Ok, another thank you to those who reviewed, especially anonymous reviewers who I couldn't thank personally.

here's the next chapter. I was trying to get two out today but unless I get the next one finished in 10 minutes it will be tomorrow (well for me it will) but it will still be up very very soon. I promise.

Boarding School Hell

"So where were you last night?" Andy broke the silence, as he scowled at his eldest son. Sitting directly opposite him meant he could keep a close eye on him. He suddenly realised how thin his son was looking now. It had only been three months since he had last seen him, but if he went on the amount of weight the 18-year-old had lost, Andy would have said it had been three years!

"Out." Riley stated, shrugging his shoulders as he tucked into his aunt's meal, "Aunt Piper, this is gorgeous." He smiled at her, staying away from his father's eye contact. Piper just smiled at her eldest nephew and then looked to Prue.

"Out where, Riley?" Andy asked.

"Just out, dad," Riley sighed, he should have known he would get the third degree, "Please, just don't ask."

"What happened?" Patty asked the eldest of her three brothers, sighing heavily, realising something was definitely wrong.

"Nothing," but Riley knew he could never lie to his older sister, "Me and Jacqui broke up almost three weeks ago, I've been crashing at a friend's house, I was there last night."

"Why didn't you come home sweetie?" Prue asked her son, worried for him.

"If I remember right," Riley looked to his mom and then glanced at his father before continuing, "Dad said if I walked out the door I could never come back." Prue knew her son was telling the truth, and it did not seem that shocking news to anybody else at the table, even Chris.

"Come home, Riley," Andy looked at the youngest Trudeau at the table, "You can't crash at your friend's house."

"You sure dad?" Riley asked, three months away from Andy had made him really think about his life, one of the reason he and his girlfriend had broken up, "If you don't want me there…"

"Riley, you're coming home with us." And that was the end of that discussion, leaving the usual bustling table in silence again.

Wyatt looked between his lover and cousin, biting his bottom lip. He really wanted to find out everything that had happened between them, how they met…what Chris was doing to meet Riley. He knew all about his cousin's drug problem, and was getting worried that Chris had been mixed up in that. Patty, however, was wondering the same thing, the 'how they met' thing. She knew Chris had broken up with Riley for his drug problem, but how else could Chris know him and be with him for a month? As both Wyatt and Patty sat biting their tongue, so to speak, both wanting answers but not daring to ask questions, Leo spoke up.

"Alright, how do you two know each other?" he asked his eldest nephew and his son's boyfriend. As he heard calls from the table from Wyatt, Piper and Patty, he shook his head, "What? Wyatt you obviously want to know and I know Prue and Patty do too…And Piper, you can't tell me you don't. Phoebe? Paige? You two too?" He knew what the four sisters were like, they needed to know everything about everyone. Like Andy, he had known them through high school, and by the look on Andy's face, he knew the four sisters really wanted to know the details.

"We were out one night." Riley stated.

"Please don't tell me…" Andy looked to Chris, hoping this teen was not mixed up in the same crowd.

"No!" Chris shook his head, "If you're on about drugs, no chance!" Chris stated and then looked around the table, "We were at the same place and got talking. I was on the rebound and…"

"I was just, you know, being me."

Wyatt rolled his eyes and groaned. Riley was just being him, what did that mean when it was at home?

"And you two slept with each other?" Prue asked, looking between the two, surprised that Chris would do that, well from what she had seen of Chris in the past two weeks.

"We dated for a month." Riley pointed out to his mother, earning confused looks from everybody at the table, "I'm bi, ok. Is that really the problem? Guys, c'mon, Wyatt here has a boyfriend and no-one's wondering about that one?"

"I've been out for the past week or so." Wyatt said to his cousin, and went back to eating.

"Ok, but no-one was surprised?" Riley asked, "I mean, I know how many girlfriends you had at Baker and I know how many of them you bedded."

"You probably don't actually."

"Boys!" Piper called out, still not wanting to know about her son's sex life. The two cousins looked at Piper, then at each other and finally at the table.

"Sorry, mom." Wyatt sighed, but heard a snigger coming from his eldest male cousin, "What is your problem?"

