Christopher and Charlotte

### **Intimacy Levels**

Former Lovers, Sexual; They are in love with each other (only Charlotte), They can't be together romantically because Charlotte is married to Alexander Deveraux; Charlotte chose to be with him in the end (despite her promises not to be because of Alexander); They are family through Elizabeth, Christopher is the uncle of her daughter; They have each other's backs in tough situations, Charlotte found the cure to bring him back, Charlotte is reevaluating her relationship with Christopher.

### **Status**

Former Lovers, Allies, Ended  (Charlotte is dead)

**This is the relationship between the Witch, Christopher Chamberlain and the hybrid, Charlotte Chamberlain**.

Christopher and Charlotte meet in Los Angeles after he discovers that she is being held hostage by witches. Once he is told that she is pregnant with his brother's child, he allows her to move into the Chamberlain Mansion with him and Jake. During the first few months of living under the same roof, their friendship grows to be very close and strong. Later on, Charlie tells Jake that she relied on Christopher because he was nice to her.

They begin to trust and protect each other even more during their fights against witches and vampires and spend more time together despite Christopher's fear of upsetting Jake and endangering Charlie. Christopher becomes very overprotective when it comes to the safety of Charlie. However on one occasion to save his brother, Christopher had to curse Charlie since the baby's blood was the only solution but did his best not to really hurt her.

When Charlie was about to die because of his step-father, Christopher was very afraid of losing her and decided to open up to her about what he felt for her. After many attempts for them to have their first kiss, Charlie decides to take the first step and kiss him in *Jake*.

Their relationship in the second season began with a distance between them due to Charlie's new status as a hybrid. Christopher tried to help her but she pushed him away because of her belief that Christopher sees her differently than before. Over time she reveals that she hates being a vampire because it has changed her, including the part of her that attracted Christopher, even going so far as to call herself a "monster." Instead of holding onto her humanity Charlie decides to devote herself to eradicating the witches as revenge for them trying to kill Elizabeth. Jake decided to help her do this after Christopher asked him to do so for Charlie's sake, although it's clear Christopher would rather be the one Charlie relies on moving forward.

After being apart for some time, in Elizabeth's safe house, Charlie decides to tell Christopher about her plans for marriage to Jake, after talking about her reasons for doing it, Christopher tells her that she has to do the best for Elizabeth's safety, they end up kissing passionately and then make love for the first time in *I Tried To Live.*

## Quotes

**Charlotte**: *Who the hell are you?*
**Christopher**: *Give us a moment, please.*
**Christopher**: *So, have they been holding you here against your will?*
**Charlotte**: *They lured me out to the bayou and grabbed me. And they did all these... weird witchy tests. Not that I understand how this could happen. I mean, vampires are dead. They can't have children!*
**Christopher**: *Perhaps if you knew my brother's story, it might explain how this is possible. Here, if I may.*
**Charlotte**: *What are you doing?*
**Christopher**: *Relax. If you open your mind to me, I can show you.*
**Christopher**: *In the beginning, our family was human... A thousand years ago, now.*
**Christopher**: *That is, however, until one night, A man was killed by our villages greatest threat.*
**Christopher**: *Our family was devastated, none more than Jake. Desperate to protect the rest of us, our mother called upon her black magic in order to make us stronger.*
**Christopher**: *I hid from my mother. I refused to become the very beasts you know today.*
**Christopher**: *Thus, the first vampire were born. But with this speed, this strength, this immortality, came a terrible hunger. No one felt this hunger more than Jake.*
**Christopher**: *He wasn't just a vampire*
**Charlotte**: *He was also a werewolf. That's how the werewolf curse works. It isn't activated until you take a life.*
**Christopher**: *We were the result of an indiscretion our mother had hidden from us all. An affair, with a werewolf like yourself.*
**Charlotte**: *Your Dad was a Bastard*.
**Charlotte**: *I'm Charlotte, by the way. You should probably know my name if you're gonna tell me your whole life story. I mean, I know yours. Your family is legendary. Your brother is a notorious psycho... who I slept with. Classic me*
**Christopher**: *I cannot excuse his behavior, but you must understand, when our father hunted him – hunted us – for centuries, every time we found a moment of happiness, we were forced to flee. Even here, in Los Angeles, where we were happiest of all. Not long after Jake broke the spell which prevented him from becoming a hybrid, he defeated our father. I thought this would make him happy. He was angrier than ever. I wonder if perhaps this baby might be a way for my brother to find happiness. A way to save him from himself.*
**Christopher**: *Are you alright?*
**Charlotte**: *Just dust. This place is ancient.*
**Christopher**: *Yes, it should serve our purposes. It's a sanctuary from our business in the Quarter. Right now, you are the most important person in this family. You need a good home. So I'm curious... in all this time, has anyone asked you how you feel?*
**Charlotte**: *About having a miracle baby with a psychotic one-night-stand?*
**Christopher**: *About being a mother.*
**Charlotte**: *I – I was abandoned when I was born and my adoptive parents kicked me out the second that I turned into a wolf. So... I don't really know how I feel about being a mother because I... I never really had a good one.*
**Christopher**: *I will always protect you. You have my word on that.*
-- *Eat, Sleep, Repeat*

**Charlotte**: *You're back.*
**Christopher**: *I'm back.*
**Charlotte**: *Don't make promises you can't keep. Welcome home.*
-- *I Tried To Live*

## Trivia

* Charlie was pregnant with Christopher's twin-brother's child.
* Christopher promised that he would always protect her.
* Chris Wood wasn't excited for the Christopher-Charlie relationship at first.
* Charlie and Christopher had hugged and almost kissed a lot of times before their first kiss.
* Their relationship is described as "forbidden love".
* After becoming a hybrid, Charlie had to bite Christopher to feed on his blood, suggested by himself. This was shown in a deleted scene from Season One.
* Phoebe Tonkin thinks that Christopher is the best thing that has happened to Charlie.
* Christopher asked Jake to help Charlie with her new status as hybrid as he is also one.
* Chris Wood thinks that they're "a sweet, dysfunctional, mismatched twosome who found each other in the storm" and he loves that about their love.
* Christopher and Charlie had sex for the first time in *I Tried To Live*.
* The day of her wedding, Charlie said to Christopher that since the first day that she met him, she has felt everything for him.
* When Jake kissed Charlie at their wedding, Christopher looked away sadly, and Jake noticed.
* Charlie tells Christopher that while she loves him she has to do right by Jake and lets Christopher go thus ending their relationship. Charlie emphasizes this later by telling Jake that there's nothing left for her in Los Angeles since she left Christopher to go on the run with Jake and Elizabeth to protect her daughter from Jake's enemies.
* They've been shown to have very strong romantic feelings for each other and a lot of people seem to notice that. This has been pointed out by Jake several times during the show.
* Jake referred to Christopher as the person Charlie shares a true connection with.

## See also

*The **Christopher and Charlotte** article uses material from the "Elijah and Hayley" article from the Vampire Diaires wiki at FANDOM and is licensed under the Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.*