Author's Note: This a prequel to Keeps Getting Better. Definitely can be a stand alone. Thanks for reviews :)
Also,8 people added the story to their author alerts, thanks so much!
And feel free to throw out some ideas, I'd definitely love to incorporate them into the story :)

And I agree, I thought he was a great liar. Piper just tricked him haha.


"I had a suspicion that I knew you from somewhere." Piper told him, her smirk softening to a look of affection.

"Piper- I'm not your son." Chris countered after taking a moment to recover.
He could not believe that he had given away such an important secret that easily.

Piper was wrong though, Chris was a skilled liar. Given how long he had kept the secret, it would have been impossible to disagree.

"Really? That's too bad. You look like me, have Leo's eyes, Phoebe's inability to lie and Paige's."

Repeating what she had said moments earlier, Chris felt his patience running low.
So he slipped up, that didn't change how long he had kept the secret in the first place.

He was not like Phoebe, no, he was much more like Paige.

Wyatt, on the other hand, he was easily a copy of Phoebe.
Bright, yes, but tactful, no.

In addition, he was much more easily swayed to dark side, something Phoebe had experienced in her younger days as a witch as well.

"Sarcasm?" Chris supplemented.

Maybe as a child he had been a bad liar, often being honest by nature, but he had grown of it.
He didn't want to lie, but he had to.

He tried to excuse himself for making such a critical mistake as revealing his identity,
by telling himself that he knew Wyatt would have revealed the truth anyway.
At least this way he had been the one to admit it to his mother, and what a relief it was.
Each dirty glare she had given him had cut into him slowly, until his will had began to weaken.

Piper grinned, "I was going to say genetic lineage, but I'll add sarcasm to the list."

Yes, it was true. He and his Aunt Paige had many things in common,
and being part-whitelighter, part-witch was only one of those things.

Off the top of his head, Chris could count being a younger sibling, being undeniably sarcastic, having a desperate need to help others,
as well as putting their destiny as witches before their imperative as whitelighters, though the both of them often used their whitelighter abilities to assist them with such problems.

As a teenager, Phoebe had suggested he was a mix between Paige and Prue,
though inheriting Piper's nasty temper and her mantra that family came first.

Chris opened his mouth to make a remark, but Piper shut him down, "I already know, Chris. You won't change my mind.
I've never known someone who knew their way around this house without having been a family.
Not to mention, you know everything about us and I mean, everything."

"I-" Chris began.

"We'll talk about it later." She interrupted him again, "In the meantime, we need to deal with the spell."

For this opening, Chris was thankful. He did not want to talk about the future, or his family.
It wouldn't lead anywhere good when Piper began asking him where she was in his future.

"Right, so we'll just send Wyatt back. He can't be from past the year 2010." Chris estimated.

"There is a reason the spell brought Wyatt here." Piper reasoned with Chris, "Let me talk to him."

Curiosity about the future of not only her son, but her family as a whole, was beginning to drive her crazy.

"He can't tell you anything about the future, Piper." Chris negated immediately.
He didn't want his mother to know about the deterioration of her relationship with Leo, among other important events that would eventually occur.

"You said he knows you from somewhere," Piper countered impatiently, "Maybe he knows who turns him." It was a hopeful concept, but one Chris was not likely to promote.

'He couldn't know,' Chris told himself discouragingly, 'He was too young to remember.'

"Chris, if the spell brought Wyatt here then there has to be a reason." Chris loved his mother, honestly, he did.
Even now, when she had treated him as half of a being, but she was getting on his last nerve.

"Yeah, Personal Gain intervened." Chris snorted immediately.

His mind wondered to all the other possible people that could have been brought in Wyatt's place,
including his parents, his aunts, Aunt Phoebe's children and several others.

The worst person the spell could have brought was his younger sister and he would be forever grateful it had not brought her.

"Chris-" Piper shot impatiently, "I am not discussing the safety of my son with you."

Wounded, this retort came swiftly, "What about me?" Chris snapped.

He knew better than to make such a remark. He hadn't given his mother the proper time to absorb that he was her son, but that didn't change the fact that she had disregarded his problems as being important.
He just wanted her to like him, treat him like family again. It was childish, sure, but he hadn't seen his mother in eight years and now he saw her everyday and all she saw in him was a stranger.

"If we save Wyatt, then we save the entire future from Hell. Isn't that what you said?" Piper softened, "We'd be saving you from the horrors that you endured too."
She hadn't meant to hurt him, she had been trying to improve the future for everyone. Innately, Piper always wanted to help people, even though her responsibilities often ruined her chance for a normal life.

"Piper-" He began impatiently. He couldn't let down his guards now, otherwise he would never get anywhere.
It had been bad enough that Paige and Phoebe had often been chastising him as they would in future.

He already had two maternal figures from their daily castigation, he didn't need it from his mother.

"Mom." Piper corrected him gently.

There were many nasty remarks that Chris could have countered with.
Like that Piper hadn't treated him like a parent treated their child, or that she wasn't there in his future, but instead he sighed weakly,

"This isn't the right way to save him. Even if Wyatt remembers, bringing up the experience could traumatize him."

This was probably one of the few things Chris had said without any traces of sarcasm, bitterness or envy.
He loved his brother and making him relive whatever turned him was not something Chris was going to allow.

Not anytime soon, anyways.

"Possibly, but if we can prevent the situation, then he'll never be traumatized." Piper countered, not about to let up.

She had been brought a great opportunity to improve the future and she was not going to let it go that easily.


Wyatt sat quietly. After searching through numerous channels, he found something he recognized.
The Fairly Oddparents was a show about fairies, which made Wyatt wonder if real fairies could grant wishes.

He couldn't help but to feel distracted. After all, he hadn't seen the Traveler in years.

He couldn't remember much about the Traveler, except that he didn't like him at first, but eventually they became friends.

Then one day, sometime around his brother's birth, the Traveler disappeared.

Wyatt had always wondered where the Traveler had gone to.
His parents had called the man, "The traveler" because he had traveled from the future.

Maybe that is where the Traveler was now, but he hadn't seen the Traveler in a long time,
which made him doubt that his parent's had told him the entire truth.

His Aunt Phoebe had always told the story a different way;
Explaining that Traveler had come back in time to save him from a monster because he was special, but the Traveler had been taken in his place.

This had not made Wyatt feel better and most days he preferred his parent's version.

Aunt Phoebe reassured him that the Traveler would have done anything to protect him and that he had cared for him a great deal.

It was at this moment of recollection that Wyatt decided it was time to return the favor and to save the traveler from his demise.