Try, Try Again Chapter 2 of 29
Chapter 2
Future Consequences
October 2004
Piper looked around the attic; everything was in place. She lit the last candle and she stood in the middle of the circle. She placed her hand on her swollen belly and said, “We’ll find out what turned your brother. I will fix this, Peanut.” Everything had been worked out. She had the spell she would need to get her to the future and Wyatt was at Shelia’s. It had taken her months to figure out what she needed to do to find out what happened to Wyatt. In the end she came up with a simple spell to point her in the right direction.
Time was getting close to the birth of the new baby. She rubbed her stomach again and couldn’t believe that no one had noticed. She wore a bunch of jackets and bigger shirts but she guessed she was just carrying this baby differently. She smiled and decided that it must be a girl. Everything about this pregnancy was different. Hmm, she thought, the only one that gave any indication of knowing that she was pregnant had been Chris. He had her go on less demon hunts and seemed more protective of her. She hadn’t given it much thought at the time. He was always saying that she needed to watch Wyatt. She figured it was best to keep an extra set of eyes on the boy since he was the one they were protecting. Besides, she was protecting so much more right now that she didn’t fight it. Piper smiled and wondered if Chris knew she was pregnant. There was no way to ask without giving away the fact that she was. If he didn’t know then asking would tell him so. A general question about future children would only result in a ‘future consequences’ answer. Ah, well, she would know more soon.
Piper took the paper out of her pocket and said the words:
Charmed power of three manifested in one
By the power of this mother’s love for her son
Show me what triggered the turn from light
Of the twice blessed child’s path to right
Piper watched as the white and gold lights surrounded her and transported her to another time and place. When the color returned to her world she realized she was standing in the manor. Before she had time to consider when exactly she was, she heard a voice yell out, “Mom?”
Wait, she knew that voice! That was Chris’s voice! Why was his mother here? Well they were friends; Chris had said she did save his mother sometime in the future. She missed the rest of his sentence while she was lost in her own thoughts but snapped back when she heard him scream, “MOM!”
She ran towards the voice but stopped in the doorway as she watched a young Chris crumple before an older her. An older, bleeding on the floor… her. She put her hand to her mouth as realization crept in.
“Mom, no. No, stay with me, DAD!!!” Chris cried out.
Younger Piper’s tears rolled down her face.
“Peanut, it’s ok. It’s too late for that now, listen to me…” She heard her older self say. Her hand went to her stomach, ‘Peanut’, oh my God, that is what she had been calling this baby! That meant that she was carrying Chris right now. She was carrying his tiny baby self as his older self watched her die!!! Oh no! This wasn’t going to happen!
Again she missed what Chris had been yelling out but caught the last of it, “I love you too, Mom, but don’t talk, you’re going to be fine, DAD, WYATT, please…” She heard Chris all but scream.
‘Why weren’t they answering him,’ she thought but then her very next thought melted her heart; he loved her. She had been so mean to him and he LOVED her! Oh God, her poor baby! She thought she was going to be sick as the silent sobs wreaked her body. She had to get control of herself! She was here for a reason! This wasn’t going to happen. Her baby wouldn’t watch her die like that!
She focused herself again as she saw Chris raise his hands in a futile effort to heal her. She strained to hear the whispered words from her older self; “We were wrong…” a deep cough interrupted the sentence.
She heard Chris’s frantic sobs as he picked the dying Piper up to his chest and rocked her saying, “I can’t… I can’t heal, I’m so sorry Mom. Dad, please, Mom needs you.”
Tears threatened to overcome the younger Piper again as she looked on. She watched as a hand was lifted to touch Chris’s face and heard the older Witch say, “It wasn’t just Gid…” but coughing interrupted again. She felt her own eyes tighten at the statement. There was something here that was important. Her older self knew something!
