Saving My Family
Disclaimers: The show and characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me everything else belongs to the creator and the movie company.
Chapter 13: Family Discussions, Messages and Explanations
"I better set up a bank account this way I've got money to pay for clothes and furnish my bedroom now that I'm living at home again." he said and he smiled. "Well if you're living at home, I'm setting up a living allowance in your case kiddo, though with the fact you started college in the fall this time, you're going to be rotating your at home school between our issues with demon battles and everything else." Leo said to him smiling.
"So like anything else we can rotate everything, but with your mother at work, stay with her and I'm starting work on Monday Chris, so whatever situations in our department we got, I'll let you know." Andy added to him and he nodded to the request. "Well if these situations become a normal routine between us, I can expect life to get a heck of a lot better now that our family is intact for now, before we get the final piece added it to it."
"As to that, once baby moves in, I'm going big brother if something, or someone, starts aggravating the girls, since I watched Phoebe grow up. Though some past boyfriend shows up and starts acting like masoschistic bastard than I'm getting Darryl and we're arresting him if he does anything to hurt you son. Leo is the only one I consider my brother-in-law and if it's a mortal than I'm really going to be pissed." he added firmly.
Before he could answer they heard a crash as something got knocked off the counter at the bar. "Rick watched it, or you're going to have someone get hit by a broken glass." they heard her bartender say over the noise. "Here we go again." Piper said and Prue nodded as she called out to their employees. "For gods sakes here, that better not be another troll, well I'd better adjust a few things in the bar, so nobody gets glass stuck in their hands. Derek, what caused in this time?" Prue called out and they looked at her.
"The glass went flying off the counter and I barely managed to catch it Prue, before it hit the floor." he called back and they nodded. "Alright with the fact my nephew is working here as well for a part time job this coming summer, I'm adding soda, whatever type the sixteen and older kids like, to the supplies, chips and pretzels. Two: to prevent anymore broken glasses, we're buying plastic ones that are machine washable to prevent that from happening again, three: we put a few glass windows around the liquor bottles."
"And them into a supply case, when we close for the night, and finally, as the cop in the family now. I'm setting up an age policy on our customers regarding the drinks as of now, the limit is two for alcohol, but refills for everything else. But the alcohol is the same as every law we got here. Rick, I want you to check the driver's license, if they come to the bar, if we got juniors in high school coming to the club, alright." Andy called out and they all nodded to the orders as Piper smiled at his take charge manner then.
As he looked at him, he walked to their table. "Check the age on the buyer, before giving it to them huh?" he asked and Andy nodded. "Yeah exactly, our age requirement is sixteen and older for admittance in here, for the alcohol it's 21 and older. We close down at eleven and if these kids got a curfew we get them a cab, if one of them tricked you into giving them alcohol. Though they try that and I'm the one bringing them home."
"Rick get a personnel sheet coming in when we got customers younger than my brother walking in the door, to prevent these kids from getting arrested, I want their names and ages, and keep the sheet at the bar by the cash register. I'm starting a new requirement list here and we're making sure nobody lands themselves behind bars, for whatever reason, if they're working towards a scholarship." Leo said and the man nodded and left.
"You're the cop, I'm the field medic, but at we least got each other as brothers in the house man." Leo said and Andy nodded in agreement to that. "That's the truth, you and I are running the household with the girls at the moment. But starting now we got to train her to control her powers and help him train to be a whitelighter now. With one of those dates in the case of her honeymoon and yours, Piper, Leo."
"Prue and I are staying at home and we can babysit baby and Chris that way, so don't worry, we got it under control. Baby and we can develop our bond deeper, if she has concerns regarding Cole she can tell us and it's less likely to turn out whatever way it did in this season, if he gets possessed by the maniac. As for normal factors in the house when you guys need a date night or need more time as a couple, we're here."
"At this rate, with my being a cop I can tell if that the license is a fake or not after this, so the kid passes them a fake I.D.. And I'm giving the kid a firm no in answer to that, though with Darryl being the only cop aside from me that's connected to you guys, it's less likely to turn into a fiasco now here in the club. But we get any buyers involved in sprucing up the place, I'm not changing the name here." he said and Prue smiled at him.
"Nice touch honey that definitely works now, ever since we opened up the club we spent nearly every night up here, we set up a few rules, but there's been a bar fight or two that results in Darryl needing to show up to arrest them." Prue said to him and he nodded to that. "Well with my being here with you every night, another one breaks out and I'm going to have to arrest the perp, before he drinks himself under the table."
"Though the customers hearing they got a cop as another owner of the club, they're going to know that any outburst, drunken or otherwise, is going to get them five hours in the drunk tank at the E.R. if they over do it. And I wasn't kidding son, with you being barely eighteen years old, it's soda, fruit juice, lemonade, milk or water only. We got four years, before you're allowed near the alcohol, okay." he said and Chris nodded to him.
"You better add the Welch's sparking grape juice and flavored water to that list guys, because compared to the other things, that grape juice is as close to champagne for a teenager as you can get it." he said and they nodded in agreement to that. "Alright in my next supply list inventory, I'm adding that and multiple bottles of flavored water to it, Shirley temples, and anything that is considered non alcoholic for your age group."
"But no teenager is getting near the beer, rum, vodka or anything else if they're under twenty years old, though you're legally adult at eighteen years old there's still requirements for everything here. So eighteen is legally adult in the club, but twenty one is when you're allowed to start drinking. Though with you being my son, it's four years for you kiddo, but starting tomorrow night, you got a job here." Leo said and he nodded.
"I'm working here for a part time job, alright, I'm starting my first year of college in the fall and I'm rotating that with my job as witch/lighter. And not to mention I'm living at home with my parents who are just barely ten years older than I am in this time frame, though it's going to work, because of our alibi. Well if that's not enough to turn a few heads, nothing is right now." Chris said to him and he started laughing at that.
