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preposterus) wrote2014-12-15 07:46 pm
preposterus) wrote2014-12-15 07:46 pm
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( tu shanshu ; history. )
Since his wikia and wikipedia links are kind of a fanbrattish mess, I wrote this instead. Much of Chris' life up until he returned to the past is conjecture/headcanon based off of hints he drops while in the past. His time in 2003/2004 is what constitutes the season 5 finale and all of season 6 of the show.
On November 15th, 2004, Christopher Perry Halliwell was born to the eldest Charmed One, Piper Halliwell, and her whitelighter, Leo Wyatt, and became the younger brother to the Twice-Blessed Child, Wyatt Halliwell.
That day was quite a momentous day, although little of its excitement had to do with Chris. On that day, when all of the Charmed Ones were quite thoroughly distracted, Wyatt was kidnapped by Gideon (an Elder who had not only been a mentor to Leo, but argued for the rights of Wyatt's existence as a child of a whitelighter and his charge). The Elder feared the power of the Twice-Blessed and wanted to rid the world of it. Wyatt was missing for several months before finally being found. No one ever suspected Gideon's involvement, nor the amount of damage it had done to the impressionable child. Chris was never told exactly what happened when he was born.
(Meanwhile, Gideon returned Up There, no one suspecting his involvement in Wyatt's kidnapping. An Elder is a paragon of Good, why in the world would he be implicated for such a thing?)
For several years after that, Chris lived as normal of a life as a Charmed One's child was capable of. He went to school, he took the occasional course at Magic School (where Gideon was headmaster), and, once he was old enough, fended off the more-than-occasional demon attack with the rest of his family. His lack of power relative to mom, aunts and brother made him an easy target. It instilled in him the need to master what powers he did have to keep up.
Leo got busier by the day. Although he made the time if Piper or Wyatt called for him or if any of his other charges were in trouble, Chris rarely got that sort of time from his father. Almost every time Leo was supposed to be around, all Chris would get from his father was an apology letter. As one might suspect, he grew up as something of a mama's boy.
On the day Chris turned fourteen, all of that changed. Piper was killed in a violent and unexpected demonic attack. Both Wyatt and Chris witnessed this, but had drastically different reactions: Chris shut down; Wyatt got even. Wyatt, having already grown up with a skewed idea of what "Good" and "Evil" meant and how his power should be applied due to the trauma he suffered as such a young child, went on a rampage and destroyed every demon he came across in his search to take down the ones who had killed his mother. With the Power of Three broken, Wyatt bent on his mission of revenge, and Chris and Leo both heartbroken at the loss of Piper, the next few years were not easy. The only real bright point for Chris was when he got to know his maternal grandfather, Victor Bennett, and bond with him through the Event of Piper's death.
Both Phoebe and Paige were eventually killed in separate incidents, trying to protect themselves and their family. Chris left the manor and went to live with his grandfather permanently, and Wyatt finally surfaced. In his time in the Underworld, Wyatt had come to the belief that there was no such thing as Good and Evil, only power.
When Chris was sixteen (and Wyatt eighteen), the Twice-Blessed Child took over the world.
Chris' world had gone beyond shattered. His brother had declared himself evil overlord of the world and his grandfather was slowly dying. Although Chris hadn't been forced into hiding along with the rest of the magical community as one last 'gift' from his brother, he refused to join the new Supreme Overlord and did his best to fight against his brother's regime. He met a small group of like-minded individuals who still had enough hope to topple Wyatt's control and, with their help, managed to still do some good despite the odds against them and their often-unsavory methods. When he was twenty years old, Chris met and fell in love with an assassin witch named Bianca who had been contracted to kill the same demon that Chris had been hunting. Their relationship grew quickly, and soon they were engaged to be married. They promised they would get married as soon as Wyatt was stopped.
That day never came. Soon, they realized that perhaps they were looking at things wrong. If they couldn't undo what Wyatt had done in the present, perhaps they could undo what happened to turn Wyatt in the past? Surely, the easiest way to stop a problem was make sure it never started.
