Wyatt and Sam knelt down next to Piper. He tried healing her again, this time enhanced by Sam's touch, but not even that seemed to work.
"What's happening? Why isn't it working?" Leo asked despairing.
"I think it's the dagger she used" said Chris climbing down the stairs still flinching at his wounded arm.
"Take her to dad" said Sam. Her father, the surgeon, lived far away, but as part of their contingency plan they could orb into his office where there were no cameras, if there ever was an emergency such as this one.
"Go" she kissed him again as he frowned scared.
"Stay with her" Wyatt begged his brother. Chris reluctantly nodded as his brother took his father by the hand and orbed them all away.
"Here" said Sam going for one of the kitchen towels on the table, stumbling slightly on her way up the floor. She took the one spared of paint stains and wrapped it around his arm producing warm water from her hands to help stop the bleeding.
"Where'd you learn that?" said Chris remembering her ancestor doing exactly the same thing.
"Your brother. Warm water helps slow the bleeding. Oh God, it's too wide… we gotta get you stitched up" she gulped and sniffed, tears still fresh on her face, as she took another look at Chris' arm. "I'll call everybody and Paige'll fix you"
"What makes you so sure she'll be able to fix me? Mom…" His voice broke. Sam hugged him.
"She'll be OK. I promise" she said sending an SOS to everybody on her phone. A moment later, Phoebe's party arrived, Phoebe, Coop, Praline and Paddy; then Paige's, Paige, Penelope, Patricia and Henry Jr.
"What happened?" they asked as they saw the blood on the carpet.
"Elak attacked us" explained Chris.
"Where's Piper and Leo?" asked Phoebe afraid of the answer.
"Come here" said Paige going to heal Chris' cradled arm, but it did no good. "What the hell?" They all gulped assuming the worst. Sadly, the worst wasn't that far from the truth at the moment.
"She attacked them with a cursed dagger. Piper's in the hospital. They took her to my dad's. You and Paige need to go there now. Orb into his office and you'll be safe from exposure" Sam said feeling every bit of energy draining out of her. The sisters didn't hesitate and orbed away to her sister's side.
"Cooper, you and the kids need to stay here guarding the little ones"
"Of course" Cooper said.
"We'll go to the hospital as well" she added giving Chris one last look before aeroporting away.
AT SAMUEL'S HOSPITAL…
Wyatt orbed in with his parents. Leo holding Piper in his arms. Both covered in her blood now. Wyatt peeked outside before leaving Samuel's office and then went straight to ask for him at the desk.
"We need to see Dr. Stevens"
"He's in surgery at the moment. I can… wait!" shouted the nurse as Wyatt stormed towards the OR rooms, finding Samuel, his father-in-law, on the third down the corridor. "Samuel, we need you" said Wyatt bursting through the doors, bloodstains all over his shirt; closely followed by a frantic nurse, who was sure would be fired after letting him slip in like this. Samuel took one look at him and nodded, first to the nurse, reassuring her it was OK; then to Wyatt, letting him know he understood; and then to the assisting doctor, signaling him to take over before walking out with Wyatt himself.
"What's going on?" he asked as Wyatt pulled him by the arm towards his office, while Samuel took off his gloves, mask and gown on the way; throwing it into a hamper down the hall. "Get a gurney in here!" he shouted taking one look at Piper. They placed her on the gurney and rolled her into an empty ER at the end of the corridor themselves.
"Doctor, the staff is busy. I don't think there's anyone to assist you at the moment… maybe we could send her to the ER" said the nurse who was still closely following the party; taking one stern look at Piper's condition.
"No good. They'll just send her right back up here" Samuel considered it for a second. "He'll do it" he pointed to Wyatt.
"Me?"
"I need you… and your mother needs you. She's not lying (referring to the nurse), we are the only available surgical staff at the moment and I need assistance on this one" he said starting to plug Piper to monitors as he spoke.
"You can do it, son" said Leo encouragingly to his son. "I would do it myself but it's been so long I wouldn't know how" Wyatt took one look at his mother and nodded, doubting every bit of his abilities as a doctor. He had successfully graduated a while ago, but hadn't gotten a job as such per se for obvious reasons. Now, he had to operate on his mother. Talk about pressure.
"Nurse, show him where he can scrub in, then come back and help me" he said to the nurse and Wyatt respectively, pulling trays and equipment towards Piper. "Leo you gotta wait outside" he said grabbing him by the sides of his arms and pushing him gently away. "We don't wanna risk infection once I start working on her. Trust me"
"We do" he said finally stepping out behind the double doors, as Wyatt re-entered the room following instructions from his father-in-law.
BACK AT WYATT'S HOUSE…
"What are we doing here?" asked Chris as him and Sam aeroported in.
"Wait, I need to get something" she ran from his side and up the stairs. She opened her studio door and unlocked her desk drawer. There was a bundle of fabric that she quickly grabbed before heading back out. "OK, let's go…" she said panting as she reached Chris' side again.
A second before they orbed to the hospital though, Future Wyatt and Bianca showed up.
"What are you…?" Future Wyatt ran to kiss her square on the lips.
"Are you alright? The whole underworld is boasting how their great leader has taken down another Halliwell" he took one look at Chris' arm and reached to heal him.
"Don't bother"
"Elak attacked us with some kind of a cursed dagger" Sam cleared up. Wyatt kept looking at her looking for injuries. "I'm alright, but Wyatt took Piper to dad's. She's seriously wounded"
"I won't let her do this again" said Future Wyatt after a moment, picturing her mother's death in the future, and stormed into Edward's old bedroom, where he himself had been staying. Furniture oddly crammed into the room seemed to repel Wyatt as he walked in. Everything moved opposite him, letting him through without him making any minor movement to that effect. Once he reached the wall where the headboard used to be, he waved at a spot at neck level, revealing a misshapen whole inside the concrete, where the little bottles of potion he had prepared specially to vanquish his daughter lied lopsided. He took a couple and walked back out in a hurry. He kissed a very confused Sam yet again on the lips and whispered. "I love you" before nodding to Bianca and orbing / shimmering away respectively.
"What was that about?" asked Chris not quite on the same page either.
"She'll kill him, if I'm not around…" Sam said more to herself than to Chris as it dawned on her what he was about to do.
"Hold on. You can't just barge down there unprepared" Chris said catching on, holding her by the arm, trying to force some sense into her. "It's too risky"
"I can't let him do this alone" said Sam trying to break free from Chris' grasp, but he wouldn't budge. Sam didn't exactly want to aeroport at that exact moment, but her mind was on her Wyatt in the Underworld. So, a moment later, without fully meaning to, they were both underground.