Saving My Family
Disclaimers: The show and characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me everything else belongs to the creator and the movie company.
Chapter 3: Plans Made and Relationship Failure
"With the fact that dad just altered the alibi, it's going to be settled to I was born in October of 1987, so with that, if I arrived in 2003 to come see you, I'd be my current age right now mom." he said and she nodded as she answered him. "Which one are you then, the one born in that first future or the one born after your adult self was killed?" Andy asked him gently and he sighed as he told them the truth then.
"I was born in 2004 Uncle Andy, but this me you're looking at was born after my adult self was killed. He died saving Wyatt, until Cole caused him to have a relapse." he told him and they both nodded slowly. "So 2004, take away the added 17 years that's when your father and I had you conceived at the time. That makes perfect time matching and with it, I was acting like a mother all that time these last few years too."
"Yeah alright, we just skim off the two years to your birthday, but keep the date at the same time, but your baby self is the same date, just at that exact time and with that. I had you when I was just hitting fifteen at the time, and your birthday was a week after mine at the time. You became my entire life as I waited for your father to return home, but we were 27 when I told him he had a son, you spent three years bonding."
"Your father and I are turning twenty nine this year, though he's a few months older than I am. Alright, so if I got the dating right, I had you conceived in December 1986 and had you in '87. That's a nice roundabout number right there, because by that point, I wasn't involved in anything, I wasn't holding back in school. I was just living life as a normal young adult, preparing to get a job so I could support you at the time."
"Your great grandmother helped me out in the same way, and for twelve years I had your grandmother and Prue helping me to raise you. With your father and grandfather transferred to the gulf to fight in the Middle East and your father returned when I was twenty five. So we've been at it for eight years since you were nine and I trained you all your childhood and into your teen years, okay I get it, you're my first born baby."
"But three boys all by the same father and I'm your mother, you and I are beyond close, because I raised you on my own. Your father returned when you were starting the sixth grade and the usual touch of parental abandonment, but three years to fix that and your father and I married and you have a father now. While in the case of Andy, he's acting as your paternal figure all this time, til Rodriguez either killed him or put him into a coma?"
"That's the alibi here for us, if you're getting ready to tell me the truth now baby?" she asked and they both nodded as he hid a smile at the title she used to call him by and was relieved to hear it again. "Yeah that's the truth exactly, but considering I'm being born in three and half years, best to come up with a good alibi, so nobody wonders why I suddenly showed out of no where." he said to her and the duo both nodded, smiling.
"Yeah. alright I can act like an aunt now, Andy you better say you and your wife separated, before we saw each other at the time Phoebe activated our powers at the time. We need to make this ad believable as possible." she said and Andy nodded as she went further. "Baby, out of our version, who were you closest to honey, by that I mean bonds and powers exactly?" Prue asked her and he smiled as he answered her.
"After Phoebe took off on us, I grew closer to you aunt Prue, you were my favorite aunt, you taught me everything you both believed at the time, but like you and Grams. I have your ability of telekinesis, just in whitelighter form, and I'll give a demonstration of that later. But I'm just as powerful as you are, as is Aunt Charmed One." he said and she nodded as she and Piper exchanged bemused looks at the remark.
"I take it she's the youngest of the four of us honey, which direction did she, and you, take after Abraxas and Andy exactly?" Piper asked and he chuckled sliightly. "We both took after you in the beginning, not wanting to be witches at first, you and mom are the exact same way and I became like you: no abusing the powers, family came first, wanting to be normal and so on." he said and sighed as he finished that remark.
"It was after Uncle Andy got put into a coma that I wanted to just bind my powers, but you wouldn't let me with Abraxas on the loose. You said our powers were our birth rite, our heritage, we can't just give them up, not when we can still help people. That's the alibi and the truth is going to get your attention, because Cole turns into a complete stalker, you remember Darryl's remark regarding stalkers?" he asked they both nodded.
"Alright why do I feel like he's the catalyst for your brother losing his mind and turning to the darkside?" she asked sternly and he sighed. "Because you're right, and I'm giving you the extent, tonight and I'm laying into him. To put this bluntly, it's pains of future wrongs now, there's no going back once we do this. But dad was the last of the family to be killed by him, and he was with a Darklighter when it happened as well."
"But dad and Andy busted me, so I'm telling you who I really am to you now, but think about it so far here. Look at me, then vision yourself as a boy, but when you were seventeen. I meant it when I said you and dad raised me like you're own, mom." he said and Piper closed her eyes as she pictured herself as a man at seventeen to eighteen and then focused on her husband's bluish green eyes and smiled gently.
"I don't believe this, I'm already seeing it, you look just like her and have your father's eyes, honey. But did I get the name right: Christopher Allen Perry and if she named you after dad. Then..." Prue started to say and he nodded. "Yeah I'm who you're thinking the alibi is beginning to make sense now." he said and she nodded. "Andy busted you and you decided you're not holding back on us, but the sense is getting stronger."
"The clues are falling into place already and the sense of rightness with you here is getting stronger by the minute honey. I have four of five clues and you just do the rest, but why the sense of pain and anguish exactly regarding your father, it's not paternal abandonment, but something else?" she asked him and he swallowed. "He promised he'd never leave me, but he was killed by a Darklighter." he told her and she nodded firmly.
"My version of him, I just want him back now, he died seven months ago, but this version of dad. He is my version now, with the fact I got to you before Wyatt was born, you and dad are the version of you in my future I lost, mom." he said and they nodded as Andy pulled him into hug as he rocked him. "Shh, it's okay, it's going to be okay, alright that does it, these bastards have just crossed a line they can never take back."
"But if we were his favorite Aunt and Uncle in our side of the Power Of Three, Prue." he said with a furious tone and she nodded in agreement at that. "Than after they killed Leo we had to raise him ourselves after that, his parents are dead as is his sister, he's an orphan now. Your version of us, are us as you see us now, the way you know us to be, had Wyatt never come into the picture, baby?" she asked and he nodded and that did it.
"God damn it, you're holding in the pain of losing him to whoever killed him, was he the last of our family that died, before you chose this decision, by our, I mean my side of the family. Your father was the last piece, he dies and you're an orphan now?" Piper asked and he nodded. "Alright, if this future resulted in two threats at once for us, and they sent your counterpart back to when your brother was a baby. Why try again now?"