At twenty-one, Chris infiltrated the manor (now a memorial museum) along with Bianca. Although Chris was successful in retrieving the Book and casting the time travel spell, he was forced to leave Bianca behind to fight the demonic goons that had appeared in response to the Book's disappearance. Although it was 2026 when Chris entered the portal, it was 2003 when he exited.
It had worked.
Chris had just enough time tocut his hair do a little bit of ground-laying in this 'new' era before the perfect opportunity to insert himself in his family's lives arose: the Titans had escaped and were causing an incredible amount of havoc. Arriving just in time to save Phoebe and Paige from Meta, one of the Titans, he introduced himself as Chris Perry, a whitelighter from the future who had come back to specifically stop the Titans from "killing" Paige by transforming her into a statue. (This, as it turns out, is a bald-faced lie. Also the writers don't give a crap about continuity.) Thanks to the effort Chris put in during the crisis, he became the Halliwells' new whitelighter. All of this wasn't enough freedom for Chris to act as he found necessary to save Wyatt, and so right as Leo left, Chris scattered his father's orbs and sent Leo to Valhalla with the intent of bringing him home as soon as Wyatt's kidnapper was found.
Two months later, Chris still hadn't made much progress. He was eventually forced to tell the sisters about Leo's 'abduction', and stole several Valkyrie pendants (thereby killing them) to let the sisters enter Valhalla undetected and retrieve Leo. Leo was, understandably, suspicious of Chris upon returning and, somewhat less understandably, threw him into a cabinet.
The next chunk of time for Chris goes... slightly less complicated. He was involved in several things (such as helping the sisters regain their magic and identity from some ditzy blond witches), although it is worth noting that very soon after Phoebe developed her empathic power (about three episodes), Chris went to a demonic potion brewer with some very... extraneous instructions to make himself and the sisters an empath-blocking potion to keep them all from going insane. Of course, Leo had set the whole thing up as an excuse to catch Chris in the act of subterfuge — once the first potion was made and Chris gave it up to Leo in order to share with the sisters, he immediately turned around and commissioned another one for himself.
Nothing especially notable happened after that (aside from Chris being a huge jerk and insisting the sisters vanquish a small demon child because he was getting close to Wyatt. Chill out, dude. Also Chris and Leo had unstable-time-portal-adventures and Leo stopped hating him as much) until Bianca showed up in the back room of Piper's nightclub (Chris's current residence) and attempted to drain his powers. Chris, after some flashbacks to clue the audience in on his relationship to Bianca (including the part where she entrusted him their engagement ring), returned to Their Spot. Bianca was waiting and told him that her return was something special: if Wyatt had sent anybody else, all they would have had to bring back was a body-bag, whereas Bianca would try to bring Chris back alive. Oh and by the way that uncompleted power drain was going to kill Chris if he didn't let her finish the process. Chris basically went "are you kidding me" and orbed away before she could finish, then collapsed back at the manor. Bianca cast an inhibition-lowering spell on the sisters, which allowed her to abduct Chris and finish the job. Once Leo de-spelled them, the girls caught up with Bianca and Chris just in time to learn of Chris' witch/whitelighter heritage. There was nothing they could do to stop Bianca from taking a now-powerless Chris to the future.
Wyatt, as it turned out, had lost any patience he'd still had in relation to his brother. When Chris refused to join him one last time, Wyatt tried to kill him. Thanks to some hints Chris had left in the past, the sisters used a squeaky floorboard in the attic as a message in a bottle and left him a spell to return his powers — too late, however, as Bianca's attempts to hold Wyatt off left her in critical condition and dying before Chris' eyes. There was hardly any time for goodbyes, but they managed to leave the hope that they might meet each other again in the new timeline. Stealing the time travel spell so that Wyatt couldn't send any more assassins after him, Chris managed to return to the proper time, his determination to change the future even stronger than before.
After an incident involving a goo demon and some bright red go-go boots, it was almost Piper's birthday. The day before she turned thirty-one, a demon tried to attack Wyatt in his nursery and she had an epiphany: she would dedicate her life to raising and protecting her Twice-Blessed Child at the exclusion of all else if necessary... including love. It nearly gave Chris, who knew he would soon need to be conceived, a heart attack.
