Saving My Brother and 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.
Warning: With this chapter the fight's going to result in the same way, just with a clone in the place of the real one, as Chris and Leo work together
Chapter 4: Exit Strategy and the First Week As Family
Halliwell Manor
"That you're family, that bond feels like more than adoptive parents or aunts, but like you're my blood baby, my blood, your eyes look like a across between mine and Leo's and you look like your mother when we were kids. Grandfather paradox..., Leo is a whitelighter that just leaves you Piper, he's half witch, what else right now, he came to the past for one reason and one reason only, to keep the family intact."
"Without the parents he can't be born, but you're the one who needs to stay alive at all costs till he and the kids are born. If he's your son..." she said and Piper's eyes narrowed. "Pre-emptive strike, the terminator time paradox, without me the demons take over the house and the evil starts spreading like the flu. I'm alive for the next three years and the boys are both born, that's why they're coming after me specifically."
"I'm alive and he shows up in the attic looking like a seventeen, near eighteen, male version of me, he's acting like his father, but he's got my attitude. And our bond is deepening so much it feels completely natural, like he's my baby, my baby boy." she said and that did it for Prue as she answered at that. "Alright that's it, I'm ensuring nothing happens to you till after your pregnant, if you're the first to have children, it's we got to make sure nothing gets in the way of that as of now, to make sure he's born."
"Piper we're not pulling any punches here in battle, I'm telekinetic, you've got our real firepower now, I'm covering you Piper. Though if he attacks and there's a diversionary tactic here we work as one and then we deal with Cole, but altogether. Baby, name everything off and tell us what happened to your version of us, or more accurately your version of the Power of Three, before Phoebe takes over and then you can tell us who you really are to us." Prue said to him and he nodded as he answered her.
"No I'm naming it off first, let him know who he's dealing with, than I'm just hitting him with the fact of why I look just like mom. What do you feel when you see me mom?" he asked and she explained that to him. "Like you're my cub and it's my job to protect you right now." she said and he nodded to that. "That's why I'm telling him who I am, with you three, you never had children living in this house at this age, but the adult future born of your second youngest that's when you go from protective sister, to furious mama bear, he shoots me with a energy ball or knocks me unconscious just let him have it."
"I'm your cub, though I just arrived, let him know this is, as far you're concerned, girls, the end of the line. There's no going back, I'm your cub, treat me like I'm really your cub, she sees this in the same way and to her, it's finished. I'm family and I come first, our bond is developing as we speak, to you I'm your cub and he's winding up dead as a demon. And there is no redemption from killing an innocent or near murder of her young nephew cub or her brother in law in her eyes." he said and they nodded in agreement.
"So your version of the Power of Three starts when Baby Charmed One comes into the picture right baby? You came back, because we're all still alive in this timeline and you stand a better chance of saving us, your father, grandfather, uncles and your brother than when we're a year away from whatever happens to him when he's a toddler?" Piper repeated and he nodded. "Yeah that's it exactly, but I hate demons, more accurately his kind, with a passion, and you'll find out why during the confrontation after the fight."
"You guys are all that matter to me and I'm not losing you a second time, I'm here to stay till we end this forever." he said she nodded as she looked at the gentle look in his green eyes and saw the look she saw in Leo when he looked at her protectively and hid a smile as she looked at Andy to give the order then.
"My cub, alright he touches you and I'm the one blasting him, point of no return, murder of an innocent and near murder, of our..." she said looking at him carefully as she thought it over. "You said three to four years right baby, they killed me when you're fourteen?" she asked and he nodded. "You're supposed to be starting college in the fall here this year, okay my seventeen nearly eighteen year old cub. In my eyes that's unforgivable, point of no return in our eyes, murder of an innocent and near murder of my husband and my baby boy." she said and Prue nodded to that in agreement.
"Alright you're protecting her Andy, honey you're with us upstairs." she said and the duo nodded as Chris grabbed the basket then and they headed for the attic and found the cat sitting there. "Kit you better get out of range we got company incoming and I don't want you getting hurt girl." Prue said and she meowed at that. "Alright whoever our baby relation is head for wherever she is and stay put till this situation is done with." Piper said and she gave a second meow and headed downstairs for the backdoor.
"I'll find out later why she's so smart, but this is neither the time nor place for these interrogations at the moment." Prue added and she nodded in agreement as they yanked the cauldron they used to brew the potions upstairs out of their trunk and got to work.
"Nice to know you kept the room like it was when I was young, but at least no one is getting involved, just look out for guys like Dan, he had a tough time dealing with it, but he's still obsessed with getting you back mom, though you belong to dad." Chris said to her and she nodded in annoyance. "I'm magical and I married an immortal, mortals can be killed easily if they get caught in the crossfire between us and demons. That is if he's not a cop, because Darryl shot the Grimlocks several times with a gun."
"Didn't he get the message at the time last year?" she asked and he sighed. "No and it's one of the non magical situations you're dealing with after my brother is born and I'll tell you why later, but it's a choice now: him or me and dad." he said and she nodded as her tone went firm. "No choice needed baby, I choose you and your father. He loses his mind and he's ending up in a psychiatric hospital if he tries to hurt you." she said with a growl.
"Alright guys this neither the time or the place for this we got to focus, before the battle comes to us." Prue said and they nodded as Chris yanked the bunson burner they used to heat the potions, if they had water in them, out and put the family cauldron on top of it and they got to work then.
The Mausoleum
As they waited Phoebe started pacing back and forth. "Phoebe take it easy, just relax." Darrel told her and she looked at him. "How can I, he's on the edge of a breakdown here and I think he's been compromised." she said, before he or Leo could answer Cole shimmered into the room. "Surprised to see me?" she asked and he nodded.
"I hoped, but why did you come after what I did?" he asked and she said to him gently. "Because you need me, besides its not you haven't tried to kill me before. A little energy ball isn't going to stop me." she said and he sighed. "You know I didn't have a choice, I didn't mean to hurt you." he said and she nodded. "I know, I know, I know, it's okay, we just have to get you back to the manor and get that potion into you and you'll be fine." she said and he shook his head.