"You're a right momma's boy!" Riley pointed out, "I should have known you could swing both ways…"

"One way actually." Wyatt said.

"You're gay? Completely gay?"

"Completely gay," the Halliwell nodded, "Got a problem?"

"Nope," Riley shook his head, knowing Wyatt's temper and went back to eating his food, leaving the whole table staring at them, waiting for this little argument to start off again.

"I can't believe you," Wyatt finally said, while everybody else rolled their eyes, "So, go on what did you break up with this girlfriend for, anyway?"

"I'm trying to come off the drugs."

"Yeah right," Wyatt scoffed, "That will never happen. How many times have you told us that?"

"He's right, Riley." Patty had to agree with her cousin, but then stayed out of the conversation.

"You think you're all high and mighty don't you!" Riley shouted at the 17-year-old, "You're not, you know. You have faults too. At least I never got expelled from school."

"At least I'm going to college."

"What's wrong with not going to college?" Riley asked, "Just because I didn't WANT to go. I could have easily got in if I wanted to."

"But you wanted to stay with your buddies and get high every night, right?"

"Boys!" Piper and Prue shouted this time, realising their argument was going to get worse by the second. Again the two teens looked to the table and sighed. Wyatt knew he could not say anything now, his mother was already pissed off at him and he had a little feeling that she was worried how far this argument would go, whether the two would resort to fists. It was strange, he and Riley were like best buddies growing up, since they were so close in age, but over the years they had found more differences than similarities.

"What the hell did you see in him?" Wyatt turned to his boyfriend, who just sighed deeply, not wanting to get into this, especially at the dinner table. Chris simply just stared at the food in front of him, and began to nudge it around the plate.

Henry Snr, who saw this decided to help the poor guy out, it was not his fault that his ex-boyfriend had happened to be Wyatt's cousin.

"Wyatt, maybe you should leave it all until after dinner," the parole officer said to his nephew, hoping he would listen to him, "Then the three of you can talk together in private?"

The youngest Halliwell at the table knew his favourite uncle was right so nodded in agreement and mumbled an apology, leaving Riley to sit laughing slightly at him. Wyatt had to breathe deeply and mentally count to ten to stop himself from letting his 18-year-old cousin get to him so much, man he hated him at this moment in time.

"Would anyone like any more potatoes?"

Straight away after dinner was finished, Wyatt, Chris and Riley all made their to the sunroom to 'talk' this through. Patty joined them after a few minutes to 'stop any fights', really she wanted to know what was going through her brother's head now.

"Wyatt, it was one month!" Chris explained to his lover, "One month on the rebound. There's the operative word, rebound, I'm sure you've had plenty of them."

"That was uncalled for." Wyatt pointed out to the Perry and then looked to his older cousin, "Go on, I'm sure you have something to say. You usually do." Riley just stared at him, what was he meant to say? He had a feeling this was going to turn into fisticuffs if he said anything to provoke the 17-year-old.

"Why are you so bothered, Wy?" Riley finally asked, "Is it because I'm your cousin? Or that you hate me? Or is it something to do with the drugs? What, you think I got Chris into all? That's the whole reason we broke up."

Wyatt looked between the two. He was worried about the whole drugs thing, but that was not his main concern. It was just the fact that it was his cousin, someone who he would never expect to be with Chris. Ok, Chris was not exactly innocent and well-behaved, Wyatt knew that first hand, but he was still the complete opposite of Riley Trudeau. So much was going through the Halliwell's head right now, he was too confused to even know who to talk to and what to say. Sighing and shaking his head, Wyatt walked out of the room and ran up the stairs.

Chris and Riley looked at each other, nervously. They had not seen each other since they had the argument that broke them up, all over Riley and his drug habits. Chris wondered whether the younger Trudeau actually remembered the fight, since Riley was stoned out of his head at the time. The Perry just sighed and made his way to talk to his blonde lover.

"Chris?" Patty watched as the 18-year-old started walking into the dining area to make his way up the stairs.

"I'm going to talk to Wyatt, ok." Chris just said and continued to his destination, leaving the brother and sister to talk.

"You and Chris?" Patty asked, slightly confused still, "I don't get it. Why didn't you tell me?"

