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.
Warning: With this chapter they start getting everything they need to get the house ready now. As they begin work on the house and and things are quiet till Look Who's Barking starts. Each episode is going to stay the same, but there's going to be a couple changes to it and Prue is alive for seasons four through eight as she trains her sister. Phoebe grows closer to Drake and there's a few references to the Twilight Saga for Phoebe and Drake in this story.
Chapter 30: Family Business And Visits To Altered Future
"She and Chris decided to handle this, but chose the wrong day, when Wyatt was in the house, so what happens if he goes back further, giving him a 2 year and 3 month headstart. What happens exactly?" she asked and he swallowed hard. "The three of us and Prue would not be apprehensive, because there are no…., no kids bordering on babies in the house. Piper and I are newly weds, and this is just after her combustion powers come on line, you mean he did that."
"Not our him, but his unborn double, going back to when Cole had that relapse?" Leo's double said shaking and she nodded sternly. "That's right, and we are you, of that two weeks after Cole's relapse." she said and the trio swallowed hard at her remark. "But though the rules state you can't know everything, by the future, nothing's wrong with your past selves telling you. Well here we are, we are the you, that accepted being magical with open arms and the dangers."
"Now, of Wyatt's powers not being bound sooner, say directly after the damn dragon." she said and they swallowed hard at that. "You little pompous bitch." Piper said to her double, stepping closer and she started shaking. "Why doesn't he tell you a lot of things, do future consequences, mean anything to you, you change a single thing, you change history. Lloyd said it directly, he wished he never built that time machine, because the damage of playing with time now."
"Said is no laughing matter, but he's just giving tips to help out, but I guessed Nattie never penetrated and why doesn't that surprise me. But a magical abortion, are you really telling me to kill my unborn son!" she snapped and smacked Phoebe across the face and she put her hand to her cheek at that, as she backed up then in fear as she realized what she said. "Unborn?" Phoebe said shaking and Piper turned to her and she backed up in fear at the look on her face.
"If you think I'm bad, just wait till I get Prue and Andy down here, you little brat." she said and they went white. "That's right, the one in trouble is you, for trying to kill my entire family here, because you can't let go of your demonic ex husband. But you been attracted to the darkside since we became witches, I always knew that, the nexus. Anton and now Cole, you just can't stay good no matter how hard you try, and that evil will ultimately kill us, your family."
"Let me ask you something, what would you do, if he was killed and you're mourning big him, but you got little him?" she asked and Phoebe started shaking in fear. "We would….., we would do what you just did by coming back in time." Paige said to her and she nodded gently. "Do you realize who we are, it's we're you from 2 years and 3 months into the past. A week after said candle ceremony after Cole almost killed Jenna, and nearly Leo with her at the time here."
"Chris saved her, but he got blasted from behind by the bastard, Cole, he nearly killed my entire family, that's my side of our family." she said and Phoebe went white in shock. "That 21 year old, your version, jumped back in time 2 years and 3 months to confirm. In what his baby self told us, telling us the day in when he jumped back from, directly after his lesson to you. Me and Paige, and believe me, we got that message, but if having no powers means now here in truth."
"I never see my baby as an adult, what he grows up to be, then I accept my powers with open arms." she said and her double double as Leo's looked at Chris, who had his arms crossed. "What it also means is a lot of changes now, Prue survives this, kind of fitting isn't it, that instead of Prue killing you after she gets smacked by you coming into the future. You get hit by my memories and Leo's with me, you two, before Paige gets her's next and your ass is mine."
"But big Chris, is the adult version to his teenage self, what age of teenage is 17, he knows his 17 year old self is in our present, but we just knocked 3 years off that age. He's 14, in our present, your bastard of a husband barely murdered my son, Phoebe." she said and Phoebe went grey in shock as her and Leo's doubles both nodded in shock, then. "And it gets better, turns out Chris is not single, he's a twin as you see, but the point is here, young lady."
"His keeping secrets is no reason to treat him like crap, and I'm glad I arrived when I did, or Dan and Greg will try to kill him. Because the bastards are both crazy jealous that they lost you, us, to our husband." she said and Leo's double paled. "Greg and Dan are brothers, but they're Puritans, so I believe you know what I'm saying here after said witch hunter." she said and Paige nodded. "Meaning the little bitch was bait." she said and Leo nodded sternly and Phoebe paled.
"Said promotion means here, is that Leo gets to stay on earth all the time now and is training Chris and his twin, we get a normal family life out of this. We're not getting separated, we're not getting divorced, the Elders ordered Leo is to stay down here. Just so he could focus on our family, Chris takes his place, and he is training Chris, he's his mentor. But Leo had to become an elder to make room for Chris as your whitelighter, so he's got his powers as an elder now."
"Making him thrice blessed, he's far stronger then Wyatt, because of your promotion, Leo." she said and he started shaking. "The boy you once hated, could be your unborn baby, you ever think about that?" she asked and the separated couple looked at Chris in shock at that. "That almost 22 year old is the very boy that gets conceived after whatever happens here now. So tell me, you consider him a mistake, one, with another 6 months until his conception date here.
"Is that what adult Chris is to you, a mistake, why does everything come down to Wyatt, why does everything come back to Wyatt, why, did it ever occur to you, you might have more then one?" she said and Phoebe swallowed hard. "Wyatt has had his ego so inflated by your behavior, he thinks he can get away with anything. Chris on the other hand in truth now, knows we set the limits, give him something solid to stand on, rehearsing said conversation over it."
"When you knocked yourself and him into the Cretaceous period was done, but really here, did it ever occur to you, the reason he threw us out of the house. Said is to have us trained to be a better fighter, so we can find the evil/good duo and kill them both?" Leo said in disgust to her and she swallowed hard, shaking. "That when I became an elder, it was to make him even more powerful then Wyatt." he said, running his hand through the hair at the back of Chris's head.
"And at the same time, he's spending so much time on Wyatt, he forgot about himself." Leo said sternly and she paled. "Son, what do you mean son?!" Phoebe said in shock. "Powers of the witches rise, come to me from across the skies, reverse time, brought it back. All it was, before the attack?" Piper shouted out and time rewinded back 45 seconds then as they saw recognition in Wyatt's eyes, before blasting him away from him and the quartet stood up shaking then.