"It's to late for that." he said and she looked at him. "What do you mean?" she asked and his body shifted to his demonic appearance and she backed up. "We've got to hurry." she said and he answered her at that. "Maybe I should shimmer us there." he said and she shook her head. "No you can't use your powers, it's too much temptation.
"We'll just drive. Darryl get back to the department, our cover story is she got hit and was killed by a flame thrower, we got a arsonist on the loose, he's a full blown nutcase and he's a friend of Williamson. His name is Raynor Jenkins and he's highly dangerous." she said and he nodded to her. "That works nicely to explain this situation, but what about the other innocent?" he asked and she nodded as Leo answered him.
"We got it under control, don't worry, just get back to the department. With Chris here and Andy back, Andy's covering things for the family, and you guys are working as a duo from now on. You're my best friend, but I'm not letting you get hurt, so stay out of the crossfire, you've seen how dangerous it gets after last Halloween." Leo told him and he nodded to that and got in the car and they headed back.
As they went over this Piper looked at Chris. "What's next honey?" she asked and he read the next lines as Jenny answered her. "Shake water vigorously for two hundred heartbeats." she said and she nodded to her and grabbed a bottle of Evian and Prue looked at her in bemusement. "You're using bottled water?" she asked and she hid a mild smile as she answered her.
"For Cole, the purer, the better. Before you suggest it, it's okay I got it sis, I can control it, time me though." she said and Prue nodded with a smile. "Alright you said I've to focus on which one I want, but so long as I keep it under control, I'm not going to flame anyone by accident right honey?" she asked and Chris nodded to her.
"Yeah mom, just focus on the one you want and you can control it, but you let it control you and it's going to get out of control, so as soon as things settle, we can do practice runs in the basement and work it out, just stay relaxed and collected. Our emotions cause our powers to go haywire and this is something you need to work through."
"Though I will say that if this works it's enough she's going to be able to heal now." he said and she nodded. "So what's the hold up, why is it taking them so long exactly, if they got jumped in the middle of it." she asked and Prue looked at her. "He probably sent Darryl to the precinct to tell the chief that we had an arsonist running around and let us deal with it to keep anyone from getting hurt, since we deal in a lot of strange happenings here and this is one for the books that are in the confidential areas."
"Though at the moment the less in the know about this the better where I'm concerned as for your powers, we just got to keep them under control. Though at the moment I think that ability is going to kick ass, and we might need it sooner than we think, come here, check this out." she said as she added. "Times up." she said and Piper passed it to Jenny and got up as she took charge as she answered her
"What do you got exactly?" she asked her and she read through what she found. "The amulet is the second half of the ancient charm Leo told us about, but if they want to join the two together they need both, but in order to activate it they need the spell, and it's in the book. So with that I bet the next blow out is going to be here." she said and Piper nodded to that. "Well if this happens and he touches Chris and I'm beating the crap out of him for that." she said with a growl and Prue nodded in agreement to that.
"I'm half whitelighter, but if he knocks dad unconscious and I get hit, Uncle Andy can deal with my shoulder or wherever I get blasted, but that's just going to cement the situation where you're concerned mom, barely six hours and already we're building our mother/son bond. I don't care what Cole says that's no excuse for her when a newly arrived innocent/family member arrives and Phoebe's going to see it the same way." Chris said to her and she nodded to that in agreement.
"How your aunt's going to take this is anyone's guess baby, but what I will say is that if she starts taking her resentment out on you and your youngest aunt and she's in serious trouble. When you came to protect us and your brother, and I'm not accepting her crap, because of your chosen ways in how to do that." she said and he nodded to that. "I was in training to be a whitelighter, before the power lust went to my brother's head."
"With the fact I'm here dad and Uncle Andy can train me further to help me heal injuries, but altogether I'm a witch, I fight the way a real member of the Halliwell family member would. But this is going to result in an injury or two so just be ready for the blow out." he said and she nodded to that as she answered him at that firmly.
" So like I said we work as one, I trained you in your future, so you teach me advanced combat and I'll finish your training so by the time you're returning to your future, you're at a level five in training areas, okay." she said and he nodded to her in agreement. "I guess we always took it more seriously with you when you were little if you're the younger of the two?" Prue asked and he smiled softly.
"Yeah you did actually by the time I was ten I was so much like you and mom that you all got overly protective, though at this rate, once my baby self comes into the picture and it's really going to be busy, as dad is going to turn papa bear in a hurry." he said and she chuckled at that. "At the moment my mother bear instincts already kicked in at this rate, the sense of rightness with you being here is getting stronger every minute honey." Piper said to him with a smile and he smiled at her at that.
Before he could answer the trio walked in. "Leo any trouble?" Prue asked and he shook his head. "No I gave our cover story to Darryl that Raynor is arsonist and he's extremely dangerous and let us handle this. Darryl took that back to the precinct and he's on stand by." he said and they nodded. 'Son, where's Jenna exactly?' he asked him mentally and he locked gazes with him. 'They're hiding in the kitchen in the laundry room, and Kit went to kitten sit Aunt Charmed One till the danger was passed.' he said to him.
"Are you alright?" Piper asked him and Cole sighed. "Not really." He said and Prue answered that in a deadpan tone. "You look like hell." she said and he gave a chuckle. "You have no idea right now." he said and they sighed as they waited for it to change colors. "Is the potion ready?" Phoebe asked and Jenny answered that question. "It just needs to cool and turn blood red and then it'll be ready." she said and they nodded.
"I'll get you some ice." Piper said and Prue answered her with a cryptic tone in her. "Yeah I'll go with you." she said and they went downstairs. "Never mind the ice, we got to get ready, he's ready to break right now, those two have to show up soon." Piper said to her and she nodded, before she could answer Tarkin shimmered in. "Fire in the hole!" she shouted and fired and he quickly ducked and the blast hit the cabinet. "Try again!" Prue shouted and she dodged a swing as Piper a second time.
"Phoebe help me, get down here, get down here!" she called out and Leo quickly answered. "Go we'll cover her, just help the girls." Chris said and yanked his suvival bag out and pulled several potions from it. "Get ready, it's division and distraction dad." he said and Leo nodded and pulled the athame out as well as he got ready as the potion turned red then. "It's ready guys." Jenny said and they nodded as Leo looked at Chris in bemusement at what he just removed from his son's handbag as he said it outloud.
