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Summary: Big Chris saved his family and the whole world from being taken over by his evil brother. Now his younger self has to pay the prize.
A/N: See chapter 1!
Chris left the shower with a towel around his waist and took a moment to look at his reflection in the mirror. It was obvious who he had become. His face was pale as death, the bags under his eyes were bigger than anyone could imagine, his body was so thin that one could see nearly every bone, his arms were bruised with so many cuts that his skin was barely recognisable.
Chris sighed and renewed the well-known spell before putting clothes on and leaving the bathroom. When he entered the kitchen he found his aunts talking to his mother who was currently cooking.
"Hey Chris", Piper greeted him. "Dinner's ready in about an hour."
Chris shook his head. "I'm not really hungry, Mum. And I still have to do a lot for school."
Paige looked at him in shock. "School? I thought you're on holidays?"
"I am", Chris replied taking an apple from the basket. "But there are a lot of things I have to have finished when school starts again in a week. I'll see you later." He waved goodbye and left the room again to go upstairs.
Phoebe sighed. "I wished Kathy would be so enthusiastic about learning and working for school." Her daughter was thirteen at the moment and it turned out to be a very difficult age. She looked at Piper who was wearing a strange look. "Are you okay?"
Piper nodded. "Yes, it's just…" She sighed. "I don't know. Chris seems to be different lately."
Paige raised an eyebrow. "You think? I haven't noticed anything strange."
Phoebe nodded. "So have I. What're you thinking about?"
Piper shook her head. "I don't know. It's probably nothing. Perhaps I'm only imagining things."
Phoebe grinned. "Perhaps he is slightly getting as neurotic as the other Chris was."
Paige nodded. "Or Piper is."
"Ha, ha." Piper laughed. "I just said it's probably nothing. So just leave it. I don't want Chris to realise I noticed anything."
Paige looked at Phoebe who shrugged and nodded. "Sure thing."
Nobody of them noticed Chris standing in the floor and listening to the sisters before getting upstairs.
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Chris had just finished his work for school when the door bell rang. He still worked hard for school since he had always been one of the best of his class and he didn't want his parents to notice any differences. Although the talk between his mother and her sisters an hour ago showed that he had to try harder. Chris went quickly down to open the door. He didn't want one of his family to open the door since he had to warn Bianca about a meeting with his aunts.
Chris opened the door and was greeted with his girlfriend smiling sweetly at him. "Hey", she whispered.
Chris grinned. "Hey", he whispered back and kissed her hello. "You look beautiful."
"Thank you, Baby", she kissed him this time. "What's going on?"
"You know, I sort of came out here to warn you. My aunts are here and I think they want to have a little bonding-with-the-girlfriend-of-our-nephew-talk! Thought you should know, if you want to leave again."
Bianca grinned at him. "That's sweet but clearly not necessary. I like you aunts!" She passed her boyfriend and entered the house, while Chris stood in the entrance and pouted.
"And what about me?"
Bianca turned around grinning and kissed him. "I like you, too." And then the two of them kissed again only to be interrupted by a loud cough that let Chris end the kiss immediately.
"Hi", Bianca greeted Phoebe who was standing in the hall watching her nephew make out.. "It's great to see you!"
"Yeah, you too", Phoebe answered and nodded to the teens to follow her to the kitchen, where Piper was standing.
"Hey Bianca", Piper smiled friendly at her son's girlfriend. "Dinner's just ready. You want to join us?"
"Uhh", Bianca looked uncertain at Chris for a moment, but he only shrugged. "Yeah", she answered facing Piper again. "That would be great."
"Now then, come on. Dinner's waiting." She and Phoebe left the kitchen with plates of noodles and sauce leaving Chris and Bianca behind for a moment.
"Is that okay with you?"
"Yeah, of course", Chris kissed Bianca and smiled at her fondly. "Why wouldn't it?" They followed the adults into the dining-room where the Charmed Ones and Wyatt were already sitting around the table.
"So Bianca", Piper started, after everyone had started to eat. "How's school going?"
"Oh it's great, really. I might be able to get a full scholarship for college if I'm able to go on like that."
"Wow, that's great. You two are quite interested in school it seems", Phoebe mused. "How about I send you my daughter for a while. She could use some of your good influence."
Chris only grinned and continued to eat while Bianca smiled gently at her boyfriend's family and Wyatt looked at his brother with a light grin.
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The room was so crowded with people you had to push and pull to come through. Chris managed to get to the bar and back to his friends with a load of bottles in his hands in no time. They all sat in a corner of the big living room inn someone's house on a group of comfortable couches and enjoyed themselves.
"…and then she called Chris a good influence", Bianca retold the events from the dinner causing everyone to laugh hysterically. "I nearly fell off my chair."
