Epilogue to "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father"

[Esmeralda]

TITLE: Epilogue to "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father"
AUTHOR: Esmeralda

CHAPTERS/PARTS/SECTIONS: Six
RATING: (K, T, M, MA): T for Charmed-type violence and language and strong emotions.

LEAD CHARACTERS: Chris and Piper
ORIGINAL CHARACTERS: None

SHORT SUMMARY: What happened between Piper & Chris after "Courtship of Wyatt's Father" when Piper first found out that he is her son? First she gets mad, then she gets scared, then she and her son come to an understanding. Be sure to bring a tissue!!


Author's Notes:

During the summer between S6 and S7, I came up with an idea. I'd do a novelization of S6, but include fanfics that helped turn the Chris on S6 that I hated into the Chris of fanfics that I love. Because my muse is early Phoebe Halliwell (I hear her voice in my head, telling me this story, although it's always Phoebs' voice, never the PhoeME/Freebie of latter Charmed) I decided to do it as a letter written by Phoebe to her nephew Chris, telling him all about that mysterious whitelighter from the future, Chris Perry!

Well, I wrote and got the permission from a number of authors to use their ideas, however, for various reasons, that novel died--to put it mildly, I bit off a *lot* more than I could chew!

But I still love portions that I wrote, because they *are* what show the changes in Chris, scenes that should've been part of S6, but weren't. Of those, this is my favorite. It starts near the end of "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father". As one of the authors put it:

I wanted to show how Piper and Chris came to having that relationship they have in later episodes. I found the series just skipped over that much too hastily and it disappointed me.

I agree totally and I think you might, too, after you read this.

DISCLAIMER:

I own nothing Charmed. All characters belong to Aaron Spellings Production and The WB, now The CW. This story is based on fanfiction found in The Charmed Cafe's Fan Fiction and is used with permission from their authors. It features characters, plotpoints and/or conversations based on ones from the following stories:

"Understanding" by Valkyrie Doll aka sugarbox

"Do I Know You?" by Charmed LitWitch

and is used with their permission. This fanfic is lovingly, gratefully dedicated to them!!


EPILOGUE TO "THE COURTSHIP OF WYATT'S FATHER"

Written by Esmeralda

Extra Disclaimer:

This story is based on Fan Fiction found in The Charmed Cafe's Fan Fiction and is used with permission from their authors. It features characters, plotpoints and/or conversations based on ones from the following stories:

"Understanding" by Valkyrie Doll aka sugarbox

"Do I Know You?" by Charmed LitWitch

and is used with their permission. This fanfic is lovingly, gratefully dedicated to them!!


PART ONE: Shock

Extra Disclaimer: Some of the dialogue is taken from Episode 6.16: The Courtship of Wyatt's Father, written by Brad Kern.

Now that Paige and I knew that Piper was pregnant with Chris, we were sitting on Piper's bed, waiting for her to come in, eager to share our news with her. When she walked in, she was very surprised to see us, saying, "Oh, hi," before warily asking, "What's going on?"

I patted the bed between Paige and me. "Here," I urged. "Maybe you'd better sit down..."

I didn't mean to worry her, but I did. "Uh-oh," she remarked even more warily. "That doesn't sound good."

I led her over to edge of the bed, telling her, "No, it is, I think--" and I turned to Paige, asking her, "Don't you?"

She nodded tentatively. "I think," before adding, "It depends."

Now Piper was now more worried, and starting to get a bit impatient with us. "Okay, now that sounds worse."

"No, no," soothed Paige, before adding. "It's just -- complicated, that's all."

Now Piper was becoming very impatient and demanded that we just come out and tell her.

I looked at Paige, who nodded for me to continue, so I tried. "Okay, well, uh, we sorta know what happened in the Ghostly Plane, I mean between you and Leo."

She stared at me in shock. "Excuse me?"

"Not because anybody told us or anything!" Paige quickly explained, "It's just because of, well, uh, Chris."

That confused her worse. "Chris? How would he know what happened?"

"Because he wouldn't still be here if it didn't happen," I told her matter-of-factly. She gave me a look of utter confusion, so I tried to explain it more clearly. "We've known for a while, but we weren't sure how to tell you, how to tell Leo."

"Tell us what?" she demanded.

So Paige just came right out and told her. "That Chris is Wyatt's little brother. And that if you and Leo hadn't, uh, gotten together in time, he'd never be born."

Piper was absolutely stunned, staring at us in disbelief, obviously unable to accept any of this. "Wait a minute, what?" she cried. "What are you saying?"

"I know this is huge --" I started.

"Huge?!" she yelled, now in total denial. "Are you kidding; it's crazy! In fact, it's, it's not even possible for a very simple reason -- I'm not pregnant!"

And both Paige and I very firmly, very emphatically nodded, letting our actions tell her in no certain terms that, yes, she was.

"But, how can that be..." she asked, still shocked. We watched as it slowly sank in, then she asked in a small, scared voice, "What am I going to do?"

"Maybe you oughta talk to Leo about it," I suggested, since I was determined to tell him if she didn't.

She shook her head firmly, still scared. "No, I can't."

"Why not?" asked Paige, and I was about to tell her that if she didn't, I would, because he deserved to know.

But Piper answered Paige. "Because, well, because it's hard enough for him to move on, to let go. I don't want to make it any harder."

Paige and I exchanged looks, not understanding, but before we could ask, Chris stepped into the doorway. Seeing the way Paige and I stared at him, he asked self-consciously, "Is this a bad time?"

Hearing his voice, Piper turned, and because I was sitting next to her and happened to look back at her, not Chris, I watched as she saw him for the first time as her son.

He must've noticed the difference in her glance, because he looked scared, unsure.

I looked at Paige and she looked at me. We both knew that this was a private moment between mother and son, neither of us certain how they would handle it, but knowing that it was up to them to figure it out. So we stood up and walked out, me patting Piper reassuringly on the shoulder, Paige patting Chris. She headed for her room.

Not snoopy Phoebe! I started to head towards mine, just to throw Paige off, but then after Piper led Chris into her room and closed the door, I had to quickly go stand on the other side, so I could hear what was going on.

"Why didn't you tell us?" I heard Piper ask.

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