Summary: Everything that happened up until New Moon happened, but when Edward leaves, Bella gets attacked by Victoria. She calls for help, and Leo comes. He explains everything and says she's half witch/half white lighter. He tells her that the Charmed Ones are witches, like her, but they don't know yet. (Before Prue dies, they haven't met Leo yet.) She befriends the Halliwell's, she with them through everything – Prue dying, finding Paige, and Chris appearing. Chapter one starts when Chris appears in 'Oh My Goddess.'
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Chapter Seven – Leo
In the nursery, Leo and the Elf Nanny were watching a crying Wyatt in his crib. When the Elf uses her magic and a blanket appears and wraps around Wyatt, and he calms down. "How'd you know he was cold?" Leo asks the Elf.
She shrugs and says, "Babies are what I do." Just as Piper races in.
"Leo? The Titans are after the Elders!" She tells him, out of breath.
"What?" He asks, confused.
"You have to go warn them but don't stay up there too long. Hurry," she says quickly.
And as Leo orbs out, Piper looks down at her sleeping son and smiles slightly.
In the attic of the Manor, I sat on the red plush couch, which I had conjured up, since I got thrown into the old one, and I was flipping through the Brandon Book of Shadows. Since, Chris had already checked the Halliwell one; I decided to see if my family could help. But still there wasn't much on the Titans. Just what Chris had already told us. They we're unstoppable and that it had been because of the Elders and some power infested mortals that they were stopped before.
As, I sat there flipping through it, Phoebe, the dwarf, Finnegan and a fairy were trying to free Paige. The fairy throw some of her dust onto the Paige statue, and Finnegan holds out his gold nugget, hitting the stone with good luck, and then he shouted, "Now, laddie!" And the dwarf swung his pick around and hit Paige in the stomach, but nothing happened.
"Don't know what else to try," the dwarf says frowning.
Finnegan nods, "Running out of gold too, I'm afraid."
I shake my head. "It's not going to work. There's nothing in here, or in your Book. What are we supposed to do, Phoebe?"
"Well, there's got to be something we can do. Just keep trying," she says, smiling at Finnegan, the fairy and the dwarf. As she walks past me, she squeezes my shoulder softly, in an act of encouragement. "What are you doing over here?" She asks Chris, who is looking at something on a shelf.
"Nothing. You guys keep this stuff forever, you know that?"
"You knew the Titans were after the Elders, didn't you? Why didn't you tell us?" She asked.
"I told you, there's something I can't tell you. Some things you need to figure out on your own." Chris told her, sighing.
I stood and walked over, "Even at the chance of making things worse?"
And then Piper walks in "Alright, what's going on? Lao is not responding to any of my calls and it's been over five hours?" She asked Future Boy demandingly.
Chris shrugged, "I really don't know."
"Well, I really think you do." Piper replied sarcastically.
He sighed and replied. "Look, you're the one who wanted him to go up there in the first place, not me. Alright, fine, maybe I do know. And if I'm right, he's gonna need some serious alone time."
Piper was starting to look pissed, "You know what? Cut it out with the cryptic crap. You need to go up there and bring him back now. No more games."
"Okay, fine, I'll go. But if I was you two, I'd focus on freeing Paige because you're gonna need her. Soon." He told us cryptically, and then orbed out.
Piper turned to the both of us, her fists clenching. "I swear to god, if he does not come back with Leo, I'm gonna blow his ass back to the future, orbs and all."
"You know what? Why don't you go be with Wyatt and We'll take care of everything up here. We will call you if anything happens, I promise. You're not breathing." Phoebe told her, turning her by the shoulders, while I nodded alone.
"Nope," Piper tells us.
"Breathe," Phoebe tells her. And when Piper leaves the attic, she turns to me nodding, "Okay, next sister."
Up there, Leo and Chris
Leo is sat next to Cecil's dead body, when Chris Perry orbs in. "Leo," Chris says, catching his attention.
Leo's head snapped up, and he rushes towards Chris, pushing him against a wall, "Why didn't you tell me? Why did you let this happen?" He spat in his face.
"Easy, easy!" Chris says, in what could be a mocking tone.
"Why?" Leo snarls.
Chris was still cool though, "Because this had to happen. It had to happen so you could do what has to be done," he told the man holding his against a wall.
"What are you talking about?" Leo asks, impatiently. "They're all dead. Gone."
"No. Not all of them," Chris says shaking his head. "Some of the Elders escaped back to earth but it won't be long before the Titans hunt them down, too. But you can still stop them. You can still defeat the Titans."
