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Dealing With Death

Chapter 10: Another Attempt

"They won't be able to see him," Melinda looked to her queen, "But we will. We'll have the advantage to take him without his family knowing."

"There's just one problem, he's back at Magic School. We can't get in there." The Queen was impressed by her new child, she had always wanted a Halliwell on her side, and it seemed to her that she got quite a smart one, if she had not let the Twice-Blessed escape.

"But I can get in there." Melinda smiled, slightly cockily, making the beautiful Vampire Queen laugh. Her raven hair falling off her pale shoulders as her head tilted backwards.

"You're a vampire my darling, the alarms will go off."

"Not if I get in with a potion," Melinda smiled, "I know the potion off by heart. I could never orb there so needed it to get me in and out."

This made her Queen look at her, impressed. She had definitely got the right Halliwell, she was smart and cunning.

"Ok, go and find someone to help you make it, my Child," the Queen ordered, "Take however many you need. And I want the Twice-Blessed turned, he will be perfect for us."

Melinda bowed her head to her queen and walked out of the lair. Her plan already running through her mind.

Chris sat at a table alone, or what he thought was alone, it turned out Wyatt was next to him but he did not know, looking through the Book of Shadows, trying to find anything in it to turn Wyatt back to being visible. Why could he not find anything? Why was there nothing in this book to help him? As he flipped through the pages, he felt extra pressure on the book.

"Ok, Wyatt, if you're here you need to help me," Chris said, slightly to himself, "I could do with a hand figuring out what to do."

Sighing, he tried to turn the page but found he could not. It was as if a hand was holding the page down, preventing him from turning the page. He knew it had to be his Twice-Blessed brother so looked at the page.

"To summon a ghost?" Chris asked, "You want to summon Grams now? What help would she be?" But he knew Chris was right, why not get Grams or Aunt Prue into the mix? They had always been of some help when Piper needed advice, and had helped Wyatt when he needed advice, so why not now help Chris?

Chris looked over to his Aunt Paige, who was with the twins and Phoebe's youngest at a table researching, and then looked to his Uncle Henry who was with Henry Jnr and Patty the couch also researching. He knew Coop and Pru were with Phoebe's body, he knew they would have trouble moving on. He remembered what he was like with Piper and Leo, at least Pru never saw Phoebe die and would never live with that nightmare, that was the last thing she would need right now.

"Aunt Paige?" Chris called out, making everybody in the room look at him, "I'm going to summon Grams or Aunt Prue, you don't mind do you?" It was a stupid question really, even if Paige did mind it was tough look. Chris needed all the help he could get right now. As he saw his aunt smile weakly to him and shake her head, he stood up to find some summoning crystals. He could not go to the Manor to get everything, not right now, not without someone to watch his back.

Wyatt followed his little brother, watching his back, every move he took. He knew that Chris would need some help, the 19-year-old would not be able to handle this on his own, and should not be expected to, but he was doing a bang up job of it. The blonde witchlighter and half expected the brunette to crack slightly and find alcohol but he had not and he was happy about it. He knew now that Chris would pull through everything. As he followed him, he realised he was going to see Coop and Pru.

Chris gently knocked on the door, sensing his brother with him too. He had now decided to keep his sensing open, and hoped Wyatt did too so he could locate him at all times.

"Hey." Chris smiled weakly at his eldest cousin as she opened the door. Her tanned face was stained with tears, her big brown eyes bloodshot from her tears. He crossed the threshold to see his aunt's body laid lifelessly on a bed, with Coop holding her hand, still crying. Chris was surprised he had any more tears to cry, but his heart went out to him, it went out to all of them. He just hoped that none of Pheobe's daughters went down the road that he did after losing Piper and Leo.

"Any news?" Coop asked, finally looking up at his brunette nephew.

"Not yet," the witch-Elder shook his head, "But we're summoning Grams or maybe Aunt Prue, see if they have any ideas. You could send a message back to Phoebe too."

He could hear Coop's sigh as he tried to stop the tears from falling, Wyatt could also hear it, even though he had stayed back in the doorway, to try and protect the mourning family.

"I'm just going to summon them now," Chris explained, "It'll be in the Great Hall, come in when ever you're ready." Chris understood that Coop just wanted to be alone right now, so turned his attention to his brunette witch-Cupid.

"You want to come?"

Pru looked at her cousin and nodded her head.

"I'll be with Chris, dad." The 16-year-old said softly as she started to walk to the doorway.

