Wow, second update of today...hope you appreciate(thx amantine for all the reviews!!)
Wyatt and Chris Halliwell sat on the attic floor and hugged.
"Thank you", Chris whispered.
"You're welcome", Wyatt answered and stopped hugging. He got up and helped his little brother, "Now, what are you doing?"
"Check something in the book of shadows."
"Do you need help?"
"No", Chris didn't plan sounding as harsh as he did, so he corrected his tone, "No, thank you. I got to do this on my own."
"Okay...er, I'll go now, D' you want me to greet Bianca?"
"Sure"
"Well, bye, bro...", Wyatt left him with the book.
He stepped in front of it, all he needed now, was Milly and the information she had about the demons. But the things he said to her gnawed at his conscience and he wasn't sure what to say to her or how to apologize. Plus he had sent her away and told her, they meet up the day after about an hour ago, he didn't think that she already had information about the clan.
After a few minuets of thinking, he figured he should go to see her.
He entered the café and walked to the counter for he couldn't see his charge anywhere.
"Sorry, ma'am, is Milly around?", he asked the big lady behind it.
"Nah, son, she left bout an hour ago. She was upset, I can tell ya...nearly broke the door when she was slammin' it, oh boy..."
"Right...can you tell me where she lives?"
"Why should I, young man?", she asked suspicious. That was the second time he had someone calling him 'young man' and it felt like a slap in his face.
"Because I need to see her, it's important."
"Well, what if I tell you, that I may not tell anyone the addresses of any of our co-workers, not even if it is oh so important?"
Chris was getting impatient.
"Er...you see, I am the reason why she was so pissed then, and I need to see her, because I need to apologize..."
The lady wasn't convinced yet -but it just took a little bit more until she would be.
"I need to say sorry, because", Chris made a dramatic pause, "because I love her"
That was enough for her. The impression of her face changed from doubting to something that said: "Oh, young love..." and she whispered: "Grandstreet 105"
"Thanks a lot", Chris said turning around.
"Wait!", she yelled at him, "don't you hurt her ever again she's such a fine girl, loveable character...hey, young man"
"I know...", Chris answered before leaving the restaurant.
Her house was a small townhouse and it was decorated with pumpkins and ghosts for Halloween, funny enough a witches family was even into that Halloween-thing. He walked up to the door and rang the bell. A guy around his age answered the door.
"Hey, is Milly there?", Chris asked politely.
"And you are?", the guy said.
"I'm a friend"
"Well, I'd say I know all of Milly's friends and I don't know you yet.", he said far from being friendly.
"Maybe you aren't informed correctly..."
"I certainly am."
Man, Chris thought, this guy was either an overprotective brother or -
"Who is it, baby?", Milly's voice said from another room.
-Or it was her boyfriend. Chris' mouth dropped open. She had a boyfriend, Milly was taken.
And he looked at the boy one more time. He was rather short, had a big nose and little eyes; he looked like a pig. Milly was so wasted on this guy, he thought right away, when she walked up to them. When she saw him her face turned cold.
"It's you", she still sounded angry.
"Yes, can I talk to you, it's urgent."
"I don't want to talk to you, you said, we'd meet tomorrow" -Her boyfriend looked at her wondering. "Oh, sorry, honey, this is Chris Halliwell, I know him from my private school"
Ah, Chris noticed, he wasn't even a wizard. If she told him she visited a private school, he was obviously no witch.
"Hi", Chris smiled bold.
"Chris, this is Clay", Milly introduced half-hearted until she turned his face to the boy.
"Honey, I'm so sorry, but it is important, he's my new tutor, you know, I told you I'd be getting one."
"No, you didn't", he was anxious, "I don't want him to be your tutor"
Chris could hardly understand what he was saying, but as he did, he was trying not to laugh. Clay seemed to think he was competition. Actually, if Chris wanted, there would be no competition for him, when it came to Milly, he was sure. But he didn't want it. Sure, he didn't.
"I love you, baby", she said to her boyfriend and gave him a cute and cocky smile before he left.
