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Spoilers for Spin City, Chris-Crossed, basically all episodes containing Chris.
A Fragile Mind
Chapter 1
Piper was standing in the kitchen making pancakes for breakfast. It was only seven, but even though it was Sunday she still could not bring herself to sleep in. It wasn't like she was really sleeping anyways. Ever since she had found out the Chris was her son she couldn't help but wonder about the future and what was so bad that it made Chris the way he was. Was she really such a bad mother to have one child that was neurotic and the other evil. "It could be worse," she mused to herself "He could have had the same reaction to me as he had to Leo." And what a reaction it had been. Her and her sisters were shocked to find that their usually non-violent white lighter was beating the crap out of his father. Her thoughts were interrupted as her sisters came down for breakfast.
"Mmmmmm, I smell pancakes." said Phoebe as she entered the kitchen wearing her pajamas and a robe. She was followed into the room by her sister Paige, who was also still in her pajama's.
They all settled down and began to eat their breakfast. It was eight o'clock when they finally finished their breakfast, and Phoebe leaned back in her chair rubbing her stomach.
"Those were the best pancakes I ever had."
"Which is probably why you ate five of them" said Paige in a teasing tone as they cleared off the table.
"I would be surprised if there is anything left for Chris at all."
As Paige said this, Piper stopped what she was doing and looked at her sisters questioningly. "Speaking of Chris, where is her? He hasn't slept past 630 since he moved here, and it is closing in on nine."
"Don't worry Piper, maybe he became a normal person and decided to sleep on Sundays."
Piper shook her head slightly, she couldn't help but feel that something was wrong. "I don't know, I think I am going to go and check on him. If he is sleeping I will leave him alone, but with our luck he could have been turned into a demon again."
Meanwhile upstairs...
Chris was lying on the bed sleeping when his nightmares began. It had been a long time since he had these nightmares. He could see his mother dying in his arms telling him that she loved him, Bianca dying telling him to go with the wood impaling her stomach, his brother laughing as he began to strangle the life of their cousin Prudence. Then the images changed and his father appeared. It started out with him taunting him in the spidren lair, it soon changed to him on the bridge, then it was him writing the apology letter. How he hated those letters as a child. He used to get them every birthday, holiday, ever cancelled trip. To see him writing one of those letters made him want to cry. The flashback nightmares continued more and more death, family gone and friends dead.
Suddenly he sat up in a cold sweat. Why had the nightmares had come back? They had been gone for so long. The memories, so painful, so fresh in his mind. Every time he closed his eyes he could see the dead, lying there lifeless. He couldn't take it the memories were overwhelming him. He moved on his bed until he was in the corner. he was beginning to hyperventilate, the memories. Little Prue lying dead at Wyatt's feet. He was hyperventilating now, his knees brought up to his chest. He couldn't take the memories. He began to retreat farther and farther into his mind, trying to hide from the memories. Finally he couldn't see them anymore. They were gone. All he could feel was peacefulness, his consciousness now curled like his body, in a small corner deep in his mind.
Piper headed up the stairs towards Chris's room. As she continued she felt silly "What if he is just sleeping in. He is a big boy" But still she had a nagging feeling that she just couldn't quite shake. "All else fails I can blame it on the hormones."
She opens Chris's door and sees him in the corner. "Hey, so you are awake. You'd better get downstairs before Phoebe finishes off the last of the pancakes." When Chris doesn't so much as blink she gets closer.
"Chris? Sweetie are you alright?" He continues to stare straight ahead at nothing.
Scared she goes up to his bed and tries shaking him "Chris... CHRIS" She say a little louder this time, she is quickly becoming frantic. When he has no reactions, Piper truly begins to panic.
"PHOEBE, PAIGE...Come up here quickly." Piper yells hysterical.
Paige and Phoebe run into the room and look around confused. "What's wrong?"
Piper looks up at the, her eyes full of fear "He isn't moving. He's just sitting there staring. Its like he is dead I mean I tried shaking him but he wont move. he wont say anything."
Paige and Phoebe immediately run to Chris's side to try to wake him. Several attempts to wake him later. Piper is freaking out. "LEO, LEO, we need you. LEOOOOOOO."
Leo orbs down in a swirl of blue lights. "Piper what's wrong?" he asks when he sees her standing before him panicking. She points towards Chris. "He.... he..." she cant finish before she finally breaks down sobbing. Leo rushes to try and heal Chris and finds though he cannot sense him, he is perfectly healthy.
"There's nothing wrong with him. He is perfectly healthy." Leo finally answers.
"But, he's, maybe it is a spell or." Piper starts, when she is interrupted by Leo.
"No, it isn't mystical. I can't sense any magical cause, Piper think we should take him to the hospital."
"I will go call an ambulance." Says Paige getting up. Everyone turns to stare at her. "What, it isn't like we can get him into a van, and if we orb him they are gonna wanna know how he got there."
A half hour later Chris is curled up on a hospital bed, with his family waiting for the doctor to return with the news. The doctor comes in a few minutes later with a few attendants and a stretcher. They prepare to move Chris.