"Don't let your sisters come in here," She could hear her father's broken voice, "They can't see this."

Pru left with her cousin, well two cousins without realising, and found the summoning candles set up ready for Chris to summon their deceased family members.

Wyatt watched as his baby brother took charge, this made him proud that Chris could take control of a situation, he was learning to deal with anything that was thrown at him.

"Hear these words, hear the rhyme,

Spirit from the other side.

Come to me, I summon thee,

Cross now the great divide."

The Halliwells watched as two sets of white lights formed in the circle of white candles. Expecting them to be Grams and Prue, everybody waited anxiously to meet the aunt they had never seen, well for Paige to meet the sister she had never seen, yet heard so much about. But when the lights finished forming, they were surprised to not see Grams. Prue was there, but when they looked at the other figure, looked at her long chocolate brown hair and her soft brown eyes, all anybody could do was gasp.

"Hey sweetie," Chris stared at his deceased mother in complete shock, "How are you both?"

Both?

Wyatt looked to see as his mother stepped passed the candles and hugged Chris, who was the closest to her, and then moved to him.

"Wait, you can see me?" Wyatt asked, staggering backwards away from his mother.

"Of course I can," Piper smiled, "Why wouldn't I?"

"You can see Wyatt?" Chris looked up in hope at both his mother and Aunt Prue, who was now also corporal.

"Yes sweetie, why?" Prue asked, her dark brown eyes flashing concern.

"Because we can't." Paige managed to say, realising her nephew could not, but was struggling to speak all the same. Not only was she meeting the sister that she had never had the chance to meet in life, but seeing the sister she had only lost five months ago.

"Oh, Paige!" Prue called out, hugging her half-sister, who was now in tears.

Piper had finally managed to pull her eldest son into a hug and then took a step back to see both of her sons. Both had the same glazed look, both trying not to cry, yet had the need to.

"I'm sorry, babies," Piper pulled them both together, so they were right in front of her, "I didn't mean to leave you both, but I love you very very much. And Melinda too."

"Mom!" Chris choked, "I'm so sorry for what happened, I didn't mean it to happen and I didn't mean to go off the rails and cause so much trouble here. Can you ever forgive me?" Chris' tears finally fell as Piper pulled him into a hug and stroked his head and back.

"There's nothing to forgive you for," she soothed to her second born, "Me and your dad are very proud of you, especially over the past five months."

Everybody in the room stayed silent, watching the reunion between mother and son, but only Prue could see the look from Wyatt's face. The peaceful smile, and happiness he had longed for in his teary eyes. She smiled at it, proud at how well he had coped with trying to help Chris and Melinda at the same time.

Once the reunion had finished, Prue and Piper found out what had happened with Melinda and why the family could not see Wyatt. Wyatt was finally relieved that he could talk to someone and actually get answers from them. He now found he could pass information on to them, things that he had thought about while he had been pretty much alone.

"Well if we can see him, maybe Melinda can." Prue theorised, mainly to Piper, who was nodded, looking in thought.

Before anything else could be said, the room was filled with smoke, and a dozen vampires appeared. Instinctively, Piper tried to freeze them, but then remembered vampires were immune to a witch's powers, and to top it all off, leading the ambush was Melinda and Danny.

"Wyatt, stay behind us." Prue pushed her eldest nephew behind her and Piper, as they had realised that maybe Melinda really was after Wyatt.

"Kill them if you want," Danny ordered, "But leave the Twice Blessed for Melinda."

Chris tried to send the vampires flying backwards telekinetically, but it did not work.

"Wiccan powers won't work on them, Chris." Paige shouted out, as she tried to fight off a vampire that tried to attack her 14-year-old twins.

Chris looked at a vampire, coming towards him, pondering whether his Elder powers would. As he held out his hands, letting his Elder bolts fly through the air, he realised that the vampires were turned straight to ash from them.

"Ok Guys," Chris shouted, "Stand back."

All the Halliwells did as they were told as Chris used his Elder bolts, turning most of the vampires to dust, staying away from his sister, she could not get caught in this. As he took care of three on his right, he was not ready for Danny coming up in his left, who grabbed him and threw him through the air.

"Chris!" Piper called out to her son, as he hit a wall, the sound of something cracking raging through the room.

"Chris!" Wyatt called out, about to orb out to him, but feeling his deceased aunt stopping him.

"You stay there, you're what they want," Prue then turned her attention back to her sister, "How do we kill them? You've faced them before, right?"

"It takes the Power of Three."

That was great, it would take what they no longer had.

