AN. Hi everyone. Thx for still reading this story :P This is a bit of a filler. Enjoy.
I'm sorry for the bad English!
Chapter 11
It had been a week since Chris's reunion, and Chris still didn't know what to do. Should he let them back in or not? It was the question that plagued him endlessly. Chris hadn't slept properly because of it. When Chris came home that day, Bianca had been waiting for him, demanding question as soon as he entered the house. She was so worried, when Chris had phoned her to tell her where he was he hadn't told her much. Obviously that had been a mistake because all Bianca knew was that Wyatt and Prue got attacked and that Chris left to help them.
Flashback
"WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN DOING? WHERE WERE YOU? DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW WORRIED I WAS! DO YOU EVEN CAREā¦.." Bianca began yelling when she heard Chris entering the house. When she had woken up that morning she had found the bed empty, and after checking the whole house she had to conclude that Chris had already left. Obviously this had gotten her worried, what could have made Chris leave so early without saying anything. Then she had gotten the call from Chris, saying he had heard Wyatt call for help, and he had went to give it. Bianca was furious, how could he be so careless? Did he not know the dangers, he could have died, what if it had been a trap. Bianca's mind had been working nonstop, thinking of all the horrible things that could have happened. The longer it took for Chris to come home, the angrier she had become. In the end she had taken the kids to her mother's house so she could have a good talk with Chris when he came home.
Chris just stood there, letting her rage, listening to her insults. "So stupid, so careless, you have kids! A wife, did you even think about us" Chris heard when he tuned in again. Bianca had been going at him for 15 minutes straight. "Sweetie, if you could just calm down a bit, I know it was stupid, and reckless and aaaalll that other stuff you said, but if you would just let me explain" Chris had said, hoping to calm Bianca down. Thank god it had worked, Bianca had stopped yelling and motioned for him to start explaining.
He told her how he had heard Wyatt ask for help, and how he thought it had been a dream. "And when I woke up, I still heard Wyatt calling my name, so I realized it wasn't a dream. And well, our bond broke that day that I left, so it had to be bad if I heard him now. I didn't think, and I know that was stupid, but I couldn't just let him die!" He said. He had known it was a stupid action as soon as he orbed into the manor. He had known it was stupid as soon as he had seen all those demons, and the state of his family members.
Bianca just nodded, letting him know she was still listening. When Chris had begun his story she was still mad, but now she understood him. She knew how important family was, and how it was to Chris, to help people in need. If it had been her, she would have probably acted the same. Not that she would ever tell him that. "We'll need to discuss hearing things trough the bond again later. It is strange that after all these years you can hear him again". She wasn't really worried about the bond. It was probably because Chris had seen Wyatt again, and had given him somewhat of a chance that he could hear Wyatt in times of need.
"Yeah, it was strange. But anyways, I orbed right to the manor. And well it was a good thing I did too! I don't know how the demon managed it, but he had hit Wyatt with an energyball, so Wyatt was down, and barely hanging on. In simple terms, he was a dying man. Prue wasn't doing much greater. After Wyatt went down, all the remaining demons had ganged up on her. Prue was tired, and had been hit several times before I came. I vanquished the demons quickly and called for Lydia. I think Wyatt and Prue don't have a whitelighter because they never called one." Chris understood why the Halliwell family did not need a whitelighter, half of the family was gifted with the healing power. But that night he thought it was stupid, so stupid to not assign one outsider of the family as whilelighter.
"Lydia healed them, it took some time with Wyatt, I almost thought we were too late and that Wyatt wouldn't make it. But eventually the color came back to his face and he started breathing again. Prue also made it, it was more exhaustion with her." Chris concluded his story of the fight. Chris knew Bianca had been worried sick, and now that he told her the story, he really understood where she was coming from. Bianca just nodded, she had been shocked to hear that Wyatt had almost died, somehow she had always thought him to be invincible. "Wow, well I guess it's a good thing you are so reckless then. But really, this argument is not settled. We are going to have to talk about this, if not now, then sometime in the near future. You have a family to think about now, and I know you know that. It is why I was so upset with you earlier, I just couldn't believe you would risk your life like that" Bianca said, she was getting a bit embarrassed about her screaming from earlier.