"What's the intention honey?" Prue asked him and he explained that to her. "The surgical strike didn't work, my brother still crashed, so they decided it's a pre-emptive strike, before he's even born. But you two guessed right, you two were my favorite aunt and uncle, after they killed my version of the PO3. And though you were whitelighters, you adopted me after that and raised up until I suggest this strategy to you."
"We have five years to insure that, but my changes are slowly making you and mom happy now. I got Andy back, I can teach you to balance out both sides of you and once Aunt Charmed One comes into the picture. But until Wyatt comes into the picture I fixed several problems at once that caused you to lose your powers eight months ago, but finances, secret desires, and responsibilities now Aunt Prue."
"The four of you can swap shifts after that. Also more good news, the resistance sent back a pretty good sum in finances so we can add on the alibi and pay off the mortgage and do renovations on the house and a few other things." he said and she smiled. "Smart, caring, honest, and a total golden child, and that's what I'm just getting by spending just under five hours with you, alright just tell us the truth."
"At the same time you tell Cole, and lay down whatever factors Andy named off to your father, and what happened to your mother, aunts and the rest of the family to your mother and me. Though I swear to god, he blasts you in the middle of the fight that kills his case. He kills an innocent woman, and nearly kills a young witchlighter no older than than eighteen, and to me you're still just a kid." she said to him gently and he nodded.
"How long do we have, before you leave again exactly baby?" Piper asked and he smiled at her. "Not till my birthday in five years mom, I'm staying till the final date on that list and I leave on my birthday, so you have me for five years now, I'm staying till I'm 24 now." he said and she grinned in delight at the news. "If you're really who I think, I'm not letting go till you're that age anyway honey." she said and he smiled at her gently.
"Whatever mistakes that our future versions did when your adult counterpart came back, it's not happening this time." Piper said and Prue nodded in agreement as she thought it over and then smiled as she got it. "Yeah and as to why that is, it's because the key was coming back to when I was still alive. Firstly, that with me alive its I'm take this seriously, second is that with no kids in the house, we're not suffering Grams's reaction."
"When you and I just showed up out of nowhere when our preschooler selves were here and grams was babysitting. And finally and most important, his telling us the danger of being born in the house and what it does when combined with being a whitelighter/witch hybrid. And we already saw what that does with Phoebe after the nexus got unleashed and infected her first at the time, but both this and being a hybrid."
"You're so powerful that you can go either way, if something is tampering with your morality. Our future selves want us to take that warning seriously they get their wish, if we can't save him, we swear to god we'll stop him and that future from coming true at all costs baby." Prue said and he nodded. "So how do you think dad is going to take you being back now Andy and she's engaged to you now." Piper added and he chuckled.
"So long as Prue, you and Phoebe are happy that's all he cares about, though once he realizes that Cole is going to lose his mind. Then he's really going to get overly protective, though you're witches, he's still going to act like a father to you." he said and they smiled at that. "Alright if I'm looking at loopholes in the future consequences rule here, it's you can't tell us the specifics, but you can give us dates and with it."
"We take guess and that leaps the playing with the space time continuum rule, because you never broke the rules. And we figured it out on our own anf you just confirm it or we watch the episodes focused on each of these dates. Alright so instead of telling us the details of our future right now write out the list of dates for these events, that way we can deal with them one at a time, that is our double's don't send us every mission."
"In fact, just give us the dates, if these episodes were spaced in between things, I suggest once each date hits, give us the key points, we watch the episodes. And see what needs to be changed, from what your version of us, or rather your adult version's, did. And we fix the mistakes they caused by getting a second chance to get it right." Prue told him and he nodded to her and she passed him a notepad and he got to work.
'Tonight, six weeks from now is Phoebe turning into a banshee, the Source almost killing mom and Aunt Prue was killed, Six weeks after that is they learn about Paige and the new power of three is born.' he thought as he wrote down every date they told him leading up to when the ultimate battle is concerned and their family was free to live slightly normal lives after that, before he finished and gave them the notepad.
"Okay there you go, like I said tonight's the first, so with that everyone of these is going to get changed slightly with you being alive now that I'm here and Uncle Andy and you are getting married this fall. But this doesn't break rules, just a loophole in it." he said and she nodded and she took the first copy off and made six more copies of it for their family and he smiled in relief at this idea as Piper and Andy smiled at her.
"This is actually a good idea Prue, we can't know about our future, but having the dates of each situation helps." Andy said and Chris nodded as he answered him at that with a smile. "Yeah, and with it is future consequences, I tell you too much and it's going to change things." he said and Piper nodded to that as she looked at him as she answered him. "We understand, until you think we're ready to know we can wait."
"It's not our business till you think we're ready, aside from that you're harmless and are risking your own existence just to save us and your brother now. And that's a very noble, righteous and selfless thing to do, baby, I'm very proud of you." she said and he nodded to her gently as he answered her. "Yeah, the resistance is sending back every season from the show, including the ones focused on these dates I just gave you."
"This way so I don't have to tell you everything, but you still get the truth now, you just watch the episode and then make changes so we don't lose anyone else now." he said and they both nodded as Piper thought it over then as she answered him smiling. "Well one good thing at least this way I can train to control my powers between freezing and exploding now." Piper said and he smiled at her as he answered her.
"I'm lucky dad chose to change the alibi, this way we can act like our own family till my brother is born. And you don't have marital problems, because you have me helping out with my brother and I can take care of him when you're on a date." he said and she smiled as she got what he was saying. "If Leo and I were your surrogate or adoptive parents, you want us to act like you're really our son?" she asked and he nodded to her.
"Not exactly, I'm telling you the truth tonight, so once you hear this, you're really going to be acting like my mother, aside from that, I brought everything that was in my room at the resistance back from the future and I can show you later. But one of the photos was of you and me when I was five, and we need to get my stuff, pictures of us and my everything else on the walls." he said and she nodded to that as she answered him.