"Yeah well whatever routine you guys got into after you all moved in together and I came into your life three years ago, girls, you better adjust it again. So whatever baby's perks are we ensure that she's able to work comfortably with you, with her being, up till now, an only child. As to that with us being married and Prue being the next member of the family to marry though we're doing the wedding, before she marries that maniac."
"And with those words in mind we got to expand the kitchen table, though lucky thing I'm a carpenter and handyman, aside from a field medic. So whoever out of us shares the responsibilities in the house, we work as one to have it running smoothly and I can add the new wings to the house and turn our walk in closet into a nursery, after widening it up a bit more later." Leo said to him and he nodded in agreement to that.
"You know mom, once you're retired, we can keep this as another business, once you open your own restaurant in seven years." Chris said and she smiled. "So one business to act as a nightly get away, the other being the family funds, while the girls and I live normal lives and then once you're at the age you are, you and your brother, sister and cousins take over after that." she said, before looking at Andy and Prue.
"Alright I'm making it clear now though, but until we retire in five years, we all live under the same roof, in order to balance out both sides of us. So we take turns in needing time off, one of us needs a break, we got another sister to pick up the slack. Baby in your case, you're with me this summer when I'm preparing for the next few themes here in the club, and then balance out your schedule between all three things."
"And guys you're swapping off your rotation in being the family whitelighter, okay." she said and they all nodded to the orders. "That definitely works now, we balance out both sides of us by each getting some time off and that just makes the bond of our sisterhood deeper after that." Prue said and they nodded to that, before they could answer they heard a fight break out. "Come on, I'm not asking for much, just give me a refill." they heard and then heard the answering remark.
"Uh oh, looks like someone objected to Uncle Andy's new policy." Eric said and Victor stood up to get a better look. "Damn it, this kid is 17 and he's loaded, great my age was serious where said drinking was concerned, but how many times we got to arrest these guys. Richard, make clear he calms down now, or I'm getting my version of Andy and Darryl, Alex and Derek up here?" he called out and the bartender nodded to him as he looked at the boy sternly as he said it then.
"Great the Chief is not going to like this, my age group was one thing, you're our parents, but this kid, it's grandparents." Piper said and he nodded sternly in agreement. "Don is my age group, if he was the chief of police he hears this debate day in and day out with the cadets. But I may not be a soldier, but so what, the policies don't change, just because a drunken teenager wants them to and speaking of which, these last two years get rewritten, Quake was part time."
"You were just using that till you gained enough to pay for the club, after that we had two years making the club work out, you and Leo got married last year. But if Dan can't take being in a relationship to a witch, then he's clearly not the right one. But Andy and me, we did and we would never give this up for anything, but magic is part of your life baby. I may not like it, but I accepted it with your mother and I do you." he said and she nodded smiling as he said it firmly.
"Your grandmother, if she was still alive, would not take this well, if I was the owner of the community pool, after someone was nearly killed by the pool drain. After getting beyond drunk to the point, he doesn't realize the damn cover of that pool drain is not covering it. But that's a very good way to kill someone by either drowning or being disemboweled." he said and the twins nodded as Andy and Leo both stood up as they waited for said altercation to start then.
"My orders are only two for the alcohol, now calm down." The man said to the teenager then. "Hey I'm not a teenager, now come on." they heard and then heard a firm remark from Eric at that as he answered him. " Young man, if you continue with this, I'm going to have to ask you to leave, but we have our orders and you're drunk, so enough is enough, and with that fact in mind, I'm not giving you another glass, if you want something to drink I'll get you some water, but that's it no alcohol." he said to him sternly then
"Look son I'm sorry, but I have my orders, the limit is only two in alcohol, hey just calm down." They heard her bartender say as they heard a loud crash and Andy and Leo both stood up at that. "Hey I'm not asking for water, I want another glass!" they heard and they exchanged looks at that. "Oh boy here it comes, girls stay over here." Leo said and they nodded as they walked over. "Derek what's the problem exactly?" Andy asked and he sighed in relief at their coming to the counter then.
"He's asking for another glass, but he's passed the safety limit and whatever he's on is reacting to the level of ethanol in his system." he said and they both looked at him. "How many did he have to cause this exactly, he's in the danger zone?" Leo asked looking at him in concern. "I don't think it's what I gave it him, if he brought contraband in here, than he's drunk himself under the table." he said and he said it for both of them.
"Aw shit, alright call paramedics and my partner, get them up here, now, if he's on speed, than its interacting with it, he's needs to be in the hospital." Andy said and looked at the victim. "Sir I'm sorry, but as the family cop, I'm inputting this into our requirements, starting now the limits only two as of now, so calm down now." he said and he saw the look in his eyes get worse.
"What right do you have to put this on your customers exactly." he asked and Leo answered that. "We're not risking a lawsuit, because our customers got into a car accident for being inebriated, I'm only giving you one warning, calm down now, or we're arresting you now, before the paramedics get here." he said to him sternly and he took a swing at him. "Eric give me a hand here, everyone get back!" Andy shouted out to them and they nodded quickly.
Backing up, they watched as the fight got worse, before two Samaritans got involved, before Darryl, the chief, and the two inspectors arrived and working together they got him to the floor and he put the handcuffs on him. "What the hell was that about guys?" The chief asked and he sighed. "We got a twenty one year old who's both inebriated and on drugs, when I gave Derek my new orders, this kid lost his temper and I went to check it out."
"We told him our new policy and he lost his temper and took a swing at me, before two of our customers gave us a hand and you arrived." Leo told him and he nodded. "Alright son, calm down now." he said sternly as two paramedics arrived and they got him on a stretcher as she looked at the duffle bag lying on the floor and opened it to find a multitude of drugs. "Jesus Christ, he's speedballing Andy, alright get him in the emergency room and call his parents to the hospital, they need to know this." Prue said and they nodded.
