This chapter is dedicated to my friend charmedelicious over on You Tube. She gave me her opinion on something. I hope she likes it. Ok this is my longest chapter ever and I put it off and off as I didn't know how to approach it but once I began writing it I was hit by an idea. I would like to thank all who have reviewed; nic.heart.FF, lizardmomma, princess-charmed100, romulus-girl, Mirror-Magic-Storms, PiperPaigeP3, Lientjuhh.
Jenna felt a breath at her shoulder. She turned around and was staring into emerald green eyes which were open staring into her brown ones.
"How long have you been awake?" Jenna asked.
"A few minutes." Chris said.
"Oh my god! What time is it?"
"8.00."
"PM?"
"AM."
"Oh great! Your family will probably come looking." Jenna guessed.
"Well, they'll have something to watch then." Jenna blushed a shade of pink as Chris told her this.
"Oh they will. You getting tickled to death." Jenna started to tickle him. In the end Chris was on top of her and Jenna was squealing.
Leo orbed in and Jenna dived for the covers.
"Bad time?" Leo asked.
"A bit obvious Leo." Chris said and Leo grimaced at his name not 'Dad'.
"We need to talk." Leo told him.
"No we don't." Chris muttered as Leo orbed away.
He then looked under the covers and saw a pink faced Jenna.
"You can come out now." he smirked.
Jenna got right out and put on a discarded top that came to her knees. She turned around and her arms were around her. Chris got up in boxers.
"What's the matter?" he asked rubbing her arms.
She shrugged him off. "What is your problem with him?!"
"Leo? Oh you know some things Jen, he punched me! He threw me out! In the future, he abandoned me." Chris finished with a regretful and pained tone.
Jenna felt a pang of guilt but she needed to tell him. She softened her voice. "But that man isn't Leo your future dad, that is Leo your to be dad and he hasn't done anything yet. And I bet he feels worse than you do! He needs to talk. You need to talk."
"I don't need to do anything." Chris said turning his head away.
Jenna walked up to him and kissed his hand. "You do. More than he does. You need to forgive. You have a chance Chris grab it." Jenna said. "Because once it goes you'll regret it." She had a single tear down her face.
Chris wiped her tear and pulled her to him. Her head resting on his chest. "I forgot, your parents."
"Don't worry." Jenna said.
They stood there for a moment before Jenna suddenly thought of something. "What's the future like?"
Chris leaned out to see her face. "But you saw it." He winced at the memory. "You saw him kill her."
They sat down on the bed. "I don't mean that but what is your family like. Do you have any cousins? Does Phoebe finally find someone. I mean does Paige really become a teacher?"
"Woah one question at a time!" Chris smiled. "Before Wyatt turned it was good. My mum gained a new power and Dad was an Elder." Then he added an afterthought; "Though he was meant to become one in 2006. Paige doesn't stay a teacher but embraces her whitelighter side. Phoebe does find love with her perfect match. I have 6 cousins. Prue, Peyton, Patty, Henry, Sam and Alex."
"So there's just 8 of the next generation? So Piper doesn't get her little girl…" Jenna looked at Chris and he looked pained. "Or not. What happened?"
"I don't want to talk about it." Chris said and wiped a stray tear and pulled on his shirt.
Jenna opened the doors to Bay Mirror and went into the elevator which was occupied by a single guy.
"Hi." he said.
"Hey." she replied.
"So you are?" he continued.
"Going out. Older guy. Big. Whips the ass in the wrestling ring." Jenna replied and the man backed off and promptly got out at the next stop. Jenna exited on her floor and was welcomed by the notice of the office. She went into Phoebe's office and collapsed.
"How was your night?" Phoebe smirked looking up from the desk.
"Good. Morning not so good."
"What? Why?" Phoebe was shocked.
"We got talking after Leo orbed in-"
"Leo orbed in! Hope not in the middle of something!" Phoebe chuckled but Jenna glared at her.
"Yes. But we got talking about the future and he closed up after we talked about you and Paige…" Jenna was a bit reluctant.
"Me? What about me?"
"You do find the right guy and you have kids." Jenna was not going to reveal any more.
"Really?" Phoebe smiled.
"Yeah really."
"So why have you come here?" Phoebe asked knowing something was wrong.
"Well, I had an idea." Jenna hesitated. "I want to cast a spell and it can't be personal gain as it helps me help him so technically it wouldn't be something I'm gaining it would be him gaining something."
