9. Bound

His mind was foggy when he first woke up. However, when he saw Robin sleeping beside him he smiled. The blanket was pulled up to her chin, she was hugging Chris' arm that was under her neck and bent over her shoulder and she had a tight hold on the hand draped over her waist. One lock of hair had escaped from the rest and was sitting on the edge of her nose.

Looking at the clock Chris saw that it was 7:03am. For a Saturday it was too early. He started to go back to sleep but something on the floor caught his attention. Thrown all over the floor were Robin's jeans, top and green bra. Confused, Chris removed his hand from Robin's to lift the sheets. The girl was wearing one of his button up shirts and cotton boxer-shorts. He certainly didn't undress her the night previous so he concluded she must have gotten changed during the night when he was asleep.

He was just starting to dose when there was a crash and a scream from down stairs. Both occupants of the bed sat up and jumped out of bed, all sleep forgotten as they ran out of the room. They reached the fight in time to see a demon throw a fireball at Melinda. She blew the fireball up before Chris electrocuted him. With a snarl, the demon was vanquished.

"You alright, Mel?" asked Chris, walking down the last few steps into the foyer.

"Yeah, though my shoulder's cut," told the young girl.

"Go wake Wyatt up."

"They shouldn't attack so early!" whined Robin as Melinda followed Chris' instructions to go wake Wyatt seeing as Chris couldn't heal.

"They hope to catch us off guard. But they attacked Mel, not you. He didn't even look at you." Chris wrapped his arms around Robin's waist.

"I guess the treaties over."

"I guess so," agreed the green eyed boy. "By the way, you were wrong." He kissed her quickly. "I don't regret last night, nor blame you."

"Well, that's good."

Chris merely chuckled. He closed the gap between them and opened his mouth to speak. "I..."

"Hey," interrupted Piper, "Mel told me about the attack. So the treaties over? Well it was fun whilst it lasted." She walked down the stairs in her pyjamas and stopped when she saw the position her second son was in. His arms were tight around Robin, pulling her close, Robin's hands on Chris' upper arms. However, the way Robin smiled at Piper made her think nothing was to worry about. "How about I cook breakfast?"

"Fabulous idea!" exclaimed Robin, stepping out of Chris' embrace.

Piper smiled at the two as she walked down the steps and into the kitchen. The two teens followed and sat at the table. Robin put her feet up on Chris' legs as he rubbed her lower legs. The two sat in silence with Robin's head back against the back of the chair and Chris rubbing the girl's legs up and down. Neither of them noticed Leo come into the room until he spoke.

"Chris, when did you get a tattoo?" barked the ex-angel.

"A what?" asked Chris. "I don't have a tattoo."

Piper came over to find out what was going on. "Oh yes you do!" she said, looking at Chris' back.

Both teens jumped up and dashed into the living room. Chris turned his back on a mirror and looked over his shoulder. Both he and Robin gasped at the pentagram on Chris' shoulder blade, the same size as the one on Robin's wrist.

"How did it get there?" yelped Chris.

"Why didn't you tell me?" screamed Robin.

"Tell you what?" asked the teen boy.

"You don't know?" Robin looked disbelievingly at Chris before sighing and explaining, "That mark is a reminder. It appears after a Cousin has marked a person that loved a Cousin in a past life and didn't get a happy ending. It tells the Cousin that the person's heart belongs to another. Cousin's don't steal other people's lovers. The person with the mark gets another chance to fall in love with the Cousin. You have to find the Cousin that's a reincarnation of your love. You now will be able to know the name of every Cousin's past life."

"So I have to fall in love with a Cousin in this life, a pacific Cousin?" inquired Chris in a strained voice.

"Chris," Robin said softly. "If a mortal falls in love with a Cousin, it's eternal." She smiled with a dreamy happiness, her eyes shinning. "They're your ideal partner. No matter what, they will be beside you, helping you, listening, understanding you. It's the love that started the want for soul mates. Cousin's auras are chained with their ideal lover's one. Their souls are tide. Yours is chained to some mysterious cousin and that's what the mark tells you."