"Good grief, one day and already I'm getting to know you enough to know that you're carrying this on you to protect yourself when in battle. You're carrying an athame and without thinking twice about it I'm ready in case we got company dropping into the room and pull it from your bag, and you're either too much like me or your mother to know what to do in case of trouble and with that fact in mind, where the heck did you learn this from, because this isn't just survival training, it's hand to hand combat?"
"When the hell did you pack that bag, it looks like it has everything needed in case of surprise drop attacks with these guys Chris and those potions look like they were freshly brewed, before you came back to the past?" Leo asked and he answered that as he looked at him. "I did constant raids into the underworld, before I came back to the past, that was my survival bag when I went down there, and I was always restocking with potions for every raid. You didn't need to think twice you knew I had an athame on me."
"Because you think like I do, though you're a whitelighter, it's our job to protect the innocent and these demons are going to hell." he said and Leo nodded to his information. The young man looked like his wife, but had his ingenuity as he thought over what he said he answered him. "You can tell me later, but if this results in repeat performances, we're working as a team for this, just keep from getting shot with an arrow, because you're half whitelighter that's going to kill you." he said to him and he nodded to that.
Before he could answer they heard an explosion downstairs. "Piper blew him away, it's got to be a decoy, get ready he's got to show up soon." Cole said and they went on the defensive as Raynor shimmered in next. "You're not touching her Raynor." Chris growled and he smiled with a sneer. "We'll see here boy." he said as he fired and they dodged and he fired a second time and Chris called out. "Energy ball." he shouted and it appeared in his hand as he threw it back at him, before he threw a third one.
As he threw several laser bolts at him the next explosion blew up several boxes in the corner and he threw a potion bottle at him. "Hey I bet this gonna turn you into french fried barbecue." he said as he tossed the potion his mother thought up to triple the explosion power at him and he fired but blew it up and it threw him ten feet into the second couch in the room as he stood up and threw another energy ball at him.
As he fired at him he dodged and threw a potion bottle on the floor and it created a cloud of dark gray smoke to block him from view and quickly charged to the book and yanked the spell from it. "Hey Raynor you want that spell you're going to have to go through us first, Andrea's amulet!" he shouted and the first piece flew out of the demons hand and into his. "Hey charcoal breath get away from her." Chris growled and Cole quickly stood up then. "Leave her out of this Raynor." he said and Jenny stood up. "I serve with my breath, even my last." she said and he smiled with a smirk.
Without warning the blast came from behind as Chris went flying into the wall and slammed into a set of boxes and was half unconscious as Raynor blasted Leo and he blasted into blue orbs, before landing on the floor. "I'll have to take you up on that, but I think I'll let my brother do the honors." he said as he threw an energy ball at her and the blast connected with charm, but the jolt threw her into several boxes and knocked her unconscious. 'Jenna's Amulet.' Chris whispered quietly as he fought to stay awake and it materialized in his hand and he put it in his pocket as he lost consciousness.
Hearing the explosion upstairs Piper quickly stood up. "Chris, Leo!" she snapped and they quickly ran upstairs. "Chris, Chris baby, answer me. Stay away from him you bastards?" she shouted. "I've come to take you home." Raynor said to him and he shook his head. "I am home." he said to him firmly. "You will be when you kill the witch. Stop fighting it Belthazor you're a demon embrace it. Let evil make you strong again, give into it." Raynor said to him. "Cole." she shouted. "Cole, Chris, Leo!" She shouted to them.
"The rage is rising in you now, but it's not me you want to kill, it's her, do it yourself." he said and Cole shook his head. "No, I won't do it." he said and Raynor smiled. "Not even for your father's soul?" he asked him and she quickly shouted out at that. "Cole, Cole don't do it!" Phoebe shouted as she saw him scream in anger and a fire light up as he transformed into Belthazor and fires a power ball at Jenny and she goes up in a burst of flames as Raynor shimmers out and she shouted a second time from her angle.
"Cole." she shouted as he shot her and they broke down the door as they found the duo unconscious on the floor. "Chris baby. Leo." Piper said quickly as she ran over to them as Piper ran her hand through Chris's hair. "What the hell did you do to them!" she growled as Phoebe turned to look at them. "I saw what you did." she said and he tried to answer her. "It's not what it looks like, it's just..." he started to say and she interrupted him.
"Jenna is dead and Leo and Chris are unconscious, what else could it be." she said slowly and he swallowed. "Raynor forced me, I had no choice. " He said and she snapped at him at that. "There's always a choice Cole, he's eighteen years old you could have killed him, he's half witch and half white-lighter you could have done worse than knocking him unconscious you could have killed him." she said sharply to him as he looked at her.
"The potion." he said and reached out for it and she grabbed it from him. "They don't have the rest of the amulet, we got both amulets and the spell, and why do you want the potion so badly, you hit the point of no return now by killing an innocent woman and nearly killing my family, Cole it's over now. Phoebe, we pulled a bait and switch for the amulets, they're in his pocket, he used a smoke bomb to cover it up." Piper growled with a furious tone and she nodded as she looked at the eighteen year old.
As Phoebe looked at Chris's clutched hand and opened it to reveal the first half of it then checked his pants pocket and found the second piece of the charm and the spell to activate it and smiled in relief as Prue said it for her with a relieved smile. "Smoke bombs, fighting with use of a athame, fast thinking. And he's like us in combat and he and Leo finished the job together by keeping all three out of their hands."
"Nice thinking baby, you did exactly what I'd do." Prue said to him as they got an answering response to that as he started stirring then. "Mom?" Chris said weakly and she pulled him into her arms. "Yeah I'm right here baby, You okay?" she asked and he answered that. "Massive headache, but yeah I'm alright, what about dad, is he's alright." he said and Prue answered him from across their corner as she sat next to Leo.
"Your father's unconscious at the moment, stay close honey." she said and he smiled in relief as he moved to his father then. "Dad?" he said gently as he gripped his hand, and in response his hand tightened gently around his. "You trying to kill my father, you bastard, not only have you done enough damage to Phoebe, but you destroyed my family in the future?" he said, standing up, as he looked at Cole dangerously.
