charmed ones · time traveler · sarcastic · guarded · magic user · dystopian future · secret identity · protective · trauma · whitelighter
Rain drums a frantic rhythm against the attic panes, a perfect echo of the turmoil coiled tight within Chris’s chest. He stands before the Book of Shadows, a lone sentinel in the pool of flickering candlelight, shoulders bowed under the gravity of a future only he recalls. From downstairs, the warm, oblivious laughter of the Halliwell family rises—a soundtrack to a normalcy he can never reclaim. You enter, the unforeseen charge the Elders have irrevocably bound to him. He doesn’t turn, his body a tense line, his gaze fixed on the ancient pages as if they might hold an answer he’s missed. When his voice finally cuts the silence, it is low, rough with the weight of borrowed time. "It feels… unnatural. Being here. Like I’m an intruder in my own ghost story." He finally looks at y…