On The Way Down
´Chapter 3´

Chris swallowed and took a deep heavy breathe before he descended down the steps and headed for the kitchen, now that he was fourteen weeks pregnant, nearly fifteen, he couldn't hide it from his parents anymore; it was killing him to keep it a secret from them, not to mention he was beginning to see a tiny little bump on his belly. It wasn't really noticeable if he wore a lose shirt but if he wore a tight one you could see it and he could certainly feel the little flutters of it moving around and that thought drove him wild. His little baby was only about three and a half inches long and was already moving around and had most of its organs and fingers and fingerprints and an actual neck, it wouldn't be long now. Well, so far the time had flown by.

He entered the kitchen without much of a fuss as usual and took his seat at the table and nearly puked right there when he spotted the sausage, every single morning it was the sausage that made him feel nauseas; nothing else really affected him, it was just that damn sausage. Thankfully, his morning sickness was a thing of the past now that he was in his second trimester and only really had to worry about his stomach growing now. Chris jumped lightly when his mom placed a plate in front of him and smiled at his jump before she sat down next to James and across from Dan and Chris.

"Um, guys, I need to talk to you," Chris said and immediately his parents looked at him and he glanced at James. "Without James here, it's kina private." James sighed but he grabbed his plate and headed upstairs knowing that there was no point in arguing, he would end up in his room anyways.

"Alright, sweetie; what is it you need to talk about?" Susan asked as she put down her fork and focused on Chris. She frowned when he mumbled something while looking down at his hands in his lap. "What was that, honey?"

"I'm pregnant." Chris said and was met with silence from his parents and nearly bolted from the room but forced himself to stay seated as he looked between his mother and father. It seemed that his news was the furthest thing from his parents minds since they both had no idea what to say; both of their daughters had waited until they were married before they even had sex so they didn't have to have this talk with either of them.

"You have to get rid of it, you're far too young to be a parent." Dan said when he broke from his stupor and Chris shook his head rapidly.

"I can't get rid of it, I'm fourteen weeks pregnant. I mean geez; it's an actual person now, if I kill it it'll be like murder!" Chris rambled before he finally stopped and looked at his parents who both seemed to be processing that information before Dan rubbed his face with a sigh.

"Please tell me that you at least know who the father is?" Dan asked and Chris nodded his head but remained silent. "You wanna tell us, I'd like to talk to his parents."

"You can't, I don't want him to know about the baby." Chris said quickly and got a look from his mother.

"Christopher, it's his child too, you can't just not tell someone they're going to be a parent. Who is it?" Susan asked and both looked at Chris closely before he sighed and decided it was better just to tell them the truth.

"Wyatt Halliwell." Chris mumbled and Dan's look immediately darkened.

"I should have known," he muttered with a scowl on his lips. "That little bastard only wanted one thing from you Chris, and you gave it to him."

"I know, I'm sorry," Chris mumbled. "But...I can't get rid of my baby; I don't want to."

After two hours of discussion they had finally decided that Chris would continue going to school until he got too big and would then be homeschooled and it really depended if Chris wanted to go back to school after giving birth to his baby, which Susan doubted that he would. They'd also decided that they would forget about Wyatt and wouldn't tell him anything about the pregnancy unless he discovered it himself and Chris doubted that he would really notice anything. Chris had been the one to tell James about the baby but had refused to tell him the father since he knew that the next time James saw Wyatt he would yell at him about it and he couldn't exactly have that happening.

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"Chris, hey wait up!" a voice shouted and Chris stopped and turned and immediately regretted it when he saw Wyatt heading towards him with his backpack slung over his shoulder and Chris tensed up when Wyatt reached him, surprised to see that McKenzie wasn't following him around like the bitch she is. "Listen, we only have two weeks before the project is due and we still have a lot of work to do so I was wondering if you could come over to my house later so we can work on it some more...?"

"Is McKenzie going to be there?" Chris found himself asking and Wyatt quickly shook his head.

"Nah, she's gonna be with Brittany and Lindsey tonight or something like that so we can work. Is that ok?" Wyatt asked and Chris once more found himself entranced by those beautiful big brown eyes of his and he found himself nodding and got a smile from Wyatt. "Ok great, so come over at like 3:30?"

"Yeah, sure." Chris said as he nodded and got another smile from Wyatt before the latter headed down the hallway to his next class and Chris remained in that spot even after the bell rang before he slowly made his way to his next class, one hand slipping down to his belly as he walked up the steps. It really wouldn't be too bad if the baby got it's daddy's eyes, in fact Chris was hoping that it would. Then again, he hoped that the baby would get a lot of things from its father; except his personality but maybe Wyatt's smile wouldn't be bad. Chris shook his head and removed his hand before he entered the classroom and slipped into the back unnoticed.