Walking down the street he always turned to see what Chris was doing or if he touched her, which Chris thought to be extremely funny. Close to laughing loud he looked at her.
"This guy is an original, Milly"
"What, did you came to offend my boyfriend as well, or what was so urgent?", so she was still upset with him.
Chris leaned with his arm against the door frame and tried his puppy dog eyes, saying: "No, actually I came to apologize."
Milly coughed a bit, "Oh really?" She tried to look hard but it didn't really worked, which made Chris belief even more in his competition-theory.
"Really, Mildred, I'm awfully sorry about the things I said. You were right, that's not how you treat a lady and not the way I usually treat girls. I was trying to be the bad guy, I was stupid and I'm sorry."
She looked at him for a little while and seemed to think about accepting his apology.
"It's okay.", she finally said and Chris gave her a bright big smile what she desperately tried not to return, but it didn't work.
"Thank you. Well, there is another reason why I am here, I want you to come with me to my parents house to check the book of shadows", Chris told her, seeing her eyes getting bigger again.
"And maybe you even get to meet Wyatt", he added in a high tone and she laughed quietly focusing her feet.
Chris couldn't help but to smile. He was still angry and hurt, but the fact that he had talked to Wyatt and Milly's reaction to his apology made him happy in a way, that he was able to pull some bad things aside.
Back in the attic, where he placed Milly on a sofa to make her 'orbing-sickness' fade, he took the big brown book and set beside her.
"So what do you know about our friends?", he asked, not expecting that much of an answer.
Quickly Milly took out a piece of paper out of her pocket and read out:
"Clan has a leader or king; are armed with swords and stuff; see in the dark; fire energy balls; Clan is small, but powerful; live by witch-powers; light-blue and greyish skin tone, white eyes and some kind of horn, but not like devilish...that's what my Gran wrote down in her diary and they spy on people and they like contracts, as we all know"
Chris was impressed, he didn't expect her to be that prepared.
"Okay, I think we can go with that...", he said and turned the pages in the book. Milly looked over his shoulder and always said "no", when he asked her, if this or that demon could be hers.
"You know, if none of these demons are your demons, maybe they don't exist.", Chris figured.
"Are you kidding me? My Mom wasn't killed by something that doesn't exist"
"Sorry", he said and went on searching the book.
"Chris are you up there?", Wyatt yelled from the second floor.
"Yeah!", Chris yelled back and had Milly shut her ears.
Another 'Sorry' of Chris to Milly later, Wyatt reached the attic accompanied by Bianca.
"Hey guys", he said while Milly was giving her all to hide her admiration. She had heard so much about Wyatt Halliwell, about the demons he fought and adventures he survived and how cute he was and if that all really had been true... Sure Chris was mocking about it, but he really seemed like a star to her, but so did Chris, she just wasn't sure if he knew about this.
Chris got up and walked over to his brother and the brown-haired woman and hugged her.
"Don't you want to introduce us?", Wyatt asked.
"Sure", he waved at Milly to make her come to him, "Well, Wyatt, Bianca, this is my new charge Milly. Milly, this is my big brother Wyatt and Bianca, his fiancée."
"Hi", she shook hands with them and tried to avoid eye-contact, something Chris started to be annoyed by. How come she was at one point the intimidated little girl and at other points the cocky woman, when she was in the café or with Clay. Thinking his name he pulled silly face and then told the couple to leave them to go on with the research.
"Bro, Mom is cooking, she want's me to ask if you'd join us?"
"Tell her no."
Milly was looking up to him and said quietly: "Can we, please? I'd really love to meet your family"
Chris looked at her very strict: "I'm not playing happy family with them. The answer is no."
Milly noticed the change about him, he was serious and it was not acted evilly, he really refused to go down and have a meal. He didn't feel comfortable. Everybody in the room noticed that, so Wyatt and Bianca left and Milly didn't ask anymore.
They got back to the book and went on looking for their demons in perfect silence.
Note: To everyone confused, I do know, that Chris was dating Bianca in the original but since this is changed future, the couple her is Wyatt/Bianca.