A/N: Leo will of course be making an appearance in this story, though it wont be until the last few chapters (which will be soon)... sorry to all the Leo fans, I'll try to make his chapters really good, promise!
And I'm sorry this isn't going to be a terribly long chapter, but its really important to the story!
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"Thanks M-Piper." Mel corrected herself halfway through her word.
Piper smiled, she may have corrected herself, but it was a start. They were starting to let her in.
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Chris groaned in approval, finishing a second helping of his mothers eggs. Breakfast hadn't been that bad. Though Mel did have her occasional snarky comment, that was understandable, and quite frankly, to be expected.
It wasn't until Wyatt orbed down that things got rough.
Bright orbs filled the kitchen leaving a bright bubbly baby in their wake. Piper reached for him, pulling him off the counter and into her arms. "Hi there!" She said happily. "Hungry?"
The baby just giggled in response.
Chris observed Mel from the corner of his eye. She had stopped eating, her back was rigid and her eyes were unblinkingly trained on Wyatt. He cleared his throat to get her attention. It didn't work she was still staring wide-eyed at the child. Chris nudged her, snapping her out of her trance. She looked over at him, the pain in her choclate brown eyes was evident.
"Uh, maybe we should go." Chris said unsure.
"Don't be ridiculous," Piper responded, getting Wyatt's breakfast, "Finish your food."
"Done." Mel said, quickly standing from her chair.
"Yeah, me too." Chris joined Mel.
Piper frowned at them.
"See you later."
"Yeah, thanks for breakfast!"
They both said goodbye quickly and orbed out. Piper looked at Wyatt, "Well that was a little weird."
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Chris and Mel orbed into the back room of P3.
"We could have had him Chris, he was right there!" Mel began to pace. "It would have been so easy!"
"Mel, we have to try save him, before we decided to kill him." Chris told her calmly.
"And if we can't save him? Then what?" Mel fumed.
"Then, and only then, we can kill him."
"And will you?! If it comes down to it?! Would you kill him?!"
"Mel, what are you talking about, of course I would, the whole future is at stake!" Chris responded, beginning to get angry too.
"I don't think you would Chris! I think your letting your feelings cloud your judgement!" She accused stopping her pacing and staring at him. "What did we say about getting close Chris! Your letting her in too much and I'll be damned if I let you stop me from completing this mission so don't you even try!"
"Mel! Your jumping ahead WAY too much! I'm not letting ANYTHING cloud my judgement! I'm still on your side! If it comes down to it, if we can't stop him, we will kill him." He took long breath, "But Mel, he's our brother, and we have to try, he might be evil in the future, but he's just a baby here, I don't want to kill him if there's another way."
"We're running out of time to save him Chris, we haven't made any progress in all the time we've been here." She stated glumly.
"I know, but I have an idea. We need to try the premonition again." Chris paused to evaluate her reaction. Her eyes flew open wide and she opened her mouth to protest. "Wait before you say anything, the reason we haven't been able to get the right one, or continue long enough to catch the right one is because we don't have enough power, even with Mom, Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Paige, but what if we used-"
"Wyatt." Mel cut him off.
"Exactly!" Chris exclaimed. "That'd have to be enough power!"
Mel looked up at him, he could see the gears turning in her mind. She smiled after a few moments, "I think that could work."
"Great, we'll do it tonight, I find it hard to believe Mom would let us do this."
"Okay, we should probably get some sleep, we'll need as much power as we can get tonight."
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At 1:00AM Chris and Mel orbed straight into Wyatt's room. Chris walked towards Wyatt's bed, carefully stepping over the loose floorboard while Mel went out to the hallway to see if anybody had heard them, they hadn't.
Reaching down to pick Wyatt up, he noticed the baby's eyes were open already. "Mel," Chris whispered, "He's awake."
"The orbs must have woken him up, it doesn't matter, we were going to have to wake him up anyway. She crossed the room and sat in the middle of the floor. Chris came over with Wyatt in his arms and joined her in a sitting position. He placed Wyatt beside him and took his hand.
Mel looked at Wyatt warily for a second before she too took his hand. She took a deep breath. "Ready?"
"Yeah." Chris whispered, closing his eyes.
They sat in silence for a few minuets, "They're coming Chris, you know what you have to do."
"Yeah."
They're minds exploded with ribbons of colour.
"I see it Chris. Deep red. Keep the others away." She whispered frantically.
"Okay Mel." Chris replied, determined not to get them pulled into the wrong one this time.
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Piper woke to the sound of Wyatt crying and a loud thump coming from his room. She got out of bed and rushed out her door, joining her sisters at Wyatt's bedroom door, hands raised instinctive, ready to fight off any demons that were after Wyatt. What she found was not something she was expecting. Instead of a demon it was Chris and Mel in Wyatt's room.
Mel was on the ground, apparently unconsious, Chris leaning over her. Wyatt was sitting on the ground next to them, crying.
Piper rushed over to pick Wyatt up. "What happened?" Piper asked, fearing the worst. Were they trying to kill Wyatt? No. His shield wasn't up. They couldn't be, could they?
"We were trying the premonition again. With Wyatt instead." Chris said trying to shake his sister awake.
"You were trying to get a premonition using my son without telling me?!" Piper bellowed.
Chris flinched, "We only just thought of it. We didn't want to wait until morning." He lied. "This was weird though, I didn't see the premonition, neither did Wyatt I don't think, but I'm pretty sure Mel did. After it she just collapsed."
Piper was cut off from repliying by a groggy moan from the woman lying on the floor.
"Chris?" She asked.
"Yeah, Mel I'm here." He told her stroking her hair lightly.
"Saw it." She said opening her eyes slightly before letting them fall closed again.
"Mel." Chris shook her again, "Mel!"
"I think she's just sleeping Chris." Paige said from her other side. When had she moved.
Chris nodded dumbly. "She saw it. She knows who it is." He said hoarsely.
Piper walked over to them, Wyatt back asleep and in his crib already. "Come on, lets get her into a bed, you can put her in my room, I doubt I'll be sleeping much more tonight anyway."
Chris nodded again and picked his sister up, following his mother out of the room.
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Well, hope you liked it!
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-Katie