"So we skim the added three years of your age and you're about to start high school that's the cover story here for you now. Okay, if we're doing that, Andy, you and Prue were seventeen nearly eighteen, when he was born, I was nearing fifteen and Christopher was transferred to Iraq in the gulf war. Night of passion and then I learn I'm pregnant with my boyfriend's son and wait till he's back in town, before I tell him that."
"I named him after his father and our grandfather, So Christopher-Allen Perry Halliwell-Wyatt, that's the cover story, but we need to make that as believable as gets, but first things first." she said and they nodded as he hid a smile at that. "That was your suggestion as well Andy. But I pull this off and there is no resistance or need to fear your lives when living a double life and while on the subject now though."
"At any rate, being normal is over rated girls, you can have a normal life, but your witches, balance your magical with your normal life and that keeps things from getting too stressful, besides, if you want to hang with your friends later, I can do whatever errands you need to do around the house, since Leo, Andy and I are on three whitelighter rotation. While you girls just balance your jobs and social life with family and your magical life, but you got to let the need for being normal go Piper."
"Being special and having powers doesn't mean you should quit living a normal life, you can have a family and be like everyone else. That's actually what the Harry Potter books were indicating: Harry wanted to be a normal wizard, but thanks to his prophecy he couldn't, he had to live with it. But he loved being a wizard, it brought him what he wanted most friends and a future, you're looking at the exact same thing."
"The kids in the Elm Street movies were coping with the same thing, they were also marked, while the boys wanted to be normal, she made it clear they can't, so long as they're marked they have to live with being without dreams. Every supernatural event that happens singles out a certain victim, but every witch makes the best of it and they don't care they're witches, so long as they doing it to protect mortals."
"They don't mind it cuts into their life slightly, as long as it makes a difference, that's what being good witches is all about, so it cuts into your social life a bit, you just rearrange a get together. I gave up twenty eight dates in two years, because my job as a good witch called for to protect an innocent. But my girlfriend and fiancé is magical as well, and she didn't mind, out of the four of you your youngest is marrying a mortal and he's not going to care at all you're witches and whitelighters."
"Phoebe loves being a witch, but it's like that saying in Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility, we never use our powers for our own personal gain or there's a serious drawback, like the dress and what happened not long after you got your powers. As for Pratt, so long as we don't cross the line, and we're saved from having that type of problem. First rule here we follow every rule that comes from being good witches, though getting selfish causes the same problems as personal gain does."
"In which case that's the problem now like what happened last year when you saw the possible future, there's many futures that happen from our choices, but for this, you follow the path in the way we do it now that won't happen. Phoebe's premonition never comes true and that never happens and your oldest stays like us for good after that."
"But between now and when we got to find whoever it is that did that to him, it's going to take a while to and with that we got plenty of time to figure it out. Don't let one drawback discourage you, that situation with Cole this time next year is going to set you back, but you got me, Prue, Andy, Leo and your youngest sister with you. It's okay that you're hurt, but don't give up, okay, you got us still and we will get her back no matter what, okay." he said and they both nodded to him as she answered him.
"I'll admit it's a burden at times, but we were and are the strongest family of good witches on the planet, the job gets dangerous, but grandma and Grams death shouldn't hold you back any more give it everything you have, you got me, the girls, Leo and Andy with you now, time to let go now. It's scary to live with fighting the evil in 'our' world, our lives as witches asks us to give up certain things it's true, but so long as you have hope and family you can fight forever, have a family and be normal, it's going to be alright now Piper." he added gently and she smiled softly as she nodded.
"What's this mean now honey, you work from home on your scholarship or degree?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah, aside from being your whitelighter I'm acting like a normal eighteen year old till my brother is born and then I get to work on protecting him then. You and Leo got me helping at the club too, but with a new upgraded version of the power of three the name sticks though there's four of you." he said and she nodded.
"Were they supposed to jump forward like that this fast?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah, your powers were blocked till after Grams died of that heart attack, when Phoebe came back it was a message it was time for you three be together for good now, that the fights should come to an end. As you saw from from what Andrus did, you can't live with out each other, fights like that dismantle the power of three, and with that, within the anniversary of your becoming witches your powers start getting stronger."
"And they get stronger every year. with me here, we can build the bonds between us, between the six of us, now and your baby sibling in three months and my future surrogate sibling has the adult version of his baby one taking care of him now, so I'm familiar to him and he's not going to get skittish in his first three months. But between now and when he's born we got a lot of work to do." he added and she nodded in agreement to that as she read through that as she answered him.
"So one year after we become witches we deal with Abraxas and we learn to work together as a team and while Prue gains astroprojection, Phoebe gains the ability to levitate and she's a skilled martial arts expert, and just when I thought I wasn't getting any stronger. My powers speed up and I can now blow things up in addition to freezing them, I'm also the family cook and do potions and I'm about to become the eldest sister and training my youngest in her powers while I'm taking care of both you and her."
"So for now, I'm acting like a mother to you and whoever my baby sister is, before my baby is born. That is if I learn that truth tonight, and I go on full blast as I take on being a mother for real. Alright look buster, I don't want to have to keep bailing you out of jail for doing anything illegal during these raids with the demons, so be careful, you're eighteen, there's no drinking, recreational drugs or smoking allowed in this house, understood." She said, her tone going motherly and he nodded to her gently.
"No problem, you and Leo, as well as the girls, kept me clean and healthy and I took health class seriously, I'm not into that type of thing, with the fact that you run the club, we can adjust it slightly too. You taught me to cook though, so we can make the meals together though if we want family nights or the night, Leo, well dad, is busy with another charge, if you're acting like mom now." he said and Piper smiled at the title.
"I better get used to that title later if whoever you really are to me is really who I think sweetie, but my adult second born, you can tell me the truth later, but for now we just build that bond." she said and pulled him into a hug and he tightened his arms around her as he hid a smile, feeling his heart start to heal then as he felt her arms around him.
'Finally I get to be with my mother and father as an adult, well I'm making the best of the next five years, it'll be stressful, but it'll be worth it.' he thought and Piper answered that thought gently. "Starting now it's time you started calling us by the titles you knew us by in the future, you're my son. Even as an adult I can tell you're my baby boy, it's patently intuition, we know our children on sight." she said and he nodded and smiled.
