Back in the future Chris had finished writing out the spell from Melinda's phone.
"Here, this is the spell she used. It hopefully will take you to when and where she is." Chris said.
"Great, then I'm all set."
"Just remember not to tell our family who you are. They barely trusted me back then. Your younger self only began to trust me after I helped rescue him from a group called The Order. They changed your morality so that good was bad and bad was good. I lost most of the family's trust after that because I screwed up and instead of continuing to lie to them I told them you were going to become evil. They thought I was just there to stop evil from getting to you, but telling them that you were the evil I was there to stop...Let's just say that conversation didn't go well. Telling them was an accident. So if they learn who you are, and see that you're obviously not evil, then they might turn on me and this future might become that one."
"Don't worry Chris. I won't let that future happen. I won't become that evil. I will save us both." Then Wyatt remembered what he was going to ask. "That reminds me. I need one more spell."
Chris raised an eyebrow.
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Meanwhile, at the manor in the past Chris was arguing with Melinda. "You're sure this baby Manticore isn't the one who turns Wyatt? I still contend we should vanquish it."
"Chris, trust me. He's not. He's Wyatt's best friend. His name will be Seth. He's an only child. It was always hard on his dad to find anyone who would accept Seth, but he's still trying to find someone who can love him and accept Seth. Even though Seth is in college now, Derek has always told us he'd never marry or continue to date anyone who can't accept Seth."
After it was all over, Piper gave Derek some of Wyatt's old clothes saying she wasn't going to have any more children. Melinda looked at Chris wishing they could tell Piper that she would have two more and they were standing right next to her.
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After learning of Bianca's attack Melinda rushed to Chris to be sure he was alright. She knocked on the door and hugged Chris as soon as he opened the door.
"Are you alright? We heard you were attacked by someone?" P.J. said.
"I'm fine."
"No you're not fine. Who attacked you and why? Don't lie to me like you did mom." Melinda said reluctantly, moving away so they could go in the room.
"What makes you think I lied to mom?" Chris asked, surprised.
"I heard mom describe the scene. This mystery girl was standing just a few inches in front of you with your back against the wall, her hand in your chest. You told mom you didn't know who attacked you and mom stupidly bought it. I don't. You can't claim not to know her. The Chris I know would never be caught in a vulnerable position like that if he didn't know the person. Plus the fact that mom didn't even know anything was wrong till she opened the door was another clue for me." Melinda said.
"She's right Chris. You would never let your guard down long enough for anyone to get that close to you, much less attack. You barely let me get close even now knowing and accepting I'm from another future." P.J. said.
"Who was she Chris?"
"My fiancé Bianca."
"Fiancé?"
"I guess that means we're not engaged in your world?"
"No you're not." Then she had a thought and said, "But I'm glad to see you found each other in both worlds."
P.J. didn't say anything but looked at Melinda like she was crazy. 'Mel, what are you doing? As far as I know Chris doesn't have a girlfriend and I've never heard of this Bianca woman before.'
'We can't tell him that. He might give up or something if he thinks he and this woman have no future. I don't want to shatter that. Would you want to go back to our world if you suddenly got memories of his world and say you learned Jacob, the boy you have a crush on, was your fiancé? But then you have to return to our world where he doesn't even know you exist.'
'No, you're right. I'll play along."
Melinda looked at Chris concerned. As she and P.J. were talking mentally Chris had checked out and started remembering the last time he and Bianca had been together.
"Chris are you alright?"
Snapping out of his daze he looked up and said, "Yeah I have to go."
"Go? Go where?" Melinda asked.
"I have to talk to her."
"Wait what do you mean talk to her? Mom said she blew her up."
"Bianca is a Phoenix witch. Mom only chased her away. It would take more than that to kill her."
"Wait, I've heard of them. They're assassins." P.J. said.
"You're engaged to an assassin who wants to kill you?"
"I don't think that's what she wants. Wyatt did something to change her. I have to talk to her." With that Chris orbed out.
"Should we follow him?" P.J. asked.
"I'd love to, but if we do we could risk Chris' safety. For now I'll stay here, and if he's not back in a half hour I'll call you and we can go after him."
"I don't have anything to do. I'll wait with you."
"Weren't you worried about Aunt Phoebe and her boyfriend?"
"Yeah, but I ran him off."
"How?"
"I went to the underworld and found a low level demon and beamed a rock at his head. Then beamed back to mom's boyfriend's place, and of course the demon followed. It threw a fireball at mom and she sent it back at him. Her boyfriend freaked out just like I knew he would and they broke up."
"I wish we could do the same thing to mom's boyfriend. If they don't break up soon and mom doesn't get back together with dad, both me and Chris will be in danger of ceasing to exist."
"We could try."
"No, if we did mom would catch on or Aunt Phoebe would. They already don't fully trust us. If both Aunt Phoebe and mom's boyfriend's were attacked by demons they might connect it and blame us or Chris. Right now they probably think it was just a random attack."
"Yeah you're probably right."