"What's the drugs exactly, we arrested the drug dealer that Williamson attacked and she was recovered from the arroyo fever?" Darryl asked her and she did a count. "Speed, crack, heroin and two others that are considered illegal, I think whoever this kid is getting it from it just resulted in us winding up needing to arrest them here again, if this drug dealer is at it again." she said to him and he nodded in agreement.
As the sextet left the bar, she signaled to Phoebe to let her and Drake know they were going home and they nodded to her as they left the room and Victor got into his car as they headed for their house. "What's going on exactly guys?" Darryl asked and he sighed. "We're doing it tonight with the fact that the chief arrived, I'm giving you a sneak peek of the reason I came to the past, but you're not going to like it, but first guys, I need seasons 3, 4, 5, and 6 here."
"A skilled cop figures in, that remark of keep your friends and family close, but your enemies closer here, so with that in mind!" he called out and two DVD packets appeared on the coffee table in front of them, as he and Eric exchanged looks and Eric nodded to him and he gave a nod, changing his mind then as he said it to him then. "Like I promised, we're doing it tonight, so time to get back to the manor." Chris said and thry nodded gently to him at that
"Okay, wait a minute these are when we came into each other's life, so the early starting point and when I learned your secret by accident?" Darryl asked and they all nodded to him. "We got season three and four, so we just make systematic changes in the sequence from now till we find the perp responsible for turning my son evil. Wyatt's not the reason for why the future is in danger, it's because whoever traumatized him is."
"As to that we figure out who it is then we deal with finding the perp and move forward from there." Piper said and then Chris closed his eyes as he reflected on something. 'Sometimes the enemy is closer than you think honey, it's the person you least expect, least expect.' he heard his aunt's voice echoing and he looked at his father. "Dad, do the elders all know I'm here and why I came to change the future, three years before it happens?" he asked and he nodded to answer him.
"Before I left, Aunt Prue said something about a good being being the reason he turned after he was traumatized, so we just wait till he's eight months old, because that's when the door to magic school is left on the staircase and we got a way to get in this way." he said and she nodded. "If I told you that, than I'm not contradicting my adult self, we have to follow your instincts, just don't let this result in that way twice."
"Not after Abby stalking me at the time, that's what killed us, we trusted the wrong person and he burned us and traumatized your brother so much when he tried to kill him his baby mind was warped as he struggled with his powers. Alright again show us that future I need to see what the hell happened if Pratt was back on the loose, because if this was part of that I'm not having it." she said and he nodded to that to the orders.
"So modern day witch trials with Pratt at the helm and Wyatt turning into a power hungry maniac. So one born in the house and you and your sister at the hospital, and Wyatt's been so traumatized that it warps his toddler mind and I'm the final straw, after the demons killed me. Never mind showing us tomorrow, do it tonight." Piper said and he nodded as he lead them to the attic.
After drawing their family sign on the wall, he moved back and then spoke the spell his mother used to send them forward in time. "Here these words, hear the rhyme, send me this burning sign, send me to where I'll find, what I wish in place and time." he chanted and a portal appeared in front of them and they walked through it.
May 27th 2022
After arriving, he looked at the state of his attic. "Dear god, what the hell happened in here?" Victor asked and he sighed. "After he lost it completely, he turned the house into a museum, but that's the very beginning, you'll see why I decided to come back in time, come here." Eric said and his parents walked to his side as he opened up the attic window and they looked at the state of their block in shock.
"Aw god, the entire neighborhood looks like a bomb hit it." Leo said it shock, before he could answer they heard a new voice answer that remark. "You could say that father, though I never expected to see you in the future, let alone Chris being the one to betray me." he heard and turned to see a young man of his age with curly blond hair down to his shoulders, a goatee and blue eyes and looked at him in shock.
"Welcome back Chris." he said and he straightened up as he answered him. "Eric, et tu?" The man said and Eric nodded. "That's right Wyatt, but you never knew the add on, of what if Aunt Prue survived the blast with the messenger. He's dead, said innocent is cloned, and their version changes to our's what then exactly. Or what if we were the first born, she knows, over the nexus, is dangerous, your powers don't come online till 18 months later at your 1st birthday."
"As by then, mom got wise and bound them." he said and they watched his eyes narrow at that Chris said sternly. "Hello Wyatt, just short of week and you wait till I come back on my own to ambush us. You do realize that where I went, mom is still alive, she knows who I am and who you are." he said and he looked at him with an arrogant look on his face as Piper looked at him at the address in shock. "Wyatt?" Piper asked and he smirked as he answered her.
"What don't recognize me mother, oh I see why, it's because in your time I haven't been born yet. Pre-emptive strike brothers, before I'm even born Chris. Of all the people to betray me..." he said and Chris answered him firmly as he moved in front of her. "I didn't go back to betray you Wyatt, I went back to save you, keep our family intact." he said and he smirked. "Save me, save me from what exactly?" he asked arrogantly to him.
"From whatever evil turned you then." he said and he smirked at that. "That's always been your problem, stuck in the good verses evil, morales. I'm so over that, it's all about power, it always was." he said and Leo crossed his arms at that. "The one with the most power wins is that it son?" he asked and he smirked. "That's it, that's why I keep this museum, to remind everyone of the power of which I was born and that I possess." he said coldly and Chris answered that in disgust.
"Too bad the rest of the city isn't faring as well as your little shrine here." he said and he answered him with an arrogant look. "You know it were anyone else, that just tried what you did, I'd kill them on the spot, I've forgiven Bianca, I can forgive you, if you promise not to cross me again." he said and Chris smiled firmly. "I think you know me better than that." he said and on that the five moved at once at the battle got started.
