Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:20:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Decade Subject: CHarming the Halliwells 14 All rights to the Halliwells and Charmed go to The Wb and Aaron Spelling. This is a spin-off of his creation, of which we're all thankful for. Chapter 14: The Truth...is? Chris walked into the kitchen, still groggy, and sat at the table. Melinda was there with Henry Jr. and Prudence (Phoebe's oldest twin) eating breakfast. Chris smiled and grabbed a plate and headed to an open seat beside them. " So, how is Parhas?" Prudence asked. Chris coughed and picked up a pancake, " He's scary, Prue. I mean, as much as he emoted last week, that's how much better he seems. He's dealing." he said, laying on the syrup. " Where is he now?" Henry asked. " Not sure. He leaves every morning and he stopped with everything except the column." Chris said, stuffing his face, " It's weird." " He has been at school, right?" Prue asked. Chris shrugged, " I have seen him as of late, but I know he's been there." he said. " I did see him. Or someone who looked like him. I just thought I was hallucinating cause he looked so..." Henry said, searching for the words. " Broken?" Wyatt asked from the doorway. Chris, Prue, and Henry looked up. " Hey bro, what're you doing here?" Chris asked. " Kinda here to talk to Drake." Wyatt said calmly, " He said some things and I need to say stuff." Prue smiled, " What'd he say, exactly?" she asked. " Doesn't matter. Can't fool an empath, remember." Wyatt smiled, " is he already at school?" Chris shook his head, finishing his pancakes, " No. Not sure where he is, but I'm sure he'll show up there." Chris said, grabbing his books from the counter. Prue and Henry joined them. They walked to the door, but stopped at the clattering of utensils. " Where are the others?" Wyatt asked. " Already gone." Prue said, walking away. Wyatt and the group followed her, leaving the Manor. =========================================================================================================== I laid next to Kyle, not smiling, not frowning. Just there. Kyle looked back at me, just waking up and smiled and stroked my chin. " What time is it?" Kyle asked I rolled over and faced the window, " Time for one of us to get a watch." I grimaced. " Didn't need one before I met you." he chuckled. " Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" I asked. " Anything with you is good." Kyle smiled, " Shouldn't you be ready for school?" " Right." I said, not moving. Kyle chuckled and put his arm around my waist. Before either one of us could say another word, Peter shimmered in. " Rise and shine, son." Petter said cheerily. We jumped up and I stared at Peter, " What are you doing here?" I asked. " Well, when my only son is endangering his education, I have to..." Peter said, quickly. " Huh?" I asked. " You plus not going to sxhool equals a very worried me and one pissed Halliwell." Peter said tensely. He rubbed his hands together, " Ok, how about you go to a therapist? maybe a shrink can..." he started. I sighed, " Ok, is everyone on their crazy pills? I've been going to school since...first grade. I missed a few days, but not this year." I said quickly, " And who told you that?" " I overhead it at the Manor." Peter said slowly and carefully. My eyebrows shot up, " so, I'm a topic of discussion at the Manor?" I asked defensively, " Wait, you were in the Manor?" " Sorta." Peter smiled. " You used your powers to spy on the Manor?" I asked, outraged. He shrugged, " If you call it that. I call it keeping an eye on you." he said, as it were really an excuse. " What is this?" I asked, " Is this some funny, funny game? Am I being punk'd?" I asked " At your party, you broke down." he said. " I did not." I lied. Kyle cleared his throat, causing both of us to look at him, " Actually, you did. And it's okay." he said, standing in front of me. " Are you two on crack? i didn't break down, I was upset about my cake." I lied again. " Look, kid, I understand your whole 'stubborn' thing, hell, like father like son, but you have to break this habit." Peter said quickly. " I'm not like you!" I said angrily, " I'll never hurt..." I said, breaking the comment. I remember the night of the party, when I was talking to Wyatt and how I said I wanted to hurt him. " You'll always hurt the ones you love." Peter said. " Peter, get the hell out." Kyle said sternly. Peter looked at him and smirked, then faded. " Babe, you shouldn't..." Kyle began. I smiled and nodded, " I should be getting to school." I said, jogging paast him and out of the apartment. ============================================================================================================ As I entered school, i was fully aware that all eyes were on me. I ignored the sympathetic smiles and snuck into the bathroom where I saw three guys getting ready to dunk some kid's head into the toilet. " Say it, fag!" the