Hope everyone liked my little cliffhanger! He-he. I love throwing curves at you all. I wonder how mad you guys would be if I actually DID kill Riley? Well, I hope I won't find out and you guys love this chapter. Though it's against my better judgment, I'll let you all read. Read at your own risk.
Chris felt his heart stop as Leo spoke.
"She's going to be ok. She almost died, that's what took so long." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The Piper turned her gaze to Chris. She studied him carefully. He had Patty Halliwell's nose, Leo's eyes, her hair, and a mixture of both his parents' attitude. Chris caught her staring and gave her a strange look.
"Why are you staring at me?" he asked her, feeling unsettled. If she kept staring like that, she was bound to find the similarities.
"We have other things to discuss first." Phoebe said, taking charge. Riley slowly sat up, feeling better, but still tired. She still had dried blood in her hair.
"Can I please take a shower first?" She asked. Piper nodded at the girl.
"You can use my bathroom." Piper said and Phoebe spoke next.
"And if someone will orb me to my house, I have some clothes you can borrow." Piper had to talk to Leo, and needed privacy.
"Why don't Chris and Paige take you? I need to speak with Leo. Alone." She told them and they all nodded silently as Riley headed upstairs to take a shower. Once the room was clear, Piper turned to Leo, angry with him.
"Leo, she could have died while you were off chasing Chris after I asked you not too!" She told him angrily.
"Piper, I had to see what Chris is hiding." He told her.
"That's all you ever do Leo. You're never here when we need you. When are you going to realize that some stuff is better left unknown?" She asked him.
"If he turns my son evil, then I deserve to know." Leo told her. Piper took a deep breath.
"If anything he's helped Wyatt…and us. More than you have Leo." She said. They got quiet and didn't speak to each other the rest of the time they were alone.
20 Minutes Later
Everyone was upstairs, wondering if it was safe to come down, and decided it was. Riley came down the stairs first. She had been lent tight blue jeans and a pink baby tee and her black boots. Chris came next followed by Paige and Phoebe. They noticed Leo and Piper on separate sides of the conservatory, not looking at each other. Everyone knew they had gotten into a fight.
"Alright, everyone to the living room." Phoebe said pointing to the living room. Chris and Riley happily obliged, both feeling uncomfortable, but each for different reasons. Riley had realized she had spilled Chris's secret, and Chris thought Piper had figured it. Riley bit her lip, knowing that was coming up. She put her legs on Chris's lap, feeling he was going to be mad at her. No, not feeling. Knowing he was going to be mad at her. Piper, Leo, Paige and Phoebe came in next and sat in various spots around the living room.
"Ok, first thing we need to discuss is Riley. What happened to you?" Phoebe asked, taking charge of the situation.
"Well, almost as soon as I got to the future Wyatt found me. We fought, and blew up the attic." She said, giving them the short version.
"How'd you get to the attic?" Chris asked her, knowing she wouldn't intentionally cast to spell to take her there.
"Oh, yeah. I went to my house and he found me." She told them her head down, knowing what Chris was going to say.
"Your house has a spell on it to cloak it." He told her watching her face closely.
"I didn't say anything because I didn't think it was a big deal." She said as she stood up and pulled her pants down enough for them to see her Chaos, the eight pointed star, tattoo.
"What is that?" Phoebe asked.
"It's a tattoo Wyatt gave me. I thought it was just a brand but it was more. It had a spell on it to alert Wyatt whenever I was in the open, and another spell to keep me from using my power against him. But he pissed me off, and I broke the spell, and we fought." She said.
"You were in the attic when it blew?" Paige asked and Riley nodded.
"We both were. I saw him just as the roof caved in on us, and that's were most of my injuries were. I don't know if he died, or not. After the roof caved in, I cast a spell to bring me back here, and I ended up in the park. I walked from the park back here to the manor." She finished her story and sat down. She was exhausted and just wanted to go to bed.
"You wouldn't have had to walk if Leo would quit chasing Chris around like some psycho stalker." Piper said. Leo gritted his teeth.
"How many times do I have to tell you, I'm making sure he's not turning my son evil!"
"Turning your son? He is your son!" She exclaimed and three people in the room froze. Leo with disbelief, Chris with shock at his secret being revealed, and Riley with embarrassment for being the one who told.
"There is no way that sneaky, secretive, manipulative, neurotic Whitelighter wanna be - who is probably evil by the way - is my son." He said making Riley mad.
"At least he's been around for his family." Riley shot at Leo.
"Why are you in this? You're not family." Leo told her.
"I'm more family than you are. Remember in the future, you're invisible dad. I'm around more than you." She said. Leo turned to Piper.
"Who told you he was our son? Has it occurred to you they were lying?" He asked.
"Well, after Riley told me, I started looking at the similarities…" But she was cut off by Chris's angry scream.
"WHAT? You told her! What the hell were you thinking? Or were you even thinking? You knew I didn't want them knowing, so you just opened your mouth and blabbed!" he yelled. She shook her head at him.
"I told her while I was dying. Oh, remember that? Or does my name have to be Bianca for you to notice?" She asked. He looked at her with disbelief.
"What the hell? Is that supposed to be funny?" Chris asked her.
"No, but you know what, I'll go to Wyatt just for you. Tell him to whip me up a spell where i can go back in time so he kills me instead of Bianca, and you'd never even miss me would you?" She asked him heatedly.
"What the hell does this have to with anything? We're talking about you blabbing something I asked you not too." He told her.
"It has everything to do with it. When Bianca died, you cried and forgave her for her mistake of turning evil. I almost die and accidentally spill a secret that shouldn't really be a secret, and I catch hell. Guess we know who's more important. You knew her a year before you put her before me, someone you knew practically your whole life. Great Job Champ, you picked a winner." She said getting up and leaving the house.
"Great. Just great. This is the exact reason I didn't want to tell anyone. Hope everyone's happy. You know my deep dark secret. And I bet none of you are any happier than you were before." He said before getting up and going after Riley. Piper looked at Leo.
"How could you say something like that?" She asked, knowing that when Chris came home that night, they were going to talk, future consequences be damned.
"It's probably true." Leo said, orbing out to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Park
Chris found her right where he knew she was going to be. On the swing set where they had first met. He came up behind he to see her shoulders shaking with sobs.
"Riles…" He said hesitantly, and he saw her stiffen.
"Go away." She told him. He decided to try to get through to her by talking about their past.
"Remember that one summer we went to the park, and the probes almost got us? I was more than willing to be scanned to save you. You are important to me." He said, before remembering what else happened that summer. Damn he thought to himself.
"Yeah I remember. That was also the day you met Bianca, and everything changed between us Chris. I was no longer important. Do you know what it feels like to be important one day and not the next? No you don't…" She didn't get a chance to finish what she said because at the moment, Chris did the only thing he knew he could do. He pulled her into a kiss. When he finally let her go, he looked straight into her eyes.
"You are important to me."