"Thank you David, your help is no longer needed, I'll take it from here, but we're them, from before Wyatt was born. So there was a case of screwing with things, but adult Chris jumped back to when his baby self was meeting with us. So our innocent after the Brotherhood came into it, is alive, he helped us save her." Piper said and he disappeared and the trio stood up shaking. "Brotherhood, Jenna's alive?!" Phoebe said shaking and Piper nodded sternly to her.
"Strange isn't it, no children, there's no hostilities in the house with our time traveler, and instead unborn baby, becomes the baby of the family." Piper said sternly and she swallowed hard. "Remember, adult us, arriving when baby me and Prue were children, she takes one look at us and blasts us out the door, you remember that. The resistance made that same mistake by sending him here when a baby was in the house, so with those words in mind right now here."
"Enough, that's enough, Girls." She snapped sternly at her. "You forget something, he's 21, so back track that 22 years, his birthday is next October, he can orb. And for some odd reason, he's also a witch." Piper said and Phoebe froze up at that remark in shock. "So what if he lied to you repeatedly that doesn't mean he's dangerous, but you got your wires crossed. Remember Cole, he was evil and you let him live in the house?" Leo said and they froze up at in shock at that.
"The bastard, why did we throw him out of the house, this is a toxic relationship, don't you get that yet Phoebe, he broke your heart, but you took him back. He broke your heart, but you took him back, why?!" she asked and Phoebe started shaking at that. "I hated him, I always did, but you're refusing to listen, because your evil side took hold. As I said, that baby has corrupted you more then you think, Chris isn't evil, he's a good boy, my golden child, Phoebe, my baby."
"And don't give me this crap, you knew him longer, that's no excuse here, but again, he's half witch/half whitelighter, but did it ever cross your minds what happens. Now, if your whitelighter became an elder, or that said elder was the unborn baby's father. That unborn baby, became the 21, borderline 22, year old standing in front of you now, that baby boy. Is just trying to save his family, while at the same time, trying to keep from erasing himself from existence here."
"You wanted me to marry you, I do, you wanted a family, I gave you a son, drop the third degree, baby grew up into the young man in front of you, trying to stop the Brotherhood again." she said and Leo's double nodded then. "People get it through your damn minds, you're an elder Leo, so what happens if you mix elder blood. With Witch, because it's dangerous, do it, Chris do it." she said and he blasted the cabinet and they all backed up in shock at that response then.
At the blast of lightning he shot at it. "You're not just half whitelighter, you're part elder as well, Chris…." Leo said in shock and he nodded. "Paige and Wyatt are you, and Sam, whitelighter, or before you got promoted. I'm just after you got promoted, ergo, you get promoted, I become their whitelighter. And now my powers offset Wyatts's because I'm thrice blessed, just born in the hospital, like you wanted, Piper, I'm turning 22." he said and they swallowed hard at that.
"They know who I am, but baby me is with them, they accepted me immediately, that's baby me, no children in the house, just me, Prue's alive. And the message they got immediately, or did you forget that part on purpose now you two. But here's a tip, born in the hospital only the whitelighter powers get started from birth, but the witch powers. If born in the hospital, start 18 months later, like a normal witch, Prue, Paige and you, Piper." he said and they all paled at that.
"Why does she favor Wyatt over Chris huh, well it's because he's like her born in the house, Prue loves Chris, he's like us, slow bloomer, responsible, good with magic, and a total golden child. To me, to Leo, to the Trudeaus, that's Prue and Andy by the way baby, even the Elders now. Chris is our perfect baby boy, he could do no wrong in our eyes." she said and they swallowed. "So what if he is always hiding things, that's no excuse to treat him like crap, but you know what."
"Chris is right, he's always right, what he just told you is true, but you know the catalyst for it, what caused the final crash?" she asked and the Wyatts and her youngest sister shook their heads. "You just killed him Paige, you killed the reason, he finally finished what he set out to do, kill the Charmed ones, and killed Leo, dad, Darryl and Sheila. And either converted or killed your children." she said and Paige nodded in shocked anger as the trio all went white in shock then.
"What was it Leo's alternate reality self said, you took their Paige's place and….." she said and Paige nodded gently. "And Cole took his own, becoming Belthazor once again, before he became so powerful nothing could stop him." she said slowly and she nodded. "Only that wasn't the end of it, he was pissed she got married to a good being, and one by one he killed us. You were the last, and it was by a darklighter arrow." she said and Paige straightened in fury at that news.
"You mean to tell me if she just did her job, Wyatt would never had turned at all?" she said slowly and Chris nodded and she nodded as the sofa slid back at that. "You also got a traitor in your mist Leo, and with that, if you remembered you did the very same thing. Wyatt never would have changed at all, oh and just so you know, for the said remark. He can't go back and play with people's lives because his brother was picking on him, but what if Prue and I did that."
"Did that with you, only instead of you, it's me, I erase you from existence, and Paige becomes the youngest sister, what then exactly?" she asked and Phoebe swallowed hard at that, realizing Piper had become Prue finally as she went further. "Paige, you understand perfectly at times you want to be free of the restriction, you want space from being we, more me, less we?" she asked and Paige nodded. "I can worry about my baby sister, can't I?" she asked and she nodded then.
"Don't ever stop, but if I need you, I'll let you know, but worry from afar, that's how I prefer it, Piper." she said and Piper nodded. "What she nearly hit him with, with the next few episodes leading into conception date. Well just imagine if we did that, and you take her place." Piper said and she nodded. "No baby Source, no Cole, no you having an emotional breakdown after she turned on us, Leo gets promoted, and we bind Wyatt's powers, yes I see what you mean, Piper."
"No Cole, that would be nice, Darryl wouldn't be close to severing all ties with us, because of her mistakes, Leo is always down here. And we live normal lives as things slow down, though still living in the manor." she said and Piper nodded. "You're not serious, you would erase me from existence, just so Cole never destroys the family?!" Phoebe said in shock and fear then. "If it means saving the future then yeah right now, Prue and I would at the moment, we love you."
