A/N: This one is running a little longer than I planned, but as long as you guys still like it, I will keep going with it for now.
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"Chris…Oh, my God." Paige gasped. "Why didn't you just kill him when you got back here?"
"PAIGE!" Piper whirled on her sister in anger.
"Piper, it's an honest question! Wyatt killed you, then taunted his brother about it!"
"Same reason I didn't vanquish him a few years later when all my powers came in. I was raised better than that."
"Oh, Chris." Piper sighed. "I love you, Peanut. You know that, right?"
Chris' eyes filled again with unshed tears, blinking rapidly. He brushed at a single tear as it trailed down his cheek. "I've always known how much you loved me. How could I not? You died telling me." He lost control for a moment, and a sob escaped as the tears streamed down his face.
Leo walked over and wrapped him in a tight hug. "Cry, buddy. It's okay, we've got you. We will fix this, I promise. We won't let what happened happen again. I will promise you, if we cannot fix whatever turns him before you leave, we will bind his powers, so what happened can NEVER happen again."
"No offense, Dad, but I've heard that before."
"What? When?"
"In the future. You promised to go to the past yourself and 'fix' it. Two weeks later Aunt Phoebe was killed by a shapeshifter who was pretending to be you. You were still "Up There"".
"Do you have any family left, Chris?" Piper asked tearfully.
"Like I said, I have Auntie Paige. She's the only one left except for Phoenix."
"Who is Phoenix, Chris?"
"Um, I can't tell you that."
"Chris, aren't we a bit past future consequences here?" Phoebe asked gently.
He laughed humorlessly. "Yeah, yeah, I guess we are. Phoenix…well, she's um, she's my daughter."
"YOUR DAUGHTER?" Piper screeched. "Chris, where is she? Who is her mother?"
"She's safe. Bianca is…was…her mom. But she's safe with Auntie Paige."
"You trust me with your baby?" Paige asked, a bit shocked at the thought of her being the only family Chris had left.
"I will and have trusted you with my life, Auntie Paige. You are the only one left who I DO trust completely. You'd die before you let him get Phoenix." Chris grinned, the first real smile in awhile. "Course, Wyatt'd be pretty damned surprised if he got her anyway."
"Why is that?"
"Phoenix already has powers…big powers. She's half Phoenix witch, a quarter witch, and a quarter Elder. She's got powers no one has ever even seen before. It makes her dangerous, which puts her in danger. Wyatt doesn't allow anyone to live if they have more power than he does." He smiled sadly. "That's why he keeps trying to kill me so often."
"You are more powerful than Wyatt?"
He nodded. "I don't…No, I can't vanquish my brother though. He doesn't have that problem."
"What the…look, the screen is going again."
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"Chris, why do you continue this farce? You will never be able to defeat me. Or even hurt me, for that matter? However, I keep toying with you."
"Yeah, that's where you're wrong, Wyatt. You see, you made a big mistake when you killed my family. It pisses me off in a way that I have never been pissed before. Suddenly, I got furious, and all of these powers that I didn't know I possessed started flooding into me. Powers like… this" Chris glared at his brother, and instantly the table beside him erupted into flames. "Or, maybe like this." Chris snapped his fingers and instantly became invisible except for his clothing. "But my favorite new power…has got to be this." He raised his palms and lightning bolts shot out from them, knocking Wyatt to the ground.
Wyatt got up, quickly. "LEAVE US!" He shouted at the demons who were waiting for commands. He stared at his brother. "Et tu, Chris?"
"I've never betrayed you, Wyatt. That was completely the other way around. CRYSTALS!" He called and instantly Wyatt was in a crystal cage.
Wyatt began to laugh. "Crystal cage? Truly? You have been around our last Auntie too long." Wyatt TK'd one of the crystals away, breaking the cage. "How is Auntie Paige? Is she coping with the loss of her sisters?"