"Grandpa, Darryl, guys, get to the portal!" Eric shouted and the quintet nodded quickly as the quartet worked as one as Chris lunged at him, he knocked him away from him. "Have you lost your mind." he said in shock to that response then. "Without mom neither of us, or Mellie, are born Wyatt, remember that, you send Bianca, and we will do this again. You will see me again. Just stand down now, you want me come back in two in half years, send Bianca if you have to."
"But wait it out." he snapped as Wyatt suddenly screamed out in pain. "Bianca hold him a little longer, I need to get the spell, to send us back?" Eric shouted and she nodded as he quickly grabbed the book, flipped it to the correct page and nodded "We need to get rid of that spell so he can't send anyone else after us, once we reach year 6. Our real time is 1987 to 2008 now, Chris." he said and Chris nodded as he got ready to recite the spell as she called out to him.
"Whatever you're doing, do it fast, I can't hold him for long. I'm sending that message to Prue, Tyler and Derek, just get out of here." he heard and looked up to see his girlfriend standing behind him, and he nodded to her. "Hear these words, hear the rhyme, heed the hope within my mind, send me back to where I'll find, what I wish in place and time." he said and the portal opened and the seven of them all jumped through it.
May 27th 2001
After coming through the portal, they landed on the floor and Piper looked at him. "Alright I really believe you now, it's not the damn gene defense, whoever caused this traumatized him, so we find them and they're dead, in order to prevent that at all costs. I've got to teach you guys proper use of your powers from a very early age." she said and he nodded as he pulled her into a hug and she tightened her arms around him.
"So that's your brother turned evil and the photo is him when he was still good, alright if I needed a motivator to ensure your futures are as good and clean as possible I just got one. We believe you now completely son, don't worry that future is not coming true at all costs." Leo said and he nodded to that as the book opened up on another clean page then and he sighed as an invisible hand started writing a message down.
'Chris, Eric, Bianca just told me that you came back and brought us with you, but that finishes off convincing your parents, uncle, Darryl, grandfather. The cops and me the threat now, but Phoebe is stuck in the gene defense. But it's not the gene defense at all, it's being born in the house, and someone screwing with your morality. Or said someone traumatizing you enough to crash here, remember what I told you."
"It's the one person you least expect, but the prequel of the Starwars movies makes a good motivator now to work this out, remember that honey, as to that, the series is done here. As to that so your next step is showing her, Sheila, your grandmother, grams and the elders next to finish off the job. Honey don't worry I can already feel myself shifting from whitelighter to human now."
"Just keep it up, the weeks leading into June 14th are next, because that's when they had me killed, we got till then to finish things regarding our version. Before your's starts, it won't be long now baby, just hang in there, the eight of us can feel the hope in us getting stronger, but we got keep it up. Honey tell them the basis, but with us sending you the DVD's, that gets it started."
"Each season is going to be sent in order, starting from the end of the last, but this season isn't over yet, you got the next two dates to pull it off on keeping our version intact. Once done all of you lay low and wait till October, guys trust us, it's your only chance at making sure both versions survive. So just accept he can't tell you, or it's going to change things further in his future, please."
"Guys listen to me, with every added change to our memories now in the past our memories become more hopeful, just keep up what you've been doing. Chris can't tell you everything, just accept that along with his toying with changing your wants now, my memory has been changed, but not till we deal with the source's assassin, am I out of the danger zone yet. Remember what you just saw and go to the trial circle and you can see the rest of it."
"See you on the other side, I love you guys, Prue."she read out and they nodded to the warning. "Alright, alright you convinced us, we have to reset the clock and find whoever did this, before they destroy him a second time." the inspector said shaking in relief they got them out of there then. "Real eye opener huh guys, I was dealing with a bunch of pint sized demons before they got engaged." Victor said and the trio nodded as they looked at Darryl then gently.
"Trust me I go through this all the time, but Cortez, Sheridan now you know, can leave them alone now?" he asked them gently and they nodded. "Yeah we get it, you can't tell us everything or it's going to erase you or someone you know, Bianca. Or even a family member from existence in your future, so, just like in Terminator, you eliminate the key players. Then it's going to result in someone feeling like their a replacement next, so to prevent that now."
"We stick to the rules of time travel and everything else we learned so far to fight, and just give us key details once we watch these episodes, okay." Prue said to him and he nodded as Phoebe and Drake walked in then. "What the heck happened?" Drake asked and she explained that to him. "We just got a taste of that future and saw Wyatt, he's everything Chris and Eric described him as, if we don't find the demonic, or good being, parasite that turned him. And in the next few years." she said and they both nodded.
"So everything he described as what was coming in the future, is exactly what you saw just now?" Phoebe asked and he sighed and nodded. "Yeah phoebes it is, once we deal with your trials, we start preparing for what's coming. Though with what we just saw, this is why I want all of them born in the hospital here at the time. Being born in the house, you can go either way, he's power hungry and that's what worries me."
"Whatever happens in the next two and half years, warped his toddler mind." Piper said to her with a gentle look and she nodded to that. "Yeah so what's the difference here exactly mom, he's got the powers of both of you, but we're more powerful and look at how we turned out, what's that say to you?" Chris asked and Phoebe answered that question. "Screw the special treatment, we treat guys of you exactly the same here."
" Alright, to finish this we need to see this through your memories honey." she said and he nodded as he thought it over and then motioned to her and she walked over to him and he pressed his forehead to hers and the premonition hit her like a Mach truck as every image started going through her and she quickly looked at the traumatized look in his eyes. "That's why you came back to our time, pre-emptive strike to prevent this at all costs."
"Alright now I understand, is that why you just chose to screw the future consequences, by dropping the cover story. Your only chance at success was to ensure he never turned was by risking your own existence and you wanted to see us and the only way to get us to trust you is by just telling us by clues and we figure it out on our own after you arrived here on Monday?" she asked and he nodded as he slumped into the couch.