"Thanks mom, with the added time here, I'm staying till the parasite is dealt with, but I'm with with family finally for the first time in a while." he said and she nodded. "I take it Leo and Andy figured it out already on who you really are to me and Leo correct?" she asked and he smiled. "We did actually, but he's going to be the one to tell you Piper, but we're seeing our youngest as an adult now too, so that helps."
"At least we know he grows into two sides of your portion of the family, as for baby Halliwell the scenario just took on a life of its own and what the heck happened to me, because Darryl had to subdue me that afternoon?" Andy asked and she sighed. "Her term for the boogieman in the basement resulted in some sort of situation that we put together at the time when Phoebe's darkside took hold when we first started out."
"At the time our grandparents built the house in the center of a pentagram, we have it, the, whatever it is, stays grounded in good, the demons, triad or whatever it is, take control of our house and it turns into a nest for evil and starts spreading, the spell Grams used was to put it back it back in its hole when she was seven and ever since she's been afraid of being in the basement because of it." she said and Prue it from there.
"The week I had that house party the aftershock opened up the hole in the basement and released it, and hit her first, before the guy you arrested got taken, followed by the scholar and then she let you in there and you got possessed, before Darryl arrested you while he was dealing with the neighbors across the street, till I forced her to remember the spell and we said it together and put it back in its hole, but that explains this one." she said and flipped to one of the new pages in the book and he looked at it.
"About the forgery, Leo had it partly right that's illegal, but being witches doesn't make sense in certain areas like you're marrying a whitelighter and having children with them. In which case Piper, I think that's the warning and the meaning of your powers getting stronger now here, you choose to put your selfishness ahead of your sister and this is the result." Andy said to her and she nodded as she answered him as he went further.
"The imported fruit and the arroyo fever fiasco were one message, but this situation with a passport is another Piper, they're telling you that being a good witch means following the rules, mortal and magical. Like you learned when you dealt with Javna we can't use our powers for personal gain, that first one resulted in you catching Wiliamson's eye and causes a serious containment breach till Leo breaks the rules to save you."
"As for the trio of monkeys that's the consequence of your breaking our mandate, you break one and it causes a chain reaction and brings down what you worked so hard to build. That's the message now, you misuse magic and it backfires and does you in the process. While in mortal laws here you chose the wrong day to be screwing around with breaking laws and forgery and selfishness results in serious consequences."
"What we need to do is rearrange his birth certificate and I can talk to the cleaners that Leo is not the same Leo Wyatt from fifty years in the past, and we can get a new birth certificate and social security number arranged too." he added and she smiled as she answered him. "First importing those blasted fruits in and now this, alright I get the message no more breaking the law and personal gain anymore."
"Well if we go, we do it during a lull in the excitement, but first we help Phoebe now and protect our innocent right now." she said and he nodded. "That's what I learned from you, we want what others have, but getting selfish results in added problems and for Phoebe later, she's going to start shirking her responsibilities." he added and she nodded.
"Don't tell me, my I.D. said what I was thinking, she shirked her responsibilities by letting Cole live and if my guess is correct, this gets me killed in your timeline, because he brought the Source down on us till it pulverizes our version of the power of three and my baby sister, whoever she might be, has to take my place. Cole gets possessed by the bastard's soul and she starts resenting the fact she's got familial responsibilities."
"Til the bastard's spawn starts corrupting the good in her and she takes her place as his..., dear god no." Prue said in shock and Andy looked at her. "What is it Prue?" he asked and her eyes narrowed as she answered him. "Cole gets possessed by the Source, his intention after the power of three gets reconstituted is turning her into his queen, and she's battling it out between the good and evil in her, because the bastard's seer is infecting her with evil, and destroying the good in her, it takes knowing she's about to lose the girls that does it finally. Alright honey when does this start?"
"When exactly, because if she's starts getting resentful of having to do her job, I'm taking up the slack?" Prue asked sternly and he pointed to the date that Leo was dealing with his team-mates attack on him. "Not long after your baby sister starts suspecting Cole turned back into a demon." he said and she nodded. "I'm feeling like I'm back to dealing with her when she was just getting out of high school, before Grams died here."
"Alright if she starts shirking her responsibilities, before her darkside takes hold, yet again, here, I'm taking up the slack and we deal with things ourselves, but I'm helping you cope, you're the middle sister Piper, right now, but we and whoever our youngest is, we can be the power of three till we get her back." she said to her and she nodded.
"In your case though you're the oldest sister, you're not bearing that burden alone Piper, our job is to protect our family and keep it in one piece, but we got each other, it's us, and baby charmed one. Baby Charmed One is going to be with us, and we train and take out as many demons as we can, load the cabinets with potions and be prepared if they try to take us out here, if we got to go prepared, we each carry a knapsack with potions and a athame for security." she said and Piper nodded in agreement to that.
"Alright to repeat what I said a bit ago, we let it play out like you just described. You're right we do that, if you're on a job I've got Chris with me and Baby Charmed one, and if we're attacked we work as one, but we're not going down without a fight. Chris whatever you used to do, teach me every potion and advanced skill you learned in the last four years in your case, since your brother got converted." she said and he nodded to her.
"From this date to this date, we're going all out and load the cabinets with potions and carry knapsacks with them and athames mom." he said and pointed out the day she chose Cole and when they vanquished him for real this time and she nodded to him. "Okay during that week you train me, Prue and Baby Charmed one in every spell and potion you learned from future me, Phoebe and Baby Charmed One, with the fact I'm organizing a gym in the basement for sparring practice we go into hand to combat and we and Prue are training to fight every demon we encounter, we're getting basic, so teach us advanced, okay baby." she said and he nodded to her as he answered her.
"Mom, one of the things I packed when I came back to this timeline and arrived today was my survival knapsack, which was a survival bag with several vanquishing, stunning, and smoke bomb potions and an athame, that I used for hand to hand combat, back in my future, I was doing repeated raids into the underworld, with the Source now coming after you, I'm not doing that anymore, I'm protecting you. This knapsack was similar to the one Prue decided on, but it's carried like a purse, just with witch supplies."