"Why don't you just ask me yourself, Wyatt, instead of being a little punk ass and going through your brother?" Paige strode out, clad in dark black leather, her black hair shining as if she were demon herself. She walked up boldly and slapped him across the face hard enough to make him take a step back.
"Auntie Paige…Mom would disapprove. You don't use corporal punishment on children."
"You're not a child, Wyatt. You are a grown man. An Evil man. You've killed my sisters, my children, my husband, my nieces and my nephew, not to mention half the city. Piper would understand, and support me fully."
Wyatt TK'd his Aunt away from him. "You're weak, not to mention stupid…Paige. You don't have the Power of Three to protect you anymore."
Paige laughed harshly. "I don't need the Power of Three. I have Chris, now. Your brother has been gifted from the Elders and from God himself. Not only is he Thrice Blessed- Witch, Whitelighter and Elder, but he has been given the gift of legends- the gift of kings."
Wyatt snorted. "If he's so powerful, why can't he defeat me?"
"If I wanted you dead, Wyatt, you already would be. I want you to be good again."
"THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD OR EVIL! ONLY POWER…I HAVE MORE POWER THAN ANYONE IN THE WORLD!" Wyatt bellowed, the walls shaking perilously.
"Correction- you HAD more power than anyone in the world. You don't anymore." Paige succinctly stated.
"EXCALIBUR!" Wyatt roared, calling for his sword. He grinned as it sailed into his palm. "I will enjoy killing you the same way I did your sisters."
"Excalibur!" Chris called, not angrily, but just as forcefully. The sword transferred instantly to Chris' hand.
"Wh…EXCALIBUR! EXCALIBUR!" Wyatt called unbelievingly as the sword stayed firmly in Chris' grasp.
"I told you, Wyatt. He was given the gift of kings."
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"Oh, My God! You are the ruler of Excalibur?"
"I am now. The sword itself found me. One day I was in a meeting for the Resistance, and we were talking about how in order to win, we had to separate Wyatt from Excalibur, and suddenly it was just…there."
"The sword deserves a good ruler." Piper quietly said. "I'm glad it chose you."
"I didn't always do good with it, Mom."
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"That's right, Wyatt. Excalibur chose ME." Chris instantly went into a fight stance, challenging his brother.
"I don't need the sword to defeat you."
"Actually, I think you do." Chris swung, slicing Wyatt's upper arm.
"LAMP!" Wyatt called and began protecting himself from Chris' attack. He called a fireball up, and tossed it in Chris' direction frantically. Chris calmly deflected it with the sword, sending it back into Wyatt's chest. Wyatt screamed as the smell of burned flesh hit Chris' nostrils.
He panted and put down his sword. "I can and will defeat you Wyatt. I don't want to have to kill you to do it."
He took a step away and grabbed Paige's hand. "Come on, Auntie Paige. We're done here…for now."
They orbed away just as Wyatt threw an energy ball at the orb cloud.
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"I should have spanked him more as a child. That's the only answer!" Piper muttered angrily as she paced the floor.
"Mom, it wasn't you."
"How do you know that? Maybe I treated him differently. Maybe I wasn't strict enough, or maybe I was too strict."
"You were the best mom in the world. Wyatt got turned by someone you trust. I still don't know who it is, but we WILL find out."
"How do you know that?"
"Um…. You don't need to know that exactly."
"Why not?"
"Because you won't like how I got the information."
Leo paled. "Oh, Chris, please tell me you aren't the whitelighter who has been going to the Underworld."
"I haven't been the whitelighter who has been going to the Underworld." Chris singsonged.
Paige giggled as Phoebe snorted in amusement. "This isn't funny! The Elders want to clip the wings of this whitelighter!" Leo yelled.
Piper waved her hand. "Simple answer. Don't tell them, Leo." She turned to Chris. "And as for you, no more Underworld. It's not safe. If you die, then the future can't be fixed…and Phoenix will be alone."
Chris began to feel slightly nauseated at the thought.
"And Chris…" Piper waited until he turned to look at her. "Good job on roughing him up a little. He totally deserved it, brother or not."