True Lies

Summary: Mel's life is turned upside down when she finds out her mother was a Halliwell witch. She meets her cousins, but closes her self off from the world. When Chris comes to the past, though, she begins to open up again. Why?

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN IT! Chris would still be there if I did. BTW, I don't own the songs either.

Rating: PG13

Setting: Nearing the end of season five and on into season six.

And I wanna believe you,
When you tell me that it'll be ok,
Ya I try to believe you,
But I don't

Avril Lavigne "Tomorrow"

True Lies

Chapter Three

Remember the Titans

"The weather has been really wacky, lately." Paige voiced while fanning herself. The heat wave seemed to be lasting forever.

Piper played with Wyatt on the opposite side of the room. She soon laid him in his playpen and floated over to her sisters. Phoebe picked up on this and asked, "How could you be so happy with this horrible weather?"

"It's been around two weeks since a demon has attacked. I think that is a miracle, and plan to take advantage of this." Piper answered honestly.

Piper looked up to see Wyatt being picked up and cooed at by their new cousin. It had taken her a while to get used to everything that was going on around there. It was a lot for a teenager to take in. The police still didn't know who had killed her mother and Melinda refuse to talk about it, ever.

"Well, the cave girl has emerged," Paige smiled as she teased the girl.

"I could go back you know," Mel spat back. Phoebe realized that it was the first time she had seen her smile, genuinely, at least.

"You have a beautiful smile, Mel." Phoebe voiced her opinion, whereas Piper and Paige nodded in agreement. Melinda's voice was small and distant, when she spoke, "Thanks, mom use to say that it was as radiant as the sun."

When Piper noticed the tear in Mel's eye, she walked over to hug the girl and her son that Melinda was still holding. Phoebe and Paige followed soon after. It was a big step for her. She was finally talking about what had happened.

Melinda walked back in from school and went to her room. Something caught her attention upstairs. She had a bad feeling about what was going on up there so she headed up to make sure everything was okay.

As Mel walked in, a gust of wind happened and the woman that was standing there just vanished.

Melinda surveyed the room. Phoebe was fighting some boy that had his hand over her eyes. Then there was the new, funny-looking statue that looked a whole lot like Paige. Realization didn't hit her until a minute had passed. "Paige," she managed to gasp out.

Phoebe stopped arguing long enough to go to her cousin. "We'll fix this. Don't worry."

"But she's stone, literally" Mel's statement was answered by a hug. I think they think a hug can heal everything.

Phoebe turned to the maybe college aged boy, "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

"You should be thanking me, history showed on this day Paige wasn't turned to stone, she was killed by the Titans," the boy spat back.

"That doesn't answer her question. History?" Melinda wanted answers too.

The boy seemed to be annoyed, but he told them, "I come from the future to save all of you. My name is Chris," he seemed thoughtful for a moment, and then added, "Chris Perry."

Melinda was downstairs with the sisters, as they paced and yelled constantly for Leo. It really seemed to get under the white lighter's skin, and Melinda made a mental note to find out exactly why.

The sisters finally gave up, momentarily, on Leo showing up again right now. A lot of the almighty Elders had died in the last few hours, and magical creatures had flocked to the manor. There was even a leprechaun, fairy, and ogre that had helped them get Paige back to normal.

Melinda turned around to ask Piper if she could go feed Wyatt, because she loved to play with the sweet little boy. It was at that moment that all three of the girls' appearances changed, not to mention, Leo FINALLY showed up.

"What's with the togas?" Mel decided she had to put her two cents in the bucket, but it only earned three glares from three ticked charmed ones.

Leo explained to them all about these beautiful togas, and what comes with them. Knowing how much the girl hated the costumes, he stayed backed away. As soon as he finished with his explanations, he went straight to Elder land to deal with some "unfinished business.

Phoebe had become the goddess of love. (Surprise, Surprise)

Paige wielded the abilities of the goddess of war. (Another surprise there.)

Piper was given the powers of the goddess of earth. (Dum dum dum…)

Against Chris' warnings the sisters began to use the powers as they pleased. Phoebe seduced a whole heck of a lot of men at the auction for the paper, thereby angering women that were trying to bid on the men. Paige decided to build an entire demon army, which fell down the tube when Piper's demanding voice and ability to conjure the elements sent them away.

MELINDA'S POV

To make a very long and drawn out story short, the charmed ones saved the world from the Titans. Wyatt peed on me when I tried to change his diaper. Chris seemed to be a major league power freak, although he definitely wasn't too horrid on the eyes. Not to mention, he looked rather familiar, in an odd way.

Leo was made an Elder, and made to leave. These events sent goddess Piper into a temper tantrum that nearly destroyed San Francisco. She was extremely angry with Leo, who said that he could take the pain away, and she became regular Piper again. She was EXTREMELY happy the next day when Daryl and Sheila came over. They're very nice people, by the way.

Chris was told that he couldn't go back to his future, because of the drastic changes that had been made. He was now their new white lighter. After Leo and Chris had their discussion outside. Chris said that Leo went back "up there".

A couple of hours later, I was up in the attic. I had a picture in my hand of my mom, Jerry, and me. I cut him out of the picture and into small pieces on the floor.

Phoebe's voice came from behind me, "Piper's not going to like that."

I smiled, "I'll clean it up, I promise."

"The police called to say they still haven't found your mom's killer."

"They won't" I spoke inaudibly to no one in particular.

"Are you okay?" Phoebe really sound concerned.

"No." I couldn't lie.

"It'll be okay"

"I wish it would, but it won't."

"Maybe not today, but maybe…" She started.

I interrupted, "Tomorrow, maybe tomorrow."