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.
Warning: With this chapter Piper and Leo are going to see their future selves and give them a stern talking to regarding their treatment of Chris as they tell them the truth to who Chris really is to them. And then they start getting everything they need to get the house ready now.
As they begin work on the house and and things are quiet till Look Who's Barking starts. Each episode is going to stay the same, but there's going to be a couple changes to it and Prue is alive for seasons four through eight as she trains her sister. Phoebe grows closer to Drake and there's a few references to the Twilight Saga for Phoebe and Drake in this story.
Chapter 30: Reprimands And Future Changes XI
"Piper they're right, without Chris here at the house, your marriage is an end, though that mortal marriage counselor helped it's not enough. He's pulling a magical version the Parent Trap and House Arrest, just to keep you together right now. But he has every right to do this, you're his parents and with that in mind now. The cleaners just altered history right now in our past, we're the original timeline their the new, improved one."
"He's not any stranger out of the future, not any time traveler, distance relative: code phrase, your unborn son, he's your son, he's trying to save your marriage, and now that your past selves put it like this, he's got every right. So cut the crap already you guys, Phoebe stay out of this, it's not him, it's the fact you can't do it alone Leo." Paige said sharply to them and Piper nodded as she finished that remark to her future self.
"That's the god damn problem you can't exercise everything all alone Leo. Father, husband, whitelighter, you can't do it all and expect our relationship to last, just like I can't do it all without wanting out finally. Listen to me, you ever consider what would have happened if you met me when we were kids and had him, Chris. And you met your son when he was 12, and by this point, it's we'd be together forever, think it over Leo."
"But Chris took it upon himself to figure out a way block her empathic abilities to prevent our bonds with her from falling apart. Instead of having them babysit Wyatt all the time, we have him now, though we're not a normal family by any stretch of the imagination. That doesn't stop from wanting to be like everyone else, but Chris, your Chris, suddenly leaves for college and Wyatt is born and bam, things start falling apart now."
"And he returns in time over the kids summer break and decides that screw going to school by leaving town again, he's finishing the 4 years. And gaining his diploma over the computer, and with that after your job drags you out of town now. I need help and he's helping me watch over his brother and keeping the house and club running. And offering me the added help, what now, why is that exactly?" she asked and he sighed at that.
"You're saying that having an older sibling, be it boy or girl, would have been the solution to our entire problem. By this time, if we had him at not yet 15 to 16, though we needed one of the girls to be in the house with the boys, when he was still a minor. We could be like every other married couple and family, because Chris was looking after his brother giving us chance at all three, finally?" he said with a gentle look and she nodded to him.
"Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying, that's what destroyed your marriage we can't do everything and not without help. I mean think it over, why did I turn to Chris so fast after you left at the time, Wyatt is the god damn catalyst. Though you missed the hard part in Chris's case, we've been married for close to 2 1/2 years. and suddenly things fall apart, and the reason is because you're frustrated I keep turning to the girls now."
"To babysit, for emotional support, for advice, to be the listening ear and so on, and you don't have anyone to talk to, who understands this right now. And though you and Darryl have been the best of friends since you met him as he already knew the truth about us, the girls and me. You didn't have your own trio or quartet of brothers, and when you guys needed a chance to enjoy yourselves at family get togethers here."
"You had some to talk to now, so you could have someone on your side, it's a case of co-dependency. But with us changing the past you have Andy and Darryl and we just added Drake to the list now as well. But at this age Wyatt can't play with you, he can't talk, so you can't father/son time and enjoy a weekend at the movies, playing football or basketball and you're being the mentor and father you should be right now."
"But that's why he decided to tell this to his college headmaster he was finishing out the four years over the computer. Prior to this if he'd been born in the early 80's his chosen college would have been UCLA. And he came home every year 3 years leading into Wyatt's birthday, and then he gets the news that Wyatt was born, and you need help. Here at the house, with the groceries, finances, magical help and so on right now."
"You, Leo are being promoted and you're leaving town, but I can't leave the house and he knows this along with it were you going away on business and his baby brother was born. The girls and I needed added back up and he decided 'screw school they need me even more right now, Dad's just been promoted to an elder. And they need a whitelighter, I have to take care of my family." she said and they looked at him in shock.
"That's what you decided young man, with your father just promoted, you decided not to complete the four physically, you can complete them over the computer. While I had you here to help your aunts and me now, regarding your baby brother. If I had you first instead of the other way around?" her double repeated and he nodded to her. "Yeah that's right mom, dad had just been promoted, you needed a whitelighter."
"I'm not just any normal witchlighter you guys, dad had to become an elder to make room for me as your whitelighter." he said and Paige said it gently. "If that's what this is, why didn't you just tell us that when you arrived?" she asked and he sighed. "The future consequences remark gets taken into context, Aunt Paige. I was under specific orders never to reveal who I am to you by the resistance at the time when I arrived."
"But that wasn't a mistake at the time, it went through right on schedule, regarding the Titans and dad's becoming a elder. You needed added help in the house, I was supposed to be your bodyguard, chosen by your future versions of the elders themselves. And 2) because he's an elder now, those abilities go right into me once I'm conceived. And I'm now just as strong and I can offset Wyatt's abilities, and control them at this age."
"The surgical strike had begun at the time by that point to save Wyatt, but that's the reason I threw him out of the house, he chose his job over us. And to keep you from falling apart on us, you needed me, your oldest son, in the house to keep you focused. But that's what I was really trying to say, without help you can do everything alone, you just had another baby, and I just finished my junior year in college, at the moment."
"And I arrived in time, just as the trouble starts as you saw when Paige was attacked by Medusa and freed her from that stone block. While dad learns that the Titans had killed 2/3's of the elders that agreed with your decision to get married, including a close friend of his. Well I wasn't lying, I meant to save him from turning evil, we had to bind his powers till he was old enough to handle them as you saw, regarding the dragon."
"That type of power can result in exposing the magic world, that's why the cleaners decided he to be neutralized or his powers bound. He's a danger to himself and everyone else, like you're deciding the same thing with Richard, Aunt Paige." he said and turned to looked at their past selves smiling as he gave her a hug smiling as his father ran his hand through the hair at the back of his head as they saw him lean into his touch.
