so here's chapter 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chris walks confidently down the school corridor to his first lesson of the day, as he passes a group of Cheerleaders he flashes them a smile and walks into class. Chris takes his seat just as the bell rings, the teacher looks up to see if all her students are there, she stares open mouthed at Christopher as his seat has been empty for a while.

"Mr. Halliwell, so glad to see you here," She says like she is speaking to an old friend who she hasn't seen in years.

"Why thank you Mrs. Staple, it's good to be back," he says full of Cheer. Matt, one of his friends turns to look at him.

Ok….so that was a quick turnaround last week…..you were depressed….Matt thinks with a frown.

Me depressed….never…..Chris thinks back with a smile.

Chris turns and begins to write in is note book, which is in front of him. Matt watches with a frown on his face as he sees Chris taking notes, which he never usually does, or need to him been a genius and all.

I'll have to find Bianca after class…this is freaky…Matt thinks nodding to himself.

After class Chris strides down the Hallway with a smile for everyone who passes him.

"B, it's so freaky, I mean he's cheery and smiling and after the last few weeks, that isn't normal, the Chris we are used to is moody and bitchy and…" Matt's rant is cut off by.

"Hey guys!" Chris says happily.

"Hey Sweetie, you okay?" Bianca asks trying to make herself sound happy and not worried.

"I'm great and I've got swimming now so I'm even better," he says with a smile. Bianca can't help but smile back. Chris looks at his watch and sees a few of the swim team pass.

"Look, I gotta go, B, I'll see you at lunch." He says, turning and catching up the swim team.

"Hey!" Chris greets them as they walk down to the pool.

Matt, who has stayed silent during their conversation, looks with a frown to Bianca, who has an identical look on her face.

"So, he's a little hyped, but at least he's not drunk or stoned…..or silent," She states with a sigh.

"Chris?" Piper asks surprised as she watches Chris walk through the back door.

"I didn't get a phone call, so I take it you went to school?" She asks, seeing her son go to the fridge and get a drink.

"Yep," he says simply, taking a sip of his water.

"What we having for dinner?" he asks Piper, not noticing her standing rooted to the spot in shock.

"Mom?" he asks waving a hand in front of her. This breaks the spell.

"Sorry sweetie, its chicken casserole," She answers simply, as she watches Chris walk out of the kitchen with a smile on his face.

"So, Chris how was school?" Leo asks during dinner.

"Fine, I haven't been to swim practice in a while its really wiped me out," he says stifling a yawn behind his forked hand. Wyatt looks at his brother as if he has grown two heads.

How can he be so…..Chris….he thinks to himself.

I guess whatever he's smoked has worked….Mel thinks back.

He's not stoned Mel, if he was he would not be here…he states back.

Well it's nice to have him normal again…Mel states back.

I suppose so….Wyatt sighs.

He looks over at his brother who is eating his food and chatting with his mother.

Later that night Wyatt is lying on his bed talking into his phone.

"I know, I feel the same, but what can we do, we just gotta wait until he….."

"Hey, dude, which girl you talking too tonight?" Chris asks as he enters the room, cutting off Wyatt's conversation.

"I gotta go," Wyatt says into the phone and clicks it off.

"It wasn't a girl," Wyatt says blushing at Chris as he sits at the desk, logging on his computer.

"Whatever, Wyatt has a girlfriend," he teases, with a smirk; Wyatt looks up at him with a shocked look.

"I don't...it...was…a…a….friend," he stutters out. Chris begins to laugh at his stuttering.

"So what about your lover boy? Those love bites you've been getting them off someone special?" Wyatt asks cheekily.

"What! What love bites?" Chris asks raising an eyebrow. Wyatt just rolls his eyes at his little brother.

Tuesday Morning sees Chris appear in the kitchen to find it full to the brim of people. He sees him mom pouring over a potion as his aunt's flick through the many books on the kitchen table.

"Oh, morning sweetie, we're a little busy, but coffee's just been made," Piper states signaling to the coffee machine.

"What demon you guys after?" Chris asks.

"Never you mind about the demon, you just have your breakfast," Paige instructs.

"Oh, okay," Chris deflates a bit and sinking on to a stool and pouring some coffee.

"It's not that you're not capable or we don't want your genius help, it's just you've got school in a while and with all the time you've had off it'll be good for you to go and catch up." Phoebe says softly as she walks over to him and begins to rub his shoulder, sensing his feelings.