"Did it work, did the duo fall for it? Because I have the amulet and the spell, they never got to either one, because of my whitelighter abilities." he asked and Piper answered that. "We lost Jenna, but the surgical attack worked perfectly honey, and you took a really good blow to the head, stay sitting down okay. And keep that temper of yours honey, I know you're as furious as I am, but keep it together."
"As for the amulets they couldn't see through the smoke bomb that you grabbed all three, before he or Raynor blasted you and whatever spells you left in there worked perfectly." she said to him gently and he smiled at her. "That potion was meant to block you from view, and you created one to act like the strobe lights mom as well as a second that tripled your exploding powers. As time furthers I'll help you create them."
"So give it time and we can create enough for any and all evil doers, without needing the book, and just wait and you'll see it now. Mom, you and I are even closer than you think I'm telling you the truth in a minute. Phoebe, I think this consurmates the fact there's no going back now, with the fact he just blasted me, and nearly killed both me and dad." he said and Phoebe nodded in agreement to his opinion as she answered him.
"If he'd killed you I'd really be pissed right now, though we just got to know each other, but killing an innocent for whatever reason is unforgivable right now. And aside from that the feeling of rightness with you here is growing every minute Chris, the connection almost feels like you're my blood, my youngest nephew cub." she said to him as she ran her hand through the hair on the back of his head and he leaned into her hand.
"I'll tell you the truth tonight Phoebe, but you're right about there's going back. And well I'd say this goes under the line that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong and be prepared, we just forgot to do back to back, and he hit me in the back." he said to her and she hid a chuckle as she stroked a hand through his hair. "Morbid jokes after the fight, I see you listened to me too much in the future, whoever you are to me I'm not giving you up now baby." she said and pressed her forehead to his and he closed his eyes, remembering that ritual from when he was younger than twelve.
"God I missed this bond with you, you guys are all that matter to me." he said and she smiled and pulled him into a hug and he tightened his arms around her as she nudged his head with hers and the duo smiled at the way they were together. "This is how we were together Phoebe, you acted like this around me when I was little." he said and smiled. "Than we're putting it into place now baby." she said and he pressed his forehead to hers smiling, as Prue and Piper wrapped their arms around both of them in a hug.
As Cole looked at her as he saw the way Piper had her arms wrapped around the eighteen year old and the look of maternal protectiveness in her brown eyes as he looked at Prue and saw the same look on her face and the way Phoebe was acting with him, the gentle look of love of a son and nephew for his mother and aunts in Chris's eyes as he looked at the girls and he couldn't hold his shock in as he said the words then.
"He just arrived, what's wrong with you guys, you're acting like he's your son and nephew and he isn't, he's not really family?" he said and Phoebe answered that, before she could though Chris said it for her firmly then. "Actually if she's acting like this with me if I wasn't family, would she be this pissed you just barely missed killing me and Leo, because denial of the truth that lies in front of you is not going to help your case."
"Guess again though Cole, the reason I came back to this timeline, now, is because so I could help the girls, but I lost 'my' family, my entire family, by the time I was seventeen, every demon in your quadrant, every warlock running loose. Every Darklighter that was around, they all decided on a surgical strike and slaughtered my family and your group, most of all, they're going to get vanquished first when we get through with them."
"You though,, you're still just a member of the brotherhood of the thorn, in my eyes you're the enemy, as to that. How do you suppose mom's going to take it that you nearly killed me next after killing three quarters of our side of the family, huh, how exactly. Pain of future wrongs ring a bell now Cole." he said as he felt the anger and rage shoot through him and let him have it then, as he fought the pain and anguish in him.
"My quadrant?" Cole repeated and Chris nodded as he answered him. "Yes you and your quadrant, you demons of the Brotherhood were furious we killed your current master so they decided to use the one person that could decimate my family, a sixteen year old whitelighter who's the son of the oldest of the charmed ones. Said son is the owner of the legendary sword in the stone legend and the son of a white lighter."
"That young man turned into the new Source of all evil. Because of one thing and one thing only, he lost the most important thing in the world to him, the most important thing in the world to me, our mother And he combined every evil you can think of here, demons, warlocks, darklighters and they decided that if we destroyed their compatriots it was time for some payback and started with the leader of the Power of Three."
And it's on the one day she and I were getting ready for some mother/son bonding time, when dad's not here and they broke down the front door and stabbed her with a poisoned athame. My mother was the first to go, following her is Phoebe. She was stabbed through the chest with Excalibur, and poisoned by an athame and do you know who's Athame it was, in both situations or the demon that did it."
"The one who became the plant at this stage and was trying to get to the younger sister by falling in love with her?" he asked dangerously and Cole shook his head, as the last remark started filling his heart with fear. " No, it's not, it can't be..." he started to say and Chris nodded to confirm that thought. "It is Cole, after all this time, you set out to do what the Source asked you to do finally, only its sixteen years later."
"It was yours, it was you, you were the demon who helped your new found Source kill mom and Phoebe, you finally did what would you were ordered to do and stabbed her to death repeatedly after he got her in the stomach. My mother was first and you killed Phoebe next, so after all this time you finished what you set out to do and slaughtered the charmed ones you met in this time." he said with a growl as his anger started growing as he named everything off.
"I couldn't do it before, why would I do it now, I don't believe you." he said and Chris answered that coldly as he opened up the bag. "Oh no, well does this look familiar. " He said and yanked the knife and flipped it handle first and gave it to him and he paled. "That was in my apartment, how did you get this?" he asked him in shock and he pulled something else out and said a spell. "Sizes made and sizes changed reveal so all can be explained. Mom as I said you want the truth I'm giving it to you now, I am family." he said and it grew to its full sized as they saw a trunk in front of them.
"And to answer your denial, Cole, I wasn't really family, how could I get my hands these trinkets when they all belong to the girls and Leo, let alone Andy, Darryl and Victor, or should I say grandpa." he said and unloaded each one by one and Prue, looking over his shoulder, straightened up in shock. "Holy crap, I recognize a fifth of this stuff, this is from every member of our family, and only a family member can get their hands on this as well." Prue said and Piper nodded.
