Chapter Seven
"It must have worked," Matt assured his mother "The photograph disappeared,"
Piper sighed "Doesn't mean Chris actually got it though does it," If she admitted it to herself, Piper knew that part of her was staying sceptical because she was scared that if she hoped it worked, that she'd be disappointed when it didn't.
"I think the kid's right Piper," Paige began "Whether Chris got the photo or not it disappeared and that means it must have gone somewhere, we just need to figure out where,"
"And then what?" Piper asked
"Find away to direct our message to Chris," Matt cut in quickly. "We need to get back to work," Matt made his way back to the book and began flipping through the pages quickly searching for any clue to the answer of his question.
How do you find something that wants to stay lost?
Chris wanted to stay lost didn't he? Matt wondered if Chris missed his family, missed him. He had always wanted a little brother growing up. Someone to hang out with, it had been lonely being an only child and having someone else to share things with would have been nice.
Share! He knew that somewhere inside that struck a cord. Emotionally they were linked. The book proved that. But now they needed something physical.
"Mom," Matt turned towards his mother with an expression that gave the impression that something had just occurred to him. "You wouldn't have by any chance passed anything down to Chris that may have been mine from when I was a baby,"
Piper gave him a confused look "A few baby grows and a teddy bear, but apart from that nothing else. Why?'
"Does Chris still have the teddy bear?"
"Woobie," Piper informed him "Yeah he should still be in his room,"
Matt quickly made his way past his mother towards the attic door. Quickly she began to follow him down the stairs with Paige on her heels "Matt, honey what is it?"
When the sisters had caught up with him he was frantically searching Chris' room.
"Matt what are you doing?" Piper asked frustrated that her eldest son would not answer her questions.
"The bear mom, I'm looking for the bear," Woobie was the key, he kept saying to himself over and over again. The bear would give them the means to find Chris.
Piper began searching around the room with him. "Honey why do you need the bear?"
"The bear is a physical connection between me and Chris mom. It was something that binds us together,"
Piper began frantically searching around Chris' bed. "Here," Piper called "He's under the bed," Handing Woobie over to Matt he ran back up the attic stairs.
"I wish that boy would stand still for two minutes," Paige quipped heading back towards the door.
"Matt," Piper shouted grabbing her eldest shoulders forcing him to stop and look directly at her. "For the love of god please just stop for a second and explain. We can't keep up,"
Matt caught his breath. "We need to create a stronger connection," he beamed. The excitement was written all over his face. He looked like a kid who'd just discovered how to get everything he ever wanted for free. "We need to get Aunt Phoebe and Dad here. It has a better chance of working with all of us here,"
"Paige can you orb to Phoebe," Piper instructed her sister
Without a second though Paige disappeared into a mass of light blue orbs, arriving back moments later with a very confused and slightly pissed off Phoebe.
"What the hell Paige?" she asked "I was in the middle of a staff meeting. Do you know how much trouble I'm going to be in when I finally get back,"
"Forget that now," Paige beamed brightly "Matt has an idea,"
"Honey your father might be harder to get here, you know how he's been since Chris' disappearance,"
"Dad," Matt called "DAD,"
"He's not listening," Piper sighed.
Matt sighed, that seemed to be Leo's thing at the moment. He didn't seem to listen to anyone anymore. Matt knew he needed to give his father a reason to listen.
"DAD CHRIS NEEDS YOU!"
Quickly familiar blue orbs formed into the solid mass that was Leo. A look of both urgency and hope crossed the former elders face.
'Have you found him," Leo was straight down to business.
Matt smiled at the thought that his father was once as determined to find him. "I think I might have,"
It only took a few minutes for Matt to explain his idea to his parents and aunts. After many questions about possible failure and the dangers of this idea, they had finally decided that it was at least worth a shot.
Matt discussed the idea of adapting a return to owner spell in order to reunited Chris with his family. Using the teddy bear as a physical representation they hoped that they could send the bear to Chris, but at the same time be able to lock onto the bear's destination with the use of their family connection and travel to wherever Chris was.
Long shot maybe, but it was at least worth a try.