"Joy," stated Chris sarcastically. "So it won't go away?"

"Not until you find the Cousin, and she loves you back, though you don't have to get rid of it. The loving back should be easy... the finding not so much." Robin contemplated. "I'd have to check my book but I'm pretty sure you should have some memory of your past life."

"Well I don't."

"It'll come to you," assured Piper in a calm voice. "Just relax."

"No!" snapped Chris, making his parents look shocked. He never disobeyed them. "I don't want to love some mysterious Cousin, I want..." he clammed up.

"You want what, Chris?" questioned Leo, frowning in confusion.

"I want a normal life! Well at least a normal love life!"

Leo didn't believe Chris, he knew his son to well. He had made sure to get to know Chris, though he worried at times that he abandoned Wyatt a little.

"Well unless she's a half-breed you won't meet her unless I invite you to my world so you have plenty of time to think it over," reminded Robin.

That seemed to calm Chris down somewhat. "Good."

"Come on," said the Cousin, taking Chris' hand. "You need to relax." She led him back up to his room as the adults went back to the kitchen. When they got to Chris' room Robin flopped onto Chris' bed and picked up his sketch book. She found the last picture in his book, her! "Ahh, the time I wished to forget."

"I liked you like that," confessed Chris. "Though I do like you now too."

"Good to know," admitted Robin before Chris groaned. "What?"

"I have an assignment to do for Art. It has to be two pictures of the same thing but different. Showing change but not change." Chris looked at Robin who was lounging on his bed, one arm hooked on the headboard. Only one button on the top she was wearing was done up with a low cut cleavage showing and much of her stomach, her leg furthest from Chris was bent up with her other laying on the bed. "Hey, can I draw you like that. I can hand in both drawings of you and that can be my assignment."

"Like this?" Robin asked, nodding at the way she was sitting.

"It'll show your change," persuaded the male.

"Draw away, at least I don't have to move." Robin smirked at Chris as he grabbed a led pencil, a rubber and his sketch book.

"I like that expression too," added Chris.

He worked diligently for some time, taking care to get the old Robin that was still there, as well as the new. He blushed when it came to drawing her cleavage, which made her smirk grow. By the time his mother was calling that breakfast was ready, he only had to do the shading.

"Chris, put that away," demanded his mother.

"In a minute! I just want to finish."

Robin tried to keep an innocent expression as she caught Wyatt trying not to look at her clothing. She turned to the younger Halliwell male with a devilish expression. "You should always let the other person finish to, Chris, don't be selfish."

As the Twice Blessed choked on his food, Chris looked up at his friend with a grin. "Naughty!" He then looked down, finishing the last of the shading before looking at his work. He then moved it so Robin could see. "What do you think, beautiful?"

Her green eyes widened with surprise. "I... I didn't think it was possible for me to look anything but sexy."

"So you like it?" Chris asked, attempting to verify what she meant.

"Yes!" she declared.

"Show me!" demanded Melinda, edging forward to see before her brother turned the drawing in her direction. "Robin, you look gorgeous!"

Chris frowned at his sister's words. "Why wouldn't she? She always looks beautiful."

"Even before I left?" tested his friend.

"Always!"

Robin smiled shyly. "You're seriously the only one who calls me that."

"That's because everyone else judges you on how you eat," joked the teenager. "Honestly, you shovel it in."

"It's the magic," whined Robin, making Piper and Leo laugh, seeing as Paige used to say a similar thing. "I pack it in and store it for days.

"Like a camel," interjected Wyatt, getting dumbfounded looks off Chris and Robin.

"It's official," Robin said in mock-wonderment. "Chris, you're the sweet talker in the family. How Sad!"

Sorry it's been such a long time since I updated. I was trying to work with the plot then I got writers block. I have my fingers crossed that I can get some writing done in the two month holiday I have coming up from uni. R and R if you want.