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"Oh god, I'm such a girl." Chris thought as he looked at himself in his mirror and turned to the side to see how it looked on him, he didn't want Wyatt to see anything since his belly was already beginning to show. He supposed that it was a major drawback of being skinny because now he had to hide said belly from Wyatt. Chris grabbed a jacket from his closet and slipped it on before he grabbed his book bag and headed down the stairs and saw his parents sitting in the kitchen and knew he wouldn't be able to avoid them. "Um, I'm going."

"Where and when are you coming home?" Dan immediately asked and Chris rolled his eyes, it was the customary question in this house when you went anywhere, even if you were just going for a walk you still had to answer.

"Wyatt's. Couple hours."

"No, hell no! You're not going over there. Call him and tell him to come over here because there is no way in hell I'm letting you go over here – his parents might not even be home." Dan shouted and Chris rolled his eyes before he could stop himself and Dan gave him a dark scowl at the eye rolling.

"Dad, I'm already pregnant – I don't think anything is going to beat that. No, I'm not calling him because I'm not two and I don't need you guys interrupting every two seconds. Bye, I'll be back in a couple hours." Chris didn't wait for any other comments and quickly left the house and almost ran down to the stop sign before his parents had a chance to stop him. When he turned around he was rather glad that his parents weren't outside. True, he wasn't really expecting them to be but he was still happy they weren't because he honestly didn't know what to expect from them these days. Chris really didn't expect them to accept him being pregnant so easily but they were just full of surprises these days.

With a deep sigh Chris started walking, it would be a long walk.

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1329 Prescott St. was a large maroon manor home to almost all of the Halliwell's. That was something that Chris never quite understood, just about all of the Halliwell's lived in the same house except for Phoebe and her family. Wyatt had just said they were a close family and loved to be together and the Halliwell's had always lived in the house. Chris slowly walked up the steps and rang the doorbell when he made it to the top. Chris turned for a moment to look around the neighborhood and the door opened. He quickly turned and saw a man who looked exactly like Wyatt standing there, only minus the big brown eyes.

"Um hi, is Wyatt home?"

"Oh, you must be Chris! Yeah, he's in the living room," the man said as he stepped away from the door and let Chris in and he immediately spotted Wyatt as the living room was adjoined to the foyer apparently. "I'm Leo by the way, Wyatt's dad. I've heard a lot about you." Leo added with a smile before he headed through the dining room and into the room next to it.

"Fucker!" a brunette teen exclaimed as Wyatt jabbed him in the side to get him to crash into a tree and Wyatt only flashed him a grin as he passed him in the game. "That's cheating. I want, no, I demand a thirty second reset."

"Fine, fine. It's not like it'll help you anyways," The yellow car on the top screen stopped for exactly thirty seconds before going and that's when Chris chose to clear his throat lightly and immediately both boys turned to look at him. "Oh, hey Chris! Um, sit down – do you mind if I finish this before we start?"

"Uh, no, that's fine, I can wait." Chris said as he walked into the living room and took the seat next to Wyatt as it was the only place in the room where he wouldn't cross in front of the TV. When Wyatt crossed the finish line the brunette had a string of choice words waiting for him. Wyatt only laughed and smirked at the brunette before he tossed the controller on the ground and turned to Chris.

"Oh sorry, Chris this is my cousin Henry. Henry this is Chris." Wyatt introduced and Chris gave a small wave to the teen who looked confused for a moment before he nodded.

"I thought you weren't dating anymore." Henry stated and Wyatt paused for a moment.

"We're working on a project together for class, Henry." Wyatt said and Henry nodded.

"Whatever, don't tell me the truth then. First you have a wet dream about him and now you're 'working on a project together?' I expect the details later Wy." Henry said before he left the room and left Wyatt flushed as he gave Chris an embarrassed smile while Chris was ready to start blushing as well just from how awkward Henry had already made it.

"Sorry about him, he can be...annoying at times. Plus he's a compulsive liar." Wyatt added and Chris nodded with a smile.

"Of course."

"Who's a compulsive liar?" a brunette woman asked as she walked through the door. Chris immediately placed her as Wyatt's mother since they had the same brown eyes.

"Junior," Wyatt said and the woman nodded with a smile before walking past the living room. "Alrighty, so where should we start?"

