Author's Note: This a prequel to Keeps Getting Better. Definitely can be a stand alone.
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Also, thank you so much to all of those who put the story on alert.
I just published it last night and the story already has 13 people on alert, that means so much to me.
You can't even imagine!

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Unlike my previous story, I don't have anything set into stone, so I love suggestions.


Paige unlocked the front door of the Manor. She set her keys down and set her purse aside, she found herself blinking suddenly.

She tried to repress her surprise, as she observed the young blonde child watch some cartoon on the television,
"Hi Aunt Paige." He said with a distracted smile, "How was work?" To Wyatt, it was just like any other day in the Manor.

Paige laughed nervously, "I'm sorry, but who are you?"

Wyatt smirked slightly. Such a feature would grow on him quickly over the years, becoming his trademark,
"You don't recognize me?" He asked her smugly, thinking to himself all the pranks he could play with her lack of knowledge about the future.

"Well, you called me your Aunt and assuming you weren't adopted in the past few hours, I'm going to guess you're from the future." Paige offered, picking up on Wyatt's prideful nature.

"I'm Wyatt," He affirmed her suspicions, "I'm from 2009."

"Is that so?" She asked him curiously, "Did Bush pull a Roosevelt and take on a third term?"
Paige was picking at straws. She had no clue what would later occur in Wyatt's time, including the healthcare controversy.

Funny enough, Paige couldn't have known that Bush would be re-elected this year.
The 2004 presidential elections took place two weeks before Chris's birth.

"I don't know what that means." Wyatt told her, giving her a strange look.

"Who is the president?" Paige asked him shortly.

"Some black guy." Wyatt gave her a half-answer, not knowing the name of the president,
but remembering how much celebrating had taken place when he had been elected.

Paige rolled her eyes, taking the response as a joke, "Fine" she shot, feigning dejection, "Don't tell me."

Wyatt stayed silent for a moment, "Do you want to watch tv with me?" He asked her curiously.

"Not right now, sweetie. I need to find your mom."
Paige tried to cover her nervousness, but at the same time was thinking of the golden child as a jackpot for future information.

Paige opened the door to the kitchen.

Arching her brows at the argument between Chris and Piper, "Settle down, children." she chastised sarcastically.

"Where have you been?" Piper shot at her impatiently, "I called you an hour ago."

"I was at a temp job," Paige said defensively, "They're important to me, Piper."

"Not as important as this." Chris remarked quickly. Paige gave Chris a warning expression, to which Chris smirked, "She already knows. Game over, Paige."

Paige mourned the death of her leverage.
Her knowledge of Chris's identity was the only thing that kept Chris from working the Charmed Ones to death,
in addition to Phoebe forcing Chris to consume healthy amounts of food and get adequate sleep.

"You knew?" Piper asked, her temper getting the best of her, "And you didn't find it important to share this information with me?"

Paige backed away slowly, trying to escape, "Nice going." Chris whispered, still smirking.
Finally he could get revenge on Paige for interfering. In Chris's opinion, she had slowed them down considerably with all her threats of exposing him if he didn't give the sisters a break.

"Don't you dare!" Piper snapped at her, noticing Paige's attempt to escape.

"So... What is future Wyatt doing here?" Paige evaded cautiously.

"Piper cast a spell to find out whether I'm trustworthy or not." Chris explained tiredly, "And it brought future Wyatt here."

"Why?" Paige asked, "I mean, I get that the two of you are brothers, but little Wyatt can't know an adult version of you yet."

"Oh, I know. The last time Wyatt looked like that I was five. In case you're not keeping track, that would have been over fifteen years ago. So he will be no help at all."

"That's not true," Piper replied in Wyatt's defense, "He told me who you are."

"No, I told you who I am. Wyatt just supplied additional information." Chris corrected her.

A hasty knock on the kitchen door alerted the group to their new visitor. Paige moved away from the door, opening it for their guest.

Wyatt smiled from the doorframe, "Momma, I tried to wait, but you guys have been talking for a long time."

Piper stepped forward, rubbing Wyatt's head affectionately, "Sorry, sweetie. We didn't mean to leave you out there for so long."

Wyatt seemed introspective for a moment,
looking up at his mother with a great deal of conviction, "Mommy, can we change it this time? I don't want the bad stuff to happen."

Piper became concerned rather quickly, "What bad stuff?"

Wyatt hesitated and then pleaded, "I don't want the traveler to die!"

Chris's heart stopped, 'I'm going to die?' He considered broken-heartedly.

This meant that he would never be able to save Wyatt and that he would fail his family. He looked at Wyatt, "You can't change anything, it'll only damage the future in worse ways."

"But you can't die!" Wyatt protested fearfully, "You're my friend!" He was tearing up, trying desperately to calm himself down, but found himself unable.

"It's okay, Wy. You'll see me again someday." Chris tried to comfort his brother.
Still, he was human and he was more concerned with his impending mortality than with his brother's anxiety.

Chris had always known that he could die trying to save Wyatt.
Whether from a demon, a darklighter or Wyatt, himself, but he had never thought it completely through.

"What?!" Piper snapped at Chris with an angry glare, "We're not going to let you die!"

"Piper, you can't change the future, it'll make things worse."
He told her with an exasperated sigh. He hated explaining the concept of 'future consequences' to them.

He was only here to change one thing and that was Wyatt.

"No, Chris!" Piper screamed, "You're my son, I'm not going to let you die. Not now, not ever!"

"You're what?" Wyatt asked Chris, panicking with even more concern.
Hot tears seemed to streamed down with even more intensity as his face became red with exhaustion and fear.

The traveler was his mother's son? but that meant...


Author's Note: "Pulling a Roosevelt" is a reference to Franklin Roosevelt, who was the United States president from 1932 until his death in 1945, he served three full terms and died early in his fourth.
Paige does not like George W as I would imagine. I believe this for two reasons; The first being she majored in social work, which is a very liberal field (it's my minor) and two, because she lives in San Francisco.

I, on the other hand, do not like politics. Though I am more conservative in nature.

When Wyatt responds that the president is "some black guy", I don't mean this to be racist or offensive.
Wyatt seems like he would have been a smug brat as a kid, in addition, I didn't know who was president when I was six.

Sad, considering that I was a tested "gifted" kid.
In case you're curious, Clinton was president when I was six years old.

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