The Lost Ones

Chapter 21: What's in a name?

Chris couldn't believe it here he was in the past trying to make sure that the future he lives in doesn't come true and the people who would help him get it couldn't even remember there own names.

"Uh...guys okay why don't you tell me how you found yourselves, and what you know."

"Well I found myself wrapped around Cole that's what you said his name is...right?"

"Yeah Cole and your Phoebe. What else do you know?"

"Well now I know I'm Phoebe and the father of my son is Cole and I know that I have sisters and we are the Charmed Ones."

"Well that's at least a step in the right direction."

Chris muttered under his breathe.

"What about you Cole?"

"Uh... well thanks to you I know my name and the name of the woman I woke up with and that I have a son and that I'm known as the dark one and that I have other I work with different people not like the Charmed Ones but something like that."

"Great this is better then nothing at least you won't be open to attack."

Chris gave the meddling goddess a silent prayer of thanks that he didn't have to protect all seven adults from their own history, and life style.

"And I'm guessing the rest of you are the same."

"It's so nice to know we are in the company of genius."

"And I see the loss of your memory doesn't mean the loss of your sarcasm Ellie and are you sitting on Michael's lap oh...I know you like Michele but frankly it just gets everyone pissed off at you. So from now on how about just plan old Michael."

"Something tells me I don't like you."

Michael grumbled.

"So I'm not meant to be on his lap?"

"I don't know what's up with you two all I do know it that you guys knew each other before, and it always seemed like you had something going on if you are or you aren't I wouldn't know?"

He saw Ellie and Michael both nod at the information, what he saw next confirmed his belief that both had been in a relationship but never acted on it to the point that they were happily together.

Ellie didn't get up from Michael's lap in fact she put her arm around his neck, and his arms wrapped around her waist.

Chris thought that the best thing he could do now was a quick run down of who was who.

Pointing to Paige and William,

"Okay you are Paige and William I know for a fact you are dating and that's all...now you two are Piper and Leo you've been married for two years you have a son Wyatt and if you don't see Leo in a lot of pictures it's because he works out of State."

The now newly introduced people looked at Chris strangely they could tell he was distracted by something like he was speaking to them but there was something else he was looking at.

Once again Chris was preoccupied with the people standing in he corner, he recognized Puck from earlier but the gentle looking blond was someone he had never seen before.

She put her figure to her lips as a shush motion and pointed upstairs, he looked upstairs as did the others in the room.

"Um why don't you guys go upstairs, and show you around the house it might help jog your memories."

The now paired off couples went up the stairs, Chris put the two children in the play pen and followed them up the stairs when he came to the hall he saw there were extra doors, three to be exact.

He couldn't help the frown if he wanted to.

Cole turned to Chris,

"Hay you wouldn't know who's room is who's or who's house this is?"

"Uhhh..."

"Oh...I knew Aphi should have told you more than go with the flow...okay the house is the girls like it has always been...there rooms are the ones they have always had the new room is Ellie's the third door on the right, she shares with Michael he lives with her, the third to the left is the guest room you currently live there and the other door at the end of the hall is a new bathroom. I mean there are now eight people in one house you need more than one bathroom tell them that Chris."

Puck told Chris what he should say.

"Well the house belongs to the girls Piper, Phoebe, Paige it belonged to their grandmother and she left it to them, Ellie also lives here the place is kind of expensive to keep running so she rents a room, I guess that's how you both meet Cole and William. With her being their baby sister and everything."

Chris wasn't a person who liked lying but when the situation came up he was excellently good at it, but given the current situation he knew this could be the best time to change a little about how everyone knew each other his only problem would come if they got their memories back but he would deal with that when the time called for it.

He just prayed that they wouldn't hate him more than they already did when they got their memories back. But Chris had to keep from cringing at that thought he had remembered how hard Paige fought her feelings for William and drove everyone around them crazy the fact way they had originally meet was him saving a girl from a demon the fact he himself was half demon had been all it took for Paige to never give him a chance no matter what she felt herself.

Another couple he knew were better off without their memories and history were Cole and Phoebe, the whole sage was something Chris knew by heart it didn't change the way they felt, it just made them miserable.

Chris looked at his grandmother and best friend and had to say he couldn't tell if it was a good thing if she didn't remember Michael or not, they had always seemed to work so well together, a part of him wondered if the problem between them was Leo he had never liked Ellie back in Chris's time he didn't and he hated the idea of Ellie and his mentor together. Chris wondered that the memory loss on the side of Ellie and Michael was more of a release from the burden of responsibility, and obligation they both didn't remember Leo and carry the guilt that had been with them for so long.