"I'll see you when you get back honey, you're my dear sweet little boy, my first born son, I've never been more proud of you baby. I love you honey, make me proud." she said and he smiled at her. "I love you so much mom." he said and she smiled. "I'll see you when you get back buddy, love you kiddo." Leo said and he answered with a smile as they saw the clear look of love in his eyes at his past self then as he answered him.
"Love you too dad and I'm glad we got a second chance." he said and he gave him a hug. And then orbed out and their future versions looked at them in shock. "Listen to me both of you, the acts of his unborn self coming back two years prior was the best choice. In how is that as newly weds we have no children in this house at the time and that. You know what your problem is you two, it's your newly weds with your first child."
"And when the true first child risked his existance by coming back in time to save your, our family. Why give him a hard time, regarding secrets when your secrets destroyed our family in the future Phoebe, you lied to us saying you vanquished him. And you didn't, so don't give me that crap, that he's ruining your life, what he's doing is for the greater good, I've turned into mom and Prue turned into Grams at the moment and with that."
"Your secrets destroyed our family, Paige's family dad and Darryl and look what it does to him, you want proof let me show you. Here these words, hear my cry, reveal the truth in altered times, show thyselves, again by thee, bring it forth, so mote it be." she shouted out then and the image played itself back then. "What is this exactly?" Her future self asked in shock and Leo crossed his arms as he answered her firmly as he said it.
"While you guys want a chance at a normal life, we've accepted our destiny with open arms and now our lives are a mixture of both types together, Piper. Chris is going to teach us how to handle things when he and Wyatt are teenagers, we got a reference regarding Paige when she moves into the house, she's not alone anymore as one of a kind. And Prue is going to survive this, because Andy was turned into a whitelighter."
"But altogether, we've accepted our destiny as the family that's meant to control the house, to save our family we act like our family two years into the past. We know the future. But as you don't remember the past now, here's a tip, as you recall, you got the same reaction regarding appearing out of no where by your mother and Penny. But as long as there's no child in the house before hand, the clues fall into place."
"It took us one day to figure it out and here's the result: your baby version of Chris was found out by us and he's now got us back with him, we're going to raise him and make sure that kid stays good. But if we can't save him, we swear to god we'll stop him now, Chris is the true chosen one. The one meant to bring balance into the lines between good or evil, Chris is the chosen one." Leo said and their future selves swallowed at that.
"But this is what happened when you wrote that spell for him, this is the information needed now, but let me show you the truth now and here's why. Being born in the house your suspectible to going either way, and we quickly learned what that and bring twice blessed does if he's had a had trauma that warps his baby mind." she said and Paige quickly answered her at that remark in shock then as she said it to her.
"Are we talking being conceived by midichlorines and what happens when he's had a trauma serious enough that the people training him get concerned. Loss of a parent and he really does fall to the darkside, or he just brushes the darkside that type of thing?" she asked and Piper nodded. "Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying you want to see what we saw, us, Prue, Andy, dad and Darryl, because this is enough you're to get it."
"As to why, it's because Leo and I saw for ourselves what he became, because you're seeing what happened after you pulled that frequency time travel notion now. But my son is so far more powerful than Wyatt it's not even funny right now." Piper said as she reactivated the clip. "But this clip is from our own conversation with him now, and in a minute I'm showing you what happened to your Chris on his end of the situation."
"As the ones who saw this once already he showed us, Prue and Andy the truth to Wyatt's downward slide into evil. And dad was also involved in that situation along with Darryl, so you three want to see what it was we saw from our version of the boys. If you don't change things right now?" she asked and the trio nodded to her. "Yeah let me have it, if this is turning into a round robin, I want the truth, now at the moment."
"If I replaced Prue and she'd have believed me over Cole at the time as well, it's enough I'm not taking sides and I want the truth to what you and she, as well as the guys right now." Paige said to her at that and she nodded and activated the clip. Watching they saw as the sextet entered the attic. "Oh dear god what happened here, the attic looks like someone turned it into a mausoleum?" Darryl asked quickly, looking around.
"After he lost it completely, he turned the house into a museum, but that's the very beginning, you'll see why I decided to come back in time, come here." he said and they watched as his parents walked to his side as he opened up the attic window and they looked at the state of their block in shock. "Oh my god, what the hell happened to the city exactly?" Leo said as his future double repeated that in shock.
"Aw god, the entire neighborhood looks like a bomb hit it." Leo said it shock, before he could answer they heard a new voice answer that remark. "You could say that father, though I never expected to see you or mom in the future, let alone Chris being the one to betray me." he heard and turned to see a young man of his age with curly blond hair down to his shoulders, a goatee and blue eyes
And looked at him in shock. "Oh my god, is that Wyatt?!" Paige said in shock and they nodded to her. "Welcome back Chris." he said and he straightened up as he answered him. "Hello Wyatt, just short of week and you wait till I come back on my own to ambush us. You do realize that where I went, mom is still alive, she knows who I am and who you are." he said and he looked at him
And with an arrogant look on his face as Piper's double looked at him at the address in shock. "Wyatt?" Piper asked and he smirked as he answered her. "That can't be Wyatt!" Phoebe said in shock as they heard his remark."What don't recognize me mother, oh I see why, it's because in your time I haven't been born yet at the time. So you decided if it didn't work once to try a second time anf before I'm even born."
"Pre-emptive strike brother, before I'm even born Chris. Of all the people to betray me..." he said and Chris answered him firmly as he moved in front of her. "I didn't go back to betray you Wyatt, I went back to save you, keep our family intact." he said and he smirked at that as the sextet watched him carefully. "Save me, save me from what exactly?" he asked arrogantly to him and he sighed at that.
"From whatever evil turned you then." he said and he smirked at that. "That's always been your problem, stuck in the good verses evil, morass. I'm so over that, it's all power, it always was." he said and Leo crossed his arms at that. "The one with the most power wins is that it son?" he asked and he smirked at him. "That's it, that's why I keep this museum, to remind everyone of the power."
"And of which I was born and that I possess." he said coldly and Chris answered that in disgust as he looked at him sternly then as he said it to him. "To bad the rest of the city isn't faring as well as your little shrine here." he said and he answered him with an arrogant look on his face then. "You know it were anyone else, that just tried what you did, I'd kill them on the spot, I've forgiven Bianca."
"I can forgive you, if you promise not to cross me again." he said and Chris smiled firmly. "I think you know me better than that." he said and on that the five moved all at once at the battle got started as the trio looked at them at that in shock then. "How the heck did you know that you had to deal with him, before Chris brought you back to your time exactly here?" Piper's double asked and Leo smiled as he answered her.
