Here is the latest update. Once again, thanks for the comments. I'm glad to see you're enjoying my rewrite. This chapter continues with the rest of my version of "I Dream of Phoebe." I do not own Charmed.
Wyatt's eyes fluttered open slowly. He could barely move and his body was still in pain. His eyes glanced around, not sure of where it was they were looking. It was dark and he could barely make out the wall in front of him. For some reason, his arms were raised above his head. He tried to bring them down, but he felt the pressure of something on his wrist, something keeping his arms against the cold wall behind him. His arms were shackled.
He felt his powers surging through him again, the way they should have been, and tried to orb free of the shackles. He was met only with a shock of pain. He had a feeling that where ever he was, his powers were not going to be of much use to him.
A light came on, hanging from the ceiling in the small room. The walls seemed to be made of some sort of gray stone and there was a wooden door several feet in front of him. The room was windowless.
Gideon stood outside of the room, content with his capture. He was anxious to talk with this future Wyatt, if that's who he really was, but he didn't want Wyatt to recognize him. Before entering the room, Gideon waved his hand in front of his face, changing it's appearance. He wasn't wearing his usual magic school teaching robe either, but merely black pants with a gray sweater.
The door creaked as it opened slowly. Wyatt looked up, meeting very intense eyes, eyes that almost seemed to fear him. The man who entered the room seemed to resemble Lex Luther with his bald head and clean shaven face. Obviously, the man was no comic book character though.
Gideon approached Wyatt slowly, even though he knew that Wyatt's powers would not work inside of the room. "Wyatt Halliwell, I presume." He said. Wyatt struggled against the shackles, trying to get his arms free. "Even if you get free, your magic won't work inside these walls. I have taken precautions against it."
Wyatt stopped fighting the shackles. "What do you want with me?" He asked the man angrily.
"For starters, I'd like to know why you came back from the future?" He said to Wyatt.
Wyatt shook his head. "That's none of your business." He answered.
The man, not content with his answer, sent blue bolts surging through Wyatt's body. Wyatt fought the urge to gasp out in pain. His chest heaved up and down as he tried to push the pain away. His hands formed tight fists in the shackles. The pain stopped and the man demanded an answer. "Why did you come back from the future?"
"You can do what you want to me," Wyatt said. "But I'm not answering any of your questions."
Electricity surged through his body again. This time, he couldn't help but to gasp out in pain. His legs twitched in front of him, but he was still determined not to answer any of the man's questions.
"I don't know what else to try." Phoebe said as she paced the attic. "We've scryed, we've used the spell to call a lost witch, we've tried half a dozen other spells, and still nothing."
"He has to be somewhere." Leo said.
Paige stepped forward. "Maybe Gideon can help us find him." She thought out loud.
The door bell went off, distracting everyone. "Who could that be?" Phoebe wondered.
"I'll go check." Paige replied. She walked out of the attic.
"I think we should fix you first and then go after Wyatt." Piper suggested, meaning they should get Phoebe back to her old self again. She wanted to find her son terribly, but Phoebe wasn't going to be much help as a genie unless Chris wished for them to have Wyatt back. Who knows how badly that wish could backfire.
"As much as I hate to admit it, I think she's right." Chris said. He thought about using a wish to find Wyatt, but decided against it. He had no idea how it might backfire on him and something in the back of his mind was telling him that wishing was not the option.
Jinny and a few of her demonic thieves shimmered into the attic, hoping to catch the Halliwells off guard. She reached for the bottle, but even though the Halliwells had been caught off guard, they were quick to react against her.
Chris used his telekinesis to bring the bottle to him. Before he could catch it, he was charged at by a demon with a sword. As the sword came at him, he was forced backwards and the genie bottle crashed to the floor near the door to the attic.
Piper exploded one of the demons, as Leo dodged a fireball sent at him from Jinny. Another demon came at him with a sword, but Leo pushed him back and he toppled over the back of the couch. Phoebe used one of her vanquishing potions to finish the demon off.
