Vanishing Act

Summary: Wyatt now runs Magic School, but over the last year strange things have been happening. Disappearances. Deaths? Wyatt won't leave until he finds the answer and now Chris has come to investigate. Will they find an answer?

Wyatt is 25 and Chris is 23. Wyatt has been running the school for 5 years while Chris works at the club, P3.

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Chris got home from work and made his way upstairs. He figured his Mum and Dad must already be in bed and Wyatt probably wasn't home. He was used to Wyatt not being here as he spent all his time at Magic School, especially over the last year. During the last week there had been another strange disappearance though so Wyatt was at the school almost 24/7 trying to figure it out. He refused to leave except to come home and get something to eat and drink or take a shower. Chris had been there a few times and found Wyatt asleep at his desk.

He'd come no closer to finding any answers. The obvious thing would be demons, but there was no sign of anything supernatural. Chris had stayed out of it until now, but he had a weeks holiday as of today and nothing to do. Piper had forced him to take a week off as he'd done all his shifts and loads of overtime and not had a holiday in ages. So Chris had decided to investigate and see if he could help his brother solve it. Right now it was almost two in the morning though so Chris decided to take a quick shower and head to bed.

He woke up the next morning and glanced at the clock. 7.00 am. He groaned, but got up anyway and went to see what he could find for breakfast. He made himself some toast before orbing out and going to see his brother at Magic School. He reappeared outside the main office and knocked on the door. He wondered if he'd woken Wyatt up when he just heard him mutter to come in. Chris opened the door and found Wyatt slumped over a pile of papers, looking tired and fed up.

"Hey. Found anything?" Chris asked as he closed the door behind him. Wyatt shook his head.

"Nope." He motioned to the chair on the other side of the desk. "Feel free to sit down." Chris did so. He placed a book on the desk as he did and smiled at the look on Wyatt's face.

"Mind if I have this book here? It will record the conversation. I just want everything written down in one place."

"Forgetful as always," Wyatt smirked. "It's fine by me."

Chris frowned, but opened the book anyway and said a quick spell so it would copy down all that was said.

"So what exactly has been happening here?"

"You even need to ask?" Wyatt asked, leaning back in his chair.

"I want to start from the beginning. You've been here through it all."

Wyatt nodded. "It started 5 years ago. We both know Dad was under a lot of stress running this place – so many things were happening. Then one kid killed himself, saying he didn't want me to take over, but Dad had already made his decision and that just made him believe it was the right choice. So many people depended on him. So I took the place over and, as you know, have continued to run it smoothly."

"Right. So what is going on now? I mean, that isn't the end of it all," Chris pointed out. Wyatt just stared at him for a second before replying.

"No. The story is that the guy who killed himself cursed this place. I didn't believe it myself, but then a year ago students and staff started disappearing without a trace. There have been no signs of anything supernatural and certainly no demonic activity."

"So you've no idea where they are disappearing to?" Chris asked, trying to take it all in. He'd heard a few stories, but it was still hard to believe all this was really happening with no explanation. Wyatt simply shook his head. "Do you believe this place is cursed now?"

"I thought for a few years it was all a big joke, but something is going on here. I have just one staff member left and a handful of students, most of who come no more than once a week."

"All the rest have vanished?"

"Most left about a year ago when this all started," Wyatt said with a sigh. "Others have left since. If you want to know all those that disappeared there are records in the library. It lists their name, a few details about them and their powers. I doubt they will be of much use, but it doesn't hurt to check them."

"I'll go take a look now…if you don't mind, that is," Chris said, closing the book.

"It's fine. We'll talk later."

"I'll be in the library if you need me," Chris said as he stood up and walked to the door. "We'll work this out you know, Wyatt."

Wyatt smiled. "Well I'm not leaving until I do."

"See you later." Chris smiled and walked out the door, leaving his brother alone. He made his way to the library and started the search for the records. After about half an hour he finally found them in an old dusty folder marked disappearances.

He sat down at a desk and pulled out all the files. He flicked through them and counted nearly 50 files. He hadn't realised just how many students and staff had gone missing and it was going to take a while to go through them all. Still after a few maybe he could work out some connection and find out if there was something else going on or whether the curse was true.