Do not own Charmed or anything or the characters

Inspired by ChrisCrossed Again by LizaGirl and Troika by xXFan-FanXx. along with a few others. Thank you Mclaughlin for that message.

Summary: Chris has always felt left out from his family. So he tries to stay away from magic but can never seem to succeed. How will he escape from destiny when it means losing the ones he cares for.

Chapter 4 Goodbye

Ash stood at her door frozen peaking the interest of the person she was talking to. The person went and stood behind the witch to see what had stopped her. She peered through the door, while trying to make sure they were not seen, to see someone sitting in the couch two feet away facing them. The person had brown shaggy hair and piercing green eyes that bore into the two in the door way. He had on a blank look that did not betray what he was thinking of at the moment.

"Uh…Chris… what are you doing here? It is nearly midnight." Ash said finally recovering and stepping into the room. She closed the door to hide the person from Chris.

For a while Chris did not respond. "I moved out of the manor and came here to see if I could stay for a while." Chris said emotionless

"Why?" Ash questioned

"I could not take it anymore. They accused me of not once being there for the family. For always blowing them off. Then when I finally told them how things really are, they deny most of it." Finally showing his irritation. "So I came here to see if my best friend would let me stay with her knowing that she would understand. It was a mistake." Said in an angry tone while he got up and grabbed his bag.

"What are you talking about Chris? What is a mistake." Ash said while approaching him.

"Coming here." Chris said while now walking to the door.

"No it's not. I will always be your best friend who you could rely on." She said a bit nervous.

"No you can't. A best friend is always there for you and is someone you could trust. They are someone who will be there to make you feel better. They are a person who would stick with you and not abandon you. They are not regular friends because they are more like family and you know how messed up mine is. You are not even a friend." Chris said turning around before making it to the door.

"I have been there for you as your support. Never leaving your side. Always there to talk to or be with when there is no one else. Taking care of you when no one else would. How does that not make me a friend." Ash was now getting angry.

"You have never been a friend because how can a person consider one they cannot trust their friend." Chris shot back.

"After everything I have done, you don't trust me. That is bull shit and you know it. I am not like the people in your family, always forgetting about you or openly ignoring you. So don't take all the negativity you have for your family out on me." Ashley was now beyond mad.

"This is not about them, this is about you. This whole relationship that we have had. The lies that it was built on. All the things that you have manipulated…"

"I have done no such thing. I have always been honest with you. Trying to make sure our friendship was strong. Never letting anything mess with." She yelled

"Yet you have already done that. Our friendship has never been real ever since you have been lying to most of your friends."

"What are you talking about? I have never lied to my friends."

"But you have kept the truth from them. You think that I never knew you had magic. I have known for a long time. I knew who your whit lighter was. I knew that your father did not really die from a heart attack. I knew a lot of things about except for what I heard ten minutes ago." This made Ashley a bit nervous but she hid it well with anger.

"So you admit that you have been spying on me. Coming to my home and eavesdropping on what I am doing." She spoke with as much hate as she can.

"Don't go and blaming me for what is happening. You are the one who has been spying on me and not just me. You have been spying on the others as well then reporting them to the Elders no less. You know how much I hate them for always messing with my life and now I found out someone I thought I could trust is helping them." The blond was now having her anger slip away to be replaced by sorrow.

"It is not what you think Chris. I am only.." She was cut off again.

"Not what I think. Not what I think. Come on Ashley. You know all my doubts and fears. You know my hopes and things that I think of. You know me inside and out to what I have done in the past to what I may do in the future. You were a friend in my world that I had no one to trust or lean on." All these words were breaking the witch in front of him.

"Yet I come to find I have yet another person I care for turn, to do things that only lead to more pain for me. You go to the Elders, who have never once been a positive point in mine or my family's history, and tell them everything about me. Yet that was not enough you go and tell them about your other supposedly so called friends. How can you be a friend when you spy on them just to fulfill a job that was given to you."

Ashley was now crying with tears coming down her face. "I am a friend, just because I never told you some things does not mean I do not care for you or what we have."

"Then why is it that you tell the Elders of all people what is happening with us? You tell your whitelighter things to report to them about our lives and secrets. Things that should remain quiet because they are personal." Chris questioned her not relenting on his interrogation.

