Here is the long awaited chapter, and the last other than the epilogue that i am posting in about an hour. i hope that you all like it, and severely apologize for the wait. Please review
Chris knew that he was needed more in America, fighting his brother and his army, than he was needed in England. There was no need to further the education that he was receiving at Hogwarts as it really wasn't helpful, and there was no way he was leaving his sister. He wasn't sure exactly how he was going to explain this to Harry, and Hermione, and Ron, but he was leaving and no more threats for Dumbledore or his father were going to stop him. Not that Dumbledore had every really threatened him, but his father sure as hell had and that was good enough.
Chris looked around him at his sister and Hope, they were sitting next to each other on the bed waiting for him to speak.
"Well, I think that it is obvious that I need to go back to America with you two and figure out how to save Wyatt. School hasn't been important for years and this is not the time to be worrying about grades and who the cutest girl in school is..."
"Well, that girl is me, so there is no need to worry about that," Melinda joked softly trying to alleviate the situation.
"Thanks, that one question answered. The next is what we do with that prophecy that Tricia gave you. I think that it holds the key to what is expected that we do to save the world and prevent a terrible future that I see coming unless we change something fast." Chris started to pace in front of the bed as he went back over the prophecy in his head.
"Wait, what prophecy? What in God's name are you talking about?" Melinda demanded.
"Oh, you have a cousin from your Aunt Prue that you aren't supposed to know about that told us of a prophecy made when Chris was born." Hope explained when she saw that Chris didn't appear to be listening.
"Well, what did it say?"
"It said, The brother thought to be less shall travel to a place forbidden and forever change history. Resistance shall help, as well as the live ancestor thought dead. Power of Three will rise again as the bell tolls 13 and one thought help will join the society of Wormtails, time changes and time saves."
"That means that Chris has to go to the past doesn't it? Change history, Power of Three, place forbidden, and all that talk about time and it changing and saving. This means that Chris has to go to some point in the past and change whatever evil got to Wyatt and keep it from getting to him. And the past is forbidden ever since Mom and the aunts got zapped to the 60's and almost stopped their whole existence from being. The Elders put a kablosh on it and even upper level demons don't dare cross them on this one." Melinda spoke, her eyes following her brother as he continued to pace and didn't appear to be listening to them.
"There is still a spell to travel into the past in the Book. I found it one day when I was looking for a demon that the Elders wanted Mom to go after. She said that I needed to keep it to myself when I mentioned it to her. But, Wyatt has the Book now, and there is no way that we are going to be able to get our hands on it. " Chris said, stopping his pacing and turning to look at them.
"We need more time to fully develop this plan, that much is obvious. Besides, we can't send you into the past as a 16 year old. What would be the reason; they would figure out that you are a Halliwell or think that you are an enemy and both those situations wouldn't bode well. You need to be older, pretend to be a whitelighter or something," Hope proposed.
"That could work," Chris said, he thought about it, working all the kinks out of that plan. "Pretend to be a whitelighter from the future trying to protect or save Wyatt. We all know that the Charmed Ones will do anything to rescue him, he was the favorite for a long time. And we are going back to when he was the only child around, and it's Mom in general. She was a monster when it came to a threat to her children. So promote Leo early and take his place."
Mel jumped up and walked over to him excitement lighting up her face, "That would get him out of our way. He wouldn't want may harm to come to his precious son; Chris, I heard rumors while I was captured..." She trailed off, obviously unwillingly to say anymore than that.
"What rumors? About what happened to Wyatt?" Chris stared at her face, he was immensely curious as to what would have her so nervous to talk about.
"No, about why Leo might have never liked us... You know that Mom and him got divorced right after the Titan attack even though he would still come down and see Wyatt and check on them, right?" Melinda backed away a bit from her brother and started to nervously twist her fingers together.
"Yeah, that's how he and Mom kept getting back together even after they decided that they couldn't do the marriage thing anymore."
"Well, Mom was dating, and Leo thought that you were this fireman's son. Not his. Until you orbed he wouldn't believe Mom about the fact that he had two sons and not just one."
Chris stopped dead in the middle of the room staring at his sister like he had never seen her before as the pieces of the puzzle started to fall in place.
"And I was nearly three before I orbed the first time, and that's when they had you. Because he realized that he was being an ass and that Mom hadn't been lying to him. How did you hear this? Why would kids be talking about the sexual relationship of our parents?"
"It was the guards actually and you heard Kevin, demons are.."
"Terrible gossips. Yeah, I have to go and talk to Dumbledore about leaving his precious school. Even he must realize that I am a better asset where the battle is than anyway from it. Not everything can be done from the safety of a school." Chris walked to the door hesitating as he reached the doorway.
"Head back to America and to the Resistance, they need to know that the kidnapping is stopped and that they can go outside again. Hope, remember the line about the traitor and keep watch over anyone that we don't know very well. I'll see you as soon as I can."
Chris shut the door behind him and started for the stairs, his mind was in utter turmoil as he thought back over what exactly he had learned. His father not believing his mother, that there was or was going to be a traitor to him, and that he had to go back to where he wasn't born and face his mother. The one person in his life that knew him inside and out and he had to go to where she wouldn't even know that he was her son. That he would meet the father that his mother would always tell him about, the one that would and did do anything to protect his son, the father that he had never known.
Chris was walking down the stairs almost near the animal bites ward when he came across two men arguing, he was surprised to see that one of them was Remus. The man had always appeared cool-headed to Chris, never one to lose his temper and he was arguing rather passionately with a complete stranger.
"Remus?" he asked when they both stopped for breath.