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Chris still couldn't even believe that it had happened. Yet, somehow it did happen and now he was laying back on the table with a cold gel on his stomach and a nervous Wyatt fidgeting next to him. Five weeks ago life had been fine and Wyatt wasn't aware of the baby but that one night had messed everything up – just because the baby had to take after its daddy in the power department and save his life...right in front of said daddy.

"Alright! Your questions are all done," Wyatt said as he set down the camcorder and checked off Chris's name. "I still have...all of mine."

"Halfway there." Chris said with a laugh and Wyatt joined in before it quickly died on his lips and he was suddenly on his feet. Chris turned just in time to see a demon go flying into the dining room as Wyatt raced out of the living room and closer to the demon and Chris wasted no time in following him. After hearing the crash the kitchen was evacuated and eight more Halliwell's were revealed. Wyatt flicked his wrist and the demon screamed as it exploded but before they could celebrate six more shimmered in. One directly behind Chris.

Chris couldn't help the whimper of Wyatt as he felt a sharp blade rest against his throat. Immediately, the blonde turned and was about to kill the demon but when he moved the blade cut into his throat deeper and he winced and Wyatt immediately paused while his family killed the remaining demons and walked closer into the foyer but made no move to get closer than Wyatt was to Chris. The demon grinned at them before he looked down at Chris and jerked the brunette's head up so he could get a better look at him.

"What do you say about coming with me?" the demon practically purred and Chris took the opportunity to conjur an atheme and quickly stabbed the demon in the gut and stumbled backwards when the arms loosened around him. Wyatt quickly grabbed his arm and pulled him back. The demon snarled before he threw an energy ball directly at Chris but before Wyatt could do anything a watery blue shield appeared around Chris and the energy ball turned and vanquished the demon while everyone stared at Chris in utter shock.

"Chris...how in the fuck did you do that?" Wyatt asked as Chris took a step back.

"I um, I'm..."

"Would you like to know the sex?" the voice snapped Chris out of his flashback and he looked at the woman before he looked up at Wyatt. Wyatt nodded and Chris nodded as well. The woman gave them a smile as she moved around until she got a better view of the baby and then gave them a bigger smile. "Congratulations, you're having a baby boy!"

Wyatt gave a light sigh as he stood outside of the bathroom. The moment they left the room Chris made his way to the bathroom to finally empty his bladder. The doctor had told Chris to arrive with a full bladder for his ultrasound so the baby had less wiggle room. Chris nearly peed his pants with all of the poking and prodding on his stomach and bladder from the woman but the pictures were definitely worth it Wyatt decided as he looked down at the ultrasound pictures of his son. Their son. Wyatt gave a big smile as he looked at the pictures.

Chris exited the bathroom and saw Wyatt's goofy smile and couldn't help but give him his own smile. Chris had been terrified when he first told Wyatt but eventually when he realized how excited Wyatt was about the baby he relaxed about it. Wyatt was still with McKenzie and she knew about the baby but Chris wasn't really expecting anything else and at first he didn't really care. After all, she couldn't exactly share the joy of a baby with Wyatt like he could, now could she? Chris hated to admit it but telling Wyatt about the baby had made them much closer and the two were constantly talking and Chris found that he had those feelings returning for Wyatt and was growing to hate that he was still with McKenzie.

"So, ready to go?" Wyatt asked and Chris nodded as the two made their way out of the doctor's office. Wyatt glanced down at Chris's swollen stomach that he didn't even bother hiding anymore. Chris still attempted to hide it for a week or so after he told Wyatt but eventually gave up and simply focused on wearing comfortable clothing at all times.

"Hey...um, would you mind giving me a ride to the mall sometime?" Chris asked as he looked at Wyatt once they were inside his car and Wyatt glanced over at him with a confused look on his face. "Well, my mom offered to give me money to go shopping for the baby but I really wanted to wait until I knew if I was having a boy or girl and now I know."

"Yeah," Wyatt said as he nodded his head almost immediately. "Actually, I've got nothing to do for the rest of the day if you wanna go now..."

"I'd love that." Chris said with a smile and a nod.

Ok! Sorry it's been such a long time since I updated this story, I've just been really busy with my own boys and such. However, I promise that I should have the next chapter up VERY soon, maybe tonight even. Never really know, just depends what sort of mood I get out of my sons tonight. Anyways, PLEASE REVIEW and THANK YOU to everyone who did review!

And yes, it is possible and very often that males do get pregnant in this story.