Disclaimer- I do not own Charmed, much as I want to. The only thing that is mine is this storyline.
Previously…
Wyatt orbed in. Chris grabbed him. "Wyatt! I've just met this most amazing girl…"
Wyatt raised an eyebrow, just as Chris doubled over in pain.
"AAargh!" He yelled. His stomach felt as though it was being torn in two. Like he had a thousand needles trying to get out.
Wyatt tried healing him, but his face creased with worry as the glowing of his hands had no effect.
"Nyala…will…make…it all…better…" He gasped before orbing out.
11
"What the he…ll was that about?" Wyatt asked, receiving a glare from his mother about his language.
"Whoever that Nyala woman is, she's obviously put Chris under a spell." Piper said.
Wyatt fought hard to suppress a smirk that was surfacing. Despite the fact that his brother was in danger (Heck he was everyday wasn't he?) Chris wouldn't be happy to discover the way that the demon or whatever had managed to make him fall in love with her.
"Can you sense him? Coz I want to kick some demon…" Piper caught herself before using language that she reprimanded Wyatt and Chris for using, but not before Wyatt noticed. And noted it for future use.
"Yeah, I can sense him. That demon isn't very bright. Most demons know by now that I can sense Chris even when he is in the Underworld."
"Less talking. More orbing." Piper held out her hand hurriedly.
Chris was in excruciating pain. And it wouldn't stop. He could sense his love Nyala. He would be with her soon. She would make it stop. The sensation of orbing left him as he materialized in the Underworld. She was there. Through the pain, seeing her brought a feeling of bliss.
The pain stopped. Chris stood up straight. "How…?" He asked confusedly.
Nyala didn't bother to put on her concerned face. The potion was extremely strong. Chris had fallen for her hook, line and sinker. She smirked. "Whenever we're apart, you're in pain. Simple as that. You can't leave my side."
Something deep inside squirmed in annoyance. But the potion flowing through his veins squashed the sensation. Made his thoughts hazy. All he could think about was Nyala.
"Your brother and that Piper woman will be here in a minute to try and vanquish me…"
"But why? You're not a demon…" Chris announced blindly.
"But they will try anyway. You don't want me dead do you?"
Chris gasped. "No…"
"Then you'll have to kill them before they kill me." Nyala watched the reaction in Chris. In his eyes. They clouded with puzzlement and… determination to fight the potion. She found herself marveling at his resolve. But this was not just any potion. It was the strongest love and control potion EVER made. Even Cupid didn't have enough power to reverse it. She watched satisfied as his green eyes become misty with the purple of the potion. And dampened the fight in him.
"I'll kill them." He said flatly.
"Good. Because they're here."
Piper let go of Wyatt as soon as her feet touched the ground, and flicked her hands at the demon in the cave with Chris, assuming correctly that she was the demon.
Chris jumped in the way. The amount of power behind the blast made his hair stand on end. Piper was not in a good mood. While Piper watched in horror at having attacked her son, he brushed it off as though it was just a gust of wind. She sighed with relief.
Chris flung his hands, sending a wave of telekinetic power roaring at Piper and Wyatt. Wyatt's shield wavered under it, but just held firm.
"Hey…" Wyatt said annoyed.
Chris held out his hands sending fire and telekinetic power in a wave. Wyatt's forehead creased with concentration as he kept his shield up. Then Chris added empathy to it. Wyatt was bombarded with emotion, fire and telekinesis. A mix he had never had to defend against before. Wyatt grabbed his mum and orbed out of the way.
He rematerialized behind Chris. And knocked him out.
"Wyatt Matthew Halliwell. What do you think you are doing?" Wyatt grimaced at the tone in his mother's voice that he had last heard when he tricked Chris into orbing into the sink which had been full of washing up. He turned round apologetically. "It stopped him didn't it? I had a trouble keeping my shield up. It's great him being twice-blessed and all, but what am I supposed to do when a demon makes him go all la la and try to kill us?"
Piper shook her head annoyed. And turned to vent her frustration on Nyala.
Nyala cowered into the corner. Then remembered something. "By the way…" She laughed hysterically. "Killing me will kill Chris."
Piper cursed.
"Mum!" Wyatt teased her in the same tone she had used earlier.
"We'll just put you in a crystal cage until we can reverse it then." Piper glared warningly at Wyatt who took the hint and orbed them out of the Underworld into the attic.
He put Chris on the couch, and orbed a crystal cage around Nyala who was smirking in that annoying way of hers.
Piper circled round the cage threateningly until she walked over to the book of shadows, where she flicked through it at an alarming pace.
Chris groaned from his position on the couch. His eyes were hazy green. "Wyatt? Did you knock me out?"
Wyatt opened his mouth to say "Yes- and it worked didn't it?" When the green was overshadowed by a stream of purple.
"Nyala!" Chris yelled, telekinetically flinging the crystal cage open.
Piper grabbed a bag that was lying on the floor and grabbed a handful of the contents.
She ran to Chris. And blew the dust into his face.
Chris looked like he was going to sneeze. Then his knees just gave way and he crumpled to the ground, his chest rising and falling slowly.
Meanwhile, Wyatt orbed the crystal cage back around Nyala.
Piper lifted her son back onto the couch, where he lay sleeping.
She wheeled round to face Nyala. "He's fourteen. And you even had him thinking about marriage. I HATE to think how old you are."
Nyala settled herself down onto the floor and sat with her familiar smirk.
Piper and Wyatt waited.
Chris stirred on the couch. He blinked once, and then sat up suddenly.
"Chris. Kill them." Nyala urged from inside the cage.
Chris looked at her. "Why?" His eyes were clear green. A bit of purple flickered in them, but was quenched.
