Twisting the Truth
Chapter 2
Trying to avoid the truth
Author's notes: I don't own charmed in any way shape or form. Only my OC's Prue's children.
Chris sighed heavily. How was he going to get out of this situation?
"Do you mind if I sit down first?" His cousin asked. "I feel a little light-headed."
"Sure, no problem Sweetie." Phoebe responded. She pulled out a chair and helped her sit down.
"Thanks Au- Phoebe-" she cut herself off when she realized what she had begun to say.
Chris sighed, at this rate his identity would be blown in no time. Purity was like their Aunt Phoebe in that way. She could never keep a secret from anyone. Purity shot him a quick look as if to say that she was sorry.
Chris gave her a small smile and she knew that all was forgiven. He had grown up with her. She was his best friend out of all of their cousins. They were also the same age with Purity being born a few months after him. Chris shot her another look. "I'll handle this Rei don't say anything". He said using telepathy.
"Alrighty then." She responded back with their telepathy link.
"Would someone please explain what is going on?" Piper said crossing her arms.
Chris sighed before speaking. "This is my cousin Rei." He told them, "She's from my future. She came back to help me save Wyatt."
"I thought you said he was evil in the future?" Phoebe said.
"He is, We're saving him from turning evil." Chris responded.
"Why did she call us her aunts then?" Paige demanded.
"She...We" Chris quickly corrected himself. "We grew up around your kids. You were like family to us."
The sisters nodded accepting his little white lie. This was almost to easy.
"Why did you come back? Why not one of us? Or another family member?" Piper asked.
A hurt look overcame Chris's face but he quickly covered it up. "You're not around in the future."
"We're dead in the future aren't we?" Paige realized.
Chris and Rei gave their future family members sympathetic looks.
Just at that moment Leo orbed in. "Blessed be."
"Blessed be my ass." Rei responded.
"Who are you?" Leo asked when he saw her.
"That's none of your concern, Leo." She spat.
"How do you know my name?" The Elder replied suspiciously.
"Rei, I love you but please... shut up!" Chris said using their telepathy link.
"I'm sorry I can't help it. It just makes me so mad to see him; especially with how he treated you in the future." She said venomously.
"I know, but please Rei, let me handle all of this."
"Fine."
The sisters watched the two cousins curiously. They seemed to be having a conversation with only using their facial expressions.
"She's from the future." Chris finally answered the Elder's question. "This is my Cousin Rei."
"I thought you said you didn't have any family, Chris." Leo said. His voice was filled with suspicion.
"No, actually I told you guys I never got to know mine. Big difference there." Chris responded.
"So you lied to us." Leo stated.
"Not, really," Rei butted in. "His immediate family, his parents, were never around. Only his brother was there for him; besides my family of course."
"Rei, I told you to let me handle this." He said. Rei crossed her arms but sat down on the chair and went silent. Chris took a breath before continuing. "What she said was true. My parents weren't around. They were always fussing over my older brother. They didn't have the time for me. Rei's parents took me in and they became my new family."
"I'm so sorry Chris." Paige said sincerely.
"Well," He shrugged, "It is what it is."
...
A cry emitted from the living room. Chris and Rei rushed into the conservatory. They found a bunch of demons surrounding the playpen where Wyatt had his force field protecting himself and Rei's daughters along with the crystal cage.
'Get the hell away from my daughters!" Purity fumed. She felt her body shifting and she became a tiger and slashed all the demons to smithereens. She shifted back and ran to her children to check on them. "Are you okay darlings?" She asked picking up her two youngest daughters and hugging them tightly. Chris picked up the eldest of the girls. Pat the one that was five.
"You're a mother?" Leo said.
"Yes, got a problem with that?" She snapped.
"Rei, calm down okay?" Chris said. "It's not good for the baby."
"I know," She said forcing herself to calm down.
"You're pregnant?" Piper responded.
"Yes, I am." Purity replied, "With my fourth daughter."
"Congrats Sweetie." Phoebe smiled.
"Thanks Phoebe." She said.
"Why are you even here Leo?" Piper said turning to her ex-husband.
"The Elders sensed a power shift here in the manor." He told them.
"What kind of power shift?" Paige questioned.
"A powerful one."Leo said, "They aren't sure whether it's good or evil yet."
"How can they not know?" Phoebe said.
"I-" Leo began but was cut off by the future woman.
"Because the Elders never know anything and we're always left to find things out for ourselves." Purity said.
"I take it you don't like the Elders very much?" Piper said amused.
"Are you kidding? I hate them!" Rei declared, "When the world goes to hell in the future they just shut themselves off from us. They leave us to take care of ourselves and find a way to survive."
"Rei, that's enough." Chris ordered.
"Well, it's true." She mumbled before going completely silent.
"Mommy?" Her eldest daughter Pat, in Chris's arms asked,
"Yes sweetie?"
"Why is Uncle Wy so mean?"
"A bad person made him become mean and Uncle Chris and I have to find out who so we can save him."
"Oh, okay." She said.
"Uncle Wy?" Piper said.
"Wyatt is my best friend." Chris replied. "We were closer than brothers, that's why they refer to him as Uncle Wy, or Uncle Wyatt."