"But your being born in the house is dangerous, point proven after getting possessed by the Nexus, it's not just this, but Cole now. It's he was drawn to the power of the Nexus: the Woogieman, well for Wyatt, it's far more dangerous. Hence the name of said episode, Morality Bites: once you start breaking the small rules sooner or later the big ones get broken too. But wrong thing done for the right reason, still the wrong, you remember that exchange now."
"As I learned what 10 years carrying my powers does for me, only now, instead of 10 years, I get 15, but what a difference a decade makes huh, if Chris was the first born. If you never learned your lesson, before so why start now, Remember the future. As in Pratt and the Salem witch trials of the 21st century, you realize, if Prue and I jumped to 1975. And had mom get an abortion, there are no Salem witch trials, no destroyed future, all sunshine and rainbows now."
"Chris is like Prue and me, slow bloomer, but you forget, born in the house, you can go either way, if something screwing with his morality, well guess what, something just did. This is why Chris wanted his powers bound till he can use them responsibly." she said sternly and Phoebe backed up in fear, as every remark was like another whip-lash breaking her skin open. And leaving bleeding lacerations as she went further she looked at her husband's future self sternly.
"I spoke to Odin, before coming to your present, he said you're abusing your elder powers, by taking him off the family account, Leo." she said and he swallowed hard at the reprimand. "But just where the hell is your brain, get a better look at him, bluish green eyes, he looks like us. Just as a boy, he too is half of both of us, like Wyatt is, only far more powerful." she said sternly and her double started shaking as she waved her hand to her 21 year old son as she said it.
As she looked at her double. "Were you ignoring the similarities on purpose as a reason to treat him like shit, simply because he can't tell you the truth. But Prue, Andy, Odin, Orlin, Sandra, Kalina, Zola, you can come down now!" she called out and the 7 appeared instantly. "Where and when, young lady?" Orlin asked her and she explained that "May 2001, two weeks after the Said street prophet." she said and they nodded in shock the news then sternly at that reveal then.
"There a side effect to what jumping forward a few years through time causes here, by that I mean the past us jumping forward through time. Instead of our current selves jumping back a year, to warn us, as you just revealed who Chris is to us, if his unborn baby self is with you?" Paige asked and the quintet nodded gently. "It results in their memories shooting into us, it's happening now, but your sister is rewinding the last 18 years now, so the spell snaps now."
"At the start of this season, this year, that…., well seems Chris is not an only child, but a twin, after you threw Cole out of the house, a family meeting ensued. And Chris's twin brother came to the past and now we got both of them, but the photo of you guys walking Wyatt. That's Prue in your place, and the twins in Wyatt's." Sandra said and she nodded gently then. "And they're getting you back involved, so no need to reconstitute, you just kill Shax and be done with it."
"While laying low for 3 months till August, but seems that your past self finally gave you the real kick in the but you needed to get why we're afraid of halfbreeds, young lady. And being born in the house finally, now Chris maybe secretive, but that's no excuse to treat him like a criminal." Odin said sternly and Leo swallowed hard at that, shaking. "Is that our messenger, Shax, that's his name?" Piper asked and Paige nodded. "My first demon." she said and Piper nodded smiling.
"Well, we're activating you early, so while she's playing around downstairs, we got you, we just kill him and be done with, and get a break in between seasons now." she told her and Paige hugged her tightly at the remark in delight then. "So this means I get to watch baby Chris become big Chris." she said and Piper nodded "Wyatt is also not the reason, Paige, oh no, we got a good/evil combo that will destroy us, if we don't act now." Zola said and he nodded gently.
"Did you 5 realize it now, now that we just figured it out though?" Piper asked and the 7 nodded sternly. "Yes, but you can only tell us so much without changing too much right now, but 2 years and 3 months into the future." Prue said to her gently at that. "Yeah, we're from two weeks after Jenna, she was cloned, Sis, but we're fine, our next innocent. Will be cloned, and we're getting together with Paige a few months prior to reconstitution." she said and they nodded then gently.
"Plan change, Paige what's your consideration that though you lost your adopted family, Grams suggests custody rights and you meet us 14 years prior now. So though 17 years with your adopted family, you get a lifetime with us, as you meet us at 17. We train you, when you're ready to activate, your powers come online directly after said banshee now. And if she's not around, Prue gets to do her shift, say Leo's past: his friends?" she said and Paige smiled at that.
"I would love that Piper, so not lonely anymore, you never have my reaction, Prue's alive, but I meant it, just say it, you should hate her for leaving you. When my adopted parents died, I hated them for it, I was alone, and I hated them, it's okay to hate them." she said and Piper pulled her into a hug and she tightened her arms around her then. "My baby sister, when it comes to you, I can't think straight, baby." she and Paige nodded as Phoebe swallowed hard.
"I love you too Piper, losing you would kill me, I can't go through it again, I won't." she said and Piper closed her eyes tightly and Prue and Andy nodded at that. "Though dealing with Phoebe, you're the one needing me more, as I get you to say it finally, like you got me to say it. I'll never leave you, I swear to that, things change and got better for us, but being there. When you need me, I will always be there, remember that." she said and Paige pressed her forehead to her's.
"Whatever you said, they made a movie like that already, it's an Indian family, his oldest brother died saving them from a bear attack, the youngest blamed said bear. Said second youngest blamed him, before he had to walk a mile in said bear's shoes now. And as he see what it's like to be a bear, well that's this now, you're in Prue's place, she's in your's and I'm in her's. But my mistakes are nothing when compared with her's, you're my favorite." she said and Piper nodded.
"I love you too baby, but trust me, after Cole barely killed my family, nothing is changing my mind, he may lose his powers, but to me, I'm just waiting here. And for said other axe to fall, but if losing her baby and baby never became the new Source. Well she becomes the Queen Mother of the next Source of All Evil, after losing her baby." she said and Paige nodded. "Well I guess this is what happens when you breed with the original." she said and Phoebe flinched.
