Charmed Fic: Promises Fade (one-shot)
Title: Promises Fade
Author: Taryn [[juicydodger]]
Rating: PG [implied character death]
Movie/TV Show: Charmed
Pairing: None
Genre: Tragedy
Chapter: [1 of 1]; One-shot
Summary: He was set to fail as a father; he wanted to prove that title wrong, he wanted to be the different father to the son he was getting to know. What he was meant to be, it was fairly simple, he was meant to be a failure.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, only the idea I got from the season six finale of Charmed.
Author's Note [A/N]: Leo reflects on what Chris had told him, and what he feels after Chris' death. Season six finale.
He failed. He was a failure; in this time and the next. He shouldn't have to choose between Wyatt and Chris; who to save and who to let go. He shouldn't have to try to save one and leave the other to move on, he couldn't and wouldn't choose between his sons.
Chris had come to the past to save his family; to save the world from the darkness that was destined to engulf it. Wyatt was the man who turned the light off, he was the one who brought pain onto Chris; did Leo fail as a father in the future as he just had now?
Chris may have been manipulative, secretive and dishonest at first; when the secret was out, Leo saw the true Chris Perry, the Halliwell within him, with his powers, love and his reason for coming back to save himself and his family. Chris grew up alone; Piper was dead and Leo was never around.
How could he have let his youngest son grow up in a world of loneliness and darkness?
He had always believed in the greater good, he had trusted Gideon with all of his power and mind, he felt secure and safe and trusted Gideon's judgment and words. The Elder used him and his family; he manipulated him and nearly took away his son, but he did take away his son, the son from the future, who risked his own life for his older brother who was destined to be the darkness in the light.
Maybe he isn't a good father. He watched his son fade away. He couldn't heal him, he couldn't keep him, he couldn't send him back to a better future, although he knew that Chris would be in a better future, just not the Chris they all had grown to wonder what his true intentions were, and to love.
He saved them all. He saved his future, his family, he warned them of the worse kind of evil.
As a father, he couldn't bare to feel like a hero; as much as he wanted to greet baby Chris into the world, he wanted to mourn the loss of a man who loved his family, and wanted a life with his mother and father, and his big brother not bullying the whole world just because of the loss of the Charmed Ones.
Chris faded in his arms; Gideon had stabbed him as he was about to get to baby Wyatt - Chris was the hero, he was the ultimate light.
He obviously took after his mother.
Leo had promised to send Chris back home, to keep his life happy and try to mend the broken threads in the life that Chris had left to come back to the past to change; his heroism was what drove Chris to his end. Chris had said he was a bad father; he truly felt it now.
Disappointment.
Fury.
Loss.
But the one thing that hurt Leo more than a set of daggers was that he had broken his promise to Chris.
He hadn't sent him home.
"I promise we'll get you back son, we'll get you back home."
The promise was broken; he set the title upon himself ...
He was a failure. He was always destined to be one.
Author: Taryn [[juicydodger]]
Rating: PG [implied character death]
Movie/TV Show: Charmed
Pairing: None
Genre: Tragedy
Chapter: [1 of 1]; One-shot
Summary: He was set to fail as a father; he wanted to prove that title wrong, he wanted to be the different father to the son he was getting to know. What he was meant to be, it was fairly simple, he was meant to be a failure.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, only the idea I got from the season six finale of Charmed.
Author's Note [A/N]: Leo reflects on what Chris had told him, and what he feels after Chris' death. Season six finale.
He failed. He was a failure; in this time and the next. He shouldn't have to choose between Wyatt and Chris; who to save and who to let go. He shouldn't have to try to save one and leave the other to move on, he couldn't and wouldn't choose between his sons.
Chris had come to the past to save his family; to save the world from the darkness that was destined to engulf it. Wyatt was the man who turned the light off, he was the one who brought pain onto Chris; did Leo fail as a father in the future as he just had now?
Chris may have been manipulative, secretive and dishonest at first; when the secret was out, Leo saw the true Chris Perry, the Halliwell within him, with his powers, love and his reason for coming back to save himself and his family. Chris grew up alone; Piper was dead and Leo was never around.
How could he have let his youngest son grow up in a world of loneliness and darkness?
He had always believed in the greater good, he had trusted Gideon with all of his power and mind, he felt secure and safe and trusted Gideon's judgment and words. The Elder used him and his family; he manipulated him and nearly took away his son, but he did take away his son, the son from the future, who risked his own life for his older brother who was destined to be the darkness in the light.
Maybe he isn't a good father. He watched his son fade away. He couldn't heal him, he couldn't keep him, he couldn't send him back to a better future, although he knew that Chris would be in a better future, just not the Chris they all had grown to wonder what his true intentions were, and to love.
He saved them all. He saved his future, his family, he warned them of the worse kind of evil.
As a father, he couldn't bare to feel like a hero; as much as he wanted to greet baby Chris into the world, he wanted to mourn the loss of a man who loved his family, and wanted a life with his mother and father, and his big brother not bullying the whole world just because of the loss of the Charmed Ones.
Chris faded in his arms; Gideon had stabbed him as he was about to get to baby Wyatt - Chris was the hero, he was the ultimate light.
He obviously took after his mother.
Leo had promised to send Chris back home, to keep his life happy and try to mend the broken threads in the life that Chris had left to come back to the past to change; his heroism was what drove Chris to his end. Chris had said he was a bad father; he truly felt it now.
Disappointment.
Fury.
Loss.
But the one thing that hurt Leo more than a set of daggers was that he had broken his promise to Chris.
He hadn't sent him home.
"I promise we'll get you back son, we'll get you back home."
The promise was broken; he set the title upon himself ...
He was a failure. He was always destined to be one.