Leo's vice like grip loosens on Chris, "How?" He asks.
"I think you know how," Chris sighed.
"It's too dangerous. The Elders forbid it." Leo disagreed.
"True. But then again, the Elders aren't around to stop you now, are they?" Chris said, and Leo's grip slackened and he slipped free. "That's right, Leo. This is what it's all about. This is why they had to die so you could do something they'd never do. To save a future for your family, for your son."
Leo shook his head. "This is crazy," he told Chris.
"Maybe, but it's our only chance. Like it or not, you've been put in this situation for a reason, Lwo. We both have," he tells him.
"Says you. How do I know you're not trying to manipulate the situation for your own future? Just the way you've manipulated everything else," Leo spat back, angry again.
Chris shrugged, "You don't. But what choice do you really have? There's certainly no future unless you do something."
Leo seemed hesitant, "I don't know. Even if I were to believe you, even if I were willing, I couldn't. I'm no Elder."
"Well," Chris said, walking towards him. "You better start acting like one."
Bella, the Manor – Attic.
I sat back as I watched Phoebe try to do the impossible, or at least, the unlikely. She was trying to free Paige from the stone state the Titan had put her in, by using a leprechaun, a dwarf, a fairy and spells. I had faith in her, really I did. But, I think Phoebe was relying too much on this. I mean, what happens if we can't free Paige? And that leads to us not defeating the Titans? Chris had already said it was a future none of us wanted.
"Now!" Phoebe cries, and Finnegan holds out his gold nugget, hitting the statue with good luck and Phoebe throws a potion at it. "Hit it!" She commands, and the dwarf hits the stone Paige with his pick, and the stone crumbles and Paige is free.
I shoot from my chair and walk towards them as Phoebe embraces her younger sister and says "Honey, hi! Oh, I'm so happy to see you. Are you okay?"
Paige looked around confused. "What happened? Where's the Titan? What the hell are these guys doing here?" She asked, gesturing to the creatures around us.
"Long story, we'll tell you on the way." I say, walking out of the attic, Phoebe followed and starting explaining as we walked down stairs.
"You're Welcome!" The dwarf shouts after us, and I laugh quietly to myself.
When we entered the Living Room, Piper was sat on the couch and looked up as she noticed us. "There you are," She said, standing up.
"Okay, I get the whole epic Titan thing, but what I'm not getting is the Chris thing," Paige said, as we walked over.
"Yeah, we're still trying to figure that part out," I said to Paige and then turned to Piper. "Look who's not stoned."
"Welcome back," Piper said, pulling her youngest sister in for a hug. "You've missed a lot."
Paige sighed. "Yeah. I can't help but think it's kind of all my fault though. I'm the one who lured the Titan here. Insert I told you so."
Phoebe and I grinned. "Done!" We said together.
"I just kind of was obsessed with the whole weird dreams thing and... but I am so sorry for any distress I might have caused you, Piper." Paige carried on, looking guiltily at Piper.
Piper shrugged. "Don't worry about it. I should've listened to you in the first place. Just trying not to worry or to panic. I've get this terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach," she said, sitting down.
"What kind of feeling?" I asked worried. What if it was the same sort of feeling I had? What if something big happened? What if the Charmed Ones ended up dying, or splitting up, and it would all be my fault because I didn't say anything sooner? What if...
"- that Leo's not coming back." Piper interrupted my inner babbling.
"Oh, sweetie." Phoebe said, sitting on the couch beside her. "Of course he's coming back. How could he not?" She comforted, putting am arm around her sister.
"I don't know, it's just something that Chris said about Leo having to go through this alone. I don't know. What the hell is he doing up there?" Piper ranted but was interrupted by the dwarf walking in.
"Sorry to interrupt but we're all leaving now." He said, simply.
"Wait, why?" Phoebe asked, standing.
"Didn't you hear the distress call? The surviving Elders have all been flushed out and they need protection." He said, as if it was the easiest thing in the world to grasp.
"Surviving?" Paige asked, as shocked as the rest of us.
"The elf will stay behind to take care of the kid while you battle the Titans. Ciao." He said, and then left.
"Wait," I say, trying to get his attention back. "Who said anything about us battling the Titans?"
Piper answered that for us, using only one word for explanation. "Leo."
A/N: Now you have seen the first bit of conflict between Chris and Leo. Though I must say, Chris is pretty good at convincing people to do things his way... well, until next time.