"Chris!" they both replied, which was odd as he didn't even know the second man, however as he looked closer at him he almost looked like Sirius gone wrong. Then it hit him, oh no.
"Oh, no, Remus you did not sneak him in here! He is wanted by the entire English government, and you brought him into the only Magical hospital on the continent? Why the hell would you risk that?" Chris yelled in a whisper, the men seemed to shrink back from the youth's obvious anger.
"It was because of something really important, it really couldn't wait, I swear on Merlin's beard." Sirius said holding up his hand like a Boy Scout. Remus seemed to roll his eyes at the action, but then adopted the same pleading look that Sirius was directing at Chris.
"Well, get it out of the hospital, if you get caught Harry will lose the only father figure that he has ever known. So take the important reason and take it back to the house alright?" They both nodded at him, and he continued to walk rolling his eyes at their foolishness.
Remus turned to Sirius and tugged off the stairwell and back into the corridor. "We are going to take both of them back to the house and figure this out there." He hissed in a very quiet whisper. Sirius nodded and kept behind Remus as they went back into Arthur's room where Megan and Griffin were still waiting. Arthur was holding them there by making something up about records that still needed to be filed or something to that effect.
Remus stepped forward, they couldn't trust the other people in the wing to keep quiet about Sirius Black being there. In fact they were sure that they would start to panic when they saw that there was a 'murderer' in the room with them. But, who knows, the new werewolf might ask for a favor.
"Megan, I don't know if you remember me. We were mutual friends friends through Lily and James Potter, and another friend."
"Yes, I sort of remember you. You were always very ill so I never saw that much of you. But Siri-"
"Shhhh," Remus interrupted her. "We need to go somewhere else and continue this conversation away from prying ears." He dropped his voice until it was nearly a noiseless whisper and looked around at the other patients knowingly.
"Oh, sorry. Um, sure I guess. Is it really important?"
"Yeah," Remus nodded as he thought it over. "Yeah, you could say that."
Harry was pacing back and forth in the room that he and Ron were sharing when Chris came in with his pack slung over his shoulder. Harry got a terrible feeling that Chris had come in to say good bye.
"You're leaving, aren't you?" He asked when Chris made no move to sit down and was rather standing in the door way.
"Yeah, my friends need me more in America. San Fransisco is kinda torn up and all the other kids are willingly to fight now that they are back with their parents and what not. So, I need to stop the Source and, well, save the world I guess."
"I can understand that," Harry said on a half laugh. He scratched the back of his neck and looked around the room sheepishly. "So, this is it? Will we ever meet again?"
"Maybe, hopefully. If you defeat your badass and I defeat mine, we should go out and get a drink. Raise a glass to saving the world and whatnot. But, until then, good luck Harry." Chris turned toward the doorway and stopped again and looked back.
"You should ask her out you know."
Harry turned the brightest shade of red, "Who?"
"You know who," Chris shook his head when Harry started to shake his.
"She still likes you," Chris said.
"She has a boyfriend, and six brothers, and she is just a friend."
"For now." Chris laughed at Harry's expression and left still laughing. He inwardly hoped that they would both get a chance to have that drink one day.
Sirius watched as Megan and her son, his son, both Flooed back to America, and thanked whatever god was out there that he would never have to have that conversation again. They had agreed that it was wrong for her to leave without so much as an explanation, and that they were going to work things out. But Sirius was a 'convicted murderer' not that there had been much of a trial, and it wasn't safe yet for him to join them yet.
Megan and Griffin would be waiting for him when this was all over, and he was going to spend the summer with them under the influence of Polyjuice. They would have to wait until then to really start to connect, and he needed to tell Harry. The pup was the only family that he really thought that he had until a few short hours ago and Harry deserved to know about Griffin.
They could all get together, Megan knew Lily better than he did and could share more stories. They could start to pull lives out of the mess that the world was, he just needed to get through the end of the school year. When the O.W.L.s and Umbridge were over they could all talk and start over.
Chris looked around him at the mass of people and magical creatures that were waiting for him to guide them. They had all come here when they heard that he would be leading them, they were only hear because they thought that he would be leading them.
"I guess you all heard the news, all the kids are back." He saw heads nodding and even spotted some of the aforementioned kids surrounded by friends that kept reaching out and checking that they were still really there.
"We are at war now. The Source of All Evil will not stand the fact that we took them out underneath his nose. There are bounties on most of your heads now, there is no going back from here. Do all of you understand?"
There was a loud chorus of yes and other words of agreement. The kids of America were already becoming the army that they needed to be, there was no more childhood left in the room.
"Is it true that Wyatt Halliwell is the Source?" a random voice shouted from the depths of the crowd.
Chris inwardly cursed, he had hoped to keep that particular fact to himself. There was no telling what would happen to some of the people that were here when they heard that. If they thought that all hope was gone they might leave and join him. He was after all the most powerful magical being walking the earth.
"Yes, Wyatt Halliwell, my brother, is the Source." He raised his arms for quiet when it appeared that alarm was going to take over the room. "But, there is no need to think that we have already lost. He is one person, and there is a prophecy that states how we can bring him down. We have a plan, we just need more time so that it will work right. Therefore, we need all of you to have hope and spit in his face by simply being here. Work with me, and my sister and friends, and therefore against him. We cannot allow his reign of terror to continue forever!!" A roar of approval filled the room and Chris himself allowed him to feel hope that they will win.
He watched as kids reached out for their loved ones and friends, he saw Mel hug that Griffin kid and knew that they had to win. These feelings of hope, love, and faith had to grow and become strong. He would do whatever it took to ensure that.
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