Her musing made her miss the final words uttered but Chris’s scream startled her back to reality, “NOOOOO! Please, Mom, don’t go, don’t leave me…”
She was numb as she watched a teenage Wyatt enter the room complaining that his little brother had ratted him out before he saw the massacre in front of him. More tears leaked out of her eyes as she saw him try to heal her before giving up and calling for Leo. She watched in horror as Leo didn’t show and Wyatt orbed out of the room.
‘How could they leave him like that?’ she thought but the question was answered as a determined Wyatt and a slightly confused and irritated Leo orbed back in. She heard Leo question why he was taken out of an important meeting! She couldn’t even believe her own ears! Her baby cried and screamed for his father and he was in a meeting? What was so damn important that he would ignore his youngest child, ever, but better yet during the heart wrenching pleas she herself had heard?
She watched as Wyatt orbed out of the room again but what took her breath away was the sheer anger she saw in Chris’s eyes when Leo tried to hug him. “No… you don’t even know me!” With those words he pushed Leo away violently, “You were never there for me before, what makes you think you can be here now!” She heard Chris shout before he orbed out of the room.
More tears trickled out of her eyes as she watched Leo walk back over to her older (and apparently very dead) self. He crumpled on the floor beside her, gently cradling her body to his and he orbed away. She drew in a deep breath around the hand still covering her mouth. Her eyes grew determined as her innate stubbornness kicked in. This wasn’t going to happen! She was here to fix this! She placed her hand over her bulging stomach and said, “We will stop this, Peanut! There is no way you are going to watch me die like that!”
Piper closed her eyes tightly as she ran through spells in her head to help her. Suddenly she opened her eyes and said a variation of the spell that got her here:
“Charmed power of three manifested in one,
by the strength of a father’s love for his son.
Take me to where I can talk to this man,
so we can change the future with a new plan.”
Piper closed her eyes as white and gold lights surrounded her and took her to a new place.
When she opened her eyes she saw that she was standing outside behind a tree. She peered around the tree and realized she was in a graveyard. She looked up to see people dispersing from an open grave. She saw Chris still sitting mournfully in one of the chairs and she knew then that it was her own funeral. His head was hanging down but she would know him anywhere. She patted her belly to once again remind herself that she still had time. None of this was going to happen. She then looked for Leo. He was standing off to the side in the back; he wasn’t leaving, instead he was watching Chris. She briefly wondered why he was apart from everyone before it occurred to her that it was to her advantage. She closed her eyes and in her mind screamed, ‘LEO!’
Leo’s eyes shot up and captured hers. She raised her hand in a ‘come here’ gesture and turned away from the funeral.
Leo understood the message and immediately orbed in front of her. “Piper,” he whispered softly as he reached out to her.
She pushed away from him, not allowing the hug and said, “Not here.” She jerked her thumb over her shoulder to point out the potential problem.
Leo’s eyes followed her gesture and he took her other hand and orbed them to a small dilapidated room.
Once they landed Piper started to pace, trying to think of a way to explain to him what was going on. He watched her closely for a moment, noting her longer hair and smoother skin. He knew exactly what was going on, “You’re from the past, aren’t you?”
Piper stopped and stared at him, “What would make you say that?”
Leo continued, undeterred, “You shouldn’t be here… What all did you see?”
Piper stepped forward and poked him in the chest with her index finger, “Oh, no. You don’t get to ask me that! Not after what I saw! He watched me DIE! What have you done to our son? Why don’t you know my baby?” Her tirade started off strong but grew weaker as she spoke until the final words were barely a whisper. When the last word was spoken she flopped down on the couch with her hands instinctively cradling her belly.
The movement drew Leo’s eyes to her stomach and realization set in. “Oh… that far back,” he said quietly. He reached out to lay a hand on her pregnant pooch and said, “Chris…” Then he paused and looked at her with determination, “Then it’s not too late! You can still stop this!”
Piper turned her head towards him, “What are you talking about?”
Leo hopped up and started to pace, “Chris… my time’s Chris is back in the past now isn’t he?”
