CHAPTER 4 - IMPROVING

When you are stuck in some situation there's no other way than move forward to go on.

Right?

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It had been nearly two weeks since the incident with spider demon, small discovers had been made, for Leo it was part of the reason why Chris resent him, for Piper it was that she didn't have now a force shield that could protect her from the attacks, and for Chris was that Wyatt himself had that kind of power from the womb and not only that but above it all Ben had know it all along, he knew it was silly but it was just one other thing his brother was kind of better than him.

"So, am okay? I mean mini me in there?" Chris's asked once again to Piper

"When his not, I think you'll be the first to know"

"Then why you where worried back then"

"I wasn't worried" At this Chris gave her a skeptical look

"Maybe I was a little worried about the force field"

"What force field?" At this Ben stop dead in his tracks and turned to them

"The one she had with Wyatt" Paige trailed off as she glanced at them and notice how Ben waved his hands signing herto stop

"Wait, you had a force field with Wyatt but not with me?"

"Well, I didn't have one, he had one. It was all his doing"

"From the womb? He had powers from the womb too? that's so unfair" He then turned to Ben "Did you know about this?"

"I may have heard something in some occasion, Paige have you found the demon?" Ben changed the subject, there was no way he was going to explain that one to him.

Now the only thing that they do was going after demons in the underworld occasionally stopping to take a brake in the manor or the park, which held many memories to them, individually and together, where they came to play when they were young, where the all the family came together for a picnic, and it was the same park where Chris proposed to Bianca and that's where they were currently.

"I still can't believe you knew about the force field" Chris reproached once again to Ben who could only rolled his eyes once again. Chris has been special moody since the Wyatt field thing and the spider encounter but he guessed it had to do more with the fight with Leo that he wanted to admit.

"I told you I may have heard something somewhere" Ben defend himself, in truth he had always knew it but it wasn't something he was going to tell him, he already had problems with Wyatt being so powerful.

"Yeah right"

"Come on it's not really what you're mad about"

"Really? And what I'm really mad about?"

"I think you're mad about Leo and I think that you should stop been so hard on the poor guy, it's been two weeks and all you do is grunt to him"

"It had been that way since I got here" Chris really didn't want to talk about Leo; all concerning him make him feel… well make him feel too many emotions for his liking but the main feeling was anger.

"Well it can only get better since the spider-demon incident you punch him to… you know… bleed" Death didn't exactly apply to Leo

"What I can't believe is how you stand the guy, why do you even defend him?" Chris raised his voice and by this point Ben could tell Chris was getting angry or angrier but he knew that he need it to let it go too "I mean did you forgot what he did to us, HE abandon us, we had just lost our mothers, our aunts, we were all alone and he left, I mean uncle Coop actually had an excuse he literally died of love"

"He was suffering too Chris; he lost his wife, the love of his life…"

"You did too but I didn't see you bailing on us" at this Chris stopped instantly regretting his words, he did mean to bring that up but the anger got a hold in him "I'm sorry, I didn't mean…"

"It's okay, I know you didn't" Ben said, sadness evident in his face and words "And I think that's why I don't hold anything against him, because I know how he had must felt" Chris raised his head in shock to look at Ben and he continued "like the world was failing apart, that there wasn't anything to keep you grounded or alive , and not matter what you did the pain wasn't going away and to tell you the truth the idea of leaving everything didn't seem so bad " Ben was ashamed of this, of even thinking of leaving his family to their own but it was the truth.

"And why didn't you?" Chris was a little hurt by this but couldn't get angry at him, not after all he had done, he was the reason they were still alive and with exception of Wyatt together and happy or as happy you can get in that screw up future they had.

"I couldn't, I just couldn't leave you all. I loved you too much"

After this Chris had bittersweet smile in his face as he started this time calm "That's my point exactly, that didn't stop him from leaving" Ben felt sorry for Chris, he just wished he could change the future enough to avoid so much pain from Chris and the others.

"Well you may be right, but think of this, the Leo you resent Chris isn't this, he hasn't done anything, that's why is so hard on him so please just think about it"

Chris had to admit that Ben was right, he shouldn't keep lashing out to Leo he hadn't done anything really.

"Okay, I'll try but I don't make any promises"

"Alright" Ben glanced at the park "Now let's go."

"What? Where?"

"To the manor"

"Why?"

"I thought you said you were going to try"

"Yeah, but not now"

"Come on either way I need to use the bathroom, you have to take me"

"Then you go"

"You know I can't just go there"

"But they know you're part demon, I don't see the problem" Of course Chris could see the problem, not that he was going to give up that easily

"Yes, they know I'm part demon, but not what kind of demon. If they see me flaming in they are going to freak out not to mention they are going to vanquish me right in the moment"

"Come on, you know they can't" In truth neither of them new if the statement was true, Ben was truly powerful but never had been tested against something like the power of three, only against Wyatt and they seamed to be at equal.

Ben just gave a glare at Chris question him if he really wanted to find out, and making Chris just sigh because he knew he had lost. Taking Ben's arm he turned to see that no one was watching before he orbed out to the manor, and just like Ben himself would have planed it out everybody was in the living room, everyone being the girls on the couch and Leo with Wyatt on the sofa and everyone locked eyes with everyone, the tension high enough to be cut with a knife.

"I'm going to grab a bite" said finally Chris not standing the silence and then making his way to the kitchen leaving everyone's gaze to follow him.

"I think were improving" Everyone turned to Ben like he was crazy, what part of that could possible be considered as an improvement and Ben seemed to catch that."What? I mean, I don't see any blood, do you?"

Everyone seemed to accept that nodding to him

"Yes definitely improving"

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So everyone had been asking, who's Ben? To tell you the truth I didn't write it to be that much of a mystery, it actually isn't if you really think about it, so I hope although you figured out, you'll keep reading :P.