Chris rolled over on the too short couch and huffed crankily. He just knew he was going to get a painful crick in his neck from his sleeping arrangement. It had taken all three of them to calm down and convince the blonde disaster to accept their wisdom. After a full hour of argument she'd finally given in, and she had hardly been gracious about it!
Wyatt had looked at Chris when Jenna questioned icily where she was to sleep, answered that she was Chris' innocent and headed into his room to sleep in his own bed. To be fair to Wyatt, after the other Chris had orbed back to the manor, he had tried to conjure a bed for Jenna, somehow the two thought it ungentlemanly to have the five foot two blonde sleep on the overstuffed six foot long couch. After a half hour of disappointment Wyatt had made his proclamation and headed to his room, to sleep in his comfortable bed, Chris thought again with disgruntlement. Leaving Chris to do the gentlemanly thing and offer up his own incredibly comfy bed to the tiny dynamo who would only sleep on the smallest portion, while he was stuck trying to arrange his lanky six foot two frame on the couch. He sighed huffily again. Sometimes selflessness really sucked! Suddenly a remark made by Jenna earlier popped into his head, he'd barely given it a thought while trying to explain about magic to the petite nonbeliever, but now it intruded, 'she said her knight with the pretty green eyes', he thought, then, 'she thinks my eyes are pretty', with a small smile he settled as comfortably as he could into the couch.
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"You got everything you need Chris?" Piper asked her overnight guest. She'd only been slightly surprised by his reappearance this evening. She'd thought that he might return. Her poor Chris, stuck in an unfamiliar world without his own place in it, as Chris was currently in his own place. She rubbed her eyes tiredly; the paradoxes of time travel could really bring on a killer headache.
"I'm fine, mom. How about you?" He hadn't missed her action.
She smiled at his concern, "I'm good. I'm just trying to wrap my brain around all the time travel issues and what not."
"Try being the traveler," Chris suggested.
"As I recall," Piper stated, "I have had my share of time traveling." She looked at Chris worriedly. "You're so different from the Chris I'm now used to. It's like you're two entirely different people with the same face. It's going to be a little hard to lose you again."
"I won't really be gone, Mom, I'll always be Chris and I'll always be with you."
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A/N another shortish chapter for y'all but I wanted to get it out while it was fresh in my mind. Sorry folks but other than a beginning and an end for most of my stories the middle just kind of flows, I don't plan ahead. Technically, I already wrote this episode but felt that it was too short so I added the demon attack and the fire starter so the story is much different now- my daughter is so angry she insists my readers who have already read this story will be furious that instead of just fixing writing errors I'm adding a whole new dimension, but I'm older so I just tell her to shush. Hope she's wrong and no one's cranky. I can't claim newness but I can claim that I still have no idea what I'm doing.