"Yeah that's my rabbit Cottentail, your necklace, and Phoebe's stuffed dog Woofs, dad's favorite jacket, Leo's Purple Heart and medals when he was mortal. That's Andy's shield and Darryl's gold shield, and what's the pendant around your neck?" she asked and he removed his necklace and set it on the floor as Piper removed hers and put it next to it and saw an exact match as she smiled. "Yeah there's no way he could get these."
"Unless he's family. That's my locket, alright, so the books belong to our youngest, my locket, your necklace, Woofs, dad's favorite Jacket, he uses that during the winter now here. The chief gave you Andy's shield when he was killed and that gold one is from when Darryl's gaining a future promotion after this. And the medals that Leo gained after being killed in the line of duty." she said as she and Prue exchanged looks then.
"Only a family member knows and can get their hands on this stuff." Prue said and he smiled as he pulled something out and put it next to the toy dog. " My rabbit, Cottontail, he's looking a bit more wiped out, after thirty years, but he's got his green ribbon still around his neck. My favorite color is green, and if you're the same way..." Piper said trailing off and saw his t-shirt and smiled. "Alright lay it on me what happened to the rest of the family, just let go." Phoebe said to him and he vented the rest of his anger.
"That's two of my version dead, and Baby Charmed One, who is like me half witch and half whitelighter, poisoned arrow, she was murdered by a friend of yours. And said friend is a Darklighter and she died by Darklighter arrows which as you know can't be pulled by someone with whitelighter blood in them. Following her is Leo, my father, he too was murdered, because your buddies are allied with darklighters, guys like Alec, who wanted an innocent woman to sire a Darklighter."
"Guys like Eames, who'd kill a good being just to take out whitelighters and that brings it to the mortal side of my family, the quartet were murdered by your friends and Darklighters and so was my uncle, who was a mortal parole officer who was dedicated to helping his charges, saw a magical being and didn't care he married a witch with whitelighter powers, he was a good man who was Baby Charmed One's husband."
"They killed him by athame and left him bleeding to death and from the blade being poisoned, and that's five and my grandfather was also murdered by the demons in the brotherhood, he died by athame. No matter how you rationalize this for them, it's not going to save your case now, because I hate your kind with a passion for everything you did to us, you did so much damage to us it's too late to fix it now Cole!"
"As for my brothers and sisters and cousins, it's even worse, and as to why I was the middle child of three in my family, your buddies traumatized my brother enough he lost all sense of right and wrong and our mother was his breaking point and he falls to the darkside, and converts two of my cousins and my sister is murdered when that happens as well and of nine young heirs to the family name only two survived."
"My sister is murdered, because like me she's trying to stop the Source, and all six of my cousins are either killed or converted, but two, and do you know who killed them all, huh do you, well if you don't it was your buddies in the brotherhood. Your buddies are the first on my list to get destroyed now, well I'm here to prevent that at all costs now. You demons of the Brotherhood of the Thorn took everything from me and now it's my turn."
"And it's because you're not taking my aunt away from me again, let alone the rest of my family, not again and never again. No matter how many times you try to get her back its not happening, I'm not losing her, my mother or Baby Charmed One ever again. You finally pissed me off now and with that, you and your friends are going down no matter what Belthazor!" he said with a dangerous growl, as the trio heard the agony and anguish in his voice they exchanged looks at what they just heard.
'That's not normal, he's furious and in emotional turmoil here, his tone sounds like we're more than just adoptive family, it's like we really are are Piper.' Phoebe said to her with her eyes and she nodded as he looked at the demon coldly as he looked at Piper then. 'If we're really family he's got to be either mine or yours, because he looks closer to us in looks than Prue, but his eyes are across between Prue and Leo, but he looks like her and me mixed together.' she said to her and she nodded in agreement as he looked at the trio.
"Tarkin and Raynor look like him in demon form, just in a different color. They all carry that warrior look to them and they're just much stronger than he is, because he's half human, but the blood brother ritual insures they're all connected. Mom his species are like him in demon form, and I mean of two kinds, red with black tattoos or black with red tattoos all over their bodies, he's not an endangered species in fact there's eighty more just like him in the Brotherhood of the Thorn, both types as well too."
"But they're all blood related from the blood brother rituals and the vanquishing spell and potion you created back then is enough to destroy them all at once if they come here, and with that fact in mind. The Brotherhood are your blood brothers Cole, well fine, then tell them that Christopher Perry is making sure they're not a threat to the Charmed Ones and their days are numbered when we get through with them."
"Here's something else to think about, the girls all have names that start with 'P', though I'm a boy, mom gave the added 'P' to my name, in addition to the rest of my name. So with those words in mind here, Christopher Alan, 'Perry', Victor. Girls I'll give you two guess but you're only going to need one here. I'm the second born child, I too was born in the hospital and to top that off I know things about you I couldn't know..." he said trailing off and Prue finished his sentence as her eyes widened on the trail off.
"Unless you were family, Perry, I was going to name my son, if I had one, Perry. Christopher Perry, Christopher Allen Perry Victor, there's only one way you can gain those names in our family, because our grandfather's first name is Alan. Leo said his father was Christopher Perry Wyatt and the Victor, only one of the three of us named you after dad, so keep going it's the only way to clarify baby, that you're who I think." she said to him.
"As to why I'm really here and I chose now to come back is the future Source of all evil who replaces your current source in twenty five years and hes the man I'm preventing from coming true at all costs, as to why the boy who grows up to become him happens to be my big brother and I blame you and your brethren for everything that happened to my family and your boss and your fellow demons are never touching him if I got anything to say about it and whatever demons the bastard sends after us are getting eliminated, one by one and with that fact in mind here."
"Tell them leave us alone or you're getting destroyed by us. You and your buddies destroyed my life and I'm making sure you're getting vanquished and as to why. The girls happen to be my mother and aunts and Leo is my father. They acted like my parental guardians and one by one I lost them, before I reached the age I am now. Well now I'm back to prevent evil from destroying my family and this is the end of the line."
