some demon or another. Today was a special day, though. So, Wyatt was being bored to death while his mother attempted to make a birthday cake for her baby boy.
"Hold on a sec, Wy. I just need to...there." Piper added the finishing touches to the absolutely beautiful birthday cake. She was kinda sad that someone was going to be eating it...at least, she hoped someone would be eating it. For the past five holidays, she had made a cake, only for it to be destroyed in some sort of magical (or not so magical) problem. Like, Wyatt tripping Leo, and Leo going head-first into his own birthday cake...or Paige taking Chris' toy away and getting cake in her face during Halloween. She thought about the various cake-problems and carefully put the cake into the fridge. Then, she gave her attention to her son. "What do you need, sweetie?"
"I just have a question." Wyatt said, wrinking his nose.
"OK, what is it?"
"Why doesn't my name have a 'P' in it?" Wyatt asked. Piper looked shocked. Wyatt didn't know why, he might have only been six years old, but whenever that stupid mailman came by and talked to the boys, he would spit all over the place trying to say their names...Piper, Paige...it was really kinda gross.
"What? Not everyone's name has a 'P', honey." Piper said, laughing a little. But that wasn't exactly true. She just didn't know how to tell Wyatt that his birth was a little different...than it should have been. Like, he should have been a girl.
"Yes they do. Even Chris' middle name has a 'P'." Wyatt pointed out.
Piper looked at her son and decided to tell him the truth. He was old enough for it. "Well, when you were born (a loud "ewwwww!" came from Wyatt...), we thought you were going to be a girl. Your name was going to be Melinda Prudence"
"Is that why Melinda's named Melinda? 'Cause she's a girl?" Wyatt asked.
"Well, once I had two boys, instead of two girls, Phoebe decided to steal the name for her daughter. Becuase you'd be a pretty silly boy if you were named Melinda, don't you think?" Piper said, tickling her first born.
"Stop! Stop!" Wyatt shrieked as he writhered with laughter. "So I wasn't a girl...but then why don't I have a 'P"
"Becuase we had to think of a name for you fast. And you know how your first name is Daddy's last name?" Piper asked, and Wyatt nodded. He always thought it was a little silly, but he always figured that it was better than having his Mother's last name as his first name. "Well, your middle name is Aunt Paige's last name. And neither of them had a 'P' in it. Does that answer your question"
"...I guess...but am I always going to be the only one without a 'P' in my name?" Wyatt asked. He didn't like being different. In fact, most of the time, he tried as hard as he could to just sit in the background.
"We can add a 'P' to your name if you want, ok?" Piper said, after a few minutes of thinking.
"We can?" Wyatt didn't know you could add things to your name! He always thought he was stuck with his unusual name.
"Sure. Where do you want to add it?" Piper asked, laughing inside.
"Um...in the middle." Wyatt said.
"The middle? So you want to be Wyatt P Matthew Halliwell?" Piper said, grinning.
Wyatt nodded, and smiled to himself. Good. Now, he was like everyone else.
"Daddy, where are you taking me?" Chris asked his father. Leo had woken Chris up really, really early this morning, and told Chris to get dressed quickly. Now, they were in magic school, waiting for something...or someone. Chris wasn't sure. But he knew that he had wanted to sleep in today.
"We have to see someone before I take you to your surprise, ok?" Leo said, leading Chris down a hallway. Chris nodded and followed his father along, looking at all the paintings around him. They were pictures of every headmaster and headmistress of the school before Aunt Paige and Billie fixed it up. But one thing had always bothered Chris. There was an emptyspace next to Aunt Paige's portrait. No one else had ever noticed it, though...
"Daddy?" He asked, and Leo looked down onto his son's face. "Why is the picture next to Aunt Paige's blank?"
"Because Aunt Paige is still running the school. After her, another person will run it, and their picture will be in there."
"No, on the other side." Chris said, and Leo looked at the portraits. Sure enough, there was a blank space next to Paige's, but after Headmaster Fabian, who ran Magic School until 1962. He didn't remember there being a space there, but then stopped dead at the name plate in order.
'1962-2004'
And there was a name faded and scratched out until you could no longer see any letters. Leo couldn't imagine why the name plate was even still there, but the memories flew through him as he stared.