He started to say something else but Piper stopped him by saying, “Wait…what?” Her mind was whirling. How could he know? Didn’t they change the past enough to make this baby? No, this baby was Chris so they hadn’t changed the past. She blurted out her next thought, “He came back before.” It wasn’t a question. Chris had come back and had somehow changed something so that Leo knew about the time traveling. She spoke her next thoughts out loud, “Tell me everything!”
Leo paused and then began, “Chris came back in time telling us he was Chris Perry.” He continued to explain how they learned that much of Chris’s back story was a lie and that he had actually come to save Wyatt from turning evil. They eventually came to trust Chris but so much had happened. “You’re sisters moved out; I moved up to Elderland and you hid your pregnancy until the last possible moment. We found out the cause of Wyatt turning evil but Chris died trying to save him. The news of his death sent you into labor. We named the baby after Chris to honor his sacrifice.”
Leo verbally paused but continued his pacing. When he continued his voice was different, holding back tears he said, “But as he grew older we could see who he was becoming. It was then that we realized who Chris really was, that he had come back to save his brother. That somehow there had been a timeline when we were a happy family. A family where you and I had two sons and where Chris…” Leo paused and gave a sad chuckle. “Where Chris was probably named after my father, Christopher. Not some time traveling witchlighter!”
Piper was thrown for a moment, “Witchlighter?”
Leo raised his hand to wave to dismiss it, “Just a future term.” The distraction gave him a moment to collect himself, “Don’t you see! Somewhere we screwed up. Somewhere along the lines we raised a child that would destroy the world. We thought we found the cause, we thought Gideon…”
Now Piper stopped him, “Gideon, the Elder?”
Leo went with it, “Yes, he was my mentor…”
But Piper stopped him again, “No… she said ‘we were wrong’ she said it wasn’t just Gid… It wasn’t just Gideon.” Piper was starting to put pieces together but none of it was making sense. This had already happened?
“No, wait. Let me get this straight.” Piper said and Leo sat down. “What you are saying,” she continued, “Is that in your past, Chris came back to save Wyatt.”
She paused and Leo nodded. “I got pregnant, but hid it.”
Again she paused, so far all of this was lining up with her history. “Then Chris died saving Wyatt from Gideon. The news of this caused me to go into labor.”
Leo said, with tears in his eyes, “Yes...”
Piper put her hand up to stop him and said, “I am from just before that point in history. The baby is due soon. Why didn’t I know he was my son? Wait, why doesn’t he know you now?”
Leo hung his head and sniffled before continuing, “That is my fault.”
Piper raised her hands to blow him up but he raised his own hands in defeat, “We discussed it. We thought that it would be safer to have me up there to keep an eye on the other Elders. We thought that if I could just come down occasionally to make sure Wyatt was trained properly that we could keep him from turning evil.”
Piper thought about the decision for Leo to stay in Elderland permanently. Once he had made up his mind there was no changing it. Seems having two sons wasn’t going to alter his thoughts on protecting his family. If Leo decided the best way to protect them was to be ‘up there’ then that is where he would go. She nodded her head then said, “But we were wrong?”
Leo looked back at her and said, “Yes, you had been keeping a diary. It may have been Gideon that planted the seed but it seems there was a trigger to him going evil.” He put his head down.
Piper stopped him, “A diary? I never kept a diary.”
Leo sadly nodded his head, “You started writing down the times you saw darker sides of Wyatt. You kept it…” It was hard to say the next words, “You kept it to show me. So we could come up with a plan.”
Piper was trying to follow and piece things together, “But if we were wrong… wait, you said a trigger. If he had been tipping towards evil, then what was the trigger?”
Leo didn’t move.
Piper was getting angry, “Leo, what was the trigger?”
When he raised his head the tears spilled down his face, “You… your death was the trigger. After that there was no pulling him back. He was all about ‘The Power’.” Leo raised his hands to form finger quotes around the two words. “He said there was no such thing as good and evil just who had the most power.”
