Here's the next little instalment. I've now got all the chapters finished. There's three left so I'll post one more later today and two tomorrow and then that will be the end of this story. There is definitely a sequel coming up but I'm going to take a bit of a break, since I'm going to Spain for a week and then uni starts again, so the updates won't be as frequent, since I'm repeating my second year so really need to concentrate on it, hope you can forgive that.

Anyway, a quick but big thank you to everybody who reviewed my last chapter, sorry I haven't been able to personally reply to you all. I only got some of them a couple of hours ago and I decided I wanted to make some little touchups to this chapter before it was posted.

Well...on with the chapter...

Boarding School Hell

Chris could not sleep that night. All he could think about was whether he should Caitlin up on her offer. Sure enough, if he did then she would have no legal rights to Elizabeth and then her dad could not case trouble but she would still be in their life, and if Chris was totally honest, that was not something he wanted. Chris and Caitlin were like Wyatt and Bianca, oil and water, they did not mix. Rolling over onto his side, Chris let out a sigh.

"Chris, what's wrong with you tonight?" Wyatt asked, sensing something, it was not usual that Chris was tossing and turning.

"Nothing."

"You haven't been the same since you spoke to Caitlin," Wyatt not decided to prop himself up on his arm so he could look at Chris, even though it was too dark to see him and Chris had his back to him, "What is it?"

"Nothing." Chris repeated, this was not something he wanted to talk to Wyatt about while laying in his bed. He felt the Halliwell place a hand on his arm, which just caused Chris to sigh again.

"I know something's up." Wyatt stated, trying to get the information from him. Slowly, Chris turned around onto his back and looked through the darkness at his lover.

"It's just this whole situation," Chris sighed, frowning slightly, "I mean, even if I do adopt Lizzie, it's not gonna stop her from getting in our lives, you know, mess things up." He could just about see Wyat frowning in the dark, the Halliwell was obviously really thinking hard of what to say to him.

"Chris, she's Caitlin's daughter," Wyatt sighed, "She's gonna have a right..."

"Not if she signs them to me," Chris shook his head, "Can you guarentee she won't try and cause trouble if I adopt Lizzie? She's caused enough as it is..."

"Just like Bianca..." Wyatt pointed out, interrupting his lover, "We've both had people get into our lives and try and break us up, but that's not gonna happen. Ok, Caitlin may still appear every now and again, but if you adopt Lizzie it'll stop her meddling there. I'm not telling you to adopt her, I can't do that, but I will tell you I want you to. I love you Chris, and I want the three of us to be a family."

"But..."

"No buts," Wyatt laughed, "I know you're worried if we break up, but that won't happen as long as we don't let people get in our way."

"But I can't take it if Caitlin will be in our life," Chris admitted, "She's spiteful, and she proved it earlier, its not the fact that she wants me to adopt Lizzie, it's the fact that she wants to keep her father out of the picture. If it wasn't for him, she wouldn't have offered me the chance. She's Lizzie's mom though, and I don't know whether I can take that away from her."

"Can you at least think about it?" Wyatt asked, "For me? Hell, even for Lilabet, who's gonna need a stable environment," In the dark, Wyatt could see Chris nodding his head so smiled, "Thank you."

"But I can't promise anything," Chris replied, "Not yet anyway."

"I understand," the blonde replied, now putting his head on Chris' chest, "No matter what though, I love you."

Chris never said anything back that night, he just laid there staring up at the ceiling until sleep took over him.

"Boys, your SAT scores are here." Piper shouted up at the two lovers. She knew that they were having some time to themselves so decided not to disturb them, so instead placed the two letters on the table and went back to looking after her granddaughter. They had asked her, and even though they would not say it, she knew why, they had been like this for the past few days. Since getting back from school all their time had been spent with somebody else around, mostly the baby, and they just needed some time together, to get up to the thing that two sexually active people do, although she did not want to think about it in that way.

As she sat with Elizabeth, watching her suck on her pacifier, she lost track of the time as both Wyatt and Chris came running down the stairs.

"Where are they mom?" Wyatt asked, eager to find out his score. Although, Chris seemed a little apprehensive, as Piper pointed to the two letters on the table in the middle of the hallway.

Wyatt quickly ripped his open to find out whether or not he had done any better than last time. He looked at the letter in awe.

"Oh my God!"

"What is it sweetie?" Piper walked to her son, ready for whatever news he told her. She knew he would get into a college in San Francisco even with the score he already had, but she did not want him to be stuck with that when he could maybe do so much better.

"I got a 1660." Wyatt spoke with a smile on his face, as Piper hugged him.

