An interesting consequence of time travel is seeing your young family. Seeing your elder brother as an only child, seeing women who you only ever remembered as being married talking about dates and sex and just generally being young. It was good to see that they grew up to, that they had made mistakes and had fun.
Junior had all kinds of conflicting emotions, he was ecstatic to see them alive, he didn't want to be friends with them he wanted to get on with saving the world, he wanted them to trust him and yet was proud that they didn't. But he was still a young man who had brutally lost his mother and had never dealt with it. Seeing Piper hurt him.
Chris stayed away from the manor as much as possible that year, their treatment of him re-enforced his idea that his family might love him but they did not like him. They sent him away or blamed him or never even wanted him born.
But Chris deepened his relationship with Wyatt. They weren't estranged but they weren't close. When they were younger Wyatt didn't know how to play with his quite brother, he didn't want to hurt him, it didn't help that Chris was often taken away. As he grew older and gained his own friends Wyatt didn't want to be uncool and hang out with his little brother. It was when Chris let their mother know that Wyatt didn't want to run the P3 nightclub chain that he stopped to think.
His brother knew him and looked out for him, he never bothered him, and then when they went demon fighting they worked well together. Wyatt saw the way Chris flourished in Stanford and MIT, Chris had become a person Wyatt wanted to be friends with. So they began to hang out. Chris couldn't be happier, he knew what a fantastic relationship he and Wyatt could have had, he lived through it and missed both when Wyatt went evil and the second time round.
Chris had forgotten his birthday was coming up, Junior had the date etched on his mind but never really thought of it as meaning anything but as a deadline for Wyatt. Chris was busy publishing, he had just been awarded his PHD and was sorting out doing a postdoc at Tokyo University.
He had had phone calls all day but something major was happening in the past. He only went through the motions, concentrating on the past, and then he got stabbed. Junior and Chris had both been hurt and mortally wounded before, but this wouldn't heal, he had to rely on his dad an he was alone. And he was slipping and it hurt. Then he was gone.
Chris had always wondered what would happen, obviously Junior succeeded, had he lived on in the past, but the why wasn't he around? Would they merge into one? Chris had many theories and ideas but this wasn't one of them. Junior was gone. Chris wasn't sure if the world was so much louder or so much quieter.
He was disorientated, he had a brief moment when he was both dying and being born. Chris felt both awake and asleep. Suddenly there was only one world. It was so much brighter than he remembered and so dull.
Wyatt orbed in. Mom had organised a party and Chris was coming and Wyatt was getting him. Chris just went along, his sense of loss wrapping him up and holding him tight.
It was half was through the party when the anger built up. They had known he died, and they never said a thing. He was their son and when he was born they pushed him aside, he had done his job and they didn't want him any more. How dare they laugh and celebrate. He was dead, he was gone why was no one mourning with him. Why couldn't Junior, why couldn't Chris, be remembered and loved?
Chris turned off the music and marched up to his mother. She looked at her son his eyes blazing and she was back twenty-four years ago. Chris was still Chris, the son that wasn't hers, the son she hated and loved, the son she never wanted to grow to be, a hurt and lost child. Instead she had a bright young boy, one she never got to spend enough time with, he wasn't magically powerful and they weren't as close as she would have liked but he was all hers.
"I'd like to hold a minutes silence, for him." Most were confused but those who were there were shocked. Chris knew and he seemed okay. Paige went forward and held Chris' hand "I would really like that." Leo nodded tears in his eyes. But this made Chris even angrier, now they were sad, what about the rest of his life. For over twenty years they had ignored and forgotten him. The minute up Chris orbed out he couldn't deal with his family right now. He orbed to the underworld, demon killing is a incredibly soothing and relaxing hobby.