leader of the pack, Bristow, said. " It." I said and they all turned to me. They began to laugh. " Drake! Sorry for what's...umm...We're just trying to spread some joy to the masses. How about you come and dunk him, it'll make you feel better." Bristow smiled. " Really? I thought you were being the dumb jocks that people say you are." I smirked. A look of realization hit Bristow's face, " So, you're not cool with this, huh?" he asked. " Why would I be?" I asked. " You a fag too?" he spat. " You know what homophobia says about you, right?" I amirked, " Plus, I figure you'll try to kick my ass in a minute and all you'll be saying then is 'wha...how?!' " I said, still smirking. " Right." he said walking to me. I was about to freeze the scene when Wyatt stopped in my way, " Wyatt?!" I saud angrily. " Hey guys, I'm gonna need you to take a hike." Wyatt said, watching them leave. I noticed Chris and Henry trailing behind him, but I walked over to the nerdy little kid and helped him up. " Thanks." the boy said, " My name is Houston." " It's what I do." I said, watching him leave quickly, " What in the hell are you doing here?" " Looking for you." Wyatt said, " We need to talk." " Nah, not feeling very chatty." I said, leaning against the wall. " Dammit!" Wyatt shouted, starling us, " I'm trying to just be here for you and you are making this so hard! SHIT!" he said in frustration. " I just want you to give up already. I don't need another father...or the first one." I said quickly. " Good, cause I'm trying to be your friend." Wyatt said carefully. " Chris is my friend and he is away from me. Henry, hell, he's my friend and I see him less than you and still we have a better friendship." I said indifferently. " It's the future thing. We didn't see enough to show us anything except that we were together." Wyatt said. I looked at him in awe for a second, " We have to go back." I said. " What?" Chris asked. " No." Wyatt said. " Then we have nothing to say." I sneered, " Time to time, place to place, take me away to a better place!" I said, causing the world to disappear around me. ======================================================================================================== I stopped in place in the middle of Magic School. I immediately spotted Leo and stumbled over to him, causing him to frown at me. " What are you doing here?" he asked. I put my hands on my hips and looked around, " Depends on what you mean, 'Papa' Leo." I smirked. " I mean you should be in school." Leo said quickly, " Piper's going to kill you if she finds out that you didn't go to school." I leaned on the table, " You're right. She really shouldn't know about this. Worse case scenario, she finds out and blows you up. I'm still safe and really..." I joked. " Sad? Angry?" Leo asked. I stood again, " Not what I was gonna say, but yeah, how'd you guess." I asked. " Not hard to see. Isn't Wyatt supposed to be home?" Leo asked. I looked at him angrily, " How'd you know?" I asked, walkng to him. He shifted uncomfortably, " Call it intuition." My stare centered on him, " Or we knew he was coming and Piper swore me to secrecy. I cannot believe Piper passed her stare down to you." he said eerilely. I nodded, " Okay, Leo, where's Peter? Is he gone yet?" I asked. " No." he said looking through the pages of an odd book on his desk, " As a matter of fact, I'm sure he's at the hospital right now. Don't worry about him, I'm sure that he'll prove himself some day." " Poor mom." I said, " Why do you have to be optimistic? You could be weirdly religious...or even be a demon, but optimistic? That's so unrealistic. I mean, then I could say you were wrong and vanquish you." Leo laughed, " Sorry, I'm sure there'll be plenty of time to vanquish me." he smiled. " Got anything I can kill?" I asked hopefully. He shook his head, " Nope, but if you're not going to school, Professor Michaels is sick today and..." Leo said. " Is he okay? Is it a sexy disease?" I asked. " ....And we need a sub. I was thinking you could do it." Leo offered. " Sure." I said, heading off to Mr. Michaels' class. I was almost there when a swirl of orbs appeared in front of me in the form of Chris, " Chris! What are you doing here?" " Looking for you." he panted, " apparently the school called Mom. She knows that you're not in school and I'm in the bathroom right now." he finished. " Thanks, but that doesn't matter. Leo knows I'm here and I'm hella ahead of the work schedule." I said quickly. " You do know school's mandatory, right?" he smiled. " I wasn't up on that." I chuckled. He nodded, " So, you're going to hang here?" Chris asked. ' no, I'm teaching." I said, recieving a disbelieving look from Chris, "No, seriously, I..." " WHADDYA MEAN HE'S HERE, LEO! He's supposed to be at school. The other school!" Piper shouted down the hall, " The one without magic!" I looked at Chris, " Thanks for coming, but you have to go! Quick!" I said quickly. " What about you?" he