"That's wonderful news," the 55-year-old woman spoke, "I'm so proud of you, sweetie. Now aren't you glad you re-took the test." The 18-year-old had to admit he was happy, but not hearing anything from his lover at the moment meant he had to keep his happiness down right now, so he just nodded his head.

"How did you do, Chris?" Piper asked, to see he was staring at the sheet of paper, his mouth almost hitting the floor, "Oh, honey, it doesn't matter if you didn't to so well, all that matters is that you tried your best."

Chris looked up at Piper and then back at the sheet of paper, still not taking in the score that it said. He then looked at Wyatt, and was almost shaking.

"Chris, what is it?" The younger Halliwell asked, concerned what was going on. Since Chris was not answering, Wyatt took the sheet of paper and read the score. His eyes grew wide as he looked at it.

"Oh my God, Chris!" Wyatt looked between his lover and the paper, surprised at what it said, and then felt the sheet of paper being taken from his hand by Piper. This time Piper's eyes grew wide at the score.

"That's…" Chris tried to speak, but found he could not, "That's…like…that's…" Suddenly the room started spinning on him and he found he was struggling to breath. Piper and Wyatt's voices were fading fast and then…black…

Chris woke up to find he was laid on the couch. What had happened? One minute he was looking at his score from the SATs and next he was…well…here.

"He's waking up," He heard Leo's voice call out and then he was knelt on the floor, next to him, "Hey, you ok?"

"I'm fine…" Chris looked around, "What happened?"

"You fainted," Leo stated, "Well, that's what Piper said. You were already on the couch when I got home. Are you ok? You don't still feel faint at all do you?"

"No, I'm fine," Chris said, slowly sitting up with Leo's help and then to find Piper, Wyatt and Parker all looking at him, "Hey."

"Hey yourself," Wyatt spoke softly, "You scared me then, you know."

"Ah, I'm fine," Chris waved it off as Wyatt sat next to him, taking his hand gently, "My head just hurts a little."

"You hit it pretty hard when you collapsed," Wyatt nodded his own head, a brushed a strand of hair, where he could see a bruise was going to form on the side of Chris' head, "You really had me worried for a second though. I've never seen you faint."

"Yeah, well, it's something that happens when I get news I really don't expect," Chris replied, "And while I'm exhausted," The two lovers shared a smirk just as Elizabeth's cries interrupted them, "I'll get…"

"Whoa!" Wyatt stopped Chris from standing up, "You stay there. I'll get her." When Wyatt disappeared, Leo made a final check on Chris.

"You sure you're feeling ok?"

"I'm fine, Leo," Chris genuinely smiled, "Really. No harm done."

"You know, I think we need to celebrate tonight." Piper stated, now that the worry was over.

"Celebrate what, mom?" Parker asked, as he started to make his way out of the room.

"The SAT scores."

"Piper, we really don't…"

"Of course we do," Piper nodded her head, "It's not everyday two people get such good scores."

Later that evening, Chris and Wyatt were sat on the couch together, waiting for the whole family to come around for dinner. This was the way they were celebrating, since it would be a little harder to go out to a restaurant with Elizabeth at the moment.

"You know," Wyatt started the conversation, as they sat watching a movie, "I think you should be the one that goes to college, not me."

"Wyatt, I'm not going to college, I've already told you."

"Chris, with those scores, you really should do," Wyatt argued, "You could go to any school you want, Chris, and instead you're gonna be here, working, and raising a baby."

"And that's what I want to do." But the Halliwell was going to let up without a fight.

"Why?" he asked, "Why would you want to stay here and get a low paying job when you could go to college and do anything you wanted."

"Wyatt, why are we arguing about this?" Chris asked, "You know both of us can't g to college at the same time, one of us has to be at home with Lizzie."

"And I can do that, while you go to college," Wyatt pointed out, "Chris, you got a 2200, it's pretty hard to get that, especially when you walk out of the exam and say you've done really badly in it! You're the one that would be better off going to college, not me."

"Wyatt, please understand me here," Chris sat up on the couch and looked into his lover's ocean blue eyes, "As much as I would usually agree with you on this, that yeah, I got a really really good score and yes I could do to any college I wanted to, the only reason I sat that test was because I made a deal with you. I now get to buy our house, where we're gonna live, you, me and Elizabeth, for the start of our lives together, as a family."

"But Chris…"

"No buts," Chris shook his head, "You're the one that wants to go to college, and your score wasn't that bad this time round. I don't want to go to college, I did that test to please you…"

"Thinking that you were gonna do really bad on it though."