Piper was shaking her head, “No, that’s not possible. You can’t know all that, you are just assuming! None of that has happened yet!”
Leo stared at her in disbelief, “Haven’t you looked around? The city is in ruins.”
Piper turned to look out a window for the first time since entering the room. She saw the smoke and as she gazed over to the Golden Gate Bridge she saw that it had been destroyed. “No! That just proves it wasn’t him! I just saw him; he was… well not fine but there for his brother. He got you to watch over Chris! He needed you because I had just died.”
Piper was desperate for Leo to understand, if all this devastation had happened already then it was not her precious baby that had caused it! “None of this could have happened in the few days since I died and the funeral.” She was so sure of herself that when she turned and saw Leo’s questioning face she became confused. “That was my funeral, wasn’t it? Where we just came from? I saw Chris… and I saw you… It was my funeral, right?”
Leo was already shaking his head; he took both her hands in his and said, “No, that was your dad’s funeral. It has been more than six years since your death.”
Piper couldn’t breathe. They had changed nothing. Worse than nothing she had made things worse. She was the trigger. She was the cause of her son’s turn to evil. She had asked the spell to take her to the place that triggered it and it took her to the scene of her own death. NO! This wasn’t going to happen. She would stop this. She put her hand back down on her pregnant belly and made the decision. She knew how she was going to stop this.
She stood up and pulled Leo with her. She leaned in and kissed him softly. She looked into his eyes and said, “I can fix this.” She looked around the small room and said, “Do you still have the diary.”
Leo nodded and left the room.
He returned quickly with a well-worn book and handed it to her but didn’t let go of her hand once the book was in it. “What are you going to do?” He asked quietly.
She dropped his hand and said commandingly,
“A Time for Everything and to everything it’s place.
Return what has been moved Through Time and Space.”
And with that gold and white light surrounded her leaving Leo alone in the dingy room with no idea what was going to happen.
TBC
Chapter 3
Future Consequences
October 2004
Piper looked around the attic; everything was in place. She lit the last candle and she stood in the middle of the circle. She placed her hand on her swollen belly and said, “We’ll find out what turned your brother. I will fix this, Peanut.” Everything had been worked out. She had the spell she would need to get her to the future and Wyatt was at Shelia’s. It had taken her months to figure out what she needed to do to find out what happened to Wyatt. In the end she came up with a simple spell to point her in the right direction.
Time was getting close to the birth of the new baby. She rubbed her stomach again and couldn’t believe that no one had noticed. She wore a bunch of jackets and bigger shirts but she guessed she was just carrying this baby differently. She smiled and decided that it must be a girl. Everything about this pregnancy was different. Hmm, she thought, the only one that gave any indication of knowing that she was pregnant had been Chris. He had her go on less demon hunts and seemed more protective of her. She hadn’t given it much thought at the time. He was always saying that she needed to watch Wyatt. She figured it was best to keep an extra set of eyes on the boy since he was the one they were protecting. Besides, she was protecting so much more right now that she didn’t fight it. Piper smiled and wondered if Chris knew she was pregnant. There was no way to ask without giving away the fact that she was. If he didn’t know then asking would tell him so. A general question about future children would only result in a ‘future consequences’ answer. Ah, well, she would know more soon.
Piper took the paper out of her pocket and said the words:
Charmed power of three manifested in one
By the power of this mother’s love for her son
Show me what triggered the turn from light
Of the twice blessed child’s path to right
Piper watched as the white and gold lights surrounded her and transported her to another time and place. When the color returned to her world she realized she was standing in the manor. Before she had time to consider when exactly she was, she heard a voice yell out, “Mom?”
Wait, she knew that voice! That was Chris’s voice! Why was his mother here? Well they were friends; Chris had said she did save his mother sometime in the future. She missed the rest of his sentence while she was lost in her own thoughts but snapped back when she heard him scream, “MOM!”
