#y'know that ninth doctor episode where he tells rose just this once everyone lives!

[paigemathews]

I’ve tried to brainstorm a way to fit this into a fic, but every reaction I want is just a bit too OOC, so: consider what Chris and Bianca’s expectations realistically were for the changed future. I mean, don’t get me wrong, they were definitely aiming for the best case scenario but they’re both realists, bordering on pessimists. I mean, Chris’s entire family was wiped out in the unchanged future, and those were the Warrens. Some of the most powerful upper-level witches and they were all gone. 

So would Chris really go into the changed future with the expectation that his entire family is there? I mean, most of them, sure, but I mean. The Warrens have been losing people every generation for a while (Prue, Patty, P. Russell, etc.) and that was with a pretty significantly smaller family tree than when three sisters each have their own three kids, alongside husbands and grandparents. 

Just. Chris being someone who spent his formative years losing everyone he loved and spending a significant part of his life on his own without his family, despite the Halliwells/Warrens being so family-centric. And then he wakes up in this new future that he fought and bled and died for, and he didn’t just succeed. Everyone lived. Wyatt is good, but his mom is alive and his dad is there and Phoebe and Paige are alive and their husbands are alive and his cousins are alive and everyone is alive. 

#charmed #chris halliwell #abi speaks #y'know that ninth doctor episode where he tells rose just this once everyone lives! #those vibes. a character so used to loss and grief and war and for once #everyone lives. it gets a happy ending #it isn't uncomplicated but at the end of the day it's still: everyone lives #just this once. everyone lives