A/N: Special thanks goes to , adorereading, ovoriel and Jay Dee for either following the story, favoriting the story and reviewing. Another thanks goes out to everybody who has stuck with the story so far. I hope I do the characters and plot justice!
Chapter 6
Once out of the portal, the siblings ended up back in the attic. "Aw, man! It didn't work! We're right back where we started from!" Phil complained.
"Not necessarily," Melinda commented as she looked around the attic. "There are quite a few differences."
"You're right..." Phil replied as he too noticed what Melinda was talking about. "But...this wasn't like this two days ago! How far have we gone back?!"
"I don't know..." Melinda said as she ran her hand along the now solid wall. "At least we cannot be followed through the portal we made. Let's go see how much time has passed."
With that they left the attic and walked downstairs to the living room. Chris walked out from the dining room and stopped when he saw his siblings. "Chris!" Phil and Melinda yelled in unison before charging at him for a hug. Before they could get near him, Chris waved his arm out and the two flew up into the air with the help of his telekinesis. They hit the wall and fell to the floor from the impact.
"What the hell Chris?!" Melinda yelled angrily.
"Who are you?" Chris asked menacingly.
"Uh..." Phil started as they warily stood up. "Either he's possessed or he had his memory erased."
"Chris! It's us! Your siblings? Melinda and Phil?" Melinda started.
"I don't have siblings named Melinda and Phil," Chris challenged.
"Fine...Wyatt!" Melinda called out to the ceiling. A blonde-haired boy of about two orbed in front of Melinda and she asked, "Wyatt?"
"Seriously, Melinda?! Your spell brought us too far into the past!" Phil yelled in another panic.
Melinda ran her hands through her hair and slid down the wall behind her. "Why do I always screw up everything?" she sobbed.
"Hey...maybe it happened because you were not specific enough? We wanted to go back two days...not more than fifteen years."
She turned her eyes up to Chris and began to stand up again. She made her way to him, but stopped when he threatened to use his powers on her again. "Please, Chris...we need your help."
"Why should I help you? I don't know you!" Chris demanded.
"I'm your sister! Phil is our brother! We were the only two left and we needed to come back to the past to save our family! Please! You and Wyatt are the most powerful out of all of the Charmed children, and we were hoping we could stop the attack! The Charmed Ones were captured! You and Wyatt were captured! It's only Phil and myself left and we are not strong enough to save everybody!"
"I have no powers, and Melinda can only orb and freeze things...that isn't enough to go up against the Underworld..." Phil said sadly.
"This is some kind of trick!" Chris said as he used his telekinesis to throw a vase Melinda's way. She raised her hands and the vase stopped in mid-air.
"Chris...what's going on?" Piper asked from the foyer with her hand raised.
"Mom!" Phil and Melinda cried out before running to her. Again, Chris used his powers to throw them backwards to prevent them from hurting Piper.
"Chris! What are you doing?! They're just teenagers!"
"They could be shapeshifting demons," was Chris' response. Chris used his telekinesis to throw another object at Melinda, but she orbed in place to keep the object from hitting her.
"She can orb?!" Piper asked with wide eyes. "Chris! She can orb!"
"Could've stolen the power from a Whitelighter," was Chris' nonchalant reply.
"Could you maybe stop throwing things at us? Melinda hasn't gotten the hang of her powers yet!" Phil demanded.
"Melinda?" Piper asked as she stared at her daughter. She noticed she and Phil had all the features of a Halliwell, they greatly resembled herself. "Chris...I think they're telling the truth."
"What?" Chris asked.
"I've been to the future once where I had a daughter named Melinda," Piper revealed. This was the first time Chris had heard of any of that.
"But I know for a fact that Wyatt is the only child you have," Chris lied. He needed to keep his own identity of being Wyatt's little brother a secret while he was in the past.
"That's not true!" Phil started. "You're her son, too!"
Chris' eyes widened at that as he look at Piper. He could see Piper studying Chris more closely than he felt comfortable with. He knew that later that day, he was going to need to use memory dust on her, to make her forget that tad bit of information, though, how the boy claiming to be his brother knew that he had no idea. "Clearly they would say anything to take the focus off of them."
"The point is," Melinda said, "We were trying to go back into the past by two days, to grab Chris and Wyatt so we could go back to the 'present day', for us, and save the family. Everybody has been captured by demons and we thought that if we were to get our brothers, then they could help us infiltrate the Underworld and save their future, two-day selfs so we could save everybody else."
"We just didn't plan on going back..." Phil looked at little Wyatt. "this far. The Wyatt we know is almost nineteen."
"He didn't seem to have had any time to call out for Excalibur when he was attacked, so he was captured. Probably the same way that Chris was brought down, by Darklighter arrows," Melinda finished. "Please, Chris. We need your help."
