Author's Note: This chapter turned out a little different than I had originally planned, in fact completly diferent. What I had first wrote was, in my opinion, lame, so I rewrote it and I came up with this, which I think is much better.
Piper held onto her son's body, willing him back to life, but he still did not stir. "Leo! Leo come here we need you!" she yelled desperately. Leo appeared, looking slightly annoyed.
"What is it?" he said before he noticed Chris. He immediately knelt down and tried to heal him, but he couldn't. "Piper, he's—"
"No! No, don't you dare tell me my son is dead!" She held onto Chris tighter, not daring to believe the truth. Leo put his hand on her shoulder. He looked as if he were about to cry. He had only known who Chris really was for a short while, now he was gone.
Piper wrapped her arms around Leo and cried into his shoulder. He stroked her hair and tried not to cry, but he couldn't stop a few tears from falling. He held onto her tighter as sobs racked her body. She knew it had to end like this, but she didn't want to think that it would be Chris who ended up dead. Murdered at the hands of his brother. She let out one final huge sob and was still.
"I'm going to kill him! I swear I will," yelled Piper in a sudden rage. Leo looked up startled.
"Piper, you don't mean that, you just need to calm down," said Leo, looking into Piper's eyes and seeing a murderous look.
"I am way passed calming down Leo! All I want to do right now is kill the person who murdered my son."
"I would be right behind you if I thought that you wouldn't get hurt, but you don't stand a chance against him."
"Well I have one power over him, one that he can't fight or change."
"What?"
"I'm his mother."
Future:
Wyatt paced the floor of the attic. This Wyatt bore almost no resemblance to the Wyatt that had killed his brother. He had shorter hair, and it looked like it had been combed recently, which was much different from his counterpart's wild hair. He was just as muscular, but he didn't appear tough, he was approachable.
He glanced down at his watch and muttered to himself. "Where ARE they? If they don't get here soon it will be too late. Just then an older version of the Charmed Ones walked into the attic, along with Chris. "Finally! If you guys hadn't gotten here sooner—"
"Yeah yeah, we know," said Paige impatiently.
"I don't think you all realize how serious this is! If I don't get back there before the switch takes place you are all doomed," said Wyatt impatiently.
Chris raised his hand as if in school, "Uh, yeah, been there done that. I take this completely seriously," he stepped next to his brother, "Wyatt's right, I've seen that future, even if you all haven't, it isn't pretty."
"Well I remember parts of it," said Wyatt, "But that's really not the issue. I have to jump out of this timeline before my other self kills Chris before he has a chance to stop me from turning evil."
"Well let's get the show on the road then," said Phoebe.
"Think you guys can hold down the fort without me?"
"Yes, I think we can manage without the great Wyatt around to protect us," said Chris.
"I'm serious you guys, I don't know how long I'll be gone."
"Oh please," said Paige rolling her eyes. "C'mere give your favorite aunt a hug."
"Hey!" said Phoebe, playfully elbowing Paige in the ribs. He gave each of them a hug, then hugged his mother the longest.
"Following in my foot step, huh big bro?" said Chris.
"Never," said Wyatt reaching up and messing up Chris' hair. "Everyone ready?" They nodded and recited a time-travel spell, courtesy of Phoebe. Just before he stepped through the portal he turned to them all and said "I promise I'll come back as soon as I can and in one piece." Then he turned to Chris and said, "And I promise I won't let my other self kill you."
Present:
Wyatt reappeared in the hallway of the present day Manor. One look around told him that he was too late. He first noticed his brother's body on the floor and felt a lump form in his throat. He tore his gaze away and saw his parents huddled close to Chris' body. Piper looked up and as soon as Wyatt saw her fiery gaze he backed away, cowering much the same way Chris had against evil Wyatt.
His mother advanced on him and he instinctively put up his shield, "Wait! Mom! I'm not who you think!"
"Oh really?" she asked sarcastically, "You're not the person who murdered my son? His own brother." She said the last sentence with venom and Wyatt cringed.
"No, I'm not," said Wyatt.
Piper snorted, "Then who the hell are you?"
"I'm what should have been."
Leo looked up for the first time and said, "What do you mean?"
"I'm the Wyatt that Chris saved, I'm not evil," he glanced warily at his mother and cautiously lowered his shield.
"How do we know you're not lying?"
"Mom, dad, look at me, do you sense any evil from me?" Piper looked him up and down, then looked into his eyes, her face softened, and her tears began anew. She walked over to him and hugged him, she may have lost one son, but now she had another son here. This Wyatt reminded her so much of Chris it was almost unbearable, the more she grieved the tighter she held on to him.
Wyatt hugged his mother, ashamed that, even though it had been an evil version, he was the one who gave her all this hurt and grief. He looked down at his mother and said, "If I do this right, get rid of my evil self, and stick around long enough to stop whatever turns little me, then none of this will have happened and Chris won't have to die. He wasn't supposed to die today, that's why I cam back to prevent it, obviously I was too late," he said to Piper, trying to calm her down.
"I TOLD them that if they didn't hurry up I was going to be too late," he muttered to himself, trying hard not to look at his brother's body a few feet away, "It's just lucky that I was out of the time stream before the changes occurred."
"What?" Phoebe asked curiously. She was holding little Wyatt and her cheeks were tear stained. Piper and Leo jumped, they had forgotten she was there.
"Chris wasn't supposed to die, he was supposed to have succeeded in stopping me form turning and I am the result of that. Because he died today he wasn't able to do that, I had to already be on my way to the past or in the past when the changes occurred or they would have been permanent," Wyatt explained.
"But you showed up a few minutes after—after he—"said Leo.
"The changes worked like a wave, washing back from your point in time, plus I think there was something off with Phoebe's spell."
"My spells are hardly ever off any more, thank you very much, and with twenty years more practice they must have been pretty darn good," said Phoebe.
"They are, it's just that it was a time travel spell, and those are complicated. I'm amazed that you actually got me to around the right time, I was afraid that I would be hours too late," Wyatt said.
"Well I'm just sorry that you were too late at all, but you said you can fix this?" asked Piper, sniffling.
"If I can send evil me back to his time line, or get rid of him completely, then stick around long enough to prevent my changing, then yes."
"But wait," said Phoebe, "If both of your versions are here, and he was here first, wouldn't that mean that he has powers and you don't?"
"Not exactly, we're both weakened, but we still have powers. He has all the evil powers that he collected, and I have all of the powers I was born with."
Future:
Chris stood in the attic watching history repeat itself, first Phoebe disappeared, then Paige, and then his mom. Chris got an uneasy feeling because he knew that all of this was happening because in the past Wyatt just went back to he had died, so he knew he was the next to go. 'Don't let me down now, brother.' He thought before he too disappeared.