"Yeah exactly Aunt Phoebe, my only chance at getting you to trust me was by just passing you the obvious clues needed and you figuring out the truth on your own. Well you know the truth now and I'm here to stay, I'm not losing you guys again." Chris said as the tears started running down his face and Piper crouched in front of him and gave him a hug and he buried his head into her shoulder.
"Don't worry son, our family is intact in this timeline, we just make sure nothing gets in the way of that now." Leo said to him and they went into a group hug at that as he burrowed into his parents arms then. "We got two and a half years, before we get added problems here, so with those words in mind, don't hold back on me, just say what you really want to say, we got the truth now, I believe you and 'our' family is intact now."
"But the future consequences remarks we can take, but fron now on til you leave to return to the future, no more lies and no holding back on us. At the moment we can watch the first two and three quarters of season three, and from there the next part and forward we just go through each of these and change the sequences that need changing now from now till we stop and destroy whoever it was that turned your brother."
"Your mother and I are taking the roles we should take now, but whatever I did it's getting rectified right now and our bond is going to be the way you want it to be now. Both right now and when you're born till you reach the age you are, everything you had with me in your future you do with me now and it's staying that way forever son, I mean that." Leo said and he nodded to him as he tightened his arms around both of them.
"I love you dad." he said and he smiled softly. "I love you too son." he said and just hearing those words, Chris knew his chance to fix the future was now in place and he was home where he belonged then. 'Whoever it is that destroyed my family, through my brother is getting exterminated for it. Listen you scum, you come near us and when I find you, I will destroy you myself.' he thought to himself then.
"Time for a family meeting now, instead of the present you, Aunt Prue, you're hearing from my version of you now, mom never mind just reading it out of the book, wing it." he said and grabbed the candles as he put them in a circle then and lit them. "Hear these words, hear my cry, spirit from another time. Come to me, I summon the, cross now the greater divide." she called out and a minute later his grandmother and great grandmother appeared then and they smiled as Patty said it for both of them.
"Deciding to take an active interest in your abilities girls?" she asked and the duo nodded. "Yeah, just learning that if it hadn't been for our powers, I may have never learned what a godsend having my sons living with me would be like now. But if having no powers means I never get to see him as he and his twin are now. Than screw being normal, I accept my abilities with open arms now." Piper said and she smiled at that gently.
"We're glad to hear that now, we were hoping once you realized it with as who he was to you, you'd accept what we were facing in our time frame without question, Piper." Penny said to her and she nodded. "I do Grams, in fact I understand why you freaked out, but returning to when we have no children in this house was the best choice and mistake with your version of Chris, because without me, she'd never accept it that easily."
"But understanding the danger of being born in the house, combined with being a witch/whitelighter hybrid, the amount of power going through you is way too much. And you can go one way or the other, if something is screwing with your morality. If you wanted the four of us and dad to take your warnings seriously you got your wish now grams, if we can't save him, we swear to god we'll stop him." Prue said and she nodded.
"I know we can't know too much about the future without it erasing someone from existance, but thanks for the loophole in that. So we can go through every episode and fix what mistakes my future self, Phoebe's and Leo's did at the time. But I intend to lay into your versions of us myself for not seeing this immediately. He made the right choice and I'm very proud of him." Piper said and they nodded gently at that remark, smiling.
"Yes well I think it's time you girls got things in the table, because Phoebe is in denial right now at the moment, baby. To you girls, Andy and Leo, having Chris here is a god send, because he's just given you everything you both ever wanted back now. With Cole out of the picture now, it's time to get things on the table now, regarding this and fix the damage the damage he caused to your relationship, indefinitely now."
"But most secrets are dangerous, especially ones relating to a supposed vanquish as you saw with Nattie and you three were beyond distracted at the time baby. You, Leo and Prue all shared the exact same thoughts, it's time to get this on the table after what happened at the wedding. As that nearly destroyed your family, before it could even start." Patty said and she nodded in agreement to her thoughts then gently.
"Oh don't worry we intend to have a serious talk about that after we see his memories regarding me, his father and sister tomorrow. We just need the final clip to his adult self, and you have us completely convinced after that." She said and they nodded to her gently. "Baby, that compensation is getting added on to it every time you need to prepare, this way we can make it seem that the club just got the added reviews."
"Once things are all said and done, the trunk over there by the window you used for Abraxas, are the added family funds and you can use that to start your family lives. But of the four of you, one of you needs to keep the nexus grounded in good while the others move out after that." she added and Piper, Prue and Leo stood up. "Wait what about you and the resistance, mom, you keep sending us the funds like this at the moment."
"And you can't and won't be able to take care of yourselves and whoever's with you?!" Prue said in shock and they smiled. "You guys pull this off and there is no resistance honey. You have five years to pull this off guys, I can't tell you who the reason for why Wyatt turned into this is, but here's a tip, keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer now. Once Cole becomes the Source, the trials regarding things begin."
"But just remember this now, okay, but my first lesson in this to you now at the moment, never just judge by what you can see but look below the surface. And secondly now, nothing is all black and white, it's shades of grey in all areas, so at times we had to break a few rules when it came to fighting. But you misuse magic and it's going to turn around and do you in the process so your sister has to learn that on her own later."
"With the fact that you know what she looks like now, wait till the staged funeral and she comes to the manor. Just play out the episodes like your alternate selves did, but Prue is alive in this time frame now and see where they messed up. But you got a second chance to get it right with Chris here now." she said and the trio all nodded to her. "Don't worry Patty that family is going to be mine, the girls can move in range of the house."
