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By the way, there is only one person writing this. I just like saying "we"...makes it seem more universal...what can I say? I'm a power-hungry little wench. Hehehe...

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"Happy Birthday dear Chris...-AND YOU SMELL LIKE ONE TOO!"

"Wyatt..."

It was another lovely ending to the birthday song, sung by little Wyatt. Of course, his buddies from school taught him that one just a few months ago, and since then, every single birthday has included the monkey version. We know, we thought that horrible song would have died out with platform shoes and bad combovers, too...but unfortunately, the future is a bleak prospective...

However, Piper and Leo just figured that Wyatt was being a normal child, and they weren't going to be stupid about it. They just let it slide and turned their attention to their youngest.

"Chris, you can blow out your candles, now. Make a wish!" Piper said, as Leo took a picture. Chris was absolutely adorable in his little party outfit and his red party hat...at least, that's what Phoebe kept saying.

"Oh, you look so cute! I could just eat you up!" Phoebe said, pinching Chris' cheeks once again. "I can't believe you're already five years old! It's been five years since-", and, for the fifteenth time this hour, Phoebe reminded everyone about The Boy who Died...

"Since what, Aunt Phoebe?" Wyatt asked, helping himself to some cake. This wouldn't be such a bad thing, if the piece he had taken hadn't still been connected to the cake itself.

"WYATT!" Piper said, staring at the Spongebob-cake with a giant hand in the middle of his eyes. But it wasn't completely destroyed-

At least, not until Piper shocked Chris enough to throw his hands out and blow up the cake accidently.

Bits of Spongebob were now all over the living room, yellow frosting all over everyone and everything.

And poor Chris had not gotten to make his wish. He started crying, which set Melinda into action, which made Wyatt all upset, because he had made everyone else upset. So now, all the children were upset, and all the parents were trying to get a grasp on things...

"Another cake down the drain..." Piper said, looking at the living room, "But remember honey, it's not the first one, and it's not the last. OK?" She was attempting to calm down Chris first.

"But-but-but I didn't get my wish!" Chris blubbered. And Leo turned to his oldest son.

"Wyatt, buddy, what's wrong?"

"It's all my fault! I messed everything up!" Wyatt cried. Leo sighed and started trying to make Wyatt feel better.

In the mean time, Phoebe was trying to calm poor Melinda down. And Paige set about cleaning the place up a little bit.

"...I cause this scene to be unseen..." Paige finished, as the room magically cleaned itself up. Piper looked up from her crying son and glared for a second at Paige, who obviously should not have done that, but figured that there were more important matters at hand than the balance of the cosmos. Like her son's happiness on his big day.

"See, Chris? It's all better now. See? And if you want to make a wish, we can get candles and light them for you. Is that good?" Piper said, and when her son's cries started to taper off, she knew that he was calming down.

"Another candle?" Chris asked, "Can I do that?"

"Chris, in this family, you should always remember that a Halliwell can do anything." Paige said, in her little way that kinda makes you want to punch her, but still, you recognize her wisdom.

"...OK. We can light another candle, I guess." Chris said, and at this point, Wyatt had stopped his crying, too. Melinda was still sorta whimpering, but she was a baby, and probably just wanted to get changed or something equally as gross.

So, Piper and Leo got out a piece of apple pie, and put one candle right on it. As they lit the candle, Chris closed his eyes and smiled. Then, he blew.

...And seeing as nothing normal will ever happen to the Halliwells, the next minute, a little black kitten appeared in a swirl of blue and white lights.

"...Chris...what is that?" Piper asked. Chris just smiled and looked at his mother.

"Mommy...it's my wish. His name is Potter."

"Chris, did you just say that's your wish?" Leo asked, wondering how on earth that could have happened.

"And what kind of name is Potter?" Wyatt asked. Chris just looked at his brother and stuck his tongue out.

"Better than Superman." He replied.

"No, it's not! Potter's a stupid name!"

"Superman's stupider!"

"Potter's stupididier!" Wyatt said, apparently coming up with the worst of all insults, because Chris frowned and flicked his hand so that his brother went flying across the room.

"That was mean, Chris!" Wyatt said, and tried to blow his little brother up, but Chris orbed in time to miss Wyatt's chance.

Piper and Leo looked at each other in deep dispair. How would their children ever get along?

"Wyatt, Chris, stop that right NOW!" Piper said, and immediately, the two boys stopped and looked at their mother.

"Sorry, Mommy." They both said, heads down.

"Chris, it is your birthday, but you do not get special treatment becuase of it. There is no reason to use your powers on each other, as I have said over and over again. And if I catch either one of you ever doing it again...I will take your powers away. Do you both understand?"

Wyatt and Chris looked at their mother in shock. Could she really take their powers away? Neither boy wanted to find out.

"Yes, Mommy."

"Good. Now, Chris, you have presents to open. And then, it's time for bed." Piper said, scared out of her mind of her two little boys. They were so strong already, and they hadn't reached 10 yet.

But as Chris opened his presents, Potter the kitten sat next to him, mewing softly and pawing to get his attention.

"Um...Chris, your kitty wants you." Wyatt said, refusing to call it by it's name...really, Potter...what kind of name is that?

"He does?" Chris said, and looked at his kitten. Potter mewed a few more times, hopped onto Chris' lap and fell asleep.

"What does Potter want, Chris?" Piper asked, remembering the little dog incident before. Maybe Chris had a gift with animals or something...

"I don't know. I don't talk to cats, Mommy." Chris said, thinking that his mother was just being silly.

"Oh...well, Chris, don't you think that maybe Potter wants to use the bathroom?" Leo asked, seeing that the cat had left quite the gift on Chris' lap.

"Eww..." Chris said, standing up quickly and dropping Potter in succession. "Potter, go to the potty!"