She ran towards the voice but stopped in the doorway as she watched a young Chris crumple before an older her. An older, bleeding on the floor… her. She put her hand to her mouth as realization crept in.
“Mom, no. No, stay with me, DAD!!!” Chris cried out.
Younger Piper’s tears rolled down her face.
“Peanut, it’s ok. It’s too late for that now, listen to me…” She heard her older self say. Her hand went to her stomach, ‘Peanut’, oh my God, that is what she had been calling this baby! That meant that she was carrying Chris right now. She was carrying his tiny baby self as his older self watched her die!!! Oh no! This wasn’t going to happen!
Again she missed what Chris had been yelling out but caught the last of it, “I love you too, Mom, but don’t talk, you’re going to be fine, DAD, WYATT, please…” She heard Chris all but scream.
‘Why weren’t they answering him,’ she thought but then her very next thought melted her heart; he loved her. She had been so mean to him and he LOVED her! Oh God, her poor baby! She thought she was going to be sick as the silent sobs wreaked her body. She had to get control of herself! She was here for a reason! This wasn’t going to happen. Her baby wouldn’t watch her die like that!
She focused herself again as she saw Chris raise his hands in a futile effort to heal her. She strained to hear the whispered words from her older self; “We were wrong…” a deep cough interrupted the sentence.
She heard Chris’s frantic sobs as he picked the dying Piper up to his chest and rocked her saying, “I can’t… I can’t heal, I’m so sorry Mom. Dad, please, Mom needs you.”
Tears threatened to overcome the younger Piper again as she looked on. She watched as a hand was lifted to touch Chris’s face and heard the older Witch say, “It wasn’t just Gid…” but coughing interrupted again. She felt her own eyes tighten at the statement. There was something here that was important. Her older self knew something!
Her musing made her miss the final words uttered but Chris’s scream startled her back to reality, “NOOOOO! Please, Mom, don’t go, don’t leave me…”
She was numb as she watched a teenage Wyatt enter the room complaining that his little brother had ratted him out before he saw the massacre in front of him. More tears leaked out of her eyes as she saw him try to heal her before giving up and calling for Leo. She watched in horror as Leo didn’t show and Wyatt orbed out of the room.
‘How could they leave him like that?’ she thought but the question was answered as a determined Wyatt and a slightly confused and irritated Leo orbed back in. She heard Leo question why he was taken out of an important meeting! She couldn’t even believe her own ears! Her baby cried and screamed for his father and he was in a meeting? What was so damn important that he would ignore his youngest child, ever, but better yet during the heart wrenching pleas she herself had heard?
She watched as Wyatt orbed out of the room again but what took her breath away was the sheer anger she saw in Chris’s eyes when Leo tried to hug him. “No… you don’t even know me!” With those words he pushed Leo away violently, “You were never there for me before, what makes you think you can be here now!” She heard Chris shout before he orbed out of the room.
More tears trickled out of her eyes as she watched Leo walk back over to her older (and apparently very dead) self. He crumpled on the floor beside her, gently cradling her body to his and he orbed away. She drew in a deep breath around the hand still covering her mouth. Her eyes grew determined as her innate stubbornness kicked in. This wasn’t going to happen! She was here to fix this! She placed her hand over her bulging stomach and said, “We will stop this, Peanut! There is no way you are going to watch me die like that!”
Piper closed her eyes tightly as she ran through spells in her head to help her. Suddenly she opened her eyes and said a variation of the spell that got her here:
“Charmed power of three manifested in one,
by the strength of a father’s love for his son.
Take me to where I can talk to this man,
so we can change the future with a new plan.”
Piper closed her eyes as white and gold lights surrounded her and took her to a new place.