"Nice roundabout number, that's 2 years and 3 months exactly, to us, that's us as your future selves, you getting Paige in before the Banshee is smart." Orlin said smiling then at the news. "Yeah Paige and Phoebe will be switching turns, but never short handed, to me now, I love you and Sandra, like whitelighter versions of my parents, Orlin, so when dad's not here, I got you." Piper said and he smiled as he saw the look on his version who was in shock at her words then.
"Guys you feel it now between me and you, I bonded deeply to you, Sandra, with Grams and mom gone right now." she said and the blonde elder nodded smiling and their version paled in shock. "Yeah that's right you fools, what you refused to do I did, Sandra is my whitelighter/elder mentor, you feel anything else, say your memories are changing. And Prue and Andy's spots at the cemetery are close to belonging to someone else?" she asked as Leo hugged Zola smiling.
And he smiled in response. "There's my boy, I'm proud of you son, sweetheart, that's the reaction and bond we should have. You trust us and we can work as one if you stop fighting it and trust us right now and with it, actually call out to your sister to see her right now." Odin said smiling as Chris leaned against the china cabinet firmly with a smug look at that. "I can take a wild guess young man, you teleported to see the younger versions of them now right now."
"Directly after Cole killed Jenna, or tried to and a family meeting ensued?" Zola asked and he nodded and they nodded sternly. "The cops just got involved, the chief was at the house, after dad told Andy to get the chief." he said and they nodded gently. "Well that gets the cops off your charges backs finally, they know why everyone of these perps and Williamson died. They're all demons and warlocks now." Odin said and he nodded to him gently at the remark then in relief.
"Family meeting's not an exaggeration, he's serious, when I ended up in your past, that night, I saw 18 year old me, and Piper and Leo were looking at him. And like two parents with their teenage son, but I arrived first, so I get all the attention here now. And Piper said it all first born baby, perfect baby boy, I could do no wrong in her eyes, you said the same. Now in truth Prue's past self took said warning beyond seriously, and said I could live in the manor: my old room."
"Said downstairs, right down the hall from Wyatt's bedroom, and as a result, I'm living here in the manor, but your past selves, girls, Leo. They are beyond disgusted you deliberately ignored the fact you did the very same thing: Nick. Or the fact now, that you're keeping secrets gets Prue killed, cut the crap guys." he said and trio's future selves all paled at that. "That's all we had to do, treat this the way we do in calling Leo and Chris to me, it's the same for them."
"Prue, Andy, you are whitelighters?" her double said shaking and they nodded. "Alright Piper, what you got to tell me?" Prue asked past her and she crossed her arms. "Get a look at Chris, who do you see exactly, Andy, you're the cop, you knew me all your life. But what would I look like as a boy exactly." she asked and they looked at Chris and nodded in shock. "I don't believe you guys, look at him, really look at him!" Prue shouted and they all paled at that remark then.
"I'm thrice blessed, witch, whitelighter, and with him an elder, I'm carrying their, your, powers to throw lightning around." he said and they nodded sternly to the news. "I came back to prevent him from turning evil, but they don't trust me, because I won't tell them. Anything, past rules apply, remember Fox's movie on time travel, what nearly happened. Now if he never rectified the damage his running into his parents caused?" Chris said and they crossed their arms then.
"We get the point, and you guys are in big trouble, what, just because he doesn't answer you, you treat him like crap?" Prue asked, smacking Leo's future self across the face. "You stupid bitch, what, just because he hides secrets you act like this, need I remind you. That your secrets nearly prevented them from being born at all and if they hadn't here now. Whatever is going on his present would not be happening now, or if you bothered to not let your emotions now."
"Get in the way, this wouldn't result in killing me?" she added to Phoebe and they all went white at the reminder then. "It's his business on whether or not you should get that intel, but it's clear to me, the past you embraced your powers with open arms. And just hours after getting there, his baby self has your past self really going mother bear. But seems he's not an only child, but a twin, he's a twin, not 3 children, but 4, including said daughter." she said and the couple paled.
"Chris, come here baby." Piper said and he looked at her softly as he moved to her then. "Mom, god am I glad to see you?" he asked and she nodded. "Yeah it's me alright baby, your baby self just showed us everything, we know the truth in who you are and everything else. I don't care you lied, we agree with you, until you think we're ready, we let it alone." she said as she moved to him and pressed her forward to his, closing his eyes he felt his relief at that as Leo smiled.
"Hey son, you okay?" Leo added, emphasizing the title and he smiled in relief at the title. "Mom, dad and I'm glad to see you." he said smiling and they gave him a hug then as he buried his head into Leo's shoulder and Piper saw their future selves paling in disbelief. "Why is he doing that, it's like you're his father?" her future self said in shock. "It's simple right now you fool, think about it, he looks like you, but has his eyes."
"He knows his way around the house, the cat knows him on sight, the book responds to him, like he's its owner. So he has Prue's powers in whitelighter form, he was acting on animosity with your Leo, daddy issues, he treats you with love. And like you're his mother and aunts, he risked his own existence to save Wyatt, so what do you think. Are you connecting the dots now, or do I have to spell it out for you right you two?"
"Think about it, why would he be trying to get that empath blocking potion, but to keep your bonds from falling apart and he took a dose himself. Just so the truth doesn't come out to soon, but that, going in line from there is, you gave him a shift off, Leo when excalibur came into it. He's scared out of his mind when you're dealing with the manticores, because he's afraid he's going to lose 'us' next at the moment."
"And when Bianca comes to bring him back to the future, you learn he's half of both of us, and your freezing powers don't work on him. You and he, Leo, are acting on the same notion after Paige tries on Gram's go go boots and ends up in her past. As she lays into you for it and now comes this, why would he be waiting till now to admit the reason. That he came here exactly if he wasn't waiting for us to come and tell you the truth."
"Now, finally, what is that you're not seeing right now, but you can't learn about the future without it destroying it, listen to me carefully. Future consequences is not an excuse to manipulate you guys he's serious, you can't know the future. And without it completely affecting it and changing things he doesn't want changed. And case in point right now, it could erase some he cares about or himself from existence."