"It was one month, I was confused and curious and…" Riley sighed as he sat down, "I'm not trying to break the two of them up. I just never expected to see Chris again, to be honest, let alone for him to be with Wyatt! He broke up with me, Pats, not the other way round. And anyway, it was just one month, is Wyatt really that bothered?"

"There's been other things that have gone on…" Patty shook her head and sat next to her eldest brother, "Caitlin's already shown up, four months pregnant and Chris' ex-girlfriend, oh no, fiancée has shown up."

"Caitlin? As in, Caitlin Powers? Wyatt's ex?" As Patty nodded her head, Riley's eyes grew wide, "Wyatt's gonna be a dad. Man, he really didn't need me turning up and screwing things around with Chris then."

"He'll get over it," the 20-year-old sighed, "There's more important things going on."

And Patty was right, there were more important things going on, which was what Chris was going up to tell Wyatt. The two of them had to work past this, they had to work together, after all they had got past the worst new both boys could tell each other. Wyatt was going to be a father in five months time and Chris had a psycho fiancée.

As he opened the door to Wyatt's bedroom, he saw him laying on the bed on his back, staring up at the ceiling.

"Hey." Chris said, closing the door behind him and walking to the bed. As he sat on the bed, he realised Wyatt was now giving him the silent treatment. He sighed and thought through his head what he was going to say, "Are you really bothered about me and Riley? You knew there was another guy before you."

Wyatt just stared at the ceiling, not daring to look at Chris, thinking he would do or say something that he would regret. But Chris was slightly right, this was slightly stupid, he did know there had been another guy before him, he just never expected it to be his arrogant, whacked-out, drug-addict cousin.

"Wyatt, what do you want me to say?" Chris sighed, "There's nothing I can say to you that makes this go away. It's not like it's that bad, at least I didn't propose to him, like I did with Bianca."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Tell you what?" Chris asked, relieved that Wyatt was starting to talk to him now.

"About you and Riley."

"What?"

"Well, c'mon there's not that many Trudeau's in San Francisco, so you must have put two and two together when I told you about my family." The 18-year-old shook his head.

"I never knew his surname," Chris stated, "He was just Riley, and I know there's more than one Riley in San Francisco."

"Another Riley with a drug problem?"

"You never said how bad his drug problem was until last night, when your mom asked your Aunt Prue if Riley was going to be there," Chris pointed out to the 17-year-old, "And then, there were more important things going through my head like how the hell I'm going to get that stupid engagement ring from Bianca, who won't give it up lightly."

Wyatt sat up on the bed and looked into Chris' green eyes.

"So, you've got your ex on your head now!" Wyatt shouted out, completely illogical, "Great, I'm not even the first thing on your mind."

"I never said that!"

"I read between the lines."

Chris say dumbfounded at Wyatt's words, that was not something he was implying from what he had just said. Wyatt was blowing everything out of proportion now, too much.

"You can't even deny it," Wyatt said, standing up, towering over Chris' sitting form, "Maybe you should go back to your wonderful ex-fiancée, or I'm sure Riley will look after you downstairs."

"What the fuck, Wyatt?" Chris shouted, "What the hell is going on in that head of yours? You're being ridiculous here. I only meant Bianca seemed more important than figuring out that my ex-boyfriend was your cousin! Not that she was more important than you." Chris stood up and made his way to the door, "I'll let you cool off a bit, shall I?"

"No, don't walk out on this," Wyatt stated, "Don't even think about it."

"What you gonna do to stop me, Wyatt?" Chris asked, eyeing him carefully, "Hit me?" That struck something in Wyatt, and he charged at the 18-year-old, pinning him against the door by his shoulders.

"You really think you know me, don't you?" Wyatt asked, missing the slight look of fear in the Perry's eyes, "You really think you know what I'm like. Well, guess what Chris, you have no idea." Chris tried to get out of his lover's grasp, but Wyatt was too strong. Feeling himself being pulled away from the door, he closed his eyes as he was pushed back into it, "You're gonna stay and we're gonna sort this out."