The cat just mewed at him and turned around, going towards Wyatt. Everyone watched as Potter rubbed against Wyatt's legs for a little, and then going back to Chris, who had changed into his pajamas, which were not covered in cat pee.

"Well, looks like Potter likes you more than he likes me, Chris." Wyatt said, but still laughing a little. He had to say, if the kitten had to have a name, and it couldn't be Superman... 'Potter' did fit him.

"Mew." The cat simply said and fell asleep on Chris again, who grinned cockily at his brother and finished opening his presents.


Two hours later, and the birthday celebration was offically over. Wyatt and Chris were upstairs, asleep, and Potter had snuck up too many times to count, so that he could sleep on Chris' chest. Piper and Leo figured that, as Chris had wished Potter into existance, the cat might be a little closer to Chris than the rest of the family.

As soon as Chris and Wyatt had gone to sleep, Leo had checked with the Elders, who assured Leo that this was simply a childhood thing, something called 'Wishcraft', and that most children grow out of it fairly quickly.

Leo was happy about that, though. He wasn't sure he wanted to deal with two all-powerful kids. Sure, Chris packed a punch, but he was never going to be as powerful as Wyatt. That's just the way the cookie crumbled. But he didn't want Chris to be as powerful as Wyatt. Or else he wouldn't be the neurotic, inferiority-complex victim that the older Chris had been.

"Leo, you've got a phonecall. From Sarah." Phoebe said, holding out the phone. Leo took the reciever and talked into it.

"Hey Sarah. Nice of you to call back."

"I'm sorry if it's late. I had an issue." Sarah said on the other line. She sounded exhausted.

"Anything serious?"

"Oh, let's just say it involved a pony, two seven year olds, and a needle in a haystack." Sarah said, "But I called about Chris."

"Yeah, Chris. So, what's your evaluation of him?"

"Well, seeing what he can do, and his attitude, I would say that I am not sure I want Chris in this school." Leo stopped dead and frowned.

"What? Why not?" Leo asked.

"Look, Leo. The facts are that Chris is powerful. Very powerful. But he's cocky, too. And he likes attention. You know, from history, that's never a good idea." Sarah said, sounding like she didn't want to say it.

"Sarah, I can't believe you. Especially because you know that Chris will be going to the school. His Aunt Paige runs it."

"I'm not sure I'm following you. Are you saying that Chris should be given special treatment becuase his Aunt is my boss?" Sarah asked, a suddenly hostile tone coming over the phone.

"You know that's not what I'm saying."

"Well then, you should know that each child must be approved by me to get into this institution. And I feel that Chris is too dangerous to be taught."

"And I feel that Chris is apparently being misunderstood. By a young, unexperienced witch. I will call you back, Sarah." Leo said, and promptly hung up the phone.

"What was that about?" Paige asked, as she saw Leo sit down and put his head in his hands.

"Your assistant just refused Chris admittance into your school." Leo said, thinking of what could possibly have gone wrong.

"What?" Paige said, and Leo explained the story.

"So, now, she says he's too dangerous. What kind of bull is that? Chris, dangerous? He goes back in time and saves the world!" Leo said, running a hand through his hair. But Paige thought of something.

"Leo...today, Chris used magic on his brother." Paige said.

"Yeah, so what? Wyatt used magic on Chris, too?"

"And when the cake thing happened, he didn't freeze it. He blew it up. Instinctively, he used his most violent power." Paige continued. Leo did not like where this was going.

"What are you saying, Paige. That now Chris is evil?" Leo said, angrily.

"No, no, that's not what I'm saying. Look, Leo, when I was a social worker, I was taught that every decision a parent makes will impact their child's life in ways they can't imagine. What if, by trying so hard to give Chris attention, and keeping Wyatt good...what if we reverse the tables?"

"I'm sorry...what?" Leo asked, trying to make sense of what his sister-in-law was saying.

"Chris was apparently fairly neglected by you in the other future, right?" Paige said. Leo nodded. "And Chris lost his mother fairly early in his life. And his entire existence was spent trying to keep his mother alive by saving his brother from evil, right?" Leo started to grasp it... "What if, by changing all of that, Wyatt has to spend his entire existence saving Chris?"

"But there's one difference. Wyatt's the more powerful one." Leo said. He had gotten Paige there.

"Well, it seems as if our Chris is a lot more powerful than Future Chris. Like, in the other future, Chris seemed to only have two or three powers. I think that maybe by doing so much good, Chris Perry gave our Chris a huge power boost. Or all of our attention fueled his powers, or something. Either way, I think that our Chris is in a lot of danger." Paige said.

"And what do you think we should about that? Neglect him? Kill Piper?" Leo said, angrily. How dare Paige actually suggest that his little boy was going to grow up evil!

"No...I think we need...to bind Chris' powers." Paige said, looking upset at the idea, but knowing that it might be the one thing that kept Chris Halliwell on the side of good.

"Or we could just teach him the difference between right and wrong, and trust him to be the good person I know he is!" Leo said, standing up. Two people in one day, telling him his angel was evil! This was rediculous!

"Leo, all the pieces point to Chris screwing himself over when he saved his brother! Do you really want to be the person to blame if Chris becomes the ruler of the underworld?" Paige asked, knowing how hard it must be to hear this. But Paige had this concern ever since she had seen Chris try to blow his brother up for the first time. When he was two.

"...No...I don't." Leo said, looking at his shoes. "But I don't want to bind his powers. That's not fair to him."

Paige looked at Leo for a few seconds and nodded. "Fine. But, I agree with Sarah. I don't think he should be put into Magic School..." And she walked up the stairs.

Leo just looked at her back, wondering if he was ever going to be a good father...


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