"But Piper and me are taking control of the manor for life now after this, I do have one question, are these focused on our lives before and after Perry came into the picture. He was waiting for someone to bust him, but no one did and we treated him like an outsider?" he asked and she nodded with a sigh. "That's the side effect of having a child in the house and the adult version of your unborn suddenly shows up out of nowhere."
"After Perry was killed, and even though he tried it still didn't work, your adult self decided that screw this happening again, we had to take it back three years. And to before Wyatt was born just to prevent this from happening twice. Chris came to us, D.J., Tyler, Jared, Prue and Andy and suggested this and we immediately agreed to it." She said and the quintet all nodded to the news as he pulled Chris closer to them.
"So we had it right that Prue and I were his favorite aunt and uncle in our version of the Power Of Three, but though he loved Phoebe, he was closer to Paige in theirs, his version?" Andy asked and she nodded. "Yes, after they murdered the girls and Leo, you and Prue adopted him after that." she said and the trio nodded. "He lashed out in anger after the fight with Raynor, in fact he was ready to kill Cole himself that night."
"For nearly killing Leo and Piper." he said and she nodded. "He's been holding it in ever since Leo was murdered, honey. Cole killed his entire family himself, Piper personally, but Phoebe and Paige accompanied by the add on, but he had a hand in killing all of them and Leo. As he did Henry and Victor, Darryl is also dead and D.J. joined the fight with Michael, because Cole killed their parents." she said and they nodded as he said it firmly.
"Pains of future wrongs, there's no forgiveness right now for this, once Belthazor is destroyed the scrutiny is back on and if he becomes the source. Than we're vanquishing him and this time we're making sure it sticks. At the moment he's got us until Henry and whoever Phoebe's future husband is after that. But if I got this right Cole was a fling, but Drake and whoever comes next are in your eyes the good ones." he said and they and Victor nodded to him as she explained that to him.
"Yes that's right, a girl chooses the man most like her father in personality traits, You're him when it comes to protecting her, Leo in his understanding personality of my gifts and hers, and Drake in his gentle, but funny personality. And to put this firmly, a woman flirts with the dangerous one, but they don't bring him home, they marry the good guy, which is what Jansenn said to Jackman's character in X-men and she's right."
"Our family had the tendency to flirt with the darkside, but in the end we always choose the good side, that's just the way it is when it comes to being witches. We follow the Wiccan rules and we never abuse our powers, family came first, always. And though we wish at times to be normal we know we can't and we just accept that our higher calling is protecting others." she said and they nodded as Lei answered her gently.
"Than I guess our relationship tripled in strength, regarding past mistakes, Dan wasn't the right match for her and seeing what my never being around did to Perry. I decided to change that and our bonds tripled in strength, and losing me was the piece that caused him to choose this just to be back with his mother and me again?" Leo asked and she nodded to him and the young couple nodded as he said it for both of them.
"Well don't worry, we'll take care good care of him, the alibi we chose matches up to his birthday time frame now, had we had him in 1987, whatever alibi you wanted us to choose regarding him, me and Andy. We're doing it tomorrow and getting the added alibi to the reason these guys are disappearing off the face of the earth. So no one comes knocking and we lose a member of our family next." he said to her and she nodded.
"Chris you're going to have to tell them a few pieces to what your parents told you after Perry was killed, leading into your birthday honey. Also to make the alibi as real as it could get its time to make the house looking like you ran several upgrades and making it looks like a teenager lives here now, so no one but us knows you're not from our time frame, but from the future." she said and he nodded as Leo nodded in agreement.
"In order to do that we have t se what his room looked like and replicate it when he turned twelve at the time and things in there are being changed to it looking like a teenager living in the room." Piper said and he nodded, looking at Chris though, he thought it over then. "Son what furniture was in the bedroom and what did your room look like when you were thirteen exactly?" he asked and Chris explained that to him.
"You guys had a double bed in the room, my dresser was by the window, my desk was facing out the window pointed towards the garage and my bookshelf was by the door, but with my being a bookworm. You got me one of the shelves that had three different levels built into it and the added bookshelf was above it. And a set of bookshelves right above it dis paying my trophies and ribbons as for family entertainment in movies here."
"Your idea of movies for us was the basics growing up mom, though instead of Sesame Street we went to preschool at magic school at the time, till we got used to working our powers safely. Then from there we went to kindergarten and life became half magical and half normal after that. With my combining both together as one, you're getting a sneak peek of what to expect once we're preteen to the age we are now."
"Grams, if you and grandma are watching from upstairs, you'll be seeing me as I manage both lives and maintain a normal life as a teenager, trust me this is going to work now. With you binding their powers when mom was fourteen at the time, this is what to expect, but this me is your first born, Wyatt is second, and little me is third after that." he said and they both nodded to that as they made their preparations.
"Three different levels, you mean one with eight shelves, the second portion with six and the last with three, and I had a rack of shelves built into the wall right above it, that type of thing?" Piper asked and he nodded. "Yeah, with my starting middle school, I'd been involved in track and football, my gold medals and trophies were on those shelves and the book library I had was your basic teenager at the time." he said to her smiling.
"Wait a minute, you like sports, but you're a bookworm, Chris had we been living in 1968 what's your catch exactly here?" Leo asked and he chuckled. "You recall the Curtis brothers in 'The Outsiders'?" he asked and they nodded as Piper got it automatically. "Wyatt became Darry and you're Ponyboy, okay, so your grades, intellect and sports techniques here, you were Ponyboy leading into when I was killed and you buried yourself in books and movies to escape the pain, is that it?" she asked and he nodded.
"Yeah that's it exactly, I was in emotional shutdown for three months when I lost you, it was after my best friend was murdered by the demons, before another friend was killed out of self defense at the time. And I'm classifying this as a paranormal version of the Soc/Greaser gang wars here as well, that Penny yanked me out of that vacuum herself by passing his last remaining message to me and three months later Aunt Phoebe was killed and she and I bonded really closely as a result."