"Oh no", Chris nodded. "It was so not funny!"
"Of course it was", Bianca grinned. "But just because I know what a good influence you are to me."
Chris stuck his tongue out to her causing everyone to laugh at his childish behaviour.
Bianca just stood up and got nearer to Chris. "Why don't you put that tongue of yours to better use?" She didn't even let him reply to that and instead caught him in a searing kiss. Chris slowly sat down on the couch where Bianca has been before, pulling his girlfriend into his lap with her legs besides Chris' waist, never once stopping their make-out session.
Mike, who was sitting next to them, pulled a face. "You guys are awfully horny these days."
"That's not a bad thing from my point of view", Chris replied, getting off Bianca just long enough to answer his friend. Then he went on kissing her and let his right hand slid under Bianca's shirt.
Mike groaned at seeing this. "Now come on!"
Charlie only grinned. "Let them have their fun. Cause we know he's going to need a lot of fun to keep up with school again next week."
Mike groaned. "Don't remember me. I'd like to forget all about school."
Chris looked up from Bianca, who was currently stroking over Chris' back under his shirt. "Well, you shouldn't. You need to get better grades than last year, Mike. Or else you aren't gonna make it."
"Yes, Mom", Mike replied sarcastically and rolled his eyes for everyone else to see. "And can't you two take a room?" He looked at the couple.
Chris grinned. "Maybe later. Now I want to dance!" Bianca got off his lap fast and Chris jumped up, taking a sip from his beer and dragging his girlfriend to the dance floor in the middle of the room.
They danced slowly to the current song from Oasis, Chris' arms around Bianca's waist, hers around his neck. They danced so near together it was hard to see them as two persons instead of one.
Chris stared into his girlfriend's eyes absolutely mesmerised by her beautiful face. He grinned at her when he started singing the song that was playing, slowly and quiet, just for Bianca to hear: "Because maybe you're gonna be the one that saves me. And after all you're my wonderwall!" Bianca forced Chris' head down to hers again and started kissing him again ignoring all the others in the room. When things started to get more heated up, they suddenly heard a voice behind the Halliwall:
"Now that's interesting because I seem to remember Mom telling you not to do anything like this!"
Chris turned around surprised just to find his brother standing right behind him. "Oh", he smiled sheepishly. "Hey Wy! What're you doing here?"
"I think the better question is: What are you doing here?" The elder Halliwell asked.
"Dancing?"
Wyatt raised his eyebrows. "Looked more like foreplay to me, you know?"
Chris shook his head at this. "No way would I be doing something like this. It's just a modern way of dancing."
"Sure", the blond one replied sarcastically. He watched his brother for a minute. "Have you been drinking?"
"No, absolutely not." He ignored Wyatt's unconvinced expression and asked: "What are you doing here anyway?"
"This party is held by the girlfriend of a friend of mine and I thought I might show up for once. How do you know Alice?"
Chris looked at him with a confused look. "Who?"
"Alice Cooper? This is her parents' house, you know? It's her party!"
"Oh, didn't know that."
"Yeah, obviously", Wyatt commented dryly. "So why don't I act as if I hadn't met you and you do the same?"
"Sure thing, Wy!"
"And please don't dance like this again because I know most of the people in this room and now they know that we're brothers and I don't want to be known as the brother of the guy who fucked his girlfriend in the middle of the dance floor. That would seriously piss me off, okay?"
Chris nodded vehemently. "Sure, Wy! I promise I won't do anything like that."
"Good. See you later, than!"
"Yeah, bye!" Chris and Bianca looked after Wyatt as he turned around and joined a group of elder guys who were sitting in another corner watching their conversation.
"This is bad", Chris murmured to his girlfriend.
"Why", Bianca asked confused. "That didn't go too bad, did it?"
"No, but look at the guys Wyatt's talking to. Remember them from the party two weeks ago?"
"Can't say that, no!"
Chris nodded. "Right, because we were absolutely fucking drunk and screwing around in the living-room."
"Oh", Bianca got out and blushed as Wyatt looked in their direction again.
Her boyfriend nodded again. "Yeah! I'm in some serious shit!"
TBC…
A/N: Hey, sorry for taking so long. Hope, it won't happen again!
Thanx a lot for the reviews. You rock my world! And special thanx to:
The 8o's Lover, ObuletShadowStalker,
Avallyn Black: Hey, we know that Chris is good at keeping secrets, right? Bianca doesn't know everything that is going on. But don't worry. Everything will be explained.
Altaira: About the personal gain thing: I thought about it too and I hope I will give you a good explanation in one of the later chapter.
jess,
zoned-out: You will see.
Embry, Joralie, blueeyesbettercharmedbaby11nighttime writer