asked. " What's the worst that can happen? I die and become a whitelighter after Piper blows me up? Now go!" I said and just as he orbed away, Leo, Piper, and Wyat rounded the corner, " I seem to be popular today." " Don't try to joke your way out of this, young man!" Piper shouted, " I cannot believe you're skipping school!" " You fought demons for a living and you don't believe I skipped school?" I asked. Piper growled, " You are in so much trouble." she said irritably. " Piper, maybe we should calm down and have a nice, long talk." Leo said peacefully. " Screw that!" Piper said quickly, " I know you're going through a...rough time, believe me, bee there, done that, and you're acting out, but you just need to slow down." she said, grabbing my arm softly. I chuckled, " I don't think you get it. I'm not acting out and I don't need your help. I just want everybody to let me do what i want! I just want to be allowed to do what I need to do...I can't change me. This is what I do, I don't cry, I work. I study. I...skip." I said quickly, " and now I'm going to teach." " You're not done learning." Wyatt said slowly. " Who is?" I asked, walking into the classroom and standing in front of the desk, " Hey guys, Professor Michaels is out, so I'm taking over. Is that okay with everyone else?" I asked, getting nods and postive confirmations. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris sat in his seat, trying to concentrate on the lesson Mr. Griess was teaching, but all he could think of was Drake. He wondered if Drake was okay or if he was hanging by his feet in their basement. The world was a creepy place, definitely. Chris really had to go to the bathroom really bad, but he had already been and he was already regretting it. He thought about how he could get it. At the top of the list, there was orbing out, but that posed a major problem. Then there was just asking again....no solid proof it would work. the last idea was to fake sick as fast as he can. He picked the last one. Chris raised his hand, " I'm feeling sick, can i please go to the bathroom?" he said, standing. The teacher nodded and scrambled out of the room. As he was almost to the bathroom, he noticed a girl cowering in the corner and slowly crept towards her, " Are you okay?" The girl jumped and looked at him, " Is he gone?" she asked. " Who?" Chris asked. She looked past him, " HIM!" she shrieked and pointed, and Chris whirled around to see a big demon stnading behind him. " CHARMED ONE!" he bellowed, " I'm Krimean and I shall rule you!" he laughed. Chris grabbed the girl to get her up, but the demon touched his back and liquified into his body, causing a slight shiver. The girl whimpered in the corner and Chris sighed and grabbed her up, " Stop whining." he smiled, kissing her and pushing her to the floor a crying heap. ============================================================================================================= " I just don't get him!" Piper vented, " I mean...He's nuts." " Just like you." Leo said, " That's why he irritates you so much." he smiled. Piper sat with her hand on her forehead, " Were we really this difficult?" she asked. " No." Leo said, comforting her, " And yes. Something ironic about it. It's a challenge and I think we're up for a challenge." " We?" Wyatt asked. " Yeah." Leo smiled, " Look, I know things have been off between you two lately, but..." " Try non-existent." Wyatt said, " He's less than thrilled with me for not coming hom more often." Piper cleared her throat, " I'm a little angry about that oo." she smirked. " Sorry." he blushed, " I just needed to adjust." " How's that going?" Leo asked. " I'll tell you when it happens." Wyatt sighed, " It's harder than it looks. Definitely not high school...I can make A's forever in high school, but in college, they're B pluses. I'm struggling to keep my A's." Leo and Piper looked at each other and walked to Wyatt, hugging him instantly. They all looked up at a knock at the door to see me leaning on the doorway, " Touching." I smiled, " But since class is dismissed, I think I'm gonna go." " Where?" Piper asked. I shrugged, " I'm going to go play with strangers and eat their candy." I sighed, " I'm sure somewhere out there some slut is getting mauled by something. And I'll be there." I said, turning to leave. As I walked down the hall, Wyat ran up behind me, " I'm sorry." he said quickly. I looked at him in disbelief, " For what?" I asked. " Being wrong." he said. " That doesn't fix much." I said, rolling my eyes, " But it's a start." I smiled. We both turned when we heard claps behind us. We boths turned to see Chris, who just smirked at us, " Hey Chris, what's up?" I asked. " Nothing. Just hanging around." Chris said, walking closer. As he got closer, I got a better look at his face and more importantly, his eyes. There was something different about them, almost evil. He was there, but his eyes weren't. " Chris, are you okay?" I