"Ok, yes, I thought I was gonna do really bad on it," the Perry agreed, "But just because I didn't, doesn't mean that I now want to go to college."

"Why not?"

"Wyatt, can we not have this conversation?" Chris sighed, "The only time I thought about college was when my grandpa died, because I thought I wanted to get away from here. But now that I'm not so bothered about that, I don't want to go, I'd rather start working, start earning money for our daughter."

"Our daughter?" Wyatt questioned, and then saw a look in Chris' face that told him what he wanted to hear, "Chris…are you…?"

"I called Caitlin today," Chris nodded his head, "We're gonna start the process tomorrow, with the help of your Aunt Paige. I'm gonna adopt Lizzie, ok? Now can we drop the college thing? I'm doing one thing you want."

Wyatt never answered Chris, all he did was smother him with kisses.

"I love you," he smiled, "I love you so much, you have no idea," They shared a passionate kiss just as the doorbell rang, "Here come the gang."

"As long as nobody asks about me going to college." Chris said, as the two stood up and Wyatt went to answer the door.

"You know that will come up right?" the blonde answered, opening the door to see his Aunt Prue with all of her family, minus Patty, "Hi Aunt Prue."

"Oh, hi sweetie," Prue smiled as she saw the two boys, "Oh, Chris, it's so good to see you again."

"You too, Prue." Chris smiled as they hugged.

"Now I hope you two know why we're here," Andy said to his eldest nephew, "Because none of us do." Wyatt laughed, knowing that Piper had not said why everybody had to come over for dinner tonight. He nodded his head as the three teenagers made their way in, briefly saying hello.

"Parker upstairs?" Jackson asked, making his way to those said stairs.

"Yeah," Wyatt nodded, "So is Matty, Charlie."

"Thanks." As Jackson and Charlie made their way out of the room, and Prue and Andy made their way into the kitchen, it left Wyatt and Chris with Riley.

"So, what is this all about?" Riley asked, "What have you done now? Hope its something good."

"Says the druggie!" Wyatt rolled his ocean eyes and went back to his movie, "And yes it's something good."

"What you watching?" Riley asked, as he sat on the chair, opposite the couch where Wyatt and Chris sat down.

"Catch me if you can."

Dinner was not as daunting for Chris as it seemed to be at Christmas and New Year, possibly just the fact that he was getting used to Wyatt having such a large family. Once they all got started, that was when Piper decided to explain why they were all here, what she did not know was that Chris had something he was going to spring on her, that only Wyatt and Paige knew about.

"Ok, so you're all wondering what you're all doing here," Piper smiled, "Well we have some news to celebrate. The SAT scores came in and both Wyatt and Chris did really well. Can I tell them your scores, or do you want to?" Wyatt looked at his mom and then around the table.

"Ok, I got a 1660," Wyatt said, "But mines not the best score…"

"Wyatt…" Chris warned.

"Chris here, beat me and most people I know actually." he suddenly added, thinking to himself.

"Oooo, how did you do?" Paige asked excitedly in her seat. Chris sighed as all eyes were on him. Here were coming the questions about colleges.

"A 2200," he answered, "And before any of you ask, I'm still not sure about college. I'm keeping my options open," That stopped any questions about that, "But there is some other news, Piper." Chris looked at the woman and then to Wyatt who nodded his head with a smile.

"What is it honey?" Piper asked, biting her lip, wondering what other news Chris could have.

"I'm…erm…adopting Lizzie." That was it, the room was in chaos and the food forgotten about as two aunts and the mother surrounded Chris, hugging him. Everybody was happy to hear about it, and frankly a little shocked, all except for Paige, who Chris had called earlier that day after talking to Caitlin, so they could start arranging it tomorrow before they boys went back to school.

"You knew about this, didn't you?" Piper looked to her youngest sister, who looked sheepishly at the table.

"Well, he wanted to know if we could get the paper work done tomorrow."

"You're doing it tomorrow?" Leo looked to the Perry, and his smile grew wider as he saw a nod of the head, "How long will it take to get it all through?"

Now everybody looked to Paige.

"Once all the papers are signed, it just takes about 10 working days to get through the system."

"So in two weeks time," Wyatt smiled and jumped up and down on his seat like a five-year-old, "He'll have full legal rights?"

"That's right." Paige nodded her head, and laughed at Chris who was being hugged by Wyatt, almost squashed.

Wyatt held onto Chris tightly and kissed him sloppily, causing everybody to laugh.

"I love you. I love you. I love you." Wyatt never thought this could get any better.

well, i hoped you enjoyed that and hope you leave a little review to let me know.