"Jenna… You know I can't really let you."
"You conjured a man earlier this year just please help me cast this one little spell!" Jenna pleaded and put on her best puppy dog face.
"I'm a pushover." Phoebe groaned.
"Yay!" Jenna clapped her hands.
"You write spell. I finish column. We leave and go to the car to cast. Kay?" Phoebe said.
"Yes miss!" she mocked saluted her and Phoebe shook her head.
Jenna was in the car in the alley beside the Bay Mirror. She had a bowl in front of her in the back seat with an athame and a bowl of water, toads stool, thyme, owls feather and billings root. She also had a lighter and a piece of paper.
"What are you making?" Phoebe asked as she got into the back besides her.
"I am making a potion."
"Obviously but how did you get the ingredients?"
"Oh I stopped by the house before coming here." Jenna explained distractedly.
"You are impossible." Phoebe said.
"But I remind you of you." Jenna smirked.
"Yes."
"I need a bit of your blood." Jenna told Phoebe.
"What? Why?"
"Erm I didn't want to take the whole family so I decided to say 'whose blood does mix' in the spell." Jenna explained. She winced as she added her blood. Phoebe held out her hand. Phoebe's blood oozed out, dropping into the water and it turned a wine red.
Jenna held the spell between them.
"To help Chris deal with his past,
The memories will last,
The blood in potion does mix,
Until problems we can fix."
They chanted then the potion glowed red then they disappeared in a cloud of smoke. The spell floated to the bottom of the car.
Jenna and Phoebe arrived in the future attic. It didn't look that different except it had more boxes. They heard giggles and laughter from downstairs. They walked cautiously down the stairs before seeing the dining room packed with people. There was the Charmed Ones, Prue, Victor, Andy and two men and one woman they didn't recognise. There was 10 children of varied ages. They instantly noticed Chris and a blonde teenager. On the wall was a banner saying 'Happy Birthday Piper!'.
Two girls starting bickering.
"Prue stop annoying Peyton!" Older Phoebe told the two young teenagers.
"Sorry mum." They muttered.
"They're my kids?" Phoebe smiled.
"They're so sweet and look at Chris! He must only be 13." Jenna gushed.
"Yeah he's so cute!" Phoebe agreed.
Suddenly Chris threw a cake at a girl who froze it and TKed it back to him but missed him and hit the blond teenager that was Wyatt.
"Cake? You want to play with cake?" Wyatt asked and conjured a plate of Jelly but instead it hit Piper and then a massive food fight occurred.
"Replay of our food fight!" Phoebe laughed but was glad when the food went straight through them. Suddenly Chris looked in their direction and a look of confusion crossed his face.
"Can he see us?" Jenna asked. He looked between Phoebe and future Phoebe.
"Uh-oh." Phoebe whispered.
Then Chris shook his head as a cream pie hit him in the face and he went back to the fight.
Suddenly the memory faded and the banner was replaced with 'Happy 14th Birthday Chris!'.
"This can't be good. Piper was killed on his fourteenth." Phoebe whispered.
Chris came flying down the stairs and flew into his sister on the way to the kitchen.
"Uh-uh, Chris. Mum and the aunts told me to keep you out. We are going out." the girl informed him.
They orbed out. The memory faded and they all reappeared in a bunch of trees.
"We are going to the forest for my birthday?" asked Chris sarcastically.
Phoebe snorted.
"He hasn't changed one bit." Jenna commented.
"No we're going to the park." Mel explained.
They got an ice cream after Chris had chased Mel around a playground like a 3 year old.
"Thanks, Mel!" Chris told her, sitting on a bench.
"Anything for my brother's birthday." Mel said. "We can go home now."
"Piper has a daughter!" Phoebe squealed.
"Omg! Chris is gonna kill us. All those future consequences!" Jenna said.
They found the woods and orbed.
The memory faded again.
"Happy Birthday Chris!" everyone cried from the dining room.
Piper, Victor, Phoebe, Coop and their daughters 12 year old Prue, 10 year old Patty and 8 year old Penny. Paige and Henry were there as well with their children 11 year old Henry and, the babies of the family, the two 5 year old twins Peyton and Pryce. Wyatt was there and gave Chris a big smile and chipped his brother around the ear playfully.
"Aww how sweet, don't mind if we interrupt?" asked a demon and he put his arms up signalling a dozen or more demons to flame, shimmer or blink into the conservatory behind him. One immediately threw a fireball at Wyatt who went flying through the conservatory window.