"I carry mine like the handbag that Richard Dean Anderson used on Macgyver, but yours will be like you're carrying your purse for shopping, but we, Aunt Prue and Aunt Baby Charmed One are working as one to fight it out till she starts wavering between good and evil. To put this bluntly though, what you're looking at here is the Terminator scenario now, they kill you now in this time line, and my brother and I no longer exist, you and your sisters trained me yourself, and you raised me and without you I don't have a future to return to, you're my future mom." he said and she nodded as her eyes flared up in rage at the news then.
"That's why you came, to keep me alive for as long as possible till you're born baby, you and your brother. I'm your past, present and future." she said as she ran her hand through his hair and he leaned into her hand and pressed his forehead to hers and she closed her eyes as she felt her maternal instincts go into over drive as she looked at him as she told him the truth as she looked into his eyes.
"Before I never wanted to be a witch, but having a normal life, be a normal woman and be free of my obligations to my powers, but that ability just gave me the biggest reason to fight now. If you're my future, my youngest at the current moment, than screw being normal, I want that future now, I always wanted children, and you're my biggest reason to fight, if you're my son, than I accept my powers with open arms now."
"The terminator, you mean they kill me now and your future never happens, I saw the movie, but I didn't think anything of it, but now it's just turned into a necessity here, alright the time paradox theory: destroy the parent of the savior and the demons, or machines control the world, and I'm Sarah Connor we're just five cities north of L.A. and you're my Kyle Reese, yeah okay that makes more sense now."
"If you're my son you came back to keep us alive and me especially, but we're rebuilding the bonds you had with me and your father and aunts, we work as one together and keep it up till your brother is born and six to seven months before your born. And I have to stay alive long enough to have both of you, yeah okay I get it and with that, you're my baby boy and with that in mind they want to screw with me, they'd better watch it."
"They touch you I'm killing them myself, I swear to god, alright, I'm making sure I survive these raids and battles no matter what. If you're my son, I'm making sure you're born and the only way to do that is to eliminate every single demon who comes after us, starting with the Brotherhood of the Thorn and from there we work our way down the list. We train in between raids, we spend as much family time together as possible and we do the next job of putting her through her biggest trial of being a witch."
"It's going to hurt, but it's a teaching tool Prue, she's still the youngest sister to you and me, but becoming the middle sister, she still wants to be a child, but getting married and a job on top of it, multiple responsibilities and to top it off she's a charmed one and having to grow up that fast is terrifying to her, she needs to face what we had to we accepted our powers, but this means we got no choice." she said and Prue nodded to her.
"Guys does it bother you, you're close to realizing the truth in my case, I mean I just gave you everything you wanted back now?" Chris asked and they shook their heads. "No you're my golden child, you could do no wrong in my eyes." they said together and he smiled softly. "That could be a problem but to you, I'm perfect, but with a baby in the house trying to show off, and I better tell you this, now, I'm thrice blessed?" he said and she nodded and Andy froze at that.
"Thrice: witch, white-lighter, and your father was an elder when you were conceived?" he said and he nodded. "Oh boy, you're even more powerful now then when your brother is born in the house, well doesn't matter, you're getting all the attention from our version, before baby is born." Prue said and Piper nodded "I know, but baby needs to learn not to expect attention every time, when he's just a baby, but you're the one getting all the attention here right now."
"With your academic, or your athletic catches, but smart, caring, honest, and a total golden child, so you're my first born baby, my first born, my baby boy, my perfect Christoper Allen." Piper said and he smiled softly. "I'm a mama's boy, you and I had a very strong connection, but to you, I could do no wrong." he said and they nodded. "And there's the catch, just because you bend a rule or two, doesn't mean you're evil or holding back." she said and he nodded to her.
"Life in this family, were it not for magic, I would never meet you, my baby as a teenager now." she said and Prue smiled at her remark. "There's that, and there's the..., Phoebe was born in the house, the baby was born in the house, uh huh, why didn't I see this coming, she's showering him with attention. As to why, it's because he's just like her, but to us, your mother and me, you're completely perfect, as you know better then to use your powers for your own gain."
"Was Andy and I your favorite aunt and uncle?" she asked and he smiled and they grinned. "Baby tell me the truth, was she comparing him to you all that time growing up, before the girls had it here, as your adult double was killed by whoever it was?" she asked and he looked down and her eyes narrowed. "The little brat needs to understand, it's not first born, we had you first, before he was born, and you're my cub, my golden child, my perfect Christopher Halliwell."
"But I had enough of this crap, as Oddball basically said it all here, and your father every right to use that right now, but the little things hit the table here. I had it, I had it with being taken for granted, I had it with being the one it always depended on here right now in this case, and most of all I had it with her. Her choices were the case of I had to clean up her messes, and you're the first born, we don't let our powers run wild here." Prue said and Piper nodded sternly.
"We still need you, Prue, that won't ever change." she said and Prue nodded smiling softly at that. "My double said it all, I can't go on without you, you always charged ahead, never thinking what said choice would do to us." she said to her and she looked down at that. "You're my big sister, I was closest to you, but you and I shared a bond she doesn't understand, she wasn't born till 1975, you and me, we were in the very early 70's." she said softly to her at that remark.
"You were training me to take your place when the time came Prue, which is going to come when we find Chris's adult self in our youngest sister." she said and Prue nodded. "Yeah I know that, but whatever would be said to her, is all true, but what she's going to say to prevent killing a demon is not an option now. She can't be with us and stay married to Cole as long as he takes the Source's place, it doesn't work like that but we still have the power of three here."
"We still have it, as long as we stick together." she said and Piper nodded. "Yeah, for good now, our version was it, but us and your aunt double, now, we see this the same way, like us, you were a year late in your powers, you never wanted your powers. And at times it causes a severe imbalance, but you're like us, and your uncle happens to be a cop now, so there it is now." Piper said and Prue finished it gently as she and Andy looked into his eyes as she said it.
"And talk about your personal gain consequences, let me take a wild guess, here, but your aunt, that's Aunt witch/lighter created her own gigolo here. And immediately following it, his alter ego is running loose, and you have a run in with him but not you, your adult double?" she asked and he nodded. "This is why it's so dangerous, and Perry had a run in, and the character was driving a porsche, before my double borrowed another." he said and she nodded bemused.