"Once you cross the line of attacking an innocent, though you claim you're turning good now, there's no going back from slaughtering an innocent woman, redemption is not going to come and potion or no potion, you're still a demon." Chris said with a growl as he stood up and moved to Phoebe's side and she pulled him into a hug as he tightened his arms around her in relief as Cole looked at him in a panic..
"No that's a lie, you're not family, you're not her son!" Cole snapped and he smiled dangerously at him then. "Oh no, let's see you're a district attourney, Andy is a cop, he went into cop analysis mode when he named off every factor to my father, and in order, here they are." he started to say as someone else did it for him then. "You can't escape the evidence Cole, it's very clear here, that boy is Piper's son. He's been separated from our future versions ever since you helped slaughter 3/4's of his family and believe me, I'm beyond pissed off right now at it, but the clues are pretty clear."
"Starting with the first, A) is he looks like his mother, but has his father's eyes, that's my exact words when I confronted him when he arrived Cole, I busted him within hours of his arrival now. He doesn't have to hold back on us regarding who he is, once we busted him and with that, if you think I don't know my sister at this age, you're wrong, because I do, and as to how and why that is, it's because we were closest in age."
"So with that, to repeat my remark upstairs, son, If you think I don't remember what your mother looked like at this age your wrong, because she was with your aunt and me a lot. I watched your mother grow up and you look like an seventeen year old male version of her. You look just like your mother, but have your father's eyes. Dark brown hair and bluish green eyes'." they heard a voice say from the door as Andy walked into the room then, his brown eyes blazing in anger that at the other man as he quoted word for word what he said to him that afternoon.
"B), is that he did the spell in the attic, creating a door between our time frames of the same symbol as the family emblem, the triquetra, and he did the spell right here in the attic. And same window that was created when Abraxas showed up last year, and if you beamed into the attic the book started glowing in anticipation. The reaction which I can guess is because the book reacted to you like it knew you and your magical signature."
"C) is that the cat did the same thing on your arrival, acting like you were her owner when she saw you. D) is if you managed to call Leo to the attic when you got here than its by a familial bond. You were sounding like a son to his father and he responded to you automatically. E) is that you know how to get up here and deal with the elders, because you've been up here before in your timeline at the time."
"You were reacting to Kalina like you knew her, Sandra, Orlin, Odin, Zola and Peter in the same way, which I'm guessing is because you're probably from a different time line than ours, and your mother was slightly annoyed with the sextet, being elders and all. F) Going by your reaction when you're around Cole when you saw him, you've got your aunts sense of wariness when around demons, and though he's half demon you're not letting your guard down, and as to why, he's burned her once already here."
"Your reaction is more and it's because a demon is a threat no matter if he's a good demon or bad one, G) is that you seem to know your way around the house. And from there it's going down the line in powers now. And you have the abilities of both of them, orbing and witch abilities, I can also sense a slight tension when you're around Leo, like you blame him for something, meaning you've got daddy issues like they do, or not, emotional pain is more probable than that now and with it is the added abilities of a witch, scrying, potion making, spell creating and so on."
"And H) You're able to orb and you have telekinesis, which is Prue's power, but another version of it, because it's been mixed with whitelighter blood in your veins, making it stronger than her power, you said one of each, you also said they're your surrogate parents. That's what I got from seven minutes of examining him and with it, is the alibi. The alibi was he's their son, but the alibi is true, every word of it." he said to him coldly.
As he looked at Phoebe he felt a jolt of anger and hatred shoot through him as he looked at Cole as he thought it over. 'No forget it I'm not holding back, I have to tell them now I'm home and I'm protecting my family.' he thought as he said that outloud. "Alright you know what, screw holding back the truth of who I am Cole. Everything I just told you is true you bastard, every word of it, you destroyed my family when I was just fourteen."
"My family is the Halliwell/Wyatt clan, I'm Piper's and Leo's son and you just pissed me off right now, you done enough damage to her emotionally the past five months and I'm calling it right now. You destroyed my family, you helped destroy the planet's best chances of staying good. You're the reason my brother went to the darkside, mom was his breaking point." Chris said with an icy look as she looked at him.
As Cole walked forward he shouted at him. "Get away from my father you bastard!" he screamed and blasted him into the wall then. "You murdered my parents and my sister, you caused my brother to become the next Source, you destroyed my family. I hated you ever since, while my alternate double hated my father, for never being around in all truth. Do you realize how my father takes this, if I get hit by the damn spider huh, do you, to me, my father now."
"My father's all I had left, you took him away from me, you son of a bitch!" he snapped and Cole froze shaking in fear, realizing the young witch-lighter was about to blast him. 'Don't kid, don't calm down.' he thought shaking, now knowing he was too far gone in grief and anger. 'What have I done to cause this in him, kid calm down, it hasn't happened yet, give me a chance.' he thought shaking. "Give you a chance, give you a chance?" he repeated and then said it then.
"What about my parents, my sister, or the hundreds of innocent people you murdered, you give them a chance, did you, did you give them a chance?!" Chris said in response "You took away my mother, my sister and my father, well now it's my turn, rest in hell you asshole!" He shouted at him as the quartet got what he meant then as they saw the power broiling in him. "Oh my god, everybody get down now." Prue shouted as a lightning blast shot out of him.
"Chris stop, calm down honey, it's okay we're here, we're here!" Piper shouted as he lunged at the other man and knocked him to the floor then as he hit him with a blast. "Son stop, calm down, we're here, you didn't lose us!" Andy shouted out for her a second time as he grabbed him as he felt him shaking out of grief then as he pulled him away from him and wrapped both arms around him as he looked at his father in grief.
"Dad, come back, please, come back!" He heard him say frantically. "Flashback, he's having a flashback to when he lost Leo, Piper." He said and she nodded. "Get him to calm down, before that happens again." she said and he nodded as he refocused on him, seeing the sixteen near seventeen year orphan in him. As she stood up as she froze Cole as Chris collapsed on the floor as Andy crouched in front of him to calm him down.
"Son, shh, easy son, it's okay, shh we're here you didn't lose us, it's okay." Andy said as he pulled him into his arms. "Dad, why did you leave, you promised, you promised you'd never leave me. Come back, please come back, come back." they heard as the tears started pouring down his face then as Andy looked into his eyes gently as he calmed him. "It's okay, you didn't lose us in this timeline, we're here, it's going to be okay son." he said soothingly as Chris looked at him and buried his head into his shoulder.