"So he decided to have your past selves tell you the truth and said truth, now is standing in plain sight. He was waiting for us, your past versions of yourself and Leo, in the past, to arrive, to tell you who he is to us. We're you from two years and eight months into the past, before Prue was killed and Paige came into the future. That's when his unborn double chose to come to us, so with that..." she said and she paled at the remark.
"Chris here, he's my golden child, first born, my baby boy, he could do no wrong in my eyes." she said and they paled at that. "He never could do any wrong in our eyes, so you got your priorities in reverse you stupid bitch, but I'm you from 2.5 years in the past. Right after Jenna, and Cole's crash again, as he killed our innocent, but get a very good look at him, Wyatt gained Leo's looks, so who does Chris look like?" she asked and they all paled at that.
"No, no it can't be!" she said in shock and they nodded as Chris hugged her Leo tightly. "Did you forget our own mistake, we ended up in the past when Prue and I were toddlers, and you weren't born yet, did you forget grams response you two. Well mom and Prue made the very same mistake regarding sending him here. And with Wyatt in the house, so they chose several years back to when I'm a newly wed, and no children."
"When in the house, simple common sense." she said and her double paled at that. "Don't worry son, you get your second chance with me, I promise, I'm being the father you need me to be, and that your future is never going to come true. Because if I can't save Wyatt, I swear to god I'll stop him, in your words, I will. You're my pride and joy, my son, you're my favorite, but there's no getting around the fact that you came first."
"As to that, you're the oldest of the family, you have first priority now, and Wyatt has to learn not to expect constant attention by conjuring things to do it." Leo said and he nodded smiling. "Our pride and joy, you're our pride and joy, to us, to Prue and Andy, Darryl and Sheila, and even to dad, you're our golden child, our first born, our baby, you could do wrong in our eyes, baby." Piper said to him smiling softly as he looked between his parents.
"Well they got it in reverse, to them I'm the devil spawn, but your version sees me as the favorite cub, the first born son, but bad news for them is this. But your memories are about to start filtering into them I'm glad I get to see you as you were before he was born, this is what I missed most. But you were an elder and were stuck upstairs. I grew up without you dad, I need you now finally." he told him and he nodded as he answered him smiling.
"Not anymore the elders has posted me to being on family detail till after everything is said and done with son. You have me around all the time now, you saved our marriage by telling us the truth and us busting you. Your therapy for us worked perfectly, and you're being born no matter what now, our family is intact, you're first born." he told him and she watched as their future selves exchanged looks of shock at that remark.
'Us, being born, first born son, therapy for us, no it can't be, he's not, he couldn't be.' she saw in their eyes and refocused. "If you're getting scared now regarding in this conversation you have every right to be now you stupid fools, because those words are not just a metaphor, but fact and truth. We saw everything you're denying yourselves of and believe me you're in big trouble right now." she said with an icy, but stern tone then.
"Alright what happened before we arrived exactly baby, because if it's what I'm thinking, your version of us is getting thrown through the wall right now?" she asked and he sighed. "The order kidnapped Wyatt and the pheromones wore off just now, this was an attempted surgical strike to prevent the future. And I just told them the reason why I came, maybe five minutes before you showed up mom, but here's the added news."
"They think I had something to do with Wyatt's kidnapping, but they just reversed his morality. So he thinks that bad is good and good is bad mom and as if that's not enough right now. She, or rather they: my you, Phoebe, and 'Leo' have thrown me out of the house." he said and she nodded with a furious look. "Oh really, well I don't think so, this is your house, as the oldest of the family, it belongs to you and with that in mind."
"That me is kicking you out of your house, well it's over my dead body, you're moving into the manor honey, this is your house. Baby ignore what they say, what you're doing is for the greater good, and sometimes sacrifices have to be made, a brief separation is one, risking your existance is another. But just trying to hold the family together is a tough skill baby, your version of me was thrown feet first into the job, it's hard work."
"You did the right thing, and I'm very proud of you. We saw the memory of you and Bianca, honey we know that truth. But with these idiots, time for the truth to come out now,." she said and he nodded as she pulled him into a hug tightly as the couple pulled him into a three way hug and they watched him close his eyes. Watching his past self and his Piper's past self hug the 21 year old he felt his heart start pounding then.
"Baby, son, but why are you calling him that exactly?" Leo's future self asked and he watched as his past self wrapped his arm across Chris's shoulders gently in a fatherly way then. "Well the facts are quite simple aren't they, take twelve years off Piper, change the gender and add our eyes buddy and you'll see what we can." he said sternly and they all looked at him and backed up in shock as their eyes widened then at that.
"Yeah that's right, he's your son you fools, and just what right you do have to treat him like this. Did you bother to think he's running marriage counseling right for you two, full circle in your relationship, by taking you back to when you were dating Dan. Full circle in your, in our, relationship, you've condemned him for nothing and with it. Your catalyst is that your true second born is killing us by constantly giving him special treatment."
"And look at the results now, your true second born is destroying your marriage right now, and your first born son is trying to save your marriage, by risking his own existence. He's acting as a magical marriage counselor, but can you see this, no, and it's because you're hoodwinked by your love for your devil spawn of a second born son and nephew." Piper asked and their future selves swallowed at the news.
"Think it over, just why would he choose to come back, you heard him, future consequence, but let me tell you, you think me as I am is bad, how will all our contacts, Andy and Prue take this. That you treated him like shit, simply because he won't tell you the truth, when your lies, your lies, Phoebe, destroyed this family, I don't give a crap. There is no excuse, he dropped in the night Cole had a relapse and told us, in when he came from, said your tutorial here now."
"You don't want magic in your life, Paige always wants magic in her's, while you always want the lime light, but like I said Phoebe, the world doesn't revolve around your pen name. But his unborn self, he's living with me in the past, so 2 weeks our time is 2 years 3 months your's. Ergo, this means the longer in the past, and the more your memories change, Prue comes back, and Phoebe and Paige swap turns." she said and the trio all went white in fear at the reminder.