"I got to get you out on parole, but don't try it, we're asking for the car keys then passing it back to the dealer." Andy said and she nodded as she tried to keep from laughing at that. "No joke, but I'm taking my family on a vacation that week, guys." Darryl said to them and they nodded. "But to us, you're perfect, our golden child, to us you could do no wrong in our eyes." he added and the quartet nodded in agreement. "Issues." Piper said and they all nodded to that.
"I think we started something here, but to us you're the perfect cub, the golden child, you could do no wrong in our eyes, but for Phoebe, he's like her now. So born in the house you can go either way, if something is messing with your morality, but you're so much like us it's ridiculous." she said and he nodded, as Piper wrapped her hand around the back of his neck and pressed her forehead to his and he closed his eyes as he buried his head into her shoulder then.
And she hugged him tightly at that in response. "You're my perfect baby, my first born, my baby boy, you could do no wrong in my eyes, baby." she said and he smiled softly as he pressed his forehead to her's and she smiled and Prue smiled at the connection building between them. "Issues in the playing favorites in this house, but you never turned on your responsibilities here right now, and with it, you knew better then to start showing off right now anyway."
"I got to get your brother under control, but I bet he conjured a dragon right out of the tv." Prue said and he nodded. "Uh huh, issues like I said, but there it is, baby needs to learn to not conjure things right out of the tv or whatever it, as we don't do this and we got problems, but I'm binding his powers when he's born. At least this way we don't have someone like Rodriguez showing up on the door-step every other day, like we did you guys." Piper said and they nodded.
"And to repeat this after we had something coming up every other day here, why does it feel like we live here?" Darryl asked and she started laughing. "It's because Andy's memories were coming back, he forgot that Piper kept freezing him when we were pre-kindergarten." she said and he started laughing. "That and I'm cursed, as my love life has the strangest happening coming into it." Andy said and he nodded with a chuckle to that and they both nodded.
"Mom never bound our powers, so we forgot we had them so what went on the parlor you were used to this." Piper said and Andy nodded with a bemused smile. "And I knew you guys all my life, but this was ridiculous, that I'm used to what is going in this house every other day, as a result of a moving couch that no one touched or you freezing me, when we were playing freeze tag." he said and Darryl shook his head smiling at that news and Prue nodded with a smile.
"Well now that you remember, you don't care nowadays." she said and he nodded. "Well two white lighters and two witches, and our own cubs are half of each of us." he said and she nodded. "Wait till dad hears this, but dad's back involved here, but what made him leave was the ice cream truck, and Grams couldn't take the pressure here. It was after Alan was killed she never got involved with another man long enough to change her opinions." she said and he nodded.
"How's Victor?" he asked her and she smiled. "He's doing great, I reconciled with him and our relationship is back to full power again." she said and he nodded smiling. "How did he take it when the truth came out?" he asked and she sighed. "It was close, but he's accepting it, turns out Sam was the problem, he got mom pregnant. And baby Charmed One is said reason, but issues in truths, he's managing here." she said and he nodded to the news then in amazement.
"We both never wanted to be a witch at one point, but we adapted to it and it's just made our relationship even stronger than it was when we were kids. Our powers were a gift, not a curse and it just gave us the biggest reason to fight, that reason is sitting right in front of us right now. My son is our biggest motivator to fight now Prue, alright screw living normal lives in order to prevent your Astroprojection from running wild again."
"Once baby comes into the picture, we take turns getting days off, and we alter the permutations in our line up, Chris is always with me. We balance the normal with our abnormal lives and we get stronger that way, as for Phoebe, she's entering the biggest trial she can think of now. It's the Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader complex and living double lives, on the one hand his commitment to the Jedi order and corruption by the darkside and the other, living a normal life with who's who's his wife and family."
"Only it's not that type of double life, it's being a charmed one, a sister and our family in one life and her living the living of a married woman in the other, when said man is carrying the Darth Vader complex and she's got a job. She's got to make a choice: one or the other, us, as we're family, or turning the darkside and marrying into evil and her future is being an agent of evil from next spring and forward. That's the test, she passes that test and we go to preparing for my son's birth." Piper said and she nodded.
"Biggest trial, ours was dealing with Abraxas, hers is dealing with being the queen of the underworld, while yours is dealing with the boys and mine was evidently dying to protect an innocent, but I died in the line of duty. That's the case now, our family in turmoil and our youngest is taking over and she's following our rules of combat, but she starts acting like me, when I get going, okay Andy and I stay in the manor till we retire completely."
"You live here, but we and Phoebe and our youngest get houses in range of the manor later, okay, while this is going on, I'm continuing my job as a photographer, and we can keep the club going, but first off, we deal with this. Alright if you're becoming me, time to take it to the max Piper, first rule here, family comes first and if it means having to deal with a lesson in learning that you got to make it clear: it's one side or the other."
"She can't be with us as long as she's married to the Source, she's got to make a choice good or evil, even it hurts to choose you got to make a choice. That's how it works, we're good witches, one of us goes rogue and we make it clear, choose a side, good or evil, knowing Cole he's going to say the same, she's got to make a choice once she starts wavering between the sides if we have to protect our innocent in that situation from him." she said and Piper nodded in agreement to her as Andy looked at them.
"For gods sakes here, alright in this case, once the weeks leading up to when she starts shirking her responsibilities, you, your aunt, Prue and I are working as a team. Advanced combat, use of certain weapons, potions, I don't care, we just make it as hard as we can for them to kill us. If Baby Charmed One falls in love with a witch who is suffering a power hungry complex not long after whatever is going on."
"We got to keep things from getting out of hand, you and your father, as well as Andy are working out a rotation. Especially if her powers reach anything we don't need read right now as a result. I mean I just gained this power, if she gains power that's enough to drive a person or demon absolutely crazy we got to deal with it, before it drives her out her mind." Piper said to him and he covered his eyes.
"Phoebe becomes an empath in three years mom and that was putting a strain on your bond, in order to block her out we need an empath blocking potion. It takes time to control it and you're dealing with my brother at the same time and while this is going on I'm trying to find some way to block her out of your emotions to keep your relationship from fracturing and finally to top it off she starts acting like Prue did when your sister was falling for the male witch she fell in love with."