"To keep you guys safe and for your protection." She let out.

"For our protection. How is telling the Elders all our secrets protecting us and from what? Giving away the things we worked so hard to keep hidden. Abusing our trust. You know my life but you also know Alex's and how her trust is fragile. What you are doing is not protecting us."

"Yes it is. You don't know what is happening. There is something going on and it involves all you guys. Letting the Elders know may help stop it from ever hurting you guys. Stop the pain for you."

"What about the pain of betrayal? Betraying the trust of people that have been like family to you. Betraying me." Chris was now tiring from all the energy he spent arguing not only with Ashley but with his family earlier.

"I didn't mean to. I just did it to protect you. I want nothing but the best for you Chris. Why cant you see that." Ashley was full of guilt.

"I wish I could Ash but after all that I have come to know and experience. My life doesn't have too many people that I could trust entirely in. You were one of only a few but now I see that I was wrong." Chris spoke now feeling the depression of his life instead of the anger.

"We did so many things together and had such great times. You cant throw that away, not our friendship. You are a major part in my life and I cant lose you." Ashley was staring at him through her tear filled eyes.

"I'm sorry but I cant handle anymore betrayal in my life. I have to get away from all the pain in my life and if that means losing something as big as our friendship, then I just have to move on." Chris was now opening the door.

"Chris don't leave me. I never had a mother or any siblings, my father is dead and now you are leaving. I cant handle that." She was now trying to make her way towards him but her legs felt weak where she was about to fall.

"I am deeply sorry but it has to be this way. Know that I wish nothing but good for a good life for you but I cant be a part of it." He made it outside the door not once turning to face her.

"But… You cant leave me." She was about to reach out to him. "I…Chris I l…"

"Goodbye Ashley" He shut the door before she could reach him or say what she had to say.

"I love you." She sank to her knees and cried harder.

The person she was talking to earlier was still inside the apartment and saw everything. The person felt sorry for her and decided to see if they could try and fix this. First she helped her charge get into bed before orbing out to see if she could do anything to fix this.

Chris was already on the road with his bag in the back seat. He was trying to figure where else to go to. He did not want to bug Kyra and the rest of his friends because they had their own problems to deal with. He did not want to burden his Uncle Henry or Grandpa because they had already done so much for him. There was also no way he was going back to his family. So he just drove around for a while.

He had half his focus on the road while also trying to see what his next move was. He was then surprised when a set of glowing orbs appeared right next to him. The person was a 31 year old women with shoulder length brown hair. Calculating brown eyes that were pointed at the driver and a natural scowl painted on her face.

"Chris pull over." She tried to command him but it seemed he was ignoring her. "Chris, are you listening to me. Chris…Christopher…Christopher Perry Halliwell, you listen to me and don't you dare ignore me or else I can crash this car." This caused Chris to pull over and glare at her.

"Don't give me that look young man." She scolded him

"What do you want." He said while still glaring at the whitelighter.

"I came here to stop you from making one of the biggest mistakes of your life." She answered. At this moment the familiar emotion he had been having all night came back.

"And what mistake with that be Aunt Prue." He said anger in his tone towards the form of his dead aunt.

"Ashley is crying herself to sleep because of what you did. Now you need to go back there and comfort her and fix this mess." Prue said.

"What I did. This is not my fault. If you and the Elders weren't nosy and prying into other's business none of this would even be happening." Chris yelled at her.

"The Elders are not prying into your business, Chris. They are just trying to make sure that you are safe." Prue argued back.

"Make sure I am safe by spying on me and finding out all my personal business. That is the perfect way to protect someone, to have their closest friend lie to them everyday." Chris spoke with sarcasm and turned to her. "You know what, just leave me alone and stay out of my life. Get out of my car."

"I am not leaving you until you see reason." She showed the stubbornness she was born with.

"There is nothing for me to see, so get out of my car." He glared at her while she just folded her arms over her chest and sat there.

"Fine then, I will just take a walk in the park so I can get away from you." He got out of his car and went around his car to the park that he was lucky enough to have pulled over to.

Prue then seemed to get out and follow him. "Even if you leave, I will always be able to find you and follow." She said while smirking at Chris when he turned around.