"The only one I am here to help, is Wyatt," Chris told her before orbing out of the Manor.
Melinda threw her hands up into the air with a yell. "How can he act like that?! We're his siblings, just earlier he was saying how we should all try and become closer in case this very kind of attack happens! Brent said the same thing!"
"Actually, if you remember, that wasn't Chris who said that," Phil told her, which she ignored.
"Who's Brent?" Piper asked.
"Our Whitelighter," Phillip answered. "He seems really cool. We just met him today...or...what was today for us?" he glanced at Melinda who shrugged.
"At least we, or I, still have my powers here, although I do not know what good that will do us now with Chris not wanting to help. What are we going to do now?" Melinda asked as she sat down on the couch.
"You're going to tell me and my sisters why you came back to the past," Piper told her. "Paige!" she yelled out. "Can you bring Phoebe back home?! We have a situation!"
A few minutes passed, and Paige orbed in with Phoebe, "What's up, sis?"
"Wow, you had red hair?" Phil asked.
Paige cocked her head as she studied the teens sitting beside Piper, "Who are they?"
"These are my two kids from the future," Piper grinned. "Melinda and Phillip."
"Aww! This is the daughter you saw in the future?!" Phoebe gushed. "She looks like you, Piper!"
"So does Phillip," Paige said.
"Please don't tell me that Wyatt's even worse now?" Phoebe asked.
"Hold it!" Piper said before turning her gaze to little Wyatt. "Don't worry, sweetie, she's talking about another Wyatt. Leo!"
Leo orbed in from following Chris around, "Woah! Dad can orb!" Phil asked incredulously.
Leo turned his head to the boy and girl sitting beside Piper. "Our kids from the future," Piper explained as Leo's eyes widened.
"Melinda?" Leo asked Piper. After Piper had returned from the alternate future where Prue was still alive, Piper had told them about the little girl they had shared. When she was pregnant with Wyatt, they were both expecting Melinda, yet once Wyatt came out, they thought they would never have that little girl Piper saw.
"That's right," Piper grinned. Leo grinned too before falling to his knees in front of Melinda and hugged her. "I'm so glad we do have you after all!" He let go of Melinda and grabbed hold of Phil. He sat back on his heels and studied all the features of his two kids.
"This is amazing!" Leo said to himself. "I have three kids!"
"Four," Phil said. "Chris is was born after Wyatt."
Leo looked to Piper for answers before asking, "Where is Chris now? Is he still in the future?"
"Oh, he was here but for some reason, he attacked us and orbed out," Melinda answered.
Leo looked at Piper once again with quizzical eyes.
"She's talking about the Chris you have been following. According to them, he is our son, too," Piper explained.
"You mean the Chris who made me an Elder, who said he came back to save Wyatt from turning evil?" Leo asked.
"Wyatt, evil?" Phil asked. "The only thing evil about him, is his need to test out a girl's skills in bed before dating them." The others all turned to him. "He's got four lined up so far."
"Which I think is disgusting. It didn't help any that he told us that at the dinner table!" Melinda put in.
"Leo? Could you take Wyatt and orb him Up There, while we try to figure this out?" Piper asked.
"Of course," Leo answered. He kissed Melinda and Phil on the forehead as he stood to get Wyatt. Once Wyatt was safely in his arms, he smiled at his other two children before orbing out.
"So..." Paige started. "What now?"
"We need Chris' blood so we can try and save the Chris from the future," Piper told them.
"But that Chris is already here," Phoebe pointed out.
"He is different from our Chris," Melinda told them. "I do not recognize his personality."
"Chris!" Piper called, before Chris orbed into the Manor with Darklighter arrows protruding from his arm and shoulder. "Chris!" Piper yelled as she jumped up and cautiously sat him down on a chair. She worked to break the arrows so she could slide them out of him easier. By the look of it, Chris was almost gone. After the two teens came into the Manor and revealed his secret, he went into the Underworld and took his anger out on whatever demon managed to cross his path as he vanquished them. He had eventually found himself in the lair of a group of Darklighters, who wasted no time attacking him. Now, he was slumped onto the floor and Piper tried to make him comfortable.
"Chris!" Melinda fell to the floor beside him, while Phil was on top of Chris sobbing.
"Please, don't die Chris!" Phil shouted as his tears landing on Chris' shirt.
"Aunt Paige, heal him!" Melinda ordered.
"But...I-I-can't heal!" Paige protested.
"Leo!" Piper called.
Leo orbed into the living room once again and took in the scene. He put Wyatt down on the floor and yelled, "Watch out! Let me!" But before Leo could get to Chris, a golden glow emitted from Phil's hands as Chris' wounds began to heal.
Once Phil felt Chris moving under him, he sat back as Chris' eyes found Phil's tear-stained face. "Chris?" Phil whispered before taking in Chris' now-healed injuries. Phil fell on top of Chris again and continued to sob. "Don't ever scare us like that again!"