In the process of trying to subtly (haha, subtly) convince Piper that she shouldn’t give up on love, Chris made the easy mistake of, well, trying too hard and ended up kind of accidentally contributing to Wyatt being kidnapped by a cult called the Order.
No one was happy with Chris after that. He explained that the evil he came back to stop was, in fact, Wyatt himself and not some evil that managed to harm him in the future. The sisters were understandably less than believing and basically banished him from the house until further notice.
Some time later, he snuck into manor with a demon who could sense evil to try and locate whatever could be after Wyatt. As timing would have it, that was exactly when Leo and Paige came in and caught him red handed. Leo got pissed, but they needed Chris's help and sent him to fetch Phoebe. Once the crisis at magic school (wherein Gideon finally shows his face to the audience) was resolved, Phoebe confronted Chris with a question: was he Wyatt's little brother?
"Not if I don't get Piper and Leo back together in time."
After leaving Phoebe with that startling admission, he disappeared for nearly a week. He had to confirm how much time he had left. No matter where he went, he came up with the same answer: one month to be conceived, or Chris would never have existed. When he came to tell Phoebe this, they had a bit of an argument over Chris's disappearance and revelation, and, after some distraction involving a vision from the Middle East, Phoebe ended up becoming master to a djinn named Jinny. With the urgency in taking care of Jinny's former master, Chris was distracted by the much more important fact that Piper was about to get it on with a firefighter and immediately took the excuse to steal her from her date. The gang reconvened in the attic and, in desperation during an attack, Phoebe wished Jinny free. Turned out that Jinny had been an upper-level demon entrapped in the bottle and whoever wished the djinn in the bottle free would have to take its place.
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, Chris ended up the master of newly-djinn'd Phoebe. His first wish was accidental: for Leo to forgive him. His second was a little less-than-accidental: for Piper and Leo to sleep together. Unfortunately, while Phoebe was bound to carry out the wish, she was morally against making it happen and thus it was carried out literally. Piper and Leo took an adorable nap together instead. For the rest of the episode. Jinny took the time of distraction to attack. During the ruckus, Chris lost possession of the bottle and it was picked up by Paige's magic-obsessed witch boyfriend, Richard. They captured Jinny, but Richard escaped. Then Chris was forced to explain his heritage after trying to tell Paige why Piper and Leo were in a magically-induced sleep. While Paige went to talk to Richard, Chris stayed behind to look after his parents and managed to sabotage Piper's relationship with the firefighter while he was at it. Score!
In the end, Leo still forgave Chris even after the magic wore off, the bottle was disposed of for good, and it looked like there might just have been a chance for Piper and Leo to eventually get back together.
"Eventually," as it turned out, didn't come soon enough. By the time Wyatt's birthday rolled around, Chris had run out of time. It was either his parents conceive him within the next 24 hours, or he was done for. Despite Phoebe and Paige's best efforts at subtle, mundane ways of getting them together, they were forced to realize that they might have had to take more magical measures by the end of the night. Their plans were interrupted by a darklighter attack, and further derailed when everyone was lured across town by the very same darklighter, right into an ambush — Phoebe ended up injured, but Piper and Leo had disappeared entirely. Meanwhile, Chris had begun to do some disappearing himself. The girls focused their efforts on locating their missing family (and brewing a love potion, just in case) while Chris tried to continue existing. As it would turn out, the janitor from P3 was actually an Angel of Death who had wanted to get to know Chris before he would begin to fade, calling it a unique circumstance. Chris, understandably, told Clarence to take a hike. Phoebe and Paige determined that Piper and Leo had been dragged into the ghostly plane — thankfully, they had someone who was beginning to cross between the two planes as he sputtered in and out of existence. All it really did before Chris finally disappeared was confirm the location, and by the time he returned (mysteriously in an alley instead of the attic), everything had been settled. Well, everything except for Leo's darklighter wound, which was promptly taken care of.