"Parently intuition, less than a week together and our familial connection snapped into place automatically. So though he's not born in our time frame, we're still acting like parents and he and I worked as one regarding the amulet and the three of us did it together last night." he said and she nodded as they watched as Chris did a kamikasi run at Wyatt as the others fought it out with the demons watching in shock then.
As he lunged at him, he knocked him away from him. "Have you lost your mind." Wyatt said in shock. "Without mom neither of us, or Mellie, are born Wyatt, remember that, you send Bianca, and we will do this again. You will see me again. Just stand down now, you want me come back in two in half years, send Bianca if you have to, just wait it out." he snapped as Wyatt suddenly screamed out in pain as they then saw a young woman with her hand in his back.
"Whatever you're doing, do it fast, I can't hold him for long. I'm sending that message to Prue, Tyler and Derek, just get out of here." they heard and looked up to see his girlfriend standing behind him, and he nodded to her. "Hear these words, hear the rhyme, heed the hope within my mind, send me back to where I'll find, what I wish in place and time." he said and the portal opened at that.
And the seven of them all jumped through it as the trio nodded and Paige said it for all of them. "So that's the truth regarding, Wyatt now this is what he meant, regarding Wyatt he needed to save him from evil. But he meant he had to save him from turning evil, I get it, I've been a civil servant since I graduated from college. I took to this pretty fast and I vanquished my evil side right after I met you." she said and Piper nodded to her.
"Yeah precisely Paige, you, like Prue and I, are good witches, because we were all born at the hospital. But there's only a select few born in the house after we moved from Salem to San Fransisco, Phoebe being one of them, but she's in denial at the moment. In regarding your Wyatt and doesn't want to believe that Chris did this to save the greater good, because like her he was born in the house, now at the moment."
"She's not capable of handling the truth that someone she loves could ever turn to the darkside and it's why she was denying it, regarding Cole. Like you told us over and over, your version of us, and none of us wanted to admit it. That you were right and she was wrong, that he had turned to the darkside and had a relapse and turned into the source. She's not strong enough to deal with her own weaknesses at the current moment."
"You are, but Chris took after, you, me and Prue, Paige, so once I get to you, my version of you, it's us bonded together as sisters, baby. You have big sisters, but you're not alone regarding your feelings regarding Cole, he comes near either of you. Andonce he gets his powers back, or the source possesses him. He's getting vanquished and this time I'm making sure that sticks." she said and the young brunette smiled at that.
"So you, in the past, believe me now Piper?" she asked and they both nodded as she said it for both of them. "We do baby sister, don't worry, we got enough power to blow up the underworld a 100 times over now. I was ready to vanquish him then, but he attacks both Chris and Leo and that does it for Prue and me. There's no coming back from murdering an innocent woman and nearly killing a 17 year old witchlighter, he's half witch."
"So he's going to get hurt and killed and that bastard nearly murdered my son and then that was it, for me. There's nothing good in Cole anymore and there never was, you had every right to be wary and with that now. The three of us, you, me and Prue are the power of three once she turns to the darkside, and I'm making sure she stays out of your love life." she said and Paige nodded to that as she answered her at that.
"Well I know you can't learn the future, but you can learn from the past, where in the past are you from exactly you two, because you look like you're 29 years old?" she asked and Leo chuckled. "Just after Jenna is supposedly murdered by Cole." he said and Piper's future self looked at him in shock. "You created a double to save her life, I can't believe we never thought of that to save her at the time." she said and he nodded to her.
"If he arrived just as you were getting used to be married, his ideas would have saved both innocents in your time line. For us that's what this is really about right now, he came to us and we decided on the alibi we had him. When we were just short of getting into high school and dad was transferred to the gulf, night of passion, and he's conceived and from there." she said and his double answered that remark as he thought it over.
"Dad, my father, if we were kids it was a one night stand, but my father is transferred to the Persian Gulf and I went into the military and became a paramedic. I return to San Fransisco, search you out and you tell me that Chris is my son?" he said and she nodded to him. "Yeah that's right, like Grams bound our powers as we weren't ready as we got older, it wasn't until Phoebe found our book of shadows at the time now here."
"That it wasn't just our powers she woke up, but his as well and in the middle of a debate, you, Prue, Andy and I get the shock of our lives at the time. As we see him orb right out of the living room at the time here, but Andy is part of his life as his paternal figure. Prue his favorite aunt, and you'd or we, would never want him to give up his powers, they're part of who we are now." Piper said to her and she swallowed at that.
"Chris, my Chris, is seventeen years old and we took two years off his birthday to fit the time frame, but we're from 2001, just weeks before Prue is killed by the messenger you took out finally. But with two whitelighters and a witchlighter, we have enough healing power to keep her alive, before our power of three switches to yours now. But here's a tip, if you'd just thought to keep this out of the public and block your spells."
"What happened never would have happened in the first place, we're survivors, but to do so we have to think about the greater good before our own wants and needs you two. This you is stuck in the past, Piper and I changed when I saw my Chris and what he grew up to become now." Leo added to her firmly and the two original witches and Leo's future self exchanged pained looks at that as Paige thought over what she just heard.
"And while I'm at it, the only one of you dealing with a case of attitude problems and holier then thou attitude is you, Phoebe. You tell us to that have responsibilities, but look who's talking, your lust is the reason you ended up in this mess in the first place. And what Paige does in her love life is no damn business of yours, she said repeatedly. For you to but out and and I said we can worry, but from afar and you never do that."
"And you may have gotten sick of us judging you at the time Phoebe, but you know what, it's because, since you were 14 you've been shirking your responsibilities. Including Cole, and don't get mad at us for and start lecturing us about our responsibilities, you went and fell in love with a demon. And it kill Prue, because I didn't have Leo around to save her, let alone Andy at the time here, as for Chris."
"He hasn't learned how to use his healing powers and without three times the whitelighter power our version of the power of three is over. If you and your Leo are getting a change in your memories you're seeing that while you, Leo, are dealing with her and Cole. I have Andy with us and Chris as well right now, but if it hadn't been for Cole, we wouldn't have lost Prue, it's no ones fault, but your own, Prue is dead."