"What are you doing, where are you taking him?" Piper asks still upset.
"We are transferring him to the Psychology ward." Replies the Doctor.
"What, he's not crazy, he must be hurt." Piper says confused at the turn of events.
"Why don't I tell you about his condition while they transfer him."
They go into the doctors office to discuss what's wrong with Chris. "I know you want to know what is wrong with Chris, but the easiest way to say this is that there is nothing wrong with him," The sisters begin in outrage. And he waves his hands as if to silence them.
"I mean there is nothing physically wrong with him. Chris is in what we call a cationic state. For some reason he has retreated into the deepest recesses of his mind. He doesn't answer or respond to stimuli anymore because he has pulled his consciousness completely from those parts of his mind. It is a defense mechanism some people have that keeps them from completing losing it. Something has happened that made him so upset that he could no longer bear it and retreated into his mind to keep from going all together insane."
"You mean he did this to himself?" Piper asks confused
"Not intentionally, no. Do you have any idea what he could have experienced that would upset him this much.
They all look at one another thinking about the events that transpired in the Spidren's lairs just days ago. He seemed to be dealing with it, but events seemed to have proved that assumption wrong. "He has been under a lot of stress lately, maybe that caused it..." Piper drifted off into thought.
"How ling until he comes out of this state?" Leo asks concerned for his son, feeling that in same large part that he was responsible for this happening to Chris.
"I have to admit I don't really know. It could be ten minutes, it could be a few weeks. It all depends on him. If it is longer than a day we will start him on intravenous feeding and insert a catheter. Also we have physical therapists which can keep his limbs working. I suggest if you want to help him that you go and sit with him. Though he doesn't respond, on some level he can still hear you and patients of this type usually wake up sooner when family talks to them. "
"Can we go see him now?" Piper asks concerned about her future son
"Yes, he is in room 302."
A few minutes later they are standing outside room 302. Piper turns back to her sisters. "If you guys don't mind, I prefer to go in alone first." her sisters nod sympathetically, Leo gives her hand one last squeeze and Piper walks though the door.
She is heartbroken to see Chris lying on the hospital bed, staring out in front of him, but seeing nothing.
She sits on his bedside, and runs her fingers through his hair. "Oh god Chris, my baby, why didn't you just tell us. We would have been there for you. We love you, I love you." Finally minutes later she kisses him on the forehead and goes to tell her sisters and husband that they can come in.
It was shaping up to be a long night,
Spoilers for Spin City, Chris-Crossed, basically all episodes containing Chris.
A Fragile Mind
Chapter 1
Piper was standing in the kitchen making pancakes for breakfast. It was only seven, but even though it was Sunday she still could not bring herself to sleep in. It wasn't like she was really sleeping anyways. Ever since she had found out the Chris was her son she couldn't help but wonder about the future and what was so bad that it made Chris the way he was. Was she really such a bad mother to have one child that was neurotic and the other evil. "It could be worse," she mused to herself "He could have had the same reaction to me as he had to Leo." And what a reaction it had been. Her and her sisters were shocked to find that their usually non-violent white lighter was beating the crap out of his father. Her thoughts were interrupted as her sisters came down for breakfast.
"Mmmmmm, I smell pancakes." said Phoebe as she entered the kitchen wearing her pajamas and a robe. She was followed into the room by her sister Paige, who was also still in her pajama's.
They all settled down and began to eat their breakfast. It was eight o'clock when they finally finished their breakfast, and Phoebe leaned back in her chair rubbing her stomach.
"Those were the best pancakes I ever had."
"Which is probably why you ate five of them" said Paige in a teasing tone as they cleared off the table.
"I would be surprised if there is anything left for Chris at all."
As Paige said this, Piper stopped what she was doing and looked at her sisters questioningly. "Speaking of Chris, where is her? He hasn't slept past 630 since he moved here, and it is closing in on nine."
"Don't worry Piper, maybe he became a normal person and decided to sleep on Sundays."
Piper shook her head slightly, she couldn't help but feel that something was wrong. "I don't know, I think I am going to go and check on him. If he is sleeping I will leave him alone, but with our luck he could have been turned into a demon again."
Meanwhile upstairs...
Chris was lying on the bed sleeping when his nightmares began. It had been a long time since he had these nightmares. He could see his mother dying in his arms telling him that she loved him, Bianca dying telling him to go with the wood impaling her stomach, his brother laughing as he began to strangle the life of their cousin Prudence. Then the images changed and his father appeared. It started out with him taunting him in the spidren lair, it soon changed to him on the bridge, then it was him writing the apology letter. How he hated those letters as a child. He used to get them every birthday, holiday, ever cancelled trip. To see him writing one of those letters made him want to cry. The flashback nightmares continued more and more death, family gone and friends dead.