"Why cant you just stay out of people's business. What Ashley did was personal and this is between us not you or the damn Elders."

"I cant she is my charge and you are my nephew. I want to help you both but I cant do that if you refuse to. For God's sake Chris just listen to me and go back to her." She pleaded for Chris to listen to her.

"Well sorry Aunt Prue, but there is nothing that you have to do that involves me. It should only be about Ashley and not me. We have no relationship that forces me to listen to you. I should just be ignoring you right now." Chris said back.

"I am your Aunt and I know that for sure because you inherited our family stubbornness. You should listen to me because I only am looking out for you because I care."

"Why should you care about me. I don't give a damn about, that is for sure."

"You are family and I do care about you."

"Oh because I am family." Chris said with anger. "I am a nephew that has never once met you before in his life. The only reason I recognized you is because of the photos and what Piper tells me about you. Yet what she said must be all lies because you are not the person that she described."

"Now you don't mean that Chris."

"Don't I. She said that you were a born leader that would not take shit from anyone yet here you are acting just how my father use to. Always following the Elders command. They said that you put family first yet you work for the Elders never once saying hi or checking on how your so called family is doing. You had the instinct of knowing what was right from wrong, yet you have been spying on people. You are not the Aunt Prue that I have been told about but you are another person thinking that because we may share the same blood that makes you think we are family."

"I am family just like how Piper is you mother and Leo is your father."

"Do not bring up those people because we may share blood but they are no family to me. We all may share blood but we are not family just like you are no family to me." Chris yelled at her when she brought up his parents.

"Now Chris they are your family and they care…" She was cut off.

"Don't say 'care for you' because if you have been spying on me for long, and I know you have, you should know that they don't care about me at all. I am the outcast of the family who is overlooked. The one that seems to act like they care for the family when I have done nothing but support everyone of that family. Yet I have not gained anything that shows me that they view me as part of the family." Chris's anger was now coming down and feeling more depressed again. The two emotions that have been with him all night.

"Honey they do view you as part of the family." She said knowing he was feeling more sad now.

"Don't call me honey because you are nothing to me Prue. You are not my guardian and you are definitely not my Aunt. So just go away."

"Now listen to me. I don't care if you don't view me as your aunt, that does not mean I am not." She said.

"Doesn't mean you are." He commented. This earned him a slap as Prue went up and smacked him on the cheek.

"I am your Aunt whether you like it or not. So you listen…" Chris started to shout at her before she finished her sentence."

"You are not my Aunt. You are just another person thinking they know what is best for my life. A person that assumes to be family and has the right to manipulate my life. In truth you are just a person who abandoned their family." He shouted at her while he took off the amulet he was wearing. " A person who never once visited their sisters or been a part of their children's life for one second. So what gives you the right to come and tell me what to do because seriously, even though I never knew you personally, I can say that you are dead to me, both literally and figuratively. Dead since before I was before I was even born and I am going to continue that along with the rest of my so call family. So GOODBYE." He shouted the last part.

Prue was hurt now from his comments. She did have the chance to go and see her family yet chose not to go. She had the chance of being one of her nieces or nephews whitelighter but turned it down. She was afraid to go back to her family. She knew she had no right when she herself chose to not be a part of the family anymore. Now that the truth hit her, she was going to try and change that. Visit her family but first she had to convince her wayward nephew. "Chris, please just com…." She was cut off as Chris started to say something.

Form darkest shadows and brightest light
I call upon their power tonight
In this hour and in this space
Remove this person from this place
Erase her memories of tonight's events
So her suspicion and concern, it will prevent
No more shall she follow or interfere with me
With this spell, so shall it be

As Chris finished the incantation, Prue went up in lights to vanish from where she stood. She had on a glazed look before she disappeared. Chris just sighed, feeling all the pressure of tonight's drama. He still had one more thing to take care of though.

"You can come out now. I know you are there." Chris turned around to look at a tree while having a smile on his face. "Bianca"

Thank you for reading and sorry if you might not like the ending. I just wanted to get this chapter over with when it came to the end. Please review and give me your opinions. I have only gotten eight reviews and i very good message from Mclaughlin. I am hoping for more reviews or comments, unless people wants me to stop writing this story then I might.