"And it switches with Paige, yes I hated her for leaving me at the time, but when it comes right down to it, the catalyst was always you and Cole, your irresponsbility, not doing your job." she said and her sister looked at her. "You guys have got to let this Cole thing go, I mean you can't stay angry at me forever." she said and Leo crossed his arms. "Why not Phoebe, is it because we're the ones cleaning up the messes you create."
"But your friends at the college turned animals into humans and they could have killed your friend. We got to clean that up, you in particular wrecked our wedding by inviting Cole prior to it. The hours leading up to the wedding are reserved for family only, and Cole's not family, you turned on us and Piper falls apart. Paige gets targeted by your devil spawn of a son and it nearly kills her at the time, she was telling us for months."
"That Cole had turned evil, she could clearly see he had turned, and she tried to tell us repeatedly, over and over. But it's not till your damn premonition, that we get evidence to that and she falls apart on us at the time. Her version: you, Piper and Prue, is destroyed and Paige is left on the opposite of the fence, because of this. We have rules to follow, personal gain consequences every time here at the moment."
"Paige is more like us, as was Chris at the time, he's a good boy and with that, when Chris arrived in our timeline that changed things we saw the evidence. We saw Wyatt as an adult, we clearly saw he turned evil. And until the aftermath of what happens at the time he's getting his powers bound until further notice. That little brat you fawn over right now, he turned into Darth Vader, without the mask at the moment as to that."
"Twice blessed, and born in the house, he could go either way, if some thing is screwing with his morality, like what these characters just pulled. But you're looking at Anakin before his first trauma and I mean very first trauma. This is that first indication of said future consequences and what's coming now. So cut the crap right now, open your eyes right now you three, they reversed his morality, good is bad and bad is good."
"This is just the beginning and it gets worse as he grows up until your demon ex murders your sister and he crashes and turns into the next Source of all evil. He then kills you and that's it, both versions of the power of three are no more, evil wins. And all because you never did your job, of killing him when you had the chance before our wedding at the time and before you made up with Victor." he snapped and the trio paled at that.
"Whoa, whoa, wait a minute Leo, you mean, that because she didn't kill him, when we were you at the time. That they destroyed us, us as the top most single source of good on the planet, she let her emotions get in the way of what needs to be done. And in the end evil wins, because she didn't do her job at the time?" Piper's double said to him quickly at that and he nodded to her gently at the question as he answered her.
"Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying, evil destroyed us, our family, the Halliwell-Wyatt clan, because she didn't do her job, you remember. But it was in the middle of December that we found out what he was, I turned him into you. And he captured her, well if she'd done her job our family wouldn't be destroyed right now, you, me, Mellie, we're dead, because of her shirking her responsibilities." he said and they both turned at that sternly.
"I ended up in an alternate reality where Cole had me killed already and I fixed the power of three and Prue was already dead. By my taking their Paige's place and Cole took their Cole's place, but he was still Belthazor at the time. Killing him as Belthazor is much easier to killing him as the Source, but I got to their version of you guys. And the three of us together got to Phoebe, but she hated him for Prue being dead at the time."
"I didn't have to hear her saying it that the reason she married Cole was to make sure that what happened to Prue doesn't happen to Piper. But in the end he still killed us, because she never did her job at the time of killing him when she had the chance to. At the time before I met you guys two years ago." Paige added to her and she nodded. "I'm taking you through the do's and don't's of making potions at the moment there."
"But our bond, I'm the middle sister in my version, Phoebe's the middle in yours, but once Prue is saved now, she's the matriarch of the family. I'm the oldest and she's the middle sister after that, but her problem is you're too much like us. You hate him as much as we do, Paige, you share that bond with us, you understand. But you became good when your past life lost her powers and you're a civil servant now."
"Mom would be very proud of the person you became these last 8 years." she said and Paige swallowed as she answered her. "Do you and Prue know?" she asked and they both nodded. "Yeah about your adoptive parents, the Matthews, yeah we know, but here's the thing, like us, Prue and me, you were on a one year time delay in your powers. It's normal, born in the house your powers are speeded up to the point that you have them."
"Right from the womb, not and it takes a year for them to come forward, Chris is like the three of us, but he took our side in everything. Massive hatred of demons, family came first, used our powers for good and so on. Chris just told us the important pieces right now our lives from this us into you now. Once we get to know you as yourself our bonds are going to be twice as strong as what they are now in your version at the moment."
"Mom risked her life saving others from the sea hag, we had our own battle with her and met your father in the process. We didn't know the added details let alone my fear, our fear, of what happens when you mix whitelighter blood with witch blood. Or that they could have children, the guys and Sam, even though their dead, but they're not dead. They're immortal now, but that's the catch we didn't understand until now, you two."
"But we didn't think it was possible until Chris explained this to us, but your, or rather our, Union, us and mom, our union with the duo. It was the same as the Greek gods and their half human children, we married or had an affair with our whitelighter. The ending results now, are that's what you, Chris and Wyatt really are, you're Demi gods." she said to her gently and the trio looked at her in shock at the news as she said it quickly.
"Half witch/half whitelighter, I'm a Demi God, that's why I'm this powerful, as is Chris, because you and mom married someone as close to a god as possible?" she repeated and she nodded. "Yeah, your birth was the result of a union like the Greek god myths, the gods had many half human children, you're a demigod now. Half witch/half whitelighter, is the same as a demigod, that's why you're this powerful."
"But this was the piece to our lives you're seeing later, so, do you remember the exact sequence after we thought he was dead you two. With you being us, you remember the weeks prior to our wedding at the time, Piper, after they decided to put us on probation so we can prove we could make it work. Before they lifted it after Nattie and the Darklighter that killed her." Leo said to her gently, and she nodded to that as she said it.
"Yeah I remember and we were both pissed at that, she told you first, then me after we started dealing with Prue's college ex at the time. And then she told Prue and she was hiding the fact from us that not only was he alive, but he was back. After that warlock turned us evil at the time, before dad came back into the picture. Nattie is dead as well and she basically said she hates rules." her double said with a low growl at that remark.
"Where are you in our past at the moment, if we just kicked him out of the house a second time exactly right now?" his double asked him gently. "The weeks leading into the banshee, Leo, Chris is teaching me how to control my powers in combustion. And it's going to take time to, but as Prue's I.D. said we're the control factor. But our I.D.'s are the completely human piece to us, we want what others have and have to set it aside."