Melinda's brown eyes grew wide with excitement as she was about to get to what she wanted. As the vampires she brought with her attacked the older members of the family, she pushed past the children and grabbed Wyatt by the neck.

"Time to join me, big brother."

As much as Wyatt tried to fight off his sister, her supernatural strength was too much. As he closed his eyes and braced himself for the pain of her teeth sinking into his neck, he was surprised when it did not come. He opened his eyes to see, and now hear, Melinda in pain. He looked down, to see her grabbing her head, bending forward.

"What's going on?" He shouted, looking around to see the vampires had stopped attacking also.

"Get her out of here, quick." Danny shouted to a vampire. As much as Danny wanted her to fully turn, it needed to happy when the whole family was not around. They were too powerful together.

Wyatt watched as one of the vampires grabbed Melinda and threw a potion to their feet, smoking out of the room. All the other vampires did the same.

"Ok, what happened there?" Wyatt asked his mom and aunt, who were actually looking at Pru. As his attention drew to her, he saw her shaking and sweating.

"Your cousin just saved your neck," Prue smiled to him, "Literally."

As much as everybody wanted to congratulate her, now was not the time. Paige quickly ran to her youngest nephew's side to heal him, while Henry laid Prudence down on the couch. The magic she had used has drained her, and now she had to get herself back into shape in case they decided to attack again.

"Ok, we need to be prepared next time," Henry stated, trying to stay calm though every bone in his mortal body was telling him to panic, "We need crosses, garlic, anything that will hold them off while we find out how to turn Melinda back."

"The only way is the queen," Piper stated, "Kill the queen we turn her back. And kill off all her vampires too."

"How do we know it won't kill Melinda too?" Wyatt asked his mother, watching his brother carefully who was back to his pacing. The loud crack had actually been his back and ribs breaking as he hit the wall, but Paige had healed him just in time to save him.

"Melinda obviously hasn't sealed the deal yet," Piper sighed, the sight of her daughter scared her though, "Not if Pru could use her empathy to get into her head and cause her pain. Wiccan powers don't work on vampires."

"Unless they're in bat form and you blow them up." Paige reminded her older sister with a smile, remembering the time they tried to team with the vampires to defeat Zankou.

Piper looked at her baby sister, the only one of the Charmed Ones alive, with a soft smile remembering the same time and then looked at her younger son.

"Sit down, sweetie." She said soothingly, the sight of Chris was worrying, he was beginning to remind Piper of the neurotic whitelighter that they had met 20 years ago, Paige of course, was also reminded too.

"I can't sit down, mom," Chris said, "I need to think. Melinda is getting closer to taking her first victim and I still can't see Wyatt, yet I know where he is. I can sense him all the time, but I can't see him, can't hear him. We need to get him back."

"He is right here," Piper walked to her brunette son, taking his hands in hers, "And we'll save Melinda. Some way, we'll find a way, we always do."

"I just wish I knew what Melinda was thinking." Chris sighed.

"Maybe we do," Prue suddenly said, "I mean, me and Piper can see Wyatt, and Melinda could. The vampires obviously could too. It's only you guys that can't."

"You think it was a potion to stop them from seeing me?" Wyatt asked his eldest aunt, who nodded to him.

"So this potion was to stop us from seeing him." Paige said, looking to her eldest half-sister, receiving a nod from her.

"So, we need a potion to bring him back," Piper stated, "Chris, do you want to help me make it?"

The 19-year-old looked into his mother's chocolate brown eyes and nodded. This was one of the things he had missed, being in the kitchen with her.

"While you two are gone, we'll search for anything we can use against the vampires." Prue smiled to her younger sister, watching her walk with her son to the potions lab of the school. Her attention was drawn back to the family.

"Ok, Henry, can you keep an eye on Pru?" She asked, who simply nodded, "Junior, Patience and Patty if you can keep researching the books around here. Anything about vampires, just write it down, ok?" After she received a nod from her youngest nephew and two nieces, she looked at the twins, "Hannah, Hope, you two can help me and your mom find anything that can help us against the vampires. Crosses, holy water, garlic, you know the sort, right?" The two twins nodded their heads, excitedly, and followed their deceased aunt and mom around Magic School, looking for anything to attack the vampires with.

"I'll just stay here, shall I?" Wyatt called out to his aunt Prue.

"Help the kids." She called back with a smile, seeing the Twice-Blessed stood with his arms crossed over his chest, with fake anger across his face. Great, Wyatt thought to himself,

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