"You're right, I'm okay auntie Pheebs, I better go to school," he agrees. Phoebe watches as Chris grabs his coffee and makes his way back upstairs, Phoebe looks confused as to why Chris didn't fight them. Piper watches as Chris goes back upstairs giving her sisters a confused look over the potion she is making.

Chris and Bianca wonder into the Manor at two thirty, having their afternoon lessons cancelled.

"So why d you think lessons were cancelled?" Chris asks as the approach the kitchen. However, Bianca's reply is cut short as they hear the conversation coming from the kitchen. They stand behind the door listening.

"Chris should really be teaching you all this however as I still think Chris is a little young to handle this," Chris and Bianca hear Piper's voice say.

And the way he looks at you isn't right either…She thinks

"Oh, Thanks Piper, although I don't know if I can be any help, I still don't know what my powers are," They hear a male's voice say.

"We wouldn't have pulled you out of work if we didn't think you could help," The two hear a new voice say. Chris turns to Bianca and mouths Paige, Bianca nods.

"Well at least I don't have to deal with hormonal fifteen year olds all afternoon, so that's good," The male voice says with a little chuckle. At hearing the voice for a second time Chris looks across at Bianca and mouths Max.

Are you okay with him, I mean after what happened?...Bianca asks thinking it to Chris,

Chris turns with a confused look.

Nothing's happened….He states

What! What about last week! You guys……Bianca thoughts get cut off when she hears Piper say "Let's go up to the attic,"

Chris and her back away from the kitchen door and into the foyer.

"Hey, guys, you back early?" Piper asks.

"Class got cut," Chris answers distractedly trying to work out what Bianca was talking about or rather thinking about.

"Hey," Max says quietly, Chris looks up giving him a smile, which is returned as a confused look.

"Do you need any help Piper?" Bianca asks.

"We're okay sweetie, Max is gonna help," Piper says quickly.

"Shouldn't I be doing this, I am he whitelighter," Chris says, looking at his mom, echoing her earlier words. Piper sighs looking at her sisters for help.

"Sweetie, it's a big demon," Paige says. Chris sighs sadly.

"Okay, fine, come on B," he replies, grabbing Bianca's hand and pulling her through the foursome.

You're not even gonna fight them…Bianca thinks

Chris just shrugs in response.

"For your first demon hunt it was pretty good," Piper states, once the foursome have orbed back into the attic after they killed the demon.

Second demon hunt… he thinks correcting Piper

"So now what you guys gonna teach my more potions or spells?" Max asks hopefully.

"Eager, aren't we?" Phoebe asks.

"I just wanna learn, I'm still kinda new to this," he states, his eyes shining. Phoebe giggles feeling his excitement. Before anyone can speak further orbs swirl in the middle of the room.

"Chris?" Piper asks. Chris looks at his mom, smiling.

"Hey, you seen B?" he asks. The four shake their heads. He sighs angrily.

"Fine, I give up!" he shouts to the ceiling. Then with an eyebrow raised and a smirk he begins to chant,

"Play a game I can't win,

Find me the one I seek and bring her to me,"

A bright light appears and within it Bianca.

"That's cheating, you're not supposed to use a spell to find me," Bianca huffs as her feet touch the ground.

"Where were you anyway?" Chris asks.

"Where do you think," Bianca replies.

"I said not underworld trips," Chris sighs.

"Where's the fun in that? Come on Chrissy live dangerously," she quips, making her way closer to him, Bianca leans in hitting him on his arm and shouting

"You're it! Gotta find me now!!" Bianca shimmers away.

"Oh, it's on now," he quips to himself more than anyone, closes his eyes and orbs away. The foursome is left in silence.

They haven't played that since they were little, it's so sweet….Piper thinks

They haven't done that in years Chris must be really off his face, or there is something wrong…Paige and Phoebe both think

They were playing tag and the elders thought me having a fifteen as a protector was a good idea, of course it is…Max thinks with a scowl

Paige and Phoebe both look concerned at Piper's happy expression and wonder what Max is thinking.

"So what else do you wanna learnt about?" Piper asks dismisses the looks of her sisters about her son. Max just smiles at his new mentor.

On Thursday night, also known as Family dinner night in the Halliwell household or to some "night-we-have-to-stay-in-and-act-normal".

DING! DONG!

"Could someone get that?" Piper calls from the Kitchen.

"I will," Chris states getting up off the sofa, wondering who the hell they know that still rings the door bell.

"Hello," he says politely opening the door.