"Our version jumped back to when we were newly weds, Chris, what the hell?" Leo's future self shouted in shock and he nodded as Piper wrapped her arm around him with maternal love at that remark. "Andy busted him, his unborn baby self, before Cole barely killed us, you and me, buster, and Chris blasted him. But remember Elder, what happens when we have an emotional blast?" Leo asked and they all swallowed hard and Piper nodded sternly at that remark then.
"Chris is your son, you idiot, our son, he's our son, think it over, why send you to Valhalla, well answer is, so you can be trained, remember Paige's darkside, your fight with said knight?" Piper said and he swallowed hard, realizing he misdirected that scenario then. "The empath potion, he was serious, your interference is straining your relationship so much. He had to do something to stop this, the empath blocking potion." she said and Leo's double paled at that remark then.
"Why do you think he suggested getting that potion created after you started said riot?" she asked and they jerked at that remark. "If Chris spiked the water tank and the coffee pots with the potion, everyone that was around you is blocked from your perception. And these messes you cause would never happen, just like the damn spell your classmate recorded?" she said and Phoebe started shaking in fear, realizing nothing she said could erase what he was trying.
"The time portal, he was trying to check if anything's changed, it hasn't and it's because the good/evil duo are still alive, they get destroyed, along with Cole's soul. And the future is saved here right now." she said and Paige nodded slowly. "You get the lesson, after you three got what you wanted, in all your cases?" she asked and the trio all blanched at that, realizing they all once again misread that scenario and Chris nodded sternly, as she looked between them sternly.
"He was trying to thin out the demons, till he got the right one, being a good half whitelighter, this is what whitelighters do, they destroy evil beings. And a case of prevention over cure was enacted by his trying to get you to listen, if you weren't so focused. And on your silly little lives, you would understand, we're destined for greatness, all for the greater good. One trauma if not stopped can result in a downward spiral, till the person crashes." Leo said and they swallowed.
"That crash was because for 9 months, who was he protecting from within?" He said sternly and his wife's double paled. "And the one time he's not there to protect her is the day she and baby Chris, your version's baby self is spending some mother/son time together. And who arrives, but the very demon you failed to destroy and lied about." he said and Phoebe went white in fear. "Cole killed the entire family, I was his baby self's final straw." he said and his double swallowed.
"My cub is the true first born son, he's thrice blessed you fools, he wasn't born in the house, so his powers take more time here. But here's the problem or did you and Phoebe forget this information now, being born in the house you're likely to go either way: good or evil. If something is screwing with your morality, well something has now and Chris. Now, is trying to prevent him from turning evil and instead of helping him, you're too focused on that little brat."
"Chris, he stayed good and you know what, this is just the prequel to what that little brat turned into, because in the end he turns into Darth Vader without the mask. My dear Christopher is the true first born, that little brat is corrupting you more than you think. If I was you'd I'd kill him now just to prevent that future at the moment." she said and they looked at her in shock as Phoebe said it for all of them in shocked amazement and fury and the quintet nodded sternly.
"Don't say it young lady, is that whatever whoever of us in the good side decided, one of us, as we're elders, this is what we do, destroy evil beings?" Odin asked and Piper nodded. "Yeah, and we got our elder, we just need to find the second of two demons and we nailed the first. Baby sister you killed him finally, but the Brotherhood, finally did what they set out to do." she said and Paige crossed her arms. "Cole caused him to crash?" she said slowly and that did it finally.
"How can you talk like that about an innocent baby boy?" Phoebe snapped at her and she smirked at her. "Because I saw with my own eyes what that little brat turns into Phoebe, my perfect little boy, my Chris, my dear sweet 'Christopher' Allen-Victor 'Perry' Halliwell, he's the true first born of the family, a sweet, kind and thoughtful young man. But helpful, caring, he's a total golden child, and so what if he's holding back secrets."
"I know what you're about to say and it's he can't play with people's lives because Wyatt picked on him. But you know what, he picked on the entire planet Phoebe, Leo and I weren't happy even before he split us up. This is marriage counseling in the magical community and it's none of your damn business right now. But he's taking us full circle, working at making sure Wyatt never falls, trying to prevent a rift between us."
"What does it matter if his secrets and plans benefit us later on, his counterpart traveled back even further, his seventeen year old self. In fact the baby you're going to be conceiving in just a few months, he grows up to become my Chris in my timeline, everything that shattered the bond between your Chris and you, Leo. Got fixed and he and my Leo are beyond close now, Chris Perry: Christopher-Allen Victor 'Perry'."
"But you're going to have to face facts, so what if we're telling you the name of your future son. It's not against the rules of time travel to hear from your past selves in how to fix the mistakes you create, but that attitude of yours is the reason it nearly destroyed our family Phoebe. And look what it does to Chris, he hates demons with a passion, especially the Brotherhood of the Thorn, because you dragged Cole into our lives."
"Well to make sure he stays dead, he risked his own existance and returned to the past, your past, my present. And because though you tried to prevent this god damn future from happening it still does. And you notice that Chris is acting on our true bonds with his father and me. A son to his parents, in our eyes he deserves all the attention, because he's the oldest right now, thats why we're here right now, to tell you the truth."
"Said truth you're denying right now, but born in the house, twice blessed he can go either way. But Wyatt is just a baby, Chris is 21 in your timeline, he's a college student, but he's been trying to help you all this time by creating ways to do it. He's blocking out your empathy to prevent our relationship from falling apart here. And its because you're butting into her business, as for Valhalla, it's to set up a viable cover story."
"Said cover story, his job sent him away on business and Chris told him he could take care of us on his own. What was it I said to you after you turned into an elder and I was turned into a goddess, oh yes, you asked me to marry you, I did. You wanted a family and I gave you a son, and now you want me to just watch you walk away. I can't do that Leo, I needed a whitelighter and he chose himself after that, my son, my guide."
"My best friend, he's a mama's boy Leo, I didn't know him all that well, at first, but I needed someone to talk to. Someone who understands how I feel after you left me for your job at the time here. But you leave and he has to take over in acting as the man of the house at the time, he's the oldest child in the family and you chose your job over us. You wanted a family and I gave you a son and then you say you're leaving me."