Suddenly he sat up in a cold sweat. Why had the nightmares had come back? They had been gone for so long. The memories, so painful, so fresh in his mind. Every time he closed his eyes he could see the dead, lying there lifeless. He couldn't take it the memories were overwhelming him. He moved on his bed until he was in the corner. he was beginning to hyperventilate, the memories. Little Prue lying dead at Wyatt's feet. He was hyperventilating now, his knees brought up to his chest. He couldn't take the memories. He began to retreat farther and farther into his mind, trying to hide from the memories. Finally he couldn't see them anymore. They were gone. All he could feel was peacefulness, his consciousness now curled like his body, in a small corner deep in his mind.
Piper headed up the stairs towards Chris's room. As she continued she felt silly "What if he is just sleeping in. He is a big boy" But still she had a nagging feeling that she just couldn't quite shake. "All else fails I can blame it on the hormones."
She opens Chris's door and sees him in the corner. "Hey, so you are awake. You'd better get downstairs before Phoebe finishes off the last of the pancakes." When Chris doesn't so much as blink she gets closer.
"Chris? Sweetie are you alright?" He continues to stare straight ahead at nothing.
Scared she goes up to his bed and tries shaking him "Chris... CHRIS" She say a little louder this time, she is quickly becoming frantic. When he has no reactions, Piper truly begins to panic.
"PHOEBE, PAIGE...Come up here quickly." Piper yells hysterical.
Paige and Phoebe run into the room and look around confused. "What's wrong?"
Piper looks up at the, her eyes full of fear "He isn't moving. He's just sitting there staring. Its like he is dead I mean I tried shaking him but he wont move. he wont say anything."
Paige and Phoebe immediately run to Chris's side to try to wake him. Several attempts to wake him later. Piper is freaking out. "LEO, LEO, we need you. LEOOOOOOO."
Leo orbs down in a swirl of blue lights. "Piper what's wrong?" he asks when he sees her standing before him panicking. She points towards Chris. "He.... he..." she cant finish before she finally breaks down sobbing. Leo rushes to try and heal Chris and finds though he cannot sense him, he is perfectly healthy.
"There's nothing wrong with him. He is perfectly healthy." Leo finally answers.
"But, he's, maybe it is a spell or." Piper starts, when she is interrupted by Leo.
"No, it isn't mystical. I can't sense any magical cause, Piper think we should take him to the hospital."
"I will go call an ambulance." Says Paige getting up. Everyone turns to stare at her. "What, it isn't like we can get him into a van, and if we orb him they are gonna wanna know how he got there."
A half hour later Chris is curled up on a hospital bed, with his family waiting for the doctor to return with the news. The doctor comes in a few minutes later with a few attendants and a stretcher. They prepare to move Chris.
"What are you doing, where are you taking him?" Piper asks still upset.
"We are transferring him to the Psychology ward." Replies the Doctor.
"What, he's not crazy, he must be hurt." Piper says confused at the turn of events.
"Why don't I tell you about his condition while they transfer him."
They go into the doctors office to discuss what's wrong with Chris. "I know you want to know what is wrong with Chris, but the easiest way to say this is that there is nothing wrong with him," The sisters begin in outrage. And he waves his hands as if to silence them.
"I mean there is nothing physically wrong with him. Chris is in what we call a cationic state. For some reason he has retreated into the deepest recesses of his mind. He doesn't answer or respond to stimuli anymore because he has pulled his consciousness completely from those parts of his mind. It is a defense mechanism some people have that keeps them from completing losing it. Something has happened that made him so upset that he could no longer bear it and retreated into his mind to keep from going all together insane."
"You mean he did this to himself?" Piper asks confused
"Not intentionally, no. Do you have any idea what he could have experienced that would upset him this much.
They all look at one another thinking about the events that transpired in the Spidren's lairs just days ago. He seemed to be dealing with it, but events seemed to have proved that assumption wrong. "He has been under a lot of stress lately, maybe that caused it..." Piper drifted off into thought.
"How ling until he comes out of this state?" Leo asks concerned for his son, feeling that in same large part that he was responsible for this happening to Chris.
"I have to admit I don't really know. It could be ten minutes, it could be a few weeks. It all depends on him. If it is longer than a day we will start him on intravenous feeding and insert a catheter. Also we have physical therapists which can keep his limbs working. I suggest if you want to help him that you go and sit with him. Though he doesn't respond, on some level he can still hear you and patients of this type usually wake up sooner when family talks to them. "
"Can we go see him now?" Piper asks concerned about her future son
"Yes, he is in room 302."
A few minutes later they are standing outside room 302. Piper turns back to her sisters. "If you guys don't mind, I prefer to go in alone first." her sisters nod sympathetically, Leo gives her hand one last squeeze and Piper walks though the door.
She is heartbroken to see Chris lying on the hospital bed, staring out in front of him, but seeing nothing.
She sits on his bedside, and runs her fingers through his hair. "Oh god Chris, my baby, why didn't you just tell us. We would have been there for you. We love you, I love you." Finally minutes later she kisses him on the forehead and goes to tell her sisters and husband that they can come in.
It was shaping up to be a long night,