The experience (turned out that the darklighter had been after Leo all along, and had put pretty much all of his family in danger because of it) spurred Leo to finally commit to his duty as an Elder and move Up There permanently. Clarence showed up at P3 one last time to warn Chris not to waste his second chance, and Phoebe and Paige broke the news of her pregnancy to Piper. Mother finally met son.
Several months passed by and Chris began to avoid Piper. He was terrified of getting close to her in a familial capacity when he knew she was going to die when he turned fourteen. He threw himself into sussing out the one who would turn Wyatt once again and eventually found himself in a spot of trouble. The Scabber demons he had been undercover with caught onto the spy in their ranks and Chris began scrabbling around for a way to vanquish or otherwise get them off his tail. Piper, fed up with her son's treatment, invited Victor over to see if her father would have any better luck talking to Chris than she had. Spoilers: he did. A lot more. Chris greeted Victor with enthusiasm and open arms. Feeling left behind in a relationship he was supposedly a huge part of, Victor tried several different ways of bonding with Chris, ranging from smoking cigars (which Chris even bent his own rules over and warned Victor away from) and going to a fancy restaurant. It was there that Chris revealed the secret of the Event to Victor. Though heartbroken at the knowledge of his daughter's future death, he suggested to Chris that it was even more reason to get to know her in the past while he still had the chance. They returned home to learn that Phoebe had accidentally placed herself under a spell that gave her the mentality of her high school self and was currently running amok. The Scabber demons were feeling neglected, so they showed up to remind people Chris was in danger. Chris was relegated to the attic, now fortified against unwanted intrusion, while the sisters took care of Phoebe—he protested, not wanting the pregnant Piper to overtax or injure herself, and finally allowed himself to call her Mom. How heartwarming~
Later, on the way back from a check-up for the baby, Piper, Paige and Chris were attacked by a spider demon. They managed to fend it off, but not before Chris's neck was slashed up by the demon. With Chris refusing to let them call Leo in for healer-duty, they were simply left to look for the demon in the Book. It was around that time that Chris realized that maybe the spider demon's claws were poisonous. Just a hunch. As the day went by, Chris began turning into Spider-Man! No, seriously, he did, he had the sticky fingers and heightened reaction times and everything. It wasn't until later that he went nuts, entrapped Piper in a magical web, and even protected the spider demon herself that the sisters realized something was Wrong. Thankfully, Phoebe knew how to kickbox and Chris... didn't. After they locked him up in the basement, he tripped out and got to talk to the spider demon, who beckoned him to retrieve Piper and return to the demon. Phoebe and Paige called Leo in and, after a horribly botched attempt at talking to the poisoned Chris, Leo learned that the neurotic whitelighter was his son. The sisters were distracted with making another vanquishing potion for the spider demon when Chris revealed he could shift into a spider and got out of the basement. After a slightly more successful tussle with his family, he managed to abduct Piper and leave Phoebe, Paige and Leo a little... uh, tied up. To the wall. In magical webbing. Yeah.
Things began to unravel when it was revealed that the spider demon (who fed on the most powerful magical presence it could detect every one hundred years) not only planned to feed on Piper's magic... but that of her unborn child. Way to go, Chris. With the help of some forest friends that Paige helped out earlier in the episode, the spider demon was squished and the impenetrable webbing into her lair dissolved. Her vanquish did nothing to cure Chris. Leo went inside alone to free Piper and try to talk Chris down; when Chris revealed himself, he orbed Piper out, just in time to get trapped inside the lair with Chris. After some probing comments asking after why Chris hated him, trying to snap him out of his demonic brainwashing, Leo managed to provoke Chris into a rage wherein Chris began beating Leo into a bloody pulp. ("You don't know me! You don't know me!!") Outside, Piper had the brilliant idea of taking the spider demon antidote herself to inoculate the baby Chris inside of her. The plan worked, and Chris's demonic poisoning faded. He barely hesitated in the abrupt change back to normal before he continued wailing on Leo. There were issues to be... resolved, okay? Piper pulled Chris off, and he maturely then went to sulk on top of the Golden Gate Bridge. Leo followed him there, where Chris explained that his father had never been there for him — for Mom, for Wyatt, for half the world... but never for Chris. The entire incident prompted Piper to stay at magic school until little Chris was ready to be born for their own safety. In light of all that he had learned, Leo once again returned to the mortal plane to try and help pick up the slack and repair his relationship with Chris.