"Just because you got the powers doesn't make you invincible, that's the problem, we're still human, we just got magic in our blood. Living or being born right above the whatever this thing is resulted in added problems, first is he's twice blessed and secondly he was born in the house. I was born in the hospital, but I carried in me the sense of right and wrong and he was born in the house right over the hole and it resulted in a good verse evil battle for the following nineteen years."
"In her case, she's going to be flirting with the darkside here, but save a innocent and be a charmed one and sister on one hand, and saving demons and being the queen of the underworld on the other, that's the the catch. For the greater good, she's got to make a choice here, us or him. While we're her family, he's her husband. You once said that my brother and I were practically raised around demons, and being the junior version of you girls, we'd be just as powerful as you are as long as we had family, we can handle anything that comes our way." Chris said and she nodded in agreement.
"That sounds like something I'd say alright, okay if I had children I must have changed and turned into mom and Grams as a result, right, is that what happened. I, after the last date on this list turned into mom and decided I was training you boys to control your powers and you went to school that taught magic. Just not in the way we see it on the movie, is that it?" Piper asked and he nodded as he answered her.
"Yeah that's it, but certain details I'll tell you as we go through each date, but I will say that when it came to you, anyone who screwed with me or my brother was getting vanquished when you found out about it, if they were a demon. The bad news is that the Elders start pushing you so as to not wanting anything to do with them, after what happened eight months ago mom." he said and she nodded in annoyance.
"It may not have worked for mom and Sam, but it will for us and with that, we just got to show that we can set aside things and put them on hold for the greater good if we need to. I wasn't risking an innocent getting burned, because of my selfishness, let alone a nine year old girl. I grew up, but that doesn't mean I don't still believe in fairies, trolls and other things, with what we been through these last three years."
"With you here I can open up more, because the girls and Leo know me too well, you I know I can open up to and with that, you're right, family should come first and so should following the rules and the greater good, but as long as we have family we can take on anything or anyone that stands in our way. In fact that's my first lesson to you and your brother, starting now and when we gain the youngest of our family later."
"So long as we never lose our true loves or our families, we fight to the death, because in my case I've got everything worth living for now and soon enough it's going to get even better: my family intact, my husband and now my adult second born living with me till his baby self is born and then I got three boys after that." Piper said smiling and he smiled at her as Andy hid a smile as he answered her.
"What's your suggestion girls, son, we let things play out like they did in his timeline?" Andy asked her and Piper nodded. "Yeah that's it exactly, as the oldest members of our family now, we have to keep it in one piece, we lose her for a few weeks, but we get her back later. I'm taking a page out of your book and becoming you for that escapade, but I'm not putting up with her behavior where our youngest is concerned."
"Our baby sister, if she's an only child, will have to deal with having big sisters now, but she needs us, if there was some sort of tragedy when she was a teenager, so with that, you and I deal with our baby sister, as the youngest gets used to living with us, but first we build a few rooms into the house and then she moves in with us. Chris is getting the room across the hall from yours, but either way is she is spending as much bonding time as possible with us now as she wants, if she's like us in getting used to it."
"In which case is if she's like us after the situation of learning he's alive or he's a demon and she's now convinced that he's changed back we do this till we pull the plug, with Phoebe out of the house, we make plans. Baby charmed one is always with us till we decide to blow him away and we make it clear we're not fooled anymore, if her demonic or warlock powers make a comeback when we're in the middle of a battle."
"Phoebes going to resent the fact that baby charmed one was in the right this entire time, and take it out on her, as baby source does the same thing. But the only side I'm taking here is baby charmed one. She shirked her responsibilities and here's the penalty, she just about destroys our family, because she's in love with the darkside, a demon is a demon, no matter if they reformed or not and with that fact in mind here."
"Our youngest was in the right that entire time, she tries to warn me I'm taking charge, and she starts shirking her responsibilities, you fill the gaps till we get her back. We let him corrupt her, she needs that lesson in training. To put this bluntly, I'm letting her darkside throw her into the flames, she needs to face her fears of being evil, if this means a lesson in becoming the queen of the underworld, than so be it."
"Where baby charmed one is concerned, you screw with my youngest, be it where children or sisters are concerned, you're getting vanquished when I get my hands on them and with that. I'm not letting my family get torn apart, till I know what her first name is I'm using this title for her, but whoever screws with the family is getting vanquished when I get my hands on them." she said and then looked at the dating list.
"Alright let me see here." she said and looked at the dates prior to that and smiled grimly. "Whatever happens before this little escapade is the result, she starts suspecting he's turned back into a demon, just as we're getting ready to go on our honeymoons, and some demon infects her with a power and the fear and suspicion reaches dangerous levels till she tries to deal with it herself, and we have to get this power out of her."
"Alright with you alive that's not happening, but if this little parasite gets to not only her, but my unborn son, I'm killing them myself, so be on stand by, if she tells me that he's turned back into one, I'm monitoring it till she starts shirking her responsibilities later and then when we get the news she's pregnant, we pull the plug." she said and Chris nodded as he hid a smile at her declaration of family in his case then.
"You think we should put a few titles to these dates so we know what we're looking at here, if these cable companies made a show about us?" Prue asked and he nodded. "Yeah, we just use the titles they used, so our current predicament is subtitled 'Exit Strategy, and I'll tell you the next later, I'm here, so we can deflect the situations slightly starting with this one, one charmed one turns to the darkside, another takes her place till the power of four is healed and with that fact in mind here."
"Mom, your scenario played out just as you described where my brother is concerned, being born in the house and being half of each is dangerous. What's even more dangerous is the fact that he's to be known as the twice blessed and is the wielder of Excalibur. All that power went to his head, to him it's not about being good or evil, it's about power and it always was." He said and she nodded as Prue answered that.
"I've heard that line before, 'there is no good or evil, just power and those too weak to seek it'. That's just a bunch of crock to excuse murdering innocent people, 'I did yes, but I did it for the greater good', it's bull crap, you did it because you're holding the power of life over death over someone. Well for us, we all have good or evil in us, but what side you choose is up to you, that's how it works, you have to pick a side: good or evil. Even if it means giving up something you have to choose." she said and he nodded to her.
