Twisting the Truth
chapter 4
Another Cousin
Author's notes: I do not in any way shape or form own Charmed or anything related to it. I only own Prue's children; which are my OC's as well as Prue's grandchildren.
The sisters turned and watched as Prue sat up quickly. The eldest Halliwell sister moaned and held her head in her hands.
"Prue honey, are you okay?" Piper asked, all traces of anger had left her voice.
"Piper? Phoebe? Paige?" Prue said groggily, "It worked, I'm here, I'm really here." Prue let a small smile show under the crushing head pain.
"What's wrong Prue?" Phoebe asked.
"And how do you know my name?" Paige asked cautiously.
"I just have a major headache." Prue told them, "It'll pass eventually and I know your name Paige because I've watched you ever since my funeral up to 2006."
"So you're like future you?" Phoebe said.
"Yes, I'm from Chris's future." Prue said, "And Rei's."
"How do you know Chris?" Piper asked.
Prue hesitated for a moment before answering. "He was friends with my children."
"So he is a friend of the family?" Paige said.
"In the future yes," Prue said, "He's actually Wyatt's best friend."
"What?" Piper said momentarily stunned.
Leo walked into the attic at that moment with baby Wyatt in his arms.
"Hey, guys I heard voice's and I just came to see what was going on." Leo announced. "Prue, You're awake."
"So it seems." She smiled sadly.
"Are you okay?" Phoebe said worriedly.
"I'm fine Pheebs." She responded. "I need to See Chris and Rei though."
"They aren't here." Paige told her.
Prue met her youngest sister's gaze. "Well, Where are they?" She demanded.
"Chris orbed out with Rei and her daughters earlier." Leo informed the eldest Halliwell.
Prue stood up and almost fell over again. She was only stopped by Piper and Paige grabbing her arms to steady her. "Whoa easy there Prue, you were dead when you arrived here." Phoebe said, "You need to take some time to recover."
"I don't have the time." Prue insisted, "I really need to see and talk to Chris and Rei, and her daughters."
"Okay, I can understand, Chris and Rei, because they're fellow future people and all." Paige said, "But why her daughters?"
Prue hesitated for a brief second before coming up with an answer. "Well, she can't just leave her daughters all alone now can she." Prue reasoned. "Chris! Chris! Come on Chris! I need to talk to you, Rei and the girls!"
Chris sat up straight all of a sudden. "What's the matter Chris?"
"Mom, Aunt Prue, She's calling for us." Chris turned to look at her. "How is this possible? I thought you said Wyatt killed her?"
"He did... Or at least I thought he did." Purity replied.
"We have to go now." Chris said. He picked up Pat while Rei held Persee and Plena. He wrapped his free arm around his adoptive sister and orbed them to the attic of the Halliwell Manor.
They arrived in a swirl or light blue orbs in the middle of the attic.
"Prue?" Chris said momentarily stunned.
"Now is that any way to treat your Aunt and adoptive mother?" Prue said crossing her arms looking at Chris.
"What?!" The three current charmed ones and Leo said aghast.
Prue frowned. "You didn't tell them did you?"
Chris shook his head. He then placed Pat down on the floor to play with Plena and Persee; who Rei had moments ago let down.
"Tell us what?" Leo demanded.
Prue was about to answer when he youngest child and daughter threw her arms around her. "Mom, I thought he- I thought you were-" She sobbed.
"I know sweetie." Prue said sympathetically. She brushed a few stray locks of hair away from her daughter's forehead.
Purity was a feminine form of Prue's late husband Andrew Trudeau. She had his brown hair, but she got the wavy hair type from her mother. Her eyes were a pale light blue like her only other thing that showed she was Prue's daughter was her three distinct freckles that were in the same place on her face as her mothers.
"I missed you so much" She said.
"I missed you to baby." She held her daughter closely until her tears subsided.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be sweetheart." Prue said, "You have nothing to apologize for."
