Chris Perry part three

Chris Halliwell part three

Chris was between the threshold of asleep and semi-conscious and he really did not want to wake up considering what he would wake up to. If he woke up he would have to make a choice – choose to be either outraged at what Wyatt had done, guilty and repentant at what Chris had done… or to just allow himself to be with Wyatt.

The latter choice was what Chris wanted for himself – deep down he wanted to tell the world to go fuck themselves and he wanted to have his brother, his lover, all to himself again!

But Chris had been raised to think first and foremost of the world, of Good and of using his powers to help others. It was ingrained so deeply in him by his mother, his father, his grandmother, and his teachers at Magic School that he wasn't sure he could let it all go.

But soon the decision would be taken out of his hands – because Wyatt Matthew Halliwell was not about to let Chris's morals get in the way of them being together.

Leo Wyatt part one (future Leo)

Demonic activity was at an all time low and Leo feared the worst. When ever demons were few and far between it was because whoever was controlling them was using them for something far more evil than terrorising the population. And he was worried.

Ever since he had sent his youngest son back into the past with the mission to change the past in order to change the future the demons had been running wild all over the city and no one had been able to stop them – it had been a sign of Wyatt's rage and grief. However in recent months the demons had been busy and Leo had realised that Wyatt had been using all his demon contacts to try to find Chris. This lack of demon activity could only mean that Wyatt had found Chris. Which meant it was time for Leo to swallow his god-damn pride and orb to the shelter where Cole and Paige were trying to keep everyone together.

Only once he arrived he found quite a shock.

"OK, who brought my wife back from the dead?" Leo asked, unaware that he was echoing Cole's earlier words.

Cole smirked from where he was in the corner watching Phoebe scry – presumably for Chris. Piper stared in shock, looking from one Leo (her ex-husband and current Elder – we'll call him P. Leo, meaning past/present) to Future Leo (F. Leo) and back again. "Ok, you have got to stop that! Seriously. Is anyone else alive that I should know about? Will a replica me be turning up any time soon?"

"Oh, honey, you're dead." Paige M said, placing a comforting hand on her eldest sister's arm. Piper batted Paige M's hand away and scowled.

"Well it hasn't stopped them!" She complained bitterly, gesturing to Cole and both Leo's who were of course technically dead.

"So, I'm alive." P. Leo said, his voice so cold it was almost unrecognisable.

"Just." F. Leo replied. He knew what his younger self was thinking – he was wondering why he hadn't been able to stop any of this, how he was still alive when his wife, his nephew, and so many innocents were dead, their blood staining the Halliwell name.

"I'm surprised you're hear, Leo." Paige H said, addressing her brother in law. F Leo turned to face her and saw that she had one of her favourite daggers out and was waving it around like it was a Majorette's baton at a summer festival. Leo eyed it warily, knowing that while it could not hurt him the demonic venom on the blade's edge would surely burn and sear like nothing else could, a pain he had no desire to experience.

"I'm here for Chris." He answered, and Paige H narrowed her eyes at him. That was never a good sign.

"I thought I told you that after what you did you have no right to be anywhere near Chris!" Paige H spat at him.

"I did what I had to!" F Leo argued. Of course he felt guilty that he had practically sacrificed one son on the off chance of saving the other – but at least Chris had been relatively safe in the past and was away from the mindless killing his brother was inflicting on the Earth, away from Wyatt's poisonous influence over Chris. Wyatt wasn't blind to the twisted secrets of his son's relationships, he just wished he was – like Piper had been, to the end, using her last breath to make sure that Wyatt looked after his little brother.

"What did I do?" P Leo asked, and Piper repeated the question. Cole and Phoebe had left the room, dragging Paige M telling her to go keep Phaedra company. Now it was just Paige H, Piper, and the two Leo's.

"He's the one who sent Chris back in time!" Paige H said, as if it was the crime of the centaury, something lower than molesting six year olds or beating up the crippled.

"I don't understand why that means he deserves your hate." P Leo said, confused.

"You agree with his actions?" Paige H asked, in disbelief.

P Leo nodded. "Yes, if it means saving my family, saving the world then yes, I would do the same thing." P Leo said and Piper nodded.

Paige H turned her head away. "You make me sick… both of you."

"He doesn't know what he is talking about, Paige. Look, just listen. I'm not saying I don't regret having to make that choice, but I made it and I would probably chose to do the same thing again if I had to! And it's not like I forced him – Chris wanted to go!" F Leo argued in his defence.

Paige H gasped. "He's twenty-one Leo! He thinks he's invincible – like most other twenty-odd year olds. Even with what happened to Matthew he still thought that he could change the world! He should have realised that he is as vulnerable as the rest of us!" Paige H declared, for the first time sounding like she really cared; like this was tearing her apart inside.

"That's a bi-product of growing up with a big brother who was always there to protect him." F Leo said.

Paige H snorted. "Some brother."

"Whatever his faults are, you can't argue that his brother didn't always try and protect Chris – shield him from the pain of reality." Leo bit back.

"I don't understand!" Piper yelled. "I don't understand what Chris's brother has to do with this." She added, more calmly.

F Leo visibly flinched and Paige H forced herself to calm. "Nothing." Leo confirmed. "And everything…" he sighed, earning a glare from his sister in law.

"Look. The important thing is we get to Chris – then we can figure things out from there. I'll go get the others and then we can orb to his location." F Leo said.

"But Phoebe couldn't find him on the map." P Leo pointed out.

"Doesn't matter. I know where he is." F Leo told them. Paige H almost threw the knife at him, but managed to restrain herself and find the others and bring them back to the main room. Once they were all together they all held hands and orbed out, thinking of Chris while Leo concentrated on his location.

And when they opened their eyes, they were in a bedroom of the softest furnishings all in dark reds, purples, charcoal grey, and black. They knew they were in the right place – even if it was not the prison they had expected – because Chris was curled up on the bed, half asleep and definitely naked underneath the bedspread.

They all froze – unsure of what to do.

"I don't understand." Whispered Piper – sounding for once fragile and lost.

You soon will – Piper my love – unfortunately you soon will understand everything and there is nothing I can do to stop that from being so.

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