"I know Bi, I know. I can't even believe myself, it was so stupid to run out like that, without anyone knowing where I went, and without knowing what I would get myself into. But well, Wyatt he sounded so desperate." Chris answered. It was the desperate tone that had gotten to Chris that morning. "I know sweetie, It's okay. We'll talk about it later. So what happened next, after you saved them, something must have happened, you were gone an awful lot of time" Bianca said, she was curious, had Chris talked with his family, who had he seen?
"Prue convinced me to stay. So, I said I would stay for a little while. Not long, at least that was the plan. Only Wyatt and Prue were home at the time. The rest of the family was on some trip. They would be home later in the evening. So, I figured it would be okay, I had already spoken to Wyatt, and well Prue had already seen me. So we went downstairs, talked a bit. I was just about to leave when the front door opened. Apparently Piper and Phoebe had felt that something was wrong, and they had rushed the whole family home, making them arrive hours before planned. Well, I was too slow to escape and they all saw me. Let me say, awkward" Chris chuckled, but Bianca knew Chris didn't found the situation all that funny. "And? How did they react?" she asked. She hoped they did not throw him out, or began yelling or something like that, not that she thought they would.
"Silence, I was met with silence. It took them some time to realize I was really there. Then they were apprehensive because they did not want to scare me away. So after some more silence I agreed to stay a bit longer, and we all ate breakfast. I actually helped Piper with preparing the meal." Bianca laughed, Chris had always loves cooking, so she wasn't surprised that even in that situation Chris would find a way to cook.
"My seat, the one I always used when I still lived there. It was open, they still know which seat was mine. I even have the suspicion is hasn't been used by anyone else. I didn't really want to sit there, but I did anyways. It wasn't that bad, and it was of course really silly of me to make a deal out of it, I mean it's just a chair" Chris found his thoughts silly now that he spoke them out loud, but Bianca understood. That chair meant something, it meant memories, but also a part of that family. He had a seat there for him, and Chris hadn't been sure if he wanted there to be a seat for him.
"Well, obviously they wanted to talk, wanted to explain. I really did not want that, but they looked so guilty, remorseful and hopeful, well you know I gave them a chance. So they explained. I could have thought of a lot of things, but their explanation, wow that shocked me" Chris said, making Bianca irritated, she wanted to know!
And so Chris explained over his time traveling business. How he came back in time to save the world from evil Wyatt. To save Wyatt from becoming evil. "I understand them now, well no I do not, not really. But some parts I can relate to." Chris said, Bianca still didn't know about the other Chris dying, and Chris wasn't sure if he wanted to tell her. What if she took it the same way his family did, what if she thought it could still happen and pushed him away? "Sweetie, I know that is not all, because that would explain nothing. You can tell me, I won't judge you, change my ways to you." Bianca said, sensing Chris' apprehension.
"The other Chris found out what had happened to Wyatt. In the end he did, but he was a bit too late. That Chris died, he was killed trying to protect Wyatt" Chris said as fast as he could, hoping that Bianca wouldn't understand it. But she did, and he knew she did because she gasped and stared at him in shock. "Y-You died?" She stuttered, now she understood why Chris would never have thought of this explanation. "Yeah, the other Chris died. Piper and Leo, they were afraid that because the other Chris died, I would die too. Obviously I will die, someday, but they thought it would happen as soon as I fought a demon, as soon as I used powers. Well they were wrong, but it was their reason for pushing me away from magic, therefore pushing me away from the family" Chris said, he was still not happy with this fact. Bianca was still in shock. "Who killed you?" She asked, wanting to know who she had to kill, who's clan she had to kill. "Gideon. An elder" Chris said, shocking Bianca even further.
"An elder? Why would an elder kill you?" Bianca said, she always heard and thought that elders were beings of good. "It was for the greater good, or so Gideon thought. Gideon thought Wyatt was too powerful, he had too much magic and that would be dangerous. So he thought of a plan to get rid of the danger. Then I came, announcing that Wyatt was evil. It only made Gideon more afraid, made him want to kill Wyatt even more. I was protecting Wyatt, the evil in his eyes. So I had to die, he didn't want to kill me, as I was a being of good, but he thought I would understand. It was after all for the greater good." Chris said. He couldn't believe how wrong Gideon was. If Gideon hadn't done anything, then Wyatt would not have gone evil. "But Gideon didn't succeed?" Bianca asked, what had happened?