"Chris," the voice mumbles. Chris looks up and sees Max.

"You're mom invited me," he says quickly.

"Well come in and IYF we've known you for a while now, so they is no need to ring the door bell," Chris says letting Max pass.

"Okay, erm…Thanks, you okay?" he asks.

"Ye, just watching a film," Chris replies with a bit of a shrug and heads into the living room, Max watching from his spot in the foyer.

"You can come to sit down, I don't bite," Chris jokes with a laugh.

What why is he been nice, after what happened, how can Chris just joke like that when I know he does bite….Max thinks

"I need a drink," he says and heads to the kitchen, not realizing that Chris wasn't listening to what he said or thought.

As Dinner processes Max becomes even more confused and shocked about Chris' behavior as he watches him smiling and laughing with his relatives and Bianca.

I wonder if he's drunk….he thinks halfway through dinner

Nope he's a sober a an AA member…a voice replies

Max looks up and down the table to find the voice, his eye finally rest on Bianca sitting next to Melinda, she smiles shyly at him.

After dinner…she thinks making sure only Max can hear. Max nods slightly.

"If he's sober, what's wrong with him?" Max asks, leaning against the wall smoking.

"I didn't know you smoked, interesting," Bianca says more to herself, ignoring his question for the moment. She watches him and he closes his eyes as he exhales and breathes slowly.

"I don't know what happened, I mean he was upset about Mike and then the next thing I know he's cheery, it's so surreal," she explains.

"What's Michael gotta do with this?" Max asks.

"Like you don't know apparently Mike show that lovely love bite and Chris being drunk at the time confessed he'd had sex with someone else and he brought up with him," she explains.

"But he was acting weird before then, that was your fault by the way," she states evenly.

"Me, what did I do?" Max asks.

"You shouted at him, made him feel like a little kid and then he goes and screws around like usual and he was sober and then you shag him stupid and flirt with Mr. Lopez right in front of him and then e breaks up with Mike, so at the moment I don't understand how he isn't tearing your limbs off," Bianca lists. Max sighs taking a long drag of his cigarette to calm his thoughts and feelings about what Bianca just said.

"I can't be the reason and besides he's cheery," Max states.

"Like I said the cheeriness is wrong, he should be sending your pretty ass to hell," Bianca replies.

"So what do we do?" Max asks. Bianca raises an eyebrow at him.

"Not us, I've done my part and I can get him back, now it's your turn, he's your whitelighter," she replies.

"Aren't whitelighters supposed to protect their witches not the other way around?" he asks her. Bianca shrugs and turns to go back inside.

"You protect each other, play off the others weaknesses," Bianca advices.

"And bring him back," she declares as her parting sentence leaving Max out in the cold March night.

Max rubs his temples throwing the book he was flipping through across his apartment. He leans back on his sofa surrounded by books ranging medical to psychology.

What makes Bianca think I can help him, he seems fine, okay well he's is scarily cheerful and smiling, but it's not like it's a genuine smile, more scary….Max thinks to himself.

He shakes his head to rid him of these thoughts.

I just don't understand how he could change so fast, I mean I know teenagers change fast, but with Mike breaking up with him he shouldn't be this happy he should be heartbroken I mean he must like him, he was freaked out so much when I found out he got drunk and was stoned the rest of the week, again I'm wondering why I have a fifteen year old druggie as a whitelighter, he sighs as he closes his eyes.

Max walks through the school the following morning, rubbing his head making his hair even wilder, as he was up late last night and couldn't get to sleep because his thoughts of Chris wouldn't stop. Max tries to straighten his tie, which is a leaning to the right. Max looks around the school at this earlier hour only a few students are here. Max walks into his classroom to set up for the day when he hears a crash. Max turns and runs to the door, he looks left and right and sees nothing, but then CRASH! Max looks right and runs out of the classroom. On rounding the corner Max sees a tall scaly back tower over something, then gets flung back, Max dodges the body flying towards him. Max watches as Chris stands; the demon stands as well.

"You can't defeat me, little witch," the demon hisses. Chris smirks at him and holds his hands out, but as he does a group flowers flow out of his hands. He stares at them in disbelief. The demon roars with laughter. But before Chris can move a muscle, the Demon falls to the floor. Chris looks up and sees Max standing behind the demon with a fire hydrant in his hand.

"Thanks," Chris says "I don't know what happened" he adds.

"So how do we get rid of him?" Max asks. Chris thinks biting his lip.