When she opened her eyes she saw that she was standing outside behind a tree. She peered around the tree and realized she was in a graveyard. She looked up to see people dispersing from an open grave. She saw Chris still sitting mournfully in one of the chairs and she knew then that it was her own funeral. His head was hanging down but she would know him anywhere. She patted her belly to once again remind herself that she still had time. None of this was going to happen. She then looked for Leo. He was standing off to the side in the back; he wasn’t leaving, instead he was watching Chris. She briefly wondered why he was apart from everyone before it occurred to her that it was to her advantage. She closed her eyes and in her mind screamed, ‘LEO!’
Leo’s eyes shot up and captured hers. She raised her hand in a ‘come here’ gesture and turned away from the funeral.
Leo understood the message and immediately orbed in front of her. “Piper,” he whispered softly as he reached out to her.
She pushed away from him, not allowing the hug and said, “Not here.” She jerked her thumb over her shoulder to point out the potential problem.
Leo’s eyes followed her gesture and he took her other hand and orbed them to a small dilapidated room.
Once they landed Piper started to pace, trying to think of a way to explain to him what was going on. He watched her closely for a moment, noting her longer hair and smoother skin. He knew exactly what was going on, “You’re from the past, aren’t you?”
Piper stopped and stared at him, “What would make you say that?”
Leo continued, undeterred, “You shouldn’t be here… What all did you see?”
Piper stepped forward and poked him in the chest with her index finger, “Oh, no. You don’t get to ask me that! Not after what I saw! He watched me DIE! What have you done to our son? Why don’t you know my baby?” Her tirade started off strong but grew weaker as she spoke until the final words were barely a whisper. When the last word was spoken she flopped down on the couch with her hands instinctively cradling her belly.
The movement drew Leo’s eyes to her stomach and realization set in. “Oh… that far back,” he said quietly. He reached out to lay a hand on her pregnant pooch and said, “Chris…” Then he paused and looked at her with determination, “Then it’s not too late! You can still stop this!”
Piper turned her head towards him, “What are you talking about?”
Leo hopped up and started to pace, “Chris… my time’s Chris is back in the past now isn’t he?”
He started to say something else but Piper stopped him by saying, “Wait…what?” Her mind was whirling. How could he know? Didn’t they change the past enough to make this baby? No, this baby was Chris so they hadn’t changed the past. She blurted out her next thought, “He came back before.” It wasn’t a question. Chris had come back and had somehow changed something so that Leo knew about the time traveling. She spoke her next thoughts out loud, “Tell me everything!”
Leo paused and then began, “Chris came back in time telling us he was Chris Perry.” He continued to explain how they learned that much of Chris’s back story was a lie and that he had actually come to save Wyatt from turning evil. They eventually came to trust Chris but so much had happened. “You’re sisters moved out; I moved up to Elderland and you hid your pregnancy until the last possible moment. We found out the cause of Wyatt turning evil but Chris died trying to save him. The news of his death sent you into labor. We named the baby after Chris to honor his sacrifice.”
Leo verbally paused but continued his pacing. When he continued his voice was different, holding back tears he said, “But as he grew older we could see who he was becoming. It was then that we realized who Chris really was, that he had come back to save his brother. That somehow there had been a timeline when we were a happy family. A family where you and I had two sons and where Chris…” Leo paused and gave a sad chuckle. “Where Chris was probably named after my father, Christopher. Not some time traveling witchlighter!”
Piper was thrown for a moment, “Witchlighter?”
Leo raised his hand to wave to dismiss it, “Just a future term.” The distraction gave him a moment to collect himself, “Don’t you see! Somewhere we screwed up. Somewhere along the lines we raised a child that would destroy the world. We thought we found the cause, we thought Gideon…”
Now Piper stopped him, “Gideon, the Elder?”
Leo went with it, “Yes, he was my mentor…”
But Piper stopped him again, “No… she said ‘we were wrong’ she said it wasn’t just Gid… It wasn’t just Gideon.” Piper was starting to put pieces together but none of it was making sense. This had already happened?