"Her father and Uncle Henry gave me the paternal care I needed but that sums it up." he said and she nodded to him gently. "If that's not enough of reason here to take this more seriously, nothing is right now. Alright you went out for track and football when you were in junior high school. But your grades came first and your scores were all enough that by this point, had I been alive, you'd have gotten scholarships by every college in the country at the time." Piper said to him and he nodded smiling to her at that.
"Well that's no longer the case here, we're not on a deadline yet, we got plenty of time and frankly with your frame, you closer to seventeen then what we're classifying you as for school here. Alright so what school did you go to exactly?" she asked and he smiled. "Baker Junior High School actually, though we just use the term middle school now here." he said and she nodded smiling as she said it with a chuckle.
"I sent you to my alma mater, I should have seen that coming here, you pack your school jacket honey?" she asked and he nodded to her as he went downstairs then, grabbed it and came back. " The jacket is a bit old, but..., jacket of old, reclaim like new take years off and reclaim it a true." she said and it changed from the faded look to gleaming with a fresh look to it as the patches stitching became more intricate.
"Well if that's your jersey jacket I'm buying the next size up when you start high school here. So track team, football, let me guess, you're doing the hurtles and hundred yard dash right?" Leo asked him and he nodded to him. "Yeah you got it right dad, once the football season comes to end, track gets started, I'm in good shape, because you kept me on a well balanced diet at the time." he said to him and they both nodded to that.
"Well this certainly helps now that I know what to look for in little you, but I don't doubt little you is taking it one further and going out for the swim team next, as he tries to live up to your legend and Wyatt decides on taking football here." he said to him and he chuckled. "They won't need to, that inferiority complex is not needed, I'm leaving my message in the book for them when they're in school themselves."
"But here's the message I'm leaving them when I return to the future, it's going to be in the book beneath the dialogs you put in there. That I loved them both and they'll see me again, just in a new reincarnation later, they were worth coming back to the past and changing the past and future for the better. But I'm telling them the truth in that letter why I came back and why I was around these last eight years now."
"The trio are going to understand, but you're the first to have children as evidenced by me being here. But this message and the next are for the entire family. But this one is going to ours first mom, dad." he said and they nodded in understanding and watched as he took a deep breath as he invisioned his younger self, his baby sister and and Wyatt in the room as he said it then.
"Dear Wyatt, Mellie and Perry, I know that you may not remember by the time you read this, but I came back for a specific reason and that reason is saving our future, 'your' future, but I'm your older brother. Life began for me as a witchlighter when mom and her version of the Power of three began. That version in those days was herself, Aunt Phoebe and her oldest Sister Prue."
"But here's the truth now guys, if you saw my college photo and looked at yourself in the mirror Perry. Well than you can see yourself looking like a teenage version of me at this age. Mom, dad and her sisters, kept this hidden from you after I supposedly left for college at the time. But yes I'm in college, but at a different level, I came back to save you guys, save you and our family."
"Our family as the Wyatt/Halliwell clan, and save our familial friendship with the Morris family, our families were meant to be friends and with it. To save you three, I risked my own life and existance. Our family is worth this and coming back and just because I was good student and sports player, don't just push yourself because you feel like you got to live up to my reputation guys."
"We're witch/lighters, but we're good people, with you being in junior and high school now, I want you to remember this. Just because I was the best at everything I did, doesn't mean you shouldn't be, our parents and family encouraged me to live up to my true potential and I've done that. And now it's your turn guys, we are the future of our family and it's time to live it up."
"The life of a witch/lighter is living up to our skills, we can balance a normal life with a magical one, as long as we never take advantage of our powers and use them for personal gain. Wyatt one day you're to have a very strong legacy, but you and Chris are your own people. Everything you saw on the walls was just inspiration, you can be anything you want to be, excel at anything you want."
"As your big brother, I was a skilled witch/lighter, and I lived up to the legends of our parents lives, but now my legend is the legacy written into the book now. My legend was, as a normal mortal and young man, I was a star player on the football team and track team, and my grades got me recognized by the teachers who are going to teach you, in time you'll learn who I really am to you."
"But remember, just because I did everything you guys have chosen to take on, doesn't mean you shouldn't live up to your true potential, there are many sports to choose from, clubs, sports. The possibilities are endless, choose what you want to do, but remember, don't just live up to my legend in the family. I was first born, but you guys have a chance to really live up to that legend."
"Make your own path and be the best you can be, I came back to protect you guys, and I did what I had to do for you guys, always remember that the future is never set, there is no fate, but what we make for ourselves guys. The movies that I grew up with are your inspiration here, but Star Wars, The Terminator, remember these and when in high school you'll remember these things."
"But power is nothing, like Harry Potter, your choices make up who you are and who you choose to be, your choices make your future. Always remember that and these words brothers and when the time comes, you'll learn the truth of who I am when you're fifteen Wyatt, Chris, love you guys and good look.'." he read out and Piper smiled at that as she looked at him then as she said it.
"You better write that down son, that's your legacy to little you, Mellie and Wyatt, they'll be too young to remember, but hearing your voice in these words, it's enough they'll remember you in a way. But not till little you grows into your body will he remember this message as this version of you is guiding ours into his life later." Leo said and she nodded in agreement to his thoughts as she said what she thought to his opinion.
"Well I can see you're more like me than I thought, so it's best if we frame those pictures you just showed us. What's the official record regarding Rodriguez and your uncle exactly?" she asked and he smiled. " I classified him as a witch hunter who was obsessed with us and the fact he thought we were witches, with my being just short of thirteen by that point, he decided he was killing the first born son and broke down the door."