"Demon that roams the halls

Take him now from these walls," he chants and the demon disappears.

"Wow," Max whispers. Chris sighs leaning against the wall to catch his breath.

"Oh God, you're bleeding," Max says pulling him down to the nurse's station. He positions Chris on the bed and gets a wipe and gauze.

"Should we be in here?" Chris asks as he watches Max walk around the room getting varies items.

"I need to get that cleaned up don't I?" Max asks back, however Chris' reply gets stuck on his tongue as he watches Max move his hand gently over his wound on the side of his face wiping away the blood that is steaming down his cheek, once the blood has gone, Max trails his hand down Chris' cheek, Chris watches him.

Why aren't you trying something….Max thinks

Why would I try something you're a teaching and my charge…Chris thinks in confusion

I know you are, but I …..Max begins to think

"Mr. McAdams, what happening?" the nurse asks having entered the room.

"Oh, Good morning Chris was walking into school early and the slipped hitting his head," Max explains.

"Well I can continue from here, thank you," the nurse sternly instructs pushing Max out of the room, he sees Chris starring at him with a thoughtful look.

As school starts and ends Chris can't get Max' thoughts out of his head.

I just don't understand how he could say I would try something like that on him, I'm not like that, I wouldn't never, he's my teacher and like seven years older than me…Chris thinks.

"He must be having a weird day," he says out loud to himself.

Max stands in the Manor flicking through the Book of Shadows.

If I'm right this should help me more than anything, he's powers were off and he didn't respond when I was touching him and God he was so sweet and innocent, nothing like before all demanding and aggressive and, hot!...Max thinks

Max licks his now dry lips feeling guilty about remembering his night with Chris.

"Chris!" Max calls. A swirl of orbs appears straight away.

"Hey, I was just thinking about you, what's up?" Chris asks.

"How can you be so chatty with me after what happened?" Max asks getting straight to the point, looking at Chris in his tight jeans and t-shirt.

"What do you mean; we haven't done anything, have we?" Chris asks looking curious. Max sighs and runs a hair through his blonde hair.

"Chris, we slept together," He states, watching as Chris' face doesn't change to shock or any other emotion.

"What! Don't be silly, we would don't do that," he laughs. Max starts to get anger.

"Chris! We slept together and you act as if it didn't mean anything!" He fumes slightly.

"But I don't know what you're talking about," Chris replies calmly. Max sighs in anger.

"Oh screw it! I can't believe you; you're not calm and quiet you're aggressive and impatient!" Max screams at him. Seeing Chris' blank expression Max steps closer touching Chris' arm with his hand.

Hope this works….he thinks

"Pain you made so unreal,

Turned to fantasy now to reality,

From me to you I make you feel,"

Max chants, once he finishes, red sparks come out of Chris', he falls on to his knees only supported by Max's arms as the wrap around his body.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," Chris whispers as tears fall down his face, Chris begins to cry more violently and he starts to shake as the sobs take over all the time with Max holding to him tightly.

Two days later, on Sunday afternoon. Max sits grading papers in his apartment.

"Hey," a voice greets, at the sound Max jumps dropping the red pen on the floor.

"Oh, sorry," the voice says moving to the side of the sofa where the pen dropped and picks it up.

"Thanks, Chris," Max says smiling slightly. Chris smiles back. Max takes his pen back, throws it on the pile and turns to look at Chris.

Are you okay...Max thinks

"Are you…" Max gets cuts off before he can continue.

"I'm okay, I just thought you'd like an explanation," Chris says rather quickly.

"You don't have too," Max counters, Chris perches on his coffee table opposite him.

"Please, I need you to listen, I'm sorry I didn't know how much the spell would affect me, I just wanted to forget, to be happy and not screw everything up, I went off the day I found out about being you're whitelighter and had sex with this guy, I just needed to feel something, then after what happened with us, I just got out of control and wanted to forgot, I know it was stupid and naïve of me to think I can fix everything with magic, when I know you can't, I just screwed up and I couldn't think of anything else and I just……" Chris trails off, for lack of oxygen and the tears are streaming down his face. Max pulls Chris on to his lap and into a tight hug, Max rubs circles on to his lower back.

"It's okay," he coos soothingly. Once the tears have stopped Chris pulls away looking into Max' Blue eyes.

"I need you to understand, I need to trust you," Chris states.

"You can, I'm you're Charge right?" he asks. Chris looks at him, nodding his head.

"Of course," he says with a cheeky smile.

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