asked, staring into his eyes. " Yeah, bro, you don'g look so good." Wyatt said, looking from him to me, " Does he?" " I'm great, as a matter of fact, I'm just about to show you how much." Chris said, swinging his arm and causing both, Wyatt and I to fly backwards down the hall! Piper and Leo came rushing out of Leo's office and stared at the sight, " Chris! What are you doing?" Piper shrieked. " Whaddya mean?" Chris asked. Leo and Piper ran to us and we looked at Chris, " Chris did you do this?" Leo asked. Wyatt and I stood to our feet and Chris swung his hands again, but this time we slammed into the wall, " Nah, don't know what you're talking about." he said, disappearing in a swirl of dark orbs. Wyatt and I dettached ourselves from the wall and I caught my breath, " Dammit! I think he's evil." Wyatt said. " Ya think?" I said arcastically, " He was fine this mor...." I said, stopping when piper looked my way. " He was here this morning?" Piper asked. " No and yes. I saw him at school." I said. " Doesn't matter, " Leo said, leading us to the school library, " We should find a book on reversing curses...or something." he said. " How about this, curse was cast, remove whe we asked, so we won't have to kick his ass." I said, looking around as if there was going to be swirls of orbs or light or something then I looked at them disapointedly, " Sorry." " I thought it was brilliant." Piper said, " Definitely Book of Shadows worthy." " We should go and research it." Wyatt said. " Weird." I said uneasily. " What?" Wyatt asked. " Usually it's Chris that I do this with." I said carefully, " The study and Book of Shadows thing." Wyatt looked down and I quickly corrected myself, " It's just that...You haven't done much in the way of researching." " I did it everyday for about six years" Wyatt shurugged, " Not counting just reading it everyday for fourteen years." " I'm sure you're good at it." I smiled. Piper and Leo chuckled, " So obvious." Piper said. I frowned and grabbed Wyatt's hand, " Let's go." I said, bracing myself to orb. " I cannot believe you're the only one who can't orb." Leo said, " If you have a little Paige in you, that should come naturally." " I think I'm more car bound." i smiled. " I like it when you hitch a ride with me." Wyatt smiled. I smiled too, then stopped at the gaze of Piper and Leo. =============================================================================================================== Chris tried to pick the book up from the floor, but it glowed and slid further away from him. He huffed in frustration. He sat on the floor in front of the stand, chuckling at the terrible day he was having. First it was Drake, then the girl, then the demon. The demon that was taking control of his body. " They're gonna vanquish you." Chris laughed. Krimean made Chris raise his hand and hit himself in the chest, " If you hadn't noticed, I've bonded with you. If they try, they will kill you and I'll move to the next body." Krimean laughed deeply, " I know your secrets. The one in particular that you wouldn't want your Charmed family to know. Your Charmed brothers in particular." Krimean said. " Secret?" I asked, standing behind them, " What don't you want us to know?" Chris twitched, " Where'd you come from?" he asked. " We orbed in while you were..." Wyatt paused and looked at me, " Talking to yourself." I looked to the book, " Why is the book on the floor and why are you attacking us?" I asked. " He's here." Chris said softly. " Who" I asked. Chris looked down, then back up with a smirk, " Me." he said, raising his hands and sending me flying back! Wyatt put up a shield, but it didn't help me. Something flashed in Chris' eyes and he lowered his hands, " STOP! I'm sorry, Drake! It's him!" he said, orbing away, this time in bright orbs. Wyatt helped me to my feet and I dusted myself off, " Ijm us ut weurd that I'm more worried than pissed?" I asked. " No, I'm feeling that too. Are you okay? That's the third time." Wyatt said, inspecting me. I nodded and looked to the book, " Yeah, I think I'm missing an arm and maybe a spleen, but I'm good." I said, picking it up and putting it on the stand and flipping through the pages, " I'd love to know Chris' secrets, but I think we need to expel the demon now." I said worriedly. " Agreed." Wyatt said, wacing his hand over the book, " We call upon the powers of the book, turn to the page where we should look." he said, causing the pages to flip rapidly and stop at a name, " Krimean?" Wyatt asked. " Yeah, says we can't vanquish him. If we do, the host is killed and he moves to a different body. This is strange, there's a vanquishing potion, but if we use it, Chris dies." I frowned, " Does that make sense?" I asked. " Not really. Maybe we could kill Chris and Kyle could heal him really fast." Wyatt said, pacing. I shook my head, " No good. He can't heal the dead." I said, grabbing Wyatt's shoulder, " we're gonna find a way, believe