"And he was carrying a sonic blaster that was equipped with a high pitched tone to it, that, had I'd been any closer, it could have ruptured my eardrums and I'd be disabled enough for him to kill me. But Andy shoved me out of the way and taking the jolt himself, and it threw him into the China hutch. You called Darryl and before he could shoot him, Darryl shot him twice and he bled to death on the floor."
"With the near murder of your brother-in-law and me, you were suing him for nearly killing us, and Aunt Prue was devastated by this, because they were supposed to marry a month later. To that end you decided you were putting me in martial arts classes after that." he said and Phoebe read out the rest of it. "I'm your sensei, with the fact I bought that slam dude to train with, that just gave a bigger reason to help you train."
"You and I spent four days a week training together, and you just gained your green belt tonight. Wait a minute, I'm the one training you, but you don't have the colored belts." she said and he nodded as he yanked some money from his pocket. "Before you ask, the resistance gave me the funds, to fuel our deception regarding these things. Martial art belt levels white through green!" he called out and all five arrived in a swirl of light.
"Training uniform!" he called out and that appeared as well. "How much do you have there in funds, if you called for the fruit and the supplies for those?" Darryl asked and he smiled. "$5,500,000.00 and I just spent $2,500.00 on my training." He said and they looked at him in shock. "You got to be kidding, the four of us sent you here with that much to build on to the deception of the truth?" Penny repeated and he nodded to her gently.
"At the time before my version of all of you was killed, mom was opening up the restaurant she wanted to, Aunt Phoebe was an advice columnist and Aunt Paige was working as the headmaster at Magic school. But the resistance had $80,000,000 in the budget, but you four and D.J. gave me 5% off the budget, but this is enough to really build on to our cover story and since I had a mostly quiet childhood, up until Rodriguez came into the picture."
"That's what the money was for, build on to the deception of my preteen life, before dad came home and we get the house looking like I really had grown up here, my athletics began in the fourth grade, and we go from there, but here's the truth in my future. In total, the family made twice that amount together, as for grandpa, his job had offered him a raise and better position at the time as well to the point that you revealed there was an added amount you left mom." he said and she nodded as she answered him at that.
"I forgot about that amount. The house was left to me when your great great grandmother died. I'm descended from Piper's past life, she was my mother, our version of the club your mother created was right here at the house back in 1924, in total the amount came $100,000,000. I just never used it because it was meant to be yours ladies, the family had a very serious amount when I closed down the burlesque house."
"Piper there's a trunk by the window you drew on the wall in that corner, when you dealt with Abraxas last year, that's the inheritance I was leaving to you girls. Aside from your powers you came from a well to do family, girls just trust me, there was a charm on the trunk that had our familial ritual stuff in it, this one had a charm that was similar to it." She said and they nodded as they pulled it.
"Charms left, charms removed for the heir to take, I seek the gift to share, remove this charm from the air." Chris said and the trunk glowed gold in response before Prue opened it. "Whoa, I can't believe we never found this trunk, we're millionaires girls, alright for now we just keep this safely tucked away, till we retire guys. Than once we do we each take our share and create a new life for each of our families." she said to them.
"Good idea, my children had a good amount for school and living as a normal a life as possible, but our club is bringing in the funds, as is your job and Chris just brought a back a major investment to make sure we can pull his alibi off now as a result here. And get some work done on the house, but in total, I'm looking at twenty thousand on the construction work in the house and on five for him and Wyatt at the moment."
"Honey your remark about the nursery in our closet, I'm knocking down a wall to widen up the room so that's set up, we don't need to get new equipment with Chris's birth because we already have it. But the boys are growing up in both worlds, and big Chris is now the oldest of the family. So date of birth is October 4, 1986, Wyatt is February 2, 2003 and Christain Perry Halliwell-Wyatt is October 16, 2004." Piper said and he smiled.
"The resistance has fifteen times that in the budget. In fact their entire finance system came to $80,000,000 mom, grandma, grams, they just skimmed 10% off of the budget for us with me in the past. Mom dad, you got the money to remodel the house and set it up the way you want when little me and Wyatt come into the picture now, though now we got work to do on the house. Aunt Prue said you're barely making ends meet, so she decided to help by sending this amount to you." he said and they nodded as Piper smiled at that.
"Always taking care of us, thanks Prue we needed the reimbursement for a while now." she said and the book glowed gently in answer to her remark and they smiled at that as Chris looked at Darryl then. " I ended up having to clean up the mess by doing the reversal spell after you left the kitchen." he said and he nodded with a chuckle. "The spell I used was an improvised one girls. That was the power sharing spell altered for this situation, so instead of learning these spells right out of book."
"Ladies we need to start taking it to the max now creating our own, we're witches, but we can add our own spells to the book and it triples in size by the time you leave it to Wyatt, me and the others later. Aunt Phoebe, do you still have the slam dude?" he asked and she nodded to him. "As wiccans we follow light magic, but we fight evil you and grams were powerful witches, but they taught you early spells when you were little."
"Now it's time to take it to a new direction here." he said and Piper smiled at that as she answered him. "You know you're right, we've been writing up the spells from the book, so time to create our own, like we did with Jeremy, the Woogieman and Nicholas. Our spells you can learn and from there every new spell and potion goes to you and your brother and cousins when we pass the book to you next." she said to him smiling.
"Yeah exactly, but I can give a few clues to manage and you improvise the rest, with you becoming the oldest sister, time to really take up the mantle now and with that..., alright pop quiz here. What's the best way to manage the troll situation last year when your innocent is a kid Kate's age?" he asked and she smiled. "Write a makeshift spell and improvise the wording, if you combine three different spells and it works every time."
"Prue was doing great at that for years, now it's my turn and I'm following her example and I'm taking it to the max. We just create one cupboard for potions ingredients and the other for basic spices for cooking and that solves our problem later." she said as her confidence started building with every word and Leo chuckled at her remark as Chris smiled at her then as he said it.