"For the greater good, but Chris, our Chris, is teaching us to balance it out now between both sides of us. But your Chris, we met him after our's showed us his life when he was with you, when you realized he was half witch. We busted him a week ago, which was like three months prior to Shax killing Prue, with the school semester ending for the kids. We chose to take three years off his birthday to fit the time frame now."
"Our Chris is, if we'd been alive, 17 now and he'd be entering his senior year of high school this coming school term. This you, if he arrived at the same time you found Paige, could have taught you to balance both sides of you out. Or even arrived at the same time our's does, and your Prue would still be alive to deal with Phoebe's irresponsbility at the current moment." she said and he and her double nodded as Leo went further then.
"He, Chris, hates the Brotherhood of the Thorn, and it's because they slaughtered my entire family, starting with Piper, my daughter gets it next and I'm the last. But two by him personally, me I'm killed by a Darklighter and I have to prevent him from taking the arrow out or that'll kill him. Paige is dead, her husband, your father, Darryl, we're dead, because you never killed that bastard two years ago." he said and she swallowed at that.
"Who's left of the family if he, his younger double, told you that?" Paige asked and he crossed his arms. "All that's left of the family is her husband, and daughter, as well as himself. Prue and Andy are whitelighters and they adopted him with us. And you, Paige, gone now, he's closest to you and Prue out of the three of his mother's sisters. Look listen to me you guys, you two and your Phoebe now, but this is serious now."
"He maybe hiding a few things from you, but that doesn't give you the right to treat him like this, as to why. It's because there's an easier way to jump the 'no playing with future consequences' rule right now as to why if you just took guesses in what happens. Asked your Chris to give you dates, and once those dates happen, ask for the important parts of every situation and you could do this, and pay attention to the subtle hints he gives."
"Future consequences is not some damn excuse to manipulate you, he's not kidding, if he breaks the rules then that could erase someone he loves or himself from existence. Bianca is dead and that's it, he's broken hearted, trying to focus, the last thing we saw, before the clip of his memory ended. Was him telling Wyatt if he can't save him in turning evil then he's swearing to God and heaven, he'll stop him when he grows up."
"You want to see the entire episode from the second Bianca came to get him and leading into that point?" he asked and Paige nodded to him. "That image you showed us a bit ago, was that when you went to the future and met him face to face?" Piper's double asked and he nodded. "Yeah it is, but do you want to see what happened when Bianca came to get him, while you wrote the spell?" he said and she nodded firmly to him.
"Yeah let me have it, if this is the reason he wanted us to bind his powers, I want the truth, now. So if he's mine, I want the truth to what happened on his side of this situation. You guys are me and Piper, so I think it's only fair that though we can't ask him that information as its against the rules of time travel. We can ask you, because you're us from the past." Leo said and her double nodded in agreement to his thoughts.
"So learn from the past to create a better future, you're us in the past, we're you two years into the future. We can't learn about the future, but we can learn from the past, as his situation was just under a month ago now at the current moment. But the Valkyries, the cleaners, our impersonators, Richard, Chris is trying to teach us something. Richard's family accountant starts suffering a case of doing a deal with the devil."
"Excalibur, the manticores, Bianca, grams and her red go go boots and then we land on this situation, so what's the reason for why he'd want us to bind his powers, Leo?" she asked and Leo explained that to her. "The reason being is because the power could go right to his head as he grew up, to put this bluntly now. He's Anakin, or Tommy Oliver, on the power rangers and he's getting sick of his birthrite and his abilities."
"And having them thrown at him every time he turns around, but he wants to be like everyone else, but special treatment, unlimited access to the emperor, several traumas. And as he grows into his prime till finally he suffers his first true failure and it's by not getting to his mother fast enough and he finally brishes the darkside. That's the situation all over, Chris is Anakin if he stayed good and his duty, Wyatt is him, now."
"After he finally was seduced by the darkside and he committed multiple atrociticies." he said and she nodded. "Alright show it to us, what happened while we were trying to get him back that night exactly." she said to him gently and turned to look at Phoebe. "And forget about denying it now, born in the house, twice blessed. It's an accident waiting to happen, like we saw with you now, Phoebe." she added sternly then to her at that.
As he activated it a second time Phoebe watched the image, shaking. "Welcome back Chris." he said and he straightened up as he answered him. "Hello Wyatt." he said and Phoebe paled at that as they watched it. "They're no threat to me." he said and with that the demons left. "Eu tu Chris, of all the people to betray me..." he said and Chris answered him firmly as he moved in front of her as he answered him.
"I didn't go back to betray you Wyatt, I went back to save you." he said and he smirked. "Save me, save me from what exactly?" he asked arrogantly to him and he sighed at that. "From whatever evil turned you then." he said and he smirked at that as he answered him at that. "That's always been your problem, stuck in the good verses evil, morass. I'm so over that, it's all about power, it always was."
"It's as simple as that now." he said and Chris crossed his arms at that as he answered him at that remark then. "The one with the most power wins is that it?" he asked and he smirked. "That's it, that's why I keep this museum, to remind everyone of the power of which I was born and that I possess." he said coldly and Chris answered that in disgust as he looked at him sternly at that.
"Too bad the rest of the city isn't faring as well as your little shrine here." he said and he answered him with an arrogant look. "You know it were anyone else, that just tried what you did, I'd kill them on the spot. I've forgiven Bianca, I can forgive you, if you promise not to cross me again." he said and Chris smiled firmly. "I think you know me better than that." he told him firmly and he looked at her.
"I thought you said you could talk some sense into him." he said to her and Chris said it with a warning tone then. "Leave her out of this." he told him firmly and in answer to that he lifted his hand and they saw Chris grab his throat. "Oh dear god no, it's the indication on the movie, the Sith did this to either warn them. Or kill them, he's turned into a Sithlord in the future." Paige said in shocked disbelief at that image.
"I'm a science fiction nut, and if he had my books it's clear he took after me in a love for science fiction. And this could be considered the added act in the prequel trilogy, how far gone is he exactly?" Paige said in shock. "It's seven years of screwing around with the dark arts, he's 23 years old, your Chris is 21, Paige." Piper said and her double nodded. "He's gone, we lost him once he, Cole, killed me." she said sadly to her and she nodded.