Chris was still determined to not get along with Leo, but they eventually worked together to learn that the demon of fear, Barbas, was trying his hand at magical prosecution against the sisters and had made a deal to get out of hell should he win a case against them. Although it was proven that the trial was a sham, Phoebe's active powers were stripped as punishment for her abuse of magic... and Barbas was not sent back to hell.
On November 15th, 2004, Christopher Perry Halliwell was born to the eldest Charmed One, Piper Halliwell, and her whitelighter, Leo Wyatt, and became the younger brother to the Twice-Blessed Child, Wyatt Halliwell.
That day was quite a momentous day, although little of its excitement had to do with Chris. On that day, when all of the Charmed Ones were quite thoroughly distracted, Wyatt was kidnapped by Gideon (an Elder who had not only been a mentor to Leo, but argued for the rights of Wyatt's existence as a child of a whitelighter and his charge). The Elder feared the power of the Twice-Blessed and wanted to rid the world of it. Wyatt was missing for several months before finally being found. No one ever suspected Gideon's involvement, nor the amount of damage it had done to the impressionable child. Chris was never told exactly what happened when he was born.
(Meanwhile, Gideon returned Up There, no one suspecting his involvement in Wyatt's kidnapping. An Elder is a paragon of Good, why in the world would he be implicated for such a thing?)
For several years after that, Chris lived as normal of a life as a Charmed One's child was capable of. He went to school, he took the occasional course at Magic School (where Gideon was headmaster), and, once he was old enough, fended off the more-than-occasional demon attack with the rest of his family. His lack of power relative to mom, aunts and brother made him an easy target. It instilled in him the need to master what powers he did have to keep up.
Leo got busier by the day. Although he made the time if Piper or Wyatt called for him or if any of his other charges were in trouble, Chris rarely got that sort of time from his father. Almost every time Leo was supposed to be around, all Chris would get from his father was an apology letter. As one might suspect, he grew up as something of a mama's boy.
On the day Chris turned fourteen, all of that changed. Piper was killed in a violent and unexpected demonic attack. Both Wyatt and Chris witnessed this, but had drastically different reactions: Chris shut down; Wyatt got even. Wyatt, having already grown up with a skewed idea of what "Good" and "Evil" meant and how his power should be applied due to the trauma he suffered as such a young child, went on a rampage and destroyed every demon he came across in his search to take down the ones who had killed his mother. With the Power of Three broken, Wyatt bent on his mission of revenge, and Chris and Leo both heartbroken at the loss of Piper, the next few years were not easy. The only real bright point for Chris was when he got to know his maternal grandfather, Victor Bennett, and bond with him through the Event of Piper's death.
Both Phoebe and Paige were eventually killed in separate incidents, trying to protect themselves and their family. Chris left the manor and went to live with his grandfather permanently, and Wyatt finally surfaced. In his time in the Underworld, Wyatt had come to the belief that there was no such thing as Good and Evil, only power.
When Chris was sixteen (and Wyatt eighteen), the Twice-Blessed Child took over the world.
Chris' world had gone beyond shattered. His brother had declared himself evil overlord of the world and his grandfather was slowly dying. Although Chris hadn't been forced into hiding along with the rest of the magical community as one last 'gift' from his brother, he refused to join the new Supreme Overlord and did his best to fight against his brother's regime. He met a small group of like-minded individuals who still had enough hope to topple Wyatt's control and, with their help, managed to still do some good despite the odds against them and their often-unsavory methods. When he was twenty years old, Chris met and fell in love with an assassin witch named Bianca who had been contracted to kill the same demon that Chris had been hunting. Their relationship grew quickly, and soon they were engaged to be married. They promised they would get married as soon as Wyatt was stopped.