me." I said reassuringly. " I know, but what if we mess up?" Wyatt asked. " Then we'd be truly Charmed. The thing is that no Halliwell stays dead." I smiled, " Except Prue." " Good thing you've got Halliwell blood." Wyatt said, putting his hand on my shoulder. " I still don't completely get that. Isn't that like, just inviting AIDS? Or wait...does that make us brothers? Or am I your uncle? Ewww!" I shouted, flopping down on the couch. Wyatt chuckled, " No. You just have some of their blood, your original Summers blood is still there and dominant, it's just that they gave you portions of their blood." he said, sitting beside me. I looked at him with a raised eyebrow, " They explained things." " Yeah, I knida threw a fit and left." I said. Wyatt nodded, " So, you remember what happened the day I went to college?" he asked. My eyes darted at him and I was blown away that he was bringing it up, " ...yeah." I said slowly. " I need to know something, do you love me?" Wyatt asked. I got up and walked to the book and he followed, " You do...but, you...guilt? What's with guilt?" he asked. " Look, now isn't the time and I just want to repress right now." I said, walking away to the potion ingredients on the table, " Chris is first priority." Wyatt nodded, " I know, but why do you feel guilty?" he asked. " Because the answer is yes. A big yes and I don't know how to stop feeling that. You make me wanna cry." I groaned. " Oh." he said quickly. " You make me wanna laugh, to die, to hide...there's a list somewhere of things you make me wann and I don't want that to...I wanna flip a switch and cut that off." i said, looking at the ceiling, " KYLE!" I shouted. " Why are you calling Kyle?" Wyatt asked. " We need help." i said calling him again. Kyle materialized and looked at us, " Demon?" he asked. " Chris." I said. " Where's the punchline?" Kyle asked, puzzled. Wyatt crossed us to the book and held iit up, " Krimean, possessor demon." he said. " Krimean? No one's been able to defeat him." Kyle said dramatically. I sighed, " Got it. Maybe if we could get to Chris, then maybe he could fight Krimean off." I suggested. " I'll go." Wyatt volunteered. " Only fair." I said, noticing Wyatt's strange look, " What's wrong?" I asked. Wyatt looked from me to Kyle, " Nothing. I better see if I can find him." he asked. " I'd say scry, but since you're half whitelighter and he's your brother, then you should be able to sense him." Kyle said. " Thanks, I'll try that." Wyatt said, orbing away. " What's wrong with him?" Kyle asked, walking up behind me. I looked stunned with realization that Wyatt was a, " Empath. Wyatt's an empath, he feels...what others feel. And I can't control my emotions." I said, returning to the book. Kyle walked to me, " Are you okay?" he asked. " I will be." I smiled weakly, " When Chris gets back to his senses." I said, flipping through the book. ================================================================================================================ Chris found himself underground, managing a bunch of demons under the control of Krimean. He tried to hide the fact that he was in control now, and it was working until Wyatt orbed in. The demons readied themselves to attack Wyatt, but Chris said, " STOP!" " But master, he is another Charmed oNe." One of the demons said. " Is that what I am, Chris?" Wyatt asked. " No...Yes." Chris said, sruggling. the demons moved and stopped. " It's Krimean, right?" Wyatt asked. Chris nodded and Wyatt continued, " You have to let your secrets out. Probably the only way to expell him." " I can't." Chris said, shaking his head. " Why not?" I'm not gonna use it against you. And chances are that non of these demons are gonna make it out of here." Wyatt said, searching the room. " Because Wyatt, there are things that..." Chris trailed off. ' he's in love with..." Krimean said, but Chris shook his head, " NO! Don't!" Chris yelped. " Who? That's your biggest secret? Is she ugly?" Wyatt asked, confused. " Bianca." Chris lied. " That's all? Are you lying?" Wyatt asked. " KILL HIM!" Krimean ordered and the demons threw fireballs at Wyatt, who shielded himself. Chris sunk into a corner, writhing in pain and that's when he saw the shoes, " Drake?" he asked. " Yes." Drake said, pulling him up and kissing him, " Just say it." Drake whispered. " I love you." CHris said slowly. Drake smiled and let him slip to the floor, disappearing in a swirl of dark orbs. Chris felt something release him and soon he was staring at Wyatt's shield. Wyatt was holding off the demons when Drake orbed in. Drake. Just the sight of Drake, even with Kyle, made Chris breathe harder. Chris had been friends with Drake literally forever and it showed. Lately no so much. Chris thought it was weird he'd had these feeling for Drake and even weirder when he realized that Wyatt and Drake were together. It was a short together, but it was a life altering type of 'together'. Chris thought he had a