Chapter thirteen: We did it
Katie yelled for Chris again and waited. He didn't come. He couldn't hear her, or Piper, or Paige, or Phoebe, or Leo. He might have whitelighter blood in him, but he could not sense when someone was yelling for him in the Underworld.
"Pheebs, how far are you on that spell?" Piper asked, after checking on the two babies again.
"Well that depends on which one. The one to vanquish the bounty hunter, done. The one to summon the bounty hunter, done. The one to discharm the spell on this cave so we can orb out, done."
"The one to make Phoebe shut up, done." Paige teased, listening to Phoebe ramble on about the spells.
"The one to make Paige disappear, not quite done, but I'm working on it." Phoebe teased back. Paige stuck her tongue out at Phoebe and Phoebe returned the gesture.
"Okay, the two can fight and vanquish each other later, how about we get this over with?"
"Yes, Piper." Both Phoebe and Paige mumbled. Piper shook her head and waited for Phoebe to get the spell.
Leo and Katie waited by the side of cave, Leo with Wyatt and Katie with Chris, for the vanquish.
Phoebe said the summoning spell, and the three sisters waited. A cloud swirled in, bringing the bounty hunter with it. It looked around, confused on how it got there. "You again," It said, noticing the sisters standing. "How'd you get free?"
"It wasn't that hard, demons are just getting plain lazy these days." Paige answered.
Phoebe held out the paper so Piper and Paige could read it, "Hellspawn creature of death/ Fire shall take your every breath." The three chanted. The bounty hunter exploded in a small burst of flames.
"There that wasn't so hard," Phoebe announced, crumbling the spell. Everyone just watched her, waiting. "What?"
"The spell so we can get out of here." Piper offered.
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Chris looked around the house for the hundredth, no thousandth time and still found no sign of Katie. He refused to believe that she could have died with Melinda or something weird had happened to her. He rested on the bottom step, trying to think of where she could have gone. His head picked up, remembering that earlier he had heard his little self cry and now heard nothing. Dodging up the stairs, Chris ran into the nursery to be met with two empty cribs.
"Looking for something?" Piper's voice asked from behind him. He turned around and saw her standing there with Wyatt and baby himself in her arms, smiling. "Mom, you're okay." Chris answered, giving her a hug.
"Okay, hold on there sport." Piper joked, pushing him away so she could set down the babies. "I wasn't gone that long."
Chris smiled, and hugged her again.
"So, how'd everything go while I was gone?" Piper asked, still holding on to her son.
Chris hesitated, "I think the future's safe. Wyatt's gone."
Piper didn't seem upset, more like happy that her oldest son was dead. "Well, I think you had better go tell Katie that."
Chris smacked his forehead, "Where is she?"
"Downstairs, with Paige," Piper called after him as he ran from the room. "Your brother is very weird," She said to Wyatt picking him up. Checking that baby Chris was still asleep, she followed Chris downstairs.
"Katie!" Katie looked up from the living room table to see Chris standing in the doorway, a huge grin on his face. "We did it, Katie."
Katie gasped, "You mean?"
"He's gone!" Chris yelled in triumph. Katie squealed and ran to his offered embrace. Paige and Phoebe exchanged glances with Leo and all three followed to foyer where the two stood.
"You're not messing with me?" She asked, backing away from him.
"No, he's really gone, Katie. It's over."
"Not quite," Piper contradicted from behind them. "Baby Wyatt still has his powers and I was thinking about what you two said about the power sucking athemes and..."
Leo walked over to her," You sure?"
Piper nodded, "I don't want Wyatt turning into what Chris says he does, did." She corrected herself, remembering that adult Wyatt no longer existed. "Katie, can you?"
Katie nodded immediately, "Of course," An atheme smoked into her hand, and she handed it to Leo.
Leo took the atheme carefully, then poked Wyatt with it in the arm. Wyatt made a slight noise of pain and then sat there quietly while his powers were being sucked away. When he was done, Leo pulled out the atheme. Piper handed Wyatt to him, then tossed the atheme into the air. She put out her hand without hesitating and blew up the atheme.
"So now what?" Phoebe asked, breaking the silence.
"Katie and I go back to the future." Chris announced, looking down at Katie. "We have to."
Paige, Phoebe, and Piper nodded.
"Wait just a little bit longer." Paige asked, "Can we at least have a meal together as a family before you go?"
Chris and Katie exchanged looks, "Yeah, I think we can do that." Chris answered.
A/N: In reponse to a review, where have you read a story where Wyatt comes out on top? Who would dare kill MY Chris? Nobody kills MY Chris. And now you're probably thinking, didn't Gideon kill Chris in the season finale? The answer, no, because I live in a happy place called Denial. Join me.
A/M 2: Okay, I have one more chapter planned after this so yeah, keep those reviews a' coming and I'll try to have it up by tomorrow.