That day never came. Soon, they realized that perhaps they were looking at things wrong. If they couldn't undo what Wyatt had done in the present, perhaps they could undo what happened to turn Wyatt in the past? Surely, the easiest way to stop a problem was make sure it never started.
At twenty-one, Chris infiltrated the manor (now a memorial museum) along with Bianca. Although Chris was successful in retrieving the Book and casting the time travel spell, he was forced to leave Bianca behind to fight the demonic goons that had appeared in response to the Book's disappearance. Although it was 2026 when Chris entered the portal, it was 2003 when he exited.
It had worked.
Chris had just enough time to
Two months later, Chris still hadn't made much progress. He was eventually forced to tell the sisters about Leo's 'abduction', and stole several Valkyrie pendants (thereby killing them) to let the sisters enter Valhalla undetected and retrieve Leo. Leo was, understandably, suspicious of Chris upon returning and, somewhat less understandably, threw him into a cabinet.
The next chunk of time for Chris goes... slightly less complicated. He was involved in several things (such as helping the sisters regain their magic and identity from some ditzy blond witches), although it is worth noting that very soon after Phoebe developed her empathic power (about three episodes), Chris went to a demonic potion brewer with some very... extraneous instructions to make himself and the sisters an empath-blocking potion to keep them all from going insane. Of course, Leo had set the whole thing up as an excuse to catch Chris in the act of subterfuge — once the first potion was made and Chris gave it up to Leo in order to share with the sisters, he immediately turned around and commissioned another one for himself.
Nothing especially notable happened after that (aside from Chris being a huge jerk and insisting the sisters vanquish a small demon child because he was getting close to Wyatt. Chill out, dude. Also Chris and Leo had unstable-time-portal-adventures and Leo stopped hating him as much) until Bianca showed up in the back room of Piper's nightclub (Chris's current residence) and attempted to drain his powers. Chris, after some flashbacks to clue the audience in on his relationship to Bianca (including the part where she entrusted him their engagement ring), returned to Their Spot. Bianca was waiting and told him that her return was something special: if Wyatt had sent anybody else, all they would have had to bring back was a body-bag, whereas Bianca would try to bring Chris back alive. Oh and by the way that uncompleted power drain was going to kill Chris if he didn't let her finish the process. Chris basically went "are you kidding me" and orbed away before she could finish, then collapsed back at the manor. Bianca cast an inhibition-lowering spell on the sisters, which allowed her to abduct Chris and finish the job. Once Leo de-spelled them, the girls caught up with Bianca and Chris just in time to learn of Chris' witch/whitelighter heritage. There was nothing they could do to stop Bianca from taking a now-powerless Chris to the future.
Wyatt, as it turned out, had lost any patience he'd still had in relation to his brother. When Chris refused to join him one last time, Wyatt tried to kill him. Thanks to some hints Chris had left in the past, the sisters used a squeaky floorboard in the attic as a message in a bottle and left him a spell to return his powers — too late, however, as Bianca's attempts to hold Wyatt off left her in critical condition and dying before Chris' eyes. There was hardly any time for goodbyes, but they managed to leave the hope that they might meet each other again in the new timeline. Stealing the time travel spell so that Wyatt couldn't send any more assassins after him, Chris managed to return to the proper time, his determination to change the future even stronger than before.
After an incident involving a goo demon and some bright red go-go boots, it was almost Piper's birthday. The day before she turned thirty-one, a demon tried to attack Wyatt in his nursery and she had an epiphany: she would dedicate her life to raising and protecting her Twice-Blessed Child at the exclusion of all else if necessary... including love. It nearly gave Chris, who knew he would soon need to be conceived, a heart attack.
In the process of trying to subtly (haha, subtly) convince Piper that she shouldn’t give up on love, Chris made the easy mistake of, well, trying too hard and ended up kind of accidentally contributing to Wyatt being kidnapped by a cult called the Order.
No one was happy with Chris after that. He explained that the evil he came back to stop was, in fact, Wyatt himself and not some evil that managed to harm him in the future. The sisters were understandably less than believing and basically banished him from the house until further notice.
