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Summery: A story about letting go and moving on.
This is my first fic, so I'm learning as I go. Thanks for all the positive feedback.
Chapter 4
Piper's Future Self was about to lose it. How could these people have been so stupid? How could she have been so stupid? Judging by the looks on their faces, the truth, the guilt, and the utter shock of it all was taking a while to settle in. And she didn't have time for them to feel sorry for themselves; she needed them to take action.
"Chris is going to die" Future Piper repeated again.
"No he's not, we wouldn't let that happen, even if we didn't know, we wouldn't let that happen." Past Piper shook her head, not willing to believe that she would let her child die.
"You did, you couldn't stop it. You let your child die, you let him die" the older woman said tears pouring down her face. She moved back over to sit down by Chris who was still out cold. "But we'll fix it this time baby; I won't let them make the same mistakes twice."
Melinda knew her mother was not thinking rationally, she wasn't thinking like a witch, she was thinking like a mother. She looked over at her father, he looked so confused.
"I'm Chris's father" Leo said dazed "I'm your father?" he asked Melinda
"Snap out of it Leo, you have to save your son" Future Piper ordered "We don't have time for this. Do you realize he's going to die in your arms, and you going to go crazy for months?"
"Mom, stop it, what you're not telling them, is that changing Chris's death could change the future he saved." Melinda shouted.
"Wait a minute; you two aren't from Chris's future." Phoebe asked.
"His future never happened for all of you, he changed it. He saved Wyatt. We're from a good future, a future we can't risk changing" Melinda stated. 'Wish is why we're going to have to do a little hocus pocus on all of you so you won't remember any of this'
"Chris saved Wyatt, Wyatt's not evil" Past Piper asked.
"No Wyatt is a very good witch and a great brother. He's a big dork; he doesn't have an evil bone in his body." Melinda said thinking of her laid back big brother.
"But Chris is dead" Past Piper said tears in her eyes.
"It's complicated" Melinda tried to explain "Chris died protecting Wyatt on the same day he was born."
"Say what?" asked Paige.
"I was in labor, with baby Chris. There were some complications. We were trying to get this Chris home. But evil was making things difficult. Spells were cast; Barbus was using our fears against us. Chris was alone with Wyatt; he was stabbed with a cursed blade. Leo couldn't heal him, he died in his arms. His baby self was born a few hours later." Future Piper chocked out the story.
"You'll get pregnant in less than two months with Chris" Melinda explained to her mother's past self. "You'll know who he is then, Aunt Paige and Aunt Phoebe will tell you, they found out first."
"What about me, when will I know" Leo asked not willing to believe he would lose a son he never knew he had.
"You found out six months after I do, when Chris beats the crap out of you" Future Piper said absently.
"He hates me" Leo said
"He doesn't know you, you were not really there for him in his future" Future Piper said
"But that's a future that never came to be, you're a wonderful dad in the future we come from" Melinda added. "And though he had issues, you guys were on good terms in the end."
"What about me, why did he look like he had just seen a ghost when he saw me, future me?" Past Piper asked
"Because you're dead, you died when he was fourteen years old. So did his aunts. My little boy didn't have anybody but his grandfather." Said future Piper.
"Oh my God" Past Piper gasped. She knew Chris came from a bad future, but she had no idea how horrible his life truly was. No mother or father, no aunts, an evil brother, and two days ago she had kicked him out of his own house.
"Okay let's focus here, if Chris was born, then he really didn't die, he's alive in your future right?" Phoebe asked hopefully, still feeling sadness radiating off of the two future women.
"There was a price to pay, things happened that shouldn't have. If we save Chris from death in this time, we could save him from it in our time" Future Piper said.
"Are you saying he died in your future too" Past Piper asked hoping the answer would be no.
"Yes, he did, you lost your son again"