Piper paced back and forth as she still heard the words in her head. Phoebe had embraced the powers of evil and now they needed to save her. Why was history repeating itself?
"This is my fault." His voice carried through her small room.
Piper turned and saw her son standing leaning on her doorframe. "Why? You didn't make her take in the powers." But as she watched his motions she could tell he was hiding something. "Chris?"
Chris held her gaze as he walked in the room. But as he sat on her bed he diverted his gaze to a picture that his mother had taken with her from the Manor. Two actually. One of her with Phoebe and Prue, and another of his mother with Phoebe and Paige. Each picture held to him the family he always wanted and craved for. But because of one mistake he would never have. A mistake that he was now living.
"Chris. What's wrong?" Piper pushed as she sat next to her son.
"Everything. I should have said something. But I never saw it. I didn't know when. She loved me."
Piper was trying to keep up with Chris' emotions and rant but was having trouble. But then she realized. "Phoebe? Did you know this would happen!?" her voice was harsher then it should have been, but this was her baby sister. She loved Phoebe as much as she did Chris. Yet he held this back: Once again another secret from them. Piper placed her hand on his shoulder, "Chris. Talk to me."
Chris pulled away from his Mothers touch, he didn't deserve it. He should have told them everything from day one. He should have sat them down and told them all everything, but he was afraid. Afraid they would reject him, afraid he would be on his own and maybe even stop him. But as he got to really know the people he had seen in pictures and heard about in stories he grew to love them as much as he had the ones that had raised him. Paige was always there for him. Ever since... He couldn't even think of that now. Right now he had to at least come clean with Piper. "I knew." Was all he said. As he turned away from Piper and walked towards the wall where a picture of his Mother, Father and Wyatt hung. But on either side were pictures of her with one of her sisters. His eyes cast towards the one with Piper and Phoebe.
Piper watched him a moment before she stood up beside him and truly followed his gaze. As she looked down on the picture of herself and Phoebe, she felt her fears rise as they had when her sister took off with Cole.
As she studied the picture she recalled the day it was taken, not less then a week before Prue was killed. It had been Prue snapping the picture. But to Piper it had caught the two younger Halliwell's in their true form, as the sat on the blanket in a park just talking. As Piper held to Phoebes hands giving her guidance. "Prue took that."
"I know." Chris replied never taking his eyes off the picture.
"You knew this was going to happen didn't you? That Phoebe would finally embrace her evil side." Piper asked with fear. Ever since the Woogeyman had possessed her baby sister, it was a hidden fear of hers that he would come back or that some other evil would tap into that hidden desire to be evil.
Chris never said anything and never blinked his eyes from the photo before him. "Yes." His voice barely above a whisper.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Piper voice cracked as her son had the knowledge to stop all of this.
Chris closed his eyes as he saw again what he had been through at the hands of his own family. His brother. But then everything changed. "I'm sorry. I always thought it was Cole. I heard so much about their love and her struggle. When I came back and he was gone I figured that was over. But now I see I was wrong there was more."
Piper reached out and took Chris in her arms. "We'll figure it out honey. We always do."
"You can't. She's too powerful. And as soon as she kills an innocent she is lost forever."
"Then we just need to stop her." Piper took his face. "Chris no mater what, she will always be my baby sister and I will NEVER let anything happen to her. And I need you to help me."
Chris was hesitant. He knew how evil his Aunt had become and wasn't sure if he wanted to deal with that. But as he looked up and saw into his mothers' eyes he knew he had to no matter what the cost to him. For even as he lost her at a young age he would do anything for her. For in his heart he loved her more then he would ever love anyone: Even Bianca.
Paige walked back and forth as she waited for Chris and Piper to come out of Piper room. She knew they had things to discuss but all she wanted then was to find Phoebe and get her back on the side of good.
"Leo?"
"I can't sense her. So unless she is dead, she has cloaked herself in black magic." Leo cast his glance over at Paige as his hopes were dashed of finding Phoebe.
Paige paced faster as she then looked at Leo before leaving the room in search of answers. Though as she entered in the magic school library she felt her hopes dashed for a moment at the quantity of books now at her disposal. Books that she would never have enough time to read as they reached from floor to ceiling.
"Looks like Beauty and the Beast hey?" the voice beside her said as she looked up at the number of books.
"Excuse me?" she pulled herself from her thoughts before looking down at the small child.
"This room, it reminds me of the library that the Beast gave Belle in the movie."
Paige cast her eyes around the room and realized that the small child beside her was right. "It does doesn't it?" Paige agreed as she stepped inside.
She wasn't even sure where to begin but she knew she had to start somewhere. So she stepped up on the ladder and started to look for any book that might help save her sister.
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She waited in shadows hearing all of their conversations. Her good magic inside her allowing her access to places most evil could not get close to. She stood and waited as Paige ascended the ladder that led around the library books.
She turned at the sound of a door opening and watched as her sister and nephew walked through it.
"Paige what are you doing?" Piper asked as Chris guided his mother to a chair.
"Looking for way to fix all this?" Paige called back as she pushed herself along the long track the ladder was attached too, "And I think I might have something." She reached for a book but felt the ladder she was on stopping in mid track.
Paige looked around the ladder tracks. Seeing nothing she tried again. But as she pushed the ladder she felt it suddenly stop as she lost her balance and she started to fall.
Phoebe smiled as she held her hand out in front of her. Seeing her sister fall only brought a larger smile to her face.
"One down." As she shimmered, out leaving Paige to fall towards the floor.
Phoebe knew in order to get to her nephew she needed to get her sisters out of the picture. Taking care of Paige on the ladder was to easy, but now as she looked down at her nephew she felt everything was going as she planned it. "Hey Buddy let say you and Auntie Phoebe go somewhere?"
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Chris looked down at the unconscious form of his Aunt, but something was coming to his memory. "Wyatt." He whispered.
Piper turned and looked up at her son. "What?"
"Wyatt. I gotta get to him."
"Why? What's going on Chris?" Piper saw a new fear in her son's eyes.
"I don't know, but I think Phoebe is after him. And if she gets him, my time here was for nothing." He orbed out leaving Piper with Paige, fearing both of her son's lives as well as her sisters.