“No, wait. Let me get this straight.” Piper said and Leo sat down. “What you are saying,” she continued, “Is that in your past, Chris came back to save Wyatt.”
She paused and Leo nodded. “I got pregnant, but hid it.”
Again she paused, so far all of this was lining up with her history. “Then Chris died saving Wyatt from Gideon. The news of this caused me to go into labor.”
Leo said, with tears in his eyes, “Yes...”
Piper put her hand up to stop him and said, “I am from just before that point in history. The baby is due soon. Why didn’t I know he was my son? Wait, why doesn’t he know you now?”
Leo hung his head and sniffled before continuing, “That is my fault.”
Piper raised her hands to blow him up but he raised his own hands in defeat, “We discussed it. We thought that it would be safer to have me up there to keep an eye on the other Elders. We thought that if I could just come down occasionally to make sure Wyatt was trained properly that we could keep him from turning evil.”
Piper thought about the decision for Leo to stay in Elderland permanently. Once he had made up his mind there was no changing it. Seems having two sons wasn’t going to alter his thoughts on protecting his family. If Leo decided the best way to protect them was to be ‘up there’ then that is where he would go. She nodded her head then said, “But we were wrong?”
Leo looked back at her and said, “Yes, you had been keeping a diary. It may have been Gideon that planted the seed but it seems there was a trigger to him going evil.” He put his head down.
Piper stopped him, “A diary? I never kept a diary.”
Leo sadly nodded his head, “You started writing down the times you saw darker sides of Wyatt. You kept it…” It was hard to say the next words, “You kept it to show me. So we could come up with a plan.”
Piper was trying to follow and piece things together, “But if we were wrong… wait, you said a trigger. If he had been tipping towards evil, then what was the trigger?”
Leo didn’t move.
Piper was getting angry, “Leo, what was the trigger?”
When he raised his head the tears spilled down his face, “You… your death was the trigger. After that there was no pulling him back. He was all about ‘The Power’.” Leo raised his hands to form finger quotes around the two words. “He said there was no such thing as good and evil just who had the most power.”
Piper was shaking her head, “No, that’s not possible. You can’t know all that, you are just assuming! None of that has happened yet!”
Leo stared at her in disbelief, “Haven’t you looked around? The city is in ruins.”
Piper turned to look out a window for the first time since entering the room. She saw the smoke and as she gazed over to the Golden Gate Bridge she saw that it had been destroyed. “No! That just proves it wasn’t him! I just saw him; he was… well not fine but there for his brother. He got you to watch over Chris! He needed you because I had just died.”
Piper was desperate for Leo to understand, if all this devastation had happened already then it was not her precious baby that had caused it! “None of this could have happened in the few days since I died and the funeral.” She was so sure of herself that when she turned and saw Leo’s questioning face she became confused. “That was my funeral, wasn’t it? Where we just came from? I saw Chris… and I saw you… It was my funeral, right?”
Leo was already shaking his head; he took both her hands in his and said, “No, that was your dad’s funeral. It has been more than six years since your death.”
Piper couldn’t breathe. They had changed nothing. Worse than nothing she had made things worse. She was the trigger. She was the cause of her son’s turn to evil. She had asked the spell to take her to the place that triggered it and it took her to the scene of her own death. NO! This wasn’t going to happen. She would stop this. She put her hand back down on her pregnant belly and made the decision. She knew how she was going to stop this.
She stood up and pulled Leo with her. She leaned in and kissed him softly. She looked into his eyes and said, “I can fix this.” She looked around the small room and said, “Do you still have the diary.”
Leo nodded and left the room.
He returned quickly with a well-worn book and handed it to her but didn’t let go of her hand once the book was in it. “What are you going to do?” He asked quietly.
She dropped his hand and said commandingly,
“A Time for Everything and to everything it’s place.
Return what has been moved Through Time and Space.”
And with that gold and white light surrounded her leaving Leo alone in the dingy room with no idea what was going to happen.
TBC
Chapter 3