"Yeah I took that choice and chose you when I was old enough to really understand what you and Aunt Phoebe were constantly arguing about mom. But it's Cole and it's always been Cole, she loved Coop, but he's still the threat in my future. And it's the upcoming sequel to the phantom menace, you were Wyatt's breaking point. So to prevent that we have a lot of work to do." he said and she nodded as she gently switched the subject.
"What's the danger of going through feminine problems when you're a girl witch exactly, with my temper like it is right now?" Piper asked and he tried to keep from laughing as he answered her. "Your powers get a bit crazy, like your youngest gets a bit edgy and her powers are orbing and it results in her orbing when something startles her. Yours are blowing things up when you get irritated and so on." he said and she nodded, bemused.
"Well I can see being pregnant or just recovering from the pregnancy is going to start screwing with my powers, before I have your brother kiddo. And if you're really mine, I'm acting like the mother you want honey, alright I'll keep that in mind here now. In the meantime Phoebe needs some added sisterly support now." she said and Prue nodded in agreement as she took over then as she looked at the quartet gently as she said it then.
"Showtime guys, alright let's see, the power removal potion." Prue said and looked at the book and Andy moved to the cabinet and she named each ingredient and he put it in the basket, before they looked at the trio. "Jenna, you better make a copy of yourself, but improvise just for a single clone okay." she said and Jenna nodded to her.
"Take my powers, multiply by one, to help a friend and be it done." she said and a minute later a clone of her appeared. "Alright Jenna stay in here and out of sight, Jenny you're with us up in the attic." Piper said and she nodded as Andy looked at her. "Evil can't use the amulet, they got one half of it, we got the other, I'll take it and keep it in my pocket." he said and she nodded to that as she answered him then.
"No I got a better idea, Jenny you carry the amulet, when they arrive dad and I are pulling a bait and switch in the drop attack and I'm yanking the spell from the book, before they can use it, we burn the spell and I've got both amulets as I'm letting Cole have it for the damage he's done to her, just get ready girls, I'm naming the first five off and you'll get it in five minutes, because I'm not giving you up without a fight now."
"Though considering dad busted me, I'm not hiding that truth from you and I'm telling you up front who I am, this way no need for scrutiny or cross examination. We're family and we can act like one now that I'm here first, before Wyatt." he said and she nodded. "Yeah good idea, just name off the clues that Andy named off to your father, if you brought anything of us ours show it to us and I'm going to get it all in five minutes."
"As you look like Piper, but have Leo's eyes, just name off every factor to us and then just tell us the truth, because I recognize that pendant on you necklace." Prue said and he nodded as he sighed. "Mom gave it to me, before she died, it's all I have left of her to remember her by, along with my memories of her. I grew up to be a mama's boy, and she means the world to me, the four of you are my entire world." he said sadly to her.
"And no need, I'm telling him and you straight up on what I catalogued from getting a better look at him, but I think he's a different version they sent back than whatever happened before. Because he was trying to keep from breaking down in front of us when he was looking at Leo." Andy told her and she nodded. "Yeah and I think I know why and it's because Leo was all he had left of our side of the family." Piper said to him softly.
"He is, you and dad both were killed by the time I was sixteen, and everyone else in the family was dead, went unground or were converted to the darkside. You and Uncle Andy, Aunt Prue, raised me the following year and a half, before we chose this choice. But the pain is still there, I can't controll my anger when I'm around Cole and you'll find out why later, but..., but I can't lose you again." he said as he tried to hold it in then.
"Shh, calm down son, what happened back then if it's causing this in you, if you're seeing your mother, Prue and Phoebe, as well as Leo and me in this way now that you arrived?" Andy asked him gently and he sighed as he answered him as he looked at his family, as he tried to hold it in. "I'm seventeen, I lived as normal a life as I could get it till my brother went to the darkside, but my family meant more to me than anything."
"I lost three years, three years thanks to these demons Uncle Andy, all I want is a chance to be with the six of you now, no more lies between us, no holding back. I lost dad, barely weeks after Aunt Charmed One died and she was killed not long after I lost my sister. I have noting left to go back to, I'm an orphan." he said and watching him, Andy felt his anger growing by the minute as he watched him trying to hold it in.
"All I want is my original bond with my mother and aunts, the bond I always wanted with dad and you. I've got five years here in this timeline to change that future now. I don't care I'm breaking the rules and telling you the truth, or that I got permission to by your future selves. I just want to be with you, be around my version at it's earliest stage, I just want my family back now and with me back in this timeline now, it's hard."
"I mean losing my version is bad enough, but I lose my entire family in three years, now that I'm in the past, at this moment. I can't take losing either version of the Charmed Ones, this version or mine, let alone dad, you or grandpa, all that's left of my family are Phoebe's daughter and her husband. As to why two cousins and my brother turned evil and the other four and my sister were murdered, you and Aunt Prue are whitelighters and my uncle and father, as well as grandpa are dead, I have nothing left to go back to."
"That's why I came back now, I need you guys to heal from this, I have nothing left in the future to go back to, everything I lost then is here in the past and in one piece." he said and Andy nodded as he pulled him into a hug, feeling him shaking and he knew he was trying to hold in his pain. "It's going to be okay son, whatever you need to tell us do it after we get him out of the house first." He said to him and he nodded to that order.
"Alright that tears it, we have him break down in the middle of it and I'm killing that asshole for it. Baby, seeing us now, at our current ages, how much anger are you holding in at the brotherhood, let alone Cole, if you just chose now to tell us the truth?" Piper asked and he looked at her as she saw the tears in his eyes. "Way too much mom, you're the one I wanted back more than anything, the girls, I loved them both."
"I'm barely eighteen and I lost all of you in three years, I'm an orphan, being around the 28 to 31 year old versions of you, dad, and Aunt Prue that's enough to help. My brother and his evil co-harts took everything from me, or more accurately, Cole and his buddies did at the time. But whoever caused this to warp his toddler mind is paying for it, dad is already is getting overly protective of me now. What are you and Aunt Prue feeling with me here now?" he asked and Prue answered that angrily.