Paige heard the noise upstairs as she opened the front door. Richard was at the door and he heard the noise as well. "I can't deal with you right now." She said to him. She had met with him earlier and tried to have a sort of magical intervention with him. He was starting to use his magic more and it was changing him, turning into someone Paige did not recognize. Her magical intervention, which included family of his that was alive and deceased, did not go so well. Now was not a good time for them to talk though. Before he could even get a word out to her, she was already running up the stairs for the attic.
Richard followed her, not sure of what was going on upstairs. When he came to the attic doorway, he was just in time to hear Paige calling for one of the demons swords. She used it against the demon, killing it. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted the pink genie bottle lying on the floor. He reached down and picked it up. Jinny ran for him, but he used his telekinesis on her to throw her back against a table nearby.
Chris used a sword to kill the last of Jinny's demons. Realizing her defeat, Jinny shimmered away. She wasn't giving up though. "Where's the..." Chris started to ask about the genie bottle, but stopped himself when he saw Richard standing in the doorway holding it out. He was motioning for Phoebe to get into the bottle and she had no choice but to obey, as he was her new master now. With Phoebe inside, Richard faded out in a quick shimmer of light.
"Wait, did he just..." Piper said, stopping mid sentence. Who knew what Richard would wish for now that he was the one with the genie bottle.
"I can't believe him." Paige replied angrily.
"Well, we have to get it back." Chris said. "We have to get Phoebe back."
"Ok, you take Wyatt some place safe." Piper instructed Leo. "He's down in the playpen with some toys. Paige, you go with Chris and get the genie bottle back. I'm going to use one of these swords and see if I can't scry for where ever Jinny is."
"Alright." Paige replied. She looked at Chris and they both orbed out at the same time.
They both appeared at Richard's family estate. Paige walked around the corner and Chris followed. They both came to a small, dark room. It was Richard's magic room. He was inside and he had a book in his hands. The genie bottle was sitting on a table in front of him and Phoebe was trying to reason with him.
"This is not the way to win Paige over." Phoebe said to him.
He opened the book in search of a specific page. "This is the only way." He replied to Phoebe. "I need to get this wish just right though."
"Richard." Paige said, trying to get his attention. He turned to her. "What are you doing?"
"I'm just trying to get you to love me again, to accept me and my magic." He answered.
She shook her head. "This is not the way to do it. Your magic is changing you and using magic to make me accept that is not the answer."
Chris stood back and let Paige do all of the talking. He didn't know Richard very personally and felt that it wasn't his place to speak anyways.
Paige stepped forward, reaching for the genie bottle. "I can't let you do this." She said to him. Before she could get her hands on the bottle Richard waved his hand out and she was forced back, striking a column just outside of the room.
"Oh my god." Phoebe said, running to her sister.
Chris bent down to help her up. "Paige." He said, hoping she was alright. Paige made her way to her feet, only to be pushed down as a magic carpet crashed into her. Chris made it back to his feet, using his telekinesis on the carpet. It struck the wall and fell to the ground.
"Where's the bottle?" Jinny demanded, as she shimmered in and held a fireball in her hand.
Richard was unaware of the curse bestowed on Jinny or the genie bottle and realized that instead of using his magic to make Paige accept him the way that he was, he should use it to help her and her sisters. He held out the bottle, just as Jinny was taking notice of him standing in the doorway of the small room. "Phoebe, I wish you free." He said.
A swirl of blue light swirled around Phoebe for a sheer moment and then, it swirled around Richard. Phoebe was back in her normal clothes and Richard was now dressed like a genie. He glanced down at himself, not really sure of what had happened.
In his shock, his grasp on the genie bottle loosened and Jinny was able to snag it from him. "Genie, I wish the Charmed Ones dead." She shouted.
"No." Chris screamed loudly, echoing through his mind and through Richard's estate. Phoebe and Paige collapsed to the floor.
Jinny motioned for Richard to enter the genie bottle and shimmered out with him, content that the Charmed ones were dead and would not be a problem any longer.
Chris knelt over Paige's body and then moved to Phoebe's. Tears filled his eyes. "No, please." He said softly. Paige and Phoebe's spirits emerged from within their bodies and started to float up to the ceiling. He looked up the them. "I'm so sorry." He said to them. A tear rolled down his cheek.