"After you get promoted, you left me and you expect me to be grateful at the time here you, bastard. Your job sent you out of town on business and this was the rational response he gave you, you wanted to leave that's fine. But he could take care of his brother, me and himself. Leo, let me tell you something, if it wasn't for Chris. I'd have shut down at the time, I needed him now, as my listening ear now after he arrived."
"I needed him at home, without a babysitter, and someone not like the girls, I could be a wife first now. You need to get a life first, I need to be a wife first, more time as a family, the three of us and most of all we needed more time as a couple. Well we have all of that now, Chris is old enough to take care of himself now, though I have Prue and Andy. Now, there to take care of him, if we choose to spend a weekend away from the manor."
"After he arrived in the last week in your past and in time for my powers to speed up and Cole to have that relapse, he was the only one who get through to me after Williamson. Giving me someone to turn to, his final reaction after he let go and let me tell you he was grieving because we're both dead in his future. He said not to leave him, not to abandon him a second time and I'm promised, we promised not to leave him now."
"He needs us, we're his parents, but he returned to the past to change his future from what it is right now and with it, regarding Darryl, finding out as well. Is Chris is acting as the babysitter to Darryl's children, before Wyatt comes into the picture. But he's the oldest, he can take care of his brother, giving us more time to be a couple. And separating ourselves from you and Paige, which is how Paige feels right now, Phoebe."
"And you know why she's feeling suppressed, well it's because it's always about us, not me, but us. I do believe you said we were too fricken inseparable at the time Leo, and you're right, and we're fixing that in the past right now, before the marriage counseling. But no marriage counseling Chris saved our marriage before Wyatt came into the picture, and we're updating the house right now as a result, but here's the bottom line."
"Because with Chris in the past, this solves any and all problems by his being a teenager to young adult now, by you getting a second chance, Leo. But you can't do it all alone, so what's the foregone conclusion now Paige, you just met us like two years ago your time. And it's going to be five months my time when you come into my life and you're meeting him as a high school student later?" she asked and Paige nodded as she got it then.
"I'm looking at a near 3 year time gap, you're acting like I wanted you to see the truth regarding Cole, what happened to this version of you to make you act like this?" she asked and he sighed. "It's a case of pains of future wrongs, you want to see our memories, regarding why Chris and I hate him so much. Paige what's your main thought, regarding Prue and Cole exactly?" Leo asked and he watched her eyes flare up in anger.
"He's the damn catalyst, if it hadn't been for him, Prue would still be alive, hearing the truth to why Piper was turned into a furie that fast. I've hated him ever since, to me it's always been Cole, I wanted him vanquished even though he lost his powers. He destroyed this family, I put it back together, I want my big sister back. So in my eyes it's Cole, it's always been Cole." she said and Chris sighed as he answered her at that.
"You just said my entire thoughts over this Aunt Paige, to me it's his fault Aunt Prue is dead, he never threw the shot. But he's still the catalyst, mom you feel the same, right, you blame Phoebe, but Cole is the catalyst?" he asked and Piper's double nodded in shock and she nodded as Leo's double froze up as he and her double exchanged looks then as he answered Piper's remark at that the previous question.
"Wait how do you know the exact words the marriage counselor gave us at the time, because that was eight months ago for us Piper. I mean if you're really us, then you know what caused so many problems at the time?" his double asked and she sighed. "Because we came to depend on the girls way too much at the time, co-dependency. Well with Chris, here it's I can turn to him to babysit, without depending on the girls."
"All the time, but us as a family, we have our own life separated from the girls, instead of them babysitting for us, we have him now, but you needed to get a life first. And you have Andy, Drake and Darryl as your quartet now at the moment. I needed to be a wife first, and it's by not depending on the girls as often and I turn to you now. And more time as a couple with Chris here, we have him to babysit for his brother starting now."
"But that sums it up, he couldn't tell you the truth, because he was waiting for us to do it for him. Because as your past selves, our changes in the past are going to start affecting you here in your present right now. And you don't have to tell us who you are Paige, but he, his younger double, gave us names, and I'm guessing Richard is your boyfriend right now, Elise your boss Phoebe, Drake is her new fling right now at the moment."
"As for Greg, he's my fling, but that's just been forestalled right now." she said and they nodded in shock. "Wait, you're from when exactly?" Her double repeated and she smiled. "I'm from 2 1/2 years into the past, May 2001 be exact, so with that, the when exactly in 2001 is after Phoebe's graduation and when Cole went undercover. Chris arrived in time for when my powers started speeding up and during Jenna as well, so with that."
"I believe you get it now, look at me and Leo and the way we are together and then look at you two. You feel anything different right now at the moment, because the sudden changes are going to be activating any time now for you at the moment?" she asked and the two froze up at that, before Phoebe fell into the couch then. "Oh dear god, she's not kidding, our relationship is shifting directions, I can feel the changes right now."
"Somethings changing between us and Chris at the moment as well, it's gone from suspicion to love and family right now. It's like whatever I discovered broke down the door and I hear Andy breaking it down for me." Leo's double said as he grabbed the table to keep from falling over then. "God as if playing with the space time continuum is not enough right now, with you in our present, the side effects are going to start showing up."
"Just why the hell was he waiting till now to tell us that truth exactly at the moment here, Leo, I mean if you're us when we were newly weds, if I have the dating right. What was our cover story regarding his unborn double exactly..., wait never mind, your thoughts are beginning to shoot through my head. We had his double when we were entering high school and Prue was a junior there too." her double said to him at that.
"Paige you met me when I was married to Leo for seven months and your first situation is just after an emotional breakdown regarding Prue. But look at me right now, what's this say to you?" she said asked her and she nodded as she looked her version and then at the past version. "Two years ago your time, that's just after Phoebe graduates, they've been married for four months, but I saw the clips focused on this already."