"Pardon me?" Wyatt said to him, before he threw him into wall telekinetically. "You said wouldn't hurt him!" she snapped and he snapped back at her. "You said you'd turn him, like I turned you, or I thought I had." he said sharply at that. And she ran to Chris at that, as she crouched next to him as he tried to get his breath. "Chris please, I didn't bring you here to die." she said and he said it gently at that to her.
"Don't worry I know what I'm doing." he said as they heard a squeak in the floor then where Wyatt was standing. "I think." he added as he got up and lunged at him then as he grabbed him at that. "Have you lost your mind." he snapped at he threw him to the floor at that. "I don't need you." he said as he got ready to blast him she lunged at him and thrust her hand into his back and he froze in pain at that.
"Whatever you're doing, do it fast, I can't hold him for long." Bianca called out to him and he nodded as he opened it and read it out. "Powers of the witches rise, come to me from across the skies. Return my magic, give me back, all that was taken from the attack!" he called out and they watched him glowing blue, just as Wyatt was free of the power hold as he knocked her away as she fell to the floor.
And she landed on a table leg. "No!" Chris shouted out at that as he blew him into the wall. As they watched him crouch next to her. "Bianca, no, no, no, no." he said and they could tell he was trying to hold it in then. "Haven't we been here before." she asked and he smiled sadly. "And maybe we will be again." he said and she smiled weakly at that. "Maybe." she said as he sighed sadly as he looked down in grief then.
"No." he said as he tried to hold it in as she gave him the ring then as she finished her remark. "If you can finish what we started. Take the spell, so he can't send anyone else. Finish this, finish what we started honey." she said and he nodded as her eyes closed as he lowered his head then as Leo felt his heart rip apart for his son. "Oh dear god no, not her too." Paige said, feeling his grief at that and he nodded as he watched his son as he ran to the book then and read out the incantation for time travel.
"Hear these words, hear the rhyme, heed the hope within my mind." he read out, before Wyatt fired a energy ball at him and he ducked the blast as he finished reading it out. "Send me back to where I'll find, what I wish in place and time." he called out as the portal opened as he grabbed the page, tore it out and he jumped through it and landed in the attic and landed hard on the floor in front of Paige.
And the trio and she grabbed his arm as she looked into his eyes then."Oh my god, are you alright!" Paige asked and he nodded. "Yeah I'm fine, nice spell." he said as he looked at her with a gentle smile and they all could clearly see the love in his eyes and the gentle demeanor of a son and nephew to his parents and aunts. "Well I'm seeing it now, he was looking at us like family." she said and he nodded to her as she watched.
"Yeah, but we just put it in like two seconds ago." Phoebe said to him and Leo smiled at the bemused smile on his future self's face as he answered her remark then. "Yeah well you see, the way time travel works..." he started to say and Phoebe chuckled as she answered that. "Yeah, but I really don't want to know, I have a little headache, so thanks." she said and Piper sighed as she crossed her arms then.
As future Piper felt her heart turn over at this. "You have some serious explaining to do, young man." she said repeating her remark with her current self. "I know, listen I'm sorry I lied to you. I really am, but..." he started to say and Piper interrupted him at that, her tone going stern, as she sighed. "No, no buts, it's about time you told us the truth. Now." she said and they watched him shake his head at that.
As he answered her gently at that. "I can't, but not because I don't want to, but because there's only so much I can tell you without the future being changed too much." he said and Phoebe felt her heart fall at that remark as she looked at their past selves then. "Um, isn't that the whole point, you coming back to change the future?" Paige asked and he nodded as he answered her firmly then as he went further.
"Yeah, but that was supposed to be more of a surgical strike." he said and Leo watched his future version answer him gently. "To save Wyatt?" he said and he nodded. "To save Wyatt." he said and Leo smiled proudly as he looked at his 21 year old son with love then, smiling as he looked at him then. "What about Bianca?" Phoebe asked and he sighed sadly and Leo looked at his sister in law sternly at that.
"And did you really have to bring that up, right now as well. He's just had his heart broken and he's lost everything that ever mattered to him, Phoebe, his family, his friends, her." Leo asked with a stern growl and Paige nodded in agreement as they watched him say it, though his eyes were loaded with grief. "Bianca won't be a threat to anyone, anymore." he said and they nodded as they watched her answer him.
"I'm sorry." she said and he nodded. "Me to. So you guys alright with me still hanging around here?" he asked and they nodded. "Absolutely, but the next time you're in trouble, you got to tell us, the trust works both ways." he said to him and he nodded. "Okay." he said and left the room as they watched him walk up to Piper and Leo's door as they saw an 5 month old baby in a playpen at that.
"So that's where he went after our conversation, he was looking at his brother sternly at the time. Knowing he had to do anything possible to prevent this, because it was after this Piper suggested we move in with Jason and Richard. But Grams laid into us because of it as a result." Phoebe said looking at him in shock and he nodded. "If I can't save you, I swear to god I'll stop you." he said to him gently and Paige nodded to him.
"Does that make his point now." Piper said and Phoebe swallowed. "It does now, this is what he meant, when he said he was trying to save him from evil. He meant he was trying to save him from turning evil and kill the person that causes it?" Piper's double said to her and she nodded. "Yeah it is, you're me after you lost Prue, you never wanted to admit some of the dangers, but the boys were practically raised around demons."
"Phoebe's latest fling, was another demon, but he's everything Cole isn't and we, that is us, Prue, dad, mom, grams, Darryl, Andy and Leo handpicked him ourselves. He's denied his evil side for 600 years now and is the epitome of a good demon." she said and the trio nodded. "So Chris had him thrown out of the house and to help her move on, he chose the man we're meeting next year?" Paige asked and she nodded to her gently.
"Yeah, but to us, Cole was the vampire, our chosen suitor for her was the werewolf best friend and he's helping us in getting her to move on now. To put this bluntly Cole is another version of Anton, a far more dangerous version of him. Anton could glamour himself into anyone, like you she fell to evil and that's her biggest fear. She is evil and she's attracted to it, because she hates rules regarding the fight between good and evil."
"To us, he's destroyed her and we don't want him in the family, you, me, Prue, Andy, and Leo we're all good witches and whitelighters. Chris is the best of both of us combined, he's like us, to save the family we'd risk our lives to get a family member back. To save us, the future the world he put his own existance at risk to come back to the past. But that's why he's here." she said and her double, Paige and Leo all nodded in amazement.