"Oh no!" Phoebe cried knowing what was coming.
"Paige, Coop, get everyone out of here!" cried Phoebe. Henry Jr took his father and orbed out. Prue hearted out while her father took her siblings. Paige grabbed her twins and orbed out. Chris pulled Mel behind a wall.
Phoebe and Jenna leaned to hear what their conversation was.
"Mel you gotta get out of here!" Chris told her urgently.
"No!" Mel said defiantly. "I'm staying and helping."
They stood out from the wall and stood beside Piper and Phoebe. Right at that moment Paige orbed in.
The demons threw energy balls and fire balls at them. Piper froze some and blew up a few of the demons. Phoebe tapped into Chris's power of telekinesis and helped him deflect and kill the demons. Paige orbed the energy/ fire balls and sent the back to the sender. Mel spent her time using her freezing power, her telekinesis and her electrokinesis.
Paige was the first to go flying, crashing into the table which buckled from the weight of presents, food and her weight.
Phoebe gasped and checked on her sister. Jenna couldn't look away.
Phoebe went next soaring into the grandfather clock.
Chris went next, crashing into the stairs.
Piper was the last to go an energy ball hitting her in her chest. A piece of the broken couch's leg embedded in her chest.
Phoebe rejoined Jenna.
"Enough!" Mel cried. Electricity sparked from her body and formed a shield around her, she put her arms out and the remaining 5 demons were destroyed. Mel's body was lightly deposited on the ground.
"Wow, she has some major powers." Phoebe whistled impressed.
"Mum!" she said crawling up to her.
"Hey." Piper whispered.
Mel sensed she was slipping away. She got up and began shaking the bruised and scratched Chris who woke up.
Phoebe started crying at her desperate face and Jenna put her arm around her shoulders.
"Chris , mum." she whispered. She went over to wake Wyatt and he got up. They went down the few steps and knelt either side of her, taking her hands in theirs.
"My darlings, look after each other." She told them. Mel burst into sobs and Wyatt put his arm around her shoulder.
"Mum." Chris whispered, tears streaming.
"Sorry about your birthday."
Chris smiled weakly.
"I love you." Piper said.
"I love you too." Chris, Wyatt and Mel chorused. She smiled, she was used to them saying the same thing.
Her eyes closed and her hands slipped out of theirs.
Chris and Wyatt had comforted Mel as she cried until Paige and Phoebe had woken up.
The memory faded and they reappeared in the attic. It was even more cluttered. Phoebe sat on Aunt Pearls couch and started to cry.
"I see why Chris didn't want to us to know. We shouldn't have done this." Phoebe said.
"I can't undo the spell. It has to show us enough."
An older looking Mel walked into the attic towards the Book. She opened it and began flicking through it. .She was about 16 in this memory and her hair was now shoulder length and layered. It had various shades of browns and dark blondes in it. She looked towards the ceiling
"Please help me." she asked. The pages began to fly and it fell on a single page. "Truth spell? I'm fighting a demon. I don't want to find out what place he goes to for a haircut!"
"I think I like her." Jenna said smiling. Phoebe had stopped crying and was watching the following scene intently.
"Oh they do their own haircuts." a voice they all recognised echoed.
Mel felt her heart pound and almost leap out of her chest. "Mum?" she whispered her throat going dry.
Piper appeared in glowing white lights. "I'm here baby."
Mel went and hugged her mum tight. "I missed you mum. Every minute of every day."
"I know baby. I saw you." Piper replied stroking her daughter's hair.
"That's so sweet." Phoebe gushed now tears of happiness slowly rolling down her cheeks.
"Mel where-" Chris came into the attic and Mel and Piper drew apart when Chris suddenly stopped. "Is that?"
"Yes peanut its me." Piper said and embraced her youngest son. "I've come to talk to you two."
Piper still had her arm around Chris's shoulders and her hand stroked Mel's cheek. "Things are going to get worse. Much worse."
"You mean worse than Wyatt talking and dealing with demons?" Mel scoffed.
"Yes. Your brother is going to get worse. At first it was to protect you. Both of you. Then he got used to the power. He liked it. And it all started because of me. He took revenge then he went downhill." Piper explained.
"But what about Paige, she's dead and so is Billie. What happened to them?" Mel asked tears rolling down her face when she mentioned her two beloved aunts.