The sisters and Leo just stared at the scene before them. Rei had called Prue her mom. Gods how could they have missed it? She had the same freckles as her mother on the same places on her face. She had Andy's hair and eye colors but Prue's wavy hair type.
"She..." Piper's voice faltered for a moment, "She's your...daughter?"
Prue turned to her sisters and answered them. "Yes, Rei is her nickname. Her real name is Purity." She said her daughters given name. "She's my daughter, and these girls are my grandchildren."
"What about Chris?" Paige asked. "You said something about being his mother?"
"She's like a 2nd mother to me." Chris cut in. "I was best friends with Purity and Wyatt."
"That makes sense I guess." Leo said. The three charmed ones nodded in acceptance of this fact.
"Thank god, they bought it." Chris thought
"You're going to have to tell them eventually, Chris." Rei, Purity, responded to his thoughts.
"Get out of my head Rei!" He shot back.
"Why should I?" She replied. "You know I can't believe they didn't see it before. You have your mom's hair color and your father's eyes."
"Well, that's the only things they ever gave me." Chris replied bitterly.
"Chris, maybe if you told them-"
"No."
"Chris-"
"I said no Purity!" He shouted using their telepathy link.
"Fine, fine." She grumbled, "But maybe things could change."
"Maybe, I don't want anything to change." Chris responded, "Did you ever think of that? They hate me! They kicked me out of the house. Said I wasn't family, and they don't trust me at all!"
"Well, maybe you should erase the phrase future consequences out of your vocabulary." Purity replied. After a moment of thought, "Wait a minute they did what?!"
"It doesn't matter Rei. I expected as much."
"You kicked him out of the house?!" Rei screeched at her past family members.
"You did what?!" Prue said furiously joining in.
"Hey, Piper did it not us." Paige said.
"How could you do that to him?!" Prue demanded anger filled her voice.
"He let a demon near my son." Piper argued, "He lied to us constantly, He had the nerve to say that my son was evil in the future."
Rei shook her head sadly, Her Aunt still had not accepted the fact that Wyatt their precious twice blessed son was the Source of all evil in the future. Even though she seemed to have earlier.
"He is evil!" Prue told them angrily, "Did you ever wonder how I got these wounds?"
"How?" Piper said still furious at her older sister.
"You're precious twice blessed son, Also known as the source of all evil in the future, Lord Wyatt." She spat, "Did this to me. He made me watch as he killed my eldest daughter and two of my sons; because he deemed them worthless, Pathetic, not powerful enough." Prue spat again.
"NO!" Piper said still in denial shaking her head. "Not my son."
"You really think I would lie to you, Piper?" Prue shook her head. "I wish I was lying. I wish that your son hadn't turned out to be the destroyer instead of the savior of magic and the world. I wish he hadn't killed three of my granddaughters and my two grandsons. I wish none of this had ever happened. I wish."
"He wouldn't," Piper stammered, "He'd never."
"Oh he would and he did." Prue laughed bitterly. "Do you know what it's like to be forced to watch your children, Grandchildren, and husband die? I couldn't do anything to save them. The Great Prue Halliwell, the most powerful Charmed one there ever was couldn't save her family." Tears entered her eyes and blurred her vision. "I couldn't save any of you, any of our family, and I hate myself for that."
"You blame yourself." Phoebe said suddenly. She was beginning to get a read on her eldest sister.
"Of course I blame myself Phoebe." She spat, "I'm the eldest, I supposed to protect you all. To stop you from making mistakes."
"It's not your fault honey." Phoebe said knowing what she meant. "I made the choice it wasn't your fault."
"I was supposed to be there to protect you." She cried.
"I made my descion, Prue." Phoebe said, "It's not your fault. It never was. I chose him over our family and that was my mistake not yours."
Phoebe held her eldest sister while she cried.
During the scene Chris orbed out leaving the family to themselves. He wasn't welcome there anyways. After all he wasn't family. Chris thought bitterly.