"Hey Mr. I-know-everything-about-your-lives while we are blissfully or not so blissfully unaware which room is who's?"

William asked Chris.

"Right sorry it's just weird you guys not knowing your own lives. Okay the doors at the end of the hall are bathrooms, the first door to the right is Piper and Leo the room across from theirs is the nursery. The room next to theirs in Phoebe and Cole's room across from them is Paige and next to them is Ellie's room and the room next to Paige's is the guest bedroom which happens to be were I'm staying."

"Oh...you live here?"

Piper asked confused.

"Yeah I'm Ellie's and the guys cousin and I'm getting ready to go to University here and I need a place to stay till then and you were kind enough to let me stay I guess that's what happens when you all marry family."

"What?"

Leo asked confused he wasn't following the conversation or the information as well as the others seemed to be.

"Well everyone here is kind of related in one way or an other. The girls are sisters... Ellie, Cole and William are siblings as well I'm related to them in a way and... you Leo are related to Michael in a way. So it's kind of like one big family."

Chris saw Leo frown and Phoebe look at him carefully Ellie looked at him then Cole and William.

"Okay! I see it now...and I want to see my room."

Ellie said as she moved past the group of people standing in the hall way.

"Third door on the right. Right?"

Ellie asked Chris.

"Yeah"

She opened the door and saw it was a normal size room not to big not to small it had a queen size bed in the middle, in front of the window was a small antique looking desk with piles of books on it, most of the furniture was antique the room was painted a deep forest green, with the bed covers and curtains were an ivory color.

"Not bad."

Cole and William said looking into the room from the door which was now crowed. Ellie went further into her room and saw that on the bed side table there were frames with pictures.

She picked up one of the pictures in it there were three teenagers she assumed them to be her and Cole and William.

"Hay I think this is a picture of us."

After Cole and William poured over the pictures in Ellie's room everyone else wasn't far behind. The now amnesiac group of people went from room to room looking for pictures to prove what Chris was telling them was the truth.

Leo and Piper found wedding pictures that showed everyone who they had woken up with at the wedding, the same went for Cole and Phoebe. There were a few people in the pictures they didn't know who they were like one of the brides-maids at Piper's wedding. They all assumed she was a family member or a friend of the family.

If they had asked Chris they would have gotten answer that would have surprised them but they didn't their conclusion made sense, despite their memory loss they all found it hard to believe that a truly close person in the family wouldn't be living in the manor.

Going back down stairs they all sat down in the living-room and thought up of a plan of action.

"Okay I say we have Chris call in at work wherever that is and have them say we can't come in because I can't even remember my last name let alone what I'm meant to do. Hay wouldn't it be weird if I was a doctor and gave my patients really weird diseases like Mitochondria deficiency?"

William stated.

"Makes perfect sense the last thing any of us need is to be out of a job when we get our memories back."

Cole said backing up his brother.

"You're just saying that because he's your brother."

Paige said in a mocking tone of voice.

"Oh...and what do you suggest Goldilocks you're not even a real blond but it seems like you have the image ready."

"What's that supposed to mean."

"He's calling you a dumb blond... bimbette."

Ellie said.

The little bickering match had the people frowning because memory loss or not something about the conversations felt normal, habit, or second nature if you will.

Any questions of what they were feeling and what was going on was brought to a halt by a knocking on the door.

Piper got up to answer the door, when she did she saw a middle age man with gray hair.

"Hay princess!"

The man said as he hugged her.

"Uh...hay!"

"So where is that grandson of mine."

Victor asked surprised he wasn't getting a warmer welcome from his daughter.

"Uh...he's inside as is everyone else... dad?"

"Oh...I thought for a moment there you forgot I was your father I know I've been gone long but not that long."

Pipe moved to let Victor in, he walked into the living-room. What he saw next had him seeing red.

"What are you doing here? I thought you had left and weren't coming back! Haven't you done enough? Haven't you hurt her enough or are you here to finish the job?"

Victor yelled the bewildered people looked at him like he had lost his mind. Before Chris could stop him Victor had launched himself forward and punched Cole.

"Hay!"

Piper and everyone else yelled without thinking about it or knowing what she was doing Piper froze the few people in the room she could.

To be continued...

A/N I'm sorry it's been a while I'm having computer problems as in I no longer have one. I'm currently using a communal computer which cuts my screen time. Please be patient and review.