Chris struggled under Phil's weight to sit up and take in everybody's expressions. To his surprise, everybody, including Leo, were worried. Now that Leo began to study Chris' features, he could see the resemblance he had to Piper, and even the newcomers Melinda and Phil. "What?!" Chris demanded.
Piper decided to take charge as she walked over and knelt beside the young man. "Chris...we need some of your blood...to help the Chris from Melinda and Phil's time."
"He could come with us?" Phil started as he wiped his eyes with embarrassment. He didn't want his family to think that he was a crybaby at his age. "Two Chris's are better than one. Then we can all go find Wyatt and come back here before the demons could know what's going on? They won't be able to follow us back and then we can work out a plan with our Chris and Wyatt to get the others out."
"But how would we find them in the Underworld?" Melinda asked. "I don't think I can sense them."
"Maybe Leo can?" Paige suggested.
"What if we come up with a spell to bring us to him instead?" Phoebe asked. "We'll gain the element of surprise."
"Right," Piper said, "Phoebe and Paige, you two work on that spell while the rest of us work on preparations and our attack."
~o0o~
Melinda and Phillip stood in front of the twin symbols of the Triquetra they had drawn on the wall in chalk. They and the others were up in the attic, ready to travel back to the future to save Chris and Wyatt. Half of them would go to get Chris and the other half were going to go get Wyatt. "Are you ready?" Melinda asked, hoping that Phil was ready to run into danger. Because he hadn't shown any ability to cast spells, the older witches were the ones who were going to cast the spell for them. Each of the portals were designed to allow only those presently in the attic to come back through, with the exception of the the future Chris and Wyatt. Phil gave an uneasy smile and a nod before they turned back to the wall. Melinda was the first to read her spell.
On this day and in this hour,
I call upon the ancient power.
Bring us to my captive Chris,
Do not allow him to be missed.
The portal opened with a blue light and Melinda, Chris, Phoebe and Leo walked through the portal and ended up in a cell. Melinda saw through the torchlight, that Chris was laying hurt near the door. "Chris..." she whispered before running over to him.
"Mel..." the hurt Chris croaked out with a raw throat from yelling so much. "How did you get in here? There is a magic barrier..."
"Come on, let's get you out of here before any of the demons notice us..." Melinda whispered as the other Chris and Leo grabbed him and helped him through the portal. When they emerged to the other side, they all saw that the others had already left.
"Seems anti-climatic, right?" Phoebe asked.
"We were hoping for the element of surprise," Leo reminded her as he knelt beside the hurt Chris and healed him.
"Dad?" Chris asked after he was coherent enough to speak properly. "Since when could you heal?" He then glanced behind Leo and caught sight of his alternate self. "Wow..." He sat up and stared at the other Chris, who was in the room.
"Chris?" Melinda asked as he slowly stood. Chris grinned before accepting her in his arms.
"What's going on, Mel?" he asked.
"Phil and I tried to go back in time by a couple of days to warn you, Wyatt and everyone else of the attack we went through, but we went back far too far and ended up here."
"Phil? He's here?" Chris asked.
"He was, but he, mom and Aunt Paige all went to our time to try and save Wyatt," Melinda answered. "He came up with the idea to open a portal to each of you simultaneously so we could have the element of surprise if we had needed to fight. Oh, and he has the power to heal, now."
"Really? That's awesome! I wish I could heal...but at least there are two people in our house who can heal if it's needed," Chris told her.
The others walked through the other portal, which closed up as soon as the last person walked through. Phil saw his brother and ran to him, which Chris gladly enveloped his younger brother in a hug.
"Mel?" Wyatt asked before he hugged her as he had Phil after Phil had healed him.
"Wyatt?" the Chris from the alternate future asked.
"Two Chris'?" Wyatt asked as he turned to his other family members for answers.
"Alternate future," Melinda explained. "In his future, you seemed to have been the ultimate evil, and he came back to this time to save you."
"Me? Evil?" Wyatt asked as he stared at the brother who looked older than he was. He walked over to the other Chris and Chris fought the urge to use his powers to throw Wyatt across the room. Wyatt took the other boy's shoulders and studied him before enveloping Chris in a hug. "Whatever that Wyatt has ever done to you, I'm sorry."
"But...you're not him," Chris said.
"It doesn't matter. He must not show you affection, so let me be his replacement so you can see what you could have in your world," Wyatt replied. "So," Wyatt turned to the others, "how about we go kick demon ass to save our family, and then we come back to this time to help this Chris kick my demon ass?"
"Wow..." the other Chris started before he looked at Phil, "Never thought I'd ever hear Wyatt say something like that." He walked over to his older self and asked, "How about it? You in?"