"Why did he have to do that, he didn't have to take that arrow for me, I want him back." he said through his crying and Andy nodded to him gently. "Its alright son, it's going to be okay, we're all alive and with you, you're not losing us again, we promise." Andy said and he nodded. "I'm telling the truth, no lies, you're my parents, mom, you and Leo are my parents. I came back to save my family, our family, Wyatt's Anakin, before and after Shmi was killed, slow descent."
"Into madness, but I came back to save our family, a chance to get those years back, the only thing I want is you and dad back." he said and she nodded as she pressed her forehead to his and he closed his eyes. as he buried his head into her shoulder, before lifting his head then as he looked into her eyes as she looked at him closely, seeing her husband's eyes and nodded. "Holy shit, alright I see it now baby, I see it clearly, you're really mine, it's okay, it's okay.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm here, it's going to be okay." Piper said to him, as he buried his face into her shoulder as she felt him shaking from suppressed sobs then. "Don't leave me, not again, don't leave." She heard him say and she closed her eyes in pain and anguish at the wording. "I'm not going anywhere honey, it's okay baby, it's going to be okay." she said and Andy repeated that softly as he and Prue crouched behind him as he rubbed his back gently.
"My double, who came back from his own future, to stop Wyatt from turning, but they took the warning too late not realize it was someone they trusted. As dad was so furious at the person that did it now, he killed him, himself, but even treating us as equals didn't work out, and they killed our entire family. All I had left of the four of you is you and Uncle Andy, Aunt Prue." he said and she nodded as her eyes narrowed in anger at that news as she said it.
"This is why you hate the Brotherhood, they killed our entire family, as she never did her job in killing him when she had the chance?" Piper said for her and he nodded. "Oh we are going to talk about this later, but right now, I want him out of the house, before I kill him myself." Prue said sternly and Piper nodded in agreement. "So you're from the secondary attempt, you're my baby boy, my youngest?" she asked and he nodded and the trio nodded gently at that news.
"I am mom, despite trying to stop this, it never worked, so we decided 2 years and 3 months prior, prior to your birthday, this way no cub already in the house. I get to live in the past now as I stay with family, the only ones, prior to conception date that knew. Who I really was here were Phoebe and Paige, your youngest sister, she's like me." Chris said and Piper nodded. "Okay, so what happens if we rewind the clock, all the way back, you look closer to 16 then 18."
"So exactly 18 years, we rewind the clock 18 years, the spell cracks on your upcoming 17th, make it so you're born first?" she asked and he smiled softly. "You knew me longer, dad becomes an elder, I officially take his place as your whitelighter. Though the 8 decide to let him stay on earth, stay with you, as he trains me." he said and she smiled in relief. "So basically, with Leo training you, you guys are Jeff and Josh in whitelighter form in the last round now."
"And in this one, if we rewound the clock, you guys are them, if they put that supposed fact in there, as Jeff was really Josh's father, and Jeff became Josh's mentor?" Prue said and he nodded to her. "Yeah exactly, but you better bind Wyatt's witch powers, long story, but needless to say, what's your opinion to a Dragon being conjured right off the tv?" he asked and she shook her head. "Clearly baby is carrying some serious powers." she said and Piper nodded to that news.
"And I'm a little irritated, I kept yours bound till you were 11, and old enough to handle them responsibly, looks like I got to do the same with your brother. Well knowing this in advance, as I watched you and your brother, your twin, if you have one. In using the orbing as a way to play hide and seek around the house, and orb your toys around the room. But that's all you had until you were 11 and then your witch powers activated, you had them for 5 years now in truth."
"And you been in training by your father as a young witchlighter, for 3 years, you're 16 now, and your father and me. Married 17 years, had my powers 17 years, I never minded here, in fact I loved being a witch now in truth." she said, thinking this over in resetting their clock till they were in year 6 and smiled. "Yeah this idea sounds perfect, we rewind the clock and you're the first born, before in year 5 after our situation with Cole is over, and your brother is born now."
"The summer 3 months after Wyatt is born, adjustments are made, more me, less we, in the case of co-dependency now, your father needs to get a life first. I need to be a wife and mother first, more time as a couple, and I need to focus more on our family, as my maternity leave. It just ended and the spell cracks, as we made such a difference, in thinning out the lines. There is still so much more good we can do to make the world safer." she said and Prue nodded smiling.
"The spell cracks at your borderline 17th birthday, we got the entire summer as things change for the better, we got 4 instead of 3. To clarify in what you just told your aunt and me, you need to show exactly what he changed into." she said and he nodded. "I'm not sure I want to go back now at this rate, in the future, there is no you or dad now. Mellie's gone as well, but I should tell you, with dad being a whitelighter that long, it's genetic." he said and she nodded, sighing then.
"So all three of you are half whitelighter/half witch, so I did have girl…, wait a minute, Prue, that time jump into the future, that was 10 years, but we been witches for 23 years by this point." she said and Prue nodded as she felt her unease start growing. "The spells we found in that book, did we create those for emergency use only, I mean. Phoebe's use of powers results in modern day Witch Trials being practiced and Pratt at the helm." she said and Piper nodded then.
"Alright baby, I need the truth now, with the fact, you gained an added 13 years, but is this in anyway connected to Pratt and her being burned at the stake?" she asked and he looked down. "Wyatt killed him, before he could put forth that legislature, anything that stood in his way to power had to go, his final straw was you. I'm not entirely sure in what caused said trauma, but what I can say is his descent was Cole's fault." he told her and they all nodded in shock then.
"So despite changes that instead of Modern Day witch trials being practiced with burning at the stake, from the look of your clothes, with the fact you haven't changed clothes yet. It's become the aftermath of Judgement Day, magic atomic holocaust?" Prue said and he nodded. "We're Jedi, but like Anakin, after losing Shmi, he suffered the same crash, and then realized. He liked the added power and became the new Baby Source of All Evil." he said and she nodded sternly.