"It's not your fault." Phoebe said. She and Paige started floating back down for some reason.
"What's going on?" Paige asked. "Why aren't we moving on?"
"Does it matter?" Chris asked. He wiped away the tear. "This is good right?"
"I don't know." Phoebe answered.
"Well, if we're still here, that must mean that Piper's ok." Paige said. "Right?"
Chris' face went pale. "Mom." He said softly. He orbed back to the manor, completely abandoning Phoebe and Paige.
When he appeared in the manor, he almost shouted out to his mother instead of Piper. He caught himself as he was about to do so. "Piper." He shouted as he walked through the manor.
"I don't know what happened, but I'm glad you saved me." Piper said to Leo, as they stood in the living room of the manor.
"I felt something was wrong and I came." Leo explained. "I couldn't let you die."
Chris stood on the stairs and heard them talking. Paige and Phoebe's spirit's appeared next to him. "Thanks for leaving us." Paige whispered. "What are we doing here on the stairs?"
Phoebe took a few steps down and saw Leo and Piper in the living room. "Maybe when this is all over with, we can talk, discuss where we stand on things." Piper said to Leo.
"You mean where WE stand?" He replied. "It will always be you Piper. I will always chose you."
"You don't think that whatever happened to me, happened to Paige and Phoebe, do you?" She asked Leo, changing the subject.
"It's possible." He said.
Phoebe and Paige, followed by Chris, made their way down the stairs. "Let me guess, you nearly died?" Paige asked.
Piper looked over at her sisters. "Yeah." She replied as her mind filled with worry. Her sisters were spirits.
"Well, we did die." Phoebe said.
"How could you let this happen, Chris?" Piper asked, assuming it was his fault.
"I don't think it's his fault." Leo replied to her.
"When did you start defending him?" Piper demanded to know.
"This isn't his fault Piper." Paige said in defense.
"Since you're a ghost maybe you can possess Jinny and make her wish Phoebe..." Leo paused, noticing that Phoebe was obviously not a genie any more. "Who wished you free?"
"Richard did." Phoebe said.
"And now Jinny has the bottle." Chris added in. He could barely even look at Piper. He couldn't believe she had blamed him for what had happened.
"Ok, so maybe you can possess Jinny and wish him free." He suggested.
"Yeah, except I never did get to scry for her. We don't know where she is." Piper argued.
"But we do." Chris said. "Phoebe and I were there this morning."
Piper walked over to him. "Ok, lets go." She said, grabbing his arm in anticipation of him orbing to where ever Jinny was. "You stay here and hopefully we can talk when I get back." She instructed Leo.
Chris sighed and orbed out with his mother, hoping that Paige and Phoebe had followed suite. They all appeared in some sort of cave in the dessert. Jinny turned to greet them. She was surprised to see that Piper was still alive and also surprised to see that Paige and Phoebe's spirits had not moved on yet. "You're too late." She informed them. "I've already wished for the great city."
Chris could see behind her, as the city of Zanbar was rising out from the sand. Demons came at him and he took a step back, tripping over a rock. He fell flat on his back. A knife came at him and he rolled sideways. The knife struck the ground next to him.
Piper reacted and blew up the demon after Chris. Then, she blew up one of the other demons. Paige had possessed one of the demons and made him kill several of his own kind, while Phoebe went after Jinny.
Richard was being thrown back and forth inside of the genie bottle in Jinny's hand as she tried to fight off the Charmed Ones. She had no way to fight off an angry spirit though and was easily overtaken by Phoebe.
Phoebe, in Jinny's body, smiled and put her hand out, forming a fireball. She released it at a handful of demons and then, she released another one at another handful of demons. Eventually, she and her family had killed all of the demons. "Richard, I wish you free." She said, just as her spirit jumped free of Jinny's body.
Richard came out of the bottle and essentially switched places with Jinny, making her a genie once more. She screamed out in anger as she was sucked into the bottle. Richard stood free, holding the bottle. He glanced around, meeting Paige and Phoebe's spirits. "I wish the Charmed Ones alive." He said and Paige and Phoebe both disappeared, their spirits heading back for their bodies.