chance when Wyatt moved to college, but something else was up with Drake. Something serious. As hard as he wanted to believe that he'd just kissed Drake, the dark orbs gave it away. Drake blasted away at the demons, narrowly avoiding the fireballs and then it happened, Chris' eyes met Drake's and Drake ran over to him. " Chris." Drake said, searching Chris for wounds, " Chris are you okay?" Drake asked. ' yeah." Chris said, just staring at Drake. " What?" Drake asked, looking athim tenderly, " Idiot! I thought you were dead." he said, looking from Chris to the shadows, " Chris orb yourself somewhere else!" Drake said cautiously. " Why?" Chris asked, watching Drake stand. Drake looked to be ready for whatever it was behind Chris, but Drake was sent flying out beside Kyle and Wyatt, who stoped and shileded him! Chris noticed something fall from his pocket as he sat up to look at the being that had just floated past him. Krimean made his way to the group in the center of the room and tried to sunc with one of them. He picked Drake, but Kyle jumped in front of him and synced with Krimean, causing him to writhe in pain on the floor. " KYLE!" Drake shouted, " Chris!" Chris looked for whatever fell from his pocket and found the potion bottle, then orbed to Wyatt and Drake, " Got it!" Chris said, automatically knowing what to do next. He reared back and threw the vial, causing Drake to raise his hands and blast the vial, making the potion fly over every ince of Kyle, who flew backwards against the wall! Kyle slumped over and Drake ran to him. =================================================================================================================== Drake sat at his bed, writing his column and answering his own questions. Wyatt stood at the doorway, watching me. wyatt had been standing there forever and started to leave so many times, but couldn't. " You can come in." i smiled Wyatt chuckled, " How'd you know I was there?" he asked. " I dunno. I just knew you were there." I said, closing the computer, " So, what's up?" I asked. " Nothing. About to go back to school and I just wanted to...talk." Wyatt said, sitting on the bed. " Really?" I asked, " About what?" " Are...are you and Kyle together?" Wyatt asked slwoly. I sighed and looked down, then back at him, " I was wondering when you'd ask." I smiled, " Yeah." Wyat looked like I had just hit him in the stomach, " so you let me pour my heart out and...I look like an idiot?" he said angrily. " No. That's why I tried to stop you and you don't look like an idiot." I said. " Yeah, right." Wyatt said angrily. " It's sweet. It's just not where I am. I need to be with you when..." I started. " WHen you've slept with everyone else?" he asked. I looked at him angrily, " The only thing worse than the fact you said that is that you've said that before." I said, hurt. " I'm sorry, it's just...I come back to be with you and you moved on that fast?" he asked. " so fast? I've been alone for six years, then this year I finally got with you and you left and once again I was alone, until...anways, you told me that we should. That one day we'd come back to each other and now you're trying to make me feel guilty. You came back to be with me because you're having a rough time at college. You need something to fal back on and it's not fair." I said loudly, " We're all working without nets and you won't? Wyatt, I will always love you, but I'm with Kyle." " You don't love him." Wyatt said, " It's just like Talik. You'll end up breaking his heart or vanquishing him." " Get out." I said. " Look..." Wyatt said, rising from the bed. " No, this time...really. Don't...you can't keep doing this to me. I may not have told you about Kyle, but that's no excuse for you to talk to me like that." I said, moving away from his touch. " You want to hurt me." Wyatt said, hugging me, " I know what you're feeling. I know you love me...I know you're scared that you'd really hurt me and most of all I know that you fee; guilty that you don't love Kyle. I feel it." I pushed him away and walked out of the door only to have him orb in front of me, " I have been the most door-mattiest door mat. I have let you decide that the future wasn't supposed to happen, then change your mind, then change it back...I work without a net all the time. I'm working without one right now, just being around you." he said, kissing me. I fought at first, then I gave in, " Oh my gosh...we can't do this." I said, shocked. " Right. I am a patient guy, I really am, but I'm not going to wait forever." Wyatt said, walking down the stairs. I followed, " Wyatt." I said, but he orbed away before I could reach him. And I walked back to Chris and I's room and hugged him. He was shocked so was I, but I hugged him so hard. He sighed and rubbed my back, " It's okay." he said quietly. Wyatt orbed to his new favorite place as of late, the bar, and ordered a beer, trying to erase what had just happened from his mind.