Some time later, he snuck into manor with a demon who could sense evil to try and locate whatever could be after Wyatt. As timing would have it, that was exactly when Leo and Paige came in and caught him red handed. Leo got pissed, but they needed Chris's help and sent him to fetch Phoebe. Once the crisis at magic school (wherein Gideon finally shows his face to the audience) was resolved, Phoebe confronted Chris with a question: was he Wyatt's little brother?
"Not if I don't get Piper and Leo back together in time."
After leaving Phoebe with that startling admission, he disappeared for nearly a week. He had to confirm how much time he had left. No matter where he went, he came up with the same answer: one month to be conceived, or Chris would never have existed. When he came to tell Phoebe this, they had a bit of an argument over Chris's disappearance and revelation, and, after some distraction involving a vision from the Middle East, Phoebe ended up becoming master to a djinn named Jinny. With the urgency in taking care of Jinny's former master, Chris was distracted by the much more important fact that Piper was about to get it on with a firefighter and immediately took the excuse to steal her from her date. The gang reconvened in the attic and, in desperation during an attack, Phoebe wished Jinny free. Turned out that Jinny had been an upper-level demon entrapped in the bottle and whoever wished the djinn in the bottle free would have to take its place.
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, Chris ended up the master of newly-djinn'd Phoebe. His first wish was accidental: for Leo to forgive him. His second was a little less-than-accidental: for Piper and Leo to sleep together. Unfortunately, while Phoebe was bound to carry out the wish, she was morally against making it happen and thus it was carried out literally. Piper and Leo took an adorable nap together instead. For the rest of the episode. Jinny took the time of distraction to attack. During the ruckus, Chris lost possession of the bottle and it was picked up by Paige's magic-obsessed witch boyfriend, Richard. They captured Jinny, but Richard escaped. Then Chris was forced to explain his heritage after trying to tell Paige why Piper and Leo were in a magically-induced sleep. While Paige went to talk to Richard, Chris stayed behind to look after his parents and managed to sabotage Piper's relationship with the firefighter while he was at it. Score!
In the end, Leo still forgave Chris even after the magic wore off, the bottle was disposed of for good, and it looked like there might just have been a chance for Piper and Leo to eventually get back together.
"Eventually," as it turned out, didn't come soon enough. By the time Wyatt's birthday rolled around, Chris had run out of time. It was either his parents conceive him within the next 24 hours, or he was done for. Despite Phoebe and Paige's best efforts at subtle, mundane ways of getting them together, they were forced to realize that they might have had to take more magical measures by the end of the night. Their plans were interrupted by a darklighter attack, and further derailed when everyone was lured across town by the very same darklighter, right into an ambush — Phoebe ended up injured, but Piper and Leo had disappeared entirely. Meanwhile, Chris had begun to do some disappearing himself. The girls focused their efforts on locating their missing family (and brewing a love potion, just in case) while Chris tried to continue existing. As it would turn out, the janitor from P3 was actually an Angel of Death who had wanted to get to know Chris before he would begin to fade, calling it a unique circumstance. Chris, understandably, told Clarence to take a hike. Phoebe and Paige determined that Piper and Leo had been dragged into the ghostly plane — thankfully, they had someone who was beginning to cross between the two planes as he sputtered in and out of existence. All it really did before Chris finally disappeared was confirm the location, and by the time he returned (mysteriously in an alley instead of the attic), everything had been settled. Well, everything except for Leo's darklighter wound, which was promptly taken care of.
The experience (turned out that the darklighter had been after Leo all along, and had put pretty much all of his family in danger because of it) spurred Leo to finally commit to his duty as an Elder and move Up There permanently. Clarence showed up at P3 one last time to warn Chris not to waste his second chance, and Phoebe and Paige broke the news of her pregnancy to Piper. Mother finally met son.