Richard held the bottle out to Chris, as he was finally realizing what his magic had been doing to him, how it had been affecting him and Paige. "Here, get this thing away from me." He said to Chris.
"First, can you get rid of that?" He asked, referring to the city of Zanbar.
Richard agreed and wished the city to be buried once more. Then, Chris took the bottle and orbed out with Piper. He gave the bottle to Leo, who then decided to orb it into a volcano.
Paige stayed at Richard's, hoping they could talk about magic and where their relationship stood. She was prepared for their relationship to end if necessary, but hoped they could try and make things work. It was unfair of her to ask him to stop practicing magic, while she continued to do so and that would more than likely be the reason for their relationship's end.
Phoebe headed back to the manor right away so she could help Chris find Wyatt. He was still missing and neither one of them had any ideas as to where he could have been or who might have taken him captive. Piper wanted to help as well, seeing as Wyatt was her son. Leo had told her to just trust Chris for the time being. He was their to protect and help Wyatt, so she may as well let him. He had wanted to be alone with Piper anyways.
Gideon stepped out of the small stone room, leaving Wyatt barely conscious. He had yet to get any answers out of him. Wyatt's will was strong and he refused to give in to Gideon's questions, so Gideon had continued to torture him.
Gideon turned back to the room for a mere moment with a smile on his face. He waved his hand out, concealing the door from innocent eyes. He could not risk anyone finding out that he had a secret room in magic school, one that could hold any type of being. He couldn't risk anyone finding out who was in that room either. He had the room cloaked, so others could not find it or sense it so easily. He also made sure that the magic within could not escape. That was why Wyatt could feel his powers in the room, but was unable to use them. The doorway was cloaked to look like an old painting and the room had been there for years, though this was the first time he had used it.
Gideon had smiled because an idea had come to him. He walked to his office and began to work on a spell. He wanted to disguise himself as Wyatt so he could penetrate the Halliwell family, thus getting closer to the baby. He couldn't just simply glamour, as he did to change his appearance when he confronted Wyatt in the secret room. He would need his orbs to look like Wyatt's and would need to sound like him as well. He wrote out a spell on the paper and read it aloud. "I call upon the ancient power, to mask my appearance and power in certain hours. With a snap of my fingers and one reading of this spell, allow me to become Wyatt Halliwell." Gideon snapped his finger and his appearance changed. He went over to the wall, pulling back the curtain. He looked in the mirror and smiled at the face looking back at him.
"It worked." The other Gideon said, from his own world. He had short blonde hair and a gray jacket on over a red t-shirt.
"Yes. It seems it has." Gideon said to his counterpart. He had longer blonde hair and was dressed in black from head to toe. He pulled the curtain back and black orbed from the room.
A familiar figure formed in front of Chris in the attic. He looked up to see Wyatt standing, seemingly unharmed. He felt a relief wash over him. Phoebe took notice from where she stood by the table in the attic. She had been trying to scry for him. "What happened to you?" Chris demanded to know. He tried not to let his fear or worry show.
"A demon got the better of me, but I took care of him." He answered.
"You've been gone for nearly three hours. Since when does it take that long for you to finish off a demon?" Chris asked. Before Wyatt could answer, Chris continued. "You didn't have to block me out you know. You could have let me know what was going on."
"You didn't have to block me out." Gideon thought to himself. "What does he mean by that?" Gideon had no idea that the brothers shared a bond that was beyond just telepathic.
"It's nice to see you have your powers though." Phoebe said.
"My powers?" Wyatt questioned.
"Yeah, you had to be wondering what had happened to them." She replied.
"I didn't mean to wish for you not to have them." Chris said. "But apparently, genies take even the slightest inkling of a thought and make it a wish."
"Right, I was wondering what had happened to them." He said to Chris. "I think that was how those demons were able to get the upper hand on me. Thank goodness I was able to get them back and get away from them."
Chris looked at Wyatt, sensing that something wasn't right about him. The way that Wyatt was pronouncing his words sounded off to him. Even just the way he was speaking in general was off. Chris focused his mind, trying to get a read on his brother and was unable to get one. Wyatt was still shutting him out. "Are you trying to hide something from me?" He asked him.