What he wouldn't give to have loving biological parents and Aunts. His Uncle Andy and Aunt Prue were the only ones always there for him, besides their children and his bio brother Wyatt. Leo never cared about him. His mother cared sometimes. She at least made the effort to take care of him. She at least tried to be there for him. It just wasn't enough in the end.
Chris sat down on the golden gate bridge at the very top. He let his shield fall for the time being. After all it wouldn't matter, no one was there to see him lose it. "If I wasn't here tomorrow, would anybody care?" Chris thought to himself. He let his tears fall. Soon after sobs racked through his entire body as he sat there enveloped in his misery.
"Chris."
He looked up and saw the last person he expected to see.
"Ben?" He wiped away the tears from his eyes. "What are you doing here?"
"What? Can't a guy come to the past and check on his little cousin?"
"No."
"Well, then." The half demon replied. "This is akward."
Chris snorted at his attempt to start a conversation. "Why aren't you in the future where you're supposed to be?"
"Harsh man." Ben commented feeling a little bit hurt at his younger cousin's statement.
Chris sighed, he seemed to be doing that action a lot lately. "I'm sorry, Ben. I'm just so tired of all of this."
"All of what?"
"This, everything," Chris said trying to keep from falling apart. "Keeping my real identity a secret, lying to them, pretending that all the things they've done to me haven't hurt. I don't know if I can do this anymore."
"Of course you can Chris," Ben said, trying to reassure his cousin. "You're the strongest person I know."
"Yeah right." He laughed bitterly. "I can't even save Wyatt by myself. How am I strong?"
"You may not be physically strong-"
"Thanks for the boost of confidence Cous." Chris snorted.
"I wasn't finished yet Christopher." Ben said pointedly. "You may not have as many powers as Wyatt and you may not have physical strength but, you're cunning and smart. You use your head, unlike most people."
"You mean like you?"
"Yeah... hey!" He blurted out offended. "Wait a minute."
Chris burst out laughing at his cousins expression. Chris fell over laughing and if Ben hadn't grabbed him at that moment he would have surely fallen over the edge.
"Watch out there Chris." Ben pointed out, "You almost became A Chriscake." When Chris gave him a confused look Ben continued. "You know like a Pancake only you.." He trailed off, "Just forget it." Ben sighed dramatically. "My humor is wasted on you."
"Hey!" Chris cried indignantly, "I do have a sense of humor."
"Oh yeah?" Ben said.
"Yes, I do." Chris remarked, "I just don't have the time for all of this... Humor, laughing, jokes, I have the world's fate on my shoulders literally."
"Well, that's why I'm here." Ben told him, "To help you."
"What about Beth?"
"She decided to stay behind and help Coop with the kids."
"I see." Chris said thoughtfully.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing."
"It's not nothing Christopher." Benjamin shot back, "I can read you like an open book remember?"
"I remember."
"Talk to me Chris, What's bothering you?"
"I don't have time for this."
"Well, I don't care." he told him, "YOu are going to sit down and talk to me about what the hell has made you so mopey."
"I am not mopey!" Chris cried out.
"Yes, you are, You look like your about to start crying again at any minute."
"I just-" Chris took a deep breath, "They hate me, All of them."
"Who?"
"Leo, Piper, Phoebe and Paige." He said brokenly, "They all hate me."
"That's not true."
"Yes it is. Piper threw me out of the house, Leo beat me up, Paige and Phoebe think of me as some sort of monster. I can't take it anymore." Chris finally broke down.
"THEY DID WHAT?!" The Demon/Witch/Source yelled angrily. "I'm going to kill them." He muttered darkly.
Chris looked at his cousin's eyes and saw that they were black like Coal(no pun intended). "Ben snap out of it." Chris demanded.
"They won't get away with hurting you Christopher." Benjamin promised. "I'll make sure of it." He flamed away. Chris scurried up from where he was sitting and orbed after his cousin hoping he would get there before too much damage was done.
Author's notes: I hope you enjoy reading this. If at anytime you feel like this story is being rushed please let me know and I'll try my best to slow it down.