"What would you consider this exactly, you called Cole a vampire, and this character a werewolf, so what are we and dad exactly?" her double asked her and she smiled. "Also a pack a wolves, we choose our own kind, we're good good witches, whitelighters. And our extended family is also a cop and dad couldn't care less we're witches. And whitelighters, but we choose our own kind, human and wolf, but wolves and vampires."
"They're natural enemies, she fell in love with the enemy and we're trying to steer her away from his control at the moment. But what happened before Wyatt was born, was supposed to happen as she sees what could happen when she wants to move on. And yet he won't let her, when she's dating another good being like herself. But I'm putting this as a quick word of warning now, but get Darryl out of town in your 3rd trimester."
"With Chris, my Chris, you guys, just trust me, this is needed to save your friendship with the Morris's. Tell him to take Sheila and the kids and go on a three month leave, because the cleaners finally caused what the cop that ended up in Timbuktu resulted in. To save your friendship and his marriage, he needs this right now." she said and the trio nodded to the request gently as she then looked at her sister's future self sternly.
"This attempt at denial, regarding Wyatt and why Chris is really here is going to be the death of you if you can't accept it right now, Phoebe. Family and birth rites don't count for anything, your values do, what was it about you at the time. Phoebe, you kept getting nine trouble with the cops, until you became a witch. What about the cleaners if they erased him from existance the future wouldn't be what it is right now, for him."
"So instead of killing him they chose first a surgical strike and when that failed, they decided two years prior to that. When it was our version, Prue's future self decided to get her and Andy's past self involved and they decided prior to when Wyatt was born. Why, well it's because we already saw it with you, regarding the nexus, Phoebe. You were born inside the center of a pentagram, right over the Nexus, you can go either way."
"Wyatt is the same way, and on top of that is he's gifted with both the powers of a witch and whitelighter, twice blessed. We, dad, Prue and Andy, as well as Darryl meet the little brat as a 20 year old face to face, that's what he looked like. I had the very same conversation Chris had with him now, and he responded in the same manner to Leo. That he did with Chris, but it just made the truth more clear now, we had to prevent it."
"If you wanted that proof you'd have taken a tribunal and you'd see the truth that way, it's either death by a surgical strike for the resistance. Or in this case kill the culprit that caused it or it's a pre-emptive strike before he's ever born and Chris is living in the manor even before Wyatt is born and Leo decided. 'You' decided, Leo, that to prevent it from happening, to send him back to our time and trigger a pre-emptive strike now. "
"This you is after you became an elder, they reactivated you when he and our daughter were 14 and 12. Because Wyatt was about to crash, Cole came back and he kills me first, Phoebe six months later, then our daughter, Paige is next and that leaves you. But before he killed you, darklighter, you told Chris to pull a pre-emptive strike at the time. Return to 4 months after our wedding after the seven deadly sin escapade at the time now."
"To keep both versions alive." Piper said and they swallowed. "Wait, wait, wait a minute, you're not from a different time frame, this is the same one. You met our Chris, our Chris is the one you saw face to face when your Chris showed you the truth. So if I'm reading this right to why you hate Cole this much..., pains of future wrongs, regarding this, we're you and you're us?" Leo's double said as he moved to her and she nodded to him.
"Yeah exactly, Leo, look at the way I'm looking at you now, you're my soulmate, we're meant to be together. We just learned we're parents and we took to it so quickly that we have a shot to save our family by being 'our' family. The you of 20 years into future sent Chris to yourself when you're 28 years old, you're a doctor. But think it over, the back to the future time paradox, part 3." she said and his eyes widened in shock at that news.
"The me of the future sent my unborn son to myself in the past, we're doing a back to the future time paradox. Well that movie certainly gave the circumstances of screwing around with the space time continuum, but this is ridiculous. So with you coming into two years into the future, or in this case 2 years and 8 months into the future. Our minds about to start processing the circumstances." he said and she nodded to him gently.
"What?" Paige repeated and she sighed. "The terminator time paradox, or you could go with back to the future. But think about it Paige, you love sci-fi of any kind, right?" she asked and Paige nodded. "Well the first attempt to take out Sarah Connor didn't work, so skynet did what exactly?" she asked and Paige covered her eyes. "They tried a second time, only it was when he was a kid and the resistance sent a double."
"Of the terminator that killed the kid's father and tried to kill her back to protect him and his mother to prevent the future from playing out. So though we prevented it once he still crashed and Andy, Prue, mom, grams, the elders and Leo decided to try again. But this time, it's by sending baby Chris back to before Wyatt was ever born. When you were newly weds, Prue was still alive and Phoebe just finished school, that's what this is."
"If at first you don't succeed, try and try again, the surgical strike never worked, Wyatt still crashed, Leo, the elders, Prue, Andy and I tried and he and I are both killed. He goes to Prue, Andy, mom and grams and suggests the second plan, send him to this you. And that's what's going on, we're the original timeline, you're the new one and fresh start by us sending him to you to keep him from crashing?" she said and they nodded to her.
"We are, the circle just started up, in your current circumstances right now, Chris told us every piece to it, before and after he disappeared and after our Chris was born. The surgical strike didn't work, he still crashed and you chose a pre-emptive strike and sent him back. Back to when it's not your version of the power of three that were protecting innocents, but when Prue was still alive, because we didn't have children at the time."
"Remember, the wedding, followed by the Angel of death, the seven deadly sins, Cole goes undercover, so what happens next?" she said as he looked into her eyes and nodded, before he looked at his past self as he was feeling the memory reorganize itself and he smiled. "He chose, I chose, to send him back to the second your powers started speeding up and you gained combustion powers in addition to your freezing powers."
"It's working my memories are rearranging themselves the bond between me and Chris is shifting from suspicion and straight to a father/son bond, Piper do you feel it too?" he asked as she felt her connection to their Chris snap into place and smiled at that. "Yeah it's working, he's no stranger at all, our familial bonds from this. They are snapping into place now, Leo, he's no stranger, he's family, he's our son, okay, alright I get it."
"With the fact Andy busted him the second he arrived in the attic that day just as I blew up the watermelon, he told us we practically raised him ourselves. Our subterfuge was we had him when we were kids and we just got our family in one piece." she said to him smiling then and he nodded. "Yeah, we chose that cover story so nobody wondered why he just arrived out of nowhere before I get the bomb dropped on me by Andy upstairs."