"What do you mean?" Wyatt asked back.
"Well, you're still..." Chris was cut off as Piper and Leo ventured into the attic.
"You guys were able to find him?" Piper asked.
"More like he found us." Phoebe replied.
Piper smiled at Wyatt, though she half expected him to orb out. He never usually stuck around for very long. She looked back at Leo. "I guess this is good for us."
Leo smiled at Piper and stepped forward, taking her hand. "Well, if you guys don't mind, Piper and I are going to go grab some dinner." Leo said.
"Can you watch little Wyatt?" Piper asked Phoebe.
Phoebe, Chris, and Wyatt all looked at Piper and Leo in shock that they were holding hands and smiling at one another. "Sure." Phoebe said.
"He's already asleep, so you probably just need to check in on him a few times. Thanks." Piper replied. Her and Leo walked out of the attic.
"I think there's still some hope for you, Chris." Phoebe said as she patted him on the shoulder. She walked out of the attic, leaving the brothers alone.
"What did she mean by that?" Wyatt asked.
Chris eyed his brother suspiciously. "She was talking about Mom and Dad." He explained. "I thought you would be happy to see them back together, especially after the way you reacted when you found out they had split up."
"No, of course I'm happy." Wyatt said. "It's just that holding hands doesn't mean they are actually back together."
"But it's a step in the right direction, isn't it?" Chris asked. "I wouldn't expect you to know though. It's not like you've ever been in love with anyone."
"And you have?" Wyatt shot back.
"Oh come on. Don't act like you don't know about me and Bianca." Chris answered. "When I'm done here, we plan on getting married and you're not going to ruin things for us." Chris walked around Wyatt and headed downstairs, hoping that his brother wouldn't follow.
Gideon had no idea who Bianca was and decided to just orb out. He didn't want to follow Chris and risk saying something to make Chris suspicious of him. He appeared back at magic school and snapped his fingers, changing his looks back to his own.
He wondered why Chris had referred to Piper and Leo as Mom and Dad. Obviously, they were his parents too and he and Wyatt were brothers. That explained why Chris would risk so much, even his own life, by coming back in time. That didn't really explain why Wyatt had come back from the future though.
Chris made his way through the manor, finding Phoebe in the kitchen. She had the baby monitor in one hand and a can of soup in the other. She was getting ready to make herself some dinner. "Hey." He said to her.
She set both items down on the island and looked up at him. "Hey." She said back. She turned from him, rummaging for a pan to heat the soup in. "Want some soup?"
"Sure." Chris answered. "Do you think that Leo is going to tell Piper who I really am?" He asked, as he took a seat at the table.
"I don't know, Chris." She answered. "I'm sure that for now, he's still just trying to comprehend having another son."
"My conception date is this week." Chris said nonchalantly.
Phoebe looked at him in shock, dropping her spoon in the soup as it splattered up at her. "What?" She cried. "When this week?" She grabbed a napkin and wiped a few drops of soup off of her shirt.
"It's on Wyatt's birthday." He answered.
"You said it was this month, but you didn't mention it was only a few days away." Phoebe said. "That doesn't give us a lot of time."
"I know, I wanted to tell you sooner." Chris replied. "But you had that premonition and we were distracted for most of the day. I didn't really have a chance to tell you sooner."
Phoebe turned the stove off and poured the soup into two bowls, one for her and one for Chris. She walked over to the table with them. "I'll be honest, you've been a real pain in the ass since you've been here." She said. "I'm not anxious to watch you fade away though. Hopefully, this dinner between Piper and Leo may lead to something a bit more, something that leads to your birth eventually."
Chris let out a brief smile that faded quickly. What kind of kid thinks about their parents having sex together? The thought of it grossed Chris out, but he knew it was something that would have to happen in order for him to keep his life.
I meant to update sooner, but I had a birthday going on and my hubby had some work issues we were dealing with. Anyways...let me know what you think of the update or the story in general. I hope you like some of the changes I've been making. Enjoy!