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"Come on, Chris! Enough of the secrets and lies!" Piper Halliwell shouted at the young Witchlighter. She was getting really annoyed now. It had been three days since the whole Mr.-Right-and-the-Order-kidnapping-Wyatt-because-of-Chris scenario. Three days since she told him that she never wanted to see him again. Three days and yet he was still pulling this "Future Consequences" crap.
She was holding her hands up in a threatening manner and her two sisters were right behind her. They knew when Piper was in a bad mood and was ready to be blow something up and they weren't about to stop her, they were extremely annoyed with Chris as well.
The young man in question, had backed all the way up against the wall, more than alarmed by Piper's stance. He had never been blown up before, and he didn't want this to be the first time. They had demanded answers to questions that he had been avoiding for the past couple of weeks. He really did want to tell his family the truth, that he was their son. That he was so sorry for all the lies and secrecy, but knew that he couldn't.
"Piper, I can't tell you!" he tried to tell her for what felt like the hundredth time within the last twenty minutes. "Fut-"
"No! Don't you dare finish that! Or I swear I'll blow you up!" she interrupted him and held her hands up again, to emphasize the threat. She had no idea how much those words really hurt him.
In desperation, Chris turned to Leo, who had been standing off to the side the entire time. "Come on Leo-" Chris tried but was cut off for the second time that night.
"No Chris, Piper's right. Time to tell us everything," Leo said calmly. He looked to Piper as if to give permission to continue.
Piper got the hint and turned her head away from her ex-husband. "Thank you. Now, how do you know Wyatt in the future? How do you know us? And, if Wyatt really is evil and if you are here to save him as you claim, why did you come and not one of us?"
"I told you, I can't tell you that. Future-" At least he managed to get a sentence out before being cut off for the third time. Now he was getting annoyed.
"What did I just say, mister?" Piper said angrily. Holding her hands up, everyone could see that she was just itching to blow him up.
"Fine, then I won't say it," Chris said with just as much anger and glaring at Piper with fiery green eyes. "But Wyatt is evil in the future and we need to get back to vanquishing demons in order to save him. So please, can we drop this and get back to work?" Didn't they know how much time that they were wasting with this? But of course they didn't know, how could they? He hadn't old them that there was a deadline.
"No," all four answered simultaneously. Groaning, Chris looked away. "One, Wyatt cannot be evil, I wouldn't that happen to my baby," Piper said.
"Two, why would we let that happen," Phoebe piped up.
"Three, how would we let that happen," Paige put in.
Before Leo could come up with a reason, Chris cut in. "Fine, I get it. But the fact is, he is-"
"Zip it! Now give us some answers," Piper said, cutting Chris off once again. Chris himself felt as if he was about to blow someone up.
But with an apologetic look on his face, he whispered, "I'm sorry." And before anyone could do anything, he orbed away. Piper raised her hands quickly and tried to blow him up before he left, but it was too late and instead she blew up a box.
Fuming with anger, Piper turned on her heel and began to walk away. Worried that her emotions might cause her to do something that she might later regret, the others followed.
"Um, Piper, where are you going?" Phoebe asked cautiously, catching up to her older sister.
"Wyatt," Piper answered curtly and quickened her step. Stopping where she was, Phoebe continued to watch Piper walk away until she was gone and turned to Leo and Paige.
"Do you think she's okay?" Phoebe asked quietly.
"I doubt it, she looked as if she was about to kill Chris for a minute," Leo answered.
"Well, can you blame her? I mean, Chris would just tell us stuff, and then we wouldn't have to act like this towards him," Paige said as if it was all pretty obvious.
"Right, now let's go. I don't want her to call Chris and then actually kill him or do something else that she might regret." Phoebe agreed and then turned around and made her way to the stairs.
Arriving at the last step, she walked through the foyer and into the living room. Piper was standing in front of Wyatt's playpen and was holding Wyatt. She just stared at Wyatt as his gaze wandered around the room and stopped at his aunts and father and smiled. Without, putting Wyatt down, she turned to face her family and confirmed what they had been thinking. "I thought I was about to kill him back there."
"And it's a good thing you didn't sweetie," Phoebe said and walked over to Piper and put her arm around her sister's shoulders.
"Why?" Leo asked, stepping up next to Paige. "That would solve most of our problems."
"Well because then we wouldn't get any answers or to see if he was telling the truth," Paige answered for her sister.
"I know that, but why can't he just tell us?" Piper asked exasperated, her brown eyes wandering over her family and stopping on her son. She absolutely refused to believe that her little boy would become evil. How could a sweet little innocent baby become evil?
"Sensing his ex-wife's distress, Leo suggested, "Why don't I go talk to the elders and see what they think?"
"Good idea. Orb away," Phoebe agreed, her smile spreading across her face. Nodding, Leo orbed 'Up there' and left the three sisters in silence, except for Wyatt making tiny baby noises. Mulling it over, Paige thought about the past ten minutes in the attic. Why doesn't he just tell us the truth, she thought frustrated. That's when it occurred to her. If they wanted the truth, then what if…
She left the thought unfinished as a plan began to form itself in her mind. "That's it," she mumbled distractedly, realization dawning over her features.
"What's it?" Phoebe asked, her arm still across Piper's shoulders.
"We wanna know the truth, right? Why don't we make him tell us the truth," Paige answered, excitement evident in her voice.
"Are you getting this," Phoebe asked Piper, tilting her head a little.
But before Piper could answer, Paige cut in. "We summon Chris and then we cast a truth spell on him," Paige clarified, her excitement growing.
"Hey, that's a good idea. Let's get to it," Piper agreed, placing Wyatt in his playpen. Phoebe's arm disappeared as she made her way to the stairs, her sisters close behind her. They stopped when a noise from above stopped them. Phoebe turned to her sisters worriedly.
"What was that?" Piper asked quietly. Wasting no more time, Paige grabbed her sisters' arms and orbed them up to the attic. They reformed and looked around the attic. Everything else appeared the way they left it except now they could sense that someone else was in the attic with them.
The three moved in opposite directions, looking for the intruder when Paige called out, "Who are you and what do you want?"
No one answered her, but then again she didn't think anyone would. Phoebe was about to say something when she noticed a movement out of the corner of her eye. A box had moved ever so slightly and she would have missed it if she hadn't been paying closer attention.
"I know you're there. Come out now," Phoebe said calmly and loudly. She thought that she would have to move the box herself when someone stepped out. Phoebe's eyes widened when she saw who it was and she could hear Piper gasp and Paige draw in a breath.
It was a little girl. No more than ten years old. Her raven black hair reached to her shoulder blades and her wide hazel eyes were distrustful and cautious. Her plain red shirt with long striped red and black sleeves her holes in it and was hanging loosely on her small frame. Her dark jeans were faded at the knees and slightly ripped there and there were a few small holes dotting the bottom of the jeans. Her sneakers were falling apart and were seconds away from becoming trash it looked like.
Piper was about to speak up when the girl spoke. "Help…" She mumbled weakly before passing out and falling onto the floor in a heap. That's when the three sisters noticed the dark stain that was slowing getting bigger with each passing second on her shoulder. Piper, Paige, and Phoebe looked at the girl then at each other, the same thought passing through their minds.
Now what?
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