"No we're not Wyatt." BANG! Chris was pushed into the door again, "Wyatt!" BANG! And again. Deciding against saying anything, Chris stared deep into Wyatt's usually friendly blue eyes, but now they were full of anger, and it was scaring him.

Wyatt's breathing was fast and heavy, as he finally locked eyes with Chris, and saw something he never wanted to see. Fear, hurt, pain…all mixed together and all because of him. Wyatt let go and backed away.

"Shit! Chris…" Wyatt looked at his hands, thankful that he had only grabbed the Perry's shoulders and not his neck, "I'm so…I…fuck! What is wrong with me?" he finally shouted, turning away from Chris. He could not even look at him now.

Watching him, Chris stayed at the door, wondering whether it best to leave now or stay and comfort Wyatt. He knew if it was a girl he would tell her to leave, get as far away as possible, who knew what Wyatt could do, but Chris could not do that. He had to stay, he loved Wyatt so much, he could not just walk away.

"Wyatt…" Chris walked towards the Halliwell and grabbed his arm, turning him to face him, but Wyatt did not want that and pulled his arm away, "Wyatt…" Chris called out again, going for his arm again, but once again Wyatt pulled it away, "WYATT!" This time the Perry grabbed his lover's arm and turned him around to face him, forcefully, "Look at me," He would not let Wyatt turn away from him, "LOOK AT ME!"

Wyatt was taken aback by Chris shouting at him and did as he was told, he knew Chris had the patience of a saint, but by the looks of it at the moment it was coming to an end.

"Chris, I'm sorry…"

"I know," Chris nodded, "But I don't care. And don't tell me that will never happen again, because unless you sort out your serious lack of patience and extremely short temper it will, I know it will, I'm not stupid. But then, maybe I am because I'm still here when I should have left," Chris took a breath but then continued, "You really need to sort your jealousy out too. Me and Riley were just my rebound thing, there was nothing else, ok? He never got me into doing any drugs, I broke up with him because of it. I never thought I'd see him again, ok? And if it wasn't because for Bianca turning up yesterday then I may have actually thought about the possibility, but right now she's more important than Riley. She's the crazy one that could do anything to get between us, and if you're going to let all this get to you then she'll succeed, you know that. Caitlin is probably looking for something similar."

Wyatt just looked at Chris, shocked at what he was saying. He wanted to say something back, but did not know what to actually say, what he could reply to that.

"I love you, Wyatt," Chris went on, so Wyatt could get his thoughts together, "And I don't want to lose you. But if you let all this get to you then I will."

"No you won't," Wyatt shook his head, "Because I don't want to lose you either. I love you too much for that."

"Right, so let's get back down there and show this isn't going to come between us." As Chris tried to let go of Wyatt's arm, Wyatt pulled him closer to him and kissed him hard. The Perry parted his lips, to allow Wyatt to snake his tongue in and caress his own. Moaning into Wyatt's mouth, Chris wrapped his arms around the blonde's neck, pulling him as close as he could, just as there was a knock at the door. Wyatt pulled away from the kiss and placed his forehead against Chris' slightly breathless from the kiss. They looked into each other's eyes as there was another knock at the door.

"Yeah?" Wyatt sighed as he pulled out of Chris' arms and looked to the door, which a few minutes ago he had pinned Chris against, and not in a good way pinned, "Uncle Henry?" Wyatt questioned the reason why his uncle had just opened the door.

"Your mom asked me to check on you," Henry smiled, "She heard shouting and banging and…"

"She thought I was getting into a fight with Chris?"

"I think so," the parole officer nodded his head, "Anyway, she also asked if you two are coming back down, she's just making some coffee."

"We'll be down in a couple of minutes Uncle Henry." Wyatt replied and then focused his attention on his lover, "So, no more jealousy stints."

"No more jealousy stints," Chris shook his head, as he repeated what Wyatt had just said, once the door was closed, "I love you, Wyatt, remember that."

"I love you two."

As they kissed each other and began to leave the room, Chris smiled as a thought came into his head, "You know something, this is why you're not coming with me to get the ring from Bianca. God knows what you two would do to each other!"

ok, so there's the end of the chapter. the next one shouldn't be too far away. but please review this to let me know your thoughts.