"Great he's power lust driven, alright who's the previous adult Source of All Evil, as we never seen the original face to face yet." she asked and he looked at Cole and Phoebe stood up in shock. "Yeah, we should have killed him when we had the chance." Prue said and Piper nodded. "It's okay son, it's okay, we're alive in this time frame, we can fix this, it's okay, it's going to be okay." Andy said softly to him as he pulled him into a hug as Piper explained to Phoebe then.
"With the reveal right now, we got a lot to talk about, but baby, you got to tell the elders." she said and Chris nodded. "He's had enough for one night, Leo was his final straw, I'm dead and Leo's all he has left and he loses him next Phoebe that explains that power blast, I think Cole was with the Darklighter when he shot Leo, that's why he lost it now." Piper said and Phoebe nodded in agreement to that as she finished her sentence as Piper unfroze Cole.
"You can tell me later why you brought that up Chris, but if my abilities start changing on me, I need more information on why you chose now to return to the past and to answer your remark of denial Cole, because he's talking like a Halliwell at the moment. Only a Halliwell could ever react like that regarding the loss of their family. Witch/whitelighter/elder, he's part of the family and he's their son and with that."
"That's where you're wrong Cole, I don't have to hear out loud right now to know who he is in my heart. Because the sense of rightness with him in my life right now is that fits the family dynamics perfectly, and he was protecting her and he'd never hurt an innocent, I don't have to hear the words, but he's the adult version of a future blood relative and you could have destroyed that relative by the relapse when you knocked him unconscious. That eighteen year old is probably my adult second born nephew."
"Said second born nephew Piper's son and you could have killed both him and his father in one shot, Piper's right you just passed the point of no return, by nearly killing who is probably my nephew, my brother-in-law and killing an innocent." she said and he reached out for the potion. "The potion, before it's too late." he said and she shook her head. "It's already too late, you killed an innocent woman there's no going around that." she said and he quickly tried to answer her.
"I didn't want to do it, I can still be good." he said and she shook her head. "There's nothing good in you anymore." she said and Prue answered that. "Maybe there never was. You have to read the spell to activate the amulets, maybe that was your plan all along Cole, to get the book." she said and Piper looked at her. "But evil can't use the book or the amulets." she said and Chris moved to check on his father.
"Evil can't, but a neutral, they can and that neutral is fully mortal mom. Before you ask, dad's going to be fine, but will just wake up with one hell of a headache later." he said and Phoebe read that out to her. "He could if we stripped his powers from him. Is that why you wanted the potion Cole, so you could get the spell and use the amulets against us." she said and he quickly tried to answer her to get himself out of the hole.
"Phoebe you got to believe me." he said and Piper said it firmly. "I think she's believed you once to often Cole." she said and he growled at her. "Stay out of this, this is between me and her." he said and Phoebe answered that with a low tone. "There's nothing between us anymore." she said and he tried to answer her with a desperate tone.
"Phoebe don't let Raynor take this away from us, don't let him win." he said and she answered that firmly. "Raynor didn't set you up, you set me up." she said and he answered with a sigh. "Please, save me." he said and she answered that with a tone of finality in her voice. "Save yourself." she said and smashed the potion on the floor and he sighed and shimmered out as Chris grabbed her and sat her on the couch.
"Hey it's going to be okay." he said and she looked into his eyes and threw herself into his arms and he tightened them up around her. "Let go, just let it out." he said as he felt her shaking with suppressed sobs. "Shh, it's going to be okay." he said and she burrowed into his arms. "New member of the family, it's best when you got me arriving today than any of you do it, because you guys know each other too well and I can get her to open up now." he said and Prue nodded in agreement to that as she answered him. "What a mess, what now honey?" Prue asked and he sighed as he said it.
"We stopped evil from getting the amulet, and we got both pieces now, though we lost one innocent we saved the other and we destroyed the spell to keep the demons from using it or the amulets, but the fall out has begun. Phoebe, listen to me carefully, you had to let him go, for your own sake to heal now from the previous situation, but that was not really Jenna, she's fine, and she's in the laundry room." he said and she looked at him. "If she's fine than why did you pull this raid?" she asked and he explained that.
"What's the biggest reason of your anger at him, think about it, what did he do, before you hid the fact he was alive from mom and Aunt Prue?" he asked and she nodded. "I've been burned twice in five months by him and this was to get my anger out of me at him for getting that close to me and my deceiving my sisters. Yes alright I see what you mean, but it still hurts." she said and he nodded to that as he answered her.
"Yes I know, but this was like every other test you're going to be going through, you're going to be tested on strength of heart, and this was one of them, but don't give up on love, because of him, you'll find your true soulmate, just give it time." he said and she nodded and hugged him. "The sense of rightness with you being here is growing every minute, it's like I already know who you are to me right now and with that."
"You said eighteen to twenty two years into the future, so with that, I watched you grow up till you were fifteen, before some demon killed me. Why wait till now to come to the past, and not when you're dealing with your brother?" she asked and he sighed. "Because doing it now, keeps you three intact, because my version, by that Aunt Prue becomes the matriarch of our family, but my version of the power of three starts in four months. Both versions under one roof till we get rid of the Source completely."
"With you this vulnerable right now you needed the support and comfort from someone you didn't meet yet and though I'm practically your younger brother in looks, I'm a future relative and you can talk to me about anything you need to as time goes on. There's less tension now then when Wy' is born than there would be when I arrived, four months into his being born. We got a chance to put our bonds into place and by the time he's born, our bonds are going to be the way you think, mother/son, aunt/nephew."
"While my version of Prue was a whitelighter, I get to see her as she is now, and with her alive, as does my youngest aunt, but that's situation number three. We're family and I'm insuring our entire family stays intact, by coming now rather than in two years." he said and she looked at him as she saw the caring look in his eyes that she saw in Leo and the way his hair curled around his forehead and smiled as she said it.
"You're really my nephew aren't you, that's why you came back, the future versions of us were murdered by the demons and you came back to help us and be with us as the younger versions of who you know us to be. We're your family like you said, but with my being so focused on him, I didn't get a good look at you till you named off the indicators of who you are and now that I heard that, you're her son?" she said and he nodded to her as the girls crouched down in front of the couch in front of them.
