Phoebe came back and held out her hand to P.J. who took it and said, "Sorry, Hi, I'm Phoebe and you are?"
"I'm P.J. and this is Melissa."
"P.J.? So what does it stand for?" Suspicious. After all these girls show up out of nowhere and despite their claims of denial she could tell that they were both lying about not knowing Chris and although she couldn't read Chris' emotions she could read both his facial expressions which was usually a mask seemed to slip a little with these girls and his body language both of which said that he didn't seem to know or trust either of them.
"It doesn't stand for anything. That's just my name. P.J." It wasn't a complete lie. Several family members did call her P.J. Others, like friends and teachers at school called her Prue and Melinda, Chris, Wyatt and some of the other cousins tended to call her Ladybug like her mother. Her Aunt Piper for some reason though always called her Little Phoebe.
"I'd like to stick around and talk more but I promised to meet up with Jason." Phoebe said before leaving.
Paige sighed, "I'll go make us some tea."
"I'm going to put Wyatt down for a nap. Then I'll be back and we can talk more." Piper agreed. With nothing more than a glare sent Chris' way Leo went with her.
Once Chris was sure that Paige, Piper and Leo were out of earshot, he looked at P.J. and asked, "Did Wyatt send you? I didn't think he'd trust you on a mission to try to get me back, but I'm telling you now I'm not going back."
Melinda and P.J. thought he was crazy. They remembered Paige said something about a demon or something after Wyatt. They now wished they'd paid more attention to the stories of Chris' time in the past since neither can remember why he was in the past, though they seriously doubted it was just some random demon hurting Wyatt.
Melinda, wanting to reassure herself that Chris was fine, walked over to him and hugged him, noticing the way he stiffened up and didn't hug her back. Sure her brothers weren't big on hugs from their kid sister but they rarely rejected her, especially after something like this. Nor do they act like they've never been hugged before like Chris currently was.
"What do you think you're doing?" Chris growled, not used to hugging many people. The last person he hugged was Bianca before he came here.
"I'm giving my big brother a hug, silly. I was so worried about you. It scared me to death seeing you laying there with a darklighter arrow that you pulled out of yourself."
She was surprised when Chris pushed her away. But before anyone could react Paige walked in and set the tray down. "Did you just say that Chris was your brother?"
"What?" Piper exclaimed as she and Leo returned. Chris sighed thinking now that Leo was back he'd happily parade him in front of the Elders with his so-called proof that he was the one who sent him to Valhalla, and he'd be lucky to get out with just his whitelighter powers stripped, if not shipped home to Wyatt. He'd never learn what these girls were really doing here or why one seems to be under the delusion she was his sister. Even worse Piper, Paige and Leo heard this silly girl spout off she was his sister and will start accusing him of lying, when he'd honestly never seen the stupid girl before in his life.
"I can't believe you. You lied to us, again."
"First, I didn't lie to you about my family; I just never told you anything about them. Second, this girl is delusional. I don't have and never will have a sister." He knew they'd never think to ask how he could be sure he'd never get one. Kinda hard to get one when your mother's been dead for 8 years.
"That's not a nice thing to say to your sister." Paige said.
Chris growled, "What part of I don't have a sister wasn't clear?!"
"Well she seems to think so." Paige said as she saw P.J. holding Melinda.
"I don't care what she seems to think. Hell, I'm willing to let you cast a modified truth spell if that's what it will take to convince you!" He put the word modified in there as he didn't want to be under its effects for 24 hours. He'd end up forced to spill way too many secrets.
"Alright Chris, we believe you." Piper said. She felt if he was willing to allow even a modified truth type spell to be cast on him concerning this girl, then he had to be telling the truth since he'd never offered a suggestion like that before.
"So why are you here?" Piper asked, turning her attention to the girls.
"Yeah Mel, tell her what happened."
"It's not all my fault!" Mel defended. However, seeing the look on her cousin's face she sighed, "Fine, maybe it is. My older brothers are always going on demon hunts without me. So I wanted to prove myself as not just the useless kid sister, so I went to hunt for a medium level demon that I could vanquish with the right potions."
She glanced at Chris' direction and saw no sign that he was upset, which she thought was strange given how mad this would normally make him. Then she remembered he didn't know her. She slumped and continued, "But we ran into a different demon and I felt I could still take him out after he ran away from us."
Piper glared at the girl, "Didn't your parents teach you that demons don't run from fights unless it's to get backup? It was likely a trap."
"Thank you," P.J. said smugly. Seeing the look Piper was giving her she said, "I told her that same thing! She ignored me and went after him anyway! He led us to a cave and I couldn't beam us out when she couldn't vanquish him. The demon even admitted to leading us there so we couldn't."
"So how did you end up here?" Leo asked.
"I said a spell to get us out and the next thing you know we're in that cave." Melinda answered.
"We're from the future too." P.J. said.
"Then you're here to help Chris?" Paige asked.
"Since we're here we'll be happy to help, but if you're asking if we came with the intention of helping, then no, and seeing as he doesn't seem to know us, I think we're from a different future than the one Chris is from." P.J. said
Chris decided to change the subject, "Isn't it almost time for my hearing with the Elders. I thought you'd like to take me in personally."
"What? What did you do?" Melinda asked worriedly.
Leo was already close to losing his nerve. At first after learning about Melinda he was ready to go through with it despite Piper's guilt trip. But despite his mistrust of Chris there was too much emotion in his voice when he denied knowing the girl. Leo didn't need to be an empath to see that Chris really didn't seem to know her. Plus the offer of the truth spell only proved that. So, he ignored Melinda and went ahead as planned and handed Chris the Valkyrie pendant, "Maybe I'll just give you this instead."
"I don't understand."
"Neither do I. Just take it before I change my mind." Leo said, orbing out.
"Well what now? I mean I have no idea how we're going to get home." Melinda said.
"Plus nowhere to stay." P.J. added.
"I guess I can bunk with Phoebe, and the girls can share my room."
Piper wasn't crazy about having more future people around, but at the same time she couldn't throw the girls out on the street. "Fine, but just until we can find a way to get you home. You wouldn't happen to remember the spell you used to get here do you?"
"No, sorry." Melinda said.
"No it's fine, that would be too easy." Piper said. "Paige, maybe between you and Phoebe you can find some clothes to fit them, theirs are dirty."
Paige smiled, "Let's go girls."
"Wait, what about Chris?" Melinda asked.
"None of your business." Chris growled.
"Chris, be nice. Maybe where you're from she's not your sister, but obviously you are in hers. He's staying at P3."
"Where you can't go!" Chris said.
"What? Why not?" Paige asked.
