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Chapter 5: Crossroads

Piper and Phoebe were standing in the living room. Chris and Paige walked towards them, unexpected. Piper screamed: “Duck!” Both Chris and Paige took her advice and ducked. Piper motioned with her hands and the vial froze in the middle of its arc.

Chris and Paige got up. Chris glanced at the vial and swallowed. Then he looked at Piper. “Thanks” “You’re welcome. Come on, let’s get out of here”, Piper hurriedly said. Paige nodded and she and Chris followed Piper and Phoebe outside.

“Paige!” Paige turned around and looked at Richard. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt you. I just don’t want to lose you. I love you” Paige shook her head and went outside, to Pipers car.

“It’s not over, Paige!”, Richard psychotically yelled. “You can’t just dump me! I will never let you go! Do you hear me? I curse you, Paige Matthews. You’ll never find another love!”

Paige swallowed and got in the car, next to Chris. He winked at her and took her hand, to reassure her. “Don’t worry, you’re safe now. For real, this time” Paige nodded to convince herself. Piper started the engine and pushed the accelerator. They drove full speed ahead.

2031, San Francisco

“Aaaahhh!” A ten year old girl lay twitching on the ground. Tears rolled down her face and she sobbed. A man and a woman were watching cuffed, with a tortured glance in their eyes. Wyatt raised his hands and attacked the girl again.

Bianca covered her ears and squeezed her eyes shut. When the girl’s screaming stopped, she lowered her hands and turned her head with a jerk to Wyatt.

“Stop it! She’s just a kid! How can you torture a kid? Where’s your humanity?”, she smothery screamed. With his eyes focused on the girl, Wyatt answered. “Humanity and power do not mix. I had to enter the one or the other”

“Sick bastard!”, Bianca angrily snapped. Wyatt waved his hand and Bianca flew against the wall. She groaningly fell down and she motionless remained on the floor. Wyatt rotated his head to the couple, who was shocked watching the scene.

“I’ll say it one more time”, Wyatt unaffectedly said. “Join me and save your lives as well as the lives of your beloved ones or watch them all die” The mother cried and sobbed and the man nodded. An evil smile appeared on Wyatt’s face.

“I knew you two were not as dumb as you look like” He snapped his fingers and a piece of paper and a pen appeared in his hand. He handed it over to the man. “Just sign at the bottom” The man signed and reached out the paper back to Wyatt. “Your wife has to sign, too” The man gave the paper to his wife and she signed as well.

Wyatt accepted the paper back and snapped his fingers again. The paper and the girl disappeared. The woman screamed and the man angrily looked at Wyatt. “What have you done with our daughter?”

“That’s none of your concerns”, Wyatt replied. “All you need to know is that she’s alive, and she’ll stay that way as long as you don’t break the contract” He snapped his fingers and the ropes fell off.

2009, San Francisco

Phoebe was sitting in her office, working on her column. She’d read a letter from a woman who had marital problems, because she met her old childhood love and she was falling in love again. Now she didn’t know what to do. Phoebe started typing.

‘Dear Amaryllis,

At some points in our life we find ourselves at a crossroad. This leaves us two options: return and go back to how it was or take a different direction and start a new life. The crossroad isn’t the hard part, it’s the choice we make, for we’ll have to deal with it for the rest of our lives.*

If your hearts not in it anymore, you better end it and try over new. But if there’s still a spark in your heart that tells you not to give up, I’d say listen to it and fight to maintain what you have. Because you might be falling in love with that childhood love, to him you might be just a fad. So think before you abandon your faithful and loving husband, because you might lose everything’

Phoebe pressed the print button and the column was turned print.

Someone knocked on the door. “Yes?”, Phoebe answered and the door was opened. Jeff was standing in the doorway. “Hi, Phoebe, Elise sent me. She wondered when you’ll be ready with your column”

“I’m just finished”, she said and she took the paper out of the printer. She handed it to Jeff and he left her office.

Piper put her coat on and grabbed her handbag. She wanted to leave, when Chris called her back. “Hey, Piper, where are you going?” Piper turned around and looked at him. “To P3, to prepare for tonight”

Chris frowned. P3, P3, it surely rang a bell to him. “Remind me of what P3 is again” Piper sighed. “It’s my night club” Chris nodded. “Not in my time. Wyatt told me the demons have inflated it” Piper got a sad expression on her face, but than she pulled herself back together.

“Yeah, well, in my time my club’s very much alive and I’d like to keep it that way”, she said. “Wyatt has been fed. He just needs to be changed and than you have to put him down for his nap. You think you can do that?”

Chris’s eyes widened. “Wait! What?! You’re saying I have to do this?”

Piper blinked her eyes and gave Chris a smile. “Yes, Chris, that’s exactly what I’m saying”

“No, no, no, no”, Chris protested. “I don’t do babies, it really isn’t my thing”

“Well, that’s too bad, ‘cause you can’t hang around here like a professional sloth. Now, see you later”, she said and she left.

Chris groaned and went to the living room. Wyatt was sitting in his playpen and sucked on his pacifier. Chris leaned forward and lifted the baby out of the playpen and laid him on the pillow care. All he needed was within reach.

He removed the dirty diaper and he made the baby clean. Than Wyatt’s penis came up and he peed on Chris. “Aah, stop it!”, Chris said and he protected his face with his hand.

“Ohh, I think he likes you”

Chris jumped up and turned to Paige. “My God, would you please never do that again?” His breathing was fast and hunted. His grabbed his chest and he gasped for breath. He started choking and Paige got a very anxious expression on her face.

“Oh my God, Chris, what’s happening?”, she hysterically said.

“I’m…just…kidding!”, he said, ending in laughter. Paige indignantly gave Chris a tap on his head. “Oh, you’re such a jerk! You almost caused me a heart attack”

“So did you”, Chris reacted. He put Wyatt a new diaper on and than put his clothes back on. Than he picked Wyatt up and wanted to take him upstairs to lay him in his bed.

“Wait”, Paige said and Chris confusedly looked at her. “You’re not holding him the right way. You have to support his head, like this” She put Wyatt properly in Chris’s arms. “Now, go on, put him down for his nap”

Chris went upstairs.

Night came in and everyone was sleeping. Paige was tossing and turning in bed, having a nightmare.

‘You can’t just dump me. I will never let you go. I curse you, Paige Matthews. You will never find another love!”

“Paige! Paige, wake up! Wake up, Paige!”

Paige startled awake and saw Chris sitting on her bed. He had a scared glance in his eyes and she was covered in sweat and tears. She groaned and rubbed her forehead.

“What-what happened?”, she tiredly asked.

“You were having a nightmare”, Chris answered. “But you’re okay now”

“I was dreaming of Richard and the horrible things he said”

“Remember what I said earlier. You’re safe now”

“Phoebe and Piper told me what happened. That if it wasn’t for you, I’d be still in that basement. You saved my life, why would you do that? After I’ve been so suspicious and hostile on you”

“I guess it was my way to prove you I can be trusted”

Paige nodded. “I’m sorry I doubted you”

“That’s okay” Chris got up and wanted to go back to his bed, but Paige stopped him. “Wait” Chris turned around. “Would you mind staying here? Just for sleeping”, Paige assured him. Chris shrugged and nodded. Why not? If it helped Paige sleep.

He got in bed next to her and Paige looked at him. “If you touch me, I’ll throw you off the bed”, she warningly said. Chris chuckled. She didn’t have to worry. There was no chance in hell he would fall for her.

*Coming from One Tree Hill, season 6