"...Becuase a bad man was the head of the school before Aunt Paige took over." Leo said, trying to make it seem like he didn't mind talking about it.
"Who was the bad man, daddy?" Chris asked, and Leo wanted to cry. The same man who killed Chris Perry was the man his Chris was asking about.
"No one you need to worry about, bud. Come on" Leo said, starting to walk again. And Chris shrugged his shoulders, and forgot about the blank space in the wall.
About a minute after they left, a wind sept through the school, making the name-plate a little shinier, and the name on it a little bit clearer. A frame suddenly appeared on the wall next to Paige's portrait, and a small chuckle could be heard. If only someone was there to hear it.
But Leo and Chris weren't there to hear it. They were Aunt Paige's office, which she shared with two other people who she asked to help run the school. One of these people was Billie, who kept track of every child who wanted to enter magic school. The other person, a young witch named Sarah, was the person they had come to see.
"Hi Leo, Chris! How are you guys today?" Sarah asked, as the two boys sat down.
"We're good." Leo said "Aren't we, Chris?"
"I'm FIVE!" Chris said, grinning like a cheshire cat.
"Well, that's just really, really cool. Do you want a balloon?" Sarah asked, and snapped her fingers. A balloon appeared out of nowhere.
"Wow, thanks!" Chris said, grabbing the balloon and smiling even more.
"No problem. So, I hear that you can do magic, too." Sarah said, winking at Leo. Piper and Leo had decided that Chris would start Magic School this year, and that he would be tested to see which level he would enter into. Sarah was the person who would be testing Chris, and there wasn't really a better person to do it. Nice, and wonderful with kids, she usually got them to show her their best.
"Yeah. Me and Wyatt like to play with each other using them. Mommy doesn't like that very much." Chris said, growing fairly red at the mention of his mother. Sarah just laughed and snapped her fingers again. A lollipop came in the air, and was in her hand.
"Can you get this lollipop if I asked you to?" She asked.
"Yup!" Chris said, and then the lollipop orbed into his hands.
"Wow...that's really good, Chris. What else can you do?" Sarah asked, looking at the little boy in front of her. He was so willing to show off, it was crazy.
"I can make things stop if I want them to." Chris said, waving his hands and froze the balloon in the air. "And I can make them go boom!" He then waved his arms again and the balloon popped with a small explosion.
"Wow, that's really- "
"That's not all." Chris said, happy that she was so interested. "I can also move around in blue sparkles and make things move without touching them and make my toys real."
"You can do all that?" She looked fairly shocked. Chris just smiled some more.
"Do you wanna see?"
"Not right now, I don't think we have enough time to see everything you can do!" Sarah said, laughing with the little boy in front of her. He sure was a delight. "Well, Mr. Wyatt, I think that's enough for right now. I'll talk to you a little later."
"That will be great, Sarah. Thanks. Chris, say goodbye."
"Goodbye!" Chris said, as he got up and walked out with his father. Once he got out of the office, Leo told his son to close his eyes and orbed his youngest to a special place.
"Ready?" Leo said, and Chris thought he felt a breeze. "Open your eyes, son."
Chris opened his eyes, and once he focused his eyesight, dropped his mouth.
"Daddy, we're on top of the world!"
"More like on top of the Golden Gate Bridge." Leo corrected.
"The Golden Gate Bridge?" Chris asked, confused. He had never heard of such a place.
"It's one of the highest places in San Fansisco. It's a great place to just be."
"Be what, Daddy?"
"Be alone with your thoughts. If your family ever gets to be too much-" He said, and looked at his son's confused face. He would sometimes forget that his son was not the same person as Chris Perry. Not exactly. And it was hard on Chris' birthday, becuase it was the same day that-well, it was hard. But Leo found joy in his little boy every time he saw Chris. "One day, you'll understand, kiddo. But I just wanted to take you up here and watch the pretty view."
"So, we're not on top of the world? We're on top of a bridge?" Chris asked.
"Right now, this is the top of the world." Leo said, bringing his son closer. Leo felt content-Chris was just confused.
But he didn't care all that much right now.
He figured he could just ask Wyatt later...
Eh, kinda a boring chapter, but I wanted to have some sort of background to this story, Otherwise it just turns into a bunch of random stories put together instead of one big story.
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