Piper blew the demon up who screamed as she was sent to Hell.
"Welcome back." Wyatt snickered.
Chris groaned. "Marriage?" He asked.
"Yeah!" Piper and Wyatt both laughed.
"I guess that sleep helped you fight the potion off." Piper said.
"How did you guess?" Chris asked.
"When Wyatt knocked you out, you had almost beaten the potion, but it wasn't long enough. I used some of the Sandman's sand to give you longer." She explained.
"Well thanks anyway. Marriage?" Chris asked himself as he left the attic.
Later, Wyatt had just settled himself down into his bed. When Chris orbed on top of him.
"Oof!" Wyatt complained.
"Everyone else is asleep!" Chris whispered.
"Yeah? So we should be too."
"Now's the perfect time to see if we can find out who sent the demon."
"You mean Nyala." Wyatt batted his eyes at Chris mockingly.
Chris gave him a playful telekinetic shove.
"Alright, alright. I give in!" Wyatt hissed quietly.
"Lets go." Chris announced.
"In our pyjamas? Do you think we should be going in the first place…?"
"Are you afraid?"
"No way!"
"So you're coming."
"Yes." He sighed. But if he didn't go, Chris would go by himself anyway.
They orbed down to the Underworld. The torches flickered, throwing shadows on the cave like walls.
Wyatt and Chris moved cautiously round the corner.
Lions and tigers and bears- oh my! Lions and tigers and bears- oh my!
Chris groaned. Wyatt? Will you please stop doing that in my head!
Lions and tigers and bears- oh my! Lions and tigers and bears- oh my!
You watch way too many movies. Chris announced in his head since he knew Wyatt would be able to hear him. It could be annoying to have a telepathic brother.
Wait! Wait! Who was that girl you were with the other…
WYATT! Chris yelled incensed. Did I give you permission to start rooting around in my head? Just focus, will you? Let's find a demon who can give us some information.
The demon found them first, hitting Chris in the back with an energy ball.
Chris turned round in shock as the energy ball just went through him. He laughed. "Is that the best you can do?"
The demon shimmered away only just missing the energy ball that Wyatt threw at him.
"Damn!" Wyatt looked at Chris. "Are you alright?"
"The energy ball just went right through me. What kind of useless power is that?" He laughed again.
"All the same, let's go home. Okay? You know as well as I do that that energy ball could have done anything."
"Alright worry wart." Chris' eyelids drooped.
"Are you tired?" Wyatt started looking him over.
Chris fought against his sudden tiredness. "No…" He almost fooled Wyatt, but was let down by a rather large yawn. His shoulders slumped as he became drowsy.
"Chris? Chris!" Wyatt shook him as his eyelids closed. He swayed sideways as he succumbed to the irresistible urge to sleep.
Wyatt caught him before he hit the ground. His mum was going to kill him. His guilt almost paralyzed him again as his brother couldn't be aroused. He orbed to his parent's bedroom.
Barbas laughed with pleasure. Nyala might have failed him, but at least he knew that that avenue of thought was useless. But he learnt that Chris was very powerful indeed. He had managed to throw off the potion.
He wondered what he would learn with his latest demon. Yes… this one was going to be very interesting indeed. And if it killed the boy, well, he couldn't help that. He didn't mind though. It was his plan. And he could take the credit for it. Become the new source. Or maybe something more powerful.
Piper and Leo woke to the sound of orbing in their bedroom. Wyatt was carrying Chris, who was tossing and turning in an agitated sleep…
Chris turned the corner. Everything was distorted and grey.
He saw Wyatt.
"Wy. Thank God! What happened?" Wyatt didn't respond.
Chris shook him. "Wy! Answer me."
Wyatt regarded him coldly.
Chris backed away, recognizing him from his other life's memories.
"No..." He breathed.
"I never gave you permission to touch me." He raised a hand holding a high voltage energy ball. Chris backed into the wall, trapped.
"All you have to do is join me…"
"You know I can't do that."
He screamed in pain as the energy ball hit him. Burning into his side. His vision went from grey to black…
Piper and Leo watched Chris in horror as his forehead became beaded with sweat.
"Wy! Answer me!" He murmured. Wyatt grabbed his hand but it had no effect on Chris.
"No…" He whispered faintly.
His body tossed as he tried to get away from something.
"You know I can't do that."
His body contorted as he screamed in pain.
Leo and Wyatt held their hands over him trying to heal him. Chris just tossed more. Then went limp. His breathing stopped.
Piper screamed, causing most of the manor to find their way into her bedroom by some method or another.
Chris' face became a shade paler, something the occupants in the room wouldn't have thought possible. He was so pale already.
He started breathing again. Shallowly, as though it was difficult from him to breathe. A quick feel of his pulse showed that it was racing. As was his temperature. Leo didn't even want to think what temperature it was. He started shivering, so Wyatt orbed him into his parent's bed under the covers, which twisted around him as he started tossing again.
Chris found himself back in the grey world again. His breath rasped in his throat as he fought to keep calm.
He ran. Ran to get away.
But Wyatt shimmered in front of him. Chris ran into him.
"Trying to get away Chris? Join me."
"Never! Chris' voice wavered, but rang clearly around the cave.
"I'm sorry." Wyatt hit him with another energy ball.
Chris sat up, his eyes open. Wide. Unseeing. His eyes flailed wildly.
"NEVER!" He yelled. Then fell back onto the bed. Leo began CPR as Chris' heart started failing him.
Wyatt was scared out of his mind. So was Chris. Except he was stuck in a recurring nightmare. Barbas felt the fear down in the Underworld. Piper's. Leo's. Wyatt's. All of the Halliwell household. But what made him laugh even more was the fear coming from Chris as he restarted the nightmare again.