"Why do I get the feeling that you're not telling us everything?" Leo responded.
"I have no idea." Chris said trying to not sound sarcastic.
"What are you hiding from us Chris?" Leo demanded.
"Well, wouldn't you like to know." Chris snarked before turning back to his cousin. "Come on Rei let's get out of here." He held Pat with one arm while he wrapper his other arm around his cousin and orbed out with his cousin and her daughters.
"What was that all about?" Paige asked.
"I don't know." Phoebe replied, "But Chris felt very protective of Rei and her daughters."
"Well, he said that her family took him in after his parents neglected him." Paige pointed out.
"Well, I think it's more than that." Phoebe said, "They had some sort of bond, Almost like a brother and sister, but at the same time a bond like a cousin."
"What do you mean?" Leo asked the Empath.
"I don't know." Phoebe said, "It's really hard to read Chris. Most of the time I can't. But when his emotions are really strong I can feel them. Like when he saw Rei and her girls in the attic when they arrived. I felt this overwhelming sense of relief and at the same time love."
"So this is where you've been staying?" Rei said looking at the back room of p3. "This place is a dump!"
"Don't let Piper here you say that or she'll kick you out." Chris responded.
"I doubt it. She wouldn't kick out a mother and her children." Rei said.
"You're probably right." Chris agreed.
"They don't know do they?" She asked sitting next to her cousin/Best friend/ Brother.
"Know what?"
"Who you really are? You're true identity."
"No,"
"Why didn't you tell them?"
"What was I supposed to say?" He said standing up after placing Pat on the couch. "Hi, My name Is Christopher Perry Halliwell, I'm Leo and Piper's second son from the future. I came back to save my older brother Wyatt from becoming a homicidal maniac and the source of all evil/Evil overlord of the entire world!"
"Well, when you put it that way..." She trailed off.
"Besides it wouldn't have changed anything." He said, "They would've still ignored me and favored Wyatt like they always did."
"You don't know that." She told him, "Maybe things will be different this time around?"
"I doubt it." Chris scoffed, "Besides, why would I want anything to change, I have two amazing adoptive sisters, four amazing adoptive brothers, amazing adoptive parents and an amazing biological brother. Why bother to change anything?"
Rei shook her head sadly at her cousin and adoptive brother. "It still hurts though, That they weren't there for you I mean."
"Why would it?"
"Chris-"
"I don't need them, I never have and I never will." Chris changed the subject, "How are Mom and Dad? You didn't mention anything about them when you arrives."
"They're dead Chris." She said tearfully. "Wyatt killed them."
"That son of a-"
"Chris the kids." She said gesturing to them playing on the floor next to them
"Charmed one." He inserted instead. "I'll make him pay."
"Chris you know you won't be able to go through with it. He's your brother."
"Not anymore he's not."
"Chris-" She began again only to be cut off by her Cousin.
"Are you saying that you don't want him to pay for their deaths?" He demanded.
"I'm not saying that Chris. I'm saying we need to be smart about this. Besides If we save Wyatt we save them remember?" She said putting a hand on his shoulder. "If he doesn't turn evil then Mom and Dad won't die."
Chris's anger dissipated and he let out another sigh. "You're right, I'm sorry."
"It's okay to be upset about their deaths Chris." She said, "You're only human."
"Right." He responded scoffing.
"I'm serious Chris." She insisted, "You can't keep shutting off your emotions."
"Oh yeah, because I've done it ever since I got here." He informed her.
"It's not good for you to do that."
"Well Wyatt comes first remember." Chris said bitterly. "Just like he always does."
In the Dark Unchanged Future... In the dungeons.
"Hello Aunt Prue." Wyatt said smiling, "Ready to give up yet?"
"Go to hell Wyatt!" She spat.
"You know your daughter said the same thing when she was here earlier."
"Rei?" Prue questioned, "Where is she?"
"She's safe. But I can't say the same for Kat, Charlotte, and Michael."
"You bastard!" She shouted.
"You know you just insulted my mother and father; Your own sister and brother-in-law. That wasn't very nice Aunt Prue."
"I'll kill you Wyatt, I'll kill you for what you've done!"
"I doubt you could Aunt Prue."
"They were your cousins!"
"They turned against me." He argued, "besides they were all stuck in that Good versus evil nonsense. They couldn't be saved."
"Well, what about me? Why haven't you killed me yet?"
"You're a powerful Witch Aunt Prue. You were always the most powerful out of all four charmed ones. I want you to join me."
"Never!"
"Not even to save your last two remaining sons? And their families?"
"You'll just kill them anyways." Prue retorted, "Just like you did Priscilla, Peter, and Poul."
"They were weak and insignificant." Wyatt replied, "Not like Phillip and Patrick. Their powers are unique and uncommom, as well as their children.
"So you want them to join you too?"
"If you join me, I have Faith that they'll follow your example and join me as well."
"How?" Prue demanded, "They think that you killed me along with Andy."
"I have my ways." Wyatt smiled before leaving, "Think on my offer Aunt Prue I'll be back later." He paused at the door before exiting.
Author's notes: I hope you enjoy this. I enjoy hearing your thought and comments. If I can do anythign to improve this let me know.