"Paige dies?" Phoebe sobbed.
"Who's Billie?" Jenna questioned.
"They were the ones Wyatt couldn't protect. He accepted the role of protector and them dying pushed him even further. But never forget this my darlings, your brother loves you. Trust in that. Love is the greatest thing." Piper told them. "And forgive him and try to save him. Please. And stick together. I love you."
"Mum please don't go." Mel pleaded. Piper wiped a tear from her cheek.
"Honey I've got to go. I've got to look after Paige and Billie. They still argue now!" Piper chuckled. Her children joined in.
"I love you mum." Chris said and pulled in for one last hug. Mel joined.
"I love you too my darlings." Piper took a step back. "Blessed be." she disappeared into bright lights.
"Oh my god!" Jenna said. "I feel so sorry for Chris."
"And his sister." Phoebe added as they watched them exit the attic. The memory faded and they were in the attic again.
Mel came running into the room. She was older by a few months. She was wearing jeans, a cami top and boots. She had a belt on which contained some potions and a few athames. She was carrying a full rucksack and a duffel bag. She went to the Book and picked it up.
Jenna and Phoebe looked confused at why she looked like she was leaving then their heads turned sharply as they heard an explosion from downstairs.
Mel ran down the stairs.
"Come on." Phoebe led the way. They stopped at the top of the stairs. They took in the situation and knew it was going to be bad.
Chris and Mel were stood near the stairs and were facing Wyatt who was in the conservatory.
"The Book? There is no way you are moving out of this house and there is no possible way in hell I'm going to let you take that book!" Wyatt told them.
"Wyatt, you've changed! Too much!" Mel said.
"Mel I changed to protect us. Us three."
"Oh you protected us by killing our family?" Chris scoffed.
"Yes! Don't you see, they were holding us back!" Wyatt explained.
A demon appeared and was behind Mel.
"MEL!" Phoebe cried and jumped to save her. To her surprise she managed to push Mel out of the way of the demon's energy ball.
"Never touch my sister!" Wyatt said and blew the demon up.
"Mel are you okay?" Chris asked. The bags were now scattered around the floor and the Book dumped.
"Phoebe's here." Mel muttered as she accepted Chris' hand of help.
"What? She's dead."
Phoebe felt something rip her heart apart. She was dead. She left her children without a mother. Jenna ran to Phoebe accidentally passing through Chris.
"There is someone in this room. But not Phoebe." Chris held his stomach it made him feel dizzy.
"What are you two talking about?" Wyatt asked but received no answer.
"Hidden for the human eye,
Bring forward to see,
Come to the blue sky,
Ghosts come visible,
So we can see." Mel though of.
"Uh-oh!" Jenna said as their body's became visible.
The three Halliwells looked in amazement as Phoebe and Jenna appeared.
"Who are you?" Chris asked.
"Jenna Nicols."
"Phoebe?" Mel looked surprised and couldn't believe what she was seeing. "Are you really here? And what have you done with your hair?"
"I'm from the past. We-" Phoebe began.
"Past consequences. Or for you future consequences." Jenna cut Phoebe.
"That's a crap saying." Chris said.
Phoebe snorted.
"Why did you snort?" Wyatt asked. They all turned to look at him.
"Let's just say Chris please don't add that to your vocabulary." Phoebe told him while a smile crept onto Jenna's face.
"Hey Paige!" Chris walked into the kitchen of the manor to see Paige nursing a coffee while reading the paper.
"How was your night?" Paige asked with a smirk.
"It was nice thank you." Chris poured a cup of coffee and joined Paige.
Suddenly Chris clutched his head and started grimacing.
"Chris what's wrong?" Paige asked. Then it all stopped. "What happened?"
"Memory alteration. I received a new memory when something different happened. I'm gonna kill Jenna and Phoebe." Chris orbed off.
"Thanks for the clear explanation!" Paige called.
"Well we can't-" Phoebe was cut off as they disappeared in a puff of smoke.
They reappeared in the alley besides her car. Chris was holding the spell in his hand.
"Having fun?" Chris voice was layered with different emotions. Sadness and betrayal the most prominent.
"Chris I'm-" Jenna took a step forward but was cut off by Chris.
"Don't bother." Chris orbed off but not before either of them realised the tear in his eye.
The plot will soon be revealed but I thought it would be good to reveal things about Chris's past and as you can see he wasn't too thrilled. Hope you liked. Click that little blue button and review!