"And Prue..., Prue has been dead ever since she ended up in the underworld for that same amount of time in our time frame. But I see what you're trying to say, you two at the moment now. Let me guess, with Chris there, he brought back your brother-in-law, is going to saving Prue now and together that brings our family to the full quartet?" she said and the duo nodded to her gently and she nodded to her as she got it.
"Our brother..., Andy, he's not dead, he's a whitelighter now?" Phoebe said in shock and they nodded. "That's right, Chris and I brought Andy home, he and Prue got the same directive regarding us, when the elders agreed to let us get married. But Prue has her balance now, she's happy, Piper and me, we're happy now that Chris is with us. We found a better match for you and I'm not saying who, but he's a good demon."
"And he's denied the evil in his background, he said he's got every interest you have and in our opinions, he's more family than Cole ever was. Paige, once you meet him you'll like him instantly, he's a diamond in the rough." Leo said and Paige nodded. "So this turned into a paranormal version of Romeo and Juliet right now. To you, this new guy is more family then Cole ever was at the time?" Her Piper repeated and she nodded to her.
"Yeah and frankly, if you thought to look at him, Chris I mean, and see him for who he was. Instead of second guessing and treating him like an outsider, mom, Grams and Prue wouldn't be pissed right now. Prudence, Patricia, Penelope, think it over, just because you destroyed the source twice, doesn't mean it's over. And we're witches, we can still do good things, we can't give up." her past self said and Paige nodded as she went further.
"It's happening already, I see it already, he's no outsider, he's family!" her double said and Leo smiled in relief. "There you see give it time and it starts breaking the door down honey, but he got caught on the first day, it's been a week since Andy came back and Jenna. But we fixed this he was here from the very beginning, but the last 3 years got traded for him being in the picture for everything after I came back." he said and they all nodded.
"Before Phoebe realized he's not mortal, but a whitelighter, and you're always around?" Piper's double said and he nodded. "Yeah I told you on the first day, but ever since, Andy caught him in the act, he told me, and then he dropped the bomb on you directly after Cole blasted us." he said and she nodded to him. "So I chose being magical and with open arms, I don't mind, and I accepted this immediately, but if no magic now finally here."
"Means I never get to see my baby as he is, then I accept being magical with open arms, finally." she said and he nodded to her. "Yep that's you, exactly, but you and he, and me, we're our own family, a family trio, never apart this summer and next year. It's he pretends to be a freshmen in high school, but your version is a freshmen in college, we took three years off to match up here." he said and they both nodded as Piper said it to her.
"I need you to understand, but in just two more situations, you get Prue and Andy back finally and we're the power of four after that now finally. So though Phoebe goes traitor, choosing the Source of All Evil over us, and dad, we still got the power of three, we don't need her." Piper said to her and she nodded. "And we got a chance to do this, but we don't need her, she said she hates choosing over us and Cole, well fine, be that way."
"We don't need her, when we got Prue to pick up the slack." Paige said to her and she smiled at that in delight. "There you see what his coming here does for your thinking baby?" she asked and Paige nodded smiling happily. "And you and Chris are my breaking point, so mess with the youngest, my baby sister, my baby himself, you better start running or you're getting blasted." she said and Leo started laughing at that remark then gently.
"Yeah that's what I call maternal instincts alright, so with him added to the family, we're intact, but in her words to Sam, he and you saved this family. You brought this family back together, both of you together changed her for the better and she took up the mantle without thinking twice." he said and she nodded. "I'm the eldest Charmed One, but I'm a mother and wife first." she said and the young woman smiled softly at that news.
"Sure you want a normal life, but haven't you learned anything yet, wishing for that normal life and it's going to destroy everything that matters to you. Sure you lost Prue, but that doesn't mean you should quit, Prue wouldn't want you to just give up right now and neither would mom and grams. Listen to me, with us about to change the past for you, your lives are going to have Prue returning from the dead as a result."
"And with her Andy, Jenna is alive, as for our lost innocents thes because of Cole, we can take care of that, because each rotation. Now, is going to save the lives of our lost innocents and sister, as well as our brother in law now. In fact I'm sure they'd want me to talk some sense into you right now just to prevent that at the moment, learn from the past..." she said trailing off and Leo's future self swallowed as he finished that remark.
To create a better future, that's why you came, you can't learn too much of the future here or it's going to destroy your future, Chris what have you done?!" he said in shock and Leo shook his head. "He didn't tell us anything, we busted him the second Andy got a better look at him and he was free to act like our son after that. But as to how we know about your future, it's we saw what happened to Bianca and we know everything."
"Sure we're from two years into the past buddy, but the dates leading into things is the only way to prevent from the future details from getting spilled. So what's the forgone conclusion of that. He can't tell us about the future, but he can give us the dates?" he asked and Paige nodded as she got it. "Nice loophole in the future consequences catch, no telling us the future, just the serious parts and putting the dates to each one on it."
"And we can replay the sequence by picking out which forks in the road to take now, or whatever else you and the future versions of the resistance pulled we can use that, but if you have the previous few years right now, before I came into your life." she started to say as four DVD packets appeared on the table then and she looked at each of them. "Piper, Leo look, Prue sent us the first three seasons and with them is this one."
"When I came into your life now, okay I get it, you watch the next two episodes in year three and make changes there. This one the actress looks just like me as well as you guys, and I take Prue's place and the Power of Three gets redone, but this was our version of our lives." she said and Piper looked at each season and turned over the cases as they saw a gold star over the one focused on Cole's relapse and nodded as she got it.
"Nice thinking Chris, so this version of you is the original and if your younger selves came into the future it's meant to change the past. So, if you gave us the dates, and showed up last year, before Wyatt was born you'd have us convinced now. Alright look you three, Chris is the solution to your problems, our problems, in their entirety. You guys, he's your son, he's trying to save your marriage by giving you guys time apart."
"While giving you someone to turn to, who is not me and Phoebe." she said and moved to the trio to stand next to them. "Too late, the cleaners already changed the past, by altering our memories, so the cover story became reality now. Chris is first born, and after Wyatt was born you got promoted, and he decided to do the four years of college at home, prior to that, with you away on business a lot." Piper said and she nodded firmly.