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.
AN: Okay once again this is fanfiction and it definitely doesn't go along with the show completely, there will be slight differences.
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
But now I'm bound to the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
My Immortal
Evanescence
True Lies
Chapter Four
A Tiny Glimpse
Last Time….
They knew that they would have to yell at me later, so they all pulled me into a hug. It was too much, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" I yelled and backed away. Their questioning glances nearly killed me. "Don't you get it, I killed her and all you could do was say how sorry you are. I left her with him. I killed my mother." I ran off in sobs, "I killed her."
On with it…
MELINDA'S POV
I ran outside and until I couldn't run any longer. The same way I did the day she died. How could they stand me? I can't even stand myself. I found that I had run to P3 without even realizing where I had gone. I decided to go inside, and get out of the rain dripping down from my hair.
DRIP. DRIP. DRIP.
It was begging to drive me crazy. I had to make sure to be safe, but at the same time I didn't want to be. All I wanted to be was dead and safe in my mother's arms. I just wanted to tell her exactly how sorry that I was.
I went into one of the backrooms to find that it was the one that Chris had been staying at for the time. I laid my head gently on his pillow, and it wasn't too long until I fell asleep.
An hour or so later, or some amount of time, I awoke to falling onto the floor. Jerry's evil smirk still haunted my dreams, but at least it wasn't the one where I threw my mother over the cliff.
Slowly, I opened my eyes with them staring at the wood flooring. In my vision was a piece of paper. It had a short poem on it that I read, thinking how odd it seemed.
January 1, 2026HEAR THE WORDS HEAR THE RHYME
I SEND UP A SINGLE SIGN
THEN MY FUTURE SELF I'LL FIND
IN ANOTHER PLACE AND TIME
At that point, my mind didn't register that I just read a spell. At least, it didn't register until I found myself somewhere else completely. The home was beautiful and I watched someone walk out of a portal that immediately vanished and inside the home. It was a woman who looked to be in her late thirties walk into the house. It was only momentarily though before I realized that it was me.
NOT GOOD VERY NOT GOOD!
I followed myself into the house and find a calendar when I walked in. It wasn't the one on the paper, but it was January 1, 2024. A couple of teenage girls, identical twins as a point of fact, walk in and give me a hug, saying, "I love you mom."
My future self answered with a hug and spoke, "Okay how much money do you two want?" The sarcasm had dripped from every syllable of the statement and they smiled up at my future self.
They ran off and my future self walked into a room in the back. She, I mean I, I mean, oh you know what I mean, walked in to a very messy room with things scattered all throughout the room. Papers. The future version of myself allowed her voice to rise, "Christopher, come here now."
Out the door came Chris Perry, our mysterious, not to mention neurotic whitelighter. His face feigning innocence, "What is it?"
"Your room is a mess. What is with all the paper?"
"I think I can save him. I have a plan. We know whatever happened did so before I was born. So, Bianca and I have a plan. I'll explain later." Her face told him to elaborate and he did as she asked.
"I'm going to go back to about a year before it happened and try to find whoever or whatever it was that turned him."
A little girl walked in who was about 10 or so. HOW MANY KIDS DO I HAVE AND WHY AM I LIVING IN THE SAME HOUSE WITH CHRIS? "Mom can I have a snack please?"
My future self nodded and said, "Go ask your sisters for help." Turning back to Chris, "Do you really think you could pull it off?"
The boy smiled, "I think I can with your help."
"You realize you don't come back to us, I'll kill you." A sly smile slipped across my future face.
"Not if don't get to you first." We both smiled. OKAY THIS IS JUST WEIRD. AM I, IS FUTURE ME, OH PLEASE DON'T TELL ME I ROB THE CRADLE WITH CHRIS.
"Thanks Mel." Chris looked to the floor.
"For what, Kid?"
"For taking care of me and Prue since mom and dad died, for adopting us."
"I love you, kid."
"I love you, too."
"Piper and Leo loved you and little bit so much."
At that moment, I felt an odd pulling as I landed on the floor where I left in Chris' room at P3. Chris's voice sounded worried as he tried to wake me. It finally clicked those familiar green eyes were Leo's. Not to mention, he did have Piper's neurotic tendencies.
"Chris, we need to talk."
His puzzled look couldn't be hidden, until he saw the spell she held in her hand. The look in her eye told it all. She knew.