"No he did not. He killed me, got Wyatt and took him to a cave. He tried to kill him, but Wyatt was too strong and used his force field to protect himself. Gideon teamed up with Barbas. But still they weren't strong enough to kill Wyatt. In the other reality, they kept Wyatt for months, before the family finally found him. In this time Wyatt's moral changed. And so later in life he became evil. But in this time I could tell Leo what had happened. He save Wyatt only after a couple of hours. So Wyatt isn't evil in this timeline" Chris explained, though he couldn't understand Gideon's reasoning.
"That is so wrong, on so many levels" Bianca said, not knowing how to react otherwise. Chris just nodded, he totally agreed. "In the end I told them a bit about myself. I couldn't forgive them, at least not then. I don't know if I'll ever be able to forgive them. I walked away, saying I would contact them if I wanted to" Chris ended his tale. Bianca understood, Chris would have to think about this, about the events of the day, before making decisions.
End flasback
Bianca and Chris had talked about the reunion a couple of times. Bianca had said it would be Chris' decision. If he wanted to be a part of the family again, then Bianca would support him. Would he decide to ignore the events and the family again, she would also be a supporter. Though Bianca had the feeling she would see the family again, she would not tell him what she wanted. Chris had a lot to think about.
"Bi? Bianca? You know how I visited Victor, and he wasn't really in a good state?" Chris said the next day, when he walked into the kitchen where Bianca was preparing lunches for the kids. "yeah, what about it?" Bianca said, she knew Chris wasn't happy with the situation of Victor. "Well, I thought, since we both have the day of today, and the kids are going to school. Maybe we could visit him" Chris said, he had thought about it ever since he left that nursing home. He knew he couldn't change much about Victor's situation, but maybe it helped if he visited regularly. Bianca smiled, she wanted to visit Victor too. He had been the only nice one to Chris back in the day, and he had been supportive of their relationship too. "Sure we can visit him!" Bianca said. And so after dropping the kids off at school, they went to visit Victor.
Victor had been happy to see them, he didn't get visitors that often and it always brightened his day. Especially if it was a visit from his long lost grandson! They had talked for quite some time, Chris filling Victor in on anything in their lives. Victor loved to hear about his great grandchildren, and Bianca gave him some pictures of them, promising she would get better ones. After two hours Chris got a phone call and left the room.
"I want to thank you Bianca, for taking such good care of Chris when nobody else did. I can't express how grateful I am. You were there when nobody else was. You gave him love, support, a family. You made him happy! I know I haven't been the best for Chris, and that breaks my heart. But it is so good to see that you helped him. I'm really happy that you two are still together, I always rooted for you" Victor said, he was getting emotional, but still he smiled. He had wanted to thank Bianca ever since she sat a foot through the door. Bianca got tears in her eyes. His thank you was so heartfelt. "Oh Victor, you don't have to say thank you! I loved, and still love being in Chris' live!" Victor just nodded. "I know, you don't think it was anything special. But for Chris it was, and for me too" Victor said. Not long after that Chris joined the two again and they talked happily again.
"I'm really sorry grandpa, but we have to leave again. The school will be out soon, and we promised the kids to go to the zoo" Chris said, he didn't want to leave Victor here. Bianca wasn't happy with it either. "Bye Victor, it was really great seeing you again." Bianca said, kissing Victor on his cheeks. She left the room to give Chris some time alone. "I really wish I could change your situation Grandpa." Chris said, "Don't worry about it Chris. It is fine, really!" Victor missed living on his own, but he didn't want to worry Chris with that. "Go to your kids, and have a great time at the zoo" Victor said, and he waved Chris out.
"Bianca, I want to talk to you about Victor" Chris said that evening. Bianca nodded, she also wanted to talk about that. "We need to do something about that. I think we should invite him to stay here. I can work a bit less, and maybe we can ask my mother to help out a bit" Bianca answered. Chris smiled hugely, he wanted to propose the same idea. "I love you, you know that!" Chris said, he knew most women did not like it to have the grandfather of their husband living with them. Bianca laughed, she had always been a bit strange. "I'll talk with my mother about it okay?" she said. "Yeah, and I'll make arrangements with work and the nursing home. We should make it a surprise though, for Victor" Chris said, he was really happy that he could do something for Victor.
That night, when everybody else in the house was asleep Chris was still thinking. He would have to talk to Bianca about it. But maybe he should give his family a chance. Or at least give his children a chance to meet their family. Let them know their heritage.
Yeah maybe he could do that, just meet them again. They could always see what would happen next.
AN. And that was another Chapter. Did you like it? I hope so! Please, please review!