"It's working, we just did an entire reset on this situation, by his coming to our past four months after we got married, no kids in the house. The sense of his being family is getting stronger by the minute, Andy busted him, he tells me the truth. And our first true fight against the brotherhood barely blew up the..." he started to say and turned to look at the bookshelf and saw the two year old scorch marks and nodded with a sigh.
"He lost his temper when Cole got to close to me, blasted him once and he suffered a flashback, before Andy realized it then. Chris wasn't just a witchlighter, he's thrice blessed, he's gained the ability to shoot lightning, because this me is an elder now." he said and their past selves nodded. "Yeah that's what happened Leo, I told Andy to get him to calm down, and we laid into Cole, before you came around at the time."
"But it was a week later that he showed us what happened to us, but it was enough to tick us both off and we then asked to see what happened to your version of Bianca. But us seeing our Chris's memories, we saw and heard everything from his point of view." she said and he nodded. "How old was he when Cole killed me exactly and not long after, Phoebe?" she asked and he sighed as he answered her gently then at that question.
"He was 14, Mellie was 12 and that was it, Wyatt had hit his downward spiral and it started after that." he said to her and she nodded. "Mellie, Melinda, we did have a daughter, wait a minute, if..., oh no, tell me it's not what I'm thinking here. I said we had to keep an eye on him after we came back from that other possible future, it did happen?!" her double said to him, quickly and he sighed as he answered her gently.
"I can't tell you that, you want to that information to, finish this now, it's you got to see your Chris's memories now. So you want proof well you got it now you two, so what's your next choice now. With the fact we came to you now, your memories are rearranging themselves now at the moment here. Because Piper and I are you, from two years in the past taking care of your unborn son right now, you have a chance to fix things."
"But he's from 2022 and it's 2003 right now for you guys." Leo said and her future self felt her start pounding. "2022, our Chris is 21 he's born next year in 2005, that's his birthday, conceived after Wyatt's birthday, oh dear god. You mean your version of Chris, he's a high school student when Cole killed us. But he's 17 and nearly college age, he's a year or two away from entering college?" her future self said quickly and they nodded.
"What did I do to get him so mad at me exactly, if he threw me out of the house after I became an elder?" his double asked quickly. "As I understand it when he did that, as he quoted my exact lines, you wanted a child, I gave you a son. But you chose your job over us, your family, and he was furious at that, that he basically said. Just by sending you to Valhalla, is that 'you want to leave, that's fine, I can take care of my mother."
"And my brother myself, we don't need you here, so just leave, dad, I can care of my mother, brother and the girls myself, I never want to see you again.'. That was the subtext when he sent you to Valhalla, you left us and he didn't need you. He was acting like Bruno Kirby's character on city slickers. After his father left his mother for some little sleaze, in your case, it's because of your job." she said to him as she went further.
"Going by what our version said, you were also playing favorites in this time frame at the moment to the point now. That you were in denial, that you only had one son, you never wanted another son, you were there for me, the girls, Wyatt, the entire world. But you were never around for him, you didn't have the time, but this pre-emptive strike. It wasn't just to save Wyatt it's to save us as well, you and me, his parents, his family."
"You get a second chance to make things right, make the best of it now, get to know him, if you need proof have a look at his pendant, the locket around his neck. Have a look at his stuff, there's many indicators that show he belongs to us. Including his features, he looks like me, but he had your eyes, Leo. Paige, you're also half whitelighter, the ball is in your court now after this, you're the deciding factor now here."
"He stays or he goes, listen to me Paige, with Prue gone it's just you, you took up the mantle of super witch. The leader of the three of us, you stepped into Prue's place, with the three of us in denial like we were when you tried to tell us regarding Cole. You make the choices now, you're substituting for Prue, but she decided to see his memories. And we took him to the tribunal, before we got a bloodtest confirmed on him on Monday."
"And that's the confirmation, the DNA match profile, Leo is a whitelighter so who does that leave to bring him to life. That's your only chance to end this fight now over family, take it, now." Piper said and she nodded as her eyes narrowed. "Alright that's enough this guys, one option is left, a bloodtest to confirm it. We see his memories to confirm what it is that they're telling us and what he's telling us, but first a medical exam, now."
"We get a paternity test done, we go to the tribunal and we see his memories from start to finish and that's it. But we're not waiting until the last minute, we do this tomorrow, and screw the denial, you already did that and it tears the family apart, with Cole. We're not doing that again, is that clear you two, we have to get the confirmation. Who's DNA he's carrying, and we need to see his memories." she said and the duo nodded firmly.
"She's right, we do this now we can fix things between us, at the moment you and I are separated right now, but we make sure he's born. And instead of whoever asks me to stay up there, I'm not leaving you holding the bag, he's born and our family is back in one piece Piper." his double said and she nodded. "Yeah we didn't listen to her and it tears the family apart, we're not making the same mistake twice, we do it their way."
"Born in the house, you can go either way, if something is screwing with your morality, I didn't listen to her and it results in shutting me down. And it's because Phoebe turned on us, I will not make the same mistake twice, to know for sure. And get our alibi set up, we can do a bloodtest, you're a whitelighter, he's got the powers of witch, and he looks like me, he's mine, he's ours, our son." she said and he nodded as he answered her then.
"He's our son, that's what he meant when he got the empath blocking potion he took a dose himself to block her out of his head. Just so the truth didn't come out too soon and it's because he was waiting for our past selves to come to the future and drop the bomb on us. He looks like you, has my eyes, he's got whitelighter powers, I'm an elder, and he's half witch, he's both sides of us and if what I'm thinking is true now."
"But he's half elder, I'm an elder now and he's got the added powers of an elder, he's thrice blessed. Alright, alright, I had to become an elder to make room for him as your whitelighter, because 1) it's so he can protect you guys and Wyatt. And 2) because his powers now offset Wyatt's and he's got your added appeal of your powers coming a year later." he said and she nodded in agreement as they looked at their past selves.
"Do we have it right you two, I had to become a elder for two reasons, but 1) so I could make room for him as your whitelighter. As he was your bodyguard and Wyatt's once he was born and 2) so his powers offset Wyatt's as he's got the added abilities of a elder. He was born in the hospital and his powers showed up a year later as a result?" he asked and they nodded to him and their version of Phoebe looked at them in shock.