Several months passed by and Chris began to avoid Piper. He was terrified of getting close to her in a familial capacity when he knew she was going to die when he turned fourteen. He threw himself into sussing out the one who would turn Wyatt once again and eventually found himself in a spot of trouble. The Scabber demons he had been undercover with caught onto the spy in their ranks and Chris began scrabbling around for a way to vanquish or otherwise get them off his tail. Piper, fed up with her son's treatment, invited Victor over to see if her father would have any better luck talking to Chris than she had. Spoilers: he did. A lot more. Chris greeted Victor with enthusiasm and open arms. Feeling left behind in a relationship he was supposedly a huge part of, Victor tried several different ways of bonding with Chris, ranging from smoking cigars (which Chris even bent his own rules over and warned Victor away from) and going to a fancy restaurant. It was there that Chris revealed the secret of the Event to Victor. Though heartbroken at the knowledge of his daughter's future death, he suggested to Chris that it was even more reason to get to know her in the past while he still had the chance. They returned home to learn that Phoebe had accidentally placed herself under a spell that gave her the mentality of her high school self and was currently running amok. The Scabber demons were feeling neglected, so they showed up to remind people Chris was in danger. Chris was relegated to the attic, now fortified against unwanted intrusion, while the sisters took care of Phoebe—he protested, not wanting the pregnant Piper to overtax or injure herself, and finally allowed himself to call her Mom. How heartwarming~
Later, on the way back from a check-up for the baby, Piper, Paige and Chris were attacked by a spider demon. They managed to fend it off, but not before Chris's neck was slashed up by the demon. With Chris refusing to let them call Leo in for healer-duty, they were simply left to look for the demon in the Book. It was around that time that Chris realized that maybe the spider demon's claws were poisonous. Just a hunch. As the day went by, Chris began turning into Spider-Man! No, seriously, he did, he had the sticky fingers and heightened reaction times and everything. It wasn't until later that he went nuts, entrapped Piper in a magical web, and even protected the spider demon herself that the sisters realized something was Wrong. Thankfully, Phoebe knew how to kickbox and Chris... didn't. After they locked him up in the basement, he tripped out and got to talk to the spider demon, who beckoned him to retrieve Piper and return to the demon. Phoebe and Paige called Leo in and, after a horribly botched attempt at talking to the poisoned Chris, Leo learned that the neurotic whitelighter was his son. The sisters were distracted with making another vanquishing potion for the spider demon when Chris revealed he could shift into a spider and got out of the basement. After a slightly more successful tussle with his family, he managed to abduct Piper and leave Phoebe, Paige and Leo a little... uh, tied up. To the wall. In magical webbing. Yeah.
Things began to unravel when it was revealed that the spider demon (who fed on the most powerful magical presence it could detect every one hundred years) not only planned to feed on Piper's magic... but that of her unborn child. Way to go, Chris. With the help of some forest friends that Paige helped out earlier in the episode, the spider demon was squished and the impenetrable webbing into her lair dissolved. Her vanquish did nothing to cure Chris. Leo went inside alone to free Piper and try to talk Chris down; when Chris revealed himself, he orbed Piper out, just in time to get trapped inside the lair with Chris. After some probing comments asking after why Chris hated him, trying to snap him out of his demonic brainwashing, Leo managed to provoke Chris into a rage wherein Chris began beating Leo into a bloody pulp. ("You don't know me! You don't know me!!") Outside, Piper had the brilliant idea of taking the spider demon antidote herself to inoculate the baby Chris inside of her. The plan worked, and Chris's demonic poisoning faded. He barely hesitated in the abrupt change back to normal before he continued wailing on Leo. There were issues to be... resolved, okay? Piper pulled Chris off, and he maturely then went to sulk on top of the Golden Gate Bridge. Leo followed him there, where Chris explained that his father had never been there for him — for Mom, for Wyatt, for half the world... but never for Chris. The entire incident prompted Piper to stay at magic school until little Chris was ready to be born for their own safety. In light of all that he had learned, Leo once again returned to the mortal plane to try and help pick up the slack and repair his relationship with Chris.
Chris was still determined to not get along with Leo, but they eventually worked together to learn that the demon of fear, Barbas, was trying his hand at magical prosecution against the sisters and had made a deal to get out of hell should he win a case against them. Although it was proven that the trial was a sham, Phoebe's active powers were stripped as punishment for her abuse of magic... and Barbas was not sent back to hell.